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Internet Party’s 6th #AntiSpyBill Event
Sunday, 17 September 2017, 10:09 am
Press Release: Internet Party
Internet Party’s 6th #AntiSpyBill Event To Highlight Dangers Of Mass Biometric Collection Programs
This evening two brave Indian activists and academics - Dr Gopal Krishna and Dr Usha Ramanathan - will join the Internet Party’s 6th consecutive #AntiSpyBill event to share their firsthand knowledge of gross intrusions of privacy being imposed en masse upon the world's second most populous nation.
Known as Aadhaar, the world’s largest biometrics system, implemented by the Indian government in conjunction with major corporations like telecommunications companies and banks, was engineered by for-profit international contracting companies connected to Western spy agencies.
Internet Party Leader Suzie Dawson will MC the event and says: “Do you want to be fingerprinted when you buy a SIM card? No? What about to open a bank account? Well, neither do people in India. But its happening there and if we don't help stop it, this phenomenon will likely spread around the globe.”
The Internet Party is again inviting the public to join the roundtable event, which willcontinue the world-first effort to draft crowdsourced legislation to regulate governmental spying.
The initiative seeks to counter the damage to democratic and human rights inflicted upon New Zealanders by a string of draconian spying laws passed between 2013 and 2016. These laws have retroactively legalised previously illegal targeting of New Zealanders, including warrantless spying and covertly filming them inside their homes, Orwell-style - a practice referred to in law as "domestic visual surveillance".
Internet Party Leader Suzie Dawson said "New Zealand spies and their international counterparts have engaged in some of the most egregious conduct imaginable. The laws passed under urgency in recent years have only furthered the sense of invulnerability of these spies. They also violate international law. We must show that where our lawmakers fail to do so, the public are willing to step up and address these issues themselves.”
The event will be simulcast live on the official Internet Party Facebook page and YouTube channel.
Anyone can Join the Internet Party to help #UpdateNZ - and the world!
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Top Picks 29th March 2015 : Includes releases from Kele Moon, Shelly Laurenston, Maisey Yates & Tiffany Reisz
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This is our Top Picks post. In it, I highlight books that take my fancy. This could be because of the author name on the front, the blurb or even the cover (sometimes, that’s all it takes). Please be aware of our new policies regarding books which means that only authors I would spend my money on will appear on here. EDIT … I am no longer using US affiliate links on the site. Any US link you click on posts from today will be buy links but I’ll be making no money from them.
This weeks Top Picks are….
Buy Links : Amazon US| Amazon UK
Status on TR List : I FUCKING LOVED THIS BOOK. Review will be out this week but if you like Alpha Anto-heroes who are complete bell-ends to their heroines (I’m side-eyeing all of you MC “heroes” here) but do do some dubious things to everyone else, try this series.
To Chuito the apartment was a self-imposed prison for a lifetime of sins. To Alaine, the girl next door, it was salvation from her overbearing, religious father.
He was a devil.
She was an angel.
Two people who should’ve never met, let alone become friends, but it’s not until they give into the dangerous passion that’s been simmering under the surface for five years that things go to hell.
On the outside, Chuito ‘The Slayer’ Garcia is on top of the world. He’s successful. He’s wealthy. He’s a champion MMA fighter surrounded by friends who support him, but they don’t know what he was before he came to Garnet.
A gangster.
A thief.
An addict.
A murderer.
Now his past is churning up demons he can’t ignore. Chuito knows he needs to go back to Miami to end it, but there’s something holding him back, a single temptation he can’t resist before leaving.
Alaine.
She’s the one drug he can’t give up…even if it destroys them both.
“To me you’re coke. Fine. Smooth. Perfectly white. Very bad for me, but so fucking sexy I don’t give a shit. It’s worth going down for.” – Chuito Garcia
Buy Links : Amazon US | B & N | Amazon UK
Status on TR List I love love love this book! Review is already up here
Kera Watson never expected to face death behind a Los Angeles coffee shop. Not after surviving two tours lugging an M16 around the Middle East. If it wasn’t for her hot Viking customer showing up too late to help, nobody would even see her die.
In uncountable years of service to the Allfather Odin, Ludvig “Vig” Rundstrom has never seen anyone kick ass with quite as much style as Kera. He knows one way to save her life—but she might not like it. Signing up with the Crows will get Kera a new set of battle buddies: cackling, gossiping, squabbling, party-hearty women. With wings. So not the Marines.
But Vig can’t give up on someone as special as Kera. With a storm of oh-crap magic speeding straight for L.A., survival will depend on combining their strengths: Kera’s discipline, Vig’s loyalty… and the Crows’ sheer love of battle. Boy, are they in trouble.
Status on TR List : I haven’t read it yet but I love this dark and kinky series. I will read … ASAP.
For years, Kingsley Edge warned Eleanor the day would come when she, the mistress of a well-respected Catholic priest, would have to run and hide. She always imagined if that day came she’d be running away with Søren. But instead, she’s running from him.
Knowing Søren and Kingsley will their use their influence to bring her back, Eleanor alone, penniless and scared takes refuge at the one place the men in her life cannot follow: the abbey where her mother has taken orders. Behind the cloistered gates of the convent, Eleanor hides from the man she loves and hates in equal measure
She cannot, however, hide from her true nature. When Eleanor befriends a young virginal nun, she faces a startling sexual awakening. But Eleanor can’t stay forever, and the lure of her real life beckons beyond the locked gates. But to follow her fate means to leave Kyrie behind, a sacrifice Eleanor refuses to make
The lure of the forbidden. The temptation to sin. The price of passion has never been higher, and Eleanor will have to pay it if she ever wants to go home again.
Status on TR List : I love Maisey Yates, I love this series and it is on the TR list. I need to review the others that I have read.
A one-time bad girl comes home to small-town Oregon in the first in a sexy, heartfelt new series from USA TODAY bestselling author Maisey Yates…
Sadie Miller isn’t expecting any welcome-home parades on her return to Copper Ridge. Least of all from part-time rancher, full-time lawman Eli Garrett. The straight-laced, impossibly hot deputy sheriff glares at her like she’s the same teenage hoodlum who fled town ten years ago. But running from her demons has brought Sadie full circle, ready to make a commitment at last. Not to a man, but to a B and B. On Garrett land. Okay, so her plan has a tiny flaw…
Eli works too hard to let a blonde ball of trouble mess up his town. But keeping an eye on Sadie makes it tough to keep his hands off her. And if she’s so wrong for him, why does being with her feel so right?
Status on TR List : This is the last chance for this series for me. I’ve been coming more and more disengaged with the characters and the world. I hope it’s good!
Two brothers bound by more than blood fight to change a brutal destiny in the heart-wrenching new novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood by #1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward.
Trez “Latimer” doesn’t really exist. And not just because the identity was created so that a Shadow could function in the underbelly of the human world. Sold by his parents to the Queen of the S’Hsibe as a child, Trez escaped the Territory and has been a pimp and an enforcer in Caldwell, NY for years- all the while on the run from a destiny of sexual servitude. He’s never had anyone he could totally rely on… except for his brother, iAm.
iAm’s sole goal has always been to keep his brother from self-destructing- and he knows he’s failed. It’s not until the Chosen Serena enters Trez’s life that the male begins to turn things around… but by then it’s too late. The pledge to mate the Queen’s daughter comes due and there is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and no negotiating.
Trapped between his heart and a fate he never volunteered for, Trez must decide whether to endanger himself and others- or forever leave behind the female he’s in love with. But then an unimaginable tragedy strikes and changes everything. Staring out over an emotional abyss, Trez must find a reason to go on or risk losing himself and his soul forever. And iAm, in the name of brotherly love, is faced with making the ultimate sacrifice…
Status on TR List : Serenity Woods wrote one of the sexiest books I’ve ever read and so I keep trying her stuff. I haven’t yet found one that tops the first book but they are good. Teaming up with Entangled is interesting … I shall read!
A sexy category romance from Entangled’s Brazen imprint…
Their only rule is about to be broken…
It’s been a year since makeup artist Tabby Rogers’s life was turned upside-down. Now she’s back on track?in a month, she’ll be in the UK for the career opportunity of a lifetime. One she absolutely cannot let pass her by. Until she leaves, all she has to do is fill in on a movie shoot in New Zealand and keep out of trouble. And trouble looks a lot like a devilishly hot stuntman…
Eli Black has one rule: don’t date girls on set. His only goal is to get to Hollywood and fulfill a promise he made to his dying brother. Unfortunately, Tabby sends Eli’s temperature soaring through the stratosphere. Surely-just for the month-they can enjoy a hot little fling before they go their separate ways? All they have to do is not fall in love…
Previously released on Entangled’s Indulgence imprint February 2012 and has been enhanced with new material.
Status on TR List : I’ve been waiting for this … I hope it’s good!
One broken heart.
One battered soul.
No one said life would be fair or easy. Quiet, Peruvian-born artist Cassie Lopez learned this the hard way. Betrayed by the man she planned to marry, she shut herself off as far away from all but her closest friend from college…
Until the night Luke Denton came crashing into her Colorado mountain sanctuary with a vengeance. Confused by her heart’s response to this kind and gentle man, Cassie pushes herself to help the cowboy recover quickly so she can send him on his way. But Luke’s patience and understanding threaten to break down the very defenses she needs to survive in this world after he’s gone.
Search-and-Rescue worker Luke, who lost his wife and unborn child in a tragic accident, also knows firsthand of the unfairness of life. He keeps his own nightmares at bay by focusing on his rescue activities, most recently adopting and working with abused and neglected horses.
Can two wounded people find trust and love together? Do nightmares end where dreams come true?
Status on TR List : I need to catch up on this series! On the TR list
Don’t miss a beat with the fourth and final novel in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Stage Dive series from Kylie Scott.
Positive. With two little lines on a pregnancy test, everything in Lizzy Rollins’ ordinary life is about to change forever. And all because of one big mistake in Vegas with Ben Nicholson, the irresistibly sexy bass player for Stage Dive. So what if Ben’s the only man she’s ever met who can make her feel completely safe, cherished, and out of control with desire at the same time? Lizzy knows the gorgeous rock star isn’t looking for anything more permanent than a good time, no matter how much she wishes differently.
Ben knows Lizzy is off limits. Completely and utterly. She’s his best friend’s little sister now, and no matter how hot the chemistry is between them, no matter how sweet and sexy she is, he’s not going to go there. But when Ben is forced to keep the one girl he’s always had a weakness for out of trouble in Sin City, he quickly learns that what happens in Vegas, doesn’t always stay there. Now he and Lizzie are connected in the deepest way possible…but will it lead to a connection of the heart?
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“Break It Yourself” Review
By Valen Lambert, Staff Writer
Andrew Bird has outdone himself again with his new album “Break It Yourself” released on March 6. Smooth and melodic, the overall vibe of the album is great to chill out to while it’s raining outside and a perfect spring soundtrack.
His use of a variety of instruments incorporated throughout the album gives it a unique sound. Only Bird can make the fiddle, violin, glockenspiel, harp, and other unusual instruments come together to make a distinct, flowing, and beautiful sound.
“Break It Yourself” includes such instruments in the songs “Desperation Breeds” and “Give It Away.” Bird brings back his catchy whistling in his upbeat songs “Lusitania” and “Danse Caribe.” Despite “Break It Yourself”’s overall indie-folk chill vibes, other songs have a more foreign sound. “Orpheo Looks Back” incorporates some aspects of Irish folk and “Near Death Experience” has a bit of Latin/Salsa vibe.
Bird has one of the most beautiful, flowing sounds I’ve heard, and with his talented use of all the out of the ordinary instruments, he is definitely one-upping Bon Iver in the indie folk/chill feeling, providing music that puts you in a good mood and gets stuck in your head for days.
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The Study of Religion
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Total Devotion – passions and plots in radical religion in the ancient world
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Retracing Connections: Byzantine Storyworlds in Greek, Arabic, Georgian, and Old Slavonic (c. 950 – c. 1100)
The Study of Religion at the University of Southern Denmark
The section for the Study of Religion at the University of Southern Denmark has a clear research profile. We focus on comparative and historical studies of religion as a cultural phenomenon.
The Study of Religion forms a part of the Humanities and it comprises comparative and historical studies of the large, organized religions and their history, and of all key aspects of religion broadly understood, in the past as well as in the present. This includes new and alternative religious movements and milieus, religion in the media and popular culture, in literature and film, and religion in the state and school, and it includes all types of religious transformations in various historical epochs and societies. The study of religion utilizes a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and methods, from historical, philological and phenomenological approaches, to literary perspectives and cultural studies, sociological, anthropological and media theoretical approaches.
The research staff employed with the Section for the Study of Religion with the Department of History are the following:
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Aktor, Mikael Associate professor aktor@sdu.dk
Christiansen, Johanne Louise Assistant professor jchr@sdu.dk
Feldt, Laura Associate professor lfeldt@sdu.dk
Hammer, Olav Professor ohammer@sdu.dk
Jensen, Tim Associate professor t.jensen@sdu.dk
Reeh, Niels Associate professor reeh@sdu.dk
Rothstein, Mikael Associate professor Rothstein@sdu.dk
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Delaware Quote of the Day: The Great Turkey-Thief Crime Wave of 1934!
Here is a detailed report from the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal that appeared on Nov. 27, 1934 under the headline below. "Thieves Steal Fowl, Haul to City 'Fences':" A band of chicken and turkey thieves are operating from Harrington and Milford to the Delaware-Maryland line at Delmar, and hundreds of the fowl are reported to have been stolen within the past few weeks. The thieves…
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The Holly-Wreath Traditon: Memories from Atlantic, Va.
Back in 2004 the writer Brice Stump made the most of a priceless opportunity. While working for the Salisbury Daily Times, he got to join a pair of elderly siblings from Atlantic, Va. as they relived old family memories by sitting around the kitchen table and making a holly wreath in the old-school way. Norman Davis, then 85, and Leuvenia Watson, then 84, had spent…
In the Land of Holly: Wreath-Making in Southern Delaware
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Editorial: Why Oakland is right to sue the Raiders
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Chronicle Editorial Board Dec. 12, 2018 Updated: Dec. 12, 2018 5:17 p.m.
An Oakland Raiders' fan holds a "Stay in Oakland" sign during Kansas City Chiefs' 34-20 win in NFL game at O.co Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, December 6, 2015.
Oakland has decided to go on the offensive by filing a federal lawsuit against the Raiders and the NFL over the team’s impending move to Las Vegas. The legal arguments may be a bit of a stretch, but the chance to recover the $80 million in remaining debt from Coliseum renovations — and perhaps much more in damages — is well worth a try.
The upshot of the lawsuit is spot on: that the Raiders and the NFL ignored the league’s relocation guidelines and did not otherwise play fair in stacking the deck for Las Vegas, which dangled a $750 million public subsidy toward a new domed stadium in the desert. As Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf recently told our Scott Ostler, the Raiders “stonewalled the entire time” since she became mayor in January 2015.
“There was no good faith there at all,” Schaaf said last month.
Of course, there is no law on the state or federal books that requires a business to act in good faith in choosing where to house its operation. However, NFL bylaws contain detailed guidelines that teams must meet before moving to a new market, with a requirement that it “work diligently and in good faith” to try to stay in its home territory. It expressly prohibits a franchise from granting “exclusive negotiating rights” to a community outside its current market — such as the Raiders effectively did with Las Vegas.
One of the points of contention in this case will be whether that is merely an agreement among the 32 owners to play fair with one another and/or advance the stability of the league, or whether a community that relied on those bylaws when investing considerable taxpayer money in a stadium should have standing to sue when they are breached.
It’s not a clear-cut legal matter, but it’s an argument that needs to be tested in court not only for Oakland’s sake, but for the interests of other cities that subsidize professional football to even greater degrees. Are you awake, Las Vegas?
On the broader antitrust argument, the Oakland lawsuit alleged that the NFL and its teams colluded as an “illegal cartel” to pressure communities to pony up big bucks for lavish new stadiums. To her credit, Schaaf refused to yield to the extortion game, offering public money only for infrastructure improvements to the Coliseum area that had benefits beyond the football stadium.
As the lawsuit notes, the owners of the 31 teams reaped a windfall by shunning Oakland’s privately financed alternative of a $1.3 billion open-air stadium on the Coliseum site: The other teams divided a $378 million “relocation fee” that the Raiders will be paying the NFL for the Vegas move.
The lawsuit is being handled on a contingency basis in which an outside legal firm will collect fees as a portion of any ultimate judgment against the Raiders. Thus, it does not put tax dollars at risk. It’s a bold move, and a wise one. Oakland should not be saddled with debt for refusing to cower to a cartel.
This commentary is from The Chronicle’s editorial board. We invite you to express your views in a letter to the editor. Please submit your letter via our online form: SFChronicle.com/letters.
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HomeActorsCole Sprouse Biography, Age, Height, Education, Family, Affairs & Girlfriend, Movies & TV shows, Net Worth & Facts
Cole Sprouse Who is?
Cole Mitchell Sprouse is an American actor, known for his role as Cody Martin on the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and its spinoff The Suite Life on Deck. In his early career, when a child and teenager, he appeared in various projects alongside his twin brother Dylan Sprouse.
Cole Sprouse Biography
Full Name: Cole Mitchell Sprouse
Birth Date: August 4, 1992
Place Of Birth: Arezzo, Tuscany, Itly
Parents: Father-Matthew Sprouse
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Weight: 70 kg (approx)
Occupation: Actor
School: New York University
Zodiac Sign: Leo
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Cole Sprouse Films & Movies
1999 Big Daddy
1999 The Astronaut's Wife
2001 Diary of a Sex Addict
2001 I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
2002 The Master of Disguise
2002 Eight Crazy Nights
2003 Apple Jack
2003 Just for Kicks2004
2006 Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn't Happen
2007 A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper
2008 The Kings of Appletown
2010 Kung Fu Magoo
2019 Five Feet Apart
Cole Sprouse TV Shows
1993–1998 Grace Under Fire
2000–2002 Friends
2001 The Nightmare Room
2001 That '70s Show
2005–2008 The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
2006 That's So Raven
2008–2011 The Suite Life on Deck
2009 Hannah Montana
2010 I'm in the Band
2011 The Suite Life Movie
2012 So Random!
2017–present Riverdale
2020 Borrasca
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This Obergurgl property is located near Hochgurgl Ski Resort and another regional point of interest is Hochsolden Ski Area. The ski hotel is just 200 metres from the resort centre and approximately 100 km from Innsbruck-Kranebitten Airport.||The traditionally styled hotel is a ski-in/ski-out property with locally inspired decor and furnishings. The health-enhancing environment of exquisite gourmet cuisine and selected wines as well as a new, lavishly equipped spa centre will leave no wish unfulfilled. Facilities available to guests in the 40-room ski hotel include a hotel safe, a bar and a breakfast/dining room.||Each room features an en suite bathroom with shower and hairdryer, a double bed and a private balcony. Other in-room amenities include satellite TV, a minibar, a radio, a direct dial telephone and Internet access.||Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor swimming pool, a gym (fees apply), sauna and steam room. Other amenities include a full-service health spa, which offers spa treatments and a massage service (fees apply).||The restaurant offers a rich buffet breakfast and the most varied gourmet menus for dinner, with accompanying well-selected wines.||From the motorway (A12 Inntal-autobahn), exit at Ötztal and follow the road via Sölden until Obergurgl. Arriving on Gurgler Strasse turn left into Kressbrunnenweg.
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The Classic Nike Air More Uptempo Olympic Is Returning
In celebration of the forthcoming 2016 Summer Olympics and also its 20th anniversary, this iconic Olympic variation of the Nike Air More Uptempo will be revived once again, as it was first seen on Scottie Pippen during the 1996 Summer games in Barcelona, Spain.
Showcased above consists of the 2016 version, and unsurprisingly, bearing the same aesthetic and build as its original counterpart. Midnight navy and white comprises the sneaker’s primary tones, while subtle pops of red are seen on the tongue to encapsulate the USA theme.
Retailing for $160, Nike retailers overseas have the shoe releasing on July 4th. It’s possible that it will arrive stateside on the same day or earlier to also coincide with our nation’s birthday.
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Author’s Take
I’ve always liked this model ever since I saw Scottie rock the pair. I’m a fan of that enlarged branding, plus the design is just appealing in my view. It’s nice to see that this colorway will be offered again.
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Orbital Insight Hires New Head of Product
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businesswire, September 16, 2019, 12:00 pm
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Orbital Insight, the leader in geospatial analytics, today announced the addition of Jens Tellefsen to its leadership team, serving as Head of Product. Tellefsen will lead Orbital Insight’s global product vision for its recently-launched GO platform, which enables the world’s leading investors, corporates, and governments alike to make informed policy and business decisions supported by trusted geospatial analytics.
Orbital Insight Head of Product Jens Tellefsen (Photo: Business Wire)
Since Orbital Insight officially launched GO in May 2019, the company has experienced a surge of interest from clients seeking trusted geospatial data to analyze infrastructure, supply chains, commodities, and areas of interest pertaining to national security. Tellefsen brings over 20 years of developing world-class enterprise software products to help build out GO’s capabilities to meet the unique needs of Orbital’s diverse client base.
“Our clients have already illuminated supply chains, prevented deforestation, and have aided national security using Orbital Insight’s geospatial analytics platform,” said Orbital Insight CEO Jimi Crawford. “We’re excited to have Jens in a leadership role that accelerates the development of new innovative use cases that will bring Orbital Insight closer in its mission to help clients understand what is happening on and to the Earth.”
“I was attracted to this opportunity to work with Orbital Insight because its technology has the potential to open our eyes by tapping into the enormous flow of data from micro-satellites, high resolution satellites, radar satellites, aerial drones and connected devices to understanding what is happening on and to the Earth at an unprecedented scale and level of detail and in real-time,” said Tellefsen. “I’m looking forward to helping the team scale its ability to measure economic and environmental activities around the world to help organizations across the public and private sectors make better decisions.”
Tellefsen has experience in enterprise software, leading companies in product strategy and management. He has led the development of scalable software solutions covering business intelligence, artificial intelligence, sales credit, and commissions management, B2B price optimization and analytics and social analytics leveraging natural language processing. Tellefsen previously served as VP of Products at Quantifind, where he led the development of the company’s predictive analytics platform. Before joining Quantifind, he served as a product executive at NetBase Solutions, Vendavo, Callidus Software, and Trilogy. He also spent two years at McKinsey & Company advising Fortune 500 companies on corporate strategy.
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Orbital Insight leverages machine learning and computer vision to analyze petabytes of multi-source data, including satellite and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery, geolocation intelligence, and vessel traffic (AIS) data, to understand what is happening on and to the Earth. By monitoring the world’s geopolitical and economic activities with unprecedented timeliness, Orbital Insight provides its customers—securities analysts, energy traders, NGO analysts and analysts in federal defense, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies—with unbiased and normalized datasets, empowering them to make better business and policy decisions. For more information, please visit orbitalinsight.com.
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Outten & Golden LLP: SolarCity Corp. Accused of Failing to Pay Overtime to Installers
Mar 29, 2016 / Press Release / PRNewswire — Outten & Golden LLP
SolarCity Corp., the nation's largest provider of solar power, illegally underpaid service employees in violation of federal and state labor laws, a class action filed by the law firm Outten & Golden LLP alleges.
Filed in California federal court today, the lawsuit was filed on behalf of all installation employees throughout the United States, according to Jahan C. Sagafi, of Outten & Golden LLP, who represents the plaintiff and proposed class members in the litigation.
SolarCity installers install, repair, and maintain customers' solar power units throughout the nation, with operations in 19 states. The lawsuit alleges that SolarCity maintained a policy and practice of clocking its installation employees out when they were performing midday assignments of traveling from job site to job site, resulting in hours of off-the-clock work for which the employees were never compensated.
The named plaintiff, Ravi Whitworth, asserts that SolarCity also failed to comply with California laws providing meal and rest break protections and prohibiting employers from shifting business expenses to employees.
The complaint proposes that these claims be addressed in one trial for all affected employees as a class action, covering workers as far back as March 2012. It requests unpaid wages, penalties, unreimbursed expenses, and attorneys' fees and costs.
Mr. Whitworth said, "I am trying to make sure that my fellow SolarCity workers get paid for all the hours we have worked for the company, and the expenses we've incurred for them."
Plaintiffs' counsel Jahan C. Sagafi, of Outten & Golden LLP, said, "This lawsuit seeks fair compensation for the many installation employees whose long hours of hard work drive the company's success."
Current and former SolarCity installation employees who wish to report their work experiences or learn more about their rights are invited to contact plaintiff's counsel at www.solarclassaction.com. The site allows witnesses and employees interested in protecting their rights to contact plaintiffs' counsel.
The case is Whitworth v. SolarCity Corp., Case No. 3:16-cv-01540 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Royal Birkdale is hosting the Open Championship - but is it the best course in the UK?
Judges have ranked the best 100 in the country
Jamie LopezSouthport and West Lancs reporter
The Royal Birkdale is again hosting The Open Championship this year, marking it out as one of the highest quality golf courses in the world.
The venue has repeatedly been praised by the championship’s organisers and is always one of the most well attended Open venues.
Even Liverpool FC legend Jamie Carragher was highlighting what a great venue it is last week, saying: “Everyone knows it’s fantastic course, that’s why they bring the Open here.
“It’s been here before and it’ll continue to do so in the years to come.
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“Look at the weather, the beach, the water, what more do you want?
But where exactly does it rank among the country’s best courses?
Well, according to one ranking website, Top 100 courses, the Royal Birkdale falls just shy of a top 10 position in Britain and Ireland.
The website is dedicated to ranking courses around the world and features expert judges and player reviews.
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Royal County Down is ranked as the best in the country, with St Andrews and Royal Dornoch completing the top three.
The Royal Birkdale isn’t far behind though, claiming an impressive 12th place.
Judges praised the Waterloo Road course as having a “superfluity of great golf holes”, highlighting the ‘classic’ 12th, the 15th and the ‘monstrous’ 18th as particular examples.
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It summarises: “Royal Birkdale can be a torrid experience when the wind is up, with white horses kicking and rearing their heads in the Irish Sea, crashing like kamikazes onto the beah.
“In these conditions, many of the carries from tees to fairways into the prevailing wind can be too much for the average golfer.
“But whatever the weather, Royal Birkdale is a provocative place to play golf.”
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Jose Mourinho has admitted that Gedson Fernandes’ loan could be cut short and that the midfielder could return to Benfica.
Fernandes joined Spurs last January on an 18-month loan deal with an option to buy for £46m but he has not made the impact he would have hoped for in North London.
The Portugal Under-21 international has not managed to have a consistent run in the side since arriving.
His only appearance so far this season came in the Carabao Cup fourth-round clash against Chelsea, which Tottenham won on penalties.
Less than twelve months into his 18-month loan deal, Mourinho has now confirmed that Tottenham will be willing to send Fernandes back to his parent club if Benfica want him back.
However, he admitted that he would like to keep him around as an additional option.
When asked about the 21-year-old’s situation, the Tottenham boss told Sport TV (as relayed by The Daily Express): “For me, it is never a problem, but a solution.
“Having him in the squad, even if he is not called up and not playing, is an extremely comfortable situation.
“I will never be the one to push him or say that I don’t want him here. But I understand the situation of the kid and Benfica.
“If the club wants to end the relationship here, we will be here to collaborate, because we want the good of the player. Benfica has the power to decide and will be accepted by us.”
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With Oliver Skipp out on loan, we will have just four players for the two central midfield positions if Fernandes is to leave. So, we could potentially be left a little short in case of injuries. However, it is clear that the Portuguese midfielder is unlikely to get a look-in unless there is an injury crisis in the squad. With rumours of us being in the market for another central midfielder in January, I would not be surprised if his loan deal is cut short.
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Inside The Jean-Luc Picard: The First Duty Exhibit
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The lines are impressive and the fans are incredibly excited, as the Jean-Luc Picard: The First Duty exhibit kicks off a stacked weekend of Star Trek activities at San Diego Comic-Con. Open throughout SDCC, The First Duty exhibit celebrates Patrick Stewart’s return to his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard in the upcoming series, Star Trek: Picard, and showcases original props, costumes and other artifacts tracing Picard’s life and Starfleet career. StarTrek.com is pleased to share a gallery of photos from the items displayed, which include Picard's cherished Ressikan flute, the legendary Picard family album, his Starfleet uniforms, models of ships Picard captained, and all that remains of the “Borg Queen.” The exhibit also features exclusive first looks at costumes and other items.
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Perma Pipe International Holdings Inc recently announced that its subsidiary Perma Pipe Egypt has been awarded approximately USD 6.0 million in contracts by China State Construction Engineering Company for the provision of thermally insulated pipe, field joints, and leak detection system for a district cooling network for the New Urban Communities Authority, in the Central Business District of the New Administrative Capital of Egypt. The project will begin execution in Perma Pipe’s facilities in Beni Suef in Egypt in Q4 2020. Perma Pipe International Holdings Inc also announced its subsidiary Perma Pipe Saudi Arabia has been awarded a USD 5.1 million contract by Nesma & Partners Contracting Co Ltd for the provision of thermally insulated pipe and field joints for a district cooling network for Umm Al Qura for Development & Construction Company in the King Abdul Aziz Road Development. The combined value of contracts awarded to Perma Pipe Saudi Arabia in Q3 2020 was USD5.7 million. The project will begin execution in Perma Pipe’s facilities in Dammam Industrial City in Saudi Arabia in Q4 2020.
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BOA announce Team GB Diving Squad
The British Olympic Association (BOA) have announced 10 English divers on the 11-strong Team GB diving squad for Rio 2016 this summer.
Of the 10 English divers, three will be making their Olympic debuts in Rio with Daniel Goodfellow, Lois Toulson and Freddie Woodward looking to make their mark on the international stage after some fantastic performances over the last 12 months.
This includes a silver for Goodfellow at the London 2016 European Championships with 10m synchro partner Tom Daley.
Daley and Tonia Couch will be competing at their third Olympic Games respectively while they will be joined by five other returning Olympians in the form of Rebecca Gallantree, Alicia Blagg, Sarah Barrow, Jack Laugher and Chris Mears.
“It’s really exciting to be able to say I am officially going to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games,” said Couch, who won 10m silver at last month’s European Championships in London.
“This will be my third Olympics and I feel I have learned so much from both Beijing and London that I can use to my advantage in Rio.
“The pool is great and I loved competing there in February so can’t wait to go back. The Olympics makes everyone step up their game which will be exciting to see.”
Daley added: “To have the confirmation that I am going to my third Olympic Games is really exciting. Rio was amazing when we went in February and I can’t wait to go back and see what the pool will look like.
“I’ve really loved competing through the last two years and got really promising results at the World Championships and the European Championships. Working with Jane [Figueiredo, coach] has changed the way I dive and I really can’t wait to be in the Olympic environment again.
“The men’s 10m Platform and 10m Synchro will be tight fields with so many talented athletes and I’m going to do everything I can to ensure I’m at my best for my two events in Rio.”
The youngest member of the team is 16-year old Toulson while City of Leeds teammate Gallantree will turn 32 during the Games.
Divers from four English clubs – City of Leeds, Plymouth Diving, Dive London and City of Sheffield – have been included in the team, while the announcement brings the total number of English athletes selected for the Team GB aquatics squads to 28.
English divers in the Team GB diving squad for Rio 2016
Sarah Barrow (Plymouth Diving) – 10m Platform
Alicia Blagg (City of Leeds) – 3m Synchro
Tonia Couch (Plymouth Diving) – 10m Platform and 10m Synchro
Rebecca Gallantree (City of Leeds) – 3m Springboard and 3m Synchro
Lois Toulson (City of Leeds) – 10m Synchro
Tom Daley (Dive London) – 10m Platform and 10m Synchro
Daniel Goodfellow (Plymouth Diving) – 10m Synchro
Jack Laugher (City of Leeds) – 3m Springboard and 3m Synchro
Chris Mears (City of Leeds) – 3m Synchro
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Kate Middleton’s Pakistan royal tour wardrobe is so much more than just clothes
Billie Bhatia
From traditional salwar kameez to incorporating local designers into her royal tour wardrobe.
As someone who travels relatively frequently, I think that I have really considered what I am packing if I have written a list and separated my underwear into discarded dust bags. At a stretch I would have packed three black dresses should a last minute occasion occur. And that really is the extent of how much I think about my travelling wardrobe.
For Kate Middleton, that lack of consideration just isn’t an option. This week the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge embarked on a five-day royal tour in Pakistan, which has been dubbed by Kensington Palace as a “most complex” visit to the country. For many (if not all) royal occasions, what Kate wears makes headlines – sending fans into a shopping frenzy and editors into a trend spin.
Many people might comment that these are ‘just clothes’, but as we have seen on this recent Pakistan tour, the Duchess’ carefully considered outfit choices have been as much a political statement and a deep consideration for the country she is visiting, as they have been a choice of personal style.
Take her first outfit on this tour as prime example: she stepped off the plane at Rawalpindi’s Nur Khan Airbase in a custom-made Catherine Walker & Co outfit that saw her pay homage to both the country and to her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana. The turquoise colour that she chose is said to bring protection and the design was made to look like a salwar kameez – a long dress and trousers that is traditional dress in both Pakistan and India – even down to the ruching at the back of the dress that was akin to a scarf that would be commonplace with this sort of outfit in Pakistan.
Kate Middleton pays sweet tribute to Princess Diana on Pakistan royal tour
Kate Middleton arrives in Pakistan for a royal tour.
The Duchess’ next outfit on the tour was even more traditional than the first; she opted for a cornflower blue salwar kameez with delicate embroidery on the neckline. For me, as an Indian woman, it was quite remarkable to see a member of the British royal family wear something so similar to clothing I would wear for a special occasion.
A sentiment that contributing digital editor, Sarah Shaffi shares, “As someone who grew up wearing shalwar kameez - and as someone who still wears it on an almost daily basis - seeing Kate embrace the clothing of Pakistanis has been wonderful. She’s shown respect for Pakistani people, supported local designers, and put her own sartorial spin on her outfits, marrying style and substance in the best way possible. There’s not an outfit she’s worn on this tour that I wouldn’t love for my wardrobe.”
Even more importantly, this particular outfit was created by local designer, Maheen Khan, and the earrings Kate chose to accessorise the look come from Zeen – an online retail platform from Pakistan that brings affordable fashion to women worldwide.
Kate Middleton wears a traditional blue salwar kameez
For her meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, Kate chose a green dress coat with contrasting white trousers and traditional scarf. The coat dress was chosen in that specific shade as a nod to the green in the Pakistan’s national flag (she continued with the colour theme with a glittering green dress from Jenny Packham) and even the style of the collar was in line with the most traditional design for both men and women in the country.
Kate Middleton meets with Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan
Naturally, there have been elements of the trip where Kate has had to take on traditional dress like when she visited Chitral and wore the regimental cop of the Chitral Scouts (which were the same pieces Princess Diana wore to in trip in 1991), cementing just how willing Kate has been in this trip to show her embrace of the country and its heritage.
Kate Middleton wears traditional Chitrali headdress in Pakistan
Even something as small as the cricket match she undertook involved a considered sartorial choice. Kate sported another salwar kameez, but this time one from Pakistan brand Gul Ahmed that was light in cut and fabric in keeping with traditional cricket whites.
Kate Middleton showing her sporty side in a game of cricket
For her last look on the Pakistan royal tour, Kate went back to her designer of choice, Maheen Khan, and wore a turquoise salwar kameez for her visit to the Badashi Mosque. On such an occasion, the Duchess could well have chosen to wear a western style trouser suit or even a long dress but that’s not been Kate’s style at all on this trip – she has wanted to show the importance of traditional dress and the meaning that it holds for not only the country but for its people. She finished her tour (and her ensemble) with a matching headscarf, and went against royal protocol with bare feet.
Kate Middleton visits the Badashi mosque in Lahore
Whilst many people might dismiss this royal tour as a public relations stunt or hold little value in the royal family all together, what Kate and her clothes have achieved on this trip has been nothing short of wonderful.
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10cc / Tenology / 40th Anniversary career-spanning five-disc box set
October 1, 2012 by Paul Sinclairtags: 10cc, 1970s, box set
To mark the 40th anniversary of their formation in Stockport in 1972, Universal will release a five-disc box set entitled Tenology by 10cc on 19 November 2012.
The box set has been compiled with the involvement of the original band members – Lol Creme, Kevin Godley, Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart – and comprises four CDs (the singles, selected album tracks, the B-sides and rarities) and a DVD (featuring a selection of their promo videos and TV performances on Top Of The Pops, BBC In Concert, See You Sunday and Six Fifty Five Special).
Rather promisingly, the packaging for Tenology has been designed by Storm Studios, home of legendary British graphic designer Storm Thorgerson (best known for his work with Pink Floyd, although with Hipgnosis he worked extensively with 10cc in the ’70s).
The set also contains an 8500 word essay by journalist Paul Lester, and features new interviews with Crème, Godley, Gouldman and Stewart.
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Disc One (CD):
Donna 1972
Johnny Don’t Do It 1972
Rubber Bullets 1973
The Dean and I 1973
Sand in My Face 1973
Somewhere In Hollywood 1973
The Worst Band in the World 1974
Headline Hustler 1974
The Wall Street Shuffle 1974
Silly Love 1974
Life Is a Minestrone 1975
I’m Not in Love 1975
Art for Art’s Sake 1975
I’m Mandy, Fly Me 1976
Lazy Ways 1976
The Things We Do For Love 1976
Good Morning Judge 1977
People in Love 1977
Disc Two (CD):
Dreadlock Holiday 1978
Reds in My Bed 1978
For You And I 1978
One Two Five 1980
From Rochdale to Ocho Rios 1978
It Doesn’t Matter At All 1980
Les Nouveaux Riches 1981
Don’t Turn Me Away 1981
The Power of Love 1981
Run Away 1981
24 Hours 1983
Feel the Love 1983
Woman in Love 1992
Welcome To Paradise 1992
Disc Three (CD):
The Hospital Song 1973
Fresh Air for My Momma 1973
Clockwork Creep 1974
Oh Effendi 1974
The Sacro-illiac 1974
Old Wild Men 1974
Une Nuit A Paris 1975
Blackmail 1975
Flying Junk 1975
The Second Sitting for the Last Supper 1975
Iceberg 1976
I Wanna Rule the World 1976
Rock and Roll Lullaby 1976
Don’t Hang Up 1976
Feel the Benefit 1977
I Bought A Flat Guitar Tutor 1977
Take These Chains 1978
Disc Four (CD):
Bee in My Bonnet B-Side 1972
Hot Sun Rock B-Side 1972
4% Of Something B-Side 1972
Waterfall B-Side 1973
18 Carat Man Of Means B-Side 1974
Gismo My Way B-Side 1974
Channel Swimmer B-Side 1975
Good News B-Side 1975
Get It While You Can B-Side 1976
Hot To Trot B-Side 1977
Don’t Squeeze Me Like Toothpaste B-Side 1977
I’m So Laid Back, I’m Laid out B-Side 1977
Nothing Can Move Me B-Side 1978
People in Love (The Voodoo Boogie) 1976
The Recording of the Dean And I 1973
Disc Five ( DVD)
Rubber Bullets Top Of The Pops 25/12/1973
Life Is a Minestrone Top Of The Pops 10/04/1975
I’m Not in Love Top Of The Pops 25/12/1975
Dreadlock Holiday Top Of The Pops 17/08/1978
Silly Love BBC In Concert 21/08/1974
The Wall Street Shuffle BBC In Concert 21/08/1974
Baron Samendi BBC In Concert 21/08/1974
Old Wild Men BBC In Concert 21/08/1974
Oh Effendi BBC In Concert 21/08/1974
Fresh Air for My Momma BBC In Concert 21/08/1974
Rubber Bullets BBC In Concert 21/08/1974
Fresh Air for Momma See You Sunday 21/04/1974
The Wall Street Shuffle See You Sunday 21/04/1974
Dreadlock Holiday Six Fifty Five Special 27/07/1982
Run Away Six Fifty Five Special 27/07/1982
I’m Not in Love
I’m Mandy Fly Me
Good Morning Judge
People in Love
Dreadlock Holiday
One Two Five
11 responses to 10cc / Tenology / 40th Anniversary career-spanning five-disc box set
……………and suddenly its costing £100!!!!!!! Didn’t realise it was a limited edition!!!
Do we have any further details on remastering etc?
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Richard Harris says:
According to the Amazon UK listing both “Rubber Bullets” and “I’m Not In Love” are single edits. Which in the case of the latter surely amounts to nothing less than sacrilege.
I agree, but maybe the single edit has never been on CD and hence is considered a rarity. Anyone know for sure?
rwoolst says:
For me, disappointing. I have all the albums and most of the B sides have already been released as bonus tracks on these releases. The only thing that would sway me is some decent remastering.
Mark Wardle says:
The edit has been issued on a few compilations such as “Steve Wrights Sunday Love Songs – Make ups and break ups”. The single released originally had the full length version – cannot imagine that they would allow their most famous song to be issued in this way – especially as the band helped compile the box set. The edited version seems to only be on cheap and cheery compilations – it’s never appeared on ANY 10cc compilation that I have ever seen.
baward says:
Looks good, and at a reasonable price. Ghastly title though, ‘Tenology’. Smacks of the Alien DVD boxset name, ‘Quadrilogy’.
Dear sweet thing
Has anyone educated you yet on the pun title?
Phrenology is an antiquated theory that the human brain had specialised areas that managed specific things.
Tenology (hence the cover image) is a play on words.
Jesper Hall says:
Interesting. Many of these tracks on CD for the first time. Shame they didn’t put Waterfalls on it though.
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Deborah Cicurel
Dealing with constantly changing rules and regulations is a vital part of running a business. But is your company ready for the new changes?
Businesses in the UK are facing fresh bureaucratic challenges to keep on top of many new rules and regulations.
First up is auto-enrolment, in which every company with at least one employee must enrol those who are eligible into a workplace pension scheme, and contribute towards it.
Then, over the next year, the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act (SEEBA) will come into force, bringing with it a sharp increase in paperwork, while the new small business commissioner will aim to make it easier for small companies to get paid on time.
Most SMEs do not have the infrastructure to keep on top of red tape as effectively as they should
And the Enforcement of New Living Wage regulations will unleash a new team of HM Revenue & Customs compliance officers with the powers to charge penalties on companies that fail to keep sufficient paperwork.
The Consumer Rights Act will aim to elucidate the law, empowering consumers and resolving disputes, while new regulations mean the minimum wage will rise to £9 an hour by 2020.
There are also changes to existing regulations to look out for, such as amendments to travel and subsistence expenses for some workers, changes to the already complicated IR35 tax legislation – relating to people working for a client through an intermediary – and new dividend tax rules that will restrict tax-free dividends to £5,000.
Regulations are there to protect the consumer and create a level playing field among businesses – but many SMEs are concerned that while large companies are equipped to deal swiftly and effectively with red tape, the administrative and economic burden can be significant for small businesses, and often time-consuming, inflexible and costly.
James Poyser, co-founder of inniAccounts, believes that red tape is restrictive to the growth of small companies. “Just recently we’ve seen a raft of red tape come in,” he says. “While some things are needed to address socioeconomic problems like pension shortfalls, on the whole the legislation is aimed at big businesses that would otherwise skirt around legislation.
The economic burden of dealing with red tape can be costly for SMEs Credit: Gett Images
“The consequence of needing to put in such measures is that small businesses are inadvertently ensnared – the smallest of businesses now have to get over these hurdles just to start up,” he says. “I'd rather see sweeping exemptions that help small businesses get started – for example, not applying these rules for the first two years, or until you reach a certain turnover.”
Ed Cottrell, head of growth and acquisition finance at Investec, also thinks that small businesses are frequently disproportionately affected by red tape.
"Industry needs regulation in order to function properly, but it needs to work with business and not against it,” he says.
Sue Goble, chief executive of the cloud division at IRIS Software, agrees: “The Government has continued to make pledges to support growing small businesses, but these have simply not worked. Small businesses should be the growth engine of the UK economy, yet red tape continues to add pressure and is leaving business owners unable to focus on growing their company.”
Not only the costs of putting regulations into place but also the time element worry small business owners. From reading thick tomes on regulations to filling out endless piles of paperwork, most SMEs do not have the infrastructure to keep on top of red tape as effectively as they should.
Bill Monty, auto-enrolment specialist at Sable Wealth, says: “Most SMEs will need professional advice to be able to cope with changes.
Over the next year the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act (SEEBA) will come into force, bringing with it a sharp increase in paperwork
“Small firms that do not have payroll departments will struggle the most, while the complexity of the process also means that it will be easy to break the rules by accident and incur hefty fines. There is arguably a certain level of unfairness in this for small businesses that don’t have the capacity to deal with these changes.”
However, while many SME owners are negative about the impact of red tape on their businesses, there is certainly a sense for others that the bureaucratic tides could be turning in their favour, especially after Sajid Javid, the Business Secretary, announced this year that the Government plans to cut at least £10bn of red tape over the next five years.
With Mr Javid, at heart a Thatcherite, at the helm of the Department for Business for the foreseeable future, regulations will no doubt come, go and change, but in five years’ time the perception of red tape could be very different.
The test for the Government will be how exactly its stated intention to reduce the burden of regulation on businesses has been translated into reality by the time of the next election.
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The charity provides access to skiing and snowboarding for people with disabilities, as well as supporting Paralympic athletes Credit: DISABILITY SNOWSPORTS UK
Henry Druce
Fiona Young has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement World Snow Award for her pioneering work with Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK). Young, the charity’s CEO, was presented with the trophy at a special ceremony on the first day of The Telegraph Ski & Snowboard Show in London, running from October 26 to 29.
DSUK enacts its vision of equality and opportunity by providing access to snowsports for people with a wide variety of disabilities. Programmes include affordable lessons, group sessions and fun races at UK snow centres, plus weeks away to ski resorts. The charity also provides specialist training for ski and snowboard instructors and a fleet of volunteers.
What's more, DSUK manages the British Parasnowsport Teams, comprising a full-time elite ski and snowboard squad and part-time youth and adult development squads. Its athletes won five medals at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, including Britain’s first ever gold in alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics or Paralympics, for visually impaired Kelly Gallagher and her guide Charlotte Evans. Gallagher and Evans were co-nominated for Sports Personality of the Year.
Young became involved in the charity over 35 years ago, while working as an instructor in Aviemore, Scotland. She was initially asked to volunteer to teach disabled people for a couple of weeks in Italy. “I got hooked from there on,” she says. “After the first year I helped find other instructors to help out.”
A major turning point came 25 years ago, when she volunteered to work in an adaptive ski school in Crested Butte, Colorado. The experience “blew me away,” she recalls. “I saw that they were years ahead of what we were doing.”
Fiona has been working with DSUK for over 35 years Credit: Disability Snowsports UK
When Young returned from the States, she put a proposal to the board of DSUK to open Europe’s first dedicated adaptive ski school – in Cairngorm. “They thought I was mad, because of the resort’s poor infrastructure and its challenging weather,” she says. “But they backed me. So did the chairlift company, although they didn’t believe it would work.” The school opened in 1994.
Young became further involved in the charity in 2001, when she was appointed CEO. Since then, she has overseen the charity’s expansion from its one ski school in Cairngorm to an additional four schools in snow centres across the UK, as well as providing part-time instructors at Hill End in Edinburgh.
Last year DSUK instructors provided over 3,000 hours of lessons and ran nine activity weeks to Europe and North America. Lessons and trips abroad are subsidised – Young is particularly thankful to Crystal Ski for its support. The company’s reps organise fundraising activities for the charity throughout the ski season. “If it wasn’t for Crystal I don’t think the charity would still be here,” she says.
Visually impaired skier Kelly Gallagher (right) and guide Charlotte Evans won gold in the super-G at the Sochi Paralympics Credit: 2014 Getty Images/Ian Walton
Young was awarded an OBE in 2014 for her work with DSUK. On being presented with her latest award this week, she said: “It’s a bit of a shock, the same when I got the OBE. I find it strange because I love my job. My passion has always been to get people with disabilities into snowsports and to enhance their lives.”
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Ortovox took the prize for Best Clothing Manufacturer for its Naked Sheep Collection of lightweight, waterproof wool garments. Rossignol took the Best Ski Manufacturer award, thanks to its combination of high performance and competitive prices. Jones won Best Snowboard Manufacturer for its innovative designs and a slew of glowing reviews, demonstrating that it can more than hold its own against the heavyweights of the freestyle world.
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Ins and Outlets
Our expert tells you everything you ever wanted to know about shopping Texas’ factory-outlet malls.
Sheri Fowler
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CONSIDER THE OUTLET MALL: SO AMERICAN and so inevitable is this cross between the grubby factory outlet of the past and the chipper middle-American shopping mall of the present that it’s a miracle no one ever thought of it before. Today these malls are upscale and sleek, but their origins are humble. They began on the East Coast in the late 1800’s as dingy back rooms of factories, often separated from the manufacturing area by only a flimsy curtain. To cut losses, factory owners offered their unsold and irregular merchandise to employees, who were happy to find a bargain—even if it did mean that one sleeve was longer than the other. Eventually the factories opened their doors to the general public.
So it went for more than half a century, until sometime in the 1970’s, when real estate developers hit upon the concept of the mega-discount-mall. The event was a watershed in retailing history. No more huge, faceless discount barns, with snarling bargain hunters milling around disheveled bins. No more endless pawing through tangerine or puce size 2’s and 24’s. Today’s outlets have class, with tidy displays and easily maneuvered clothing racks, but perhaps more important, they confer a sense of doing one’s best in a battered economy.
There are two reasons to shop in outlet malls. The first is to buy; the second is not to buy. Yes, you can save a bundle if you can find a batch of Ralph Lauren towels after poking through the “$3.99 a pound” bin at WestPoint Pepperell. But it’s even more fun when you know enough to bypass the fair-to-middling bargains. A four-quart saucepan and lid at Corning/Revere is $28.50, only a 16 percent savings over the regular price of $34, so if you’re shopping for a wedding present, a far better choice is an oval silver-plated tray at Oneida for $22—a 43 percent savings. Getting control of “bargain frenzy” is half the fun.
Go and Get It
TEXAS HAS FIVE LARGE factory-outlet malls near the state’s major metropolitan areas, plus a smattering of smaller discount malls elsewhere.
San Marcos Factory Shops (512-396-2200) is the largest Texas outlet, and “exclusive” is the key word here. The 68-store mall features such high-priced shops as Jonathan Logan, Cape Isle Knitters, Adrienne Vittadini, Geoffrey Beene, Coach, Jones New York, Donna Karan, Brooks Brothers, and Etienne Aigner. Yet while San Marcos’ upscale stores carry better-quality merchandise, they also offer the smallest discounts. A Marble bag by Coach costs $86 at the outlet, a mere 25 percent savings over the retail price of $114.
Mill Store Plaza, New Braunfels (512-620-6806), thirteen miles south of the San Marcos outlets, has 48 stores centered around WestPoint Pepperell—a bed-and-bath superstore offering large savings for shoppers with the time to sift through massive piles of merchandise. Mill Store Plaza is the mecca of housewares, with Lenox, Oneida, Royal Doulton, and Pfaltzgraff—four superb stores for savings and selections. Famous Brands Housewares, Corning/Revere, Kitchen Collection, and Welcome Home (a Victorian-style shop featuring rugs, wall hangings, crystal, and decorative items) round out the shops. If you’re looking for anything from small appliances to cookie cutters, you’ll be pleasantly surprised with the name-brand merchandise.
Lone Star State Factory Stores, La Marque (409-938-3333), thirty miles south of Houston, is an unusually diverse, middle-of-the-road outlet with 177,000 square feet and forty stores. It has a great blend of housewares and clothing as well as both high- and low-end merchandise. Harvé Benard, Gitano, Bannister Shoe, Toy Liquidators, Bugle Boy, Cape Isle Knitters, Farberware, Kitchen Collection, WestPoint Pepperell, and Kid’s Zone exemplify the variety. The mall is planning to expand to 282,000 square feet and more than seventy stores in 1993.
Southwest Outlet Center, Hillsboro (817-582-9205), 35 miles north of Waco, off Interstate 35, has 56 stores with a slight emphasis on clothing and accessories. Nike, Liz Claiborne, Guess, Cape Isle Knitters, Jordache, Carole Little, Van Heusen, Wemco, Chaus, and Eddie Bauer offer impressive—in some cases incredible—markdowns. While most outlet malls have one lingerie shop, the Hillsboro center is awash in silk and satin, with Body Drama, Henson Lingerie, Gilligan and O’Malley, Maidenform, and L’eggs, Hanes, Bali.
Conroe Outlet Center (409-856-4979) is the newest of the megacenters. The problem is that it has only 25 stores—a disappointing discovery if you had planned to spend a whole day shopping. A much-needed expansion, which will more than double its size, is scheduled for 1993. Meanwhile, this small outlet north of Houston survives by having two high-profile anchor stores—Nike and Liz Claiborne—and smaller stores ranging from Carter’s Childrenswear to Maidenform intimate apparel.
Small-timers. Besides the five major outlets, numerous small centers throughout the state have been built around Vanity Fair factory stores. The VF Corporation is one of the largest apparel manufacturers in the world, selling under the brand names of Lee, JanSport, Jantzen, Health-tex, Wrangler, Barbizon, Red Kap, Bassett-Walker, Modern Globe, Girbaud, Lollipop, and of course, Vanity Fair. VF anchors shopping centers in Sulphur Springs, Mineral Wells, Corsicana, Livingston, Kingsville, and Hempstead. While these outlets don’t have great range, they do offer an impressive 50 percent savings on their own brands.
Beware: Price Tags Can Lie. You know that “suggested retail price” listed on the tag? A lot of the time it is inflated. True, you still save money, but you may not save as much as you think. A study done by Value Retail News, a trade publication for outlets, showed that while manufacturers claimed their average savings was 40 percent, in actuality it was only 27.5 percent.
Be Flexible and Forget Fads. It’s essential to pre-shop. Knowing the full retail prices at department stores means you can identify the best bargains at the outlets. Also, be flexible. You won’t find fads or trends at outlets because many of these stores don’t carry the current season’s merchandise, and if they do, it usually arrives four to six weeks later than when it appears in the major chains. When you have to purchase a particular brand or pattern of china, crystal, or silverware, call first, because outlets don’t carry full selections of every pattern.
You Can Go First Class. A common misconception is that outlets carry only flawed items or merchandise that did not sell elsewhere. Actually, 80 percent of outlet merchandise is first quality. These goods consist mainly of overruns—when the maker has produced too much of a given item—but some manufacturers are now using outlets as test markets. Just remember that first-quality items won’t be marked down much—only averaging 20 to 35 percent.
But There’s No Shame in Settling for Seconds. Two types of less-than-perfect goods find their way to outlets. “Irregulars” have virtually unnoticeable flaws—a crooked waistband seam, a slightly lighter color than the manufacturer’s specifications, a missing bow—but they can be unbeatable bargains, like Wemco’s 100 percent silk ties for $4.99. “Seconds” have somewhat more-serious flaws like stains, pulls, and slight misshapes, but if you check them carefully and are willing to do minor repairs, you can save 70 to 80 percent, especially on clothing. Houseware seconds are also a bargain: Lenox’s Abbey-patterned crystal bowls, regularly $53, go for only $16.
Down to the Nitty-gritty: Outlet Mall Sales. Yes, it’s true. Outlet stores have sales to fulfill any bargain hunter’s fantasy: $10 black pants at Chaus, $20 dresses at Eddie Bauer, and 50 percent off all Oneida crystal. Seasonal sales are common, including large savings on housewares and linens in the fall and on clothing in the spring and summer. Also, some stores, such as Lenox and Oneida, have special promotions. Be sure to get on Lenox’s mailing list since the store sends out coupons for free crystal when you spend a certain amount at the store.
Achieving Critical Mass. Why are these malls so far from major cities? Simple: Manufacturers don’t want to undercut their regular retail stores. Of course, if you live in a major city, it’s not cost effective to drive thirty miles to save $4 on a four-quart Corning casserole dish, but add in a $20 savings on a Countess Mara tie at Wemco (usually $55), $21 on a pinpoint cotton dress shirt at Hathaway (normally $48), and $80 on a five-piece place setting of Lenox’s broad gold-rimmed Tuxedo pattern (regularly $212), and it’s definitely worth the gas.
Compounding Your Savings With Coupons. Trade publications such as the Joy of Outlet Shopping (800-344-6397) and Outletbound (800-336-8853) cost almost nothing to buy and they offer coupons. Additionally, outlet malls pass out buying-incentive coupons to large groups that come in buses just to shop. Just call ahead so the management will know you’re coming. As a result, savvy buyers can often do even better than the marked low price.
Expect the Unexpected. Never assume that a store known for one thing doesn’t have surprises. Chicago Cutlery Etc. specializes in knives, but the real reason to cross its threshold is the unusual selection of aprons, tote bags, and candles. Famous Brands Housewares carries bowls, kitchen gadgets, and glasses, but less-usual bargains include picture frames, albums, magnets, table linens, and decorative coffee mugs.
Creature Comforts. The biggest disappointment of outlet malls is food. Most complexes have customer conveniences like rest areas, TV rooms, and automatic-teller machines—the San Marcos mall even has a miniature golf course ($3.95 for eighteen holes). But their food service is rudimentary. Fast food is the only option at San Marcos, which seems odd considering the mall’s upscale image. And both the Hillsboro and the Conroe centers offer a single eatery, Cafe de France, a slightly pricey sit-down restaurant. The Lone Star State Factory Stores outlet presently has no eating places at all, which means you have to leave the complex for lunch. Overall, the Mill Store Plaza is best, with both a fast-food court and the restaurant-style New Braunfels Smokehouse.
Bests and Worsts
Oneida (Hillsboro, New Braunfels) is the crème de la crème of outlets. Sixty percent off silver-plated serving trays, silver-plated baby spoons for $5, baby cups for $6 to $13, a Chippendale five-piece coffee set for only $194.21, and stray flatware starting at 98 cents all attest to the phenomenal bargains. It makes you want to stockpile for every conceivable birth, graduation, anniversary, or wedding in the next twelve months.
Eddie Bauer (Hillsboro, San Marcos) has bargain-basement sale prices ($9.99 for men’s plaid shirts), but the store also offers a 30 to 60 percent savings on most other items. The men’s clothing seems to be priced a bit less than the women’s, but all the prices are low.
I. B. Diffusion (Hillsboro) carries a colorful, well-made line of women’s leisurewear with decorative tops and a wide variety of pants and skirts. The sales staff is attentive but not overbearing. On a recent visit, one salesperson pointed out the best buy in the store—a pair of stretch pants covered with bright geometric shapes on sale for only $9.
Body Drama (Hillsboro) is a Victoria’s Secret–style shop specializing in lacy lingerie, surprising customers with its large selection and low prices. The classy Christian Dior undies can be marked down as much as 30 percent.
Liz Claiborne (Hillsboro, Conroe) is another story. The sign says “Welcome to the Irregulars Only Liz Claiborne Outlet Store,” so if you want first-quality Liz, don’t bother. The prices are discounted, but the styles are mostly last season’s (and the season before last season), and all sales are final—a policy that most outlets now avoid. On top of that, the racks are jammed and look like they’re never cleared.
Shoe discounts vary from store to store, but both Nine West (Hillsboro, San Marcos, Conroe) and Unisa (San Marcos, Hillsboro) offer large selections, with flats marked as low as $20 a pair. Nike (Hillsboro, Conroe, San Marcos) gives a $10 to $15 savings on most styles and sometimes has a bargain rack of $10 athletic shoes. The selection is minimal, but it could be just the thing if you have a growing teenage boy.
Outlet shopping for children’s clothes can truly save your budget. Carter’s Childrenswear (Hillsboro, Conroe, Denton) and Kid’s Zone (La Marque, New Braunfels) are the main “kids only” outlet stores.
Fragrance shops all offer famous and lesser-known perfumes and toiletries at about 30 percent off. The trick is not being too picky. While the Perfumania in Conroe may carry Cartier, Opium, and Halston on a given day, the other locations might have Passion, Poison, and Yves Saint Laurent.
How fad conscious are your kids? Do they have to own the latest trolls? If so, they won’t be impressed with outlet toy stores. You won’t find the latest craze at either Toys Unlimited (Conroe, Hillsboro, New Braunfels) or Toy Liquidators (San Marcos, La Marque), but both stores offer a variety of games, cars, puzzles, dolls, books, and Barbie paraphernalia, including the ski shop and lagoon pool ($9.99 each, as opposed to the Toys ’R Us price of $16.99).
Regardless of minor downfalls, outlets do save money—even on the least-discounted items. And, if you view each outlet excursion as an opportunity for one-stop shopping, the potential for savings is easily multiplied. Basically, outlets allow you to purchase the same amount of merchandise for less money than you would spend at a retail store. So why shop anywhere else?
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The Nature Conservancy Acquires 6K Acres Of South Padre Island For Sea Turtle Habitat
The project started as a result of the 2010 BP oil spill; the conservancy wanted to find new ways to “recover from man-made disasters.”
By Jill AmentMarch 15, 2019 11:05 amEnergy & Environment
Amid a rising tide of development on the Gulf Coast, The Nature Conservancy recently acquired over 6,000 acres of land on South Padre Island in order to protect the fragile habitat of sea turtles there.
Laura Huffman, director of the Texas branch of the conservancy, says the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, which crawls onto beaches throughout Mexico and the U.S. to nest and lay eggs, is a particularly fragile species.
“The ridley sea turtle is the smallest and most endangered of the world’s seven sea turtle species,” Huffman says. “The nesting habitat was the goal of this project and of the projects that precede this purchase.”
In addition to protecting the turtles’ habitat, the conservancy’s land acquisition will also provide protected habitat for dozens of bird species.
Huffman says the BP oil spill in 2010 provided impetus for the project, which included partnerships with numerous state and federal agencies.
“The BP oil spill gave us an opportunity to think about how we [could] recover from man-made disasters differently,” Huffman says. “How do we take those situations and invest more concentrated dollars into conservation and into recovering habitat than we might have otherwise?”
Coastal land is a major draw for developers and other entities. But Huffman says she believes her organization will be able to fend off efforts by the government, for example, to requisition the land through eminent domain.
“If you have ever had the opportunity to either watch the sea turtles come out of the water or go back into the water, it is a natural show that is amazing and hard to find on this planet anymore,” Huffman says. “Our job is to protect it for generations from now.”
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“CRISPR,” a bacterial defense system with genome editing capabilities, corrects for harmful mutations by permanently altering genes, potentially eliminating defects across species. Advantages notwithstanding, we might also ask what an existence of flawlessness looks like for us? We can surely welcome medical innovation reducing undue hardship, but is there a threshold past which the absence of imperfection, including susceptibility to disease, decline due to aging, and the ephemerality of life’s joyous moments, also somehow makes us less than “human”?
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Andrew M. Flescher is a Professor of English and Professor or Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine, as core faculty in the Program of Public Health at Stony Brook University. He is a scholar of ethics and literature, medical humanities, biomedical ethics, comparative religious ethics, public health, and health care policy, also serving Stony Brook Hospital in a clinical setting as a Living Donor Advocate, sitting on its Living Donor Committee and Organ Donor Council. Three years after joining the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) Ethics Committee for the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS), Dr. Flescher has been selected as its vice chair (and future chair). Dr. Flescher received his BA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies and History from Duke University and his MA and PhD in Religious Studies from Brown University. In addition to writing several articles and book chapters, he is the author of four books: Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality (2003, Georgetown University Press), The Altruistic Species (2007, Templeton Press, winner of the Choice Award), Moral Evil (2013, Georgetown University Press, winner of the Prose Award), and The Organ Shortage Crisis in America (2018, Georgetown University Press).
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[BREAKING NEWS] MC BRAVADO IS IRONIC! – GET HIP W/ DJ MOS PRECIOUS
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As I study the history of hip hop and how music has evolved over the decades, I get this opportunity to interview an ironic being. I was contacted to conduct this interview, and you know me by now, I love introducing you guys to updates of some of your favors. Establishing relationships with people that love the history of music from all styles and genres. That’s why its titled “Get Hip With DJ Mos Precious.” This piece will surely provide you with one on one interactions with MC Bravado world, as he is more than a rapper. Filled with lyrics and a smooth style of swag on the track. He is surely wise with the way he flows, as I listened to his flow on “Grimy/Shiny (Ring of Fire) [click here], he is hip and comfortable with punch lines. I want you guys to witness this talented MC because he has roots in the chambers of lyricism. With a background in battle rap, shows that he has punch lines and can entertain all kinds of music lovers.
MEET MC BRAVADO
Can you tell our readers a little about yourself? What’s your name and where are you from?
My name is MC Bravado. I’m a rapper/English Teacher/writer/publicist from Baltimore by way of New York.
Let us know what your social media is.
facebook.com/MCBravado
@MCBravado on Twitter and IG
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How did music come about in your world?
I was obsessed with both Michael Jackson and Elvis as a little kid. Hip-Hop became a thing for me when I first heard The Fugees’ version of “Killing Me Softly.” That led me to “The Score” album, and the rest is history. That album celebrated an anniversary around the time my “Hip-Hop*” album came out, and PaceWon was not only featured on “The Score” but on my new album as well. That was just some universe being crazy awesome type shit.
What do you find most challenging about the music industry? Most complicated?
Most challenging? The dumbed down landscape and the saturation of it all. Because the tech has become so accessible, anyone with a laptop or even a cell phone is a rapper or a producer. It’s a joke, and the quality has suffered dramatically.
Most complicated? Moving through this fucked up industry while maintaining my well-being and some kind of semblance of a family and personal life.
Balancing all of what I do with being a high school teacher in Baltimore can also get pretty complicated and challenging, but lately, I’ve been getting better at marrying the two worlds. My most recent event (my album release party) doubled as a school fundraiser and raised a bunch of money that my school needed for the junior prom.
Tell me about some of the people you’ve met while performing? Some of the people you wish to meet during your journey?
I’ve met a ton of folk. A&R’s, some of my favorite rappers (Ras Kass, Grafh, Termanology, and others). I wanna meet everybody!!! haha. I’ve got a show coming up where I’m opening for R.A. The Rugged Man (who seems hella down to earth), so I’m hoping to chop it up with him and to just continue to keep it moving on this upward trajectory. The right people will find me and vice versa.
What do you do when you aren’t recording or rehearsing your music?
I’m either hanging out with my lovely girlfriend (Jaclyn) and the various pets in our lives, spending time with friends/family, working as a writer/publicist, watching sports, traveling, or trying to get involved in some awesome shit. “Quando a Roma” is tatted on my back; Google Translate that joint if you need to!!
How do you keep coming up with dope music? Any inspirations?
I rarely actively try to write. It literally calls me. As trite as it may sound, we are all simply the sum of our experiences, so I go about existing and let all of that come to me. I’m more productive after I come out of a particularly trying time or depression. I’m not sure if that’s healthy, but my fans have a lot of my lowest points to thank for much of my best material.
What has been the most challenging moment in your career and why?
It’s not so much a specific moment as it is simply staying consistent in the face of so much doubt. You have to view every adverse moment as an opportunity because a certain number of others quit at that very same moment. The more of those brick walls you encounter and internalize as opportunities (making them easier to overcome because of a positive mindset), the further along you go in this fucked up game of uncle.
Do you have anyone that has influenced you in your career? Who and Why?
The influence question is comparable to the inspiration question: there are too many to name. I love Lupe Fiasco as a writer; I think he has the strongest pen out of anyone. I love how complete of an artist that Andre 3000 is. I think “The Love Below” is somehow underrated in terms of its influence; it really broadened the horizons of what was expected of rappers as well as what could be experimental and “artsy” yet commercially viable hip-hop. Eyedea and Apathy are hugely influential from a technical emceeing vantage point, same with a Wordsworth (whom I’ve shared pages of a magazine with), Copywrite (whom I’ve collaborated with) , or a Louis Logic (Call me, Louis). Aside from respecting his work ethic, well-roundedness, and boldness/bravery as an artist, a guy like El-P is also major from where I’m standing because he’s a testament to the power of longevity and consistency. El-P has been destroying everything he’s touched for years; it just took the nirvana of a union that is RTJ for the rest of the world to truly take notice.
Where do you see yourself in the next couple of years?
I see myself making the music that I want to make for a loyal fanbase, covering hip-hop for a couple top-flight outlets, doing some publicity for artists that I believe in, and touring the world while working with some of my heroes and making some of my idols peers/rivals. I see myself teaching here and there too because I truly love that shit too.
Is there anyone you would like to give a shout out to?
Shout out my group, The Cypher Junkies. Those guys are my brothers. Shout out my literal brother and my family. Shout out my (literal) dogs Ted and Apollo. Shout out my (literal) cats Percy and Felicia. Shout out my newly formed band because we tore down our first show together, hopefully the first of many, REALLY took my live show to another level. Shout out to my students because I love you guys and shout out to Lineup Room Recording Studio because that’s where most of the magic happens.
If you can turn back hands of time to finish something, what would it be?
I wish I would have continued playing basketball consistently because I love it almost as much as hip-hop. I don’t play much now because I’m afraid that I’m going to get hurt and put myself out of Action (pun intended) musically. We aren’t all Bronson nor do we all have Sideline Stories worth telling. OK, I’m sorry, I’m done. I promise.
Anything else you want to drop on us before we get out of here? Any Breaking News or Exclusives?
I’m not sure when you’re going to be reading this, so keep it locked on my social media as well as www.MCBravado.com for any breaking audio or video. I’m constantly releasing new audio/video content off my most recent baby (“Hip-Hop*”) and am fortunate to have the support of outlets and individuals such as yourself that keep myself and my content in the news. You can stream or download that new album I’ve been talking about here: http://smarturl.it/MCBravadoHipHop
I’m eternally grateful for your time and energy!! Big up!!! Peace, love, and sandwiches.
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He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the presence of men.
Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament
Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible
The Bible Study New Testament
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And he doeth great wonders - That we may have the greatest assurance possible that the two-horned beast is the spiritual Latin empire, it is called in Revelation 19:20, a passage illustrative of the one now under consideration, the false prophet, "than which," as Bishop Newton observes, "there cannot be a stronger or plainer argument to prove that false doctors or teachers were particularly designed;" for prophet, in the Scripture style, is not unfrequently used for a preacher or expounder of God's word. See 1 Corinthians 14:1-5. It hence follows that the two-horned beast is an empire of false doctors or teachers.
In order to establish the Latin Church upon a foundation that can never fail, the false prophet doth great wonders - he attempts the most wonderful and prodigious exploits, and is crowned with incredible success. He has the art to persuade his followers that the clergy of the Church of Rome are the only true ministers of Christ; that they have such great influence in the court of heaven as to be able not only to forgive sins, but also to grant indulgences in sin, by paying certain stipulated sums. He persuades them too that they can do works of supererogation. He pretends that an incredible number of miracles have been wrought and are still working by the Almighty, as so many evidences of the great sanctity of the Latin Church; and the false prophet has such an astonishing influence over his flock, as to cause them to believe all his fabulous legends and lying wonders. He pretends also (and is believed!) that his power is not confined to this world; that he is able by his prayers to deliver the souls of the deceased from what he calls purgatory, a place which he has fabled to exist for the purification of sinful souls after their departure from this world. His wonderful exploits, in being able to induce men possessed of reasoning faculties to believe his monstrous absurdities, do not end here; he even: -
Maketh fire come down from heaven - in the sight of men - Fire, in Scripture, when it signifies wrath, represents that species of indignation which is attended with the destruction of whatever is the cause of it. Thus the wrath of God is likened to fire, Psalm 18:7, Psalm 18:8; Jeremiah 4:4. Therefore the fire which the false prophet bringeth down from heaven upon the earth, is the fiery indignation which he causes to come down from the heaven or throne of the Latin empire upon all those of the earth or Latin world who rebel against his authority. All this has been fulfilled in the Romish hierarchy; the Latin clergy have denominated all those that oppose their authority heretics, they have instituted tribunals to try the cause of heresy, and all those that would not submit to their idolatry they have condemned to various kinds of tortures and deaths. It is said of the false prophet that he bringeth fire From Heaven upon the earth; that is to say, he will only try the cause of heresy, and pass the sentence of condemnation; he will not suffer an ecclesiastic to execute the sentence of the court; the destroying fire he causeth to come down from the heaven or throne of the Latin empire; secular princes and magistrates must execute the sentence of death upon all that are capitally condemned by the spiritual power. He Maketh fire come down from heaven; he compels secular princes to assist him against heretics; and if any rebel against his authority he immediately puts them under the ban of the anathema, so that they are deprived of their offices, and exposed to the insults and persecution of their brethren. Thus the false prophet deceives the Latin world by the means of those miracles which he had power try do in the sight of the beast. Under the appearance of great sanctity he persuades men to believe all his lying doctrines, and enforces his canons and decretals with the sword of the civil magistrate.
And he doeth great wonders - “Signs” - σημεῖα sēmeia- the word commonly employed to denote “miracles” (compare the notes on Acts 2:19); and the representation here is, that the power referred to by the second beast would found its claim on pretended miracles, and would accomplish an effect on the world as if it actually did work miracles. The applicability of this to papal Rome no one can doubt. See the notes on 2 Thessalonians 2:9. Compare Revelation 13:14.
That he maketh five come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men - That is, he pretends this; he accomplishes an effect as if he did it. It is not necessary to suppose that he actually did this, anymore than it is to suppose that he actually performed the other pretended miracles referred to in other places. John describes him as he saw him in the vision; and he saw him laying claim to this power, and actually producing an effect as if by a miracle he actually made fire to descend from heaven upon the earth. This is to be understood as included in what the apostle Paul (2 Thessalonians 2:9) calls “signs and lying wonders,” as among the things by which the “man of sin and the son of perdition” would be characterized, and by which he would be sustained. See the notes on that passage. Why this particular pretended miracle is specified here is not certain. It may be because this would be among the most striking and impressive of the pretended miracles performed - as if lying beyond all human power - as Elijah made fire come down from heaven to consume the sacrifice 1 Kings 18:37-38, and as the apostles proposed to do on the Samaritans Luke 9:54, as if fire were called down on them from heaven. The phrase “in the sight of men” implies that this would be done publicly, and is such language as would be used of pretended miracles designed for purposes of ostentation. Amidst the multitudes of pretended miracles of the papacy, it would probably not be difficult to find instances in which the very thing here described was attempted, in which various devices of pyrotechnics were shown off as miracles. For an illustration of the wonders produced in the dark ages in reference to fire, having all the appearance of miracles, and regarded as miracles by the masses of people, the reader is referred to Dr. Brewster‘s Letters on Natural Magic, particularly Letter 12.
And he doeth great signs, that he should even make fire to come down out of heaven upon the earth in the sight of men.
And he doeth great signs ... fire from heaven ... Here is the apocalyptic equivalent of Paul's man of sin sitting in God's house, setting himself forth as God, and exhibiting "all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceit of unrighteousness" (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12). See discussion of that whole passage in my Commentary on 2Thessalonians pp. 97-117. Paul referred to the great signs as "lying wonders"; and from this, we may be certain that the apostate power did not actually do what is mentioned here. Every year during the Easter season, the newspapers carry stories of miracles, visitations, and phenomena alleged to be miraculous. There are images bleeding, bloody robes with the image of Christ, etc. Admittedly, we have not seen any fire come down from heaven yet; but, who knows, we might get that next Easter! "Men still claim the power to perform miracles, but their message is not in harmony with God's word, and therefore we can be certain that God is not the source of their power."[79] In this connection, Hinds appropriately mentioned such alleged miracles as "changing the bread and wine of the communion into the literal body and blood of Christ."[80]
[79] James D. Strauss, The Seer, the Saviour, and the Saved (Joplin, Missouri: College Press, 1972), p. 177.
[80] John T. Hinds, op. cit., p. 198.
And he doeth great wonders,.... Or miracles; not real, but pretended ones, lying wonders, which the Popish legends are full of the accounts of, as done by the priests, or by this or the other saint:
so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men; in imitation of Elijah, 2 Kings 1:9; and this single instance is put instead of all others, it being usual with the Jews to express all wonderful and miraculous operations by this miracle of Elijah's: and this may be understood mystically, of the pretensions of the Papacy to confer the Holy Ghost, and his gifts upon men, by breathing on them, which on the day of Pentecost were represented by cloven tongues, as of fire, coming down from heaven; or of their anathemas, curses, and excommunications, at which time burning torches and candles are cast up, and fall down, as emblems of divine wrath, which is called cursing men with bell, book, and candle; or else of the fire of persecution: "from heaven"; the secular powers of the empire: "upon the earth"; the common people: or this may be understood literally; so they tell us, that Pope Zachary, once on a journey to Ravenna, had in the daytime a cloud to protect him from the heat, and in the night time armies of fire appeared in the clouds to go before him; and as Pope Innocent was at Mass, a golden crown was seen, and on it a dove, and under it a smoking censer, and hard by them two burning firebrands: and it is reported of Pope Hildebrand, that, whenever he pleased, he could shake his sleeves, and sparks of fire would come out; and by these miracles deluded the eyes of the simple with a show of holiness, which, with other instances, are taken notice of by Napier, Brightman, and other writers: and so here this is said to be done "in the sight of men"; to their apprehension, seemingly, in their view; they being cheated and deluded with an appearance and show of things which were not real.
19 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
(19) The second point of the things done by the beast, is the credit of great wonders or miracles, and pertaining to the strengthening of this impiety: of which signs some were given from above, as it is said, that fire was sent down from heaven by false sorcery, in this verse. Others were shown here below in the sight of the beast, to establish idolatry, and deceive souls: which part John sets forth, beginning (as they say) at that which is last, in this manner: First, the effect is declared in these words, "He deceives the inhabitants of the earth". Secondly, the common manner of working, in two sorts: one of miracles, "for the signs which were given him to do in the presence of the beast", the other of the words added to the signs, and teaching the idolatry by those signs "saying to the inhabitants of the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which etc." Thirdly, a special manner is declared, "That it is given to him to put life into the image of the beast" and that such a type of quickening, that the same both speaks by answer to those that ask counsel of it, and also pronounces death against all those that do not obey nor worship it: all things which oftentimes by false miracles through the procurement and inspiration of the devil, have been effected and wrought in images. The histories of the papists are full of examples of such miracles, the most of them false, many also done by the devil in images, as of old in the serpent; (Genesis 3:5). By which example is confirmed, not the authority of the beast, but the truth of God and these prophecies.
Beza, Theodore. "Commentary on Revelation 13:13". "The 1599 Geneva Study Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/gsb/revelation-13.html. 1599-1645.
wonders — Greek, “signs.”
so that — so great that.
maketh fire — Greek, “maketh even fire.” This is the very miracle which the two witnesses perform, and which Elijah long ago had performed; this the beast from the bottomless pit, or the false prophet, mimics. Not merely tricks, but miracles of a demoniacal kind, and by demon aid, like those of the Egyptian magicians, shall be wrought, most calculated to deceive; wrought “after the working (Greek, ‹energy‘) of Satan.”
That he should even make fire come down out of heaven (ινα και πυρ ποιηι εκ του ουρανου καταβαινειν — hina kai pur poiēi ek tou ouranou katabainein). Purpose clause again with ινα — hina and the present active subjunctive of ποιεω — poieō and the object infinitive of καταβαινω — katabainō after ποιει — poiei Christ promised great signs to the disciples (John 14:12), but he also warned them against false prophets and false christs with their signs and wonders (Mark 13:22). So also Paul had pictured the power of the man of sin (2 Thessalonians 2:9). Elijah had called down fire from heaven (1 Kings 18:38; 2 Kings 1:10) and James and John had once even urged Jesus to do this miracle (Luke 9:54).
Ver. 13. And he doth great wonders] By his art of magic; for true miracles he can do none, nor his master the dragon to help him. Hence they are called lying wonders, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10, sorceries, Revelation 18:23, and impostures here, Revelation 13:14.
So that he maketh fire] As another Elias. This the pope doth daily by his excommunications, casting firebrands, as it were, from on high at those that slight him; and moreover he telleth us of some, that for withstanding his edicts were thunderstruck to death. (Aventin. Annal.)
Revelation 13:13. ἵνα, so that) The particle ἵνα is frequently employed by John. In all his books, he has used ὥστε only once, ch. 3 of his Gospel, Revelation 13:16, where ἵνα in fact follows.— ἐνώπιον) Construe with ποιῇ, or rather with ποιεῖ.
Bengel, Johann Albrecht. "Commentary on Revelation 13:13". Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jab/revelation-13.html. 1897.
And he doeth great wonders; lying wonders, 2 Thessalonians 2:9, such as, by God’s permission, false prophets might do, Deuteronomy 13:1,2. Prophets were to be judged true or false, not from any signs or wonders which they did, but from the doctrine they taught, and would by those signs establish.
So that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men; wonders as great as those which Elijah wrought.
великие знамения Для описания чудес Христа (Ин. 2:11, 23; 6:2) используется такое же выражение. Это подчеркивает, что лжепророк творит знамения, которые имитируют чудеса Христа. Вероятно, сатана, который совершал сверхъестественные деяния в прошлом (см., например, Исх. 7:11; 2Тим. 3:8), здесь тоже использует стратегию лжечудес, чтобы убедить мир, что антихрист более могущественен, чем истинные свидетели Бога (гл. 11), включая Иисуса Христа.
огонь низводит с неба В этом месте показано, что лежпророк постоянно совершает эффектные поддельные знамения, чтобы убедить людей в своей силе, а также подражая двум свидетелям (11:5).
Doeth great wonders-maketh fire come down; the probable meaning of these words is, that having, by his signs and lying wonders, deceived the multitude and gained control over them, he uses the power thus acquired to destroy, as if by fire from heaven, those who will not submit themselves to his usurped authority.
Edwards, Justin. "Commentary on Revelation 13:13". "Family Bible New Testament". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/fam/revelation-13.html. American Tract Society. 1851.
‘And he performs great signs that he should even make fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the wild beast, telling those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who has the stroke of the sword and lived, and it was given to him to give breath to it, even to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should speak, and he will cause that as many as will not worship the image of the beast should be killed.’
The reference to fire coming down from heaven specifically points to Elijah (1 Kings 18:38). Thus he will be the anti-Elijah. These words parallel Paul’s in 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10, ‘he whose coming is according to the working of Satan, with all powers and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing’.
The bringing of fire down ‘from heaven’ may be through the manipulation of natural phenomena (claiming lightning strikes as his work) or may be achieved through trickery, as may other wonders (compare the Egyptian magicians with Moses (Exodus 7:11; 2 Timothy 3:8)). Clever priests of many religions have been able to achieve such things through the ages, and some men love putting on such performances. We need not doubt that some of Caligula’s sycophantic followers made such attempts.
The same applies to the speaking image (compare the oracle at Delphi which was also portrayed as speaking). The whole point is that ‘he’ (the second beast representing initially the priesthood at various Temples for Emperor worship, combined with local authorities) is a deceiver. But his authority is such that he has the power to condemn to death those who refuse to worship the Emperor’s image.
‘Telling those who dwell on earth that they should make an image to the wild beast.’ Caligula especially sought to promote the erection of images to his honour and divinity, even demanding that one be set up in the Temple in Jerusalem. Previously Jewish susceptibilities had been catered for by Emperors but Caligula thrust them aside. It was only his timely death that prevented it happening.
‘The wild beast who has the stroke of the sword and lived’. This refers to the two-edged sword of Christ which ‘smote’ him so that he nearly died, but he recovered and did not heed the warning. It is quite probable that Caligula’s ‘miraculous’ recovery was cited against Christians when they proclaimed the resurrection of Christ.
‘To give breath to’ the image of the beast. As suggested above this and its speech can be accomplished by manipulation. History is full of such pious frauds.
Pett, Peter. "Commentary on Revelation 13:13". "Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible ". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/pet/revelation-13.html. 2013.
Verse 13: He performed visional pseudo-signs, which were not actual, in order to deceive, such as Jesus foretold (Matthew 24:24) would precede the destruction of Jerusalem; and such as Paul described (2 Thessalonians 2:3-9) as characteristic of the pretensions of "the man of sin and son of perdition." The wonders were merely the magical machinations of the Roman emperor-beast to deceive. Josephus relates that two representatives of Nero, by the names of Albinus and Gessius Florus, in this very period, were sent into the land, and being notorious for wickedness they made pompous ostentations before the people. (Antiquities, Book XX, II, I) These are facts recorded by the eye-witness historian on the scene of things; and there could be no more fitting fulfillment of the two horns of this beast.
Like Pharaoh"s magicians, only with greater effectiveness, the second beast will have authority to perform supernatural miracles (cf. Exodus 7:11; Exodus 7:22; Exodus 8:7). These will be genuine signs and wonders, not just tricks ( Revelation 16:13-14; Revelation 19:20; Matthew 24:4-5; Matthew 24:11; Matthew 24:24-25; 2 Thessalonians 2:9). [Note: See Gregory H. Harris, "Satan"s Deceptive Miracles in the Tribulation," Bibliotheca Sacra156:623 (July-September1999):308-24.] Like Elijah and the two witnesses, he will even be able to call down fire from heaven. John himself had at one time wanted to call down fire from heaven on some Samaritans ( Luke 9:54).
Revelation 13:13. And he doeth great signs that he should even make fire to come down out of heaven into the earth before men. The ‘great signs’ are again a symbol of what is done by false prophetical and priestly power. The ‘fire out of heaven’ is explained by the function of this beast. He is to direct men to the worship of the first beast in whom the Satanic power of the dragon is personified. As therefore Christ, in whom the power of God is personified, is preceded by Elias, who is to direct men’s eyes to Him, so the first beast has in the second his Elias, who travesties the miracle of the ancient prophet (2 Kings 1:10-12).
wonders. App-176.
so that. Greek. hina.
fire. Add "also".
from. Greek. ek. App-104.
in the sight of = before, as Revelation 13:12.
And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
Wonders - `signs.'
So that - so great that.
Maketh fire - `maketh even fire.' The very miracle which the two witnesses, and Elijah long ago, performed: this the beast from the bottomless pit, or false prophet, mimics. Not tricks, but miracles by demon aid, like those of the Egyptian magicians, calculated to deceive: performed "after the working (energy) of Satan" (2 Thessalonians 2:9). Probably this second beast answers to "the little horn," the 'wilful king' of Daniel 8:9-12; Daniel 8:23-25; Daniel 11:21-38; the Antichrist that oppresses Israel, from the third kingdom: as the first beast represents the God-opposed world-power, generally comprising Antiochus' blasphemies in the third kingdom, and the sacerdotal pretensions of the Eastern patriarchate, and the Romish little horn of Daniel 7:7-8; Daniel 7:11; Daniel 7:24-26, that oppressed Gentile believers, of the fourth kingdom. As Daniel 7:1-28 is Chaldaic, so with Daniel 8:1-27 begins the Hebrew portion. The little horn of the third kingdom, whose forerunner was Antiochus, is probably the pseudo-Messiah or false prophet which "shall come in his own name" (Daniel 8:1-27; Daniel 11:1-45; John 5:43), received by, and then tearing, the Jews (Zechariah 11:16); after that the apostate churches, Roman and Greek (the harlot), shall have been divested of all traces of their Christianity (answering to the humanity of the harlot).
Hence, follow the 144,000 on Zion (Revelation 14:1; Revelation 15:3): probably Israelites. The little horn, in Daniel 7:8; Daniel 7:11; Daniel 7:25-26, is distinct from the beast: the horn (the papal kingdom) is judged and his dominion taken away, simultaneous with judgment on the whore, or whole apostate church, stripped naked, eaten, and burnt by the beast (Revelation 17:16); the beast's (Antichrist's) body is given by the Lord in person to the burning flame (Revelation 19:16-20). Antichrist's persecutions, though primarily falling on Israel, will also secondarily fall on Gentile believers. For the seven Asiatic Gentile churches addressed are urged to obtain the kingdom through suffering and keeping Christ's Word in the hour of universal temptation (Revelation 3:10).
he doeth
16:14; 19:20; Exodus 7:11,12,22; 8:7,18,19; 9:11; Deuteronomy 13:1-3; Matthew 24:24; Mark 13:22; Acts 8:9-11; 2 Thessalonians 2:9,10
he maketh
11:5; Numbers 16:35; 1 Kings 18:38; 2 Kings 1:10-14; Matthew 16:1; Luke 9:54-56; 2 Timothy 3:8
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 13:2 - General; Job 1:16 - there came; Daniel 3:3 - the princes; Galatians 3:1 - who; Revelation 9:21 - their sorceries; Revelation 13:4 - and they; Revelation 18:23 - for; Revelation 20:9 - and fire
This verse is a statement of the false claims of the church of Rome, not that it actually performed the wonders mentioned. (See next verse.)
Revelation 13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
Here we have a discovery of Antichrist's grand design, how he made the inhabitants of the earth worship the beast, and make an image of the beast, viz. By working great wonders
in the sight of men;
as Christ and his apostles did miracles and wonders to confirm their doctrine, that the people might believe. { John 4:48; Hebrews 2:4} So Antichrist and his false teachers, the Pope and his false prophets, do wonders to deceive the people, { Matthew 24:24; 2 Peter 2:1-3; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10} whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders.
13.Doeth great wonders—The Romanists to-day teach us that one of the marks of a true Church is miracles; and they claim a continual train of miracles as existing in their own Church. Chief among these is the act of transubstantiation, by which every priest is able to “create the Son of God.” But as this miracle is an invisible process, it is of no use in converting those who do not already believe. Romish books are full of transcendental marvels, narrating miraculous performances, sometimes ludicrous, often monstrous, and not seldom altogether surpassing those of Christ and his apostles in their prodigious character. The Bollandist volumes, more than sixty in number, approved by the pope, are full of tales written with a free inventive fancy, producing great wonders by the mere flourish of an unrestrained pen.
In modern times the “Holy Coat of Treves” was pronounced by Pope Gregory, predecessor of Pius IX., to be the true coat of Christ on which the soldiers cast lots, and for a time hundreds of thousands of pilgrims paid their visit to it.
Another specimen miracle is the liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius, which is exhibited thrice a year at Naples. A red mass is first shown in a vial, and then this gradually melts, and the process is considered miraculous! Probably it is a red substance liquefied by the warmth of the priest’s hands. The classic Addison saw it and said, “So far from thinking it a miracle, I look upon it as one of the most bungling tricks I ever saw.”
The mechanical miracles of the moving eyes of the saints’ images could be easily repeated by the manufacturers of our Christmas toys, but they were once powerful aids to Romish superstition. True miracles may, indeed, be the marks of a true Church; but false miracles are the marks of a false Church, especially as fulfilling predictions like this verse.
Fire come down from heaven—Said Pope Pius IX., “I cannot, like St. Peter, launch certain thunders which reduce bodies to ashes; but I can, nevertheless, launch the thunders which reduce souls to ashes.” Lightnings and thunderbolts are the terms under which excommunication is conceived. Gregory VII. pronounced the Emperor Henry IV. to be “struck with lightning,” afflatum fulmine, by his excommunication. Says Ducange, “To fulminate an excommunication is the established phrase of the present day.” So also we are told, in a work on the “Glories of Mary,” that she once descended with torches in her hands and consumed a church building, at which she was offended, with fifteen hundred guilty occupants. See “Medieval Miracles,” p. 138.
13. It made fire come down. Tricks and false-miracles to “sell” people the State Religion. Also, since “fire” can symbolize the Holy Spirit, this can refer to what seem to be “outpourings of the Spirit.” The Devil does not mind people being religious, just as long as he can turn them away from God. See Matthew 24:24. To build an image. This is “emperor worship” in all its forms. Compare note on Revelation 2:13. Images [idols, fetishes] were actually made in honor of the Roman Emperor, and worshiped. Whoever refused to bow down to the Emperor’s fetish, or refused to say: “The emperor is Lord,” was killed. But this is symbolic of the new “corporate image” formed by the alliance of religion and government.
Ice, Rhoderick D. "Commentary on Revelation 13:13". "The Bible Study New Testament". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ice/revelation-13.html. College Press, Joplin, MO. 1974.
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Motion Review
What is velocity? Speed in a given direction
What is speed? The measure measure of distance traveled per unit of time
Explain displacement. The change in position from an object’s original location
What is distance? The amount of ground an object has covered during its motion
Explain why deceleration is also acceleration. Deceleration is also acceleration because it’s still the change of speed and velocity
What does a flat line on a distance/time graph represent? Stopped
Greater slope up means ____________ on a distance/time graph. Constant speed away from starting point
Greater slope down means ____________ on a distance/time graph. Constant speed towards the starting position
What does a flat line on a velocity/time graph represent? Steady Speed
What does an upward slope on a velocity/time graph represent? Acceleration
What does a downward slope on a velocity/time graph represent? Deceleration
What does constant velocity mean? It means they the speed or directions is not changing
Tell three ways velocity can change. Slowing down, Speeding up, and Change in direction
If an object’s mass increases, its acceleration will ______________. also change
Force = _________ x ____________ Mass x acceleration
What are unbalanced forces? Unequal forces that act on an object.
What are balanced forces? Equal forces on an object in opposite directions
Net force = _______________ The sum of all forces acting on an object
What type of force does not cause acceleration? Balanced forces
What is magnitude? Sizes of the force
What is vector? Direction of the force
Explain Newton’s First Law of Motion. A object in motion will stay in motion and a object at rest will stay at rest unless a force is acting upon it.
Greater mass = __________ inertia Greater
Explain Newton’s Second Law of Motion. When a force acts on an object, the object will accelerate in the direction of the force
Explain Newton’s Third Law of Motion. Every force or action has an equal and opposite reaction
What is inertia? The tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion
What is another name for Newton’s First Law of Motion? Law of Inertia
What does air resistance depend upon? Size, Shape, Speed, and Surface
What is the formula for velocity? Distance divided by time
What is the difference between speed and velocity? Velocity is speed in a certain direction while speed is the distance over the amount of time traveled
What is the difference between mass and weight? Mass is the amount of matter in a object while weight is the amount of gravity that is pulling down on an object
How does your mass on Earth compare to your mass on the moon? Your mass will not change if your on Earth or on the Moon.
How does your weight on Earth compare to your weight on the moon? Your weight on Earth will be different than your weight on the moon
Explain friction. How does it affect the movement of an object? Friction is the rubbing of to object together. It affects the movement of on object by slowing the object down.
How does the mass of an object affect the amount of force needed to accelerate the object? The more mass an object has the more force needed to accelerate the object.
Explain how to solve a vector diagram (to determine a net force). You have to find the sum of all forces on an object to find the net force.
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Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @HatInTime
A Hat in Time is a running, jumping and exploring game inspired by retro platform games like Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Spyro the Dragon and Psychonauts. As you explore each of the worlds, you discover characters to talk to, enemies to battle and an...
Platforms: Mac and iOS
Developer: @AlikeStudio
All of You is a platform game where you can pause time and control the levels rather than the character. By rearranging the timing, order and orientation of the world you play in you can help the mother hen get her chicks back.
Smalland
Genres: Action, Adventure and Open World
Developer: @PlaySmalland
Players: This is a single player game. You can play with up to 8 players online
Smalland is a survival adventure where you are a tiny character in an overgrown wilderness. The world is dynamically changing, not only with the weather, seasons, day and night but also in response to what you do. It's as beautiful as it is intimidating...
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Web Browser and Xbox One
Superhot is a shooting game with a twist. Time only moves forward (bullets, enemies, damage) when you move your character. This is still a violent game, in fact, in slow motion, it feels more violent.
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative, Open World and Turn-Based
Developer: @playtemtem
Players: You can play this with 100 players online
Temtem is a role-play game like Pokemon but played online against loads of other players. You collect and train Temtem creatures 9of which there are 161) while exploring the world. You encounter other creatures controlled by human or computer players...
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Role-Playing and Shooting
Developer: @HeartMachineZ
Hyper Light Drifter is a fast action role-play game that combines exploration and puzzles with arcade style shooting. You play a Drifter who can access technology in a post-technological world. This grants access to upgradable energy weapons to help you...
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Genres: Adventure, Open World, Puzzle and Racing
Developer: @EZoneCom
Car Quest is an exploration puzzle adventure you navigate by driving your car. With no time pressure and a relaxed vibe you can take your time to drive, collect, explore, solve, discover.
Alto’s Adventure (Series)
Genres: Action, Platform and Racing
Descend beautiful mountains, dunes and canyons on a snowboarding journey full of serenity and secrets. All you have to worry about is tapping to jump to avoid chasms, rockfall and other hazards. It’s simple and moreish due to the stunning landscapes...
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Genres: Creative
Developer: @MediaMolecule
Anyone can learn how to create their own video games, music, animations and art in Dreams. Everything is controlled with accessible menus and interactions via the PlayStation 4 controller. This makes it easy to dive in and create something simple. Then,...
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita
The Unfinished Swan invites you to explore a world by splashing paint on it. The tactile experience leads you into a fairy tale about an unfinished painting that leads a child back to his parent.
This is another silly and funny game but with a dastardly vibe. You play a mean goose who is intent on ruining the day of the inhabitants of a sleeping English village. By stealing items, squawking and otherwise making a nuisance of yourself you slowly...
Bad North
Genres: Action, Fighting, Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @RawFury
Bad North is a stylised strategy fighting game. You control an army defending an island and must train and develop your forces efficiently. The simple visuals and knife-edge Viking combat along with the jeopardy of losing precious troops make this a lot...
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and PlayStation 4
In Heaven’s Vault you play an archaeologist translating an ancient alien language whose decrypting weaves through an unfolding drama. While doing real linguistic work you interact with companions and locals. Your choices can open or close vast swathes...
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform and Shooting
Each player selects a pixelated knight and fights to eliminate opponents by shooting them with arrows or jumping on their heads. The arena is a single shared screen. What makes it so competitive is the limited resource of arrows and the ability to dodge...
Genres: Action, Adventure, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Windbound is an adventure game where you hunt, explore and craft to survive. But unlike games like Zelda when you die you start over and the world is endlessly changing for each new adventure.
Genres: Action, Platform and Rhythm
Fledgeling Heroes is a fun flying game where you tap or press to guide a part through landscapes and collect coins. You can swim, sprint and soar, defeat dastardly dragons, unlock wondrous new worlds, and explore limitless levels in the Lab.
Alt-Frequencies
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Developer: @AccidentalQ
Alt-Frequencies is an adventure game played by listen to a series of radio shows. It's a story about people stuck in a time loop without realising it and what you can do to save them.
Inmost
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS Apple Arcade
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Platform
Developer: @HLGteam
Inmost is a running and jumping game with a strong emotional and atmospheric narrative. You uncover a dark and interconnected tale of three playable characters, each with their own unique gameplay styles. An adventurous young girl uncovering the past of...
Genres: Adventure and Shooting
Developer: @HopooGames
Risk of Rain 2 is a multiplayer adventure game where you have to fight to survive and escape a planet you've crash-landed on. It's formatted like a 'Roguelike' game: an iterative type of game that requires multiple goes to complete a level and where...
Unrailed
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Strategy
Developer: @IndoorAstronaut
Unrailed! is a co-op strategy game where you work with friends to build a train line across endless landscapes. Along with finding the resources to build track, bridges and tunnels you need to deal with local inhabitants, upgrade your train, and watch...
Headliner: NoviNews
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Simulation
Developer: @UnboundCreation
Headliner: NoviNews is a narrative-driven simulation game where you play as the person in charge of the headlines and stories that are released to the public. Each article you approve from your office has a direct impact of the world outside. Which news...
Lost and Hound
Developer: @DaisyAleSounds
Lost and Hound is an adventure puzzle game where you play as a scent tracking rescue dogs, Corgi and Biscuit. You use your sense of smell to find things and solve mysteries. Your heightened hearing and senses enable you find your goals, eventually...
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Racing, Simulation and Sports
Developer: @RageSquid
Descenders is a downhill mountain biking game with a focus on skill. In each downhill run, your goal is to score as many points as possible by completing skill based challenges and executing as many tricks and flips as you can, all while you try to...
Genres: Action, Open World, Strategy and Turn-Based
Developer: @IceWaterGames
Tenderfoot Tactics is a role play adventure game where you play a young adventurer in a vast open world. The visuals and the Final Fantasy Tactics-style battles look simple but offer depth that requires you to learn the deterministic combat system and...
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Genres: Narrative and Platform
Braid is a platform game, not dissimilar to Mario World, that appears simple but has a twist. The movement of your character is connected to the progression of time in a mind-bending manner. The resulting puzzles are fascinating and connected to a story...
Platforms: Android, PC, Web Browser and iOS
Genres: Action and Sports
Soccer Physics is a super simple football game you play by pressing one button. Made by Otto-Ville Ojala who also made the similar one-button games Wrestle Jump and Tank of Tanks, it's designed to be silly and fun. The matches are 2-on-2 and you time...
Genres: Action, Adventure and Strategy
Mana Spark is a fantasy adventure where you explore a Tolkein-esque dungeon to fight smart enemies that will plan and collaborate between themselves to defeat you. It's a game you play over and over, improving not only your skill but equipment and...
Genres: Adventure, Platform and Puzzle
Developer: @HenchMangoon
Pode is a co-operative puzzle game, where two players on the same system can use different abilities to help each other unlock new areas of a beautiful world and advance a cute little story. It's a good game if you like combining abilities in clever...
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Role-Playing
Developer: @JoniTweetsGames
Ord is an unusual text adventure, rather than one grand story, you embark on a series of distinct quests. Whether it's defeating an evil warlock or creating your own world as a god, Ord tells stories through simple series of words and word associations...
The White Door
Genres: Adventure and Puzzle
Developer: @RustyLakeCom
The White Door is an adventure that you play by exploring each room, finding and interacting with items and people. Along with its unusual black and white visuals, The White Door is also notable for the topic of mental health and memory loss it takes on.
Platforms: Android, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Genres: Adventure, Fighting and Puzzle
Developer: @DevolverDigital
Minit is retro puzzle game where you complete small tasks in within a 60 second time frame. You must dodge or fight foes, cut through the undergrowth, explore your world and find keys and swords. You start from the same place for each of your 60 second...
Platforms: Android and iOS
Developer: @PimCoumans
Jumpy Wall is a game where you must climb up a shaft by jumping between two walls. As you progress you'll meet more obstacles that aim to kill your little pixel character. Wall jump from left to right to get higher and higher while avoiding spikes and...
Fight Crab
Genres: Fighting and Simulation
Developer: @Crab_Fight
Fight Crab is an fighting game where you battle with weaponised crabs. But rather than pressing buttons to pull off moves, you have to work with the game’s over-the-top physics. This combines with giant crustaceans, insane weapons and claws to create...
Bury Me My Love
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC and iOS
Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Turn-Based
Don’t be put off by the name and theme of this intriguing game, an adventure played by choosing responses in what looks like a messaging app. You take the role of the husband of a Syrian migrant travelling to Europe. As the game unfolds in real time,...
Bomberman (Series)
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Bomberman is the spiritual ancestor to last-player-standing battles like Fortnite and Apex Legends, but here you all play on the same screen and have the same bomb weapon. There are lots of versions, but in all of them you battle with up to eight...
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a side-on running and jumping game starring the characters from the 3D platform game Yooka-Laylee. You control Yooka, a male chameleon, and Laylee, a female bat and take on a level...
Lost Words: Beyond the Page
Lost Words is an adventure game where you run, jump and explore inside a young girl’s diary. You control Izzy as she writes her diary by walking on words, move them around and solve different puzzles. This develops two parallel stories, one about Izzy...
Genres: Fighting, Strategy and Turn-Based
This is a fantasy war game, similar to Advanced Wars from the Gameboy era, where players take turns in a variety of battles. Computer-controlled and human opponents compete to achieve objectives and be the last player remaining.
Sim City (Series)
Genres: Creative, Simulation and Strategy
SimCity is a series of city-building game, created by Will Wright. Since their inception as educational experiences in 1989, the games have enabled players to design ambitious cities. The attraction is the open-ness of play, where you can let your...
FIFA (Series)
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Developer: @EA
FIFA is one of the two main football video games (the other being Pro Evolution). Each year it's released with improved visuals, more realistic physics and enhanced competitive play. For those that follow the game closely and play it a lot, it offers a...
Costume Quest (Series)
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative, Role-Playing and Turn-Based
Costume Quest is an adventure game where you play a trick-or-treating child when they encounter a monster that kidnaps your sibling. You travel the neighbourhood collecting items for your costume, candy and fellow children as companions in order to face...
Switch 'N' Shoot
Developer: @Crowbarska
Switch 'N' Shoot is a shooting game controlled by a single button. You pilot a star-fighter, each time you press to shot you change direction. It's a novel way to play but also can be good for players with motor impairment (and fast reactions).
Genres: Action, Adventure and Simulation
Discovery Tour is a special mode that uses the worlds created for the main Assassin’s Creed games to offer an educational exploration experience. It is available both as a free part of the original games and as a...
Ear Hockey
Ear Hockey is a bat and ball competitive game played by listening to the in-game audio alone; no screen required. It uses spatial audio cues to signal to the player where they are in the play-space and where the main game object, the ball, is travelling.
Genres: Action, Puzzle and Simulation
Developer: @FoggyBoxHQ
Brunch Club is a cooking game where you possess and move food around the kitchen to complete different recipes. This unusual way to cook creates a unique and silly challenge you take on with up to four people.
Gunman Clive (Series)
Platforms: Android, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PC, PlayStation 4 and iOS
Genres: Action, Platform and Shooting
Developer: @BertilHorberg
Gunman Clive is a platform game where you traverse through a hand drawn western landscape, negotiating moving platforms, traps and enemies. Shooting is a major part of the game, and the player can pick up specialized weapons such as a spread shot,...
Genres: Action, Puzzle, Rhythm and Simulation
Developer: @GrosChevaux
Unspottable is a puzzle game where you try and work out which of the identical characters are controlled by other players and which are computers. It's a race to punch your friends before they punch you, but the more times you get it wrong the more...
Bring You Home
Genres: Puzzle
Bring You Home is a running and jumping game with a difference. You play a doddery Polo trying to get your pet back by completing various platform levels. Unusually, though, when you die the game rewinds so you can change the level by swiping the panels...
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy
Developer: @BeholdStudios
Out of Space is a co-operative game about living together on a space ship. You and your cohabitants have to build a sustainable spaceship, as well as making it a cosy home. All is not plane sailing though, as you come across deadly alien infestations, a...
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360 and iOS
Fez is a dimension based puzzle game where you, as a small character called Gomez, can rotate between four 2D views of the 3D world (as four sides around a cube-like space). This sounds confusing but actually develops into a mind-stretching and...
Steamworld Dig
Steamworld Dig (Series)
Platforms: Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita
Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Puzzle and Role-Playing
The SteamWorld Dig series are action platform games where you play steam-powered robots trying to recover their lost civilisation. The two games in the series draws on classics like Dig Dug, Rick Dangerous, Repton and Boulderdash.
Genres: Fighting and Platform
Developer: @Rebel_Twins
Cookies Must Die is a platform game where you fight mutant cookies. Your character is a genetically modified super human who now, thanks to the scientists, has the ability to hurl its self across the lab facility, aiming at foes and avoiding obstacles.
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS Apple Arcade
A puzzle game that explores the emotional rollercoaster of a long-distance relationship — in a world of folding paper. After career choices force them along separate paths, a Teacher and Architect vow to make their long-distance relationship work at...
Platforms: Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Stadia
Genres: Action, Platform, Role-Playing, Shooting and Turn-Based
Steam-powered robots fighting for space supremacy sounds like the script for a 1950s B-movie. As in those matinee hits, the point here isn’t realism but interesting characters. Like the related games (SteamWorld Dig and SteamWorld Quest), SteamWorld...
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita
Genres: Action, Fighting, Rhythm and Shooting
Nidhogg is a fast two-player duelling game whose simple visuals belie the skill required to defeat your opponent. The novelty is that upon death you reappear in the next screen. The player to advance through the most screens wins.
Trials (Series)
Genres: Action, Racing, Simulation and Sports
Trials Rising is a four-player side-on motorbike racing game controlled by pressing ‘accelerate’ or ‘brake’ and using the stick to shift the weight of their riders’ bodies. The game emulates real-world physics, so you have to balance your...
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Genres: Action, Creative and Puzzle
HyperDot is a dodging game, where you control a small circle and must move to avoid collisions with other shapes. It sounds too simple to be fun, but the cover design and variation in challenge make it a really enjoyable game.
Canabalt
Platforms: Android, PC, PlayStation Portable and iOS
Canabalt is a side-on running game where you press jump at the right time to keep a small character from falling off buildings or crashing into things. With minimalist visuals, you play the small suited man fleeing from an unknown threat. As the game...
Bubbles The Cat
Bubbles The Cat is a platform game you play by tapping a single button to jump. Through hundreds of levels and six worlds, you automatically run forwards bu must tap at the right time to survive.
Genres: Action, Adventure, Shooting, Simulation and Strategy
Space Crew is a strategy game where you use a team of characters to control a spaceship and explore the galaxy. Unlike other space flight games, you don't directly control your craft but get your crew to look after different aspects of the mission. It's...
Platforms: PC and Stadia
Genres: Action, Open World and Simulation
Developer: @EmbrGame
Embr, is an action fire-fighting game. You join the Emergency Services Revolution and respond to fires to make money, climbing the ladder of success and score points.
Spitkiss
Developer: @TripleTopping
Spitkiss is a game where you control a ball of saliva around the dangerous interior of different organs. The spittle is the carrier of a message of love and hope between people, but it can only get there if you precisely aim and navigate the different...
Mechstermination Force is a shooting game with a difference. Along with jumping and climbing around the levels the focus is on battling huge boss enemies. You do this by finding weak spots and blowing them up. It's from the same creator as the Gunman...
10 Second Ninja X
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Developer: @GameDesignDan
10 Second Ninja X is a super-fast puzzle game with a difference: every level lasts ten seconds or less. In each level, your challenge is to destroy all of the enemies on screen before the timer runs out. The faster you complete each level, the higher...
Platforms: Android, Mac, Nintendo 2DS|3DS, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Simulation
Williams are a renowned designer and manufacturer of pinball machines. Its tables can be played on different systems through games that simulate the original games. This include the physics of the ball, pixel perfect recreation of the play tables and...
Platforms: Android, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and iOS
Developer: @HalfBrick
Jetpack Joyride is a running, jumping and shooting game you play by just tapping the screen or button at the right time to control your jetpack. Your play a scientist who runs through each of the levels and must survive and get to the end.
Platforms: Mac, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and iOS
Developer: @Flippfly
Race the Sun is an arcade-inspired racing game where you helm a solar-powered craft. Your objective is simple, hurdle towards the sun dodging obstacles for as long as possible before the sun sets.
She Remembered Caterpillars
Developer: @TheJumpSuits
She Remembered Caterpillars is a colour-matching puzzle game with an unusual look and emotional story to tell. Through the unsettling fungi-punk aesthetic you work out how to get your characters to the endpoint of each stage. As you do you eavesdrop on...
Platforms: iOS
Developer: @AconiteCo
In Holovista is an adventure game you play by taking and sharing photographs. You play as Carmen an up-and-coming architect tasked to live in and take photographs at mysterious mansion and share your thoughts via in-game social media. Your task is...
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Best Games on Stadia with Colour Adjustments Accessibility Settings
Image: Each of these games has been assessed for how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game. Each game offers the following accessibility features and settings:
Colour adjustments: Adjust colours of characters or game elements for greater visibility
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres: Action, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation
Watch Dogs: Legion is an adventure game, the third instalment in the Watch Dogs series. It's set in a fictionalised future dystopian London. You play hackers in group DedSec seeking to clear their name for bombings in the city.
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Marvel's Avengers is an action-adventure game based on the Avengers. You control the heroes from a third-person perspective on your own or with friends. Together you assemble a team of heroes to take on the game's main storyline, where you must clear...
Red Dead Redemption (Series)
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Red Dead Redemption is a series of open world adventures with a wild west theme. The rich world offers many things to do along with a main story line. It's this living breathing world that attracts players, both in its diversity and beauty.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Seige
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Seige (Series)
Developer: @Rainbow6Game
Rainbow Six Siege is a 5-v-5 multiplayer tactical shooting game where you either play a terrorist or a counter-terrorist. Your job is either to defend an objective such as a bomb site, biohazard container, or hostages or to stop the terrorist by...
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DailyDirt: Colorful Burgers Because Why Not?
Guy Writes New James Bond Book... Only Available Where Bond Is In The Public Domain
Two Overlooked Aspects Of Those Leaks About NSA Spying On French Presidents
Say That Again
from the reasons-to-be-cheerful dept
Fri, Jun 26th 2015 6:18pm — Glyn Moody
There's been quite a lot of excitement in the press about the latest leaks that the NSA has been spying on not just one French President, but (at least) three of them. As Mike pointed out, this isn't such a big deal, because it is precisely the kind of thing that you would expect the NSA to do -- as opposed to spying on the entire US public, which isn't. There is, though, an aspect that most people have overlooked: the fact that these NSA leaks don't appear to originate from Snowden's stash.
Of course, Mr Crypto himself, Bruce Schneier, did spot it, and pointed out it could be one of his "other" US intelligence community leakers, listed a couple of months ago, or even a completely new one. As that post shows, there are now a few people around that are leaking secret documents, and that's a pretty significant trend, since you might expect enhanced security measures taken in the wake of Snowden's leaks would have discouraged or caught anyone who attempted to follow suit.
That's not the only thing that's interesting about the French documents. As Fabio Chiusi points out in a blog post (original in Italian), they are the latest in a recent series of very rich leaks that include the Sony archives; the Saudi cables; the TPP transparency chapter; and -- not mentioned by Chiusi -- 17 chapters from TISA.
What all those collections have in common is the fact that they came from WikiLeaks. As Chiusi rightly emphasizes, after a period when WikiLeaks seemed to have lost its ability to release important material -- and thus its relevance -- the organization is beginning to hit its stride again. Coupled with the fact that there are half-a-dozen or so people who are leaking intelligence materials, that development offers hope that things are really beginning to look up on the transparency front.
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Bad Idea: President-Elect Biden Wants To Turn 1/6 Into The New 9/11
'Going Dark?': Cops Grab Vehicle Data To Identify A Murder Suspect
Surprise! Singapore Backtracks On Privacy Pledge And Opens Contact Tracing Data To Police
New Indictment Tries To Tie Julian Assange To A Hacking He Had Nothing To Do With
Fox News Commentator Calls For A 'Backlash' Against Big Tech... Because Wikileaks Released His Phone Number
Anonymous Coward, 29 Jun 2015 @ 12:50am
Re: Re: Re: Bruce Scheiner
What is not legal is the NSA spying on Americans.
It's more of a guideline than a hard and fast rule you know...
According to the DNI, General James R. Clapper, the NSA does not collect any data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans. Not wittingly.
Judge Not Impressed By Parler's Attempt To Force Amazon To Put It Back Online
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TechRadar Pro Best for Business Awards 2019: Best business software-as-a-service
By TechRadar Pro 10 September 2019
You voted and the results are in
Last month we gave our readers a chance to cast their vote to help us narrow down our extensive longlists of the best B2B tech and accessories for the TechRadar Pro Best for Business Awards 2019, in partnership with Avast Business.
The votes have now been counted, and here are our picks for the best business software-as-a-service in 2019.
These are the best business accessories of 2019
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Best Collaboration Tool: Huddle
Cloud-based platform Huddle is this year’s pick for the best collaboration tool. Huddle allows members of an organization to organize and share files, manage tasks and projects and work together online across a wide variety of file types. The software also provides seamless integration with a number of third party apps and business systems such as Okta, Salesforce and SharePoint.
Best Project Management: Microsoft Project
Organizations that are already heavily invested in Microsoft’s ecosystem should certainly consider the company’s own project management software, Microsoft Project.
The software can be purchased either as an add-on to your existing Office 365 subscription or as a standalone version for on-premise deployment. Microsoft Project is a powerful tool to aid businesses in dealing with the more detailed aspects of project management including resource management, reports and timesheets. However, you will need a certified project manager on staff to use this software to its fullest.
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Best CRM Solution: Capsule CRM
Capsule CRM is this year’s pick for the best CRM solution.
Instead of trying to win over new customers with a lengthy feature list, Capsule CRM focuses on the basics: contact management, collaboration, sales pipeline, scheduling and tasks. The software allows you to track customer’s social media, attach documents and emails to their records, tag contacts or organize them in lists, create tasks and view your schedule in the calendar.
Capsule CRM also offers a free basic account that supports two users, 250 contacts and 10 MB of storage. While it may be a little too lightweight for long term use, a basic account does give interested users a chance to test out this CRM for themselves.
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Best HR Solution: Sage Business Cloud People
Sage Business Cloud People is an end-to-end HR solution that provides human resources team visibility of their global workforce while also automating administrative tasks.
Businesses that already use Salesforce will be right at home as Sage business Cloud People is built on top of Salesforce’s Force.com technology platform - although you don’t need to be a Salesforce customer to use this software.
Sage Business Cloud includes core HR, talent management, workforce management and a self-service portal. It also integrates with several third-party applications for accounting and payroll.
Also check out the best HR outsourcing services of 2019
Best Accounting Solution: Sage Business Cloud Accounting
This year’s pick for the best accounting solution is Sage Business Cloud Accounting as it gives small businesses the tools the need to tame the challenges of bookkeeping with a cloud-based approach.
Sage Business Cloud Accounting is available via a subscription model and the company offers both a starter plan with Accounting Start as well as a more advanced plan that includes invoicing and cash flow management in Accounting. Sage Business Cloud Accounting also integrates with over 100 connected apps including ReciptBank, Fluidly, AutoEntry and Stripe.
There is even a free 30-day trial available for businesses that want to try out the service for themselves.
Read the full review
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Science, Tech, Math › Computer Science
How to Determine if Your Computer Is 32-Bit or 64-Bit
Find out whether your Windows operating system is 32-bit or 64-bit
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C & C++ Programming
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Paul Leahy
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M.A., Advanced Information Systems, University of Glasgow
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To run optimally, you should run the version of Windows that's aligned to the processor running your computer's hardware. A 64-bit processor should generally run a 64-bit version of Windows, although it can run a 32-bit version just fine. A 32-bit processor, however, can only run a 32-bit version of Windows.
Identify Your System Type
In Windows 10, open the Settings app then click About at the bottom of the left-side menu. You'll see your hardware and software capability in the About page.
For Windows 7 and Windows Vista, click Start > Computer > Properties to reveal a configuration window. In the System type section, you'll see whether you're running a 32- or 64-bit version of Windows.
Older Versions of Windows
It's rare for Windows XP to run at 64 bits. Previous versions of Windows only run at 32-bits. Before Windows 95, Windows ran at 16 bits.
Why Bits Matter
For the most part, you generally won't have to worry about the system architecture of your computer. If you use the Microsoft Store, for example, everything will be taken care of for you.
In some cases, your computer will ship with a 64-bit processor but you'll have a 32-bit version of Windows loaded at the factory. It doesn't matter if your processor supports 64-bit computing; if the operating system supports 32-bits only, you cannot run a 64-bit program. For example, Microsoft Office supports both 64- and 32-bit installers. You can only use the 64-bit version if both your processor and your version of Windows are at a 64-bit level. Otherwise, you'll have to use the 32-bit version only.
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A night of theater can be much more than getting dressed up to watch a Rodgers and Hammerstein revival for the umpteenth time. Theater can be a voice for change and a call to action. Case in point: "The Vagina Monologues." Playwright and performance artist Eve Ensler interviewed over 200 women from a wide range of ages and cultural backgrounds, many of whom bared their proverbial souls by responding to questions like, "What would your vagina say if it could talk?" and, "If you could dress your vagina, what would it wear?"
Origins and V-Day
In 1996, "The Vagina Monologues" began as a one-woman show, a series of character-driven pieces. Almost like poetry, each soliloquy reveals a different woman's experience with topics like sex, love, tenderness, embarrassment, cruelty, pain, and pleasure. As the show gained popularity, it was performed by an ensemble of actresses. Politically active theaters and college campuses began staging productions of the monologues, which helped launch a global movement known as V-Day.
What Is V-Day?
V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls."
Anti-Male Sentiments?
When college students are asked to raise their hands if they are feminists, often only one or two students raise their hands. The women students who don't raise their hands misguidedly explain that they "don't hate men," whereas many uninformed men believe that a necessary prerequisite for membership in feminism is womanhood. Sadly, while feminism is understood to mean "equality for the sexes" or "the empowerment of women," it seems that many believe feminism is anti-male.
With that in mind, it is easy to see why many assume that "The Vagina Monologues" is an angry rant of naughty words and feverish male-bashing. But Ensler is clearly raging against violence and oppression rather than men in general. V-Men, a digital section of V-Day where male writers and activists speak out against misogynist violence, is further proof that Ensler's work is man-friendly.
Powerful Moments
The Flood: This monologue, based on a conversation with a 72-year old woman, combines humorously erotic dream imagery with the pragmatic, worldly views of a tough, outspoken old gal. Picture your elderly great Aunt talking about "down there," and you'll get an idea of this monologue's potential. During her HBO special, Ensler has great fun with this character.
My Village Was My Vagina: Powerful, sad, and all-too-relevant, this is absolutely the most haunting of the monologues. This piece is in honor of the thousands of victims from rape camps in Bosnia and Kosovo. The monologue alternates between peaceful, rural memories and images of torture and sexual abuse.
I Was in the Room: Based on Ensler's personal experience watching the birth of her grandchild, this is arguably the most touching and optimistic monologue. This scene captures the joy and mystery of labor, in all its glorious and graphic detail.
The Controversial Monologue
Sure, the whole show is controversial. There's shock value simply in the title. Still, one particular monologue involves two accounts of molestation. The first incident occurs when the character is 10. In that account, she is raped by an adult male. Later in the monologue, she describes a sexual experience with an adult woman when the speaker is only 16. This monologue upsets many viewers and critics because it presents a double standard. The first case of molestation is accurately nightmarish, whereas the second case is portrayed as a positive experience.
In an earlier version, the lesbian encounter took place at the age of 13, but Ensler decided to adjust the age. Because she generated the monologues from real-life interviews, it makes sense to display what she learned from her subject. However, considering the mission statement of V-Day, it's hard to fault directors or performers for omitting—or perhaps revising—this particular monologue.
Other Ensler Plays
Although "The Vagina Monologues" is her most famous work, Ensler has penned other powerful works for the stage.
"Necessary Targets": A gripping drama that depicts two American women journeying to Europe to help Bosnian women share their tragic stories with the world.
"The Treatment": Ensler's most recent work delves into the moral questions of torture, power, and the politics of modern warfare.
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Saturday Night Live shockingly mocks Mike Pence by saying he ‘let the country burn’ during four years under Trump
Dec 20 2020, 8:23 ET
Updated: Dec 21 2020, 13:31 ET
SATURDAY Night Live hilariously mocked vice president Mike Pence in a sketch last night, claiming that he "let the country burn" during President Trump's four years in office.
The NBC comedy show satirized Pence's Covid-19 vaccination six months after he claimed the US was "winning the fight" against the disease.
SNL satirically mocked vice president Mike Pence receiving the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in a sketchCredit: Saturday Night Live
Actor Beck Bennett, who played Pence, accused the veep of 'letting the country burn' during President Trump's four years in officeCredit: Getty Images - Getty
The country has reported over 17.4million cases and more than 300,000 fatalities throughout the pandemic, according to the Covid Tracking Project.
"I'm sure all Americans are excited to see me, the guy who let Covid spread everywhere, get one of the first vaccines," said Pence, who was being played by SNL cast member and actor Beck Bennett.
Satirical footage shows the vice president, who chairs the White House coronavirus task force, reassuring Americans who may be sceptical about receiving the jab.
"I just want to reassure the American people that this vaccine is completely safe and harmless.
"That's why President Trump refuses to talk about it," he said.
"For the past four years, I haven't felt a thing - just kind of watched the country burn."
Pence branded the jab as a 'medical miracle' after receiving it on Friday Credit: Alamy Live News
SNL's satirical take came just a day after the vice president received the Pfizer vaccine at the White House Eisenhower Executive Building on Friday - where he praised the jab as a "medical miracle".
Following the vaccination in his left arm, the VP said: "I didn't feel a thing! Well done!"
A staffer from Walter Reed Medical Center administered the shot as Pence, wearing a shirt and face covering, looked straight ahead at the camera.
The vice president appeared to be smiling under his mask during the quick administration of the shot.
Speaking about the vaccine development process, the vice president said: "We're on track here in the United States to administer millions of doses to the American people in less than one year.
'NO CORNERS CUT'
"Karen and I wanted to step forward and take this vaccine to assure the American people that while we cut red tape, we cut no corners," he gushed.
"Thanks to the great work at the National Institute of Health, and the great and careful work of the FDA.
"And the leadership of our president and Operation Warp Speed, the American people can be confident we have one, and perhaps within hours, two safe and effective coronavirus vaccines for you and for your family," he added.
Pence and his wife have been advised to get a second dose of the vaccine in 21 days.
In support of the vice president's move to get vaccinated, Ivanka Trump retweeted the video of Pence getting the shot.
She tweeted: "@VP and @SecondLady get the Covid-19 vaccine. Safe and effective and delivered in record time thanks to #OperationWarpSpeed. #TrustTheVaccine".
The White House explained their intent was to "promote the safety and efficacy of the vaccine and build confidence among the American people."
It's unknown when Donald Trump will get the jab but the president tweeted that he is "looking forward" to receiving it at the "appropriate time".
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The US vaccine program began to unfold on December 14 and three million vaccine doses have been sent out across all 50 states this week.
The jab was rolled out in the week the US recorded its record daily death toll of 3,488 on December 16.
Americans aged 16 and over are eligible to receive the vaccine.
Health care providers have been warned not to give the vaccine to anyone with a “known history of a severe allergic reaction” to any component of the vaccine, which they said was a standard warning for vaccines.
Actress Laura Holt played the vice president's wife Karen in the hilarious sketchCredit: Saturday Night Live
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Irrevocable Momentum
By Jake Rohrer on December 18, 2013
Attorneys representing fellow defendants in companion conspiracy cases, all of them launched by the informancy (a new word I just made up: informancy, n. a period of time during which one acts as an informant) of Stephen Green, urged that I hire Tony Serra. They hinted that it would be my good fortune, indeed, should he agree to defend me. I knew next to nothing about Tony Serra or criminal law. My lessons were about to begin.
Tony Serra was a fascinating individual and I liked him right away. He was highly principled and his reputation as a fierce opponent in the courtroom was widely held. He was eager to defend the underdog and those subject to racial injustice. I didn't consider myself qualifying as either, but I soon learned that almost anyone whose opponent happened to be “The United States of America” qualified as an underdog. All of his skills and admirable values, however, may have presented an intellectual enigma to the jury of sheep selected to decide our case. When later polled, many thought I was guilty because I hired an “expensive” attorney like Serra. Tony's fees were in fact considerably less than other attorneys involved at the trial stage. He just loomed larger than most in the courtroom.
If Tony presented an enigma to the jurors, he presented something of a different nature to Federal Judge Robert Schnacke. He didn't like Tony Serra, his pony-tail, his courtroom demeanor, his rapier-like undoing of prosecution witnesses. Or the way he dressed—a little too bohemian, barely meeting bench standards. The required necktie looked out of place on Tony. Although Tony didn't like Schnacke either, he respected his intellect. He was always polite in his discourse with the judge, but sometimes seemed to hold himself aloof from the court as though refusing to kowtow to silly rules and overbearing authority. Everything about Tony that might have offended the judge, I admired. When Tony presented his closing argument, the courtroom was packed, not with people who cared about me or my co-defendant, rather, with lawyers, there to hear Tony argue. His best efforts notwithstanding, the jury voted to convict.
On pronouncing sentence, Schnacke's furious vent and judgment thundered into me, rocking me back on my heels. I felt I was getting the brunt of his dislike for Tony, certainly in the maximum sentence he handed down following Tony's eloquent plea for probation. I vowed then and there I would one day find Schnacke's grave and have a good, voluminous piss on it. My need to escape his wrath and judgment was such that I slipped away into daydream, picturing myself in some graveyard with a full bladder, lurking behind trees while I searched for the headstone with that strange Germanic name engraved on it. It was a vow I was later to recant.
“Bail on appeal is denied,” roared Schnacke.
“Could you at least recommend a camp setting?” pleaded Tony.
“I prefer to leave that to the Bureau of Prisons,” huffed Schnake, unwilling to concede the slightest crumb to Tony or me.
I sensed I was about to be remanded to custody and trundled off by US Marshals but was struck by total surprise when Schnacke granted me two weeks of freedom to get my affairs in order before self-surrender to prison authorities. I was not viewed as a flight risk, although I gave it some brief thought before rejecting any such idea as foolhardy.
In the two weeks granted I replaced Tony with Doron Weinberg, a skilled appellate attorney of lofty intellect, greatly respected throughout the legal community. Doron was more to the Judge's liking. Just like magic, he reversed himself and bail on appeal was granted. As a result I spent nearly two years, rather than two weeks, getting my affairs in order, recklessly hustling more cocaine to pay legal expenses and putting together some cash to see my family through what I knew would be a long hard winter.
The finest hour during my entire ordeal with the feds came when I learned that the elderly and priggish Judge Schnacke had been rounded up in a vice squad raid on a Mitchell Brothers porn theater in San Francisco, creating scandalous headlines. Both the DA and the defense attorneys wanted the judge as a witness for their cases and he hired my lawyer, Doron Weinberg, to get him out of this embarrassing public spotlight. My delight at the judge's public shaming was immeasurable. There you go, your honor, what goes around comes around. Even when the man who prosecuted me, Eric Swenson, some years later was caught criminally tainting evidence against some Chinese heroin smugglers and drummed out of office (most thought he should have been jailed), I felt no glee at his censure. He had spared me the piety of his office, suggesting only that a maximum sentence would send a message to the criminal element. That, of course, was bullshit. The real message, aimed at those awaiting their turn in the same conspiracy, was this: you'd better not waste our time with a trial unless you, too, would like a maximum sentence. My role as first to come to trial was that of sacrificial cow.
The great majority of evidence presented against me at trial consisted of the testimony of one time associate-turned-informant, Stephen J. Green, engaged in the process of saving his own skin. I hadn't been caught doing anything—I'd been told on. It wasn't a victim providing testimony. It was instead the man said to be at the top of the conspiracy, a major trafficker, caught red-handed and sentenced to 20 years. The feds were giving him his freedom for informing on his associates, prosecuting those farther down the ladder. Tony said it hadn't been done before. Imagine Bernard Madoff going free while prosecuting his lieutenants. That of course didn't make me any less culpable, but it might anger the jury enough to turn the table on the government's case if we could get them to understand that others would be serving far more prison time than the informant, rules against such disclosure notwithstanding.
Not a chance. When later polled, all were aghast at learning my prison time would grossly exceed that of the informant who would serve only about 18 months of his 20-year sentence, most of it in tight security helping the government build their case. But the jury got it right. I was guilty as hell, and rather than own up to the feds, I insisted on doing things the hard way.
Stephen Green. In all fairness, what can I say about him? He was smart and had an outgoing, even charismatic, personality. He walked his walk with a lot of bluster, like an aggressive salesman enamored with his product. He was small in physical stature, but we called him “Mr. Big” for his purported successes and connections. When members of our fraternal brotherhood of drug dealers—we “spice merchants” if you will—talked about “holding your mud” (maintaining silence) if you happened to be arrested, Green's voice was the loudest. Among his associates he assumed the strut of a general.
He liked to host lavish parties, once renting facilities at an upscale Napa Valley winery where his guests arrived at the dinning room in gondolas, like a ski-lift delivering passengers to a chalet. It was supposed to be a classy affair, the sampling of fine wines with a catered dinner, a lot of canapes and tete-a-tete, Green playing the role of an aristocratic and generous host. He was doing his best to establish a legitimate persona at the winery and had asked his guests, ..”.no drugs, please.”
But the room was filled with his friends and associates, cocaine distributors, dealers, smugglers and users. Once everyone was a little looped on the wine, out came the coke. My brother, Robbin, started things off, pouring out about half an ounce of high-end cocaine onto a saucer that got passed around the tables. Others followed suit, revelers snorting up line after line of pure cocaine with great flourish through rolled-up hundred dollar bills, indeed...C notes. Consumption was open and obvious, spiraling out of control by a like-minded gathering of criminals who had no thoughts of hiding their activities among themselves. The dinning room staff became anxious and alarmed. Green did his best to calm them and continue his masquerade as the legitimately wealthy host, but it was too late. Any fool could see that Green's carefully choreographed propriety had been swallowed up by a room filled with swaggering, coke-sniffing pirates.
Green didn't choose his role as informant out of love of country, nor did the feds wire his genitals with electric current to force confession. He was a self-serving braggart of a man and he used his illegitimate wealth to prove his place in the world—somewhere above the likes of you or me. He had a Ferrari to play with when he tired of his Porsche and a San Francisco penthouse staffed with a butler, there to answer his door, polish his shoes and dust his wine cellar. He would strut and preen while articulating the code of the honorable outlaw, taking your own medicine while maintaining silence in the face of adversity. He pointed derisively at others who he claimed would “turn rat” at the drop of a badge. He was also a racist, particularly anti-black, paranoid of finding himself in the company of colored people. “That place is nigger heaven,” he would say of certain clubs and restaurants, refusing to patronize them.
In the press Green excused his turning informant by claiming that he just couldn't leave his newly born daughter without a father. It was okay, though, if his friends and associates got separated from their families. More to the point, I would venture that he probably found being jailed among tough, feral and barbaric criminals, many of them black, his worst nightmare, and would have sold his soul or his daughter to be elsewhere.
Recalling my intention to be fair, now that I've thoroughly gutted, dressed, and trussed Mr. Green, it must be asked: who was the fool who trusted and did business with such a man? Does lack of appetite for toys and showy trappings make me a better man? No, just a different man, who engaged in many of the same crimes as did Green, save the distasteful crime of informing on friends, associates and family solely for personal benefit.
It did not sit well with me that the feds were proposing to let Green go free, trading him for people who were at least unpretentious and honorable, cocaine merchants nonetheless. It was I, of course, who was on the trading block, coloring somewhat my personal view of events. Giving the feds their due, I admit they got ten for one, even if the one, whose confinement was exchanged for the freedom of the others, was the least deserving of the lot. Throughout it all, nothing whatsoever was accomplished that put the slightest dent in the runaway-train drug trade, but the industry that thrives on policing drugs was provided with a heaping helping of new fodder.
My anger at Green and the feds, accompanied by a fear of what might lie ahead, served as brush and canvas. With such tools at hand I proceeded to paint myself a victim, able now to wallow in some self pity about what I looked upon as the unfairness of it all. I chose to ignore what was right in front of me, and pushed aside the obvious: my “karma” had arrived, its momentum irrevocable.
No doubt persuaded by media and public image, I grew up believing that the feds were always the “good guys,” people of strong moral character who always played hard, but played fair. Then I learned first hand that to expect Federal authorities to always play by the rules is to be naive. No different than most, the feds will break the rules any time they think they can get away with it, no penalty if the ref doesn't see it.
While I was washing up and getting dressed on the morning of my arrest, the arresting feds had a go at my personal documents and desk drawers. I came from the bedroom to find DEA agents frantically riffling the contents of my desk, thinking they would be unobserved. They quit, red-faced, when I asked if they had a search warrant. Thanks in large part to Big Dog, they wouldn't have found diddly-squat, but the attempt was an affront. They were given free rein in my home and they behaved shabbily. Imagine that, the dope dealer calling “bad manners” on the feds who were in the act of arresting him. But I was too fucking scared to strut about it...until just now.
Later, during my trial, FBI agents harassed and threatened a witness who was to appear on my behalf, afraid she would destroy the credibility of her brother who was scheduled to testify for the prosecution. I thought it thug behavior. Her presence had been unearthed in another state by private investigators from my team, billing me $175 hourly for their services. She represented an unhappy surprise for the prosecution.
A criminal trial often takes on the fervor of a heated chess match. Each side postured and moved their pieces warily within the ever-changing landscape of the game. Insults were traded, like in a nasty election campaign. The jury looked on, unaware they were the pawns. The Judge ruled over both sides like the all-powerful queen, able to move in any direction he saw fit. Justice and our constitution were represented by the slow-moving king, the ultimate object of capture. Prosecutors and defense lawyers were themselves the knights, bishops and rooks who battle it out in the trenches aided by their minions and seconds, the investigators and expert witnesses. Watching from the gallery, I was the accused, a eunuch of the court, flaccid and speechless, powerless save for my pocketbook used to purchase the services of my champions. The informant a knave, seeking to better his circumstance at any cost.
“Buffalo,” the fellow whose sister was harassed, was at one time a distant friend, closer to my brother and some of his associates, but who could nonetheless provide some damaging testimony about me. Attempting to establish himself in the drug trade, Buffalo found himself on the wrong side of some bad hombres in a drug deal turned sour. He had reason to believe they were out to kill him. Broke and with no place left to turn, he went to the DEA and made his deal with the devil: he sold himself as an informant. Although we had nothing at all to do with his problems, he tried to impress the DEA with the magnitude of the secrets he possessed, and told them a lot of grossly exaggerated bullshit about me and my brother (we were supplied with copies of his debriefing in discovery). It was laughable until you thought about who he was telling it to.
Late in my trial, the prosecution maneuvered one move ahead of my team who failed to see it coming. After Buffalo testified, Tony thought he had “stiffed” the prosecution, testifying only that I had at one time given him a him a small, unspecified amount of cocaine I had called “Baked Alaska.” Not a word was said about any real transactions. We were concerned that Buffalo might do our side some damage. As it turned out the damage was hidden, even to Buffalo who obviously didn't want to testify against me. But it proved to be the opening that the prosecution needed. They were then able to establish as fact that Buffalo and Stephen Green didn't know each other, had never met or spoken to one another. Buffalo had unknowingly corroborated Stephen Green's testimony, confirming for the jury that I had christened a particular load of Green's cocaine “Baked Alaska.” Checkmate. It was a key point for the jury when they voted for my conviction. They didn't like Stephen Green. No one did. But now they had something to hang their hats on. Buffalo had given them reason to believe Green's testimony.
When he was done, Buffalo sauntered by the table where I was seated and gave me a knowing glance, as though to say, “…See, brother? I wouldn't do you no harm.”
Once incarcerated, my fears, anger and sense of unfairness gradually softened and melted away, replaced by understanding and an acceptance of responsibility. I became embarrassed by what had been my mindset as a victim. Mine were just desserts, “Baked Alaska” at the top of the menu. I knew also, without a doubt, my status as prisoner was a better place than Green's version of freedom. I had also learned, yet again the hard way, the only person on whom I could place blame for my circumstance, or from whom I might seek vengeance, was standing in my own shoes. Green is forgiven, at least by me. In the long run, we mostly get what we have coming. No one outdistances his own karma.
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Question: Sir, if today you die, are you 100 percent sure you would go to heaven? How can I, a Muslim, have that assurance?
Answer: I am 100 percent certain because of the teaching in the Bible. I know the Bible is the Word of the one true God for many reasons: it is archaeologically and historically verifiable, it has hundreds of prophecies that have been fulfilled centuries and even thousands of years after they were recorded, it rings true to the conscience, and I have experienced in my own life the fulfillment of the salvation it offers.
There is no way that any sinner could pay the infinite penalty for his sins. All religions attempt to appease the gods or spirits with various occult ceremonies and sacrifices—but such efforts wouldn’t even pay for a traffic ticket and surely won’t be accepted by God. It is a matter of justice. The “ticket” has been written out on every one of us because of our sin, and the penalty has to be paid.
Islam has no solution for sin. No one in Islam paid the penalty for mankind. The Qur’an commands Muhammad to confess his sin, but that wouldn’t remove his guilt. Muhammad couldn’t even pay for his own sins, much less for those of others. Dying as a suicide bomber won’t pay for sin. Any religion that offers paradise for committing suicide and murdering innocent women and children in the process is false and ought to be condemned.
We have the record of eyewitnesses and many proofs that Jesus Christ is God come to earth through a virgin birth and that He paid the penalty for our sins in His death, literally resurrected, ascended to heaven, and is coming again. He offers forgiveness of sins and an eternal home in heaven to all who will believe on Him. There is no other way.
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THE PIVOT: Asante Logistics Group quadruples profits after buying former Crossley Carpets site in Truro
James Risdon
Updated: Jan 13 at 10:32 p.m.
Ernest Korankye is founder, president and CEO of Asante Logistics Group in Truro. - Contributed
The Players:
Ernest Korankye, president and chief executive officer of Asante Logistics Group Inc., founded the Truro company, formerly known as Asante Freight Lines and Exports, a decade ago. He now co-owns the company with Asante Logistics vice-president of business development Jason Steele and Anita Quaye, the company’s finance and corporate secretary.
When Asante Logistics’ sales of used cars to Africa, Asia and Europe plateaued, it branched out into transportation logistics and began offering warehouse space to its customers. When the global pandemic hit, Asante’s customers suddenly needed a lot more storage space.
The Pivot:
Asante Logistics first rented and then bought the 367,000-square-foot former Crossley Carpets property in Truro. The company converted the factory into a warehouse and offices.
Used car exporter and transportation logistics firm Asante Logistics Group quadrupled its profits last year after expanding its warehousing capacity by buying the former Crossley Carpets site in Truro for an undisclosed price.
The property and building was listed with Colliers International for $7.95 million.
Ernest Korankye, Asante president and CEO, says the original asking price had been about $12 million. He negotiated it down and got the property somewhere under the final asking price.
The company made its final bid for the property in May last year after renting it for months.
“Asante leveraged its ability to lease the Crossley building for nine months, which allowed it to generate significant free cash flow for a down payment on the purchase of the building,” says Jason Steele, Asante’s vice-president of business development.
“This satisfied a commercial lender, the CIBC Truro branch, to obtain a mortgage for the remaining portion of the acquisition cost.”
Asante Logistics, formerly known as Asante Freight Lines and Exports, is best known outside the transportation logistics sector as an exporter of used cars, primarily to Africa but also to Asia and Europe.
But the company does a lot more than that. Its exports of used cars have been flat for years, plateauing at about 280 cars per month.
New avenues
So, when other local companies approached Asante in 2017 looking for storage space, it seized that opportunity to branch out into transportation logistics. It began offering warehousing, material handling and trucking services, in addition to freight forwarding services for exporting.
That’s where the company was early last year. Then COVID-19 hit.
Government-imposed restrictions fueled an even greater need for warehouse and transportation logistics, and Asante boomed.
“COVID-19 shutdowns in the spring of 2020 brought opportunity to some businesses and challenges for others,” says Steele.
“Asante took advantage of both of these situations by targeting warehousing and trucking services for the companies taking advantage of COVID’s new environment and by offering temporary storage space and material handling services for those affected by country closures that prevented or delayed product shipments through the Port of Halifax.”
Before its purchase of the Crossley building, Asante had about 30,000 square feet of rented space in a building in Truro. It employed nine.
In the past year, the company has grown its warehousing capacity by roughly 1,200 per cent and doubled its workforce. It still uses the rented space on Willow Lane but has bought the former factory building about a kilometre away on Willow Street.
And Asante is still hiring, looking for a driver to operate one of its seven trucks.
Fiscal forecast
The company’s expansion comes just as the Conference Board of Canada is forecasting that Canada will see GDP growth of 5.3 per cent in 2021 and 3.5 per cent in 2022.
“The news that safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19 have begun to be distributed has provided optimism that the pandemic could soon be beaten,” says Pedro Antunes, the Conference Board’s chief economist.
In Atlantic Canada, it is forecasting Nova Scotia’s GDP will grow by 3.2 per cent this year, New Brunswick’s by 4.2 per cent, Prince Edward Island’s by 2.1 per cent, and Newfoundland and Labrador by five per cent.
Asante is poised to boom as the economy recovers due to its newly-acquired building.
“We are leasing 110,000 to 120,000 square feet so we still have 200,000 square feet left to lease,” says Korankye.
During its last fiscal year, which ended Aug. 31, the company grew revenues by 37 per cent and quadrupled profits over the previous year.
Although the privately held company does not divulge revenues, Korankye did confirm in an interview that Asante is on track to bring in between $6.5 million to $7 million in revenues during this fiscal year.
Warehousing operations now account for 53 per cent of revenues, with used car exports making up the other 47 per cent even though sales have held steady. Before the latest expansion, used car sales made up as much as 80 per cent of the company’s revenues.
“The biggest upside is that warehousing and support services have a much, much higher profit margin,” says Steele.
“With warehousing, you have fixed costs but there comes a point where you start hitting higher profit margins.”
During the lockdowns, Asante did have to temporarily lay off some employees. All but one has since been rehired. The company turned to the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy program to help cover costs while it was struggling.
Asante also availed itself of the $60,000 in interest-free loans provided to small businesses and non-profits to cover operating costs during the pandemic.
As a majority Black-owned business, Asante was also helped out by the Black Business Initiative. It provided Asante with a $5,000 grant for business consulting services to revamp its website and social media.
With the need to do business online, Asante also undertook a $12,000 project to boost its digital capacity with the help of Nova Scotia Business Inc.’s business development program. The economic development agency covered about half the cost of that project.
Covid-19 did add extra costs to Asante Logistics for public health and safety measures. The company put in place social distancing, hand sanitizing and the wearing of face masks.
But the shift to online meetings also saved the company money.
“Asante has carefully managed other expenses and been aware of decreased expenses in sales travel and trade show related costs,” says Steele.
“We set up virtual meetings and sales pitches … and quite honestly are at times more efficient in the sales process as much as we would prefer more physical face-to-face relationship building opportunities,” he says.
As the company adapted to the new Covid-19 reality, it received valuable advice through the business accelerator program developed by the Cumberland Business Connector and then expanded by the Truro and Colchester Partnership for Economic Prosperity.
In the next few months, Asante Logistics is expecting to clinch a couple of “very significant” deals for space and even manufacturing operations in its new digs.
“We are seriously entertaining the idea of splitting up the space to accommodate a manufacturer who needs to export,” says Steele. “They could use the space to manufacture and we could handle all their warehousing.”
The Asante Logistics exec is keeping his cards close to his chest because talks are still on-going.
But Steele did reveal the manufacturer that may be setting up shop is from outside the province, is in the environmental sector, and would be hiring to produce cutting-edge technology in Truro.
The Pivot is a regular feature about an Atlantic Canadian company adapting to new market realities with innovative products, services or strategies. To suggest a business, email: [email protected].
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mattress girl Dec. 23, 2014
Alleged Columbia Rapist Not Doing Himself Any Favors
By Kat Stoeffel
Photo: James Leynse/Corbis
The Columbia student accused of raping classmate and “Mattress Performance” artist Emma Sulkowicz spoke publicly for the first time in an interview the New York Times published yesterday. Because the university found Paul Nungesser not responsible for sexually assaulting Sulkowicz (and two other students who filed complaints), Nungesser told the Times that Sulkowicz’s performance piece, in which she carries the mattress she was allegedly raped on everywhere, attracting supporters and media, amounts to bullying. He also said that intimate-partner violence — rape within the context of a marriage or relationship, of which he has also been accused and found not responsible — isn’t real. He said:
“Outside of a forced marriage or kidnapping, it just seems very hard to believe that a person would over and over again put themselves in a situation where they could expect this kind of behavior to occur.”
The Revolution Against Campus Sexual Assault
Sympathy for men accused of rape is growing, and accusers and accused agree that campus courts fail them. But it’s harder to sympathize when men accused of rape feel comfortable weighing in on the nature of rape. Best case scenario, Nungesser and his accusers (all of whom he knew socially or romantically) had a very serious, rape-based communication failure. Seems like a good time to listen.
emma sulkowicz
mattress girl
Alleged Columbia Rapist Speaks Out
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Vineland High grads: We're unstoppable
Deborah M. Marko
dmarko@thedailyjournal.com
VINELAND –
While respecting tradition, the 136th Vineland High School graduating class decided it was time to liven things up.
The Class of 2014 accessorized their commencement ceremony with some new personalized features including a grad-cam, a poetry slam and "selfie" of the entire graduating VHS Clan.
"We like to be different, we are electric," said Terrelle Tyson in the baritone voice that will likely serve him well in his goal to be an ESPN sportscaster. "We wanted to be different from any other class."
The 703-member class, with the motto "1 4 all and all 4 1," boasts 271 honor students, the most in the school's history, according to school officials.
This class also graduates 33 students who became the first to have gold seals affixed to their diplomas to reflect they have earned the Seal of Biliteracy, acknowledging they are fluent in at least two languages.
And to let loose, class president Joseph Galan, recounted spending senior spring break in Disney World, reviving the overnight senior trip after a 55-year hiatus.
Before going their separate ways, Galan lead his class in a pledge where they vowed to never accept defeat.
"This game we call life is not over until we win," he recited in a boot camp bellow. "I can, I will, I must; We are unstoppable."
List of Vineland High School graduates
Christopher Atoki graduated in one of his trademark bow ties that he wore to every dress-up school function. The football/track standout said if he could have worn the neck wear on the turf and track, he would have dazzled there, too.
Letting her school spirit go to her head, Priscilla Colon dyed her hair magenta red for graduation.
"It was a last-minute decision, but I wanted something different," she said, echoing the theme of graduation. It may have also helped her family pinpoint her in the bleachers. Usually, her father, Jose Colon, is a quiet man but the graduate was sure she could hear his cheers of support in the standing-room-only crowd.
At 6 feet 5 inches in height, Jamil Demby admitted he was ducking down a bit in the bleachers so the person sitting behind him could see the ceremony unfold. In a few weeks, Demby is off to stand tall at the University of Maine, where he will study and play football.
Most people were concerned about rain interfering with the ceremony, but Brandon Alvarez slipped into the line just in time. He had to finish watching the latest World Cup game.
"Soccer is my life," Alvarez said. Instead of a yearbook, he passed around a soccer ball for his classmates to sign. The goalkeeper had a tryout scheduled with a semi-professional team and one day hopes he, too, might play the beautiful game on the international stage.
Giovanni Dreyer, dubbed the school's poet laureate, performed in his trademark poetry slam-style, offering his classmates the gift of a literary yearbook
Thinking back to the days as freshmen, he said "Who knew that me and this class would write history for this town, it didn't hit me then but it surely hit me now."
Unable to be there in person, Matthew Ferrari took part in graduation via "grad-cam" from Kansas City where he is representing VHS is the SkillsUSA National Leadership Conference. He was visible among his classmates, broadcasted on a large-screen monitor installed in the back row of the bleachers.
Students also commended the teachers who helped them along the way.
Adam Lozano brought a floral bouquets for his teacher, Stacey Monteleone.
"The best teacher in the whole wide world," Lozano said of Monteleone.
And Termaine Scott urged all VHS students to take AP Chemistry with teacher Vicki Volpe. It was his favorite class and will serve him well in his goal of becoming a medical researcher.
Now that he was leaving, he did disclose there was an incident involving a fire in a trash can.
"It was collateral damage" in the pursuit of higher learning, he said.
And even in a challenging economy, Juan Vera proved he was a go-getter, lining up his place in the job force.
"I start July 9th," he said, explaining he's accepted an automotive technician position. The real world might have some benefits over high school.
"I make money," Vera said.
And Gregory Slaughter future is with Air Force.
"I want to move on" he said. "I want to see the world."
School board members and VHS alumni Scott English and Chris Jennings, presented diplomas to their graduating sons, Nick English and Austin Jennings. The latter is the reigning Mr. Vineland.
The Class of 2014 gifted VHS with two modern-style bike racks, one for each building, for students who commute to school. They also presented VHS 11-12 Principal Tom McCann with his own bike they hoped he will put to use next year when he is principal of both buildings.
While the class worked hard for their grand academic achievements, the class valedictorian Liliya Bondarenko made heart-felt plea for her classmates to "treasure the little moments."
"You matter, and you are enough," she told her classmates. "Don't let anyone tell you who you are, or put you in a box and label you. Be an astrophysicist and a model. Be a doctor that writes poetry. Be whoever you want, but don't get so wrapped up in trying to get there that you forget that you here."
Salutatorian Sarah Dietz echoed the sentiment.
"Throughout the years, I have been told that getting a high-paying job and a comfortable lifestyle were the keys to happiness, but honestly, I have found truth in the old saying, "If you do what you love and love what you do, you will never really work a day in your life.
I hope that in the years to come, you do too," she said.
Bryan Cross was moved to hear his name announced at Gittone Stadium when he was called to collect his diploma.
"It sounds like angels crying for joy," he said, adding the tears were there. "I'm going to hold it back."
Kayla Rodriguez, the class vice president, was filling her phone with selfies snapped with classmates and school staff.
How many did she take?
"2014, of course," she said.
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EPA's cleanup plan keep radioactive waste in Newfield
Carly Q. Romalino
Courier-Post
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a $5.3 million plan to excavate and cap contaminated soil at Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corp., a Superfund site in Newfield.
The EPA proposal — an amendment to a 1996 plan for the West Boulevard site — includes a 1- to 2-foot cap on soil in a 1.3-acre portion of the facility to "reduce potential exposure," the EPA announced Friday.
The cleanup measures do not apply to a controversial "slag pile" on site.
The soil, on the eastern part of the site, contains vanadium and chromium and poses "unacceptable risks to human health and ecological receptors," according to EPA documents.
Vanadium has not been classified as a carcinogen by the EPA, but the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has set exposure limits. The EPA determined hexavalent chromium to be a cancer-causing chemical element.
In addition, the plan calls for more than 9,800 cubic yards of sediment contaminated with heavy metals to be removed from the Hudson Branch of the Maurice River, a stream running through Shieldalloy's grounds where the company discharged waste water when it operated from 1955 to the mid-2000s, according to the EPA.
Excavated areas would be backfilled with clean soil. Site conditions would be monitored every five years, and the property's deed would prohibit residential use.
"Based on new information on sampling that's been done, and remedial investigations, we decided we needed to do something more than what we originally contemplated in 1996," according to EPA spokesman Elias Rodriguez.
When the EPA assumed oversight of the site from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in 2010, the federal agency conducted an in-depth investigation of surface water, sediment and soil contamination. The study was used to determine the best way to clean up the contaminated soil, he said.
"We are pleased at the progress that the EPA's proposed plan for soil and sediment remediation represents for the site and the borough of Newfield," said Shieldalloy spokesman Noah Lichtman.
Shieldalloy processed ores and minerals to produce metals and alloys before ceasing operations near 2005, according to the EPA.
Over four decades, federal and state authorities oversaw cleanup measures. In the 1980s, the Department of Environmental Protection required mandatory public water system hookups to "protect people's health," according to the EPA.
With state DEP oversight, Shieldalloy was directed to excavate lagoons, remove 40 buried drums and storage tanks and cap several industrial areas on site.
An 8-acre, four-story-high pile of low-level radioactive waste remains stored on the site without a cap. The "slag" pile, a mix of chromium- and uranium-contaminated debris and dust, has been at the center of a years-long battle among the state, the company and the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
When New Jersey had oversight authority over the cleanup, authorities demanded Shieldalloy pay to move the radioactive waste by rail to a waste holding facility in the Midwest. The company has argued in federal court that shipping costs would bankrupt the company.
"Our top priority remains the site's safety, the safety of our employees and the safety of the residents of Newfield. The safest solution is, and always has been, on-site capping under a suitable protective cover and long-term monitoring," Lichtman said.
The state DEP did not return requests for comment.
Reach Carly Q. Romalino at (856) 486-2476 or cromalino@courierpostonline.com. Follow @CarlyQRomalino on Twitter.
• The EPA will hold a public meeting at 7 p.m. July 9 at Newfield Borough Hall, 18 Catawba Ave. The EPA will accept comments on the plan through July 26. Send written comments to ayala.wanda@epamail.epa.gov
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Fages’ management issue response to League Express story
The management team for St Helens and France half-back Theo Fages have issued a statement in response to an article in Monday’s issue of League Express.
“Theo Fages’ agents, TM Group UK, have expressed their disappointment in the inaccurate facts given by the French Federation to League Express reporter Mike Rylance’s report in this weeks League Express regarding Theo’s refusal to play for the French National Team.
“Our Client, Theo Fages, was contacted a number of weeks before the 26-man squad was announced by the new French head coach Aurelien Cologni to ask if he was available for selection, Theo made him aware in this conversation that he was struggling with his knee injury and would not be likely that he would fit in time. A further 3 conversations had taken place and on each occasion our client advised him he was not fit to take part due to the knee injury he suffered mid-season.
“We were expressly surprised to see Theo included in the 26-man squad despite previously advising the federation that he was injured, both his club and TM Group UK have tried to make contact with Mr Cologni on a number of occasions however, without responding they have issued disciplinary proceedings against our client, for which we will challenge through the appropriate channels should they progress these inappropriate actions.
“We are aware the French Federation have been in contact with both the RFL and the International Committee, however St Helens have submitted the relevant medical reports to all parties concerned.
“We would have expected more from the French Federation, and to communicate with the player, his club or his management agent rather than being childish and sending disciplinary letters out of the blue without any prior communication.
“Our client, Theo Fages, is extremely proud to represent and captain his country and should he have been fit then of course he would have been available to play. As he did last year when most of the squad decided to back out at the last minute.”
The original story appeared in today’s (Monday) issue of League Express.
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HomeGenerationBlue Earth to acquire portfolio of Oregon solar projects
Blue Earth to acquire portfolio of Oregon solar projects
September 24, 2015 Barry Cassell Generation
Blue Earth Inc. (NASDAQ: BBLU) on Sept. 24 announced that BE Solar Inc., its wholly owned subsidiary, entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) to purchase all of the membership interests in six separate Special Purpose Entities, comprising the 57.1 MWp Oregon solar portfolio, from Pacific Northwest Solar LLC (PNS) based in Portland, Oregon.
The membership interests of the six project companies are 100% owned by PNS. Although this transaction is subject to several closing conditions, the initial due diligence has been completed, Blue Earth noted.
“We are delighted to have the opportunity to acquire these projects which, upon closing, is expected to be an excellent complement of domestic projects, as we continue to build our solar pipeline,” said G. Robert Powell, CEO of Blue Earth. “We expect to continue to add quality projects in solar and co-generation as we move forward with our focus on power generation.”
Construction of the projects is scheduled to begin in early in the first quarter of 2016 with an expected commercial operation date late in the third quarter of 2016. The offtaker is Idaho Power.
“We look forward to continuing to be very active in the Northwest,” added Ruben Fontes, President of Blue Earth Solar. “This portfolio represents another important step toward solidifying our presence in this region.”
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Achieving Gender Diversity for Future Generations in Appointments to International Commercial Arbitration Tribunals - A Focus on Scotland
Carmichael Lemaire, Gillian
Article from: TDM 4 (2015), in Dealing with Diversity in International Arbitration
This paper has emerged from my interest in dispute resolution in schools and, in particular, a visit to my former school in Scotland earlier this year, when I was highly impressed to hear about a mock court project in which primary school pupils have won praise from seasoned legal professionals. The school put forward a team of ten year olds to the final of the competition, including two female "counsel". The project prompted me to consider how future generations of women will fare when they move up through the ranks in the world of international commercial arbitration, especially in ...
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In 1984, Vincent Correnti set foot on the corner of Union & Mason and knew it would be where he’d start the Correnti family legacy in North Beach. Over the years, his sons Dirk and Bret, and his sister Ann, were all there to make their family "trattoria" thrive. Thirty-five years later, into the third generation ownership, Trattoria Contadina is luckily still full of all us Correntis.
Most employees work an average of 15 years at Trattoria Contadina. That is simply unheard of in the restaurant business and we feel so blessed to have such a strong team of friends and family. The fact that we have made it this long is a testament to the family atmosphere that has welcomed you for all these years.
Gina & Kevin both feel a great responsibility to keep "The Tratt " going in Kevin's grandfather, Vince Correnti's, honor.
The motto which hangs at the front door states: Lascia i problemi alla porta. Buon appetito.
Translation: Leave your problems at the door. Enjoy your meal.
Third Generation Owners
Gina & Kevin Correnti
Since 1984, the Correnti family has been committed to using organic produce and
sustainably-raised meats and wild fish whenever possible.
Correnti Family History
Vince & Betty Correnti
Vince Correnti- 1940-1990 (sadly died young)
Founder of Trattoria Contadina in 1984.
Wife, Betty, and mother of Dirk and Bret Correnti.
Dirk Correnti
Vince & Betty’s son who successfully owned and ran the restaurant for most of the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000's.
Dirk is no longer involved in the business anymore, but will still come by to give his children and the staff love and praise.
Kevin & Gina Correnti
Kevin Correnti - Dirk’s oldest son literally grew up in the restaurant business. He does not remember a time without our Chefs Juan & JP.
Kevin has always excelled in the creative and culinary arts and finds joy in adding seasonal dishes to CONTADINA'S menu. Kevin holds his Court Master Sommelier Level I and WSET 3, with Distinction, and is on his way to completing his Court of Master Sommelier Level II. WSET 3 is a European equivalent Sommelier program.
Gina Correnti - started in 2000 as a hostess, quickly was promoted to General Manager and worked for many years with Kevin's dad Dirk. In 2004, after completing her degree at San Francisco State, she stayed on at CONTADINA and continued to take on more of the day to day operations.
A few years later, Kevin returned from college in Santa Barbara, and they quickly reconnected and fell love in.
Married in 2011, Kevin and Gina decided to buy CONTADINA when Dirk relocated out of state.
Now, raising two children, Kevin and Gina are at the restaurant nightly, but not together.
"Ships passing in the night"
The trade off of work and parenting is a dream arrangement.
Betty, daughter (named after Kevin’s Grandma).
August (Gus), son.
Vince Correnti
Vince Correnti - Bret’s son (named after grandpa) - Bartender and Host when Gina and Kevin aren’t there. Vince started his career bussing tables at CONTADINA when he was 18. He knew at a young age, the restaurant was his home. Vince was (and still is) so excited
to be working with his family.
He loves bartending & loves living in North Beach.
The week of Vince’s 21st birthday, he moved behind the bar and has been making craft cocktails ever since.
His favorite drinks to make are variations of Negronis.
Vince is proud of his family legacy and cares deeply about preserving it.
There’s always a Correnti in the restaurant, keeping the family tradition alive!
We look forward to meeting you and your family.
Meet the faces behind the magic of Contadina. Our staff is our extended family, and we couldn't do it without them!
JP Juan Paulo Enriquez
From: Zamora, Michoácan, lived in North Beach since the early 1980’s. With the help of Vince Correnti (SR), JP became a US citizen in 1998.
Started: the day we opened 08/25/1984
Favorite dish to make: Pavarotti - The #7. We haven’t had the numbers on the menu since the 80’s, but people who’ve been coming here for years still order The #7.
Contributions to the menu: Pavarotti, Melanzane, Local Red Snapper, Veal Correnti
Family: 1 son, who he’s putting through medical school
Hobbies/interests: fútbol
From: Guadalajara, Mexico
Started: 1987
Favorite dish to make: Carlesimo
Dishes he’s created or perfected: Tiramisu
Family: 11 sisters
Hobbies/Interest: fútbol, team Cruz Azul
Arturo Marquez
From: Jalisco, Mexico
Favorite dish to make: Pavarotti
Family: 4 children, 11 grandchildren
Hobbies/Interest: A’s Baseball
Rocky Castanon
From: San Marcos, Guatemala
Favorite dish to make: Chicken Piccata
Dishes he’s created or perfected: Meatballs & gnocchi
Family: Widowed, 2 sons and 1 daughter
Hobbies/Interest: Basketball, church, listening to his son play the piano
Cesar Castanon
Pantry Chef
Favorite dish to make: Cesare salad
Dishes he’s created or perfected: Bruschetta
Family: 4 kids and 1 grandson
Hobbies/Interest: fútbol, Barcelona
And yes, Rocky and Cesar are brothers!
Joe Balbi
From: North Beach, San Francisco native
Porter is a fancy way of saying dishwasher. And yes, Joe has washed dishes here since 1984.
Hobbies/Interest: Music & Movies. Almost a photographic memory - Joe has the ability to recite what year & where every song was recorded in the 1970’s.
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Zinc is the primary alloying element of 7075 (up to 6.1% zinc, 2.5% magnesium, 1.6% copper). It has a relatively high cost that limits its use. This alloy is also sometimes referred to as aerospace aluminum due to its high strength-to-density ratio and very high corrosion resistance, which makes this material ideal for marine, automotive and aviation applications.
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This alloy contains 0.6% of Mg and 7% of Si. The high percentage of silicon gives good casting characteristics. It has relatively high electrical conductivity, a moderately high melting temperature and fairly high tensile strength. It's often used for aeronautics (wings and armaments), in the automotive industry (bumpers and engine blocks) and marine (hull and accessories). Such aluminum alloys are widely used in engineering structures and components where light weight and corrosion resistance is required. Its composition makes it very suitable for molding, but it's more widely used for 3D printing using DMLS and SLM technology.
Easily machined
High strength-to-density ratio
Good conductor of electricity
Low yield strength
More expensive than some other basic metals
Machining of Aluminum Alloys
In terms of machining materials, aluminum alloys are considered to be the most economical for CNC machining/milling as it takes shorter periods of time in comparison to other metals. Aluminum machined parts are chemical resistant, electrically conductive, malleable, and possess high strength.
3D printing with aluminum
AISi7Mg0.6 and AlSi10Mg0.6 are often used for 3D printing thanks to its weldability and excellent properties. Such 3D prints are rivaled with objects fabricated using traditional manufacturing methods.
Injection molding and die casting
Among the most common methods of aluminum fabricating are die casting and mold casting. Cast aluminum is versatile, corrosion resistant, retains high dimensional stability with thin walls and can be used in almost any industry.
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East Bengal coach Fowler raiding Wigan for striker Joe Garner
by Paul Vegas 2020-11-25 19:10:19.000000
New East Bengal coach Robbie Fowler is raiding Wigan Athletic for striker Joe Garner.
The Daily Mail says Garner is in talks to join Robbie Fowler's East Bengal in India.
The 32-year-old, who is the club's top scorer with seven goals, was left out of Wigan's game against Bristol Rovers on Tuesday.
The forward is closing in on a move to the Indian Super League to team up with the former Liverpool striker.
Garner is out of contract at the end of the season and has asked to be released early.
He signed a 12-month extension days before Wigan were placed into administration last July.
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BusinessTechnologySafetyAutonomous
Ira Boudway and Joshua Brustein | Bloomberg News
January 13, 2020 11:15 AM, EST
Waymo Sees Human Drivers in Autonomous Cars for Foreseeable Future
A Waymo Chrysler Pacifica autonomous vehicle. (Caitlin O'Hara/Bloomberg News via Getty Images)
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Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo took a big step forward last fall when it began ferrying riders around the Phoenix area in robotaxis without human safety drivers. Humans have been behind the wheel for almost all of the 20 million miles of testing the company says it has completed on public roads.
The driverless rides in Arizona don’t mean the end for Waymo’s human operators. Last summer, the company quietly finalized a multiyear contract with Transdev North America, which provides bus drivers, streetcar conductors and other transportation workers to airports and cities. The partnership is an acknowledgment that Waymo will be relying on test drivers for many years to come.
“For the foreseeable future, as we expand and are driving in some of these new areas, it’s critical that we have vehicle operators,” said Rocky Garff, Waymo’s head of operations. “They’re part of the equation that gets us to fully self-driving.”
Rather than supply Waymo with contractors for its driving operations, the deal provides test-driving as a service—a subtle but key distinction. Transdev replaces a handful of staffing companies that have subcontracted drivers to Waymo. Under those previous arrangements, drivers could work for only two years at a time with six-month breaks between stints — a rule meant to shield Waymo from claims that it was their employer. The partnership puts more legal space between the drivers and Waymo, allowing them to stay on indefinitely, as employees of Transdev. The value of the deal in its first year is in the tens of millions of dollars, and could reach nine figures, according to someone with direct knowledge who asked not to be identified discussing private business details.
For the new contract, Waymo required bidders to guarantee they would hire drivers as full-time employees and to articulate a strategy for career development, according to a person familiar with the process.
“We’re working on having a much clearer career path for these operators,” Garff said.
Before Transdev, the goal for many safety drivers was to get hired as a Waymo employee, also known as a “white badge,” before the clock ran out.
“Everyone’s dream is to become a full-time employee through Waymo,” said Morgan, a 26-year-old driver who was provided by the company for an interview and who asked to be identified by only his first name. Morgan started driving for Waymo in the summer of 2018 through Adecco Group AG, a staffing company that supplies about 70,000 temporary workers to hospitals, warehouses, factories and call centers. Until the Transdev deal, Adecco served as Waymo’s chief source of drivers.
Morgan said he’s glad for the change to Transdev. As he approached his one-year anniversary, he had begun looking for other work. “I was definitely excited because I was kind of getting to that not-quite-panic point,” he said. He also said that Adecco oversold the possibility of getting hired by Waymo. “I remember in my interview, they were like, ‘Three people just got hired on full time,’ but they didn’t mention the size of the fleet, the positions they got hired for and what kind of experience they had.”
Adecco, in an email statement, said this does not square with its policies and procedures.
“We are very clear that our roles at Waymo are temporary, not temp-to-hire positions,” the statement said.
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Two former drivers who worked under Adecco told Bloomberg they had also held out hope of direct employment at Waymo. (The drivers spoke under condition of anonymity for fear of hurting future job prospects.) But staff positions were scarce and the competition fierce. The promotion process, according to the former drivers, was opaque. Adecco managers were formally in charge of performance reviews but were rarely around.
“I don’t think I even went to an Adecco office ever, except to turn in my badge and equipment,” one of the drivers said. “It was all Waymo all the time.”
“Feedback from our associate base has been largely positive, and our employee care teams are entirely dedicated to addressing their questions, input or concerns,” Adecco said in its statement.
Transdev’s record as an employer isn’t without its own controversies. It has faced multiple strikes in recent years from unions representing workers in public transportation services it operates in the U.S., including a weeklong strike in Phoenix in 2015, when talks stalled over salary, the company’s approach to benefits and its bathroom break policy. Transdev also faces several open National Labor Relations Board complaints about working conditions.
In a statement provided by Waymo, Transdev North America CEO Yann Leriche said the partnership would create a “high-functioning operating environment focused on safety, quality, employee engagement and a positive customer experience.” A Transdev spokesperson declined to answer additional questions.
Veena Dubal, a law professor at the University of California-Hastings who specializes in gig work and the tech industry, said technology companies want to directly employ as few people as possible in part to avoid liability, a consideration that’s particularly germane in a field such as autonomous vehicles, in which there’s inherent physical risk.
If a self-driving car with a test pilot is involved in an accident, Dubal said, Waymo could argue it hired Transdev specifically for its expertise in test-driving.
“They could just employ everyone, protect them and say, ‘This is the cost of doing business in the autonomous-driving world,’ ” she said. Waymo declined to comment on whether liability concerns were a factor in retaining Transdev.
Despite their complaints about Adecco, the drivers who were interviewed said Waymo test-pilot gigs aren’t bad. “Not only do I get to drive around in a cool car all day,” Morgan said, “I’m doing something that I think is going to change the future. And it’s going to hopefully make roads safer for not only myself, but hopefully for my kids and for everybody else’s kids.”
Under Adecco, pay started at about $20 per hour. Most time was spent as a passenger, being driven around the Phoenix suburbs.
The greatest difficulty of the job, according to multiple former drivers, is staying alert through the dull, repetitive hours of cruising. One took breaks to do jumping jacks, rolled down the windows and turned up the radio to combat drowsiness. “You really go into podcasts,” said another.
Still, the driver said, not everyone stayed alert all the time. “We even had people eat full meals behind the wheel, which is not safe.”
Drivers are keenly aware of the contradiction at the heart of their jobs.
“The whole goal is to work to eliminate your own position, which is a really weird thing to come in every day thinking,” one former driver said.
Withholding the white badge is one of many ways Waymo reminds its drivers that it is looking forward to the day when they are no longer around. Drivers and riders are instructed to keep interactions minimal.
“It was a very awkward experience,” a former driver said. “They’re instructed not to talk to you. They’re supposed to treat it like it’s a completely unmanned vehicle.”
“You could say, ‘hi,’ ” said another. “And then you would be quiet to try to simulate an actual self-driving car.”
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Nine Questions
Brittany Katter
By Kristine Peashock
Brittany Katter moved to Tucson from Eugene, Ore., three years ago and started a band called the Fell City Shouts with Gabriel Sullivan. Today, she works at Café Passé on Fourth Avenue, serving up sandwiches, coffee and high fives; she also sings and shakes it in '60s-esque soul-group Kiss and the Tells, who will play at the Red Room at Grill on Friday, May 13.
What was the first concert you ever saw?
The Rock-n-Roll Soldiers, at WOW Hall in Eugene, Ore.—one of those hotshot local bands that had just gotten signed. They were so loud; I had hallucinatory dreams all night. I flunked my SATs the next morning.
What are you listening to these days?
The Soul Stirrers, Toots and the Maytals, Sharon Jones, Patti Smith, Bobbie Smith and the Dream Girls, and Joy Division.
What was the first album you owned?
Barenaked Ladies, Stunt (the one with "One Week"). I was 10.
What artist, genre or musical trend does everyone seem to love, but you just don't get?
Taylor Swift.
What musical act, current or defunct, would you most like to see perform live?
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Ike and Tina Turner Revue, anytime during 1969-1971.
Musically speaking, what is your favorite guilty pleasure?
Disney and The Lord of the Rings soundtracks.
What song would you like to have played at your funeral?
The Soul Stirrers, "By and By."
What band or artist changed your life, and how?
T. Rex. That music taught me how I wanted to walk down the street.
Figurative gun to your head, what is your favorite album of all time?
Man Man, Six Demon Bag.
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Forget Xbox Series X — cheaper Xbox Series S performance looks great
By Alan Martin 10 October 2020
Developer reveals how his game performs on three different Xbox consoles
We know the theoretical benefits of paying $499 for an Xbox Series X over $299 for an Xbox Series S. Microsoft has been clear that the former is targeting smooth 4K gaming, while the latter has the more modest goal of solid 2K performance.
But how do games actually perform across the systems? And, for that matter, if games support Smart Delivery, how do they perform on Xbox One? As it turns out, the Xbox Series S may deliver the results you need for a very good price.
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Thanks game developer Tomas Sala, we have several interesting data points. The Falconeer’s creator took to Twitter to reveal how the game runs on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and a current-generation Xbox One S.
(Image credit: Tomas Sala/Twitter)
As you can see, the Xbox Series X lives up to its performance promise, providing 60fps gameplay at 4K – or for those with 120Hz television sets, a performance mode offering 120fps at 1800p.
Meanwhile, Xbox Series S provides 1800p gameplay at 60fps, or 120fps if you’re happy to drop to 1080p. Both platforms, thanks to the presence of SSD storage, promise load times of just 13 seconds.
On an Xbox One S, however, you still get 60fps gameplay at 1080p, but load times are more than tripled to 42 seconds.
Sala went into a little more detail on the Unity blog. The Series X version runs as it would on a high-end PC with “all the anti-aliasing” and “all those fancy effects”, but he notes that both the Series S and X offer a “very similar experience.”
This is just one game, of course, but it’s promising to see good performance across the board. Sala is extremely complimentary to both next-generation Xboxes, saying that “there’s really no tradeoff between graphics and performance with this generation.
“One of the big surprises for me is just how powerful the Series S is, it’s such a significant piece of hardware in a small form factor,” he explains. “This is a powerful piece of next-gen hardware.”
Elsewhere, Sala has suggested that the power of next-generation consoles is such that it could change the way people develop games. Developers will potentially no longer be forced to use tricks to create the illusion of living environments. “In most videogames things just stop being alive at a certain distance from the player; if they’re not on-screen they just cease to exist in the simulation, or some simplified simulation would take over,” he told Xbox Wire.
“When you wanted a more complex simulation you would have to spend so much of your time optimising the simulation just to make it perform. I think that’s something the new generation offers – more complex enemies and ecologies filled with creatures and enemies all exhibiting more interesting behaviours. The big advantage I think will be in open-world games, where we can stop using smoke and mirrors to create an illusion for players, and focus on building more simulated worlds.”
We’re unlikely to see the full power of next-generation consoles to begin with – especially with cross-platform games and remakes making up a large chunk of the launch list. But The Falconeer’s promised performance is still an enticing taste of what’s to come in the next five years.
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Published On: Tue, Jul 30th, 2013
Hometown News / Politics / US News | By Robert Herriman
Rand Paul to Chris Christie and Peter King: ‘gimme, gimme, gimme — give me all my Sandy money now’
After taking shots recently from Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and NJ Governor Chris Christie over foreign policy, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul came back with a few words for the northeastern Republicans.
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At a fundraiser, the Associated Press reports that Paul criticized their spending ways, particularly the tens of billions that got in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
“They’re precisely the same people who are unwilling to cut the spending, and their ‘gimme, gimme, gimme — give me all my Sandy money now.
“Those are the people who are bankrupting the government and not letting enough money be left over for national defense,” he added.
Earlier this year, the Congress passed a law providing over $50 billion in “Hurricane Sandy relief”. However, as previously reported, it included tens of billions in pork to include money for Amtrak, FBI salaries and money for roads throughout the country not affected by Sandy.
As one commentor said on a Long Island news source, “Where the hell did the billions go?”
Rep. King called Paul’s comments “indefensible”.
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Press Trust of India·
PM celebrates Diwali with soldiers in Harsil near Indo-China border
Uttarkashi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Harsil near the India-China border in Uttarakhand to celebrate Diwali with Army and ITBP personnel on Wednesday.
Greeting the jawans on the occasion, the Prime Minister said their devotion to duty in the remote icy heights, is enabling the strength of the nation, and securing the future and the dreams of 125 crore Indians, a statement from his office said.
He said that Diwali is the festival of lights, it spreads the light of goodness and dispels fear. He said that the jawans, through their commitment and discipline, are also helping to spread the sense of security and fearlessness among the people.
The Prime Minister recalled that he has been visiting soldiers on Diwali ever since he was the chief minister of Gujarat. He also spoke of his interactions with the jawans of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, years ago when he was part of the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra.
PM Modi said India is taking great strides forward in the defence sector. He spoke of various measures being taken for the welfare of ex-servicemen, including implementation of ‘one rank, one pension’ (OROP). The Prime Minister said that the Indian Armed Forces draw admiration and appreciation across the world, in UN peacekeeping operations.
He offered sweets to the jawans. He also interacted with people from nearby areas who had gathered to greet him on Diwali.
Harshil is a cantonment area situated at a height of 7,860 feet close to the India-China border in Uttarkashi district.
The Prime Minister later reached Kedarnath where he will offer prayers and review the progress of reconstruction projects at Kedarpuri.
Kedarpuri, the township situated close to the Himalayan shrine, had bore the brunt of the catastrophic floods of 2013 which killed thousands of people.
Responding to Diwali greeting from Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday night, Modi had said, “Every year, I visit our border areas and surprise our troops. This year too, will spend Diwali with our brave troops. Spending time with them is special.”
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PlayStation 5 launch in November: 5 Things you should know
By: Abhishek Malhotra, The Mobile Indian , New Delhi Last updated : September 17, 2020 2:07 pm
The PlayStation 5 launch date has been revealed by Sony and the console will be available in November. Here are the top 5 things to know about it.
The PS5 has been officially launched by Sony with the official prices. Here are the top 5 things you should know about it.
The PlayStation 5 runs on an eight-core AMD Zen 2 CPU and features a custom AMD RDNA 2-based GPU, which outputs 10.28 teraflops of power with 36 compute units running at 2.23GHz each The PS5 will have a solid-state drive (SSD) of up to 825GB, and system memory of 16GB. The console will support features like real-time ray tracing. The machine will support 4K graphics at a 120Hz refresh rate, and there is also support for outputting 8K graphics. The system will have 3D tempest audio for better audio visual experience.
There are 2 variants for the PS5, one with an optical drive which will support 4K Blu-Ray discs for games and one will be the Digital-Only variant where you will have to sign in with your PlayStation ID, and then go to PlayStation Store to buy the games from the store because there will be no optical drive.
Sony has also claimed that there will be backward compatibility for games which means you can play PS4 games on your PS5 console.
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The PS5 will be available with a wide range of games, namely, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Devil May Cry 5, Fortnite, Demon’s Souls, Final Fantasy 16, Resident Evil Village, Gran Turismo 7, Deathloop, Horizon Forbidden West, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Returnal, Sackboy A Big Adventure, Demon’s Souls, Destruction AllStars, etc. Hogwarts Legacy, an open-world Harry Potter universe game will be available next year and God Of War: Ragnarok will be available sometime in 2021. Some of the other games included JETT : The Far Shore, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Little Devil Inside, HITMAN 3, Stray, The Pathless, Tribes of Midgar, etc.
The PlayStation 5 with Optical Drive will cost $499 (Approx Rs 36,000) and the Digital-Only variant will cost $399 (Approx Rs 29,000). Indian pricing is yet to be revealed.
The PS5 will launch in the US, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea on November 12. It will be available for the rest of the world starting November 19. Indian availability and price are yet to be announced.
How is it different from Xbox Series X?
The Xbox Series X and Series S pricing was also revealed a while back where the Series X costs Rs 49,990, and Series S costs Rs 34,990 in India
Comparing the on-paper specifications of both the consoles, the Xbox Series X has a CPU with clock speed of 3.8Ghz whereas the PS5 has a clock speed of 3.5Ghz, but this won't impact your gaming experience in any major way.
GPU renders the graphics of the game, and the better the power, the better the game will look. Gaming Processing Unit (GPU) is just a tad bit better on Xbox as it has 12 Teraflops of power with 52 compute units at performing 1.825GHz each. and PS5 gas 10.28 teraflops of power with 36 compute units running at 2.23GHz each.
The PlayStation 5 wins in one department where it pushes data at 5.5GB per second. The Xbox does the same at 2.4GB per second. This means that in the PlayStation 5, the games will load significantly faster.
In the storage department, Xbox wins straightway as it has 1TB of storage whereas the PS5 has 825GB of storage. Both the consoles have 16GB of GDDR6 Memory. Both of them also have cloud storage solutions for your storage needs.
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Why Defunding the Police is an Issue of Democracy and Public Space
Laura Landau, New York
In the first five months of 2020, we have seen enough change, chaos, and uncertainty to last a lifetime. The year began with a world on quite literally on fire, most notably in Australia. The news cycle was quickly upended when the novel coronavirus swept the globe. Now, police violence...
What Nature Is Telling Us…
Chantal van Ham, Brussels
Winter may seem a quiet season when it comes to bird sounds, but when we listen carefully we may hear the starling, one of the most cheerful whistlers in the world. Mozart had a starling for some time and enjoyed the delightful singing of his bird friend, who was able...
Lost and Found: A Companion Essay to the Art Works of Katrine Claassens
Nina-Marie Lister, Toronto
Before / Winter We are celebrating our 3-year friendship. Artist-climate activist and ecologist-designer. We met in Portland (a tip of two floral hats, and a gracious thank you to David and The Nature of Cities), a long way from Toronto and longer still from Cape Town. Our conversations have become...
If You’re Feeling Stressed in These Times of COVID-19, a Picture of Nature Can Be Restorative!
Meredith Dobbie, Victoria
More than half the world’s population now lives in cities, where nature, at the best of times, can seem hard to find and enjoy. The restorative value of nature has long been acknowledged but how can we access it in these strange times of social distancing and isolation as COVID-19...
Native Versus Non-native: Which Plants are Best for Biodiversity?
Lincoln Garland, Bath
When evaluating or seeking to enhance the biodiversity interest of an urban greenspace, a key attribute to consider is its floral composition. Floral composition can be native, non-native or a variable mix of the two. A species is defined as native to a given region or ecosystem if its presence...
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Wild Brook Trout and Lakers of Ritchie Falls
The New Fly Fisher Updated: Apr 25, 2020
Ritchie Falls Resort
by Mark Melnyk, producer and host of The New Fly Fisher show
There is a special time every spring when the stars align and everything works out perfectly for us as anglers—a time when the confluence of natural factors combine to create the perfect scenario for catching fish in unique ways. This happened to Colin McKeown and Bill Spicer this past spring at Ritchie Falls Resort. And it was a week neither of them will ever forget!
Ritchie Falls Resort is a full-service drive-to fishing lodge in Ontario’s Algoma Country. Located just north of Highway 17 at Massey, north west of Sudbury, the resort is smack dab in the middle of numerous lakes and rivers teeming with wild lake trout and wild brook trout. It’s a short four-hour drive from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and 2.5 hours from Sudbury, Ontario, both of which are accessible by air via nearby connecting international airports
After The New Fly Fisher crew arrived and got settled at Ritchie Falls, they anxiously awaited first light to head out in search of big brook trout. However, Mother Nature had different ideas, delivering a cool, cloudy, rainy morning, which was far from ideal for brook trout. But all was not lost, as head guide Jimmy Mitchell informed them that the low light, cool temperatures, and the late spring of the year created a unique fly-fishing opportunity, and suggested that they head out in search of shallow water lake trout.
Because ice-out had been delayed by weeks, suckers were still spawning in the shallows of lower Ritchie Lake, and the lake trout had pursued them into the same shallows, where they were feeding heavily on sucker eggs. This feast of protein is a welcome metabolism boost for lakers before the water warms up and they head comfortably deep again. Casting flies in 4 to 12 feet of water was the ticket, as trout would chase almost anything thrown at them. The crew had a fantastic day until mid-afternoon when the skies cleared and the sun came out, driving the trout back into the dark security of the depths.
The next day, the clear weather held, bright, sunny, and warmer—perfect for brook trout. They drove out to a back lake, but as they were starting to get rigged up, they noticed movement in the water of an extensive gravel flat close to the launch. It was serendipity—Mother Nature had lined things up one more time. For there were thousands of suckers swarming all over the flat performing their spring ritual.
The flat was edged by a 40 foot drop-off, from which brook trout were coming into the shallow flats picking off sucker eggs, much like the lakers of the main lake they’d encountered the previous day. Bill and Colin threw a variety of flies at cruising brook trout often finding success mere feet from the launch. There was a short period of time where the fish would even eat dry flies as well. By the end of the day, Bill and Colin had released dozens of fish in the 2- to 5-pound range, until they were final forced to leave when it got dark.
Equipment used for Ritchie Falls Resort is as follows: #5 and #6 weight fast action 9-foot fly rods with both floating and intermediate lines to match and 3X tapered trout leaders in the 9- to 12-foot range. The most successful flies were a mix of weighted Bunny Streamers and Wooly Buggers in black, olive, and crayfish colours. The top dry flies were Goddard Caddis in tan and brown.
The accommodations at Richie Falls Resort are elegantly rustic with all the amenities you’d ever need. The food is excellent, as well as the overall service experience. The fishing? Incredible, with all the stars lining up to help create a trip to Algoma Country that The New Fly Fisher crew will not forget!
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgKbKTqe6J8
This article was first posted on the Northern Ontario Travel website, January 2020, https://www.northernontario.travel/fishing/
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Our Correspondent
Steps to address climate change issue discussed
LAHORE:To address the issue of climate change beyond 2020 by gathering valuable feedback on targets within the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and to identify opportunities for its successful revision, WWF-Pakistan held a consultative workshop here Thursday.
The aim of the session was to serve as a platform for five sectors, including agriculture, energy, forestry and land use, industries and waste, to share knowledge and experiences on initiatives related to climate change mitigation and create ownership and endorsement for the proposed plans of action.
During his opening remarks, Mohammad Khan Ranjha, Member Production, Planning and Development Department stated that “Climate change resilient practice is a key to sustainable economic growth. A new approach, which looks at Pakistan’s economic system as a whole, including its socio-economic development strategies, is needed to drastically increase climate ambition and meet the resource needs for future generations.”
A detailed description about NDCs that highlighted the significance of engaging stakeholders in the revision process was presented by Nazifa Butt, Senior Manager, Climate and Energy Programme, WWF-Pakistan. She emphasised that national goals cannot be set without the involvement of provincial government departments, academia and the private sector. Dr Qais Aslam, Professor of Economics at a private university, highlighted key economic instruments – such as provision of subsidies, redefining property rights, setting of standards and resource use quotas – that need to be adopted by the government in order to address climate change.
Rafay Alam, environmental lawyer, also moderated a session on the practicality of targets and goals set within the current NDCs. Various government departments highlighted the barriers they face and suggested recommendations for the smooth implementation of climate action plans.
Lastly, Dr Masood Arshad, Senior Director, Water, Food and Climate Programme, WWF-Pakistan closed the event by stating that “Pakistan is currently among the top 10 most vulnerable countries in terms of the impacts of climate change; this has led to extreme weather events and natural disasters such as urban flooding, heat waves, rising sea levels, loss of biodiversity and droughts.
Strengthening the NDCs and devising a foolproof strategy for their implementation will not only set the ground to reduce emissions by 20 percent by the year 2030, but will also allow the country to adapt to the impacts of climate change more effectively, not only on a mass scale, but also on an individual level.”
Based on the outcomes of the workshop, WWF-Pakistan will hold similar sessions in Karachi, Islamabad and Quetta to engage government departments, academia, NGOs and individual consultants. The workshops will help to gather feedback on NDCs with fair representation from all provinces of Pakistan.
poultry units: As many as 90 poultry units were distributed among citizens in all the five tehsils of district Lahore on Thursday. During a poultry distribution ceremony at Civil Veterinary Hospital Harbanspura, Director Livestock Lahore Dr Naeem Kanwar stated that halal meat production & export of livestock products can be enhanced through such projects. Prime minister's programme for backyard poultry is in its implementation phase. The main objective behind this development project is to fulfill protein requirement as well as increasing livestock export potential.
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Tuesday, July 25 2017 11:35
Toy Review: XPV Xtreme Performance R/C Skateboard by JAKKS Pacific
As a big kid that plays with a lot of toys, I tend to see a lot of radio controlled vehicles here in The Toy Testing Facility at Rock Father HQ™. For the most part, it's always the cars and trucks that score the biggest points, with the more unique ones (motorcycles, for example) tending not to live up to expectations, or coming with a learning curve so big that kids lose interest. Sure, they look cool, but I've seen so many R/C vehicles fail to perform as advertised that when the prospect of an R/C skateboard came up, even my wife scoffed at the notion. Now, I'm here to tell you that when it comes to the new XPV Xtreme Performance Skateboard from JAKKS Pacific, there's finally a unique R/C ride that not only works as-promised, but completely blows the expectations right out of the water. Simply put: this thing is badass!
Published in Toys, Games and More...
Sunday, July 23 2017 12:38
Review: Star Wars Hot Wheels Collectors Special Edition Millennium Falcon
When it comes to the rides of a galaxy far, far away, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more legendary vehicle than the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. Indeed, the Millennium Falcon is the most famous example of the Corellian Engineering Company's YT-1300 Light Freighters - albeit a heavily-modified ship that managed to consistently defy the odds under Captain Han Solo and his Wookiee companion, Chewbacca, along with Lando Calrissian and most recently, Rey. To celebrate the legacy of this ship during the 40th Anniversary of Star Wars, the folks at Mattel have issued the Hot Wheels Collectors Millennium Falcon Special Edition - a highly detailed Metal/Metal fully-diecast version of the ship as it appeared in 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Published in Rock Father Rides
Thursday, June 15 2017 11:32
Toy Review: STEM Play with Techno Gears Bionic Bug & Marble Mania Catapult
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) play is hot right now, and looking ahead it's a category that will only continue to grow. For some toys placed in that category of hands-on learning, not all are necessarily "new," but sometimes new spins on some old classics. Marble play is pretty timeless, and I even had a Marbleworks set some 30-40 years ago, one that I believe my mom might still have. Likewise, my wife and I have played with some similar things with our own kids, and one recent offering is the Techno Gears Marble Mania Catapult set, sent to us for review by The Learning Journey, along with their new Techno Gears Bionic Bug.
Toy Review: Cleanin' Up the Town with the PLAYMOBIL Ghostbusters Ecto-1
I never realized it until I was an adult, but if I were to create my own "Rock Father Toy Hall of Fame," PLAYMOBIL would be guaranteed a spot as one of the greatest toy lines of all time. Providing countless hours of imaginative play for kids since 1974, PLAYMOBIL has surprisingly steered clear of the licensing market (with few exceptions, like sports), but for 2017 they've jumped into that realm with Ghostbusters and How to Train Your Dragon - a couple of lines that are both unexpected, and ripe for some fantastic toys. For the former, PLAYMOBIL has created a new collection with cross-generational appeal, bringing Ghostbusters back into toy departments where kids of all ages can strap on their Proton Packs for some serious supernatural fun. PLAYMOBIL recently had their new Ecto-1 action vehicle sent to us for review in The Toy Testing Facility at Rock Father HQ™, and it's everything we'd hoped it would be... and more. Check out the timelapse build and hands-on action in the video below!
Sunday, May 28 2017 18:58
It's a Lie! Unboxing the Star Wars Smuggler's Bounty 40th Anniversary Box
May 25, 2017 marked the official 40th Anniversary of Star Wars, and the folks at Funko marked the occasion by making their latest Smuggler's Bounty Box a themed affair to celebrate the big birthday. Since launching alongside The Force Awakens, each box (shipped on alternating months) has borrowed a theme based on a particular film (like the recent Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), location (Jabba's Palace) or show (Star Wars Rebels). Over the past year and a half, the contents of the boxes has been a bit of a mixed bag, with certain months being fantastic, and others feeling sorta empty. It's unfortunate, but the 40th Anniversary Box hits on the latter note for us, which I will explain. First, check out our unboxing video...
Saturday, May 27 2017 12:22
Super Impulse Keeps Zapping Toys with their Shrink Ray for World's Smallest...
There's some mischief afoot over at Super Impulse. While numerous super villains have tried and failed repeatedly to craft a "Shrink Ray" as part of their nefarious plans, someone over at Super Impulse has created one, and yes - it works. I first featured their line of World's Smallest toys here on the site as part of my annual Holiday Wish Guide in 2016, but apparently the evil geniuses weren't satisfied at simply shrinking the likes of Fisher-Price classics, Rubik's Cubes and Polaroid Instamatic Cameras. Nope, now they've managed to shrink Hasbro's G.I. Joe (the 60's style 12" "Man of Action") and Mattel's Hot Wheels. Now these classics are small enough to be toys for your toys. They were so proud of their shrinking technology that they had to send me one of each just to brag about how awesome they are. I dig it.
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SPORTSMAN CHANNEL PERSONALITIES
Aaron "Shiner" Creger
"Shiner" has always been the dude that brings the party to life. These days, his party usually consists of his 2 (soon to be 3) radical kids and amazing wife.
Aaron Davidson
Raised in Rural Wyoming, Aaron is a classic combination of Wyoming grit and ingenuity.
Aaron Gallagher
Aaron was born and raised in West Virginia's Appalachian mountains, and from a young age became involved in hunting and fishing with his father and also learned to respect and conserve the environment.
Aaron was born and raised in the backwoods of Vermont. This is where his love and passion for the outdoors, hunting and this country were instilled in him through time spent with his grandfather and father.
Adam Raak
Adam Raak is a host of "Humanimal" on Sportsman Channel.
Adam Wells
Professional sportsman, Adam Wells, has dedicated both his career and his passions towards ensuring the longevity of our natural resources and the outdoor sporting traditions that they provide.
Adriana Armstrong
Adriana Armstrong is a host of "Grace, Camo & Lace" on Sportsman Channel.
Aharon Davis
Aharon Davis was raised in the southern coal fields of West Virginia and was introduced to hunting at an early age. Growing up in the coal fields hunting was not just a hobby, it was a way of life.
Al McGlashan
Al McGlashan is a crazy Aussie who takes on everything from crocodiles to bulls. Famous for his fishing exploits Al's new TV series takes you to some of the most amazing places on earth, encountering the biggest and toughest fish on the planet. And when it comes to getting the shot it seems nothing will stop Al ... well almost nothing!
Alan Probst
Haynes joined North American Whitetail in 2015, quickly becoming a significant part of the future of this legacy brand's delivery.
Alexander Nordin
Alexander Nordin is an avid hunter and joined the "Wild Boar Fever" team for the first time in Croatia for Season 9.
Alli Armstrong
Alli Armstrong is a host of "Grace, Camo & Lace" on Sportsman Channel.
Ann Marie Rhodes
Anne-Marie was born in Tennessee and grew up in North Carolina. She has worked in the television world since she was just 15 years old.
Arron Bleise
Arron Bleise is a host of "Humanimal" on Sportsman Channel.
Benny Spies
Benny's passion is to share his love for the outdoors and give the world an honest representation of how the majority of Americans enjoy it.
Bill Dance
Bill Dance is an outdoors legend. For over 36 years, he has delivered fishing advice on television in his humorous, off-beat way.
Bill was born and raised in Columbus, Georgia. In 1983, Bill started Spartan Archery Products in the back of the family boat business.
Blaine "Crash" Garrett
A guitar picking old soul and visionary. A passion for people and challenges. The burning need to be "outside and in it."
Blake Devall
Born and raised in the small town of Felixville, Louisiana, my childhood was spent in the woods. A strong love for the outdoors was placed in my heart at an early age, and I killed my first deer at the age of seven, following with my first turkey a couple years later.
Bob Beck
Bob was born and raised in Oregon and his hunting career originated over 26 years ago.
Brad Miller
Shortly after finishing his college career, Brad joined the US national team in the 1998 FIBA World Championship, winning the Bronze medal.
Brandon Adams
Brandon Adams was raised on a farm, where he could be found juggling the farm responsibilities, playing sports in school and hunting.
Brandon Danker
Brandon Danker is a field producer for "Major League Bowhunter."
Brandon Nelson
Hailing from the central coast of California, Brandon has built a reputation encompassing the nomadic, van- lifestyle.
Brent Clary
Ahhh, where to begin? For starters I love to hunt and just be outdoors. My dad dragged me through the woods when I was young, not even big enough to carry my 4-10, chasing rabbits.
Brian "Pigman" Quaca
A strange name, an unmistakable voice, and an explosive and energetic on-screen personality have created a dramatic fan following as the 'Pig Man' burst onto the scene with a self-confidence capable of revolutionizing outdoor television programming as we know it.
Brian G. Cillessen
Brian is a highly decorated Marine Corps Veteran with multiple combat deployments.
Capt. George Gozdz
George fishes both inshore and offshore out of his Stuart, FL home, but you can find him most days fishing on the Indian River Lagoon and St. Lucie River on Florida's Treasure Coast.
Captain Nathan Chennaux
Captain Nathan Chennaux is a U.S. Coast Guard licensed captain, guide, and writer from Panama City, Florida.
Casey Keefer
Casey Keefer began hunting at an early age, and was addicted from the get-go. With a goal of turning his bowhunting passion into his life's work, he followed the same path as Chris and guided whitetail hunters for several seasons.
Charles Bush
At an early age, Charles Bush has had a love for fishing and the great outdoors as well as being involved in his community.
Charlie Ingram
With over 40 years' experience as a professional angler, Charlie Ingram is a fixture in every bass tournament trail in America. Charlie Ingram is one of the only bass pros to have ever taken a president out fishing.
Chipper Jones, Atlanta Braves All-Star third baseman, is one of the most recognizable and respected names in Major League Baseball.
Chris grew up hunting with his father near Vicksburg, MS where he was born and raised. Chris harvested his first doe at age nine and the rest is history.
Chris Keefer
The elder Keefer brother by four years, he got his start in the hunting industry by working as a whitetail guide.
Chris Ward
Some of Chris Ward's greatest memories as a child were hunting with his dad and grandad in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
Coby Treasure
Coby is great when it comes to spearing fish, but he's a master when it comes to telling a good joke. Coby has been Jon's best friend since childhood, and for as long as he's known him Coby's never been one to hold back in any situation, or say no to a dare.
Cody Keefer
Cody Keefer is a host of "Humanimal" on Sportsman Channel.
Cody Kelley
Cody was born and raised in Louisville, MS. He went on to graduate from Delta State University where he pitched for the Statesmen baseball team for four years.
Cole Barthel
Cole Barthel, 35, from Rayville, LA is a co-owner of Resistance Media LLC, a producer and co-host of "All Things Hunting – ATH."
Corey Brossman
Corey Brossman has wanted to host his own hunting show since he was a young boy growing up in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Cragg Fitz
Cragg, unlike the other members of Trained Assassins, did not 'grow up' hunting.
Craig Boddington
Craig Boddington was born and raised in Kansas, where his early big-game experience, in the mid-1960s, included pronghorn and mule deer in Wyoming, whitetail and mule deer in Kansas, and mule deer in Colorado.
Curt Wells
In a bowhunting career spanning 33 years, across 25 states, 10 Canadian provinces/territories and 6 countries, Curt Wells has pursued 24 species of big game exclusively with a bow and arrow.
Dan Adler is the owner of Diamond Outfitters of Arizona and a U.S. Air Force veteran officer. Dan is also a professional speaker and public figure in the hunting industry and on the topic of the second amendment.
Dan Fitzgerald
Dan Fitzgerald is co-host of "Team Fitzgerald Vintage Country Lifestyle."
Dan Perez
A native of Florida, Dan Perez cut his teeth chasing deer and hogs in the swamps and farmland of the sunshine state. It was his deep passion for land and a desire to chase the biggest deer in the country that brought him to the legendary Pike County, Illinois.
Dan Wallace
Growing up, Dan was surrounded by legends of the Outdoor Industry. His father, Fred Wallace played a pivotal role in the early years of Bowhunter Magazine, and Dan had the privilege of hunting with some of the finest hunters this sport has ever known.
Daniel McVay
Daniel was raised in Weston, West Virginia. He grew up hunting with his father from age 3, and was hunting on his own by age 7.
Danny DeVries
From bass fishing to the backwoods Danny DeVries loves everything about the outdoors.
Dave Fulson
Dave Fulson is a native Texan who has spent his entire professional career dedicated to the hunting, shooting and outdoor lifestyle.
Since his employment began in 1991, David Blanton has been an integral part of Realtree's growth into becoming the leader in camouflage for hunters worldwide.
David Draper
An avid hunter and accomplished writer, David Draper has traveled the globe in search of good stories and good food, yet his roots remain firmly planted in the soil of his family's farm on the High Plains of Nebraska.
David Lindsey
David Lindsey is no stranger to harvesting big bucks on film.
David Morris grew up hunting and fishing in south Alabama. His love for the outdoors led him to get a master's degree in biology from Auburn University. In 1976, David and his partners founded Game & Fish Publications and ultimately grew the company to include 33 state and regional hunting and fishing magazines covering all lower 48 states
Dennis Branton
Graduated from LSU with a degree in Wildlife Management, in 1977. When he was ten years old, two of his uncles brought him deer hunting and his passion for deer hunting was ignited.
Désirée Lantz
Désirée Lantz is a born and bred hunter, clay shooter, and dog handler.
Don Barry Jr.
Don Jr. grew up hunting whitetails on public land with his father and brothers in southern Illinois. His hard work at home in real estate allowed him the lifetime dream of buying his first tract of land in Schuyler County, IL.
Doug Stange
He also hosts "In-Fisherman Television", which offers a unique format that takes viewers to three different parts of North America to fish for three different fish species on each show.
Dr. Gary Schwarz
Convinced he could use the farming knowledge he learned from his father and the research knowledge he learned in school to grow bigger deer on his property, Gary began to seek out the right forages and develop predictable dryland farming techniques in 1983 on the Tecomate Ranch.
Eric Hale
Eric has grown up as a child in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and literally lived outdoors. His family spent a lot of time chasing whitetails and wild turkeys as well as catching big rainbow trout in mountain streams and smallmouth bass in the great New River.
Eric R. Poole
Eric R. Poole is the 14th editor for Guns & Ammo magazine, a position he has held since December 2013.
Fish Fishburne
Fish Fishburne is a 25-year veteran of the outdoor industry as a professional bass fisherman & television host.
Franz-Albrecht Oettingen-Spielberg
Franz-Albrecht, the charismatic host of the series, is well renowned throughout Europe as a highly skilled marksman.
When Fred is not guiding hunters he splits his time between wildlife photography, freelance writing and trapping.
Fred Zink
Ohio native Fred Zink founded Zink Calls in 2001. 'I saw a demand ' a want ' for custom goose and duck calls among both field hunters and competitive callers,' said Zink, himself a nationally recognized goose caller.
Gary Zumwalt
Gary is truly a master of spearfishing. As a kid his dad wouldn't let him get certified until he was able to free-dive to 40 feet, and it's that dedication and raw talent that led him to become the youngest free diving champion at only 18 years old.
Gerard Robinson was introduced to fishing by his uncle and father when he was seven years old.
Greg McHale
Greg McHale is as passionate about hunting as anyone. A mountaineer and adventure racer, his hunts takes place in high places, deep in the heart of the Yukon.
Gregg Hall
Born in Gilliam, Louisiana located in the Red River bottoms of Northwest Louisiana and graduated from LA Tech University in 1974 with a degree in Petroleum Engineering.
Guy Fitzgerald
Guy Fitzgerald is co-host of "Team Fitzgerald Vintage Country Lifestyle."
Hal Gahm
Hal Gahm has been an avid hunter and outdoorsman his entire life. Growing up in Northwest Illinois on a dairy/beef Farm. Hal learned how to work extremely hard at a very young age.
Hal Martin
Originally from North Florida, Hal Martin was introduced to deer hunting in North Florida and quail hunting on plantations in South Georgia by his Uncle Wayne.
Haynes Shelton
J. Scott Rupp
J. Scott Rupp is editor-in-chief of Handguns and Rifle Shooter magazines and has served as executive producer on Handguns and Personal Defense television shows as well as producer/co-host on "Ruger Inside & Out."
Jackie Bushman
A life-long deer hunter, Jackie Bushman saw the opportunity to connect hunters from all over the country, sharing tips techniques and a variety of other resources that would ensure the preservation and promotion of America's time-honored tradition.
Jake Romanack
At 17 Jake became a US Coast Guard approved Charter Captain. As a dedicated angler and promoter, Jake came to work full time at 411 Productions, LLC sharing hosting duties on Fishing 411 TV and also as a project editor/videographer.
James Brion
James has spent two decades building one of the most successful deer and turkey hunting outfits in America, Gobble n Grunt Outfitters.
James C. Reed started hunting when he was just four years old, as a child growing up on the family farm in Iowa.
James Tarr
James Tarr is a former police officer who spent 17 years as
a private investigator in the Detroit area.
Jamie Satterfield
Jamie Satterfield is originally from north Georgia. Jamie is for sure the one that probably doesn't fit in in this crew at first glance.
Jared Peterson
Jared Peterson is the newest host and member of Team Huskemaw. As a Wyoming native Jared is no stranger to the backcountry and enjoys the challenges of big game hunting.
Jarrett Edwards
Jarrett was your typical little boy, loved fishing and being outdoors. Fast forward a few years and Jarrett catches the Colorado state record for largemouth bass.
Jason Bowers
At an early age, Jason discovered a passion for hunting and the outdoor way of life. Jason has been filming outdoor television for ten years now.
Jason Brown is a host of "Humanimal" on Sportsman Channel.
Jason Matzinger
Ever since an early age Jason has possessed an uncommon passion for hunting, a passion that is as alive today as it was all those years ago.
Jay Gregory
Focusing his hunting efforts in the Midwest, Jay loves to chase whitetail bucks but also does some remote western hunts.
Jaylee Danker
Jaylee Danker is a host of "BuckVentures" on Sportsman Channel.
Jeb Burton
NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Jeb Burton is in his first season with JR Motorsports, wheeling the No. 8 State Water Heaters Chevrolet Camaro SS.
Jeff Danker
Jeff is co-owner and manager of BVO Productions. He started BuckVentures in 2003 with the motto 'Shoot by Sight, Walk by Faith' based off of 2 Corinthians 5:7 and has been hosting hunting shows ever since.
Jeff Lindsey
Growing up in the south, Jeff learned early in life that hunting is an important part of his heritage.
Jeff Thomason
Jeff Thomason was born and raised in Northeast Texas, where he developed a love for all types of hunting. He has hunted many types of game, ranging from whitetail deer in Texas to the plains game of Africa.
Jess Hull
Jess Hull was born and raised in Southern Oregon. She is a free-spirited outdoor enthusiast always seeking new adventures.
Jessi Jo Lee Stanfill
Jessi Jo was born and raised in northwest Montana before moving to southern Oregon. An avid athlete in high school, she played varsity volleyball, basketball, track during the week and chased the rodeo lifestyle on the weekends.
Jim Burnworth
Jim was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and has always had a love for the great outdoors. He has hunted and fished his entire life. Jim is happiest when he is hunting the high-country for mule deer or the back-country for elk.
Jim Kinsey
Jim Kinsey has been contributing footage to clients' unique content needs in vision and broadcast production for 21 years.
Jim Ronquest
To Jim or Jimbo as he is called by many, duck hunting is more than shooting ducks; it's the smell of an outboard warming up in the cold pre-dawn and the feel of a trusted shotgun.
Jim Root
Jim is the host of "Reel Bragging Rights" on Sportsman Channel and World Fishing Network.
A San Diego, California native and certified fish and game licensed guide, Jim Sammons is recognized worldwide as a pioneer of big game kayak fishing.
Jim Shockey
Jim calls himself to be an inveterate peregrinator who has traveled for 30 years by dogsled, boat, horse, mule, donkey, plane, ATV, ARGO and by foot around this world.
Host of "Gun Stories," Joe Mantegna is a veteran Hollywood star and shooting enthusiast.
Joey Nania
Joey Nania is the host of "Sweetwater" on Outdoor Channel.
John Mogle
John Mogle is the host of "The Fierce Life" on Sportsman Channel.
John Porter
John Porter is an accomplished marksman and long time outfitter, having professionally guided all over north america John has personally guided over 700 trophy big game hunts.
John Stephens, President and owner of RNT Calls Inc., was born and raised on an Arkansas county rice farm. He grew up hunting ducks and geese.
Jon Brunson
After 15 years of producing outdoor television with 30 national production awards under his belt, Jon has become an icon in the outdoor sports world.
Jonny "Ricky" Wallerich
Jonathan "Jonny" Wallerich aka "Ricky Ripsnort" is a vivacious dude just trying to wheelie his way through life; often challenging the social norms of what it means to be an adult.
Jordan Shipley
Jordan is a former Texas Longhorn two-time all-American wide receiver and third-round draft choice of the Cincinnati Bengals.
Jordan Walsh
At just 25 years old, host Jordan Walsh enters his fifth season of outdoor television production.
Josh & Shasta
Josh and Shasta both attended law school at Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia where they met and graduated with Juris Doctorate degrees.
Jozey Begley
Jozey Jane Begley was born and raised in Southeastern Oklahoma and now resides in Houston, Texas.
Justin Martin of Enterprise, Alabama has lived most of his life from behind a bow. Starting at age 10, Justin fell in love with the sport of archery and continues to have that passion to this day.
Kali Parmley
Kali Parmley is the Managing Editor of "Petersen's HUNTING magazine."
Karl Kalonka
Entering season 18 host Karl Kalonka has taken great pride in providing an informative, entertaining and educational series that captivates audiences around the globe.
Katie Austin
Katie was born in Louisiana, now residing in Nashville, TN. She has been chasing her dream of being a singer/songwriter and has been making a name for herself in Nashville.
Keegan Ziemer
Keegan Ziemer is a host of "Humanimal" on Sportsman Channel.
Keith Burgess
Keith's father began taking him hunting and fishing at a very early age. Keith grew up farming with his family in northeast Louisiana around his hometown of Monticello, Louisiana.
Kenny Davis
"Whitetail Frenzy" host Kenny Davis was born and raised in the coal fields of Southern West Virginia.
Kevin Knighton
Kevin was born and raised in the backwoods of rural Florida, where he still lives today. Taught early on how to hunt deer in the swamps by his dad and family, Kevin learned how to hone his skills for hunting across the country.
Kevin Steele
Kevin Steele is the publisher of Petersen's Hunting magazine and the producer of "Petersen's Hunting Adventures".
Kristy Lee Cook
Kristy Lee Cook is an American country singer who was the seventh place finalist on the seventh season of American Idol.
Kyle Barefield
Kyle Barefield, 34, lives in Monroe, LA and is the Co-owner of Resistance Media LLC and the Executive Producer and Editor of "All Things Hunting-ATH".
Kyle Wieter
While Kyle is an experienced, accomplished bowhunter, his true passion is focused on hunting mature whitetail bucks.
Laramy "SASQUATCH" Miller
Laramy 'Sasquatch' Miller was born and raised in the mountains of southern Colorado. At the height of 6' 7', and a mass of 270 pounds, Laramy is worthy of the nick-name 'Sasquatch.'
Lee Orr
Lee was born and raised in Amarillo, Texas. He grew up with his family in their local cattle feed business, and was raised in the cattle and ranch industry.
Lee Vandenbrink
Lee Vandenbrink is a host of "Humanimal" on Sportsman Channel.
Levi Morgan
World Champion archer Levi Morgan is at the top of his game in the world of archery and he has an undeniable passion for bowhunting.
Logan Burditt
Logan is a fifth generation waterfowl hunter with roots originating from northeast Missouri.
Lou Tuminaro
Lou Tuminaro, a native New Yorker turned Hamilton, Montana transplant, is the owner of The Custom Shop, a family-run firearms sales and restoration business. Tuminaro's dream was always to open the greatest gun shop in the west.
Lucas Hoge
Originally from a town of 44 people in Hubbell, NE, Lucas Hoge is a country artist with Top 30 and Top 40 singles and his last album “Dirty South” went No. 1 on Billboard for Country album sales.
Mark Beck
Mark was born and raised in central IL where his love for land and deer hunting merged. Mark has spent almost 2 decades buying and selling recreational farms for his clients.
Mark Romanack
Outdoor writer turned TV host, Mark Romanack is a veteran outdoorsman with over 3000 magazine articles and 11 different books on freshwater fishing to his credit.
Mary O'Neill Phillips
Mary O'Neill Phillips is an Australian entertainer and outdoors-woman who has worked across a range of dramatic, radio, and lifestyle programs.
Matt Busbice
Matt Busbice is best known for co-founding Wildgame Innovations, appearing on the reality series, “Country Buck$” on A&E and “Wildgame Nation” on Outdoor Channel.
Matt Duff
Matt Duff is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. He grew up in Alligator, Mississippi, along the banks of the Mississippi river.
Matt Morrett
Matt Morrett is co-host of "Avian-X TV".
Born in Magnolia, Arkansas and grew up in Blanchard, Louisiana, He is an avid waterfowler and hunts from Canada to Louisiana.
Melissa Bachman
Melissa Bachman is an accomplished hunter with a unique ability to share her love for the great outdoors and all things wild with her passionate fans and viewers.
Michael Bane defies stereotypes. He has leveraged a career as a journalist, author, professional adventurer and acknowledged expert on firearms into some of the most innovative ' and successful ' shooting sports programming in the world.
Michael Janich
Michael Janich has been an avid student and instructor of self-defense for more than 40 years. He has an extensive background in the Filipino martial arts, pencak silat, judo, aikido, boxing, Savate, and military combatives, and is a co-host of "The Best Defense".
Michael grew up in the woods and on the water of the Flint River in South Georgia.
Michael Waddell
If only one person could be chosen as the face of the modern hunting industry, that person would likely be Michael Waddell. A veritable superstar in the outdoor world, Michael combines his hunting expertise with his easy-going personality, and entertains fans of all ages across the country.
Mike Carney
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Mike Carney cut his bowhunting teeth on burly Buckeye-State whitetails, and he has taken numerous Pope-and-Young-class whitetails across the Midwest.
On the television series, "Long Range Pursuit," Mike Davidson show's his passion for pursuing big game trophies.
Mike Hanback
Mike was born and raised in Virginia and started hunting with his dad when he was 6 years old.
Mike Irvine
From the time he could walk, Mike Irvine could be found in a duck blind near the Mississippi River with his father. The family hunting tradition led the Quincy, Illinois, native to a career in outdoor broadcasting as the host on "Shooting USA's Impossible Shots," where Mike reports the stories of legendary exhibition shooters and showman and welcomes Outdoor Channel's largest audience each week.
Mike Mitchell is the host of "BC Outdoors Sportfishing".
Mike Pelletier
Born and raised running the Northwoods of The Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the hunting and fishing lifestyle has been a way of life for Mike since he was a child.
Mike Seeklander
Mike Seeklander is the current owner of Shooting-Performance LLC, a full-service training company and the American Warrior Society. Mike is also the co-host of "The Best Defense", one of Outdoor Channel's leading firearm instructional show.
Mike Stroff
Mike comes from a family that has been in the hunting industry for more than 40 years.
Miles "Sonar" Burghoff
Miles "Sonar" Burghoff is the host of "Sweetwater" on Sportsman Channel.
Mitch Petrie
Mitch Petrie, our first American hunter, joins the Wild Boar Fever cast for his first driven-boar hunting experience.
Nick Hoffman is an award-winning country music artist whose passion for travel and the outdoors takes him to the world's most interesting places.
Nick Honachefsky
Honachefsky, an IGFA All Tackle World Record Holder, fishes the world's waters, extensively throughout the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico and the US.
Nick Mundt
Nick Mundt grew up in the town of Spearfish, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He got his start in the industry as a guide with Seven J outfitters in northeast Wyoming, guiding for elk, mule deer, whitetails, antelope and turkeys.
Nick Ventura
Nick is a Host of the "Become One" TV series on Sportsman Channel. In addition, is a Co-Owner of Film The Hunt, an outdoor video education company and The Outdoor Media Group, an outdoor video production company.
Niles "Willy" Bailey
A square jaw encapsulated in the undergrowth of what would resemble a southern Iowa bramble patch. Hands that mimic the bark on a scaly-bark hickory. One could argue that Willy was carved from the earth.
Ott DeFoe
Ott DeFoe is a professional angler on the Bassmaster Elite Series and Major League Fishing. From Knoxville, Tennessee, Ott was born with the passion, talent, and drive for catching monster bass.
After more than 25 years in the business, R. Lee Ermey was one of the most successful and talented actors in film and television, having starred or appeared in over sixty feature films.
Ralph & Vicki Cianciarulo
Ralph and Vicki Cianciarulo are 'America's Favorite Hunting Couple,' appearing on the Outdoor Channel for over eighteen years.
Randy Morrison
Randy first worked at a shooting complex and retail facility in North Carolina before joining the outfitting business with Mike's dad.
Ray Brazier
Ray Brazier is a veteran tournament angler with twenty plus years' experience. He gained recognition in the early years as the engineer that could tweak a boat to its fastest speed.
Ray Van Horn
Ray Van Horn is host of "The Gypsy Angler."
Razor Dobbs
The blood that runs through the veins of hunter Razor Dobbs is full of vibrant emotion and intense passion for the dirt, thorns, tusks and antlers that he relentlessly pursues on a daily basis.
Reid "Red" Baker
Reid "Red" Baker is a reserved man who has enjoyed sports and outdoor activities since he was a young man.
Rich Tudor
Rich Tudor is the host of "Saltwater Experience."
Richard Nance
Richard Nance is a full-time, municipal police officer with a Northern California police department. During his nearly 20-year career, Richard has served as a SWAT Team Leader, Firearms Instructor, and Defensive Tactics Instructor in addition to his patrol duties.
Rock Bordelon
Rock has a wealth of knowledge with wildlife from catching frogs, to hunting ducks, squirrel, rabbits and deer.
Roger Raglin
A 2011 inductee into the 'National Outdoor Hall of Fame', Roger is one of the most respected and revered personalities in the outdoor industry.
Ronnie Philips
As 2nd Grader from Marysville, KS, Ronnie was introduced to upland bird and deer hunting by his grandfather, David Curtis Carter.
Rossi Morreale
Rossi Morreale is known for his big personality and unmatched energy! He's hosted over 40 shows on major networks and is a people's person who naturally entertains.
Ryan Gresham
Ryan grew up in a home where shooting, hunting and the outdoors were central to the family. Part of his childhood was spent in Alaska, where he developed his love of the outdoors.
Ryan Wascom
Born and raised in Greensburg, Louisiana and raised to love the outdoors, Ryan Wascom learned the thrill of hunting at a very young age from his father.
Scott Leysath
Scott is a hunter, angler, chef and 'regular guy' outdoorsman who hits the roads less traveled for a glimpse at how his people hunt, fish, gather, trap and snare their catch and, of course, how they cook it.
Scott Walker is co-host of "Into the Blue."
Shawn Stahl
Co-Host and assistant producer of RNT-V, World Goose Calling Champion and RNT Goose Guru, Shawn Stahl has been a pioneer in the Waterfowl Industry for almost 15 years.
Slade Priest
As anyone will tell you I live to hunt. I've been hunting as long as I can remember, and was able to harvest my first deer when I was 6.
Stan Potts
Host Stan Potts needs no introduction. This Illinois native has hunted for over 40 years and has been the center of whitetail hunting productions for nearly as long.
Stephen West
Ever since the moment he could walk, Stephen West has been hooked on exploring the outdoors. Growing up on a ranch in southern Texas, Stephen's dad began taking him on hunting trips from the age of four, and it was this environment that sparked Stephen's attraction to hunting.
Steve Chappell
Steve Chappell is a world class elk guide who specializes in hunting top areas in Arizona and SW Colorado where he takes his clients on fully guided and filmed hunts.
Steve Hornady
Steve Hornady is the President of Hornady Manufacturing, located in Grand Island, Nebraska.
Steve Pennaz
Hall of Fame angler Steve Pennaz is one of the nation's highest regarded multi-species anglers.
Steve Rodger
Steve Rodger is co-host of "Into the Blue".
Steve West is a professional hunting consultant and adventure hunter who has traveled the world in search of the greatest hunting destinations.
Steven Rinella
In MeatEater, author hunter and outdoorsman Steven Rinella will walk on the wild side where cliffs, claws and the culinary art all come crashing together in one nail-biting outdoors adventure.
Terry Denmon
Terry is a professional hunter with over 50 years of experience having grown up in a rural setting in a hunting family, which gave him the opportunity to start at a very early age.
Theresa Tuminaro
Theresa Tuminaro is Lou's wife and business manager. A tough buxom beauty who's always dressed to the occasion, Theresa grew up in the Bronx.
Tim Wells
Tim Wells is a one of a kind bow hunter/fun-loving, wild man seemingly bent on self destruction.
Todd McKinney
Todd McKinney is a co-host of "Backcountry Hunters TV."
Multiple Peabody and Emmy-winning journalist Tom Brokaw served as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004.
Tom Gresham
From his home in southeast Louisiana, Gresham travels the country in search of great shooting and hunting adventures, bringing them to his listeners and viewers.
Tom McMillan
When asked what the most important thing to him is ' with regards to his hunting career, he will reply 'To never lose site of the fact that hunting should be fun, even though it is now a business'.
Tom Petry
Tom is a Host of the "Become One" TV series on Sportsman Channel. In addition, he is a Co-Owner of Film The Hunt, an outdoor video education company and The Outdoor Media Group, an outdoor video production company.
Tom Rowland
Tom Rowland is co-host of "Saltwater Experience".
Tony Makris
Host of the award winning "Under Wild Skies," Tony Makris is a legislative and PR strategist and lifelong outdoorsman.
Trent Cole
Born and raised in Southern Ohio, Trent is the cornerstone of "Blitz TV." As a two-time NFL Pro-bowler known as a run stopper and a relentless pass rusher, his leadership, energy, attitude and passion are nothing short of contagious.
Trevon Stoltzfus
Trevon Stoltzfus, a former collegiate and freestyle wrestler and professional bull rider, was born and raised in southern New Mexico, where he had the privilege of working as an elk, mule deer, and antelope guide.
Willi Schmidt
Willi has been a passionate outdoorsman his entire life.
Woody Sullivan
A North Carolina native, Woody is no stranger to the woods and water of rural NC. From hunting ducks to bears, turkeys and whitetails, Woody has a proven track record of success in the backwoods.
Wyatt Gregory
Wyatt Gregory is Co-host of "The Wild Outdoors" on Sportsman Channel.
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Doctors begging people not to take drugs unproven as pandemic cures while customs officers try to stop pill smuggling
By Jason MillerStaff Reporter
Fri., April 17, 2020timer3 min. read
Anti-malaria drugs untested in Canada as a remedy for COVID-19 are being smuggled into the country as health authorities urge people not to take pills, a border official told the Star.
A senior Canada Border Services Agency employee, who commented anonymously, said chloroquine is being found in packages for which the sender has not declared the medicine on customs forms. It was first detected last month after U.S. President Donald Trump endorsed the drugs as a game changer in the fight against coroanvirus, a view largely disputed by medical experts.
It’s now being detected on a daily basis, particularly in parcels landing at a Toronto area mail-sorting plant, the source said.
“They’re misdescribing the goods, so that they can circumvent (customs),” the source said.
Health Canada confirmed the trend in a statement to the Star saying it had seen an increase in referrals of commercial shipments from CBSA “over the past few weeks” and has refused those that don’t meet legislative or regulatory requirements.
Chloroquine, an older anti-malaria drug, is not available in Canada and has been on back order for years. Hydroxychloroquine, a newer drug that is widely considered safer when used properly, is typically prescribed to patients with conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and malaria.
Both are regulated by Health Canada and require a prescription. Ontario’s medical and pharmacy associations have jointly warned its members against prescribing the drugs as a treatment for COVID-19 until ongoing clinical trials prove them to be effective.
Inquiries to CBSA were forwarded to Health Canada, which did not provide a response by press time.
Linda Dresser, a pharmacotherapy specialist at the University Health Network, says people who act against medical advice may be endangering their health. Trials in Brazil were recently stopped after it caused irregular heartbeat due to the high dosages given to patients.
“These drugs are not benign, they’re not without associated risk or harm,” said Dresser, who is also an assistant professor at University of Toronto. “I’m quite flabbergasted that it’s being smuggled in.”
“You’re putting yourself at unnecessary risk, by self-medicating with an unproven therapy,” she added. “We have no idea what dose to give, how long to give, or when during the course of the infection it might be most useful.”
A group of health professionals in Toronto, including Dresser, have started assembling data and making recommendations via a website designed to share accurate information about drugs linked to COVID-19.
Dresser is particularly concerned about people who are already taking other medications, like anti-diabetic drugs, and those who have underlying chronic conditions, like heart complications.
A few weeks ago, “many of my colleagues were unable to obtain the drug from their wholesale supplier, because there was a short supply,” Dresser said.
There has also been a spike in “prescription requests from people who do not have an approved (condition) for it, looking for it, just in case.”
The situation was so widespread it prompted some organizations, including the Ontario Pharmacists Association, Ontario Medical Association and Ontario Nurses Association, to send letters to their members advising of risk.
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“Hydroxychloroquine has sort of become the bane of our existence, as pharmacists working in the infectious disease world right now, because there is so much misinformation and incomplete information available,” Dresser said.
After Trump’s statements last month, the industry started experiencing significant shortages of hydroxychloroquine, she noted.
There has been a patchwork of hydroxychloroquine regimens proposed by different countries, leading to the confusion. Clinical trials, which Dresser said could take months to complete, have started in Alberta.
Much what’s been found undeclared in packages coming into Ontario, seems to be coming from China, the CBSA souce said.
It’s creating a logistic nightmare for CBSA and Health Canada, at a time when personnel “resources are stretched.”
Jason Miller is a breaking news reporter based in Toronto. Reach him on email: jasonmiller@thestar.ca or follow him on Twitter: @millermotionpic
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Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia
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Anwer December 15, 2015 Asia, Saudi Arabia Capitals, Cities, Saudi Arabia
Riyadh, the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia
Riyadh is the capital city of Saudi Arabia. It is one of the biggest urban communities in the country.In English, Riyadh implies The Gardens, and it is the capital and biggest city in Saudi Arabia. This great city is arranged in the focal point of the Arabian Peninsula. The city has been granted the benefit to have the World Fest in 2012. Inside this civil focus is a territory called the Qasr Al-Hukm. Riyadh is a brilliantly creating city that sits on an expansive level. There is much to do and find in this glorious city.
When you go to this astonishing city, you will encounter the genuine society and excellence that is known as Saudi Arabia. It covers a metropolitan range of 1825 square kilometers, a large portion of which is devoted to tall high rises, remote government offices and urbanized buildings.Saudi’s capital has a huge populace of more than 5 million people, occupied with various occupations. It is an imperative business and organization focus, being the capital of Riyadh Province and home to numerous worldwide offices.
A place where there is cutting edge structures and authentic structures, Riyadh has an adjusted way of life. A portion of the most seasoned compositional artful culminations reflect splendid Arabic work of art, authorized by lords and rulers.Al Masmak château and King Abdulaziz’s Murabba‘ royal residence are great case of vernacular Arabian architecture.The cutting edge way of life has changed the city into a noteworthy strip mall with various shopping centers.
Scene Mall, Sahara Mall and Salam Mall are quite often swarmed by city tenants, shopping from a scope of top of the line brands. The historical backdrop of Riyadh, nonetheless, is still held in its exhibition halls and displays, that shape the city’s attractions. Ruler Abdul Aziz Historical Center is the National Museum of Saudi Arabia, holding a portion of the wealthiest antiques consolidated with hundreds of years of aesthetic knowledge.Another must find in Riyadh is the Al Faisaliyah Center.
One of the primary things you will see is a glass globe that sits on this staggering building. There are a lot of garments shops all through this shopping center with perfectly created customs attire. The Center is composed and all around planned with the goal that you can discover all that you are searching for rapidly. It additionally has a mind blowing tower campaign that has a tendency to have exercises going on.
Adjacent, you will discover rich inns with a plenty of eateries that will suit everybody’s taste.Best of all is the breathtaking nightfall perspective of Riyadh. The Masmak Citadel is one of the most seasoned parts of Riyadh. This magnificent post has been wonderfully reestablished with valid development materials. The fortification is a flawless case of Nejd engineering and encompassing zone offers unfathomable remains of the old city. This is additionally a spot with local people come to you purchase conventional products.
It recounts the account of her life used to be in Riyadh and how life was changed into what it is presently. Atmosphere of Riyadh is consistently hot and smoldering with temperatures ascending to even 50 degree celsius amongst May and September. November to March is similarly less more sweltering with little precipitation. Light cotton garments are agreeable to go in and beat the warmth. December and January are the greatest months to visit.
As home to more than five million people, the city is arranged on an extensive level and separated into 15 unmistakable metropolitan regions. The leader of Riyadh, Abdul Aziz ibn Ayyaf Al Migrin was selected in 1998 and deals with the Riyadh Municipality. The Riyadh Development Authority likewise has much control over the city, which is controlled by Prince Salman container Abdulaziz, the Governor of the province.
The visitors will just discover pieces of the common winding roads and conventional houses with the exteriors confronting the patio, a sustained royal residence and bazaars. Al-Bata is the best known locale of Riyadh, which contains for all intents and purposes all the memorable structures of the city, a transport station and a mail station, which are encompassed by the various cafés and bistros.
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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Just Launched A Beauty Site
By Jenna Marotta 29 May 2018
She’s worn everything from Victoria’s Secret Angel wings to a Met Gala halo, but it’s the hours before she hits the red carpet or runway that most excite Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. “My favourite time, from my working days, was spent in hair and make-up,” says the cover girl of nearly a dozen international editions of Vogue and occasional actress, last seen in the blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road. “You can ask any make-up artist: I’m fascinated with everything, I’m trying everything, I’m smelling everything, I’m stealing everything,” she continues, swiping invisible lotions and lipsticks off a table at West Hollywood’s Soho House.
Today, the 31-year-old embarks on a new chapter as entrepreneur and editor, with the forthcoming debut of Rose Inc., her beauty site which went live on Monday after more than a year in the making. “Towards the very end of my pregnancy, I had this urge to be really creative,” says Huntington-Whiteley, who welcomed son Jack Oscar with fiancé Jason Statham just over 11 months ago. Assembling mood boards helped translate that passion - and her detail-oriented ways - into a clear, approachable yet polished vision: “I’m obsessed with fonts, layouts, colour; I get obsessed right down to the grain of how an image looks.”
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The result is a glossy version of Huntington-Whiteley’s personal notebook, she says; a modern, pink-accented platform full of on-sale products and expertise gathered from a career spent working with the world’s top models, designers, photographers, stylists, and make-up artists for the past 15 or so years. “In many ways, I feel like my whole career has led up to this point,” she says, singling out celebrity brands like Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty and Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop as inspirations. Like those predecessors, which combine industry-insider product curation with the kind of word-of-mouth beauty advice passed on from friend to friend, “I want the [Rose Inc.] content to feel inclusive and positive - [because] that’s the only way I like to work.”
Expect recurring columns like the instructional Beauty Notes, such as a guide to supermodel skin, and The Spill, a peek inside fashion power players’ handbags - “I will never, ever tire of seeing what women carry in their handbags,” says Huntington-Whiteley, who, on this particular day, is touting around a translucent Tom Ford lip balm and a peachy matt lipstick by Glossier in her Balenciaga duffle.
There are also insider Q and As with catwalkers such as 33-year-old swimsuit model Jessica Gomes and creatives like Grasie Mercedes, a Dominican-American actress and writer who reps a lifestyle site of her own, and plenty of skin-regimen game changers - first up, says Huntington-Whiteley, is Mario Badescu Drying Lotion (“Because it’s truly earned its status as a legend”) and Caudalie Beauty Elixir (“I never want to run out”). For those looking to hone in on the perfect combination of rituals and make-up-bag staples to carry them through the day, friends of Huntington-Whiteley’s like Kate Bosworth and Poppy Delevingne throw open their bathroom doors and break down their daily routines. In their easy recommendations, you’ll find not only a bird’s eye view of make-up, skin, and haircare rituals but also book and binge-watching recommendations.
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Looking radiant with her hair swept off her face - which, today, is made up with RMS Beauty highlighter and her own Rosie for Autograph lip and cheek stain, both of which will be featured on site along with her other favorite products (Giorgio Armani Beauty Maestro Fusion Makeup, Octinoxate Sunscreen, Living Proof Full Dry Volume Blast, Le Labo Thé Noir 29 Liquid Balm) - Huntington-Whiteley’s famously striking features begin to soften when she’s asked about the moniker for her soon-to-be website. Why Rose Inc. and not Rosie Inc.? After giving birth, her mother Fiona “couldn’t come up with any name,” she explains with a smile. “The midwife walked past my cot and said, ‘Oh, what a bonny baby. And her lips are so red - they’re so pouty and red they look like a rosebud.’” And they still do.
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How the ego pretends to solve problems
By Paul West
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The ego makes a problem seem real, gets intense about it, magnifies it, and then tries to do something about it.
The ego can put on a mask of being a 'problem solver' or 'fixer' or 'doer' or 'seeker', claiming that it is innocently trying to solve the problem.
But the ego has made the problem in the first place. And for it to then turn around and claim to be working on solving it, is a complete farce.
The ego cannot, and does not really want to, solve the problems it has created. But it loves to SEEM like it is doing so.
It loves to think it not only has the purpose and innocent function of being the fixer and solver and savior in the situation, but that it actually is capable of finding the perfect answer, which is always elusive.
As the ego works on its solution to a problem, it really compounds the problem. So this is the ego's version of healing. The ego seeks to heal the problems it has made real.
It wants them to go away, while secretly sustaining and reinforcing them. And therefore the ego's form of healing is in fact an ATTACK, which damages and makes the problem worse.
The ego's mantra is that salvation can be achieved through attack.
Responding to an illusory problem that doesn't even really exist and can't be happening in God's Kingdom, means you are deceived and deluded.
True Forgiveness is needed.
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Marsigli, L F Comte De Marsilli, L Graave Van"
Natuurkundige Beschryving der Zeeen."
's Gravenhage, De Compagnie, 1786. Folio (41.6 x 26.0 cm). Half-title, a nice hand-coloured engraved allegorical frontispiece, title page with woodcut vignette. [ii], xxvi, 216 pp.; seven mostly folded engravings, five hand-coloured engraved maps and profiles, and 40 beautifully hand-coloured engraved plates (for a total of 52 plates and maps), woodcut endpieces and capitals. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spine with six raised bands, compartments with gilt floral vignettes and burgundy morocco label with gilt title. Very rare contemporary hand-coloured copy of the Dutch translation of the earliest treatise on oceanography, written by Luigi Fernando Marsigli (1658-1730) and first published in 1724. All plates depict parts of the Mediterranean coast, and various sea life. Koeman (Atlantes Neerlandici p. 274) states that he also published the first sea maps/charts with hydrographical surveying and was the first to draw depth-lines on sea charts. The quadruple view on plate Iv is in fact a very early geological profile and would be hard to understand if not for the accurate colouring. The preface for this edition is by the famous Dutch naturalist and physician Herman Boerhaave, who added a preface in French and Latin. This book is divided into four parts. An anticipated fifth part about fish and insects was never published. The first part discusses oceans and lakes, the second deals with water and its changes through temperature and wind, the third covers ocean streams and movements of water and the fourth discusses marine flora and fauna, especially corals. Mars … [Click Below for Full Description]
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A klasszikus harmóniarend. Összhangzattani példák a barokk és a bécsi klasszikus zeneirodalomból. I. Hármas- és négyeshangzatok (II. Alteráció és figuráció.) [The System of Classical Harmony. Collection of Examples of the Baroque- and the First Viennese School-Harmony. I. Triads and Tetrads. (II. Alteration and Figuration.)]
Budapest: Zeneműkiadó Vállalat, 1956. Only edition. Printed in only 2100 copies. Tanning due to ageing. In original paper. In two volumes. Doodle in ink to inside of front wrapper by former owner. Otherwise in fine condition.. Only edition. Printed in only 2100 copies. Tanning due to ageing. In original paper. In two volumes. 61, (3); 78, (2) p. Ligeti's theoretical writings are important to understand his thoughts about composition, and also to interpret his pieces. As in the 1950s he was not allowed to publish any theoretical books, his first work a reference book, "Klasszikus összhangzattan" (Classical Harmony, 1954) and this two volume supplement book of examples are rather important to trace his ideas of composing. For instance the last example that Ligeti uses in the reference book, that appears also as the last example in the second volume of this work (the detail of the first movement of the coda of Beethoven's Les Adieux sonata - Piano Sonata No. 26., Op. 81a), is the same melody that appears 30 years later in Ligeti's work Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano (Hommage à Brahms) in 1982. György Ligeti (1923-2006) was a Hungarian (Transylvanian) born composer. Studied at the Music Academy of Cluj and Budapest. After his graduation he started to collect folk music in Romania and taught composing and counterpointing at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He left Hungary after the revolution in 1956, and started to work at the radio station in Cologne where he made acquaintance with Karlheinz Stockhausen who had a major influence on his art. In 1959 settled down … [Click Below for Full Description]
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Here are 10 places you should Instagram in Columbia
We checked out the photos posted around Columbia to find out what people are Instagramming the most, and there are definitely some favorite spots! Take a look at our list of ‘must-Instagram’ places in CoMo:
Duh, right? Mizzou’s opens in a new windowiconic Columns are the 2nd most photographed spot in Missouri – so obviously it’s a can’t-miss for any Instagrammer visiting CoMo.
City Hall is a beautiful building but to make it even more Insta-worthy, there’s this unique opens in a new windowKeys to the City sculpture in front commemorating Columbia’s history.
CoMo trails
We have 60+ miles of trails, and the MKT has even been voted the 2nd opens in a new windowbest urban trail in the nation. Lucky for us we also have a great Parks and Recreation department to keep the trails in good shape and looking beautiful.
While not exactly a ‘place,’ Columbia is home to so many awesome opens in a new windowfestivals like Roots N Blues N BBQ, opens in a new windowTrue/False Film Fest, Art in the Park, Citizen Jane Film Fest, the Heritage Festival, Unbound Book Festival, and more.
Capen Park
opens in a new windowCapen Park provides picture-perfect views from the bluffs, and who doesn’t want to Instagram fall colors, a bluff-top sunrise, or cute pups on a hike? (We know there are daredevils out there but we do not recommend getting close to the edge.)
The tower of Memorial Union was completed in 1926 as a tribute to students who lost their lives in World War I. One of opens in a new windowMizzou’s many traditions involves always tipping your hat and whispering when walking underneath the tower to honor the fallen soldiers. The tower is popular on Instagram because of the gorgeous architecture (and it reminds Harry Potter fans of Hogwarts, so there’s that, too).
Columbia’s Skyline
From parking garages, The Roof, hot air balloons… you name it, photos of Columbia from above are another ‘must-have’ for Instagram.
Rock Bridge Memorial State Park
opens in a new windowRock Bridge is kind of like our hidden secret: not many visitors know about the caves, natural rock bridge, sinkholes, and everything else that can be found in the park. There are eight major trails for you to explore – but definitely check out the plank trail that takes you to Connor’s Cave (Devil’s Ice Box is currently closed to protect the bats) and by the rock bridge for great photo opportunities.
Food from Local Restaurants
Nachos from opens in a new windowAddison’s, ice cream from opens in a new windowSparky’s, opens in a new windowHarold’s Doughnuts, Shakespeare’s Pizza, etc. We have so many opens in a new windowdelicious restaurants – foodies (and Instagrammers) rejoice!
Columbia is full of random art – opens in a new windowtraffic box art, wall murals, opens in a new windowstorm drain paintings, sculptures, and more. Learn more about our public art and how to take a self-guided public art tour from the opens in a new windowOffice of Cultural Affairs.
Honorable mention: The Big Tree
opens in a new windowThe Big Tree is just south of Columbia off of Route K, and is worth the short drive or bike ride. If you have never seen it, you’re probably thinking, “what’s the big deal about a tree?” We think the photos speak for themselves, but if you want stats: this tree is the largest bur oak tree in Missouri, and is around 350 years old, 90 feet tall, and has a circumference of 287 inches. It has survived floods, lightning strikes, and the occasional vandalism, and locals and visitors love stopping by The Big Tree for picnics and photos. Just trust us on this one.
What do you think? Did we include everything or did we miss something? Tag us on opens in a new windowInstagram and use #ShowMeCoMo!
6 Unexpected Activities to Discover in Columbia Parks
Parks are probably best known for playgrounds, walking trails, and ball fields and courts. Next time you’re in Columbia, be sure to check out some of the more unexpected activities you can enjoy in one of the opens in a new windowcity’s beautiful parks.
TOSS A DISC
Looking for an alternative to just throwing a disc back and forth? Check out opens in a new windowAlbert-Oakland Park and try your hand at one of two disc golf courses. Set among beautiful ponds, trees and creek beds, these challenging courses are not your average walk in the park.
Columbia may not be anywhere near an ocean but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a great swimming beach. Head to opens in a new windowStephens Lake Park to cool off with your family – the beach has no lifeguard so stick to the Spraygrounds if you’re worried about the little ones.
CATCH A FISH
Nine spots in Columbia are perfect for taking your fishing pole and spending a quiet afternoon trying to reel in a big one. Check out the full list of opens in a new windowpark fishing lakes and pick your perfect spot. Many lakes are stocked by the Missouri Department of Conservation.
GET ON A ROLL
Have a daredevil or two in your family? Check out the opens in a new windowColumbia Skate Park in Cosmo Park. Completed in 1999, the park has an elaborate street course designed to entertain and challenge skaters, whether they are beginners or experienced. The Skate Park is free to use and is open 6:00 a.m. until dusk each day, attracting skaters from across the country, even hosting a demonstration from world famous Tony Hawk.
You might be surprised to find the bluffs and scenic overlooks of opens in a new windowCapen Park hidden right in the middle of town. Rock climbers and hikers will appreciate the rewarding views.
BOND WITH YOUR PUP
Columbia has three fenced opens in a new windowdog parks and two leash-free areas – perfect for letting your fur-kids run free and make new friends. Check out opens in a new windowTwin Lakes Recreation Area, which has three separate fenced-in dog parks – one for the winter (to keep dogs safe from falling through ice), one for small dogs only (no taller than 18 inches at the shoulder), and Lakeside Dog Park, which can be used by all dogs and has access to the lake.
If you’re looking for something off the beaten path, Columbia is exactly What You Unexpect. And if the beaten path is what you’re looking for, we have some of those, too. Find out more about CoMo’s trails.
Outdoor Fun in Columbia
Spring is arriving, and that means more time in the great outdoors! Check out a few of our favorite parks and trails below, and find out what you shouldn’t miss out on.
MKT Trail
What to do: The MKT Trail is a CoMo favorite. Walk, run, bike – even work out at the fitness stations located at the Stadium and Forum trailheads. The trail stretches for 8.9 miles from Flat Branch Park in downtown Columbia until it reaches the Katy Trail near McBaine
Don’t miss the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial at Battle Garden, located at the Stadium trailhead. The structure includes eight columns, each of which holds an excerpt from King’s writings.
Cosmo Park
What to do: Cosmo Park has something for everyone – trails, soccer and football fields, tennis and volleyball courts, a skate park, an off-leash area for dogs, playgrounds, a mountain bike trail, and more. Pack a lunch and take a break in one of the park’s nine shelters.
Don’t miss the newly-renovated Steinberg Playground, which includes an updated version of a beloved past favorite, the rocket ship, along with dinosaur features, a tire climbing area, slides, swings, and other play structures. The playground is the largest in Columbia’s park system and will keep the kids entertained for hours.
What to do: You can hike, bike, and even horseback ride (Gans Creek Trail) through Rock Bridge Memorial State Park’s 20+ miles of trails. With so many trails, you’re certain to find one suited to your level of adventure.
Don’t miss the park’s natural karst features. While Devil’s Icebox cave is currently closed to protect the bats that inhabit it, you can explore Connor’s Cave from May through September. Be sure to check out the natural rock bridge that gave the park its name.
Twin Lakes Recreation Area
What to do: Twin Lakes Recreation Area can be used for non-motorized boating, fishing, and jogging, and includes a playground and shelter area. In the summer months, take the kiddos to Little Mates Cove swim area to cool off.
Don’t miss the off-leash dog parks – Lakeside Dog Park for dogs of all sizes and Paws Pond Dog Park for small dogs. Your pooch will love making new friends and swimming in the lake.
Finger Lakes State Park
What to do: Activities at Finger Lakes State Park include hiking, mountain biking, fishing, boating, and camping. Finger Lakes is one of only two ATV parks in the state park system – you can use the 5.25 mile trail or explore the 900 acres of open riding area designated for ATVs. The park offers both basic and electric campsites, and showers are available April-October. Also available to park users are a swimming beach and boat ramp.
Don’t miss the 4.5 mile water trail on Peabody Lake. Canoes and kayaks are available for rent from the park office March 15 – November 15.
Get out there and enjoy CoMo’s awesome opens in a new windowparks and trails.
Happy Friday! Today we’re introducing a new weekly blog post called Friday Favorites, which will just be a collection of a local’s favorite places/things around town. Starting it off will be CVB marketing coordinator, Rachel (me!), so check out my favorites below:
Favorite Pizza: G&D Pizzaria
Not only is this my favorite pizza, it’s also my favorite restaurant. My mom has been going since she was in high school so I guess I was just born to love G&D. They offer DELICIOUS pizza, steaks, Greek specialties, and more. I’ve been told they even have a gluten-free pizza option! G&D is a local favorite, and I hope that you’ll stop by if you’ve never been! (Mizzou football head coach, Gary Pinkel, is constantly spotted there, too!)
Favorite Columbia trail: Forum Nature Area
It’s not as popular as trails like the MKT or Hinkson Creek, and that’s partly why I love the trail at Forum Nature Area. And nature area it is – I constantly spot wildlife when I’m there. I’ve had turtles and rabbits cross my path, deer watch me as I struggle to run and then give up to walk, ducks and geese and even swans hang out on the lake… The MKT also has a trail head here so maybe that’s why it is overlooked. There are no bicycles allowed but I’ve seen many a dog on a leash, and it’s the perfect place for a long walk.
2701 Forum Blvd.
Favorite Columbia gift: Chocolates from The Candy Factory
I received these truffles for Christmas, and they really must have known who they were dealing with because I LOVE chocolate. The Candy Factory always has the coolest gifts, including unique gift baskets, sugar free chocolate, and chocolate-covered potato chips.
701 Cherry St.
Favorite place for family fun: Going Bonkers
My niece and nephew (and every other kid) love this place, and I love it because I get to climb around with them. Adults love giant play-places, too! There’s also arcade games, food, and a quiet room for the parents to watch their kids from. It’s the perfect place for a rainy day!
3812 Buttonwood Dr.
Favorite local team: Mizzou Tigers football team
I grew up tailgating and going to the Mizzou football games, and of COURSE I chose the University of Missouri after graduating from high school. There’s something about the sea of black and gold that just fills my heart with pride, and I always love the Tigers, win or lose! People from all over the country flock to Columbia for game days, especially after joining the SEC. I actually love talking to visitors who are here to cheer for the opposing team (and not just because it’s part of my job!). It’s great seeing how much people love Columbia whether their team wins or loses, and I hope that my fellow locals feel the same way!
Favorite diner: 63 Diner
Another favorite from my childhood, and sometimes (okay, most of the time) I even order my childhood meal: grilled cheese with fries and a chocolate milkshake. The whole diner is covered floor to ceiling with typical 50’s decor, including a statue of Elvis. Oldies play over the speakers and the servers wear poodle skirts. What’s better than that?
5801 Hwy 763 N
Favorite park: Rock Bridge Memorial State Park
(Photo courtesy of Missouri Division of Tourism)
I’ve been making trips to Rock Bridge for years and never get sick of it, although I do miss not getting tired from all the steps on the Devil’s Icebox trail. I’m constantly taking pictures of wildlife or unique flowers, and I love exploring all the trails. I’ve never met a person who doesn’t think Connor’s Cave is awesome! If you would like to have a guided tour of Devil’s Icebox, just give them a call to set it up. Definitely a highly recommended place to see in Columbia.
5901 S. Hwy 163
Favorite dessert in The District: yogoluv
All I really have to say about yogoluv is that it never disappoints. Fill your cup with one of many flavors and cover it with your choice of toppings – fruit, syrups, candy and cookies, etc. I could lie and say I go for the healthy choice and get fruit but let’s be honest: I head straight to the cookie dough, Oreos, and Butterfingers. Prices depend on the weight of your masterpiece, so I sometimes I have force myself to go easy on the toppings.
201 S. 9th St.
Favorite season in Columbia: Autumn/Fall
(Photo of Flat Branch Park)
Some people may not realize it but Missouri has great scenery, and I’d have to say it’s best in the fall. Fall also means Mizzou football, beautiful weather (well, for the most part, it is Missouri after all), and great Columbia festivals. It’s the perfect time to check out some of our beautiful parks and trails or enjoy the patio of your favorite restaurant.
What do you think? Let us know if you check out any of my favorites, and keep your eye out for a new “Friday Favorites” next week!
Not Your Average Afternoon – Fun Activities in Columbia Parks
Parks are probably best known for playgrounds, walking trails and opportunities to frolic. Next time you’re in Columbia, be sure to check out some of the more unexpected activities you can enjoy in one of the city’s beautiful parks.
Beautiful Disc Golf course in Albert-Oakland Park
Looking for an alternative to just throwing a disc back and forth? Check out Albert-Oakland Park and try your hand at one of two disc golf courses! Set among beautiful ponds, trees and creek beds, these challenging courses are not your average walk in the park. Try your hand at this growing sport and you may leave Columbia with a new favorite hobby!
Fishing is one of the many activities for the whole family at Stephens Lake Park.
Nine spots in Columbia are perfect for taking your fishing pole and spending a quiet afternoon trying to reel in a big one. Check out the full list of opens in a new windowpark fishing lakes and pick your perfect spot. Many lakes are stocked to make your fishing time even more exciting! There’s nothing like a relaxing few hours enjoying your time in Columbia with family.
Catch some air at Cosmo.
If you’re looking for something off the beaten path, Columbia is exactly What You Unexpect. We’ll see you at the park!
Get Outside! Our Tremendous Trails
One of Missouri’s most popular features is the Katy Trail, a statewide trail that connects west to east, with a short spur called the MKT that lands you right in downtown Columbia. Once you’re here, there are so many other trails to explore it’s tough to know where to start! Here are a few options sure to be a hit.
opens in a new windowBear Creek Trail
With multiple access points, Bear Creek Trail winds nearly five miles through northern Columbia and connects two of the city’s most popular parks, Cosmo and Albert-Oakland. The trail is crushed limestone and runs through wooded areas, wetlands, open spaces and residential neighborhoods. The trail also follows the general direction of its namesake water system, Bear Creek.
opens in a new windowRhett’s Run
Have mountain biking on your mind? Head to Rhett’s Run. This 2.4 mile dirt run is a challenging one and was designed by Brian Stickel and John Bailey of Mountain Designs, key course designers for the 1996 Olympic mountain bike courses. The trail originates in Cosmo Park and runs through 75 acres of beautiful wooded area.
opens in a new windowCounty House Trail
County House Trail is a two-mile long trail in the southwest area of the city that extends from Stadium Blvd. at College Park Drive to the MKT Trail at Twin Lakes Recreation Area. It is an 8-foot-wide concrete trail with a gravel side path between Stadium and the Twin Lakes Recreation Area entrance. Once inside Twin Lakes Recreation Area, the trail routes through the parking lot and around the lake where it connects to the the MKT Trail on the southeast corner of the park.
These are just three options of dozens here in Columbia. Check out the list of community and neighborhood trails and pick one to explore every time you visit Columbia!
No Shortage of Family Fun in Columbia
Looking for some activities the whole family can enjoy while you’re visiting Columbia this summer? Of course you are! Fortunately, summer in Columbia means hot weather and cool activities for kids of all ages. Here are a couple of summer favorites that heat up Columbia summers.
The Family Fun Fests!
Kids of all ages love the Family Fun Fests!
Mark the third Wednesday of the month on your calendar for the Parks and Recreation sponsored opens in a new windowFamily Fun Fests! Each month from 6-8 p.m., Flat Branch Park is transformed, with a new theme for each month (June is Explore Outdoors!) for kids of all ages. Entertainment for the entire family will feature music, special performances, and art and hands-on activities.
Outdoor Movies in the Park!
Grab a chair, a blanket and…don’t forget your family! Outdoor Movies in the Park take advantage of Columbia’s ample green space and show movies after dark in the park. The next movie is coming up Friday, June 8th…The Muppets! It’s only $2 per person and concessions are available. Don’t miss the chance for quality family time in a quality setting.
These are just a couple of great examples of family fun you can have when you visit Columbia, but make sure you check out of opens in a new windowcalendar of events before you come. You never know what might be heating up in Columbia!
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Movement characteristics in Parkinson's disease: determination of dopaminergic responsiveness and threshold.
Clin Neuropharmacol. 1997 Oct; 20(5):402-8.CN
We evaluated the responsiveness of tap rate (TR), movement time (MT), and reaction time (RT) to intravenous (i.v.) (n = 10) and subcutaneous (s.c.) (n = 16) administration of apomorphine in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). In the second part of this study, we evaluated the feasibility of the commonly used 15% TR threshold, above which a patient is considered to be a responder. Compared to MT, TR emerged as the most responsive measure of bradykinesia during both i.v. and s.c. administration of apomorphine. RT showed no response to dopaminergic stimulation. To evaluate the influence of threshold on the number of responsive sessions, we determined the baseline variability of TR by means of the coefficient of variation (CV) in 39 patients with PD. Our results show approximately similar numbers of responsive sessions using the 15% and 2CV threshold. Our findings suggest that a simple repetitive motor task--TR--is more responsive than is the MT task. Finally, the 15% threshold may be considered an adequate threshold for TR in assessment of dopaminergic responsiveness of bradykinesia.
van Hilten JJ
Department of Neurology, Leiden University Hospital, The Netherlands.
Wagemans EA
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van Laar T
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van Hilten, J J., et al. "Movement Characteristics in Parkinson's Disease: Determination of Dopaminergic Responsiveness and Threshold." Clinical Neuropharmacology, vol. 20, no. 5, 1997, pp. 402-8.
van Hilten JJ, Wagemans EA, Ghafoerkhan SF, et al. Movement characteristics in Parkinson's disease: determination of dopaminergic responsiveness and threshold. Clin Neuropharmacol. 1997;20(5):402-8.
van Hilten, J. J., Wagemans, E. A., Ghafoerkhan, S. F., & van Laar, T. (1997). Movement characteristics in Parkinson's disease: determination of dopaminergic responsiveness and threshold. Clinical Neuropharmacology, 20(5), 402-8.
van Hilten JJ, et al. Movement Characteristics in Parkinson's Disease: Determination of Dopaminergic Responsiveness and Threshold. Clin Neuropharmacol. 1997;20(5):402-8. PubMed PMID: 9331516.
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Apomorphine does not influence olfactory thresholds in Parkinson's disease.
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Future delivery systems for apomorphine in patients with Parkinson's disease.
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Bringing together a coalition of consumer goods companies, along with international recycling leader TerraCycle, LOOP™ is an innovative new business model for premium durable packaging which is delivered directly to the consumer, returned and refilled. The platform also offers the opportunity to work with others at scale to test reuse models and shift consumer behaviour, which will help make circular packaging systems commercially viable.
Our brands have developed reusable packaging that is just too good for the bin
Three Unilever UK & Ireland brands have joined the LOOP launch in the UK to test their new reusable formats within the Loop™ system. Persil, Love Beauty and Planet and our prestige brand REN Clean Skincare, have all developed reusable packaging innovations to provide a range of products including washing detergent, shampoo and conditioner as well as hand and face wash and body lotions in striking and reusable packaging.
Why did Unilever get involved?
In 2017, we made a commitment that, by 2025, all our plastic packaging will be reusable, recyclable or compostable, and 25% of it will come from recycled plastic content and in 2019 we added to this commitment with new and bolder targets including halving the amount of plastic used in our packaging.
In the UK, we want to significantly accelerate this. To do this and to drive progress in tackling plastic waste, we’ve created our five-point plastic plan, ‘#GetPlasticWise'. We’re looking for ways to innovate across all our brands and developing solutions that allow us to use less, better or no plastics.
We have made good progress against these targets, but we’re determined to further reduce our reliance on single-use plastics. One of the ways we can do this is through investing in new business models around refills and reusable packaging.
We also know that consumers want to buy sustainably. Our own research shows that a third of consumers are now buying brands based on their social and environmental impact, and over half are more likely to buy products that are sustainably produced.
Our ambition is to change the way we do business which means shifting from single to multi-use packs by investing in new models, such as reusable containers. We are already learning and making progress with innovations like home refills and in-store dispensing trials. To help make this shift, we also need to work with others on these solutions, engage citizens around the experience and educate them on the benefits of changing the way they buy.
LOOP means we can work with others to test reuse models and shift consumer behaviour, at scale. This will help turn an idea or concept into something that’s commercially viable.
Sebastian Munden, Unilever UK & Ireland,“It’s great to be able to confirm our partnership with LOOP here in the UK and that three Unilever brands; Persil, Love Beauty and Planet and one of our prestige brands REN Clean Skincare, will be launching their products in striking reusable packaging available on LOOP’s website in the coming months. Just too good for the bin, the products not only look great, but they are great for the planet too with a circular approach to packaging which reduces plastic use and waste.”
“As part of our commitment to protect the planet, we’ve set ourselves the ambitious target to halve our use of virgin plastic by 2025, including reducing our absolute use of plastic packaging. Innovation towards refillable and reusable packaging will be key to meeting this.”
“Creating packaging that can be used, cleaned, refilled and re-used has been an equal challenge and opportunity for our packaging and innovation teams and we’re looking forward to working closely with LOOP here in the UK to continue to test and learn more about refills and how people respond to using them.”
To find out more about LOOP visit their website here.
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Dove is committed to helping women realise their personal potential for beauty by engaging them with products that deliver real care.
Dove believes that beauty - feeling and looking your personal best - is the result of proper care. Dove always aims to deliver products which tangibly improve the condition of skin or hair and give a pleasurable experience of care, because when you look and feel beautiful, it makes you feel happier. It’s a feeling every woman should experience every day.
From the beginning Dove has always celebrated real women at the heart of everything the brand does and believes. Real beauty embraces diversity - no woman is or should feel excluded from the world of beauty that the brand represents. Real women are the brand’s true inspiration.
The Dove difference
The Dove brand started its life in 1957 in the US, with the revolutionary new beauty cleansing Bar. With its patented blend of mild cleansers and ¼ moisturising cream, Dove’s iconic Beauty Bar rinses cleaner than soap, leaving skin clean, soft and smooth. It is #1 Dermatologist Recommended brand in the US, Canada and France and strongly endorsed by Dermatologists across the world.
Dove brand’s heritage is based on moisturisation - proof not promises grew Dove from a Beauty Bar into one of the world’s most beloved beauty brands. Today Dove offers a range of products: Body Washes, Hand and Body Lotions, Facial Cleansers, Deodorants, Shampoos, Conditioners and Hair Styling products, all developed on the universal premise of real care.
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In a world in which girls are too often held back by low self-esteem and anxiety about their looks, Dove’s Social Mission is to help encourage girls to develop a positive relationship with beauty, helping to raise their self-esteem and thereby enabling them to realise their full potential.
Dove’s Self-Esteem Fund promotes the development of body confidence among girls. It provides tools and resources to build their self-esteem, using the support of their families and communities. Over 8.5 million young people have received our help since 2005, with over 1 million participating in the Dove Self Esteem Programme in 26 countries in 2011 alone. By 2015 we aim to have helped 15 million girls.
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Former Rep. Chuck Douglas endorses Kasich
Ann Marie Awad
Former New Hampshire Rep. Chuck Douglas endorsed Ohio Gov. John Kasich's bid for the White House Tuesday. Photo by Molly Riley/UPI | License Photo
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- One-term New Hampshire congressman Chuck Douglas endorsed Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a former member of the House himself.
"I am pleased to join former U.S. Senators Gordon Humphrey and John E. Sununu in supporting John Kasich for president," said Douglas in a statement put out by Kasich's campaign. "I had the honor of serving in Congress with John and can personally attest that he is a man of ideas, integrity, and enthusiasm.
"With so many choices, Republicans need to choose Governor Kasich as a candidate they can be proud of and unite behind to defeat Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders."
Kasich served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 18 years before leaving in 2001.
Douglas' endorsement is not only a sign that Kasich is embracing his tenure in the House, but that his support in New Hampshire is steadily growing. Recent polls show Kasich creeping up to second place in the Granite state, just weeks head of its primary.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Kasich's events in New Hampshire have garnered growing media attention in recent days.
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Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Amid a global pandemic and the heaviest security of any inauguration in modern American history, President-elect Joe Biden is set to be sworn in Wednesday as the 46th president of the United States.
Jan. 18 (UPI) -- President-elect Joe Biden's Presidential Inauguration Committee will partner with local, state and national organizations virtually for a National Day of Service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Kamala Harris formally stepped down from her role as senator Monday in advance of taking the oath of office as vice president of the United States in the 59th presidential inauguration.
Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A Gallup survey released Monday found a modest reduction in the number of U.S. residents saying the COVID-19 pandemic was "getting worse."
Jan. 18 (UPI) -- White House lawyer Rudy Giuliani said he will not represent President Donald Trump at his upcoming impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate.
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Congress blocks administration from stockpiling oil
Faced with growing pressure to decrease gas prices, U.S. senators voted to stop stockpiling oil in the national reserve yesterday, but they rejected a plan to increase domestic production.
Senate votes to stop filling oil reserves
The U.S. Senate Tuesday voted to stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help reduce the retail price of gasoline.
Colorado senator keeps term limit promise
U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., has announced he is keeping his promise of serving just two, six-year terms, and will retire in 2008.
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U.S. Senate same-sex ban fails
The U.S. Senate derailed attempts Wednesday for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages by a 49-48 vote.
The SPR was set up to ensure we have adequate oil supplies in times of a national crisis and should not be subject to fluctuations in the global price of oil
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Alan Wayne Allard (born December 2, 1943) is a member of the Republican Party, and was a United States Senator from Colorado. He did not seek re-election in 2008.
Allard was born in Fort Collins, Colorado to Sibyl Jean Stewart and Amos Wilson Allard. He was raised on a ranch near Walden, Colorado. He received a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Colorado State University in 1968.
Allard continued to run a veterinary practice full-time, while representing Larimer and Weld Counties in the Colorado State Senate, from 1983 to 1990. During his tenure he was a strong supporter of fiscal responsibility and the preservation of a citizen legislature. Allard's influence on local politics is still felt today as he is the sponsor of Colorado's law limiting state legislative sessions to 120 days.
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By Kenneth W. Estes
In this story of men, machines and missions, Kenneth Estes tells how the U.S. Marine Corps came to acquire the armored fighting vehicle and what it tried to do with it. The longtime Marine tank officer and noted military historian offers an insider's view of the Corps's acquisition and use of armored fighting vehicles over the course of several generations ...
Three Days to Pearl
Incredible Encounter on the Eve of War
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As a young Royal Air Force technician stationed in Malaya in 1941, the author was ordered on a clandestine mission to Japanese-occupied Indo-China where he heard of the existence of a Japanese naval task force secretly on its way to Hawaii, intent on annihilating the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. He also learned of Japan's intentions to simultaneously decimate ...
Shield and Sword
The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War
By Edward J. Marolda and Robert J. Schneller Jr.
Essential reading as part of the Chief of Naval Operation's Professional Reading Program!
Though not so well known as the land and air campaigns, the campaign at sea in the 1991 Gulf War was vital in subduing Saddam Hussein's invasion forces and driving them out of Kuwait. U.S. Navy surface ships and submarines launched hundreds of cruise missile attacks ...
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One of the best-known historic ships in the world, HMS Victory attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year to Portsmouth, England. This informative and heavily illustrated guide provides a convenient reference guide to the ship for naval history buffs and for ship modelers as well. It includes 200 specially commissioned photographs along with expert descriptions of Victory's design ...
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Netflix Struck Reality TV Gold — & The Heart Of Colorism With Made In Mexico
Photo: Courtesy of Netflix.
Today, there are roughly 55 million Latinxs living in the U.S. — each one of us with unique cultural experiences. In our new series #SomosLatinx, R29’s Latinx staffers explore the parallels and contrasts that make our community so rich. Stay tuned as we celebrate our diversity during Latinx Heritage Month from September 15-October 15.
On a beautiful autumn day, the queen bee of a reality TV show holds the baptism of her son on her husband’s family’s lavish estate. Everything is going well until her brother-in-law, a fellow cast member and the baptism boy’s godfather, starts hitting the tequila too hard. By the end of the sprawling, carnival-themed bash, the godfather is drunkenly hopping into a bull ring to fight a live bull — and he does. For a very long time, much to everyone’s concern.
The Real Housewives could never.
Netflix’s brand-new docuseries Made In Mexico , however, very much does. The moment the series, premiering Friday, September 28, was announced, it proved to be as polarizing as star Robby Checa’s soused-up baptism antics. On one hand, Mexico , about Mexico City’s wealthiest, most glamorous pack of friends, stood as the streaming service’s first-ever Mexican reality show — making it an instant trailblazer. As the series’ first two episodes, which were made available to critics, prove, it’s just as fun — if not more so — than anything on Bravo.
Meet Rokael Lizama, Beyoncé’s OTRII Makeup Artist After Hurricane Maria, A Hidden Crisis […]
This story is part of our ‘News from Around the Web’ publication, continue reading the story here: Netflix Struck Reality TV Gold — & The Heart Of Colorism With Made In Mexico
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Which sentence contains a misplaced modifier? A. The children are in the art class that is held at the recreation center. B. The teacher shared the poems that her students wrote. C. The dogs know several commands that take the obedience class.
The sentence that contains a misplaced modifier is: The dogs know several commands that take the obedience class.
Asked 11/24/2015 11:52:15 AM
Confirmed by Janet17 [11/24/2015 12:27:17 PM]
Which sentence contains a misplaced modifier? A. The children are in the art class that is held at the recreation center. B. The teacher shared the poems that her students wrote. C. The dogs know several commands that take the obedience class.
Which Renaissance author's book, The Prince, encouraged rulers to think more about real human political behavior? A. Thomas More B. Dante C. Machiavelli D. Erasmus
Machiavelli's book, The Prince, encouraged rulers to think more about real human political behavior.
Which group destroyed cities, looted treasures, and killed thousands in Russia during the thirteenth century? A. Boyars B. Vikings C. Slavs D. Mongol Tartars
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The Mongol destroyed cities, looted treasures, and killed thousands in Russia during the thirteenth century.
Confirmed by Andrew. [11/23/2015 11:25:43 PM]
Which Christian humanist wrote In Praise of Folly, criticizing church officials for focusing on money, power, and control instead of the spiritual needs of the people? A. Erasmus B. Thomas More C. Johann Tetzel D. Petrarch
Erasmus wrote In Praise of Folly, criticizing church officials for focusing on money, power, and control instead of the spiritual needs of the people.
Which French leader of the Protestant Reformation made Geneva a center of Protestant thought and faith? A. John Huss B. John Calvin C. Teresa of Avila D. Martin Luther
John Calvin was a French leader of the Protestant Reformation made Geneva a center of Protestant thought and faith.
Which words in the sentence are the complete noun clause? The two sisters looked for what fell behind the couch. A. behind the couch B. the two sisters C. what fell behind the couch D. the two sisters looked for what
The two sisters looked for what fell behind the couch.
Complete noun clause: what fell behind the couch.
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How to End University Cuts Altogether: The ‘Alternative Restructure’
By Steven Dibben on February 21, 2018 Opinion Politics
As UCU (University College Union) strikes approach, I want to make it clear to both staff and students how the issue of staff pension cuts is inextricably linked to the Vice Chancellor and University Council, and will be left at-best temporarily solved if both issues are not addressed together. Here you can find updated and useful information and, crucially, some practical suggestions on not just stopping the impending cuts, but preventing them happening again altogether. Here I will explain not just why we should all support the strikes, but what students and staff are striking for, and how we can move to new forms of democratic universities.
The Issues – Cuts, austerity, and bureaucracy
Here’s all you need to know:
The current Vice Chancellor Sir Christopher Snowden chairs the University Senate, sits on the University Council (UC), is responsible for securing sufficient funding, and represents the university externally. The University Executive Board (UEB) advise him, comprising of 15 academic staff members. Their decisions are governed by The University Council (UC) of which the VC is one of the 18 members and SUSU president Flora Noble, the only student member.
The VC was a member of the remuneration committee that awarded his pay increase from £352,000 in 2015 to £433,000 from 2016-17. VC pay has increased by 56.2% in the last decade according to the UCU who recently discovered that 95% of university leaders are either members of their remuneration committee or entitled to attend meetings that decide their salary, even though recent guidelines from the Committee of University Chairs (CUC) made clear that VCs should not sit on these committees and play no part in the decision-making process. However, critics complained these guidelines were merely voluntary. The Education, Research and Enterprise (ERE) as well as the Management, Specialist and Administrative (MSA) Pathways receive a separate level 7 pay scale up to £125,000. In contrast, the average UoS lecturer pay is £45,859, reaching a maximum of £61,775 on the level 1-6 scale. The excessive pay of management became more controversial when the VC announced between 50 and 75 academic positions would be cut in 6 subjects, as faculties merge from 8 to 5 and compulsory redundancies will be required if savings cannot be met or funding found elsewhere.
Our VC has a background of similar austerity cuts. He previously held VC position at the University of Surrey. He attracted controversy in a 2015 ‘operational review’, announcing that even though the university had a £4.1 million surplus in 2013/14, it was not enough to maintain and develop the institute so 100 positions would be cut in response. One proposal said politics department members should be reduced from 14 to 5, and UCU members voted to strike over compulsory redundancies.
88% of UCU voters supported strike action after talks with the university employers’ representative Universities UK (UUK), ended without agreement and UUK’s plans for the USS (Universities Superannuation [Pensions] Scheme) were forced through by the chair’s casting vote. The proposals will end guaranteed pension benefits, meaning the typical lecturer will lose £10,000 a year in retirement. In response, 61 universities are striking across 4 weeks. Planned dates begin February 22nd and 23rd (see here for details)
2. Solutions – Democracy
The VC has the most influence over the largely unelected and unaccountable university governing bodies, and could have chosen to publicly refuse the cuts, working with other universities, UCU, and central government to secure funding. Instead, most VCs chose to run universities like businesses over essential services, where the majority (teachers, students, caretaking staff) work to run institutions that benefit a minority (VCs, Management, Private Investors, like the weapons manufacturer BAE systems) while living under threats of austerity and insecurity. VCs work hard but so do staff and students; unnecessarily high pay should be reduced and funding sought before cuts are considered. Our VC has a history of austerity measures and cannot be trusted even if he negotiates with the UCU, as he or another VC will likely attempt cuts again just like our previous VC if there are no measures enacted that prevent them. So that our struggles are not in vain, staff and student strikes must widen their demands to a different university structure.
Here are some suggestions:
Planned and agreed resignation of President and Vice-Chancellor, Sir Christopher Snowden.
Reduction and capping of VC pay at £80k, abolishment of level 7 pay scales of ERE, MSA, and other management staff, reducing these pay scales to maximum £70k – subject to a democratic all-student-staff vote.
Students elected through SUSU given membership on the remuneration committee that oversees VC pay (even UCU general secretary Sally Hunt agrees), and the University Council with equal voting power and in greater number than non-student members.
An Independent joint Student and Lecturer Management Committee (elected through SUSU/ staff unions), having the irrevocable power by majority consensus of either Committee to call all-student-staff votes and by majority result overturn at any time, past, present, and future decisions of UoS management (the VC and UC) if they are deemed to harm the education, finances, or welfare of students or staff. This same irrevocable power is to be assured for the mass of ordinary students, who at any time can call an all-student-staff vote through SUSU on any issue related to UoS management, preventing corruption of any committees or persons.
VC and Management staff expenses only permitted for university related items (office supplies, academic material, and research). All other expenses paid from wages.
Immediate reversal, abandonment, and public apology from the VC, UEB, and UC over plans to cut 75 staff positions and lecturer pensions. Lecturers must be guaranteed pension benefits to the same or greater extent than before the proposed cuts.
Suggest demands must be fully met by July 2018, with written confirmation publicly accessible online by March 31st, 2018.
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Rebel’s 3000-calorie-a-day diet
Rebel Wilson on holiday in Cabo. Picture: rebelwilson/Instagram
by Nate Day, Fox News
Rebel Wilson is opening up about her weight loss journey.
The Pitch Perfect actor, 40, has been very open on social media about her "year of health," recently revealing that she'd lost around 20 kgs.
Now, the star has spilled her secrets to shedding the weight in a new interview with People magazine.
Rebel’s ‘Year of Health’ has had incredible results. Picture: Instagram.
"Before I was probably eating 3000 calories most days, and because they were normally carbs, I would still be hungry," she confessed.
"So, I've really changed to eating a high-protein diet, which is challenging because I didn't used to eat a lot of meat."
The Cats actor added: "I eat fish, salmon, and chicken breast."
However, like most diet-conscious individuals, Wilson said she cuts herself some slack sometimes when it comes to keeping to such rules.
"It doesn't mean every week is a healthy week," she explained.
"Some weeks are just write-offs, and there's nothing you can do about that."
Instead, the star is looking at the big picture as she works to obtain her goal weight.
"I'm just trying to go for overall balance, overall healthy balance," said Wilson.
"I have this state of being, which is not my quote, but I go, 'Nothing is forbidden.'
We'll be like, 'Should we get In-N-Out burger?' And I'm like, 'Nothing is forbidden.' I can go there, I just might eat half of what I used to eat before. You know? And I'll have a burger, and a few fries, and then you feel fine."
Rebel’s transformation has been stunning fans on social media. Picture: Instagram
Being stuck at home thanks to the coronavirus pandemic has been helpful for her weight loss as well.
"I really took it as time to get really well-rested and de-stress," recalled the star. "Because most of my stress is work-related."
She's spent her extra at-home time working to correct "bad habits to healthier ones".
"I think I was emotional eating, and overeating at times, because I wasn't loving myself enough either," she said.
"And it does come down to that self-worth and self-love."
During a recent visit to The Drew Barrymore Show, the Bridesmaids actor expanded on the idea of paying closer attention to her health.
"I never really focused on my health, which was probably obvious. I was going all around the world jetsetting everywhere and eating a ton of sugar," she admitted. "That was kind of my vice. I have a very sweet tooth, I love desserts."
Eating was a way of dealing with the stress of becoming a celebrity, she said.
"I think what I really suffered from was emotional eating and dealing with the stress of becoming famous internationally," Wilson said.
"There is a lot of stress that comes with it and I guess my way of dealing with it was just eating doughnuts."
Nowadays, she said, she's feeling "more in control" of her life and career.
This article originally appeared on Fox News and was reproduced with permission
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Stan Lee Unleashed the Heroic Power of the Outcast
Stan Lee, who died in November at the age of 95, turned comic books into art through his ability to empower others.
Jeff Minton
If you haven’t spent your life reading comic books, they can seem weird. Like any medium, like movies or books or podcasts, comics have their own informational syntax. The pairing of static images with cartoon indicators of motion, typographically distinct onomatopoeic sound effects, enbubbled words for dialog—you have to learn to digest all that.
After the basic architecture come more subtle cues. Time doesn’t always move at the same speed within a frame, or in the gutters between frames, as comics creator Scott McCloud has written. A single frame can last an hour or a nanosecond, and in that time the Flash can run across a county. A 3⁄16-inch gutter can separate frames by instants or millennia. Superheroes wear primary colors; villains wear secondaries or tertiaries. Splatters of black dots mean crackling energy. Words in round bubbles with pointers are speech; words in cloudlike bubbles connected by circles are thoughts. As in video, an image can convey a meaning opposite to the words spoken in it. As in text, words can evoke emotions and sensations that an image, by itself, wouldn’t. We comics readers internalize all that and a million other rules, truths, and tropes because some creator taught us how to read them, page by page, while we were engrossed in a narrative.
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RIP Stan Lee, the Man Who Made Comics Cool
The person who first understood the real power of that medium, Stan Lee, died in November at the age of 95. He intuited early what it was for, what it was best at, how to shape that visceral power into a new kind of story. He also figured out how to industrialize the process. In late life, Lee was an avuncular spokesperson for superhero comics and a go-to cameo joke in blockbuster movies about characters he helped invent. But to the extent that joke landed, it was because Lee’s influence on the modern cultural landscape, as the longtime writer, editor, and publisher of Marvel Comics, was cosmic.
As one of his characters might say: “Stan Lee—dead! No! No, it can’t be!” The man who understood that with great power there must come great responsibility? The man who created or cocreated basically half of comic book superherodom? The Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Black Panther, Thor … I could go on! Lee, a florid—nay, dramatic!—master of bangs and em-dashes, an aggressive activator of alliteration, certainly would have.
Not a dream. Not a what-if. Stan Lee—no more.
It’s controversial whether Lee was the father of the modern superhero or more of a midwife. You could trace the concept of a human hero with godlike powers back to—well, gods, I suppose, or demigods. Detectives and adventurers have been challenging mad scientists, criminals, and monsters since the dime novels of the 19th century, with a lineage that goes back even further. Lee didn’t invent the comic book superhero; that’s usually credited to Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, a couple of Jewish kids from Cleveland who alchemized religious imagery, science fiction, and urban crime-busting into a hero who, rocketed to Earth as an infant, gained powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men to fight a never-ending battle for truth and justice.
That was Superman, of course, who came first in 1938. Then, the next year, came Batman. And then: the deluge. The books, cheap magazines that took advantage of bulk postage rates, crummy paper stock, and lousy four-color printing technologies, sold by the millions.
A Spider-Man cover from 2000.
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In fact, “Stan Lee” had his own secret identity—he started out as Stanley Lieber, a child of a Romanian immigrant father and New York–born mother, keenly aware of how scarce jobs, money, and fantasy were in the waning years of the Depression. Lee was just out of high school when a nepotistic connection scored him a gig as a gofer at Timely Comics in either 1939 or 1940 (his own accounts differed), in the art deco McGraw-Hill Building in Manhattan. Comics were “the absolute bottom of the cultural totem pole,” as Lee told IGN in 2000, and Timely wasn’t even publishing characters as popular as Superman and Batman. Lee’s job was to fill inkwells and fetch coffee for Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. It would be those two guys who gave Timely a real smash hit in the form of Captain America, who debuted in late 1940. As a career choice, comics was still a risky bet, but having grown up on a steady diet of Shakespeare, detective stories, and pulp, Lee had ambitions to write. His first story for Timely, a two-page text-only filler, was “Captain America Foils the Traitor’s Revenge,” which feels like a lot of words. (I’m indebted here to a vast canon of comics history, especially Sean Howe’s thorough Marvel Comics: The Untold Story.)
Simon and Kirby were two-timing Timely, freelancing from a nearby hotel room on their lunch breaks. The boss found out; they got fired. According to Simon, Kirby always thought it was Lee who ratted on them. Simon wasn’t so sure, and Lee denied it. At 18, Lee took over the editorial operations of Timely, becoming writer, editor, and art director, a superhuman presence who kept writing while serving in World War II. Timely expanded to funny-animal comics, romance books aimed at teenage girls, Westerns … and managed to stay alive.
Stan Lee started as a gofer at the company that would become Marvel. He kept writing while serving in the US Army Signal Corps during World War II.
Courtesy of Stan Lee Papers, American heritage Center, University of Wyoming
After the war, the superhero craze died off. In comics and pulp more broadly, crime, sex, and horror became the real moneymakers. Eventually that led to an old-fashioned moral panic, replete with newsmagazine articles (What about the children?), book burnings, and worries that comics were too violent and too gay. In 1954 the US Senate held hearings; a psychiatrist named Fredric Wertham wrote a book about the dangers of comics called Seduction of the Innocent. And the industry did what media industries used to do when the government came sniffing around: It caved. Fifteen publishers went out of business, and those that remained agreed to abide by a new watchdog, the Comics Code Authority.
The rules were stupid. Good must triumph over evil. Marriage is sacred. Don’t sympathize with criminals. They were the kind of rules that make stories boring. And comics, as a consequence, contracted. The sex and Grand Guignol horror disappeared; sales dropped. It was a bad time for comics.
With his wife, Joan, at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
By 1960 or so, Lee—now in his late thirties—knew he was capable of more. So were his freelancers. Lee had rehired Kirby to work on simpleminded monster stories for what was now called Atlas Comics, but Kirby yearned to create epic space-god cosmologies. Another writer-artist, Steve Ditko, was interested in nerds gaining power to mete out righteous justice. (He’d later go full Ayn Rand.) But those guys weren’t doing any of that yet. It wasn’t just the Code—Lee hated his boss’s fear of innovation as well as the ups and downs of a business in which he was already a 20-year veteran. His wife, Joan, convinced him to stick it out—if he was going to do one last comic book, she said, why not make it one he was proud of?
Around then, his boss—Martin Goodman, the same publisher who’d hired Lee in the first place—reportedly found out from his opposite number at the crosstown rival (which would become DC Comics) that they had a hit in Justice League of America, a team book featuring atomic-age revamps of some of their World War II–era characters. Goodman told Lee to copy it. But, you know, different.
What happened next is a matter of controversy—the kind that makes Lee’s legacy much more complicated. As Lee records it, he spent days tinkering, making notes, and then emerged with the expression of his central insight. If the rules said that the bad guys couldn’t be sympathetic, dangerous, violent, or a credible threat … the good guys would have to bear that narrative weight.
Collaboration between Lee and artists was known as the Marvel Method and led to resentment when Lee took most of the credit.
Courtesy of Stan Lee Papers, American heritage Center, University of Wyoming (Lee); Getty Images (border)
Where DC’s popular heroes had been gods and oligarchs, confident white men, Lee’s creative team was fascinated by the implications of what happened when outcasts got abilities they didn’t ask for. Lee added a new superpower: angst.
He had figured out that heroes like Superman were fundamentally boring. If nothing can hurt the guy, what’s the challenge? The most interesting conflicts would be internal. Lee conceived of a family, whose powers seemed to be based somewhat prosaically around earth, air, fire, and water—gained through their own hubris, against the backdrop of the Cold War space race. One of them, the Thing, would be the kind of monster Kirby had gotten good at writing, a creature dismayed at his own transformation. Lee wrote up a précis of the characters and the first issue and gave it to Kirby to lay out and art: the Fantastic Four.
Kirby told the story differently. He died 25 years ago, but in 1989 he described the origin of the FF to The Comics Journal, saying it had been his idea. One day he found Lee in despair, he said, as Goodman was getting ready to shutter the place. “He didn’t know what to do, he’s sitting in a chair crying—he was just still out of his adolescence. I told him to stop crying. I says, ‘Go in to Martin and tell him to stop moving the furniture out, and I’ll see that the books make money.’”
In Kirby’s favor: He’d written, in the late 1950s, a comic called Challengers of the Unknown featuring a team of four science-adventurers. It was familiar territory. Other evidence belies this extremist depiction. As The Comics Journal pointed out in its Lee obituary, contemporary evidence—notes, memos, the memories of other artists—says otherwise. And Lee wasn’t just out of adolescence, as Kirby would have it; he was nearly 40.
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What no one argues is that The Fantastic Four was a massive hit, the kind the company hadn’t seen since Captain America. Atlas changed its name to Marvel.
What followed was a decade of profound creativity. Ping-ponging ideas back and forth with Kirby, Lee fleshed out the Marvel pantheon. Their Jekyll and Hyde riff—another nerd, caught in an atomic-bomb-like explosion that transformed him into the Hulk—was less popular. But Lee’s next idea took off. A geeky, bullied teen granted awesome powers by the bite of a radioactive spider, Peter Parker would also be burdened with a massive personal failure early in his costumed career. As Spider-Man, he’d learn that he could never use his powers to enrich himself or avenge personal loss, but only to help others. Kirby’s macho style wasn’t right; Lee went to Ditko for fluid, dark weirdness.
The ideas came almost frantically, to keep up with demand. The X-Men: teenagers hated and feared by society, even their own parents, thanks to pubescent biological changes outside their control. Iron Man: a millionaire playboy who can never remove the armor around his heart. Doctor Strange: a Tibet-trained psychedelic mystic (who was mostly Ditko’s idea). Captain America, resuscitated after having been in suspended animation since World War II. Antimatter universes, intergalactic world destroyers! I mean! Set in a realistic New York City and illustrated with Pop Art verve, the stories turned comic books into zeitgeist. This was pulp as high art.
Even when the stories themselves didn’t soar, the storytelling did. From the fantasy-pulp midden, Lee had excavated a gem of a truth: These tales about men and women in garish tights hitting each other were also about more. Superheroes had incredible abilities, yes, but they were also often the victims of prejudice themselves, or trapped in moral webs stronger than anything Spider-Man ever thwipped. So the comics appealed to people who felt the same, even before Lee and the other Marvel creators published the first African American heroes, the first popular Asian American heroes, and strong, leading-character women in numbers large enough to populate a dozen summer crossovers.
Captain America was one of Marvel’s first big hits. A 1944 movie poster.
Courtesy Everett Collection
A still from the 1979 TV series.
A poster from the 2011 film.
©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection
Swirling soap-opera character motivations together with the costume fights and social relevance became a Marvel hallmark. Lee’s writers made the cultural chaos of the 1960s into a backdrop for their stories. In 1971, Lee even defied the Comics Code itself, giving one of Spidey’s supporting cast a tragic drug-use B-plot. “A story without a message, however subliminal, is like a man without a soul,” Lee wrote in a 1970 edition of “Stan’s Soapbox,” the column he awarded himself that ran in every Marvel book.
And in another, from two years prior: “Bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today. But, unlike a team of costumed super-villains, they can’t be halted with a punch in the snoot, or a zap from a ray gun … it’s totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race—to despise an entire nation—to vilify an entire religion.” Lee usually ended his column with the exhortation “Excelsior!” (Ever upward!) This one he signed off with “Pax et Justitia.” Peace and justice.
It wasn’t just that Lee and his colleagues figured out what made stories great—they also found a new way to generate those stories at scale. At its 1960s peak, Marvel was producing up to 18 monthly books, and Lee had a hand in all of them. That made it easier to create shared universes, with popular characters guest-starring in less-popular books to goose their sales. But it also transformed the business. In a process that would come to be called the Marvel Method, Lee would send a story for an issue to an artist, who would lay out the actual story on the page, leaving room for dialog. Lee would then fill in the bubbles, often with melodramatic, pseudo-Shakespearean tripe. Sometimes his summary would be complete, with key beats. Sometimes just a beginning and end, and someone like Kirby or Ditko would often change stuff. Collaboration made it better.
New Marvel writers had to ape Lee’s approach and tone; by some accounts, he judged artists mostly on their ability to imitate Kirby. Half a century before the golden age of peak television, Lee had stumbled onto the showrunner model. He had turned pop culture into art, and the manufacture of it into a commodity.
Lee’s direct involvement with so many books defined the “shared universe” concept. Comics had been crossing their characters over at least since the first Human Torch fought Namor the Sub-Mariner back at prewar Timely. But as Marvel Comics grew in popularity and sophistication through the 1960s, Lee developed that concept—into continuity and continuation. What happened in one book would affect what happened next not only in that book but in all the books. Even more remarkable, these stories were ongoing. They could have, as Lee construed it, the illusion of change—a villain unmasked, a mad scientist’s hidden island lair destroyed, shape-shifting aliens sent scurrying back to their home galaxy—but the heroes’ fundamental personal problems would only get worse. The unceasing parade of cliff-hangers and kraka-thooms was limited only by imagination and sales numbers. Lee had unlocked a key to serial drama, the foundation of today’s forever franchises. Without Lee, there’s no Star Wars, no Harry Potter.
"A story without a message, however subliminal, is like a man without a soul."
Meanwhile, Lee’s fundamental showmanship led him to do a lot more than write and edit. His monthly column touted the wacky fun of the “bullpen,” an exaggerated Marvel office where all your favorite writers hung out, bantering about groovy superheroes. He called fans “True Believers,” members of the “Merry Marvel Marching Society.” All the artists and writers got nicknames. (Kirby was the King.) Lee would make live appearances, narrate records. He ringmastered a weird Carnegie Hall show and spoke at colleges. He went on Dick Cavett’s talk show.
That approach to business, and his apparent willingness to take all the credit for Marvel’s creations, set him up as a target for resentment. Lee’s longtime partnership with Jack Kirby dissolved in acrimony in 1970. Kirby felt—not unreasonably—that Lee didn’t give him enough public credit and that Marvel didn’t give him enough money. Most of the artists for Marvel operated on a work-for-hire basis; Lee’s dual role as creative and spokesperson earned him money that other writers and artists did not. It all made Kirby so nuts he actually left Marvel for DC and, amid other craziness, created a villain based on Lee: the vapid, vain, cash-grubbing Funky Flashman. By the end of Ditko’s work on Spider-Man, in the mid-1960s, he and Lee didn’t speak to each other. Ditko did most of his work from home. The artists were doing a lot more than drawing.
Lee, seen here in his office in 1975, oversaw a parade of cliff-hangers and kraka-thooms, limited only by imagination and sales.
Michael Tighe/Donaldson collection/Getty Images (Lee); Getty Images (border)
By the 1980s, grimmer, grittier comics aimed at an older and more cynical audience were all the rage, partly because of the more mature themes Lee and his cocreators inserted in their work, skirting the weakening Comics Code Authority rules through metaphor and implication. By the end of the decade, Lee was mostly a figurehead; in the 1980s he narrated a Spider-Man cartoon and tried to license Marvel IP to movies and television. Marvel the company got traded around by corporate raiders before finally, in 1998, emerging from bankruptcy to merge with the toy company Toy Biz.
Lee in a 2005 Fantastic Four cameo.
A guest appearance on The Simpsons.
20th Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising/Everett Collection
With his most amazing creation.
The reorganization actually saved the day. It paved the way for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Iron Man in 2008. The next year, Disney acquired the company and the characters Lee had helped build. (And two years after that, the Comics Code Authority vanished completely, after multiple softening revisions initially forced by Lee’s flouting of it four decades prior.) Even into his dotage, though he rarely wrote, he appeared in cameos in multiple Marvel movies. For comics fans of a certain age—my age—Lee was very much the face of the medium.
Lee’s creative output never again matched what he’d done in the 1960s and ’70s. Let’s just say Stripperella, the character he created in the early 2000s with the actress and model Pamela Anderson, seems unlikely to have the staying power of, say, the Black Widow. He worked with other wannabe entertainment companies and ended up in financial and legal fights with some. Joan, to whom Lee had been married for 69 years, died in 2017. And in his final months, people in the industry worried that Lee’s caretakers were taking advantage of him. Lee filed a lawsuit against one earlier this year.
His death encouraged people to tell stories of Lee’s kindness and enthusiasm. But for every story that circulated after Lee’s death about how wonderful and caring he was, comics professionals tell other tales in which Lee is … not.
Every bit as complicated as the characters he helped bring into the world, Lee taught generations of nerds the concepts of responsibility, morality, and love. He waged a sometimes ham-fisted battle against prejudice, misunderstanding, and evil. This is what makes some of nerd-dom’s recent tack toward intolerance so painful; otherishness is engineered into comics’ radioactive, mutated DNA. Even if Lee wasn’t a super human, he was superhuman, empowering colleagues to leap creative obstacles and to give readers a sense of their own secret strengths.
Stan Lee died on November 12, 2018. But he leaves a legacy of work that pulses like mystic energy through the secret networks of our shared popular culture. Face front, True Believers! This is comics. Death is just part of the story arc. It’s never forever.
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(2020). Review of code cracking for kids by Jean Daigneau. Cryptologia: Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 383-384.
Deciphering papal ciphers from the 16th to the 18th Century
George Lasry; Beáta Megyesi; Nils Kopal
Abstract In Meister’s 1906 landmark study, “Die Geheimschrift im Dienste der päpstlichen Kurie von ihren Anfängen bis zum Ende des XVI Jahrhunderts”, the 16th Century papal cryptographic service is described as a vibrant, highly professional organization, at the forefront of the science of cryptography in the Late Renaissance. In his work from 1993, Alvarez concluded that by the 19th Century, “the
Eavesdropping on the Biafra-Lisbon link – breaking historical ciphers from the Biafran war
Richard W. Bean; George Lasry; Frode Weierud
The Biafran War, or Nigerian Civil War from 1967 to 1970 was a significant conflict in post-colonial African history. We obtained encrypted messages sent from Lisbon to Biafra via telex during the conflict. We employed manual and computerized cryptanalysis methods to decipher a series of transposition ciphers sent by Biafran officials in 1968 and 1969, which were encrypted using unknown variants of
Efficient data encryption technique using quaternions for wireless sensor network
Monjul Saikia; Md. Anwar Hussain
Security in a wireless sensor network is an essential requirement to safeguard the system from misuse of the collected data. In a wireless sensor network, the sensed data is to be transmitted to a base station securely and safely. In this process, data packets may route through multiple sensor nodes and reached the base station at the end. The encryption is the basic tool to protect data from vulnerable
A French cipher from the late 19th century
Rémi Géraud-Stewart; David Naccache
The Franco-Prussian war (1870–1871) was the first major European conflict during which extensive telegraph use enabled fast communication across large distances. Field officers would therefore have to learn how to use secret codes. But training officers also raises the probability that defectors would reveal these codes to the enemy. Practically all known secret codes at the time could be broken if
Ludlings: not all fun and games
Ronald Phelan; David Simpson
Generations of children and adults alike have been using language games as a fun way to secretly communicate. These language games, also known as ludlings, are also used by criminals in furtherance of their crimes. In response, the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia assembled a team to study these systems and assist law enforcement agencies in the decryption of ludlings. This paper explains the most
Cryptanalysis and improvement of a blind multi-document signcryption scheme
Malik Zia; Rashid Ali
Blind signcryption is used to maintain the anonymity and privacy of the sender from other participants in an unsecured public network. It has vast applications for privacy related mechanisms such as electronic voting and electronic auction systems. Various blind signcryption schemes were introduced in the last two decades, depending upon the computational cost and the level of security. Some of these
Quasigroups and substitution permutation networks: a failed experiment
George Teşeleanu
We introduce a generalization of substitution permutation networks using quasigroups. Then, we prove that for quasigroups isotopic with a group G, the complexity of mounting a differential attack against our generalization is the same as attacking a substitution permutation network based on G. Although the result is negative, we believe that the design can be instructional for teaching students that
Analyzing student understanding of cryptography using the SOLO taxonomy
Blain Patterson
Although cryptography is monumentally important in keeping our information safe and secure, this interdisciplinary field of study can also be used as a powerful teaching tool by putting mathematics in a dramatic and realistic setting. Cryptography also allows for a natural way to introduce topics such as modular arithmetic, matrix operations, and elementary group theory. This paper reports the results
Enigma: the spoils of Gustave Bertrand, or “par où tout a commencé”
Jean-François Bouchaudy
As early as 1931, Gustave Bertrand of the French intelligence services received from the traitor Hans Thilo Schmidt documents concerning the Enigma cipher machine. This machine was intended to equip all the German military forces. This is the beginning of an epic that has probably changed the History. The main documents collected by Bertrand have not been destroyed and are available in the archives
Quasigroups and their applications in cryptography
Dimpy Chauhan; Indivar Gupta; Rashmi Verma
Quasigroups have wide applications in coding theory and cryptography. We present a brief survey on quasigroups and discuss their applications in designing various cryptographic primitives including block cipher, stream cipher, hash function, public-key schemes, etc.
A nonlinear invariant attack on T-310 with the original Boolean function
Nicolas T. Courtois
There are numerous results on nonlinear invariant attacks on T-310. In all such attacks found so far, both the Boolean functions and the cipher wiring were contrived and chosen by the attacker. In this article, we show how to construct an invariant attack with the original Boolean function that was used to encrypt government communications in the 1980s.
Review of Bletchley Park and D-Day by David Kenyon
(2020). Review of Bletchley Park and D-Day by David Kenyon. Cryptologia: Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 573-576.
Identifying concealed messages using authorship attribution
Kirsten Tate
Letter-based concealments are often used by criminals to exchange secret messages without attracting the attention of law enforcement. This paper presents a method of distinguishing an author’s writing style when employing a concealment from the author’s writing style when writing naturally.
Review of The Enigma Bulletin edited by Zdzisław J. Kapera
(2020). Review of The Enigma Bulletin edited by Zdzisław J. Kapera. Cryptologia: Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 569-572.
Genetic algorithm attack on Enigma’s plugboard
Åvald Åslaugson Sommervoll; Leif Nilsen
Abstract The history, operating principles, strengths, and weaknesses, of the German cipher machine Enigma, have been widely studied for almost 50 years. Even though Bletchley Park regularly broke Enigma encrypted traffic during World War II, new pieces of information and fresh analysis are still aggregated to the remarkable “puzzle” called Enigma. This paper shows that Enigma’s plugboard is vulnerable
Construction of a polynomial invariant annihilation attack of degree 7 for T-310
Nicolas T. Courtois; Aidan Patrick; Matteo Abbondati
Cryptographic attacks are typically constructed by black-box methods and combinations of simpler properties, for example in [Generalised] Linear Cryptanalysis. In this article, we work with a more recent white-box algebraic-constructive methodology. Polynomial invariant attacks on a block cipher are constructed explicitly through the study of the space of Boolean polynomials which does not have a unique
Sources and methods for cryptologic history: the William and Elizebeth Smith Friedman collections
This article, the third in a series of columns devoted to sources and methods for cryptologic history, profiles the William and Elizebeth Smith Friedman Collections at the George C. Marshall Research Library. After providing an overview of how the Friedmans assembled their collections, the article details their scope and organization and notes the inventories, guides, and finding aids that they and
Exploring a mysterious tablet from Easter Island: the issues of authenticity and falsifiability in rongorongo studies
Tomi S. Melka; Robert M. Schoch
Abstract An analysis is conducted on an artifact that relates to the rongorongo tradition on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), a tradition first recorded in 1864 by the lay missionary Joseph-Eugène Eyraud. We here designate this engraved wooden tablet the “San Diego Tablet” (SDT), due to the old San Diego (California) estate where its provenance is traced. Physical damage – including one side that is obliterated
How to make a codebook versatile. The example of the ASLET code
José Ramón Soler Fuensanta; Héctor Soler Bonet; Diego Navarro Bonilla
A brief study of a Spanish military code used in Spain in the late 1940s and early 1950s based on unpublished archival sources.
Decryption of historical manuscripts: the DECRYPT project
Beáta Megyesi; Bernhard Esslinger; Alicia Fornés; Nils Kopal; Benedek Láng; George Lasry; Karl de Leeuw; Eva Pettersson; Arno Wacker; Michelle Waldispühl
Abstract Many historians and linguists are working individually and in an uncoordinated fashion on the identification and decryption of historical ciphers. This is a time-consuming process as they often work without access to automatic methods and processes that can accelerate the decipherment. At the same time, computer scientists and cryptologists are developing algorithms to decrypt various cipher
Two polynomials based (t, n) threshold secret sharing scheme with cheating detection
Anindya Kumar Biswas; Mou Dasgupta
A two-polynomial based (t, n) threshold secret sharing (SS) scheme is proposed by Liu et al., where two functions for detection of share cheating are used. It is found that the scheme is weak as the equations formed by at most (t – 1) dishonest participants in term of unknowns are not equivalent to the cheating detection function, and if one polynomial is kept fixed and other with two cheating detection
Cracking PURPLE: cryptanalysis of the Angooki Taipu B switch tables
Kenneth J. Bures
Abstract Eighty years after the US Army’s Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) cracked PURPLE, the famous WWII-era Japanese cipher machine, there still has been little technical information published about how it was done. This paper offers a detailed description of how SIS could have done it. The techniques described here would all have been available to SIS in their pre-computer era of the early 1940s
Cryptanalysis and improvement of authentication scheme for roaming service in ubiquitous network
Shaheena Khatoon; Balwant Singh Thakur
The paper analyzes a recently proposed secure authentication and key agreement scheme for roaming service in a ubiquitous network. In 2018, Lee et al. proposed a biometric-based anonymous authentication scheme for roaming in ubiquitous networks. But, we found that Lee et al. scheme is prone to the off-line dictionary attack when a user’s smart device is stolen, replay attack due to static variables
Review of the secret world by Christopher Andrew
John F. Dooley
(2020). Review of the secret world by Christopher Andrew. Cryptologia: Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 280-284.
On the Voynich manuscript
István Daruka
Abstract In this paper, we present our comparative statistical-linguistic analyses both on the Voynich manuscript and on the magical Tables of Liber Loagaeth created by Dr. John Dee and his scryer Edward Kelly. The intriguing, multilateral statistical matches render the investigated sections of these two documents into the same linguistic universality class. This suggests that most likely the Voynich
Securing and authenticating healthcare records through blockchain technology
Prateek Pandey; Ratnesh Litoriya
Healthcare data is important in making critical policy decisions, patients care, and medical diagnostics to name a few. Due to the importance and market demand, healthcare data is also vulnerable to cyber attacks. The centralized record keeping systems expose a single node for the attackers to attack. A decentralized system is computationally expensive but has the ability to be revolutionary by keeping
Review of A Most Enigmatic War by James Goodchild
(2020). Review of A Most Enigmatic War by James Goodchild. Cryptologia: Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 477-480.
Principal component analysis of characters in the Voynich manuscript and their classifications based on comparative analysis of writings in known languages
Jonas Alin
The text in the Voynich manuscript was analysed with respect to transition frequencies between the various characters within words. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was utilised to visualise the relationships graphically, which provided evidence of grouping of characters into two or more classes depending on their transition probabilities to other characters. Based on comparative analysis on texts
Celebrating ten years of KRYPTOS: a series of cryptanalysis
Cheryl Beaver; Stuart Boersma
The KRYPTOS competition is an annual codebreaking competition for undergraduates. Debuting in 2011 with 49 participants from three states, after nine years we have seen over 1,000 students from 32 states and seven different countries. KRYPTOS will hold its tenth competition in April of 2020. Here we present some of the puzzles participants have found most elusive and challenge you to beat the clock
The Fifth International Students’ Olympiad in cryptography—NSUCRYPTO: Problems and their solutions
Anastasiya Gorodilova; Sergey Agievich; Claude Carlet; Xiang-dong Hou; Valeria Idrisova; Nikolay Kolomeec; Alexandr Kutsenko; Luca Mariot; Alexey Oblaukhov; Stjepan Picek; Bart Preneel; Razvan Rosie; Natalia Tokareva
Problems and their solutions of the Fifth International Students’ Olympiad in cryptography NSUCRYPTO’2018 are presented. We consider problems related to attacks on ciphers and hash functions, Boolean functions, quantum circuits, Enigma, etc. We discuss several open problems on orthogonal arrays, Sylvester matrices, and disjunct matrices. The problem of existing an invertible Sylvester matrix whose
Slippery hill-climbing technique for ciphertext-only cryptanalysis of periodic polyalphabetic substitution ciphers
Thomas Kaeding
We present a stochastic method for breaking general periodic polyalphabetic substitution ciphers using only the ciphertext and without using any additional constraints that might come from the cipher’s structure. The method employs a hill-climbing algorithm for individual key alphabets, with occasional slipping down the hill. We implement the method with a computer and achieve reliable results for
Enigma G: The counter Enigma
David Kenyon; Frode Weierud
The history of Enigma G, the counter Enigma, is presented and traced from the very beginning of the development of the small, glow-lamp Enigma machine in early 1923 until the end of the Second World War. The commercial customers and governmental users of the machines are introduced and covered in considerable detail. The Hungarian machine, G 110, recently found buried in Poland, and its subsequent
Finding the key length of a Vigenère cipher: How to improve the twist algorithm
Seongmin Park; Juneyeun Kim; Kookrae Cho; Dae Hyun Yum
A Vigenère cipher applies a single short key repeatedly to encrypt a plaintext. If a cryptanalyst correctly finds out the key length, the ciphertext can be divided into multiple instances of shift cipher and be broken by frequency analysis. To determine the key length, the twist algorithm, an alternate method to the standard Kasiski and Friedman tests, was recently proposed. In this article, we propose
Review of the 2nd International Conference on Historical Cryptology in Mons, Belgium
Jerry McCarthy
(2020). Review of the 2nd International Conference on Historical Cryptology in Mons, Belgium. Cryptologia: Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 285-288.
Parallel cryptographic hashing: Developments in the last 25 years
Neha Kishore, Priya Raina
Parallel computing has led to fundamental changes in almost all research areas associated with computer science; cryptography is no exception. Besides improved speed and resource utilization, parallel cryptography is also promising from the security point of view. In particular, cryptographic hash functions (CHFs) – “the swiss knife” of the cryptography toolkit – stand to gain a lot from parallelism
Review of History of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis by John Dooley
Christensen Chris
(2019). Review of History of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis by John Dooley. Cryptologia: Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 536-538.
Review of The Cypher Bureau by Eilidh McGinness
(2019). Review of The Cypher Bureau by Eilidh McGinness. Cryptologia: Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 539-541.
Review of X, Y & Z by Dermot Turing
(2019). Review of X, Y & Z by Dermot Turing. Cryptologia: Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 542-544.
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Dr. Fauci Just Said Ten Words Every American Should Hear
Alek Korab
November 25, 2020, 12:01 PM ·3 min read
With coronavirus cases setting another heartbreaking record—two million in just two weeks, with hospitals in some states overflowing—the nation's top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci went on Good Morning America with one "final plea" for all Americans before Thanksgiving. "Well, the final message is to do what really we've been saying now for some time is to the extent possible: Keep the indoor gatherings as small as you possibly can," he said. "We all know how difficult that is because this is such a beautiful traditional holiday. But by making that sacrifice, you're going to be preventing people from getting infected." Read on to hear his further warning, and to ensure your health and the health of others, don't miss these Sure Signs You've Already Had Coronavirus.
Dr. Fauci Said a Sacrifice Now Will Make "the Future Much Brighter"
Why the warning about getting together with your extended family or group of friends? Fauci said "we know for sure that people who are without symptoms innocently, with no malintention at all, goes to a party or goes to a gathering, gets together, indoor, you let your guard down. You obviously have to take a mask off if you're eating or drinking, try to avoid that as much as possible. A sacrifice now could save lives and illness and make the future much brighter as we get through this."
The GMA anchor George Stephanopoulos asked Fauci about a recent New York Times article that cast doubt on small gatherings as the driver of the surge. "Household get-togethers undoubtedly do contribute to community transmission of the virus. Canada's recent Thanksgiving certainly added to its rising cases; such an increase may happen here, too, as the United States embarks on a holiday season like no other. That's why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday warned so strongly against gathering with others outside the household during Thanksgiving," said the article. "But are dinners and backyard barbecues really the engine driving the current surge of infections? The available data do not support that contention, scientists say. Still, the idea has been repeated so often it has become conventional wisdom, leading to significant restrictions in many states."
"I think what the confusion is, George, is that when you look at the surges, it is still dominated by larger gatherings, by people who are in indoor places, by bars, where people congregate, said Dr. Fauci. "But when you account for that, there still is transmission among gatherings that appear to be relatively innocent." They aren't.
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Dr. Fauci Begs You to Follow the Fundamentals Until the Vaccine Arrives
Dr. Fauci said the light was at the end of the tunnel—the vaccines are coming, for high-risk patients as soon as next month—so hang tight. "We're going to get through this. Vaccines are right on the horizon. If we can just hang in there a bit longer and continue to do the simple mitigation things that we're talking about all the time—the masks, the distancing, the avoiding crowds, particularly indoor. If we do those things, we're going to get through it. So that's my final plea before the holiday. What we don't want to see is yet another surge superposed upon the surge that you just described, which we'll realize [in] three, three and a half weeks from now." So follow his fundamentals, and to ensure your health and the health of others, don't miss these 35 Places You're Most Likely to Catch Coronavirus.
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Smaller portfolio landlords ‘starting to question why they are bothering’
Written by: John Fitzsimons
The buy-to-let market is likely to become even more specialised as traditional landlords continue to exit the market.
Research from ARLA Propertymark suggested there has been a “spike” in landlords looking to exit the market ahead of the tenant fees ban, which comes in on June 1.
It found that in April the average number of landlords exiting the market per letting agent branch increased to five, up from four in March and the highest level seen since May last year.David Cox, chief executive of the trade body, said this “upsurge” was down to a combination of the tenant fees ban and the proposed scrapping of Section 21 (otherwise known as no-fault evictions) which was “forcing landlords to either increase rents or leave the market altogether”.
It follows a study from the Residential Landlords Association last week which suggested that nearly half of landlords are considering selling up and exiting the market.
Market is diversifying
Paul Flavin, managing director of Zing Mortgages, noted that landlords with four or less properties are starting to question why they are bothering.
“Many that are relatively new to the market face making a loss each year with no real increase in property value to justify the expense.”
He added that his clients that want to continue investing in property are looking to diversify into houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) or purchase in the Midlands or North West rather than the South East, while others are instead focusing on AirBnB as an alternative.
Flavin continued: “I certainly feel there is a future for the buy-to-let market, but it’s definitely becoming more specialised and what landlords are trying to do may require some creativity from specialist lenders.”
Changes not deal-breaking
Andy Wilson, founder of Andy Wilson Financial Services, said that he wrote to all of his clients with only a couple of investment properties in the middle of last year to highlight changes that were coming regarding taxation, funding and regulations “but none were unduly phased by them and accepted the changes as unfortunate but not deal-breaking changes.”
He continued: “I also talk to a number of local estate agents frequently and they have not expressed any strong views that landlords are selling significant amount of stocks; usually these are the lower performing properties where the sale proceeds can be rolled into something more profitable.”
New-build student accommodation
Wilson noted that one added aspect for local landlords to consider in his area was the growth of new build student accommodation.
He pointed out that over the last 20 years, thousands of student lets have been built in the Lincoln area.
He said: “They are modern, well-functioning, secure and reasonably attractive, and the landlords with old run down Victorian properties in what was student and bedsit land in Lincoln are now seeing an exodus of students to the newer developments which cater very well for student living.”
Tagged: ARLA buy to let buy-to-let
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Only four in 10 sellers achieved the price they wanted for their property
Despite not selling for the price they hoped, the majority of sellers thought their estate agent offered good value for...
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Robust sales expansion in private transport, trailers, heavy equipment: PSA
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Qatar economy experiencing unparalleled recovery: Sheikha Alanoud
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Qatar credit profile to stay resilient on wealthy economy, strong government: S&P
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WhatsApp takes on Google, Alibaba in India's phone payment battle
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Indonesia tumbles into first recession for two decades
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Toronto Streets Named to Honour Alfie Zappacosta and Claudio Vena
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SAVED, the new solo release from award-winning, platinum selling Alfie Zappacosta, out on Alma/Universal on February 5, 2021 Few recording artists deliver some of their finest work in the fifth decade of their career, but that is clearly the case with Saved, the new solo release from award-winning, platinum selling Alfie Zappacosta, out on Alma/Universal on February 5, 2021, bringing his deep catalogue to 16 albums. Saved will be available on CD, Streaming, Digital + Hi Res Digital Platforms. Pre-order NOW (links below). The first single, Saved, from this gorgeous album comes out on January 8, 2021. (Listen using the link below) Zappacosta is at the very top of his game here, as a singer, a songwriter and producer. There is that rich soaring voice that has always been his signature, one that, like a fine Amarone Italian red wine, has improved with age, gaining a new degree of resonance evident on Saved. From soulful and romantic ballads like “Always Near,” “Unspoken,” and “Here In My Heart,” to the gospel-tinged “Saved,” and the upbeat and jazzy “Had Enough” and playful “This Place In Time,” Alfie’s versatile vocals never miss a step. The diversity of tempos and tones on Saved always keeps things interesting. The songs draw from pop, jazz and rock elements, and reflect Alfie’s current mandate: “I’m a writer and I like to write as many different kinds of songs as I can. Once upon a time, record labels would want you to have a certain style so they knew how to market you, but now I can do anything I want.” Zappacosta’s passion for music and the urge to be creative were saved by his decision to take full control of his career and his music after surviving the ups and downs of life with a major record label. “For the last six records I’ve made, I realised I had nothing to lose, so I took the bull by the horns. I am very much in control of what I do these days. Now, ‘it’s just shut up and go to work,’ plus I’m completely comfortable with everyone I work with.” To write and record Saved, Alfie collaborated with a talented group of co-writers and musicians, most of whom he has had a long working relationship with. “Gerry Mosby from Toronto was responsible for many interesting arrangements, and Marco Luciani, Andrew Glover, and Silvio Pupo (a Cuban-Canadian jazz pianist) were involved in the songwriting,” Alfie explains. “Making Saved was in part about getting together with some old friends and reliving good times. There was nothing but good vibes in making this record.” “I’ve always loved what these people do with songwriting. I didn’t owe anyone anything, but I just thought they were great tunes and I could do them justice in taking their chord progressions and writing melody and lyrics to them. That is what I did with some of these songs.” Playing a key role in the recording of Saved was fellow Edmontonian Louis Sedmak. “He’s an all-round great musician and a fabulous engineer and mixer too,” Zappacosta explains. “We recorded the album at his fully functional home studio, with Louis engineering.” Sedmak has produced such artists as Ian Tyson, Duane Steele, and Jake Mathews, and is recognised as one of western Canada’s top session guitarists.Sedmak plays on the album, alongside the aforementioned notable musicians as well as Toronto session aces Denis Keldie and Blake Manning. Alfie Zappacosta describes himself laughingly as “a hopeless romantic,” and that is reflected in much of his writing. He digs deep into his own heart, but then translates those emotions into imaginative literary and philosophical insights. That is vividly showcased on Saved by “Just Like This,” a tune with deep significance for Alfie. “That is an old favourite I wrote many years ago, before my wife passed away,” he explains. “It is something of an autobiography of me and my wife, about making a relationship work and the moments – just like this – that make it all worthwhile.” Alfie is also justifiably proud of the title track, which, despite the gospel favour and the title, is not a spiritual. “I’m not a religious character by any means but I am a humanitarian,” he stresses. “’Saved’ is about hoping for the best for people in general, and how if anybody is going to save you it has to be yourself.” The musicianship on Saved is stellar, with strings, horns, and female backing vocals all used judiciously to add depth and atmosphere to individual tracks, as does the Django-like guitar on “Had Enough,” and muted trumpet on “Unspoken.” Zappacosta’s solo catalogue has certainly justified the faith shown in naming him Most Promising Artist at the 1988 Juno awards. That year, he won a second Juno, Album of The Year, for his hit second record, A-Z. That same milestone year brought Alfie multi-platinum success with “Overload,” a song he co-wrote with Marco Luciani and recorded for the soundtrack of the Patrick Swayze movie, Dirty Dancing. That album sold over 42 million copies, and earned Zappacosta an American Music Award. Rather than resting on past laurels, Alfie Zappacosta continues to forge ahead in compelling fashion. He is eager to perform again for his loyal audience in Canada, and beyond. Until then, you are strongly urged to take a listen and get Saved! Track Listing 1. Unspoken 2. Here In My Heart 3. Saved 4. Always Near 5. Had Enough 6. Aurelia’s List 7. This Place In Time 8. Just Like This 9. De PensarEnTi (Bonus Track) Listen to the first single here: alfiezappacosta.lnk.to/savedsingle -- Pre-order the album 'Saved' here: alfiezappacosta.lnk.to/saved -- Further information and interview requests please contact: Jane Harbury | Landline: 416.960.1568 | Mobile: 647.519.6706 | Email: jane@harbury.ca -- #zappacosta #newmusic #newalbum #newsingle ... See MoreSee Less
NEWS! Alfie signs an exclusive record deal with "music first" label Alma Records, distributed by Universal Music Canada. The first record is due to be released early 2021. Stay tuned for more news about it, coming right up! www.almarecords.com/ -- #zappacosta #comingsoon #newsingle #newalbum #newmusic ... See MoreSee Less
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Alfie Zappacosta and Friends Dinner & Show • Spotlight Cabaret
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This show features one of Canada’s top musicians: Edmonton’s own Alfie Zappacosta. Enjoy dinner and a show!
Hey Edmonton! 2 shows October 9 & 10 at The Spotlight Cabaret, www.spotlightcabaret.ca/ Alfie Zappacosta and Friends! Come down, let’s have dinner and a show!!🍒🙏 ... See MoreSee Less
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BRIAN MASSUMI A USER GUIDE TO CAPITALISM AND SCHIZOPHRENIA PDF
D in French Literature from Yale University Massumi has lectured widely around the world, and his writings have been translated into more than fifteen languages. Since , he has collaborated with the SenseLab, [5] founded by Erin Manning [6] as an experimental "laboratory for thought in motion" operating at the intersection of philosophy, art, and activism. Philosophy[ edit ] Massumi situates his work in the tradition of process philosophy , which he defines broadly to encompass a range of thinkers whose work privileges concepts of event and emergence. This is the doctrine that relations are real, are directly experienced, and create their own terms.
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D in French Literature from Yale University Massumi has lectured widely around the world, and his writings have been translated into more than fifteen languages. Since , he has collaborated with the SenseLab, [5] founded by Erin Manning [6] as an experimental "laboratory for thought in motion" operating at the intersection of philosophy, art, and activism.
Philosophy[ edit ] Massumi situates his work in the tradition of process philosophy , which he defines broadly to encompass a range of thinkers whose work privileges concepts of event and emergence.
This is the doctrine that relations are real, are directly experienced, and create their own terms. On the one hand, it examines processes of power centralization tending toward the absolutist state, which he broadly defines as fascist. Bush administration to serve as the framework for the "war on terror. He gives it the label "ontopower" the power to bring to be.
He argues that this entwinement makes the capitalist economy a direct power formation in its own right. Massumi argues that there is no position "outside" capitalist power from which to critique or resist.
The word micropolitics does not refer to the scale at which action takes place, but rather to its mode. Following Spinoza , he defines affect as "the capacity to affect and be affected. Emotion, he argues, is the interiorization of affect toward psychological expression. He locates affect as such in a nonconscious "zone of indistinction" or "zone of indeterminacy" between thought and action. The modes of experience untangle from each other to come to expression divergently, actualizing different tendencies.
In his later work, Massumi develops the concept of "bare activity" [45] [46] [47] to aid in the analysis of the affective field of emergence in which modes of activity that divergently express, for example as "mental" versus "physical,""action" versus "perception," or "rational" versus "emotional," are in what he calls a state of "mutual inclusion.
Mutual inclusion is the logic of immanence, which does not obey the law of the excluded middle. The concept of mutual inclusion in bare activity has consequences for the theory of perception. It focuses the theory of perception on the interfusion of the senses cross-modal relay or synesthesia [49] [50] and "amodal perception" experience that is not in any particular sense mode and is in that sense "abstract".
This troubles the distinction between the concrete and the abstract. It carries a sense of vitality "vitality affect" uniquely associated with the event. This supplementation of sensuous experience constitutes a "surplus-value of life. The latter is replaced by the integral event of "bodying," [61] coinciding with the "movement of thought.
It expresses and transmits affective powers that exceed cognitive apprehension. Massumi argues that affect and direct perception are not confined within a human subject, but are "transindividual" and spread across the "nature—culture continuum. In this connection, he has characterized his thought as an "extreme realism," by which he means a philosophy asserting the ultimate reality of qualities of experience, conceived as irreducible to either subjective qualia or objective properties, and as defying quantification.
The speculative and pragmatic aspects of his thought come together around the notion that specific practices can be developed to further this creative movement. In collaboration with Erin Manning, Massumi has developed a process-philosophical take on research-creation.
They advocate for an "ecology of practices" that explores how philosophical concepts formed in language can be "transduced" into other modes of experience in a way that furthers creative practice, and reciprocally, how the understanding that already imbues non-language based modes of experience can be brought to explicit expression in ways that further conceptual research.
Through this two-way exchange, they see the potential to foster the emergence of new, nonstandard modes of knowledge that exceed disciplinary understanding and normative frames of perception. His teenage years were spent in Scottsdale, Arizona , where he dedicated himself to ecological activism as part of the environmental movement of the early s. His work with local and national environmental organizations on issues of wilderness preservation and land use, clean energy, and water conservation culminated in an internship in Washington, D.
During this period, he worked within a network of anarchist affinity groups called the Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook CDAS , [80] an off-shoot of the Clamshell Alliance , on the organization of two occupation attempts of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant construction site. In an influential essay, Ruth Leys [87] asserts that Massumi establishes a "false dichotomy" between mind and matter, and thinking and feeling, and disqualifies the first term of each couple.
This separates the body from subjectivity, and plays into scientistic frameworks assimilating the body to inert matter. Leys argues that this undermines intentionality and rationality, which in turn makes it impossible to account for ideology or to programmatically resist it. Margaret Wetherell argues that Massumi draws too gross a demarcation between bodily experience and social action and establishes a starkly polarized distinction between controlled and autonomic processes.
She sees Massumi imposing a "split" [91] between affect and emotion that cuts affect off from signification, leaving it merely "formless" and "outside structure.
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HomeNewsBrad Pitt’s mother wants to say everything to Angelina Jolie in the face
Brad Pitt’s mother wants to say everything to Angelina Jolie in the face
Angelina Jolie ruined the life of Brad Pitt and forbids communicating with children. Since the most famous Hollywood couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, divorced, they have been credited with many different novels.
The foreign media reported that the new lover of the actress was the director PraCh Ly, he had already been seen in the celebrity’s house more than once. It is worth noting that the mother of the actor is not very happy with the situation and believes that Jolie ruined her son’s life, and also because of her he had a nervous breakdown.
After the divorce, Brad Pitt became very rare to see the children, and his mother sees the grandchildren even less often. Last year, the actress tried to deprive her ex-husband of this right in general.
According to the source, he is trying to reassure her mother and does not allow her to go to Angelina and say everything to her face. Jane always disliked her daughter-in-law and they did not get on well, but after such an attitude to Brad she would like to erase her forever from the family.
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Home > Archives > Vol 11, No 3 (2019) > Surgical Simulation of a Posttraumatic Spinal Cord Glial Scar in Rats
Surgical Simulation of a Posttraumatic Spinal Cord Glial Scar in Rats
Authors: Telegin G.B.1, Minakov A.N.1, Chernov A.S.1, Manskikh V.N.2, Asyutin D.S.3, Konovalov N.A.3, Gabibov A.G.4
Branch of Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
N.N. Burdenko National Scientific and Practical Center for Neurosurgery, RF Health Ministry
Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of bioorganic chemistry
Section: Research Articles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32607/20758251-2019-11-3-75-81
We developed and verified an original, minimally invasive method for surgical simulation of a posttraumatic spinal cord glial scar in rats. The model is intended for use as a biological platform for testing the stimulation of regenerative processes in the central nervous system. Unification of the model enables one to achieve versatility both for implantation techniques and for the development of system-action approaches. Faced with a standard structural defect of the spinal cord, researchers will have the unique opportunity to test in vivo promising methods for spinal function recovery in the posttraumatic period. We developed anesthetic support, surgical tactics, and a set of rehabilitation measures for the chronic postoperative period. Experimental exposure effects were preliminarily assessed in vivo using a standard technique for recording the motor activity of rats in the postoperative period of spinal cord injury. Our final conclusions were drawn based on an analysis of histological sections of the rat spinal cord glial scar in three mutually perpendicular planes.
surgical simulation, laboratory rat, spinal cord injury, glial scar, axonal regeneration, cryoapplication, unilateral hemilaminectomy.
INTRODUCTION Spinal cord injury (SCI) is one of the main causes of disability [1], which is associated with the inevitable formation of a glial scar in the posttraumatic period, which prevents regenerative axonal growth and nerve impulses. Clinically, SCI is accompanied by a serious functional deficit, which may lead to irreversible paralysis of body areas distal to the injury. Several weeks after injury, 30% of patients develop posttraumatic syringomyelia, which reduces their neurological status [2]. The prospects for treating patients with spinal cord injuries will depend on the success of experimental studies based on the use of appropriate animal models. According to 3R principles, smaller animals are preferred for biomodeling. However, in the case of biomodeling on the spinal cord, which is associated with surgical intervention, minimization of the animal size faces obvious limitations due to the need for a sufficient amount of a simulated posttraumatic scar which allows for its use in the development of methods for spinal function recovery. The use of small rodents is considered most suitable for the modeling of SCI thanks to the common pathophysiology between the injury and clinical practice [3, 4]. Based on all these described conditions, species preference for use as an animal model was given to laboratory rats. The most common SCI models in rats are closed SC injuries - compression-simulating impaction and contusion-simulating bruise. However, these models are difficult to reproduce, and they cannot be used to study spinal cord regeneration in structural injuries [3]. Our research team developed an approach to the modeling of SCI that uses an original cryoapplicator. The proposed innovative method for the modeling of a standard glial scar by means of cryoapplication is based on research by Vasiliev S.A. et al. on the cryodestruction of the spinal cord [5, 6], as well as on methods of nerve cryoanalgesia [7]. EXPERIMENTAL To optimally visualize and identify the anatomical structures and ensure sufficient space for the surgical procedure, we used large, 320-358 g, male SD rats with the SPF status. The animals were kept under standard conditions at the Animal Breeding Facility of the Branch of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (BIBCh). All manipulations with the animals were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at BIBCh. A total of 26 animals were used in experiments testing the use of cryotechnologies in the modeling of a structural defect of the spinal cord in rats: 14 rats were used at the stages of mastering of the experimental methodology, including development of a cryoconductor design, choice of the spinal cord cooling exposure, and access control, and 12 rats were involved at the stage of verification of the selected method for low-temperature exposure (local cryoapplication). Preoperative preparation and anesthetic support The animals were placed in cages with clean bedding and water 24 h before surgery. Surgery was performed under general isoflurane inhalation anesthesia; premedication was not used. Surgical approach A standard microsurgical tool kit was used to make a 2-cm median incision in the skin, subcutaneous fascia, and adipose tissue in the projection of the intersection of the vertebral column with the costal arch of the animal (Fig. 1B). The spinous process of the last thoracic vertebra T13 was identified cranial to the convergence of the posterior spinal muscle aponeuroses (musculus erector spinae) to spinous lumbar processes (Fig. 1A). The spinous process and posterior arch of the approach vertebra were skeletonized under visual control using a binocular operating microscope (Optika, Italy) (Fig. 1C). Hemostasis was provided with a thermocautery (FTS, England). The spinous process was resected to ensure sufficient operative space. Unilateral hemilaminectomy was performed using an original technique, by means of a portable dental micromotor. We used end-paramedian perforation by a 1.0-mm diamond burr at 30,000 rpm (Fig. 1D). In this case, the dura mater was not involved, which was confirmed by the absence of a CSF leak. After completion of laminectomy, the approach area was washed with physiological saline, the excess of which was synchronously removed by vacuum suction (Millipore, Germany). Surgical procedure The spinal cords in all animals in the experimental group were locally cooled by applying a cryoconductor through the dura mater (Fig. 1D, E). The conductor diameter in the area of contact with biological substrate tissue was 0.8 mm; the material was copper; the distance from the source of the cold (liquid nitrogen) in the original device was 9 cm; the exposure time for application was 1 min; the conductor temperature in the contact area was 20°C. The animals in the control group (four rats) underwent a surgical approach to the spinal cord similar to that in the experimental rats, but without local cooling. Wound closure Tissues were closed in layers using Prolene 6/0 atraumatic nonabsorbable monofilament material (Ethicon, USA). Single application of microporous aluminum suspension (Vetoquinol, France) was used to protect the surgical wound surface. Temperature mode During surgery, the animals were fixed on an operating table with a temperature of 38°C to compensate for the hypothermia developed upon anesthesia. Immediately after surgery and until full recovery from anesthesia, the animals were placed in a cage mounted on an electrically heated table and fed oxygen-enriched air. Postoperative monitoring The follow-up period in the experiment was 30 days. The developed surgery protocol and clinical monitoring regimen yielded a 100% survival rate of rats. To prevent wound infection and because of the significant extent of the surgical injury and the chronic period of postoperative follow-up, preventive antibiotic therapy was performed through an intramuscular injection of Baytril (enrofloxacin, 25 mg/mL) at a dose of 10 mg/kg once a day, for 10 days. For postoperative analgesia, the rats were treated with Norocarp (carprofen) at a dose of 10 mg/kg of live weight once a day, for 4-6 days. For re-hydration immediately after surgery, the animals were subcutaneously injected with 5 mL of a physiological sodium chloride solution preheated to 38°C. Throughout the chronic experiment, the operated animals were evaluated for appearance, unprovoked behavior, respiratory rate, feed and water consumption, bodily functions, nest building, response to hands, mucous membrane color, skin turgor, surgical wound condition, body weight changes, body temperature (rectal), and motor and sensitive functions of pelvic limbs and tail. Assessment of locomotor activity The effect of the experimental procedure on the locomotor activity of the rats was tested “in open field,” according to the 21-point BBB scale, which is traditionally used in the simulation of spinal cord injury [8]. Morphological examination The spinal cord was isolated from the spinal canal (within the T12-L1 vertebrae) by transecting the lateral walls of the posterior vertebral arches using a burr, which ensured maximum preservation of the posterior spinal cord surface at the site of impact. The ostensible site of cold exposure was macroscopically identified by a light brown spot on the tissue, which was about 3/4 of the spinal cord diameter. Samples were fixed in a 10% formalin solution in phosphate buffer (pH 7.4) for 24 h. After fixation, the samples were dehydrated in isopropyl alcohol (Isoprep, Biovitrum), embedded in paraffin, sliced in 5-μm sections on a rotational microtome (RM2245, Leica), and stained with hematoxylin and eosin according to routine protocols [9]. To comprehensively assess the morphological features of the injury, we prepared serial sections in three mutually perpendicular planes: sagittal (to evaluate the depth and longitudinal extent of the defect), frontal (area in the contact spot plane), and segmental (transverse defect size relative to the spinal cord diameter). The sections with a maximum defect area were selected for morphological measurements in each plane. The topography of the affected spinal cord structures was determined according to the data of [10]. Sample images and morphometric procedures were produced with an Axioscope A1 microscope and a MRc 5 camera using the AxioVision 3.0 software (Carl Zeiss, Germany). The obtained data were processed using the SigmaPlot statistic (v. 13.0) software package. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Surgical approach development The investigation of spinal function recovery requires the modeling of a posttraumatic glial scar - standard and minimal in volume. In contrast to the mainly mechanical contusion impacts on the spinal cord used to simulate spinal cord injury, we modeled the glial scar using an original technique of local low-temperature spinal cord injury. The idea’s prototype was the experiment of using cryotechnologies for cryoanalgesia of peripheral nerves and cryodestruction of central nervous system tissue [5-7]. To ensure the most correct interpretation of the results obtained in the model of the posttraumatic spinal cord glial scar during the development of methods for spinal function recovery, we chose a unilateral spinal cord impact which enabled the use of clinical and pathomorphological changes to the intact state as a control. Due to the need to standardize the spinal cord approach level, we attempted original approaches, such as using the topography of the convergence of the posterior spinal muscle aponeuroses as an intraoperative landmark of the last thoracic vertebra from the side of the operational action vector (Fig. 1B) and using the dura mater as a damper for direct cold effect on the spinal cord. It should be noted that intraoperative navigation may be significantly complicated in younger animals, which are smaller in size, as well as in rats with dark pigmentation (e.g., the Dark Agouti line) because the posterior spinal muscle aponeuroses involved in the lumbar spinous processes look much less contrasting than those in large albino rats. Therefore, the technique for applying a cryoconductor to the spinal cord enables maximal localization of the low-temperature exposure site and minimization of nonspecific concussive organ damage during surgery. An indicator of structural preservation of the spinal cord during unilateral hemilaminectomy performed by end perforation was a lack of CSF leaks. Animals with iatrogenic durotomy were excluded from the experiment. A transosseous approach to the spinal cord was performed using a dental burr (Fig. 2). Clinical monitoring indicators According to the BBB scale [9], monoplegia was observed on the exposure side in most rats with a simulated posttraumatic scar of the spinal cord, which lasted for 21 days. The animals in the experimental group had a medium level of locomotor dysfunction (2.3 points of the BBB scale), while in the control group lacking cold exposure complete recovery of the motor activity was observed 5 days after surgery. Current SCI models cause significant urinary system dysfunctions in rats, which is a serious drawback [11]. It is necessary to manually empty the bladder of the animals several times a day after injury to avoid bladder rupture and infectious inflammation [12, 13]. Our model had no such drawback thanks to the minimal surgical injury. After injury, the animals retained their ability to naturally empty their bladder and intestines during the entire follow-up period despite the persistent monoplegia. The ability to urinate independently and defecate is the key to life support in the chronic postoperative period; it prevents the development of distress in rats and a nonspecific injury to the spinal cord when stimulating natural movements by palpation on the walls of the intestines and bladder through the abdominal wall of the animal. Histological findings According to the spinal cord histological data, an identical histological pattern was observed in all animals on the 30th day after cryodestruction (Fig. 3). At the defect center, there was a cavity filled with cell debris and macrophage-like cells. The cavity was partially lined with elements of a maturating gliomesodermal scar, which were more pronounced on the meningeal side and formed cords and commissures. Most of the wall, including areas adjacent to the scar tissue, was represented by fibrous and vacuolated neuropil that gradually transformed into intact nervous tissue. In the vacuolization area, there were no neurons but there were cells of unclear morphology with signs of apoptosis (karyorrhexis and karyopyknosis of nuclei). There was no acute exudative inflammation in the defect area, but there was moderate infiltration by lymphocytes and microglial elements. The total injury area was 3.6 ± 0.25 mm2 (n = 6) in the sagittal plane (Fig. 3A), 3.2 ± 0.36 mm2 (n = 4) in the frontal section (Fig. 3B), and 1.1 ± 0.1 mm2 (n = 4) in the cross section (Fig. 3C). In all cases of experimental exposure, the posterior horns of gray matter and the adjacent lateral funiculi in the tractus pyramidalis et tractus dorsolateralis area were structurally altered. It should be noted that in the control group, where only hemilaminectomy was performed, a gliomezodermal-like scar was found in the approach area (Fig. 4). This fact may be associated with technical errors inherent to the approach technique, but it is also an indication of how much the spinal cord is sensitive to any outside influence. Further optimization of the local spinal cord cooling technology will involve improvements to the original cryoconductor design and optimization of low-temperature exposure conditions. Detailed studies on animal models related to the improvement of surgical techniques and use of innovative laser-optical technologies and other techniques will bring practicing surgeons closer to solving the problem of functional recovery of the spinal cord in the posttraumatic period [14-16]. CONCLUSION This study substantiated, developed, and verified a method for the simulation of a posttraumatic spinal cord glial scar in rats. Exact adherence to the established anatomical landmarks, as well as the use of original tools and methods of local cold exposure of the spinal cord, enabled the unification of the simulated object. According to the clinical and histological data harvested, the proposed technique indicates the creation of an adequate animal model of posttraumatic spinal cord scar.
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Let them eat bread
Mary Antoinette’s famous words were “let them eat cake”, in response to protests that people had no bread to eat. In Jordan, this has been reformulated by the government, who only think that they should subsidize bread.
If you have ever been to a bakery in Jordan, you probably have noticed people carrying out LARGE bags containing various sweet and salty cookies. It is sad to think that many families actually live on dunking these cookies in sweet tea. A meager diet that nobody should envy.
It turns out that having people eating like this is a luxury the government can’t afford. After lifting subsidies on cattle feed a couple of months ago, the market was in an awkward position where flour is cheaper than animal fodder. Obviously, this was an invitation to feed livestock bread.
So, the government partially lifted subsidies on wheat flour, thus allowing subsidies on the basic large loaves of bread. Other bakery products went up between 20 and 60%. So the alternative for poor people comes from the government “let them eat bread”.
What better timing than when people are immersed in an election campaign that is totally divorced from the needs to people? In any other country, this timing would have been studiously avoided for such a move. Not in Jordan. Here, the disconnect between politics and the welfare of people is too painful to discuss.
Of course, distortions beget distortions, and subsidies cause distortions. I would submit that a teacher working for JD 220 per month is subsidizing the government. When will this subsidy be lifted?
posted by Khalaf @ 2:57 PM 28 comments
Its happening brother, its happening, the gap between the poor and the rich is getting wider and wider by the day and the vanishing of the middle class is becoming more evident. the blessings of globalization and the new world order.
The Jordanian society WILL be split into only 2 separate classes, it is inevitable. we pursued globalization and open market policies like it was the holy grail that will solve all our problems magically, but being a small third world country we have fallen into the spiders web.
Mahathir Mohamad, former primie minister of Malaysia realized that, and refused to be dragged into the whirlpool of western demands of globalization, he knew it would only mean disaster and instead took a different path away from the western way and it eventually proved efficient.
It is going to happen, we are walking down a road that has a dead end, or worse, disaster, we see it and we feel it, yet we keep marching on. and unless we chose a different path we'll never achieve the prosperity that governments always promise us. well, maybe the rich will, but certainly not the middle class or the poor.
At 5:20 PM, joladies said...
It was interesting to read in the Jordan Times today a column by Fahed Fanek that the 'middle class thriving' he goes on to say 'If it is true that the rate of poverty is on the rise, as claimed by some politicised observers, how come we find TV sets in 98.2% of Jordanian houses, refrigerators in 97.1, mobile telephones in 84%, satellite dishes and receivers in 76.3%, fixed telephones in 36.5 %, private cars in 37.1% of families and computers in 32.2% of households.' He goes on to say that 'the false slogan that poverty is spreading is a political tool that creates a positive impression......' Well, I don't know as it is difficult to judge but even though there is certainly poverty and many people find it difficult to cope, but there is absurd wealth in Abdoun (west Amman) which should not be there. T
"we pursued globalization and open market policies like it was the holy grail that will solve all our problems"
it was never the intention to solve jordan's problems. it was a cover story. it's a get rich quick scheme for the regime and its supporters. let jordan and jordanians be damned.
Bakkouz: I am not against a free market. I am against wages being lower that what is needed for a reasonable lifestyle. The gap you refer to is between businessmen and wealthy landowners and salaried people who are being cheated out of their labor.
Joladies: Mr. Fanek is not an uninterested party, and is consisently defending the government. Here he is quoting a report I mentioned on this blog. What he does not say is that there is a persistent deficit in the income of Jordanian families that is mostly filled by selling off assets. This is not a sustainable state of affairs.
Anon: That is a cynical outlook. It is hard to tell if it is accurate.
Bakkouz, frankly, this isn't about globalization, it's about a government that fails to understand (and work for) the needs of its own people. It's about a government that switched to importing Syrian wheat two months ago, because it's cheaper (and received subsidies for it by the way) and yet charges premium prices on the population.
Khalaf, you forgot to mention the 60 percent hikes in oil prices (and its derivatives of course), conveniently waiting to take place in February; just in time for the Winter season.
Bear with me on this; this is a crazy thought. One of my craziest lately:
I think this has everything to do with the elections.
Who votes for the IAF normally? East Amman and other camps scattered around the kingdom, right? Suffice it to say that these areas are very under serviced, underprivileged and they basically make up Jordan's working class. Your average cynical East Ammani, will lose faith in these elections; why vote if you're starving, and more importantly, why vote for a parliament that does not take into consideration your most basic of instincts, which is the instinct of survival.
So, that way, the government guarantees that there will be a lesser turn-out from these areas, and thus, lesser Jordanians voting for IAF candidates. Which ultimately translates to fewer MPs from the IAF.
But then of course, this could all be wishful thinking.
Khalf, free market economy is fine if and only if it was applied within certain rules, an economy such as ours, in a country with limited resources and little economical and political power to back out whenever it choses, is simply taking a huge risk, which by the current paraments isn't going well, as i said, its a spider web, if you are not strong enough or big enough to break loose of it, you're stuck, and you're doomed.
Unless of course this is what is actually planned to happen.
made in jordan: it has everything to do with globalization, what we're witnessing are all side effects and direct consequences of blindly applying free open market strategies.
"The gap you refer to is between businessmen and wealthy landowners and salaried people who are being cheated out of their labor."
I agree, and it seems that not all people are really in touch with the basis of their needs, given that not many people correctly identify the above problem the way I believe you did here.
At 8:08 PM, Masalha1 said...
Khalaf:
Three years ago our government refused to by wheat from farmers at 120JD because it was cheaper to import wheat from the US at$ 140 per ton, therefore discouraging farmers from growing wheat, now we are importing wheat at about $425 and no farmers are growing it in Jordan,not only this but afew years before that the government BANNED farmers in the DEESA area on the SAUDI boarder from growing livestock feed because it consumes too much water and it was cheaper to import it, so they had to stop growing it.
Some times it makes you wonder about the decision making process and who does the planning?
At 9:04 PM, Amer said...
subsidies almost never work. it is the government that needs fixing. When you subsidize wheat and petroleum products, you are creating an efficiency that will most likely help the rich. But without subsidies, but with a government that has the well being of its people in its mind, the money will be redistributed in a way that ensure it is going to the people that need it the most.
Pheras (made in Jordan), I have been following East Ammani elections and I can tell you two things about the "working class" there.
A certain percentage will vote for the IAF not for economic reason but as they believe they can enter paradise by viting for Hamza Mansour and Azzam Huneidi.
The majority are more attracted to the incentives splashed out by the likes of Khaleel Attiyyeh, Al Heat, Al Kouz and Hasan safi.
If ya'll can spare 10 minutes watch this and you'll see how similar it is in most arab countries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx2CFWUciK0
copy paste into your URL
Regarding IAF, its no more than a beast. To frighten with, and will be no more than a beast if and when it comes to power.
Salaries, NGOs, Pressure Groups are what Jordan misses. No one is reflecting the bad role of private sectore in the up-bringing of the new Jordan. Banks making Millions in profit with wages to start from JD250.-, a shift in banks alone is enough to drive salaries up in Jordan.
At 12:55 AM, Mohanned said...
I agree with amjad, many companies are posting record profits while paying crumbs to their employees. The government should make them choose between increasing wages or paying more taxes.
If nothing is done fast the drain will become severe.
And subsidies are only bandaids. The government should be able to direct aid to people who deserve it.
At 7:18 AM, Masalha1 said...
Mohanned, Ahmad:
Current minimum wage is 110Jd the government ability to increse it is to 150Jd or even 200Jd at the most, is that enough to live on?
Minimum wage is usually opposed and fought against by the private sector because it applies to non Jordanian work force also, who are happy to work for 110 or 150Jd so why would they pay an egyptian or srilankan more than that?
the issue is some what ETHICAL I agree companies who make too much profit should pay more salaries or be looked into and if their average employee wage is low should be put in a different TAX bracket and make them pay more taxes, it could also be a supply and demand issue we have a large educated work force for a small country with no planners who can anticipate the market needs or the people needs for that matter.
Its ethical if initiated by private sector solely. What about a law that enforces that??? Private sector is still mainly owned and operated by Jordanians, they should have a social contribution to their country other than charities, orphanges and mosques - as if we do not have enough -, A succsseful Jordanian businessman should contribute by lifting the scale up. In the states for example: all empoyees are paid enough, many are paid well. Individuals and their consumption habbits are a main player in the american national market prices, stocks, taxes,...
As simple as: employees getting higher salaries, more cash will be circulated in various business cycles.. Or maybe they should just fill amman up with indians who are willing to work double the time half the pay !
At 9:34 AM, No_Angel said...
yikes for first i would certainly not want jordan to copy the american consumerism model (oh never mind it already did )
no wonder i have been fairly interested in reading about zimbabwe lately... http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/06/news/zim.php
At 10:54 AM, Sam said...
I really enjoy reading your blog ... I'm an American student studying in Amman, and I'm doing a research project on blogging in Jordan. Would you be willing to send me an email sometime? I'd send you one, but I wasn't able to find your email on your blog. My address is sam_bollier@brown.edu
Bakkouz, I know what you mean, but this isn't a direct effect of globalization; because it's the government's decision, and it doesn't have much to do with the WTO and the World Bank's recipes to destroy economies like Jordan's economy. I'm trying to say that it's a decision from the government and not from an international organization.
I agree that subsidies are simply temporary remedies that do not truly bridge the gap between the poor and the rich. I think that the government should give more freedom for labor unions in this regard to draft a better labor law and we should have better laws to protect and promote SMEs and to instill a sense of entrepreneurship in Jordanians. The majority still thinks that a good investment is sticking money into an off-key plot of land, while a small business that has potential to grow could benefit the economy much more.
Batir, you could be right, but would they believe such candidates especially after yet another hike in prices?
And I still insist that there should some form of luxury tax imposed on Hummers and yachts and whatnot. Also the sales tax should be less, it's not fair to impose such a hefty tax where even the middle class citizens have to pay.
At 4:14 PM, Mohanned said...
Masalha,
I think you are talking about the QIZ and let me tell you this: It adds zero to the jordanian economy, all the export are tax exempt, and 60% of the workers are from asia. The other part is that egypt now have QIZs and factories in jordan started to move to egypt.
The other sector you are talking about I think is construction and egyptians now make 300JD a month which translates to more than 2000 pounds.
I totally agree with ahmad, once you pay people more, the economy moves forward, and where did the term social responsibility go? You make your money between us, then you have to pay back, as simple as that!
On Batir's remark: Allow me to disagree with you on the notion that the working class will not vote out of economic reasons. While ideology remains a big factor in the election of IAF candidates, let us not forget that the IAF and the Islamic movement in general runs charities and community service centers that are helping the government cope with offering services to the underprivilied areas. It is based on such services that the Islamist parties everywhere in the Arab world managed to make to the parliaments of their countries. I think raising the bread prices, especially at this time, will be good news for the Islamists, who will seize the opportunity to offer alternatives and promise to ease the burden of citizens.
At 8:44 PM, Unknown said...
To Mohanned on the QIZs,
I don't think it is fair to say that the QIZ adds zero value to the Jordanian economy. What about the other 40% of Jordanian worker employed within the zones? Jordanian input requirements in the production process? what about the external trade balance as textiles produced within the zones are one of the biggest Jordanian exports today?
You then contradict yourself by your worry about the factories moving to Egypt! If their value added to Jordan is zero, why do you care?
The QIZs have lots of problems in them, but lets not distort the truth
At 10:12 PM, Mohanned said...
Are you serious?How much they get paid?110 JDS?how much tax do they pay-the factories that is? How muc money goes out of jordan through the asian 60%? What jordanian inputs are you talking about?Cotton?Electricity?Made in jordan machines?Gas?
I am not distorting the truth, you are not seeing it..And regarding exports numbers? Is it just by numbers or is it by added value to the overall economy?We have been exportin phosphate for the last 50 years, any added value?
QIZs are just modern slavery..And I am not worrying about them going to egypt, I am giving you facts:Egypt has cotton, cheaper labor, cheaper energy..Who would you choose?
common sense thats all!
At 12:03 AM, Unknown said...
Yes I am serious.
As of 2006, QIZs employed 21,000 Jordanians. Even if they were paid minimum wage, that is better than being unemployed.
To the best of my knowledge, a minimum of 35% of the inputs have to be Jordanian by law (whatever that is). Exports to the US on its own reached $1.2 bringing in foreign currency to offset some of the deficit in our external balance.
As I said before, there are drawbacks from the zones but deeming them undesirable is not "common sense".
At 2:36 AM, Mohanned said...
"Exports to the US on its own reached $1.2 bringing in foreign currency to offset some of the deficit in our external balance."
Foreign currency for who?The investors?And what jordanian inputs are you talking about? Come on! We produce nothing, we just transfrom raw materials to clothes!Even the electricity they get is subsidized!
My friend, the foreign currency that they bring is not 1.2 billion, simple economics. And the QIZa are practically not part of jordan! That why they call them ZONES!
Money from expats which now accounts for almost 20% of the population is our source of hard currency, and they are basically what the country is running on..If lest say UAE and KSA kick them out, jordan will be history!
Do you have a figure representing what is being transfered from expats in DOLLARS? and how many is transferred in foreign currencies????
Through banks, most transfers received in JOD, SAR, AED, QAR and USD movements. USD mainly moves for transfers within transfer hub services which again are not jordanian company if thats your point.
Denying economic cycle linked woth the QIZ is not common sense, though many newly introduced untested specs that many still differ about.
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/specialseries/070707/070707mony
thanks for the link, it supports your idea of the 25% percent cash flow in, however it does not constitute that 25% are of dollar/euro/GBP value transactions. Western union operates with dollar equivqlent but the main stream is running through banks which by their part holds clearing accounts with their counterparts in the gulf states dominated in Jordanian Dinars or domestic currencies of those states. The Central Bank reserve of foreign currencies grew rapidly in the last three years which is still holds the JD cash value from falling against dollars.
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New 3-Way Mount Holds Spotting Scope, Rangefinder & Camera
The R-F Cam Cradle is a smart new product that lets you securely mount a Laser Rangefinder (LRF), digital camera, and spotting scope all on a single tripod. The “game-changing” feature of the R-F Cam Cradle is that it allows you to colimmate (i.e. precisely align) all your optics on the same spot. This way you can simultaneously aim all three devices at a long range target by simply moving the tripod head. A tactical shooter can easily range his target while watching the wind though his spotting scope. And the long-range hunter can range and film his prey as he watches it through the spotter. This unit costs $179.95 from DefensiveEdge.net.
You’ll find a detailed product evaluation of the R-F Cam Cradle on the LongRangeOnly.com website. Reviewer Sam Millard uses the R-F Cam Cradle in the field with a variety of optics and rangefinders. Millard explains how the R-F Cam Cradle conveniently allows combined use of spotting scope, LRF, and compact video camera.
Millard was very impressed with the system: “I field-tested the R-F Cam Cradle in the mountains of northern Idaho and the wide open spaces of eastern Wyoming. I believe the most effective way to use the cradle is in a long range ambush; get the spotting scope, camera, and LRF aligned on a landmark, then lock it down. The LRF and spotter won’t be aligned perfectly, but they’ll be well within the field of view of each other, requiring only a gentle tilt of the tripod to center the beam of the LRF on the target. At ELR distances, a well-supported LRF is crucial to obtaining an accurate range. This mount makes it easy, and doesn’t require displacing your spotting scope to get it done.”
See R-F Cam Cradle Demonstrated in the Field:
Having a video camera mounted in alignment with spotting scope is great for Long Range applications notes Millard: “The camera mount is my favorite feature of the R-F Cam Cradle. It allows co-witnessing the video camera to the spotting scope, then aiming the field of view of both with one movement of the tripod head. This is a great improvement to the normal way of recording the shot and spotting at the same time, which previously required two tripods or a clamp-on head for the camera, both of which required separate aiming of the camera and spotting scope.”
R-F Cam-Cradle Product Details
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Shawn Carlock of Defensive Edge explains: “The R-F Cam Cradle is a way for one person to run everything. Otherwise it’s really difficult to run the spotting scope, run the video camera, run the rangefinder, get dope — do all those different things. So RLC Customs has come up with the idea to put everything together in one platform, where you can sync it together and use it effectively, as a cluster.”
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EPA Bans on Traditional Ammo Blocked by Defense Bill
The Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) won’t be able to control, regulate, or ban ammunition thanks to provisions in the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) recently signed into law. A clause in the 2016 NDAA amends the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) to preclude the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from asserting TSCA authority over ammunition and its component parts. This change is important because anti-hunting organizations have attempted, through legal actions, to force the EPA to to ban traditional ammunition made with lead components.
If the EPA had asserted authority under the TSCA to regulate ammunition, this could have severely impacted the production and distribution of all types of hunting and target ammunition, including pistol ammo, rifle ammo, and even shotshells. The EPA-limiting TSCA amendment contained in the 2016 NDAA was supported by Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain and House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry.
According to Rep. Jeff Miller (R. Florida): “[T]his common-sense language in the Defense Bill … will clarify, once and for all, that the EPA does not, and should not, have the jurisdiction to regulate traditional ammunition or its components. Enactment of this legislation closes one more window of opportunity for the EPA to overreach its authority while also averting unnecessary and significant cost increases for our military.”
Report based on NSSF Press Release.
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Cool Slow-Motion Video of M1 Garand
What really happens when an M1 Garand fires the final round and the En-Bloc clip ejects with the distinctive “Ping”. Well thanks to the folks at ForgottenWeapons.com, you can see for yourself in super-slow-motion. The entire cycling process of a Garand has been captured using a high-speed camera running at 2000 frames per second (about sixty times normal rate). In this video, watch the clip eject at the 00:27 time-mark. It makes an acrobatic exit, spinning 90° counter-clockwise and then tumbling end over end. At the 1:20 time-mark you can actually see the two sides of the clip oscillating back and forth as the clip flies through the air.
2000 frame per second video shows M1 Garand ejecting spent cartridges and En-bloc clip.
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Triple Crown Talk
Why They Can/Can't Win
26 April, 2012 10:42 AM
It's a wide-open Kentucky Derby 138 folks. You can make a legitimate case for more than half the field. Here's an analysis of the pros and cons for each of the top 20 horses, pre-final works and post positions of course.
Why he can win: He's earned 100+ Bris speed ratings in his last three starts. He has the right running style, which we saw in the Wood Memorial when he made a big move on the turn before gamely battling Gemologist to the wire. Breeding-wise, he should be fine at 10 furlongs. With the exception of the Breeders' Cup, he has been a very consistent colt.
Why he can't win: I'm not sure there is a horse in this Derby with more controversy surrounding him. First it was the indecision of where he would run his final prep. It turned out that they got it right, but now there is this latest infection issue which everyone is still trying to figure out its severity. At the very least, it has altered his shipping and training plans, so instead of having his final work at Churchill it will come at Belmont. He'll also need a new rider, as Dominguez has chosen Hansen. That decision might not come until the weekend, or beyond.
Bodemeister
Why he can win: Also with three consecutive Bris speed ratings over 100, he turned in the most dominant final prep of anyone in the Arkansas Derby. The colt has brilliant natural speed and might get a good setup while running behind Trinniberg and/or Hansen. For my money, Bob Baffert is the best trainer in America, especially in big races.
Why he can't win: The obvious negatives are that he is lightly-raced and didn't start as a 2-year-old. The whole Apollo thing. His natural speed also might be a detriment, especially if he tries or is allowed to go with Trinniberg early or stays too close to a quick pace. As good as he looked in the Arkansas Derby, he was facing very little. And now he adds eight pounds. If you're into the whole karma thing, Mike Smith switching to this colt after verbally agreeing to ride Daddy Nose Best before the Arkansas Derby doesn't "bode" well for him.
Creative Cause
Why he can win: Other than Gemologist, he's about as consistent as they come; he's never been off the board in eight starts. The colt hasn't missed a beat since last summer, with Harrington's plans going exactly as he drew them up. He ran a big race in his only start at Churchill in the BC Juvenile. He also has the right kind of running style and is always finishing at the end of races.
Why he can't win: The removal of blinkers and his dislike of the whip has scared some people away. He never seems to run a straight line in the stretch. In his four losses he's been beaten a length or less in each. If he's in a stretch duel, he's shown he doesn't like to win.
Why he can win: He looked awfully good in winning the UAE Derby, which came off a long layoff. He's the only horse in the field that has won beyond nine furlongs. Aiden O'Brien is one of the best trainers in the world.
Why he can't win: His poor effort in the BC Juvenile can't be overlooked. There is an obvious question about whether he likes dirt, especially this dirt. He'll be shipping a long way and won't be arriving until Derby week. He's lightly-raced. O'Brien probably isn't even going to make the trip to Kentucky.
Daddy Nose Best
Why he can win: He has a lot of bottom, having raced 10 times with four wins. He's the only horse in the race who has won twice at nine furlongs, and they came in his last two starts. In both of those races--the El Camino Real Derby and Sunland Derby--he had to overcome a lot. In the El Camino he was stuck on the inside the whole way and prevailed after a long stretch duel. His stalking style of running might be perfect for this race. He earned a career best 101 Bris speed rating in the Sunland Derby. He's been stabled at Churchill since the beginning of April and therefore knows the track as well as any horse in the race. Asmussen is a perennial leading trainer at Churchill. He is due to win a Derby, as is the colt's rider, Garrett Gomez.
Why he can't win: He only has the two grade III wins, and hasn't exactly beaten the top horses in his class in either of them. His average Bris speed ratings are consistently below the top contenders. Gomez will be riding him for the first time. Most of his racing has come on turf and he has run a few clunkers, including a maiden start at Churchill last July.
Done Talking
Why he can win: He showed a lot of grit in running down Morgan's Guerrilla in the Illinois Derby. If the race falls apart and someone comes from the clouds, he's a candidate. If you throw out the Gotham when he had a terrible start, he's a pretty consistent horse.
Why can't win: He's too slow. He ran 1:53 4/5 in the Illinois Derby. That's sundial-like slow.
Why he can win: His Blue Grass stretch run was breathtaking. The horse is one that obviously appreciates more ground and if he stays out of trouble you know he'll be coming at the end. He doesn't win every time, but he hasn't missed a beat since he started racing last summer. He's in great form. Desormeaux has won three Derbies and nobody except Bill Mott has won more races as a trainer at Churchill than Dale Romans. He is the only two-time grade I winner in the field.
Why he can't win: He's made three starts as Churchill and lost them all. They were his only three starts on dirt. Is he a better turf/synthetic horse? His record says he is.
Why he can win: He has run three consecutive Bris speed ratings of at least 100. He's never run a bad race in six starts. He's a stayer, grinder type and has the ability to keep coming in the long stretch.
Why he can't win: His stayer, grinder type style can also be a detriment, as he doesn't have that explosive turn of foot. Like Pletcher says, he's a lazy kind of colt. He'll be getting a new rider for the Derby (Bejarano).
Why he can win: He's undefeated, which nobody else in the field can boast. He can stalk the pace under a great rider in Javier Castellano. He showed that innate intangible in the Wood that not every horse has--he's a fighter. He has a graded stakes win at Churchill as a 2-year-old. Pletcher/WinStar have been there, done that with Super Saver.
Why he can't win: He's never been worse than third at any call in all five of his starts. With all the speed in this race, he won't be that close this time. Will that affect him? How will he handle a different type of trip? Hard to find any other faults with an undefeated horse.
Why he can win: He won the BC Juvenile over this track. He has incredible speed and can carry it. He has a world-class rider who more often than not judges pace correctly. He should get to follow Trinniberg, and when he followed speed in the Gotham he was very successful. He's a cool-looking horse.
Why he can't win: Ten furlongs could be beyond his scope, especially with his running style. He can follow Trinniberg, but if he is too close to a hot pace he might get cooked anyway. If he draws inside he might be in trouble. Post position will be key.
I'll Have Another
Why he can win: His Robert Lewis win is still the most impressive prep victory I've seen. And he came right back to outduel Creative Cause in the Santa Anita Derby, which proved he could run consecutive top-notch races. Talent-wise, he ranks right near the top of this class.
Why he can't win: There are lingering rumors about his soundness, especially after the shock wave therapy story came out and given his light schedule this year. Can he run three huge races in a row, the last one coming four weeks removed from his last start? He won't have a work at Churchill before the race, only a couple of gallops.
Why he can win: Baffert has considered him a Derby contender ever since he won the CashCall. Apparently, he is training much better at Churchill than he raced at Santa Anita.
Why he can't win: If Baffert knew he didn't like Santa Anita, why did he run him there three straight times? Tough to buy. He comes into the race off three below average starts--not exactly a confidence builder. Hard to believe a change of surface is going to move him up that much.
Mark Valeski
Why he can win: He can stalk and carve out a good trip under Rosie. He's gotten really good in a short amount of time. He got a lot out of his last two preps, dueling with El Padrino in one and chasing down a pacesetter in another. Larry Jones knows how to prepare a good horse.
Why he can't win: Not being able to run down 109-1 longshot Hero of Order in the Louisiana Derby didn't exactly flatter him, especially given how Hero of Order ran in the Blue Grass. He tries hard every time but looks like a one pace kind of horse. Might not be fast enough or explosive enough to beat 19 other horses.
Why he can win: He's pretty consistent, having hit the board in six of eight starts. He took advantage of a hot pace in the Tampa Bay Derby and showed a lot of determination in the stretch.
Why he can't win: His speed numbers say he's too slow. And he disappointed in his final tune-up in the Blue Grass. His only start at Churchill was the worst race of his career.
Rousing Sermon
Why he can win: He was making up a lot of ground late in the Louisiana Derby. Like the other deep closers, Trinniberg's presence in here will only help him. Jerry Hollendorfer is a Hall of Famer who has won a lot of big races.
Why he can't win: He's too slow; has no tactical speed at all. Has never run a Bris speed rating over 94. He's winless in his last five starts and was soundly beaten in a couple of them. He needs the race to fall apart to have any chance.
Sabercat
Why he can win: The aforementioned Asmussen factor. Asmussen has said from the beginning of the year that he planned to have him peaking in his third race off a layoff. Well, we're here now. Again, he'll need a pace meltdown to have any chance.
Why he can't win: Hasn't shown the kind of speed needed to beat most of these. His Delta Jackpot win is long forgotten by now after being soundly beaten in his last two. His speed numbers are just too low to make a logical case for a victory.
Take Charge Indy
Why he can win: He just beat Derby favorite Union Rags, and did so with something left. He's no fluke, as he's been highly thought of since he was a juvenile and has faced many of the top horses in this field. Ran fifth in the BC Juvenile in his only start over the track; it was a solid effort considering his trip. He seems to be peaking. Calvin Borel.
Why he can't win: He won't get an easy front-running trip like he did in the Florida Derby. Yes, he's proven he can rate, but his two best races were when he stayed close to the pace. I'm not so sure how effective he'll be when further back early on. He's been competitive in all of them, but has been beaten by a number of horses in this race.
Trinniberg
Why he can win: Because he's in the starting gate and any horse theoretically has a chance to win.
Why he can't win: Would take too long to name them all. Let's just start by saying he's never gone two turns and he'll run too fast early on. If this race was a mile, I'd give him a decent shot.
Union Rags
Why he can win: He's the most talented and physically imposing horse in the field. He's been beautifully managed by Matz since he was a juvenile and hasn't missed a beat in training. His last work was a thing of beauty. He ran a huge race in his only start over the track. Leparoux is as good as anyone riding at Churchill. He should carve out a stalking trip and should have learned a lot from the Florida Derby. The colt had a legitimate excuse in that race. His Fountain of Youth was more telling than the Florida Derby.
Why he can't win: He didn't show the explosiveness we expected in the Florida Derby. He had excuses, yes, but he also had a chance to run down Take Charge Indy late and couldn't do it. Maybe 10 furlongs is beyond his comfort zone. Maybe he's not as good as everyone thought.
Went the Day Well
Why he can win: I'm pretty sure Motion had a horse win the Spiral and go on to take the roses before. I can't remember who it was. He's not necessarily a synthetic specialist like that other horse, as he won on the Gulfstream dirt in March. He looks like a horse peaking at the right time, kind of like that other horse...oh yeah, now I remember--Animal Kingdom.
Why he can't win: He's still learning; he didn't break his maiden until March 3 and he really didn't beat all that much in either of his wins. This might be too much, too soon. Decent pedigree, but doesn't scream 10 furlongs like Animal Kingdom.
For analysis on the pedigree side of things, check out Derby Pedigrees Examined on the TrueNicks blog.
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NYC’s Horse Drawn Carriage Cruelty Could be Replaced by ‘Vintage’ Electric Cars
April 24, 2014 by Sara Novak
As Mayor Bill de Blasio works to ban Central Park’s horse drawn carriages, activists have unveiled a model of a vintage antique styled electric car to replace it. It’s called the Horseless ECarriage and it was commissioned by the animal rights group NY Class.
The cars were designed to present the “old world” character of horse drawn carriages sans animal cruelty. The mayor says that the horses are being treated inhumanely. According to NY Class, these 220 horses routinely work 9 hour days on hard pavement, pulling a vehicle that weighs hundreds of pounds. At the end of the day, the horses return to tiny stalls where they’re never afforded any pasture time. In the past two years, 18 accidents have involved horse drawn carriages.
Mayor De Blasio says that if the ban goes into effect, the horses will retire to sanctuaries. Currently, according to NY Class, upon retirement, the horses are transported to Pennsylvania where they are often sold for meat and then slaughtered in Mexico and Canada.
The new horseless carriage will mean that the industry stays afloat, just in a more modernized and less cruel manner. NY Class says that it has partnered with The Creative Workshop in Dania Beach, Florida to design and create fully electric cars that serve as ideal rides for tourists. The cars seat eight passengers and provide “stadium” 360 degree viewing of the city. The cars will travel 5 mph in the park but will be able to keep up to cars in the streets. They’re also all-weather vehicles that tourists will love just the same.
The horse drawn carriage ban has become a heated battle in the city. Actor Liam Neeson put a pro-carriage op-ed in The New York Times. He said, “an entire way of life and a historic industry are under threat. We should ask whether this is the New York we want to live in: a sanitized metropolis, where local color and grit are thrown out in favor of sleek futuristic buildings and careening self-driving cars?” After his op-ed, animal rights activists picketed in front of his New York City apartment. These new vintage electric cars may be just what’s needed to please both parties and say goodbye to horse drawn carriage cruelty.
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Kindergarten-Grade 5 Remote Literacy Planning and Discussion Guide
Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction within Remote Learning Environments
Research within blended or hybrid learning settings is currently emerging and suggesting preliminary implications for literacy practices. The Department partnered with the Region 8 Comprehensive Center Network to synthesize research and scholarship from across the fields of (1) instructional design and delivery in remote/distance literacy learning, (2) home-school partnerships for children’s literacy and social and emotional learning and (3) new literacies of online research and reading comprehension. More details on this research are available in the whitepaper, Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction within Remote Learning Environments , and on the National Center on Improving Literacy website and in the expert roundtable videos and additional information provided below.
Teaching Reading Online with Dr. Holly Lane, Director of the University of Florida Literacy Initiative: Video and Additional Information
Families as Partners with Dr. Marcia Kosanovich, CEO MK Educational Research & Practice, LLC and REL Southeast: Video and Additional Information
New Literacies and New Learning Opportunities with Dr. Donald Leu, Emeritus Professor and Endowed Chair, New Literacies Research Lab, University of Connecticut: Video and Additional Information
The Kindergarten-Grade 5 Remote Literacy Planning and Discussion Guide was developed to support Kindergarten-Grade 5 building leadership teams and teacher-based teams in designing literacy instruction for the 2020-2021 school year. The guide assumes districts and schools have developed re-entry plans for the 2020-2021 school year and asks teams to consider these components within the context of their local plan and curricular tools.
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Recorded in the afterglow of a huge Jets victory on Monday Night Football, Akiva is so exuberant that he brings on a guest in fellow Jets fan (and podcast alum) Av Sinensky, who makes sure to diss Colts fan Jake Lewin. Alex also scrambles back aboard the Vikings bandwagon, “crowing” about the win over Detroit and dismissing the loss to San Francisco as “anomalous.” As the podcast continues late into the night Akiva gets more and more sleepy, though he’s also distracted as he plans for Alex’s impending visit. Av’s debut performance in guessing the lines goes very well, and he also chastises famous Mets advocate Etan Bednarsh (who also occasionally advocates on other issues, as long as they’re still Mets related) for a poor opinion on NFL scheduling. Speaking of bad schedules, Alex’s 9 month old crawls into the room (at 1 in the morning!) halfway through the podcast, though he expresses no strong opinions on the injury bug taking out half of the NFC quarterbacks. Alex signs off on the last podcast he’ll record on U.S. soil for a few weeks, while he and Akiva conclude that perhaps they’re better off not meeting face to face.
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Aside from looking after survivors, death carries a rather hefty penalty. That said, it's nice that the easier option exists for players who haven't much patience. There is another option for gameplay, titled Exploration mode. Even brief journeys require the occasional stop to find or erect a shelter and then place a campfire. Advertisement The setting here is a post-apocalyptic one, but Fade To Silence is strangely opposed to giving any context or providing any kind of proper backstory.
Fade to Silence
If wanted to make sure we had a whole crew to progress through Fade To Silence with, they could have placed in behind a progression system and not have Ash be helpless until he finds others. There's no way to learn about the world through exploration, which is how a title like this should work, in my opinion. I often found myself just wandering around to see more of the world. It's in these moments that Fade to Silence shines as an engrossing tale of survival against all odds. I stood there and watched as my wolves ran off, leaving me to face an invading force of monsters. Article posters are the individual owner of the article content. Blizzards and tornadoes do a great job of looking impressive and limiting your vision.
Fade to Silence Game Review
Even so, these followers do shake up the most boring part of the survival cycle: gathering basic resources. There's some intriguing systems at work here but they don't combine in a way I can enjoy. Fade to Silence's regular mode is an extremely challenging survival simulation that will claim Ash's life in many ways, from lethal monsters to hypothermia. Simply put, you never get bored in Fade to Silence as there is always something to do. Add in some rough combat and you have what most of my experience with Fade to Silence was. Each survivor has their own skills, quirks and personality traits, and you can use their individual strengths through a fairly basic follower management system. A little unforgiving when it comes to enemies destroying you but.
At first glance, Fade to Silence seems to fall into this category, but while the premise is compelling and the survival aspects are well executed, the core combat mechanics make it a nightmare to slog through. Fade To Silence — What The Frost Is The Game? Fade to Silence, after two years in early access, is finally ready for a commercial release. The race back to camp as the ice builds on the warmness meter is nearly enough to cause the sweet sense of panic that the best kinds of survival titles can induce. Fortunately, the developers were kind enough to offer an easy hotkey to pick up and place the sled back on solid ground when it inevitably clips through the environment for the twentieth time. Ash must cleanse areas and landmarks of the Inner Voice while also providing enough supplies for the camp. Ultimately, Fade to Silence is a difficult game, and I can appreciate that.
Fade to Silence Review — Struggling for Survival
I enjoyed the rogue-like elements it has. Occasionally when Ash rests at a campfire, players are allowed into his dreams where hints of a world like ours still swim in his subconscious. For everyone else, it may be time to look in other directions for their frozen post-apocalyptic worlds. Enemies drop eldritch essence, which can be combined with mutated plants like blightbane and bloodhaw that appeared with the Blight to make potions. Lose all three and the character returns right back to square one: map unexplored, base reduced to rubble, no followers. This felt out of place and a weird mechanic to force. Ash can evade and counter enemies, but getting the timing right can be tricky when Ash feels so sluggish.
Once Ash has obtained enough basic supplies to last for a while, finding followers to join him at his camp becomes imperative. I could understand the reasons anyone would have built the locations as they did in this game. Blight nests are spread throughout each area, rewarding essence and other ingredients upon their destruction. We found our interest fading almost instantly… In Short: A survival game that, despite a few interesting ideas, struggles to provide any reason to persevere with its overfamiliar gameplay and poorly handled storytelling. A new survival game that places us in a frozen post-apocalypse world. Use of this website is subject to acceptance of our. If the concept of permanent death can make you angry, it remains an essential element, it would be a pity to ignore it by using the exploration mode, which we advise you to use only in last resort, since bargains and blessings allow you to restart stronger and save time.
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1964 Ron Swanson and Leo Reily
Date of Death (if Applicable)
Mister Christian
Builder and Designer
From MHYC: The First 60 Years
Article by: Frank Likely
The influence of Ron Swanson on club ocean racing has been profound. His reputation as a boat builder was established with the building of Siandra and Kaleena. Carmen Design.
As a designer, he recognised the potential of the Wally Ward designed Camira and, between them, they came up with the 30-foot Carmen design. She started to win races and those who admired her hurried to order sisterships. (Those who didn't, moaned about light-weight 'mickey mouse' boats.)
Carmen was a medium displacement yacht, solidly built with a Spartan, but extremely comfortable sea-going interior, and a fibreglass dodger of the hatch. as one of Carmen's watch captains, I can say that this class of boat was a delight to sail offshore. After winning the CYCA Blue Water Championship in 1962/63, MHYC members Jim Mason, Chas Middleton, Lal McDonnell and Bill Byrnes all became owners of Carmen Class yachts and left a substantial mark on ocean racing.
In 1963 Australia announced that it would challenge for the Admiral's Cup and there was considerable excitement as owners prepared for the selection trials. Ron designed a minimum rated, double ended sloop like Carmen called Camille. Trials were held in which Camille tied for first place with the Halvorsen Brothers Freya, while Caprice of Huon tied for third place with Salacia. The selection panel finally gave the nod for the third boat to Caprice of Huon - an emotional moment for Gordon Ingate and his crew. Normal Ridge's Lorita Marie went along as a private entry.
Club moral was running high over Camille's selection of the Admiral's Cup team and all sorts of functions were held for the MC team of Ron Swanson, Frank Likely, Peter Mounsey, Dave Linton, Curley Curlewis and Leo Reilly. Finally the yachts were loaded on board a ship and shipped off, with the crews following by air.
Although we were quietly confident we would not be disgraced, we were not prepared for the horse laughter of the English yachting press. One of their quotes read: 'Very sporting of the Australians to send over a couple of cruising boats (double-enders) and a very old Robert Clark design'.
Once the racing started, attitudes began to change. Caprice loved the smooth water of the Solent and English Channel and won three races. Meanwhile Camille and Freya had experience one bad Solent race which they soon made up for in the Fastnet Race (triple points) when Camille came sixth. The proud Australian team came home with a well deserved second place for the series, with Caprice the top Australian scorer.
About this time big things were happening in France which would involve Ron, This was the One Ton Cup - the first Level Rating Regatta for yacht that rated no more than 27.5 feet. The concept sent to designers all over the world rushing to their drawing boards - Ron included. He produced another double-ended, Salome with a large mainsail for the light winds in Denmark's Kattegat, where the next One Ton Cup series was to be held.
The MHYC took the venture to heart and feted the crew of Ron Swanson, Doug Gilling, Leo Reilly, Laurie Mitchell and Dave Linton. Salome was on her way to represent the club for the first time in the One Ton Cup.
Ron did not make feathers fly on the waters of the Kattegat, but when Salome came back, Ron re-rigged her for Australian conditions and went on to second place in the next Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Ron also came back with a head full of ideas.
Afloat Magazine by Peter Campbell
Jim Swanson, Master Boat Builder
On almost every yacht marina throughout Australia you will find moored a yacht designed and built by those master boatbuilders of the second half of the 20th century, the Swanson Bros of Sydney.
More than 165 Swanson boats, mainly ocean racers and cruisers were built in that time and most are still in fine condition, bringing high prices on the boat market - a fitting memorial to the innovative design and building skills of the brothers, Ron, Jim and Ken.
Ron died in 1990 after retiring to live in Tasmania and Jim passed away peacefully on 1 June this year just short shy of his 82nd birthday, leaving Ken the surviving brother. Ken lives on his hobby farm near Wyong.
The Swanson brothers emerged from the 1950s as yachties who could not only sail, but also design and build yachts. Significantly, the Swansons became production timber boat builders just as the era of fibreglass hulls was beginning in Australia.
In their time Swanson boats have won every major race in Australian waters and competed internationally. Swansons have cruised the oceans of the world and many have completed circumnavigations.
The Swanson brothers, after completing their apprenticeships as shipwrights, first came into prominence as yachtsmen and yacht builders when they gravitated to Middle Harbour Yacht Club at The Spit, Mosman. Ron began doing up old boats to race at the club for himself and others. One thing led to another and he was commissioned to build a couple of Stellas.
Soon followed "more serious stuff", said Jim in a wide-ranging interview with David Bray published on BoatPoint.com.au in 2001. Ron and Jim joined forces to build two Lion class yachts designed by Arthur Robb, one of them for Graham Newlinds, whose yacht Siandra won the Sydney Hobart Race in 1958 and 1960.
The brothers then took up permanent premises at Jim O'Rourke's boatshed at The Spit. One of their early commissions was a 43ft Sparkman and Stephens design for Norm Brooker. Then followed an S&S 36 and a 30ft Half Tonner, Defiance, which became the plug for the Defiance 30s built by Savage in Melbourne.
In his interview with David Bray, Jim spoke of their being few professionally trained yacht designers. "Peter Cole was a sailmaker in an old church at Balmain, Bob Miller (later Ben Lexcen) was self-taught and always willing to try something new, and my brother Ron was a great mathematician - he was the brains and brother Ken and I were the foot soldiers.
"Alan Payne was the exception and was a qualified shipwright and yacht designer, as was Warwick Hood, who worked with Alan."
In the early 1960s Ron Swanson worked with Wally Ward in designing boats that were to lead to the Carmen class in the early 1960s.
When the Halvorsen brothers' famous yacht Freya won three consecutive Sydney Hobarts in 1963, 1964 and 1965, a Swanson designed and built yacht finished runner-up, Cavalier in 1963, Camille in 1964 and Camelot in 1965.
Camille, a 37-footer, represented Australia in the nation's first challenge for the Admiral's Cup in 1965, the Australian team that also included Caprice of Huon and Freya finished second overall in a remarkable effort.
The breakthrough to victory came in the 1966 Sydney Hobart when Jim Mason skippered Cadence, a Carmen class, to victory. Second place went to Salome, a 33ft one tonner skippered by Ron Swanson and subsequently restored and owned by actor Colin Friels.
By this time, the Swanson brothers had their own factory at Dee Why, with Cavalier and Cadence the first out of the shed, heralding the start of Swanson Bros as production timber boats.
The success of the Swanson 36, including a third by Matika in the 1967 Sydney Hobart, plus the advent of fibreglass boat-building, brought a rapid expansion in their business which saw the Swansons put their efforts more into "good, strong, cruising yachts".
The best known of the Swansons were the three cruising yachts, the 28, 38 and 42. Well over one hundred of these fine craft were built. One Swanson 42, Onya of Gosford, circumnavigated the globe as well as competing in the Sydney Hobart.
Apart from building boats themselves, the Swanson brothers introduced a scheme where amateur boatbuilders, under supervision, could hire the moulds and factory space to build their own boats.
Around 1985, 21 years after opening their factory at Dee Why, the Swanson brother decided to call it quits as boat builders. "We ran out of puff," Jim told David Bray.
While Ron and Ken walked away from the marine industry, Jim took up marine surveying as a way of using his skills and keeping in touch with yachting.
Vale, Jim Swanson, Master Yacht Builder and co-founder of Swanson Bros Yachts, the boats you created will remain afloat for many years to come.
* The author acknowledges the interview with the late Jim Swanson by David Bray and originally published on BoatPoint.com.au as a major source for this article.
Links to Website
Australia Day Regatta 2014
http://australiadayregatta.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/178th-ADR-Program-WEB.pdf
Boatpoint
http://www.boatpoint.com.au/content/features/2001/swanson-yachts-a-buyers-guide-8381
Afloat Magasine http://www.afloat.com.au/afloat-magazine/2013/july-2013/Harbour_Happenings_-_Happiness_reigns_supreme_at_the_Australian_Womens_Keelboat_Regatta#.VmeAf2yheUl
Swanson Brothers Ken Jim and Ron
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