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Capitol Perspectives: A return to order in Missouri's legislature
By Phill Brooks
A surprise has emerged from this year's session of Missouri's legislature.
The General Assembly has returned to an era when the leadership exercised less power to control the legislative agenda in choosing winners and losers.
While what follows may seem inside baseball, it directly impacts the power of your local legislators to be meaningful players in the process.
To understand why, you need to realize that far more bills get introduced than a legislative session of less than five months has time to review and act upon.
You might think that legislative committees would winnow out the insignificant bills and report to the full chamber a manageable number based on what the chairs and their committee members consider priorities for chamber debate.
But it's not always worked out that way.
Committee members frankly are reluctant to anger their colleagues by killing their bills. And, of course, there's pressure from special interests with financial or political clout to get their bills out of committee.
The resulting tidal wave of committee-approved bills meant that complicated priority bills which required more committee time could end up at the bottom of the list of bills before the chamber, known as the calendar.
It created a problem because both the House and Senate religiously had followed the order of bills on those calendars. So, priority bills for legislative leaders could end up too far down the calendar to have much of a chance.
In response, about a decade ago legislative leaders began to ignore the order of bills on the calendar.
It left committee chairs and bill sponsors hostage to party leaders facing pressure from special interests, other members and outside interests to take a bill up out of order.
Years earlier, bill sponsors fiercely defended the right to have a chamber debate on their bills when they reached the top of the calendar.
But with the loss of institutional memory from term limits, I sensed that members and committee chairs did not fully realize the power legislative leaders had seized.
But this year, both House and Senate majority leaders returned to the past tradition to follow the calendar order of bills.
"There's been a push to just make sure individual senators' power is recognized...I also want to make sure that they know that their voices are being heard and that they have as much of a chance to get something done for their community as I do," said Senate Republican Leader Caleb Rowden, R-Columbia.
Both Rowden and the House GOP leader Rob Vescovo, R-Jefferson County, said the more orderly process gives members a heads up to prepare for what they'll be debating and voting upon each day.
But, Vescovo agreed with my assessment that this new approach weakened the powers of majority leaders to control the agenda.
"I'm OK with reducing my power. I think the floor leader has too much power already, right. The power shouldn't be used just for this office, it should be used for the entire caucus."
Facilitating this more orderly process requires discipline of committees to avoid dumping out unrealistic numbers of bills.
That committee discipline has been obvious in the House which has been able to clear most of the bills that were on the calendars at the start of the week.
Another major change this year has been the limited number of contentious partisan issues presented for chamber debate.
Rowden noted the difference: "We didn't go into this with many of those kind of predestined problems...I think that allowed us the freedom and flexibility to say, hey, let's do this the right way."
But both floor leaders acknowledged a "we'll see" caution as to whether this more orderly process can be maintained when the legislature enters the final weeks with pressure to get bills passed.
That's a good point. Even in the days of old when the legislature was disciplined about the calendar order of bills, legislative leaders found ways to get around the restrictions of rules and process in the closing weeks.
And, for sure, I expect a few contentious issues like abortion restrictions will be dominating issues for the closing weeks of the session.
Yet, I sense the current crop of new legislative leaders have instilled a more orderly approach and one that restores the power of individual members of your Missouri General Assembly.
Phill Brooks has been a Missouri statehouse reporter since 1970, making him dean of the statehouse press corps. He is the statehouse correspondent for KMOX Radio, director of MDN and an emeritus faculty member of the Missouri School of Journalism. He has covered every governor since the late Warren Hearnes.
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CBE » About » News » Sure about being uninsured
Image: Kelly van Dellen, shutterstock.com
Sure about being uninsured
Dr Elena Capatina | Image: ANU
A large fraction of the eligible working American population chooses to decline employer-sponsored health insurance (ESHI), the main type of private health insurance available to them. While many believe this decision reflects workers’ relative good health, new research from the ANU College of Business and Economics (CBE) suggests otherwise.
CBE’s Dr Elena Capatina sheds light on the characteristics of America’s so-called insurance decliners, their incentives for declining cover and the interaction between private and public health insurance. Using responses from the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth’97, Elena explores whether insurance take-up is correlated with ex ante health risk after controlling for a range of other characteristics known to affect the price and generosity of coverage.
“Contrary to the common belief, based on the theory of adverse selection, I find that ESHI decliners aged between 25 and 40 have in fact significantly higher ex ante health risk than those who enrol. For those over 40, there is no significant relationship,” Elena explains.
“These results are partly explained by differences in workers’ incomes”, shares Elena “but are also the result of the publicly provided, means-tested Medicaid program crowding out ESHI for high risk workers with low labour force attachment,” she adds.
The introduction of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) in 2010 had offsetting effects on selection in ESHI, leaving both the fraction of workers declining ESHI and their average risk unchanged.
However, the fraction of completely uninsured workers fell post-ACA as many of these employees got covered by the expanded Medicaid. These findings highlight the importance of considering the potential for different policies to act together when evaluating the overall effects on decisions to take-up health insurance,” Elena explains.
The College is always keen to explore research collaborations with the public and private sector and to reconnect with alumni. Please get in touch if you would like to know more about partnering with us.
Updated: 17 September 2020 / Responsible Officer: CBE Communications and Outreach / Page Contact: College Web Team
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South Sudan survival story
Nyajima-Guet, a four-year-old from war-torn South Sudan, was admitted to a hospital run by the International Medical Corps in Juba. In this photo she sits in her mother's lap, unable to walk or hold herself upright and suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and tuberculosis.
Photographer Sebastian Rich photographed the young girl's remarkable recovery, and it made a serious impact on him.
Credit: Sebastian Rich
Nyajima weighed just 20 pounds when admitted to the hospital, which is in a camp for internally displaced people in the South Sudanese capital. A child of her age and height should have weighed closer to 50 pounds.
Here Nyajima sits with help from her father. Her muscles were too weak to support even her tiny frame.
Still weak, and unable to hold the weight of her own head.
Doctors immediately began an intensive and carefully monitored feeding program and administered medications to fight the tuburculosis. After a few days, Nyajima was able to sit up on her own for short periods.
Now taking tentative but very weak steps with her father.
Furtive steps with her father, and giving a wave to the camera, Nyajima was getting used to seeing photographer Sebastian Rich, who visited to document her progress about every other day.
Just starting to smile, but Nyajima still needs help keeping her head up.
Smiling in bed, and sitting up all on her own, Nyajima was beginning to make rapid progress.
Being weighed by a nurse on the road to recovery.
Nyajima joins her father and doctors as they look over charts tracking her progress.
This was the day that Nyajima left the hospital, smiling and in good health with her father, only about three weeks after being admitted in a desperate condition. The doctors said she was an incredibly lucky little girl.
Before she said goodbye to photographer Sebastian Rich, Nyajima, who had regained not only her strength and her smile, but the curiosity and playfullness any 4-year-old in the world should naturally exhibit, sneakily grabbed Rich's glasses from his shirt as he shot other subjects. Placing them on her own face, she smiled at him and demanded one last picture. Rich couldn't refuse.
Sebastian Rich is a freelance photographer on assignment in South Sudan and Somalia.
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Abiatal Avelino: Cut loose by San Francisco
by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire
The Giants released Avelino on Monday, John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Avelino had been playing regularly in simulated games at the Giants' alternate training site at Sacramento, but his release frees up a spot in the team's 60-man roster pool. The 25-year-old infielder should find an opportunity elsewhere, though he may have to wait until the offseason before joining another organization.
Giants' Abiatal Avelino: Clears waivers
Avelino cleared waivers Sunday and will report to the Giants' alternate training site, Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area reports.
Avelino was designated for assignment last Sunday, but he'll remain within the organization after failing to find a spot on another 40-man roster. The 25-year-old slashed .283/.315/.444 with 12 home runs with Triple-A Sacramento last year and will continue to develop at the alternate camp during the 2020 season.
Giants' Abiatal Avelino: DFA'd by San Fran
Avelino was designated for assignment by the Giants on Sunday.
The 25-year-old was acquired from the Yankees for Andrew McCutchen in late 2018, but he was unable to justify his place on the 40-man roster. Avelino spent most of 2019 at Triple-A Sacramento, compiling a .283/.315/.444 slash line with 12 homers in 121 games.
Giants' Abiatal Avelino: Returns to Triple-A
Avelino was optioned to Triple-A Sacramento on Tuesday, Maria I. Guardado of MLB.com reports.
Avelino went 2-for-7 with an RBI and a walk over four games during his trip to the big leagues. He figures to return when rosters expand, though he'll have to wait 10 days before doing so.
Giants' Abiatal Avelino: Summoned from Triple-A
Avelino was recalled from Triple-A Sacramento on Sunday.
The 24-year-old infielder was hitting .285/.316/.455 with 12 home runs and 15 steals in 114 games at Triple-A. He should occupy a utility role for the big club.
Giants' Abiatal Avelino: Optioned to minors
Avelino was optioned to Triple-A Sacramento on Monday.
Avelino had been in the mix for a bench spot, though his odds were likely always slim, as he has just 11 plate appearances under his belt. He'll wait for his chance at the Triple-A level, where he owns a poor .241/.285/.345 line in 97 games.
Giants' Abiatal Avelino: Available as reserve
Avelino (leg) is listed as one of the Giants' available reserves for Wednesday's exhibition game against the Rangers, John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
The 24-year-old is apparently good to go two days after exiting Sunday's game versus the Rockies due to right leg discomfort. Avelino is competing for a reserve role in the Giants infield but seems likely to open the campaign at Triple-A Sacramento.
Giants' Abiatal Avelino: Exits with apparent leg issue
Avelino was removed from Sunday's game against the Rockies due to discomfort in his right leg, Kerry Crowley of The San Jose Mercury News reports. He went 1-for-4 with a double prior to exiting.
Avelino appeared to suffer the injury while running to second base on his double in the ninth inning, and he would eventually leave the field with the team trainer.
Giants' Abiatal Avelino: Joining Giants
Avelino will have his contract purchased from Triple-A Sacramento on Tuesday, Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Avelino was one of two players acquired from the Yankees in exchange for Andrew McCutchen at the waiver deadline. The 23-year-old split time between Double- and Triple-A this season, and while he's known more for his glove, he posted a solid .283/.329/.438 slash line with 15 homers and 27 stolen bases across a combined 126 games (77 at Triple-A, 49 at Double-A). Avelino will likely serve as infield depth throughout the final month of the season, though he should also see some occasional starts as the Giants look to rest Brandon Crawford and other veterans with the team slipping out of the playoff picture.
Giants' Abiatal Avelino: Sent to San Francisco
Avelino was traded from the Yankees along with Juan De Paula in exchange for Andrew McCutchen on Friday, Jon Heyman of FancredSports.com reports.
The 23-year-old middle infielder hit an excellent .337/.392/.553 with 10 homers and 15 steals in 49 games for Double-A Trenton. In 74 games for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, however, the numbers aren't nearly as pretty, as he hit just .252/.291/.372 with five homers and 10 steals. He looks to be a future utility infielder, though he could potentially raise his profile if he can repeat his Double-A performance at the Triple-A level next season.
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2013 R-Gcl Yankees1 17 58 14 15 2 1 0 4 7 7 9 3 .259 .348 .328
2013 ASX-Staten Island Yankee 17 70 10 17 2 0 0 6 4 6 2 0 .243 .303 .271
2014 R-Gcl Yankees1 8 31 7 11 6 0 0 3 2 4 0 0 .355 .394 .548
2014 AFX-Charleston Riverdogs 53 220 31 51 12 1 2 12 17 44 11 5 .232 .296 .323
2015 AFX-Charleston Riverdogs 20 83 16 25 8 0 0 4 5 16 16 3 .301 .341 .398
2015 AFA-Tampa Yankees 103 405 64 102 12 2 4 23 32 63 38 15 .252 .309 .321
2016 AA-Trenton 33 127 15 31 11 0 0 14 10 19 1 2 .244 .307 .331
2016 AFA-Tampa 93 357 54 95 17 2 6 34 29 63 20 13 .266 .325 .375
2017 AA-Trenton Thunder 69 230 35 62 12 4 3 28 14 33 4 0 .270 .315 .396
2017 AAA-Scranton/Wilkes-Barr 20 61 5 13 1 1 0 6 5 10 3 1 .213 .284 .262
2017 AFA-Tampa Yankees 9 32 1 7 1 0 0 2 2 5 4 0 .219 .265 .250
2018 AAA-Scranton/Wilkes-Barr 74 274 33 69 6 6 5 38 14 61 10 2 .252 .291 .372
2018 AAA-Sacramento River Cat 3 13 2 2 0 0 0 1 -- 3 2 0 .154 .154 .154
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Norway: stronger rights for exchange students
Introduction of a regulatory framework for exchange organisations to assure the quality of host homes, safety and support of pupils, and to inspire more young people to go on exchanges and help them make the most of their experience abroad.
About 10% of exchange pupils reported experiencing insufficient care and support in the host home. A new regulatory framework introduced stronger rights for exchange pupils in autumn 2019. The goal is to ensure safety, security, and support available and encourage more upper secondary pupils to go on exchanges. Exchange organisations and schools were given greater responsibility in ensuring pupils’ safety, and an obligation to intervene if conditions in the host home/school are unsatisfactory.
Better information and better assistance during the exchange
Exchanges give pupils opportunities to experience other cultures and gain a new perspective. The vast majority return home with new academic knowledge and good memories, yet a survey of former exchange pupils indicates that many of them experienced difficulties.
With the new regulatory framework, exchange organisations were given more responsibility in ensuring better information before departure for both pupils and their parents. In addition, the organisations must ensure that pupils are accommodated in suitable host homes that satisfy general requirements. The responsibilities of the organiser’s local contact person are better defined and include more help and assistance for pupils.
Main changes
Schools and exchange organisations need to ensure that pupils and parents have early access to information about relevant cultural and security issues related to their stay; they need to provide advice and follow up during the exchange. Host homes are expected to comply with general requirements for finances and housing conditions according to the living standards in the country of residence.
Rules that determine the conditions for the official approval status of exchange organisations have been laid down. Exchange organisations must submit an annual report in order to receive the approval. Both the organisations and the schools are obliged to report any factors that might negatively affect the conditions for approval without undue delay. If repeated or significant breaches of the terms occur, exchange organisations may lose their approval status.
Facts about student exchanges
In 2018, 1 800 Norwegian pupils took part in an exchange programme.
The most popular destinations were the United States (47%), Great Britain (22%) and Australia (8%).
Pupils going on exchanges through approved exchange organisations or cooperating programmes may be entitled to financial support for education from the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund.
The new regulation had come into force before the new round of applications for approval of exchange organisations or exchange cooperation in the autumn of 2019.
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In Electronic Components
Optocoupler devices and application
An optocoupler (or an optoelectronic coupler) is basically an interface between two circuits which operate at (usually) different voltage levels. The key advantage of an optocoupler is the electrical isolation between the input and output circuits. With an optocoupler, the only contact between the input and the output is a beam of light. Because of this it is possible to have an insulation resistance between the two circuits in the thousands of megohms. Isolation like this is useful in high voltage applications where the potentials of two circuits may differ by several thousand volts.
The most common industrial use of the optocouplers (or optically-coupled isolators) is as a signal converter between high-voltage pitot devices (limit switches etc.) and low voltage solid-state logic circuits. Optical isolators can be employed in any situation where a signal must be passed between two circuits which are isolated from each other. Complete electrical isolation between two circuits (i.e. the two circuits have no conductors in common) is often necessary to prevent noise generated in one circuit from being passed to the other circuit. This is especially necessary for the coupling between high-voltage information-gathering circuits and low-voltage digital logic circuits. The information circuits are almost badly exposed to noise sources and the logic circuits cannot tolerate noise signals.
In many applications SCR and triac power circuits are under the control of sensitive electronic systems. For example, it is not unusual to have a microprocessor system programmed to turn motors, lights, and heaters on and off. To reduce the possibility of power-line noise being induced into the control electronics, and to protect it in the event of an SCR or triac failure, it is highly desirable to provide isolation.
The ideal isolation scheme should only allow signal flow in one direction, should respond to dc levels, and should offer an extremely large resistance between the input and output circuits. These features are available in a class of optoelectronic devices called optocouplers or optoisolators.
The optical coupling method eliminates the need for a relay-controlled contact or an isolating transformer, which are traditional methods of providing electrical isolation between circuits. The optical coupling method is superior in many applications, because it gets rid of some of the less desirable features of relays and transformers.
The optocouplers works well on either ac or dc high-voltage signals. For this reason, signal converters employing optical coupling are sometimes referred to the universal signal converters.
The optocoupler is a device that contains an infra-red LED and a photodetector (such as a photodiode, phototransistor, Darlington pair, SCR or triac) combined in one package.
An autocoupler combining a LED and a photodiode in a single package is shown in figure. It has a LED on the input side and a photodiode on the output side. The left source voltage and the series resistor set up a current through the LED. Then the. light from the LED impinges on the photo-diode, and this sets up a reverse current in the output circuit. This reverse current develops a voltage across the output resistor R. The output voltage then equals the output supply voltage V2 minus the voltage drop across the load resistor R. When the input voltage is varied, the amount of light fluctuates.
Types of Optocouplers:
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1. Slotted Optocoupler – A slotted optocoupler has a slot moulded into the package between the LED light source and the phototransistor light sensor; the slot houses transparent windows, so that the LED light can normally freely reach the face of transistor , but can be interrupted or blocked via opaque object placed within the slot. The slotted optocoupler can thus be employed in a variety of presence detecting applications, including end-of-tape detection, limit switching, and liquid level detection.
2. Reflective Optocoupler – Here the LED and phototransistor are optically screened from each other within the package, and both face outwards (in same direction) from the package. The construction is such that an optocoupled link can be set up by a reflective object (such as metallic paint or tape, or even smoke particles) placed a short distance outside the package, in line with both the LED . The reflective coupler can thus be employed in applications such as tape-position detection, engine-shaft revolution counting or speed measurement, or smoke or fog detection etc.
Characteristics of an Optocoupler:
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Current Transfer Ratio (CTR). One of the most important parameters of an optocoupler device is its optocoupling efficiency. This parameter is maximized by closely matching spectrally the LED and the phototransistor (which usually operate in the infra-red range). The optocoupling efficiency of an optocoupler may be conveniently specified by the output-to-input current transfer ratio (CTR) i.e., the ratio of the output current Ic (measured at the collector terminal of the phototransistor), to the input current IF flowing into the LED.
Input-to-Output Isolation Voltage (Viso). This is the maximum potential difference (dc) that can be allowed to exist between the input and output terminals. Typical values range from 500 V to 4 kV.
Maximum Collector-Emitter Voltage, VCE (max). This is the maximum allowable dc voltage that can be applied across the output transistor. Typical values may vary from 20 to 80 volts.
Bandwidth. This is the typical maximum signal frequency (in kHz) that can be usefully passed through the optocoupler when the device is operated in its normal mode. Typical values vary from 20 to 500 kHz, depending on the type of device construction.
Response Time. Divided into rise time tr and fall time t*. For a phototransistor output stages, tr and tr are usually around 2 to 5 us.
A simple isolating optocoupler uses a single phototransistor output stage and is usually housed in a six-pin package, with the base terminal of the phototransistor externally available. In normal use the base is left open circuit, and under such a condition the optocoupler has a minimum CTR value of 20 % and a useful bandwidth of 300 kHz.
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santosh kumar 8 years ago
I m not able to distinguish between the 4 pins of slotted opto coupler.
and how to connect them in the circuit.plz help me out…..
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bob 10 years ago
In the article above, heading “Drawbacks of an optocoupler”
you then describe the drawbacks of a relay.
They are fairly expensive.
2. They are bulkier and heavier than optical devices.
3. They create magnetic fields and switching transients which may be a source of troublesome’electrical noise.
4. Relay contacts may develop sparks, which are very undesirable in certain industrial situations.
Is this heading incorrect? Shouldn’t it be “Drawbacks of a Relay”?
john 10 years ago
Thanks for pointing out the mistake. I have corrected it..
lester 11 years ago
mind to ask a question with regards to optocoupler? i’m taking my thesis right now. the title of our thesis is security solution software. it is a combination of biometric gadget and optocoupler. once the fingerprint match, the optocoupler will activate and the output(magnetic relay) will move? can you help to set up our thesis?? please we need a technical expert here. thanks
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Parade honours Wellesbourne hero
JOSEPH Arch, who fought to improve the dreadful pay and conditions of farm workers, was remembered in a march led by environment minister Michael Meacher....
JOSEPH Arch, who fought to improve the dreadful pay and conditions of farm workers, was remembered in a march led by environment minister Michael Meacher.
He joined members of the Transport and General Workers? Union for the rally near Warwick yesterday.
The T&G, the trade union for agricultural and countryside workers, marches every year in Wellesbourne in honour of Joseph Arch, who established the National Agricultural Labourer?s Union in 1872.
The marchers then headed to Wellesbourne sports ground where the rally took place.
Mr Meacher said that he was proud to be leading the march in honour of Joseph Arch.
He said: ?The memory of Joseph Arch is one of great importance.
?He established the union some 130 years ago but his voice is still as passionate and as strong today as it was then.
?He fought to end poverty for agricultural workers, who have always been among the lowest paid in the country, and the burning sense of injustice he had is just as relevant today.?
Event organiser Roger Shutt said: ?We must never forget our trade union heritage, especially at a time when farming and countryside issues are almost constantly in the news.
?Joseph Arch showed us a commitment and a determination to organ-ise farm workers to improve their pay and working conditions.
?His contribution to trade union and agricultural history was immense, which is why we have an annual march and rally in his honour.?
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11 confirmed cases linked to Vaughan indoor sports facility; 8 businesses charged for breaking COVID-19 rules
Bryann Aguilar, Web Content Writer, CP24
@BryannAguilar
Published Saturday, November 28, 2020 5:20PM EST
Last Updated Sunday, November 29, 2020 6:15AM EST
York Region says 11 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been linked to an indoor sports facility in Vaughan, and eight businesses were charged and fined Saturday for violating public health protocols.
In a public notice, York Region Public Health said the cases were traced back to two soccer games played on Nov. 11 and Nov. 15 at TRIO Sportsplex and Event Centre, in the area of Teston Road and Highway 400.
A group of 20 to 25 people attended the two events, and while they wore masks during the game, health officials said they did not put them on in the changing rooms.
Of the 11 people who were diagnosed, eight are from Toronto. The other three are from the regions of York, Simcoe-Muskoka and Peel. All are being advised to self-isolate for 14 days.
"In the interest of transparency, we prefer to actually post any information on clusters that we think would be of interest to the public," Dr. Karim Kurji, York Region's medical officer of health, said in an interview with CP24 on Saturday.
Those who attended the games are being told to monitor their symptoms as the risk of exposure is high, health officials said.
"What this does is it highlights the importance of being so careful when we go to places like the gyms and also being very careful in changing rooms in particular when you're playing indoor soccer."
Kurji noted clusters like this show there is evidence that there is a potential for COVID-19 transmission in gyms and sports facilities.
Last week, York Region Public Health notified the public of six cases tied to fitness classes held in a studio in Aurora.
On Saturday, 145 new COVID-19 cases were reported in York Region.
While cases in the area seem to be plateauing, Kurji said they are still teetering.
"We haven't actually seen the reduction that I was hoping for," he said.
"We should be seeing those reductions anytime now, given that we've been about 10 to 12 days after we went into the red zone. So, we need to remain vigilant."
York Region is in the red-control level of the province's COVID-19 tiered framework for restrictions.
Officials pleaded with the province not to place the region in the lockdown level with Toronto and Peel, saying they are confident that current restrictions are enough to control the spread.
Inspectors from the Ministry of Labour and members of the COVID-19 enforcement task force, which include York Region Public Health inspectors, bylaw officers and police, are conducting an enforcement blitz in the region this weekend to make sure businesses are complying with protocols.
On Friday, they inspected 439 establishments, issuing charges under the Reopening Ontario Act and Section 22 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act to six businesses.
"Today, they've been busy, and they've been laying charges," Kurji said.
The focus of Saturday's inspections were big box and grocery stores. In a news release, York Region said inspectors visited 172 establishments and eight businesses were charged.
They include Vaughan Mills Shopping Centre, Costco at 7077 Kennedy Road, PHO 72, Yong He All Day Breakfast, Sam's Congee Delight, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Lowe's in Vaughan, and Majaz Lounge.
"We believe that we've taken all the precautions that we need to take," the doctor said.
"And we are hopeful that we don't actually move into the lockdown zone."
TRIO Sportsplex and Event Centre is seen in this undated photo.
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Justice for the Haitian soccer team & investigation of the referee
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Maria Sanchez started this petition to Concacaf Executive Committee and
To the CONCACAF Executive Committee
We the undersigned would like to bring your attention to the following problem.
On July 2nd, 2019, the semifinals qualifiers Haiti and Mexico played their match which goes to the overtime with both teams leading 0. Haiti had won all of its last eight competitive matches. This Gold Cup run marked a substantial step forward for the Haitian program, as the country topped its first Gold Cup group and advanced to its first semifinal.
In the Copa America, the game was stopped 200 times for VAR. Video Assistant Referee, four goals were even pulled out of the game because of VAR, and there was no VAR at this tournament. There have been far worse contacts than this one where penalties were not awarded. Besides, repeated replays clearly showed that Jimenez took a dive. This incident clearly underscores the importance of VAR, which would have made the call a lot more credible. It was clear and very strange because it is not what we all know as a penalty kick.
Also, the Mexican player should not have grabbed the ball like that before a call is made. That should be an automatic yellow even if the foul is called.
It is very unfortunate and saddening to see the penalty that took place in overtime was not reviewed by the appropriate officials.
As both countries played hard and competitively, we expected the match to be fair at all times.
We believe the wrong decision was made by the referee, which created a lot of questions and confusion from soccer fans. The Haitian community around the world is strongly requesting that the penalty shot be reviewed and an investigation is carried on the center referee.
According to Liveaboutdotcom:
https://www.liveabout.com/soccer-fouls-3557670
A direct free kick is awarded to the opposing team if a player commits any of the following six offenses in a manner considered by the referee to be careless, reckless, or using excessive force:
Kicks or attempts to kick an opponent
Trips or attempts to trip an opponent
Jumps at an opponent
Charges an opponent
Strikes or attempts to strike an opponent
Pushes an opponent
A direct free kick is also awarded to the opposing team if a player commits any of the following offenses:
Tackles an opponent to gain possession of the ball, making contact with the opponent before touching the ball
Holds an opponent
Spits at or bites someone
None of those mentioned above happened during the match from the Haitian team to the opponent.
We there ask that, Abdulrahman Al- Jassim the referee from Qatar should be investigated for corruption. The referee fails to explain his reasoning, which made it very questionable. In a match there will be a winner and a loser. However, we refuse to accept that this how Haiti would eliminate from the tournament.
We would like clear reasoning and response for the game officials.
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COMMANDER XMAS IS HERE FOR THE HOLIDAYS FROM NEMO PUBLISHING
by Glenn Hauman · December 23, 2011
4th Annual free “Commander X Adventures” comic book released by Nemo Publishing: New limited edition Commander X Knight Avenger collectible action figure ties into story
PORTLAND, MAINE (December 23, 2011) – Nemo Publishing, publisher of Jay Piscopo’s “The Undersea Adventures of Capt’n Eli” all-ages graphic novel series and “The Sea Ghost” comic book, has released its 4th annual Commander X-Mas “Commander X Adventures,” a collection of pulp adventure stories and artwork featuring the renowned time traveler, Commander X, who is an integral character in the “Capt’n Eli” series.
This free comic book is available at – http://www.captneli.com/dailycomic.php.
“Depression-era comics were promoted as ‘all in color for a dime,’ which meant you were getting more than you paid for,” noted Piscopo. “That same spirit and enthusiasm is what the creators behind ‘Commander X Adventures’ bring. In the Golden and Silver ages, the stories were very plot driven and action oriented and, in their own way, reflected the times. There was a lot of crudeness in the art and storytelling and a certain exuberance and imagination really carried the day. This free comic is a wonderful opportunity to re-experience the fun and excitement that came from Golden Age comics and the pulps. And we always add in a lot of Christmas-themed material just for fun.”
Piscopo edited this free on-line comic book with a team of creators, including legendary writer Brian Augustyn with the debut of his new pulp character, Mr. Gabriel in “All Through the Night…A Mr. Gabriel, Angel of Broadway Adventure.”
“I’m honored to have Brian’s contribution,” said Piscopo. “He’s one of my heroes in the comics business and it’s great to see him join the ranks of the new pulp writers. Pulps preceded Golden Age comics and were all about hard-boiled action and mystery and Brian captures that perfectly.”
Regular contributor, Frank Schildiner, also wrote a story illustrated by Delfin Barral and there is a special Sunday strip by Robert J. Kelly and Dan O’Connor, the creators of the daily web comic “Ace Kilroy.”
Pinups were created by comics greats Michael Netzer and Mort Todd, Marvel cover artist Mike Fyles, Joe Zierman and Randy “Sarge” Sargent, Pierre Villeneuve, Harold Cupec, Jim Mohan, and Jay Piscopo.
Piscopo also wrote and illustrated a story called “SHIVA 99” in which fans meet Commander X as the Knight Avenger. In conjunction with this, Nemo Publishing has released the Knight Avenger as a limited edition Mego-style collectible action figure.
“This year, I also had a lot of fun featuring public domain superheroes in cameos and guest shots with Commander X,” continued Piscopo. “This whole story is an homage to the Golden Age of superheroes, a large number of which are now in the public domain (http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Public_Domain_Super_Heroes).”
The Knight Avenger is the seventh figure in the Commander X collectible action figure line. The other figures include: Golden Age Commander X, 1950s Commander X, Western Knight, Barbary Knight, Archer Knight, and the Undersea Knight. These eight-inch figures are created in a retro-style reminiscent of those made by the Mego Corporation in the 1970s and are designed by Piscopo and produced by Paul “Dr. Mego” Clarke. A short video about the variant collection can be viewed at this link: http://www.youtube.com/user/CaptnEli#p/a/u/1/ZyIxl_SBaS8
All seven figures are available exclusively at www.captneli.com at a special price of $15 (regularly $19.95) through February 15, 2011.
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January 6, 2005 in Workforce
Carl is an 18-year-old who works at a home for adolescents.
What is your job?
I am a residential support worker.
I work in a unit with children who have challenging behaviour. I
need to maintain a working rapport with all the children which is
tricky as I work part-time.
What is your salary?
I earn £8 per hour.
What are your career aspirations?
I want to continue working with children, especially helping
them develop their education.
OK, here are three possible career options:
Children and families social worker at a council. Possibly
working as part of a leaving care team you would help young people,
aged 16 plus, to move towards independent living. You would provide
support to help young people have a positive transition into
adulthood and improve their life chances. You would support them in
their education, employment and training and ensure they have the
necessary skills. You would earn £24,000 a year.
After this role you may be interested in taking on a more
senior position. A section manager for the children and young
people’s service would be ideal. You would be responsible for a
group of front-line staff who undertake assessments and deliver
support and outreach services to children and their families. You
would need a social work qualification and four years’ post
qualifying experience. You would assist in the co-ordination and
development of the families and young people service. This includes
staff appraisals and recording of staff training needs. You would
manage the planning, allocation and the review of staff workloads.
The salary would be £31,000.
You could extend your skills and become an education welfare
officer. You would work with whole families and deal with the
problems and issues that may prevent children from attending
schools. You would require a recognised social work qualification
and would be based within a local education authority in England
and Wales. Your salary would be £24,000 a year.
Profile – Dave Perry
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Monochorionic Triamniotic Triplet Pregnancy
OBGYN.net Staff
Monochorionic Triamniotic Triplet Pregnancy with a Co-triplet Fetus Discordant forCongenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation of the Lung
Spontaneous monochorionic triamniotic pregnancy is rare and is at increased risk for pregnancy complications. The presence of an anomalous fetus further complicates the management.
We present a case of monochorionic triamniotic triplet pregnancy diagnosed at 15 weeks of gestation with one fetus having developed a multicystic lung lesion, suggestive of congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM). At 24 weeks, the largest cyst measured 10 mm in diameter. We managed the pregnancy conservatively and delivered three live male fetuses with birth weights 1560 g, 1580 g and 1590 g at 35 weeks of gestation. Two newborns were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit with respiratory distress, the third one died due to sepsis 7 days postpartum. One of the newborns was discharged healthy at 24 days postpartum. The newborn with CCAM developed a pneumothorax on the right side, recovered after treatment, and was discharged after one month. Computerized tomography (CT) of the infant at 3 months demonstrated two cystic lesions in the middle lobe of the right lung measuring 25 mm and 15 mm. A repeat CT of the infant at 6 months showed a 30 mm solitary cystic mass.
Monochorionic triamniotic triplet pregnancy with a co-triplet fetus discordant for CCAM, present rarely and can be managed conservatively. These findings may help in decision making and counselling of parents.
The prevalence of spontaneous triplet pregnancy is about 1 in 7000 deliveries, but with the increasing availability of assisted reproductive technologies, the rate of high-order multiple pregnancies has risen dramatically over the last 20 years [1,2]. Although multiple births have increased and most of the reported monochorionic triplet pregnancies have been conceived by in-vitro-fertilisation, the monochorionic triplet pregnancy is rare, and is estimated to be approximately 1 in 100,000 births [3,4].
Triplet pregnancies are at an increased risk for pregnancy complications and have higher perinatal morbidity and mortality rates, such as vascular anastomoses and developmental anomalies. In this report we present a case of monochorionic triamniotic triplet pregnancy with a co-triplet discordant for multicystic lung lesion, suggestive of congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM).
A 26 year-old woman was referred to our maternal and fetal unit for detailed ultrasonographic examination because of triplet pregnancy with threatened abortion at 15 weeks of gestation. Her obstetric history included two first trimester abortions. The patient had taken no medication or drug for ovulation induction. An inquiry into the family history revealed that her mother had delivered triplet babies all of whom died in the early neonatal period. In the present case, the attending obstetrician had performed an ultrasonography at 6 weeks of gestation demonstrating a single, 17 × 20 mm gestational sac (chorion) (Figure 1)
Detailed ultrasonography at our maternal and fetal unit revealed a monochorionic triamniotic triplet pregnancy. Three thin amniotic membranes and an ipsilon zone were detected. The biometric measurements of the three distinct fetuses were appropriate for 15 weeks of gestation. The parents were informed about the risks of a multiple pregnancy and monochorionic placentation. After three days' hospitalization, the vaginal bleeding ceased and the patient was discharged to follow-up.
The obstetric course was unremarkable until 24 weeks, when ultrasonographic examination revealed that one of the triplet fetuses had developed a multicystic lung lesion suggestive of CCAM, with the largest cyst measuring 10 mm in diameter (Figure 2). Until 30 weeks of gestation, the fetuses had appropriate growth, and follow-up of the pregnancy was uneventful except that the fetus with CCAM developed mild polyhydramnios. At 30 weeks, the patient presented with preterm uterine contractions that ceased after tocolysis with nifedipine 60 mg per day. Betamethasone (12 mg × 2 doses in 24 hours) was administered intramuscularly to the mother to promote fetal lung maturation. The patient was readmitted to our unit at 34 weeks for uterine contractions and impaired fetal growth. The size of the lung lesion remained the same at that time. At 35 weeks of gestation, the patient underwent a low-transverse caesarean section and delivered three live male babies with birth weights 1560 g, 1580 g and 1590 g. Apgar scores were 7/9, 6/8 and 7/9 at 1 and 5 minutes, respectively. A single placenta weighing 1080 g and three distinct membranes were demonstrated (Figure 3). Pathological examination confirmed monochorionic triamniotic placentation. The postnatal course was uneventful and the patient was discharged four days postpartum. Two newborns were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit for respiratory distress, the third one died due to sepsis on day 7 postpartum. One of the triplets was discharged healthy 42 days postpartum.
The newborn with multicystic lung lesions developed unilateral pneumothorax which was treated by inserting an intercostal drain, and was discharged from the hospital after one month. Computerized tomography (CT) of the infant at 3 months demonstrated two cystic lesions in the middle lobe of the right lung (25 mm and 15 mm in diameter) (Figure 4). A repeat CT of the infant at 6 months showed a 30 mm solitary cystic mass (Figure 5).
Figure 2 - Transabdominal ultrasonography is presenting the co-triplet fetus with multicystic lung lesions, suggesting congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (arrow) at 24 weeks
Figure 3 - The photograph is demonstrating a single placenta with marginal cord insertion
Figure 4 - Computerized tomography of the infant at 3 months: two cystic masses in the middle lobe of the right lung, suggesting congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (arrows)
Figure 5 - A repeat computerized tomography of the infant at 6 months presents a 30 mm solitary cystic mass (arrow)
The rate of monozygotic triplet pregnancies in a triplet population is estimated as 4.5%, but the fraction of monochorionic triplets remains unknown [5]. Splitting of the zygote at various stages of development leads to monozygotic multiple pregnancy. The mechanism of monozygotic twinning is not clear. But it is well known that obstetric outcome and clinical management of multiple pregnancies depend on chorionicity. Chorionicity can be established in the first trimester with ultrasound by defining the number of gestational sacs or ipsilon zone [2]. In our case we determined monochorionic placentation by demonstrating a single gestational sac at 6 weeks and ipsilon zone at 15 weeks, and by pathological examination of the placenta after delivery.
The reported incidence of CCAM is approximately one in 10,000–25,000 pregnancies [6,7]. This abnormality is believed to be the result of hamartomatous change in the tertiary bronchioles or an arrest in the embryologic development between 7 and 15 weeks of gestation [8]. It is observed as cystic mass occupying part or the entire fetal lung, predominantly located in the right hemithorax, with up to 15% of cases having bilateral involvement. Prenatal prognostic features for CCAM include size, laterality, progression or regression of the mass, cardiac axis deviation, presentation with hydrops or polyhydramnios [6-8]. Partial or complete regression of the pulmonary lesion is possible. Conservative management is suggested in cases of fetal CCAM without significant mediastinal compression, hydrops fetalis or severe polyhydramnios [6].
Because of the rarity of monochorionic triplet pregnancies, there is no established guideline for management. The presence of an anomalous fetus further complicates the management of pregnancy. Feto-feto-fetal transfusion, acardiac fetus and conjoined twins in triplet gestations have been reported. However, to our knowledge, there are no reports of prenatal diagnosis of a monochorionic triplet pregnancy with a co-triplet fetus discordant for CCAM of the lung.
In our case, a monochorionic triamniotic triplet pregnancy with a co-triplet fetus discordant for CCAM was managed conservatively until 35 weeks of gestation and three live fetuses were delivered. These findings may help in decision-making and counselling of parents.
The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests.
AG, HA and AC were the consulting perinatologists associated with the case. AG drafted the manuscript, HA participated in the design of the manuscript and AC participated in editing of the manuscript. YC was the director of the Maternal and Fetal Medicine Unit and participated in the design and revision of the manuscript. AIT was the director of the Reproductive Medicine Unit and participated in the design and revision of the manuscript.
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The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.reproductive-health-journal.com/content/2/1/2
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Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York, Patron of the Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity, has officially launched Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail
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CSH Transport chats to World Champion Squash Player Laura Massaro
CSH Transport is delighted to be sponsoring Laura Massaro, World Champion squash player, for season 2018/ 19. Laura took some time out from her busy squash schedule in November to visit CSH Transport HQ. Laura chatted to us about what inspires her, her first memory of squash, females in sport and what this season holds.
What are your objectives for the 2018/19 season?
My objectives and goals for this season are to still be competing with the best in the world. I have several improvements I want to make in my movement and squash swing and if I can make and implement those changes I feel I can still win major titles.
What inspires you most?
I’m inspired by women pushing boundaries in every sport. Pushing themselves and their limits and that inspires me to do the same. I want to finish my Squash career knowing I could have given it no more than I have and so I get out of bed everyday to try and achieve that and be better every day!
How did you get into squash and what is your earliest memory?
I got into Squash because my mum and dad played. We spent a lot of time at the local club and my earliest memory is of my dad taking me onto court with what felt like a massive racket and teaching me how to hit the ball.
What is one of your stand out moments in your squash career?
Winning the world championships. It stands out because it’s the most nervous I’ve ever been playing a squash match. It’s goes without saying it’s a massive achievement for me to become world champion but more than that, it was how I held things together during those big matches that make me proud.
Are you looking forward to the Hong Kong Squash Open in November and what are your hopes for the tournament?
Yes, very much so! I’ve put in a lot of good training and technical work and I’m excited to see where I’m up to. I think it might take until the new year to see the improvements fully but I want to play well in HK and reflect on how it goes and push on again once hone!
What are your top tips for squash players?
Watch as much as you can and solo on your own on court to see improvements!
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Physics Lab Gets a Makeover
Hunter Industries contributed to this state-of-the-art laboratory for applied physics.
A classroom in Science Hall 2 recently received a major facelift to benefit hands-on undergraduate learning opportunities and faculty research in physics thanks to a $60,000 gift from Hunter Industries, a residential and commercial irrigation company located in San Marcos. The renovation created state-of-the-art laboratories for applied physics Assistant Professors Stephen Tsui and Gerardo Dominguez.
The applied physics degree program is one of the fastest growing at CSUSM according to College of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics Dean Katherine Kantardjieff. She says CSUSM students majoring in applied physics stand out and are highly valued in regional industries based in defense, programming, healthcare and engineering because of the hands-on experiences and mentorship they receive from faculty. But due to the growth of the program, laboratory space has been in short supply.
"When they were built, Science Halls 1 and 2 were designed to create instructional capacity for a younger, smaller university," said Kantardjieff. "With our tremendous growth in enrollment and hiring of research active faculty, we've struggled to provide adequate space for instruction and research. This gift from Hunter Industries was instrumental in getting the ball rolling on this expensive project."
An educated work force is the foundation of a growing economy and essential to the prosperity of businesses and our community. We are proud to be partners with CSUSM...
Greg Hunter, president of Hunter Industries
Tsui, an experimental condensed matter physicist, says the new space is allowing him to take his research and mentorship of students to the next level.
"My former laboratory space was never designed to fit more than three people at a time-it was literally a converted storage room. In this new, larger lab space, I'm able to expand my research into nanoparticles, which required use of a fume hood which I didn't previously have."
"This new lab is allowing me to carry out some of my exciting research at the intersection of astrophysics and chemistry-research that is being carried out in part by undergraduate STEM students at CSUSM," said Dominguez. "It is the epicenter for what I hope will be the beginning of a long tradition of carrying out important fundamental research that will advance our understanding of nanoscale physics and surface chemistry, isotope geochemistry, and our origins from an astrophysical perspective."
Greg Hunter, president of Hunter Industries, said, "An educated work force is the foundation of a growing economy and essential to the prosperity of businesses and our community. We are proud to be partners with CSUSM, a vital educational institution in our region, and hope that we can inspire others to step forward and support the applied physics program in the College of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics."
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Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger returns to Derry
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This year, for some insane reason the school have decided that the children will return on the 10th January. The tenth! Can you believe it? That's almost three weeks off. #FFS
During the holidays, Tom and I endeavour to continue as normal with our home-based work throughout the distractions, pestering for activities, food and drinks, squabbles, cuddle-breaks and a marvellous new habit which involves a child or both loitering around us while we're busy with our work, looking very hard done by and disappointed, despite the million things to do without adult supervision at fingertips.
We do attempt to take turns to work while the other dad sorts out cuddles, activities and periodic tellings-off for squabbling - luckily my freelance writing and designing can usually slot in around other activities and Tom's saved a week's annual leave. Phew.
On Christmas day we did the big opening of prezzies under the tree ceremony which of course was magical and amazing and completely OTT. Loved every minute. Then, we lobbed all of the screwed-up wrapping paper into a huge messy pile in the dining room to get it out of the way, cooked and scoffed a full english brekky and left everything behind to set off for Tom's parents down in Cambridge.
So naturally we returned home on Boxing day to a house full of unopened new toys, games and gadgets and a tremendous mess in the dining room and kitchen. The house has been up for sale for the last four weeks and we've grown accustom to an immaculate show-home level of tidiness so this new mess is quite a shock to the system. After an unenthusiastic load of the dishwasher, Tom and I decided that we'll abandon the house completely and take the boys on a spontaneous city break rather than address the problem head-on. Tom's off work anyway this week and I can take my work with me as long as there's wifi and coffee, so, why not?!
Birmingham's only a short drive away and there's loads to see there so I had a quick Google of hotels with 'family rooms' in Birmingham.
The "Family Room"
Now. As a family with two kids we've stayed in many hotels before and the experience often leaves us wondering whether the designer of the 'family room' has actually given a moment's thought to how a family's sleeping dynamic might work. Of course, as a parent you naturally wave goodbye to your privacy but is it too much to ask for a little consideration about a hotel room's layout to at least allow the parents to stay up a little longer than the kids? Yes, apparently.
Take Travelodge, for example. Their family rooms are not the worst by far however their layout is essentially a smallish double bed with two pull-out camp beds (my parents call them zedd beds, you know what I mean) on either side. This means that once the children are in bed, the parents have to climb up onto the double bed in between the kids via the foot of the bed. There's no dignified solution. Children are almost guaranteed a foot or bum in their face. Once settled in between their wide-awake bored looking children, parents are overlooked by irritating neighbours on both sides, like an undesirable back garden.
Premier Inn is similar, if a little more spacious but the same concept, as is Crown Plaza, Holiday Inn Express and the majority of other mid to high end hotel brands.
Ibis hotels' family rooms inadvertently partly solve the issue by providing a single bunk bed above the parents' double, however this leaves no space for the other child who is presumably expected to sleep on the floor or in a bed with his parents (sod that!).
Butlins Wave Hotel is by miles the best family hotel we've ever stayed in, with a separate soundproof twin room for the children and a huge king-sized room for the parents. It's everything you wouldn't expect from Butlins - contemporary, quiet and spotlessly clean. I'm not getting anything for plugging that one, by the way!
Anyway, Jury's Inn offer a more appealing large-ish family room containing two large double beds. I chose Jury's Inn for our Birmingham trip.
The trouble is that two sibling brothers can't share a double bed. No way, na-ah, never going to happen in a million years. So that meant that I had to share with Ritchie (snoring, head-banging heavy sleeper) while Tom had to share with Lyall (kicking, wriggling, cuddly light sleeper). Despite this, we managed to sleep fairly well.
As a family we tend to avoid big touristy expensive city attractions but instead we like to go off the beaten track and explore on foot, saving our money for eating out and stuff. Birmingham's great for exploring because it's currently undergoing an enormous development. We haven't seen anything like it in the UK before - it's mind-blowing. As you wander about, you find yourself beneath huge building sites and half-built sky scrapers. There's wrecking-balls, cranes and rubble everywhere. It's very exciting for the kids.
We were in Birmingham for two nights so we had loads of time. On the first evening the weather was horrendous (heavy sleet - think ice-bucket challenge and you'd not be far off) so we took the boys to see Jumanji at the cinema just along from the hotel. I won't bother you with a proper review; it's an excellent, hilarious film. There is one swear word in the film about half way through that made both the boys grin and bounce about like idiots. I expect if you asked them what their favourite thing about Jumanji is they would happily tell you that it's the bit where The Rock says the bad word that rhymes with 'hiss off'.
On day two, we sludged through the sleet and snow for about three miles in the direction of the Wildlife Conservation Centre in leafy Egbaston in the hope that it would be a bit like a cheap small zoo. Much to everybody's disappointment when we eventually arrived it was closed - even though the website had said that it was open. So, we invested in a family travel ticket that lasts all day on the trams and buses and headed back into the city centre. The boys absolutely LOVE a double-decker.
Back in the city, we took the escalators right to the very top of the city library, wandered around the wooden festive market and paused for a lovely fizzy beer (and a pot of tea for the boys) in a posh pub in the Mailbox.
In the afternoon the weather was horrible and freezing, so we decided to grab a picnic from Sainsbury's and hop back onto the first double-decker bus without paying any attention to its destination. Upstairs on the bus we sat right at the front (obviously) before realising that the windows were completely covered in steamy condensation - we couldn't see out what-so-ever. The bus left its bus stop and immediately turned off to the left at the first big roundabout (a surprise for us as the city centre was right) and then took off along a dual carriageway.
We didn't want to get off part way along the route and wait for the next bus back as it was likely that we'd end up waiting in freezing sleet in a horrible part of east Birmingham. So instead we decided to stick it out. Two hours later we got back to the city centre after a trip all the way to the airport and back, stopping at no less than 30 stops in each direction!
Despite Tom and I feeling a little sick of bus travel by then, both the boys immediately asked if we could hop onto the next bus. Luckily it was dinner time so we decided to find a nice restaurant near the hotel instead.
After a tasty pizza each at a nice restaurant next to the canal, back in the hotel we all had achy legs and feet from the day's exploring and travelling.
Rather than putting the kids into bed and then sitting uncomfortably quietly, sipping wine out of little hotel coffee cups (it's a means to an end) Tom and I decided that we would all get ready for bed and watch Harry Potter on the TV together.
It was a lovely evening, bonding as a family, cuddling and relaxing in our two big double beds. About half-way through Harry Potter, both boys dosed off so Tom and I managed a rare half an hour on our own (kind of).
So, in answer to my question back up there at the top, 'is there such a thing as an enjoyable family city break?'... Yes! Provided that you choose a hotel with a decent family room, go off the beaten track, use the public transport and eat pizza!
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Marvel’s new Miles Morales ‘Spider-Man’ comic is classic superhero tale
Miles Morales is back as the web-slinger after the universe-resetting 'Secret Wars' drama.
Feb 29, 2020, 12:13 pm*
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
Following Secret Wars, Marvel‘s tangled continuity has been straightened out into a single universe—more or less.
For Miles Morales, that means an upgrade of sorts. Instead of being the Spider-Man of the Ultimate Universe, he’s now headlining the main Spider-Man title. The first issue came out this Wednesday, and it feels like a classic return to form.
Writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli returned for the All New, All Different Spider-Man, reminding us why Miles Morales is such a perfect choice to continue the comic’s legacy. His problems—balancing schoolwork and superheroics, lying to his parents, failing to get a date—are quintessentially Spider-Man problems, but they feel more youthful and fresh than with Peter Parker, who spent decades in narrative stasis as the eternal (and dubiously plausible) underdog.
Spider-Man #1
Spider-Man #1 reads like a direct continuation of where Ultimate Spider-Man left off in 2013, although Miles and his best friend Ganke are visibly older. It’s also a great starting point for new readers, since the story is classic superhero-comics fare: Miles struggles with his secret identity and fights a mysterious demon attacking New York. The only snag is the shadow of Secret Wars, which feels more like a mildly confusing interruption than a momentous crossover event.
Why you should pick up Spider-Man #1
Sara Pichelli’s adorable faces. Pichelli is one of the more photo-realistic artists working for Marvel at the moment, and her action sequences feel very energetic and film-like—an essential feature for Spider-Man. But for me, the real highlight is her command of facial expressions and body language, with Miles as the ultimate goofy teenager.
Miles and Ganke’s friendship. Giving Spider-Man a best friend was a stroke of genius, and Ganke continues to be a wonderful character: nerdy yet self-assured and unselfconsciously supportive and warmhearted toward Miles. All of their conversations feel like real teen-boy interactions, but not stereotypically so.
Miles Morales’ original run began with a splash, garnering Marvel widespread media attention for casting a biracial teen as the new Spider-Man. This series is less of a headline-grabber, but it proves what many fans had already believed: Miles Morales is an archetypal Marvel hero and an ideal headliner for a mainstream title like this.
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*First Published: Feb 3, 2016, 10:00 am
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw is a staff writer at the Daily Dot, covering geek culture and fandom. Specializing in sci-fi movies and superheroes, she also appears as a film and TV critic on BBC radio. Elsewhere, she co-hosts the pop culture podcast Overinvested. Follow her on Twitter: @Hello_Tailor
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Constable: Sugar Grove library offers waffle-maker, microscope, air compressor -- and books
Shannon Halikias, director of the Sugar Grove Public Library, says patrons can check out such items as a waffle-maker, a ukulele and a microscope from the Library of Wonderful Things. Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
The Library of Wonderful Things at the Sugar Grove Public Library allows patrons to check out fun items such as this waffle-maker. The program also has educational items such as a microscope. Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Books are still the bread and butter of libraries, but the Sugar Grove Public Library also lets patrons check out a snow-cone maker, ukulele, microscope, selfie sticks and other items from its Library of Wonderful Things. Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Shannon Halikias, director of the Sugar Grove Public Library looks through shelves containing a microscope, ukulele, air compressor, waffle-maker and other items from its Library of Wonderful Things. Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
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Updated 2/6/2020 6:40 AM
You can, of course, still swing by the local library to pick up a wonderful book. But patrons of the Sugar Grove Public Library have been visiting its Library of Wonderful Things to check out more unusual items, such as a waffle-maker, a selfie stick, mobile Wi-Fi hot spots, a punch bowl, an air compressor, a snow-cone machine, a microscope, a karaoke machine, a Roku streaming TV device, cookie cutters or a ukulele.
"We've gotten hot spots, Roku, the laminator, a Kindle, the binoculars and the telescope," says Char Buerger, who visits the library with her husband, Mike, daughter Isabella, 13, and sons Logan, 11, Vinny, 6, and Gabe, 3. "We're always there getting something different."
Isabelle used the laminator to apply a plastic coating to pieces of a memory game she designed for an early childhood education project in class. With Logan playing summer football, that meant lots of trips in the car, where Buerger used the hot spot to stay connected to the internet.
"My kids, if they start working on homework in the car on the way home from school, they connect to the hot spots," Buerger says.
While some felt the internet would do to libraries what the asteroid did to dinosaurs, libraries are kicking it these days. A new Gallup poll proclaims visiting the library the most common cultural activity engaged in by Americans. Responders said they visit the library an average of 10.5 times a year -- nearly twice as often as people attend movies (5.3 times a year), and more than go to sporting events (4.7 times a year), live theatrical or musical events (4 times a year) or museums or casinos (both 2.5 times annually).
The Sugar Grove Public Library's wall of wonderful lets patrons check out items such as mobile Wi-Fi hot spots, an air compressor, cookie cutters, a waffle-maker or a ukulele, says Shannon Halikias, director of the library. - Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Circulation at the Sugar Grove library is up 40 percent since 2016, says Director Shannon Halikias. Patrons check out an average of 42 items a month from the Library of Wonderful.
"We put a lot of thought into the first wave of items. I think it's part of our mission," Halikias says.
"If you're having a birthday party and looking for entertainment, you can check out a karaoke machine," she adds.
The punch bowl (donated by a resident) and the snow-cone machine might also be a fun addition.
A lot of homework these days is online. "Not every family can afford the internet," Halikias says, noting the mobile hot spots give families free internet for home use or a road trip.
"This is really popular with home-school parents," she says of the microscope. "The air compressor is pretty cool because you wouldn't think a library would have that." A flat tire or other car emergency might be solved with a trip to the library. "I'm actually going to put some jumper cables in there," Halikias says, noting that a couple of patrons have walked out of the library to discover dead batteries this winter.
These binoculars used by Shannon Halikias, director of the Sugar Grove Public Library, are among the unusual items patrons can check out from the Library of Wonderful Things. - Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Some of the items available are designed for "cultural enrichment and education," while others are "quirky and fun," she says. They all are meant to broaden horizons.
"It makes me go wow when I see what kids can do when they have resources and support," Halikias says. Her sons, Lio, 16, and Luke, 14, are avid library-goers. Lio recorded a rap in a studio in a Naperville library, she says, noting she'd love to add that option to the Sugar Grove library so patrons can record music or host podcasts.
The library has applied for a Live and Learn Construction Grant from the state to improve the building, but Halikias says the library also is looking for donations to the Library of Wonderful. Adaptive technology and devices such as wheelchairs or crutches are on the wish list, as are a chocolate fondue fountain, a posthole digger, a sewing machine and fishing rods.
It can be fun to try new things.
"My husband actually tried out the ukulele," Buerger says, opting for her kids' gentle review of his performance. "They all got a kick out of it."
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Royal experts say everyone 'from the Queen down are very worried' about the direction 'divisive' Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are taking as they give their verdicts on extraordinary ITV interviews
Queen and senior royals are 'very worried' about Meghan and Harry's media war
Experts say the palace are concerned and 'horrified' by content of interviews
Meghan Markle told of difficulties at being in the spotlight in ITV documentary
The couple spoke to ITN News At Ten host Tom Bradby on their tour of Africa
By Ed Riley and Monica Greep For Mailonline
The Queen and senior royals are 'very worried' about the direction 'divisive' Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are heading after they launched their extraordinary attack on the British media, royal experts claim.
Royal commentator Phil Dampier, who wrote 'Royally Suited' about Harry and Meghan's romance, said senior royals 'from the Queen down' are concerned and branded their comments in their new ITV documentary 'very serious'.
Jonny Dymond, the BBC's royal correspondent, said: 'I think they (the royal family) will be pretty horrified actually.'
While royal commentator Penny Junor described the couple's actions as a 'big mistake'.
It comes after the Sussexes told of their struggles with being in the spotlight and 'unfair' scrutiny in an explosive documentary called 'Meghan and Harry: An African Journey' that aired last night.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex told of their struggles with being in the spotlight and the 'unfair' scrutiny they now face in interviews shown on an ITV documentary last nigh
In Meghan's first on-screen interview since becoming a mother the former Suits actress insisted that she had 'no idea' about the level of attention she would face
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Phil Dampier, who has written about the royals over three decades, said: 'I hope on their six week holiday they reflect very carefully on what they do next.
'They had turned a corner with the Africa trip but all the good works were overshadowed by this attack on the press. 'They are either being badly advised or ignoring advice.'
The documentary, presented by long-time friend of Prince Harry and ITV anchor Tom Bradby, saw Meghan admit she had 'no idea' she would face such intense scrutiny.
Royal commentator Penny Junor (pictured in 2017) described the couple's actions as a 'big mistake'
In her first on-screen interview since becoming a mother, the former Suits actress appeared to be holding back tears as she talked about being 'vulnerable' during her pregnancy with baby Archie.
But Mr Dampier said: 'I'm frankly astonished that Meghan is surprised by scrutiny from the tabloids and that she claims there aren't any tabloids in the US.
'She has been an actress for many years and must've had all sorts of publicity, good and bad. I can't believe she would be that naive.
'Also, surely Harry, who is so desperate to protect her, would have warned her right from the start what she was letting herself in for. And they both said as much in their engagement interview.
'I can honestly say that most tabloid royal reporters and editors I know wanted Meghan to succeed and saw her as a breath of fresh air.
'They have brought the bad press on themselves by lecturing people about climate change while using private jets themselves, telling the public - who paid for their home renovations - that they couldn't see pictures of Archie's christening, or know the names of his godparents, or even their dog! The British people don't like hypocrisy.'
The programme also sees Bradby quiz Harry about his relationship with his brother.
Appearing to confirm the rumoured 'rift' between the 'Fab Four' - Harry, Meghan, William and Kate, Harry said he and his brother are on 'different paths'.
Mr Dampier commented: 'It was very significant that Harry admitted there were problems with William.
'That proves the tabloids don't just make everything up and there has been a rift.'
Royal commentator Penny Junor described the couple's television appearance as a 'huge mistake', and urged the duke to change his approach.
She said: 'My advice would be to keep his head down, and I'm afraid to say, stop whingeing.
'It's beginning to sound like a bit of a whinge. That's not the Harry that we know and love.
'Yes, Harry's been through a lot, but there's a lot of other people who have been through a hell of a lot as well, and a lot of people who don't have the privileges that he has.'
Phil Dampier, author of Royally Suited - a book on Harry and Meghan's romance, who has written about the royals for three deca
Ms Junor acknowledged Harry and Meghan are doing 'good work' with their platform, but he 'has to get a grip on himself'.
She said: 'He does do, and can continue to do, some really good work and make a real difference to people's lives.
'He's got to stop feeling sorry for himself and look at the positives - shut out the criticism, just ignore it as his father has done, and get on with the work, get on with the job.'
She suggested Harry should follow the Queen and the Prince of Wales's leads.
The expert added: 'The royal family has always in the past very successfully pursued this policy of keeping their head down and saying nothing.
'I think that is a dignified way of dealing with problems, but it's not the American way and that's the real problem.'
She continued: 'I think it's fine if you need somebody to speak to. Maybe the Queen and Prince Charles have not internalised it.
'But their counsellor has not been the great British public via a television documentary.
'It's fine to speak to someone in private, a therapist, but don't spill your soul in public. I don't think it works.'
She compared Harry's behaviour to that of his mother's, adding: 'Diana was a great one for baring her soul in public. Harry is doing exactly the same thing.
'Diana also read absolutely everything that was written about her and got profoundly depressed about it.'
The prince is questioned about his relationship with his brother (pictured, with wife Kate) in which he appears to confirm there has been rift
Royal fans spot the adorable moment ITV cameras caught... 'I keep telling H, it's not enough to survive... you've got...
Ms Junor said Harry's father Charles had his own troubles with the press, but took a very different stance.
'When I interviewed Prince Charles in the 1980s and his marriage was in trouble, he said to me that he got so angry when he read the newspapers, because they were all so full of lies and he wanted to correct each and every one,' Junor revealed.
Robert Jobson (pictured in August 2017), royal editor of the Evening Standard, revealed that senior royals have 'gone out of their way' to make the Duchess of Sussex feel welcome
'He realised that you can't do that, so he stopped reading the newspapers and he read The Times and that was it. It's far better just to ignore it and just let everything go.'
The royal writer said the Queen had kept her personal feelings and emotions to herself throughout her reign.
'I'm sure there are times when she has found life difficult, but we don't know that and I think she's always conducted herself with huge dignity, and the British public appreciate that,' she said.
'Of course we're talking about different generations, but I think she'd probably be a little bit dismayed by what is going on at the moment. I think it was a huge mistake to make this documentary in this vein.'
Earlier the BBC's royal correspondent Jonny Dymond listed the reasons the documentary comments were a 'mistake'.
He said: 'One is because whoever wins these legal actions with the newspapers, are the newspapers actually going to change what they do? Because the newspapers don't think they have done anything wrong.
'They think this is about reporting about what is going on. Secondly, the monarchy is supposed to be a unifying force in this country, and yet a very significant chunk of it, Harry and Meghan, are being divisive.
'It runs against what the monarchy is doing in these already divisive times.'
Myers said Meghan was 'very, very vulnerable' and revealed that the family are considering permanently moving away following their break from the spotlight
Mr Dymond added: 'The relationship with his brother, Prince William, has clearly changed. Not surprisingly perhaps, he got married. But is clearly changed for the worse.
'There is clearly some fairly rough times in that relationship. Its a very unhappy picture.'
Robert Jobson, royal editor of the Evening Standard, earlier revealed that senior royals have 'gone out of their way' to make the Duchess of Sussex feel welcome.
A Palace figure told the newspaper: 'I know that the Prince of Wales has several times reached out to Meghan.
'They get on and share a love of music too. I know he invited her to a preview of an exhibition at the palace.
'The Queen has been a source of strength too and invited them both to Balmoral where family problems are usually aired.'
Jonny Dymond (pictured), the BBC's royal correspondent, said: 'I think they (the royal family) will be pretty horrified actually.'
Today the Daily Mirror's royal editor Russell Myers appeared on Lorraine to speak about the documentary.
He said the interview could be the 'beginning of the end' of the couple's relationship with Harry's family - because her comments reflect poorly on the other royals.
The royal expert explained that her comments insinuate that the likes of Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, and Prince William and Kate Middleton are unconcerned about the well-being of Meghan, despite them all being aware of the 'struggles she's going through'.
He said: 'Meghan is struggling. The very powerful moment where she says nobody has asked her if she's okay, I think that was very raw and very emotional.
'But I think this is potentially very damaging for the royal family as well.
'Because what does she mean by that? Does she mean that Prince Charles, Prince William, Kate, Camilla, have not asked her how she is?
'They obviously understand the struggles she's going through as well.'
He went on to explain that he's been on engagements with the royal couple where the pair 'don't look like they're having fun', and compared their recent tour of Africa to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's recent tour of Pakistan.
He said: 'At its base they don't look very happy, they look like they're struggling in the public eye.
'When I've been on engagements with them they don't look like they're having fun - a lot of comparisons were made with William and Kate's tour of Pakistan.
'They looked like they were having a good time.
Myers alleged that Meghan's accusation of nobody asking whether she's 'okay' suggested that senior royals, including Prince Charles and Camilla Parka Bowles, were unconcerned with her well-being
'Will they be stepping away? We could be seeing the beginning of the end with their relationship with the royal family.'
Buckingham Palace has declined to comment.
In last night's programme, Meghan told how her friends warned her not to marry Harry because the tabloid focus would 'destroy your life' and Harry said that he felt pressure to 'protect' his family from unwanted media intrusion.
Meghan revealed that 'not many people have asked if I'm OK' and admitted that she was finding her new role as a public figure 'a struggle'.
Their comments came following months of controversy involving Meghan and Harry, who came under fire for their privacy demands over Archie's christening, their use of private jets, and Meghan's Wimbledon appearance when she banned fans from taking photos.
They are suing the Mail on Sunday over its publication of Meghan's estranged father's letters, and have begun legal action against the Sun and Mirror news groups over allegations of phone hacking dating back to the early 2000s.
Royal Family 'concerned' about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
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Banned whistleblower member from Exeter Mosque denies accusations against him
“We were not allowed to defend ourselves, and the accusers were also the judges"
Anita Merritt
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One of the three members who has been indefinitely banned from Exeter Mosque has spoken out to deny accusations being made against them.
Last week the mosque announced on social media it had made the ‘difficult decision’ to ban three members of its Muslim community due to ‘unacceptable behaviour’ and ‘malicious actions’.
The cultural centre in York Road said the harassment and intimidation of some individuals over a prolonged period time has cost it immense time, money and people resources.
However, one of the banned members claims the mosque did not give them an opportunity to defend themselves and believes the decision was taken after one of the members 'exposed' alleged links to al-Qaeda.
Exeter Mosque and Sadiq Al-Ghariani
Last year Exeter Mosque denied links to extremism after receiving donations from radical clerk Sheikh Sadiq Al-Ghariani, who was expelled from the UK over his hard-line views.
He is known to have donated an undisclosed sum of money to Exeter Mosque and the banned member launched a petition put online by members of the Muslim community in Exeter, claiming the donations from Mr Ghariani came to a total of almost £250,000.
Exeter Mosque denies links to extremism after receiving donations from radical cleric
The banned member said: “I blew the whistle and now me and my family are being targeted to send a message to anyone else not to speak up or else they risk social exile and ostracisation.
“We were not allowed to defend ourselves, and the accusers were also the judges. I believe we are being targeted for doing our bit to keep Britain safe from radical and violent extremists.
“There is absolutely no foundation to the allegations levelled against us, including the use of physical violence and intimidation, or of harming a 13-year-old child.
“The mosque premises is covered with CCTV and the police have been called on dozens of occasions over the past few years, yet we have always been law-abiding and peaceful and the fact we have no criminal records despite extensive police involvement speaks for itself.”
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Devon and Cornwall Police said its local team are aware of an ongoing civil dispute between parties at Exeter Mosque, and confirmed officers have been called to attend in recent weeks.
A spokesman said: "While we continue to enjoy very good relationships with the Muslim community across Exeter, it is not for the police to play a role in relation to internal, civil matters at the mosque.
"We have been, and remain, in touch with both parties, and continue to stress our impartiality, and have made it clear that if there is any crime or disorder, local officers will attend and deal as they deem appropriate in the circumstances, as they would with any other dispute in our community."
Exeter Mosque said were approached for a comment.
Last week the mosque posted on Twitter: “In recent years, Exeter Mosque has had to face many challenges in different forms, including the great diversity we share in our place of worship.
"We are tremendously humbled by the unity of our congregators and members, however, when the peace, harmony and sanctity of our masjid is shattered, we have no option but to take steps to ensure that this unity remains intact.”
Exeter Mosque bans three members due to ‘unacceptable behaviour’
It added: “It is with great disappointment and despite its best endeavours to find alternative solutions for more than three years, that Exeter Mosque is no longer able to waste its resources and allow such threatening behaviours that harassed and intimidated so many.”
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The ultimatum of all human decrees and wisdom is to gratify the passions of the flesh at the expense of the spirit. The prophets and those who have stood nearest the fountain of universal knowledge used dreams with more frequency than any other mode of divination.
Profane, as well as sacred, history is threaded with incidents of reverie prophecy. Ancient history relates that Gennadius was convinced of the immortality of his soul by conversing with an apparition in his dream.
Through the reverie of Cecilia Metella, the wife of a Consul, the Roman Senate was induced to order the temple of Juno Sospita rebuilt.
The Emperor Marcian dreamed he saw the bow of the Hunnish conqueror break on the same night that Attila died.
Plutarch relates how Augustus, while ill, through the reverie of a friend, was persuaded to leave his tent, which a few hours after was captured by the enemy, and the bed whereon he had lain was pierced with the enemies' swords.
If Julius Caesar had been less incredulous about dreams he would have listened to the warning which Calpurnia, his wife, received in a reverie.
Croesus saw his son killed in a daydream.
Petrarch saw his beloved Laura, in a daydream, on the day she died, after which he wrote his beautiful poem, ``The Triumph of Death.''
Cicero relates the story of two traveling Arcadians who went to different lodgings—one to an inn, and the other to a private house. During the night the latter dreamed that his friend was begging for help. The dreamer awoke; but, thinking the matter unworthy of notice, went to sleep again. The second time he dreamed his friend appeared, saying it would be too late, for he had already been murdered and his body hid in a cart, under manure. The cart was afterward sought for and the body found. Cicero also wrote, ``If the gods love men they will certainly disclose their purposes to them in sleep.''
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Croup Cough Fever: What to Do If Your Kid Gets Fever in Croup?
by Aastha Kapoor, MS, Biotechnology Last updated on October 3, 2019,
Croup Cough Overview
Barking Cough
An infection in the upper airway of the respiratory system leads to a condition known as Croup Cough. The area around the vocal cords and windpipe is swollen due to which it leads to cough and other such symptoms. This disease usually occurs in children of age below 5 years.
Does croup fever occur in croup cough disease? Is there always a fever with croup?
During Croup, a bacterial or viral infection occurs in the upper respiratory tract due to which the body temperature rises. The croup fever would range from 100-103.F. When the child experiences fever, the chances of spreading the infection would be high.
In the beginning, a child may have cold symptoms such as a stuffy or runny nose and fever. But, having fever is not necessary in Croup. Some kids don’t have any fever at all in croup.
As the upper airways become irritated and inflamed, the voice may become hoarse and a child develops the barking cough. The symptoms worsen in the night usually.
See also: Croup Cough: Causes, Symptoms, Complications, Diagnosis, Treatment
See also: Albuterol For Croup Cough: How Does Albuterol Work?
What medication should be provided in croup fever?
Specific non-steriodal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen can be provided to the child, which could reduce the fever and also decrease pain in the throat.
Do steroids help cure croup fever?
Steriods are recommended for croup cough but these do not work against fever. These steroids work against other symptoms such as cough and breathlessness experienced by the child.
How long does the fever last in croup disease?
The child may suffer from a mild fever for about 3 days. Other symptoms of croup cough disease though may last longer for about a week, depending upon the severity of infection.
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Is croup fever a major cause to worry?
Fever during croup is a common symptom which can be easily treated by some antipyretic drug. But if the fever reaches 104.F or if it lasts for more than 3 days then you should immediately consult a doctor or visit a hospital. It may then be a sign of worry.
If your child has croup, the symptoms are likely to be worse at night and better during the day. Sometimes, symptoms can become better when your child is exposed to cool air.
Most cases of croup are mild and go away on their own when treated with home remedies, still some children may develop more severe symptoms and need immediate medical attention.
Such more severe symptoms are:
Difficulty in breathing or stridor when your child is sleeping
Bluish discoloration of fingernails or around a child’s mouth
Lethargy, laziness
Difficulties in swallowing
Contact a child doctor if you notice any of these symptoms in your child. The earlier they are treated, the better it is.
Aastha Kapoor is a biotechnologist who loves to work for the human field and, at the same time, explore biotechnology. She pursued Masters in Biotechnology from Amity University, Noida, and has worked as a Research Trainee at the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Aastha has worked as a Senior Research Associate at Maxinov Solutions.
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She is the ex-wife of one of the most successful managers the Patriots have ever seen, winning three out of four seasons with the team. Naturally, people want to learn everything about him and since hearing he was once married before, fans are curious to know who she was. Read Debby Clarke Belichick’s wiki to know more about Bill Belichick’s ex-wife.
She is much more than Bill Belichick’s ex-wife and mother of his three kids. Debby Clarke Belichick was once married to one of the most successful managers that the Patriots have ever seen. The New England Patriots’ head coach, Bill Belichick was also her high school sweetheart. They were married for 28 years before divorcing in 2006. In our Debby Clarke Belichick wiki, we will tell you everything you need to know about the small business owner.
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Bill Belichick and Debby Belichick were married for over two decades before they split. Between them, they ran the Bill and Debby Belichick Charity Foundation, which was founded in 1993 and aimed to help poor and homeless people in Cleveland and Massachusetts. Bill and Debby Clarke Belichick’s kids are Amanda, Stephen, and Brian. Just like their father, both Stephen and Brian now work for the Patriots.
Debby Belichick filed for divorce after her husband’s alleged affair with Sharon Shenocca, a receptionist for the New York Giants. At the time, he was the team’s defensive coordinator. It was reported that he showered her with costly gifts, including a $2.2 million townhouse, and approximately $3,000 a month.
Though we have seen plenty of her ex-husband, Debby Belichick’s photos are scarce. She managed to maintain a low-profile since her very public divorce.
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Why do Cats Meow?: Curious Questions About Your Favorite Pets (Hardcover)
By Lily Snowden-Fine, Nick Crumpton (With)
Charming and educational, Why Do Cats Meow? will teach you everything you’ve always wanted to know about your furry feline companion.
In this new addition to the Curious Questions About Your Favorite Pets series, children will learn everything they’ve always wanted to know about their cats. This book answers questions like, “How long have people kept cats?,” “Why do cats like scratching chairs?,” “What does ‘meow’ mean?,” and “Do cats have nine lives?”
Combining mythological stories—such as how the superstitions surrounding black cats originated and the prominent role cats played in ancient Egyptian worship—with zoological information, Why Do Cats Meow? is a fun, unique reading experience. Children will learn how best to care for their own pet and come to understand why humans and cats have such a special relationship.
Lily Snowden-Fine is an illustrator and painter based in Toronto. Her clients include the New York Times and Globe and Mail, among others.
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With appealingly naïve styling, Snowden-Fine’s double-page spreads offer gentle humor as cats of vastly different species, colors, and sizes interpret the text… A good addition to the cat canon.
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Fun... With accessible factual answers, this enjoyable picture book will leave even veteran cat-lovers with their info-bank replenished.
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Publication Date: September 8th, 2020
Minimum Grade Level: K
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Ely students raises more than £3,000 for Hope 4 Malawi charity
Published: 12:00 PM July 19, 2018 Updated: 11:34 AM November 1, 2020
King's Ely students have raised over £3,000 for the charity Hope 4 Malawi. - Credit: SM
Students at an Ely school raised over £3,000 for a charity working to help people living in poor areas of South Africa.
Each year, the boys in Osmond House at King’s Ely Senior choose a different charity to support and over the last 12 months they have been fundraising for Hope 4 Malawi.
The charity is raising money for projects and trips where participants teach in schools, take assemblies and run conferences and children’s clubs.
The majority of the money raised was achieved at Osfest – the annual fundraising event organised by students in Osmond House.
Just before the end of term, a group of representatives from the charity visited King’s Ely to meet the boys of Osmond House, their housemaster Paul Lott, and to receive a cheque for £3,120.
The money means around 260 children will get to go to primary school in Malawi for a whole year.
The charity has also received hundreds of books from the school, which would have otherwise been recycled.
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Gaming At The Kids Table With Amazing Tales
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Here at EN World, I'm looking at all-ages tabletop role-playing games, board games, and card games. Do they engage the players at the kids' gaming table? Would they cut it at the adults' table? Are they genuinely fun for every age? Amazing Tales is "a game for children who love adventures". Martin Lloyd's RPG is designed for a GM and one or two young players, and includes the rules, GM tips for young gamers, four settings with adventure hooks, and more.
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This game targets the younger side of "youth" with engaging yet simple mechanics. The rules for the game are summarized on a single page and then elaborated on throughout the book. Points in Amazing Tales' favor as more RPGs could take this cue and lead with an overview of the rules before the deeper discussions of the details. For the system, each character has a name, appearance (including items or companions), background, four skills, and that's it; no AC, no HP, and no STR. The four skills – each unique and created by the player and GM – get a die between d6 and d12 to represent how proficient the character is in those skills. Here are some example skills from the book:
Being friendly
Doing magic
Talking to animals
Flying quickly
Fighting monsters
Finding hidden things
They're broad categories and to succeed at one the player chooses the appropriate die then needs to roll over a static number. The streamlined system is matched to a constant GM mandate – every encounter should be a string of questions to the player(s). Have the player describe what they do and allow them to narrate the results of their actions. While the GM is the ultimate arbitrator, this calls for more player input than some RPGs. It also puts more of the workload on young shoulders (and the book has suggestions to help with that workload). There are discussions about fights but no discussions about death (a topic that is too weighty for their target audience). There's encouragement for the GM to always say yes to whatever direction the player is taking the story. While the game encourages you and your player to make up the setting, the book offers four great generic options to test out in case you don't want to invest the time. Using these, you can jumpstart their very first adventure.
Tales from the Deep Dark Wood
Tales from Magical Kingdoms Long Ago
Adventures on the Pirate Seas
Adventures Among the Stars
To bring the setting to life, the book includes some pieces of art that are strikingly well-rendered and appropriate for this project's intended audience. Iris Maertens' work is youthful, kinetic, cartoony, and wondrous.
Does Amazing Tales win the kids' table? Yes, provided there are only one or two players. With larger groups, you'd need to add some initative mechanics or you run the risk of over-focusing on a single player. But the lack of scale is the beauty of this game, it's designed for fewer players so one player can get the full experience. Amazing Tales is the RPG training wheels that answers the question, "What's the youngest age you can start role-playing?"
Would Amazing Tales work at the adults' table? No. That's not a harsh no; instead, this is a no because this game is not intended for adults – not that many of the games I review are – this is really a system designed to let four year olds game. Because of that, it's perfect for its target audience and a great first time RPG.
contributed by Egg Embry
Egg Embry is part of EN World's Columnist (ENWC) program as well as a columnist for Knights of the Dinner Table, d20 Radio, High Level Games, the Open Gaming Network, the Tessera Guild, and GAMA's magazine, Around the Table. His area of focus is tabletop RPG crowdfunding campaigns. His RPGs can be found through Egg Embry Publishing at DriveThruRPG (PDF) and Itch (PDF/Print).
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I'm so glad you spotted this one and reviewed it--I've played it a bunch with my kids (ranging from 4 to 9) and they love it endlessly. I'll add that it's easy enough to run that I play it with the kids while driving--having them roll into a cupholder.
I do disagree with the limit to two kids--I've had no trouble with three and even four children in a party.
Brian Fitzgerald1
That’s so good to hear. I bought this to play with my niece and nephew this summer so haven’t given it a spin yet. But I love the quality of the book and the illustrations are fun and beautiful and full of life. Can’t wait to play!!!!
FCWesel
Too bad it's not available for retail stores.
Sithikurro
Wow this looks like it could win with "No Thank You, Evil!" Might be difficult to get here, though...
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It's on the shelf in my FLGS!
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John Cena Hints "Lack of Forgiveness" Could Be Keeping Him and Nikki Bella Apart
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Did a lack of communication cause John Cena and Nikki Bella to drift apart? The WWE star took to Twitter on Thursday morning to send a message to his social media followers about the importance of communication and forgiveness, one month after calling it quits with the Total Bellas star.
"Lack of communication is many times what causes people to drift apart, lack of forgiveness is many times what causes people to stay apart," Cena tweeted.
This message comes three days after Cena professed his love for his ex on Today, expressing that he still wants to marry her and be the father of her children.
Nikki Bella Reacts to John Cena Professing His Love on Today
Lack of communication is many times what causes people to drift apart, lack of forgiveness is many times what causes people to stay apart.
— John Cena (@JohnCena) May 17, 2018
"It's up and it's down," Cena replied when asked how he's doing after their breakup. "It's been incredibly reflective, which is amazing, but it's very difficult. I had my heart broken out of nowhere—or for me it was out of nowhere. Anyone who has experienced that knows it comes with a series of bad feelings."
"I still love Nicole, I would love to marry Nicole, I still would love to have a family with Nicole. It was an unfortunate set of circumstances where our relationship ended," he continued, later adding, "I love her. I want to be with her. I want to make her my wife. I want to be the father of her children. I just want us to work."
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That same day, Bella opened up to E! News about her split with Cena at the 2018 NBCUniversal Upfront.
"I think a lot of people are going to be able to relate to it," she said of the Total Bellas content this season. "I think it's going to also give a lot of people courage and bravery to speak up. I think sometimes we go through things because we're like, 'OK, this is what we need to do. It's too late.' It's never too late to make a decision, so."
On Wednesday, Bella appeared on Today and reacted to Cena professing his love to her on the same show just days earlier.
"I literally was in the middle of the red carpet for the NBCUniversal Upfront and got the breaking news. John—and you guys know this—is absolutely an amazing man. He is such a sweetheart and I truly love him so much. He's my best friend," she said. "But I think a lot of us who go through the wedding planning process are forced to face these issues that we have hiding deep down inside. I just know that a healthy me will be a healthy us. I do have hope for our future, but I know right now, I need to work on me. Before I do say those vows and walk down that aisle, I just do not want to be hesitant. I do not want to be regretful."
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With the need for remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, more education technology (edtech) applications appeared in classrooms and school administration, which increases the need to protect student-related data. This blog addresses risk management considerations for K-12 institutions as they adopt edtech applications for the classroom and school administration.
Webinar: Unpacking the Final Title IX Regulations, Part 1: Q&A With an Expert
In this webinar, Joshua W.B. Richards of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP highlights significant provisions of the final Title IX regulations issued by the Department of Education in May 2020. The speaker also responds to audience questions about the regulations, which take effect Aug. 14, 2020, for all educational institutions subject to Title IX.
Coaches Abusing Athletes in K-12 Schools: Lessons From UE's 2014-2018 Claims
Physical and emotional abuse by coaches is a far too common occurrence in athletics. This claims study examines coaching abuse in schools and derives lessons for school administrators.
Considerations for Conducting Virtual Camps
Guidance on evaluating the risks of conducting virtual camps through your campus summer program during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
An Examination of UE’s Recent Independent K-12 School Claims
This study of approximately 1,600 claims against independent K-12 schools received by United Educators (UE) during a five-year period (2012-2016) found about 35% of claims incurred losses totaling nearly $93 million. Students and parents brought almost half the claims and accounted for nearly 60% of losses.
Educator Sexual Misconduct at Independent Schools: Insights From UE Claims
United Educators (UE) reviewed the 45 educator sexual misconduct claims reported by independent schools between 2011 and 2016 to identify trends and derive lessons. Review the claims study and its supplemental resources to learn how to create a strategy for addressing educator sexual misconduct.
A Guide to Prevent Sexual Misconduct by Campus Health Care Providers
Health care interactions at student health clinics, sports medicine facilities, and athletic training locations must be a focus in sexual assault prevention efforts. This publication identifies key steps to ensure interactions between campus health care providers and patients are safe and free from sexual misconduct.
Protecting Children: Shine a Light Video for Higher Ed
Administrators and educators have a responsibility to protect the well-being of minors. This short video will help to make employees and volunteers at K-12 schools with supervised access to children aware of potential situations of sexual abuse of children or teens in schools.
Protecting Children: Shine a Light Video for K-12
Prepare for Claims Brought Under State Reviver Statutes
State reviver statutes, which extend or "revive" expired statutes of limitations for claims involving sexual abuse of minors, are passing with increased frequency. This article outlines steps you can take to prepare for claims against your institution if a reviver statute is enacted in your state.
Higher Ed Checklist: Reporting Campus Sexual Misconduct: Elements of a Policy
Establishing a sound campus reporting structure is critical for addressing the risk of campus sexual misconduct, yet many campuses do not include details about reporting in their Nondiscrimination/Title IX/Sexual Misconduct Policy. This checklist guides higher education administrators in evaluating or drafting their sexual misconduct reporting policy.
Background Check Fundamentals
This publication helps human resources administrators assess the soundness of their background check screening sources, practices, and policy. More institutions are implementing background checks for all employees, contractors, volunteers, and other individuals affiliated with the school, to protect community members and the institution’s resources, improve the quality of hires, and reduce organizational risk.
Powerpoint Summary of Safeguarding Our Schools From Sexual Predators: What Public and Charter School Leaders Should Ask
This powerpoint summarizes the key questions detailed in UE's publication Safeguarding Our Schools From Sexual Predators: What Public and Charter School Leaders Should Ask
Best Practices: Title IX Coordinator Roles and Responsibilities Regarding Campus Sexual Harassment
This checklist includes United Educators' recommended best practices pertaining to the role of Title IX Coordinator, which is required for all higher education institutions and K-12 schools that accept federal funds.
Safeguarding Our Schools From Sexual Predators: What Public and Charter School Leaders Should Ask
Investigations by schools have revealed decades of educator sexual abuse involving scores of victims. Read this publication for key questions principals, district superintendents, and school board members should ask and suggestions for creating a culture of prevention and reporting.
Safeguarding Universities from Sexual Predators: A United Educators Symposium
This report summarizes the symposium attendees’ conversations about challenges, details possible solutions the participants suggested, and provides high-level risk management action steps derived from the attendees and from UE research.
Powerpoint Summary of Safeguarding our Schools from Sexual Predators: What Independent School Heads and Trustees Should Ask
This powerpoint summarizes the key questions detailed in UE's publication Safeguarding Our Schools From Sexual Predators: What Independent School Heads and Trustees Should Ask
Checklist for Camps on Campus
This checklist provides camp directors step-by-step guidance to help minimize risks and increase the likelihood of a safe experience for campers.
Powerpoint Summary of Safeguarding our Communities from Sexual Predators: What College Presidents and Trustees Should Ask
This powerpoint summarizes the key questions detailed in UE's publication Safeguarding our Communities from Sexual Predators: What College Presidents and Trustees Should Ask
Safeguarding Our Schools From Sexual Predators: What Independent School Heads and Trustees Should Ask
Recent historical investigations by schools have uncovered decades of educator sexual abuse to scores of victims. Read this publication for key questions school leaders should ask and suggestions for creating a culture of prevention and reporting.
K-12 Public Schools Large Loss Report 2019
The K-12 Public Schools Large Loss Report 2019 summarizes major damage awards and settlements of $250,000 or more that affected public K-12 schools in 2017 and 2018. The cases include a $36.1 million jury award in a school bus incident, a $15.7 million settlement in a sex abuse lawsuit, and a $1.1 million award for an athletic injury.
Independent K-12 Schools Large Loss Report 2019
The Independent K-12 Schools Large Loss Report 2019 summarizes major damage awards and settlements of more than $250,000 that affected independent schools from 2011 to 2018. It can help schools assess their risk management practices and insurance coverage. The cases include a $25.3 million award in a sexual molestation case, a $16.5 million settlement of more than 400 claims of sex abuse, an $8 million child abuse settlement with 88 former students, a $5.87 million award for an athletics injury, and a $4 million wrongful termination lawsuit.
Protecting Children From Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Series of Checklists (K-12)
This series of checklists provides tips and best practices for establishing a comprehensive risk management program to protect children from sexual misconduct at K-12 schools.
Protecting Minors on College Campuses: A Series of Checklists (HE)
This series of checklists provides tips and best practices for establishing a comprehensive risk management program to protect children from sexual misconduct at colleges and universities.
The Large Loss Report 2019 summarizes major damage awards and settlements of more than $250,000 that affected schools, colleges, and universities in 2018. The most frequent and costliest cases involved sexual abuse claims, many of which had multimillion-dollar settlements in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Educational institutions can use this report to assess their risk management practices and insurance coverage.
Safeguarding Our Communities From Sexual Predators: What College Presidents and Trustees Should Ask
Universities have faced sexual predator scandals involving scores of victims, and some leaders were uninformed. Presidents and trustees can safeguard their communities by asking key questions and following these suggestions for creating a culture of prevention and reporting.
Prevention and Protection Podcast: Safe Sport Act: Reporting Sexual Abuse in Athletics
The Safe Sport Authorization Act, signed into law in early 2018, protects athletes from abuse with new reporting and training requirements for amateur sports organizations. In this episode of the Prevention and Protection podcast, Phil Catanzano, a senior counsel and member of the Education Team at the Holland & Knight law firm, explains the act and recommends actions for schools and colleges.
Webinar: Educator Sexual Misconduct at Independent Schools
This webinar offers an analysis of United Educators (UE) independent school claims arising out of educator-on-student sexual misconduct and discusses trends that all administrators should address.
Protecting Children Learning Program for Higher Ed
This learning program will help educators and adults at higher education institutions learn how to recognize, prevent, and report sexual misconduct. It includes online courses for educators, a short video for employees that don’t work directly with children, as well as checklists, guides, and publications.
Prevention and Protection Podcast: Educator Sexual Misconduct at Independent Schools
United Educators' (UE) new claims study, Educator Sexual Misconduct at Independent Schools: Insights From UE Claims, examines trends in independent school educator sexual misconduct claims received between January 2011 and December 2016. In this episode of Prevention and Protection, UE's Alyssa Keehan, director of risk research, and Melanie Bennett, risk management counsel, discuss findings from the study.
The Independent K-12 Schools Large Loss Report 2018 summarizes major damage awards and settlements of $250,000 or more that affected independent K-12 schools from 2011 to 2017. Institutions and brokers can use this report to assess risk management programs and coverage needs at K-12 independent schools.
The Large Loss Report 2018 summarizes major damage awards and settlements of $250,000 or more that affected public K-12 schools in 2017. The cases include a $36.1 million jury award in a school bus incident and a $3.58 million settlement in a sex abuse case.
Prevention and Protection Podcast: #MeToo: Student Social Media Disclosure of Sexual Harassment
In this episode of Prevention and Protection, UE's Melanie Bennett interviews David Wolowitz, a partner and co-chair of the Education Practice Group at McLane Middleton, about independent school response to the #MeToo movement.
The Large Loss Report 2018 summarizes major damage awards and settlements of $250,000 or more that affected schools, colleges, and universities in 2017. The cases include a $10 million jury award to a student who was raped in her on-campus apartment, and a $6.5 million settlement in a gender and sexual orientation lawsuit filed by two university athletic department employees. Institutions can use this report to assess their risk management practices and insurance coverage.
The Large Loss Report 2017 summarizes major damage awards and settlements of $250,000 or more that affected schools, colleges, and universities in 2016. The cases include a record $950,000 jury award in a Title IX sexual assault report case and a $10.5 million settlement for a student who suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was attacked at a pep rally. Institutions can use this report to assess risk management programs.
Prevention and Protection Podcast: David Wolowitz Discusses Handling Sexual Misconduct in Independent Schools
Listen in as Heather Salko, Senior Risk Management Counsel at United Educators and David Wolowitz, Director & Co-Chair of Education Law Group at McLane Middleton discuss sexual misconduct in independent schools.
Webinar: Camps on Campus: Emerging Issues
The growing number of minors on campuses—plus recent legal developments in disability accommodation and civil rights—affects how colleges and universities streamline operations and consider new approaches. This webinar focuses on making camps on campus safer.
Responding to Reports of Sex Abuse at Independent Schools
Today’s independent school students, parents, and alumni have raised expectations for how schools prevent and respond to any reports of sexual abuse involving students, present or past.
The Large Loss Report 2016 summarizes major damage awards and settlements of $250,000 or more that affected schools, colleges, and universities in 2015.
Webinar: Protecting Minors on Campus
The webinar focuses on the major elements of a policy designed to protect minors on campus: background checks, training, and reporting.
Title IX and Beyond: The Adjudicatory Process
This checklist, part of the Title IX and Beyond series, covers the topics that educational institutions should address when creating student sexual violence and harassment adjudicatory policy and conducting proceedings.
The Long-Term Impact of the Freeh Report
As a risk management and governance report, the Freeh Report stands out for providing guidance, reflection, and a road map for administrators and trustees as they consider ways to improve communication, establish accountability, and reduce risks. And Penn State (PSU) has made great strides since the report was first published, strengthening security to protect minors, improving the structure of the board, conducting training on the Clery Act, and making a significant commitment to train the entire PSU community on abuse awareness.
Protecting Children Reporting Suspected Misconduct K12
RRB Title IX and Beyond Confidentiality
Determining Chaperone-to-Student Ratios for Trips
Vaping and E-Cigarettes in the Classroom: What Does Your Policy Say?
Golf Carts on Campus
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In ’Hand to Hand’ we gain insight into the everyday realities of people from different parts of the world, many of whom live in conflict or disaster areas. What unites us all, regardless of life situation, is our need for the essentials of daily hygiene and health. This exhibition of Essity and Fotografiska features stories by Paul Hansen, one the worlds most respected journalist photographers and winner of World Press Photo 2013, aims to raise awareness around the vital need for access to water and hygiene.
Saving lives and reducing infections
The lives of 500 children with diarrhea could be saved daily with access to clean water and soap. 70% of healthcare-associated infections could be reduced through improved hygiene practices.
Learn more about the need for hygiene to prevent infections and spread of antibiotic resistance
Listen to photographer Paul Hansens own experience about the importance of hygiene and access to basic hygiene facilities.
Hygiene in schools
The exhibition also features a school in England documented by photographer Åsa Sjöström, who works in the same tradition as Paul Hansen. The school is part of a larger initiative that focuses on teaching children the importance of personal hygiene at an early age and addresses the importance of cleanliness of toilet facilities at schools.
Learn more on research from our UK initiative to improve school toilet hygiene (pdf)
For those not able to travel to the museum, we have created an online experience. At your own convenience, you can experience the photos, insights and stories anywhere you like. We also included behind-the-scenes material and insights from our bi-annual survey on hygiene and health in areas such as menstruation, incontinence and hygiene at home. Click on a language:
English | Swedish | German | French | Dutch | Spanish | Russian
Hygiene & Health Report 2018/19
The report highlights the importance of prioritizing hygiene and health throughout the life course. It shows how efforts can contribute not only to personal well-being but also to societal development, ie contribute to UN SDGs.
It also aims to influence public policy to raise hygiene and health standards globally.
Read the report:
English | French | Spanish | Swedish | Russian | German
“Fotografiska for Life”
We’re proud to announce our collaboration with Fotografiska, raising awareness and sparking dialogue around the importance of hygiene and related social issues.
Our first exhibition premiered on November 8, 2017, with Swedish photographer Ida Borg’s Hygiene, A Circle of Life. The second exhibition "Hand to Hand" will be on display at Fotografiska in Stockholm from September 27 until December 16, 2018.
Learn more at Fotografiska for Life’s website
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Crystal Palace 4 v 1 Leeds United
Barclays Premier League
Saturday, 7th November 2020 Kick-off 15:00
So how does Bielsa address our defensive woes?
Sunday, 8th Nov 2020 13:05 by Tim Whelan
After we suffered another 4-1 defeat yesterday, this time at the hands of Crystal Palace, there has been no shortage of culprits in the blame game on social media, but what was really the cause of our defeat?
First of all there was the performance of the opposition, and as with Leicester on Monday night I’ve heard plenty of praise for their performance. They had done their homework on us and set themselves up in the best to counteract our style. I said in my report on Monday that when we commit defenders to go forward we are vulnerable to sides who can counter-attack quickly.
And Palace are another side who are quick on the break, with Zaha in the Vardy role, and although we might think our players are fit enough to get back in numbers if we lose the ball, it’s very hard to catch up with a pacey forward who has a fifty yard start. We’re now up against better and more tactically astute players than we faced in the Championship, so it time to rethink whether we should be so gung-ho all the time?
On official site Patrick Bamford acknowledged this and said “I think they knew our game plan well, they jumped and took the ball in key positions”. But of course he also suggested another culprit for our defeat, the man in the VAR studio. “In the first half, if it gets to 1-1 it’s a different game and things change.”
He was as baffled as the rest of us when his excellent finish counted for nothing because he was ruled offside by the width of an armpit. “To be honest, I thought checking the goal would just be a formality and it would be fine.” We don’t yet have the technology to be that precise, and if they have to use the dots the forward should be ruled to be level, therefore onside. And I’m not sure they stopped the film in the right place, when Klich actually played the ball.
So what about the factors we could control, the performance or our players on the field? In the continued absence of Phlllips, Struijk was back in the defensive midfield role, but again struggled in this unfamiliar position, so much so that I forgot he was playing as much of the play passed him by. But with Shackleton also out yesterday we didn’t have much choice for the task of protecting the back four.
Could Meslier have done better for a couple of the goals? When I saw the first I thought ‘how the hell did that go in’? as a second before I hadn’t thought we were in particular danger. And after watching the replay I thought he should have been able to reach up and keep the ball out as it looped back down.
The third goal was a freak and you can’t blame our young keeper for being off his line as he expected the cross. But the ball had plenty of distance to travel after it took the deflection and he should have had time to pick up the new flight of the ball and get down to it. Instead he was seen to be looking at the replay on the big screen to work out how it had crept past him into the net.
Another question surrounds the omission of Pablo, when he might have been a better option than Roberts to bring off the bench when we were chasing the game. A couple of ex-players have given different theories about why he wasn’t even on the bench when Bielsa confirmed that he was actually fit to play.
Michael Brown thinks Pablo is struggling for form and perhaps he is finding the pace of the Premiership a bit difficult at his advanced age. But surely if this was the he case he would still be named as a substitute in place of one of the inexperienced players who made up the numbers yesterday.
I think Noel Whelan is more likely to be right when he says his omission was more likely a result of his strop after being substituted on Monday night. As well as the action of ripping his armband off he might well have made a few ill-judged comments in his native language when he got back to the dug-out, which Bielsa would have understood. Let’s hope this gets patched up sooner rather than later.
Finally. Liam Cooper has come in for a bit of flak on social media today, with some fans suggesting that although he has improved under Bielsa, the Premier League might be a step too far for a player who has spent his previous career in the second and third levels of English football. Llorente may be a better option once he is back from injury, although that will disturb our current left-foot/right-foot combination in the centre of our defence.
So now we need a bit of a reset, but we needn’t panic just yet. As Bamford said “the last two games have been disappointing, but I think we have had a solid start overall. It’s something to build on and maybe the international break has come at a good time for us, after two losses like that, perhaps the break will help us.”
Certainly the two week gap before we face Arsenal will give Bielsa time to work our defensive woes, though it won’t help that Koch has been called up by Germany for their games against the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Spain. But we might have Phillips and Llorente back by then, so let’s hope we face the gunners in much better defensive shape than during the past week.
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Senators grill beef on options other than China2 months, 3 weeks ago
Senators grill beef on options other than China
Shan Goodwin@shangoodwinbeef 28 Oct 2020, 2 p.m.
From new overseas markets for Australian beef and live cattle exports to sustainability and the industry's move towards carbon neutrality, the latest senates estimates hearing delved well into the red meat game. PHOTO: Lucy Kinbacher
Jason Strong, Sam Brown, Troy Setter at senates estimates on China and beef
WHAT markets might prove alternatives to China for Australia's beef industry was put under the spotlight at the latest senate estimates hearings.
Key industry leaders including Meat & Livestock Australia boss Jason Strong, along with LiveCorp's chair Troy Setter and chief executive officer Sam Brown, were asked about work being done to diversify markets and develop new opportunities.
The trio appeared in front of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport legislation committee in Canberra last week.
Mr Setter said the live export sector puts a lot of energy into market maintenance, but there were also some exciting new opportunities emerging.
While Australia's biggest markets continued to be Indonesia, Vietnam, the Middle East and China, Mr Setter and Mr Brown also made mention of places like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Botswana, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and and South America.
Mr Brown said limited resources meant it was vital the live export industry honed in on the right markets.
"A lot of small niche markets where people want high quality breeding stock are popping up," he said.
Protocols for breeding cattle exports were currently being discussed in some of these regions.
"Exporters regularly scout for opportunities. In particular, when we have high livestock prices we need to look for new entry points," Mr Brown said.
Mr Strong said MLA conducted a good deal of work around insights and understanding the performance of Australia's red meat markets.
He said European and United Kingdom trade negotiations represented the last two substantial agreements available to the red meat sector and both the industry and government was focused on those at the moment.
Another area where there was a lot of activity currently was in addressing non-tariff trade barriers, he said.
Research had put the potential value of improvements in these barriers to the industry at between $3 and $4 billion dollars, he said.
He cited the extension of shelf life of chilled beef and sheepmeat to the Middle East this year as an improvement which delivered around $100m in value.
Holistic sustainability
THE red meat industry's ambitious goal to be carbon neutral by 2030 was also on the agenda.
While CN30 was a hot ticket item, there were quite a number of research areas running parallel in the sustainability space, Mr Strong said.
"We're working on areas around climate knowledge, including some work with the Bureau of Meteorology, some programs in waste management and a number of projects focus on productivity," he said.
"When you think about reducing the impact on the environment, it has to be done in a holistic way where we are either maintaining or improving the productivity and profitability of our sector, while leaving the environment a better place, and ensuring the inter-generational sustainability of the businesses."
In response to a question about government's setting carbon neutral targets, Mr Strong advocated being aspirational but said it was also important to focus on the 'things we can control'.
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Application For Appointment in the First Appellate District
NOTE: Due to the pandemic, FDAP caseload is down approximately one-third of normal. Accordingly, we are not currently adding many attorneys to the panel. Qualified attorneys will likely be wait-listed until caseload rebounds.
FDAP Mandate and Panel Management
FDAP is a non-profit corporation under contract with the judiciary to administer the appointment process and provide assistance to attorneys handling appointed cases in the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District. FDAP is responsible for classifying all appointed attorneys and cases, and recommending to the court the appointment of the attorney in each case. FDAP is also responsible for evaluating attorneys on the panel on an ongoing basis, to decide what further cases, if any, the attorney will receive and whether the attorney shall remain on the panel.
In cases classified as “assisted,” a FDAP Staff Attorney reviews selected portions of the record and usually prepares a memorandum for the appointed panel attorney, noting possible appellate issues and providing guidance with legal research. The panel attorney then consults with the FDAP Staff Attorney throughout the course of the the case. The staff attorney reviews a draft of the opening brief and, as needed, other case filings. In other cases, experienced panel attorneys are assigned cases on an “independent” basis. In those cases, the appointed panel attorney is encouraged to seek advice from FDAP as needed. The appointed attorney in independent cases must send FDAP a copy of every document filed in the case, and must confer with FDAP before filing a no-merit brief.
In all cases, FDAP reviews the attorney’s claim for compensation and recommends payment. When admitted to the panel and assigned his or her first case, an attorney receives a more detailed explanation of the FDAP procedures.
Criteria and Process for Admission to FDAP Panel
Initial review of your application may not commence for weeks after we receive it, and a delay of two or three months until decision is not unusual. At times, depending on how full different segments of the panel are, we will maintain a waitlist of qualified applicants.
Criteria for Placement on a Court of Appeal Indigent Defense Panel
Note: While expertise in a relevant practice area (e.g. criminal law or dependency law) is an asset, it is neither sufficient, nor a prerequisite, for admission to the panel.
Whether FDAP admits an applicant to the panel depends upon his or her experience, the quality of the writing samples, and whether the applicant will make appointed appeals a substantial part of his or her practice. The importance of the quality of the writing samples cannot be overstated. Admission also depends upon current needs. FDAP must give consideration to the ratio of panel attorneys to caseload, concentrations of attorneys in certain counties and at certain levels of experience, the need for attorneys with certain areas of expertise, and the amount of assistance we can provide to panel attorneys.
Applicants should have exceptional writing and analytic skills, as well as a demonstrated interest in making appointed appeals a significant portion of their practice. While expertise in a relevant practice area (e.g. criminal law or dependency law) is an asset, it is neither sufficient, nor a prerequisite, for admission to the panel. The statewide Criteria for Placement on a Court of Appeal Indigent Defense Panel can be viewed here.
If accepted to the panel, it may be a while before the attorney’s name comes up in the rotation for cases. Admission to the First District appointment panel does not entitle an attorney to any particular number or kind of cases or to continue to be listed on any particular appointment panel within the First District. Since its inception in 1986 the First District Appellate Project has been under contract with the Court of Appeal to carry out the functions stated in rule 8.300, including subdivision (d): “[Evaluation] The court shall review and evaluate the performance of appointed counsel to determine whether counsel’s name should remain on the same appointment list, be placed on a different list, or be deleted.”
We very much look forward to working with you. We hope we share the same goals of providing the very best representation possible in indigent appeals, and ensuring that attorneys handling the appeals have available to them resources to augment their own diligent efforts.
Panel Application Form and Submission Instructions
The application form is to be completed as a fillable/saveable PDF. All application materials must be submitted electronically to panelapplications@fdap.org. (FDAP no longer accepts applications by mail.) To apply to the FDAP panel, complete these steps:
Fillable & Saveable PDF ApplicationDownload
Certification_Panel_Applicant_FDAPDownload
Download and save to your own computer the fillable application and certification forms.
Complete the application form by filling out the PDF electronically, saving your work periodically as you go and saving again when you have completed the application. If you email the document before saving any changes, FDAP will not receive those subsequent edits or additions.
Complete the one-page Certification of Applicant. Print a paper copy of the certification, sign it in ink and scan the signed certification.
Cover letters and resumes are not required, but may be helpful in some circumstances, e.g. to explain some unusual aspect of your experience that is not adequately covered by the application form.
In a single email addressed to panelapplications@fdap.org attach:
The PDF of the completed application.
Two appellant’s opening briefs written by you. Submit other writing samples if no briefs are available. Writing samples should be either in the original word processor format or in a PDF that has been created from the word processor. Due to the large size of PDF files generated by scanning, scanned copies of writing samples are only accepted when other versions are not available.
Opposing counsel’s brief in response to one of your writing samples.
The signed and scanned copy of the one-page Certification of Applicant.
The optional cover letter and/or resume, if any.
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Switzerland and Iraq
There is no Swiss representation in this place. For consular services, the responsible agency is in Amman, Jordan. The corresponding contact can be found under the Services category.
The Embassy of Switzerland in Jordan provides visa support and consular services such as registration/deregistration, issuing of passports, identity cards and civil status changes.
Contact information can be found on the corresponding pages.
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Ordering civil status documents
You have adopted a child abroad and would like to know the administrative procedures for entering this event in the Swiss civil status register (Infostar).
Adoptions abroad are normally recognised in Switzerland when pronounced in the country of residence or citizenship of the adopter or adopting spouses (Federal Act on Private International Law (PIL SR 291)).
Federal Act on Private International Law (SR 291) (de, fr, it)
Numerous countries have signed the Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (HCA-93; SR 0.211.221.311). This Convention rules the cooperation between the relevant authorities of the country of origin of the child and of the receiving State.
Federal Office of Justice – The Hague Convention Intercountry Adoption (de, fr, it)
You will find some very useful information on the subject of international adoption on the webpage of the Federal Office of Justice.
Federal Office of Justice – International adoption
Documents required for registration in the Swiss civil status register
Adoptions carried out abroad within or outside the 1993 Hague Convention (HCA-93) are entered into the Swiss civil status register by decision of the competent cantonal civil status authority (Art. 32 IPLA and Art. 23 CivStO).
As a rule, the originals of the following adoption documents must be submitted to the Swiss representation with any necessary legalisations for forwarding to Switzerland:
birth certificate of the child before adoption
adoption decision mentioning the place where it was granted (if possible with a statement of enforceability)
birth certificate of the child after adoption
if applicable, certificate that the adoption was made in accordance with the provisions of the 1993 Hague Convention (HCA-93) within the meaning of Article 23 (“Certificate of Conformity of Intercountry Adoption”)
These documents are intended for the competent civil status authority and will not be returned.
Authorisation to enter Switzerland
The adopted child may require authorisation to enter Switzerland, for example because no Swiss passport can yet be issued to them as the adoption has not yet been entered in the Swiss civil status register; because they have become stateless (where the law of the child's country of origin provides for the loss of their original nationality following adoption); or because their original nationality is subject to an entry visa (where they still hold a valid foreign passport).
When full adoption of the child is granted to at least one Swiss parent in a contracting state of the HCA-93, in accordance with the procedure set out in the Convention, the central federal authority, i.e. the Federal Office of Justice, is the sole authority competent to give authorisation to issue a document allowing the child to enter Switzerland (Art. 10 HCAA).
As a rule, the cantonal migration authority is competent to decide on the granting of a visa or assurance of a residence permit to the child (Art. 8 AdO) in other situations.
Visa – Entry into and residence in Switzerland
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Data is growing faster than ever before, and we’re on track to create about 1.7 megabytes of new information per person every second by 2020.
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All of this new data means we’ll be looking at a whole new set of possibilities and a new level of complexity in the years ahead. The data itself is of great value, however, lenders need the right automated decisioning platform to store, collect, quickly process and analyze the volumes of consumer data to gain accurate consumer stories.
While lenders don’t necessarily need to factor in decisioning on social media uploads and video views, there is an expectation for immediacy to know if a consumer is approved, denied or conditioned.
Online lenders have figured out how to quickly capture and understand big data, and are expected to account for $122 billion in lending by 2020. This places more pressure on banks and credit unions to enhance their technology to cut down on loan approval times and move away from various manual touch points.
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Data collection, storage and analysis are here to stay. As will be the businesses which are savvy enough to use a solution that can find opportunities and learnings in all of that complex data, quickly curate the best possible actions to take for positive outcomes, and allow lenders and marketers to execute on those recommendations with the click of a button.
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Tornadoes are one of the most unpredictable and destructive weather events that can happen in nature as a result of thunderstorms. Most tornadoes occur in the central plains region of the country known as Tornado Alley, but even if you don’t live or work in an area that is prone to tornadoes, it is still possible for one to strike. Understanding tornado safety will help you be prepared in the event of a twister touching down in your area. Protect your business and your property with tornado safety tips and information so that you’ll know how to prepare and recover from a tornado.
Tornado fast facts
Tornadoes develop quickly during severe thunderstorms with extremely limited warning. According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, on average, there are over 1,200 tornadoes in the United States every year. From 1991 to 2010, at least one tornado hit every state with the exception of Alaska. Knowing the signs of a tornado, understanding how they’re caused and being familiar with how they are rated will help you prepare and take action in the event of a tornado.
A tornado watch occurs when weather conditions are prime for a tornado to develop. Be prepared to take shelter and continue to monitor weather alerts.
A tornado warning is when a tornado has been spotted either by sight or by weather radar. Move indoors and take shelter immediately.
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Designate a safe room. Opt for a room on the lowest level of a building and the farthest away from exterior walls. A basement or a cellar is an ideal tornado safe room.
Move to the interior. If you’re in a structure without a basement, the next best option is to find a small interior closet or hallway that is as far away from corners and windows as possible.
Find a permanent structure. Manufactured buildings, like jobsite trailers, are unsafe to be in during a tornado because they are easily blown away by strong winds. Seek shelter in the closest permanent structure immediately if you’re in a trailer.
Avoid bridges and overpasses. If a tornado strikes while you’re in your work van or truck, find the nearest structure to take shelter in. Never hide beneath a highway overpass or a bridge as this offers no protection from wind or flying debris.
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Accredited Medical Assistant Programs and Schools in Iowa
Picking the right way forward when deciding about one’s career ahead can be daunting. Many face confusion while figuring how to become a certified medical assistant in Iowa. Thus, here we have outlined the key MA programs in the state for you to start right.
Let’s begin by discussing why IA students should consider medical assisting in the first place. The sense of fulfillment and financial stability this career offer goes beyond what most occupations promise. However, what scares off even the most determined youths is the longstanding years of education that are to be pursued.
Here, medical assisting offers the best solution. Moreover, the demand for MAs is only growing in the entire country, including Iowa. According to Future Ready Iowa, 2100 plus jobs were posted by different companies for hiring medical assistants in Iowa since May 2017. Read on to find out more about the highest-ranked options of accredited MA schools and programs in Iowa and pick your match.
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The first step is to evaluate the available programs in the state. Picking the right course itself brings you considerably closer to a fruitful MA career ahead.
Enter your zip code and search for medical assistant programs near you. ‘Enrollment information’ will provide details of different courses available in Iowa.
Medical Assistant Programs Cost and Duration in Iowa
The state offers diploma courses that extend for an average of 10 months to 1 year. At the same time, MA associate programs last for 2 years. The average program cost is approx $10,000-$18,000 in Iowa.
15 Best Medical Assistant Schools in Iowa for 2021
Not only the program but picking the ideal school is also absolutely crucial. From school fees to the faculty, from student satisfaction rankings to certification options, make sure to evaluate all factors in depth before confirming your school of choice. Moreover, the amount of contrasting information available on the internet can cause further confusion than guidance. Thus, here is a final list of the 15 top medical assistant schools in Iowa for you to evaluate.
1 Iowa Lakes Community College
Cost $9,376
Student-faculty Ratio 15:1
Recent Retention Rate 65%
Financial Aid Yes
Placement Services Yes
Counseling Services Yes
Accreditation Body caahep.org
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The college has a one-year diploma course for those interested in the health sector. The program gears you as an MA with cross-functional training across varied skill sets. The school boasts of a clinical simulation lab where students get hands down interaction with most up-to-date equipment. Apt computer training is also rendered. The program has its coursework plus a practicum. Most importantly, the internship provides a valuable opportunity to achieve on-the-job-training quite early in your career. Practical insights into the actual ambulatory settings are provided, preparing students for what’s going to come their way. According to the 2019 Annual Report Form (ARF), this program has a certification exam passage rate of 100% for graduates (2018). The program also showed a 100% job placement rate (2018).
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2 Marshalltown Community College
The program rewards a MA Diploma in 11 months (43-46 hours). As a prerequisite, the student has to meet the score on the ACCUPLACER exam (250 or above in reading and writing). Credits from relevant computer studies and general courses may be transferable for the program. A 75% (C grade) or higher is required for credit transfer. Moreover, the MA program at Marshalltown Community College has recently gone through a re-accreditation renewal process valid until 2027. You can also study further for an AA (Associate of Arts) degree where the course elective credits can be transferred for speedier graduation.
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3 Iowa Western Community College
The MA program at the Iowa Western Community College is accredited by the CAAHEP (Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs) as recommended by MAERB (Medical Assistant Education Review Board). The course rewards a diploma in 10 months. Modules are arranged across three domains – cognitive (enhances knowledge), psychomotor (hones the skills required), and affective (inducing the apt behavior). The course has ranked higher than national averages on student and employer satisfaction, graduation, and job placement rates across the past five years, as per the most recent reports submitted to the MAERB.
Certificate, Diploma
4 Iowa Central Community College
The MA program in this school offers a diploma course extending over two semesters of theoretical learning and lab practicals. Post this, students attend 210 hours, 30-day practicum. It’s good to note that 93% of students from the school who had taken the certification exams in the past five years passed and hold the esteemed credentials. The MA course at Iowa Central Community College usually begins in autumn and finishes off in the summer of next year. For those wanting to study further, continuing with an AAS degree in MA is possible. For this, the student is required to complete additional 13-hour credits of coursework and extra 6 hours credit of elective classes.
Diploma, Associate's Degree
5 Northeast Iowa Community College
The MA diploma at this school also makes you eligible to sit for the CMA examination. The ACCUPLACER test is usually required to be taken by all applicants. On the CLASSIC variant of the test, students need to score a minimum of 70 on reading and 250 on the NEXT GENERATION. The program begins in the fall and is accredited by CAAHEP. The practicum at the end of the course has to be completed by all students. The 6-week externship (40 hrs per week) is unpaid for. On-campus classes are held during the rest of the course, which includes lab sessions.
Calmar, IA / Peosta, IA
6 Hawkeye Community College
Cost $10,156
This community college trains you across distinct healthcare functions. The program shall also train you across third-party reimbursements, billing procedures, and scheduling. Accredited by the CAAHEP, a vital feature of the program is its state-of-the-art patient simulator lab. Here, you shall have the opportunity to learn hands-on reaction to different patient scenarios in a controlled setting. Moreover, the school has recently started its evening program (5 PM classes Monday through Thursday every week).
7 Eastern Iowa Community Colleges
Accreditation Body hlcommission.org
The MA program at Eastern Iowa Community College focuses on both administrative and clinical skills training. This course makes you eligible for the medical certification exam from the National Center for Competency Testing (NCCT). The degree rewarded at the end of the course is an MA diploma. Expect an internship placement with a local physician at the end of the program. The new MA course is based at Eastern Iowa Community College’s SCC’s Urban Campus encompasses more than 7,000 square feet area with the most advanced technology inclusions. Evening sessions or online classes may be arranged if required by a student.
Clinton, IA / Muscatine, IA / Bettendorf, IA
8 Mercy College of Health Sciences
Student-faculty Ratio 8:1
The MA program here is accredited to enable you to take the CMA exam. However, the program is currently undergoing a revision and re-approval. Thus, check with the college directly for alterations. The online class format covers clinical practices in ambulatory care environments. The college has coveted healthcare partners who provide great practicum opportunities to the students. The modules instructed range around MA administrative procedures, anatomy and physiology, and clinical procedures.
Certificate, Associate's Degree
9 Indian Hills Community College
The MA program at the Indian Hills Community College starts during fall and extends for up to 12 months. The course is divided into four terms, and the degree achieved on completion is a diploma by SCC. As the program is shared with the Southeastern Community College, students are ultimately enrolled in and completing the program in both IHCC and SCC. In the summer, students get the opportunity of practicing in a physician’s office to enrich themselves further. Passing the course makes the students eligible to sit for the CMA exam by the AAMA.
10 Orion Technical College
In IA, Orion Technical College is present at two locations. The school recognizes the growing demand for MAs and trains them across both administrative and clinical areas. The diploma course classes usually extend from Monday through Thursday. The day batches are from 8:10 to 1:00 PM, and night sessions are held from 5:30 PM to 10:30 PM. The total program is a 40-week undertaking with an externship at the end. The school is an authorized certification site for the NCCT. People looking to waive off tuition fees can apply for their financial aid opportunities. Graduates from the program will have a wide range of job opportunities. They could choose to work as MAs, ECG technicians, office managers, phlebotomists, dialysis technicians, and more as per the school.
Davenport, IA / Bettendorf, IA
11 Kirkwood Community College
This MA program is a one-year-long undertaking and has accreditation since 1972. Statistics hold that around 94% of graduates from this program sit for the CMA exam and around 92% pass in the first attempt. There are three semesters to the program. The school also offers classes on a part-time basis for those having other obligations that don’t allow them to involve full-time. MA AAS can also be pursued by students wanting to take their education further. This associate degree in MA lasts for a couple of years, i.e., four semesters. One key feature of Kirkwood is that it boasts of providing more scholarships than any other community college in IA. Thus, if you seek financial aid, this college should be considered.
12 Des Moines Area Community College
The full-time MA course at the DMASS lasts for a year. Specific modules you will train in during the course include diagnostic radiography, human body – health and diseases, med lab procedures, and introduction to psychology. Part-time classes are also possible (2 years for course completion). However, please note that the school doesn’t operate online sessions or evening classes. Students, on completion, are eligible to take the CMA. In fact, aspirants can also opt for the State of Iowa Limited Radiography Permit post-graduation.
13 Western Iowa Tech Community College
It’s good to note that the Western Iowa Tech had a 100% job placement for its 2018 batch. A total of 88.89% of students sitting for national certification programs have successfully passed over the last five years. Admission to the MA program involves meeting one of these four essential prerequisites: ACT score (at least 19) or an associate degree (or higher) or high school transcript (GPA 2.0 and above) plus completion of 1-year high school science equivalent (grade C or better) or a completed BIO 163 and HSC 114 (grade C or better).
14 North Iowa Area Community College
One of the most coveted community colleges in the state, the NIACC’s MA program takes only ten and a half months to complete. The key feature of the course is the real-to-life environment rendered to the students in the form of the health simulation labs. This setting is attempted to replicate an actual hospital. The program is accredited by the CAAHEP. Prerequisites for admission into the course include a minimum of 35 wpm keyboarding skills. The course has its pre-admission test that students have to pass. Basic Life Support certification is a must.
15 Ross College
Accreditation Body abhes.org
With presence across 41 locations, Ross College offers both a medical assistant diploma and an associate degree in medical assisting. In Iowa, the school is in the Quad Cities. The diploma course extends for 30 weeks. An evening degree (36 weeks long) is also available for students. There is also a 6-week externship at the end of the course wherein students get into the field. The medical assistant Associate of Applied Science degree is only for students who have already completed the MA diploma course. Specialized skills, such as managing electronic medical records, are introduced into the curriculum.
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Training and Certification Requirements for Iowa Medical Assistants
As per Iowa’s state legislature, medical assistants do not require national certification to practice in IA. Neither does the medical board ask for any formal MA education to work as assistants in the state. However, please note that in today’s competitive market, employers actively seek a coveted MA certification. Thus, to maximize your gains, it is imperative to achieve these accreditations.
The most recognized of these certifications are the American Medical Association (AMA)’s Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) and Registered Medical Assistant (RMA) certifications.
To be eligible for the CMA graduating from an MA course that has CAAHEP or ABHES accreditation is mandatory. The CMA exam consists of 200 multiple choice questions to be completed in 160 minutes. Take the test in any of the Prometric testing centers across Iowa and pass the exam to gain CMA recognition.
Prerequisites for an RMA certification include graduating from 720 hours of an accredited MA course (160 hours of externship). You’re also qualified if you’ve undergone medical training by the US army or are a high school graduate with 5 plus years of medical assistant work.
Other vital certifications that your courses in IA may enable you to take include the Medical Assistant (NCMA) sponsored by the National Center for Competency Testing (NCCT), the National Association of Health Professionals (NAHP)’s Nationally Registered Certified Medical Assistant (NRCMA) certification, and NHA’s (National Healthcareer Association) Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) certification.
To advance your credentials further, opt for value-adding degrees such as medical sciences and medical administration.
Average Medical Assistant Salaries in Iowa
According to indeed.com, the average base salary per hour for certified medical assistants in Iowa is $16.25, as of June 13, 2020. It is higher than the national average estimate of $15.50 per hour.
According to the wage estimates of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) as of May 2019, the mean annual salary for IA’s medical assistants was $35,880, and the mean hourly wage was $17.25.
Annual Salary (IA)
Annual Salary (National)
10% $27,130 $25,820
The table above depicts that the annual pay of MAs in IA was more than the national average figure at all percentiles.
Average Salaries of MA in Some Major Cities of IA
Hourly Salary (indeed.com, as of Jun 12, 2020)
Annual Salary (salary.com, as of May 28, 2020)
Des Moines $16.25 $ 34,751
Sioux City $15.39 $29,887
Cedar Rapids $16.10 $34,083
Davenport $15.10 $33,928
Iowa City $25.25 $33,803
Waterloo $14.99 $32,474
Across major IA cities, hourly pay of MAs was between $14.99 and $25.25, while the annual salaries were between $29,887 and $34,751.
Average Salaries of MAs in some Metropolitan Areas of IA
Hourly Salary
Iowa City, IA $20.20 $42,010
Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA $18.21 $37,870
Cedar Rapids, IA $18.28 $38,030
Sioux City , IA-NE-SD, IA $17.06 $35,480
Waterloo Cedar falls ,IA $16.11 $33, 510
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL $15.79 $32,850
Iowa City was the highest paying metropolitan area for MAs in IA, with the average hourly wage amounting to $20.20 and an annual average salary amounting to $42,010. In contrast, Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL was the lowest paying metro area with $15.79 hourly and 32,850 yearly wages.
Employment Outlook for Medical Assistants in Iowa - 2021
The total number of medical assistants employed in IA was 4,970 as of May 2019, according to the BLS. The employment per 1000 jobs was 3.20.
The below table features the largest employing industries of medical assistants in Iowa.
Employing Industry
Ambulatory Health Care Services 3,290
Offices of Physicians 2,340
Hospitals 1,000
General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 960
Offices of Other Health Practitioners 720
Future Growth for Iowa Medical Assistants 2016-2026
The healthcare industry is amongst the most secure career streams to embark on. Till there are patients needing help, medical professionals (including MAs) will always be in demand. Due to an increase in electronic monitoring needs and enhanced self-awareness about wellness and one’s health, MAs in Iowa are also being increasingly sought out. The jobs are only bound to grow, and the Iowa Society of Medical Assistants gets plenty of vacancies from employers to fill in regularly.
Estimated Employment Growth for Medical Assistants – IA
Projected Employment Growth in 10 Years
Annual Projected Jobs
Iowa 4,420 (2016) 5,610 (2026) 650 27%
National 686,600 (2018) 841,500 (2028) 99,700 23%
Source: careeronestop.org
The projections for Iowa, as shown in the table above, are even higher than the countrywide growth statistics. Employment of MAs across the state is estimated to grow by a whopping 27% in the 10 years of 2016-2026. With such an incredible growth projected for MAs, their employability in the state is bound to be secure and booming.
Even short term projection data indicates a percentage increase in the number of jobs available for medical assistants in IA. From 4,640 jobs in 2019 to 4,770 jobs in 2021, the number of MA vacancies in the state are deemed to grow by 2.8% from 2019 to 2021. As Iowa and its cities develop further, the construction of more hospitals and medical offices will be in focus.
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Iowa Society of Medical Assistants
This is the society of medical assistants in Iowa. It can come in handy for connecting with fellow IA MAs and also seeking jobs. It is associated with the American Association of Medical Assistants and thus can work towards certification.
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Iowa Medical Society is a non-profit organization good to follow for MAs. You can connect with physicians of the state through the website. Be up to date with the important content of the medical conditions in Iowa with this website.
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Salah, Fernandes and Soucek nominated for GIVEMESPORT Fans’ Premier League Player of the Month award
by Christy Malyan @ChristyMalyan share
A new year means new hope and new beginnings, but before we all get carried away thinking about what the next twelve months might have in store, there’s the not-so-small matter of the final chapter of 2020 to deal with first.
Christmas practices may have been significantly different this time around but there was one constant to keep us all entertained – Premier League football which, even during these trying times, rarely manages to disappoint.
In fact, December was a pretty interesting month in the Premier League with all but two clubs, Crystal Palace and Burnley, finishing the 31-day period in a different position to the one they started it in.
Spurs plummeted from first all the way to seventh, while City jumped up from eleventh to eighth and Burnley managed to escape the relegation zone at Fulham’s expense.
But away from the teams and onto the individuals. Here are the six players who impressed us so much during the dying embers of 2020 that they’ve earned nominations for the GMS Fans’ Premier League Player of the Month award for December.
All statistics courtesy of Whoscored.
The Goalkeepers
Nominee: Nick Pope
34 clean sheets were kept by goalkeepers in the Premier League throughout December, which is pretty astounding considering how many goals were flying in during the first few months of the season. Top flight defences have got their act together and the glovesmen are benefitting from that, albeit some inevitably more than others.
Nick Pope may not have been at the top of December’s clean sheets table, but having come in a respectable joint-second while recording 24 saves and conceding only three goals, the Burnley No.1 managed to tick boxes on multiple fronts.
Perhaps we’ve unfairly overlooked Emiliano Martinez, who made just two saves less than Pope while keeping an extra clean sheet, but it shouldn’t be forgotten that Burnley entered last month in 19th place, whereas the Argentine has been luxury to an in-form Villa side playing in front of him.
Pope has been crucial to Sean Dyche’s side escaping the relegation zone, making six saves in their 1-0 away win over Arsenal alone.
Nominee: James Justin
Before we begin discussing individuals, honourable mentions must go to the backlines at Aston Villa and Manchester City – they conceded just one goal apiece throughout the last month, resulting in four clean sheets each from five games.
Nonetheless, another defensive player has caught our attention for his December efforts – Leicester City’s versatile full-back James Justin. Last month saw him weigh in with an impressive 21 tackles across six games, as well as 13 key passes and five dribbles.
More than just impressive statistical returns, however, the 22-year-old gets the nod for two particularly noteworthy performances.
After completely embarrassing Dan Burn during Leicester’s 3-0 win over Brighton in which Justin nabbed his first assist of the season, his partnership with Marc Albrighton drew praise from Match of the Day’s Dion Dublin and Micah Richards as Brendan Rodgers’ side expertly dispensed of Spurs in a 2-0 win last month.
The Midfielders
Nominees: Anwar El Ghazi, Tomas Soucek, Bruno Fernandes
There’s a pretty good chance November’s winner Bruno Fernandes will make it onto the shortlist for the majority of monthly Premier League awards this season, which not only attests to his impeccable playmaking abilities but also how much Manchester United rely on their talismanic midfield maestro.
December was another affluent month for the Portugal international with three goals and four assists, including a brace and a setup in Manchester United’s 6-2 demolition of Leeds at Old Trafford. He also managed to set a record for the most key passes in a single game this season (eight) against West Ham, despite only coming on at half-time to lead a glorious comeback for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side.
However, Fernandes was outscored by Aston Villa’s Anwar El Ghazi, whose incredible run of five goals in as many appearances throughout December saw him net the joint-most times of any Premier League player, while few could hold a candle to his return of 15 shots on target either.
But we aren’t only interested in the Premier League’s engine room tricksters, and thus the final midfield nominee of this month is a particularly unique one.
Tomas Soucek may not be the most fashionable of players by modern standards but his towering 6 foot 4 frame is certainly effective – he’s won the most headers of any midfielder in Europe this season by a gargantuan margin of 34. That’s almost as many as he won in December alone, while six outings last month yielded a return of three top flight goals.
The Strikers
Nominee: Mohamed Salah
Having both matched El Ghazi’s haul of five goals, albeit enjoying the luxury of one extra appearance each, the striker section of December’s GMS Fans’ award was always going to be a battle between two forwards on either side of the famous Northwest rivalry – Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah and Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford.
And although the England man will feel aggrieved to have missed out, ultimately he can’t have too many complaints with Salah adding an extra two assists on top of the aforementioned quintet of strikes. Fernandes is the only Premier League player to match his seven goal involvements in December.
Salah also produced one of the most potent cameo performances you’re ever likely to see in the Premier League, the Egyptian coming on with just 33 minutes left to go against Crystal Palace and yet still bagging two goals and one assist to help Liverpool to a stunning 7-0 victory.
Admittedly, the goals have dried up entirely since then, but Salah had already done enough by Christmas time to earn himself the final spot amongst this month’s nominees.
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Sky pundit: Liverpool should move for star who would be ‘great’ for Premier League
Jamie Redknapp has suggested that while Liverpool could get in excess of £138million for Philippe Coutinho from Barcelona, they should ask for Luis Suarez instead.
In his column for the Daily Mail, the pundit revealed that he believes players like Coutinho are hard to replace, so a huge transfer fee wouldn’t help the team.
“If Liverpool receive in excess of the £138million Barcelona bid last summer, there are few like-for-like players they can buy, while bringing in a number of players is not always the best option,” said Redknapp.
“Instead, Liverpool should ask Barcelona to swap Coutinho for Luis Suarez.
“The striker has not been as prolific as in recent seasons and the Liverpool fans would love a returning hero. It would be a great move for both the club and the Premier League.”
Suarez has played 21 times this season for Barcelona across all competitions, and has scored nine goals.
All of his goals have come in the league with him failing to score in the Champions League despite making six appearances.
In comparison, Coutinho has scored more in less appearances, 10 in 17, for Liverpool this season and this includes scoring five goals in five Champions League appearances.
Redknapp admits that Suarez hasn’t been as prolific but believes Reds fans would still celebrate the signing as he would be a “returning hero.”
Suarez scored 82 goals in 132 appearances for Liverpool, winning the League Cup with the club.
Earlier this month, Coutinho confessed that he wasn’t sure what the future held for him at Anfield amid interest from Barcelona.
The Brazilian went on to say he was interested in the offer Liverpool received for him in the summer from Barcelona.
In other Liverpool news, Jamie Redknapp pointed out a new problem for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
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World Test Championship: Kohli hits out at new ICC points system
By on November 26, 2020 Sports
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) India skipper Virat Kohli on Thursday criticised the new ICC points system for the World Test Championship that ranks teams on percentage of points (PCT) instead of the overall points earned.
The PCT system ranks teams on the basis of points earned from the number of matches contested.
The new system has seen India, who were first in the rankings with 360 total points, being pushed to No. 2 in the rankings while Australia have moved up to No.1 spot. India now have 75% of points as they have 360 from 480 contested points whereas Australia have 82.22% points as they have 296 out of 360 points they have contested.
“It is definitely surprising (the new system) because we were told the points are the matter of contention with the top two teams qualifying [for the World Test Championship final]. Now, suddenly, become percentage out of nowhere. It is very confusing, very difficult to understand why. If such a thing had been told to us from day one, then it would have been easier for us to understand. But it happened out of nowhere. For further questions, ICC should be asked why this has been done and what are the reasons behind this,” said Kohli.
Interestingly the proposal to switch to PCT was made by Anil Kumble-headed ICC Cricket Committee before it was tabled before the ICC Board which then, through an email on November 20, announced its seal of approval.
“The unprecedented disruption caused by COVID-19 means, to date, just under half of the World Test Championship matches have been played, with that estimated to rise to more than 85% by the end of the competition window. Current regulations dictate that matches not completed shall be treated as a draw with points split. The Cricket Committee considered maintaining that status quo or determining the final World Test Championship League standings from matches played,” the ICC had said in a statement.
“The Cricket Committee recommended the latter option, which was approved by the Chief Executives Committee and ratified by the Board, meaning teams will be ranked in order of percentage of points earned,” it said.
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Pioneer City County Museum Director: ‘I hope every single one . . . that votes republican, dies today’
by: Erica Garner
Posted: Mar 5, 2020 / 04:50 PM CST / Updated: Mar 5, 2020 / 04:50 PM CST
NOLAN COUNTY, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – The Pioneer City County Museum Board of Directors is holding an emergency meeting after the museum’s director made a social media post saying all republicans should die.
During voting for primary elections on Super Tuesday, director Melonnie Hicks made a post to her personal Facebook page that reads, “I hope every single one of you pieces of s*** that votes republican, dies today.”
A screenshot of the post has since gone viral, getting thousands of shares from across the country.
Hicks posted an apology to her personal Facebook a few hours after the original post, but both posts have since been removed.
It’s unknown if Hicks is still serving as director of the museum. The phone has been ringing with no answer all day, and there is no longer a Pioneer City County Museum page on Facebook.
The Board of Directors is having an emergency meeting at the Sweetwater Police Department at 5:30 p.m. Friday to discuss the issue and Hicks’ future with the museum.
Sweetwater City Manager David Vela told KTAB and KRBC he believes Hicks’ post is regrettable and reprehensible, especially for someone who has a prominent position.
As part of their annual budget, the City of Sweetwater funds a portion of the museum’s building.
KTAB and KRBC has reached out to every board member for comment, but they all declined, saying they won’t know anything until after Friday’s meeting.
Melonnie Hicks has also not responded to requests for comment.
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by Erica Garner - KTAB/KRBC / Jan 18, 2021
ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) -- Several flyers containing ‘pro-Nazi’ propaganda were left outside homes in Abilene overnight.
Police say the flyers were placed at several homes by 14First the Foundation – a group out of Spokane, Washington. They describe themselves as a “pro-white” organization “fighting for the white race.”
Fort Bliss officials investigating officer’s death, 2nd on-post death in 3 weeks
by KTSM Staff, Nexstar Media Wire / Jan 17, 2021
FORT BLISS, Texas (KTSM) — A 27-year-old noncommissioned officer who was assigned to the 1st Armored Division died Jan. 14 in an on-post residence on Fort Bliss.
According to a news release from Fort Bliss, Staff Sgt. John D.S. Bailey was pronounced dead by Fort Bliss Department of Emergency Services personnel. Officials said the circumstances surrounding his death are currently under investigation.
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DUCKWRTH [INTERVIEW]
Photo: Kassandra Pia
Vancouver, BC - DUCKWRTH marches to the beat of his own drum. A multifaceted young talent raised in South Central L.A who's creative outputs range from designer to illustrator to performing artist and more. His overall sound and aesthetic is eclectic; full of originality, soul and funk laced with a punk rock attitude - very left field from the typical L.A vibe.
DUCKWRTH describes his personal style as Afro-billy - a combo of Rockabilly and Psychobilly with an African-American twist. His long dreadlocks are coiled back grazing the shoulders of his custom white denim jacket as we catch him in the green room at Vancouver's Vogue Theatre. He's fresh off stage from his set opening for Anderson Paak's Malibu Tour in Vancouver, where he is nearing the end of their multi-city tour. His vibe is calm, sweet and slightly awkward as he describes the coming-of-age that has lead him to where he is now, open and comfortable with himself and performing in front of a large audience. Up until this point the tour has been a positive learning experience where he's facing some of the largest audiences he has ever performed in front of on a nightly basis, "It's been good. I'm starting to feel a proper exchange of giving and receiving back from the audience," he explains, "people really aren't on some L.A shit - and you can quote me on that."
Growing up, DUCKWRTH was raised in a strict household where music that was degrading to women or depicted violence was strictly forbidden but instead he was nurtured with jazz, gospel and classical music. He was Alto in his church choir as a youth "church is like a mecca for musicians," he responds when asked about his early musical influences, "I think my earliest music memory though was Phantom of the Opera and my first album I think was Kirk Franklin" he recalls bursting into laughter.
He's on the verge of releasing his project I'M UUGLY where the uptempo, dance-inducing lead single "Get UUGLY" carries the vibe for what he describes as his "Funk Wave" sound.
While the album's title might seem utterly blatant, DUCKWRTH gets into the layered meaning behind it. On the surface it's about not denying the ugly shit that's going in your life and about acceptance and embracing the not-so-lovely moments. "I was noticing things in my life wasn't so perfect. It wasn't all super good, shit was ugly. And right when I said that out loud a light went off. Like, metaphorically speaking it was like night and then a bright light came on in the street and shit. It made me notice how I needed to just focus on this energy. I'm really doing it, so now it's your turn." Looking deeper into the meaning he divulges "it's also that sense of euphoria, like when you listen to a song and it will push you to like this crazy euphoric state and your face starts to kinda shift..." he laughs, "it's ugly yo".
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Reward to find killer of woman caught in shootout outside Club Venus
By Randy Wimbley
(WJBK) - Who killed Regan Jelks? Her family traveled to Detroit from Ohio hoping someone would come forward with the answer.
The 24-year-old was shot and killed outside Club Venus at Michigan and Wyoming last May. She and a friend had just got into a car when the suspect approached pulled out a gun and pointed it at them.
Reagan's friend had a Concealed Pistol License and drew his gun in response. A shootout took place. Regan was struck.
Her mother, so overcome with grief, could barely speak.
"Reagan was my beautiful butterfly, my puppy love," said mother Michelle Hall.
"We need justice," said father Tony Jelks. "We need to find out who this killer is and bring him to justice so he can pay for what he did to my daughter."
"Everybody should understand, what my mother is going through, what her father is going through and what we're going through collectively," said Abrin Brown, Regan's brother.
Regan Jelks graduated with honors from Clinton High School in Clinton, Michigan and later attended Kent State University in Ohio. Her family says she worked for Pure Foods in Ohio as a team leader when she was killed.
"I know you're probably looking at this," said Tony Jelks. "I'm talking to you, the trigger man. We want you."
"To the family that supports the person who did this, you've got to think about what if this happened to you," said Brown.
Crime Stoppers is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to an arrest and will add an extra $1,000 if that information comes in by midnight. Call 1-800-SPEAK-UP and remember you will remain anonymous.
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Search for missing Vallejo teen moves to Sonoma County; suspect dead
VALLEJO, Calif. (KTVU) - The search for missing teen, Pearl Pinson, resumed Saturday morning. The multi-agency search effort has expanded to the community of Jenner in Sonoma County, along the Russian River.
The search was suspended at sundown Friday.
Solano County Sheriff said it is coordinating with the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office to conduct the search and those efforts will resume by foot, boat and air on Saturday.
Additional details on what led investigators to that area have not been released.
This comes after a clue in the Amber Alert search for Pearl Pinson, 15, of Vallejo led investigators to focus on Marin County Thursday night, after a grueling day that ended with the suspected kidnapper dead from a shootout with authorities hundreds of miles away in Santa Barbara County.
Sheriff Thomas Ferrara said the suspect Fernando Castro, 19, of Vallejo exchanged gunfire twice with deputies. Ferrara says a CHP officer in Santa Barbara County spotted Castro in the gold Saturn about two hours after the Amber Alert was issued.
Pearl was not in the vehicle and the search for her has intensified.
"The Saturn Castro was seen driving was spotted on cameras near the San Rafael Bridge at 9:30 this morning in Marin County. We currently have deputies in that area searching, looking for other clues, anything that would give us information where Pearl is at this point," said Deputy Christine Castillo, a spokeswoman for the Solano County Sheriff's Department, late Thursday.
Sheriff Ferrara said that when the Amber Alert was issued Thursday, a license plate reader triggered a camera that took images of the gold Saturn in the area of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Marin County. After anaylzing the images, Ferrara said it does not appear to show Pearl sitting up in the car, but he says there's no way to tell whether she might have been lying down or in the trunk.
The suspect, identified as Fernando Castro, 19, of Vallejo, was involved in a shoot-out with law enforcement officers in Santa Barbara County after officers spotted the car that was the subject of the alert. Medics on scene confirmed the suspect was killed during the confrontation with law enforcement authorities.
Investigators said earlier when the Amber Alert was issued that they we're looking for a 1997 Gold Saturn 4-door car with California license #5XZD385.
The Solano sheriff tweeted Thursday afternoon that the car had been located in Southern California. The suspect exchanged gunfire with law enforcement authorities in a Solvang mobile home park in Santa Barbara County. Sheriff Ferrara said the suspect was originally in the Saturn when he abandoned it and jumped into another vehicle.
The sheriff said the man, believed to be Castro, jumped out of that vehicle and exchanged fire with law enforcement officers before he was fatally wounded by officers.
It was not immediately clear what the suspect was doing in Southern California.
Pictures released by the Santa Barbara County Fire Department showed a man presumed to be the suspect while he was behind the wheel of the Saturn described in the Amber Alert. Video uploaded to YouTube shows law enforcement cars at the scene in Santa Barbara County and the sound of gunfire is heard.
The incident began Wednesday around 7 a.m. when Solano deputies received several calls from witnesses about a man, who deputies believe to be Castro, pulling Pinson across the pedestrian overpass above Highway 780 in Vallejo near Home Acres Avenue and Taylor Avenue.
A witness told deputies that the man had a gun and that Pinson's face was bleeding and she was yelling for help. The witness said she heard a gunshot.
By the time deputies arrived, both Pinson and the Castro were gone but there was blood on the ground and Pearl's cell phone had been left behind.
Pearl was last seen wearing a grey sweater, black leggings, with a black and turquoise backpack. She currently has green hair.
The Solano County Sheriff's Department said that Castro and Pinson were acquaintances.
The Sheriff is urging anyone who might have seen Pearl Pinson, Fernando Castro, or the gold Saturn to call them at the tip line number (707)784-1963
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Animal Crossing Made A Surprise Appearance On NFL Sunday
The stands at the Detroit Lions game included villager cutouts.
By Aron Garst on November 3, 2020 at 5:01PM PST
Animal Crossing: New Horizons characters made a special appearance in the stands of the Detroit Lions and Indianapolis Colts football game on Sunday. Cardboard cutouts of villagers, Blathers, and other characters filled part of the bleachers during the NFL matchup.
The Lions have Animal Crossing cutouts in their stands today. pic.twitter.com/yY9KB3ie4E
— Dali (@DaliDimovski) November 1, 2020
Originally reported by Dali Dimovski on Twitter, the cutouts could be seen a few times during CBS's broadcast of the game. Cardboard cutouts have become a regular part of professional sports after the COVID pandemic forced teams to limit fan attendance. Teams have been pumping fake crowd noise into stadiums and adding cutouts like these to the stands at NBA, MLB, and NFL games.
The game took place in Detroit at Ford Field, although the cutouts didn't help the Lions at all. They lost to the Colts by 20 points in a 41-21 blowout.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has cemented itself as a major part of 2020. Players have used the game to replace trick-or-treating since going door to door this Halloween wasn't safe because of the pandemic. Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate for president, has his own island, too. One player is even trying to recreate The Office within their game.
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The only true failure you will run into in life is the kind in which you have not expended all efforts and approached the situation without the right attitude. Don’t allow you to beat you. That is unacceptable.
This also means do not fail in effort or in attitude toward your teammates. The preparation before a game—team bonding, positive criticism, accepting responsibility—is part of a winning process that is just as important as performing on the field. You cannot have one without the other.
This requires a heavy discipline, but not one that is not worth doing. The discipline to give it your all is what makes life worth living. It is, in fact, how you get the most out of life. To do this, however, you must put your actions into the process. This is accountability of self. Hold yourself to the standard you know you are capable of, and give it your all. When you have done this, there is no more you can do. But remember, you should have nothing left in you. All the hard work has been put in, and the results will truthfully speak to that. Do not cut corners.
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"I don't think I would become a climber if I were young man now [...] What is freedom to a bird if it is in the middle of a flock ?" — John Gill.
"Climbing is not a spectator sport." — Mark Wellman.
"Montani semper liberi." — Motto for the state of West Virginia.
"Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous." — Reinhold Messner.
"There is no place comparable to the Diamond [up Colorado's Longs Peak]. It is high, cold, steep, a long way from the parking lot, and most of all, intimidating. Chasm View, or the Flying Buttress can get you acclimated, but nothing can prepare you for the Diamond but the Diamond." — Malcolm Daly.
"What one leads on-sight, in good, strong style, safely, is what one's ability is." — Pat Ament.
"Remember that time spent on a rock climb isn't subtracted from your life span." — Will Niccolls.
"Climbing is hard to give up, it's just as hard to give up as cigarettes." — Layton Kor.
"Pucky lads, a wee bit over their heads." — Doug Scott after encountering two climbers on Denali suffering from exposure.
"I send my warmest congratulations to you and to the other members of the Italian team, who have achieved such a splendid mountaineering feat on Mt McKinley." — President Kennedy to Riccardo Cassin in 1961.
"It's a round trip. Getting to the summit is optional, getting down is mandatory." — Ed Viesturs.
"Take only pictures; leave only footprints."
"It's a wonderful feeling to push even a tiny piece of the planet down beneath one's feet. If it's overhanging plastic, it's going to pump your arms like bloated sausages; if it's a steep snow-slope at 27000 feet it's going to deaden the legs and make the lungs like overworked bellows. Either way, the challenges are obvious." — Adrian Burgess.
"It's always further than it looks.
It's always taller than it looks.
And it's always harder than it looks." — The 3 rules of mountaineering.
"In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock." — Edward Abbey.
"You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves." — Lito Tejada-Flores.
"There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end." — Edward Whymper.
"The aim of the mountaineer, if he wishes to be an artist in the full sense of word, is neither escape nor "the search for the absolute" as some have claimed, but rather seek that place where "the mystic remains silent and the poets start to speak towards men." — Bernard Amy.
"Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb." — Greg Child.
"In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards the consciousness, towards the spirit. We have always honored the high places because we sense them to be the homes of gods. In the mountains there is the promise of... something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars. So we climb... and in climbing there is more than a metaphor; there is a means of discovery." — Rob Parker.
"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top."
"Climbing is as close as we can come to flying." — Margaret Young, aviator and alpinist.
"On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude." — Lionel Terray.
"How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?" — Anatoli Boukreev.
"Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence." — Hermann Buhl.
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." — Evan Hardin.
"In the mountains there are only two grades: You can either do it, or you can't." — Rusty Baille.
"Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing." — Jonathan Waterman.
"If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man." — Wilfrid Noyce.
"Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains." — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings.
"One cannot climb at all unless he has sufficient urge to do so. Danger must be met (indeed it must be used) to an extent beyond that incurred to normal life. That is one reason men climb; for only in response to challenge does one man becomes his best." — Ax Nelson.
"To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity." — Georg Simmel.
"When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind is clicking along, but your body is stagnating. Climbing brings it together in a beautiful, magical way. The adrenaline is flowing, and it's flowing all the time." — Pat Ament.
"Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor — or you may get hurt, which is major. Instead of years of meditation, you have this activity that forces you to relax and monitor your breathing and tread that line between living and dying. When you climb, you always are confronted with the edge. Hey, if it was just like climbing a ladder, we all would have quit a long time ago." — Duncan Ferguson.
"Desire is just a part — the cracking ice, the splitting rock
Hey, hey I listen to you pray as if some help will come..." — Lyrics from White Coats by New Model Army.
"Heaven sent and hell bent over the mountain tops we go !" — Lyrics from Sweet Bird of Truth by The The.
"We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for deeper meanings." — Allen Steck, 1967.
"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place ? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know." — René Daumal.
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as the sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms teir energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." — John Muir about Yosemite.
"To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling." — A. Alvarez, The Games Climbers Play.
"But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails." — William Arthur Ward.
"The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least." — Lisa Morgan.
"The pleasure of risk is in the control needed to ride it with assurance so that what appears dangerous to the outsider is, to the participant, simply a matter of intelligence, skill, intuition, coordination... in a word, experience. Climbing in particular, is a paradoxically intellectual pastime, but with this difference: you have to think with your body. Every move has to be worked out in terms of playing chess with your body. If I make a mistake the consequences are immediate, obvious, embarrassing, and possibly painful. For a brief period I am directly responsible for my actions. In that beautiful, silent, world of mountains, it seems to me worth a little risk." — A. Alvarez.
"If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can approach, it also presents great dangers. It is not the goal of grand alpinism to face peril, but it is one of the tests one must undergo to deserve the joy of rising for an instant above the state of crawling grubs. But soon we have to start the descent. Suddenly I feel sad and despondent. I am well aware that a mountaineering victory is only a scratch in space But in spite of this, how sad I feel at leaving that crest ! On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude." — Lionel Terray.
"I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak." — Sir Leslie Stephen.
"Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity." — Gaston Rébuffat (1921—1985).
"Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, onyl the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate." — Gaston Rébuffat (1921—1985).
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go." — T. S. Eliot.
"Each fresh peak ascended teaches something." — Sir Martin Convay.
"For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread." — Maurice Herzog, mountaineer and writer.
"A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him and leaving something of himself upon it." — Martin Conway.
"The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky." — Walter Lippmann, journalist.
"The events of the past day have proven to me that I am wholly alive, and that no matter what transpires from here on in, I have truly lived." — Anonymous climber.
"Like a drop of water falls from the summit, that's the line I shall take." — E. Comici.
"What is hard to endure is sweet to remember."
"When the going gets tough, the tough get going." — Old saying.
"Pain is only weakness leaving the body." — Tom Muccia.
"One can't take a breath large enough to last a lifetime ; one can't eat a meal big enough so that one never needs to eat again. Similarly, I don't think any climb can make you content never to climb again." — Woodrow Wilson Sayre.
"Be careful down there on Earth. It's close to the ground and somebody could get hurt." — Mir Crew.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out where the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood. At best, he knows the triumph of high achievement; if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." — Theodore Roosevelt.
"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out — it's the grain of sand in your shoe." — Robert Service (1874—1958).
"I feel that my enemy is anyone who would, given the power to do so, restrict individual liberty, and this includes all officials, law officers, army sergeants, communists, catholics and the house of Un-American Activities Committee. Of course I'm prejudiced, but I cannot imagine a sport other than climbing which offers such a complete and fulfilling expression of individuality. And I will not give it up nor even slow down, not for man, nor woman, nor wife, nor God." — Chuck Pratt, 1965.
"I refuse to believe in a risk free society where the thrill of living is traded for the safety of existence."
"If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves." — Walter Bonatti.
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." — Marilyn vos Savant.
"The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition." — Nick Seitz.
"A sport is advanced by the handful of people who do it brilliantly, but it is kept sweet and sane by the great numbers of the mediocre, who do it for fun." — Elizabeth Coxhead.
"I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up" — Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), American editor, publisher and writer.
"Tomorrow ? Probably back on the ground involved in other struggles more dangerous than loose flakes, more demanding than commitment to a desert wall. Dealing with man can be less than beautiful. Climbing is beautiful." — Bill Forrest , the secret passage route.
"Today is your day ! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way." — Dr. Seuss (1904—1991)
"To live for some future goal is shallow. It is the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top." — Robert Pirsig.
"The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back with the same partners knowing there's potential in this human relationship." — Greg Child.
"The true object, as always, is not simply to get up things and check them off in our guidebook — it is to challenge ourselves." — Doug Robinson.
"In climbing you are always faced with new problems in which you must perform using intuitive movements, and then later analyze them to figure out why they work, and then learn from them." — Wolfgang Gullich.
"The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul." — Walter Bonatti.
"Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes — all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose by the seriousness of the task at hand." — Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild.
"Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'." — Greg Child.
"To those who have struggled with them, the mountains reveal beauties that they will not disclose to those who make no effort. That is the reward the mountains give to effort. And it is because they have so much to give and give it so lavishly to those who will wrestle with them that men love the mountains and go back to them again and again. The mountains reserve their choice gifts for those who stand upon their summits." — Sir Francis Younghusband.
"In this short span between my fingertips and the smooth edge and these tense feet cramped to a crystal ledge, I hold the life of a man." — Geoffrey Winthrop Young.
"Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick." — Muhammad Ali.
"One who's poised on the edge of a cliff is wise to define progress as a step backward." — The fate of all life on Earth.
"Tell them I'm making Roosevelt's glasses out of the most precious thing on Earth: Imagination." — Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mt Rushmore.
"The thought of approaching action aroused strange and contradictory emotions in me. I felt an immense pity for all the little men who toiled on in the prison which society has succeeded in building against the open sky, who knew nothing and felt nothing of what I knew and felt at that moment. Yesterday I was like them, and in another few days I would be like them again. But today I was a prisoner set free; and tomorrow I would be a lord and master, and commander of life and death, of the stars and the elements." — Giusto Gervasutti.
"Niente fremiti di gioia. Niente ebbrezza della vittoria.
La mèta raggiunta è già superata.
Direi quasi un senso di amarezza per il sogno diventato realtà.
Credo che sarebbe molto più bello poter desiderare per tutta la vita qualcosa, lottare continuamente per raggiungerla e non ottenerla mai...
L'uomo felice non dovrebbe avere più nulla da dire, più nulla da fare.
Per mio conto preferisco una felicità irragiungibile, sempre vicina e sempre fuggente." — Giusto Gervasutti.
"Trop de gens l’oublient mais le plus important c’est la souplesse du bassin." — Patrick Edlinger (1960-2012).
"Si on ne fait pas des choses folles à 20 ans, ce n'est pas à 50 qu'on va s'y mettre." — Marco Siffredi (1979—2002).
"Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery." — John Ruskin (1819—1900), British art critic and writer, in Modern Painters.
"If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all." — Queen Elisabeth I.
"Only through suffering can we find ourselves." — Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
"Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker." — Nietzsche (1844—1900).
"He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary." — Friedrich Nietzsche.
"You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, and to run, and to climb, and to dance." — Friedrich Nietzsche.
"I piss on you all from a considerable height." — Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
"Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was." — Dag Hammerskjold.
"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb." — Nelson Mandela (1918-).
"I live not in myself, but I become portion of that around me; and to me high mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture." — Lord Byron.
"Ever since a small boy, I have loved just to look at the mountains, to see them in different lights and from different angles, to feel their rough rock under my fingers and the breath of the winds against my feet... I am in love with the mountains." — Wilfrid Noyce.
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and disregard of all the rules." — George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant (1950).
"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing." — Aldous Huxley.
"The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as the ladder of life. Nay, more; it is the ladder of the soul and in a curious way the source of religion. From it came the Law, from it came the Gospel in the Sermon of the Mount. We may trul say that the highest religion is the Religion of the Mountain." — Jan Smuts, South African prime minister, 1919.
"Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God." — Kurt Vonnegut.
"In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor to over come obstacles of the way, the soul trains itself to conquer difficulties; and the spectacle of the vast horizon, which from the highest crest offers itself on all sides to the eyes, raises his spirit to the Divine Author and Soverign of Nature." — Pope Pius XI.
"And the ark rested in the 7th month, on the 17th day of the month, upon the mountain of Ararat. And the waters decreased continually until the 10th month: in the 10th month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen." — Genesis 8:1-5.
"The mountains have done the spiritual side of me more good religiously, as well as in my body physically, than anything else in the world. No one knows who and what God is until he has seen some real mountaineering and climbing in the Alps." — Rev F. T. Wethered, 1919.
"Mountains are Earth's undecaying monuments." — Nathaniel Hawthorne.
"Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street." — William Blake, Gnomic Verses.
"La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir un coeur d'homme. Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux." — Albert Camus.
"Short is the little time which remains to you of life. Live as on a mountain." — Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Meditations.
"True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain." — Richard Nixon.
"I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth." — Petrarch, Italian Poet, on the summit of Mt Ventoux in 1335.
"Courage is grace under pressure." — Ernest Hemingway (1898—1961).
"You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down." — Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad.
"Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him... When the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill'." — Francis Bacon (1561—1626), English philosopher. Often misquoted as 'If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain'.
"Don't attack a hill from the very bottom — it's bigger than you are !" — Harry Groves, Penn State Coach.
"Lead me to the rock that is higher than I." — Psalms 61:2.
"Climb high
Climb far
Your goal the sky
Your aim the star." — Inscription on steps, Williams College.
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"Success is not counted by how high you have climbed but by how many people you brought with you." — Will Rose.
"For we are known for being at once most adventurous in action and yet most reflective beforehand; other men are bold in their ignorance whilst reflection would stop their onset. But, the bravest are surely those that have the clearest vision of what lies before them, danger and glory alike and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. For whole Earth is a sepulchre of famous men and their story is not only graven in stone over their native land, but, lives on far away without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives." — Thucydides (460-404BCE).
"Exemplum de simia, quae, quanto plus ascendit, tanto plus apparent posteriora eius." — Saint Bonaventure (1217—1274).
"Security is mostly a superstition. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run that outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." — Helen Keller.
"You go up to the mountain top and you look out across the sea,
There's a whole lot of places where a young man could be.
You jump down to the rooftops and look out across the town,
You know there's a lot of strange things been circulating round." — Gary Davis.
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, awake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it reality." — T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia).
"Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert." — Giovanni Boccaccio (1313—1375), Decameron, The Third Day, X.
"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow." — Friedrich Nietzsche (1844—1900).
"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero." — Horace (65-8 BC)
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." — Albert Einstein.
"There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it." — Mark Twain quotes (1835-1910).
"No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it." — Seneca.
"Traveler's will cross many rivers and climb many mountains. Plainsmen may always live within a valley. But only those seeking truth will ever reach the summit." — 11th century Indian saying.
"There's something ever egotistical in mountain tops and towers, and all things grand and lofty." — Herman Melville , Moby Dick.
"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess." — Oscar Wilde.
"Never was anything achieved without danger." — Niccolo Machiavelli.
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." — Goethe.
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." — Oliver Wendell Holmes.
"Faith can move mountains." — Matthew, Apostle.
"Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity." — André Gide, French writer (Nobel prize 1947).
"Faith can move mountains; it's true.
Reason leaves them where they are; it's better." — Pierre Bourgault, Bourgault doux-amer.
"Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them ?" — Boris Vian, surrealist French writer and singer, En verve.
"Lord, don't move my mountain, just give me the strength to climb." — From a church hymn.
"When you get to the summit of the mountain, keep climbing." — Tibetan saying.
"Mountains and water will eventually meet." — Chinese saying.
"Who need be craving a world beyond this one ? Here among men are the Purple Hills." — Chinese poem.
"No matter how high the mountain, there will always be a way up." — Anonymous.
"To climb a mountain one must start at the base." — Chinese saying.
"Once drunk, we'll sleep on the bare mountain with the sky as a blanket and the Earth as a pillow." — Li Po, Chinese poet.
"We never grow tired of each other, the mountain and I." — Li Po (AD 762), Chinese poet.
"One who can move mountains start with the little stones." — Confucius, chinese philosopher.
"When men work together, mountains turn to gold." — Chinese saying
"There is no place in the world, in the air, in the middle of the ocean or the depth of the mountains, where one can unburden the evil already done." — Dhammapada.
"Will allow you to climb summits; without will you stay at the base of the mountain." — Chinese saying.
"The deepest sea has a bottom, the highest mountain has a summit." — Chinese saying.
"The higher the mountain, the deeper the valley." — Alsacian saying.
"It's not in the mountains that one stumbles, but on tiny pebbles." — Anonymous.
"Man of the plains, why do you climb the mountain ? So I can see the plain better..." — Chinese saying.
"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak." — G.K. Chesterton.
"The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet." — Taisen Deshimaru, Japanese zen master.
"The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself." — Robert Pirsig, American writer.
"What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols." — Anatole France, French writer.
"The watchword of side-issue specialists is 'Look after the molehills and the mountains will take care of themselves'." — Raymond Hull.
"Switzerland is not that great: remove the mountains and what's left ?" — Anonymous.
"One doesn't need to climb a mountain to know if it's high." — Paulo Coelho, Brasilian writer, The Pilgrimage.
"A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller." — Seneca, Latin philosopher, Letter to Lucilius.
"May our five senses be pure, and may the weather on the honorable mountain be fine." — Japanese pilgrim's motto.
"Only mountains can never meet." — French saying.
"A man without defaults is like a mountain without crevasses. Not interesting." — Ren´ Char, French poet, Feuillets d'Hypnos.
"Between the shores of the oceans and the summit of the highest mountain is a secret route that you must absolutely take before being one with the sons of the Earth." — Khalil Gibran, Libanese poet.
"It is those who get lost, who find the new ways." — Nils Kjaer.
"Everyone praises the views you get from mountain tops, but no one talks about the views that they block." — Nils Kjaer, Letter from the Alps.
"If someone tells you that a mountain has changed place, you are free to believe it; but if you are told that a man has changed character, don't believe it." — Arab saying.
"After you've walked two hours in the mountains, you are more intelligent." — Coline Serreau, French film director, La belle verte.
"If you don't like the sea, if you don't like the mountains, if you don't like the city... fuck you !" — Jean-Luc Godard, French film director, A bout de souffle.
"One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am — a reluctant enthusiast ... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it's still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotised by desk calculators. I promise you this; you will outlive the bastards." — Edward Abbey.
"If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions." — Neville Shute.
"In nature there are no rewards or punishments, there are consequences." — Mick Halligan.
"Being old is like climbing a mountain. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless, but your view becomes much more extensive." — Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director
"For an old man, any hill is a mountain." — Jewish saying.
"O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!" — John Keats (1795—1821).
"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings,
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew.
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high, untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God." — Magee, John Gillespie (1922—1941), Canadian fighter pilot.
"O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once." — James Joyce (1882—1941), Ulysses, Circe.
"God put us on this earth to read Ulysses and to try to find the time to get started on Finnegan's Wake... He did not intend us to pole-vault or bungy-jump, do aerobics or go white-water rafting." — Malcolm Bradbury, 1993.
"Well could I curse away a winter's night,
Thought standing naked on a mountain top,
Where biting cold would never let grass grow,
And think it but a minute spent in sport." — William Shakespeare (1564—1616), King Henry VI, Act III, Scene II.
"What are you that fly me thus ?
some villain mountaineers ?
I have heard of such.
What slave art thou ?"
— William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act IV, Scene II.
"Do you not educate youth at the charge-house on the top of the mountain ?" — William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost, Act V, Scene I.
"Ay, to the proof; as mountains are for winds,
That shake not, thought they blow perpetually." — William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, Act II, Scene I.
"Talkers are no good doers." — William Shakespeare, Henry VI.
"O femme dangereuse, ô séduisants climats !
Adorerai-je aussi ta neige et vos frimas,
Et saurai-je tirer de l'implacable hiver
Des plaisirs plus aigus que la glace et le fer ?" — Charles Baudelaire.
And I will dedicate the last one to Jennifer (yeah, that's sweet, ain't it ?):
"Live with me, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
And all the craggy mountains yields." — Christopher Marlowe (1564—1593) , The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.
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Slash Behind the Scenes: Ernie Ball Visits Slash in the Studio, Episode 8
By Damian Fanelli 21 April 2014
Ernie Ball's online series, Real to Reel with Slash, debuted in February on Slash's official YouTube channel.
The latest (and final) installment — Episode 8, which you can watch below — shows Slash & Co. — better known as "Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators" — at a studio in Los Angeles, hard at work on their next album, which will be released later this year.
Each clip in the series provides a behind-the-scenes peek at the band's sessions, courtesy of Ernie Ball. This episode puts the focus on Slash and producer Michael "Elvis" Baskette, who discusses "pushing" Slash to play at his highest level.
Be sure to check out Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here and Part 7 here.
Slash and Aerosmith have announced several new tour dates, all of which you can check out here.
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Aeora Freedom Interview
Melbourne-based Aeora continues to establish herself as one of the most exciting new artists on Australian pop scene with the release of huge new dark, electronic-pop track "Freedom." Known for her ability to infuse her song-writing talents with her impressive producing capabilities, Aeora is always able to connect her music with her own journey of self-discovery, extending that experience to it's listener.
Accompanying the powerful vocals and extraordinary layered production, "Freedom," produced and mixed by Haxx, is all about navigating the often difficult dynamics between relationships and independence. Aeora draws on her own personal experiences of finding her own 'freedom' in amongst life's ever changing moments, and speaks of how "Freedom" came about from them.
"I was in this really open and freeing time of my life where I was meeting new people and really just living through my intuition. I met my now partner and suddenly that idea of freedom within me got messed around because now I had these very real feelings for someone, and those feelings could sway me in any direction.
The idea of freedom was very integral to how our relationship began. We started in an open relationship, and at the time it could be messy but as whole it really challenged my idea of relationships and my idea of freedom. Ultimately, I think freedom can be defined by our surroundings but I think a lot of it comes from within us. As so lyrically 'Freedom' is about all of this and then allowing myself the freedom to just be."
Aeora also teamed up with producer Haxx on the track, having worked together on several previous projects, their musical partnership falls into a perfect rhythm, creating an enthralling signature sound.
"I think that harmony between both our sounds always creates something slightly different to whatever genre we're influenced by - it's never truly pop, never truly electronic and never truly R&B. I really love how we manage to always make something a little different."
"Freedom" is the third release from Aeora this year, following the release of hard-hitting, dark-pop single "Breathe" and "Give It" earlier this year, which was her first release in two years.
Interview with Aeora
Question: How would you describe your music?
Aeora: I would describe my music as an expression of myself, my being and my soul. I mostly write my music very intuitively - I just let whatever come out and I make it work in a song. I'm constantly experimenting and constantly creating what comes to me and I don't like to question it or limit myself to genres or particular sounds that are popular at the time.
Question: Can you tell us about Freedom?
Aeora: I wrote Freedom early last year when I first started dating my now partner. For me, I was just getting into a new flow of being - transitioning quite a lot from another period of my life, and so I was really exploring my own sense of freedom as an individual. But then I had met him and I developed feelings for him in a way that felt like it really threatened my idea of being 'free'. The song also explores our relationship at that stage where we actually decided to be in an open relationship; something completely new to me, but something I think really helped me explore myself and this idea of being free within myself. Whilst also helping us grow and build our relationship to what it is now.
Question: Is there a particular message you hope listeners take from your music?
Aeora: I hope listeners can connect to my music in a way that can help them with their own stories, or their own feelings. Music connects us and brings us together - I think it shows us how similar we are and how we are not really all that different. I think that's always something that's really resonated with me.
Question: Do you prefer performing live or recording?
Aeora: Hmm! I don't think I have a preference. I love recording/being in the studio because it lets me be creative in such a freeing and explorative way. But performing live lets me share those creations and connect with others in such a real way. Plus it lets me explore my performance aspect of my personality, and that is always so invigorating and exciting for me.
Question: Can we expect a tour now that restrictions are lifting?
Aeora: I hope so, but to be honest that is just not where my mind is at right now. Living in Melbourne during this time was rough to say the least, but it did force me to focus hugely on making a lot of music and working out a solid plan for releasing music in the future, perhaps without touring. For me, and a lot of others I've spoken to, we're just excited to be able to do everyday things again - to see friends, family and to be able to go places again. So I think when that settles down a bit and I can see more of a stable working ground for performing then I can start thinking about it.
But for right now, there are plans for filming a live set soon.
Question: What or who was your inspiration to go into the music industry?
Aeora: I was always drawn to sing and write after listening to a lot of music as a child. I remember my first couple of artists I really loved was Kylie Minogue and Delta Goodrem. I loved music so much I had to find a way to be able to do it every day.
Question: You had a 2 year break from music, do you feel you came back stronger?
Aeora: I had a break from releasing my own music because I didn't really feel confident enough to keep going in the way I was. So I decided to go inwards, realign myself and just focus on making music and working on myself instead of putting it outwards. It helped me a lot to improve my skills in production, as well as my confidence in my abilities as an artist. I think I am definitely a lot stronger as an artist and as a person in general - my life and my perspective have improved significantly since then.
Question: Which music/artists are you currently listening to?
Aeora: I've been getting really into my yoga practice so a lot of the music I listen to has been apart of my practices. One of my favourites right now are 'Gidge' - they make some incredible electronic music that really takes you on a journey. I loved their Autumn Bells album, but their new one 'New Light' is equally amazing. Another favourite of mine recently is 'Omeria'. Some really amazing blends of sounds in his music.
Question: Tell us about working with Haxx?
Aeora: I love working with Haxx. I first met him when I asked him to work with me on my song 'Bossy' a few years back and from there we became close mates, so its extra special I've been able to continue working with him on so many tracks as we really have a great time. I think he's super talented and such a genuine human, and so I am super grateful to be able to create with him.
Question: What motivates you most when writing music?
Aeora: I'm not quite sure to be honest. I get a lot of ideas for songs from my feelings and my experience in life, but the actual motivation to write a song comes from seemingly nowhere; A little bubble sent to my mind. Or perhaps a space I access only in glimpses to piece together a song.
Question: What is the biggest challenge you have faced along the way to your musical success?
Aeora: I think the biggest challenge is my own doubts and negative self-talk to myself; essentially a lack of confidence. I think it takes constant work to keep ahead of it.
Question: What has been your favourite part of becoming a music artist?
Aeora: Creating something I can listen to and share to others is my favourite part. I'm in love with creating music, and that's all I'll ever want to do.
Question: What's a typical day like?
Aeora: Yoga, breakfast, get to the studio or work from my home studio, press some buttons on my computer in Logic, press some more buttons, maybe even a few keys on the piano, sing some words, write them down, eat some more food, relax at home with my partner, and then go to bed. There's usually a few bits and bobs in there too - I love to hang with my friends, and there's usually some dilly-dallying too.
Question: What's next, for you?
Aeora: I've got a lot of music to be released next year - all self produced. So I'll be working on getting those finished and working on some more music video's too. It's going to be a big year next year I think.
Question: Can you share your socials? (links please)
Aeora: Facebook
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Trulite at the end of the tunnel
By Patrick Flannery AND Colleen Cross
A great name weathers change and gains the resources to offer a ‘one-stop shop.’
After tumultuous years that saw its U.S. parent, Arch Aluminum, battered
by the U.S. recession then finally bought by an investment house,
Trulite Glass and Aluminum Solutions’ Vaughan, Ont.
After tumultuous years that saw its U.S. parent, Arch Aluminum, battered by the U.S. recession then finally bought by an investment house, Trulite Glass and Aluminum Solutions’ Vaughan, Ont., glass and aluminum fabrication facility looks set to emerge not only as a survivor, but also as one of the jewels in the crown of a new North American glass construction giant. Headed now by a local boy, David McCallen of Kleinburg, Ont., the plant is massively expanding its capabilities and capacity with new lamination and IG lines arriving from former Arch, United and Vitro plants across the continent. The goal, McCallen says, is to turn Vaughan into a “glass supercentre” that will distribute IG units, spandrel, custom printed and laminated glass products all across central and eastern Canada and the eastern United States.
Gavan Durkin (left) and David McCallen say Trulite’s silk screening capabilities have brought a range of opportunities in the custom and decorative markets. This panel was part of the set for the popular theatre production, Jersey Boys. The plant can also apply and fire ceramic frit.
When Sun Capital bought Trulite, it bought not only a strong company but also its good name. According to McCallen, who came on board as general manager in January, Trulite, a brand name born in 1975, well known and regarded in the market. In 2010, Trulite was purchased by Florida’s Arch Aluminum, which was subsequently bought by Sun Capital. When Sun Capital acquired the various businesses – Arch, Vitro, United and Trulite – it decided to adopt the Trulite name for the entire business across North America. “We had such a good name for quality and services in the market,” McCallen says.
Sun Capital took possession of Trulite’s Vaughan plant January 2012, continuing to operate the Courtney Park warehouse in Mississauga through to last summer. The company took the full year to begin the migration to start to produce out of the Vaughan plant, he says.
McCallen, whose strengths are in startups and turnarounds, came into his new position via his connection to Sun Capital through his work at Indalex Aluminum Solutions, an aluminum extrusion company and Sun Capital subsidiary.
“I have been in business turnarounds,” he says. “I wouldn’t call this a business turnaround but you look at a different dimension because those businesses essentially doubled in size. Potential to double. That takes some different skill sets.”
Location: Vaughan, Ont.
No. of staff: 110
Plant: 153,000 ft2
Products: Tempered,
insulating and spandrel glass with silk screening
Trulite is now the umbrella under which all the glass businesses owned by Sun Capital operate, including the assets of the former Arch Aluminum, United Glass and Vitro Architectural Products. The group is a glass and aluminum fabricating giant, with 29 plants across North America.
Paul Schmitz is the CEO.
That potential to double is no pie in the sky when you consider the massive consolidation Sun Capital has recently undertaken. All of the assets of Arch, Vitro and United are combined under Trulite, and Trulite is owned by Sun Capital, which owns 29 facilities in North America. At least half a dozen plants contributed equipment to the Vaughan plant following the buyout. Some are glass-only plants and some are glass-aluminum plants that have the Trulite aluminum products. The Vaughan plant is a glass-only facility.
“They classify this as one of their glass supercentres,” says McCallen. It’s one of three glass supercentres in North America, and, at 153,000 square feet, this is one of their largest plants in North America. The Courtney Park warehouse was 83,000 square feet. A distribution facility in Vaughan is 40,000 square feet.
The acquisitions have meant significant growth. “We’ve almost doubled the size of the footprint of this fabrication plant,” he says. “We’ve doubled the IG capacity. We’ve doubled the tempering capacity, doubled the cutting capacity and then we’ve added the laminated glass capability. We’ve added the heavy glass fabrication capability.”
McCallen came to Trulite from Sapa Extrusions, the largest aluminum extrusion company in the world. He has spent most of his career to date with Indalex. Indalex was purchased by Sapa in August 2009. “Sapa was the largest market share in North America and I was one of four VP general managers running the business, and I had the Northeast U.S. and Canada business,” he says. “I had plants in the U.S. and Canada.”
Born in Bolton, Ont., he grew up in nearby Mississauga’s Malton area and now lives in Kleinburg, just west of Vaughan.
Trulite has massively expanded its lamination capacity with a Bilco line and Melco clave brought up from the former Arch plant in Tamarac, Fla. Plant manager Gavan Durkin says the ability to do their own lamination will give Trulite access to new markets.
McCallen’s trajectory has been gradual and steady. He worked as a planner/expediter for McDonnell Douglas for two years from 1979-81, and in 1981 joined Indalex as a planner/expediter. He graduated from plant manager to vice-president of manufacturing and operations to VP/general manager of the region.
He specialized in aluminum, working for two years in the building envelope side, running Oldcastle’s building envelope division, which used to be the old Fulton windows business.
Having been exposed to new manufacturing techniques, he draws on a background of operations.
“Indalex was a very entrepreneurial business and that’s where Trulite wants their business operated as very entrepreneurial,” he says. “However, having worked for a larger company, I really learned some . . . world-class practices and certainly operational excellence. I’ve worked and travelled all over the world – Europe, South America, Asia.
“But it’s important that we keep that entrepreneurial spirit and really stay close to the customer.”
More and more, that customer is asking for both internal and external products and services. That’s where the new Trulite plant’s shift in market to encompass laminated glass comes in. Traditionally Trulite has been a large-project-based business, McCallem says, but now the company wants to diversify and grow into that daily business as well. The idea is to support both external and internal needs. The plant produces IG units, spandrel silkscreen, laminated glass, gas-filled IG units and fabricated glass up to 20 millimetres. The company recently made a further investment in cutting tables to cut that heavier glass, anything that’s over 15 millimetres or half an inch. “We’re going to sell that capability as well,” he says. “We have a truck that’s making predetermined routes through all the GTA and southern Ontario. That’s really to grow that daily business where, you know, if someone needs three lites, three fabricated lites for shower doors. The shower door market. And then the guys who need one unit, two units, three units.”
Since January, Trulite has been marketing its new capabilities through product capability broadsheets, promoted by e-mail blasts. “We’ve identified not just current accounts but potential customers who buy the products we can now make and we’re getting the broadsheets out to people so they know what our capabilities are. We are making cold calls to more than 650 current and potential customers . . . We’ve been getting really positive response to that,” says McCallen.
Going into the laminated market should not require much of a change in strategy, he notes, because a lot of
people who buy IG from Trulite now will also buy laminated. “Frankly, it’s been a pretty popular response with people” he adds. “They don’t want to have to go one place for external and one place for interior.”
Upon taking the reins, McCallen’s immediate focus has been not changing but stabilizing the business. “The key focus is safety, quality and service. We’ve got to deliver to our customers on-time, quality product, keep our people safe, get them engaged.”
Safety is a priority, and the company, which is unionized under the Steelworkers, wants to get ahead of incidents and fatalities. “You don’t want to get committed to this through something as awful as a fatality. So do it before something terrible happens.”
One of the company’s safety initiatives was to change some of the workers’ personal protective equipment and to drive home the need to wear it at all times. “The first thing we talk about at every single meeting is safety . . . we want you to go home at the end of the day, same condition that you came in. Your families deserve that. And it’s our obligation to keep you safe. And your obligation to keep yourself and your fellow employees safe. So a lot of it is behaviour.
“We’re not measuring – we’re not just keeping track of injuries or incidents or when someone gets hurt. We’re keeping track of incidents.” They pay attention when something happens that could have injured someone, do walks through the plant to identifiy hazards, and focus on what they can improve.
McCallen and his management team use walk-throughs to monitor and maintain quality, a hands-on approach.
He explains: “The team does a daily walk through the plant. So we go by resell, look at what is our performance for prior day in terms of safety, in terms of quality, in terms of service, in terms of cost? We’ve got objectives in each of those areas. What do we actually achieve? If we didn’t achieve our objective, why? How do we support the people making the product to do a better job? How do we help them? What tools do we have to give them? What training? Support? What do they need?
“If we’re above target, what are we doing to make sure we chock the wheel and make sure we are sustainable?”
Beyond being sustainable, the goal for 2013 is to double the plant’s capacity and in doing so significantly increase sales, which is one reason they decided to grow the laminated side. Another is an earlier market study that found there was a need for someone to provide a diversity of products in the market.
“We’ve now got almost a one-stop shop capability. I think customers are interested in that,” he says. “The traditional plan was 75, 80 per cent IG spandrel. I mean, it’s still going to be a significant piece for our business. We see that more in the 65 per cent range. And the growth comes from laminated and the fabricated heavy glass. Heat soak as well.”
McCallen’s experience in China taught him that the Asian industry can compete on quality and confirmed for him the importance of improving service.
“It was a wake-up call in terms of don’t assume they’re just a cost alternative. They can also provide a quality product,” he says. “We need to drive improvement harder in terms of service and quality in North America.
We’ve got to raise our game.
“Frankly we have to drive our costs down too, be more competitive,” he adds, and the secret to driving costs down, he suggests, is not only automation but also “getting people engaged. We’ve got a lot of human capital we’ve got to tap into. We’ve got to get them to bring their brains into the business and help us improve the business.”
Trulite’s future includes the acquisition of a heat soak furnace by early April, which will give the company a wider range of offerings.
“Everybody’s aware of the falling glass we had in the Toronto market last year and a lot of the balcony railing systems went from just tempered glass to heat soak and laminated and, you know, it’s one of the condo balcony railing markets, one we’ve targeted.”
According to McCallen, the company sees an opportunity to fill a growing need that previously could only be filled internationally, through Asia or the United States.
“The architects are looking for larger spans,” says McCallen. “They’re looking for larger spans and I think the more glass and less metal so that plays into our strengths because we can do those larger pieces.”
McCallen anticipates growth also in the number of employees, currently at 110, as the company grows its share in the market.
As they need capacity, they will need to invest in additional cutting lines. He says, “That’s one thing that Sun Capital will do. They want to invest to grow the business. They did that when I was at Indalex and they’ll do that here.”
McCallen sees light at the end of the tunnel after what has been a challenging expansion. For him, accountability is the key: “I think the secret of this business is to do what you say you’re going to do. Make a commitment; fulfil your commitment. Take accountability. That’s what is going to make us successful.”
Fully automatic and shape-capable cutting table – 130” X 204”
Schiatti polishing and mitering – lites from 6” X 6” to 110” 100”
CNC-cut holes and notches – lites up to 90” X 159”, max. weight 350 lbs.
Glass Robots single bay 100” X 180” tempering furnance
Tamglass double bay 86” X 144” tempering furnace
Two 96” X 190” LiSec one-shape and triple-capable automatic IG lines
12” X 15” up to 96” X 144” laminating capacity
Melco Steel clave with vacuum bagging capability
Opticoat spandrel from 12” X 12” to 82” X 160”
Ceramic frit from 12” X 12” to 82” X 160”
Arch, ACI and United to operate under Trulite name
Western States Glass acquired by Trulite
Trulite announces new CEO
Fenestration Forum: April 2013
You Bet Your Glass: April 2013
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Gulfstream Sales & Support Forum, Lagos
Gulfstream Aerospace held it’s second annual Sales & Product Support Forum at the Sheraton Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria in conjunction with SkyJet Aviation Services, the Gulfstream Authorized Sales Representative for Central Africa. SkyJet have state of the art facilities in Abuja & Kaduna, including hangarage, GSE, workshops, & offices at both locations. The Forum, attended by crews, engineers, managers & operators underlined the commitment of both Gulfstream & SkyJet to closely support all Gulfstream operators in the African region. The forum coincided with the arrival of Gulfstream’s fully outfitted flight-test Gulfstream 500 and the Gulfstream G650ER Flagship on static display in Lagos. Both demonstrators came direct from the Singapore Air Show where the G500 made its Asia introduction.
All set to start the Gulfstream Sales & Support Forum at The Hilton Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria
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How We Teach Children to Find Peace and Stillness Inside Themselves By Robert Schware, Contributor
This is an interview with Don Wenig, who, with his wife Marsha Wenig, has been on a mission to help children feel good about themselves since 1989, when they co-founded YogaKids International. Don now manages much of the business side of YogaKids International as well as Dancing Feet Yoga. Don taught at White Lotus Foundation's Center for Yoga in Los Angeles until moving back to the Midwest to co-found Dancing Feet Yoga with Marsha. He has been a Phoenix Rising yoga therapist, a master body worker, a drummer, and an artist. Don also is co-founder of the Go Give Yoga Foundation, serving kids and communities to educate, empower and transform through yoga.
Rob: What motivated you to start working with kids? Where were you in your life at the time?
Marsha and I had recently met. It was 1985. She had been teaching poetry in south central Los Angeles as a volunteer with LA Poets in the Schools. The kids were resistant to writing and sharing their stories. Marsha was concerned and frustrated with their reticence and felt there was so much gold to be unearthed. I was teaching yoga at the White Lotus Center for Yoga and suggested she try getting the kids to try some yoga. Some of my adult students had shared that they found yoga a good way to move through creative blocks.
Marsha had her students get up from behinds their desks, do several poses, become mindful of their breath and before writing connect with the still quiet place within themselves. The results were stunning. The kids opened up, and a flood of profound, heart-wrenching stories followed. The light bulb went on. Yoga helped the kids connect to their creativity and get over the fear of expressing themselves. These yoga tools helped Marsha's teaching enormously.
A couple of years later we moved to Indiana and opened up Dancing Feet Yoga Center. Our own daughter entered Montessori school and on our first visit we noticed that many of the children were tense, nervous and physically tight. This was a surprising revelation. Really? Already? At this young age? Marsha had found her passion. She volunteered a couple of times a week, this time to "play yoga" and the kids taught her the real magic of yoga.
Is there evidence that what you are teaching kids works?
While early evidence was anecdotal, the countless stories that parents shared with us were inspiring. Improved moods and sleeping habits, higher self confidence, better grades, and more coping skills were just a few of the benefits parents saw in their children. Yoga for children has evolved in wonderful ways over the years and now there is research that corroborates everything that parents have been sharing with us for decades.
Is it an adult idea that kids should practice yoga?
Of course. Adults want kids to "practice" yoga. Kids just want to play and of course play is learning. They have an innate knowing that they need to move. That's one of the reasons that incorporating movement in the classroom is so important. They learn better that way. It's natural and fun for them to make connections between poses, their lives and the world around them.
Nowadays everyone is teaching "kids yoga," whereas when you and Marsha started, it was something new. Please compare and contrast what you teach with the way it's being taught by more-recently trained instructors.
Many of the more recently-trained teachers could probably trace their approaches back to Marsha's influence. She and a small handful of other passionate teachers helped revolutionize the way yoga was taught to children in this country by recognizing that adult methods didn't work with kids. Her book, Educating the Whole Child Through Yoga, and the many videos she's produced redefine yoga in a way that kids find fun and engaging.
Yoga-for-children has blossomed into an amazing movement over the past 30 years. Along with the basic tenants of yoga's eight limbs and childhood/energy/educational development, the YogaKids approach is rooted in the work of Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Magda Gerber, Paul and Gail Dennison and Howard Gardner just to mention a few.
Much like then I'm sure that every kid's yoga teacher shows up with an open heart and all of their gifts and talents to share. I'll bet that they all learn more from the students than they ever imagined and are equally committed to empowering children though their teaching, unconditional acceptance, love, respect and compassion.
Yoga used to be a practice to prepare the body for meditation. What is it you are teaching kids? Is there anything spiritual about your teaching, or is it strictly about stretching and breathing?
Yoga helps prepare kids for life. Strength, balance, focus and mindfulness, all lead to the understanding and expression of ones inner self. Yoga for kids is self-empowering. Becoming more peaceful, more attuned to others and appreciative of nature is all spiritual to me. We teach gratitude, awareness, creativity and that life is filled with spirit as much as we teach stretching and breathing.
What is your vision for yoga with the kids you are trying to serve? What would you like to see happen?
The project we're most excited about right now is the creation of an educational TV show pilot called YogaKids: The Magical Garden (working title). Set in a magical yoga garden, the show follows the adventures of the five YogaKids and the "gardener" character. Using yoga as a springboard the episodes are told through a mix of live-action, stories, music, animation and puppetry, these adventures teach character education, social awareness, coping strategies, physical development, and connections to science, math and literacy. Kids at home will be invited by the YogaKids to join in the fun -- to get up, stretch, play, sing and dance. And hopefully, the kids at home will continue doing what they've learned AFTER the TV is shut off! By meeting kids where they're at (in front of the TV), we can plant the seeds for a lifetime of healthy, creative, caring and compassionate living. The progress of the pilot can be followed at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1130881817/yogakidstm-childrens-tv-show-pilot.
What continues to motivate you?
Wanting to co-create a world where children, their families and communities can thrive motivates me. Hoping to contribute just a little bit to a healthier, happier life filled with more loving kindness motivates me. Seeing yoga being taught in schools is a constant motivation. Our YogaKids Tools for Schools™ program helped pioneer this movement, which is now spreading like wildflowers. I am hopeful that yoga will have a significant, transformational impact on education in the future.
I'm interested in your thoughts on service, and the types of service that come from a yoga practice. What kind of service opportunity does a yoga practice offer to teachers working with kids?
It seems to me that service is a natural outcome of one's yoga practice. Perhaps practice organically leads to the understanding that the suffering of just one child means suffering in each of us. Years ago, Marsha and I started the YogaKids Bridge of Diamonds Foundation which has recently been renamed Go Give Yoga. The mission remains the same: serving kids and communities to educate, empower and transform through yoga. The work is focused on under-funded schools and children in need. And what community isn't in need? Go Give Yoga's current opportunities for yoga teachers to work heart to heart with children in need are in Haiti and Appalachia.
What organizations do you admire?
Wow, the list is so long. It's like an award show thank you list! I'll try to whittle it down. IAYT, Yoga for the Special Child, Circus Yoga, K-12 Yoga, Go Give Yoga, Off the Mat, Next Generation Yoga, Grounded Kids, Street Yoga, The Wellness Initiative, Give Back Yoga Foundation, Yoga Service Council, Radiant Child Yoga, Urban Zen, and Yoga Alliance.
All contribute to the landscape of yoga and yoga for kids in such unique and diverse ways. I admire and am in awe of them all.
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NFL Trade Rumors: Denver Broncos Already Preparing For Peyton Manning's Retirement; Von Miller To Receive Franchise Tag
By Jomar Endriga ( [email protected] ) Feb 29, 2016 10:24 AM EST Comment
Feb 7, 2016; Santa Clara, CA, USA; Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning (18) puts on his helmet before Super Bowl 50 against the Carolina Panthers at Levi's Stadium. (Image Credit: Mark J. Rebilas|USA TODAY Sports) Image Credit: Mark J. Rebilas|USA TODAY Sports
The Denver Broncos are reportedly preparing to part ways with Peyton Manning despite the fact that the latter has yet to announce his decision whether to retire or continue to play. The Super Bowl champs are proceeding with contract negotiations with other players without counting the star quarterback and his $19 million salary on their books for salary cap purposes, Fox Sports reported, citing unnamed league sources.
Manning, 39, led the Broncos to their recent Super Bowl 50 championship. The speculation regarding his retirement loomed for much of the season, reaching a height following the Broncos' victory over the Carolina Panthers. The report indicated that Manning's decision, whether he choose to hang up his cleats or not, might not matter anymore as the club has already made the decision for him.
Alex Marvez of Fox Sports writes that it is "not a matter of if but when" the team and Manning will part ways. Denver's supposed decision is not entirely surprising as the team has been reported to be focused on re-signing Brock Osweiler as Manning's replacement.
News about the quarterback's retirement surfaced on Saturday fueled by a report by the Denver Post's Woody Paige who cited two sources suggesting that the five-time league MVP was going to announce his retirement by the end of next week. The move to finalize the decision has begun when Manning met with Executive Vice President of Football Operations and General Manager John Elway at the latter's home this past week, Paige wrote.
However, Patrick Smyth, Broncos PR vice president, has denied that Manning has made any formal decision. "Peyton has not made a decision on his future. The plan remains for him to continue talks with the team this week," Smyth tweeted on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Broncos linebacker and Super Bowl MVP Von Miller is on the brink of getting the club's franchise tag as the two sides have not yet agreed on a long-term deal ahead of the NHL's Tuesday deadline, a source familiar with the situation told ESPN.
If an agreement is not reached, the Broncos will tag Miller, who would then be paid $14.129 million in 2016, should he sign the one-year tender. The two sides have reportedly been discussing contract possibilities in the past few weeks. Clubs giving their player a franchise tag has been a pretty common occurrence in the league, but it can sometimes mean that they are not on the same page.
"Obviously with the career that he's had already and the way that he played this year, we're very hopeful that we'll be able to get something done. We're always hopeful that if we can get together that we'd like to," Elway mentioned on Thursday, before adding that the Broncos would rather reach a point where they would not need to use the franchise tag on Miller.
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David Dahl in concert (RZCD-5020 ) - Digital Album
Bach: Preludes & Fugues/Lippincott
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Preludes & Postludes for the year beginning 9-11-2001/Ferre
Concert performances by David Dahl on the Fritts organ of Pacific Lutheran University! Honored as Distinguished Alumnus by PLU and awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Organ Historical Society, Dahl has been an influential organist, teacher and advocate for the organ. Includes Guilmant's Symphony (with the PLU Orchestra)! Of the many musical forms that J.S. Bach cultivated during his lifetime, none has enjoyed more lasting influence than the prelude and fugue. In this recording, Joan Lippincott provides us with a beautifully rounded survey of Bach's mature preludes and fugues, from the Pièce d'Orgue, BWV 572, one of his boldest independent preludes, to the Prelude and Fugue in E Minor ("Wedge"), BWV 548, one of his most ambitious compostions for the organ. To round out the recording, Lippincott also includes the Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch, a very late work, written at the same time Musical Offering Presented here are some of the organ works which were played by Susan Ferré during services at Pacific Lutheran University, from the first day of classes on September 11, through the year for more than 130 services, to the triumphant sending forth of Pentecost Sunday and Commencement Worship on May 26th, 2002. Equipped with one of the finest organs in the world, Lagerquist Hall provided the means for a wide range of musical expression during this unusual musical, and liturgical year.
A Scandinavian Christmas/Choral Arts
Bach: One of a Kind/Porter
Roger W. Sherman: Here & Elsewhere
The rich musical heritage of Scandinavia is represented by one of the finest choirs in the country. David Dahl also plays seven organ works on the large Fritts organ at PLU in Tacoma.
24-bit recording technology. This is the first nationally released CD recorded on the new Paul Fritts organ at PLU. Fritts' magnum opus, this spectacular organ has 54 stops/ 80 ranks on three manuals. The pedal division includes a full length 32' Posaune as well as a 32' Subbass. The combination of one of the finest organ builders and organists in the United States, 24-bit recording technology, and Lagerquist Hall's four-second reverberation time, make this CD a must-have! Our number one selling Bach organ CD. A collection of performances from live recitals "here and elsewhere" by Roger W. Sherman. Three organs are featured: the Flentrop at Saint Mark's Cathedral (Seattle), the Fritts organ at Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma) and the 1750 Nacchini organ at San Giorgio Maggiore (Venice, Italy).
Bach: Leipzig Chorales/Rakich (2 CDs!)
Bach: Trio Sonatas/Rakich et al. (2 CDs!)
A two-disc program of Bach's famous "Great Eighteen," performed by acclaimed organist Christa Rakich on two very different organs -- the Fisk organ of Old West Church in Boston, and the Fritts organ at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. The booklet contains program notes by the artist as well as full organ specifications and registrations. Scored for organ (or pedal clavichord), the Bach trio sonatas can be played on a variety of instruments, as Christa Rakich demonstrates in this imaginative program. Six different organs, six different organ builders, and an assortment of period chamber music instruments are used on this double-CD set!
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Peru is home to a traveller’s delight of landscapes, records of culture and history dating back thousands of years, and tons of opportunities to learn more about local cultures. Ready to learn more about this South American destination?
Then let’s go!
Did you know that if you travel to Peru you could see some of the world’s most well-known historical architectural features, like Machu Picchu, as well as plant and wildlife species found nowhere else on earth – like the Peruvian sundew?
All of this combined makes Peru one of the most interesting places to volunteer in South America.
And here are some of the most interesting facts about Peru!
General facts about Peru
1) There are three official languages
Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara are all official languages in Peru.
Spanish is the most widely spoken of the three, with over 80% of Peruvians speaking this language.
But these languages are only the tip of the linguistic iceberg in this South American country.
Once you travel towards the Amazon Jungle, the people local to this region speak an additional 13 languages. Impressive, right?
2) The capital city of Peru is Lima
Original image: Lima by Christian Córdova is licenced under CC BY-SA 2.0
Francisco Pizarro – a sixteenth-century Spanish coloniser – founded the city of Lima in 1535 to serve as the seat of power for the Spanish colonists.
Today, Lima is the only city in Peru with more than one million inhabitants.
Most visitors to Peru will skip Lima in their excitement to get to Cusco and Machu Picchu.
But, with so much on offer to travellers, visiting Lima is one of the best things to do in Peru.
Further reading: Four reasons to visit Lima when volunteering in Peru
3) The population of Peru is over 33 million
There are more than 33 million people currently living in Peru.
This population is made up of groups from different cultures and backgrounds – like the Andes mountain communities, and tribes living in the Amazon Rainforest.
These communities have inhabited the land for over five centuries.
Machu Picchu facts
Original image: Machu Pichu, Peru by YoTuT is licenced under CC BY-SA 2.0
Erected in the fourteenth century, Machu Picchu – a fortress built by the Incas – lies more than 2,000 metres above sea level.
The weathered Inca city was “lost” for over 400 years when Peru was taken over by westerners.
But, today, Machu Picchu is a designated United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) World Heritage Site.
1) Machu Picchu is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World
Intrepid travellers flock to Peru every year to tackle the Inca Trail – a well-known four-day hiking trail on the Andes mountain range that leads to Machu Picchu.
And why is Machu Picchu so popular? Well, it’s one of the places where you can see tons of Inca architecture and learn heaps about Peruvian history.
In 2007, the site – often referred to as the “Lost City of the Incas” – was voted in as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
This decision was made during a campaign by the New7Wonders foundation, and it only added to Machu Picchu’s appeal and attracted more tourists than ever before.
2) Machu Picchu is an astronomical observatory
Archaeologists have learned that the fourteenth century Incas had an excellent understanding of the alignment of the stars.
The civilization even built each sun temple, and the sacred Intihuatana stone, to line up with the sun for each solstice.
3) No wheels were used to build Machu Picchu
It’s believed that hundreds of men pushed rocks up the steep mountainside to build this wonder of the world.
This feat is made even more impressive considering that some stones weighed more than 55,000 kilograms.
Peru natural wonders facts
1) Peru has the highest sand dune in the world
The Cerro Blanco sand dune is the highest in the world, towering over the Sechura Desert at 1,176 metres.
The sand dune is located 14 kilometres east of Nazca, so excursions to see it are usually organised from there.
When you arrive at the dunes, you can hire a dune buggy or sandboard, and spend hours sliding down one of the largest natural wonders in the world.
2) Lake Titicaca is the world’s highest lake
Original image: Lake Titicaca, Bolivia by Jan Beck is licenced under CC BY-SA 2.0
Located between Bolivia and Peru, Lake Titicaca has an elevation of 3,810 metres above sea level.
But that’s not the only thing that makes this natural wonder stand out.
In the 1970s Jacques Cousteau, a French conservationist, found ruins of a city beneath the surface of Lake Titicaca.
Today, the descendants of the Quechua people who called this lost city home, live on 120 self-made floating islands on the lake.
3) The deepest canyon in the world is in Peru
The Cotahuasi Canyon has a depth of 3,232 metres.
To put that in perspective, that’s twice the depth of the United States’ Grand Canyon.
If you want to visit this natural attraction after your volunteering program in Peru, all you need to do is head to the nearby city of Arequipa.
4) Peru is home to the mysterious Nazca Lines
Original image: Nazca Lines (Pérou) by Christian Bellazzi is licenced under CC BY-SA 2.0
The Nazca Lines are a display of more than 70 giant human and animal geoglyphs – works of art made by rearranging objects within a landscape.
These images are scrawled across the Peruvian terrain near the city of Lima.
They were first brought to the public’s attention by a Peruvian archaeologist in 1927.
Today, these lines in the desert plateau between Nazca and Palpa are considered one of the world’s greatest archaeological mysteries.
Some people believe that the Nazca Lines are an ancient alien landing strip, while others think it forms part of a sophisticated astronomical calendar.
Interesting facts about Peru’s food
Did you know that Peru is considered one of the top foodie destinations in the world?
Michelin-star chefs from many different countries fly to Lima and Cusco to learn how to master their trade.
Need more proof about Peru’s gastronomic clout?
Well, every year since 2012, the country has been named the World’s Leading Culinary Destination by the World Travel Awards.
1) You can eat over 3,000 varieties of potato in Peru
The potato is a superfood, containing almost every kind of vitamin you need. It’s birthplace? Peru.
With more than 3,000 types of potato grown in the country, why not sample as many as possible in between conducting English classes or your community development volunteer work?
2) Peru is home to one of the best superfoods in the world
Ever heard of the camu camu fruit?
It grows in the Amazon rainforest and has a higher concentration of vitamin C than any other food.
If you’re feeling a little jet lagged after arriving in Peru, stop by the local supermarket and give your immune system a much-needed boost!
3) Guinea pigs are food, not pets
If you’re volunteering in Peru during an important cultural festival, keep a lookout for cuy.
Cuy is a traditional dish that’s made from roasted guinea pig. The animal is served crispy and complete with head, legs, and eyes.
For the adventurous eaters that try this delicacy, it’s a healthier choice than llama meat, and it contains a great deal more protein.
4) Pisco sour is Peru’s national drink
Pisco sour is a Peruvian brandy that is mixed with lemons, sugar, water, egg whites, ice, and bitters.
Invented in the early 1920s by an American bartender, you can also try a version of the drink (called chilcano) that’s made without the egg whites.
Peru wildlife and flora facts
1) Peru has the world’s largest bird
The Andean condor is native to the Andes mountain range in Peru.
It weighs 12 kilograms, stands 1,2 metres high and has a wingspan of up to 4 metres long.
Despite its massive size, it’s able to fly for hours without flapping its wings.
These birds were considered sacred by the Incas, and were protected by this community.
But, these creatures have recently appeared on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.
This is because farmers in Peru hunt the condors to prevent them from killing their livestock.
Another factor that affects their survival is pesticide poisoning in the food chain.
Original image: a Condor in flight by Caitlin Childs is licenced under CC BY-SA 2.0
2) Peru is one of the most biologically diverse countries in the world
One of the most interesting facts about Peru is that it has 90 different microclimates – climates that are restricted to a small area, and different from surrounding climates.
So it’s no wonder that the country is home to a wide variety of wildlife and plant species.
The best place to go to grasp the sheer range of its diversity is the Manu National Park.
This park holds a biodiversity record after recording more than 1,000 species of birds, 1,200 species of butterflies, and 287 species of reptiles in 2016.
3) The tallest flowering plant grows in Peru
Original image: Puya raimondii by Taco Witte is licenced under CC BY-SA 2.0
The Puya raimondii stands at a height of five metres. It can take between 80 and 150 years to flower. Once it does, it can produce over 30 thousand white blooms.
The plant is only found in the high Andes, growing at an elevation of 3,000 to 4,800 metres above sea level.
4) Peru’s national tree is the Cinchona
The tree gets its name from the Countess of Chinchon.
The story goes that the wife of the Viceroy of Peru came down with malaria in 1683. She was given tea made from the bark of the Cinchona tree, and made a full recovery.
The bark of Cinchona trees contain an ingredient called quinine, and it’s still used today as a medicine for treating malaria.
Travel to Peru and make an impact
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By volunteering in Peru, you’ll get to experience all that this country has to offer for yourself while participating in meaningful activities abroad.
Take a look at our award-winning volunteering programs in Peru, plan your trip to explore South America, and make a meaningful impact at the same time.
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Download the US Debt
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The US invented downloading, suckers.
Rather than saying to kids "Why the US national debt is 14 trillion dollars, of course", an electronic internet (which the US invented, by the way) connected hyper-text markup language page page is programmed where kids can download the national debt where 1 byte = 1 dollar.
On average in the US it would take only one second for a kid to download 10 million dollars! Holy Shit that's awesome. Imagine if somebody could download all that money so fast! I wonder how long they will be sitting there waiting for the US national debt to download?
— leinypoo13, Feb 16 2011
and now they are out of digits!! http://en.wikipedia...National_Debt_Clock
[xandram, Feb 16 2011]
World Wide Web http://en.wikipedia...iki/Tim_Berners-Lee
invented by Tim Berners Lee [xenzag, Feb 16 2011]
Internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darpanet
[MechE, Feb 16 2011]
Pretend everything was invented by someone French Pretend_20everythin..._20someone_20French
[hippo, Feb 17 2011]
The world wide web was actually a British invention (see link)
— xenzag, Feb 16 2011
But the internet pretty much was the US (see link).
— MechE, Feb 16 2011
But the internet without the web would be like... well, like the internet without computers (another English invention).
Actually, this idea could be worked up into something good. Some sort of Interweb application whereby people could actually pay off very tiny amounts of national debts would probably work. At any one time, over 3% of people are drunk.
And they seem to show up disproportionately here...
Everyone at the bakery should know that the internet was invented by Jean Gabeult Eunterneauxlt. And that it was re-invented by Al Gore.
— RayfordSteele, Feb 17 2011
Not sure how big the internet is these days, or the US national debt - but I was recently impressed to discover that a simple text-file containing the first billion (1,010,001,523 to be precise - approx 1 milliard) primes took up over 10GB. I forget, but isn't the US National debt in Trillions? At one byte per dollar, that's a whole Terabyte per Trillion Dollars - each of which is likely to take a good few more than 10 minutes to download.
Also, Electricity was invented by the English, without which there would be no computers. Except that there would, because the English invented Steam-powered computers as well.
— zen_tom, Feb 17 2011
//Pretend everything was invented by someone French//
Ah yes, the French. Since France was discovered and settled by the English, I think we can claim that one.
I think we can also claim to have invented the US National Debt, at least in part. English insurance companies, to a large extent, picked up the bill for the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. As a consequence, the Bank of England jacked up the interest rates and started sucking money out of the US. This helped to speed along the US banking crisis in 1907 which eventually led to the creation of the Federal Reserve and hence the US national debt. Hoorah for us!
— DrBob, Feb 17 2011
[-] for turning children into alcoholics when they realize that their parents' generation f-ed everything up and they can't do anything about it.
— DIYMatt, Feb 17 2011
Girolamo must've been one of those English names that fell out of favor, MB.
[+] for turning children into alcoholics when they realize that their parents' generation f-ed everything up and they can't do anything about it.
America should announce its new foreign currency as 50 cal rounds, trillions of which to be paid out post haste.
— rcarty, Feb 17 2011
Hang on. If the US National Debt is 14 trillion dollars, and there are six billion of us, that means that I'm owed $2333.33 by Obama.
So, how about this as a scheme? The debt is presumably owed to nations (outside the US). Re-draft a few things so that it is restructured as a personal debt of $2333.33 to each man, woman and child (outside the US). Give people a reasonable time (say, five years) in which to claim it, before the debt is written off under the laws of flagrante corpus piscorum.
Now, the better sort of person will not hound that nice President for such a small amount while he's got so many things to do. Many more people simply won't be able to get through to the White House because the phones will be overloaded. Yet more people just won't have a clue. Some will simply forget to cash the cheque when it arrives. Others will be too young to have a bank account.
So, I reckon Mr. O could quite easily pay off all the individual requests that get through in the five-year time frame, and still have change out of a couple of trillion.
flagrante corpus piscorum - Obviously the body should go fishing?
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"MARY'S (ST.), otherwise MAENCLOCHOG (MAEN-CLOCHOG), a parish comprising the hamlets of MAENCLOCHOG and VORLAN, each of which maintains its own poor, the former in the hundred of KEMMES, and the latter in that of DUNGLEDDY, county of PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, and containing 466 inhabitants, of which number, 427 are in the hamlet of St. Mary's, or Maenclochog, 10 miles (N. by W.) from Narberth. . . . The parish, which is situated in a mountainous district, comprises a considerable extent of land, the greater portion of which is unenclosed and uncultivated. . . . The village, which is of considerable size, occupies the summit of a bleak and barren eminence; and the inhabitants, with the exception of such as are employed in agriculture, are engaged in working some quarries of slate of good quality, which is found in the parish. . . . The church, dedicated to St. Mary, and situated in the centre of the village, is a neat edifice, rebuilt by subscription within the last forty years. A schoolroom has been erected in the churchyard, and is now occupied by one of Mrs. Bevan's circulating charity schools, for the gratuitous instruction of poor children. . . " [From A Topographical Dictionary of Wales (S. Lewis, 1833).]
St Mary, Maenclochog, Church in Wales
Capel Horeb, Maenclochog (Welsh Baptist)
The 1851 census for this parish has been indexed by Dyfed Family History Society.
Census Returns for this parish have the following LDS Call Numbers:
1841 Census - 0464343
Congregational / Independent
Hen Gapel, Welsh Independent Chapel, Maenclochog
Tabernacl Welsh Independent Chapel, Maenclochog
Tabernacle Independent Sunday School (Ys Coldy?), Maenclochog
Some church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales. Ed. by I.G Jones, & D. Williams. UWP, Cardiff, 1976. The names are those of the informants
Maenclochog Parish Church George Harries, Vicar of Maenclochog
Maenclochog Ind Erected in 1791 David Owen, Minister, Silo, nr Ambleston
Tabernacle, village Ind Erected in 1847 David William, Deacon, Blacknuck, Parish of Henry's Moat
See the Horeb shown under the adjoining parish of Henry's Moat
Parish entry for Maenclochog with Llandilo and Llanycefn from The Welsh Church Year Book, 1929 (Cd by Archive CD Books).
St Mary & St Teilo, Llandilo (in ruins) & Parish Church (Llanycefn)
Incumbent and Curates; S Howell
Rural Deanery of Dungleddy
Acreage 6,974 & 2,725 ; Population 783 & 261
See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph
HOREB WELSH BAPTIST CHURCH, ROSEBUSH, MAENCLOCHOG on the People's Collection Wales site
Tabernacle chapel (Cong), Maenclochog on the People's Collection Wales site
Hen Gapel (Cong), Maenclochog on the People's Collection Wales site
See John Ball's site Welsh Churches and Chapels Collection for a photograph/data re St Mary's ChurchCofio canrif sef hanes Eglwys Tabernacl Maenclochog, 1844-1944 : o dan ofal y gweinidog y Parch. Moelwyn Daniel. Caerfyrddin : W. Spurrell a'i fab, 1946. 32p [Centenary rememberance of the history of Tabernacle, Maenclochog, 1844-1944: in the care of the minister Rev Moelwyn Daniel]
Llythyr oddiwrth gymmanfa o weinidogion yr Independiaid a gynnaliwyd yn Maenclochog, Mehefin yr 2 a'r 3, 1819, at yr eglwysi a berthynant iddi. Cymanfa'r Annibynwyr Cymreig.Caerfyrddin,Argraffwyd gan J. Evans, 1819. 8p [Letter from an Assembly of Independent ministers held in Maenclochog, June 2/3 1819, to the churches belonging to it.]
Horeb, Maenclochog 1835-1985 : hanes y Bedyddwyr yn ardal Maenclochog.Eglwys y Bedyddwyr,1985,32p
Parish register: Christenings (1770-1993), Marriages (1770-1970), Burials (1770-1993) at NLW with Mf/fac copies at Pem.RO
Copy ts PR [extracts] C (1771-1832) M (1779-1877) B (1770-1888) at NLW
Bishops' Transcripts, covering the period (1685, 1799, 1801-36, 1839-52, 1854-61, 1865) are at the National Library of Wales, and have been microfilmed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Call Number: 0105187.
See Bap/Mar/Bur data on FreeReg
Dyfed FHS have published a series of indexes of baptisms, marriages and burials from Pembrokeshire hundreds for various periods.
Nonconformist Chapels:
Capel Horeb Baptist, Rosebush, Maenclochog SN07382819 Built 1835, rebuilt 1885. Still open 1998 Coflein On Dyfed FHS (but shown as Congregational)
Old Chapel (Hen Gapel), in Maenclochog village [Independents, 1790]. Records ; facsimile of register of births and bapts 1788-1970, at NLW Ms Dep 72/47 SN0835327437 Built 1791, modified, altered or rebuilt 1859, 1870 and 1905 Still open 1998 Coflein On Dyfed FHS
Rees, Thomas & John Thomas. Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). Here is the entry from this book for this chapel (in Welsh ) - with translation by Maureen Saycell (Feb 2009)
Tabernacle, in Maenclochog village [Independents, 1847] . Records ; See Old Chapel On Dyfed FHS Shown as still open on the Union of Welsh Independents site (Dec 2006)
Rees, Thomas & John Thomas. Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). Here is the entry from this book for this chapel (in Welsh ) - with translation by Maureen Saycell (Jan 2009)
Ys Coldy Congregational (Tabernacle Sunday School) SN08302726 Built after 1891 Still open as chapel 1996 Coflein On Dyfed FHS
A guide book for the use of visitors to the Precelly range Pembrokeshire : with notes on the Maenclochog railway ... Publisher Carmarthen : W.J. Morgan, 13p
Gale, John. The Maenclochog railway . Milford Haven : John Gale, 1992. 76p
Various landscape photographs of area and surrounds on the People's Collection Wales site
You can see pictures of Maenclochog which are provided by:
The transcription of the section for Maenclochog from The National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
Transcript of complete entry in Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Wales of 1833.
Ask for a calculation of the distance from Maenclochog to another place.
Phillips, Frank . The Phillips family of Maenclochog and Henry's Moat. Dyfed Family History Journal 2/9, 3/1 (1988), (1988), p. 249-52, 11-14
You can see the administrative areas in which Maenclochog has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.
Parish map (Kain/Oliver)
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SN083287 (Lat/Lon: 51.923775, -4.789224), Maenclochog which are provided by:
OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Places, villages, farms etc within Maenclochog parish as shown on the online parish map from the CD of Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. (Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R.). (Extracted by Peter D Hall)
Maenclochog [41]; Carn Afr, Cnwe, Coetty, Eithbed, Foel Cwm-oerwyn, Galchen, Maenclochog, Pant maenog, Rosebush, Westland,
Vorlan [42]; Cil-moor, Castell Vorlan
Merched y Wawr Maenclochog Branch Celebrating 25 Years - on the People's Collection Wales site
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NHS Tayside still needs to make savings to achieve sustainability
NHS Tayside still needs to make savings to achieve financial sustainability, a report from Audit Scotland has said.
In its annual audit of the board for 2019-20, Audit Scotland highlighted the board’s improved financial management and service performance, as well as better governance, but said risks related to its high running costs remained.
It also noted changes to mental health services following an independent inquiry.
The health board decreased waiting times for some services and its financial position improved, with recurring savings of more than £14m made in 2019-20.
However, the board needed £7m from the Scottish Government to break even, the eighth year in a row it has required financial assistance.
The board's current three-year financial plan from 2020-21 aims to achieve break-even each year but “significant financial savings” need to be made to achieve this, the auditor said.
It reported that the pace of transformation of services has been slow, although COVID has increased the rate of change in some areas.
NHS Tayside continues to have an expensive operating model, spending more on staffing, in-patient costs and prescriptions than the Scottish average.
And it still has a number of senior leadership posts it needs to fill on a permanent basis.
The auditor said that since March 2020, COVID-19 had had a significant impact on the focus and priorities of NHS Tayside and the board now needs to reflect the impact of the pandemic in its financial plan and transformation programme.
In February 2021 the Auditor General will publish his annual NHS in Scotland report, which will comment more widely on how prepared the NHS in Scotland was for a pandemic, how it responded and the challenges that lie ahead.
Stephen Boyle, Auditor General for Scotland, said: “NHS Tayside has made some clear progress under its new leadership team after a number of very challenging years, but it still faces a number of risks.
“The board knows that achieving financial stability lies in changing the way its services are designed and delivered.
“We've already seen how COVID-19 has accelerated innovation in some areas.
“It's now essential that NHS Tayside builds on that good work and increases the pace of change in priority services.”
Anas Sarwar, acting convener of Holyrood’s Public Audit and Post Legislative Scrutiny Committee, said: “It is heartening to learn that, under the new executive leadership team of NHS Tayside, progress is now being made in terms of the recurring financial, performance and governance challenges it has faced.
“But it is also clear that the pace of change must now increase if financial plans of breaking even over the next three years are to be achieved.
“Our committee looks forward to learning more from the Auditor General for Scotland about the challenges ahead and how the board’s transformation programme aims to achieve this.”
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Lawrence, Jacob; [Tubman, Harriet]
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993). Single volume, measuring 11.5 x 9 inches: [36]. Original glossy color pictorial boards, orange endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed and dated 8/93 by Jacob Lawrence on half-title.
First edition thus of Jacob Lawrence's tribute to Harriet Tubman, featuring a new preface by the artist, and signed by him in the year of publication. First issued in 1968, Harriet and the Promised Land tells the story of Tubman's work on the Underground Railroad through a series of vibrant paintings captioned in verse: “They slept in a barn / With the barnyard fowl. / And Harriet kept watch / Like a barnyard owl." For this 1993 reissue, dedicated “to the courageous women of America," Lawrence contributed a new preface: “Given the opportunity to select a subject from American history, I chose to do a number of paintings in tribute to Harriet Tubman, a most remarkable woman, and in so doing also to pay tribute and honor to my late mother, Rosalee, and to my wife, Gwen." A fine signed copy.
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George Clooney Is Directing A Movie About The Phone Hacking Scandal
By Jack Mirkinson
The phone hacking scandal hasn't exactly been the sexiest story for Americans, but that's all going to change now that George Clooney is directing a movie about it.
Variety reports that Clooney is set to helm an adaptation of "Hack Attack," the book about the whole Murdoch mess by Guardian reporter Nick Davies, who broke the original hacking scandal wide open.
This is great for so many reasons. First, because the phone hacking story is an awesome one full of dramatic twists and turns. Second, because it is a story that fairly overflows with killer, scenery-chewing parts. There's crusty billionaire media shark Rupert Murdoch himself, of course, but also polarizing redhead Rebekah Brooks, evil genius Andy Coulson, the many Murdoch children, the Guardian reporters, and that's before we even get into all the actual celebrities and other famous people whose phones were hacked into. Who will play Jude Law? Who will play Steve Coogan and Hugh Grant and JK Rowling and Prince Harry and Sienna Miller?
Clooney is also a very appropriate choice to direct — after all, he was last seen shaming another British tabloid, the Daily Mail. And, being George Clooney, Suave Hollywood Icon, he'll get a lot of really good actors for all the really good roles.
(In case you hadn't noticed we are very excited.)
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Poor transmission
By Myfirstford | on Thursday, July 25, 2019
This is my first owned ford. The vehicle did not last too long. I buy my cars used and never has seen such poor quality performance in an American car. After putting in about 8k miles car battery dies, radio dies, and now the trans. The car went kaput and the cost to repair reaches past the value of the vehicle I still owe on it, over 5K. My first and last Ford I shall ever own, let it be known that my experience shall be spread across the streets and everyone I meet or know shall know the poor craftsmanship ford has put into their vehicle.…
2nd Worst Car I Have Ever Owned
By Mike | on Monday, July 01, 2019
Loved this car when I first got it. Great ride, handling (at least until the factory tires hit snow for the first time), large enough trunk to put almost everything I have ever needed it to do. Liked it so much that I convinced my wife to buy a Ford Escape a year later (also a mistake). Only problem at the beginning was that the transmission seemed off and it hesitated a lot when trying to get started from a red light. Ford denied it was a problem for about 2 years, then did a "recall" for the problem (which essentially was just a new program for the transmission) and VIOLA!!! it was fixed and the car was great. Well, it was great... if you ignore that the Sync system never really worked and really wouldn't play audio from my iPhone or Android over Bluetooth, other than actual phone calls (which would still randomly go into "privacy" mode after you answered the call, which translate to the handset while you were driving after you used the car to answer it)... and it would only pick up music from the USB connection on a random basis that sometimes involved shutting off the car, then opening and closing the doors, then restarting the car with the phone/mp3 player plugged into the jack already playing the music... but, sometimes it only worked if the phone wasn't playing music already... but, sometimes...etc.. etc.. All of that was frustrating but like most things, you just accept it and move on because the car itself was good and fun to drive. But of course, there was also the plastic cover under the car that either never seemed to stay up or the dealer just kept forgetting to put it back on properly... and the time when the check engine light came on and I took it into the dealer about 2000 miles after parts of the warranty expired just for them to say my catalytic converter was having a problem, the warranty covering it had just expired and it would eventually be a $1500 repair if/when it finally went (I decided to drive with the light on)... then at only 115,000 miles the transmission blew out while driving on cruise control on a straight highway at 70mph (meaning it wasn't shifting or doing anything at that point). Y'know, the kind of thing that everyone who does car repairs tells you, in the most maddening way, "shouldn't happen with that little wear on it". This is a $6000 repair on a car that had a trade in value of $2000 - $2500 at that point (to put it in another perspective, the equivalent 2013 Toyota... a Camry... is valued at around $6000 as a trade-in at the same time with the same mileage by KBB). I have driven a Ford since 1997 (when I had a Geo Tracker... which is actually the worst car I ever owned) and have never driven anything that was not sold by an American car company, but this is definitely my last one. Maybe Ford has gotten better again in the last couple of years (looking at recalls and complaints between 2010 & 2016... they definitely had some terrible years), but I won't chance it.…
Worst Car I've Ever Owned
By Former Ford Owner | on Wednesday, July 24, 2019
I have owned a lot of cars in my lifetime. This Focus is, by far, the worst vehicle I've ever owned. Aside from the class action lawsuit, copious recalls and terrible construction & engineering, the car actually gets decent gas mileage - when it's running. Stay far away from this garbage. I will never buy another Ford for the rest of my life (which is a shame because the Raptor looks cool)!…
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A Guided Tour through C#: Part I
By Klaus Michelson
Abstraction and Encapsulation
An Interactive Hello World! Program
Programming Exercises
Klaus Michelson presents an overview of several important C# features, to give you an introductory feel for the language.
This sample chapter is excerpted from C# Primer Plus, by Klaus Michelson.
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You will learn about the following in this chapter:
The advantages of applying two important OOP concepts—abstraction and encapsulation
Why the C# keywords public and private play an important role in implementing encapsulation
The basic C# elements needed to write simple C# applications
How to write a user interactive application using simple keyboard input and screen output
Single line comments and why comments are important in your source code
The special meaning of keywords
How to define the beginning and the end of a class and method body by using C#'s block construct
How to use C#'s if statement to make your program respond in different ways to different user input
The string class and its ability to let your programs store and process text
The special role played by the Main method
The static keyword and why Main must always be declared public and static
How to use variables
How to call a method and thereby use its functionality
Several useful classes from the .NET Framework class libraries and how to reuse these in the C# source code
Statements in C#—the declaration, assignment, method call, and if statements
General C# concepts based on the knowledge gained from the C# source code example
How to access and use the .NET Framework Documentation so you can explore and reuse the .NET Framework's comprehensive collection of classes
Each language construct of a C# program does not exist in isolation. It has its own vital part to play but is also closely interrelated with other elements. This makes it difficult to look at any one aspect of C# without requiring the knowledge of others. Due to this circular dependence among the elements of C#, this chapter, along with Chapter 4, "A Guided Tour Through C#: Part II," and Chapter 5, "Your First Object-Oriented C# Program," presents an overview of several important features, to give you an introductory feel for the language.
The presentation is facilitated by C# source code examples containing several essential elements of C#. Each element will be presented, discussed, and related to other parts of the C# program in a practically related fashion. This will enable you to start writing your own programs during this chapter. I hope you will grab this opportunity to play with and explore C#. Some of the most important parts of this and the following two chapters are the programming exercises at the end of each chapter. You don't become a proficient C# programmer just by learning lots of definitions by heart but by doing and unleashing your creativity. So have a go at these exercises and use your imagination to come up with other ideas of how to improve the programs or, even better, create your own programs.
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10 Ways to Immediately Improve Your Listening (and Networking) Skills
Talk less, listen more.
By Matthew Jones@M_tthewJones
Most of us move through each day engaging in conversations with friends, co-workers, and family members. But the majority of the time, we aren't listening.
We're often distracted by things in our environment--both external things like televisions, cell phones, cars, and other people talking, and internal things like our own thoughts and feelings.
We think that we're listening to the other person, but we're really not giving them our full and complete attention.
As a licensed therapist and coach, one of the most important things I do for clients is deeply listen to what they're saying. When you deeply listen with your whole body and mind to what another person is communicating, it helps them feel understood and valued.
One technique that therapists learn in graduate school that aims to provide full and complete attention to the speaker is called active listening.
Active listening builds rapport, understanding, and trust. It's a proven psychological technique that helps therapists create a safe, comfortable atmosphere that encourages clients to discuss important thoughts and feelings.
Active listening involves fully concentrating on what is being said rather than passively absorbing what someone is saying. It's not just about remembering the content of what someone is sharing, but actively seeking to understand the complete message--including the emotional tones--being conveyed.
This type of listening involves participating in the other person's world and being connected to what the other person is experiencing.
That's a lot of information--much more than you're used to consciously interpreting in daily conversations. And that's because many things get in the way of active listening.
People often are selective listeners, meaning that they focus on a few key words and ignore the rest of the person's communication. They're often distracted by external stimuli like random sounds or movements, and internal stimuli such as one's own thoughts and feelings.
In other situations, individuals allow their own biases and values to pick arguments with the other person's speech rather than remaining focused on their message. They waste valuable time and energy preparing to respond rather than giving their full, undivided attention to the speech.
With all of these challenging layers to active listening, how does one improve these skills?
Read the list below to discover how to become a better listener, and in doing so, become better at navigating relationships and networking opportunities.
1. Avoid internal and external distractions.
Focus on what they're saying. Don't allow other thoughts or sounds to sway your concentration.
2. Listen to the content of their speech.
Focus on the specific words they're using. Each phrase and word choice is something interesting that you should be taking in.
3. Listen to the context of their speech.
What are the over-arching stories and circumstances they are discussing? Are there common themes? What are the unique situations this person finds themselves in and how does that relate to what they're telling you?
4. Listen to the tone of their voice.
Vocal tones convey a lot about what a person might be feeling. Think about what their vocal tone implies about their feelings. All feelings have a story--learn theirs.
5. Listen for the emotions the speaker is likely experiencing.
The more that you follow and amplify the person's emotions, the more likely they are to feel understood. With so many people uncomfortable about sharing their feelings, moments of vulnerability can quickly build a deeper connection.
6. Pay attention to their body language and make appropriate eye contact.
With much of communication being non-verbal, it's incredibly important that you soak in as much information as possible while also showing them--physically--that you are sharing in their experience.
7. Provide small verbal encouragements and don't fight silences.
Saying small things like, "yes," "right," "that makes sense," and allowing natural silences to occur without filling them due to your own discomfort goes a long way in building rapport.
8. Ask open-ended questions to encourage elaboration.
There's no substitute for a good question--try to get lengthy responses to understand the big picture.
9. If you need them to slow down or want specific info, ask close-ended questions.
Questions that can be answered in yes or no slow down the pace when you're feeling overwhelmed and also allow you to gather important details that you missed earlier.
10. Offer affirmations that the person has made valuable and important choices.
Affirmations are like compliments--everyone likes them. Instead of saying, "I'm proud of you," like a compliment, an affirmation focuses on the other person, "You should be proud of your hard work."
Start practicing these basic listening skills. They are simple yet powerful ways to facilitate conversation and help others feel understood.
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Uber launches in South Australia
by Insurance Business 17 May 2016
Uber launches in South Australia | Insurance Business
Uber has launched its services in South Australia as another state has welcomed ride-sharing.
The move into South Australia now sees Uber offered in a majority of Australian states as only Tasmania and Northern Territory remain without a presence from the ride-sharing company.
South Australia legalised ride-sharing earlier this year but Uber remained on the sidelines in the state until this weekend.
The business took to the streets of the state with an offer of free trips in Adelaide and Tom White, general manager of Uber in South Australia, told the ABC that the company would keep free rides for “an indefinite period,” to show the lack of need for red tape.
"As the only mainland state not to have tried the service we wanted to ensure everyone had the chance to make their own minds up about what the future of transportation in Adelaide should look like," White said.
"We have always been very passionate about providing ride-sharing technology to Adelaide. It's always been our intention, our hope, our ambition to bring the technology to Adelaide because we think it is long overdue.
"What we're doing is demonstrating that those benefits can be opened up to the community without there being burdensome and costly process involved."
Previously, the company had said that it approach the state with “caution” but Transport Minister Stephen Mullighan told the ABC that the company did not want to be left behind.
"We were pretty confident that what we saw last week from Uber was just a bit of chest pumping and trying to put some pressure on Government to reduce some requirements for drivers whether it is police checks of vehicle inspections," Mullighan said.
South Australia joins the ACT and New South Wales as the only states to legalise the service.
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APL Apollo ropes in legendary star Amitabh Bachchan as brand ambassador
Updated on 23 Nov, 2019 05:00 AM IST BY Editor
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New Delhi,
APL Apollo Tubes Limited (APL Apollo), India’s leading branded steel pipes manufacturer has roped in Superstar of the Millennium Amitabh Bachchan as the brand ambassador for all brands housed under APL Apollo. The contract signed for two years entails Amitabh Bachchan to endorse and promote the innovative product line of APL Apollo.
Already APL Apollo has launched its new TVC featuring Amitabh Bacchan in a star-studded event “Steel for Green” held in the capital recently. The new TVC is being aired on all the prominent national and regional channels.
Commenting on this announcement, Mr. Sanjay Gupta, CMD, APL Apollo said, “We take pride in announcing that now legendary star Amitabh Bachchan is another added Jewel to our crown. We believe he encapsulates all the qualities that APL Apollo stands for, and so this association will enable us to reach out to far more consumers domestically.”
Reiterating the importance of steel pipes in everyday life, megastar Amitabh Bachchan said, “Whether it is happiness, success, or being eco-friendly steel pipes form a major component of our homes. With this vision ensconced in their extensive product-portfolio, APL Apollo has portrayed the strength of steel pipes in a true sense as inherent strength of the country. Also being the endorser for a brand it has always been my top priority to be sure of what I’m communicating is acceptable, likable and believable. The TVC has beautifully captured the message, highlighting the core communication that the brand conveys.’’
The longevity and proven success of actor Amitabh Bachchan has made him a symbol of trust-worthiness which will also help brand APL Apollo in maintaining its dominant position in the market. With his massive fan-following and recognition in the domestic and international markets, APL Apollo hopes to further widen its brand appeal and strengthen its brand recognition and reach in the country.
Further, the brand is looking to strengthen its pan-India presence on the back of the growing popularity of its state-of-the-art product range. As per the plans, APL Apollo is in the process of launching several new products in the coming months. APL Apollo is the first ever company to move from commoditized products to branded products particularly in steel pipes segment. APL Apollo is constantly moving up the ladder with its strong pan-India network of fabricators and dealers.
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First Daughter Advocates For Affordable Childcare, Paid Family Leave
By Gabrielle Seunagal
In fairly recent news, First Daughter Ivanka Trump made headlines for her work to gather support for affordable childcare and paid family leave. These changes will permit American families to deduct childcare expenses from their annual taxable incomes. Ivanka’s cause has transcended partisan lines; many Democrats are on board with the policy. President Trump also endorsed his daughter’s plan during last week’s address to Congress. However, CNBC has announced that “near term action remains slim” as a result of the White House’s central focus being the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare.
The chief executive of healthcare marketplace, Sheila Marcelo, recently sat down and had dinner with Ivanka to discuss logistics of women in the workplace, entrepreneurship amongst women, and policies that would benefit families. Marcelo expressed her interest for the First Daughter’s plan to grant larger refundable credit to lower income families. A recently analysis by the Tax Policy Center has determined that approximately 70% of the program’s benefits would be received by higher income families who make over $100,000 annually. I personally admire the First Daughter’s idea: It would be an amazing opportunity for working women, but I look forward to further modifications that will extend benefits to low income families who are in greater need of them.
Despite current circumstances, the First Daughter has not hesitated to enact her policy: she held meeting with several lawmakers and Republicans to discuss her cause. Ivanka recently reintroduced a bill that would grant tax companies credits for providing paid family leave to their workers. Her policy would also increase protections for women who are currently seeking out equal pay in the workforce. As a female independent contractor, I believe Ivanka’s plan has great potential for working women and I am excited about the progression of her work-place friendly policy.
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Gillingham Surgical Centre introduces nurse-led endoscopy service
Staff are also enjoying the new service as it gives them more time to interact with patients and enabled them to increase their skills.
Endoscopy lead nurse Christine Bass from Walderslade and consultant Mehtan Ahmed
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Waiting times for potentially life-saving NHS diagnostic tests are about to receive a boost as a new service starts at the Gillingham Surgical Centre. The new endoscopy service not only reduces waiting times, but also limits the time that patients need to be in the Covid-19 secure centre in Beechings Way.
This will help to keep NHS waiting times lower for vital diagnostics for patients in Strood, Rochester Gillingham, Waldersalde, Rainham and surrounding areas.
The nurse-led endoscopy team is run under the guidance of newly-appointed endoscopy consultant Dr Mehtan Ahmed.
Endoscopy lead nurse Christine Bass, from Walderslade, said: “Previously, the initial consultation was undertaken by a consultant in a face-to-face clinic. However, the centre has invested in telemedicine that enables nurses to carry out the initial consultation remotely, with patients remaining in the comfort of their own home, and with the support of a friend or relative if they choose. Currently, most patients cannot bring people with them into the centre.
“We have feedback from patients that they like these remote consultations and it also means they do not have to drive, ask a family member to take time off work or take public transport, which is a consideration for many older people at this time.”
Christine said: “Endoscopies involve putting a camera into the body. It can be uncomfortable and, people can become anxious. We have found that, as people have now seen us or spoken to us during the telemedicine session, they are more relaxed when they meet us in the centre. I think some people also feel more relaxed with a nurse.
“We are also enjoying the new service as it gives us more time to interact with patients and it has enabled us to increase our skills.”
The new system allows up to 16 patients to be assessed in clinic in a single day with the capacity to add an additional clinic if needed. Furthermore, the consultants can now spend more time performing procedures, reviewing biopsy results, assessing referrals, and communicating outcomes to GPs.
Dr Ahmed, said: “Endoscopies can be carried out for a wide range of symptoms, some of which need to investigated more urgently than others. In the context of backlogs that have accumulated during Covid, the significance of expediting and prioritising cases has never been greater.
“We hope that the introduction of this nurse-led service will help to lower endoscopy waiting times, and ensure that our patients have their investigation completed as soon as possible.”
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Preserving Islam’s Scholarly Independence
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
The first two parts of this series discussed the principles and methods applied by Islam’s scholarly community in preserving their independence and objectivity. Notably, the scholars recognised that pandering to, or financially depending on, the political establishment inevitably disempowers them and diminishes their influence on society.
With this in mind, and considering the complex and lengthy process of study and aptitude needed for one to become an Islamic authority – and devotion that is likely to disrupt conventional ways of earning – what remains in this series is to discuss how the scholars earned a livelihood.
Warning scholars away from political ‘grants’ and gifts that may sway their verdicts, Ibn Al-Jawzi (d. 597AH) addresses this predicament with some advice in his work Sayd Al-Khātir:
“Pay no attention to those scholars yielding at the doors of the Sultans. This is because isolating yourself better safeguards a scholar and his knowledge. What scholars lose from such (behaviour) is manifold of what they gain. The Master of the Jurists (fuqahā’), Sa’īd b. Musayyib (d. 93AH) did not fear the rulers… So, scholar, strive hard to earn a living that protects you from (such) greed.”
Over the centuries, scholars have attempted to create systems that would financially support them. Maliki scholars opined that a Mufti may receive a fee for his fatwa on condition that he is not the only one suited for issuing that fatwa, in order that accessibility to guidance never becomes hampered by cost. Likewise, the Maliki scholars held that the selection of an official ‘state Mufti’ is entirely the prerogative of the scholars, according to their own criteria and not that of the political authority. The authorities should instead consult those recognised as scholars as to whom they would recommend, “relying on what they inform,” as discussed by al-Khatīb al-Baghdādi in his book Al-Faqīh wa Al-Mutafaqqih.
With regards to Islam’s judiciary, it was customary in Al-Andalus, Spain, that a judge be given his entire wage before taking office, such that his salary never becomes dependent on him issuing one verdict or another. In his book Al-Muntaqa, Abu al-Walīd al-Bāji writes:
“One should not take the appointment (as a judge) until he is enriched and his debts are settled… (such that) he is dedicated to the judiciary and protected from what could violate (what is required of) his position.”
In almost all periods of Islam’s history, scholars – and in particular jurists (fuqahā’) – relied on a number of methods and intuitions to ensure their financial self-sufficiency for the sake of ensuring their independence from the political establishment. These are listed as follows.
1) Relying on their Own Professional Trades for an Income
Since Islam’s earliest eras, scholars of all disciplines worked in their various professional fields to earn an income, seeing financial independence as the main precursor to scholastic independence. Their uptake of various crafts and engagement in industry alongside their scholastic work was to such an extent that many of them became nicknamed by their crafts. In countless chronicles, one finds names such as al-Hadād (the Blacksmith), al-Najjār (the Carpenter), al-Khayyāt (the Tailor), al-Qattān (the Cotton-Turner), al-Dabbāgh (the Tanner), al-Sabbāgh (the Dyer), al-Jassās (the Plasterer), al-‘Attār (the Apothecary), al-Sā’igh (the Goldsmith), and al-Warrāq (the Bookbinder), among many others.
Various works have delved into the detail of the many arts and crafts taken up by the scholars of the past. In his book Al-Ma’rifah (Genealogy), Imam Abu Sa’d al-Sam’āni al-Marūzi (d. 562AH) chronicled hundreds of scholars named after their professions and trades. More recently, the researcher Abdul Bāsit b. Yūsuf al-Gharīb carried out a study titled Al-Turfa fī man Nusiba min Al-‘Ulamā’ ilā Mihna aw Hirfah (An Anecdote Concerning the Scholars who are Named After Their Trades or Crafts). Al-Gharīb lists nearly 1500 scholars distributed over the 400 different trades through which they earned their living. These skills were what allowed them to manage without gifts from the government’s treasury or leadership. They funded their own education and many a time even sponsored their own students.
2) Scholastic Certification (Tazkiyah)
Conventionally, to become a scholar involves passing through many rigorous stages of training and certification, until one is declared eligible for teaching and issuing verdicts. In each Islamic school of jurisprudence, one requires testimony from their Shuyūkh or instructors stating that they have completed and passed the required curricula for any particular specialisation. Imam Mālik is reported to have said:
“I never issued verdicts until 70 (Shuyūkh) testified that I was worthy of doing such… it is not befitting for a person to see themselves worthy of something until he asks those more knowledgeable.”[1]
Such requirements not only ensure that the appropriate qualifications are held by those who comprise the scholarly community, they also provide a barrier against those in charge commissioning scholars at whim and using them to impose their decrees on the rest of society through scholarly ‘verdicts’.
3) The Islamic Endowments (Waqf) System
Throughout history, Islamic endowments (waqf), or what are more commonly known nowadays as trusts, provided the backbone of independent scholastic institutions of various specialisations. Endowments were used to support schools, teachers, and students, funding all types of services from medical facilities to astronomical observatories.
Generous individuals, leaders, and businessmen would race to set up their own endowments. In Tabaqāt Al-Shāfi’ī, al-Subki recounts that the Seljuk Vizier Nizam al-Mulk (d. 485AH) “left a school in every city in Iraq and Khorasan.” Ibn al-Jawzi adds that Nizam al-Mulk endowed orchards, lands, and markets surrounding his school (the Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad), paying a salary to each teacher and worker from the revenues generated by the waqf.
According to the 10th century AH historian Abdul Qadir al-Nuaimi in his book Al-Dāris fī Tārīkh Al-Madāris, there were seven schools for Qur’anic studies in Damascus alone: sixteen for Hadith, three for combined Qur’ān and Hadith studies, 63 schools specialised in Shāfi’i jurisprudence, 50 specialised in the Hanafi school, four in the Maliki, and 11 in the Hanbali school. This is not to mention schools dedicated to other disciplines like medicine, and the countless Masājid, all of which provided educational facilities for anyone wishing to study.
During the reign of the Mamluk Sultan Al-Ashraf Qaitbay (d. 901AH), merchants renovated the al-Azhar Masjid in Egypt, building a minaret and naming it after the Sultan. They also built student accommodation and many several charitable endowments to sponsor scholars and students studying at the institution. Such endowments, picked up and continued by later Muslim generations, were pivotal to cementing an independent and objective scholarly tradition free of political meddling and manipulation.
Have We Lost Scholarly Independence?
Several factors combined to strongly undermine the independent scholarly tradition, leading to its almost complete dissolution in the modern nation state.
The first primary factor is the collapse of the endowment system itself at the hands of colonialists, particularly by France during its colonisation of Algeria. In 1844, France began formally ending the waqf system through French property laws that replaced Islamic laws controlling ownership. The colonisers viewed these endowments “as a stubborn obstacle to colonisation because these properties were inalienable[2]…according to Islamic laws.”[3] The second factor is in how the post-colonial governments of the Islamic world mismanaged or exploited whatever remained of the awqāf. Whilst notwithstanding the independence of many scholars on an individual level, these factors, among others, continue to stand in the way of general scholarly independence in the modern world.
The erosion of scholarly independence can also be attributed to the nature of the modern nation state itself. By virtue of modern and centralised governments, almost every scholar today finds themselves linked to their state institutions, either directly or through companies or organisations linked to governments, or regulated by them in one way or another. Entering business in light of today’s massive corporations and vigorous competition is a challenge of its own for a dedicated entrepreneur, let alone a busy scholar.
Law enforcement and the judiciary are also centralised in the modern state, featuring in every part of society (including education, healthcare, and charity) and creating and implementing laws in each sector. As such, becoming scholastically ‘independent’ (in the purest sense of the word) from state encroachment is now very difficult indeed.
As such, the world’s community of scholars needs to develop creative models suited to the modern context that seek to maintain the independence of the scholarly body. The models adopted by the various politically independent academic societies around the world need to be studied. Finally, scholarly independence remains first and foremost contingent on the conscience of the scholar and his fear of Allāh. This must be incorporated into every curriculum, from the very earliest stages of scholastic training, and engrained in the minds and hearts of students of knowledge from day one. And Allāh knows best.
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Article contents sourced from original article by Dr. Mohammad al-Sayyad, rendered into English with modifications and slight rewording. All original scholarly quotes can be found in the original article and have been rendered into English to the author’s best ability and to their closest meaning. This obviously loses much of their original eloquence and depth.
[1] ‘Al-Faqīh wa Al-Mutafaqqih – Al-Khatīb al-Baghdādi
[2] Cannot be taken away or given away by the possessor
[3] Quoted in The Other Global City by Shail Mayaram
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Carving Out Funds for Island Affordable Housing
By Tom Groening
For a divorced mother of a five-year-old, moving to the island was a kind of retreat and a kind of homecoming. Except there was no home.
Maggy Willcox, who today publishes the Islesboro Island News, grew up in nearby Rockport in the early 1960s, and remembers the small-town nature of the community. It was the kind of town where mothers would send their kids out the door on a summer morning and not expect to see them again until lunchtime.
So in 1990 when she found herself alone with her child, the idea of spending the summer on Islesboro was appealing.
“I just needed a change of scene,” she recalled, and the island was “very much like” the small town of Rockport. “As a newly single mother, that looked very attractive. I thought, ‘Okay, that’s a good place to spend the summer.’ ”
She took a job at the food truck that operates seasonally at the ferry landing.
“It was a step back in time. It was magical,” she said, and decided to stay through the winter. Her first place was “lit-tle more than a camp. It was two rooms, not really winter-ized, and had an outhouse, where the infamous up-island spiders would hang out. You’d bang on the door before going in.”
After that, home was a summer resident’s place, also not winterized. She stayed in exchange for working on the house.
“There were always these strange little deals you could work out,” she recalled.
Enrolling her son in the island’s highly rated school made her want to find a more permanent deal. The Isles-boro Affordable Property group had formed in the early 1990s, and had completed a housing needs study and landed funding. Its first project was an eight-unit subdivi-sion on 13 acres that had been sold at a discount by the late resident Ruthie James.
“I was one of many applicants,” Willcox said, but she was chosen. The houses were designed to be owner-built, with materials precut and labeled, so “Tab A would go into Slot B.” Those selected for the houses were supposed to work together to build them, and finish them in 28 weekends.
“None of that happened,” she said. The blueprints were minimal, and as one family’s house was finished, they con-centrated on its own interior work—understandable, Will-cox said—and couldn’t stay with the building team. The housing group’s executive director quit abruptly in the middle of the project.
By this time, Willcox was working at the post office. People would routinely offer to help work on the house on the weekend, but few turned up. Chuck Whitehouse, now deceased, offered and came through.
“He spent a year and a half with me on weekends,” she said. “It was the most Christian act I have ever seen in my life.”
Her ex-husband and many others took on specific proj-ects; the island-based Central Maine Power representa-tive “took scraps from the boards we used for walls and made me custom kitchen cabinets. I baked a lot then, and he even built a tip-out bin for my forty-pound bags of flour and sugar.”
Still, there were bad moments.
“I remember sitting on my roof, nailing in boards, and sobbing,” she recalled.
It’s no wonder the island affordable housing group now buys modular homes.
The story has a happy ending, though. The home she now shares with her husband, Peter, a boat captain for the environmental activist group Greenpeace, is eye-pleasing with its steep pitched roof, and comfortable, with a soaring living-room ceiling balanced by an efficient galley kitchen. At 1,172 square feet, “It’s what the real estate people call cozy,” Willcox joked.
Exposed studs and sheathing planks create a warm effect, while the rigid foam insulation attached outside the sheathing means it heats easily.
Through a land-lease agreement, Willcox pays Isles-boro Affordable Property just under $100 month. The nonprofit owns the land and the shared wells and septic systems. Mortgage payments are in the $500 to $700 range for most, she said. If a house is sold, the home builder gets $5,000 back for the “sweat equity,” plus a percentage of the value of whatever improvements have been made (porches, decks, etc.).
Her son Sky graduated from the school—one in a class of three—so the happy ending was complete. “I’m so glad I made that commitment,” Willcox said, which made his education there possible.
These days, affordable housing includes both public efforts and a more informal, island network, Willcox said. Three of the original eight remain in the subdivision; the other five have moved off-island, she said, adding, “You come here and you appear to be useful, people will go the extra mile and find you a place.”
“Affordable” housing has a different meaning on the islands. Thanks to their desirability for seasonal homes and the finite land available, real estate costs are significantly higher than on the mainland.
Explaining that reality to legislators who were crafting a bond aimed at helping towns build affordable houses wasn’t easy, though. Genesis Community Loan Fund and the Island Institute were able to do so, and as a result, a $30 million bond package approved by Maine voters in 2010 included $2 million devoted to building affordable rental housing on year-round islands.
The rules for distributing the housing funds were crafted “for the needs of rural communities through flexible standards,” remembers Greg Payne, director of the Maine Affordable Housing Coalition. Those standards were written with islands in mind, he said.
Affordable housing initiatives typically target communities with lower median incomes, Payne said. Fishermen on islands would be ineligible under those standards, however, because some of those communities have high median incomes.
The rules for grant awards took island income into consideration, as well as the smaller scale of island projects; fewer units were built, which was less efficient, but made sense in small island towns, Payne said.
Construction costs are significantly higher on islands, too, a wrinkle that normally would have had legislators leaning away from such high-cost, low-return projects. Fortunately, significant lobbying of legislators persuaded them to understand and accept the island-specific challenges.
“The Island Institute had a big role in making a great success of the subset of this bond,” Payne said. He also credited Liza Fleming-Ives of Genesis.
Rental units were chosen over ownership to provide essential workforce housing, he said.
The island units built through the bond included six on Vinalhaven and two each on North Haven, Islesboro, Chebeague, Peaks, Isle au Haut, and Great Cranberry islands.
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How Google and Apple will eliminate passwords
Mike Elgan
Published: February 1st, 2011
Imagine sitting down at a public PC, surfing the Web, visiting Facebook, checking your online bank account and buying something on Amazon.com — all without entering passwords or credit card information.
It gets better. You get up and leave without even logging out. Some shady criminal type sits down at the same PC and finds his attempts at cracking your password foiled at every turn. Your accounts can’t be accessed because your phone is no longer on the desk.
It gets better still. Hop in your car and press the “Start” button — no key necessary. The car knows it’s you after you wave your phone over the dashboard, and it adjusts the driver’s seat and steering wheel just for you.
On your way to work, you swing by Starbucks to grab a Trenta Iced Cafe Mocha with whip. To pay, you wave your phone over a terminal on the counter, grab your drink and head for work.
Arriving at the office, you sail past security with doors unlocking automatically as you approach them. When you walk into your office, the lights and PC come on auto-magically.
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But what’s this? While you were out, IT replaced your old-and-busted PC with the latest and greatest. The PC is a blank slate, and it’s unaware of your data or settings. No worries. Just drop your phone on the desk, and the system instantly implements your settings and begins downloading your work documents from the cloud.
While all this is happening, a co-worker walks in talking smack about the game yesterday — and the ill-advised bet you lost. You owe him $10, so you both pull out your phones. You launch an app, type in the number 10, and tap the phones together to transfer the money.
All this has taken place without a single password or credit card.
The magic happens when you can combine a biometric ID system (which uses some kind of scan from a smartphone to verify that you’re actually in possession of the device) with a secure short-distance wireless communication technology that other devices (cash registers, PCs etc.) can read.
What’s wrong with passwords?
Why do we need a new ID system? Because most users don’t create secure passwords, and they can’t always remember the ones they create.
On any public system — like, say, Facebook — if a hacker tries the 20 most common passwords on enough accounts, he’ll eventually break in. Any two-bit suburban script-kiddie can download free software to crack the majority of passwords on a public system within hours.
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Many people use a single password for all accounts. Once a hacker gains access to the password, he can wreak havoc, steal your identity, destroy your credit, ruin your relationships and expose your secrets.
Password protection — or lack thereof — is the IT industry’s dirty little secret. Passwords are a broken and obsolete model, yet everyone relies on them and pretends they do what they’re supposed to do.
The obvious password replacement is biometric identification — the use of a system capable of recognizing unique physical attributes, such as fingerprints, iris patterns or voices.
Far too many people don’t trust biometrics because it feels like Big Brother technology. But I believe that if the biometric system resides on the user’s cell phone, and is under the user’s control, such technology would be far more acceptable to the public.
How Apple will kill passwords
Apple doesn’t discuss future product plans, but it appears likely that the company is aggressively pursuing the development of technologies that replace IDs, passwords and credit cards.
Two years ago, Apple was in the news for patenting a range of biometric ID tools for the iPhone, such as a voice recognition system, a retinal scanner that uses the phone’s camera or, most likely, a system that uses the screen to scan fingerprints.
Last year, Apple hired an expert in Near Field Communication, or NFC, to head up the company’s Mobile Commerce department. NFC is technology that enables the transfer of data over distances of just a few inches — a model that’s far more secure and reliable than, say, Bluetooth. Other inside sources have been quoted as saying that Apple plans to build NFC into the iPhone 5.
Apple has also recently advertised three job openings related to payment platforms and short-range wireless data transfers.
And Apple has been granted NFC-related patents.
Apple is in a unique position to add biometric ID and the short-range communication technology that would make it effective.
Because Apple makes both handheld devices and PCs, it could easily build support into both. And because Apple already maintains one of the largest e-commerce systems in the world — the various iTunes stores — it already has most of the infrastructure for payments in place — and the credit card numbers of millions of customers.
Most important, however, Apple has proved to be the best company in the industry at taking research concepts that have been going nowhere for years and mainstreaming them overnight. It did that with multitouch user interfaces, cell phone videoconferencing and touch tablets. And it could do it with biometrically secured NFC ID and commerce systems.
In other words, all Apple needs to do in order to turn the iPhone into a universal debit card is to add a tiny, inexpensive chip to the device. And all Apple needs to do in order to make the iPhone a universal secure ID is to add a fingerprint scanner to the phone and put another chip in its various desktop systems.
Of course, it could be a while before you can use an iPhone as a universal debit card. It could take Apple some time to establish the partnerships and programs necessary to get every gas station and grocery store to support iTunes. But the password-killing ID card functionality could exist on Apple systems as early as this year, or most likely next year
How Google will kill passwords
Google, meanwhile, does discuss (some) future plans. CEO Eric Schmidt announced late last year that Android Gingerbread 2.3 and later versions will support NFC at the software level. It’s up to Google’s hardware partners to build that functionality into Android devices.
Google is already using cell phones to improve security. The company has a universal password log-in that grants admission to most of its many online services, from Gmail to Google Latitude. Google encourages users to associate that single sign-on password with their cell phone number. If someone hacks your Google password, you can get a new password sent to your phone.
The Android platform has also been at the forefront of workable biometric solutions for cell phones. In fact, you can already download Android apps that do face recognition and iris scanning.
What doesn’t exist yet is a Google-approved or Google-designed system that ties it all together — NFC, payment and biometric ID. But with Apple apparently taking the lead when it comes to using a cell phone as a debit card and a universal ID, you can be sure Google will step up and do whatever is necessary to compete.
I believe that it will soon be possible to live without passwords or credit cards. If Apple builds in these capabilities, you can be sure Google will. And if Apple and Google do it, so will all of their competitors.
It won’t be easy — we can look forward to messy standards and privacy battles. But once they ship cell phones that can replace both passwords and credit cards, I think life will be more convenient — and more secure.
Mike Elgan writes about technology and tech culture. Contact and learn more about Mike at Elgan.com, or subscribe to his free e-mail newsletter, Mike’s List.
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Jai Guruji
Iwritewhatyoufeel ®
A feeling of millions
Customised Poetry
India's most followed writer on Instagram
Welcome to the official website of Iwritewhatyoufeel. One of the biggest community of poetry on social media in India. Founded by Anubhav Agrawal in 2016. Iwritewhatyoufeel is popular among youngsters for it's Hindi Motivational poetry, Fictional and Real Stories with black background, a soulful music, texts floating over and of course with the #VoiceOfAnubhav.
A fight against depression is what the motive of this website is. He solely writes on various topics related to depression and different phases of the relationship we all are going through. By applying his blogs in your real life, you can definitely see the change in you, you'll find yourself becoming a better person everyday. A change is not good, but a change which is helping you to get out of all the mess of your life, is what you need.
In this website, He'll be writing a lot of blogs on such topics which people can relate to themselves and by practicing those activities, they'll surely feel free and alive. If we talk about depression, then we can say that it comes especially from toxic relationships with the people and he has created a lot of videos already on my social platforms like YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. Links are below. And, to be honest, relationship problems are not something to be ignored. A person invests his feelings, emotions and soul in a relationship and when things don't work out, it gets really toxic to breathe even.
So, with the experience of 4 years, your favorite has come up with online emotional wellness, in which he will write various blogs related to different aspects of life and relationships and help you with as much information as possible. "I'm thankful to my beloved Guruji for blessing me with the community of a million people who believe in my work and words, who believe that there's one person who can get them throughout their bad phases by just listening to my poetry and reading my blogs regularly." That's all. Enjoy your time here.
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"It doesn't matter what's your age, start from today with a motive to bring the change, not just in your life, but the people's life as well. Do something for the society, help them to recover and give them hope that nothing's over. You can do wonders as long as you're alive. Don't waste time, start from today."
Iwritewhatyoufeel
A feeling of million
Welcome to the official website of Iwritewhatyoufeel. One of the biggest community of poetry on social media in India. Founded by Anubhav Agrawal in 2016. Iwritewhatyoufeel is popular among youngsters for it's Hindi Motivational poetry, Fictional and Real Stories.
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Hyperion announces the election of Allison Aden to Board of Directors
WORTHINGTON, Ohio — Hyperion Materials & Technologies today announced Allison Aden joined its Board of Directors, effective immediately.
Aden brings extensive executive management experience to Hyperion, including more than 15 years as a Chief Financial Officer of both public and private equity portfolio companies. Aden currently serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Diversified, an industry-leading technology solutions provider delivering innovative digital media, collaborative, broadcasting, electronic security and over the top (OTT) solutions globally. Prior to joining Diversified in the summer of 2018, Aden led finance teams across a variety of industries, including manufacturing production and distribution, technology integration, professional services and commercial real estate.
“We are pleased to welcome Allison Aden to the Hyperion Board of Directors,” said Peter Stavros, Head of KKR’s Industrial Group and a Director on Hyperion’s Board. “Allison is a proven business executive with significant experience leading finance teams for growing organizations. As we continue our stand-up activities, we anticipate leaning heavily on Allison’s history of building strong finance teams committed to enabling the business needs of the organization.”
“The common thread across Allison’s many years as CFO has been operating in an environment of high growth and significant business transformation,” said Ron Voigt, CEO of Hyperion. “Allison has a strong history of leading the upgrade of financial systems while ensuring a dedication to appropriate financial controls. Allison will serve as an invaluable resource to Hyperion’s management team. We are very excited to work with her.”
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1This incentive is NOT compatible with HMF Special APR and HMF Special Lease. 2May not be available with other offers. Take delivery by 2021-03-01. Residency restrictions apply. See dealer for details. 3To be Eligible customers (or spouse) must be Active Duty, Reservist/National Guard, Retires, or a Veteran with Honorable Discharge from the U.S. Military at the commencement of the program period. Personnel from the U.S Military eligible for this program are defined as customers serving or having served in the United States Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Navy, Reserves, or National Guard. As well as, U.S. Military personnel who were Honorably Discharged due to a disability acquired during their service regardless of the number of years served.
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1May not be available with other offers. Take delivery by 2021-03-01. Residency restrictions apply. See dealer for details. 2To be Eligible customers (or spouse) must be Active Duty, Reservist/National Guard, Retires, or a Veteran with Honorable Discharge from the U.S. Military at the commencement of the program period. Personnel from the U.S Military eligible for this program are defined as customers serving or having served in the United States Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Navy, Reserves, or National Guard. As well as, U.S. Military personnel who were Honorably Discharged due to a disability acquired during their service regardless of the number of years served. 3This incentive is NOT compatible with HMF Special APR and HMF Special Lease. 4May not be available with other offers. Take delivery by 2021-02-01. Residency restrictions apply. See dealer for details. 5May not be available with other offers. Take delivery by 2021-02-01. Residency restrictions apply. See dealer for details.
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Estimated Lease payment based on 36 months and $2,015 due at lease signing. Cash due at signing includes $3,330 capitalization cost reduction, which includes $650 acquisition fee, plus a required security deposit of $0, and first month's lease payment of $186. Excludes title, taxes, registration, and license fees. Total monthly payments equal $10,006. Mileage charge of $0.20 per mile over 10,000 miles. Not all consumers will qualify. Residency restrictions may apply.
1May not be available with other offers. Take delivery by 2021-03-01. Residency restrictions apply. See dealer for details. 2To be Eligible customers (or spouse) must be Active Duty, Reservist/National Guard, Retires, or a Veteran with Honorable Discharge from the U.S. Military at the commencement of the program period. Personnel from the U.S Military eligible for this program are defined as customers serving or having served in the United States Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Navy, Reserves, or National Guard. As well as, U.S. Military personnel who were Honorably Discharged due to a disability acquired during their service regardless of the number of years served.
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Estimated Finance payment based upon 4.25% APR for 60 months, with a down payment of $2,204. Excludes title, taxes, registration, and license fees. Some customers will not qualify. See your authorized dealer for complete details on this and other offers. Residency restrictions may apply.
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1This incentive is NOT compatible with HMF Special APR and HMF Special Lease. 2Customers must be the registered owner of a Hyundai vehicle at the commencement of the program period. Customers must purchase an eligible new Hyundai vehicle from a participating Hyundai dealership. Customers must be currently living with an immediate family member who is the registered owner of a Hyundai vehicle at the commencement of the program period. An immediate family member is defined as follows: Father/Mother, Spouse, Daughter/Son, Brother/Sister Valued Owner Coupon may not be combined with Competitive Owner Incentive 3May not be available with other offers. Take delivery by 2021-03-01. Residency restrictions apply. See dealer for details. 4To be Eligible customers (or spouse) must be Active Duty, Reservist/National Guard, Retires, or a Veteran with Honorable Discharge from the U.S. Military at the commencement of the program period. Personnel from the U.S Military eligible for this program are defined as customers serving or having served in the United States Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Navy, Reserves, or National Guard. As well as, U.S. Military personnel who were Honorably Discharged due to a disability acquired during their service regardless of the number of years served.
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1Customers must be the registered owner of a Hyundai vehicle at the commencement of the program period. Customers must purchase an eligible new Hyundai vehicle from a participating Hyundai dealership. Customers must be currently living with an immediate family member who is the registered owner of a Hyundai vehicle at the commencement of the program period. An immediate family member is defined as follows: Father/Mother, Spouse, Daughter/Son, Brother/Sister Valued Owner Coupon may not be combined with Competitive Owner Incentive 2May not be available with other offers. Take delivery by 2021-03-01. Residency restrictions apply. See dealer for details. 3To be Eligible customers (or spouse) must be Active Duty, Reservist/National Guard, Retires, or a Veteran with Honorable Discharge from the U.S. Military at the commencement of the program period. Personnel from the U.S Military eligible for this program are defined as customers serving or having served in the United States Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Navy, Reserves, or National Guard. As well as, U.S. Military personnel who were Honorably Discharged due to a disability acquired during their service regardless of the number of years served. 4This incentive is NOT compatible with HMF Special APR and HMF Special Lease. 5May not be available with other offers. Take delivery by 2021-02-01. Residency restrictions apply. See dealer for details. 6May not be available with other offers. Take delivery by 2021-02-01. Residency restrictions apply. See dealer for details.
1Customers must be the registered owner of a Hyundai vehicle at the commencement of the program period. Customers must purchase an eligible new Hyundai vehicle from a participating Hyundai dealership. Customers must be currently living with an immediate family member who is the registered owner of a Hyundai vehicle at the commencement of the program period. An immediate family member is defined as follows: Father/Mother, Spouse, Daughter/Son, Brother/Sister Valued Owner Coupon may not be combined with Competitive Owner Incentive 2May not be available with other offers. Take delivery by 2021-03-01. Residency restrictions apply. See dealer for details. 3To be Eligible customers (or spouse) must be Active Duty, Reservist/National Guard, Retires, or a Veteran with Honorable Discharge from the U.S. Military at the commencement of the program period. Personnel from the U.S Military eligible for this program are defined as customers serving or having served in the United States Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Navy, Reserves, or National Guard. As well as, U.S. Military personnel who were Honorably Discharged due to a disability acquired during their service regardless of the number of years served.
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Our Odessa dealership is your one-stop shop for all things. We have a vast inventory of new, used, and certified pre-owned vehicles for our customers to choose from. Be it any vehicle that you’re looking for, we have it on our lot. However, if we don’t, let us know your requirement and we’ll find it for you. If you’ve any questions about any of the Hyundai vehicles on our lot, or their purchasing process, contact us at 432-614-9404 and we’ll promptly respond. While you can browse our inventory online, we invite you to visit us at Lithia Hyundai Of Odessa to check out our new, used, and certified pre-owned inventory live today!
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What is TASWIR Projects?
TASWIR[1] Projects is a nomadic platform for artistic and creative thinking that grew out of the TASWIR exhibition 2009-2010 at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.[2] In this exhibition, over 50 artists, thinkers, curators, and other intellectual agents from different parts of the globe participated in an experiment of free association and poetic documentation, taking iconic artefacts, images, objects, manuscripts, and other items of classical Ottoman, Persian, Arabic, and Indian provenance out of context. Diverse matters generally related to Islamic art and culture were raised. The exhibition drew upon concepts like white ink, in-betweens, miraculous beginnings, indeterminacies, a-linear timelines, forthcoming pasts, fractal epistemic architectures, and so on. The TASWIR exhibition explored those concepts by way of artistic and other research in the form of an 'exhibition within an exhibition' inside the museum's inner atrium. In there, we, the TASWIR team, created a forum for public discourse, modelled after the medieval (Judeo-Arabic) house of learning, in which new knowledge is produced by way of repetition: the renewal takes place within the archive of tradition, new questions nestle in the cloudy zones of a relativity not yet defined, in-between objects and positions, meandering in diachronic loops of associative references back and forth, in and out of the linear references installed by European historiographies. We envisioned a place inside the museum in which production and (re)presentation become indistinguishable, meeting therein the limits of the museum's administration, who explained to us that such a thing is, indeed, impossible to achieve within any museum. Besides, we were up against the limits of time, three months in the autumn of 2009 proving to be much too short a length of time in which to explore the encyclopedic, if idiosyncratic, dimensions of 18 rooms of TASWIR in which 18 associative constellations of poetic documentation were submitted to public scrutiny.[3]
TASWIR exhibition, 2009-10, installation view, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Seminar with Sarat Maharaj, Oliver Schneller, Oleg Grabar, Khalid Amine, A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh, among others. Photograph by Di Mackey. Courtesy ha’atelier.
Upon the closure of the exhibition in January 2010, we decided that extensive future research on the constellations of TASWIR was necessary in order to fully endorse TASWIR's agenda. I realized that the thematic constellations of TASWIR, nine in total, indeed provide an encyclopedic matrix for an epistemic, yet individual, order of things beyond and besides disciplines and territorial belongings: 'white ink', 'point and line', 'miniature', 'polyphony', 'polis', 'east/west', 'Utopia/dystopia', 'eros', 'taswir'. TASWIR projects is convinced that the indeterminate order of knowledge emerging from a deeper engagement with this specific topography will undo some of the intellectual bifurcations that regularly inhabit all zones of conflict; we unreasonably claim that the contemporaneity of this agenda is still forthcoming, and are therefore presently busy transforming the exhibition rooms into thematic clusters presented in a nucleus at www.taswir.org/topography. [4]
The transformation of the TASWIR exhibition into an epistemic architecture is an ongoing process that I provisionally call the TASWIR 'institute', which is an imaginary institution. It does not possess an address, classes, secretaries, or furniture, but it does provide a TASWIR-specific agenda of research, topography, faculty, calendar, an atlas of object relations, and a team of collaborators. The institute – also called TASWIR projects – publishes TASWIR-related research, discusses exhibition concepts with curators, accompanies thinkers in writing or translating texts, assists students and volunteers in their various projects, and disseminates its methods at host institutions such as academies and universities across the globe. It works with a loosely-associated faculty of thinkers, artists, curators, filmmakers, poets, and political activists, in whose work we recognize fractal splinters of TASWIR's agenda. TASWIR builds an atlas of objects, artefacts, and positions that allows for an establishment of ever-recurrent, varying relationships in a digital setting yet to be expanded. And TASWIR projects offers the methods of the TASWIR atlas and its specific algorithm of indeterminate relativity to other institutions, museums, libraries, and clients interested in adopting the matrix of its epistemic structure. Yet TASWIR projects dreams and dreads its future, due to its excessive marginality brought about by playing across the radius of all territorial belongings, and by its radical belatedness within the current social media revolution.
Aby M. Warburg, Mnemosyne-Atlas, Board A, Nr. 32 and 33, 1926.
TASWIR exhibition, 2009-10, installation view of the room 'Face and Effaced Face', Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Works by Taysir Batniji, Yang Maoyuan, Marwan, and a Seljuk princess (9th century). Topography: Miniature. Photograph by Di Mackey. Courtesy ha’atelier.
TASWIR exhibition, 2009-10, installation view of the room 'Utopia of the Text', Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Foreground: Joseph Semah, Talmud Bavli, An Intoduction to the Principle of Relative Expression, 1979. Topography: White Ink. Photograph by Di Mackey. Courtesy ha’atelier.
How TASWIR Projects is Missing Contemporary Art: Plea for a Radical Belatedness
When I first got a chance to briefly speak about matters of TASWIR and of its atlas with the artist and thinker Walid Raad at a Beirut theatre, the very first thing he told me was: 'You are arriving late'. 'Maybe,' I said, 'I always thought I am arriving early!' We both laughed. Since then I knew: when people engage in questions of contemporaneity in art and theory, when artists and thinkers share the power of their poetic and political imagination through social media, even when we exchange our visions of freedom and justice supporting political and artistic activism in real time revolutions, we must not confuse the speed, immediacy, spontaneity, and contagiousness of social networking with the kind of untimely contemporaneity that the thinker and artist Jalal Toufic says is 'still forthcoming'.[5]
Lateral Shifts of Knowledge / Moving out of Academia
Of course, in one way, Raad was right. The TASWIR project, an imaginary institute that follows the idiosyncratic agenda of its own topography, that builds upon a stubborn renaissance of cosmopolitan traditions, ancient and modern, and that features the work of a loosely-associated faculty of artists and thinkers, with no reference to established disciplines or other territorial boundaries, neither institutional nor geo-political, of course arrives late onto a vibrant international scene in which thinkers, artists, and curators have long explored the nature of the contemporary, of non-western modernities, of a future past the former west.
We are in the midst of an ever more feverish activity archiving the fragmentation of knowledge; we are surrounded by international platforms for artistic research advancing paradigm shifts for philosophical, political, and aesthetic questions across disciplines, suggesting new ways in which knowledge is produced, splintered, archived, and displayed. It seems clear that future research in the arts and sciences is no longer put forward and negotiated mainly within universities and academies, and that new constellations and new research is being conducted in many different and dispersed ways, in and out of formal institutions of learning, in and out of the imaginary margins provided by creative individuals, in and out of places like biennales, international curators' meetings, art festivals, exhibitions, and other anarchic and offsite places, in which performance cultures meet post-disciplinary, object-related theoretical modes of discourse. Universities, with very few exceptions, have few opportunities to keep track; their departments make efforts to account for the ongoing emigration of groundbreaking research to discursive spaces of international (art) platforms, by founding interdisciplinary excellence clusters in which artists and freelancers play an increasing role. With the rare exception of academic frameworks, in which art and knowledge systems get themselves institutionally intertwined, the new framings of interdisciplinary academic projects of artistic research, however, usually miss real-time participation in current shifts of knowledge. Such participation would demand a subjective, individualized, idiosyncratic curriculum management on the part of the students, a requirement entirely contrary to the Bologna process[6] that prescribes and narrows scholarly programmes, especially in European universities today.
Window(less) Monads
It is obvious that social media and online communication, exchanging, updating, posting, (re-)producing, and disseminating knowledge in real-time conversations, not only provide current venues for knowledge exchange, but rather become themselves subject to artistic and theoretical investigation: digital infrastructures, their epistemic architectures, modes of temporality, velocities, the infinities inscribed in their space, their materiality, ways of archiving, undoing and overwriting identities, tracing individual and collective memories, their (in)determinacy in modes of (re)presentation, oscillating (hi)stories, and so on. How does the texture of this emerging 'flat surface' multi-verse, deep-time palimpsest, made of a zillion layers, facets of reflection, each an idiosyncratic centre of the universe, become hospitable to sharing knowledge? How do these universes-in-universes, windows' monads, whose modes of representation and image-making (TASWIR) are all undoing the Copernican revolution together with claiming 'the world is flat', actually speak to and communicate with one another? How does the specific kind of contemporaniety created by such epistemic revolution, in and out of three-dimensional space, in and out of the poetic imagination of the users, in and out of the bloodshed in human history – how does this poetry of the flat-world-revolution create, share, present, archive, and project its agenda in public? How does this question change the artistic, poetic, scholarly, philosophical, mathematical, political imagination?
Poetry of the Revolution – Plea for a Radical Belatedness, for Anarchy, and Idiosyncrasy
These questions are destined to lure curators and other agents among the new epistemic architects into a megalomaniac effort and exhaustion: proving an astonishing (angelic, medieval) quality of ubiquitous presence driven by a dizzying speed, curators and other creative epistemic agents increasingly play a dominant role in the current resetting of how knowledge is produced. In all seriousness, we find among the proclaimed tasks of the curator a call for 'global meta-curating', for reimagining entire cultural histories, reinventing the museums, re-linking the arts and sciences, rethinking spectatorship, providing 'intergenerational perspectives on recent developments across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East', wanting to grasp the 'inner logic of contemporary art processes.'[7] Exuberant with the contagious jouissance of arriving just 'in time', of keeping up to speed in order to get to see (and to define) what is contemporary in the arts, these panoramic undertakings seem oddly imperial in scope - ironically so, as most of its agents are indebted to much post-colonial reflection and a huge network of genuine relations to literally all corners of the world.
Beginning at the Beginning, Again
I myself am quite intimidated by the speed of this market for curators and epistemic architects. In order to speak about the painful belatedness of the TASWIR project, its untimely idiosyncrasies driven by a quite personal facet of what Jalal Toufic names 'the withdrawal of tradition past a surpassing disaster',[8] and about its rather anarchic foundations – what were called 'non-foundations' by medieval Jewish and Arabic thinkers when discussing matters of creation and 'miraculous beginnings' – it will prove helpful to begin at the beginning again; possibly with the conversation at the Beirut theatre with Walid Raad about untimely arrivals/beginnings. It is impossible to know what triggered that laugh at the end of our conversation, but one possibility, so I thought afterwards, was that we might have laughed about the work Missing Lebanese Wars (1989).
Walid Raad, Notebook volume 72: Missing Lebanese Wars, dates: 1992, plate: 132. Courtesy the artist.
Missing Contemporary Art
What we see here are the notebooks of Dr.Fadl Fakhouri, leading historian of the Lebanese Wars, and a member of the Atlas Group who spent his time collecting clippings from the Lebanese newspaper Annahar during the war, showing racehorses near the finishing line, with handwritten notes and calculations on each race. According to Walid Raad, the notebooks record a strange practice among Lebanese historians during the Lebanese Wars: Fakhouri and his colleagues were avid gamblers, who spent every Sunday at the race-track, submitting their bets.[9] However, their bet was not on the winning horse, but rather on 'how many fractions of a second the photographer would expose the frame before or after the horse crossed the finish line'. Curiously, the photographers never caught the horse online. It seems that photography, documentation, archiving, TASWIR, is all about the inbuilt differential that separates communication online from being contemporary: the contemporary is still forthcoming, or else is falling short. TASWIR – representation/image making – thus faces the paradoxical task of documenting the story of that differential, a story of resistance to going online.
The TASWIR Project / working off-line / Razan's Exhibition
From here on there are many ways to demonstrate how the TASWIR Project is missing contemporary art. I might as well begin with an example from my immediate environment: a young colleague, studying for a trilingual Master's programme in cultural intermediation and management with stations in Brussels, Venice, Barcelona, and Montpellier, a curator from Beirut/Damascus, who graciously elected TASWIR Projects for her internship, and who is now working in our tiny premises in a Berlin Altbau on a promising forthcoming exhibition – let's call it 'Razan's Exhibition'.[10] What she envisions is to expose the poetic imagination of people dying for freedom in the streets of Syria, exposing the excruciating state of belatedness and hope in which the agents of the revolution spend their nights writing banners and drawing caricatures and their days filming violence and injustice, using every venue of open-source, social media, and online communication in order to disseminate, preempt, and advance the power of the revolution, turning history upside down, reversing and resurrecting traditions that are in the process of withdrawal.
In order to imagine a redeeming future, however – and this is where the problems of TASWIR begin – one must also think of a bottomless past, written in white ink on white parchment, a past of the future onto which one inscribes ever-recurrent acts of intervention. In order to know that these interventions, our interventions, disruptive revolutionary moments, spreading into a zillion directions that are indeed miraculously free from the progressive timelines prescribed by European historiographies (whose call of 'not-yet!' to the colonized still echoes in the former west), a detour is necessary: a detour that takes time, a detour offline, a detour via nothingness, a crazy detour via the extensive archives of non-linear, atomist, anarchic, amazingly associative, forgotten, withdrawn, pre-colonial traditions of splintered, fractal thinking, mainly in the so-called middle ages, the early days of Kalam, the days of rabbinic midrash, masters of Hadith, Persian poetry, Islamic mystics, Sufis, and Kabbalists. This is the detour that the TASWIR project envisions developing and exposing. To anticipate these traditions yet again – together with Freud's psychic archive, Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, Hélène Cixous' White Ink, Judith Butler's Antigone's Claim, Walid Raad's Artists' Index, Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas, and so on, means to touch upon the agenda of TASWIR projects, still forthcoming, in constellations that make up the topography of the TASWIR project.[11]
Detour via some Rabbinic Thinking/ Ways apart from the Curator's market
In order to work out the agenda of TASWIR, we need to learn how to thread the strings of our questions through the depth of time, proving the simultaneity of diachronic references, showing the contemporaneity that is forthcoming in the vicinity (not only) of the TASWIR project. The detours of TASWIR take us through venues far from the curator's market. Here I submit to the reader just one venue to imagine, one venue to begin with, one venue among many, taken from the cloudy field of 'white ink', which is one of the nine topoi of the topography of TASWIR.
In 2002, the Talmudic scholar Daniel Boyarin published an essay entitled Splintering the Logos. Indeterminacies of Meaning in Midrashic Texts.[12] In this essay, Boyarin focuses upon the resistance of rabbinic scholars in the 4th and 5th centuries. The rabbis escape the patristic and Hellenistic strategies of defining logos in dogmatic or syllological equations, demonstrating a process of splintering thinking instead, a kind of 'Schlitterlogik' – a logic of 'slipping' or 'slithering' – in the words of the art historian Aby Warburg.[13] In the case of the rabbis in their midrashic imagination (we may say the same for Freud's psychic archive, for Warburg's atlas), thinking does not proceed from proposition to proposition, but rather originates in the abysmal indeterminacies of a text that refuses determination and thus injects its readings from the perspective of a radical belatedness, from future to past, margin to centre, answer to question. Boyarin's plea for splintering the logos advances a critique of identity politics, collective bifurcations, fixations on gender, territorial belongings, apartheid and separation walls, and thus comes to turn the exilic, ubiquitous nature of rabbinic tradition against the status of its obvious withdrawal. It is the nature of this splintering process that seems irretrievably lost as a gesture of rabbinic thinking and excruciatingly difficult to retrieve after Jews in their majority settled their bodies and minds on territory rather than dispersion. It is this splintered thinking that has intrigued me in my own work over the last ten years, culminating in the TASWIR project, which is indebted to the archaic structures of pre-colonial Jewish and Muslim, rabbinic, Arabic, and other atomist readings of classical texts, Freudian dream-work, the Arcades Project of Walter Benjamin, the Mnemosyne Atlas of Aby Warburg, the work of the Surrealists, Dadaists, and so on.[14]
The TASWIR ATLAS
The more at random the elements which come together, the more likely the sparks of poetry will ignite and bring about a reinterpretation of things.
Max Ernst[15]
Max Ernst, Maximiliana ou l'Éxercise illégal de l'Astronomie, 1964. © Kupferstichkabinett. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Inv. 13-1967,28. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012.
In order to demonstrate the power of poetic association governing the anti-chronology of TASWIR, let us look at a body of texts that we usually do not associate with a hypertext of multi-temporal dimensions, and which does not usually arouse in us any surrealist imagination, nor does it seem to resemble a psychic archive: let us look at a 9th century Hadith manuscript, one that deals with forbidden sexual relations and marriage laws.
Hanafitic codex: al-Halabi, Multaqā l-abhur. © Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Ms. Orient. A 1032.
It is not the content of the page that is of interest to me here. I rather invite the reader to look at the simultaneity of diachronic references in the margins of the text, a blog-like margin created by a process of interpretation that originates in recurrent, a-linear readings, sneaking into the blank spots in-between letters and words, resulting in a movement from margin to centre, creating a translucent palimpsest, multi-temporal vocal layers from various places on display on a single page.[16]
Thirteenth-century Jewish and Islamic mystical traditions developed an exuberant materialism in reading such multi-layered texts. In the works of Kabbalists and Sufi masters in southern France and Spain, divine infinity is configured as a semiotic body of imploding fullness, whose black holes/white ink paradoxically provide indeterminate grounds for creating worlds and 'miraculous beginnings'.[17]
From the standpoint of medieval Sufis and Kabbalists, the innumerable transmutations of meaning stem from the fact that each sign/letter is a component of the veil that renders the invisible visible and the visible invisible …
… Arabic letters – bones, tissue, and sinews of the Qur'anic body – are signs that point to the unseen and thereby reveal the light by concealing it. […] In a similar vein, the letters of the matrix text, Torah for Kabbalist, Qur'an for Sufi, reveal and conceal the divine essence, the face beyond all veils, the pre/face, devoid of form, the pre/text, devoid of letter.
Elliot R. Wolfson[18]
Hebrew and Arabic letters, according to thirteenth century mystical traditions, were thought of as images or bodies veiling the light of creation that they conceal. 'Black fire upon white fire',[19] Umm al-kitab, the 'mother of the book', veils the secrets of her body paradoxically by blankness, 'white ink' and 'miraculous beginnings' in which all readings (future/past) originate in an ever-recurrent forthcoming contemporaneity.
When letters and words seem liberated from the restraints of linear reasoning, whether in social media, real-time communication, or elsewhere, we are retrieving an ancient technique of toying, sampling, and re-mixing letters and things. This kind of anarchic strategy of reading provokes an untimely simultaneity of contexts, past and future, in which a word – or even just a letter or sign – accumulates its signifying capital, its extra-grammatical freedom in the eternal now of creative intervention. Google evokes an ancient pattern.[20]
When Time Itself Becomes Spatial
TASWIR's interest lies in resurrecting certain atomist (rabbinic, mutazilite, other) cosmopolitan strategies of reading and their implied non-linear temporalities, demonstrating their methodological congeniality with certain theories of indeterminacy and associative relativity, ancient and modern, trying to translate them into a spatial synopsis (atlas/exhibition), in which time itself becomes spatial.[21] TASWIR's first project was the Berlin exhibition 2009-2010, in which we took the interpretive gesture of 'miraculous beginnings', this act of taking root in the nothing in-between seriously as a curatorial method, turning the form of a margin commentary quite physically inside out: the taswir-'text', an associative narration of 18 rooms, was laid out and fixed onto the architectural circumference of the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, and the 'margin' transfigured into a space of public learning inside the museum's court, a place of artistic commentary and production.
Sketches of TASWIR, Curator’s notebook. © A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh.
The TASWIR project works precariously at the brink of (dis)appearance, as its unexpected associations can be unsettling, its moments of untimely arrival disorientating, and its contemporaneity difficult to grasp. The Project over long periods lives by what Anton Vidokle terms 'time/bank' principles, sharing resources, skills, time, and artistic and scholarly proficiencies. We dream of a future augmenting the narrow spot of TASWIR's present idios cosmos, one that settles into the inner archive of a cosmopolitan tradition yet to be retrieved.
[1] Taswir translates as representation/image making in Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Hindu and Urdu.
[2] Conceived of by A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh in cooperation with the Berliner Festspiele and ha'atelier (www.ha-atelier.de), supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation.
[3] Among the participating artists and thinkers were: Jumana Emil Abboud, Arwa Abouon, Etel Adnan, Maliheh Afnan, Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh, Buthayna Ali, Khaled Amine, Chant Avedissian, Samer Barkoui, Taysir Batniji, Joshua Borkovsky, Gabriele Brandstetter, Sidney Corbett, Graham Day, Song Dong, Sherif El-Azma, Shahram Entekhabi, Orhan Esen, Parastou Forouhar, William Forsythe, Ilse und Pierre Garnier, Abdulnasser Gharem, Sakir Gökçebağ, Erik Göngrich, Maria Golia, the late Oleg Grabar, Dirk Hartwig, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hefuna, Rebecca Horn, Rami Abdul Jabbar, Ali Kaaf, Hayv Kahraman, Ik-Joong Kang, Hüseyin Karagöz, Navid Kermani, Idris Khan, Yayoi Kusama, Wolfgang Laib, Beral Madra, Sarat Maharaj, Nja Mahdaoui, Nalini Malani, Yang Maoyuan, Marwan, Murat Morova, Rabih Mroué, Moataz Nasr, Timo Nasseri, Melanie Nazmy-Ghandchi, Shady El Noshokaty, Alexander Polzin, Walid Raad, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Seifollah Samadian, Joachim Sartorius, Oliver Schneller, Maria Magdalena Schwaegermann, SEMA, Joseph Semah, Avinoam Shalem, Raqib Shaw, Shahzia Sikander, Walid Siti, Bettina Springer, Staatskapelle Berlin, Anneh Mohammad Tatari, Hale Tenger, Sadegh Tirafkan, Sencer Vardarman, Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, and Sobhi al-Zobaidi. Among the participating collections, galleries, and international museums were Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the British Library, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Centre Pompidou, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, the State Hermitage Museum, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Buchmann Galerie, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Rose Issa Projects, Galerie Lelong, and The Forsythe Company.
[4] I especially thank Hendrik V. Beust for his brilliance in building up an online-presence for TASWIR, and Lotte Fasshauer for providing continuous support.
[5] Jalal Toufic, 'The Contemporary is Still Forthcoming,' e-flux Journal 28 (2011): http://www.e-flux.com/journal/the-contemporary-is-still-forthcoming/.
[6] A series of ministerial meetings and agreements between European countries designed to ensure comparability in the standards and quality of higher education qualifications, see: http://www.ond.vlaanderen.be/hogeronderwijs/bologna/about/
[7] Citations from various back cover texts on the task of contemporary curating, especially commentaries on Terry Smith's Thinking Contemporary Curating, published by Independent Curators International in 2012.
[8] The concepts developed by the thinker, artist, and filmmaker Jalal Toufic in The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster (2009) and other works cannot be overestimated when thinking about the contemporary in the arts and sciences. See also: Jalal Toufic, Forthcoming (Berkeley: Atelos, 2001) and other works, graciously published under www.jalaltoufic.com
[9] Walid Raad, Notebook Volume 72: Missing Lebanese wars, 1989/1998 [cat. A]_Fakhouri_Notebooks_72_131-149, 21 digital prints, each 34×24.8 cm, London, Kirkland Collection. See: Walid Raad, Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: Some essays from The Atlas Group Project (Cologne: Walter Koenig, 2007), 54; and Joseph Burke, 'Art and History - Walid Raad and Tradition at Whitechapel Gallery,' Near East Quarterly (2010): http://neareastquarterly.com/?p=695; see also Jürgen Buchinger, 'Wie man einen Bürgerkrieg verhindert. Walid Raads The Atlas Group Archive und der Versuch der Wiederherstellung einer nationalen Identität,' All-Over: Magazin für Kunst und Ästhetik 2 (2012).
[10] Obviously, ’Razan’s Exhibition,’ as well as some other imaginary projects of TASWIR, would make interesting proposals for analogue venues.
[11] The topography of the TASWIR institute in all its deceptive brevity hides the 'idio cosmos' of the TASWIR project, an encyclopedic nucleus, induced from artefacts, positions, events, and other matters in its vicinity http://www.taswir.org/topography/
[12] Daniel Boyarin, Den Logos zersplittern. Zur Genealogie der Nichtbestimmbarkeit des Textsinns im Midrasch, essay series ha'atelier Nr. 3, ed. Almút Sh. Bruckstein (Berlin: Philo, 2002); see also Daniel Boyarin, Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), 151-225.
[13] Aby Warburg, Werke in einem Band, eds. Martin Treml et al. (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2010), 642.
[14] On the process of how pre-colonial Jewish and Arab traditions were both exiled from the cultural canon of European memory, see: Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003).
[15] Cited in the journal Neue Illustrierte (22 August 1951): 14.
[16] 'Contemporaneity consists precisely in the acceleration, ubiquity, and constancy of radical disjuncture of perception, […] in the actual coincidence of asynchronous temporalities, […] all thrown together in ways that highlight the fast-growing inequalities within and between them'. Terry Smith et al., eds., Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), 8-9.
[17] This term is coined by Walid Raad, see: Toufic, The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster, op. cit., 40.
[18] Elliot R. Wolfson, Language, Eros, Being. Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004), 205-206. Wolfson engages Ibn Arabi and other classical Arabic sources to advance a parallel universe of Jewish and Sufi mysticism.
[19] See: Gershom Sholem, 'The Significance of Thora in Jewish Mysticism,' On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism (New York: Schocken, 1996), 37-44; and many others.
[20] Boris Groys, Google: Words beyond Grammar/Google: Worte jenseits der Grammatik, 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts (Ostfildern: Hatje Canz, 2012). The connection to Midrash and Hadith and theories of messianic time is mine.
[21] Such a scene of pictorial writing, with its associative chains and nods of fluidity, does 'no longer obey … the laws of linear temporalities'. See: Jacques Derrida, 'Freud and the Scene of Writing' in Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass (London: Routledge, 2001), 272-273.
[22] From the diary of the composer Oliver Schneller, An Atlas of Sounds (2009), commissioned work for the TASWIR exhibition.
A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh is a thinker, writer, curator, founder of the TASWIR atlas and the TASWIR institute, until 2006 university professor and author of numerous publications in philosophy and aesthetic theory and currently working on the publication of The TASWIR Project: Politics of White Ink (2013).
Başak Şenova, Benji Boyadgian
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Banner image: Sinisa Vlajkovic, detail of Wild Horses, Beirut, Lebanon, 2004, photograph. Courtesy of the artist.
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Individuals in this assignment will be required to work weekdays, weekends and/or evening hours.
Interested in joining our team of public servants and being a part of public health history? If so, please start by completing the application below.
To provide vocational nursing services for patients in County health facilities; to assist physicians in physical examinations; and to perform less complex medical procedures as directed.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED
Receives general supervision from a Supervising Registered Nurse or other medical or public health supervisory staff. May receive technical and functional supervision from other medical personnel.
EXAMPLES OF ESSENTIAL DUTIES
Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Prepare patients for examination by physician, including taking and charting vital signs and brief history of complaints; assess need for tests and equipment; and conduct tests as ordered.
Read charts and other records to note condition of patients and treatments, medications, special diets and procedures ordered by physicians; enter findings, as well as, treatments and medication administered, in patient's charts.
Administer simple prescribed treatments, medications and diagnostic procedures.
Observe condition of patients and report unusual occurrences or serious conditions to supervisors.
Provide patient education regarding conditions/topics such as diabetes, hypertension, nutrition and weight loss, and techniques such as breast self-examination.
Keep examination and laboratory rooms stocked with adequate and appropriate supplies; change bio-hazardous waste containers and dispose of contents according to procedure.
May be assigned to assist with a particular Department of Health and Medical Services program.
Build and maintain positive working relationships with co-workers, other County employees and the public using principles of good customer service.
Perform related duties as assigned.
It is the responsibility of applicants to identify in their application materials how they meet the minimum qualifications listed below.
Experience and Training: Any combination of experience and training that would provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the required knowledge and abilities would be:
Experience: Two years of responsible licensed vocational nursing experience.
Training: Equivalent to an Associate's degree from an accredited college with major course work in vocational nursing or a related field.
License or Certificate:
Possession of a valid license to practice as a Vocational Nurse in the State of California.
May need to possess a valid driver's license as required by the position. Proof of adequate vehicle insurance and medical clearance may also be required.
Vocational nursing, including first aid, sterilization techniques, infection control, disposal of bio-hazardous material, medications, treatments and procedures, and bedside care of the ill.
Medical terminology.
Medical symptoms especially as related to determination of appropriate examinations and tests.
Use and care of nursing equipment and supplies.
Regulations and procedures governing a specific program when so assigned.
Principles and practices of work safety, especially as related to communicable diseases.
On a continuous basis, know and understand operations and observe safety rules. Intermittently analyze procedures; identify and locate supplies and equipment; interpret work orders; and explain operations and procedures to patients.
Intermittently, sit while studying or preparing records and charts; continuously walk, bend, squat, climb, kneel and twist when assisting patients, operating equipment, administering tests or treatments, or handling supplies/and or waste.
Perform simple and power grasping, pushing, pulling and fine manipulation; see and hear with sufficient skill to administer and evaluate vision and hearing tests; and lift moderate weight.
Administer prescribed treatments and procedures.
Employ proper sterilization procedures.
Work with various cultural and ethnic groups in a tactful and effective manner.
Act quickly and calmly in emergency situations.
Obtain information through interviews; deal fairly and courteously with the public; handle multiple cases; and work effectively with interruption.
Analyze situations quickly and objectively and determine proper course of action.
Use a computer, calculator, typewriter, telephone, facsimile machine, postage meter, and photocopy machine.
Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
Training & Experience Rating (100%)
Based upon responses to the supplemental questionnaire, the applicant’s education, training, and experience will be evaluated using a pre-determined formula. Scores from this evaluation will determine applicant ranking and placement on the eligible list.
CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT
Prior to the date of hire, applicants must undergo a fingerprint test by the Department of Justice, pass a medical examination (which may include a drug screening and possibly a psychological evaluation), sign a constitutional oath, and submit proof of U.S. citizenship or legal right to remain and work in the U.S. For some positions, applicants may also be required to submit proof of age, undergo a background investigation (which may include a voice stress analysis and/or a polygraph), and/or be bonded. Additionally, positions in law enforcement classifications and those supporting law enforcement functions will be required to complete a conviction history questionnaire prior to or during the interview process. Applicants for positions with access to Medi-Cal billing software or who are licensed providers must clear the Federal Exclusion List, credentialing, and social security verification. Failure to clear these requirements may result in an employment offer being withdrawn.
SUBSTITUTE LISTS
The eligible list resulting from this recruitment may be certified as a substitute list for a substantially similar classification. For this purpose, a substantially similar classification is one at a lower level in the same classification (example: entry level vs. journey level) and/or a similar classification (similar work performed, similar training and experience qualifications required). If you are contacted for an interview by a County department, you will be informed of the classification and other relevant information. If you choose not to interview for a substantially similar classification, you will remain on the eligible list for which you originally applied.
EMPLOYEES OF OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES
Placer County offers an expedited process for qualifying certain applicants for interviews. Candidates currently employed, or employed within the last year, by a public agency operating under a personnel civil service or merit system may be eligible to be placed on a Public Agency Eligible List and certified as eligible for appointment to a similar job assignment without going through the examination process. For more information on the Public Agency Eligible List, to download forms, or to apply, please click here.
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TRAILERCHEST: The first trailer for the star-studded Once Upon A Time in Hollywood is here
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Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Pacino, Margot Robbie all star, and it's directed by Quentin Tarantino. This will be massive.
Welcome to #TrailerChest, where we're taking a sneak peek at the brand new trailer for Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.
Plot's it all about? We've got ourselves a good ol' fashioned Hollywood blockbuster.
OFFICIAL: Peaky Blinders will end after the sixth season
The film takes place during the height of hippy Hollywood, and it centres around Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), a struggling actor, and Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), his best friend and stuntman, both of whom used to work on an old western TV show, and are still working as actors in the industry.
But once they arrive in a Hollywood they don’t recognise anymore, both men take it upon themselves to embark on an odyssey to make a name for themselves in the film industry during the Charles Manson murders in 1969 Los Angeles.
Al Pacino will play Marvin Shwarz, the agent of Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in the film, while Margot Robbie plays Sharon Tate.
Brad Pitt himself has said that it's "one of the most amazing scripts Tarantino has ever written", so as you might imagine, we're expecting big things.
Just over a month ago we got a look at some of the first images from the movie, which you can see here.
Starring: Are you ready? Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Pacino, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Kurt Russell, Timothy Olyphant, Emile Hirsch, Tim Roth, Burt Reynolds, Michael Madsen, Dakota Fanning, Scoot McNairy, James Mardsen and Damien Lewis.
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino.
Irish release date: 14 August.
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15-year-old almost loses outer ear after piercing
Doctors perform emergency surgery, save him from amputation of his external ear.
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Niv Lin’s ear 370
(photo credit: Kaplan Medical Center)
A 15-year-old boy who allegedly underwent ear piercing illegally without parental permission suffered severe gangrene and almost lost his earlobe to infection. Doctors at Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot performed emergency surgery last week and saved him from amputation of his external ear.
The teen, Niv Lin from Mazkeret Batya, arrived at the hospital with an advanced infection of his left earlobe. Doctors sent him for an urgent operation under general anesthesia to remove gangrenous pieces of cartilage from his ear.
Dr. Hagit Shofel Habakuk, a surgeon in the ear-nose-and-throat department, said that piercing ear cartilage, especially on the upper part of the outer ear, can be very harmful. The infection could have spread to his blood circulation and bones, she said.
“Prevent your children from suffering unnecessary complications,” she urged.
The boy received intravenous antibiotics for several days in an effort to create new cartilage and restore the shape of his outer ear.
His father, Gil, said he and his wife had been on a ski vacation when their son went to have the upper part of his ear pierced. When they returned, they found he had an earring and an extremely swollen ear.
“We were very angry that he did it without our permission; we even went to talk to the young man who did the piercing to tell him he acted illegally,” the boy’s father said.
The family’s health fund physician referred them to Kaplan, where the doctors immediately made a cut to drain out the pus. But a general operation was necessary to stop the spread of gangrene.
Lin told his parents that he had dropped the idea of piercing his ear.
“I went through a very unpleasant experience. I call on other youths not to undergo piercing even if they have to endure social pressure,” he said.
According to a 2004 Knesset amendment, no one may perform piercing of the body (except the lower part of the ear) on anyone under the age of 16 without the parents’ written consent.
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Jerusalem Post Middle East
Italy recalls diplomatic staff from Syria
Syrian, rebel forces continue fighting in Deraa; Annan reviews Syria's plans to end the violence; Rome stresses "strongest possible condemnation of violence."
Damaged house in Syria
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Italy has recalled all staff from its embassy in Damascus and suspended diplomatic activity in Syria, the Italian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
A statement said the move was taken for security reasons and to stress Rome's "strongest possible condemnation of the unacceptable violence of the Syrian regime against its own citizens."
Heavily armed forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad battled rebels in the southern city of Deraa on Wednesday, while UN envoy Kofi Annan considered Syria's response to plans aimed at ending the violence.
Around 20 tanks and armoured vehicles surrounded the al-Balad district of Deraa, on the border with Jordan, and fired anti-aircraft guns into buildings, activist Rami Abdelhaq said from Deraa, where the revolt against Assad began a year ago.
Annan visited Damascus over the weekend and gave the Syrian president what he termed "concrete proposals" aimed at restoring peace.
Annan received a response from Assad to his proposals, but questions remain and he is seeking clarification, a spokesman said.
"The Joint Special Envoy (JSE) for Syria, Kofi Annan, has now received a response from the Syrian authorities. The JSE has questions and is seeking answers," spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said in a brief statement issued by Annan's office in Geneva.
"But given the grave and tragic situation on the ground, everyone must realize that time is of the essence. As he said in the region, this crisis cannot be allowed to drag on," he added.
Since the former UN chief's visit, the violence has continued unabated, with Syrian forces pounding built-up areas around the northern city of Idlib, in the central city of Homs and in the south, around Deraa.
"The attack began early this morning. The rebels are firing back, but they are outgunned," said Abdelhaq, speaking by phone, with the sound of heavy gunfire echoing in the background.
A UN official has said more than 8,000 people have died in the uprising and the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday that some 230,000 Syrians had fled their homes during the past 12 months, of whom around 30,000 have sought safety abroad.
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10 on Ten
A cinematic master-class in which Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami discusses his filmmaking in relation to his 2002 film Ten.
Abbas Kiarostami Iran, 2004
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For what would prove to be his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami gave himself a challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer, bridging the two art forms to which he had dedicated his life.
Abbas Kiarostami: A Retrospective
Janus Films is proud to present a touring retrospective spanning Abbas Kiarostami’s nearly five-decade career. This series includes new restorations, undertaken by the Criterion Collection and MK2, of The Koker Trilogy, Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, and rarely screened shorts and documentaries.
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ABC Africa
In 2000, Kiarostami traveled to Africa at the request of the United Nations to document a humanitarian crisis unfolding in Uganda, where 1.5 million children had been orphaned by civil war and AIDS.
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In the aftermath of a 1990 earthquake that left 30,000 dead, Kiarostami returned to the village of Koker where his camera surveys not only the devastation but the teeming life that continues in its wake.
First Graders
Inspired by his work at Kanoon and his own sons’ schooling, the first of Kiarostami’s two documentary features about education looks in on a schoolyard of chanting, playful boys but mainly transpires in the office of a supervisor who has to deal with latecomers and discipline problems.
The Bread and Alley
“The mother of all my films,” according to Abbas Kiarostami, starts out as a breezily observed anecdote about a boy wending his way home through Tehran alleys carrying a loaf of bread.
Disciplined at school for breaking a window, a boy joins throngs of his schoolmates as they make a cacophonous exit into Tehran’s streets.
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Case #1, Case #2
Made in the spring of 1979, not long after the shah’s overthrow, this extraordinary film serves as a Rorschach blot for people in a revolutionary mind-set.
An old man strolls through the noisy streets of Rasht, and when his hearing aid is knocked out of his ear, the film’s sound goes off, mimicking the silence that envelops him.
Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and the fiction-documentary hybrid Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work.
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Ostensibly also a film for children, this picture-book essay about the range of hues that brighten our world has the air of a delightfully playful formalistic exercise.
Based on a story by Amir Naderi, who also cowrote the film, this slice of a fourteen-year-old boy’s life follows his efforts to fend for himself in the big city, working as a tea server and assistant in a photographer’s studio, running errands, and, briefly, exchanging glances with a pretty middle-class girl.
Kiarostami’s fascination with both Tehrani car culture and the uses of power in postrevolutionary society combine in this documentary about a traffic officer assigned to enforce driving restrictions in central Tehran (a locale near the director’s office at Kanoon).
Five Dedicated to Ozu
A piece of driftwood on the seashore, carried about by the waves...
In Kiarostami’s second documentary feature about education, the filmmaker himself asks the questions, probing a succession of invariably cute first- and second-graders about their home situations and the schoolwork they must do there
How to Make Use of Leisure Time
Evidently the first installment in a series that didn’t continue, this instructional film shows idle twelve- and sixteen-year-old brothers learning how to improve their surroundings by painting an old door.
So Can I
The first of Kiarostami’s films made for, rather than about, children was an experiment in combining live action and animation, done in collaboration with animator Nafiseh Riahi.
Orderly or Disorderly
The first shot shows students descending a staircase in calm, orderly fashion, then the second details the same action as a chaotic rush.
The rare early Kiarostami film made outside of Kanoon, and one of the most downbeat of his features, this adult drama concerns a civil servant besieged on two fronts: he’s accused of taking bribes, and his marriage is collapsing (Kiarostami has admitted this latter element was autobiographical).
The rare Kanoon film that doesn’t involve children, this unusual road movie was made during the revolution and afforded Kiarostami what may have been a welcome escape from the capital.
One of Kiarostami’s most daring formal experiments turns the camera on the audience.
Taste of Cherry
Middle-aged Mr. Badii drives through the hilly outskirts of Tehran, searching for someone to rescue or bury him, in Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami’s emotionally complex meditation on life and death.
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As she roams the streets of Tehran in her car, a recently divorced woman (Mania Akbari) chauffeurs a rotating cast of passengers, from her combative young son to a heartbroken wife abandoned by her husband to a defiant young sex worker going about her job.
The Wind Will Carry Us
A TV crew from Tehran arrives in a remote Kurdish village to film an unusual funeral ceremony but are stymied when the old woman they expect to die clings to life.
Through the Olive Trees
Kiarostami takes meta-narrative gamesmanship to masterful new heights in the final installment of his celebrated Koker trilogy.
Though much of this film is a straightforward lecture about dental hygiene delivered by a dentist facing the camera, it still manages to be persuasively Kiarostami-esque in its description of young Mohammad-Reza’s life at home and school before he falls prey to tooth woes.
Kiarostami’s first feature focuses on a boy in a provincial city so avid to get to Tehran to see a soccer match that he’ll lie to adults and cheat other kids.
Tribute to Teachers
An assignment from the Ministry of Education, this documentary from the last years of the Pahlavi dynasty includes interviews with officials who predictably praise teaching as a sacred, noble, and honorable profession.
Two Solutions for One Problem
This simple moral tale seems to prefigure Where Is the Friend’s House? Two young schoolboys, Dara and Nader, are friends until Dara returns Nader’s notebook torn and Nader retaliates in kind, setting off an escalating battle that leads to destruction of property and physical injury.
Where Is the Friend’s House?
The first film in Abbas Kiarostami’s sublime, interlacing trilogy of films set in the northern Iranian village of Koker takes a premise of fable-like simplicity—a boy searches for the home of his classmate whose school notebook he has accidentally taken—and transforms it into a miraculous, child’s-eye adventure of the everyday.
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JetNation.com Talks “Monday Night Miracle” with Marcus Coleman
Glenn Naughton November 28, 2014
By Glenn Naughton
When the New York Jets take on the Miami Dolphins this Monday night, it will only be meaningful for one of the two teams as the Jets look to avoid another embarrassing loss following the 38-3 blowout they suffered at the hands of the Buffalo Bills last Monday. For the Dolphins, who are are coming off of a heartbreaking 39-36 overtime loss to Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos, it’s a chance to keep pace with other AFC playoff hopefuls.
When the two teams collided in October of 2000, it was an epic battle that would always be remembered as the “Monday Night Miracle”. It was a game in which the Jets trailed the Dolphins by a score of 30-7 early in the fourth quarter. Broadcasters told viewers that the game was over, and many Jets fans headed for the exits early, disappointed in their team’s lackluster effort in a battle of two 5-1 teams fighting it out for first place. What would transpire after Miami took that commanding 23 point lead is something no Jets fan, or football fan for that matter, will ever forget.
The 40-37 final score would lead one to believe that there was little defense played that day, but in a clash for the ages, it was a defensive player who stepped up in overtime and set the Jets up for the game winning score. Jets cornerback Marcus Coleman had three total interceptions, two of which came in overtime and help cap the unlikely finish.
Glenn Naughton of JetNation.com had the opportunity to speak with Marcus Coleman about that unforgettable evening, and his time with the Green and White.
Glenn Naughton: Marcus, that Monday night game against the Dolphins is so memorable for so many Jets fans. Where does it rate for you in all the time you played in the league?
Marcus Coleman: When you play the ten or eleven years that I played, you only go through a game like that once or twice in your career, or once really, I’d have to say yeah, it was the most memorable by far.
GN: With Miami leading 23-7 at the half, how are defensive coordinator Mike Nolan and Head Coach Al Groh reacting in the locker room? What message are they trying to deliver?
MC: Well, right after we went in we’re just trying to clean things up and trying to figure out what we’re doing and what adjustments we need to make. A lot of the talk was that we’ve been here before and we talked a lot about the success we’d had against Miami. We knew we were very capable and it was just a matter of us executing a lot better and reading the offense a little better. We weren’t out of it yet but we did have a big deficit to make up but we just had to keep playing and pushing through. You know you’re going to face some adversity and that was what we were up against and we just had to figure out what to do. Having the veterans we had on that squad helped too. You had Aaron (Glenn), Marvin Jones, Bryan Cox with Vinny (Testeverde) on the other side with Jumbo (Elliot), Wayne (Chrebet), so we understood what it was that needed to be done, so it was just a matter of going out and doing it.
GN: So after the half, Miami scores the first touchdown when Lamar Smith runs it in to make it 30-7 and that’s the score starting the fourth quarter. Once that TD is scored, a lot of fans head for the exits. As you guys start to mount a comeback, do the players notice at all that the stands are filling up again or is that something that goes unnoticed on the sidelines since you’re so caught up in the game?
MC: Honestly, I can’t speak for anyone else but I personally didn’t notice. When we’re on the field I’m trying to communicate and the same thing on the bench. Until I saw the highlights the next day, I had no idea so many fans were leaving or coming back. You just figure when something good happens you hear the screams, but in a game like that you’re just trying to figure out a way to make a play and come back so if something goes wrong it can get really bad really fast. Mainly, focus on playing the game and that’s what you’re worried about.
GN: Do you remember a particular point when the feeling on the sideline turned and you guys realize you have a shot to complete this comeback and win the game?
MC: Not really because you can’t get too caught up in that. You just see the team score and you just think, okay let’s get another stop so we can try to score again. Once it got closer and it got to 30-20 on the Wiggins touchdown. At that point I guess is when we say “okay, we’re back in it” so you just keep pushing through and take it one play at a time. We’d had so many bad plays in that game that one bad one can’t let you get down because you know you can overcome it.
GN; Later in the fourth quarter Vinny hits Chrebet for a touchdown to tie it. On the ensuing kickoff Brock Marion gets a big return and Fiedler throws a 46 yard touchdown which must be deflating after showing so much resilience. But at the same time it helps that they scored so quickly because it gave you guys time to come down and score again with the pass to Jumbo Elliot. That ties it and you guys had to overtime. Obviously this is back when overtime was sudden-death.
MC: Exactly, different rules back then so we had to hold them if they got the ball, which they did.
GN: Right, and Brock Marion gets another good return and Miami is approaching mid-field so FG range isn’t that far away. Then Fiedler tries to hit Leslie Shepherd and you step up and make that interception. During the return though, Thurman Thomas chases you down and forces the fumble which Miami picks up at the 34 yard line.
MC: Yeah, before the interception we were just trying to get a stop and we were playing cover-5 which puts a man underneath, and I could see the route and I knew what was coming so I moved up and slid inside just before the snap of the ball and I don’t think Fiedler even noticed. He made that throw and I get the pick. Then when I switch hands to secure the ball, I see Thurman coming and he gets a hand in there and knocks it loose. It was deflating because you work so hard to make a play and I finally make the play and I give it right back to them. It was tough but Marvin Jones came over and just said “Don’t worry about it, keep playing and get it back, that’s all you can do”, so from that moment, everybody just said “we’ll get it back, keep playing, keep playing”.
GN: So Miami gets going again and then once they’re in Jets territory you step up and get another interception.
MC: Yeah, and that was a huge relief because we would have had the opportunity to win the game the first time, so to get a chance again I was just relieved that I made the play and we got the second opportunity. If I didn’t make that second play, that first one had a chance to set us up for the win so if we would have lost that would have been tough.
GN: So your interception leads to John Hall kicking the forty yard game winner and of course players from both teams meet up to shake hands and make their way to the locker room. Do you remember the response from the Miami players? They had to be in shock, right?
MC: Yeah they were, and I knew a lot of those guys and spent time in Florida in the off-season. I’d work out with Zach Thomas, OJ McDuffie, Jason (Taylor), Orande (Gadsden), I knew those guys pretty well and they were in shock. You know, Zach was actually kind of mad and he barely shook my hand.
GN: What about from the Jets’ perspective? Was it surreal or business as usual?
MC: We were happy to get the win, but there wasn’t a whole lot of emotion after the game because it was so long physically and mentally. It takes a lot out of you. Guys were happy with the win but they were ready to get out of there. It was a tiring and hard fought win. Everybody left everything on the field that night and didn’t really have an ounce of energy left. Everyone was happy and Coach Groh was happy, but we celebrated for a half a second and then got out of there. When you look back at it now it’s great. Knowing you were a part of one of the greatest comebacks in Monday night history, in NFL history, and in Jets history.
GN: Earlier you mentioned Marvin Jones and Mo Lewis who were a huge part of that defense for so many years. What was it like to play with those guys?
MC: Marvin was a quiet guy who would make a joke from time to time, but Mo was a loud guy who was always funny and making jokes, but the thing that they don’t get enough credit for was their football IQ. They knew what was coming and what the other team was going to do. They studied hard, they watched film and they understood what a coach was trying to implement. Playing with them and Aaron really helped my growth and how to watch film. They helped you understand how to prepare, how to anticipate, and how to practice. They taught me the importance of knowing other guys’ responsibilities that would allow me to maybe change the way I was going to cover, when I can and can’t gamble. They were the leaders of that team in their own ways and they were both tough, hard working guys with a ton of ability. Mo was unbelievable, he was 270 pounds and he ran around like he weighed 240. I think they don’t get enough credit for being smart players who were different types of leaders. Marvin Jones was one of the first guys to take me under his wing and show me the ropes so I couldn’t have played with or had the opportunity to learn from two better guys than Mo and Marvin..
GN: What are you up to now in San Antonio?
MC: I’m actually setting up a project with the Wounded Warriors Foundation. We did one with a lot of NFL alumni and we’re trying to get something up and running for January, so once we have it in stone I’ll let you know and any support from JetNation.com would be much appreciated.
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Steve Gorman is a founding member of the iconic American rock n roll band The Black Crowes.
Over 27 years, he toured the world relentlessly, leaving a small piece of his sanity at every stop.
Gorman launched a sports talk radio show in Nashville, ’Steve Gorman SPORTS!’ in 2011,
working with Troy Hanson at 102.5 The Game. The show was syndicated on Fox Sports Radio
from 2014-2018.
Over the last year Steve penned his memoir, “Hard to Handle: The Life And Death of The Black
Crowes,” which will be published by Hachette Book Group this September.
His current band, Trigger Hippy, is releasing an album, “Full Circle and Then Some” this
He lives in Nashville with his wife, Rose Mary, their two kids, and entirely too many pets.
April Rose known in Chicago as ‘The Loop Rock Girl’ from the beloved WLUP 97.9 ‘The Loop’ Chicago’s
Classic Rock is also known from her past work as head ‘On Camera Host’ and content creator for
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She’s hosted the infamous MTV Spring Break In Cancun and a season regular on MTV & MTV2’s break
out shows ‘Guy Code’ and ‘Girl Code’. You can see her on many VH1 count down shows including ‘I Love
The 2000’s’, ‘Top 40 Hip-Hop Of The 90’s’, and ‘Top 100 Hottest Rock Stars Of All Time’. Her top pick for
the hottest? You’ll have to ask her!
She owns a 1967 El Camino & loving everything classic she’s also a national live classic car commentator
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UK Economy: Performance to date and outlook
Published by Rodney Sutton on 25 November 2020
Both the Office for National Statistics and the Bank of England have issued their respective reviews of the UK economy in November which on the face of it seems encouraging but on deeper analysis indicate deeper concerns for the UK economy for the final quarter of 2020 and into 2021.
There was much fanfare surrounding the recent ONS GDP results which indicated that UK GDP had increased by 15.5% in the latest quarter to 30 September 2020. However, UK plc is still 8.2% below February 2020 which was -0.2%. Furthermore, the 8.2% deficit reflects where the manufacturing sector is at present with the services sector some way behind.
Interestingly, since June, where GDP increased by 9.1%, subsequent months have seen smaller increases of 6.4% in July and 2.1% in August principally due to relaxing of lockdown, summer holidays and “eat out to help out” scheme.
September GDP growth was disappointing at 1.1% which was below expectations with schools and universities returning to classes. Furthermore, following a survey carried out in October, nearly 50% of businesses surveyed indicated that business activity was well below that experienced in October 2019.
Lastly, the Quarter 4 GDP outlook has been further derailed by the imposition of a second lockdown in November which experts are now estimating that Q4 UK GDP is likely to show a decrease of up to 3.5%. The recent good news on the likelihood of a vaccine being available sooner than expected has boosted worldwide stock markets particularly in the beleaguered aviation industry does add some confidence to future growth potential in 2021.
The Bank of England issued their outlook in early November 2020 with principal concerns around unemployment which at the current level of 4.5% is artificially low due to continuing government support but more concerning was that the Bank expected unemployment to rise to 7.5% following the close of the current government support schemes due to end on 31 March 2021. Their second concern centred around the length of the “adjustment period” following the UK’s exit from the EU single market and customs union which would be increased if the UK was unable to negotiate a Canada style free trade agreement with the EU.
My experience of UK SME’s is that they have responded quickly and adapted well to the changed economic landscape. Many have experienced temporary reductions in activity in March and April, but as many SME’s were agile, quick responding businesses, activity has largely returned up to 80-90% of prior levels in many cases which along with an increased focus on cost-cutting and operating efficiencies, has resulted in continuing, albeit it lower, profits in most cases. In fact, those with e-commerce selling capability, robust supply chains and robust working capital control have thrived in the new changed environment.
The most worrying aspect of my experience has been that future capital investment intentions remain weak as businesses, in addition to the economic dislocation caused by the pandemic remain uncertain regarding the future uncertainty surrounding a free trade agreement following the UK leaving the single market and customs union. Much media coverage has been given to large and small business stating that they need certainty regarding our relationships with the EU as these represent their largest trading partners and this is echoed by the CBI (Confederation of Business Industry) and SMMT (Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders). The UK government must ensure that any dislocation surrounding our leaving the EU on 31 December 2020 is minimised by striking a deal with our EU partners so the UK plc can move on to resurrect the economy and return to sustainable GDP growth as soon as possible.
The above economic issues were debated in our online Kent Manufacturing Forum on Tuesday 17th November. If you feel that your business would benefit by attending our Forum, or need some advice and assistance regarding our forthcoming exit from the EU single market and customs union, please feel free to contact Rodney Sutton.
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Aeschbachquartier Aarau [CH]
New neighbourhood for working and living
'Aeschbachquartier' Aarau, a mixed-used urban working and living area, will arise next to the station of Aarau, a city half an hour from Zurich. The new city quarter will form a link between the large grain and more dense new urban developments and former industrial areas around the station, and the small grain residential areas imbedded in green and park-like surroundings. The former industrial site next to the rail tracks and the new planned stadium will be transformed into an dense colourful city quarter providing three different character areas: urban, industrial and garden village. With a great diversity of different working and living typologies and a wide range of different commercial programmes on ground level it will satisfy the demands of both urban and suburban lifestyles in a garden-setting.
The different character areas are organized around the central park. An urban inner boulevard will connect the eastern entrancewith the green heart, led along a variety of gastronomic and commercial programmes and the pulsing heart of the Aeschbachhalle. From all directions the central Aeschbachhalle is visible and accessible. Several different types of residential developments can be envisioned.
Client Mobimo AG, Küsnacht
Program 5 ha master plan for a former industrial area with a mixed-use program of living, office and commerce; ca. 50.000 m2
Time 2011 - present
Role Urban design, supervisior, architect
Participating parties Studio Vulkan Landschaftsarchitekten (landscape), Raumanzug (sustainability), Bosshardt&Partner (cost advisors), Schneider & Schneider Architeken, Gmür & Geschwentner (architecture), uno partner, Fanzun AG, b+p baurealisation
Awards Competition 1st prize
KCAP meet-up in Zurich
We would like to share with you our convivial aftermovie of our KCAP meet-up in Zurich. All KCAP staff of Rotterdam, Zurich and Shanghai met for a thrilling weekend with visits to a number of inspiring projects and lots of team activities. We enjoyed getting together with all colleagues, biking through hilly Zurich and also the swimming in Zurich’s river Limmat. Take a look! During the two day excursion we visted Europaallee (KCAP), Kalkbreite (Müller Sigrist Architekten), Mehr als Wohnen (Duplex Architekten and Futurafrosch), Aeschbachquartier in Aarauand Science City Zurich (both KCAP) and enjoyed a live view of KCAP’s Swiss projects and learned a lot about area development and innovative housing concepts in Switzerland. EuropaalleeThe masterplan of the Europaallee provides for a morphology and block structure that connect the surrounding city and the area in a natural way. The flexible plan transforms the station area into a layered and dynamic urban node where traffic flows converge and functions such as living, working, shopping and entertainment co-exist. Kalkbreite and Mehr als WohnenKalkbreite is a flexible and modular space allocation plan for residential and commercial spaces on top of a tram remise. The Mehr als Wohnen residential area comprises apartments, shops, restaurants, work and artist studios, children’s day care and even guesthouses. AeschbachquartierThe Aeschbachquartier is centrally located in the vicinity of the Aarau station, a city between Zurich and Bern. Here, a mixed living and working quarter has been created on a former industrial site. KCAP was also responsible for the design of the transformation of the industrial Aeschbachhalle into a vibrant event hall with apartments, offices, conference rooms and restaurants. The existing structure was maintained to preserve the industrial character of the building. Science City Science City is the development vision for the university campus of ETH Zurich. The campus is required to act as ...
Aeschbachquartier Aarau in Switzerland completed
The new neighbourhood “Aeschbachquartier” in Aarau, a town with 22.000 inhabitants between Zurich and Bern, has been completed. KCAP Architects&Planners designed the masterplan of the neighbourhood and realized several buildings, Studio Vulkan planned and built the outdoor spaces. The Aeschbachquartier is a mixed quarter for living and working in a central location. Through its change of scale within the project, it mediates between the urban density at the railway station and the delicate, green residential neighbourhoods. The diversity of typologies, architectural designs and uses generates a dynamic location for a wide variety of user groups, residents and visitors to the city of Aarau. A prominent tower marks the entrance of the neighbourhood and of the Aeschbach promenade that leads between urban commercial and residential buildings to the central Oehlerpark. Along Aeschbachpromenade, the historic Aeschbachhalle is located, which was restored as an iconic neighbourhood centre and event location, and flanked with studios and urban lofts. Oehlerpark functions as a hinge to the purely residential areas of the project, which serve as a transition to the existing quarters with urban villas and terraced houses. The project was realised by real estate developer Mobimo. While all exterior spaces were designed by Studio Vulkan landscape architects, the architectural tasks were assigned to three different offices in order to guarantee the diversity of the neighbourhood. Schneider & Schneider Architekten designed and realised the symbolic GastroSocial Tower with the adjacent commercial building and four urban villas at the park. Gmür & Geschwentner are responsible for two residential and commercial buildings in the urban core, which they built together with Caretta & Gitz. The majority of the buildings are designed by KCAP, including the terraced houses and the urban villa in the south, the large urban villas by the park built with b+p baurealisation, and the renovation and extension ...
Aeschbachquartier Aarau officially opened
The Aeschbachquartier in Aarau, planned by KCAP Architects&Planners and Studio Vulkan Landschaftsarchitekten, was officially opened on April 4 by real estate developer Mobimo. Events for the public will take place on Saturday, 6 April. KCAP designed the master plan of the neighbourhood and realized most of the buildings, Studio Vulkan planned and executed the outdoor spaces. The Aeschbachquartier is a mixed residential and working neighbourhood in a central location. It bridges the gap between the urban density at the railway station and the delicate, green residential quarters. The diversity of typologies, architectural designs and uses generates a dynamic location for a wide variety of user groups, residents and visitors to the city of Aarau. A prominent tower marks the entrance to the quarter. The spacious Aeschbach promenade leads between urban commercial and residential buildings to the central Oehler Park. This functions as a hinge to the pure residential area and to the surrounding context. The park is bordered by a series of town villas, each of which houses several households, and in the background by terraced houses. The historic Aeschbachhalle is also located on the Aeschbachpromenade, restored as a quarter centre and event location and supplemented with studios and urban lofts. While the entire exterior spaces were designed by Studio Vulkan landscape architects, the architectural tasks were assigned to three different offices in order to guarantee the architectural diversity of the quarter. Schneider & Schneider Architects designed and realised the symbolic GastroSocial Tower with the adjacent commercial building and four city villas by the park. Gmür & Geschwentner are responsible for two residential and commercial buildings in the urban core. The majority of the buildings stem from by KCAP, including the terraced houses and the city villa in the background, the large city villas by the park and the renovation and extension ...
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We visited SPLICE last week to try out their dishes courtesy of our friends from Food Panda. Splice has been operating since early this year and has impressed some of the foodies this side of town. SPLICE is located in Greenfield District's new strip called The Portal right along Shaw Boulevard in Mandaluyong City.
At the helm is Chef Ivory Yat (third place in the first season of Pinoy Master Chef), she co-owns this place with Oliver Chan, Malou Galian, Harvard Uy de Baron and Japs de Jesus. The menu, is quite unique, filled with off tangent comfort food you could expect from a more adventurous establishment without the hefty price. They could have charged higher, but I don't think they made the restaurant that way, definitely not.
Splice Nacho Grande - It's like Cheese with Nachos, they don't hold back drizzling it with warm cheese sauce and add more cheese to an already cheezy version of bar nachos. Pretty good, has some bits of beef in the mix so it would be really perfect with 2 or more bottles of beer which they serve in Splice too.
Sriracha Butter Wings - It's not your usual buffalo wings because they use Thai/Viet/Asian hot sauce called Sriracha to spice up your butter smothered wings. Not too salty, so you can feel the spices shine in this dish. It was pretty good.
Roasted Pumpkin Soup - This one felt okay, but I think the only fancy thing here is probably the spice on top (which I think is paprika and or nutmeg) plus a few lines of sourcream and snips of parsley. Hearty and would be perfect for the rainy days.
French Onion Soup - Must have this while it's hot. Don't take photos, just take it all in.
Splice Salad - I love the combination of sweet, salty, tangy and the freshness of the greens. I must admit it felt like I was having a Waldorf Salad without the walnuts and apples. I like it.
Slut's Spaghetti - Pardon the name but I think it's where they got the Puttanesca name to begin with. It's got really good meatballs, tomatoes, capers and olives in a tad salty anchovy oil. It wasn't to hot at all, plus I like how they kinda fried the meatballs because I don't like the ones they usually simmer in tomato sauce. This one is just right.
Danggit and Chicken Skin Pasta - My first impression was, this isn't date food. It will have the intense smell of danggit as the name implies and the fishy salty profile will complement the crunchy bits of chicken skin spread throughout the plate. It's not too overpowering but it's danggit so freshen up immediately before you talk to your loved one. Or mints.
All seemed to be patterned to the well loved family "The Simpsons" they concocted these Doughnut burgers.The first one is Homer's D'ohnut burger which had a play with spicy, creamy and tons bacon. The one on the top right is the Bartholomew Burger. It's got that glazed donut, coleslaw, cheese and jalapeno. It's not as spicy as you may think, it's just right but the flavor tells me you'll love that small kick when you bite into it. The Liza Burger has a salted caramel donut bread, honey dijon mustard and barbecue sauce. The representation is promising but I might think presentation can perhaps be improved somewhere, even if the bread is pretty delicate to work with. Still, the burger is divine.
Splice Beef Belly Barbecue - It's like skewered ribs, you can feel the root beer aftertaste. It was sweet and nice.
These are pretty good entree's which I think you could consider as mains. The first one is Buko Pandan Rice with the 8 hour Pork Belly Confit. Crunchy pork plus fragrant rice, it was a formula bound to be successful. I never tried anything like this so it piqued my interest. Hearing it being prepared 8 hours was a task, what more even doing it. A little chili and Vinaigrette was nice with it. The others like Chicken Saltimbocca, Brown Sugar Belly and Beef Stroganoff (which I also love) can be served for two people. I think they'll play around with these dishes more in the coming months.
The sweet endings always, always has to happen, so they came out with these Red and White Pannacotta Crunch made with Vanilla Pannacotta, Strawberry Jam and Donut crunch, plus the Mango Pannacotta Crunch where they use almost the same ingredient but with Mango coolie and same donut crunch. Then we had the Meringue con Quezo that's got a cheesecake filling, graham crackers and fresh strawberries. They actually made a dessert with different textures, had it in different forms, but it works. It was a perfect way to end our meal and perhaps, a reason to come back for more.
Well, not really. If you don't have that much time, you can have all these meals right at the comforts of your own home. Splice delivers exclusively through Food Panda. If you are within the radius, you can use the FoodPanda app or visit www.foodpanda.ph and order online. Check out their social media channels below so you get updated with their new partner merchants as well. It's location based so wherever you are, you've got your neighborhood's best restaurants listed on this app. If they're not listed, you can always suggest your favorite restaurant and they'll think of a way to have them there too. It was a fun afternoon with other foodies, thank you Splice! Thank you also FoodPanda for having us!
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[April 2020.]
André RIOTTE: Météorite et ses métamorphoses (2000-01). Thérèse Malengreau (pno). Grand Piano GP679 (1 CD) (http://www.grandpianorecords.com/).
With a blunt motif, 31 variations and a coda, Riotte’s Météorite et ses métamorphoses establishes itself as a concentrated chain of modernist miniatures. These are unyielding pieces, not a linear series of variations, but a group that unfolds through formalist exploration and intuition. The theme, Météorite: Massif, came to the composer all at once, “a tranquil block fallen to earth from some obscure disaster.” Météorite reflects mutations in the physical world and less tangible cosmic relationships.
André Riotte (1928-2011) studied with Honegger, Messiaen and Jolivet. He worked with Xenakis at CEMAMu and lectured at IRCAM. Like Xenakis, composition was but one aspect of his education and career: Riotte was an electronics engineer and worked for the European Commission at the Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy, managing a data-processing lab. These uncompromising pieces pass quickly, revealing similarities to Messiaen (modal and specific harmonies), Boulez (colors spanning the piano’s full compass) and Barraqué (compact severity). Météorite is dedicated to Xenakis, and Malengreau premiered it in 2002. The 31 metamorphoses pass through Boulezian whorls (VII: En volutes), hammered rhythms (XIV: Staccato vif et vigoreux), rhapsody (XXV: Recueilli), several untitled movements (I, IX and XVII), and sterility (XXIX: Enigmatique et sans espoir, extremement lent). Several are less than a minute; XXXI is the longest and an unexpected multipart culmination. The concluding Coda (Lent et solennel) wraps up as a stern processional.
“Feldman Edition 13.” Morton FELDMAN: For Bunita Marcus (1985). Aki Takahashi (pno). mode 314 (1 CD) (http://www.moderecords.com/).
Listen to Feldman’s Coptic Light (1986) and hear an orchestra shuffling short motifs like a cranky sorting machine at the post office. There’s repetition among similarly sized items, but the motion is efficient. Feldman’s solo piano works are lean. Imagine hushed single notes (a one-fingered pianist) with pedal down. Others (for example Liatsou and Hamelin discussed here) proceed delicately as if aligning Feldman with Satie, describing matched porcelain tea sets while rain falls gently. This approach is reasonable because For Bunita Marcus is 75 minutes long and pacing is crucial.
Takahashi knows Feldman better than most. She has been playing this piece since its 1985 premiere. (That’s her with the composer and dedicatee on the cover.) This For Bunita Marcus is not precious, not atmospheric. There is no small talk, no interest in the weather. From the opening repeated notes (repeating notes in Feldman?!) we get purpose, perhaps with a greater dynamic gamut than indicated. Those bright unexpected arpeggios which elsewhere I described as a lightning strike pass matter-of-factly with unaccustomed weight. Late Feldman is about density, memory, sound and time, and other vast imponderables, however Takahashi offers notes that slice assertively. Maybe For Bunita Marcus is just an etude built from 3/8, 5/16, 3/4 and 2/2 measures thwarting a grid. We’re going to get somewhere, but not right away. Although, when we do, the last pages with slow chords are magisterial.
“Complete Piano Works.” Toivo KUULA: Three Piano Pieces, Op. 3b (1906-08); Two Song Transcriptions, Op. 37 (1917); Air varié (ca. 1900); Invention (ca. 1905); Old Autumn Song, Op. 24, No. 3 (1913); Schottis (ca. 1904); Festive March, Op. 13b (ca. 1910); Six Piano Pieces, Op. 26 (1914-16); Lampaanpolska (1915); Three Fairy-Tale Pictures, Op. 19 (1912). Janne Oksanen (pno). Alba ABCD 445 (1 CD) (http://www.alba.fi/).
“Complete Works for Solo Piano.” Toivo KUULA: Three Folk-Tale Pictures, Op. 19 (1912); Three Piano Pieces, Op. 3b (1906-08); Festive March, Op. 13b (1910); Lampaanpolska (1915); Air varié (ca. 1900); Schottis (ca. 1904); Six Piano Pieces, Op. 26 (1913-16); Two Song Transcriptions, Op. 37 (1917); An Old Autumn Song, Op. 24, No. 3b (1913); Invention (ca. 1905). Adam Johnson (pno). Grand Piano GP780 (1 CD) (http://www.grandpianorecords.com/).
A student of Sibelius, Toivo Kuula (1883-1918) wrote meltingly lyrical music akin to Grieg and Tchaikovsky (think of the Letter Scene in Eugene Onegin). Kuula’s melodies sound familiar and his tunes are eminently singable. They are also bittersweet, suggesting that beyond the pleasantness (Wedding March, Schottis, etc.) there lurk strong passions. Indeed, these could be performed as trifles or with Romantic fervor, but the suggestion that Sibelius was nearby justifiably tempers enthusiasm and encourages a deeper look.
The longest piece is the Festive March (Juhlamarssi) which also exists in a version for orchestra. The gradually intensifying Lampaanpolska (“Mutton Dance”) utilizes the La Folia theme. Nocturne, Op. 26, No. 4, edges towards Scriabin with quartal harmonies and comfort with the tritone.
Oksanen and Johnson strike different paths. Johnson plants Kuula solidly in Romantic territory which unfortunately makes the music sound ordinary; the Folk-Tale Pictures lean towards Debussy. On the other hand, Oksanen is brisk and impetuous, not concerned with making this music sound like others. With Johnson, the three early pieces are thick, however with Oksanen they are magical.
“Complete works for solo piano.” Artur SCHNABEL: Three Fantasy Pieces (1898); Three Pieces, Op. 15 (1906); Dance Suite (1920-21); Sonata (1923); Piece in Seven Movements (1936-37); Seven Piano Pieces (1947). Josef STRAUSS: Four Waltzes from Old Vienna (arr. SCHNABEL, 1908). Jenny Lin (pno). Steinway & Sons STNS30074 (2 CDs) (https://www.steinway.com/music-and-artists/label).
A complete edition of Schnabel’s piano music is long overdue. Lin has seized upon a great opportunity. The showpiece collection, Three Fantasy Pieces, written when Schnabel was 16, represent a precocious piano student, then studying with Leschetizky. Schnabel’s musical personality developed quickly, although indifferent to models: The Op. 15 group exhibits a secure grasp of late-Romantic tonality with curious whole-tone and other harmonic detours. The Three Pieces deliver more than titled as No. 3 is a sequence of four crisp waltzes. Schnabel’s devil-may-care attitude is evident in the extroverted Dance Suite which evolves from a foxtrot through abstraction into impetuous hypertonality. The movement titles describe a possible tryst: “Foxtrot (Encounter),” “First Pause (Wooing),” “Waltz (Contact),” “Second Pause (Floating)” and “Towards Tomorrow (Affirmation).”
Schnabel appears to have favored multi-movement encounters. There are five movements in the Sonata and the later collections have seven movements each. The Piece in Seven Movements could have been a “Sonata,” and the Sonata could be a “Piece in Five Movements.” The meticulously detailed Sonata splashes wildly, unabashedly dissonant and heroic. The Fantasy Pieces’ virtuosity has become atonal Busoni. Toscanini’s wonderful comment bears repeating: “Are you really the same Schnabel who wrote that horrible music I heard ten years ago in Venice?” (The conductor had been at the 1925 premiere.)
The Piece in Seven Movements combines Schoenbergian dryness with neo-classical playfulness. Recall that Schnabel (1882-1951) was born in the same vicinity as Webern and Berg (1883 and 1885), and that he died the same year as Schoenberg. The Seven Pieces are on the shorter side, displaying brittle intensity with false endings. No. 3, Andantino, is a compact, vivacious dance suggesting that Schnabel would have a been a fine Schoenberg interpreter.
The evidence implies Schnabel loved waltzes: We have the third Fantasy Piece, the sequence concluding Op. 15, the Dance Suite’s central movement, the initial theme group of the Sonata’s conclusion, the Vivacissimo from Piece in Seven Movements, and the piano elaboration of several Josef Strauss waltzes.
“Brahms the Progressive.” Johannes BRAHMS: Klavierstücke, Op. 118 (1893); Klavierstücke, Op. 119 (1893). Anton WEBERN: Kinderstück (1924); Satz für Klavier (1906); Klavierstück – Im Tempo eines Menuetts (1925); Variations, Op. 27 (1936). Alban BERG: Sonata, Op. 1 (1907-08). Pina Napolitano (pno). Odradek ODRCD330 (1 CD) (http://www.odradek-records.com/).
Would that Berg and Webern sandwich every Brahms program. There is little distance between Brahms’ Op. 119, No. 1, Webern’s 1906 Satz and Berg’s Sonata. Webern and Berg strayed away from the all-powerful octave whereas Brahms remained steadfastly within. What if Brahms hadn’t felt obliged to return to his starting point? Napolitano reflects Brahms’ “miraculous equilibrium,” in that Brahms looks back to Beethoven and Bach, but also forward as Schoenberg observed in the 1933 essay which provides this release’s title. Certainly, Brahms would have appreciated Webern’s economy and symmetry, much the way Op. 118, No. 2 never quite repeats the same harmony. Napolitano shares an opulent Kinderstück where others might only treadle through the serial pinpricks. We’ve remarked on her Schoenberg and Bartók before.
Kaikhosru Shapurji SORABJI: Sequentia Cyclica (1948-49). Jonathan Powell (pno). Piano Classics PCL10206 (7 CDs) (http://www.piano-classics.com/).
Through multiple stations of varying size and across eight-and-a-half hours, Sorabji dazzles with a convoluted succession of variations on the Dies Irae. Ostensibly there are 27 variations, however Variation 22, Passacaglia, itself includes 100 variants, and the conclusion, Variation 27, Fuga quintuplice a due, tre, quattro, cinque e sei voci ed a cinque soggetti, contains five substantial fugues whose last involves a 40-minute “stretto.” It delights to hear Sorabji cloaking the plainchant in different tonal centers and reimagined rhythms. Powell shall remain Sequentia Cyclica’s sole conqueror for quite some time.
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by Alifia Putri (alifia.putri@launcher.id) and Clara Viriya (clara.viriya@launcher.id)
In a bid to speed up COVID-19 handling in health and socio-economic aspects, the Indonesian Government announced the intention to adopt the new normal scenario, taking into account epidemiological research and regional preparation. New normal is a pattern of life/ behavioural transition to resuming normal behaviours but in accordance with the implementation of safety, protocols to avoid transmission of COVID-19.
In Jakarta, the Governor announced that the new normal will be implemented after the evaluation of PSBB in transition period phase one which until 2 of July 2020, showing a success. By means, there is no significant increase in COVID-19 new cases in DKI Jakarta area. According to Governor of DKI Jakarta Regulation No. 51 of 2020 on the Implementation of PSBB in the Transition Period Towards a Healthy, Safe and Productive Society and Decree of Governor of DKI Jakarta No. 563 of 2020 on the Performance, Stages and Implementation of PSBB activities in the Transition Period Towards a Healthy, Safe and Productive Society, all the place and activities can be open and conduct gradually, with the average activity generally carried out with a maximum of 50% capacity. Starting on 20 June 2020, under the above terms and condition, the following activities and places are will be all open for public:
activities of worship activities in houses of worship;
workplaces and public facilities; (e.g. offices, restaurants, factories, warehouses, supporting services, retails, showroom, SMEs under the Provincial Supervision, malls, markets, indoor and outdoor recreation, malls, zoos, and saloons/ barbershop);
social and cultural activities (e.g. outdoor sports facilities, museums, libraries, parks and beaches);
movement of people using modes of transportation (e.g. private vehicles, taxies, mass public transportation, rental cars and conventional or online ojek)
With regard to the above implementations, there are several safety protocols that must be obeyed by people who live and having their domicile in the DKI Jakarta Province in accordance with the adjustment of activities in the relevant sectors to carry out the Healthy Life Community Movement (Gerakan Masyarakat Hidup Sehat), which are among others:
Must wear a mask outside the home;
Physical distancing minimal 1 (one) meter away between people if the activities carried out in group interaction;
Wash the hands with clean water and soap before and after doing activities, it is safe if you also take a bath;
exercise regularly and consume foods that are healthy and nutritionally balanced
In addition, the supervisor or person in charge in every sector must also carry out the following activities:
apply environmental hygiene and sanitation in every order;
physical distancing between people for all activities, including vertical mobility facilities such as the use of elevators and stairs;
take measurements of body temperature at each entry point;
provide facilities and infrastructure to support the implementation of COVID-19 prevention; and
conduct internal supervision and encourage as well as educate all the people who are in their responsibility regarding the COVID-19.
Working Shift Obligation in the Capital City Area
Further, DKI Jakarta also specifically regulates the conditions of the time of entry, return, and office breaks for workers or employees during this PSBB in Transition Period to anticipate the overcrowd mobility, traffic and public transportation. According to the Decree of Head of DKI Jakarta Province of Manpower, Transmigration, and Energy No. 1477 of 2020 on Amendment to Decree No. 1363 of 2020 on COVID-19 Prevention and Control Protocols in Offices/ Workplaces during the Transition Period Towards Healthy, Safe, and Productive Society, the prevention and control protocols must be reported to the relevant authorities along with the several checklists required by the DKI Jakarta governance, among others the following:
the formation of the company's internal COVID-19 task force team;
limit the worker up to 50%;
Adjust the office hours, shift and work system;
Screening of body temperature;
Disinfect the workplace;
Will not lay off the worker and keep granting the rights that can be received by the workers; and
Carry out transmission prevention techniques such as the installation of barriers or glass screens for workers serving customers, and others
Those who do not carry out the obligations referred to above will be subject to sanctions of a written warning letter or an administrative fine of Rp250,000 (two hundred and fifty thousand Rupiah) to Rp50.000.000 (fifty million Rupiah) depending on the sectors and violated obligations according to mentioned regulations and DKI Jakarta Governor Regulation No. 41 of 2020 on Imposition of Sanctions Against Violations of the Implementation of PSBB in Handling the COVID-19 in DKI Jakarta. In the worst case, the government can also revoke the business license.
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