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Home Airlines Etihad Airways Etihad Flight College orders Embraer Phenom jets
Etihad Flight College orders Embraer Phenom jets
Embraer Executive Jets announced today that Etihad Flight College, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has signed a purchase agreement for four Phenom 100E jets, and options for three additional aircraft of the same model.
Based on current list prices the deal is valued at about USD 30 million, if all options are exercised, and deliveries of the aircraft to Etihad Flight College will start in the first quarter of 2016.
The delivery of the four new Embraer Phenom 100E jets will bring to 20 the number of aircraft in the trainer fleet, which is currently composed of 16 single-engine propeller airplanes.
“We are very pleased with the selection of the Phenom 100E by Etihad Flight College,” said Marco Túlio Pellegrini, President and CEO, Embraer Executive Jets. “The Phenom 100E has proven to be the ideal aircraft for jet pilot training, delivering advanced cockpit technology, along with high performance and high reliability, at a low operating cost.”
“As the national airline of the UAE, it is vital for us to establish a world-class training facility to support the training and manpower development of the local Emirati workforce, while also providing a source of well-trained, highly-skilled pilots for our growing operations.” said Richard Hill, Etihad Airways’ Chief Operations Officer. “The Phenom 100E’s airline-grade technology, performance and reliability make it an ideal initial training platform to prepare our cadets for line operations.”
Based in Al Ain, the Etihad Flight College is the first organization in the world to use multi-engine aircraft in the core phase of its MPL training program, and provides training for up to 120 Emirati and international cadets annually.
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Interview with Blainey North | Best Interior Designers
Interview with Blainey North
May 20, 2015 May 22, 2015 Editor
I ALWAYS thought I wanted to be a lawyer till my art teacher said, “have you considered looking into architecture?”
And I said “Not at all”. She said “Well, for the past seven years you’ve been drawing buildings. I don’t think you have ever drawn a person.” Then I remembered how when I was 10 I’d drawn up little floor plans of my bedroom with my furniture to scale and did a whole lot of options of how it could be laid out. And it didn’t strike me as abnormal!
It’s a great luxury to be able to do what you love. I’ve had my own company now for 13 years, which makes me feel old. I started working for Crone Associates on large-scale commercial building but I just found that I love designing a complete space. So rather than just designing the shell or the interior or just doing styling, I feel really excited about being able to have a total vision for a space.
We’ve been naturally drawn to working on hotels because we love the idea of coming up with this complete package or completely bespoke service. So we’ve created a studio where we have architects, interior architects, interior designers, graphic designers and furniture designers, all working together to try and get that one space to work. It’s really a very intense level of design.
I think it’s a really exciting time for the business. In a dream scenario we would have this business stay the same size and build another business internationally. The drug for me is the whole process of design – envisaging interiors and the process of building that and the craft around it and then seeing it realised. That’s why you get up every day, so I never want to give that up for power and money. It’s so important to me to maintain that that because that love is who I am and that makes me happy every day.
I’m Blainey because my mother wanted Bonnie and my father wanted Laney. But I have this secret alias I use which is Bonnie Monroe because otherwise I have to go through this process of my name is Blainey North, it’s not two people. I kind of like it now but it’s been hard.
My husband and I are starting to renovate our place in Potts Point. It’s the hardest thing you could ever do, doing your own place, though. Too many possibilities. So some of the guys in the office said we think it should be like a scene at the opera. I said to my husband (Keith Rodger), “you’re meant to be the audience!” He’s Russell Crowe’s business manager, so he’s really very interested in the arts, so he gets the whole thing.
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Home/Business/Ex-Future boss forms global bike comms agency – Shift Active Media
Simon Wear has formed new firm with ex-Future colleagues. Five premium brands are first clients
Ex-Future boss forms global bike comms agency – Shift Active Media
BikeBiz 26th January 2011 Business
Shift Active Media kicks off by representing Colnago, fi’zi:k, FSA, Santini and Orange Mountain Bikes. The new company was formed by Simon Wear, previously chief operating officer of Future UK. He is joined by former Future publishing director, Peter Stothard, who oversaw the company’s cycling magazines and websites, and Manolo Bertocchi, who was commercial manager for Future’s cycling business.
Wear, CEO of the new company, said: "Shift is the cycling industry’s first bespoke international marketing and communications solution, which offers full service communications and strategy development, global media planning and buying, PR management and full creative services, including digital and video solutions."
The agency has offices in Bath, England, and as well as the three core staffers will also retain the services of a creative director and a PR.
The international nature of the cycling business make it suitable for a global agency, said Wear.
“As the cycling industry becomes increasingly global and media more complex, communications have never been so difficult and diverse to manage. Shift is a new type of specialist media agency focused on making sure every communication is effective, delivering best value and directly driving business.
"By working with Shift, businesses can harness the expertise of a passionate team and benefit from the added-value a growing international media spend delivers and our relationships with the world’s most influential cycling press.”
Shift’s website is a multi-lingual site containing more information about the agency, its work and its client roster. Currently available in English, Italian and French, the website will also be available in Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese.
Ernesto Colnago, founder of Colnago, said: "In this new, fast digital world you should entrust experts. This is why I appointed Shift Active Media, managed by people I know and trust."
Follow the firm’s progress on Twitter, here.
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Imagine there is no escape. It’s uncomfortable to do. In fact, we strive to be alert and to always have some control. There is something within each of us telling us of threats that swirl around us. We are primed to “be prepared,” “drive defensively” and “stop, look, and listen.” When confronted by a threat, our hearts begin to race, our muscles tighten, our breathing becomes rapid. Our minds and bodies respond by either preparing to fight or flee. Trauma occurs when these options are taken away, when we are powerless to change our circumstances.
People experience some level of trauma in their lifetimes –– an automobile accident, the death of someone with whom we are very close, being fired from a job, losing a home and belongings to fire or flood. Although there is great emotional pain, most are able to return to some level of normalcy in time.
Children who come to live at Baptist Children’s Homes (BCH) have suffered a wide array of trauma –– violence, abuse, neglect. BCH has utilized a program model called CARE (Children and Residential Experiences) for more than eight years to better respond to the children in care who have experienced trauma.
“The CARE model emphasizes the ‘what,’” says Sandy Perry, BCH’s Statewide Director of Family Interventions and Training. “To effectively help a child who has experienced trauma, one must begin by asking questions. ‘What has happened to this child?’ ‘What has he/she experienced?’ ‘What pain is the child feeling emotionally and mentally?’”
CARE stresses that each child is unique and embraces an “attitude of understanding.”
Perry says all behavior has meaning. Something that may be perceived as “bad” behavior can be a good place to begin asking questions.
“It’s like an iceberg,” says cottage parent Roy Bingley. “What you see is only one
tenth of an issue. That one tenth is revealed through a child’s behavior. The ninety percent below the surface is where the pain resides.”
All behavior has meaning. Some behavior is disruptive. It can be loud and impact the other children in care. And other behavior is more private. A child may withdraw from the others in a cottage, show signs of depression, or neglect everyday routines like personal hygiene.
Disruptive behavior may actually be a coping device. BCH’s trained staff members discover that the child’s “normal” is living in chaos with noise. His behavior attempts to recreate that environment. Often after tensions have heightened, one may see the child relax and turn his attention to other activities.
Another child neglects bathing and personal hygiene. It is discovered that her behavior developed as a coping defense to ward off attention.
Finding the “what” for the pain is the starting place in helping a child who has faced trauma.
“Terrible horrors have been brought upon these children,” says cottage parent Sandra Bingley. “Being aware of the trauma in their lives is essential. We must open our eyes to their pain, step beside these children, and love them like Jesus loves them.”
Sandy Perry says that BCH’s emphasis on training makes the difference. “Knowledge is liberating. Equipping our staff with the knowledge and the right tools helps them meet the challenges they face.”
Training is motivational, helping staff members become more self-aware. They are able to face daunting tasks with “Yes, I can.”
“CARE changed how we work with children,” says Sandra. “Rules and consequences are limiting. Children push back and the road to building helpful relationships become rocky. CARE is about understanding the child. We begin the first day a child arrives.”
For a child, being forced to leave home and family members is traumatic in itself. Even if the environment is unsafe and the relationships are broken by abuse or neglect, a child is overwhelmed. Her “normal” has shifted.
“If it is mandated for a child to be removed from a home setting, a social worker arrives, often without notice, and instructs the child to put some belongings in a plastic bag and the child is taken away,” Perry says. “Our cottage parents go into action as soon as a child arrives.”
Sandra Bingley says she is prepared to offer simple choices to the child as soon as the child enters the cottage. It is a way for the child to feel she has some control in what is happening to her.
“When you feel all choice has been taken away, making the decisions about which bed you would like to sleep in or what color towel and sheets you would like to use goes a long way.”
“We immediately turn our focus to laying groundwork for a relationship,” says Roy Bingley. “It’s the beginning for everything. From day one, children must see that you care, that you love them despite what has happened to them before they arrived, and that they know they are safe.”
“CARE allows us to see children actually turn the corner,” Sandra says. “CARE helps us get it right. That’s the reward.”
“I can’t imagine not using CARE or working where I was unable to share the hope of Jesus,” Roy says. Together, these effect lasting change.
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Metadata Report for BODC Series Reference Number 1227313
Sea-Bird SBE 37 MicroCat SMP-CT with optional pressure (submersible) CTD sensor series water temperature sensor; salinity sensor
Originator Dr Gerard McCarthy
Project(s) RAPIDMOC
RAPID-WATCH
Originator's Identifier WB4_10/5247
BODC Series Reference 1227313
Minimum Sensor or Sampling Depth 50.0 m
Maximum Sensor or Sampling Depth 50.0 m
Minimum Sensor or Sampling Height 4645.0 m
Maximum Sensor or Sampling Height 4645.0 m
Sea Floor Depth Source DATAHEAD
Sensor or Sampling Depth Datum Instantaneous - Depth measured below water line or instantaneous water body surface
Sea Floor Depth Datum Instantaneous - Depth measured below water line or instantaneous water body surface
Sea-Bird SBE 37-SMP MicroCAT
The SBE 37-SMP MicroCAT is a high accuracy conductivity and temperature recorder (pressure optional) with Serial interface, internal battery, non-volatile FLASH Memory and integral Pump. The Integral Pump runs for 1 second each time the MicroCAT samples, improving the conductivity response and giving improved anti-foul protection.
Designed for moorings and other long-duration, fixed-site deployments, MicroCATs have non-corroding titanium housings rated for operation to 7000 meters or pressure sensor full scale-range. Communication with the MicroCAT is over an internal, 3-wire, RS-232C link. The MicroCAT's aged and pressure-protected thermistor has a long history of exceptional accuracy and stability (typical drift is less than 0.002°C per year). Electrical isolation of the conductivity electronics eliminates any possibility of ground-loop noise.
Conductivity (S/m)
Measurement Range -5 to +35 0 to 7 (0 to 70 mS/cm) 0 to full scale range: 20 / 100 / 350 / 600 / 1000 / 2000 / 3500 / 7000 metres
Data Storage Temperature and conductivity: 6 bytes per sample
Clock stability 5 seconds per month
Standard Internal Batteries Nominal 10.6 Ampere-hour pack consisting of twelve AA lithium batteries. Provides sufficient capacity for more than 100,000 samples for a typical sampling scheme
Weight (without pressure) In water: 3kg
In air: 5kg
Further information can be found via the following link: Sea-Bird SBE 37-SMP MicroCAT Datasheet
RAPIDMOC Calibration Coefficients
Mooring identifier:
WB4#10
Conductivity [mS/cm] 0.0023 -0.0066
Temperature [°C] NaN 0.0000
Pressure [dbar] 4.6000 4.4000
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General temperature trend applied? n
Average pressure applied? y
All the offsets are visually checked and adjusted if necessary. For temperature, if the calculated offsets are less than 0.003 in magnitude no offset is applied i.e. the offsets are adjusted to 0.000.
Monitoring the Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5N (RAPIDMOC)
There is a northward transport of heat throughout the Atlantic, reaching a maximum of 1.3PW (25% of the global heat flux) around 24.5°N. The heat transport is a balance of the northward flux of a warm Gulf Stream, and a southward flux of cooler thermocline and cold North Atlantic Deep Water that is known as the meridional overturning circulation (MOC). As a consequence of the MOC northwest Europe enjoys a mild climate for its latitude: however abrupt rearrangement of the Atlantic Circulation has been shown in climate models and in palaeoclimate records to be responsible for a cooling of European climate of between 5-10°C. A principal objective of the RAPID programme is the development of a pre-operational prototype system that will continuously observe the strength and structure of the MOC. An initiative has been formed to fulfill this objective and consists of three interlinked projects:
A mooring array spanning the Atlantic at 26.5°N to measure the southward branch of the MOC (Hirschi et al., 2003 and Baehr et al., 2004).
Additional moorings deployed in the western boundary along 26.5°N (by Prof. Bill Johns, University of Miami) to resolve transport in the Deep Western Boundary Current (Bryden et al., 2005). These moorings allow surface-to-bottom density profiles along the western boundary, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and eastern boundary to be observed. As a result, the transatlantic pressure gradient can be continuously measured.
Monitoring of the northward branch of the MOC using submarine telephone cables in the Florida Straits (Baringer et al., 2001) led by Dr Molly Baringer (NOAA/AOML/PHOD).
The entire monitoring array system created by the three projects will be recovered and redeployed annually until 2008 under RAPID funding. From 2008 until 2014 the array will continue to be serviced annually under RAPID-WATCH funding.
The array will be focussed on three regions, the Eastern Boundary (EB), the Mid Atlantic Ridge (MAR) and the Western Boundary (WB). The geographical extent of these regions are as follows:
Eastern Boundary (EB) array defined as a box with the south-east corner at 23.5°N, 25.5°W and the north-west corner at 29.0°N, 12.0°W
Mid Atlantic Ridge (MAR) array defined as a box with the south-east corner at 23.0°N, 52.1°W and the north-west corner at 26.5°N, 40.0°W
Western Boundary (WB) array defined as a box with the south-east corner at 26.0°N, 77.5°W and the north-west corner at 27.5°N, 69.5°W
Baehr, J., Hirschi, J., Beismann, J.O. and Marotzke, J. (2004) Monitoring the meridional overturning circulation in the North Atlantic: A model-based array design study. Journal of Marine Research, Volume 62, No 3, pp 283-312.
Baringer, M.O'N. and Larsen, J.C. (2001) Sixteen years of Florida Current transport at 27N Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, No 16, pp3179-3182
Bryden, H.L., Johns, W.E. and Saunders, P.M. (2005) Deep Western Boundary Current East of Abaco: Mean structure and transport. Journal of Marine Research, Volume 63, No 1, pp 35-57.
Hirschi, J., Baehr, J., Marotzke J., Stark J., Cunningham S.A. and Beismann J.O. (2003) A monitoring design for the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, No 7, article number 1413 (DOI 10.1029/2002GL016776)
RAPID- Will the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation Halt? (RAPID-WATCH)
RAPID-WATCH (2007-2014) is a continuation programme of the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) programme. It aims to deliver a robust and scientifically credible assessment of the risk to the climate of UK and Europe arising from a rapid change in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC). The programme will also assess the need for a long-term observing system that could detect major MOC changes, narrow uncertainty in projections of future change, and possibly be the start of an 'early warning' prediction system.
The effort to design a system to continuously monitor the strength and structure of the North Atlantic MOC is being matched by comparative funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) for the existing collaborations started during RAPID for the observational arrays.
Scientific Objectives
To deliver a decade-long time series (2004-2014) of calibrated and quality-controlled measurements of the Atlantic MOC from the RAPID-WATCH arrays.
To exploit the data from the RAPID-WATCH arrays and elsewhere to determine and interpret recent changes in the Atlantic MOC, assess the risk of rapid climate change, and investigate the potential for predictions of the MOC and its impacts on climate.
This work will be carried out in collaboration with the Hadley Centre in the UK and through international partnerships.
Mooring Arrays
The RAPID-WATCH arrays are the existing 26°N MOC observing system array (RAPIDMOC) and the WAVE array that monitors the Deep Western Boundary Current. The data from these arrays will work towards meeting the first scientific objective.
The RAPIDMOC array consists of moorings focused in three geographical regions (sub-arrays) along 26.5° N: Eastern Boundary, Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Western Boundary. The Western Boundary sub-array has moorings managed by both the UK and US scientists. The other sub-arrays are solely led by the UK scientists. The lead PI is Dr Stuart Cunningham of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.
The WAVE array consists of one line of moorings off Halifax, Nova Scotia. The line will be serviced in partnership with the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO), Halifax, Canada. The lead PI is Dr Chris Hughes of the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool, UK.
All arrays will be serviced (recovered and redeployed) either on an annual or biennial basis using Research Vessels from the UK, US and Canada.
The second scientific objective will be addressed through numerical modelling studies designed to answer four questions:
How can we exploit data from the RAPID-WATCH arrays to obtain estimates of the MOC and related variables?
What do the observations from the RAPID-WATCH arrays and other sources tell us about the nature and causes of recent changes in the Atlantic Ocean?
What are the implications of RAPID-WATCH array data and other recent observations for estimates of the risk due to rapid change in the MOC?
Could we use RAPID-WATCH and other observations to help predict future changes in the MOC and climate?
Organization Undertaking Activity National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
Country of Organization United Kingdom
Originator's Data Activity Identifier WB4#10
RAPID Moored Instrument Rig WB4#10
This rig was deployed as part of the Western Boundary (WB) array of the RAPIDMOC project.
RRS James Cook cruise JC103
The rig was anchored by a 2700 kg anchor and kept erect by a 49" syntactic float at approximately 240 m depth and a 32" syntactic float at approximately 100 m depth, supplemented by groups of smaller floats distributed along the mooring.
Approximate Depth
50m Sea-Bird SBE37 SMP MicroCAT (#5247)
100m Aanderaa RCM11 (#399)*
105m Sea-Bird SBE37 SMP MicroCAT (#5484)
395m Nortek Aquadopp (#5590)
1000m Sea-Bird SBE37 SMP MicroCAT (#5789)
1200m Nortek Aquadopp (#5831)
*Shallow pressure flood of instrument. No data were recorded.
Cruise Name D382
Principal Scientist(s) Gerard McCarthy (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)
Ship RRS Discovery
Appendix 1: WB4#10
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Google’s Secret Aircraft Plans Uncovered
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An aircraft is an important medium when it comes to transporting parcels and people. It lets people travel a long distance in an efficient and fast way. A lot of builders want to create and innovate airships for the sole purpose of making lives easier and comfortable.
Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, has been interested with airships for a very long time. And now, there are circulating reports that Brin has been secretly creating a dirigible aircraft inside Hangar 2 at the NASA Ames Research Center, which is a bold action. He started to build his own back in 2014.
The tech influencer, however, denied the reports. Bloomberg has quoted Brin, “Sorry, I don’t have anything to say about this topic right now.”
The massive airship was said to have looked like a zeppelin, which now is stationed at a Silicon Valley research facility.
Brin’s appreciation for airships began when he visited Ames, which is located next to the headquarters of Alphabet Incorporated in Mountain View, California.
According to a report, Alan Weston, a former Director of Programs at NASA Ames, is in charge of constructing Brin’s aircraft project. Weston was also said to have a background when it comes in producing such an uncommon enterprise.
Google’s Aircraft Project
Alan Weston joined the Air Force doing engineering works for the Strategic Defense Initiative of the U.S. Government. After his bold journey with the Air Force, Weston joined NASA, performing on different projects like the development of a low-cost lunar lander.
New airship technologies have the promise to reduce the cost of moving things per ton-mile by up to an order of magnitude.
Weston once described his plans for an aircraft that could be used in order to haul cargo. According to an interview with him back in 2013, he stated that “New airship technologies have the promise to reduce the cost of moving things per ton-mile by up to an order of magnitude.”
Speculation about Brin’s secret aircraft project is far from over. It was reported that old pictures of USS Macon, which is a lighter-than-air rigid aircraft, have inspired him to carry on to building a massive aircraft. Unfortunately, Macon crashed eight years ago, off the coast of California after experiencing a storm. Two of its crew members died in the incident.
The idea of building huge aircraft still has merit, especially when it comes to traveling or shipping. Brin’s concept is a bold move on the way to creating a truly autonomous flying vehicle. His idea offers a glimpse of what the future holds when it comes to advanced aircraft development.
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Colin Dexter was a renowned English Novelists that died in 2017 at the age of 86. Dexter created Inspector Morse, a character that entertained lovers of crime for decades.
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The author’s roots can be traced back to Stamford, Lincolnshire where he was born in 1930. Dexter was lucky enough to get a scholarship to Stamford School where he studied with the likes of sports legend M.J.K. Smith.
Before finding a place at Christ’s College, Cambridge where he read classics, Dexter spent some time with the Royal Corps of Signals, completing his national service. Dexter had the pleasure of teaching at East Midlands and then Wyggeston School, Leicester.
Even though Colin Dexter contributed to the operations of the Christian Union Society while in Leicester, the author eventually admitted that he was an atheist.
Colin Dexter’s foray into mystery writing wasn’t planned. It all began in North Wales, somewhere between Pwllheli and Caernarvon. One Saturday morning in a little guesthouse, with the rain falling outside, Dexter was sitting at the kitchen table when an idea began to tickle his brain. And before he knew it, he had written the first few paragraphs in a story that eventually became Last Bus to Woodstock.
The book officially introduced Inspector Morse to the world in 1975. Morse was known for his love for English Literature and Cryptic Crosswords. He also had an affinity for cask ale and Wagner, and he was somewhat of a reflection of Colin Dexter’s own personality.
Dexter’s death was reportedly peaceful. It happened at his home in Oxford. Before he took to fiction, Dexter’s writing exploits were restricted to general studies text books.
Colin Dexter Awards
Dexter had a notable impact on the mystery genre, delivering more than a dozen novels that elicited a fervent following from book enthusiasts. For his efforts, Dexter was rewarded with accolades like the Macavity Award, Silver Daggers Awards, Gold Daggers and even a Cartier Diamond Dagger Prize.
Colin Dexter Books into Movies
The success of the Inspector Morse books was such that the series was adapted into dozens of episodes of a Television Show called Inspector Morse.
Each episode of this detective drama was two hours long, with the show airing on the ITV network. Several writers tried their hand at scripting various episodes of the show and Colin Dexter made appearances in almost all the episodes.
The show, which begun airing in 1987, finally ended in 2000. However, the show was so popular that it was followed up with a sequel that aired on ITV in 2006. The show was more of a spin-off that chronicled the adventures of Inspector Lewis.
While some Inspector Morse fans have been known to turn their noses down on Endeavor, a prequel that explored the life of a young Detective Constable Morse, others believe that the show gives even more life to the world of Inspector Morse.
Best Colin Dexter Books
Colin Dexter wrote more than a dozen books in the Inspector Morse series; though, it wasn’t until the television show was produced that Dexter elicited the popularity he deserved, with some of the best books in the author’s bibliography including the following:
The Way Through the Woods: When a young student from Sweden disappeared in Oxfordshire, the Thames Valley Police presumed the worst, though the investigation eventually stalled in the absence of a body. Now someone is writing poetry in the newspapers filled with clues about the disappearance.
Morse, who is on holiday in Dorset, decides to write a letter of his own, offsetting a series of events that will unveil a murder.
This book is driven more by Morse as a character than anything else. Morse is intrigued by a letter in The Times that he uses to locate the body of a presumably murdered girl. Now Morse, who loves puzzles, thinks he has an inkling about the identity of the murderer.
The Remorseful Day: Two years ago, Nurse Yvonne Harrington was killed. Morse and Lewis will not stop until they unveil her killer.
This book finds Morse as he realizes that his lifestyle, all the alcohol and tobacco is finally catching up to him. It didn’t help that he kept lying to his friends and even the doctors about his habits. And now his health has begun to suffer.
When this book’s mystery first starts, Morse shows no interest in the case at hand, using his health issues as an excuse. However, when Lewis is put on the case, he learns that Morse was already working the mystery.
When Does The Next Colin Dexter book come out?
Colin Dexter doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is The Other Half and was released on December, 8th 2015. It is the newest book in the Colin Dexter Short Stories/Novellas.
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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER PENTAIR FOODSERVICE
If you could look behind the scenes in a convenience store, café, restaurant or pub, you would more than likely find Everpure, Claris and Shurflo systems filtering and pumping the essential ingredient we can so easily take for granted. And most probably it would be the likes of Flinn Lambert, Business Development Manager for Pentair Foodservice, who would have had something to do with it.
Flinn has worked for Pentair for over five years and together with David King, Technical Foodservice Sales Manager, they have managed Pentair’s foodservice operations throughout Australia and New Zealand. Flinn has recently completed a Diploma in Business, which she says has been invaluable in giving her a formal education to complement her practical experience, and she intends to further her business studies in 2016.
Flinn comes from an international trade and export background, where she cut her teeth exporting commercially grown flowers from New Zealand and Australia to North America: “A challenge when you have a product that has to be in water within 48 hours,” she says. So, she gets it with water!
Flinn considers herself very fortunate to now work for a company that has such an extensive range of filtration systems for all water qualities, and in Australia and New Zealand we are certainly challenged by this. “Pentair invests heavily in research and development, so it’s very exciting to be at the cutting edge of technology. We have some amazing products on the market, and new developments are on their way!” says Flinn. “It’s also incredibly rewarding to assist a customer with the right filtration when they have endured a water issue that has affected their equipment and coffee – essentially their livelihoods.”
With the emergence of the Australian specialty coffee industry, Pentair’s focus has been on educating customers about the effect of water. There are a myriad of water conditions in Australia, so there is not one type of filtration that will suit all regions. Water is a variable; roasters spend many hours sourcing and roasting the perfect bean, and machine manufacturers are making highly advanced and expensive coffee machines. If water has not been tested and the correct filtration specified, the efforts of the roaster are diminished, and the damage water can have on a coffee machine can be catastrophic.
“My job has taken me to some amazing places, and I’ve met some very inspiring and interesting people” says Flinn.
“The café industry is such a large part of our business, and I absolutely love being involved with cafés, roasters and industry people; it’s my kind of scene.”
Although enthusiastic about the work she does, Flinn finds time to enjoy her other passion. We recently and unexpectedly bumped into her at Los Angeles airport, where she was heading off to see a couple of bands. This was a side of Flinn Lambert we didn’t know about! So we asked her, “Do you usually travel so far for music?”
“My favourite pastime and form of relaxation is music and travel. If I can combine the two, even better! I recently saw the B-52s and the Psychedelic Furs live at the Hollywood Bowl and the night before that, Johnette Napolitano in a small intimate café bar in West Hollywood. The last few summers I have enjoyed a bit of ‘doof in the bush’ and have danced for three days at the Rainbow Serpent Festival. I’ve seen Marianne Faithful three nights in a row at the Forum in Melbourne a few years back … I’m definitely committed!”
Wow, and this is what we love about our “Café People”. They are just great people, passionate about their jobs, fun to be around and never one dimensional. Thanks Flinn; we look forward to catching up with you again soon.
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Over the years, Boundless Journeys tours and expertise has been covered in a variety of media outlets, including: L.A. Style, United Airlines’ Hemispheres, Ranch & Coast, CBS Local, Men’s Journal, CBS News, Smarter Travel, TravelAge West, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic ADVENTURE, USA Today, Get Lost Magazine, Islands Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Times, Boca Raton Magazine, The Orlando Sentinel, Outpost Magazine, Forbes.com, Desert Living Magazine, and many others.
We’ve also been recognized by a number of outlets:
Boundless Journeys has had the following trips selected for National Geographic Traveler’s “50 Tours of a Lifetime”:
Croatia: Dalmatian Coast Kayaking & Hiking – National Geographic Traveler’s “50 Tours of a Lifetime,” May 2015
France, Italy, Swizerland: Tour du Mont Blanc – National Geographic Traveler’s “50 Tours of a Lifetime,” May 2012
Ireland: Walking the Western Isles – National Geographic Traveler’s “50 Tours of a Lifetime,” May 2011
Palau: Snorkeling & Kayaking Odyssey – National Geographic Traveler’s “50 Tours of a Lifetime,” May 2008
Bhutan: Hiking in the Peaceful Kingdom – National Geographic Traveler’s “50 Tours of a Lifetime,” May 2007
Spain: Vintage Rioja – National Geographic Traveler’s “50 Tours of a Lifetime,” May 2007
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Boundless Journeys’ Slovenia: Julian Alps Hiking trip was named as a top walking and hiking trip for 2014 by Travel + Leisure. (Travel + Leisure: Trip Doctor Strategies: 2014 Adventure Travel Guide – June 2014)
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HBO World Championship Boxing Results: Lomachenko Dazzles, Usyk and Gvozdyk Victorious
The Theater at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland was the host site for tonight’s HBO World Championship Boxing card featuring three Ukrainians in the televised portion of the card.
This fight was sold out with an announced attendance of 2,828.
The venue is a new one for boxing and there doesn’t look like there’s a single bad seat in the house and the casino, which opened in December, looked exquisite.
The undercard featured several young victorious high level prospects such as Michael Reed, Patrick Harris, and Jesse Hart.
The opening bout of the HBO televised card was between 2012 US Olympian Mike Hunter (12-0) and 2012 Ukrainian Olympic Gold Medalist Aleksandr Usyk (11-0) for the WBO Cruiserweight Championship.
Usyk, as the other Ukrainian boxers, had a very large and vocal contingent in attendance.
Hunter took the center of the ring and Usyk jabbed from the outside in the opening round. Usyk’s first big punches of the night were some straight left hands in the first round, but Hunter’s jabs kept it close and it could have been scored for either boxer.
Hunter had a good second round and was the more active of the two boxers, but Usyk was taking the punches of Hunter well. Usyk pressed forward in the third round and he had the head of Hunter snapping backwards with a lot of his punches that landed in the fourth.
The fifth and sixth rounds were clear rounds for Usyk as he appeared to be wearing Hunter down and landed several hard, clean, combinations that get the crowd to its feet and whistling.
Usyk connected at a high percentage in the seventh round and had Hunter back pedaling. Usyk landed some heavy blows in the eighth round and looked like he was close to sending Hunter to the mat.
Hunter tried to go punch for punch with Usyk several times in the ninth and tenth rounds, but he didn’t have the power nor the accuracy of the Ukrainian boxer.
Hunter was fighting well, but likely needed a knockout in the final two rounds to pull out the victory, but he didn’t fight like he needed a stoppage and seemed content with throwing his jab while never really going for the knockout blow.
Instead it was Usyk who had Hunter staggered and wobbly by the ropes in the final round as he went for the stoppage. Usyk was able to score a knockdown in the final round and he followed it up with a furious rally in an attempt to stop the bout. Hunter somehow stayed on his feet and threw just enough punches to keep the referee from stopping the bout.
Aleksandr Usyk wins the decision with scores of 117-110 on all three scorecards.
The next bout of the night was between Yuniesky Gonzalez (18-2) and Oleksandr Gvozdyk (12-0) in the light heavyweight division.
Gvozdyk and Gonzalez felt each other out by exchanging jabs in the first round and both boxers landed some punches, but Gvozdyk was landing more combinations while Gonzalez was looking for the knockout punch.
Gonzalez spent most of the second round chasing Gvozdyk around the ring while Gvozdyk landed some eye opening combinations.
Gonzalez opened up the third round by throwing everything into his punches but was very wild. Gvozdyk stayed patient and landed short straight right hands that had Gonzalez hurt and followed it up with a combination that sent him to one knee. Gonzalez was able to get back to his feet and ate several hard combinations from Gvozdyk. Gonzalez eventually succumbed to the pressure of Gvozdyk and was sent crashing to the mat.
Gonzalez’s corner jumped up to the ring apron and stopped the bout. Oleksandr Gvozdyk wins by an impressive TKO at 2:59 of the third round.
The main event was between pound for pound superstar Vasyl Lomachenko (7-1) and Jason Sosa (20-1-4) for the WBO Super Featherweight World Championship.
Lomachenko’s legion of supporters greatly outnumbered the fans of Sosa in attendance.
Lomachenko and Sosa fought a near even first round with both boxer showing good head movement and angles.
Sosa did well in the second round and Lomachenko had to complain to the referee about a possible low blow and a head butt. Lomachenko ended the second round strong with a flurry and may have stolen it with that flurry.
Lomachenko showed off his fancy footwork in the third round but Sosa was landing and throwing some good punches of his own.
Lomachenko had a very good fourth round and was landing some incredible combinations from unique angles. He also had Sosa hurt with a hard straight left hand.
By the fifth round Lomachenko was landing his punches at will and they were coming in lightning quick. Lomachenko was toying with Sosa in the sixth round and landed several good body blows.
Sosa, despite his best efforts, couldn’t find his target in the seventh round as the reflexes of Lomachenko just appeared to be too much for him.
Lomachenko battered Sosa in the eighth round and looked close to knocking him down when Sosa’s back was against the ropes. Sosa though showed incredible heart and grit and was able to survive the unbelievably accurate combinations of Lomachenko.
Sosa attempted to bait Lomachenko in the ninth round by willingly eating some combinations and unleashing an occasional bomb, but he was unable to land any punches.
Sosa, who had taken a beating the entire fight except for the opening round, looked like a beaten down man at the end of the ninth round. He would not come out for the tenth round.
Vasyl Lomachenko wins by TKO at the end of the eighth round.
Undercard Quick Results:
Egidijus Kavaliauskas (16-0) defeated Ramses Agaton (17-3-3) by knockout at 2:58 of the fourth round in the welterweight division.
Patrick Harris (11-0) defeated Omar Garcia (6-7) by decision with scores of 80-72 on all three scorecards in the super lightweight division.
Jesse Hart (22-0) defeated Alan Campa (16-3) by TKO at 0:44 of the fifth round in the super middleweight division.
Michael Reed (22-0) defeated Reyes Sanchez (26-10-2) by decision with scores of 99-91 on all three scorecards in the super lightweight division.
HBO World Championship Boxing Preview: Lomachenko vs. Sosa, Gvozdyk vs. Gonzalez, Usyk vs. Hunter
On Saturday night in Oxon Hill, Maryland the Theater at the MGM National Harbor will be the host site for the next installment of HBO World Championships Boxing.
Three bouts will be televised, including a junior lightweight title fight between Vasyl Lomachenko and Jason Sosa in the main event of the night, a light heavyweight fight between Oleksandr Gvozdyk and Yuniesky Gonzalez, and a cruiserweight title fight between Aleksandr Usyk and Mike Hunter.
The non-televised undercard will feature boxers such as Mike Reed, Patrick Harris, and Jesse Hart.
The following is a preview of the three televised bouts.
Oleksandr Gvozdyk (12-0) vs. Yunieski Gonzalez (18-2); Light Heavyweight
The opening bout of the night will be between Oleksandr Gvozdyk and Yunieski Gonzalez in the light heavyweight division.
Both boxers have deep amateur backgrounds. Gonzalez was a member of the Cuban Amateur Team and had a record of 345-27. Gvozdyk represented the Ukraine in the 2012 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.
Gvozdyk has never tasted defeat and will be about three inches taller than Gonzalez. Gvozdyk has also been incredibly active the past two years and four times in 2016 and four times in 2015. Gonzalez fought twice in 2016 and three times in 2015.
Gvozdyk has never tasted defeat and stopped ten of his opponents and currently has six straight stoppage wins. Gonzalez lost twice and went 2-2 in his past four fights.
Gvozdyk has already beaten the likes of Isaac Chilemba, Tommy Karpency, and Nadjib Mohammedi. Gonzalez doesn’t have the resume of Gvozdyk and has beaten the likes of Maxwell Amponsah and Jackson Junior. His losses were to jean pascal and Vyacheslav Shabranskyy.
Gonzalez is a good test for Gvozdyk and this is a rare fight where we see two notable international amateur stars face off in the ring early before their twentieth professional fight. But Gvozdyk is the better skilled boxer and has the bigger wins, he should emerge victorious.
Oleksandr Usyk (11-0) vs. Michael Hunter (12-0); WBO Cruiserweight Title
Oleksandr Usyk is one of the Ukraine’s most prized prospects and he will be stepping into the ring with a former United States Olympian.
Both boxers are undefeated in their professional careers. Usyk has stopped ten of his opponents and Hunter has stopped eight. Usyk will have a slight one inch height advantage but Hunter will have an inch and a half reach advantage.
Both boxers have deep amateur backgrounds, but Usyk experienced a lot of success on the international stage while Hunter experienced success on the national stage. Hunter is a former US National Amateur Champion and represented the United States in the 2012 Summer Olympics but failed to medal. Usyk was a gold medalist in the 2012 Olympic games.
Usyk has defeated the likes of Thabiso Mchunu, Krzystzof Glowacki, and Pedro Rodriguez. Surprisingly, all of his wins thus far in his career have come against opponents with winning records.
Hunter has yet to face any significant opposition and has defeated the likes of Isiah Thomas and Phil Williams.
This should be an easy win for Usyk, despite the fact his opponent has a good amateur background.
Vasyl Lomachenko (7-1) vs. Jason Sosa (20-1-4); WBO Junior Lightweight Title
Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko is considered by many to be one of the best, if not the best, pound for pound boxer in the world. He fought for a world title in only his second professional fight and is a two time Olympic Gold Medalist and a two time World Amateur Champion.
His opponent, Jason Sosa, has more of a Rocky upbringing in the sport of boxing than Lomachenko. Sosa has no notable amateur achievements on the international stage and was born and raised in poverty stricken Camden, New Jersey. He won a world title with an upset stoppage victory over then WBA Super Featherweight World Champion Javier Fortuna and is now in the biggest fight of his life.
Lomachenko will have about a one inch height advantage on Sosa but will be giving up about an inch and a half in reach. Lomachenko’s lone loss was a disputed split decision loss to an overweight Orlando Salido early on in his career. He has since destroyed every other opponent he has faced.
He has already defeated the likes of Nicholas Walters, Roman Martinez, Suriya Tatakhun, Gary Russell Jr., and Jose Ramirez before he even competed in his tenth professional fight. Lomachenko has stopped five of his opponents.
Sosa has fifteen knockouts to his credit and one stoppage loss. His lone loss was to Tre’Sean Wiggins in 2010, early on in Sosa’s career. He has defeated the likes of Javier Fortuna, Stephen Smith, Jerry Belmontes, Michael Brooks, and Angel Ocasio. Sosa did have a disputed draw with Nicholas Walters, but many felt he lost that fight.
Jason Sosa is a good gritty boxer that consistently puts on entertaining bouts. He has the heart of a champion, but Lomachenko is on a different level than Sosa and that should be immediately apparent.
It’s hard to envision a scenario where Sosa gives Lomachenko problems and this should be a relatively easy bout for Lomachenko.
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ATM Virtual: Entertainment sector to come under spotlight
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Hurricane Harvey & US, Mexico Rail Processing | Weekly News Update
Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey
The Houston area plays a pivotal role in the US energy market, as it is a major hub for oil & refined product marine movements, houses a large portion of Gulf Coast refining capacity, and is a key location for pipeline infrastructure.
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The goal behind this new facility is ultimately to create a seamless and timely transition across the border which is in the best interest for all parties involved.
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More than 71,000 tractors and 234,000 trailers across 19 fleets earned a 1 percent increase in fuel economy last year through the adoption of various fuel efficiency technologies as part of the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) Annual Fleet Study, the organization announced Tuesday. NACFE says its study participants combined to reach an average fuel economy of 7.11 mpg compared to the U.S. fleet average of 5.89, an edge of 20.7 percent. While 7.11 is an average fuel economy number of all trucks owned by these carriers, NACFE adds that 2017 model trucks operated by those fleets achieved 7.8 to 9.2 mpg with some even approaching 10mpg.
JOC – CSX Risks Losing Volume, Pricing Power on Service Woes
Shippers, and even some CSX employees, blame ongoing CSX service disruptions on CEO Hunter Harrison’s “precision railroading” strategy, in which a railway’s fleet, workforce, and yards are thinned to cut costs, streamline operations, improve train schedules, and ultimately improve the company’s operating ratio, an indicator of profitability. According to a recent Cowen & Co. survey, 80 percent of CSX customers have experienced difficulties with the railway. Of those, roughly 40 percent have switched some freight to NS, and 6 percent have transferred freight to truck.
FreightWaves – ELD Update: 15% of Industry Not Expected to be Fully Compliant at Deadline
Nearly 30% of carriers are not yet in full compliance with the upcoming electronic logging device mandate and 8% have equipped less than 33% of their fleets to date, according to the latest Morgan Stanley ELD survey. The survey also found that 15% of carriers do not expect to be fully compliant when December 18 rolls around, affirming pushback from carriers earlier this summer.
FreightWaves – As Hurricane Harvey Bears Down on Texas, Fuel, Rate Impacts Come into Play
Hurricane Harvey will strike the Texas coast with major hurricane intensity and will have a significant impact on refined products infrastructure. Experts at Breakthrough®Fuel commented that the storm has only spiked gasoline demand and prices thus far, and has not yet affected diesel fuel markets. Hurricane Harvey will have far more significant consequences for fuel markets as it leads to extensive flooding and damage in Houston.
Reuters – Trump Sanctions Seek to Halt Financing for Venezuela ‘Dictatorship’
President Trump signed an executive order that prohibits dealings in new debt from the Venezuelan government or its state oil company. Venezuela’s state-run oil company, PDVSA, will no longer benefit from American bond trading and Venezuela’s US refiner, Citgo Petroleum, can no longer send dividends to the South American nation. The order stops short of a US ban on Venezuelan oil.
This weekly publication is designed to highlight relevant industry news to provide professionals in the transportation, supply chain, and energy sectors with up-to-date information in a rapidly changing marketplace. This update is purely a compilation of industry news and as such, does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Breakthrough®Fuel. We do not warrant or guarantee accuracy or completeness of information. For additional information, please contact us at info@breakthroughfuel.com.
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Tropicana CEO steps down as company declares Chapter 11
Casino operator William Yung III has resigned as chief executive officer of Tropicana Entertainment Holdings LLC, which has filed for bankruptcy.
According to a company statement, Yung will continue to serve on a new board of directors, but President Scott Butera will take over as chief executive officer of the Northern Kentucky-based company.
Butera joined Tropicana Entertainment in March 2008. He is the former chief operating officer of the Cosmopolitan Resort and Casino currently under construction in Las Vegas. Prior to that he was president, chief operating officer and executive vice president of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Inc., where he was the principal architect of the development and implementation of that company’s successful recapitalization plan.
Tropicana Entertainment operates11 casino-hotel properties in Indiana, Nevada, Mississippi, Louisiana, and New Jersey, but it lost its license to operate the Tropicana Casino and Resort in December after state regulators judged the company unable to properly operate a first-class casino due to severe layoffs and poor performance.
As a part of the restructuring, the company is also considering moving corporate headquarters from Kentucky to Las Vegas.
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Berlin’s Red Town Hall, seat of the mayor of Berlin. Built 1861-69 in Italian renaissance style.
Article and photos by Joe Gschwendtner
To visit Paris, London, or even Rome for a week or so is fashionable. Each packs a wallop of culture, green space, architecture, and history. For a place like no other, try Berlin; it will rock you. No city has ever been bombed, pillaged, raped, sliced in half, infested with spies and been at war with itself for nearly 30 years, then only to recover its glory again as the capital of a 3.5 trillion dollar economy. To understand and absorb the last 150 years is a roller coaster ride worth taking.
A Middle Ages population center, Berlin gained significance in 1701 when Frederick I crowned himself King of Prussia. He promptly declared Berlin the capital of the province commissioning Charlottenburg Castle as his residence. Frederick II (the Great) later ruled for 46 years. Family monarchs presided for well over a century thereafter. As Prussia grew, Berlin prospered.
In 1862, King Wilhelm I appointed Otto von Bismarck president and Teutonic militarism reappeared. After three short victorious wars, ending with the Franco-Prussian, Bismarck unified the 25 Germany states with a confederation in 1871. As King of Prussia he also became the German Emperor and Berlin the Imperial Capital. During his years of influence through 1897, some of Berlin’s greatest architectural works were built: the New Synagogue, National Gallery, Kaiser Wilhelm (Gedachtnis) Church, City Hall, Victory Column, the Reichstag, and most buildings on Museum Island. For those culture and history driven, viewing these works is essential.
The Reichstag opened in 1894 and was devastated in WWII. After massive rehabilitation, it is the meeting place of the German parliament today.
After Bismarck, Berlin-governed Germany grew in power, dominating the continent. But bickering among four conflicted power bases limited further expansionist efforts. Germany was at peace, but not with itself. When Germany was drawn into World War I through its alliance with Austria-Hungary she was ill-prepared and the conflict stoked mixed emotions among its populace. After suffering a disastrous defeat, insult was added to injury with stifling reparations.
Under allied pressure, a new state, the second (Weimar Republic) was formed and a constitution issued in 1919. This period was to become the worst and occasionally, the best of times. Hyperinflation set in over the following decade and the Deutsche Mark was devalued almost daily. People were starving everywhere. I am deeply invested in this moment as my father, a gaunt 16-year-old apprentice butcher bade his country farewell in 1927.
For Berliners in the early 30s, life was a cabaret; many lived an in-the-moment carefree life often with willful ignorance of the rising National-Socialist (Nazi) party and its jackbooted miscreant, Adolph Hitler. When it came, World War II made Berlin the center of it all. When it ended, the city was a study in utter ruin. Restoration was slow and painful, piece by piece. The laborers? Mostly women, the bulk of them either widowed and/or violated by occupying Russian soldiers.
For war buffs, the city is a museum: bullet marks still impossible to hide, mountains of rubble, underground shelters, the infamous Führerbunker (Hitler headquarters), Adlon Hotel and Russian tanks. After viewing pictures of Berlin’s final moments at the Reichstag, stand on its steps yourself; the moment is nearly palpable.
The Siegessaule (Victory Column) commemorating Prussian victories in three separate wars against Denmark, France and Austria in late 1800s.
Next, part two: Phoenix and Buzzard – Residue of the Cold War environment …
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Saturday classes pondered for storm makeup days
One of Nova Scotia's school boards is considering opening schools on Saturday to make up for lost days due to storms.
CBC News · Posted: May 18, 2011 1:00 PM AT | Last Updated: May 18, 2011
The Chignecto-Central Regional School Board says it needs to find ways to make up for lost class time.
"Can we lobby to change the [Education Act] that maybe they can come in on Saturdays? I don't know," board chair Trudy Thompson told CBC on Wednesday.
The board, which serves 105 schools in central and northern Nova Scotia, lost at least four days of class time this year because of bad weather. Some schools lost up to 5.5 days.
Though there were no more than three storm days last year, 2008-09 was a terrible year, with up to 14 days lost.
"We are very concerned about the lost instructional time," Thompson said.
This week, the board rejected an option to keep schools open on storm days when the buses aren't running. A survey found that 82 per cent of respondents were against the idea.
Thompson said some people thought it didn't make sense to have parents drive on icy roads deemed unsafe for buses, while others thought teachers would simply be babysitters.
So what would parents say about sending their children to school on Saturdays?
"I think parents are concerned over lost instructional time," Thompson said. "Especially with the semester system at the senior high level, you lose a lot of time once you close a school in particular courses. So I think the public will be with us."
She stressed that it's just an idea at this point.
"We don't have the solution yet, but we are working on it," she said.
Saturday no teaching day
The school board can't just hold classes on Saturday if it chooses.
Glenn Friel, spokesman for the Department of Education, said under the current agreement with teachers, weekends and statutory holidays are not considered teaching days.
"Also, the school year consists of 195 days and snow days are included in those, so if you were to add Saturdays it would increase the number of days," he said.
Besides changing the deal with teachers, Friel said parents and students would have to be consulted to determine what impact Saturday classes would have on families.
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N.S. looks to reduce school storm days
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Film director born in Santiago de Compostela in 1973, Zarauza began his film career in 1994 shooting several short films and coordinating professional workshops throughout Europe for the Media Business School. In Madrid, together with Cuban producer Harold Sánchez, he founded the production company Iroko Films, holding the position of project development director until 2008. In 2004 he wrote his first film “A ilha da morte”, awarded as best feature film script at the Trieste festival. In 2012, he directed two films: Encallados and Os Fenómenos and he is currently working in the post-production process of “Ons”, his fifth feature film.
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Carcinogen Profiles
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Styrene and Styrene-7,8-Oxide Profile
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Environmental Exposures Overview
Occupational Exposures Overview
CAS No. 100-42-5 and 96-09-3
IARC Monograph Vol. 82, 2002 and Vol. 60, 1994 (Group 2B and 2A)
IARC Monograph Vol. 121, 2019 (Group 2A)
How did CAREX choose this agent for review?
Both styrene and styrene-7,8-oxide are sweet-smelling liquids that appear colourless or yellow in colour.[1] Produced since the 1920’s, styrene is one of the most important monomers worldwide.[2] Styrene-7,8-oxide is a major metabolite of styrene in humans as well as an industrial chemical.[3,4] Styrene may also be referred to as vinylbenzene or ethenylbenzene.[1] Styrene-7,8-oxide may be referred to as phenyloxirane or styrene oxide.[1,5] There are numerous other synonyms and product names for both styrene and styrene-7,8-oxide; see the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) for more information.[5]
Styrene has been classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as Group 2A, probably carcinogenic to humans, based on limited human and sufficient animal evidence.[4] Elevated incidence or mortality of lymphohematopoietic cancers was observed in large occupational cohorts of workers in the reinforced plastics industry from Europe, the UK, Denmark, and the United States. In particular, there was greater consistency in evidence for myeloid leukaemia; one study found increasing incidence of myeloid leukaemia with increasing cumulative exposure, and another found increased mortality associated with the highest cumulative styrene exposure group. In multiple studies of mice, increased incidence of lung cancers was observed in male and females. Other studies found increased incidence of mammary tumours and liver cancers in females. In addition to the animal and human evidence, there was strong mechanistic evidence that supported the decision.
Styrene-7,8-oxide has been classified by IARC as Group 2A, probably carcinogenic to humans, based on sufficient animal and strong mechanistic evidence.[4] Styrene-7,8-oxide caused forestomach cancer in rats and mice, as well as mammary tumours in rats, and liver tumours in male mice.[4]
In addition, styrene exposure can lead to central and peripheral nervous system effects, decreased colour discrimination (reversible), and hearing problems.[4] It can also irritate eyes and throat, and cause dermatitis and a syndrome called “styrene sickness” characterized by feelings of unsteadiness, headache, weakness, and decreased nerve conduction.[5] Exposure to styrene-7,8-oxide causes skin irritation and sensitization.[5]
Occupational exposure limits (OEL)[6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20]
Canadian Jurisdictions
OEL (ppm)
Canada Labour Code 20
40 [stel]
AB, BC, MB, NB, PE, SK, NU, NT 20
NL, NS 10 [OTO]
100 [stel]
QC 50 [sk]
YT 100
ACGIH 2020 TLV 10 [OTO]
ppm = parts per million
stel = short term exposure limit (15 min. maximum)
OTO = ototoxicant; potential for a chemical to cause hearing impairment alone or in combination with noise
sk = easily absorbed through the skin
ACGIH = American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
TLV = threshold limit value (8 hour maximum)
No occupational exposure limits are available for styrene-7,8-oxide in Canada or from the ACGIH.
Canadian environmental guidelines
Manitoba Ambient Air Quality Guideline 24 hour: 400 µg/m3 MALC 2005[21]
Alberta Ambient Air Quality Objectives & Guidelines 1 hour: 215 µg/m3 1999[22]
Ontario Ambient Air Quality Criteria 24 hour: 400 µg/m3 2016[23]
Government of Canada’s Indoor Air Reference Levels 850 µg/m3 (critical effect: neurotoxicity; for styrene) 2018[24]
Quebec’s Clean Air Regulation 1 hour limit: 150 µg/m3 (styrene monomer). The limit may be exceeded up to 2% of the time on an annual basis, without exceeding 1,910 µg/m3 2011[25]
BC’s Contaminated Sites Regulation, BC Reg 375/96 (styrene) Sets soil standards for the protection of human health:
Agricultural and low density residential sites: 8,500 μg/g
Urban park and high density residential sites: 15,000 μg/g
Commercial sites: 50,000 μg/g
Industrial sites: >1,000 mg/g
Drinking water: 800 µg/L
Sets vapour standards for the protection of human health:
Agricultural, urban park, residential use standard: 1,000 μg/m3
Commercial use standard: 3,000 μg/m3
Industrial use standard: 9,000 μg/m3
Parkade use standard: 8,000 μg/m3
(Vapours derived from soil, sediment, or water)
2017[26]
µg/m3 = micrograms per cubic metre
µg/g = micrograms per gram
MALC = maximum allowable concentration level
Canadian agencies/organizations
Designation/Position
Health Canada DSL – low priority substance with risks already managed (styrene) 2006[27]
National Classification System for Contaminated Sites Rank = “High hazard” 2008[28]
PMRA list of formulants List 4B: List 4B contains formulants, some of which may be toxic, for which there are sufficient data to reasonably conclude that the specific use pattern of the pest control product will not adversely affect public health and the environment. 2020[29]
Environment Canada’s National Pollutant Release Inventory NPRI Part (Threshold Category): 1A, Reportable to NPRI if manufactured, processed, or otherwise used at quantities greater than: 10 tonnes; 5, Reportable to NPRI if released at quantities greater than: 1 tonne of 10-tonne total VOC air release 2016[30]
Styrene-7,8-oxide was removed from the domestic substances list (DSL) in 2013.[31]
Styrene and styrene-7,8-oxide were not included in other Canadian government guidelines, standards, or chemical listings reviewed.
Styrene is used primarily in manufacturing:[4,32]
Polystyrene resins for plastic packaging, disposable cups, containers, and insulation
Copolymers with acrylonitrile and/or 1,3-butadiene for synthetic rubber and latex (usually referred to as ABS – acrylonitrile, butadiene, styrene)
These products may then be used to manufacture pipes, automobile parts, food containers, and carpet backing
Styrene is also used to manufacture styrene-butadiene (SB) latex and styrene-butadiene rubbers.[32] SB rubber is primarily used in tire manufacture, while SB latex is used in the foam underlay of carpets and as a paper coating.
An additional use for styrene is in producing glass-reinforced plastics.[33]
Styrene-7,8-oxide is used as a chemical intermediate in producing styrene glycol, cosmetics, surface coatings, treatment of fibres and textiles, as well as agricultural and biological chemicals.[5,32] It is also used to produce epoxy resins and the perfume chemical 2-phenylethanol.[5,32]
Production and trade
Export 517,782 t of ‘styrene’ 2015[34]
Export 69,377 t ‘polymers of styrene’ 2015[34]
Import 7,492 t of ‘styrene’ 2015[34]
Import 208,811 t of ‘polymers of styrene’ 2015[34]
t = tonne
Canadian production and trade information was not available for styrene-7,8-oxide in the industry databases reviewed.[34]
The general population is most commonly exposed to styrene via indoor air.[1] Styrene can enter the air from industrial releases, vehicle exhaust, incineration emissions, and tobacco smoke.[1,4,34] Between 2009 and 2011, over 3,000 homes were sampled for styrene in Canada; average levels were 1.13 µg/m3, an increase compared to the average levels found in a similar study conducted in 1992 (0.30 µg/m3). Indoor sources contributed to indoor styrene concentrations to a greater extent than outdoor sources.[35]
Environmental exposure to styrene-7,8-oxide may occur by inhaling contaminated air and consuming contaminated water and foods.[36] However, general public exposure is expected to be low as environmental releases of styrene-7,8-oxide from industrial sites are low in both Canada and the US.[36,37]
Low levels of naturally occurring styrene have been found in a number of foods including fruits, vegetables, nuts, beverages, and meats.[38] Small amounts of styrene and styrene-7,8-oxide may also migrate to different foods from styrene-based plastic food packaging.[32,33,38] A typical amount of styrene migration from packaging into food ranges from 5-30 parts per billion (ppb).[38] One UK study estimated that the migration of styrene-7,8-oxide into food is in the range of 0.002-0.15 ppb.[32] In the 2007 Canadian Total Diet Study, styrene was found in 133 of 153 composite samples. Styrene levels in most of these samples were low, but higher levels were found in herbs and spices, in which styrene naturally forms upon degradation.[39]
Searches of Environment Canada’s National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) and the US Household Products Database yielded the following results on current potential for exposure to styrene in Canada:
NPRI and US Household Products Database
NPRI 2015[37]
Search Term: ‘styrene’
Results 89 facilities
Released into Environment 1,450 t Manufacturing of plastics, glass, transportation equipment, resin, rubber, synthetic fibres, and filaments
Disposed of 278 t
Sent to off-site recycling 2.4 t
US Household Products 2016[40]
‘styrene’ 14 Automotive paints (2), adhesives (2), wood fillers (3),
cements (3), and sealants (4)
Inhalation is the most important route of occupational exposure to styrene.[1]
CAREX Canada estimates that approximately 89,000 Canadians are likely exposed to styrene in their workplaces. The two largest industrial groups exposed to styrene are automotive repair and maintenance, followed by plastic products manufacturing. The largest occupational groups exposed include automotive service technicians, plastics processing machine operators, and furniture finishers and refinishers.
For workers involved in manufacturing polystyrene, styrene-butadiene (SB) rubber, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) resins, and glass-reinforced plastic, exposure levels can be higher (generally <100 ppm, but higher levels have been reported).[1] Reinforced plastics are used in to make boats, automobile parts, shower stalls, tanks, and tubs.[1] In other styrene exposure scenarios, exposure levels are rarely reported above 20 ppm.[1]
Occupational exposure to styrene-7,8-oxide is primarily due to indirect exposure to styrene. This is because styrene is primarily metabolized via the styrene-7,8-oxide pathway in humans.[4] Styrene-7,8-oxide is also formed when styrene reacts with oxygen in air, or with other oxidizing agents in industrial processes.[3,36] Direct occupational exposure to styrene-7,8-oxide may also occur in workers involved in rubber product and paint manufacturing.[36]
For more information, see the occupational exposure estimate for styrene.
Occupational Estimate
1. National Toxicology Program (NTP). Final Report on Carcinogens, Background Document for Styrene (2008) (PDF)
2. International Programme on Chemical Safety (INCHEM). International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) – Summaries & Evaluations Styrene
3. International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Monograph summary, Volume 60 (1994) (PDF)
4. International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Monographs Volume 121: Styrene, Styrene-7, 8-oxide, and Quinoline (2019) (PDF)
5. US National Library of Medicine. Hazardous Substances Data Bank (Search term: ‘styrene’)
6. Ministry of Justice. Canada Occupational Health and Safety Regulations (SOR/86-304) (2019)
7. Government of Alberta. Occupational Health and Safety Code. Alberta Regulation 87/2009 (2019) (PDF)
8. WorkSafeBC. Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, BC Reg 296/97, Part 5 (2020)
9. Government of Manitoba. Manitoba Regulation 217/2006 Workplace Safety and Health Regulation (2019) (PDF)
10. Justice and Office of the Attorney General. Government of New Brunswick’s General Regulation 91-191, under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (2020)
11. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. Regulation 5,12 Occupational Health and Safety Regulations (2018)
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2021 Ford Mustang GT Fastback review
There's no doubt the 2021 Ford Mustang GT Fastback is still an absolute charmer... but it pays to spec carefully in the world of Pony Cars.
Scott Collie
Big, burbling V8 engine
Much improved handling
Just look at it
Interior is still low rent
Ride is tighter than it needs to be
10 gears is about four too many
The Ford Mustang is an icon.
It’s flawed but charming, fast in a straight line but slightly cumbersome in the corners. And yes, that’s still the case with the latest model, independent rear suspension and all.
So why are we bothering getting behind the wheel? Well, the Mustang story isn’t as simple as it once was.
An update in 2018 brought about a new look, new adaptive dampers as an option, and a 10-speed automatic in place of the outgoing six-speeder. Then, a 2020 refresh added the Black Pack fitted to our car here.
When the latest Mustang launched in Australia, all you needed to do was choose an engine (that’d be the V8, please), a transmission (manual, naturally) and a colour (red, thanks).
Now there’s a bit more to think about. What does the ideal Mustang look like in 2021?
How much does the Ford Mustang GT Fastback cost?
Pricing for the Mustang kicks off at $50,990 before on-road costs for the 2.3-litre High Performance, the artist formerly known as the EcoBoost, and extends to $74,890 for the V8-powered GT Convertible.
Our tester, a Mustang GT auto fastback, is priced from $66,690 before on-roads excluding options. But our before on-road costs price was actually $74,350 once you take into consideration the Black Package ($1000 for black exterior detailing, stripes, wheels), the Recaro seats ($3000 sans heating and cooling), MagneRide adaptive dampers ($2750), and silver exterior paint ($650).
Rivals are hard to find. HSV offered the Chevrolet Camaro, but the right-hand drive conversion program has ended and it’s not been confirmed as a part of the revamped General Motors Specialty Vehicles line-up.
If it’s a coupe you’re after, the BMW 4 Series kicks off at $70,900 before on-road costs but packs just 135kW and 300Nm from its four-cylinder engine, while the Audi A5 Coupe has similar outputs for a $71,900 before on-roads outlay. The rear-wheel drive Nissan 370Z can’t match the Mustang for power, but it’s similar in approach and priced from $64,490 before on-roads in flagship Nismo guise.
Standard across the Mustang range is an 8.0-inch touchscreen infotainment system and a 12.0-inch customisable driver display.
There’s wired Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, DAB+ radio, factory satellite navigation, ambient lighting, dual-zone climate control, and a 12-speaker sound system.
Access is keyless, start is by button, and there’s automatic headlights and wipers. The driver grasps a leather-wrapped steering wheel and gear knob, and the standard seats are six-way heated/cooled armchairs.
Our tester featured the optional Recaro units, however, which lose the heating and cooling but gain extra bolstering and cool factor. The car rides on 19-inch alloy wheels, breathes through an active exhaust, and is available with MagneRide adaptive dampers as a $2750 option.
Is the Ford Mustang GT Fastback safe?
Although it’s safer than it was at launch, the Mustang only has a three-star ANCAP safety rating based on testing carried out in 2017.
That rating is based on an adult occupant protection score of 72 per cent, child occupant protection of 32 per cent, pedestrian protection of 78 per cent and safety assist of 61 per cent.
Front, front-side, curtain and driver’s knee airbags are standard range-wide.
All 2021 Ford Mustang models come standard with the following active safety features:
Forward-collision warning
Lane-departure warning
Lane-keeping assist
Reversing camera with rear parking sensors
What is the Ford Mustang GT Fastback like on the inside?
Ford has gone big on retro style and big on modern tech in the Mustang, but it necessarily hasn’t backed it up with the quality we’ve come to expect of a circa-$70,000 car.
The good? I mean, just look at it. The twin-cowl dashboard is nostalgia porn, and the triple air vents are just cool. Ditto the rocker switches at the base of the dashboard, retro-styled steering wheel, and broad piece of aluminium trim facing the passenger.
Ford has nailed the technology in the Mustang. The Sync 3 infotainment system might not have the biggest screen in the business nor headline features like wireless smartphone mirroring, but it’s among the cleanest, easiest-to-use systems in the business.
The native voice control has a brilliant grasp of our Australian drawl, and there are hard buttons on the dashboard to skip from media to navigation, for example. Forget diving through menus, it’s all there and easy to access.
Also excellent is the digital instrument binnacle. All three layouts scream ‘Muscle Car’ without looking kitschy or overblown, and there’s a great balance of information and clarity.
With simple steering wheel controls, it’s easy to dive into the menus to fiddle with the exhaust, traction control, or drive mode.
You can have virtual dials with information about your oil pressure, battery voltage, and intake temperatures, or you can keep things simple with a basic trip computer. The clean ‘Track’ dials with a big, horizontal rev counter is the coolest to these eyes, but you can’t go wrong.
The Mustang is a big car, which means there’s heaps of space for lanky drivers up front. My six-seven frame fits comfortably, although the Recaro seats hug broad-backed drivers maybe a bit too tightly. The fact they rub and squeak against the back seats in their rearmost position is a pain, too.
Storage space is plentiful, from the long door pockets to the massive bin under the central armrest.
Rear space is… less plentiful. That’s generous; it’s pretty damn poor.
Even short passengers will bash their heads on the rear glass, legroom is questionable even behind short drivers, and access is tight despite the ‘Stang featuring long doors that make getting out in tight supermarket carparks an exercise best carried out by contortionists.
Boot space is an impressive 408L with the rear seats upright, but they actually fold 50/50 to house longer items.
So far, so good then. But the Mustang falls down when you start to really poke and prod. The rocker switches on the dashboard are one-way, for example, not proper rockers that would make it easier to scroll through the car’s various drive modes.
The plastics used for the centre console are hard and scratchy, and the black trim in front of the passenger flexes under even light pressure. It’s not meant to be a BMW, we realise that, but surely Ford could have made the Mustang feel better than it does.
What’s under the bonnet?
Although you can get a 2.3-litre turbocharged EcoBoost engine in the Mustang, the one you want is the GT with its hulking, snarling 5.0-litre naturally-aspirated V8.
It puts out 339kW of power and 556Nm of torque, sent to the rear wheels through a choice of six-speed manual or 10-speed automatic transmissions.
Claimed fuel economy is (deep breath) 12.7L/100km on the combined cycle, and what we saw over our week with the car was in the 13L/100km ballpark.
But it doesn’t really matter, because this isn’t exactly being cross shopped with the Toyota Prius or Nissan Leaf.
How does the Ford Mustang GT Fastback drive?
It’s big, brash, and dominated by that V8 engine. It’s a Mustang, then.
Prod the start button and it bursts into life with a bassy flourish, before settling into a slightly wub-wub-wobbly idle. The pre-update Mustang was a bit too quiet, the latest model makes all the right noises.
Sure, you can start it in Quiet mode to keep the neighbours happy, but the real fun comes in Racetrack mode where the engine can really roar. Ford says it’s for “racetrack use only” but that feels more like a suggestion than an order.
The noise isn’t the only reminder you’re piloting a proper muscle car. You sit low and stare out over an impossibly long, ridged bonnet, and the controls are heavier than they are in a Fiesta ST or Puma.
Lean on the throttle and the Mustang burbles smoothly away, automatic transmission shuffling quickly from first into third, fifth, and then seventh gear at speeds as low as 50km/h.
It’s way too busy, constantly second guessing itself and trying to skip ratios. Pulling out of junction it went from first to third, before dropping back to second when I leaned harder on the throttle and then skipping into fourth.
It even tried to jump from first to third at less than 10km/h coming up a steep driveway, only to splutter and shift jerkily back down.
You’re always a gear too high at a cruise, so the sense of lazy, effortless acceleration you’re meant to get from a Mustang at speed is replaced by stuttering downshifts.
Ford’s latest, greatest transmission makes more sense in the Ranger bi-turbo, where it’s tasked with keeping a small-displacement engine in its sweet spot, but it’s just unnecessary paired with such a torquey, tractable bent-eight that realistically needs about three gears.
Taking charge with the plastic paddles behind the helps somewhat, but responses aren’t what you’d call eye-blink quick, even in Sport Plus.
It’s a real shame because the Coyote V8 is a truly brilliant engine. It’s torquey down low, but it’s no lazy or old-fashioned V8. Instead, it happily rips to the redline, encouraging the driver to get stuck in.
Wondering why the Mustang is so popular? If the sharp looks weren’t enough, the engine is charming as hell.
Ford put a real focus on handling with the latest Mustang, and there’s no doubt it’s a better steer than its predecessors. The 2018 update saw further changes, including the change from Pirelli rubber to expensive Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tyres, to further refine the formula.
Although it’s still a big, heavy car, the Mustang doesn’t fall over when you show it a set of corners. The hefty steering is linked with a nose that goes mostly where you ask it – provided you don’t let its significant mass get away from you and try to carry too much speed – and it’s possible to carve neat lines if you’re gentle with the throttle.
The Mustang's 10-speed auto has too many gears, and it feels keen to try them all
There’s no escaping the rear-wheel drive-ness of it all though. Ask for more from the big V8 and there’s always the sense oversteer is an option… and we wouldn’t have it any other way. This is a muscle car that goes around corners, but it’s still a muscle car.
Dial things back and the Mustang is happy burbling around town. Body control is taut even in the loosest damper setting but it feels purposeful rather than uncomfortable, and once you’re attuned to the length of the bonnet and width of the hips it’s not hard to slice through the urban jungle.
Where this Pony is most comfortable, though, is when you let it loose on the highway. Engine ticking over barely above idle, long nose pointed at the horizon, it feels like you’re driving through a movie.
Road, wind, and engine noise are kept in check, and the ride is excellent once you hit highway speeds. All that’s left to do is kick back and pretend you’re Steve McQueen.
How much does the Ford Mustang GT Fastback cost to run?
The Mustang is backed by Ford’s five-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty and requires maintenance every 12 months or 15,000km.
Capped-price servicing means the first four trips to the dealer won’t set you back more than $299 each.
CarExpert’s take on the Ford Mustang GT Fastback
There’s no question the Mustang is still a charmer, but the spec on test here doesn’t shine it in its best light.
For starters, the manual is unquestionably the transmission to have. It’s a good idea on paper, but the automatic has too many ratios and is simply too indecisive to do the engine any justice.
Second, you want the adaptive dampers in your Mustang. Finally, if you’re broad-backed steer clear of the Recaro seats.
Get the spec right and you’re in for some serious fun, and plenty of looks on the road. Even five years after launch the Mustang is a head-turner, and the way that V8 engine sounds will always put a smile on your face.
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OVERALL RATING7.8
Cost of Ownership 8
Ride Comfort 7.6
Safety 6.5
Fit for Purpose 9.1
Handling Dynamics 8.1
Interior Practicality and Space 7.5
Technology Infotainment 8.5
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Copyright and Content Provides Focus for Publishers
Copyright Clearance Center is a Premium Partner of the Frankfurt Book Fair
Frankfurt, 29 September 2016 – The Frankfurt Book Fair (19 – 23 October 2016) has partnered with Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), to highlight issues throughout the world relating to copyright and content – legislation, market shifts, and licensing – all issues of importance to publishers. CCC creates global licensing and content solutions that make copyright work. “Understanding changing trends in copyright is as important as understanding any of the other market conditions facing your business, and the Frankfurt Book Fair is the best venue to stay well informed about these trends,” said Michael Healy, Executive Director, International Relations, CCC.
As part of the partnership, CCC will be hosting talks throughout the week, including:
Tuesday, 18 October
THE MARKETS: Global Publishing Summit
11:30 – 12:00 pm, Hall 4.0, Business Club, Analysis Stage
Publishing today depends on technology, and technology is pressing copyright in ways never imagined in the days of printing presses. Copyright holders in the Digital Age are under challenge not only from wide-ranging infringement but also so-called “reform.” In a worldwide review of “the state of copyright,” including controversial copyright-related judgments as well as legislation and legal action around the globe, panelists will lay out details of the disruption underway as well as outline how publishers have become adept at managing the disruption by harnessing market-driven forces.
Panelists include Rawan Dabbas, Emirates Publishers Association; Sarah Faulder, Publishers Association; Marcos da Veiga Pereira, Grupo Sextante
www.themarkets2016.com
30th Frankfurt Rights Meeting
Surprising Successes in Challenging Times: Market knowledge, inspiration and network.
4:40 pm, Hall 4.2, Room Dimension
“Sometimes Overlooked but Surprisingly Powerful: Copyright Licensing Around the World“ with Michael Healy, CCC’s Executive Director, International Relations
www.book-fair.com/rights-meeting
Wednesday, 19 October
Publishing Perspectives Stage
11:30 am – 12:00 pm, Hall 6.0, E11
Ixxus Puts Spotlight on “Smart Content” with Carl Robinson, Ixxus
For publishers, content is at the heart of every conversation with business partners – and with authors and readers, too. Since its acquisition by CCC earlier this year, Ixxus now goes far beyond traditional Enterprise Content Management (ECM), a market expected to grow to more than $9.4 billion by 2018. Learn how the Ixxus combination of content modeling, semantic linking and advanced workflow capabilities can help publishers deliver truly “smart content”.
Ask the Experts, one-on-one opportunities with CCC and Ixxus experts
Hall 4.0, Business Club
10:00 – 11:30 am – Open Access and the Entrepreneur with Bill O’Brien and Jennifer Goodrich, CCC
4:00 – 5:30 pm – Reinvent Your Content with Jake Kelleher, CCC and Paul Twelftree, Ixxus.
Thursday, 20 October
Town Hall Event Open Access and the Entrepreneurial Publisher
Hall 4.C, Room Concorde
With Open Access a fact-of-life for scholarly publishing business models in 2016, many are now asking – and answering – the big question: As OA moves us to an author-centric environment, how do we make our business stronger? Panelists will share insights and best practices across the full range of stakeholders, from researchers and publishers to funders and institutions. Learn where opportunity lies to enable innovation and exceed customer expectations. Discover what an end-to-end OA publishing solution can deliver. Featuring a one-on-one interview with Vitek Tracz, founder of BioMed Central and F1000. Panelists include: Betsy Donohue, Digital Science; Alice Meadows, ORCID; Brandon Nordin, ACS; Kate Worlock, Outsell
The Power of Content: A Conversation with CCC CEO Tracey Armstrong
11:00 – 11:30 am
In May, Copyright Clearance Center acquired UK-based Ixxus to help harness the power of content and licensing. Together, CCC and Ixxus are now working with publishers to develop a “content-first” strategy that combines advanced semantic enrichment, a “single source of truth” content repository, and other exciting tools, says CCC CEO Tracey Armstrong. Join us for a conversation with Tracey, exploring what it takes to fuel the future of publishing.” Complimentary luncheon reception to follow.
CCC’s booth at the Book Fair is in Hall 4.2, Stand E18. For more information, visit http://go.copyright.com/frankfurt2016
Craig Sender
+1 (978) 646-2502 or csender@copyright.com
About Copyright Clearance Center
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), with its subsidiaries RightsDirect and Ixxus, is a global leader in content workflow, document delivery, text and data mining and rights licensing technology for thousands of publishers, businesses and academic institutions. CCC’s solutions provide anytime, anywhere content access, usage rights and information management while promoting and protecting the interests of copyright holders. CCC serves more than 35,000 customers and over 12,000 copyright holders worldwide and manages more than 950 million rights from the world’s most sought-after journals, books, blogs, movies and more. Since 2008, CCC has been named one of the top 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry by EContent Magazine. The company has locations in the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Spain, Romania and Japan.
About the Frankfurt Book Fair
The Frankfurt Book Fair is the international publishing industry’s biggest trade fair – with 7,100 exhibitors from more than 100 countries, around 275,000 visitors, over 4,000 events and approximately 10,000 accredited journalists – including 2,000 bloggers - in attendance. It also gathers key players from other media, including the film and games industries. Since 1976, the Book Fair has featured an annual Guest of Honour country, which showcases its book market, literature and culture to attendees in a variety of ways. The Frankfurt Book Fair organises the participation of German publishers at around 20 international book fairs and hosts trade events throughout the year in major international markets. With its Business Club, the Frankfurt Book Fair offers essential services and an ideal setting for the activities of publishers, entrepreneurs, pioneers, experts and visionaries. The Frankfurt Book Fair is a subsidiary of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association. www.book-fair.com
Press & Corporate Communications, Frankfurt Book Fair
Katja Böhne, Vice President Marketing & Communications, tel.: +49 (0) 69 2102-138, press@book-fair.com
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> Press information online >www.buchmesse.de/en/press/press-releases
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Cirque Dreams Holidaze is the perfect holiday gift for families and audiences of all ages –watch in disbelief as snowmen, penguins, angels, reindeer, toy soldiers, gingerbread men, ornaments and of course Santa perform elaborate production numbers, soaring acrobatics, gravity-defying feats, astounding illusions and more. Original music and seasonal favorites are all performed in a winter wonderland of enchantment. Cirque Dreams triumphantly returns to Chicago with its critically acclaimed holiday stage extravaganza, Cirque Dreams Holidaze, December 17- 21 at the Chicago Theatre (175 North State St.).
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Liam Williams: Bonfire Night
Note: This review is from 2015
Review by Steve Bennett
One of the true auteurs of stand-up, Liam Williams is a fascinating, insightful and unique voice – but not always one that’s easy to hear.
He’s a comedian who can inspire awe for his passion for social justice, eloquent and ambitious writing and piercing intelligence in his analysis both of the country and of himself.
Yet moulding this into material that yields regular laughs is more challenging. He says a girlfriend summarised his act as ‘jokes that take three minutes to unpack and make people feel weird’ – and it’s hard to take issue with that reduction. A single routine can contain both a bizarre, brutally violent scene that haunts – and a poetic description of egg on toast, a measure of the shifting sands of his emotions.
One main concern of Bonfire Night is political engagement; the title noting how Britons celebrate a failed revolution. Williams’s political sincerity is a rare thing on the festival, let alone the circuit, and feels important, even if he has an internal struggle against the contrary instinct that activism is a futile expense of energy. Maybe he should just settle down and worry about his own concerns, as so many people do.
Sounds deep, and it is. Although he’s actually a little more relaxed than the intensity of his last couple of shows, these things are relative and both the socialist light and his existentialist angst still burn bright. When he raps a bit to sugar the pill, the tone is still bleak.
An 11.30pm slot in a sweatbox above one of Edinburgh’s liveliest, lager-soaked party pubs is probably not the ideal place for intelligent philosophising from a man who acknowledges that his voice can be ‘dry and boring’; yet it also somehow matches his desolation.
In similar self-critical mode, he acknowledges, slightly snippily, a similarity to Stewart Lee in his absurd exaggerations. This is most obvious as he challenges the aphorism that ‘the rich get rich and the poor get poorer’ as if it were some immutable law of physics, not the bitter consequence of an intrinsically unfair economic system. His convoluted, over-detailed analysis is less macro-economics, more mackerel-economics as he indulges in a long tangent about the popular pelagic fish.
The show is dense and thoughtful, the very definition of ‘not for everybody’; but a few more laughs to counterbalance the severity of his worldview could nudge it in the right direction.
Review date: 16 Aug 2015
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett
Reviewed at: Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
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Any employee, former employee, or applicant for employment with the Unites States Navy, who believes that he or she has been discriminated against because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetics, and/or reprisal in an employment matter subject to the control of the Navy may file an individual complaint of discrimination. A representative designated in writing by the complainant may also file the complaint for the complainant. However, the complainant must sign the formal complaint.
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Strasbourg market attacker ‘pledged allegiance to ISIS’ - source
By Antoine Crouin, CNN
Published 10:40 AM EST, Sat December 22, 2018
The man responsible for a fatal Christmas market attack in the eastern French city of Strasbourg pledged allegiance to ISIS, a judicial source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
“A video in which Chérif Chekatt pledged allegiance to ISIS was found on a USB key,” the source said. It was found during the police search, the source said, but declined to provide further information.
The December 11 attack left five people dead and about a dozen people injured. Chekatt was killed during a shoot-out with police in Strasbourg two days later.
Cherif Chekatt was killed in a shoot-out with police.
PHOTO: France Police
Following the gun and knife attack, ISIS claimed through its Amaq news agency that the assailant was a “soldier” of ISIS. However, the terror organization offered no evidence of advanced knowledge or planning involved in the attack.
Chekatt, 29, was known to prison officials for being radicalized and for his proselytizing behavior in detention in 2015, Paris prosecutor Rémy Heitz said earlier this week, adding that he had been incarcerated multiple times in the past.
French prosecutors said the suspect shouted the Arabic phrase “Allahu Akbar,” meaning “God is greatest,” at the time of the attack.
Chekatt also had an extensive criminal background in Germany and Switzerland for thefts, break-ins and violence but neither country had him on a radical Islamist list.
CNN’s Saskya Vandoorne contributed to this report.
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Britain’s Most Senior Buddhist Monk Accused Of Raping Two Girls Under 10 (one in his temple’s shrine room) – Daily Mail UK
By IAN GARLAND –
On trial: The monk is facing nine assault charges at Isleworth Crown Court (file photo)
One of Britain’s most senior Buddhist monks is accused of carrying out a string of sex attacks on two young girls aged under 10.
The Venerable Pahalagama Somaratana, 66, is facing nine counts of rape, indecent assault and sexual assault.
One girl claims Somaratana abused her in the shrine room of Croydon Temple – where he has been chief monk for the past 31 years.
The attacks are alleged to have taken place on one victim in Chiswick, London during the summer of 1978.
A second woman claims she was indecently assaulted at Croydon Temple during the mid 1980s.
Somaratana appeared at Isleworth Crown Court last week to deny all charges against him.
The Sri Lankan-born monk told the court he was the victim of mistaken identity.
Prosecuting Richard Merz told the court the first victim, who was nine in 1978, had been enticed into the monk’s room with fruit Polo sweets and told to sit on his lap.
Later, he told the court, Ven Somaratana cornered her in the temple shrine and raped her.
He said: ‘You used to see her in the corridor downstairs and ask her upstairs.
Accused: Venerable Pahalagama Somaratana has been Chief Monk of the Croydon Temple since 1981
Three times this happened, three times. The victim says the person who did this to her in the shrine rooms was someone who gave her the fruit Polos.’
Mr Merz added the second victim, who was aged between nine and 10 during the alleged attacks in 1984 and 85, was also enticed into his room with sweets at the temple in Selsdon, South Croydon, which he founded in 1981.
He said: ‘She says she was attacked by you in your room.’
The second victim only recalled the assaults during hypnotherapy sessions she underwent as an adult in 2009.
Somaratana denies the charges.
He suggested in court that another, unidentified, monk could have been responsible for raping the first victim.
And insisted it would have been impossible to carry out attacks in either his temple room or the shrine – because there was little privacy and the temple was always occupied by worshippers.
He said: ‘There are so many people coming from 9am to 9pm they regularly go to the shrine room.’
The trial is expected to last three weeks.
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Bodinayaka / April 26, 2012
Suwapathwewa, Never send your children to a man wearing silly hats or robes. That’s dangerous. Pope Benadic cover up the child molester priest who did the blind kids. And now this guy.
chinthana / April 26, 2012
ane pow, we should’nt be writing anything to incite hatredness. wait till the dooms day.
Observer / April 26, 2012
There may be more than 2 victims. This guy has been in business for 31 years.
Sathya / April 27, 2012
What this “robed” person did to the former Deputy High Commissioner in London nearly 2 years ago is now chasing after him. Whether this man is a genuine monk or not, he might have preached a lot about “Karmic force” to his devotees without realizing that he himself will have to experience it one day as a result of his own mischievous conduct. When he challenged the DHC in London, this “priest” was boasting about his affiliation with Mahinda Rajapakse, the present President of Sri Lanka. Now the both leaders have become helpless.
“…..He suggested in court that another, unidentified, monk could have been responsible for raping the first victim….”
What a shameful betrayal of another monk? He should speak for his innocence if he did not commit this crime but not to suspect the other monks. In other words, admits that this kind of thing can happen in a Buddhist temple beside his his feeble argument that the temple is always crowded and there is no chance for such act.
This is really a silly argument. It is the duty of a monk to establish a friendly, calm and religious atmosphere in the temple enabling the devotees whatever the age groups are to feel comfortable and secure. But for this “robed” person, only the presence of devotees can prevent that kind of crime but not the teachings of Buddha. This man has no chance.
Dolly Daydream / April 27, 2012
Sathya ? Really?
Croydon Victim – attacked in shrine room.
Priest quote – ” this would have been impossible as there were always people present in the shrine room. “
How does this translate to ?
” but for this robed person, only the presence of devotees can prevent that kind of crime, not the teachings of the Buddha.”
you are very strange indeed!
G,Jayasinghe / April 27, 2012
I understand a number of Doctors who have benefited from the immense political strength that the priest has with the Government has given evidence in support of his good cahracter.Last Monday even a statement from the Sri lankan High Commission was read giving the priest a good caharacter certificate.It is a shame that the Sri Lankan High Commission has come forward to support the priest.I really admire the first victim for coming forward even at this stage.She has nothing to gain in coming forward with this complaint as she is a highly qualified professional and comes from a upper middle class family in the UK with everyone in her family being professionals
Anver / April 28, 2012
He must be a member of JHU who attacked a mosque and prevented the Muslims from praying! These fellows are a discrace to Buddhism and monk-hood. True Buddhists know this is not what the great Buddha preached.
Gilganesh / April 28, 2012
Insofar it doesn’t seem that there is clear evidence of the rapes. If it is proved, it is indeed a terrible offence to the victims, to the whole humanity, and to the three precious Gems (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha).
gamini / April 28, 2012
In the same manner how some of those forces that accuse War Criminals by affording cover and protection to the very accused, using veiled hands, the guilty will never be exposed for certain.
Kushan Dharmawardena / May 29, 2012
My wife and I knew Ven. Somaratana and all the other Buddhist monks at London Buddhist Vihara, Chiswisk very closely from 1977 when I was living in Chiswick so close to the temple. I am so confident Ven.Somaratana would never have done anything with this regard to this accusation. In my view it’s totally fabricated and malicious. At that time we went to the temple often and at times my wife waited at the temple for me to come from work. Giving a polo or sweets is nothing, what all priests did was anything remaining / excess from what they received from dayakas, they gave it to all of us (anyone who wanted). We were in London from 1977 to 1982 and now we live in Australia but I wish I was in London now to truly to come forward and defend Ven Somaratane, the Buddhists and Sri Lanka. The damage this false accusation (in my view and my wife’s view and I am sure shared by many others) has caused to Ven Somaratena, the Buddhists of the world and Sri Lanka as a whole is enormous. What I cannot understand is (1) Why was this allegation ever brought towards Ven. Somaratana (2) How come a lady (at that time 9 years old girl) bring this allegation after 35 years and (3) How come a jury found evidence beyond reasonable doubt of Ven.Somaratnas guit in Indecent Assault? (4) How can anyone ever imagine that a rape or indecent assault could have ever taken place at London Buddhist Vihara, Chiswick (at that time a very small building).
If Ven.Somaratana would ever have even attempted to do anything like this he would have definitely be banished from the temple at that time. He was only a podi hamuduruwo at that time. Ven. Saddhatissa, Ven. Piyatisasa, Ven. Khemananda, etc., had so much power and influence. Further more if I ever got even a hint of this at that time I would never have even attempted to defend Ven. Somaratana. Why I am defending him is because I am so sure that he never even hinted of any such behaviour at that time (We were physically there and went to the temple at least twice a week). What he wanted at that stage was to get to know many people, develop positive realationships and learn English. All of which he has done so well for over 35 years. Yes ! he use to smile with us and joke and he treated us extremely well. He was an outgoing monk who had a lot of potential. Also originally being from Gampaha I know for sure that he did tremendously well for his Pahalagama temple. Our parents have been dayakas of Pahalagama temple for so many years. Now I am in Australia and I am sorry that I am not in London to be of assistance to Ven Somaratana at this time of need.
Further more if anyone knows the then London Buddhist Vighara which had only 3 small rooms upstairs and one toilet kitchen and a shrine room cum hall down stairs no one could ever imagine that anyone could ever attempt to abuse a child or rape. It’s totally indecent for the lady (then a child) to have fabricated / or thought of how she (at age 9) has been at this small building all alone on Sunday. Obviously (if she ever went to the temple) she would have come to the temple with her father or mother or an adult Uncle or Aunty. Then where were these people when the said incidents happened? In London no child ever goes to Sunday school on her own. Also if it happened after Sunday school where were the other 20 or so children and their parents! Also Sundays were very busy days at the temple and in that temple on Sundays there was no privacy at all for anyone. What nonsense is to say that even an attempt of rape or child abuse could have ever happened in the Shrine room above all places. If the lady (then the girl) ..
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I would also kindly request all who write responses to be more thoughtful and avoid writing specially about things they hardly know about. If anyone can write “I was there in 1977 or 1978 and try to substantiate his / her point of view” I would like to hear your views with an open mind.
About the conviction (which is definitely not rape) but only child abuse (I cannot believe that it ever happened !). How come the jury think that the lady was not truthful about rape but she was truthful about making her sit on the hamuduruwos lap, etc. When one can say one lie telling so many other lies is simple. That’s why as a positive thinker I believe one should not lie even once. Where is the evidence that it ever happened? Has anyone given evidence that they ever saw the hamuduruwo being ever involved in this type of an offence? How can a jury find this hamuiduruwo guilty purely on the word of one lady (then a child aged 9). In my view the jury could have easily been swayed by the lady’s breaking down (which is said to have happened in court). But the jury in my view should have found Ven.Somaratana innocent ! From what I know of law an accused is presumed innocent until found guilty beyond reasonable doubt:
“ The presumption of innocence, sometimes referred to by the Latin expression Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat, is the principle that one is considered innocent until proven guilty. Application of this principle is a legal right of the accused in a criminal trial, recognised in many nations. The burden of proof is thus on the prosecution, which has to collect and present enough compelling evidence to convince the trier of fact, who is restrained and ordered by law to consider only actual evidence and testimony that is legally admissible, and in most cases lawfully obtained, that the accused is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. If reasonable doubt remains, the accused is to be acquitted”. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence)
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I respect anybody’s views provided they are backed up with substantial evidence !
I sincerely hope and wish for the sake of Ven. Pahalabama Somaratna, Buddhism as a whole and Sri Lanka as nation the real truth will come out soon.
Kushan Dharmawardena
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DSM-5 criteria for autism spectrum disorder maximizes diagnostic sensitivity and specificity in preschool children.
Title DSM-5 criteria for autism spectrum disorder maximizes diagnostic sensitivity and specificity in preschool children.
Authors Wiggins, LD, Rice, CE, Barger, B, Soke, GN, Lee, L-C, Moody, E, Edmondson-Pretzel, R, Levy, SE
Journal Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol
Date Published 2019 Jun
Keywords Autism Spectrum Disorder, Checklist, Child, Preschool, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Female, Humans, Intellectual Disability, Male, Sensitivity and Specificity
PURPOSE: The criteria for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were revised in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The objective of this study was to compare the sensitivity and specificity of DSM-IV-Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) and DSM-5 definitions of ASD in a community-based sample of preschool children.METHODS: Children between 2 and 5 years of age were enrolled in the Study to Explore Early Development-Phase 2 (SEED2) and received a comprehensive developmental evaluation. The clinician(s) who evaluated the child completed two diagnostic checklists that indicated the presence and severity of DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5 criteria. Definitions for DSM-5 ASD, DSM-IV-TR autistic disorder, and DSM-IV-TR Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) were created from the diagnostic checklists.RESULTS: 773 children met SEED2 criteria for ASD and 288 met criteria for another developmental disorder (DD). Agreement between DSM-5 and DSM-IV-TR definitions of ASD were good for autistic disorder (0.78) and moderate for PDD-NOS (0.57 and 0.59). Children who met DSM-IV-TR autistic disorder but not DSM-5 ASD (n = 71) were more likely to have mild ASD symptoms, or symptoms accounted for by another disorder. Children who met PDD-NOS but not DSM-5 ASD (n = 66), or vice versa (n = 120) were less likely to have intellectual disability and more likely to be female. Sensitivity and specificity were best balanced with DSM-5 ASD criteria (0.95 and 0.78, respectively).CONCLUSIONS: The DSM-5 definition of ASD maximizes diagnostic sensitivity and specificity in the SEED2 sample. These findings support the DSM-5 conceptualization of ASD in preschool children.
Alternate Journal Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol
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“We are being prudent,” Secretary of State Pietro Parolin told ANSA news agency.
“There is no particular alarm (in the Vatican)”, but the health of the head of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics was being “constantly monitored,” he added.
Pope Francis, whose birth name is Jorge Bergoglio, has shown little fear for his own health since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic early this year.
The pope talks to those who visit him at the Apostolic Palace without wearing a face mask. Last week he was spotted wearing one for the first time since the start of the pandemic, but he took it off to chat to the faithful.
Francis shunned however his usual practice of shaking hands and kissing babies, and used hand sanitiser which was handed to him by a personal assistant.
The pope was tested for the coronavirus in March when a prelate living in the same residence as him was found to be positive.
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Fox & Hounds
A Cheshire pub walk with stunning views gazing down onto miles of magnificent countryside
Boasting spectacular hilltop views, this 2½ mile Cheshire pub walk is mainly along surfaced paths with a few steeper sections. There are many excellent opportunities for observing bird life as you cross farm land.
As you come out of the pub, cross the road and take a moment to enjoy the panoramic views stretching far across the Cheshire Plain. Turn left along the path that runs beside the field. After 200 or so yards, the path dips into a small valley. Cross the stile on your right and continue down the valley towards Gee Cross.
Bird species you might spot on the walk include lapwings, a ground-nesting bird with a distinctive tuft of feathers on top of its head. Linnets are also common – you can recognise this small, slim finch from their rapid chirruping song. In the skies above, you may well spot kestrels hovering or, soaring even higher, larger buzzards.
Continue downhill after the next stile and follow the path as it curves to the left before crossing a wooden bridge over a small brook. Head up a small grassy bank and follow the path as it goes downhill before reaching a road.
“Enjoy the panoramic views stretching far across the Cheshire Plain”
After climbing over the wooden stile, turn immediately right and head downhill along Lord Derby Road. At the junction with Wych Fold, turn right and continue the short way in to the village of Gee Cross. Cross Stockport Road and go down Knott Lane with Hyde Chapel on the right. After a short way, turn right into the churchyard by the large beech trees. Continue to the other side of the churchyard then turn right. At the post box on the corner, turn left and continue past the village shops and the Sam Redfern Village Green.
When you see Baron Road on your right, turn into and walk uphill to the top. Turn left through the gate and continue uphill along the footpath signposted for Lower Higham Visitor Centre. At the next gate, turn left onto Aspland Road, and after a short way, turn right at the junction of Higham Lane. Continue up Higham Lane, turning left to bring you to the Lower Higham Visitor Centre.
Immediately to the right of the centre is a short track leading up to open grassland. Go through the wooden gate on the right and walk along the surfaced footpath sign posted, ‘Quarry Car Park.’ This area of hay meadows and dry heath is rich in flowers during summer months. The path runs parallel to Higham Lane, and after going through a kissing gate and a few more stiles, you’ll reach the top of the meadow where it joins Werneth Low Road. Turn right and walk in front of Quarry Car Park, following the road slightly to the left at the junction. Continue uphill, along Werneth Low Road, passing Hyde Cricket Club before reaching the pub once more. Head straight through the doors and order yourself a well-deserved drink!
A short diversion from the Lower Higham Park’s visitor centre will take you to a memorial commemorating the 710 local men lost in The Great War.
On a clear day, the panoramic views from Werneth Low stretch as far as the purple silhouette of the Welsh mountains.
Hare & Hounds
Walter Mansfield managed the pub from 1929 to 1983 – an amazing 54 years! His motto was: ‘Less talking, more drinking.’
Enjoying breathtaking views across Lancashire, Derbyshire and Cheshire, the handsome Hare & Hounds was built in 1728. The pub lies at the edge of the beautiful Werneth Low Country Park, a wildlife haven with many attractive walks and trails – yet is less than 10 miles from Manchester city centre.
Constructed from solid blocks of Pennine stone, this rustic country pub is an authentic 18th century farmhouse with two adjoining cottages. As the oldest pub in the district, records show there has been a licensed inn here since 1794, but the commanding heights of Werneth Low have attracted settlement since long before that. Nearby Hangingbank shows evidence of possible Iron Age occupation, and Bronze Age and Roman finds have been uncovered in the area. The Brigantes, a Celtic tribe that dominated northern England, celebrated the summer and winter solstice at Werneth Low, witnessing the same spectacular sunsets that are enjoyed from the Hare & Hounds today.
Inside, the pub still retains a farmhouse feel, with low ceilings and exposed beams. In the evening, the twinkling city lights spread across the Cheshire Plain below make a memorable dining experience.
Ever popular with ramblers, cyclists and nature-lovers, the Hare & Hounds offers the perfect spot to relax and re-energise, with delicious pub restaurant meals available all day – including seasonal specials, fine Sunday lunches and an excellent range of wines and cask ales.
A delightful country pub walk on the South Downs ambling along the stunning River Itchen
Taking you through some of the finest English countryside, this gorgeous 5½ mile Hampshire pub walk features some gentle inclines. Suitable for all the family, proper walking shoes are recommended.
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On leaving the pub, take the footpath that leads to Compton Lock. From there, go through the right-hand gate into the water meadows and follow the path to another tributary of the River Itchen. The chalk grassland is home to a wide variety of plants that provide sustenance to numerous rare butterflies: look out for the strikingly-coloured Adonis Blue, golden brown Skippers and dapple-winged Duke of Burgundies.
Blessed with crystal clear waters, the River Itchen is a special treat for those interested in wildlife. As a Site of Special Scientific Interest, it supports a number of protected species, including water voles, otters, white-clawed crayfish and kingfishers.
“The River Itchen is a special treat for those interested in wildlife”
Once you cross the river, go up Berry Lane to Twyford Parish Church, parts of which date back to Norman times. It’s also worth noting the churchyard’s magnificent yew tree. Believed by some to be one thousand years old, it’s one of England’s oldest.
Continue onto Bourne Lane and, at the junction with Bourne Field, take the footpath directly in front of you. This leads across a field to Hazeley Road. Turn left and follow it to just before the water works, where a track branches off to the right. The track traverses farmland for about 800 or so yards before reaching Mare Lane. Turn left and walk along it to the T-junction. On the far side of the road is a footpath – follow it across the fields, through a small group of trees and over a narrow farm track. When you reach the finger of trees at the edge of Hockley Golf Course, bear to the left and follow the path that runs along its edge. After about 1000 yards, the path bears left, away from the fairway and across fields to New Barn Farm Lane. Turn right and follow the lane a short distance to Coxs Hill Road. Opposite, you’ll see the entrance to Church Lane – head along it and, at the end, you’ll find yourself at Twyford Parish Church once more. Turn right, back onto Berry Lane and retrace your steps over the bridge, across the water meadows and along the River Itchen into Shawford – where you can quench your thirst with a refreshing drink in The Bridge.
The nearby grassland is home to the increasingly rare Skylark. Listen out for its trilling song cascading down from on high.
Just 4 miles further along the river is the city of Winchester – capital of England during the reign of Alfred the Great.
The Bridge formed a backdrop to the demise of TV’s Victor Meldrew – mown down by a hit-and-run driver right outside the pub!
With a beamed ceiling and flagstone floor, The Bridge Inn is an idyllic retreat that – thanks to its riverside location – is adored by nature lovers and ramblers, alike. It’s located in the tranquil village of Shawford beside the beautiful River Itchen, one of the best chalk rivers for wildlife found in Europe.
In the warm summer months, guests can savour meals from the pub restaurant on the terrace while listening to the soothing sounds of the river running by. In winter, piping hot food can be enjoyed by the crackling warmth of the pub’s real fires. Whatever the season, relaxing Sunday lunches with all the trimmings, classic dishes with contemporary twists, superb wines and tasty cask ales are a permanent treat at The Bridge.
The lovely, sleepy village of Shawford is actually two villages in one – Compton and Shawford. For the past one hundred years, it has been said that, ‘Compton is the one with the church and Shawford is the one with the pub!’ That pub is, of course, The Bridge. We hope you enjoy your visit.
A magical woodland country pub walk through ancient Essex wild woods
Known as Boundary Walk, this leisurely 3 mile pub walk hugs the edge of Hockley Woods, the county’s largest swathe of ancient wild wood. Suitable for all the family, it involves some gentle inclines and a couple of small footbridges.
In Hockley Woods car park next to the pub, head to the side of the play area – from there, a path leads down into a valley thronged with oak, sweet chestnut, birch, ash and rowan trees. Keep following the path as it leads along the perimeter of these enchanting woods.
After about 500 or so yards, you’ll reach a stream. Cross the small bridge and note the concentration of hornbeam trees. The age-old practice of coppicing – whereby trees in a particular area are felled and then allowed to regrow – provided the local economy with a never-ending supply of wood.
Still continuing today, coppicing creates a constantly shifting woodland landscape. In newly-exposed clearings flowers are first to flourish – including foxgloves, honeysuckle and cow wheat. In June and July, look out for the rare heath fritillary butterfly which favours cow wheat’s golden blooms. The domed nests of wood ants also often spring up in these cleared areas. Birds that like to nest in the light-filled spaces include willow warblers, chiff chaff and whitethroats. Aside from hornbeam, the trees that then gradually take over these cleared areas include sweet chestnut and trusty oak.
“Hockley Wood is also home to Western Europe’s largest population of the rare wild service tree…”
…recognise it by the sharply jagged edge that runs down each side of its wide leaves.
Dotted through the woods are several ponds. Over the summer months, dragonflies can be seen darting across the water in pursuit of their prey. Toads, frogs and newts all spawn in the still water.
After running for a short distance beside a horse trail, the path then bears left and starts to rise. Observe how the types of tree begin to change; chestnut and birch thrive on the slopes, whereas oak dominates the highest ground. Here, at the wood’s southern edge, you can take in fine views across to Rayleigh and Eastwood.
For a long period, the area was treated as a group of separate woods, each one under a different owner. Earth banks acted as boundaries and, at certain points, they are still visible as thin mounds snaking their way through the trees.
The path then arcs through the wood’s eastern section where the soil is more acidic. Brambles, bracken and bluebells prefer it here, as does birch. Walk this part of the woods in Autumn’s cooler months, and you may spot distinctive red and white fly agaric toadstools standing out against the brown carpet of birch leaves – an enchanting sight to enjoy before heading back to the warmth of the Bull Inn for a well-earned drink! A final bridge crosses over a stream before the path climbs back up to Hockley Woods car park.
Hockley Woods are over 130 hectares – and the entire area has been declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Many of Hockley Wood’s plants - such as wood spurge, cow wheat and wood anemone – are only able to grow here because the soil has lain undisturbed for so long.
The Bull Inn
Rumour has it, one of the pub’s mighty ceiling beams came from the scaffold used to hang the notorious highwayman, Dick Turpin.
With its distinctive weather boarded exterior and magnificent bull’s head above the door, the Bull Inn is a Grade II listed country pub that exudes a peaceful, rustic charm. Parts of the historic timber frame date back to the 16th Century – and since that time, it’s been welcoming visitors into its cosy interior.
There is also a pub restaurant with an imaginative menu that features regularly changing specials and sumptuous Sunday roasts with all the trimmings. On long balmy summer days, the lovely garden buzzes with people choosing to enjoy their food al fresco.
But perhaps the Bull Inn’s most endearing feature (and one why we’re so popular with ramblers!) is the fact we’re situated at the edge of Hockley Woods, last remains of an ancient forest that seeded 10,000 years ago when the last Ice Age came to an end.
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H. Leslie Adams
H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932) is the winner of the 2015 Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement Award. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he attended school in California, and served many years as a choral conductor, show musical director, and educator, before becoming a composer full time in 1979. His unique music touches a wide variety of musical tastes and preferences. His stage work BLAKE was featured on the VOX Showcase of New York City Opera, and on the National Opera Association programs. His art songs have been sung by leading artists worldwide, in many languages. His orchestral works have been performed by the Prague Radio Symphony, Iceland Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra and Indianapolis Symphony, to name a few.
Recordings of Adams' music include "Love Rejoices: Songs of H. Leslie Adams" first released in January, 2001, featuring the internationally-known tenor, Darryl Taylor. It was chosen as one of the ten best recordings of the year by American Record Guide, and is now in its second printing. Love Rejoices is a 75-minute all-Adams recital featuring the artistry of Mr. Taylor and accompanist Robin Guy. The album features the complete song cycle, "Nightsongs" and "The Wider View" along with excerpts from "Five Millay Songs" and many individual songs, including the composer's original setting of "Amazing Grace."
Adams' very popular "Etudes for Piano" have been recorded by pianists including Maria Corley and Thomas Otten.
"Nightsongs" a collection of songs on poetry by African-American poets, is one of ACA's most popular sheet music collections, year after year. Many critics have observed that they find no other composer writing like Adams in the world. They find it simple yet complex, fun yet serious, spiritual yet nonreligious. Above all, his music touches the heart and soul in a personal manner.
In addition to the Cleveland Arts Prize, Mr. Adams has been awarded by the Bascom Little Foundation. He was commissioned by the Mirror Visions Ensemble in 2019.
Links to recordings below:
"Love Rejoices: Songs of H. Leslie Adams" [2nd ed.; Darryl Taylor, tenor]
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"Twelve Etudes" [Maria Corley, pianist]
Etudes for Piano [Thomas Otten, pianist]:
***Notice: Any recordings of songs or vocal music by H. Leslie Adams may require licensing and clearances from all legal rightsholders, including text authors and their estates. Purchase of a score does not transfer recording rights.
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Michael Spurlock is a former salesman turned pastor whose first assignment is to close a smalltown church that has a meagre congregation of just 12 people, and sell the land that it sits on. While most folk have come to accept the state of the All Saints Episcopal Church, Michael knows that it can't continue without more public interest. And it's not as if they're not trying to encourage more worshippers to join them - in fact, a large group of refugees from Burma have arrived and they have nothing to their name except hope and their faith. Michael decides that he will do everything in his power to keep the church open for the sake of these people, and before long he has a religious revelation. Having heard God finally answer his prayers, he embarks on the difficult project of turning the land into a farm. It would bring in enough profit to save the church from closure and even provide employment for the refugees. On the other hand, Michael is risking everything he has in the world for something that may never be successful, but he knows he can turn it all around if he believes in God - and himself - enough.
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George Briggs is a claim jumper who has only ever known a dishonest life. When he finds himself in serious trouble (sat astride an impatient horse with his hands bound behind his back and a noose around his neck tied to a branch), he starts to think this could finally be the end for him. That is until he is found by a lone woman with a wagon named Mary Bee Cuddy who agrees to free him from his plight in exchange for a favour. Living alone, she is struggling to carry out an important personal mission; she wants to take three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa now that their husbands can now longer cope with them. Thus, she asks Briggs to help her on the dangerous five week journey and, despite his serious reservations, he agrees to act as her aide and protector against the brutalities they may face along the way.
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Crossfire Trail Review
By Christopher Null
Quigley Down Under comes up and over for this old west extravaganza, with Tom Selleck hamming it up the best he can in a tale adapted from a book by Louis L'Amour.
Dunno if it's a very good book, but it's not a very good movie. While Selleck's acting muscle is always a special treat solo, contending with co-stars Virginia Madsen, Wilford Brimley, and Mark Harmon(!), all in period costume and/or moustaches makes for a very rare juxtaposition of atrocious acting from the school of Schmaltz.
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Governance at the City of Peterborough Academy
Each Academy within the Greenwood Dale Foundation Trust has its own Advisory Council (AAC) that works closely with each Principal.
The Academy Advisory Council (AAC) is a small group and has staff, parent and community representation. It is not, however, the same as a traditional governing body as it has no legal responsibilities. These responsibilities are held by the GDFT Trust Board.
The City of Peterborough Academy Advisory Council will be expected to meet formally at least termly and AAC members are encouraged to play an active part in the day to day life of the Academy.
The role of the City of Peterborough Academy Advisory Council
To advise and act as a critical friend to the Principal of the Academy and to advise the Board of Directors of the Greenwood Dale Foundation Trust about local issues they need to consider that affect the Academy.
To represent the interests of the Academy community in the running of the Academy and to represent the Academy in its community.
To provide support to the Principal in undertaking appropriate day to day procedures that are essential to the life of the Academy, such as disciplinary or complaint procedures.
Membership of the City of Peterborough Academy Advisory Council
The City of Peterborough Academy had an established Advisory Council and will move to new Terms of Reference during this academic year. It includes the following members from a range of backgrounds:
Community Members:
Michaela Smith
Senior Education Advisor:
Sarah Mills
Parent Members: Brian Matthews
Sarah Coldham
Staff Member: James Ferrara
Tracey Bloy
Principal: Ben Pearce
Further details of members of this new Academy Advisory Council will be published as and when they are elected. If you are interested in becoming a parent representative for our Academy Advisory Council please complete the application form and return to the Academy reception or by email to:
ewarner@cityofpeterboroughacademy.org
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Austin Peay State University Athletics adds Sydney Griffin to Staff
Austin Peay State University Sports Information
Clarksville, TN – Sydney Griffin, who has previously served in the athletics departments of Notre Dame and Duke, has been named the Coordinator of Administrative Operations/Chief of Staff for the Austin Peay State University (APSU) athletics department, director of athletics Gerald Harrison announced today.
In her role with the Austin Peay athletics department, Griffin will work primarily with the Director of Athletics overseeing the department’s front office and administrative operations.
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APSU Baseball signs five for 2020
APSU Sports Information
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University’s (APSU) baseball team announced five signees to open its 2018-19 signing period, which began November 14th, 2018.
Highlighting the 2020 class were a pair of catchers: Alex Hay of Nesbit, Mississippi, and Tyler Cotto of Surprise, Arizona.
Austin Peay Baseball has signed five players during the 2018-19 signing period. (APSU Sports Information)
APSU Baseball announces Incoming Class for 2019
Clarksville, TN – With the opening day of its fall practice schedule just days away, Austin Peay State University’s (APSU) baseball team will welcome 16 newcomers to the squad for the upcoming campaign.
The 16-man incoming class will feature 10 freshman and six transfers.
Austin Peay Governors baseball has 16-man incoming class for 2019.
Tennessee Lady Vols face Alabama Crimson Tide in second round of SEC Tournament
Tennessee Lady Vols (19-10, 10-6 SEC) vs. Alabama (17-12/5-11)
Thursday, March 2nd, 2017 | 1:30pm CT
Greenville, SC | Bon Secours Wellness Arena
Greenville, SC – The No. 5 seed Lady Vols (19-10, 10-6 SEC) are set to play No. 12 seed Alabama (18-12, 5-11 SEC) at approximately 1:30pm CT on Thursday in the second round of the SEC Tournament at Bon Secours Wellness Arena.
The game will be broadcast on SEC Network and will be available online through WatchESPN. Courtney Lyle (PxP), Tamika Catchings (Analyst) and Steffi Sorensen (Reporter) will describe the action for the SEC Network broadcast of Tennessee’s second-round game.
Fans can also tune into their local Lady Vol Network station to catch Mickey Dearstone describing the action.
APSU Women’s Soccer has 10 players sign National Letters of Intent for 2017
February 1, 2017 |
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University women’s soccer team announced Wednesday the addition of 10 players who signed national letters of intent to join the 2017 roster this fall.
Austin Peay Women’s Soccer adds 10 players during National Signing Day. (APSU Sports Information)
Tennessee Vols Basketball plays Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Saturday at Thompson-Boling Arena
Tennessee vs. Georgia Tech
Saturday, December 3rd, 2016 | 12:00noon CT
Knoxville, TN | Thompson-Boling Arena | SEC Network
Knoxville, TN – The Tennessee basketball program returns to action on Saturday when it hosts Georgia Tech at 12:00noon CT at Thompson-Boling Arena.
Saturday’s game will not be televised, but will be streamed online through SEC Network +, available on WatchESPN and the WatchESPN app. Darren Headrick (play-by-play), Ryan Childress (analyst) and Maddy Glab (reporter) have the call.
Fans can also listen live on their local Vol Network affiliate to catch Bob Kesling and Bert Bertelkamp describing the action.
Tickets are still available and can be purchased online through AllVols.com.
Tennessee and Georgia Tech meet for the 71st time on Saturday at Thompson-Boling Arena. (UT Athletics Department)
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam Memorializes Seven Service Members
Tennessee Fallen Heroes Medal Posthumously Awarded
Nashville, TN – Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam joined Tennessee Department of Veterans Services Commissioner Many-Bears Grinder and Major General Terry “Max” Haston of the Tennessee Military Department to pay tribute to seven service members killed in action to include four Marines and one Sailor killed in Chattanooga on July 16th, 2015.
(Top L to R) Thomas Sullivan, David Wyatt, Carson Holmquist, Randall Smith, K.P. Wells, Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., and Gary Reese.
APSU honors six individuals at Homecoming with Alumni Awards
Clarksville, TN – During a special alumni awards ceremony on Saturday, October 24th, Austin Peay State University honored six distinguished individuals as part of its 2015 Homecoming celebration.
This year’s honorees were Outstanding Service Award recipients Maggie Kulback (’77) and Mike O’Malley; Outstanding Young Alumnus Award recipients Michael Wall (’00) and Chad Kimmel (’02); and Outstanding Alumni Award recipients Fred Landiss (’69) and Dr. Joe Greer (’70).
2015 Alumni Award winners Fred Landiss, Mike O’Malley, Maggie Kulback, Dr. Joe Greer, Chad Kimmel and Michael Wall.
Instant Peay Play: APSU Governors Baseball looks to return to the OVC Elite in 2015
By Chris Austin | February 9, 2015 |
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University’s baseball team opens its 2015 regular season Friday, February 13th versus Niagara looking to get off to a good start in what hopes to be a return to the top of the Ohio Valley Conference after suffering growing pains and injuries in 2014.
The Governors had 13 freshmen on last years’ squad, including eight that played significant time, which led to some growing pains for a team that had won the conference’s tournament the three previous seasons.
Austin Peay State University Baseball begins 2015 season with eye on the OVC Tournament.
APSU Governors Football set to play Tennessee Volunteers for first time
Knoxville, TN – The curtain will rise on the Kirby Cannon Era, 5:00pm, Saturday, when Austin Peay State University plays Tennessee for the first time in program history.
Cannon, who was hired as Austin Peay’s 18th head coach in mid-March, is only the third APSU coach hired in the last 50 years that owned previous college-coaching head-coaching experience.
Austin Peay Football. (APSU Sports Information)
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Lee Eiseman, publisher; Robert Levin, advisor; David Moran, assisting editor; Bettina A. Norton, emerita editor
Jewels and Discoveries from Boston Baroque
by Virginia Newes
March 7, 2011 by Virginia Newes
“Jewels and Discoveries” was the title of Boston Baroque’s interesting and varied program of vocal and instrumental music presented in New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall on Friday evening, March 4th, and repeated on March 5th, in Jordan Hall.
An Easter cantata, Heut’ triumphieret Gottes Sohn (Today God’s Son triumphs) by Dieterich Buxtehude (1567-1643) opened the program. Scored for five-voice chorus and a five-part string ensemble with continuo augmented by celebratory trumpets and kettledrums, the cantata consists of verses for soloists or solo ensembles alternating with triumphant choruses on the words “Victoria Victoria.” The initial verse movement followed an opening string sinfonia and an echo fanfare for trumpets (natural, i.e. valveless, instruments expertly played by Jesse Levine and Robinson Pyle) and timpani (John Grimes). The chorus consisted of twenty-one exceptionally beautiful voices, including the soloists Roberta Anderson and Megan Weikleenget (sopranos), Martin Near (alto), David McSweeney (tenor) and Ulysses Thomas (baritone). Although the choral sound was never forced, it tended to overshadow the string ensemble, playing one-on-a-part. A better balance of vocal and instrumental sound seemed called for here. Pearlman’s conducting favors quick, detached singing and playing, certainly refreshing to ears jaded by the plodding tempos of earlier generations of Baroque interpretation. But by pushing the singers to the limits of audible declamation, Pearlman sometimes obscured the nuances of text expression as well as the natural gavotte-like swing of some movements.
A tendency to rush was also apparent in Claudio Monteverdi’s six-voice setting of Psalm 112, Beatus vir qui timet Dominum (Blessed is the man who fears the Lord). As Pearlman pointed out in his excellent program notes, the text offers many opportunities for word painting, and Monteverdi takes full advantage of them. The first and last sections are also carried along rhythmically by wonderful walking bass patterns in duple meter, with a new, rising pattern in the triple-meter middle section. Again, no need to compress these buoyant rhythms into tempi just a bit too fast for clear text declamation. The instrumental ensemble of expert Baroque players — Christina Day Martinson and Julia McKenzie, violins, Laura Jeppesen and Barbara Wright, violas, Sarah Freiberg, cello, Deborah Dunham, violone, with Pearlman at the harpsichord — was much enhanced by Victor Coelho’s theorbo, which rounded out the continuo with velvety yet percussive articulation.
The centerpiece of the program was Monteverdi’s Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda of 1624, certainly a jewel and, for many, an intriguing discovery. In the unlikely tale from Torquato Tasso’s epic poem on the First Crusade Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), Tancred, a Christian knight, challenges the Saracen warrior Clorinda to single combat, believing her to be a man. After dealing her a mortal blow, he lifts her helmet, only to discover she is the woman he loves. As she dies, she forgives him and asks him to baptize her. To depict the anger and violence of war, Monteverdi invented what he referred to as the stile concitato (agitated style), full of fast repeated notes, plucked strings, and exaggerated dynamics. These virtuosic and, at the time, novel instrumental effects also appear in the vocal part of the narrator, who carries the principal role. Tenor Aaron Sheehan, stepping in at the last minute for an ailing Keith Jameson, sang with ringing tone and stylistic sensitivity to the nuances of Monteverdi’s dramatic recitative. Baritone Bradford Gleim was a fine Tancredi and Mary Wilson a stalwart Clorinda, particularly moving in the rising melody of her dying words “S’apre il ciel: io vado in pace” (Heaven opens, I go in peace), an effect worthy of Verdi in its other-worldly pianissimo.
Heinrich Biber (1644-1704) was known as the outstanding violin virtuoso of his time and is remembered today primarily for his fifteen extremely difficult Mystery (or Rosary) Sonatas for solo violin and continuo. As Kapellmeister at the archbishop’s court in Salzburg for three decades beginning in the 1670s, he was also expected to produce choral music on the grand scale. Boston Baroque performed three of his less ambitious choral works — two psalm settings from a 1693 collection for the Vespers service, and the Agnus Dei from a recently discovered Mass. Teresa Wakim, soprano, Thea Lobo, alto, Murray Kidd, tenor, and Ulysses Thomas, bass, were the soloists in Laudate pueri (Psalm 113). The Agnus Dei featured a trio of bass soloists: Bradford Gleim, Brett Johnson, and Ulysses Thomas, with trumpet and strings joining the organ and violone in a ritornello before the final section. The Gloria patri of the Laudate Dominum (Psalm 117) setting, in which chorus and instrumental ensemble compete in conflicting meters, tested the agility of both performers and listeners.
Christina Day Martinson, concertmaster of Boston Baroque, had two additional violins at the ready for the performance of two of Biber’s Mystery Sonatas, each differently tuned according to Biber’s instructions. For Sonata no. 10, dedicated to the Crucifixion, the top string is tuned down from e” to d” and the lowest string down from g to e. After a mostly chordal Prelude, a tuneful Aria was followed by increasingly complex variations, climaxing in a fast gigue tempo before a brief return to the Aria and a final, breathtaking tremolo passage. The fourteenth sonata is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin. Here the two lowest strings are each tuned up a whole step. The Preludium consists of improvisatory passage work with melodic interludes. In the triple-meter Ciaccona that followed, Victor Coelho’s theorbo was a perfect foil for Martinson as she danced her way through a series of virtuosic divisions on the bass pattern, ending with a lively Gigue.
A Gloria that was only recently confirmed as an early work by Handel concluded the program. Mary Wilson was the soprano soloist in this brilliant setting in Italian cantata style that probably dates from Handel’s stay in Italy during the early 1700s. Accompanied recitative, with two violins and continuo participating, alternate with elaborate arias in concerted style. The trumpet-like pyrotechnics in this piece might call for a more brilliant vocal tone, particularly in the lower range, than Wilson was able to produce, but she displayed expert musicianship and a sure sense of style throughout.
Virginia Newes, who now lives in Cambridge, was Associate Professor of Music History and Musicology at the Eastman School of Music.
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Thank you Virginia for your very enjoyable review of the concert!
I would like to add that I was disappointed by the decision to present the “Combattimento” in concert-oratorio style. Although I could certainly understand the logistical challenges related to including the costumes and pantomimed motions of the “semi-staging” which the composer mentions in his preface to the work, Tancred’s and Clorinda’s complete physical disengagement between solos, as they gently reposed in their respective seats, weakened the overall sense of the drama.
Comment by Joel Schwindt — March 7, 2011 at 1:16 pm
The sparkle of Boston Baroque’s “jewels” were not shimmeringly depicted as they should have in the review. This was a revelatory concert, and for many in the audience the highlight was Christina Day Martinson’s spectacular version of Biber’s sonatas. She passionately ornamented the already supremely difficult passages, producing an ear-opening, exuberant experience for the audience who poured forth their approval. I also disagree with the assessment that the voices of the chorus diminished the instrumentalists. I was sitting up in the balcony and I could hear every nuance of the orchestra — in my opinion, it was a perfect blend. Martin Pearlman once again has proven himself the master of the Baroque.
Comment by Gloria Leitner — March 9, 2011 at 6:48 pm
Gloria, I’m delighted to hear your assessment of the concert. Joel, I agree that good staging of the “Combattimento” would have been powerful. The decision not to stage was driven by costs (direction, rehearsal time, costumes) and by the view that Monteverdi’s music and our soloists were strong enough to carry it off. We discussed how Mary and Brad should react while seated, and concluded that twenty minutes of glowering at each other was not sustainable. Finding a perfect Narrator two days before the concert, when our original tenor got sick, was an amazingly lucky stroke. The Biber choral pieces, albeit “less ambitious” as Virginia says, were the best discoveries for me — beautiful and interesting at the same time, and leaving me wanting to hear more.
Comment by David Gaylin — March 10, 2011 at 2:17 am
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond! I wouldn’t wish to give the impression that the concert, including the Combattimento, was not a very enjoyable event (I’m certainly looking forward to the Rameau in May). I had a feeling that practical concerns were the eventual undoing of any notion of costuming and staging; maybe next time…
Comment by Joel Schwindt — March 10, 2011 at 10:14 am
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What SAP’s New Certification of Oracle DB In-Memory Means for Joint Customers
Joyce Wells
Oracle announced that the Oracle Database In-Memory has been certified by SAP for use with SAP solutions based on the SAP NetWeaver 7.x technology platform. This move continues the longstanding collaboration between Oracle and SAP to enable SAP software to run together with Oracle technologies.
“At the beginning of the year, we certified the Oracle Exadata X5-2 Database Machine for use with SAP applications, and in March we certified Oracle Database 12c for use with SAP applications, that is the latest generation of the Oracle Database technology, and then in June we certified the Oracle Database In-Memory technology, which is part of Oracle Database 12c, for use with the SAP applications,” said Andy Mendelsohn, executive vice president, Database Server Technologies, Oracle.
What the Certification Means for Joint Customers
As a result of the certification, Oracle says, customers can be assured that their SAP applications running on Oracle Database and Oracle Engineered Systems are fully supported. In addition, Oracle Database In-Memory provides mutual customers with an enterprise-grade, in-memory solution from Oracle. The certification means customers can use SAP applications together with Oracle Database In-Memory to perform real-time data analytics together with real-time transaction processing on their existing applications, by adding SAP tables into the in-memory column store
“That is the news for our mutual customers: We are making sure all the latest and greatest Oracle Database technologies are available for their use which is reassuring for customers who certainly hear a lot of noise from SAP about why they should be moving to SAP’s HANA database,” said Mendelsohn. “For our enterprise customers the overlap is quite significant. If you look at SAP enterprise customers, the Oracle Database is used by the vast majority of those customers. We are a significant part of the SAP ecosystem.”
In addition, noted Mendelsohn, SAP is Oracle’s is biggest database reseller in the world, of all the partners. “An Oracle customer can actually buy an SAP application, and also buy the Oracle Database through SAP at the same time.”
The Long Oracle-SAP Partnership Continues
The certification is part of an established partnership between Oracle and SAP. “Oracle and SAP have been collaborating to support the Oracle Database under the SAP Business Suite applications for over 20 years. And this is a continuation of that longstanding collaboration between my development group and SAP’s engineers. We work together right out of the SAP Development Lab in Walldorf, Germany.”
Oracle Database In-Memory was released by Oracle a year ago, and according to Mendelsohn, in its first year, sales have been nearly triple that of all new Oracle Database 11g options combined during their first year.
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Why trucks roll over
By: The Ed
The NZ Transport Agency and Road Transport Forum are spearheading a programme to reduce the amount of truck rollovers. The Ed went along to a seminar to find out more.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it seems that a week doesn’t go by without some news of a truck rollover somewhere around the country. Over the recent past it seems that a disproportionate number of incident reports stem from the Northland area, however the rest of the country is certainly not immune to this phenomena.
It did seem fitting though that the initiative to educate drivers about why their trucks roll over started at the top of the country and now four weeks (and 28 sessions) later it is being presented to a group of around 25 drivers along with a couple of hangers-on like myself at the NZ Trucking Association headquarters in Christchurch.
With another 22 sessions to go before facilitator Jeff Fleury hits the target of 50 presentations, it’s pretty obvious that he’s now well settled into the routine, as he introduces himself and backgrounds the seminars, their purpose, and how they came about in the first place.
Having past occupations as a motor mechanic and inspector with the CVIU (Commercial Vehicles Inspection Unit), based in the lower part of the South Island; the qualifications and work experience make Fleury well qualified to impart his knowledge, which he does in a clear, no-nonsense manner that engages the audience in what he describes at times as a ‘mum and dad talk’.
Along with a number of images from actual incidents, Fleury says that there is one main reason why a truck rolls over – speed into a corner. While that answer is pretty obvious to most of us, there are a large number of factors that contribute to a rollover which is the reason why the group has gathered on a cold winter’s night for a couple of hours; to find out more about the technical details, this being primarily done by returning to some basic high school physics.
To keep a rig’s stability as it negotiates a bend in the road, some key factors are: speed, centre of gravity, track width, suspension, and tyres. Also thrown into the mix for good measure are the types of vehicle combinations, which in New Zealand and Australia are different to many parts of the world.
"Additionally, there are more hills, bridges, corners and fewer divided highways per 100 kilometres of roadway than most developed countries, so professional drivers have really got their work cut out for them," says Fleury.
Centre of gravity
The laws of nature are what conspire to keep a vehicle on a road – or off a road as the case may be. Foremost to this is understanding a bit about the centre of gravity, which is critical to staying on the tarmac. Obviously, the higher the centre of gravity, the more likely a vehicle is to overturn.
Fleury’s demonstration is cleverly done by comparing a truck’s trailer to that of a yacht and it’s plain to see that the trailer’s deck is like yacht without a keel – and therefore pretty easy to roll on its side if all the weight is sitting above the ‘water’. Trailers have very little weight below the ‘waterline’, whereas a truck can be a bit more difficult to put on its side as there is the engine, gearbox, and diffs to provide a greater degree of stability – or act as a keel, one could say.
"Generally, the trailer will go first and this will take the truck with it," says Fleury.
Speaking to some of the truckies during a break, a couple are of the opinion that the numerous comforts in trucks these days contribute to the amount of rollovers as they delay a driver’s reaction time.
"By the time the air suspension transfers what’s happening through the truck to the air-ride seat, the truck is already gone," quips one driver, while another suggests that he never had a TK Bedford roll over on him as he felt every bump and curve on the road.
Turning and centrifugal force
Other contributors to truck rollovers that Fleury speaks about are the turning force and centrifugal force; the former is induced by the driver as they turn the steering wheel, and the latter slides your packet of Burger Rings across the dash and out of reach. The way that the turning force is handled by the driver makes a truck more or less stable and as we have all learnt from past experience, driving through a corner too fast creates excess centrifugal force, which causes the vehicle’s weight to move to the outside of a turn.
Certificate of Loading
A report by NZTA says that 15 percent of vehicles with a SRT (or Static Roll Threshold as it is correctly called) of less than 0.35g were involved in 40 percent of rollover crashes and Fleury makes no apology for the CVIU pulling a vehicle off the road if the load on board exceeds its Certificate of Loading.
Importantly, these labels refer to a SRT and it is imperative that anyone who calls themself a professional driver understands what these important labels on their rigs mean as they tell how much weight can be carried and how high it can be stacked. It also tells a driver how many ‘Gs’ the vehicle will withstand before it will roll.
Keeping it 10 below
While these numbers and acronyms can sound a bit daunting to a lot of people, Fleury says that there is one very easy way to ensure a driver keeps their rig upright when cornering.
"If drivers keep it 10km/h below the recommended advisory signs on corners, they’ll be upright when they exit the corner."
He’s not just saying this off the cuff though. Roadside advisory signs are calculated with a recommended speed that reflects a maximum of 0.22g of sideways acceleration following a constant, steady path at the posted speed through the corner. So, if you keep it 10 below the posted speed, then chances are you’ll be home for dinner that night.
Fleury does an excellent job at presenting these sessions so that they are easy to understand. I have only touched on just some of the topics that were covered in the two-hour seminar and while we all know why trucks roll over it’s really good to know w-h-y they roll over.
The NZTA and RTF will present the session for free to any group of drivers. With over 1200 people already better informed about truck rollovers, my suggestion is that you get your business to make contact with them to find our more. No one is ever too old to learn.
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Teenager is charged with helping his roommate, 19, kill himself after he 'took him into the woods with a gun and practiced how he'd shoot himself before leaving and waiting for a gunshot'
Michael Buskey, 19, killed himself in the woods near his apartment on May 8
His roommate Parker Hogan told police he went with him beforehand
Hogan, also 19, now faces charges for causing his friend's death and falsifying evidence
He allegedly practiced with Buskey how he would pull the trigger then left him
After hearing a gunshot, he allegedly went back to check he was dead
Prosecutors say he took the gun and a suicide note off of Buskey's body
By Jennifer Smith For Dailymail.com
Published: 12:35 EST, 30 May 2018 | Updated: 17:09 EST, 30 May 2018
A 19-year-old New Hampshire man has been charged after helping his roommate commit suicide.
Parker Hogan appeared in court on Tuesday to face charges of causing a person's death and falsifying evidence after his friend, Michael Buskey, killed himself.
On May 8, Buskey commit suicide in the woods near his apartment in the town of Plymouth.
Prosecutors say Hogan brought him a gun, a notebook and a pen for him to compile a suicide note then told him how to correctly aim the gun on his temple.
Parker Hogan, 19, (left) is shown in court facing charges of causing a death or suicide. His roommate Mikey Buskey (right), also 19, shot himself in the woods behind their apartment on May 8
He allegedly waited nearby until he heard a gunshot then returned to the woods the next day, withholding the fact that his friend was dead, before calling police.
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He also, it is alleged, removed a phone from his pocket that had been playing a song on repeat and he took the gun and the note, which Buskey had written for his family, away from the scene.
Hogan (pictured) went with his friend into the woods with a gun, a notebook and a pen, prosecutors say. He then left him there and listened for the gunshot, it is claimed
Police say that there is also proof Hogan attempted to wipe the gun of fingerprints.
He called Buskey's father along with the police the next day, according to police.
Buskey's family are at a loss over his suicide and say that while he had issues, he appeared to be in a better frame of mind than he had been in the past.
'He loved helping his friends.
'He was always there for people if they needed him,' Jennifer Phelps, Buskey's mother, told WMUR.
'My personal opinion, I can't speak for anybody else, in my personal opinion, I think there's a lot more behind it than meets the eye,' she added.
Before his death, Buskey was arrested for alleged witness tampering and assault. He was accused of hitting a woman and claiming that she was the suspect in a sexual assault investigation.
Earlier this year, Buskey was arrested for assault and witness tampering. He is pictured (left) and Hogan is seen (right) after his high school graduation
The woman had called police after being punched in the face by another man.
It is not clear what Buskey did for work, if anything, or if he was studying when he died.
After his death, friends and family arranged a fundraising page to help his family meet funeral costs.
There, they described him as a 'sweet and troubled' boy whose life was 'cut short'.
Hogan was released from custody after posting bail. He is awaiting his next court date.
For confidential support call the National Suicide Prevention Line on 1-800-273-8255
These are the woods behind the home where Buskey was registered as living in February when he was arrested. It is not clear if this was where he was found on May 9 or not
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For me, every Test match is my last, went into West Indies tour with a clean slate: Hanuma Vihari
The 25-year-old Andhra batsman emerged as the top run-getter with 291 runs in India's 2-0 series win over the West Indies.
By Press Trust of India
| Updated : September 6, 2019 3:44 PM IST
Virat Kohli recently complimented Hanuma Vihari for his temperament, which the skipper feels infuses a sense of calm in the dressing room. @AFP
Cricketers often talk about how a sense of security helps their performance but not Hanuma Vihari, who believes in treating every Test match as “his last” because it helps him be on guard against complacency.
The 25-year-old Andhra batsman emerged as the top run-getter with 291 runs in India‘s 2-0 series win over the West Indies and vindicated the team management’s decision to have him instead of the more stylish Rohit Sharma in the playing XI.
“Obviously I am very happy that I have done well but I went into this tour with a clean slate. I decided to take one Test match at a time. For me, every Test match is my last. It helps me get into a mindset that I have nothing to lose and play accordingly,” Vihari told PTI in an interview.
Recently, Virat Kohli complimented Vihari for his temperament, which the skipper feels infuses a sense of calm in the dressing room. He called Vihari the find of the West Indies tour.
“You can’t ask for anything more if the change room has faith in your abilities. That is certainly the best compliment I could have got and coming from the skipper himself, it can’t get better,” said Vihari, who now has 456 runs in six Tests, including a hundred and three fifties.
But the calm demeanour and steely resolve hasn’t come in a day or two but around seven years of toiling in the domestic arena.
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“It has happened because of the years of hard work that I put in at the domestic level. Before playing for India, I had played nearly 60 first-class games.
“I have faced pressure situations at the first-class level. It prepared me for bigger challenges. Thanks to the Andhra Cricket Association and (chairman of selectors) MSK Prasad sir for giving me a chance to play for Andhra,” said Vihari, whose first-class average of 60.30 after 75 games, is among the top-10 of all time.
He feels the USP of his nascent but impressive international career so far has been his ability to take up challenges head on.
“Opening the batting in Australia was more about my mindset. I wasn’t a natural opener and that was the biggest challenge,” said Vihari, about opening in Melbourne, where he blunted Australia’s new-ball attack, allowing Cheteshwar Pujara to consolidate.
“So either I could have just sat and sulked that I am being asked to bat in an unfamiliar position or just accept the challenge and make the best use of the opportunity that I was being given. I decided on the second option” he recalled.
When most of his illustrious colleagues were playing in the World Cup, Vihari was quietly preparing for the West Indies tour doing his homework. In fact, he reached earlier, led the India A side and scored a hundred under pressure (same innings where Shubman Gill scored a double) against Windies A.
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“I would say the India A series helped but there is a significant gap between A level and international cricket, just like the gap is even bigger if you take domestic cricket into account,” he said.
“The pitch and conditions for the A games were very different from the Test matches. In Coolidge (Antigua), it was much easier to bat on compared to St John’s. Even Sabina Park was a tricky wicket. It needed a different approach,” Vihari added.
He hails from Hyderabad, but Vihari’s style of batting is quite orthodox, compared to illustrious predecessors like Mohammed Azharuddin and VVS Laxman.
“I always believed in developing a compact defensive game. If your defensive technique is in place, the bowlers at international level will find it difficult to dislodge you. Just being aggressive will always give bowlers a chance,” he explained.
Primarily a front-foot player during his initial days in first-class cricket, the hallmark of his game has been solid back-foot play.
“I have worked on my back-foot game which is a must in international cricket. On bouncy tracks, a good back-foot game helps,” he said.
Having reached Hyderabad on Friday morning, Vihari wants to take a week’s rest, before getting back to the National Cricket Academy (NCA) for training in Bengaluru.
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Asked if he will play in the Vijay Hazare Trophy for Andhra, he said: “I haven’t yet checked the schedule. If the Test team is announced before the start of Hazare Trophy, I might not play as it won’t make much sense playing white-ball cricket if I have to play Test matches.”
Life hasn’t exactly been a bed of roses for Vihari, who lost his father at the age of 12 but he is grateful for the hard lessons he learnt early on.
“I was only 12 years old and my elder sister was 14 when we lost our father. My mother Vijayalakshmi is a homemaker. Those were hard days,” he remembered.
“My mother ran the household on my father’s pension. Yet, she allowed me to pursue my dreams and not for once did me or my sister feel that we lacked comfort. I still can’t figure out how she even managed,” he got a touch emotional.
But things have changed since he established himself as a first-class player, had his time in IPL and is now slowly making a mark in international cricket. “Now I have built a house in Hyderabad. I want my mother to relax,” he said.
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Agriculture is our big productivity success story. So why aren’t we celebrating?
Australian agriculture is our productivity success story. But the reaction to it suggests maybe we don't want productivity quite as much as we say we do.
(Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
Amidst a shocking drought, we should be celebrating the remarkable productivity of Australian agriculture, and the key role water trading has played in it.
At a time when even the government admits that Australia’s productivity has slumped on its watch, we could be learning from one of our great productivity success stories — or realising that maybe productivity is not all it’s cracked up to be if you look at it from a different perspective.
Isn’t agriculture currently stricken by the east coast drought? Indeed it is, and that caused a big fall in productivity in 2018-19, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, just as it caused a fall the previous year, reversing the huge productivity rise in 2016-17.
But putting aside weather and climatic volatility, Australian agriculture has led the way in efficiency over the last two decades. Agriculture, fisheries and forestry production has increased 34% in real terms in the 20 years to 2017-18, according to government research body ABARES, despite drought lowering production in 2017-18. Exports have increased 37% by value over that period. And productivity growth in the sector significantly improved between 2006-07 and 2014-15.
But here’s the thing: that big increase in production and exports has been achieved with dramatically fewer workers: employees in agriculture have fallen from 380,000 to less than 280,000 since 1999. Large farms, which employ comparatively fewer workers, have significantly increased in number and output in recent decades and have driven productivity gains.
A sector that has dramatically increased production and exports while slashing its workforce by more than a quarter should, in our productivity-obsessed economy, be celebrated. It would be if it was another industry. The workers who had lost their jobs would be assumed to have moved to other industries where their skills, and labour would be deployed more efficiently.
But the narrative around agriculture is different. Lost agricultural jobs aren’t celebrated as evidence of productivity improvements, but rather are seen as a tragedy for regional communities, where small towns are “hollowed out” by population loss and the inevitable consequences — loss of services, closure of facilities, economic decline, drift to larger regional centres. The story of agriculture must always be one of loss and despair even as it moves from success to success.
The other narrative is about water allocation. Most of the focus around water in the eastern states has been driven by outrage from the NSW Nationals and rural communities that a small, and insufficient, proportion of water from a grossly over-allocated river system has been restored for environmental flows and South Australia.
But water trading is also attacked. Companies are attacked for “hoarding” and speculating in water, “water barons” are attacked in the media, opposition MPs attack the government for allowing it, Nationals MPs complain about people “sitting in high rises in Melbourne trading water”, and ACCC investigations have been initiated.
Since the Rudd government removed many of the parochial state-based impediments to water trading, the water market has dramatically expanded, although part of the increase has been for environmental purchases, as well as commercial transactions. But the evidence is that the only driver of water prices is availability. And the Productivity Commission in 2017 found and heard evidence of how water trading had significantly increased the efficiency of water use, enabled more diverse crops to be developed and, crucially, helped farmers with inflexible water needs access water during drought.
But as with productivity gains, there are losers: farmers who are outbid for water by competitors who can obtain better value from it, or use it more efficiently, complain about water trading, or blame the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, or attack the Nationals for failing to stand up for them. Meanwhile, the industry in which they work is prospering; no one hears protests from the farmers who are able to access precious water in a way they couldn’t in the 1990s or 2000s.
There’s a double standard at work here both from politicians and from most of the media: productivity and efficiency gains — the lack of which are lamented elsewhere — are decried in agriculture. Workers in manufacturing, or construction, or retail, are expected to go elsewhere if there’s a cyclical or structural change in their industries. Lost jobs are seen as the price of economic change and greater efficiency.
But in Australian agriculture, productivity is our guilty secret. Which prompts the question: do we really want what we have there applied to every other industry?
Is there a double standard in the narrative around agriculture? Send your thoughts to [email protected]. Please include your full name for publication.
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old greybearded one
You have no bloody idea Bernard. Water trading has certainly not been a universal blessing. It can cause impossible anomalies in allocations and it introduces middlemen who do not farm and who therefore exist only to profit from water. I am happy to see water traded in a general sense the traders can hold to water and force a higher price. I have no objection to water brokers who arrange purchases for a commission or fee. When trading was introduced, farmers overwhelmingly voted against water being held by non users at catchment management meetings, but the crooks and spivs won.
I do not cheer the loss of jobs from my town, I do not cheer the companies who buy bugger all locally. I agree about the nitwit Nationals. But there is a big productivity issue on water. We still use flood irrigation and this results in significant losses. Your big productivity year was of course the wettest winter year for a century. Look around our croplands and tell me this is productivity. It is simply mining the soil. It could be otherwise but “Monsanto management” is the norm now.
Funny how one of the great industrial “successes” is also one of the greatest embarrassments?
“No job? Then you should move away and look for one! …. Oh, wait, you live out in the provinces? You’re special then.”
Meanwhile as farms get bigger, more automated and less labour intensive, ‘big farmer’ Nats are culling their ‘breeding stock’?
“Silver linings” what?
“Water”? What happens when too many, far removed, vested interests get to pulling at threads.
“Who needs an environment?”
JMNO
Perhaps we aren’t celebrating because there are big downsides. I have always been suspicious of the way economists look at what is quantifiable and then make a positive or negative judgement without considering the social and environmental costs which are regarded as externalities. Perhaps in the Murray-Darling Basin the big profits come at the expense of water for towns, for fodder, for dairying and above all at the expense of the health of the river. Perhaps the water is being used for unsustainable crops requiring large amounts of water all year around, like almonds or extremely large private dams for cotton, across floodplains (many paid for by the Government) which trap water which should go to recharge aquifers and water the land so that the rivers don’t dry up so fast during the next big dry.
Perhaps some agriculture isn’t really productive if the environmental and societal costs are taken into account.
Reply to JMNO
“the way economists look at what is quantifiable ”
Nail and hammer good sir.
My continuing thesis is that western capitalist democracy is doomed because of the primacy of finance and economics in our education and business communities.
Nobody from these professions should ever be allowed near decision making groups, and yet they are our principal actors.
Johnb
“Externalities”, a word that rivals “ collateral damage’. Yes DB none quantifiable externalities, unquantifiable externalities, no matter how expressed by economists it’s how towns are left without water and fish kills at levels never seen before occur. Externalities left outside the market created by Government fiat.
Graeski
People moving out of rural and regional areas is an absolute tragedy for the nation. If it keeps on going, electoral boundaries will have to be reduced and the number of country electorates will need to be cut back to avoid a gerrymander (Heavens above! We couldn’t have one of those!). That means fewer seats in parliament for the Nats and fewer seats to keep the LNP coal-ition in power. Not to mention that those who move to the cities might become – shudder – greenies!
Tragedy, I tell you! Tragedy!
Reply to Graeski
‘Redrawn’, not ‘reduced’.
kyle Hargraves
I will make this claim for you Bernie : you seem to have a knack at distributing information that has
been known for decades as “news”.
At around the turn of the 20th century more than half of the population as engaged in an agriculturally-based occupation. Circa 1880 it was something like 80%. By the 1950s the percentage was very much reduced and in ANY first world country, nowadays, it is under 5%. In fact for Primary Industry (Agriculture, Forestry and Mining) the percentage is under 10%. So much for “jobs in mines etc. but let’s not digress”.
Even allowing for a Depression manufacturing (Secondary Industry) increased to about a peak in the mid 60s but by the 1990s low-level manufacturing was untenable in the first world except for specific items or classes
of items. The transition was to a (so called) Tertiary Sector or a service sector where the majority of jobs
are occupied by those who render services of some sort or another.
An argument for Brexit is that the farms in the UK, being larger and being inherited by the elder (or eldest)
son, are considerably more efficient that those of Ireland or the EU where the farms have been divided amongst siblings. Agriculture, if you haven’t noticed, has for the last 40-odd years been (1) very high tech and (2) very high risk. You also could have mentioned Australia’s comparative advantage and Australia being one of three countries that have comparatively high primary sectors AND being also a 1st world country.
The lamenting of the “loss of jobs” is pathetic and uninformed. The tax-doges of the 80s & 90s in respect of primary producers planting shrubs (or anything at all) went nowhere and the water-trading suits only the most
monopolised. The article ought to have commenced from this point.
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Miami Welcomes the Carnival Horizon Cruise Ship
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Carnival Cruise Line and Miami have welcomed Carnival Horizon for the very first time. The new Carnival ship arrived on Thursday, September 20 from New York and the festivities were led by Chief Fun Officer Shaquille O’Neal.
Carnival Horizon Welcomed to Miami
The newest ship in the fleet arrived at PortMiami on Thursday to begin her year-round service of Caribbean cruises. To welcome the ship there were festivities held onboard and along with the CFO, there were Miami HEAT legends Alonzo Mourning, Shane Battier and Glen Rice.
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During the event on the lido deck, Carnival presented a $25,000 to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This was thanks to a social media campaign where people had to post a photo of the Airship along with the hashtag #choosefun. Those who got involved had a chance to win a free cruise and prizes.
Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line, said:
“With its awesome top-deck attractions and wide variety of al fresco dining experiences, Carnival Horizon is the ideal ship for the Caribbean and this event was a perfect way to celebrate her Miami arrival while benefiting the special children of St. Jude.”
“And we’ve taken our Choose Fun tagline to the next level by putting a giant bumper sticker on our newest ship proclaiming our never-ending commitment to FUN!”
There was a large “ChooseFun” bumper sticker ship’s stern and an appearance by the much anticipated Carnival Airship which we’ve covered on Cruise Hive previously. The airship did a fly over Carnival Horizon as she was docked at the cruise terminal in Miami. The 128-foot-long red, white, and blue blimp is doing a tour of the southeast to promote all the new Carnival ship deployments as part of the line’s month-long Homeport Advantage campaign.
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The second Vista class ship is first sailing a one-time 2-night cruise to Nassau, Bahamas. The first official regular sailing to the Caribbean will depart PortMiami on September 22. The new offerings from Florida will include 6-day cruises departing on Sunday to the western Caribbean and two different 8-day itineraries departing on Saturdays to the Eastern Caribbean and Southern parts of the Caribbean.
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Carnival Horizon is a 133,500 gross tons ship and joined the fleet in Spring 2018. Her inaugural cruises in the U.S. were out of New York City. A third Vista-class vessel will arrive in 2019.
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Edmunds: Black Friday car deals may not be as bountiful
Ronald Montoya
Published Wednesday, November 25, 2020 11:14AM EST
This photo provided by Chrysler shows the 2020 Chrysler 300C. (Chrysler via AP)
Once a novel concept in dealership marketing, Black Friday car deals have become as common as the TV deals at your local big-box store. While the savings on new cars aren't that dramatic -- no 70% off fire sales here -- they do generally make mid- to late November a good time to buy a car.
This year, however, the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on just about everything -- Black Friday car deals included.
Perhaps the biggest factor is the lack of inventory caused by all the factory shutdowns. There simply aren't as many 2021 models on dealer lots this year as there were 2020s at this time last year. Moreover, Edmunds market analysts expect inventory to remain low through the end of the year. Depressed supply means it's a seller's market, so discounts won't be nearly as steep as in years past.
And what of that 0% financing you might've seen advertised a few months ago? Well, we have good news and bad news. The bad news is that, yes, there are fewer 0% offers than the record highs we saw in late spring. In October, such deals made up about 9% of car loans, down from 12.9% in September, according to Edmunds data. But the good news is that this figure is still about 4 percentage points higher than the 2019 norm.
So what should you look for? The deal hunters at Edmunds have located five 2020 vehicles in various categories that still offer significant savings this month. We've organized them from the highest per cent savings to the lowest. Note that these savings are averages, which means that you can likely improve on the savings with some negotiating and incentives.
Average manufacturer's suggested price US$41,361; average discount $10,364 (25% savings)
What our editors say: "The Bolt has surprising interior space for a vehicle that looks small from the outside. And for the 2020 model year, Chevrolet updated the Bolt's battery pack, increasing its capacity without changing its size. The result is an increase in total range to an impressive 259 miles."
Average MSRP $32,768; average discount $6,013 (18% savings)
What our editors say: "The latest Jeep Cherokee ditches its nontraditional styling for a more familial look based on the bigger Grand Cherokee. The V6 engine is still an option, but there's a hot turbocharged four-cylinder engine as well. In proper Jeep fashion, the Cherokee remains one of the most capable small SUVs for going off-road."
What our editors say: "There is nothing small about the Chrysler 300. It's a large sedan in nearly every sense of the word, with a spacious upscale interior, a long wheelbase for a smooth ride, and an available V8 engine that has plenty of muscle."
2020 Ford Fusion Hybrid
What our editors say: "The current-generation Ford Fusion Hybrid dates all the way back to 2013, but Ford's continuous tweaks have kept it fresh long past a normal car's sell-by date. Even though all of its competitors are newer, the 2020 Fusion Hybrid's long list of strengths helps it remain one of the best choices for a midsize sedan."
What our editors say: "The 2020 Ford F-150 is a great example of the tough yet modern full-size pickup truck. It has the power to tow and haul at the top of its class, yet it also offers a wide range of luxury and technology features. The combination makes it one of the most versatile trucks available."
EDMUNDS SAYS: Despite the lack of typical Black Friday deals this year, you can still find great vehicles at appealing prices for the holiday season. Just keep in mind that supply limitations may make it harder to find the exact mix of features you're looking for.
This story was provided to The Associated Press by the automotive website Edmunds. Ronald Montoya is a senior consumer advice editor at Edmunds.
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Escalating Ground Rent Clauses
It is usual for a property lease to contain a provision enabling the freeholder (also known as the landlord) to review and amend the ground rent after a certain period of time. The increase may be expressly set out in the lease, for example as a percentage, or by reference to an inflation-measuring index.
However, an increasing number of leases now contain review clauses that provide for an automatic doubling of the ground rent, in some cases as often as every ten years. This has been especially prevalent among some property developers, who have been routinely selling new-build houses as leaseholds rather than freeholds, and inserting an escalating ground rent clause into the leases. Once the development is finished, the freehold is then sold to a property investor who receives the ground rent every year and is not obliged to maintain any common areas on the development.
At first glance an escalating ground rent clause may not appear to be a problem; it is reasonable to expect that rents will increase to avoid the freeholder losing out from the effects of inflation. However, over the lifetime of a 150-year lease with the ground rent doubling every 10 years, by the end of the lease the ground rent will have escalated from the original by some 819,200%. In real terms, such a lease with a starting ground rent of £200 per year would finish with a rent of £3,276,800 per year.
Increased awareness of the damaging potential of these clauses has meant that they are frequently a problem for prospective purchasers of leasehold properties. A leasehold interest in a property inherently loses value over time as the remaining term of the lease reduces; a 100-year lease will always be more valuable than a 50-year lease of the same property on the same terms. When combined with an escalating ground rent clause, these properties can become unattractive to potential buyers.
Mortgage lenders have also become increasingly wary of these clauses, with many refusing to lend on properties with rent review clauses that they consider to be onerous.
Unfortunately, many leaseholders who have an escalating ground rent clause in their lease are not aware of the existence of the clause until they attempt to sell their property or extend their lease.
Some cases, landlords may agree to new, less onerous rent review clauses either as part of a lease extension or by way of a Deed of Variation to an existing lease. Our conveyancing solicitors are able to assist with both of these matters. However, these negotiations are not guaranteed to be straightforward, and in some cases unscrupulous freeholders have attempted to increase the rate at which the ground rent increases rather than accepting reduced terms. Negotiating a variation of a lease as part of a sale transaction is also likely to incur delays for the whole chain.
It is the responsibility of a conveyancer to fully explain the implications of the terms of a lease and other title documentation to their client when acting on a purchase. Failure to do so may constitute a breach of the solicitor’s duty of care, and is likely to give rise to a claim in professional negligence. Our solicitors have experience of such claims against other legal professionals, and our expertise in conveyancing gives us the necessary understanding of how you should have been advised when making the original purchase. It is important to note that limitation is often an issue in these claims; generally speaking, claims against solicitors must be brought within six years of the conclusion of your matter (known as the limitation period). It is therefore in your interests to bring a claim as soon as possible.
If you believe that your lease has an onerous escalating ground rent clause and you were not properly advised of this at the time of purchasing your property, please contact us today for a free no obligation consultation by calling either our London or High Wycombe offices on the telephone numbers referred to at the top of this page, or by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We will always get back to you.
Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolutions are designed to assist in the settlement of disputes quickly and inexpensively, as an alternative to court proceedings. They both involve an independent third party in the resolution of a dispute, usually chosen by the parties themselves.
Mediation is available to parties either before or during court proceedings and has become increasingly popular in recent years, with the courts increasingly trying to encourage parties to try mediation before matters are heard before the court.
Mediation operates by the parties jointly appointing a professional and impartial mediator who meets with the parties and explores the possibility of settlement. The mediator cannot advise the parties on points of law but will aim to facilitate discussion between the parties towards resolving the dispute. The mediator does not reach a final outcome for the parties so the parties are able to agree any outcome they consider appropriate for their dispute. The results of mediation are non-binding but will often be written up as a comprise agreement.
The key benefits of mediation are as follows:
Not subject to legal rules
Not subject to determination by legal procedures
Not subject appeal on point of law unlike arbitration
The term of the mediation are set by the parties
Outcome determined by parties themselves and not mediator unlike arbitration
Our solicitors have significant experience in all aspects of construction, particularly in disputes. We regularly act for clients in adjudication, arbitration, court litigation and mediations, and are often prepared to act on a no win, no fee basis.
Please contact us today for a free no-obligation telephone discussion by calling us on one of the two telephone numbers at the top of this page, or by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Arbitration is an alternative to court proceedings which aims to find a final binding award usually in favour of one of the parties. Arbitration is based on the parties agreement: all parties must agree to submit the dispute in question to arbitration.
An arbitrator conducts the arbitration and will be an individual with professional expertise in assisting in the resolution of disputes. An arbitrator can be appointed by agreement between the parties or by an independent nominating body. The arbitrator will make a decision at the end of the arbitration like a judgement, which is final and enforceable.
The arbitrator will conduct the arbitration in a fair and impartial manner, obtaining position statements and evidence from the parties and will hold hearings to review the parties positions. Arbitration is conducted according to the agreed rules of the Arbitration Act 1996, and the outcome of the arbitration can be appealed on a point of law to the courts.
The main benefit of arbitration is the flexibility it provides the parties, as it is not governed by rules of procedures so it can be much less formal than court proceedings. If the parties desire, the arbitrator can recommend solutions to the parties instead of making a final decision. Arbitration is also more flexible for the parties than court procedures in that they usually choose where the arbitration is to take place and the parties can also choose their own rules to govern the procedure of the arbitration.
Adjudication provides a quick and inexpensive solution to many disputes arising under a construction contract. It is designed to produce a remedy during the process of a construction project to avoid the problem of long court litigation, which many sub-contractors and small construction companies are unable to afford.
Adjudication is appropriate for resolving financial disputes relating to delay and disruption claims, extension of time claims, final accounts disputes and can be particularly helpful in sorting out disputes on interim applications. Although it has been available since 1998, many contractors still have not taken advantage of the benefits offered by the adjudication procedure.
The legal right to adjudicate is a right that the parties cannot contract out of. A party to a construction contract has the right to refer a dispute to adjudication at any time. The Adjudicators decisions are also binding on the parties until the dispute is finally determined by legal proceedings, by arbitration or by agreement.
There are many benefits of adjudication:
Quick– disputes are resolved in 6-8 weeks of the appointment of an adjudicator
Inexpensive– adjudication is far less costly than either court proceedings or arbitration proceeding
Less risky than arbitration or court – unless the parties have agreed otherwise, each party nears its own costs in adjudication and the losing party cannot be ordered to pay the winners costs
It does not bring the contract to an end– work will continue on the contract whilst the adjudication proceeds so that the sub contractor is not going to lose the opportunity of completing the contract simply because he has asked an adjudicator to resolve a dispute
Flexibility – the scope of arbitration has extended beyond payment disputes arising during the course of the project, to include disputes relating to breach of contract and termination issues often arising after completion
It must be borne in mind that the costs of adjudication cannot be recovered from their opponent even if the adjudication is successful.
Dilapidations
Dilapidations issues primarily occur when a tenant is found to be in contravention of its leasehold obligations relating to repair, redecoration and reinstatement, usually at the termination of lease.
Our lawyers can advise Landlords upon the terms of the lease to establish whether there is a dilapidations issue in respect of which action can be taken against a tenant.
Likewise, they can advise tenants upon the validity of any claims brought against them.
If it appears that there is a dilapidations dispute our lawyers will advise you in taking the appropriate action in accordance with the requirements of the ‘Dilapidations Protocol’.
The first step is the preparation of a Schedule of Dilapidations by a suitably qualified professional (usually a surveyor). This records the alleged breaches of covenant and identifies appropriate remedies which ultimately could form the basis of legal proceedings if the parties are unable to agree the remedying of the breach or a financial sum in damages in lieu.
The law in this area can be complex, especially in terms of limitations upon the sums that can be claimed in respect of terminal dilapidations however, our lawyers will guide you through the process and any court proceedings although in many cases a settlement can be agreed.
Please contact us today for a free no obligation telephone discussion by calling us on one of the two telephone numbers referred to at the top of this page, or by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Commercial lease renewals
The Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 sets out a formal procedure for the renewal of business leases. Most commercial lease renewals are subject to this procedure unless the parties have specifically stated otherwise in the lease (‘contracting out’).
The Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 gives commercial tenants security of tenure and the right to renew the tenancy when it comes to an end. If the landlord and tenant agree that there should be a new tenancy, but cannot agree on its terms, either can apply to the court for a new tenancy. Or if the tenant wants a new tenancy, but the landlord refuses to grant one, the tenant can apply to the court. The court will then settle the rent and the other terms of the new tenancy.
Landlords can oppose renewal of the tenancy on certain grounds. Some are to do with the tenant's own conduct - for example, failure to pay rent. Others are to do with the landlord's needs - for example, where landlords want to redevelop premises or get them back for their own use. Landlords can either apply to the court to end the tenancy, or can oppose the tenant's application for renewal. The court will decide whether the landlord has grounds for opposing renewal, and whether or not to order a new tenancy.
The procedure for renewing a tenancy is complex. There are specific requirements and crucial time limits which, if not met, may affect a parties’ right to, or right to object to, the proposed new lease. Our lawyers are well versed in all the relevant laws and procedures and take all steps necessary to ensure that a client’s interests in relation to the proposed new lease are protected.
Breaches of Covenant
Commercial leases impose obligations on both landlords and tenants, by way of landlord and tenant covenants. If any covenants are breached by one party, then the other party may wish to take enforcement action against it to force compliance with the terms of the lease.
The main landlord covenants are likely to include peaceful enjoyment of the premises and to insure and repair the structure of the building.
Tenant covenants are far more extensive, including the covenant to pay rent and keep the premises in repair and the imposition of obligations in relation to things like subletting.
The action that a landlord or tenant may wish to take following a breach by the other will depend upon the circumstances of the case and will depend largely upon the terms of the lease, the commercial aims of the party seeking a remedy and whether the breach is remediable.
Potential remedies include forfeiture (in the case of a tenant breach), specific performance, an injunction (requiring the party in breach to do or refrain from doing something) and/or damages.
Our litigation lawyers are experienced in considering the circumstances of the case, advising upon the merits of the options available, serving any relevant notices and in commencing court proceedings as required.
Forfeiture of a Commercial Lease
A commercial landlord has the right to forfeit a lease where a tenant is in breach of a covenant.
A tenant’s security of tenure is protected by legislation however the landlord’s right to terminate the lease by exercising the right of forfeiture is preserved within that legislation (Landlord and Tenant Act 1954).
The right to forfeit and re-enter premises is essentially contractual and there must be a clause to that effect within the lease.
For all breaches other than rent arrears there is a formal procedure to be followed before forfeiture can take place (Section 146 Law of Property Act 1925).
Rent arrears are specifically excluded from the section 146 procedure however the landlord must formally demand the rent prior to forfeiture unless the lease makes it clear that no demand is necessary. In practice we would usually recommend that a formal demand be made.
In rent arrears cases it is also important to check the lease to establish how long the rent must be unpaid before forfeiture can be carried out. Most modern leases contain a clause for forfeiture and re-entry subject to rent being unpaid for either 14 or 28 days.
Exercising a right of forfeiture and re-entry demonstrates a landlord’s intention to terminate the lease and can be effected in 2 ways:
Peaceable re-entry;
Issuing court proceedings
Peaceable re-entry is only available in the case of a breach of the covenant to pay rent. All other claims for forfeiture for breaches of covenant must be pursued via the courts following service of any appropriate notices.
Once forfeiture has been effected there is provision for the tenant to apply to the court for relief. In most cases the courts will grant the tenant relief from forfeiture provided the tenant has rectified the breach e.g. paid any rent arrears in full, together with interest and any costs due.
The law surrounding forfeiture of a commercial tenancy is a complex area of law. There are procedural issues that must be followed or there is a risk that a landlord will lose their right to forfeiture and a tenant will lose their right to relief. Our lawyers are experienced at guiding client’s through this process, taking the necessary procedural steps and advising upon the do’s and don’ts that can affect the claim.
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An Ongoing Path
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Let us press on to maturity
By Derek Prince
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We have looked so far at four “Let us” statements in the book of Hebrews. Now, we turn to the fifth such statement—one that could be a new resolution for us. Hebrews 6:1 reads, “Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity” (nasb). Many Christians have the impression that in the Christian life, you can somehow “arrive,” reaching a point where you can settle down and say, “Now, I’m there.” But that is not true. To remain static in the mature spiritual life is almost impossible. As Proverbs 4:18 says, “The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until the full day” (nasb). The phrase “the path of the righteous” is not speaking about a specific believer or group of believers but about each and every righteous person.
Notice that righteousness is a path. It is not designed for standing still, much less for sitting down. As a path, righteousness implies motion, progress, and development. This path is like the light of dawn when we first come to know the Lord in His glorious fullness as Savior and Lord. It is like the sun rising after the darkness, or like a dawn that comes to our hearts. But dawn is not the end of God’s purposes; it is just the beginning.
When we are walking in the path of righteousness, the light should always be getting brighter. With every step, with each new day, the light should be brighter than it was before. “Until the full day”: that is our destination, the height of noonday.
God is not content for us to stop at anything less than the full brightness of the noonday sun. Dawn is our beginning point, the path is the way of progress, and the light gets brighter and brighter. But there is no stopping permitted until we reach the full day.
Prayer response
Thank You, Lord, that You are leading me onward. I proclaim that righteousness is a path, and God expects motion, progress, and development on my part. I shall press on to maturity. Amen.
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Other Body: Imperial Cloud
Miami three-piece noise rock group, Other Body, are about to follow their 2015 debut with an EP, Total Bust, which is scheduled to be released on November 4th via Quiet Mind Recordings.
Total Bust comes in the aftermath of a breaking year that 2016 has been for the band, particularly for guitarist/vocalist, Andrew McLees, who recently lost his father after a long battle his Parkinson's Disease, resulting to the new EP's mood being often more on the dispirited aspect of their sound, still maintaining the cathartic qualities of their noise-y punk rock energy.
Imperial Cloud, the EP's pounding, dynamic opener and first single off the EP brings back memories of The Fall, The Wire and Sonic Youth, combining its aggressive post-punk filthiness with some enticing psychedelic magnetism and making it clear how this band evidently deserves more recognition.
Listen right below...
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The Turquoise Holiday Company
Extraordinary holiday and honeymoon experiences and best-in-class customer service
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Our overseas holidays might be on pause, but our passion for travel remains unabated. Not since Prohibition in 1920s America has there been such desire for a product you can’t buy. But if there’s one tour operator that can navigate the choppy waters of a pandemic, it’s Turquoise Holidays.
Recently named Best Tour Operator in Condé Nast Traveller’s Readers’ Choice Awards for the fourth year in a row, Turquoise Holidays was founded in 2002, at a time when bird flu was at its apex and the second Gulf War was on the horizon. It wasn’t the most auspicious start, but it allowed the brand to develop a steely fortitude, something that has helped it adopt a safe but proactive course of action today.
‘I really believe that once we start travelling again we will be better at it. We’ll slow down, savour every moment and show greater respect for those around us’
‘I have learnt two important lessons from Covid-19,’ says managing director, James Bell. ‘The first is that flexibility and honesty will go a long way to solving most problems. The second is that if you look after your clients and employees in a crisis, no problem is insurmountable. While some of our competitors have pulled back on their marketing, we wanted to go on being a strong presence so we’ve continued with the traditional methods like newspaper adverts, social media campaigns and magazine spreads. We also knew it was imperative to make our clients feel valued.’
Making clients feel appreciated is no simple task at the best of times. ‘Our customer service has to reflect our sympathy for anyone with disrupted holiday plans, particularly our wedding clients,’ says James. ‘We always make a point of getting in touch with our customers to discuss their options, rather than waiting for them to contact us. We’ve introduced refundable deposits, greater flexibility on itineraries and sourced insurance policies offering specific Covid-19 protection – even for clients who wanted to travel against FCO advice. As they say, “you can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf”.’
The business model has had to be adapted, which James describes as ‘shortening our sail and relooking at our course’. This has meant making changes to the company’s working practices, destinations and product. Extra support has been given to staff, introducing ‘self-care days’ so they can rest and recharge their batteries.
The brand’s outlook remains buoyant. ‘We’re certain of our future because the security, protection and advice a tour operator provides will become even more important to people looking to book their holidays,’ James says. ‘Our personable service and innovative approach to choosing the best islands and hotels based on their awareness for the surrounding environment will also certainly help.’
Turquoise Holidays also knows the thirst for travel hasn’t gone away. ‘Turquoise Holidays will be moving into 2021 and beyond with confidence and optimism,’ says James. ‘I really believe that once we start travelling again we will be better at it. We’ll slow down, savour every moment and show greater respect for those around us. The world is still a wonderful place and it would be a shame if we weren’t allowed to visit it.’
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Civil Rights Health International
China Denies Coercive Birth Control Measures in Xinjiang
January 11, 2021 January 11, 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS
birth control, China, Muslims
Xu Guixiang, a deputy spokesperson for the Xinjiang regional government, looks up near a slide showing a photo of Uighur infants during a press conference to refute accusations of genocide held in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese official on Monday denied Beijing has imposed coercive birth control measures among Muslim minority women, following an outcry over a tweet by the Chinese Embassy in Washington claiming that government polices had freed women of the Uighur ethnic group from being “baby-making machines.”
Xu Guixiang, a deputy spokesperson for the Xinjiang regional government, told reporters Monday that birth control decisions were made of the person’s own free will and that “no organization or individual can interfere.”
“The growth rate of the Uighur population is not only higher than that of the whole Xinjiang population, but also higher than that of the minority population, and more significantly higher than that of the (Chinese majority) Han population,” Xu said. “As for the so-called forcing ethnic minority women in Xinjiang to wear IUDs, or undergo tubal ligations or abortions, it is even more malign.”
An Associated Press investigation in June found that the Chinese government was forcing draconian birth control measures on Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, including IUD fittings, contraceptives, and even abortions and sterilizations.
The measures are backed by the threat of detention, with parents with three or more children swept into camps and prisons if they’re unable to pay massive fines. As a result, the birth rate in Xinjiang’s minority regions plummeted by over 60% in just three years, even as Beijing eases birth restrictions on the Han population ahead of a looming demographic crisis.
Twitter took down the Chinese Embassy’s Jan. 7 tweet following protests by groups that accuse Beijing of seeking to eradicate Uighur culture. Users complained the tweet was a violation of rules set by Twitter, which is blocked in China along with Facebook and other American social media platforms.
“China’s fascist government is now openly admitting and celebrating its use of concentration camps, forced labor, forced sterilizations and abortions, and other forms of torture to eliminate an ethnic and religious minority,” Nihad Awad, national executive director of The Council on American-Islamic Relations, said in an emailed statement.
China has been waging a years-long campaign against what it calls terrorism and religious fanaticism in Xinjiang and the embassy’s tweet referenced those polices, saying: “Study shows that in the process of eradicating extremism, the minds of Uygur women in Xinjiang were emancipated and gender equality and reproductive health were promoted, making them no longer baby-making machines.”
The tweet cited a study by Li Xiaoxia, a Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences researcher who has asserted that the birth control measures in Xinjiang are voluntary.
Li’s papers in past years laid the theoretical foundations for justifying mass birth control measures. In one 2017 paper, Li said having many children was a sign of “religious extremism and ethnic separatism.” Li worried that predominantly minority districts were breeding grounds for terrorism, calling it “a big political risk.”
Monday’s news conference was the latest attempt by Beijing to deflect rising international criticism over its policies in Xinjiang, particularly over alleged forced labor and the detention of more than 1 million Uighurs, Kazakhs and others in prison-like centers for political indoctrination. China says the centers are intended to combat extremism and teach job skills, but former residents and rights groups say they target Islam and minority languages and culture.
Elijan Anayat, another regional government spokesperson, said all those at the centers had “graduated” as of October 2019, countering reports that China continues to expand the system.
“With the help of the government, they have achieved stable employment, improved the quality of life and lived a normal life,” Anayat said. “At present, there is no education and training center in Xinjiang.”
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Federal Judge Dismisses Covington Catholic Students’ Defamation Suit
December 23, 2020 December 24, 2020 ANDY MONSERUD
defamation, Journalism, Native Americans, protests, teens
In this Jan. 20, 2019, file photo snow covers the grounds of Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Ky. (AP Photo/Lisa Cornwell)
(CN) — Defamation and harassment claims brought by students at Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School against CNN, the Washington Post and NBC were dismissed by a federal judge Wednesday after he found that none of the twelve plaintiffs had been defamed or unlawfully threatened.
The suit stems from a confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial in January of 2019 during the annual March for Life, and followed on the heels of CNN’s settlement with fellow student Nicholas Sandmann.
Sandmann’s tense encounter with Native American activist Nathan Phillips at the march went viral, sparking widespread ire on social media from commenters who objected to the school group’s alleged chants of “Build the wall” and “It’s not rape if you enjoy it” — which the students say were fabricated — and to perceived disrespect of Phillips, a former Marine Corps reservist whom the complaint called a “phony war hero.”
Phillips had previously claimed to have been a “Vietnam-era” veteran, and all three outlets reported that he served in the war there.
The students, meanwhile, said that they started chanting school fight songs in response to taunts from a group of Black Hebrew Israelites — a religious group that believes African-Americans are descendants of the ancient Israelites, some of whom hold extreme anti-Semitic and Black supremacist views. Phillips faced down Sandmann while singing and playing a drum, Sandmann said, and made no effort to get around him.
The teen sued all three news outlets, but only CNN settled; Sandmann’s claims against the Post were dismissed in July and a few claims against NBC are still pending, all for statements saying that Sandmann blocked Phillips’ retreat from the Covington Catholic crowd.
Twelve more teens and their parents repeated Sandmann’s allegations in this lawsuit, and in another added claims against several Twitter commentators whose tweets about the teenagers went viral.
U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman, who is also overseeing Sandmann’s suit, dismissed the claims against all three media outlets Wednesday after finding that none of the disputed statements specifically targeted any of the individual plaintiffs.
“Unlike Sandmann’s claims based statements Phillips made explicitly about Sandmann blocking him, Plaintiffs were among a larger group of students on the Lincoln Memorial steps that were never named,” Bertelsman wrote.
The students’ argument that news coverage was still “of and concerning” them because some of them were pictured in photos accompanying stories, he wrote, was “also misguided” because they have not shown that they were particular subjects of the stories among over 100 students at the protest.
He also noted that several of the disputed statements were made by Phillips himself, making them subjective expressions of opinion and therefore nonactionable.
Bertelsman also dismissed privacy claims, noting that the events being discussed took place at the very public National Mall, and aiding-and-abetting claims, pointing out that the teens had not identified any party the media outlets were supposed to have aided or abetted in a crime.
The only tweet Bertelsman addressed in the order was a since-deleted one by Sellers, in which the analyst wrote that Sandmann was “a deplorable” and that “some [people] can also be punched in the face.”
The tweet, Bertelsman said, was not directed directly at Sandmann or any other individual, and could not be read to place the plaintiffs in danger or fear of injury. He added that it was also protected by the First Amendment for similar reasons.
The students have also sued several other Twitter users for their tweets about the incident in state court, and Bertelsman dismissed another federal lawsuit against comedian Kathy Griffin in April.
Attorneys for both sides did not respond to requests for comment.
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Coventry City striker sets sights on double figures and promotion in his first season
The Sky Blues' summer signing has scored three so far in the pre-season
Andy TurnerSky Blues Reporter
Coventry City striker Marc McNulty has set his goal tally for the season but admits he’d settle for just a handful if it meant the club got promoted.
The nippy Sky Blues front man wants to get to a minimum of double figures – a feat he achieved on loan in League Two with Portsmouth two season’s ago – but insists, unselfishly, that his priority is seeing the team get back to League One at the first attempt.
The summer recruit has hit three goals in pre-season so far since signing for Mark Robins from Sheffield United, all from the penalty spot, making him the stand-out choice as the designated spot-kick taker ahead of the new campaign.
McNulty 'disappointed' despite his brace against Dons
Asked if he has a goals target for the new season, the 24-year-old who bagged both goals to secure a 2-0 victory over League One MK Dons on Friday night, said: “Yes, of course.
“Selfishly, I want to get to double figures but if you offered me five goals now and we got promoted at the end of the season I’d bite your hand off.
Marc McNulty was looking fit and sharp against MK Dons at Nuneaton's Liberty Way on Friday night
“I’m here for one thing, and that’s to help this club get back up.”
McNulty signed a two-year deal with City who beat off hot interest from Mansfield and Bristol Rovers to get his signature after being released by the Blades.
Starting his career with Scottish side Livingston where he scored 41 goals in 91 league appearances, he was Pompey's leading scorer with 12 during a loan spell at Fratton Park the the season before last.
Manager Robins said at the time of signing the Scot: “Marc is a natural goalscorer who is comfortable using either foot and he will be a real threat in front of goal for us.
“Goalscoring was clearly an area requiring improvement from last season, and I’m delighted to have been given the support to improve this area with a player of Marc’s undoubted quality."
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Antitrust Agencies Offer COVID-19 Guidance and Warnings to Competitor Collaborations
On March 24, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (the Division) and the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission (the Bureau) released a joint statement pertaining to the enforcement of competition laws during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although both the Division and Bureau already offer review/comment processes for proposed cooperative conduct, the agencies will now resolve all COVID-19-related requests as well as public health/safety issues, within seven calendar days of receiving all necessary information. This marks a substantial acceleration in review time, but places added pressure on companies to provide information quickly to facilitate any review.
The expedited COVID-19 procedure offers quicker review than existing FTC and DOJ programs that are designed to provide guidance to businesses concerned about the legality of proposed conduct under the antitrust laws. The FTC’s “Staff Advisory Opinion” procedure and DOJ’s “Business Review Letter” procedure allow any firm, individual, or group of firms or individuals to submit a proposal to the agencies and to receive a statement advising whether the agencies would challenge the proposed cooperative activity under the antitrust laws.
For entities that need to take immediate action in the wake of COVID-19, the agencies provided several examples of collaborative actions that would not violate the antitrust laws. These include collaboration on research and development, sharing technical know-how, and various standards for patient management in the health care context. Additionally, the agencies reiterated that most joint purchasing agreements in the health care context generally do not violate the antitrust laws as they increase procurement efficiency while reducing final transaction costs.
Outside of the health care context, the agencies note that other businesses may need to “temporarily combine production, distribution, or service networks” to bolster supply chains related to COVID-19 products. The agencies do not provide any type of blanket protection for these agreements, but note that joint efforts that are “limited in duration and necessary to assist patients, consumers, and communities affected by COVID-19” may be required as part of an overall public health response to the epidemic.
In addition to the above guidance, the agencies also included the following important warning to companies looking to cooperate in the current environment:
While many individuals and businesses have and will demonstrate extraordinary compassion and flexibility in responding to COVID-19, others may use it as an opportunity to subvert competition or prey on vulnerable Americans. The Division and the Bureau will not hesitate to seek to hold accountable those who do so. In particular, the Division and the Bureau stand ready to pursue civil violations of the antitrust laws, which include agreements between individuals and business to restrain competition through increased prices, lower wages, decreased output, or reduced quality as well as efforts by monopolists to use their market power to engage in exclusionary conduct. The Division will also prosecute any criminal violations of the antitrust laws, which typically involve agreements or conspiracies between individuals or businesses to fix prices or wages, rig bids, or allocate markets.
As companies confront a host of new challenges to their businesses, exploring various forms of cooperation could present opportunities to meet these unique circumstances. Cooperative arrangements like joint ventures and information exchange/benchmarking exercises with competitors illustrate just a few examples that could allow for increases in efficiency and benefits to consumers. But the antitrust laws are intricate, and the line between pro-competitive and illegal conduct under these laws is highly dependent on the details. This is true even for good faith efforts to reduce health risks to company employees or making sure businesses have the financial strength and resources to weather the COVID-19 storm.
As a general guide, below is a brief overview of the U.S. antitrust laws, and a discussion of some of the more common antitrust issues encountered by businesses under this law.
The “Per Se” Violations
Section 1 of the Sherman Act (15 U.S.C. § 1) prohibits any agreement among competitors that unreasonably restrains competition. The Supreme Court uses two types of analyses to determine the lawfulness of activities under the Sherman Act: per se and Rule of Reason. Per se agreements are so likely to harm competition and to have no significant pro-competitive effect that they are presumed to be illegal without consideration of any evidence that the agreement might have a legitimate business purpose. As noted in the joint statement’s warning, types of agreements held per se illegal include agreements among competitors to fix prices or output, rig bids, or share or divide markets by allocating customers, suppliers, or territories.
Per se agreements are the most likely to result in substantial antitrust penalties. To avoid per se violations, businesses should adhere to the following basic guidelines:
Do not agree on, and avoid even discussing, commercially sensitive topics with competitors, such as prices, pricing procedures, costs, customer lists, discounts, profits, credit terms, or production levels.
Do not agree with any competitors to refuse to sell to certain customers, serve only some areas, or buy from only certain suppliers.
Note that an “agreement” is the essence of a Section 1 violation. But an agreement does not have to be written or specifically stated. It can also be oral or inferred from conduct, surrounding circumstances, and documents such as notes, minutes, and memoranda.
Do not notify other companies prior to reducing prices, establish or agree on uniform price increases or discounts, or agree to maintain floor prices.
For all contracts that require competitive bidding, limit the number of people in your firm who are familiar with the bid terms. The fewer people in your firm who know the bid terms, the less likely sensitive information will be disclosed to a competitor.
The Rule of Reason: Joint Ventures and Information Exchanges
All other agreements under Section 1 of the Sherman Act are evaluated under the Rule of Reason, which involves a factual inquiry into an agreement’s overall competitive effect. Examples of agreements that are typically evaluated under the Rule of Reason analysis include joint ventures and information exchanges.
Joint Ventures are one of the most perplexing areas of antitrust law. Federal antitrust agencies have acknowledged that joint ventures are often pro-competitive, allowing companies to combine their expertise to make better use of their assets. Indeed, the joint statement acknowledges there could be an immediate need for pro-competitive cooperatives to address specific COVID-19 issues. On the other hand, joint ventures can create the opportunity for collusion, enhance market power, or eliminate potential competition in the marketplace. Below are a few tips for keeping joint ventures lawful:
Carefully evaluate the potential anti-competitive harms of the agreement. Does it reduce the parties’ ability or incentive to compete independently, create barriers for other competitors to compete, or increase the parties’ ability to raise prices or reduce production, service quality, or technical innovation?
Be prepared to provide a business justification for any joint venture. Does the agreement allow the parties to serve more customers, bring services to customers faster or cheaper, or combine assets or use them more efficiently?
Avoid oral or informal joint ventures. Consider using letters of intent to define the scope of the joint venture, as well as each party’s specific responsibilities.
Consider the term of the proposed joint venture. The shorter the duration, the more likely the parties will compete against each other in the future.
In the context of COVID-19, businesses may also need to exchange information or best practices with other companies on their policies and practices, business continuity plans, telework or “shelter-in-place” policies, travel restrictions, or more fundamental market intelligence on supply and demand trends or other business challenges resulting from this crisis. Information exchange agreements are also judged under the Rule of Reason standard because these agreements have the potential to assist companies in better understanding the marketplace, reducing operational costs, making more informed business decisions, and competing more effectively. But — even now — any agreement or understanding among competitors to disclose or exchange certain data or information can still present the presumption of an antitrust violation, depending on the specific data exchanged, the method of disclosure, and what companies ultimately do with the information once it’s shared.
In 2016, the DOJ released guidance for HR professionals on how the U.S. antitrust laws apply to workplace decisions, employee hiring, and compensation practices. On information exchanges, the DOJ guidelines note that an exchange among companies may be lawful if: (1) a neutral third party manages the exchange, (2) the exchange involves information that is relatively old (i.e., at least three months old), (3) the information is aggregated to protect the identity of the underlying sources, and (4) enough sources are aggregated to prevent competitors from linking particular data to an individual source.
Below is some additional guidance on keeping information exchanges lawful include:
Identify a clear objective and pro-competitive basis for the information exchange up front.
Never enter into agreement based on the information exchanged. This could constitute a per se violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act.
The exchange of data and information that is publicly available is generally permissible.
While one-on-one exchanges are not necessarily unlawful, they present greater risk because data cannot be anonymized or aggregated.
Never exchange any data regarding future pricing, discounts, marketing approaches, or costs.
Limit oral discussions relating to the data exchanged. Do not impose any monitoring or tracking mechanisms to see how each party individually uses the information and data obtained in the exchange.
Any best practices must be voluntary. Each company must be able to decide for itself whether adoption of a best practice is in the best individual interests of its company and employees.
A Note on Antitrust Immunity
As the U.S. government seeks to finalize its stimulus relief package and adopt other measures to contain the spread of this virus and help U.S. businesses cope with the aftermath, the ability of businesses to communicate effectively with the U.S. government will be critical. In the United States, any joint private efforts to influence government officials to take or not take legislative, administrative, or regulatory action are generally immune from the antitrust laws. This immunity extends to most judicial and administrative proceedings as well. However, the activities involved must genuinely be intended to influence government action, and any collaborative efforts deemed to be a sham could be subject to antitrust penalties.
In addition, there are a number of statutory and regulatory provisions that offer limited antitrust immunity to specific industries. Many of these industries are facing unique and unprecedented challenges in the current crisis, including airlines, ocean transportation companies, railroads, motor carriers, agricultural cooperatives, and export trade groups may be afforded certain degrees of immunity. Multi-employer labor groups are also afforded antitrust immunity in limited circumstances. Importantly, the DOJ/FTC joint statement released this week is focused on limited activities (particularly in health care) that would directly address urgent COVID-19 problems, but it specifically does not immunize all cooperative business activities that attempt to respond to the commercial consequences of the virus. For this reason, companies that benefit from some limited antitrust immunity should be careful to continue to operate and cooperate within the specific structures of those immunity regimes, and should not assume that either DOJ or FTC have given even these distressed industries broad authority to cooperate in ways that the agencies would normally view as prohibited.
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Man accused of threatening PM in Rideau Hall incident to appear in court next month
The Manitoba man faces 21 weapons charges as well as one of threatening the prime minister
A man accused of roaming while heavily armed near the residences of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Governor General this summer will be back in court next month.
Corey Hurren made a brief, virtual court appearance on Friday morning to learn he would have another hearing on Nov. 6.
Before that, his lawyers and Crown attorneys are to have a pretrial meeting scheduled near the end of the month.
The court also heard that Hurren is supposed to meet with his lawyers in the interim.
The Manitoba man faces 21 weapons charges as well as one of threatening the prime minister following an incident on July 2 at Rideau Hall, which is the official residence of the Governor General.
None of the charges has been tested in court.
Police said the military reservist and sausage-maker was heavily armed when he used a pickup truck to break through a side gate at Rideau Hall and headed toward a residence on the grounds where Trudeau and his family also live.
Neither the Trudeaus nor Gov. Gen. Julie Payette were on the grounds at the time of the incident.
Police said several guns and an illegal magazine were found in Hurren’s truck after he was peacefully arrested.
B.C. VOTES: 2020: Get those mail-in ballots in the post ASAP
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Home Sport Province ready to give Kolisi a run against Bulls
Province ready to give Kolisi a run against Bulls
Wynona Louw
“Siya is fit. He has been training and is looking very good. We are going to let him get going this weekend,” said forward coach Rito Hlungwani.
WP forward coach Rito Hlungwani confirmed that Siya Kolisi is fit and has been training. Picture: Phando Jikelo/ ANA
CAPE TOWN – When Super Rugby Unlocked kicked off, the Stormers didn’t have a favourable injury situation up front.
They were hit particularly hard at at loose -forward – where Springbok captain Siya Kolisi was ruled out after sustaining a grade-one hamstring tear against the Pumas in Nelspruit. Coach John Dobson also confirmed that Bok star Pieter-Stephen du Toit wouldn’t play rugby again in 2020. His brother, Johan was also unavailable.
Jaco Coetzee had also just recovered from injury, and while he did well when he came on for Kolisi in the first half, the green Nama Xaba also fell to injury.
But now things are looking up on the injury front as Province get ready to challenge for their 35th Currie Cup title.
Forward coach Rito Hlungwani yesterday confirmed that Kolisi will feature in their clash against their old foes, most likely off the bench, against the Blue Bulls in their Currie Cup opener on Saturday (kick-off 7pm).
“Siya is fit. He has been training and is looking very good. We are going to let him get going this weekend. He is really excited to be involved with the guys,” he said.
Loosehead prop Alistair Vermaak, who sustained a neck injury during the pre-season last year, is also working his way back. His last appearance was in the 2018 Currie Cup final.
“Ali has been training with us. He had a nice scrum session now. He is doing really well and scrumming really well. So, we are really happy with the progress he has made after such a tough injury. He is someone we would like to see on the field as soon as possible.”
Marcel Theunissen and Ernst van Rhyn, who were the starting flankers in the 30-13 win over the Cheetahs at Newlands, are likely to start again, while the fit-again Jaco Coetzee, who has been sidelined with concussion in recent weeks, could also make an appearance, Hlungwani said.
“Jaco Coetzee has also been training really hard and is looking good. He also potentially might make the team this weekend.”
Province currently trail the Bulls – who are in top spot – by four points (points were carried over from the Super Rugby Unlocked competition).
Hlungwani added that they’ve put the 39-6 hammering suffered at the hands of the Bulls in Pretoria at Loftus behind them.
“There’s a few things that we feel we’ve improved since we played them. We’ve moved on from that loss and we’ve focused hard on getting better.”
“It’s always a great privilege to be wearing the blue and white hoops, the boys are looking forward to it and we’re looking forward to playing at Newlands.”
The match will kick off at 7pm at Newlands on Saturday.
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Syria, US: anti-ISIS cooperation with SDF resumed at full speed
General McKenzie: There are 3 or 4 joint operations against the Islamic State every week.…
Defence, Defence and Security
General McKenzie: There are 3 or 4 joint operations against the Islamic State every week. In addition, Inherent Resolve ensures infrastructure protection from Daesh attacks.
Cyber Warfare, the who’s who of Iranian cyber threat
Proofpoint cyber security experts detailed 11 Tehran’s attack groups, their preferred TTP’s, targets, and countries. Including,…
Cyber, Defence and Security
Proofpoint cyber security experts detailed 11 Tehran’s attack groups, their preferred TTP’s, targets, and countries. Including, favourite tactics from phishing to malware.
Iran, “Soleimani” effect over: international pressure restarts
Tehran, having shot down the Ukrainian civil plane, goes from victim to executioner. France. UK…
Tehran, having shot down the Ukrainian civil plane, goes from victim to executioner. France. UK and Germany urge to rejoin the JCPOA as protests continue and become "dangerous".
Iraq, the hunt for Isis resumes despite the US-Iran crisis
New ISF operations against Islamic State in Baghdad and Kirkuk. Daesh tries to exploit the…
New ISF operations against Islamic State in Baghdad and Kirkuk. Daesh tries to exploit the situation to raise his head, but he has little time. Inherent Resolve will shortly restart the offensive.
Somalia, special forces maxi offensive against al-Shabaab
Danab carries out two raids in a few days, killing at least 65 militiamen of…
Danab carries out two raids in a few days, killing at least 65 militiamen of the Isis-linked group in Lower Jubba and Shabelle. It is the response to the bloody campaign of terrorist attacks.
Iran retaliation against US passes from fake news and cyber attacks
BuzzFeed: People spread false-unverified information about missile attack on US Bases in Iraq. Tehran’s hackers…
BuzzFeed: People spread false-unverified information about missile attack on US Bases in Iraq. Tehran’s hackers will also try to hit American ICS with wiper attacks and spy the enemy.
Iran, new attack on US in Iraq after Trump’s speech
Rockets fall into the Green Zone without causing casualties. The president announces sanctions and that…
Rockets fall into the Green Zone without causing casualties. The president announces sanctions and that Tehran will never have nuclear power, but offers peace. Meanwhile, fight against Isis won’t stop.
Syria, the US strengthens its presence against ISIS and Turkey threats
American soldiers deployed to protect oil fields in Tirbaspi. Meanwhile, Ankara continues to attack the…
American soldiers deployed to protect oil fields in Tirbaspi. Meanwhile, Ankara continues to attack the Kurds and the SAA. Daesh revenge is feared after the appointment of al-Qurayshi as Caliph.
Syria, the Isis leaders begin to flee after al-Baghdadi’s death
Many Islamic State commanders, who came out in the open after the end of the…
Many Islamic State commanders, who came out in the open after the end of the self-proclaimed Caliph, captured. Meanwhile, SDF in Deir Ezzor continue the hunt for Daesh and increase vigilance.
Isis, new details on al-Baghdadi’s death. Decisive contributions from Iraq and Kurds
A former Islamic State jihadist provided the information from which the US raid was born.…
A former Islamic State jihadist provided the information from which the US raid was born. Other elements confirm the Daesh-al Qaeda ties. Meanwhile, the US returns the soldiers to Syria.
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'Dumbo' from Camera to Post – ARRI, Codex and DaVinci Resolve
Director Tim Burton, director of photography Ben Davis BSC, VFX supervisor Richard Stammers from MPC and DI Colourist Adam Glasman decided early on, before the shoot, that producing the story of 'Dumbo' as a live action movie would need a look that falls outside of precise photographic reproduction.
Because the film centres on a CG baby elephant with exaggerated eyes and facial expressions, its world could and should express his subjective reactions to what happens to him. This approach extended across the production, affecting choices in the design of the effects, lighting, sets and costumes.
Ben Davis shot 'Dumbo' mainly with the large format ARRI ALEXA 65 camera and ARRI Prime DNA lenses. He chose a 1.85:1 aspect ratio to better frame the Big Top and the elephant. The ALEXA 65 uses an A3X CMOS sensor to capture at 6560x3102 resolution in Open Gate – an image roughly equivalent to the 5-perf 65mm film frame. The uncompressed ARRIRAW files are written to Codex SXR Capture Drives, which were offloaded quickly, at full resolution, to the Codex Vault XL workstation by DIT Tom Gough.
The ARRI Prime DNA lenses use vintage glass from various sources and time periods to achieve a warmer, softer feeling in video. Concerned less with optical consistency across focal lengths, the DNA series is handpicked, tuned and re-housed to add character, emotion and a distinctive look to digital productions. The individual lenses often display unusual characteristics.
Digital Film
Ben said that in spite of the huge amounts of data, his digital workflow is solid and smooth. “It has taken a while for digital cinematography to settle itself,” he said. “There were a lot of problems initially with discrepancies between what the camera team was seeing and what was being delivered to visual effects departments and editorial. Now, that’s much less of a problem.”
Richard Stammers said, “Digital cameras have made the VFX process simpler, even though we still strive for the look and dynamic range of film emulsion. But what probably makes the biggest difference is the level of detail, sharpness and clarity that captured images now have, with almost no generation loss of quality due to copying or transcoding data through the process of the digital effects pipeline. What you end up with on screen can be nearly identical to what’s captured.
“Despite the technical advances, the way we composited shots 20 years ago is not hugely different from what we do now. The tools may allow the artist to work quicker and more efficiently, but the processes are still very similar. I think we’re just able to do better work with better capture and carry through the process right to the end without diminishing what was captured on the sensor.”
Ben uses only one LUT, which represents a single film stock, and doesn't grade or create any CDLs on set at all. He also lights the sets and exposes the sensor literally according to the look he wants to achieve. Instead of getting involved with DIT processes, he stays on set with the camera, more like a DP shooting film, where he can enjoy watching the actors work. “The dailies colourist balances under my instructions,” he said, “and we view the rushes in the morning through a projector, which I find much more informative and inspiring – seeing it in the format that we’re aiming for in the released movie.”
Ben and Richard worked together on the distinctive skies that appear above Dumbo’s world. Most scenes take place in exterior situations, but were almost always filmed on stages at Pinewood Studios, where the elaborate sets were constructed against blue screen backgrounds. The MPC team shot about 300 sky domes, many consisting of 90 tiles stitched together. The combined HDR stills comprising these 360-degree sky domes resulted in the equivalent of about 50K resolution.
In some cases, the skies were augmented with composited 2D cloud and colour elements or matte paintings to give the necessary storybook feeling, but taking care to harmonise with Ben's lighting design. In some cases, the effects artists showed Ben live composites on set as he lit and shot, which both reassured the DP and helped the effects team choose the right sky.
The integration of fully CG skies was crucial as a way to reflect the painted backdrops of the original animated movie. Using a Blackmagic Design ATEM Television Studio HD switcher as part of the DIT workflow, the team was able to key in several different dramatic sky reference images that Ben had shot during pre-production, together with a live feed from the camera. With ideas from Tim, these were then used to design the lighting and mood of the entire set.
Colourist Adam Glasman at Goldcrest Post delivered the DI, collaborating with Ben Davis before the shoot to define the warm, golden-hour period look for the film using an ACES workflow in DaVinci Resolve. Inspiring their look were the layered colours of the production design in the original cell animation, which was then finished in 2K to enhance the soft, film-like quality of the rushes.
Invisible Blend
The main set was the theme park where Dumbo lives. The sets were massive, enlarged on screen with set extensions created at Framestore. Their team, under VFX supervisor Hubert Maston, gathered a large set of HDR LIDAR scans of the practical sets and lighting setups, plus lens, exposure and other metadata captured by the ALEXA 65 camera system and recorded with the video. ARRIRAW image files contain a lot of image data that is extremely useful when compositing scenes and helps create an invisible blend between 3D imagery like Dumbo and the captured backgrounds.
“The ALEXA's image data definitely plays a part in how flexible we are when we actually do the visual effects work,” Hugh said. “It also plays a part in what we can actually do to enhance a plate. If it has a very wide gamut, we can do more.” As a consequence, he feels that denser camera data has also increased VFX teams' efficiency and contributed to the rapid expansion in the use of visual effects, even within the same budgets and time frames.
“The volume has definitely increased,” he said. “With the increase in computing capacity, a lot of other possibilities have opened up. We can use models for lighting and rendering that we simply couldn’t use before because of computing limitations. We have more effective ways to use the data that comes from set. For example, HDRIs help to recall the exact state of the light on set, and we can create realistic materials to better simulate the look of an object.
“In the past five or ten years, artists have shifted from an improvised, project-by-project rendering approach to methods that rely on physical material and accurate translation of light. Equally important is the ability to manage, organise and store the tremendous amounts of data that we create – literally terabytes each day – to make it more useful over time and to make sure that data flows are efficient.”
Codex's specialty is data management for filmmakers. The Vault XL workstation the DIT was using is based on the Codex Media Vault networked storage, a small workgroup device with a remote monitoring Web GUI for administration. It is compact and portable for use on set or in facilities and can support multiple users working concurrently on high capacity formats, who need to have files available on demand.
Connectivity is designed to share files quickly over the Vault-XL's 40GigE network to desktops - supporting multiple users and workgroups. A dashboard monitors system configuration and status, and it has an 850GB cache, a data transfer rate of up to 1,000MB/s write and 900MB/s read, with 2-drive parity redundancy.
As a parallel processing appliance, dailies can be generated faster than real-time, with multiple LUTs and burn-ins applied. Its removable transfer drive bay means it can be set up in fairly inaccessible locations, using the Codex 8 TB Transfer Drives to safely move data from on-set to near-set or a post facility instead of handling the device itself. It also houses Vault Review, a 2K/4K player, QC tools and LUT pipeline for look management, and a look library.
The post-production team needed to cater for a variety of different deliverables, including Dolby Vision 2D/3D, SDR 2D/3D and both HDR and SDR Rec 709. This was especially important for the Dolby Vision deliveries. Adam said, “The CG skies especially look amazing in this version. If you compare a traditional DLP projection at 48 NITs to the Dolby Vision at 1000 NITs, you instantly notice the far wider colour gamut you are seeing, with more added dimension. The sky is just as bright as it would be in the real world, so you have to treat it very sensitively.
Codex Production Suite is the dailies production and archiving software for Vault-XL, with tools for non-destructive primary colour grading and LUT management, QC, metadata editing and audio sync. Users can manage and create all their deliverables within the one system, including transcoding to formats including Apple ProRes, Avid DNxHD and H.264 , faster than real-time, even with an input LUT, CDL and a 3D LUT. It will also handle debayering to DPX and Open EXR for VFX deliverables.
Through the Suite, you can import, create and modify looks, and communicate them through to editorial, final colour and post. CDLs and LUTs can be imported and processed so that externally created looks can be applied, either overall or shot-by-shot. These looks can be baked into the editorial dailies or appended in the metadata information for other deliverables. After checking, fixing and appending metadata, it can then be attached to dailies to improve efficiency in post.
Colour Genius
Adam said, “Tim was keen to keep a good level of contrast in everything to help integrate the computer generated assets with the background. The VFX team at MPC were given references for how a scene would probably look and lit their CG accordingly, so I had to be very careful not to spoil that.”
Beyond developing the DI to maintain the integrity of the images, Tim also wanted to take advantage of opportunities to experiment with colour. “Tim’s genius came to light in a scene with Dumbo’s mother in a cage, with a strong red light on her,” Adam commented.
“We had a collection of animals dressed up as monsters in the cages surrounding Dumbo’s mother, and Tim just decided we should give those other cages strong colours too. I had a lot of fun making each monster a different hue, from bright green to ultraviolet. It adds to the scene. Between the production design, cinematography and Tim’s vision, the whole film is visually remarkable.” codex.online
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East London Advertiser > News > Crime
Trial of Lutfur Rahman’s re-election as Tower Hamlets mayor opens in High Court
Embattled... Mayor Lutfur Rahman - Credit: Archant
A trial challenging Lutfur Rahman’s re-election as Mayor of Tower Hamlets is beginning this-morning in the High Court.
Election petition... challenging control of Tower Hamlets - Credit: Archant
The election hearing is expected to last four months, following a petition by campaigners protesting at the way the campaign was carried out that gave Mayor Rahman victory at the polls.
The petition was lodged under the 1983 Representation of the People Act following allegations of “malpractice” and “intimidation at voting stations”.
Four voters filed the petition seeking to get the May 22 election overturned and declared void.
The petition accuses Mayor Rahman’s followers of “casting votes in the name of people not entitled to vote and acquiring voting papers and casting them fraudulently”.
It was lodged by Andy Erlam, who stood in the separate council election the same day on an anti-corruption ticket, and three other activists, Debbie Simone, Azmal Hussein and Angela Moffat.
The writ also names the Town Hall’s returning officer John Williams, claiming he “permitted party agents to enter polling stations unlawfully and leave campaign materials in polling booths”.
Election Commissioner QC Richard Mawrey issued an order in December for the Petition trial to be started today at 10am in Court 38 of the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand, and not in Tower Hamlets itself. The High Court ruled that it should be held “in neutral grounds”.
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East End veg gardeners get help to dig in
I recently had the pleasure of being introduced to Henry Tatum - affectionately known as Sonny - who, at 94, is the oldest London vegetable grower I ve met writes Rosie Boycott. He has lived in the same sixth floor flat on the Cranbrook estate off Roman R
I recently had the pleasure of being introduced to Henry Tatum - affectionately known as Sonny - who, at 94, is the oldest London vegetable grower I've met writes Rosie Boycott. He has lived in the same sixth floor flat on the Cranbrook estate off Roman Road since it was built in 1956.
I recently found myself standing with Sonny in the estate's recently built community vegetable garden launching the Edible Estates competition for London Food Link's Capital Growth project.
The London Food Link initiative was set up to improve Londoners' access to healthy, locally produced affordable food and the Capital Growth project aims to create 2,012 new community growing spaces by the end of 2012. I chair the initiative which was set up with �87,000 from the London Development Agency. It is now funded by the mayor of London who is investing �927,806 between 2009 and 2012 and the Big Lottery Fund's Local Food scheme, which has committed �300,000.
The plot on the Cranbrook estate fell into disuse about seven years ago and became a hang-out for teenagers. 'A drinking, drugging and shouting rude remarks sort of space,' says Sonny, expertly rolling a cigarette.
Eighteen months ago, a group of residents decided to turn it into a garden. Thirty people came to an initial meeting in the local community centre, which sits next to the garden, and a core team emerged. They had heard about the Capital Growth project and decided to apply for a grant. We awarded them �750, to which Tower Hamlets subsequently added �5,000 as part of its healthy borough programme.
'This is a good way to turn neglected bits of land into spaces that benefit the whole community, as well as bringing neighbours together and helping provide more healthy, low-cost food for residents,' says Gavin Cansfield, chief executive of arms-length management organisation, Tower Hamlets Homes.
Sonny and his fellow residents now have 10 big raised beds, two-foot high with rich deep soil. We dug up dozens of new potatoes, which emitted a wonderful earthy smell. The beds are communal, which means all residents are responsible for them and there's a watering rota which everyone joins in. The produce - and this year's harvest is already yielding plenty - is shared among the group but when there's a surplus it is handed out to visitors. People from the estate have started bringing food scraps to donate to the compost bed: in return, they can fill their own balcony pots from the compost pile.
There are now 500 Capital Growth plots across London in diverse places including schools, on roofs, in skips and even on a canal boat and all are boasting a similarly inspirational story. Anyone can get involved with the scheme, all you need is enthusiasm and an idea for a plot of land. We can then help with planning departments, leases and soil issues if needed, and sometimes with cash.
We believe that food growing can play an important part in regenerating local communities in London and this is true for anywhere across the UK. On estates it can improve the quality of open spaces, encourage residents to care for communal areas and bring life back to a corner which has been neglected or become prone to anti-social behaviour. Gardens also promote social cohesion, providing a focus around which residents engage with the management of their estate.
Many communities want access to land but their social landlord might be reluctant to give permission, often because they are fed up with the long-term management issues of the space. Capital Growth can help by providing professional training and support for residents who want to set up their own projects, as well as resources and volunteers to make it a success.
Since the recession began, many new builds have stalled, leaving chunks of land half developed. Most developers wouldn't countenance letting people grow there, but one of our members, Transport for London, asked its legal team to create a template lease agreement for use between TFL and community groups, allowing would-be-growers to stay for a limited period on TFL land. This lease has been brilliant at getting many new projects moving and is available for others to use for free. We're thrilled that housing associations, in particular, are enthusiastic about joining up. Like the Cranbrook estate where Sonny lives, more and more are seeing that there is no downside to community vegetable growing.
There are 750,000 social housing properties in London and the Capital Growth team is keen to get residents involved in the programme - that is why it has launched the Edible Estates competition to find London's best community food grower. The top three winning housing estates will receive a �250 token from B&Q, a 10-piece tool set from Bulldog, a Wiggly Wigglers 'worm cafe' and places on the Capital Growth training scheme.
Social residents are being asked to get in touch with their landlords to ask for a plot of land to nurture into thriving food gardens. The first ten communities who register for the competition at www.capitalgrowth.org/edibleestates will enter a draw to win help from Mears Group to clear land, prepare soil, to build raised beds, create storage, or build fences or a water source.
It doesn't matter if growing has not yet started because the project aims to celebrate those already growing as well as inspiring others to get started. I know that it is now July and that keen veg growers will already be harvesting their peas, beans, potatoes, spinach, radishes and artichokes, but there is still time to get seeds in the ground or to buy plants at the local market. Tomatoes, for instance, aren't too expensive and will reward with a plentiful crop in just a few weeks' time as will bean plants, cucumbers and courgettes. Salad leaves are tremendously fast growers: get the seeds in the ground now and people could be eating home-grown salad in just three weeks.
Budding growers don't have to have a raised bed ready, built and filled with soil, any container will do. Old buckets, basins, pots, even suitcases make fine plant holders, and they look fun too. I particularly like the sight of lettuce sprouting out of old, leaky wellingtons.
This kind of gardening is a great way to recycle stuff that would otherwise be thrown away while beautifying an area - another great reason to get growing on our urban estates.
The Edible Estates competition is open to all residents of social housing projects in London and runs from now until 20 October 2010.
Entrants to Edible Estates must be a new community food growing space or an expansion of an existing space on a housing estate.
To enter, call 0207 837 1228 or visit www.capitalgrowth.org/edibleestatescompetition
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East London Advertiser > News > Education
Bow schoolgirls make shocking film about overcrowding for Shelter
By Nadia Sam-Daliri
A group of teenage girls from an East End school have made a film about the difficulties of living in overcrowded homes for a leading homelessness charity.
The 14 to 15-year-old pupils, from Central Foundation Girls School in Bow, were helping to highlight Shelter’s research that one in four London children are living in unbearably cramped conditions.
One of the girls in the group spoke about how she has to share a room with her parents and her younger sister.
Shelter’s short film, ‘A Question for Mr. Johnson’, calls on the Mayor of London to take more action over the housing crisis.
Shelter’s chief executive Campbell Robb said overcrowding is doing “lasting damage to children’s education and wellbeing”.
In 2009, the mayor set a target to halve severe overcrowding in the capital by 2016. But Shelter is warning that when the changes to housing benefits kick in the target will become harder to reach.
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Labour group doesn’t want elected mayor—but readers do
MORE than half the voters in London’s East End would prefer electing their Town Hall mayor directly, according to an East London Advertiser online poll. It flies in the face of Tower Hamlets council’s preferred option’ to have its political leader selected by the ruling group of councillors for four years—and no directly-elected mayor
MORE than half the voters in London’s East End would prefer electing their Town Hall mayor directly, according to an East London Advertiser online poll.
It flies in the face of Tower Hamlets council’s preferred option’ to have its political leader selected by the ruling group of councillors for four years instead of annually as at present—and not have a directly-elected mayor.
Our poll showed 57 per cent in favour of having the mayor elected at the ballot box with real powers to govern public affairs at the Town Hall, like London Mayor Boris Johnson at City Hall.
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Only nine per cent of the hundreds taking part in the poll agreed with the council’s present Labour administration that the ruling party should select their leader to run the authority for four years, instead of the present 12 months, and select a figurehead mayor.
But a late rallying third option for the present system to continue, with a Leader selected every year instead of four years and a figurehead’ mayor annually, took 33 per cent of the poll.
The present Labour administration at Tower Hamlets recommends its council Leader chosen by the ruling political party for a four-year term who then selects a Cabinet to make key decisions and selecting a figurehead mayor.
THE Advertiser’s current online poll is whether Government minister Jim Fitzpatrick, MP for Poplar & Canning Town, was right or wrong to walk out of a Muslim wedding over being segregated from his wife.
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Ollie Palmer believes Leyton Orient’s talented youngsters offer League Two club hope for the future
George Sessions
Published: 4:01 PM May 13, 2016 Updated: 8:44 AM October 14, 2020
Leyton Orient forward Ollie Palmer curls in the only goal of the game against Yeovil Town (pic: Simon O'Connor). - Credit: Archant
O’s forward scored in last two matches of the campaign and has praised academy graduates now making their mark on first team
Leyton Orient goalkeeper Sam Sargeant punches the ball desite having opposite number Artur Krysiak (pic: Simon O'Connor). - Credit: Archant
Leyton Orient forward Ollie Palmer admits it has been exciting watching the youngsters at the club impressive in the first team in recent weeks.
The east Londoners chances of reaching the play-offs went after a 1-0 loss to AFC Wimbledon on April 23, but it did allow Andy Hessenthaler and Academy Director Andy Edwards the opportunity to blood some of the talented youth.
Aron Pollock, Sam Sargeant, Sandro Semedo and Josh Koroma were all give minutes to impress in the final two matches of the season against Mansfield Town and Yeovil Town.
Not one let the O’s down as the Brisbane Road outfit finished the campaign with back-to-back 1-0 wins following two strikes from Palmer.
He said: “It’s exciting to have the youngsters coming through. You’ve got Josh, Sarg, Pollock at the back and Sandro. We have quite a few coming through showing their ability and their worth so hopefully they’ll have fantastic careers.
“Aron is brilliant, he has great confidence, a great physical presence and hasn’t shied away at all and that’s a big credit to him.
“With ‘Sarg’ it is not just at Yeovil where he has made brilliant saves, he is fantastic in training as well.
“I believe he got an England youth team call-up recently. His attitude is brilliant in training every single day, all the boys like him and he’s a top lad.”
Palmer scored the winner at Huish Park on the final day of the season and admitted he will let Koroma claim an assist for the goal.
A Yeovil defender tried to clear the ball and it hit Orient’s first-year scholar before dropping perfectly for Palmer.
He slotted it confidently into the back of the net to demonstrate his improving composure in front of goal.
“We went for the diagonal and then I tried to knock it down for Paul McCullum and I think the ball has come into the box with a few ricochets,” said Palmer.
“Then it’s just dropped and Josh had kind of set in for me. I’m not sure if he wanted to take the strike himself, but I managed to whip it in to the far post. He’s claiming an assist, I’ll let him have that because he’s a good lad.
“I thought our boys defended quite well. Yeovil had a few long range efforts but ‘Sarg’ was brilliant and they didn’t trouble us too much.”
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Pc based at Tower Hamlets dismissed for discreditable misconduct after harassment conviction
Published: 5:18 PM February 27, 2018 Updated: 8:49 AM October 14, 2020
A crime scene is in place in Station Road at the scene of the stabbing. - Credit: MPS
A police officer has been dismissed from the Met’s Tower Hamlets division for gross misconduct after a court conviction for harassment.
Pc Christopher Gilham was dismissed yesterday following a special hearing on proven allegations that his “discreditable conduct” was a breach of professional standards of behaviour.
He had been convicted at Stevenage magistrates’ court in November of harassment, following a Hertfordshire police investigation, and later given a two-year restraining order preventing him making contact directly or indirectly with his ex-partner.
Gilham was also handed a 12-month community order to carry out 150 hours unpaid work and court costs.
His conviction led to yesterday’s internal Metropolitan Police disciplinary hearing when Assistant Commissioner Helen Ball found his actions “proven as gross misconduct”.
He was dismissed without notice from the Met’s division which is run from Bethnal Green and Limehouse police stations.
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Plans for Limehouse Circle Line’ waterbus to Stinkhouse Bridge
Published: 7:00 AM March 10, 2010 Updated: 8:16 AM October 14, 2020
CAMPAIGNERS have unveiled plans to run a new waterbus service on London’s oldest canal as part of a move to stop a high-rise block of flats being built in a proposed conservation area. Regular stops would include East London’s famous Stinkhouse Bridge
By Mike Brooke
CAMPAIGNERS have unveiled plans to run a new waterbus service on London’s oldest canal as part of a move to stop a high-rise block of flats being built in a proposed conservation area.
Regular stops would include East London’s famous Stinkhouse Bridge and would link four parks, an art gallery, a university campus, museum, stadium, superstore and 16 housing estates along the way.
Veteran local historian Tom Ridge revealed the waterbus plans at a public meeting at Kingsley Hall next to East London’s Limehouse Cut, where he has joined battle to stop developers moving in which looks set to end up in the High Court.
His waterbus Circle Line’ would begin at Limehouse DLR station and steam clockwise and anticlockwise along the Limehouse Cut to Bromley-by-Bow, along the River Lea to Old Ford and Hackney Wick, joining the Hertford Union Canal past Victoria Park to Bethnal Green and back along Regent’s Canal through Mile End to Limehouse Basin.
Tom threw his idea into the ring at the public consultation to support Tower Hamlets council’s Limehouse Cut Conservation Area, which has been challenged by developers.
A conservation area would save the former Poplar employment exchange, one reason the council gave for refusing planning permission to pull down the art deco building next to the Limehouse Cut and replacing it with an 11-storey block of flats.
The refusal has lead developers to start judicial review proceedings in the High Court, claiming the conservation designation is unlawful and should be revoked.
The waterbus service would be the icing on the cake for conservationists, with regular stops at Stinkhouse Bridge in Poplar, serving three estates and two parks.
Other stops would serve London’s famous Ragged School Museum, Matt’s Art Gallery, Mile End Stadium, Queen Mary university college, Mile End Park, Victoria Park, Bow Church and the Tesco superstore at Bromley-by-Bow.
Another 13 estates would also be in the loop in Limehouse, Stepney, Bethnal Green, Bow, Bromley-by-Bow and Poplar.
Essential to the loop’ is the Limehouse Cut, a two-mile straight line’ waterway built in 1770 so that barges carrying grain to the City of London along the Lea from Hertford could bypass Bow Creek and the long haul round the Isle of Dogs—and not have to wait for the Thames tide.
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Republic takes over Tower Hamlets Council offices to help start-ups fleeing West End high rents
Published: 7:00 AM January 24, 2018 Updated: 8:49 AM October 14, 2020
'Next generation' Docklands rejuvenation... how Anchorage House will look. Picture source: Trilogy Real Estate - Credit: Trilogy Real Estate
New businesses trying to escape exorbitant rents in the City and West End are singing contracts for the “next generation” of east London’s Docklands rejuvenation.
The refurbished Republic complex under way at the Anchorage House office tower, once occupied by Tower Hamlets Council in Blackwall’s Clove Crescent, is already filling up with tenancies ready for its big launch in May.
Threepipe digital agency, with Nike, the England Cricket Board and Sweaty Betty for clients, has shifted its 80 staff from Covent Garden to the campus, taking 6,000sq ft of space.
“Ridiculous rents and rates have forced us to look elsewhere,” co-founder Jim Hawker said.
“We have flexibility here to spend our hard earned money on things other than rent and rates.”
The Gentlemen Baristas is opening at the complex with its fourth café in a deal for 3,100sq ft including a coffee roastery.
The Horticulture restaurant chain is coming in the spring with a 2,900sq ft deal to source food locally, including an on-site market garden.
Hadley accountancy firm has already taken 1,000sq ft on the eighth floor.
Deliveroo’s East London recruitment hub has also set up shop.
Trilogy Real Estate’s Robert Wolstenholme said: “We are attracting young businesses priced out of central London with lettings for a new creative neighbourhood when the building is fully functioning in May.”
Anchorage House, with the East India Dock on one side and town hall on the other, aims to stem the tide of start-ups quitting London with 600,000 square feet of low-rent workplace.
It is transforming the existing ‘first-generation’ Docklands development put up in the 1990s, more than a decade after the old India and Millwall Docks closed.
The business campus is close to the Thames waterfront and seemingly within touching distance of the 02 on the other side of the river.
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‘Strike cover’ fire engines to be returned to Poplar and Whitechapel stations
Alistair Kleebauer
Published: 11:49 AM February 14, 2011 Updated: 8:32 AM October 14, 2020
Two fire engines which have been unavailable to Tower Hamlets’ firefighters since last October will be returned to their stations today.
Poplar and Whitechapel fire stations had an engine withdrawn each by London Fire Brigade, thereby halving their engine numbers, last October.
That was to provide strike cover during an industrial dispute with the Fire Brigades Union which only formally ended on Friday.
The engines, along with 25 others across London, were handed over to a private company called AssetCo and were kept in a secret location.
Chris Boag, the union’s Tower Hamlets secretary, said: “We’ve been told that all 27 engines will be returned today.
“If they’re up to scratch we will have to wait and see because they have probably been sitting outside for a few months.
“This severely reduced fire cover across London and was always going to compromise the speed with which we could get resources to the right locations.”
A LFB spokesman said: “We have always said that we would return the 27 fire engines as soon as practically possible after the FBU called off their industrial action.
“We have now received confirmation that their action has been called off and we are now in the process of returning these fire engines.”
An agreement was signed on Friday ending the dispute over shift hours and other working conditions.
A compromise arrangement of 10.5 hour day shifts and 13.5 hour night shifts was reached.
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C'era una Volta l'East
Intesi ch'a così fatto tormento
enno dannati i peccator carnali,
che la ragion sommettono al talento
"I learned that those who undergo this torment
are damned because they sinned within the flesh,
subjecting reason to the rule of lust."
- Inferno, Canto V; Dante Alighieri
So, Ang Lee's latest cinematographic effort: Lust, Caution. It's probably a good sign that the title annoyed me more than anything else about the movie, although I'm not quite sure why. Perhaps it just sounds like the many foreign shops, restaurants and t-shirt slogans of the "pick two random English words and slot them together" genre. Of course, the film is about lust and caution - both in tandem and separate from each other and of course, it is a literal translation from the original Chinese Se, jie; even Wiki agrees that the translation is a bit off (ah, that takes me back to my first year when I had to deal with the joys of translation loss and translation gain). As for what I would have called the film, I would have to think.
I have seen two other Ang Lee films: Brokeback Mountain and The Ice Storm; I quite liked the former and I used to count the latter among my top 10 all-time favourites although I haven't seen it for a while (out of sight, out of mind, in this case, rather than absence makes the heart grow fonder). On the surface, gay cowboys in Wyoming (?), marital-tardery in 1970s New England and a group of students-turned-resistance-fighters in 1940s Japanese-occupied China seem pretty different, but certain themes run through them all: unhappy marriages, lonely or isolated characters, failures to communicate (whether through lack of courage, desire or ability), a young or naive n00b-type character who learns the ropes, anguish, regret, loyalty - the usual...
I hate to ruin a story, especially a story that is as well told and well played out as Lust, Caution, but gorgeous, naive Wong Chia Chi meets a group of wannabe resistance fighters masquerading as drama students in Hong Kong in 1938 and life can never be the same again. Her turn in the play they put on leads to a standing ovation from the audience who all proclaim their loyalty to China and how great China is. The success goes to the group leader Kuang's head and he decides they should start aiming higher. He also fancies the lacy knickers off Wong and she clearly likes him back but neither acts on these feelings.
The gang decide to assassinate Mr Yee, a big political figure and Japanese-collaborator. They also decide that they will do this by getting Wong to use her Acting Skills (and no, this isn't reminiscent of Team America...): she becomes friends with Mr Yee's boring wife Mrs Yee (whose main role is to sit around drinking tea, shopping and playing mah jong with her girlfriends, gossiping and chattering away mindlessly). Soon, though, it transpires that Mr Yee takes a fancy to Wong and before long, he takes her out to dinner as is proper in such situations. They have a pleasant, intimate conversation (the only one of the film) and she comes very close to luring him back to her apartment where the Famous Five are waiting to murder him (cue some comic interludes as they scramble to "hide" when they think Wong and Mr Yee are returning...).
Sadly, though, Mr Yee just can't quite trust folks so he and the trouble and strife head back to Shanghai where it is safer. Three years later... The gang have all gone their separate ways and Wong is back at university, not a happy bunny, not least because they make her learn Japanese, which she finds marginally better than moping around at her aunt's house. Then: surprise! Along comes Kuang who admits that their earlier forays into resistance fighting were a bit naive and childish but that he's now hooked up with some bigger fish and even though he hasn't seen her in three years, he wants to drag her back to the political intrigue, stress and drama of that summer...
She agrees and before long is able to become Mr Yee's mistress. The promised lust had been building up for so long, by this point that it certainly was a real release when they got down to business (earlier in the film, one of the gang (who'd had lots of practice with whores) taught Wong how to please a man, although those scenes were far more comic and awkward than erotic and lustful). The sex was very graphic but tasteful rather than trashy and absolutely fitted the mood of the film. Perhaps I am just desensitised to sex and violence at this point. The actress, Tei Wang, did really well anyway in the scene where Wong and Mr Yee hook up. There is none of the earlier (or later) tenderness between the two. It is clear who is in charge. She is just his mistress, his whore. Except, she tries to take control and he punishes her by ripping off her dress, pushing her around, whipping her with his belt and taking her very, very violently. And she enjoys it, although is also clearly very shocked that she does. It's only then that he yields a small segment of the power back to her and allows her to be in charge of his pleasure, albeit briefly.
You know this can't end well, though, because she absolutely can't fall in lust or in love. She is just supposed to do her job, except given how the film begins in the present and then jumps back three years before working back to the opening scene, you know what choice she will have to make. Except, she can't really help herself. At first, she was just playing a role - doing her bit for her country and her friends, and maybe even to impress Kuan. She was such a convincing actress, though, that she even fooled herself and then she couldn't believe it was just a role, any more, or at least, she couldn't distinguish between the role and her real self.
It's always dangerous being a honeytrap. You think that you are infallible - that your heart is stone cold and completely closed to every emotion, that you can resist the temptation to fall...no one is infallible, though. Even falling in lust isn't acceptable on the job when you're a spy, although this film interchanges the words lust and love in the opposite way to normal, hypercorrecting and saying lust when it means love. When the operation goes wrong, you lose out doubly: your heart is broken and your job, aspirations or even your life are taken away. And, of course, if the operation is a success and you destroy the object of your lust, how can that be considered a victory? How can you reconcile that?
Some interesting questions to ponder, anyway. Wei Tang is absolutely stunning - more so as herself, the young, (increasingly less) innocent student, than as the well-off, mah jong playing, society mistress - and does portray her dilemma and conflict exquisitely. The movie also went a small way to educating me about World War II outside Europe, as my knowledge is practically non-existent. I have been to Hong Kong (parts of which looked very similar to the HK shown in the movie, although now there is a lot more neon) and to the national history museum there but for obvious reasons, they didn't focus too much on the Japanese occupation. Yes, it was a long film (I read somewhere that the pace was too languorous for it to be classed as a thriller but it did keep me nervous and agitated throughout, which, I think, is the sign of a thriller for me, even if the action was somewhat sporadic).
Thumbs up, overall, and also, two films in two weeks; I'm doing pretty well, so far. Of course, given that my sleep was so intermittent last night, I probably should just have gone to bed but my mind is so awash at the moment, I tend to forget things within hours (minutes, sometimes). Also, I'm too pissed off with Firefox, which has deleted all my bookmark toolbar folder bookmarks again! Why, Firefox, why? My browser looks naked and I'm seriously annoyed...
E quella a me: "Nessun maggior dolore
che ricordarsi del tempo felice
ne la miseria; e ciò sa 'l tuo dottore.
And she said to me: "There is no greater sorrow
than thinking back upon a happy time
in misery - and this, your teacher knows.
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Alongside the core academic curriculum, all pupils take part in a leadership development programme which includes sport, cultural, creative and other activities. This helps them develop key personal skills and aptitudes such as communication, performance, moral, civic, team work and problem-solving that are so sought after by today’s top Universities and employers.
Our proximity to the thriving Manchester economy and to a world-class research intensive Higher Education sector will open up opportunities for some amazing educational experiences during the boys’ time with us. It will also pave the way for STEM-related degree courses and careers for those boys who choose this path.
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If our pupils are to fulfil their potential as members of British and global society, it is essential that their time with us makes them determined to contribute to the greater good – locally, nationally and globally. A commitment to community service and civic responsibility runs through every area of the curriculum.
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At Eden Boys’ Preston, we take very seriously our responsibility to prepare our pupils for life in modern Britain. We ensure that the fundamental British Values are introduced, discussed, taught and lived out through our school. All curriculum areas provide a vehicle for furthering pupils’ understanding of these concepts and, in particular, our PSHE curriculum provides excellent opportunities to deepen and develop appreciation of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs and mutual respect.
Pupils embrace these concepts with enthusiasm and demonstrate a good understanding of their application to their own lives. We make considerable efforts to ensure pupils have exposure to a wide range of experiences beyond the school environment during which these concepts are shown.
EBP pupils engage in the democratic process by electing their Pupil Shura (Council) representatives each year. Through the Pupil Shura (Council) every child has a voice which is heard. This is voice is heard through polls and suggestion boxes on key issues. Through a broad and varied curriculum pupils learn about how Britain has evolved into the society as we know it today.
At EBP we consistently reinforce the importance of laws and rules, whether they govern a class, the school or the country. Pupils are taught the values of laws and rules, the reasons behind them and the consequences that apply when they are broken.
We strive to improve our pupils’ understanding of their place in a culturally diverse society. Pupils are offered a wide range of opportunities to experience such diversity in school through the PSHE curriculum where pupils partake in projects developing their understanding of British Values, Respecting equality and being a productive member of a diverse community, Human Rights and Community Cohesion. Extra-curricular activities and curricular trips and visits to places such as the theatre, art galleries and different places of worship help to broaden pupils’ experiences. Pupils also partake in cross curricular projects, such as project ‘Peace’ where pupils are creating a book including poetry and art work, to promote tolerance, diversity and equality.
Our pupils are provided with a safe environment which allows them to think about and make informed choices in their lives both in and out of school. The extensive enrichment programme encourages pupils to be involved in a range of school and community based activities of their choice. The enrichment ethos of ‘something for everyone’ allows all pupils to contribute positively in school and within the wider community in order to develop the skills to become effective British citizens.
Mutual respect is central to our school. Respect for staff, pupils and peers is evident throughout the school environment. Respect is upheld within classrooms and pupils are encouraged to share their views as well as listen to others’ points of views. Pupils are given responsibility to help and support each other, via our leadership development programme, working together to ensure all pupils achieve their personal best.
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When New Teachers Get Mentoring, Student Math Scores Can Go Up, Study Shows
By Sarah Schwartz — September 21, 2018 3 min read
When new teachers get ongoing support from mentors, they’re better able to engage students and use assessment in instruction, and their students score higher on math assessments, according to a new study.
The study, conducted by SRI Education, is an independent analysis of the New Teacher Center’s mentorship program, funded through a 2016 federal Investing in Innovation grant.
The results looked at teachers in grades K-8 in five districts: Fresno school district in California, Miami-Dade County schools, the New York City district, Polk County schools in Florida, and the San Francisco district. Participating schools were randomly assigned to either receive training for mentors through the nonprofit New Teacher Center or to participate only in the school’s traditional teacher-induction program.
In schools that worked with the NTC, coaches were told to meet with their new teachers for about 180 minutes of instructional support each month over the course of the two-year induction program.
Mentors received eight days of training in each of the two years, focused on integrating academics, equity, and social emotional learning, said Ali Picucci, the organization’s senior vice president of impact and learning. Mentors also attended seminars and underwent observations of their coaching practice for ongoing support.
Mentorship Shows Positive Effects
While the results are preliminary, data show that teachers receiving the NTC mentoring saw improvement in their instructional practice.
Participating teachers were evaluated using the Danielson Group’s Framework for Teaching. After two years of support, teachers in the NTC program showed greater competency than other teachers in two areas of the framework: engaging students in learning and using assessment in instruction.
The NTC teacher-induction program also had a positive effect on students’ math performance.
Students in classes with teachers who received NTC mentoring for one year performed better on math standardized tests than students whose teachers went through their schools’ induction programs, seeing between 3.6 and 6.3 months of additional learning.
Last year a study of NTC’s induction program in two other districts, also conducted by SRI, found that students with teachers in the NTC program outperformed their peers not only in math, but also on English/language arts state standardized tests.
Piccuci is hopeful that results from the current study will eventually show student improvement in ELA as well. The preliminary results only look at students’ performance after one year with teachers in the mentorship program—in the 2017 study, gains in ELA performance didn’t manifest until year two, she said.
Program Reflects National Trends
NTC made some changes to its mentorship program in this new study, in part to better reflect the most common models of new-teacher induction, said Piccuci. Nationally, “the trend is toward using school-based positions” for new teacher mentorship, she said.
While all of the mentors in the 2017 study worked in their roles full-time, three of the five districts in the 2018 analysis are working with mentors who are also teachers, or hold other positions in the school building. Because many of these mentors have other professional responsibilities, NTC also reduced the amount of training they required of mentors—from 12 days a year over a two-year period to the current eight days each year.
As the data are preliminary, it’s not yet possible to draw conclusions about the effect of full-time versus part-time mentors.
But as more data are collected over the course of the 2016 and 2017 cohorts’ two-year mentoring programs, NTC hopes to conduct exploratory analyses comparing the effectiveness of the program in different contexts, said Piccuci. Further studies could also determine how closely schools need to follow NTC’s implementation recommendations for the program to have an effect, she said.
“It’s an exciting opportunity for NTC to look at variation in programs across different contexts to really understand what works where and why,” said Piccuci.
Full results of the study will be released in September 2020.
Sarah Schwartz
Sarah Schwartz is a reporter for Education Week who covers curriculum and instruction.
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How does rationality amplify the persuasion theme in Jane Austen's novel, Persuasion?
Tamara K. H.
Throughout Persuasion, Anne Elliot observes just how irrational others are around her, regardless of how rational the characters think they are. We especially see rationality, or irrationality, played out in Lady Russell's opinions of whom Anne should and should not marry. Anne admires Lady Russell as a very wise friend and good counselor, even though she repeatedly proves herself to be prejudicial. It was Lady Russell's prejudicial perspectives that persuaded Anne to reject Captain Wentworth in the past, just as she is trying to persuade Anne in the present. However, Lady Russell rationalizes her prejudicial beliefs on her analysis of a person's character, showing us that rationality, or lack of it, is a major part of the persuasion theme, amplifying the theme by showing how others try to persuade based on rationality. Instead, Lady Russell's beliefs are proved to be ill-founded, or irrational.
Lady Russell judged Captain Wentworth to be a poor match for Anne, not just because he had no wealth or wealthy connections, but because, even though he had already earned a lot in his Navy career, he had also already spent it. She believed it was a sign that he was impetuous and not to be trusted, as we see in the line, "[Captain Wentworth] had been lucky in his profession; but spending freely, what had come freely, had realized nothing," meaning saved nothing, and again later in the line, "[Lady Russell] had been too quick in suspecting [his character traits] to indicate a character of dangerous impetuosity" (Ch. 4; Ch.24). However, now that Captain Wentworth has returned with a substantial fortune and a great deal of praise and admiration, she is forced to realize that she judged him incorrectly, showing us that what she felt was her rationalization for persuading Anne not to marry him was actually very incorrect, even prejudiced and irrational.
In addition, Lady Russell also judged Mr. Elliot, Anne's cousin, to be an excellent match for her. He was believed to still be wealthy and was also found to have excellent manners, which she felt showed he had an excellent character. His manners are seen when he reconciles himself with Sir Walter Elliot, whom he had offended by not courting Elizabeth and marrying someone else. However, Mr. Elliot is now very open and friendly with Sir Walter and has apologized for the past, so much so that Sir Walter has readily forgiven him. Even Lady Russell is impressed with Mr. Elliot's manners. However, Anne is suspicious. She believes there must be an ulterior motive for Mr. Elliot wanting to re-establish himself in the Elliot family. Later it is discovered that Elliot has only re-established connections with the Elliot family and begun courting Anne because he is determined to keep his Kellynch Hall inheritance and become the next Sir Elliot. However, Sir Walter is presently being pursued by the designing Mrs. Clay, and should she marry Sir Walter, they could produce the next heir together, rather than it being passed down to Mr. Elliot. Therefore Mr. Elliot's design in courting Anne is to both secure Anne's fortune while allowing himself to get close enough to Mrs. Clay that he can intervene in her schemes. Not only is Mr. Elliot proved to be conniving, he is also proved to be a "disingenuous, artificial, worldly man" (Ch. 21). Therefore, Lady Russell is proved to be wrong about Mr. Elliot as well, showing once again that her rationalization for her persuasion is based on prejudice.
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Lecture Notes:
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JAMI 2009: Tate motives and fundamental groups, March 25, 2009.
UCLA Colloquium: a survey of algebraic cobordism, Jan. 22, 2009.
BU Conference on motives QFT and pseudo-differential operators, June 2008
Lecture 1 Cycle complexes
Lecture 2 Motivic categories
Lecture 3 Tate motives.
ICTP school on algebraic K-theory and its applications, May 2007.
Six lectures on motives
French-Asian summer school in algebraic geometry and number theory, I.H.E.S. July 2006.
Conference on Motives and Algebraic Cycles, in honor of Spencer Bloch,
Fields Institute-March 19-23, 2007
Motivic Postnikov towers
A lecture on Voevodsky's slice filtration, its relation to the homotopy coniveau tower,
with some applications to Severi-Brauer varieties and central simple algebras.
2nd German-Chinese conference on complex geometry, Shanghai-Sept. 2006
Algebraic cobordism
A lecture on algebraic cobordism, including a discussion of ``double-point" cobordism
and an application to Donaldson-Thomas invariants.
Three lectures on algebraic cobordism
Motives and Periods, June 5-12, 2006
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Introduction to algebraic cobordism
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Motivic homotopy theory
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Oriented cohomology, Borel-Moore homology and algebraic cobordism
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Motivic Tubular Neighborhoods
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(with Fabien Morel) Algebraic Cobordism
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(with B. Dundas, P.A. Østvaer, O. Röndigs, V. Voevodsky) Background from algebraic geometry
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The Empowerment Project
Denver, CO • May 27, 2015
University of Denver Sturm Hall Room 451
2000 E. Asbury Ave
Ellevate Denver will host the first ever Denver-screening of the new documentary spotlighting ordinary women doing extraordinary things.What would you do if you weren’t afraid to fail? That’s the q...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM EDT
Ellevate Denver will host the first ever Denver-screening of the new documentary spotlighting ordinary women doing extraordinary things.
What would you do if you weren’t afraid to fail?
That’s the question Emmy Award Winning filmmakers Sarah Moshman and Dana Michelle Cook asked themselves before embarking on a 7,000 mile road trip across the US with a group of all female filmmakers in 2013. Tired of the lack of positive female role models in the media after working in reality television for networks like ABC, NBC, MTV, Lifetime and TLC, Sarah and Dana felt inspired to make a change after reading Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In.”
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Red Bull give insight into Verstappen’s US GP struggles
5 November 2019 PlanetF1.com F1 0
Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has explained why Max Verstappen was unable to challenge for victory at the United States GP, saying there was “a big hole in the floor”.
Verstappen started third on the grid in Austin and looked set to give the Mercedes pair of Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton a good run for their money for the victory on Sunday.
However, his race was compromised early on as he lost part of his floor and eventually finished third behind the Merc duo.
“We had a pretty decent weekend, qualifying within a few hundredths of the pole, but we have lost a big chunk of the rear floor quite early-on in the race,” Horner told Autosport.com.
“We damaged the front wing endplate with a touch [with Bottas] at the first turn, and then we have had some rear floor damage, which I don’t know if that was the result of that or running wide at the first turn.
“But from about lap five onwards we saw a drop in load and there is a big hole in the floor that is missing.”
Verstappen also revealed that he wasn’t quite sure how he damaged the floor and feels he “could have been stronger” if he didn’t have a stricken car.
“I was just struggling with some weird oversteer in the car,” the Dutchman said.
“Initially, they said it was my front wing, which had a little bit of damage but after the race I looked at the car and I was missing a big piece of my floor in front of the rear tyre, so that definitely cost me a lot of lap time.
“I don’t know when it happened, but already quite quickly into the race I had this weird behavior from the car, which I had not felt before.
“So that’s a bit unfortunate and otherwise I think we could have been stronger.”
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Volume 21, Issue 36, 08/Sep/2016
Surveillance and outbreak report Open Access
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Epidemiology of pertussis in Denmark, 1995 to 2013
Tine Dalby1 , Peter Henrik Andersen2 , Steen Hoffmann1
Affiliations: 1 Statens Serum Institut, Microbiology and Infection Control, Copenhagen, Denmark 2 Statens Serum Institut, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tine Dalby
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Citation style for this article: Dalby Tine, Andersen Peter Henrik, Hoffmann Steen. Epidemiology of pertussis in Denmark, 1995 to 2013. Euro Surveill. 2016;21(36):pii=30334. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.36.30334 Received: 06 Oct 2015; Accepted: 22 May 2016
We describe incidence and age distribution of laboratory-confirmed pertussis in Denmark from 1995 to 2013. Notification has been mandatory since 2007. Since 1997, an acellular monocomponent vaccine has been used. The latest epidemic occurred in 2002 with an incidence of 36 per 100,000; since 1995, only six infant deaths have been recorded. The inter-epidemic incidence lies below 10 per 100,000. In 1995, the mean age of confirmed cases was 9.2 years (95% confidence interval (CI): 7.9–10.5; median: 5.1), this gradually increased to 23.9 years in 2013 (95% CI: 22.0–25.8; median: 15.7). In 1995, 14% of laboratory-confirmed cases were 20 years and older, 43% in 2013. In the study period, the highest incidence among children was among those younger than one year with incidences between 84 and 331 per 100,000 in inter-epidemic periods (mean: 161/100,000) and 435 for the epidemic in 2002. After introduction of a preschool booster in 2003, the highest incidence among children one year and older changed gradually from three to five-year-olds in 2003 to 12 to 14-year-olds in 2013. In 2013, PCR was the primary method used for laboratory-diagnosis of pertussis in Denmark, while serology was the method with the highest percentage of positive results.
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After 20 years of leading EMS, chief executive Keith Austin thought he’d seen it all. Then along came 2020. These are his reflections on the highs, lows, mistakes and lessons of a remarkable two-decade journey.
Back in October 2000, when we made the decision to set up EMS, our rationale was clear. I’d worked for roadshow truck agencies and there was a gap in the market. Nobody was offering a full end-to-end roadshow service, from strategy and design through to logistics, operations and roll-out. I’d seen clients juggling with multiple suppliers and thought ‘we could fix that’. So we took a leap of faith and formed EMS. We had no idea what was to come next.
“All our projects played a part in where we are today.”
Our first project was for a three-day display at the NEC with the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA). We only made a few thousand in profit and we used it to set up the business. That was the model: putting profits from new projects straight back into the business. We were committed to avoiding overdrafts.
Macmillan was our first long-term project. We toured a mobile information centre, which at the time was the country’s most comprehensive cancer library, all around the UK. It must have worked, because 20 years on Macmillan still uses smaller information vehicles to engage with the public in city centres, shopping parks and supermarkets.
In 2001, we had another significant moment. We won a contract with the Department of Education to deliver the Aimhigher tour, inspiring children from disadvantaged communities to go to university. It was a big milestone. Our fleet expanded with 10 new trucks and the tour reached over a million students in nine years. It was hailed as “the best education initiative in years” by teachers. And we felt the impact, too. As well as our fleet growing, so too did our team.
A Middle East Adventure
“Unless you keep growing and developing, you’re going backwards.”
So the business was doing well. Our fleet, team and clients were all expanding. But we wanted to be the best – and that meant working internationally. Nobody in the UK was doing that, so we knew it would take us to the next level.
We found a partner in the USA – MRA – and looked outside Europe for ideal roadshow destinations. The Middle East struck us immediately as a good cultural fit. There was a preference to do business face-to-face, and global businesses and agencies were flocking to the region. We secured Parker Hannifin, our first Middle East client, in 2007. Word soon spread, and by 2013 we were setting up an office in Media City, Dubai.
Initially, we thought we’d cracked it. Then reality bit. Despite meeting after meeting, we weren’t achieving what we’d hoped. In 2017, things took a turn when we won a contract with the King Abdullah Foundation. We will never forget this campaign. It was, without doubt, the tour that nearly broke us – mentally at least. We had never experienced stress like it. Long hours and sleepless nights are par for the course in the event industry, but this was something else altogether.
Cultural differences and the pressure of working for, and being in the presence of, Saudi Arabian royalty had us in bits. The fear of offending or not meeting expectations pushed us to the very edge. But we survived and it turned into one of many ‘pinch me’ moments. We’ve actually had British royalty on our trucks too – the Queen wearing VR glasses on an AMRC tour is right up there in our all-time memories.
The Birth of EMS Healthcare
“Everyone thought I was crazy, but I was just excited about the possibilities.”
Launching EMS Healthcare in 2011 taught us a major lesson. You can have the best idea in the world. But if you’re working with the NHS, you won’t succeed unless you tick every box and get every stakeholder engaged.
When a private healthcare provider’s contract with the NHS failed, 40 brand-new medicals units went up for sale. I went to look at them and was immediately faced with the realisation of what could happen if things went wrong. They were unsuitable for our marketing business. But I was convinced we could make them work in the healthcare sector – even though people thought I was crazy.
In the end, we bought 24. EMS Healthcare Ltd was born. And the EMS Group started to grow rapidly.
Riding Against the Tide
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In our early days, things were simpler. We celebrated every contract win. Then the 2008 financial crisis came. For many, it was an event that changed everything. But we were fortunate. Suddenly, businesses needed to react quickly and with smaller budgets – we could activate campaigns that focused their efforts and their message.
We went on to work with several blue-chip clients on B2B roadshows and internal comms campaigns. At the same time, our healthcare division was developing nicely. Our fleet was growing, utilisation rates were good and we navigated the recession well. But things can always change, and our business is no different.
Coping with the Unexpected
“A few mistimed decisions or assumptions could mean losing everything.”
In 2017, we moved into our purpose-built office and production facilities. We thought growth was a given. In reality, it turned out to be the worst financial period we’ve ever experienced.
Several long-term contracts didn’t extend. An enormous project in the Middle East didn’t get approval. And looming Brexit discussions slashed our incoming business enquiries.
For two years, we didn’t know how we would keep going. We restructured the team and cut our fixed costs just to survive. But we also took on some of our most exciting and interesting short-term projects. Most importantly, we learned how to adapt. Everything we did was about keeping going.
Today, we’re stronger for it. We continue to have an excellent management team from different backgrounds and with different experiences. And while we look forward with confidence, we’re also grateful to have come this far.
The Biggest Shock of All
“A rollercoaster we could never have predicted.”
2020 was our 20th year. It’s been the biggest shock I’ll ever see. Everything started strongly: tours were lined up and we were projecting a record year. Then March came along and everything disappeared.
At the pandemic’s peak, we had 82% of our staff on furlough and no visibility of any future business. We started to think about how we could pivot our marketing team to support the healthcare division, which had stayed relatively busy.
One day, we had over half of our fleet in the yard. But the healthcare industry was under unprecedented demand as it fought COVID-19. And so the next day, we were at 95% utilisation. I don’t think I’ll ever see a change like that again.
We’re now helping the NHS’s national COVID testing programme. We’ve launched three mobile labs and we’re supporting several clinical trials. None of this would have been possible without the investment we’d made – and battled through – in our own production facilities.
“When events come back, the activity will be huge.”
We know how hard things have been for the events industry. We’re fortunate to be in a position where we can adapt, and we know many others can’t. We don’t for one second take that for granted.
After a year like 2020, predictions are nigh-on impossible. But I’ll give it a go.
Once the vaccine is rolled out, businesses will want to get back to face-to-face experiences. But they’ll also want more contingencies with an event space that is inherently flexible. We’re expecting next year to be our busiest ever.
We have an extraordinary team. 2021 is full of possibilities, and so are the years beyond that. For the first time in our history, we start the year having already secured our target revenue. That’s a fantastic foundation for the next 12 months. And looking even further ahead, I can’t wait to see where we grow over the next three years. As 2020 has shown, anything is possible.
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Starring: Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Richard E. Grant, Keri Russell, Naomi Ackie, Kelly Marie Tran, Ian McDiarmid, Billy Dee Williams
Directed by: JJ Abrams
Plot: The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once more in the final chapter of the Skywalker saga.
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 57%
Critic Consensus: “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker suffers from a frustrating lack of imagination, but concludes this beloved saga with fan-focused devotion”
Starring: Francesca Hayward, Judi Dench, Idris Elba, Jennifer Hudson, Ian McKellan, Jason DeRulo, Taylor Swift, Rebel Wilson, James Corden
Plot: A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.
RT Freshness: 19%
Critic Consensus: “Despite its fur-midable cast, this Cats adaptation is a clawful mistake that will leave most viewers begging to be put out of their mew-sery”
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie, Kate McKinnon, John Lithgow, Connie Britton
Directed by: Jay Roach
Plot: A group of women decide to take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
Critic Consensus: “Bombshell benefits from a terrific cast and a worthy subject, but its impact is muffled by a frustrating inability to go deeper than the sensationalistic surface”
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FCC pushes TracFone to start unlocking handsets as part of settlement
The FCC reached a settlement with América Móvil's U.S. MVNO, TracFone Wireless, which will force TracFone to unlock its customers' handsets.
An FCC investigation found that TracFone violated agency rules by improperly and repeatedly certifying that it would unlock phones for its customers enrolled in the FCC's Lifeline program when it fact it was not doing so.
To settle this violation, the company has agreed to transition all its phones to be unlockable, and will let both Lifeline and non-Lifeline programs have phones that they can move to another carrier. Unlocking a phone lets it work on any compatible network, regardless of carrier.
In the meantime, while TracFone is transitioning to unlockable phones, eligible TracFone customers will be entitled to other benefits under the settlement. The FCC said eligible customers can contact the company to receive a new unlocked handset, credit for a handset upgrade or a partial cash refund in exchange for their locked handset.
The FCC estimates that at least 8 million TracFone customers could benefit from the settlement. With an average benefit of $10 per handset, the value of this settlement to consumers is expected to be in the range of $80 million, the FCC said. In addition, the company will provide a projected offset of $3.2 million to the Lifeline program tied to how quickly its unlocking program becomes active.
"Unlocking of cell phones has been widely embraced by the wireless industry and by consumers across the country," said Travis LeBlanc, chief of the FCC's Enforcement Bureau, in a statement. "Today's agreement ensures that millions of eligible TracFone customers will be able to use their phones on any compatible network they choose."
Wireless carriers started abiding fully by a code of conduct in February on unlocking phones. Carriers must clearly explain their policies on unlocking. Once postpaid customers finish their service contracts on postpaid plans, carriers must, upon request, unlock customers' phones within two business days. In terms of prepaid phones, carriers, upon request, must unlock prepaid phones no later than one year after activation. Carriers can also charge non-customers a "reasonable" fee to unlock phones. The FCC has also said that carriers must notify postpaid customers when their devices are eligible for unlocking, but prepaid customers must only be told at the time they purchase their phone. Carriers must also unlock the phones of military personnel who are deployed.
By Sept. 1, TracFone has committed to providing clear notifications to its customers about its handset unlocking policy. All eligible consumers will get at least one text message telling them that they are eligible, and consumers can go to the TracFone website to determine eligibility, request pre-paid mailers for trade-in of locked phones, and obtain other relevant information. Also by September 1, eligible non-Lifeline TracFone customers can trade in their old device for a cash refund of the trade-in-value of the handset.
Beginning in October, TracFone will provide a $400,000 per month offset to the Universal Service Fund until it provides unlockable handsets to new Lifeline customers. This is expected to total $3.2 million. By May 1, 2016, as TracFone begins to launch handsets capable of being unlocked, eligible non-Lifeline TracFone customers can trade in their old device for an upgrade credit toward a new, unlockable handset. Customers can trade in their locked handset for either a cash refund or an upgrade credit, but not both. Also by May 1, 2016, TracFone must provide new Lifeline customers with phones capable of being unlocked. Existing, eligible Lifeline customers may request a replacement unlocked handset. By Dec.31, 2016, all phones launched by TracFone must be capable of being unlocked.
- see this FCC release (PDF)
- see this FCC order (PDF)
- see this IDG News Service article
- see this PhoneScoop article
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Sprint's Claure: It doesn't matter if T-Mobile passes us as No. 3 carrier - we're focused on improving
T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS) CEO John Legere has made one of his missions in 2015 to have his company pass Sprint (NYSE: S) in terms of total subscribers, to became the nation's No. 3 carrier. Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure indicated that if that happens, it won't be a big deal.
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"T-Mobile has great momentum," Claure told CNET. "I'm focused on fixing the fundamentals whether we're No. 3 or No. 4. Customers don't care about rank. I'm not worried about whether we're No. 3 or No. 4."
As of the end of the fourth quarter of 2014 Sprint had 55.929 million total customers, and T-Mobile reported 55.018 million, 911,000 behind Sprint. T-Mobile has also been adding customers at a prodigious clip, tallying 2.1 million new customers in the fourth quarter, including 1.3 million branded postpaid net subscriber additions. In contrast, Sprint added a net of 842,000 wireless customers in the fourth quarter, but lost a net of 19,000 postpaid customers.
In an interview with FierceWireless, Sprint CFO Joe Euteneuer echoed Claure's comments. He said the company is "really focused on our business plan" and on attracting high-quality customers.
"We want to grow," he said. "But we want to do it with the right mix" and not add low-quality or low-credit subscribers just for the sake of boosting subscriber numbers. "That's a short-term, myopic view," he said.
Yet Sprint faces challenges, both financially and in terms of subscriber growth. The company's free cash flow was a negative $1.8 billion in its most recent quarter, although that was about $1 billion smaller than its free cash flow deficit in the year-ago quarter. The carrier predicted its EBITDA would grow between 5 percent and 7 percent in 2015 after previously thinking such earnings would be flat.
However, analysts are worried about how much cash Sprint is burning through. "The questions about burn rate and when Sprint will run out of cash are becoming inescapable" wrote MoffettNathanson analyst Craig Moffett in a research note to clients. Moffett also wrote that "relying on prepaid and wholesale to save the day is a perilous game."
Jefferies analysts Mike McCormack, Scott Goldman and Tudor Mustata wrote in a research note that Sprint's estimate of 2015 EBITDA of $6.4 billion to $6.5 billion was higher than its previous estimate of $6.2 billion. However, they also think Sprint will burn through $5.7 billion in cash in 2015 and remain "extremely cautious" about Sprint.
"Sprint's top priority remains reversing last year's [2 million+] postpaid handset subscriber losses," they wrote. "While new plans and promotions have helped improve gross add trends, lowering churn of 2.3% will take time. Even as major involuntary churn issues dissipate into the second half of the year, network perception issues remain, and will only begin to improve as the 800 MHz LTE deployment reaches completion towards the end of the year."
Claure said Thursday that Sprint will implement carrier aggregation across all its spectrum bands, meaning Sprint eventually will be able to deploy 1900 MHz FDD-LTE for uplink and 2.5 GHz TD-LTE for downlink, and ultimately improve the coverage of 2.5 GHz LTE to levels that its 1900 MHz spectrum currently achieves.
The Jefferies analysts wrote that they were skeptical about Sprint's network-improvement plans. "While the technology is promising, we highlight that the realistic deployment and handset availability is at least 1-2 years out. Furthermore, solid execution on the 2.5 GHz deployment has been illusive," they added.
Claure said SoftBank's $21.8 billion purchase of Sprint in 2013 has yet to pay off but that Sprint is improving and gaining momentum "It's fair to say that the investment has performed at a less attractive rate of return than they would have expected," Claure told the Wall Street Journal.
Claure took the helm in August and has been focused on adding high-credit customers, in part by enticing Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T Mobility (NYSE: T) customers to switch. "This is a turnaround and it takes time," he said. "The trajectory has reversed."
Meanwhile, Claure got into yet another verbal spat with Legere. "I think Legere is in for a rude awakening when new scores come out about network performance," Claure told CNET. "I let actions speak." He said that network testing firm RootMetrics will come out with a report soon on network performance for the second half of 2014, which will show strong improvement for Sprint. In markets where Sprint has improved its LTE network the carrier will advertise those enhancements, he said.
Legere hit back and said the RootMetrics data was old and that T-Mobile's network is the fastest in the country, based on data from Speedtest.net. Legere also said data collected by firms like RootMetrics don't keep up with T-Mobile's pace of network improvements. "If I were them, I'd be clinging to months-old data too," Legere said in an email. "Everyone knows that Sprint has the worst network [and] customer satisfaction in the industry--by a mile." RootMetrics declined to comment, according to CNET.
According to a new report from J.D. Power, AT&T had the best overall customer care, followed closely by T-Mobile. Sprint came in last in that report. The study was conducted with field surveys from July 2014 through December 2014.
- see this CNET article
- see this WSJ article (sub. req.)
Sprint slows postpaid phone subscriber losses, will continue to target Verizon and AT&T
T-Mobile's Legere, Sprint's Claure trade insults over Super Bowl ads
T-Mobile scores 2.1M total new customers in Q4
T-Mobile's Legere vows to go toe-to-toe with Verizon's network, overtake Sprint in 2015
Sprint's Claure: We beat T-Mobile in Q4 prepaid net adds
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Travelex appoints chief innovation and transformation officer
Source: Travelex
Travelex, a leading global foreign exchange and money transfer specialist, announces that Gareth Williams, currently Global HR Director, is to take on the newly created role of Chief Innovation and Transformation Officer in addition to his current mandate.
In his new role, Gareth’s responsibilities will extend to include developing the innovation and transformation plan for Travelex, driving a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship and will look to put strategies in place to futureproof the workforce. He has made a new appointment in his leadership team to head up the Future of Work which will identify the skills and capabilities required to support Travelex’s position as the world’s leading foreign exchange specialist for the future.
Gareth joined Travelex in 2011 and was appointed to the Executive Committee in 2013 as Global HR Director. Alongside his new role, Gareth will remain responsible for Travelex’s global people and learning agenda.
Innovation and transformation are two key areas of focus for Travelex in 2018. Gareth’s appointment follows a series of other recent appointments and promotions including Jaap Remijn as Chief Operating Officer, James Hewitt as CEO, Travelex North America and Nick Cerise as Global Head of Products and Payments.
Gareth Williams, Chief Innovation and Transformation Officer, said: “I am delighted to take on this additional role and lead the innovation and transformation drive at Travelex. We live in a world where technology is reshaping the industry. Our customers, business models and workforce are being disrupted like never before, so it is critical we continue to innovate and demonstrate that Travelex is and will be fit for the future. We make no apology for wanting the best talent we can find, so creating a culture that attracts, retains and motivates is a key focus for us. Product and customer innovation, including digital payments, will also remain a strategic imperative for us as we strive to maintain our leading category position in.”
Tony D’Souza, CEO, said: “Innovation and transformation are important components for our future growth. In a world where customer requirements continue to rapidly evolve, we must be best placed to shape and realise their ambitions.
The creation of this new role demonstrates the importance we place on driving a culture at Travelex that fosters innovation to support our colleagues and our customers. I look forward to working with Gareth and the rest of the Innovation team at this transformational time for Travelex.”
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Thai the Knot
This piece appeared in the October 2018 edition of Image Magazine.
I distract myself by slowly dragging my right foot through the powdery white sand. I watch the grains sift through my toes but make sure that nothing disturbs the rose petals sprinkled around me. I adjust the buttonhole on my shirt, careful not to leave a clammy handprint on my white linen shirt. “I think I see movement,” says Dmitri. “Are you ready?”
The Belmond Napasai on Koh Samui - designed for weddings in paradise
The sun is sinking into the late afternoon sky. The beach is empty now except for a couple of kids paddling about in the shallows at the far end of the cove. The canopy is fluttering slightly in the mildest of breezes – too mild to disturb the palm trees that lean in a protective arc over the whole beach. A few feet away, the smallest of waves collapse lazily onto the soft shore. Everything is just as I’d hoped it would be. Am I ready? I certainly am. I’ve been waiting for this moment for a while. Dmitri smiles and says, “Laura’s here.”
Waiting with Dmitri
My first marriage had ended more than six years before, but the leaden obligations of an Irish divorce meant I had five years to pick through the bones of past mistakes and commit to doing things differently the next time. If there was a next time.
Thankfully, this was the next time.
The first time around, we organised a conventional Irish wedding, where 130 guests were treated to a Catholic church floorshow followed by a sit-down feast in a stately country house. It was elegant, exorbitantly expensive and exhaustingly stressful.
I was a groom and project manager, a veteran of Excel spreadsheets with a seemingly endless ‘to do’ list, an expert negotiator between demanding guests and a whole range of hotel front desks. My diplomatic skills were fully tested on the day, as I made sure the vegans got their meals; exchanged expressions of deep affection with relatives I hadn’t seen in years and wouldn’t see again until a family funeral; and made sure that my horribly drunk friend Mark had a bed to sleep in before the meal had even started.
A beach wedding can be as simple - or as complicated - as you want
This time it would be different. We were going to manage the guest-to-stress ratio by eloping, just the two of us, to our own version of paradise. Laura had also been married before, and neither of us was keen on another big wedding. But we wanted to make it memorable, and beautiful: a registry office can be many things – efficient, distinguished, even noble in the pared-down essence of its purpose – but never beautiful. We wanted to get married on a beach, alone, with nothing to distract us from the promises we were making to each other. We would celebrate with family and friends when we got home.
The Belmond Napasai is a resort hotel on its own little cove in north-western Koh Samui, the largest of the three-island archipelago in the Gulf of Thailand. Its collection of suites and villas sit in a mini-forest of cashew and coconut groves dashed with fragrant bougainvillea and hibiscus. It has a pool, its own private beach and a seductive atmosphere that promotes the dangerous illusion that this is the best – and only – way to be happy. It was an illusion that we easily surrendered to.
Our villa at the Belmond Napasai
Our wedding day was Saturday. We checked in on Friday and met Algen, our ultra-friendly and efficient wedding planner, with whom we’d exchanged emails for a few weeks. We had a quick meeting with our photographer Max, who assured a slightly camera-shy Laura that he’d be as stealthy as a snow leopard. We also met our celebrant Dmitri, a Brighton-born expat with a local’s tan and the reassuring, easy-going charm of someone who understood that, no matter how many weddings he performed, each was special, a highly individualised expression of a couple’s love for one another. I liked him instantly.
We confirmed the meal (a family-style sharing menu of classic Thai dishes) and the reading (Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s ‘Gift from the Sea’). A whole email sub-thread had been devoted to the bouquet, which would be made up of green orchids and pink-and-white lotus flowers. And then there was the music - Etta James’ ‘At Last’ to start, Michelle Williams singing ‘Tightrope’ from ‘The Greatest Showman’ to conclude.
And that was it. Everything was sorted. All that was left to do was to settle into our loungers and bask in the sweet art of doing nothing.
We loafed until mid-afternoon on Saturday. Birds sang in the trees and dragonflies danced over the pool. We took a couple of kayaks out onto the water, which was the temperature of an unattended bath. We walked the length of the beach and imagined what it might be like to live here full time. We asked each other if we were nervous. No, I said. I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. Laura smiled. Me too.
Here comes the bride...
The wedding was at 5pm, so we started getting ready at around 3.30pm. My wedding outfit - a short-sleeved shirt and a pair of linen trousers held up by braces (the unanimous choice of an internet search for “tropical wedding outfits for men”) – had been pressed and readied by the time we got back to the room. Max arrived shortly thereafter, whereupon I absented myself, so Laura could finally put on the dress that she’d carefully kept concealed in a gown cover and carried from home. She got a lot of help from an enthusiastic Emirates flight crew who, once they heard the word ‘wedding,’ couldn’t do enough to make us comfortable, including giving the dress its own first-class compartment so that it wouldn’t get creased.
I saw the dress for the first time just after 5pm, as Laura walked toward me on the beach, the sound of Etta James in the air and pools of happy tears in my eyes. By 5.20 we were married, tropical cocktails in hand, as a beaming Algen looked on and hotel manager Jeroen’s two children, Noah and Chloe, danced about throwing rose petals in the air. It was perfect.
But we weren’t quite done. Before the meal – under the same canopy, reset with a romantic table for two and with heart-shaped firepits dug out in the sand around it – we literally sailed off into the sunset aboard the hotel’s private boat; just us, the pilot and Max, who made sure to capture the moment a couple of hundred times.
In hindsight, not having our closest friends and family members there was a little bit of a pity. But only a little bit. They were sent a video of the proceedings – taken on my phone by Jeroen, who kindly volunteered about 10 minutes before the ceremony – within minutes of our saying, “I do.” The congratulatory texts buzzed and beeped throughout the meal, giving Laura and I the satisfaction of imagining that our nearest and dearest had still played a part in our moment, if only in two-dimensional, three-and-a-quarter-inch spirit.
But the whole point of our ‘elopement’ was to escape the obligations of a typical wedding and focus on the only thing that truly mattered to us. It may sound cheesy, but until I met Laura I never imagined I would ever get married again, and now here I was committing my future to someone I couldn’t imagine living without. I’m grateful Laura feels the same way. After dinner, we walked, hand-in-hand, across the moonlit sand back to our room. Not only had I never been happier; I have never imagined actually being this happy.
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Chevrolet Volt: More Range, More MPG, More Fun
September 30, 2015 • by Tariq Kamal
2016 Chevrolet Volt.
First sold in late 2010 as a 2011-MY, the plug-in hybrid gas/electric Chevrolet Volt has racked up more than 70,000 sales stateside and another 15,000 overseas. Redesigned for 2016, the second-generation Volt aims to continue that momentum with improved mileage, range and drivability and an all-new interior and exterior.
The Volt is designed to run as a pure electric vehicle until its battery charge falls to 30%, at which point the gasoline engine kicks in to power an electric generator and extend its range. The first-generation model was able to travel 38 miles in pure-electric mode with a total range of 379 miles.
According to General Motors, when engineers began work on the new Volt, they reached out to early adopters to ask how they could improve the vehicle. Their answers, in declining order of importance, were more range, better driving dynamics and “less quirky” styling. Remarkably, the OEM appears to have delivered in all three areas.
Specs for 2016 Chevrolet Volt.
The new Volt’s range has improved to 53 miles in all-electric driving and 420 miles overall. Those improvements were made possible by refinements to the battery — which features fewer cells but 20% more storage capacity and a 22-pound weight loss — and two small electric motors that replace a single, large unit and now deliver 149 horsepower (hp) and an impressive 294 pound-feet (lb.-ft.) of torque.
The gasoline engine, a 1.5-liter inline four, now delivers 101 hp and an estimated 104 lb.-ft. More importantly, it now runs on regular unleaded fuel, forgoing the premium juice demanded by its predecessor. Taken together, the new powerplants now offer a combined miles per gallon (mpg) equivalent (MPGe) rating of 106, up from 98 in the 2015.
When it debuted at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show, the four-door hatchback’s styling was purposely unique and instantly polarizing. The second-generation sheet metal remains distinctive but will blend in a bit easier. The see-through rear panel and lower-body moldings have been replaced by a more traditional hatch and continuous side panels.
The new cabin features an 8-inch touchscreen, redesigned controls and a smartphone charging pad, as well as uptown options such as leather upholstery, heated seats and steering wheel and automatic parallel parking. The rear bench now features a third seatbelt, but the T-shaped battery’s floor hump reduces the middle seat’s appeal.
The 2016 Chevrolet Volt is available now with a starting MSRP of $35,170.
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Suspect in Danielle Stislicki disappearance charged with first degree murder
(FOX 2) - Floyd Galloway has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder in connection to the disappearance of Danielle Stislicki.
Stislicki went missing on December 2, 2016. The 28-year-old was last seen that day leaving her job at MetLife in Southfield. Galloway was a former security guard there and has been considered a person of interest in her disappearance.
FOX 2's Charlie Langton learned that Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel's office will be taking over the prosecution of the case.
Galloway is in prison right now for an unrelated case in which he tried to rape a jogger in Livonia a few months before Stislicki disappeared. Over the course of the investigation, we've been told several dozen search warrants had been executed at various places connected to Galloway in connection with this case. In one instance, investigators searched his home three weeks after her disappearance and removed a bed, and even a section of flooring. Authorities have never said if that evidence was related to Stislicki.
Meanwhile, Farmington Hills police wrote #FindDani on squad cars to keep the search alive. Flyers were also posted in dozens of businesses in surrounding cities. In December of 2018, a reward reached $129,000 for information on her whereabouts.
In the two years since she disappeared, Galloway had not been charged in connection to Stislicki's case before now.
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Galloway is in prison right now for an unrelated case in which he tried to rape a jogger in Hines Park. The victim told police a man grabbed her, and strangled her as he dragged her down an embankment. Able to fight him off, she then called police.
Galloway took a plea deal in November 2017, pleading guilty to kidnapping, sexual assault and choking. Stislicki's family was at his hearing.
"We came here today, my daughter Holly and I, to represent Danielle. For the opportunity of maybe even a glimpse of seeing Floyd and that him knowing that we're here, and we're going to continue to be here," said her mother, Ann. "I am grateful that he was able to admit what he did, and from there, we'll take it and move it forward for everyone."
Galloway's earliest release date for his punishment in that case is June of 2033.
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Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank to step down at year's end
Under Armour cutting jobs; Nike sales up
Fox Business Briefs: Under Armour says it will cut about 474 jobs as part of a restructuring plan; Nike has reportedly sold 61 percent more merchandise since the controversial ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick.
Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank will hand over the reins of the American athletic-wear company at the end of the year.
President and Chief Operating Officer Patrik Frisk will succeed Plank, who will become executive chairman and brand chief. Plank founded the company in 1996.
"Our multi-year, transition approach has ensured purposeful leadership continuity. Patrik is the right person to serve as Under Armour's next CEO," Plank said in a statement.
FILE - In this March 31, 2011, file photo, Kevin Plank, founder and CEO of Under Armour, appears on the "America's Nightly Scoreboard" program on the Fox Business Network, in New York. Plank will step down as CEO in the new year to become the company
"As my partner during the most transformative chapter in our history, he has been exceptional in his ability to translate our brand's vision into world-class execution by focusing on our long-term strategy and re-engineering our ecosystem through a strategic, operational and cultural transformation," he continued.
Under Armour Inc. has threatened Nike, landing major deals with Major League Baseball and star athletes like the NBA's Stephen Curry.
But it also faces threats of its own, like the growing popularity of athleisure wear, clothing that can be worn at work and the yoga studio.
Last year Under Armour said that it was cutting about 400 jobs as part of its restructuring efforts. The company began streamlining in 2017 after explosive sales growth petered out as consumers shifted some of their dollars toward active lifestyle brands like Lululemon.
Shares of the Baltimore company are down 23% since its last earnings report in July. Its stock rose more than 2% in premarket trading on Tuesday.
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Boy, 2, found wandering alone in Canton neighborhood
Darrell Clem
Hometown Life
A 2-year-old boy found wandering alone in a Canton neighborhood was picked up by police and later reunited with his mother.
The child apparently was able to open a bay window, crawl through it and begin walking along Nantucket, a residential street near Sheldon and Hanford, a police report said.
A concerned resident saw the boy and phoned police shortly after 10:40 a.m. Aug. 17 after first driving through the neighborhood to see if he could spot any parent out looking for a child.
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Officers took the toddler to the police station, where a call to 911 had been made after a 50-year-old babysitter — a family relative — realized the child was missing. She told police the boy and two other children had been napping as she cleaned house.
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The babysitter told police she could later hear the children playing upstairs, but it soon became clear to her that only two of them were in the house.
A police department dispatcher was able to locate the child’s mother by phone and made arrangements to return the missing boy to her, the report said. The babysitter was described by relatives as dependable.
A police report indicated the babysitter was ticketed for neglecting the child.
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Exuding confidence, Lions' Slay expects more this year
Lions cornerback Darius Slay wrapped up minicamp Thursday by holding court and, with almost no effort at all, demonstrating that he might be the team's most confident player. By far.
After a breakout second season, Slay said he expects more from himself this year and wants everyone else to expect more from him, too.
"I want people to expect a lot out of me, because that's what I bring," he said. "I bring a lot of things with my talent. I'm just trying to use it and be great."
And while Rashean Mathis won't be supplanted anytime soon, Slay thinks he and rookie third-round pick Alex Carter have the potential to be the NFL's best cornerback tandem one day.
"Oh, yeah," Slay said. "It's going to come. It's a time it's going to come. We're going to be patient with it. We're just let it grow as it comes. Just as I did as a player, just growing and with him, it'll go just as good."
Lions waive cornerback Bill Bentley
Slay has reason to be brimming with confidence these days as one of the cornerstones of the Lions' suddenly potent and promising secondary. And it was Glover Quin, the centerpiece last year who finished with seven interceptions, who has been pouring encouragement into Slay's ears.
"He just told me about trusting and believing into myself," Slay said. "He told me about my combine stats and what I was running at the combine and said nobody (can) run by me, all that.
"When he was telling me that, just sit there, man, he's seen so much in me because me and him are locker mates, he just said he saw me being one of the dominant corners in the league. He just sat and talked to me for 30 minutes about that. And that really sunk into me and just let me know I can be really good."
Stafford not worried about numbers
Slay has benefited from good mentors in his veteran teammates, whom he calls "family," as well as doing drills last year with Hall of Famer Rod Woodson. All of it has paid off. Slay intercepted a Matthew Stafford pass Thursday and looked sharp all off-season. And he's has not been shy about using the word "great" to describe his goals.
"I'm just going to hope for the best season I can possibly have every year," he said.
Contact Carlos Monarrez: cmonarrez@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @cmonarrez. Download our free Lions Xtra app on your Apple and Android devices.
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Dynasty Warriors 9 Review
15 February 2018 | By Aron Gerencser
Dynasty Warriors Nein
Dynasty Warriors 9 is a particularly frustrating game, as it loves to rub the fact that it could have been great but turned out to be quite the opposite at every turn. This game has problems, serious problems, but at times manages to be fun still - though clearly in spite of its features and mechanics, not because of them. This game is perplexing because time and again the developers proved themselves to be skilled and capable of delivering high-quality games, so the veritable technical disaster that is Dynasty Warriors 9 is a surprising disappointment.
The problems begin with the biggest change this installment offers over previous entries - the shift to open world. In the past, Dynasty Warriors games put players into smaller areas with a timed objective and the games had linear progression for the most part. Dynasty Warriors 9 replaces that with a depressingly huge open world the entirety of which can be freely explored - not that you’d want to do that. The developers certainly got the “open” part right, as the map is huge, but it’s also extremely bland, empty, and more repetitive than the dungeons of Dragon Age 2.
Now, I’ve always liked open world games, and always loved traipsing around, doing every activity no matter how minor, and just taking in the sights. I loved the worlds of, say, Just Cause 2 and Assassin’s Creed Origins, but when I opened the map view of Dynasty Warriors 9 and witnessed its size, I became more exhausted and daunted rather than excited. About 80% of the map is plains with some clusters of forest, with a few mountainous regions on the borders and strewn about in the middle, a patch of snow up north and some water here and there.
At one point, a side mission took me to the snowy northern area where I decided to take a trip to the edge of the map to see how that’s done. Some games try to hide boundaries with unscalable mountains or endless seas. Some add some kind of insurmountable danger to push you back into bounds. Dynasty Warriors 9 opted for the inelegant invisible wall plopped down in front of you, but the best part is that the procedural generation algorithm placed enemies and crafting materials beyond the invisible wall. My character was hopelessly running in place while packs of tigers and nodes of crafting materials were happily existing a few meters in front of me.
There is an invisible wall between me and that loot
Cities are pretty vast, but completely empty. Luoyang is the capital of the empire during a period, and when visting it outside of specific missions that take place there, the entire city is completely deserted save for a pair of guards at each gate plus ~10 NPCs grouped into a cluster of 3 buildings who are your standard shopkeepers, found in a corner of the settlement. The entire “capital” was empty. The game features no NPCs who aren’t enemies, friendly soldiers or shopkeepers - basically, there are no citizens.
The map is, however, dotted with umpteen army camps and bases. At any given time in the game, there are precisely two factions warring against each other, and you’re always supporting one. There is some measure of a persistent war going on in the open world that you can affect - capturing bases will move the frontline, helping your soldiers push forward or better defend your areas. Random roaming enemy officers can put up decent resistance, but they too are too little to make the game challenging. This system feels like the beginnings of what may have been an interesting persistent war mechanic, but never got fleshed out.
Visually, the game fares poorly. I’ve never been too harsh on the graphics of any game, since I place both story and gameplay above in terms of importance, so this is hardly what damned Dynasty Warriors 9, but I know many people consider this a major factor. The game is far from being outright ugly, it’s just not up to 2018’s AAA standards. The most work went into the models of the playable characters, and this shows, but instead of bringing attention to the craftsmanship of those models, the discrepancy instead constantly highlights the poor quality of everything else. The player’s horse, particularly, looks really bad, which is made the more obvious because the rather good-looking character models are sitting on it.
Spot the playable characters
Asset repetition is constant. Forts, villages, and most noticeably, enemies basically never change. You’ll kill the same later-Han Chinese footsoldier a million times. Captains are identical save for what weapon they carry, and once again the only exception are the boss characters, who usually become playable, explaining the greater detail. Visuals are further marred by bugs, such as floating props, flickering textures. From my previous story about going to the snowy part of the map, I also retained a bugged omnipresent storm which followed me everywhere on the map, and wouldn’t be scared off by fast travelling, advancing time at a bonfire or restarting the game, and the violently bright fog effects made my eyes hurt after playing like so for a few hours. It also reduced draw distance so I basically only saw what was directly in front of my character, but can’t decide whether that’s good or bad.
This fog was present even indoors
BUT none of that should be too big an issue so long as the gameplay itself is on point, right? I mean, people play Dynasty Warriors to live out a power fantasy about a one-person army wiping out literal thousands of enemy soldiers in ridiculously overdone ways. Even if the open world is lackluster, you can just ignore all the fluff and jump from battle to battle, right?
Well… yes and no.
Dynasty Warriors 9 has some pretty pervasive RPG elements, including a level system. Usually, when you play a chapter, unless you ground yourself to a state of severe overleveledness, the main objective will be around 10 levels above you. Now, such a difference usually doesn’t make encounters any more difficult or dangerous, only time-consuming. Regular opponents have to be way way above your level to be a real threat, but they do soak up damage like sponges if only a few levels above you. The whole “wiping out entire armies” thing becomes less exciting when the weakest footsoldier has 5 health bars and you can barely chip away a lick with each hit. This forces you into the open-world fluff content to gain XP, and side missions are even more repetitive than the visuals.
Get ready to kill the same dude 1000 times
At one point, two individual quest givers in the same fort gave me two quests, both of which had me go to the same forest and kill identical packs of wolves who spawned upon one another. Another had me kill bandits, and then an altogether different quest giver in a different settlement during a different chapter sent me to kill those same bandits again. These “requests”, as they are called, reward you with XP and crafting materials, and are sometimes used as a vehicle to introduce features in the open world.
The developers seemingly worked by the most cynical description of an open world game without realizing it. Alongside the oppressive size, constant repetition and lack of variety, the game is also bloated with side activities. You can cook, you can craft, you can hunt, you can fish, visit scenic locations, climb watchtowers to reveal parts of the map (seriously…), buy houses which you can furnish, collect old coins, and smash randomly placed boxes (which sometimes float mid-air off the side of mountains) for loot. To help you traverse this vast world, you have a mount which you can call at any time, but the poor steed isn’t without its own issues, such as entering water on horseback so that the steed is ankle deep will magically make the whole character glisten with wetness.
Once you’ve trudged all through that, you finally get to the actual battles and fighting, which are this game’s redeeming quality. Wailing away at huge opposing armies, wiping out hundreds of enemies in a single encounter, unleashing special abilities accompanied by charmingly awkward catchphrases and magical lasers, explosions and shockwaves is genuinely fun, but once again, repetitive. You only have so many moves and attacks, and combat is only minimally affected by weapon variety, which is lower than in other Warriors games. Dynasty Warriors 9 really loves its sharp things on the ends of chains. Nonetheless, combat is fun, and when the game finally lets you partake in truly large battles, there is genuine enjoyment to be had. Not that major battles aren’t without their caveats. A grappling hook makes any kind of sensible siege gameplay moot, because the overpowered main character can just climb over literally any wall and hack up the enemy army within anyway.
There isn’t too much to say about the storyline. It’s mostly the same fare as what you get in other Dynasty Warriors games. The plot begins near the latter years of the Han period, and each character has their own storylines which often intersect, but the writing is pretty weak and the plot isn’t much more than just an excuse to funnel players into various battles with various bosses. As you progress with some of the characters, you meet and unlock the latter ones.
You can knock enemies into the air, jump, stay in the air, and hack at them. Martial arts!
Dynasty Warriors 9 has some additional issues here and there, like poor pathfinding, enemy and prop spawning not done off-screen when in visual range, pointless padding, silly difficulty application - hunting high level animals on hard will have them split-second teleporting away from your arrows regardless of aim - and more, but these would be minor gripes if the game’s main aspects weren’t so broken.
Many players on PC have reported a range of performance issues. My not-too-old GTX 980 rig ran it at stable 60 FPS on medium, ~45 on maximum and I juggled options in custom settings to get the most out of stable 60 which was basically the same as maximum settings with some of the intensive stuff turned down a tad, but as it turns out many people get the game defaulting to the integrated graphics processor instead of the GPU, which is causing the issues. Bugs aren’t game breaking and the game never crashed on me during my 11 hours with it.
DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 VERDICT
Dynasty Warriors 9 suffers from a lot of issues, most stemming from the terribly implemented open-world. Assets are reused, it’s buggy, repetitive, bloated, empty and bland. These shortcomings are made all the more painful by the obvious potential this game had, and how fun the base combat can be once players waded through all the other nonsense.
TOP GAME MOMENT
Conducting a multi-tiered attack on a city, wherein enemy captains had to be defeated to remove elemental buffs from the main boss, sequentially weakening him before the actual encounter and slowly taking over the city district-to-district.
Fun combat
Empty open world
Asset reuse
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Defendant found not guilty of attempted murder and wounding with intent in a case involving a death
Bernard Tetlow QC
Shahida Begum
Bernard Tetlow QC led Shahida Begum, both of the Garden Court Criminal Defence Team, and were instructed by Arlene Mansoor of Shearman Bowen Solicitors.
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An unusual case where there was a death but the defendants' charges were changed shortly before trial from murder to attempted murder and wounding with intent. The prosecution accepted the deceased was an aggressor and lawful self-defence could not be negated during the first part of the incident, when the fatal wound was inflicted. However the prosecution proceeded with attempted murder on the basis that the defendants would not have known the deceased was already fatally wounded and there was an alleged joint attack during the second part of the incident with weapons, which was entirely unjustified. The second part of the incident was all captured on CCTV.
A case raising complex issues of law and CCTV visual and audio analysis.
The case was heard at Croydon Crown Court.
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European Summer School on Developments in Resource Economics
3 July, 2011 - 9 July, 2011
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The 2011 Summer School will take place from the 3rd to the 9th of July at the Venice International University campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of St. Mark's Square. The theme of this Summer School is Developments in Resource Economics.
The summer school will be of interest for students who have a thorough understanding of the classic natural resource theory, and who would like to make their own contribution in various topics rooted in resource economics.
In the recent past, resource economics has been strongly advanced in studies related to the economics of energy, including the pricing of oil, coal and other fossil fuels, the effect of environmental policies on energy prices, and the economics of clean energy alternatives.
The lectures will cover several key issues in the field, including:
strategic relationships in resource markets helping to understand the effect of demand-side policies on supply-side behavior;
effect of endogenous development of resource-saving and backstop technologies on growth perspectives for resource-dependent economies;
development of institutions that create new natural resources, such as pollution permits, fish quota, electricity spot markets in countries rich in hydro electricity supply;
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Here’s the first photo of Eva Longoria’s gorgeous baby boy
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Eva Longoria welcomed her first child with her husband, José Antonio “Pepe” Bastón in June and now we've been given our first look at the gorgeous little one.
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26 November 2014 Joyce Xi News
The “Corner Market” in Zwezwe, Khayelitsha. Photo by Joyce Xi.
Lulamile Witbooi lost his legs in a train accident in 1991. Today he runs the “Corner Market”, a thriving fruit and vegetable shop in Zwezwe, Khayelitsha.
At the time of the accident, Witbooi was boarding a packed train. As he got into the carriage, people were pushing and he lost his footing. He fell out of the carriage, his legs on the tracks and his body between the tracks and the platform wall, and the train drove forward and sliced off both his legs.
“I woke up in the hospital without legs three weeks later,” says Witbooi.
He spent the next several months in hospitals. He was not contacted by police or Metrorail following the incident, and was never told how to seek compensation.
Lulamile Witbooi wraps cabbage to be sold at his shop. Photo by Joyce Xi.
“Times were different. It was still during the apartheid era so nobody paid attention to the case,” he says. “I slept in the hospital with no idea what to do. Nobody came to tell me. I was left on my own.”
Witbooi never received any legal assistance because he did not know how to seek it. In 2011, he approached Metrorail himself but found it was too late to file a claim.
Though Metrorail has no record of the 1991 accident, the company offered R80,000 as a “goodwill” payment. The money was paid to Witbooi last June.
But he says he is not happy with the settlement. He would have preferred prosthetic legs.
“Only after 20 years, Metrorail offered me R80,000, but my legs are not just worth R80,000. This affects my life and my family. They won’t even allow me to file a claim.” After he went home from the hospital, Witbooi needed to find a way to make a living. He asked a friend to help him get to town, where he told his story to anyone willing to lend an ear, and in this process found a job as a parking attendant.
Lulamile Witbooi sells bananas to a young customer. Photo by Joyce Xi.
When that contract ended, Witbooi didn’t look for another job because transport was too demanding and he knew he couldn’t do many types of work. Instead, he used his savings to start a shop.
“I started my own business because I can’t do much else,” he says. “Going even to the train station is difficult. I must always have somebody pushing me around.”
Witbooi now spends his days chatting with and finding change for customers, and free moments wrapping and packaging fruits and vegetables for display. He does everything from his wheelchair, and has hired an assistant who helps out with tasks that might be difficult without legs.
Even with his disability, Witbooi is the breadwinner in his family. He supports 7 people—his 4 children, wife, grandson, and sister’s son. Even though the shop is doing well, Witbooi still struggles to make enough to support everyone. His monthly disability grant is spent on university fees for his sister’s son.
For Witbooi, owning a shop comes with many challenges. He lives in the shop because it is easier for him to stay there given his limited mobility. As the shop is a target for crime, he lives alone without his family. “It is risky here. People steal things. They came in with guns three times—they break in and want money.
Security is bad,” he says.
Lulamile Witbooi lives in his shop because it is easier for him with his limited mobility. Photo by Joyce Xi.
He says municipal officials have told him his shop is illegally located on government land, something he didn’t know when he moved to the area.
“They could ask me to leave anytime. If they make me move, I don’t know where I would go.”
Transportation is his biggest challenge, and he always has to rely on someone else to help him get to the market where he buys stock.
Witbooi still hopes to get prosthetic legs someday so that he can walk again.
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