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Blocked SCORM Exit Postbacks with Google Chrome 80 and Above
Kyle Patmor
**Update - 10/09/2019**
The Chrome team has decided to delay the rollout of this feature. They have confirmed that this will now go out with Chrome 80. Based on their release cadence of every 6 weeks, that should be February 4th.
Hopefully this will give customers more time to put any patches or new Engine releases through testing and into production.
In an effort to improve browser performance when navigating between pages, Google Chrome has decided to remove the ability of scripts to perform synchronous requests during the beforeunload and unload events of a page. This change will be coming to users with version 78 of Chrome, which is scheduled for release on October 22nd. Once this goes live, there is a potential that the final exit postback from Engine's SCORM player will be blocked, and some learner progress data may be lost.
Who is Affected
The short answer is: potentially every Engine customer, regardless of Engine version. However, this affects a specific launch and exit scenario that may not apply to the bulk of users.
The following conditions must be met for this issue to come into play:
The learner must be using Google Chrome 78 (or above).
The course must be a SCORM course. Courses from other learning standards do not rely on the player window's exit routine to send data, and so should not be affected. It is possible, though, that some content tries to make its own synchronous requests during the unload of the content page, but that is outside of our control in Engine.
The learner must exit the course by closing, or navigating away from, the window/frame that contains Engine's SCORM player page. Customers who launch with the SCO Launch Type set to FRAMESET may be more susceptible to this, as there is a single window with both the player, and the content inside it in an iframe. If the learner clicks an exit button in the course or in our player UI, or closes the popup content window (if launching with SCO Launch Type set to NEW_WINDOW), then our exit routine is not triggered by the unload of the player page, and so should still complete successfully, even with this update.
When a user closes Engine’s SCORM player page, and an exit hasn't already been triggered by some other method, the player will send a final exit postback to record any last-minute changes to the state of the registration. This can also include the values from ‘rolling up’ the status to the registration-level properties for completion, success, score, and duration.
In order to guarantee that this exit postback request is sent, even when closing the browser window containing the player, Engine uses synchronous requests in the beforeunload (or possibly the unload) event of the page. With synchronous requests, the page must wait until the request completes before taking any further action, and so we are mostly assured it will finish before the page closes. Until now, this has been a reliable way of guaranteeing that this request completes.
If this exit postback is blocked, however, the registration may stay in an incomplete status, even though the user completed the course. It's also possible that other data recorded in the last few seconds of the learner's interaction with the course would be lost, even when not completed.
For all customers on Engine 2017.1 or above, reach out to us to get the latest maintenance release of your version. We have implemented a change to the player so that if our exit postback is blocked by Chrome, we will fallback to other mechanisms for sending the request that do work.
For customers on older versions of Engine pre-2017.1, we will work with you to either patch the player's Javascript to add this fallback mechanism, or help you start the process of upgrading Engine to a newer version that has it. Contact us: support@rusticisoftware.com.
There are also a few steps that can be taken to turn off this new behavior in Chrome itself, so that no changes are necessary to the player for now:
Chrome has a flag that can be modified to change this behavior in a user's browser. The user can navigate to chrome://flags/#allow-sync-xhr-in-page-dismissal in the browser and enable it. Note: in Chrome 77, there is a preview setting #enable-forbid-sync-xhr-in-page-dismissal that can be used to test the behavior before the release goes out.
This flag can also be set using the AllowSyncXHRInPageDismissal enterprise policy flag, if that's something being used by your organization.
There is also a temporary opt-out available via GoogleOrigin Trial "Allow Sync XHR In Page Dismissal". This feature allows you to register your domain for a token that you can then include in a header when serving the player files, and it will trigger Chrome to enable the synchronous requests during page dismissal. More details about enabling and using this method are outlined in this Google page.
Replication Steps
If you want to see this issue in action, so that you can verify that a provide fix works, you would need to do the following:
Launch a SCORM course in an affected version of Chrome, in Chrome 77 with the enable-forbid-sync-xhr-in-page-dismissal flag set to 'Enabled', or in Chrome 78/79 with the allow-sync-xhr-in-page-dismissal flag set to 'Disabled'.
Go through the course to completion, but do not exit.
Find the window that contains Engine's player. If you have SCO Launch Type set to 'NEW_WINDOW', then the player window will be behind the content popup window. If you have SCO Launch Type set to FRAMESET, then everything will be in the same window together.
Close the browser tab/window that contains the player page.
There are a few factors involved, but you may see that the top-level completion for the course is not reported properly. SCORM 2004 is more likely to exhibit this due to the sequencing rules for rollup that trigger on exit.
A more foolproof way to verify that the exit request did not get sent properly is to check the launch history record for the registration. With the issue outlined in this article, the exit time value will be null, even though you closed the player in step 4. If you use the API, you can hit the /launchHistory endpoint for the registration to check that value. Otherwise, you'd need to look up the scorm_registration_id from the ScormRegistration table based on your external key values, and then use that to get the latest ScormLaunchHistory record.
As an alternative way of verifying things, you could use a tool like Fiddler to capture all of the requests being made by your launch. After you close the player window in step 4 above, you should see a request to RecordResults.[jsp|aspx] with a url parameter of 'isExitScormPlayer=true'. If you don't see that request, then you know that it has been blocked by the browser.
Link to Chrome Platform article about this change: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/4664843055398912
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UK PACT Climate Change Officer – Abuja
Climate change is one of the most serious threats facing our world, and Nigeria is both vulnerable as an emerging economy, and a significant contributor to global greenhouse emissions, ranking within the top three emitters in Africa for both fossil fuel emissions and emission from land use change.
As part of the British Government’s global response to climate challenge and its commitment to help deliver the aims of the Paris Agreement (UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in 2016), the International Climate Finance (ICF) team in UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is responsible for £2bn of UK International Climate Finance. Within ICF, UK PACT (Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions) is a £60 million technical assistance programme that has been established to support partner countries accelerate their clean growth transitions and reduce carbon emissions in line with their Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).
Nigeria has been identified as a potential key strategic climate partner for UK PACT. UK PACT could potentially play a transformative role in Nigeria increasing the capacity and capability of Nigerian institutions to deliver climate smart solutions in a range of areas.
This new position will help shape a UK PACT intervention in Nigeria and will form part of the Climate and Energy Team at the British High Commission (BHC). It is an exciting opportunity to be at the heart of this evolving area of UK – Nigeria collaboration.
The post holder will contribute to the development of a vision for how to grow the UK-Nigeria climate relationship and will provide direct oversight of the programme of work agreed working closely with the BEIS International Climate Finance team in London. This role will report to the Head of Climate Change & Energy at the BHC and will expected to develop strong links with other colleagues working on global issues across the BHC, including the Science and Innovation Network, and Department of International Trade (DIT) teams.
Essential qualifications, skills and experience
We are looking for a proactive self-starter, able to work well and have a flexible approach to work whilst under pressure and excellent interpersonal and communications skills to build strong relations within the BHC and with a wide range of stakeholders in Nigeria with the following:
University degree, preferably in Environmental Science, Climate, Public Policy or related course;
Minimum 5 years of work experience, ideally with Project/Programme management experience, preferably with international stakeholders
The ability to demonstrate strong interpersonal, communication and relationship skills;
Be a flexible and creative problem-solver, able to come up with innovative solutions to complex problems, and coordinate coherent and compelling programmes and projects;
Fluency in written and spoken English
Experience providing administrative and logistical support;
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and ability to adjust to different audiences;
Excellent presentation skills;
Team player, driven by values.
Desirable qualifications, skills and experience
Relevant post-graduate course
Solid knowledge of Nigeria’s climate change policy, its international commitments and institutional framework
Sound network of contacts in political arena, government, private sector and civil societies
Candidates with prior work experience in International or multilateral programmes will be considered as a plus
Knowledge of financial sector
Knowledge of low carbon / green sector
Knowledge of infrastructure sector
Knowledge of UK climate and energy policy, technology and commercial capabilities, and its global leadership in the subject matter
Required competencies
Seeing the Big Picture,
Making Effective Decisions, Collaborating and Partnering,
Delivering at PaceApplication deadline 6 October 2020Grade C4 (L)Type of Position Fixed term, with possibility of renewalWorking hours per week 36Region Africa
Country/Territory: Nigeria
Location (City): Abuja
Type of Post: British High Commission
Number of vacancies: 1
Starting monthly salary: NGN 827,892.98
Start Date: 28 October 2020
End Date: 28 October 2021
Please complete the application form in full as the information provided is used during screening. Please check your application carefully before you submit, as no changes can be made once submitted.
The British High Commission will never request any payment or fees to apply for a position.
Employees recruited locally by the British High Commission in Abuja are subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to local employment law in Nigeria.
All candidates must be legally able to work and reside in the country of the vacancy with the correct visa/work permit status or demonstrate eligibility to obtain the relevant permit.
The responsibility lies on the successful candidate to;
Obtain the relevant permit
Pay fees for the permit
Make arrangements to relocate
Meet the costs to relocation
The British High Commission does not sponsor visas/work permits except where it may be local practice to do so.
Employees who are not eligible to pay local income tax: e.g. certain third-country nationals and spouses/partners of UK diplomats will have their salaries abated by an equivalent amount.
Information about the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Competency Framework can be found on this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-competency-framework Please note: AA=A1, AO=A2, EO=B3, HEO=C4, SEO=C5
Reference checking and security clearances will be conducted on successful candidates.
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Updates on the 2020-2021 Academic Year
SVA continues remote instruction, with select facilities accessible by appointment. Click below for updates.
Art As Witness: Political Graphics 2016 – 18
October 6 - November 3
Credit: Art As Witness: Political Graphics 2016-18, SVA Chelsea Gallery, October 6 - November 3, 2018. Photo credit: JSP Art Photography
SVA Chelsea Gallery
601 West 26th Street, 15th floor, New York, NY 10001
Thu, Oct 11; 6:00 - 8:00pm
August 2018—New York, NY— In today’s political climate, using satire to record and respond to the current state of affairs is an act of survival. This is no more apparent than in “Art as Witness: Political Graphics 2016 – 18,” a group exhibition of over 200 satirical and politically charged illustrations, cartoons and animations from 53 artists, including Milton Glaser (SVA’s acting chairman of the board), 2018 SVA Masters Series Award recipient Roz Chast and Art Spiegelman. Each artist’s work addresses the issues and controversies surrounding the most polarizing presidential election and administration in recent history. Timed to coincide with the final weeks of the highly anticipated midterm elections, “Art as Witness” comments on the Trump presidency; the #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter and #NeverAgain movements; the opioid epidemic; and the gun-control and immigration debates to encourage activism, spark discussion and, hopefully, inspire action. “Art as Witness” was curated by illustrator, caricaturist and SVA faculty member Steve Brodner and SVA’s Director of Galleries Francis Di Tommaso, and will be on view from Saturday, October 6, through Saturday, November 3, at SVA Chelsea Gallery.
“Art as Witness” will be accompanied by two free public events. On Thursday, October 11, a reception will be held at the gallery from 6:00 – 8:00pm. On Thursday, October 18, a musical performance composed by Neil Rolnick, vocalizing highlights from the Declaration of Independence, will precede a panel discussion, moderated by Steve Brodner and featuring artists Anita Kunz, Melinda Beck, Bonnie Siegler and Marshall Arisman, at the SVA Theatre, starting at 6:00pm.
“Times of national emergency require a call out to everyone to speak out and take the necessary action,” Brodner says. “Artists are no different. The long tradition of graphic commentary has seen us through the best and worst of times. The need for this collection has only grown with the increasing immensity of our national crisis. While the main focus is on illustration, the variety within that discipline takes us to wild and unexpected places. In a time of editorial instability, the work in this discipline may, on the whole, be at an all-time peak.”
“Art as Witness” features a diverse group of artist-activists, many of them also SVA faculty or alumni. The participating artists include Najeebah Al-Ghadban, Gail Anderson (BFA 1984 Graphic Design), Marshall Arisman, Andrea Arroyo, Istvan Banyai, Melinda Beck, Louisa Bertman (MFA 2015 Visual Narrative), R.O. Blechman, Barry Blitt, Steve Brodner, Nancy Burson, Harry Campbell, André Carrilho, Roz Chast, Seymour Chwast, Joe Ciardiello, Sue Coe, John Cuneo, Nathan Fox (MFA 2002 Illustration as Visual Essay), Felipe Galindo, Sally Gardner, Milton Glaser, Robert Grossman, Brad Holland, Frances Jetter, Victor Juhasz, Viktor Koen (MFA 1992 Illustration as Visual Essay), Stephen Kroninger, Anita Kunz, Peter Kuper, David Levine, Nicole Licht, Zoe Matthiessen, Mike McQuade, Oliver Munday, Christoph Niemann, Tim O'Brien, Glenn Palmer-Smith, Hanoch Piven (BFA 1992 Graphic Design), David Plunkert, Bill Plympton (1969 Cartooning, in collaboration with Billy Shebar and David Roberts), Melanie Reim, Rob Rogers, Edel Rodriguez, Chloe Scheffe, Jeff Scher, Nasrin Sheykhi, Yuko Shimizu (MFA 2003 Illustration as Visual Essay), Edward Sorel, Art Spiegelman, Brian Stauffer, Seth Tobocman, Armando Veve, and Olimpia Zagnoli.
Animations, collages, posters, sculptures and videos all will be on view. Highlights include Milton Glaser’s call-to-action SVA subway posters, recently featured in the Design Museum’s “Hope To Nope” exhibition in London; Jeff Scher’s animated “Teach Your Children” music video, which draws parallels between the civil rights protests of the ’60s and present-day demonstrations against unconstitutional policies; three new videos from MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Chair Marshall Arisman on sexual harassment, gun violence and drug addiction; Nancy Burson’s July 2018 Time magazine cover, which superimposes President Trump’s face on Russian president Vladimir Putin’s face; Barry Blitt’s June 2018 New Yorker cover on the Trump administration’s family-separation policy; cartoons by Rob Rogers, who was recently fired from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after 25 years for his sharp critiques of Trump; and a never-before-seen version of Victor Juhasz‘s Rolling Stone cover, depicting Trump as a tornado.
“One may wonder what concrete results an exhibition like this can attain,” Di Tommaso says. “But there is one effect that these 200-plus eclectic, provocative and often humorous images can have: They can appeal, through their eyes, to viewers’ consciences, to their sense of civic duty. They can prompt—better yet, incite—in them the will, now as we near the midterm elections, to do something. To do the only thing that truly counts: to vote.”
This exhibition honors SVA’s beginnings as a cartoonists and illustrators school that was founded to encourage socially aware artists in the pursuit of their creative freedom. More than 70 years later, this cornerstone remains essential to the College’s mission.
The Guardian, “Art as witness: celebrating the best post-Trump political cartoons,” October 4, 2018
HOW Design, “Art As Witness: A Chat with Steve Brodner,” October 10, 2018
Fast Company, “Trump is inspiring a renaissance of biting political caricature,” October 10, 2018
NY City Woman, “Activist Artists Focus on Politics Past and Present,” October 10, 2018
Quartz, “Why it’s important to shame the shameless,” October 19, 2018
Design Week, “Art as Witness: an exhibition protesting Trump, sexism, racism and injustice,” October 22, 2018
Magenta, “The Best Political Art of the Trump Era,” October 25, 2018
Observer, “From Controversial Cartoons to Political Purses, 5 Ways Artists are Getting People to Vote,” October 30, 2018
Architectural Digest, “Just in Time for the Midterms, a Political Exhibition Takes on Donald Trump,” October 31, 2018
Artnet News, “From Coast to Coast, Here’s How Artists Are Mobilizing Before the Midterm Elections,” November 2, 2018
The Irish Times, “Cartoonists Take on Trump,” November 8, 2018
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Artificial Turf: Is it Safe for Your Family?
Have you heard the rumors about the safety of artificial turf?
Artificial turf, sometimes called artificial grass, is a solution for lawns where grass doesn’t grow. You’ll also find it on most sports fields because it stands up to wear and tear better than its natural counterpart.
It’s durable, cheaper to maintain, and easier to install.
So why do some people dispute whether its safe? The answer is that some concerned parents worry about the issue after high-profile reporting of incidences of cancer.
While those cancer cases are real, placing the blame squarely on artificial grass doesn’t tell the whole story. Learn more and see how this can provide options for your lawn.
What Is Artificial Turf?
Artificial turf features three parts:
Plastic blades of grass
Infill for support
The infill of artificial grass comes from recycled tires, which is where many of the concerns regarding safety come from.
Why Might It Be Bad for Kids?
Some worry about the safety of synthetic turf because manufacturers expose tires to chemicals during the manufacturing process. The danger comes when kids slide around on the turf and cover themselves in fragments of the infill.
The issue came to the fore in 2014 when an investigation found that goalkeepers on American soccer teams experienced strange rates of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and other cancers. A list of players with cancer included 38 total players with 34 of them playing as goalies.
However, many of those players came from Washington state, and there was no discussion of whether another environmental factor might be to blame for the incidence of cancer.
Is Artificial Turf Dangerous?
The evidence for issues like cancer is anecdotal. The list of kids diagnosed with cancer comes from personal experience – not a scientific data set. At present, no research links artificial grass and cancer.
At the same time, the lack of testing the safety of artificial grass – and chemicals used to manufacture it – sometimes allows individuals to draw their own conclusions. An extensive investigation by NBC News couldn’t find any consensus on the matter.
The Synthetic Turf Council say they have 14 studies available that do not link adverse health effects to artificial turf. In other words, they argue that it is safe for kids.
What’s the Verdict?
No one is saying that artificial turf doesn’t come with some exposure to chemicals of potential concern (COPC) – just as a treated natural lawn does. However, scientists say that exposure to these chemicals is low enough to that it doesn’t reach the threshold of concern.
The scientific community limits its advice to suggesting that any facilities using artificial turf indoors – where exposure is highest – provide plenty of ventilation to avoid the buildup of chemicals.
Is Artificial Turf Safe for Your Family?
The cause for concern in artificial turf is the backing made of tires. Although the scientific community still discusses the issue regularly, no evidence points to the grass as a health hazard.
Is it safe for your family? Installing it outdoors is safe, and as long as your children don’t eat the infill for their daily afternoon snack, your family likely sees no risk.
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In 2007, Dhwani set out in the world of finance as an amateur in the commodities market and pursued it as a full-fledged career from 2010. She worked across top Indian brokerages and a commodity exchange until her collaboration with FXStreet in 2014 as an Editor and Analyst. ... more
In 2007, Dhwani set out in the world of finance as an amateur in the commodities market and pursued it as a full-fledged career from 2010. She worked across top Indian brokerages and a commodity exchange until her collaboration with FXStreet in 2014 as an Editor and Analyst. Dhwani's profile included publishing asset news pieces (including cryptocurrencies), technical analysis and covering macroeconomic events.
It was in 2018 that Dhwani took charge of the editorial line of FXStreet’s site during the Asian session. She aligns the team and their tasks towards covering all the editorial needs, focusses on the macroeconomic coverage and also advises on the different projects, strategies and products of FXStreet. Besides, she manages the cryptocurrencies coverage during the weekend.
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Classification and Taxonomies
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By admin|2020-05-11T13:33:54-04:00May 4th, 2020|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on Classification and Taxonomies
Taxonomies and classification. These two terminologies are frequently used interchangeably but they are not the same thing. It could be very confusing to understand the difference between taxonomy and classification, yet it is very important to do so. Understanding the similarities and the differences could help clear the confusion.
Taxonomy is the discipline of classifying something, most commonly organisms, by arranging them in a highly ordered manner. Taxonomy provides identification keys by studying the subjects.
Classification was first brought into practice with the enormous amount of work contributed by the great scientist Carolus Linnaeus. His classification of organisms was mainly based on the shared physical characteristics. However, the evolutionary approach was incorporated into biological classification after Charles Darwin’s common descent principle.
Most everyone is familiar with classification schemes used to catalog and locate books and other materials in libraries, such as the Dewy Decimal system. There are also classification systems for industries. Corporations with large volumes of documents may have their own internal document classification systems.
At its very basic explanations, classification is where to put things or where does this document or item go. Taxonomy is how to describe content or what is this text, image, or other media about.
Both classification and taxonomy are related and are within the realm of information science. Though they appear similar, they are really quite different and serve different purposes.
Taxonomists are often asked about the work they do. For those outside the world of information science and management, it can be hard to get their head around classification and the science of taxonomy. To put it at its simplest — taxonomy is a knowledge organization system, usually for a specific subject area.
There are many approaches to the building of a taxonomy. No absolutely right or absolutely wrong methods exist, but there are some that are not as efficient as others such as grouping red animals together. They may share the same color attribute, but that might end up being the only thing that they share. Consistency and clarity of meaning are vital benefits of taxonomies; they give taxonomies the power to do what they do for knowledge management.
With content management system vendors providing taxonomy functionality, users have unfortunately become tempted to consolidate and eliminate a very worthy part of their document management process.
Subject matter experts need to be used in creation of a good taxonomy – without their knowledge you will miss the important detailed knowledge of the users. Taxonomies aren’t complicated, or they don’t have to be.
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VivaTech: An Ecosystem for Innovation
By Elizabeth Shobert — 2 years ago in Industry News + Events
Last week we had the opportunity to participate in VivaTech, a conference and expo that showcases and connects startups with a community of business leaders, investors, press, and partnership opportunities. As a part of this ecosystem, we exhibited under the umbrella of our partner SAP.iO, along with 23 other SAP partners. SAP.iO's mission is to help drive startups and entrepreneurs to growth and scale, and its mission dovetails perfectly with that of the event.
One of the biggest events of its kind, VivaTech is a place where schools highlight their talented students enterprises, large multinationals showcase their innovative technology partners, and regions and countries can highlight their investments in different tech sectors. Whether your interests are Fintech, Retail, Smart Cities, or Agriculture, you'll find a startup that's thinking differently about what the future of their sector looks like.
Another huge highlight of the event is the keynote speakers who have included everyone from French Presidents, to business leaders the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Bernard Arnault. This year's roster didn't disappoint with Alibaba's Jack Ma, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Each leader had an opportunity to talk about how they think about disruption and the future of tech, not just in France but globally.
In fact, the topic of how European startups can grow to the scale of some of their Western and Eastern counterparts was at the heart of the conference, as this Quartz analysis handily summed up, "The reasons why Europe’s tech players are lagging behind are well known: The continent remains fragmented, with differing rules and licensing from one (small) nation to another. Another big factor is money. Growth capital in Europe, while improving, is nowhere near as plentiful as in America." French President Macron, in his keynote, diplomatically put the challenge as such, "Europe could become a tech leader by 'building a tech ecosystem that is compatible with democracy.'" While both regional and global socio-political headwinds are posing unprecedented obstacles to making this a reality, it also tells us now is the time to work the hardest to achieve these goals.
If events like VivaTech are to give us any insight, it's that a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship is thriving in France and beyond, and we can't wait to see who rises to the challenge.
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S. Sudan’s Otuho rebels unveil objectives for armed struggle
December 4, 2015 (JUBA) - A new South Sudanese rebel faction predominantly member of the Latuka ethnic group which locally identifies itself as Otuho in Eastern Equatoria state has unveiled objectives for taking up arms against the government of president Salva Kiir, saying the government has lost historical vision for the people.
Rebel fighters protect civilians from the Nuer ethnic group (not seen) walk through flooded areas to reach a camp in UNMISS base in Bentiu, Sept. 20, 2014 (Photo AP/Matthew Abbott)
An army officer who identified himself as Major General Anthony Ongwaja, and claimed to be the chairman of the South Sudan Federal Democratic Party (SSFDP) and the commander-in-chief of the South Sudan Armed Forces (SSAF), said during an interview with Sudan Tribune on Friday that because the country’s leadership had deprived people of the core principles of the cause of the liberation struggle for independence since 1947, they were rebelling to set it right.
He said they would fight to ensure that a federal democratic system of governance is established in South Sudan.
“The objectives of the inception of South Sudan armed forces as a military wing of South Sudan Federal Democratic Party is: establishment of South Sudan as federal democratic country on the basis of equality, rule of law, democratic system and a country where the right of each and every citizen regardless of tribe, region or gender is respected and upheld,” said Ongwaja.
The official said his movement also advocates for establishment of a multi-party system in which multiple political parties across the political spectrum run for national election with equal chance of gaining control of government offices, separately or in coalition government.
His forces on Thursday took control of a police post, 35km outside Torit, the state capital, and threatened to match towards the state capital.
The group seems to be echoing the demands of the armed opposition faction led by former vice president, Riek Machar, who demanded federal system of governance and democracy in the country.
The new rebel group has also copied the would be constitutional name of the South Sudanese army, which is to be named the South Sudan Armed Forces (SSAF) in accordance with the current transitional constitution, 2011, but which has not yet been implemented, pending transformation of the army.
5 December 2015 07:08, by Eastern
JCE’s toying with South Sudan is gonna become costly! Kiir and Riek signed a peace agreement meant to bring peace in the country but the dinka outfit is hellbent on persuading the president to renegade on what he signed. South Sudan goes up in flames and disintegrate, thanks to JCE machinations!!!
5 December 2015 12:27, by Ayuiu Makuac Lam
All arms forces are belonging to Riek Machar movement of SPLM/A-iO.
Just a matter of times to be crushed.
6 December 2015 08:16, by Gabriel Ajak
U all unknown where to be seen, ur comment and the communities that u belong to, where were u during the Arab colonialism ? I can say that looking after position by killing ur own blind community is a serious violation of life before God n make sure that u shall deserve the consequences whether u like or not.
5 December 2015 08:05, by Augustino
That’s not a war but longing for leadership. They copy it from Nuer but will soon kneel down. Currently we have 28 States what do they need
5 December 2015 12:11, by Gatkuoth
Augustino, you are either don’t understand federalism or you are misleading others. Creation of 28 states means more powers taken from the people to your uncle Kiir who will appoint Governors and people wouldn’t have any say. That’s not federalism, it is centralization!
Federal government has been completed and your family can run for leadership in Torit now. Dinka has become your toilet paper but Arab is coming back again and there will be no Uganda and Kenya any more for cowards and you ask Dinka to fight for you again.
5 December 2015 09:24, by Dinka-Defender-General
First, ask Machar and his fighters when they tried to march to Juba. Why they went back to their headquarter. We are on the way to your place so wait for us. You’re nothing more than bandits, looters, and position angers. Who will support you financially, politically, and militarily.
5 December 2015 09:35, by Kenyang
Another selfish garbage worth only insecurity towards clanmen.
5 December 2015 11:36, by Kalo
If federalism introduce will be rejected like 28 states,Junubeen,if you are not comfortable to run your own government,better to reunited the country back Sudan like German of 1991 but why did you take up the armed for 21 years? it seem every community want to show the power,to rule South Sudan which is impossible now even if through election.
5 December 2015 14:19, by Hardlinner
Well it seem like rebellion hv become quick fix for scoring positions. Even dinka will soon rebelled if they feel their rightful quotas hv been given away. As far as I know, rebellion is not the solution but hard work. The current and former system in juba can well be correction through awareness not rebellions. The tribal rebellions r causing alot of disunity among people.
Hardliner,
Thk u for pointing that out. Once news of tribal rebellion reach Dinka youth, many will run for their life while kiir & gangs remain winners.
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SoundHound raises $75M to bring its voice-enabled AI everywhere
Matthew Lynley @mattlynley / 4 years
SoundHound has been around for 10 years and, before today, had raised around $40 million in financing as it’s worked to build a massive conversational AI platform.
But today, the company is adding even more cash to that pile, nearly doubling the amount already raised with a $75 million round including strategic investors like NVIDIA and Samsung Catalyst Fund, among others. SoundHound has been downloaded more than 300 million times, and while the company started as just an app to detect what music was playing, CEO Keyvan Mohajer’s ambitions have since shifted to building a massive conversational AI platform much like what Amazon is hoping to do with Alexa.
The company launched Hound, its voice-powered assistance for the iPhone and Android, in March last year. The app was the culmination of around 10 years of research and development, Mohajer said. That not only made the app competitive with products like Google Assistant and Siri, but also insulated it from potential challenges of other startups emerging and trying to chew into its opportunities.
SoundHound’s goal was to build a voice-based AI that can understand increasingly complex queries, making questions more and more specific. Hound users, instead of asking questions with follow-ups, have since begun asking longer and longer questions as a result of the app’s gear toward being able to understand multiple data points within a query, Mohajer said.
Since the launch of Hound, however, the whole ecosystem around conversational user interfaces has exploded. At CES, we saw tons of products that were powered by Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant — so far that the AI was even built into a fridge. So while SoundHound’s app has been able to build a competitive product with Google Assistant and Siri, this year we also saw Alexa not only carve out a big place in homes but also begin embedding itself into a myriad of new products.
But with all these major companies trying to build platforms that developers will tap into in their portfolio of products, some AI-driven companies have found themselves looking to be a more neutral party. Clarifai, for example, wants to create a visual search platform that businesses can plug into their existing products while Pinterest and Google invest heavily — but for their own products.
“The other advantage we have is that we don’t have a hidden agenda to hijack your products,” Mohajer said. “When Amazon says, ‘dear Samsung, put Alexa in your product,’ then as Samsung I work so hard to create a brand and product but I have to ask my users to log into Amazon accounts. All that data goes to Amazon and there’s no difference between a Samsung and LG device. I can’t differentiate any more.”
Mohajer said since the launch of Houndify, the company’s service has been baked into more than 500 distinct products with more than 20,000 partners. Those products range from cars, robots and appliances. But while Mohajer is hoping that its conversational AI will be baked into as many products as possible, the company hopes to use the same kinds of AI patterns its built to expand into other media like text and images.
With the financing, the company is hoping to invest heavily in what it calls “collective AI.” That allows developers to tap into other domains that are already out there. For example, if a developer built a tool for searching for restaurants through Yelp or some other integration, it could tap into already-existing domains like getting specific locations and also summoning a car to get there. Those to developers, by extension, are able to tap into the tools already built by others, hopefully producing a compounding effect, Mohajer said.
Here’s the full list of investors: NVIDIA, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Nomura Holdings, Inc., Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc., RSI Fund (the VC arm of Recruit Holdings), Kleiner Perkins, SharesPost 100 Fund, MKaNN, joining previous investors Global Catalyst Partners, Walden Venture Capital, and Translink Capital Partners.
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SmartLogic
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Company Stats
custom app development, design, iOS, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, Phoenix and Elixir, React, React Native, web and mobile application development
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888-544-SMRT
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Melvin Cedeno, Rose Burt, Sundi Myint, Craig Mertan, Chris Preisinger, Stephanie Vizzi, Dan Ivovich, Yair Flicker
8 Market Pl Ste 377 Baltimore, MD 21202
3500 Boston St Suite 323 Baltimore MD 21224
This Baltimore-based custom web and mobile application company has made a name for itself within both the tech startup scene and the Fortune 500 crowd.
How SmartLogic managed to carve its own niche and earn trust within the crowded custom software space is all thanks to trustworthy practices and constant learning.
The company works hand-in-hand with its clients, offering transparency by involving them in weekly stand ups, enabling them to communicate directly with developers and adding services — most recently in the form of UX/UI — to continually raise the bar of its own work. And, because the proof is in the puddin’, today 40% of SmartLogic’s business comes from repeat clients.
With one eye always set on where the industry is going, SmartLogic has been able to employ the capabilities of new, progressive technology, like Elixir/Phoenix and React Native. In addition, attending conferences, encouraging software mastery through side projects, sponsoring as many as 74 grassroot events in a year and producing its own podcast, Elixir Wizards — featuring conversations with software devs from around the world on the Elixir language and other modern web technologies — are just a few of the ways SmartLogic invests in growth and development internally and externally.
As the nimble team of 18 looks to double itself over the next year, it looks for smart, independent, self-directed individuals who are as passionate about technology outside of the office as they are inside of it.
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Featured Employees
I like that it's a consultancy because we get to work with all different types of clients. You’re never on the same project for too long, there’s always an opportunity to switch things up. It keeps things interesting.
Melvin Cedeno Developer
You are the leader of your own destiny here. SmartLogic puts a lot of trust in its team members. If you are independent, have the habits and skills to plan your own work, execute on it and speak up when it’s important, you’ll be a good fit.
Rose Burt Content and Digital Marketing Manager
We always make it a priority to keep our technology up-to-date. In fact, we call it Employee Happiness — when the tech you’re using is the ‘new hotness’ and everyone is doing work that interests them.
Sundi Myint Developer
“There’s always something on the horizon. On any given day, I could be working on 3 different things. It keeps things fresh. You never tire of what you’re working on — within a day or two it changes.”
Craig Mertan Product Designer
“You can get experience in so many different areas, beyond full-stack. From interacting with clients to learning how the sales process works, you are able to see the entire process from inception to production to deployment.”
Chris Preisinger Developer
"SmartLogic puts a lot of confidence in its employees, no matter what level they’re at. We have a long leash to explore, develop in our own way, write code that reflects how we think. It’s a great place to progress in your career."
Stephanie Vizzi Developer
“SmartLogic is collaborative. It’s a good place to do great work with people who care about what they’re doing. From a public standpoint, we’re flexible, we adapt to changing situations that our clients have and we’ve built up a lot of expertise around our core technology stack.”
Dan Ivovich Director of Development Operations
Culture Q&A
Talk to us about your tech stack.
We make it a priority to always use the latest tech. For instance, we won’t use something that will be useless in a few years.
Elixir/Phoenix is our go-to choice for all new projects. Modern web applications demand both real time communication with end users (i.e. chat, live updates, notifications, etc) and background processing (i.e. transaction handling, reporting, external integrations, etc). Elixir’s use of the Erlang VM brings a great multi-process model to these challenges. We do still use Ruby on Rails, as well, primarily for legacy apps and in some cases for new apps where Elixir doesn’t present a clear advantage over Rails.
We use React and React Native for web and mobile app development, respectively. React Native lets us develop Android and iOS apps that look and feel native but that share a codebase, making the build faster, more efficient and easier to maintain.
What are some internal or client projects that you’re proud of?
We worked with OrderUp, a national food ordering company, to build an internal menu builder tool (which cut data entry time in half) and an Android app. Not long after, OrderUp was acquired by Groupon.
We’re proud of our work for Spotcrime, a crime data aggregator that has been a client since 2008. Most recently, we built an infrastructure that enabled the app to handle a large volume of data for much lower costs. It is visited by one million users a month and sends over five million email alerts a month.
We’ve even built software that ran on the International Space Station.
What do you look for in new hires?
We make very strategic hiring decisions. We’re looking for devs who are solid technical talents — people who understand software to their core and computer science from an applied perspective. We look for people who are deeply interested in programming; for them it’s more than a job, they read about it in their spare time.
We look for people who are smart, capable, truly interested in the work and excited to come in every day.
Our team is very self-directed. We’re not going to micromanage you here. So we seek people who are self-managing and very independent.
Tell us about your internal culture.
Our processes are well thought-out and streamlined. Never wanting to become stagnant with old tech, we make a concerted effort to keep up with the modern tech landscape. The people on our team have a variety of skill sets and we value that.
In terms of career growth, we encourage you to pursue things that you’re interested in learning or trying out. We keep the lines of communication open so that team members can discuss their interests, find a way to explore new ideas, learn tech stacks in between client projects, etc.
Many folks here have their own side projects so we have a side project club that meets once a month, where employees can update the team on what they’re building.
What are your company values?
● Be trustworthy — We want happy, repeat clients, and that happens when they know we have their best interests in mind.
● Collaboration and Communication — We’re very collaborative and transparent; our clients own the accounts we create for them, and they invite us to access their accounts. There aren’t any non-technical PMs sitting between us and our clients. The devs communicate with them directly.
● Be pragmatic and intentional — We don’t wing it here. We come prepared and use time judiciously.
Do you have any special company and/or community traditions?
Pre-pandemic, we would host a company lunch once a week. These days we still host weekly meetings featuring presentations online. And to bond for an hour or so, we’ve hosted a few virtual happy hours where the company picks up the tab for the team’s dinner.
As part of growth and development, we send everyone to one to two conferences a year. This year we attended and sponsored ElixirConf remotely, as well as attended the React Native EU Conference remotely.
One of the things we’re most proud of is our effort to sponsor and produce grassroot events. In 2019 alone we sponsored 56 events. We’ve been a longtime sponsor and supporter of Technical.ly’s events. We program and host on our own lineup of Meetups, including the Baltimore Elixir Meetup. And, we also recently gave away $13,000 to Black-led organizations in Baltimore and D.C.
Jobs Here are some details behind the employee experience here, including highlighted perks and benefits and notes on the tech they work with.
Parental Benefits
Family Medical Leave
Flexible Work Schedule
Generous Parental Leave
Perks & Discounts
Retirement & Stock Options Benefits
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Paid Sick Days
Developer – Ruby on Rails, Elixir, or JavaScript
Remote - anywhere in the US
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Solomon Islands plans to ban Facebook after government criticism on the platform
Reshab Agarwal January 5, 2021
NewsTrending
We know that Facebook is not great at reviewing posts on its platform. And it became evident as the platform became a medium to criticize the government of Solomon Islands. After this incident, news has surfaced that the government of Solomon Islands plans to ban Facebook. This also means that the social media platform will lose out on a huge chunk of users from the island. A formal decision on the same is being awaited.
Why the Solomon Islands plans to ban Facebook?
Image Source: The Guardian
Facebook was used as a platform to criticize the government on a wide scale, which enraged the authorities. The criticism was regarding the funds raised during the COVID-19 pandemic and the decision to switch diplomatic ties from Taiwan to China. Alongside the criticism, the platform was also used to spread hate by use of abusive language. It was also used to slaughter the characters of various ministers of the government, including the country’s PM. So, all of this combined seems to be a good enough reason for the government to ban Facebook.
Facebook Ban!
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After this ban happens, Solomon Islands will become the 4th country to ban Facebook. There might still be hope for the social media giant as an official from the company is still in touch with the government. Facebook is actually quite famous in the country. So, its ban will affect thousands of active users of the world’s largest social media platform. The spokeswoman from the company said that their platform is a way for people to engage and exchange thoughts among themselves.
This ban will affect not only the users but also the government itself. Firstly the platform is so famous in the country that it is used as a viable mode of communication between the government and the citizens. Information about public health and also speeches of the PM and other ministers are broadcasted on the platform. But with its ban, that will change, and so will the reach of the government.
While this is happening, the opposition part is against the ban. He believes that users should have the right ,to express their views freely and there is no such solid reason to ban the platform. Do you think that the fact the Solomon Islands plans to ban Facebook is justifiable? Let us know in the comments below. Also, if you found our content helpful and interesting, do like and share it with your friends.
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Slate’s dangerous assertion that merit pay works
A couple years ago I received my districts bonus as one of
the top 25% of teachers, I was excited and told my friends some of whom I
believe are much better than me and I was shocked to learn they hadn’t received
it. I went home that day with some silver in my pocket but feeling like crap.
Slate Magazine recently did a piece saying merit pay can
work but it’s got to be for more than the nominal amounts that school districts
usually offer. The article sited a study that paid veteran teachers with a
history of results 20 thousand dollars over two years to go to our schools that
are struggling (i.e. doing poor on standardized tests) the most. The article
then said they did significantly better than teachers hired through the normal
From Slate:
In 10 cities, including Los Angeles, Miami, and Houston,
researchers at Mathematica identified open positions in high-poverty schools
with low test scores, where kids performed at just around the 30th percentile in both reading and math.
To fill some of those positions, they selected from a special group of transfer
teachers, all of whom had top 20 percent track records of improving student
achievement at lower poverty schools within the districts, and had applied to
earn $20,000 to switch jobs. The rest of the open positions were filled through
the usual processes, in which principals select candidates from a regular
applicant pool.
education, $20,000 is a whopping sum.
If a transfer teacher stayed in her new, tougher placement for
two years, she’d earn the
$20,000 in five installments, regardless of how well her new students
performed. In public education, $20,000 is a whopping sum, far more generous
than the typical merit pay bonus of a few hundred or a few thousand dollars.
In the process, a remarkable thing happened. The transfer
teachers significantly outperformed control-group teachers in the elementary
grades, raising student achievement by 4 to 10 percentile points—a big improvement in the world of
education policy, where infinitesimal increases are often celebrated.
This is a bit misleading; you see the candidates from the
regular applicant pool were most likely first year or novice teachers. Our
inner city schools face a lot of churn and burn and turnover with their teacher
staff. So in essence the article is saying is veteran teacher do a lot better
than first year teachers. Can somebody let Teach for America know please?
A couple years ago, a couple years after I received merit
pay my school relieved a sig grant and the entire staff, all 120 of us were
paid to an extra 5000 dollars to stay not that I think many of us had plane to
go elsewhere as they gave us the money during pre planning. Where appreciative
of the money I always wondered what would have happened had the district spent
the 850 thousand dollars to hire 12 new staff members, a mental health
counselor and a social worker because so often why a kid acts up or does poorly
in school has nothing to do with school. What would have happened had they
hired art, music, drama and home ec teachers’ positions that had been cut so school
wouldn’t have been such drudgery for so many children? What would have happened
if we hired extra teachers so classes could have been smaller so kids could
have gotten more individualized attention? I think we would have done better
and I also think we often put kids in positions where success is hard to
achieve and then we scratch our heads and wonder why they didn’t do so.
Next I wonder about the great teachers already at the
schools where these established veterans were sent. You know the ones who were
already succeeding and not going to get the extra 20k. How do you think they
felt? Did their performances suffer and what did this for to collaboration?
The article is right in the regard we do need to get our
best teachers at our most struggling schools. We can’t hope a significant
number of first years are going to suddenly catch fire or stay long enough that
they hit their grooves. But we don’t have
to bribe teachers to do so. Instead let’s give teachers behavioral support,
make classes small, not over load them with paper work and put in place systems
that serve the child when they are not in school. If we did those things we
might just discover we already have some of our best teachers at those
The Slate piece wasn’t terrible but I believe in parts it
was misleading, especially the part where it says merit pay does work.
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/11/talent_transfer_initiative
Why did Bill Gates spend 170 million on Common Core?
Bill Gates can’t understand why he would pay a more experienced
lawn man over some random person he picks up in front of the Ace Hardware with
his truck. This post however is not about that.
It’s also not about his small school initiative which he
spent tens of millions of dollars on and later abandoned or about his stack
rating evaluations that backfired at Microsoft and that they just recently stopped
using.
And it’s not about him saying it will be a decade before we
know if any of his education reforms will work which reduces kids and teachers to
nothing but pawns in his mad experiments.
https://testing.gfordistrict3.com/2013/09/bill-gates-legacy-billions-of-dollars.html
No this is about him spending 170 million dollars on common
core.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/11/27/gates-foundation-pours
It is truly maddening that despite the fact none of his
ideas have worked and he admits it will be at least a decade before we know if anything he has done
ever will, he keeps throwing money at education , he must not be very bright.
Or maybe he is brilliant.
One of the things slowing Florida down from completely implementing
Common Core is the lack of band width and computers. Hmm computers, who have I
heard of that has something to do with computers. Oh yeah that’s right, Bill
So is he some altruistic nincompoop who just can’t get it
right or is he some heartless business who sees an opportunity?
It is my bet, the latter.
Children are more than just test scores
Standardized tests suck the life out of a classroom. -Little boy
This is happening all across the country, in your back yard too.
Florida teachers, they are coming after your pensions.
The latest villain in the right’s education narrative is
pensions. They complain that they are somehow bankrupting our country and they
aren’t above lying and misleading to convince people. Dropout Nation about as anti-public education
and teachers can get is just one in a long line of deceivers.
They complained about how the NEA spends money to lobby,
like only charter schools and testing companies should be allowed to lobby and
one of the entities that received money was a group called the Coalition to Save FRS, which is fighting
efforts to overhaul the Sunshine State’s virtually-busted defined-benefit
pensions. The NEA affiliate tossed $90,000 over to Coalition to Save FRS in
http://dropoutnation.net/2013/11/25/florida-neas-15-million-spree/
Virtually busted?!? Florida is considered to have one of the
best and most healthy pension funds around!
There is no financial emergency and the last one certainly was not
created by teachers and other civil servants with pensions.
Want proof? The Miami herald reported, the retirement fund
increased by $9.65 billion during the last year even after making payments of
$6.2 billion to retirees.
http://politics.heraldtribune.com/2013/08/09/state-pension-fund-had-good-year/
Pensions are under attack, and facts don’t seem to matter to
the attackers.
To read more about how healthy our pension is click the
link: http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2013/mar/11/will-weatherford/will-weatherford-says-
Why parents hate Common Core
By Diane Ravitch by way of CNN
The U.S. Department of Education is legally prohibited from having any control over curriculum or instruction in the nation’s public schools, but nonetheless Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is a zealous advocate of the new Common Core standards for students’ proficiency in English and math.
First, he said their critics were members of extremist groups, and he recently assailed the parents who criticize them as “white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were.” His remarks were prompted by the nearly unanimous outrage expressed by parents — moms and dads — at public forums in suburban districts in New York, following the release of the abysmal results of the new Common Core tests.
The high failure rate did not happen because the students are dumb, but because the state chose to set an unrealistic passing mark. The state commissioner knew before any student had taken the test that only 30% or so would pass; that is where the state commissioner set the passing mark.The parents weren’t angry because they found out their child wasn’t brilliant, but because most were told by the state that their children were failures. Only 31% of the state’s students in grades third through eighth passed or exceeded the new tests. Among students who are English-language learners, only 3% passed the English standards; among students with disabilities, only 5% passed them; among black and Hispanic students, fewer than 20% passed. The numbers for math were better, but not by much.
Duncan likes to boast that the Common Core standards were adopted by 45 states, but neglects to mention that the states were required to adopt “college-and-career-ready standards” to be eligible for $4.35 billion in the education secretary’s signature program called Race to the Top.
Some states adopted them without seeing a finished draft. The standards, unfortunately, were never field-tested. No one knew in advance whether they would improve achievement or depress it, whether they would widen or narrow the achievement gap among children of different races. It is hard to imagine a major corporation releasing a new product nationwide without first testing it among consumers to see if it is successful. But that is what happened with the Common Core standards.
Experts in early childhood education say the standards for young children are developmentally inappropriate. Teachers say that they have not had the training or resources to teach the new standards. Field-testing would have ironed out many of the bugs, but promoters of the standards insisted on fast implementation.
No one yet has estimated the costs of shifting from state standards to national standards. Duncan awarded $350 million to develop new tests for the new standards, but all of the testing will be done online.
Los Angeles intends to spend $1 billion on iPads for the Common Core Techology Project, designed to help prepare for the standards. If that is the cost to only one district, how many billions will schools across the nation pay for software and hardware and bandwidth for Common Core testing? This will be a bonanza for the technology industry, but will put a strain on public school budgets in a time of austerity.
The Common Core standards emphasize critical thinking and reasoning. It is time for public officials to demonstrate critical thinking and to stop the rush to implementation and do some serious field-testing.
It is time to fix the standards that don’t work in real classrooms with real students. It is time to stop testing students on material they have not been taught. American students take more tests than students in any other nation. Our dependence on standardized testing has become excessive.
Standards alone can’t right everything that needs fixing in American education, and some experts, like Tom Loveless at Brookings Institution, say they will make little or no difference in student achievement.
Public officials should listen to the moms and dads. This is a democracy, and it is not the role of public officials to impose their grand ideas without the consent of the governed.
Why would anybody want to be a teacher?
I just read an article about how the Koch brothers are
funding anti-tenure legislation all across the nation. I can’t go a day without
reading how pensions are bankrupting America; remember when teachers created
the housing bubble that nearly wrecked the world? Oh neither do I. Then there
is Common Core, which ratchets up high stakes testing further eroding
flexibility, and creativity.
Sure the attacks against teachers have slowed down some as
alternatives sold as saviors like charter schools and vouchers have failed and
a few teachers sacrificed their lives to protect children in Connecticut and
Oklahoma but after years of being the villain of the narrative it’s hard to
forget all the assertions about lazy teachers only concerned with their
Cadillac benefits and summers off that people like Michelle Rhee, Jeb Bush,
Bill Gates and Arne Duncan have made. Now they reserve their nastiest attacks
for unions and teacher colleges.
I have also read something like half of all teachers are
going to retire in the next ten years and that’s got to be half the teachers
that made teaching a career because we all know almost half of all new teachers
don’t last five years.
Throw in salaries for most teachers not being on par with other
professionals and benefits getting more and more expensive and providing less
and less and I ask again why would anybody want to be a teacher?
Oh I remember, it’s my kids thanking me for being
there and it’s the light I can sometimes see go off when they finally get what
I am teaching. Today it makes it worth it.
Dear Morning Joe, are you going to be misinformed shills or are you going to be news people?
I was really disappointed with your Arne Duncan interview this morning. The toughest question you asked was “how is your day?” You also let him mislead you and the public. All those poor numbers and rankings he sited zoom to the top when you factor out poverty something must of our suburban mothers don’t have to contend with and over a fifth of our children live in. Furthermore common core, what he is pushing does nothing to address poverty our real problem.
Are you going to be misinformed shills or are you going to be news people?
Dysfunction on the Duval County School Board.
This probably can’t be good moving forward.
It’s been tradition that the vice chair take over for the
chair for a while now so it was no surprise that Fred Lee nominated Becki Couch
to be chairperson. It’s when it came time to select a vice chair that fireworks
really flew.
Jason Fischer nominated district 5’s Connie Hall but she
declined, way to go district 5, when you elect a part time board member you
really elect a part time board member. This was followed by Paula Wright making
an impassioned plea for the position. If you don’t remember she also lobbied to
be the chair last year but only Hall supported her.
Unswayed Couch proceeded to nominate Ashley Smith
“privatization” Juarez, Fischer then nominated Grymes and Lee nominated Wright,
who I guess seeing the writing on the wall, Wright and remember this was just
after a speech where she extolled her accomplishments, said “no thank you”.
The board then rebuffed its new chairperson and elected
Grymes 5-2. Yes that’s right, the new chairs first official act failed and she
did not get her hand picked second.
The word dysfunction comes to mind.
More deception from the FLDOE!
Last spring’s charter school study quickly fell apart
under scrutiny. Its chief problem among many was that more than a hundred
charter schools were left out.
Then there is the infamous Chartrand rule, named so
because it benefits a charter school that chair of the state board Gary
Chartrand has close ties to, that prevents schools from dropping more than one
letter grade. To be honest I think the state’s grading system is a travesty, simply
shows where the poor kids live and is all about punishing instead of helping
but at the same time I am against our government out and out lying to us too.
Now we come to common core. Opposition is growing
daily but the Florida Department of education has a way to stem the tide. It’s
going to change the name.
From Redefined Ed: The new standards might also have a new name, said Joe
Follick, a spokesman for the department. Given the input that the state has
taken and the changes that are likely to be made, “it would be disingenuous to
call them common core standards,” he said.
www.redefinedonline.org/2013/11/florida-consider-changing-re-branding-common-
where do I begin? So our standards aren’t going to be common after all? What’s disingenuous
is the state attempting to be deceptive. What’s disingenuous is people are selling
common core as a cure all and nobody has an idea if it is going to work. What is
disingenuous is the powers that be think siphoning millions out of the
classroom is the best use of our limited resources.
Even liberals think all unions do is protect bad teachers.
Arne Duncan was a topic on Morning Joe this morning and I
couldn’t believe I what I was hearing. First they showed a complete lack of
knowledge about the situation and I have to say being ignorant is okay it’s
when you start to comment that I have a problem.
At first they thought the kerfuffle was just because people
had become too politically corrects and that his comments were taken but not meant
to be racial and where there were racial undertones, I felt they were more
sexist and dismissive of women and people who disagreed with him. In short as
well as being misinformed and completely made up, they were elitist and
ignorant. The morning Joe cast seemed to agree Duncan’s remarks weren’t racist
but the inverse, saying urban black moms, would have been
Then they talked about how everybody gets a trophy and how students
are no longer pushed to be successful. Mike Barnicle said teachers in a “preponderance”
of schools will tell parents how great their children are while at the same
time the kids can’t perform simple tasks like add four plus four but as bad and
insulting as that was it wasn’t the humdinger of the segment. No, that came from
Donny Deutsch.
He said he understood people’s frustrations with public
schools but they were doomed to fail since unions main purpose was to protect
bad teachers. What!!!
My union does not protect bad teachers. In fact my problem
with my union is they don’t protect good teachers from the intimidation
practices of various administrations, being overworked and from often being put
in no-win situations. Talk about pay and benefits and you have their attention,
talk about being brow beaten, marginalized or given more work than one person
can possible be expected to do and you can’t get a call returned. The last
thing they do is protect bad teachers.
Not only has Deutsch bought the talking point that unions
protect bad teachers but he is selling it on Morning Joe too and doing so as if
that somehow gives Duncan the right to marginalize parents and teachers who he
insulted over the weekend.
So there you have it, the hosts of morning Joe think kid getting
trophies whether they deserve them or not and unions protecting bad teachers
sum up the problems in education.
Oy vey!
I am beginning to think public school supporters have been
doing it wrong. We have waited and hoped the administration and left leaning
outlets like MSNBC and the New York Times came to their senses and started
standing up for public schools (and yes there are a few exceptions) but the
problem is the weekly charter school scandals, and the lack of evidence that
corporate reforms work seem to go in one ear and out the other while the story
they heard from their neighbors, cousins, brothers, uncle about a union
protecting a bad teacher resonates, it takes hold.
Public school supporters need to find allies where they can and
I am sure there are some on the right because waiting for help from traditional
friends hasn’t been working.
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TF SPORT READY TO ROAR AT ROLEX 24 DAYTONA DEBUT
TAGS Rolex 24, Aston Martin New GT3, Charlie Eastwood, Richard Westbrook, Ben Keating, Maxwell Root
TF Sport is heading Stateside for their first race of the 2021 season, as they make their IMSA debut at the 59th running of the Rolex 24. Daytona double-duty expert Ben Keating will be joined by 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Charlie Eastwood, Rolex 24 victor Richard Westbrook and promising GT youngster Maxwell Root, in TF Sport’s Aston Martin Vantage GT3.
The UK-based team will enter the fiercely competitive GTD class, at the opening round of the 2021 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. TF Sport’s entry will be a guest appearance, with a view to running full-season IMSA campaigns in the future.
Following on from the stellar GTE-AM win at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, TF Sport is confident for a strong showing at the world-renowned twice around the clock race in Florida.
The ‘Roar Before the Rolex 24’ will take place on January 22-24, with practice beginning on the following Thursday and the Daytona International Speedway lights will go green for the 24, on January 30.
Tom Ferrier, Team Owner - “We are very happy to be given the opportunity to race at this fantastic event! Thank you to all the partners involved, Total, Rain X, Wynns and Matter, for making it possible. We have a fantastic team and driver line up, so let’s hope we can bring a trophy home!”
Ben Keating, Bronze Driver - “This will be my 11th Rolex 24 at Daytona and it’s my favourite race of the year! I know that my first Le Mans experience came on the heels of me winning the Rolex 24, so why not be with TF Sport at their first Rolex 24 experience, on the heels of just winning at Le Mans? I have never driven the Aston Martin, but I competed against them all year long and was very impressed with the GTE car - I expect that the GT3 car will handle similarly. What’s not to love about this program?!”
Maxwell Root, Silver Driver - “After competing at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, I am incredibly humbled to now to be running America’s great endurance race for TF Sport with Ben, Richard and Charlie, after battling against them all earlier this year. The 24 hours of Daytona holds a special weight with me watching it for so many years growing up. We have a strong lineup and great partners with Matter and Speed Sport Management to make this weekend possible. Looking forward to getting down to Florida and going Rolex hunting”
Charlie Eastwood, Gold Driver - “Really looking forward to competing at Daytona. It’ll be the first race for the team and I in America, outside of the World Endurance Championship. After winning both the Total 24 Hours of Spa and the 24 Hours of Le Mans, it would be great to take the victory at Daytona and complete the trio and I think we’ve got a really good chance! Even though I haven’t driven with any of my teammates before, I believe together we’re a very strong line-up and January couldn’t come soon enough!”
Richard Westbrook, Platinum Driver - “I’ve been friends with Tom forever but this will be the first time I’ve raced for TF, so it’ll be odd him being my boss! The team have done so well over the last few years and with their current form and our line-up, we’ll certainly be looking for a victory. What makes Daytona special is the atmosphere, it’s the first race of the year so everybody is excited to get going again!”
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Because somebody has to say this stuff.
With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?
Gen Z Conservative
By Guest Author Gen Z Conservative from GenZConservative.com.
Republican Support of the COVID Bill and Dismissal of Trump’s Voter Fraud Claims: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?
We conservatives have long known that most Republican politicians are cowards. On issue after issue, they back down or bend the knee to Democrats and unappointed bureaucrats. They deserted Trump when the going got tough on issue after issue; whenever they saw resistance to his ideas, they backed down or deserted him, even if his ideas and suggested programs might have been good for the country.
Why aren’t the tax cuts permanent? Why isn’t voter fraud being investigated? Why isn’t there a special prosecutor for Hunter Biden? Why are troops still in Afghanistan and Syria? Why won’t they stand for a stronger stance toward China, a nation we’re effectively in a Cold War with? Because they’re not conservatives, they’re sellouts.
That’s not true of all of them, of course. Rand Paul is terrific, as is Senator Perdue of Georgia. Ted Cruz has also been a reliable defender of conservatism, like Rick Scott and (most of the time) Mike Lee. And those are just senators, there are many others in the House that are reliable conservatives.
But, on the whole, the GOP politicians and members of the executive branch have been highly disappointing. Mattis is a sellout to China, AG Barr won’t investigate Hunter Biden or voter fraud, and senators and members of Congress like Lindsey Graham and Liz Cheney are reliably in favor of sending troops abroad to die in countries that aren’t national security priorities. With “friends” like them, who needs enemies?
Whatever issues they have betrayed or deserted Trump on, the worst betrayals have come recently. Between their handling of voter fraud claims and the COVID relief bill, Republican politicians have shown themselves to be horrible friends of the conservative movement.
Issue 1: The COVID Bill
At this point, most people have heard about the COVID relief/omnibus bill that the House and the Senate just passed. Some of it is okay- the payouts to most citizens and support of small businesses is probably necessary because of how bad the effects of the lockdowns have been.
But, other than those few so-so parts of the bill, most of it is trash. Here are the worst highlights of it from a recent FEE article by Brad Pulombo:
“A federal $300/week add-on to existing state-level unemployment benefits and a renewal of provisions that expanded unemployment to new groups such as gig economy workers.”
“An extension of the federal government’s legally dubious and sweeping ‘eviction moratorium”’
“Congress plans to send $600 to each American adult who earns less than $75,000. However, according to the Wall Street Journal, legislators are using 2019 data to determine income eligibility. That means they’re using pre-pandemic income measures to determine who is eligible and who is not.” (That means that even the semi-justifiable part of the bill is not targeted and won’t give support to those who actually need it)
With the $300 unemployment increase, “A sizable, if yet undetermined, number of people will still be able to receive benefits that fully or almost fully equal their previous earnings.“
“Many Republicans and conservatives have at least touted the bill’s replenishment of the Paycheck Protection Program with several hundred billion more dollars (ostensibly) in relief earmarked for small businesses. However, beyond PPP’s serious fraud problems, its efficacy is seriously in doubt…[the last round of PPP] cost $224,000 in taxpayer expenditure per job preserved, only preserving roughly 2.3 million jobs“
A similar article by The Hill included some other ridiculous parts of the pork-filled bill:
“Of the funds appropriated under title III of the Act that are made available for assistance for Pakistan, not less than $15,000,000 shall be made available for democracy programs and not less than $10,000,000 shall be made available for gender programs.” Yep. $10 million. For gender programs. In Pakistan.”
“Funds for “Resource Study of Springfield (Illinois) Race Riot.” That riot occurred in (checks notes) 1908.“
“Statement Of Policy Regarding The Succession Or Reincarnation Of The Dalai Lama.” We’ll just leave that one there.”
“There’s actually a commission tasked with educating “consumers about the dangers associated with using or storing portable fuel containers for flammable liquids near an open flame.”‘
“Another $40 million will be allocated “for the necessary expenses for the operation, maintenance and security” of The Kennedy Center, which received $25 million in another COVID-19 relief bill earlier this year.”
“$86 million for assistance to Cambodia; $130 million to Nepal, $135 million to Burma, $453 million to Ukraine, $700 million to Sudan.“
“The bill creates a Women’s History Museum and an American Latino Museum as part of the Smithsonian. Overall, the Smithsonian gets (checks notes again) $1 billion.“
Unsurprisingly, President Trump was totally against the bill. Here’s what he said:
pic.twitter.com/v9Rdjz6DNu
In that video, Trump rightly calls the bill a disgrace, points out how small the $600 check is for people whose lives have been ruined by government action during the pandemic, and deplores the billions being sent to foreign countries why Americans are struggling.
All of those points are spot-on. Especially the one about foreign aid. Why are we sending $700 million to Sudan, a nation that sponsors terrorism and sheltered bin Laden? Why send millions of dollars to Pakistan for it to spend on gender programs? It’s a huge waste of money that we don’t even have in the first place. This year the government will spend $3 trillion more than it takes in. Why on Earth are we funding other nations while our coffers are empty?
Predictably, few Republicans proved themselves to be friends of conservatism.
Other than the few Senators from the tweet at the top of the page, the entirety of the GOP contingent in the Senate voted for a bill it hadn’t read that funded many things that are, at best, unimportant right now. Their profligate spending and refusal to put Americans first shows that they’re not good friends of conservatives who elected them because of concerns about the national debt and a complete lack of fiscal responsibility. With “friends” like them, who needs enemies?
Trump’s call for $2,000, rather than $600, checks might be smart or it might be misguided. But his point that this bill is a waste of money is spot on. Republicans are supposed to be fiscally responsible, and this bill is anything but. The Republicans that voted for it are not friends of conservatism.
Issue 2: Voter Fraud
The worse betrayal of Trump and conservatism is how Republicans have reacted to claims of voter fraud. Rand Paul has spoken out about it, as has Mo Brooks. A few others have too. But, other than that small cadre of real conservatives and patriots, no others are willing to accept the reality that the Democrats stole the election.
AG William Barr claimed that he has seen no widespread voter fraud. He must have not seen the many reasons why the election results are suspicious, the audit of Dominion, the fact that thousands of non-citizens voted in the election, the lists of many dead people who voted, or all the other brazen examples of definite fraud that show why the election results need to be seriously scrutinized.
Perhaps he needs new glasses. AG Barr should, at the very least, appoint a special counsel to look into voter fraud. Doing so would be widely applauded and would ensure that the truth of what happened would eventually be found out. Yet he refuses to. Like many other RINOs, he has stabbed Trump and his supporters in the back.
Then McConnell supported Joe Biden and claimed Biden won. That stab in Trump’s back was horrendous. Biden did not win; his party cheated. Furthermore, why would the leader of the GOP Senate support Biden? Trump worked tirelessly to get McConnell and other Republicans re-elected, do they have no gratitude? It would cost nothing for them to support Trump by demanding inquiries into voter fraud. Yet they refuse to do so.
By not looking into or speaking out about voter fraud, Republican politicians and bureaucrats are proving themselves to be traitors to the movement they ostensibly support. The rule of law is at stake. Whatever the truth is, substantial accusations of fraud are a major issue. Faith in the republic is at a low, Trump is unfairly being told to leave the White House, and Republicans are doing nothing. With friends like them, who needs enemies?
I didn’t write about the Democrats in this article for a reason. Yes, I fully understand that on every issue, they are far worse than Republicans. That’s worth remembering.
But so is treason. And most GOP politicians have betrayed their movement and their country. Voter fraud is serious. The national debt is a huge issue, so fiscal responsibility is too. Having occasional differences of opinion with the president would be one thing, but that’s not what has happened. The reality is that they have habitually and actively worked against Trump’s agenda. Rather than support the conservative movement by working tirelessly to pass legislation that makes Americans better off, they have cut corporate taxes and appointed judges that haven’t helped us out whatsoever. With friends like them, who needs enemies?
By: Gen Z Conservative
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Fred The Godson and Dave East Team Up For the New Banger ‘G5′ [LISTEN]
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Fred The Godson and Dave East teamed up for Fred's new cut "G5," where both MCs go in over a catchy horn loop.
"I bought a watch off the sumo bars / I show the band in my videos, Bruno Mars / You know God, I skip to the whip, reverse and draw fours like Uno cards," he spits.
Dave comes up next and delivers his usual solid delivery with that memorable, raspy voice he has, and Fred said he was the perfect person to get on the song.
"The inspiration was straight gutter, New York City hip-hop," he told XXL. "The beat calls for that. I had to get my boy Dave East on this ... This song will be featured on my upcoming mixtape Gordo, going to be released everywhere on Aug.18."
In addition, Fred said he's done taking sabbaticals, and he's ready to do music again full-on.
"No vacation, no days off. I am ready," he said. "I took the past few years to do a lot of writing, getting in the studio and working on projects with other people. Do some different things. 2017 is the reintroduction of Fred The Godson. I have projects in the pipeline and am ready to go nonstop. It's Time."
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Culture & Critics Corner
MTV Movie Awards Debuts new footage of The Dark Knight Rises
Written by Taylor Murphy on June 3, 2012
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Earlier tonight showcased the 2012 MTV Movie Awards, during the awards. During the show, Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, and Joseph Gordan Levitt were brought to stage to show some new footage of the upcoming summer film The Dark Knight Rises.
While the entire presentation lasted about 10 min, and the footage itself only being roughly 2 min of it, there were some notable things that did occur while it was being made. There were some obvious mentions made that did indeed hint at the long made rumor of “Batman’s Death”, before the actual footage was shown, they did show a small clip that briefly showed the audience some important moments of the first two movies, Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight.
What caught my attention most of all, was Christian Bale’s reaction to seeing the footage of Heath Ledger. After the footage was shown, he said a brief mention saying how great of a role he played, and while he did this, he got teared up, and looked like he was struggling holding back tears. It was somewhat touching to see this actor still being affected by his friends death over 4 years later.
While the entire presentation can be seen here in a low quality bootleg, the cleaner and HD footage from The Dark Knight Rises can be seen below.
[Editor’s note: These videos will likely be removed from the net shortly, but at least until it’s taken down from youtube and dailymotion, enjoy! —update: as predicted, the video has been taken down. Be on the lookout for the new footage.]:
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Dr Rebecca attained her Bachelor in Dental Surgery from University of Malaya in 1987. Once graduated, she ventured into private practice, thus, born the first Klinik Pergigian Tiew. In 27 years of God’s blessing, Tiew dental clinics had grew and was placed under management of ST Tiew Dental Group.
In order to provide better dental health services, Dr Rebecca embarked on setting up a dental supplies company named One Dental Group. Currently, Dr Rebecca is the Chief Executive Officer of ST-ONE Group, Managing Director for both ST Tiew Dental Group and One Dental Group.
Besides dental field, in 2009, Dr Rebecca attained Naturopathic Physician (ANMCB, USA), Advanced Diploma in Clinical Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine and Diploma in Senior Nutritionist (Chengdu University of TCM, China). She is also the Vice President of Natural Health Naturopathic Academy. She is currently the Marketing Director & Senior Health Consultant in Natural Health Farm (NHF). In 2012, she attained Certificate in Acupuncture & Clinical Specialization-Oncology (Guangzhou University of TCM, China) and is one of the Chief Physicians in Natural Health Naturopathic Centre.
Dr Rebecca also likes to share her experiences through writing. She wrote for MomBaby Magazine, Health World Magazine, and Long Life Magazine. She is now the Editor in Chief for Health Today, Malaysia.
Dr Rebecca also shared her knowledge through mass media. She was interviewed and video shot for special TV3 health programs. She was also invited to previous Radio 5 and now AiFm for health talks on air. She is also the panel dentist for both media.
She was blessed to be the finalist for Trophy Sri Nona TV3 in year 2003 and Innovative Woman Entrepreneur of the year 2004.
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Dr. Tiew Soon Tat has a genuine interest in educating the public. He has channeled his knowledge through mass media in order to create awareness to the public about dental health. He has written articles for Mom Baby Magazine, Long Life Magazine and Healthy World Magazine. 8TV had a live dental health talk show debut with this revered dentist. He was also a guest speaker of AIFM (chinese radio station) and was also interviewed and aired in Astro’s TV programme.
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HARBOR GRADS RETURN!
Last week, we hosted an event for recent graduates of The Harbor School. On a Wednesday evening at 6 PM, after everyone had finished with the busy routines of their respective lives and schools, 25 of our graduates came back “home” to Harbor to gather and reconnect with each other and with their former teachers. Returning grads ranged from third grade to sixth grade, and we even invited our current grade two students to get to know more about life after Harbor from their older peers.
Some students came tearing into the gym, jumping right into easy conversations with former classmates and teachers, and other walked in more tentatively, glancing around for familiar faces and gradually settling in. Calvin was, of course, the center of attention for many, as were the pizza and cookies. The sense of community and connection in the room was palpable, so much that when it was time to make introductions, Andrea and I hesitated to interrupt.
Nevertheless, former students passed the mic and shared a bit about where they are now, along with a Harbor memory. The memories shared were as diverse as the schools they were attending. As each adolescent shared, it struck me how confident and comfortable they were in this large setting. I’d like to think that being leaders in second grade at Harbor had something to do with that! And the diversity of schools they mentioned illustrated just how unique and diverse our students have been and continue to be, which is one of the best parts of our little school.
And the best part of the evening… after dinner and introductions, we handed the kids a packet with a scavenger hunt, and they had 30 minutes to explore their former classrooms to find the answers. Kids worked in teams to, somewhat frantically actually, weave in and out of the spaces to search for answers (and some of them were pretty difficult!), all the while reacquainting themselves with their former early childhood school. It was a joy to see. And while there were prizes, every child walked away with the gift of reconnecting to memories and friends, which was pretty amazing.
Last week’s event proved what I’ve been hearing from so many - that Harbor memories last a lifetime (or at least through middle school), and that the Harbor experience sets kids up for success!
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MOTÖRHEAD is BACK – First Performances Since August 2013 Kick Off to an Electrifying Start!
April 14, 2014 by janaya64
MOTÖRHEAD is BACK – First Performances Since August 2013 Kick Off to an Electrifying Start!
Rocked to a SOLD OUT Club Nokia on Friday & Coachella on Sunday
Photo by John Harrell
Undisputed rock n’ roll legends MOTÖRHEAD kicked off their first live performances since August 2013 with an electrifying bang this past weekend – performing to completely packed, sold out crowds on Friday at Club Nokia in Los Angeles and on Sunday at Coachella.
MOTÖRHEAD performed 15 songs on Friday, including top tracks ‘Ace of Spades’ and ‘Overkill’, with Slash joining in (see below for some fantastic photos from the set). The exciting set included tracks encompassing the band’s career; including a track from the band’s new album Aftershock.
As mentioned above, not only did MOTÖRHEAD bring down the house at Club Nokia, but then turned right around to rock the sold out crowd at Coachella on Sunday! “Legendary London heavy metal band MOTÖRHEAD, with special guest Slash, got the devil horns approval of fans on Sunday at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival,” states Wes Woods of the Los Angeles Daily News. In a Twitter post, Billboard adds, “MOTÖRHEAD, who have already pummeled the crowd with the heaviest riffs heard all weekend, welcome Guns N’ Roses guitar god Slash to the stage for a balls to the walls rendition of “Ace of Spades.” Any marbles Coachella had left are instantly lost.”
Apparently MOTÖRHEAD out-rocked other bands, even way across the festival grounds! According to Yahoo Music, “The roaring riffs of Slash and MOTÖRHEAD axeman Phil Campbell could be heard all the way across Coachella’s vast polo field, practically bleeding over into Arcade Fire‘s Main Stage revue.”
MOTÖRHEAD will continue to perform throughout April, including another Coachella performance on April 20th. Other stops include Chandler, AZ, Las Vegas, NV, and San Francisco, CA.
MOTÖRHEAD Spring Performance Dates:
4/15 Chandler, AZ @ Wild Horse Pass Hotel & Casino
4/17 Las Vegas, NV @ Pearl Concert Theater
4/18 San Francisco, CA @ Warfield Theatre
4/20 Indio, CA @ Coachella
Photo by Alex Solca
Photo by Scott Uchida
MOTÖRHEAD is taking part in Record Store Day 2014 in a big way – offering a must-have collectible item! The band is releasing a limited and numbered special edition Aftershock picture disc vinyl, exclusively for Record Store Day on April 19th. The 180-gram picture discs are limited to 4,500 units worldwide and are individually numbered. Go to www.recordstoreday.com to find a participating Record Store Day store near you.
Catch MOTÖRHEAD performing with Megadeth and Anthrax on the first annual MOTÖRHEAD’s Motörboat cruise onboard the Carnival Ecstasy from September 22-26, 2014. In addition to these three rock giants, “The Loudest Boat In The World” will also feature performances from Zakk Wylde, Jim Breuer, Danko Jones, Fireball Ministry, Wilson, and some big surprises. More bands are set to be announced soon. Tickets for MOTÖRHEAD’s Motörboat, as well as full details and cabin pricing, are on sale now at www.MotorheadCruise.com.
MOTÖRHEAD’s Aftershock did not only act as another stellar addition to the band’s legendary catalog, but is widely regarded as one of the best musical releases of 2013. Aftershock marked MOTÖRHEAD’s biggest selling first week and highest US chart debut numbers to date. You can order Aftershock now in Limited Edition Digipack format via Amazon.com at this link. The album is also available in regular CD format and vinyl (gatefold – 180-Gram Single LP).
Learn more about MOTÖRHEAD at these websites:
Official Lemmy Facebook: www.facebook.com/OfficialLemmy
Official MOTÖRHEAD Facebook: www.facebook.com/OfficialMotorhead
Official MOTÖRHEAD Twitter: @MyMotorhead
Official MOTÖRHEAD Instagram: @OfficialMotorhead
Official MOTÖRHEAD Website: www.imotorhead.com
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Trump adviser: I wouldn't take anything off the table on response to alleged Syria chemical attack
By Brett Samuels - 04/08/18 09:26 AM EDT
In wake of an alleged chemical attack in Syria, would Pres. Trump reconsider pulling out U.S. troops? Homeland Security Adviser @TomBossert45: “American troops aren’t going to fix this… we need regional partnership increased and we need U.S. presence decreased.” #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/hYxQYWveHY
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) April 8, 2018
President Trump Donald TrumpIran convicts American businessman on spying charge: report DC, state capitals see few issues, heavy security amid protest worries Pardon-seekers have paid Trump allies tens of thousands to lobby president: NYT MORE’s homeland security adviser said Sunday it’s possible the U.S. could hit Syria with a missile attack or other military action following reports of another chemical attack on its citizens.
Thomas Bossert told Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week” that the Trump administration is looking at the details of the alleged attack on a hospital in Douma, Syria, which left dozens dead. The death count will likely rise.
“I wouldn’t take anything off the table. These are horrible photos, we’re looking into the attack at this point,” Bossert said.
Trump on Sunday also blasted his predecessor, former President Obama, for not responding to previous chemical attacks by Syria with military force.
Trump clashed with many of his national security and military advisers last week when he said he plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria “very soon.” He has suggested that the U.S. could extend its military presence in Syria if other countries, including Saudi Arabia, pay for it.
His comments were met with pushback from multiple advisers, however, who warned that pulling troops out of Syria would be a mistake.
Bossert said Sunday that he believes the U.S. should not carry the bulk of responsibility in addressing the crisis in Syria. He called on Middle Eastern nations to contribute troops to the fight as well.
"American troops aren’t going to fix the six or seven different ongoing conflicts and wars going on in the Middle East or in Syria at this stage. We need regional partnership increased and we need U.S. presence decreased," he said.
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The Apartment, Reinvented:
At Home in Los Angeles
Written by Marc Palatucci
Photographed by Hanna Tveite and Thomas Slack
A new chapter of The Apartment is here. Nestled on tree-lined Melrose Place in the heart of West Hollywood, the second offline home of The Line welcomes a new city of visitors into the uniquely immersive experience born two years ago in New York’s SoHo, as freshly combined elements of residence, showroom, and boutique create a natural habitat for refined goods. In Los Angeles, these notions of context deepen, extending beyond the walls of the space to encompass the surrounding neighborhood and city. As a result, The Apartment by The Line – Los Angeles is a serene space distinguished by multi-layered modern design and relaxed West Coast charm.
Among the vintage pieces at The Apartment are a table and chairs by Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), whose furniture design sowed the seeds from which many of his architectural ideas sprang forth.
Overlooking Melrose Place, a window perch also does the job of a coffee table, displaying objects such as a handcrafted white oak board from Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co., Noma by René Redzepi, Phaidon’s Eating with the Chefs, and a trio of mirror-polished stainless steel pieces from Georg Jensen: the HK Pitcher, Ilse Vase, and Helena Milk Jug. Linen pillows from Libeco make the nook even more inviting.
In contrast to New York’s towering, modular cityscape, Los Angeles splays out laterally. It is a vast, low metropolis suffused with light and air. The site of The Apartment reflects the city’s expansive inclinations, occupying the second and topmost floor of a corner building in the center of Melrose Place, with its row of shops and cafes offering a measure of seclusion from the neighborhood’s more heavily trafficked areas.
A seating area supplements The Apartment’s natural light with vintage sconces in the style of Jean Royère that flank photographs by Aaron Siskind, Ray Metzker, Candida Höfer, and Edward Weston. Softened by a sheepskin throw and linen pillows, the rare George Nelson sofa with custom bronze legs is joined by a pair of Fritz Hansen PK22 Lounge Chairs, travertine and wrought iron side tables by Salterini, and a vintage Morgan coffee table.
“I see the body as a residence to our emotions, our soul, our inner selves,” says Los Angeles-based artist Mona Kuhn, whose Flower (2005) is among the works of art in The Apartment.
Illuminated by a pair of custom multi-cone chandeliers from Los Angeles-based Rewire, the angular dining table is paired with chairs in the style of Charlotte Perriand.
A trio of brass and silk cord pendants by Swedish designer Hans-Agne Jakobsson (1919-2009) light the way to the walk-in closet, where custom-made benches from Doug McCollough’s Lino series combine solid hardwood legs and stretchers with birch plywood and linoleum.
I wasn’t captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I’d rather be in L.A. Ed Ruscha
The Apartment is spread out over two adjoining spaces, separated by an open-air walkway of Moroccan tile in a hushed palette of sun-baked greys, tan, white, and pale pink. Soothing hues continue throughout The Apartment, with a natural spectrum of white, cream, beige, gold, and black enlivened by the blue and red detailing of beautifully worn Oriental rugs, the dusty shades of desert plants, and the colorful bindings of new and vintage books. The front room is free of walled partitions, with each area gently giving way to the next in full view of one another. At the entrance, a modern banquet table and extended kitchen countertop anchor the room, while the near corner, casually demarcated by two sets of shelves, is home to an informal library. Toward the far end, with windows looking out over the storefronts below and the rooftops beyond, two airy lounge areas are furnished with a selection of homegoods, artworks, and lighting.
The rear quarters offer a more intimate setting, with the various areas encircling a central island of private fitting rooms. Past the wood-paneled recessed racks of clothing, a marble-topped vanity invites hands-on exploration of bath, body, and fragrance offerings. Nestled toward the back, beyond a freestanding bowl-shaped tub, is the bedroom area, featuring a custom wooden bed from Doug McCullough’s DM/DM studio, whose linoleum-accented benches also dot the apartment. Soft light emanates from custom sconces by Atelier de Troupe and pieces from nearby vintage lighting specialists Rewire, complemented by natural light pouring in through a series of windows and skylights. Encircling the two main spaces, a wraparound balcony adorned with an array of succulents and other local flora beckons guests to step into the sunshine and admire the distant Hollywood Hills and the palm-limned city vista.
Illuminated by Atelier de Troupe’s twisting metal sconces, dressing areas are furnished with vintage rugs and patinated brass hooks crafted in the fourth-generation Viennese workshop of Carl Auböck.
Making their debut on The Line via the Los Angeles Apartment are Birkenstocks customized with alligator leather straps by Houston-based Alexandra Knight, a specialist in exotic skins. The giant walnut and brass clothespin is from Odd Era.
A hand-blown Lasvit chandelier inspired by that of Prague’s Estates Theatre hangs over the serene soaking tub, which is attended by a tiered mid-century side table that keeps Susanne Kaufmann bath products close at hand.
I think L.A. represents an opportunity to understand what democracy creates and to work with it. That’s what Jasper [Johns] and [Robert] Rauschenberg did—pick up the detritus of the city and use it in their art. Frank Gehry
Beside a Pastoe Cube Chair designed in 1980 by Radboud van Beekum, a speckle-glazed ewer from Odd Era sits on a Dunbar three-legged table that dates from the 1960s. Bring a similar look to the tabletop with a leather-lined brass tray by Copenhagen-based GamFratesi for Skultuna.
Bookended by a large sphere of pink marble, vintage tomes sit alongside a limited-edition, five-volume boxed set of Galerie Patrick Seguin’s volumes on Jean Prouvé.
Artfully arranged on a bookshelf that also acts as a porous room divider, photography books, vessels, and a kudu horn are joined by the chalice-like form of an incense burner and tealight holder from Brooklyn-based Apparatus along with a streamlined incense burner from Cinnamon Projects.
From the L.A. Library: Five Essential Volumes
City of Quartz by Mike Davis (Verso)
Penetrate “Fortress L.A.” in this unparalleled reconstruction of the city’s shadow history and dissection of its ethereal economy.
Wallpaper* City Guide Los Angeles (Phaidon)
Tightly edited and discreetly packaged, this photo-laden paperback is a passport to the best of L.A.
I’m Losing You by Bruce Wagner (Plume)
Dial into Wagner’s intoxicating “cell phone trilogy” with this luminous, savage novel of the dystopia known as Hollywood.
They Called Her Styrene by Ed Ruscha (Phaidon)
The artist has the final word(s) on L.A. and much more in this thick block of a book that is an art object in itself.
Eames by Gloria Koenig (Taschen)
An illustrated primer on the the husband-and-wife team that transformed the visual character of America. A must read before making a pilgrimage to their iconic house in Pacific Palisades.
Among the quintessential goods on offer are new additions that embody the native ethos and aesthetic, including the timeless bags of local designer Agnes Baddoo and delicate jewelry from Kathleen Whitaker. NewbarK’s versatile loafers and chic sandals are a natural fit for the temperate climes of southern California, and the local brand has crafted a new shearling slide that is exclusive to The Line. In addition, hand-thrown ceramics from the Echo Park studio of California native Victoria Morris are placed throughout The Apartment.
A tremendous amount of thought, care, and inspiration have made the L.A. Apartment a space unlike any other: a place to connect, commune, and ground oneself in a sprawling city. In the weeks and months ahead, The Apartment will play host to a diverse series of events, from dinners and cocktail hours, to visits from featured designers, artists and artisans, making the most of the many facets of this fully functional living space.
Dressed in Tenfold washed linen sheeting and topped with a cashmere throw and accent pillows, Doug McCollough’s linoleum-paneled, birch-frame platform bed with attached side tables is the centerpiece of the bedroom, which is illuminated by a Parentesi light by Achille Castiglioni and Pio Manzu for FLOS and a bedside Grashoppa lamp by Greta Grossman. The black rattan rocking chair beneath a cozy sheepskin throw is a 1969 design by Nanna Ditzel and the works over the bed are by Hungarian designer György Kepes.
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Sony has removing the game “Cyberpunk 2077” from its PlayStation store
December 21, 2020 Antonio Chad
Sony has pulled “Cyberpunk 2077” from its PlayStation store following broad objections about glitches in the modern computer game.
Sony Interactive Entertainment, the Japanese tech monster’s gaming division, declared Thursday night that it was eliminating the game from its advanced store “until additional notification.”
The company likewise set up an online structure for players to guarantee discounts for the game, which “Cyberpunk” engineer CD Projekt Red said it would offer after issue about the issues that have tormented the title since its dispatch a week ago.
Sony Interactive Entertainment “endeavors to guarantee an elevated level of consumer loyalty, along these lines we will start to offer a full discount for all gamers who have bought Cyberpunk 2077 by means of PlayStation Store,” the company said on its site, adding that the discount cycle may fluctuate contingent upon the purchaser’s installment strategy and financial organization.
In an explanation Friday, CD Projekt Red said it had a conversation with PlayStation before “Cyberpunk” was yanked from the store. In any case, Sony didn’t promptly react to an email looking for additional insights regarding why it chose to pull the game and when it may return.
“We are endeavoring to bring ‘Cyberpunk 2077 back to PlayStation Store as quickly as time permits,” CD Projekt Red stated, taking note of that actual duplicates of the game are as yet available to be purchased in stores and on the web.
The game’s expulsion from the PlayStation store conveyed another hit to CD Projekt, the Polish company that went through eight years advertising “Cyberpunk 2077” just to see it crash and burn.
The association’s offers on the Warsaw Stock Exchange had plunged around 12 percent to 271.40 Polish zloty, or $74.14, as of 11:03 a.m. Friday.
While early surveys showed the open-world pretending game performed modestly on PCs and the new PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X frameworks, players whined that it was “completely broken” on more established Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles.
After gamers shared recordings of different glitches, for example, a vehicle passing through dividers and characters with obscured out faces, CD Projekt Red apologized for the issues and let it be known “ought to have given more consideration” to improving the game’s presentation on more seasoned consoles.
Sony didn’t promptly react to an email early Friday inquiring as to why it chose to yank “Cyberpunk” from the PlayStation store and when the game may return.
It’s additionally dubious whether Microsoft will comparatively pull the title from its Xbox store. Neither Microsoft nor CD Projekt Red quickly reacted to demands for input.
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Amazon CEO Was Briefly World's Richest Man
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates reclaimed the lead by afternoon, as Amazon's stock fell nearly 1 per cent for the day to $1,046.
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At times my life suddenly opens its eyes in the dark.
A feeling of masses of people pushing blindly
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while I remain here and no one sees me.
It is like the child who falls asleep in terror
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For a long, long time till morning puts his light in the locks
and the doors of darkness open.
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Copyright © 2001 by Robert Bly.
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Excerpt from “An Afternoon with Tranströmer in Stockholm”
I mention Century of the Death of The Rose: The Selected Poems of Jorge Carrera Andrade, this gift book to Tomas Tranströmer only in that his readings in world literature were more extensive than one might imagine. In the 1960s, when books from different parts of the world traveled slowly, it might seem strange a Swedish writer would know of a writer writing in Spanish from a distant country like Ecuador. Ecuador is a small country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Galápagos Islands and Pacific Ocean to the west. Remarkably, Tomas found access to the poetry of Jorge Carrera Andrade in an anthology, Modern European Poetry, edited by Willis Barnstone (New York: Bantam Books, 1966), which was available at that time in Europe. Carrera Andrade had already lived on and off for decades in France as Chancellor of the Ecuadorian consulate in Marseilles, Consul General in Le Havre, Ambassador to France in Paris, and principal contributor to management at UNESCO, also in Paris. With a French wife and fluent in French, as well as a translator of French poet Pierre Reverdy into Spanish for book publication, Carrera Andrade was seen by some in French and global literary circles as more European than Latin American. Carrera Andrade in Europe was Ecuadorian and remained so throughout his life in every country he traveled to in service to his native country as a diplomat and writer.
Steven Ford Brown
Jorge Carrera Andrade (1903-1978), Ecuadorian poet, historian, author, former Ambassador and Official Representative and member to The United Nations in New York City, is recognized with Jorge Luis Borges, Vicente Huidobro, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Nicanor Parra, Octavio Paz and César Vallejo, as among the first South American posts to rise to international prominence in the Twentieth Century.
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June 2, 2020 November 18, 2020 Jarrod L. Hallman Netflix 2020
#19 Netflix Film in 2020: Spectral
7/10 Another one of the early Netflix films that I wasn’t even aware existed (in my defense it did drop only one month after the 2016 election so my mind was most likely between the election and Christmas), “Spectral” is also a film I have never heard anyone talk about, but perhaps they should. By no means a great film, “Spectral” is a good film that warrants your time if you find yourself needing something new to watch in quarantine. The lone film of writer/director Nic Mathieu, on paper alone this is impressive in terms of the creative talent involved. The cast has James Badge Dale, Emily Mortimer, Bruce Greenwood, Max Martini and more. The score is also done by Junkie XL (“Mad Max: Fury Road”, “Deadpool”), who has crafted some memorable tunes in his time as a Hollywood composer. Mathieu knows how to put together creative talent and that comes across here. The visual effects are an extremely important part of the film’s believability and in determining if the story works or not and since this film had a $70 million dollar budget, the visual effects do just that. The look of the film is one of the highlights on display here. Everything from the ruins of Europe to the ghost like creatures our protagonists battle against all look fantastic. The action is well done and having the enemies in this film be capable of superhuman feats sure raises the stakes during combat. As an infantry Marine veteran myself, I was happy to see that a lot of the military/combat elements of the film were accurate and well done, which many Hollywood films cannot say for themselves. The plot is a rather intriguing one that holds your attention and Junkie XL’s subtle yet effective score paired with the solid editing and pace make this a film that grabs your attention from start to finish. As for the aspects that don’t quite work, they mainly involve the script. There are several “ex machina” moments where some force comes in to save the day at the last moment. Some convenient coincidences pop up and how our heroes are able to defeat their enemies at the end was a bit underwhelming. The biggest complaint however deals with the characters themselves. All of the supporting characters have no personalities and even our leads, although likeable, don’t stand out and all feel pretty bland and forgettable. In the end, polishing up the script to make these heroes we spend time with more fleshed out would have greatly benefitted the film but that doesn’t detract from this being a good movie. The look and tone, performances, score, tension and action will entertain you with its futuristic setting. Worth a watch if you are hankering for something new.
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30 Mar 2019 By Jay Munro
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L.A.B sell out three back to back shows!
For the first time since TOTARA ST's inception we have three back to back shows with the same artist. Almost like a mini residency so to speak!
L.A.B are bringing some serious heat to the table this April with three sold out shows back to back. Hailing from the Bay of Plenty, the locals are coming out to play. Tickets sold in record time and everyone who snagged one is in for a very special treat. This band has been on a steady rise after releasing their first self titled album in November 2017, and are fast becoming part of the staple diet for groovers across Aotearoa.
The shows are set to be intimate, yet pack all the usual punch and finesse that punters are accostomed to expect when attending an L.A.B show. Details are yet to be released of who will be warming up the stage for the boys, so watch this space to see who will be opening. You can gaurantee there will be a few hands in the air wanting the support slot.
As of the 1st of April L.A.B are in Wellies recording their 3rd studio album. To keep an eye on the action check out their Facebook page as live streams are a regular occurrance throughout the recording process. Giving an insight into studio life with one of New Zealands largest upcoming acts.
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Taraji P. Henson: I didn't have the words to tell my son his dad was murdered
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Lawyers Reveal the Worst Way They've Seen Someone Screwed Over in Court
Michael McCollor
As if going to court wasn't already stressful enough — for one thing, you have to wake up early, and in most cases, think ahead and buy a suit — sometimes you have to deal with a Machiavellian mastermind working against you. Whether you're being sued, getting divorced, or just dealing with a plain ol' DA prosecuting you for your many, many crimes, there's always an opponent in court, and they could very well be looking to screw you over.
Of course, getting your butt handed to you legally is the kind of thing we always assume happens to other people, like having your house broken into, or winning the lottery. But the lawyers of the internet responded to an Ask Reddit thread wondering about the worst ways people have been screwed over in court, by lawyers or the jury and their responses show that it can happen to anyone.
Here are some of our favorite lawyer stories. And remember, the nicer your suit, the less likely you are to be convicted!
Interesting fashion choice...
Woman shows up to court in an "It's party time bitches! Drink up!" t-shirt. She was there for her first appearance on a 3rd DUI charge. Judge was not in a humorous mood that day. - Lionel_Hutz_Law
You can't help but face-palm.
Prosecutor here. I showed up for a bond hearing one morning and the defendant asked the judge if he could say something. The first words out of his mouth were: "Heyo Judge, look, like, the reason I hit her was because she disrespects me." He did not prevail. - Organized_Rhinoceros
The prosecution's best witness? The defendant's sense of style.
Dude screwed himself over when he went to jury trial for a burglary charge and wore the same, distinct sweatshirt he wore the night he committed the crime. Kind of hard to argue the guy in the video isn't your client at that point. Needless to say he was convicted and spent a few years in DOC. - Seinfeldologist
Treat people the way you'd like to be treated.
There’s a lawyer in my town who has a reputation for being a real pain in the butt He left a very successful firm to go off on his own. He and the firm negotiated which clients he would take, and how eventual fees from those clients would be divided. All seemed fine and dandy. As soon as he’s out the door, he sues his old firm saying the deal is unenforceable and that he should 100% of the fees from the clients who came with him. He lost, and appealed, lost again and appealed to the state Supreme Court where they shut him down and, in extremely diplomatic language, pretty much called him a bad word. - Thirty_Helens_Agree
Ha ha ha, got her (also got me).
When my father-in-law and mother-in-law got divorced, she wanted to file jointly for the previous year because they were still married. They would have gotten a decent refund. He insisted on filing separately, despite the fact that he would owe 4000 dollars because he wanted her to also owe the IRS. He did it to "frost her a**." - 69schrutebucks
Ever heard of the Fifth Amendment?
Sitting waiting for my client and the judge is giving a mass colloquy for an alternative program on a DUI. Basically probation. Question: Has anyone consumed alcohol or taken drugs in the last 24 hours? Obvious answer aside, one dude proudly raises his hand. "I smoked some dope last night..." He did not get probation. - MrPGH
Congratulations, you played yourself.
A wife filed for a restraining order because she wanted the house during a divorce. Husband has a good job, like 200k per year. Employer finds out about restraining order, the husband is fired. He was a very specialized employee so the only job he can find close to house, ex-wife, and daughter is 50k. House gets foreclosed. Child support at less than $500 per month. Wife has to get job as a waitress. Four cars get repossessed. - Thencewasit
In the WWE, they'd call this a Triple Threat Match.
Was involved in a custody case where a wife cheated on her husband and had a child as a result. She let husband believe the child was his until she was about five years old and they were divorcing. To stop him from getting custody, she convinced the biological father to try to get custody thinking that if he won she would wind up with the child. Became a huge three-way fight, multiple sets of grandparents involved, attorneys fees skyrocketed because the case would have been pretty quick otherwise. She couldn’t pay her attorney, tried to get the bio dad to, got even messier, etc. Basically there still isn’t an agreement all parties will follow. They are in and out of court every year or so. She screwed herself. - Carcharodons
Can dads rename their sons? What about if that son is a full-grown adult?
There was a case going on in my town between a father and son that was hilarious. The dad is a big-time personal injury attorney around here who started his own firm under his name, George Sink, and his son ended up joining the family business. Well, they had a falling out so the son goes off to start his own firm. He has his dad's name. So the dad is suing the son for using the name he gave him to start his own law firm. - Disglain
Just stick the guy in another department to keep him happy until trial, my man.
I had a client who was accused of a very nasty sexual offense. He had an alibi — he was at work, where he was the boss. He had an employee who could absolutely vouch for his being there. I talked to the employee, and the employee confirmed this. It gets closer to the trial, and around the time when I need to send in an "alibi notice," which is advance notice to the Crown so that they can investigate the alibi and determine whether or not it's true. But, I am being careful, so I call the employee up again. Turns out my client fired him in the interim, and so the employee quite candidly tells me, "Oh, yeah, he was definitely at work. But that's not what I'll say in court. F– that guy, he is going down." I did not call him as a witness, or file the alibi notice. Still won the trial, but if I hadn't thought to call the guy, or if he'd been less candid, my client would have been f–ed hard. - varsil
A matter of semantics.
We had a custody case where the mom was already screwed because she was literally picked up by a bounty hunter while the dad was there getting their daughter for visitation. Anyway, dad’s new wife gets on stand and testifies that the mom, the defendant, threatened to blow their house up. Mom gets on stands and says, “I didn’t threaten to blow your house up. I threatened to blow you up." Judge was like [shocked face emoji] - Haolmi
Hope it was a dope party.
There was this guy that would get caught for being drunk in public, public lewdness, etc. EVERY weekend. He seemed to draw the same judges and was pretty well known to everyone in the courthouse as an absolute lost cause. One of the "regular" judges had him appear in his court again. The judge is ready to give him a prison sentence because he was driving a car this time, but the guy starts crying that he finally got a job out of town and was trying to turn his life around. Judge tells him as long as he never makes a mistake "in my town again" he would just drop the charges. Well sure as hell, the guy shows up the following Monday. Same judge. Driving drunk AGAIN. My dad [a lawyer] now has his case. The judge tells him he gave him his final chance, to which the guy sobs and replies "I was leaving town, your Honor. But my friends decided to throw me a going-away party." The judge was not amused. My dad had to do everything he could to not laugh. - ZAWolfie
Some of us are only our true selves on Facebook.
They had a drunk-driver-kills-a-car-worth-of-people case at the time when they were a general practitioner. My boss was representing the family that got hit (one where the two kids and the wife had died, but the father had not) and wanted the college guy's drunk-driving skin to be mounted on a wall. So, the kid (drunk driving college kid) had managed to get the judge's sympathy during the first part of the hearing by saying he was sorry, haunted, never going to drink again, this was going to ruin his life, etc. The judge seemed to really be eating it up. Then comes my boss and immediately burns this kid's remorse to the ground by showing numerous Facebook statuses and photos of them binge drinking, partying, and even joking about driving drunk from the date of the accident up until a night ago. The kid looked like he was being forced to swallow hot coals and the judge was absolutely livid. Needless to say, the kid had to do way more than just apologize and be remorseful after that. - rivlet
"This is my BFF, who I barely know..."
A witness for the plaintiff in a civil suit, who was a co-worker of the plaintiff, testified very strongly against the company and in favor of the plaintiff. I questioned her about bias toward the plaintiff if they knew each other well, were friends, etc. She said, "no just friendly co-workers, work friends at best." I pinned her to it. When I got a chance to cross-examine the plaintiff, she had no choice but to burn her witnesses credibility, because no only were they very close friends, but they had become sisters-in-law just a few years before. (no, they did not have the same last name or anything, but I had done my homework). - andthenhesaidrectum
You know who you should never sue? Your own attorney.
Lady brought a frivolous case to get out of a contract she signed. She lost, then sued the attorney and the witnesses for conspiring against her. They got her case dismissed and an award of attorneys fees which she refused to pay. Lawyer recorded it as a lien on her house and scheduled a foreclosure sale, which caused her mortgage lender to declare a default and accelerate entire mortgage balance. Lawyer made a side deal with lender to pay them all proceeds of the sale and then sold her house on courthouse steps to highest bidder and then arranged for sheriff to forcibly eject her onto the street with her stuff. She's homeless now. - 219Infinity
To be fair, sequels are very rarely better than the original.
Police officer, not a lawyer, but I’ve had two different people I’ve arrested for DUI show up to court drunk (not on the same day). Both of them got sent straight to jail for a couple days for contempt, and their cases were rescheduled. One of them showed up to court drunk a second time when the case was rescheduled. The judge was even less amused for the sequel. - Obwyn.compact
This is why it's a good idea to be an unremarkable nothing of a man.
Defendant trying to overturn default judgment claims the person that the Process Server served wasn’t him, couldn’t possibly be him, etc. At the hearing, the Process Server testifies he clearly recognizes defendant there in court two years later because defendant physically threatened him at time of service, making himself pretty memorable. Oh and Process Server was sure he served the right guy, because at time of service, he had photo of defendant, which my client had helpfully sourced on mugshots.com. - LoveCityStrong
Positively unbelievable.
In a case where a semitruck driver ran over and killed a grandma and her daughter (leaving two kids without any family), the defense attorney said: “really, the semitruck driver is the victim here because he has to live with what he is done." - nomadhappy
It pays to be organized.
A friend kept meticulous records of how much time his estranged wife spent with their daughter. He used pink highlighter for Mom and blue highlighter for himself. Mom sailed into arbitration demanding full custody and handsome child support and the house. Dad pulled out three years' worth of year-long calendars. Mom had spent less than a full month with the child in three years. Mom was not happy with the outcome. - Omars_daughter
If you don't owe him that, does literally anyone ever owe anyone anything?
Here in Missouri a Golden Corral is being sued for the death of a elderly man. He was choking and manager asked if anyone could help. An employee waved their hand and said they could. The manager stopped them and sent them away. The man died obviously. The stupid part here is the corporate lawyers defense to have case tossed is they didn’t owe that man any aid and he died from his own fault for not cutting his food up into smaller pieces. The case is tragic but the lawyers defense is just outright rude and will cost them if it goes to trial. - Bamafan6566
You've got to build to the crescendo.
A friend of mine was going through a divorce and his lawyer kept putting off the trial. He just wanted it over with but the lawyer said trust me this is going to be good. Turns out dude's wife was pregnant with another mans baby. When they went to court she had a big baby bump. The judge asked if all three kids were his and she replied "no just those two". Wish I could have seen the look on her lawyers face. - mymomdoesmylaundry
"Bill? Didn't you say you were done working overtime?"
Watched a guy I worked with put in a year of 60 hour weeks to save up for this big blow out mega-vacation for his wife. She divorced him a week before they were set to leave. The vacation was a surprise. He has to keep working OT to make the alimony payments. - KhaosElement
At least some monsters have the decency to reveal themselves to be monsters.
Used to practice employment law and had a guy who was terminated, in part allegedly due to his race. His former boss was on the stand and was under direct questioning from his attorney. His attorney asked if there was a reason that he singled out our client in his treatment (assumedly to get to the fact that our guy had disciplinary issues and had been put on a performance improvement plan). Instead, he went off and talked about how just have to “treat those people differently" and “you can’t talk to them the same way you do others." Our cross-examination was very very short :) - Tex236
Here's the story/ of a lovely lady...
Saw a guy with a good job (around 120K/year) adopt his new wife's FIVE children. Six months later she files for divorce and guess who is on the hook for child support for five? - Makeelee
They seem like a fun family.
My best friend's dad left his mom when he was 50 for a 32-year-old. On a Christmas dinner, my friend, his brother, and the dad had a discussion and the girl decides she needs to be involved. Things heat up and she throws my friend's phone through the windows, so he gets her laptop and does the same and then him and his brother leave the house. A week later he gets a court notice asking him to appear in front of the judge for assault on the girl. She told the police they beat her. His dad declared it was true. Luckily they had no evidence so they dismissed the case. His brother is getting married this week and his father won't be present. - Fulk0
It also went very slowly because opposing counsel had to keep washing out their mouth with soap.
I was litigating a custody dispute on behalf of the mother in an incredibly conservative jurisdiction. One of the most common ways to get custody was to allege sex or adult film addiction because the threshold for it was basically non-existent. Opposing counsel tried to "gotcha!" me into settling before the hearing by showing me surprise sexts between mom and her new boyfriend. This is, of course, not Law and Order and you can't introduce surprise evidence. So we go through with the hearing, I object to the sexts, but say I would allow them to be read into the record, in their entirety. So the uptight very conservative local attorney gets to spend the next 25 minutes or so reading sexts in open court occasionally asking if she could gloss over parts but no, I didn't feel it would be appropriate. I'll never forget hearing her struggle with the word nipple. It's not even a dirty word! But this was like the third hearing we had to amend custody because this guy felt his ex-wife having a boyfriend meant she was a sex addict. They alleged the sexts happened while the kid was in Mom's custody. But they based that on the timestamp of the screenshots. The timestamp on the texts was clearly at a time when the kid was not even around and mom was safe to get freaky over the phone. The judge had heard enough of his bullsh*t and awarded attorney's fees and put in the order that dad would continue to be liable for her attorney's fees if he kept pushing this stuff. - Utahraptor1115
"Please stop hindering my ability to steal from you."
My brother's girlfriend stole a car that she sold months prior and sued the girl she stole it from for reporting it stolen and taking it back. She won and got $500 from the poor girl. She also stole her car seats (woman was at Wal-Mart with her kids) and whatever else was in the car when she stole it. Hopefully, the girl learned the lesson that when you buy a car, you put it in your name and never buy a car with no title. - Missdeejayn
This makes more sense when you realize he had to be at court during Uber's surge pricing.
Represented a guy that stole three trucks from his work. Only two were recovered before trial. He showed up to a motion hearing in the third one. - Wacocaine
Talk about a lucky break.
My mate went through a divorce. His to be ex-wife was in a new relationship and the new guy was calling all the shots. She had been happy with the money she was getting and visitation my mate was getting but new guy wanted to screw him over so it turned into lawyer war. The outcome in court was the judge ruled my mate was to a £1,000 a month less than he was already which he quite happily did for his troubles. He put the extra money into a fund for the kids to used to help buy a house when they reached a determined age. - Defiently_Ecstatic
"I find you guilty on two degrees of looking fly."
My father-in-law had arrested someone for breaking and entering. During his arraignment, the judge stopped for a moment and asked the defendant where he got his suit from. It turns out that the defendant was also responsible for a previously unsolved break-in at the judge's home and had shown up wearing one of the judge's stolen suits. - HaroldRichardJohnson And now, I'm sharing these stories of divorce with you. Coming from the AskReddit subreddit, this thread asked divorce lawyers to share their craziest stories about couples who broke up for nonsensical reasons, and boy oh boy, there are some doozies.
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Proletarian History
English, Uncategorized
IRELAND: National Liberation Struggle Continues after Accidental Killing of Journalist
By Mike Talavera
Republican gunmen defended their neighborhoods in Derry this past Thursday after repeated raids of innocent people earlier in the week by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in anticipation of Easter Rising Commemorations this weekend. During Thursday’s shootout, a journalist named Lyra McKee was accidentally killed, and the police have used her death to escalate their repression further, blocking off sections of the Creggan area on Friday and arresting two young men from Derry today.
During the conflict Thursday night, over 50 petrol bombs were thrown at police and two police vehicles were hijacked and ignited. McKee had been standing near the police line when she was caught in the crossfire.
Despite the circumstantial nature of her death, British authorities have ruled her death as a homicide in order to more aggressively persecute the Irish Republicans fighting for national liberation. Likewise, bourgeois media has twisted the story as an anti-LGBT hate crime (McKee was a lesbian) to vilify those who are rightfully rebelling against British occupation.
A statement published by Irish Republican party Saoradh called resistance to the recent attacks by PSNI and RUC “inevitable” and that Thursday’s night incursion by police forces was unprovoked and indiscriminate.
“The blame for last night lies squarely at the feet of the British Crown Forces, who sought to grab headlines and engineered confrontation with the community,” the statement said. “This outcome is heartbreaking and we extend our sincerest sympathy to the family, friends and loved ones of the deceased.”
Yesterday, the Derry 1916 Commemoration Committee announced that it was going to cancel the annual Easter Rising Commemoration “as a mark of respect for the tragic and accidental killing of Lyra McKee.”
Easter Rising was an armed uprising in 1916 against the United Kingdom while it was engaged in the first World War, the first series of armed actions since the rebellion of 1798. Irish Volunteers and a small Irish Citizen Army led by socialist James Connolly seized government buildings in Dublin and declared an independent Irish Republic. The Irish valiantly resisted a weeklong assault by thousands of British soldiers and artillery but eventually surrendered on April 29 of that year.
Easter Rising Commemorations are expected to proceed in other parts of Ireland this weekend.
The police crackdown on Derry and other parts of Ireland is unfolding in the context of stagnant Brexit negotiations, which could result in the reinstitution of a hard border dividingnorthern Ireland even more from the rest of the country.
Earlier this year, the New Irish Republican Army detonated a car in front of a Derry courthouse. The city, which sits along the border of British occupied Ireland, has a long history of struggling for national liberation and was the location of the Battle of the Bogside in 1969 which kicked off the long period of armed conflict known as “the Troubles.” It is right for the masses of Derry and greater Ireland to rebel against the British imperialists and continue this historic struggle which has inspired revolutionaries and people around the world.
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Lincoln Property Co. puts Culver City office campus on the market
Bids could fetch up to $150M
Jul.July 23, 2019 04:00 PM
By Natalie Hoberman
Blackwelder office campus and LPC’s David Binswanger
Lincoln Property Co. has put its 19-building office campus, known as Blackwelder, in Culver City on the market, The Real Deal has learned.
Sources said the first round of bids closed last week. It could fetch as much as $150 million, they added.
Blackwelder is an adaptive reuse project, comprised of 19 standalone buildings on a 6.4-acre campus. Geared towards media and entertainment tenants, the 157,600-square-foot complex features an industrial look with exposed steel frames and open floor plans.
The campus is located on the corner of La Cienega Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, less than half-a-mile away from the Culver City Arts District.
Cushman & Wakefield has the listing.
Culver City has become one of the hottest submarkets in Los Angeles, drawing tech and media titans to the area. In the second quarter, HBO inked a deal for 241,205 square feet at Ivy Station, while Apple signed a lease for an additional 96,330 square feet at One Culver on Washington Boulevard.
Rents in the area have been growing as a result. The average asking price reached $3.80 per square foot last quarter, according to a report from Savills. Still, that’s more attractive than the Westside beach cities, which clocked in upwards of $5 per square foot.
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New Zealand Ready to Confront Any Food and Mouth Incursion
NEW ZEALAND - An on-farm exercise run by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) shows that New Zealand is well prepared to manage the biosecurity aspects of a foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak, the ministry has said.
MPI Acting Director Investigations, Diagnostic Centres and Response (IDC&R) John Sanson says the 1-day exercise at a dairy farm in Te Rapa in the Waikato is part of a suite of work underway to make sure the country is well prepared to deal with the disease.
The scenario began with an incident controller arriving at the farm and taking over from a surveillance veterinarian on site. About 30 people (including observers) took part in the exercise. No animals were involved in the exercise.
"In an outbreak, a property with even one infected animal would have to have all of their FMD- susceptible stock humanely destroyed within 24 hours. This would include all cattle, sheep, deer, pigs and goats. There would also be national movement restrictions put in place immediately when the disease is confirmed, to reduce the risk of the disease being moved around the country by infected livestock," he said.
"We wanted to test how our operational plans for destroying animals, disposing of carcasses, quarantining a property and disinfecting vehicles and equipment fit together in the field, as well as how the on-farm roles work together."
Mr Sanson says the plans have been developed over 3 years, in partnership with the livestock industries and local government as well as overseas input.
"We have tested our plans to make sure they will work for the people who will be using them in the unlikely event of an outbreak," he said. "We have also identified a few gaps to work on. We’re confident these plans are in good shape to help us to swiftly deal with an FMD outbreak if that is something we ever face."
It is estimated that a large outbreak of FMD could cost New Zealand $16 billion, a cost of more than $3000 for every New Zealander. A large outbreak like that in the UK in 2001 would cost considerably more.
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How Joe Biden Won His Debate
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I will preface this blog post as I did my post on how Mitt Romney won his debate; this is not about partisan politics, rhetoric or picking sides. This is strictly an observation on the debate itself. It’s not intended to sway anyone’s vote towards either candidate.
Last night, we saw many of the same things we saw from Gov. Romney’s debate with President Obama. Vice President Biden was aggressive, assertive, and came with a plan and a specific goal in mind. He came with his facts (which I’m sure will also be fact checked to the hilt over the next few days) and he delivered them with conviction and confidence. In short, he did what his party needed him to do.
From the very beginning, VP Biden let it be known that he was not going to sit back and let Congressman Ryan dictate the tone of the debate. He took charge, and never relinquished his control. When Congressman Ryan made a statement he did not agree with, he displayed his disapproval; either through a myriad of facial expressions or by just interrupting him. For the most part VP Biden was just “Joe being Joe”. And by the responses I saw on my Twitter feed (@TheClothier), it was very effective for his base. And let’s not fool ourselves, this debate wasn’t about swaying Independents, it was about energizing, and motivating. Congressman Ryan did as well as he could. But he had his hands tied and was at a complete disadvantage in 6 ways, and VP Biden capitalized on every single one of them.
First, this was Ryan’s first time debating on such a large stage. Biden has been on this stage far more times. He had no problem taking command of the arena, and doing with it what he wanted.
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Second, last night’s debate was foreign policy heavy; which I personally didn’t agree with. And like him or not, VP Biden is one of the leading Foreign Policy experts in the country. This is a fact that will only be disputed by someone with a partisan agenda. If you recall, the 2008 campaign was originally going to be over foreign policy. This is why, then, Sen. Biden was picked as the VP Nominee. The largest knock on Sen. Obama was his lack of foreign policy experience. Remember Secretary Clinton’s now infamous “Who do you want answering that 3am phone call?” line? It only turned economic when the economy crashed mid- campaign. VP Biden was able to capitalize on his knowledge of foreign policy to easily display the experience gap.
Third, if we’re honest about it, we know that Congressman Ryan was chosen to put the Republican base at ease. Gov. Romney was not convincing, and to a large extend still hasn’t convinced, the GOP that he is a Conservative. Ryan is a Conservative and everyone knows it. This gave Biden an opening to draw distinct party differences, and use the Democratic talking points to appeal to his base, and demonize the GOP.
Fourth, and this is not limited to Congressman Ryan, it extends to Pres. Obama and Gov. Romney as well. Ryan has more difficulty connecting personally with the average person. He was blessed to be a child of privilege and has not known many of the struggles that the average American suffers, from a first person viewpoint. Biden has the ability to draw upon past experiences like the death of his wife and daughter, a son in the military, and little anecdotal stories and phrases that his parents passed on to him. The American people have seen his struggles as they happened, and they can connect viscerally with him.
Fifth, the goal was lower for Biden. All he had to do to change the narrative was attack, switch the media conversation from the Presidential Debate, and set the road map for the next Presidential Debate. He did just that. We all know VP Biden is prone to gaffes and blunders, and doesn’t always deliver the message the administration would like. But we also know that “Joe Biden speaks his mind, whether you like it or not.” All they had to do was let him lose; and they did. They released a hungry dog on Congressman Ryan and he was not prepared to beat him. Ryan did the best he could, but he was unmatched. The biggest reason Ryan was unable to defend himself effectively against Biden, is my last factor.
Same goals, different plans. Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan’s plans toward changing America are two completely different, and at times, conflicting viewpoints. It is hard to defend, explain and rationalize a plan you don’t truly believe in. That is what Ryan is forced to attempt to do everyday. I believe that’s why he can never explain Romney’s plans thoroughly. I’m not sure he fully knows them himself. To be honest, Ryan is the stronger candidate; but he is the number 2 guy. He has to yield to Gov. Romney.
I think their core motives are different as well. Whether you like his approach or not, I think Ryan’s goal is to try to help America. I think Gov. Romney wants the title of being President. I think Ryan’s goal is passionate, and Romney’s goal is ego. Either way, they are politically married to each other now, and Ryan has to make the best of the situation, but it will continue to be difficult for him.
I think, at least for the night, Joe Biden was the more formidable opponent. If you have any doubts about the winner, listen to the pundits evaluation of the debate. The entire conversation is about facial expressions, and smiles. Not the facts, information or narrative. It’s very much like it was when President Obama was taken to the woodshed by Gov. Romney. The entire conversation was about Romney’s aggressiveness, and Obama’s submissiveness, not the substance of the debate. Either way, the stage is set for a very interesting next Presidential Debate. Until next time…..
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Lacey Burbage, founder of Naturally Modern Life, on the challenges around motherhood & zero-waste living, mindfulness and easy eco-friendly swaps
“I think it's a mindset shift around a lot of things...Like, what does abundance actually mean? Does it mean we need a lot of things to be happy or does it mean that you’re abundantly happy even if you don’t have a lot of things?” Lacey Burbage, founder of Naturally Modern Life
Meet Lacey Burbage, the founder, and editor of Naturally Modern Life, a blog that shares DIY tips, recipes, zero-waste ideas, and focuses on living a more holistic, mindful and low-impact lifestyle.
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Is it possible to live an eco-friendly lifestyle when you're on a budget? Is it normal to have a painful period? How do I know if my skincare products are “safe”? What foods should I eat to support my hormones? How can I reduce my exposure to harmful chemicals? Welcome to The Wise Consumer podcast with Madeleine Wisecup! The show that answers all these questions and more! With the help of the experts -- I am talking scientists, toxicologists, endocrinologists, cosmetic chemists -- you’ll get knowledge and know-how to your most pressing health concerns and sustainability questions, straight from the source. This is a space where I, Madeleine, do the heavy lifting so you don’t have to - a space where you can incrementally evolve, live a more mindful life and do good for yourself, your family and the planet in the process. This is where we can let it all hang out (TMI is most welcome!) with like-minded warriors and women wanting to nourish our bodies and grow gradually without comparison or conditions. Join me every week as we explore mindful and healthy living tips, tricks and takeaways to create the kind of slower, sustainable life you’ve been craving. This is our space, our corner of the world where we feel good to do good. Together. Subscribe wherever you get your podcast and make sure to connect with me at http://www.thewiseconsumer.com and on instagram @thewiseconsumer
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On the Declaration of Independence
The American Declaration of Independence had the pioneer vision of faith, dignity and humanity's basic needs: equal rights, justice and freedom. Clarity, luminosity and vastness, these the Declaration of Independence embodies. It is not a mere declaration. It is something infinitely more. It is the freedom-cry of humanity's aspiration-day from the frustration-night of ignorance.
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America will offer her unprecedented capacity
to the community of nations
and make all nations feel that
her height and depth and speed and power
are for them to claim as their very own,
and thus create a satisfying and satisfied world-family.
In the next two hundred years America’s contribution to the family of nations will be equality’s universal birthright and reality’s transcendental height. America is great. America is good. America’s greatness is going to increase in infinite measure in the next two hundred years because America knows what greatness is and where it comes from. Greatness is self-giving and its source is love and peace in love. America’s goodness lies in this: God for God’s sake, man for God’s sake. Aspiration for a higher life is for God’s sake. Truth-discovery is for God’s sake. Peace-distribution is for God’s sake. Delight-manifestation is for God’s sake.
There are two special qualities that Americans can work on to help bring forward all their potential divinity. These two divine qualities are the feeling of universal oneness and constant and cheerful self-giving to the Supreme Pilot, who is man’s own highest Reality.
America’s matchless contribution shall be her supreme universal friendship in which the family of nations will see beckoning hands, oneness-satisfaction and perfection-manifestation. America means contribution. Right now this contribution at times is conditional, at times unconditional. But either in the near or distant future, America’s contribution will always be unconditional in the outer life because America is undoubtedly going to make tireless efforts to become a supremely unconditional instrument of the Pilot Supreme.
We can rekindle the significance of America in our hearts and in the hearts of others by becoming glowing sacrifice in the inner life and growing service in the outer life.
In her first two hundred years America has learned the momentous necessity of the childlike heart. Now, in order to make the fastest progress, the most important thing is for her to have a life of conscious and continuous self-giving.
America can serve the world most provided America feels that the service it renders to the community of nations is nothing but its own illumining and self-fulfilling expansion.
The soul of America always tries to teach its American children to be divinely brave and remain so eternally in order to fight against humanity’s outer darkness and inner ignorance. Humanity’s outer darkness is the sense of division; humanity’s inner ignorance is the life of doubt.
America’s hope, America’s promise and America’s freedom: these America can transmit to the world-body today provided America does not claim them as her own personal achievements, but as compassionate boons from Above.
American citizens can best further America’s role in the world in the next two hundred years by claiming the rest of the world as their very own. This feeling of oneness can alone bring to America an unprecedented leadership and a unique friendship.
The spirit of the past was the discovery of an inner adamantine will to fight against bondage. The present spirit is the aspiration to become humanity’s brother, humanity’s selfless lover
and divinity’s constant server.
The next two hundred years will see the manifestation of the soul’s qualities of America. This manifestation will take place in America’s conscious and unconditional leadership of humanity and America’s constant and self-giving friendship with humanity.
American politics can return to the spiritual values that they had during the time of the Founding Fathers and some of the previous presidents only if the political leaders and other leaders feel the supreme necessity of an inner life that has the capacity to bring about outer success, outer achievements, outer perfection and outer satisfaction.
You can regain the nobility and wisdom of the Founding Fathers in America best by meditating on the independence spirit of America, which was treasured not only by earth’s aspiration but also by Heaven’s illumination.
The soul of America, like a child, is growing, glowing, developing, illumining and fulfilling. It is a soul that is most progressive and most striking.
The spiritual significance of being two hundred years old is that the journey of America will continue eternally toward the establishment of a better, more illumining and more fulfilling human family on earth.
America can make more spiritual progress if it can feel that it has been selected as a choice instrument of the Supreme, for the Supreme. America can serve the world most provided America feels that the service it renders to the community of nations is nothing but its own illumining and self-fulfilling expansion.
Undoubtedly the spiritual forces will be able to manifest in the next two hundred years much more than they did in the past two hundred years, for not only America’s but also humanity’s aspiration is continuously proceeding forward, upward and inward.
The American people can better realise their love for the soul of America if they discover that the real and immortal reality in each human being, in each nation, is only the soul-reality. Everything else is transitory.
There is an art form that is intimately tied to the soul of America, and that is America’s untiring inner and outer efforts to grow into a supreme God-seeker, a supreme peace-lover and a supreme satisfaction-distributor to humanity.
Previously a soulful promise reigned supreme; now a fruitful hope reigns supreme. The spirit at that time was promise; now it has become hope. The spirit of the past was the discovery of inner adamantine will to fight against bondage. The present spirit is the aspiration to become humanity’s brother, humanity’s selfless lover and divinity’s constant server.
American citizens can learn to love their country more by realising the supreme fact that there is no difference between true love of one’s country and true love of God. One’s country is nothing short of God’s concentrated Creation.
You can love America much more sincerely and soulfully provided you feel that America is not a vast piece of land and a machine-driven country, but a life-illumining, love-fulfilling, peace-spreading country.
What God wants is our determined will power to dive deeper than the deepest, run farther than the farthest, fly higher than the highest. He does not want us to remain self-enamoured by the grandiose achievements of the past but to aspire for higher ideals and higher goals that will promote in a significant way the cause of world-peace, world-perfection and world-satisfaction.
The soul of America can play the role of the mother and feel that all the other nations are her children. The children mix together, play together, sing together, dance together. Then, when it is time to achieve something, if all the members meet together and jointly do something, it is like children coming to a conclusion together. Naturally, the soul of America will be highly pleased, for she feels that it is a harmonious family. Together they achieve, together they accomplish, together they fulfil.
America gained her independence two hundred years ago by virtue of determined will power. Now her spiritual independence will be founded upon her conscious oneness with God, and this can be established only on the strength of her implicit surrender to God’s divine Dispensation and Will.
America’s goal, like the goal of all the nations and human beings, is always in the process of self-transcendence. There is no fixed goal. America’s main goal is a flood of satisfaction, inner and outer. This satisfaction has undoubtedly been achieved to a certain extent. But since everything is progressing and evolving, America’s goal is an ever-loving and ever-illumining and fulfilling goal of continuous self-transcendence.
The United States is going to play the role not so much of leadership as of friendship, nay, brotherhood, in mankind’s evolution. And evolution is another name for mankind’s spiritual development.
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May 8, 2019 CJ Stewart 2 comments
Directed by: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Produced by: Kevin Feige
Screenplay by: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Edited by: Jeffrey Ford, Matthew Schmidt
Cinematography by: Trent Opaloch
Music by: Alan Silvestri
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan, Danai Gurira, Bradley Cooper, Benedict Wong, Josh Brolin
It’s been about 11 years since Marvel began this grand experiment that would change the way that people looked at superhero movies forever – yes, arguably even more so than Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy and probably more so than even Richard Donner’s Superman. Twenty-two films and counting, all standing alone and yet tying into one another (with a few fringe TV shows on the side that are themselves ostensibly part of the same universe) and culminating into two films: last year’s Avengers: Infinity War, which saw Marvel doing the unthinkable and delivering on the promise that Thanos – the big bad teased at the end of the first Avengers film six years prior – would live up to the hype and even see the studio doing the unthinkable by letting the villain actually win, and now this film, Avengers: Endgame, the film that would feature the surviving heroes – conveniently including the ones who started it all – returned to the spotlight and going on a journey to correct what went wrong in what is arguably the most deserved victory lap film any studio has ever deserved. Does this one, with Infinity War setting the bar so high, live up to the standards set by its predecessor?… Well, if it doesn’t, it pretty damn well comes close! Read more…
Categories: Reviews Tags: action, Alan Silvestri, amazing, Ant-Man, Anthony Russo, apocalyptic, Avengers, Awesome, Benedict Wong, Black Order, Black Panther, Black Widow, Bradley Cooper, Brie Larson, Captain America, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Christopher Markus, Danai Gurira, Doctor Strange, Don Cheadle, Drax, epic, finale, Gamora, genocide, Groot, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hawkeye, Hulk, incredible, Infinity Gauntlet, Infinity Stones, Iron Man, Jeffrey Ford, Jeremy Renner, Joe Russo, Josh Brolin, Karen Gillan, Kevin Feige, Mantis, Mark Ruffalo, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Comics, Matthew Schmidt, Nebula, Okoye, Paul Rudd, Pepper Potts, Robert Downey Jr., Rocket Raccoon, Scarlet Witch, Scarlett Johansson, sci-fi, Shuri, Spider-Man, Star-Lord, Stephen McFeely, superhero, superheroes, supervillain, team up, Thanos, Thor, time travel, Trent Opaloch, Valkyrie, War Machine, Wasp, Winter Soldier
REVIEW – Avengers: Infinity War
Written by: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Chris Pratt, Bradley Cooper, Sean Gunn, Vin Diesel, Pom Klementieff, Karen Gillan, Peter Dinklage, Benedict Wong, Tom Hiddleston, Idris Elba, Gwyneth Paltrow, Terry Notary, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Carrie Coon, Michael James Shaw, Josh Brolin
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I’ve seen this movie twice now, and I’m still kinda shocked at how well they pulled this off. Infinity War is pretty much everything that fans could’ve wanted ever since Iron Man first teased The Avengers ten years ago in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first post-credits scene. Thanos, the Mad Titan, has finally arrived in theatres, and I can tell you that, even more than a week since I saw this (twice in the same weekend…), I’m still kind of in shock at just how fantastic Infinity War was. I think it may just be another film I see three times before it releases to Blu-Ray, in fact! Read more…
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A randomized, multicentre, open-label phase II proof-of-concept trial investigating the clinical efficacy and safety of the addition of convalescent plasma to the standard of care in patients hospitalized with COVID-19: the Donated Antibodies Working against nCoV (DAWn-Plasma) trial
Timothy Devos ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6881-417X1,2 na1,
Tatjana Geukens ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8828-87391,2 na1,
Alexander Schauwvlieghe3 na1,
Kevin K. Ariën4,
Cyril Barbezange5,
Myriam Cleeren1,
Veerle Compernolle6,
Nicolas Dauby7,
Daniël Desmecht8,
David Grimaldi9,
Bart N. Lambrecht3,
Anne Luyten10,
Piet Maes11,
Michel Moutschen8,
Marta Romano5,
Lucie Seyler12,
Michel Toungouz Nevessignsky13,
Katleen Vandenberghe10,
Johan van Griensven4,
Geert Verbeke14,
Erika Vlieghe15,
Jean Cyr Yombi16,
Laurens Liesenborghs11,
Peter Verhamme1 &
Geert Meyfroidt1
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The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed an enormous burden on health care systems around the world. In the past, the administration of convalescent plasma of patients having recovered from SARS and severe influenza to patients actively having the disease showed promising effects on mortality and appeared safe. Whether or not this also holds true for the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus is currently unknown.
DAWn-Plasma is a multicentre nation-wide, randomized, open-label, phase II proof-of-concept clinical trial, evaluating the clinical efficacy and safety of the addition of convalescent plasma to the standard of care in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Belgium. Patients hospitalized with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 are eligible when they are symptomatic (i.e. clinical or radiological signs) and have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the 72 h before study inclusion through a PCR (nasal/nasopharyngeal swab or bronchoalveolar lavage) or a chest-CT scan showing features compatible with COVID-19 in the absence of an alternative diagnosis. Patients are randomized in a 2:1 ratio to either standard of care and convalescent plasma (active treatment group) or standard of care only. The active treatment group receives 2 units of 200 to 250 mL of convalescent plasma within 12 h after randomization, with a second administration of 2 units 24 to 36 h after ending the first administration. The trial aims to include 483 patients and will recruit from 25 centres across Belgium. The primary endpoint is the proportion of patients that require mechanical ventilation or have died at day 15. The main secondary endpoints are clinical status on day 15 and day 30 after randomization, as defined by the WHO Progression 10-point ordinal scale, and safety of the administration of convalescent plasma.
This trial will either provide support or discourage the use of convalescent plasma as an early intervention for the treatment of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 infection.
ClinicalTrials.govNCT04429854. Registered on 12 June 2020 - Retrospectively registered.
Title {1} A randomized, multicentre, open-label phase II proof-of-concept trial investigating the clinical efficacy and safety of the addition of convalescent plasma to the standard of care in patients hospitalized with COVID-19: the Donated Antibodies Working against nCoV (DAWn-Plasma) trial.
Trial registration {2a and 2b}. Clinicaltrials.gov, Identifier: NCT04429854.
Registered 12 June 2020 - Retrospectively registered, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04429854.
Protocol version {3} Version 2.3
Funding {4} Conduct of the study: The Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE).
Set-up and maintenance of the trial’s website: Life Sciences Research Partners (LSRP).
Author details {5a} Timothy Devos, MD PhD, Department of Haematology, UZ Leuven and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology (Rega Institute), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Tatjana Geukens, MD, Laboratory for Translational Breast Cancer Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Alexander Schauwvlieghe, MD, Department of Haematology, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Kevin K. Ariën, PhD, Virology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, and Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Cyril Barbezange, MD PhD, Infectious Diseases in Humans Scientific Directorate, Sciensano, Belgium.
Myriam Cleeren, Department of Haematology, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Veerle Compernolle, MD PhD, Rode Kruis-Vlaanderen, Mechelen, Belgium.
Nicolas Dauby, MD PhD, Department of Infectious diseases, UMC Saint-Pierre, Brussels, Belgium and Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
Daniël Desmecht, PhD, Department of Morphology and Pathology Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium.
David Grimaldi, MD PhD, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, CUB-Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
Bart N. Lambrecht, MD PhD, Department of Respiratory Diseases, UZ Gent, Gent, Belgium.
Anne Luyten, Leuven Coordinating Centre (LCC), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Piet Maes, PhD, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Michel Moutschen, MD PhD, Department of Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium.
Marta Romano, PhD, Infectious Diseases in Humans Scientific Directorate, Sciensano, Belgium.
Lucie Seyler, MD PhD, Department of Infectious Diseases, UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Michel Toungouz Nevessignsky, MD PhD, Croix Rouge de Belgique, Suarlée, Belgium.
Katleen Vandenberghe, PhD, Leuven Coordinating Centre (LCC), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Johan van Griensven, MD PhD, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
Geert Verbeke, MD PhD, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium and Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), KU Leuven, Leuven, and Hasselt University (UHasselt), Hasselt, Belgium.
Erika Vlieghe, MD PhD, Department of Infectious Diseases, General Internal Medicine and Tropical Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium.
Jean Cyr Yombi, MD PhD, Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious diseases, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium.
Laurens Liesenborghs, MD PhD, Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy (Rega Institute), Leuven, Belgium.
Peter Verhamme, MD PhD, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Geert Meyfroidt, MD PhD, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Name and contact information for the trial sponsor {5b} UZ Leuven
Prof. Dr. Geert Meyfroidt
geert.meyfroidt@uzleuven.be
Role of sponsor {5c} The trial was designed and the protocol was written by the sponsor and approved by the KCE. The sponsor was responsible for submission to regulatory authorities, set up of the trial and selection of the investigators, and will be responsible for monitoring of the study, compliance with safety regulations, labelling, reporting and record-keeping.
Background and rationale {6a}
In December 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Committee identified an outbreak of viral pneumonia cases of unknown cause. Coronavirus RNA was quickly identified in some of these patients. This novel coronavirus has been named SARS-CoV-2, and the disease was caused by this virus COVID-19. Currently, there are no approved therapeutic agents available for coronaviruses [1].
Plasma collected from patients who have recovered from a SARS-CoV-2 infection can contain antiviral antibodies detectable through serological testing [2]. It is unclear to what extent these antibodies provide anti-viral protection, but at least a subset of patients presents with high titres of neutralizing antibodies, or with specific potent antibodies irrespective of the titre [3]. Passing on this plasma to patients newly diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection might help them to clear the infection more rapidly, as it could provide them with passive polyclonal antibodies and thus reduce the antiviral load. The treatment effect of plasma has already been shown in some viral infections but has not been studied in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. A recent meta-analysis has shown that convalescent plasma reduces mortality compared to standard of care in patients with SARS and severe influenza infections [4]. Importantly, these studies were heterogeneous on the timing of plasma administration and the threshold on anti-virus antibodies in convalescent donors. It is particularly successful when administered early after symptom onset. On the other hand, convalescent plasma has proven not to be effective against other viral infections (e.g. Ebola). It additionally carries a risk of antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), which could result in worsening of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and in Argentine haemorrhagic fever convalescent plasma administration significantly reduced mortality rates, but was found to be associated with a late neurological syndrome [5].
Knowledge regarding the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection is rather limited at this point. It seems that seroconversion occurs within 2 weeks after infection. Recently, a case series showed that convalescent plasma possibly had a contributory effect on the clinical improvement of 5 critically ill patients with SARS-CoV-2 and acute respiratory distress syndrome [6]. Moreover, evaluation of 5000 patients having received COVID-19 convalescent plasma in the USA showed the rate of immediate serious adverse events related to the transfusion to be very low [7], noting that in an open-label setting, a control group was missing for comparison. Therefore, more data from controlled trials are urgently needed to assess the possible role of convalescent plasma during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This study will therefore evaluate the effect of passive immunotherapy with convalescent plasma in the treatment of patients with a newly diagnosed COVID-19 disease requiring hospitalization in a randomized controlled setting. The hypothesis is that early administration of plasma will help to counter the clinical deterioration by providing immediate (passive) immunity when pathology is still mainly driven by viral replication and hence will prevent the need for mechanical ventilation or death in the first 15 days after randomization. It is of utmost importance to identify treatment strategies that reduce the severity of the disease and thereby intensive care unit (ICU) demand during this pandemic with a high health care burden. Additionally, as strategies of prolonged distancing are likely to have a negative social and economic impact, there is a need for efficient and safe treatment perspectives for COVID-19 patients [8]. The study complies with the recommendations for outcomes as outlined by the World Health Organization (WHO) master template protocol [9, 10].
Objectives {7}
The overall objective of the DAWn-plasma study is to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of the addition of convalescent plasma to the standard of care in patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
The primary endpoint of the study is the number of patients alive without mechanical ventilation at day 15 after hospitalization, with the null hypothesis being that convalescent plasma will not be effective to prevent the need for mechanical ventilation or death.
Secondary endpoints are as follows:
Clinical status of subject at day 15 and day 30 (on a 10-point “WHO progression” ordinal scale):
Uninfected, no viral RNA detected
Ambulatory, asymptomatic, viral RNA detected
Ambulatory, symptomatic, ndependent
Ambulatory, symptomatic, assistance needed
Hospitalized, mild disease, no oxygen therapy needed
Hospitalized, mild disease, oxygen by mask of nasal prongs
Hospitalized, severe disease, oxygen by NIV or high flow
Hospitalized, severe disease, intubation and mechanical ventilation (pO2/FiO2 > =150 OR SpO2/FiO2 ≥ 200)
Hospitalized, severe disease, mechanical ventilation (pO2/FiO2 < 150 OR SpO2/FiO2 < 200) OR vasopressors (norepinephrine > 0.3 μg/kg/min)
Hospitalized, severe disease, mechanical ventilation pO2/FiO2 < 150 AND vasopressors (norepinephrine > 0.3 μg/kg/min), OR dialysis OR ECMO
Death, dead
Cumulative clinical status of subject up to day 15 (on a 10-point ordinal scale): the sum of the daily clinical status score for days 1 up to 15
Proportion of patients having been on mechanical ventilation or are dead at 30 days and 90 days after randomization
Status on an ordinal scale assessed daily while hospitalized and on days 15 and 30
Time to clinical improvement (number of days from hospitalization to first 2-point improvement from highest previously recorded clinical state on the 10-point ordinal scale)
Duration of hospitalization
Duration of supplemental oxygen treatment
Duration of mechanical ventilation.
Need for and duration of intensive care stay
Need for and duration of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
Date and cause of death (if applicable).
Adverse events graded as severe (SAEs)
Venous thromboembolism: deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism
Transfusion-related side effects such as transfusion-related acute lung injury, serious allergic transfusion reactions and transfusion-associated circulatory overload.
Correlation between clinical outcome and titre of anti-SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies in transfused plasma units
Safety of convalescent plasma therapy
Effect of plasma therapy on quality of life 30 days after randomization
Vital signs, being daily highest temperature measured during hospitalization with a maximum of 14 days after hospitalization and highest flow of oxygen given (in L/min) daily during hospitalization with a maximum of 14 days after hospitalization
Trial design {8}
This DAWn-Plasma study is a randomized, open-label clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the addition of convalescent plasma to standard of care in hospitalized adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19. The outcomes of the study protocol are in part based on the draft master protocol of the WHO for trials that evaluate the safety and efficacy of investigational therapeutics for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients.
This study is a phase II proof-of-concept multicentre trial. It will compare standard of care vs. standard of care with convalescent plasma. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the standard of care (SOC) has been mostly supportive, in view of the lack of evidence for specific therapies for this novel disease. However, the standard of care may change during the course of the study as (inter) national guidelines might be subject to change as results from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on anti-viral, anti-inflammatory or anti-coagulation therapy become available. The clinical outcomes of this study have been chosen based on the outcomes of the WHO master template for clinical studies to allow pooling of the data with other ongoing studies.
The DAWn-Plasma will randomize with a 2:1 allocation to SOC combined with convalescent plasma versus SOC.
Methods: Participants, interventions and outcomes
Study setting {9}
DAWn-Plasma is a multicentre study and will recruit patients in 25 Belgian hospitals, both academic and non-academic. The contributing institutions are mentioned on clinicaltrials.gov (NCT NCT04429854).
Eligibility criteria {10}
Participants eligible for inclusion in this trial must meet all of the following criteria:
Subject (≥ 18 years old) or legally authorized representative provides informed consent prior to initiation of any study procedures. When signed informed consent is not possible (e.g. due to restrictions to prevent viral transmission), verbal informed consent in the presence of an independent witness will be obtained and documented in the medical files. Signed informed consent will be obtained as soon as the safety concerns are mitigated
Subject (or legally authorized representative) understands and agrees to comply with planned study procedures
Male or non-pregnant female adult ≥ 18 years of age at time of enrolment
Patient should be hospitalized
Has a confirmed diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection, defined as either:
Laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection as determined by PCR, or other commercial or public health assay in any specimen as diagnosed within 72 h prior to randomization, or
The combination of upper or lower respiratory infection symptoms (fever, cough, dyspnoea, desaturation) and typical findings on chest CT scan and absence of other plausible diagnoses
Illness of any duration, and at least one of the following:
Radiographic infiltrates by imaging (chest X-ray, CT scan or other), or
Abnormalities on clinical assessment (evidence of rales/crackles on exam) and oxygen saturation (SpO2) ≤ 94% on room air, or
Requiring supplemental oxygen.
ABO D typing of the patient should be done at least once and the result should be known at time of inclusion.
Participants eligible for this trial must not meet any of the following criteria:
Receiving invasive (any mode where a patient has been intubated endotracheally or via tracheostomy) or non-invasive mechanical ventilation before or upon randomization.
Pregnancy or breastfeeding.
Any medical condition which would impose an unacceptable safety hazard by participation to the study, as deemed by the investigator.
Patients with a history of a documented grade 3 allergic reaction after the administration of fresh frozen plasma (i.e. systemic reaction with cardiovascular and/or respiratory involvement).
Patients that have treatment restrictions that exclude mechanical ventilation and/or endotracheal intubation.
Who will take informed consent? {26a}
Potential participants are screened on the emergency ward or upon arrival at the COVID-ward. Accordingly, an emergency physician or a supervising physician at the COVID-ward that is trained in the protocol will first assess the patient’s interest in the study. In case a patient is interested to participate, the investigators of the DAWn-study team again check the eligibility criteria and contact the patient to provide more information and obtain an informed consent.
The consent form includes a short and comprehensible summary of the rationale of the trial, the trial design and the study drug. This is followed by an elaborate form, where all study-related procedures, clinical data collection (for instance clinical scores and vital signs), biosample collection (for instance blood draws and nasal swabs) and the potential risks (potential adverse events) and benefits (potential positive effect of the intervention, contribution to knowledge production) from the study are explained. Data management and ethical approval are detailed, as well as the insurance policy. The investigator also verbally explains this consent form and is available for questions before the patient is asked to sign the consent form. A copy of the informed consent form is attached to this manuscript as Supplementary Material.
Additional consent provisions for collection and use of participant data and biological specimens {26b}
In case no DAWn-investigator is on duty on the COVID-ward at the time of inclusion, obtaining a written consent within the time window of inclusion, but without wasting extra personal protective equipment is difficult. In order to avoid this, we were granted permission by the ethical committee to do the first contact between the DAWn-investigator and patient by telephone. The consent form is read and illustrated by the investigator on the phone, and the patient gives verbal consent. An independent witness is in the presence of the patient or the investigator to confirm that the patient has understood the study procedures and agrees with them. Data collection, randomization and, in case the patient is randomized to the active treatment group, administration of the plasma can then already start awaiting the signed version of the written informed consent form that will be sent to the investigator by the patient at a point in time when it is safe to do so.
Explanation for the choice of comparators {6b}
The addition of convalescent plasma to standard of care will be compared to standard of care treatment for patients hospitalized with COVID-19. No active comparator drug is imposed by the trial.
Intervention description {11a}
Screening/baseline
Demographic parameters will be obtained. Medical history will be obtained as part of routine clinical care. Concomitant medication will be reviewed using the electronic medical files. A first blood group determination should be done upon hospitalization of the patient to facilitate fast plasma administration following randomization. A nasopharyngeal swab for viral qPCR analysis is taken at baseline, on day 0 (+/− 2) (Fig. 1).
Overview of the study interventions
To ensure the integrity of the trial, a randomization procedure through the software REDCap has been established, generated by the data management unit of the clinical trial centre Leuven. Patients from all centres will be randomized centrally, in a 2 (active treatment group) to 1 (SOC) ratio.
Administration of trial product
In case the patient is randomized to the active treatment group, convalescent plasma (2 units of 200 to 250 mL) will be administered within 12 h after randomization, with a second administration (2 units of 200 to 250 mL) 24 to 36 h after ending the first administration. Plasma should not be transfused at the usual speed of 30 to 45 min but should be administered at a maximal speed of 50 to 100 mL per hour, in order to reduce the risk of volume overload. Parameters will be monitored during the administration of plasma according to good clinical practice.
COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) donors are recruited in a population of patients that were infected with COVID-19 and recovered. At least 28 days should have passed since full recovery and disappearance of the symptoms. Potential donors must at least fulfil national legal requirements for eligibility of donors to donate blood or plasma. The Blood Establishment qualify donations from donors with neutralizing antibody titres greater or equal to 1/320 as appropriate for this study.
Daily assessments until discharge
The following information will be retrieved daily until the day the patient is discharged from the hospital: (1) vital signs including SpO2, (2) clinical data for assessment of study outcomes and (3) adverse event evaluation. Serious adverse events and adverse events grade IV will be collected even when these are not part of the endpoints of the study.
Visit at day 15 (+/− 2), 30(+/− 3) and 90 (+/− 5)
In case the patient is no longer hospitalized on the days a clinical assessment is needed for evaluation of the primary and secondary endpoints, these visits can be replaced by telephone contacts with the patient enquiring about their status.
Additional sampling
The study includes two optional samples:
At baseline: on day 0 (+/− 2): blood samples for the assessment of immunoparesis against SARS-CoV-2 and antibody clearance. This blood samples should be collected before the first infusion of convalescent plasma. Samples will be stored locally and shipped in batches to the central reference lab. The practical details of local storage and shipment can be found in the lab manual.
On day 6 (+/− 2): blood samples for the assessment of immunoparesis against SARS-CoV-2 and antibody clearance. Samples will be stored locally and shipped in batches to the central reference lab. The practical details of local storage and shipment can be found in the lab manual.
The study includes a sample to be taken, when feasible:
Viral qPCR (nasopharyngeal swab) at day 6 (+/− 2).
Criteria for discontinuing or modifying allocated interventions {11b}
Participants may voluntarily discontinue trial treatment and/or prematurely end their participation in the trial for any reason at any time. In such case, the investigator must make a reasonable effort to contact the participant (e.g. via telephone, e-mail, letter) in order to document the primary reason for this decision.
The investigator may also decide at any time during the course of the trial, to temporarily interrupt or permanently discontinue the trial treatment if it is deemed that continuation would be detrimental to, or not in the best interest of the participant.
Similarly, the sponsor, Ethics Committee (EC) or authorized regulatory authority can decide to halt or prematurely terminate the trial when new information becomes available whereby the rights, safety and well-being of trial participants can no longer be assured, when the integrity of the trial has been compromised, or when the scientific value of the trial has become obsolete and/or unjustifiable.
Circumstances requiring premature treatment interruption or discontinuation of the trial, include but are not limited to: (1) safety concerns related to blood product or unacceptable intolerability (potentially life-threatening transfusion reaction during plasma infusion), (2) trial participation while in violation of the inclusion and/or exclusion criteria and (3) pregnancy or the intention of becoming pregnant. In any such case of early trial termination and/or treatment interruption/discontinuation, the investigator will continue to closely monitor the participant’s condition and ensure adequate medical care and follow-up. Additionally, these patients will continue to be followed for the primary outcome and their data will be included in intention-to-treat analyses.
For participants whose status is unclear because they fail to appear for trial visits without stating an intention to discontinue or withdraw, the investigator must make every effort to demonstrate “due diligence” by documenting in the source documents which steps have been taken to contact the participant to clarify their willingness and ability to continue their participation in the trial (e.g. dates of telephone calls, registered letters). A participant should not be considered lost to follow-up until due diligence has been completed.
Strategies to improve adherence to interventions {11c}
For the administration of convalescent plasma, a specific standard operating procedure (SOP) was created. Detailed information on administration is provided within the hospital’s electronic system and is displayed when nurses administer the plasma. Permanent remote assistance is available as investigators are standby 24 h a day, 7 days a week.
Relevant concomitant care permitted or prohibited during the trial {11d}
Patients will receive the standard of care treatment for COVID-19 as pointed out by national and international guidelines at the time of diagnosis. Any drugs or procedures required in that context are permitted. The administration of any investigational medicinal products (IMPs) other than plasma is not allowed. No other drugs or procedures are prohibited during this trial.
Provisions for post-trial care {30}
As per European legislation, the sponsor has a full insurance that covers the costs of potential harms.
Outcomes {12}
The primary outcome of the study is the number of patients alive without mechanical ventilation at day 15 after hospitalization. The primary objective of the study is to avoid further clinical decline by administering convalescent plasma to hospitalized patients early after symptom onset to provide immediate (passive) immunity. The hypothesis is that early administration of plasma will help to counter the clinical deterioration when pathology is mainly driven by viral replication and, hence, will prevent the need for mechanical ventilation or death in the first 15 days after randomization. The null hypothesis is that convalescent plasma will not be effective to prevent the need for mechanical ventilation or death.
Secondary outcomes are defined in the “Outcomes” section of this protocol (cfr. supra).
Exploratory outcomes are as follows:
Qualitative and quantitative PCR for SARS-CoV-2 in (nasopharyngeal) swab on day 6 (when feasible)
Comparing clinical efficacy of convalescent plasma in patients that already had anti-COVID19 antibodies before the administration of the plasma compared with patients that did not. These results will not be available real-time but are subject to a post hoc analysis
Participant timeline {13}
Table 1 shows the participant timeline.
Table 1 Participant timeline
Sample size {14}
Despite rapid dissemination of data from clinical case series and some early-stage clinical trials, detailed information about the course of the disease is limited in this stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample sizes presented here are only illustrative.
Furthermore, in the absence of treatments with a known benefit, rapid changes in standard of care are to be expected and important signs of a benefit or harm of a treatment under investigation will require rapid reporting. Safety issues will be continuously monitored by a Data and Safety Monitoring Committee (DSMB), and if at any stage evidence emerges that any one treatment arm is definitely inferior it can be decided that the study will be discontinued. Conversely, if good evidence emerges while the trial is continuing that some other treatment(s) should also be being evaluated, then it can be decided that one or more extra arms or strata will be added while the trial is in progress.
Around 20% of patients hospitalized for a SARS-CoV-2 infection are admitted to the ICU with respiratory failure. When admitted to the ICU, 80% of these patients need mechanical ventilation. With the administration of convalescent plasma as early as possible, we hope to decrease the proportion of patients who have a clinical decline and need ICU support. We assume by providing passive immunity with convalescent plasma, we are able to reduce the proportion of patients admitted to the ICU from 20 to 15%. Furthermore, we assume that, even when admitted to ICU, the need for mechanical ventilation will be reduced from 80 to 50%. With a power of 0.8, a delta of 8.5% (16% in the control group and 7.5% in the invention group), a randomization ratio of 2:1 and an alpha of 0.05, sample size estimates to detect a difference between both groups is 483 patients with 322 patients and 161 patients in the intervention and standard of care group, respectively (using a Pearson chi-square test for proportion difference). We therefore propose these numbers as a pragmatic initial sample size.
Outcomes are in line with other studies with convalescent plasma that are being set up or just started recruitment in other countries. A huge effort is now made on an international level to combine all results of other studies studying the added value of convalescent plasma. All results will be made available in real-time in an international database. This allows to make sound scientific conclusions in a limited time frame. At the time this international database is available, an amendment will be made to the institutional review board.
Recruitment {15}
All patients diagnosed with COVID-19 are screened at the emergency ward or upon arrival at the COVID-ward. An emergency physician or a physician at the COVID-ward that is trained in the protocol will first assess the patient’s interest in the study. In case a patient is interested to participate, the investigators of the DAWn-study team again check the eligibility criteria and contact the patient to provide more information and obtain informed consent. By doing so, every patient that gets hospitalized with COVID-19 is screened upon admission.
Assignment of interventions: allocation
Sequence generation {16a}
A randomization procedure through a computerized system (REDCap) has been established, generated by the data management unit of the clinical trial centre Leuven, which ensures the integrity of the trial.
Concealment mechanism {16b}
In this open-label study, patients are allocated in order of diagnosis using a computerized system (REDCap) applying an unknown allocation sequence.
Implementation {16c}
The investigators will randomize the patients using a computerized system (REDCap).
Assignment of interventions: blinding
Who will be blinded {17a}
The study is an open-label study, the study participants and clinical staff are not blinded.
Procedure for unblinding if needed {17b}
Data collection and management
Plans for assessment and collection of outcomes {18a}
Source data will be collected and recorded in the participant’s files/medical records. Worksheets may be used for capturing some specific data in order to facilitate the completion of the electronic case report form (eCRF). Any such worksheets will become part of the participant’s source documentation and will be filed together with or as part of the medical records (during but also following completion of the trial).
It remains the responsibility of the Investigator to check that all data relating to the trial, as specified in the trial protocol, are entered into the eCRF in accordance with the instructions provided and that the forms are filled out accurately, completely and in a timely manner.
eCRFs are provided by the sponsor for each participant. A copy of the eCRF is attached to this manuscript as Supplementary Material. The trial data will be transcribed from the source records (i.e. participant’s medical file or trial-specific source data worksheets) into an eCRF by trial staff. Transcription to the eCRF will be done as soon as possible during hospitalization or after a participant visit or telephone contact and in a pseudonymized manner using a unique identifier assigned by the sponsor.
Plans to promote participant retention and complete follow-up {18b}
If patients are discharged from the hospital, they may be called at certain time points in order to have sufficient data for all endpoints previously described. The same data will be collected from participants where a protocol violation has occurred.
Data management {19}
Data are stored and pseudonymized in the REDCap system allowing secure and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)-compliant data handling. The trial data manager will perform extensive consistency checks on the received data. Queries will be issued in case of inconsistencies in accordance with internal procedures. A Data Management Plan (DMP) will be developed to map data flows, data validation measures that will be taken, how (interim) database lock(s) will be managed and, as applicable, the role and responsibilities of the DSMB.
Confidentiality {27}
The trial will be conducted in compliance with the requirements of the EU GDPR 2016/679, the relevant Belgian laws implementing the GDPR including the Belgian Privacy Act of 30 July 2018 on the protection of privacy in relation to the processing of personal data. Any collection, processing and disclosure of personal data, such as participant health and medical information, is subject to compliance with the aforementioned personal data protection laws (cfr. Data Processing Annex (DPA) in Appendix I of the protocol provided as an appendix to this paper). In case personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area, safeguards will be taken to ensure that appropriate protection travels with the data in accordance with the GDPR.
Any personal data shall be treated as confidential at all times including during collection, handling and use or processing and the personal data (including in any electronic format) shall be stored securely at all times and with all technical and organizational security measures that would be necessary for compliance with EU and national data protection legislation (whichever is more stringent). The sponsor shall take appropriate measures to ensure the security of all personal data and guard against unauthorized access thereto or disclosure thereof or loss or destruction while in its custody.
Plans for collection, laboratory evaluation and storage of biological specimens for genetic or molecular analysis in this trial/future use {33}
The following analyses will be performed on samples collected during the trial:
Immunoparesis: Serum samples from day 0 (baseline) and day 6 are temporarily stored at the study sites and sent in batch to four collaborating laboratories: REGA institute Leuven, Sciensano, University of Liège and Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp. A CPE-based neutralization test is performed on serum to detect SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies, as the assay is considered the standard for coronavirus serologic analysis.
Quantitative PCR analysis: Qualitative PCR analysis (nasopharyngeal swab or bronchoalveolar lavage) is performed on day 0 and day 6 as mentioned before. The rest medium of this is temporarily stored at the study sites and consequently sent in batch to the biobank of the central study site (UZ Leuven) to perform quantitative PCR analysis at a later stage.
Statistical methods for primary and secondary outcomes {20a}
This is an open-label controlled randomized trial testing a superiority hypothesis with a two-sided type I error rate of 0.05. In this exploratory study, secondary hypotheses will be tested in a non-hierarchical way. These will be described according to the appropriate summary statistics (e.g., proportions for categorical data, means with 95% confidence intervals for continuous data, median for time-to-event data). A statistical analysis plan (SAP) will be developed and filed with the study sponsor prior to database lock.
The study design allows standard care or best supportive care to be changed in function of the Belgian Sciensano recommendations for treating COVID-19. Standards of care may rapidly change in pandemic situations, even during the enrolment of study participants. For differences between centres, or new recommendations for standard care, statistical adjustments will be made in the analysis.
The following analysis sets will be defined:
Full analysis set (FAS) and modified-intention-to-treat (mITT, an intention-to-treat analysis allowing for justified exclusion of some randomized individuals, e.g. in the case of post-randomization considered ineligibility): The FAS will include all randomized patients according to their randomized treatment. Patients randomized to the interventional group will be excluded if they did not receive any dose of study blood product. The FAS will be used for the evaluation of all efficacy endpoints. mITT will be applied as primary analysis and FAS as secondary analysis.
Safety set (SS): The SS will include all patients who were randomized according to their actual treatment. Patients randomized to the interventional group who did not receive any study treatment will be included in the SOC group. The SS will be used for the evaluation of all safety parameters.
Analysis of the primary efficacy endpoint: number of patients alive without mechanical ventilation at day 15 after randomization.
The null hypothesis tested is that the proportion of patients that meet the primary endpoint is equal in the standard of care and experimental treatment arm. The alternative hypothesis is that those proportions are different. The primary analysis will be based on a Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel test, stratified for centre. As a secondary analysis, a logistic mixed model will be used with random centre effect and random centre by treatment interaction, allowing to study how the treatment effects vary between centres.
Analysis of the secondary endpoint(s)
For the analysis of the WHO outcome, used as a sensitivity analysis, we use a cumulative clinical severity score, based on the 10-category ordinal scale, for the first 15 days (or other time points, based on the blinded interim analysis as described above). This score is calculated by adding the daily severity score (highest score for that day) for each day from day 1 to day 15, thus providing a cumulative measure of disease severity during the course of the disease. Appropriate methods will be used to account for patients for whom the status is not known for the full 15 days.
The null hypothesis being tested is that the mean cumulative clinical severity score during the first 15 days is the same for the standard of care and experimental treatment arms. Because means of summed scores over a number of days are expected to be symmetrically distributed, we will use a t test to compare the mean cumulative clinical severity score on day 15 between the treatment and the standard of care group. The treatment effect will be estimated by the difference in mean scores between the treatment groups.
As a co-WHO outcome, according to the WHO suggestions, we will use the ordinal scale to estimate a proportional odds model. For this model, the primary hypothesis test will be based on a test of whether the common odds ratio for treatment is equal to one. For large sample sizes, the hypothesis test is nearly the same as the Wilcoxon rank-sum test.
Therefore, the procedure produces a valid p value regardless of whether the proportional odds model is correct. Nonetheless, estimation and confidence intervals do require the model to be correct. Accordingly, we will evaluate model fit using a goodness-of-fit likelihood ratio test. A stratified hypothesis test to account for baseline severity of the disease will be used. The treatment effect will be estimated by the common odds ratio obtained from the proportional odds logistic regression model.
All-cause mortality rates will be estimated by the treatment group using the Kaplan-Meier method. The resulting Kaplan-Meier curves will be compared using a log-rank test. The treatment effect will be estimated by the hazard ratio using a Cox regression.
Time-to-event parameters with competing risk (time to clinical improvement, composite cardiac endpoint): event rates will be estimated using cumulative incidence functions (CIF), the resulting CIF curves will be compared using Gray’s test. The treatment effect will be estimated by the subdistribution hazard ratio.
Duration of hospital and ICU stay: both parameters will be analysed as time-to-event parameters with competing risk, whereby the event of interest is discharge from hospital/ICU and the competing risk is hospital/ICU death.
Continuous normally distributed variables (e.g. QTc) will be analysed using a 2-sample t test. Treatment effects will be estimated by the difference in mean values between the groups. If applicable, changes from baseline will be calculated. Comparisons between treatment groups will be done by performing an analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) on the post-baseline value, using the baseline value as a covariate.
Continuous non-normally distributed variables (clinical status, National Early Warning Score (NEWS) score, duration of supplemental oxygen, duration of mechanical ventilation) will be analysed using a Wilcoxon rank-sum test. Change in ordinal scale at specific time points will be compared using Wilcoxon rank-sum tests.
Missing data procedures will be described in the SAP.
Safety analyses
Adverse events (AE) will be analysed univariately and as a composite endpoint. Time-to-event methods will be used for death and the composite endpoint. Each adverse event will be counted once for a given participant and graded by severity and relationship to COVID-19 or study intervention.
Adverse events leading to premature discontinuation from the study intervention and serious treatment-emergent AEs will be described as part of the primary publication of the study results.
Baseline descriptive statistics
Baseline characteristics will be summarized by treatment arm. For continuous measures, the mean and standard deviation will be summarized. Categorical variables will be described by the proportion in each category (with the corresponding sample size numbers).
Interim analyses {21b}
No formal interim analysis will be planned. A DSMB will monitor ongoing results to ensure patient well-being and safety as well as study integrity. The DSMB, containing one statistician, will have the opportunity to ask for data, to require analyses or to compare Belgian trial results with results available from other countries. The DSMB will be asked to recommend early termination or modification only when there is clear and substantial evidence of a safety issue.
Early analyses include monitoring enrolment, baseline characteristics and follow-up rates throughout the course of the study by the study team. Analyses will be conducted blinded to treatment assignment by the DSMB.
Methods for additional analyses (e.g. subgroup analyses) {20b}
Subgroup analyses for the primary and selected secondary outcomes will evaluate the treatment effect across the following subgroups: duration of symptoms prior to enrolment, age groups, disease severity at baseline, presence of COVID-19 antibodies prior to convalescent plasma administration and co-morbidities. A forest plot will display confidence intervals across subgroups. Interaction tests will be conducted to determine whether the effect of treatment varies by subgroup.
Methods in analysis to handle protocol non-adherence and any statistical methods to handle missing data {20c}
In the case of missing data, multiple imputation will be performed. The exact number of iterations will be set when it will be clear how many data are missing. We do not expect much data to be missing as this is a prospective trial with dedicated data management.
Plans to give access to the full protocol, participant level-data and statistical code {31c}
The full protocol is available as an appendix to this paper. At this time no public access to the patient dataset is planned.
Oversight and monitoring
Composition of the coordinating Centre and trial steering committee {5d}
The DAWn-Plasma trial steering committee consists of specialists in the field of haematology, infectiology, respiratory diseases, intensive care, general internal medicine, haemovigilance and biostatistics. The committee is composed in such a way that the different key role playing institutions of the DAWn-Plasma trial are represented.
Composition of the data monitoring committee, its role and reporting structure {21a}
Monitoring of the trial will be performed by qualified individuals (independent from the site trial staff) according to the monitoring plan. The sponsor and investigator/participating site will permit direct access to the trial data and corresponding source data and to any other trial-related documents or materials to verify the accuracy and completeness of the data collected.
The data safety and monitoring committee (DMC) consists of 6 qualified members, independent from the site trial staff. Their scientific independence is assured through a DMC charter and terms of reference. Because of the exceptional circumstances, the DMC is part of UZ Leuven.
DMC will monitor ongoing results to ensure patient well-being and safety as well as study integrity. It will be asked to recommend early termination or modification only when there is clear and substantial evidence of a safety issue.
Adverse event reporting and harms {22}
Investigators will seek information on AEs during each patient contact. All events, whether reported by the patient or noted by trial staff, will be recorded in the patient’s medical record and the (e) CRF within a reasonable time after becoming aware. If available, the diagnosis should be reported on the AE form, rather than the individual signs or symptoms. If no diagnosis is available, the investigator should record each sign and symptom as individual AEs.
Frequency and plans for auditing trial conduct {23}
The investigator will permit direct access to trial data and documents for monitoring, audits and/or inspections by authorized entities such as but not limited to: the sponsor or its designees and competent regulatory or health authorities. As such, eCRFs, source records and other trial-related documentation (e.g. the Trial Master File, pharmacy records) must be kept current, complete and accurate at all times.
Plans for communicating important protocol amendments to relevant parties (e.g. trial participants, ethical committees) {25}
As per good practice, trial participants will be informed of significant changes during the trial. Yearly updates will be given to the ethical committee.
Dissemination plans {31a}
The primary paper will be published in a peer-reviewed journal and presented at international meetings.
The administration of convalescent plasma has previously proven to be a promising strategy in enhancing patients’ immune response to infectious diseases such as severe influenza and SARS. Whether or not this approach could help avoiding serious complications from SARS-CoV-2 infection is currently unknown, and uncertainty exists regarding the most appropriate timing and dose of convalescent plasma to be administered in that setting. In this trial, we have chosen the administration of a high dose of CCP, with 4 units being administered within a 36-h timeframe. Additionally, donors are required to have high neutralizing antibody titres of at least 1/320, which is a demanding and strict requirement because we hypothesize that high antibody titres are important for the efficiency of the CCP-treatment. The titres reached in the patient receiving the plasma are monitored throughout the study. Moreover, in order to optimize the interpretability of results coming from different sites, a study in which the four laboratories performing the neutralization tests on serum for the DAWn-Plasma trial are correlating their results is currently ongoing. A high quality of the plasma used in this trial is therefore ensured and carefully monitored. Additionally, full characterization of CCP will be performed later on, to further investigate the specific role of neutralizing antibodies and non-neutralizing antibodies in the plasma.
With regards to the timing of treatment, the DAWn-Plasma investigators have chosen to administer the convalescent plasma in an early time-frame after diagnosis and hospitalization for COVID-19. Randomization is allowed for up to 72 h after COVID-19 diagnosis, and the first units are administered within 12 h after randomization to the active treatment arm. A CCP-unit is infused over 3 h, which was deemed the safest among standard procedures of plasma transfusion by the investigators of this trial.
This trial is a prospective randomized controlled trial. In the past, non-randomized convalescent plasma trials have been carried out for other viral infections [11, 12], so there is an urgent need for prospective randomized trials to prove the efficacy (or not) of convalescent plasma therapy. Currently, patients are being enrolled in 20 sites with a possibility of expanding to a total of 25 sites. The participating hospitals are geographically spread across the country. This will help in faster accrual of the number of patients required for this study and is an advantage especially in the context of the expected evolution of the pandemic, with local flare-ups of SARS-CoV-2 infection rates. Also, convalescent plasma can be obtained from local donors and the Red Cross (both Rode Kruis-Vlaanderen and Croix-Rouge Service du Sang) has long-standing experience with the distribution of blood products to different sites.
At UZ Leuven, this trial is coordinated together with other trials of the DAWn consortium in a central command unit. Qualified personnel, existing of both Medical Doctors and Clinical Trial Assistants, screen newly diagnosed and hospitalized patients for eligibility criteria for the DAWn trials. They are trained in the protocols and coordinate the inclusion of patients based on procedures agreed upon between investigators beforehand. This central command unit is a useful structure to ensure continuous availability of trained personnel. Not only is the collaboration between investigators within UZ Leuven well-coordinated, the collaboration of the DAWn-Plasma team with the different parties involved -such as the different participating sites, the blood establishments and the laboratories- is also coordinated on a high level and runs efficiently.
The limitations of the study are the following: (1) the DAWn-Plasma trial is an open-label study. (2) The informed consent of the patient is not obtained through standard procedures because of safety measures that restrict the transfer of paper documents out of the COVID-19 ward. However, a procedure has been put in place to ensure the patient is fully informed and his/her verbal consent is witnessed by an independent person, and written informed consent is additionally sent to the investigators later on. (3) Another possible limitation of this study is that the novelty of this disease results in rapidly changing guidelines on the standard of care for treating these patients and that this might influence the DAWn-Plasma trial and potentially impose adaptations in the study protocol. (4) And lastly, the unpredictability of the COVID-19 pandemic leads to uncertainties regarding inclusion rates for this study, as well as to uncertainty regarding event rates in case good treatment strategies would become available.
The first patient was included on the 2nd of May 2020. We expect enrolment to be completed by July 2021, provided that the pandemic remains active in Belgium.
Availability of data and materials {29}
After the completion of the study the sponsor will transfer a copy of the pseudonymized study data set to the KCE.
(e)CRF:
(electronic) Case Report Form
(q)PCR:
(quantitative) Polymerase Chain Reaction
ADE:
ANCOVA:
Analysis of covariance
ARDS:
Acute respiratory distress syndrome
CCP:
Cumulative incidence functions
Data safety and Monitoring Committee
DMP:
Data and Safety Monitoring Committee
EC:
ECMO:
Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation
FAS:
Full analysis set
GDPR:
ICU:
IMP:
Investigational medicinal product
mITT:
Modified-intention-to-treat
National Early Warning Score
KCE:
Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre
Statistical analysis plan
SOC:
Standard of care/best supportive care
SOP:
SpO2:
SS:
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We would like to thank the clinical trial centre of UZ Leuven for their enormous support to make our logistically appalling study up and running in a very limited time-frame. We thank all participating centres and their study teams for their collaboration and efforts. We would like to thank the KCE for their financial support, Rode Kruis-Vlaanderen and Croix Rouge de Belgique for their important contribution and support in this trial, and the four laboratories performing the neutralization tests (REGA institute Leuven, Sciensano, University of Liège and Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp). And last but not least, we thank the donors that voluntarily donated convalescent plasma for this trial, as this trial would not have been possible without them.
In particular, we want to also thank the following people personally:
Investigators of participating centres:
Dr. Bernard Bouckaert, AZ Delta Roeselare, Roeselare, Belgium
Prof Dr. Rik Schots UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Dr. Laurent Jadot, CHC Liège Mont Lègia, Liège, Belgium
Dr. Evelyne Maillart, CHU Brugmann, Brussels, Belgium
Dr. Niels Van Regenmortel, ZNA Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Dr. Georgala Aspasia, Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium
Dr. Clotilde Visée, CHR Jolimont Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium
Dr. Mathias Leys, AZ Groeninge, Kortrijk, Belgium
Dr. Martial Moonen, CHR Citadelle Liège, Liège, Belgium
Dr. Camelia Rossi, CHU Ambroise Paré, Mons, Belgium
Dr. Kristof Cuppens, Sint-Trudo Ziekenhuis, Sint-Truiden, Belgium
Dr. Emmanuel Van der Hauwaert, Imeldaziekenhuis, Bonheiden, Belgium
Dr. Sarah Loof, AZ Maria Middelares, Gent and AZ Sint-Vincentius, Deinze, Belgium
Dr. Mélanie Delvallee, Centre Hospitalier de Wallonie Picarde (CHwapi), Tournai, Belgium
Coordinators of the DAWn Commando Unit in UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium:
Dr. Iwein Gyselinck
Dr. Matthias Engelen
Dr. Laure-Anne Teuwen
Dr. Vincent Geldhof
Dr. Quentin Van Thillo
Dr. Ewout Landeloos
Helga Ceunen
Barbara Debaveye
Other supporting clinicians at UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium:
Prof. Dr. Peter Vandenberghe
Prof. Dr. Kathleen Claes
Study coordinators and haemovigilance support for the DAWn-Plasma trial:
Elisabeth Porcher
Jill Pannecoucke
Astrid Thalasso
Clinical Trial Center (CTC), UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium:
Heidi Sterckx
Peter Van Rompaey
Klara Vlassak
Hilde De Tollenaere
Jean-Jacques Derèze
Katrien Boulanger
Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE), Brussels, Belgium:
Dr. Frank Hulstaert
Hilde Nevens
Leuven Coordinating Centre (LCC), Leuven, Belgium
Rik Hendrickx
Leuven Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics Centre (L-BioStat)
Ann Belmans
The following authors wish to acknowledge their funding agencies: TG is funded by the Research Foundation, Flanders (FWO) as a strategic basic research fellow (1S76520N). ND is a post-doctorate clinical master specialist of the F.R.S-FNRS. GM is funded by the Research Foundation, Flanders (FWO) as a senior clinical investigator (1843118 N).
Additional collaborators of the DAWn-consortium are listed in the Supplementary Materials.
This published protocol is independent research funded by KCE (Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre) under the KCE Trials Programme. KCE approved the trial design and protocol but was not involved in the design of the study. KCE will not be involved in data collection, data analysis, data interpretation or writing of manuscripts related to this study.
Timothy Devos, Tatjana Geukens and Alexander Schauwvlieghe are co-first authors.
University Hospitals Leuven (UZ Leuven), Leuven, Belgium
Timothy Devos, Tatjana Geukens, Myriam Cleeren, Peter Verhamme & Geert Meyfroidt
Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium
Timothy Devos & Tatjana Geukens
Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent, Ghent, Belgium
Alexander Schauwvlieghe & Bart N. Lambrecht
Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde, Antwerp, Belgium
Kevin K. Ariën & Johan van Griensven
Sciensano, Elsene, Belgium
Cyril Barbezange & Marta Romano
Rode Kruis Vlaanderen, Mechelen, Belgium
Veerle Compernolle
Universite Libre de Bruxelles Institut d’Immunologie Medicale, Bruxelles, Belgium
Nicolas Dauby
Universite de Liege, Liege, Belgium
Daniël Desmecht & Michel Moutschen
Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
David Grimaldi
Leuven Coordinating Centre, Leuven, Belgium
Anne Luyten & Katleen Vandenberghe
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium
Piet Maes & Laurens Liesenborghs
Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Bruxelles, Belgium
Lucie Seyler
Croix Rouge de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium
Michel Toungouz Nevessignsky
Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics, Leuven, Belgium
Geert Verbeke
Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
Erika Vlieghe
Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, Belgium
Jean Cyr Yombi
Timothy Devos
Tatjana Geukens
Alexander Schauwvlieghe
Kevin K. Ariën
Cyril Barbezange
Myriam Cleeren
Daniël Desmecht
Bart N. Lambrecht
Anne Luyten
Piet Maes
Michel Moutschen
Marta Romano
Katleen Vandenberghe
Johan van Griensven
Laurens Liesenborghs
Peter Verhamme
GM and TDV are the Chief Investigators; they set up the study, led the proposal and protocol development. AS and PV contributed to the study design and to development of the proposal. TG contributed to the rewriting of the protocol into the format required for publication. GV was the lead trial methodologist. MC, AL and KVB are lead CTA’s. VC, ND, DG, BN L, MM, MR, LS, MTN, JvG, EV and JC Y are members of the steering committee and/or local investigators. KA, CB, DD and PM are laboratory directors of the labs involved in neutralizing antibody testing. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Timothy Devos.
Ethics approval and consent to participate {24}
All trial protocol as well as all current amendments were centrally approved by the Ethics Committee Research UZ/KU Leuven. Each participating site additionally received approval from their local Ethics Committee. Informed consent will be obtained from each study participant.
Consent for publication {32}
Competing interests {28}
The original online version of this article was revised: We were notified of a typing mistake in one of the names of the author names. Originally published name: Alexander Schauvlieghe. Corrected name: Alexander Schauwvlieghe.
Devos, T., Geukens, T., Schauwvlieghe, A. et al. A randomized, multicentre, open-label phase II proof-of-concept trial investigating the clinical efficacy and safety of the addition of convalescent plasma to the standard of care in patients hospitalized with COVID-19: the Donated Antibodies Working against nCoV (DAWn-Plasma) trial. Trials 21, 981 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04876-0
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EXCLUSIVE: Poonam Pandey on her wedding: It had to be private considering the COVID-19 situation
Following a courtship of three years, actress Poonam Pandey tied the knot with beau Sam Bombay on September 1 at her bungalow in Bandra. The ceremony — a low-key affair — was attended by families and a few friends. The two had got engaged on July 27 during the lockdown.
Talking exclusively to BT, she says, “Amidst the ongoing pandemic and given the sad reports that we read on a daily basis, we decided to spread some joy. The wedding was a private ceremony at our home in Bandra, attended by family and select close friends who danced with us and blessed us.”
Why was the wedding a secret affair? “It wasn’t. Sam and I are the most notorious couple! The wedding had to be private considering the COVID-19 situation,” she replies.
Poonam and Sam met during the shoot of a project and started living together around two years ago. Poonam shares, “I have known Sam for three years now and we have been living together for two years. I met him while shooting for a project. We couldn’t ignore the fireworks between us and everything has been like a romantic Bollywood movie since. I’ll need three months to list everything that made me fall in love with him. Of course, I’m gonna brag about my husband being the smartest on the planet according to me. Jokes apart, we are very similar in many ways. He is my best friend and the amazing part is that we’re so thick that we can read each other’s mind.”
What about their honeymoon plans? “We are enjoying the honeymoon in our house as of now. But later, we plan to go to LA,” she signs off.
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St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church, 1876, Darien →
Artist Annie Greene Visits Darien
At 88 years young Annie Lucille Greene doesn’t seem to be caught up in the past, yet her work draws heavily from memory. Mrs. Greene, who grew up in Hinesville in the 1940s, tells her life story through yarn art, a process which first involves drawing images on a surface, then gluing different pieces of colored yarn to create a seamless mosaic. There’s a strong similarity to the Impressionist style known as Pointillism. Mrs. Greene actually refers to it as yarn “painting” and upon seeing the work in person, one completely understands. Presently, she is exhibiting What Color is Water: Tales and Art About a Segregated South as the featured event of the Black History Art and Humanities Program at the McIntosh Art Association in Darien. I’m honored to have met and photographed this amazing lady.
Detail of Babysitting, a recollection of Annie’s first job, in Hinesville © Annie Lucille Greene
Annie’s parents, Henry William and Ella Mae Tarver, were both pioneering black educators. They encouraged her doodling and drawing from an early age and they supported her creative efforts by buying art supplies. When Annie was 12, the family moved to Hogansville to work in the black school there.
Detail of 93 Boyd Road, the Tarver’s home in Hogansville. © Annie Lucille Greene
Summers were spent visiting her maternal grandparents on their farm near Adel. Mrs. Greene told me she didn’t like the farm work, but she loved the food. “The food was really good,” she recalled.
Detail of Granddaddy and Grandmama’s Farm, near Adel © Annie Lucille Greene
Detail of Once Upon a Time Women Washed Clothes in Tin Tubs…© Annie Lucille Greene
Annie spent her first year in college at Spelman but wasn’t happy there. She transferred to Albany State and loved it, Upon graduating in 1954 she was offered a job teaching in LaGrange. It was there that she married Oliver Nathaniel Greene, a Social Studies teacher. They had two children, and while Nathaniel was in New York, completing his Masters in Education at Columbia University, Annie stayed home and took a break from teaching. Dean Robert Simmons encouraged her to go to New York University and she graduated from there in 1956. She received her Masters Degree in Art Education in 1961 and went on to have a long and successful career in the Troup County school system.
Detail of Civil Rights Marches © Annie Lucille Greene
Detail of We Don’t Serve Colored Here © Annie Lucille Greene
Her third and latest book, which is available at the McIntosh Art Association, presents a blend of her work, from early memories to the Civil Rights activism of the 1960s. The images are much better seen in person and I encourage anyone in the Darien area to visit the exhibit. Details can be found here.
The opening reception at the McIntosh Art Association was very well attended and I think everyone enjoyed meeting Mrs. Greene and her husband.
She has exhibited and toured her fine work all over the Southeast but doesn’t keep as busy a schedule as she once did. As a result, you might want to visit this one as soon as you can.
Annie Lucille Greene
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I’d never heard of Annie Greene before, but I think her art is so striking and memorable. Amazingly powerful art.
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Marketing during a “social dilemma”
Maybe you’ve seen it on Netflix: The Social Dilemma. The documentary uses the words and experiences of former tech employees to convey that their past employers are eroding the foundation of our very society and, more specifically, eroding the world’s democracies. It’s, well, apocalyptic.
If you live and work in a connected world as most of us do, the documentary is shocking, downright scary.
It is so 2020! As if a pandemic and social unrest weren’t enough, next came wildfires, floods and hurricanes making it feel like half of America is on fire with the other half under water. Add in a presidential election that is tearing at the very fabric of the American electorate and, I suppose, it makes perfect sense that it’s the tech giants that will finally do us in.
I am not so sure.
There will be life after the pandemic, but it may be different. Social justice protests (not unlawful looting and rioting) will make us a stronger and more equitable country. Fires will extinguish, floods will recede, our awareness of climate change will be heightened and our American experiment with democracy will survive and continue regardless of who is elected President.
I am more certain that before any or all of this gets better, even if noticeably different from before, how you decide to communicate with your mission-critical audiences during this historic tumult is not a task for the faint-of-heart.
COVID-19 communications seem to be constantly changing. Proper care and caution regarding this virus seem to differ with every news source. And, let’s not even get started on how politics seem to influence whether and how to take preventative measures.
Company marketing and communications, whether internal or external, feels to many like an ever-shifting minefield despite the best of intentions. Fires, floods and the ubiquity of tech-based communications just add to the confusion (assuming they aren’t indications of the imminent apocalypse).
When in doubt, simplify, be transparent and honest to the values of your company or product. Be prepared to apologize and restate — quickly. Do not get stuck in neutral. Lead, don’t follow.
Take a moment to read this blog post by my colleague Stacy Delk, our V.P. of Client Services, titled, “Communicating when there are no good options.” She offers these helpful tips:
Be prepared. Thoroughly understand how decisions will affect various audiences.
Be transparent. Don’t insulate yourself. Being open is virtuous.
Be honest. Speak full truths. Don’t spin.
Be available. Provide channels for quick dialogue.
Be empathetic. Extend thanks, request patience or flexibility, offer help.
Be there. When it’s hardest for them, be there.
It may seem like there are no good options, but not communicating or, worse yet, saying a lot without meaning anything, are the worst options of all.
By Nick Vehr|2020-10-15T14:28:32-04:00September 28th, 2020|crisis communications, marketing strategy, vehr news and perspectives|Comments Off on Marketing during a “social dilemma”
About the Author: Nick Vehr
If Nick ever needs a personal slogan, a good one would be, “I’m open!” Whether catching passes as a Notre Dame football player (including from Joe Montana) or tackling any personal or professional challenge with a “We can do this!” enthusiasm, he’s open. That game attitude informs every project he takes on – and he’s taken on countless complex ones, including serving as managing director for the massive World Choir Games and founding Cincinnati 2012, Inc. to pursue designation for Cincinnati as a “U.S. Olympic Bid City.” Thanks to his varied background, from his past as a Cincinnati City Council member to his present as chair of the Economics Center at the University of Cincinnati, Nick understands the tough issues. Which is why anytime things hit the fan for a company, organization or local influencer, they call Nick.
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I still go to Greek class, in case some of you were wondering. I would also have written about it more regularly, but Jonas had this idea about doing a game whose graphics wouldn’t take me long at all to draw… right. Four weeks later I reluctantly return to the blogging world, but at least the game is beautiful and almost done.
My Greek is improving steadily if slowly. This first semester of the class concentrates on “tourist Greek.” Introducing yourself, asking someone’s name, address, phone number. Ordering food in a restaurant and asking for directions. Useful things, but sadly not entirely useful for me. I know where Jonas’s relatives live, and if I think a little I can even remember what all of them are called. But part two of the class beckons in the fall, and that will bring new, exciting challenges.
For now I am torn between struggling to remember the different forms of “to be” and marvelling over the boundless stupidity of the other students.
Did you know, for example, that the Greek question mark looks like this:
Did you also know that that is incredibly hard to understand for Germans? “So,” says Sonja, “you are saying that the Greeks don’t have a question mark at all?” And Costas, our teacher, says yes. “But,” Sonja continues, slightly puzzled, “I only see semicolons in this text.” And I sigh.
Did you know, for example, that you can’t write sch, as in the word schtick, in Greek? The language doesn’t contain this sequence of sounds. “But,” asks Miss Schmitt, “how do I spell my name then?” Smit, is the answer, or rather Σμιτ. “But that’s not my name!” she exclaims. Yep, I think, and Εὐριπίδης wasn’t called Euripides either, live with it.
Finally: did you know that in Greek you always use the article and the name when talking about or to someone. Η Βερένα. Ο Ιονάς. “But that’s so rude,” says Heike, the German teacher that’s afraid of speaking in front of people (kids are okay, though).
Heike’s story is funny, but not stranger than some of the others. The people taking this class are as diverse as they come. There’s Thomas, whose estranged wife took his two daughters to Greece twenty years ago and now the only way for him to communicate with his children is to learn Greek. Nico, who wanted to learn Greek in order to be able to talk to his future wife’s parents and family (he’s also since disappeared, taking the only copy of the textbook’s accompanying CD with him… go figure). Johanna, who loves all things Greek and likes to sit in on four-hour Greek orthodox services, not understanding a single word, but happy to soak up the atmosphere. (She was also very enthused when she learned that Jonas is from Thessaloniki and asked me if I knew that delicatessen shop in the city. Right. You’re from America? Wow, do you know George Arbuckle?) Next up is Gerhardt, who reminds me of my uncle, and who always tries to analyze every little bit of information that he has gleaned to death and always fails to understand any of it. Martina, the militant feminist who hates all men (especially Greek men!). Esther, who seems to be as rich as Croesus and who has spent a month in Greece every summer for the last fifteen years and has yet to pick up a single word. And Steven, the most likable of the lot, a Brit with an atrocious Greek accent who dreams of going to Greece when he retires in a few years.
Interesting people, all of them. If only they were a little less dense.
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Currys PC World Cyber Monday deals 2020: Best offers on Nintendo Switch, Samsung, Bosch and Shark
Emma Henderson,Louise Whitbread,Ellie Fry and Eva Waite-Taylor
30 November 2020, 12:35 pm ·20-min read
Currys' sale is not one to miss, so make the most of the final day
(The Independent)
The final day of the annual shopping event is here, so Cyber Monday is your last chance to get a great deal at Currys PC World, which should be your first stop for everything from tech and home appliances to TVs and laptops.
With huge savings to be had on big-name brands, including Apple, Fitbit, Nintendo, Samsung, and everything in between, you’ve come to the right place if you’re looking to nab a bargain.
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We’ve already seen some impressive discounts across Gtech vacuum cleaners, Virgin Media packages, Apple AirPods, Amazon smart speakers and so much more, details of which can all be found in our Cyber Monday guide where we’ve got the creme de la creme of offers.
Currys PC World also has a “price promise” initiative, meaning it will match the price of products it finds stocked cheaper at other major retailers.
And if you’re struggling to decide between two different laptop models or TVs that seem similar, the retailer has launched an online service called ShopLive, a 24/7 video shopping resource allowing customers to chat to staff on the website and get advice.
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Get your Christmas shopping lists at the ready and prepare to make huge savings, because here you can find the very best Cyber Monday Currys deals. We’ll be constantly updating our round-up so that you never have to miss a thing.
Our IndyBest team hand-picks every deal we feature. We may earn some commission from the links in this article, but our selections have been made independently and without bias. This revenue helps to fund journalism across The Independent.
The best Currys PC World Cyber Monday deals
Fitbit Versa 2 with Amazon Alexa - Petal & Copper Rose: Was £199, now £129
Our technology critic, David Phelan, rated this model highly in his IndyBest review of the best smartwatches of 2020, for its versatility and accuracy when tracking activity.
“Its operating software is straightforward and easy to use and there are lots of advanced fitness features, such as sophisticated sleep tracking which helps you understand how you’re sleeping thanks to a nightly sleep rating. It can do this because the battery life is enough to last up to five days so there’s time to recharge it.” He particularly recommends it for Android users, adding: “This Versa has Alexa built-in: press and hold the side button to ask it questions, set a timer or start a workout. This is a very effective tracker, especially for monitoring."
Apple 10.2" iPad (2019) - 128 GB, Silver: Was £449, now £379
This is an entry-level iPad which featured in our review of the best tablets and has a battery life of 10 hours and storage capacity of 128GB. Our reviewer described it as “more than good enough in terms of display, battery life and performance speed.”
They went on to add, “Like the other iPads, this one is compatible with the pencil stylus (first-generation) and a keyboard attachment. The design and build quality are second-to-none.”
HP Chromebook 14a with Intel Pentium Processor and Full HD display: Was £349, now £249
A Chromebook is hot property right now while working from home, so it pays to be vigilant when choosing one. Luckily this is 29 per cent off, and with its reliable intel processor, we predict it’ll perform well on everything from researching to streaming your favourite shows. While we can’t testify for this exact model, a similar one featured in our review of the best Chromebook with The Independent’s technology critic praising its display and performance.
Dyson V8 Absolute extra cordless bagless vacuum cleaner – nickel and yellow: Was £399, now £299
This cordless vacuum cleaner is the time-saving tool to cover all floor types, it’s even got an extra hard floor head so it works just as well on kitchen tiles as carpets. It also converts to a handheld vacuum “in seconds”, and is certified allergy and asthma friendly. With up to 40 minutes of run time you’ll be able to have a good and proper clean before recharging. We found the Dyson V11 to be the Best Buy in our round-up of the best cordless vacuum cleaners, with the V7 also getting an honourable mention. Our reviewer said of the V7; “it manages to knock the socks off many of its competitors in terms of getting a deeper clean in quicker time.”
Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 10.1in two in one chromebook and wireless noise-cancelling headphones bundle: Was £438.99, now £329
The detachable keyboard on this two-in-one IdeaPad/chromebook means you can have a tablet and a laptop depending on your needs. In addition, you get Bluetooth (and wireless) headphones with this bundle: a two-hour charge will give you 12 hours of playback time. The Lenovo IdeaPad S130 81J20076UK made it to the top of our best value laptops guide, with our reviewer commenting: “It’s thin and light enough to be easily portable and though build quality isn’t as good as on a pricier machine, it’s highly usable.”
HUAWEI Matebook X Pro 2020 13.9" Laptop: Was £1399, Now £979, Currys PC World
Save £420 off this sleek Huawei Matebook X Pro. This is the much-coveted 2020 model featuring an intel core i5 processor, 16GB of RAM, and 512 GB of SSD, as well as a 3k touchscreen. Get half price Microsoft 365 family, and save £40 when bought with this product, so snap up while you can.
Philips 58PUS7555 58in 4K Ultra HD HDR LED TV: Was £499, now £379
Save £120 on this 58in TV which features Dolby vision, Freeview, Catch-up TV and 4K streaming. Another Philips 4K TV, the Ambilight 55PUS6814/12, made it into our 2020 guide of best 4K TVs, with our reviewer commenting: “Image quality is not the best on test but is still excellent, and better than you might hope for from this price range.” You can also save on the 43in, 50in and 70in versions (£60, £80 and £120 respectively) of this model.
HP DeskJet 2724 All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer: Was £49.99, now £34
With many of us working from home now, it can really put a strain on your home office equipment, and your pocket. According to HP, this particular printer could save up to 70 per cent on ink. If you’ve been waiting to get a new one, with 30 per cent off, this deal is the sign you’ve been looking for.
Breville Curve VTT911 4-Slice Toaster: Was £79.99, Now £34.99, Currys PC World
Save £45 on this sleek Breville Curve VTT911 4-Slice Toaster. The Curve VTT911's variable width slots lets you toast different bread sizes, so you can easily slide in baguettes, crumpets and scones. The toaster also features a high-lift function which protects your fingers when handling small slice and a removable crumb tray for ease of cleaning. While we can’t testify for this exact model, we featured a similar model in our round up of the best toasters.
Nespresso by Magimix Vertuo next coffee machine – white: Was £149, now £74
This is a simple, easy to use and classic coffee machine that will give you a reliably good brew. No need to change the settings each time as every Vertuo pod is automatically recognised by the machine. The Nespresso Vertuo featured in our list of the best coffee machines, with our reviewer impressed at how easy it was to set up – “a quick rinse cycle and you’re away.” With the water heating up in seconds it makes for a speedy morning routine.
OPPO Find X2 Lite - 128 GB, Moonlight Black: Was £399.99, now £275.99
The budget-friendly edition of OPPO’s Find X2 phone is 5G ready and incredibly light at just 180g. Not only does the quad-camera system promise high-quality photography both day and night, but it also has an Ultra Steady Video system to capture 4K video. In a review of OPPO’s X2 Pro, our tester praised the brand’s ability to adjust the colour and brightness of the display to suit the ambient light around it. Like the Pro, the Lite operates on Android and charges to 50 per cent in just 20 minutes.
Samsung UE65TU7020KXXU 65 inch smart 4K ultra HD HDR LED TV: Was £699, now £499
Exclusive to Currys PC World, this TV promises pure colours, sharp contrast, and brilliant brightness. Already set up with one of the largest collections of content and catch-up apps including Apple TV, Netflix, and Disney+, you can start watching straight away. With a crystal display and high picture quality (2000 PQI), this is the big screen upgrade you’ve been looking for.
Nintendo Switch Lite, Animal Crossing and Minecraft bundle: Was £263.98, now £239
Though this may seem like a small saving, there are rarely deals on the hugely popular Nintendo Switch so take advantage of this Currys Cyber Monday bundle that includes the “New Horizons” Animal Crossing game and Minecraft. The pink console is designed perfectly for handheld play and compatible with any other games you may already own.
The Independent’s technology editor and avid gamer, Andrew Griffin, explains what makes the Switch such a great choice, whether you’re looking to update your gaming kit or shop for a loved one’s Christmas present.
“To get this out the way: the Switch is an entirely different proposition, but one that’s not worth ruling out,” he says. "The games are incredible, the console is packed with fun, and Nintendo have pulled out a stroke of genius all around. It has its downsides – the graphics and performance are nowhere near as futuristic and powerful as the other bigger consoles – but that’s what you get for it all fitting in a box you can throw in your bag and play on the move.”
HP 24-df0064na 23.8" all-in-one PC – Intel Core i5, 256 GB SSD, white: Was £699, now £499
If you’ve been promising yourself an upgrade from a laptop to a proper desktop PC, now is the time to do it – your posture and eyes will thank you for it. This PC is a great space-saver, cramming all its hardware into a single monitor, and with the 10th generation Intel Core i5 processor, 256 GB SSD and 8 GB RAM, you won’t be compromising on the specs. There’s also a HD pop-up webcam for keeping up with friends and joining work meetings.
Morphy Richards rose gold accents collection traditional kettle – blue and rose gold: Was £79.99, now £34.99
We’re not sure if kettles can be called gorgeous, but this one’s as close as they get. It has a 1.5l capacity – that’s six cups of tea, an anti-limescale filter and visible water level indicator. At more than 50 per cent off it’s a steal, oh and did we mention it’s beautiful?
Canon EOS 4000D DSLR camera with EF-S 18-55mm: Was £499, now £399
The 18 megapixels Canon EOS 4000D DSLR Camera is kitted out with fast auto-focus, guided modes and filters, as well as HD photo quality. The wifi connectivity allows you to share your favourite snaps with friends and transfer your images across your devices without the use of cumbersome cords. Also featuring 27in LCD screen.
Ninja foodi OP300UK multi pressure cooker and air fryer: Was £199, now £149
Receiving high praise in our review of the best pressure cookers, our tester said this “is an absolutely brilliant piece of kit,” adding that it “does just about everything in the kitchen except take the bins out”.
“Where it really scores over other models is that its lid can also grill, bake or air fry contents,” she said. If that’s not reason enough, it’s currently 25 per cent off in the sale. Prepare to serve up meals to perfection with minimal effort.
Samsung Galaxy buds – black: Was £119, now £89
With a battery life of up to nine hours, and sweat and water resistance, these buds are great for keen runners, or lovers of any sport for that matter. AKG tuned sound promises a crisp listening experience, and they’re compatible with both iOS and Android. Wireless earphones are notoriously pricey, but with 25 per cent off this already well-priced pair, they’re a great find.
Lenovo Smart Clock with Google Assistant – black: Was £79.99, now £34.99
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Start your day off right with this smart clock from Lenovo, equipped with a voice controlled wifi speaker and clock, a 4in touchscreen and an alarm with that all-important snooze function. You can stream music and podcasts and even control all your smart home devices without leaving your bed via Google Assistant.
Ring video doorbell with chime: Was £229, now £149
Making your home more secure has never been easier, and Ring should be your go-to brand if you’re looking for peace of mind. This particular model featured in our review of the best doorbell cameras with our tester noting the “high-quality video” and the effect and easy to use Ring app.
Featuring two-way audio, you’ll also be able to tell the delivery person where to leave your parcel if you’re out. If you’ve been considering this nifty piece of kit, now’s the time to buy – with 35 per cent off, we don’t think you’ll find a better deal elsewhere.
JBL boombox portable bluetooth wireless speaker – black: Was £299, now £199
This is a boombox for serious music lovers, with a 24-hour battery life you can keep the party going all night. With its IPX7 water resistance certification, it’s also suitable for the beach, a picnic in the park, or even for some après on the slopes. With bass drivers, 60 watts of power and an outdoor sound-amplifying mode, this promises some heavy bass. There's currently over 30 per cent off, so invest now to enjoy later.
ASUS ZenBook UX425JA 14in laptop with Intel core i3, 256 GB SSD – grey: Was £699, now £598.89
A great all-rounder, this laptop has a beautiful looking screen thanks to its frameless NanoEdge display with 90 per cent screen-to-body ratio. A great option for students, the trackpad is also a number pad so you can do quick maths without compromising what’s on your screen. With an outstanding battery life of up to 22 hours that only takes less than 50 minutes to charge up to 60 per cent, you won’t be caught out with a flat battery.
Huawei watch GT2 pro: Was £299, now £229
Featuring in our guide to the best smartwatches, this is the latest offering from Huawei, so we’re surprised to see it in the sale. When reviewing, our technology critic said: “The fitness tracking is comprehensive, working across 100 activities including triathlon and skiing.”
It also has a unique feature called route back, which tracks which route you’ve taken without using your phone. “Thanks to recording the way you came, if you do get lost, it can guide you the same way back to where you came from,” added our reviewer. A nifty piece of kit that would make a great Christmas present for any tech fan.
Kenwood K25MB20 solo microwave black: Was £170, now £69.99
In the market for a new microwave? Look no further than this deal where you will be saving more than £100. Cook, reheat and defrost with this versatile product which boasts six automatic cooking programs for specific food types, from popcorn to pizza.
LG OLED65GX6LA 65" Smart 4K HD HDR OLED TV with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa: Was £2999, now £2299
Like many other of the latest flatscreens, this has a slender high-quality display thanks to the 4K HD screen and OLED technology, which makes it look a world away from traditional backlit LED TVs.
With Alexa and Google Assistant built-in, it’s never been easier to browse the range of streaming services at your fingertips, including Disney+, Netflix, and Prime Video. With £700 off, you’ll want to snap this deal up quickly.
TASSIMO by Bosch Style TAS1102GB Coffee Machine - Black: Was £89.99, now £29
If you’re sick of instant coffee, add this affordable machine to your kitchen arsenal for a barista-style cup of Joe every morning. With a huge 68 per cent off, this has the ability to make 70 different types of coffee, an automatic shutoff function when you’re not using it and dishwasher safe parts, making it an absolute steal at this price. It’s compact too for even the smallest of kitchens.
LG SL8YG 3.1.2 Wireless Sound bar with Dolby Atmos and Google Assistant: Was £579.99, now £399
Save £180 on this LG SL8YG Wireless soundbar with Dolby Atmos & Google Assistant. The speakers support high-resolution sound and creates a cinematic viewing experience from the comfort of your sofa. Say goodbye to frantic searches for the remote with the Google assistant feature, you can simply ask your LG SL8Y to turn the volume up, play your party playlist, or pause the song.
Samsung Galaxy watch – Silver, 46 mm: Was £279, now £179
This is a more conventional looking smartwatch with a slick design, bright, colourful display and a range of watch faces that are highly realistic. The Galaxy watch 3 impressed our tester in our round-up of the best smartwatches who found that it worked well with Android and iPhone, but “most seamlessly of all with Samsung galaxy phones.”
Sony Bravia KD55A85BU 55" smart 4K ultra HD HDR OLED TV with Google Assistant: Was £1699, now £1299
If you love wildlife documentaries, films with epic landscapes or are glued to sport, this TV’s X1 ultimate processor provides the ultra-detailed picture you need. With Google Assistant built-in all you need to do is ask for your favourite show, and it’ll come right up. And this is one smart screen – the acoustic surface audio means the sound comes directly from where the action is happening, making this a highly immersive watching experience.
Shark Flexology True Pet Anti Hair Wrap IZ251UKTDB Cordless Vacuum Cleaner - Black: Was £549, now £349
Save £200 on this vacuum cleaner that will come in particularly handy if you have pets that are constantly shedding hair on your carpets and hard floors. It’s a brand that’s featured previously in our review of the best pet vacuum cleaners that tackle hair and dirt with ease.
Promising 120 minutes of running time, it has a motorised attachment that can help lift pet hairs from floors to furniture, and its anti-wrap technology will stop the brush-roll getting clogged up. It can also switch to a handheld unit to help you tackle harder-to-reach areas such as stairs or the inside of your car.
Beats Solo 3 headphones: Was £179, now £125
This pair can automatically connect to all your devices via Bluetooth, whether you’re using it on your smartphone, tablet or laptop. Offering up to 40 hours of battery life, it claims a five minute charge will provide three hours of playback, so you’ll never have to worry about running out of juice.
The on-ear cups are adjustable too and designed for hours of wear, while the controls on either side can allow you to take calls, play music and adjust the volume.
Hotpoint NSWR 742U WK UK N 7 kg 1400 Spin Washing Machine - White: Was £299, now £219
While not the most exciting buy, a washing machine is an essential that you'll get plenty of use from, so it’s worth investing in while this one is on offer, as it has over £80 off.
It promises to wash a full load of laundry in just 45 minutes with a rapid option that allows you to reduce the wash time of smaller loads if you’re in a rush. There are 16 programs to choose from, which can wash your delicates, woollen items and everyday bits and pieces. It’s also a brand that’s featured in our review of the best washing machines.
LG GSL460ICEV American-Style Fridge Freezer - Dark Graphite: Was £1,199, now £849
This American-style fridge freezer has 591I of capacity, so is sure to fit all your weekly shops. There’s also an ice-water and ice cube dispenser, and a moist balance crisper that maintains the correct level of moisture so food such as lettuce doesn't end up soggy. You can also pair the fridge to your phone via the LG ThinQ app in case there is ever a problem and you need quick advice.
HP 14s-dq1505sa 14" Laptop - Intel Core i7, 512 GB SSD, Silver: Was £699, now £599
With an Intel Core i7 processor for speedy work, this HP laptop claims to offer over 10 hours of use from a single charge and has a HD webcam for all your Zoom calls. It has 8GB of storage and Bluetooth to provide you with an easy connection to your headphones and smartphone. The HP elite dragonfly model also appeared in our review of the best high-end laptops too.
Audio pro BT5 Bluetooth speaker in black: Was £129.99, now £79.99
Save £49 on this stylish Bluetooth speaker, housed in a sleek wooden case with fabric grill, with both Bluetooth and AUX connections. Compact and powerful at 131 x 250 x 150 mm, it delivers 40 W of dynamic sound and needs to be plugged into a socket.
Huawei MatePad T10s 10.1" Tablet - 64 GB, Blue: Was £210, now £180
This is a great budget tablet for watching videos and playing games – with minimal bezels you get an uninterrupted full HD screen to enjoy, and the dual speakers on either side are designed to give rich symmetrical sound. The Huawei MatePad uses basic Android instead of Google which means the range of apps is more limited, however Huawei's equivalents are growing fast and they currently have 81,000 apps available.
Read more on Cyber Monday 2020
How to get the best Cyber Monday deals this year – When the sale starts, how to get the best savings, and how to prepare
Best Amazon Cyber Monday deals – There will be millions of deals, so check in here for our pick of the best
Best John Lewis & Partners Cyber Monday deals – With great deals on fashion, beauty, tech, kids and homewares it will be a go-to for many
Best Argos Cyber Monday deals – Covering everything from kids to homewares and fitness to DIY
Best Apple Cyber Monday deals – The tech giant is notorious for not participating in the event, so how can you find deals on Apple products? Find out in our guide
Best Cyber Monday tech deals – Whether it’s a new phone contract or noise-cancelling headphones, you’ll find the best deal here
Best Cyber Monday TV deals – Update your at-home cinema experience without paying full price with our featured deals
Best CyberMonday laptop deals – There’s hundreds of pounds to be saved on laptops from big-name brands such as Apple, Microsoft and HP
Best CyberModay gaming deals – Struggling to choose which console to buy, or after a new controller or game? Here's our expert guide
Best Cyber Monday home appliances deals – Now’s the time to upgrade your vacuum cleaner or coffee machine
Best Cyber Monday fashion deals – Whether its a pair of boots or a coat, treat yourself to new season essentials
Best Cyber Monday beauty deals – Stock up on your favourites across make-up, skincare, haircare and fragrance
Best Cyber Monday kids’ toys deals – Get your Christmas shopping done and dusted, with deals from Disney, Lego, Playmobil and more
Best Cyber Monday mattress deals – Rest easy with big discounts for brands such as Emma, Eve Sleep and Simba
Best Cyber Monday furniture deals – There's no need to wait until the January sale to get a bargain sofa, wardrobe or armchair
The stores taking part in Cyber Monday– Our predictions based on last year, which we’ll be updating as the deals begin
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Japan to invalidate 2.8 million visas to Chinese in the middle of COVID-19 fears
Stock image: Man wearing face mask on a train Japan will temporarily void 2.8 million visas given to Chinese nationals and 17,000 given to South Koreans to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading in the country, the Foreign Ministry said Friday via a report from ABS-CBN News. The move is part of steps being taken […]
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Japan will temporarily void 2.8 million visas given to Chinese nationals and 17,000 given to South Koreans to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading in the country, the Foreign Ministry said Friday via a report from ABS-CBN News.
The move is part of steps being taken regarding COVID-19 fears that was announced a day prior by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is in the middle of a barrage of criticism for his belated response to the outbreak, to toughen border controls and restrict travel from the neighboring countries.
China and South Korea reacted very differently about this. China accepted Japan’s new restrictions as appropriate to safeguard public health while South Korea denounced the move and pledged to take similar steps in retaliation.
The said visas will become invalid from Monday through March 31, with Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi saying what happens past that point will depend on whether the coronavirus situation improves or worsens, according to Kyodo News. Voiding of visas includes those issued to citizens from Hong Kong and Macau.
Chinese and South Korean nationals who are already in Japan will not have their periods of stay shortened or terminated, but if they leave the country they will not be able to re-enter using the same visas while the temporary nullification is in place.
Japan will ask all travelers from China and South Korea to remain quarantined in government-designated facilities for two weeks. This will be enforced until the end of March,
Health minister Katsunobu Kato said foreign nationals traveling from the two countries will likely be requested to stay in hotels, while Japanese nationals will be asked to stay at home.
During the quarantine period, accommodation and transportation fees need to be paid out of pocket in principle, the health ministry said, providing a strong deterrent to would-be visitors.
Japan will also suspend a visa-waiver program covering short stays by tourists from South Korea, Hong Kong, and Macau.
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Our headlong rush into the automated, commoditized future of online media buying has spawned a cottage industry around the concept of "Brand Safety." The story line goes something like this: (1) Challenged to execute large scale buys across tens of thousands of websites, digital agencies outsourced the job to ad networks; (2) casting such a broad net, the ad networks hauled up a rotten fish every now and again - an advertiser's ad showing up on a page about hate speech, sexual content, that sort of thing; (3) the advertiser naturally recoils and rebels, challenging the agency to be a better steward; (4) monitoring and verification services offer to make the problem go away - for just a little vig on the CPM, they'll verify that each page where the advertiser's message will appear is now "brand safe;" (6) the agency passes the additional cost on to the publishers and all is hunky dory.
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Setting aside the data issues and economics of publishers underwriting the cost of the agencies' choice (there's enough material there for a separate edition of The Drift), I think there's a huge flaw at the center of this whole practice: Isn't "Brand Safe" just too small a promise?
If the internet is so unsavory that ads need to travel with a digital security escort, what message does that send to brand marketer? And having sent that message, can it be erased by guaranteeing pages will be free of nudity and F-bombs? It seems to me like the terms of the discussion need to change, and can take one of two natural directions.
On the one hand, perhaps we should be candid with marketers about what it means to buy reach on the web. It's a rough and tumble place, sort of a digital Deadwood. You want a lot of cheap, automated and nominally targeted impressions? Can do. But lose the pretense that you're sponsoring Masterpiece Theatre. I think a great many marketers would accept this tradeoff, while others would probably always insist their sites be hand-selected, rejecting the idea of 'verification' entirely.
On the other, sites and technology players should ignore "Brand Safe" and instead talk about "Brand Additive Environments." Instead of just deleting the bad stuff that might hurt a brand, we focus instead on finding environments where brands can thrive. Editors play a role here. But in their absence, technology can read and understand pages or scan videos for content cues. Let's talk about what our sites, pages and consumer interaction can do to help a brand grow, not how we'll protect the brand from....us. Telling me that you've driven the muggers and prostitutes out of the neighborhood doesn't make me want to live there. I'd rather you find me a better neighborhood. Let's do that.
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WAM INTERVIEWS: Davey Craddock & The Spectacles
Multiple WAMi nominees Davey Craddock & the Spectacles are a self-proclaimed mix of “Australicana/Americana/Banana/Copacabana”, who had an explosive 2015 with the release of their single Better Alone. Ahead of the launch of their debut album, City West, at RADA Studios on Saturday 12 March, WAM’s Jason Harris interviews front man Davey Craddock about why he’s decided to launch the album in the very studio it was recorded in, key lyrical inspirations and decidedly glamorous Australian childhoods, complete with the “smell of horseshit on ANZAC Day.”
What do you get from channeling you life experiences through songwriting?
I’m not a particularly internal songwriter and I think most of my songs are about things I’ve observed in other people or places. So maybe that style of songwriting helps me make sense of the world and in doing that I get some personal stuff out. Through writing about other people, I’m sure a lot of my own personal experience comes. A song like There Will Be Light features a bunch of characters growing up or living in country towns and working out whether to stay and build a life or move out and leave some things behind. I grew up in the Southwest so I’m sure there’s a lot of personal experience in that song.
You were a journalist and critic in previous careers – how has that aided you as a musician?
It just meant that I got to interview a bunch of amazing songwriters – Elvis Costello, John Fogerty, Paul Weller, Tim Rogers etc – in detail about songwriting and tried to learn from them and steal some of their tricks. Most of that stuff never made it into print as it sounded too nerdy and I worked for quite a mainstream publication but talking about the nitty gritty of songwriting with those people was always the highlight of that job for me.
Tell us about the process of making your album City West, and what you learned from it?
We recorded over about two years at a studio in West Perth called RADA. We didn’t really start recording until we felt confident as a live band as it was largely done completely live and to tape. It was a pretty fuss free recording process – just getting in there, setting up and hitting record – as a lot of our arrangements etc had to be honed over a very long time live.
Amongst a number of shows around the country, you’ve decided to release your album in your hometown at the studio it was created – what drove you to make this unconventional launch decision?
RADA is such a beautiful place and it’s a little bit sentimental for me actually! I basically want people to share in the experience that we had while recording the album. It’s a great sounding live room and really cosy. I run a concert series called Hush and I’m really into playing in untraditional venues and creating unusual shows for the audience.
What were the most challenging aspects in transitioning from regional to city life?
I’m lucky in that my Mum’s family who are Italian all live in Fremantle so it wasn’t like I was plonked here out of nowhere with no family when I moved here as a 18 year old. One challenge was negotiating new social circles and trying to fit in or find a bunch of like minded people to hang out with. I always felt that people who grew up there already had their little cliques – particularly in music – so on a very adolescent level just making new mates and finding a crew was a bit tough at first. I’m also a really shit driver so getting used to Perth traffic took me a while (and a few scrapes).
With Todd Pickett, Luke Dux, Pete Stone and Mo Wilson, you’ve got some talented artists in the band – how did you go about forming The Spectacles, and how difficult is it with their other acts and clashing schedules?
They all fell into place like dominoes – mainly via other member’s friendships and the members inviting their friends along until we had a fixed lineup. The schedule thing is tricky but the trick is to book really far in advance. We’ve actually got a new member now in Bryn Stanford (Mathas / Mei Saraswati) as Todd is playing with too many bands and has decided to leave!
You won Best Group at the WA Country Music Awards last year, but keep getting beaten in the WAM Awards by your country ‘rival’ Ruby Boots – tell us about your relationship with Bex and how she’s paved the way for artists like yourself to also gain fans in non-country music scenes.
I think the premise of this question assumes that musicians are competitive or that music is somehow like a sport or competition which couldn’t be further from reality! Bex/Ruby is a great mate of mine and is incredibly supportive of what I do. For a period there we had fortnightly coffee sessions where we’d swap notes and help each other out (mainly her helping me!). So we can definitely have a giggle about nominations and awards and such.
What do you feel is your main strength as an artist in terms of connecting with your listeners?
In the Americana genre – whatever that means! – that I tend to work in there’s a lot of talk about horses, whiskey, wagon wheels and trains and stuff. I didn’t grow up in Nashville so I try and keep my lyrical content distinctly Australian and people seem to relate to that. There’s lines about really unglamorous things like asbestos fences and the smell of horse shit on ANZAC day and stuff and people seem to laugh, or at least, smirk at that.
How has WAM helped your career?
The WAM festival showcases and Song Of The Year Awards have been a great way to showcase what we do and helps with national recognition. More specifically, Nigel Bird has been arguably the biggest supporter of our band and the regional tour he organised for us last year through WAM was incredibly helpful and helped fund our album.
Where would you like to be positioned as an artist in 5 years time?
Continuing to tell stories to whoever will listen.
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You can also catch them at Fairbridge Festival
Friday 15 – Sunday 17 April 2016
Fairbridge Village, South West Highway. Pinjarra, Western Australia
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Trouble in the air
By Business Standard Editorial Comment | New Delhi | Last Updated at October 08 2020 23:26 IST
Topics Stubble burning | air pollution
The higher incidence of crop residue burning in northern states is a matter of particular concern this year because the resultant spike in air pollution can exacerbate the prevailing public health crisis. Though, typically, these fires are noticed during the peak paddy harvesting season from mid-October to November-end, this year, they began in September and have increased menacingly in Punjab and Haryana. The Centre has, therefore, done well to ask the governments of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Delhi to initiate timely action to curb this practice. These fires have been est.....
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NYTimes, Implicit Supporter of High Stakes Test-and-Punish Reform, Notes Flaws in Texas Tests. Can it Abandon its Support for Testing Altogether?
March 10, 2019 wgersen
Earlier this week NYTimes published a story by reporters Dana Goldstein and Manny Fernandez titled “Texas Says Most of Its Students Aren’t Reading at Grade Level. But Are Its Tests Fair?” The answer to the question posed in the headline was unsurprisingly “NO!”. The article described flaws in Texas’ latest standardized tests, the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or Staar, that is used to determine if individual students are reading on grade level and if the schools are meeting standards based on their students’ performance. The article present the battle in Texas as a microcosm of the national battle school reformers are now fighting:
The battle over reading in Texas is the latest in a national war over the future of education reform. From teacher picket lines to the halls of state capitols, public school educators and their political allies are pushing back against decades of laws they say have been punitive to traditional schools.
A persistent narrative of failure, backed by low student test scores, has undermined the public’s trust in local education systems, critics say, and has paved the way for policies that shift students and taxpayer dollars toward charter schools and private school vouchers.
On the other side of the debate are school reformers who contend that tough accountability systems like Staar are a civil rights imperative, and that they protect low-income students and students of color from what President George W. Bush famously called “the soft bigotry of low expectations.”
Ms. Goldstein and Mr. Fernandez then explain how the tests yield two different scores for students: one that places students in four bands:
“did not meet grade level,” which means a student failed the test and, in some grades, could be held back; “approaches grade level,” which means a student… did not meet all expectations and will be targeted for extra help; “meets grade level”; and “masters grade level.”
And a “Lexile score”, which determines the kinds of reading material a student would be assigned. The problem is that in some cases the two scores are in conflict with each other with the Lexile score giving the student an effectively higher score than the one used to determine the mastery of the individual student and the performance of the school.
The article does a good job of framing this battle, and a decent job of explaining the test scores, but it does a poor job of pointing out that ANY conversion of a raw score to a “grade level” score or a “mastery” score is a statistical artifact. The dilemma is that “grade level” itself is an artifact: it’s based on the wholly false premise that all children learn at the same rate and that batching children by age cohorts is the most efficient and effective means of delivering instruction and measuring student performance based on this premise is a valid means of determining the effectiveness of a school.
Maybe an article in a widely read newspaper is not the place to present this reality… but by accepting this wholly artificial construct for organizing schools and the statistical artifact called “grade level” that results from the adoption of this construct the NYTimes implicitly supports the rating systems that buttress the test-and-punish “reform movement” and the high-stakes testing that is used to sort and select students.
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#gamergate a voice for men antifeminism antifeminist women attention seeking bullying entitled babies evil SJWs FemRAs gaslighting gross incompetence gullibility harassment hypocrisy irony alert judgybitch misogyny MRA playing the victim rape culture reactionary bullshit straw feminists straw futrelle twitter
Janet "JudgyBitch" Bloomfield tries to lie her way out of a Twitter suspension; here's proof of her targeted abuse
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Slightly censored screenshot of one of Janet Bloomfield’s suspended accounts
Janet “JudgyBitch” Bloomfield may not have mastered the fine art of public relations in the real world, but amongst those who live in imaginary worlds of their own making she is something of a PR genius.
Bloomfield, A Voice for Men’s “Director of Social Media,” was recently booted from Twitter (again) for “targeted abuse” — evidently her harassment of feminist writer Jessica Valenti, which included making up inflammatory fake quotations and attributing them to her.
Bloomfield, who once claimed (apparently at least semi-seriously) that a previous Twitter suspension was punishment for her posting a picture of a wedding cake, has responded with a petulant note to Twitter and a similarly petulant open letter to the world, insisting that she’s an innocent woman who’s been railroaded by an evil feminist cabal.
She is, of course, full of it, but she’s picked up support from several online publications popular with the reality-challenged: Alex Jones’ loopy conspiracy megasite Infowars.com, GamerGate propaganda hub The Ralph Retort, and right-wing garbage site The Gateway Pundit. She’s got her Twitter followers in a tizzy, and they are filling up my Twitter timeline with their usual brand of nonsense.
Bloomfield claims, in a Facebook posting that’s been uncritically reposted by her supporters in the imaginary-world media, that she’s a blameless victim of a “harassment campaign” inspired by, well, me.
No, really. Here’s what she wrote, apparently with a straight face:
My most recent suspension is the result of me tweeting the actual words of Guardian journalist Jessica Valenti back to her. Prompted by @davidfutrelle, a harassment campaign to report me for spam/abuse was undertaken by users who appear to be under the impression that I made up the Valenti quotes and falsely attributed them to her. This is not true.
It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to make this claim, given that Bloomfield has not only made up numerous false and inflammatory quotes she claimed were written by Valenti, but has also gone on to publicly gloat that her falsehoods were causing Valenti distress. The fake quotes were merely one egregious episode in an months-long campaign of targeted abuse directed at Valenti.
Here’s a screenshot of four fake Valenti quotes that Bloomfield tweeted last August. (I have helpfully labeled the ones that are fake; see here for details.)
More recently, Bloomfield Tweeted yet another fake Valenti quote that has been making the rounds in Men’s Rights circles for months. (The red scrawls on the screenshot are mine.)
See here for more details.
Though none of these quotes sound even remotely like anything that Valenti would ever say, many of Bloomfield’s followers had no trouble believing they were real, and in both instances the fake quotes inspired harassment and abuse directed at Valenti.
Back in August, Bloomfield seemed proud as punch that her fake quotes were causing difficulties for Valenti. In a posting on her blog (which I’ve archived here), Bloomfield gleefully wrote:
And she added, for good measure:
It’s not clear to me how Valenti having to deal with harassment caused by Bloomfield libeling her is an example of Valenti “having to own her shit,” given that the shit in question is not actually hers.
Bloomfield also pulled a similar stunt with a screenshot of an obviously fake Tweet ostensibly from GamerGate boogeywoman Anita Sarkeesian; it, too, inspired harassment against Bloomfield’s target.
Bloomfield has helped to inspire and direct campaigns of harassment against other women as well, including one school teacher she accused, with absolutely no evidence, of trying to shut down AVFM’s conference with death threats. She has also repeatedly libeled me. In all of these cases she used Twitter essentially as an amplifier of hate.
These tactics are pretty much the definition of “targeted abuse.” And “targeted abuse” is what Twitter gave as the reason for her most recent suspension, according to a screenshot that Bloomfield has herself posted on her blog.
But Bloomfield is attempting to convince the world that she’s been suspended for quoting Valenti accurately. In her posts on her suspension, she refers to one instance in which she did indeed quote Valenti more or less accurately – as if that somehow makes up for her fake quotes.
I’m no lawyer, but I’m pretty sure that Bloomfield announcing that not everything she’s said about Valenti is a malicious lie wouldn’t be much of a defense against a libel case.
But, of course, amongst her reality-challenged fans, Bloomfield’s spin has carried the day. Indeed, the headline on the Infowars post detailing Bloomfield’s imaginary victimization declares baldly that:
It seems rather telling that the theInfowars “reporter” who wrote that post touts his Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University in his Infowars bio. In this case, though, he merely repeated and amplified Bloomfield’s own fictions.
Speaking of which, Bloomfield also claims that “[m]y account has never tweeted abuse.” This is also patent bullshit.
Her peculiar wording may be a way to elide the fact that she used the official Twitter account for A Voice for Men’s conference last summer to call a bunch of people “whores.”
But the fact is she used her now-suspended @JudgyBitch1 Twitter account to post stuff much worse than this. In addition to abusive tweets directed at Valenti (like this salacious one), she also told one rape survivor [TRIGGER WARNING]
Bloomfield’s attempts to portray herself as the innocent victim of a witchhunt are especially ironic, given how carefully she’s cultivated her “mean girl” image. She attacks feminists – mostly women – with the malicious glee of a born bully, and mocks those who point out her lies and cruelty, using this picture as the profile pic for one of her Twitter accounts.
On her blog, which is often worse than her Twitter account ever was, she blamed the underage victims of Jimmy Savile’s sexual predations for exploiting him, and declared the 16-year-old victim of gang rape in Steubenville a “dumb whore.”
The woman who calls herself “Judgy Bitch” now finds herself being judged for her vindictive, bullying behavior, and doesn’t much like it.
NOTE: If anyone has screenshots of other abusive tweets from JB that I have missed, please email me with them or post them in the comments below; I may want to add more to the post or use them for a followup post.
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Policy of Madness
As someone who suffers with clinical depression and has had lengthy periods of psychosis, I object to describing anyone as mad or crazy or mentally ill.
It’s your prerogative to choose not to describe yourself in such terms. It’s my prerogative to call myself mad, sometimes crazy, and to not want to be called deficient.
For some people “mad” is an identity, like certain ethnic or sexual slurs, terms that have been wielded as insults but reclaimed. You’re not required to reclaim it for yourself but you’re also not allowed to tell me that it’s unacceptable that I have done so.
How do we describe JB’s actions and what motivates them?
I describe her actions as morally reprehensible. Her motivations are irrelevant.
Puddleglum
Thank you for expressing what I was thinking!
Also, I have a problem with ‘deficit’, because it implicitly states that there is a lack of something. Just because I have a mental illness does not mean I am lacking, just different.
Reply to AltoFronto
And a massive Internet hug to Samantha – I’m glad you’ve managed to find a place of peace and forgiveness for that awfulness. It seems a bit of a mawkish, back-handed phrase to say “you seem so well-adjusted”, but I mean to say that healing is no easy thing, and it is good that you have come to terms with it in a way that makes you happy.
Thank you, AltoFronto. I believe that healing is not something that one usually does alone, though. When I look at all the people who came into my life at just the right time, I am amazed and grateful that they have been there for me. Whether it was a kind word or some other loving act, the folk who have meant so much to me are the ones who helped me find my way…and they still do. I still sometimes wake up in a sweat, terrified that I have passed on what my mother did to me to my own kids. And, in some ways, I have. To the extent that I was still in her emotional clutches, I did hurt the ones I love so much.
But, like so many others who have been hurt, I keep trying to be awake and act on what is good and true in myself. And I can do that only because I am loved. Because I have been honest and open with my kids, they have forgiven me and have taught me to forgive myself. No one grows up without some scars.
proxieme
I’m not a parent so maybe I shouldn’t judge, but isn’t part of being a good parent teaching empathy and kindness? Discouraging misogyny and other kinds of bigotry?
I am a parent, and I wholeheartedly think that’s part of good parenting*.
(*To the best of one’s ability, anyway. The latent anthropologist in me’s willing to concede that there have been multitude wonderful parents throughout history who haven’t done exactly that – at least universally – because it just wasn’t part of their cultural toolbox.)
But JB?
I honestly can’t see how someone who gets her kicks through libel and bullying could compartmentalize those aspects of her personality enough for it to not spill onto her kids, at least in practice (if not discussion). At the very least, her kids would see that lying and abuse are a-ok ways to conduct public discourse.
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Why can’t we just assume that we know nothing about her private life, rather than going directly from “must be a terrible mother” to “is probably a great mother”? Her mothering skills are irrelevant to her “job” harassing feminists on Twitter.
What you said, cassandrakitty. 🙂
Ms Bloomfield reminds me of a plot point from “Handmaid’s Tale”. The Republic of Gilead had a cadre of women serving the regime willingly, and used them to supervise the Handmaids. Kapos, if you will. The parallels aren’t exact, but she seems entirely enthusiastic about enforcing social and cultural patterns that are not actually in her best interests.
I think many of us are uncomfortable with the idea that some people deliberately do things that they know are harmful to other people. I do believe that nobody is a villain in hir own eyes, but that doesn’t mean that nobody is a villain.
Pocket Nerd
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Thus Spake Zarakirbywarp:
I think it’s less “don’t feed the trolls” and more “don’t follow the script.” It’s about the technique rather than the person, and the conclusion of the article is that the best way to engage with someone using this particular technique is to disengage.
Exactly. I dealt with a lot of gamergaters who used exactly these techniques: “Reasonable” discussion that’s really just an endless regression of denials, erasure, and stonewalling. And when pinned, resort to escape hatches like “links aren’t evidence,” “I’ve never seen that problem” and the ever-popular “feelings aren’t facts.” (Or just disappear and start again with a new sock puppet.)
It’s not much different from a toddler asking “Why?” and then responding to each explanation with another “Why?” He’s not interested in the actual answers, he just wants to see how long you’ll keep answering.
pallygirl
@samantha, yes, no, and I have no idea how it got in there. They got it out successfully. Apparently the animal was unharmed, although I have no idea precisely what that term means when applied to animals.
AltoFronto
@ Citizen Justin – no need to apologise on my account, I was only wondering aloud whether or not I should be trying to phase d*ck out of my own vocabulary in that context. Although sometimes it seems like the best short-hand for that particular toxic masculinity trait that can be found in manospherians everywhere. You know, the superciliousness that comes with being invested in male supremacy.
When proving and maintaining one’s hyper-masculinity becomes one’s raison d’etre, one might as well just turn into a giant sentient penis. 😛
@ Samantha – I agree, it often takes another person to lend perspective on things and offer reassurance along the way, and I’m so glad you have those good people in your life now. 🙂 And you’re obviously a good person yourself, because you have taken so much care over yourself and your loved ones. Keep on being brilliant. 🙂
@Anarchonist
Thank you for your analysis. I have my own troubles with empathy, and your post has helped me. Thanks.
One problem we have to deal with is that nobody can precisely define mental illness so as to differentiate it from character defects. It was not so long ago that homosexuality was officially defined as a mental illness. When I was young, you could almost have defined mental illness as “the failure to adapt enthusiastically and joyfully to the unreasonable demands of society.” Having been (among other things) married to a severely mentally ill person for fifteen years, I understand how the burden of stigma multiplies the burden of the disease itself and I am in favor of doing everything possible to eliminate that stigma. However, I think we tend to go too far in attributing all bad behavior to willful expression of an evil nature.
I think we all recognize that personality and character are a result of the interplay between inborn characteristics and the complex influences of parents, other adults, peers, and society as a whole. One example that we would all probably recognize is that when parents allow children to get what they want by throwing tantrums, they will tend to try to use tantrums with others, which tends to make them disliked by those others, which then has further consequences. Some such children will tend to always follow the same self-destructive path and some will realize that they are going down the wrong path and change their ways.
For most of us, almost inevitably, parents and/or peers and/or society as a whole will try to mold us in ways that are in conflict with our inborn natures, and a lot of us suffer some degree of damage in the process. Adolescence tends to be a particularly difficult period — it is my impression that many if not most adolescents feel that they are unattractive and unlovable at least part of that time. I know I felt that most of my classmates, and particularly the girls, despised me, only to find through class reunions that I was generally well-liked (in spite of being a fairly arrogant jerk) and that there were a number of girls who would have been interested in dating me if I hadn’t been far too shy to ask (or so some of them told my wife at our 40th). But adolescence is an intense time of life, and whatever scars are left can be very long-lasting.
In my own case, my greatest influence was my father, who was a totally unabashed SJW. (His NY Times obit calls him “Champion of the Underdog.”) He worked for Huey Long’s “Share Our National Wealth” campaign and tried to get publicity by opening tear gas canisters into the ventilating system of the New York Stock Exchange, which he considered the primary culprit in causing the Great Depression and the great misery it brought to millions of ordinary people. Unfortunately he greatly underestimated his own intelligence and overestimated mine, and his expectations of me, which I internalized, were so excessive that nothing I can ever do will seem like a success to me. I think I managed to keep from inflicting the same wound on my own children, but undoubtedly I made my share of other damaging mistakes.
Unfortunately — or maybe fortunately — there is no “X causes Y” that explains how the interplay between nature and nurture will work out. When my first wife became pregnant with our second child, her therapist was shocked when I refused to try to pressure her into having an abortion. (She wouldn’t have considered one anyway.) He told me that it was a miracle that our son (then 5) wasn’t already showing signs of severe disturbance — but he was in fact one of the most well-balanced children I’ve ever known, much more so than either his mother or I. It wasn’t our doing — that was just how he was. I have been told that children often think they must be to blame for a parent’s dysfunctional behavior — he never did. One abused child becomes an abusive parent; another leans over backward to not be abusive. It has to be that presently unpredictable interaction between nature and nurture.
When I look at JB — taking her at face value for a moment — I see a great deal of anger. That is hardly unusual, but what is unusual is that it seems to be almost all directed at other women. Many women are angry at men, very often with a lot of justification, but even with that justification — even women who have suffered multiple rapes — very few women seem to me to be as intensely angry as JB is. Thus one might speculate that there is something in her past — it would be futile to speculate what it is — that has caused her to have a particularly intense anger toward women. She also seems to have an intense craving for approval from men, but that is not unusual — society does try to make women crave for approval from men, to a greater extent than the reverse — and one might argue that her attacks on women are just an over-the-top tactic for gaining that approval. In any case, it would seem that — just as Roosh V has too much invested in being king of the PUAs to change his ways — Judy Bloomfield (whoever she really is) has too much invested in being JudgyBitch to take a good hard look at herself and start trying to figure out why she has all that anger. Too bad. I tend to not believe that people are irredeemably evil — just unwilling to go through the ordeal of self-inspection and change.
tl;dr: most people seem to have some scars from childhood and adolescence; JB’s raging anger against other women suggest that she has some issues of that kind.
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So… I… er, I read a little of JB’s blog. Yeah. That was fun. She’s apparently working on a new book, which the linked post eventually gets around to. After a huge rant against publishers that seems oddly specific to her own personal experiences. I’m just gonna put her description of the story here:
16 year old Lowin Sorrow lives in a domed city in post-apocalyptic North America where the citizens literally believe the Darwinian maxim that only the strongest survive. When her father uncovers corruption at the highest levels of government, Lowin’s life is blown apart and she discovers a world outside the domed city where survival has very little to do with fitness and everything to do with who, and what you know.
Lowin is an entitled, narcissistic, self-absorbed, vain, cruel and utterly clueless young woman who can take any situation and make it about herself. She can simultaneously see herself as the most privileged person in her world, and at the same time, bemoan how cruel and unfair life is to her. Lowin is always the victim. She is incapable of seeing the world from any vantage point but her own.
After two years of blogging, I now realize that Lowin is a feminist. She would never use that word, but she embodies all of the vanity, cruelty, stupidity and obliviousness of modern feminists. She is Amanda Marcotte, Jessica Valenti, Zerlina Maxwell, Anita Sarkeesian and Amanda Hess all rolled into one, given the power of life and death.
She is a horrible person.
And she is going to do some horrible things.
I’m secretly hoping she actually writes this one. Partly because I think it’d be pretty revealing concerning her ideology, and partly because I think her having to write a 3-dimensional, sympathetic main character is going to force her to realize that real feminists couldn’t possibly be the flat monsters she imagines them to be. Unless it turns into revenge porn. Not literal porn, but you know what I mean. Like food porn. With revenge.
Apparently she originally wanted the main character to be the fine, upstanding, morally courageous and strong father figure, but she was convinced to do it from the daughter’s perspective instead. Because obviously the guy must be all things good, and the gal must be the embodiment of wickedness. I wonder if she’ll make the corrupt government run by women and their male servants as well…
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Kind of sounds like she wishes she could be more like the “feminist” character she’s writing about, no?
She gets Darwin wrong too, see for example http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/six-things-darwin-never-said
Also, Darwin would never have boiled down “fittest” to “strongest” because he was smart enough to realise that being strong isn’t always the attribute that gives the edge.
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I had to go and take a look. So she rants on and on and on about how she knows more about what readers want than publishers do, and how keeping to rules crimps creativity blah blah and then I read the first two lines of her novel and she’s started it with the main character waking up! The biggest cliche of all time!
We should play cliche bingo. See how many she gets into one chapter.
Sadly, it would require someone to sacrifice $0.99 to read the rest of the chapter, and that’s a sacrifice too far.
That’s kind of ballsy, asking someone to pay money to read a portion of an unfinished work. The visible writing is about on-par for the Pit of Voles, which is appropriate given that she is “publishing” it as she writes it, which is exactly how most fanfiction is presented.
@bodycrimes:
If I were less moral, I would totally buy the whole novel just so I could reproduce it here and let everyone fisk it. It seems like it could work out to be a marvelous train wreck. Especially since, given her blog post and despite the fact that she whines so much about spelling and grammar checkers, she can in fact write. Utterly broken fanfic has it’s charm, of course, but I feel like it’d be more fun when you can read the thing (even if you can’t comprehend it’s existence).
@kirbywarp – I’d be happy to post the legal 10%. Only problem is, I’d have to give the woman money! And somehow, I can’t get past that roadblock…
I have a feeling it will go down in history with The Eye of Argon.
Jericho? A literally-faux-Darwinian city? That’s… huh. I don’t know how I feel about that. I wonder if JB’s gonna mirror the bible story and have the story burned to the ground by outside forces, with Lowin taking the role of the prostitute who gets saved because she protected spies.
Was JB even particularly religious?
I’m hoping it will reach My Immortal levels of infamy.
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I didn’t know that was possible anyway I’m glad you forgave her. Not forgiving someone is like drinking poison and expecting that person to die.
Fruitloopsie, I know you were expressing support of Samantha, and agree with that aspect of your post–her ability to forgive her mother is impressive.
But I dislike a broader statement that forgiveness is somehow always desirable. How someone decides to go about surviving and working through their abuse is very much their decision. Refusing to forgive is just as valid an option as forgiveness is, so long as the end result is that the abuse survivor can use that tactic to get clear of the bad times.
Sometimes forgiveness is awesome; other times, it’s just a form of denial. Sometimes refusing to forgive is healthy and justified; other times, it’s a form of obsession. It’s a complicated issue, and I’m uncomfortable with platitudes (like the ‘drinking poison’ one) that seem to take a one-size-fits-all approach.
On the discussion of sea lions, my personal favorite tactic is to turn it right back around on them: “Why do you think that question is significant? What would the likely answers signify?” Either they will try to deflect, which will be obvious, or they will be forced to acknowledge the bad faith behind the question–either of which gets you as clear as you likely are to get from the trap.
@cassandrakitty:
I don’t think anything can reach My Immortal’s “black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots,” “black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow.”
I hope I’m proven wrong. >: D
Damn! Someone is going to have to subscribe, so we can discover if the protagonist will ever redeemed by shedding her false feminazi beliefs, or if she’s doomed to die horribly, in a very obviously symbolic way.
Oh please let her finish it. I will ask, nay, demand that you all help me spork it.
Because nothing says sexy like looking as if you have pinkeye.
Eye of Argon is funny, but it doesn’t come close to matching the glorious radiance that is Vampire Hunter D #4: Tale of the Dead Town, a book that publishers found worthy of printing in at least two languages, and which features beauty so intense it stops a tank in its tracks and a flying pirate town.
I doubt JB’s book includes a flying pirate town.
I feel like JBs book is going to be more “what if Hunger Games had been written by a misogynistic weirdo who hates all other women?”
Impeccable timing, getting into dystopian fiction just as it is being universally acknowledged as done to death.
Maybe she’ll throw some zombies in there too.
I don’t know if you followed the blog link, but part of the post is a “visual representation” of what the book’s narrative is going to be like. Included in the list are Hunger Games, Blade Runner, and Gattica.
@katz:
I will aid you in this honerable endeavor, should she finish. I’m practically contemplating setting up one of those “X reads awful novel of the day.” I just don’t know whether I have the writing chops to critique or the consitution for bad fic.
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At first it seemed like the protagonist would be a girl but, no. So she’s writing from the perspective of the villian? It takes a lot of skill to do that and have it work. The characters has to be three dimensional and have sympathetic aspects. Nobody wants to read the perspective of a mustache twirling cartoon villain. Or whatever the female equivalent of mustache twirling is. Dyed armpit hair twirling? That’s pretty villainous from a manosphere perspective.
16 year old Lowin Sorrow lives in a domed city in post-apocalyptic North America where the citizens literally believe the Darwinian maxim that only the strongest survive.
Abject misunderstanding of science and science history aside, shouldn’t this be a good thing if MRAs are your target audience? Seems like about 90% of them are objectivists, libertarians, and social darwinists of various stripes, who insist the world would be a utopian meritocracy if we just stopped giving handouts to the “moochers.”
Maybe by “only the strongest survive” she means that teenagers compete in weightlifting events and the bottom 50% are culled at the end.
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But either way, it creates a weird, inaccessible mindset, based on either a refusal or inability to engage with reality.
I can’t do that in her case–I have to actively believe things I know are not merely ‘untrue’ but genuinely unsupported by empirical examination of the world around us, and that makes it very tempting to reach (incorrectly) for words like “crazy”. It’s dysfunction without an underlying disorder, and that makes it damned difficult to address.
This! This sums it up. It’s very tempting to wonder “what the hell’s wrong with her wiring” – that’s the default reaction, almost, to think someone making so little sense, so remote from reality, must have something wrong with them, not that they are like that because they choose to be.
Judgy’s not too good on the old Darwinian theory. She wrote a post about how men take to their beds when they get the flu because our ancient ancestors needed men in good nick for building, hunting and fighting. Women – being less valuable – could just carry on regardless while ill.
As though evolution works at a group level, for the good of the tribe. Like some hippy force of nature…
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Thus Spake Zarabodycrimes:
But evolution does work at the group level. This is a crucial distinction that is often lost on MRAs, “human biodiversity proponents” (e.g. modern “scientific racists”) and other BioTruthers: Individuals don’t evolve, populations do. Naive adaptationist thinking like “men evolved to be X, women evolved to be Y” is an indicator of an extremely shallow understanding of evolution.
Wasn’t Darwin mad that his name was invoked to justify cruel economic and social policies? I seem to recall reading that somewhere.
weirwoodtreehugger:
Well, you’d hardly expect JB’s habit of inventing quotes and ideologies to stop with the living.
I always figured that women are better at working through discomfort partially because we’re used to carrying on while we have our periods/PMS and feel crappy. I also think it’s socialization. Women are taught to put others first and themselves last.
This is all my unscientific speculation though. I have no idea if there has been research on this. Just anecdotally it seems like guys make a bigger deal out of colds and flu than women do.
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It’s dysfunction without an underlying disorder, and that makes it damned difficult to address.
I think it’s because we’re inclined to overemphasise people’s behaviour as an extension of their innermost “essence” or something. Most of us are a kind of balance between our inner selves and our social roles – child/ parent/ sibling/ partner/ neighbour/ teacher/ student/ friend/ colleague with some specific roles in particular situations. A competent English teacher is likely to be a cack-handed student when first attending a rock-climbing class.
And there’s one set of social roles that are more or less optional — the bully and the bystander both make choices about their behaviour, a victim has much less scope. Some people are bullies at home and model citizens elsewhere. Sometimes a bully is a victim in relation to particular people.
JB’s made her choice. She’s decided to be a bully. The thing that is shocking about that is her choice of targets and her choices about methods. She could have been like a couple of prim and proper relatives of mine, relentlessly ladylike and wellspoken, but absolutely venomous when talking about or to other people. Half the time, people didn’t even realise what they were doing. No one could ever say that about JB.
I have no idea if there has been research on this. Just anecdotally it seems like guys make a bigger deal out of colds and flu than women do.
Some research anyway.
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/4090272.htm
Most VHD books are stuffed with rape, but Tale of the Dead Town is unique in that there are zero rapes in it. The plot is also regularly interrupted by events that the author seems to have pulled by rolling a 100-sided die and comparing it to a “random event” chart, but that only makes it more entertaining, not less.
PoM, that sounds like a writing method that would improve the sort of stuff A Voice for Men’s Possibly Still Unnamed Publishing House for Men Who Don’t Write Good wants to churn out. 😀
I’m just happy to think of a flying town with the likes of Hook and Barbossa in it.
I have no doubts that the d100-chart method would improve whatever JB is trying to shit out.
fruitloopsie
I’m sorry you’re right one shouldn’t have to be forced to forgive people if they don’t want to.
I’m sorry I hope didn’t make you feel uncomfortable I’m just glad that you are surrounded by loving people.
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Well said, freemage. The forgiveness, in the case of my mother, that was most important to me was me forgiving myself for having ever believed what she told me about myself. I do agree that forgiveness can sometimes actually be a cover for denial.
It is actually easier to forgive some of my moms evil then it has ever been to forgive the evil that men do, such as rape. But that is just me.
I’m imagining a town that flies around and attacks other towns for their public works, green spaces, monuments, and holiday decorations, plus anything else that catches their fancy. Like the ornamental red brickwork between gutter and sidewalk my hometown installed a few years ago.
And what does this town bombard recalcitrant donor towns with? Why, ordinance, of course.
“Lowin Sorrow”
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Veronika Kudermetova is a name that is on the lips of every tennis fan at the moment. The Russian rightfully deserves all the praise and attention after her phenomenal performance at the WTA Abu Dhabi Open 2021. She recently thrashed Marta Kostyuk in straight sets in the semis of the tournament. The final scoreline of the match was 7-6, 6-4. In the post-match press conference, Kudermetova revealed that her inspiration was none other than Maria Sharapova.
“If I take my idol from tennis, it was Maria Sharapova,” told Kudermetova to EssentiallySports at the post-match press conference in Abu Dhabi.
Sharapova was a Russian citizen herself before she became a US citizen. Hence, Kudermetova’s love for Sharapova does not come as a surprise.
However, World No.46 Kudermetova also disclosed the name of her biggest idol, which will definitely excite combat sports fans.
“But you know, if I take like a person like mentality wise, I have like, you know, my idol now in the life. It’s Khabib Nurmagomedov,” added the Russian player.
It’s not at all surprising again since Khabib has been an inspiration to millions of people. The Russian fighter recently retired from Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) which was a heartbreaking moment for everyone.
How Veronika Kudermetova managed to reach the Abu Dhabi Open 2021 finals?
Veronika Kudermetova has lost just two sets in the five matches that she has played at the Abu Dhabi Open 2021 so far. In the first two rounds, she didn’t face any difficulty and managed to reach the pre-quarters quite easily. After this, she faced Paula Badosa and defeated her to advance to the quarters. In her match against Badosa, the Russian delivered 10 aces and had an 80% win percentage on her first serve.
In the quarters, she was up against the World No.5 Elina Svitolina. Kudermetova didn’t have an ideal start as she lost the first set 5-7. However, she managed to gain momentum and won the next set 6-3. The final set went into a tie-breaker and Kudermetova was able to keep her calm which helped her beat Svitolina 7-3 in the tie-breaker.
Then, Kudermetova battled past Marta Kostyuk to secure her place in the finals. Although she is enjoying a great run, she will be facing the ruthless Aryna Sabalenka in the finals.
Sabalenka is currently on a 14-match winning streak. She’ll definitely be starting as the favorite in the finals. Will Kudermetova be able to break Sabalenka’s unbeaten streak and win the Abu Dhabi 2021 title?
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A 26-year-old woman was arrested and charged by the police, allegedly agreeing to pay $ 20,000 via the darknet for a hitman to kill her family.
ACT Police was warned by a British journalist that an Australian person paid online and shared details on how to target two people in October.
The Canberra woman allegedly agreed to pay $ 20,000 for the double murder of her parents and paid $ 6,000 at the agreed price.
Police were arrested Monday when they issued a search warrant for a house in Canberra’s suburb of Fadden, where they also confiscated computer equipment.
The woman was charged twice with attempted murder and did not apply for bail to the ACT Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
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ACT Police contacted international police officials yesterday to look for further evidence leading to a search warrant and arrest.
The victims also cooperated with the police and we do not believe there is an ongoing threat to their safety. ‘
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“Undivided” from Tim McGraw and Florida Georgia Line‘s Tyler Hubbard is available now!
Tim teased the new track last week, saying “Tyler sent me this song a few months ago and from the first time I heard it….I knew it was one I wanted to be singing for a long time. We got together in the studio last month and created something real special. Hope y’all agree when you hear it!!”
When it came to putting the song together, Tim shares, “Tyler and I worked on ‘Undivided’ together in the studio. We went in one evening, and spent just about the entire evening together just working on the song and working out parts, and who was going to do what…where the harmonies were going to be, and I tell ya, it was a lot of good creative energy and we felt like it was a lot of good will that was going on when we were laying this song down.”
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Two dozen families struggling with noise at Pinnacle Wind Farm
The State Journal, a West Virginia business magazine, recently published a comprehensive article updating the situation at the Pinnacle Wind Farm in Keyser, WV, where more than two dozen families continue to struggle with noise from 23 turbines atop a steep ridge line (see earlier AEI coverage).
At the beginning of June, the state PSC dismissed a complaint by neighbor Richard Braithwaite, which asked for turbines to be shut down at night, saying that because no sound conditions were placed on the site certificate issued by the PSC, it has no jurisdiction to consider such complaints. Spot measurements taken at Braithwaite’s home measured 45dB, well below the 56dB state noise limit; Braithwaite has regularly measured higher sound levels both inside and out, and a PSC staffer who visited agreed that the noise was “very prominent” at times. In dismissing the complaint, the PSC noted that while it would not step into the situation, the neighbors could seek recourse through a nuisance claim in civil court; the neighbors are considering such a step.
This week, Gary Braithwaite (Richard’s brother) filed a new complaint, asking for a full shut down of the project. It’s unclear how this complaint may differ procedurally from the earlier one in ways that could change the PSC’s lack of jurisdiction. Meanwhile, the article also updates the progress that Edison Mission Group, the wind farm developer, is making on their plans to install sound-reduction louvres on the turbines, which is expected to reduce routine sound levels by about 7db; it’s unclear whether this will reduce noise issues, since for many neighbors, it seems to be blade noise that is most problematic. UPDATE, 7/7/12: The PSC has dismissed Gary Braithwaite’s complaint, noting its similarities to his brother’s complaint.
For those following this and similar community noise response situations, the full article is well worth a read.
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Can cutting practice time be bad for young athletes?
By: Sarah Scroggins
Researchers are raising even more awareness about concussions in youth football with a new study that pinpoints sources of the injury.
The study, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, followed 500 youth athletes, ages eight to 12, who played on tackle-football teams. They found that the student athletes were more likely to suffer from a concussion during an actual game rather than in practice. They also reported that older players were at a much higher risk of concussion than the youngsters.
Out of the 500 players, 20 of them suffered from concussions, with 18 of them being during game play and only two during practice time. Their results showed that players were 26 times more likely to get a concussion during game play than in practice.
The majority of the concussions encompassed helmet-to-helmet contact and 95 percent involved advanced positions on the field such as a running back or quarterback. The study also found that kids ages 11 and 12 were three times more likely to be sidelined from a concussion than players ages eight to ten.
Pop Warner, the largest youth football organization in the U.S., recently limited the amount of contact play during practice. This was due to the concerned responses about the high volume of concussions. But contrary to this new change in play, researchers believe that youth need more practice time to learn the basics of contact and proper tackling techniques.
“Limiting contact practice in youth football may not only have little effect on reducing concussions, but may instead actually increase the incidence of concussions in games via reduced time learning proper tackling in practice,” said researcher, Anthony Kontos, in a news release.
Kontos noted that parents, coaches, football personnel and players need to emphasize the importance of awareness and education about concussions and safe play.
Dr. Ketan Mody, sports medicine physician at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, Ill., says that concussions are a serious matter and could have long-term consequences.
“It is very important that we know how to diagnosis and treat concussions properly in order to keep our family members and community members safe,” Dr. Mody says.
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A strong and resilient nonprofit sector is essential to the work of the Altman Foundation and to our colleague funders, both private and public. We are only as good as our grantees. In this overarching program area, the Foundation provides support to achieve the results aligned with the objectives outlined below. Please note that the "Results Sought" reflect the specific outcomes of interest to us.
Objective 1
The Foundation provides support to achieve the following:
Results Sought:
Significantly enhance the ability of key umbrella organizations to help their member or constituent agencies address critical community issues in the Foundation's areas of interest
Measurably improve organizational effectiveness or program quality of community-based or other organizations working in the Foundation's areas of interest
Grants 2018
Advocates for Children of New York, Inc.
To provide direct assistance and training to low-income, vulnerable New York City families who are trying to obtain the support and services their children need to succeed in school
BoardAssist
$40,000 (over two years)
To help support board recruitment and consulting services for the New York nonprofit community
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New York
To support recruitment, coordination, and supervision of volunteer law-student advocates and enhance capacity to meet increased demand for legal services, guidance, and information among immigrant New Yorkers
To provide support for efforts to maintain, build, and enhance the capacity of existing programs and services, including emergency food sites, youth programs, and immigrant legal assistance
Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens
$150,000 (over fifteen months)
To develop and pilot a multi-service Immigrant Family Emergency Assistance Program aimed at strengthening immigrant family preparedness and support services
Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, Inc.
$100,000 (over two years)
To provide general operating support for CCC's work on behalf of New York City's children and youth
To develop a public awareness video series to engage New Yorkers in the Campaign for Children (C4C) priorities
To help support investigative reporting on the issues of New York City, especially those affecting marginalized communities
The East Harlem School at Exodus House
To help the East Harlem School continue to expand operations and strengthen programs
Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Inc. (dba FPWA)
To support the launch and continued development of a federal budget tracking tool, and a range of programs and services aimed at strengthening members agencies and other NYC nonprofits
The Foundation Center
For general operating support
Governance Matters, Inc.
To provide capacity building support as Governance Matters integrates charitySTRONG with GM's own online and personalized board recruitment and placement services, educational roundtables and events, and other organizational consulting services, and further strengthens and expands its stakeholder and funder base
Grand Street Settlement, Inc.
To conduct a needs assessment to inform the design of comprehensive, community-specific youth programs for the agency’s intergenerational space located in the new Essex Crossing Community Center
Grantmakers in Aging
$5,000 (over twenty-two months)
To help support the 2019 Annual Conference in New York City
Lawyers Alliance for New York
To provide business and transactional legal representation, education, and consulting services to NYC nonprofits
Make the Road New York
To support a mental/emotional health initiative aimed at building new skills, services, and resources to help address the needs of members experiencing high degrees of fear and stress, while providing support to staff
New York City Youth Funders
$5,000 (over two years)
To support the NYC Youth Funders network
The New York Community Trust
$200,000 (over two months)
To help support The Fund for New Citizens' efforts to build the effectiveness and capacity of New York City's immigrant-led and immigrant-serving nonprofits
The New York Immigration Coalition, Inc.
To help support a Rapid Response initiative focused on strengthening the capacity of member organizations to reach and educate their communities
New York Interschool Association, Inc.
To provide capacity building funds to support a part-time consultant to identify and mentor faculty of color and under-represented minorities and match these candidates with administrative and leadership positions in independent schools
Nonprofit New York, Inc. (FKA Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York, Inc.)
To strengthen, promote, and protect the New York City-area nonprofit sector
The Partnership for Inner-City Education
To help build the Partnership's Advancement Team to expand the donor base and increase the amount of funds raised
Philanthropy New York, Inc.
For general support
The Queens Borough Public Library
To help support an Out-of-School-Time Outcomes Analyst and the development of an outcomes-driven, evidence-based, measurement-focused framework for the Library’s out-of-school-time programs
Queens Community House, Inc.
$35,000 (over fifteen months)
To help implement the first phase of an agency-wide database system using a Salesforce platform
Support Center for Nonprofit Management, Inc.
To help provide capacity building services to New York City nonprofits in the areas of change consulting, professional development, and executive search and transition management
United Neighborhood Houses of New York, Inc.
To provide general support for policy analysis and advocacy; member education, peer learning, and services; and the incubation and facilitation of innovative programming
United Way of New York City
To build UWNYC's capacity to serve as a backbone organization empowering collective impact networks to increase educational outcomes, financial strength, and stability in low-income communities
Youth Development Institute
To support the Career Internship Network and to pilot an intervention to support using data for program enhancement
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A Vehicle Like No Other
“Wheelwork!”
The One in Control
The Chariot and You
Jehovah’s Celestial Chariot on the Move
Christendom’s Fiery Destruction from the Celestial Chariot
FOCUS: An overview of Ezekiel’s vision of the celestial chariot
1-3. (a) Describe what Ezekiel sees and hears. (See opening picture.) (b) What was the power behind Ezekiel’s experience, and how was he affected?
EZEKIEL stares into the distance, peering out across the broad, sandy plain. His eyes narrow, then open wide. He can scarcely believe what he is seeing. There, near the horizon, a tempest is brewing. But it is no ordinary storm. As a fierce wind from the north whips his hair and clothing about, he sees an immense, towering cloud. It is lit up from within by flashing fire, and its glow reminds him of molten precious metal.* As the cloud rushes toward Ezekiel, a sound grows louder and louder—a roaring like a great army on the move.—Ezek. 1:4, 24.
2 At about 30 years of age, this young man is having the first of a series of unforgettable experiences. He feels “the hand of Jehovah” upon him, the irresistible power of Jehovah’s holy spirit. What that spirit will cause him to see and hear will be spectacular, far more amazing than any special-effects movie created by today’s filmmakers. Ezekiel’s vision will leave him facedown on the ground, completely overwhelmed.—Ezek. 1:3, 28.
3 However, Jehovah has more in mind than simply filling this man with awe. Ezekiel’s first vision—like the rest of those recorded in that thrilling prophetic book—is rich with meaning, both for him and for faithful servants of Jehovah today. So let us take a closer look at what Ezekiel sees and hears.
4, 5. What was the setting of Ezekiel’s vision?
4 Read Ezekiel 1:1-3. Let us first recall the setting. The year was 613 B.C.E. As we learned in the preceding chapter, Ezekiel was in Babylon, living among his fellow exiles in a community by the river Chebar—evidently a navigable, man-made canal that branched off from the river Euphrates and later rejoined it.
Ezekiel lived among other exiles near the river Chebar (See paragraph 4)
TEACHING BOX 3A: The Long Trek to Babylonia
5 The exiles’ home, Jerusalem, was some 500 miles (800 km) away.* The temple, where Ezekiel’s father had served as a priest, had fallen into corruption and idolatry. The throne in Jerusalem, where David and Solomon had once reigned in glory, was now a source of shame. Faithless King Jehoiachin was here in Babylon with the exiles. His replacement on the throne, Zedekiah, was a mere puppet and a wicked man.—2 Ki. 24:8-12, 17, 19.
6, 7. Why might Ezekiel have felt that he lived in dark times?
6 For a man of faith like Ezekiel, these must have seemed the darkest of times. Some of his fellow exiles may have wondered: ‘Has Jehovah left us forever? Will this evil power Babylon with her countless false gods really banish the pure worship of Jehovah and eliminate his rulership from the earth?’
7 With that background in mind, why not begin your personal study of this subject by reading Ezekiel’s vivid description of his first vision? (Ezek. 1:4-28) As you do, try to imagine yourself in Ezekiel’s place, seeing what he saw and hearing what he heard.
Euphrates River in the region near Carchemish (See paragraphs 5-7)
8. What did Ezekiel see in vision, and what did it represent?
8 Taken as a whole, what did Ezekiel witness? It looked like an immense, awe-inspiring vehicle, which has been described as a chariot. It included four tremendous wheels accompanied by four unusual spirit creatures, later identified as cherubs. (Ezek. 10:1) Above them stretched a vast platform, or expanse, like ice, above which sat the glorious throne of God, occupied by Jehovah himself! What, though, was the meaning of that chariot? Ezekiel’s vision could fittingly represent only one thing: the heavenly part of Jehovah’s glorious universal organization. Why do we say that? Consider three factors that lead to such a conclusion.
9. How does Jehovah’s relationship with his heavenly creatures match the description of a vehicle?
9 Jehovah’s relationship with his heavenly creatures. Note that in this vision, Jehovah’s throne is situated above the cherubs. In other parts of God’s Word, Jehovah is similarly described or represented as sitting enthroned above or between his cherubs. (Read 2 Kings 19:15; Ex. 25:22; Ps. 80:1) Of course, he does not literally sit above his cherubs—as if he needs to be carried by those mighty spirit creatures—any more than he needs to ride on a literal chariot. But the cherubs support his sovereignty, and he can send them to any spot in the universe to carry out his sovereign will. They, like all of God’s holy angels, carry out Jehovah’s decisions as his ministers, or agents. (Ps. 104:4) In that sense, Jehovah “rides” upon them all, directing them with his sovereign rule, as if they comprise one huge, unified vehicle.
10. What suggests that more than four cherubs are involved with the heavenly chariot?
10 The vehicle represents more than the cherubs. The cherubs that Ezekiel saw numbered four. That number is often used in the Bible to suggest symmetry or completeness—an all-embracing universality. Fittingly, then, the presence of four cherubs suggests that all of Jehovah’s loyal spirit sons are represented. Note, too, that the wheels and even the cherubs themselves are full of eyes, suggesting the watchful alertness of many more than just the four spirit creatures shown. And Ezekiel’s description of the vehicle implies that it is immense, making even those impressive cherubs look small. (Ezek. 1:18, 22; 10:12) Likewise, the heavenly part of Jehovah’s organization is vast, encompassing far more than four cherubs.
Ezekiel was awestruck by the vision of Jehovah’s celestial chariot (See paragraphs 8-10)
11. What similar vision did Daniel have, and what are we led to conclude?
11 Daniel’s similar vision of heaven. The prophet Daniel lived out the long years of exile in the city of Babylon, and he too was given a vision of heaven. Interestingly, in that vision as well, Jehovah’s throne had wheels. Daniel’s vision focused on the immensity of Jehovah’s spirit family in heaven. Daniel saw “a thousand thousands . . . and ten thousand times ten thousand” of God’s spirit sons standing before Jehovah. They sat as a celestial Court, each individual evidently in his own assigned place. (Dan. 7:9, 10, 13-18) Does it not seem reasonable to conclude that Ezekiel’s vision represented this same glorious spirit assemblage?
12. Why is it a protection for us to study such passages as Ezekiel’s vision of the celestial chariot?
12 Jehovah knows that it is a protection for us humans to focus our minds on spiritual realities—“the things unseen,” as the apostle Paul called them. Why? Being flesh-and-blood creatures, we tend to dwell too much on “the things seen,” our physical concerns, which are only temporary. (Read 2 Corinthians 4:18.) Satan often plays on that tendency and pushes us toward becoming fleshly-minded people. To help us resist that pressure, Jehovah lovingly provides us with such passages as this one in Ezekiel’s prophecy, giving us thrilling reminders of the awesome majesty of Jehovah’s celestial family!
13, 14. (a) How did Ezekiel describe the wheels that he saw? (b) Why is it fitting that Jehovah’s chariot has wheels?
13 At first, Ezekiel focused his attention on the four cherubs, and in Chapter 4 of this publication, we will see what those creatures and their remarkable form teach us about Jehovah. However, Ezekiel saw the four wheels right alongside those cherubs, evidently at four points, forming a huge square. (Read Ezekiel 1:16-18.) They seemed to be composed of chrysolite, a precious stone that may be transparent or translucent and yellow or yellowish-green in color. This beautiful material glowed.
14 Ezekiel’s vision placed great emphasis on the chariot’s wheels. It is an unusual combination, is it not? A throne with wheels! We might tend to think of a throne as being fixed to one spot and naturally so, for earthly monarchs can extend their influence only so far. But Jehovah’s sovereignty is quite unlike any human rulership. As Ezekiel was about to learn, there are no limits to Jehovah’s sovereign power. (Neh. 9:6) In a very real sense, this Sovereign can exert his authority anywhere!
15. What did Ezekiel notice regarding the composition and size of the wheels?
15 Ezekiel was awestruck by the size of the wheels. He wrote: “Their rims were so high that they inspired awe.” We may imagine Ezekiel tilting his head back to gaze at the colossal, glowing rims stretching up toward the sky. And he added this intriguing detail: “The rims of all four [wheels] were full of eyes all around.” Perhaps most fascinating of all, though, was the unusual structure of the wheels. He explained: “Their appearance and structure looked as though a wheel were within a wheel.” What did that mean?
16, 17. (a) In what sense did the chariot have wheels within wheels? (b) What do the wheels reveal about the maneuverability of Jehovah’s vehicle?
16 Evidently, each wheel that Ezekiel saw was, in effect, two wheels combined, with one wheel set at right angles to the other and sharing the same vertical axis. That would explain why these wheels performed as Ezekiel described: “When they moved, they could go in any of the four directions without turning as they went.” What do these wheels suggest about the heavenly vehicle Ezekiel saw?
17 Wheels of such tremendous height would cover a lot of ground with even a single revolution. In fact, the vision suggests that the vehicle moved with the speed of lightning! (Ezek. 1:14) Furthermore, the unusual four-way wheels suggest a kind of maneuverability that human engineers can only dream of. This vehicle can shift directions without slowing down or even turning! But it does not make such moves blindly. The eyes covering the rims vividly convey the idea that this vehicle is completely aware of everything around it, in every direction.
The wheels were of awesome size and moved at tremendous speed (See paragraph 17)
18. What do we learn from the awesome size of the wheels and the abundance of eyes?
18 What, then, was Jehovah teaching Ezekiel—and all faithful people—about the heavenly part of His organization? Consider what we have seen so far. It is glorious and awe-inspiring, as suggested by the glowing material of the wheels and their size. It is aware of everything, as suggested by the abundance of eyes on the wheels. Jehovah’s own eyes see all things. (Prov. 15:3; Jer. 23:24) Furthermore, he has many millions of angelic servants whom he may send to any part of the universe, and these can observe matters keenly and report back to their Sovereign.—Read Hebrews 1:13, 14.
The design of the wheels indicated perfect maneuverability (See paragraphs 17, 19)
19. What does the speed and maneuverability of Jehovah’s chariot teach us about Jehovah and the heavenly part of his organization?
19 Further, we see that the chariot is supremely fast and maneuverable. Just think of the contrast between the heavenly part of Jehovah’s organization and human governments, institutions, and organizations! Those tend to blunder along blindly, failing to adapt to changing circumstances until they plunge into catastrophe or become outdated. But Jehovah’s chariot perfectly reflects the reasonable, adaptable God who is in control of it. As his very name suggests, he can become anything that is needed in order to accomplish his purpose. (Ex. 3:13, 14) For example, he can swiftly become a mighty Warrior who fights for his people, but he can instantly shift to being the merciful Forgiver of sins who nurtures and restores even the most brokenhearted of repentant sinners.—Ps. 30:5; Isa. 66:13.
20. Why should we be in awe of Jehovah’s chariot?
20 Ezekiel’s vision, at this point, may move us to ask ourselves, ‘Am I really in awe of Jehovah’s chariot?’ We need to remember that the chariot represents a reality that exists right now. Never should we imagine that Jehovah, his Son, and all the angels might be blind to some problem that discourages us. Nor should we worry that our God will be late in responding to our needs or that his organization will fail to adapt to some new challenge arising in the volatile world around us. We do well to remember that Jehovah’s organization is active, ever on the move. In fact, Ezekiel heard a heavenly voice crying out: “Wheelwork!”—evidently a command for the wheels to set themselves in motion. (Ezek. 10:13) Is it not awesome to contemplate the way Jehovah moves his organization? Our greatest awe, though, we reserve for Jehovah himself.
21, 22. How might we explain what holds the chariot’s parts in place?
21 Ezekiel’s attention was drawn from those wheels upward, where he saw “the likeness of an expanse that sparkled like awesome ice.” (Ezek. 1:22) Far above the heads of the cherubs, the expanse stretched out, glistening in translucent glory. At this point, though, the mechanically inclined reader might be full of questions about the vehicle. For example, some might wonder: ‘What holds that platform up above the wheels? And how can the wheels function without axles to join them together?’ Keep in mind that this vehicle is not bound by physical laws, for it is symbolic, a depiction of a reality in the spirit realm. Note, too, these key words: “The spirit operating on the living creatures was also in the wheels.” (Ezek. 1:20, 21) What spirit was operative on those cherubs and on the wheels?
22 Without question, it was Jehovah’s holy spirit, the most powerful force in the universe. That active force holds this vehicle together, empowers it, and governs its perfectly synchronized movements. With that in mind, let us follow Ezekiel’s gaze as it turns to the One in control of the chariot.
Ezekiel had to find words for sights that were almost beyond description
23. What type of expressions does Ezekiel use to try to describe Jehovah, and why?
23 Read Ezekiel 1:26-28. Throughout his description of this vision, Ezekiel often uses such expressions as “appearance,” “appeared to be,” “resembled,” and “something like.” But in these verses, that tendency intensifies. He seems to be trying to find words for sights that were almost beyond description. He saw “what looked like a sapphire stone, and it resembled a throne.” Can you imagine a throne carved from one huge, deep-blue sapphire? And there, seated on it, was a Personage. His “appearance resembled that of a human.”
24, 25. (a) Of what does the rainbow surrounding Jehovah’s throne remind us? (b) How have such visions sometimes affected men of faith?
24 The majestic figure was discernible only in a general way, for Jehovah radiated flames of glory from the waist down and from the waist up. We may well imagine the prophet’s needing to squint and to shade his eyes as he gazed at the glorious form. Finally, Ezekiel noted this crowning touch to the vision: “There was a brilliance all around him like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day.” Have you ever felt your spirits lift when you caught sight of a rainbow? What a vivid reminder of the glory of our Creator! That colorful, serene arch in the sky may also remind us of Jehovah’s covenant of peace after the Deluge. (Gen. 9:11-16) Powerful though he is, the Almighty is a God of peace. (Heb. 13:20) Peace reigns in his heart and spreads to all those who worship him faithfully.
The glorious rainbow surrounding Jehovah’s throne reminds us that we serve the God of peace (See paragraph 24)
25 What was the effect of seeing a depiction of the glory of Jehovah God? Ezekiel recorded what happened: “When I saw it, I fell facedown.” Overcome with awe and godly fear, Ezekiel dropped to the ground. Other prophets had similar reactions on receiving visions from Jehovah; the experience must be deeply humbling, even overwhelming. (Isa. 6:1-5; Dan. 10:8, 9; Rev. 1:12-17) In time, though, such men were greatly strengthened by what Jehovah revealed to them. Ezekiel surely was. How, then, should we be affected when reading Scriptural accounts such as these?
26. How must Ezekiel’s vision have strengthened him?
26 If Ezekiel was troubled by any doubts or misgivings about the situation of God’s people there in Babylon, that vision must have strengthened him. Clearly, it did not matter whether God’s faithful people were in Jerusalem or in Babylon or anywhere else. They would never be outside the reach of Jehovah’s magnificent chariot! What satanic power could ever stand up against the God who is in control of such a glorious celestial organization? (Read Psalm 118:6.) Ezekiel saw, too, that the heavenly vehicle was not far removed from mankind. Why, its wheels touched the very earth! (Ezek. 1:19) So Jehovah was keenly interested in his faithful people there in exile. They would always be within the reach of their Father’s loving care!
27. What meaning does Ezekiel’s vision have for us today?
27 Does Ezekiel’s vision have meaning for us today? Without question! Remember, Satan is mounting ever greater attacks on the pure worship of Jehovah. He would love to convince us that we are alone, isolated, beyond the reach of our heavenly Father and his organization. Never give such lies a foothold in your mind or heart! (Ps. 139:7-12) Like Ezekiel, we have every reason to be filled with awe. We may not fall facedown as he did. However, should we not marvel and feel awestruck by the power, the speed, the maneuverability, the adaptability, and the sheer glory of the heavenly part of Jehovah’s universal organization?
28, 29. What shows that Jehovah’s chariot has been on the move during the past century?
28 Remember, too, that Jehovah’s organization has an earthly component. Granted, the earthly part is composed of imperfect humans. But think of what Jehovah has accomplished here on earth! All over the world, Jehovah has moved mere humans to do what they could never have done on their own. (John 14:12) Just leafing through the pages of the book God’s Kingdom Rules! may remind us of the amazing scope of the preaching work over the course of the past century. We may also call to mind the strides that Jehovah’s organization has made in educating true Christians, in securing legal victories, and even in using the latest technology to carry out God’s will!
29 When we consider all that has been done regarding the restoration of pure worship during the last days of this corrupt system of things, it becomes ever clearer that Jehovah’s chariot has been on the move. What an awesome privilege we have to be associated with this organization and to serve such a Sovereign!—Ps. 84:10.
The earthly part of Jehovah’s organization is ever on the move (See paragraphs 28, 29)
30. What will we consider in the next chapter?
30 Ezekiel’s vision has more to teach us, though. In the following chapter, we will take a closer look at those four remarkable “living creatures,” or cherubs. What can they teach us about our glorious Sovereign, Jehovah God?
Ezekiel specified electrum, an alloy of silver and gold.
This was the direct distance, but the route the exiles had likely taken was nearly twice that distance.
What does the chariot that Ezekiel saw represent, and how do we know that?
What can we learn from the chariot’s wheels and the way the vehicle moved?
How was Ezekiel affected by his vision, and how does meditating on it affect you?
How can we show that we are awed by the privilege of serving Jehovah along with his organization today?
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Prison Quotes
I know not whether laws be right, or
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
I never told a victim story about my
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
Anacharsis
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Dorothee DeLuzy
Everyone is a prisoner of his own
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Governments have tried to stop crime
Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Eldridge Cleaver
Show me the prison, Show me the jail,
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
Experts and the educated elite have
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
Walter E. Williams
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
We who live in prison, and in whose
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
I don't like being famous - it is like a
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
Jessica Mitford
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
I was put into jail as I was going to
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
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Pandora to fix its consumer rights practices
The ACCC has accepted a court-enforceable undertaking from jewellery business Pandora to review its consumer rights policies and staff training after Pandora acknowledged it is likely to have contravened the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) by making misleading representations to consumers about their consumer guarantee rights.
The ACCC received complaints that Pandora staff told customers seeking redress for faulty products that it did not provide refunds and that Pandora’s warranty policy overrode the consumer guarantees protections under the ACL.
Following an investigation, the ACCC identified that Pandora’s website contained confusing or inaccurate information on consumer guarantee rights under the ACL. It also noted that information on Pandora’s website about its product warranty failed to include mandatory text that states that consumers are entitled to a replacement or repair, and in some cases a refund, if their goods are faulty.
“Pandora has acknowledged that it may have misled customers about their consumer guarantee rights to refunds when there was a major fault with their product. They also have admitted that by doing so they likely breached the Australian Consumer Law,” ACCC Commissioner Sarah Court said.
“Consumer rights to a repair, replacement or refund cannot be excluded, restricted or modified by a business’ warranty policy.”
“If consumers have purchased a product that has a major fault, they can request a full refund from their place of purchase,” Ms Court said.
Pandora has undertaken to arrange for an external review of its policies and procedures relating to exchanges, repairs and refunds, to ensure customer claims for refunds and other remedies are dealt with appropriately and in accordance with the ACL.
Pandora will also conduct a review of its ACL compliance program and improve its staff training and complaints handling systems.
Pandora’s undertaking can be found here.
In Australia, Pandora is made up of a network of 143 outlets, most of which are franchisees.
More information on a consumer’s right to a repair, replacement or a refund can be found on the ACCC’s website: Repair, replace, refund.
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Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman set to appear in court to face college admissions charges
Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are among 15 people expected to appear Wednesday in federal court in Boston as part of the college admissions sc...
Posted: Apr 3, 2019 6:09 AM
Posted By: CNN
Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are among 15 people expected to appear Wednesday in federal court in Boston as part of the college admissions scam.
The defendants are each charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud in a scheme that prosecutors have called "Operation Varsity Blues." Authorities say the parents paid a college prep business to cheat on standardized tests and/or bribe college coaches to help get their children into competitive universities.
Several brands have distanced themselves from "Full House" actress Loughlin and her daughter, 19-year-old social media influencer Olivia Jade Giannulli, since the charges were announced.
Loughlin's husband, the fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, is also expected to appear in court Wednesday. Huffman's husband, the actor William H. Macy, is not charged in the case.
CNN has reached out to representatives for Huffman, Loughlin and Giannulli but has not heard back.
Of the 50 people charged in the case, four have pleaded guilty or plan to plead guilty, according to prosecutors.
Rick Singer, the mastermind of the scheme; Rudy Meredith, the Yale University women's soccer coach who accepted a bribe to help a student get admitted; and Mark Riddell, who cheated for the students on the SATs and ACTs, are all cooperating witnesses for the prosecution. They have agreed to plead guilty and testify for the prosecution in exchange for lesser sentences.
John Vandemoer, Stanford University's former sailing head coach, has also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit racketeering.
Stanford, the University of Southern California, Georgetown University and other schools implicated in the scheme have said they are reviewing the admissions of students accused of participating. Last week, Yale rescinded the admission of one student whose family had allegedly paid $1.2 million to gain entry under false pretenses.
What the complaint says
Loughlin and Huffman are the best-known figures in the scandal, and the accusations against them explain how the admissions scam allegedly worked.
Huffman is accused of paying $15,000 to a fake charity associated with Singer to facilitate cheating for her daughter on the SATs, the complaint says. She discussed the scheme in a recorded phone call with Singer, the complaint says.
Separately, Loughlin and Giannulli allegedly agreed to pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team, easing their acceptance to the school.
The daughters were recruited as coxswains even though they did not row competitively or otherwise participate in crew, the complaint says. The parents even sent Singer photos of each of their daughters on an ergometer, the rowing machine, the complaint states.
"I wanted to thank you again for your great work with (our older daughter), she is very excited and both Lori and I are very appreciative of your efforts and end result!" Giannulli allegedly wrote in an email to Singer included in the complaint.
Additional arrests are expected as the investigation continues, a law enforcement official familiar with the probe told CNN last week.
Investigators are expecting to charge more than five others within four to six weeks, according to the official, who cautioned the investigation is ongoing and this is subject to change.
Correction: The number of people scheduled to appear Wednesday in federal court in the college admissions scam is 15, not 11 as reported earlier
Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin among dozens charged in alleged college cheating scam
Actress Felicity Huffman pleads guilty in college admissions scandal
Lori Loughlin pleads not guilty in her first response to the college admissions scam
Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli agree to plead guilty in college admissions scam
Lori Loughlin begins two-month prison sentence in college admissions scandal
Actress Felicity Huffman is expected to plead guilty today in college admission scandal
Felicity Huffman released from prison after serving 11 days for college admissions scam
Lori Loughlin's husband Mossimo Giannulli reports to prison for five-month sentence for college admissions scandal
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CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY MAINTENANCE BLITZ FOR SIX LOCAL SCHOOLS
MORE than $180,000 will be spent on school maintenance projects across the Northern Tablelands over the Christmas holidays, local State MP Adam Marshall announced today.
Welcoming the investment, Mr Marshall said six local schools would see improvements over the holiday period – Warialda High, Uralla Central, Moree Secondary College (Carol Avenue Campus) and North Star, Moree and Drummond Memorial Public Schools – including painting of the exterior and interior of buildings, new flooring and roofing.
“This is a terrific Christmas present for our schools and follows significant investment in improving educational facilities right across our region again this year,” he said.
“Not only will needs-based funding from the State Government for our region’s schools increase by another $3 million next year, under the original Gonski reforms, but many school students and teachers will see upgrades to their schools when they return.”
Earlier this year Mr Marshall opened the $16 million rebuild of Moree East Public School and a $1.2 million upgrade of Glen Innes High School, currently underway, will be completed over these holidays.
In June this year, as part of the 2017-18 NSW Budget, Mr Marshall announced that a new high school would be constructed in Armidale, at a cost of more than $65 million.
Mr Marshall said that during the last school holidays almost $250,000 was invested by the government in improvement projects at five local schools and he was delighted another six would get some attention this time round.
“Every child deserves to have access to great facilities, wonderful teachers and get an excellent education and that is exactly what is being delivered for students here in the Northern Tablelands,” Mr Marshall said.
“We are making good use of the summer break to carry out important projects while students are off enjoying their holidays.”
The summer holiday blitz is part of the NSW Government’s record $747 million school maintenance investment over the next four years announced in the 2017-18 Budget, allowing each and every school across the State to have their maintenance project lists slashed by December next year.
Details of the works occurring over the school holidays across the region are:
• Warialda High School painting $12,974
• Uralla Central School painting $45,089
• North Star Public School painting, flooring & roofing $37,081
• Moree Secondary College flooring & painting $21,200
• Moree Public School painting $48,146
• Drummond Memorial PS painting & flooring $15,677
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AMC Talk
Peter Gould Talks Season 2; Bryan Cranston Discusses Possible Cameo
Posted by AMC Editors | November 26, 2015
This week, Peter Gould talks Season 2 with RadioTimes.com, while Bryan Cranston discusses a possible cameo with the Toronto Sun. Plus, a movie that Bob Odenkirk co-wrote and stars in has been picked up by Netflix. Read on for more:
• Peter Gould teases Season 2 to RadioTimes.com, saying, "All I can say is that what we try to do – and very successfully, I think – is to make [the connection to Breaking Bad] organic. There’s absolutely some things we’ll see and I think it's probably fair to say that there’s more of that in season two than there was in season one."
• Bryan Cranston talks to the Toronto Sun about possibly reprising his role as Walt in Better Call Saul, saying, "Make it legitimate, make it an understandable brush that these two characters would have at that time. And then I’m there."
• Netflix has bought the rights to Girlfriend's Day, a movie co-written by and starring Bob Odenkirk, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
• TVWise reports that Season 2 will premiere in the U.K. on Netflix on Feb. 16, less than 24 hours after the U.S. broadcast on AMC.
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Inside Episode 711: Mad Men: Time & Life
Matt Weiner breaks down the momentous unrest of the Sterling Cooper & Partners move to McCann.
Fashion and Style: Episode 711: Mad Men: Time & Life
Costume Designer Janie Bryant and others discuss the meticulous style and fashion of Episode 711.
Talked About Scene: Episode 711: Mad Men: Time & Life
Don and Roger drink and reminisce over a decade of friendship.
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Don’t miss new episodes, Saturdays 9/8c on AMC.
A Discovery of Witches Season 2 Trailer
They escaped through time, but their presence in the past could destroy the future — and each other. A Discovery of Witches returns January 9 on AMC+.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond: The Opening Minutes of Season 1, Episode 10
Watch the opening minutes of the next episode of The Walking Dead: World Beyond.
(SPOILERS) The Walking Dead: World Beyond Talked About Scene: Season 1, Episode 10
The journey finally reaches an end.
(SPOILERS) The Walking Dead: World Beyond Talked About Scene: Season 1, Episode 9
Hope makes a momentous decision without consulting her sister.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond Sneak Peek: Season 1, Episode 10
Elton finally finds what he's looking for.
First Look at Daryl, Maggie, Carol and More in The Walking Dead's Extended 10th Season
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How to Watch A Discovery of Witches Season 2
Best Christmas Ever: Willy Wonka, Elf, & Christmas Vacation Super Activity Pages
Best Christmas Ever: Travel Vicariously Through These Holiday Classics
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The Walking Dead Universe 2020 Holiday Gift Guide
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Based in Witney, Oxfordshire UK
The 'Antics' Charity Supporting children 18 years and under who are affected
by cancer
Antics, a skewbald (brown and white) stallion would not have been here today had it not been for Sandy and Ian Vandenberghe who saved his mother ‘Antigony’ from certain death.
As Antics came into the world as a ‘gift’ (and he’s very handsome!) Sandy felt that he would have a superb role in life by helping raise money for children.
Antics stands at Stud and all his stud fees go to the charity. We also hold other fundraising events and welcome any fundraisers you can do for us.
‘Antics’ is a charity based in Witney, Oxon that was set up in August 2003 and became registered with the Charities Commission in February 2004 (Charity Number: 1102359). The charity has the specific aim to raise money for children aged 18 years and under, affected by cancer. This can be a child who is in active treatment for cancer; or who has a sibling or parent in active treatment for cancer; or who has suffered bereavement of a parent or sibling through cancer.
With the money raised through the charity, we provide funds locally and nationally by way of grant aid or through the purchase of goods or for social needs such as a relief break for the child.
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Blog > News > AppDynamics Winter ’16 Release teased at AppSphere with new features
AppDynamics Winter ’16 Release teased at AppSphere with new features
By Anand Akela | Dec 01,2015 | 7 min read
Tag appsphere, appsphere 15, winter release 16
AppDynamics new features shown off at AppSphere including new EUM, analytics, and unified monitoring features. Read More
Earlier today at AppDynamics AppSphere™ 2015, we announced the AppDynamics Winter ’16 Release (4.2) that brings significant enhancements to our Application Intelligence Platform to provide essential support for businesses’ digital transformation initiatives.
The new release extends the capabilities of AppDynamics’ industry-first, application-centric Unified Monitoring solution, providing greater visibility into the user journey with detailed user sessions support, and expanded monitoring with Server and Browser Synthetic Monitoring and support for C/C++ applications. It also brings major upgrades to AppDynamics Application Analytics solution to provide richer, deeper insights into users, applications, and the correlations between application performance and business metrics.
Enhanced Unified Monitoring
AppDynamics Unified Monitoring provides industry-leading, end-to-end visibility from the end-user through all the application layers and their supporting infrastructure, enabling comprehensive management of end-user experience and application health.
In addition to general availability for Server Monitoring and C/C++ language support, the new release also introduces more than two dozen new extensions to expand AppDynamics’ monitoring capabilities to more application and infrastructure components, including many for Amazon Web Services. In addition, the new release brings numerous functional and usability enhancements for Java, .Net, Python, PHP, Node.js and Web Server monitoring solutions.
General availability of application-centric server monitoring
AppDynamics Server Monitoring is an application-centric server monitoring platform that proactively detects and helps quickly resolve server performance issues in context of business transactions. As a key component of the AppDynamics Unified Monitoring solution, server monitoring complements application and database monitoring to provide the end-to-end visibility needed to improve end-user experience and reduce monitoring complexity.
Server Monitoring provides comprehensive CPU, memory, disk, networking, and running processes metrics for Linux and Windows servers. With the new solution, customers can drill down (see figure 1) to detailed server metrics directly from the end-to-end application flow map when troubleshooting application performance issues.
Fig 1 : Drill down directly from the application flow map to view server details.
We are also announcing the Service Availability Monitoring (SAM) pack, which will be available as an add-on to Server Monitoring to help customers track the availability and basic performance metrics for HTTP services (figure 2) running on servers not natively monitored via an AppDynamics agent.
Fig 2: Service Availability Monitoring
General availability of C/C++ monitoring SDK
With the new release, AppDynamics now also supports monitoring of C/C++ applications via a monitoring SDK that enables the same real-time, end-to-end, user-to-database performance visibility as other supported languages, for rapid root-cause analysis and issue resolution.
Fig 3: C/C++ Application Performance Monitoring
These powerful capabilities are now available for C/C++ applications: automatic discovery and mapping of all tiers that service and interact with the C/C++ applications, automatic dynamic baselining, data collectors, and health rules, as well as managing key metrics including application load and response times, and key system resources including CPU, memory, and disk I/O.
Expanded Amazon Web Services monitoring with new extensions
Concurrent with the Winter ’16 Release, AppDynamics announced the availability of two dozen new extensions, including 19 for monitoring Amazon Web Services (AWS) components. These extensions are now available at the AppDynamics Exchange, joining more than one hundred extensions to enable monitoring application and infrastructure components not natively monitored by AppDynamics.
Fig 4: Extended coverage of AWS with new extensions
Powerful End-User Experience Monitoring
The Winter ’16 Release adds support for real-user sessions, providing a rich and detailed view into the user journey — what actions users take on a browser or a mobile device, step-by-step, as they move through the funnel, and how application performance impacts their journey. In addition, Browser Synthetic Monitoring becomes generally available. Together, Browser Synthetic Monitoring, and Browser and Mobile Real-User Monitoring with user sessions support, provide the industry’s most comprehensive view of performance from the end-user perspective in a single intuitive dashboard.
Sessions monitoring as part of Browser/Mobile Real-User Monitoring
With the Winter ’16 Release, AppDynamics Browser and Mobile Real-User Monitoring now tracks and captures a user’s entire journey on a website or mobile app from the start until a configurable period of inactivity, or start-to-finish of a transaction sequence. Sessions can be viewed for individual users or a class of users. Sessions data is invaluable for understanding funnel dynamics, tracking conversion and bounce rates, and seeing where in the sequence users had issues or disengaged. Performance issues and health violations and their causes are captured throughout a session, and the correlation with business impact can be captured, especially in conjunction with AppDynamics Application Analytics.
Fig 5: Detailed user sessions tracking as part of Browser and Mobile Real-User Monitoring
General Availability of Browser Synthetic Monitoring
Browser Synthetic Monitoring enables enterprises to ensure availability and performance of their websites even in the absence of real user load. Incorporating the highly regarded, open-source WebPageTest technology, Browser Synthetic Monitoring eliminates the variability inherent in real-user monitoring, and provides accurate measurements for baselining performance, competitive benchmarking, and management of third-party content performance. In addition to reporting on availability, Browser Synthetic Monitoring can be scripted to measure a sequence of transactions simulating an actual user’s workflow, including entering forms data, log-in credentials, and actions to test and ensure application logic.
Fig 6: Browser Synthetic Monitoring of US presidential candidates
Because it is a cloud-based solution, enterprises can scale their synthetic monitoring up or down as needed, schedule measurement jobs flexibly anytime 24/7, and choose which of more than two dozen points of presence around the globe they want to measure, and with which browsers. Measurements can also be set up to automatically re-test immediately on error, failure, or timeout to reduce or eliminate false positives for more intelligent alerting. There’s no need to wait for the next available testing window, by which time conditions may have changed. Browser Synthetic data can be viewed side-by-side with Browser and Mobile Real-User data in a single dashboard; Browser Synthetic Monitoring snapshots are also correlated with AppDynamics’ server-side APM for end-to-end traceability of issues.
Enhanced Application Analytics
AppDynamics Application Analytics is a rich, highly extensible, real-time analytics solution that gives IT and business teams deep insights into customer behaviors, and illuminates the correlations between application performance and business metrics. The updated Application Analytics provides support for more data sets, including all of AppDynamics APM data, log data, and APIs for importing/exporting external data sets; a custom SQL-based query language that enables unified search and log correlation with business transactions; a number of user interface enhancements and new out-of-the-box data widgets; and role-based access control.
These improvements allow enterprise users to immediately access rich customer profiles and behavioral data, and to quickly and conveniently perform customized queries to get the insights they need to more effectively engage their customers and make decisions that optimize business outcomes.
Advanced Query Language – AppDynamics Query Language (ADQL)
Application Analytics makes data accessible via the SQL-like, dynamic AppDynamics Query Language (ADQL), which enables advanced, fast, and nested data searches across multiple datasets, and supports rapid ad hoc analyses in real time.
Fig 7: AppDynamics Query Language, ADQL
Event Correlation between transactions and logs
Business, marketing and performance data is typically siloed and in many different formats. Application Analytics auto-correlates business transactions data from APM and log data from machine agent to provide unprecedented end-to-end analytics into the digital user journey, and the corresponding impact on business metrics.
Fig 8: Log records during last 15 minutes
Fig 9: Correlation with Log and business transaction
Out-of-the-box visualization
This release introduces many new out-of-the-box visualization widgets to create interactive custom dashboards to provide actionable data. New out-of-the-box widgets include funnel widget to track drop off; user conversion widget; and widgets to do ad hoc analysis (multiple X and Y). Analytics widgets can be saved to custom dashboards, and reports can be scheduled for users and senior management.
Fig 10: Out-of-the box analytics visualization widgets
In addition, role-based access control is added to AppDynamics Application Analytics, enhancing security for sensitive business and customer data, while at the same time simplifying access for users within the context of their permissions. It now enforces strict access control to analytics data by job function and supports flexible data access control by data type. It also unifies multiple logins thereby improving user experience and adoption inside organization.
Fig 11: Role based access control
An enhanced platform that is an essential pillar of digital transformation
As the world becomes increasingly defined by software, enterprises of every description are pursuing digital transformation to satisfy user expectations for always-on, always effective engagement, and to realize the competitive efficiencies and advantages of digital delivery. The AppDynamics Application Intelligence Platform, with the far-reaching enhancements of the Winter ’16 Release, is designed to provide the next-generation application support needed to help enterprises achieve the user experience and operational success that is at the heart of effective digital transformation.
Anand Akela
Anand Akela is Director of Product Marketing for Application Performance Management (APM) at AppDynamics. Prior to his current role, Anand was head of product marketing of APM at CA Technologies. Earlier he worked at Oracle and HP in various product marketing, product management, and engineering roles in the systems management, servers, data center energy efficiency, and enterprise software areas. Anand has more than 20 years of experience in product marketing, product management, strategic planning and software development. Anand received his MBA from The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Pune University in India. You can follow Anand on twitter at https://twitter.com/aakela
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BFF HOLDS BOOK SIGNING EVENT WITH BEST SELLING AUTHOR CAROLYN BROWN
This Saturday as part of their BFF A.M. Author Series: Bentonville Film Fest A.M. Author Series and Downtown Bentonville Inc are excited to announce a book signing event with New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Carolyn Brown. Spotlighting issues and stories that are important to women, while using elements of romance in her Women's Fiction, Western Romance Series and Single Titles, Brown has been praised by both critics and fans worldwide.
Brown started her writing career in her early 60's and will be publishing her 100th novel in early 2020. She has sold over 4 million copies of her works, including The Ladies Room, the Happy, Texas Series, The Magnolia Inn and many more! Brown is a #1 Amazon and Washington Post Author, Wall Street Journal and Publisher's Weekly Bestselling Author and her recent release The Perfect Dress is flying off book shelves!
"We are thrilled to have Carolyn Brown at BFF this year! It will be a wonderful experience, not only for the festival attendees, but Downtown Bentonville Inc wanted to give our community, and Carolyn's fans, the chance to meet her too." said Wendy Guerrero, President of Programming.
The book signing will take place on Saturday, May 11th, at the Farmers' Market in Downtown Bentonville from 10:00am-12:00pm. Brown will be giving away copies of her Happy, Texas Novels (Toughest Cowboy in Texas, Long, Tall Cowboy Christmas and Luckiest Cowboy of All) and recent releases from her Longhorn Canyon Series while supplies last. Fans are also welcome to bring their own copies for Brown to autograph.
Guerrero believes that connecting filmmakers to successful authors like Brown is a unique part of BFF. Part of the synergy between filmmakers and writers has come to fruition as Kickstart Entertainment’s Jason Netter, who produces the festival and also opened local Farm Studios in March 2019, has optioned the Happy, Texas Series by Brown to be shot in Arkansas.
"Carolyn's prolific body of work and her thriving fan base, naturally lend her stories to becoming successful adaptations for film or series. You never know? If the right filmmakers establish a connection with her, or any of our writers in the BFF A.M. Author Series, what future collaborations will come from it. All the Carolyn Brown fans around the world would love that!"
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Cyber Attack: Ransomware Infection Strikes Worldwide
The ransomware has been identifed as WannaCry - here shown in a safe environment on a security researcher's computer (WEBROOT)
Massive cyber attacks swept across the globe on Friday, which has been identified as ransomware campaign infecting a huge number of organisations around the world.
Computers in thousands of locations have apparently been locked by a program that demands $300 (£230) in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin wallets seemingly associated with the ransomware were reported to have started filling up with cash.
There have been reports of infections in more than 70 countries, including the UK, US, China, Russia, Spain, Italy and Taiwan.
Many security researchers are linking the incidents together.
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) was also hit by a ransomware outbreak on the same day and screenshots of the WannaCry program were shared by NHS staff.
One cyber-security researcher tweeted that he had detected many thousands of cases of the ransomware – known as WannaCry and variants of that name – around the world.
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“This is huge,” said Jakub Kroustek at Avast.
Another, at cyber-security firm Kaspersky, said that the ransomware had been spotted cropping up in 74 countries and that the number was still growing.
There were a number of reports that Russia had seen more infections than any other single country.
Russia’s interior ministry said it had “localised the virus” following an “attack on personal computers using Windows operating system”. It had reportedly earlier denied having been affected.
Several experts monitoring the situation have linked the infections to vulnerabilities released by a group known as The Shadow Brokers, which recently claimed to have dumped hacking tools stolen from the US National Security Agency (NSA).
A patch for the vulnerability was released by Microsoft in March, but many systems may not have had the update installed.
Microsoft said on Friday its engineers had added detection and protection against WannaCrypt. The company was providing assistance to customers, it added.
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Some security researchers have pointed out that the infections seem to be deployed via a worm – a program that spreads by itself between computers.
Another firm that confirmed it had been caught out was delivery company FedEx, though it did not clarify in which territories it had been hit.
“Like many other companies, FedEx is experiencing interference with some of our Windows-based systems caused by malware,” it said in a statement.
“We are implementing remediation steps as quickly as possible.”
Portugal Telecom also confirmed it was struck: “But none of our services were affected,” a spokeswoman told Reuters.
And a spokesman for Megafon, the second largest mobile phone network in Russia confirmed some of its computers had been infected also.
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“This is a major cyber attack, impacting organisations across Europe at a scale I’ve never seen before,” said security architect Kevin Beaumont.
According to security firm Check Point, the version of the ransomware that appeared today is a new variant.
“Even so, it’s spreading fast,” said Aatish Pattni, head of threat prevention for northern Europe.
Unlike many other malicious programs, this one has the ability to move around a network by itself. Most others rely on humans to spread by tricking them into clicking on an attachment harbouring the attack code.
By contrast, once WannaCry is inside an organisation it will hunt down vulnerable machines and infect them too. This perhaps explains why its impact is so public – because large numbers of machines at each victim organisation are being compromised.
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Best Business Ideas 2016
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16 Awesome Business Ideas To Make You Rich Right Now
Elysha Krupp
This article was originally published by AskMen UK — so don't mind the references to things like "pounds," "chaps" and "packets of crisps," whatever those are.
Have you been dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur but aren't quite sure which of your (many) great ideas to commit to? With more people looking to start a business than ever before – the number of under-35s starting businesses in the UK has risen by more than 70 percent since 2006 – you can't start flogging fake plastic Dracula teeth and expect to become a millionaire overnight.
We looked at Startups.co.uk's annual study to determine the top 16 business opportunities which are expected to take off over the coming year. Read on to find out where the biggest opportunities lie...
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First up is focusing a business around the resurgence of gin. No longer pigeon-holed as ‘Mother’s Ruin’, gin is now the drink of choice for many millennials (18-34 year olds are currently the most likely age group to drink it), with sales predicted to reach £1.3bn by 2020.
So if you know your spirits, a pop-up or permanent trendy gin bar offers a good opportunity for 2016. You could also create your own gin brand – offer a unique flavour, launch gin-related cocktails classes or tap into the growing demand for subscription services with an online gin club.
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While the thought of fermented or ‘live’ food may not stun your salivary glands into action, Sauerkraut, kefir and kombucha will all be big news this year. Popular with celebrities like Madonna, fermented foods, after much popularity on the sidelines, are now going mainstream.
Easy enough to create, try making your very own fermented food or drink. Bio-tiful Dairy founder Natasha Bowes, who Startup interviewed for the study, suggests selecting a specific health benefit: “You would need to consider whether to solely focus on the prime benefits related to gut health and the immune system, to go down the currently popular ‘high in protein’ route, or to promote that fact that it is naturally low on lactose.”
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Britain’s pottery capital Stoke-on-Trent has had a major refit and the BBC2’s The Great Pottery Throw Down, has got the nation gripped by a taste for chinaware not seen since the 1970s. Whether it’s making and selling your own creations from a small studio in your garage (ceramics were a top home trend on Etsy last year) or running pottery classes from a café-with-a-twist, opportunities abound for creative types happy to get their hands dirty. Finally, artists can make a living. Maybe.
Become An Instapreneur
As every millennial will know, brands are on the lookout for up and coming digital influencers to partner with. And the good news is – anyone can do it. Carve out a social media niche (fitness or baking for instance), build a decent following, and brands will flock. One of the keys to making it work is ensuring you have a consistent brand on the channel you're engaged with. If you're targeting Instagram, make sure your posts stick to a theme or aesthetic. If you're on YouTube, use consistent titling and camerawork.
Throw Your Own Music Festival
There’s no denying Brits love their music festivals; two in five of us have been to a festival in the last 12 months and it’s the strongest growing sector of the leisure industry across the last five years. But there’s also been a shift and ‘alternative’ festivals (Smoked & Uncut? Leefest? Truck Festival? Shambala?) are where the demand lies for music lovers today, with plenty of niches to explore.
Sweaty Betty? Lululemon? Sportswear sales were expected to exceed £6bn in the UK last year, Keynote research found. With rising sport and fitness participation levels, especially among women, starting your own women’s gym wear brand seems an increasingly good idea. As the US ‘athleisure’ trend really begins to take off, there’s a demand (and clear gap in the market) for fashionable and multi-use sportswear in the UK in 2016.
Posh Pet Food
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Staggeringly, a fifth of UK cat and dog owners would cut back on their own food before reducing spending on their pets', according to a Mintel report (let's all collectively say, 'Awwww'). As our love for our animals reaches new heights, the trend for gourmet or ‘posh’ pet food continues to astound.
Low-fat, natural and nutritious pet food ranges all offer significant opportunities for 2016 with humanisation, like Lily’s Kitchen’s ‘mini slow cooked lamb hotpot’, another popular option.
Fittech
Fitness technology is one of the world's latest obsessions. Whether it’s Fitbit or Strava, millennials track and analyse their workouts in the millions. The global digital health sector will double to £43bn by 2018 according to Monitor Deloitte, so if you’re a fitness fanatic with an app idea there’s room to mix with the big brands.
Natural and organic beauty
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Consumers are demanding more transparency than ever, which is why natural and organic beauty products have been identified as a defining trend of the next decade by Mintel.
Great news for would-be-beauty entrepreneurs is that ‘kitchen beauty’ products (ones that look like they’ve been made at your kitchen table) are in high demand. You could also tap into the market with an organic beauty vlog or subscription service.
Boom Burger
Alongside posh pet food – we’re also demanding more from our burgers. 52% of those who’ve eaten, or bought, burgers from fast-food restaurants in the past three months say they’d be interested in trying gourmet burgers, and existing gourmet burger chains are booming.
To get in on the market with your own brand or to start supplying cafés or restaurants, you’ll need a USP. You could look at using goat meat (Jamie Oliver’s ‘meat to watch’) or try vegan or specialist alternatives.
Another technology trend to capitalise on in 2016 is £45bn industry edtech (you guessed it, using technology to improve education). With a new government body and significant investor activity, “Edtech has come of age” according to EdTech UK CEO Ian Fordham.
While there are 1,000 businesses in the space, demand is only set to increase so if you move quickly there’s still time to make waves. Find a relatively untapped segment, like targeting teachers or younger learners.
Online Watch Shop
Although watches are not a new phenomenon, they have changed considerably in their half-a-millennia history. And thanks to smartwatches and a renewed favour for watches as a fashion accessory (one in four Brits use them as an accessory rather than to tell time), the recently stagnant watch market has begun to grow again, especially online.
Activity bar
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Millennials are a demanding bunch. No longer satisfied with mere booze, they’re looking for something a little extraordinary. Bars that have something extra – like ping pong, bowling or Topgolf – are booming.
“New entrants to the market are launching enticing new propositions to consumers – and shaking up the traditional market considerably,” say business advisers BDO. As traditional pubs continue to close down at an alarming rate, starting a bar with an activity element is a sure fire way to stand out in 2016.
Fitness franchise
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The third fitness-related idea in the list (are humans finally getting healthy?), this time it’s franchising. Offering a less-risky business opportunity (franchises have a 15% higher five-year survival rate than start-ups) – it’s a popular way to start a business, contributing £15.1bn to the economy last year, up 46% on the previous 12 months.
With fitness franchises exploding in the UK right now, from long-running established names to brand new franchises and a whole range of verticals, you’ll be spoilt for choice.
Venue booking platform
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While we’ve become increasingly used to renting out people’s homes for holidays, Mintel noted that entrepreneurs are now seeking to “maximise the usage and availability of temporary, transient space for storage, parking, working and sleeping”.
Whether it’s alternative meeting rooms or quirky event venues, creating a sharing platform that curates and showcases unutilised spaces will let you tap into the burgeoning ‘Airbnb for X’ market.
It’s time for products to get smart – or even smarter. The future where your fridge could re-order dwindling supplies is NOW. Take a look on Kickstarter and you’ll see connected products to blow your mind.
Fuelled by Internet of Things technology, we’ve only just begun to scratch the surface of what smart products can do, particularly at the consumer end of the market – making this year the perfect time to launch a product company with a difference.
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Skico says don’t expect an Aspen-Steamboat ski pass for 2017-18
Here are some questions and answers about how the proposed acquisition of Intrawest will affect Aspen Skiing Co. and its customers.
Q: Will Aspen Skiing Co.’s season ski passholders or lift-ticket buyers be able to buy a special pass good at both resort companies’ mountains?
A: Not in 2017-18, according to Aspen Skiing Co. spokesman Jeff Hanle. Skico is locked into the Mountain Collective pass with multiple partners for next season while Intrawest is tied to the M.A.X. pass. Both passes are already on sale. It is unknown at this point if a discount on a Steamboat lift ticket will be available for a Skico passholders next season, or vice versa. Count on some bundling of passes in the future as Aspen Skiing Co. and Intrawest compete for market share with Vail Resorts and its Epic Pass.
Q: Will there be a shake up in the Aspen Skiing Co. management team?
A: No, according to Skico. “Aspen Skiing Company has built a strong and dedicated team and we are excited to continue working with our guests and the community,” Skico posted on its website Monday. The Intrawest management team will continue to run that company, the Skico’s website said. Skico President and CEO Mike Kaplan said it is yet to be determined if he will take on a broader role after the acquisition is completed this fall.
Q: What’s the advantage of the deal for Aspen?
A: Skico says the resorts will “work together in areas that make sense.” Kaplan said two areas that stand out are technology and employment. On the technology front, the ski areas can band together on presenting information that consumers need in the digital age, including a streamlined payment system. On employment, the affiliation will provide advantages in attracting and retaining employees. On the marketing front, Skico can tap into customer bases in a wide range of ski areas that were formerly competitors.
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Atari 5200 SuperSystem
The Atari 5200 was introduced in November, 1982 as Atari’s second generation 8-bit video game system. It featured advanced analog joysticks, an arcade-like trak-ball, more sophisticated games than the 2600, and absolutely striking industrial design by Regan Cheng. The Atari 5200 was originally conceived as a direct competitor to Intellivision, though it wound up competing primarily with ColecoVision released just weeks before.
Interestingly, Atari didn’t present the 5200 as a direct replacement for the 2600, but a higher-end alternative to compliment the 2600 in the existing product line. Atari’s strategy was to outflank Mattel on both sides, pinning Intellivision between the extremely popular 2600 on one end, and the advanced 5200 on the other. This led to Atari dividing its focus between the two systems, rather than on a unified path forward.
Much of the 5200′s technology was designed in 1978 as a second generation game system to replace the 2600, which would be obsolete by 1980. As the project neared completion Atari chose to repackage the game system as the more profitable 400/800 personal computers released in 1979. Without a replacement, the 2600 continued far beyond its expiration date. Atari once again folded the technology back into a game system, introduced as the 5200 – only after losing what would’ve been a four-year leap on the market.
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Atari’s next generation of fun and games.
Games in the Atari 5200’s library are a near-perfect snapshot of the era. Classic arcade games and Atari favorites are popular titles on the 5200. Launch titles included Super Breakout, Galaxian and Space Invaders. Third party releases include Star Wars, Pitfall!, and Frogger among others. Atari also released other hits like Missile Command, Centipede and Pole Position. A wonderful home-brew community has added original games, along with new ports of Tempest, Crystal Castles, and many others. The 5200 is not compatible with Atari 2600 games, though an adapter is available. An 7800 games adapter was in the works, but never released.
Waka, waka, waka.
Peter Venkman had nothing on Pac-Man when it came to gobbling ghosts. Pac-Man made waves when it came to the 5200, marking the first time a home system offered a real version of Pac-Man that felt like the arcade game. Atari’s first Pac-Man on the 2600 suffered from the limitations of the system, but as time went on renditions of Pac-Man got better, especially on the Atari 5200. Later 5200 systems came packaged with Pac-Man included inside the box. The 5200 also has great renditions of Ms. Pac-Man, Jr. Pac-Man and Super Pac-Man. Who you gonna call? Atari ain’t afraid of no ghost!
Atari games, the way they were meant to be played.
Too often the Atari experience is lost in translation. Atari Flashback consoles have brought classic games to a whole new generation, and emulation democratizes gaming for everybody. But many times there’s something missing. It’s a feeling. An ethereal emotion triggered through the glowing phosphorescence of a television set, or graphics flickering along the curvature of a screen. When you play an Atari game the way they were meant to be played – on an actual Atari – you’re getting the genuine experience. The feel of the joystick in your hand. The responsiveness of the paddle. The artwork on the cartridge label. It’s a window back through time. It all adds up to a sum greater than its parts and it’s an experience that cannot be replicated any other way. Real Atari systems touch our hearts, and that’s something that’s truly magical.
Oh, if it only had a D-Pad.
Chalk it up to Atari’s notoriously poor marketing decisions. The 5200 has what is possibly the worst-received game controller to ever come with a console. To its credit, the 5200’s feature-rich joystick was ahead of its time. It introduced controller-mounted Pause, Select, and Reset buttons, and an analog stick nearly two decades before analog became the standard. However, the soft rubber buttons and non-centering control proved clumsy. Some gamers complained that the Atari 5200 joystick was uncomfortable, cumbersome, even rage-inducing. Atari’s employees saw the error before going to production and petitioned for a simpler design. Atari’s Marketing department pushed ahead, not grasping how deeply flawed the joystick was or how it would affect the company’s reputation.
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Atari 5200 Tech Specs
$270 at launch
Retail Availability
1982 until 1984
320-by-200 maximum resolution (NTSC) and 256 colors, 16 on-screen, ANTIC and GTIA Custom Graphics Chips, 6 text modes, 12 graphics modes, hardware scrolling.
8 Sprites via GTIA, consisting of 4 Player Sprites (8-Bit/pixel) and 4 Missile Sprites (2-Bit/pixel) each with a horizontal position.
Atari 5200 has the ability to play Atari 2600 games through use of an optional cartridge adapter.
6502 (Atari SALLY Custom 6502) Unlike the standard 6502, Atari’s SALLY chip can halt to allow other devices to control the bus.
1.79 MHz
16K RAM, Built in 2K BIOS ROM, 32K Cartridge ROM space without bankswitching, additional memory with bankswitching.
POKEY sound chip generates 4-Channel PSG sound and handles keyboard scanning, serial I/O, high resolution interrupt capable timers (single cycle accurate), and random number generation.
4 Joystick ports (2 on later models) for analog Joystick and Keypad, 1 Cartridge bay, Expansion bay, Power, RF Output
Atari 5200 Analog Joystick
Atari 5200 Trak-Ball
Atari 5200 Kid’s Controller (unreleased)
Independently produced Atari 5200-compatible analog controllers
Atari 5200 SuperSystem Video Game Console
Atari 5200 Analog Joysticks (2x)
Pac-Man Video Game Cartridge (Super Breakout on early models)
Television Connections (RF Switch Box + Cable)
Warranty card and Instructions
Atari Video System X
The Video System X was a pre-production Atari 5200 first introduced to the public at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in 1982. The video above tells the story of how the 5200 came to be, and Atari’s journey in challenging Intellivision and designing the future. Ultimately the Video System X isn’t just an early 5200, it represents an ideal for the bright hopeful video future that never was.
“Atari made a few huge missteps with the 5200. The size, price, controllers and 16kb RAM limitations were all problematic. The inclusion of Super Breakout as the initial pack-in was a horrible decision. While fun, it is barely better than the 2600 version and in 1982 Breakout was stale and dated. Add to that Coleco’s arcade licensing coup that starved the 5200 of many contemporary non-Atari arcade hits.”
– atarilbc, Classic Video Games Expert
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Top conservatives want Jeff Sessions to step down
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill. Alex Brandon/AP
Republican Reps. Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan, the chairman and former chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, respectively, said Thursday in a Washington Examiner op-ed that Attorney General Jeff Sessions should step down. They cited intelligence leaks to the media from the Department of Justice Department and the agency's handling of the probe into President Trump's campaign ties to Russian operatives.
Why it matters: Republicans in Congress have defended Sessions when he was under Trump's criticism last year over the handling of Hillary Clinton's emails, as well as his decision to recuse himself from investigations involving the president. However, some GOP lawmakers have been vocal about the Justice Department's Russia probe, which they said has yet to find evidence of collusion.
What they're saying: "It is time for Sessions to start managing in a spirit of transparency to bring all of this improper behavior to light and stop further violations. If Sessions can't address this issue immediately, then we have one final question needing an answer: When is it time for a new attorney general? Sadly, it seems the answer is now."
Go deeper: Read the op-ed here
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On The Sideline, David Johnson Confronts Bullying
Injury has caused lost season for running back, but community work has helped perspective
David Johnson went from table to table, high-fiving or fist-bumping every kid who wanted to, wearing that giant smile of his as the students talked and laugh with music pulsating in the background.
Tuesday was a beautiful day to be outside at Sunnyslope Elementary School in north Phoenix, where the Cardinals running back showed up to cap off his "Running Through Bullying" campaign by honoring the two girls who wrote the best essay on the subject out of hundreds submitted. Johnson couldn't have been happier with the result.
He would have been here regardless. His anti-bullying cause is long-standing, and Johnson made that his focus (and his game footwear) last year when the NFL began their "My Cause, My Cleats" initiative. He started the essay contest with a talk at training camp with students back in August, when he still dreamed of another 2,000-yards-from-scrimmage season.
That dream is long gone, broken once his wrist did the same on the turf in Detroit during the regular-season opener. The chance Johnson plays again this season is virtually zero, as the games fly by and with the running back still not practicing. Coach Bruce Arians has said as much, although the usual caveats provide the slightest crease of hope.
Johnson doesn't talk about returning this season anymore as much as he just talks about his eventual return. It's been difficult for him to sit out, but Johnson – one of the more optimistic people you will meet – also sees it as an opportunity.
"It means more time to be out there in the community," Johnson said, "which is a blessing and a curse."
These are the things that shape him, Johnson figures. This injury, the first long-term injury he's ever had. Family issues, like wondering where he would live when he was growing up. And yes, he was bullied.
Johnson has had the surprised looks and arched eyebrows from the kids he has talked to, kids who see the chiseled 6-foot-1, 224-pounder and wonder how he ever could have been bullied.
"I get that the most when I tell my story," Johnson said. "'There's no way you were bullied.' They didn't know I wasn't always this big. Sometimes they don't believe me and I have to really tell my story, that I had to go through the same thing they have to go through."
JOHNSON'S OWN BULLY STORY
The winter was frigid, as they tended to be in Iowa, and middle-schooler Johnson and his cousin – who is the same age – were at the YMCA playing basketball.
Johnson's bully, the high school kid three or four years older who tormented him around the time Johnson was in sixth grade until he was in eighth, grabbed Johnson's winter hat and let Johnson know it was his now.
Johnson protested, but "I never saw that hat again."
David Johnson Runs Through Bullying
Images from the running back's visit to essay-winning kids' school
Autographing the shirts of winners Megan Torres (left) and Nubia Gutierrez
Cheerleaders mingle with the kids
More cheer mingling
David Johnson meets a Fitz fan
A big crowd for David Johnson
A hug for Nicole Bidwill from Big Red
Talking with the kids
With winners Megan Torres and Nubia Gutierrez
Nicole Bidwill speaks with students
The T-shirt
David Johnson making friends
Big Red says hello
A sign in the gym
Signing a sign
High-fives for everyone
Presenting the award on stage
Another time, the kid showed up and started beating up Johnson and his cousin. Johnson ran away, leaving his cousin to fight. "I still feel bad," Johnson admitted.
Given the age difference, Johnson was never impacted in school. The bullying came after school, when he was hanging out or playing somewhere. It made an impact, although Johnson never did talk to anyone about it.
A top athlete even then, Johnson said the bullying never carried over to when he played sports, or even when he was in school. He was able to compartmentalize, and never once thought about doing harm to himself – something that he understands is a problem for many who are bullied.
Hurting more than his memories of being bullied are his memories of not intervening when he saw others being bullied – a big reason why this has become his cause.
"I didn't do any (bullying) but I'd stand and watch," Johnson said. "I want to get in front of it (now). I want to talk about it. I feel like, with kids being bullied, I feel like if they have one friend, one kid they spoke to, that would change their lives."
The final four essays Johnson and his wife judged for Cox's "Running Through Bullying" campaign included entries about preventing kids from committing suicide because of bullying and even one titled "Kindergarten Nightmare" recounting a very real and violent bullying experience at a young age. The winning essay – from fifth-grade students Megan Torres and Nubia Gutierrez – was about Sunnyslope's "Bully Patrol Squad" and how the entire school has made it their goal to end bullying.
"Now that we have less room for bullying," Torres said, "we have more room for kindness."
The two girls received an award from Johnson in front of their peers this week, complete with a pizza-and-chicken-finger party while Johnson interacted with every kid on hand.
"It lets them know they aren't the only ones going through it," said Johnson's friend and fellow running back Kerwynn Williams. "It's someone tangible they can see and someone they look up to."
FOOTBALL WILL COME -- EVENTUALLY
This weekend the NFL will hold its "My Cause, My Cleats" games. The Cardinals will have plenty of players representing, whether it is Larry Fitzgerald's homage to breast cancer and his mother or Frostee Rucker's shoutout to the American Diabetes Association.
Johnson would be wearing cleats for his foundation "Mission 31" if he were able to play. He, of course, cannot. Johnson and fellow injured-reserve running back T.J. Logan were out on the field early Wednesday, getting in some conditioning while teammates were in meetings. No one has said it for sure, but 2018 certainly feels like the vibe when it comes to Johnson playing another game.
"At the beginning it was very tough," said Johnson, who had never previously missed more than one game playing football on any level. "I was down on myself. I was thinking, what could I have done on that play better, to change the play, maybe my wrist wasn't strong enough."
Arians said Johnson, like other players on IR like quarterback Carson Palmer, are "always around." Johnson has made his appearances in the locker room, and he travels on the road. The carrot of playing again this season dangled for a while, but mostly, Johnson stays engaged by talking with teammates and coaches as much as he can.
"It's easy to feel yourself not being part of the team, when you don't have to come to all this stuff every day," Williams said. "It's almost like your offseason is extended. You don't have the fun part of football, playing the game, and you don't have the time with your teammates as much in the meetings or locker room time. As teammates and friends, you want to make sure your friend is in a good place."
That's not always a simple process. Watching video from games is difficult "because it's not me, it's a different number." But there are other things on which to focus, like his family and baby son David Jr., or trying to show kids that being positive – even if you are bullied – is a good way to get you through life.
Johnson smiles, knowing he's the first to take that advice.
"It's not as bad as it could be," Johnson said.
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NCIP stops Badeo hydro project
September 28, 2016 September 28, 2016 Hent
La Trinidad, Benguet – The Cordillera office of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP-CAR) ordered the controversial COHECO Badeo Corporation to cease and desist from conducting activities relative to its proposed 500-megawatt ump storage hydro project, including the conduct of feasibility studies, drilling, boring tests and rock sampling in the different corners of its project site in barangay Badeo. Kibungan, without undergoing the mandatory free and prior informed consent (FPIC) process as mandated by Republic Act (RA) 8371 or the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA) supplemented by NCIP Administrative order (AO) No. 3, series of 2012 and by the customary laws of indigenous peoples and indigenous cultural communities.
In his 2-page letter to How on Kim alias Larry, COHECO Badeo Corporation Chairman of the board, lawyer Roland P. Calde, NCIP-CAR Regional Director, claimed it has come to the attention of the agency that the company has allegedly intruded to the ancestral domain of Kibungan, Benguet and is planning to conduct geo-technical works for its proposed hydro power project without securing the consent of the affected indigenous peoples which is in gross violations of the IPRA and other related rules and regulations promulgated by the NCIP for such purpose.
“This office reserves the right to bring necessary civil and criminal suits and actions for any and all causes of action arising from unlawful or unauthorized intrusion into any of the ancestral domains. Failure and refusal to comply with this cease and desist order shall likewise prompt this office to file any available action, including actions to the offices of the Department of Energy, Department of Foreign Affairs and the Bureau of Immigration,”Calde stressed.
However, the NCIP-CAR official admitted before the issuance of the cease and desist order, the agency was already able to receive a copy of COHECO Badeo Corporation’s application for the issuance of the required certificate of pre-condition for the proposed 500-megawatt pump storage hydro power project situated in Badeo, Kibungan town.
In order for the NCIP-CAR to give due course to the certificate of pre-condition application of the company, Calde required COHECO Badeo Corporation to submit pertinent documents such as, but not limited to, endorsement from appropriate regulating agencies, profile of the project proponent, nature and purpose of the project, final or complete feasibility study of the project and feasibility of the transmission lines, including systems design, solar layout plan, location of the proposed project with an indicative map showing the names of sitios and barangays that will be affected, indicative map including the route of transmission lines from sub-station to grid, tapping points, required right-of-way, sub-station layout, and capacity load.
Further, the company was also required to submit to the NCIP-CAR its general development plan, preliminary hydroelectric facility designs, abstract of proposed project describing the size, pace, reversibility and scope, specific duration of the proposed project, preliminary assessment of the likely economic, social, cultural and environmental effects, including potential risks and how this will be addressed, indicative budget of the proposed project, prolife of persons to be involved in the implementation of the project, articles of incorporation and by-laws, latest audited financial statement, additional proof of financial capacity, latest general information sheet, affidavit of undertaking that applicant or proponent shall abide by the FPIC guidelines and other requirements and shall shoulder the cost of the process, environmental impact assessment of the proposed project and the transmission lines, environmental compliance certificate, copy of hydro power service contract and undertaking by the proponent written in the language spoken and understood by the community concerned, that it shall commit itself to full disclosure of records and information relevant to the plan, program, project or activity that would allow the community to full access to records, documents, material information and facilities.
Paul Bagano, COHECO Badeo Corporation chief executive officer, disclosed the company already complied with the cease and desist order considering that their personnel will be demolishing their campsite in Badeo and that the drilling machines that were initially based in Bacnotan, La Union ready for transport to Badeo, Kibungan via Santol, La Union were already demobilized.
“There is no their way for us to do but to comply with the cease and desist order but in the meantime, we already submitted our application for FPIC for the project,”Bagano stated in his text message.
Concerned villagers expressed their gratitude to the NCIP-CAR for the timely issuance of the cease and desist order because it was evident that the company already intruded to the ancestral domain of Kibungan without the consent of the indigenous peoples when it hid its initial drilling in the area and the conduct of theparcellary survey as well as the building of its campsites.
According to them, the timely exposure of the alleged illegal activities of the company by their fellow land owners should serve as a wakeup call for indigenous peoples to be vigilant on future development activities that will be done by other proponents in their respective areas of jurisdiction.
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Will the classified ads be full of fake handbags?
Posted on November 26, 2015 by biglychee
Going by the rumours and cagey official statements, we can assume that Alibaba boss Jack Ma is going to buy the South China Morning Post. The question is why.
One possibility is the Mainland fondness for imitation. Having copied the Amazon business model, he now wants to follow Jeff Bezos in owning a newspaper – and will presumably later launch his own rocket. Another theory is that the SCMP will fit in with his other media interests, even though they are Mainland, Chinese-language, web-based ‘platform’-type things that arguably do not complement a Hong Kong news outlet.
A third explanation is that he has basically been told to buy it. The current owners would obviously love to get rid of the paper: as an investment it has plummeted in value, while reconciling journalism with the pre-emptive shoe-shining of Beijing has been a nightmare. They can/will sell it only to someone approved by the Chinese government, which is now openly tightening its grip on Hong Kong.
The New York Times quotes a commentator as saying Ma could make the SCMP a top-quality paper or a Beijing mouthpiece…
Here’s a clue: the Communist Party has a knife pointed at the heart of his multi-billion Amazon/PayPal/Ebay-with-Chinese-characteristics concession. Jack Ma may well be a genius at reinventing and adapting American e-commerce concepts – and certainly at getting the Chinese consumer to embrace the once-alien idea of payment to/purchases from unseen strangers. But Alibaba’s success inevitably relies on Chinese corporatist state protection and Communist Party patronage. Beijing minimizes foreign or domestic competition and prods the banks into cooperating with the virtual payments process, and presumably the princeling kleptocracy takes a slice of the action along the way.
The Financial Times recalls Jack Ma’s record as an obedient servant of the party-state who will help jail journalists. He is no doubt a nice, decent, charitable ‘self-made’ guy – but this is China and either you do what the Communist Party says, or you do/have/are nothing.
Ma can rest assured that the SCMP is already house-trained (here’s your ‘Belt and Road’ blather du jour, by the way). Today’s reports local officials’ statement that the Hong Kong-Zhuhai Bridge might be delayed a year until 2017, because it is ‘huge and complicated’ and involves ‘technical challenges’. The story also says the link will cut travel time to the less-than-compelling destination of Zhuhai from three hours to 30 minutes, which is wrong – it’s currently a 70-minute ferry ride, and negotiating the bridge’s vast customs/immigration complex looks set to take half an hour.
If it stays still, that is. Some investigative work from (ex-SCMP) Howard Winn tells a different story. The monstrous white-elephant could be five years behind schedule, as engineers try to build the aforementioned border-crossing facilities on ‘toothpaste mud’. And even if that turns out to be too pessimistic, the tunnel sections at the other end of the link look just as screwed. The funny part, if you find billions of your tax dollars oozing out all over the seabed amusing, is that no-one’ll use the bridge anyway, so 2016, 2017, 2021 – who will notice or care?
16 Responses to Will the classified ads be full of fake handbags?
Outside Influence says:
I wonder if Jimmy Lai would consider buying the SCMP? That would really stir up the media scene in Hong Kong.
Nimby says:
Outside Influence: The SCMP still turns up on Google & Bing’s News Search Engines Home Pages as a primary source of news article lines for Hong Kong and a frequent source for China. Even the decaying NYT sources from it. It’s an important tool for the United Front as overseas it’s still given space that the rags the CCP direct own can only dream about.
Hence the current owner(s) would only consider such a sale if they have already gotten out from every business interest in China, just as buying the SCMP was followed by a doubling down on investments over the boarder. Just the Kerry Group alone has benefited greatly from selling slices of the remaining the dignity of the rag. With such touchy “friends” it was always a gamble, balancing pissing of Beijing directly vs. pissing them off by creating a vacuum in the market for news(?) which some other less pro-Beijing source might step in to fill. Kuok will breath a sigh of relief to sell the rag onto someone Beijing approves of, particularly with Xi replacing Jiang, who was a bit more of an internationalist. If the sale is someone so desperate to please Xi Dada they’ll overpay, then so much the better.
So (as H Winn astutely reports) the hole isn’t big enough, the components don’t fit together very well, and there are leaks and subsidence: what’s new?
The PCMP could still be saved, since it has an established international reputation (just look at the competition!) and some of the journalists are fairly good at reporting the facts. But that would require HKG to recognise its importance and pull its finger out to protect it, which is not likely to happen in our lifetimes.
As it is, just translating Apple Daily and Next would improve it 100%.
I hope Ma buys the Pro China Sanitary Rag. So finally everybody can stop pretending that it is an independent paper with objective, reasonable reporting. That will speed up its demise considerably and make the world a better place.
LRE says:
Are you sure the rumour mill has got the right end of the stick about the South China Boring Peoples Daily, here Hemmers?
Are you sure Jack Ma isn’t involved purely because he’s helping the Kuok’s to flog it off cheap by listing it on Alibaba.com?
Wouldn’t be the first piece of dodgy cheap tat on there…
Jonathan Fenby says:
I was trying to think of journalists who were fired from the Post and never looked back but I couldn’t think of any. It seems to have a curse attached to it. A true Dungeon of Shame.
Red Dragon says:
Jonathan Fenby?
Not THE Jonathan Fenby, surely?
It seems that you’ve never looked back since leaving the Post, but then again, perhaps you weren’t fired.
It wasn’t such a bad rag when you edited it; it’s an absolute pile of crap now. But then you must know this.
Okay, now it’s clear Red Dragon is Qian Jin, is…
A cyclist from Stanley.
gweiloeye says:
Jonathon Henby aka Doctor George aka Ntscmp et al being the usual bike rider troll. hehehe. Like it….. sometimes.
Maybe we’re all avatars of each other, Nimby, old bean.
Scotty Dotty says:
@ Jonathan Fenby
Nury?
He got progressively worse while at Quarry Bay and he’s consistently set lower benchmarks ever since.
Mjrelje says:
I so hope that Harry will depict Jack Ma’s square head in a cartoon before he would be fired for doing so.
@Nimby
yep, and BBC World regularly holds up the s’Posed’s front page tattle as somehow the voice of the East, on it’s ‘What the papers say’ spot.
But then the BBC isn’t what it used to be either.
Jack = Sponge Bob Squarepants
QJ = Leon Richardson
Nury = Crystal Li
Diane Butler = Yonden TooToo
Kimmy = Bonnae etc etc etc….
gweiloeye
You mention Dr. George.
What a rave from the grave.
Biggest tosser who ever walked God’s earth.
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Teenage girl burned by thugs
A TEENAGE girl was left terrified and suffered burns after two thugs used a lighter to ignite deodorant as they sprayed it in her face.
Police have today appealed for witnesses after the horrifying incident, which left the 14-year-old girl from Rubery needing hospital treatment.
The victim was walking along Waseley Road with friends when two teenage boys walked past them.
PC Natalie Vaux said: "As they passed, one of them sprayed a deodorant towards the girl's face and ignited it with a lighter as he was spraying it."
The boys, aged about 15 or 16, then headed off towards Hillview Road.
"It's important that we identify the pair involved in this assault," added PC Vaux.
The boy who sprayed the deodorant was white, 5ft 7ins, with an average build and mousy brown hair, which was longer on the front and top of his head. He was wearing dark tracksuit bottoms and no top.
The boy with him was also white, 5ft 3ins and average build.
He had dark hair, which was also worn longer at the front and top of his head.
Anyone with information about the incident, which happened between 3.30pm and 4pm on Tuesday, July 4, should call 08457 444888.
Longbridge, Rubery and Rednal
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13 things your partner can never do to you by law
However, prosecutions as a result of psychological abuse are still woefully low
Jenna Thompson, Alistair Ryder
James RodgerRegional Content Editor
A new law was introduced last year aimed at protecting victims of psychological abuse.
The Director of Public Prosecutions recently revealed that prosecutions relating to violence against women and girls in England and Wales rose by 10 per cent last year.
However, prosecutions as a result of psychological abuse are still woefully low.
In fact, data released this summer under the Freedom of Information Act showed that the law protecting victims of domestic violence from 'controlling and coercive behavior' had been used just 62 times in the first six months since it was introduced.
Here's a rundown of the 13 things the new legislation has made illegal, reports The Cambridge News.
1. Share sexually explicit photos of you on (or off) line
In an age where pretty much everything can be captured on smartphones, it is all too easy for a disgruntled ex to share intimate photos of their former partners online in an act of 'revenge porn'.
Thanks to a 'disclosing private sexual images without consent' law that was passed in April last year, posting these images online without consent can now lead to community orders, restraining orders, and even jail time for those found guilty.
2. Stop you from seeing your friends or family
If your partner is "repeatedly or continuously" isolating you from your friends and family, this counts as an act of domestic violence, which can lead to restraining orders, hefty fines, and up to five years in jail.
Victims now have up to two years to report the crime, so even if the perpetrator is now an 'ex', you can still take action.
3. Control what you wear
We all ask our partner's advice on an outfit now and again. But if they're repeatedly dictating what you wear, choosing your clothes or criticising your wardrobe choices, they could be committing a criminal act which, if you are married, would also give you grounds for divorce.
4. Install tracking devices on your phone
If this is done without your knowledge, or is part of a regular pattern of controlling behaviour, then it's an offence.
If you’re unhappy with your partner’s ability to keep you on constant surveillance, then remove the devices or apps from your phone and explain why.
5. Prevent you from spending your own money
(Image: Rob Browne)
Financial abuse, whereby one partner controls or exploits the other's finances, is also offence in the eyes of the law. In the 12 months up to October 2015, Citizens Advice reported around 900 cases of financial abuse.
Last year, domestic violence charity Refuge said it had seen cases where victims were forced to provide receipts for all spending, or given such small allowances that they couldn’t afford to buy food for themselves and their children.
Such repeated behavior is an offence. You do not have to stand for it.
6. Frighten you
Your partner may not have physically harmed you, but if they regularly put you in situations in which you feel intimidated or threatened, then they're displaying what is defined under section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 as 'controlling or coercive behavior'.
Writer Zahira Kelly started the hashtag #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou on Twitter, which enabled people to "suss out damaging situations".
Maybe they don't hit you, but if they routinely frighten you, then they’re committing an offence.
7. Humiliate you on Facebook
Does your partner regularly tell your Facebook friends and Twitter followers 'funny tales' about how you threw up during a night out, or publicly joke about your failed attempts at weight loss?
This is not about poking gentle fun, but more about using personal knowledge to deliberately embarrass you – and can be considered psychological abuse.
8. Repeatedly put you down
This method of abuse is so subtle that you may not even realise it's happening until you actually step back and listen to some of your conversations.
They may be put-downs disguised as loving speeches ("Why do you put yourself through trying to climb the career ladder? You know that's just not for you", etc.) or they could be more blunt, like highlighting your 'faults' in public.
Either way, it eats away at your self-esteem, which puts more power into the abuser's hands.
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9. Monitor your time
Does your partner demand to know where you've been, and why it took so long, on an all-too-regular basis?
Closely monitoring your time is another form of behaviour that has been highlighted in new government guidelines.
10. Threaten to reveal or publish private information
Whether it’s a family secret, or a work matter that should never have left the office, it's inevitable that your partner will know about some of the skeletons in your closet.
If they threaten to share that knowledge, or use it to blackmail you in any way, then they're committing an offence.
11. Confiscate your car keys or passport
Hiding your car keys, taking them off you as a punishment for regularly 'losing' them, or confiscating your passport - these are all common tactics used by abusers to control their victims.
Each of these actions limits your freedom of movement and your independence, and can be cited as evidence of controlling behavior.
12. Stop you from working
They say they want to make your life easier, but you're absolutely desperate to work.
If your partner is doing everything in their power to prevent you from getting a job, it could be an attempt to control you – and that is illegal.
13. Hurt you
Maybe the most obvious point, but also the most important one.
The law offers protection against physical abuse from any other person. So whether you want to take out an injunction, start court proceedings against them, or both, there are actions you can take to put a physical distance between yourself and the perpetrator.
If you would like to contact Refuge log on to www.refuge.org.uk or call 0808 2000 247
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Hundreds of walkers to take to the hills again for next Bath Marches event
Wednesday 2nd December 2020 Bath Echo News Team Community, What's On
Walkers across the area are being encouraged to get training for next year’s Bath Marches event, which is set to take place on Saturday 24th April.
Participants will be able to take on a choice of two challenge walks, or “Marches”, of 9 or 15 miles in the surrounding hills of Bath.
In October, Iconic Walking Events, the team behind the Bath Marches, were able to hold a successful event, albeit with COVID-19 restrictions and wet weather.
Marchers will follow marked routes and have the option to use a new app to help them navigate the course.
The terrain presents plenty of ups and downs, and reasonable levels of fitness will be required by all those taking part.
The 2021 routes include Kelston Round Hill, Lansdown and Solsbury Hill which all offer beautiful views across the region.
Along the routes, local, natural, and military history are featured on display boards, and the support team will manage optional “Team Challenges” for both school and corporate groups at checkpoints.
The event has been designed to appeal to all ages and abilities, and in 2020 attracted Bath locals as well as those from further afield, including corporate and school teams.
Richard Best of Breathing Space, one of the team behind The Bath Marches said: “As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, many people across the country have been spending more time being active outside – with walking and cycling more popular than ever.
“The Marches is a great event for those looking for an incentive to maintain their increased activity safely and take part in a great challenge in the South West.
“We are delighted to confirm the involvement of 3 service charities including the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity, ABF, The Soldiers’ Charity and the RAF Benevolent Fund who are promoting the event to their networks across the region and beyond.
“We will also be welcoming a number of other charities who can use the event as a platform for their own fundraising efforts.
“This year we had 11 different charities using the event as a fundraiser with Mentoring Plus and Genesis bringing large teams.”
Hilary Hesbrook, Senior Engagement Officer, Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity said: “The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity are delighted to be involved with the Bath Marches; a fantastic, professionally organised walk in the beautiful city of Bath and surrounding countryside, simply a great day out.”
Mike Straney, the RAF Benevolent Fund Director of Fundraising and Communications, said: “Like all charities, we have had a challenging 2020 with our ability to fundraise in the community hardest hit.
“It has also been a difficult time for our beneficiaries as lockdown takes its toll on all of us.
“It is thanks to supporters like the Bath Marches organisers that we have been able to be by the side of the RAF Family during these challenging times. Bring on 2021!”
For further details and sign-up options on the Bath Marches, visit www.bathmarches.co.uk.
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David Hockney denies criticising Damien Hirst
duration 8 January 2012
image captionDavid Hockney (left) and Damien Hirst have major exhibitions opening in the UK early this year
Artist David Hockney has denied attacking Damien Hirst for using assistants to complete his works.
Hockney was reported to be criticising Hirst when he told Andrew Marr in a Radio Times interview that the practice was "a little insulting to craftsmen".
But the Royal Academy of Arts, which is staging a major Hockney exhibition, has issued a statement on his behalf.
The artist "has not made any comments which imply criticism of another artist's working practices", it said.
Marr wrote that Hockney was "critical of artists with no craft, who delegate the making".
He wrote that a poster for the exhibition read "All the works here were made by the artist himself, personally" and added that Hockney nodded when asked whether that was a dig at Hirst.
"It's a little insulting to craftsmen, skilful craftsmen..." Hockney told Marr. "I used to point out at art school, you can teach the craft, it's the poetry you can't teach. But now they try to teach the poetry and not the craft."
That was widely reported as a rebuke to Hirst. But the Royal Academy has said Hockney's views were taken out of context and that the criticism "did not happen".
media captionDavid Hockney: "You can teach the craft, it's the poetry you can't teach". First broadcast on 26 December 2011
"The Royal Academy wishes to make it clear that, contrary to some recent press reports, David Hockney has not made any comments which imply criticism of another artist's working practices," the statement said.
"Nor are there any words to this effect on the poster promoting his forthcoming exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts."
The line "All the works here were made by the artist himself, personally" was on Hockney's gallery wall but not on a poster for the exhibition, the spokeswoman said.
Hockney, 74, who is known for his strong opinions, has prepared a series of new landscape paintings of his beloved East Yorkshire for the Royal Academy show, which opens on 21 January.
Hockney takes a swipe at Hirst technique
Hockney art trail across Yorkshire
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Here is a city of enormous energy and activity -- perhaps the only one that beats Singapore as a bridge between East and West. Businessmen converge on this city from major capitals as well as distant, dusty and unheard-of backwaters. And all want to impress their local counterparts by staying at the best hotels and dining at the finest restaurants. Not surprising then, that surveys of business travellers and tourists alike rate Hong Kong's finest hotels in the very top ranking of the world's best. Hotels like the Peninsula, the Regent, the Grand Hyatt and the Mandarin lead a parade of other, perhaps younger hotels that are striving to achieve the incredibly high standard of the ones mentioned.
The result is sizzling competition that drives each hotel to jockey for positions in the excellence stakes. And if then it costs a minor king's ransom for one of these hotels to set up a restaurant that is so good that the whole town talks about it for a while, never mind the balance sheet. It's the glory that matters. The hoteliers will spend any amount of money without batting an eyelid. No wonder then that private restaurateurs have a hard time keeping up with some of those truly splendiferous hotel restaurants that are quite happy to operate at a loss for the greater glory of their 5-star hostelry's image.
So it not surprising that a huge proportion of the top 20 restaurants listed in the Hong Kong Fine Dining Guide are located in Hong Kong's great hotels. Here are some of the city's great dining experiences. If you are headed for the harbour city and try these, you'll be dining exceedingly well.
Gaddi's
(at The Peninsula Hotel)
Salisbury Road, Kowloon
Ph: (852) 2366-6251
The Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong was my first love, dating back to the days of ceiling fans and louvered doors. At that time the Peninsula had just been refurbished after being the headquarters of the Japanese occupation forces during WW2, and was, even then, the best address in Hong Kong. In those days Gaddi's was the only place of any real style in that city, and if you were a tad social and wanted to celebrate a birthday or an engagement, it was unthinkable to go anywhere else.
Forty-odd years have passed and today's Gaddi's is as good, if not better, than ever. Sure, it's the sort of grand dining that many of the younger, yuppier crowd consider just a little passe, but for a special celebration, or a trip down memory lane, Gaddi's is still a hard act to beat. This is a truly grand French restaurant in the traditional manner, and the premises have recently been redesigned to bring out the hotel's original 1928 neo-classical look.
You might like to try the lightly crusted Canelloni with herbs, bitter greens and sautÈed baby artichokes, or traditionally roasted milk-fed Veal Chop on a ragout of baby potatoes, carrots, pearl onions and roasted jus with Italian parsley, or spit-roasted Scottish Lamb on a medley of gnocchi, piquillos, sun-dried tomatoes and chorizo. Leave room for desserts. They are an art form here, as is the wine list.
This offers superb vintages from every corner of the globe. Swiss wines from Geneva, to Neuchatel, Italian vintages from Tuscany and Veneto, Spanish whites from Miguel Torres and reds from Bodegas Vega Sicilia, a whole range of United States wines as well as from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Chile, and, for the man who wants to try everything, even Chinese Dynasty and Sing Tao Riesling from Hua Dong are found on the wine list.
Not only is the food, now under the direction of Executive Chef Florian Trento, superb, but the service and decor of this restaurant is also now better than ever.
One Harbour Road
(at the Grand Hyatt)
1 Harbour Road, Hong Kong
Hong Kong has no shortage of small, excellent, family oriented Cantonese restaurants. Yet these have one big drawback. If they're any good they're generally crowded to the point that, should you pick your teeth the chances are that you'll poke your neighbor in the eye with your toothpick. And as for quiet business conversations, or a touch of finesse, forget it. The food will be delicious but you won't be able to hear yourself speak, and the sight of 25 people standing in the doorway staring at you and willing you to give up your table quickly are also off-putting to many a discerning diner.
And that's where, by contrast, One Harbour Road is pure heaven. Not only are the surroundings elegant and quiet, but there is a sense of tranquility and style rarely found elsewhere. The waiters hover, waiting for your every request, and the view across the harbour to Kowloon is something to remember six months afterwards when you are having a bad day at the office. But most importantly, the food is nothing short of sensational.
This splendid restaurant looks much more intimate than its 196 seat capacity suggests, mainly due to the fact that it is spread out over several levels. Tables are far enough apart not to be tempted to laugh at your table-neighbor's jokes, and the decor is an elegant recreation of a Taipan Peak Mansion's terrace in the 1930's.
The floor-to-ceiling windows offer a superb vista from each of the restaurant's several levels. Huge trees in classic Chinese pottery urns and hanging plants soften the bold architectural statement of the massive pillars and cantilevered floors. Tables have semi-European style settings for Chinese food, with Richard Genori plates and silver handled chopsticks.
Chef Law Yip Lam has a repertoire of Cantonese delicacies that include Pan-fried birds nest in scrambled eggs, double boiled Sharks Fin with bamboo piths, braised whole 'Ouma' Abalone with oyster sauce, braised Spare-ribs Wu Shek style, and many others.
Our Shark's Fin soup was quite outstanding -- clear, yet with an intense flavour. The next course, deep-fried Crab meat in shell, brought out the delicate flavour of the crab -- no wonder it is a house speciality. Then came Chili Prawns with lychees and tiny sugar peas, a perfect combination. We often judge Cantonese restaurants by their ability to make the best of vegetables, and here too One Harbour Road comes through with flying colours. Spinach with just a touch of garlic accompanied by sliced, crisp but tender asparagus. It would be hard to find better anywhere. All this was followed by a finale of Chilled Mango pudding. And as we left the restaurant we could not help backing those judges who consider this a jewel among Hong Kong's Cantonese establishments. It goes without saying that, as with the other restaurants mentioned here, the service is outstanding.
Yu Restaurant at the Regent
(at The Regent)
18 Salisbury Road
There are some restaurants where you know, from the moment you enter, that they've got their Ying and Yang right. Well, the Yu Restaurant is one of these. Seafood is their forte, but the place is much more than that.
On entering you see a huge curved wall of glass behind which a ballet of bubbles dramatically dance to the surface at regular intervals, highlighting the two vast fishtanks which are somehow embedded in this piece of visual artistry. One contains river trout specially flown in from Australia, the other, spectacular, multi-hued ocean fish from the reefs of Malaysia and the Philippines. All this creates a visual poem of colour and movement. That's the Ying.
The Yang is the superb seafood served here. Oysters freshly flown in from France, USA, Scotland, Canada and the Netherlands join Boston lobster, Australian yabbies, Iranian caviar, New Zealand mussels, and Asian reef fish on Yu's outstanding menu. Most people seem to start with the Regent Seafood platter that is as spectacular as it is delicious, and we too happily succumbed to this splendid appetiser. Then we ordered Boston Lobster in black bean sauce. It was tasty, just spicy enough, and was served with fine egg noodles.
Then came The Paella. It was served in a silver dish and was studded with tender calamari and delicious scallops. If you order this here you will use it as a yardstick by which to judge all other paellas afterwards. Seagrass pasta with prawns and tiny baby octopus and vegetables with dill and a tomato based salsa could not be faulted. The dessert, Glazed Applecake with red fruit and ice-cream rounded off a truly splendid meal with the added bonus of the view across the harbour.
And no detail had been overlooked. Glass plates from California had a gold finish on the rim of the milky glass and the final touch were the chocolates that came with the coffee. They were in the shape of fishes.
1 Harbour Road
I love Italy and go there frequently. And when it comes to fine dining in that country, my friends say that I'm certainly no slouch. So I know a good Italian restaurant when I see one. And Grissini hits the button in that regard. Mamma mia! Buonissimo!
When the Grand Hyatt decided to feature an Italian restaurant they wanted to bring in the very best. So they brought out Chef Gabriele Colombo to ensure its authenticity and its success. Milano-born Colombo worked in some of Europe's most prestigious hotels as well as the 3-Michelin star Gualtiero Marchesi and Antica Osteria Del Ponte. The restaurant specializes in Northern Italian food with the accent on pastas and salads and their Risottos are heavenly. Seafood is also well represented with dishes like Turbot with a compote of eggplant and zucchini, and Octopus in a Mediterranean stew with a polenta topping, or John Dory fillets poached with saffron and fried leeks. Meat dishes like Sliced Beef tenderloin with red radiccio, rosemary and extra-virgin olive oil are supplemented with the famous Venetian specialty, Fegato di Vitello con cipolle stufate -- sauteed calf's liver with onions if you want to put it more simply.
Cafe Deco at the Peak
(at the Peak Galleria)
118 Peak Road
I've often thought of writing an article about "Views to Dine by." But the only thing that has ever held me back (apart from the fact that Fodor published a book on the subject) is the extraordinary proportion of this that would be taken up by Hong Kong. There's a magic about the restaurants here that makes me split my concentration between what my eyes and my tastebuds are telling me. If you're the same way and want to experience a winner on both counts, take the cogwheel tram (sometimes referred to as a cablecar) that lifts you up from Hong Kong's Central Business District to the Peak. As the tram climbs up the steep slope, the panorama of Hong Kong, its harbour and Kowloon, unfolds below you. If that doesn't make your heart miss a beat and put you into a mood of romantic contentment, then give up. There's no hope for you.
When you get out of the tram, cross the road and walk up into the complex that is capped by the Cafe Deco. But it's a mistake to think of this fabulous avant garde establishment as a "cafe." It's a sensational pacific-rim-cuisine restaurant that no true gourmet should miss on a trip to Hong Kong.
There are marvelous Indian appetizers like Vegetarian Blochi Khumb -- champignons, green peas and potatoes and cottage cheese cooked in a blend of nuts, herbs and curry and Roasted Duck Tikka Mhakni -- succulent duckling cooked in mildly spiced tomato-cream sauce flavoured with orange blossom honey. Or try the Jalfra Yi, a spicy dry-cooked vegetable curry flavoured with fresh ginger, cumin and garam masala.
There are Asian noodles and rice dishes like "Udon Noodle soup flavoured with lemon grass," "Singapore Fried Noodles" and "Nasi Goreng."
If that's not enough, there are Tandoori specialities, roti Indian breads, Mexican, German, Chinese and Cajun entrees, soups, sandwiches, salads, appetizers, a "Create Your Own Pasta" program, and a fascinating range of pizzas that include Tandoori, Szechuan and Cajun pizzas as well as the more traditional varieties. We tried a Szechuan pizza that featured Roasted Duck, black beans, chilies, bean sprouts, peppers and shiitake mushrooms. Delicious! No wonder that all Hong Kong seems to turn up for meals here.
(at The Peninsula)
When the Peninsula Hotel Board decided to rebuild the stately old "Pen" (as it is known to its afficionados), the top of the high-rise tower block created a sensational opportunity for doing something about building a restaurant that would be truly spectacular. And the result certainly lives up to that expectation. When I walked into the restaurant I had previously been told that it was very special, but nothing could have prepared me for the huge impression that Felix created.
Designed by Philippe Starck, the whole effect is one of modern theatre. The long top table is a catwalk lit from within, and striking zinc cylinders house the wine bar and the American bar. A small disco adds a further dimension to the lively feel of Felix.
The cuisine, under the direction of chef David Abella is creatively Euro-Asian. It includes such delicacies as Lobster soup with thyme and Tuscan white beans, Crispy Oriental Nachos with Guacamole and roasted Tomato salsa. This was followed by a perfectly cooked piece of fish on a crisp taco with avocado and sour cream, with Japanese pickled ginger on the side. As I read my own description I know it sounds like far too many flavours. But Abella is an absolute artist with the way that he balances all the inputs so that none overpower the others. Few chefs could get away with it, but with him this dish, like the others we tried, was faultless.
Thai style lobster and foie gras salad with a kaffir lime and truffle dressing was yet another unlikely combination that simply worked perfectly. So did the seared Pacific Sea Bass with Madras curried potatoes and apple, fig and cabernet sauce. Anywhere else these dishes would probably be 'over the top', yet Abella had them under perfect control. The cuisine here is innovative, avant garde, and most importantly, absolutely delicious.
So there you have them -- my favourite Hong Kong restaurants. Lots of the others there are also excellent, but if you dine at any of the ones described here I'm certain that you will not be disappointed. And you will have sampled some of the best of Hong Kong's outstanding cuisine options
Hong Kong Restaurants
Grand Hyatt Hotel, 1 Harbor Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Tel: +852 5881 234
Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, 67 Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
The Chinese Restaurant
Dan Ryan's
114 Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong
63 Sing Woo Road, Happy Valley, Hong Kong
Yung Kee
32-40 Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong
Grappa's
Great Shanghai Restaurant
26 Prat Avenue, Hong Kong
Va Bene
58-62 D'Aguilar Street, Hong Kong
M at the Fringe
South Block, 1st Floor, 2 Lower Albert Road, Hong Kong
Level 56, Island Shangri-La Hotel , Pacific Place, Supreme court Road, Central, Hong Kong
121 Peak Road, The Peak, Hong Kong
San Francisco Steak House
Shop 3319, Level 3, Harbour City, Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Café Deco Bar and Grill
1st & 2nd Levels, The Peak Galleria, 118 Peak Road, Hong Kong
Szechuan Lau
466 Lockhart Road, Hong Kong
Yü
Regent Hotel, 18 Salisbury Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Jumbo Floating Restaurant
Shum Wan, Wong Chuk Hang, Aberdeen, Hong Kong
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Scarlet – Taming the Thirst
T.L. Christianson
Genre: Paranormal Romance / Thriller-Suspense
Publisher: Myth and Moon Press
Date of Publication: 12/04/18
ASIN: B07J6SGQY1
Cover Artist: German Creative
Tagline: Sarah’s determined to cure the vampire plague…if she can control her bloodlust.
Sarah’s determined to cure the vampire plague…if she can control her bloodlust. To keep her in line, sexy, soldier Karsten has been assigned to her. He may be just what the doctor ordered...
A rogue scientist is infecting the Moroi of the world with a deadly disease, and one woman is willing to risk it all for the cure. Dr. Sarah Shepard doesn’t let anything get in her way. She’s a renegade virologist who’s on a mission to find a cure.
However, as a new vampire, her out-of-control bloodlust has ruined her marriage, taken her kids and continues to plague her at every turn.Karsten Ingvar is an elite Danish soldier who specializes in taming new vampires. When he takes an assignment to help the prestigious Dr. Shepard, he can’t help but be fascinated and compelled by her determination and beauty.Together, they begin to track down this madman, but the more they learn, the more questions they have.When Karsten’s centuries-old past steps between him and Sarah, she’s forced to make an unthinkable choice between her love for the soldier and her old life.
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Ruby-Blood is Thicker Than Water
T. L. Christianson
Date of Publication: 6/25/19
ASIN: B07R1M3L9S
Caught between a vampire clan leader and a sexy human bounty hunter, Hazel Richards, unfortunately, can't have them both.
Finding herself kicked out of her clan, job, and Manhattan apartment, Hazel teams up with bounty hunter Alexei. Their target is the Butcher, a notorious killer of Vampires. During the investigation, sparks fly between the two. However, Hazel's clan leader, Aurev, won't escape her mind. She's been close to him for almost 80 years. Surely, she'd know if Aurev wanted more…or would she?
When a cryptic thumb drive comes in Hazel's life, it implicates her clan and could spell ruin for them all. Alexei already has a job, but he's willing to abandon a rich reward to help solve the mystery. But he might not help her if he knows that she's devoted to her leader. Is Aurev really unattainable or has he harbored feelings for Hazel all along? Is Alexei who she really wants or is he just a backup?
A sexy bounty hunter, a loyal clan leader, a mysterious thumb drive and a threatening letter. Someone's accusing the New York vampire clan of treachery and Hazel has to figure it out before her world comes crashing down!
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Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has become one of the world's most popular tourist destinations. Prague suffered considerably less damage during World War II than some other major cities in the region, allowing most of its historic architecture to stay true to form. It contains one of the world's most pristine and varied collections of architecture, from Romanesque, to Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neo-Renaissance, Neo-Gothic, Art Nouveau, Cubist, Neo-Classical and ultra-modern.
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Hradčany and Lesser Town (Malá Strana): Prague Castle with the St. Vitus Cathedral which stores the Czech Crown Jewels, The picturesque Charles Bridge (Karlův most), The Baroque Saint Nicholas Church, Church of Our Lady Victorious and Infant Jesus of Prague
Písek Gate, one of the last preserved city gate of Baroque fortification, Petřín Hill with Petřín Lookout Tower, Mirror Maze and Petřín funicular, Lennon Wall, The Franz Kafka Museum, Kampa Island, an island with a view of the Charles Bridge.
Old Town (Staré Město) and Josefov: The Astronomical Clock (Orloj) on Old Town City Hall, The Gothic Church of Our Lady before Týn (Kostel Matky Boží před Týnem) from the 14th century with 80 m high towers, The vaulted Gothic Old New Synagogue (Staronová Synagoga) of 1270, Old Jewish Cemetery, Powder Tower (Prašná brána), a Gothic tower of the old city gates, Spanish Synagogue with its beautiful interior, Old Town Square (Staroměstské náměstí) with gothic and baroque architectural styles, The art nouveau Municipal House, a major civic landmark and concert hall known for its Art Nouveau architectural style and political history in the Czech Republic, Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, with an extensive collections including glass, furniture, textile, toys, Art Nouveau, Cubism and Art Deco, Clam-Gallas Palace, a baroque palace from 1713.
New Town (Nové Město): Busy and historic Wenceslas Square, The neo-renaissance National Museum with large scientific and historical collections, The National Theatre, a neo-Renaissance building with golden roof, alongside the banks of the Vltava river, The deconstructivist Dancing House (Fred and Ginger Building), Charles Square, the largest medieval square in Europe (now turned into a park), The Emmaus monastery and WW Memorial "Prague to Its Victorious Sons" at Palacky Square (Palackého náměstí), The Museum of the Heydrich assassination in the crypt of the Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Stiassny's Jubilee Synagogue is the largest in Prague, The Mucha Museum, showcasing the Art Nouveau works of Alphonse Mucha, Church of St. Apollinaire, Prague, Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Prague.
Vinohrady and Žižkov: National Monument in Vitkov with a large bronze equestrian statue of Jan Žižka in Vítkov Park, Žižkov – Prague 3
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Dr. Rob Bruley Speaks Candidly about the Causes of Poor Health
Why do so many people suffer from adrenal fatigue and hormonal dysfunction? And how do you know if you are one of them?
In this video interview with Tina Rosenquist of Knowledge For Wellness, Dr. Bruley talks about the common culprits that lead to fatigue and a spectrum of other health problems. Dr. Bruley is a practitioner of both traditional medicine and a doctor of chiropractic, and is also board certified in holistic medicine. After practicing as a traditional M.D. for many years, both in primary care and emergency medicine, he took an interest in Functional Medicine, as it helped him recover when he developed adrenal fatigue himself.
Adrenal fatigue is a result of the body’s natural “fight or flight” mechanism being on overdrive for so long that the adrenal system cannot keep up. It results in low energy and a feeling of burnout. Advancing age, stress, nutritional deficiency and exposure to chemicals may all play a role in declining energy and well-being.
Dr. Bruley realized people often fall through the cracks when the symptoms they present do not show up as disease in standard test results. Yet they still do not feel well or sleep well, and their quality of life suffers. Hormonal imbalances and a challenged thyroid can create a cycle of fatigue and poor sleep that further impacts the body’s function.
Today, Dr. Bruley uses a variety of specialized tests to determine what is happening in the body, and then employs a functional medicine approach to help restore health. The methodology that makes the most sense is based on the individual’s unique health challenges, and can include some combination of Western medicine, Eastern medicine, chiropractic, detoxification and nutritional therapy, all designed to help the body work better and heal from the inside out, as naturally as possible.
In the video interview, Dr. Bruley shares that women frequently seem to be affected by adrenal fatigue more often than men. He speaks in detail about why the challenges of an over-taxed thyroid and hormonal imbalances can result in a higher risk of disease, and how functional medicine and a holistic approach can promote prevention and better health and overall improved vitality.
Bruley Center Report on Stress Study Involving Joan Solomon Paintings
Summary Report – Parsinen Kaplan Rosberg + Gotlieb: Bruley Center Report on Stress Study Involving Joan Solomon Paintings
In the spring and summer of 2008, a study was done at the busy and renowned Minneapolis corporate and estate law firm of Parsinen Kaplan Rosberg + Gotlieb to examine how stress and adrenal function are affected by art and relaxation. Each participating attorney selected one painting from the work of the esteemed painter Joan Solomon, and those pieces were then hung in the attorneys’ offices. Four times daily — at 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. — a gentle Zen bell sounded throughout the office, signaling the participating attorneys to spend 10 seconds in calming meditation while gazing at their chosen pieces of art (see “Ten Seconds to Calm,” below).
Once, at the initiation of the study of eight to 10 weeks, then once again at its conclusion, each participating lawyer completed a subjective stress-scale questionnaire and was then examined by Rob Bruley MD, DC. Dr. Bruley assessed participants’ pupillary reaction to light as a measure of adrenal function and, in particular, compared first their recumbent then their standing pulse and blood pressure. To most accurately and objectively determine the subjects’ stress response, the comparison of their systolic (upper blood-pressure number) pressures were utilized. Ideally, this systolic blood-pressure change should be an increase of six to 10 points (mmHg). An increase greater than this would imply over function of the adrenals; an increase less than this – or any decrease – would suggest adrenal hypo function.
Of the eighteen attorneys who were able to complete both phases of the study, 66%, or twelve, showed objective improvement in their stress responses.
Men were slightly more likely to improve (seven of the participating ten males, or 70%, were better) than women (five of the eight females, or 62.5%, were better).
The women were much more likely, however, to be able to accurately assess their subjective levels of stress
Five out of seven women, or 71%, were correct versus four out of nine, or 44%, for the men, making the women roughly 1.6 times, or 60%, better than the men at being attuned to their true stress status.
In summation, there was a definite and significant reduction in stress achieved by the majority of the eighteen attorneys from a busy urban law firm who participated in a study utilizing artwork and four brief periods of its contemplation daily.
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Home pornography was born around 1979, with the commercial launch of the home video recorder, which used cartridges of 1/2" magnetic tape in two formats, the triumphant VHS (Video Home System), and the technically superior Beta, used only by the brand Sony, which captured a significant market share., 2 inch and 3/4 inch video recorders are earlier, but they were too expensive for home use and a content industry in those formats never arose, The videodisc (12" discs) was popular in the 1990s, and for a few years it was routine for major mainstream studios to release movies in that format if they were released in VHS.
Home pornography was born around 1979, with the commercial launch of the home video recorder, which used cartridges of 1/2" magnetic tape in two formats, the triumphant VHS (Video Home System), and the technically superior Beta, used only by the brand Sony, which captured a significant market share., 2 inch and 3/4 inch video recorders are earlier, but they were too expensive for home use and a content industry in those formats never arose, The videodisc (12" discs) was popular in the 1990s, and for a few years it was routine for major mainstream studios to release movies in that format if they were released in VHS. It was an analocg device and could not keep up with the improvements in picture quality from digital devices.
8 milimeter film was used on a small scale for porn. It required in most cases that the pornographer set up his own film developing facility, as sending it to a commercial lab would mean sure incarceration. Old Reliable (David Hurles, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_ReliableZ) did that. Pornographers tended to be friends with each other — many of them fucked each other, or shared younger “models” — and there are isolated cases of shared darkrooms. (Film developing required a dafk room, which could only be illuminated with a pale rec light, red being the color photographic film is least sensitive to. I had my own darkroom in high school; my parents gave me the equipment. Unfortubately, dick pics, I learned the hard way, were not of much interest to students in the early 1960s.
8 milimeter film was used on a small scale for porn. It required in most cases that the pornographer set up his own film developing facility, as sending it to a commercial lab would mean sure incarceration. Old Reliable (David Hurles, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_ReliableZ) did that. Pornographers tended to be friends with each other — many of them fucked each other, or shared younger “models” — and there are isolated cases of shared darkrooms. (Film developing required a dafk room, which could only be illuminated with a pale red light, red being the color photographic film is least sensitive to. I had my own darkroom in high school; my parents gave me the equipment. Unfortunately, dick pics, I learned the hard way, were not of much interest to students in the early 1960s.)
A limited amount of gay porn was available in VHS, still on the home workshop level. The CD (Compact Disc), a 5" plastic disc, was first seen about 1984; with audio (music,usually) files using the storage-hog, copy-protection-free but technically simpler .wav (wave) format. The discs could be read by home computers, first on external attached devices, then builtin. This became the main format for pre-Internet pornography. Decreasing costs meant that recording capability, which first required expensive equipment, became built in
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Boatman of the River Padma - A review
This film was released in 1993.
Padma Nadir Majhi (Boatman of the river Padma) is based on a classic novel by Manik Bandopadhyay. The work is based on the life of fishermen, who eke out a living from the catches they make from the unpredictable river Padma. The hopes and aspirations, despair and grief and longings for a better life of this downtrodden community has been well brought out by the Director. The abject poverty which stares in the face of these beleaguered people almost every day has been skillfully woven into the narrative of this film.
In the past, there has been two significant films made on the life of fisher folks in Bengali films. They include Ritwik Ghatak's Titas Ekti Nadir Naam and Rajen Tarafdar's Ganga. So, this work by Gautam Ghosh can be considered the last in a series of trilogy made on this tribe so far.
The film has been shot both in India and Bangladesh. The central character is Kubir played by Asaad who is a tall, strapping fisherman. Initial sequences depict the exploitation of these hapless people, where their catches made after a lot of struggle hardly earns them the money in the market. Even residents from neighborhood take away fishes from them without paying on several occasions. It is indeed a hard life for them.
Enters Hossian Miya (Utpal Dutt), a trader who offers to take this community to Moynadeep and offer them a better life there. It is apparent that Hossian Miya has a flourishing business there, because he has recently purchased a huge boat because of expanding business.
However, people who return from Moynadeep after working there has a different tale to narrate. Rasu (Sunil Mukherjee) and Aminuddin (Robi Ghosh) say that Moynadeep is infested with lions and tigers, and there is forest all around. Rasu has fled from Moynadeep deserting his wife and children there. Aminuddin, too, refuses to go back to Moynadeep again.
Kubir has a wife and daughter and also recently blessed with a child. His wife is beset with a leg deformity, and his daughter is grown up and engaged to a local man. Kubir goes to pay a visit to his relatives from his wife's side. On return, he brings along his sister-in-law Kapila (Roopa Ganguly) along with a ton of small kids. Kapila was married, but is now estranged from her husband.
A sneaky amorous relationship develops between Kubir and Kapila. Staying with a deformed wife and coupled with amorous gestures from his alluring sister-in-law Kubir succumbs to her wishes of passion play. However, Kapila's husband re-appears and takes her away with him.
Suddenly one day a storm rises in the Padma. And leaves behind a trail of destruction. Kubir tells his wife "Padda amago joto daay abar totoi loy " (It is true Padda gives us a lot, but in return it also takes a lot from us). Gautam Ghosh deserves kudos for beautifully capturing the stormy sequences on celluloid. Indeed, these disaster sequences are hauntingly filmed and lingers in one's mind.
Storm wreaks havoc in the village. Hussian Miya offers to lend a helping hand to the villagers. He does so, but in return he takes their thumb impression as proof of his help so that he can use it later to exploit them.
Meanwhile Kubir's daughter's marriage breaks down. Rasu proposes to marry her. Even though Rasu was close to Kubir, he refuses to accept the match because of the age difference between them. Rasu becomes furious and threatens to ruin Kubir.
He succeeds in his endeavor. Kubir is fabricated in a theft case, and police is now trying to nab him. He flees, and go to Hussain Miya for help. Hossain Miya tells he can absolve him of the theft charge, but in return Kubir must go to Moynadeep. Kubir agrees to the offer.
Kubir goes to Moynadeep. A new life unfolds for him there. These concluding sequences from the film adds up to a compelling climax.
The music was scored by Gautam Ghosh and Alauddin Khan. The film was made in Bengali.
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VMLY&R isn't the worst name in the world. It's just... poor
by Andy Nairn October 22, 2018
What does this say about our industry?
The other week, an agency I used to work for rebranded as VMLY&R. It wasn't the worst name in the world. I mean, there's that Bulgarian soft drink called Arse Juice, that Korean restaurant chain Vomit Sandwich and the Czech lager Twatted.
But given that those responsible were supposed to be in the branding industry, it was all rather piss poor (and I don’t mean the Brazilian mineral water).
A little while before that, Sir Martin Sorrell unveiled his prospectus (stop giggling at the back). His new venture, S4 Capital, was not Welsh Channel 4, after all, but something even harder to understand. Apparently, the company would: "Create a new-era, new-media solution embracing data, content and technology in an always-on environment for global, multinational, regional and local clients and for millennial-driven digital brands."
Again, it wasn’t the worst positioning statement ever. I mean, if they’d wanted to go for the whole bullshit bingo card, they’d have mentioned "purpose-driven influencer engagement" too. But given that those responsible were attempting to position themselves as marketing experts, it was all very meh (not the Iranian snack brand).
The other month, somebody used the word "cagency" to describe their company’s business model. Once more, not the worst portmanteau ever to be spewed out by our industry ("phygital", "blogebrity" and "thighvertising" all vie for that title). But given that those responsible were trying to position themselves as the future, it was a bit of a cock-up (not to be confused with the Croatian washing powder).
I know, I know. It’s easy to make fun of agencies’ long-standing inability to practise what they preach to their clients. It’s a familiar (or even VMLY&R) problem that once prompted John Bartle to observe that the trickiest brief in any agency was creating the company Christmas card.
But, joking aside, what do these recent examples say about the state of our industry?
Well, first, that too many supposedly "creative" companies are led by people who don’t have a creative bone in their body. Second, that these individuals don’t seem to care much about culture either (I don’t know the team running Y&R London, but they looked like they had good intentions, energy and a sense of mischief that are invaluable when you’re building a people-based business). And, third, that these corporate titans may be clever, but they have no fucking sense of irony.
We are constantly told that planet brains such as these will take over our world but, on this showing, it’s unlikely that they’ll even be able to remember their own names or what they do for a living. Of course, their laughable efforts shouldn’t blind us to our own pressing need to learn from outside experts or to change faster than ever before (that’s what makes this job so exciting, right?). But their mishaps do provide a timely reminder that creativity is surely more important now than ever. And we’re pretty good at that.
So if the humourless automatons do win, what a sorry reflection on all of us to be beaten by a company with a bag of Scrabble tiles for its name, an organisation with a thesaurus for its mission or a business model that you would be embarrassed to say out loud.
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Strategies to Overcome TKI Resistance in CML: Autophagy Inhibition
Leslie Burgess, MA
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) targeting the BCR-ABL recombinant protein that defines chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and some forms of acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) are currently the standard of care for patients with CML. Patients responding to TKIs are expected to have overall survival (OS) times similar to that of individuals without CML, which is a remarkable achievement in cancer treatment. Nonetheless, several issues remain, principally for the patients who cannot successfully be treated with TKIs due to drug resistance or intolerance. In addition, patients who initially have a good response to TKI therapy may develop secondary mutations that confer treatment resistance; this includes the T315I mutation, which is resistant to all currently approved ABL TKIs and the Src-ABL kinase inhibitor, bosutinib. Another issue is that the vast majority of patients must remain on TKIs indefinitely, as the potential for relapse with treatment discontinuation remains, even for those with deep molecular response.1-3
Inhibiting Autophagy to Enhance TKI Response
A novel treatment strategy for patients with no response or suboptimal response to TKIs is to use a second agent that targets one or more of the mechanisms that tumor cells use to survive. One such approach is to leverage a cellular mechanism called autophagy to enhance TKI efficacy. Autophagy primarily is a cytoprotective mechanism used by cells to isolate and destroy damaged organelles or protein aggregates that can be activated by nutritional insufficiency or growth factor inhibition. Autophagy activation is achieved either indirectly through inhibition of the protein complex mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway, which results in activation of ULK1 proteins, or directly through ULK1 phosphorylation by adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK).4 When activated, ULK1 allows for creation of an isolation membrane that encloses the damaged cell components, which are then degraded by lysosomes.4 As a cytoprotective mechanism, autophagy appears to have evolved as a way for cells to avoid apoptosis in a setting of nutrient deprivation.5
Related: Updates on Bosutinib Trials at ASH Demonstrate Durable Responses
In oncology, the impact of autophagy activation varies by the type of cancer. In some cancers, cytotoxic agents leverage autophagy to destroy tumor cells, whereas in others—including CML—autophagy diminishes the efficacy of anticancer agents by protecting cells from drug-induced apoptosis.4 Drugs that activate or inhibit autophagy have been identified in an interesting variety of drug classes. Examples of those that activate autophagy include mTORC1 inhibitors (eg, rapamycin), metformin (in T-cell ALL cells), and select anticonvulsants (ie, lithium, carbamazepine, valproate). Drugs that inhibit autophagy include chloroquine, which has been shown to destroy essentially all leukemic stem cells when combined with imatinib, dasatinib, or nilotinib, the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), and macrolide antimicrobials (eg, azithromycin and clarithromycin).4
Autophagy in CML
In CML treatment, autophagy serves a protective function, as BCR-ABL TKIs activate autophagy through inhibition of the PI3K-AKT-mTORC1 axis—allowing CML cells to avoid apoptosis even when deprived of BCR-ABL.4 Furthermore, TKIs target mature CML cells and do not destroy immature leukemic stem cells, which are intrinsically insensitive to imatinib and second-generation TKIs as a result of overexpression of wild-type p210. Autophagy also promotes survival of leukemic stem cells. Surviving leukemic stem cells are thought to be a major contributor to disease relapse and one of the key factors recommending against TKI discontinuation even when durable molecular responses are achieved.4,6
In CML, autophagy inhibition appears to enhance TKI activity both by potentiating TKI-induced cell death and by eliminating TKI-insensitive stem cells.6 A strategy to enhance TKI activity by combining an ABL TKI with a drug that inhibits autophagy has been validated in a variety of CML cell lines.6
Clinical Research with Alternative Agents
The macrolide antimicrobial clarithromycin inhibits autophagy in tumor cells, but its clinical effect in the setting of TKI resistance is still being explored. A case series of four patients with advanced CML and poor TKI response who were treated with combined TKI and clarithromycin showed promising results. These patients had been, or were currently being treated with, imatinib, dasatinib, or nilotinib (one patient had received all three agents) and most had received interferon-alfa/cytarabine or other therapies. None had achieved molecular response on previous therapy. The addition of clarithromycin to their TKI regimen led to a response in all four patients. Further proof of principle was obtained when three patients stopped the antimicrobial and experienced disease progression. Reintroduction of clarithromycin led to clinical improvement in two of three patients.5,7,8 In a separate study, clarithromycin has also been shown to enhance dasatinib activity.9
Related: Hematologic Cancers Resource Center
HCQ, which is related to chloroquine but with less toxicity, has been used in oncology in combination with cytotoxic chemotherapy or radiation therapy.10 A phase 2 study based in the United Kingdom currently is underway to evaluate whether the addition of HCQ to imatinib improves response when patients with CML have achieved major cytogenetic response on imatinib but still have measurable residual disease. Patients are randomly assigned to receive imatinib once daily or imatinib once daily plus HCQ twice daily for up to 12 months, and will be stratified by imatinib response (< 3 logs or ≥ 3 logs below baseline BCR-ABL transcript levels), time on imatinib, and initial imatinib dose.11
Even if autophagy inhibition proves successful in enhancing TKI response, both types of drugs have additional actions that need to be evaluated and assessed in large-scale trials before their widespread use could be recommended in long-term antitumor therapy.
Autophagy inhibition is an active area of research as clinicians explore new avenues to improve TKI response in CML, overcome secondary resistance, and potentially achieve lasting cures that allow treatment discontinuation. Results from small case series are encouraging, but further large-scale research is needed to elucidate the potential of this novel approach to CML treatment.
Sinclair A, Latif AL, Holyoake TL. Targeting survival pathways in chronic myeloid leukaemia stem cells. Br J Pharmacol. 2013;169(8):1693-1707.
Keller-von Amsberg G, Schafhausen P. Bosutinib in the management of chronic myelogenous leukemia. Biologics. 2013;7:115-122.
Mahon F-X, Rea D, Guilhot J, et al. Long-term follow-up after imatinib cessation for patients in deep molecular response: the update results of the STIM1 study. Presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology; December 5-10, 2013; New Orleans, LA. Abstract 255.
Nencioni A, Cea M, Montecucco F, et al. Autophagy in blood cancers: biological role and therapeutic implications. Haematologica. 2013;98(9):1335-1343.
Altman JK, Platanias LC. A new purpose for an old drug: inhibiting autophagy with clarithromycin. Leuk Lymphoma. 2012;53(7):1255-1256.
Bellodi C, Lidonicci MR, Hamilton A, et al. Targeting autophagy potentiates tyrosine kinase inhibitor-induced cell death in Philadelphia chromosome-positive cells, including primary CML stem cells. J Clin Invest. 2009;119(5):1109-1123.
Carella AM, Beltrami G, Pica G, et al. Clarithromycin potentiates tyrosine kinase inhibitor treatment in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia. Leuk Lymphoma. 2012;53(7):1409-1411.
Carella AM, Beltrami G, Pica G, et al. Clarithromycin enhances tyrosine kinase inhibitor–induced cell death by inhibition of late stage autophagy in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia at diagnosis or with resistant stage of disease. Poster presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology; December 8-11, 2012; Atlanta, GA. Abstract 3777.
Schafranek L, Leclercq TM, White DL, Hughes TP. Clarithromycin enhances dasatinib-induced cell death in chronic myelogenous leukemia, by inhibition of late-stage autophagy. Leuk Lymphoma. 2013;54(1):198-201.
Mukhopadhyay A, Helgason GV, Karvela M, Holyoake TL. Hydroxychloroquine for chronic myeloid leukemia: complete cure on the horizon? Expert Rev Hematol. 2011;4(4):369-371.
ClinicalTrials.gov. CHOICES: A randomized phase II trial of imatinib versus hydroxychloroquine and imatinib for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia in major cytogenetic response with residual disease detectably by quantitative polymerase chain reaction. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01227135?term=CHOICES+IMATINIB&rank=3. Accessed December 13, 2013.
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Capito achieves Silver accreditation
March 2, 2017 | Time: | Location: | Category: News
Delighted with this achievement
Capito has achieved the prestigious Investors in Young People Silver Accreditation, the only people management standard that focuses on an employer’s recruitment and retention of young people.
This represents a true commitment to the training and development of young people and demonstrates Capito as an employer of choice for young people and is testament to the company's effective practices around Youth Employment.
Commenting on the award, Managing Director, Alan Middleton said, “We are absolutely delighted to receive this award and to be recognised for the work we do with young people. I personally find it very rewarding to see a young person grow and develop their skills in their role or roles with us. Capito has been an IIP accredited business for over 16 years and it really means a lot to be able to add this new IIYP Silver accreditation to our name.”
Peter Russian, Chief Executive of Investors in People Scotland, said “This is a fantastic achievement for Capito, and I and the whole IIYP team would like to wholeheartedly congratulate them. The 2nd generation framework not only recognises and supports organisations in the employment of young people, but now offers accredited organisations the additional stretch of achieving silver accreditation.
The benefits of recruiting and developing young people are countless. These include the creation of a talent pool for the future, new and increased skills in areas such as IT and social media, fresh eyes and mind-sets into business operations along with enthusiasm and unique talents.”
Capito has been actively involved in various initiatives over the years, including West Lothian Council’s StepsN2Work Programme, Santander Universities SME Internship Programme, the Microsoft Apprenticeship scheme and West Lothian Council’s Work Experience Programme, which have led to the company taking on a wide variety of people at all stages of their education and careers, helping to develop their skills and abilities. Find out more about these initiatives here.
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Arlington is situated in the northwestern area of Staten Island. This small neighborhood exists as part of the larger neighborhood of Mariners Harbor. Arlington Staten Island is home to charming early 20th century colonial revival homes. This neighborhood is considered up-and-coming and has been on the rise for the past decade as these old revival homes are in high demand. As the demand for these Arlington houses have increased, we see more white picket fence and well kept curb appeal. Those looking to buy into an up-and-coming neighborhood with competitive prices in the Staten Island area should give Arlington serious consideration.
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Houses for Sale in Arlington NY are mostly one to two-story single-family houses.
Homes in the area reflect a range of design trends, the most common being a blend of traditional American "farm-house" styles. More specifically, these homes are reminicent of the farmhouses found across the midwest, from the early 20th century and before.
Whether the low-hipped roofs, dormer windows, and boxy style of American Foursquare architecture, or the steep front-facing gables and entryways drawing from various colonial revival styles, the charm and character of this neighborhood is undeniable.
Certain streets also feature split-level bungalows finished in redbrick and vinyl-siding. And along Arlington's main streets, the trees and high overlooking porches give the area a classic old-fashioned New York neighborhood feel.
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Located at a confluence between the New Jersey, Long island, and Manhattan areas, Staten Island provides access to a number of nearby urban centers. For example, nearby Elizabeth, Brooklyn, and Jersey City are all one short bridge-crossing away, with downtown New York just one more beyond that.
Arlington itself is a community very well served by the city's transit system, with residents making good use of the many convenient bus routes.
This emphasis on public transit has the added effect of making Arlington more walkable than other areas, and more than one might expect for a relatively dense city neighborhood.
And within that walking range, Mariners Marsh Park lies immediately to the west. Taking in the surrounding area, other nearby parks include the William T Davis Wildlife Refuge, Latourette Park, Clove Lakes Park, Bridge Creek, Goethals Pond Complex, Old Place Creek Tidal Wetlands Area, and Staten island Industrial park.
With the range of greenspace options on offer, nature lovers will always find somewhere new to explore on Staten Island.
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Within Arlington, the Mariner's Harbor branch of The New York Public Library resides within a bright, modern building along South Avenue.
Further south, towards Forest Ave, the new "Big Park" can be found at the corner of Grandview Avenue and Continental place, featuring basketball courts, a children's playground, and large manicured green.
Along Forest Ave itself, residents enjoy their choice of banks, stores, and places to eat.
Those with big home-improvement projects in mind can take advantage of the Home Depot 5 minutes away. Additionally, a Lowe's and a Kohl's, also on Forest Ave, provide anything a potential property owner might need to make a home.
Other conveniences along Forest Avenue include a White Castle, Dunkin' Donuts, Bank of America, a pizzaria, and various auto related service centers.
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Home News Two major landslides in Tobago over 24 hours
Two major landslides in Tobago over 24 hours
Craig Hall on Thursday.
Loyse Vincent & Kalain Hosein
Heavy rainfall has caused two major landslides across Eastern Tobago in the last 24 hours. Officials from the Tobago Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) responded to a landslide in Moriah, known as Big River, on Wednesday.
Another large landslide in Craig Hill occurred on Thursday, rendering the roadway impassable.
TEMA director, Allan Stewart, told Guardian Media that as of late Thursday evening, the roadway at Craig Hall was only open to single-lane traffic with his team on site.
He also asked that people using the Windward roads to be especially mindful as the area is susceptible to landslides, and the soil is saturated due to persistent rainfall.
Radar estimates indicate up to 50 millimetres of rainfall has fallen across the eastern half of Tobago over the last 18 hours.
With additional rains anticipated, there is an elevated risk of landslides and street or flash flooding in the area.
This rainfall is due to a low-level trough affecting T&T, which has produced flooding across Penal, Debe, Barrackpore, Manzanilla, and Diego Martin in Trinidad.
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Flight Deal: U.S. to Sweden from $330 Round-Trip
Flights are on sale for dates beginning in August and lasting through April 2018, which makes this deal perfect for a late summer—or early spring—escape.
By Cynthia Drescher
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Summer travel may be the topic du jour, but right now really is the perfect time to think ahead to where you'd like to go during late summer, and even into autumn and winter. You're in luck, because we have a airfare deal on flights to Sweden in the $300s and $400s to get you brainstorming.
There's good and great news. The good news is that flights from a range of U.S. cities to both Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden are on sale for dates beginning in late August and lasting clear through April, 2018. Late summer and fall are ideal times to visit Scandinavia, with hotel rates coming down from the summer high season, but with the fairytale-like fjords and smaller towns still as vibrant as ever.
The great news is that these fares are found on major, full-service airlines that do not charge extra for carry-on or your first checked bag, and most still provide at least complimentary snacks, if not a full meal. We're talking about Delta, United, American Airlines, SAS, Air France, KLM, Lufthansa, Swiss, British Airways, and Icelandair, with transatlantic deals from $330 round-trip to Sweden, including taxes and fees. It's a deal that's too good to pass up, considering tickets on these airlines for European travel regularly average $800.
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Some excellent sample airfares include San Francisco to Stockholm in late summer on Finnair from $405; Atlanta to Stockholm for most of autumn from $450 on United and SAS; and Boston to Gothenburg for $349 on Icelandair in September (and don't forget about Icelandair's complimentary stopover program, to get two destinations for the price of one.)
How to book: Search your dates and destinations on Google Flights, and choose the "flexible dates" option when inputting your departure date to see a whole month's view of prices. This is not a formal sale, but a simple drop in airfares thanks to pressure put on the major airlines by the ultra-low-cost players of Norwegian Air and Wow Air, who also offer connecting flights from the U.S. to Sweden. Your best bet is to book as soon as possible, before the prices jump and availability for your preferred dates of travel disappears.
Here's the full list of departure cities, with sample fares spotted by Scott's Cheap Flights:
To Stockholm from:
Atlanta - $405
Boston - $327
Denver - $397
Detroit - $415
Ft. Lauderdale - $424
Houston - $450
Los Angeles - $412
Miami - $411
Minneapolis - $402
New York City - $367
San Jose - $423
Seattle - $412
Washington, D.C. - $362
To Gothenburg from:
Philadelphia - $483
San Francisco - $432
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Personal Injury Attorney in Atlanta - Shean Williams
A dedicated fighter in the battle against injustice, Attorney Shean Williams is a masterful litigator who prides himself on his strong work ethic and tenacity. Mr. Williams simply doesn’t give up, and he always puts his clients first.
For the last 20 years, Mr. Williams has been committed to fighting for injured people and their families in the areas of trucking litigation, auto accidents, medical malpractice, nursing home litigation, premise liability, civil rights litigation, and products liability. His jury verdicts and settlements are in excess of $80 million.
Mr. Williams is proud to have obtained many multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements for his injured clients. Specifically, Mr. Williams was one of the lead attorneys who obtained a $20-million wrongful death verdict in Clayton County, Georgia and a $17.5-million verdict in Fulton County, Georgia.
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Mr. Williams has his finger on the pulse of his community donating his time, talent, and money to many diverse civic groups including New Mercies Christian Church, Project Destiny, Inc., Green Pastures Christian Church, The Winning Circle, and Star Struck Foundation.
Mr. Williams shared a special bond with Founder Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Their relationship went beyond the typical mentor-mentee relationship—they were more like father and son.
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Online Retailer Overstock.com Now Accepts Bitcoin in Over 100 Countries Worldwide
Sep 11 2014 · 23:31 UTC | Updated Dec 22 2015 · 14:16
by Polina Chernykh · 3 min read
Overstock now accept bitcoin payments. Photo: Egor Pavlovich/Coinspeaker
US e-commerce company Overstock made its bitcoin payment option available in 170 countries across the globe.
In January, Overstock became the first leading online retailer that integrated bitcoin in the US. Currently it is the first firm to promote bitcoin internationally.
The Salt Lake City-based company partnered with Coinbase to launch new functionality that will enable buyers to pay with digital currency. The new feature on its website O.co will be available for users in 107 countries, including Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Israel, Canada and Japan.
In an interview with Coindesk, Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne said the integration with bitcoin marks its cross-border payments capabilities. Moreover, the feature will provide new shopping opportunities for bitcoin users.
He told CoinDesk: “This is our international marketing strategy. We’re hoping that bitcoin enthusiasts around the world start shopping at O.co because they know they can spend bitcoin on more than 1 million products here and have them delivered to the whole globe.”
“As long as you can get on the internet, you can order and pay in bitcoin,” Byrne said. “You can order in North Korea if you want—as long as you’re having things delivered to, say, Singapore.”
In order to prompt people to use both US and international websites, Byrne noted that 4% of all savings from bitcoin transactions the firm will donate to the groups that promote the cryptocurrency. The Chamber of Digital Commerce will be the first organization to receive the funds.
Byrne said: “If all the bitcoin users around the world did their shopping at O.co in bitcoin, just the 4% of that would provide a tremendous amount of funds to be given back to bitcoin foundations. That’s all the money they would need. All the foundations would get fully funded.”
Perianne Boring, president of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, told that they were honored to receive the funds. “We are gratified that the work of the Chamber is being recognized and we pledge to use these funds to further promote the acceptance and use of digital currencies among government and the larger public,” he said.
International bitcoin payments were anticipated to be launched on 1st September, but came after a two-weeks delay that was actively discussed by in the bitcoin community. Byrne commented that delay was caused by certain difficulties related to the new checkout process integration.
Bitcoin is expected to have a positive impact on Overstock, as the current overseas traffic totals only 10%.
Speaking to The New York Times in August, Byrne noted he hopes that international bitcoin payment option will increase the frim’s profits to $2 million this year.
The new offering comes in line with international Coinbase expansion. Bitcoin payment processor is now available in 13 countries across Europe.
Author Polina Chernykh
Polina is an undergraduate student at Belarusian State Economic University (BSEU) where she is studying at the faculty of International Business Communication for a degree specializing in Intercultural Communication. In her spare time she enjoys drawing, music and travelling.
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UBS Sees Potential in Blockchain with Clearmatics Raising its Funds
Nov 19 2015 · 07:01 UTC | Updated Dec 10 2015 · 09:21
by Zhanna Lyasota · 3 min read
Photo: Martin Abegglen/Flickr
UBS Group AG partner Clearmatics continues raising its funds while UBS is working with blockchain.
Clearmatics Technologies Ltd. that deals with UBS Group AG on a blockchain-based digital coin to renovate the global payment system completed its first round of funding.
As said by Robert Sams, founder and chief executive officer of London-based Clearmatics, Route 66 Ventures LLC, Tellurian Capital Management LLP and Nyca Partners are among the investors.
The backing is the latest sign of interest in using blockchain to make transferring and tracking the ownership of bonds, loans and other assets faster and cheaper, to minimize operational risks.
“As a hedge fund ourselves, we can see the very significant benefits that this new digital settlement coin and the related distributed ledger market architecture will bring to the table in securities trading,” said Jean-Marc Bonnefous, managing partner at London-based Tellurian Capital.
UBS employed Clearmatics in September to help develop a digital coin based on blockchain to settle trades and make cross-border payments. Besides, the Swiss bank wants to collaborate with other financial institutions and regulators to develop a product for the industry that would be backed by real-world currencies and central bank accounts.
According to Mr. Sams, Clearmatics, founded in February, has shown the concept to other companies and it has been well-received.
Oliver Bussmann, the Zurich-based bank’s chief technology officer, admitted that UBS has identified 20 to 25 potential uses for blockchain.
Chris Murphy, global co-head of currencies, rates and credit at UBS, expressed his opinion that blockchain represents a fundamental rethinking of the business process that could replace wholesale and retail-banking activities.
“Across the industry, there are billions of costs that could be at play here,” he said, adding that he is eager to stay close to developments.
As said by Bussmann, UBS decided early on to become part of the fintech “ecosystem’’: in April, the bank installed a team of specialists in Level39, a collective workspace for technology startups in London’s Canary Wharf.
“We are in the very, very early phase stage,’’ said Bussmann. “The race from my perspective is still open. We are putting our eggs in different baskets.’’
Overall, according to research from Accenture, the total amount invested in the global FinTech sector rose from just over $4bn, in 2013, to more than $12bn last year, as record amounts were poured into companies developing technologies that promise to turn the financial sector on its head.
Investments into blockchain tech companies has already exceeded the 2014 total, and many of the world’s biggest banks have publicly stated an interest in exploring the use of blockchain technology. R3 CEV has put together a consortium of at least 22 different megabanks that intend to explore distributed ledger technologies.
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Zhanna has a background working for an American multinational food and beverage company as well as at a number of translation agencies serving similar top multinational corporations. She enjoys discovering new cultures as well as learning new languages. She is also a lover of all things fabric and floral ,especially if they are design-related. Zhanna is a graduate of Belarusian State Economic University with a major in Intercultural Business Communications.
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