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LEGO DC: Batman – Family Matters
By Tiki God September 3, 2019
Directed by Matt Peters. With Troy Baker, Steve Blum, Zach Callison, Cam Clarke. In LEGO DC: Batman – Family Matters, suspicion is on high after Batman, Batgirl, Robin and other DC superheroes receive mysterious invitations. However, family values must remain strong when Batman and his team encounter the villainous Red Hood, who is obsessed with destroying the Bat-family and all of Gotham City.
How does a LEGO kid’s film deal with the death of Robin? In the comics the character is beaten to death with a crowbar by the Joker, then Batman goes on a murderous revenge spree that’s only stopped by Superman himself!
The movie is less gory about the details and there’s plenty of laughs to be had instead of shocked screams of horror, I found myself actually liking this version of the “Death In The Family” storyline, which was briefly touched on here in the LEGO film. It has more story content from when the Red Hood showed back up and everyone was trying to figure out who he was.
LEGO DC: Batman – Family Matters originally appeared on Adam Selvidge’s Website on September 3, 2019.
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VA officials fired over wait time debacle
U.S. military veterans listen in the audience during a House Veterans' Affairs Committee hearing on the Phoenix VA Health Care System wait list, on Capitol Hill in Washington May 28, 2014.
Oct. 7, 2014, 2:19 PM UTC / Updated Oct. 7, 2014, 2:44 PM UTC
By Meredith Clark
Four senior Veterans Affairs officials are losing their jobs in response to the scandal over long wait times for appointments at VA health facilities, a purge meant to change the culture and create more accountability at the agency.
The firings, which were announced Monday, are the first since Congress made it easier to fire top VA officials this summer in response to the scandal. Two of the officials being fired were hospital directors in Pittsburgh and Dublin, Georgia, one a regional hospital director in Alabama, and a purchasing official at the Veterans Health Administration.
The fired officials can appeal their dismissals, but they will only have a week to submit them, and a decision would be made within 21 days of the appeal.
"VA will actively and aggressively pursue disciplinary action against those who violate our values," Deputy VA Secretary Sloan Gibson said Monday, according to the Associated Press. "There should be no doubt that when we discover evidence of wrongdoing, we will hold employees accountable."
In April, a retired VA doctor in Phoenix exposed a system at the hospital that kept veterans in need of care off of official waiting lists. Dozens of people died while waiting to receive care. Further reviews found that there were scheduling issues, massive staff shortages, and overloaded facilities around the country. One investigation found “systemic” failures through the VA health system.
Eric Shinseki resigned as Secretary of Veterans Affairs in May, and former Procter & Gamble executive Robert McDonald took over in July. McDonald has vowed to overhaul the VA’s hierarchy to improve communication, ordering VA facilities to hold town hall meetings to hear community concerns.
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Bear’s Den @ Cafe Campus, Montreal – 19th September 2016
September 19, 2016 November 28, 2018 5 minute readby Simon Williams
Entering Cafe Campus on Monday night, the buzz is tangible. Fresh from selling out the 5000-capacity Brixton Academy in their native London, England (in local terms, that’s basically selling out Metropolis twice), Bear’s Den are back over this side of the pond for a run of significantly smaller shows in support of their new sophomore record “Red Earth & Pouring Rain,” and all in attendance no doubt feel privileged to have the band in the intimate confines of Cafe Campus. The last time I was in here was to see Alt-J, just as they were in the process of taking off, and you get the sense that Bear’s Den are following a similar trajectory.
A spooky science-fiction-like intro starts the show, and rumbles on for a few minutes while blue spotlights swirl around the stage, before Bear’s Den arrive and launch into Red Earth and Pouring Rain and then Emeralds, the two tracks that open the new record. Frontman Andrew Davie then addresses the crowd simply with “we’re Bear’s Den, it’s an honour to be back in this building,” in reference to their last visit here at the much smaller Petit Campus venue downstairs.
Elysium, from 2014 debut record “Islands,” is up next. With an atmospheric drum intro and haunting mandolin that leads into a soft trumpet outro, it’s a beautifully crafted song, and sounds tremendous in the live setting. Greenwoods is up next, and brings expertly-crafted harmonies into the mix from multi-instrumentalist and band co-founder Kevin Jones, and touring member Christof van der Ven. The crowd is entranced, although a peculiar group of girls in the middle, who seem to love the band judging by their singing, also seem intent on talking during songs and, even more weirdly, filming Snapchat videos of themselves watching the gig, and of course, pouting a lot. Strange.
Andrew then addresses the crowd to enquire if anyone was there the last time they played, at Petit Campus. Of course, far more than could possibly have fit into Petit Campus scream back, but nonetheless, Andrew takes their word for it and calls them all “Legends!” With genuine sincerity, he admits that he had no idea so many people would be here tonight. Stubborn Beast then begins, with its soft acoustic intro allowing the voices of the crowd to join in and contribute to the atmosphere, before the mandolin and drums join in midway through. Afterwards, again, Andrew still seems shocked at the size of the crowd, exclaiming “its genuinely amazing to see you all, like, we had no idea!”
Isaac, with its soft, acoustic intro, follows next, and as the chorus arrives, and Andrew begins to sing the first of four “I’m going to give all my love to you”, he notes the enthusiasm of the crowd, gradually singing the line quieter and quieter to allow the crowd to sing it louder and louder; Andrew manages to squeeze in another “legends!” before the next verse begins.
The show then goes up a notch with the announcement that the next song, Sophie, will be done without microphones, or indeed any instrument amplification. Everyone quietens down, even the Snapchatters, and the band dazzle with their raw delivery. The room is absolutely silent, save for the band, and this remains the case, until the conclusion of the song, at which point the silence is obliterated by a hail of screams from the predominantly female audience.
The Love We Stole and Love Can’t Stand Alone follow next, and then Andrew thanks touring member Christoph, who was apparently their support act the last time they played! After that show, due to unexplained border crossing issues, he spent 3 days stranded in Montreal, and ended up getting a tattoo of the word “Montreal” on his left breast. Of course, the girls scream when this is revealed! Roses On A Breeze and Fortress come next, followed by a rousing rendition of the classic Auld Wives, with Andrew’s forceful delivery of “I call your naaaame!!” and “Who are youuuuu?!!!!” reverberating across the room. He then states that “this is the last song, there’s absolutely no way we’ll come back and do 3 or 4 more songs,” obviously jokingly, before initiating another huge singalong in the form of Above The Clouds Of Pompeii.
They unsurprisingly return to the stage amidst the customary chants of “olé olé olé,” and the encore begins with Napoleon, which fades out emotively with both the touring drummer and keyboardist harmonizing softly with trumpets, and then Dew On The Vine, with more 3-piece harmonies added to by the crowd. For Gabriel, they elect to go unplugged again, but this time in the middle of the floor, which again sounds glorious in conjunction with the complete silence of the crowd. Upon returning to the stage, Andrew states definitively that “this is our last song…we ran outta songs!” You really sense they’re enjoying themselves tonight, and would indeed play all night if they could! The crowd would certainly have no problem with that either, judging by their reaction, as they sing along furiously to set closer Agape. Full credit to the band, 1 hour 40 mins and 17 songs from just 2 albums is good value by anyone’s standards!
As the house lights come up and the crowd files out, Tears For Fears 1984 classic “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” comes on over the PA. Good timing; you get the sense that Bear’s Den are on their way to doing just that.
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Stubborn Beast
The Love We Stole
Love Can’t Stand Alone
Roses On a Breeze
Auld Wives
Above the Clouds of Pompeii
Dew on the Vine
Tags: 2016, bears den, cafe campus, gig review, live review, liza anne, montreal, photos, set list, setlist, support / Category: Concert Reviews
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Minnesota and Vermont Just Classified Grocery Clerks as Emergency Workers
Becky Z. Dernbach
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Shawn Lynch, assistant manager of a grocery store in Brattleboro, Vermont, restocks cases of water during an overnight shift. His team worked through the night to make sure the shelves were full for the next day's shoppers to buy supplies during the coronavirus outbreak.Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP
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As the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic closes schools across the country, more and more parents are juggling working from home with caring full-time for their children. But working from home isn’t possible for emergency personnel like paramedics, nurses, and public health workers who are on the front lines of the fight against the virus. Some states and cities are providing child care for emergency workers so they can do their jobs.
Minnesota and Vermont have now officially designated another group of workers as emergency personnel: grocery clerks. This means the workers hurrying to stock shelves and check out customers in those states will also receive free child care.
.@GovTimWalz has classified “food distribution workers,” which is store clerks, stockers, etc, as Tier 2 emergency works. This allows frontline workers childcare as they serve and feed Minnesotans. Thank you @GovTimWalz for supporting our industry during this challenging time!
— MN Grocers Assoc. (@MNGrocers) March 18, 2020
The directive from Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz came as part of an order for “Care for Children of Families of Emergency Workers,” which instructs closed schools to continue to provide care for children of emergency personnel who are “critical to the response of COVID-19.” Under the order, grocery workers are considered “essential tier 2 workers.” “Districts should make every effort to provide care for school-age children” of these workers, the order states. (People caring for the children of emergency personnel are also considered emergency personnel.)
The state of Vermont is developing a plan to reimburse private child care centers for providing care to essential workers. Public safety commissioner Michael Schirling told VTDigger that his office would add grocery store workers to the list of essential employees who would receive services like child care.
Grocery clerks are often underpaid and underappreciated.
San Francisco, which is under a shelter-in-place order, limits its emergency child care to first responders, including hospital staff, public health employees, and disaster service workers. On Tuesday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced the state would open emergency child care centers for children of health, safety, and “essential service” workers, though the definition of “essential service” was not immediately clear.
Grocery clerks are often underpaid and underappreciated. As they brave the daily crowds of people rushing to stock up their pantries, and risk infecting themselves through contact with so many customers, their essential role in a functioning society has become clearer than ever. Designating them emergency workers and providing them child care is the least we can do.
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Has IPL become too expensive for advertisers?
By Rishi Vora
After Rahul Dravid announced his retirement from international cricket on March 9, senior journalists, fellow cricketers and fans pondered over the future ofIndiaas far as test cricket was concerned. While that’s an issue selectors for the Indian cricket team have to sort out soon, officials from IPL and Multi Screen Pvt Ltd have to come up with real quick ideas to woo key advertisers, so that they remain invested in the property, especially after the 10 per cent hike in the ad rates for Season 5.
The 10 per cent hike in ad rates means that advertisers will have to pay upwards of Rs5 lakh per 10 second spot. Last year, afterIndia’s fabulous performance in the World Cup, MSM hiked ad rates by about 25 per cent. The season delivered an average rating of 3.91, lowest ever in four seasons.
So season 5 was always going to be a challenge considering the slowdown andIndia’s continued poor run inAustralia. However, despite these challenges, MSM has managed to rope in a few sponsors already. Pepsi, Vodafone, Tata Photon and Idea have been signed on as sponsors and, furthermore, the broadcast partner is in process of finalising a few more deals.
But, as a matter of fact, there are a few advertisers who have raised concerns over low returns against large investments on IPL and two amongst those – LG Electronics India and Godrej that have been sponsors from the start of the tournament have decided to pull out this year. They don’t think it’s worth the money anymore.
LG Electronics India’s Chief Marketing Officer, L K Gupta told MxMIndia: “It is true that we’ve opted out of IPL this year. While it is the single largest property on TV, the fact of the matter is that there is only a certain level to commit marketing funds and the return we get in terms of TRPs does not really justify the high level of spending. Last year we felt the pinch, so we decided to stay out this year.”
Godrej too is said to have opted out on similar grounds.
Maruti Suzuki, which as a policy spends about 23 per cent on sports every year, of which cricket commands a reasonable share, has always restrained from being associated with IPL. Shashank Srivastava, Chief Marketing Officer explained his stance: “We invested in the World Cup last year. We don’t invest in IPL because for a company like ours, one needs to put in a lot of spike. IPL gives you good reach. In terms of viewership, it gives you good returns for 5-6 weeks which is something ideal for new launches or new product offering. So the money which goes in on buying IPL, and in return what you get for a brand like Maruti is not much.”
A senior media professional who requested anonymity said that India’s richest league commands nothing less than Rs65 crore for presenting rights and Rs45 crore for being an associate sponsor. He said: “This is serious money you’re talking about. They (MSM) have increased by 10 per cent on ad rates, and they are under tremendous pressure to cut down further.”
Nitin Jain, Co-Founder, DoMor Communications said the broadcast partner will eventually have to come down to last year’s price which was around Rs4.5 to 4.75 lakh per 10-second spot. “I’m sure the broadcaster is in talks with many clients, but from what I understand, it is going to be a game of who blinks first.”
Buying his point is Nimbus sports COO Yannick Colaco who said: “I think advertisers are just waiting to see if the rates can be brought down. It’s pretty usual for advertisers to do this as a practice to get better deals out of the broadcaster. IPL is a big tournament and advertisers will eventually look to advertise on a property of that scale, so I think it’s just a matter of time before they (MSM) sell out and a formal announcement is made.”
It is learnt that MSM has initiated talks with Cadbury, but it is not entirely clear if the chocolate brand has signed the deal officially. On-ground sponsors for season 5 are DLF, Hero Motocorp, Karbonn Mobiles and Volkswagen.
Set Max officials could not be reached but it is said that this year the attempt is also to sell smaller packages of 20-25 matches to cash in on advertisers with limited budgets. Also, it is not leaving any stone unturned in promoting the mega event. It is believed that a whopping Rs45 crore is being spent to bring the IPL fever back among viewers.
It will be interesting to see how things turn out to be for all stakeholders of the mega property.
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Common social media mistakes after a car accident
On behalf of Titsworth Law Offices, P.A. | Apr 28, 2020 | Car Accidents
Car accidents can bring up strong feelings, making it tempting to share your experience with friends and family online. Many people don’t think twice about sharing their experiences online, but oversharing could be one of the worst things you can do during this time....
Two years after report, progress on EMS fatigue is tested
On behalf of Titsworth Law Offices, P.A. | Apr 21, 2020 | personal injury
Fatigue has always been a major challenge for emergency medical services (EMS) workers, making it a concern for those they serve in emergencies and everyone sharing the road with EMS drivers. The fatigue issues have presumably deepened in recent months, particularly...
Why are truck driver fatalities reaching record highs?
On behalf of Titsworth Law Offices, P.A. | Apr 21, 2020 | trucking accident
Long hours, poor sleeping schedules and accommodations, adverse weather and road conditions, truck safety and mechanical concerns, and other perils are constant hazards of the road for truck drivers. Depending on their career choice, commercial truck drivers face...
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Purdue University, Main Campus
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Purdue University is a public land-grant university system within the state of Indiana. Purdue’s main academic campus is located in the city of West Lafayette, on the banks of the Wabash River. Satellite campuses are located in Hammond, Fort Wayne, Westville, and other cities. Purdue also has three campuses affiliated with Indiana University, and Purdue’s School of Technology has seven satellite locations throughout Indiana...
Location West Lafayette, IN
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Chicago Baseball
Cubs Set to Hire David Ross as New Manager: Reports
Ross, currently an analyst for ESPN and a special adviser with the Cubs, has been viewed as the betting favorite for the position ever since Joe Maddon was allowed to leave the club after the 2019 season
Published October 23, 2019 • Updated on October 23, 2019 at 10:29 am
The Chicago Cubs are reportedly set to hire former catcher David Ross as their new manager, replacing Joe Maddon.
NBC Sports Chicago's David Kaplan and Jon Heyman with MLB Network both confirmed the news Wednesday morning, with Kaplan citing a "highly placed source" who said Ross is expected to be named manager this week.
Joe Maddon is not the Cubs manager anymore, but fans can send their thanks for his history-making time spent in the Windy City. NBC 5’s Sabrina Santucci has the story.
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"His agent has been discussing conractual terms with Theo Epstein," Kaplan tweeted. "Deal is almost done."
Heyman reports other contenders for the position "have been told they are out." Jesse Rogers with ESPN also reported the Cubs could announce the hiring as early as Thursday.
According to NBC Sports Chicago’s Kelly Crull, the Cubs recently had a second interview with Ross. Ross, long considered to be the favorite for the Cubs’ managerial job, interviewed early in the process, but met with the team a second time for “expanded” conversations, according to Crull’s report.
Not as formally announced as Espada, but David Ross is said to have also had a second interview with the #Cubs. Given his position with the team, I'm told they expanded conversations earlier this week. #MLB
— Kelly Crull (@Kelly_Crull) October 22, 2019
Ross, currently an analyst for ESPN and a special adviser with the Cubs, has been viewed as the betting favorite for the position ever since Joe Maddon was allowed to leave the club after the 2019 season. Ross retired in 2016 after spending two seasons with the Cubs, culminating with a Game 7 home run off of Andrew Miller in the 2016 World Series.
Ross, along with Cubs bench coach Mark Loretta and first base coach Will Venable, is one of numerous candidates the Cubs have interviewed during the managerial search. The Cubs have also spoken to former Phillies manager Gabe Kapler and former catcher Joe Girardi, who is now the favorite to replace Kapler in Philadelphia. [[561807752, C]]
According to multiple reports, the Cubs and other MLB teams will be allowed by the league to make announcements on off days during the World Series, meaning that an announcement on a new manager could come as soon as Thursday when the Washington Nationals and Astros are traveling between Houston and the nation’s capital.
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Duncanville School Bus Driver Uses Chess to Help Students Make the Right Moves
DUNCANVILLE — Donald Harris isn't a professional educator, but he's about to teach somebody a lesson as he calls out like a carnival barker during a lunchtime chess session at Duncanville High School."Come on over!" he shouts to a passing student. "I'll get you!"The Duncanville bus driver sets up shop in the cafeteria two or three days a week, spreading out an array of chess boards along a table. The table quickly fills with competitors — some taking on Harris, others playing against their friends."I was just going to teach one kid," Harris said. "But then the principal came over and started taking pictures, and it just blew up."Harris, who has driven a bus for the school district for nearly six years, likes to teach the cerebral game, all the while understanding that he's just a novice himself. His chess education started only a month ago, when a student on his morning route caught his attention. Continue reading...
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4th Member of Texas Family Sentenced in Couple's Slaying
The fourth and final member of an East Texas family has been sentenced to prison for his role in the 2014 shooting deaths of a couple in order to gain custody of a 5-year-old girl.
The Lufkin Daily News reports that Paul Westfall pleaded guilty Thursday to murder in a plea deal that brings a life sentence.
Prosecutors say Westfall shot Nathan and Krystal Maddox outside a Tyler County church.
The couple had gone to the church for a court-ordered visitation with Nathan Maddox's daughter.
The child's mother is Kristen Westfall, the daughter of Paul Westfall. Kristen Westfall, who also shot Nathan Maddox, was convicted last year of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Her mother and brother also previously received prison terms for their roles in the killings.
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Homeowners Confront Construction Crew Over Road Project Near Newark
One man hospitalized after heavy equipment appeared to hit him
By Scott Gordon • Published July 23, 2018 • Updated on July 23, 2018 at 6:28 pm
A confrontation between homeowners and a construction crew on Saturday highlighted an ongoing legal battle between the neighbors and a developer northwest of Fort Worth.
One man was injured when a worker in an excavator drove forward, appearing to hit him.
The crew was trying to extend Edgemon Way to connect to a much larger neighborhood planned nearby, but residents of the established Newark Ranch said the road is too small to handle so much traffic and suggest developers find another route.
Sheriff's deputies who were already on the scene told the neighbors they had to allow the work.
"You have no other option," one deputy said, according to several videos of the incident.
Suddenly, a worker in an excavator drove forward, appearing to knock a man to the ground.
"Are you kidding me?" a neighbor shouted.
A deputy ordered the worker to stop.
"Get down!" she said.
Another deputy seemed to suggest the victim was to blame.
"He saw it coming. It's like jumping out in front of a vehicle," the second officer said.
"He still needs to stop," a neighbor shot back.
An ambulance took the man to the hospital but he went home hours later.
Nobody was arrested.
The incident came amid a tense legal battle that started more than two years ago.
"We just feel this connection from one neighborhood to another is wrong," said Beth Higgins, who lives closest to the road extension.
Higgins and her neighbors said their small street simply wasn't built to handle so much traffic. Newark Ranch has about 100 homes. The new neighborhood will be more than 400.
"Our neighborhood is 100 percent against it and we're trying to fight it every way we know how," said neighbor Tabitha Tucciarone.
It has developed into a legal mess.
The Fort Worth Plan Commission initially approved the project because the proposed subdivision is in the city's extra-territorial jurisdiction, or ETJ. But the road extension is beyond the city's reach in Wise County, residents said.
Homeowners originally filed their case in Fort Worth because the planned project is in Tarrant County and Fort Worth approved it, but they later filed a separate case in Wise County because that is where the road in question is located.
"We're just asking them to find a better way," Tucciarone said.
The developer of the nearby, called Chisolm Springs, did not return a phone call seeking comment.
But Gerald Fowler, the attorney for a landowner working with the developer, said Edgemon Way was always envisioned to be expanded to the north.
He described the lawsuit as frivolous.
"When you buy (property) on the edge of the city, you know it's going to be built up around you," Fowler said.
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Mr. Robot’s Python Approach
Daniel Rodriguez September 22, 2016 2 Comments 780 views 0 likes
Mr. Robot’s kept things from us. It began much sooner than we thought. Signs were missed, clues ignored, all because we were too distracted by what was in front of us, never bothering to lift our eyes a little higher. Are you ready for Stage 2?
Mr. Robot: “eps2.9_pyth0n-pt2.p7z”
So much depends upon
A red wheelbarrow
Glazed with rain water
Beside the white chickens
To make sense of what’s happening now, Elliot goes back to “eps1.7_wh1ter0se.m4v”.
Tyrell’s conversation with Mr. Robot is shown as it actually occurred, with Elliot trying to push the company man away from fsociety. Walking away isn’t something Tyrell is willing to do, not when he saw something important in Elliot, something dramatically transformative. He needs to understand Elliot, the reason why fate had brought them together. Elliot tells Tyrell to turn his eyes skyward, to see what is above them, but the meaning flies right over his head. It reminds Tyrell of his childhood, of a father who’d memorized a pointless little poem, a man he swore never to grow in to.
Back in the present, Tyrell ushers Elliot past Evil Corp trucks into a neighboring building. A Chinese man in familiar CSI-white coveralls takes them up to Tyrell’s secluded workshop set up by the Dark Army. It’s time for Elliot to see all they’ve set into motion now that they’re ready to execute.
Elliot’s cell trace led Joanna to the Knowles’ house. He’s been the one tormenting her with the calls and the gifts. On the day of her murder, Sharon told Scott she was pregnant just hours after learning he’d become Evil Corp’s CTO. Tyrell took all that away, and that same pain was something he wanted to inflict upon Joanna. Mrs. Wellick remains unimpressed and insults a drunken Scott until he beats her bloody on his living room carpet. After getting cleaned up she meets up with Derek, her bartender boyfriend who swears to do anything to Scott in retaliation. Joanna wants but one thing from him: confess to the police that he saw Scott flee the scene of Sharon’s murder.
Darlene, bloody but alive, tries to outmaneuver Santiago and Dom with some cable-cop-show legal defense, but invoking the 5th Amendment isn’t enough to ward away the Patriot Act and her new status as a terrorist in the eyes of the FBI. Yet Darlene remains solid in this corner she’s been backed into, and Santiago is losing patience, but Dom isn’t giving up. She knows this Jersey girl, knows how to break her and flip her to get the people at the center of the 5/9 hack, her way to bringing down the Dark Army.
Dom makes her case clear to Darlene. In the late Cisco’s apartment the FBI found fsociety’s camera and a mask from The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeoisie. No tape, but it’s a start. When that fails to impress Darlene, a shell casing connected to an illegal gun owned by a banker fuck-buddy is enough to communicate just how much the FBI has on her.
Having impressed Darlene, Dom is able to coax her out of the interview room, past gawking agents, to a room with a sprawling web connecting every player in the 5/9 hack, every Allsafe employee, every fsociety foot soldier, even the Alderson kids.
Dom had applied the Python Approach to her investigation, sitting on all her information until it was the right moment to strike. But a stray shot from a neighbor’s gun killed Romero, and sent everyone scurrying. Darlene couldn’t care less about the agent’s difficulty with her investigation, not when she’s staring at a map that puts Elliot and Tyrell at the center of 5/9, working together in secret, putting her on the outside of this intimate loop she thought she shared with her brother.
71 facilities are dumping all paper backups of Evil Corp’s records to one location in New York, across the street from where Elliot and Tyrell have set up shop. 17 facilities have been transferred, the rest will arrive within the month. Evil Corp has unknowingly made their work easier than expected.
Stage 2 relies on the backdoor Elliot opened at the start of all this. Malware they’ve been working on will be pushed through it, overloading Evil Corp’s transformer, exploding the batteries powering their new network, causing an explosion large enough to destroy the building where every title, deed, and deal Evil Corp has cataloged on paper is housed. Demolition will do away with the conglomerate for good.
This moment of confusion, gawking at what he set into motion, distracts Elliot long enough for Mr. Robot to reappear unannounced.
Mr. Robot tries to talk his way out of taking responsibility for lying to Elliot, for keeping things from him. They both work different parts of their plan, it’s the only way to get Elliot out of the way so the more extremist parts of their work can be realized. Elliot wouldn’t stop him if he was aware, and he proves this when, just like when it proposed to him the first time, he refuses to kill innocent people with a demolition.
Elliot assumes control of Tyrell’s terminal and sets out to delete the malware. He doesn’t type but before Tyrell menaces him with the gun Darlene stole. Mr. Robot warns Elliot to listen for his own sake, but Elliot’s not buying his lies anymore. Mr. Robot can never be trusted; whenever he’s present reality as a whole is subject to manipulation. To Elliot, Tyrell isn’t even there to shoot him even if he sees him.
It’s bad calculus on Elliot’s part; Tyrell pulls the trigger and shoots him in the gut. Collapsed on the ground, watching Mr. Robot glitch in and out of existence, Tyrell sobbingly explains that this, too, was part of Elliot’s plan. Elliot made him swear to stop anyone who would stop their work, even him.
Angela receives the call she’s been waiting for. Tyrell has been watching over Elliot, and their friend is close to waking. Angela tries to reassure him by telling him that shooting Elliot was the right move, that they can’t afford to be stopped now, and instructs him to stay put and wait for her. She ought to be the first person Elliot sees when he wakes up. He agrees, but can’t end the conversation without confessing his love for Elliot, a love Angela shares. As she rushes out of her apartment, New York goes dark.
On the other side of the country, in a hot, mostly empty Arizona parking lot, Mobley and Trenton take a break from their fast food job. Arizona sucks, but things aren’t so bad. They’re in the clear, living with new identities, in no time they’ll be able to move out of Mobley’s friend’s place–why mess it up by looking at what’s going on in New York? But Trenton sees an opportunity to reverse what they did on 5/9 and set everything back so they can go home to New York. Before Mobley can shut that idea down they’re interrupted by Leon, asking for the time.
That little dip back in time scratched part of my brain that made me wonder a bit about Tyrell and Elliot’s relationship.
At first pass it seemed to be a difference between the ladder-climbing capitalist and the cunning anarchist, but it seems that at the tail end of season one there was a meeting of the minds that unified Elliot and Tyrell in an way that didn’t fully make sense until now.
Just a handful of lines tells us that Tyrell, like Elliot, had a father who was a weak, insignificant man that somehow failed to live up to what his son needed. In the case of Tyrell it seemed that his father was the catalyst that pushed him to leave Sweden, come to the US, climb the ladder of the world’s largest conglomerate, and shoot for (and come close to) one of the tops positions of power in the world. How could such a petty man, moved by an insignificant poem, be enough to satisfy this ambitious child? In the case of Elliot, he needed a father that was willing to protect him from an abusive mother and fight back against the employers that caused and hid his death. How could Edward live up to a boy who idolized him?
Two men with unfit fathers drawn together by circumstance at a point where both would have a hand in changing the course of history. Not the meeting of pro and antagonist that was first presented, but the bond that ties them Elliot to Tyrell is the doing of Mr. Robot. It’s the relationship with this other persona that has made Tyrell feel complete, given him access to a project that can allow him to ascend to this godhood he feels would finally sever the ties to a father unworthy of his love by giving that love to another man more deserving.
Their relationship status now is much more amicable that it was first presented, and it’s entered this weird, almost disturbing space where Tyrell is seemingly devoted to Elliot, an almost religious connection now that they’re together on the other side of 5/9. It’s only now that Tyrell is a complete person, given the thing he’s searched for his whole life. As Esmail has said, “Because ultimately this is a show about a bunch of lonely people struggling to connect.” In the case of Tyrell, that’s a message that might have gotten lost in the delivery of this season for some, unfortunately.
USA has been kind of generous with their restrictions when it’s come to Sam Esmail this season, letting him run with episode lengths, leading to some 90+ minutes some nights. This made the decision to split the finale a bit of a head-scratcher. The way Mr. Robot has been setup, how Esmail has written and directed the show lends itself more to binge-watching than sticking to a traditional distribution format. He applies the Python Approach.
It’s almost as if two seasons are written more like two expanded act; these past 12 episodes only make sense as intended when seen as a whole, each installment in close proximity to the next. It’s has much to do with the audience inclusion part of the show, their role as Elliot’s friend. Traveling along with Elliot means we only get fragments, learning what he learns as he learns it, reacting when the other half of his mind admits to lies and lost time is returned. While there are many movies I can think of off the top of my head that use this method of story dissemination it’s not common in television and it doesn’t cooperate too well with it’s format. The only way to “get” what’s going on in Mr. Robot is to binge it, take it in as a long film and embrace the ignorance you’re mired in as you move along with the protagonist. But being asked to watch all this a second time isn’t really a problem.
Mr. Robot Season 2: 10/10
Tags: arizona, Finale, Mr Robot, python, Season 2
Written by Daniel Rodriguez
Daniel Rodriguez is a freelance writer and author from New York City.
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Harry Potter and the Third Way
Perhaps it is cruel to torture a phenomenon like Harry Potter into yielding up political significance. It is also irresistible. After all, there are not too many youthful, male, public-school educated British characters with an inflated world-wide reputation left. More precisely, the demise of Hugh Grant after an inglorious L.A. encounter has left just two to share the limelight. And if the bespectacled hero of J.K. Rowlings series (and now film) is one, the other is the domestically tarnished but still gleamingly ambitious British prime minister, Tony Blair.
However far is the journey from Hogwarts to No. 10 Downing Street, Harry Potter is a representative figure of the Blairite age that began with the election of New Labour to power in 1997. That is not to decry the straightforward enjoyability that derives from the books clever employment of every narrative cliché imaginable, nor to deny that their huge success is itself an important cultural phenomenon. Rather, it is to propose that the books can be read as both commentary and exemplification of the distinct political moment of Tony Blairs core aspiration: the creation of a Third Way in which a new combination of social concern and commercial entrepreneurship underpins the social order (or keeps the show on the road, as the more sceptical would see it).
The world of the Third Way (or whatever other name we want to give to the political strategy of parties formerly known as socialist), is governed by a clearly technocratic agenda. Think tanks and policy units develop technical solutions to social problems, in consultation with focus groups and press secretaries: the processes of political democracy are bypassed entirely by the rule of the techno-managerial elite. All this bears a striking resemblance to the world of adult wizards and witches in which the Harry Potter stories are set. The parallel society inhabited by wizards in Rowlings world is a perfect Blairite technocracy, governed by a ministry of magic (i.e. a ministry of pure science, of techne as such) in which almost every adult who is not engaged in either teaching or commerce is employed, and which seems to administer without any formal process of consultation.
The multicultural embrace
There are two other elements of Harry Potter that chime in well with the British experience of Blairism. The first and perhaps the most pressing contemporary concern in the books is that of cultural difference. In J.K. Rowlings universe, witches and wizards occupy an alternative society, inhabiting the same chronology and geographical space as non-magical people (muggles) but sharing a very different history. Muggle technology, and even more muggle politics and economics, is as mysterious and irrelevant to wizards as magic is to muggles. However, the boundaries between the two communities are not entirely clear. Magical ability appears to be genetic, such that the children of witches and wizards will almost always possess it, where the children of muggles very rarely will (when they do, they are invited to enrol at a magical academy and thereby to enter into magical society). This encourages most magicals to marry only within the community, and gives rise to a degree of prejudice amongst its less enlightened members towards those born partly or entirely of muggle parentage. Mudblood is the name given to the latter, but it is only the evil characters in the book who will use such racist language.
By the same token, Harry Potters muggle family his uncle, aunt and cousin hate, fear and despise his magical life and friends. These characters are drawn as identikit Roald Dahl villains: over-fed, over-privileged conformists whose hatred of difference is inseparable from their sadism towards the long-suffering Harry. In either case, intolerance and ethnic purism are presented as inherent evils in a clear allegory of contemporary multiculturalism.
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Roald Dahl villains his tormentors may be, but Harry Potter is no Charlie Bucket. This good-hearted orphan boy turns out to be a messianic figure in the wizard world, and a very rich one to boot. However, he never uses the ample supply of gold stashed in the wizard bank, Gringotts, to do anything so radical as to help his best friend and surrogate family. While the poverty of Ron Weasley and his kin is a constant theme of the books, the possibility of Harry sharing his inherited fortune with them is raised only to be dismissed on the grounds that they would never accept it. Yet Rons elder brothers do accept a business start-up grant from Harry ( a gift of 1000 coins to start a joke shop).
Now, if Harry were a character from an earlier generation of childrens fiction he would probably have spent, say, half of the second book devising a way of giving away his money without the recipients knowing. Such gratuitous generosity has no place in Harrys new world. This is a community in which even wizards still need currency and where the character who works for the bank is the only adult described as cool. In his pony tail and dragon-hide boots, Bill Weasley assures his fretful mother that no-one at the bank gives a damn how I dress as long as I bring home plenty of treasure. Thus, multicultural tolerance and individualist liberalism co-exist happily with finance capital and gross inequalities of wealth, which should only be overcome to the extent that all are enabled to take part in the adventure of business. Welcome to Blairs world.
Education, education, specialisation
Hogwarts, Harry Potters imaginary school for young wizards, is not simply an old-fashioned boarding school open to anyone from the right class with magic on the curriculum. Nor, obviously, is it a comprehensive. More appropriately, the books eponymous hero attends a school which is selective and specialised: choosing students for their talent and training them intensively in their assigned vocation. Here again, Harry is presented to us as a boy for our times, even a mythical embodiment of all the priorities and prejudices which constitute the New Labour structure of feeling: a truly Blairite hero.
Where there is direct political intervention in the books, it follows the script perfectly. When Hermione, the muggle-born feminist swot of the school tries to organise the long-suffering house-elves to resist their condition of perpetual enslavement, her campaign is met with mockery and indifference; even the house-elves themselves dont want to be free. What actually happens is that one elf, the quasi-heroic Dobby (having learned to live with freedom and to demand wages for his work) comes to stay at Hogwarts. Hermione gives up on her campaign to organise the elves or her class mates, but resigns herself to the possibility that Dobbys example may slowly raise their consciousness. It is a perfect allegory of incremental, Blairite centrism.
But what is perhaps most significant about Harry Potter is the particular elements of older types of tale which it chooses to retain for contemporary consumption. What is emphasised again and again in the books is not simply the ordinariness of Harrys aspirations, but his historical uniqueness. It is true that Harrys is a world in which the echoes of older value systems ones favouring community, justice, sharing, democracy, as well as conformism, elitism, aristocracy and racism can still be strongly heard. Nonetheless, it is also a world in which the way to succeed is to exploit ones talents, engage in specialised training, and bring home plenty of treasure. Other paths to fulfilment are almost certainly blocked; but in Harrys world as in Tonys, as long as you dont go making trouble with the house elves, at least no-one will care what you wear.
Be yourself and trust your teachers
It would be unfair to pretend that this was the whole story. Hermione, the activist, is a sympathetic character who very rarely turns out to be wrong, in a world where errors of judgement pave the way to damnation. Whats more, the books are clearly written from a boys perspective, and the boys gradual realisation that Hermione is not just a swotty mate to be called on when library research is needed (one of the series more interesting literary aspects) may yet come to encompass a more sympathetic attitude to her political radicalism in later volumes.
The only character who turns out more often to be right is the saintly Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts. It is Dumbeldore who runs his school as he sees fit, ignoring the disapproval of the ministry when he hires non-conformists to teach in their own ways. It is Dumbledore who volunteers to employ Dobby the house-elf on a living wage, with full holiday rights. It is Dumbledore who regards any official complicity with aristocratic or racist prejudice as insupportable. If any moral message comes home strongly from the Harry Potter books, it is not just be yourself (the classic exhortation of liberal individualism), but trust your teachers (more than the government, more than your family, more even than your mates).
There are still three Harry Potter books to come, and if they are each as long as the last one then the series is not yet half over. If the government continues to mistrust teachers and other such servants of the public good, if Dumbledore looks less and less like Tony, then it is quite conceivable that this series will look less like an advert for Blairite values, and more like a critique of them. If, like Hermione, we are sceptical about the art of divination, then we can only wait and see.
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Movie bus will help King's Nympton to revisit its heritage
Published: 7:53 AM June 14, 2010 Updated: 4:03 PM November 7, 2020
DIGITALLY re-mastered historic footage of local pastimes, traditions and heritage will light up the big screen when North Devon s new Movie Bus rolls into King s Nympton next month. The new mobile cinema will be at the village s parish hall on Thursday, J
DIGITALLY re-mastered historic footage of local pastimes, traditions and heritage will light up the big screen when North Devon's new Movie Bus rolls into King's Nympton next month.
The new mobile cinema will be at the village's parish hall on Thursday, July 8.
The screening will coincide with a local history display, quiz and refreshments from 6-9pm.
For more details visit www.moviebus.org.uk
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Trolley good show for Barnstaple supermarket
Published: 11:02 AM November 4, 2009 Updated: 4:01 PM November 7, 2020
A Barnstaple mum can now take her severely disabled daughter to the supermarket after a local store became the first in the country to get a unique disability shopping trolley. Julie Evett had been working with the store for months to try and find somethi
A Barnstaple mum can now take her severely disabled daughter to the supermarket after a local store became the first in the country to get a unique disability shopping trolley.
Julie Evett had been working with the store for months to try and find something suitable for her three-year-old daughter Rose, who suffers from an undiagnosed brain disorder which means she needs around the clock care.
The 30-year-old single mum appears with Rose in a powerful BBC One documentary next Tuesday (November 10) called When a Mother's Love is not Enough about the daily struggle families with severely disabled children face, of which supermarket trolleys are just one example.
None of the other trolleys available in Barnstaple were even remotely suitable and Julie had almost despaired of finding the answer until the persistence of Katie Southworth, Sainsbury's customer services manager at the Roundswell store, paid off.
The right trolley was eventually found in Germany by Sainsbury's supplier at Katie's request and the cost of the �1,400 prototype was met by the Sainsbury head office.
Now Julie can set off to the supermarket with all three of her daughters without worrying how she will manage and the shopping trips are a huge benefit to Rose.
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"The stimulation for her at the store is great and she loves the chaos," said Julie.
"Rose can't see, so she is using all her other senses. She smiles at the checkout when she hears items being skimmed or smells the aromas in the bread aisle.
"Her brain is not growing so I have to stimulate her all the time to help her brain make new connections. On a practical basis I'd have to arrange child care if she was left at home. It would be too difficult, but at the end of the day she is still a little girl and needs to be out in society with her family and her sisters.
"I'm really grateful to Sainsbury's and it is all down to Katie's hard work and she is the one who has fought my corner."
Katie said: "I could see Julie's commitment and I wanted to do my best for Rose and other children like her.
"I didn't even know if there was anything like this trolley out there and it was only by luck that I spoke to someone who knew of this one."
Julie has set up a Facebook page and has already received plenty of interest from families nationwide keen to see more such trolleys, including those in Barnstaple who are looking forward to using it.
Any parents with disabled children who want to use the specialist trolley at Sainsbury's in Roundswell may do so by asking for it at the customer service desk near the store entrance.
Julie Evett will also be appearing on BBC One Breakfast News next Tuesday between 8.45-9.15am alongside children's charity campaigner Rosa Monckton.
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The Kings Of Hull - New Theatre, Hull
John Godber,
Robert Angell,
Josie Morley,
Martin Barrass,
New Theatre,
The Kings Of Hull,
Peter McMillan,
Pippa Fulton,
Grace Christiansen,
Joe Hall,
Ruby Macintosh,
Jake Marsden,
Raucous seagull squawks (the port of Hull in its heyday?) serenaded us as we took our seats at Hull New Theatre on Tuesday night, for the world premiere of playwright John Godber’s comedy, The Kings Of Hull.
Before us, the stage was set with candlelit tables bedecked with floor-length white tablecloths – convincing me we theatregoers were in for a night of sophisticated celebration of some sort.
How wrong I was – about the sophistication, anyway.
The cause for celebration became clear as the lights went up to reveal huge golden balloons hailing 50 years of married life for Malcolm King (Martin Barrass) and his long-suffering wife Becky (Jane Thornton).
Surrounded by family it was a time for Malcolm - a true red-and-white Hull Kingston Rovers rugby league fan – to regale us in the audience (who he addressed as if we were guests at his do) about the ups and downs of his life in east Hull, in Rovers’ heartland.
Malcolm and Becky told us – in broad Hull accents, aitches deliciously dropped – of how proud they were that “we didn’t ‘ave to get married”.
The year was 1967, says Malcolm – remembering how he left his bride halfway through their first dance, to go see Hull vs Rovers in a Yorkshire Cup Final, taking with him his best man, two bridesmaids and Becky’s dad.
Rovers won 8-7 so, for Malcolm, it was worth risking being the guilty party in the world’s speediest divorce.
The other guests - Malcolm’s Hull prison officer brother, Trevor (Robert Angell); younger brother, the shady Karl (Peter McMillan); Malcolm’s two daughters, salon owner Kealey (Pippa Fulton) and lesbian Jenny (Josie Morley), a prison officer with her Uncle Trev; Kealey’s two children, aspiring singer/student Lily (Grace Christiansen) and the “6ft 10ins tall” Luke (Joe Hall), who ran a bar in “’ezzle” much to Malcolm’s disgust (for the uninitiated, Hessle is to the west of Hull, in enemy territory – rugby league-wise) – amusingly chipped in when they felt they had to make fun of, disagree or agree with, Malcolm’s ramblings.
The one consistent thread running through Malcolm’s reminiscences was his love of Hull Kingston Rovers and his life in the east of the city - he firmly believed the west was where “the other half live”.
We learned of his life, long marriage, job, health and family worries, through the fortunes of his blessed rugby team – he never forgot a try, an up-n-under or a score. And he never let anyone forget that he tried out for Rovers, but they never picked him.
Every now and then the onstage musical trio (Ruby Macintosh, Jake Marsden and the aforementioned Grace Christiansen) amusingly aided and abetted Malcolm’s reveries.
The laughs – too numerous to mention - came thick and fast (for me, Uncle Trev was a scream from start to finish), but there was also a serious side to the shenanigans. Malcolm’s east Hull-west Hull prejudices were so ingrained that he had difficulty coming to terms with a world in which the younger members of his close-knit clan, especially his two daughters, held very different beliefs from his own. But most of all he blamed every bad thing in his life on the fact Rovers never picked him.
You didn’t have to be born and bred in east Hull to thoroughly enjoy, and “get” this production. I was, so could relate to this story every step of the way. The only difference is, my dad was picked for Rovers. Sorry Malcolm!
Reviewer: Jackie Foottit
Reviewed: 3rd October 2017
North West End Rating: ★★★★
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Tennessee Titans Players And Staff Test Positive For The Coronavirus The NFL had a smooth start to its season with no coronavirus cases in the first three weeks. But the Tennessee Titans have halted that streak — three players and five team staff tested positive.
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Three weeks into its season, the National Football League is dealing with its first team outbreak of COVID-19. The NFL announced Tuesday that three Tennessee Titans players and five of the team's personnel members have tested positive for coronavirus. And this news could affect several other teams, as NPR's Tom Goldman reports.
TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE: The Tennessee Titans have shut down in-person club activities following the spike in positive cases. The Titans played in Minnesota Sunday, where they beat the Vikings. The NFL announced the Vikings also stopped their in-person club activities. Tennessee played the game in Minneapolis without one of the team's assistant coaches. He didn't make the trip after he got a positive test result the day before the game.
At this point, it's not certain what, if any, impact the Titans outbreak will have on next weekend's games. Tennessee is scheduled to host Pittsburgh. The Steelers say they're continuing to prepare until they're informed otherwise. The Vikings are scheduled to play at Houston.
Concerns about next weekend and beyond are an indication of how the virus potentially could wreak havoc with the NFL. Football is a sport where the threat of transmission is extreme considering all the physical contact and collisions. In an interview before the Titans outbreak, NFL Players Association Medical Director Thom Mayer talked about possible contingency plans.
THOM MAYER: Certainly lengthening the season, moving to alternative sites, if necessary, moving to an every-other-weekend (ph) if there were multiple outbreaks in multiple cities - we posed all those questions to the NFL, and we'll continue to work through them.
GOLDMAN: So far, none of that's been necessary. The NFL isn't in a protective bubble like other sports leagues. Teams are playing in their home cities and traveling. But for the most part, the NFL has been successful in mitigating COVID risk. Last week, the most recent test results showed zero positives among players. But that was last week.
Tom Goldman, NPR News.
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WOMEN'S RUGBY LEAGUE
O'Mealey Doing things in Reverse in her Final Year
Tanisha Stanton NRL.com Reporter
Sun 17 Jun 2018, 08:03 PM
Most rugby league players who play for Australia follow the path of club, state then national honours, but Lavina O'Mealey is doing the opposite in her final year in the game.
In the final 12 months of her career O'Mealey will go from representing the Jillaroos at the 2017 World Cup, playing State of Origin with the Blues then playing club football with the Roosters.
But before hanging up the boots the five-eighth intends to embrace every moment she has left in the game.
"I made the decision a few months ago that this will be my last year in rugby league," O'Mealey said.
"For me this year is about embrace my footy and soaking it all in.
"I'm not looking to the future yet I just want to live in the moment and enjoy this."
This is the first year the women's State of Origin will be parallel to the men's series, which O'Mealey is adamant will take the women's game to new heights.
And with so much talent coming through the ranks she remains humbled with her spot in the squad.
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"It's very exciting," O'Mealey said.
"We've played the Interstate Challenge for a number of years now, taking no passion away from that but just to be under the men's banner I think it's going to take the girls' game to a whole new level and come Friday night it's going to be one fiery game and it's what people want to see.
"To be honest I was really worried about it this year there's so much talent coming through, no one can get comfortable in their positions and just to be playing alongside these legends, it's very humbling."
O'Mealey is among the veterans who paved the way for women's rugby league to be what it is today and feels she and the new generation of players coming through have a responsibility to continue to grow the game.
"They're (the women that came before them) our biggest supporters and they paved the way for us and it's important for us girls to be the best role models we can for the grassroots of rugby league. They're leaving the game in our hands now, I think it's in good hands and we will do our best to create the best pathways for the girls."
NSW five-eighth Lavina O'Mealey. ©Grant Trouville/NRL Photos
Blues teammate and Jillaroo Rebecca Young who has played alongside and against O'Mealey for many years, told NRL.com that throughout her stellar career she has always lead by example.
"She's had a huge career," Young said.
"A mum from Redfern, with a beautiful supportive family and for her to set the example and show everyone that this is where you need to be at on a professional level has been amazing to watch.
"She always set that bar really high for herself and just continued to achieve it over and over again.
"I couldn't have been more proud playing alongside her in the final world cup last year and the many time before that. She been amazing for all of our people and so many young girl look up to her and strive to be her."
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I’ve gone 49 days without a handshake, says Fashola
Babatunde Fashola, minister of works, power and housing, says he has gone 49 days without a handshake to avoid contracting COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus.
In a post on his social media page on Tuesday, the former governor of Lagos state said this was in compliance with the social distancing directive alongside other measures introduced to combat spread of the novel disease.
“49 days without a handshake. Social Distancing, the new normal. #When was your last handshake?” he wrote on Twitter.
49 days without a handshake. Social Distancing, the new normal.#When was your last handshake?
— Babatunde Fashola (@tundefashola) May 5, 2020
Avoidance of handshakes, regular washing of hands and social distancing are among guidelines recommended by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to combat spread of the pandemic in the country.
So far, Nigeria has recorded 2,950 cases of the killer virus with 98 deaths while 481 infected patients have been discharged.
With the cases of the pandemic on the rise in the country, both the federal and state governments have introduced various initiatives to contain spread of the virus.
President Muhammadu Buhari had earlier ordered residents of Lagos and Ogun states as well as the FCT to stay at home — as part of measures to tackle the disease.
Some state governors also fizzled movements and closed economic activities to ensure people stay at home.
Following several complaints over the economic hardships brought about by the directive, Buhari would later order a gradual easing of the lockdown — which took effect from May 4.
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Many Americans are waiting anxiously for $1,200 in stimulus money to land in their bank accounts but, when the payment arrives, there’s a risk others—namely private debt collectors—could grab it first.
The federal law known as the CARES Act, which authorizes the stimulus, says federal and state governments may not seize the payments to satisfy tax debts, but there isn’t a similar provision for private debts. This means that debt collectors, under a court arrangement known as garnishment, could ask banks to turn over the money to satisfy debts for medical bills, student loans, car payments, or other overdue bills.
In response, a coalition of attorneys general led by New York’s Letitia James sent a letter asking treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin to issue regulations barring debt collectors from seizing the payments. This would put the one-time stimulus payments in the same category as Social Security payments, which are likewise mostly exempt from seizure.
In Michigan, attorney general Dana Nessel became aware of the risk of the payments being seized after hearing of a man whose unemployment check was taken by a debt collector. This spurred her to sign the letter in hopes the Treasury Department takes action before the stimulus payments land in people’s bank accounts in coming days.
“These payments are not a windfall but a bridge to help people pay for groceries and rent,” said a spokesperson for Nessel.
In order to prevent seizures, the Treasury Department could issue the payments with a code instructing banks to ensure third parties could not obtain them. It’s unclear, however, whether this could be done in time to ensure debt collectors could not seize the first wave of payments.
The Treasury Department did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
The letter from the state attorneys general suggest the failure to exempt the stimulus payments from seizure was an oversight. Meanwhile, a bipartisan letter from Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) likewise stated the purpose of the CARES Act would be thwarted if the payments went to debt collectors rather than letting recipients use the funds to buy basic necessities during the global pandemic.
For those worried their stimulus payment will be seized, consumer advocates told NPR that people should quickly withdraw the money or try to direct the funds to a different bank account.
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Maiden Speech of Hon. Lenora Qereqeretabua – Parliament of Fiji
Video of Hon. Lenora Qereqeretabua’s Speech is available here.
Thank you, Madam Speaker.
I return all honour, glory and praise to my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who has sustained me, lifted my head, given me strength and provision during this journey.
It is an honour and privilege to stand in this house to deliver my maiden speech knowing my beloved parents and husband are sitting in the public gallery.
I congratulate you on your reappointment and wish you good health, Madam Speaker. I also offer my congratulations to my former broadcasting colleague Hon Veena Bhatnagar, on her election to the position of Deputy Speaker.
I congratulate the Honourable members of the house especially the ladies on both sides for your election to represent our people here.
The voters definitely want to see a change. I believe that behind having 10 women voted in is the hope that we will transform this house into a place where we will see more inclusiveness and bipartisanship.
I acknowledge the brave and often outspoken contributions of former NFP MP’s Mr Pramod Chand of Labasa and Mr Prem Singh of Nadi.
Madam Speaker, I enter this house at a time when we face serious challenges as a nation;
Where the cost of living is high and the minimum wage is low,
Where the classroom is one of the most stressful places to work,
Where certain sections of the media are either muzzled or have completely lost our trust,
Where the elections campaigning has left many polarised and bitter.
I enter this house at a time;
Where the divide between the haves and the have nots continues to widen,
Where the threat of victimisation is a reality, preventing many individuals, communities and companies from actively and openly supporting political parties opposed to the Fiji First party,
Where returning home and contributing actively in their country is not an option for many intellectuals, academics and professionals because they dared to have views and opinions that differ from government’s.
I enter this house at a time where we lecture the world on climate change but refuse to do the simplest things to reduce carbon emissions, right here at home, in fact right here in this house.
At this time last year, I decided that it was high time I contributed to my country from within these walls. This was after Govt announced that it was going to spend $35, 000 to welcome home a government delegation to the COP 23 meetings in Bonn. A delegation that had gone to work, earning salaries and allowances. I could not believe that this was happening less than 2 years after TC Winston, the most intense tropical cyclone in the southern hemisphere on record as well as the strongest to make landfall in the southern hemisphere, devastated much of the country and tragically claimed 44 lives in the Western, Eastern, Central and Northern Divisions. I could not believe that Govt was prepared to spend $35, 000 on a celebration whilst huge parts of these same divisions still lay in ruin and many children faced the reality of beginning the new school year – January 2018 – still under tents.
I took to social media asking those who agreed with me to share my Facebook status using the hashtag Cancel the Party, and to write to the newspapers pleading with govt to have a change of heart and to instead channel the $35, 000 to more deserving projects including the rehabilitation of TC Winston victims, and ensuring hospitals had basic necessities.
The result of my letter being printed in the paper and the outcry on social media was quick;
There was a flurry of media statements which at first defiantly claimed that my opinion was my own and that the celebrations would continue conveniently using the excuse that Traditional Protocols were important. Yes, these are the same Traditional Protocols that were shamefully set aside just last month for the Traditional welcome for the royals.
The blame was passed onto “well-meaning but naïve civil servants”,
The party was cancelled, and
Finally a toned down and (I hope) cheaper welcome event was decided upon.
But I had made my point and people took notice. If this could happen with one issue, imagine the possibilities! So I joined the fray!
After sitting the FJC exam at Shri Vivekananda High School, now Swami Vivekananda College in Nadi, I went to Canberra to complete high school. One of the units I took was Legal Studies. This is a course that I believe we should seriously look to introducing to year 9 students, if we want to raise Civic minded citizens.
Civics and citizenship education builds students’ knowledge and understanding of the ways in which citizens can actively participate in their country’s diverse society. Students learn about the civic institutions and the processes through which decisions are made for the common good of the community and they also develop the skills and understandings that relate to the organisation of a harmonious democratic society.
These are the skills that will allow students to effectively participate in society and become responsible, informed and active citizens.
The challenge in Fiji right now is NOT that people are uneducated. The challenge is that many are educated just enough to believe what they’ve been told. But not educated enough to question. And here is where tyranny can reign unchecked.
The media provides a vital role in discerning fact from fiction and reporting thereof from a neutral, unbiased perspective.
We assume expertise as well as a professional attitude on the part of the journalists, the providers of our news. This assumption implies something that is of even MORE value than expertise and professionalism: that is TRUST.
In Fiji, our media is either muzzled or has lost our trust.
Misinformation matters because media outlets have great power. They shape the way we understand the world and, ultimately, drive our behaviour. It is no exaggeration to say that their activity can have life-and-death implications.
Indigenous Concerns.
As a member of the indigenous people of this country, I am very conscious of the fact that are only 500, 000 of us on this planet, out of the 7.7billion. Our language is unique to us, as are our indigenous traditions. It is only natural that when there are so few of you, the urge to preserve what can be lost is keenly felt.
It is not racist therefore to want to preserve my language and my traditions. It is not racist to want to ensure that the native traditional lands and fisheries of the first people of Fiji are protected.
The Hon Kuridrani was told to say quote and unquote when he mentioned the traditional titles of the chiefs and chiefly households, he wanted to pay tribute to yesterday, because the Standing Orders prohibit members from speaking their mother tongue. This must change.
This is the people’s house. How is it that we, the people, cannot use our own languages here? These are the languages we learned at birth. These are the languages in which we express our most intimate feelings. Why should this House only be a place for people who can speak good English? How can we talk about preserving our unique languages – our many Fijian dialects, our special Fiji Hindi – if we cannot speak those languages here?
The parliament of New Zealand made Te reo Maori an official language in 1985. MPs in New Zealand can address the house in Te reo with the use of an interpreter. We can have translators in our courts. Why can we not have them in this House?
Eventually we could move to simultaneous translation with trained translators. This is what happens elsewhere. This is the 21st century. We have technology that can record what we say and how we vote. So it is not hard to have simultaneous translation. Good, high quality translators would not just be useful in Parliament. They would have skills we could use in many other settings where dialogue and consultation are required.
This is not about practicalities. This is about being willing to do it. And we should do it. It is about our unity, our dignity as Fijians of all races, and our pride in our country and its culture.
On the subject of Human Rights;
I wish to remind the Hon Members of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, an international campaign to challenge violence against women and girls. The campaign runs every year from 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day.
Now that Fiji has been elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council, I hope that the government will take a long hard look at the Amnesty International Report on Fiji, pointing out the need for government to establish an independent and effective mechanism to investigate and address the systematic use of violence by the security forces and police and to make such reports public.
I have heard in several speeches this week how the Fiji First govt has led the way in Climate Change actions.
Since March 2012 residents and members of the public have been lobbying Government for the protection and NON-Industrialization of Draunibota Bay, in Lami; home to one of the few large remaining stands of mangroves in the Suva area.
An EIA submission by the proposed developers showed major errors. Proper procedures were not followed.
In October 2012 The Bay of Islands Preservation Group was formed. What we do is we raise awareness to Save Draunibota Bay from industry and the destruction of over 36 acres of Mangroves for proposed industrial development. So far, we have been successful.
In 2015 The Hon. Prime Minister stood on the shore of Draunibota Bay and released 7000 young mud- crabs. He gave a speech, and this is what he said:
“Nothing is more important to every Fijian than the preservation of our environment, and especially those living things on which we all depend for food and for making a living. So I’m especially delighted to be here today to celebrate a wonderful event – the release of several thousand baby mud crabs into the wild to help repopulate the mangroves in Draunibota Bay.”
But, in that very same month – April 2015 – the land in Draunitoba Bay was rezoned to allow commercial building, heavy industry and car parking.
In May 2015 we appealed against the Rezoning to the Environment Minister, with a petition signed by 560 people.
Then another developer bought the site, fenced it and cleared it of mangroves.
Two years after we lodged out appeal, in May 2017 the then Minister for Environment, Hon Praveen Bala, disallowed our appeal.
Now approval has been given to build a Paint Factory on the rezoned land. A paint factory, right next to mangroves.
Madam Speaker, did you know that if you want a copy of an Environmental Impact Assessment report you must pay $4.85 per page!
Some EIA reports have hundreds of pages! But you cannot get a soft copy emailed to you. Nor can you go and photocopy the report yourself. So, being able to challenge changes to our environment is a costly exercise. And yet, the people who are most affected by development are often the poorest people. What will the Government do to improve this?
The saga surrounding the destruction of the cloud forest at Wainisavulevu Weir by EFL is another example of how carelessly we view sustainable development, where inadequate public consultations are the norm, where there is a disconnect between the overseas preaching and local action, where there are even attempts to hide the truth.
Let’s come closer to home, or should I say, work.
How many single use PET bottles does this house go through each day, each week? I reckon during one working day, more than 100 single use plastic bottles? For this chamber alone? Multiply that by 5 days and you have a lot of plastic bottles.
I would like to invite this house to please consider phasing out single use plastic water bottles. Our parliamentary offices have filtered water dispensers, which are a blessing. Why can’t all of us honourable members consider bringing our own reusable water bottles from home and filling them up at the dispensers? Or, God forbid, why can we not just drink plain tap water like most of the people who voted us in here?
As one of our sayings from Kadavu goes, “Mai ya so?” I use a reusable water bottle with a filter that I change every two months or so depending on tap water quality.
Secondly – we sure go through a lot of paper in this House. Since we MP’s are being supplied smart phones and laptops, I hope we can use less paper in our communications.
Thirdly is the air-polluting habit of government four-wheel drive vehicles. Waiting for their Honourable passengers, no matter the duration of their meetings or meals, with both engine and air-conditioning running. May I urge honourable members to consider asking their drivers to cease this practice for the sake of cleaner air, our health and environment.
There is a young lady, called AnnMary Raduva who has already made a name for herself as an environmental activist. AnnMary, with the help of her family has started a campaign called “Say No to Balloon Releasing”. AnnMary has written a letter to The Hon PM, in the hope that the Government, along with stakeholders, classify releasing balloons into the air as littering.
Ann Mary started her campaign after watching a balloon release recently to celebrate the launch of Walesi, and after watching a YouTube video with her 11-year-old sister which showed turtles and sea birds dying from swallowing plastics and bits and pieces of balloons.
Ann Mary is 14 years old and is a Year 9 student of Adi Cakobau School; she deserves credit and assistance to not only see her project succeed, but to promote her as an activist.
On Equality
On Equality, I ask the Hon Minister for Education to please look urgently at levelling the playing field, in regards, Education resourcing in the maritime zones and rural areas, so children in Kadavu for example can compete more strongly with their peers in urban centres. This would be a huge step towards true equality.
Hon Koroilavesau on Tuesday said his information was that transportation and shipping had never been better because of the franchise shipping system. I don’t know how many times the Hon Minister travels as an everyday citizen, because while that is true in terms of regularity for us islanders, I invite him to travel like I do, like my parents often do and like most of us islanders do – in vessels that are dangerously over-crowded, where passengers outnumber life-jackets, if you can find them and where there are no safety announcements. I invite all Hon ministers to attempt maritime travel like the majority of this country travels.
To quote Leadership guru, John C Maxwell, “Everything rises and falls on leadership.”
I believe that is the same when it comes to a country; when the leadership is fair, when the leadership is compassionate, when the leadership leads with love first and foremost, you see that reflected in its citizens.”
Having watched the interjections, aping and other behaviour on show in this house over the last four years, I cannot help but be reminded of a school-yard bully and the obligatory gaggle of buddies, always jostling for an approving pat on their backs.
Just about everyone I speak to hopes that we will be better behaved over the next four years. That should be easy to do IF we keep in mind always who put us here and why, and who pays our salaries.
In my first few days in Parliament, I see, hear and feel the ‘might’ of the Govt Side, and hear of how they are the only ones who have and are capable of the many great things quoted endlessly. The Hon PM said in his speech on Monday, “I am here to listen to you and take your concerns seriously. And I am here to build a better future for all Fijians, wherever they may be in the country.”
Well, we on this side of the floor represent 49.6% of the Fijians the Hon PM was talking about. So please take the concerns of that 49.6% of Fijians seriously when we highlight them in this House.
Any Government must remain transparent and answerable to the public at all times, and a good Opposition should put the spotlight on serious issues and have them resolved quickly.
To each of you who believed in me enough to entrust me with your vote, thank you. I will do my utmost to be worthy of the honour and privilege of representing you in parliament.
I thank the leadership of the National Federation Party, Professor Biman Prasad, Mr Pio Tikoduadua, Vice Presidents, Executives and Selection Committee members for deeming me worthy to represent my party, the NFP.
To fellow NFP candidates; we fought a good, clean, issues-based fight without resorting to personal attacks and vitriol. We all should hold our heads high.
I have nothing but gratitude for the NFP Staff and Youth; your energy, positivity, good vibes and tonnes of knowledge continue to be invaluable.
I am grateful to all NFP supporters, blue collar, white collar, no collar, in the factories, offices and on the streets, who campaigned for me, with or without my knowledge, at home and abroad; you are the machinery that drives this push to be that positive change Fiji so desperately needs.
Thank you – To my close family from Dravuni, Buliya and Navoka who were the people I relied on the most to get my message out. My two Tavales, Tamai Oveti at Lomaivuna and Tamai Sala at Navoka, and my brothers Semi Sarasau in Buliya, Jolame Koroivuya in Dravuni and Sailosi Vunidakua in Sakoca . I also thank my Bulou Tauvu Titilia from the chiefly village of Tavualevu for her energy and passion.
To the amazing team of young people who were my polling agents, I am so grateful.
Thank you – Mum and Dad, Poasa, Ana-Lisa, Zac and Em, I could not have gone on this journey without your support from Day 1. .
There are those who kept me in their prayers, from within my church family and from without: thank you for your prayer support.
There are many I will not thank publicly because they risked their jobs and income to support me, a sad reality in today’s Fiji, but I am so grateful to you all.
I pledge to be worthy of your trust in me. I pledge to be the change you and I want to see in parliament and in Fiji. I will need all the help I can get and promise to listen so I can be a good servant.
No one lives forever.
We, our children and their children will reap what we sow. Pride comes before the fall.
Jeremiah 9; 23 – 24; “Thus says the Lord:
“Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might,
Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; But let him who glories, glory in this,
That he understands and knows Me, That I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
For in these I delight,” says the Lord.”
Vinaka saka vakalevu, Bahut dhanyavad, Fai’aksia, Xie Xie, Shukria.
Hon. Pio Tikoduadua - Response to H.E. the President's 2020-2021 Opening of Parliament Speech
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NFP Leader - Response to H.E. the President's Opening Speech for the 2020-2021 Opening of Parliament
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Rediscovering the Master of the Saint George and the Princess: new paintings
The treatment of the hair is again characteristic of
the painter, emphasizing Gabriel’s loose brown mane
tinged with darker tones as in the Prophet Daniel in the
Museo del Prado, the Saint James in Siresa, and the
no-longer-extant Saint Paul from Berlin. Eyebrows, lips
and profiles also match those in the works mentioned
above. Thus, although the panel of Saint George and the
Princess is better finished, the faces of the archangel and
Mary closely resemble those in the master’s eponymous
painting. The concomitances with this work are evident,
not only in the aspects already indicated, but also in
the configuration of the heads and their orientation.
Moreover, the archangel’s face faithfully replicates the
characteristics of the face of the donor accompanying
Saint John the Baptist in one of the missing panels from
the Kaiser Friederich Museum in Berlin.
Another work that can be attributed to the Master
of Saint George and the Princess is a panel of Saint
Sebastian today in Gaasbeek Castle (Lennik, Belgium)
(fig. 10). This panel was published by Post who linked
it (with a certain amount of equivocation) to Martín
de Soria, noting that the stylemes on the saint’s face
were the same as those of the male donor of the panel
in Berlin.48 The painting is of exceptional quality and
stands out as one of the best works by the Master of
Saint George and the Princess. The saint is portrayed in
full length, wearing olive green calzas (a type of trousers)
as well as a carmine tunic bordered with ermine.
Above the figure there is a luxurious layer of gold
with floral decorations made in estofado which imitates
contemporary silk fabrics. In his hands he holds a bow
and an arrow, his most usual iconographical attributes,
rendered in embossed and gilded gesso. This technique
was also used in the gold background, for the spurs
on the saint’s boots, and for some of the elements
of the sheath that hangs from his belt. The halo also
features embossed gesso with concentric shapes very
close to those of the paintings previously analyzed.
Saint Sebastian appears here in a more or less credible
space, standing on a distinctive tiled floor and before a
majestic wooden throne.
Fig. 10 / Master of Saint
George and the Princess,
Saint Sebastian, Gaasbeek
(Lennik, Belgium),
Gaasbeek Castle.
The overall result is very effective. The saint appears
as a true medieval knight with spurs like those of the
donor in the Altarpiece of Saint George and the Princess. His
status is evident from his clothing, as well as from the
golden cape and ermine cuffs of his tunic. He is the
archetypal fifteenth-century nobleman. This type of
representation was a successful model in Aragonese
lands during the Late Gothic period, also seen in
some works by the painter Martín Bernat (doc. 14501505) such as the Saint Sebastian from the church of
Piedratajada (Saragossa), today preserved in the Museo
Diocesano de Jaca; in another work formerly conserved
in the collection of Dámaso Escudero de Corella;49 and
in an anonymous painting which was many years ago in
the Esteve Collection (Barcelona).50
Stylistically, the face of the saint exhibits many of the
details discussed above. Two of the clearest parallels
are with Saint Peter and with the soldier who holds
Christ by his right arm in the Betrayal auctioned at
Christie’s. The Saint Sebastian also shares with that
work the curious chromatic treatment of unrealistic
and dingy skin-tones, which in the case of the panel in
Gaasbeek are greyish. The facial features of the Saint
Sebastian in Gaasbeek are furthermore concomitant
with those of Saint John the Baptist and Saint Peter
formerly in Berlin. Sebastian’s face is also not far from
that of Saint John the Baptist in Siresa, although the
latter is a work of less quality. In short, the face of the
figure in Gaasbeek is a type similar to that of Saint
George in Barcelona and of the prophet at the Prado,
with whom it shares, additionally, the same-shaped ear
which in Gaasbeek is half hidden by the saint’s hair.
This detail also appears in Saint John the Baptist in the
monastery of Siresa, and is a constant in the works of
the painter.
Another outstanding work presented here is a
Lamentation over the Dead Christ preserved in the Museu
Maricel de Sitges (Barcelona) (fig. 11). It is a little
known painting which has sometimes been related
to the Master of Belmonte,51 a painter active in the
Calatayud area in the second half of the fifteenth
century. My recent revision of the oeuvre of that
master has led me to discard such an attribution.52
Instead, this panel seems to me to be one of the most
interesting works by the Master of Saint George
and the Princess. Although nothing is known of its
provenance, an Aragonese origin seems beyond doubt
not only on the basis of its formal characteristics,
but also on account of the fact that it belonged to
the collection of Jesús Pérez Rosales which included
numerous Gothic paintings from Aragon.53
The painting has a horizontal composition and
format, meaning that it is likely to have been the main
compartment of a predella. Mary presides over the
composition, holding in her lap the dead Christ. The
Virgin’s affliction is evident from her facial expression
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Ill Gotten Games
is creating Tabletop games, 3D-printable miniatures, toys, design tutorials
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$1 or more per game/model – you're awesome for supporting us and recognizing the amount of work we put into our open source products. (Pat yourself on the back please!) You'll receive notice of any new models we release on Thingiverse, plus you'll get access to miniatures we release in the feed, including prototype pieces, weekly miniatures (a new release every Monday), and more.
In addition, as long as you're pledged at this or any level above it, you may freely sell any 3d-printed versions of designs we've uploaded to Thingiverse that are normally posted as "Non-Commercial." This waives the "Non-Commercial" stipulation attached to our designs, though we would still like attribution in text on your Etsy, eBay, or similar storefront posts where applicable, and the item must be a finished, printed product (not a re-sale of a digital file).
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$5 or more per game/model – Each month (about a week or so in), we'll send you a link to a Drop Box folder that allows you to download any of the 3d-printable models (miniatures or terrain sets) that are normally for sale on our online storefront for free whenever you want. These folders will be updated throughout the month as we add new items.
About Ill Gotten Games
Since we debuted our first 3D print-and-play game, Pocket-Tactics, we've been rolling out games and miniatures and have established ourselves as forerunners in the 3D printing tabletop game community. We love making open source games, toys and models, and we're going to keep doing that, but with your support, we can do it even better. Funding our artists and developers for their time and resources will allow us to spend more time designing models and growing our ever-expanding product range, and will give us access to better programs and technology to help us keep up with the cutting edge in home game fabrication. Whether you're using 3D printers, paper craft, or proxying with your own collection of game supplies and miniatures, we have free games that you can use and a growing online community to which you can join and contribute.
HOW DO I ACCESS MY REWARDS?
Patreon isn't a storefront, but an interactive way to support artists. That said, we love the Patreon experience and do like to reward our supporters, so patrons at the $5+ levels gain access to our entire back catalog and everything we sell as it comes out.
We'll be sending out Drop Box links (via personal messages) about a week or so into each new month. This new link will replace the old one (which will be active right up until we send the new ones). The Drop Box folders are separated by product type (Miniatures, Terrain, and Games), and each of those folders is broken into sub-folders based on products within those categories.
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Legends of Runeterra, the League of Legends card game, begins open beta testing next week
By Andy Chalk 12 January 2020
The open beta will also mark the start of the first ranked season.
(Image credit: Riot Games)
We described Riot's League of Legends-based card battler Legends of Runeterra last October as having "more than a passing resemblance to Hearthstone and Artifact," while still being more than a straight-up clone of either. A few lucky followers have been able to try it for themselves in previous "preview patches," but on January 24 the game will become available to everyone with the start of the open beta.
The open beta release will see the addition of a variety of new features including a friends list and "challenge-a-friend" functionality, ranked play, new boards and guardians, and updates to more than 20 cards. It will also kick off Legend of Runeterra's first ranked season, described as a "beta season" that will run until full release. Existing preview patch accounts will be reset, but Riot emphasized that there will be no further resets once the open beta is live, so everything you earn from that point on is yours to keep.
The Legends of Runeterra open beta will begin at 11 am PT/1 pm ET on January 24, or one day earlier for anyone who's played in the preview patches or pre-registered at playruneterra.com prior to January 20. (So you should probably do that.) Playing during the open beta phase will also get you a Moonstruck Poro Guardian when Legends of Runeterra goes fully live, which is expected to happen later this year. A detailed breakdown of all the changes coming in the open beta will be provided in the patch notes, which will be released at 11 am PT/1 pm ET on January 22.
Andy Chalk
Andy covers the day-to-day happenings in the big, wide world of PC gaming—the stuff we call "news." In his off hours, he wishes he had time to play the 80-hour RPGs and immersive sims he used to love so much.
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Policymakers & Community Leaders
Payers & Providers
CLOUD 101 FAQs
Behind Prescription Drug Overdose Statistics: Louie Miceli
Search the Opioid Library
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Source: National Safety Council
Louie Miceli started using prescription opioids after a sports injury. In this video, Louie’s mother and friend speak of Louie and how his prescription eventually led to addiction, the use of heroin, and his death from overdose in 2012. Produced by the National Safety Council in 2014.
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Newly Renovated Oregon Convention Center Unveiled
Newly Renovated Oregon Convention...
Oct. 25, 2019, press
by Rebecca Ellis, OPB
The Oregon Convention Center has emerged from a 14-month renovation looking, contractors hope, a little more like Oregon.
The carpets, black and grey with green splotches, are meant to resemble lichen. Staff say the new ballroom ceiling takes its inspiration from the forest. And the wooden slats on the ceiling create a topographical map of the Cascade mountain range.
The design changes, unveiled to community members Monday afternoon, are part of a $40 million renovation that Convention Center leaders hope will boost Portland’s image as a top-notch meeting destination.
“We spent a lot of time in convention centers,” said Craig Stroud, the center’s executive director. “Usually, when you’re in them, you feel like you could be in any convention center across the United States. We wanted to change that. We wanted people in the Oregon Convention Center to know they’re in Oregon.”
Read complete story on OPB
OCC renovation OPB Craig Stroud
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Otter Rock north of Newport features winemaker, wild coastline with resort (photos)
Updated Jan 10, 2019; Posted Nov 02, 2013
Otter Rock neighborhood near Newport
Gallery: Otter Rock neighborhood near Newport
By Terry Richard | The Oregonian/OregonLive
What is your favorite neighborhood within 15 minutes of Newport?
Otter Rock is one of those great detours off U.S. 101, the Oregon Coast Highway, similar to but not as long as the Three Capes Route in Tillamook County or the Cape Arago Highway in Coos County.
Those two routes show up on the Oregon Department of Transportation's state map, but the Otter Rock loop is too short and too close to 101 to warrant that kind of attention.
The easiest way to travel the Otter Rock Loop is north to south, since a narrow section of road along the way allows one-way travel in that direction only. You don't need a map to drive the loop; just watch for the north entry about two miles south of Depoe Bay, or the south entry about one mile north of Beverly Beach State Park.
The south entry doesn't go all the way through, but you can reach the three main features from that direction: the community of Otter Rock and
Devils Punch Bowl State Natural Area
, the
Inn at Otter Crest
and the lookout gift shop atop Cape Foulweather.
The Inn at Otter Crest is an oceanside condominium resort, with a gorgeous view. It is a little isolated, but some people like it that way. Its main amenities are a restaurant, tennis courts, trails to the beach, swimming pool and conference room. If you're the type who can't stand too much isolation, you'll likely be driving to Lincoln City or Newport during your stay at the inn.
lookout building at Cape Foulweahter
is privately owned. Perched at 500 feet above the ocean, it has a fabulous view of the coast, including south down to the Inn at Otter Rock. The
Otter Crest State Scenic Viewpoint
is also at the same parking lot
Devils Punch Bowl is the main attraction at Otter Rock, the small community overlooking the ocean just to the north of Moolack Beach. Otter Rock is the location of Mo's West Restaurant (closed in winter) and the
Flying Dutchman Winery
(tasting room open every day except Christmas). Read my story on Newport to
learn more about the winery
and winemaker Richard Cutler.
From the Otter Rock parking lot, a long saircase lead down to Moolack Beach, which stretches south four miles to the north side of Yaquina Head.
Continuing coverage of travel in the Newport area.
The other don't-miss feature of the Otter Rock Loop is a bridge at the north end, just after the loop leaves U.S. 101. It was originally designed by Conde McCullough, Oregon's master bridge builder of the 1920s and '30s, and recently refurbished by ODOT. This bridge is a real beauty. There is a scenic lookout to park at to view the bridge. Here's a link to a pdf file by ODOT on McCullough's bridges; this bridge is No. 8, over
Rocky Creek
Learn more about Newport from Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce, 555 S.W. Coast Highway, Newport, 541-265-8801,
newportchamber.org
; or
visittheoregoncoast.com
. For Toledo, its Toledo Chamber of Commerce, 541-336-3183,
visittoldeooregon.com
-- Terry Richard
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Osparna (os-par-naw’) – Thoroughly; With (all) diligence
Troy M. Pearsall
Prior to co-founding Osparna, Troy was most recently CIO of IQT where he oversaw the development of their due diligence platforms. During his tenure at IQT, Troy served in various executive roles responsible for IQT’s technology diligence and evaluation process.
Previously, he led the Business Intelligence and Analytics team at GSI Commerce, Inc. Troy has held a variety of leadership and technical roles in the software, defense contracting, and strategic communications industries.
Matt McKnight
Prior to co-founding Osparna, Matt was President of LMN Solutions, a defense contractor, growing it from $0 to $20M in annual revenue in 7 years. While at LMN, Matt developed the initial version of IQT’s due diligence platform.
Matt’s current focus is in the areas of imagery analysis, scalable data analytics, cybersecurity, and machine learning.
Linnet States
Prior to co-founding Osparna, Linnet served as the product lead for the internal due diligence platform at IQT and as the principal developer for IQT’s investment workflow automation tool.
Prior to IQT, Linnet led and supported programs for the NSA and DoD. During that time, she was a Software Engineer at Technology Management Associates, an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton and a Senior Systems Analyst at Lockheed Martin
Carl Fyffe
VP of Engineering
Carl joined Osparna in 2018. Prior to joining Osparna, Carl was an early member of several startups. He has been instrumental in guiding more than five products from conception to launch.
Carl has been the engineering lead for multiple teams and integral to cross team communication to ensure the goals of the organization are met. Carl’s career has been focused on developing systems in analytics, decision support, and large scale data processing.
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Pelham Falls Neighborhood
Swim Team on Facebook
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Our Pools and Swim Team
Piranhas and Guppies
Pelham Falls Swim Team was organized in 1993, and has grown steadily to its current 120+ members. We are a developmentally competitive swim team designed to teach proper technique, good sportsmanship, and encourage a love of the sport. The swim team is a parent-run organization and it takes all of us working together to make this a success! Remember, when your child becomes a swimmer, you become a volunteer. We will have swim meet volunteer sign-ups during registrations. PFST is an 8-10 week season during the summer where you and your child(ren) get to meet with old and new friends, learn something new about swimming, and have some fun!
It’s never too late to be a Pelham Falls Piranha or Guppy! We would like to stress that your child doesn’t have to be an experienced swimmer to join our team. As a matter of fact, we love all the new swimmers that join us every year. It is amazing to see them improve their swimming skills in such a short period of time. Piranha's only requirement is that your child is capable of swimming across the pool without help. Our Guppy Team is for our younger swimmers. Our magnificent coaches will take care of stroke and turn development and proficiency. We would like to welcome all returning swimmers and look forward to meeting new swimmers.
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Part of Modern Library Classics
Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides
Random House Group | Modern Library
5.2"W x 8"H x 0.65"D | 8 oz | 24 per carton
On sale Jun 01, 1998 | 304 Pages | 978-0-375-75151-6
Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.”
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid jade-faced painters of Tokio who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion. The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive. The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement, and gave rise to so many strange conjectures.
As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there. But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.
"It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done," said Lord Henry, languidly. "You must certainly send it next year to the Grosvenor. The Academy is too large and too vulgar. Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse. The Grosvenor is really the only place."
"I don't think I shall send it anywhere," he answered, tossing his head back in that odd way that used to make his friends laugh at him at Oxford. "No: I won't send it anywhere."
Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows, and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy opium-tainted cigarette. "Not send it anywhere? My dear fellow, why? Have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men quite jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."
"I know you will laugh at me," he replied, "but I really can't exhibit it I have put too much of myself into it."
Lord Henry stretched himself out on the divan and laughed.
"Yes, I knew you would; but it is quite true, all the same."
"Too much of yourself in it! Upon my word, Basil, I didn't know you were so vain; and I really can't see any resemblance between you, with your rugged strong face and your coal-black hair, and this young Adonis, who looks as if he was made out of ivory and rose-leaves. Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you — well, of course you have an intellectual expression, and all that. But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think. A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful. Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks. I feel quite sure of that. He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence. Don't flatter yourself, Basil: you are not in the least like him.
"You don't understand me, Harry," answered the artist. "Of course I am not like him. I know that perfectly well. Indeed, I should be sorry to look like him. You shrug your shoulders? I am telling you the truth. There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live, undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They neither bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are — my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks — we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly."
"Dorian Gray? Is that his name?" asked Lord Henry, walking across the studio towards Basil Hallward.
"Yes, that is his name. I didn't intend to tell it to you."
"But why not?"
"Oh, I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance to one's life. I suppose you think me awful foolish about it?"
"Not at all," answered Lord Henry, "not at all, my dear Basil. You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. I never know where my wife is, and my wife never knows what I am doing. When we meet — we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke's — we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces. My wife is very good at it, much better, in fact, than I am. She never gets confused over her dates, and I always do. But when she does find me out, she makes no row at all. I sometimes wish she would; but she merely laughs at me."
"I hate the way you talk about your married life, Harry," said Basil Hallward, strolling towards the door that led into the garden. "I believe that you are really a very good husband, but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are an extraordinary fellow. You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose."
"Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know," cried Lord Henry, laughing; and the two young men went out into the garden together, and ensconced themselves on a long bamboo seat that stood in the shade of a tall laurel bush. The sunlight slipped over the polished leaves. In the grass, white daisies were tremulous.
After a pause, Lord Henry pulled out his watch. "I am afraid I must be going, Basil," he murmured, "and before you go, I insist on your answering a question I put to you some time ago."
"What is that?" said the painter, keeping his eyes fixed on the ground.
"You know quite well."
"I do not, Harry."
"Well, I will tell you what it is. I want you to explain to me why you won't exhibit Dorian Gray's picture. I want the real reason."
"I told you the real reason."
"No you did not. You said it was because there was too much of yourself in it. Now, that is childish."
"Harry," said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit the picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my soul."
Lord Henry laughed. "And what is that?" he asked.
"I will tell you," said Hallward; but an expression of perplexity came over his face.
"I am all expectation, Basil," continued his companion, glancing at him.
"Oh, there is really very little to tell, Harry," answered the painter; "and I am afraid you will hardly understand it. Perhaps you will hardly believe it."
Lord Henry smiled, and, leaning down, plucked a pink-petalled daisy from the grass, and examined it. "I am quite sure I shall understand it," he replied, gazing intently at the little golden white-feathered disk, "and as for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible."
The wind shook some blossoms from the trees, and the heavy lilac-blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in the languid air. A grasshopper began to chirrup by the wall, and like a blue thread a long thing dragon-fly floated past on its brown gauze wings. Lord Henry felt as if he could hear Basil Hallward's heart beating, and wondered what was coming.
"The story is simply this," and the painter after some time. "Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's. You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge over-dressed dowagers and tedious Academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me. I turned half-way round, and saw Dorian Gray for the first time. When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my soul, my very art itself. I did not want any external influence in my life. You know I did not want any external influence in my life. I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray. Then— but I don't know how to explain it to you. Something seemed to tell me that I was on the verge of a terrible crisis in my life. I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows. I grew afraid, and turned to quite the room. It was not conscience that made me do so; it was a sort of cowardice. I take no credit to myself for trying to escape."
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all."
"I don't believe that, Harry, and I don't believe you do either. However, whatever was my motive — and it may have been pride, for I used to be very proud — I certainly struggled to the door. There, of course, I stumbled against Lady Brandon. 'You are not going to run away so soon, Mr. Hallward?' she screamed out. You know her curiously shrill voice?"
"Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty," said Lord Henry, pulling the daisy to bits with his long, nervous fingers.
"I could not get rid of her. She brought me up to Royalties, and people with Stars and Garters, and elderly ladies with gigantic tiaras and parrot noses. She spoke of me as her dearest friend. I had only met her once before, but she took it into her head to lionize me. I believe some picture of mine had made a great success at the time, at least had been chattered about in the penny newspapers, which is the nineteenth-century standard of immortality. Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me. We were quite close, almost touching. Our eyes met again. It was reckless of me, but I asked Lady Brandon to introduce me to him. perhaps it was not so reckless, after all. It was simply inevitable. We would have spoken to each other without any introduction. I am sure of that. Dorian told me so afterwards. He, too, felt that we were destined to know each other."
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A Place in the Country
Far from the Madding Crowd (Movie Tie-in Edition)
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The Essential Writings of Rousseau
The Essential Prose of John Milton
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A new identity for the most precious brand in the world.
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Pentagram carefully reviewed each element of the existing brand, looking at its design ethos, its designers, items that are sacrosanct to the marque and the unique relationship the marque maintains with its clients.
The new, more subtle and refined Wordmark is based on an original art deco drawing of the Rolls-Royce Wordmark from the 1930s.
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For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday
Imprint: Theatre Communications Group
Paperback : 9781559365598, 144 pages, June 2018
After their father dies, five siblings find themselves around the kitchen table of their childhood, pouring whiskey and sharing memories. The eldest, Ann, reminisces about her days playing Peter Pan at the local children’s theater, and soon the five are transported back to Neverland. For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday is a fantastical exploration of the enduring bonds of family, the resistance to “growing up,” and the inevitability of growing old.
“It’s hard to imagine another play that deals so beautifully and delicately with growing up, growing old, dying, God, where does your consciousness go when you die, should we be terrified, gender inequity, childhood, parental approval or the lack thereof, religious belief, loss of religious belief, yearning for ritual even after the loss of belief, how fiction can seem more resonant and meaningful to us than fact. I was transported…but strangely felt as if I was transported deeply into my own consciousness. I only wish my mother was still alive and could have seen it!” —Cynthia Nixon
“I don’t know any playwright who trusts her audience as much as Sarah Ruhl does, and for me, the rewards of that trust are enormous. The off-kilter structure and the drifting and the deliberately meandering feel of the writing led to a kind of transcendent emotional power—you’re thrown off balance by the style of storytelling, and then hit with a solid punch. Absolutely virtuoso playwriting. ” —Jason Robert Brown
“Having For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday to transport me back to my childhood now that ‘no one is standing sentry between (me) and death’ is a gift for which I lack adequate words to thank the playwright who wrote it for me. ” —Kathleen Kehoe Ruhl (the playwright’s mother)
“Sarah Ruhl imbues the fantastical with such a singular logic that is only hers, but becomes yours…She gives a map to a kind of preternatural joy; only when the curtain comes down do you remember that we cannot fly, time travel, or conjure our departed loved ones. I wept at the end of this play, not only from its glorious and impossibly inventive resolution, but from having to depart another hilarious and divinely perverse world that Sarah created with her elegance and bottomless humanity. ” —Mary Louise Parker
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Anthony Michael Bourdain was an American celebrity chef, author, travel documentarian, and television personality who was born on June 25, 1956 (birthday/date of birth/born) and is 61 years of Age as in 2018 (how old is). He is 6 Feet 4 inches in height (how tall is). His weight is 85 Kgs. He holds an American nationality and his ethnicity is mixed (French, Spanish and Ashkenazi Jewish). He is famous for his book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly in 2000. He Died on June 8, 2018 (aged 61) and his place of death was Kaysersberg-Vignoble, Haut-Rhin, France. Cause of the death was Suicide by hanging.
Chef Anthony Bourdain has dated Nancy Putkoski, Ottavia Busia, Asia Argento (Girlfriends).
Talking about his family. He is very close to his family. He is a married man. His Wife/Spouse name is Nancy Putkoski, Ottavia Busia, (Wife/Spouse). He has 1 children/Kids /baby. His daughter name is Ariane Bourdain. Anthony Michael Bourdain Parents are Pierre Bourdain (Father/Dad) and Gladys Bourdain (Mother/Mom). His siblings are Christopher Bourdain (Brothers). Christopher Bourdain is Anthony younger brother. His house is in U.S.
About his wife - Anthony Bourdain married his girlfriend Nancy Putkoski in 1985 She was studying along with him in at Dwight-Englewood school. He didnt have any children with his wife
Nancy Putkoski. He got divorce with his first wife (School girlfriend). His second wife name is Ottavia Busia. Ottavia Busia is an Italian MMA Fighter. Anthony Michael Bourdain got married to her on 20 April 2007 she was seen in No Reservations episode many times.
Ottavia Busia and Anthony became proud parents of a daughter. His daughter name is Ariane. His daughter Ariane was born in 2007 (birthday). Anthony Bourdain books can be brought online. His best books are Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, Appetites: A Cookbook, Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook, No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach.
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What is his Real Name?
His real name is Anthony Michael Bourdain
What is his nick name?
His nick name is Tony, Anthony
What is Anthony Bourdain (Chef) Profession?
He was an American celebrity chef, author, travel documentarian, and television personality
Anthony Bourdain books can be brought online.
His best books are Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, Appetites: A Cookbook, Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook, No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach.
He is famous for his book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly in 2000.
What is Anthony Bourdain (Chef) Educational Qualification?
He has done his graduation
School he went is Dwight-Englewood School
College he went is Vassar College
The Culinary Institute of America
Anthony Bourdain (Chef) Nationality?
He holds an American nationality and his ethnicity is mixed (French, Spanish and Ashkenazi Jewish).
Anthony Bourdain (Chef) Birth Place?
His birthplace is New York City, U.S.
Hometown/ Residence?
His Hometown is New York City, U.S.
His Body Measurement/Figure?
His body measurements are Not Known
Eye Colour?
His eye color is Brown
Hair Colour?
His hair color is Black
Anthony Bourdain (Chef) Religion /Caste?
He dont follow any religion
Zodiac Sign/Sun Sign/Horoscope?
His Sun Sign is Cancer
What is Anthony Bourdain (Chef) age/birthday/DOB/real age/ date of birth /birthday date? (As in 2018)
His age is 61 years and his date of birth is June 25, 1956 (birthday)
Died age/ death reason/ date place / Died date
He Died on June 8, 2018 (aged 61) and his place of death was Kaysersberg-Vignoble, Haut-Rhin, France. Cause of the death was Suicide by hanging.
Anthony Bourdain (Chef) Girlfriend/Wife /dating /Affairs?
Dating /Girlfriend Name/Affairs - Nancy Putkoski, Ottavia Busia, Asia Argento
Wife/Spouse Name - Nancy Putkoski, Ottavia Busi
Anthony Bourdain (Chef) Height in feet?
He measures 6 Feet 4 inches in height (how tall is).
What is Anthony Bourdain (Chef) weight?
His weight is 85 Kgs.
Is Anthony Bourdain (Chef) Married?
He is Divorced
Anthony Bourdain (Chef) Family Details/ parents/ family background?
Parents /Father Name- Pierre Bourdain
Parents /Mother Name- Gladys Bourdain
Siblings/ Sisters Name - Christopher Bourdain
Siblings/Brothers Name - Not Known
Wife/Spouse Name - Not Known
Baby /Children/Kids/Son Name- None
Baby/ Children/Kids/Daughter - Ariane Bourdain
His First Film Movie Debut?
His theatrical film was for the movie Far Cry in the year 2008
TV First show was Late Night With Conan O’Brien in the year 2002
His Marital Status?
Anthony Bourdain (Chef) Wedding dates/ Marriage date
Anthony Bourdain (Chef) Wedding date/ Marriage date
Anthony Bourdain (Chef) Wedding date/ Marriage date is
Nancy Putkoski. He got divorce with his first wife (School girlfriend).
His second wife name is Ottavia Busia. Ottavia Busia is an Italian MMA Fighter. Anthony Michael Bourdain got married to her on 20 April 2007 she was seen in No Reservations episode many times. Ottavia Busia and Anthony became proud parents of a daughter. His daughter name is Ariane. His daughter Ariane was born in 2007 (birthday).
Home & House Address
New York City, U.S.
His Salary is Not Known
His Net Worth is Not Known
Anthony Bourdain (Chef) hot
His smoking?
- Not Known
Anthony Bourdain (Chef) Movies / All film list / Dramas list
Anthony Bourdain Movies
Wasted! The Story Of Food Waste
Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent
Bone in the Throat
Anthony Bourdain (Chef) New Movie/Film/Upcoming movies/latest movie list /New Drama /Upcoming Serials/ Show
Television show /Tv Serial/ Tv Shows / serials
Anthony Bourdain TV shows
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
A Cook's Tour
The Mind of a Chef
Anthony Bourdain: Explore Parts Unknown
His facebook
He is active on facebook on https://www.facebook dot com/AnthonyBourdain/
His twitter
He is active on twitter on https://twitter dot com/bourdain?lang=en
His Instagram
He is active on Instagram on https://www.instagram dot com/anthonybourdain/?hl=en
contact number details /new number /personal phone number / contact details
Images/Photo/Picture of Anthony Bourdain (Chef) /wallpapers/pictures /gallery /new photos
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Ep.122 - Dai
Meeting with Dai is all about having a great time. I enjoyed every minute we discussed life and how to become a better human being together. I'll let him introduce himself: "Dai Manuel is a super dad, dating his wife, with a lead by example way of living and a contagious personality, who is on a mission to positively impact one million role models around the globe to lead a FUN-ctionally fit life"Website: www.DaiManuel.comFacebook: www.facebook.com/daimanuel Twitter: www.twitter.com/daimanuelInstagram: www.instagram.com/daimanuelLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daimanuel/ Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/daimanuel This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.121 - Laki
Laki has dealt with a lot in his life: anger management, mental health, substance abuse. This is why I am so appreciative of his openness and generosity to discuss his life story. I hope you enjoy as much as I did my recording with Laki. Here's links to a few of his projects: Youtube Accounts: Mental Health Casual: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxGcHSvrpP-MEdw7rxzy0A (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnxGcHSvrpP-MEdw7rxzy0A) Anime casuals: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBm5RcuQUxjBfxGTsIRzeHg (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBm5RcuQUxjBfxGTsIRzeHg) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mentalhealthcasual/ (https://www.instagram.com/mentalhealthcasual/) Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnimeCasuals (https://twitter.com/AnimeCasuals) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.120 - Noa
As I mentioned while discussing with Noa, there are times I sit with guests and wonder if they've been debriefed about my own life story to then tell me while we record the discussion. Not necessarily the facts and events that has plastered Noa's life (he has quite an amazing and difficult one) but in some of the feelings and emotions that he shared he felt while going through those difficult times. Thank you Noa for your wisdom and knowledge of the program. Instagram: @noashaw26 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/noashaw26 (https://www.facebook.com/noashaw26) https://www.noashaw.com/ His Podcast: "I'm here to help the podcast with Noa Shaw": https://www.stitcher.com/show/im-here-to-help-podcast-with-noa-shaw (https://www.stitcher.com/show/im-here-to-help-podcast-with-noa-shaw) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
As I mentioned while discussing with Noa, there are times I sit with guests and wonder if they've been debriefed about my own life story to then tell me while we record the discussion. Not necessarily the facts and events that has plastered Noa's life (he has quite an amazing and difficult one) but in some of the feelings and emotions that he shared he felt while going through those difficult times. Thank you Noa for your wisdom and knowledge of the program. Instagram: @noashaw26Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/noashaw26https://www.noashaw.com/His Podcast: "I'm here to help the podcast with Noa Shaw": https://www.stitcher.com/show/im-here-to-help-podcast-with-noa-shaw
Ep.119 - Bobbie
Meeting with Bobbie was a refreshing experience in a way that I don't often have the opportunity to discuss what I would describe as a dry addiction: gambling doesn't, at his first look, alter your brain as does alcohol or drugs. Despite it, Bobbie has share with me how she felt under a gambling spell. Recovery has changed through the years, and Bobbie’s experience with Gamblers Anonymous, inpatient treatment, self development , and working with the Center for Problem have helped her develop her own spin on living a bet free healthy courageous life. She is available online here: https://www.facebook.com/bobbie.malatesta/ (https://www.facebook.com/bobbie.malatesta/) https://www.instagram.com/bobbietheawesome_321nokiddin/ (https://www.instagram.com/bobbietheawesome_321nokiddin/) Web: http://321nokiddin.com (321nokiddin.com) Email: bobbie@321nokiddin.com This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.118 - Robin
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It was a pleasure meeting with Robin. She introduced me to the darkness and the challenges that eating disorder is in your everyday life. She was open to sharing everything and I am thankful for that. Thank you Robin. In her own words: During her 25-year MBA career, Robin Clare yearned to live her authentic mission. Yet, she struggled with food addiction and bulimia. In successful recovery, Robin wrote Feast & Famine: Healing Addiction with Grace and created The Write Recovery Program. The program is designed to heal your suffering and inspire others through your writing. She is a best-selling spiritual self-help author, life coach, energy healer, and recovery professional. Website: http://www.clare-ity.com/ (www.clare-ity.com) IG: #clareitybyrobin FB: #clareitywithrobin This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.117 - Cassie
Dec 12th, 20201h 6m
My conversation with Cassie has taught me a lot about self-deprecation and self-perception of ourselves. This is such an eye opener to realize how much we can see ourselves in such a bad way while, as I told Cassie, if we would ask the people that are around us at the same time this self-deprecation happens, they would most probably talk of you positively and would never have known that we have this self-image. This was a great conversation of her upbringing and substance consumption to embracing her passion and living her dream life. You can find Cassie on social medias at the links below: Instagram: cassangerosa.art Facebook: Pet Portraits by Cassie This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.116 - Katja
Dec 5th, 20201h 8m
Straight from Germany, Katja has been kind enough to skip some sleep to accept my invitation to talk with me about her journey to the deepest ends of trying to find herself and find acceptance and self-love to now being a inspiring human being that works daily in making her life and life of others better. She can be found online here: @sober_yogakate This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.115 - Sinead
Nov 28th, 20201h 17m
Sinead, a talented tattoo artist, has open her heart and guts to share with me her tumultuous path to self-destruction and then bouncing back to live a great life in peace and sobriety. She is living proof that, even in environment where substances and vice is nearby, you can definitely turn around and grow to a life in peace. It was a pleasure talking with her and you can find her work and inspiration in life below: Instagram: @sineadstewart @sineadtattoos http://www.sineadstewart.com/ (www.sineadstewart.com) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.114 - Dustin
Nov 21st, 20201h 13m
Dustin has opened up to all of his life story and early trauma that has initiated his rabbit hole of substance abuse. He then found himself, picked himself up and his now realizing stuff that he would have never EVER imagined. He is also quite involved in his community to help his next of kin in getting better. He is a great human being that I can't wait for you to hear. In his own words: "I think the biggest is that no matter what the world throws at us, there is hope. Through everything we go through in our journey of battling our disease, a way out has been blazed by the people before us. I am grateful for that and the life I live today. I have a life and sense of freedom today and face my fears no matter what the world throws at us, and 2020 has thrown a lot at all of us, I think the recovery community has a unique opportunity to give back to the world and help generations heal wounds that we are used to working with. It is important for me to give back to the community that gave so freely to me and be a productive member of society and I am blessed to do that each and every day." Links: https://www.instagram.com/coressel/ (https://www.instagram.com/coressel/) https://www.facebook.com/coressel/ (https://www.facebook.com/coressel/) https://twitter.com/dustincoressel/ (https://twitter.com/dustincoressel/) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.113 - Chris
Nov 14th, 202055m 30s
Chris has had a crazy wild ride. He was generous and kind enough to open the doors of his life story so that everyone can hear how someone can get to an hopeless position to overcoming all obstacles and bloom. He is running his own podcast now and is in a fantastic position in life. Here are all the places you can find him online: https://anchor.fm/lightofsuccess (https://anchor.fm/lightofsuccess) - His podcast Instagram is @depthsofdarkside Facebook is: From the Depths of Darkness to the Light of Success. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.112 - Christine
Nov 7th, 20201h 17m
Christine has been generous of her time and soul to share with me her personal story. It was such an interesting rollercoaster of a life and definitely one that I will remember for a long time. I am nothing but grateful of the generosity of my guests and Christine made this journey of mine a blast to do. You can find Christine at the links here: Instagram: @frenchy5_1983 Her personal email frenchy5_1983@hotmail.com Also, Christine works for a popcorn company that hired those who have been incarcerated or who suffered from a drug addiction. Go check @comebacksnacks on Instagram or http://www.comebacksnacks.com/ (www.comebacksnacks.com) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.111 - Joseph
Oct 31st, 20201h 2m
Joseph is the founder of ELC (Efficacy Life Coaching). He is a health and wellness coach, speaker, influencer, strategic interventionist, knowledge broker, and spiritual warrior. Joseph lived two decades in the grips of addiction to alcohol and drugs. He has been to the edge, hung himself over the edge, and with grit, determination, and consistency along with a lot of help from higher forces and many beautiful souls from all walks of life got sober on August 20, 2009. He rose from the ashes with a voice the world needs to hear. You can find Joseph and his organization (Efficacy Life Coaching) here: https://efficacylifecoaching.com/ (https://efficacylifecoaching.com/) https://www.facebook.com/EfficacyLifeCoaching/ (https://www.facebook.com/EfficacyLifeCoaching/) He also has an offer for our listeners: Joseph Pollaro Pro Bono offer: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uWBv49c5xiYvFcdy1lVgpBNeSDl_AG4xPI_2GSxUMr0/edit?usp=sharing (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uWBv49c5xiYvFcdy1lVgpBNeSDl_AG4xPI_2GSxUMr0/edit?usp=sharing) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.110 - Kim
Oct 25th, 202057m 26s
This week I sat with Kim, from Sober is the new cool: an organisation that promotes sobriety and living clean. I love the cause and the purpose of shining a positive light on sobriety. This is a noble cause that has a surprising and inspiring origin. Thanks Kim for your openness and inspiring thoughts on sobriety. You can find Kim and her organisation here: EMAIL.: Sober.itnc@gmail.com WEBSITE: Soberisthenewcool.org INSTAGRAM: @Sober.is.the.new.cool FACEBOOK: Sober is the New Cool TWITTER: SOBER IS THE NEW COOL @Soberitnc PART OF THE PROCEEDS OF SALES OF SOBER MERCHANDISE GOES TO THE DOUGLAS FONDATION This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.109 - Paul
Oct 17th, 20202h 4m
Paul a une histoire peu commune et s'est complètement ouvert sur son parcours. Il a été très généreux de son temps et de son histoire pour nous faire connaître sa vie, ses embûches et sa sobriété. Je suis très content de l'avoir rencontré et je crois que vous allez apprécier aussi. PS: La qualité est moindre que ce que vous avez l'habitude de recevoir, j'en suis désoler. - Alex. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.108 - Greg
Oct 10th, 20201h 17m
Some will be inspired by his wisdom and calmness, others will be inspired by his whole story. Most (if not all) will be driven by the solidity of his sobriety. I enjoyed every minute of our conversation and believe you will too! You can find Greg here, where he shares inspiring sober lifestyle: https://www.instagram.com/gregchane/ This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.107 - Maxim
Oct 3rd, 20201h 49m
Ma rencontre avec Maxim fût particulière: nous avons trouvés plusieurs points en commun comme la musique et l'humour, mais aussi c'est dans la façon très singulière qu'il m'a expliqué son parcours et sa réflexion sur comment il en est venu à arrêter de consommer de l'alcool. Ce fût une conversation fort intéressante pour moi et je suis heureux de l'avoir rencontrer. Vous pouvez le trouver en ligne ici: Facebook personnel: https://www.facebook.com/maxim.carre (https://www.facebook.com/maxim.carre) Facebook Page Artiste (Humoriste): https://www.facebook.com/MaximLeblancCarre/ (https://www.facebook.com/MaximLeblancCarre/) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maxim.leblanc_carre/ (https://www.instagram.com/maxim.leblanc_carre/) La chaine Youtube de son podcast ''Les Agents de Conversation'': https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi4a93bwxUwQOs45rbOs8dg (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi4a93bwxUwQOs45rbOs8dg) Sa chaine Youtube personnelle ''Dans Ma Cache'': https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClZzQTIq57lPQ__QoPOctPA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClZzQTIq57lPQ__QoPOctPA) Le lien pour la version podcast de l'émission radio ''La Dose Rap'' (il y est chroniqueur): https://969fm.ca/emissions/la-dose-rap (https://969fm.ca/emissions/la-dose-rap) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.106 - Macee
Sep 26th, 20201h 28m
My recording with Macee was quite interesting. It woke a lot of stuff that we had in common buried quite deep in my memories. Even stuff not so far ago that just popped out while she was sharing her life story. I really enjoyed meeting with Macee and it sure was a growing experience for me. Her Instagram handle is @macee.hicks and her all natural dog treat business handle is @2uglydogs This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.105 - Catherine-Ann
Retour à un épisode franco cette semaine avec Catherine-Ann. Comme je lui ai dit, ça a fait du bien de retourner à un enregistrement dans ma langue maternel. En plus du fait que j'ai vraiment eu du bon temps à échanger et apprendre à connaître son histoire. Elle s'occupe d'une page Instagram et Facebook ici: https://www.facebook.com/OK.Sober https://www.instagram.com/ok_sober/ This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.104 - Patrick
Patrick is a 41 year old from Perth Amboy, NJ. He has lots of inspiring stories to share and is mainly inspired by his daughter. (Alexus). Patrick was an alcoholic for over 20 years. He is now a newly recovered addict (substance use disorder) of two years since 8/27/2018. You can find Patrick here: My personal Instagram: @BIGGP79 For added info here is my http://linktr.ee/ (linktr.ee). https://linktr.ee/biggp79 (https://linktr.ee/biggp79) Also, here is the website for online meetings we talked about: http://www.smartrecovery.org/ (www.smartrecovery.org) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.103 - Alyssa
Sep 5th, 20201h 18m
The great thing that Alyssa and I discussed was around the value of being an addicted person and engaging in a counselor certification. There was something particularly great about how she thinks a lot on her own way to give back to society, how to share her recovery and sobriety wisdom to those that still suffer and, especially, how to carefully manage your own rooted values while doing it. It was a pleasure getting to know Alyssa. Thanks! You can reach out to her here: rawrecoverytalk@gmail.com or on IG https://www.instagram.com/rawrecoverytalk/ (@rawrecoverytalk). She also has a Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwrUUj6XjlpO7ySZKYRHx0A/about (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwrUUj6XjlpO7ySZKYRHx0A/about) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.102 - Geoff
Aug 29th, 20201h 15m
My meeting with Geoff was phenomenal. He has gone through so much but still found a way to sober up and find a meaning to his life. He's founded a group called "God It Handled", raises his sons and is a fantastic human being. I enjoyed every minute of my conversation with him. Thanks Geoff! From is Instagram "God It Handled" group: Promoting hope and positivity! Showing others the darkest times in life can bring miracles and life redemption. Much more to come! https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/godithandled/ (#godithandled) Here's where you can find Geoff: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/geoff.patterson.98 (https://www.facebook.com/geoff.patterson.98) Instagram: IG: AZSoonerFan79 or Godithandled Geoff@sanghatulsa.org This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.101 - Mike
Aug 22nd, 20201h 22m
At the age of twenty-three, Michael Brody-Waite was a full-blown drug addict. Every day he drank a fifth of vodka and a twelve pack of beer, he smoked two packs of cigarettes and more weed than any human should, and he did whatever other drugs he could get his hands on. He had been kicked out of college, fired from his job, and evicted from his apartment. He had no money and no home, was throwing up blood, and believed he would be dead before his thirtieth birthday.Then, on September 1, 2002, after running out of options and fearing death, he checked into rehab, entered recovery, and has been transforming himself every day since. It was such a blast talking with him, you can find everything he works on here: Website: http://www.michaelbrodywaite.com/ (www.michaelbrodywaite.com) Mask-Free Program: http://www.maskfreeprogram.com/ (www.maskfreeprogram.com) Free Mask Assessment: http://www.whatsmymask.com/ (www.whatsmymask.com) Book: http://www.greatleaderbook.com/ (www.greatleaderbook.com) Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/michaelbrodywaite (www.facebook.com/michaelbrodywaite) Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/michaelbrodywaite (www.instagram.com/michaelbrodywaite) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mikebrodywaite (www.twitter.com/mikebrodywaite) Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/michaelbrodywaitechannel (www.youtube.com/michaelbrodywaitechannel) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
Ep.100 - 10K listens - 100 episodes - THANK YOU
Aug 15th, 20204m 50s
My return of vacations has caused me to have challenges finding a guest this week. But, at the same time, the timing couldn't have been better: I just passed the 10,000 listens and I'm on my 100th episodes and that seemed like a great opportunity to thank you all for your support to this podcast. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
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Puisque mon retour de vacances m'a causé quelques ennuis à trouver un invité cette semaine et que j'ai oublié de vous mentionnés que le podcast dépassait maintenant le 10,000 écoutes et son 100 épisode, je prends quelques minutes pour vous remercier. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast
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MP Wilkie wants Australia to Implement the UK FOBT Policy
James Gompertz | May 18, 2018 | Updated On: January 19, 2021
Andrew Wilkie, Australian Independent MP, wants Australia to have more strict measures for pokies machines. He claims that the poker machines prey on the vulnerable in society. He is hoping that the Australian government will make the same decision that the United Kingdom (UK) made to reduce the Fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs)’ maximum bet.
MP Wilkie is known to be against the gaming machines. He has said that his pleas have fallen on deaf ears in the past. He also said that the Australian government turned a blind eye on the issues of poker machines and rejected any policies that would restrict the gaming machines.
Tim Costello, an anti-gambling activist, has also come out in support for the UK FOBT decision. He said that Australia should follow suit and tackle the serious social damage that poker machines cause. He went on to say that the politicians have allowed the pokies to be distributed in every suburb especially the most deprived areas. It is for that reason that Australia has the highest gambling losses.
UK’s Approved FOBT
In the past week, the UK announced that they would be reducing the FOBT maximum stake from £100 (AU$177.35) to £2 (AU$3.55). This decision affected a few of the online gambling operators. It is because they will have required implementing strong verification laws. They will also have to set limits on spending from their players.
MP Wilkie wants the Australian government to lay the law that will make the FOBT maximum bet to be AU$1. He wants the government to have measures in place to also minimise harm.
Maximum Bets in the Various Territories
New South Wales has a maximum of AU$10 for each spin on poker machines. This can easily generate revenue of AU$1200 per hour. In Victoria, the pubs and club pokies machines have a maximum bet of AU$5 which can bring in revenue of about AU$600 in an hour.
If the AU$1 maximum bet is introduced it will not end the gambling problem; however, it will reduce the chances of harm. It has been found that 80% of gambling problems is from playing poker machines.
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San Francisco City & County Employees proxy-voting updates include gender diversity
Rob Kozlowski
San Francisco City & County Employees' Retirement System's board on Wednesday approved updates to its proxy-voting guidelines, which include addressing gender diversity on company boards of trustees, confirmed Darlene Armanino, executive assistant, in an email.
The $24.7 billion pension fund's board approved a new guideline in which SFERS will vote against "the chair of the nominating committee (or other directors on a case-by-case basis) at Russell 3000 or S&P 1500 companies when there are no women on the company's board," according to the updated guidelines. Mitigating factors, however, could include a stated commitment in the company's proxy statement to add women, or if a woman sat on the board at the prior annual meeting.
SFERS also added a note that it could vote against directors or an entire board for a company is there is a "lack of sustainability reporting in the company's public documents and/or website in conjunction with a failure to adequately manage or mitigate environmental, social and governance" risks.
Separately, the board on Wednesday approved the termination of LSV Asset Management from its $198 million active international large-cap value equity portfolio. The pension fund originally hired the manager to run its quantitative strategy in 2003, and a memo to the board from Kurt Braitberg, managing director, public markets; Alo Martins, security analyst; and Han N. Pham, senior portfolio manager, public equity, cited the staff's belief that "the best systematic (quantitative) firms continuously evolve in order to generate future excess returns" and believe "better alternatives are available for SFERS' capital." The memo also noted since 2003, when LSV was hired, excess returns have gotten lower while correlations have increased. Assets from the termination will be used to fund recent hires, the memo said.
Marisa Rosenblatt, marketing and client service analyst at LSV, could not be immediately reached to provide comment.
As of Jan. 31, the actual allocation to public equities was 34.9%.
San Francisco divests 5 fossil-fuel holdings
San Francisco Employees signs Voya as 457 plan administrator
San Francisco City & County Employees allocates $380 million to alternatives
ILPA, Cambridge push for switch to gender-neutral 'key person'
Investors tell social media companies to curb disinformation
Wall Street rethinks campaign donations after Capitol siege
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Prismetric is one of the leading Social Media app development companies. The team has developed 24 Social networking applications which are live on app and play stores.
A checklist of 5 vogue social networking apps
02 Nov 2015 prismetric Android, iOS, iPad, Mobile & Web app
With about 1.31 billion monthly active users, as revealed by the second quarter 2015 report by Statista, Facebook mobile app tops the list of most famous social networking apps worldwide. But the latest Q3 2015 report by Sensor Tower, a leading app analytics firm, reveals that Facebook’s messenger app has dominated the app stores in the final quarter of 2015 followed by Facebook.
It’s not surprising to learn that Facebook, Twitter, You Tube and Instagram are ruling the app stores. However, there is a bunch of other social networking apps who are growing in popularity and no. of downloads at a fast pace. We probably don’t know if any of these newer social media app might be gearing up to replace one from the top chart.
The 5 Most Promising Social Networking Apps
What’s App Messenger
Price: Free (iOS, Android, Windows Phone)
I would say it was truly a smart move by Facebook added WhatsApp into their acquisition by sealing the landmark deal in $19 billion in October 2014. WhatsApp, as we all know, is a free messaging app. It allows users to chat free to any part of the world. You can share texts, photos, videos and even do voice calls all around the world. As on September 2015, this mobile messaging app has been reported to have 900 million monthly active users worldwide, says a Statista study.
Owned by Twitter, Vine is a great app for sharing short videos, about6-second long. You can share the videos to your friends via Twitter, Facebook and from the app as well. The app has one-touch video continuation feature which allows you to record multiple clips and merge them together that can be shared as a single video.
The user interface of the app is quite similar to the one in Twitter app, making it quite simple to see other’s videos by a quick search. The app allows you to search and communicate with other users of the Vine Community. Since August 2015, Vine allows its users to explore and create music. According to a Twitter’s latest report in Aug-2015, Vine thrives 200 million active monthly users.
Price: Free (iOS, Android)
It’s a great photo-messaging app! You can click the picture, add caption and share too your friends in real time. Images will be auto deleted within 10 seconds, so users prefer using it for sending silly shots. Idea is cool, isn’t it? Developed by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, students from Stanford University, in 2011, SnapChat has 100 million monthly active users. (Source: Mashable)
Keep your eyes out to see what new features will be introduced by this fast-growing social media app in 2016!
Price: Free (iOS)
Love taking selfies? If yes, this is a must-have app. However, it is not for available for android users yet. Using this app, you can take a snap and share it your contacts. You can also comment to any shot or this app also facilitates private messaging. Did I say, you can also use this app on Apple Watch? Yes, you heard me right!
Price: (iOS, Android)
You will find this app idea inspired from Pinterest. However, instead of pin boards, here you have ‘canvases’ and ‘collections’. The app allows its users to tag other users and even ‘heart’ them in images. You can follow celebs, share your imagination and even seek inspiration from others. Click here for a complete guide on how to use the app to the fullest. The app has 30 million active users, as revealed by a DMR study.
Bottomline:
No doubt, social apps are leveraging great popularity these days and there is no downturn anticipated for this market segment in the near future. The younger generation is constantly looking out for innovative and better ways of socializing digitally.
Thinking to build a social networking app of own? This is the best time to begin working on your idea!
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Home » Stocks » FDX Stock: 3 Reasons Why FedEx Corporation Could Soar in 2016
https://www.profitconfidential.com/stock/fdx-stock-3-reasons-why-fedex-corporation-could-soar-in-2016/ FDX Stock: 3 Reasons Why FedEx Corporation Could Soar in 2016 Jing Pan, B.Sc, MA Profit Confidential 2016-03-18T10:56:27Z 2017-07-02 03:37:38 FedEx FedEx stock FDX FDX stock NYSE:FDX FedEx Corporation Here are three reasons why FedEx Corporation (NYSE:FDX) stock could soar in 2016. Stocks https://www.profitconfidential.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/FDX-Stock.jpg Package delivery companies don’t sound that exciting, but when they offer you double-digit returns in a single day, you should pay attention. On Thursday, March 17, FedEx Corporation (NYSE:FDX) stock surged more than 10% by around noon. The neat part is that this could be the start of a new rally.
Major Bullish Crossover in FDX Stock
For the most part, in the last 12 months, sentiment surrounding FDX stock hasn’t really been that bullish. As Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) started to build its own logistics network, the thought of competing against the e-commerce giant turned many investors away from the delivery company. The good news is that with a great earnings report, FedEx stock might finally be out of the doldrums. On Thursday, FDX stock crossed above its 200-day moving average of $152.90. Trading at $159.35 apiece, shares of FedEx have surged 10.5% since the company released its earnings. The bullish crossover could be the sign of a major trend reversal. This means that going forward, we might be able to see a bull run in FDX stock.
Solid Growth in FedEx Ground
FedEx Ground was originally designed to be a lower-cost competitor to United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE:UPS). Right now, the subsidiary has become a major growth-driver for FedEx and its competitiveness could lead to further revenue growth in the future. In an investor presentation, the company outlined FedEx Ground’s key advantage—speed. Nearly 30% of FedEx Ground’s lanes are faster than those of UPS Ground, while 67% of its lanes are as fast as UPS. Balance everything out and FedEx Ground has a net advantage of 26.7% over its archrival. (Source: “Investor Presentation,” FedEx Corporation, March 16, 2016.) The speed advantage is bringing more business to FedEx Ground. In its most recent fiscal quarter, FedEx Ground’s volume increased 11% year-over-year. The segment’s revenue surged 30% year-over-year to $4.41 billion. (Source: “FedEx Corp. Reports Strong Adjusted Third Quarter Earnings,” FedEx Corporation, March 16, 2016.) Chart courtesy of www.StockCharts.com
Profit Improvement Program
Other than the obvious earnings beat, the news that sent FedEx stock through the roof was its forward guidance. The company said it expects full-year fiscal 2016 earnings to come in between $10.70 and $10.90 per share, which would represent a 20%–22% increase over last year. Note that the guidance range is also better than Wall Street’s earnings forecast of $10.52 per share. But how can the company achieve such growth? Well, as it turns out, FedEx is pursing a number of profit improvement initiatives. Most notable is the profit improvement program at FedEx Express. The program was announced in 2012 to improve revenue quality, increase productivity, and constrain expenses. (Source: “FedEx CEO Fred Smith on Q3 2016 Results-Earnings Call Transcript,” Seeking Alpha, March 16, 2016.) On the SG&A side, FedEx Express is working on the absolute and permanent reduction in overall cost structure. On its air fleet side, the current fiscal year will benefit from cost savings from Boeing “767” aircraft deliveries. The trip cost of a Boeing 767 shows a 30% improvement. In the U.S., the company is implementing new technology and processes, consolidating facilities and stations, and working on improved efficiency for its aircraft and vehicle fleets. Internationally, FedEx International Priority and FedEx International First could be future growth-drivers.
The Bottom Line on FDX Stock
Of course, by building its own logistics network, Amazon might be relying less on FedEx’s service. That concern could still be a drag to FDX stock. But the package delivery company still has a lot going for it, and the outlook for FDX stock is still bright.
FDX Stock: 3 Reasons Why FedEx Corporation Could Soar in 2016
By Jing Pan, B.Sc, MA Published : March 18, 2016
Package delivery companies don’t sound that exciting, but when they offer you double-digit returns in a single day, you should pay attention. On Thursday, March 17, FedEx Corporation (NYSE:FDX) stock surged more than 10% by around noon. The neat part is that this could be the start of a new rally.
For the most part, in the last 12 months, sentiment surrounding FDX stock hasn’t really been that bullish. As Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) started to build its own logistics network, the thought of competing against the e-commerce giant turned many investors away from the delivery company.
The good news is that with a great earnings report, FedEx stock might finally be out of the doldrums. On Thursday, FDX stock crossed above its 200-day moving average of $152.90. Trading at $159.35 apiece, shares of FedEx have surged 10.5% since the company released its earnings.
The bullish crossover could be the sign of a major trend reversal. This means that going forward, we might be able to see a bull run in FDX stock.
FedEx Ground was originally designed to be a lower-cost competitor to United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE:UPS). Right now, the subsidiary has become a major growth-driver for FedEx and its competitiveness could lead to further revenue growth in the future.
In an investor presentation, the company outlined FedEx Ground’s key advantage—speed. Nearly 30% of FedEx Ground’s lanes are faster than those of UPS Ground, while 67% of its lanes are as fast as UPS. Balance everything out and FedEx Ground has a net advantage of 26.7% over its archrival. (Source: “Investor Presentation,” FedEx Corporation, March 16, 2016.)
The speed advantage is bringing more business to FedEx Ground. In its most recent fiscal quarter, FedEx Ground’s volume increased 11% year-over-year. The segment’s revenue surged 30% year-over-year to $4.41 billion. (Source: “FedEx Corp. Reports Strong Adjusted Third Quarter Earnings,” FedEx Corporation, March 16, 2016.)
Chart courtesy of www.StockCharts.com
Other than the obvious earnings beat, the news that sent FedEx stock through the roof was its forward guidance. The company said it expects full-year fiscal 2016 earnings to come in between $10.70 and $10.90 per share, which would represent a 20%–22% increase over last year. Note that the guidance range is also better than Wall Street’s earnings forecast of $10.52 per share.
But how can the company achieve such growth? Well, as it turns out, FedEx is pursing a number of profit improvement initiatives. Most notable is the profit improvement program at FedEx Express. The program was announced in 2012 to improve revenue quality, increase productivity, and constrain expenses. (Source: “FedEx CEO Fred Smith on Q3 2016 Results-Earnings Call Transcript,” Seeking Alpha, March 16, 2016.)
On the SG&A side, FedEx Express is working on the absolute and permanent reduction in overall cost structure. On its air fleet side, the current fiscal year will benefit from cost savings from Boeing “767” aircraft deliveries. The trip cost of a Boeing 767 shows a 30% improvement.
In the U.S., the company is implementing new technology and processes, consolidating facilities and stations, and working on improved efficiency for its aircraft and vehicle fleets. Internationally, FedEx International Priority and FedEx International First could be future growth-drivers.
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Canada Elections May Favor French
The Bloc Québécois, revitalized under its new leader Yves-François Blanchet, managed to win 32 seats (up from ten) in the recent Canadian general election, according to provisional results. As no party is likely to have a majority, the Bloc may be able to secure legislation boosting French in return for its support. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals went into the election hoping to add to the 40 they already had in Québec, but they lost seven, helping Trudeau fall 14 seats short of a national majority.
Blanchet has positioned the Bloc as a party that wants to stand up for Québec’s interests and the French language in the federal Parliament in Ottawa rather than actively seeking to break up the country.
The 54-year-old former provincial minister and media personality said the Bloc wanted to make Parliament work and would back any proposed legislation that was good for Québec, but he is linked with Québec’s nationalist Coalition Avenir Québec government, which brought in legislation earlier this year banning some public employees from wearing religious symbols. Trudeau said during a French-language campaign debate that he would be prepared to challenge the law, leading Blanchet to accuse him of not respecting Québec.
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Fit for the future: Inther Group strengthens its board of directors
Venray, December 21, 2020 | System integrator Inther Group from Venray will expand its board of directors with Stefan Kleijngeld as of January 1st 2021. In addition to Martijn Herder and Paul Hermsen, who will mainly be responsible for the strategic and commercial related activities, Stefan Kleijngeld will be responsible as managing director, in particular for the strategic process/organizational activities.
Inther Group has constantly been on the move since its foundation in 1998. Driven by a passion for data, Inther has developed its own modular and flexible Warehouse Execution System (Inther LC) with which it supplies and maintains systems for automating intralogistics process. Over the years, the company has grown further and now supplies not only software but also the corresponding high-end hardware from its own production facility. This combination now means that hybrid automation solutions can be realized with standard components that can be configured to specific customer requirements. By further combining these hybrid solutions with innovative products - such as robot piece picking - Inther further automates the warehouse processes of picking, packing, storing and sorting of products. Inther has thus grown into an international full-service partner in the market of intralogistics automation and mechanization.
The expansion of the board of directors is a strategic move to better position Inther in the ever-changing market for intralogistics solutions. It also serves the overall vision for the company’s future that has been laid out to 2025. One of the goals set forth in this plan for 2025 is to further help potential customers by using “proven, best in class sustainable technology”. As part of this goal, Inther wants to strengthen its ability to offer fully integrated hardware and software solutions, including ongoing service that involves the deployment of employees to customers sites. By continuously monitoring and analyzing our customers intralogistics systems, we can further work with them on optimizing their processes.
Stefan Kleijngeld
Stefan Kleijngeld (1987) has a passion and drive to implement changes in the supply chain world in the field of logistics. This drive has led to him being recognized as a Young Logistics Talent in 2016. Stefan was chairman of Jong Logistiek Nederland in 2017 and in that year he was part of the Young European Talent program. He started his career in logistics in 2010 as a Management Trainee at WP Haton after completing his HBO Logistics and Economics studies at HAN. Since 2013 Stefan was responsible for Logistics at that organization and was part of the management team.
Martijn Herder (owner/CEO): “We are very happy with the addition of Stefan in the management team. His experience in organizational and strategic developments will bring Inther Group to a new growth phase.”
Paul Hermsen (owner/CEO): “In a market in which data is increasingly key, by continuing to innovate in software but also in hardware, we can ensure that our customers remain 'fit for the future' with the application of our hybrid solutions. The addition of Stefan ensures that the coordination within the total value chain is further optimized.”
Stefan Kleijngeld: “I am very much looking forward to working together for the further growth of Inther Group and by using my skills to help this dynamic, hard-working company further expand its strong global presence.”
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About Inther Group
Inther Group is an international system integrator, specialized in automation solutions for warehouses. We deliver and maintain picking, packing, storage and sorting systems built on the modular and highly flexible Inther LC Warehouse Execution System. Inther distinguishes itself through its holistic approach. From analysis, design, construction and delivery to 24/7 service and support worldwide. We are your full service partner for improving intralogistics.
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Lands at Cappog Road, Drumgallan, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, BT74 5AH
Location of Lands at Cappog Road, Drumgallan
Enniskillen (population 26,454) is the largest town in County Fermanagh (population c.68,000) and is located approximately 24 miles from Omagh, 52 miles from Derry~Londonderry and 82 miles from Belfast. The subject site is located approximately 2.7 miles south-west of Enniskillen town centre.
The subject site extends to approximately 2.74 acres (1.108 hectares). The site is irregular in shape and relatively flat in topography and is accessed from the Cappog Road. The surrounding area is made up of a mixture of ‘Green-belt’ and ‘Whiteland’. Boundaries are defined by fencing and hedgerow.
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You won’t believe why this talent agency refused to sign this actor
By Graham Gremore March 12, 2018 at 11:03am · 30 comments
Everyone knows show business can be cutthroat. And rejection is all part of the game. But that doesn’t mean it’s always right.
Joseph Segal is a musician and performer from London. He recently applied for representation at a local talent agency but was turned down because it “already had a gay actor.”
In its rejection letter, the agency said: “We already have a gay actor on our books and also an actor/musician of the same age. So we feel there would be a clash. I’m unable to consider you at the moment.”
Segal shared the letter he received on Twitter, along with a scathing response:
Today I received this email from an #agent I am hurt and frustrated. Are all #gayactors the same? Do we not get cast? Are there not enough roles for us? If you can take the time to #RETWEEET please do and spread awareness! #LGBT #actor #ActorsLife #TimesUp #casting @EquityUK
Today I received this email from an #agent I am hurt and frustrated. Are all #gayactors the same? Do we not get cast? Are there not enough roles for us? If you can take the time to #RETWEEET please do and spread awareness! #LGBT #actor #ActorsLife #TimesUp #casting @EquityUK pic.twitter.com/fvMWtEeQkD
— Joseph Segal (@JosephPCSegal) March 10, 2018
After the tweet went viral, the agency responded with an apology.
“We offer our sincerest of apologies to you and anyone else who may have taken offense,” it wrote. “When choosing clients we look at all aspects the artist brings to the table and at no point should we have commented on your sexuality.”
I have just received this statement from the agency which they wish me to share: pic.twitter.com/8VPTVZuyyU
Well, apparently that wasn’t enough. Because, two days later, the agency was forced to close. Apparently, the other clients didn’t want to be associated with a homophobic organization and left in droves.
Thank you for your support and response. The agency will close after a number of it's clients leaving. This was an inexperienced agency, who I now know, was not a member of the necessary associations. Donations will be made to @LGBTfdn and @MindCharity. I have no further comment
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DCguy
“””“When choosing clients we look at all aspects the artist brings to the table and at no point should we have commented on your sexuality.” “”””
The only difference between this agency and the big ones is that this one was actually honest about it’s bigotry.
I have zero doubt that agencies like CAA have conversations where they talk about already having a black woman client in her 30’s, or already having a gay actor. Then they turn around and send out vague rejection letters that don’t state the actual reasons.
Billy Budd
This is show business in its essence.
The lesson here?
Be wary of snowflakes, for they will happily cost you your livelihood for hurting their feelings.
Here is the ultimate example of the hate that the anti-lgbt trolls are trying to spew on this site.
They are trying to normalize bigotry and hate. Classifying bigotry, hatred, racism, and discrimination as whiny people getting their feelings hurt.
Look, we get it, you are evil, and you and your many screenames are here with one goal. To harm lgbts any way you can, to normalize the hatred, and defend the bigotry of the current Republican party.
On the bright side, you and all of your screenames are Sh*t at it and very obvious.
radiooutmike
Hmmm. I wonder how many times they rejected cis-white heterosexual males and females because they had too many? One or two of each kind only please!
ptb2016
Snowflakes? As you are on this site I assume that’s what you classify yourself as. You might hate yourself but do not include all gays in the same category.
Navalator
Brody is a despicable reptile. Ignore his incoherent sick ravings as he will soon choke on a big cock in some public toilet and we will be rid of him.
Cylest Brooks
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Hussain-TheCanadian
@Brody
Snowflakes? You are disgusting; your response is empty of any empathy, understanding, love, or sense of community. I highly doubt you’re gay; if this is your response to an obvious homophobic rejection letter, then it’s not weird to me why you always side with our oppressors.
Don’t you dare respond by saying this is “my opinion”; attitudes like yours are the reason why the gay community in many parts of the world is oppressed, and that includes the United States.
Stop trying to be reasonable Hussain. You are reacting to the rantings of a profoundly mentally challenged idiot.
@Hussain, Mo-Brody regularly trolls on here, whining about liberals and Democrats–he’s utterly snowflakish about some perceived lack of acceptance of his right-wing beliefs–but when it comes to showing any kind of sympathy for a gay person (or a person of color, etc.) who has experienced homophobia and anti-gay/anti-LGBTQ oppression, he’s either silent or on the attack against…liberals! But he’s not alone; there’s a whole cluster of right-wing/alt-right trolls who regularly post, and some sound almost identical to each other. I usually write “Mo-Brody” because he’s almost identical to a previous poster, “Mo Bro,” who claimed to be biracial and had a similar hatred/fixation toward liberals. The worst ones are openly homophobic, transphobic and racist, which is probably why Queerty regularly posts articles to spur them to comment. Lots of page clicks, you know.
Hussain & Kangol –
The fact that you’re so threatened by any opinion that doesn’t jibe with your own reveals how insecure you actually are in your beliefs.
@ Kangol and Navalator
Thank you both for your advice, people like brody, especially if they’re gay, infuriate me because their sh*tty opinion underlines a belief that is anti-gay culture, behavior, uniqueness and ultimately acceptance.
Look at his responce, he predictably called his comment “opinion”, which it is, however the implication of such opinions is not innocent, scholarly, beneficial or a different way of looking at the state of gay liberation, but a belief we don’t deserve protection laws, social advancement and a right to our humanity.
The cute thing is, he thinks we are threatened by his sh*tty opinion, as if gay people in the United States are completely equal to their straight counterparts in all aspects of society, and what we are doing here is just intellectual sparring while smoking sheesha and enjoying shawarma sandwiches.
crowebobby
Publishing companies do (or used to do) the same thing. They draw up an agenda which includes so many crime novels, so many romance, so many gay, so many etc., etc. And if your work isn’t a sure best seller, you’d be out of luck if they already something in your genre. (Of course, Monica Dickens could send in work handwritten on the back of old grocery lists and it was immediately read.)
Tenses got a little mixed there, but you know what I meant.
Notright
Well I hope he is able to find work soon. https://packedman.com/will-you-find-love/ I do advise against publishing private emails though. If I were an agency I wouldn’t sign this dude as I’d be too afraid he’d put me on blast.
Publishing the private emails is exactly what exposed the bigotry though. And the other agencies don’t have anything to worry about if they don’t send him something similar.
Not Right is not right. Publishing the email is what made it RIGHT.
When is Queerty going to block this spammer?
No agent I’ve ever had contact with, and that has been a lot in my time in the film and television business, would never behave in the way this agency did. Talent is what they look for. What you do in bed they don’t give a damn about! If they did they’d find themselves without many of their best earners!
I think the inexperienced agency confused being gay with being effeminate in the rejection letter.
They likely implied Joseph Segal was a bit too effeminate to play credible straight roles, i.e. able not to make of his supposed effeminacy a part of his character. They expected, at least, sexual orientation invisibility. That’s how I read their rejection letter.
The movie industry, as a whole, generally perpetuates, but also reflects gender behavior stereotypes in the population (much more than strict homophobia). People still have difficulties to imagine a flamboyant boy being straight and kissing a girl, but it is, basically, a stereotype to think you cannot be effeminate and straight. It is just unusual…
Beyond all discrimination considerations, it means a (gay) actor may have to be able to tone down his effeminacy, if he wants to play a wider range of roles and not being limited to “gay roles” and effeminate men roles.
Note: I am not saying Joseph Segal is actually effeminate, since the only video I have seen of him is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1RaMS-qYaw
JK 1984
I work with a guy who is straight but is way more flamboyant than either of us two gay guys. Everyone in our team and lots of people in his personal life (including his wife to be) thought he was gay when they first met him. So he sometimes has to “come out as straight”.
This is why the stereotype in a lot of cultures of masculine/straights, flamboyant/gay (as well as others not relevant to this conversation) needs to die out, there are so many variants of people that pigeon-holing people based on characteristics that don’t define them leads to division.
I’m wondering how the whole gay thing came up in the first place. Was it just because he was so obviously gay, did he declare “I’m a gay actor”, did he casually mention a boyfriend? The response from the agency references an email, so did he even ever meet them in person?
Obviously he shouldn’t have to hide who he is, and good for him for being open in an industry where that is still definitely a hindrance. But there is a difference between living your life openly, and making sure people know you’re gay in a situation where it’s really irrelevant. Don’t be a gay actor, be an actor who just happens to be gay.
JK 1984: exactly. I met a very flamboyant guy at the University and he had to come out as straight, because everybody (including me at the beginning, I must confess) thought he was gay. That is the way we are conditioned to see people, in a binary gender way.
Brian, yes these are relevant questions. He may also just have said that he would be willing to play gay roles, with no exclusive, since he is gay himself. However, as an actor, if he wants to play all kind of characters, he may have to be more flexible in his sensitivity and performance. Actually, he may well be.
On the other hand, as discussed with JK 1984, it would be great the society also dissociates gender behavior and sexual orientation, and stop putting binary labels on people, so that it does not surprise anyone to see effeminate men playing straight roles (without giving much thought to their real sexual orientation, even if they know it). I know it will take time 😉
To put is shortly, gender behavior nonconformity still makes straight (and many gay) men cringe much more than homosexuality itself.
Esscourt
You could park an A380 on the kid’s forehead.
Forehead?
I thought it was a helicopter windshield.
Oh look, two sock puppets engaged in incest.
Dear NotRight in the head:
I often hear douchebags makes some frivolous comment about private emails. This is because either they are idiots or, well because they are idiots. If you send a letter or an email to a person in business correspondence which is what has happened here, then the recipient has every right to do with the letter as he wishes. This is why one should never put anything in writing anything you would not on the front page of the newspaper.
Are you capable of just posting a comment without making nasty comments about other posters? Yes, there are plenty of a-holes in here, no, they don’t need to be called out on it with every comment. You’ve become just as obnoxious as the people you constantly sneer down your nose at.
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Thrivagen, the Herbal Elixir for Total Woman’s Well Being
A Liposomal Adaptogenic Blend Directed at Female Physiology
“’The great question that has never been answered,” confessed famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, “and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”1
There’s at least one seemingly straightforward answer to that. A woman wants balanced hormones. She doesn’t want to suffer from premenstrual headache, bloating, weight gain, sore breasts, irritability, depression, and moodiness every month. Nor does she want to endure the soaking sweats, hot flushes, insomnia and flagging energy of perimenopause. She doesn’t want the vaginal dryness that may come with waning hormones as she ages or the fibroids that may bloom in the presence of too much estrogen. She even may want a libido and sex drive to rival that of men’s, one that does not take a dive immediately after it peaks before menopause. In essence, she wants her hormonal cycle—a delicate and complex choreography compared to men’s—to be a source of joy, energy, and feminine power.
But it isn’t always easy to achieve. Herbalist Daniel Moriarty, founder of Sun Horse Energy and creator of the Thrivagen Formula, knows that firsthand. “My mom was an herbalist, and women used to come over to our house endlessly for help with hormonal issues. Then I met my current partner, Mona. The first time I saw her suffer through her menstrual period, I was ready to call 911. She was sweating and shivering and in such incredible cramping pain. When I realized she went through this every month I knew I had to do something to help her.”
Moriarty spent two years tweaking a uniquely female formula with herbs suited to women’s health. He chose adaptogens, nontoxic and potent herbs that stabilize and restore normal physiological functioning, increase resistance to long-term stress and are often immune-modulating.2,3 To qualify as an adaptogen, an herb must have a balancing effect on the mental and physical response to stress. Adaptogens are bi-directional, meaning they can either calm the activity of hyperactive systems, or boost and stimulate activity of weak systems in the body–particularly the endocrine, nervous and immune systems.
Every small incremental change in ratios of the herbs Moriarty blended had a huge effect on Mona. “God blessed the bumpy road that led her to me,” he says, “because she was so sensitive and yet so willing to experiment.”
Today, Mona has completely normal menstrual cycles, and the blend of herbs she inspired is the company’s top selling formulation. Moriarty views the formula as having two aspects. First, are the synergistic general adaptogens also found in the popular combination, Nano Mojo, formulated in different ratios geared to female physiology and sensitivity. Moriarty says these adaptogens activate all cells in the body and bring their charge and function up. Second are the women’s adaptogens, also included in very specific ratios to support their function, of which he says, “they are like the conductors of a symphony.” These botanicals are:
Shatavari (Asparagus racemosus): This herb is a favorite Ayurvedic tonic for females, and common throughout Nepal, Sri Lanka, India and the Himalayas. The translation of its name says it all: “The one who possesses a hundred husbands”—implying a woman of potent seductive ability and fertility, as well as the stamina and patience to handle multiple men. Structurally, the active constituents of this herb are similar to estrogen produced within the body, yet these plant-derived estrogens, known as phytoestrogens, have a more gentle, and balancing effect.4 It is reputed to be beneficial in female infertility, to moisten dry vaginal tissues, enhance ovulation, and act as post-partum tonic by increasing lactation.5,6,7 It also can reduce painful periods (dysmenorrhea) and premenstrual syndrome.8,9,10
Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera): Ashwagandha is another revered Ayurvedic herb, with a 6000-year-old reputation for protecting against the effects of acute and chronic stress.11,12,13 It is often referred to as the Indian ginseng, because it compares well with Siberian Ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus) and Chinese Ginseng (Panax ginseng). It has been shown to increase physical endurance and may increasetestosterone levels. 14,15 Testosterone is an essential hormone for women as well as men, and low testosterone is associated with low libido.16 In animal studies, the herb’s calming effect was pronounced, as was its antidepressant effect.17
Angelica (Angelica archangelica). Angelica belongs to the parsley family, and the dried root is used medicinally in both western and Asian traditional medicine. This particular herb is a cousin of the well-known Chinese herb, dong quai (Angelica sinensis), which has long been regarded as a potent female tonic. The roots and leaves of both Angelica spp. are warming, strengthening, and energizing to the reproductive organs and endocrine systems. Angelica is regarded as a woman’s herb in part because it increases blood flow and circulation, and can relieve menstrual cramps by warming, decongesting, and stimulating menstrual flow.18 Traditionally, Angelica species have been used to regulate menstruation, relieve menstrual cramping, balance hormones, and smooth the challenging experiences of both childbearing and menopause. Angelica contains generous amounts of hormonal precursors—phytosterols such as glycocides, saponins, and flavonoids.19
Angelica has an almost mystical quality. A 2011 review article on this herb calls it an “angel on earth,” and recounts how its name was “derived from a monk’s dream in which St. Michael, the Archangel, appeared telling the monk what herb to use to help victims of the bubonic plague that was decimating Europe in 1665.”20 Renowned herbalist Stephen Harrod Buhner describes how angelica helped a young woman recover from heavy, irregular, cramping periods. “I told her there was a plant I thought she should meet. We went for a walk through a pine forest, and when she saw the plant at the edge of a stream, a kind of force drew the woman and the plant together. The plant was Angelica, which has been used for thousands of years to help treat menstrual cramping. She spent a long time with it, then said a prayer and asked for help, and then we went to look for just the right Angelica. When we found it, she dug up the root, which has a beautiful smell. On the walk back she held it close to her. She was already carrying herself differently. The healing had started. She took a tincture made from the root, and within a month her period had normalized.”21
Chaste tree berry (Vitex agnus-castus): Chaste tree berry has active molecules that mimic the female hormone progesterone. A review of twelve randomized, controlled trials found that the herb was effective in ameliorating premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (moodiness and depression).22 Premenstrual breast pain also improved with chaste tree berry.23,24
Although some practitioners use these herbs as monotherapies, the combination may have a synergistic effect, balancing both the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovary and the slightly more well-known hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. The liposomal blend of these herbs is especially potent, allowing for rapid intraoral absorption and enhanced cellular delivery. Liposomal formulations have demonstrated abilities to deliver nutrients throughout the tissues in the body, and have sustained delivery. This enables once or twice daily dosing to have a prolonged systemic effect, supporting energy and balanced function throughout the day.
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2 Levin O. Phyto-adaptogens–protection against stress? Harefuah. 2015 Mar;154(3):183-6, 211 View Abstract
3 Panossian A. Understanding adaptogenic activity: specificity of the pharmacological action of adaptogens and other phytochemicals. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2017 Aug;1401(1):49-64. View Abstract
4 Alok S, Jain SK, Verma A et al. Plant profile, phytochemistry and pharmacology of Asparagus racemosus (Shatavari): A review. Asian Pac J Trop Dis. 2013 Jun; 3(3): 242–251. View Full Paper
5 Sharma K, Bhatnagar M. Asparagus racemosus (Shatavari): A Versatile Female Tonic. Intl Jnl of Pharmaceutical & Biological Archives 201; 2(3):855-863. View Full Paper
6 Vihan VS, Panwar HS. A note on galactagogue activity of Asparagus racemosus in lactating goats. Indian Journal of Animal Health 1988; 27: 177-178
7 Tewari PV, Mata HC, Chaturvedi C. Experimental study on estrogenic activity of certain indigenous drugs. J.Res.Ind.Med.Yoga and Homeo 1968;11: 4-12.
8 Jetmalani MH, Sabins PB, Gaitonde BB. A study on the pharmacology of various extracts of Shatavari- Asparagus racemosus (Willd). J Res Ind Med 1967; 2:1-10
9 Mitra SK, Sunitha A, Kumar VV, Pooranesan R, Vijaylakshmi M. U-3107 (EveCare) as a uterine tonic – Pilot Study. The Ind. Pract. 1998; 51: 4, 269-274.
10 Dhaliwal KS. Method and composition for treatment of premenstrual US Patent number 698662. 2003.
11 Singh N, Bhalla M, de Jager P An overview on ashwagandha: a Rasayana (rejuvenator) of Ayurveda. Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med. 2011;8(5 Suppl):208-13. View Full Paper
12 Singh N, Singh SP, Sinha JN, Shanker K, Kohli RP. Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha) A rejuvenator herbal drug which enhances survival during stress (An adaptogen) Int J Crude Drug Res. 1982;3:29–35.
13 Singh N. A pharmaco-clinical evaluation of some Ayurvedic crude plant drugs as anti-stress agents and their usefulness in some stress diseases of man. Ann Nat Acad Ind Med. 1986;2(1):14–26.
14 Singh N. A new concept on the possible therapy of stress disease with ‘Adaptogens’ (Anti-stress drugs) of indigenous plant origin. Curr Med Prac. 1981;25:50–55.
15 Ilayperuma I, Ratnasooriya WD, Weerasooriya TR. Effect of Withania somnifera root extract on the sexual behaviour of male rats. Asian J Androl. 2002 Dec;4(4):295-8. View Abstract
16 Davis SR, Wahlin-Jacobsen S. Testosterone in women–the clinical significance. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2015 Dec;3(12):980-92 View Abstract
17 Bhattacharya SK, Bhattacharya A, Sairam K, et al. Anxiolytic-antidepressant activity of Withania somnifera glycowithanolides: an experimental study. Phytomedicine. 2000 Dec;7(6):463-9. View Abstract
18 California School of Herbal Studies, Angelica: Garden Angelica. [Cited September 29, 2017] Available at:http://www.cshs.com/herbsOfMonth/angelica.html
19 Herbal Resource, Angelica Uses, Benefits and Side Effects. [Cited September 29, 2017] Available at: https://www.herbal-supplement-resource.com/angelica-benefits.html
20 Bhat ZA, Kumar D, Shah MY. Angelica archangelica Linn. is an angel on earth for the treatment of diseases. International Journal of Nutrition, Pharmacology, Neurological Diseases. 2011 Jan;1(1): 36-50 View Full Paper
21 Ahuja, A. Living Medicine: Stephen Harrod Buhner On Plant Intelligence, Natural Healing, And The Trouble With Pharmaceuticals. Dec 2014 [Cited September 29, 2017] Available at: https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/468/living-medicine
22 van Die MD, Burger HG, Teede HJ, et al. Vitex agnus-castus extracts for female reproductive disorders: a systematic review of clinical trials. Planta Med. 2013 May;79(7):562-75 View Abstract
23 Wuttke W, Jarry H, Christoffel V, et al. Chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus)–pharmacology and clinical indications. Phytomedicine. 2003 May;10(4):348-57.
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winner Lewis Hamilton HAM
pole position Sebastian Vettel VET
fastest lap Valtteri Bottas
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1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 51 1:43:44.291 25
2 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 51 +2.460 18
3 Sergio Pérez Force India 51 +4.024 15
4 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 51 +5.329 12
5 Carlos Sainz Renault 51 +7.515 10
6 Charles Leclerc Sauber 51 +9.158 8
7 Fernando Alonso McLaren 51 +10.931 6
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Romain Grosjean Haas F1 Team 42 Accident 0
Max Verstappen Red Bull 39 Collision 0
Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull 39 Collision 0
Nico Hülkenberg Renault 10 Accident 0
Esteban Ocon Force India 0 Collision 0
Sergey Sirotkin Williams 0 Collision 0
1 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1:41.000
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7 Esteban Ocon Force India +1.000
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2018-04-30 Azerbaijan GP statistics: Hamilton wins at 25th different track
2018-04-30 Sirotkin perplexed stewards didn't ask him about Perez clash
Sirotkin hit the Force India of Perez from behind under braking into Turn 2 on the opening lap, with the collision leading Perez to make contact with the Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen.The Mexican would go on to finish the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in third, whereas Sirotkin's race lasted only until the following straight, where he was involved in a three-car collision with Fernando Alonso and ...
2018-04-30 Weekend round-up (April 27-29): Force India's podium, Maini's F3 win
2018-04-30 Verstappen 70% to blame for Ricciardo crash - Lauda
The Red Bull teammates both retired on the spot after Ricciardo ran into the back of Verstappen on the brakes for Turn 1, in a race where they had already had several moments of wheel-to-wheel racing and had already touched wheels once.The FIA reprimanded both drivers for the clash, and while Lauda accepted Ricciardo was partly at fault, he felt Verstappen was more responsible for the ...
2018-04-30 Azerbaijan Grand Prix driver ratings
Lewis HamiltonRating: 8Rating Hamilton is a tricky one - as he said himself, his performance was below his usual exceptional standards, with a couple of off-track moments in the race, one of which forced him to curtail his first stint. It's a sign of his quality that even when underperforming he could still win, albeit with some luck, and he did outpace Bottas in qualifying. ...
2018-04-30 Magnussen "the most dangerous" driver I've raced - Gasly
The duo made contact near the end of the race after Magnussen moved to the left and hit the Toro Rosso driver as they fought for position at the very fast Turn 20 that leads into the main straight.The FIA deemed Magnussen's move "unpredictable and unnecessary" and handed him a 10-second penalty and two penalty points.It put Magnussen on eight penalty points, four away from the 12 ...
2018-04-30 Why sub-par Hamilton deserved his lottery win
When you watch one of your rivals lock up and slide off the track on one lap, and the other drop out with a right-rear blowout a lap later, you know fortune is on your side. Lewis Hamilton understands what it takes to win grands prix better than any other driver on the grid - this was his 63rd grand prix victory - and after winning a race he described as "a lottery", the Mercedes ...
2018-04-30 Red Bull and Honda have first formal engine supply meeting
Red Bull, which currently uses Renault engines, has been using Toro Rosso to monitor Honda's operation and progress after the junior team switched from a Renault supply for this season.Helmut Marko, Red Bull's motorsport advisor, met with Honda's motorsport boss Masashi Yamamoto in the build-up to this weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix.The Baku meeting is the first formal conversation ...
2018-04-30 Force India's Perez "gave it everything" to score Baku podium
After picking up damage in an opening lap collision with Williams’ Sergey Sirotkin and subsequently pit for a fresh nose, Perez staged a remarkable recovery drive to catapult himself to seventh position.When the Red Bull duo dramatically crashed at the start of lap 40, not only did Perez get to ditch his old soft tyres for a fresh set of supersofts under safety car conditions, he also ...
2018-04-30 Gallery: Verstappen and Ricciardo's Baku crash in photos
2018-04-30 F1 Debrief: All you need to know from the crazy Baku GP
RED BULL MELTDOWNMax Verstappen, Red Bull Rac ...
2018-04-29 Hamilton delayed Baku podium to commiserate with Bottas
Hamilton was only third at the late safety car restart, but gained one position when Sebastian Vettel ran wide trying to pass Bottas for the lead and was then handed the victory when Bottas picked up a dramatic rear puncture.“I have very mixed emotions for today,” said Hamilton. “It's really quite a humbling experience.“Ultimately, Valtteri deserved to win. He did an exceptional job ...
2018-04-29 Azerbaijan GP: Post-race press conference
TRACK INTERVIEWS(Conducted by David Coulthard)We have our top three here. Lewis Hamilton just being weighed in. We just have to wait for the guys to get their helmets off. We’ve got a very happy Checo Pérez there and Kimi Räikkönen. Checo, you’re first with the helmet off: fantastic, absolutely brilliant, last time you were on the podium was here.Sergio PÉREZ: Yeah, two years ago. I ...
2018-04-29 Raikkonen lucky to finish after hitting wall "at full speed"
The Ferrari driver recovered from a first-lap tangle with Esteban Ocon to finish a crazy race second to Lewis Hamilton, but he thought he was going to have a high-speed accident coming onto the start/finish straight with three laps to go when he clipped the wall in the final kink on the lap.“On the first lap after the restart on the little kink coming to the last part of the straight ...
2018-04-29 Perez keeps Azerbaijan Grand Prix podium
Perez delivered his and Force India's first F1 podium since the race at the same venue in 2016, the Mexican recovering from an opening-lap hit from Sergey Sirotkin to bring the car home in third behind Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen.He was then summoned to the stewards post-race, alongside fellow drivers Lance Stroll and Kevin Magnussen, over alleged improper use of DRS midway ...
2018-04-29 Ricciardo, Verstappen reprimanded for Baku crash
The drivers were summoned to see the race stewards immediately after the race in Baku to examine whether either of them had been at fault for their crash at Turn 1.But following discussions with them and team representatives, the FIA deemed that both the Australian and the Dutchman were equally to blame for what had happened.However, despite both men apologising, they were given ...
2018-04-29 Verstappen, Ricciardo ordered to apologise at Red Bull factory
The two drivers crashed out of the race after a coming together at Turn 1 as they fought for position in the closing stages of the race.The collision – which came after some fraught side-by-side moments throughout the Baku race – left Red Bull chiefs furious.Team principal Christian Horner said that both drivers were in the 'dog house' - and that they had been asked to travel to the ...
2018-04-29 Vettel says he "had to try" move on Bottas
The Ferrari driver – who led the race comfortably until a safety car period allowed Bottas’s Mercedes to make a pitstop and emerge still ahead – locked up trying to retake the lead on a restart with four laps to go, ultimately dropping to fourth.“I’m happy that I tried, I’m not happy that it didn’t work, but I have to try,” said Vettel.“I don’t think it was overly optimistic to jump ...
2018-04-29 Sirotkin handed grid penalty for first-lap clash
The Russian hit Perez's VJM11 from behind under braking into the Turn 2 left-hander, leading the Mexican to then collide with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and further damage his car.Sirotkin would go on to retire further down the road in a three-way collision with Nico Hulkenberg and Fernando Alonso, and was assessed a three-place grid penalty by the FIA stewards, which he is set to serve ...
2018-04-29 Marko blames both Verstappen, Ricciardo for Baku crash
After several feisty moments between the two Red Bulls, who raced closely throughout the F1 race in Baku, they both retired on the spot after Ricciardo ran into the back of Verstappen on the brakes for Turn 1.When asked for his reaction to the incident, Marko told Sky Sports: "We let the drivers race and then they are doing that. Unbelievable. Both were wrong."It was a racing ...
2018-04-29 Bottas didn’t see debris that cost him Baku win
Bottas had managed the final restart of the race, having jumped ahead of Sebastian Vettel by pitting under the safety car when Red Bull teammates Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen collided.The Finn steered around Vettel when the Ferrari man overshot the first corner, and looked set to take his first win of the season when he picked up a right-rear puncture due to debris on the ...
2018-04-29 Perez's podium in doubt amid investigation
Perez came back from having to pit for repairs following a first-lap hit from Sergey Sirotkin to take third place in Baku, pouncing on Sebastian Vettel when the erstwhile F1 world championship leader flat-spotted his tyres trying to attack Valtteri Bottas for the lead at the final safety car restart.But having held off Vettel's retaliation attempts to claim his first F1 podium since ...
2018-04-29 Alonso: Other drivers would have "parked" with my damage
The McLaren driver was hit by the Williams of Sergey Sirotkin on the opening lap and was forced to crawl back to the pits with two punctured tyres which disintegrated as he tried to reach it.After replacing the front wing and the wheels, Alonso returned to the race and managed to recover to seventh position despite the damage to the floor of his car.Alonso said the position was the ...
2018-04-29 Hamilton admits Baku win feels "a bit odd"
Hamilton didn’t appear to have the pace to challenge for the win in the early stages of the race, and was running third behind Bottas and Vettel at a late safety car restart.But the race came to Hamilton as first Vettel outbraked himself at the first corner and ran wide, before Bottas retired from the lead a lap later when he suffered a puncture after running over debris. ...
2018-04-29 Azerbaijan GP: Hamilton wins crazy race as Red Bull implodes
Sebastian Vettel was on course to score a comfortable win before the race was changed by a safety car caused by Daniel Ricciardo rear-ending teammate Max Verstappen at Turn 1.Bottas survived a lunge from Vettel into Turn 1 at the restart and appeared to be heading for victory before a puncture handed Mercedes' first win of the year to Hamilton, with Kimi Raikkonen second and Sergio ...
2018-04-29 Ocon hits out at Raikkonen after Baku crash
Force India driver Ocon retired from the race on the opening lap after making contact with Raikkonen as the Ferrari driver attempted to pass down the inside of Turn 3.Raikkonen was able to continue, but Ocon wound up hitting the wall and retiring on the spot.An angry Ocon blasted Raikkonen for the accident, which will be investigated by the stewards after the race."Clearly I had a ...
2018-04-29 Live: Follow the Azerbaijan GP as it happens
2018-04-29 F1 Commission set for key vote on overtaking changes
April 30th is the last date for changes to next year's technical regulations to be passed without requiring unanimity.As previously reported, FOM and the FIA have been working together on ways to allow cars to follow each other more closely, with research conducted by a group led by F1 chief technical officer Pat Symonds.Their focus has been on "outwashing" front wing elements ...
2018-04-29 Raikkonen a threat if Ferrari rolls dice - Mercedes
All six drivers from the top three teams attempted to get through Q2 on the supersoft tyre rather than the less favoured ultrasoft.However, after making mistakes and with no spare supersofts left, Raikkonen was forced to use ultrasofts for his second run, committing him to that set for the start.In Q3 he was on target to grab pole position from teammate Sebastian Vettel when he made ...
2018-04-29 Renault drivers surprised by Force India Baku speed
The Silverstone-based picked up just one point in the first three races of 2018 - but its VJM11 was a standout in Baku qualifying, with both Esteban Ocon in seventh place and Sergio Perez in eighth more than half a second on the team's nearest midfield rival Hulkenberg in Q3.Baku has been one of Force India's best venues since the street track's arrival on the calendar, with ...
2018-04-29 Williams denies plans for Haas-style Mercedes tie-up
A German media report has suggested that Lance Stroll’s father Lawrence is pushing for Williams to have a Haas-style “B team” deal with Mercedes that would both give it access to technology from the Brackley outfit, and also allow Williams to trim its staffing levels and potentially cut costs.Williams currently employs 550 people, significantly more than the likes of Force India ...
2018-04-29 Azerbaijan GP: How the grid lines up
2018-04-29 Azerbaijan GP: Top photos from Saturday
2018-04-28 Williams admits Baku form is no guarantee of future pace
Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin were 11th and 12th fastest in qualifying and will both move up a position on the grid thanks to Nico Hulkenberg’s five-place gearbox penalty, with the Canadian ending up just 0.103s away from getting a Williams into Q3 for the first time in 2018. Stroll’s time was 2.087s off Sebastian Vettel’s pole position time, with the team’s previous best ...
2018-04-28 Ecclestone's Hamilton comments "a hand grenade" - Wolff
Ecclestone told Sky Sports he feels Hamilton is "not the racer he was", suggesting he could be "getting a little bit tired of travelling and he's fed up with things".Hamilton declined to comment on Ecclestone's remarks, but Wolff said in Baku on Saturday evening that the reigning world champion is "relaxed" about such speculation."All of us very much respect Bernie, but we have also ...
2018-04-28 Azerbaijan GP: Starting grid in pictures
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Pastor: Father John Murphy
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The parish traces its origins to April 1, 1973, when Archbishop Donnellan sent a priest from the Cathedral to celebrate Mass at Peachtree City Elementary School.
The 55 Catholic families in the area had prayed and petitioned the archbishop to create a parish in Peachtree City. In June of 1973, Holy Trinity became a weekend mission. Father Edward Danneker was assigned as the first pastor.
After three years of Sunday Masses at Peachtree City Elementary School, Rev. Don Smith, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, made that facility available. This was followed by Masses at the Information Center in the Aberdeen Shopping Center, the cafeteria at the NCR company, and finally sharing a warehouse on Dividend Drive with the Lutherans. During this time the parish embraced 300 square miles.
Father Daniel McCormick was the second pastor serving from June 1974 for three years. During this time the parish population had grown from the original 55 families to 98 families.
Father James Sexstone was the third pastor, arriving in the spring of 1974. He would remain ten years. The land at the comer of Walt Banks Road and Highway 54 was bought in November of 1976 when parish families numbered 180. Construction began in August of 1977 and the present rectory, with office space and living quarters for the priest upstairs, and the lower level for Mass and meetings, was completed in time for Christmas Midnight Mass that same year.
On January 6, 1980 the ground breaking for the church was held and on December 7, 1980, Archbishop Donnellan dedicated the church.
Father John Druding was our fourth pastor, his assignment to Holy Trinity beginning in 1987. In 1988 the parish built and dedicated Loreto Hall.
Father Edward O’Connor served as pastor from 1991-94, succeeded by Father William Calhoun whose pastorate was cut short by a devastating automobile accident in December of that year. Father Michael McWhorter, the assistant pastor at the time was appointed the seventh Holy Trinity pastor in February of 1995. He was succeeded by Father John Walsh.
In October 1996, Father John Walsh came to Holy Trinity. He served our parish until June of 2007. During his time here the parish grew to 2500 families. We had outgrown our building and he built the new Faith Formation Building to accommodate our expanding parish community. The new rectory was also built.
Father Michael Kingery came to us in June of 2007 from St. Clement Parish in Calhoun. Fr. Mike transferred to St. Andrew’s in Roswell on March 1, 2011.
Father John Murphy transferred to Holy Trinity in March 2011 from his parish in McDonough, St. James.
Holy Trinity is a vibrant Catholic community in Peachtree City GA (just south of Atlanta). We are a large church, but very focused on welcome and hospitality–we want you to feel at home.
Our worship style at Mass ranges from traditional (organ) to contemporary (guitar, drums, etc.).
With over a hundred different programs and ministries, thereʼs something for everyone at Holy Trinity:
Adults – Our Adult Faith programs include a variety of bible studies, prayer groups, fellowship programs and retreats.
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Students, write your own ending to this Unfinished Christmas Story
Should two siblings give up a prized possession from their father, who may never return from the Civil War, to help a local couple who lost everything in the Burning of Chambersburg on July 30, 1864, get a new home?
Students in grades 2 through 8 are invited to tell us, by writing their own ending to this Unfinished Christmas Story.
Here's what to do: Read through the story below, "The Little Wooden Soldiers." Then, get creative (and have fun!) and write an ending (300 words or less) that resolves the main conflict. Have a parent or guardian email your typed story to Public Opinion at newsdesk@publicopinionnews.com by Sunday, Dec. 16. (Please scroll to the end of this story for full instructions.)
With creativity and story resolution in mind, we will pick our three favorite submissions from across the age range. They will be published in the newspaper the week of Christmas, along with the ending from the story's author, Trish Cosey.
We will publish all submissions on our website, publicopiniononline.com.
The Unfinished Christmas Story project was an annual holiday tradition in Public Opinion for many years. It was last held over a decade ago.
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'The Little Wooden Soldiers'
Twelve-year-old Jedidiah was tired by the time he finished milking. He stumbled a little, slopping milk and almost kicking over the lantern. The flame guttered, then steadied as he snatched it up from certain disaster. They didn’t need another fire. Living two miles west of Chambersburg, their little farm had been spared from burning by the Confederates less than five months earlier. It wouldn’t do to burn it down now.
“Jed, I can’t get the lid up on the feed bin, and the chickens need feeding!” Eight-year-old Emma wasn’t big enough yet to lift the heavy lid on her own. Jedidiah sighed and set the milk pail down long enough to lift the lid for his little sister.
“Hurry up with your chores, Emmy. I’m tired of waiting on you every night,” he said.
Emma swiped at the feed, but it was getting low, and she had to try again, leaning over the side of the bin so far that her feet dangled, and the edge cut into her stomach.
“Jed, how are Molly and Thomas going to survive this winter? It’s not even Christmas and already there’s snow on the ground. This barn’s too cold for livin’ in when it’s winter.” Emma dropped out of the feed bin and led the way into the yard.
“I don’t know, Em.” As his sister scattered chicken feed, Jed glanced toward the field, where he could just make out Thomas Wolfe as he threw hay to the beef steer.
Thomas and Molly Wolfe had been poor enough before the Confederates burned their tiny house in Chambersburg that summer. Now they had nothing. Jedidiah’s and Emma’s mother had taken the young couple in after the burning, but it had been warmer then.
Chambersburg had begun rebuilding, but the first homes and businesses rebuilt belonged to those who could afford the lumber and manpower. Families like the Wolfes who were too poor were either living with relatives or had moved away. Now the townspeople were tired of building, tired of the cold, tired of the smell of smoke that still seemed to hang in the air.
Chores completed, the siblings headed back to the house as Thomas returned to the barn to wash up for dinner. Ma Miles, as Jed and Em’s mother was often called, had invited the Wolfes to move into their house when the weather began to turn cold back in October, but they had refused.
“That would be takin’ unfair advantage, ma’am,” Thomas had argued. Emma didn’t understand. Thomas, who still walked with a limp after he’d been wounded in the war, worked on their farm doing chores Pa would have done had he not been off at war. And Molly helped Ma out with things like sewing, cooking and cleaning. Thomas occasionally brought home a deer or turkey to help out, though he had to range far.
“Jed,” Em said as they washed for dinner. “We have to let Abner have what he wants. Then he’ll tell his daddy to help Thomas and Molly.”
Mean Abner Adams was a schoolmate of Jed and Emma. He got a sight once of the little soldiers carved from oak and walnut and painted Union blue that their father had given them, and was persistent in his efforts to claim them as his own.
“I ain’t givin’ that bully anything! Pa gave us those, and if he don’t come back from the war, it’s all we got to remember him by. Now shut up and get the table set. I’m starvin’.”
Emma began to cry. The little wooden soldiers were indeed precious. But lately Molly had been sick. She came in from the barn shivering every morning, with a cough that seldom quit. Emma was sure she wouldn’t survive the winter living in the barn.
The next morning, Thomas drove the children to town in the buggy and dropped them off at school. Abner was waiting just inside the door.
Write your own ending: Full instructions
What happens next? Should Jed and Emma give up their wooden soldiers to Abner? Will Thomas and Molly get a new house? Will another conflict arise? Use your imagination to complete the story.
Students in grades 2 through 8 in Franklin County schools may participate.
Write an ending that is no more than 300 words. Be creative!
Entries must be typed (a parent/guardian can help) in a Microsoft Word document or in the body of an email (attached files must be .doc or .docx; .pdf, .jpg and other file types will not be accepted; we must be able to copy and paste the text).
Have a parent or guardian email the entry to newsdesk@publicopinionnews.com. The email must have Unfinished Christmas Story in the subject line and include the child's first and last name, grade, and town of residence (mailed submissions will not be accepted).
Teachers: We welcome you to submit entries from your students! Please follow the submission instructions above.
Stories are due by the end of the day Sunday, Dec. 16.
Questions? Contact Amber South at 717-262-4771 or asouth@publicopinionnews.com.
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Court allows Christie to hide $1 million in Amex charges
ENTOURAGE: Gov. Chris Christie keeps secret $1 million in security travel expenses
By Mark Lagerkvist | New Jersey Watchdog
Based on secret evidence, a New Jersey court is allowing Gov. Chris Christie to hide American Express bills that show how his state police security team charged more than $1 million to pay for out-of-state travel.
Judge Mary C. Jacobson dismissed a public records suit by New Jersey Watchdog on Friday, ruling that details of past expenses for food, lodging and transportation could create a potential security risk for the governor in the future.
“The court finds the general interest of the public to have a breakdown pales in comparison,” said Jacobson during a hearing in Mercer County Superior Court. As a result, state taxpayers may never learn how the money was spent.
The Executive Protection Unit travel expenses increased with the frequency of Christie’s out-of-state trips to pursue his political ambitions, including his run for the White House. Last year, costs totaled $494,420 as the governor traveled outside New Jersey for more than 100 days. That sum is 22 times more than the $21,704 spent in 2009, former Gov. Jon Corzine’s last year in office.
Jacobson based her decision on a confidential sworn statement provided by Capt. Kevin Cowan, head of the EPU. “He unequivocally swears in that certification that release of the information would increase the risk of harm to the governor,” said the judge.
New Jersey Watchdog’s lawyer was not allowed to view or question that evidence, which makes any appeal difficult.
Christie almost blew his own defense by his comments to a Cub Scout at an April town hall meeting in Hasbrouck Heights.
“How many bodyguards do you have?” 7-year-old Charles Tartaglia asked Christie in a video posted on YouTube by the governor’s office.
“I count about six,” responded the governor, scanning a crowded VFW hall. “I’m not telling you which ones they are, but a subtle hint would be — the guys with the wires in their ears.”
Christie told the audience that 30 state police troopers are assigned to EPU. He said he is routinely accompanied by three officers. The around-the-clock protection also includes troopers stationed at his home.
But in court filings, his office had claimed that same information must be kept secret to avoid endangering the governor.
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Wizard Academy with David Engel: 9 a.m.-9 p.m. July 28. The bumbling Professor Hackensneeze makes a virtual visit from the Hogwarts Academy to teach kids and their parental Muggles the secrets of their magical powers. This program will be available to the Cornwall Public Library’s patrons via Vimeo. It will be a pre-recorded program (check our cornwallpubliclibrary.org for link and password info the week before the program).
Zoom Volunteer Training: 3 p.m. July 28. Jewish Family Service of Orange County invites you to become a Friendly Visitor Volunteer in Orange County. This 90 minute training prepares potential volunteers to provide support to older adults in your own communities. For about 3 hours a week or less, volunteers provide local transportation to essential appointments, grocery shopping and friendly visits. Volunteering is rewarding and flexible. Reservations are required for this event. To register or to learn more about volunteering, please call or email Paula Blumenau at 341-1173 ext. 305 or pblumenau@jfsorange.org. Background checks and Insurance while volunteering are provided.
Understanding Shakespeare: 6 p.m. July 28. Let’s make Shakespeare make sense! Participants will gain a better understanding of Shakespeare’s poetry, characters, and stories. Facilitated by local actor, Aaron Gaines. Speeches and scenes will be provided, though please feel free to bring your own. All experience levels welcome. This program will be conducted via Zoom. Please register via the Cornwall Public Library’s online calendar at cornwallpubliclibrary.org. Zoom links and passwords will be sent to registrants the day of the program.
Tail Waggin' Summer Dog Tales Virtual Program: 6:30-7 p.m. July 28, Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. Join the library staff for some time spent reading some dog-related stories. There will even be a few special virtual visits with favorite Therapy Dogs from the program, so stay tuned. Check them out on YouTube and the library Facebook pages. 563-3612. Bsakow@rcls.org
Village of Washingtonville Summer Bodyfit: 7-8 p.m. Tues. and Thurs., through Aug. 27, St. Mary’s CYO in Washingtonville. A well balanced exercise program for young and old. Low impact aerobics combined with strength training and floor work, ab work and stretching. Come and try it out! Perform at your own pace. Bring mat, water and weights. Certified instructor. Call 782-5418 for more info/fee. Social distancing required.
Webinar - What Evil Lurks in the Heart of Your Garden?: July 29, noon-1 p.m.; Aug. 5, 7-8 p.m. via Zoom. Join Master Gardener Volunteer, Barbara Wexler-Hall, for a few laughs while learning about plants used for food, medicine and materials like clothing and beauty products. On a serious note, sometimes plants can be painful, intoxicating or deadly. What you don’t know might kill you. Pay what you can afford $0, $10 recommended for individuals, $20 Sponsor (pay for yourself and someone else). Register by calling Marie at 344-1234 ext. 262 or online at http://cceorangecounty.org/events.
Teen Writers Strike Back on Zoom: 4 p.m. July 29. For grades 8-12. You must pre-register for the program via the Cornwall Public Library’s online calendar at cornwallpubliclibrary.org. Zoom links will be emailed to registrants the day of the event.
Shakespeare Out Loud: 6 p.m. July 29. Although a joy to read in silence, Shakespeare’s work was written to be spoken out loud. Facilitated by local actor, Aaron Gaines. Speeches and scenes will be provided, though please feel free to bring your own. All experience levels welcome. This program will be conducted via Zoom. Please register via the Cornwall Public Library’s online calendar at cornwallpubliclibrary.org. Zoom links and passwords will be sent to registrants the day of the program.
Harry Potter Birthday Celebration Virtual Program: 6:30-8 p.m. July 29, Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh, free. Join with fans and Hagrid's Army for a Harry Potter Birthday Celebration on Zoom. Details to follow. To join the celebration, send an email to hagridsarmynewburgh@gmail.com by July 28 at 5 p.m. 563-3616. Lkochik@rcls.org.
Book Discussion - “The Ancestor” by Danielle Trussoni, Virtual Program: 7-8:30 p.m. July 29, Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh, free. Join the Newburgh Free Library for a lively discussion of The Ancestor by Danielle Trussoni, local author. 563-3629, Psussmann@rcls.org.
Neville Longbottom’s Birthday Party (on Zoom): 5:30 p.m. July 30. It’s time to celebrate one of the greatest heroes at the Battle of Hogwarts! Party games and activities for Grades 6-12 only. Limited space – register via the Cornwall public Library’s online calendar at cornwallpubliclibrary.org starting a week before the event. Cosplay is encouraged! BYOBB (Bring Your Own Butter Beer). Zoom links will be emailed to registrants the day of the event.
“Understanding Alzheimer’s and Dementia”: 6:30 p.m. July 30. Presented by Donna Davies, Senior Director of Programs and Services, Hudson Valley Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Donna will explore the relationship between Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia, will detail risk factors and stages of Alzheimer’s and will look ahead to research. Virtual Program is offered by the Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library in Monticello. Registration is limited to 75. Register at ebcpl.org and click on Adult Calendars, click on July and you will find program.
Gentle Yoga with Susan Virtual Program: 6:30-7:15 p.m. July 30, Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh, free. Join Susan from Rae of Light Yoga Studio for a Zoom session of Gentle Yoga for beginners. This gentle yoga class is a slow-paced class that will incorporate basic yoga postures, while exploring combining breath with movement. This class is great for beginners, or those who wish to gain strength, balance and more flexibility. This class will be easy to follow, and will leave you feeling invigorated and relaxed. Register with an email address. Registration will end July 30 at 12:30 p.m. 563-3619. Cmorgan@rcls.org.
Harriet Tubman, by Carolyn Evans Virtual Program: 7-7:35 p.m. July 30, Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh, free. The library had planned to host historical re-enactor Carolyn Evans in a live performance featuring the amazing life story of Harriet Tubman. We hope you will watch this presentation from SouthCarolinaETV by Carolyn Evans, recorded at The Jamestown Foundation/James Family Reunion in Florence, SC, and join us in the future for a deeper look at the life and times of Harriet Tubman. 563-3616. Lkochik@rcls.org.
Village of Washingtonville Summer Bodyfit: 7-8 p.m. Tues. and Thurs., July 14-Aug. 27, St. Mary’s CYO in Washingtonville. A well balanced exercise program for young and old. Low impact aerobics combined with strength training and floor work, ab work and stretching. Come and try it out! Perform at your own pace. Bring mat, water and weights. Certified instructor. Call 782-5418 for more info/fee. Social distancing required.
We Have Your 6’s Golf Fundraiser to Help Veterans with PTSD: Arrive at 7:30 a.m.; 8:30 a.m. shotgun start, July 31, Stony Ford Golf Course, 211 Route 416, Campbell Hall, $175 per golfer or $650 for a foursome (includes golf cart, breakfast and lunch buffets, raffles, 50/50, putting contest, try for a hole in one to win a new car. Register or become a sponsor at dixongives.com/wehaveyour6. For more information call Billy the Biker at 914-522-3771. Proceeds go towards acquiring K9 and equine therapies to our veterans suffering from PTSD. Why6vet.com.
Free Rabies Vaccine Clinic for Pets: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. July 31, Ulster County SPCA, 20 Wiedy Rd., Kingston. A drive-through, socially distanced, free rabies vaccine clinic for pet dogs, cats, and ferrets. No appointment, it is first-come, first-served. Please wear a face mask. Dogs must be leashed, and cats and ferrets must be in a secure carrier. One-year vaccination will be given; three-year vaccination can be given if you bring their previous rabies vaccine paperwork. Call the UCSPCA Clinic at 331- 5377 ext. 216 for more info, or visit UCSPCA.org.
Story Break Live!: 11 a.m. July 31. Think you’re too old for a children’s book? The Cornwall Public Library’s Youth Services Team begs to disagree! Celebrate TGIF with a familiar library face and a good story. You can catch these live events on the Library Facebook page every Friday morning at 11 a.m., through the summer.
Author Talk - John Conway: 6-7:30 p.m. July 31, Wurtsboro, free. Enjoy an opportunity to hear Sullivan County Historian, John Conway talk about the evolution of his 30 plus year weekly newspaper column and about the topics covered in his new, third book, “In Further Retrospect.” John will present vignettes of Sullivan County's history from colonial times to the 21st century. To register for this program, and in order to receive a Zoom invitation, call 888-8004 or email the Mamakating Library at mamcirc@rcls.org.
Saturday, Aug. 1
Living History Day with the 1st Rhode Island Regiment: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 1, Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, 690 Route 9W, Fort Montgomery, visitors are asked to observe mask and social distancing guidelines. Regimental history talks followed by musket firing demonstrations at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Camp life, military drill and other demonstrations. 446-2134. Palisadesparkconservancy.org.
Annual meeting of the William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House Association, Inc.: 1 p.m. Aug. 1, for the transaction of such business as may come before it and to elect (4) directors. Instructions on attending virtually will be forthcoming.
CANCELED - American Legion Montgomery Post 521 2020 PICNIC: 5-8 p.m. Aug. 1, Montgomery American Legion Post 521, PO Box 131, Montgomery. 527-9195. mmerring@hvc.rr.com.
CANCELED - “Americana Music at The Backyard Park”: Aug. 1, 6 p.m. doors and Lorenzo’s Bistro’s food concession open; 7 p.m. concert begins, 876 Swiss Hill Road North, Jeffersonville. Guests are reminded to bring lawn blankets and chairs. Ticket prior to concert $10 at The Secret Garden and Jeffersonville Hardware on Main Street; ticket at door $15. Ticket sales will be limited. The concert will feature Slam Allen, renowned blues and soul singer and former lead singer and guitarist for the legendary James Cotton Band. Amy Gallatin, a staple of acoustic bluegrass music, will perform with the Stillwaters making for a perfect blend of powerful bluegrass with classic country flavor. Local musician, Justin Sutherland from Parksville, will round out the concert. Masks and social distancing will be required. No animals permitted. Should there be a need to cancel this event, an announcement will be made no later than July 24 on Jeffersonville JEMS Facebook page. All ticket money will be refundable. 482-5031.
Monday, Aug. 3
REGISTER BY AUG. 3 - Virtual Family Art Workshop with Jill Obrig: 3-4:30 p.m. Aug. 11, 13 The Gardiner Library will host two Family Art Workshops with Jill Obrig via Zoom. Open to children of all ages, register by August 3 and receive the Zoom link by emailing Nicole at nlane@rcls.org. Join art teacher Jill Obrig and create a torn tissue landscape inspired by the story “The Little House” by Virginia Lee Burton and well- known Hudson River artists. On Aug. 13, engage in a different material and make a bean mosaic after viewing the beautiful works of artist, John J Audubon. Then listen to the funny book “Are You My Mother?” by PD Eastman. The Library will provide a take-home bag of art supplies to pick up at the library on Aug. 8 and 9. gardinerlibrary.org.
Alternative Printmaking Methods - Collagraphs in the Kitchen by Elizabeth Schneider: 3-4 p.m. Aug. 3. During this art master class, participants will have the opportunity to create an artwork with materials that can be found around the house. This session is free and open to the public and is accessible through your computer or other electronic device by clicking on https://sunyorange.zoom.us/j/97709762768. To get ready for the class, gather what materials you can find as suggested above, plus scissors or linocut tools, a roller if possible, and cardboard or a cereal or cracker box, or plastic plate surface.
Dog Tales: 6 p.m. Aug. 3. Read virtually to a furry friend from Hudson Valley Paws for a Cause. Grades K-12. Please register for a 15-minute time slot — 6 p.m., 6:15 p.m., or 6:45 p.m. via the Cornwall Public Library’s online calendar at cornwallpubliclibrary.org. Registration begins one week prior to the event and a Zoom links will be emailed to registrants the day of the event.
Girls Empowered Group Meeting: Every Mon. beginning Aug. 3, 6:30-7:30 p.m., 2 Overlook Drive, Warwick, held in an open gym setting which follows state guidelines and provides 6 feet between participants, $35 per session, insurance coverage possible. The high school years for teenage girls are oftentimes turbulent and challenging, and many feel as if they’re the only ones struggling. Nourish Your Mind strives to let girls know that they aren’t alone by now hosting Girls Empowered, a group which focuses on creating a safe space for girls to express themselves and discuss their mental health and any challenges they might be facing. This group caters to teenage high school girls aged 14-18 and explores the topics of strength, interpersonal skills, self-confidence, empathy, and connection. Led by Lillian Dugan, LMSW, Girls Empowered's ultimate goal is to provide support and help participants to feel less alone. Register online at nourishyourmind.com. For more information on Nourish Your Mind call 547-0479, email hello@nourishyourmind.com or visit nourishyourmind.com. Facebook @nourishyourmindllc. Instagram @nourishyourmindllc.
Ten Mile River Museum Talk, "Knotweed, a Tough Love": 7-8 p.m. Aug. 4, Ten Mile River Museum, 1481 Crystal Lake Rd., Narrowsburg, free. The program at Skinners Falls will be discussed. Jessica Newbern, biologist, National Parks Service Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River will lead the talk. Museum Chairman Michael Drilinger will moderate. A question and answer session will be held after the discussion. Scouts attending can ask questions about Nature and Plant Science Merit Badges. 201-716-9261. mitchell.slepian@gmail.com.
Friday, Aug. 4
Let’s Paint a Little Sunshine Together: 6 p.m. Aug. 4. Join the Cornwall Public Library for a virtual adult Paint ‘n’ Sip. Local artist Maureen Hart will provide ALL supplies via curbside pickup at the library (including the easel) for this fun ZOOM paint nite. There is a $10 (refundable with easel return and participation) deposit drop off required (details will be provided) to confirm registration. This program is currently sold out - call the library to be placed on a waiting list.
Sounds of Summer: 6:30 p.m. Aug. 5. Join the Cornwall Public Library on Facebook Live for an entertaining evening of musical enjoyment performed by Cornwall’s own talented musicians, The Gioias! Sit back, relax and indulge in the Sounds of Summer generously sponsored by the Friends of Cornwall Library. Cornwallpubliclibrary.org.
Webinar - What Evil Lurks in the Heart of Your Garden?: 7-8 p.m. Aug. 5, via Zoom. Join Master Gardener Volunteer, Barbara Wexler-Hall, for a few laughs while learning about plants used for food, medicine and materials like clothing and beauty products. On a serious note, sometimes plants can be painful, intoxicating or deadly. What you don’t know might kill you. Pay what you can afford $0, $10 recommended for individuals, $20 Sponsor (pay for yourself and someone else). Register by calling Marie at 344-1234 ext. 262 or online at http://cceorangecounty.org/events.
Story Break Live!: 11 a.m. Aug. 7, every Fri. Think you’re too old for a children’s book? The Cornwall Public Library’s Youth Services Team begs to disagree. Celebrate TGIF with a familiar library face and a good story. You can catch these live events on the Library’s Facebook page , through the summer. Cornwallpubliclibrary.org.
Virtual Teddy Bear Tea Party: 11 a.m. Aug. 7, the Gardiner Library will host a Virtual Teddy Bear Tea Party via Zoom. Children up to 7 years old are invited to gather their teddy bears, favorite drinks, treats and dress up for this virtual event. Miss Amy will lead the fun with teddy bear stories, songs and a simple craft with stuffed animal friends. E-mail Amy at alaber@rcls.org to register and receive the Zoom link. Gardinerlibrary.org.
Practice Sustainable Living: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 8, Manza Family Farm, 4 Hathorn Road, Warwick. Orange Environment, Inc. is sponsoring two workshops. During the morning session from 9 a.m.-noon, the Essentials of Natural Building instructor, Jamie Manza, will guide you in how to use natural materials like clay paints, cob, straw, and stone in natural building for applications around your home (fee is $45). The afternoon session on Rainwater Catchment runs from 1:30-4 p.m. and will be led by Frank Dragone. A 55-gallon drum will be provided to each participant so you can build your own water collection system (fee is $65). CDC Guidelines will be followed and total participants will be limited to 15 to provide for safe social distancing of 6-feet apart and masks will be required. Please bring your own masks, snacks, drinks, and/or lunch (if you are staying for both sessions). Visit orangeenvironment.com to print out a registration form and contact Peter Lai at 313-4246 or email peterl@frontiernet.net for more info. Then mail your check, made out to “Orange Environment, Inc.”, to Orange Environment Inc., P.O. Box 25, Goshen, NY 10924. *If attending both sessions or are an Orange Environment, Inc. member, a $10 discount will apply. 313-4246. peterl@frontiernet.net.
CANCELED – Monthly Project Linus Meeting: 9:30 a.m.-noon Aug. 8, Community Center on Wes Warren Dr., Scotchtown is closed. Watch for further updates, continue to work on blankets at home and stay home and healthy. If you need to contact Project Linus, send an email to oclinus@ptd.net. 570-832-1494. oclinus@ptd.net.
Sunday, Aug. 9
Nature Journaling: 10 a.m.-noon Aug. 9, Mamakating Environmental Center, 762 South Rd., Wurtsboro. Join James Van Gelder at Mamakating Environmental Education & Interpretive Center as you learn the beauty and function of nature journaling. James is an artist and naturalist from Warwick, who has been keeping a journal regularly since 2006. He is currently active with the Orange County Audubon leading field trips and doing birding presentations. An illustrated Nature Journal is a combination of art, nature and science. It combines writing with images as a means of recording observations and stimulating inquiry. This workshop will introduce participants to this unique way to experience the natural world. Geared for all levels of ability- from novice to artist, we’ll use illustration as a tool for exploration- all that is needed is interest. Examples of exercises include compare and contrast, and design a field guide entry. Students will be exposed to the materials and techniques especially useful for journaling, as well as books and other references. Paper, waterbrush and pen can be supplied for an additional materials fee of $10 ($20 if materials are needed) or students can bring their own. Space is limited. Register by calling Mamakating Environmental Education & Interpretive Center at 644 5014. meeic@mamakating.org.
The History of Wintoon, A Grand Neversink Estate: 2-4 p.m. Aug. 9, Time and The Valleys Museum, 332 Main Street, Grahamsville. Local summer resident Laura Brock will speak about the history of Wintoon, an estate built by Clarence Roof after he bought out the Parker Place in 1882. Roof’s adopted daughter, "Frank” Hovey Roof Connell married surgeon and inventor, Karl Connell who developed the first all American gas mask used in the First World War. 985-7700. info@timeandthevalleysmuseum.org.
Tuesday, Aug. 11
Thursday, Aug. 13
REGISTER BY AUG. 3 - Virtual Family Art Workshop with Jill Obrig: 3-4:30 p.m. Aug. 13 The Gardiner Library will host two Family Art Workshops with Jill Obrig via Zoom. Open to children of all ages, register by August 3 and receive the Zoom link by emailing Nicole at nlane@rcls.org. Join art teacher Jill Obrig and make a bean mosaic after viewing the beautiful works of artist, John J Audubon. Then listen to the funny book “Are You My Mother?” by PD Eastman. The Library will provide a take-home bag of art supplies to pick up at the library on Aug. 8 and 9. Gardinerlibrary.org.
“Working in the Borscht Belt: Tales From the Dining Room” Virtual Program: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Aug. 13, E.B. Crawford Public Library, 479 Broadway, Monticello. Panelists will discuss their experiences working in the dining rooms of several Catskills hotels in their hey day. We will hear their personal stories about working and playing in “the mountains” during 60’s and 70’s. Hear what it was like to work seven days a week serving all 21 meals to stations of from 24 to 40 guests, with no days or meals off. Many doctors, lawyers and teachers earned their yearly college expenses in eight hectic weeks of summer. Panelists include: Myron Gittell, Alan Barrish, Lynn Skolnick and Marvin Rappaport. Registration is required. This virtual program is provided by the Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library in Monticello. Registration is limited to 75 registrants. Please register online at ebcpl.org, click on adult calendars and then click on August. 794-4660.
Diane Lang presents “Staying Positive During Trying Times” Virtual Program: 6:30 p.m. Aug. 20. With gloom and doom around us, it can be hard to find the positive. Isolation has many of us feeling sad and anxious. But it is possible to stay positive, feel hopeful and reduce stress/anxiety during these turbulent times. Diane is an acclaimed author and therapist. She is a noted speaker and positive living coach who has presented a number of programs at the Ethelbert B. Crawford Library. This virtual program is another program provided by the Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library in Monticello. Registration is limited to 75 registrants. Please register online at ebcpl.org, click on adult calendars and then click on August. You will find your program there. 794-4660.
Sparrowbush Engine Company annual Chicken BBQ Take Out: 4-7 p.m. Aug. 22, donation$12, includes chicken, corn on the cob, baked potato and desert, ticket available from any SECO member or call 856-5047 to reserve your tickets.
Bonnie Lewis presents “Tai Chi for Arthritis Part 2” Virtual Program: 6:30 p.m. Aug. 27. Bonnie J. Lewis, RN and Certified Instructor, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Sullivan County will present the second part of her benefits of Tai Chi for arthritis. The first part was very well received and Bonnie is back to explain in more depth how Tai Chi can increase strength, posture, relaxation, prevent falls and reduce stress. This virtual program is provided by Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library in Monticello. Registration is limited to 75 registrants. Please register online at ebcpl.org, click on adult calendars and then click on August. 794-4660.
Sunday, Sept. 6
Onion Festival: 2-6 p.m. Sept. 6, PLAV Pavilion, 16 Legion Rd., Pine Island, tickets $20, Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra, onion eating contest sponsored by the Pine Island Chamber plus food and fun, special tribute to first responders, healthcare and medical personnel . Classic cars are welcome to attend and display their vehicles and will be admitted to festival free of charge.
Thursday, Oct. 15
Holocaust Remembrance Day Program: 7-9 p.m. Oct. 15, Temple Sinai, 75 Highland Ave., Middletown. Featured speaker is Dr. Ronald Israelski will tell the story of his parents who were survivors of the concentration camps. There will be candle lighting in memory of those who did not survive. 343-1861.
Saturday, Oct. 24
The Warwick Valley Quilters’ Guild Stars of the Valley Quilt Show: Oct. 24-25, The Sanfordville Elementary School, 144 Sanfordville Rd., Warwick. Local quilters from N.Y., N.J., Pa., and Conn., will show more than 150 quilts, and wall hangings. Speakers are Timna Tarr and Lisa Shepard Stewart. Vendors will offer machines, furniture, fabrics, and sewing accessories in addition to raffle prizes. pattiewhelan@yahoo.com. Warwickvalleyqg.org.
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A personal injury due to medical malpractice is bad enough. But the process of filing a medical malpractice claim in Idaho can also be long and difficult.
It’s estimated that about 20,000 medical malpractice claims are filed in the U.S. every year. That number has dropped significantly in the past 20 years due to various laws that have sought to dissuade “frivolous” lawsuits.
However, don’t let these statistics and facts discourage you. If you think you have a legitimate lawsuit, a medical malpractice attorney can guide you through the process and help you recover on your damages.
There are certain laws and statutes in Idaho that make filing medical malpractice lawsuits more complicated.
A medical malpractice attorney can give you the specifics, but here’s a primer on what you need to know:
Like many states, Idaho has a statute of limitations on when medical malpractice lawsuits must be filed. In Idaho’s case, the law is two years.
So, when does the so-called clock start ticking on when you can file a lawsuit for your injury? Idaho law says that the lawsuit must be filed in the state’s court system within two years of when the incidence of medical malpractice occurred.
There are exceptions, though.
Those specific exceptions are when a foreign object (such as a medical sponge) has been left inside a patient’s body, and also when a healthcare provider knowingly conceals the malpractice. In the latter case, the concealment would essentially cover up the negligence on the part of the healthcare provider.
Another exception that allows the deadline to be extended is if the malpractice occurred when the patient was under 18 years old or has a mental disability. In these cases, the two-year “clock” starts ticking when the patient turns 18 years old or the mental disability ends.
Knowing about the statute of limitations is very important. If you miss the filing deadline, and no exception applies, the healthcare provider will almost certainly ask for the case to be dismissed – no matter how bad the negligence was.
Pre-Litigation Screening
Before a claim reaches the court, people looking to file medical malpractice lawsuits also have another hoop to jump through.
Pre-litigation screening in Idaho was developed to encourage settlements, and claimants are required to file hearing requests first before filing a civil claim with a state court.
The process is informal and it generally moves quickly. The chairman of the panel that hears your case will decide whether your case is frivolous or if it has merit. The panel may decide the case has merit and may advise you, your medical malpractice attorney, and the healthcare provider on an appropriate settlement amount.
But remember: The proceedings are non-binding. Even though they are required, you and your lawyer can still continue with the claim afterward.
Medical malpractice cases are complicated and they can sometimes be hard to win. Plaintiffs in these cases win only 27% of the lawsuits, compared to 52% of all other plaintiff-won tort trials, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics study.
But like we said before, don’t let the numbers discourage you.
The information in this article is broad and generic, and each legal case is different. So, remember to reach out to a medical malpractice attorney at Rossman Law Group for a consultation and legal advice for your specific case.
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Rubio, Nelson Urge VA Secretary to Mobilize Services for Veterans Impacted by Hurricane Michael
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Bill Nelson (D-FL) urged Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Robert Wilkie to authorize increased outreach efforts and benefits assistance for Florida veterans impacted by Hurricane Michael. The letter also thanks the Secretary for actions the VA has already taken, including activation of the Pharmacy Disaster Relief Plan, which ensures that veterans have access to an emergency supply of medication after the storm. Yesterday, Hurricane Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach as a powerful category 4 storm.
The full text of the letter is below.
Dear Secretary Wilkie:
As Florida’s panhandle begins the response and recovery process following major Hurricane Michael, we respectfully request you to direct your department to do everything in its power to ensure our affected veterans are taken care of in the aftermath of this catastrophic storm. Florida is home to more than 1.5 million veterans, many of whom are over the age of 65 and rely on VA programs and facilities in their day-to-day lives. Recognizing the magnitude of this storm, we urge you to authorize increased outreach efforts and benefits assistance, to the maximum extent possible, for impacted veterans.
Having these programs and facilities available will be vital to ensuring the health and safety of our veterans, and we support the VA’s discretion in continuing operations at various medical centers and outpatient clinics. We also write to express gratitude for measures the VA has already implemented to provide increased flexibility for veterans impacted by the storm, such as the Pharmacy Disaster Relief Plan.
As you begin to assess the damage sustained to Veterans Health System facilities in the Florida panhandle, we also urge the department to deploy VA Mobile Facilities to assist veterans in areas where clinics remained closed. We stand ready to assist the department, and look forward to working together to provide veterans affected by Hurricane Michael with needed relief to recover from this disaster.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Timeline of Rubio Actions related to Hurricane Michael:
On Thursday, FEMA Administrator Brock Long briefed Rubio on damage caused by Hurricane Michael.
On Wednesday, ahead of Hurricane Michael’s landfall, Rubio urged Attorney General Sessions, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, and Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig to assist communities affected by the storm.
On Wednesday, following Hurricane Michael’s landfall, Rubio urged President Donald Trump to approve Florida’s request for a major disaster declaration. Today, the President approved the State of Florida’s major disaster declaration.
On October 9, 2018, Rubio joined Senator Nelson and Florida Representatives in urging President Trump to approve Florida Governor Rick Scott’s request for a pre-landfall emergency declaration ahead of Hurricane Michael.
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Caguas, Puerto Rico, Other: Caguas, Puerto Rico Muffler Man
Puerto Rico's only Muffler Man, here since he was purchased and shipped from the USA in the 1960s.
Hwy 1, Caguas, Puerto Rico, Other
In an alley on the west side of Hwy 1/Gautier Benitez Ave., just north of Hwy 33/Jose Mercado Ave., across from the junior high school.
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The "Caguas Giant" was originally in front of a Texaco station very close to where it is today. It was known as the Texaco Giant or Rafy Ramirez's Giant. For some time it held a Texaco shield between the floor and its lower hand. After its original owner, Mr. Rafy Ramirez, sold the station in the early 1980s, he moved the giant to its current location, where it has been moved several times. Children of the late 1960s to the early 1980s clearly remember its original location and have fond memories of the Giant.
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Caguas, Puerto Rico Muffler Man
Thought I would follow up on the 13 year old tip about a muffler man in Puerto Rico while I was down here on business. Sure enough, I found him across from the Jr High School in Caguas, just as the 1999 tip said, but he is down an alleyway off the road, and you have to drive down that in order to find him.. He's standing up with a small iron fence around him, behind an auto body shop.
The locals know him as the Carolina Giant, and he came here in the early '60s. His owner was named Rafael Ramirez Aponte, and he visited the US in the early '60s and saw International Fiberglass at a business trade show, I believe. He purchased the service man model and shipped him back to Puerto Rico. The muffler man stood at Rafael's Texaco station in Caguas for many years, and was finally taken down in the early '90's. He was moved to Rafael's Auto Body shop and laid on his back behind the shop till about 2001 when he was set up and secured with support lines.
They say during his Texaco days in the '60s he held a wrench that was big enough that both hands supported it. He is in rough shape with a lot of pealing paint and dark water stains from years of being rained on.
So yes, there is a Muffler Man in Puerto Rico and I was assured by the workers there that he is the only one in the country.
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Horror game Detention now has a Netflix show
7th December 2020 / 7:06PM
Red Candle Games are perhaps best known for Devotion getting into trouble with the Chinese government, but they also, y’know, made decent video games. One of those, the high school horror Detention, has now spawned a live-action series on Netflix. It started this weekend, and after seeing the first two episodes, sure, I’ll keep watching. Oh, and they have a new game coming.
While the game was set at Greenwood High School during Taiwan’s 38 years under martial law, which ended in 1987, the show takes place there in the 1990s. Without spoiling much, the series is still built on that original setting, with its spookings crawling out of the ‘White Terror’ period into the slightly-more-present day. I’m not sure directly that historical strand is adapted from the game (it’s been a while) but hey, it doesn’t need to be – I’m enjoying Detention the show as its own thing.
It is a tough one to recommend because 1) I’m not yet sure how the spookings will shake out 2) my time is essentially worthless. It could collapse into cliché or it could do something cool and interesting, but I’m into it so far. I mean, let’s not pretend I’d stop watching if it was just the usual ghostly goings-on, but it would be a shame. The series is eight episodes long, and two will arrive on Netflix each Saturday until the 26th.
“Despite a heavy dollop of Silent Hill, it’s a horror game unlike anything else I’ve played thanks to the smart use it makes of its historical setting,” our former Adam (RPS in peace) said in his Detention review back in 2017. “If you’re interested in thoughtful, fearsome games, don’t let this one slip by.”
Detention previously spawned a novel adaptation and a live-action film. And unlike Devotion, you can still buy Detention. It’s available on Steam and from the publisher.
Red Candle teased this weekend that “the studio has been busy working on our new game.” No hints as to what that is, but they say “Hopefully we can share more info with you soon!”
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Embarrassing Body Problems
WHETHER it’s making a stink or creating some gassy noise, let’s face it our bodies can be pretty embarrassing at times.
And while conditions such as excess gas and sweat may be pretty natural bodily functions, they can also make many of us squirm in our seats.
According to naturopath Mim Beim, you’re not alone if this applies to you.
The naturopath, who is based between Sydney and Kangaroo Valley, has written Natural Remedies, an A-Z look at some of the common health problems which can leave us red-faced.
And according to Ms Beim it’s was time people started to talk about them more as they could be a sign of something more serious or on the other hand could be something solved quite easily.
And the first thing she reckons we need to be doing is talking a lot more erm, poo, literally.
“People shouldn’t be embarrassed,” she said. “We really need to give it a lot more attention.
“For example if the colour of the stool is light, or it floats that can indicate a lack of bile in your system and can be a sign your liver needs some attention.”
She said simple things like adding lemon in hot water, or dandelion root tea could help liver and digestion.
But poo isn’t the only embarrassing thing people come to see her about
“Flatulence is obviously a big one, but excess sweating as well as skin issues also cause people a lot of grief,” she said.
“A pimple on the face for example always feels 20 times worse than on the backside and something like a cold sore can really affect people’s moods.”
According to her some of the most embarrassing things people come to see her about include:
• Bad breath:
If your friends and colleagues are reeling back in horror every time you talk, it could be a sign of an underlying health issue, Ms Beim said.
It could be caused by blocked sinuses, post-nasal drip or even helicobacter pylorus — a stomach bacteria responsible for mouth ulcers among other things.
Avoiding sugar, cutting dairy and drinking plenty of water can all help.
• Body odour
Everyone sweats, but constant body odour cannot only leave some people embarrassed but also self-conscious.
According to Ms Beim a variety of things can cause it, including meat and animal fats and natural chemicals in food.
But she reckons a constant odour can be a sign of illness and hormone changes.
Drinking more water, trialling a vegan diet for a short time and wiping your body with a cloth saturated with lemon juice or vinegar before bed can all help.
• Cellulite:
Most women admit to having at least some of this on their bodies and while totally natural can make them self conscious too.
Ms Beim said cellulite was normally a female issue, with age and poor blood and lymphatic circulation all playing a part.
Simple things such as drinking more water, eating more raw food, and less salt and fried food could all play a part in reducing it.
• Cold sores/herpes
They can be a romance and confidence killer which can be trigged by a range of factors including stress, infection and hormones which allow the Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV1) to flourish.
Taking immune acids such as L-Lysine and avoiding coffee, alcohol and sugar are simple ways to help fight the virus.
• Constipation:
If you’re not making friends with your loo and having regular bowl movements at least three times a week, that’s a sign something isn’t right, Ms Beim said.
It can be caused by several factors including not drinking enough water and not having enough fibre in your diet.
“Eating at regular times can help the bowel get into routine,” Ms Beim writes in her book.
“Chew each mouthful well and avoid sugar, white-flour products and even try gluten free for a month.”
• Dandruff:
If your scalp is shedding dry, white scales chances are you’ve got this condition and while it’s not contagious or a sign of poor hygiene can make you avoid wearing dark clothes.
Cutting out certain hair product and increasing your range of good oils such as olive and cold-pressed nut oils can all help keep the white flakes at bay.
• Diarrhoea:
Nature’s way of ridding your body of toxins can be a real pain in butt, literally and can be caused by a range of things including stress, food poisoning, excess alcohol or a food sensitivity.
Ms Beim said long-term chronic diarrhoea can be treated but the cause had to be found first which could take time and require dietary changes.
• Flatulence:
It’s normal for most of us to fart, but poor eating habits and not chewing food properly could exacerbate the problem for some people.
Again it can be caused by a range of things including a food intolerance or eating with your mouth open and allowing excess air into the digestive tract.
There’s not a lot to stop nature but cutting sugar and eating more probiotic food such as yoghurt could help reduce gas.
• Haemorrhoids:
Also known as piles, haemorrhoids which are inflamed veins cause aching pain and itching and can sometimes be caused by constipation or long periods of time or sitting.
But there’s plenty people can do to help including eating more fibre, taking more vitamin C for better vein health and using softer toilet tissue.
• Warts:
Caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) warts are generally painless but feel unsightly for those who have them.
Avoiding sugar which suppresses the immune system and eating unprocessed foods and eating more garlic can help as it has massive antiviral properties.
Source: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/natural-remedies-naturopath-mim-beim-dishes-the-dirt-on-our-embarrassing-body-problems-in-new-book/story-fneuzlbd-1227032444510
Debra Killalea at news.com.au – 22 August, 2014
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At a time when American pop was nascent and looking for strong shoulders to build its foundation upon, Fats Domino helped us find our thrill. Unfortunately that thrill mostly ended after a visit to Music Row.
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From the wild lands of Wyoming comes a by-gone man with a by-gone sound traveling under the name Luke Bell. With his dog and his 1995 Buick LeSabre, he comes trekking through the fog of obscurity to sing you some good country songs in the old-fashioned way. “Don’t Mind If I Do” harkens back to a time in country music when it didn’t suck, and hadn’t even started to.
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It’s not that JD McPherson does anything different than many other artists have done before him. It’s just that he does it better. Good music will always be relevant, and JD McPherson is living proof of this. A strict revivalist of the 1950’s rock & roll blues, his music has branched out and burrowed into the consciousness of many folks not regularly susceptible to the pull of a straight-laced throwback rock & roll show.
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Translating Florida Georgia Line’s Sexual Innuendo
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WARNING: Language (sexual)
Professed Christians Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley, known collectively as the pop country mega duo Florida Georgia Line have more euphemistic language on their new album Anything Goes than a salty-mouthed locker room. If you’ve been wondering what the hell they actually mean when they sing lines like, “Stick the pink umbrella in your drink,” then here are some useful translations of Florida Georgia Line’s most sexually-charged lines.
As Saving Country Music explained while declaring Anything Goes the worst album ever, “Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard have their own language, partial to the most grammatically-challenged and stupefying vocabulary lurking in the dankest sewers of the English dialect, but not residing firmly in any specific one of them so no truly proper translation can be obtained. It’s like Pig Latin for douchewads understood by them and them only.” So please understand if certain translations could be interpreted a different way.
To save virgin eyes, medical terms have been used where possible. But of course, some language can only be properly translated by using other slang words.
And to be fair, sexual innuendo has been used in country music from very early on to circumvent the genre’s rigid moral codes, and sometimes to instill smart wit in the lyricism. However Florida Georgia Line’s poor use of innuendo should not be compared to these proud traditions.
FGL: “I sit you up on the kitchen sink. Stick the pink umbrella in your drink.”
Translation: “I sit you up on the kitchen sink. Stick my penis in your vagina.”
This line from Florida Georgia Line’s song “Sun Daze” has to be the most egregious innuendo of the entire project, not particularly well-veiled, and diseased in so many ways. The key to its sexual pervertedness is the use of “the” in the second line instead of “a.” If the line had been, “Stick a pink umbrella in your drink,” then it could have been passed off as more literal, and in turn would have made the innuendo more effective. But using “the” makes no mistake about what is being implied (keep it simple for FGL fans, I guess).
Even if you’re a fan of perverted innuendo, there still seems to be something universally unhealthy about alluding to male genitalia as “pink” anything, though admittedly the hue is somewhat accurate. Even more troubling is that a female was in on the “Sun Daze” songwriting session in the person of Sarah Buxton. One would have thought she would have put the stop sign up on this one, but no dice.
FGL: “Good Good” (title of third song on Anything Goes)
Translation: “Favorable Pussy” (slang for female genitals)
Florida Georgia Line uses the word “good” on Anything Goes 25 times, including multiple times as “good good.” The only word they use more is “girl”—used a whopping 42 times.
According to the Urban Dictionary, using the word “good” twice in succession means, “High quality kegel muscles that keep your significant other coming back and not looking for other people to satisfy their needs.” The example the Urban Dictionary uses is “So I’ve been dating this guy for three weeks, and yesterday he told me he loved me. I got that Good Good.”
Using “good good” as a euphemism for “pussy” is illustrated in the song by Ashanti also called “Good Good.”
When my man leave the house, I know he’s comin’ right back
I got that good good, I got that good good
No matter how much he might try to act, he know just where it’s at
I put it on him right, I do it every night
I leave him sittin’ mouth open like wheww
So I don’t worry bout nobody takin’ mine
Cause I know just the right thing to do (I got that good good)
When Tyler Hubbard was asked what “good good” meant by The National Post, he said, “It’s just all over the album, it’s fun, it’s words that nobody’s ever said before.”
FGL: “And let me stay inside your drink.”
Translation: “And let me keep my penis in your vagina.”
From the song “Bumpin’ The Night” (which is innuendo itself), this line is yet another illustration of the adolescent mindset Florida Georgia Line has towards the human sexual anatomy.
FGL: “There it is, yeah, that’s the sweet spot. Blow your smoke, I’m gonna breathe it in, girl.”
Translation: “You have found the optimum erogenous zone. Continue to perform oral sex on me.“
From the song with the divine title “Angel.” It’s the song built from the unforgivable cliché, “Did it hurt when you fell from the sky?” Incidentally, Florida Georgia Line says the word “angel” 21 times on Anything Goes.
Other Potential/Untranslatable Innuendos
“Put a little shine on the vinyl seat.”
“If you want you can pet on my Harley.”
“Flow you the trouble like a champagne bubble, sayin'”
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November 4, 2014 @ 10:54 am
Chances that “Good Good” will be a single? Probably very high.
Let me preface this by making it clear ..I DETEST EVERYTHING THIS BAND STANDS FOR -EVERYTHING !!
But this issue is pervasive , Trigger . I believe Hollywood can be credited with ‘pushing the envelope ” initially but hell …musicians have been singing these sexual metaphors since Jesus was a cowboy ( Zep sang…’Squeeze my lemon til the juice runs down my leg’ ). The internet has certainly made them more and more accessible and ‘acceptable’ ( read “unstoppable” ) because there is really no way to censor the net . I think that it has really always been incumbent upon parents and guardians to be vigilant in making children aware of what’s really going on in a commercial /capitalist /consumer -driven society and now more-so than ever as nutrition , art , entertainment , politics and cultures in general are at risk of having their values undermined in the name of the dollar . With regards to the Kruise Kids being Christians . …c’mon . How many companies, artists , sects and religious off-shoots hide behind their supposed religious beliefs while bending or interpreting them to justify their OWN set of values and actions for commercial or political reasons ?
BJones
to further prove your point, Zep stole the lemon line from Robert Johnson.
Of course this issue is pervasive, but it has never been employed in this manner in mainstream country music. You can make the case that this is worse than even David Allan Coe’s X-rated albums, because those were purposely marked to not be for mass consumption. Florida Georgia Line is the biggest act in country music right now. Mainstream country used to be the refuge from this type of stuff. Now it’s a magnet for it.
And I pointed out myself that there is a storied history of this type of innuendo being used in music, and country music specifically. FGL and “Anything Goes” just take it to another level, but please don’t let me represent it like it is unprecedented or even unusual in society overall. This was more just an illustration based off of this specific album.
emfrank
November 4, 2014 @ 12:00 pm
I agree with Albert to a point and don’t really find this disgusting. Innuendo is everywhere, probably more common in traditional blues than anywhere, but this is poorly crafted innuendo. That, to me, is what makes it terrible, not the sexual content. Ledbelly’s “squeeze my lemon” or Hopkin’s “my starter won’t start” (one of my favorite innuendos) are used to get at the rawness of sex. “Pink Umbrella” is just silly and makes sex trivial.
Or, more recently, compare the above to the following from Jason Isbell’s Cover Me Up. (Percy Priest is a dam in Tennessee… but that is not what he is talking about. Wish I were Amanda Shires when I hear it, but I digress.)
“Girl leave your boots by the door, we ain’t leaving this room,
Til’ Percy Priest breaks open wide and the river runs through.”
Oops – making up my own lyrics. That is leave your boots by the bed.
Need an edit feature here Trig.
GregN
Oops again?
Not only on your misquote, but on the context too as the line following shows?
I read it differently than you, as in “nothing short of an emergency is getting us out of bed”.
So girl hang your dress up to dry/we ain’t leavin’ this room
Til Percy Priest breaks open wide and the river runs through
Carries this house on the stones like a piece of drift wood
Yeah – realized I also mixed up the verses. I read the first verse as “we are in for the winter and nothing but an emergency is getting us up”… but I definitely think the Percy Priest line is an innuendo for orgasm, hers not his. Maybe just my dirty mind, but Isbell is too good a writer not to see it.
November 4, 2014 @ 2:00 pm
To clarify, though, I don’t think your reading is wrong, but that it functions on both levels. I read Isbell’s twitter, and someone asked him if the line “use me for good” meant use me up or use me for good purposes. His answer was simply “yes.” He is quite happy with layers of meaning in his songs.
‘Of course this issue is pervasive, but it has never been employed in this manner in mainstream country music…… ”’
I whole-heartedly agree with your posit , Trigger …and I’m whole-heartedly opposed to what this band in particular is all about in terms of its talentless and exploitative modus operandi . Country (mainstream commercial country , at least ) did seem to be the last bastion of respect for its own and the culture’s values , morals and traditions. I applaud your efforst to preserve this by pointing out this band’s attempts to undermine it . They are musical ebola …..a serious but arrestable virus ,thanks to the passionate and concerted efforts of sites like this and observations like the review above .
Scotty J
One of my favorite examples of this is ‘I Got The Hoss’ by Mel Tillis. His phrasing is so perfect and knowing.
Conway’s “Don’t Call Him a Cowboy” is another good example of intelligent, understated innuendo.
Ashton smith
Why the hell are you so offended by sexual innuendos? Are you just confused with your life? Grow some nuts or shut the hell up talking shit.
Houston Erwin
Actually the line says, “If you want you can pet on my harley”, not “If you want you can get on harley.” Definitely a sexual innuendo though.
I’ve seen that line represented both ways, and since I would never let a physical copy of that unholy album across my threshold, I can’t verify the actual lyric myself, if such a thing is even included in the liner notes.
I would never buy the CD either to check. They made a lyrical video for the song though.
Actually it is ” If you want you can pet on my Harley”. I sadly have the cd, which was a major impulse buy. I’m still a teen, but even I can’t believe I was this stupid.
Waylon Van Smack
November 5, 2014 @ 7:17 am
admitting it is the first step to recovery Hoss. Remember, bad cd’s make good clay pigeons.
You can run a loop of fishing line through the center and hang them as Christmas ornaments, too.
Troy Turner
That’s very and highly doubtful. They are as transparent as as glass.
And dumber than rocks.
Although it still seems like a really stupid line, like why the heck would you pet a Harley. Even if it does mean something else, it’s completely indecipherable.
LOL!! You know their music is bad when teenagers comment that FGL is dumber than rocks. Mercy, I couldn’t agree with you more!
That is what I said it was.
I was just confirming it, no one said they had the Cd. Isn’t Tyler Hubbard’s dog named Harley? Sooo maybe he’s not talking about a bike?
January 8, 2015 @ 6:46 pm
Don’t look for something where there is nothing. Harley is the name of Tyler Hubbard’s golden retriever. A dog he got around 6 months before the album released, presumably when the song was being written.
mystery stu
DISGUSTING -_-
How am I supposed to get to sleep tonight while my brain feverishly tries to figure out what the hell a “bottle seat” is and why someone would want to “put a little shine” on it?
The only thing worse than songwriting-by-committee is songwriting-by-committee-using-refrigerator-magnetic-poetry. Just throw some words out there because they rhyme, sense be damned.
It’s actually vinyl seat, which is just as bad. Sometimes you have to wonder if they don’t roll dice or spin a wheel or something to come up with these lyrics
Mercy, I believe that they were drunk and stoned (along with their songwriters) during the “creation” of their album. What disappoints me is that they’re nominated for an award on tonight’s CMAs. Even if the lyrics sound like someone from the projects wrote it, people buy it.
The worst part is that these guys are major role models to teens, and it makes teens think it’s fine to get stoned and that maybe they will end up living the high life like these morons. It makes me wonder how many people will end up hurt or dead because of following what songs like sun daze say.
As someone who once lived that sort of lifestyle: its a dead end road and you’re on the money when you said someone will end up hurt or dead. Or in my case: living with regrets.
Either way: see if you can get a refund for the money you plunked down for their album and may I suggest checking out this site for album reviews. There are quite a few artists that have released great music recently. Stoney LaRue and Wade Bowen are two great examples of what country music should be in this day and age.
I was one of the people that thought it would be a good idea to pre-order the cd, so no chance on a refund. And I completely agree,there is so much better country music out there, but all the radios play the stuff about getting buzzed and demeaning women, there’s already to much of it out there, but numb skulls like FGL have to take it to the next step. There probably wont ever be an end to it, even with every body saying that FGL will gone in a few years I doubt they will. It seems best just to keep the radio off anymore.
Lil Dale
I had a closs personel frend of mine whos a big wig n nashvile tell me brian kely is reely dale ernhart jr in disgize an tylar hubbard is a 2nd cuzin of ray wylie hubbard. the dale jr conection wood explane a lot as to why they r such a big band cos dale jr has a lot of fanz all redy. an the ray wylie conection wood expplane why there a good band. U can here the inflewanse. I no they like to push,the limets sum times but there good boys just havin fun n all. im not imbareassed to say theyve groen on me an im a fan. God bless yall! And role tide!
WTF …..??
Learn how to spell.
Big A
I’m not sure that would explane it, but that is an interesting theory.
As much as Lil Wayne’s horrendous spelling grates, I could put up with it if he could just express a cogent thought.
(I realized I used a couple of big words in there that Lil Wayne probably won’t understand. “Horrendous” means “unpleasant, terrible,” while “cogent” means “clear, logical and convincing.”)
evan tho u like to thro around that belmont deploma of yers with all those cogent clear logical and convincing coments Im still a fan of yers heydey. Wut u dont get tho is yer like the willie Nelson of savin country music comenters. not evrywun can be as good as u. Im.at best the edie rabbet of savin country music comentars. I gess wut I meen is we dont allno as much about music as u but weer all tryin hard an given it a hundrud n tin persent. god bless yall!
What if they’re lyrics for a subliminal message that only a secret Government organization can decipher? And what if that organization wants real country music to be destroyed, so that more of this shit can be played on the radio? So they hire these douches to play songs that would make people more likely to have sex and party, thus making them ignore the extermination of other good musicians?
Or you could say, that it just fucking sucks.
I recently watched the Josie and the Pussycats movie for the first time (not by choice, I have a 10-year-old daughter). The plot revolves around an evil record company executive who records subliminal messages under the tracks of popular music telling the listener what trends to follow, including what music to listen to.
When I contemplate how many millions of people seem to love this drivel I can’t help but wonder if the writers of that movie were onto something.
Truthiness
“There it is, yeah, that”™s the sweet spot. Blow your smoke, I”™m gonna breathe it in, girl.”
Translation….
“You have found the optimum erogenous zone. Pass some gas, I”™m gonna breathe it in, girl.”
It is called a queef. See also, vart.
Like the American visiting the Japanese golf course yelled when his tee shot went in the cup . . .’Wrong hole!’
(There is a great joke behind that punch line–google it.)
Mike W
I remember when Sarah Buxton was a bit of a critical darling early in her career when she was trying to launch her solo career. Guess she needed to pay the bills or something, cause talk about not even trying anymore…
I’ve seen it said a few times about her involvement in these songs that she is better than this. Maybe she’s not. Women can be hacks just as much as men.
Gena R.
Tyler Hubbard on “good good”: “It”™s just all over the album, it”™s fun, it”™s words that nobody”™s ever said before.”
Right, sure. And you and Brian are the greatest poets since Yeats.
Great piece, Trig. 😀 Innuendo is nothing new in popular music, but for some reason, this stuff seems way more incoherent and juvenile than ever. Or maybe the words are all the more glaring when the music itself has so little to offer…
Its also “Backseat, Jeep Jeep..”, “Let me step inside your dream.”, “Put a little shine on the vinyl seat.”, and “Float your trouble like a champagne bubble.”
According to every single lyrics site on the internet, you are correct about “vinyl seat” vs. “bottle seat”, and incorrect about the other three lines.
As a Christian (and Presbyterian seminary student!), I appreciate that you are calling them out as “professing Christians.” Of course, who isn’t in the South? This is sad and shameful, but FGL scarcely knows the meaning of shame.
We are a long way from the genuine faith of Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and George Jones — and in Marty Stuart’s latest album. They were not perfect, but that’s not what faith is about…otherwise, we wouldn’t need faith.
It’s turtles all the way down the line, baby!
So the famous ‘Trigger’ isn’t even going to acknowledge my lyric corrections now lol
Actually dude, I’m actively working to try to confirm these lyrics because there are multiple “translations” of them and finding the official lyrics has proven to be difficult. So it took me a bit to moderate your comments. Even with an act like Florida Georgia Line, I don’t want to misrepresent their work, that does me no good. Multiple places have the lyric as “G G,” but I will take your word and just in case I have removed that specific line.
Its hard to find the original lyrics when 3 year old toddlers high on smack wrote this entire album. Not surprising, considering that it IS Florida Georgia Line. And how these inbred fucktards are nominated for awards is beyond me. If people like them, then more power to them. I will be listening to Reckless Kelly instead.
Three of your four “corrections” are incorrect according to every single lyrics site on the internet.
I have obtained an official copy of the lyrics, checked all references, made any necessary changes.
I hope you didn’t have to pay for that. Expense aside, the fact that someone purchased the lyrics might encourage the writers to churn out more songs like these………
Trigger, don’t waste your time. The lyrics (at best) are nothing more than mindless incoherent drivel. Hell, I am black and its offensive that these two idiots are attempting to use Ebonics & effectively mangling, butchering and helping to destroy the English language. You will be giving yourself a splitting headache attempting to decipher their kindergarten gibberish, brother.
I respect that. As you may have presumed, I am a die hard Florida Georgia Line fan lol. I read your articles because I respect your opinion and how you have formulated them. This is my first time writing on here and I just wanna say briefly, I know you people on this feed wouldn’t understand this, but my FGL CD’s sit right next to my George Strait CD’s. I have the upmost respect for pure country music and there are people like myself who can reconcile the two worlds very easily. I make no attempt to compare the two and I want you all to know that there are people who enjoy the fruits of both.
Since correcting folks seems to be your bag, you will probably be interested to know that the word you want to use is actually UTMOST, not upmost.
The use of “myself” instead of “me” rubbed me the wrong way, but I took the high ground…
😉
Dana M
It doesn’t even sound like good innuendo. Miranda Lambert’s “Fine Tune” I thought was pretty clever when it comes to innuendo.
Bill Goodman
Ladies and gentlemen, here is the one band that makes Nickelback sound good.
JadeAlixandra
I had some hope for them after Dirt came out. Had meaning to it, and didn’t sound that bad. Then they do this -_-
Honestly, I think FGL should do a cover of willie and Waylon’s I can get off on you. That song was pretty dirty and ahead of its time depending on how you interpret it.
Adam Lawson (Singer/Songwriter)
FGL makes me want to lobotomize myself with a rusty, hot soldering iron!
I work in a record store and I do my best to try to inform people of all of the great music in the world. Tragically, Shit sells!
To quote one of my favorite songwriters in modern music and a huge influence of mine:
“There are plenty of good burger joints in Nashville. No one is making you go to McDonalds.”
Final thought, FGL is the pink slime equivalent of modern radio “country” and that shit is bad for you.
That quote was from Jason Isbell.
I forgot to put that.
‘Warm My Weiner’, by Bo Carter.
(Since we are all posting naughty songs, right?)
Ballgame
Any chance this website changes names from “Saving Country Music” to “Hating Florida Georgia Line”?
We don’t hate them as individuals or as human beings. We hate their music. I’m in agreement with Trigger when he said they’re an embarrassment to country music. When you are writing overtly sexual songs for yourself and Jason Aldean, not to mention dumbing down people in the process…people tend to have an issue with that. Especially the folks who appreciate well written, quality country music. Thank God Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Stoney LaRue, Wade Bowen & others have released great country music this year.
No. It would just have to be changed again in a couple of years when trends change and people are embarrassed to admit that they were fans.
My standing theory this whole time has been that these guys are actually pretty clever and were just on a mission to hop on the ensuing trainwreck that we know as pop country. I thought they did this knowing full and well that their lyrics are absurd, the music is in no way the “evolution” of country, and that they would simply just pretend “Hey this is us, we are doing our own thing!” I
I still stand by my theory, but sometimes I am just not so sure.. some lyrical quips are so bad that they could only come from someone who has genuinely poor taste.
The entire album, with the exception of the song “Dirt”, is in poor taste. It makes me wonder if they ever graduated high school, let alone attend college.
They’re trying to ruin innuendo, aren’t they?
Discovering sexy, secret talk in old blues (hello, “Ambulance Man”!) is a revelation, especially if you’re young, and you have picked up the weirdly permiating notion that sexy was invented in 1970. At least in media it was.
Obvious, too clever by half innuendo in gross, shiny country pop songs is pointless. Say it, or don’t.
I’m thinking they should have teamed up with Steven Tyler on Bull Moose Jackson’s “Big Ten Inch Record” last night.
I think all the innuendo is something they come up with naturally when they sit around with guys like Brantley Gilbert and jerk off together.
Schooley
I’m a fan of profanity, and sometimes puerile obscenity can be amusing. I own Blowfly albums, for chrissakes. But there is something about when it is forced on you from above by corporate interests that makes it insulting.
It’s like when they have to cram fart jokes into a new animated kids movie, or when a corporate fast food outlet has some advertising campaign were they skirt around almost dropping an f-bomb to be “edgy”.
When it comes from below it can be subversive, but when it is coming from a multi-million dollar corporate entity, it just feels like it is intentionally insulting your intelligence even if it is well-done. And these are not well-done.
RodRod
I just assumed that the innuendos were about them having sex with each other.
November 11, 2014 @ 4:43 am
The “pink umbrella” lyric is just a filler lyric. Actually the sink part is probably the filler to make the drink line work in the song. It’s obviously not some sexual innuendo. And he clearly says “a” and not “the” pink umbrella. Also Harley is his dog. You guys are thinking too much into this simple song. P.S. Yes this is dude bro and about as country as Taylor Swift.
edjohns
February 11, 2015 @ 4:32 pm
Okay, so it’s “wrong” for FGL to sing about this stuff, but Kacey Musgraves can talk about homosexuality and smoking a joint? I bet if this was a Gates song NO one would have a problem with it. And obviously the people who wrote this have as dirty of a mind as FGL and everyone else who uderstood this. Harley is Tylers dog, not his penis. They have fun with their music just like everyone else does.
March 24, 2015 @ 4:33 pm
Y’all are idiots if you believe a word that this damn website says about FGL! You have no idea how much their music has and is helping me through the hard time that I’m having. And for any of you so called fans are giving this good comments. Shame on you, because you sure as hell aren’t an FGL fan! And if you don’t like their music then turn it off! Don’t go and freaking criticize it!
I agree to a point. The McDonald’s “I’m Lovin’ It” jingle got me through my second divorce.
April 7, 2015 @ 6:10 pm
Though I do not currently agree with some of the judgement about the music produced by the band Flirida Georgia Line being bad music, I do agree that the music does include many sexual innuendos (much to my disliking) and does not uphold their professed Christian morality/morals. Though they have gone to far on many accounts of sexual inuendo laiden lyrics, I still believe them to be good musicians and generally enjoyable people with generally good morals and Christian values
Bylle Breaux
May 13, 2017 @ 9:01 am
This is hilarious! ?
Shella Fronzaglio
Pearl Necklace was a crossover. “She can put her shoes under my bed anytime” wasn’t about storage. “Crackers in my bed” etc, etc, etc. But I guess Elvis & Jerry Lee Lewis liking 12 & 14 year old girls was ok as they also did more wholesome music…. It was why Tom Parker got away with taking money for so long as he was hushing up some of Elvis’ skirt chasing with the younger ones. He had made him wait until Priscilla was of age. R Kelly didn’t start that people. I’d much rather the music push the envelop than the musician!!
What someone did 60 years ago doesn’t change the fact that FGL stink.
This website sucks total ass, I’ve never actually understood why people wanna talk shit for a living. Fuck this website, it is most definitely not “saving country music” by any means. Nobody gives a fuck about any of this trash on this website. Lol
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Film Scanning
Three Photo Collections to Learn About Ourselves and Our World
October 3, 2017 ScanCafe
By itself, a photo is simply a snapshot of a moment, captured and frozen in time. But when it’s part of a thoughtful collection, it takes on layers that tell us something about ourselves and the world around us.
The three collections described here were all compiled in different ways. One was a patient and deeply personal exercise spread out over forty years. Another is a painstakingly curated set of recognizable images, paired with stories of how were taken. The last one is a product of social media – born on Tumblr and bred on Instagram. Regardless of how they were put together, they are all powerful visual diaries that are worth flipping through.
Forty Years, Forty Portraits
Photographer Nicholas Nixon first asked his wife and her three sisters to pose for a group photograph in the summer of 1975. When he was able to duplicate the shot the following year, he realized that he was onto something and continued the tradition over the next four decades. The women always lined up in the same order and gazed directly and unflinchingly at the camera. Together, the portraits present a moving visual narrative of both sisterhood and the passage of time. According to a NY Times article on the project: “When 36 prints were exhibited in a gallery in Granada, Spain, viewers openly wept.
View the NY Times article and images here.
Image source: via NY Times
Image source – via NY Times
The Most Influential Images of All Time
Time magazine worked with curators across the world in order to come up with this collection that was published earlier this year. ‘The most influential images of all time’ were selected based on several criteria but the common thread in all of them, the magazine said, was that they were ‘turning points in our human experience’. The pictures span a variety of themes and subjects. Jackie O’s windswept portrait is there alongside ‘Migrant Woman’, the most enduring symbol of Depression era hardship. Grim reminders of the effects of war are interspersed with lighter images from sports, advertising and even Hollywood.
What makes the images even more interesting are the stories that accompany them – in short write-ups and audio/video clips. We learn about the who, why and how of each picture as well as the impact it had on the environment at the time. Anybody who thinks an image cannot change the world should definitely browse through this collection.
View the photos and stories here.
Lunch atop a skyscraper (1932) – an iconic pic of workers who built the Rockefeller Center
Everyday Life from Around the World
No matter where we live, we all entertain stereotypes about other areas on the map. We romanticize some places and view others as violent, war-torn or crime-ridden. This project allows us to step back from those notions and acknowledge that humans everywhere are motivated by the same things and that are lives are more similar than we think. A family goes shopping for food in Africa in much the same way as a family in North America. Even a city with a ‘rough’ reputation has a softer side that includes schools, children and parks.
The project – which has now taken off with contributions from freelance photographers around the world – first started in Africa and now captures everyday life in many other regions, including Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
View the time.com article and some photos here.
Street scene. Arad, Romania, 2014. Image source: Ciprian Hord (@ciprianhord) via time.com
At ScanCafe, we are happy to do what we do to digitize photos and help preserve valuable family memories. Projects like the ones described here remind us that images can both touch lives and change them too. This feature is part of an effort to highlight unusual photography or memory projects from around the globe.
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Corona measures at SCA
How is SCA responding to the Covid-19 situation?
COVID-19 Update January 16th
The government announced last week that the current lockdown will be extended to at least 8 February. This means that SCA will also continue to organize the well-visited outdoor training sessions for youth fencers! These training sessions will, however, start earlier from Monday 18 January onwards. Below you’ll find the adapted training schedule:
Monday 16:30-17:30 Youth 2
Tuesday16:00-17:00 Youth 1
Wednesday 16:30-17:30 Youth 2
Thursday 16:00-17:00 Youth 1
Zoom Trainings
The Zoom training sessions for senior fencers will also continue on Tuesdays and Thursdays! In addition, there is now the possibility to send suggestions and ideas for exercises to Daniël via daniel_nivard@hotmail.com.
Instructions on how to join the Zoom training sessions are below:
https://zoom.us/j/99189728692?pwd=bDNsSXZhU2MxK3E4S0tBa0VadEsydz09
Passcode: SCA
SchermCentrum Amsterdam
Questions about the measures at SCA? First check whether they have been answered below.
What does SCA expect from parents and caretakers?
Because the facilities of the FOS remain closed, we ask parents to arrange as much in advance as possible. For example, make sure that children are already dressed for fencing, that they have been to the toilet, and that they have a filled water bottle.
Parents are not allowed to be present in the fencing hall. Parents are therefore requested to drop off children at the fencing hall before training. After the training, parents are expected to pick up their children on time. Pay attention to the distance of one and a half meters.
When are you allowed to train?
Does your child have a cold? Stay at home. Has there been any recent contact with a corona patient? Stay at home. Only together can we fight the coronavirus.
Where do the fencing classes take place?
The fencing classes take place in the fencing hall of the Frans Otten Stadium. For childern the entrance is via the building, for adults via the doors of the fencing hall overlooking the grass field. Please note that the facilities of the Frans Otten Stadium are not accessible during this period.
To what should members be attentive?
In order to be able to exercise safely together, it is important that we follow the RIVM guidelines. That means that you have to stay at home when you have an illness or a cold. You should also wash your hands before and after a workout. And always keep a distance of one and a half meters – before, during and after a workout.
What do adults need to pay attention to?
Adults are asked to enter the fencing hall via the doors overlooking the grass field. Fencing bags must remain out of the fencing hall, so for adults this will be outside under the roof.
Do you need to wear fencing gear?
Yes, with fencing starting back up, all members must wear fencing gear throughout the training.
Are we allowed to bring non-members?
No, the classes are only open to members at this point of time. Non-members are welcome as soon as the current measures are lifted. Parents, other family and friends are not allowed in the fencing hall.
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Rescuer in 1976, rescued in 2013
Christopher Stark / Loveland Reporter-Herald
John Pellouchoud of Boulder looks through his notes before addressing a crowd gathered for the 39th anniversary of the Big Thompson flood at the fire station in Drake on Friday. Pellouchoud was a first responder during the flood and was also affected by the 2013 flooding.
John Pellouchoud of Boulder recounts his experience as a first responder during the 1976 Big Thompson flood at a 39th memorial for the disaster Friday night at the fire station in Drake. Pellouchoud was also carried away in the September 2013 flood while attempting to dig ditches near his home in Lefthand Canyon.
Dave Livinghouse of Fort Collins pays tribute to the victims of the 1976 flood that took the lives of 144 people when a flash flood roared down the Big Thompson Canyon west of Loveland. Livinghouse was a first responder during the disaster.
By Pamela Johnson | johnsonp@reporter-herald.com | Loveland Reporter-Herald
July 31, 2015 at 10:08 p.m.
In the line of duty
The Colorado State Patrol Office in Evans was destroyed in the 2013 flood. When the new one is built, it will have a room dedicated to Hugh Purdy, a State Patrol sergeant who rushed into danger the night of the 1976 Big Thompson flood and stayed, sacrificing his own life to alert others of the danger through a bullhorn from his patrol car.
That car later was found crushed into a 4-foot cube. His last radio transmission acknowledged that he would not make it out but urged others to keep notifying those lower in the canyon.
Also among those killed was an Estes Park police officer named Michael Conley, who though off duty, rushed to help evacuate and alert others.
Together, officials believe, the men saved hundreds.
DRAKE — After the 1976 flood, John Pellouchoud never wanted to return to the Big Thompson Canyon. The memories were just too vivid, too difficult for the park ranger, who battled “bedlam” to rescue people and recover the bodies of others after the deadly flood.
Yet, the Boulder County man did return Friday to mark the 39th anniversary of the flood, to remember those lost and to help pay tribute to the many first responders who, like himself, were changed forever by Colorado’s deadliest natural disaster.
He also returned to thank a team of volunteers, not trained rescuers, but residents of Lefthand Canyon who helped rescue him after he was swept from his home during the 2013 flood. They got him to the hospital and gave him the drive to return to the flooded area as soon as possible to help others.
“They were volunteers, neighbors down the canyon,” Pellouchoud said. “They came and dug me out and rescued me emotionally.”
The man with a 40-year career in rescuing others from natural disasters around the country was one of several first responders who spoke at the memorial service just east of Drake on Friday.
He, and others, remembered the 144 who were lost, including two law enforcement officers who died warning others to evacuate.
For those who were lost, current law-enforcement officers joined another 1976 first responder, Dave Livinghouse, in releasing 144 balloons into the sky. They watched as the balloons floated above the canyon.
Pellouchoud watched among the 100 who gathered, remembering July 31, 1976, and the days that followed — an experience so powerful he still has nightmares, so vivid he can still smell, hear and see the aftermath of the flood.
The veteran rescuer said he still remembers the exact spots where, with his bare hands, he gently dug out the bodies of those who were lost and carefully tied identification tags to their toes.
One couple he found had died locked in an embrace, and he carefully removed their bodies without separating them from their last act of love.
His face remains somber as he recalls the night of the flood, but a small smile surfaces when he remembers one rescue, an elderly woman whom he carried over his shoulder for several miles to a waiting helicopter.
To this day, he can still hear her singing old tunes to him. To this day, her memory is the only one from that time that makes him smile.
He has responded to earthquakes, fires and floods over 40 years, but the Big Thompson flood is still the most vivid, the one that changed his life.
The sounds of the raging force of the water, carrying homes, cars and trees, were still so real in his mind that when a similar force came rushing at his home in Lefthand Canyon in 2013, he knew what it was.
He remembered.
He had been there years before.
Pellouchoud was washed from his home by a wall of water, mud, boulders and entire trees and into the nearby river, where nature deposited him onto a tree. He held on, but after the tree was battered with rocks, bridges, houses, cars and other debris, it finally broke loose with another clump of trees that he rode, for a while, like a raft in the angriest water imaginable.
“I thought, ‘Oh my God, after 40 years of rescue, this is how it’s going to end up,” he recalled.
Pellouchoud did manage to make a call for help from the tree on his emergency radio. He knew from the lights that the call was going out, but he couldn’t hear the response. His last words over the radio were: “This is the last stand. This is it for me. Please tell my children I love them.”
But it wasn’t his last stand. Eventually, he was able to hop from his “raft” toward mud and then pull himself to shore, where he was reunited with his battered and injured dog, who also was swept away.
Always a rescuer, the injured Pellouchoud dragged himself to a neighbor’s home, worried that the 83-year-old woman needed help. He collapsed on her porch, and with a rotary-dial phone, she was able to call for help.
Before the professional rescuers were able to arrive, a team of volunteers came to his aid and helped him get to the hospital, where he was treated for spine fractures and other injuries.
“With buckets and shovels, they came and were able to rescue me,” Pellouchoud said.
But Pellouchoud would not be admitted into the hospital.
Instead, he returned to his neighborhood and began organizing food, water and evacuations.
Again, he was there to help as soon as he could, through the worst of it.
Pamela Johnson: 970-669-5050, ext. 526, johnsonp@reporter-herald.com, www.twitter.com/RHPamelaJ.
Big Thompson Flood
Colorado Flood
Pamela Johnson | Reporter
Pamela Johnson is an award-winning journalist with two decades invested in the community of Loveland. She covers education, county government, environmental issues, outdoor recreation and whatever else she finds along the way.
johnsonp@reporter-herald.com
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Effect of increased water intake on plasma copeptin in patients with chronic kidney disease: results from a pilot randomised controlled trial
Author(s): Jessica M Sontrop 1 , 2 , Shi-Han Huang 1 , Amit X Garg 1 , 2 , Louise Moist 1 , 2 , Andrew A House 1 , Kerri Gallo 1 , William F Clark 1
Journal: BMJ Open
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
Keywords: coeptin, water intake, glomerular filtration rate, 24-hour urine volume, chronic kidney disease
Increased water intake may have a beneficial effect on the kidney through suppression of plasma vasopressin. We examined the effect of increased water intake on plasma copeptin (a marker of vasopressin) over 6 weeks in patients with chronic kidney disease.
Secondary analysis of a randomised controlled parallel-group pilot trial.
Canada, 2012–2013.
28 patients with stage 3 chronic kidney disease randomised (2:1) to a hydration (n=17) or control group (n=11).
The hydration group was coached to increase water intake by up to 1.5 L/day for 6 weeks. The control group was asked to maintain regular water intake.
Measures and outcomes
Participants provided blood and 24 h urine samples at baseline and 6 weeks. Change in plasma copeptin was compared within and between study groups.
Participants were 64% male with a mean age of 62 years and an estimated glomerular filtration rate of 40 mL/min/1.73 m 2. Between baseline and 6 weeks, 24 h urine volume increased by 0.7 L/day in the hydration group, rising from 2.3 to 3.0 L/day (p=0.01), while decreasing by 0.3 L/day among controls, from 2.0 to 1.7 L/day (p=0.07); between-group difference: 0.9 L/day (95% CI 0.37 to 1.46; p=0.002). In the hydration group, median copeptin decreased by 3.6 pmol/L, from 15.0 to 10.8 pmol/L (p=0.005), while remaining stable among controls at 19 pmol/L (p=0.76; p=0.19 for the between-group difference in median change); the between-group difference in mean change was 5.4 pmol/L (95% CI −1.2 to 12.0; p=0.11).
Adults with stage 3 chronic kidney disease can be successfully randomised to drink approximately 1 L more per day than controls. This increased water intake caused a significant decrease in plasma copeptin concentration. Our larger 12-month trial will examine whether increased water intake can slow renal decline in patients with chronic kidney disease.
Trial registration number
NCT01753466.
BMJ Open Science
Recommendations for planning pilot studies in clinical and translational research.
Geromy G. Moore, Tamar E Carter, Paul Nietert … (2011)
Advances in clinical and translation science are facilitated by building on prior knowledge gained through experimentation and observation. In the context of drug development, preclinical studies are followed by a progression of phase I through phase IV clinical trials. At each step, the study design and statistical strategies are framed around research questions that are prerequisites for the next phase. In other types of biomedical research, pilot studies are used for gathering preliminary support for the next research step. However, the phrase "pilot study" is liberally applied to projects with little or no funding, characteristic of studies with poorly developed research proposals, and usually conducted with no detailed thought of the subsequent study. In this article, we present a rigorous definition of a pilot study, offer recommendations for the design, analysis and sample size justification of pilot studies in clinical and translational research, and emphasize the important role that well-designed pilot studies play in the advancement of science and scientific careers. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Fluid and nutrient intake and risk of chronic kidney disease.
Jonathan Craig, Elena Rochtchina, Victoria Flood … (2011)
We evaluated the association between fluid and nutrient intake and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Two cross-sectional population-based studies. Validated nutrition food frequency questionnaires (FFQ) administered to people >50 years, identified in a door-to-door census of a well-defined suburban area. Based upon nutrition tables we calculated intakes of over 40 nutrients (factors) and total daily energy intake. Primary outcome was CKD. Fluid (total content of fluid and drinks assessed in the FFQ) and nutrient intake was stratified in quintiles and association with CKD analysed by logistic regression, expressed as unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios, with testing for linear trend. The proportion of participants who completed the FFQ and had glomerular filtration rate (GFR) measures was 2744/3654 (75.0%) for the first and 2476/3508 (70.6%) for the second survey. CKD was present in 12.4-23.5% men and 14.9-28.7% women (mean ages 66.4-65.4 years), respectively. Participants who had the highest quintile of fluid intake (3.2 L/day) had a significantly lower risk of CKD (odds ratio 0.5, 95%CI 0.32 to 0.77, P for trend = 0.003). These findings were consistent across both study periods, both equations to calculate GFR and both GFR thresholds. Higher intakes of fluid appear to protect against CKD. CKD may be preventable at a population level with low-cost increased fluid intake. © 2011 The Authors. Nephrology © 2011 Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology.
Incremental value of copeptin for rapid rule out of acute myocardial infarction.
Tobias Reichlin, Willibald Hochholzer, Claudia Stelzig … (2009)
The purpose of this study was to examine the incremental value of copeptin for rapid rule out of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The rapid and reliable exclusion of AMI is a major unmet clinical need. Copeptin, the C-terminal part of the vasopressin prohormone, as a marker of acute endogenous stress may be useful in this setting. In 487 consecutive patients presenting to the emergency department with symptoms suggestive of AMI, we measured levels of copeptin at presentation, using a novel sandwich immunoluminometric assay in a blinded fashion. The final diagnosis was adjudicated by 2 independent cardiologists using all available data. The adjudicated final diagnosis was AMI in 81 patients (17%). Copeptin levels were significantly higher in AMI patients compared with those in patients having other diagnoses (median 20.8 pmol/l vs. 6.0 pmol/l, p < 0.001). The combination of troponin T and copeptin at initial presentation resulted in an area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve of 0.97 (95% confidence interval: 0.95 to 0.98), which was significantly higher than the 0.86 (95% confidence interval: 0.80 to 0.92) for troponin T alone (p < 0.001). A copeptin level <14 pmol/l in combination with a troponin T < or =0.01 microg/l correctly ruled out AMI with a sensitivity of 98.8% and a negative predictive value of 99.7%. The additional use of copeptin seems to allow a rapid and reliable rule out of AMI already at presentation and may thereby obviate the need for prolonged monitoring and serial blood sampling in the majority of patients. (Advantageous Predictors of Acute Coronary Syndromes Evaluation [APACE]; NCT00470587).
Journal ID (nlm-ta): BMJ Open
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): BMJ Open
Journal ID (hwp): bmjopen
Journal ID (publisher-id): bmjopen
Title: BMJ Open
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group (BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JR )
[1 ]Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre , London, Ontario, Canada
[2 ]Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Western University , London, Ontario, Canada
[Correspondence to ] Dr William F Clark; William.Clark@ 123456lhsc.on.ca
Publisher ID: bmjopen-2015-008634
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008634
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Apelin and copeptin: two opposite biomarkers associated with kidney function decline and cyst growth in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.
Authors: Antonio Lacquaniti, Valeria Chirico, Rosaria Lupica …
Copeptin, Insulin Resistance, and Risk of Incident Diabetes in Older Men
Authors: S. Goya Wannamethee, Paul Welsh, Olia Papacosta …
Copeptin as a marker for arginine-vasopressin/antidiuretic hormone secretion in the diagnosis of paraneoplastic syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion.
Authors: M Christ-Crain, N Morgenthaler, G. Szinnai …
Randomised controlled trial to determine the efficacy and safety of prescribed water intake to prevent kidney failure due to autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (PREVENT-ADPKD)
Authors: Annette Wong, Carly Mannix, Jared J Grantham …
Effect of increased water intake on plasma copeptin in healthy adults
Authors: Guillaume Lemetais, Olle Melander, Mariacristina Vecchio …
The Effect of Renal Function and Hemodialysis Treatment on Plasma Vasopressin and Copeptin Levels
Authors: Esmée Ettema, Judith Heida, Niek F. Casteleijn …
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Lead singer/ lyricist John Shirley has written lyrics for the Blue Oyster Cult and others. He has always been in bands—in Portland, he was lead singer in Sado-Nation and later of The Monitors; in New York he was a recording artist on the Celluloid label. He has also worked as a writer in television and movies, having written THE CROW and other scripts, and television animation. His short-story collection Black Butterflies won the Bram Stoker award.
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Most cars are at their best right from the outset, the purity of the original design gradually lost as manufacturers mess about in their efforts to keep sales moving. However, few would disagree that Jaguar’s final incarnation of the XJ series was a triumph, from the shape – gracefully reinterpreted by Pininfarina, the first time Jaguar had outsourced styling – to the engineering changes underneath made the Series III, the new Jaguar was a better car in every way. First announced in March 1979, the Series III XJ6/XJ12 brought with it not only more modern styling, with greater glass area, but huge improvements in build quality. Bosch fuel injection, made under licence by Lucas, was added to both six-cylinder and V12 engines while the range of options, including a sunroof and cruise control, added to the XJ’s appeal, along with a trip computer fitted as standard to V12 models from 1983. The Daimler versions, namely the Sovereign and Double Six, with their distinctive fluted radiator grille, more opulent interiors and special trim, continued as the top-of-the-line models in the Jaguar range. In 1981, Jaguar announced the HE version of the V12 in an attempt to improve fuel economy, with a revised cylinder head producing more power (between 285 and 299 bhp depending on the market) with slightly better mileage. The transmission was GM’s bulletproof 3-speed 400 unit featuring a Salisbury Power-Lok limited-slip differential while the braking system was via Girling ventilated discs front and rear. As one might expect, the Daimler Double Six had towering performance, with a top speed of 150 mph and could do the standing quarter-mile in 16.2 seconds - not bad for an automatic luxury saloon with a dry weight of 1770 kgs. Although production of the six-cylinder Series III ceased in 1987, the V12 models remained until 1992. In total, around 10,500 were built with the V12 and of these just a tiny fraction were Daimler Double Six versions. The Series III Daimler Double Six is a classic British sports saloon that can be enjoyed every day, with no shortage of spares or specialists able to work on them, and can be immensely rewarding cars to own.
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Love Note to the Date with Shrapnel in His Face
“You don’t tell him that veterans from Middle-Eastern wars who have post-traumatic stress can’t date women who look like you. You’d be a trigger. You know this from experience. But again, just because it’s true doesn’t mean you need to say it.”
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Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties (2018)
Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Transportation Research Board; Airport Cooperative Research Program; Legal Research Programs; Airport Cooperative Research Program Legal Program; Leila Barraza and Elizabeth Hall-Lipsy
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Legal Research Digest 34: Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties addresses the legal issues concerning the measures to detect communicable diseases, regulations to control communicable diseases, methods for decontamination, emergency legal preparedness, privacy, and potential sources of liability. This digest provides a checklist that airport attorneys and other staff can use to help prepare, plan, and coordinate with their partners in response to a threat of a communicable disease.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25227.
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ACRP Legal Research Digest 34: Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties 1-1
Contents 2-2
I. Introduction 3-4
II. Legal Considerations for Communicable Disease Response Planning 5-13
III. Legal Authorities for Roles and Responsibilities 14-14
IV. Ensuring Privacy and Confidentiality 15-20
V. The Changing Legal Environment During Emergencies 21-26
VI. Potential Liability and Protections 27-30
Contributions 31-31
Acronyms 32-32
Glossary 33-34
Appendix A: Stakeholders 35-35
Appendix B: State and Local Quarantine and Isolation Laws of the 10 Busiest Airports 36-48
Appendix C: Checklist of Legal Issues to Consider in Developing Airport Communicable Disease Preparedness Plans 49-56
Acknowledgments 57-60
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UPC’s new smartphone app enables phone calls within any Wi-Fi network
21 Jan 20141.06k Views
Ronan McEvoy, head of consumer products, UPC Ireland
UPC is trialling a new smartphone app that allows its Home Phone customers to make calls through their smartphones anywhere they can connect to a Wi-Fi approach.
The move, which will no doubt save mobile phone costs, echoes capabilities of services like Skype and Viber and will no doubt be watched with interest and possibly wariness by mobile networks in Ireland.
It emerged before Christmas that UPC was in talks with mobile operator Three about potentially launching an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) service.
The free app is being trialled by 1,000 customers and a full roll out will begin in the spring.
The app will also enable the cable network’s customers avoid expensive roaming charges when abroad because they can ring as if locally once they are inside a Wi-Fi network.
The app can also help parents manage how much they spend on credit for their childrens’ mobile phones. Families can manage their registered devices using the My UPC service on upc.ie.
Up to three devices on a UPC Home account can use the app at the same time.
The app will be available free of charge for UPC Home Phone customers on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
“It allows UPC customers to get the best value from their home phone minutes, but with the convenience of easy access to their mobile contact list to make calls at home, out and about – and even abroad,” said UPC Ireland’s head of consumer products Ronan McEvoy.
Last week, UPC launched a new free Wi-Fi service for 10,000 broadband customers in Limerick, which will roll out for all UPC customers in the coming months.
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Leaked internal emails show Facebook’s panic over near-miss privacy breach
25 Feb 2019450 Views
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60 pages of internal Facebook emails have revealed how the company narrowly missed a privacy breach that could have been ‘near fatal’ for third-party apps.
Last year the UK government invoked a rare parliamentary mechanism to force the founder of US software company Six4Three, Ted Kramer, into handing over communications obtained during a legal battle with Facebook regarding an app the developer had invested $250,000 in.
Now, according to The Guardian, 60 pages of internal communications between Facebook’s most senior executives have appeared on hosting service GitHub. Posted anonymously, the documents include a “highly confidential” memo dating back to 2012 when a near-miss privacy breach could have had serious ramifications for Facebook.
While the complete authenticity of the unredacted emails has not been confirmed, they do appear to align with previously released emails that were redacted.
‘I’m super, super serious here’
The documents revealed a close call whereby a third-party app developer could have revealed Facebook’s financial results way ahead of schedule, leading Facebook’s former director of product management, Avichal Garg, to note: “Wow that would have been a disaster.”
In response, Facebook’s former vice-president, Michael Vernal, confirmed the seriousness of the situation, saying that if it “had accidentally disclosed earnings ahead of time because a platform app violated his privacy … literally, that would have basically been fatal for Login/Open Graph/etc”.
Unsurprisingly, Vernal was quick to ensure news of this event would never make it out, saying: “Listen guys/gals – DO NOT REPEAT THIS STORY OFF OF THIS THREAD.
“I’m super, super serious here. I want us to follow up on this and respond urgently here, but I also do not want this story spreading inside of Facebook or off of this thread at all. I can’t tell you how terrible this would have been for all of us had this not been caught quickly.”
‘One side of a story’
Other emails posted on GitHub revealed Facebook’s plans for data collection on Android devices and how various executives attempted to attract leading global politicians to use the social network.
In response, Facebook issued a statement that did not deny the emails’ authenticity, but said they lacked vital context.
“Like the other documents that were cherrypicked and released in violation of a court order last year, these by design tell one side of a story and omit important context,”a spokesperson for the company said.
“As we’ve said, these selective leaks came from a lawsuit where Six4Three, the creators of an app known as Pikinis, hoped to force Facebook to share information on friends of the app’s users. These documents have been sealed by a Californian court so we’re not able to discuss them in detail.”
The leaked emails come a week after the UK parliament’s select committee on digital, culture, media and sport published a damning conclusion on Facebook’s business practices, accusing the company of behaving as “digital gangsters”.
Related: UK, social media, Facebook, data, privacy
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Irish love of ambiguity key to future innovation
17 Jun 2010198 Views
We may not be good at giving straight answers when asked a direction question, but the Irish love of ambiguity could be a key ingredient in leading us out of this recession according to recent research undertaken by the Irish Management Institute in partnership with IDA Ireland.
The research, which was undertaken by Andrew McLaughlin and Megan Burgdorf and based on a sample of 117 Irish executives and entrepreneurs, indicated a substantial trend towards what is considered right-brain dominated cognition when compared to international norms.
Right-brained thinking, towards which the sample showed a preference, includes attributes such as intuition, the ability to make seemingly unrelated connections and tolerance of ambiguity. Ambiguity and the ability to hold incongruent ideas without stress is regarded as inherent to entrepreneurial activity because start-up businesses are often original, innovative ideas that require people who can think laterally and see the bigger picture.
In the study, Irish entrepreneurs scored above average on this scale.
Characteristics to succeed in smart economy
Launching the report the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe TD, said: “As Ireland enters economic recovery, we must now harness the core competencies among our people that can drive entrepreneurship and innovation. The findings in this report show that the Irish people have the kind of characteristics needed to build the smart economy, in partnership with Government, as we seek to create higher value jobs for tomorrow’s workers. As Minister, I want to focus, in particular, on innovation so that we maximise opportunities to turn our academic research into marketplace products and give Irish entrepreneurs a competitive edge over others.”
Dr Tom McCarthy, IMI CEO, said: “A consistent pattern of results emerges from this research. This pattern indicates a substantial trend towards what is considered right-brain dominated cognition. This is a key building block underpinning innovation.”
Research based on internationally recognised tests
The research is validated by OPP – an international business psychology consultancy – and was based on a battery of tests including the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, the 16PF, the Decision Style Inventory, the Tolerance for Ambiguity Scale and the Auckland Individualism and Collectivism Scale. The entrepreneurs were chosen on the basis that they had started enterprises, in some cases multi-enterprises.
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Apple under fire for approving ‘gay cure’ app
21 Mar 2011105 Views
Apple has come under fire for approving an application on its Apps Store by the religious organisation Exodus International that ostensibly aims to convert people from being gay through prayer and therapy.
Apple approved the free app for the iPhone and iPad and gave it a four-star rating, meaning the app is not considered to contain objectionable content.
A petition set up by rights group Change.org has already attracted more than 80,000 signatures.
“No objectionable content? We beg to differ,” Change.org’s petition read.
“Exodus’ message is hateful and bigoted. They claim to offer ‘freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ’ and use scare tactics, misinformation, stereotypes and distortions of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) life to recruit clients.
“They endorse the use of so-called ‘reparative therapy’ to ‘change’ the sexual orientation of their clients, despite the fact that this form of ‘therapy’ has been rejected by every major professional medical organisation, including the American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association, and the American Counseling Association.
“This new iPhone app is the latest move in Exodus’ dangerous new strategy of targeting youth. In light of the recent wave of LGBT youth suicides, this tactic is particularly galling as it creates, legitimises and fuels the ostracism of LGBT youth by their families.”
Change.org pointed to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics which suggests LGBT teens who experienced negative feedback from their family were eight times more likely to have attempted suicide, six times as vulnerable to severe depression, and three times more likely to use drugs.
“Apple’s app guidelines released in September last year detailed rules on how the company decides what can and cannot be sold through its store: ‘Any app that is defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited or likely to place the targeted individual or group in harm’s way will be rejected,’ the company states.
“Apple doesn’t allow racist or anti-Semitic apps in its app store, yet it is giving the green light to an app targeting vulnerable LGBT youth with the message that their sexual orientation is a ‘sin that will make your heart sick’ and a ‘counterfeit.’ This is a double standard that has the potential for devastating consequences,” Change.org railed.
Last year, Apple initially approved, then removed, an app from the Manhattan Declaration that encouraged users to take a stand against gay marriage.
Related: iPad, apps, communities, Apple, iPhone
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After Brexit and Wirecard, An Post switches issuer for currency card
Microsoft launches virtual STEM supports for teachers and parents
High-calibre chip design jobs for Limerick
Limerick got a jobs boost today with the announcement that a US supplier of energy efficient silicon solutions is to establish an R&D centre in Raheen Business Park, with the support of IDA Ireland.
ON Semiconductor’s new R&D centre in Limerick aims to become a centre of expertise in digital power management and thermal management for next-generation processors, creating 49 high-calibre jobs for semiconductor designers and engineers.
It will develop controller and driver integrated circuits for next-generation processors in servers, gaming consoles, desktop and laptop computers. Some 28 employees are already in place.
Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, ON Semiconductor designs, manufactures and markets power and data management semiconductors and standard semiconductor components worldwide. Its existing Limerick operation won the R&D centre project against strong competition from other ON Semiconductor sites worldwide.
“This investment is a step-up in product complexity and value for ON Semiconductor and is expected to represent a higher level of technical innovation,” said Minister for Enteprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Coughlan TD (pictured), at the official opening.
“The choice of Limerick for this investment is a major endorsement of Ireland’s ability to successfully implement such technologically advanced R&D projects and to meet the company’s recruitment needs.
“This investment is a further important development for the growing cluster of integrated circuit design companies in the mid-west region.”
Bill Schromm, ON Semiconductor senior vice-president and general manager of computing products, said the investment will enable the company to develop its global market share and to successfully compete in the increasingly challenging industry in which it operates.
“We are confident our choice of the Limerick group for this investment is the right decision because of the success of that operation to date and our experience of Ireland’s can-do, flexible, pro-business environment.”
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Pictured: Minister for Enteprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Coughlan TD
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Seedcamp creates US$30m fund to back 100 European start-ups
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London-based start-up accelerator Seedcamp has raised US$30m in funding from global investors to evolve its accelerator model to achieve the goal of creating US$1bn businesses across Europe.
Started seven years ago Seedcamp has held 60 events involving 10,000 start-ups and 5,000 mentors and its accelerator has helped to scale 120 companies.
In order to lead European start-ups to the next stage Seedcamp said it needs to evolve its model away from the standard accelerator model.
It said that the “art of the start” is standard across Europe and it is vital now to move towards what it terms the “art of the scale.”
Seedcamp pointed out that European entrepreneurs ambitions have also outgrown traditional forms of acceleration.
From start to scale
“In our experience, providing the first US$75,000 investment and a three-month program to support the growth of a US$10m business is not good enough anymore,” Seedcamp said.
“Breakout success is all about scale and getting the US$200,000, $2m, and $20m of investment that will help build a US$1bn business.
“That’s why Seedcamp is building an evolution of our acceleration model fit for the next decade. We have raised a new fund, worth more than US$30m, that allows us to be much more ambitious about the way we support startups.
“We will now back companies from ‘start to scale’ because we’re bigger and better, allowing as to back more entrepreneurs, and at a faster pace,” Seedcamp said.
The new Seedcamp 2.0 fund is backed by global investors from China, Russia, Europe and Silicon Valley.
Seedcamp also has access to over 500 investors from Sand Hill road to Hong Kong.
Angels involved in Seedcamp have contributed to the scaling of companies that include AVG, Skyscanner, Skype and Spotify while venture capitalists have backed Just-Eat, King Digital, Zoopla and Dropbox.
Some 85pc of the 120 companies backed by Seedcamo raised an average of US$1.6m and Seedcamp said it will still pay attention to first-time, pre-seed founders.
“We still fully believe in the first-time founder and the importance of backing them, and we will continue to accelerate these startups with pre-seed capital (US$0-US$75K) and access to the Seedcamp platform.
“With our larger fund now, our ability to deploy capital is four times as big. As a result, we will also be backing our alumni, mentors, investors, and a network of founders who want to accelerate their seed stage startups with next stage capital (US$75K-US$250K) and the Seedcamp platform,” Seedcamp said.
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Halo: Renegades
Part of Halo
By Kelly Gay
Read by Justine Eyre
LIST PRICE: AU$ 34.99
An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!
Find. Claim. Profit. In a post-Covenant War galaxy littered with scrap, it’s the salvager’s motto—and Rion Forge certainly made her mark on the trade. All she wanted was to grow her business and continue the search for her long-lost father, but her recent discovery of a Forerunner debris field at the edge of human-occupied space has now put her squarely in the crosshairs of the Office of Naval Intelligence and the violent remains of the Covenant. Each faction has a desire to lay claim to the spoils of ancient technology, whatever the cost, sending Rion and the crew of the Ace of Spades on a perilous venture—one that unexpectedly leads them straight into danger far greater than anything they’ve ever encountered…
Photo by Kelly Gay
Kelly Gay
Kelly Gay is the critically acclaimed author of the Charlie Madigan urban fantasy series. She is a multi-published author with works translated into several different languages. She is a two-time RITA nominee, an ARRA nominee, a Goodreads Choice Award Finalist, and a SIBA Book Award Long List finalist. Kelly is also the recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Grant in Literature. She has authored the short story, “Into the Fire,” featured in Halo: Fractures, and the novella, Halo: Smoke and Shadow. She can be found online at KellyGay.com.
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio / Halo Books (February 19, 2019)
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Act I - Part One
Act I - Part Two
Act II - Part One
Act II - Part Two
Act III - Part One
Act III - Part Two
Act IV - Part One
Act IV - Part Two
Ivan “Vanya” Voynitsky
Yelena Andreevna
Mikhail Astrov
Sonya Alexandrovna
Act 1 - Part One
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Summary Act I - Part One
Act I opens on a muggy autumn afternoon in the garden of Professor Serebryakov's estate. Marina, an old nanny, sits knitting by a samovar as Astrov, the country doctor, paces back and forth. Astrov reminisces about the time when he first came to the region, a time when Vera Petrovna—Serebryakov's first wife and mother to his daughter Sonya—was still alive. Marina notes that since then Astrov has lost his good looks, started to show signs of age, and taken to drinking. Astrov then goes into an extended speech about his "boring, stupid, sordid" life, a life in which he is overworked and surrounded by "eccentric people". As a result, his feelings are "dead to the world": Astrov needs nothing, wants nothing, and loves no one.
Refusing Marina's offer of food, Astrov then recounts how he went to Malitskoe over Lent to treat an epidemic of spotted typhus. One of his patients died while under chloroform, and he is plagued with guilt. Astrov also laments that future generations will not bother to remember those living in the present. Marina comforts him: God will remember.
Voynitsky (or Uncle Vanya), Serebryakov's brother-in-law by his marriage to Vera Petrovna and caretaker of the estate, then enters yawning. He complains that the professor and his wife, having recently relocated to the estate from the city, have thrown the estate out of kilter, drawing everyone into sleep, boredom, and lethargy. Marina concurs, bemoaning the disruption of their dining schedule.
Suddenly Serebryakov,—ridiculously over-dressed in an overcoat, a pair of galoshes, and a pair of gloves—his current young wife Yelena, Sonya, and Telegin, an impoverished landowner dubbed "Waffles" for his pockmarked face, return from a stroll. Speaking of plans to visit a forest preserve, the party enters the house; Telegin joins the group in the garden.
Dreamily Voynitsky sighs about Yelena's beauty. When Astrov reproaches him for not joining the conversation, Voynitsky replies listlessly that he has nothing to say, that he has grown old and lazy. Bitterly, he goes on to caricaturize the other members of the household. His mother, Maria, is a "lazy old crow" who has "one eye fastened on the grave" and the other fixed on her pamphlets "for the dawn of a new life." The professor is an "old, dried up biscuit, a learned, smoke-cured fish", a pompous charlatan of an art historian who knows nothing about art and has already faded into obscurity. Indeed, Serebryakov has spent his life "pouring from one empty pot into the next"—the empty pot of this joke referring to the vacant bodies of his mind, ideas, works, and students.
When Astrov remarks that Voynitsky seems to envy Serebryakov, he readily concurs. In particular, Voynitsky envies Serebryakov's success with women: the examples he adduces are his angelic late sister, his mother (who worships the professor), and the beautiful Yelena. He then points out the illogic of Yelena's fidelity to her dottering, decrepit husband. He questiones how it can be moral to deny one's vitality and youth while immoral to deceive a husband one despises.
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White Whale by Victoria Kennefick
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Whales that stick in the mind's eye
Whales swim through these poems and carry readers deep to show us what has been lost: past relationships; a mother’s youth; a childhood; a dead father.
The title poem opens on dry land, so dry we’re ‘rattled around the back seat’ of a car with the poem’s speaker, who remembers being driven by someone we assume to be her father to Youghal, a seaside town in County Cork that stood in for New Bedford when John Huston filmed Moby Dick there in 1954. The father steers the car, foreshadowing Captain Ahab, and the ‘newly bearded’ Gregory Peck, at the helm of his ship, and we too are present within a childhood memory as if watching an old movie, the cast and director long dead but by filmic magic brought back to life.
The poem navigates through time and grief as the father navigates the ‘miniature hand’ of his daughter reading the Melville novel. We see Huston’s own disgruntled grief; Peck a substitute for Walter Huston, the director’s father, who should have played Ahab (he died shortly before filming started ). The poem is dense with absence. The model whale, floating on drums of compressed air comes loose ‘one choppy day’. Ahab / Peck hunts for it as, we imagine, John Huston hunted for the father who should have been filming in Ireland with him.
In the final stanza, we’re in Youghal again, the childhood memory has caught up with us and brought us back to the present, the shadow of the speaker’s father ‘haunts the water’.
Deep water is dangerous for humans. To go there is to risk drowning, but we must enter the painful deep if we’re to connect again with what we have lost.
At the close of the poem, the whale hunt is over:
And grief emerges,
breaching the surface.
I saw a whale once and can still see it in my mind’s eye. These poems linger in the same way.
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2021 Springfield Scottish Squash Open heads to Highland capital
Scotland's flagship squash tournament is heading to the Highlands next year thanks to the support of Springfield Properties, one of the country’s leading private and affordable housebuilders.
The 2021 Springfield Scottish Squash Open will take place at Inverness Tennis and Squash Club in August 2021.
Springfield Properties partnered with Scottish Squash, the national governing body of squash, in 2019 as the Open returned following an 18-year absence.
The inaugural Springfield Scottish Squash Open last year took place at Oriam, Scotland's National Performance Centre, near Edinburgh, with the second edition now heading north.
Next year’s prize fund of $20,000 will again be equally split between male and female players.
The PSA (Professional Squash Association) sanctioned event will be held in Inverness across five days, from 25 to 29 August 2021, with the tournament once more set to attract some of the world's best players.
Sandy Adam, Chairman of Springfield Properties, said:
“The Springfield Scottish Squash Open in Edinburgh last year was a great success which welcomed squash players from all over the world and gave up and coming Scottish players the opportunity to compete at such a high level. We’re pleased to continue working with Scottish Squash to make next year’s event in Inverness a must for squash fans.”
Inverness squash ace Alasdair Prott, a nine-time Scottish Junior champion, said:
"It's fantastic having the Springfield Scottish Squash Open coming to Inverness.
"Inverness Tennis and Squash Club has been a big part of my life and to play a professional tournament here would mean a lot to me.
"The club is a great venue for a tournament like this and it will be brilliant for people in the area and across Scotland to come along and witness some great squash."
Allan McKay, Head of Competitions at Scottish Squash, said:
"We are thrilled to see the Springfield Scottish Squash Open return to the calendar in 2021.
"Our partnership with Springfield Properties has gone from strength to strength since the delivery of the first event last year and we are proud of our partnership with one of Scotland’s leading home builders.
“The Highlands has a strong history of developing Scotland international squash players so being able to bring world class squash to the area only seems right.”
"Inverness is an incredible place to visit and we have no doubt that Inverness Tennis and Squash Club will provide the perfect stage for both the players and spectators.”
For more information visit: www.scottishsquashopen.com/home/
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T. Rex Ants Found Alive for the First Time
It is not nearly as formidable as its namesake
Behold T. Rex the ant ( Gordon Yong, Insect Diversity Lab/ National University of Singapore)
By Jason Daley
In 2003, an entomologist in Malaysia found a single dead ant whose little pincers reminded him Tyrannosaurus rex’s mini arms. So, of course, he named the new species Tyrannomyrmex rex. Now, over a decade later, researchers have found a living colony of the species, reports Michael Greshko at National Geographic, and it turns out the little ant is not nearly as formidable as its namesake.
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Greshko reports that entomologists Mark Wong and Gordon Yong located the ants in March 2016 while surveying the forests of Mandai in Singapore. The team collected the colony of 13 workers along with eggs, larvae and pupae and studied their behavior. They published their work in the journal Asian Myrmecology.
As Ryan F. Mandelbaum reports for Gizmodo, the ants were completely different from what researchers expected. First of all, entomologists believed the ants needed undisturbed forests to survive, but the team found them living in rotting wood in a second growth forest on a military base near piles of trash. Second, unlike their namesake, they are true fraidy cats.
“I...find their shy nature ironic and amusing,” Wong tells Mandelbaum. “Tyrannomyrmex would actually translate into 'tyrant ant' (Tyranno is Latin for 'tyrant'; myrmex is Greek for 'ant'), but it soon became clear these ants aren’t in any way tyrants, in fact quite the opposite if you look at how they 'freeze up' when other organisms come close, and quickly run away after.”
According to Greshko, the ants were afraid of everything from millipedes to mites to smaller ants. They were even scared of drops of honey.
Despite offering the ants all types of food, the researchers could not figure out what the insects ate, Stephanie Pappas reports for LiveScience. In fact, as soon as one of the ants emerged from its pupa, the other members of the colony ate him.
The strangest thing about the ant, reports Greshko, is that does not have a working metapleural gland, which, in other ant species, secretes antiseptic compounds that keep the ants clean and healthy, especially while living in close quarters in the colony. It seems odd that the a species living in rotting wood in the ground would not have such a means to keep clean, Wong tells Greshko.
Though the team has not been able to find more T. rex in the Mandai area, Mandelbaum reports that it’s likely the species is not as rare as it seems. The fact that it lives in rotting wood under the ground, is very picky about food and is likely nocturnal, just makes it hard to find.
About Jason Daley
Jason Daley is a Madison, Wisconsin-based writer specializing in natural history, science, travel, and the environment. His work has appeared in Discover, Popular Science, Outside, Men’s Journal, and other magazines.
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Anton Ferdinand has described how his mother received death threats and bricks through the window after the high-profile John Terry incident.
In a new documentary on racism in football, the player and brother of Rio, who grew up in the Friary Estate, speaks out about the lasting impact the case had on his own life and his family.
Although the FA ruled that Terry had used racist language in the exchange during the 2011 match between Queen’s Park Rangers and Chelsea, he later walked free from court.
Although the case has been pored over for many years, this is the first time Anton has had his say and detailed the traumatic the fall-out on his family, and his career.
The incident opened up wounds for his parents who, as a white woman and black man, suffered terrible abuse in the 1980s – including having their children spat at.
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Anton also reflects on the ‘shame’ he felt for not speaking out – he was advised not to for legal reasons – and the lack of support from anti-racism organisations who publicly criticised him for his silence.
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Star Trek Adventures Roleplaying Game In Development
August 3, 2016 4:30 AM PDT
Star Trek Adventures, the first new official Star Trek roleplaying game to be produced in 14 years, is in development from Modiphius Entertainment, publisher of the Achtung! Cthulhu, Mutant Chronicles, Conan, Infinity and John Carter of Mars roleplaying games. Trek fans will not only boldly go to the final frontier, but they will shape the voyages and missions through the Star Trek Adventures living campaign playtest. Each player will experience the game differently based on the ship to which they are assigned.
Attendees of next week's Gen Con will have the exclusive North American opportunity to choose their ship, as well as to claim a free Captain Kirk or Captain Picard miniature (while supplies last) when they register for the playtest. Registration will take place daily at the Modiphius booth #2737 in the Gen Con exhibit hall from August 4–7.
Additional sign-ups will launch online from late August at www.modiphius.com/star-trek, and fans in Europe will have their chance to claim Kirk or Picard at the Modiphius booth at Essen-Spiel in Germany in October and at Dragonmeet in the UK in December. The living campaign playtest will launch in the fall.
“Since I was a kid I dreamed of sitting in the captain’s chair and boldly going on my own voyages,” Chris Birch, Modiphius Entertainment’s Publishing Director Chris Birch, said in a statement. “With Star Trek Adventures we can all explore our own stories in the worlds of Captain Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, Archer and many others.”
Star Trek Adventures will use the Modiphius 2d20 game system designed by Jay Little. Modiphius is also sculpting an accompanying Star Trek miniature figure line, the first to be produced in 17 years. Resin and metal 32mm-scale hobby figures will feature classic Star Trek characters and crews, boarding parties and away teams. Geomorphic tile maps of burning Federation ships, mysterious colonies and embattled Klingon cruisers will set the scene for dramatic new voyages in the Final Frontier.
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Failure to comply with health and safety notices can lead to compensation claims
AuthorKate Sweeney
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is hot on the toes of companies that breach their strict guidelines and put their employees at risk in the process. Prohibition notices are issued on a regular basis and amazingly, often they are not followed. When this happens the HSE comes down hard, because the risk to the safety of workers, or the public, can be considerably heightened.
In St Ives, Cornwall, a landowner was sent to prison because he ignored safety issues highlighted by the HSE which found part of his land used as a car park overlooked a steep drop of thirty metres to houses below.
The HSE issued a Prohibition Notice to prevent vehicle and pedestrian access within five metres from the edge of the slope. The landowner was advised, by way of an Improvement Notice, to install a barrier to prevent access onto the dangerous land.
However, no action was taken by the landowner. Subsequently, in August 2009, a car was seen hanging over the edge of the slope and emergency services were called. Homeowners had to be evacuated whilst the car was removed.
Notices issued on risk of death or injury
The HSE serves Prohibition Notices where there is a ‘clear, immediate risk of death or injury to employees or the public’. A limited timescale to enhance safety is allowed by Improvement Notices.
In Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, a restaurant manager was given a suspended jail sentence after ignoring warnings concerning fire safety. Failings were found during an inspection that could have led to risks for workers, and patrons of the restaurant.
What could have happened had the car in Cornwall plunged over the drop onto the houses below? And if fire had broken out in the Cumbria restaurant? It doesn’t bear thinking about.
When a business ignores prohibition or improvement notices not only does it face fines or imprisonment, it puts innocent people at risk and if an incident occurs, it could be met with compensation claims.
For anyone who has suffered injuries due to the failure of a business to take action as advised by the HSE, there is the opportunity to pursue a claim for losses, damages and any resulting treatment or care needs. A specialist injury claims solicitor with specific experience in dealing with cases involving HSE prosecutions will ensure the maximum award is achieved.
The Stephensons' personal injury claims team has a range of specialists who have specific expertise in all types of accident claims, including those caused by a failure to comply with HSE notices. If you think you have a claim, you can talk to us in complete confidence. Call 01616 966 229 to speak directly to one of our experts.
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Portage County proposal would require masks indoors, outdoors for rest of COVID-19 pandemic
STEVENS POINT - A proposed ordinance would mandate people in Portage County wear masks when leaving their homes, but the county board member putting the idea forward says it's about starting a dialogue.
"I want people to talk about it and let people be heard because I don’t know if they’re being heard," said Vincent Miresse, who represents District 1 on the County Board. "I’m trying to keep this amenable and apolitical."
The county's Health and Human Services Committee will consider the proposal from Miresse at 4:30 p.m. Monday at the county's Health and Human Services Building, 817 Whiting Ave. The proposal would allow the health department to issue fines up to $500 to businesses that do not require people to wear masks in their buildings.
Miresse, of Stevens Point, said in a Facebook post the ordinance will be for discussion only during the July 13 meeting. Miresse adapted the proposal from the mask mandate the city of Milwaukee is considering, according to the proposal. Miresse said the county needs more dialogue on what policies it should consider putting in place to restrict the spread of the virus.
Miresse said the proposal also stems from concerns about the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Portage County.
"What is it going to take for us to put a policy in place? Is it going to take a death?" Miresse said. "I’ve already lost people in my life."
Portage County is among two-thirds of Wisconsin counties reporting a high spread of the new coronavirus, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Since March 1, the county reported 211 positive cases, 20% of which remain active. Thirteen people have been hospitalized and no one has died from the disease in the county.
"We need to start planning because it seems like the county board is just waiting for leadership to do something," Miresse said. "I have a lot of respect and trust for our staff, Ray Przybelskiand Gary Garske and County Executive (Chris) Holman because I know they’re being completely thorough in their approach. I’m still trying to figure out how we move things forward in a timely manner."
The proposal would affect people 3 and older for the rest of the pandemic. While the ordinance would require people to wear masks indoors in places other than their homes, it would only require people to wear masks outside when within 6 feet of someone with whom they don't already live.
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The proposal also requires the county government to require employees to wear masks inside county facilities.
Miresse's proposal also provides exceptions for people the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say should not wear masks, such as those people with disabilities and certain medical conditions. Other exceptions include communicating with people with hearing impairments, when eating at restaurants, receiving medical or dental care and institutions with a health department-approved virus spread mitigation plan.
Enforcement of the ordinance would fall on the county health department by way of issuing fines of up $500 to businesses that do not require patrons to wear masks. The health department could also revoke licenses or shut a business down via a court order, according to the proposal.
Across the state, counties have considered ordinances to expand the powers of health officers after the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the state's safer-at-home order that shut down much of the state at the beginning of the pandemic. Such ordinances have been rejected, withdrawn or sent back to committees in places such as Marathon and Winnebago counties.
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Milan Fashion Week : Tommy Hilfiger drives fresh interest with motor racing
Formula One aesthetic brings vibrancy as American fashion brand’s world tour lands in Italy
Cue Sunday evening’s show, a motor racing-themed extravaganza featuring pit-lane shops selling the collection to the public – who are also invited to Hilfiger’s runway-to-retail shows – surrounded by a catwalk that took the shape of a race track.
Tommy Hilfiger has reignited its links with the sport by sponsoring the Formula One Mercedes Benz team for the 2018 season, which means returning world champion Lewis Hamilton, who was sat in the front row, wearing high fashion at high speeds when he takes to the track come March. The aesthetic dominated the womenswear and menswear on show here.
Curved racing stripes, reminiscent of the new F1 logo, were a theme throughout, while swimsuits, biker shorts, racer-back tanks and visors were covered with the chequered flag.
Denim boilersuits referenced engineer overalls and leather biker jackets were decorated with branded patches, while their trouser counterparts featured authentic perforated panels.
The collection also included the hugely popular Tommy x Gigi capsule collection designed by supermodel Gigi Hadid, who took a victory lap with Hilfiger at the end of the show.
This is Hadid’s last edit for the brand, having fulfilled her four-season contract. “We have to move on as a brand,” said Hilfiger, adding that a new collaborator will be announced shortly.
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Craft beverages tap into local, premium trends
The surging popularity of craft soda “is riding the coattails of craft beer, I think. People like the fact that it’s locally produced, comes in a glass bottle, and is made with cane sugar.” —SCOTT KARNS, Karns Quality Foods
Donna Boss 1 | Aug 19, 2015
Consumer concerns about the healthfulness of carbonated soft drinks — along with a growing interest in locally made products, innovative flavors and more natural ingredients — are playing right into the hands of the craft soda industry.
A contest among Karns Foods' various locations is helping drive sales of craft sodas, president Scott Karns told SN.
Brewed in small batches using cane sugar and often lacking preservatives and other chemical additives, craft sodas appear to be winning over consumers who increasingly view soft drinks as an occasional treat.
The surging popularity of craft soda “is riding the coattails of craft beer, I think,” said Scott Karns, the president of Karns Quality Foods, an eight-store chain based in Mechanicsburg, Pa. “People like the fact that it’s locally produced, comes in a glass bottle, and is made with cane sugar.”
Karns Foods has offered craft soda from the Appalachian Brewing Co. for the past few years, ever since the local brewery began bottling soft drinks. The chain offers the full line of bottled Appalachian Craft Sodas, which include root beer, diet root beer, white birch beer and ginger beer.
This summer, sales of the craft soda brand are up 77% year-over-year at Karns Foods locations, driven by an August sales contest the chain held among the stores, Scott Karns said.
“They have done quite well for us,” Karns told SN. “Keep in mind that it is not only a craft soda, but it is a local soda for us too. The brewery is not even a mile from my office, so if I want to go out at lunchtime and see them making sodas, I can do that.”
According to a recent report from research firm Mintel on natural and craft soft drinks, 57% of adults agree that carbonated soft drinks made with natural ingredients are healthier than those made with artificial ingredients.
The Mintel research shows that craft soft drink sales could be poised to grow: While 66% of U.S. adults do not currently drink craft sodas, 44% of those who do not drink them said they are interested in trying them.
“The definition of health is changing from desiring low/no-fat and -sugar, to ‘real’ or unadulterated ingredients,” said Elizabeth Sisel, beverage analyst at Mintel, in a statement. “Natural and craft brands tend to feature ingredients in more natural forms, to position products as a better-for-you option.”
Jennifer Aranas, project director at research firm Datassential, said craft soda brands “have a little better story to tell.”
“There’s a better-for-you halo around them, and that stems from their use of natural ingredients and their local, small batch production,” she said.
She cited in particular craft bottlers’ use of cane sugar, which she said is perceived by consumers as healthier than corn syrup.
Bobby Hearn, editor in chief of FiveStarSoda.com, a Springfield, Mo.-based website that reviews craft soft drinks, agreed that health concerns are a major factor driving consumer interest in craft sodas. That dovetails, he noted, with craft bottlers’ use of high-quality ingredients.
Craft sodas from Appalachian Brewing Co. have local appeal for Karns Foods customers. Both are based in Mechanicsburg, Pa.
“A lot of artisan sodas are being made with real hand-pressed fruit, not just syrup or something from a flavor house,” Hearn told SN. “There’s a lot of experimentation with fruits, herbs, and spices, combining flavors you would not normally expect to find in a soda. A lot of these [small soda bottlers] will start out at farmers markets, and then they will try to get their sodas into local grocery stores and restaurants and bars.”
Although craft sodas carry premium price points, consumers seem willing to trade up for what they perceive to be a healthier product with better ingredients, Hearn said.
“The bottom line when it comes to soda is whether or not it tastes good, and the better quality ingredients you use, the more likely people are to buy it,” he said.
Craft beer sakes growth
Meanwhile, craft beers are seeing sales growth in double digits in supermarkets, according to data from Information Resources Inc. provided to SN by the Boulder, Colo.-based Brewers Association.
“Supermarkets are the off-premise channel where craft does best,” said Bart Watson, chief economist at the Brewers Association.
The food channel captures 16.5% of off-premise (outside restaurants and bars) craft beer dollar sales, he said, up from 10.7% in 2011. Year-to-date dollar sales of craft beer are up 18.7% in IRI’s food channel.
“I think the underlying demand trends, the much stronger share in on-premise, and the history of rapid growth show continuing opportunities for craft,” Watson told SN.
Much like some of the trends driving craft soda, craft beer sales are benefiting from an increased interest in higher quality ingredients and locally made products, he said.
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IPA styles are by far the fastest-growing segment of craft beers, he noted, with 27.4% of the share of craft beer sales, up from just 8% in 2008. Also seeing growth are session craft beers — brews with low alcohol content — which include not only session IPAs but also pilsners, blonde ales and others, Watson said.
Retailers have been capitalizing on the craft beer trend by merchandising more varieties of bottled craft beers and emphasizing their local provenance, and by adding taps from local brewers that allow consumers to fill growlers to enjoy a draught-beer taste at home.
Cleveland-based Heinen’s Fine Foods took it one step further and recently began partnering with local breweries to brew limited-edition craft beers exclusively for the retailer’s downtown Cleveland store.
Whole Foods joins craft beer crowd
And Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market, which has long partnered with local craft brewers at stores throughout the country, recently began brewing its own beer at a store in Houston. The Whole Foods Market Brewing Co., which brews 38 varieties, is scheduled to begin distributing beers throughout Texas on Sept. 18.
New IPA! Hop Explorer IPA with Rakau and Azacca hops. Come let us know what you think, should we get more of them? pic.twitter.com/brfZEnIvs9
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Sidebar: Ginger bubbles to top of soda flavor trends
Fueled in part by a resurgence in popularity of the “Moscow mule” cocktail — made with vodka and (non-alcoholic) ginger beer — ginger has surged as a flavor trend for soft drinks, observers told SN.
“Ginger is the hottest flavor right now,” said Bobby Hearn, editor in chief of FiveStarSoda.com, a website that reviews craft soft drinks. “There are a lot of different takes on ginger beer right now. Some people drink it straight, or mix it with a cocktail. It has wide appeal to a large number of people.”
John Nese, owner of Galco’s Old World Grocery in Highland Park, Calif., agreed.
“I think right now you could put ginger in any soda, and it will sell,” he told SN.
Galco’s was launched in 1897 as an Italian grocery store, but several years ago Nese converted it to a specialty destination for craft beer and soda. He carries about 700 varieties of soda from all over the world.
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Another flavor that Nese sees potentially gaining in popularity in craft sodas is mint, although he said very few bottlers have mastered this flavor so far. The ability of craft soda makers to source the right flavorings has been a key to their differentiation and success, he said. He cited the award-winning Mr. Q. Cumber soda and its sibling flavors from the same bottler, Sweet Blossom Rose, Sweet Blossom Jasmine, Sweet Blossom Lavender and Sweet Bloom Elderflower, as examples.
“You have to have people who know where to find the right ingredients for their flavors,” Nese said. “These independent bottlers have a lot of great flavors, and they take a lot of pride in what they are doing.”
Jennifer Aranas, project director at research firm Datasssential, said some of the soda flavors that are hot in restaurants right now and could soon find their way onto more supermarket shelves include herbal and floral flavors — “things like lavender and hibiscus,” she said.
Mentions of lavender on restaurant beverage menus have increased 120% in the last year, she said. Other hot beverage flavors include blood orange (up 93% in mentions on restaurant menus), cranberry, grapefruit, pomegranate and tamarind, in addition to ginger beer, Aranas said.
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What If Your Supply Chain Had A Control Tower?
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The following article was contributed by Batool Iqbal, from Damco Pakistan – a subsidiary of Ap-Moller Maersk Group. The idea of a supply chain control tower emerged in 1990’s, triggered by the need to view and control the movement of goods in factories, distribution centers and pipeline inventories. They estimate that their deployment resulted in an inventory saving of tens of millions of dollars. Live market freight rates? MORE
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This is why supply chain managers are always stressing over demand forecasts — something that tops the list of most critical inventory management practices. Shipping Overseas Anyone who has shipped freight by air or sea can attest to the fact that international shipping is complex — in no small part because of the rules and regulations around certain goods. manufacturers do to better understand global supply chain operations when exporting goods abroad? MORE
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How the Coronavirus May Affect Your Supply Chain
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Air Freight Impacts. Typical freight on suspended passenger flights may include pharmaceuticals, high-value automotive parts, high-value garments and high-tech devices, preventing U.S. manufacturers from continuing production of smart phones, automobiles, appliances and drugs to treat many medical conditions. but to Africa and India / Pakistan trades due to reduced demand at origin and to avoid extra operating costs. How the Coronavirus May Affect Your Supply Chain. MORE
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The following article was contributed by Batool Iqbal, from Damco Pakistan – a subsidiary of Ap-Moller Maersk Group. The idea of a supply chain control tower emerged in 1990’s, triggered by the need to view and control the movement of goods in factories, distribution centers and pipeline inventories. They estimate that their deployment resulted in an inventory saving of tens of millions of dollars. Live market freight rates?
Air Freight Impacts. Typical freight on suspended passenger flights may include pharmaceuticals, high-value automotive parts, high-value garments and high-tech devices, preventing U.S. manufacturers from continuing production of smart phones, automobiles, appliances and drugs to treat many medical conditions. but to Africa and India / Pakistan trades due to reduced demand at origin and to avoid extra operating costs. How the Coronavirus May Affect Your Supply Chain.
This is why supply chain managers are always stressing over demand forecasts — something that tops the list of most critical inventory management practices. Shipping Overseas Anyone who has shipped freight by air or sea can attest to the fact that international shipping is complex — in no small part because of the rules and regulations around certain goods. manufacturers do to better understand global supply chain operations when exporting goods abroad?
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Back to Our Thinking | Blog August 22, 2018
How Big Data Analytics Can Shape Bigger and Better Business Processes
It’s not an understatement to say that most enterprises today have more data than they know what to do with it. IBM discovered that we create nearly 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day. To give you a better picture of the significance of 2.5 quintillion, picture a whopping 17 zeros behind 2.5. This massive number means that simply describing it as “data” is an inaccurate representation—when data sets get this large and complex, so much so that ordinary computing systems crash under their sheer digital weight, the only phrase to comprehensively define them is big data.
With mountains of big data stacking up for many organizations across the world, smart, innovative companies are leveraging it through big data analytics in order to inform operational strategies and drive transformation of business processes. Research firm IDC predicts that by 2019, enterprises will spend upwards of $187 billion on big data and analytics technology. That’s because organizations harnessing big data in savvy, intuitive ways are becoming market leaders in their industry—something that Sutherland was recognized for recently in ISG’s “FAO Digital Outsourcing Services 2018 Archetype Report.”
Big data is being used to help companies gain a competitive advantage, enabling them to plan for growth, revenue and risk when it’s analyzed and harnessed effectively. To do so, a big data analytics system is necessary to gain real-time insights into what is and isn’t working for a given company and make effective, on-the-fly business decisions. It’s not enough anymore to simply collect data and process it at a whim—big data is facilitating a new wave of predictive and prescriptive insights that serve almost as a crystal ball into the future for companies to gaze into, confidently predict outcomes and implement fast decision-making to achieve these big data-driven prognostications.
With that said, it should come as no surprise that the effective, holistic deployment of big data analytics is one of the major methods for driving successful business process transformation. To keep up in our rapidly evolving digital and technological landscape, businesses need insights from big data to remain relevant and be more forward-thinking. Real-time data can also offer a more in-depth understanding into customer behaviors and preferences that allows companies to offer greater, more targeted value. This combination of strategic decision-making and customer insight from big data analysis allows a company to truly grow, scale and reach newer, more profitable heights.
Not convinced? IDC reports that 71% of so-called big data innovators (early adopters who prioritize big data analytics) employ advanced technologies and tools that offer them real-time visualization into big data and higher-level forecasting to reap the above benefits. Here are some other commonalities among companies taking this approach to influence business outcomes and revamp business processes for the better:
Receive support from all organizational levels championing big data analytics
Achieve data mining in a more secure, timely and efficient manner, making big data analytics much more relevant to business goals
Attain a faster ROI from big data analytics (generally within the first six months)
Strive for continued advances in big data technologies to drive business growth and transformation
At Sutherland, our unique approach to business transformation—combining big data analytics, machine learning and design thinking with process-level automation—has given us a critical competitive advantage, according to ISG. What results is more informed business insights, more confident decision-making and greater visibility across business operations for companies and customers alike. None of this could be achieved without a simple, comprehensive big data platform that offers predictive and prescriptive analytics. No matter how well your business is operating and performing, there’s always room to be better. That starts with embracing big data analytics.
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Developer Interview: WorldShift
We recently had the chance to make a little Q&A with Black Sea Studios about their upcoming ‘MMO meets RTS’ game WorldShift. Among other things, programmer and story co-writer Mikhail Balabanov told us if there’s going to be a demo, what kind of a system we’re going to need in order to play this game without a hitch, and how he feels about the current state of PC gaming. And we also have a few new, exclusive screenshots for you take a look at. Let’s dive right in..
To start, can you give a little overview of the game and what it’s about to those whose radar it hasn’t hit yet. WorldShift is an innovative RTS game offering some features typically associated with MMORPG games, like collecting and equipping items to improve and specialize the playable factions, fighting bosses, etc. WorldShift features three playable factions in a futuristic cyber-fantasy setting and has player-versus-environment-oriented single player and cooperative multiplayer as well as player versus player modes.
What would you say are the three main things that make WorldShift stand out from the rest? We would say these are the cooperative player versus environment gameplay, the items that let the players modify and specialize their factions, and the original blend of sci-fi and fantasy setting.
You announced about a week ago that you’ve launched a closed beta with 5000 testers on board. How has the reception been so far? The reception has been good so far, and we have received feedback that will help in balancing and polishing the game.
Is there going to be a public beta as well? Yes, an open beta for a maximum of 25 000 players will be launched after the end of the closed beta.
What about a demo? A demo will be released after the release of the game itself. We still have not decided exactly what contents from the game to include.
After making the medieval Knights of Honor, what made you go with a sci-fi/fantasy setting this time? We had worked on Knights of Honor for three years and we wanted to try something else. A medieval game (especially an RTS) is not very challenging in terms of visual conceptualization, and requires more research than creativity. We all share a passion for fantastic worlds and stories and we thought it would be challenging and fun to create one of our own. We very much liked the idea of a fantastic future world combining technology and magic, in which our today’s civilization is only a myth.
“WorldShift differs significantly from traditional RTS games..”
All the screenshots we’ve seen so far show a lot of jungle-like locations. Will there be other types of environments as well? Yes, WorldShift features various terrain types representing the Earth’s landscape mutated by the Plague. We have forests, desert-like terrains, rocky areas scorched by lava, etc.
Did you learn anything from developing Knights of Honor that has helped you with WorldShift? The two games have very little in common, in terms of both technology and gameplay, so except some general developer wisdom we couldn’t bring much from the previous project to this one.
Is there anything you’ve been forced to leave out of because of time/budget constraints or some other reason? Something that you really would have loved to see included? Yes, there are such things, as in every more or less ambitious project. For example, we would have been happy to include more cutscenes and speech, or to have more maps for cooperative games.
Is the engine the game is using your own? No, the game is using a significantly modified version of the Gamebryo engine. Licensing an engine allowed us a quicker start in the beginning in the development, and later we introduced modifications to the rendering pipeline, handling of geometry, etc. to tune it to the particular challenges of the game.
There’s no denying that WorldShift looks good but what are gamers looking at when it comes to system requirements? Currently, we have the following minimum system requirements:
– 2 GHz single-core CPU
– 512 MB RAM (1 GB for Windows Vista)
– DirectX 9.0c compatible video card with 128 MB of video memory (Radeon 9600 / GeForce 5800 and above)
– DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
– Keyboard and mouse
– 3 GB of hard drive space
The recommended system specifications include a 2.4 GHz dual- or quad-core CPU, 1 GB of system memory (2 GB for Windows Vista), and a DirectX 9.0c compatible video card with 256 MB of video memory (Radeon x1600 / GeForce 7600 and above).
Have you thrown around the idea of bringing WorldShift to consoles after the PC version is out the door? What would it take for that to happen? We have considered the idea but we have nothing specific to announce at this moment.
Are you already thinking about what your next game might be? Yes, we are. :-)
“..PC gaming is currently suffering from some lack of creativity.”
A few leading developers have recently voiced their concerns regarding the rough shape PC gaming seems to be in. When it comes to RTS games, more and more of them are being brought to consoles with some, like Halo Wars, even being designed and built from the ground up with only console controls in mind. Are you at all worried that hardcore RTS gamers will start looking towards consoles in the future, or do you think they are already? And what’s your take on the current state of PC gaming in general? In our view, PC gaming is currently suffering from some lack of creativity. Also, the PCs evolve gradually while the consoles develop in leaps – each new console brings sudden significant improvements after a period with almost no changes in the hardware. This can give the impression that the PC scene is developing slower. But nevertheless, we still think that PC is the best platform for hardcore RTS.
Are you ‘afraid’ of StarCraft 2 at all? What kind of effect do you think it will have on the RTS market, if any? No, WorldShift differs significantly from traditional RTS games so we don’t think there is a direct competition.
Finally, WorldShift’s release – any definite idea of when that might happen? WorldShift is scheduled to be released on April 20, 2008.
Anything you’d like to add? We believe in creativity and hope more developers will try to experiment and brave uncharted territories. We think that the concepts behind WorldShift have the potential to spawn an interesting subgenre of the RTS games.
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Jio 5G Solution Announced
by Akhil July 15, 2020, 7:34 pm 1.7k Views
The testing of the same will start as soon as the 5G spectrum ready.
It’s 4G services can be upgraded to the 5G network.
The 5G solution will be developed in India.
Jio has announced a very important decision today at its AGM conference and the same will help the country to boost the next-generation connectivity 5G across the nation, the newbie of Indian telecom industry has announced Jio 5G Solution and the same will be available for testing as soon as the spectrum ready in the country.
Mr. Mukesh Ambani has announced the Jio 5G Solution and confirms that the trials will start as soon as the 5G spectrum is available and ready for field deployment and the same will happen next year. He has also said the development of the solution will be happening in India and that means the coming setup will be a homegrown item.
It is also said that the company will work from scratch and that will enable it to launch a world-class 5G service across the country and it is also said that the 4G services of the network can be upgraded to the 5G network vary easily.
Moreover, Ambani has also revealed that Jio 5G is dedicated to PM Narendra Modi’s “Atmanirbhar Bharat” vision.
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Clueless Cuomo extends NY coronavirus shutdown to May 15 extending chances of economic depression
What an idiot!
This is what makes Cuomo a failed leader that gets enough cover from the mainstream media for his miserable failure. New York, the heart of economic activity for the nation, will continue to stay in shutdown practically guaranteeing the U.S. will fall into depression.
NY Post reports Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday extended his statewide
shutdown of non-essential functions to May 15, as coronavirus hospitalizations continued to level off — but over 600 new deaths were reported.
“New York PAUSE has worked,” said Cuomo of the lockdown during an Albany press briefing. “That’s how we control the beast.
“However, we’re not there yet.”
In order to prevent the disease from mounting a comeback, the governor extended the policy for another month, a decision that he said was made in consultation with other regional states New York has allied with to plan an eventual economic revival.
Andrew Cuomo is a moron!
Mark Matis April 16, 2020 at 5:47 PM
Cuomo dances to the tune of the tribe, who own New York state. And the tribe is looking forward to a depression to keep President Trump from being re-elected!!!
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Keir Starmer mocks Tory heckler who said he was speaking in 'hindsight' with prediction
Keir Starmer in the House of Commons - Credit: Parliament Live
Labour leader Keir Starmer has mocked a Tory heckler who said he was speaking "in hindsight" for his prediction about the coronavirus tier system.
Opposition MPs were left laughing at the government benches after the leader of the opposition pointed out that it was a prediction for the future, rather than him talking about something in the past.
Telling the Commons that politicians need to proceed with "precision and caution", Starmer said the prime minister had been "fuelling the promise that within two weeks or so local areas have a real prospect of dropping to a tier below that they are in".
"We need to level, in my view that is highly unlikely, and we might as well face that now," he said.
"It is obvious that the new tier one may slow but it won't prevent a rise infections, and it is far from certain that the new tier two can hold the rate of infections".
Taking on Tory MPs on the benches opposite, he said: "I hear the mutterings but let's just see where we are in two weeks.
"And I look across the House to members across the House who think that perhaps in two weeks their area is going to drop down a tier just before Christmas. Let's just see".
As a backbencher made a jibe about him speaking in "hindsight", Starmer caused an uproar after he pointed out "this isn't hindsight I'm telling you what's happening in two weeks."
"We know where we'll be in two weeks, and I've no doubt there'll be members on the opposite side who will be getting up and saying 'I thought my area was going to drop a tier just before Christmas'.
"That's not levelling, that's not being straight, because that's not going to happen."
Speaker Lindsay Hoyle then went on to chastise Tory MP Gary Sandbrook for his constant interruption during the Labour leader's speech.
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Bollywood’s Plabita Borthakur talks about her journey in an interaction with Ankita Kakaty
Published on : 04 Sep, 2020 , 5:56 pm
By Ankita Kakaty | SHILLONG | SEPT 04, 2020:
From the dreamy town of Assam's Duliajan to the tinsel town of Bollywood, Plabita Borthakur always had a creative mind. Her father Probin Borthakur is an Indian classical singer, academician and a former serviceman under Oil India Limited in Duliajanher. Her mother, Rina Borthakur, is a writer and poet.
Her elder sister Parineeta Borthakur is a well-known television personality and her other sister Priyangi Borthakur is a singer and entrepreneur (O'Tenga).
Plabita completed her schooling from DPS Duliajan, after which she enrolled herself in Jai Hind College, Mumbai. She expressed an interest in performing arts and later enrolled in an acting course to chase her dreams of becoming an actor. Eventually, she joined Barry John Acting School, where she completed a short-term diploma course.
Plabita believes that Mumbai is the city of dreams and also a city of struggles. But being a rebel, she took up life's challenges and began her journey by auditioning for films and television commercials.
Opportunities later came her way, and she was a part of many films and web projects like P.K., Lipstick under My Burkha, Doosra, Breathe into the Shadows and Bombay Begums.
In 2012, Plabita appeared in several television commercials and did over 20 to 25 advertisements till date.
Her inclination towards western music also led her to form her band under the name 'Manu and Chow'.
Plabita's first appearance on the big screen was in the 2014 film P.K. directed by Rajkumar Hirani.
She marched ahead in her journey to fame and was chosen as a lead in the critically acclaimed film Lipstick Under My Burkha directed by Alankrita Srivastava, where she played the character of Rehana Abidi.
Plabita said that working with such a dynamic female-driven ensemble cast comprising actors such as Ratna Pathak Shah, Konkona Sen Sharma, Aahana Kumra, Sushant Singh and Vikrant Massey was an overwhelming experience for her.
She believes that as technology gradually shifted its gears to a wider reach in terms of audience and viewers, the webspace or OTT platforms in India began gaining momentum with the proliferation of new media and streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Zee 5 and Voot to name a few.
To try her hand at this new medium of the public interface, Plabita entered the digital space.
Her first digital debut was in a web series Parchayee on Zee5. She also landed the part of Meghna Verma in the crime drama thriller web series Breathe into the shadows directed by Mayank Sharma starring Abhishek Bachchan, Amit Sadh, Nitya Menon as the central characters. It premiered on Amazon Prime on July 10, 2020.
Plabita opines that her character was a very challenging one to play.
Meghna's character is pragmatically cheerful and fun-loving who lives life with a sense of courage and freedom standing on her capabilities.
"The character of Meghna was very much similar to me. While shooting and prepping for the role, the director instructed me not to use my left hand. So, I was left to feel the vibe of the character and prepare intensely for my role. But overall, the learning experience was a pleasant one," Plabita said.
After working with a meticulous set of actors such as Abhishek Bachchan and Amit Sadh Plabita spoke about some of her memories from the sets.
"It was great working with both the actors. Abhishek was very disciplined and focused as an actor yet he is funny and shares a good camaraderie on the sets while Amit Sadh improvises a lot and adds his nuances to his character which makes out the scenes very organic as I too love improvising which adds to make an enriching performance," Plabita said.
"One of my most fun shoot days was the day I was doing a stunt sequence where I would have to fall off a building with the help of a harness and I did the shot in just one take and the moment the scene was done I was too excited and wanted to do more of it. Another memorable moment was one scene where Amit Sadh and I were sitting at a chat corner and we both did not act in that scene but went with the flow of enjoying our food, which was very candid and organic," she added.
Plabita auditioned for the role of Meghna through Mukesh Chhabra casting agency and fit in perfectly to the character which both viewers and critics appreciated.
We may note that survival of the fittest is predominant in showbiz, and nepotism is a hurdle to emerging talent.
Plabita believes that nepotism is pervasive to all professions more or less of similar interests and background. The only thing is to retain and work hard to secure one's spot for acceptance and appraisal in his or her art/profession.
Plabita is of the view that versatility is the key strength of any artist and as it is very clear from her diverse roles which she portrays on screen.
Plabita also appears in Bombay Begums, a Netflix original series directed by Alakrita Srivastava and Bornila Chatterjee where she shares screen time with Pooja Bhatt, Shahana Goswami, Amruta Subhash, Aadhya Anand among the central characters.
It is an inspiring story of five women across generations and their struggles, desires, ethics and vulnerabilities to their ambitions in a contemporary urban India.
Some of her upcoming releases include Doosra – a feature film directed by Abhinay Deo.
It is a story of how cricket changed India through the eyes of a young girl played by Plabita.
Another upcoming release is Chhote Nawab, a movie directed by Kumud Chaudhary featuring Akshay Oberoi and Plabita as leads.
Plabita is optimistic of the fact that web content in India has driven people to select quality over quantity as she feels that it is a ray of hope for the struggling artist who juggles to fit into the contemporary world of art and cinema.
She believes that having faith in oneself and working hard on one's ambition can work as a positive aspect for an artist to grow and survive.
"Most importantly, celebrating failures with an open heart gives room for new thoughts and can make oneself a better person," she said.
A woman with a truly lively personality, we wish her success in all her future endeavours.
(The writer of this article can be reached at ankitakakaty@gmail.com)
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Chipotle (CMG) Stock Up Today Following Analyst Upgrade
Chipotle (CMG) stock is higher this morning after BMO Capital upgraded the company to 'outperform' from 'market perform.'
Kurumi Fukushima
May 1, 2015 9:55 AM EDT
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc (CMG) - Get Report are up 1.65% to $631.61 in early market trading Friday, after the burrito chain was upgraded to "outperform" from "market perform" by analysts at BMO Capital this morning.
The firm also increased its price target on shares of Chipotle to $760 from $693.
BMO analysts believe Chipotle is a "compelling investment," pointing to its strong outlook amid milder expectations.
Denver-based Chipotle operates Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants, serving a menu of burritos, tacos, burrito bowls, and salads through its 1,410 restaurant locations.
Insight from TheStreet's Research Team:
Jim Cramer commented on Chipotle Mexican Grill in a recent post on RealMoney.com. Here is what Cramer had to say about the stock:
Now the stock, which, after a breather, had rallied to within 30 points of that all-time high price going into earnings, is going to get crushed today because of these same two issues: pork shortage and tough comps ahead.
I believe that many thought that somehow Chipotle was sandbagging with its previous outlook. I also think that many thought that the pork problem would be put behind them. Hence the run into the quarter. So when we heard last night that comparable store sales had "slowed" to 10.4% and would slow further later this year as comparisons really got tough, and that the pork problem is very much still with the company and will be with the company until the fourth quarter, the battering ram came out again.
-Jim Cramer, 'Chipotle Will Get Crushed Today' originally published 4/22/2015 on RealMoney.com.
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Separately, TheStreet Ratings team rates CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL INC as a Buy with a ratings score of B. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL INC (CMG) a BUY. This is driven by several positive factors, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations, impressive record of earnings per share growth and compelling growth in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins."
You can view the full analysis from the report here: CMG Ratings Report
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M&A-Hungry Nestle Looking at Baby Food Maker Mead Johnson
A possible merger between Nestle and Mead Johnson could trigger anti-trust concerns.
Lisa Botter
Nestle (NSRGY) - Get Report , the largest food company in the world, reportedly has its eye on expanding its empire with the acquisition of baby food maker Mead Johnson Nutrition (MJN) .
For the Swiss stalwart the combination, first reported by Street Insider last week, would be beneficial, especially in China, but for Nestle's new CEO the merger could be too soon.
In theory the tie-up between Mead Johnson and Nestle makes sense. Nestle is the global leader in baby nutrition and Mead Johnson is No. 3. Like the Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD) - Get Report and SABMiller "Mega-Brew" merger last year, a Nestle-Mead Johnson combination would create a baby food titan.
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Nestle is surely interested in Mead's exposure to the profitable Asian market.
"We think this would be an attractive addition to Nestle's China Infant Formula business," Jefferies International analysts said in a note published last week. "Mead Johnson's focus on direct sales rather than 'C2C' over the past three years has put it ahead of the curve in managing channel shift. Leveraging Mead Johnson's distribution network would give Nestle an advantage over local and international competitors in terms of absolute points of sale and the speed at which it can track that shift."
A combined company would hold 22% of China's infant nutrition market.
The deal has also become less expensive in recent months. Mead shares have fallen significantly since the possibility of a deal with French nutrition company Danone SA was reported in March. Mead Johnson stock fell after Danone announced its $12.5 billion deal for WhiteWave Foods Co. effectively taking it out of the running for a takeover.
Mead stock has fallen 3.3% in the past three months, closing at $74.84 on Friday and currently trading around $74.75. The company reports its fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday.
Even though the deal looks cheap now, it will likely trigger competition concerns among regulators worldwide. Jefferies points out that Mead Johnson holds 44% of the infant nutrition market in the U.S. and Nestle has about 12%. Meanwhile, Nestle has 53% of market share in Mexico and Mead holds 15%.
"Resultant concentration ratios are well outside the [Federal Trade Commission's] merger guidelines and would result inevitably in disposals amounting to a third of MJN's sales. Complicating this would be the fact that MJN's U.S. business has been underperforming of late," Jefferies analysts said.
There is no doubt that new CEO Ulf Mark Schneider is acquisitive, he has been deemed "a bit of an M&A junkie," by analysts at Joh. Berenberg, Gossler. With Schneider at the helm, Germany's Fresenius (FMS) - Get Report made more than a dozen acquisitions and was said to be the leading bidder to buy Pfizer's (PFE) - Get Report pump and devices business.
Schneider started as Nestle CEO on Jan. 1 and is the first outsider to run the company since 1922. He is expected by many in the analyst community to shake things up, with expectations of acquisitions and disposals and bring a fresh pairs of eyes to the board. But the Jefferies analysts warn that "this feels like a too early, too complicated move" for Schneider.
Neither company have commented on the report.
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David Cameron misses vital World Cup reception in 2018 bid countdown
Ashling O’Connor
Saturday August 21 2010, 1.01am, The Times
Squids in: fresh from his predicting exploits this summer, Weymouth-hatched Paul the Octopus is backing his home country in a bid to bring the World Cup to Britain for the first time since England famously claimed the trophy in 1966
Six usually inconspicuous football administrators will be courted like heads of state next week as England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup enters a crucial phase.
The red-carpet treatment for the delegation from Fifa, the world governing body, underlines the extent to which hosting big sports events has become a concern of the highest national office.
Yet a Downing Street reception on Monday will not be hosted by David Cameron, as the Prime Minister is on holiday in Cornwall before the birth of his fourth child, but by Nick Clegg, the coalition Government’s Deputy Prime Minister.
While understandable, the unavailability of England’s full-strength political team is not helpful. The Fifa inspectors are fresh from Russia, as part of a two-month global tour of bidding
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Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins Sets Live ‘Fortnite’ Competition Series on Mixer
Ninja’s new Mixer show “Ninja Battles Featuring Fortnite” launches May 28
Samson Amore | May 28, 2020 @ 7:29 AM
Tyler "Ninja" Blevins. Photo: Getty Images
Video game streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins will host a live “Fortnite” tournament series on Mixer called “Ninja Battles Featuring Fortnite” with weekly episodes beginning May 28.
The limited series will run for six episodes and is produced in collaboration with Ninja’s managers, influencer management firm Loaded. Each live episode of “Ninja Battles” will feature 60 of the world’s leading players of Epic Games’ battle royale title “Fortnite” facing off against Ninja for a chance to win a portion of a $400,000 prize pool. Competitive “Fortnite” announcers will provide live commentary for each episode, and each streamer will be broadcasting alone from their respective houses.
“I joined Mixer to push boundaries, create different types of streaming content and interact with fans in new ways,” Ninja said in a statement Wednesday. “‘Ninja Battles’ brings a new kind of gameplay to the community (and) I am excited to share this competitive experience with my fans, as well as have my fellow gamers and friends participate.”
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“Fortnite” streamers including Nick Eh 30, Ewok, NateHill and Reverse2K have signed on to compete in the tournament, and more combatants will be announced as the series continues, Loaded said. Episodes of “Ninja Battles” will air live on Ninja’s Mixer channel at 3 P.M. EST. Streamers that are competing in the tournament with Ninja will also broadcast the games from their respective Ninja channels as well.
Ninja signed an exclusive broadcasting deal with Mixer in August 2019, and at the time his move from live-streaming site Twitch was a major blow for the Amazon-owned broadcaster. Ninja’s signing to Mixer kicked off a still-ongoing race by broadcasting sites to sign exclusive talent in a bid to control the largest viewer base in what’s come to be known as the “streaming talent wars.” Ninja remains one of the most popular game streamers on any platform, with over 3.1 million followers on Mixer alone.
11 Board Games You Can Play Online While Stuck at Home (Photos)
Tired of the constant binge-watching and desperate to make at least some kind of human connection while stuck under quarantine due to the coronavirus? Fortunately, many of your favorite strategy tabletop games are available online, so you can play with friends while still practicing proper social distancing. Here are some favorites you can play online to help pass the time.
There have been any number of mobile versions of Monopoly over the years, and you can find it on the app store, for your desktop or even on your gaming console. The additional perk is the option to do a pass and play game locally if the whole family happens to be in the same room.
The digital version of The Game of Life (Mrs. Maisel version pictured) adds in a fast mode to play a shortened game as well as minigames that make it more of a "Mario Party" experience. Clacking colorful wheel that doesn't spin properly not included.
Another staple if you're an avid board gamer, there naturally is an official Settlers of Catan app that even includes downloads for the game's many expansions, like Seafarers, Traders and Barbarians or Cities and Knights. But for those concerned that the aggressive trading aspect of the game might not translate in a digital app, the game lets you pose trades to all players at once and then select the best offer from any player you prefer.
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A beloved staple for gamers, the digital version of Carcassonne is one of the better-reviewed boardgame experiences in the app store, and it provides a lot of variety, including easy modes for kids, downloadable expansion packs or a variety of AI playing types should you decide to play solo.
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The deck-building game Dominion doesn't have an app but a website at Dominion.Games that manages to take a complicated card game and move it to the web. The web browser version spells out just how many actions and buys a player has each turn, you can right-click on any card to see its abilities, and it even itemizes every card played in a long thread. The base set of cards is available for free, but you can also purchase additional expansions, and you can then customize your settings so that the game filters cards you prefer or don't like.
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The card game that started as the most-funded game in Kickstarter history is also an app that shares the card game's goofy animation style and makes things just as simple to learn.
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Pandemic may be as informative as it is timely, a game that requires you to work together with your partners in order to stop the spread of a virus that threatens the entire planet. Part of the challenge of the board game is planning your strategy several moves in advance, and without the aid of being able to talk things out in person, the game allows you to backtrack some of your moves so long as you haven't already drawn cards.
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7 Wonders is the ideal game for accountants. The tabletop game requires a lot of patient, studious behavior as you determine what cards are playable and which will help you long term. For new players, it can be hard to learn and take an eternity. But the app highlights exactly what you can and can't afford, eliminates the clutter of tiles and cards and makes games breeze by in minutes.
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Splendor is a simple enough game with a lovely visual style, and the app captures its simplicity and beauty perfectly. Up to four players claim colored gems that allow you to purchase cards and earn victory points. And via the app, which has timed moves to keep play moving relatively quickly, you can see what cards you're able to purchase immediately or even on your next turn depending on your choices.
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Though Terraforming Mars is on the expensive side in the app store (currently listed at $8.99 on Apple), it greatly simplifies a game that has an enormous number of tiles, pieces and components to keep track of and does so with a neat visual style. Developer Asmodee has constantly improved the game to make it clear when your resources are destroyed, gained or stolen and grays out options that are unavailable to you during gameplay.
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In Ticket to Ride, you collect colored cards in a race to build trains on designated routes across the country in the U.S. in 1910. The app works beautifully, allowing you to zoom in and visualize with lighted dots what train routes you need to connect. And it also allows you to pay to download the game's many alternate maps from countries around the globe.
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Just keep in mind that with any games, don't turn your friends into enemies. Here are some more recommendations for games that can ruin friendships.
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Home Latest Group Calls for Investigation of Alleged misappropriation of N56bn in Katsina
Group Calls for Investigation of Alleged misappropriation of N56bn in Katsina
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Francis Sardauna in Katsina
A human rights organisation, the Network for Justice, has called for the immediate investigation of the allegations brought against the Katsina State Government on misappropriation of security funds by one Mr. Mahadi Shehu.
The National Chairman of the Network, Dr. Bashir Kurfi, who made the call yesterday while addressing journalists in Katsina, said the allegations should be thoroughly investigated and the culprits brought to book.
Shehu, an indigene of Katsina State and Kaduna-based business mogul, has accused the Katsina State Governor, Mr. Aminu Bello Masari, of misappropriating security funds and public funds amounting to the tune of N56 billion.
Reports indicated that Shehu, who was nabbed by the police on November 25, 2020, after presenting a paper at an occasion in Abuja, has been bitten by snake in police custody.
Kurfi was worried that Shehu’s allegation might not be investigated by either State government or the federal government in spite of their anti-corruption policy agenda, even though his petition has been submitted to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
He said: “The revelation by Mr. Shehu seems to convince the public that there is element of reliability to his allegation fundamentally because of the massive data he provided such as bank accounts, financial transactions, activities, history, date and name.
“But up till date, there is no statement by the Katsina State Government officially disputing these very serious allegations nor those mentioned dispute the allegation.
“While we recognise the function of the security agencies with regard to arrests, detention, the Network for Justice demand that the allegations raised by Shehu to be thoroughly investigated and the culprits to be brought to book.
“As a human right organisation, we hope and assume while Shehu is in custody of law enforcement, he must be treated with dignity and as provided by our laws and the international best practice.”
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