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Founder Interview: Pretty Simple’s Corentin Raux on building on Criminal Case’s massive success
By Trista Bridges Published on 23 August 2013 at 10 h 30 min
Throughout the month of August, the Rude Baguette will be running a series of interviews with some of France’s top and rising entrepreneurs, where they’ll share their reflections on their year thus far, their plans through the end of the year and how they manage their businesses through the August down period. In this installment, we talk with Pretty Simple Games cofounder Corentin Raux.
The runaway success of Pretty Simple Games’ Criminal Case has easily been one of the biggest stories in the gaming sector over the past year. Having launched less than a year ago, it’s now the #2 game on Facebook and has 9 million DAU (as of June), coming from all over the globe. Founders Corentin Raux and Bastien Cazenave and their ever-expanding, highly international team have grown Pretty Simple Games into one of France’s biggest startup success stories yet. In this installment of our August Founders Series, cofounder Corentin Raux discusses how they’ve achieved success so quickly, the ever-important next step of developing Criminal Case into a franchise and the importance of building the right team.
What have been the big accomplishments for Pretty Simple since the beginning of the year?
Our biggest accomplishment this year is no doubt the success of Criminal Case, our social game of police investigation. The first semester of this year saw the game soar to #2 most played game on Facebook and reach 9M daily active players. It’s not something that happened overnight though, as Criminal Case had been a year and a half in the works before we published it. The team kept working hard on it since, and we publish one new investigation each week.
Another big accomplishment is growing the team. We were just over 30 people at the start of 2013, and we are 45 now. Finding talented people to come make games with us in Paris is our priority this year, and we’re well on the path of meeting our objective of being a team of 80 people next year.
What are your goals for the end of the year?
Well, first there’s the team, as we are all about finding the right people to come and join us. There are some very interesting opportunities right now as our team is still relatively small, and we’re growing fast. We’re building up our whole team, from mobile developers to game artists, in order to tackle more projects. We’re recruiting in France and abroad, and our team is becoming more and more international.
Our second main goal is to continue developing Criminal Case into a franchise, both with our ongoing work on the Facebook version and with creating Criminal Case for iPad and iPhone. We’ve just announced we were planning to release this mobile version in January 2014.
What have you learned this year that you think every entrepreneur should know?
We learned that it is not enough to launch a good product, and that making a product successful requires a lot of work and energy after launch. Bringing Criminal Case from 0 to 9 millions daily players was actually even harder work than developing it in the first place. There were details to correct and optimize everywhere, and this is work that can only be done when the product is actually tested by the market.
With regards to team building, I knew in advance that each single recruitment is crucial. As we grew to 45 people this year though, this view has been confirmed and I can’t stress enough how every hire counts.
How does your company handle vacation & the August down period?
We are very demanding with ourselves because we want to make good products, and we each need to be responsible with the work that needs to be done. But this is a two way street, and people can ask for their vacation time up to the day before they leave, and that’s fine. And yes, the office is quieter in August!
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USATF Indoor, Day 1-Middle Distance Karma
By Larry Eder on March 1, 2009 5:28 PM | 0 Comments
The first day of the USA Indoor had one of the best crowds at a US Indoor in many years, but it still was not the crowd of the recent professional meeting, Reebok Boston Indoor Games, held the in early February.
However, there was enough star fire power, and some exciting young athletes to beg the question-why don't we put this meet into two three hour sessions, promote it right and remember that track & field is the ultimate sports entertainment!
The picture above is of Rob Myers winning his third indoor title at 1,500 meters, ( 2004, 2008, and now, 2009), by nine hundredths of a second over Alan Webb! Rob, an Ohio State grad, is training with Ron Warhurst and his group of middle distance studs ( Nick Willis, Nate Brannen, Kevin Sullivan). Myers told the media, " Once I get up for speed, I am hard to get around."
The entire race, with Alan Webb up front, Rob Myers stayed close, with Chris Lukesic way off the back. The pace was pretty pedestrian, which, quite frankly, was due to the absence of Bernard Lagat ( injured).
But, a championship is a championship. John Walker the 1976 Olympic gold medalist at 1,500 meters, told a reporter that he was hoping for a final with several senior citizens-he did not relish a race with kicking, battling, seasoned middle distance runners. The problem is running efficiently. In an indoor race, sitting off the back means that you may have given your competitor twenty to thirty meters, so that when they attack, you are already down. Myers uses that Warhurst Mile 101 tactic--stay in the game, near the front, so you can challenge.
Myers made his move with one lap to go and just did not stop. Alan Webb looked very well positioned, but, as Alan is focusing on the 800 and 1,500 meters this year, he just did not have his top gear. Webb did give it his all, but Rob Myers had his day, and his third 1,500 meter title indoors! Rob Myers noted to the press: " I try to use that to my advantage ( his high end speed), Alan was coming hard at the end and I knew it, so I was just hanging on!"
Rob Myers won his third title by the smallest of margins over Alan Webb- a scant nine hundreths of a second!
The women's 3,000 meters was a fast race from the start. Jenn Rhines took the pace out hard, followed by Lindsay Gallo, Julie Culley, Sara Hall, and Amy Yoder Begley. Jenn Rhines is the little engine that could and should--this women gets more out of her short, but wonderfully efficient stride and she races all out. Lindsay Gallo, who won the Reebok BIG mile here last month, ran relaxed in second and third, looking like the women to beat. Also in that pack was Julie Culley of the NYAC, and Amy Yoder Begley.
Amy Yoder Begley was the third member of our US Olympic team at 10,000 meters. This women, while not an elegant runner, brings the fan in, because she runs big! Amy has a long stride, and her arms reach across her torso, as she seemingly grabs at the air and the next step. She is Emil Zatopek, but much more fascinating to observe.
Yoder Begley took over the pace just after 1,600 meters, and Lindsay Gallo, Julie Culley, Rebecca Donahue stayed close, as Jenn Rhines began to drop back into the pack.
Amy Yoder Begley lead through 2400 meters, and it still looked like Gallo would just stomp on the field with 200 to go, but Amy had other thoughts. Increasing the pace, Yoder Begley took Gallo out of the game with six hundred meters to go. Julie Culley, Sara Hall charged on by Lindsay Gallo with a lap to go, but, but then, it was Amy Yoder Begley's race to win or loose.
Then Sara Hall just sprinted up along side Amy Yoder Begley with a turn and straightaway to go, would she prevail?
Somehow, Amy Yoder Begley held on, running 8:53.27 for first. In second, Sara Hall ran 8:52.72 for second and Julie Culley held on for third in 8:55.62. Lindsay Gallo ran a fine 8:56.92 for fourth. Afterwards, Amy revealed her race plan ( her coach is Alberto Salazar), : " We were planning on a 1,500 meter easy run. With seven laps to go, I wanted to start to grind them, taking a second each lap and run faster and faster. " And that is what she did. Amy Yoder Begley took the women's 3,000 meter from a very determined field.
In the men's 3,000 meters, it came down to the last lap. Brandon Bethke took the lead with a lap to go, with Jonathan Riley menacing, and David Torrance watching his first shot at a US title dimming.
Bethke and Torrance were neck and neck as they came off the turn. Torrance was trying to gather one last charge, in his head, he told media later, was the words a friend had shouted just before the start of the last lap, : " It is do or die time. Get it. It is yours."
And that is just what the young David Torrance did. In his first shot at a national title, David Torrance delivered, running 7:53.67, to best Brandon Bethke, in second, in 7:54.20 and Jonathan Riley, a hometown boy, who finished third!
Saturday, again, was a strong crowd, with some good early races and a strong and appreciative crowd. Sunday, will bring the USA Indoor and professional season in North America to a close. My contention is that the competition today, with three all out races, is what the sport is all about.
I suggest a shorter time frame, perhaps one good solid, five hour day! Congrats to Rob Myers, Amy Yoder Begley and David Torrance in the middle distances!
All photos by PhotoRun.net. Special thanks to Lisa Coniglio.
For complete results, please check www.usatf.org.
For more on the sport, try www.american-trackandfield.com
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California Adds Another, Stricter Tier of COVID-19 Related Business Restrictions
By: Timothy Hoppe, Claire Chang, Elizabeth Levy, and Chantelle Egan
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Seyfarth Synopsis: Effective December 5, 2020, California businesses may be subject to a new Regional Stay At Home Order. The Order divides the State into five regions and will place new restrictions on businesses in regions where the ICU availability drops below 15%. For impacted regions, the Order will close bars, salons, personal care services, and many entertainment businesses. Among other things, the Order will also place tighter capacity restrictions on retailers, limit the number of guests hotels can accept, and restrict restaurants to takeout and delivery operations.
On December 3, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom announced an additional level of potential restrictions on businesses due to the spike in COVID-19 cases across the Golden State. The new Order, dubbed a “Regional Stay At Home Order,” will take effect on December 5, 2020. These new business restrictions will go into effect within 24 hours in regions where the ICU availability dips below 15%. The restrictions will remain in effect for at least three weeks thereafter.
The State’s five regions as depicted in the below map are:
Northern California: Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama, Trinity Counties
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Bay Area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma Counties
Greater Sacramento: Alpine, Amador, Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Sierra, Sutter, Yolo, Yuba Counties
San Joaquin Valley: Calaveras, Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, San Benito, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare, Tuolumne Counties
Southern California: Imperial, Inyo, Los Angeles, Mono, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura Counties
When read with the concurrently released guidance, the Order allows the following businesses to remain open once a region’s ICU capacity triggers the Order’s restrictions:
Critical infrastructure sectors may remain open provided they continue to modify operations pursuant to the California’s Industry Specific Guidance.
Retailers (both essential and non-essential) may remain open provided they limit indoor capacity to 20%. Retailers must also (1) follow the State’s guidance for retailers; (2) strictly monitor access into and occupancy of their facilities; (3) prohibit in-store consumption of food, beverages, and alcohol, and (4) institute special hours for seniors and those with chronic conditions or compromised immune systems.
Hotels and lodging are allowed to remain open for critical infrastructure support only. Though not expressly stated, the Order permits hotels and lodging entities to continue to accept out-of-state reservations for essential travel. However, any out of state reservations for non-essential travel are explicitly prohibited under the Order, unless the reservation is for at least the minimum time period required for quarantine, and the persons identified in the reservation will quarantine in the hotel or lodging entity until after that time period has expired.
Restaurants may remain open for take-out, pick-up, or delivery operations only.
Non-urgent medical and dental care operations may continue provided the business requires 100% masking, physical distancing, and follows other required safety measures.
Child care and pre-K operations may continue provided the business requires 100% masking, physical distancing, and follows other required safety measures.
Schools may remain open provided they have received a waiver to operate in-person learning
Outdoor recreation facilities may remain open provided they do not sell food or drink for on-site consumption. Overnight stays at campgrounds are prohibited.
Places of worship may remain open for outdoor services only.
Offices workspaces must operate remotely except for critical infrastructure sectors where remote working is not possible.
Other businesses not listed in the Order must close in impacted regions. The guidance issued with the Order specifically lists the following businesses:
Indoor and outdoor playgrounds
Indoor recreational facilities
Hair salons and barbershops
Museums, zoos, and aquariums
Bars, breweries, and distilleries
Cardrooms and satellite wagering
Limited services
Live audience sports
For updates on ICU capacities, visit the State’s COVID-19 website, here. As of December 3, none of the regions had fallen below the 15% ICU capacity threshold. However, during his press conference, the Governor warned that the State anticipates all regions will fall below the threshold in the coming days and weeks.
The new Order does not change California’s existing tiered restrictions established in the Blueprint for a Safer Economy. When triggered, the new Order supersedes any conflicting terms. Fifty-two of California’s fifty-eight counties are currently in the Blueprint’s most restrictive Tier 1 (Purple / Widespread). Businesses must continue to abide by the restrictions in the Blueprint as well as any city or county-specific restrictions, unless the new Order imposes stricter restrictions. Likewise, once the Order’s restrictions are lifted for a particular region, each of the counties within that region must again adhere to the restrictions imposed by their respective assigned tier.
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Courtesy | Integrity | Perseverance | Self-Control | Indomitable Spirit
Ye Ui Yom Chi In Nae Guk Gi Baekjul Boolgool
예 의 염 치 인 내 극 기 백 절 불 굴
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Grandmaster General Choi Hong Hi (최홍희), 1918 - 2002
The beginning of Taekwon-Do began with one man by the name of Choi Hong Hi or better known to most as Grandmaster General Choi Hong Hi. As a child, his parents were constantly concerned for his health, as he was frail and sickly.
General Choi was then introduced to the ancident Korean Art of foot fighting called Taek Kyon, he learned from Mr. Han II Dong to build up his physique and body resistance. General Choi later met a Korean who taught him Japanese Martial Art Karate, enabling him to attain a black belt. Combining both techniques of Karate and the ancient Korea art of foot fighting, General Choi Hong Hi gave life to Taekwon-Do.
In 1955 Taekwon-Do was signaled as a recognized art in Korea and a board was formed to include leading masters, instructors, historians and prominent leaders in society. On the 11th April, General Choi Hong Hi decided to officially name this art Taekwon-Do and after eleven years later on 22nd March 1966 General Choi founded ITF is the International Taekwon-Do Federation.
Taekwon-Do spread quickly under the presidency of General Choi and through his students; it was introduce to the greatest military academy in the world, and was made a compulsory subject for the entire arm forces as well as police force in South Korea.
In August 1988, the father of Taekwon-Do, General Choi was able to realize his dream when his art was introduced to every continent in the world, breaking the boundaries of religion, race, nationality or ideological boundaries, uniting the people all over the world with harmony through Taekwon-Do.
The late General passed on 15th June 2002 and his wish was that all instructors would follow his example by devoting their time towards brining Taekwon-Do into schools in their respective countries to help bring people together with a common goal.
The basic ideals for the Taekwon-Do practitioners:
By developing an upright mind and a strong body, we will acquire the self-confidence to stand on the side of justice at all times
We shall unite with all men in a common brotherhood, without regard to religion, race, national or ideological boundaries.
We shall dedicate ourselves to building a peaceful human society in which justice, morality, trust and humanism prevail.
It is said that introducing the art is not enough; instructors must also concern themselves with imbuing and maintaining a positive influence that will serve as a guiding light to the student. Only then can he be considered as a practitioner of Taekwon-Do.
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Coronavirus daily news updates, July 28: What to know today about COVID-19 in the Seattle area, Washington state and the world
July 28, 2020 at 6:27 am Updated July 28, 2020 at 10:04 pm
Along the first-base side of T-Mobile Park, Mariners employee Emily Wright puts out some of the thousands of cardboard fan cutouts for what the Mariners are calling “Seat Fleet” Monday ahead of Friday’s Mariners home opener. Fans can take their own photo and send in any time during the season for $30, and according to the Mariners website: “…the Mariners will donate a portion of every purchase to non-profit organizations supporting COVID-related relief efforts in our communities. What’s more? If your cutout ‘catches’ a foul ball during a game, we’ll mail you the baseball!” According to Rebecca Hale, Sr Director of Public Information with the Mariners, 6,300 fans have already participated in the program. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
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Thousands of volunteers helped launch the world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine trial Monday by testing shots created by the U.S. government. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence visited development sites in North Carolina and Florida, in an attempt to highlight the study that’s one of several candidates racing to develop a vaccine.
Throughout Tuesday, on this page, we’ll be posting Seattle Times journalists’ updates on the outbreak and its effects on the Seattle area, the Pacific Northwest and the world. Updates from Monday can be found here, and all our coronavirus coverage can be found here.
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Port of Seattle seeks to bring more tourists to state as coronavirus case counts climb
The Port of Seattle will help bankroll a $3.57 million ad campaign to lure travelers back to Washington state, hoping to repair damage done to its hospitality sector as a result of lockdown measures to control the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The money won’t be spent, Port officials assured the public at a Tuesday meeting, until travel begins picking up again. That may come when the state signals nonessential travel is safe once more, allaying travel anxieties. Public health agencies and even local tourism groups continue to advise people to stay home to control the spread of coronavirus.
“We don’t want to fish when the fish aren’t biting,” said Port tourism director Ron Peck.
The Washington Tourism Alliance, which is producing the campaign, outlined a preliminary September start date for the advertising campaign. Peck said he “wouldn’t be surprised” if that were pushed out. The alliance, he said, is relying on market research from industry groups including the U.S. Travel Association to determine when to time the camapaign, but didn’t articulate a specific trigger that would prompt its rollout.
—Katherine K. Long
Inslee to pause reopening Washington counties indefinitely
Gov. Jay Inslee announced Tuesday he's extending the pause on reopening Washington counties indefinitely, citing increasing COVID-19 cases.
When Inslee initially announced the pause July 14, he said the freeze would be in place for two weeks, adding that the current rise of confirmed cases here — along with an estimated transmission rate indicating infected people are spreading the virus to others — would leave Washington in a "dangerous position” if left unchecked.
Inslee also added new requirements that restaurants, breweries, recreational centers, card rooms and movie theaters must follow, starting Thursday. Restaurants, breweries, taverns, wineries and distilleries must stop alcohol service by 10 p.m., according to a Tuesday memo from Inslee's office, and game areas — including billiards, darts and video games — are prohibited.
The pause halts the state's four-phase "Safe Start Washington" plan, which lays out emergency coronavirus requirements counties must meet before they're able to progress to the next phase.
Last week, Inslee also announced several tighter restrictions on bars, restaurants, fitness centers, weddings and funerals, as well as a statewide mandate requiring Washingtonians wear facial coverings in public.
—Elise Takahama and Joseph O'Sullivan
Hundreds wait hours for coronavirus care in Ecuador capital
QUITO, Ecuador — Hundreds of people with breathing problems waited for hours in long lines in Ecuador’s capital Tuesday seeking medical attention and tests to determine if they were infected with the new coronavirus.
Hospitals and funeral homes have been overwhelmed for weeks in Quito, where city officials have reported 12,747 confirmed cases and 605 deaths so far in the pandemic.
The result is that long lines of people observing social distancing snake from hospitals, with waits of up to four hours before they can undergo clinical examinations and a quick coronavirus test.
Health Minister Juan Carlos Zevallos said Quito is “in a critical situation.”
“There is a very big demand for hospital beds and beds that have been adapted to care for critical patients who require ventilation and intensive care beds,” he said. “We are in a position that doesn’t compare in any way to what is happening in the rest of Latin America.”
GOP tucks $8 billion for military weaponry in virus bill
WASHINGTON — A new $1 trillion COVID-19 response package by Senate Republicans is supposed to give the government more weapons to battle the surging coronavirus pandemic. But GOP lawmakers have more than just the “invisible enemy” in mind.
The Republican measure includes billions for F-35 fighters, Apache helicopters and infantry carriers sought by Washington’s powerful defense lobby. Overall, the proposal stuffs $8 billion into Pentagon weapons systems built by defense contractors like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics — corporate titans that sit atop the Washington influence industry.
The bill, drafted by Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Richard Shelby, R-Ala., would deposit $2.2 billion in Pentagon shipbuilding accounts, boost missile defense systems in California and Alaska and deliver about $1.4 billion for C-130 transport planes and F-35 fighters manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corp. Some of the F-35s could be delivered to an Air National Guard unit in Montgomery, Alabama.
The outlook for Shelby’s proposed defense projects could be dim. Democrats slammed the add-ons, and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Tuesday that the final package should not stray from the coronavirus response.
Starbucks says it sees better times ahead as stores reopen
Starbucks’ revenue shrank 38% in its most recent quarter but the coffee giant says it’s recovering faster than expected as its stores reopen from coronavirus lockdowns.
The Seattle-based company said Tuesday that it expects coronavirus-related losses to ease through the rest of this year.
“We believe the worst is behind us,” Chief Financial Officer Patrick Grismer said.
Starbucks said 97% of its company-operated stores around the world are now open, including 99% of stores in China and 96% in the U.S. However, some franchised locations remain closed, especially at airports and on college campuses.
The company ended its fiscal third quarter on June 28 with 32,180 stores; a little less than half of those are in the U.S.
$1,000 fine for head of U.S. whale watch association after crossing into closed Canadian waters
The U.S. head of the Pacific Whale Watch Association was fined $1,000 after his whale watching tour crossed into Canadian waters that are closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jeff Friedman of Maya’s Legacy Whale Watching, based in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, said he was more than surprised when enforcement officers approached his boat on July 17, 1.5 miles over the border at Boundary Pass.
He was required to travel with his customers to a nearby Canadian customs office, where everyone’s identification was checked — and he was fined $1,000 for the crossing. Officials also ordered him back to the dock at Friday Harbor to clear U.S. customs.
The incident was the second time in recent weeks Canadian authorities have written $1,000 tickets for boaters not authorized to be across the border during the COVID-19 shutdown.
—Lynda V. Mapes
State confirms 884 new COVID-19 cases and 30 new deaths; positive test rate at 5.2%
State health officials reported 884 new COVID-19 cases in Washington as of Monday night, and 30 new deaths -- the most in a single day since April.
Department of Health spokesman Jamie Nixon said the spike in numbers was caused by "a small technical glitch that caused a backlog."
Twenty-one of the deaths were reported in the last three days, and all 30 were reported in the last week, Nixon said.
The update brings the state’s totals to 54,205 cases and 1,548 deaths, meaning that 2.9% of people diagnosed in Washington have died, according to the state Department of Health (DOH). The data is as of 11:59 p.m. Monday.
So far, 945,234 tests for the novel coronavirus have been conducted in the state, per DOH. Of those, 5.7% have come back positive.
In King County, the state most populous, state health officials have confirmed 14,717 diagnoses and 648 deaths in King County, accounting for a little less than half of the state’s COVID-19 death toll.
—Nicole Brodeur
US officials: Russia behind spread of virus disinformation
WASHINGTON — Russian intelligence services are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain ahead of the presidential election in November, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Two Russians who have held senior roles in Moscow’s military intelligence service known as the GRU have been identified as responsible for a disinformation effort reaching American and Western audiences, U.S. government officials said. They spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The information had previously been classified, but officials said it had been downgraded so they could more freely discuss it. Officials said they were doing so now to sound the alarm about the particular websites and to expose what they say is a clear link between the sites and Russian intelligence.
Baseball season teeters, while states resist mask rules
JACKSON, Miss. — The baseball season descended deeper into crisis Tuesday, states such as Mississippi and South Carolina cast about for more hospital beds, and governors in some of the hardest-hit places staunchly resisted calls to require masks, despite soaring cases of the coronavirus.
Major league baseball suspended the Miami Marlins’ season through Sunday because of an outbreak that has spread to at least 15 of the team’s players, and a series of games this week between the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies was called off as a precaution.
With states like Florida, Arizona and Texas in dire condition, the virus has also been spreading farther north in recent days, causing alarm among public health officials who fear states are not doing enough to avoid catastrophic outbreaks like those in the Sun Belt.
‘Not sparing anyone’: Texas funeral homes can’t escape virus
Johnny Salinas Jr., owner of Salinas Funeral Home in Elsa, Texas, typically handles five funerals a week. But on a recent day, with the coronavirus tearing through his community, he saw that many grieving families in a single day.
A sixth family was waiting, too. His own.
Salinas changed from a polo shirt into a crisp black suit and left his office for the chapel next door. The light blue coffin of his great-uncle, who died of COVID-19, sat at the front of the room, adorned with white flower arrangements and a wooden crucifix.
“The virus is not sparing anyone,” Salinas said. “Not even my family.”
Johnny Salinas Jr., a funeral director, positions a coffin at the Salinas Funeral Home in Brownsville, Texas, July 23, 2020. The death toll from the coronavirus in the Rio Grande Valley is forcing funeral directors to buy refrigerated trucks and bypass traditional services such as velorios. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times)
In the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where a surge of virus cases has set off a flood of deaths this month, funeral homes — like hospitals — are overloaded and struggling to carry out basic services and keep up with the expanding crisis. Local funeral homes, officials said, have not experienced such demand in decades.
Read the story here.
—Edgar Sandoval, The New York Times
12:58 pm, Jul. 28, 2020
Pandemic will keep Puget Sound government employees working remotely till next year
Local government employees around the Puget Sound region will continue working from home until 2021, officials announced Tuesday.
Leaders from King, Pierce and Snohomish counties, from the cities of Everett, Kenmore, Redmond, Seattle, Shoreline and Tacoma, and from the ports of Seattle and Everett, “are taking a united approach to slow the spread of COVID-19 and maximize physical distancing by extending teleworking for eligible employees until 2021,” according to a news release from King County Executive Dow Constantine.
Light traffic on Interstate 5 through Seattle at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 12, 2020. Local governments announced in July that most employees would be working from home until 2021 due to COVID-19. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
King County previously had advised employees they would be working from home until at least Labor Day, Constantine spokesperson Chase Gallagher said. The county’s mandatory teleworking policy applies to all employees, “except those where there is an operational need” to physically be at work. For example, bus operators cannot work from home, Gallagher noted.
Eligible King County employees now will telework at least through Jan. 8.
—Daniel Beekman
Photos from across the globe: New precautions as coronavirus returns
Women pass each other Tuesday on a street in Beijing, which reported its first case of domestic transmission in more than two weeks. (Andy Wong / The Associated Press)
Skater Maria Francisca Ortega trains on Tuesday in an outdoor public space in Santiago, Chile, where lockdowns are easing. (Esteban Felix / The Associated Press)
View the whole photo gallery here.
—Courtney Riffkin
Labor unions petition Transportation Department for a mandatory mask rule
Labor unions representing transportation workers formally asked the U.S. Department of Transportation this week to issue an emergency rule ordering passengers to wear masks on planes, buses and trains or be denied a ride.
Larry Willis, the president of the Transportation Trades Department, a coalition of 33 unions, wrote in the petition that the government needed to go beyond issuing guidance and set clear rules for the use of masks to protect workers and passengers from the coronavirus.
“This regulation should require that passengers wear masks covering the nose and mouth while on board buses, trains, airplanes, and passenger vessels, as well as in boarding areas and associated facilities including airports and stations,” Willis wrote to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Monday.
The transportation department has been willing to waive existing safety rules at the request of industry groups to ease the transportation of freight on trucks, trains and airplanes. But Chao has said she doesn’t generally support the idea of writing new rules in response to the pandemic, saying they could prove difficult to undo once the crisis passes.
10:33 am, Jul. 28, 2020
National teachers union supports strikes over reopening plans
One of the nation’s largest teachers unions is authorizing its members to strike if their schools plan to reopen without proper safety measures during the pandemic.
The American Federation of Teachers, which represents 1.7 million school employees, issued a resolution Tuesday saying it will support any local chapter that decides to strike over reopening plans. The group says school buildings should open only in areas where coronavirus infections are low and schools enact certain safety measures.
In announcing the measure, the union’s president blasted President Donald Trump for ordering schools to reopen as the virus surges. Randi Weingarten called Trump’s response “chaotic and catastrophic,” saying it has left teachers angry and afraid.
Fairfax County school buses are lined up at a maintenance facility in Lorton, Va., on Friday. The nation’s 10th-largest school district plans an all-virtual start to the fall semester. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
“We will fight on all fronts for the safety of our students and their educators,” Weingarten said during the group’s annual convention. “But if authorities don’t protect the safety and health of those we represent and those we serve, as our executive council voted last week, nothing is off the table.”
Fears of virus' second wave strike blow to tourism industry
Concerns over a second wave of coronavirus infections brought on by returning vacationers are wreaking havoc across Europe’s tourism industry, particularly in Spain, following Britain’s effective ban on travel to the country.
In a move that reflects the continent’s piecemeal approach to keeping the virus at bay, the British government has recommended against all but essential travel to the whole of Spain following an upswing in new infections.
Tourists visiting from the U.K. take a selfie at a viewpoint on the island of Mallorca, Spain, on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu)
As part of the new stricter approach, all travelers arriving in Britain from Spain will have to undergo a 14-day quarantine.
“I’m afraid you are starting to see in some places the signs of a second wave of the pandemic,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Tuesday in defending his government’s new travel advice.
The move has not only dashed the hopes of many British holidaymakers for a getaway this summer, but also fanned renewed uncertainty within Europe’s tourism industry over how to plan ahead amid authorities’ responses to new COVID-19 outbreaks.
8:48 am, Jul. 28, 2020
‘Appalled’ Cuomo to investigate crowded Chainsmokers concert
New York’s governor says he is “appalled” by videos showing crowds standing close together at a Hamptons concert featuring electronic music duo The Chainsmokers over the weekend.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state Department of Health will conduct an investigation into “egregious social distancing violations.”
“We have no tolerance for the illegal reckless endangerment of public health,” reads the governor’s Monday night tweet.
Videos from a concert held in Southampton on Saturday show egregious social distancing violations. I am appalled.
The Department of Health will conduct an investigation.
We have no tolerance for the illegal & reckless endangerment of public health.pic.twitter.com/gf9kggdo8w
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) July 28, 2020
The Saturday night concert — called “Safe & Sound” — was billed as a charity drive-in show where Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon and Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman’s band also performed.
Cuomo shared a social media video that showed crowds of people standing closer than six feet and swaying near the stage.
Volunteers came to the rescue as virus raged in Kyrgyzstan
When his mother began deteriorating from the coronavirus two weeks ago, Bektour Iskender knew that hospitals in Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, were full. So he turned to Twitter for advice.
He was directed to a volunteer group that made house calls with oxygen concentrators for patients with trouble breathing. Two hours later, volunteers in full protective gear arrived and showed Iskender how to use one of the machines he had borrowed from friends of his relatives. His mother started improving soon after using it.
“I later spoke to my friend, a doctor, and he said that it was probably a breakthrough moment,” said the 35-year-old Iskender, co-founder of the Kloop online news site.
A volunteer in a protective suit and gloves sets up an oxygen concentrator to help a suspected coronavirus patient breathe at her apartment in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Friday, July 24, 2020. Volunteers have played a big role in dealing with a wave of coronavirus cases in Kyrgyzstan. Many started doing house calls to patients who couldn’t get into a hospital, bringing oxygen concentrators with them. (AP Photo / Vladimir Voronin)
One of the poorest countries to emerge from the former Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan has been hit hard by the coronavirus, with the outbreak pushing the Central Asian nation’s outdated and poorly funded health care system to near collapse.
Armies of volunteers, however, have played a major role in filling the gaps in dealing with the crisis in the country of 6.5 million people.
“For such a small country with limited resources, volunteers did a colossal amount of work,” said Bermet Baryktabasova, a medical expert in Bishkek. “They saved thousands of lives.”
Virus-linked hunger tied to 10,000 child deaths each month
The lean season is coming for Burkina Faso’s children. And this time, the long wait for the harvest is bringing a hunger more ferocious than most have ever known.
That hunger is already stalking Haboue Solange Boue, an infant who has lost half her former body weight of 5.5 pounds in the last month. With the markets closed because of coronavirus restrictions, her family sold fewer vegetables. Her mother is too malnourished to nurse her.
“My child,” Danssanin Lanizou whispers, choking back tears as she unwraps a blanket to reveal her baby’s protruding ribs. The infant whimpers soundlessly.
One-month old Haboue Solange Boue, awaiting medical care for severe malnutrition, is held by her mother, Danssanin Lanizou, 30, at the feeding center of the main hospital in the town of Hounde, Burkina Faso, in mid-June. (AP Photo / Sam Mednick)
All around the world, the coronavirus and its restrictions are pushing already hungry communities over the edge, cutting off meager farms from markets and isolating villages from food and medical aid. Virus-linked hunger is leading to the deaths of 10,000 more children a month over the first year of the pandemic, according to an urgent call to action from the United Nations shared with The Associated Press ahead of its publication in the Lancet medical journal.
Further, more than 550,000 additional children each month are being struck by what is called wasting, according to the U.N. — malnutrition that manifests in spindly limbs and distended bellies. Over a year, that’s up 6.7 million from last year’s total of 47 million. Wasting and stunting can permanently damage children physically and mentally, transforming individual tragedies into a generational catastrophe.
“The food security effects of the COVID crisis are going to reflect many years from now,” said Dr. Francesco Branca, the World Health Organization head of nutrition. “There is going to be a societal effect.”
Facebook deleted a viral video full of false coronavirus claims. Then Trump shared it on Twitter.
On Monday evening, Facebook scrubbed from its site a viral video showing a group of doctors making misleading and false claims about the coronavirus pandemic after more than 14 million people had watched it. Hours later, President Donald Trump tweeted out multiple clips of the same video to his 84.2 million followers.
Trump shared the video — which claims that face masks and lockdowns are not needed to stop the disease — as he shared 14 tweets over a half-hour span defending the use of hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that the president has repeatedly promoted, and attacking Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-diseases expert.
Twitter soon followed Facebook and YouTube in removing the videos, deleting several of the tweets that Trump shared, and even adding a note to its trending topics warning about the potential risks of hydroxychloroquine use.
“Tweets with the video are in violation of our COVID-19 misinformation policy,” Liz Kelley, a spokeswoman for Twitter, told The Washington Post.
Trump’s decision to share the misleading video comes amid mounting criticism, from opponents and allies alike, over his handling of a pandemic that has now killed at least 145,000 people in the U.S. The president spent months denying the severity of the crisis, refusing to wear a mask in public, blaming rising case numbers on testing, and campaigning against governors’ shutdown orders. In recent weeks, however, Trump has occasionally changed tack, donning a mask in public for the first time earlier this month and deciding to cancel the Republican National Convention celebrations set to take place in Jacksonville, Fla.
—Katie Shepherd, The Washington Post
Trump again pushes unproven drug as COVID-19 treatment
A week after appearing to project a more serious tone about the coronavirus, President Donald Trump is back to spreading misinformation about how to combat the virus and about the credibility of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert.
Fauci pushed back Tuesday, saying he will keep doing his job.
President Donald Trump wears a face mask as he tours the Bioprocess Innovation Center at Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies on Monday, July 27, 2020, in Morrisville, N.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump pushed unproven claims that an anti-malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine, is an effective treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. But numerous studies have shown that hydroxychloroquine is not effective and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently withdrew an order that allowed the drug’s use as a emergency treatment for COVID-19.
Fauci, a leading member of the White House coronavirus task force, responded to Trump’s tweets during an appearance Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
“I go along with the FDA,” said Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “The overwhelming prevailing clinical trials that have looked at the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine have indicated that it is not effective in coronavirus disease.”
Georgia governor backs out of hearing on Atlanta mask order
Georgia’s governor said he’s withdrawing a request for an emergency hearing in his lawsuit that aims to block the state’s largest city from ordering people to wear masks in public or imposing other restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gov. Brian Kemp earlier this month sued Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and the City Council. The Republican governor argues local leaders cannot impose measures that are more or less restrictive than those in his executive orders.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has sued to stop Atlanta from enforcing a mandate to wear a mask in public and other restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. He argues that local leaders cannot impose measures that are more or less restrictive than those in his executive orders. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
The two sides met for court-ordered mediation Monday. Kemp spokesman Cody Hall announced Monday night that the governor wanted “to continue productive, good faith negotiations” and had decided to withdraw the request for a hearing that was scheduled for Tuesday morning. But that request would not withdraw the underlying lawsuit.
Can you get coronavirus twice?
Can you get the coronavirus twice?
Scientists don’t know for sure yet, but they believe it’s unlikely.
Researchers in Hong Kong are reporting the first confirmed case of reinfection with the coronavirus. AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin
Health experts think people who had COVID-19 will have some immunity against a repeat infection. But they don’t know how much protection or how long it would last.
There have been reports of people testing positive for the virus weeks after they were believed to have recovered, leading some to think they may have been reinfected. More likely, experts say, people were suffering from the same illness or the tests detected remnants of the original infection. There’s also the chance tests could have been false positives.
Scientists say there has been no documented instance of a patient spreading the virus to others after retesting positive.
Quarantine Corner: Things to do, cook and read while staying home
Cookie’s Country Chicken has perfected its technique for fried chicken. That might be best left to the pros, but the Seattle company's delicious picnic potato salad can be made at home. Here’s the recipe.
Then, dessert: Teen chef Sadie's cool, creamy panna cotta is just the thing for these toasty days.
The first proper biography of Chris Cornell, the late frontman for Soundgarden and Audioslave, has arrived. It’s an intimate and incredibly detailed portrait.
Chris Cornell in 2015, promoting his album, “Higher Truth.” On July 28, a new biography is being released detailing the life and work of the Soundgarden frontman. (Casey Curry / Invision / The Associated Press)
—Kris Higginson
Seattle-area home prices keep rising fast, despite pandemic
Deep into the pandemic, prices for Seattle-area homes were still rising faster than any major city in the country, save Phoenix. There’s one sign, though, that the growth may be slowing.
Homes in the King, Pierce and Snohomish tri-county area saw average year-over-year price increases of 6.8% in May, according to the new release of the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index — the sixth consecutive month Seattle-area price growth has topped national averages. Phoenix saw 9% year-over-year price growth in May.
The index, which lags by two months, reports a three-month rolling average of home prices — meaning the numbers for May actually represent average home price gains since the onset of lockdown measures to control the pandemic in March.
—Katherine Khashimova Long
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Pedestrians wearing protective masks wait in line for food donations during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tuesday, June 23, 2020, in the Corona neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
"I have sold everything I had, any jewelry, everything." Hunger and anxiety are rising in Corona, a Latino neighborhood in New York City that was among the world's hardest-hit places. Globally, virus-linked hunger is leading to the deaths of 10,000 more children a month, according to an urgent U.N. call to action.
The clock is ticking down on jobless benefits. With just four days until the federal $600 benefit expires, economists say our fragile economy needs help now. But the very hairy talks in Congress threaten to leave millions of Americans in the lurch. When it comes to the pace of new job openings, Washington state and Seattle lag the nation, our Coronavirus Economy chart shows.
Facebook deleted a viral video full of false coronavirus claims last night, but then President Donald Trump shared it on Twitter. It's way too easy to spread misinformation these days; here's guidance on how to avoid doing that, along with some common coronavirus myths, debunked.
Speaking of myths: After an outcry, Sinclair Broadcast Group won't air a conspiracy theorist's speculation (with no evidence) that Dr. Anthony Fauci manufactured the coronavirus and shipped it to China. Sinclair owns KOMO in Seattle.
Google is keeping most of its employees home until NEXT July. Its new order could sway other major employers.
Labrador Lotta sniffs at a machine at the Bundeswehr School for Service Dogs in Ulmen, Germany, on Friday, July 24, 2020. Among other things, corona sniffer dogs are trained at the school with special training machines. (Thomas Frey/ dpa via The Associated Press)
Dogs can sniff out coronavirus infections, a new study indicates.
One crucial thing shut down by coronavirus: Seattle's bathrooms. With many public buildings closed, delivery workers and others who make their living outside an office building have nowhere to go. For homeless people, it's a worsening of a longtime problem. All of this has one professor warning about "criminalizing having a bladder."
As Pac-12 schools shift to remote-only instruction, why is football rolling on? As tough questions are raised about athletes' health vs. the economics of football, answers can be found in the fine print in colleges' plans.
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These tales from FABLES #86-100 include the epic "Witches," in which Bufkin, the meek and mild flying monkey, is trapped with the evil witch Baba Yaga, while Frau Totenkinder and the witches at the Farm prepare to deal with Mister Dark down in what's left of Fabletown. Then, heads will roll, blood will spill and Snow White and Rose Red, the loveliest sisters in all the lands, will be forever changed after "Rose Red"! Also includes the gala 100th issue of the series, with an all-star art lineup!
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DevOps has witnessed an interesting curve of growth over the last decade. In 2009, Patrick Debois, a project manager, consultant, and agile practitioner, founded the first DevOps conference in Belgium, named DevopsDays. Later in 2012, Alanna Brown created and launched the “State of DevOps” report at Puppet Labs, a software and IT automation company headquartered in Portland, USA.
The 2014 “State of DevOps” annual report showed that the implementation of DevOps is accelerating. In the same year, Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin released a book, More Agile Testing, giving new impetus to the emerging concept. Between 2015 and 2016 DevOps adoption increased at the rate of 8 percent, followed by an increase from 10 percent in 2017 to 17 percent in 2018. According to a MarketsandMarkets report, the DevOps market will grow from $3.42 Billion in 2018 to $10.31 Billion by the end of 2023, at a CAGR of 24.7 percent.
DevOps has been revolutionizing workplaces in numerous ways. Also, with that, the demand for DevOps experts is skyrocketing each year. DevOps engineers are among the 7th most-coveted and highly-paid IT professionals today, earning an average salary of US$ 110,000 according to the Robert Half Technology 2019 Salary Guide.
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Impropera – What In The World Is It?
Impropera is a unique impromptu ‘music in the moment’ that Joy Sikorski creates by evoking themes from thin air, poetry or words given by the audience. Joy, an award-winning composer and performer, improvises with voice, piano and/or synthesizer as she instantly creates new music before your eyes. Her 45 minute show captivates audiences as they suggest ideas or words which she turns into a one-of-a kind sui generis music unlike anything you’ve ever heard before.
“Absolutely marvelous. You know how to deliver the show!” – Fyvush Finkel, Fox TV’s Boston Public and Picket Fences
“Her voice is hauntingly beautiful, touchingly unique and powerful beyond words.” – Michael Silversher, Grammy Award winner and Emmy Award nominee
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“It’s like being inside the mind of a composer when the creative process is taking place.” – Ron Balin M.A. – Educator
Impropera works in several ways because it is unpredictable yet intriguingly familiar. Sometimes Joy makes up words and vocables (she calls them ‘opera scat’) straight out of the air and creates a piano accompaniment for them on the spot. Other times, audience members bring in their favorite pieces of poetry or prose (original or otherwise) on slips of paper that Joy draws out of a hat or box. She then uses the words as she simultaneously sings and plays the piano, evoking a lush 21st century romantic classic sound to create the new music. If an audience member is especially brave or game to have fun, they come up on stage with Joy and enter into the Impropera experience with her. Still other times, Joy may Impropera-ize by creating solo piano or acappella vocal music or vocal pieces with wind chimes or ‘sacred’ bells.
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Impropera appeals to audiences of all ages because the music is created, in part, by the audience. Yet, it requires no special skills in order to participate. In a school setting, Joy works with teachers in advance so that literature studied in the classroom can be featured in the show as students help to create the music. Adult audiences love Impropera because they have the opportunity to enter into the creative process. Joy never uses inappropriate or offensive material.
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Breakout hard rock band Beartooth revealed two unreleased tracks on a special-edition B-sides digital release on May 10. The B-sides were previously only available via vinyl as an exclusive, limited-edition release launched on Record Store Day.
The B-sides release consists of the frenetic "Takeover" and "Messed Up," both carrying a distinctive sound reminiscent of the critically-acclaimed Disease LP, released in 2018. The album was a stark look inward and lyrically, chronicled band frontman Caleb Shomo's battle with his personal demons. Disease served as a painstaking, riff-driven examination of the unshakeable throes of depression — it was an album about survival.
Beartooth are currently on a headline North American tour — the Disease Tour, Part II — featuring Of Mice and Men, Hands Like Houses, and Dead American. Beartooth are also appearing at major festivals such as Epicenter and Sonic Temple.
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Beartooth are a Columbus, Ohio-based band and have released three studio albums to date.
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Félicitations, French Honor Society Inductees!
by SOCSD Communications | Nov 18, 2020 | District Highlights
Félicitations to the seven 2020 inductees of Tappan Zee High School’s French Honor Society! The virtual November 12 ceremony was hosted by FHS advisor and World Language teacher Eileen Hayes. The new members (most, but not all pictured) join 20 seniors who were inducted in 2019.
“I am so proud of the hard work, effort, and enthusiasm that these students have demonstrated,” said Hayes. “Their dedication to the study of French language and culture is admirable. In a year like no other, that has challenged each one of us in so many ways, they have shown tremendous grit, dedication and resilience in maintaining academic excellence and an inspiring, positive attitude. This is a remarkable group of individuals and I offer my sincerest congratulations to each student.”
To be eligible for induction, students must earn a 90 average in French I and II and an overall academic average of 88 or higher. The FHS seeks to stimulate interest in the study of Francophone culture and language and motivates students to further their studies.
Hayes noted that the honor society also creates an enthusiasm for and understanding of Francophone culture and civilization and promotes international friendship and appreciation of our multicultural world. Spoken by approximately 275 million people worldwide, French is the official language of 29 countries across 5 continents and one of only 6 official languages of the United Nations.
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Software Reviews names IBM, Tableau, and BOARD among Business Intelligence Gold Medalists
Toronto, ON – August 18th, 2017 – Software Reviews’ 2017 Business Intelligence Data Quadrant Awards published today names five Gold Medalists in the space: IBM Advanced Analytics, Tableau, BOARD, Qlik, and MicroStrategy BI.
Unlike traditional software awards, the Data Quadrant Awards are based solely on user reviews and determined by a transparent proprietary methodology that is available in full in Software Reviews’ 2017 Business Intelligence Software Report, also published today.
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Dodgeball is a team sport played by two opposing teams on an indoor court with 3 or 5 balls
An Overview of Dodgeball
Players must dodge or catch balls thrown by the opposition whilst attempting to strike their opponents in the same way.
Two teams start on opposing sides of a court. Three or five dodgeballs (depending on age) are lined up on the centre line and players from each team race to retrieve them at the start of the game.
A game then proceeds with both sets of players trying to take the opposition's players out of the game, either by striking them with a ball they have thrown before it bounces, or by catching a ball thrown by an opponent – a successful catch also allows the defending team to regain a player that has previously been taken out of the game.
A game lasts for a maximum of 3 minutes and a team can win a game by eliminating all the opposition players within the 3 minute time period or having more players remaining on their side of the court at the end of 3 minutes.
Dodgeball is a fun, fast paced sport that has many benefits to a person's health, fitness and mental well-being
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October 3, 2019 Simon Allen*** News, SPAPP 0
Loads of stuff has happened this week to tell you about, including… a Player of the Month winner, new One Round Wonder leaders and more rubbish international matches on the horizon.
Round 07: Review
Round 08: Matches
Player of the Month: Martin Hayman
One Round Wonder: New Leaders
Round 07 was highest scoring Round of Game 01 so far… 293 points were scored in total, which is an average of 9.77 points per player. The previous best this season was 226 (7.53 points per player). As a result of the high scoring Round we have three new leaders in the One Round Wonder table, yep, three! You can read more about that below.
Martin Hayman has a decent four point lead (64 points) at the top of the table now, from Lloyd Hide (60) in second. With one SPAPP title each, Gareth Bridges (58) and Dave Mason (57) are in third and fourth place respectively.
Top Positions after Round 07…
With no Friday or Monday night football to extend the weekend, it’s all squeezed into two days for Round 08. Sadly after Round 08 it’s time for another International Break, so we’ll all have to find something else to do instead of follow Premier League football on the 12th and 13th October!
The first Player of the Month (PotM) this season goes to Martin Hayman who scored 64 points in the first seven Rounds of the season. His last two Rounds of the month were both double-figures as he found some decent form.
Martin’s previous prize wins include no less than five Player of the Months, a Runners-up, a Third and the One Round Wonder in Game 02 of last season. Including the £21.50 for this PotM he’s won a total prize haul of £300!! He could be the man to beat this season.
You can see all of the final league tables from the previous 16 games of Premier Predictions on the History page.
So with Round 08 starts another Player of the Month, only this one is an absolute sprint with just three Rounds as there is an International Break after the next Round.
After particularly high scoring Round, there are three new leaders at the top of the One Round Wonder table – Cynth West, Martin Magookin and Steve Keay. All three scored 14 points in Round 07, displacing Marcus Allen’s 13 points scored in Round 04.
The prize for the eventual winner of the One Round Wonder is £43.00. Should there be two or more players with the same highest score, then the prize will go to the player who scored it earliest in the season. If this still isn’t enough to separate players, then the prize will be shared equally among all winning players.
The Twenty Point Jackpot will increase for Round 08 to £45. If any player manages to score 20 points in a single Round, then they will win the jackpot amount. The jackpot will increase by £1 for each Round nobody manages this feat.
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October 22, 2020 Simon Allen*** News, SPAPP 0
A four day weekend to come and mixed fortunes in the SACS League Cup in Game Round 05…
Game Round 05: Review
Game Round 06: Preview
League Cup: Round of 32
Well that was a strange weekend for Premier Predictions – we had quite a range of points scored, from the highs of 12 for Jamie Cox and Scott Valenti, to the lows of one, scored by seven players. Apart from Jamie and Scott V, Craig Ellis was the only other player to achieve double points (ten) in Game Round 05.
Jamie Cox is now the Overall leader and also top of the October Player of the Month by two points from Scott V. Steve Keay fell from top to third Overall after just two points scored in Game Round 05. Jeremy Wise continues to perform consistently well and is just one point off Jamie.
Get prepared for a four day weekend people. The Game Round kicks off on Friday with Aston Villa v Leeds (20:00, BT Sport Box Office) and culminates with Burnley v Tottenham on Monday Night Football (20:00, Sky Sports). In between all matches have individual kick-offs, so the weekend’s continue to be packed full of Premier League football.
The SACS League Cup Round of 32 concludes over the weekend – see below for more about that.
The first legs of the SACS League Cup Round of 32 were played in Game Round 05. There were some noticable results… Gareth Bridges and Simon Allen ‘fought’ out a dour 1-1 draw, while Jamie Cox and Lloyd Hide were involved in a high scoring 12-7, with Jamie being on top ahead of the second legs this weekend.
Scott Valenti also holds a 12-7 lead over Lawrence Sutton, while the largest leads held by anyone is six points for Alex Bridges, Marcus Allen and Martin Hayman.
To see all the results of the first leg of the Round of 32 you’ll need to go to the SACS League Cup page. Second leg matches will be played this weekend during Game Round 06.
The Twenty Point Jackpot moves on to £79 for Round 06. If any player manages to score 20 points in a single Round, then they will win the jackpot amount. The jackpot will increase by £1 for each Round nobody manages this feat.
FPL Threads You Need to Read: 22nd October
FPL Threads You Need to Read: 23rd October
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HomeIn the NewsExpectations High For Third NGK F1 Powerboat Championship Season
Expectations High For Third NGK F1 Powerboat Championship Season
After an incredibly competitive year in which five different drivers won in the season’s six races, the stage appears to be set for a competitive 2019 NGK Spark Plugs Formula 1 Powerboat Championship season.
The competitive NGK Formula Powerboat Championship series has six races on its 2019 calendar. Photo by Paul Kemiel
This year, according to Tim Seebold, the legendary driver behind the series, there are going to be a few new race sites, including a mid-July return to Bay City, Mich., for Rockin’ the River, the former Bay City River Roar that has hosted tunnel-boat races for more than 30 years.
“We’re excited about this season and the variety of events we have in store for the teams and fans,” Seebold said, adding that Bay City, a venue he thoroughly enjoyed as a racer, is an extremely positive addition to the schedule. “When we started this series our goals were to bring more parity to the sport and increase participation. Last year we went from a lap-based format to a timed race, which works when you have a variety of racecourses like we do. I think the shortest course was about 27 seconds and the longest one was 47 seconds. That makes the racing more challenging for the drivers, but it also mixes things up and makes it a little more fun.”
Seebold said he’s looking forward to the new venue in Toledo, Ohio, as well as the new Windsor, Colo., location, which will serve as the American Power Boat Association National Championships for the F1 class as well as the F-Lights and Tri Hull classes.
“We raced in Windsor many years ago so it’s cool to be able to bring the boats back there,” Seebold said. “It’s a small race site in a residential area so it should be a pretty intimate setting.
“It’s going to be hard to win a race this year,” he continued. “There are at least 10 teams that could win at any time thanks to their equipment and experience. I think we have nine new teams this year and several teams with new boats. If we don’t have couple of events with at least 30 F1 boats I’ll be surprised.”
Like last year, all six of the 2019 NGK Spark Plugs Formula 1 Powerboat Championship races are going to broadcast on CBS Sports Network.
Here’s a look at the 2019 season schedule:
• Highlands Spring Classic, April 7 – Baytown, Texas
* F1 and F-Light classes to run as local classes without series points or prize money
• Port Neches River Fest, May 3-5 – Port Neches, Texas
• Rock The River Toledo, June 28-29 – Toledo, Ohio – F1
• Rockin’ The River, July 12-14 – Bay City, Mich.
• Three Rivers Regatta, August 2-4 – Pittsburgh, Pa.
• Wake the Lake, Aug. 9-11 – Springfield, Ohio
• Roar of the Rockies, August 31 – September 1 – Windsor, Colo.
*APBA F1, F-Light and Tri Hull National Championships
NGK Continues Support For 2018 And 2019 F1 Powerboat Championship Seasons
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Trump's Corporate Tax Proposal In Perspective
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On Wednesday, Steven Mnuchin unveiled a new plan to slash taxes for business and accelerate the pace of economic growth. Referring to the proposal as the "biggest tax cuts in history", the Trump administration is planning to cut the U.S. corporate tax rate from 35 percent to just 15 percent, one of the proposal's core measures. Mnuchin said that the plan will pay for itself "through growth and reduction of deductions and closing loopholes". However, many economists claim the plan will be short lived and could add trillions fo the deficit over the next decade.
Currently, the U.S. has a high rate of corporate taxation by international standards. If Trump's plan succeeds, the U.S. would become one of the 20 countries with the lowest rates of corporate tax, sitting at the same level as Canada and Ireland. Using Deloitte data, the following infographic compares the current and planned U.S. corporate tax rate to a selection of other nations. Ireland is notable on the infographic as having a very low rate of just 12.5 percent, a rate which has helped it lure several tech heavyweights (including Google and Facebook) into establishing their European headquarters in Dublin.
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As of January 19th, 07:34:32 (PST)
U.S. 24,453,449 403,203 1.65%
World 95,768,888 2,046,837 2.14%
U.S. Total Deaths Today: 5
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1) 16.03 Alabama
2) 15.44 Arizona
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4) 11.90 Mississippi
5) 10.78 West Virginia
6) 10.36 Nevada
7) 8.99 California
8) 8.89 Arkansas
9) 8.73 New Mexico
10) 8.49 Tennessee
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2) 208.05 New York
3) 203.04 Massachusetts
4) 187.33 South Dakota
5) 185.52 Mississippi
6) 184.80 Connecticut
7) 181.74 Rhode Island
8) 181.63 North Dakota
9) 176.45 Louisiana
10) 158.76 Illinois
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1) 1,351.35 Bethel, AK
2) 842.59 Gove, KS
3) 789.73 Jerauld, SD
4) 648.96 Dickey, ND
5) 633.02 Iron, WI
6) 626.03 Hamlin, SD
7) 620.67 Gregory, SD
8) 608.83 Grant, NE
9) 598.61 Galax, VA
10) 597.51 Hancock, GA
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As long feared, the country is currently engulfed in regional flare-ups. These are currently concentrated in the MidWest, the Mountain states and parts of the South. However every region and state is experiencing spikes in cases and deaths. The most severely affected are North and South Dakota, which are experiencing death rates matching or exceeding what hit the NorthEast earlier this year.
As has been true for months, the top four states by per capita death are New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut. However, these rankings may begin to shift later this winter. Again, should North and South Dakota continue on their current trajectory they're both on course to set new records here in the U.S.
With the holidays approaching and much of the population disregarding health warnings (or simply believing they're just a liberal hoax), we can expect record hospitalizations over the next few months. The effect of this may be partially balanced by new rerecently-approved treatments. However, it's unlikely that these new treatments will be widespread enough or effective enough to avoid a large eventual death toll.
Cases have been trending up over the past two months, moving around regionally. Currently the Upper Midwest and parts of the South are suffering the most, while the West and NorthEast have had a relative respite.
Death rates have remained relatively stable and much lower than at the peak of the pandemic. However, increases in deaths normally trail increases in new cases. Therefore it's expected that the death rate will move up again in the coming days.
The Northeast remains the most impacted by the pandemic. The top four states, by per capita death, are New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut. But other states are moving into the top 10. In particular, Lousianan, Mississippi and Florida have recently joined the list.
Even mong the hardest-hit states there's a wide disparity in impact. For example, although Florida is ranked 10th in the U.S. in per capita deaths, it's death rate is still just 40% of (1st place) New Jersey. It will be interesting to see if this changes over the coming winter.
New cases have declined over the past few weeks, while the death rate has remained stable. Throughout August the U.S. has averaged about 1,000 deaths per day, while cases have fallen below 50,000 per day.
As expected the virus has remained regional, popping up in some areas and declining in others. In general, areas that were first hit have done better over time. This is particularly true for the Northeast, which is currently holding new cases and deaths to relatively low rates. In contrast, much of the American south is now deep in the throes of the epidemic. Lousiana and Mississippi are doing particularly poorly and have moved into the top 10 most-affected states. Texas and Florida are not far behind.
There are two outliers in the West. The worst is Arizona, which has struggled over an extended period and now ranks 9th nationally in per capita deaths. The other outlier is California, which never fully flattened its curve, particularly in the southern parts of the state. That said, California is currently doing fairly well overall, with a per capita death rate half the U.S. average.
Nationally, 99.3% of all counties have reported local COVID cases. 79.9% of all counties have reported at least one COVID death.
As feared, death rates have reached a national plateau and are trending higher. From a July 4th low of 526 deaths per day, the 7-day moving average of U.S. deaths has increased 45%.
The Northeast has declined to very low rates, whereas California remains stubbornly high and some southern states have spiked. The worst spikes are currently in Arizona, Texas and Florida, but all southern states are suffering elevated deaths. Nationally, 65% of all U.S. counties have seen at least one COVID-19 death.
In addition, cases have soared nationally. On July 17th the U.S. cases increased by over 77,000 - a record. Once again, these increases are predominately in the southern states with Florida being one of the hardest hit. These numbers point to increased deaths in the week to come. It's possible that some regions might seen disastrous casualties due to overwhelmed hospital systems.
As expected, the CFR (Case Fatality Rate) continues to decline. It now stands at 3.78%, far from its high of 5.85% two months ago. This is of course a function of increased testing. Epidemiologists believe the true CFR is probably in the range of 0.5% - 1.2%. Note that if we assume a herd-immunity level of 60%, even a CFR of "merely" 0.5% would result in approximately 950,000 American deaths.
Death rates continue falling across the nation. Daily fatalities are now at the lowest level in months - from the April 24th high, the moving 7-day average has fallen over 80%.
The decline in death rates continues to be largely driven from the Northeast. Elsewhere the situation is patchier, with some states falling (Washington), some on persistent plateaus (California), and others rising (Arkansas).
The coronavirus has now been confirmed in 96% of US counties. Deaths have been reported in 60% of all counties.
In contrast, cases continue to rise throughout most of the country. No doubt much of this is due to increased testing. However, it is believed that infection rates are rising as well. If so, this should reveal itself in an increase death rate over the coming weeks.
Interestingly, the CFR (Case Fatality Rate) has stabilized at around 5.38% for both the US and the World. It's expected that this rate will continue to decline from here as testing becomes more prevalent. As of this writing, epidemelogists believe the true CFR may be approximate 0.5%. If so, that would imply that approximately 25 million Americans have been infected by the virus.
The Death Rate Change List ranks states by rate of change in deaths over 2-week periods. These numbers tend to jump around a bit, however it is worth noting that southern and Sun Belt states have been among the worst-performing. Arizona, North Carolina, Tennessee are good examples here. If this trend continues, we may witness a sharp increase in deaths in these states over the coming months.
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Piranesi (Hardcover)
By Susanna Clarke
(New Fiction Hardcover)
I usually start with the basic who, when, and where of the book I’m reviewing but that isn’t going to be the case with Piranesi. This unique little treasure bewildered me at first then quickly reeled me in with its familiar characters and mind-bending mystery. Don’t be fooled by the somewhat simple writing style in the beginning, the depth within the few pages of this quick read is astounding as it unravels layer upon numerous layer. It’s best to go into this book blind and allow yourself the chance to be delightfully surprised and amused as you enter the mysterious and mystical Halls, just don’t get swept away by the powerful Tides! Beautiful, spellbinding, and somehow simultaneously comforting and disturbing in its exploration of the human condition.
- Josie
— From Delectable December Staff Picks
September 2020 Indie Next List
“It was more than 15 years ago that Susanna Clarke built a wing on the edifice of fantasy fiction unlike any seen before in the form of a debut novel called Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. After so long, I’d be grateful for any new work from her, but I’m unspeakably glad that she’s again constructed something entirely new. Piranesi has a smaller footprint than her previous novel, but makes more efficient use of space, cramming an entire unsettling universe into a book far bigger on the inside than it is out.”
— James Crossley, Madison Books, Seattle, WA
New York Times Bestseller!
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.
There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.
For readers of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.
Susanna Clarke's debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was first published in more than 34 countries and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. It won British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award in 2005. The Ladies of Grace Adieu, a collection of short stories, some set in the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, was published by Bloomsbury in 2006. She lives in Derby shire.
"[Piranesi] flooded me, as the tides flood the halls, with a scouring grief, leaving gleaming gifts in its wake… rich, wondrous, full of aching joy and sweet sorrow. "- The New York Times Book Review
“A novel that feels like a surreal meditation on life in quarantine.” —The New Yorker
“Piranesi astonished me. It is a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling, at once a gripping mystery, an adventure through a brilliant new fantasy world, and a deep meditation on the human condition: feeling lost, and being found. I already want to be back in its haunting and beautiful halls!” —Madeline Miller, New York Times Bestselling Author of CIRCE
“Unforgettable - surely one of the most original works of fiction this season. It drops you into a mind-bending fantasy world, a vast labyrinth with infinite rooms and seas that sweep into halls and up staircases with the tides. … It's a hypnotic tale that you can devour in a day (and probably will; it's that hard to put down).” —AARP
“Piranesi is a high-quality page-turner-even the most leisurely reader will probably finish it off in a day-but its chief pleasure is immersion in its strange and uncannily attractive setting. . . Establishing that sense of totality-and the feeling of peacefulness that accompanies it-is Ms. Clarke's standout feat.” —Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
“Could Piranesi match [the hype]? I'm delighted to say it has, with Clarke's singular wit and imagination still intact in a far more compressed yet still captivating tale you'll want to delve into again right after you read its sublime last sentence.” —The Boston Globe
“Piranesi is a gorgeous, spellbinding mystery that gently unravels page by page. Precisely the sort of book that I love wordlessly handing to someone so they can have the pleasure of uncovering its secrets for themselves. This book is a treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered.” —Erin Morgenstern, NYT bestselling author of THE STARLESS SEA and THE NIGHT CIRCUS
“A short and beautiful novel that reads like a poem, not in its use of language (which is very accessible) but rather in its cumulative effect of expressing an emotion and state of being that is inexpressible. It's a strange and lovely read.” —Buzzfeed
“What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being, what a tick-tock-tick-tock of reveals, what a pure protagonist, what a morally-squalid supporting cast, what beauty, tension and restraint, and what a pitch-perfect ending. Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle-box far, far bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.” —David Mitchell, New York Times bestselling author of CLOUD ATLAS
“Destined to become a work of classic fantasy.” —Ron Charles, CBS Sunday Morning Book Report
“Piranesi Will Wreck You: The novel establishes Susanna Clarke as one of our greatest living writers.” —New York Magazine
“Infinitely clever… none of [Clarke's] enchantment has worn off - it's evolved. . . to abide in these pages is to find oneself happily detained in awe.” —The Washington Post
"Enthralling [and] transcendent… the sweetness, the innocence of Piranesi's love for this world is devastating to read. Clarke's writing is clear, sharp — she can cleave your heart in a few short words. . . The mystery of Piranesi unwinds at a tantalizing yet lightening-like pace — it's hard not to rush ahead, even when each sentence, each revelation makes you want to linger." - NPR.org
"The long-awaited followup to Jonathan Strange is even more magically immersive. . . Here is a protagonist with no guile, no greed, no envy, no cruelty, and yet still intriguing." - The Los Angeles Times
“[Piranesi’s] love of the house and the meaning he finds in his humble life within it give this unusual novel a radiant, gentle, melancholy heart." - Slate, Best Books of 2020
"Susanna Clarke’s astonishing Piranesi proves she’s one of the greatest novelists writing today." - Vox
"Piranesi hit my mind and soul like a thunderbolt. It is a work of deep power." - EW.com
“Susanna Clarke has fashioned her own myth anew and enlarged the world again.” —The New Republic
"Spellbinding, strange, and unforgettably original." - Esquire
“Almost impossible to put down… lavishly descriptive, charming, heartbreaking and imbued with a magic that will be familiar to Clarke's devoted readers, Piranesi will satisfy lovers of Jonathan Strange and win her many new fans.” —Bookpage, starred review
“Readers who accompany [Piranesi] as he learns to understand himself will see magic returning to our world. Weird and haunting and excellent.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
“Clarke wraps a twisty mystery inside a metaphysical fantasy in her extraordinary new novel . . . Sure to be recognized as one of the year's most inventive.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“As questions multiply and suspense mounts in this spellbinding, occult puzzle of a fable, one begins to wonder if perhaps the reverence, kindness, and gratitude practiced by Clarke's enchanting and resilient hero aren't all the wisdom one truly needs.” —Booklist, Starred Review
“Clarke creates an immersive world that readers can almost believe exists. This is a solid crossover pick for readers whose appreciation of magical fantasy leans toward V.E. Schwab or Erin Morgenstern.” —Library Journal, Starred Review
“Clarke's imagination is prodigious, her pacing is masterly and she knows how to employ dry humor in the service of majesty.” —Gregory Maguire, The New York Times
“Nobody writes about magic the way Clarke does . . . She writes about magic as if she's actually worked it.” —Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Fiction / Fantasy
Fiction / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy
Library Binding, Large Print (April 28th, 2021): $32.99
Paperback (September 7th, 2021): $17.00
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Co-location services for operating data centers
Companies gain multiple benefits with co-location services: Total costs are reduced, business continuity is ensured
Alternative data center operation: hosting and co-location
For companies that do not want to operate an on-premises data center or prefer to give up their existing data center, there is an alternative: co-location. The data center is set up with an IT provider, while the server operation remains in the hands of the outsourcer. Co-location can be used for business continuity and disaster recovery.
Co-location providers for business continuity management
Co-location has turned out to be an alternative for the self-operation of a data center. It is the right choice for companies that operate their own IT, but do not want to be burdened with data center infrastructure. With co-location, the user company retains complete access to the hardware, but is no longer burdened with Facility Management. Maintaining owned buildings for the operation of IT resources is no longer needed, including physical security, fire protection, (emergency) power supply and air conditioning. A co-location provider like T-Systems can takes this over, making space available at its own data center premises. In addition, energy-efficient co-location data centers offer the opportunity permanently reduce costs.
Part of modern sourcing concepts
The ready-to-go data center space includes redundant power and air conditioning supplies, including a self-sufficient emergency supply, excellent network and grid connections and separate fire protection zones. T-Systems guarantees the security standards, certified operation and modern structural design – basically everything that would also apply to one's own data center space.
Co-location is a useful addition even for modern sourcing concepts: Legacy systems that have yet made the leap to the cloud can be parked in co-location data centers. This also applies to companies that set up or renovate their own data centers. As new BSI guidelines stipulate increased geo-redundancy, IT managers need to develop new strategies for business continuity. And co-location is an excellent choice here as well: as an additional area for disaster recovery or backups.
What to consider when selecting a colocation provider:
Select your co-location DC to fit your project
Is customization necessary, for example due to extreme security requirements?
Do you know your costs and calculate cost-saving effects due to the move (optimized rack planning/PUE effects)
Check whether the network connection is sufficient (keyword latency)
Inquire which services the co-location provider offers “on top”
Find out whether your provider offers consulting in the context of security and migration services for outsourcing to the cloud
View the data center in advance and clarify questions with regard to security and compliance
Secure, efficient and BSI-conforming
The T-Systems data centers offer maximum availability, highly redundant power, air conditioning, network and grid supplies, and in addition in the event of emergencies self-sufficient power supply plants.
Review costs with precision
Only a few companies know the total costs of ownership (TCO) of their data centers, meaning the total costs for acquisition and operation. And yet the TCO is the most important factor for a decision in favor of co-location, even if a blanket one-to-one comparison with self-operation is difficult. Co-location is about the ratio of CAPEX to OPEX. While the investment expenses drop, the operating costs can rise. The costs for infrastructure management become transparent for the first time in many companies. Direct cost advantages result primarily from energy-efficient data centers.
When you are looking for more
Beyond the original co-location portfolio, some service providers offer additional services such as encryption hardware, planning, cabling and connecting to various cloud providers as well as network services. It's possible the servers of the cloud providers will even be in the neighboring room. The selection of a co-location provider furthermore opens the opportunity for a more high performance network connection of IT services. Up to 240 GB/s are possible.
Geo-redundancy and business continuity
Co-location is not a new issue. However, operating IT systems outside of one's own computing centers offers clear benefits. Find out which ones in the white paper.
Co-location services in Germany
T-Systems data centers in Munich, Frankfurt and Magdeburg/Biere meet the highest security and management standards. If desired, T-Systems can add further IT services to its co-location services: broadband network connections, conception, security design and on-site services. In the co-location model, user companies retain full control over their IT down to the infrastructure level, meeting all regulatory requirements for IT operations. The data center network also allows the geo-redundant operation of IT in accordance with the recommendations of the BSI (Federal Office for Information Security) published in 2018. The BSI raised the minimum distance for geo-redundancy to 100 kilometers. The recommendation is actually 200 kilometers. For distances over 100 kilometers the packet running times in active/active-clusters are so great that real-time synchronization is not possible. Therefore with a distance of 200 kilometers, only a backup data center can be considered.
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Optimizing redundancy
Business-critical IT systems need a redundant, fail-safe (Disaster Recovery D/R) setup for failover or fallback scenarios. If one part of the cluster fails, the other takes over with a minimal RPO/RTO (Recovery Point Objective, Recovery Time Objective), in order to ensure business continuity. Customarily the two D/R clusters are built in different data centers, or at a minimum, in different fire protection zones. Co-location is a general option for redundancy. The primary systems of the company are operated in their own data center while the D/R mirror is in a suitable colocation DC.
Digital ecosystem
To be prepared for the future, companies need four building blocks: connectivity, cloud and infrastructure, security and digitalization. Co-location releases the budget for digitalization and removes the burden of routine tasks.
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House of clouds
Saxony-Anhalt is home to Germany’s largest data center, operated by T-Systems – a bulwark of data servers and security.
Many companies still run applications that require traditional dedicated operations, either from their own data centers or wholly or partly from an IT provider.
More on conventional hosting
Future Cloud: cloud computing from several worlds
How public and private cloud allow on-premises structures to be combined and fulfill agility and speed requirements.
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Series Review – Anna Karenina (2013)
Though the source novel is long and much more complex, most adaptations, focus on the character of Anna Karenina herself. Anna is married to the much older Count Karenin. She is content in her marriage until she meets the dashing bachelor and ladies man Count Vronsky. He is immediately smitten, but for the sake of her young son and her standing in society, Anna resists his overtures.
However, Vronsky’s attentions in the face of her husband’s neglect encourage Anna to believe that she is in love with Vronsky. Defying convention, the two run away together. Though they are very much in love, their romance comes at great cost to Anna. Not only is she isolated from her beloved son, but she is also shunned by most of society. The disparity in society’s reactions reveals their hypocrisy. Doors are closed to her but Vronsky meets less judgment and resistance. Anna becomes more and more desperate to hold on to Vronsky. Her doubt and jealousy drives a wedge in their relationship.
Unlike other adaptations, this version also includes the parallel story line of Konstantin Levin and Anna’s family friend Princess Kitty. Levin is in love with Kitty, but she has eyes for Vronsky and refuses his marriage proposal. Heartbroken he returns to his country estate and Kitty travels abroad. Kitty eventually matures and accepts Levin’s second proposal. But her prior rejection creates a wall between them in their marriage. Kitty learns to love her new husband, but he is wary of being too vulnerable with her.
These two couples navigate the complexities of their relationships and provide a opposing portraits of passion and love.
For the full review, please follow me over to The Silver Petticoat Review.
Top Ten Tuesday – Books Featuring Musicians
Today’s Topic: Audio Freebie (Any audio goes: audiobooks, music, podcasts, you name it.)
Hosted by: That Artsy Reader Girl
Well, I almost didn’t participate in this week’s Top Ten post. I’ve only listened to one audiobook and never listed to podcasts. So, I was stumped. But then I decided to think outside the box a bit. Since music is an audial experience, I thought it would be fun to list books that feature musicians; those who sing and those who play.
The characters in these books are not all necessarily professional or career musicians. Some just have a personal passion for it. So without further ado…
Rose in Three-Quarter Time – This one has been on a lot of my lists lately, mainly because it is so good. But this time it is because both of the main characters are musicians. Oliver is now a conductor and Rose is a violinist with an orchestra in Vienna.
Love’s Reckoning – Silas Ballantyne may be a blacksmith’s apprentice, but his true passion is the family violin which he has brought with him from Scotland.
Infinity + One – Bonnie Rae Shelby is a famous singer in hiding who finds herself on a cross-country road trip with a stranger.
The Whys Have It – A tragic accident brings together the orphaned Samantha with pop superstar Cory Minor.
Then There Was You – This delightful rom-com set in Australia has a male protagonist who is not only the son of internationally known pastors, but also the lead in their very popular touring worship band.
Nocturne for a Widow – What happens when a sassy actress butts head’s with her dead husband’s arrogant son who is running from his past as an acclaimed violinist? Sparks, that’s what. I love this gothic-lite/comedy mashup set in the Hudson River Valley area.
The Butterfly and the Violin – This heartbreaking, well-written time-slip novel features a talented Jewish violinist who finds herself alleviating the tragedy of her interment in Auschwitz.
A Light in the Darkness – One of my favorite YA stories. I just love the main characters Tish and Sebastian so much. Tish is the sole female in a male rock band and Sebastian is the tortured newcomer.
One Night With a Rockstar – This modern re-telling of the biblical story of Esther is one of my favorites.
All She Wanted – Charlie is a pianist with a scholarship to a prestigious music school.
What are some books featuring musicians that you would recommend?
Classic Film Review – Operation Mad Ball (1957)
Don’t you love it when you take a chance on a movie you’ve never heard of and end up loving it? Such is the case for me with Operation Mad Ball.
WWII may be over, but there is a group of men still stationed at an American medical base in France. Among these are Captain Lock (Ernie Kovacs) and his nemesis Private Hogan (Jack Lemmon). Lock is a by the book sort of Captain who is unpopular with the other enlisted men. Pvt. Hogan, however, is a man with a glib tongue and quick mind. He is well-liked by his fellow soldiers, especially for his attempts to make life more fun on the base.
Also stationed on base is a group of female nurses, many of whom are officers. When a fellow private falls for a nurse, Hogan uses it as an excuse to play Cupid, by planning a ball. However, this is easier said than done. The machinations the men go through to secretly secure the site and the resources rivals a legitimate complex military mission. This is complicated when the base’s commanding officer Colonel Rousch (Arthur O’Connell) starts planning his own party for the same night. Hogan also needs to continually keep one step of Lock who is determined to finally catch him breaking Army regulations. Continue reading “Classic Film Review – Operation Mad Ball (1957)”
Top Ten Tuesday -Books On My Spring 2019 TBR
Today’s Topic: Books On My Spring 2019 TBR
I love the host of new books which get released each spring. There are so many great new titles this time of year that my TBR pile just gets bigger. Some of these on this week’s list are new releases which I haven’t read just yet. Others will be releasing later this spring. Either way, I’m very excited about the books on this list. Continue reading “Top Ten Tuesday -Books On My Spring 2019 TBR”
Series Review – Vanity Fair (2018)
Vanity Fair is arguably the crowning achievement of British author William Makepeace Thackeray. In it, he created perhaps the greatest anti-heroine in English literature, Becky Sharp. The name of the novel is an allusion to a place found in Pilgrim’s Progress where travelers’ find themselves lured in by a fascination of material things. It can also be read as a satire on English society of that time. Thackeray’s masterpiece has been adapted for both the big and small screen many times. But despite having seen two film versions, it is iTV’s recent adaptation which finally introduced me to the brilliance of Vanity Fair.
Vanity Fair follows the journey of two young ladies from their friendship at school, through a decade of their lives.
Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley cannot be more different. Becky is orphaned and without fortune, but uses her education, charm and beauty to make the most of her paltry connections. Above all she desires financial security and the influence of social position. She has no conscience about how she achieves these things. In her ruthless betterment of self, Becky manipulates various members of the Crawley family, Amelia’s brother Jos and eventually the Marquis de Steyne. Though she eventually obtains her objectives, it comes at a higher price than she expects.
In contrast, Amelia is sweet-natured but passive and completely naïve to the true natures of those she loves best. Unlike Becky, her only real wish is to settle down with her fiancé George Osborn to a life of happy domesticity. William Dobbin an army captain and friend to George secretly assists her in gaining her heart’s desire. Like Becky, Amelia eventually realizes her dream, but it also comes at a high cost.
As these women navigate ambition, romance, war and disappointment they must eventually face the truth and consequences of their choices. They must also decide if they are willing to change.
Top Ten Tuesday – Single Title Books That Need a Sequel
Today’s Topic: Standalone Books That Need a Sequel
Until I started researching my shelves for this week’s list, I had no idea how many books I read that are actually part of a series. It is not an intentional choice on my part. Continue reading “Top Ten Tuesday – Single Title Books That Need a Sequel”
February 2019 Quickie Film Reviews
February didn’t prove to be a very productive month for me in watching films and series. Of course it is a short month and I was busier than usual, so I’m cutting myself some slack.
I finished fourteen films and two series in February, that includes a mix of classic and contemporary entertainment. I revisited some old favorites (Gone With the Wind, My Fair Lady and The Quiet Man), and watched some creative Shakespeare adaptations.
Cheers For Miss Bishop Photo Source: TCM.com
My favorite discoveries this month are the sweet classic Cheers for Miss Bishop and the extremely cute Netflix film To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Continue reading “February 2019 Quickie Film Reviews”
Top Ten Tuesday – Book Characters I’d Like To Switch Places With
Today’s Topic: Characters I’d Like To Switch Places With
What a fun prompt this is. It has really made me think differently about familiar and well-loved books. The great thing about a good book is that it takes you out of your own life and allows you to live vicariously through the lives of its’ characters.
Regular readers know that I adore historical fiction. However, when it came time to make this week’s list, there’s something I realized. As much as I enjoy reading about history, I don’t know that I would want to live it. That is why many of the ladies I chose for this list come from contemporary stories. Continue reading “Top Ten Tuesday – Book Characters I’d Like To Switch Places With”
Fay Wray and Robert Riskin Blogathon – Platinum Blonde (1931)
ABOUT ROBERT RISKIN
Hollywood isn’t often noted for its’ successful marriages. However, writer Robert Riskin and actress Fay Wray were one of the exceptions. The two were married for thirteen years until his death parted them.
Their daughter is publishing the book Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Affair. I am participating in The Fay Wray and Robert Riskin Blogathon honoring these two Hollywood stars and the book hosted by Aurora of Once Upon a Screen and AnnMarie at Classic Movie Hub.
One of the things I am always bemoaning about our modern films is the lackluster, disappointing dialogue. Classic films were full of snappy one liners, rapid fire conversations full of double entendres and attraction disguised as insults. They were witty and smart, but could also be cutting and sharp. It is rare to run across this verbal brilliance in new releases. Which is why I wanted to focus on Robert Riskin for the sake of this blogathon. Continue reading “Fay Wray and Robert Riskin Blogathon – Platinum Blonde (1931)”
Top Ten Tuesday – Favorite Books of 2020
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How the zebra earned its stripes
Wednesday, April 02, 2014 Vamshi 0 lifestories
Zebras have stripes to deter the tsetse and other blood-sucking flies, according to a fresh bid to settle a debate that has raged among biologists for over 140 years.
Since the 1870s, in a dispute sparked by the founders of evolutionary theory Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, scientists have squabbled over how the zebra got its trademark look.
Are its stripes for camouflage, protecting the zebra with a "motion dazzle confusion effect" against hyenas, lions and other predators in the savannah?
Do the stripes radiate heat to keep the zebra cool?
Or do they have a social role -- for group identity, perhaps, or mating?
But a new study, published in the journal Nature Communications on Tuesday, says the strongest likelihood is that the stripes discourage parasitic flies.
The finding was intriguingly thrown up by lab experiments in 2012 that showed how blood-feeding flies shun stripey surfaces and prefer instead to land on uniform colours.
Researchers led by Tim Caro of the University of California at Davis, say there is no black-and-white answer to the Great Stripe Riddle -- but the insect theory is by far the best bet.
"A solution to the riddle of zebra stripes, discussed by Wallace and Darwin, is at hand," they write.
The team found a strong geographical overlap between zebras and the two groups of biting flies, Tabanus and Glossina, that feed on equid species, which explains why zebras would need a shield against this pest.
There is also plenty of indirect evidence, they say.
Other equid species, such as wild horses, are far more likely to be plagued by biting insects.
Researchers find comparatively little blood from zebras in tsetse flies, even though the zebra has a thin coat with hair strands that are shorter and finer than those of giraffes and antelopes.
At the same time, zebras are far less susceptible to sleeping sickness, a tsetse-borne disease that is widespread among other African equids.
The correlation between reduced biting-fly nuisance and stripes is "significant," says the study.
"Conversely, there is no consistent support for camouflage, predator avoidance, heat management or social interaction hypothesis."
Parasitic flies can hand on a range of diseases when they bite their prey, and their appetite can be enormous.
Experiments with horse-flies carried out in the United States found that cows can lose between 200 and 500 cubic centimetres (0.4 and 1.05 pints) of blood per day to the insects, and as much as 16.9 kilos (37.2 pounds) in weight over eight weeks.
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Dornier Reports Success In 2007
Germany-based air-jet and rapier weaving machine producer Lindauer Dornier GmbH reports success
at shows including ITMA 2007 in Munich, Germany, and K07 in Düsseldorf, Germany, helped the company
increase its annual turnover to 221 million euros (US$322.4 million) in 2007 – an increase of
9 million euros (US$13.1 million) over 2006.
Looking forward, Dornier’s Special Machinery Division reports it has confirmed orders through
2009. The Weaving Machine Division expects 2008 results to be similar to those experienced in 2007.
The company also reports that in 2008 it will finance new buildings and machinery at production
facililties in Lindau, Esseratsweiler and Pfronten, Germany.
In order to remain effective in the global marketplace, Dornier’s management structure has been
reorganized as follows: Peter D. Dornier now is a shareholder of Lindauer Dornier GmbH in addition
to his role as CEO; Michael Ebeling is now responsible for the Weaving Machine Division; Dr.
Andreas Rutz is responsible for the Special Machinery Division; and Hans-Jürgen Schmidt oversees
the commercial sector as well as subsidiaries in the United States, India, China and Turkey.
In other company news, Dornier established Dornier Makina Ltd. Sti. in Istanbul, Turkey, on
January 1 to service the Turkish weaving market. The subsidiary will offer sales, spare parts and
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Educational inequity is a systemic problem that requires systemic solutions. Like successful systems change efforts in the past, it will require a broad coalition working inside and outside the system to challenge the status quo by demonstrating what’s possible. Teach For America is fueling this coalition with leaders from every background who are working in our education system and all the fields that shape it to expand opportunities for students. These leaders get close and stay close to the problem, and they are committed to driving educational equity and excellence in their lifetime.
Read more to learn more about our approach.
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Teach For America has a 29-year track record of advancing educational excellence and equity in the United States through our network of remarkable and diverse leaders working to expand opportunity and access for all children. Read more to learn about Teach For America's impact.
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Jan 13th, 2015 @ 8:00pm
Re: Re: Still Bullshit numbers game...
on FCC To Raise Minimum Broadband Definition To 25 Mbps, Further Highlighting Nation's Pathetic Lack Of Broadband Competition
"Over-subscribed does not NECESSARILY mean congested."
FIFY
The power gen analogy doesn't really work here. A congested ATM network doesn't crash just because it's congested. But 575 customers configured for a minimum of 1.5M service to as much as 7M routed over a single T3 IS congested. No, the network doesn't crash. But the first few on with their 7M streaming videos burst, and everyone else's packets get discarded. Everyone else times out before they even reach the edge router.
I didn't pull that example out of... thin air. I saw it, when troubleshooting dozens of simultaneous customer complaints of "can't get on Internet". It wasn't the only example, either; just the most extreme I personally worked at that company.
Even b/e/t/t/e/r/ worse was the T1 interswitch admin channel that some effin' moron provisioned a couple of hundred DSL customers to. (And why the hell that admin channel even showed up as provisionable... -shudder-)
I'm rather happy out of the telecom field now.
Re: Still Bullshit numbers game...
Then there's the ATM network side. Sure, there was an OC12 fiber run to the DSLAM. But the network side of the switch routed 575 DSL customers (sold up to 7Mbps connections) over... a...
...45Mbps T3. (For the mathematically-challenged, that's a whopping 78Kbps per customer when they all came home in the evening and tried to download YT videos at once.)
I kid you not. The contract fine print only specified the customer would see [insert arbitrary number up to 7] on the local loop. Network, not so much.
Nov 17th, 2014 @ 8:18pm
I blame...
on DailyDirt: Life Is Complicated
... the magical amino acid fairies.
Oct 24th, 2014 @ 12:00pm
Well, damn.
on Roca Labs Story Gets More Bizarre: Senator Threatens Bogus Defamation Lawsuit, While Nevada Quickly Rejects Bogus Bribery Charge
There goes my popcorn budget.
Sep 29th, 2014 @ 11:30am
Cost Effective?
on New 'Company' Claims It Uses Algorithms To Create Content Faster Than Creators Can, Making All Future Creations 'Infringing'
I wonder if this model is cost effective in the long run, what with the expense of feeding a million monkeys and training to them to operate typewriters.
Sep 26th, 2014 @ 6:41pm
(untitled comment)
on Apparently The Reason Comcast Has Crappy Customer Service Is Because It Was Lacking A 'Customer Experience' VP
"ensure that we are delighting our customers at each touch point."
Sounds like they plan to add sexual molestation to the murder/explosion/kitty-torture repertoire. Perhaps someone should explain to them that "customer service" differs somewhat from the animal husbandry sort.
Sep 9th, 2014 @ 10:08am
Cell location vs TDOA vs GPS for nontelecom types
on Turns Out Cell Phone Location Data Is Not Even Close To Accurate, But Everyone Falls For It
"Cell tower" is pretty vague. What's actually happening in cell phone location is this:
There are three separate processes used to locate a cell phone: 1) cell (tower) the phone is connected to (I think this is what Masnick is referring to), 2) Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) "triangulation," and GPS.
[Many people think of "triangulation" as directional antennas being used to take bearings on a source, based on signal strength, as in seen in movies. TDOA doesn't do this because cell towers do not have moveable directional antennas (you're reasonably safe in thinking of the array as an omnidirectional antenna). TDOA simply measures the time a cell phone signal takes to reach multiple towers. All the towers have their own GPS-based synchronized timing, so they can "confer" and agree that the signal each saw was the same connection attempt from the same phone, and compute the TDOA. Time gives distance. Distance gives a circle around each tower. The phone is where the arcs intersect.]
Number 1 is the easiest to derive (if the phone connects to the network, they perforce know what tower it's coming from), but least accurate; the phone could be anywhere in the circle area where they can get a signal.
Number 2 is reasonably accurate to several tens of meters, which is good enough for E911 work.
3 is quite accurate. If you have enough GPS birds in view. And you haven't had a glitch that puts you 100 kilometers off the Florida coast as you head into Chi-town.
I think most modern smart phones incorporate GPS (some years back, a bright company finally built complete GPS receivers on a single chip), but not all phones have it, and GPS doesn't always yield a good location. Cell companies adopted TDOA location both as an interim measure before GPS-capable phones became common and as a backup to GPS.
Sep 4th, 2014 @ 6:17pm
on Intellectual Ventures Tries To Rewrite The Script, Pretends The Plan Was Always About Making Stuff, Not Trolling
"Right, but what product have they made that is actually on the market? We'll wait. And wait."
I hear they got a patent on something called "vaporware" and will have it in full production real soon now.
Apr 2nd, 2014 @ 4:18pm
And if that doesn't work... we... we... we'll...
on New We The People Petition Asks White House To Respond To Eligible Petitions Within 30 Days
Write another petition!
"We petition the obama administration to: respond in a timely manner to the petition to respond to petitions in a timely manner."
That'll teach 'em. Right?
Apr 1st, 2014 @ 7:49am
But, but...
on Animator Sues Disney For Allegedly Ripping Off Her Short Film For Its 'Frozen' Trailer
I don't see a problem with Disney's action. Clearly they've nothing more than create a remix of Wilson's short work. I'm sure that will simply drive views and sales for her. In fact, she should be overjoyed that an advertising giant like Disney is throwing its weight behind her work.
Do it for the innovation.
Mar 28th, 2014 @ 6:33am
Ah, memories!
on A Lesson in Stupid Moral Panics: The History Of Dungeons And Dragons Bans
Specifically... I was helping out as a studio cameraman in a little New Mexico independent TV station back in the mid '80s. I had to run a camera during a live interview with some woman explaining how evil D&D is. She had little lead figures of "demons", some plastic commercial dolls. She spent a great deal of time telling the interviewer and audience how gamers gather around the table to worships strange and evil gods, and how the game spells are real.
As an active gamer at the time, I had just a wee bit of trouble containing the laughter. Finally had to wait for camera cuts to reposition my cam as fast as possible, then get the hell away from it so I wouldn't make it shake.
She had very clearly never even talked to a gamer, much less seen a session. Yet she was an expert traveling the country to lecture and grant interviews about it.
For some reason I didn't get to run a camera for live work after that.
Mar 26th, 2014 @ 1:12pm
on Sheriff's Dept. Charges Man With No Drugs With 'Intent To Distribute Counterfeit Controlled Substances'
Sure, there are field tests. Conveniently for the cops, all those field tests are prone to lots and lots of false positives. Instant probably cause!
Mar 17th, 2014 @ 10:24am
Re: EU leads 5G investment - do your research
on '5G' Wireless Doesn't Even Technically Exist Yet, But Everyone's Pretty Sure It's Going To Fix Everything
Thank you for making Mr. Bode's point.
"Although updated standards that define capabilities beyond those defined in the current 4G standards are under consideration, those new capabilities are still being grouped under the current ITU-T 4G standards." (emphasis added)
They/you can call it "5G", but the ITU hasn't defined 5G yet. If you've actually gone and spent �3.5bn on your own proprietary version of what you hope will be 5G in a few years, odds are you're really just going to build a multi-billion Euro network that can't talk to anything else. (That's generously assuming your "5G" is really a new system and not just "new capabilities are still being grouped under the current ITU-T 4G standards," in which case you'll still need to shell more billions.)
on Survey: 27% Think A Gigabyte Is a Type Of South American Insect [Update: Or Not]
Can you say "hoax"?
The survey was supposed conducted by or for a company that specializes in viral marketing. Last I checked, they finally released what they claim were the actual questions, but nothing on the methodology.
Feb 28th, 2014 @ 8:22am
Re: Re: I've long been fascinated by the willingness of people to identify with unsavory, unsympathetic, fictional characters.
on Mob Wife Suing Rockstar Over Supposed Likeness In GTA5
Maybe I'm not human then. [grin] The only time I assumed that I was being referenced in a work of fiction was a novel by someone who knows me... and the name was my own not-terribly-common name. Oh, and the author said it was me.*
* No, I didn't sue. I laughed. A lot. It was an inside joke regarding firearms preferences; pretty darned funny to those who know me.
Feb 27th, 2014 @ 10:01pm
I've long been fascinated by the willingness of people to identify with unsavory, unsympathetic, fictional characters.
Why would Gravano want people to think that's her? (Aside from the money that she isn't going to get anyway, that is.)
Oddly enough, I've had my own run-ins with folks who think I'm writing about them. A woman was apparently convinced that one of my characters was her. But she never said which one, leaving me to hope it wasn�t the the pissed off lady with the .357 Magnum and a box of explosives.*
At least she didn't sue me.
* "Point of Honor", which those interested can find in The Anarchy Belt (freebie).
Feb 25th, 2014 @ 8:33pm
Not so ordinary
on Internet Goes Crazy Over Ordinary FCC Survey, Claims Agency Wants Draconian Control Over Newsrooms
I'm most often in the "suspicious of government motives, but doubtful of conspiracy to the point of ridicule" camp, but my quick read of the proposal (I haven't gone through all 78 pages yet) suggests that what folks feared is exactly what the survey was going to do.
The three listed main goals of the study could be/are met without the newsroom interviews that were proposed.
1. "the access (or potential barriers) to CINs as identified by the FCC": The proposed news census would have done that,
2. "the media that makes up media ecologies...": Doesn't matter. The media is a black box; you ddon't need to know what's inside in order to observe the CIN "output" which they claim was their concern.
3. "the use of and interaction between media that makes media ecologies...": Reading further, you'll discover this translates into "Where do people get their news?" That question is answered through the news census and surveys of the users.
Nothing in those goals requires grilling media management or staff as proposed. To the extent that anyone is interested in the process of ensuring that outlets provide what the consumers want, that's marketing research conducted by the media so they can sell more advertising.
THIS is crap; and I can understand why people are worried about the big license grantor walking in and demanding access and answers:
Page 10, "Qualitative Analysis of Media Providers" is the tricky section, with the real kicker on page 11:
"The final component of this qualitative piece involves the execution of in-depth interviews with corporate management, local management, and support staff. We suggest a maximum of 56 media provider sites (radio and television stations) be surveyed. Within that maximum, interviews will be conducted within each market, stratified by market size. We propose that interviews be conducted at six sites in each of the selected small markets, ten sites in the selected medium markets, and 12 sites in large markets. Five interviews will be conducted at each media site. The selection of the type of staff to interview within each market shall be largely dependent on the number of properties within each market. The maximum number of interviews will be capped at 280."
And on page 12: "The purpose of these interviews is to ascertain the process by which stories are selected, station priorities (for content, production quality, and populations served), perceived station bias, perceived percent of news dedicated to each of the eight CINs, and perceived responsiveness to underserved populations. Due to the highly sensitive nature of information collected (particularly among reporters and anchors of television news stations), demographic information will not be
reported. Additionally, confidentiality will be assured among all participants interviewed."
Feb 21st, 2014 @ 8:33pm
on HuffPo Columnist: I Infringe, So All Broadband Users Must Pay A New Piracy Tax
"[H]e thinks it would be a nifty idea if all b/r/o/a/d/b/a/n/d/ s/u/b/s/c/r/i/b/e/r/s/ healthcare users had to pay a monthly f/i/n/e/ premium for the behaviors of other people."
I feel so much safer now
on DHS Suffers Moment Of Clarity, Shuts Down Plans To Build A Nationwide License Plate Database
Yeah, yeah. And I remember how the feds shut down Total Information Awareness, ensuring forever that the gov would never, ever snoop on us.
...rename/relocate/recycle... Ever wonder why they tried to slip a national surveillance program into ICE... where it might get overlooked?
I beg to differ
on Competitor Takes Over Verizon's West Virginia Landlines; Complaints Drop Nearly 70%
"[A]ny company taking over that provided a minimum of competence and care would likely have seen the same level of improvement."
A-hem. Not necessarily. Google (ootb alert!)"FairPoint New England bankruptcy". Astonishingly as it may seem, it's possible to out-do Verizon in customer abuse.
(If you really dig into the FairPoint fiasco, you'll find a another [recently] familiar name popping up: CapGemini/CGI Federal; something I happened to write about a week ago:
http://www.bussjaeger.org/index.html#cgi-capgemini)
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With iOS 14, Apple is finally letting the iPhone home screen get complicated
Ebenezer Robbins June 24, 2020 11 min read
Eight years ago, I wrote a piece bemoaning the fact that the iPhone’s home screen was too restrictive and boring. It only allowed a single grid of apps or folders, they had to flow in from the top left, there were no widgets, and even the icons themselves never changed.
The title of that piece, the iPhone 5 forecast: a predictable 73 degrees and sunny, became something of a running joke. It was inspired by the icon for the Weather app, which remained exactly the same no matter where you were or what the sky was doing.
Through huge screen size changes, complete design overhauls, and an ever-expanding ecosystem of apps, the iPhone’s home screen remained simple. Meanwhile, Windows Phone was experimenting with Live Tiles and Android was letting users throw widgets anywhere they wanted.
No more. Apple is finally allowing the home screen on iOS 14 to become complicated.
I’m not posting a full preview of iOS 14 today — I’ll wait for the public beta to do that. But I do want to take a close look at the home screen in particular. Apple waited until literally the 14th version of iOS to change the paradigm for the home screen, so it must think these options are worthwhile.
(By the way, I don’t recommend you install the developer beta on your primary phone. Or any phone at all unless you are a developer who needs to test apps, actually. A public beta is coming in July and it’s worth the wait. Nothing catastrophic has happened, but there are still plenty of unpolished edges and bugs.)
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The positive way to talk about the boringness of the iPhone home screen up until now is to point out that it has been simple and trustworthy. No matter what oddity an app would throw at you, you could aways hit the home button (or swipe up) to go to a safe space.
That isn’t changing in iOS 14. When you eventually upgrade, all your stuff will be in the same place and nothing will work differently by default. There will be a new section called the “App Library” over to the side, but you are free to pay it no mind.
Offering complexity as an option is a tricky thing, but I think Apple has landed upon a good balance. There are four main ways that Apple is adding complication. None of them are a rebuke of the old way of doing things, but all of them require a different and more involved mental model of what it means to use an iPhone.
You can place widgets on the home screen in iOS 14
Widgets on the home screen
This is the most prominent change in iOS 14. Widgets can come in three sizes (just like Windows Phone), can be placed in a way that tiles the other icons and folders in a clean grid (just like Windows Phone), and so far are very elegantly designed. Android widgets, by comparison, often look like they are creatures from the 2011 lagoon.
To me, though, it doesn’t represent a fundamental shift in Apple’s philosophy of simplicity. We’ve had widgets on iOS before, available in the vertical scrolling “Today” view that’s to the left of your main home screen. (A view, by the way, that is still so much better than the algorithmic dreck that Google and Samsung try to put there.)
You can can “stack” them in a clever way that lets you swipe through multiple widgets. If there’s a philosophical shift here, it’s that Apple is gleefully offering so many different options. Three sizes. Putting widgets on the home screen or in the traditional Today view. The option to have stacks be “smart” and algorithmically surface the most relevant one. All of these are things that would have been antithetical to the old home screen’s ethos of simplicity.
One interesting note: developers are going to need to remake their widgets if they want them to work on the home screen — but that same code can be reused on the next version of macOS. Apple says that’s because the new widgets are updated on Apple’s schedule and therefore eat up less battery life. On that timeline of widget updates, apps can declare the priority of their new information and that might put them at the top of the smart stack. (Hopefully nobody will abuse that feature.)
You can turn entire home screen pages on or off depending on your mood in iOS 14
Jiggle mode and editing pages
Look, I’m calling it jiggle mode. Apple SVP of software engineering Craig Federighi called it jiggle mode in Monday’s keynote, so it’s canon now.
What’s interesting here is that you can get into jiggle mode in so many different ways. A long press on any icon includes an “Edit Home Screen” button, but you can also long press on a black space on the home screen for the first time. That’s been a feature on Android for ages. It’s one of those things that’s a little undiscoverable but wildly useful.
I bring up jiggle mode because there’s another undiscoverable but wildly useful feature hidden in there: “Edit Pages.” If you tap on the navigation dots above your dock, you get a fly-out view of all the pages on your various home screens — again, just like you can do on many Android phones.
But Apple added something new and unexpected here: checkboxes. You can hit a checkbox to turn a page off without deleting everything that’s on it. It seems like a weird feature until you realize you can use it to customize your phone for different contexts. You could have a page (or three) set up for work, but when it’s time for the weekend you could uncheck them and hide all those apps in exchange for a weekend page.
It’s really well done and something I haven’t seen executed to this degree of simplicity anywhere else.
Widgets are flashy, but the App Library is the thing that represents the more fundamental shift for Apple. It’s a bucket where all of your apps live, categorized by Apple. What this means is that your home screen has been split in two: a series of home pages you customize yourself and a single page that lists all of your apps.
That means that your home screen(s) could have two or even three ways to find your app: in an icon you placed, in the App Library, or even from a widget.
If you’re an iPhone user, this is going to feel foreign and strange. If you’re an Android user, this is old hat. Android has had a separate home screen and app drawer since it was first released.
I hope that Apple’s take on this concept evolves over the course of the betas. As it stands, App Library is a somewhat maddening experience. Apple automatically groups your apps into categories that sometimes make little sense and there’s no way to change them. There are not enough visual indications that tapping on the big icons opens an app directly while tapping on the little ones opens up the category.
Apple handled the potential confusion of uninstalling apps vs removing them from the home screen fairly well, though. Now, the “x” icons are minus symbols, and tapping one pops up a very clear dialog box with very clear options for what will happen next.
Most of all, I’m just relieved that I can finally get rid of the “Apple Junk” folder that’s sat on my last home screen ever since folders were introduced on the iPhone.
App Clips are like Instant Apps on Android — little mini versions of apps you can use without having to go through the folderol of installing something through the App Store. They need to be smaller than 10MB and they show up in your App Library with a little dotted line around them to denote their temporary status. They disappear automatically after 30 days unless you go in and manually convert them to full apps.
Think of them as living in between the extreme transience of a browser tab and the frustrating “why is that still on my phone” permanence of an app on your home screen. They can do things web pages can’t, but are less burdensome than real apps.
I don’t have the time (or maybe the emotional wherewithal) to get into all the issues App Clips and Instant Apps raise. I dropped a small Twitter thread with some gestures to why I wish that these kinds of apps weren’t necessary — and maybe I’ll get into it for real another time.
For our purposes here, it’s just important to note that App Clips add yet another layer of metaphorical complexity on top of the already-more-complex home screen / App Library split. Will users understand what an App Clip is or why they might care? Will they know why some icons in their App Library have dotted lines? Will they be confused when those apps disappear?
I think that these questions will end up being lower stakes than they may seem at first blush. But I also think it’s fascinating that Apple is willing to make a UI that raises those questions in the first place. That just doesn’t happen very often on the iPhone.
Simple by default, complicated by choice
All of the above could change before iOS 14 is released. Apple could tweak the App Library, jiggle mode could get invoked in a new way, widgets could come in yet more sizes.
Hell, Apple could finally allow you to put an icon at the bottom of a home screen instead of forcing everything to pack in from the top left. Just kidding, that would be madness! (Sigh.)
What’s more important than any of these preliminary impressions is the overall observation: Apple is finally letting the iPhone home screen get complicated. I’m using precise wording here: “letting.” The complicated new UIs and metaphors Apple is putting into the home screen are totally optional.
You don’t need to actually learn any of this stuff if it all seems unnecessary to you — and more power to you. iPadOS, by comparison, has made text selection and windowing get complicated — they’re harder to avoid. iPadOS doesn’t seem to do anything to fix that. Ironically, so far as I know neither inline widgets nor the App Library are coming to iPadOS, which means the iPhone now has a more complex home screen than the iPad.
Apple has fully swung from a years-long obstinate refusal to change up the iPhone home screen to stacking multiple new ways of thinking about these little icons all on top of each other in a single release, all at once. Apps not only can appear in multiple places, but there are multiple kinds of apps and widgets. Home screen pages can be toggled on and off.
Apple usually takes years to build up to these new interface metaphors. But with the iOS 14 home screen, they’re all landing at once. I’m glad they’re finally here and I’m glad that you can choose to ignore most of them if you prefer. Mostly, though, I wish that it hadn’t taken over eight years to get here.
More from WWDC 2020
┏ Our biggest burning question about Apple’s ARM silicon.
┏ Apple will extend the lifespan of your AirPods by choosing when they charge. I think every gadget with a rechargeable battery should do this.
┏ New iOS 14 feature lets the iPhone alert you if it hears sounds like a doorbell or fire alarm. Ashley Carman:
For now, Apple seems focused on using sound recognition for everyday accessibility purposes, and the company discourages anyone from depending on it for staying safe. The settings screen says “Sound Recognition should not be relied upon on in circumstances where you may be harmed or injured, in high-risk or emergency situations, or for navigation.”
┏ Apple’s new iOS 14 home screen brings Windows Phone Live Tiles back to life. Tom Warren:
Apple has taken the best of both Android widgets and Windows Phone’s Live Tiles and combined them into iOS 14. It’s not the first time we’ve seen Windows Phone features appear in iOS or Android, and it underlines how important Microsoft’s mobile efforts were even if they were a glorious failure.
┏ All the new features iOS 14 borrows from Android. These lists are fun and you know what? More borrowing good ideas please.
The end of Mixer
┏ Mixer failed — here’s why. Bijan Stephen has, as ever, the smartest take on live streaming platforms:
Mixer was doomed from the start because what Microsoft never seemed to understand was that its live-streaming platform was first and foremost a community. That’s not to disparage the streamers on Mixer or the fans who followed them there. Those relationships are real, solid, and will probably last even as streamers leave the platform for greener pastures — adversity binds, after all. What I mean is that Microsoft never marketed Mixer as anything more than a more technologically advanced version of Twitch, and it couldn’t seem to figure out how to showcase the community it was building.
┏ Microsoft’s Mixer streamers are sad, angry, and moving to Twitch. Tom Warren spoke to a ton of people in the Mixer community:
Most Mixer partners I spoke to had decided to move to Twitch or were leaning that way, despite Facebook reportedly offering a one-time $2,500 sign-up bonus to Mixer partners who choose to move. Most simply feel like Twitch is the bigger platform and that Facebook is too personal, with a lack of anonymity for viewers or streamers.
┏ Mixer was a failure, but it kicked off a talent war for streamers. Andrew Webster:
Now we’re set for arguably the biggest free agency frenzy in the history of streaming. Suddenly, all of those big names that Microsoft spent millions of dollars to lure in are searching for a new home. Because the landscape has changed so much, it’s not clear where they will land. The obvious choice for many would be Twitch, but YouTube has also emerged as a strong competitor. Cory “King Gothalion” Michael, who joined Mixer last October, has already announced that he’s moving to Facebook.
More from The Verge
┏ Google is on a mission to stop you from reusing passwords. Jay Peters:
Password Checkup took about two to three years from inception to having it appear in many Google products, according to Thomas. Down the line, Google wants to have Security Checkup email you when it detects that a stored login has been compromised in a data breach, which the company plans to launch in the coming months. And later this year, Google aims to let people use Password Checkup in Chrome even if they aren’t logged into a Google account.
┏ Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced. Chaim Gartenberg:
The problem with Superhuman is that you have to be willing to use the app Superhuman’s way. The app is heavily reliant on its hotkeys, but you can’t change or edit them to your liking. Deleting email will always be Shift-3, and the only way to switch between accounts is by using the Control key. Some of that is fine; I’ve used email apps with settings menus so complex as to be immediately off-putting to even bother changing anything. But it also leads to some frustrating interactions when you don’t fit into the Superhuman-sized box.
┏ Acer’s new rugged laptop has a water-repelling fan inside it. Monica Chin:
The N3 has achieved MIL-STD 810G and IP53 certifications. The former guarantees durability from incidents like shocks, drops, and vibrations. The latter means it can withstand certain quantities of dust and spraying water. The laptop also includes what Acer calls an Aquafan, which repels water from all angles from inside the laptop.
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Amazon launches $1.2 mobile Prime Video plan in India
January 13th 2021 at 08:44
By Manish Singh
Amazon is doubling down on one of the biggest strengths of Prime Video streaming service: Aggressive pricing.
The e-commerce giant on Wednesday launched Prime Video Mobile Edition, an even more affordable tier of the on-demand video streaming service — now also bundling some mobile data.
Prime Video Mobile Edition, for which Amazon has partnered with Indian telecom network Airtel, will feature 28-day mobile-only, single-user, standard definition (SD) access to customers in India for Rs 89 ($1.22). This tier will include 6GB of mobile data that customers can consume during the subscription period. There’s also a slightly expensive plan for Prime Video Mobile Edition that will charge customers Rs 299 but will offer 1.5GB mobile data for each day of the subscription. To anyone who subscribes to Prime Video Mobile Edition, Amazon says it will pick the tab for the first month.
Amazon Prime subscription costs $1.7 a month in India and includes access to Prime Video and Prime Music.
The new Prime Video plan is currently only available in India. Its launch comes two years after Netflix unveiled a similar plan in India.
Affordable pricing is key for on-demand steaming services that are looking to make inroads in India, the world’s second largest internet market. Even as more than 600 million users are online in the country today, only a fraction of them currently pay to access digital subscriptions. In a recent report to clients, analysts at Goldman Sachs estimated that gaming, and video streaming market in India could clock as much as $5 billion in gross value transactions by March 2025.
“India is one of our fastest growing territories in the world with very high engagement rates. Buoyed by this response, we want to double-down by offering our much-loved entertainment content to an even larger base of Indian customers. Given high mobile broadband penetration in the country, the mobile phone has become one of the most widely used streaming devices,” said Jay Marine, Vice President, Amazon Prime Video Worldwide, in a statement.
Airtel, the second largest telecom operator in India, is the first roll-out partner for Prime Video Mobile Edition, said Sameer Batra, Director, Mobile Business Development at Amazon, suggesting that the company may ink similar deals with other telecom operators in the country as it looks to expand the “reach of our service to the entire pre-paid customer base in India.”
Nearly every on-demand video streaming service in India, including Netflix and Disney+ Hotstar, maintain various partnerships with local telecom operators and satellite TV providers to reach more users in the country. Amazon did not explicitly say when or if it plans to extend Prime Video Mobile Edition outside of India.
Nielsen says ‘The Office’ was the most popular streaming series of 2020
By Anthony Ha
Because streaming services only release viewership numbers selectively, and because each one uses its own methodology, it can be hard to compare the popularity of different streaming shows and movies.
So Nielsen, which provides the standard ratings for traditional TV (and is working to combine those ratings with streaming data), is offering some apples-to-apples comparison today at CES by releasing its own lists of the most popular streaming content in 2020, across Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and Hulu.
These lists are limited to U.S. viewership. And unlike Nielsen’s linear ratings, they don’t just reflect the total number of people watching, but focus instead on the total number of minutes watched. That also makes for a striking contrast with the ratings that Netflix releases, which count the number of households who watched at least two minutes of a program, but don’t distinguish between someone who watches two minutes versus two hours versus 20 hours.
Still, the TV series lists are absolutely dominated by Netflix, while Disney+ puts in a good showing on the movies list. The other services don’t crack any of the three Top 10 lists.
On the original series side, the surprising winner (at least, surprising to me) was Netflix’s “Ozark,” with 30.5 billion minutes streamed, followed by “Lucifer” (19.0 billion minutes) and “The Crown” (16.3 billion minutes). “Tiger King,” which seems like one of the defining hits of the pandemic, came in at number four, with 15.7 billion minutes streamed — though Nielsen’s methodology puts it at a disadvantage, since it only has eight episodes. The same could probably be said for “The Mandalorian,” the first non-Netflix series on the list, with 14.5 billion minutes streamed.
Image Credits: Nielsen
The numbers were even bigger for acquired series — all of them streaming on Netflix last year, although the number one show, “The Office” (57.1 billion minutes streamed) just moved to Peacock. The other shows in the top five are “Grey’s Anatomy” (39.4 billon minutes), “Criminal Minds” (35.4 billion minutes), “NCIS” (28.1 billion minutes) and “Schitt’s Creek” (23.8 billion minutes).
On the movie side, the biggest title was “Frozen II,” which came early to Disney+ and was streamed for 14.9 billion minutes, followed by “Moana” (Disney+, 10.5 billion minutes), “The Secret Life of Pets 2” (Netflix, 9.1 billion minutes), “Onward” (Disney+, 8.4 billion minutes) and “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (6.2 billion minutes). This seems to be a category where family films have advantage, perhaps because kids are more likely to watch them multiple times.
Beyond releasing these lists, Nielsen is announcing a new product designed to measure viewership of theatrical video on-demand, a.k.a. movies that are released for rent or purchase online. While studios should already have access to basic purchase data for these titles, Nielsen says it can provide “the entire media food chain” with more detailed information about things like the age, gender, ethnicity and geographic territory of who’s watching.
In a statement, Nielsen’s general manager of audience measurement Scott N. Brown said:
As this unprecedented pandemic continues to influence consumer behavior, perhaps even through a prolonged state of recovery waves, being able to measure and help clients appropriately monetize new revenue streams has never been more crucial. A bigger question might be what will audiences do following any recovery, how the behavior adopted during stay-at-home orders might influence habits when consumers have the ability to go back to theaters to enjoy that experience and how content creators will leverage data to make the best decisions regarding distribution platforms in the future.
Nielsen plans to combine traditional and digital TV ratings
Flexible expressions could lift 3D-generated faces out of the uncanny valley
November 25th 2020 at 20:55
By Devin Coldewey
3D-rendered faces are a big part of any major movie or game now, but the task of capturing and animated them in a natural way can be a tough one. Disney Research is working on ways to smooth out this process, among them a machine learning tool that makes it much easier to generate and manipulate 3D faces without dipping into the uncanny valley.
Of course this technology has come a long way from the wooden expressions and limited details of earlier days. High resolution, convincing 3D faces can be animated quickly and well, but the subtleties of human expression are not just limitless in variety, they’re very easy to get wrong.
Think of how someone’s entire face changes when they smile — it’s different for everyone, but there are enough similarities that we fancy we can tell when someone is “really” smiling or just faking it. How can you achieve that level of detail in an artificial face?
Existing “linear” models simplify the subtlety of expression, making “happiness” or “anger” minutely adjustable, but at the cost of accuracy — they can’t express every possible face, but can easily result in impossible faces. Newer neural models learn complexity from watching the interconnectedness of expressions, but like other such models their workings are obscure and difficult to control, and perhaps not generalizable beyond the faces they learned from. They don’t enable the level of control an artist working on a movie or game needs, or result in faces that (humans are remarkably good at detecting this) are just off somehow.
A team at Disney Research proposes a new model with the best of both worlds — what it calls a “semantic deep face model.” Without getting into the exact technical execution, the basic improvement is that it’s a neural model that learns how a facial expression affects the whole face, but is not specific to a single face — and moreover is nonlinear, allowing flexibility in how expressions interact with a face’s geometry and each other.
Think of it this way: A linear model lets you take an expression (a smile, or kiss, say) from 0-100 on any 3D face, but the results may be unrealistic. A neural model lets you take a learned expression from 0-100 realistically, but only on the face it learned it from. This model can take an expression from 0-100 smoothly on any 3D face. That’s something of an over-simplification, but you get the idea.
Image Credits: Disney Research
The results are powerful: You could generate a thousand faces with different shapes and tones, and then animate all of them with the same expressions without any extra work. Think how that could result in diverse CG crowds you can summon with a couple clicks, or characters in games that have realistic facial expressions regardless of whether they were hand-crafted or not.
It’s not a silver bullet, and it’s only part of a huge set of improvements artists and engineers are making in the various industries where this technology is employed — markerless face tracking, better skin deformation, realistic eye movements, and dozens more areas of interest are also important parts of this process.
The Disney Research paper was presented at the International Conference on 3D Vision; you can read the full thing here.
Disney Research neural face-swapping technique can provide photorealistic, high-resolution video
Google brings ‘The Mandalorian’ to AR in its new app
November 23rd 2020 at 15:13
By Sarah Perez
Google has teamed up with Disney and Lucasfilm to bring the Star Wars streaming series “The Mandalorian” to augmented reality. The company announced this morning the launch of a new Android AR app, “The Mandalorian” AR Experience, which will display iconic moments from the first season of the show in AR, allowing fans to retrace the Mandalorian’s steps, find the Child, harness the Force, and more, according to the app’s Play Store description.
In the app, users will be able to follow the trail of Mando, Din Djarin and the Child, interact with the characters, and create scenes that can be shared with friends.
New AR content will be released for the app on Mondays, starting today Nov. 23 and continuing for nearly a year to wrap on Oct. 31, 2021. That makes this a longer-term promotion than some of the other Star Wars experiences Google has offered in the past.
Image Credits: Google/Lucasfilm
Meanwhile, the app itself takes advantage of Google’s developer platform for building augmented reality experiences, ARCore, in order to create scenes that interact with the user’s surroundings. This more immersive design means fans will be able to unlock additional effects based on their actions. The app also leverages Google’s new ARCore Depth API, which allows the app to enable occlusion. This makes the AR scenes blend more naturally with the environment that’s seen through the smartphone’s camera.
However, because the app is a showcase for Google’s latest AR technologies, it won’t work with all Android devices.
Google says the app will only support “compatible 5G Android devices,” which includes its 5G Google Pixel smartphones and other select 5G Android phones that have the Google Play Services for AR updated. You can check to see if your Android phone is supported on a list provided on the Google Developers website. Other phones may be supported in the future, the company also notes.
While the experience requires a 5G-capable Android device, Google says that you don’t have to be on an active 5G connection to use the app. Instead, the requirement is more about the technologies these devices include and not the signal itself.
Google has teamed up with Lucasfilm many times over the past several years for promotional marketing campaigns. These are not typically considered ads, because they give both companies the opportunity to showcase their services or technologies. For example, Google allowed users to give its apps a Star Wars-themed makeover back in 2015, which benefited its own services like Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Chrome and others. It has also introduced both AR and VR experiences featuring Star Wars content over the past several years.
The “The Mandalorian” AR Experience” is a free download on the Play Store.
NASA sends Baby Yoda to space aboard SpaceX Dragon alongside astronauts
By Darrell Etherington
NASA added a surprise fifth passenger to the Crew-1 mission currently en route to the International Space Station – a plush The Child (aka Baby Yoda) from The Mandalorian. The doll is what’s known as the “zero-gravity indicator” – typically a soft, small object that is allowed to float free in the spacecraft cabin to provide a simple, but effective confirmation of when it passes into the phase of a spaceflight where Earth’s gravity no longer holds significant sway.
Crew-1’s other four passengers are all actual people – NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, along with JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. They’re on their way to the ISS to staff it for the next half a year, on NASA’s first operational commercial crew mission, courtesy of partner SpaceX, which certified its Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft for human flight earlier this year.
SpaceX and NASA successfully launch four astronauts to space for first operational Dragon crew mission
Baby Yoda won hearts with its debut on Disney’s original streaming show The Mandalorian last year, and continues to woo audiences with this year’s second season. It earned its colloquial nickname because it’s a juvenile version of whatever the heck the original Yoda from the Star Wars saga is. In the new series, the youngster regularly earns reprimands from the series’ titular bounty hunter for messing around with his spacecraft controls.
The Child merch is already white hot, but zero-G indicators of past have also notably become hot ticket items following their trips to space. On SpaceX’s first human spaceflight mission, the Demo-2 test flight that took place earlier this year, a Ty Flippable dinosaur called ‘Tremor’ quickly flew off shelves following its own free-floating antics.
Are subscription services the future of fintech?
By Walter Thompson
Joshira Maduro Contributor
Joshira Maduro joined the LendingTree team in April 2020 and uses her background in market research and branding to write about credit card news and better ways to spend.
Subscription services are on the rise. During the pandemic, Americans have been spending more time at home and more money on the digital products that make navigating our new normal easier.
More than ever, Americans’ lives are aided by companies like Netflix, Instacart and, of course, Amazon, which reported record-setting earnings from its 2020 Prime Day savings event.
A recent survey even found that spending on subscription services had more than tripled since March, with one in three respondents saying they’d purchased a new online subscription while quarantining.
Now, a new concern lingers: Is the market getting oversaturated? The question doesn’t just apply to streaming services and food delivery companies — it’s an issue financial technology businesses can’t afford to ignore.
As subscriptions become an increasingly alluring business model, fintechs will be forced to consider whether this proven strategy is worth the risk.
Fintechs should take note of subscription services
In the CompareCards survey, two-thirds of respondents said they purchased a new streaming service mainly for entertainment. Still, that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for fintechs to carve out their own space.
Bradley Leimer, co-founder of the financial consulting firm Unconventional Ventures, said he’s certainly seen more fintechs exploring subscription models. As Leimer explained, the financial services industry may have not fully embraced the idea, but it’s “starting to take notice.” Leimer, who has more than 25 years of experience in the industry, believes fintechs can learn a lot from subscription services — provided they’re willing to look in the right place.
One major lesson? Transparency. Subscription services give companies an opportunity to be upfront about their fees, as well as their benefits.
“When we talk about subscriptions, the more clear and more transparent we are, the better,” Leimer said.
Acorns is an easy case study. The microinvesting app offers three subscription levels — lite, personal and family — each with a clearly explained list of features. For what it’s worth, the company added more than 2 million users between March 2019 and March 2020, according to Forbes.
Leimer said fintechs should also take note of the way subscription services collaborate. For example, he pointed out how Amazon users can add an HBO subscription to their Prime Video account, essentially “bundling” two subscriptions into one. Fintechs, Leimer said, could stand to take a page out of that playbook.
“There are a lot of ways to sort of skin that cat — for a fintech company to generate income and for a customer to get value on top of that,” Leimer said.
Bob Iger goes from managing Mickey to directing a milk replacement startup as new Perfect Day boardmember
October 21st 2020 at 16:12
By Jonathan Shieber
Bob Iger, the chairman and former chief executive at Walt Disney is trading his mouse ears for milk substitutes as the new director of massively funded dairy replacement startup Perfect Day.
Milk substitutes are a $1 trillion category and Perfect Day is angling to be the leader in the market. Iger’s ascension to a director position at the company just affirms that Perfect Day is a big business in the big business of making milk replacements.
Unlike almond milk or soy milk companies, Perfect Day is angling to be a direct replacement for bovine dairy using a protein cultivated from mushrooms.
The move comes as Perfect Day ramps up its development of consumer products on its own and through investments in startups like the Urgent Company. That’s the consumer food company Perfect Day backed to commercialize technologies and create more sustainable food brands.
Brave Robot ice cream launches as the first brand from the Perfect Day-backed Urgent Company
For Iger, the Perfect Day board represents the first new board seat the longtime entertainment powerbroker has taken since he left Apple.
“Innovation and leadership are both key to world changing ideas,” said Iger, in a statement. “Perfect Day has established both innovation in its use of technology and novel approach to fighting climate change, and clear leadership in building a category with a multi-year head start in the industry they’re helping to build. I’m thrilled to join at this pivotal moment and support the company’s swift growth into new categories and markets.”
Iger joins Perfect Day’s co-founders Ryan Pandya and Perumal Gandhi, and representatives from the company’s international backers and lead investors, Aftab Mathur, from Temasek Holdings, and Patrick Zhang, of Horizons Ventures.
Until yesterday, Perfect Day was the most well-capitalized protein fermentation company focused on dairy in the world. That’s when Impossible Foods, the alternative meat manufacturer which has raised $1.5 billion from investors, unveiled that it, too, was working on a dairy product.
Impossible Foods gobbles up another $200 million
Perfect Day, by contrast, has raised $360 million in total funding to-date.
“We’re thrilled to have Bob Iger join our team, and are confident his tenured operational expertise and visionary leadership style will further help us scale our ambitions,” said Ryan Pandya, the chief executive and co-founder of Perfect Day, in a statement. “We’re focused on rapid commercialization in the U.S. and globally. But we know we can’t do it alone. That’s why we’re excited and humbled to have a proven leader like Bob to help us thoughtfully transform our purpose-driven aspirations into tangible and sustainable impact.”
Looking Beyond Meat, the future of food investment looks pretty cheesy
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Bank of Ireland PIBS
Mr Kempster, 73, owns permanent interest bearing shares (Pibs) that BoI wants to force him to sell at just 20pc of their cover value as part of a restructuring of the financial institution\’s balance sheet by the Irish government.
The former farmer, who also used to run a courier company, will claim in the High Court on Wednesday that the terms offered by BoI are \”unfair\” to retail investors.
Mr Kempster is not the only investor likely to take a hit. Some £75m of the bonds are outstanding – meaning Pibs investors are facing a total loss of up to £60m.
OK, as Ritchie says about Greece, those who lend money irresponsibly should indeed take a haircut when their irresponsibility comes home to roost.
Mr Kempster, who lives in Glasgow, only bought £24,000 worth in 2009.
That\’s the bit that interest me though. What price did he pay for them?
By 2009 we all knew that BoI was bust didn\’t we? So I assume, although don\’t actually know, that he bought the bonds at less than par.
If true, this makes him a vulture investor doesn\’t it?
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Ben June 27, 2011 at 9:00 am
“If true, this makes him a vulture investor doesn’t it?”
Yes, yes it does. And? Have they actually declared bankrupcy?
If/When they do, the receivers/courts can force him to take pennies in the pound. Until then, he’s providing an important discipline: Prove you can’t pay up, or pay up.
Philip Walker June 27, 2011 at 11:25 am
Actually, it’s quite possible he didn’t pay less than par. I have £1,000 nominal of this issue, bought at the beginning of 2010 for £1,030 plus costs. In ’09, I expect the price was even higher.
However, that’s not the point. The Irish government, for it is they who are driving this scandal, have up-ended capital structures and overturned legally-binding contracts in an attempt to preserve taxpayers’ investment at the expense of bondholders’. Those of us who bought during the crisis were expecting the Bank to be in trouble but we were expecting the Irish State to behave within the law. They’ve decided that the law can go hang, and that’s what needs challenging.
Philip Walker June 27, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Managed to get onto a price website; my expectation, it transpires, was wrong for most of ’09. The price was higher for the earliest bit of ’09, followed by quite a collapse and then a recovery towards the end of the year. Notwithstanding, the issue is as my second paragraph states.
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Flexibility Act of 2020
Updated 6/3/2020
On June 3, 2020, the Senate passed the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020 and
it is expected to be signed into law soon. The intent of the Act is to make 100% loan forgiveness
more achievable for borrowers. The following is a summary of the legislation’s main points:
Existing PPP borrowers can choose to keep the 8-week covered period or extend the previous 8-week period to 24 weeks. New PPP borrowers will have a 24-week covered period, but the covered period cannot extend beyond December 31, 2020.
The legislation includes new exceptions to the reduction in workforce criteria. The first allows
borrowers to achieve full PPP loan forgiveness even if they could not find qualified employees
and the second allows forgiveness for those unable to restore business operations to
February 15, 2020 levels due to COVID-19 related operating restrictions (Example: capacity
limitations do not allow for a full staff to return to work). If the business does not meet the
criteria above, they will have until December 31, 2020 to restore the workforce to pre-
February 15, 2020 levels, a change from the previous deadline of June 30.
The payroll expenditure requirement drops to 60% from 75% but is now a cliff, meaning that
borrowers must spend at least 60% on payroll or none of the loan will be forgiven. *A technical
correction is expected to be introduced to update the verbiage to change this to a pro-rata
reduction in forgiveness.
The term of new PPP loans is now five years rather than two years for any loan amount not
forgiven. Existing PPP loan terms may be amended by agreement between the borrower and
lender to extend the term of the loan to five years. The interest rate remains at 1%.
Borrowers have until 10 months after the end of the covered period to request forgiveness. If
a borrower applies for forgiveness, repayment starts after a determination of the forgiven
amount is communicated. If a borrower does not apply for forgiveness, repayment starts 10
months after the end of the covered period.
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This IHOP waiter helps woman with Huntington's disease eat and we're in tears
March 30, 2017, 8:52 PM UTC / Updated March 31, 2017, 3:40 PM UTC / Source: TODAY
By Tracy Saelinger
An IHOP server from Illinois is getting lots of attention this week for a good deed he’s been doing for years: helping a customer eat breakfast.
March 31, 201700:37
Each Saturday, “Dale and Ma,” as waiter Joe Thomas calls them, come into the Springfield, Illinois, IHOP where he works. As the husband assisted his wife with her utensils, his breakfast would grow cold — until Thomas jumped in to help, saying, “I’ve got this.”
That was five years ago, and Thomas, who has been with IHOP for nearly 12 years, has been helping out the couple ever since. Turns out, the woman suffers from Huntington's disease, a relatively rare inherited disorder that affects nerve cells in the brain, impacting movement and cognition. She is able to eat, say, grapes or apple slices, but struggles with utensils.
Thomas, 44, recently took a couple of minutes out of a busy breakfast shift to talk with TODAY Food: “I have always helped out people regardless of whoever, whatever,” he says.
Way to go, Joe! IHOP server Joe Thomas, left, meets with local franchisee Larry McDonald.IHOP
Compassion is in his nature: Previously, Thomas worked as a rehab technician, helping cognitively and developmentally disabled individuals transition into independent-living situations. He also took care of his mother, who suffered from diabetes, until she passed away almost 10 years ago.
Anyone who’s ever cared for another person who needs extra help knows how difficult the smallest daily tasks can be, which is probably why the internet collectively shed a tear after a photo of Thomas’s gesture went viral this week.
Joe Thomas's fellow IHOP staff members are happy to help out while he assists an elderly couple with their breakfast, customers report.IHOP
Another customer, Keshia Dotson, took the photo after she spotted Thomas’s kind deed recently.
Other tables’ service weren’t impacted while Thomas assisted the elderly customer, Dotson told TODAY Food: Another server even jumped in to check on Dotson’s table “and seemed glad to do so,” she said. “She even commented on how sweet she thought it was of him.”
Because companies only tend to hear when things go wrong, Dotson said she wanted to highlight something good. “My motive in posting the photo was to try and help recognize the waiter to his company,” she said, “I typically try and reach out when I experience or observe good customer service."
In her own life, Dotson works as the adult programs and outreach coordinator for the Rochester Library in Rochester, Illinois, where, she says, the staff strives to have a good impact on the local community.
“We also try and do the same in our personal lives, which is in part what prompted me to take the photo.”
RELATED: Paralympic Josh Sundquist turns disability into creative IHOP Halloween costume
An IHOP spokesperson, Stephanie Peterson, told TODAY Food that both the company and the local franchisee, Larry McDonald, were "touched by Thomas's kind act," adding, "From everything we've heard about Joe, it is in his nature to go above and beyond for his guests and this gesture simply reflects who he is. As a brand, we are incredibly proud of the heartwarming moments like this that take place in our restaurants every day."
As for Thomas, he's even been approached about a future in nursing since the photo went viral. He’s not quite sure what his next step will be, yet, though he says that he'd love to get back into his work as a rehab technician one day.
In the meantime, he plans to keep helping Dale and Ma, and is glad he has gotten to know the regulars so well. “Oh yeah, we go way back,” he said. “They’re a beautiful couple. Beautiful people.”
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AMD's Kabini: Jaguar And GCN Come Together In A 15 W APU
By Don Woligroski 24 May 2013
AMD is ready to talk about the Temash and Kabini APUs, based on its Jaguar x86 architecture and Graphics Core Next design. We even have a reference Temash-based notebook here in the lab for benchmarking. How does it compare to Pentium and Core i3?
Results: Adobe CS6 Suite
Page 1: Temash And Kabini: AMD's Mobile Future
Page 2: Jaguar: A Low-Power x86 Core
Page 3: The First APUs With AMD's GCN Architecture, Plus Power Management
Page 4: AMD's E-Series and A-Series APUs, Along With Their Bundles
Page 5: AMD's Kabini-Based Prototype And Our Benchmarks
Page 7: Results: F1 2012 And The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 8: Results: Tomb Raider And Metro 2033
Page 9: Results: Media Encoding
Page 10: Results: Adobe CS6 Suite
Page 13: Power Consumption
Page 14: The Kabini-Based A4-5000: Mediocre Performance, But Great Efficiency
Time and again, After Effects demonstrates a sensitivity to available memory, particularly as core count increases. In this case, the quad-core Kabini-based A4 turns in the last-place finishing time, a ways behind the Pentium and Core i3.
Hyper-Threading again propels the Core i3-3217U into a first-place finish in this very well-threaded workload. The dual-core Pentium achieves its second-place result through more aggressive clock rates. Even with four physical cores, though, the 1.5 GHz A4-5000 just can't keep up.
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zeek the geek 24 May 2013 04:09
This is was we expect on the new consoles, I sure as heck can't wait to see what improvements we'll have on games ported over to PC are. I'm tired of these makeshift ports... Glad to see AMD has their hands in the console field, now maybe we'll see a huge influx of cash on their end to help improve their line and drivers that will give Nvidia a good run for so we can see "OUR money" go to good use. To better technology and innovation!
slomo4sho 24 May 2013 04:10
With Haswell around the corner claiming models with TDP of 15, 13.5, and 10 watts, the lack of performance in this chipset is discouraging to say the least.
dragonsqrrl 24 May 2013 04:28
This is the best CPU architecture to come out of AMD in a very long time. It has so many things going for it in comparison to the current competition from Atom. Far superior overall performance, improved power consumption and FP performance over its predecessor (weak points of Brazos), much better graphics performance, broader x86 instruction support, and an actual process advantage (28nm vs 32nm). AMD has a huge opportunity here, and I sure hope they capitalize on it quickly because it won't last long. Atom's based on Intel's upcoming Silvermont architecture will likely outperform Jaguar and reverse most of the advantages AMD currently has.
BringMeAnother 24 May 2013 04:31
Its performing well in all the wrong areas. If I'm going to play games, I'd rather play with at least high settings with decent resolution. I'm perfectly willing to give up mobility for a gaming machine.
mcx2500 24 May 2013 05:00
Given that the AMD Temash and Kabinis are priced in the range of Atoms, it is illustrative that the Tom's reviewer used two Pentium and i3 CPUs that cost over $130 and $200 respectively.
To see the Intel chips utilizing dramatically more watts than the Kabini brings up issues discovered by other reviewers. Just look at the graph of the i3-3217u rated at "17 watt TDP" playing F1-2012 at what is 100% or nearly 35 watts! This means that AMD Kabini A6-5200 which is being released in June will outperform Intel's $225+ i3-3217u for price-performance per watt, you can be on it.
While running the range of applications, the AMD Kabini remained cool while the Intel chips heat up dramatically. This heat has to be dissipated from the laptop and it takes a toll on both the machine and user.
HP just announced 10 point touchscreen laptops that utilize AMD Jaguar Kabinis for a breakthrough price of $399 and that is just a start of a flood of good old competition (hello AMD Kaveri APU Xmas).
mcx2500To see the Intel chips utilizing dramatically more watts than the Kabini brings up issues discovered by other reviewers. Just look at the graph of the i3-3217u rated at "17 watt TDP" playing F1-2012 at what is 100% or nearly 35 watts!This is because the i3-3217u is not an SOC, it's just an ULV dual core Ivy Bridge. Many of the controllers and other supporting hardware are located off die on the mother board, which increases power consumption over the CPU/GPU's rated 17W TDP.
Kabini will have to compete with Intel's upcoming ULV Haswell, which will go as low as ~10W TDP and will be an SOC. This is why I said in my previous comment that I feel AMD has a rare advantage right now and a narrow window of opportunity to make an impact. Jaguar will overlap Silvermont on the low end of its TDP range, and Haswell on its upper end. Both will likely outperform it in their given segments.
cleeve 24 May 2013 06:00
mcx2500Given that the AMD Temash and Kabinis are priced in the range of Atoms, it is illustrative that the Tom's reviewer used two Pentium and i3 CPUs that cost over $130 and $200 respectively.
AMD told us the Kabini laptop they gave us would be priced $500 on the market, and that cheaper versions would be as low as $350.
We used the cheapest comparison laptops we could find. The only thing it illustrates is that we were trying to give Kabini the best chance of strutting its stuff.
amdfangirl 24 May 2013 06:02
AMD Kabini follows the idea of a tablet - people buy them because they are good enough. That's what is causing the downturn in the PC industry. With the performance advantage over ARM chips and Intel Atom, I really see this as a viable alternative in netbooks and Windows tablets.
AMD Kabini sleekbook. I am just drooling at the idea of that.
dragonsqrrl Kabini will have to compete with Intel's upcoming ULV Haswell, which will go as low as ~10W TDP and will be an SOC
No, Kabini competes in the Intel Atom price range like its predecessor, AMD Brazos.
Sure they compete in a similar TDP range, but you wouldn't expect people to compare the chips that go into $999 ultrabooks with chips that will (ultimately) go into the same form factor as them, but are priced at <$400.
ULV processors from Intel are priced at a premium - because Intel is unchallenged in that space. AMD would be insane to try and price Kabini anywhere near IVB or Haswell ULV parts, because AMD will never win by overpricing their products.
"There's no such thing as a bad product, just a bad price point"
Edit: Not entirely sure why my comment got cut off, but here it is. Please note this comparison was made about the ultraportable area of the market, where the main concerns are weight, screen size and battery life. If we start comparing a CPU designed for primarily 11.6" or 10.1" screens with say 35W CPUs in a 15" form factor, you've lost the whole point of the comparison you're doing ultraportable vs. desktop replacements. Sure, if a manufacturer wants to put Kabini in a 15" form factor then it's fair game, but for the majority of Kabini chips, we'll see them in ultraportables, not desktop replacements.
ta152h 24 May 2013 06:23
Comparing Kabini with SB/IB is like comparing a four cylinder car with an eight cylinder car. It's plain silly, and kind of obnoxious.
This was a poor review because of the choice made there. I think a lot people were curious about how improved it was over the Bobcat. No data. How about the Atom? No data. Let's just compare it with chips the Piledriver competes with, instead of those it does. It makes no sense.
In case you guys haven't figured it out, Piledriver is the competitor for SB/IB, not Kabini. Two different markets. That you justify this so poorly by saying one particular notebook would cost x amount of dollars, is borderline insane. From one notebook, which are based on things other than the cost of the processor as well, you would assume all will cost the same? Strange.
The comparisons with SB/IB aren't worthless, but they should have been in addition to the processors in their market, and also with AMD's Trinity line. Maybe four or five processors, instead of just two that are addressing a higher performance market, and architecturally quite close.
You lost this one to other sites. Normally, especially when Chris writes them, Tom's ends up having the best information. Not this time. Not even close.
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Nigerian Businesswoman With Cocaine Hidden In Her Pivate Part Nabbed In Hong Kong
TonyGists April 21, 2019
Custom officers at Hong Kong International Airport recovered more than half of a kilogram of cocaine from a Nigerian traveller who had allegedly hidden the drug in her body.
A 37-year-old Nigerian businesswoman has been arrested at the Hong Kong International Airport and more than half kilogram of cocaine which was allegedly hidden in her body was recovered and that she may discharge more drugs.
A customs officer displays some of the drugs found in the suspect
South China post reported that ‘the Nigerian woman arrived the city on a flight from Lagos via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
‘Customs officers intercepted the suspect, who claimed to be a businesswoman and was said to be acting suspiciously, shortly after her arrival on Thursday.
‘She was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei for a check-up and confirmed to have foreign objects in her body.
‘Officers first recovered 215 grams of cocaine contained in condoms and plastic bags found in her vagina.
‘She later discharged 24 capsules of cocaine, each weighing 14 grams, from her body.
‘The haul, weighing 550 grams in total, was estimated to be worth HK$522,000 (US$66,900).
‘The authorities said the woman, who was detained for inquiries, may discharge more drugs.
It is not the first time such a case has been detected.
‘Under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, the maximum penalty for drug trafficking is life imprisonment and a HK$5 million fine.’
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Tetris Effect: Connected Review
Perfectris.
Dominic L 16/11/20 5
There’s something primal, something insanely emotional and personal, about Tetris Effect. When I originally awarded Tetris Effect 10/10 on PSVR and called it a “game of the generation” many people sneered. The comments across each social media platform were the same; everybody laughed and said “it’s just Tetris.” Everybody, that is, except those that had actually played it. With the benefit of time and the ability to, you know, play the game, the world discovered just how powerful the Tetris Effect is. Now that it’s arrived on Xbox with multiplayer in tow, the effect is only growing stronger.
There is a nugget of truth to it being “just Tetris”, if only that it has to be Tetris in order for any of this to make sense. Designed by Alexey Pajitnov some thirty-six years ago, the fundamentals have not changed, and they do not need to, as Tetris is still one of the best games ever created.
Tetris Effect takes in elements of the previous years of Tetris development and wraps them in one of the most incredible audio-visual skins that gaming has ever served to us. If you want to see the evolutionary trail that leads to Tetris Effect you simply have to follow designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s career path, taking in Space Channel 5, Rez, Child of Eden and Lumines. All roads lead to Tetris Effect, the culmination of two decades of mercurial game design. We shouldn’t have expected anything less.
Tetris Effect: Connected finally brings the game to the Xbox platform, appearing for the launch of the Xbox Series X and coming with the gloriously sharp 4K Tetrominos that PS4 Pro owners have been cutting their eyeballs with for years. Of course, what the transition has lost is VR support, and it shouldn’t be underestimated just how life-changing Tetris Effect is when you are ensconced within it.
The best I can recommend is sitting on the floor about two feet from the screen, cranking those headphones up and running the lights down real low. It will do, but I wonder how much of my own emotional response has been programmed in by playing in VR, and whether someone coming to the game on Xbox will have quite the same reaction. I hope they do.
Xbox players do get the first taste of Tetris Effect multiplayer though, and it’s been worth the wait. Other platforms will have to hold out for another six months, so I guess that some balance has been brought to the Tetris Effect multiverse. That feels like a very Mizuguchi thing to do, even if it’s more likely it was some suits in a boardroom.
Multiplayer has two distinct ranking systems. Your Tier is your overall ability and experience level, and that’s based on your average Skill Rating across all of Tetris Effect’s modes. As you’d hopefully expect, it goes up when you win Ranked Matches, and down when you lose. If you’re more about the taking part than the winning, then you will still increase your skill rating no matter what you’re doing, but it’s going to be much slower than being a winner.
At the centre of Tetris Effect’s multiplayer modes is the Tetrimidion, and as you progress up the Tiers you’ll come ever closer to what the game describes as “a wondrous sanctuary that only the most worthy may enter.” Whatever that might mean.
As you’d hope you can choose between ultra-serious Ranked Matches, playful Friend Matches and even – whisper it – Local Matches that you can play with the real people in your home. Can you imagine?
As you’d expect from Tetris Effect, it’s not simply a straightforward ‘put the blocks in the slots’ type affair here, or at least, not entirely. Connected is a unique take on the formula and sees you form a three-player team with other players who then have to work together to defeat AI-controlled bosses. At points your three screens join together to form an immense wall of Tetronimos that can cause equally massive damage.
You have to work together at these points, taking turns to fill in the gaps, and in local play especially it just works incredibly well. You shout at your partners “over here!” and point excitedly towards a little gap, or huff and puff when they fill in the spot you had your Tetronimos all set to drop into. Co-operative Tetris shouldn’t work, but just like with VR, Mizuguchi has found a way.
Remember I said it wasn’t all straightforward Tetris-ing? Well, the rest of the modes are far more traditional, including the central Zone Battle. This is a pure one-on-one competition played with the standard Tetris Effect rules that you’ve hopefully learned through the single player campaign. You drop Tetronimos on your opponent by making line attacks. Score Attack is very similar, though it’s purely your score against theirs, and there’s none of the horror of them dropping extra blocks on you at an inopportune moment.
If you’re feeling nostalgic, the final multiplayer mode is Classic Score Attack, which removes all of the niceties that years of Tetris development have brought. There’s no Hold Queue, no Hard Drop, no quick Lock Down, no… anything that wasn’t in the Game Boy version. It’s a short, sharp shock after you’ve been playing Tetris Effect for any length of time, but it’s actuality quite freeing. This is Tetris at its most stripped back, and in a multiplayer setting there’s nothing here to save you.
Perhaps not quite as transcendental as it is in VR, Tetris Effect: Connected remains an incredible, visionary piece of work, that you can now experience with others. With its arrival on Xbox Series X, it can be a game for a new generation.
Journey mode is a trip worth taking a thousand times
One of the best audio-visual experiences ever created
Connected is a perfect Tetris Effect multiplayer mode
VR is still the absolute best way to experience it
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Tetris Effect’s soundtrack is now available to stream
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MrYd 16/11/20, 09:41
Surely it needs to lost a couple of points for the timed-exclusive bollocks. Worse than the normal timed-exclusive nonsense. You’ve already given us your money? Back of the line for the update, suckers.
And the slightly suspicious removing of features from the PS4 version when they announced the XBox version. Which is entirely a coincidence, and “due to contractual reasons, honest”.
Actually, it may well be a coincidence. You can’t stream the XBox version either. Looks like The Tetris Company realised the PS4 let you stream it when the XBox version was announced and decided nobody was allowed to do that and the PS4 version had an update to remove the remote play option. I guess when you’ve spent 30+ years doing nothing but licensing Tetris, you’ve got to be strict about these things.
But you’re right about VR being the best way to play. Without VR, it’s just Tetris with some nice graphics and terrible music. In VR, it’s 3 hours of Tetris with some nice graphics and terrible music and how is that the time already???
Dominic L 16/11/20, 10:26
I feel like we’ve been here before!
Given the state of this year, could anyone tell? Time has lost all meaning. “Before” could mean “now”, or “next Tuesday”.
Which is pretty much the same effect you get from playing Tetris in VR.
But yes, I’m sure I’ve made my thoughts on Tetris Effect clear before. It’s a great game, especially in VR, but it really is just Tetris with terrible music. Which is mostly fine, as Tetris is one of the most perfect games ever.
It’s just that for us old people, we can remember the days when you could get exactly the same experience as this new fangled Tetris Effect game by playing it on a Game Boy while someone shines a bunch of torches in your face and throws a cutlery draw down the stairs. ;)
I must applaud you on the best analogy for Tetris Effect that I have ever heard. But, I feel we must agree to disagree, since not only do you not have to pick said cutlery back up off the floor, the Xbox Series X pad only uses 2xAA batteries, and your friends can put the torches down and play the game with you. This is progress.
Not progress if all your friends can’t play with you because of the timed exclusive bollocks, is it?
And I can’t entirely take responsibility for that analogy either. It was some random description on the internet of the band The Wedding Present (still going after 35 years, somehow) as sounding like “someone throwing a cutlery draw down the stairs while your maths teacher moans about his girlfriend”. Clearly it’s the maths teacher bit that makes the difference ;)
Developer:Monstars, Resonair
Publisher:Enhance
Platforms:PC, XBO, XSX|S
Version tested:Xbox Series X
Release date:10/10/20
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Heightened security remain in Springfield after quiet weekend
State allows indoor dining to return in some counties
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Six-Flags-new-Tsunami-Soaker-delivers-12638472.php
Six Flags’ new Tsunami Soaker delivers spinning, spraying adventure
Published 12:00 am CDT, Monday, June 2, 2014
EUREKA, Mo. — The newest family thrill at Six Flags St. Louis, Tsunami Soaker, spun into action for the season.
The spinning, spraying water adventure is the first of its kind in the park, bringing yet another unique experience to the “Coaster Capital of Missouri.” Guests aboard Tsunami Soaker will engage in a water battle of epic proportions while twisting and churning ‘round and ‘round.
“Tsunami Soaker is the perfect complement to our lineup of thrills,” said Dave Roemer, Six Flags St. Louis park president. “Guests of all ages are going to have a blast on this ride spraying fellow riders and being sprayed. Adding to the fun, bystanders can arm themselves with water cannons from the sidelines and squirt riders as they go by. This really is an interactive experience for everyone.”
The floor of Tsunami Soaker spins in a clockwise direction, while nine boats individually rotate with a total of 54 riders equipped with giant water cannons that launch streams of water at other boats and bystanders. The main floor of the ride disappears into the water once riders have been seated. As the floor descends, water fills and boats will actually float as they rotate.
On hand for the May preview of Tsunami Soaker was Olympic swimmer David Tarwater. Tarwater grew up in Knoxville, Tenn., and won a Gold Medal in the 2012 London Games for the 800 meter free relay. He also holds titles in many World Championship and U.S. National competitions.
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Rare meeting for institute's Anglo-Scottish working group
02 November 2007 by Emma Rigby
The Institute of Fundraising's cross-border working group will meet on 20 November in London.
Among those invited to take part are representatives from the Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Scotland, Scope and Capability Scotland, the NSPCC and Children 1st, the National Autistic Society and the Scottish Society for Autism, Leonard Cheshire UK and Leonard Cheshire Scotland, Sense and Sense Scotland and the RSPCA and the Scottish SPCA.
They will meet representatives from the Institute of Fundraising and the Institute of Fundraising Scotland. Lindsay Boswell, chief executive of the IoF, will chair the meeting. At what will be the working group’s first meeting for several years, the agenda will focus on issues facing charities that operate on both sides of the border.
All charities invited have agreed to send representatives.
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Letters to the Editor » Real cause of India-China border conflict is Communist China
Real cause of India-China border conflict is Communist China
Lobsang Wangyal has summed up in a nutshell the whole complex matter pertaining to the India/Tibet/China triangular relation.
The self-proclaimed ‘expert’ writer-diplomat, who criticizes a Nobel Peace laureate, recognized as the world’s most admired leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speaks disrespectful language of Communist China and did a great disservice to the devout general people of Ladakh whom His Holiness often lauds. Hence his most insensitive act deserves condemnation in the strongest terms as was done by individuals and organizations.
The Ladakh Buddhist Association, Muslim Association, and others have withstood the test of loyalty in defense of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a beacon of guiding light of hope, humanism, and harmony in this troubled world today.
I appreciate, bow down to, and salute the indomitable spirit of the leaders and members of the Ladakh Buddhist and Muslim communities, who condemned him in written and verbal action.
His Holiness is being followed by millions of people on all the six continents around the world.
I think Mr P Stobdan had attempted to grab the opportunity to politicize the holy person of His Holiness’s name for no valid reason except that is born of inflated ego by attacking the messenger of peace. I don’t think he means apology from the heart. He only sheds a crocodile tear under public pressure. if he were sincere in apology as his letter/video message claims, then he should in his own self-interest confess in full public view. He saw the unexpected backlash of his deliberate denigrating speech from his own people.
He must remove those blasphemous wordings from his book to mean his real intent of apology. Without removing these written allegations from the record, no act by him is an act of apology in fact and spirit.
The following quote from his hate-filled book Great game in the Buddhist Himalayas: India and China quest for strategic dominance alleging that “the presence of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan people in India is the major disruptive factor” is his central theme of intent. Who knows, he might be hand-in-glove with members of the ’50 Cent Party’ playing the tunes of the Chinese Communist Party by indulging in the vulgar act of attacking His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibetan diaspora, where he fails to see the real cause of the Sino-India border disputes with his cheap propaganda book and talk. The Ladakhi people and leaders have brought shame on him. The insensitive Vintage publisher in connivance with him has published his hate-filled book and it was published with a sole motive of commercial profitability seeing the opportunity to milk unlimited monetary gains from its sale of sensational contents.
Doesn’t the ‘self-proclaimed expert’ P Stobdan know the universally-acknowledged basic fact that the root and real cause and conditions of India and China border disputes and conflict in 1962 is the invasion, occupation, and subjugation of the independent/occupied country of Tibet in 1959 by uninvited new master Communist China, and by historical chronicles hegemony expansionist Red China that colonized Tibet since 1959. That subsequently China attacked India in the midst of ‘Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai’ friendship sloganeering in 1962; that China attempted invasion of Vietnam in 1979; that China claims the South China Sea which is an international shipping waterway claimed by the littoral countries of Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand. That China threatens use of force against Taiwan; that China has violated or is attempting to destroy the basic law of the ‘one country, two systems’ international agreement signed on special administrative Hong Kong between Britain and China in 1997, with China bound to respect Hong Kong’s status of freedom and democracy for 50 years until 2050; that China has killed 1.2 million Tibetan people in occupied Tibet; that China has killed countless Chinese democracy activists and students protesting at Beijing, notoriously called infamous Tiananmen Square massacre on 4 June 1989, exactly 31 years ago. That China has imprisoned over a million Uighur people in East Turkistan or Xianjang and exploits them in economic slavery; that China’s repressive rule and tortures has caused over 150 self-immolations of Tibetan people. That China has has abducted and enforced disappearances of the world’s youngest prisoner the 11th Panchen Lama in 1995, whose whereabouts are still unknown after over two decades. The list of CCP’s crimes against humanity is endless.
P Stobdan appeases intolerant China, that imposes its tightly-controlled rule by instilling fear, using force and intimidation, whereas he criticizes His Holiness the Dalai Lama because He is the most humble, accessible,and compassionate and tolerant person of peace, and the Tibetan people for their tolerant, non-violent, and harmless nature.
The whole world knows that the Coronavirus disease originated from Wuhan city in China, and though the Chinese regime knew it is transmissible from human to human in Nov/December 2019, it did not inform the world until 20 January 2020. Hence China today is guilty of this cover-up that led to a global pandemic, infection of over six million confirmed cases, and over three hundred thousand deaths due to COVID-19 worldwide as of today 4 June 2020, and has caused incalculable collateral economic and social disruptions. And still China denies its accountability to the world community. Who is the global disruptor now, P Stobdan? It seems only the totalitarian CCP regime of China and its handful of appeasers are confused.
So, his baseless and insensitive vicious words attacking His Holiness the Dalai Lama as ‘disruptive and deceptive’ and his virulent actions on the Aaj Tak TV channel go against the obvious hard data, facts, and figures.
Hey, P Stobdan ‘the self-proclaimed expert’, tell the world and the Buddhist community who is the “major cause of disruption and conflict between India and China”? Call your book off the market shelf. How dare you write whimsical thoughts, declare on TV channel and social media that you’re an expert in national security? Maybe for your wallet’s security. You don’t know these self-evident basic current affairs.
The truth shall prevail.
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Study Finds Deaths From Drivers Running Red Lights at Ten Year High
Lloyd Alter
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Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto.
©. AAA
Yet many jurisdictions are pulling out their cameras, because Freedom!
We were appalled earlier this year when Texas banned red light cameras, after complaints that they were money grabs, that they were not constitutional, and they messed up some guy's breakfast.
Now the American Automobile Association (AAA) has found that deaths from red light running are at a ten year high, with 939 people killed in 2017, the last year with complete data. "More than two people are killed every day in red light running crashes, including drivers, passengers, pedestrians and cyclists."
“Drivers who decide to run a red light when they could have stopped safely are making a reckless choice that puts other road users in danger,” said Dr. David Yang, executive director of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. “The data shows that red light running continues to be a traffic safety challenge. All road safety stakeholders must work together to change behavior and identify effective countermeasures.”
In Suffolk County, NY, politicians are currently debating the removal of red light cameras.
Critics have said the red-light camera program, which generates more than $20 million in revenue annually, exists primarily to raise money for the county. They also complain the program has slowed traffic and cite a recent consultant's study showing the number of accidents of all types at red-light camera intersections rose by 59.6 percent between 2015 and 2017.
The increase is attributed to drivers jamming on the brakes and causing rear-enders and fender benders. However, the AAA and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) found that, overall, "when properly implemented, red light cameras reduced the fatal red light running crash rate of large cities by 21% and the rate of all types of fatal crashes at signalized intersections by 14%."
“Deaths caused by red light running are on the rise,” said Jessica Cicchino, IIHS Vice President for Research. “Cameras increase the odds that violators will get caught, and well-publicized camera programs discourage would-be violators from taking those odds. Camera enforcement is a proven way to reduce red light running and save lives.”
And yet, American politicians continue to try and get rid of those cameras, and surprisingly, in the last post, many of our readers agree.
The AAA concludes with some recommendations for drivers, including "Driving Defensively: Before you enter an intersection after the light has turned green for you, take a second after the light changes and look both ways before proceeding." I would have thought that this was an invitation to get honked at by the person behind you; I asked my wife who drives and she said, "I always do that; cars are always racing through reds. And yes, people always honk at me."
They recommend that pedestrians also "Wait: Give yourself a few seconds to make sure all cars have come to a complete stop before moving through the intersection." I always do that, because again, cars are often running solid reds, particularly when making left turns.
So, basically everyone is slowed down because we cannot be sure that people are actually going to obey the law and stop for a red light. I am surprised that people don't demand red light cameras on every intersection as a way of keeping traffic moving.
He's right. Put them everywhere. There is no constitutional right to run over people. That's not "freedom."
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Jakarta Souvenirs: 10 Authentic & Budget-Friendly Things to Buy
Jakarta Souvenirs: 10 Authentic and Budget-Friendly Things to Buy in Jakarta
You can’t fly home without these souvenirs from Jakarta!
Tiffany CondeFeb 14th, 2020
Not to be outdone by other islands, this sprawling Indonesian city promises one of the best shopping experiences in Southeast Asia. Jakarta runs at a pace much faster than Bali and Yogyakarta; it has grand shopping malls and street vendors from all corners, selling just about anything you can think of. As the vibrant capital of Indonesia, it has plenty of treasures and surprises hidden up its sleeve — and you can find them, but only if you know what you’re looking for.
Bringing home the right souvenirs for your loved ones is always challenging, no matter where you are in the world. Luckily, we’ve done the hard work for you, so that you can focus on making the most out of your trip to Jakarta, Indonesia!
From antique homecrafts to ethnic accessories, there are many dazzling things to buy in Jakarta for a dose of retail therapy. We guarantee that you won’t be able to resist these Indonesian souvenirs from Jakarta! What are you waiting for? Let the hoardi — or, rather, collecting begin!
Also read: Walking in Jakarta: The Hidden Sights No Guide Will Tell You
1. Batik fabrics and products
Image credit: Nazir Amin
One of the most popular things to buy in Jakarta? Why, batik fabrics and products, of course! Certainly, if there’s any souvenir that embraces the diversity of cultures in Indonesia, it’s batik — a famous wax-resistant dyeing technique and a timeless craft throughout the archipelago.
Artisans have devoted their time and attention to make these handwoven products. As a result, batik fabrics tend to be colourful and quite intricate with brightly-coloured patterns. Just like in the streets of Bali, you can find an exciting array of batik products in Jakarta: elegant scarves, pants, shawls, blouses, pillowcases, bags, and more! The cherry on top? They look and feel great on you!
2. Wooden carvings and handicrafts
Image credit: KEMALA Home Living Official Instagram Page (left); KEMALA Home Living Official Instagram Page (right)
Some of the most thoughtful souvenirs you can buy from Jakarta are wooden carvings and handicrafts. A hit among travellers and residents alike, these woodcrafts are loved not only for their aesthetic but also for their intricacy. Each island in Indonesia has its own traditions and designs for wood carving.
Take your pick from larger pieces of home décor such as tables, sculptures, wall displays, and other housewares; or intricate crafts such as key chains, tiny statues, card boxes, dining utensils, and wooden masks. These thoughtfully made products give travellers an opportunity to bring home a special piece of Indonesian art. No matter which ones you end up choosing, these traditional Jakarta souvenirs will make stellar additions to any home!
3. Indonesian coffee
Image credit: Giyanti Coffee Roastery Official Instagram Page (left); Anomali Coffee Official Instagram Page (right)
If there’s anything in your collection of Jakarta souvenirs that can transport you right back to the streets of Jakarta, it’s bags and bags of Indonesian coffee. Just a whiff is enough to remind you of the coffee haven you came from — all the delicious brews that give Indonesia a coffee culture worth travelling for. Needless to say, people take their coffee pretty seriously here.
As the fourth largest coffee producer in the globe, Indonesia has some of the tastiest coffee you will ever try! From arabica grown in Java to the earthier robusta in Bali, a wide selection of premium coffee beans are sourced from coffee-growing regions across the archipelago. You can buy these prized beans from supermarkets and cafés in Jakarta such as Anomali Coffee, Giyanti Coffee Roastery, Tanamera Coffee, Common Grounds, and so on.
Feeling lethargic before work? Whip up a cup of Indonesian coffee in your kitchen, and start your day with high-quality brews from one of the best coffee capitals of the world. Your mornings will never be the same!
4. Jewellery, gemstones, and accessories
Image credit: Batik Keris Official Instagram Page
While you’re shopping for things to buy in Jakarta, a few pieces of jewellery might catch your eye! You’ll come across plenty of antiques, ornaments, silverworks, and accessories with the finest craftsmanship in Southeast Asia. So if you’re hoping to add a little sparkle to your attire, you’re in the right place!
Not sure what gifts to get for your loved ones? How about their birthstone? Jakarta’s Rawa Bening Market is a haven for precious stones such as amethyst, garnet, sapphire, opal, jasper, and quartz. You can’t go wrong with silver either, as there are many necklaces, earrings, bracelets, pendants, and rings to choose from. Luckily, these Jakarta souvenirs come at budget-friendly price ranges, too!
5. Rattan bags, wallets, and containers
Image credit: Pasaraya Official Instagram Page
It takes everything within our power not to hoard as many of these rattan bags as we can! If these handwoven items look slightly familiar, you might have seen them hanging off the shoulders of stylish people or taking up space in other people’s cosy homes. Perfect for storing keepsakes and valuables, these authentic Indonesian products come in sling bags, wallets, journals, baskets, lunch boxes, and just about anything you can leave your things in, really! More importantly, these gifts are as sturdy as they are beautiful.
Many travellers like to buy round sling bags from the streets of Bali, but you can also purchase these classic Jakarta souvenirs from stores and markets across the capital.
Also read: Bali Souvenirs: 25 Unique Items & Where to Buy Them
6. Homegrown fashion
Image credit: Chic Mart Kemang Official Instagram Page (left); Chic Mart Kemang Official Instagram Page (right)
Want to steal this look? In Jakarta, you can! From loose and flowy pants to vivid sarongs, the fashion finds in this dynamic city will make your everyday style look more colourful and laid-back! Here, you’ll witness centuries-old techniques of textile production working together with the latest fashion trends to produce clothes that are quintessentially Indonesian. Throw on an eye-catching sarong and pair it with a handwoven bag, or put on some dangling earrings to boot! Don’t be afraid to play around with your look. As you strike out on the streets and boutiques of Jakarta, the level of creativity among local designers will blow you away.
7. Pouches and coin purses
Image credit: Chic Mart Official Instagram Page (left); Chic Mart Official Instagram Page (right)
Looking for more things to buy in Jakarta? We’ll give you a hint: If we were close friends and you didn’t think to give us one of these adorable pouches from your trip to Jakarta, we would be just a little disappointed. Travel pouches come in handy all the time, you see; and more importantly, they won’t break the bank! You can easily enter one store after another, picking out your favourite pouches among other wonderful Jakarta souvenirs, until you end up with a bag full of these affordable and high-quality goodies!
8. Wayang puppets
For centuries, Indonesians have used the art of puppetry to tell dramatic stories and ancient myths. Today, this beloved storytelling tradition is known as wayang kulit, or shadow puppet theatre, as well as a UNESCO-designated Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Though many regions in Indonesia have their own designs of wayang puppets, these three-dimensional woodcrafts have one quality in common — all of them are made by hand!
These enchanting puppets are designed to represent a different human, character, or animal. Sure, it’s a little on the quirky side of Jakarta souvenirs, but that’s why we love it! You can choose from a selection of wayang puppets for clever gifts to present to your friends and younger relatives!
9. Indonesian snacks
If you’re a foodie who loves to travel, you’ve most likely feasted on well-loved Indonesian dishes such as nasi goreng, chicken satay, bubur ayam, and gado-gado. But did you know that you can bring home Indonesian snacks as well?
When it comes to picking memorable things to buy in Jakarta, you can’t go wrong with tasty food! You won’t have to look very far to discover them either, as street vendors often sell deep-fried crackers called krupuk with flavours of shrimp, fish, seaweed, rice flour, and tofu. You can also visit the local supermarkets for sweet potato chips and cassava chips.
Other crowd-pleasing Indonesian snacks include biji ketapang, roti gambang, kembang goyang, and dodol betawi. Truly, there’s nothing like salty and savoury snacks to remind you of your time in Jakarta. It will be as though you never left!
10. Essential oils and aromatic incense
You don’t have to be an advocate for essential oils to enjoy the benefits they provide. Not only do essential oils calm your nerves, but they also help in easing the troubling symptoms of stress, fatigue, and insomnia. Meanwhile, aromatic incense sticks freshen up any room, thanks to their natural and sweet-smelling scents. Together, these fragrant Jakarta souvenirs brighten your day by creating a relaxing ambience at home, soothing the mind and the body. Who wouldn’t want that?
Also read: 18 Reasons You Should Visit Indonesia
If you’re travelling to the capital of Indonesia soon, be sure to keep an eye out for these unique Jakarta souvenirs! Ranging from trendy to lip-smackingly good, these tried-and-tested items can easily serve as gifts that you and your friends will love.
Among these tempting things to buy in Jakarta, which are the souvenirs that you plan on keeping for yourself? Let us know which ones caught your attention!
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The new factory will cover 150,000m2 of land within the same complex as the company’s existing two plants. It will include state-of-the-art production lines for Hitachi, York and Hisense-brand commercial air conditioning systems for use in buildings in the Chinese market and around the world. It will have a potential capacity of 2 million units per year.
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NAB’s Pilot Innovation Challenge Announces 10 Finalists
By Brett Moss, Radio World 12 October 2016
WASHINGTON—The National Association of Broadcasters’ technology innovation incubator Pilot has announced the 10 finalists for its first Innovation Challenge.
The NAB phrased the challenge in the form of a question: “How might local television and radio broadcasters engage their communities with next generation content on any device, whether big, small or moving?” The competition was open to all — “entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and creative thinkers.”
The first place prize is $20,000, with $15,000 for second and $10,000 for third. The winners will be selected by a panel of judges and announced at the NAB Futures conference, Oct. 31, Pebble Beach, Calif.
The finalists are: Broadcast Us; Chapters; GeoTunes; gNews; History Go; In Your Shoes; Story Builder; Lokita; The News Call; and You Win.
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We spend hours upon hours of our time deliberating with our Clients--months, weeks, and days leading up to their shoot. We help them choose outfits, and point them in the right direction when they can't decide. We suggest different locations, scope most of them out, and send photos so our Clients can feel secure and confident in their choices. We check in on them, make sure they know everything they need to know, and even inform them on things that may never even happen--we just really like to cover all our bases.
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Jenelle Evans Flaunts Curves on TikTok: Damn, She Thicc
by Tyler Johnson at April 8, 2020 5:47 pm . Updated at April 24, 2020 1:04 pm .
Like most Americans, Jenelle Evans is sheltering in place these days.
But unlike the rest of us, Jenelle is not using this time not to reconnect with family or pursue a new hobby, but to salvage what little remains of her justly annihilated career.
Yes, as you may have heard, these are tough times on The Land.
By getting back together with David Eason (or giving up on pretending she had broken up with him), she's essentially made herself untouchable to mainstream media outlets.
Jenelle's MTV contract has expired, which means there's no longer a non-compete clause preventing her from striking a deal with another network.
The only thing standing in her way now is her reputation, which has been marred by years of violence, bigotry, and generally sh-tty behavior.
What does all of this have to do with Jenelle's latest TikTok activity?
Well, everything and nothing at the same time.
Jenelle and David are both allergic to the idea of getting a real job, and since Jenelle has essentially been driven out of the mainstream, her best option these days is to expand her social media presence.
This hasn't been much of a money-maker for her recently, as each time she lands a sponsored content deal, her critics contact the company in question to alert them that they've made a deal with the devil.
But still, jobs can be difficult, and they often require waking up early, which is how we end up with videos where Jenelle attempts to shift attention away from the abusive behavior of her recent past and onto less consequential matters like her weight.
"When people talk about my weight, I’ll just keep on dancing #LoveYourself #StayHome," Jenelle wrote alongside her latest TikTok video, which she also posted to Instagram.
These days, Jenelle limits comments on her posts, so very little negativity slipped through, which is a good thing.
There are many, many valid reasons to make fun of Jenelle Evans, but her weight is not one of them.
Fortunately, Jenelle says she doesn't even read the replies to her posts these days.
“I don’t try to read any comments after I make a post, but if I do I look at the replies [I find] I have a lot of supporters that stick up for me, and it makes me feel better,” Evans recently told
“I just eat whatever I want. I worked out for a few months and stopped.”
A lot of fans pointed out the hypocrisy in Jenelle's latest remarks as she reveled in David Eason's comments about Kailyn Lowry's weight.
That's appropriate -- but going forward please refrain from commenting on any changes in Jenelle's weight and just continue pointing out her general awfulness to all current and potential sponsors.
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Share this Story: Canadian military personnel headed to Latvia will get COVID-19 vaccine later despite virus outbreak
Canadian military personnel headed to Latvia will get COVID-19 vaccine later despite virus outbreak
About 550 Canadian military personnel will be sent to Latvia to replace those personnel already there.
David Pugliese • Ottawa Citizen
Canadian Armed Forces members with enhanced Forward Presence battlegroup Latvia conduct a quick shoot exercise. Photo by Corporal Djalma Vuong-De Ramos /Corporal Djalma Vuong-De Ramos
The 550 Canadian military personnel heading to Latvia won’t be given the COVID vaccine despite an outbreak of the virus at the facility they’ll be operating from in that country.
The military has a limited number of vaccine doses and is giving priority to those who have health conditions that place them at increased risk of severe COVID-19 infection as well as personnel who are working or preparing to work in higher risk settings as part of the federal government’s plan to help the provinces and territories during the pandemic.
Canadian military personnel headed to Latvia will get COVID-19 vaccine later despite virus outbreak Back to video
Military personnel involved in international operations such as Operation Reassurance in Latvia and other parts of eastern Europe are to receive vaccinations later, said National Defence spokeswoman Jessica Lamirande.
Flights between Latvia and Canada for new troop rotation will take place over the next two weeks, she added. About 550 Canadian military personnel will be sent to Latvia to replace those personnel already there.
The department has confirmed that some Canadian Forces members already in Latvia have tested positive for COVID-19 but the DND won’t release numbers for security reasons. The DND says the personnel are at Camp Adazi near the Latvian capital of Riga.
Lamirande said vaccinations for the troops in Latvia, as well as other international missions, are expected to take place between April and December.
“In the meantime, we continue to follow the strict pre and post deployment COVID-19 protocols that were implemented, including 14 day quarantines, and are abiding by the rules, regulations, and restrictions applicable to where the CAF are deployed,” Lamirande added. “The safety and well-being of our members is a top priority, and we continue to do everything we can to ensure their protection as we follow expert advice from (the Public Health Agency of Canada) and take necessary precautions.”
DND spokesman Dan Le Bouthillier said that those staff in Latvia who have COVID-19 are under medical care and that contact tracing is also being conducted. “The affected members are currently in isolation or quarantine,” he noted. Isolation is for military staff who either test positive or display symptoms of COVID-19, and quarantine is a preventive measure for members who were in contact with people suspected or confirmed to have contracted the disease, but do not show symptoms themselves.
After military personnel on international missions are vaccinated the Canadian Forces will turn its attention to staff who are engaged in force generation, training, and education activities. Vaccinations for members of that group are expected to be administered between July and December, Lamirande noted. Vaccinations for all other military personnel are also expected in that time frame.
Canadian and other NATO troops are training Latvian forces. The Canadian-led NATO enhanced Forward Presence battlegroup Latvia was stood up during a ceremony at Camp Adazi, Latvia on June 19, 2017. The cost of the Operation Reassurance mission since then is $325 million. That doesn’t include salaries.
In July 2018 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Latvia to announce the Liberal government was not only extending the mission but expanding it. Canadian troops are to stay in Latvia until March 2023 and the number of military personnel was boosted from 455 to more than 540.
The estimated cost for Canadian taxpayers of the mission extension was not available. The battle group was established in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its military support for separatists fighting Ukraine’s defence forces.
Trudeau said the Canadian military is in Latvia to send a message to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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jabrownell
Location: Norfolk, United States
the answer is not at all! Princess Margaret may have been on the "rebel" side, but she was an ardent pro-monarchist and supported the privileges of the aristocracy. Diana's appeals to common popularity were very disagreeable to Margaret.
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PrincessofEurope
Location: West Sussex, United Kingdom
we know that diana got on well with sarah chatto and david linley as well as lady helen - i think i saw a picture of her hugging prince andrew once they were roughly the same age and must have had more incommon than charles and diana (maybe they might have been better to get married -oh one wonders would things have turned out differently)
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ysbel
Originally Posted by PrincessofEurope
yes I wondered about that too although I remember when Andrew was still single, one of his friends mentioned that he admired his sister in law the Princess of Wales but that he preferred women who were more earthy. If he liked earthiness, I think he got more than he bargained for with Sarah.
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Picmajik
Location: Atlanta, United States
bravo to Anne
Originally Posted by BeatrixFan
Princess Anne did a hell of a lot too you know. If you're trying to say that Diana did more for charity, I'd suggest to you that Anne may not have spread herself around like Diana did but unlike Diana she was dedicated to every single patronage she took and indeed, made it clear she'd only take them if there was a real role for her, not just because there might be glory in it if she let her name appear on the letter heads.
I think the Princess Royal doesn't get enough credit for all the work she has done. She certainly comes off as more sincere and loyal to her causes and not just using them as a photo op. I've known about the Save the Children work since the 70s and I'm sure there are more, PA doesn't get much press here as she's not tabloid fodder. Some of the women's magazines do better, accurate profiles of royals but not often enough for me. Thank you, TRF for being around to keep me up to date!
As for Diana and Margaret, I'm not sure they would have gotten along later. Sure, they were both rebels for their time but Margaret still knew where the line was drawn and didn't cross it. Glamorous party girl yes, Royal through and through definitely but airing dirty linen? never!
I wonder if Diana and the Duchess of Kent ever fell out of sympathy? Although Kate and Diana were similar in some ways, I think that Kate would have had a hard time understanding Diana's affairs and interest in the New Age.
the1mcgraws
Originally Posted by TheTruth
Totally. "Ouch!" for him . As far as I know Diana (not that far then), I believe she would have regreted what she said if he had been in that mercedes in Paris. Many people who knew her could tell she really loved him. She did this interview unconscious of what she was actually doing; IMO, a big mistake.
Actually....she did regret that interview. Rosa Monkton had stated she did. She felt like she should have not have done that because of her sons, but at the time she was angry over the Dimbleton interview Charles did. She was very upset over his revelations. Also supposedly by multiple sources, including Burrell (if it was only him....I would not have believed it), she and Charles were on friendly terms in her last months. He would actually stop by her apartments to talk. They were not friends mind you, but they had declared a truce in their war.
I for one was glad to hear that.
It's clear that they didn't like each other really but I don't think Diana personaly attacked Anne. Although I remember that Anne said :"It's not my cup of tea to hold every child". That was totally directed to Diana.
I personally have A LOT of respect for both women. While I don't think Diana ever attacked her personally, Anne took a lot of things personally. It was insulting to Anne that she felt as though her work was ignored while Diana because she was the "fairytale" picture perfect princess had the cameras and everyone exulting her virtues. It also did not help that Princess Anne expected she was going to be named a godparent and she was not. She, as I remember reading, skipped one of the christenings because of that.
Anne has done very well for the "firm" in the sense she has taken her charity work very seriously. She is very involved. She also must be commended for her raising of her children, both turned out pretty good. There have been no real scandals. I also must note that I believe that a lot of the issues that Harry and William had would have been dealt with a lot differently or not occured at all had Diana lived. She was a wonderful mother and her son clearly adore her.
In Diana's case, I believe it was an evolution on her charities. At first, she did it because it was the job of a royal and she was expected to do it. I think after awhile she found it to be rather therapeutic and took enjoyment in it. I think that is why at first she took on things she was more a letterhead for. Later on you notice her appearances at those started to drop off until she left completely when she lost her HRH title.
Originally Posted by ladiakmt
did princess anne go to any of the diana tributes during the anniversary of her death. i read that the two were so different they really didn't get along.anne being upset that diana didn't allow her to be godmother to either of her sons.what has been anne's reaction to diana's death and the aftermath?i saw princess anne standing with the rest of the royal family at diana's funeral when her casket went by, anne looked shocked at the tragedy.
My understanding is she did attend the 10 year memorial at the church Her daughter, her son, and her ex husband did as well. Princess Anne did keep people guessing though because it was NEVER listed on her official engagement list.
It has been said well personally she didn't care for Diana. She respected her as a mother and out of respect for her nephews she went.
Skydragon
Location: London and Highlands, United Kingdom
Originally Posted by the1mcgraws
It also did not help that Princess Anne expected she was going to be named a godparent and she was not. She, as I remember reading, skipped one of the christenings because of that.
Do you have any links to back this up?
I also must note that I believe that a lot of the issues that Harry and William had would have been dealt with a lot differently or not occured at all had Diana lived. She was a wonderful mother and her son clearly adore her.
You don't think that Diana's assertion that William and Harry should be 'normal' has led to many of their troubles? It certainly couldn't have helped hearing many of the things she said about their father, using them as confidents and the variety of boyfriends. How awful for the boys, as they were then, to have their parents dirty linen aired so publicly!
Jo of Palatine
Originally Posted by Skydragon
DYou don't think that Diana's assertion that William and Harry should be 'normal' has led to many of their troubles?
Well, I think William should have gone to Gordonstoun like Anne's children. Instead of raising him "normal", Diana managed to get her sons raised the traditional aristocratic way of the younger sons, IMHO - those who have a background that allow them to become idle playboys. Just look at the friends they made there! No wonder they constantly fall out of nightclubes because their friends are equally spoiled children with more money than brain and no real purpose in life.
I think Gordonstoun would have given them more direction in life than Eton, more to think of than meeting up with other "Young Etonians" in posh nightclubs. For me William, Harry and beatrice (not sure about Eugenie yet) are "third generation kiddies" - First generation makes the money, second keeps the money, third generation squanders the money...
'To dare is to lose one step for but a moment, not to dare is to lose oneself forever' - Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark in a letter to Miss Mary Donaldson as stated by them on their official engagement interview.
tinkerbell1948
Location: Country SA, Australia
I remember when Prince William was born, Princess Anne was in the USA. She was striding over a field as only Anne can and a reporter bailed her up and asked what she thought of the news. Her reply??.........."Naff off!!"
branchg
It was reported that Princess Anne actually was quite fond of Diana and felt bad for her when things started going awry with Charles. But as time went on and Diana began using the media to secure her position (the Morton book and Richard Kay), Anne became disgusted with her tactics and avoided her.
Originally Posted by jabrownell
I think the more accurate view is Princess Margaret was very sympathetic to Diana's difficulties in the beginning, but became appalled at Diana's increasingly public war against Charles, which damaged The Queen's standing with her people.
The Panorama interview was supposedly the last straw for Margaret and she wrote a tough letter to Diana afterwards calling her "selfish" and "incapable of making even the smallest sacrifice when necessary" and accusing her of "having let everyone down".
rebbevb
Location: olathe, United States
Yes PM Auto-bio Said that she felt diana betrayed the royal family with the book and hurt .
My impression of the Panorama interview was that it gave many of us the first hints into the way Diana's mind worked. There was a bit of megalomania there, I think. She seemed to think that she could do things that other people couldn't do, and I found that a bit un-nerving.
I think by 1995 Diana, Princess of Wales only had Princess Michael of Kent on her side.
The day of her divorce Princess Michael wrote her a letter. The letter saidsomething like: if only Prince Charles would have loved you you would still be married.
That's interesting. I hadn't heard that Princess Michael was that sympathetic. When Princess Michael was selling their country home, she told a "prospective buyer" (who was actually an undercover 'journalist') that Diana had become "strange".
Princess Michael in that same letter told Diana, Princess of Wales that she would not have to bow down to Princess Michael because she lost her HRH title.
Menarue
Location: Cascais, Portugal
How condescending of Princess Pushy......
Location: IN THE CITY, United States
IMO Princess Margaret was a bit like Diana, in the way that when Princess Margaret was younger she was a party princess with no other thing in life but to be a princess she even gave up the love of her life in fear of losing her stations. She would wisk off to tropical islands with partys of friends with rumors of men all over the papaer. Once asked about her behavor she repleied (not a quote) when there are two sisters and one is Queen the other has to be the bad one. not saying she was a bad princess only saying that her hate of Diana seems to ME a bit of a overcast on a shadow of her own life. People who live in glass houses should not cast stones....
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Raniaf4
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Diana's relationship with the Queen
How was the Queen as a mother-in-law?How was their relationship before and after the wedding?Did they have a warm relationship with mutual respect or it was typical and only for their public images?After the divorce i consider they had nothing in common.
Also i would like to know when and who made the introduction between the Queen and Diana.I've heard that a close relative of Diana had strong connections with the Palace.
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BUG FEARS
Two wards at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital locked down after norovirus outbreak
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TWO wards have been closed at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital after an outbreak of the norovirus.
Scotland's largest hospital has been forced to lock down wards in the Langlands Unit, which mainly cares for older patients, because on increase in instances of the vomiting bug.
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Health chiefs are urging visitors who start to suffer symptoms likes sickness and diarrhoea to stay away.
They say it comes amid an increase in the bug across the whole of the country.
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And the closure is being done as a "precautionary measure".
Dr Linda de Caestecker, NHSGGC’s Director of Public Health said: “Norovirus, sometimes known as the ‘winter vomiting bug’, is the most common stomach bug in the UK, affecting people of all ages.
“It is highly contagious and is transmitted by contact with contaminated surfaces, an infected person, or consumption of contaminated food or water.
“The symptoms of norovirus are very distinctive – people often report a sudden onset of nausea, followed by projectile vomiting and watery diarrhoea.
“Most people with norovirus will make a full recovery in 1-2 days. It is important to keep hydrated – especially children and the elderly.
“Good hand hygiene using soap and water is important to stop the spread of the virus.”
The super-hospital has been hit by a series of scandals - and a public inquiry has been launched after safety concerns were raised.
A 10-year-old boy died at the facility earlier this year after contracting a bug linked to a pigeon poo outbreak.
He was one of two patients who died at the QEUH after becoming infected.
And in August, two kids with cancer were allegedly struck down by rare bugs linked to the hospital's water supply.
And earlier this month we told how stressed out staff were offered counselling after a series of incidents on site.
Nurses on Queen Elizabeth University Hospital's Ward 6A are receiving "bespoke" support from the NHS due to increased "interest" in the unit.
Prince William and Kate play with children at cancer hospital previously visited by Princess Diana in Lahore, Pakistan
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Meet the Argentinian Rangers diehard who says Old Firm derby is BIGGER than River Plate v Boca Juniors
Hernan Pacheco has been following Rangers since he was a boy - even when he could only watch their games a MONTH later
By Aidan Scott
HERNAN PACHECO is the die-hard Argentinian Rangers fan who reckons the Old Firm is BIGGER than the rivalry between River Plate and Boca Juniors.
The 40-year-old has been following the Ibrox side since he was a boy.
Hernan Pacheco during his first trip to see Rangers in actionCredit: Hernan Pacheco
Hernan fully understands the passion of the rivalry between Rangers and Celtic.
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And he reckons it is this, as well as the history of the fixture, that separates it from the fiery derby of Buenos Aires.
He said: "The rivalries between the Old Firm clubs, and the one between Boca Juniors and River Plate, are very different.
"In both, the fans are very passionate, but in different ways.
"For me, the Old Firm is just very unique, it has so much history.
"For the outside observers to see the rivalry between Rangers and Celtic, it is always surprising.
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"It is a unique event of rivalry.
"There is nothing like it in the world. It is great!"
Last week, Scottish SunSport Online spoke to the Argentinian Celtic supporters who are spreading their love of the Hoops across South America.
But Old Firm rivals Rangers have had their own fanbase in the country for some time as well.
Hernan first discovered the Ibrox club as a child.
Football fans in Argentina could follow what was going on in British football at the time by watching video tapes of past matches.
And Hernan soon found himself searching video shops in his home city of La Plata for highlights of Rangers games a MONTH after they were played.
He said: "When I was young, I could get my hands on VHS tapes about Rangers, Celtic, Everton and Liverpool.
"This is how I first started following Rangers but I could only watch highlights of their games about a month or two later.
"Because of my family background, I am a compulsive reader and I would go to newspaper and magazine stands in search of publications about Rangers.
"You know, there was no internet. It was a totally different time.
"But then in the mid-90s, cable television came along and that revolutionised everything.
"I could watch highlights of the games fairly soon after they happened.
Hernan on the Ibrox pitchCredit: Hernan Pacheco
Hernan and Ally McCoistCredit: Hernan Pacheco
"Argentina changed a lot in the 90s, as I said, and everything became more accessible.
"They even started selling Rangers jerseys here but they were very expensive.
"But I just loved the club, and it helped that I grew up in the nine-in-a-row generation.
"Everyone has their passion and Rangers quickly became mine."
After many years of dreaming of seeing Rangers in action, Hernan finally made his first trip to Scotland in 2013.
As well as attending games at Ibrox and even one away at East Stirlingshire, he was given the opportunity by the club to go to Auchenhowie.
And it was here that Hernan finally got the chance to meet his football hero.
He said: "While I was there, I was interviewed by Rangers TV.
"And I was lucky enough to meet my hero Ally McCoist - he was my favourite player growing up.
"My two heroes of football are Diego Maradona and McCoist, I loved them both when I was younger."
Hernan has since been to Scotland twice more to watch Rangers in action.
But he is still keen to spread his love of the Ibrox side across Argentina and South America.
Hernan at home in La PlataCredit: Hernan Pacheco
A cartoon made by a friend of Hernan for his trip to ScotlandCredit: Hernan Pacheco
He has a blog and covers every game, as well as writing about the latest stories concerning his beloved club.
And he is a member of a wider club of South America-based Gers fans known as Rangers Loyal South America.
Hernan said: "Back in Argentina, I meet up with Rangers fans from all over South America once every few years.
"We are part of a club called Rangers Loyal South America, and I have met with them in Buenos Aires.
"But I also meet up with fans of other British clubs in the city as it is good to get together.
"English clubs are the biggest in terms of British sides in Argentina.
"People would see Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal on the TV here and they became very well known.
"Scottish clubs have a much smaller following and sometimes an Argentinian connection is the only knowledge people may have of the team.
"For example, people see my Rangers top and the only thing they may know about the club is that Claudio Caniggia played for them.
"But I hope to spread support!"
Hernan is still planning his next trip to Scotland but is already hoping to attend his first Old Firm game.
He added: "I just hope we get a better result than last weekend!"
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Dr. Padmanabha Kamath who started this initiative for quicker diagnosis.
Mangaluru Cardiologist Starts Free WhatsApp Helpline to Help Rural Doctors
This initiative is helping rural doctors provide timely advice and early diagnosis to the underprivileged. In fact, it has already helped save over 800 lives! #Respect #RealLifeHero
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Post category:Health Care / India
Dr Padmanabha Kamath still remembers an incident from five years ago, when a young auto rickshaw driver in a remote village in Chikmagalur, had a heart attack and passed away because doctors couldn’t make a diagnosis on time.
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“He was a 32-year-old, had two small children, and was the sole breadwinner of his family. The only reason for his death was a delay in diagnosis,” says Dr Kamath.
The WHO reports that heart attacks are the leading cause of disability and death in India. A Lancet study estimated that the prevalence of heart disease in the country has increased from 2.57 crore in 1990 to 5.45 crore in 2016, and deaths resulting cardiovascular diseases also increased from 13 lakh in 1990 to 28 lakh in 2016.
Additionally, the average time it takes for a patient with an ongoing heart attack to get treated is 360 minutes. This is a far cry from the golden hour of 60 minutes, which is prescribed by the medical specialists.
“In India, the average time of 360 minutes is incorrect. Here, it can be anywhere between 10 to 13 hours after one sustains a heart attack,” he says.
The incident mentioned earlier disturbed Dr Kamath to the extent that he started a WhatsApp group, Cardiology at Doorsteps (CAD), with about 800 doctors to help aid quicker diagnosis especially in the remote rural areas where specialists are not easily accessible.
While the doctors dispense their professional advice on heart-related illnesses for free, they also guide rural doctors in terms of reading electrocardiograms (ECGs) that are posted in the group for a second opinion.
The cardiologists also help the doctors working in smaller hospitals and PHCs to connect with a referral hospital and the nearest cardiologist.
In the 1.5 years since they began, they have received at least 8000 consultations spread across four groups which comprise of three cardiologists in each group.
“Till date, 500 heart attack and 850 heart diseases have been accurately diagnosed in the group,” mentions Dr Kamath.
A conference organised by CAD where grassroots doctors where the topic was handling cardiac emergencies
Dr Kamath emphasises that the specialists in the group must share their numbers on the WhatsApp groups as remaining online throughout the day, is not possible.
“Every ECG posted is reported immediately and then archived. If ECG is not normal, the doctor is called on mobile in addition to standard WhatsApp reporting to doubly ensure the well-being of the patients,” he says.
The group has also raised money and installed over 200 ECG machines in small hospitals and PHCs in remote rural areas.
Where do they get the money for these ECG machines?
An ECG machine donated by CAD to a PHC
“The funding for these machines comes from patients, their relatives, well-wishers and philanthropists. The banking sector has also funded a few machines,” says Dr Kamath.
CAD has also donated emergency heart attack diagnosis and treatment kits to about 1000 PHCs. These kits comprise of drugs that can be used for immediate treatment in case of heart attacks until the patient is referred to a bigger hospital.
Dr Kamath narrates a recent incident where an intervention by the group helped save a life.
“A rural AYUSH doctor’s brother, started complaining of severe chest pains. This was at 8:30 pm, and the man was at his remote farmhouse in Ishwaramangala. The doctor took an ECG using the machine that was donated by CAD and shared the report on the WhatsApp group. The doctors immediately identified it as a heart attack and asked him to rush his brother to Mangaluru. The team was ready to perform angioplasty on the patient as soon as he arrived.”
Currently, Dr, Kamath and other specialists provide this consultation service only in 14 districts across Karnataka, but they plan on increasing its reach in other states. They have already donated 12 ECG machines to PHCs in Kerala.
Additionally, Dr Kamath also runs a free WhatsApp helpline (9743287599) in case of heart related emergency cases. However, Dr. Kamath emphasises that this helpline is only for online consultations in case of emergencies and is in no way a replacement to clinical knowledge and judgement.
“My ambition is to take this up on a pan-India level with the help of like-minded cardiologists along with donations from probably larger business houses. THAT will be a game-changer,” he says as he signs off.
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Using Soccer to Teach Mathematics and Financial Literacy in Municipal Schools
Post author:Manabi Katoch
Post category:Education / inspiring / Sports
Edu-Kick is a new initiative by the founders of Slum Soccer to help students of municipal schools learn mathematics through soccer.
In the year 2001, Vijay Barse, a retired sports teacher, saw a small bucket being kicked and passed around by some kids, splashing muddy rainwater all around the diminutive playground of a shanty town. It was a moment of clairvoyance. Vijay saw through the simple joy and fun – he saw a great tool of emancipation in soccer because he realized that sports can transform you when you are on the field.
Jhoparpatti football, as he called it then, roped in youngsters from all kinds of difficult backgrounds – drug abuse, anti-social activities, personal struggles, etc. They all started to get together for some games of soccer, but slowly and surely, their lives started changing. And thus, Slum Soccer was born.
But Slum Soccer is not a baby anymore. This year, the Slum Soccer team represented India in the World Cup held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, for the seventh time and came out with flying colours.
Fifteen years after its inception, Slum Soccer is also now venturing into newer territory. Abhijeet Barse (son of Vijay Barse) heads the Slum Soccer team and its operations now. Last year he came across another social challenge and, just like his father, he decided to deal with it with the help of soccer.
Abhijeet was looking into the newspaper one morning and he came across a piece of news in the Times of India that got him thinking. The news item said that children in most municipal schools were struggling to learn. The data was horrifying and it left Barse restless. He wanted to do something about it but all he knew was how to play soccer. So he decided to help these kids learn through soccer and started a new initiative called Edu-kick.
“Edu-Kick was initiated with a desire to increase the learning outcome of students attending municipal school, using football as learning vehicle,” says Abhijeet.
“We did what we do best; we made a game out of it and there began the journey of learning and growing together as community interested in supporting the experiential learning for its children”, he adds.
About 65 million of the Indian population lives in slums and the majority of the children from these communities are enrolled in municipal schools. Many of them are child labourers, drug addicts or indulge in anti-social activities. These circumstances create a hole in their educational outcomes. A recent study also showed that only 25.3% of Class 3 students can perform simple subtraction and 55.9% of Class 8 students are unable to do simple division.
“The experience of play changes the connections of the neurons at the front end of your brain and without play experience, those neurons aren’t changed”, says a researcher at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada.
With this in mind, Abhijeet and his team designed Project Edu-kick, which is aimed at improving and building upon existing educational outcomes, using football as a tool.
They designed games based on football to teach elementary mathematics (number system, squares and cubes, angles) and basic communication, and help make them financially literate as well.
When conducting a survey to decide who needed their help the most, they zeroed in on Urdu medium girls’ schools.
“This project is an innovation in a way that it uses football very uniquely. The use of sports to teach life skills is not something new. Even we use sports for making change in our lives but using football for mathematics & financial literacy is a one step forward,” says Abhijeet.
Ankit and Sajid, two Slum Soccer coaches who are also electrical engineers, have designed this programme.
“I always believed that education shouldn’t be the property of a classroom. Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world. For promoting literacy the most important thing is to make learning easy by changing the process of teaching,” says Ankit.
This duo provides an example of a simple game:
Name: #Messi for Positive and Negative
Theme: Improving agility & passing skill of the player.
Role model: Lionel Messi (Top Men Football Player)
Players required: 40 Players
Warm Up (10 Min):
Make a big circle and place number boards (containing both positive and negative numbers) at the periphery of the circle. At each number board there will be a player. As the coach blows the whistle, one of the players will touch the ball placed at the centre of the circle and will go to any other player in the circle. Once the player reaches the other player, he/she will shout her number — whether it is positive or negative — and give a high five. The second player will do the same thing.
Variation: Player will touch the ball placed at the centre with different parts of the body.
Main Game (20 min):
There are several cones placed (depending upon the number of participants) in the ground in pairs. Each pair of cones has numbers (either both numbers are positive or negative, or both positive or both negative). There will be two or three teams having equal number of participants. When the trainer blows the whistle, two players from each team will go with the ball and one will pass the ball between the cones and the other will receive the ball. Once they complete this successfully, they will pick up the numbers placed near the cones and come back to their team. Now the next two from the same team will go and perform the same task. Once all the numbers have been picked up, the trainer will ask them to find out that how many positive and negative numbers they have. The trainer will repeat this for three or four times depending upon the performance of the participants.
Learning: The warm up game will help players to work on their agility and also improve their passing and controlling skills apart from learning positive and negative numbers.
So far this programme has trained more than 200 students in the age group of 10-13 and has seen amazing results.
Nine-year-old Bushra, who studies in Class 3 in Nagar Parishad Sarpanch Mohd. Khurshid Urdu Girls primary school No.1, Kampti, Maharashtra, hated going to school and her parents didn’t bother either.
But for the past one year Bushra has been a regular student.
“I have learnt a lot since they have come to our school. Though the building of our school is not very good, I feel this is the best school now. When I tell this to my elder sister, who is in higher secondary school now, she doesn’t believe me. She says such things don’t happen in primary schools. But I know it’s true,” says Bushra, with much happiness in her voice.
Apart from teaching mathematics, team Edu-kick also teaches finance. They give away fake paper currency to the winning team and ask them how they would spend it.
“It is amazing to hear the answers they give. Even if the money is fake, the sense of achievement to win it can be seen in their eyes. Some really give a proper segregation of the money. They would say how they will buy so many things which they crave for and for their family too,” says Abhijeet.
Although this region is famous for football, girls here have hardly ever participated in the sport before. The team has completed three-fourths of its project and now the local people and parents support them too by allowing their daughters to come out of their homes and join the sport.
“Through this project I want to change the stereotype mentality of the male dominating community and give women a chance to come up and hold the stick to create their own path in life. Education can make a woman confident and a confident and educated woman can help a whole generation change,” says Ankit.
If you wish to know more about Edu-kick or help a nearby school, please write to Mr. Abhijeet Barse at abhijeet.barse@slumsoccer.org
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Tim Draper: The Lightning Network Will Improve BTC
Tim Draper has always been a huge bitcoin advocate, but in a recent interview, he explains why he’s so convinced BTC is headed for the stars and beyond.
Draper Says the Lightning Network Will Do Great Things
In the past, Draper has stated that bitcoin is likely to hit $250,000 by the time 2022 rolls along. He later altered his prediction a bit to suggest that this figure would instead be reached in the early months of 2023, thereby pushing things back somewhat. However, he stands by his prediction and commented a bit more on why he seems to think this will occur.
During his interview, Draper stated that bitcoin is likely to hold a lot of power in the future thanks to its affiliation with the Lightning Network, which he says will shoot BTC into mainstream territory. The Lightning Network has garnered quite a bit of attention over the years due to its alleged ability to improve the bitcoin network’s speed and boost transaction times.
Bitcoin is the oldest cryptocurrency out there. Around since 2008, it gave birth to the digital finance space and without it, we likely never would have seen Ethereum, EOS or Litecoin rise to the occasion. However, while bitcoin is still widely respected and viewed as a solid wealth-sustaining tool, its technology leaves a lot to be desired.
For example, transactions on the bitcoin blockchain are quite slow in comparison to other blockchains. Ethereum and EOS are often able to complete transactions within the space of a few hours or even a few minutes. With bitcoin, money transfers could take a few days. This isn’t good when people are expecting their funds quickly or within a certain period. Thus, while bitcoin still holds its place in the crypto industry, it’s not always viewed as the most prominent currency for remittance payments or similar ventures.
However, the Lightning Network is a technology that could potentially change all this. Granted bitcoin becomes faster and more comparable to newer blockchains, the currency is more likely to hold its place and garner new customers.
Slow Blockchains Are Becoming Common with Age
Slow transactions tend to occur when a blockchain ages and becomes saturated. The same thing has happened with Ethereum as of late, with co-founder Vitalik Buterin commenting that the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap is suffering from scalability issues due to the growing number of decentralized apps and tokens being built on its blockchain. The network is now considering an algorithmic move from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake – known as Ethereum 2.0 – which is alleged to help the blockchain deal with its newfound scalability problems.
Draper isn’t the only one shelling out bullish predictions for bitcoin’s price. Tom Lee of Fundstrat fame also predicted that the coin could potentially end the year at $40,000 though with less than two months left to go, this seems unlikely.
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10 Best Movie Shots of the Decade So Far
Anmol Titoria
Cinema, at the end of the day, is a visual medium. It’s an eccentric, profound and rather absurd collaboration of images, sound and emotion. A cinematic experience is incomplete without visual stimulation and images from films that stay with you pop up in your head now and then and initiate a response best described as nostalgia; because it resembles that of stumbling upon a happy memory.
But to make the first contact you have with the medium of film so powerful and intensely compelling, a singular combination of dedication and instinct is essential. A cinematographer and director mull over location, set designs, costumes, right down to the eyes of the actor conveying the multiple layers of the film. It’s not just the magic of light and staging; it requires an ability to foreshadow and visualize the magnitude of an image’s contribution to the audience’s experience.
Here are, ranked in order of how much vigor they provide to their respective films, the list of top movie shots of the decade, so far:
10. THE GRANDMASTER (DP: Phillipe Le Sourd, 2013)
‘The Grandmaster’ is a film that is so stylish, so detailed and so brutally beautiful that the elaborate craft of the production design, the costumes, the performances gets lost in the visual bravura of the film. And this particular shot encapsulates so much of why it is an unforgettable visual experience. It informs about character, period, narrative, the astounding attention to detail and you can see every rain drop without compromising any other aspect of the narrative.
9. INCEPTION (DP: Wally Pfister, 2010)
Nolan, the master of mind bending cinema, took 10 years to complete the screenplay of ‘Inception’, his most intellectually rewarding film since ‘Memento’. He chose his long-time companion Wally Pfister to shoot the world of dreams that he created with such audacity and detailing. And in this shot, they managed to convey to an audience, who by this time in the film, have their jaws on the floor, that they can bend dimensions too.
8. GONE GIRL (DP: Jeff Cronenweth, 2014)
By the time this particular scene arrives in Fincher’s horror/mystery/thriller/satire masterpiece, you’ve already decided anything can happen in the film, and then Fincher and Cronenweth hit you with this. It’s captured fleetingly, without purposefully accentuating it’s significance to the film, but in that dark, nearly empty movie theater, it sent chills down my spine. A lot of credit here belongs to Rosamund Pike, who’s impossibly textured performance not only makes Amy frightening and dark, but look deeply and you’ll discover an emptiness that makes her even more intriguing.
7. GRAVITY (DP: Emmanuel Lubezki, 2013)
By now, almost all film enthusiasts recognize Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’ as a cinematic and technical marvel. But what is generally not mentioned when the subject of ‘Gravity’s’ many achievements comes up is how deeply philosophical it is. It makes the Space starkly beautiful but also staggeringly intimidating. Here, we see Bullock’s reflection as her lack of companionship in a sea of emptiness dawns on her and the beauty and horror are instantly evident.
6. THE REVENANT (DP: Emmanuel Lubezki, 2015)
If any cinematographer was going to have more than one film on this list, it was going to be Chivo. Inarritu’s ‘The Revenant’ is a frequent topic of debate among cinema lovers. The words “masterpiece” and “tiresome” are usually thrown around. I was somewhere in the middle with my opinion. Parts of it were, admittedly, glorious film-making. This moment, for instance, unlike many grandiose dream sequences in the film, portrays not just mass tragedy and silent retrospection; but also possesses the courage to tackle much larger themes of man’s relation with nature.
5. MR. TURNER (DP: Dick Pope, 2014)
Mike Leigh has always chosen the offbeat path for the way his films connect with an audience. You either too engrossed in the stories he chooses to tell (‘Secrets and Lies’) or, as in this case, you’re just a spectator and he’s showing you his massive collection of paintings. Collaborating with his perennial DP Dick Pope, Leigh makes almost every frame of ‘Turner’ resemble one of its subject’s paintings. This one, in particular, seems to look like a painting until Pope pans the camera out and you realize it’s not. The artistry, just like J.M.W Turner’s, is impeccable.
4. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (DP: John Seale, 2015)
Nobody knew the desert better than Freddie Young, who shot ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. But John Seale, who shot ‘The English Patient’ and ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ comes close. His magnificent, vibrant depiction of the dystopian wasteland is not only amazing to look at, but gives the film an additional adrenaline rush. When he captures this frame, it shakes you to the core. A moment of anguish for your fiery heroine who must deal with a stark realization of loss might be short in terms of its screen time in this fast paced film, but it manages to express the grandeur of the desert and of Furiosa’s pain.
3. BOYHOOD (DP: Lee Daniel, Shane Kelly, 2014)
‘Boyhood’ might be one of most intimate and realistic depictions of life ever put on screen. But Linklater, who is very frequently dismissed as a talky filmmaker, is also a visual master. Take this shot, for instance, which finds Mason in a secluded space around his house and is, in the eyes of an adult, doing nothing. It’s just a simplistic cinematographic achievement; it’s not clamoring for your attention. It’s just life, at it’s most sublime and relatable.
Related: Movies Like Boyhood
2. CAROL (DP: Edward Lachman, 2015)
Edward Lachman shot ‘Carol’ in Super 16mm film to capture what he called, “the texture and colors of a faded postcard from a bygone era.” And what a towering achievement it is. Every frame of ‘Carol’ is nearly perfect, but nothing beats this shot of Carol, having given up in a custody battle with her husband, sitting in a busy cafeteria in 1950s’ Manhattan. It projects not only her deep isolation in the world, as we look at her from behind a window, but also her comprehension of the fact that her only savior now is her connection with Therese.
1. THE TREE OF LIFE (DP: Emmanuel Lubezki, 2011)
No film this decade, or probably this century comes close to ‘The Tree of Life’ in terms of visual poetry. Total Film magazine called it “ridiculously, rapturously beautiful” and said, “You could press ‘pause’ at any moment and hang the frame on your wall.” I fully agree. It’s a moving homage to the visual and emotional power of the medium and seems to get better with every viewing. In this mind-blowing shot, Lubezki and Mallick capture Mrs. O’Brien, walking through a door into a sunset, presumably representing her ascent to heaven, and the sheer pleasure it is to the eyes and the soul make it the most perfect shot of the decade so far.
Read More: Best Movie Soundtracks
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Weekly News Round-up: Spielberg’s New Film; Bradley Cooper Turns Director
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Since the news was a bit slow last week, this installation of the weekly news round-up talks about the important developments from the past 2 weeks.
1. Spielberg’s 3rd upcoming movie after ‘Bridge of Spies’
Steven Spielberg has been a common talking point at the weekly news round-ups and this week yet again news has come up that Spielberg is set to direct ‘Ready Player One’ alongside Warner Bros studios after news broke out that Christopher Nolan was penned to direct Earnest Cline’s book ‘Ready Player One’. The story evokes a huge sense of 1980’s nostalgia which could be another important reason why Spielberg has collaborated with Warner Bros- to have maximum rights and licenses for the story.
2. Idris Elba could be the new villain in the upcoming Star Trek 3
Idris Elba is now in early talks to play the films’ villain in Star Trek 3 which is expected to heavily feature Klingons. Not much of news has come out about the film and we will be following it closely in the coming months; however in the same week we also have news that Elba will replace Jamie Foxx in Harmony Corine’s crime drama ‘The Trap’ featuring acting talents like James Franco, Al Pacino, Benicio Del Toro and Robert Pattinson.
3. Matthew Mcconaughey to star in ‘The Billionaire’s Vinegar’
After a successful string of acting performances in ‘Dallas Buyers Club’, ‘True Detective’ and ‘Interstellar’, Mcconaughey is making the most of the aftermath with him adding yet another title in progress titled ‘The Billionaire’s Vinegar’. The film is being adapted from the non-fiction book ‘The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle’ which tells the story of the controversy surrounding bottles of wine which supposedly had been from the secret stash of Thomas Jefferson in France. The story talks about how both members of the Forbes family spend over a million dollars just to validate the wine’s purported history. The story is being adapted by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas whose credits include the widely acclaimed 3:10 to Yuma. McConaughey has the Japanese suicide drama ‘Sea of Trees’ already done, the Civil War drama ‘Free State of Jones‘ filming, and the jungle adventure ‘Gold’ potentially filming soon after.
4. Bradley Cooper in talks to direct his debut film.
Its been half a century since a remake to ‘A Star is Born‘ to hit screens with the previous three being in 1937,’54 and ’76. Warner Bros has claimed to have been working on developing the remake for the film since the early 2000’s with a string of A-list actors in talks to play the role which include Christian Bale, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise and Will Smith. However now Bradley Cooper has been in talks with Warner Bros to make the remake with him directing, acting and producing the film. Beyonce has been in talks to play the female lead for quite sometime now and is hopefully expected to play alongside Bradley Cooper. The story talks about an aging male star who falls in love with a woman whose career is on the upswing.
Under smaller news pieces
–Jim Carrey and Keanu Reeves join Jason Mamoa in ‘The Bad Batch‘. With these actors joining the film, ‘The Bad Batch’ has become an interesting project to follow.
-Live action version of ‘The Beauty and the Beast‘ who already has Emma Watson, Dan Stevens and Luke Evans as Belle, Beast and Gaston now has Frozen star Josh Gad as Le Fou.
On more not-so-great news, Jonathan Liebesman is giving competition to Guy Ritchie‘s six movie franchise with Warner Bros. He has just been announced to direct ‘Man at arms‘about Sir Lancelot as an older man attempting to make up for totally ruining that whole Camelot thing by messing around with Guinevere. For those who are not familiar with Liebesman, his filmography is far from great or even good, with works such as ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre‘ and last year’s ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles‘.
Also, check out two new trailers that released past week:
1. ‘S.P.E.C.T.R.E’- The latest James Bond film, and
2. ‘Southpaw’- Jake Gyllenhaal’s latest work.
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K-9 unit coming to Quincy
Rosalie Currier @RosalieSJ @RosalieSJ
The Quincy Police Department will soon have a K-9 unit. At the December virtual meeting held Tuesday, the village council approved a K-9 police policy and contract. An anonymous donor provided $10,000 for the K-9 project. Erin Hamilton-Crites will be the K-9 officer.
Picking up the pieces from a 2018 agreement, the council turned down the request by Bill Bowerman of $10,000 for tree/brush cleanup of his property.
In 2018 the village sold property behind village lagoons to William and Lisa Bowerman with the agreement to remove some trees. According to their records, the village completed the job in 2019 — the one year allotted in the contract.
The Bowermans do not agree the job is completed and are asking for $10,000 from the village to finish the job, as per the contract.
Bowerman attempted to join the December virtual meeting, but was not able to because of an unstable internet connection.
Newest council member, Christy Berry, asked numerous questions concerning the contract that expired August 2019.
Given the written contract and visual images on file with the agreement that do not designate what trees were to be removed; and because Bowerman brought the request to the council nearly a year after the contract expired, the motion was made to deny his request.
The motion passed 5-2 vote. Mike Hagaman and Wendy Salyer voted against the motion.
Council members heard from Rod Bailey, the assistant fire chief concerning Resolution 2020-16 911 Service Plan Postponement.
The service plan in question strips the 911 board made of local emergency representatives of power, he said. And allows the county to bill the local municipalities and townships if they go over budget.
Bailey said the 911 department is the one fiscally responsible entity in the county. Local fire chiefs on the board encouraged local residents to pass the 911 surcharge on the November ballot citing the need for an upgraded radio system. If they are pushed aside and power goes to the county, Bailey is concerned about trust. Residents trusting the fire departments is key to them doing their job, he said.
The council approved the resolution asking for a service plan postponement.
Council also approved the $79,500 purchase of a 2018 used John Deere 310SL backhoe.
In October, council passed an updated animal ordinance that outlines animals permissible to keep within the village limits. Owners of illegal non-conforming animals should technically be fined in December, but council approved moving enforcement to the first of the year.
During public comment Lisa Tubergan, warned the council that their animal unfriendly ordinance would draw media attention, putting a negative light on the village.
Laura Loomis requested special use permits so 4-H members could keep their animals.
Council members did not respond to the public comments.
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Moderna vaccine limited in Branch County
LANSING —Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Wednesday local public health departments can expand the list of eligible vaccine recipients beginning Monday.
In reality, that will have little impact on Branch County, according to Rebecca Burns, health officer for the Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Health Agency who said "we are experiencing a shortage of vaccine."
Branch County received 900 doses of the Moderna vaccine the week before Christmas.
"We can’t get any more of that until the week of January 24." The state has held on to enough vaccine for the second doses given 28 days later. "But for new doses we cannot get our hands on those until the week of the 24th," she said.
Of the 900 doses received , 600 was given to ProMedica Coldwater Regional Hospital for first line care workers and staff. Then it was offered to local doctors and its staff.
Burns confirmed reports that about half of those eligible were taking the vaccine.
The other 300 shots were offered to those first responders in the county dealing with emergency calls. Clinics have been held Wednesday, Thursdays, and Fridays in the three counties for them.
"There has been a reluctance to get the vaccine , from a lot of those in the 1A categories. A lot of them want to wait to see ‘if my friends doesn’t grow a third leg maybe I’ll get it,’" Burns said. "There are some who are never going to get it."
The Governor said those in the 1B category could come forward next week. That includes Michigan seniors 65 and older and front line workers such as teachers and police officers.
The local vaccine shipment does not include those for long term health care facilities such as Laurels of Coldwater and Maple Lawn.
Contractors from CVS and Walgreens began vaccinating those staff and residents this week.
Laurels Administrator Curtis Covert could not give the number of his 118 residents who received the shots. He did say vaccinations were given from noon until 5 p.m. on Wednesday by CVS.
"We have things pretty much under control, but that could change," Covert said. "Hopefully not with the vaccinations." CVS will return in four weeks for the second shot.
At Maple Lawn, Administrator Jayne Sabaitis said Monday "our residents who wanted to be vaccinated are getting the vaccination. We have several staff and most of our residents that have chosen to be vaccinated."
On Feb. 1, residents and staff who were vaccinated will receive the second dose of the vaccine.
"At that time and any residents and staff will be able to get the first dose if they have changed their mind," she said.
Both residents and staff receive COVID-19 tests weekly.
There number of COVID-19 reported deaths in Branch County rose to 78 Wednesday. With 29 new cases, the total infections now are at 2,939.
In the last week, Branch County tested 674 people and led the state with a 22.8% positive rate.
While the Pfizer vaccine is more available, Branch County does not have the ultra cold freezer needed to preserve it. Burns said until Jan 24 "our only other option is to take in Pfizer vaccine. There are ultra cold freezers not too far away from us. Maybe we can work with somebody and maybe they will store it for us."
It can be stored for a short time with dry ice. "That is labor intensive," Burns said. Her department hopes to look at all options and make some decisions this week.
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Measurement, quality control and test
Flowmeter for Applications Requiring a High Degree of Cleanliness
By Titan Enterprises on 23rd September 2020
The Metraflow ultrasonic flowmeter from Titan Enterprises offers an ideal solution for flow monitoring applications requiring a high degree of cleanliness such as are found in the pharmaceutical, medical, semiconductor and ultra-pure water markets.
Typically production processes in these markets require flow measurement devices able to cope with low flow rates and construction from ultra-pure materials so as to maintain hygienic, sterile and sanitary conditions.
The single clean bore measurement tube construction of the Metraflow ultrasonic flowmeter makes it ideal for almost any application where cleanliness is important. Made from high performance Perfluoroalkoxy Alkane (PFA) polymer, the Metraflow ultrasonic flowmeter offers wide chemical resistance and the ability to precisely monitor process flow temperatures up to 60ºC (140ºF) and pressures up to 28 bar (406 psi). Using patented ultrasonic technology, with a single unbroken measurement tube, the Metraflow is a non-invasive device with excellent accuracy (calibrated to +/- 1.0% reading) and repeatability across flow ranges from 20 to 5000 ml/min.
The Metraflow uses Titan Enterprises patented transit time ultrasonic technology to accurately measure liquid travelling through a PFA flow tube. The compact integrated electronic, display and sensor package offers superior performance in a single assembly. Computer and operational connections are separate, permitting setting and interface monitoring during normal operation through the Titan Interface Software. The units, time base, set points and analogue and digital outputs can all be set through the USB connector. The versatile software system also enables user configuration of other parameters such as flow alarms, cut off levels, and even datalogging.
For further information on the Metraflow ultrasonic flowmeter please visit https://www.metraflowmeter.com/ or contact Titan Enterprises on +44-1935-812790 / sales@flowmeters.co.uk.
Drawing upon over 40-years of flowmeter innovation – Titan Enterprises Ltd is a manufacturer of high-performance solutions including the Atrato ultrasonic flowmeter, Oval Gear flowmeters, low flow Turbine flow meters and a flow instrument range. Titan’s company philosophy of “pushing the envelope by trying to do things a little different and better” has resulted in sales of over 500,000 products into 50 countries worldwide and a repeat purchase percentage of 95%. All flowmeters produced by Titan Enterprises are designed and manufactured to ISO9001 and calibrated to an uncertainty of ±0.25%.
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With more than 40 years’ experience in flowmeter innovation — Titan Enterprises Ltd is a UK-based manufacturer of high-performance solutions such as the Atrato ultrasonic flowmeter, oval gear flowmeters and the low flow turbine flowmeters and instrument range. Our knowledgable team can offer either an off-the-shelf meter or fully bespoke flow system designed for a particular application, whether it is a low-cost OEM solution or a specialist flowmeter in exotic materials you are looking for.
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Titan’s company philosophy of ‘pushing the envelope by trying to do things a little different and better’ has resulted in sales of more than 500,000 products in 50 countries worldwide and a repeat purchase percentage of 95 per cent — something that founder Trevor Forster is justly proud of.
Today, Titan supplies innovative flow measurement solutions to a broad range of sectors, including medical, industrial, food and drink, laboratory and pharmaceutical. Its latest innovation — the Atrato flowmeter range — is set to challenge conventional flowmeter thinking the world over. The culmination of eight years’ research and development in collaboration with the Department of Process & Engineering at Cranfield University (UK), it can handle low flows from laminar to turbulent and is largely immune from viscosity effects.
For higher-volume users we can tailor the design of a flowmeter to match your exact application requirements and thus not compromise achievable results with a less-than-ideal sensor. The resultant device would be unique to your application but would still benefit from Titan’s tried-and-tested, modern manufacturing methods to ensure a competitive OEM solution. From an initial concept Titan can offer a complete service from budget costings through prototypes to full production. Often the cost of origination and tooling can be amortised over the life of the product.
All flowmeters produced by Titan are designed and manufactured to ISO9001 and calibrated to an uncertainty of ±0.25 per cent. We produce chemically resistant, high-accuracy digital flowmeters that are not only competitively priced but are engineered to give long-term reliable performance.
However, the value of a flowmeter cannot be judged by price alone. Often in industrial applications the reliability of a product far outweighs the initial purchase price as ‘downtime’ is extremely expensive. At Titan, we endeavour to produce devices that are inherently reliable but are manufactured using the latest and most economical production techniques.
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Register now for the “Global Debate on Mobility Challenges for Future Society” from 15 – 16 November 2018 in Warsaw
https://events.uic.org/global-debate-on-mobility-challenges-for-future-society
The UIC International Rail Research Board (IRRB) and Instytut Kolejnictwa – the Polish Railway Research Institute (IK) are jointly organising an international event entitled “Global Debate on Mobility Challenges for Future Society” to be held from 15 – 16 November 2018, at the Intercontinental Hotel, Warsaw City Centre, Poland.
The International Railway Research Board (IRRB) is one of UIC’s working bodies in which UIC members from all over the world participate along with renowned research institutes and academia. One of the key elements and primary goals of the IRRB activities has been the development of a high-level document, “A Global Vision for Railway Development” – or in short the “GVRD”. This GVRD will be updated and published by the end of 2019.
Each year, a substantial number of conferences and other events are being organised in the area of rail transport. Those dealing with research mainly consist of presenting the results of previous and ongoing research. The IRRB has taken the initiative to plan and organise this future oriented event: the “Global Debate on Mobility Challenges for Future Society”.
The aim of this event is to stimulate an “out-of-the-box” discussion on transport needs and the ideal transport system in 2050 and the role of railways/guided transport systems therein.
The Debate will focus on the following areas:
New mobility system concepts
Towards an integrated transport system
IT – new opportunities and threats
Competitiveness of transport stakeholders
Sustainability and resilience of the transport system
The Global Debate will be launched by an opening ceremony, featuring presentations by Mr Jean-Pierre Loubinoux – UIC Director General, Prof Boris Lapidus – IRRB Chairman (RZD) and Dr Andrzej Żurkowski – IRRB Vice-Chairman and Director of IK.
Following the official opening, five keynote speeches will be given, linked to each of the five areas mentioned above. The afternoon session will be split into five thematic parallel debates focused on these areas.
At the beginning of the second day, the conclusions of these parallel debates will be presented by their moderators. It will be followed by the general debate, the main element of the event. The conclusions of this final main debate will be summarised by Prof. Boris Lapidus, IRRB Chairman.
Plenary sessions will be simultaneously interpreted into English, Russian and Polish. Five parallel thematic sessions will be held in English only.
It is our expectation that the outcome from this Global Debate, using a wide range of transport research results as well as multifaceted insights from around the world, will also constitute a crucial input in to the update of the Global Vision for Railway Development document.
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Liesbeth Minnaard
contemporary studies
interculturality
mobility, globalisation, and interculturality
politics and aesthetics
postcolonial theory
Dr. E. Minnaard
e.minnaard@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Liesbeth Minnaard is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
More information about Liesbeth Minnaard
Since September 2007 I have been working as an assistant professor (UD) at the Film and Literary Studies department of Leiden University. Aside teaching a broad variety of “general” courses in the field of comparative literature and literary theory, I am particularly committed to the Interculturality track within the Literary Studies curriculum.
My main fields of expertise are interculturality in literature, postcolonial theory, and issues of gender and sexuality. My research particularly focuses on cultural effects of migration and globalisation, exoticism in literature, representations of “the national”, and intersectionality.
In 1998 I obtained a MA degree in cultural studies (specialisations Modern Western Literature and Gender Studies) from Utrecht University. Between 1998 and 2002 I worked for several NGO’s (Project Aisa, TransAct, Vrouwenalliantie) that were engaged in drawing the attention to intersections of gender and ethnicity in the socio-political field. From 2000 to 2002 I carried out the project “Kleur in het curriculum” for the Centre of Expertise GEM (Gender, Ethnicity, Multiculturality) at Utrecht University.
In 2002 I received two research grants from the DAAD (Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst) and the Catharine van Tussenbroek Fund that enabled me to start my PhD research on imaginations of national identity in German and Dutch literature of migration in Berlin and at the Viadrina University in Frankfurt/Oder. From 2003 to 2006 I received a DFG-scholarship for participation in the interdisciplinary, DFG-funded graduate school “Identity and Difference. Gender and Interculturality from the 18th to the 21st century” at Trier University. From 2003 to 2006 I participated in Mieke Bal’s “Theory Seminar” at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis. In 2006 I received a grant to participate in the Spring Term Graduate Programme of Cornell University (upon invitation by Leslie A. Adelson). In 2007 I obtained my PhD degree in from Trier University. My dissertation was published with Amsterdam University Press in 2008.
I have published widely on Dutch and German literature of migration, as well as on exoticism in literature. I am the author of the monograph New Germans, New Dutch. Literary Interventions (Amsterdam University Press, 2008) and co-editor of the volumes Ethnizität und Geschlecht. (Post-)Koloniale Verhandlungen in Geschichte, Kunst und Medien (Böhlau, 2005), Literature, Language and Multiculturality in Scandinavia and the Low Countries (with Wolfgang Behschnitt and Sarah De Mul, Rodopi 2013), Beyond the Myth of Monolingualism and Nach der einen Sprache: literarische Mehrsprachigkeit? (both with Till Dembeck, KultuRRevolution, 2013 and Rodopi 2014). Most recently I published De lichtheid van literatuur. Engagement in de multiculturele samenleving, together with Maria Boletsi, Sarah De Mul, and Isabel Hoving (Acco, 2015).
- Partner in the CORE-project ‘The Construction of Identity in Multilingual Literature: A Comparison of Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands’ funded by the FNR Luxembourg. Other partners are Luxembourg University (project leader, Prof. Dr. Georg Mein and Dr. Till Dembeck), Leuven University (Dr. Anke Gilleir) and University Duisburg-Essen (Prof. Dr. Rolf Parr and Dr. Thomas Ernst).
- Co-organizer of the bi-annual Flemish-Dutch Platform for Postcolonial Readings (Leiden University /Antwerp University): https://hum.leiden.edu/lucas/pocoplatform.
- Member in the German Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies (Trier University)
- Member of the transnational network (Post-) Colonialism Across Europe (chair: Prof. Dr. Dirk Göttsche, Nottingham University).
Over the last years I have been teaching a broad variety of courses on all levels, ranging from
- BA1 courses like Representatie: Cultuur en Betekenis and Inleiding Comparative Studies,
- BA2 courses like Inleiding Interculturele Literatuurbenaderingen and Symbolisme, Historische Avant-garde en Modernisme,
- BA3 courses like Globalisering en postkoloniale literatuurtheorie and Postmodernisme,
- Minor courses Gender en Seksualiteit
- MA courses like Marvellous Worlds: The Literary Fantastic and Literary Theory: Barthes, Bakhtin, Foucault to
- ResMA courses like Approaches to Literature and Interculturality: The Key Concepts.
At the German Department of Trier University I taught courses on
- literature of migration ( “Ausländer
– Türken – Kanaken?” Kulturelle Identität in der Literatur von Deutschen türkischer Herkunft, WS 04/05),
- the imagination of Berlin in 20th century German literature ( Berlinin der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts, SoSe 06), and
- non-canonical German literature ( Literatur vom Rande der Gesellschaft (nach 1945), WS 06/07).
Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at Leiden University
Occasional Lecturer at the German Department of Trier University.
PhD project within the DFG-funded Graduate School “Identity and Difference. Gender Constructions and Interculturality (18th – 21st century)” at Trier University. Supervision: Prof. Dr. Herbert Uerlings and Prof. Dr. Ernst van Alphen Scholarships from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Trier University Research Council
Research and participation in the Graduate Programme of the German Studies Department of Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA. Supervision: Prof. Dr. Leslie Adelson Grant (tuition fee): Cornell University
Participation as affiliated PhD-student in the “Theory Seminar” at ASCA, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam. Supervision: Prof. Dr. Mieke Bal
Preparatory research for PhD-project in Berlin. Participation as affiliated PhD-student in the DFG Graduate School “Rhetorik – Repräsentation – Wissen” at the Heinrich-von-Kleist-Institut für Literatur und Politik at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder. Scholarships from the Doctor Catharine van Tussenbroek Fund and the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Project manager ‘Colour in the Curriculum’ at the Centre of Expertise GEM (Gender, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism), Utrecht University. Supervision: Prof. Dr. Gloria Wekker
NOISE European Summer School in Women’s Studies from Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives at Complutense University Madrid. Theme: ‘Diasporic Identities and Medi@ted Cultures: Gender, Power, Representations’
1992 – 1998 (leave 1997)
M.A. in “Algemene Letteren” (Culture studies) at Utrecht University. Specializations: Gender Studies and Modern Western Literature. Supervision: Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Buikema and Dr. Aleid Fokkema
1995/1996 Erasmus International Exchange: Participation in the M.A. Programme Women’s Studies at WERRC (Women’s Education, Resource and Research Centre), University College Dublin, Ireland
1986 – 1992 Secondary School, Pre-University, Goes
Centre for the Arts in Society
Literatuurwetenschap
Arsenaal
Arsenaalstraat 1
2311 CT Leiden
Room number B1.06
No relevant ancillary activities
De lichtheid van literatuur: Engagement in de multiculturele samenleving
New Germans, New Dutch. Literary Interventions
Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries
Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism
Positionierungen. Kritische Antworten auf die ‚Flüchtlingskrise‘ in Kunst und Literatur // Taking Positions on the ‘Refugee Crisis’: Critical Responses in Art and Literature
Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes
Film and Literary Studies (BA)
Arts and Culture (MA)
Literary Studies (MA)
Media Studies (MA)
Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory (MA)
Art History (BA)
Modern and Contemporary Studies
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1. Which of the following is the characteristic tool of the Lower Palaeolithic period ?
(1) Handaxe
(2) Burin
(3) Scraper
(4) Celt
Answer: Option 1
2. Who, among the following, were victorious in the ‘Battle of Ten Kings’ of the Vedic period ?
(1) Matsyas
(2) Purus
(3) Anus
(4) Bharatas
3. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Gautama Buddha did not recognise the existence of a permanent soul.
Reason (R) :He believed in rebirth.
In the context of the above two statements which of the following is correct ?
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: Option 2
4. Which of the following is not one of the ‘Saptangas’ ?
(1) Kosa
(2) Svamin
(3) Durga
(4) Ratnin
5. Which of the following statements is not true ?
(1) The Southern limit of Asoka’s inscription is Karnataka.
(2) Kalinga war took place in Asoka’s 8th regnal year.
(3) Asoka’s edicts refer to the restriction of slaughter of animals in the royal kitchen.
(4) Asoka’s edicts mention the contribution of Mahendra and Sanghamitra in the spread of dharma.
6. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?
(1) Pushkalavati – Charsadda
(2) Sakala - Sialkot
(3) Takshasila – Sirkap
(4) Mahodaya – Mahoba
7. Which of the following statements is not correct in respect of the Satavahana period ?
(1) Hala was the composer of the Gatha-saptasati.
(2) Gautamiputra Satakarni destroyed the Kshaharata family.
(3) Satavahana Kingdom comprised aharas.
(4) Somadeva was the rival of Gunadhya in the Satavahana Court.
8. Which of the following subjects is dealt with, in the Kudumiyamalai inscription of the Pallava family ?
(1) Architecture
(2) Music
(3) Irrigation
(4) Polity
9. Which of the following is correct in respect of the plan of the Durga temple at Aihole ?
(1) Square
(2) Rectangular
(3) Stellar
(4) Apsidal
10. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below :
List – I (Author)
List – II (Title of the book)
(a) A.L. Basham (i) Hindu Polity
(b) D.D. Kosambi (ii) The Wonder that was India
(c) K.P. Jayaswal (iii) An Introduction to the study of Indian History.
(d) R.G. Bhandarkarü (iv) Early History of the Dekkan
Codes : (a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(2) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(3) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(4) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
11. Which of the following is the correct connotation of the word Upadha ?
(1) Land given to the temples
(2) Land given to the Brahmanas
(3) Tax on profession
(4) Test of integrity
12. Which of the following places marks the southern most extent of the Harappan Culture ?
(1) Desalpurü
(2) Daimabad
(3) Rojdi
(4) Lothal
13. Which of the following places yielded the remains of Kushan devakula, where statues of royal persons were kept ?
(1) Ahichchhatra
(2) Chamba
(3) Mat
(4) Shahbazgarhi
14. Which of the following places are mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea as market places.
Select the correct answer, using the code given below : (i) Paithan (ii) Ter (iii) Kalyan (iv) Sopara
(1) (i) and (iii)
(2) (ii) and (iii)
(3) (i) and (iv)
(4) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
15. Which of the following inscriptions, refers to the performance of Sati ?
(1) Bhitari inscription of Skandagupta.
(2) Mandasor inscription of Kumaragupta.
(3) Mathura inscription of Chandragupta II.
(4) Eran inscription of Bhanugupta .
16. Which of the following statements relating to the reign of Chola Rajendra I is not correct ?
(1) He renewed the matrimonial alliance with the Chalukyas of Vengi.
(2) He sent an expedition to Kadaram.
(3) He conquered Ceylon and reinstated its ruler Mahinda
(4) He renewed his father’s grant to the Buddhist monastery at Nagapatam.
17. Which of the following temples of Khajuraho are constructed either wholly or largely of granite ? Use of the code given below : (a) Chausatha Yogini temple (b) Brahma temple (c) Visvanatha temple (d) Kandariya Mahadeva temple Codes :
(1) (a), (b), (c)
(2) (b), (c), (d)
(3) (a), (b)
(4) (c), (d)
18. The Vaishnavite devotionalism paved the way for the emergence of which of the following local literary genre in Bengal ?
(1) Manasa
(2) Mangalam
(3) Mangalakavya
(4) Chaitanya Mangal
19. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
List – I (Source)
List – II (Author)
(a) Siyar ul Auliya (i) Amir Khusrau
(b) Jami-ut Tawarikh (ii) Saiyid Muhammad
(c) Fatawa-i Jahandari (iii) Rashiduddin Fazlullah
(d) Matla-ul Anwar (iv) Ziauddin Barani
(1) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii)
(2) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(3) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
(4) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
20. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?
(1) Tarikh-i Firuzshahi – Shams-i Siraj Afif
(2) Futuh us Salatin – Rashiduddin Fazlullah
(3) Hasht Bihisht – Amir Khusrau
(4) Rehla – Ibn Battuta
21. Treadles in the loom are first described in India in
(1) 1348 – 49
22. Which of the following Sultan built a hospital at Mandu in 1442-43 and ordered that medicines should be procured as were prescribed by both ‘Islamic’ and ‘Brahmanical’ physicians ?
(1) Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq
(2) Sultan Mahmud Khalji
(3) Sultan Nasiruddin
(4) Sultan Bakhtiyar Khalji
23. Consider the following statements relating to the mountain horse breed found in the Himalayan steppes of Tibet.
(a) This mountain horsebreed was known as Kohi.
(b) This mountain horsebreed was known as Tanghan.
(c) These mountain horses were in profuse supply in the medieval period, particularly in the Bengal Sultanate.
Select the correct answer from the code given below :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (a) and (c)
(4) (a), (b) and (c)
24. Nimatullah writes, ‘The Sultan then went on a boat to see the site. Enjoying and hunting on the way, he reached the place and liked the elevation of the area for purpose of habitation … the Sultan said : ‘the name of this city be Agra’.
Identify the Sultan :
(1) Alauddin Khalji
(2) Firoz Shah Tughlaq
(3) Bahlol Lodhi
(4) Sikandar Lodhi
25. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below :
(a) Silahdarü (i) A salaried officer
(b) Wajhdarü (ii) foot man
(c) Waqf (iii) an armed man
(d) Paik (iv) endowment
(3) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(4) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
26. The first textile mill was started in Bombay in the year--
(A) 1853
(B) 1855
(D) 1879
Ans : (A)
27. Abhinava Bharat organised in 1904 was--
(A) a secret society of revolu-tionary activists
(B) a newspaper advocating revolutionary activities
(C) a cultural organisation
(D) a trade union movement
28. A newspaper Al Hilal was brought out in 1912 by--
(A) Dr. M.A. Ansari
(B) Hakim Ajmal Khan
(C) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(D) Maulana Muhammad Ali
Ans : (C)
29. Who among the following leaders of the Revolt of 1857 declared himself to be the Governor of Bahadur Shah ?
(A) Nana Sahib
(B) Tantia Tope
(C) Kunwar Singh
(D) Khan Bahadur Khan of Bareilly
Answer : Khan Bahadur Khan of Bareilly
30. The first Indian Factories’ Act was passed in--
Answer: 1881
31. Which of the following was not a consequence of the British Land Revenue Policy in India ?
(A) Increasing impoverishment of the peasants
(B) Growing peasant indebted-ness
(C) The spread of landlordism
(D) The ruin of artisan industries
Answer: The ruin of artisan industries
32. The Archaeological Survey of India was set up during the Vice-royalty of--
(A) Lord Lytton
(B) Lord Ripon
(C) Lord Dufferin
(D) Lord Curzon
Ans : (D)
33. When was Kalhana's impressive history of Kashmir, the Rajatarangini written?
(a). Tenth Century
(b). Eleventh Century
(c). Twelfth Century
(d). Thirteenth Century
Answer: Twelfth Century
34. The Prime Minister of India is:
(a) Elected
(b) Nominated
(c). Appointed
(d) Selected
Answer: Appointed
35. The South Indian Liberal Federation later on came to be known as-
(a). National Party
(b) Justice Party
(c). Communist Party
(d). Socialist Party
Answer: Justice Party
36. Who is the founder of the Bijapur Kingdom?
(a). Quli Qutb Shah
(b). Yusuf Adil shah
(c). Fatullah Khan Imad-ul-Mulk
(d). Ali Barid
Answer: Yusuf Adil shah
37. Which battle established the supremacy of British over French in India?
(a). Battle of Plassey
(b). Battle of Vandavasi
(c).Battle of Buxar
(d).Battle of Tiruchirappalli
Answer: Battle of Vandavasi
38. Who is the Father of Local-Self Government in lndia?
(a). Lord Mayo
(b). Lord Elgin
(c).Lord Lytton
(d). Lord Ripon
Answer: Lord Ripon
39. Balwantra Mehta Committee was appointed by the Government of India on:
(a) January 1955
(b) January 1956
(c). January 1957
(d). January 1958
Answer: January 1957
40. Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 was described as the first war of Indian Independence by whom?
(a). R.C. Majumdar
(b).P.E. Roberts
(c).Tara chand
(d). V.D. Savarkar
Answer: V.D. Savarkar
41. Kurukshetra battle was fought between
(a). Kauravas and Pandiyas
(b). Kauravas and Cholas
(c). Pandiyas and Mughals
(d). Cheras and Cholans
Answer: Kauravas and Pandiyas
42. The other name of Buddha is
(a). Gautama
(b). Siddhartha
(c). Vardhamana
(d). Ramala
Answer: Siddhartha
43. Who was called as Kaviraja?
(a). Kumaragupta -I
(b). Samudragupta
(c). Chandragupta- I
(d). Chandragupta Vikramaditya
Answer: Samudragupta
1. In which year Goa was integrated with the Indian Union?
(a). 1960
(b). 1962
(c). 1963
(d). 1961
44. The Indus Valley people venerated the
(a). cow
(b). bull
(c). hen
(d). goat
Answer: bull
45. The Rig Veda contains
(a). history of the Vedic period
(b). hymns in honour of the gods
(c), rituals to be adopted by people
(d), yagnas to be performed.
Answer: hymns in honour of the gods
46. The local name by which Mohenjodaro is identified with
(a). mound of the dead
(b). mound of the great
(c). mound of the living
(d). mound of the survivor.
Answer: mound of the dead
47. Nehru was a believer in
(a). Science and Technology.
(b). God
(c). Superstition
(d). Miracles
Answer: Science and Technology.
48. "Bandit Queen" was a __________ film
(a). hindi
(b). tamil
(c). bengali
(d). marathi
Answer: hindi
49. Match List I with List II correctly and select your answer using the codes given below List I :
(A). The Statesman
(B). Times of India
(C). The Pioneer
(D). Indian Herald
List II
1. Lucknow
2. Mumbai
3. Kolkata
4. Allahabad.
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(a). 3 2 1 4
(b). 2 1 4 3
(c). 2 4 1 3
(d). 4 3 2 1
Answer: 3 2 1 4
50. When did India give asylum to the Dalai Lama ?
51. Jamnadas Dwarakadas started
(a). Young India
(b). Indian Mirror
(c). Indian Spectator
(d). The Tribune.
Answer: Young India
52. Where was the first nuclear power station set up in India ?
(a). Kalpakkam
(b) Kota
(c). Narora
(d). Tarapur.
Answer: Tarapur
53. When was the Fax Bill introduced ?
54. Which party boycotted elections to provincial legislatures during the period 1920 - 21?
(a). Swarajist
(b). Muslim League
(c). Congress
(d). None of the above.
Answer: Congress
55. Who acts as the guardian of the Indian Constitution?
(a). Supreme Court
(b). President
(c). Election Commission
(d). Prime Minister
Answer: Supreme Court
56. Ryotwari system related to
(a). Trade
(b). Commerce
(c). Land revenue
(d). Income Tax.
Answer: Land revenue
57. What is the uniqueness to Harappan Civilization in comparison to Egyptian and Mesopotamian Civilizations is
(a) drainage system
(b). temples
(c). rectangular town planning
(d). pictographic script.
Answer: rectangular town planning
58. The salient feature of the Rig Vedic religion was(a). worship of the Trimurties
(b). worship of nature
(c). worship of the Mother Goddess
(d). worship of Pashupati.
Answer: worship of nature
59. A bearded head, a piece of art in stone, was found at
(a). Harappa
(b). Mohenjodaro
(c). Lothal
(d). Kalibangan.
Answer: Mohenjodaro
60. The teachings of Jainism are the work of
(a). twelve Tirthankaras
(b). Mahavira
(c). twenty-four Tirthankaras
(d). three Tirthankaras.
Answer: twenty-four Tirthankaras
61. Buddha's preachings were mainly focussed on
(a). practice of rituals
(b). belief in one God
(c). purity of thought and conduct
(d) idol worship.
Answer: purity of thought and conduct
62. The Municipal Administration of Pataliputra is mentioned by
(a). Megasthanes
(b). Bana
(c). Charaka
(d). Gramani.
Answer: Megasthanes
63. "Right to Property" was omitted from Part III of Indian Constitution by____________
(a). 44th Amendment Act, 1978
(b). 42nd Amendment Act,1976
(c). 43rd Amendment Act, 1977
(d). 41st Amendment Act, 1976
Answer: Option-A
64. Which one of the following statement is false about the Government of India Act of 1935 ?
(a). Establishment of a Federal Government
(b). Provincial autonomy
(c). Establishment of a Federal Court
(d). Appointment of a High Commissioner of India at London
Answer: Option-D
65. Who established the paper/journal named Indian Mirror in 1862 ?
(a). Sisirkumar Ghosh
(b). Devendranatha Tagore
(c). Raveendranatha Tagore
(d). Bankim Chandra Chattergee
Answer: Option-B
66. At a meeting of the Muslim League in Delhi in 1929 who announced the 14 points rejecting Nehru Report ?
(a). Muhammed Ali Jinnah
(b). Moulana Shoukath Ali
(c). Salimulla Khan
(d). Agha Khan
67. Who wrote Darsanamala ?
(a). Alathur Sivayogi
(b). Sree Narayana Guru
(c). Swami Dayananda Saraswathi
(d). Swami Vivekanandan
68. The Illbert Bill Controversy in British India was during the Viceroyalty of
(a). Lord Lytton
(b). Lord Rippon
(c). Lord Dufferin
(d). Lord Canning
69. Which Sultan replaced the system of measurement of land by crop sharing in the Khalisa areas ?
(A) Balban
(B) Ala-ud-din Khalji
(C) Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq
(D) Muhammad Tughlaq
70. Who among the following Vijay-anagara rulers bore the title of Gajabentakara ?
(A) Krishna Deva Raya
(B) Deva Raya II
(C) Deva Raya I
(D) Rama Raya
Ans : (B)
71. Which Vijayanagara ruler sent an embassy to China ?
(A) Harihara I
(B) Krishna Deva Raya
(C) Bukka I
(D) Saluva Narasimha
72. The Sultan Ghari was built as the mausoleum of--
(A) Qutab-ud-din Aibak
(B) Rukh-ud-din Firoj
(C) Nasir-ud-din Mahmud
(D) Kaikubad
73. The largest administrative divi-sion in Vijayanagara was--
(A) Kottam
(B) Rajyam
(C) Kurram
(D) Nadu
74. Pushti Marg was founded by--
(A) Chaitanya
(B) Vallabhacharya
(C) Ramananda
(D) Nimbarka
75. Which of the following rulers of Bikaner was deposed by Jahan-gir ?
(A) Raja Rai Singh
(B) Raja Sur Singh
(C) Raja Dalpat Singh
(D) Raja Karan Singh
76. Who is the author of Safinat-ul-Aulia ?
(A) Shaikh Ahmad Sarhindi
(B) Mohsin Fani
(C) Dara Shukoh
(D) Jahandar Shah
77. Who made the Madad-i-maash grants completely hereditary ?
(A) Akbar
(B) Shahjahan
(C) Aurangzeb
(D) Bahadur Shah
78. The Ibadatkhana was closed in the year--
79. Who among the following Mughal Emperors made serious attempt to annex Trans-Oxiana ?
(A) Humayun
(B) Akbar
(C) Jahangir
(D) Shahjahan
80. Cultivation of tobacco was intro-duced in India during the reign of--
(B) Jahangir
(C) Shahjahan
(D) Aurangzeb
81. In 1585 Akbar shifted his capital to--
(A) Kabul
(B) Lahore
(C) Fatehpur Sikri
(D) Multan
82. Nasaq during the Mughal Period was--
(A) A system of land revenue assessment
(B) A unit of measurement of land
(C) A Zamindari territory
(D) Revenue free land grant
83. Which of the following mosques is entirely made of marble ?
(A) Jama Masjid at Sikri
(B) Moti Masjid in the Agra Fort
(C) Qila-i-Kuhna Masjid in the Purana Qila of Delhi
(D) Jama Masjid of Delhi
84. Who among the following is the first comprehensive historian of the Marathas ?
(A) M.G. Ranade
(B) G.S. Sardesai
(C) James Cuningham Grant Duff
(D) C.A. Kincaid
85. Who among the following rulers patronized musician Lal Khan Gun Samudra ?
(A) Hussain Shah Sharqi
(B) Islam Shah Sur
(C) Ibrahim Adil Shah II
86. Dastan-i-Amir-i-Hamza was illu-strated during the reign of--
87. The English East India Company obtained the lease of Madras in--
88. Who among the following was imprisoned by the Mughal Emp-eror Jahangir ?
(A) Gosain Jadrup
(B) Miyan Mir
(C) Guru Ramdas
(D) Shaikh Ahmad Sarhindi
89. In 1739 the Portuguese lost their possessions of Salsette and Bas-sein to--
(A) The Dutch
(B) The English
(C) The Mughals
(D) The Marathas
90. Lohgarh Fort was built by--
(A) Guru Hargovind
(B) Guru Teg Bahadur
(C) Guru Govind Singh
(D) Banda Bahadur
91. In 1585-86 the only Rajput who held the mansab of 5000 was--
(A) Raja Bhagwant Das
(B) Raja Raisingh of Bikaner
(C) Raja Man Singh
(D) Rai Surjan Hada
92. Who introduced the Mughal land revenue system in the Deccan ?
(A) Mahabat Khan
(B) Mirza Raja Jaisingh
(C) Diler Khan
(D) Murshid Kuli Khan
93. Which one of the following acco-rding to Bernier was the owner of land in India ?
(A) The Zamindar
(B) The King
(C) The Khud Kashta
(D) The Village Community
94. Haidar Ali established his autho-rity over the State of Mysore in--
95. In 1751 the Nawab of Bengal ceded Orissa to--
(A) The English East India Company
(B) The Nawab of Avadh
(C) The Marathas
(D) The Afghans
96. Which Peshwa started a long campaign against the sidis of Janjira ?
(A) Balaji Vishwanath
(B) Baji Rao I
(C) Balaji Baji Rao
(D) Madhav Rao
97. Who was the founder of the Widow Remarriage Association in the 19th century ?
(A) Raja Rammohan Roy
(B) Vishnu Shastri Pandit
(C) Ramabai
(D) Gopal Hari Deshmukh
98. Shahu was granted the Chauth and Sardeshmukhi of the Deccan during the reign of--
(A) Bahadur Shah
(B) Jahandar Shah
(C) Farrukh Siyar
(D) Muhammad Shah
99. Farrukh Siyar was deposed and killed by--
(A) Zulfiqar Khan
(C) The Sayyed Brothers
(D) Saadat Khan
100. The founder of the autonomous kingdom of Avadh was--
(A) Saadat Khan Burhan-ul-Mulk
(B) Safdar Jang
(C) Murshid Kuli Khan
(D) Hussain Kuli Khan
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Japanese games market grew by 1.2% in FY’12, says new report
The Japanese games market grew by 1.2% during financial year 2012. That’s the claim of a new report based on figures released by score-keepers Enterbrain. It is the market’s first growth in five years.
Enterbrain headlines
Nintendo 3DS lifetime sales in Japan surpass 10 million units
Enterbrain has announced via its latest issue of Famitsu, that Nintendo 3DS sold 10,068,192 units in Japan as of January 6, 2013. The handheld has been available in the region for 98 weeks, and is the top-seller on the Media Create and Enterbrain hardware charts every week. You can look over the handheld’s sales progress […]
Japanese game industry sales up year-over-year thanks to Pokemon, 3DS
The Japanese games market grew for the first time in two years during the first half of 2012, thanks to 3DS, according to figures released by Enterbrain and Famitsu.
Namco Bandai held the largest market share in Japan during March
Enterbrain has released its monthly sales report and for the second month in a row, Namco Bandai held the largest software market share in Japan for the February 27 through March 25 period with 26.8%.
Report - Japanese games market dropped 8% in 2011
Enterbrain’s 2011 report shows the Japanese domestic market generating revenues of ¥454,380 million over 12 months, a marked decline on 2010, with Mario Kart 7 the year’s best-selling release.
Enterbrain: 3DS hits 4.1 million units sold in Japan
Nintendo has sold over 4 million units in Japan, nearly a year after the handheld first launched in the country, Famitsu publisher Enterbrain announced over the Christmas break.
Namco tops Japanese publisher list for first half of fiscal 2012
Famitsu has reported publisher sales data for the first half of the 2012 fiscal year, and for the period of March 28 through September 25, 2011, Namco Bandai ousted former number one Nintendo as the top publisher in Japan. T
Enterbrain: 3DS hits 1 million sold in Japan
Famitsu publisher Enterbrain’s reporting this morning that 3DS has finally hit 1 million units sold in Japan, nearly four months after it first released in the country.
Enterbrain expects 3DS to be Japan's 2011 top seller despite slow start
Enterbrain has released its annual industry report for Japan, and the analyst firm expects 3DS to be a top seller in the country this year despite its slow start at retail.
Japan quake cost games trade $89m, says Enterbrain
Following a number of projects being delayed or cancelled in the aftermath of the recent Japanese earthquake, Enterbrain’s CEO Hirokazu Hamamura has estimated that financial cost to the country’s videogame industry is in the region of $89 million.
Enterbrain: Japanese games market shrunk 9% in 2010; Nintendo dominates the year
Enterbrain has released its yearly sales report for the Japanese videogame market, and it finds the industry as a whole down 9 percent in 2010 year-over-year.
PS3 sales pass 5 million units LtD in Japan, says Famitsu
Enterbrain, the parent company of Famitsu, has revealed that PlayStation 3 has sold 5 million units Lifetime-to-Date in Japan.
10 million Wiis sold in Japan
Enterbrain said today that Nintendo’s hit the 10 million unit milestone for Wii in Japan.
Report - Global game unit sales declined by 8% in 2009
GfK-ChartTrack has released a report on the state of global gaming in 2009, and found that unit sales declined by 8 percent worldwide, totaling 379.3 million units.
First day Japanese PSPgo sales come in at 28k
According to Famitsu, the PSPgo has sold over 28k since it on sale yesterday in Japan. The exact figures were 28,275 units.Sunday was the last day in Famitsu’s parent company Enterbrain weekly tracking period, although as the site points, the DSi and PSP-3000 both launched in a two day period, and sold extremely well at […]
Enterbrain - FFXIII will sell over 500,000 PS3s in Japan in December
Enterbrain boss Hamamura Hirokazu has told the Japanese press that he expects December’s release of FFXIII to result in the sale of 500,000 PS3 consoles in Japan.That’s serious shit, Ringo.Hirokazu added that the recently announced PS3 price cut will also be a driving factor for sales figures that month.If achieved, the figure would represent a […]
PS3 beat Wii in Japan last month
Enterbrain’s confirmed that PS3 outsold Wii in Japan in March, the first time the Sony machine’s been ahead of the Nintendo console for 16 months.PS3 sold 146,948 units in the five weeks up to March 29, compared with 99,335 units the Wii and 43,172 units of Xbox 360.Yakuza 3‘s been pegged as the reason for […]
Global games industry sees 11% increase in 2008, Britain biggest winner
The games industry in the world’s top three markets saw an overall 11 percent rise in sales last year, according to a joint report from NPD, GfK Chart-Track and Enterbrain.A brain-melting 409.9 million units were sold in the UK, US and Japan in the 12 months to January, compared to 367.7 million units in the […]
Mario Kart Wii is 2008's biggest selling game on global level
A joint report from NPD, GfK Chart-Track and Enterbrain has just claimed that Mario Kart Wii was 2008’s biggest selling game across the US, the UK and Japan.The Wii racer sold 8.94 million units last year, beating off Wii Fit with 8.31 million sales and an eye-watering effort from GTA IV. The Rockstar smash moved […]
DSi breaks 500,000 in Japan
DSi sold 535,379 units in its first month on sale in Japan, according to Enterbrain figures, only slightly less than DS’s 550,000 in its first four weeks.DSi’s impressive launched has pushed the DS platform’s total sales to 24,239,590 units — a figure which includes DS, DS Lite and DSi.Thanks, Kotaku.
Enterbrain latest
Report – Japanese games market dropped 8% in 2011
Enterbrain expects 3DS to be Japan’s 2011 top seller despite slow start
Report – Global game unit sales declined by 8% in 2009
Enterbrain – FFXIII will sell over 500,000 PS3s in Japan in December
Mario Kart Wii is 2008’s biggest selling game on global level
Wii hits 7 million in Japan
Xbox 360 outsold PS3 in September in Japan
Enterbrain publishes first-half sales figures for Japan
PSP lords over Japanese hardware sales for July
Famitsu boss: PS3’s Japanese problems are being resolved
PSP leads six monthly hardware figures in Japan
Wii sold 235k in Japan last month
Enterbrain: Bloomberg got it wrong on new DS at E3
Enterbrain: Traditional Japanese games market will peak this year, but online with continue to grow
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EverQuest Next Landmark added to SOE All-Access program
EverQuest Next Landmark will be included in Sony Online Entertainment’s All-Access program, but it won’t be added until after the program’s release on April 16.
EQ2 headlines
EverQuest and EverQuest 2 players have plenty of new content headed their way
EverQuest and EverQuest 2 players have a quite a bit to look forward to starting today with EQ’s Call of the Forsaken: Hate Rising update.
EverQuest and EverQuest 2 expansions to release in November
The latest EverQuest and EverQuest 2 expansions have been dated by SOE. EverQuest’s Rain of Fear, the 19th expansion to the MMO, will launch on November 28. EverQuest II’s 9th expansion, Chains of Eternity, will launch on November 13. You can find out more information on each expansion through the links. Thanks, TenTonHammer.
EverQuest 2's ninth expansion Chains of Eternity will release in November
EverQuest 2’s ninth expansion Chains of Eternity will release in November. SOE posted the news via a producer’s letter on the forums. The expansion takes place in EQII’s version of the afterlife, Norrath: Ethernere. Adventuring and tradeskill will level cap at 95, new quests and prestige abilities are in the cards, and another event SOE […]
EverQuest II going free-to-play in December
SOE has announced EverQuest II, which launched in 2004, will be going free-to-play starting early next month.
Tuesday Shorts: Tanks, To the Moon, Tales, Ni no Kunu, EQII
Tanks, elves, tales, magic books, and a dream of flying to the moon. It’s all posted in short form below. Plenty to smile about, really.
Wednesday Shorts: Ghost Warrior, teleporting snipers, Sherlock, Ocarina 3D, SNES on the go
Tiny nibbles, and bite-sized chunks of content after the break for your Wednesday.
Everquest II: Destiny of Velious screenshots are very cool
The latest Everquest II expansion draws closer, and Sony Entertainment Online is ramping up the hype machine. Come through for another set of chilly screens from the frozen tundra.
SOE considering a "Cataclysm " of its own for EverQuest II
John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment, has said the developers of EverQuest II have been considering a a game-wide reset for the game for quite some time now.
SOE reveals working MMO title EverQuest Next at Fan Faire
SOE has announced details – although scant – on its new MMO in development at its annual Fan Faire event in Las Vegas.
Weekly MMO news round-up: Formula One MMO, SWTOR dev diary, loads of WoW stuff
E3 is almost upon us so there is bound to be some new MMO announced or a bit of decent enough MMO news coming out of the event by this time next week, so expect this post to either be thicker – or thinner. Depends on how huge the news was to begin with when […]
EQ2 latest
EverQuest 2’s ninth expansion Chains of Eternity will release in November
SOE considering a “Cataclysm ” of its own for EverQuest II
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Saanich police briefs
Drug house busted; stolen laptop recovered fast; double robbery for party store
Kyle Slavin
Vigilant neighbours tip police to drug house
A 38-year-old Saanich man faces drug trafficking charges after a “significant” surveillance operation at a Saanich home last week.
The investigation stemmed from numerous complaints received from neighbours in the 100-block of Lurline Ave. who believed there was a possible drug house on their street.
On July 12, Saanich police street crimes unit officers noted heavy foot and vehicle traffic coming to and from the residence.
While surveilling the property, they observed a drug deal, and arrested both the trafficker and purchaser. A small amount of cocaine was the item of purchase.
A search warrant was executed on the home early July 13, and a small amount of cocaine and heroin were found inside.
“Despite the fact this might not be a kingpin trafficker, you can see the disruption this has on a neighbourhood,” said Sgt. Dean Jantzen.
He said there are telltale signs there may be a drug house in your neighbourhood, such as people coming and going all hours of the day and night.
Charges of trafficking and possession for the purposes of trafficking have been forwarded against the Saanich man. No charges have been forwarded against the purchaser.
Police return stolen laptop before owner realizes it was missing
A report of a man shaking on the ground ended up turning into the successful return of an expensive stolen laptop last week.
Saanich police were called to the corner of Agnes and Raymond streets around 7 a.m. on July 12 by a witness who reported seeing the man on the ground.
Police arrived to find the man waking up. They suspected he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Officers spotted a MacBook Pro stuffed inside the man’s open backpack.
They queried the man, who claimed he purchased the laptop for $75, but upon further questioning, officers determined he was lying.
An officer switched on the computer and found a document on the desktop, which included the address of the business.
Police brought the computer to the nearby business, based out of a Saanich home, and returned the laptop to its rightful owner. The owner said he hadn’t even realized his home-based business had been broken into overnight.
The suspect, a 30-year-old man with no fixed address, faces one count of break and enter.
Party supply store targeted by thief twice in two weeks
A party pooper has twice broken in to a party supply store in the 3900-block of Quadra St. over two consecutive weekends, stealing money from the cash register in both instances.
Saanich police believe the store was easily entered as there is a gap between the door and the door jam, allowing for a pry bar-type tool to force the door open.
It is believed both incidents happened in the overnight hours between July 7 and 8, and July 14 and 15. Roughly $200 in cash was taken in both break-ins.
“It is a good reminder for local business owners, and homeowners, to review your security procedures,” said Sgt. Dean Jantzen.
Police are asking anyone with information on either of these break-ins to contact them at 250-475-4321.
kslavin@saanichnews.com
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CEO Patrick Byrne goes public with claim about Barack Obama and the 2016 and 2020 elections
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by WorldTribune Staff, December 25, 2020 In a flurry of interviews, including a podcast with Tracy Beanz, former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne has described a stormy Dec. 18 meeting at the White House with “advisors and lawyers” who he said wanted the president to concede and were hostile to both him and attorney Sidney Powell. […]
Obama blames alternative media for misleading heartland Americans
By World Tribune on November 23, 2020 Americas, Exclusives, Rest of The Best, Stateside, Top Stories, U.S., U.S. Media, World Links, World Tribune
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, November 23, 2020 To all the deplorables out there, this message from your “rightful ruler” comes in the form of an interview with The Atlantic: Because of you and the “right-wing media” which leads you astray, I “fear for our democracy.” The message was delivered from one of his pricey estates […]
Trump: Enough evidence to indict Obama officials, including Obama and Biden
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by WorldTribune Staff, October 9, 2020 Attorney General William Barr has enough evidence to indict Obama administration officials, including Barack Obama and Joe Biden, for spying on the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, President Donald Trump indicated. The Department of Justice has “plenty” of evidence to go after Obama officials, Trump said on Thursday during an […]
Tucker Carlson blasts Obama’s ‘divisive’ eulogy of Rep. Lewis
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by WorldTribune Staff, July 31, 2020 President Obama’s eulogy of Democrat Rep. John Lewis on Thursday was nothing more than a “divisive and dishonest campaign speech,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson said. In the eulogy, Obama called for an end to the filibuster so Democrats could enact changes to the nation’s election laws. Obama referred […]
Notes reveal President Obama coordinated DOJ-FBI investigation of Michael Flynn
By World Tribune on June 25, 2020 Exclusives, Recent Hits, Top Stories, Top Story, U.S., Washington, World Links, World Tribune
by WorldTribune Staff, June 25, 2020 The handwritten notes of disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok indicate that President Barack Obama was directly involved at the outset in the investigation targeting Michael Flynn. Strzok’s notes, first disclosed in a federal court filing made by the DOJ on Tuesday, show Obama instructed then-FBI Director James Comey […]
Obama refers to Black Lives Matter-fueled unrest as ‘great awakening’
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by WorldTribune Staff, June 24, 2020 The Black Lives Matter movement, Antifa and other assorted anarchists and leftists fueling the ongoing unrest around the country are apparently taking part in a “Great Awakening,” according to former President Barack Obama. In remarks during a virtual fundraiser for Joe Biden on Tuesday, Obama said: “And the good […]
Susan Rice’s ‘CYA’ memo instead documented ‘Obamagate’ as not a conspiracy theory
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Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, May 22, 2020 Fifteen minutes after President Donald Trump was sworn in on Jan. 20, 2017, outgoing Obama national security adviser Susan Rice penned the Cover Your Ass (CYA) memo to herself which essentially documented the scandal Trump refers to as “Obamagate,” analysts say. The now declassified memo details a Jan. […]
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Former WWE Superstar Shad Gaspard Confirmed Dead Aged 39
Posted By: Ben Kerin on May 20, 2020
Former WWE Superstar Shad Gaspard has officially been declared dead at the age of 39 on May 20th, 2020 after disappearing while swimming at the Marina Del Rey beach on Sunday.
His death was officially confirmed by the Los Angeles County Fire Department, Lifeguard Division after finding and identifying his body in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Officers responded to a call from a member of the public and recovered the body near Venice Pier around 1 AM.
In a press conference, officials told the media that the body found was that of a 6'6" black male over 240 lbs.
In the final moments of his life, Shad told lifeguards to focus on saving his 10-year-old who they got to shore safely along with a group of other swimmers, but sadly Shad succumbed to the forces of the sea.
UPDATE: officials confirm description of pro wrestler Shad Gaspard matches that of the body discovered after washing up on shore in Venice Beach. @FOXLA @GDLA @LACoLifeguards 💔 pic.twitter.com/1EGKkglcNf
— Mario Ramirez (@MarioFOXLA) May 20, 2020
WrestlingNewsSource.com sends out our deepest and heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Shad Gaspard. R.I.P x
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AG Yost works to stop FirstEnergy from ‘$102 million cash grab’
by: WDTN.com Staff
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WDTN) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is working to stop FirstEnergy from collecting $102 million in what he said are ill-gotten profits contained in House Bill 6 that will soon be paid by FirstEnergy customers.
A motion was filed in Franklin County Common Pleas Court asking the court to prevent FirstEnergy from implementing the rate increases levied against its customers contained in HB6.
AG Yost files second suit to stop HB6 collection of $150M from Ohioans
“First we had to stop the collection of the fee created to line the pockets of Energy Harbor and now we are trying to stop the guaranteed profits for FirstEnergy and inappropriate rate increases to Ohioans,” Yost said. “It’s time for the court to shut the HB6 piggybank down.”
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Yost said within HB6 was a decoupling mechanism that only applied to FirstEnergy, which allowed the company to match its record-high income level from 2018 every year going forward regardless of how much electricity it sold anytime in the next decade. This guarantees FirstEnergy will receive its high-water-mark profits regardless of service levels, providing no accountability and abusing the concept of decoupling.
According to Yost, the injunction filed is necessary to protect FirstEnergy customers and to undue the harm that was corruptly put into HB6. The latest injunction motion is based on the same legal theory as the one obtained against the nuclear bailout and is expected to succeed for the same reasons.
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New product catalogue for passive components
Würth Elektronik eiSos has now published the new 2014/2015 catalogue for passive components, presenting numerous new products and extensions:
The highlight is the world's smallest power inductor made of a magnetic iron alloy. The footprint of the WE-MAPI is 1.6 x 1.6 mm with a package height of just one millimeter. With rated currents of up to 1.9 A, the magnetically shielded power induc-tor allows a high current capability and high saturation currents of up to 4.9 A while boasting a minimal space requirement and a low leakage flux noise. Other WE-MAPI sizes are available to meet the growing demand for high speed and compact DC/DC converters with high powers and high efficiency: 2506, 2508, 2510, 3010, 3012 and 3015.
The Wireless Power Charging Coils ( WE-WPCC) product family has been expanded by three further receiver coils, which, in contrast to the previous coils, are manufactured from flexible ferrite foils. Thanks to this innovative construction, the thickness of the coils is reduced by 50%, making these receiver coils among the thinnest on the market. They comply with the Qi standard and have a very low DC and AC resistance to attain the maximum possible efficiency. Moreover, a design kit for wireless power applications has been developed in cooperation with Texas Instruments. The Qi-conform Plug&Play 5W solution is a complete development board for the swift and hassle-free integration of wireless power into the product design.
Common-mode chokes
Two new series of universally applicable common mode chokes for broadband filtering of power supply, data and signal lines are showcased: The WE-UCF series offers broadband inter¬ference suppression and is designed for high rated currents of up to 10 A. Mains filters with common mode chokes based on a nanocrystalline core suppress mains interference. The newly developed WE-CMBNC series of THT common mode chokes provide broadband suppression down to the low kHz range, a property that is particularly beneficial in applications with a high leakage current load – the value of Y-condensers, for example, can in many cases be reduced. Compared with conventional cores made of ferrite materials, nanocrystalline cores have a ten times higher permeability.
High-current inductors for DC/DC converters
High-current conductors require storage inductors with high rated and saturation currents for buck and boost topologies. The special feature of the new WE-HCF series 2818 package size is its 10% lower DC resistance. A special ferrite composite in the core material enables stable inductance behavior, mean-ing that the core reaches saturation later. Thanks to the 35% higher permeability, a hard saturation behaviour of the coil is achieved and the inductor remains stable over a broad range of its operating current. The saturation current of this package size is approximately 10% higher than that of other standard prod-ucts on the market.
Gate Drive transformers
To control secondary-side MOSFETs, synchronously rectified flyback converters require electrically isolated gate drive trans-formers. The construction of the new WE-GDTI series in an EP7 package offers basic insulation for operating voltage of 250 VRMS compliant with EN 61558-2-16. It allows a test voltage of 2500 VDC between the primary and secondary windings. The µVs product in this series is 70% higher than that in the previous WE-GDT series. The EP7 core acts as a screen against external magnetic fields, at the same time reducing its own magnetic field. These transformers are supplied with three windings and with up to five different winding ratios.
HF chokes
High-frequency applications require coils of a particularly high Q factor. The WE-CAIR series of SMD air coils This SMD air coil excels with its high self-resonant frequency and very high Q factor, enabling a 50% wider frequency range than previous RF coils. The rated current is three times higher. The WE-CAIR series is ideally suited for impedance matching and for use in analog front-ends of all types. The air coil has a very low tem-perature dependence, ensuring that the inductance remains stable over the entire operating range.
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WLAA Preview: Bloom Fest a fun way for downtown businesses to roll out the welcome mat
May 8, 2019, 2 years ago
The Main Street Area Association (MSAA) is taking a new tact this year to encourage visitors to enjoy the opening of flip-flop season downtown with its first annual Bloom Fest on Saturday, May 11, from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
“When you think of downtown Ann Arbor you think Spring and Summer and walking downtown with the patios setup and there’s music and there’s just so much activity going on,” says MSAA’s Executive Director Sandra Andrade. “So we sat down with the retailers and came up with this idea together.”
The annual downtown Ladies Night is being expanded to celebrate the season where all are welcome.
“Ladies night is an event we’ve been doing in the past, and this is an event in lieu of Ladies Night. The feeling is that Ann Arbor is a unique place and we want to be different and we are different,” said Andrade. “The thought was to have more of an inclusive event than ladies night that was for everybody to celebrate Spring.”
The idea to put on Bloom Fest blossomed with inspiration among participating shops and restaurants as well.
“It’s cool. All the retailers are doing different things. They came up with their own activities. For example, Fjällräven is doing wilderness workshops, and Abracadabra and Roeda Studio are doing flower making workshops with tissue paper. Bløm Meadworks on Fourth is having their one year anniversary and they’ll be having live music and art workshops,” Andrade said.
“So many restaurants are engaged in this, too I think because of the theme. Last year we had eight restaurants participating and this year we have 16. They’re excited to be celebrating their patios. They’re doing fun drinks: Sangria, Mimosas. . . Palio’s is doing a bunch of different bruschettas for $5, so people are just more engaged in this.”
For entertainment the association hired sidewalk performers
“The Huron Valley Harmonizers are an A Capella group who will be walking around the area and they’re fantastic,” Andrade says. “We’ll have musicians outside of Vault of Midnight playing on the sidewalk from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. To kick it off is an awesome surfer band, The Vicissitones. And Samantha West is amazing. And we’ll have musicians in front of Roada studio as well. So there’s pop-up music around town throughout the day.”
A lot of hard work and planning has gone into making Bloom Fest a fun way for downtown area businesses to roll out the welcome mat to those who love Ann Arbor.
“Downtown is just the place to be in Spring and Summer and it’s a celebration of that,” Andrade said.
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USPS sends vote-by-mail postcard to households
Election Day is Nov. 3
The mailing comes in the aftermath of questions about whether the agency was up to the task and questions from the White House about the validity of mail-in and absentee voting systems in various states. (Source: USPS)
By Ed Payne | September 14, 2020 at 4:29 PM CDT - Updated October 14 at 10:59 AM
(Gray News) – The U.S. Postal Service is out with voting advice seven weeks ahead of the Nov. 3 election. It’s advice that’s prompted a lawsuit in at least one state.
“If you plan to vote by mail, plan ahead,” says a postcard being sent to postal customers nationally.
The information on the card directs the public to the USPS election mail website.
The postcard starts with a pledge.
“If you vote by mail, we’re committed to providing you a secure, effective way to deliver your ballot,” it says.
The mailing gives potential voters a checklist for making sure their vote gets counted:
Give yourself and election officials plenty of time to complete the process ahead of Nov. 3.
Rules and dates
These vary by state so contact your local election board.
Request mail-in or absentee ballot
Do this at least 15 days before the election.
Follow instructions
Check all the boxes. Sign where required. Add all necessary postage.
Get ballot in the mail
The USPS recommends you mail your ballot at least seven days before election day.
The postcard ends with a promise that leaves the final responsibility with the voter.
“We’re ready to deliver for you. Make sure you’re ready, too.”
The mailing comes in the aftermath of questions about whether the agency was up to the task and questions from the White House about the validity of mail-in and absentee voting systems in various states.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testified before both House and Senate committees last month on his management of the agency and changes his critics say will slow mail delivery.
In Colorado, delivery of the flyers has been halted.
A federal judge agreed with Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold that the postcards contain confusing information about the state’s mail-in voting system.
Mail-in ballots don’t have to be requested in the state. They’re automatically mailed to voters.
Coloradans also can choose to vote in person or drop their ballots in secure drop-boxes.
The Postal Service has asked the judge to reconsider his temporary restraining order stopping the mailings.
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GW Tumbled Off the Princeton Review’s Most Politically Active List, and AU Students Are Loving It
Also: The memes are intense.
Written by Brittany Shepherd
| Published on August 8, 2018
Photograph via iStock.
George Washington University lost some of its bragging rights Tuesday when it not only lost its place on the Princeton Review’s highly anticipated “Most Politically Active Students,” a ranking that school touted proudly for four years, but also fell off the list completely.
And the school atop that list now? Ugh, American University.
The Tenleytown titan, which clocked in at No. 4 last year, tops this year’s list, followed by Pitzer College in California and Reed College in Oregon. AU also clinched a spot on four other lists, including high marks on “Most Active Student Government,” “Nobody Plays Intramural Sports,” “Financial Aid Not So Great,” and “College City Gets High Marks.”
I’m not sure how much I’d personally brag about those poor financial aid numbers (and, full disclosure, I am a GWU grad) but still, by many accounts, AU stole the show. George Washington, which dropped from 1 to 10 on last year’s list, did not place in any of Princeton Review’s 62 other Top 20 rankings.
That’s despite the fact that, according to representatives from the Princeton Review, the methodology for these lists is not that deep. In fact, the Princeton Review compiles its lists from a survey sent off to university students across the country. For the Politically Active list, students were asked to respond: “My level of political awareness is: Very High, High, Average, Low, or Very Low.”
David Soto, co-author of the Best Colleges book which houses the ranking lists, tells Washingtonian the data is compiled from a three-year queue in order to avoid survey fatigue. In 2018, 138,000 students from 384 schools offered their thoughts and feelings on everything from quality of life on campus to accessibility of faculty.
Both universities have been posturing for the top spot on the Politically Active list since 1994. Georgetown University reached No. 3 in 2014, but has never dethroned AU or GWU.
Looking ahead, how could GW students regain a spot in upcoming years?
Mike Smith, a spokesperson for the Princeton Review, encourages individuals to “vote early and vote often when the Princeton Review college survey comes to your campus!” Smith called the ongoing rivalry between both organizations an exercise in good, clean, civic fun. “We see our wonderful GW and AU students are being true to their schools on social and battling for top honors on their respective lists,” Smith adds. “Both are amazing institutions for public policy and students are politically astute and involved.”
The deep-rooted rivalry between both schools, amplified by both universities’ infrequent athletic achievements, continues elsewhere online. This year’s Politically Active list marks the first time in a decade the Foggy Bottom university didn’t appear on the list at all, and students have begun to react on GW’s ever-popular meme page on Facebook.
“This is so sad Alexa play the fight song,” Erica Eckes, a recent GW graduate and co-admin of the popular private page posted to the group’s feed.
Responses from the community varied from general disappointment, anger, and levity.
“How do I mark myself safe in this disaster?” one user commented.
The GW meme page, originally known as “GW Memes for the Most Politically Active Teens,” has rebranded as the university’s ranking has wavered. Once the university dropped to the bottom of last year’s list, the group–now with 12,989 members–changed its name to “GW Memes for the 10th most politically active teens.” And with this last kick to the stomach, group admins have adopted a new moniker: “GW Memes for Thomas J. LeBlanc’s STEM-Oriented Radical Centrist Teens.” Thomas J. LeBlanc is the president of George Washington University.
The similarly private page for AU people is now called “AU Memes for the Most Politically Active Teens”—a painful reminder of GW’s Caesar-like fall. To add insult to injury, the Tenleytown university page’s cover image is a riff on the controversial Pepe meme:
Several of the group’s 5000 or so members took to celebrating.
But Eckes doesn’t feel threatened by rivaling community’s move. She suggested that many of her former classmates agree, offering that “99% of GW doesn’t really care about AU.”
“If they’re such a politically active school they’d know that the ADL added the Pepe meme to their hate symbols list in 2016,” she tells Washingtonian. “At the end of the day we are a more credible school that’s not all the way in Tenleytown.”
Administrators from AU’s respective meme page argues that they’re exceptionally inclusive. “We accept everyone to the meme page. Even former GWU students ;)” Aleisha Bynum, who changed the group’s name, offered in response. She stresses that the feud, in her eyes, is all in jest.
“I always saw it as more of a lighthearted feud, simply because everyone likes to say that their school is the best,” says Bynum. “I mean, both schools are located in the nation’s capital. It’s kind of impossible to NOT be involved in politics.”
As far as the Pepe header is concerned, Bynum claims she “completely forgot that Pepe was declared as a hate symbol so it didn’t occur to me at all when I was making the new header image.” She adds that a mascot parody of the internet meme turned white supremacist icon existed in the community’s ether for some time, but is willing to swap out the photo.
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Brittany Shepherd covers the societal and cultural scene in political Washington. Before joining Washingtonian as a staff writer in 2018, Brittany was a White House Correspondent for Independent Journal Review. While she has lived in DC for a number of years now, she still yearns for the fresh Long Island bagels of home. Find her on Twitter, often prattling on about Frasier.
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National security reporter focusing on the State Department and diplomacy. Education: Michigan State University, B.A. in International Relations John Hudson is a national security reporter at the Washington Post covering the State Department and diplomacy. He previously covered foreign affairs for Foreign Policy magazine and BuzzFeed News, and has reported from several geopolitical hotspots, including Afghanistan, Ukraine, Pakistan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Colombia, China, and Georgia. In 2008, he covered the August war between Russia and Georgia from Tbilisi and the breakaway region of Abkhazia. Honors & Awards:
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Buying or selling a home? How long it takes to complete a house sale in Herts
How long it takes to complete a house sale in Hertfordshire
By Ann Yip ann_yip Audience and content editor / Follow me: facebook.com/annyipjournalist
How long it takes to buy or sell a home in Hertfordshire. Photo: PA
With stamp duty cuts fuelling a boom in the property market, buyers are rushing to complete on homes before the end of the March deadline.
But if you made an offer in the later half of this year, it is possible you may not have the keys to your new home until 2021.
Online estate agents Emoov have revealed the areas in the UK with the longest and shortest property transaction timelines.
Across the UK, the average transaction is taking a sluggish 26 weeks from offer to completion. Unfortunately, Hertfordshire is among the areas with the slowest moving housing markets - it is the eighth slowest county.
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House sales in the county take, on average, 193 days until completion. This means offers made today may not be complete until June next year.
The City of London is the worst place to try to sell or buy a home, with an average transaction time of 208 days.
And the quickest place for home sales is Worcestershire, with an average transaction time of 164 days.
The data is based on four years of property transaction data from TwentyCi’s Property Homemover Report between March 2016 and April 2020.
Naveen Jaspal, chief operating officer at Emoov comments on the research: “It is hard to say how the property market will react to the impact of Covid-19 in the medium-long term, but we can expect to see an even bigger increase in time on the market and how long that might be will depend upon where you are buying or selling in the UK.
“We can also expect the conveyancing process to add to these timelines, as the industry adjusts to working from home and the challenges that brings.
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"The key to a quick sale is to get your pricing correct along with great marketing photos. The best way to sell your home for the best price is to actually market your home for a competitive price within the current market, given the demand in your area. Overpriced homes will sit on the market, and may end up having to be discounted, and the longer you are on the market the less attractive you are to buyers.”
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No more coercion
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Haredi protest outside Intel plant
Thousands protest haredi violence in Jerusalem
Seculars, religious march in capital Saturday night to protest ultra-Orthodox coercion. 'We are facing danger that threatens not only Jerusalem, but Israeli society at large,' secular Jerusalem activist says
Ronen Medzini|Published: 11.28.09 , 21:09
Thousands of secular and religious Jerusalemites and out-of-towners rallied in the capital Saturday to protest ultra-Orthodox violence and coercion.
The protesters marched from Paris Square to Zion Square in the Jerusalem city'center under the banner: "Iran is here – we're sick of haredi violence."
Haredi rioters should be detained and indicted, Knesset Member Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) said during the protest.
"One time it's a parking lot, another time it's Intel, and in another case it's the Pride Parade," he said. "These are merely excuses for shows of force, violence, and coercion."
"I would love to raise my two small children in a city where they would have the legitimacy to do whatever their faith commands them," Yehonatan Alazar, a religious local, told Ynet.
"It's unheard of that a small group will dictate everyone's actions and cause them to leave town. What bothers me about the struggle against Intel is that (haredim) are forcing others to desecrate the Shabbat, just as they do themselves. Their interest is not the Shabbat, but rather, the power struggle in Jerusalem," he said.
'Iran is here! enough with haredi violence' (Photo: Gil Yohanan)
"We are facing a danger that threatens not only Jerusalem, but Israeli society at large. People gathered here from across the country because they realized this danger can reach them too, and they want to put an end to religious coercion," said Merav Cohen from the Awakening In Jerusalem movement.
"It's nice to see so many people care about this city and are willing to fight for Jerusalem's freedom," she added.
'Enough carrying haredim on our backs' (Photo: Gil Yohanan)
Avital Livni, which held a sign that read "Enough carrying haredim on our backs" said, "we live in a country where a whole sector of society refuses to serve in the military...extorts money from the government and doesn't pay their taxes.
"It doesn't make sense that Torah students receive tuition while med students have to pay for their studies, and then they have the nerve to force their rules upon the rest of the nation," she said.
"This protest proves that the battle for Jerusalem is not lost. Just like we were the victors in the battle to open the cinemas and Karta parking lot on Shabbat, we will win the Intel battle as well," said Jerusalem's deputy mayor Joseph "Pepe" Alalu.
"The residents of Jerusalem are not indifferent, and will not give up on a pluralistic city. It's time haredim understand that this city must provide the needs of the free people," he said.
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After careful thought and consideration, the History Center has decided to remain closed to the public through March 2021. We plan to reopen to the public on April 1, 2021.
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Are you as excited for this year’s York Halloween Parade as I am? The parade is a long-standing York tradition, going back at least 90 years. Here’s a pic of the York Manufacturing Company employee band, decked out as skeletons for the 1926 parade.
In honor of York City’s 275th anniversary, this year’s parade is themed Dreams for a Future York. Want to extend that theme into the rest of your Halloween weekend? The York County History Center has you covered! Check out the amazing art installation by local artist David Lynch at the Agricultural and Industrial Museum, themed We Can Build This City, which honor’s York’s past and envisions York’s future. Then, head over to the Historical Society Museum Library & Archives for a colorful, multilayered timeline-style exhibit highlighting key people, places and events in the city’s history, which is sure to fuel your dreams of York’s incredible future!
Although we’re getting ready to pilfer candy from our kids’ stash next weekend (and don’t tell me you aren’t!), it’s time to talk turkey. Turkey Trot, that is. Every year, the Friends of the York County History Center (formerly the Auxiliary) assemble bagged lunches, including a monster turkey sandwich, cranberry sauce, chips, apple, candy and a huge Brown’s Orchard sugar cookie. Yum! Best of all, this perfect antidote to your mid-week bagged-lunch blahs can be delivered right to your workplace. Sound tempting? Simply print out an order form, see if any of your coworkers might be interested too, and drop off your order and payment to the History Center by Tuesday, October 25th. Then, on Thursday, November 10th, the perfect lunch will show up at your doorstep! After all, while you’re busy planning your Thanksgiving Day feast, the last thing you need to worry about is packing a workday lunch!
Also, if you haven’t gotten tickets yet for this year’s Distinguished Speaker Series, now’s the time to get them before they’re all gone! Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winning author, editor, presidential historian, and political commentator, will share his insights on how our nation’s history informs our future on Thursday, November 3rd at 6:30 p.m. at Wyndham Garden York. Meacham’s talk will center on the theme American Then and Now: What History Tells Us About the Future. With his appearance occurring just before the election, we look forward to his observations on this year’s presidential race, as well as past elections. Proceeds from the Distinguished Speaker Series support Mr. Meacham’s session with local high school and college students earlier that day, and also help fund planning for our future History Center campus. In addition to getting to hear Mr. Meacham speak, you’ll also have the opportunity to meet him personally, and enjoy a great meal in the process. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear one of America’s most prominent public intellectuals speak right here in York, and support the future of the York County History Center!
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Why India’s Defence Budget Is Likely To Reach A New High This Financial Year
By shakeel ahmad in Business and Economy
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Without any doubt, it can be said that the defence services will expect a larger budget allocation in the upcoming budget on February 1, 2021. Defence budget is the amount of financial resources dedicated by the State to raise and maintain the armed forces an other forces essential for security purposes. It is rather meaningful to know there is nothing improper with it. Why should we remain uncertain about distinct aspects that a separate defence budget that is used to sustain?
As part of the Rs 3.37 lakh crore (excluding pension) allocated for defence for 2020-21, Rs 1.18 lakh crore was the capital outlay and Rs 2.18 lakh crore was the revenue head. Separately, Rs 1.33 lakh crore was allocated for pension. The capital outlay for the budget estimated for 2019-20 was Rs 1.08 lakh crore. If pension for defence personnel is added, then the budget outlay for the financial year 2020-21 stood at Rs 4.71 lakh crore.
Like the trend of increasing budgetary pattern of most other sectors, the current defence budget is also expected to reach possibly a very high level of around Rs 6 lakh crore for the financial year of 2021-22. A cut in the defence budget is unlikely as immediate priorities of the armed forces stand before the Union government.
Urgent procurements for the armed forces will have to be done which touches the figure of about $2 billion in the view of certain challenges. The Indo-China standoff in eastern Ladakh is one among India’s major concerns. It is also important to focus on the CDS planning of new commands. Side by side, the attempt to solidarity of the three armed services cannot be left aside altogether.
Along with these, the modernisation fund and the non-lapsable fund will also be prominently considered in the upcoming defence budget. What will be the logical outcomes, how will the ensuing defence budget answer concerns – which of the issues look more pressing and less abstract? The days are drawing near us, one after another as half of January has gone by. Satisfied with the potential of the digital realm, the defence budget will be presented with full fume.
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Every time a bell rings - Mangled Yarn Theatre Show
YWB are thrilled to have been able to collaborate with Mangled Yarn for their Christmas show.
Befrienders and staff had two very successful zoom sessions with the cast and directors where we shared our experience working in Yarls Wood. The Mangled Yarn team were very struck by the stories and, like so many who live in this area, were taken aback by how little they knew about what goes on in our immigration system and on our doorstep.
They have also spoken with Sandrine, who was formerly detained at Yarl’s Wood and released on Christmas eve, who wanted to give something to the women held there at Christmas last year, so arrived with a van full of gifts that she had collected from her family and community. It was a moving experience that will be remembered by those of you who were able to support at the event. These stories will be woven into their devised piece for their show and will enable us to raise awareness locally and also collect donations for our work.
You can attend either in person at The Place theatre Bedford, or online. You can find more information here.
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How to Survive Extended Periods of Time With Your Family
By WhenInManila.com Team #WIMsquad
• January 14, 2020
Written by Howi Bakunawa
No matter what the occasion — whether during the holidays, on vacation, at reunions or trips — spending an extended amount of time with our families can be difficult. When it comes to our family members, we should (hopefully) love each and every single one of them unconditionally but that still doesn’t mean that our patience isn’t tested when we’re with them for longer than a day.
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Being present at any family gathering means having to prepare yourself to endure an endless onslaught of comments which, although well-meaning in theory, are enough to make us crazy in practice. Comments like: “May girlfriend/boyfriend ka na ba?” [Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend?] or the ever-present “Tumaba ka na ha” [You’ve gotten fatter since the last time I saw you] or the excessive photos that our aunts and uncles can’t seem to stop themselves from taking.
Let me tell you a secret. As a result of decades of personal experience, I have discovered that the best response to these comments is to respond to them with humor. It is a subtle yet effective means to say that: “Even though your comments come at the expense of my self-esteem, I’m not going to let it affect me detrimentally“.
Our families will always be there to challenge us to be better in order to live up to our potential, but the greatest challenge will always be learning how to love yourself. And part of loving yourself means being able to laugh at yourself and in doing so, take all their comments in stride.
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So let’s say one of your titos walks up to you and says in a gruff voice gone hoarse with too much whiskey and karaoke: “May girlfriend/boyfriend ka na?” In a situation like that my reply would be: “May asawa na nga din, Tito! Hindi mo na siguro maalala kasi ang lakas mong uminom sa reception.” [Not just a girlfriend, but a wife, Uncle! You probably just don’t remember on account of how much you drank during the wedding reception].
Similarly, when it comes to comments like “Tumaba ka na” said right before you and your family sit down to a meal together for maximum effect, there are a few options you might what to explore. If you’re more daring and direct, you could opt for the basic route and say: “Ikaw din, Tita, tumaba!” [You’ve also gotten fatter, Auntie!] or if you’re like me, you could go for the incongruous and say: “I’m eating for two now, Tita. Me and the baby. I’m the baby.”
Another thing that our families do that bothers me supremely more than anything else mentioned so far is the sheer amount of photos they take. Or, to be more specific, the way they choose to take photos is what bothers me. It’s completely obnoxious to expect me to drop everything I’m doing for the sake of a photo. I personally might have enough patience for the first few times, but over an amount of time as long as the holidays or vacation and at the mercy of so many aunts and uncles each with their own camera, it all starts to become too much.
I’ve talked this over with my cousins and said that the best way to spare our future children, should we ever decide to have children, is to use one camera and just airdrop all the photos after. Until that day comes, the way I try to keep myself afloat in an endless sea of camera flashes is to make the photos as far opposed to the standard looking-forward-and-smiling type of poses. I try to make it interesting! I don’t look directly at the camera, make a funny face, pick my nose, and generally just make myself look as unflattering as possible.
In a world that says you have to look or act a certain way or have certain things, be a rebel. Dare to accept who you are, dare to be funny! With an outlook inclined to humor such as that, you become able to accept that what people say you should be is different from who you are. Through acceptance that comes with laughing at yourself, you turn the source your insecurities into a strength (or into less debilitating weaknesses at least; things like this, of course, take time).
All-in-all, never forget that if the comments of someone older, though they may be disguised as concern, yet cause you to lose confidence in yourself then maybe take a step back and think about it critically. Decide whether these comments are your problems or theirs, and ultimately use this knowledge to grow toward the intelligent, emotionally-secure, and well-adjusted individual you know you can be.
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Ella Craig Wiki: Facts You Need to Know Daniel Craig's Actress Daughter
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The divorce of parents can be unforgiving for children and often results in kids being victimized. But, for Ella Craig, she turned out to be the great actress in spite of her parents, Daniel Craig and Fiona Loudon divorce in when she was just a toddler.
Ella Craig is known for portraying the role of Liz in the horror movie, Texas Road. She is also known for her acting stints in Cold Blood and Paradigm.
How Does Ella Craig Gather The Net Worth?
Ella Craig gathers the net worth from her career in acting. She collected the revenue through her handful of acting credits like Texas Road (2010), Memory's Paradigm (2007), and Cold Blood (2008). She also increased her income by appearing in the movie Maneater in 2017.
As of 2018, Ella appeared in the drama Trauma is a Time Machine portraying the character of Joan.
Alongside, Ella's net worth, her father, Daniel Craig has the net worth of $95 Million. He musters the fortune, appearing in dozens of movies. As of now, her father resides in the $8 million mansion in London.
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Ella Craig's Family; Parents Split At Her Young Age
Ella Craig is a daughter of Daniel Craig and Fiona Loudon. Her parents shared the wedding vows in 1992, and her parents welcomed her in the same year. Though Elle's parents were in a smooth relationship, the two couldn't make it till the end and parted away filing for divorce in 1994. She was just aged 2 when her parents separated.
After the split of her parents, Ella started residing with her mom Fiona Loudon in London. However, her mother is rarely seen with her. While Ella was spotted with her father, Daniel strolling the street of New York City on 4 April 2014.
Ella with her father roaming the street of New York in 2014(Photo: dailymail.co.uk)
Ella is currently residing with her mother. However, she is yet to attend public events with Fiona.
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In the reel life, she has a boyfriend in Shakespeare in Love. On 2 September 2017, Ella uploaded a photo with her cast member and said that there are only two more nights for falling in love with Ferdinand as the show ended its run on 4 September 2017.
On 4 September 2017, she posted multiple pictures from the set of Shakespeare in Love and applauded the effort of the team.
On 8 May 2018, Ella uploaded a photo with an unknown guy and wrote in a caption that it was Prom time!. But she didn't reveal the identity of a guy. She has hidden her dating affair from the limelight. As of now, she is reportedly unmarried.
Ella Craig was born in 1992 in London, United Kingdom. She holds an American nationality and belongs to mixed ethnicity. Ella stands at the height of 5' 10" (1.78 meters), as per wiki.
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UFC 251: Odds Up for 13 Fights, Including Usman-Masvidal Title Bout
Home » UFC 251: Odds Up for 13 Fights, Including Usman-Masvidal Title Bout
UFC isn’t messing around with its first Fight Island card.
UFC 251 features three title fights this Saturday night in Abu Dhabi, including a monster headliner between Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal.
Usman is the current welterweight champion and hasn’t lost since his second fight back in 2013. Overall, he’s won 16 of his 17 career UFC bouts.
On the other side, Masvidal (35-13) enters having won his past three matches, including a third-round TKO in his last fight against Nate Diaz. He is UFC’s No. 3-ranked welterweight contender.
Usman is currently a -280 favorite over Masvidal at William Hill for UFC 251. However, one New Jersey bettor has already put down a $1,400 wager on the underdog at +240 for a total potential payout of $4,760.
In the co-main event, Alexander Volkanovski (21-1) and Max Holloway (21-5) will engage in a rematch on Saturday night for the featherweight title. Volkanovski earned his title as champion after defeating Holloway via unanimous decision in Dec. 2019.
Volkanovski is -230 chalk at William Hill to keep his title, while Holloway is priced at +195. Additionally, over 4.5 rounds is favored at -215 while the under is listed at +185.
Petr Yan vs. Jose Aldo is the bantamweight title showdown, as the current champion spot is vacant for that weight class. Yan is a -240 favorite over Aldo, who is +200.
Check out William Hill’s odds for the 13 fights on the UFC 251 card below, which are all available to bet in Nevada, New Jersey and Iowa.
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Now you can change all your passwords automatically
Dashlane and Lastpass now let users change passwords automatically. This closes up one of the gaps in password management.
By Larry Seltzer for Zero Day | December 10, 2014 -- 14:53 GMT (06:53 PST) | Topic: Security
Back in June, in the wake of the Heartbleed bug, I called for some sort of system to allow users to change passwords on a service automatically. My wish has mostly come true.
On Monday, password manager company Dashlane announced a system for automatic changes of passwords. They have a list of sites for which the feature works. At the moment (Wednesday morning) the page has 78 sites.
Then on Tuesday, Lastpass made the same announcement. They claim support for 75 sites.
The timing of the announcements was certainly a bit strange, but in retrospect it's not surprising that more than one company was working on the same thing. Perhaps they just saw what I saw, that there was a need for this feature. The theory with Heartbleed was that so many important sites had been vulnerable for so long that you had to presume that they had been compromised. Once the site updated their OpenSSL, you were to change all your passwords. I doubt many people actually did this.
My proposal was for a standard web API, and I still think that would be the best, most elegant way to do it. The only practical way would be for some large company, like Microsoft or Google, to create the API, commit to supporting it on their own and then give it away to some standards body with no strings attached. Or perhaps if it came from a more platform-agnostic company like Amazon it would be more politically acceptable to software companies.
That's not the approach Dashlane and Lastpass are taking. They are scripting the web interface to the password change, automating the HTTPS transactions where possible and requesting input from the user where necessary, such as if a CAPTCHA is presented. This strikes me as a hack, but it's the right and only way to do it absent some sort of standard. And it would be necessary in any case in order to automate systems that didn't support the standard.
I think this feature is even more exciting when you consider it in the context of a managed enterprise IAM/password management system. Properly administered, this should allow the organization to automatically change everyone's passwords on just about any service. Very cool.
Here's Dashlane's automation process:
Notice that Dashlane hides the actual web session, presenting only a progress indicator and opening a dialog box to ask for any necessary user input.
Lastpass takes a different approach: They open a new browser tab and you can see the entire password change transaction as it happens. Lastpass points out that this ensures that your unencrypted passwords don't leave your system. It's your computer, not theirs, which performs the work. The implication is that Dashlane's does move your passwords to their systems and perform the change from there, but this is not necessarily true..
For now, both companies call the feature beta. Dashlane makes the download for "early access" big and obvious on their home page, whereas Lastpass's "Try Beta Software" page says "Sorry, there is no beta software available at this time."
I have been testing Dashlane for several days and the password change feature seems to work well. I will have a more complete review of Dashlane in the next few days.
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SDP launches 4Y1N campaign for GE in response to Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has wrought major and irrevocable changes to the politico-socio-economic landscape in Singapore.
The SDP will address these changes and concerns to prepare our nation for the post-Covid future.
For example, in view of the rise in retrenchments and pay cuts in the aftermath of the Covid crisis resulting in heightened income and social inequality, the SDP has set out a plan to protect the ordinary people from being further disadvantaged and exploited.
We spell out a vision that will take Singapore into a post-Covid19 era which will allow the country to adapt and take advantage of changed circumstances and where the average Singapore will play a central role.
Specifically, we will launch our ‘Four Yes, One No’ or 4Y1N campaign which will be the focus for our GE campaign:
YES #1: SUSPEND GST
Given the economic fallout from the Covid-19 crisis, the SDP proposes that the GST be cut to 0% until end 2021. The GST is a regressive tax and will hurt the poor more than the rich. Also, suspension of the GST will stimulate the economy and help businesses. It is not smart economics to raise the GST to 9% as proposed by the PAP.
YES #2: PAY RETRENCHMENT BENEFITS
SDP will fight for retrenchment benefits to be paid to workers retrenched as a result of Covid-19. Under the SDP RESTART (Re-Employment Scheme and Temporary Assistance for the ReTrenched) programme, if a worker is retrenched, the government pays 75% of his/her last drawn salary for 1st 6 months, 50% for 2nd 6 months, and 25% for the final 6 months (capped at the median wage).
YES #3: PROVIDE INCOME FOR RETIREES
SDP will push to provide retirees over 65 with a monthly income of $500. Under the SDP Retirement Income Scheme for the Elderly (RISE), the bottom 80% of retirees, many of whom depend on their working children for financial support and especially those who do not have working children, will receive $500 every month.
The Household Expenditure Survey shows that the average retiree household receives nearly $500 as income from their working children. With retrenchments and pay cuts expected to rise as a result of Covid-19, working adults will find it even harder to provide for their own children and take care of their retired parents at the same time. By providing $500 for the average retiree, RISE will also reduce the financial pressure of younger working generations.
YES #4: PUT PEOPLE FIRST
By insisting on calling for a GE in the midst of the Covid-19, the PAP shows that it is willing to sacrifice public health and safety for its own political interests. As a result, the second surge of infections occurred which has affected thousands of Singaporeans and caused a lockdown of the city. The mishandling of the virus spread, eg. ordering Singaporeans not to wear masks if they are well, and not having addressed sooner the dire living conditions of our foreign workers in their dormitories despite early warnings, has made the situation for Singaporeans much worse. SDP will ensure that the PAP puts the people’s interest as top priority.
NO TO 10 MILLION POPULATION
Our current population is 5.7 million and on course to hit 6.9 million in a few years’ time. Imagine if the PAP gets its wish to jack the number up to 10 million by bringing in more foreigners. Already, it cannot competently contain the outbreak of Covid-19 which spreads faster as the population density increases. Also, our economy has become overly dependent on foreign workers especially PMETs. SDP will push to stop the PAP from raising our population to 10 million and displacing our PMETs with foreign ones.
These 4Y1N issues address the concerns of our people on two levels: One, they take care of the immediate necessities of Singaporeans during and immediately following the period of the Covid-19 pandemic and, two, they ensure that the longer-term problems that confront our nation are dealt with. The SDP will focus on these ideas and proposals in our GE campaign and will elaborate on them in the coming weeks and months.
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SDP moves to new premises, steps up preparation for GE
Putting in place our operations
The SDP moved to a bigger office last weekend, stepping up our preparations for the coming elections. The new premises is organised to ensure an efficient campaign operation that will see our candidates, staff and campaign workers function as a cohesive and effective unit to take on the PAP.
There will be a series of initiatives both online and off geared towards carrying our message across to the electorate. In this regard, the PAP enjoys a huge authoritarian advantage because of the control of the media and the use of the state machinery.
Nonetheless, the Singapore Democrats are determined to mount an effective challenge by running well-organised and efficient campaigns in the wards that we contest.
Democrats doing the heavy lifting
Our new HQ will provide the necessary support for our effort to win votes. We are determined to take opposition campaigning to a new level, and our members and campaign workers will be organised to bring that about.
The last boxes are being put away and the work is being cranked up in our new office to get all the party gears and wheels turning.
Our strategy, which has been developed and honed over the last few years, is in place. Followers of this website will know that the SDP has not gone to sleep in the interim. We have been working hard for years and are presently bringing our efforts to a boil.
Our strategy will guide the implementation of our campaign tactics. In the coming weeks, you will be seeing and hearing more about our election effort.
Resting but never quitting
Through it all, we are guided by the fact that we are a party of the people. We have made our stand clear on the various issues and, more important, we have come up with workable and realistic alternatives, alternatives that even some of the PAP MPs have echoed.
Our emphasis is to level up society and make our system more open and our government more accountable. In short, we are working towards a democratic system where all our citizens have a say in shaping policies that affect them.
With the cost of living and inflation outstripping wages, Singaporeans labour under great financial stress. Giving handouts and rebates are not the solution because they demean the recipients. Instead, Singaporeans must be empowered to demand fair wages and to decide what is good for them.
Now for the real work
There are pressing issues that need to be addressed this election and we are deternmined to address them for and on behalf of the people.
But no matter how effective a campaign strategy is and how well laid out its plans are, without the effort and active support of the people, nothing can be achieved.
To this end we ask the people to step forward and get involved. There’s much work to be done. Let’s get on with it.
Email us at [email protected]. We’re waiting to hear from you.
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The progress of surveillance of schistosomiasis in China
Schistosomiasis is one of the most important neglected tropical diseases in the world in terms of public health impacts. According to the WHO, schistosomiasis is transmitted in 78 countries around the world. In a paper recently published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty, researchers addressed the surveillance progress and capacities of five provincial-level administrative divisions in China.
Li-Juan Zhang 16 Dec 2020
Ribbed-shelled Oncomelania hupensis hupensis (Gredler, 1881). Credit: Qin Ping Zhao, available via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oncomelania_hupensis_hupensis_(PLoS).jpg
In the 1950s, there were about 12 million people and 1.2 million total cattle infected with schistosomes, and over 100 million people at risk of infection in China. Following several decades of unremitting efforts on schistosomiasis control, Guangdong (1985), Shanghai (1985), Fujian (1987), Guangxi (1989) and Zhejiang (1995) successfully eliminated schistosomiasis in China. After achieving this, these five provincial-level administrative divisions (PLADs) entered the stage of surveillance.
In our research, recently published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty, we addressed the surveillance progress and capabilities of these five PLADs: epidemic situation of schistosomiasis, diagnostic capacitiy, ability to identify Oncomelania hupensis (the unique intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum), and knowledge of schistosomiasis prevention and control.
Elimination of schistosomiasis is regarded as an achievable goal in endemic regions or countries if continuous interventions and adequate resources are provided. However, schistosomiasis easily rebounded or spread to new areas due to weakened interventions, ecological changes caused by flooding, construction works for water conservancy projects, increased migration of goods or human resources etc., without a thorough surveillance and response system.
As Shanghai, Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi and Zhejiang eliminated schistosomiasis at least 20 years ago, we evaluated the epidemic situation and the surveillance capabilities on schistosomiasis among the five PLADs, to facilitate the consolidation of elimination achievements in post elimination era, and provide reference for other regions where schistosomiasis had been eliminated or will be eliminated.
Our goal was to understand the epidemic situation in these post-elimination areas and their surveillance capabilities on schistosomiasis. To do this, we collected annual data reflecting the interventions and surveillance on humans, cattle and snails based on county level from 2005 to 2016, through the national schistosomiasis reporting system, and we analyzed data to understand the epidemic status of schistosomiasis in the five PLADs.
In addition, we designed a standardized score sheet to assess the surveillance capacity on schistosomiasis among selected disease control agencies in five PLADs and ten counties. We evaluated the surveillance capacity including schistosomiasis diagnostic skills, identification of snails living and infection status and knowledge about schistosomiasis and its control.
Shanghai and Zhejiang are located in the Yangtze River Delta, in the east of China. Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi are located in the south of China. According to the epidemiological characteristics, the endemic areas in Shanghai belong to waterway network regions, while the endemic areas in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian are mainly hilly and mountainous regions.
The location of the research settings
Jing-Yi Guo, et al. Infectious Diseases of Poverty, (2020)9:136.
The results showed that no local cases in humans and cattle or infected snail were found in the five PLADs since 2005. However, from 2005 to 2016, a total of 221 imported cases were detected in Zhejiang, Shanghai and Fujian, and 11.98 hm2 of new snail habitats were found in Zhejiang, Shanghai and Guangxi. In addition, snail infestation reoccurred in 247.55 hm2 of former snail habitats since 2011.
For the surveillance capacity assessment, the accuracy rate of indirect hameagglutination assay and the miracidia hatching technique were 100% and 89.3%, respectively. All participants could judge the living status of snails accurately and 98.1% on the infection status of snails. The accuracy rate of the questionnaire survey was 98%.
We found elimination of schistosomiasis was consolidated successfully in five PLADs of P. R. China due to effective and strong post-elimination surveillance. Comprehensive consolidation strategies should be focused on the elimination of residual snails and the prevention of imported infection sources, in order to reinforce the achievements of schistosomiasis control in the five PLADs.
Being schistosomiasis a zoonotic parasitic disease, challenges still exist to maintain the achievements as imported cases and snail habitats were detected. Continuous surveillance should be strengthened through capacity building for staff responsible for schistosomiasis surveillance, providing adequate funding and resources.
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Li-Juan Zhang is a Master on Epidemiology and Statistics, working in the Department of Schistosomiasis Prevention and Control, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, China CDC. Her research focuses on epidemiology of schistosomiasis, the prevention and control progress on schistosomiasis, and the application of spatial epidemiology on vector-borne parasitic diseases, especially the application of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System on schistosomiasis surveillance.
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CAPSULE: BUFFALO ’66 (1998)
February 10, 2014 Theodore Davis Leave a comment
DIRECTED BY: Vincent Gallo
FEATURING: Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Anjelica Huston, Ben Gazzara, Mickey Rourke
PLOT: When Billy Brown looses a $10,000 bet he can’t pay for the Buffalo Bills to win the Superbowl, he’s forced to do prison time for a crime he didn’t commit; when he’s released from jail, he kidnaps a random girl to pretend to be his wife in order to pull the wool over the eyes of his unwitting parents, who think he’s working for the government.
WHY IT SHOULDN’T MAKE THE LIST: There’s not a scrap of strange and fantastic here, and sometimes the stark realism is agonizing and tedious. Vincent Gallo portrays Buffalo, New York as a soulless town with a cast of idiots. Buffalo ’66 plays like a Daniel Clowes comic but without the eccentricity: dazed and dissociated people wander through a wasteland of football, TV, chain diners, and strip joints. Unlike in Clowes, the protagonist comes out of it a changed man.
COMMENTS: Vincent Gallo plays Billy Brown, a guy who really needs to pee. He spends nearly the first twenty minutes of the movie looking for a place to go and, in the process, reveals that he’s an incorrigible jerk by beating up a stranger in a bathroom he deems a “faggot” and kidnapping a girl to pass off as his wife. Perpetually peeved, Billy even bothers to complain about how filthy the windshield is during the kidnapping in which he also fusses about how he can’t drive her “shifter car.” Finally, once in a residential neighborhood, Billy gets out of the car and pees, releasing his anger and annoyance in urine. But where does it all stem from? Why is this guy such a jerk? Via overlapping flashbacks displayed while Billy lies on a park bench in a monochrome landscape of grey, we watch his monotonous jail time: glimpses of water fountains and chess games. He goes from grey to grey, from the prison to Buffalo, New York, in winter. It’s a place where, in a football-centric household, his parents stare vacantly into space and shove food in his direction. His dad is a retired lounge singer totally uninterested in his son, but he takes a sexual interest in Billy’s fake wife, Layla. Billy’s sugar n’ sunshine mother, dolled up in her Buffalo Bills merchandise, can’t even remember her son’s severe allergy to chocolate. During an uncomfortable bedroom scene in which Layla forces Billy’s dad to sing some show tunes from days gone by, Billy tears up at the sight of a photograph of him as a boy. Underneath his unremitting jerk exterior, he’s a pathetic figure living in the shadow of what could have been, if the Bills had won the Superbowl. As bitter and miserable as he behaves, there’s a child living in him who’s never truly had a chance to grow up.
The film begins with a freeze frame of Billy as a boy, underscored with Gallo’s own song with the lyrics “all my life I’ve been this lonely boy.” When huddling alone in a bathtub in a sleazy motel, Layla remarks that Billy looks “like a little boy” We see Billy teetering under the weight of the tough guy role he feels he has to play through a confused lament in a Denny’s restroom. He’s convinced himself he’ll go into a strip joint and kill the placekicker whose missed field goal has ruined his life, and then kill himself; but then, as if Clarence has come down from heaven to make him appreciate being alive, Billy, the over-grown child and tough guy jerk becomes kind and comfortable in his own skin. In drastic contrast to the painful realism of a film characterized with its grotesque personages, Billy undergoes a quick change in personality: from cantankerous to joyful. This transformation of an inveterately unlovable character changes this film from sour to saccharine, with an artificial sentimentality that couldn’t even warm Frank Capra’s heart.
While Billy may be the main focal point of the film, Chrisina Ricci’s character is infinitely more interesting. Wearing searing blue eyeshadow and a promiscuous blouse to a tap dance lesson, Layla is sex-starved and ready for adventure, so when a scruffy stranger kidnaps her, she resists only a little, putting the bulk of her energy into crafting a romantic history for Billy’s parents. She is the sweet and sincere to oppose Billy’s sour phoniness. His stridency hardly bothers Layla because he’s the only boy who’s ever shown her any attention, so she pays back his nonstop cruelty with love. While Billy’s theme song may be “Lonely Boy,” Layla’s is King Crimson’s “Moonchild,” played during her awkward tap dance number in a bowling alley. This scene portrays her as a beautiful but naïve creature, in violent contrast to Billy’s hackneyed disenchantment.
Although bearing complex and distinct characters, Buffalo ’66‘s artificial resolution rings hollow enough to undermine the power of the miserably real plight of Billy Brown, the embittered protagonist who bet more than he had on a football team his mother taught him to believe in.
WHAT THE CRITICS SAY:
“…plays like a collision between a lot of half-baked visual ideas and a deep and urgent need… There’s not a thing conventional about this movie.”–Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times (contemporaneous)
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138. DOGVILLE (2003)
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“To take ‘Dogville’ primarily as the vehicle for this [anti-American political] view, however, is to make it a much less interesting movie than it is… Mr. Von Trier offered, ‘I think the point to the film is that evil can arise anywhere, as long as the situation is right.’ It is the pervasiveness of that evil — the thoroughness of the film’s pessimism — that may seem most alien of all to doggedly optimistic American sensibilities.”–A.O. Scott quoting Lars von Trier in his New York Times article on Dogville
DIRECTED BY: Lars von Trier
FEATURING: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, John Hurt, Patricia Clarkson, Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara, Philip Baker Hall, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Siobhan Fallon, Blair Brown, James Caan
PLOT: Tom Edison, who fancies himself an intellectual and a moralist and dreams of becoming a writer, is bored with life in the tiny, isolated mountain township of Dogville, until one day he comes across a beautiful, refined young woman who is fleeing gangsters for unknown reasons. Tom falls in love with her and convinces the town to take the woman in and hide her; they agree that the woman, Grace, will do chores for the townspeople to earn her keep and gain their trust. But the more the self-effacing Grace offers to the people of Dogville, the more they abuse her forgiving nature, until they have turned her into the town’s slave; then, the men who were searching her out arrive…
Dogville is the first movie in a proposed trilogy from von Trier entitled (ironically) “America: Land of Opportunity.” The second in the series, Manderlay (2005), was shot on a similar minimalist set, also narrated by John Hurt, and featured the character of Grace (played by Bryce Dallas Howard). Manderlay was not as well received and was a financial flop. The third film has not been announced. Von Trier refuses to fly and has never been to the United States.
Von Trier set up a reality-show style confessional booth next to the set where (sometimes disgruntled) actors could enter and speak to the camera. This footage was edited into the 52-minute documentary Dogville Confessions, which appears as an extra on some DVD releases of the film.
INDELIBLE IMAGE: The shot of Nicole Kidman lying in the truck bed among the apples, seen through the transparent canvas, is probably the film’s most beautiful image. Dogville itself, however, is the film’s most memorable image: a single blank set, with house walls and gooseberry bushes indicated on the floor with chalk.
WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: Think that maybe Dogville may not be such a weird movie? Imagine you are about to pop this DVD into your player when your friend with the most ultra-conservative movie tastes walks in the room and asks what you’re about to watch. You respond, “Nicole Kidman plays a saintly woman fleeing mobsters who’s taken in by a small American town and used as a sex slave. Oh, and it’s shot in a warehouse with the buildings painted on the floor.” If your friend doesn’t immediately leave the room muttering “sounds too weird for me” then congratulations! Your most normal friend is a complete and utter weirdo.
Misleading original American release trailer for Dogville
COMMENTS: What director has a lower opinion of humanity than Lars von Trier? An acid moral parable, Dogville is almost weirdly ultra-rational, in Continue reading 138. DOGVILLE (2003) →
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The List Thus Far (Certfied Weird Movies)
3-Iron (2004)
3 Women (1977)
8 1/2 (1963)
200 Motels (1971)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Adaptation. (2002)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984)
After Hours (1985)
After Last Season (2009)
Akira (1988)
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (1990)
Alice [Neco Z Alenky] (1988)
Allegro non Troppo (1976)
Altered States (1980)
Amarcord (1973)
The American Astronaut (2001)
The Apple (1980)
Arise! The SubGenius Movie (1992)
Arizona Dream (1993)
Audition [Ôdishon] (1999)
Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Barton Fink (1991)
Batman Returns (1992)
The Beast [La Bête] (1975)
The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
Beauty and the Beast [La Belle et la Bete] (1946)
The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
Begotten (1991)
Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
Belle de Jour (1967)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015)
The Black Cat (1934)
Blood Diner (1987)
Blood Freak (1972)
The Blood of a Poet [Le sang d’un poète] (1930)
Blood Tea and Red String (2006)
Blue Velvet (1986)
The Boxer’s Omen [Mo] (1983)
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Careful (1992)
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Cat Soup (2001)
Cemetery Man [Dellamorte Dellamore] (1994)
Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Christmas on Mars (2008)
The City of Lost Children [La cité des enfants perdus] (1995)
City of Women (1980)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Color of Pomegranates [Sayat Nova] (1969)
Come and See (1985)
The Company of Wolves (1984)
Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Cowards Bend the Knee, or, the Blue Hands (2003)
The Cremator [Spalovac Mrtvol] (1969)
Crime Wave (1985)
Cube (1997)
Daisies [Sedmikrásky] (1966)
The Dance of Reality (2013)
The Dark Backward (1991)
Dead Alive (1992)
Dead Leaves (2004)
Dead Man (1995)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977)
Death by Hanging (1968)
Death Laid an Egg [La morte ha fatto l’uovo] (1968)
Delicatessen (1991)
Dementia [Daughter of Horror] (1955)
Der Samurai (2014)
Desperate Living (1977)
Destino (2003)
The Devils (1971)
Dillinger is Dead (1969)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot! (1967)
Doggiewogiez! Poochiewoochiez! (2012)
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Dogtooth [Kynodontas] (2009)
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Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)
Elevator Movie (2004)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Evil Dead II (1987)
The Exterminating Angel [El àngel exterminador] (1962)
Eyes Without a Face [Les Yeux sans Visage] (1965)
The Face of Another (1966)
The Falls (1980)
Fantastic Planet [La Planète Sauvage] (1973)
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Female Trouble (1974)
Final Flesh (2009)
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Freaks (1932)
Funeral Parade of Roses [Bara no sôretsu] (1969)
Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005)
Glen or Glenda (1953)
Godmonster of Indian Flats (1973)
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)
Gozu (2003)
La Grande Bouffe (1973)
Greaser’s Palace (1972)
The Greasy Strangler (2016)
Gummo (1997)
Häxan [Witchcraft Through the Ages] (1922)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Hellzapoppin’ (1941)
Help! Help! The Globolinks [Hilfe! Hilfe! Die Globolinks] (1969)
The Holy Mountain (1973)
The Horrors of Spider Island [Ein Toter hing im Netz] (1960)
The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen] (1968)
House [Hausu] (1977)
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Hugo the Hippo (1975)
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978)
I Can See You (2008)
Idiots and Angels (2008)
If…. (1968)
I’m A Cyborg, But That’s OK [Saibogujiman Kwenchana] (2006)
The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle (2009)
Indecent Desires (1968)
Ink (2009)
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)
It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2011)
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse [J’irai Comme un Cheval Fou] (1973)
Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
John Dies at the End (2012)
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Keyhole (2011)
Kin-Dza-Dza (1986)
Kontroll (2003)
Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
L’Age d’Or (1930)
The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
Last Year at Marienbad [L’Année Dernière à Marienbad] (1961)
The Legend of Suram Fortress [Ambavi Suramis Tsikhitsa] (1984)
Lemonade Joe [Limonádový Joe aneb Konská Opera] (1964)
Léolo (1992)
L’Immortelle (1963)
L’Inhumaine (1924)
Lisztomania (1975)
Little Otik [Otesánek] (2000)
Lost Highway (1997)
Love Exposure (2008)
The Love Witch (2016)
Lucifer Rising (1981)
Lunacy [Sileni] (2005)
The Lure [Córki Dancingu] (2015)
Maelstrom (2000)
Malpertuis (1972)
Mandy (2018)
Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
Marquis (1989)
Meet the Feebles (1989)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Metropolis (1927)
The Milky Way [La Voie Lactee] (1969)
Millennium Actress (2001)
Mind Game (2004)
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)
My Winnipeg (2007)
Naked Lunch (1991)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
Night Train to Terror (1985)
Ninja Champion (1985)
The Ninth Configuration (1980)
Nosferatu (1922)
No Smoking (2007)
Nostalghia (1983)
Nothing but Trouble (1991)
Nuit Noire [Black Night] (2005)
O Lucky Man! (1973)
Orpheus (1950)
A Page of Madness [Kurutta ippêji] (1926)
Perfect Blue (1997)
Performance (1968/1970)
Phantasm (1979)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Pi (1998)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
The Pillow Book (1996)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Pink Floyd the Wall (1982)
Playtime (1967)
The Pornographers (1966)
Prospero’s Books (1991)
The Red Squirrel [La Ardilla Roja] (1993)
The Reflecting Skin (1990)
Reflections of Evil (2002)
Repo Man (1984)
A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
Repulsion (1965)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Roma (1972) [AKA Fellini’s Roma]
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
Rubin & Ed (1991)
The Ruling Class (1972)
Run Lola Run (1998)
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972)
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
Save the Green Planet! (2003)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Schizopolis (1996)
The Science of Sleep (2006)
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993)
Seven Servants (1996)
Shanks (1974)
Shock Corridor (1963)
Silent Hill (2006)
Sin City (2005)
The Singing Ringing Tree (1957)
Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
Skidoo (1968)
Skins [Pieles] (2017)
Solaris [Solyaris] (1972)
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Spider Baby (1967)
Spirited Away (2001)
Stalker (1979)
Steppenwolf (1974)
Strange Frame: Love & Sax (2012)
Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Survive Style 5+ (2004)
Sweet Movie (1974)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
The Swimmer (1968)
Swiss Army Man (2016)
Tales from the Quadead Zone (1987)
The Taste of Tea (2004)
Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
The Telephone Book (1971)
The Tenant (1976)
Teorema (1968)
The Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Thundercrack! (1975)
Time Bandits (1981)
The Tingler (1959)
Titus (1999)
Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
Toto the Hero [Toto le Heros] (1991)
Trash Humpers (2009)
Tromeo & Juliet (1996)
True Stories (1986)
Tuvalu (1999)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
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Under the Skin (2013)
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Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (1984)
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Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991)
Weekend (1967)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (2013)
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Cinzano, P., Falchi, F., & Elvidge, C. D. (2001). Naked-eye star visibility and limiting magnitude mapped from DMSP-OLS satellite data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 323(1), 34–46.
Abstract: We extend the method introduced by Cinzano et al. (2000a) to map the artificial sky brightness in large territories from DMSP satellite data, in order to map the naked eye star visibility and telescopic limiting magnitudes. For these purposes we take into account the altitude of each land area from GTOPO30 world elevation data, the natural sky brightness in the chosen sky direction, based on Garstang modelling, the eye capability with naked eye or a telescope, based on the Schaefer (1990) and Garstang (2000b) approach, and the stellar extinction in the visual photometric band. For near zenith sky directions we also take into account screening by terrain elevation. Maps of naked eye star visibility and telescopic limiting magnitudes are useful to quantify the capability of the population to perceive our Universe, to evaluate the future evolution, to make cross correlations with statistical parameters and to recognize areas where astronomical observations or popularisation can still acceptably be made. We present, as an application, maps of naked eye star visibility and total sky brightness in V band in Europe at the zenith with a resolution of approximately 1 km.
Keywords: light at night; remote sensing; GTOPO30; DMSP; light pollution; modeling; mapping
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Doll, C. N. H., Muller, J. - P., & Morley, J. G. (2006). Mapping regional economic activity from night-time light satellite imagery. Ecological Economics, 57(1), 75–92.
Abstract: The recognition that the elements of the ‘anthropocene’ play a critical role in global change processes means that datasets describing elements of the socio-economic environment are becoming increasingly more desirable. The ability to present these data in a gridded format as opposed to the traditionally reported administrative units is advantageous for incorporation with other environmental datasets. Night-time light remote sensing data has been shown to correlate with national-level figures of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Night-time radiance data is analysed here along with regional economic productivity data for 11 European Union countries along with the United States at a number of sub-national levels. Night-time light imagery was found to correlate with Gross Regional Product (GRP) across a range of spatial scales. Maps of economic activity at 5 km resolution were produced based on the derived relationships. To produce these maps, certain areas had to be excluded due to their anomalously high levels of economic activity for the amount of total radiance present. These areas were treated separately from other areas in the map. These results provide the first detailed examination of night-time light characteristics with respect to local economic activity and highlight issues, which should be considered when undertaking such analysis.
Keywords: Night-time light satellite imagery; Economic activity; Geographic information; Mapping; Scale
Elsahragty, M., & Kim, J. - L. (2015). Assessment and Strategies to Reduce Light Pollution Using Geographic Information Systems. Procedia Engineering, 118, 479–488.
Abstract: Light pollution is a negative lighting condition because it prevents views of the night sky from the general population and astronomers. As a solution to light pollution, proper lighting system design is vital. The location, mounting height, and aim of exterior luminaries need to be taken into consideration for efficient use of lighting energy. In line with the effort, this paper presents the assessment results on light pollution at the port area, which is one of the brightest spots on Earth. In doing so, a GIS model is created to determine the level of light pollution at the study areas. The lighting power densities of ASHRAE 90.1-2007 are applied in order to find a way to reduce the level of light pollution. The effect of light pollution generated from the Long Beach Port area is examined by comparing against the sky glow generated from the Port of Long Beach area and other areas throughout the coast of Southern California, as well as comparing how deep the sky glow penetrates the ocean. The results are validated by comparing against the lighting specification used in the study areas. The lighting strategies proposed include the decreased height of light poles and increased spacing between light poles. This study will serve as a platform in which future researchers may continue and expand on the designs of heights and spaces of lighting poles in order to make severe light pollution areas better sustainable places.
Keywords: Remote Sensing; GIS; Geographic Information Systems; mapping; light pollution; skyglow
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Hale, J. D., Davies, G., Fairbrass, A. J., Matthews, T. J., Rogers, C. D. F., & Sadler, J. P. (2013). Mapping lightscapes: spatial patterning of artificial lighting in an urban landscape. PLoS One, 8(5), e61460.
Abstract: Artificial lighting is strongly associated with urbanisation and is increasing in its extent, brightness and spectral range. Changes in urban lighting have both positive and negative effects on city performance, yet little is known about how its character and magnitude vary across the urban landscape. A major barrier to related research, planning and governance has been the lack of lighting data at the city extent, particularly at a fine spatial resolution. Our aims were therefore to capture such data using aerial night photography and to undertake a case study of urban lighting. We present the finest scale multi-spectral lighting dataset available for an entire city and explore how lighting metrics vary with built density and land-use. We found positive relationships between artificial lighting indicators and built density at coarse spatial scales, whilst at a local level lighting varied with land-use. Manufacturing and housing are the primary land-use zones responsible for the city's brightly lit areas, yet manufacturing sites are relatively rare within the city. Our data suggests that efforts to address light pollution should broaden their focus from residential street lighting to include security lighting within manufacturing areas.
Keywords: *Cities; England; Environmental Pollution; Geographic Mapping; Humans; Light; *Lighting; Photography; Urban Population; *Urbanization
Schroer, S., Felsmann, K., Hölker, F., Mummert, S., Monaghan, M. T., Wurzbacher, C., et al. (2016). The impact of outdoor lighting on ecosystem function – gaining information with a Citizen Science approach using a questionnaire. In Austrian Citizen Science Conference (pp. 8–13). Frontiers.
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Home News TPP is a secret Obama trade agreement that will trump national sovereignty
TPP is a secret Obama trade agreement that will trump national sovereignty
6/10/13 9:00am by Gaius Publius 19
This continues our focus on Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, otherwise known as TPP.
I’ve been saying for a while that the three big battles with second-term Obama are to oppose:
▪ Social insurance benefit cuts (the “Grand Bargain”)
▪ Keystone tar-carrying pipeline
▪ The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the next big NAFTA-style “trade” agreement
What’s wrong with TPP and these “trade” agreements?
There are several problems with these “trade” agreements — one, the extreme secrecy, will be discussed in the video below — but I’ll detail just two others here.
First, they’re not trade agreements at all, but “unrestricted capital flow” agreements — “capital is king” agreements. Unrestricted trade is just a by-product, a secondary effect. From an earlier piece:
In its simplest terms, “free trade” means one thing only — the ability of people with capital to move that capital freely, anywhere in the world, seeking the highest profit. It’s been said of Bush II, for example, that “when Bush talks of ‘freedom’, he doesn’t mean human freedom, he means freedom to move money.” …
At its heart, free trade doesn’t mean the ability to trade freely per se; that’s just a byproduct. It means the ability to invest freely without governmental constraint. Free trade is why factories in China have American investors and partners — because you can’t bring down manufacturing wages in Michigan and Alabama if you can’t set up slave factories somewhere else and get your government to make that capital move cost-free, or even tax-incentivized, out of your supposed home country and into a place ripe for predation.
Can you see why both right-wing kings (Koch Bros, Walmart-heir dukes and earls, Reagan I, Bush I and II) and left-wing honchos (Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin, Barack Obama) make “free trade” the cornerstone of each of their economic policies? It’s the song of the rich, and they all sing it.
That’s the first thing that’s wrong with these agreements — they enable totally unrestricted capital flow, and anything that gets in the way of capital is cleared away. Environmental concerns? Doesn’t trump profit. Wage concerns? Doesn’t trump profit. Prosecution for murder of labor leaders in Colombia? Sorry; gotta make a “free-trade” buck.
TPP member heads of state (source: Chilean govt. flickr account)
Another by-product of unrestricted capital flow, by the way, is boom-and-bust economies. When hot banking money flowed like wine into places like Spain, the economy bloomed, wages rose, prices rose — and a giant bubble was created. When the crash occurred, all that (German, French, U.S., etc.) investment money raced out like water from a broken cup, and the Spanish economy crashed. Prices fell through the floor, as did wages, and the government went from a surplus to a deficit.
None of the crashed economies have recovered, since the E.U. kings and queens (EU central bank and the bankers who control it) are insisting all through Europe that every bond-holding investor be made whole before anything else is done.
TPP “trade” agreement courts trump national sovereignty
The second problem with these “trade” agreements is that they trump national sovereignty. This is very clever and literally true. I’ve written about this before, as have others, but here it is in a nutshell. From a different earlier piece, here’s how it works with NAFTA and the NAFTA court (slightly modified):
In general, the corporate-sovereignty story goes like this:
▪ Nations have national courts, including a Supreme Court, the top court in the country.
▪ National courts operate under the nation’s constitution, its “supreme law of the land.”
▪ In the U.S. and many other countries, treaties are folded into the constitution and become part of that “supreme law.” (If you think about it, this is the only way treaties can be enforced.)
▪ In the U.S. Constitution, the clause that does this is the Supremecy Clause:
Article VI, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, known as the Supremacy Clause, establishes the U.S. Constitution, federal statutes, and U.S. Treaties as “the supreme law of the land.”
▪ NAFTA and other “free trade” treaties have their own court system, operating by rules specific to that treaty. In NAFTA’s case, it’s the NAFTA court. In TPP’s case, it will be the TPP court.
▪ Corporations from any NAFTA nation can sue cross-border nations, states, and municipalities in NAFTA court for “lost profits” due to regulations (among a variety of other reasons).
▪ Courts that are structured like the NAFTA court have jurisdiction that is superior to the member nations’ court system. This jurisdiction is given to them by the language of the NAFTA treaty.
▪ Because treaties like NAFTA are folded into national constitutions, international corporations have found a way to establish a new international system of dispute resolution that trumps national governments.
▪ The U.S. Supreme Court can’t overturn a NAFTA court decision. Thus, in this new system, corps (and the billionaires who run them) rule.
Breath-taking, right? “NAFTA” Bill Clinton has much to answer for. This is the “one-world order” your grandpa warned you about. But he thought it would be “libruls” or the Trilateral Commission or the Bilderberg Group in charge. Nope; it’s our friends at GE, Walmart, Nestlé, and the gang at Mouse (sorry, the folks at Disney) that will soon have the nation’s nuts in their squirrel-like hands.
There are a number of other reasons to oppose these agreements; for example, they seem more interested in outlawing governmental regulations than in enabling trade. And as you’ll hear below, the “negotiators” are almost always feathering their nests for after they leave government and these treaties are in effect.
But let’s leave it at this for the moment. If you remember only two things about TPP-style “trade” agreements, remember this. They (a) make capital the king of the world, and (b) allow rule-by-the-rich to trump national sovereignty for any nation that signs on.
A primer on TPP from Dave Johnson and Stuart Zechman
Dave Johnson, of Campaign for America’s Future and Seeing the Forest, is one of our best writers on this subject. (For example, this piece on TPP and Deregulation is a must-read). Here he is in a short conversation with Stuart Zechman from a recent Virtually Speaking Sundays show.
The whole show is typically an hour, and this one is fascinating (click to hear it all). The first half dealt with how Apple uses corp-written tax policies to pay almost no taxes on its billions in profit. The clip below is the heart of their second-half discussion of TPP.
Both contributors add great ideas. Johnson speaks first. Listen:
Did you catch the “negotiators feathering their nest” part (1:06)? Clinton’s NAFTA “trade negotiator” Carla Hills loaded the NAFTA court with corp-enabling power, then quit and went to work representing corps … who wanted to take advantage of NAFTA court decisions. Ms. Hills now lives on Thank-You Street.
I’ll have much more on TPP — for example, I’ll take a closer look at the leaked parts of the treaty so far. Remember, as Johnson and Zechman say, it’s still under negotiation, it’s so secret that Congress can’t see it, it will be “fast-tracked” when it’s ready, and every corp who counts has a seat at the table right now.
To stop corp-rule, which is a proxy for international billionaire rule, we have to stop Obama’s push for TPP. Obama, of course, has other plans. After all, presidential libraries don’t fund themselves. But that’s his lookout; ours is the health of the actual country. Too bad we’re not on the same side on this.
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Tags: barack obama, NAFTA, TPP, trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Gaius Publius is a professional writer living on the West Coast of the United States.
19 Responses to “TPP is a secret Obama trade agreement that will trump national sovereignty”
Perry Logan says:
Except that, under Clinton, the economy was booming. And we were paying off the deficit. And poverty was down. And there wasn’t the secrecy. And we didn’t have this fascist-takeover thing going on.
emjayay says:
Great observation Comrade.
clarenceswinney says:
SLOW AND POOR
The current GDP growth will take twenty years to get back to potential GDP.
We have a 10 million jobs gap.
Gairns from income went to top 1% or fewer.
One percent got 121% increase in income between 2009 and 2011.
Wages still low where is Minimum wage increase to offset top 1% gain.
44 million earn minimum wage. 280,000 recent college grads get minimum wage.
College grads hold large debt.
Thirteen million homes still “under water”.
54,000 foreclosed last month.
Record trade deficit with China.
Retirement crisis As Republicans talk about cutting elderly benefits.
Scary! Anyone have answers?
Whitewitch says:
You mistake me for someone that supports the President. I was simply stating my belief about why he might not be using the White House…not defending that fact. I am disappointed beyond saying about how this is working out and I hope that it turns around. Keep in mind that Romney would have been no better – so it would be nice if in 2016 we had someone we could actually vote for – like Bernie Sanders.
karmanot says:
nicho says:
It’s not a private estate. It’s an educational center.
Naja pallida says:
Not just the loss of American jobs, but the loss of American everything. Sovereignty, money, jobs, homes, security, freedom… the list goes on and on and on.
JosephP says:
I agree…it sends a bad message by meeting him in a private estate. It’s as if the business being transacted there is between Obama and the Chinese leader and does not involve the citizens that elected Obama and gave him this power. I’m suspicious that this message was sent intentionally.
No doubt Obama will “serve” on the boards of some international mega-corporations after he leaves office, and his daughters will marry the sons of rich investment bankers.
Just like Clinton.
lynchie says:
One thing you missed is this asshole supposedly works for us not the 1%. I am sick and tired of his drone wars, endless wiretapping, lack of transparency, lack of any effort on jobs (except TPP sounds like that will be made much worse) attacks on Medicare, attacks on SS, constant sucking the tit of big business and wall street. This smacks of his elitism and is in keeping with Michelle’s hissie fit when heckled by the lack of interest if his Obamaness. As president the millions we spend on the WH are done so as a show piece to the world. Bring the chinese ass hat to the seat of power and make him be the one who is subservient. An off site location shows cow towing to the chinese and I call bullshit to that. If he is afraid of someone listening well welcome to the USA. The land of tapped phones, of read emails where nothing we have is private. If it is good enough for me it is good enough of him.
Clinton Part II
Could be that he is not sure who is listening in the White House and feels safer/more at ease elsewhere – I know I would. Not defending him – I just am saying I understand why he might not dig the digs at the WH.
JayRandal says:
I see no valid reasons for Obama to meet with Chinese leader in Palm Springs.
Obama seems to think White House isn’t posh enough for meetings with dignitaries.
Not big enough for state dinners so he had a one night dining structure built and another time a huge circus tent erected for dinner event. He acts like a king at times.
Yeah, the billionaire house-thing stinks. What’s wrong with Camp David? Not enough lace?
So while China buys us, our Lords & Masters can buy China. It sound strangely like the Byzantine Emperor buying off Attila the Hun who then does not invade Italy because the Roman Emperor also bought him off. Meanwhile, German bankers wearing EU blue jacket logos purchase Athens through the indirect processes of foreclosure and the dish runs away with the spoon.
It’s an ugly scenario and, I fear, unstoppable.
He should have met with him at the White House in Washington-DC. Obama is going
rogue on just about everything now. Some Presidents become better in 2nd terms and some become worse like Nixon and now Obama.
You’re saying he should have met him at a Starbucks for a coffee?
When Obama made decision to meet China’s leader at a billionaire’s house in Palm Springs, CA, he revealed himself as a corporatist who works for global wealthy Elite. So-called free trade agreements
result in loss of American jobs.
ComradeRutherford says:
Far-right crazies organize entire legislatures around ‘stopping the UN’, it’s small arms treaty and ‘Agenda 21’. None of which will ever have any shred of effect on US laws.
None of the same far-right crazies give a shit about the TPP and other such trade agreements that have immediate and irreversible effects on the nation’s sovereignty.
It’s because the far-right crazies are controlled by the insanely wealthy, like the Koch Brothers. And the obscenely wealthy don’t want their TeaBircher puppets to DO anything about REAL threats to US Sovereignty, only fake ones.
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Home Features What went wrong with Solo?
What went wrong with Solo?
.......with the news of the box office not being great Han decided to keep his hands on his wallet.....
Let’s make it clear from the start that we liked Solo as can be seen in our review here but with the film having been out for over a week it’s only made $197m at time of writing against a projected budget of $250m and that’s not adding marketing costs on top. So what went wrong with Solo? and how would you relaunch the Star Wars franchise?
From the start the production was troubled with its directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord eventually sacked and replaced with a safe pair of hands Ron Howard. It’s rumoured that he then went on to reshoot much of what they had already done which only added to the films costs. The replacement of the pair of directors cheered many including Emilia Clarke who has been very open about it. The directors were far from wise to mess about with the production with a producer like Kathleen Kennedy at the helm. Having worked extensively with Spielberg on films including ET, Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds as well as other successes The Sixth Sense, Gremlins, Twister and Who framed Roger Rabbit? Highly respected she went to work for Disney themselves no slackers but equally with a no nonsense reputation. When directors leave a production it perhaps has a negative impression for prospective audiences as was seen with Justice League when its director Zak Snyder stepped down (although in fairness this was to do with a family tragedy) with Joss Whedon taking over.
The rumour poured out about its star Alden Ehrenrich needing acting lessons which hardly instills confidence and in fairness he lacks the bad boy rogue-ish charm of Harrison Ford and plays its more as a mischief making naughty boy. And either way he hardly channels Harrison Ford’s characteristics in the role.
If that wasn’t it then what went wrong with Solo?
With blockbuster season upon us its generally a rule of thumb that the behemoths are released 2 weeks apart for the films to make a big chunk before the next studio tentpool film is unleashed. Avengers Infinity War had opened four weeks before and stands at a huge $1.9 billion but that had little impact on Deadpool 2 opening two weeks later which has made a slightly less than expected $519m but is still doing business. But the demographic for both all these films is white male millenials and just round the corner is the Jurassic World sequel again catering for the same or similar audience.
Infinity War had the luxury of being the build up to the story that overarched all the other Marvel films and had been building to this moment something which Solo lacked as a standalone film. But that said Black Panther had opened two months before Infinity War and it has made $1.3 billion but the film was far different from anything in the Marvel cannon to date unlike Solo.
So if that wasn’t it what went wrong with Solo?
Perhaps then the problem is twofold. For Star Wars diehard fans Solo lacked anything to do with the Jedi mythology and neither did it have anything to with The Force and is more of a boys own adventure. It also didn’t help that the studio were set on a May 25th release as it would coincide with the release of the original Star Wars film in 1977 and ultimately this means nothing to anyone but the most nerdish of fan.Solo was released barely five months after The Last Jedi ( $1.3 billion earned )and was the fourth film in three years since Disney took over the franchise. Perhaps its Star Wars fatigue that has set in because Star Wars has owned Christmas each year with other films staying clear of being released too close. The new Star Wars films have become event movies for fans and perhaps therein lies much of the problem because Christmas 2018 big release is the Transformers spin off Bumblebee and studio juggle there release dates around and if Solo had come out in its usual Christmas slot it would have had a year’s gap and had the season to itself in the likelihood that Bumblebee would probably have moved its release date.
Either way Solo is likely to be the first Star Wars flop at the box office in terms of making a profit but it undoubtedly will make money for its Home Entertainment release, merchandising and TV revenue.
But maybe we’re wrong about what went wrong with Solo. What would you have done to ensure its success?
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Team Arizona greasing the wheels for America’s Showcase
America’s Showcase is exactly what its name implies.
The annual tournament is a showcase for junior and senior high school hockey players from across the country.
Team Arizona, organized by the Arizona High School Hockey Association, will head to Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh for the tournament once again. The tournament dates this year are April 20-24.
Jeremy Goltz is Team Arizona’s coach for the sixth year.
“America’s Showcase is a first-class tournament,” Goltz said. “Most importantly for the players, there are a lot of scouts there watching the games.”
Scouts come from NCAA Division I and III teams, American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) club teams, and prep schools and junior programs.
Being scouted at America’s Showcase is a particularly big draw for Arizona high school hockey players who want to continue their hockey career at a higher level.
That’s because many don’t get looks from scouts unless they play travel hockey, Goltz said.
Tait Green is a Team Arizona assistant coach and coach of the ACHA Division II Arizona State University club team. Like Goltz, he’s a big fan of America’s Showcase.
“The tournament gives us an opportunity every year to take a group of 17- and 18-year-olds to one place where they can be seen by scouts,” he said.
Green said each Team Arizona player over the past few years was contacted by a scout, either at the tournament or later through a phone call or email.
America’s Showcase also is a great resource for Green in his job as ASU’s coach.
“I get to meet coaches from the around the country and establish connections with them,” he said.
Team Arizona has done well at the tournament through the years.
A total of 24 teams made up of more than 600 players compete in three eight-team pools before the top two teams in each pool move on to bracket competition. In 2014, Team Arizona was the C pool champion. Team Arizona will be in the B pool this year.
Goltz said this year’s Team Arizona roster once again is filled with high school and travel players from across the state. Anywhere from 60-80 players usually try out each year.
Each team in America’s Showcase is allowed a maximum 25-player roster. For games, a team can dress 18 skaters and two goalies.
Team Arizona’s 2017 roster includes forwards Tanner Castleberry (Hamilton), Brett Charron (Mountain Ridge), Justin Hayward (Pinnacle), Joshua Ihling (Pinnacle), Cole Kamin (Pinnacle), Joseph Mancuso (Chaparral), Paxton Parker (Sandra Day O’Connor), Cole Tiedemann (Flagstaff), Spencer Zach (Hamilton) and Grant Ziegler (Pinnacle); defensemen Adam Beckermann (Pinnacle), James Brown III (Sandra Day O’Connor), Brett Fryer (Notre Dame Prep), Jacob Herzog (Desert Mountain), Oscar Kahler (Sunrise Mountain) and Collin McHugh (Hamilton); and goalies Nick Kocharov (Horizon) and Darshan Manhas (Liberty).
Other assistant coaches are Barry Harcus and Daniel Roy and Kenny McGinley serves as the team’s manager.
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Texture of berries of flameleaf sumac (Rhus lanceolata) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 12, 2020
Honey bee hovering over flameleaf sumac (Rhus lanceolata) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 27, 2020
Purple fruits of flameleaf sumac (Rhus lanceolata) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 12, 2020
Honey bee on flowers of flameleaf sumac (Rhus lanceolata) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 27, 2020
Close-up of honey bee on flowers of flameleaf sumac (Rhus lanceolata) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 27, 2020
Flowers of flameleaf sumac (Rhus lanceolata) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, July 13, 2014
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Burned pine and flameleaf sumac (Rhus lanceolata) near Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, November 3, 2007
Pine and flameleaf sumac (Rhus lanceolata) in mist on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, November 3, 2007
Red colors of flameleaf sumac (Rhus lanceolata) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, November 1, 2008
Orange leaves of flameleaf sumac (Rhus lanceolata) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 23, 2012
Young leaves of flameleaf sumac on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, June 15, 2019
Fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica) on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Richards. Texas, November 20, 2020
Fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, March 8, 2020
Fruits of fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica) on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Richards. Texas, May 2, 2020
Red fruits of fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica) on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Richards. Texas, May 2, 2020
Fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica) with red berries on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Richards. Texas, May 2, 2020
Close-up of hairy fruits of fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica) on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Richards. Texas, May 2, 2020
Red leaf of flameleaf sumac (Rhus lanceolata) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 6, 2012
Bright red leaf of flameleaf sumac (Rhus lanceolata) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 6, 2012
Fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica) with flowers at Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, March 8, 2019
Young leaves of sumac(?) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2020
Fresh leaves of Virginia creeper on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2020
Fresh leaves of blackjack oak on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, March 8, 2020
Shoot of sumac on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2020
Some fresh leaves at Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, March 8, 2019
Fresh leaves of Virginia creeper on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, March 11, 2020
Fresh leaves of May apple (Podophyllum peltatum) on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, February 9, 2020
Berries of sumac Rhus lanceolata in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
Young oak leaves on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2020
Young oak leaves on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, June 27, 2020
Young red leaves of an oak on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2020
Shoot with glossy leaves on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2020
Young leaves of sweetgum on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2020
Some young glossy leaves on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2020
Yellow leaves of hickory on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, December 15, 2020
Distorted growth of oak leaves on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 28, 2020
Young leaves of sassafras on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2020
Young leaves of Virginia creeper on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2020
Young leaves of elm on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, March 8, 2020
Leaves of coralbean (Erythrina herbacea) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest, Texas, November 19, 2020
Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) with wilted leaves on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, August 21, 2020
Curved leaves of bracken ferm with insect eggs on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, May 10, 2020
Phylloxera galls on hickory leaves on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Richards. Texas, May 2, 2020
Distorted oak leaves caused by insect larvae(?) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 28, 2020
Young leaves of southern wax myrtle (Myrica cerifera) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, May 10, 2020
Leaves of Chinese tallow (Sapium sebiferum) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest, Texas, November 19, 2020
Young leaves of blackjack oak (Quercus marilandica) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2020
Pathe covered by dry leaves on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Richards. Texas, November 20, 2020
Oak leaves with brown spots caused by a fungus(?) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest, Texas, November 19, 2020
Young leaves of Muscadine Grape (Vitis rotundifolia) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2020
Close-up of Phylloxera galls on hickory leaves on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Richards. Texas, May 2, 2020
Texture of Phylloxera galls on hickory leaves on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Richards. Texas, May 2, 2020
Young leaves of mustang grape (Vitis mustangensis) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2020
Lower surface of hickory leaves with Phylloxera galls on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Richards. Texas, May 2, 2020
Curling of leaves caused by blackberry psyllid (Trioza tripunctata) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, July 12, 2020
Fresh red cottony leaves on an oak on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest near Huntsville. Texas, March 2, 2019
Deutero fungus (Cercospora smilacis) on leaves of common greenbrier (Smilax rotundifolia) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, May 10, 2020
Fresh leaves of sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua) on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest near Huntsville. Texas, March 16, 2019
Red leaves of rusty blackhaw viburnum (Viburnum rufidulum)(?) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, December 15, 2020
Dark red spots of Deutero fungus (Cercospora smilacis) on leaves of common greenbrier (Smilax rotundifolia) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, May 10, 2020
White resupinate polypore mushroom with embedded oak leaves on thin bark of a fallen pine branch on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest, Texas, November 19, 2020
White resupinate polypore mushroom with embedded dry fern leaves on bark of a fallen pine branch on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest, Texas, November 19, 2020
Floating oval leaves of an aquatic plant watershield (Brasenia schreberi, Nymphaeales: Cabombaceae) in a former cattle pond on Sand Branch Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Richards. Texas, April 1, 2020
Basal leaves of gayfeather (Liatris) with orange-yellow rust fungus Puccinia poarum (Puccinia liatridis) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 26, 2020
Orange-yellow rust fungus Puccinia poarum (Puccinia liatridis) on basal leaves of gayfeather (Liatris) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 26, 2020
Fresh growth of crowded parchment fungus (Stereum complicatum) on a tree on Little Lake Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest east from Trail Head No. 4, near Montgomery. Texas, November 29, 2020
Circular dark purplish red spots with centers fading with age caused by Deutero fungus (Cercospora smilacis) on leaves of common greenbrier (Smilax rotundifolia) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, May 10, 2020
Underside of basal leaves of gayfeather (Liatris) with orange-yellow rust fungus Puccinia poarum (Puccinia liatridis) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 26, 2020
Close-up of orange-yellow rust fungus Puccinia poarum (Puccinia liatridis) on basal leaves of gayfeather (Liatris) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 26, 2020
Young leaves of oak on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, July 13, 2014
Fresh leaves of Henry s Spiderlily (Hymenocallis occidentalis var. eulae) in a pine forest in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, March 7, 2020
Some young hairy leaves on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, March 29, 2009
Young leaves of hawthorn at Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, March 8, 2019
Young leaves of a tree on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, June 29, 2019
Leaves of partridge pea (Cassia fasciculata) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, June 29, 2019
Young red leaves of mustang grape on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, March 29, 2009
Palmately 5-lobed leaves of sweetgum (Liquidambar) in Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, May 26, 2012
Rosette of leaves of elephant foot (Elephantopus carolinianus) on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, July 7, 2013
Reddish young leaves of oak on Lone Star Hiking Trail near Pole Creek in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, March 22, 2020
Red shoot of oak on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, March 18, 2020
Yucca flowers on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, May 10, 2020
Red ripening blackberry on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, May 10, 2020
Termites under a log on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, November 5, 2020
Winecup (Callirhoe) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, May 10, 2020
Tiny mushrooms Mycena sect. Sacchariferae on dry oak leaves on a fallen branch on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, September 23, 2018
Violet Wood Sorrel (Oxalis violacea) blooming at fall without leaves in Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 22, 2011
Fresh growth of corticioid fungus Leucogyrophana pinastri (Hydnomerulius pinastri) under a rotting pine log on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, December 10, 2020
Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) in a pine forest on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, August 21, 2020
Pholiota spumosa mushrooms on an old forest road on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, September 25, 2020
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NEW NAME FOR MCT
August 20, 2019 January 22, 2020 Communications
15 November 2004 by Richard Chirgwin
But Macquarie Telco’s Big News is in Services
Last Thursday (November 11) Macquarie Corporate Telecommunications unveiled a new identity – as Macquarie Telecom – and also lifted the lid on plans for a new range of services based on its own access network.
Faced with every telco’s problem – how to protect margin in a world where access to the customer is governed by Telstra’s access network – MT is to start creating services based on an Ethernet access network.
MT’s CEO David Tudehope said the company has spent 12 months planning its own metropolitan access network.
In corporate services, he said, “The critical success factor is the quality of the network”, and by creating an access network, “We create a real opportunity for business and corporate clients.”
The MT access network will embrace all of its existing offerings, but where possible, the access network will embrace a planned fibre rollout to customer premises. This, according to (title) Glen Noble, will depend on the economics.
Those economics, however, are helped by MT’s existing customer base. Noble told CommsWorld that instead of having to build a network and then recruit customers, MT can migrate an existing customer base to the access network. All-MT network rollout will chiefly focus on fibre loops in CBD areas, Noble said.
An Ethernet-based fibre rollout means MT will be able to support converged customer connections, with voice, data and video on a single QoS-enabled high speed customer tail. Noble also said the company will consider expanding the definition of “on-network” traffic; for example, allowing corporates using the MT access network for VoIP traffic to make on-network calls between each other.
FREE TRADE UNDER CORPORATE MONOPOLY
August 20, 2019 January 22, 2020 Business
22 November 2004 by
Richard Chirgwin
More on the Aus-US FTA as Letters Change Hands
Here’s a reference out of the dim dark past: in December 1997 (oh so long ago!), Australian Communications published a US price survey which found that country’s network kit vendors set prices (inclusive of exchange rate variations) as much as 84% higher in this country than back home.
Before anyone gives me some bromide about transport costs, I should make this clear: then, as now, most of the stuff was made in Asia, and delivered from Asia. It had nothing to do with transport: it had to do with price-fixing. Since that’s illegal, vendors had to use their control of the channel to achieve it: anoint just one importer, give it just one price, and leave the rest to the need for profit. The same survey found that countries with the most import channels also had the least “export mark-up”.
The reason I mention this is because over the years, the ACCC has worked hard on the issue of import monopolies, with some success. Sure, US vendors will still sprout the most outrageous humbug about “grey marketing”, pretending there’s something illegal or immoral about it. But parallel importation is a legal activity.
Not for long, and that’s my gripe against the time-serving circle-jerking slackers of the Canberra gallery.
In all the hundreds of thousands of words written about the Australia-US free trade agreement, you will find nearly nothing highlighting this paragraph:
“ Each Party shall provide that the exclusive right of the patent owner to prevent importation of a patented product, or a product that results from a patented process, without the consent of the patent owner shall not be limited by the sale or distribution of that product outside its territory, at least where the patentee has placed restrictions on importation by contract or other means.”
(Article 17.9, paragraph 4).
To boil it down to its effect: this paragraph commits the Australian government to make “grey marketing” illegal, and this paragraph has passed by the entire Canberra press gallery and (with the sole exception of Ross Gittins) every single commentator who has written about the FTA.
It’s easier to make egregiously stupid statements, like SBS’s Peter Martin who told the world that Banjo Patterson’s works will return to copyright under the FTA, than to break out of the mindset which follows the bum of the sheep in front.
Why would parallel import rules be “out of scope” for nearly every commentator on the FTA? The right of US companies of all kinds to engage in price-fixing in Australia through controlled imports reaches into every single household in the country.
Moreover: it’s open to exploitation in a modern, multinational world. The right to impose import monopolies is held by the patent owner: if patents are held by an American company, then that company sets the import rules to Australia.
In other words, an Ethernet switch vendor whose engineering is in Singapore, whose call centre is in the Philippines, and whose manufacturing plant is in Korea can still take advantage of the FTA, by setting up an office in Delaware and assigning all patents over its products to the American company. It’s an unlikely scenario for anyone whose competitive edge is low price – but in the long term, you can bet that if something is able to be exploited, it will be.
Of course, my focus has been on what such a provision would do to network equipment. But it’s not just Ethernet that could suffer from a patent migration scam: there is precious little, in the modern world, which doesn’t fit the bill of being “patented” or “the result of a patented process”.
Now, you can understand why there would be a deathly silence in any News-controlled outlet over such a point. News owns music labels and movie studios, and likes import monopolies. The business advocates of the FTA were never going to kick. They like import monopolies; it lets them blame higher price on someone upstream, while passing on those prices (with a little extra markup) to consumers.
But someone should have noticed that everything from sandshoes to ink-jet refills is swept up in the import monopoly rules.
Why do I return to the issue, given that I wrote about it to deafening silence back in August? Because this week, the group-think has been at work again. Australia and America exchanged “diplomatic notes” in which, among other things, our government made commitments to “address” America’s concerns about our FTA implementation legislation.
The group-thinkers used the occasion to justify rehashing what they’d already said about the FTA. But they didn’t go so far as to ask for the text of the letters exchanged between us and America. The same time-serving, circle-jerking slackers who didn’t read the full text of the FTA at the beginning of this year stay true to form right up to the end of the year: “he said” is more important than the text.
CLUE-FREE REPORTING AT ITS BEST
August 20, 2019 January 22, 2020 Government
Here is a hilarious coincidence.
This morning (Sunday, November 21 at 8.15am), Centrelink’s home page is down.
In the next Mozilla tab, I have a list of headlines detailing the history of Centrelink. Apart from the string of leaks to the computer press designed to get it some favourable press – stories like its commitment to open source software – we also get the darker side. I’ll get to that in a minute.
The third Mozilla tab has the most ludicrously unsceptical report I’ve seen in the IT press this year, from Federal Computer Weekly in America. FCW – the story is at www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/1115/web-aussie-11-16-04.asp – is telling us how wonderful is Centrelink, as demonstrated by an address given by its CIO, Jane Treadwell, to a conference in America.
FCW got the quotes right, and pretty much nothing else.
It described Centrelink as an e-government project, rather than a government agency which has an e-government project (in the usual self-congratulatory terms, Centrelink ‘serves Australians on the ground and online’). It’s described as having ‘customers’ when in fact it’s mostly in charge of delivering various kinds of welfare (hint: you don’t buy welfare; calling the unemployed ‘customers of Centrelink’ is double-speak). And its main role, in the blinkered faraway world of the US press, is … well, I’ll let the words of FCW speak for themselves: ‘One of Centrelink’s top services provides Australians the ability to change their addresses’.
But what’s stunning is the gap between the glowing media it gets as a conference presenter, and the kinds of headlines I find in Australia. Headlines like ‘ Planning flaws put Centrelink system at risk’ (AFR, October 27 2003), ‘ Glitch causes Centrelink scar e Millions of mistakes by Centrelink’ (The Australian, February 14, 2004), ‘ Office porn purge at Centrelink’ (Herald Sun, January 21, 2004), ‘ Computers block fix on errors’ (The Australian, February 16, 2004), ‘ Centrelink’s $5.3m website’ (The Australian, March 16, 2004), ‘IT failures that hit the public purse’ (AFR, April 20, 2004), ‘ Centrelink changes may cut back technical help’ (AFR, April 28, 2004), ‘ Centrelink web lost in the past’ (The Australian, July 23, 2004), ‘Glitch hits agency’s debt recovery’ (The Australian, August 3, 2004), and ‘ Privacy concern at data sharing’ (The Australian, August 27, 2004) .
And, proving that Americans haven’t stopped patronising this country, some dude from Washington seriously and with a straight face told FCW that Australia would have gone broke without Centrelink.
Centrelink’s $5.3 million Website returned to life some time this afternoon.
ATTACKING THE ATTACKER
August 20, 2019 January 22, 2020 Business, Technology
ForeScout Launches SecuredWire in Oz
A newly-arrived security vendor is taking what I might call the honeypot principle as the basis of a suite of products designed to overcome the “day zero” problem.
ForeScout Technologies’ SecuredWire is, as general manager Richard Galpin told CommsWorld late last week, designed to focus on the attacker rather than the attack.
Here’s the operation which Galpin described: the ForeScout technology creates a weak “ghost” server outside the corporate firewall. Visible to the Internet, this virtual server will be polled and scanned by potential attackers (very much like a honeypot).
Having identified a weak address and port, the attacker will then try to initiate a conversation with that port, at which point the ForeScout server can capture the attacker’s IP address. It then blocks the address at the firewall for a user-configurable time (since most users are on dynamically-allocated addresses, Galpin said, there’s no point in blocking an ‘attack’ address forever).
While the virtual server has a normal IP address, the ‘real’ SecuredWire server does not. The company’s designed the system to communicate over a private Ethernet connection with the secured side of the network, to prevent attackers identifying the presence of the device.
There are, he said, three possible configurations. A SecuredWire server configured with one NIC – really only suitable for evaluation purposes – will be a fully visible member of the IP network it’s attached to. With two NICs, the device can sniff Internet connections without exposure, using a private IP address on the second NIC to communicate on the secured side of the corporate network.
A third, more secure configuration uses three NICs: one for the stealth sniffer, one for the private network, and the third providing a direct connection to the firewall.
The system can also be used to defend corporate networks against attacks such as worms which have already entered the system (for example, through a laptop). By shutting down only the source of malicious internal traffic, the company claims it can keep networks operational even after some machines have suffered virus or worm infection.
If you’re a pessimist like myself, you will have noticed that there is an attack vector which could be used against ForeScout: hit the system with a large number of attacks, apparently from a large number of originating IP addresses. If successfully used against a SecuredWire-defended e-commerce site, this could act as a denial-of-service attack in which ‘real’ users were unable to pass the address blocks.
However, as Galpin pointed out, this sort of attack depends on the assumption that the attacker knows SecuredWire is in use at the target site. In ‘stealth’ mode, with no IP address except that assigned to the ‘honeypot’ virtual server, finding the device wouldn’t be trivial. And the potential for such an attack, he said, is why the ‘time to live’ of the block is adjustable: an e-commerce site would set a comparatively short block time, to avoid the risk that genuine users might inherit an address that’s currently blocked.
SYS SOL GETS INTO IP TEL –
Revamping Suite with HMP
System Solutions, a long-time supplier of telephony software, has taken the plunge and turned its attention to the world of IP telephony.
According to Ivor Livingstone, the company’s CEO, the move will open its MESSAGEmanager suite – which includes IVR, voice messaging, speech recognition, fax, SMS and other services – into the expanding world of business IP telephony.
Livingstone told CommsWorld that rather than redevelop the product set from scratch to support VoIP, the company decided to use Intel’s Host Media Processor as a gateway between its TDM-based heritage and the emerging IP telephony world.
Call control, he said, is very different in IP telephony, and would have demanded a considerable rewrite of software to support. While TDM switches are highly proprietary, the task of unravelling their behaviour is straightforward, if time-consuming. A third-party vendor like System Solutions would treat the switch as a state machine, and analyse the outputs it produced in response to different inputs.
The presence of competing standards also raised its head as a challenge.
Standards have “started to evolve – for example, SIP is very popular, but not a lot of the existing switch vendors support it. So we had to provide other flavours of IP telephony in our development project; the H.323 protocols, for example.”
Intel’s HMP had its feet in technology with which System Solutions was already familiar, having its own heritage in the acquisition of Dialogic some years ago. As a developer, he said, System Solutions found it relatively easy to use the HMP Global Call API to handle the integration to IP-based environments.
The developer, Livingstone said, uses Global Call to address the HMP hardware, and HMP provides the integration to the IP devices.
However, “validation against each of the switches – the Ciscos, the Alcatels, the Avayas – that’s challenging.”
While traditional TDM environments carry a lot of the features System Solutions is offering as software, Livingstone said by concentrating on its own capabilities, the company has been able to offer competitive features sets.
The more open world of IP telephony gives the company the opportunity to do things that don’t fit easily into traditional telephony systems, he said. “There’s a tremendous opportunity to develop productivity applications on top of telephony. These go beyond cost savings: you can embody IP telephony into all sorts of applications, far further than in traditional telephones.”
Livingstone said the expansion of System Solutions into the IP telephony space will expand its overseas opportunities, and also the scope of partners the company can work with. This is enhanced, he said, by the company’s work with presence servers and its ability to act as a media gateway.
Presence products, Livingstone said, create opportunities to work with companies whose traditional business is in data networking.
As for media gateways, he said, System Solutions is now in its third generation of product while he
TELSTRA VS CRAZY JOHN’S –
August 20, 2019 January 22, 2020 Communications, Technology
Are Wholesale Services `Up to Scratch’?
The lawsuit between Crazy John’s and Telstra is, in my mind, just as important to the privatisation debate as the ongoing and pointless discussion about whether services are ‘up to scratch’.
When Australians think of telecommunications services, they’re apt to think of what reaches the retail consumer. However, in a contestable market, with a wholesale-retail split, services are also what reaches the retailer from its upstream wholesaler.
What’s sold at wholesale is quite different from retail, and not just in volume.
The retailer buys a lot of things from wholesalers, but they all add up to this: retailers are buying the ability to make money. They’re buying the services themselves (mobile, fixed, or data); they’re sometimes buying a supply of physical products; they’re buying some level of tech support to keep the services running.
And most of all, they’re buying an income stream.
That income stream depends on accurate record-keeping – a point brought home years ago in the One.Tel collapse – but it’s still one of the most difficult and challenging parts of the wholesale-retail relationship.
In part, that’s because Australia is still relatively new to the wholesale-retail business. The Telecom of old had no need for the kind of wholesale business IT systems it now needs: there was no retail sector.
That changed throughout the 1990s, but we’re still only into perhaps the second or third generation of wholesale business process in this country.
The retail business, however, continues to change much faster than the systems which support it. This is partly because the wholesale market has become so contestable. When Telstra was the only source of wholesale business, products were available in ‘any colour, so long as it’s black’. Wholesale competition has brought with it the need to differentiate products; this, in turn, makes the products and the relationships more complex.
Herein lies the importance of the Telstra-Crazy John’s court case.
It’s possible that Australia’s telecommunications market is too monolithic for true contestability, at least for another decade to come.
Whether or not that’s true, a contestable market demands that the wholesale-retail relationship functions properly.
In trying to determine whether or not Telstra’s services are ‘up to scratch’, the federal government is gazing with a fixed stare at rural and regional services – not even the whole of the carrier’s retail business.
As a result, the government is ignoring whether or not the carrier’s wholesale services – upon which the storefront retailers depend – are also ‘up to scratch’. This seems strange, because most retailers (by number if not by value) are the kind of business which is supposed to be the Liberal Party’s core constituency: the owner-operated, probably franchise-based SME.
The Crazy John’s lawsuit is more important than the industry thinks.
IN DEFENCE OF ZIGGY
August 20, 2019 January 22, 2020 Business, Communications
02 December 2004 by Richard Chirgwin
The Low Share Price is Structural, Not Personal
If nobody’s listening, I’ll tell you a secret: it’s not Ziggy’s fault.
Some things were Ziggy’s fault – the Asian expeditions, the Fairfax follies, the conviction that Telstra should become a dotcom.
But the share price? Only a brain donor blames the share price on Ziggy. A brain donor – and an institutional investor.
For a while now, a rumour that Ziggy was going to leave Telstra would send the share price upwards; this was the institutions’ signal that they wanted Ziggy gone. The reasoning, instantly seized upon by the business pages that the institutions were blaming Ziggy for the low share price.
They wanted to send that signal, but they were lying through their teeth, and worse still, they’re lying as a cartel. With the lie endorsed by all the institutions (whose representatives can be relied to ask the most clue-free questions any journalist can ever hope to hear), all they need do is act in concert and cast their vote.
The reason Telstra’s share price is between $4.50 and $5.00 is because that’s what the company is worth . The reason it was sold for a much higher price is that the government fudged its value, because the buyers were captive to the stupid idea that a utility stock was somehow magically transformed into a growth stock by the Internet; because the world believed that ‘Internet traffic is doubling every 180 days/three months/six months’. All of this was endorsed by the same goons who now play with the share price to punish an individual.
Three lies, put together, inflated the share price, which the government liked because it let them pay down government debt.
Back to Ziggy. He went along for the ride, and therefore deserves his share of the criticism, but for the institutions to personalise the share price in this way is reprehensible; particularly because it lets the institutional fee-farmers continue pretending they had nothing to do with the whole Telstra share debacle.
Why are the instututions lying to us?
First, because they don’t want the blame sheeted home to the government. They’ve eaten well at the hands of Canberra, and don’t want to ever close a door in Parliament.
Second, because blaming the CEO lets them divert attention away from their own role. The institutions were just as enthusiastic at priming the “Telstra is worth $10” as anyone else. They were either suckers or knaves.
Third, because most of all they want the Telstra privatisation to keep yielding fees for the financial industry.
Hence the share price rose on the news of rumours.
Strangely, when the reality came the first response was a fall in the share price.
My bet is that the institutions knew damn well that a change at the top is not going to help any of the things they want. It’s not going to roll back the competitive market, which caps Telstra’s growth capacity. It’s not going to materially affect the schedule of the privatisation fee-fest. It’s not going to change the economy of telecommunications, or the need to spend money on network upgrades, or the fact that there’s only so much fat you can cut from the carrier before you cut services.
In other words, with Ziggy’s departure, the truth becomes clear: it was personal. On rumours of his imminent resignation, the institutions gave the world their view of Ziggy the person, and pumped up the share price. When the rumour became fact, the real view became clear, and the share price went down.
Ziggy is responsible for some things. But the depressed Telstra share price? The institutions are far more responsible – and they don’t resign.
SPT COMPLETES COMINDICO BUY, SELLS HALF
02 December 200 by Richard Chirgwin
Kooee Also Sold to B, Now 50% Owned by SPT
Let’s put this all together. SP Telemedia has completed the acquisition of Comindico, which sank when Cisco blocked funding which among other things would have bought more routers; it’s sold half of its resulting Comindico interest to B Digital, along with its Kooee business; and it’s bought half of B Digital, including a put and call option covering 19.6% of B Digital with Nordan.
In the washup, SP Telemedia gets the Comindico network, with PoPs in Telstra’s 66 call collection areas, a bunch of B Digital shares, and half of its purchase price for Comindico in cash.
The two companies have also signed a heads of agreement for a strategic alliance, which presumably means B Digital will run the consumer-facing business and hand traffic to SP Telemedia. It also means B Digital can expand beyond its mobile telephony base into full-service offerings.
SP Telemedia, in the meantime, will be able to keep services running for the ISP customers which were a mainstay of the Comindico operation.
Nordan Limited is an unlisted investment vehicle registered in New Zealand. It seems to have entered the Australian telecommunications industry some years ago as an owner of DigiPlus, which was sold to B Digital. A related company, Kildare Assets (also from New Zealand, and registered to the same director with the NZ Companies Office) was also an owner of DigiPlus.
MIDWAY BETWEEN “ACCOUNTING SEPARATION” AND “STRUCTURAL SEPARATION”
Telstra’s Wholesale-Retail Split
If you wanted evidence of Australians’ mal de tete, run through the Telstra sale process. The population were skinned for half the value of the shares they bought, but they still elected a government committed to skinning them a third time.
This is relevant, given last week’s events. The consensus about Ziggy Switkowski’s successor is that whomever gets the gong, he’ll have to be a salesman. As Kate Askew and Colin Kruger put it in Saturday’s Sydney Morning Herald, the next CEO will be expected to “beat the drum” to relieve the carrier’s supposedly inadequate share price.
If that doesn’t scare you, it should. Drum-beating will only serve political interests. It won’t change any of Telstra’s value propositions as an investment – the structural limits on its growth.
What the market now expects, and accepts without even breathing hard, is that regardless of Telstra’s real value, the company will get a CEO willing to pump the share price so the government can sell its 51%.
All of this makes the proposed “wholesale-retail” split a fascinating move.
It’s a couple of years now since the federal government swore that such a split was impossible and unfeasible; and since a federal opposition, cowed by lobbying from the money markets, backed away from a Senate inquiry designed to investigate the structural separation of Telstra.
Back then, the market was dead against any notion of a structural separation – and the investment community was the only sector to speak with one voice. Nearly all of the submissions made to the ill-fated structural separation inquiry were in favour of such a move, a trend which froze the government’s blood. Its response was to write to various institutions, asking them to put the investment community’s case, and was rewarded with a unanimous vote against the proposal. At this point, the ALP lost its bottle and the inquiry was canned.
The thrust of the opposition was simple: Telstra, the investors argued, is only valuable as a vertically-integrated business. As a sop to Telstra’s competitors, which were unanimous supporters of structural separation, the government instituted the “accounting separation” regime which the ACCC has been working to implement for the last year.
Last week’s announcement takes Telstra much further down a path which it (and Ziggy) had strenuously resisted. It’s a “best of both worlds” approach that goes further than accounting separation, without sacrificing Telstra’s capacity to act as an integrated carrier.
Exit the ACCC (As If!)
Telstra’s fervent hope is that the move will appease the ACCC – and that might give us some idea of how the carrier plans to approach the job of “drum beating” in the lead-up to the sale.
I predict its most immediate strategy will be to explain to investors that the more Telstra is able to satisfy the ACCC, the more its share price will rise. This message will be put in a simple, but relentless, media placement strategy to the doyens of the dailies.
That also goes part of the way to explaining why the share price had to be personalised to Ziggy: the thorny relationship between Telstra and the ACCC can now be sheeted home to a departing CEO.
The wink-and-nod of the private briefings will be that the wholesale-retail split was impossible to implement sooner, because it was resisted by the soon-to-be former CEO – an explanation which is probably true, but incomplete.
The other side of the wholesale-retail split goes back to the ACCC. It’s spent a year on the job of implementing the accounting separation regime, and last September it issued a new – and much more detailed – set of record keeping rules for the separation process.
You can bet that the RKRs were the subject of much board debate, and I’ll bet that once the RKRs were fully understood, the board decided that the now-approved split was the easiest road to compliance.
The same restructure will, if the weekend reports were accurate, also create a media group which is to inherit the “sick man of Telstra” – the 50% stake in the loss-making Foxtel which commits the carrier to an ongoing subsidy of the pay-TV business.
Telstra’s never going to sell Foxtel, because to do so would create a ready-made competitor with last-mile access; and as anyone who’s read an Optus annual report can tell you, the best way to sell a pay-TV network is to have it carry phone calls as well.
If Foxtel is to stay with Telstra, then the media division will stay with Telstra. But if those assets are rolled up into a separate division, the carrier can probably convince the markets (and the ACCC) that a separate float is possible.
It’s a scenario which fits with the wholesale-retail split: give the appearance of division, without having to put the integrated business at risk.
I don’t think the ACCC will be fooled. And I hope the public isn’t fooled either.
ISPS OPPOSE BUT COPYRIGHT AMENDMENT PASSED
August 20, 2019 January 22, 2020 Info Tech
Bumpkin Negotiators Sell Out Australia, Claim Victory
Facing opposition from the telecommunications and Internet industries, Parliament has passed the Copyright Amendment Bill 2004 to push through the Australia-US FTA.
Having originally held back the text of the letters exchanged between Mark Vaile and Robert Zoellick in November, the government introduced the legislation in a rush, and it was only at the beginning of this week that the Internet Industries Association made public its opposition to the legislation.
Supported by Ozemail, Telstra and Optus, the IIA warned that sections 11 and 13 of the amendment would import a regime from America, in which the copyright industries send thousands of automated take-down notices, with little regard to the accuracy of their accusations.
In its public statements, the industry passed over Section 3 and Section 7, which put much more onerous restrictions on the status of proxies and caches (putting tighter ropes around the use of “temporary reproductions” needed to transmit or use copyright material).
Australia has already seen the impact of automatic copyright policing, with the copyright industries trying to dazzle Justice Murray Wilcox in their pursuit of Kazaa (if CommsWorld had staff, I would love to spend some time in the courtroom – RC). The same industry is also working to extradite the alleged leader of the DrinkOrDie group of pirates, Hew Raymond Griffiths; the case currently awaiting publication of the judgement.
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Workers MayJune 2015.pdf
Unity needed – to stop the EU pulling us apart
The parliamentary parties are for saving capitalism and enhancing its profits. And the EU is the instrument designed for this…
Zero for us, subsidies for them
As capitalism continues its drive to reduce workers to utter penury and, worse, compliance in that drive, the number of workers on zero hours contracts has soared from 200,000 in 2010 to 1.8 million in 2015.
Politics and survival
By the time you read this, the election will probably have morphed into a grand negotiation about a coalition. This they call politics.
US backs down over Cuba
Every year workers throughout the world celebrate May Day. Forty years ago, it coincided with the liberation of South Vietnam. This year, May Day comes hot on the heels of the US’s massive climbdown over Cuba – brilliant news.
With Scottish universities among the highest users of zero-hours contracts, it is fitting that the University and College Union (UCU) should hold its annual congress this May in Glasgow.
And the next generation?
The number of young people choosing to study science is actually rising, despite the fees. From 2007/8 to 2013/14: Physics up 16 per cent, Engineering and Technology up 15 per cent, Biological Sciences up 30 per cent.
Science for the people: Away with superstitions
If all Britain had in the way of scientific research were just what is contained in London, we would be a global scientific power.
The DevoManc debacle
There’s been very little support for splitting up England whenever it has been put to the vote. Two years ago the people of Manchester voted not to have an elected mayor. They could not see why they needed yet another politician.
Three steps towards unwanted devolution
1. Plan announced to give Greater Manchester greater control of its finances and an elected mayor
2. Devolution agreement between Chancellor of the Exchequer and leaders of the GMCA
3. Memorandum of Understanding between NHS England and Greater Manchester
1975: Victory in Vietnam
Vietnam’s long struggle for independence culminated in victories for this small country against the military might of France and of America…
Barts: start talking
THE LARGEST NHS trust in Britain is blundering towards the precipice of bankruptcy – flawed from the inception of the Barts PFI deal, delivered under the last Labour government.
The battle for the arts: people versus profit
Should the arts be expected to create capital, and capital expected to fund the arts? Or are the arts an essential human function that ultimately cannot be controlled by capital?
Arts education for all, too
No matter how hard it tries to push a private/public partnership agenda, the Warwick report cannot escape the key role of state education in developing the creativity and curiosity of students.
Rewriting history?
In this issue we look at two rather different books on the Scottish referendum…
Unity 'frees camp' from ISIS
Reports have reached Workers that the combined force of all the armed rival Palestinian factions in the giant Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria, plus the Syrian Arab Army, have liberated most of the camp from ISIS.
Pay turmoil in Unison
Unison’s local government sector has been thrown into turmoil following the hijacking of the union’s democratic procedures after last year’s local government pay fiasco.
Steel - Strike ballot goes ahead
Steel workers employed by Tata Steel in Port Talbot, Scunthorpe, Rotherham and other sites are to ballot during May on strike action over imposed changes to the pension scheme.
Scotland - The £7.6 billion hole
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has concluded that Scotland would be left with a £7.6 billion gap in its finances if it pursued fiscal autonomy, because falling oil revenues would leave the country with a tax shortfall – to be met by cuts or taxes.
RMT protests against subsidising European rail services
A series of protests across the north of England are highlighting the way British rail passengers are subsidising rail services in other European countries.
National strike looms over rail pay
Rail unions RMT and TSSA look set to call around 20,000 Network Rail staff out on strike in a fight over pay after talks at ACAS broke down.
Paying the cost of university
A report at the end of March showed that almost half of the 9 per cent increase in household debt in 2014 in Britain was accounted for by young people trying to fund their way through university.
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Hidden Trails of Cinque Terre and Italian Riviera - October 2021
Hidden Trails of Cinque Terre and Italian Riviera with Sierra Club – October 2021
Along the Mediterranean Sea, where the French Alps yield to the Italian Apennines, there is a rugged coastline that is at once majestic and mystical, ancient and renowned, known as the Italian Riviera. Here one finds Portofino and the centuries-old Cinque Terre, the Five Lands. On our outing we will explore this region of natural beauty, millennia-old culture, mountains, beaches, and historic towns. Extending from Pisa, Italy in the south to Menton, France in the west, the area is known locally as the Ligurian Riviera, after the Italian province in which it resides.
We will visit some of the famous attractions, such as the Leaning Tower in Pisa, but will concentrate our attention on less familiar hiking trails with wide-angle vistas of mountains, the Mediterranean Sea, farms, vineyards, olive orchards, and scenic villages. Our local guide, raised in the area, will show us trails most visitors never see. After our hikes, we will dine on authentic local cuisine in family-owned restaurants before we settle into our lodging in small, charming hotels.
DAY 0 - October 3
Fly from the US to Pisa
DAY 1 - October 4 - Pisa and Portovenere
Our adventure begins when our group meets this morning at the front entrance of the Pisa rail station. From there we head to the center of the city to visit the spectacular Piazza del Miracoli and world-famous Leaning Tower of Pisa. (If you wish to enter and climb the tower, please arrive a day early, as there is not time to do so on our tour day.) We then head toward Porto Venere and our hotel. We will stay there for the next two nights.
DAY 2 - October 5: Palmaria Island
Our day begins with a short boat ride to the largest island of the region, Palmaria. Together with Cinque Terre and Porto Venere, Palmaria is a UNESCO World Heritage site and has been inhabited for at least 5,000 years. We will explore the island’s vegetation (more than 500 species) and enjoy breathtaking views over Porto Venere and a very impressive 19th century military fortification. Before dinner we will tour the town with its charming little church, colorful houses, and ancient buildings (all part of a powerful fortress that defended Genoa against its rival, Pisa). There will be time to stroll and enjoy an incredible seascape from “Lord Bryon’s window,
Day 3 - October 6: Walk to the Cinque Terre
This morning our hikes in Cinque Terre begin in the village of Campiglia and with our first views of the five beautiful villages that hang over the sea: Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza, and Monterosso. Dating from the 12th century, they are all part of the UNESCO World Heritage site today. We hike through many old farms viewing the various grape varieties grown in this area. We finish our hike down the trail to a meet our bus and travel to our hotel in Monterosso. You will have time for a pleasant stroll in the old town or a relaxing swim in the sea. Hiking time: around 4 hours, with 800 feet of elevation gain.
Day 4 – October 7: Hiking in the Cinque Terre
Today we hike to two more villages. We start with either a train or boat ride to Vernazza where our hike begins. First, we hike to Corniglia where we have lunch and a short tour. Continuing on toward Manarola, we pass more vineyards and olive tree groves. Both trails are quite steep, but the views are stunning. From Manarola we return by train to Monterosso. Hiking time: around 5 hours, with 1,900 feet of elevation gain.
Day 5 –October 8: Monterosso to Levanto
Our day begins with a steep uphill hike from our hotel to Punta Mesco, the promontory that is the natural divide between the Five Lands and the village of Levanto. (Hiking time: around 3.5 hours total, with about 1,000 feet of elevation gain.) We will have lunch in Levanto. From Levanto we depart for a 1.5-hour bus drive to our hotel along winding mountain roads. Our final destination for today is the seaside village of Camogli, where we will stay the next three nights
Day 6 – October 9: Portofino to San Fruttuoso
A bus ride takes us to the seaside village of Santa Margarita. We hike through the village, which was once a poor fishing village and is now a tourist destination. On our hike we will pass many old abandoned villas with great views of the coast. We continue hiking down to Portofino and if time permits we might stop in San Fruttuosso. From San Fruttuosso we return by boat to Camogli. Hiking time: 3.5 hours, with 1,000 feet of elevation gain. Dinner is on your own tonight.
Day 7 – October 10: San Rocco to Punta Chiappa
Starting from the beautiful church of San Rocco di Camogli, 900 feet above Camogli, we have a pleasant, mostly downhill hike to the promontory of Punta Chiappa, which ends with a short boat ride back to Camogli. As a special treat, we will take the bus to Genoa for a historic walking tour of this fabulous city of World Heritage sites. After that we return for our last night in Camogli. Hiking time: 2 hours, with 900 feet of elevation loss.
Day 8 - October 11: Capo Manara
A 30-minute bus ride takes us to beautiful Sestri Levante, a village between the Baia del Silenzio (Bay of Silence) and Baia delle Favole (Bay of Fairy Tales). We will hike through a protected area on a trail through beautiful Aleppo pines and cork oak trees, a perfect combination with the expansive sea views. We will reach Punta Manara for more great views. After the hike we will have time to enjoy the lively city center or spend some time on the beach before we head for Noli and our hotel for the next two nights. Hiking time: 2.5 hours, with 750 feet of elevation gain. We will have a 1.5-hour bus ride to our Noli hotel after the hike.
Day 9 – October 12: Varigotti to Noli
Today we take a local bus 10 minutes to the town of Varigotti and begin our hike in this small village. The hike starts up a steep hill and then is mostly downhill to Noli, which is considered the “Most Beautiful Village in Italy.
Day 10 – October 13: Bussana Vecchia, Balzi Rossi and Menton
A bus ride of 1.5 hours takes us to our trailhead. Our hike this morning takes us to the ancient village of Bussana Vecchia. This medieval village was probably founded by the Romans and inhabited until 1887, when a violent earthquake struck. In the late 1950s, artists from all over the world established a vital community based on ideals of common property and inspirational creativity. After a pleasant lunch in Bussana Vecchia, we drive 30 minutes toward the French border, stopping at a botanic garden for a refreshing break. After another 30-minute bus ride, we will reach our hotel in the French city of Menton. Hiking time: 2.5 hours, with 600 feet of elevation gain.
Day 11 - October 14 - Eze
After a morning bus ride past Monaco, we reach our trailhead near Eze. We will hike about two hours, with 1,000 feet of elevation gain. Excellent views of the many galleries and the French Riviera are the reward. After that we will drive to a beautiful park, high above the town of Eze. After a picnic lunch we will drive back to Menton for a relaxing afternoon and the last night of our outing.
Day 12 – October 15 - Transfer to Nice and end of tour
After breakfast, our tour ends with fond farewells and a transfer to the airport in Nice, France.
What is included in the trip
Lodging with private bath in small inns and an agriturismo
All meals (except one dinner)
On-trip transportation
International airfare to and from Italy
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GeoGarage blog
Daily press & media panorama with maritime thematic
“Camel finds water”
Trevor found the hull of an abandoned fishing boat in a field.
He brought it home and built it back to a sea-worthy state over the course of a summer.
Then, he took it on its maiden voyage to British Columbia in search of waves.
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Garmin outage: how safe is online navigation?
Chartplotters could still be used as standalone devices during the Garmin outage, although charts could not be downloaded
From Yachting Monthly by Katy Stickland
July's Garmin outage left Navionics customers unable to access online services including downloading charts.
We talk to the cyber security firm Red Sky Alliance about the safety of online navigation systems
The Garmin outage in July caused disruption to many of its online services.
The firm was the victim of days-long cyber attack, which began on 23 July.
Navionics customers were unable to access the Navionics server via their log-ins.
The Navionics Boating app, Chart Installer, and Navionics Chart Viewer were all affected; products couldn’t be bought directly via the Navionics website.
The days-long outage meant many Navionics online services couldn’t be used
Charts couldn’t be downloaded, although chart plotters using Navionics software could still be operated as a standalone device.
Garmin has said it had ‘no indication that any customer data was accessed, lost or stolen‘.
Jonathon Sweeney is a program manager with Red Sky Alliance, a cyber security partner of UK maritime security firm Dryad Global.
He spoke to Yachting Monthly about the safety of online navigation systems, and the steps sailors can take to protect themselves from a cyber attack.
Q. In light of the recent Garmin outage, how vulnerable is online navigation to a cyber-attack?
I cannot think of any online service that is NOT vulnerable to a cyber-attack.
Even devices that are ‘air-gapped’ (intentionally disconnected from a network for security) can be vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
GPS is made up of three parts – receivers, satellites, and ground stations.
Any one of these parts is vulnerable to an attack.
For example, if an attacker can tamper with a GPS receiver on a cell phone, they can trick the device into thinking it is in a different location, even if the satellites and ground stations are unaffected.
This would likely affect an individual user.
If an attacker is able to successfully activate ransomware on the systems which keep the ground station operating, that would likely interfere with GPS capabilities for multiple users, unless there are redundant ground stations available.
With the increase in Operational Technology (OT – hardware and software that detects or causes a change through the direct monitoring and/or control of physical devices, processes and events) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies (the network of physical objects—“things”—that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the internet) and the increase in connected devices, these systems will only become more vulnerable.
Q. How vulnerable is the GPS network to attack, such as GPS spoofing?
This is not something ‘some teen in the basement’ is likely to target.
While it is possible, hacking a GPS network does require a relatively high skill level.
As demonstrated by University of Texas at Austin students in 2013, GPS spoofing can be done by overpowering the signals coming from satellites and replacing them with the attacker’s signal.
As we saw in the Garmin outage, it was a WastedLocker attack believed to be from a sophisticated group known as EvilCorp, not just some random person who got lucky.
The biggest vulnerability in this chain of systems is in the receiver.
Hacking a satellite and/or ground systems is possible, but targeting the receiver is much easier, and much less likely to raise intrusion alarms.
Q. How likely are the above scenarios?
In short, not likely.
There have been proofs of concept, but attackers do not seem to target these systems.
This is because there are other simpler/easier ways of earning a profit or damaging a company.
As targeting these systems becomes easier, attacks will become much more likely.
The highest likelihood scenario would be a hostile country spoofing a ship’s GPS to trick that ship into wandering into restricted territory.
They could then seize that ship for political, financial, or other reasons, by claiming it entered their waters illegally.
Or another scenario is where attackers target a ship with innocent civilians and interferes with GPS for notoriety/profit.
Again, the more companies which rely on connected systems for their GPS, the higher the likelihood of an attacker taking advantage of them.
Q. Is enough being done by the public and private sector to mitigate the threat of attack on online navigation networks?
Neither the public nor the private sector are doing enough to mitigate the threat to navigation systems.
If history is any indicator, it will take a much more significant event than the Garmin outage to trigger change in this field.
If a cruise ship were to be stranded in the middle of the ocean without any navigation systems because of a cyber-attack, that may trigger people to pay more attention.
But with everything going on in the world, many companies and public agencies are already strained.
If Garmin and others in the public sector were doing enough to secure their systems, there may still have been a cyber-attack, but the damage would not have resulted in an outage, let alone the Garmin outage which lasted days.
This is where having redundancy and backups comes into play (LORAN-C to eLORAN), but that costs time, money, and other resources are strained.
Governments are also not doing enough to go after attackers.
Groups like EvilCorp have been so successful because they are able to remain safe in their countries and they can commit attacks knowing that they are not going to be prosecuted or punished.
There is not nearly enough pressure on these safe-harbour countries to hand these attackers over to the proper authorities.
As with all aspects of navigation, following ‘best practice’ is the surest way to make sure you are passage planning…
Most of us navigate using MFDs, phones and tablets, or even drones.
But can electronic backups be a substitute for…
Q. Should recreational sailors be concerned about the threat of a cyber-attack and its impact on online navigation?
At this time, I would not be concerned as a skilled recreational sailor.
First of all, they are much less likely to be targeted because an attacker would not gain much from attacking an individual (unless the person is rich and/or famous).
Also, if a recreational sailor becomes stranded, they can call the Coast Guard or other public service to assist them.
If an attacker targets a Coast Guard vessel’s GPS, it becomes a much more complex situation.
Lastly, recreational sailors should already know how to operate their vessels if all electronics should fail, making them less appealing targets.
Q. How might a recreational sailor recognise that their online navigation has been compromised?
The short answer is that a recreational sailor probably would not know until it is too late (i.e.
they have reached the incorrect destination).
The problem with spoofing a receiver, is that the receiver ‘thinks’ it is still working properly so it may never display an alarm indicating something is wrong.
Things to look for include:
Systems operating abnormally (providing unusual data, making abnormal noises, displaying security alerts, etc.)
On-screen navigation is not matching up with visual navigation (Vessel path looks incorrect).
Damage to systems (hardware overheating, applications/software is not loading, etc.)
A ‘good’ sailor would always have navigation charts, a cell phone and a VHF radio on board their recreational vessel.
Q. What steps can recreational sailors take to mitigate against this?
The biggest step is to learn to navigate offline.
Use traditional navigation techniques (map and compass, celestial, etc.)
If a sailor can navigate without online systems, an attack becomes significantly less damaging.
Making sure you can navigate traditionally, without electronics, will help protect you from a cyber attack.
Credit: Graham Snook/YM
Purchase systems from vendors that have implemented some level of security in their systems.
Pay attention and be aware of common threats to these types of systems.
They are not a big target right now, but again, that is likely to change in the future.
Keep ALL online systems up to date with the newest updates and software patches.
This is often difficult for non-technical people, but many attackers take advantage of vulnerabilities that have been public for years.
Q. Can online navigation ever be really secure?
Secure? Yes.
Impregnable? No.
Nothing that is ‘online’ is ever invincible to cyber-attack, but there are ways to secure communications between the three systems, such as strong encryption.
Also removing default passwords on any navigation systems is a requirement.
Creating redundant backup systems and non-digital fail safes as often as possible is also critical.
Ironically, one way many companies are securing themselves is to pay someone to break into these systems and then tell the company how to prevent an attacker from doing the same (a.k.a.
a penetration test).
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Marvin Creamer, a mariner who sailed like the ancients, dies at 104
Marvin Creamer in an undated photo aboard the Globe Star, the 36-foot cutter he used to circumnavigate the globe.
He was guided by the wind, waves, the sun by day, and the moon and stars by night.
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Ralph Harvey, via University Archives and Special Collections, Rowan University Libraries
From NYTimes by Margalit Fox
No GPS for him, not even a sextant; the sun and the stars did nicely.
He was the first recorded person to sail round the world without navigational instruments.
Had Marvin Creamer not been a geographer, he very likely would not have lived to be 104.
Professor Creamer, who died at that age on Wednesday, taught geography for many years at Glassboro State College, now Rowan University, in Glassboro, N.J.
His expertise helped him become a history-making mariner, the first recorded person to sail round the world without navigational instruments.
His 30,000-mile odyssey, in a 36-foot cutter with a small crew, made headlines worldwide on its completion in 1984.
“I was considered to be crazy or stupid or just out of it,” Professor Creamer said in a 2015 interview with Rowan University.
“When I took off there were two people who believed I would come back.”
One was his wife Blanche.
The other, despite the welter of naysayers, was Professor Creamer himself.
It is daunting enough to circumnavigate the Earth with the aid of modern global positioning technology, much less with medieval and Renaissance tools like a mariner’s compass and sextant.
But Professor Creamer, in the grip of an obsession that had held him for years, shunned even those newfangled contrivances, as well as a radio, a clock and a wristwatch.He chose instead to rely on his deep knowledge of the planet and its vagaries, and be guided by nothing more than wind, waves, the sun by day, and the moon and stars by night.
Under cloud-massed skies, he could divine his location from the color and temperature of the water, the presence of particular birds and insects and even, on one occasion, the song of a squeaky hatch.
Skills like these, he long maintained, had let the master mariners of antiquity answer the seafarer’s ever-present, life-or-death question — Where am I? — and in so doing sail safely round the world.
Professor Creamer and his crew aboard the Globe Star, which set sail from Cape May, N.J., in late 1982.
The entire journey took 513 days.
Credit...Ralph Harvey, via University Archives and Special Collections, Rowan University Libraries
“From everything I’ve read, the ancients didn’t feel uncomfortable out there,” Professor Creamer told The New York Times in 1978.
“They didn’t have navigational tools, but they didn’t seem afraid to go to sea.
I felt they might have known what they were doing, that they might have made predictable landfalls and having once hit a coast could have returned there.”
The same skills, he had believed since his youth, would let him do likewise.
“I had taken oceanography and every geography course in the book,” he said in a 2013 interview with Rowan.
“I said to myself, ‘I think I’m the one to do this.’”
Nevertheless, when the 66-year-old Professor Creamer set sail from Cape May, N.J., in his cutter, the Globe Star, in late 1982, he was widely considered unhinged: No mariner in recorded history had traversed the globe without at least a compass, used by sailors since the 12th century if not before, or a sextant, introduced in the 18th.
His 513-day journey would entail nearly a year on the sea, plus time in ports for repairs and reprovisioning.
It would take the Globe Star to Capetown, South Africa; Hobart and Sydney, Australia; Whangara, New Zealand; and the Falkland Islands off Argentina before its triumphant return to Cape May on May 17, 1984 — an event that Professor Creamer gleefully described as “one small step back for mankind.”
Along the way, he and his crew braved lashing storms and long, directionless days with no wind; found themselves trapped in shipping lanes amid thick fog and the terrifying horns of oncoming tankers; had whales bear down on them like freight trains; rounded the treacherous waters of Cape Horn entirely blind; were at one point pitched nearly upside-down and at another arrested.
“A jolly romp,” Professor Creamer called the whole thing.
He knew he might meet his death on the trip, but he was far more confident, he said, of his safe return.
After all, he had been preparing for the voyage for years, making many Atlantic crossings, several without instruments, in the decades before.
He had been dreaming of the journey for far longer than that.
Stargazer From the Start
The third of four children of Sereno Todd Creamer and Grace (Parvin) Creamer, Marvin Charles Creamer was born on Jan.
24, 1916, on a farm near Vineland, N.J., about 50 miles south of Philadelphia.
His father grew potatoes and peppers but had by the mid-1920s, with a downturn in the produce market, become a carpenter and machinist.
From his earliest boyhood Marvin was transfixed by the stars and grew fascinated with the idea that once, long ago, mariners had steered by them.
By the time he was a teenager, fishing in small outboards on the Atlantic, he knew he would one day cross an ocean under sail.
“Once I got out there, I started wondering how the ancients did it,” Professor Creamer told The Times in 1980.
After graduating from Vineland High School at 16, he spent years doing what odd jobs he could, including selling life insurance, making concrete vaults for cemeteries and repairing car engines.
The last of these, at least, would stand him in good stead as a mariner.
“It was interesting how many of the things I did to keep alive in the Depression kept me afloat when I was at sea,” Professor Creamer, then 101, said in an interview for this obituary in 2017.
In 1943, he earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from the New Jersey State Teachers College at Glassboro, as Glassboro State was then known.
After working as a schoolteacher and principal in Alloway Township, N.J., he earned a master’s in educational administration from the University of Pennsylvania.
But his first love had always been geography.
“It is almost an obligation to know the planet one lives on,” Professor Creamer told The Daily Journal of Vineland in 2013.
“How awful to die and never know what’s over the hill.”
He earned a master’s in geography from the University of Wisconsin, followed by doctoral-level coursework in the field there.
A member of the Glassboro faculty since 1948, he helped found its geography department.
Professor Creamer arrived home in New Jersey to great fanfare after completing his round-the-world voyage in May 1984.
Credit...Rowan University
Professor Creamer had been an avid sailor since 1930s.
But it was not until the 1970s that he determined that sailing round the world without instruments would be possible.
“In 1974, I was on my way back from the Azores, headed for Cape May,” he recalled in 2017.
“There were two things that happened.
One is that the compass light, out in the saltwater spray, began to fail every single night.
Now, when you’re sailing without a compass light at night, you’re sailing without a compass.
The other thing was, we brushed through the side of a hurricane, and the heavy seas wrecked our self-steering gear.”
He completed that voyage anyway, steering by the stars.
And if it was possible to navigate without instruments by night, he reasoned, perhaps it was possible to do so by day.
“By the time I got back to shore two and a half weeks later, I had figured out that daytime steering was no problem at all,” he said.
“We would use the wind as a reference; we would use the waves as a reference.”
The prospect of doing so on a round-the-world journey would consume him for the next decade, despite a flood tide of naysayers.
“I talked to the Rotary Club in Woodbury, N.J., before I left: one of those luncheon things,” Professor Creamer said.
“And one of the members said, ‘Professor’ — it’s always ‘Professor’ when they’re poking you in the chest with their finger — ‘What do you think your chances are?’ And I said, ‘About 95 percent,’ and the whole room burst into laughter.”
He began training for the voyage in earnest after retiring from academia in 1977.
The next year, he sailed his 30-foot ketch, Scotia, from Ireland to Cape May without instruments.
Two years later, aboard the 39-foot cutter Navstar, he sailed from Dakar, Senegal, to New Jersey via the Cape Verde Islands and Bermuda, again with no instruments.
On Dec. 21, 1982, he sailed the Globe Star down the Delaware River toward Cape May and the first leg of his round-the-world voyage.
“When I had finally figured out that I could do it, it was far easier to go than to stay home and not try it,” Professor Creamer said.
“People talk to me about courage.
I don’t know anything about courage.
All I knew was I just had to go out there and try it.”
Partying in Tasmania
He carried ample provisions, including tinned meat and eggs coated in Vaseline to keep them fresh.
As a condition laid down by Mrs.
Creamer, he also carried a sextant, clock, compass and radio.
Those instruments, however, were kept in a sealed locker below deck, to be opened only in an emergency.
It never was.
It must be reported that Professor Creamer did have an hourglass on deck.
Its only function was to tell crew members keeping watch when to change shifts.
On March 30, 1983, the Globe Star arrived in Cape Town, where Professor Creamer found 22 letters from his wife waiting.
On Aug. 12, they arrived in Hobart, in Tasmania.
There, local fisherman were so awed by the crew’s achievements that they held six parties for them inside of a week — every week.
Professor Creamer and his mates stayed for six weeks and 36 parties.
On Dec. 13, a day of no visibility, the crew rounded Cape Horn without being sure that they had done so.
The next day’s entry in the ship’s log offers a masterly demonstration of how they worked out the fact:
“It is believed that we rounded the Horn at noon yesterday and have amended our longitude accordingly.
We were not able to sight any landmarks so have based our conclusion on (1) the presence of an extremely cold north wind of relatively short duration, and (2) the change of water color from blue to a fairly dark, transparent green to a lighter, less transparent green and back to a quite dark transparent green as we proceeded from west to east at an estimated latitude of 56°55’.”
On Dec. 22, working their way up the eastern edge of South America, the crew made port in the Falklands and were promptly arrested.
The islands were still on alert from the war there between Britain and Argentina the year before, and without realizing it, Professor Creamer had made landfall in a clandestine British military base.
He soon got things sorted, and was sent on his way with food, supplies and astonished good wishes from the Royal Air Force.
In some ways the most challenging times of all, Professor Creamer said, were the long, irritating stretches of calm, with neither wind nor waves to impart direction.
On one occasion they sat, becalmed, bothered and bewildered, until his geographer’s ears came to their aid.
As the wind started up again, a crew member happened to open a hatch.
It emitted a loud squeak.
That sound told Professor Creamer unequivocally in which direction the boat was facing: Only dry air from the Antarctic, he knew, would have caused it.
Moist air from the opposite direction would have lubricated the hatch, yielding a more congenial noise.
Professor Creamer taught geography for many years at Glassboro State College, now Rowan University, in New Jersey, where a public art monument commemorates his historic voyage.
Through it all, he said in 2017, there was never a time when he thought they were done for.
“I had a cousin who married an undertaker whose name was Frank,” he said.
“And I used to say, when things got rough in the middle of the Indian Ocean: ‘Not yet, Frank! You’re not going to get me yet!’”
On May 13, 1984, as the Globe Star negotiated the Atlantic, the crew received a visit from a housefly.
They recognized it at once as a humble emissary from land.
Sure enough, they arrived back at Cape May four days later.
A longtime resident of Glassboro, Professor Creamer lived most recently in Raleigh, N.C.
His death, at a hospital there, was confirmed by his son, Kurt.
No cause was given, but the family said the death was not related to Covid-19.
Professor Creamer married Blanche Layton in 1946.
She died in 2005.
He married Elaine Gillam in 2010.
In addition to his son, his wife survives him, along with two daughters, Andra Creamer Hohler James and Lynn Creamer Borstelmann; a sister, Evelyn Creamer Daniels; eight grandchildren and step-grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
His many maritime awards include the Blue Water Medal, considered sailing’s highest honor, from the Cruising Club of America.
Professor Creamer continued sailing well into his 90s.
In later years, he owned a boat that came equipped with global positioning technology.
He did not know how to use the technology, he said, and had no intention of learning.
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The role of autonomous ships in a world wary of pandemics
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From Venture Beat by Paul Sawers
COVID-19 is accelerating technological advances across just about every industry, from robotic baristas that promote social distancing to AI and remote collaboration tools that help manual laborers get back to work.
The pandemic has had a direct impact on the transport realm, with social distancing measures calling traditional modes of travel into question.
Demand for ride-hailing services quickly plummeted with the advent of the pandemic, leading Uber to double down on food delivery and micromobility, while drone deliveries soared.
And while autonomous vehicle companies have faced significant obstacles to real-world testing, early signs suggest the crisis could hasten the adoption of driverless vehicles.
But automobiles, trucks, and drones are only part of the autonomous transport picture.
Ships and other seafaring vessels play a huge role in the global economy.
As lockdowns ease and the world adapts to a new paradigm, maritime automation could gain significant traction.
Not shipshape
According to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), maritime vessels constitute around 90% of all international trade — making them, as ICS puts it, the “lifeblood” of the global economy.
But boats are also floating petri dishes.
In The Geography of Transport Systems (2020), Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue and coauthors drew correlations between transportation and pandemics, with specific reference to the Spanish Flu.
They highlighted one of the key reasons 100 million people died and 30% of the world’s population became ill:
One important factor why the Spanish Flu spread so quickly and so extensively was through modern transportation, which at the beginning of the 20th century offered global coverage.
The virus was spread around the world by infected crews and passengers of ships and trains, and severe epidemics occurred in shipyards and railway personnel.
In short, transportation plays a pivotal role in the spread of viruses, which is why airlines, trains, subways, taxi services, and boats saw such huge drops in usage following outbreaks of COVID-19.
Cargo and passenger ships around the world have been turned away from ports by local authorities, with as many as 300,000 merchant sailors stranded at sea for months, far beyond their contractual agreements.
In April, ICS and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) issued a joint call demanding governments “take urgent measures” to facilitate crew change flights.
While the implementation of autonomous technology is not yet widespread enough to turn the tide on COVID-19, many are already looking to the future.
And companies that have been working to bring automation to the shipping industry are now poised to enter a world wary of pandemics.
Tel Aviv-based Orca AI is developing a collision avoidance system that is currently being piloted by a number of shipping companies globally, CEO and cofounder Yarden Gross told VentureBeat.
The company applies its algorithms to data extracted from multiple sensors installed on a vessel, including thermal and low-light cameras, to detect and measure the distance to other vessels and objects in the water.
“We then provide [a] risk assessment of any detected object and vessel to enable the crew to be more aware of potentially dangerous situations,” Gross said.
Above: Orca AI
While radar and other systems have long been used at sea, they may require constant monitoring and can’t always alert crews to a hazard or issue actionable recommendations.
This problem becomes particularly pronounced when multiple vessels or obstacles are in close proximity.
Throw into the mix crowded or narrow waterways and low-light conditions and it’s easy to see why at least three-quarters of maritime accidents are caused by human error, at least according to liability claims data.
Orca AI is banking on technology to turn the tide.
“The shipping industry is one of the most conservative industries in the world, and the pandemic is creating an increased demand for digital tools, automation, and connectivity, in order to reduce the number of people involved in the whole process,” Gross said.
Above: Orca AI’s collision avoidance system at work
The transition to fully autonomous ships will take time, particularly for large vessels that travel thousands of miles between continents.
This shift could mirror the evolution of autonomous cars and trucks, beginning with semi-autonomous technologies, such as collision avoidance systems, and initially focusing on narrow use cases on predefined routes.
The vast majority of maritime accidents happen in ports, straits, and canals, which is where Orca AI is currently focused.
“This is where the existing equipment is lacking in efficiency and accuracy,” Gross said.
“Today, systems don’t take full control over vessels, but gradually there will be more autonomous capabilities.
It will be similar to aviation, where there is still a pilot, but most of the time the computer is controlling the plane and the pilot is supervising and doing other tasks.
In autonomous shipping, there will still be a crew, but there will be more and more tasks done autonomously.”
“Marine pilotage” is a term for specially trained mariners who board ships near the port to guide them through domestic waterways, often providing local knowledge of water-based thoroughfares that the captain doesn’t have.
This task is sometimes carried out “remotely,” particularly during adverse weather conditions, with pilots on smaller boats guiding a big ship to safety or offering instructions from a control center.
However, the COVID-19 crisis could be expediting such efforts, as a number of ports have been forced to embrace remote pilotage for ships or crew arriving from high-risk countries.
In late March, the Italian cruise ship Costa Diadema reported 65 cases of COVID-19 on board.
To pass through the Suez Canal without a pilot physically boarding the ship, a team on tug boats maneuvered it using radar and information from monitoring stations along the route.
Similarly, a U.K. fishing port in April introduced remote pilotage for vessels entering its harbor.
While remote pilotage might not entirely replace traditional methods, technology can make the work more efficient and safe.
Orca AI promises to help pilots do their work remotely by “streaming the data from the cameras and other sensors back to shore in real time,” Gross said.
“Orca is in discussion with a few ports regarding this.”
Going local
Norwegian chemical company Yara International and technology group Kongsberg have been working on the Yara Birkeland Autonomous Ship Project since 2017, with plans to put an electric, autonomous container ship into service.
This effort would span three ports and 12 nautical miles in southern Norway.
Above: Yara Birkeland’s proposed route in southern Norway
Above: Yara Birkeland
The ship, which sports various sensors, including radar, lidar, and infrared cameras, has an automatic mooring system — berthing and unberthing will be done without any human intervention.
Along the route, operation centers will be equipped to handle emergency situations remotely and support the onboard AI’s decision-making.
Above: Kongsberg’s operational control center for the Yara Birkeland
The Yara Birkeland will have a crew initially, and the transition to full autonomy will be done in stages, thanks in part to the development of a detachable bridge (command center).
“Even before the vessel starts its operation, there will be a level of automated capabilities for maneuvering, positioning, moorings, and supporting the crew,” An-Magritt Tinlund Ryste, product director for next-generation shipping at Kongsberg, told VentureBeat.
“We foresee that we will be required to implement new autonomous functionality gradually to verify the performance in real-life operational scenarios before we arrive at the final stages where the vessel, the connectivity solution, and the remote operation center are sufficiently tested to allow for unmanned operation.”
While the Yara Birkeland was scheduled to transition to full automation by 2022, the COVID-19 crisis has forced developers to “pause” work on the project.
Such setbacks are not ideal, but Ryste suggested the pandemic could accelerate the broader autonomous ship movement, as “ship owners and operators have an increased incentive to invest in new technology for the future, with a focus on support and surveillance from land.”
The Yara Birkeland represents part of Kongsberg’s wider effort to bring more autonomy to seafaring vessels.
The company has already developed and demonstrated autocrossing and autodocking technology, and the first “adaptive transit” passenger ferry service traveled from dock to dock earlier this year.
This was done through a collaboration between the Norwegian Maritime Authority (NMA), shipping company Bastø Fosen, and Kongsberg.
The launch kick-started a six-month trial, during which Kongsberg’s system controlled the ferry’s journey from start to finish, with a captain overseeing the trip from inside the bridge.
The next step is to install an anti-collision system, and tests are scheduled for later this year.
Kongsberg partnered in 2018 with maritime industry group Wilhelmsen to launch a joint venture called Massterly, designing land-based operation centers to monitor and control autonomous ships in Norway and further afield.
This echoes what we’re seeing in the broader autonomous vehicle realm.
Sweden’s Einride recently showcased remote driving stations where teleoperators — many of them former truck drivers — can take control of Einride’s autonomous trucks when required, with an operator able to control multiple vehicles from a single station.
Above: Einride operators will be able to control multiple autonomous trucks from a single remote station
Einride demonstrates that while some jobs will be lost to AI and automation, new ones will be created.
For autonomous shipping, this could mean new roles for staff overseeing ships remotely.
This shift will also expand the talent pool to include people in new locations.
“Remote services are here to stay,” Ryste continued.
“We see it working well for people working from home, and with more sensors and connected vessels, the need for having a service engineer on board also decreases.
This gives you access to an expert in a time zone convenient for the vessel crew.”
The pandemic will likely accelerate efforts to incorporate autonomous technology in shipping.
“I think that what has happened during the COVID-19 crisis will strengthen the argument for the push toward autonomous ships,” Kongsberg research and innovation manager Jason McFarlane told VentureBeat.
“In particular, in relation to the restriction of people’s movement and the challenges with crew changes.
Autonomous shipping, especially for unmanned vessels, should allow freight and cargo to be transported internationally and across borders without being affected by restrictions on people’s movement.”
We’ve already seen similar activity in other industries — from the passage of laws to updated corporate work-from-home policies and the adoption of new technologies.
In the shipping industry, as with others, such changes could open the door to a more permanent shift.
“The focus has changed, and we see that even if restrictions are lifted temporarily, opening up for testing new solutions might just become a permanent solution as we adapt to new methods or technology,” Ryste added.
Later this year, IBM and Promare — a U.K.-based marine research and exploration organization — are scheduled to send a crewless ship across the Atlantic Ocean on the route the original Mayflower traveled exactly 400 years ago.
Above: Mayflower Autonomous Ship route map
The Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) is propelled by a combination of solar- and wind-generated power, with a diesel generator on board as backup.
It also sports an onboard “AI Captain” and will leverage edge computing for its AI and navigational smarts.
All the data processing must be available on the ship because a vessel in the middle of the ocean can’t rely on satellites or cloud connectivity.
The team behind the new Mayflower has trained the ship’s AI models using millions of maritime images collected from cameras in the Plymouth Sound, among other open source data sets.
The Mayflower’s AI Captain is built to detect and identify ships and buoys — as well as other hazards — and to make decisions about what to do next.
An onboard automatic identification system (AIS) can also access specific information about any vessels ahead, including their class, weight, speed, and cargo type, while the AI Captain can accept and interpret radio broadcast warnings from a cargo ship.
Above: The Mayflower Autonomous Ship’s AI Captain in operation
This mission is mostly about showcasing how an autonomous research vessel can manage on its own for two weeks at sea, but it sets the stage for further use cases, from defense and commercial shipping to marine insurance.
“Right now, we are focused on increasing the reliability of our autonomous systems and developing an ecosystem of partners — from IBM to equipment manufacturers to telecoms providers to insurance providers — to figure out how to commercially deploy the systems we have on [the] Mayflower,” Mayflower Autonomous Ship director Brett Phaneuf said.
“What we are doing here is very much a research project for something much bigger than this one ship.”
AI and autonomy could certainly provide utility beyond cargo vessels.
Research ships may spend weeks or months at sea collecting data about the ocean, and removing crews would facilitate longer missions by taking food storage and personal well-being out of the equation.
In terms of the COVID-19 crisis, more automation could mean fewer people on board, which should help with social distancing efforts.
“We are already seeing the early examples of autonomous ferries, cargo ships, and research vessels like the Mayflower Autonomous Ship,” Phaneuf continued.
“But perhaps the greater, more immediate need for autonomy is on manned vessels.
This may sound counterintuitive, but there is an important role for autonomous systems on the manned ships of today, acting as a cocaptain, maintaining situational awareness, [and] providing recommendations and decision support to the human crew.”
We’re talking about “augmented intelligence,” as Phaneuf puts it, with machines helping people accomplish core tasks and reduce risks.
“A trusted autonomous system can reduce the stress on the bridge by consistently monitoring the overall navigational situation of the vessel,” Phaneuf added.
“This will allow humans to get their heads up and out of the computer screens and instead looking out the window and doing what humans do best — making complex decisions swiftly and accurately.”
It might not make sense for certain types of vessels to become completely autonomous, whether for logistical, regulatory, or financial reasons.
“This is not likely to be a zero-sum game, but more of a hybrid approach,” Phaneuf continued.
“For example, it may not make sense to replace the whole crew of a container ship with a fully autonomous system because the cost of the crew actually represents very little in the overall value of the ship and its cargo.
As such, there may not be an economic driver for this level of change.
However, there are other factors to take into consideration — such as the well-being of the crew and equipping people with the skills they need for the shipping industry jobs of the future.”
The future of autonomous shipping
Many newer ships are already highly automated, at least in terms of being able to passively gather performance metrics for remote analysis, and technology can also enable diagnostics and repairs from afar.
But the pandemic has highlighted the role automation can play.
Global trade today relies on ships and crews traversing vast oceans, and fully autonomous cargo vessels that can cover these distances are likely still a long way off, if they ever arrive.
Barriers include technological and regulatory constraints, not to mention practical obstacles, such as the need to carry out maintenance on longer voyages.
Domestic journeys are a natural starting point for autonomous ships because they don’t require international cooperation, and a vessel that remains relatively close to shore — such as the Yara Birkeland on its proposed route in southern Norway — can adhere to safety standards with on-shore personnel able to physically (or remotely) intervene in an emergency.
“From a regulatory perspective, the challenge (with longer, international automated routes) lies within the fact that the IMO (International Maritime Organization) does not have a common and internationally acknowledged way of granting approval [for] such vessels as the Yara Birkeland,” Ryste said.
“This means there is a likelihood of encountering varying rules and regulations between flag states and port authorities.
This is manageable for point-to-point operation but will be a too-demanding administrative task when more parties are involved — at least, at the moment.”
As COVID-19 shifts global structures and accelerates innovation, we’re already seeing how autonomous tools could help ships continue operating through future pandemics.
And while some jobs will likely be lost as automation takes hold, technology is unlikely to replace humans across the board.
“For decades, autonomous systems have been used to assist humans in dangerous work, such as clearing up after accidents or dealing with highly dangerous substances or infectious diseases,” Phaneuf noted.
As autonomous systems improve, their role “will likely increase, but [it] will need to be part of a larger, interconnected network of manned, unmanned, automated, and autonomous systems on water, in air, and on land.”
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The Long Blue Line: How 80 Coast guardsmen saved an Alaskan town during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1919
Coast guard-manned USS Unalga underway in an Alaskan ice field. (NOAA)
From CoastGuard blog by BM1 William A. Bleyer, United States Coast Guard
Occasion sometimes aris in which the officers and crews are called upon to face situations of desperate human need which put their resourcefulness and energy, and even their courage, to the severest test.
“The Influenza at Unalaska and Dutch Harbor,” U.S. Coast Guard Annual Report, 1920
As the testament above indicates, The Coast Guard’s response to the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Alaska would prove the ultimate test of bravery and endurance.
Pandemic, quarantines, social distancing and facemasks–too familiar today.
These terms resonated with equal disquiet for Americans 100 years ago as the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 affected nearly every corner of the globe.
It caused the deaths of between 25 and 50 million people, more than all who died in World War I.
Even in regions with the most advanced medical care, Spanish Influenza killed approximately three percent of all victims.
Crew members of Unalga burying the dead at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral. (NOAA)
Medical care in the remote territory of Alaska was far from advanced.
When the pandemic arrived in the spring of 1919, it wiped out entire villages.
At the time, Alaska was “an American colony [which] occupied a political status somewhere between a government protectorate and an industrial resource”1 and the presence of Federal Government assets in this immense territory was minimal.
In late May 1919, USS Unalga was patrolling in Seredka Bay off Akun Island, in Alaska’s Aleutian Island chain.
World War I had ended just six months prior, so – like all Coast Guard-manned cutters – Unalga and its crew still served as part of the U.S. Navy.
At 190 feet, the Unalga’s white hull was only somewhat longer than modern Fast Response Cutters patrolling Alaska’s waters today.
And while Unalga’s daily operations were fundamentally similar to today’s FRCs, they were much broader.
An Alaskan patrol in 1919 could consist of law enforcement boardings of fishing and sealing vessels; inspecting canneries; transporting mail, supplies, passengers, and prisoners; rescuing shipwrecked or stranded victims; rendering medical care; acting as a floating court; and resolving labor disputes.
On May 26th, Unalga was resting at anchor following a routine day of seamanship and signals training.
At around 4 p.m., an urgent radio message arrived.
The settlement of Unalaska on nearby Unalaska Island was suffering from a severe outbreak of Spanish Influenza.
The cutter’s commanding officer, Capt. Frederick Dodge, prepared to get the Unalga underway at dawn.
Members of Unalga’s crew shepherding orphan children to safety.
(NOAA)
That night, Unalga received another radiogram–the region around Bristol Bay, on Alaska’s southwestern mainland, needed urgent help to cope with its own outbreak.
Dodge faced a dilemma: the Unalga could not be in two places at once.
He radioed his command that he was setting a course for the closer Unalaska to assess the situation.
Remote even today, in 1919 Unalaska and adjacent Dutch Harbor were tiny villages with a combined population of about 360 people, mostly of Aleut or mixed Russian-native ancestry.
There was only one doctor on the entire island.
After arriving, Unalga’s crew disembarked to a horrific scene.
Nearly the entire settlement was infected, including the only doctor and all but one operator at Dutch Harbor’s Navy radio station.
The situation was critical as historian Alfred Crosby noted in America’s Forgotten Pandemic:
very large proportions of isolated populations tended to contract Spanish Influenza all at once.
The sick outnumbered those doing the nursing.
The sick, therefore, lacked fluids, food, and proper care, which caused very high death rates… effective leadership was vital to keeping death rates down.
If complacency, incompetence, sickness, or bad luck crippled the ability of the leaders to react efficiently to the pandemic, then Spanish Influenza could be as deadly as the Black Death.
A building commandeered by Unalga’s commanding officer, Captain Frederick Dodge, and named “USS UNALGA ORPHAN HOME.” (NOAA)
It now fell to the men of the Unalga to provide lifesaving leadership and medical care.
Out of the Unalga’s crew of approximately 80 men, only three had medical training: Ship’s Surgeon Lt. j.g. Dr. F.H. Johnson (U.S. Public Health Service), Lt. E.W. Scott (U.S. Navy Dental Corps), and Pharmacist’s Mate 1/class E.S. Chase.
These men began coordinating the town’s medical care.
Together, they assembled a group of volunteers from the crew that kept growing until it included personnel drawn from every department on board the cutter.
From May 26th to June 4th, Unalga proved the difference between life and death for the inhabitants of Unalaska.
Captain Dodge initiated feeding the town using Unalga’s food stores.
Crewmembers delivered 350 prepared meals on the first day and, by the height of the pandemic, they were delivering more than 1,000 meals per day.
Villagers ranked the ship’s emergency rations somewhere between awful and lousy, but they ate them.
Orphans and a caretaker at the Unalga Orphan Home.
Every crewmember engaged in some aspect of relief work.
Nicknamed “gobs,” those not caring for the sick provided logistical support, such as keeping fires for incapacitated villagers or helping prepare or deliver food.
Other crewmen took over operation of the Navy radio station in Dutch Harbor.
The men even built a temporary hospital outfitted with plumbing and electrified by the cutter’s generator.
Caring for the sick and burying the dead was an exhausting and emotionally challenging job.
Death by “The Spanish Lady” (the disease’s elegantly macabre nickname) was often horrific.
Victims frequently suffered from double pneumonia and drowned when their lungs filled with fluid, some of it oozing out of their noses and mouths when they died.
The crewmembers nursed the sick with no protective equipment except cloth facemasks, exposing themselves to infection.
Several men became ill, including Dodge.
He determined he was well enough to remain in command and later recovered.
While Unalga’s crew did their best to save lives, they ultimately had to inter 45 victims beneath white Russian Orthodox crosses in Unalaska’s cemetery.
Unalga’s crew wearing “Flu” masks.
All the cutter’s crew members involved in the humanitarian effort volunteered to help.
Unalga’s crew also cared for the children of the deceased or incapacitated.
Unlike seasonal flu, Spanish Influenza acutely affected young adults, probably because it provoked an overreaction in the victims’ immune system.
This had the tragic effect of creating a number of orphans.
Even if not infected, these children were vulnerable to starvation, freezing, or attack by feral dogs, described by Unalga’s men as similar to ravenous wolves.
Unalaska had its own orphanage, the Jesse Lee Home, but when that filled up, a vacant house was requisitioned and named the “USS UNALGA Orphan Home.”
When that also filled, Dodge started housing children in the town jail under the care of the town marshal.
Among these orphans was Benny Benson, who later designed the state flag of Alaska.
Unalga’s Master-at-Arms, Peter “Big Pete” Bugaras volunteered to care for the orphans.
An enlisted man responsible for enforcing ship’s discipline and handling prisoners, Bugaras had a reputation as “the strongest man in the Coast Guard Service,” and was described as “Greek by birth, a born fighter of men, and protector of all things helpless and small.” Burly and big-hearted, Bugaras took responsibility for running the UNALGA Orphan Home.
He had his men fashion clothes for the children by tracing outlines of their bodies on bolts of cloth and cutting them out.
Several women in the village were appalled to see Bugaras enthusiastically scrubbing children clean with the same vigor he used on dogs, but by all accounts the little ones loved him.
Outside help finally arrived on June 3rd, when Coast Guard Cutter Bear dropped anchor.
Under the combined effort of the two cutter crews, many of the surviving victims began to recover and the pandemic subsided.
Navy vessels also arrived.
In the words of Unalga officer Eugene Coffin: “Navy ships and nurses were sent to Unalaska after we yelled for them.” With the arrival of warships USS Vicksburg and USS Marblehead in mid-June, Dodge resupplied the Unalga to set sail for Bristol Bay.
Unalaska’s last death occurred June 13th and with its departure on June 17th, the Unalga’s relief of Unalaska officially ended.
Unalga men burying the dead at the Russian Orthodox Cemetery in Unalaska.
The Unalga’s care of Unalaska’s inhabitants had been somewhat rough-hewn but effective.
During the cutter’s relief effort, the local mortality rate had hovered around 12 percent, while other areas in Alaska experienced up to 90 percent.
The Coast Guardsmen of the Unalga were far from saints, but for years later the inhabitants of Unalaska remembered them as saviors.
In July 1919, Unalaska’s Russian Orthodox priest, Dimitri Hotovitzky, and Aleut Chief, Alexei Yatchmeneff, co-wrote a letter to Dodge stating “We feel had it not been for the prompt and efficient work of the Unalga, when everyone willingly and readily exposed himself to succor the sick, Unalaska’s population might have been reduced to a very small number if not entirely wiped out.”
While Unalga’s performance at Unalaska drew universal acclaim, the cutter and USS Marblehead were criticized for arriving in the Bristol Bay region too late to make a difference.
As the disease had largely run its course, Unalga’s crew worked with the Marblehead’s Navy personnel to provide for the remaining medical care and relief work in the community.
When the pandemic finally released Alaska from its grip, nearly 3,000 inhabitants had died.
Nearly all of the dead were Native Alaskans, an irreparable loss to the indigenous community and its culture.
Unalga’s officers, including: Standing: Lieutenant Junior Grade Willie B. Huebner USNRF; Captain Eugene Auguste Coffin USCG; Captain Warner Keith Thompson USCG; Captain Theodore Graham Lewton USCG; Lieutenant E. W. Scott USNRF (Dental Corps); Lieutenant Junior Grade Dr. F. H.
Johnson USPHS.
Sitting: Lieutenant Carl E. Anderson USNRF; Senior Captain Frederick Gilbert Dodge USCG; Lieutenant Gordon Whiting MacLane USCG.
Every pandemic and its tragedies are unique, but in the Coast Guard’s response today we can hear echoes of 1919, when the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Unalga quarantined and rendered pandemic relief to the remote Alaskan settlement of Unalaska.
Cutter Unalga and the men who sailed aboard it made history as part of the lore of Alaska and the long blue line.
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Greenland's melting ice sheet has 'passed the point of no return,' scientists say, dooming it to disappear
Ice melted during a heat wave in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland on August 1, 2019.
Caspar Haarloev from "Into the Ice" documentary via Reuters
From BusinessInsider by Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Rising temperatures have driven Greenland's glaciers past a critical tipping point, where snowfall can no longer replenish melting ice.
Greenland's ice sheet may have passed a point of no return, setting it on an irreversible path to disappearance, according to researchers at Ohio State University.
Snowfall can no longer replenish the ice lost as Greenland's glaciers retreat, so it will keep melting and cause catastrophic sea-level rise, even if global temperatures stop rising.
The climate crisis could bring about other tipping points in the Arctic and the Amazon, but there may still be time to avoid those.
Greenland's ice sheet may have hit a tipping point that sets it on an irreversible path to completely disappearing.
Snowfall that normally replenishes Greenland's glaciers each year can no longer keep up with the pace of ice melt, according to researchers at Ohio State University.
That means that the Greenland ice sheet — the world's second-largest ice body — would continue to lose ice even if global temperatures stop rising.
The Brückner and Heim glaciers in southeast Greenland.
Greenland is the second largest ice cap in the world after the Antarctic.
Jeremy Harbeck / NASA / AFP
Heim glacier in the GeoGarage platform (DGA Denmark nautical arster chart)
In their study, published Thursday in the journal Nature, the scientists reviewed 40 years of monthly satellite data from more than 200 large glaciers that are draining into the ocean across Greenland.
"What we've found is that the ice that's discharging into the ocean is far surpassing the snow that's accumulating on the surface of the ice sheet," Michalea King, the study's lead author and researcher at Ohio State University's Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, said in a press release.
Complete melting of the Greenland ice sheet could raise sea levels 23 feet by the year 3000.
If that happens, the ocean would swallow coastal cities across the globe.
Greenland's ice is already the world's largest single contributor to sea-level rise.
In just the next 80 years, its current melt rate would add another 2.75 inches to global sea levels, according to a study published in December.
Satellite image shows meltwater ponding on the surface of the ice sheet in northwest Greenland near the sheet’s edge on Monday, July 30, 2019.
While the heat wave broke in Western Europe after a few days, extreme temperatures shifted north and caused massive ice melts in Greenland and the Arctic.NASA via Associated Press
"Glacier retreat has knocked the dynamics of the whole ice sheet into a constant state of loss," Ian Howat, a glaciologist and co-author on the paper, said in the release.
"Even if the climate were to stay the same or even get a little colder, the ice sheet would still be losing mass."
But this is just one of many climate-change tipping points that human activity might bring about.
There is still time to avoid irreversible pathways to other calamities.
There are more points of no return
The amount of ice Greenland loses each year has steadily increased in the last two decades.
Before 2000, the researchers found, the ice sheet had an equal chance of gaining or losing mass each year.
But in the climate of the last 20 years, it will only gain mass one in every 100 years, the researchers found.
Greenland dumped an unprecedented amount of ice and water into the ocean during the summer of 2019, when a heat wave from Europe washed over the island.
The ice sheet lost 55 billion tons of water over five days — enough to cover the state of Florida in almost five inches of water.
Ice melt formed whitewaters in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland on August 1, 2019.
Melt brings about more melt, as water pooling across the ice sheet absorbs more sunlight and further heats everything around it.
That's why tipping points like Greenland's accelerate ice loss so much.
Rising global temperatures and certain human activities can bring about tipping points in other parts of the world, too.
In the Arctic, ice melt is exposing permafrost — frozen soil that releases powerful greenhouse gases when it thaws.
If warming thaws enough permafrost, the gases released will trap heat faster than humans' fossil-fuel emissions.
In the Amazon rainforest, humans have been cutting and burning trees for years, allowing moisture to escape the ecosystem.
Enough deforestation could trigger a process called "dieback," in which the rainforest would dry up, burn, and become a savanna-like landscape, releasing up to 140 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere.
Last year, leading rainforest scientists warned that the Amazon is "teetering on the edge" of that threshold.
In this aerial view melting ice forms a lake on free-floating ice jammed into the Ilulissat Icefjord during unseasonably warm weather on July 30, 2019 near Ilulissat, Greenland.
Still, scientists say that switching to less carbon-intensive forms of energy, like solar power, and reducing unsustainable logging and mining can help us avoid those disasters.
Even for the Greenland ice sheet, the future holds more tipping points — degrees of collapse that will accelerate the glaciers' melt even more.
Limiting global warming could delay those tipping points and give the world more time to prepare.
"We've passed the point of no return, but there's obviously more to come," Howat told CNN.
"Rather than being a single tipping point in which we've gone from a happy ice sheet to a rapidly collapsing ice sheet, it's more of a staircase where we've fallen off the first step but there's many more steps to go down into the pit."
InsideClimate News : Going, Going ... Gone: Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet Passed a Point of No Return in the Early 2000s
CNN : Greenland's ice sheet has melted to a point of no return, according to new study / Ocean warming is causing massive ice sheet loss in Greenland and Antarctica, NASA study shows
BBC : Climate change: Satellites record history of Antarctic melting
ArcticToday : Greenland’s ice has shrunk beyond return, a new study finds
National Geographic : Arctic summer sea ice could disappear as early as 2035
NYTimes : Konrad Steffen, Who Sounded Alarm on Greenland Ice, Dies at 68
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