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Built-In Battery Makes Acer Aspire AIO Portable
Acer's Aspire R 14 convertible notebook and Aspire Z3-700 portable all-in-one PC are Windows 10 ready.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/built-in-battery-makes-acer-aspire-aio-portable
Acer is adding several new Windows 10 devices to its lineup.
The Aspire R 14 convertible notebook and Aspire Z3-700 portable all-in-one PC take advantage of features like Cortana, Continuum, Microsoft Edge, and the Xbox app.
Weighing in at 3.5 lbs, the R 14 convertible laptop (left) sports a screen that folds over into a tablet, or turns 180 degrees for display mode. Only 18.5mm thin, the machine features Intel sixth-gen processors, up to 8GB of RAM, and solid-state drives. It also has integrated MU-MIMO wireless technology.
Available in North America later this month, the Acer Aspire R 14 starts at $699.
Its all-in-one sibling (above), meanwhile, is built for portability around the house or office; use the 1080p HD touch screen as a mobile slate, or flip out the kickstands for full laptop functionality. The Z3-700 is powered by Intel Pentium or Celeron processors, and includes up to 8GB of RAM and the choice of SSD or mechanical hard disk options.
Notably, the AIO sports a built-in battery that will last for up to five hours, so you could conceivably move it around the house and use it without plugging it in.
A release date is yet to be announced; Acer expects the computer to go on sale in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa by the end of the year, with prices starting at €599.
The pair are optimized with top-of-the-line audio, and feature Acer's BluelightShield technology to reduce eye strain.
During a launch event in Taipei, Acer also demoed its Liquid Jade Primo smartphone with Continuum, which links PCs and Windows 10 phones to provide a connected, second-screen experience.
"Acer showcased a range of new devices, enabling Windows 10 devices to be accessible to everyone from office workers to students to people in emerging markets around the world," Terry Myerson, executive vice president of Redmond's Windows and Devices Group, wrote in a blog post.
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Infographic: Twilight, Hunger Games Top Facebook 2012 Pop Culture Chatter
According to social software company Expion, the last installment of the Twilight Saga movies earned the majority of Facebook fan actions in 2012, beating even the third top-grossing film of all time.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/infographic-twilight-hunger-games-top-facebook-2012-pop-culture-chatter
Facebook users are by no means professional entertainment critics, but their opinions seem to matter to popular culture. So what topped the Facebook collective's movie and TV list in 2012?
According to social software company Expion, the last installment of the Twilight saga, Breaking Dawn Part 2 earned a whopping 18 million nods in activity, beating even the third top-grossing film of all time.
Second most popular was the Jennifer Lawrence-led The Hunger Games, carrying 6.6 million actions. The two teen-lit-turned-big-screen-blockbusters faced off in an all-over Facebook challenge, volleying the popularity ball back and forth. Though the sparkly baseball-playing vampires earned 36.8 million Facebook fans (compared to 8.3 million for The Hunger Games), the team behind Lawrence's futuristic war games flick wrote 280 posts throughout the year, compared to the 63 Expion counted for Twilight.
Filling out the top five were the massive spring hit The Avengers and its heroic 4.1 million mentions, followed by the last in Christopher Nolan's Batman series, The Dark Knight Rises, which earned a respectable 3.5 million comments, before Kristen Stewart's Snow White and the Huntsman's 646,864 mentions landed the starlet in her second spot on the list.
Meanwhile, total fan actions dropped Ted and Magic Mike onto the top of the most comedic and most dramatic categories, respectively. Pitch Perfect (635,512 actions), 21 Jump Street (392,769 actions), The Vow (1,564,931 actions), and Argo (77,234 actions) also made a splash with Facebook users.
Channing Tatum – a popular star last year among social media fans – also garnered more mentions on Facebook than any of his scantily clad Magic Mike co-stars, including Matthew McConaughey, whose 39 mentions fell flat next to Tatum's 60, according to Expion.
As entertainment becomes more socially interactive, more people take to the online networks to share their thoughts and feelings about their favorite TV show or the characters they love to hate. Based on the infographic, the favorite network TV drama of 2012 was Grey's Anatomy, which earned 8,319,674 total fan actions (though Expion doesn't clarify whether those are positive or negative comments), followed by Once Upon a Time (7 million), Grimm (2.8 million), and the final season of Gossip Girl (2.6 million).
Meanwhile, Conan O'Brien the favorite late-night talk show host, based on the 1.8 million fan actions his name earned in 2012. Second-place winner Chelsea Handler earned a close 1.6 million, beating seasoned vets Jimmy Fallon (424,000), David Letterman (273, 000), and Jimmy Kimmel (206,000).
For a closer look at Expion's findings, check out the infographic below.
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Microsoft Releases Translator Apps for iOS, Android
The app supports around 50 languages and works with both Apple and Android smartwatches.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-releases-translator-apps-for-ios-android
There's a fight brewing in translation-ville. In one corner, Google, which has done a great job of beating many established players with its fairly useful Web-based translation tools (apps, too). In the other corner, Microsoft, which feels that the market of people needing apps that can translate one language to another is far from saturated just yet.
The solution? Microsoft has officially released its new Microsoft Translator app for iOS and Android. The app works with smartphones, tablets, and Android Wear smartwatches—as well as the Apple Watch. It's pretty easy to use, too. Pull up the app on the device of your choosing and either type or talk the word or phrase that you need a translation for. Wait a moment, and boom. Instant translation.
"Wearables are a fascinating place to understand user experiences for translation. No other type of device allows people to interact with so little physical intrusion from the device itself— PC's, tablets, and even phones can be occasionally awkward and unnatural in the middle of a conversation. With these smart devices, we want to learn how people use the apps and how effective the translation experiences can be. By integrating translation capabilities into devices that are instantly on hand (pun intended), we hope to continue to break down the last barrier in human communication— language," reads a blog post from Microsoft.
The app can do a little bit more than just raw translation, too. If there are certain translations that you find yourself always needing—"I don't speak [language]," for example—you can pin then within the app itself for easy access. You can also pull up a history of words or phrases you've previously translated, in case you want to go back and do a bit of learning while you're killing some time on the train / bus / wherever. The app supports 50 or so languages in total, which is nearly double the amount currently supported by Google's Translate app. (Google's app also doesn't work on Android Wear, oddly enough; Microsoft's does.)
However, Google's app does have one impressive feature Microsoft's lacks: The ability to point your smartphone's camera at something (like a street sign) and receive an instant translation of whatever it is you're looking at.
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"Our researchers are continuously looking at the most effective ways to bring down linguistic barriers by solving significant technical and interaction design challenges. Today, we have a number of ways in which Microsoft Translator is accessible to our users— on the web, as part of your search experience, through many experiences built by our developer community, via Office and more. Most recently we worked closely with our friends in Skype to deliver an entirely new interaction model for translation by enabling long distance real-time speech translation. Like we did with Skype Translator, we have been thinking about how wearable technology might affect language and translation experiences. The new wearable apps we are releasing today are part of this exploration," reads Microsoft's blog post.
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Sony PlayStation Games
Test Final Fantasy XIV Beta for Free on PS4 This Weekend
Anything you do in this weekend's free beta will transfer over to the "real" version of the game when it launches.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/test-final-fantasy-xiv-beta-for-free-on-ps4-this-weekend
Get excited, Final Fantasy fans – especially those of you who have been itching to check out the massively multiplayer title Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn on the PlayStation 4.
Square Enix has officially announced that it's kicking off one final beta test of the game prior to its April 14 launch, and you — and everyone else you know — are invited to participate.
"From April 4-7 everyone will be able to join the last rehearsal before the show starts. All you need to do is access the PlayStation Store, search for Final Fantasy and install the beta (please uninstall the first beta client before doing so, should you still have it installed). Our beta will make sure that we clean the game up for its Early Access period (for those who pre-ordered their copy)," reads a post from Square Enix community manager Hergen Thaens.
"The beta will take place on live servers! So you will see the same worlds, the same game that 1.8 million players all around the world are already enjoying. And you will be able to continue playing them, once you bought the game," he added.
Got it? Easy enough, but there are a few fun details for those who might be new to the world of MMO betas. For starters, if you plan to purchase the final retail version of the game, you might as well grab the beta right now — that which you download will also serve as the game's official client once a few updates are applied at the game's official launch.
Second, anything you do in the brief weekend beta will carry over to the retail launch. That's sometimes a rarity in MMO betas, as developers often like to perform one final reset-and-wipe of characters prior to a game going live. In the case of Final Fantasy XIV, the game already is live. This is just a beta test for the PlayStation 4 iteration, so it's great to see that Square Enix is allowing players to keep that which they (frantically) do over the next few days come the game's retail release.
Additionally, if you're already playing the game on the PC or PlayStation 3, you can drag your character over to the PS4 version and continue there. Transferring your character between the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 versions of the game will be a free process come Early Release day, but you only have until December 31, 2014 to do it.
Best of luck, weekend beta players; here's hoping server queues aren't astronomical.
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Will Ted Lasso Score a Second Season? Here's What We Know
Will There Be a Ted Lasso Season 2?
November 25, 2020 by Ashley Broadwater
I feel like we've scored a goal: Ted Lasso, the feel-good comedy on Apple TV+ starring Jason Sudeikis, will have a second season. The first season is full of positivity and fun as Sudekis's Ted, an American football coach, is hired to coach an English soccer team despite having no experience. However, he has many optimistic moments and quotable lines like, "When it comes to locker rooms, I like them just like my mother's bathing suit — I only want to see them in one piece." The humor will continue in season two, which will debut in 2021 and include 10 episodes. Apple renewed season two only a week after the first season premiered, and it also already confirmed season three!
As far as the plot of Ted Lasso season two, Brett Goldstein, who writes for the show and plays Roy, doesn't want to spill any spoilers. "We've already started to write season two. But I can't tell you anything. I don't want to spoil anything, because we have some nice surprises planned," he said. According to Bill Lawrence, the executive producer, season two will not include a COVID-19 storyline. "When we shot it the first time, this wasn't on our radar," he said. "If [COVID-19] is still a day-to-day issue when a second season comes out . . . people are going to want escapist entertainment. Half-empty stadiums with Zoom crowds? It's too weird to even be writing."
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Potter's Army
Potter’s Army is a roleplaying site that’s been alive and active for nearly eight years now. The plot is set in an Alternate Universe where Lord Voldemort is dead, but Harry Potter went missing and is presumed dead as well. The factions continue to fight, Hogwarts educates the next generation of witches and wizards, and the Ministry of Magic does its best to hold everything together.
Beginners are sure to find a welcoming and helpful community, and all levels of writers are accepted and encouraged to join. PA is a brilliant place to experience and explore the Harry Potter universe with canon and original characters of your own.
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PA is officially closed. But all the posts and memories will still be here! Feel free to leave a message on the chatbox, and make sure to check out the discord as well!
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WELCOME BACK, ALUMNI! Potter’s Army is a roleplaying site that's been up and running since 2007. We have just revamped the site for an AU version of our previous PA adventures, with our old writing buddies.
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Name: Evander Yaxley
Appearance: Dark hair (dyed, was originally blonde), grey-ish blue eyes, on the taller side with an average build.
Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw
Facts Known About Character: He is the younger of twins, being born two minutes after his brother
He comes from a pureblood family, who are generally associated with the DE's
He's generally shy, only speaking to close friends
Rumors Known About Character: Some think hes stuck up because he doesn't talk to a lot of people.
It is believed that he is going to be a part of the DE's when he graduates.
Bio: Evander doesn't like confrontation or conflict, and tends to just do as he is told. As he gets older, he's been trying to pull himself away from that habit, having told himself that it wasn't healthy. And that he didn't want to be anyone's puppet. He's always liked reading, often being found with his nose in a book somewhere; the library, or his common room. The one thing Evander has always hated, it being the second born because he believes that his family pays more attention ot his brother than him because he is the "heir" to their family.
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Play Sound and PowerPoint Animation at the Same Time
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How Do I Get the Sound to Play at the Same Time as a PowerPoint Animation?
Start sound with previous powerpoint animation.
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powerpoint Sound Problem
A reader asks:
"I have tried to make the sound on a powerpoint slide play at the same time as an animation, but it just will not work. How do I do this?"
This is another of those little powerpoint conundrums. Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. I have found that it all depends on which method you use to tell the music to play at the same time as the animation.
To that end, I will show you first which is the wrong way to set this up.
Note – I have to say though, that you, as the creator of this presentation have been led down the garden path by Microsoft. There is no reason why this should not work, but the developers missed a connection somehow when setting up this procedure.
Steps to Make Sound Play at Same Time as Animation
Add an animation to the object on the slide (whether it is a text box or a graphic object such as a picture or an Excel chart).
Insert the sound file onto the slide.
Click on the Animations tab of the ribbon.
Towards the right side of the ribbon, in the Advanced Animation section, click on the Animation Pane button. The Animation Pane will open on the right side of the screen.
In the Animation Pane click on the drop down arrow at the right end of the listing for the sound file you added. (The sound file may have a generic name or a specific name, depending on what sound file is being used.)
**Stop after Step 5 shown above and read on**
Note the entry in this list of options called Start With Previous. When checking this option, it is understood that the sound file will play at the same time as the animation (the previous item). This is where the problem arises.
Next – Why There is a Problem With This Method
The Reason Why Sound Will Not Play with powerpoint Animation
This is the reason why the sound will not play with the powerpoint animation.
That Little Microsoft Error – See For Yourself
Follow Steps 1 – 5 on the previous page. These steps all work fine. The problem arises if you then choose the option Start With Previous from the drop down menu of selections.
Test your slide show by pressing the shortcut key F5 to start the slide show, and you will notice that the sound does not play with the animation on this slide.
(Note – To start the slide show from the current slide — if your slide with the sound file is not the first slide — use the keyboard shortcut key combination of Shift + F5.)
In the Animation Pane, click the drop down arrow beside the sound file and choose Timing… The Play Audio dialog box will open.
Click on the Timing tab of the dialog box selections.
Refer to the image above and note that With Previous is selected beside the Start: selection.
Most importantly note that the selection Animate as part of click sequence is NOT selected. This is the reason why your music or sound file did not play. This option needs to be selected and should have been selected if there was not a small glitch in this programming feature.
Select Animate as part of click sequence and click the OK button. The problem is fixed.
Next – Save Steps to Make Sound Play at Same Time as powerpoint Animation
Save Steps to Make Sound Play at Same Time as powerpoint Animation
Sequence of steps to get sound to play with powerpoint animation.
Save Time When Selecting Sound to Play with Animation
Follow Steps 1- 5 on the first page of this tutorial.
In the Animation Pane, click on the Timing… option in the list of selections for the sound file.
In the Play Audio dialog box that opens, select With Previous beside the option for Start:
Note that Animation as part of click sequence is selected automatically. This is correct.
Click the OK button to apply these options and close the dialog box.
Test the slide show by pressing the F5 key to start the show from the beginning or instead, press the shortcut key combination Shift + F5 to start the show from the current slide, if the slide in question is not the first slide.
The sound should play with the animation as intended.
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Quantity Surveyor (Global Consultancy PQS) We are working exclusively with the commercial department of...
Metrolink returns to Manchester Victoria
The revamped Manchester Victoria Metrolink stop has opened this morning for trams to and from Bury and Rochdale.
Network Rail is delivering an overhaul of the stop, including new platforms and tracks, as part of the station's wider transformation that has been ongoing since February 2014. An extended programme of work on the Metrolink line began on Saturday 14 February.
Services through Victoria to Shudehill, Market Street and beyond are expected to resume from the start of service on Saturday 21 February, when track work along Balloon Street is complete.
That will result in the restoration of the six-minute service from Bury to the city centre and a direct Victoria to Piccadilly link. Until then, Metrolink services will run as follows and a shuttle bus will run between Piccadilly and Victoria to provide connections:
Bury to Victoria
Oldham-Rochdale to Victoria
Altrincham to Piccadilly
East Didsbury to Piccadilly
Eccles to Ashton, via MediaCityUK
Manchester Airport to Cornbrook
The redesigned and expanded Manchester Victoria Metrolink stop will ultimately allow more frequent and flexible services to run through the iconic city centre railway station as part of the new second city crossing and wider tram network expansion.
Peter Cushing, Transport for Greater Manchester's Metrolink director, said: "It is going to be great to have the stop back because, although there will still be a lot of construction activity in the station, it will restore key services and connections for passengers.
"Our focus now turns to restoring services through the new stop by the weekend for passengers travelling from the south – and we'll be working closely with Network Rail to keep that work on track.
"The service changes involved have purposefully been planned for the traditionally quieter half-term period – but we fully appreciate the patience of passengers who are affected by them – and that's reflected in the decision to freeze fares this year."
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All Signal No Noise
Gravitational waves: A new field for electronics, Part 1
by Busy Blogger
Gravitational waves are a modification of the structure of space-time in the universe, due to the interactions of a particular type of star, called the Neutron Star, when orbiting as binary pairs (see Figure 1):
“In 1993, astrophysicists Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their 1974 discovery of a binary pair of neutron stars (PSR1913+16) 21,000 light years from Earth. Seven years later, after tracking the radio emissions of one star in the pair over a period of years, Taylor and two other colleagues (Joel Weisberg and Lee Fowler) noted that the time it takes for the two stars to orbit each other was decreasing exactly in a way that general relativity predicted if the two stars were radiating gravitational waves. Analyses of other binary neutron star systems confirmed this effect firmly concluding that gravitational waves were not just theoretical. More than 40 years later, on September 14, 2015, gravitational waves were finally directly detected by LIGO's interferometers. This accomplishment was achieved because LIGO is designed to sense the infinitesimally faint whispers of gravitational waves through the imprint of that radiation on laser light. How faint are these whispers? LIGO must detect a change in arm length of about 10-19 m (10,000 times smaller than a proton). Achieving this degree of sensitivity requires a remarkable combination of technological innovations in precision lasers, vacuum technology, and advanced optical and mechanical systems.” (Source: Ligo Caltech educational)
The announcement of the detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO (acronym of Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) (Source: YouTube)
Gravitational waves are a very important physical phenomenon which may help scientists to look at the structure of the Universe with more information and unprecedented details about the “big bang” theory. Until now, the studies about the birth and the structure of the universe have been done mainly by studying light emissions, which is estimated to have started from 300,000 years after the “big bang”. Now the gravitational waves represent a new instrument to study and reveal phenomena that have never been revealed like the “big bang” itself, because this type of effect is related to the collisions of planets, stars across the universe, and hence these gravitational waves may carry information about the initial interactions that caused to the birth of the universe.
How is a gravitational wave detected?
Laser technology is the basis for the workings of LIGO observatories: a laser beam has the speed of light (c=3 x 108 m/s) which is a reference constant all across the universe. If a gravitational wave impacts the tunnel of the LIGO, its length will be modified accordingly and the time elapsed by the laser light to travel through the tunnel can be measured. The indirect measurement of the variation of length of the tunnel will give information about the presence of gravitational waves. Furthermore, the LIGO website shows a scheme for a homemade kit for vibration detectors based on the realization of a Michelson Interferometer, which is able to measure the relative movement of two light sources like a pair of coupled stars (see Figure 2):
The Layout of a Michelson Interferometer (Source: LIGO Laboratory)
The laser realization is a further example of the possible usages of electronics technology to empower astronomy observatories, as is shown by the following figure that contains the description of the ICs for the realization of a green laser pointer:
The schematic of a green laser pointer, built by means of electronics components. (Source: img.bhs4.com)
Do you think that the discovery of gravitational waves will change our perception of the structure of the universe? Do you work with laser technology?
TagsEducational • Lasers • Product Design • Simulation • Test & Measurement
4 comments on “Gravitational waves: A new field for electronics, Part 1”
EMCgenius
What an oddly worthless article! There is no connection between the assertion in the headline and the concluding discussion of a trivial laser pointer. Wow, it uses electronics! How about that! I'm guessing that the author knows little to nothing about electronics but is paid by the word. Any editors paying attention at Planet Analog? Hello?
Steve Taranovich
@EMCgenius—Give the author a chance. He is building up to good, solid tech info in the next few blogs. This is a multiple part blog series.
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Now enjoying life in Turkey and with the possibility of earning a permanent move at the end of the 2019/2020 season, KP Boateng says he is uncertain if he will return to Fiorentina.
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“Milan have a lot of cheering but there is also a lot of affection in Florence. I have talked to many young viola players trying to advise them, Chiesa, Vlahovic and Castrovilli will have a great future”.
Since arriving in Turkey, he has made 6 appearances in the Super Lig and has scored twice in the process.
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Assessment of viscoelasticity and hydration effect of herbal moisturizers using bioengineering techniques
Shweta Kapoor, Swarnlata Saraf
Institute of Pharmacy, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur (C.G), 492010, India
Date of Decision 16-Jul-2010
Shweta Kapoor
Institute of Pharmacy, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur 492010
Background: A number of moisturizers are available containing natural hydrating, moisturizing, fi rming and occlusive property-imparting agent in the form of herbal extracts, juice and oils. The aim of this study is to assess the hydration and viscoelastic effect of commercially available herbal moisturizers, containing different herbs, on human skin, after a single and 3-week period of application using skin bio mechanical and electrical techniques. Materials and Methods: Twenty selected herbal moisturizers (HM) were coded as HM1-HM20. Forty volunteers, mean age of 40 ± 9 years, were participated in the short- and long-term study. Skin properties in terms of hydration and viscoelastic parameters were measured by multitester and cutometer, respectively. Measurements were done before and after 1, 2, and 3 h (single application) and for the 3-week period of daily application. Results: After single application, significant increase has been observed in both the skin electrical (P < 0.001) and mechanical properties (P < 0.01) as compared to the control, at which no products were applied. After the 3-week period, both effects are maintained and found to be significant at P < 0.001. Short-and long-term study revealed that out of 20 herbal moisturizers, HM8 and HM10 show pronounced increase in skin hydration (90-100%) and HM8, HM10, and HM11 shown marked increase in skin viscoelasticity (90-95%). Conclsuion: The possible reason of maximum effects obtained by these products is multifunctional effects of active ingredients of incorporated herbs. Combined used of both non invasive techniques is useful to substantiate the hydrating and viscoelasticity claim of herbal moisturizer. Short- and long-terms study revealed the best performing herbal moisturizer.
Keywords: Bioengineering techniques, herbal moisturizer, hydration, viscoelasticity
Kapoor S, Saraf S. Assessment of viscoelasticity and hydration effect of herbal moisturizers using bioengineering techniques. Phcog Mag 2010;6:298-304
Kapoor S, Saraf S. Assessment of viscoelasticity and hydration effect of herbal moisturizers using bioengineering techniques. Phcog Mag [serial online] 2010 [cited 2021 Jan 19];6:298-304. Available from: http://www.phcog.com/text.asp?2010/6/24/298/71797
The appearance and function of the skin are maintained by an important balance between the water content of the stratum corneum and skin surface lipids. [1],[2] Exposure to external factors such as air humidity, ultraviolet radiation, temperature, as well as endogenous factors, i.e., hormones, [3],[4],[5] may disrupt this balance. In addition, frequent use of soaps, detergents, and topical irritants such as alcohol and hot water can remove the skin surface lipids. [6] When this balance is disrupted, skin mechanical properties and water content get disturbed; hence, skin becomes dry and loses its elasticity. In these cases, effective dermatocosmetic products must be used to improve the skin hydration and viscoelasticity not only for aesthetic purposes but also to maintain the normal conditions of skin and to prevent dry skin alterations. [7] The moisturizing effect of formulations may be influenced by many factors, such as type and concentration of the active substances used, as well as the composition of the vehicle. [8],[9]
Moisturizers are also the most prescribed products in dermatology. [10] A number of herbal moisturizers are floating in the market with effective claims under the bandwagon of naturals. Most of the commercial moisturizer contains Aloe barbadensis (Aloe vera) as a moisturizing agent. [11] Nowadays there so many other herb's extract/juices/oils like grape seed, cucumber, basil, jojoba oil, almond oil, olive oil, etc. present in the commercial moisturizer section claiming for restoring skin hydration and viscoelasticity properties. Consequently, subjective studies to evaluate the moisturizing effect scientifically are necessary to validate these claimed effects. Objective methodologies are considered appropriate to prove and to clarify the mechanisms of action of substances that improve skin properties.
Several in vivo studies using modern bioengineering techniques have been performed to evaluate the mechanical properties and water content of the epidermis. [12],[13],[14],[15] Instruments that have been used for assessing epidermal hydration are based on measurements of conductance, [16] capacitance, [12],[17],[18],[19] and impedance [20] of the skin. Instruments that have been used for testing skin (viscoelasticity) mechanical properties are based on torsion [21] and suction methods. [12],[13],[14],[15],[16],[14],[17],[18],[19],[20],[21] Proof of efficacy can be evaluated in different ways [22] but testing on human volunteers is the preferred one. By introducing noninvasive instrumental measuring techniques that are applicable on humans, properties of cosmetic and dermatologic products can be assessed in an objective way, making comparisons between results possible and allowing the detection of subtle changes in skin morphology and function otherwise not detectable by sensorial means. The objective of research in herbal cosmetic field is obtaining the best from the nature for better tomorrow. [23] In the present research, noninvasive skin biomechanical and electrical techniques have been used to evaluate the viscoelastic and hydration effects of 20 commercial herbal moisturizers containing different moisturizing actives in the form of herbal ingredients; this assessment would provide support in establishing a strong faith of consumer towards herbal moisturizers.
Ttwenty commercially available herbal moisturizers were purchased from local cosmetic dealer at Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. Out of them, 8 were products from leading abroad manufacturers and 12 were products of top most Indian manufacturers. The products were referred by the codes HM1-HM20. Base ingredients that were indicated on the packages of selected moisturizers are summarized in [Table 1]. Other qualitative ingredients mainly herbal extracts, juices, and oils vary product to product and are listed in [Table 2].
Table 1: List of base ingredients in herbal moisturizers
Table 2: List of other ingredients present in herbal moisturizers
Subjects and study protocol
A total of 40 healthy volunteers, mean age 40 ±9 years, were studied after they provided informed consent. A dermatologist determined the skin types of these volunteers as normal to dry. All participating volunteers were found free from any pathological findings on their arms. All test subjects were asked not to use cleansing or skin care products on the volar forearms [24] for 1 week prior to and during the study. Viscoelastic and hydration measurements were carried out (baseline) before and after the application of the moisturizers (short-term test; 1, 2, and 3h) after a single application. This procedure was followed for a long-term test of 3 weeks, wherein herbal moisturizers were applied 2 times daily in the morning and evening for 20 days consecutively. About 0.2 g of each moisturizer was applied to different test sites, 2 cm in diameter located on the volar forearm. An adjacent untreated skin area served as a control. Cutometer and conductance measurements were then performed 12 h after the last application, i.e, day 21. The measurements were performed in an acclimatized room with a mean relative humidity of 40 ± 3% and a mean room temperature of 23 ± 5°C. They were carried out under standardized conditions as described in earlier [25] literatures. All measurements were carried out according to the relevant guidelines, [26] nontreated sites on volar forearm served as controls.
Cutometer
The mechanical properties of the epidermis were determined using a noninvasive, in vivo suction skin elasticity meter, Cutometer (MPA 580, Courage and Khazaka, Koln, Germany) equipped with 2 mm measuring probe. The time/strain mode was used with a 5 s application of a constant negative pressure of 500 m bar, followed by a 5-s relaxation period. A typical skin deformation curve is illustrated in [Figure 1]. The following parameters were analyzed: Ue, immediate distension; Uv, delayed distension; (R 0 ) Uf, final distension (skin distensibility); Ur , immediate retraction; R, residual deformation at the end of measuring cycle (resilient distension); (R 2 ) Ua/Uf, gross-elasticity of the skin, including viscous deformation; (R 5 ) Ur/Ue, neto-elasticity of the skin without viscous deformation; (R 7 ) Ur/Uf, biological elasticity, i.e., the ratio of immediate retraction to total distension; (R 6 ) Uv/Ue, the ratio of viscoelastic to elastic distension; and R8, viscopart, i.e., the area under the suction part of the deformation curve. The average values of two measurements were used in subsequent calculations. The curves of the obtained skin deformation values were analyzed using the software of Cutometer MPA 580.
Figure 1: Skin deformation curve obtained with Cutometer
Hydration of the epidermis was determined with a noninvasive technique using an electronic device, Multitester (CASIO, H-21, India), which measured resistance, based on the commonly known fact that hydrated skin has less resistance to current flow than dehydrated skin. The level of stratum corneum hydration was assessed by measurement of the changes in skin resistance and is referred to as the galvanic skin response or electrical skin resistance. The skin resistance reported in ohms with electrodes (size 1 cm 2 ) was measured after 1, 2, and 3 h and then daily upto 3 weeks for long term study, after application of each moisturizer, at 1000 khz, 10 mA, AC current according to the modification of Nicander et al. [27],[28]
Statistical analysis was carried out by using the STAT software, obtained values were expressed as mean ± SD (standard deviation). Viscoelasticity and hydration values of the tested sites were expressed as a percentage of the values obtained for the appropriate control site on volar forearm arbitrarily set to 100%. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Student's paired t-tests were performed. Differences was considered statistically significant if P < 0.01 and highly significant if P < 0.001.
After short-term study
Electrical measurements by multitester in terms of hydration obtained during short-term study are reported in [Table 3]. Highly significant increases in the water content of stratum corneum readings (P < 0.01) relative to baseline (before, 0 h) were observed 1, 2, and 3 h after single application of all moisturizers [Figure 2]. After 3 h of single application of moisturizers, HM8 and HM10 has shown 70-80% increase in water content of stratum corneum, HM2, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 15, 17, and 16 has shown 60-70% increase, and 50-55% increase was shown by HM1, 3, 4, 9, 13, 14, 18, and 19 when compared to baseline (control) reading that is set to an arbitrary value [Figure 2].
Figure 2: Changes in % of skin hydration measured before (baseline) and after 1, 2 and 3hr of single application of herbal moisturizers
Table 3: Skin hydration and viscoelasticity after 3 h (short-term study)
The changes in skin mechanical parameters observed before and after 1, 2, and 3 h after single application of moisturizers is expressed as a percentage increase in the values and are shown in [Table 3]. Significant increase (P < 0.01) in viscoelastic parameters, relative to baseline (before, 0 h) were observed 1, 2, and 3 h after single application of all moisturizers [Figure 3]. The most pronounced changes were observed with moisturizer HM8, HM10, and HM11 (65-75% increase), compared with HM1, 3, 4, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, and 20 (60-55% increase) and 40-50% increase was shown with HM2, 5, 6, 9, 7, 12, 15, and 16 when compared to baseline [Figure 3].
Figure 3: Changes in % of skin viscoelasticity measured before (baseline) and after 1,2 and 3 hr of single application of herbal moisturizers
After long-term study
All participants reported strict compliance with the instructions. Effect after 3 weeks of daily applications of moisturizers was measured by mutlitester and is reported in [Table 4]. The results obtained after a 3-week period application shown that all moisturizers produced a significant increase (P < 0.001) in skin hydration when compared with baseline [Figure 4]. However, when these moisturizers were compared with each other, the maximum percentage increase in skin hydration was obtained with HM8 and HM10 (95-100%). During study HM2, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 15, 17, 16 has shown 80-90% increase and HM1, 3, 4, 9, 13, 14, 18, 19 has shown 60-70% increase in skin hydration after 3 weeks when compared to baseline reading.
Figure 4: Changes in skin hydration after 3 week period of daily application of selected herbal moisturizers expressed as a percentage increase as compare to control arbitrarily to 100%
Table 4: Increase in skin hydration and viscoelasticity after 3 weeks (long-term study)
The changes in skin mechanical parameters observed after 3 weeks of daily application of moisturizers is expressed as a percentage increase in the values and is shown in [Table 4]. The results obtained after 3 weeks were significantly higher (P < 0.001) relative to baseline reading [Figure 5]. The most pronounced changes were observed with moisturizer HM8, HM10, and HM11 (90-95% increase), then with HM1, 3, 4, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, and 20 (75-80% increase) and 60-70% increase with HM2, 5, 6, 9, 7, 12, 15, and 16 when compared to control [Figure 5].
Figure 5: Changes in skin viscoelasticity after 3 week period of daily application of selected herbal moisturizers expressed as a percentage increase as compare to control arbitrarily set to 100%
Effects of various herbal moisturizers on skin bio mechanical and electrical have been observed in terms of short term and long term studies. Skin hydration and viscoelastic measurements are carried before and after 1, 2, and 3 h of application of the product, as it is possible to attain improved skin properties shortly after a single application. [29] Nevertheless, long-term studies (3 weeks) are important to assess the maintenance and enhancement of these effects. The short-term test allows in most cases high discrimination, whereas the long-term test usually shows the real effects the products have on the upper layers of the skin when the product is no longer present. [26],[30] In both types of test, it is advisable to work with a target group of elderly volunteers as epidermal properties has seen more altered for such persons. For these reasons, we have studied the effect of hydrating and viscoelastic properties of herbal moisturizers in elderly people. In the present study, we adopted a combination of noninvasive bio mechanical and electrical techniques for the measurement of skin hydration and viscoelasticity, respectively.
Interpretation of results revealed that there are significant increases in skin hydration and viscoelastic parameters after single application of all herbal moisturizers, which are further increased and maintained after regular application of them upto 3 weeks. Results of our study are in agreement with the report by Li et al. [9] The increase in water content and viscoelasticity could, however, be due to different reasons [31] associated with various herbal ingredients incorporated in selected moisturizers [Table 2]. Almost all the herbal moisturizer contain aloe vera (Ghrit kumari) extract, which is rich composition in hygroscope mono and polysaccharides [32] and in the amino acids, which may improve water retention in the stratum corneum. [33] The silica in cucumber (Cucumis sativum) is an essential component of healthy connective tissue, which includes muscles, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, and bone. It is an excellent source of potassium, vitamin C, and folic acid. The high water content makes cucumbers good for moisturizing effect. Methi (Trigonella Foenum Graecum) seed extract contains 45-60% carbohydrates, 5-10% fixed oils (lipids), flavonoids, free amino acids that provide softening, cleansing, soothing properties to skin. Sandalwood (Santalum Alba) the main constituent of sandalwood oil is santalol, credited for its moisturizing and viscoleastictity property. It has been used since earliest times as incense, in embalming and cosmetics. [33] Almond oil (Prunus Amygdalus) contains folic acid, alpha tocopherol, and zinc, which are useful in skin disorders. [34] Wheat germ oil (Triticum sativum); wheat is a rich source of tocopherols with high vitamin-E potency that nourishes and prevents loss of moisture from the skin. Red apple (Pyrus malus); it is a rich source of various vitamins, trace elements, amino acids, and flavanoids due to which it acts as humectant and provide moisturizing and viscoelasticity property. Coconut (Cocos Nucifera) oil helps keep skin soft and smooth. Lauric oils, the dominant fatty acid (45-48%) in coconut oil, are used in cosmetics. [35] Yashtimadhu (Glycyrrhiza Glabra) extract is helpful to formulate cosmetic products for the protection of skin and hair against oxidative processes. [36] Grape seed (Vitis vinifera) contain pycogeneol, [37] which is responsible for its cosmetic properties. Many traditional herbs have been scientifically evaluated for their cosmetic potential [38] like Olive oil (Oleum olivae/ Olea europaea), Neem (Azadirachta indica), Tulsi (Ocimum santum), Geranium (Pelargonium graveolen), Kapoor Kachari (Kaempferia galanga), Cuscus grass th (Vetivera Zizanozides, Ushir), Kesar (Crocus sativus), Khumani (Prunus armeniaca), Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis), and Indian madder (Rubia cordifolia), etc.
All products shown high improvement in skin hydration but HM8 and M10 both gave highest hydration of the stratum corneum of elderly volunteers. The high hydration effect obtained by HM8 and HM10 is due to synergetic effect of various natural moisturizing herbs [Table 2].
The most pronounced changes in skin viscoelastic property were observed with HM8, 10, and 11 due to increase in Uv and Uv/Ue parameters. Uv and Uv/Ue represent the viscoelastic part of the skin deformation. [39],[40] Increase in these parameters values indicates the decrease in the viscosity of the interstitial fluid as a result of the increased water content and changes in the proteoglycan composition and/or structure. [41] The accumulation of water in the dermis diminishes the friction between the fibres and facilitates the movement of the interstitial fluid. Our study also complies that there is a link between skin hydration and viscoelastic parameters (Uv and Uv/Ue). Out of 20 selected moisturizers the pronounced change in both properties of skin has been observed with HM8 and HM10. With HM11 skin hydration did not increase linearly with skin viscoelasticity, this may be due to its ingredient's properties.
The present study emphasized on the moisturizing properties of the herbal products. Repeat applications of the formulations induced a higher level of stratum corneum moisturization as compared to single application. However, to maintain these effects, the products must be repeatedly applied because stopping the applications abates the benefit in stratum corneum hydration.
Study also indicates that the products which contains either herbal extract/seed/oil/juice/gel of aloevera, grape, almond, olive, wheatgerm, sandalwood, cucumber shown better viscoelastic and hydration effect as compared to other products.,
Thus, we suggest that the daily use of moisturizers containing herbal extract/juice/oils is important to maintain humectant and soothing effect on the skin. Results of noninvasive skin bioengineering techniques scientifically substantiate the hydrating and viscoelastic claims of commercially available herbal moisturizers.
The main objective of this study was to evaluate and substantiate the viscoelastic and hydration effect of herbal moisturizers using noninvasive bio mechanical and electrical techniques. This study highlighted the influence of various herbal ingredients on the efficacy of cosmetic products. We conclude that epidermal hydration produced by moisturizers influences the mechanical properties of skin. Noninvasive skin mechanical and electrical measurements are appropriate for an objective and quantitative evaluation of the complex effect of different dermatological and herbal cosmetic products on epidermal mechanics and water content. Short- and long-term study contributes to select the best performing moisturizers and helps to elucidate the possible mechanism of action lying behind its use. This study can be helpful for upcoming researchers to select herbs for the formulation and evaluation of herbal moisturizers which can be claimed for their efficacy with scientific datas, which shall further give strength to our herbal and cosmetic industries eminence in global market.
The authors acknowledge University grant commission [F. No.32-133/2006(SR)], New Delhi for financial assistance. One of the author extend her gratitude towards the head of the cosmetic lab, Institute of pharmacy, Pt, Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur (C.G.) for providing facilities to carry out research work.
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6 Nonablative fractional laser treatment for the skin in the eye area - clinical and cutometric analysis
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14 Potential of herbs in skin protection from ultraviolet radiation
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Kapoor S
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Please read these terms and conditions carefully when you make a reservation request with the Business (whether by email or telephone). These terms and conditions are deemed to have been read, understood and accepted by you and the Guests and you and the Guests agree to comply with them, and they will form part of the contract entered into by you.
'the Amendment Fee' is the amount that the Business charges in respect of any changes you request to be made to your Booking once the Booking has been made, being £15.00 per amendment made.
'the Booking' means the booking relating to the rental of the Property for the Holiday Period, and the associated Rental Services you receive from the Owners of those Properties under your contract with them.
'the Booking Conditions' means these terms and conditions which apply to any reservation you make with the Business for a Property where the Business acts as a booking agent whether by telephone, website, or via a third party.
'Booking Confirmation' means the email sent to you confirming your Booking together with a copy of these Booking Conditions and other details relating to your Booking, as is further detailed at paragraph 8.5.6.
'the Booking Details' are details specific to your Booking including the Property, Holiday Period and any restrictions notified to you during the Booking Process.
'the Booking Fee' is the amount that the Business charges in respect of the Booking Services.
'the Booking Process' means the process for making a Booking as set out at section 8 of these Booking Conditions.
'the Booking Services' means the services provided by the Business to you to arrange and administer the Booking which leads to the creation of the Rental Contract.
'the Business' means Quality Cottages, a partnership, who's address is Cerbid, Nr. Solva, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire SA62 6YE. See the Contact Us section below for further Business details.
'the Cancellation Fee' is the amount that the Business charges in respect of the administration required to cancel your Booking and make the Holiday Period available for another guest, being £50.00.
'the Deposit' is the initial instalment of the Rental Charges quoted during the Booking Process.
'the Guests' are all members of your party other than you that are booked to stay at the Property during the Holiday Period under your Booking.
'the Holiday Period' is the dates for which you reserve a Property for your holiday.
'the Owner' means the owner of the Property to which the Booking relates.
'the Payment Method' is the means by which you pay for your Booking settling the debt that was created. This can be by credit or debit card, PayPal, Direct Debit, Gift Voucher or other electronic means available on the website or any combination.
'the Property and together the Properties' means the property accommodation owned by the Owner to which the Booking relates.
'the Rental Balance' is the balance of the Rental Charges payable by you after payment of the Deposit.
'the Rental Charges' is the Booking Fee and the fees payable by you under the Rental Contract relating to the Booking that the Business collects from you in relation to the Booking.
'the Rental Contract' is the legally binding contract between you and the Owner for the Rental Services, and includes those documents set out at paragraph 5.3.
'the Rental Services' means the services related to the rental of the Property as provided to you by the relevant Owner (not the Business).
the Security Deposit' is an amount of money paid by you as a good housekeeping bond for the Property against damages or misuse (as determined by the Business and/or the Owner).
Please read these Booking Conditions with their related policies (as referred to in these Booking Conditions) carefully as they will apply to any use of the website or Booking made. The Business recommends that you print or save a copy of these Booking Conditions for your reference.
If you have any queries or concerns regarding these Booking Conditions, please contact the Business using the details set out in the Contact Us section below (please see section 30).
In the event of any conflict or contradiction between the 'Frequently Asked Questions' responses, the brochure and/or website and these Booking Conditions, then these Booking Conditions shall apply.
These Booking Conditions and any conditions imposed by the Owner apply to the Booking to the exclusion of any other terms that you may seek to incorporate, or which are implied by trade, custom, practice of course of dealing.
The Rental Contract with you binds you (the person named on the Booking Confirmation), and all Guests. By entering into the Rental Contract, you agree that you will, and will procure that all Guests will, comply in all respects with the terms of the Rental Contract. Furthermore, all Guests must accept the Rental Contract and by entering into the Rental Contract you confirm that all Guests have read, understood and accepted the terms of the Rental Contract and have authorised you to confirm such acceptance on their behalf.
There will be a binding contract between you and the Business and the Owner once the Business accept your booking and send you a Booking Confirmation.
The Business takes your privacy very seriously. Please read our Privacy Policy to see how the Business uses your personal information, including the information you submit about yourself when making a Booking. By submitting your personal information to the Business, you agree to the Business using that information in the ways described in our Privacy Policy, including sharing your information with the Owners for the purposes of their provision of the Rental Services.
Like many online services the Business uses a feature called a 'cookie', which is a small data file that is sent to your browser from a web server if you access our website to make an enquiry or Booking request and is stored on your device's hard drive. By agreeing to these Booking Conditions, you are providing your consent for the Business to use cookies in the ways described in our Privacy Policy, however, you may delete any of these cookies at any time if you wish.
The Business may record telephone calls between you and the Business for monitoring and training purposes. In the event of a dispute between you and the Business, the Business reserves the right to review any recorded calls.
The role of the Business
The Business acts as agent for the Owner at all times by arranging and administering Bookings and taking payment from you for the Booking. Any involvement in the day-to-day management of any Property is undertaken solely on the Owner's behalf and under his/her instructions. Accordingly, the Business can accept no responsibility for any problems that may arise with any Property and all legal responsibility therefore remains with the Owner. The Business does not own any of the Properties, but the Business reserves the right to refuse any Bookings in accordance with these Booking Conditions.
Once the Business has accepted a Booking in accordance with the Booking Process and has issued you with a Booking Confirmation, a legally binding Rental Contract will be formed between you and the Owner under which the Owner will make the Property available to you and provide the Rental Services for the Holiday Period. The Business is not party to the Rental Contract.
The following will form part of the Rental Contract between you and the Owner:
your Booking Details,
these Booking Details, and
any other special or additional conditions that the Business draws to your attention during the Booking Process before the Business accepts your Booking.
As the Business' obligations to you are limited to those in connection with the Booking Service only, the Business accepts no liability for any defects or unavailability of the Property or any other problems with your Booking. Your rights under these Booking Conditions and the Rental Contract are against the Owner. Please see further the Business' Liability section in these Booking Conditions (see section 20).
Your use of the Booking Services
These Booking Conditions apply to the Booking Services provided to you by the Business.
Our Booking Services are available to you for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not offer for resale any Booking Services or Rental Services for any Properties that appear on the Business website, in the brochure or via third party without the express written permission of the Business.
>Property and Rental Services Descriptions
The Business makes every effort to ensure that the descriptions (including Rental Charges and availability) relating to the Properties and Rental Services on the Business website or in the Business brochure are accurate and complete. These descriptions include details of the Property and Rental Charges and any additional charges, the facilities available at the Property, maximum occupancy number, any accreditations, awards or descriptions of quality relating to the Property including star ratings. However, although the Business take all reasonable steps to ensure that its records, brochure and website are up to date, the Business do not have exclusive control of any Property and/or its amenities and facilities and accordingly the Business cannot give any guarantees as to the accuracy thereof.
If the Business discovers a mistake or error relating to this information, the Business will use its reasonable endeavours to correct this on our website and will contact you if that information relates to a Booking that you have already made through the Business.
The Property and Rental Services descriptions do not constitute advice or recommendation given by the Business. The Business does not independently verify accreditations, awards or star or other quality ratings and such ratings are only indicative of what level of quality you can expect from an individual Property. Any advice, guidance and/or recommendation given by the Business is a personal opinion only and will not constitute any warranty, guarantee, term or condition. The Business will not be liable for inaccuracies or errors in this information or the accommodation information as this information is supplied to the Business by the Owners.
FEEFO ratings on the website reflect previous guests' comments and are subjective, and Visit Wales gradings are independent assessments by the Welsh Government '' as such these are not the responsibility of the Business.
Rental Charges shown in search listings on the Business website or in the brochure are per Property (and not per person). It is your responsibility to check the total price before completing the Booking Process.
The Business does not accept responsibility for any changes or closures to amenities or attractions mentioned in the Property or Rental Services descriptions on the Business website or in the brochure.
To be eligible to make a Booking and enter into a Rental Contract you must:
be 18 years of age or over and have the legal capacity to enter into legally binding agreements,
register with the Business on the Business website (in advance or when Booking) or by telephone by providing your real name, telephone number, email address and other requested information, and
possess a valid Payment Method.
You may make a Booking directly using the Business website or by contacting the Business by telephone or by email using the details in the Contact Us section of these Booking Conditions.
If you provide your Booking Details to the Business by email, the Business will contact you in an appropriate manner so you can make a Booking and pay.
By making a Booking with the Business you are making an offer to:
receive our Booking Service and the Rental Services,
enter into a Rental Contract with the applicable Owner in relation to the Property you have selected, and
pay the Business all amounts due in respect of the Rental Charges (including the Deposit).
The following steps must take place before a contract is made between you and the Business for the provision of the Booking Services and between you and the applicable Owner for the provision of Rental Services under a Rental Contract:
You submit your Booking to the Business on the website by submitting your Booking Details and your payment details for processing,
Before submitting your Booking to the Business on the website, the Booking Process will give you the opportunity to review your Booking, these Booking Conditions and the Booking Details for the selected Property and, if required, make amendments,
For telephone bookings the Business will read you details of your Booking for your confirmation. You may make any required amendments at this point. The Business will then request your payment details and the Business will process the payment which is due and payable in respect of your Booking,
For on-line bookings, you will receive an on-screen acknowledgement of your website Booking and a receipt for your payment by email at the address you provided,
For telephone bookings the Business will verbally confirm your Booking reference and will send you a receipt for your payment by email at the address you provided,
The Business will check the availability of the Property relating to your Booking and, provided the Business has successfully processed your payment and the Property is available, the Business will send you an email confirming your Booking together with a copy of these Booking Conditions and other details relating to your Booking ('Booking Confirmation').
The Business accepts:
your offer to receive our Booking Services,
your agreement to pay the Business all sums due (at the relevant time) in respect of the Rental Charges (including the Deposit),
acting on the applicable Owner's behalf as its agent, your offer to enter into the Rental Contract,in each case, at the time the Business issues you with the Booking Confirmation. No action by the Business can be construed as an acceptance of your offer until we issue you with the Booking Confirmation at which point a contract will be made between you and the Business for the Booking Services and with the Owner for the provision of the Rental Services under the Rental Contract.
When the Business accepts payment for all or any part of the Rental Charges and such sum is received by the Business in cleared funds, you will no longer owe a debt to the Owner or the Business for the associated amount.
Fees, charges and payment
The fees and charges (including without limitation the Rental Charges) will be as quoted on the Business website, in the brochure or communicated to you at the time of booking and will be quoted and charge in pounds sterling (GBP). The Business uses its best efforts to ensure that these are correct at the time when the relevant information was entered onto the Business' systems or added to the brochure. However, it is always possible that, despite the best efforts of the Business, some of the fees and charges on the website or in the brochure may be incorrect (including without limitation the Rental Charges) and the Business therefore reserves the right to change such fees and charges at any time. The Business will normally check these prices as part of the confirmation procedures so that:
where the actual Rental Charges or other fees are less than those quoted on the website or in the brochure at the time you made your Booking, the Business will charge the lower amount when confirming the Booking to you; and
where the actual Rental Charges or other fees are higher than those quoted on the website or in the brochure at the time you made your Booking, the Business will contact you as soon as possible to inform you of this error and the Business will give you the option of continuing to book the Property at the correct (higher) price or cancelling your Booking. The Business will not process your Booking until it has your instructions. If the Business is unable to contact you using the contact details provided during the Booking Process, the Business will treat the Booking as cancelled and notify you in writing.
The fees and charges (including without limitation the Rental Charges) may change from time to time, but changes will not affect any Booking which the Business has confirmed with a Booking Confirmation.
All Rental Charges and all other fees and charges quoted on the Business website or in the brochure include VAT, where applicable.
Before submitting your Booking, you will be presented with details of the total Rental Charges payable for your Booking together with details of the following amounts which are payable to the Business at the time of making the Booking:
the Booking Fee (which is non-refundable in all circumstances once a Booking Confirmation is issued);
the Deposit and, if the date the Rental Balance would normally fall due for that Booking has already passed, the Rental Balance too; and
any additional fees and charges quoted during the Booking Process when you make your Booking (for example heating supplements, pet charges).
If you are paying a Deposit rather than the entire Rental Charges when making your Booking, you will also be presented with the date by which you will need to make payment to the Business for the Rental Balance. Please note, the Business may (but is not obliged to) contact you to remind you of the due date for the payment of the Rental Balance.
Payments must be made to the Business by one of the Payment Methods.
For on-line bookings, the Business will take the payments due at the time of Booking from your chosen Payment Method once you have entered your payment details and have clicked the 'Confirm Card Details' button, subject to payment authorisation. If you are making payment by telephone the Business will confirm your payment details with you before processing.
If the Rental Balance or any other additional payments are due after you make your Booking, then:
if you authorised the Business to take payment for these amounts from your chosen payment method when you made your Booking, the Business will automatically take payment from you using your original Payment Method. If there has been a change to the Rental Charges the Business will contact you before taking payment; or
if you did not authorise the Business to take payment from your chosen payment method for these amounts when you made your Booking, you will need to make these payments either by using the payment feature within the website or by contacting the Business by telephone using the number in the Contact Us section below.
For the avoidance of doubt, all Rental Charges must be paid in full cleared funds before the commencement of any Holiday Period.
Interest charges
Without effecting any other rights under these Booking Conditions, if you do not make any payment to the Business by the due date the Business and/or the Owners may charge interest to you on the overdue amount at the rate of three percent (3%) a year above the base lending rate of the Bank of England from time to time. This interest shall accrue daily from the due date until the date of actual payment of the overdue amount, whether before or after judgement. You must pay the Business interest together with any overdue amount.
Security Deposits (or housekeeping bonds)
Some Owners may charge a 'good housekeeping bond' known as a Security Deposit, which will be included alongside the charges quoted to you during the Booking Process. This Security Deposit is in addition to the Deposit paid by you.
Any refusal by you to pay any such Security Deposit will mean that the Booking cannot be made or will be cancelled.
The Security Deposit may be used to offset the cost of remedying any breakages, damages or losses sustained by the Owner and any unbudgeted costs, which in the Business and/or the Owner's reasonable opinion, has been incurred by the Owner as a result of the Booking, for restoring the Property back to a suitable clean and tidy condition for the next guests.
In the event of a claim by the Owner, which must be made within three days of your departure to the Business, the Business will act as intermediary between you and the Owner in the event of a dispute and will assist in reaching an amicable and fair conclusion to both parties.
This Security Deposit will be refunded, less any deductions made pursuant to this section 11 and/or less any deductions as may be deemed appropriate by the Owner as a result of any breach by you or your Guests of any of the terms of the contract (including without limitation any sums required to rectify or remedy any damage caused or suffered by the Business or the Owner), within 5 working days of the end of the Holiday Period (subject to any circumstances outside of the control of the Business which may delay refunding the Security Deposit in the time specified).
You may purchase Gift Vouchers by contacting the Business, see the Contact Us section below. The Business will send the Gift Vouchers using the method and address that you specify within 14 days of the date your payment is received. If you have not received your Gift Vouchers within the applicable period, please contact the Business using the details in the Contact Us section below.
Gift Vouchers are available in denominations of £25 and can be used to pay for Bookings in part or in full. Where the cost of a Booking is less than the value of the Gift Voucher, no cash refunds will be given.
A Gift Voucher can only be redeemed during the Booking process over the telephone by quoting the unique code on the back of the Gift Voucher.
Gift Vouchers are valid normally for a period of twelve months from the date of purchase but can be longer in certain circumstances. The expiry date will be visible on the Gift Voucher and should be referred to in assessing its validity. The Gift Voucher can be used for any Booking with a Holiday Period that starts before the Gift Voucher's validity period expires. Any remaining balance on a Gift Voucher may no longer be used after the expiry of its validity period.
If a Booking is purchased with a Gift Voucher which is subsequently cancelled, any refunded amount will be credited to the Gift Voucher.
Gift Vouchers cannot be exchanged for cash, replaced if lost or damaged and are non-refundable. Without the express written permission of the Business, the Business does not permit you or any third party to sell or trade the Gift Vouchers of the Business.
Your right to cancel or transfer a Booking
Check all the details in your Booking Confirmation promptly after receiving it and notify the Business as soon as possible if you think there are any errors or omissions.
If you would like to amend your Booking, please contact the Business using the details in the Contact Us section below. If an Owner agrees to amend the Booking, additional charges including additional Rental Charges and/or an Amendment Fee may be payable to cover the costs of making the amendment. This does not affect your legal rights.
After you receive your Booking Confirmation:
you will not be entitled to cancel the Booking Services for a Booking and will in no circumstances obtain a refund of the Deposit, or the Booking Fee as the Business will have already completed the provision of the Booking Services for that Booking; and
you will not have a legal right to cancel the Rental Contract or the Rental Services provided under it are accommodation and leisure services for which the contract provides a specific period of performance. On that basis, subject to paragraph 13.5, the Rental Charges and all other charges relating to the Booking shall remain due and payable. You may, however, end the Rental Contract in accordance with the section Your Right to end a Rental Contract (please see section 23).
You may not transfer your Rental Contract to another person. If you do not stay at the Property during the Holiday Period but your Guests do, you will still be legally responsible for all your obligations under the Rental Contract and these Booking Conditions and your Guests' compliance with them.
If you wish to make a request to cancel your Booking, such a request must be made in writing. As stated at paragraph 13.3.2, you will not have a legal right to cancel the Rental Contract or the Rental Services, however the Business may at its absolute discretion consider any such request. At the Business' option, the Business will use its reasonable efforts to re-let the Property for the Holiday Period and will act reasonably in doing so. If successful, the Business will refund such proportion of monies paid by you as the Business is able to recover from such re-letting, less the Cancellation Fee. In such circumstances, the Booking Fee shall not be refunded. If the Business is unable to re-let the Property, the Rental Charges and all other charges relating to the Booking shall remain due and payable.
Cancellation of your Booking by the Business and Owners
The Business may cancel your Booking on an Owner's behalf if:
the Business becomes aware of any health and safety or quality-related issue with the applicable Rental Services or Property or its immediate surroundings;
the Business agency agreement with the relevant Owner terminates due to a breach by the Owner.
An Owner may cancel your Booking due to circumstances or events outside their reasonable control which prevent or are likely to prevent you and your Guests from staying at the Property for the Holiday Period or the Owner from complying with any other of its obligations under the Rental Contract.
If the Business or an Owner cancels a Booking in accordance with paragraph 14 the Business may (but is not obliged to) at its option, either:
arrange alternative accommodation for you and your Guests of an equivalent type and standard in a similar location at a similar price band. The Business will not be liable for any costs associated with arranging alternative accommodation and such alternative may be subject to the payment of additional charges by you if the Rental Charges for the alternative are higher than those under the cancelled Booking; and/or
obtain a refund from the relevant Owner and/or the Business of any amounts paid by you to that Owner and/or the Business in relation to the cancelled Booking (including the Booking Fee).
Booking Restrictions
The maximum Holiday Period for any Booking is 28 consecutive days, subject to availability. However, certain Properties may have a shorter maximum Holiday Period.
If a Property requires a minimum Holiday Period, this will be clearly stated on the relevant Property description page on the Business website or brochure.
Certain Properties have fixed start dates to the Holiday Period, and these will be clearly stated on the relevant Property description page on the Business website or brochure.
You must make sure that all the information you provide to the Business in connection with your Booking is true, accurate, current and complete. If any of your details change, e.g. email, address, guest names, you must promptly update your details.
You accept financial responsibility for all transactions made under your name or account.
You warrant to the Business and the Owner that during the Holiday Period:
that the number of Guests and pets occupying the Property will not exceed the number stated in your Booking Confirmation;
that the Property will be used solely for the purpose of a holiday by you and your Guests;
that you will, and ensure your Guests will, show all due consideration and respect for any Owners and their representatives and neighbours or other persons or parties that have a connection with the Property. This includes refraining from abusing your stewardship of the Property or dangerous, offensive, violent or anti-social behaviour towards such persons or parties;
to keep noise at an acceptable level;
that you will, and ensure your Guests will, use the Property and Rental Services lawfully, will not abuse any facilities provided as part of the Rental Services and will comply with any health and safety or other policies or instructions notified to you by the Business or the Owner in connection with the Property or Rental Services;
to take all reasonable safety and security measures at the Property, including without limitation all reasonable precautions to avoid the risk of fire and to keep the Property locked when unattended (including without limitation all windows and doors);
to allow the Owner or his representative to access the Property at any reasonable time during the Holiday Period provided the Owner gives 24 hours' notice as a minimum, except in emergencies;
to keep the Property and all its contents, fixtures and fittings in the same state of repair and condition as at the commencement of the Holiday Period and to ensure that at the end of that Holiday Period the Property is left in the same state in which it was found;
to report as soon as possible to the Owner or their representative any breakages or damage caused by you or your Guests during the Holiday Period. Without affecting any other remedies that the Owner has under the Rental Contract, you promise to fully reimburse the Owner for the cost of replacement or repair for such breakages or damage. The Business may collect such payments on the Owner's behalf;
to act promptly and reasonably in respect of any problems arising at the Property and to bring these to the attention of the Business and/or the Owner as soon as reasonably practicable;
to arrive after 4:30pm on the arrival day and to vacate the Property by 10am on the day of departure unless you have selected alternative check-in and check-out dates during the Booking process, as detailed in your Booking Confirmation, or agreed otherwise with the Owner;
not to allow any person other than you or your Guests to use the facilities and amenities of the Property without the express permission of the Owner;
that there is at least one capable and responsible adult over the age of 18 staying at the Property who is responsible for the supervision of all members of your party under the age of 18. Children remain the responsibility of their parents or guardians at all times;
to comply with all arrangements for waste disposal explained in the instructions left at the Property, and in any event ensure that all waste is disposed of in an appropriate and hygienic manner;
to use fuel and utilities sensibly and appropriately and to be responsible for any additional charges made by the Owner (at the Owner's absolute discretion) for excessive fuel and/or utility consumption during your stay; and
to notify all Guests before the Holiday Period starts of your and their obligations under this paragraph 16.3;
At the end of the Holiday Period, you agree to leave the keys/access cards in the same place as they were found at the beginning of the Holiday Period or as advised on the directions, in the Property or by the Owner.
You will be responsible for all Guests staying at the Property and the things they do, and do not do, even if you do not stay there yourself during the Holiday Period.
It is your responsibility to ensure you, your Guests and any pets have the relevant travel and health documents and requirements needed for visiting the country in which a Property is located. The Business will not be liable for any expenses incurred resulting from your missing, incomplete or incorrect documentation or any non-compliance with such requirements.
In the event that you or any Guest fails to comply with the requirements set out above in paragraph 16.3, the Owner or their representative can refuse to allow you and your Guests to enter and stay at the Property or can require you and your Guests to leave the Property before the end of the Holiday Period. In either case, you will be treated as having broken the terms of the Rental Contract and the provision set out in the Owners' right to end a Rental Contract section will apply (please see section 24).
Owners' responsibilities
The Owner will:
perform the Rental Services using reasonable care and skill;
as soon as possible, notify you in writing of any changes to the description of the Property and/or Rental Services relating to your Booking which would make the Business descriptions of the Property inaccurate, incomplete or misleading;
ensure that the Property is vacant and that you and your Guests have exclusive access to the Property and Rental Services for the full time of the Holiday Period (subject to paragraph 16.3.7);
ensure that suitable arrangements are in place for you to collect and return the keys/access cards for the Property;
not make any use of the Property, including conducting any viewings of the Property, during the Holiday Period;
show all due consideration and respect to you and your Guests including refraining from any dangerous, offensive, violent or anti-social behaviour towards you or your Guests;
ensure that the Owner, the Property and the Rental Services comply with all applicable laws and regulations during the Holiday Period;
comply with the terms of the Rental Contract and act in good faith at all times;
respond to queries, complaints and problems which arise during or after the Holiday Period and use its best efforts to resolve them; and
if VAT forms part of the Rental Charges, provide you with a VAT invoice at your written request.
Pets are only allowed at Properties where this is expressly stated in the applicable Property description. If you take a pet to a Property that does not allow them, or exceed the stated number/size of pet(s), the Owner, or their representative, has the right to:
refuse to allow you and your Guests to enter or stay in the Property; or
ask you and your Guests to leave the Property before the end of the Holiday Period.
An additional charge may be made for pets. If this is the case, this will be disclosed to you during the Booking Process.
If the Owner exercises their rights under paragraph 18.1, the Owner may end the Rental Contract in accordance with the Owners' right to end a Rental Contract section (please see section 24).
You will be liable for all damage caused by you and your Guests' pets. If you are allowed a pet/pets in the Property, you should remove all traces, inside and outside, from the Property of pet occupation before you and your Guests' vacate the Property at the end of the Holiday Period. The Owner may make an additional, reasonable charge for professional cleaning after you and your Guests' occupancy due to any pets that have stayed at the Property. You must not allow pets on beds or on furniture within the Property and pets must not be left alone in the Property at any time. If you break the terms of this paragraph 18.3, the Owner, or their representative on their behalf, may notify you that you have broken those terms and if you continue to do so may end the Rental Contract and require you and your Guests to leave the Property before the end of the Holiday Period and the Owners' right under section 24 to end a Rental Contract shall apply.
Registered assistance dogs are generally allowed in all Properties featured on the Business website or in the brochure, even where the Property description states that pets are not allowed, if you comply with the provisions in paragraph 18.3. You must notify the Business of the intended presence of any assistance dogs prior to Booking. If you have an allergy to dogs, please be aware that the Business and the Owners cannot guarantee that an assistance dog has not stayed in a Property recently. The Business and the Owners cannot accept responsibility for any suffering which may occur as a result of such animals having been present in a Property.
Owner's warranties to you about the Property and Rental Services
The Owner warrants to you that:
they have the right to provide the Rental Services and enter into the Rental Contract with you;
they will maintain, at the Owner's expense, an insurance policy to meet the Owner's liabilities under the Rental Contract with you;
the Property and the Owner will comply with all applicable laws and regulations, in particular, relating to fire, health, safety, planning and data protection; and
the Property is properly maintained, clean, tidy and in good repair at the start of the Holiday Period.
The Business' liability
The Business does not exclude or limit in any way the liability of the Business where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by the negligence of the Business or its employees, agents or subcontractors; for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or for breach of your legal rights in relation to the Booking Services including the right to receive services supplied with reasonable skill and care.
To the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, the Business disclaims any and all other promises, warranties, conditions or representations relating to the Booking Service, whether express, implied, oral or written. In particular, the Business does not make any warrant, guarantee or otherwise about:
the availability of the Booking Services or the website or the brochure that they will be provided uninterrupted or error or virus-free;
errors or inaccuracies in any documentation supplied by the Owners or their representatives, including any documentation that appears on the website; or
the quality, suitability or performance of the Booking Services, Rental Services, the Property or the Owner.
You understand that the Business may not have conducted any checks on Owners or their Properties and the inclusion or offering for sale of Rental Services does not constitute an express or implied endorsement or recommendation by the Business of such services. The Business does not guarantee the accuracy of and disclaim liability for any inaccuracies relating to the Rental Services offered for sale through the Business.
The Business shall not be liable for any damages, expenses or losses arising as a result of:
any inaccurate information or errors on the Business website or in the brochure which relate to information about Property or Rental Services;
the Owners overbooking, cancelling bookings in full or in part or due to circumstances or events beyond the control of the Business or the Owner.
The Business will not be responsible or liable:
for Owners' performance of their obligations under any Rental Contracts with you or any actions and/or omissions by them, or their nominated representatives, in relation to the Property or Rental Services that you book using the Booking Service; or
for any losses related to any business of yours including but not limited to lost data, profits, revenue, business, opportunity, goodwill, reputation or business interruption;
for any disturbance which may occur and is outside of the Business' or the Owner's control, including but not limited to any road works, maintenance or refurbishment works on neighbouring properties, or events such as sporting events, festivals or parties.
The Business does not authorise anyone to make any warranty, guarantee or otherwise on its behalf.
You acknowledge that personal belongings and vehicles (together with their contents) belonging to you and your Guests are left at the Property entirely at your and your own risk. If any articles are left behind, you should contact the Business or the Owners as soon as possible so that these can be searched for. If lost items are found they can be forwarded to you, however we reserve the right to charge you the costs related to any such return (which must be received by the Business before any such return is made). Items which are not claimed or where the applicable charge is not paid, will only be kept for 4 weeks before being disposed of.
The Business accepts no liability to you for any loss, damage or injury to you or your Guests, or your or their personal property during the Holiday Period, except to the extent such loss, damage or injury is caused by the negligence of the Business.
If either the Business or you fail to comply with these Booking Conditions, neither party shall be responsible for any losses that the other suffers as a result, except for those losses which are a foreseeable consequence of the failure to comply with these Booking Conditions. Losses are foreseeable where they were contemplated by you and the Business at the time the Business accepts a Booking made by you.
Subject always to the provisions of this section, the Business' total liability to you in respect of all liabilities arising under or in connection with these Booking Conditions and the Rental Contract, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, shall in no circumstances exceed the Booking Fee.
Owners' liability
Owners do not exclude or limit in any way their liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by their negligence or the negligence of their employees, agents or subcontractors; for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or for breach of your legal rights in relation to the Rental Services including the right to receive the Rental Services supplied with reasonable skill and care.
If either you or an Owner fail to comply with the terms of the Rental Contract, including these Booking Conditions, neither you nor the Owner shall be responsible for any losses that the other suffers as a result, except for the losses which are a foreseeable consequence of the failure to comply with those terms. Losses are foreseeable where they were contemplated by you and the Owner at the time the Business accepts a Booking made by you.
Subject always to the provisions of this section, the Owner's total liability to you in respect of all liabilities arising under or in connection with these Booking Conditions and the Rental Contract, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, shall in no circumstances exceed the Rental Charges.
Your rights as a consumer
The Business and the Owners are under a legal duty to supply services that are in conformity with our respective contracts with you. You have certain legal rights as a consumer under the law and nothing in these Booking Conditions affects your legal rights. For detailed information please visit the Citizens Advice website www.adviceguide.org.uk or call 03454 04 05 06.
Your right to end a Rental Contract
You may immediately end a Rental Contract if the Business or an Owner has told you about:
a material error in the Rental Charges; or
a material error in the description of the Rental Services relating to your Booking, and you notify the Business that you do not wish to proceed, PROVIDED ALWAYS that the Business and/or the Owner decide (as its absolute discretion) that such an error is material in nature and therefore that this paragraph 23 applies.
You will not be charged any fees by the Business if this paragraph applies to the cancellation of your Booking.
Nothing in this paragraph 23 affects or reduces your legal rights as a consumer.
Owners' right to end a Rental Contract
An Owner may immediately terminate the Rental Contract with you if:
you and/or your Guests do not comply with the obligations set out in paragraph 16;
You and/or your Guests do not comply with the applicable rules on pets in accordance with paragraph 18;
you and/or your Guests breach any other term in these Booking Conditions;
you fail to pay the Rental Charges (or any part thereof) or the Security Deposit (or any part thereof) on the date that payment is due.
Consequences of the Rental Contract ending
If you end the Rental Contract for the reasons mentioned in paragraph 23, the Business will refund to you the Booking Fee and the Deposit and any other amounts paid by you for the Booking within 14 days of the date you notify the Business that you wish to end the Rental Contract.
In the event that the Rental Contract is terminated in accordance with paragraph 24, the Rental Charges and all other charges relating to the Booking shall remain due and payable. If the total price for any Booking has not been paid as at the date of cancellation, you will remain liable for any monies due and incurred and the Business and/or the Owner will be entitled to invoice you for such monies. Such invoices are payable by you within thirty (30) days of the invoice date.
If the Rental Contract ends during the Holiday Period in any circumstances, you must:
leave the Property together with all Guests as soon as possible;
notify the Owner, or their representatives, and the Business that you and your Guests have left the Property and the reasons for doing so; and
return the keys/access cards to the location instructed by the Owner.
If you have any complaint about the Booking Services, Rental Services or the Property please promptly contact the Business by telephone or via the website.
If you are still staying at the Property and wish to make a complaint about a Property or Rental Service, the Business suggests that in the first instance you contact the Owner, or their representative, as soon as possible. The Business encourages all Owners to take complaints from guests seriously and to do their best to resolve them, where possible.
If you still wish to make any complaint and/or are dissatisfied with the Owner's response to any direct complaint, please contact the Business as soon as possible, and in any event within 7 days of the end of the Holiday Period for the relevant Booking with full details of your complaint and the Owner's response, if any.
The Business will use all reasonable endeavours to liaise with an Owner on your behalf to attempt to resolve your complaint.
Nothing in this complaints section will affect your legal rights or any right you may have to bring legal proceedings against an Owner under a Rental Contract.
You agree to receive communications from the Business and Owners electronically and that electronic communications will satisfy any legal requirement for communications to be in writing.
Rights and law
The Business and each Owner intend to rely on these written Booking Conditions and any document expressly referred to in them in relation to the subject matter of any contract made under them. The Business and you and each Owner will be legally bound by these Booking Conditions.
In these Booking Conditions, words that appear after the expression 'include', 'including', 'other' 'for example', 'such as' or 'in particular' (or any similar expression) will not limit the meaning of the words appearing before such expression.
The Business and each Owner may transfer our rights and obligations under these Booking Conditions to another organisation. The Business or the Owner will contact you to let you know if this is planned. If you are unhappy with the transfer you may contact the Business or the Owner to end the relevant contract within 14 days of the Business or the Owner telling you about it and the Business will refund you any payments you have made in advance for services that have not been provided.
If the Business or an Owner is prevented or delayed from complying with any obligations under these Booking Conditions by anything you, or anyone acting on your behalf, does or fails to do or due to events or circumstances beyond the reasonable control of the Business or an Owner, the inability or delay in performing those obligations will not be treated as a breach of the terms of these Booking Conditions. Examples of such events or circumstances include fire, flood and other acts of God, strikes, trade disputes, lock outs, riot, accident, disruption to energy supplies, civil commotion, acts of terrorism or war.
You need the consent of the Business and/or the Owner to transfer your rights to someone else. You may only transfer your rights or your obligations under a contract made under these Booking Conditions to another person if the Business or an Owner, as applicable, agree to this in writing.
Nobody else has any rights under these Booking Conditions or the Rental Contract. Each contract for the provision of the Booking Services is between you and the Business. Each Rental Contract is between you and the Owner. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of the terms of each respective contract. The party to a contract made under these Booking Conditions will not need to get the agreement of any other person in order to end that contract or make any changes to these Booking Conditions.
If a court finds part of these Booking Conditions or any contract to which they apply illegal, the rest will continue in force and effect. Each of the paragraphs of these Booking Conditions operates separately.
Even if the Business or an Owner delays enforcing a contract made under these Booking Conditions, the Business or the Owner (as applicable) can still enforce it later. If the Business or an Owner do not insist immediately that you do anything you are required to do under these Booking Conditions, or if the Business or an Owner delay in taking steps against you in respect of you breaking a contract made under them, that will not mean that you do not have to do those things and it will not prevent the Business or an Owner (as applicable) taking steps against you at a later date.
These Booking Conditions and any Rental Contract are governed by English law and you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the services in the English or Welsh courts.
Alternative dispute resolution is a process where an independent body considers the facts of a dispute and seeks to resolve it, without you having to go to court. If you are not happy with how the Business or an Owner has handled any complaint, you may want to contact an alternative dispute resolution provider. If you are not satisfied with the outcome you can still bring legal proceedings.
Changes to these Booking Conditions
The Business may make changes to these Booking Conditions at any time by sending you an email with the modified Booking Conditions or by posting a copy of them on the website. Any changes will take effect 7 days after the date of our email or the date on which the Business posts the modified terms on the website, whichever is the earlier. If you continue to use the website after that period has expired it means you accept any such changes. The modified Booking Conditions will not apply to any Bookings where the Booking Confirmation has been issued to you before the date the modified Booking Conditions come into effect.
No representative, agent or salesperson has the authority to vary, amend or waive any of these Booking Conditions. No amendment, variation or waiver of any of these Booking Conditions will be valid or have any effect unless accepted by the Business in writing.
The website and brochure are owned by Quality Cottages, a partnership. The Business office address is: Cerbid, Nr. Solva, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire SA62 6YE.
The Business VAT number is GB123 2267 07
The main telephone number is 01348 837871
The email for contacting the Business is [email protected]
Use of comments and photographs
You agree that all comments or photographs left or sent to the Business or the Owner may be used (free of charge) in any marketing material.
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Kazakh President's Nephew Gets Post In Security Service
January 12, 2010 08:00 GMT
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has named a number of relatives to key posts.
ASTANA -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has appointed his nephew to head the National Security Service's (KNB) human resources department, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
The KNB spokesman Kenzhebulat Beknazarov told RFE/RL that Nazarbaev named Samat Abish to the post on December 29.
Beknazarov said Abish, a lieutenant-colonel, "is not just a random person."
He added that Abish, 32, graduated from the Russian Academy of Foreign Intelligence and had previously worked in the KNB.
Abish is the son of one of Nazarbaev's brothers. He was born in the Almaty region and has two higher education degrees.
Abish worked from 2006-2008 as deputy chairman of the registration service in the Justice Ministry, and has been a secretary in the ministry since October 2008.
Kazakh Communist Party leader Serikbolsyn Abdildin told RFE/RL that Abish's appointment proves that Nazarbaev wants to have "faithful" people in key positions. He said Nazarbaev considers loyalty more important than professional ability.
Ualikhan Kalizhan, a member of the presidential party Nur-Otan, told RFE/RL he has met Abish several times and considers him a good "specialist." He said he welcomes Abish's appointment and hopes it will improve the atmosphere in the KNB.
Kazakh opposition member Alikhan Ramazanov told RFE/RL he thinks Nazarbaev does not trust anyone and therefore has appointed "his own man" in the KNB.
The appointment of Nazarbaev's relatives to state positions is not uncommon. His nephew Kayrat Satybaldy (formerly Nazarbaev) and former son-in-law Rakhat Aliev have held important positions in the KNB.
In the late 1990s Kayrat Nazarbaev, then 30, was named deputy governor of Astana. He was later appointed to leading positions in the KNB and the oil company Kazakhoil.
At 35, Kayrat Nazarbaev received a major-general rank under a new surname, Satybaldy. Later, he left the military and worked in the state transport company, Kazakhstan Temir Joly.
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Audient partners with Women In Music scholarship for UCA Farnham female students
Audient and Women In Music are offering three scholarships of £5,000 to women enrolling on the BA/Bsc (Hons) Music Composition & Technology course at UCA Farnham, Surrey in 2019
Audient has joined forces with the Women In Music scholarship, an initiative at the University of the Creative Arts, aiming to decrease the audio industry’s gender gap by giving support to women during their degree.
Three £5,000 scholarships will be awarded, along with industry mentoring, to three women enrolling on the BA/BSc (Hons) Music Composition & Technology, Farnham Surrey in 2019, with a single prize-winner also receiving equipment from Audient.
Dr Harry Whalley, course leader of the Music Composition & Technology course said: “As well as offering financial support, the initiative will encompass talks, workshops and mentoring that not only celebrates innovators but also seeks to inspire a new generation. We embrace the true plurality of music in terms of the tools, styles and people involved in the invention of new music. We want students to follow their individual passions while also learning the skills required to become creative practitioners today. We are committed to positive change in music education and the music industry, and are excited to be forging new links which will further support women in music.”
All students on the course will have access to the newly installed Audient ASP8024 Heritage Edition desk, which will also be used for postgraduate study and the Audio Research Cluster at UCA. “We have 24 channels of ASP8024-HE going in with DLC, live room and tie lines down to the TV studio if we want to do orchestral recording,” explained Whalley, whose students are already familiar with Audient. “We also have iD4s for all our Macs – and a few iD44s. We like the D.I on those,” he said, citing “design and reliability” as the basis for choosing Audient.
Marketing manager for Audient, Andy Allen, added: “With strong partnerships in education, Audient is delighted to support the initiative. We champion inclusivity and are happy to help ensure everybody has the opportunity to be the best they can be in this industry, regardless of gender.”
Applicants to the scholarship scheme are asked to submit a portfolio of work and will be assessed on their creativity, originality, technical skill, contextualisation and potential for development, alongside their academic record.
For more information, please see the UCA scholarship and UCA Music Composition & Technology pages.
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Remark on Umahi’s switch to APC exposed Buhari’s incompetence – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday mocked President Muhammadu Buhari over his comment on the defection of the Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The party in a statement issued by his National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, described the president’s comment on the governor’s switch to the ruling party as a dereliction of duty and “political scavenging.”
President Buhari had said on Wednesday he was proud of Umahi over his defection to the APC and hailed the switch as a “bold move driven purely by principle rather than opportunistic motives.”
But the PDP in its reaction said the statement credited to the president also exposed how “the nation was brought to her knees as compelling demands of office are made to suffer while the presidency gloats over trivial issues.”
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The party described “Buhari’s action in abandoning the responsibilities of his office at this critical time to focus on a personal partisan adventure of an individual as a misplacement of energy.”
The statement read: “The development further exposes Mr. President’s incompetence and poor understanding of the tenets of leadership, statesmanship and expectations of his office.
“The PDP holds as appalling that the Buhari presidency is showing more urgency in commenting on political adventures rather than expressing concern on the reported kidnapping of 12 senior police officers by bandits.
“The party observed that if President Buhari had used the same urgency he displayed in commenting on Governor Umahi’s defection to address the issue of police brutality, the crisis situation, death and arson, the destruction of public and private property witnessed in the aftermath of the endSARS protest would have been averted.”
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Pearl River St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2014: Lots of Fun, Only a Few Problems
By dskriloff on March 27, 2014 Comments
Fun time had by most, but nine arrests made
STORY BY BILL DEMAREST
PHOTOS BY KEVIN HARRINGTON AND DYLAN SKRILOFF
Rockland County Executive Ed Day and Westchester County Executive and gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino, both Republicans. Astorino made the trip to Rockland for the parade
PEARL RIVER – Orangetown police say Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Pearl River went off with few significant problems, and traffic after the parade cleared smoothly.
Tens of thousands gathered to share in a mood of revelry and Irish pride. The parade stayed true to its tradition as the biggest party in Rockland County.
While there were no major incidents, police said there were nine arrests in connection with the parade. Here’s the tally from the parade:
– Three people were charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation.
– Three people were charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor.
– Three people were arrested on disorderly conduct and resisting arrest charges.
– Fifteen summonses were issued for violation of town ordinances, including drinking in public, urinating in public, hawking and peddling without a permit, littering and disorderly conduct.
– Sixty-five parking tickets related to the parade were issued.
Before the parade, Orangetown issued warnings that it would be enforcing town ordinances and parking restrictions.
Det. Sgt. James Sullivan said town police were assisted in crowd control by the Mounted Unit of the Rockland County Sheriff’s Department. Sullivan said the officers on horseback especially helped maintain order along Middletown Road in Pearl River, where crowds at one of the large shopping centers along the road have been an issue in the past.
Story republished with permission
Hibernians march
It’s a tradition! The “McGrath Clan” congregates at home along parade route.
The clan includes O’Briens, O’Connors, Fenlons, Stapletons, Currans and, of course, McGraths
Friends of Kenneth Elmendorf gather around a fire pit on his front yard. Elmendorf has been holding St. Patrick’s Parade gatherings on Central Avenue, Pearl River for 15 years.
Grand Marshall Jim McDonnell
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Watch Jenny Lewis Lead ‘Rabbit Hole’ Sing-Along on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert
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Jenny Lewis stopped by NPR for a Tiny Desk Concert, and the Rabbit Fur Coat singer-songwriter had a few tricks up her sleeve. For her rendition of “Rabbit Hole,” from her latest album On the Line, Lewis got the entire NPR staff audience to sing along to the track’s uber-catchy chorus right to the very end.
“That song’s kind of a mantra,” Lewis said afterward while tuning her guitar. “We all know what that’s like.”
Lewis and her backing duo then dove into “Do Si Do,” followed by one of her signatures, “Just One of the Guys.” She stopped suddenly during “JOOTG” the first time around after messing up one of the lyrics.
“You know what it is,” she said, “is I haven’t ripped off many songs in my life, but I have ripped off the Hot Pockets theme, in like three songs. So in my mind, there was like a steaming Hot Pocket, waiting for me.”
After some giggles from the audience, Lewis pulled herself together and played the full song through. And now you, too, can imagine a steaming Hot Pocket every time you see Kristen Stewart, Anne Hathaway and Brie Larson dancing in drag to “Just One of the Guys.”
Lewis will be the opening act for Harry Styles on his 2020 North American tour, kicking off June 26th in Philadelphia.
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Youth team back with a bang...
THE SADDLERS' youth team returned to action from their festive break and put in an impressive display as we beat Rochdale 5-1.
"After a poor performance in our last game, we had quite a while to wait in order to put it right," said Academy Manager, Neil Woods. "The boys have trained well in recent weeks and this display was as good as we have been all season, particularly in the first half.
"Our movement with the ball and tempo was outstanding and our opponents had no answer to us.
"We opened the scoring with a superb goal, which involved a full-pitch move as Carlton McKenzie applied the finish. Then ten minutes later it was 2-0 as some more neat play ended with Tevin Shakespeare getting his name on the scoresheet.
"It meant that we went in at the break two goals to the good against a good Rochdale side.
"We continued where we left off at the start of the second period with a bright start and it wasn't long before Shakespeare added his second and our third goal.
"Further strikes from Amadou Bakayoko and Carlton McKenzie put us five goals to the good and even though we allowed our opponents to snatch a late consolation, I was very pleased with the quality of our football and the progression we have made as a team since our last game.
"It was a positive start to the New Year."
WALSALL: Jones, Ashmore, Probert, Kinsella, K. Rowley, Christopherou, Shakespeare, McKenzie (Delaney), Bakayoko, Rush, Henry (A. Reid). Subs not used: Lovett, Garner.
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Awaiting Yellen at Treasury: Yet another daunting crisis
FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2019, file photo former Fed Chair Janet Yellen speaks with FOX Business Network guest anchor Jon Hilsenrath in the Fox Washington bureau in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Janet Yellen is in line for another top economic policy job — just in time to confront yet another crisis
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and MICHAEL BALSAMOAssociated Press
Janet Yellen is in line for another top economic policy job — just in time to confront yet another crisis.
Yellen, President-elect Joe Biden’s apparent choice for treasury secretary, served on the Federal Reserve’s policymaking committee during the 2008-2009 financial crisis that nearly toppled the banking system.
She became Fed chair in 2014 when the economy was still recovering from the devastating Great Recession. In the late 1990s, she was President Bill Clinton’s top economic adviser during the Asian financial crisis.
And now, according to a person familiar with Biden’s transition plans, she has been chosen to lead Treasury with the economy in the grip of a surging viral epidemic. The spike in virus cases is intensifying pressure on companies and individuals, with fear growing that the economy could suffer a “double-dip” recession as states and cities reimpose restrictions on businesses.
Yet many longtime observers of the U.S. economy see Yellen as ideally suited for the role.
“She is extraordinarily talented,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at auditing firm Grant Thornton. “She is the right person at this challenging time. She has worked every crisis.”
If confirmed, Yellen would become the first woman to lead the Treasury Department in its nearly 232 years. She would inherit an economy with still-high unemployment, escalating threats to small businesses and signs that consumers are retrenching as the worsening pandemic restricts or discourages spending.
Most economists say that the distribution of an effective vaccine will likely reinvigorate growth next year. Yet they warn that any sustained recovery will also hinge on whether Congress can agree soon on a sizable aid package to carry the economy through what Biden has said will be a “dark winter” with the pandemic still out of control.
Negotiations on additional government spending, though, have been stuck in Congress for months.
Yellen has favored further stimulus, including more money for state and local governments, which she has said need “substantial support” to avoid further job cuts. Rescue aid for states has been a major sticking point in congressional negotiations.
Nathan Sheets, chief economist at PGIM Fixed Income and a former senior Fed and Treasury official, said that Yellen could effectively use the “bully pulpit” during what are likely to be difficult negotiations with Senate Republicans.
“Yellen,” Sheets said, “has a unique ability ... to communicate about economics and economic policies in terms that resonate with individuals.”
She will also have the opportunity to work with Fed Chair Jerome Powell, with whom Yellen enjoys a close relationship after having worked together at the Fed, to restart several emergency lending programs. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said last week that the programs will expire, as scheduled, at the end of this year — a decision that critics warn will unnecessarily hamstring the Fed.
Powell objected to the Treasury’s move, though he agreed to return money that Congress had authorized to backstop the lending.
The most likely credit programs to be renewed, economists say, would be one that supported states and cities and a second, the Main Street Lending program, that targeted small and mid-sized businesses.
Neither program has made very many loans. But just the understanding that those backstops existed lent confidence to the financial markets. Economists say Yellen could allow Powell to offer more generous terms to increase the programs’ use.
The 74-year-old Yellen, long a path-breaking figure in the male-dominated economics field, was the first woman to serve as Fed chair, from 2014 to 2018.
“She is an icon,” said Stephanie Aaronson, a vice president at the Brookings Institution and a former top economist at the Fed. “Having a female chair meant a lot to a lot of people.”
Yellen was known as a highly prepared, sometimes demanding but down-to-earth manager who was popular with the Fed’s staff.
“I have never met anyone who has worked for or with Janet who has an unkind word to say about her,” said Claudia Sahm, a former Fed economist. “She is the kind of person who uplifts her staff.”
Under Yellen’s tenure, the central bank began a seminal shift of its policy focus away from fighting inflation, which has been quiescent for decades, to trying to maximize employment, the second of its two mandates. That process culminated this summer when Powell announced that the Fed planned to keep rates ultra-low for a time even after inflation has topped the central bank’s 2% annual target level, rather than raising rates pre-emptively.
As Fed chair, Yellen won praise for her attention to disadvantaged groups, including the long-term unemployed, at a time when financial inequalities were widening across the economy. She made numerous visits to employment training centers to spotlight the need for training programs to equip people for good jobs.
During the 2008-2009 financial crisis, transcripts of the Fed’s meetings show that Yellen was more prescient than most other Fed officials about the potential for a deep recession and weak recovery afterward.
Yellen is well-known on Capitol Hill after years of testifying as Fed chair to Senate committees about the economy and interest rate policy. During those years, she frequently clashed with Republican lawmakers who accused her of keeping rates too low for too long after the 2008 financial crisis. Some of them charged that Yellen and her predecessor, Ben Bernanke, had elevated the risk of runaway inflation and asset bubbles that could destabilize financial markets.
None of those fears came to pass. On the contrary, under Bernanke and Yellen — and later, under Powell — the Fed’s more difficult challenge became raising inflation merely to the Fed’s annual 2% target level. It has yet to do so consistently.
Yellen, a Democrat, had served only one four-year term as Fed chair when President Donald Trump decided to replace her with Powell, a Republican, despite Yellen’s desire to serve another term. That move broke a four-decade tradition of presidents allowing Fed chairs to serve at least two terms even if they had first been nominated by a president of the opposing party.
After leaving the Fed, Yellen became a distinguished fellow in residence at the liberal Brookings Institution in Washington, signaling her continuing interest in financial policymaking.
When she stepped down from the Fed in early 2018, Shawn Sebastian, co-director of the Fed-Up coalition, a collection of progressive groups, called Yellen’s departure “a loss for working people across the country.” He hailed her efforts to take on “economic inequality, racial disparities in the economy, the role of women in the workplace and the need for more diversity at the Fed.”
Yet some progressives have also criticized Yellen for the Fed’s December 2015 decision to raise its benchmark rate from near zero, where it had been pegged since late 2008 in the midst of the financial crisis. That rate hike, which caused a sharp increase in the value of the dollar, contributed to a slowdown in U.S. economic growth in 2016 and is now seen by many economists as having been premature.
Yellen is married to George Akerlof, a Nobel Prize-winning economist whom she met in a Fed cafeteria in 1977. They have one son, Robert, who is an economics professor.
AP Economics Writer Martin Crutsinger contributed to this report.
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"It's fun to play in this team"
Ben Brereton says he's enjoying his football at Rovers and can't wait for football to return this weekend
Ben Brereton says he's loving his football at the moment and is relishing football's return following the international break.
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The 21-year-old will come up against some old friends on Saturday afternoon when Nottingham Forest make the trip to East Lancashire for the fifth league game of the season.
Although he's still waiting for his first goal of the campaign, he's produced plenty of excellent performances in an exciting front three alongside Tyrhys Dolan and Championship top goalscorer Adam Armstrong.
“When you win a game of football it’s the best feeling ever, and that was exactly how it felt after the 5-0 win over Wycombe and the 4-0 victory at Derby," he told iFollow Rovers when looking ahead to the clash against his former side.
“We’ve been very good as a whole team so far this season, and it’s really fun to play in the team going forward because we have some brilliant players in the squad.
“Arma [Armstrong]’s goalscoring ability has been there for all to see again and I’m really excited by what’s to come for us as a club this season."
“We’re all really excited to get back in action again after the little break we’ve had," Brereton added.
“We’ve started the season well and we’ve worked hard in the build up to this next game against Nottingham Forest.
“We all wanted as many games and as many wins as possible, so the break has stopped us in our tracks a little bit.
“Cardiff wasn’t the game we wanted but it was a positive result in keeping another clean sheet in a tough game.
“We have a lot of confidence and have worked on a lot of things in the week so we can settle down and go again.
“The lads have stuck together, it’s been a good start and we’re all looking forward to going again."
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Book 1 - Chapter 65: To Preserve and Protect
The water flowed in violent streams down the narrow tunnel, redder than the glow of the crystals on the wall. Nahlia fought down a shiver as the icy stream drenched her cloak and filled her fur-lined boots.
She'd drained the last of her pendant to heal Thane's wounds, but even that wasn't enough to bring him back to consciousness. Her arms still ached from the effort of dragging him out of the tomb.
Now, with the Chronicler contained and Thane safe, she could finally do what she came for.
Silence filled the cavern with no sounds of life or battle. Nahlia trudged up the sloped passageway, stepping around dozens of armored, mutilated corpses. She held her breath as the scents of death filled her nostrils.
It was a grim sight to be sure, but it also gave her a strange sense of hope. Hope that the Raider twins were still down here fighting for their lives against all odds.
The path widened into a larger space. Water cascaded down the stone walls like falling gems in the lamplight, pouring into a lake of rubies, pearls, and emeralds. More Templar corpses lay sprawled across the pathway...
And then she saw him.
Elias Raider lay on his back, a gaping hole on the left side of his chest. Dirt caked his hair, and his face was almost unrecognizable beneath the bruises and scrapes.
No sign of Ciena, but a quarterstaff lay beside Elias, and a trail of blood ran from there toward the surface. Almost as if someone dragged her away.
I was too late.
Nahlia collapsed on her knees before the body of Wolfe Clan's captain. She'd known Elias for less than a month, but he had been a true Aeon warrior. The sort of legendary Aeon from a story or song. The sort of person who readily sacrificed himself to protect innocents. More noble than she could ever hope to be.
Her sobs echoed in that empty place, but there was no one left to hear. The Aeons of Whitecliff had all retreated, and the Templars were nowhere to be seen. Despite all she had achieved with her abilities, an icy despair filled her chest, threatening to overwhelm her. Could Aegon have truly abandoned them? He'd given her the power to heal wounds, but what good was that in the face of death?
She couldn't afford to think that way. Not now; not when she had come so far and learned so much. The Ethermancers of old could heal any wound. Even death wasn't final for Treluwyn and her Redeemers.
But I'm not a Redeemer. Aegon had told her that much in the chapel.
Even so, Nahlia crept closer to Elias's body, clasping her hands over his still-bleeding chest. No pulse, but he was still warm to the touch.
"Please," she whispered to Aegon, hoping against hope that he was listening. "Let me bring him back."
She waited, but nothing happened. No sound, no sign, no breath of life. Nothing but the same hollow emptiness as before, so large and despairing that it threatened to consume her too.
"I have faith," Nahlia repeated, shaking, tears brimming in her eyes. "Please, let me heal him. Just this once, and I'll never doubt you again."
Several pairs of steel-bottomed boots echoed from across the clearing. An all too familiar sound.
"Where the hell are you going?" A faint voice demanded.
"Hang on," another replied, "I heard something down here."
A Templar soldier emerged from one of the smaller tunnels. A dozen riflemen followed. Then a dozen more after that.
"I won't run anymore," Nahlia said to the domed ceiling. "And I won't fight them. Give me the power, and I'll only use it to help. I swear to you, I won't use it for war."
Her courage shattered as a pair of riflemen stepped forward and trained their weapons on her.
She wasn't ready for this.
Fighting Zidane was different; that had been a battle of the mind, not of the body. These men had firearms. The weapons that haunted her ever since the night her mother died. The weapons that nearly killed her in the Mistwood.
Aegon. Could she ever be ready for this?
The officer pointed across the river and spoke the order. "Fire."
Explosions sounded, and a pair of bullets soared through the air.
Nahlia threw out a hand to stop them. This had worked back in Elveron's office when she deflected Relyn's staff. Maybe...
The first bullet cut through her palm, shredding skin and bone. The second took her in the stomach and she fell back.
The shallow water did nothing to break her fall. Pain screamed through her body as her head hit the rough stone floor. Nahlia couldn't even find her voice to scream.
She tried desperately to heal her own wounds, but she had no source of power to draw from. Her necklace had gone completely dark after healing Thane.
"Make sure she's dead." The officer's voice from across the river. A series of clattering footsteps followed.
The water ran past her cheeks, splashing into her nostrils and mouth. Nahlia could do nothing now but close her eyes and wait. She wasn't afraid of dying, she only wished she could have done more for Elias and Ciena.
A thousand thoughts and emotions flashed before her as Eternity approached. She'd made mistakes, but she was thankful for the time she did have. For the chance to make friends here at Whitecliff, and to learn Ethermancy. For the ten years of peace with her father and uncle in Northshire. For the seven years she had with her mother before that.
Nahlia didn't fear death or pain. So what was it then? Why did she fail when it mattered most?
Her mother's voice answered, quoting her journal again: 'Fear resides in every Aeon's heart. Not a fear of failure, but a fear that we are powerful beyond measure. More afraid of light than of darkness, we make ourselves small in the shadows. But being small does not serve the world.'
The footsteps grew closer, and Nahlia cracked open her eyes. Pinpricks of light blurred in her vision. Crystals in the cavern ceiling shining like distant stars in the night sky.
'Aegon gave us a small piece of his power, and it's up to us to make manifest of it."
Nahlia had read those words before, but she hadn't truly understood them. Maybe she was afraid of her own abilities ... afraid of what she might become.
How could she trust herself to know what was right when had failed so many times before? Countless other Aeons abused their power. How could she expect to be any different?
Maybe that was the real reason why the wisest Aeons turned to Aegon. What if he really did offer guidance to those who listened? If Nahlia had a second chance at life, she intended to find out.
She pulled a cold, trembling hand from the river and raised it toward the ceiling. The crystals were as far away as tree-tops, but she still felt them.
She would become a Redeemer now, or die trying.
The cavern grew darker as she claimed the light. A rush of relief swept over her as her body mended itself.
Nahlia rose on unsteady feet. Darkness shrouded the cave, but her pendant glowed once again.
Across the river, two-dozen Templars trained their rifles at her.
"Fire!" The officer bellowed the order this time.
The rifles exploded in a bone-shaking roar, erupting in a storm of orange sparks and gray smoke.
Once again, Nahlia raised a hand to defend herself. There was a flicker of bright light, and the bullets shattered before her, turning to dust in a deafening bang.
She barely had time to meet her assailant's eyes before another man jumped out of the shadows.
Nahlia raised her hand to catch his sword. Another flash of light knocked him back into the river.
She turned back to the gunmen then, and spoke slowly and deliberately, "Leave. "I'm only going to tell you once."
To her surprise, they did so. One after another, they retreated back into the tunnel.
Suddenly, she felt ridiculous for doubting herself. Ethermancy wasn't about pleading, negotiating or desperation. It was about faith, and using the gifts Aegon had already given her.
Nahlia closed her eyes and followed the current of her thoughts into the familiar serenity of the Ethereal. She felt the energy there, how it flowed into the physical world. Through the crystals, down the facets of the rocks and over the water's surface. She felt it as clear as the ground beneath her knees, fueled by her faith and purpose. The power to preserve and protect.
She pressed a hand to Elias Raider's wound and took a single breath. The river below them crystallized with ice. It was as if the universe itself were bending to her will, allocating its energy for this single purpose. His wounds resisted the healing, but Nahlia pushed the current harder, past the point of discomfort or pain. So hard, she felt as if her body and mind might shatter at the sheer weight of it. The sensation was like drowning. Like rapidly dying of thirst. Like trying to control a tornado with nothing but her bare hands.
Even now, feelings of doubt threatened to manifest. What if this was too much for her? What if she had to trade her life for his?
Nahlia smothered the doubts as quickly as they rose. This was her purpose. Her calling. As long as she knew that, she had nothing to fear.
The surrounding river turned to solid ice, and the air felt as drained as her own body. Finally, when all light and warmth had left the cave, Elias's heart began to beat once again.
Nahlia pulled her hand back as the muscles and skin reknit themselves, forming over, fast and smooth as flowing quicksilver.
When Elias Raider opened his eyes, Nahlia let her head fall to his chest, and she wept tears of joy.
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Talks of an alleged coup d’etat in Kyrgyzstan leaked onto Youtube
A recording of a conversation between what appears to be Kyrgyzstan’s ousted president’s son and brother was posted on Youtube. The recording reveals plans to topple the interim government and return the ousted regime.
The audio was allegedly sent as a media file from a Kyrgyz number registered to an employee of the US Embassy in Kyrgyzstan. The Embassy has, in turn, denied any involvement in the matter.
“We need 500 low-lives who could raise hell,” the man, who sounds like Maksim Bakiev, son of former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, says in the recording. “You know, walk into the White House…claim power. They just have to call themselves the interim government and say they already signed some decrees for peace and stuff.”
Most of Bakiev's family had high posts within his government, and as the recording points out, could be now planning to return to power.
One is, however, naturally tempted to wonder if the recording may be a hoax. But Ruslan Milchenko from the Federal Information Centre says the quality of the recording leads one to trust its authenticity.
“As an audio expert, I can give you almost a 100% guarantee that this is not fake,” Milchenko said. “The quality of the recording, the evident lack of editing – all this makes me believe this is the real deal. Of course, I can't say whose voices these are; only a full-on audio analysis and comparison can do that. But taking into consideration the point of this dialogue, the things being said, and the current political situation in Kyrgyzstan – the dialogue makes sense. It feels real.”
While this may settle the question of the recording's authenticity, an even bigger question of who may have recorded the conversation still remains.
Could it have been the interim government keeping an eye on potential enemies?
“Pretty much anyone can listen in to a cell phone conversation. It calls for some pricey equipment, but it can be done,’ said Milchenko. “So these people should have probably looked out their windows more often. They would have seen a little black van there – it would have given them a hint."
If one of the voices on the tape really is Bakiev's bother, it is somewhat strange that he – a man who was once in charge of state security services – himself became the object of surveillance.
The recording is also clearly aimed at an international audience since all of the 40 minutes of the conversation are fully subtitled in English.
If indeed authentic, however, the recording could be a sign of desperation from the Bakiyev clan, experts say.
“They are going to try many things to win back power,” said an expert on Kyrgyzstan’s political affairs, Sanabar Shermatova. “They are clearly cornered, and so they will attempt anything they can think of. This specific plan, of course, is somewhat raw, because it is only the taking of the White House, and that’s is not enough to rule the country.”
The Bakiyev family already has a few tricks up their sleeves.
“We need to keep the situation destabilized. We need people to constantly wreak havoc in the country,” Maksim Bakiyev appears to be saying in the recording.
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Iuliia Tore
In response to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “Framework for Conditional Sailing Order” pertaining to resumption of U.S. cruise operations, Princess Cruises is extending its pause in global operations to allow time for the estimated preparation needed for completing required activities prior to sailing and taking into consideration the temporary seven-day cap on itineraries that call at a U.S. port. The cruise operations impacted include the following:
All cruises sailing through March 31, 2021
All cruises longer than seven days sailing in and out of United States ports through Nov 1, 2021
As Holland America Line continues to prepare and develop its plans to meet the Framework for Conditional Sailing Order issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the company is extending its pause of cruise operations for all departures through March 31, 2021. The line also will cancel select longer voyages, and cruises of eight days or longer that call in the United States until Nov. 1, 2021.
Cruises impacted by this pause in operation are:
All cruise departures from Jan. 1 through March 31, 2021.
Cruises of eight days or more that call at a U.S. port through Nov. 1, 2021.
Select longer voyages in Asia, Australia/New Zealand and South America through mid-April 2021. Some departures will be rescheduled to comparable dates in 2022.
Seabourn announced today that it will cancel a series of 2021 voyages for two ships in its fleet as part of a broader redeployment in preparation for an eventual return to service.
The cancellations come while the brand works to implement its plan to resume guest operations, which includes meeting the requirements of the Framework for Resuming Cruise Ship Operations order issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for sailings with U.S. port calls.
The cancellation announcement applies to select itineraries on Seabourn Odyssey and Seabourn Quest. Specific details are as follows:
Seabourn Odyssey: with select voyages cancelled from January 16, 2021 – November 5, 2021. Seven-day Alaska/British Columbia and the Pacific Coast sailings have not been cancelled.
Seabourn Quest: with voyages longer than 7 days and calling on a U.S. port cancelled from July 22, 2021 – November 6, 2021.
Disney, like other US-based cruise lines, has canceled sailings through year’s end. Departures are canceled on Disney Magic, Disney Wonder and Disney Dream through February, 1 and Disney Fantasy through February, 6.
P&O Cruises has extended the pause in operations into April 2021 in response to the current uncertainty around European ports of call.
P&O Cruises president Paul Ludlow said: “With hopeful news headlines clearly we do not want to extend our pause in operations any further than absolutely necessary, but given the ever changing guidance around international travel and the varying regulations in many European ports of call we felt it prudent to cancel these additional dates.
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Sayonara, single-use plastics! Hello, healthier ocean!
Some sobering plastic facts:
Plastic packaging makes up 26 percent of the volume of all plastic produced worldwide—and nearly all of it is single-use.
Thirty-two percent of all plastic packaging ends up in the ocean.
Over 150 million tons of plastic are already in the ocean—with an additional eight million tons entering the ocean every single year.
Clearly, stemming the flow of single-use plastics into the ocean is vitally important. To do our part—and set an example for visitors—the Seattle Aquarium recently committed to a significant reduction of single-use plastics across our facility.
That resulted in some major changes in our café: no more plastic straws, no more soda cup lids, and no more plastic beverage bottles. Instead, we’re offering paper straws and a great variety of beverages packaged in aluminum, glass—and even cardboard! In the gift shop, we’ve moved away from selling water bottled in plastic; instead, customers can choose cardboard cartons of water or, even better, reusable water bottles that can be filled at stations located in the Aquarium.
This commitment is part of a bigger-picture initiative by aquariums around the country, teaming up through the Aquarium Conservation Partnership to combat the challenge of plastic pollution. What does it mean for us?
While recycling and beach cleanups are important, these actions don’t keep up with the amount of plastic entering the ocean—every single minute of every single day, a garbage-truck’s-worth of plastic goes into the ocean. We invite you to join us in avoiding single-use plastics, and encouraging friends and family to do the same. Together we can decrease the demand for plastics production and show that we’re serious about keeping our oceans clean.
Choose alternatives to single-use plastics
There are plenty of options: reusable straws, bags, cups and water bottles. By investing in these innovative solutions, you help foster a culture of less waste and protection of our marine areas.
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Here's how to unlock the secret scene in Black Mirror’s ‘Bandersnatch’ episode
Netflix have revealed all
Chances are you were glued to Netflix for much of the Christmas period, unable to move under the weight of leftover turkey and unwilling to jump into another board game-induced row.
It’s relatively likely, then, that you ended up watching ‘Bandersnatch’, the Black Mirror choose-your-own-adventure episode, and you probably have some strong opinions about it.
Whichever ending you landed on, though, you probably won’t have encountered a secret, hidden scene in the newest addition to the Charlie Brooker series.
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Even if you haven’t seen ‘Bandersnatch’, if you’ve spent any amount of time on the internet since it first aired then you’ve probably absorbed a bit of the premise.
At a number of different junctures, viewers are invited to choose between two options, with their decision altering the path taken by lead character Stefan – played by Dunkirk star Fionn Whitehead – throughout the episode.
However, there is one secret alternate path which, while not impacting the overall arc all that much, contains a nice little Easter egg. Mild spoilers follow.
As IndieWire reports, the hidden scene comes after you are given the option of picking up a family photo or a book.
If you’re thinking “I tried both, surely I’ve encountered it already,” you’re wrong – you need to pick up the photo twice to unlock the extra content.
The premise of the episode involves Stefan creating a game based on a fictional book entitled ‘Bandersnatch’, and picking up the photo twice will lead you to a scene including the book’s author Jerome F. Davies.
Davies – played by real-life programmer Jeff Minter – visits Stefan in a dream, but we won’t give away any more than that.
’Bandersnatch’ was released as a standalone feature-length quasi-episode, separate to Black Mirror’s fifth series, though more episodes are on the way in 2019.
Brooker has spoken of potential sequels to existing episodes, but the creator tends to remain relatively tight-lipped on the actual content of new episodes until much closer to their release.
For now, though, you can go back and make different choices in the ‘Bandersnatch’ narrative to take up the time you’d have otherwise spent waiting for new material – after all, there are more than one trillion possible arcs to work through.
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Starting on Christmas day, we’ll be launching a 12 Days of Christmas Competition. For 12 days over the festive period, you can be in with a chance of winning a range of great prizes. Prizes include a range of eco-friendly gifts, skincare items, gifts that support charities, and much more.
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The Story behind Ballerina Misty Copeland's Bestselling Memoir Misty Copeland: An Unlikely Ballerina's Story
Life in Motion
An Unlikely Ballerina
By Misty Copeland
A bestselling and prize-winning memoir by African-American ballerina Misty Copeland, Life in Motion is the vividly told story of her journey to the world-class American Ballet Theatre—and delves into the harrowing family conflicts that nearly drove her away from ballet as a thirteen-year-old prodigy.
Determination meets dance in this New York Times bestselling memoir by the history-making ballerina Misty Copeland, recounting the story of her journey to become the first African-American principal ballerina at the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. When she first placed her hands on the barre at an after-school community center, no one expected the undersized, underprivileged, and anxious thirteen-year-old to become one of America’s most groundbreaking dancers . A true prodigy, she was attempting in months roles that take most dancers years to master. But when Misty became caught between the control and comfort she found in the world of ballet and the harsh realities of her own life, she had to choose to embrace both her identity and her dreams, and find the courage to be one of a kind.
With an insider’s passion, Misty opens a window into the life of an artist who lives life center stage, from behind the scenes at her first classes to her triumphant roles in some of the world’s most iconic ballets. A sensational memoir as “sensitive” and “clear-eyed” (The Washington Post) as her dancing, Life in Motion is a story of passion, identity and grace for anyone who has dared to dream of a different life.
Life in Motion Prologue
IT’S MORNING. EIGHT A.M., to be exact. My alarm goes off for no more than five seconds before I sit up to stop the nagging sound.
As I stretch my arms, I realize how achy my body is. Still, it’s a wonderful aching every dancer knows.
As many busy New Yorkers do, I click a few buttons on my computer and order my morning coffee—black, no sugar—and blueberry muffin from the corner deli to be delivered to the door of my Upper West Side apartment. Class starts at ten thirty at the Met.
The ordinary rituals of my day belie what will be an extraordinary evening. I’m eager for this day to start so that, later, I can rise again, this time on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House.
Tonight, I will become the first black woman to star in Igor Stravinsky’s iconic role for American Ballet Theatre, one of the most prestigious dance companies in the world.
As the Firebird.
This is for the little brown girls.
My barre warm-up this morning would be familiar to any ballet dancer, whether she’s an apprentice in Moscow or a seven-year-old taking his first ballet class in Detroit. It’s slow structured yet fragmentary—perfectly designed to bring me to center, where I can dance freely without the barre, each motion a broken-down version of what tonight’s solos will be. I start with pliés, increasingly deeper bends of the knee which warm up my legs while still allowing them the support that they need. I transition to larger movements of the leg, circling them in my ronds de jambe, and bending them in fondus, gradually stretching my hips and knees. I finish with a port de bras, stretching my torso forward and from side to side.
I move to center, where each aerobic exercise moves more fluidly to the next without the barre’s strictures. I know that each graceful glissade—where I jump in first position with both legs flicking to a dagger before closing into fifth—stems from that disengaged brush of the leg where my foot leaves the floor, which stems from a tendu, a single pointed toe that I’ve extended while maintaining contact with the floor.
Ballets are just stylized versions of these seemingly basic movements on a grand scale. If the basic strength and elegance of a barre class is like slipping on a little black dress, the challenge of dancing a full three-act ballet is like learning to accessorize for any occasion. I have to think about whether I want to add sass or longing or, as I will tonight, the exotic, otherworldly energy of the mythical Firebird.
You have to know the appropriate way to adorn each story and character with your body. Sleeping Beauty, for example, is very elegant and regal; its movements are fluid, with few accents. There are certain ways you have to hold your torso, position your head, and use your arms as a certain character that can differ from what I rehearse in class. The difference between being an amazing technician and being a soloist or principal is mastering those interpretive flourishes to tell the best story. Otherwise you aren’t a ballerina—you’re just another dancer.
No matter how old you are or how long you’ve been dancing, ballet professionals know that we have to repeat these steps in class every day to maintain the strength and the clean positioning that’s so essential to dancers. I’m constantly working on my technique. Even a single day off can cause my muscles to forget what my mind knows by heart. I take class seven days a week, even though the company only works five days each week.
I know that I’ll never perfect the ballet technique—ever. That’s why I love it so much. It never becomes boring, even though I’ve done all these movements in this very studio a million times over thirteen years. It’s my safe place, where I can experiment. I sweat, grunt, and make faces that would never pass on the Metropolitan Opera House stage. It’s the time to push myself beyond my limits so that my performances can feel effortless, fresh.
Not everyone wants to push themselves to that brink of breaking, but it’s what you commit to when you’re a professional—the very present reality that you may break instead of bend.
Today, I don’t jump. My left shin has been hurting, and I don’t want to risk straining it before tonight’s performance.
I have always been known as a jumper, able to soar to great heights and land like a feather on the stage. The Firebird flutters and flies. But it has been difficult to practice her grand jumps the past several weeks. The pain in my leg has been intense, and I’ve had to save every bit of my strength for the actual performances.
By now, I am as familiar with the feral gestures of the Firebird as I am with my own breath, my own heartbeat. American Ballet Theatre’s spring season has been under way for six weeks, with two more to go, and I’ve previously performed as the Firebird twice in Southern California, barely an hour away from my hometown.
I have a light rehearsal around noon at the Met, to space the choreography and get the feel of the stage. I want to be sure that I hit all of my marks, that I’m always in the right place so I don’t collide with the corps de ballet during my variations or move out of sync with my partner when we dance our pas de deux.
When the public walks into the hallowed space of the Metropolitan Opera, it sees its gilded foyer, its luxe patron boxes, and its grand stage. But behind the scenes there are studio spaces where performers can hone their magic, eking out a final practice before the show begins.
I spend part of the afternoon in one of those rooms for a private rehearsal with Alexei Ratmansky, Firebird’s choreographer.
Alexei, ever the visionary and perfectionist, is changing the choreography up until the last minute. He tweaks a leap here, a twist there. We go through all my solos to ensure that the counts are exactly right.
Beat one. On my toes.
Beat two. Dart to the right.
Beat three. Bound through the air.
Alexei changes my entrance to the stage several times before we finally agree on the steps that best suit me. There are two other casts, and the Firebird’s entrance in each is different, difficult, unique. I feel energized. I feel ready.
I walk home to my apartment, a dozen blocks from the Met. I shower and flip to the Food Network just to have some background noise as I try to relax my mind, wind down my body.
A couple hours later, I’m back at the Met. The curtain won’t go up until seven thirty p.m., and I won’t take the stage until nine, but I want to be early, to not have to rush.
It is a special evening, and not just for me. Kevin McKenzie, ABT’s artistic director, is also being honored. It is his twentieth anniversary in that role, and in celebration there will be speeches, a video tribute featuring congratulations from the artistic directors of nearly every major classical company in the world, and performances by all of ABT’s principal dancers.
It’s getting close to showtime. I have been a soloist for five years, and the eleven of us have a dressing room all to ourselves. But I have never used it. I prefer the comforting camaraderie of the dressing area shared by the corps. I spent six years as part of the corps de ballet, and with them I want to remain, preparing for my first principal role in a classical ballet surrounded by loving friends. Nothing feels different between us, even though I’ll dance the lead. That, at least, provides normalcy on this extraordinary night.
I have my own corner of the dressing room, claimed long ago. The table is so crowded with flowers and chocolates and photographs that there is barely room for me to squeeze my cell phone. There are bouquets of orchids, my favorite, and dozens of roses. Arthur Mitchell, the founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem, has left me a voice mail, wishing me luck. There are dozens more e-mails, texts, and cards—from friends, family, and fans all over the country—wishing me well.
Looking at the beautiful bounty, I start to get emotional. But I can’t be distracted. I can’t be overwhelmed.
I go into hair and makeup about a half hour after the evening performance starts. In the mirror, Misty disappears and a mystical creature takes her place, its face dusted with red glitter and painted with dazzling red spirals that shoot from the corners of its eyes. Even my inch-long false lashes are colored red. One of the company’s dressers slicks back my hair into a smooth swirl to better attach my red and gold plume.
“Good luck, Misty,” a dancer hollers at me with a smile.
“Merde!” one yells.
“Enjoy it!” says another.
I know that they wholeheartedly mean what they say. But those are everyday salutations that can be tossed out before any night’s performance. They don’t reflect the monumental nature of this evening, what it means to me and the rest of the African American community.
Maybe no words could.
Fifteen minutes.
I plop down on the floor of the dressing area’s lounge, stretching, flexing, staring at myself in the mirror. I stamp that thought down as quickly as it emerges. I think to myself, This is it, this is my moment. Finally, the moment to shine, to prove myself, to represent black dancers at the highest level of ballet.
But my shin is throbbing uncontrollably.
I know deep down that I can’t go on much longer with such pain. Tonight will be the first time I perform as the Firebird in New York, and I pray it won’t be my last. By the time Firebird is up, ABT has performed several other pieces and two intermissions have paused the program.
I make my way toward the stage. Kevin McKenzie, the conductor, and the rest of ABT’s artistic staff are standing there, behind the curtain, wishing me luck.
I remember the first time I stood on the stage at the Metropolitan Opera House. I was nineteen years old, still struggling to find my place in ABT’s corps de ballet. I traced the marley floor with my pointe shoes and imagined myself on the stage, not as a member of the corps, but as a principal dancer. It felt right. It felt like a promise: someday, somehow, it was going to happen for me.
A decade later, I am here, waiting for the moment when I will explode onto the stage in a burst of red and gold.
Outside, the largest crowd I have ever seen waits. Prominent members of the African American community and trailblazers in the world of dance who have seldom received their due are here tonight: Arthur Mitchell, Debra Lee, Star Jones, Nelson George . . . but I know I will also dance for those who aren’t here, who have never seen a ballet, who pass the Metropolitan Opera House but cannot imagine what goes on inside. They may be poor, like I have been; insecure, like I have been; misunderstood, like I have been. I will be dancing for them, too. Especially for them.
I stand in the farthest upstage wing when the curtain rises. There are a flock of “Firebirds” who enter the stage first after Ivan, the prince. I can feel the anticipation rolling off the crowd as they pose and preen. They expect me to be among them. I take a deep breath. The music starts, and with it comes the cheers, a great roar of love from the audience.
I realize in that moment that it doesn’t matter what I do on the stage tonight. They are all here for me, with me, here for who I am and what tonight represents. I run onto the stage and feel myself transform. As I approach center, my flock parts, leaving me to stand alone. There’s a brief second of silence before the audience erupts into applause once more, clapping so loudly I can barely hear the music.
This reading group guide for Life in Motion includes an introduction, discussion questions, ideas for enhancing your book club, and a Q&A with author Misty Copeland. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.
When thirteen-year-old Misty Copeland first walks into a ballet class at the Boys and Girls Club in San Pedro, California, she has no idea that this will change her world. Her chaotic home life, filled with five siblings and her mother’s changing husbands and boyfriends, is in stark contrast to the control, beauty, and grace Misty experiences in ballet. A seeming ugly duckling, with a small head, sloping shoulders, and big feet, Misty learns that she has the ideal body for ballet. She has the uncanny ability to copy complex steps perfectly. Life in Motion is Misty’s personal account of her journey to become the first African American soloist at the prestigious American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in more than twenty years. Misty relates the challenges she faced, from living on food stamps to a bitter, highly publicized custody battle between her mother and her dance teacher. Through it all, Misty remains true to herself and committed to her goal. Her remarkable story will inspire anyone struggling against seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Misty Copeland is proof positive that with perseverance, dedication, and a little bit of luck, dreams can come true.
1. Misty’s relationships with the male figures in her life often bring her strength. Misty describes her wonderful relationship with Harold, her mother’s third husband. As she says, “Memories of Harold are never cloudy, only clear and bright.” Her relationship with Olu brings her strength and confidence, especially in finding her place at ABT and becoming a mentor to others. Why do you think these influences are powerful for her? Can you contrast them with the less-positive legacy of her mother’s husbands and boyfriends?
2. Misty contrasts her shyness to the confidence she feels dancing and performing. Of her childhood she says, “I felt awkward, like I didn’t fit in anywhere, and I lived in constant fear of letting my mother down, or my teachers, or myself.” How do you think her introverted personality affects her as a performer? Can anxiety become a strength, rather than a weakness? How does she learn to cope with it?
3. Misty finds support and encouragement from ballet teacher Cindy Bradley, who invites Misty to leave her mother’s meager, overcrowded apartment to live with the Bradley family. What could Cindy provide Misty that her mother could not? In what ways does Misty connect with other maternal or supportive figures after she leaves the Bradleys?
4. Misty has a complex relationship with her mother: “I love my mother, but I’ve never really understood her.” Their relationship is taxed to the breaking point when Misty’s mother forces her to leave the Bradleys and return home. Eventually Misty withdraws her petition to become a legally emancipated minor that Cindy helped her request. Do you think this was entirely Misty’s decision? How did this painful process affect Misty’s dancing career? Her relationship with her mother?
5. Misty’s childhood was one of intermittent poverty and rootlessness. Her mother was continually running away from bad situations. How did this affect the way Misty dealt with obstacles later in life?
6. Consider Misty’s many experiences with prejudice. Her mother’s fourth husband, Robert, displayed a penchant for abusive racial epithets, and Misty finds bigotry pervasive even in the world of ballet, where she must often paint her face lighter for performances. To what degree do you think racism has affected Misty’s career as a dancer? What have her experiences taught her?
7. Did Misty’s discussion of the myth of eating disorders and ballet surprise you? Discuss that and any other preconceived notions you may have had about ballet before reading this book. Which were dispelled? Which were proven accurate?
8. When discussing her friend and fellow dancer Eric Underwood, Misty wonders if what led them both to dance was serendipity or destiny. Which do you think it was for Misty? What does Misty seem to believe?
9. Misty says, “Mommy had always been afraid that I’d given up my childhood for a dream.” Do you think she did? If so, was it worth it?
10. Misty admits to being a perfectionist since childhood. By the end of the book, how does Misty come to terms with the idea of perfection?
11. To this day, ABT has never had an African American principal dancer. What do you think of Misty’s campaign to be the first?
12. The book begins and ends with Misty’s dancing the role of the Firebird. What is the significance of the Firebird, both her performance and the character, to Misty?
1. Get into the spirit of things: find a local ballet studio and attend a recital, or even take a beginner’s class. Many schools offer classes for adult novices. If you have questions about ballet, there are many helpful Internet sites. ABT’s website offers a dictionary of ballet terms, some with video illustrations (http://www.abt.org/education/dictionary/). Britain’s Royal Ballet has uploaded many videos on the and ballet steps and terms and the history of ballet; see https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7E40E6E2DAB561B5 and https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFEuShFvJzBww3lVbFABGB0HbIxNQ2 TiA.
2. Have the members of your group talk about any early experiences with the arts—dance lessons, musical instrument classes, visual arts lessons, etc.—then compare your experiences. Is any member of your group still practicing his or her art? Discuss what art added to your lives.
A Conversation with Misty Copeland
In the book you are very candid about the struggles of your early childhood. Do you think those experiences were a help or a hindrance to your determination to become a ballerina?
They were absolutely a help. You need perseverance, determination, and drive to succeed in the ballet world. All of my faults and insecurities as a child were highlighted by ballet and it pushed me to prove myself despite them. In the end, wanting to please people, striving for perfection, even survival, are all attributes a ballerina needs to have.
In addition to your work with ABT, you also discuss working with Prince, being a judge on a national TV dance competition, and working with the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition, which helped introduce ballet to a wider audience. What kind of results are you seeing from helping to make this art form more popular and democratic?
The most impressive is seeing a more diverse audience at the Metropolitan Opera House. That is huge for ballet, as well as seeing a ton of brown ballerinas willing to step into this secluded world because they can see spaces for themselves now.
You express a great deal of affection for New York City from almost the moment you arrived for ABT’s summer intensive program. Do you still feel the same way about it?
I feel the same. The yearning I felt while away from NYC as an adolescent is a bit less dramatic now. I’m always happy to be home here, but I don’t feel as though I’m missing out on the fast pace energy and growth of the city as I once did.
Many of your awards and accomplishments in ballet are even more remarkable because you are often the first African American to achieve them. In what ways do you think the world of ballet is changing for future performers? For the audience?
I think it will be after my retirement from ballet that I will realize the weight put on me by being the first. I am so “in it” now, and focused on the challenges of becoming what I need to be from day to day, that I don’t float above myself and see the scarier picture of not living up to expectations. But things are changing daily. It’s exciting. To see myself reflected in the younger generation of ballet dancer helps give me hope.
Although they are both art forms, ballet and writing are extremely different. Did you enjoy the writing experience? Were there any particular challenges for you?
I really enjoyed it. I’ve always enjoyed writing in journals. It was my way of expressing myself before I really knew how to speak up for myself more publicly, so the whole experience was very cathartic. The most challenging part for me was letting go of the story and putting it out into the world, and also giving Charisse Jones, my coauthor, the freedom to do what she does and just help me write! It was scary to trust someone with my life story.
In the book you confess the very human tendency to focus on the rare negative comment or criticism amid a sea of praise. Did you read the reviews for your book? How did your experiences with reviews for your performances affect the way you handled your book reviews?
If anything I’m even more prepared for my book reviews because I’ve experienced those performance reviews. The book stuff is a bit different in that these are my life experiences, so it’s hard to imagine someone would judge or critique another person’s life experiences by any objective measure. It’s another thing to be a part of a subjective art form where you have to be thick skinned enough to handle criticism. But to have someone place judgment on an experience they never had personally is strange.
In addition to this memoir, you’ve also written a children’s book. What stories do you dream of telling next?
The history of minorities, especially brown people, in the classical ballet world. I want to share my experiences in this unique setting as well as undiscovered and untold stories of generations of stories before me.
This book was a national bestseller, and while on tour, you had the opportunity to engage with many of your fans one-on-one. What advice or insight would you like to leave your readers that you might not have addressed in this memoir’s pages?
That I’m nowhere near the be-all and end-all for ballet. I just want to spark interest in an unlikely audience and to bring awareness and education to those who may not otherwise feel welcomed.
Misty Copeland
Misty Copeland made history by becoming the third African-American ballerina for the American Ballet Theatre, the first in decades. A recipient of the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Arts and an inductee into the Boys and Girls Club Alumni Hall of Fame, she currently lives in New York City. Visit her online at MistyCopeland.com.
Publisher: Touchstone (December 16, 2014)
Performing Arts > Dance > Classical
Biography & Autobiography > Entertainment & Performing Arts
Biography & Autobiography > Personal Memoirs
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An unexpected page-turner...Her story is an inspiration to anyone—man or woman, black or white—who has ever chased a dream against the odds, and the grace with which she triumphs is an example for us all.
Engaging... [Copeland is] a poised, intelligent writer whose temperament—disciplined, determined, driven—gives the book a special spark… In LIFE IN MOTION, she looks back on the past without bitterness or anger, only gratitude. Hers is an out-of-the-ordinary story about defying stereotypes, and she shares it in an inspiring narrative that’s enlivened by her own grace and generous spirit.
– BookPage
Instead of rags to riches, Copeland goes from baggy shorts to leotards as she navigates the whitewashed world of ballet.
It's no wonder Misty Copeland is a role model for countless aspiring ballerinas.
– Dance Spirit Magazine
Reads as a modern day Cinderella story…this memoir is an inspirational read—especially for aspiring dancers.
– JET Magazine
Wrenching and revelatory.
Thorough, sensitive...clear-eyed.
– The Washington Post
[A] dramatic rags-to-toe shoes life story.
Captivating...heartrending...literary.
– Lisa Jo Sagolla, The Kansas City Star
– Juicy Magazine
Misty’s unwavering belief that we can be anything that we dream is an inspiration – an inspiration to break the mold, follow your passion, never take no for an answer and do it all with grace, kindness and the spirit to help others on their journey. I am thrilled that my two daughters have a role model in Misty, who is breaking down doors that that they will never have to.
– Rachel Roy
A raw, honest tale….Her memoir is filled with passion, pain, success, and…pure joy.
– Ebony.com
Misty Copeland, a ballerina of extraordinary talent and charisma, offers an autobiography as mesmeric as her dancing. She overcame adversity in the studio, in her home life, and in ballet's own traditionalism to become one of its brightest stars — her passion and perseverance will inspire dancers and non-dancers alike.
– Eliza Minden, author of The Ballet Companion and Co-Founder and Head of Design at dancewear company Gaynor Minden, Inc.
[Misty Copeland's] book is a breezy read for such deep subject matter, but her beautiful and prevailing spirit shines through on every page.
– The Inlander
Reading her memoir...it becomes even more apparent how this 31-year-old woman has parlayed her natural talent along with an uber intense discipline, passion and focus, into a stellar career.
– The NWI Times
Misty Copeland’s LIFE IN MOTION is an inspiration to all young people. She is the Jackie Robinson of the ballet world, and a true role model for an entire generation of new ballerinas.
– Frank Sanchez, Vice President, Boys & Girls Clubs of America
[LIFE IN MOTION] is the stuff of which movies are made.
– Chicago Sun-Times
What a remarkable, encouraging story. Written naturally, modestly, and conversationally...[readers will] feel her triumphs and tragedies, wincing whenever she falls and cheering her on every time she gets back up….Brava, Misty.
– Bildungsroman
A tale of hardship and remarkable success.
– Los Angeles Magazine
A poignant primer proving the power of perseverance in the face of adversity.
– The LA Sentinel
An important book for teen collections.
– Angela Carstensen, School Library Journal
Told in graceful prose...[Copeland's] achievements will encourage all those attempting to beat the odds in competitive fields.
A page-turner...fascinating and emotional.
– The Philadelphia Enquirer
[Parts] the curtain on the ballet’s central illusion: that it is empowering for the female dancers at its centre. Providing a behind-the-scenes look at the glory and gore of ballet...you find yourself rooting for her.
– Deidre Kelly, The Globe and Mail (Canada)
A wonderful read.
– Jia Tolentino, The Hairpin
A gift to all balletomanes, not just the brown ones.
– Esther Cepeda
She embodies both fearlessness and femininity, reflecting the life of contradictions and obstacles over which she’s leapt so beautifully. If ever a solo ballerina was poised to become a household name, it’s now.
– Yahoo!
"Although ballet fans never lack for darlings, rarely does a dancer become an old-fashioned star...her path to becoming a star ballerina has been as dramatic, unlikely, and hinged on coincidence as the plots of most ballets."
– Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker
The story Copeland tells about her rise to ballet glory is compelling and inspirational.
– Seattle Times
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Samsung Connect Home release date and pricing revealed
Eric Abent - Jun 1, 2017, 11:31am CDT
It was only a couple of months ago that Samsung first detailed its Connect Home WiFi router, and today the company is ready to talk release dates and pricing. Pre-orders for Connect Home will open later this week, but one thing to note is that Best Buy has landed itself an exclusivity deal for this device. This seems to be something of a timed exclusivity deal, so you won’t necessarily have to go through Best Buy to outfit your home with a mesh network of Samsung Connect routers.
As we said back in March, Samsung Connect Home has a lot in common with other mesh network routers like Google WiFi, but with one key difference. Using the accompanying app, your Connect Home Wifi routers can serve as an IoT hub to manage your SmartThings devices. Therefore, if you’ve already achieved some degree of home automation through SmartThings, this is almost certainly the WiFi system you want to go with.
Connect Home is available in two varieties: the standard Connect Home, which is for average consumers who simply need to expand their WiFi network’s coverage area and reliability, and the Connect Home Pro, which provides more bandwidth for things like online gaming and streaming. The standard Connect Home offers AC1300 speeds (866Mbps on the 5GHz band) while the Connect Home Pro boasts AC2600 WiFi (1,733Mbps @ 5GHz).
Other than the difference in WiFi speeds, the two are somewhat similar. Connect Home Pro offers 4×4 MU MIMO (compared to the standard Connect Home’s 2×2 MU MIMO) and a more powerful processor, but the spec sheets for both show the same amount of RAM and flash storage, the same connectivity options, the same range (1,500 square feet per router), and the same WiFi standard.
Both the standard Connect Home and the Connect Home Pro will go up for pre-order at BestBuy.com on June 4. They will later launch at Best Buy on July 2, though Samsung says elsewhere in its announcement that they launch nationwide on July 16, suggesting that Best Buy will enjoy two weeks of exclusivity. The standard Connect Home is available as a single device for $169.99 or in a three-pack for $379.99, while Connect Home Pro is only available in a single device package for $249.99.
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strength is here in billets southwest of berlin. the yard of sammy's asparagus farm is a popular destination for day trip and since spring they come here to buy their beloved asparagus just after it's been harvested. and the fish when things turn green and the 1st tulips bloom it's asparagus time driving around here you see the fields and think soon they'll be asparagus. even the word asparagus is mouthwatering. say it's a delicacy it's typical for germany. very happy to be here to eat joy the asparagus. the germans are european champions of growing asparagus and they leave this when it comes to eating it too on average every german consumes 1.5 kilos of the vegetable season. sixty's of west germany is growing prosperity also created an asparagus miracle. production and consumption bread is better than ever reaches that's why for me asparagus is a cultural asset it's not simply a trend that people are eating asparagus eating it since the middle ages in the gardens of monasteries and at royal courts. it's very good as has been grown in the region around 86110 percent is green aspa
strength is here in billets southwest of berlin. the yard of sammy's asparagus farm is a popular destination for day trip and since spring they come here to buy their beloved asparagus just after it's been harvested. and the fish when things turn green and the 1st tulips bloom it's asparagus time driving around here you see the fields and think soon they'll be asparagus. even the word asparagus is mouthwatering. say it's a delicacy it's typical for germany. very happy to be here to eat joy the...
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growing call with the prime minister to do sammy to decide. up next a focus on europe britain a fight against youth violence stay with us for that of a cat. their piece of video and its consequences are political bombshell and beyond a. austria's government is and chaos. would look at what role if any of the intelligence services played in this scandal. and how close are the right wing to populists to russia. next month d w. entered the conflict zone. last known as venezuela's opposition ascent to the boldest news yet the size of get the military is a come over to this side my guess is the fear in london is done the same way i'm a representative to the venezuelan opposition leader and a self declared president quote fly down what happens next conflicts of the stuff in 60 minutes t.w. . an action packed life. anything is possible as long as i'm comfy and his friends can drink on. this movie theater in kenya has done refugee camp. his life story may have ground to a halt. 27 years ago but there's no holding back his dreams. thank you for watching. cinema jump starts may 27th on t.w. . t
growing call with the prime minister to do sammy to decide. up next a focus on europe britain a fight against youth violence stay with us for that of a cat. their piece of video and its consequences are political bombshell and beyond a. austria's government is and chaos. would look at what role if any of the intelligence services played in this scandal. and how close are the right wing to populists to russia. next month d w. entered the conflict zone. last known as venezuela's opposition...
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. thursday sees the 2nd round of sammy's before the big event although we. are israel correspondent gives us now a sense of the atmosphere in tel aviv. beach sun and music as the e s c as it's known to its legions of follow was hit tel aviv on the beach a mix of tourists and fans with such a day's grand finale with anticipation to levy visit this city when it's it's always fun and when people from the whole europe come here to see something i think it will become more fun then it's always be to. go in the big stage here. i am happy to represent my counter albania and read this there they go. israel is hosting this year's here edition song contest because of this single minute about silly one in lisp and last year she would perform her new single man a banana at the final on saturday. making people come here and see how amazing israel is giving us a chance to show how how how big of a party we can make and how amazing and genuine it can be energy wise. wow. $41.00 nations are competing to win europe's oldest song contest it's the 3rd time isabel is hosted it security has been beefed up alo
. thursday sees the 2nd round of sammy's before the big event although we. are israel correspondent gives us now a sense of the atmosphere in tel aviv. beach sun and music as the e s c as it's known to its legions of follow was hit tel aviv on the beach a mix of tourists and fans with such a day's grand finale with anticipation to levy visit this city when it's it's always fun and when people from the whole europe come here to see something i think it will become more fun then it's always be...
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britain. the yard of sammy's the speratus farm is a popular destination for daytrippers in spring they come here to buy their beloved asparagus just after it's been harvested. and especially when things turn green and the 1st tulips bloom it's asparagus time driving around here you see the fields and think soon they'll be asparagus. even the word asparagus is mouthwatering. say it's a delicacy it's typical for germany i know that it was very happy to be here to eat joy the asparagus. in their. kitchen is our european champions of growing asparagus and they leave this when it comes to eating it too on average every german consumes $1.00 kilos of the vegetable per season. within. 60 days of west germany asperity also created an asparagus miracle. production and consumption of the head is better than ever that's why for me asparagus is a cultural asset it's not simply a trend that people are eating asparagus eating it since the middle ages in the gardens of monasteries and at royal courts. of. directors has been grown in the region around playlets is 86110 percent is green asparagus which
britain. the yard of sammy's the speratus farm is a popular destination for daytrippers in spring they come here to buy their beloved asparagus just after it's been harvested. and especially when things turn green and the 1st tulips bloom it's asparagus time driving around here you see the fields and think soon they'll be asparagus. even the word asparagus is mouthwatering. say it's a delicacy it's typical for germany i know that it was very happy to be here to eat joy the asparagus. in their....
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of aye farrell aye kim aye mar aye peskin aye tang aye weiner aye yee aye avalos aye there are 11 aye >> those items are finally passed unanimously. >>[gavel] >> clerk please call item number two >> item to ordinance authorizing the settlement by law food filed by jack a frazier against the city for approximate $5 million filed in october 20 820. 13 in san francisco superior court entitled with personal injury with a fighter truck >> supervisor avalos >> of the voting, no, i guess this. i've had many meetings with mr. fraser who be party to the settlement. i'm not urging anyone else to vote with me on that in any way. but based my conversations with mr. fraser it was expressed differing opinions about whether he should accept the settlement or not. i felt important to weigh in on what my vote of no just what is his attitude run the settlement itself. but i do believe that this is a settlement that is a big one and worth voting for. >> thank you. seeing no other names on the roster item number two speaker please call the please take roll call >> supervisor breed aye campos. the i c
of aye farrell aye kim aye mar aye peskin aye tang aye weiner aye yee aye avalos aye there are 11 aye >> those items are finally passed unanimously. >>[gavel] >> clerk please call item number two >> item to ordinance authorizing the settlement by law food filed by jack a frazier against the city for approximate $5 million filed in october 20 820. 13 in san francisco superior court entitled with personal injury with a fighter truck >> supervisor avalos >> of...
weiner >> thank you very much. just to follow-up on what chief deputy chief tom mentioned, you don't need to come back up-i did attend the last graduation of the police academy and actually, i peered up we go and speak to the academy and it was in my experience progressively every time i walk in there more and more diverse than the last one was the most diverse class that i had ever seen in the 5-6 years that i've been going to the academy going to graduations. i think there needs to be recruit more women. that is definitely a continuing challenge. in terms of lgbt although there is no official data in the-i didn't know a lot of the open the lgbt officers and we definitely have seen in my anecdotal experience an increase in for a long time because of the hiv aids epidemic there was very very few gay men in that apartment. the result generation gay male leadership that was stopped in its tracks. there were lesbians who are able to make it very very senior the command staff but gay men were sent back. that started the change in we've seen more and more game in particular we for example
weiner >> thank you very much. just to follow-up on what chief deputy chief tom mentioned, you don't need to come back up-i did attend the last graduation of the police academy and actually, i peered up we go and speak to the academy and it was in my experience progressively every time i walk in there more and more diverse than the last one was the most diverse class that i had ever seen in the 5-6 years that i've been going to the academy going to graduations. i think there needs to be...
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and scott weiner has his endorsement on his senate website said he was sir, address your members to the board of supervisors >> that is shameful to have the board of supervisors to have an endorsement from a perpetrator of a gay man not only take his endorsement but put it on his website >> sir on pausing your time. your viewpoints are important to us when you start talking about opposition or support of individuals who are on the ballot that's where you cross the line. welcome to continue her remarks but please read out the part about the election and address your marks of the board as a whole. thank you, sir >> they use much for the clarity it so hard for me to know where the line is outside the chamber and inside this chamber but i just want to ask this particular supervisor to remove his endorsement of a known abuser on that website. it is shameful. i got beaten up , brutalized and suited my attorney. it's a shame that you're supporting them. >> next speaker, please. >> tom-some poor vacations last week i mentioned something about the best of arun peskin you get the best of arri
and scott weiner has his endorsement on his senate website said he was sir, address your members to the board of supervisors >> that is shameful to have the board of supervisors to have an endorsement from a perpetrator of a gay man not only take his endorsement but put it on his website >> sir on pausing your time. your viewpoints are important to us when you start talking about opposition or support of individuals who are on the ballot that's where you cross the line. welcome to...
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board. for police reform. with that i want to call on supervisor weiner >> i also want to thank supervisor cohen for her leadership and i think this was a helpful hearing could i have reviewed the blue ribbon panel report but it's good to have the world presentation. i think it's important to knowledge there aren't the forms that are in process happening but the drowned body cameras with the updating and modernizing use of force policies and other changes that are happening. it's never a as fast as any of us would like and is putting more work to do and i think there's consensus. in this chamber. about that. but i think there are positive changes that are happening. we just have to make sure that the momentum continues because fundamentally, it's not about reform for the sake of reform. it's about reform so that we can build trust between sfpd and the community and particularly communities of color. that's fundamentally what it's about. we have to continue to push and continue to move forward with these reforms and to have accountability if the reforms language. so this is a goo
board. for police reform. with that i want to call on supervisor weiner >> i also want to thank supervisor cohen for her leadership and i think this was a helpful hearing could i have reviewed the blue ribbon panel report but it's good to have the world presentation. i think it's important to knowledge there aren't the forms that are in process happening but the drowned body cameras with the updating and modernizing use of force policies and other changes that are happening. it's never a...
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Sakshi Malik,who won hearts after winning #bronze medal at #RioOlympics2016,got engaged to her #wrestler boyfriend! #sports @UrbanMyth3 pic.twitter.com/OmpXxsw64r
— Urban Myth (@UrbanMyth3) October 17, 2016
“It was a private function. Only the families of the to-be bride and groom attended the event and it went very well,” Satyawart’s father Arjuna Awardee Satyavan Pehelwan said, as reported by Hindustan Times.
Also Read: Don’t let the bronze change the colour of your heart: Mary Kom to Sakshi Malik
The 22-year-old Satyawart, who happens to be two years younger to Sakshi, trains at his father’s akhada in Rohtak, while Sakshi has been training at Sir Chhotu Ram Stadium Wrestling Academy in the same city. A competitor in the 97kg freestyle category, Satyawart was a bronze medalist (his first) at the 2010 Youth Olympics. He won a silver at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. He was the only Indian wrestler to win a medal at the 2013 World Youth wrestling Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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When Sakshi returned after winning her Olympic bronze, she mentioned that Satyawart’s constant support led her career thi high. “He is very supportive and thinks of my dreams as his own,” she had said earlier.
Also Read: Olympic victor Sakshi Malik’s training included 12 years of fighting misogyny
According to Satyawart’s father, the engagement was fixed a long time ago but the wedding day is yet to be decided. “They are both wrestlers so they have to chalk out dates out of their schedule of endless tournaments. We cannot say anything right now about the wedding,” he said.
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STX Group to Raise Funds
STX Group's European subsidiary, STX Europe Holding, is planning to raise about KRW700bn ($633m) through an initial public offering on the Singapore Exchange. The South Korea-based shipping firm will issue 180,000,000 shares while STX Europe will, through its wholly-owned subsidiary STX E
STX Group’s European subsidiary, STX Europe Holding, is planning to raise about KRW700bn ($633m) through an initial public offering on the Singapore Exchange.
The South Korea-based shipping firm will issue 180,000,000 shares while STX Europe will, through its wholly-owned subsidiary STX Europe Holding, sell and make an offer of 145,646,000 existing shares in STX OSV.
The listing comes two years after the company took over Norway’s Aker Yards for KRW1,400bn($1.2bn).
STX’s offshore and specialised vessels division has received orders of $2.2bn so far this year.
The company is expected to use the money raised from the IPO for debt repayment and other operational purposes.
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Long-Tailed Lions Quilt ePattern
by Jenny Wilding Cardon
CODE: EPB812M
The manes and tails on these lions look stiff, but they're actually made of a tulle trim that's soft and feathery. There are tons of creative trims to choose from. As long as the trim is about ¼" wide and baby-safe, you can use it in this quilt.
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Jenny Wilding Cardon has been creating with fabric since high school. Back then, she would design eccentric, rebellious items of clothing, and then make her friends wear them to school. After graduating from college in Utah with a degree in Women's Studies, Jenny spent three years with her husband in Seattle, where she quickly caught the quilting bug from her coworkers at Martingale.
Jenny worked as a copywriter for Martingale one day short of 10 years before giving up her position to be a stay-at-home mom. In 2011, she returned to Martingale as their content editor, and now spends most of her work time writing for Martingale's Stitch This! blog.
The birth of her first son inspired Jenny's to write her first pattern collection, The Little Box of Baby Quilts (Martingale, 2007). Her second, the book ReSew (Martingale, 2011), paired her two creative outlets--thrifting and sewing. Jenny's designs have also appeared on the covers of Quilts and More and Quilt It for Kids magazines, as well as in McCall's Quilting and Simple Quilts and Sewing.
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Pingle Academy accomplish another amazing year of GCSE success
Head teacher Vivien Sharples speaks of students success
Paige OldfieldTrainee Reporter
Pingle Academy have celebrated another year of success for GCSE results today on Thursday, August 24.
It comes after the Swadlincote school achieved their best A-level results to date last week.
Speaking of the students’ triumph, head teacher, Vivien Sharples, said: "Today is all about celebrating the achievements of individual students and I am delighted that we have so many success stories to tell.
Pingle GCSE success
"This year the new grading system made it difficult for schools to predict exactly what students would achieve. Direct comparisons between last year’s results and those this year have now become very difficult, but it is clear that our students have achieved more top grades than last year and that is something to be really proud of.
"There is a great atmosphere today, with the vast majority of students celebrating their achievements and able to take the step on to the pathway of their choice. We are delighted that so many of our students have surpassed their targets and achieved the new good grade of 9-5 in English and maths.
"We will welcome back a large proportion of our students into the sixth form, as well as many students from other schools. They can look forward to a great experience here at Pingle in a sixth form which has achieved outstanding A level results this summer.
Paulet High School pupils and teacher delight at fantastic GCSE and BTEC results
"Parents and carers have been extremely supportive and have worked in partnership with us to ensure students have done their best.
"I wish to acknowledge the dedication of our staff; teachers, teaching assistants and support staff have been absolutely fantastic in supporting the students to prepare for these very important examinations, with additional timetabled lessons after school, regular Saturday morning revision sessions and even Sunday focus days just before key examinations.
"The hard work has been worth it to see the smiles today."
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Contract management delivers sustainable results for Royal Mail
Royal Mail has existed in one form or other for 500 years. While this longevity helps it understand how to sustain operations in the long term, it has been subject to rapid change in the last five years.
The UK postal service, originally established in 1516, spends about £2.3 billion across 5,000 external suppliers. After centuries of public ownership, the
service was privatised in 2013.
Following the move, the organisation embarked on a strategy to gain greater visibility of supplier performance through better contract management, laying the foundations for organisation-wide supplier relationship management. Although organisations most often choose to apply SRM to gain value, through innovation, process improvement or savings, Royal Mail has found it a challenge to scale past a handful of suppliers. So instead of pitching for the ultimate SRM goal, the procurement organisation first decided to build stronger foundations and improve how it managed suppliers’ performance against their contracts.
Suppliers: an extension of the organisation
Royal Mail’s CPO presented the proposal to the organisation’s risk management committee, to make the case that better contract management would improve oversight, ensure compliance with regulatory and corporate social responsibility obligations and reduce value leakage.
The risk committee gave the programme the go-ahead in 2016. Procurement led it but retained the operating model that hands over day-to-day management of contracts and collection of data to the business units. Royal Mail runs 24-hour operations, so it made sense to leave contract management in the hands of those working closely with suppliers around the clock.
Because the programme would apply to a large number of suppliers and contract managers, it
was rolled out in three waves, learning from each phase as it progressed, says Helen Wilber, Royal Mail SRM programme lead.
The procurement team set out a training programme: Contract Management Essentials, to ensure contract owners were working from the same level of knowledge. Face-to-face workshops took place in London and Chesterfield, which the business supported with Skype training. The training resulted in the added benefit of creating a contract management community across all business units.
Rob Cooksley CPO says “Suppliers are an extension of our organisation. How they behave and operate is important to us. As CPO, I need to ensure across all our key supply chains we are delivering first class value for the business and protecting it from risk. The Contract Management Essentials programme has given me confidence that we are achieving that for our business.”
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“No one had created a contract-management community that cut across our operations, from fleet management to HR before. It’s good to see learning work across business units,” Wilber says. In terms of technology, Royal Mail deployed the contract management module from State of Flux’s SupplierBase solution. The procurement team developed a common score-card structure to
help make supplier performance measures comparable across the business, including value
for money, quality of work and the health of the relationship.
The programme was managed by one full-time equivalent role, and a part-time strategic manager, with support from procurement, stakeholders and State of Flux. Legal, compliance and risk teams also contributed.
“Contract management was not new to us: there were pockets of good practice, but not all areas were doing it consistently,” she says. In addition, the standard measures and easy access to data made oversight of key contracts easier for the executive team. For the first time, they were able to compare suppliers with each other and get a fact-based, objective view, she says.
“Suppliers know they are being tracked and measured against one another and that is driving
their performance. It has been well received by suppliers. Because we are tracking them, and they have access to the portal, they can use it to understand their performance by pulling down data each month,” she says.
Greater visibility of compliance
Other benefits include tracking supplier compliance with Royal Mail’s security standards, anti bribery policy and monitoring compliance with 2018’s General Data Protection Regulation for suppliers that process Royal Mail data. The system also helps monitor supplier performance against the Royal Mail Responsible Procurement Code which sets out expectations for corporate social responsibility in the supply chain, Wilber says. Initiatives tracked via the portal include the rollout of electric vehicles to the fleet, and compliance with the Modern Slavery Act 2015, particularly among higher risk sectors including suppliers of catering, cleaning and uniforms.
Royal Mail prioritises suppliers based on their importance to the business and level of risk. The procurement risk register lists the risks that are deemed critical to the business and supply chain.
Using the contract management system to identify suppliers with a high sustainability risk, Royal Mail then undertakes mitigation activities, such as enrolling them on the Suppliers Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX), an online platform that tracks environmental, social, and ethical governance performance, including through third-party audits of these suppliers. Royal Mail’s approach to supplier management has seen recognition in the shortlist for Best Process Improvement Initiative at the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply annual awards.
The groundwork for SRM
Progress in contract management is also set to lay the groundwork for the implementation of supplier relationship management at Royal Mail, Wilber says.
“We have attempted SRM before, but we tried to do it without getting building blocks in place. We have looked to work with our top ten suppliers using SRM but then found it was not scalable. It was seen as something we were doing to the business, and not involving them in it. There was no collaboration with them. Now we have their input in contract management, we get engagement, and that has made it a success.
“What we have delivered with the programme is unprecedented within Royal Mail transparent, visible, consistent contract management reporting across all our key supply chains. Getting the foundations right is fundamental to the success of effectively managing supplier relationships,”
Wilber says. With a sound platform for contract management, the Royal Mail procurement team is demonstrating that it can deliver results at an enterprise level, providing the business with assurance on supplier risk, performance and sustainability that modern multi-billion pound businesses need.
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Mineral fuel import value to Japan from Asia 2019, by region
Published by Statista Research Department, Jan 6, 2021
In 2019, the value of mineral fuels imported from Saudi Arabia to Japan amounted to approximately 2.9 trillion Japanese yen. In contrast, imports from the Philippines were valued at about 52 million Japanese yen.
Import value of mineral fuels to Japan from selected Asian countries in 2019, by region (in billion Japanese yen)
Import value in billion Japanese yen
1 Japanese yen equals 0.0097 U.S. dollars or 0.0079 euros as of January 2021.
Values have been rounded.
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A Vast and Now Vanished Amazon Sea Is Discovered
About 18 million years ago, the Caribbean Sea seasonally flooded inland forests, where enormous crocodiles and turtles roamed
“It's hard to imagine," says Smithsonian scientist Carlos Jaramillo,"that you could have the Caribbean ocean in the west Amazon." (Carlos D'Apolito)
By Jackson Landers
The Amazon is arguably the most biodiverse place on Earth. The 4,000-mile river that runs from the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean is surrounded by a two and a half million square mile river basin, roughly the size of Australia, and claims some 2.6 million species with many more still unknown to science. It turns out that as vast as the region is now, the modern Amazon rain forest ecosystem represents but a fragment of the diversity of habitat and wildlife that existed between ten and 18 million years ago when it was seasonally flooded with ocean water from the Carribbean Sea.
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Carlos Jaramillo, a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and lead author of a new research paper published this week in Science Advances has concluded that the Amazon once possessed a vast inland sea surrounded by seasonally flooded land. The Caribbean waters penetrated deep into the west Amazon with the salty ocean water flooding the forests during raining seasons and receding from some areas during the dry seasons.
Previously, the Amazonia region of South America was thought of as having been dry land throughout its history. Jaramillo, who was initially skeptical of the idea, was able to piece together this portrait of a lost ecosystem by digging up fossils. He took deep core samples of rock and soil and studied exposed outcroppings at many locations around today's Amazon.
“I thought it was impossible,” Jaramillo said as he stood in his spacious Panama City office beside a long table covered in books, printed scientific papers and fossils of bones and plants waiting to be categorized. “It's hard to imagine that you could have the Caribbean ocean in the west Amazon. . . . it's too far away. The Amazonian rains a lot so you have a lot of sediments. It's very hard for the ocean to gain terrain through the rivers.”
But he says, if you could travel back in time, 18 million years ago, and fly a hundred feet above the ground, you would experience a world where land and water intermingled across a vast region. He walked a few paces to a computer screen and pressed 'play' to reveal a digitized model showing the shifting range of the lost sea over time.
Credit: Carlos Jaramillo, German Bayona and Edward Duarte, using Gplates and VideoPad by NCHsoftware
“During the dry season you will see permanent rivers and maybe hundreds of isolated lakes of different sizes,” Jaramillo says. “And in between the lakes you will see forests. Then [during] the rainy season many of those rivers will flood the whole landscape. Maybe a few places will be dry. And the next dry season, the lakes and rivers will shift position. That continues, but on a continental scale.”
The theory that the Amazon Sea once existed is not new, says Donald R. Prothero, a geologist specializing in the history of South America. It dates back at least to the 1950s, but evidence for it had been weak until now.
"I think that the key thing here is that [the theory] was [previously] all based on very limited outcrops," Prothero says. "It's hard to get anything good in the Amazon because it is so heavily grown over with plant matter. That is what is crucial. The fact that they have a core sample now that gives a continuous record of the whole Miocene, based on what they said in the paper."
In spite of his initial skepticism, Jaramillo found fossils that could only be explained by an inland sea that persisted and moved for millions of years. Fossils of mantis shrimp, shark teeth, dinoflagellates and saline-loving bacteria were discovered deep beneath the rain forest. As he was able to date the samples, a picture began to emerge. This was not a one-time flood. It was a complex, long-term ecosystem.
Samples were taken from exposed outcroppings along river banks, such as the Soliõmes River in Brazil. (Carlos D'Apolito)
Amazonia of the past was dominated by large crocodilians at the top of the food web, says Jaramillo, who describes a world in which the creatures in a variety of shapes and with lifestyles unlike modern crocodilians swam and crawled across Amazonia.
“There were crocodiles eating only shells, they had a face that looked like a duck,” Jaramillo says of the huge, 56-foot-long purussaurs, the largest crocodyliformes that ever lived on Earth. So tall that standing face-to-face with a fully grown purussaur, he says, you would probably find yourself staring directly into its eyes. They were the largest reptiles that the Earth has witnessed since the end of the non-bird dinosaurs.
Turtles of different sizes and mammals, including the diverse family of toxodontids, were also present. Many types of fish and huge numbers of molluscs represented a large part of the total biomass.
Studying deep core samples like these, Jaramillo pieced together a portrait of a lost ecosystem. (Vladimir Zapata and Carlos D'Apolito)
Jaramillo says that his paper shows the emergence and eventual demise of the Amazon sea were both probably caused by the influence of the young Andes mountains.
As the Andes thrust upward from the Earth's crust, “they created a depression in the Amazon because of the weight of the mountains going higher and higher,” he says. “As the mountains develop and move higher and higher. This wave of vibration that is produced in the continent because of the uplift shifts around.”
When the Amazon was pushed downward by tectonic forces, water was able to easily intrude from the ocean. But later the dynamic of forces from the Andes began to change.
“Around 10 million years ago it shifted away from Amazonia. The whole region, instead of going down, it started to shift up,” Jaramillo says.
Jaramillo shook his head emphatically when asked if there is any modern equivalent to the lost ecosystem described in the paper. “There is not a place on the planet that you could go to and see something like that on the scale of what we see in the Amazonia,” he says. “Maybe a few places in the Congo but never to the same extent. It's not really a swamp, it's not really a lake.”
Prothero believes that the evidence presented in Jaramillo's paper is compelling enough to rewrite history. “This radically throws out a lot of what was said about the Amazon in the past,” Prothero says. “It's coming from indisputable marine beds.”
This is not Jaramillo's first major discovery. In 2009 he was part of a team of scientists that discovered titanoboa, a species of snake that lived in South America about 60 million years ago, shortly after the demise of the dinosaurs.
Titanoboa was long gone by the time the Amazon sea emerged about 18.4 million years ago during the Miocene epoch. At that time, the age of mammals was well underway. Earth's continents looked very similar to the modern globe. Early horses roamed North America. Modern-looking crows and ducks had emerged. South America was still not connected to North America, so it harbored unique animals that had evolved in relative isolation from the rest of the world.
Like paleontologists, who dissolve the hard, rock-like structures of dinosaur bones with a mild acid to check for blood vessels and proteins in soft tissue, Jaramillo says that will be his next step. “The turtle shells usually have proteins preserved,” he says.
Editor's Note May 8, 2017: This article originally misstated that the Amazon river runs from the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. It runs to the Caribbean.
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Grumpy Taxpayer$ Chair Stan Bartlett addresses a room of fellow taxpayers at the group’s annual general meeting Wednesday evening at the Greater Victoria Public Library. The group is still pushing for accountability, transparency and action from local governments. (Nina Grossman/News Staff)
Grumpy Taxpayer$ keep an eye on infrastructure spending, government transparency
Non-profit group determines 2020 priorities in annual general meeting
Nina Grossman
They might be grumpy, but the members of a local ‘citizen’s advocacy group’ remain motivated.
The Grumpy Taxpayer$ of Greater Victoria held its annual general meeting at the downtown public library Wednesday night, reviewing the frustrations, challenges and accomplishments of the region’s municipal governments over the past year.
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Chair Stan Bartlett says the non-profit has the same goals it always has: more accountability and transparency from local governments.
“We find that virtually all issues come back to what we think is a broken and dysfunctional government system,” Bartlett says. “By that I mean the 17 jurisdictions, 13 municipalities, three electoral districts and the Capital Regional District (CRD).”
Bartlett says the Grumpy Taxpayer$ have always taken the position that amalgamation should be studied closely and any changes made using evidence-based decisions.
“It’s hard to find efficiency with five police departments, parks departments…” Bartlett says. “Certainly, councils are very reluctant to change the status quo. We have 94 politicians in the region, getting wages and prestige, why would they rock the boat?” Bartlett also has concerns about rising property taxes and police spending.
In the last year though, the ‘grumpy’ group has praised what it believes to be some some positive steps in the right direction. Those steps include the CRD’s new regular highlights report, which gives the public accessible entry points to background information on the latest decisions and changes in the region. Bartlett also praises the City of Victoria’s public dashboard, a program started in July that offers easy public access to council voting records.
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Heading into 2020, the biggest priorities include: Scrutinizing major budgets, improving transparency and reviewing infrastructure upgrades and spending.
Bartlett calls the group “exceedingly optimistic” for tackling the issues at all.
“Local governance is improving, but it’s at a slow pace,” he says. “The roads, the sewers, all that boring stuff is really, really important. It’s very complicated, its very fragmented and because its an older area things fall apart. The infrastructure needs here are great, we can’t just close our eyes and not fix the road.”
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“The GPS Playbook” by Space Capital and Silicon Valley Bank
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BY SPACE CAPITAL
NEW YORK CITY, March 18, 2020 — VirginGalactic may have become the face of the commercial space industry when its stock briefly skyrocketed in February. However, a new investor playbook released today by Space Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm exclusively focused on the space economy and Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world's most innovative companies and their investors shows the real potential for exponential returns can be found in three critical space-based technologies: next-generation GPS, Geospatial Intelligence, and space-based communications.
“Increasing convergence between the space and technology sectors will continue to create significant opportunities for investors over the next decade,” said Chad Anderson, Managing Partner ofSpace Capital. “Space-based technology has already generated trillions of dollars in economic value and some of the largest venture outcomes in history. This playbook provides clear guidance on how these technologies are creating new global innovation platforms with high return potential for investors.”
The report, called “The GPS Playbook,”offers a detailed analysis of these emerging markets, and the vast economic potential they offer. The first is GPS, which is undergoing significant changes in its tech stack due to the convergence of space-based signals and computer vision. This is ushering in a new era of precise positioning that will unlock millions of new applications that were not possible before, particularly in augmented reality (AR). What this ultimately means for investors is that GPS is poised for continued growth over the next decade as the mass adoption of AR is realized.
Similarly, Geospatial Intelligence (also known as Earth Observation data) is another area where the space and tech sectors are converging. This market is significantly undervalued at present by the space industry, which is forecasting only incremental growth from $3 to $7billion annually by 2028. However, this report estimates that the GeospatialIntelligence market is poised to grow 10x and has a future economic value on par with GPS. Using the magnitude and timeline of GPS as an analogy, Space Capital and SVB predict that space-based Communications and Geospatial Intelligence could generate $1trillion of equity value over the next decade, as distribution unlocks innovation and capital.
“Commercial space can be a challenging sector for investors to assess where the best returns can be found,” said AnnKim, Managing Director and Sector Head of Frontier Technology at SVB. “We feel it is important to provide the investment community with a roadmap of these opportunities, as the market is far more dynamic than many realize and is currently in the midst of a major transformation toward the mass adaptation of space-based technologies for terrestrial industries.”
The GPS Playbook report also provides a useful historical analysis of GPS commercialization, offering a model for investors to better understand how space-based technology provides a platform for innovation on a global scale.
To access this report, go to www.spacecapital.com/publications/the-gps-playbook-report.
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Alberta premier navigates rising electricity transmission costs, PPA dumping
Author Gene Laverty
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has her hands full jugglingthe high cost of building out the province's electricity transmission systemswhile power buyers are dumping power purchase agreements, or PPAs, citing newgovernment policies.
Notley inherited both situations from the previousProgressive Conservative government, which had ruled the province for more thanfour decades prior to the New Democratic Party's election upset last May. Aspower prices in the province's deregulated electricity generation sectorslumped to record lows, consumers started to feel the shock of a C$3.45 billiontransmission spendingspree on their monthly bills.
Backlash over the transmission grid rebuild was expected,Notley said. The decision to retool the province's main north-south power linesaround a pair of high-voltage, direct-current systems operated by and , a Canadian affiliate ofbillionaire Warren Buffett's BerkshireHathaway Energy, was opposed by the socialist New Democratsthroughout the regulatory process. The issue of PPA dumping is more complex,she said.
"The government knew well before we got elected thatthey had embarked upon on a process of approving infrastructure build that wasgoing to significantly increase costs to consumers," Notley told reportersApril 1. "We knew that, that's when our caucus fought against that changewhen it was brought in back about 2011ish, and we knew that the transmissioncost issue which people have raised today was one that was coming down thepipe. On the issues of the PPAs, you will hear more from us on it in greater detailin the days to come because we're evaluating both our negotiating and legalposition."
TransCanadaCorp., AltaGas Ltd.,ENMAX Corp. andCapital Power Corp.have all notified the Balancing Pool — a provincial government entity set up toadminister the PPAs — that they intend to walk away from the agreements, citinga stipulation in the agreements that allows that if in government policy make themunprofitable. When the PPAs were being negotiated in the late 1990s, the clausewas inserted to placate buyers of the contracts that sold the output fromcoal-fired generators that had been developed with ratepayer funds. The auctionof the PPAs was part of the government's deregulation scheme.
Alberta's oil- and natural gas-dependent economy hasfaltered since 2014 and brought electricity demand and prices with it. Power productionhas since become unprofitable under many of the contracts. Companiessurrendering their PPAs cite Notley's Climate Leadership Plan, which upped theprovincial levy ongreenhouse gas emissions, as a negative change in legislation. Notley disagrees.
"Any folks out there, expert or otherwise, who suggestthat the PPA issue is somehow secondary to our Climate Leadership Plan clearlyare wrong — don't know what they're talking about — because our climate changeleadership plan has not actually come into effect," Notley said. "Regardlessof how wide or narrow one's interpretation is of the clauses that were injectedinto these agreements over a decade ago, you don't get to take action on thebase of something that hasn't happened yet. So I think that that needs to bemade very, very clear."
The Balancing Pool was set up to administer funds generatedfrom the PPA sales and unsold contracts. Alberta's government used some of thefunds collected from the sale of the PPAs in the early 2000s to subsidizeelectricity costs that soared after deregulation. It is within the BalancingPool's power to either sell electricity under the contracts or pay terminationfees to the plant operators. In either situation, losses from power sales ortermination fees will be charged to Alberta's electricity consumers.
The carbon levy on Alberta's large producers was introducedat C$15 per metric ton in 2009 and under Notley's climate legislation wasbumped to C$20/tonne. It is eventually scheduled to rise to C$30/tonne by 2018.Under the New Democrats, Alberta is scheduled to shutter the coal-fired plantsthat provide about half of its power output by 2030.
The government recently hired former PJMInterconnection LLC CEO Terry Boston to help ease the transition.Notley would not say if the government plans to reregulate the electricity generatorsector, but did say Boston's work will straddle the regulated and non-regulatedparts of the industry.
"Reregulation itself is a deeply complicated issue. We'repleased that we've already been able to bring in the expertise of someone asknowledgeable as our coal facilitator [Boston] who will be coming in soon,"Notley said. "We'll be able to work with him and with officials within theministry, officials at [the AlbertaElectric System Operator], officials at the Balancing Pool tofigure out the best process forward. But, at the end of the day, we stillbelieve the long-term objective of phasing out coal as part of our climatechange leadership plan must still be pursued in the best interests of Albertanson a variety of different levels, and we are very conscious of the need toensure that consumers are protected in that process."
A report submitted to the Alberta Utilities Commission, orAUC, by a coalition of consumer groups blasted provincial bodies for increasesin transmission rates. The report was part of an application before the AUC.
On March 31 the AUC issued an order granting the AESO, theprovince's grid operator, an increase of C$214 million, or about 12%, over its2015 updated forecast costs, effective April 1.
"The increase primarily resulted from a forecastincrease of [C]$161.4 million, or 10.6%, in wires costs reflecting recentapplications for transmission facility owner tariffs," the AUC said in theapplication details section of the order. "Ancillary service costs wereforecast to increase [C]$19.6 million, or 12.1%, while losses were forecast toincrease [C]$35.5 million, or 46.5%. Administrative costs were forecast todecrease [C]$2.6 million, or 2.6%."
The AESO said on its official Twitter feed that the responseto increasing transmission costs was overblown. It estimates costs on anaverage residential bill of C$21 per month will increase to a projected C$27per month by 2021.
"Over the next 20 years, we project transmission coststo continue to make up 20% of the average residential bill," the AESOtweeted.
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West Indian Tobacco Q2 profit climbs YOY
West Indian Tobacco Co. Ltd. said its second-quarter normalized net income was TT$1.47 per share, an increase from TT$1.41 per share in the prior-year period.
Normalized net income, which excludes unusual gains or losses on a pre- and after-tax basis, was TT$124.1 million, a gain from TT$118.9 million in the year-earlier period.
The normalized profit margin increased to 43.1% from 42.1% in the year-earlier period.
Total revenue grew year over year to TT$288.1 million from TT$282.6 million, and total operating expenses declined from the prior-year period to TT$89.6 million from TT$92.3 million.
Reported net income rose from the prior-year period to TT$147.7 million, or TT$1.75 per share, from TT$143.1 million, or TT$1.70 per share.
As of July 28, US$1 was equivalent to TT$6.70.
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Solar Alliance to build $3.5M commercial solar project in Los Angeles
Author Sania Khan
Solar Alliance Energy Inc. announced Aug. 15 an agreement to design and build an approximately $3.5 million commercial solar project in Los Angeles, Calif.
The company said it committed to design a custom solar system for the building that will offset over 75% of its annual electricity requirements.
"This project will save the building owners an estimated [$20 million] in electricity costs over the life of the system and it illustrates the exciting growth prospects for Solar Alliance in the virtually untapped commercial solar sector," Solar Alliance Chairman and CEO Jason Bak said.
The company plans to finalize its $3.5 million capital cost estimate upon completion of a feasibility report and grid connection application by the end of September.
"This commercial project in L.A. and the Aries acquisition set the stage for increasing growth in commercial solar sales," Bak said.
Construction of the project is planned to begin by the end of this year.
Sania Khan
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Manulife CEO fends off questions about plans for John Hancock
Author Maitree Christian
Manulife Financial Corp. CEO and Director Donald Guloien refused to comment on a recent media report about the insurer's plans for John Hancock Financial Services Inc. during a call to discuss the company's earnings.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Manulife was weighing a spinoff or IPO of the U.S. unit, which it bought back in 2004. "Sources familiar with the company" told the publication that Manulife had been under pressure from some shareholders to divest the unit following poor returns.
Manulife has stated several times in the recent past that it has some "challenging blocks of legacy business," Guloien said, noting that the company is looking out for all opportunities to improve shareholder value. "We believe this is good governance, plain and simple, and there is no news here," he said.
But there are no "nonstarters" as to what Manulife could do with the business in the future, the CEO added.
John Hancock Insurance President and General Manager Michael Doughty said several initiatives are ongoing related to improving the returns of the legacy businesses, with a focus on expense management. Some of these include implementing cloud-based computing, digitizing the business and consolidating infrastructure to improve efficiencies, he said.
Additionally, as opposed to some of its peers in the traditional retirement plan services business, Manulife is very bullish about growth opportunities in the digital advice business. There are three major initiatives in progress in the digital advice space, Doughty said. The company has developed MyPortfolio, a digital advice solution currently available as an adviser-assisted product; a mobile-first tool for young individuals or families who feel the need to start investing; and a digital in-plan advice product for retirement plan participants to access advice as part of their employer-sponsored offering, he said.
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Music Monday: Suchmos
July 25, 2016 / Johnny / 2 Comments
American musician Louis Armstrong’s affectionate nickname Satchmo has gone on to inspire everything from music festivals to restaurants and even an e-commerce framework. But one of its more recent reincarnations can be found in all the way in Japan, in the form of a 6-person band called Suchmos. Formed in 2013 by a group of friends, Suchmos soulfully blends elements of acid jazz and R&B with J-pop to create vintage rhythms layered with punchy pop synth.
All 6 members hail from the Shonan region of Japan near Yokohama and have stylized stage names like OK and TAIHEI. The lead vocal is YONCE (Yosuke Kasai) whose clean-shaven face and slicked back short hair makes him look like he’s 16. Admittedly, the entire group are young – in their early 20s – but have already managed to find a sound and skin they are comfortable in.
YONCE attributes his musical education to an uncle and bar owner: a music lover whose room is filled with records and CDs. This mentor guided him from a young age, introducing him at first to Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones but later to Nirvana, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye.
YONCE started his first project when he was 17: a rock band called Old Joe. The group stayed together until last year when YONCE decided to call it quits and focus his efforts on Suchmos. And the concentration has paid off. In 2014 the group played Fuji Rock and the following year they signed with Space Shower Music, where they put out their debut album Bay. A nod to the bayside culture where the members grew up, the album is a reflection of Yokohama culture, where time tends to move a little slower, men tend to be manlier and things aren’t quite as refined as Tokyo.
Like what you hear? You can find more of their music on YouTube. Suchmos is also on Twitter. And be sure to check out our other Music Monday picks.
Music Monday: Sakanaction Music Monday: KAO:S Music Monday: androp Music Monday: Charan Po Rantan
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Johnny, I appreciate your Music Monday posts! Lots of fun to discover new music from Japan. Thanks so much!
@Danielle – so glad you’re enjoying!
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An exclusive interview with Josef Doppelbauer, Executive Director of ERA - European Union Agency for Railways
Autori: Editorial Staff 17 Novembre 2020
Per la versione in Italiano: https://www.stradeeautostrade.it/incontri-e-interviste/josef-doppelbauer-luomo-che-abbatte-le-barriere-nel-trasporto-ferroviario-internazionale/
For our new front page interview we invited one of the world’s leading international experts of rail transport, Josef Doppelbauer, Executive Director of ERA (European Union Agency for Railways), to answer our questions.
Taking advantage as in previous occasions of the possibilities offered by remote communication – even more valuable in this period, in which the alert for the pandemic from Covid-19 persists – we had the opportunity to discover an atypical and brilliant personality, starting with his academic and professional path.
After a ph.D. in Physics, Doppelbauer embarked on a career that saw him occupy prominent positions in various research centres before landing in the world of transport with the company Bombardier, in which – as he proudly points out – he contributed as CTO to the development of high-speed trains, including the Italian Frecciarossa.
Trains, as he told us during the interview, have been his main passion since his childhood years, spent with the nearby presence of a railway. In the following questions we discuss with him various aspects of this subject, including those related to the pandemic and the changes that it has entailed in the transport modalities of the European population.
“Strade & Autostrade”: “What is ERA and what does it do?”.
“Josef Doppelbauer”: “The European Union Agency for Railways was established in Valenciennes (offices) and Lille (meeting facilities), both in the north of France, in 2004. Its approx. 200 staff represent more than 22 European Member States and speak multiple languages.
ERA has been providing EU Member States and the European Commission with technical assistance in the development and implementation of the Single European Railway Area (SERA).
This comprises enhancing technical interoperability and harmonising rules, promoting simplified access for customers, developing a common approach to safety and safety culture, advising on telematics applications and ERTMS (European Traffic Management System), monitoring National Safety Authorities and Notified Bodies and facilitating the exchange of information between the railway actors in Europe.
1. (photo credit: www.ferrovie.info)
Since 16th June 2019 the EU Agency for Railways is mandated to issue single safety certificates and vehicle (type) authorisations valid in multiple European countries and to ensure an interoperable European Rail Traffic Management System. The purpose of these activities is expressed by the slogan “Making the railway system work better for society””.
“S&A”: “How do European citizens benefit from the work ERA does?”.
“JD”: “By standardising and harmonising technical rules, the Agency is removing technical barriers to international rail traffic. Being since June 2019 the European certification and authorisation entity for cross border rail traffic makes obtaining international vehicle authorisations and safety certificates easier, quicker and cheaper.
In addition our experts develop together with the sector technical solutions and rules to make travel for persons with reduced mobility easier, to improve European ticketing, to reduce noise of freight wagons, etc.. ERA activities promote and help to improve the safety of railways in Europe.
Last but not least, the work of the Agency helps to create better and faster connections within Europe and enhancing rail transport, being currently the most sustainable and environmentally friendly means of transport”.
“S&A”: “What is the current state of advancement of the TEN-T Networks and which scenarios do you expect for the coming years?”.
“JD”: “Since the 1990s, the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) is a symbol for connectivity and accessibility for all regions of the European Union. TEN-T projects exist in every EU Member State and include all aspects of transport: road, rail, inland waterways, maritime, and air.
TEN-T may be seen as a collection of megaprojects, in particular for politically driven infrastructure investment such as big tunnel projects. The idea behind TEN-T is that development of transport services will support a balanced development of the European Union, consolidating its political and economic unity.
Over the years, the network approach has seen transport policy changes, an evolution of demand, and geopolitical developments. On the geopolitical side, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, announced in late 2013, includes the construction of land-based transport connections between Asia and Europe.
Within the European Union, it will interact with infrastructure and services provided by the TEN-T Network programme. This development may result in changes in relative accessibility and competitive attractiveness of different maritime and landlocked regions of Europe.
Presently, transport in Europe is facing unprecedented challenges, not only because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also in the context of sustainability and green mobility. The European Commission started a review process on TEN-T review in 2019 with an evaluation of the existing TEN-T Regulation together with an Open Public Consultation.
2. In the middle, Josef Doppelbauer and, on the right, Henrik Hololei, General Director of DG MOVE Mobility and Transport of the European Commission (see “Strade & Autostrade” n. 116 March/April 2016, page 200)
A summary of the results of the full evaluation will be published towards the end of 2020. In line with the action plan for the European Green Deal, a proposal for a revision of the TEN-T Regulation is planned in the second quarter of 2021.
The objective of making transport more sustainable, in particular by reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions, will require better interoperability of different transport modes and the creation of integrated multimodal transport chains, coordinated across borders and transport modes. With the renaissance of night trains and a renewed focus on long-distance passenger trains, we will possibly see a higher importance of passenger rail transport along TEN-T corridors”.
“S&A”: “What do you think of the conclusion of the new alpine crossing with the opening of the Ceneri base tunnel?”.
“JD”: “Together with the Gotthard base tunnel that opened in 2016, the recently opened Ceneri base tunnel makes the alpine crossing through Switzerland on the Rhine-Alpine Corridor more efficient, by cutting travel time, increasing capacity, and reducing energy consumption.
The tunnel is both of local (enabling faster train connections in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland) and European importance, as a major contribution to improve cross-alpine rail freight, but also to make international passenger trains more attractive.
However, Ceneri is only a part of a long corridor: even though transit time through the Alps has been reduced, delays on other parts of the corridor still hamper the benefits (time-savings) the tunnel could bring”.
“S&A”: “We ask you if you can take stock of the situation with the Italian railway corridors: at what point, in particular, are the Mediterranean Corridor, the Rhine-Alps Corridor and the Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor, and which solutions would you suggest to speed up the works?”.
“JD”: “The nine Core Network Corridors, each led by a European coordinator and supported financially by Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) have set the agenda for European railway infrastructure policy.
Core network corridors rest on three pillars: modal integration, interoperability, and the coordinated development of infrastructure. Corridors are interconnected, as they cross each other – in Italy, you find the Mediterranean Corridor, the Rhine-Alps Corridor and the Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor, which overlap on certain sessions.
Therefore, in order to accelerate works, the individual corridors need to work together closely, and align with the national authorities in order to define priority investments”.
“S&A”: “If you could explain to a decision-maker the main advantages of rail crossings, which ones would you focus on?”.
“JD”: “On the issues that are also the basis of ERA and its role, which I spoke about in the answer to the first question. Faster and more efficient international rail transport, making rail more attractive for both passengers and freight customers.
Shifting from congested roads to rail means less CO2 emissions, less congestion, less noise for people living alongside the roads and motorways, less accidents”.
“S&A”: “Do you think that the different gauge still existing between the railways of some countries represents a problem in the development of the Corridors?”.
“JD”: “The coexistence of two gauges (1.668 mm in Spain and 1.435 mm in the other countries) is a specific challenge for the Mediterranean Corridor, which needs to be tackled particularly as regards the financial aspects.
In Spain, several projects listed in the Spanish implementation plan aim at solving this challenge on most of the conventional lines of the Corridor, rather by upgrading to mixed gauge through a third rail or establishing new UIC gauge lines.
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In addition, on this corridor three different voltages are in use, raising the issue of interoperability: (1.5kV DC in France, 3kV DC (in Spain, Italy, and Slovenia), 25 kV AC (on high-speed lines in France, Italy and Spain)”.
“S&A”: “You have been involved since the Nineties – with a primary role – in the development of ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System): what is the current situation in this area?”.
“JD”: “ERTMS is legally agreed by 28 Member States including the UK to be implemented as the basic system for all. The deployment of the full interoperability system will be along the lines of the nine European Core Network Corridors, which are getting operational.
The European deployment plan has been officially adopted and it includes very ambitious targets based on the priority to make the railway undertakings (RUs) competitive on an efficient and compliant EU infrastructure. Last but not least: the funding of the program agreed by the European Commission and the Member States allocates significant financing means for the realisation of the plan”.
“S&A”: “As regards Italy, how do you judge – from a railway point of view – the idea of the possible splitting of traffic flows in the Strait of Messina and the various alternatives (for example an underwater tunnel for road traffic and a railway bridge) which have been hypothesized?”.
“JD”: “This is a 50 million euro question: this is the amount of money the Italian government is discussing to finance the necessary feasibility study, including the option to split the traffic between a rail bridge and an underwater road tunnel.
Road and rail are not in competition, they are essential infrastructure for a sustainable economic and social development, Italy has given a clear message with the decision to combine ANAS and RFI under the same holding.
The feasibility, design, construction and operation phases of this important infrastructure projects can benefit from the synergies that the rail sector can bring in terms of experience in the design and operation of critical infrastructural links on national and international scale”.
“S&A”: “Do you believe that, after the emergency of these months, the security measures adopted for Covid-19 pandemic will lead to a definitive rethinking of the use of rail vehicles and to lower filling coefficients? Is there a risk of a general return of european citizens to private road vehicles?”.
“JD”: “First of all rail freight has proven to be most reliable (compared to road and air) during the lockdown period. For passenger services, we now have indications that the risks of transfer of the virus in trains seem to be limited, as you can also see from the Rail Covid-19 Protocol issued by ERA and ECDC in July 2020, and from the covid-19 Information Bulletin on Ventilation in trains published by ERA in September 2020.
As a general statement, when safety and security of a particular trip need to be assessed, one should consider the overall level of safety of traveling, and not only the risks of becoming infected by Covid-19.
4. (photo credit: www.bav.admin.ch)
We are not sure that the pandemic alone will lead to a considerable behavioural change. We expect that after return to normal, people will return to traveling as they did before the pandemic. In addition other driving forces have to be taken into account and supported to attain a modal shift from road to rail:
we may see slightly less home-work travel due to more teleworking and teleconferences, and people might have become used to take the bicycle for short distances. The main reason is that access to areas where typically office buildings are located, travel by car is usually heavily affected by traffic jams and lack of car-parking space;
more awareness about climate change and the necessity of a modal shift from road transport to rail may motivate people to look for alternatives to car driving;
innovation could support the modal shift as well: e.g. ERTMS deployment to allow more trains on the tracks (capacity), automatic coupling to save shunting time, digitalisation to improve customer information and service, etc.;
political measures: abolish kerosine subsidies, lower rail track charges to make railways more competitive compared to other transport modes.
For the moment, it is too early to give a clear and definite answer given the uncertainties surrounding the pandemic. There is evidence available that European citizens have in the short term adjusted their mobility patterns during the past months since the start of the pandemic.
In particular, public transport travel incl. rail still seems to be below pre-Covid levels whereas car travel has been faster to recover and cycling has increased significantly.
On the other hand it is likely that, as the pandemic will fade over the coming period (especially when an effective vaccine would be available), the use of public transport is likely to recover.
Over a longer term perspective, a further shift towards rail (and other forms of public transport) is more than possible, especially in the context of the urgent need to deal with climate change as highlighted by the Commission’s Green Deal. In particular, this is critical given the likely close connection between the risks of future pandemics and climate change”.
We therefore thank Josef Doppelbauer for sharing with us his thoughts and predictions for the future of rail transport, dictated both by a long experience in this area and, as mentioned above, by a very early passion for trains.
On the sidelines of this interview, Doppelbauer also told us how rail and public transport have become over the years and remain his preferred modes of transportation for business travel. He also confessed to us that some of the best ideas came to him during some of his train trips, for example while he was preparing his presentation for a conference.
Our whish, both for him and for each of us, is that we can all return soon to travel and participate to meetings in physical presence, without any more fears for the future.
5. Josef Doppelbauer, Executive Director of ERA – European Union Agency for Railways
Curriculum Vitae of Josef Doppelbauer
Josef Doppelbauer joined the Agency in January 2015. His mission is to further consolidate the role and responsibilities of the European Union Agency for Railways to become a world leader in railway safety.
Before leading the Agency, Josef DOPPELBAUER held managerial positions at Bombardier Transportation. Since the early 1990’s, he has been involved with the development of the European Rail Transport Management System (ERTMS). From 2012 to 2014, he was Chairman of the European Rail Research Advisory Committee (ERRAC), the European technology platform of the rail sector. From 2011 to 2014, he was also the Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Joint Technology Initiative Shift2Rail.
Josef Doppelbauer holds a degree and a doctorate, both in Physics. He started his career at the Alcatel Research Centre in Vienna, Austria, where in 1997 he became Technical Director. In 2001, he moved to Paris to become Chief Technical Officer for Alcatel Transport Automation Solutions.
Doppelbauer joined Bombardier Transportation in December 2002, first working in the Rail Control Solutions division, where he held several positions in Engineering, Sales, and as President.
In 2008, he moved on to the global headquarters of Bombardier Transportation in Berlin. From July 2008 to June 2012, he was appointed Vice President Project Management, and from July 2008 to December 2013, Chief Technical Officer responsible for leading the standardization of processes, tools and products, product safety and critical projects support. Between January 2014 and December 2014, he held the position of Vice President Research and Technology at Bombardier Transportation.
Josef Doppelbauer has 25 years of experience in key aspects of railway technology, including signalling and control command systems. He is married and father of two sons, with private interests including classical music, photography, and soft sports like hiking, cycling and ski.
This article has been published on issue n. 144 November/December 2020
TagInterviews, Transports, Green Deal, Railway infrastructures, Railways
Associazioni e OrganizzazioniEuropean Union, ERA - European Union Agency for Railways
Collegamenti stradaliTEN-T - Trans-European Transport Network, Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor, Rhône-Alps Corridor
PersonalitàJosef Doppelbauer
TecnologieERTMS - European Traffic Management System
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Sofia Reyes Makes a Cameo Alongside Her Song '1, 2, 3' in Jeep Commercial: Watch
Latin pop singer Sofia Reyes is taking her music to the small screen — this time with a Jeep commercial also featuring the Mexican native in a cameo.
Set to her song �1, 2, 3� and a Los Angeles backdrop, Reyes' music and cameo come after about a week of being featured in a Target commercial. The Jeep campaign has more than 500 million digital plays, according to a Reyes rep.
The commercial features Apple's CarPlay system as a group of friends drive through Los Angeles, while “1, 2, 3” plays and sets the mood for summer. Reyes appears briefly as she hangs at a tour bus and greets fans.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles created a campaign that included several other artists, including OneRepublic. A Kids' Choice Awards Mexico nominee, Reyes is scheduled to perform at iHeart's MegaRumba music festival in Wynwood, Miami. Reyes, Jason Derulo and De La Ghetto are confirmed to perform “1, 2, 3” at Univision's Premios Juventud on July 22.
Watch the commercial here:
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Hill and Laird win in Close Racing in Perth
Friday, 22 November 2019 01:28 | Category : Latest Surfski News
In a thrilling display showing just how competitive the men’s surfski field has become, the first five places were separated by just 30 seconds… And in the women’s race, a tight finish saw the newly arrived defending champion, Georgia Laird, take the win.
Nippers get to meet Aussie Surfski Superstars, Shaw & Partners WA Race Week
Thursday, 21 November 2019 04:19 | Category : Latest Surfski News
The City of Perth Surf Club hosted a nippers’ clinic for more than 200 youngsters from all over Western Australia, as part of the Shaw and Partners WA Race Week here in Perth. Aside from getting to train with their heroes, the nippers walked away with lucky draw prizes to remind of a cracking day at the beach.
Tuesday, 19 November 2019 01:59 | Category : Latest Surfski News
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“I knew a few of the paddlers had done the course earlier in the week and… my goal was to sort of sit with them and see where their line was,” said newly crowned World Champion Danielle McKenzie. “I had no idea where I was going. As far as race plans go, I had absolutely nothing… Just go pretty hard from the start. Yeah, bloody awesome!”
The race organizers have just issued the provisional program and race course for the next few days in Quiberon, France where the 2019 ICF Ocean Racing World Championships are about to take place. Here's what you need to know.
The event is being held near Quiberon, which is located on the southern part of the Quiberon peninsula in Brittany, France.
(The area is packed with maritime history, including the Battle of Quiberon Bay, 20 Nov 1795, between the French and British navies and an abortive invasion by French Royalists, assisted by the British Navy during the French Revolution.)
Winters are notoriously long and cold and Atlantic gales regularly smash the coastline… This isn’t an area noted for winter paddling! But in summer it’s warmer and the exposure to the open ocean means that there’s almost always movement in the water, making for challenging, technical conditions. Given the location of the islands and the Quiberon peninsula, race organizers have a number of course options to choose from in order to create as much downwind conditions as possible.
2019 ICF Ocean Racing Championships Course
The organizers announced this morning (Monday) that the World Championship race will most likely take place on Wednesday, with the start some time after 2pm, when the maximum wind is forecast. The wind drops off on Thursday and Friday, the alternate days in the event waiting period.
The Masters race will take place on Thursday.
Both races will use the same course from the Gâvres Beach to Pentièvre Beach, just to the north of Quiberon itself.
NB: If the forecast changes over the next day or two, the course and program could change too!
The Who’s Who of the surfski world will be lining up on Wednesday and an international crowd of masters paddlers on Thursday.
The 27 countries represented include: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, France, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Mauritius, The Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Sweden, The Netherlands Antilles, Tahiti and the United States.
You can download the full list of entries here:
Ocean Racing World Championships
Ocean Racing Masters Championships
Cory Hill (Aus), the defending World Champion, Gordan Harbrecht (Ger) and Hank McGregor (RSA) at the Mauritius Ocean Classic in July this year
Who’s going to dominate?
I think the conditions are going to be technically challenging, with small runs coming in over the paddlers’ right shoulders.
With moderate wind, and small waves, the paddlers are going to have to work the runs, accelerating left and then working right in order to stay on course. There probably won’t be much paddles-down surfing.
The paddlers with the most open ocean experience will have an advantage in the conditions and that inevitably means the Australians, South Africans and New Zealanders (especially in the women’s race).
Both the previous men’s and women’s champions are present to defend their titles: Cory Hill (Aus) and Hayley Nixon (RSA), but they have plenty of competition…
Hank McGregor (RSA) came second in the 2017 World Champs in Hong Kong and beat Cory Hill in Mauritius a couple of months ago. The World Championships is just about the only title that McGregor hasn’t one, and he’d love to take this one.
Mackenzie Hynard (Aus) came second behind Cory Hill at the Perth Doctor.
Kenny Rice (RSA) won the under-23 title in Hong Kong and won both the Canadian Downwind Champs and the Gorge Downwind Champs in the USA earlier this year.
Tom Norton (Aus) took the Nelo Summer Challenge title in July, winning both the men’s race and the overall bonus prize.
Gordan Harbrecht (Ger) put on an outstanding performance in Mauritius in July, coming second to Hank McGregor (and beating Cory Hill) in a sprint finish.
Sean Rice (RSA) won the first ICF World Champs in 2013.
Plenty of other talent from France, Portugal, Spain, Australia, South Africa and many other countries…
Defending Champion Hayley Nixon (centre) in Quiberon
The women’s race should be a huge tussle up front:
Defending champion Hayley Nixon (RSA) won the Mauritius Ocean Classic convincingly in July this year.
Teneale Hatton (NZ) won both the Canadian Downwind Champs and the Gorge Downwind champs his year.
Georgia Laird (Aus) came second in the Molokai Challenge this year, beating Hayley Nixon into 3rd position.
Angie Le Roux (Fra) knows this section of the French coast well – having won the Breizh Ocean Race in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018!
Bridgette Hartley (RSA), Nicole Birkett (RSA), Bianca Beavitt (RSA), Sara Rafael (POR), Rachel Clarke (NZ), Judit Verges (ESP), Amaia Osaba (ESP) will also be keeping the front runners honest… what a race it’s going to be!
When the race isn't the World Champs, it's know as the Breizh Ocean Race - and Angie Le Roux has won it 4 out of the last 5 years - and won the inaugural event back in 2010 in massive conditions. She knows this area like the back of her hand...
Sprint Finish at 2019 Mauritius Ocean Classic
Tuesday, 02 July 2019 16:11 | Category : Latest Surfski News
As the three men rounded the point at Le Morne, “Flash” Gordan Harbrecht shouted, “Is it 16 or 18km for the race?” “Mate, you see that red object up ahead? That’s the finish!” Instead of the 3 or 4km that Harbrecht had expected, the line was only about 800m away – and the big German exploded into a sprint…
2019 Maui Jim Molokai Challenge Preview
Friday, 24 May 2019 13:53 | Category : Latest Surfski News
The Maui Jim Molokai Challenge is a “challenge” no matter what the conditions – windy or calm, the heat and the distance make this a daunting race. So how do the paddlers prepare for the race? Here’s what you need to know about the race, with insights from some of this year’s competitors.
The Race Course
The Molokai Challenge is one of the oldest surfski races in the world, being run for the first time in 1977 across the Kaiwi Channel from Kaluakoi Beach on Molokai to the Manalua Beach Park on Oahu.
For the very latest NOAA forecast, click here.
The race is just over 53km long and paddlers face a number of obstacles:
Just getting off the beach before the start can be problematic when a NW swell is running.
The sheer distance and heat are a major challenge, especially for paddlers coming from colder countries, and even more especially when the trade winds aren’t blowing.
Currents can play a huge part in the race and knowing what line to take and whether to head north of the rhumb line can make or break your race.
Towards the finish, the paddlers have to negotiate the notorious China Wall where there’s a wave that can boost your speed – or drag you over a reef potentially breaking your ski (and you!)
And the last 3km are on ever flatter, protected water, culminating in a 500m sprint to the finish, potentially into the wind.
2019 Conditions
The current NOAA forecast for the Kaiwi Channel (as at 24 May) says,
Sunday: East winds 15 knots. Wind waves 5 to 6 feet. Mixed swell northwest 4 feet and south 4 feet. Isolated showers.
The air temperature is forecast to be in the high 20sC/70sF. The water temperature is currently near 27C/80F… so it’s really, really hot. Those “isolated showers” might be extremely welcome.
The first challenge facing the paddlers will be to get through the surf before the start. The beach is fully exposed to the NW swell and shelves steeply so that there’s a fierce shore break. With swell that big, it can break further out as well.
The key to getting out safely is patience and to wait for a gap between the sets.
Assuming the forecast is correct, and the easterly wind blows at 15kt, there will be fast moving runs to catch. But the oncoming ocean swell will make the conditions bumpy, technical and tiring.
The current should be running with the paddlers for two thirds of the race and they should finish at the ebb without too fierce an opposing current (but the waters south of Oahu are notorious for behaving in an unexpected way...)
Defending champion (and current world champion) Cory "Chill" Hill said he doesn't change much for Molokai. "Just a longer race," he said, "Keep it simple".
He'll be paddling a full carbon Fenn Elite S.
Fluids: Watered down Powerade, and just the Fenn juice bottle of around 1.7l, slotted into place at the front of the footwell. "I make sure I'm extremely well hydrated leading into the race," he said.
Clothing: Shorts and shirt. (He does wear the Vaikobi V Cold range in winter, but not in hot weather.)
No sunnies, no paddle grips.
No wave deflector, but "Joshy Fenn is making some really good ones, so I'll be training and racing with his product."
he also shared some of his thoughts about racing, family life and the race itself with Tim Altman:
Clint Robinson
The highly experienced (and three-time winner) Clint Robinson isn’t expecting the records (set last year) to be broken.
Tim Altman spoke to him a few days ago about his expectations for the race, and Clint shared some insights about the race and some of the other competitors!
Oscar Chalupsky
The 12-time winner of the race is notorious for using hardly any liquids during long distance races.
This year he’s paddling a Nelo 600 double with Seth Koppes.
His setup includes:
No gels, no juice (although he might, he said, take 200ml of water from his escort boat during the race). (Both men are Keto Diet adherents.)
Two GPS on his footstrap; one for navigation, one with speed, HR, distance and time displayed.
He’ll be wearing long pants (“shorts tend to ride up at speed”) but a short-sleeved shirt and “enough” sunscreen.
The boat has a wave deflector on the front deck and Oscar says he always checks the rudder lines, particularly.
Oscar’s predictions for the race? Cory Hill, Pat Dolan, Hank McGregor, Clint Robinson, Mackenzie Hynard, Austin Keiffer, Michael Booth and Alastair Day.
Oscar's been staying on Big Island in the lead up to the race and posted some phenomenal footage of paddling in the channel between Big Island and Maui a few days ago:
The three-time Molokai champion is back to have another crack at the race - and is featured on this clip filmed by Aussie Jim Walker, catching a loooooong run back into the beach in Oahu.
South African, Durban-based Hayley Nixon is the current ICF Ocean Racing World Champion and won both the Double and Single Surfski Championships in South Africa in April in Cape Town.
Part of the Shaw and Partners Team, she paddles a Carbonology Sport Pulse surfski.
Arriving in Hawaii a week ago, she’s feeling at the top of her game for the race. Her preparations:
No gels: “I don’t take gels, I’m not a sugar-based paddler. More of a high-fat, low carbs. If I have taken any kind of gel in the past, it’s in the form of a nut-butter.” She doesn’t like gels in any case because of the hassle and time it takes to open and eat them. She admits to carrying them with her sometimes just in case, but has never had to use them in a race.
Fluids: Hayley uses water with electrolytes/rehydrate, not reliant on sugar. She’ll have backup fluids on her escort boat, given the heat and length of this race. The fluids will be in a fridge bottle mounted on the boat. (She doesn’t like the weight of camelback bags, although in short races she sometimes uses a small one on the front of her PFD.)
Clothing: She’ll use a Vaikobi Ocean long-sleeved top, high UV resistance. Aside from the sun screening, it gets wet which helps keep her cool. She said she’d probably wear shorts though; lots of zinc on the face, hat, maybe even sunglasses, “If it’s sunny, the reflections are quite hectic.”
Boat prep: She’s never used a wave deflector.
Paddle grips: She uses silicone tape on the paddles, bought from the hardware store and replaced every couple of months. “Quite a few people use tape,” she said, “or o-rings to help position hands on the paddle shaft.”
Tim Altman interviewed Hayley a few days ago on Oahu:
The New Zealander has plenty of experience in Hawaii:
2018: 2nd (just over a minute behind Hayley Nixon)
2017: 1st
2016: 2nd
She’s paddling an Epic V11 Elite, the black surfski weighs in at under 9.5kg/21lb.
In March this year, Rachel completely dominated the King and Queen of the Harbour race in demanding, technical downwind conditions in Auckland.
She said, “My training has been going well, I feel like I’m in the best shape I’ve been in so we shall see how it unfolds on Sunday!”
Her race preparation:
Fluids: “I use electrolytes in my bladders; I’ll have one in my footwell with the tube pegged to my shirt.” She’ll have more on the escort boat, and when she needs a replacement, her partner and second, Sam Mayhew, will “jump in and change it out for a new one.”
Gels: “Absolutely, I think these are key!”
Boat: If it looks as though it’s going to be a downwind, then she’ll put a wave deflector on the boat.
Clothes: “I like to wear a singlet in races and shorts, unless it’s freezing.”
GPS: For navigation, she’ll rely on the escort boat, but in the ski, her GPS will be displaying speed and heart rate.
To prepare for the Hawaiian heat, Rachel spent sessions in a sauna at home in New Zealand. Having prepared inadequately for my own race back in 2008, I can attest to the importance of being acclimatized; the humidity adds to the stress of the high temperature.
Tasmanian Georgia Laird is tackling Molokai for the first time. She should be in contention, having won the 2018 Perth Doctor (beating Hayley Nixon). Tim Altman interviewed her and her coach, Naomi Flood.
No stranger to Molokai, Macca came 6th in the 2018 event. The 24-year-old is one of the younger paddlers who’ll be near the front of the race.
Macca is sponsored by Think Kayaks, the Think UNO his weapon of choice (and before I get a million queries, in this video clip of Macca riding a wave in Honolulu, he was trying out a Think Ion, but that's not his race boat!!)
Race prep:
Nutrition: Mars bars stored “up one side of paddle shorts”, 2l of fluid (1l water, 1l Powerade).
Boat: Wave deflector on the deck, otherwise no special prep on the boat.
Clothing: Stock Vaikobi shorts and shirt with a hat. Plenty of zinc and sunscreen.
GPS Setup: Macca doesn’t bother about his heart rate, “I just use it [the GPS] for splits.” Neither does he use it for navigation, “Take a line and hope it works!”
Attitude: “Get the mind in the game of hurting for what may be 4 ½ hours. Anything under is a bonus.”
Who does he rate in the race?
“Cory, Hank and Clint; their experience is so great. Then Pat Dolan with his local experience.
“Austin Keiffer. Young and new blood of Josh Fenn and Nick Gale.
“Boothy, even though on the SUP program no doubt will be up front.
“Ali Day, coming off successful Australian Ironman season and have won the most Coolangatta golds ever will be there, especially if it’s flat or small, as he will grind for days.”
Austin Kieffer
Kieffer lives in Sausalito, California and has been competing around the world in surfskis since 2016. Most notably he scored a podium place at the Perth Doctor in 2017. In 2018, he scored a 5th at the Irish Coast Paddling Championships, but injured his shoulder, scuppering his chances of another podium position at the 2018 Doctor.
He paddles the Fenn Elite S in full carbon lay-up. When I contacted him, he was scrambling to get a footplate problem repaired in time for the race. “Drawbacks of being the last Fenn athlete to arrive, I guess,” he laughed.
Austin Kieffer paddled the Maui to Molokai race earlier this year
His race day prep includes:
Clothes: Vaikobi Ocean V Cold Shorts. “I use these because they are a little thicker,” he said, “and cut down on bum chafe. Since they’re always wet, they don’t make me hot.” Vaikobi ocean performance shirt, with the sleeves removed (“Kinda my signature, haha”).
He’ll be using sunscreen but, “I’m super anal about getting my hands greasy so I’ll put it on way before the race and then wash my hands a lot. Definitely need it for this race, though.”
No wave deflector. “I’ve trained without it and don’t really need one, aside from which, they get knocked off so often during event transportation and I don’t want to want it and then not have it!”
Fluids: “I’ve really tried to dial in my nutrition and hydration more this year,” he said. He uses plain drinking water with perhaps just a touch of Numm for electrolytes depending on the day and will have about 2.5l in a juice bag placed in front of his footplate.
Gels: Austin will be taking 6 gels, planning to eat 3-4 of them. “Last year I needed more than I had,” he said. “I’ll probably take one every 45min, washed down with the plain water, and I want at least 2 spare.”
GPS: He works with Time, distance, heart rate and average lap speed with auto lap on 1km. “The HR will really just be something I’ll pay attention to only if I’m seriously in the red or out in front,” he said. He added: “I’m racing to podium and as long as the thing doesn’t stop, I’ll suffer through any HR!”
Escort driver: Unfortunately, his known and trusted escort driver pulled out so he’ll be working with someone new. “But my dad will be my second, on the boat.”
Austin said candidly that his money is on Cory Hill to win the race. “But,” he said, “I’m going to set myself up with the best possible chance, and for sure I’m gonna be on that podium!”
2018 Steelcase Dragon Run Set to Roar
Monday, 22 October 2018 08:14 | Category : Latest Surfski News
Hong Kong – With less than a month to go before launch, the Steelcase Hong Kong Dragon Run is preparing to greet some of the surfski community’s superb usual suspects as well as a wide range of local paddlers angling to take home some of the event’s largest-ever purse offerings.
Race Report: Sean Rice wins Irish Coast Paddling Champs
Thursday, 27 September 2018 12:12 | Category : Latest Surfski News
With eight km to go, Sean Rice decided to accelerate. “There were three of us at that point and I felt I could do a burn to get rid of one of them,” he said. To his surprise, both Cory Hill and Gordan Harbrecht dropped back. But the race wasn’t over yet…
€55,000 in Prizes for Inaugural Irish Coast Paddling Championships
Tuesday, 18 September 2018 17:45 | Category : Latest Surfski News
…and most of the world’s best surfski paddlers, both men and women, are in Ireland to take part. Here’s what you need to know about the world’s richest surfski race.
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Fan-favorites from Toy Story, Cars and more star in first trailer for Disney+ series Pixar Popcorn
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Walking Dead's new showrunner finally comments about taking over
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It’s been a month since we heard that showrunner Glen Mazzara was leaving AMC’s The Walking Dead over creative differences, and now the show’s new executive producer has finally opened up about taking the job.
Once the studio decided to part ways with Mazzara, the big rumor was that series writer Scott Gimple would be promoted to take the reins. Now the network has finally confirmed it: Gimple (Flashforward, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance) is the new mind behind one of cable TV’s biggest hits.
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Here’s what Gimple had to say about the gig:
“I'm thrilled to continue the tradition of the spectacular, cinematic, horrifying, exciting and emotional storytelling of ‘The Walking Dead. I'm a huge fan of the comics, and started with the show on the other side of the set, as an avid viewer. Over the past two years, it's been an incredible privilege making such great television with the best cast and crew I've ever worked with – I can't wait to make some more.”
Series creator Robert Kirkman seems stoked about the move, noting that Gimple has contributed many signature moments over the past two seasons. Gimple joined the series at the start of season two and has written episodes such as “Save the Last One” (where Shane kills Otis) and “Hounded” (where Rick gets those calls from beyond the grave).
Here are Kirkman’s comments on the appointment:
“Scott has been an essential part of this show since he came aboard at the very beginning of season two. He's contributed to guiding this show in a substantial way that has resulted in a lot of the key scenes and storylines fans have dubbed signature moments of ‘The Walking Dead. I am thrilled to begin work on a brand new season of ‘The Walking Dead’ with Scott at the helm, and I truly believe we could be embarking on what will be the best season of this show yet.”
In addition to Gimple's promotion, the network has also elevated series writers Greg Nicotero and Tom Luse to producer status. This could be a good thing, as the network is trying to keep around what's left of the writer's room.
Do you think Gimple is the right man for the job? And just importantly: Do you think he’ll last longer than previous showrunners Mazzara and Frank Darabont?
(Via The Wrap)
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HTC launches two new phones, surprising everyone
By Tom Bedford 11 June 2019
The company isn't dead yet
Image credit: TechRadar
Most people thought that HTC had silently departed the smartphone game, beyond its attempts to launch a blockchain phone in the HTC Exodus, but it seems most people were wrong, as the company has just launched two new smartphones.
The HTC U19e and HTC Desire U19+ are the company's two new devices, and they'll be launching in Taiwan in June and July, respectively – no news on a release anywhere else, but we've asked HTC if and when we could see these devices elsewhere.
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We haven't seen a new HTC handset since the HTC U12 Life and U12 Plus in 2018, but even then it felt like the smartphone manufacturer had been winding down its production. So, we're intrigued to see the company is back with more – even though we're curious as to what happened to HTCs 13 through to 18.
The HTC U19e. Image credit: HTC (Image credit: HTC)
What are the new phones?
The HTC U19e has an impressive-sounding 6-inch OLED display, with a 2160 x 1080 resolution, as well as a 3,930mAh battery, 24MP and 2MP dual camera rear array, and 6GB – although it has a middling Snapdragon 710 processor.
It's reportedly on sale for $475 (roughly £375, AU$680), so it's the high-end handset of the two.
The HTC Desire U19 Plus will have a 6.2-inch display, three-camera setup consisting of a 13MP main sensor, 8MP sensor with ultra-wide angle lens and 5MP depth sensor, and a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor as opposed to the U19e's in-screen sensor.
Retailing at $315 (around £250, AU$450), the HTC Desire U19 Plus is the more affordable phone of the two, and its specs show.
We've reached out to HTC to see whether these phones will release outside of Taiwan, and if there's anything else to know about them, so stay tuned to TechRadar to see if HTC can make a smartphone comeback.
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Cornea Institute
Cornea Program
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Tej Kohli
Wendy Kohli
Rebuilding You
The Tej Kohli Foundation is committed to rebuilding people and communities around the world by developing scientific and technological solutions and by making direct interventions.
Funded by Wendy and Tej Kohli
The Tej Kohli Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that is committed to rebuilding people and communities around the world by developing scientific and technological solutions to seemingly intractable human problems. The Tej Kohli Foundation is also committed to making direct interventions that change lives by funding grassroots community programmes with a range of objectives.
Interventions by the Tej Kohli Foundation have restored the sight of tens of thousands of the world’s poorest people who were living with blindness. The Tej Kohli Foundation has also provided bionic arms to disabled teenagers, provided sustainable food sources to thousands of families and continues to fund scientific research and innovations.
Tej Kohli Foundation Coronavirus Crisis Response
Our COVID-19 crisis response reflects the Tej Kohli Foundation approach of pursuing large scale scientific and technological solutions to major global health challenges, whilst also continuing to make direct and immediate interventions that change individual lives.
The Tej Kohli Foundation has provided funding toward a project led by Harvard Medical School scientists at Massachusetts Eye and Ear who are developing a vaccine that uses a harmless virus as a Trojan horse to deliver the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus into human cells to produce an immune response that could protect people from the disease.
Read Tej Kohli’s blog about developing a Coronavirus vaccine
Holiday Hunger in the
With young people stuck at home because of the lockdown, ‘holiday hunger’ has become more pervasive than ever before. The Tej Kohli Foundation has partnered with organisations including The Salvation Army and the Southall Community Alliance to provide sustainable funding to the local grassroots community movements that have emerged during the crisis. This funding will enable these movements to target their resources into eliminating holiday hunger within their local communities.
Watch the BBC News report about a Tej Kohli Foundation initiative to combat Holiday Hunger in the United Kingdom
UK Science Is Boosted By The Tej Kohli Cornea Institute
Building on its legacy for making direct treatment interventions to alleviate and cure poverty-driven corneal blindness in India, the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute has launched a new United Kingdom Centre of Innovation to provide grants to innovative UK technology, science and research projects that can help to alleviate blindness in poor communities and resolve the limitations of existing treatment that have created a substantial treatment gap in the poorer countries where 90% of visually impaired people live.
Tej Kohli Foundation Seeks to Incubate New Projects That Can Eliminate Corneal Blindness By 2035
The Tej Kohli Foundation is establishing a new incubator to back scientific projects and commercial ventures that are targeting new solutions.
It forms part of our strategy to focus on new innovations borne from research, science, technology and enterprise for the prevention and cure of corneal blindness. Solutions must be affordable, scalable and accessible in the poorest countries in the world, where 90% of those affected by blindness and visual impairment live.
Between 2015 and 2019 the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute (India) welcomed 223,404 outpatients and carried out 43,255 free surgical procedures to alleviate and cure corneal blindness in the world’s poorest communities. In the United Kingdom the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute (UK) awards grants to innovative science and research projects that can bridge the treatment gap in the poorer countries where 90% of visually impaired people live.
The Tej Kohli Cornea Program at Mass. Eye & Ear, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, is a $2m program to accelerate innovative and collaborative research to achieve unprecedented breakthroughs in corneal disease. The Tej Kohli Cornea Program includes cutting-edge molecular technology for the rapid diagnosis of corneal infection, and also GelCORE, an adhesive biomaterial for replacing corneal tissue.
Supported by an advisory board that includes the most eminent ophthalmologists from around the world, the Tej Kohli Research Centre is engaged in the pursuit of an accessible, affordable and scalable solution for eliminating corneal blindness that does not rely on surgery or donated cornea, through the development of a proprietary synthetic biotech that could be relevant to one-third of those waiting for corneal transplants worldwide.
The Tej Kohli Future Bionics program highlights how technology can substantially improve the lives and confidence of younger people living with disabilities. The program epitomises the Tej Kohli Foundation’s focus on helping young people who are living with disability by making a direct and meaningful intervention into their lives using technology. The program funds the purchase and fitting of the bionic multi-grip myoelectric controlled prosthetic ‘Hero Arm’ for young people in the United Kingdom who are living with limb difference.
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The Tej Kohli Cornea Institute is an eminent institution for R&D, preventative medicine and corneal transplants. Between January 2016 and November 2019 it welcomed 223,404 outpatients and carried out 43,255 surgical procedures, largely for free. The Institute also delivers prevention, treatment and cures for corneal blindness within some of the world's poorest communities in remote and rural areas.
The Tej Kohli Cornea Program at Mass. Eye & Ear, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, is a $2m programme to accelerate innovative and collaborative research to achieve unprecedented breakthroughs in corneal disease. The Tej Kohli Cornea Program includes cutting-edge molecular technology for the rapid diagnosis of corneal infection, and also GelCORE, an adhesive biomaterial for replacing corneal tissue.
The Tej Kohli Cornea Institute is an eminent institution for R&D, preventative medicine and corneal transplants. Since 2016 it has seen more than 180,000 outpatients and carried out more than 17,000 cornea replacement surgeries, largely for free. The Institute also delivers prevention, treatment and cures for corneal blindness within some of the world’s poorest communities in remote and rural areas.
The not-for-profit Tej Kohli Foundation was founded in 2005 by Wendy and Tej Kohli to operate in areas blighted by extreme poverty and to reach out to those who hoped for a brighter future. For many years and under the direction of Tej Kohli, the Tej Kohli Foundation has supported projects at the heart of communities which have been neglected, especially when interventions can help to combat a lack of education, poor health or prejudice. The Foundation’s inaugural ‘Funda Kohli’ network of free canteens has fed hundreds of children every week in Costa Rica without interruption since 2005.
In 2013 the Tej Kohli Foundation started to fund corneal transplant surgeries at Niramaya Hospital in India. Worldwide there are 45 million people who are bilaterally blind and another 135 million who have severe visual impairment in both eyes. A staggering 90% of these individuals live in the poorest countries in the world where issues such as poverty and inequality have created a pervasive treatment gap. The social and economic impact of this avoidable, needless and often curable blindness is incalculable.
In 2015 the Tej Kohli Foundation adopted its mission to eliminate poverty-driven corneal blindness by 2035 and launched the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute at the LV Prasad Hospital in Hyderabad, which is a World Health Organisation collaborating centre. Between 2015 and 2019 the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute completed 43,255 free surgical procedures to cure and alleviate blindness in some of the world’s poorest people. The Tej Kohli Cornea Institute also welcomed over 223,404 outpatient and collected 38,225 donor cornea for its eye bank.
However the hard truth is that it is impossible to eliminate corneal blindness using current methods, which rely on a rich supply of donor cornea which are transplanted using sutured during a highly evasive surgical procedure. This type of treatment is entirely inaccessible the the overwhelming majority of people in the world who have corneal blindness, and so by 2020 the Tej Kohli Foundation had evolved its focus toward the development of an affordable and accessible solution for the prevention and cure of corneal blindness that is viable and scalable in the world’s poorest communities.
The Tej Kohli Foundation has also expanded its ‘Rebuilding You’ mandate to make interventions to rebuild people and communities all over the world. The #FutureBionics program is funding robotic ‘bionic’ arms that improve the confidence and prospects of limb different teenagers, and the ‘Food Support’ program supporting local grassroots organisations to develop a sustainable infrastructure for combating holiday hunger. These projects continue the Tej Kohli Foundation of using new science and technologies to rebuild people and communities and to rebuild lives.
The Tej Kohli Foundation was started in 2005 by Wendy and Tej Kohli to operate in areas blighted by extreme poverty and reach out to those who hoped for a brighter future. For many years the Foundation has supported projects at the heart of communities that have been neglected, especially when interventions help to combat a lack of education, poor health or prejudice.
Since 2013 the Tej Kohli Foundation has led and defined the global mission to end preventable corneal blindness by 2035. The Tej Kohli Cornea Institute at LV Prasad in Hyderabad is a leading institution for preventative medicine and corneal transplants. The Institute has given free transplants and cures to many thousands of the poorest people on the planet who were living with blindness or severe visual impairment.
Today the Tej Kohli Foundation is a multi-disciplinary global centre of focus for the scientific development and advancement of an affordable, scalable and accessible technological solution for preventing and eliminating avoidable corneal blindness worldwide by 2035.
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Republican congressmen plan their own kind of telecoms policy activism
broadband, CES2019, netneutrality, public policy
“Over the last several years, what we’ve seen has been lot of reaction in congress, reacting to things. What I think we’re going to see now more is planning”, said Bob Latta, a republican representative from Ohio, who holds a key telecoms committee portfolio in Washington, D.C. He was on a four-congressman panel at CES, talking about the reconfigured Federal Communications Commission. It will begin the Trump administration with a republican majority and, Latta expects, commissioner Ajit Pai installed as chairman.
Freeing up more spectrum for wireless Internet access, circling back on set top box rules and revisiting rules made during the Obama administration – such as the network neutrality decision that re-classified broadband as a common carrier service – are high on the republican telecoms agenda for the coming year.
Latta said that he favors a light-touch regulatory approach and the FCC will be taking a different direction. Net neutrality, as currently defined, is the wrong direction, he said.
California representative Darrell Issa, a San Diego republican, said that outgoing chairman Tom Wheeler overreached. New set top box rules floated by Wheeler and then quickly withdrawn after the election tried to do much. There should be new rules, Issa said, but the objective should be limited to getting rid of the 1990s vintage cable cards – limited and clunky hardware interfaces that never found a market – and simply giving consumers a way of connecting directly to the digital streams delivered by cable companies, without the complicated and detailed review process proposed by Wheeler.
Issa said that congress needs to take a hard look at how spectrum is allocated for wireless broadband service, particularly the balance between licensed and unlicensed bands…
“Today, more data goes through [WiFi] than, in fact, goes through cellular. How much spectrum we have in our WiFi? A fraction of what just one carrier owns in the way of cellular. So the reality is that one of the greatest failures in the world is, in fact, selling spectrum, and one of the greatest successes in the world is sharing spectrum”.
Latta also put a high priority on finding more spectrum. He said that even though 95% of the U.S. might have access to wireless broadband, the remaining 5% need to be served too.
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-1548-1)
Critical Nessus Plugin ID 61730
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Steve Fink, Bob Clary, Andrew Sutherland, Jason Smith, John Schoenick, Vladimir Vukicevic and Daniel Holbert discovered memory safety issues affecting Firefox. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2012-1970, CVE-2012-1971)
Abhishek Arya discovered multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2012-1972, CVE-2012-1973, CVE-2012-1974, CVE-2012-1975, CVE-2012-1976, CVE-2012-3956, CVE-2012-3957, CVE-2012-3958, CVE-2012-3959, CVE-2012-3960, CVE-2012-3961, CVE-2012-3962, CVE-2012-3963, CVE-2012-3964)
Mariusz Mlynsk discovered that it is possible to shadow the location object using Object.defineProperty. This could potentially result in a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against plugins. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted page, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents or steal confidential data within the same domain.
(CVE-2012-1956)
Mariusz Mlynski discovered an escalation of privilege vulnerability through about:newtab. This could possibly lead to potentially code execution with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
Frederic Hoguin discovered that bitmap format images with a negative height could potentially result in memory corruption. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2012-3966)
It was discovered that Firefox's WebGL implementation was vulnerable to multiple memory safety issues. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2012-3967, CVE-2012-3968)
Arthur Gerkis discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) implementation. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2012-3969, CVE-2012-3970)
Christoph Diehl discovered multiple memory safety issues in the bundled Graphite 2 library. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2012-3971)
Nicolas Gregoire discovered an out-of-bounds read in the format-number feature of XSLT. This could potentially cause inaccurate formatting of numbers and information leakage. (CVE-2012-3972)
Mark Goodwin discovered that under certain circumstances, Firefox's developer tools could allow remote debugging even when disabled.
It was discovered that when the DOMParser is used to parse text/html data in a Firefox extension, linked resources within this HTML data will be loaded. If the data being parsed in the extension is untrusted, it could lead to information leakage and potentially be combined with other attacks to become exploitable. (CVE-2012-3975)
Mark Poticha discovered that under certain circumstances incorrect SSL certificate information can be displayed on the addressbar, showing the SSL data for a previous site while another has been loaded. This could potentially be used for phishing attacks. (CVE-2012-3976)
It was discovered that, in some instances, certain security checks in the location object could be bypassed. This could allow for the loading of restricted content and can potentially be combined with other issues to become exploitable. (CVE-2012-3978)
Colby Russell discovered that eval in the web console can execute injected code with chrome privileges, leading to the running of malicious code in a privileged context. If the user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2012-3980).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Update the affected firefox package.
Severity: Critical
File Name: ubuntu_USN-1548-1.nasl
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:firefox, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Available: false
CVE: CVE-2012-1956, CVE-2012-1970, CVE-2012-1971, CVE-2012-1972, CVE-2012-1973, CVE-2012-1974, CVE-2012-1975, CVE-2012-1976, CVE-2012-3956, CVE-2012-3957, CVE-2012-3958, CVE-2012-3959, CVE-2012-3960, CVE-2012-3961, CVE-2012-3962, CVE-2012-3963, CVE-2012-3964, CVE-2012-3965, CVE-2012-3966, CVE-2012-3967, CVE-2012-3968, CVE-2012-3969, CVE-2012-3970, CVE-2012-3971, CVE-2012-3972, CVE-2012-3973, CVE-2012-3975, CVE-2012-3976, CVE-2012-3978, CVE-2012-3980
USN: 1548-1
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Are There Any Casino Games For WoW Fans?
Ever since Blizzard Entertainment released World of Warcraft in 2004, it has been one of the most successful an
Ever since Blizzard Entertainment released World of Warcraft in 2004, it has been one of the most successful and played MMORPGs in the world. No matter if you spend your free time playing the best mobile pokies approved by ALDC, reading books, or watching sports, you must have heard of WoW. The gameplay unfolds in the world of Azeroth, a fantasy world filled with magical creatures. At the beginning of the game, the players choose their race and class. When choosing their race the players opt between Alliance (humans, night elves, drained, dwarves, and gnomes) and Horde (trolls, blood elves, tauren, orcs, and forsaken). Afterward, they should choose their class (shaman, warlock, druid, paladin, hunter, mage, priest, and warrior). Players complete different quests and gain more XP, and in this way upgrade their character over time.
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No matter which company Blizzard Entertainment chooses for developing the WoW slots, it goes without saying that they will most likely try to cover as many devices as they can. This includes the latest models of smartphones and tablets that are supported by Android or iOS.
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Although we are yet to hear news about WoW slots being available to fans worldwide, it goes without saying that the interest would be huge for this game. While eager fans are waiting for that day to come, they can make predictions about the future, and enjoy the available fantasy casino games in the meantime.
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The dominant leg is more likely to get injured in soccer players: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Matthew D. DeLang
Paul A. Salamh
Abdulaziz Farooq
Montassar Tabben
Rodney Whiteley
Nicol van Dyk
Texas Health Sports Medicine, Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, USA
University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA
High Performance Unit, Irish Rugby Football Union, Dublin, Ireland
Biol Sport. 2021;38(3):397–435.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/biolsport.2021.100265
DeLang M, Salamh P, Farooq A, et al. The dominant leg is more likely to get injured in soccer players: systematic review and meta-analysis. Biology of Sport. 2020:397-435. doi:10.5114/biolsport.2021.100265.
DeLang, M., Salamh, P., Farooq, A., Tabben, M., Whiteley, R., & van Dyk, N. et al. (2020). The dominant leg is more likely to get injured in soccer players: systematic review and meta-analysis. Biology of Sport, 397-435. https://doi.org/10.5114/biolsport.2021.100265
DeLang, Matthew D., Paul A. Salamh, Abdulaziz Farooq, Montassar Tabben, Rodney Whiteley, Nicol van Dyk, and Karim Chamari. 2020. "The dominant leg is more likely to get injured in soccer players: systematic review and meta-analysis.". Biology of Sport: 397-435. doi:10.5114/biolsport.2021.100265.
DeLang, M., Salamh, P., Farooq, A., Tabben, M., Whiteley, R., van Dyk, N., and Chamari, K. (2020). The dominant leg is more likely to get injured in soccer players: systematic review and meta-analysis. Biology of Sport, pp.397-435. https://doi.org/10.5114/biolsport.2021.100265
DeLang, Matthew D. et al. "The dominant leg is more likely to get injured in soccer players: systematic review and meta-analysis." Biology of Sport, 2020, pp. 397-435. doi:10.5114/biolsport.2021.100265.
DeLang M, Salamh P, Farooq A, Tabben M, Whiteley R, van Dyk N et al. The dominant leg is more likely to get injured in soccer players: systematic review and meta-analysis. Biology of Sport. 2020:397-435. doi:10.5114/biolsport.2021.100265.
In soccer (football), dominant limb kicking produces higher ball velocity and is used with greater frequency than the non-dominant limb. It is unclear whether limb dominance has an effect on injury incidence. The purpose of this systematic review with meta-analysis is to examine the relationship between limb dominance and soccer injuries. Studies were identified from four online databases according to PRISMA guidelines to identify studies of soccer players that reported lower extremity injuries by limb dominance. Relevant studies were assessed for inclusion and retained. Data from retained studies underwent meta-analyses to determine relative risk of dominant versus non-dominant limb injuries using random-effects models. Seventy-four studies were included, with 36 of them eligible for meta-analysis. For prospective lower extremity injury studies, soccer players demonstrated a 1.6 times greater risk of injury to the dominant limb (95% CI [1.3–1.8]). Grouped by injury location, hamstring (RR 1.3 [95% CI 1.1–1.4]) and hip/groin (RR 1.9 [95% CI 1.3–2.7]) injuries were more likely to occur to the dominant limb. Greater risk of injury was present in the dominant limb across playing levels (amateurs RR 2.6 [95% CI 2.1–3.2]; youths RR 1.5 [95% CI 1.26–1.67]; professionals RR 1.3 [95% CI 1.14–1.46]). Both males (RR 1.5 [95% CI 1.33–1.68)] and females (RR 1.5 [95% CI 1.14–1.89]) were more likely to sustain injuries to the dominant limb. Future studies investigating soccer injury should adjust for this confounding factor by using consistent methods for assigning limb dominance and tracking use of the dominant versus non-dominant limb.
Limb Dominance, Soccer Injury, Footedness, Risk Factor
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Mr & Mrs Water Jug - Indigo
Sue Pryke
Mr & Mrs Water Jug - Indigo by Sue Pryke
These stunning indigo water jugs have an unglazed polished finish and look fantastic on your table or kitchen surface. Part of the Mr & Mrs range, each jug is handmade in England and individually slipcast from vitrified earthenware before being polished to give a smooth pebbly finish. The clay is fired to a high temperature until it is vitrified and no longer porous, giving it a stone like quality. The Mr & Mrs Water Jugs are truly beautiful and the smooth matt finish makes them very tactile. They also make a great gift for a birthday, wedding or anniversary. The jugs hold just over 3 pints or 1.5litres and so they will keep the table well hydrated whether used for juice or milk at breakfast, water at lunch or your favourite cocktail in the evening. Part of our lovely tableware collection, the ceramic water jugs are a fantastic addition to our range. Designed by Sue Pryke each jug is individually made and so there will be slight changes in each piece and slight colour variations, which is indicative of the material and the hand made processes. Sue Pryke is a British homeware designer who has designed her own tableware collection after having had a successful career which has involved collaborations with the likes of Virgin Atlantic, John Lewis and Marks and Spencer's. Click here to read more about Sue Pryke in the Our Makers section of our site.
Indigo.
Delivery of this product within mainland UK will be made using Royal Mail or Parcelforce and will cost between £5.50 (3-5 Working Days) and £10 (Next Working Day) depending on the shipping option selected during checkout. Orders received before 12pm (noon) GMT will ship that day. Orders received after 12pm (noon) will be shipped the next Working Day.
Vitrified Earthenware. Each ceramic water jug is individually made and so there will be changes in each piece and slight colour variations, which is indicative of the material and the hand made processes. Size: L19cm x D12cm
Sue Pryke is a British homeware designer, who started her journey into ceramics at a small pottery in Lincolnshire. After graduation Sue's first job was at Wedgwood as a shape designer, guided by the design team she was taught to understand the breadth of ceramic form. Since then Sue has had a successful career which has involved collaborations with a wide range of clients, from Virgin Atlantic to High Street retailers such as John Lewis, Marks and Spencer's and prestigious manufacturers such as Wedgwood and Royal Doulton.
Sue is inspired by the everyday and the ordinary; material qualities, textures and the interaction we have with objects. Recently Sue wanted to create her own collection of objects that sit comfortably in the home, that aren't awkward, audacious or tricky to use or care for, but are familiar, have fluency and sit effortlessly. To bring this range together she collaborated with small factories and studios in England working with traditional craftsmanship, materials and techniques to make high quality products made by hand.
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The Sunday Mail
Lincoln Towindo Deputy News Editor
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will soon introduce a new set of higher denominatt5ion banknotes to increase physical money supply, curb cash shortages and improve transacting convenience.
Authorities have approved the introduction, into circulation, of new $50, $100 and $200 banknotes this year.
The Sunday Mail has gathered that the $50 note will be introduced first, while plans to introduce the other notes are still in the works.
Designs of the new $50 note are awaiting the President’s approval before printing can commence.
Zimbabwe has $2, $5, $10 and $20 notes in circulation.
Transacting using these notes has become cumbersome, with huge wads of cash now required to complete small transactions due to inflation.
Cash shortages have triggered queues at banks and an illegal market where premiums are charged to convert electronic money into cash. The shortages have also created a multi-tier pricing system, where prices of a single product differ depending on the customer’s mode of payment. The introduction of the new notes is expected to enhance convenience to the transacting public and eliminate the illegal cash market.
Stability of the Zimbabwe dollar over the last six months has reinforced authorities’ confidence that the value of the new notes will not be wiped away by inflation.
Inflation has been falling gradually since mid-last year, following a raft of interventions by authorities to protect the value of the local unit from speculative behaviour in the market.
Currently, around $1,4 billion in cash is circulating, up from around $400 million a year and half ago.
RBZ governor Dr John Mangudya did not respond to questions from The Sunday Mail while his deputy Dr Kupukile Mlambo said he was on leave.
A member of the RBZ Monetary Policy Committee, Mr Eddie Cross, said the new notes will be introduced “shortly”.
“The only new note which is due to come in shortly is the $50 note and I’m not certain when that is going to be available but it is in the process of preparation,” he said.
“There are already plans to introduce some higher denomination notes this year.
“Some time ago we made a decision in the MPC to introduce new $200, $100 and $50 notes.
“I understand that this is being dealt with by the governor working with the President because the President has to approve the designs and everything else. But I understand that the $50 note will be available early in the new year.”
Mr Cross said the new notes will be drip-fed into circulation throughout the year.
It has also been learnt that the central bank is mulling decommissioning small denomination coins, whose value has been wiped by inflation with most retailers now refusing to accept them.
Mr Cross said soiled notes will also be gradually removed from circulation.
“What I am concerned more about is the proliferation of spoiled notes which are unfit for distribution and use,” he said.
“I think the Reserve Bank should start removing them from the market and replace them with new notes.
“In terms of decommissioning it means we should decommission all of the coins for example and replace them. The difficulty with all of that is having adequate physical currency to replace them, and as long as we have got shortages of cash in the marketplace, it will be difficult. So it’s on the agenda and it’s being discussed but there are logistical problems.”
Mr Cross said the $1,4 billion currently in circulation represents
a small percentage of the money in the economy.
“There are much more US dollars in circulation than Zimbabwe dollars.”
A lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Zimbabwe, Mr Edgar Muhoyi, said higher denomination notes will improve transacting convenience.
“What higher denomination notes will do is that they will increase transacting convenience,” said Mr Muhoyi.
“For example the price of a loaf of bread is around $90 while the highest denomination we have is the $20 note.
“This means that one would need not less than five $20 notes to buy a loaf of bread.
“But if we have higher denomination notes like a $50 note, then such a transaction can be done using just two notes.
“The other thing the RBZ should look at when they introduce these higher denomination notes is to increase the individual withdrawal limits so that one does not go to the bank regularly.”
He said the shortages should be addressed by injecting more physical cash into the market.
“In my opinion, the issue of cash shortages is not about higher denomination notes; it is about the amount of physical cash in the economy.
“Money supply in the market has not been adequate and this will not be addressed by injecting higher denomination notes.
“This can only be addressed by the quantity of money in the economy.
“The RBZ should inject a proportion of money which is equivalent to a certain percentage of the country’s Gross Domestic Product into the economy and this will be a better way of addressing the cash shortages.”
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Working: New Gloucester’s YOLKED food truck serves it all, chicken and egg included
A husband and wife from Raymond launched the truck last summer with just a few weeks of planning and a leap of faith.
By Kathryn SkeltonSun Journal
Megan Gleason, left, Michele Rollins and Matthew Anderkin chat while waiting for their food at the YOLKED Farm to Table Food Truck in New Gloucester. The food truck is alongside NU Brewery, 437 Lewiston Road. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal Buy this Photo
NEW GLOUCESTER — Self-described “chicken people” Jesse and Mindy Bouchard opened YOLKED Farm to Table Food Truck outside NU Brewery last summer with an egg in almost every dish.
The YOLKED Burger without the cheddar cheese. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal Buy this Photo
There is a poached egg on poutine. A fried egg on the signature burger. Egg whites on the chicken fingers and egg yolks in the homemade ice cream in whatever-inspires-him flavors like basil, sweet corn or blueberry pancake, many ingredients raised or grown within 20 miles.
“We’re prepared to serve up to 200 people a day,” Jesse said. “Some nights are unbelievable. Portland’s restaurant scene is amazing, it really is, and it’s making national news. When Portland people start arriving, ‘We heard about this place, we had to come up here,’ that to me is success.”
Bouchard started cooking young, when he was just 14, at a Scarborough bed and breakfast.
“My older sister was a housekeeper,” he said. “I would go and play on the beach and they would ask me for favors and I would come in and help out. They couldn’t keep me out of the kitchen, it was so interesting to me.”
After high school, work for large resort properties brought him to Key West in Florida and the Salt Lake City Olympics. That led to spending 14 years as executive chef at the Piper Shores retirement community in Scarborough overseeing a staff of 25, responsible for 400 to 500 meals a day.
Over the past two years, Bouchard pitched in as his best friends Russell Voss and Chris Ventimiglia worked to transform a former logging truck repair shop into NU Brewery at 437 Lewiston Road. He resisted their prodding to leave his executive chef job and dive into something new.
Jesse Bouchard helps a customer decide what to pick at YOLKED Farm to Table Food Truck in New Gloucester. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal Buy this Photo
“I was happy at Piper Shores,” Bouchard said. Plus, he has an ice-carving business, Frozen in Time, on the side.
“When they were ready to open the doors, the questions were arising: There’s no food in this town. Are you going to have food? Every single person. That’s when it became real.
“My wife said to me, ‘I will support you no matter what you do,'” he said. “That’s when I started to maybe lose sleep about it. I would think about it in the middle of the night, what if we did do it?”
Bouchard studied industry stats, read up on trends and the concept came together quickly from there.
“Within a day I had a vision of what it would look like and what I would call it,” he said. “When you decide to do something, you have to decide, you have to take a leap of faith.”
From concept, to trailer, to licensing, to opening in July was just a few weeks.
Matthew Anderkin orders from the YOLKED Farm to Table Food Truck in New Gloucester. The food truck is located alongside NU Brewery. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal Buy this Photo
The couple live on a farm in Raymond with 14 chickens, three goats, three dogs, a cat, fruit trees, a garden and a pond. Their food truck trailer exterior is wrapped in a photo taken in their kitchen of a feature wall with 1800s barn board.
It’s parked on a cement slab with planters of rosemary, basil, flat leaf parsley, chives and cilantro, all used in recipes, growing out front.
They work with Lazy Dog Farm, Potatoes in NG and Pineland Farms in New Gloucester, Green Thumb Farm in Fryeburg, Fervor Farm in Hollis Center, Maine Family Farms in Portland, Backyard Farms in Madison, R. Belanger & Sons Farms in Lewiston and D’Ameri Acres in Gray.
“People know where it’s coming from, what’s in it, who grew it, what he’s doing to prepare it — that’s the beautiful part about the food,” said Mindy, who works there with her husband several days a week.
The menu changes seasonally, it’s all cooked to order, and Jesse Bouchard said it’s inspired by life experiences, like being served a burger with an egg on top.
“Think about a burger when you take a bite into it and it’s so dry you’re gasping for saliva — that is a bad experience,” he said. “When you bite into a burger and it’s so juicy and there’s this other element of a yolk that is popped just before it is given to you, it adds a different creamy aspect to taking that bite.”
Jesse Bouchard cuts his fries by hand from local potatoes. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal Buy this Photo
The house YOLKED burger, with cheddar cheese, pecan wood-smoked bacon, lettuce and onions pickled with beets, is the most popular item most days. A shaved prime rib sandwich with caramelized onion and melted cheese — his version of a steak and cheese — is often a close second.
The plan is to stay open year-round, though the trailer will soon move closer to the building for winter and add a small, heated enclosure between building and truck so customers don’t have to walk outside in the elements.
The YOLKED Farm to Table Food Truck at 437 Lewiston Road is open Wednesday and Sunday from noon to 8 p.m. and Thursday to Saturday from noon to 9 p.m.
They are frequently invited to food truck events and festivals, but the goal, Mindy said, is to stay right there.
“It’s hard work, but it’s really fun,” she said. “The people we get to meet, the conversations we have. We have regulars.”
Added Jesse, “And now she’s seeing me in my element.”
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Do masks offer protection from coronavirus? It depends
By Carla K. Johnson/The Associated Press
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People around the world are buying up protective face masks in hopes of keeping the new virus from China at bay. Some companies have required them for employees. Schools in South Korea have told parents to equip their children with masks and hand sanitizer when they return from winter vacation.
But do the masks work? It depends.
All viruses are small enough to get through a typical strap-on medical mask, but the germs don’t generally spread through the air one at a time, said Dr. Mark Denison of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Denison studies SARS and MERS, which are coronaviruses, the same family as the new virus.
Instead, viruses ride from person to person on droplets from a sneeze or cough. Those droplets land on hands and other surfaces, where they are touched by others, who then touch their own eyes, noses or mouths.
Masks can block large droplets from a sneeze or cough. That means they have some value, Denison said.
Also, someone in a mask can’t touch their own nose and mouth. That can prevent the wearer from picking up germs left on surfaces by someone who is sick, he said.
A ‘sensible’ precaution
Masks are “a very sensible precaution” while scientists work to study exactly how the new virus is transmitted, said University of Oxford researcher Trudie Lang.
None of this, however, is based on rigorous research. Nobody has compared groups of masked and unmasked people by exposing them to the new germ, Denison said. A 2017 review of studies in health care workers suggested masks offer some protection against SARS, but the authors noted “existing evidence is sparse and findings are inconsistent.”
The best way to avoid getting sick from the new virus is to wash your hands with soap and water. If soap and water aren’t available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer. That’s the same advice for avoiding regular cold and flu viruses.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not currently recommend masks for the general public. Health officials announced Thursday a sixth U.S. case, the husband of a woman who got sick after returning from Wuhan, China, and the first instance of the virus spreading person-to-person in the United States. Health officials said the risk to the general public in the U.S. remains low.
Masks recommended for those who are sick
The CDC does recommend masks for people being evaluated for the new virus, people confirmed to have it, household members and caregivers. Airline crew should offer a face mask to a sick traveller, the CDC said.
Health care workers treating patients with the new virus are advised by the CDC to take additional precautions such as goggles or face shields.
UNICEF said Wednesday it has shipped six metric tons of respiratory masks and protective suits to China for use by health workers.
In Tokyo, 21-year-old hotel employee Hasumi Tsuchida said she wears a mask. “I work in a hotel where many guests are from China,” she said. “I worry a bit when foreign guests arrive.”
Masks have been commonly used in some countries when wearers are sick, fighting allergies or on days when air pollution is bad. The new virus has fueled demand for them around the world.
Respilon, a Czech company that makes its “nanofiber” masks in China, sold 700,000 of them last year worldwide. Since last week, it received orders for 7 million more. The problem: It cannot make any because the Chinese government extended the Lunar New Year holiday in a bid to contain the virus’ spread.
In Taiwan, where the holiday is over, factories are up and running. Premier Su Tseng-chang said the government had already distributed 23 million masks and that Taiwan will be able to produce 4 million more a day.
A mask factory in Shanghai has gone into overdrive despite the holiday.
“We are now working 24 hours, two shifts a day, 12 hours shift,” said Liao Huolin, president of the mask company. “We violated labour law,” Liao said, “but the workers understand.”
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Call centre outsourcing in 2021
The coronavirus has impacted the economy of the UK, leaving businesses in a position of uncertainty for the foreseeable future.
One industry that has seen an increase in activity is call centres working to assist with customer service. With over 6,000 call centres in the UK, reportedly over 4% of the working population are employed in this industry, making it an invisible ‘frontline’ in the pandemic. In the 2021 climate of self-isolation, some call centre outsourcing providers have been inundated with an unexpected increase in the number of calls received.
In-house call centres have particularly felt the disruption, having to juggle their customer service among other priorities. By using call centre outsourcing, on the other hand, other companies have been able to adapt flexibly, continuing work through this pandemic in 2021.
Many companies find call centres to be an essential part of their business, assisting in the customer experience. Call centres that are outsourced have the ability to be flexible and adapt to this new working life to continue the work of customer support by moving their entire workforce resources online, accessible for those working at home. With the rules of social distancing and isolation, many call centres have used this opportunity to create new daily systems that allow calls and emails to be continued at home, outside the office. Unlike the expected work office filled with desks and phones, the effect of this coronavirus may change the way call centre outsourcing looks forever by transforming this to remote working. Efficiency is essential to continue the work of these outsourced call centres, and many UK businesses have been able to continue call centre outsourcing without consequences for the business due to this flexibility.
Companies that outsource work to call centres have been able to use this to their advantage during the pandemic. While in-house call centres have had to adjust to the new environment — juggling their business, including HR and balancing money, in response to high pressure from consumers — businesses that have used call centre outsourcing have continued to focus on their core competencies. In addition to lowering costs by up to 10–15% and no extra capital expenditure requirements, outsourced call centres focus solely on the quality of their calls and efficiency of their processes as well as systems.
Despite this amplified pressure, The Times reported that call centre outsourcing providers are likely to benefit from the impact with the permanent increase in demand to this industry. The coronavirus pandemic has benefited onshore and offshore call centre outsourcing providers. An increasing number of UK-based businesses have started to migrate their call centre requirements to leading outsourcing providers such as PITON-Global in Southeast Asia. By outsourcing their call centre requirements offshore, UK-based companies have been able to leverage additional cost savings of up to 40%.
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Myrrh is a reddish-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a number of trees, but primarily from Commiphora myrrha, which is native to Yemen, Somalia, the eastern parts of Ethiopia, and Commiphora gileadensis, which is native to Jordan. The sap of a number of other Commiphora and Balsamodendron species is also known as myrrh, including that from Commiphora erythraea (sometimes called East Indian myrrh), Commiphora opobalsamum and Balsamodendron kua. Its name entered English from the ancient Greek name for the daughter of Kinyras, ruler of Cyprus,, which is probably of Somali or Arabic origin, where it is known as (: Murr).
The name "myrrh" is also applied to the potherb Myrrhis odorata otherwise known as "Cicely" or "Sweet Cicely".
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Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children is about a boy named Jake who uncovers a mystery that extends into different realities and even different times. In the process, he finds a secret sanctuary for children with powers. His new world is full of danger, illusions and hidden enemies. Jake must figure out who is trustworthy and who he really is. The film is based upon the novel written by Ransom Riggs.
New stills released by Entertainment Weekly give us a close-up look at Jackson’s character, Barron, as well as the abilities of the girl called Emma Bloom. Emma can control air which means that she can float up into the sky with hot air, or can make a bubble to let her breathe underwater (like Sonic?). On top of this, she also has the ability (or peculiarity) of super-breath. She can literally blow people away like Superman. The screens show us how Emma’s super-breath can pin people to walls. Bad people like Barron.
The screenwriter Jane Goldman explained that: “Emma has taken on the mantle of trying to get rid of Barron or get him out of the picture long enough for Jake to finish the rescue mission they’re on.”
Not only does Samuel L. Jackson’s presence lend a sense of prestige and weight to the film, apparently he was excellent at being scary. According to Goldman: “He never runs out of new ways of be intimidating.”
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As well as Samuel L. Jackson, the cast features Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Chris O’Dowd, Allison Janney, Rupert Everett, Terence Stamp, Ella Purnell, and Judi Dench.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is out in Ireland on September 30.
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Long Beach Health Department Breaks From Los Angeles County On Golf Course Protocol
December 3, 2020 December 8, 2020 JJ FiddlerComments Off on Long Beach Health Department Breaks From Los Angeles County On Golf Course Protocol
Long Beach golf courses were relatively empty last Thursday, and the poor air quality wasn’t the only reason.
Recreation Park 18, El Dorado, Skylinks, Heartwell and Recreation Park 9 golf courses were all told on Tuesday night that the Los Angeles Country Health Department had approved more strict protocols for outdoor recreation. The changes included a new restriction that only golfers from the same household would be able to play in the same group together.
American Golf runs all five Long Beach public courses, and responded to the order by canceling all of its pre-booked tee times online for the next eight days.
“If Joe Smith wanted to play by himself at 9 a.m. on Saturday, he had to make a tee time by himself,” American Golf regional general manager Gary Johnson said. “He had to take the entire tee time as a single.”
In a break from the way it’s largely been operating throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the city Of Long Beach Health Department decided to not follow the Los Angeles County order.
On Wednesday, Long Beach officials told American Golf it could go back to the original COVID-19 protocols implemented in May that includes closed restaurants, cart sharing only for people in same household and pins screwed into the holes so golfers aren’t touching the same equipment.
“Last night at around 10 p.m. we got the message from the city of Long Beach,” Johnson said on Thursday. “In a 14-hour period we had to cancel 5,000 reservations and told them they could re-book it. Then 12 hours later we said, ‘Sorry, you can go back to normal,’ so it was a mad dash.”
The city of Pasadena, which also has its own health department, has made the same decision concerning outdoor recreation.
Kelly Colopy, the Director of the Health and Human Services Department for the City of Long Beach, said this isn’t the first time the city has varied from the county health order.
“We align with (the country) in as many ways as we can because regionally it makes more sense but we’re aligned with the state health order at this time,” Colopy said. “It allows for organized outdoor activity, such as a fitness class or golf, but people must maintain distance and must maintain wearing their masks.”
This news got a lot of social media engagement, and even Southern California Golf Association President Bob Livingstone posted on Twitter, “While (Wednesday afternoon) was chaotic, the end result is good/right. Kudos to LB Health and Human Services (and any other decision makers involved) in making a fair and logical decision!!”
Johnson said the response he and the city officials received via email and phone calls has been mixed, but that American Golf is committed to continue to provide the safest possible experience for its patrons.
“You can stay socially distant (on the golf course) and you don’t have to touch anybody,” Johnson said. “It’s safe so I’m glad (Long Beach) made the decision they did. We did everything we could to appease the city and the orders. It put us in a hard spot, but at least people can play golf.”
Johnson said Long Beach courses were not as full today because some golfers didn’t get the news in time to book their tee time again, and that the company will lose, “a couple thousand dollars,” because of the fluid situation.
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The Pros and Cons of a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) to Work Policy
A BYOD Policy Is Often a Good Choice for Smaller Companies
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Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies are set by companies to allow employees to use their personal smartphones, laptops, and tablets for work. A BYOD policy can help set a business up for success—especially a small company—but there are definite downsides to consider. If you're thinking about implementing a BYOD policy, it's a good idea to review some of the pros and cons before making a decision.
Savings for the company on purchasing and replacing technology
No learning curve for employees
Potential improvement of employee morale
More up-to-date tech due to personal upgrades
More complex IT support for disparate devices and operating systems
Higher security risks
Potential loss of employee and company privacy
Some employees may not have their own devices
Pros of a BYOD Policy
With a BYOD policy, you won't have to buy phones and laptops for every employee. Some employees may not have their own devices, but a recent Pew Research survey found that 77% of American adults already own a smartphone, and 92% of people ages 18 to 29 years old own one.
In addition, employees are more apt to take better care of their equipment because it actually belongs to them. Usually, employees know that if they lose or break their company phone, it's a pain, but the company will provide a new one. If they lose or break their own phone, this loss tends to be a much bigger deal for the employee.
Convenience:
Employees can stick one phone in their pockets or briefcases and they don't have to worry about taking care of and responding on two devices.
Employee preference:
If John likes iPhones and Jane likes Androids, both can happily use their preferred system. They don't have to learn a new system. Often, if your company pays to install Microsoft Office or Photoshop or whatever software the employee needs for work on an employee's personal laptop, the employee is happy to have the software for personal work as well.
Employees have no learning curve for new equipment because they already understand how to use their own electronic devices. They can jump in on day one for immediate productivity.
Up-to-date technology:
It's a huge expense for any company to update equipment, but employees are often more motivated to pay to replace their personal phones or laptop with the latest available device.
Cons of a BYOD Policy
More complex IT support systems:
If every employee has a standard-issue computer, tablet, and phone, it's easier for the IT department to support and fix the devices. If everyone has their own device, it can become much more complex to keep the electronics functioning. If you need to install custom software, will it work on everyone's devices? What if Jane isn't willing to update her laptop? What if John wants to run Linux while everyone else is running Windows?
Higher security risks:
What type of data does your organization generate and use? It's easy to make rules about how employees should use company devices, but it's not quite so easy to tell your employees that they can't let their 13-year-old write a school paper on their own laptop at home. What are you going to do to make sure that your company information is kept secure?
Also, when employees leave the company, you'll want to remove any confidential information from any employee device. But, you don't want to delete their personal information. No one is happy if you say, “IT needs to wipe all of your photos and documents from the computer to make sure that you don't take any confidential information.”
The potential loss of privacy:
You'll need to determine how you'll secure your company's confidential information before an employee agrees to use his equipment for work. Make sure that you state clearly, from the beginning, what you will do with classified information on the device or you'll have problems when an employee leaves.
If Jane is a salesperson who uses her personal phone number for work purposes when she quits and moves to your competitor, all of her clients still have her phone number in their records.
When they call, she'll answer, and Jane will have a much easier time moving those clients to her new company. Even if Jane signed a non-compete agreement, if the customers come to Jane, you can't legally stop them. As long as Jane isn't pursuing the customers, she's in the clear.
Conclusions About BYOD Policies
A BYOD policy may work well for smaller companies. However, it's wise not to make the decision based purely on the convenience and cost factors. Think about how a BYOD policy will have an impact on your business in terms of privacy, company data safeguarding, security, and IT support. You will want to also think about what device your employees want to use for work. Look to the future and make decisions about how to handle the devices when an employee leaves your organization.
Suzanne Lucas is a freelance journalist specializing in Human Resources. Suzanne's work has been featured on notable publications including "Forbes," "CBS," "Business Insider," and "Yahoo."
Pew Research Center Factank. "Record shares of Americans now own smartphones, have home broadband." Accessed August 18, 2020.
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These Celebrity-Favorite Political Sweaters Are Selling at the Whitney
Lingua Franca sweaters at the Whitney shop. Photo: Carl Timpone/BFA.com
While Lingua Franca’s hand-embroidered cashmere sweaters could technically say anything, the political slogans are what Rachelle Hruska MacPherson’s label is known for. Some popular slogans are “I Miss Barack” and “We Are All Immigrants.” Gaby Hoffmann, Leo DiCaprio, and Mark Ruffalo are fans.
Special (and more wallet-friendly) editions of their popular “resistance sweaters” are now available at the Whitney Museum of American Art in collaboration with their ongoing exhibit, “An Incomplete History of Protest.”
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Since the 2016 election, MacPherson has been donating $100 from the proceeds of each sweater sale to a charity of the buyer’s choice. MacPherson was asked by the Whitney Museum’s Lauri Freedman to do a collaboration with the Whitney shop for the “History of Protest” exhibit, but worried that the price point of her sweaters was too high, since they usually retail from $360 to $400. So she partnered with Stateside (owned by the former owner of Splendid) to make a insanely soft viscose and spandex sweatshirt that retails for $125 at the Whitney shop and online. Shop the sweatshirts below.
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So You Want to Talk About Race (Paperback)
By Ijeoma Oluo
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America
Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy -- from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans -- has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about. How do you tell your roommate her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law take umbrage when you asked to touch her hair -- and how do you make it right? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend?
In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.
"Oluo gives us -- both white people and people of color -- that language to engage in clear, constructive, and confident dialogue with each other about how to deal with racial prejudices and biases." -- National Book Review
"Generous and empathetic, yet usefully blunt . . . it's for anyone who wants to be smarter and more empathetic about matters of race and engage in more productive anti-racist action." -- Salon (Required Reading)
Ijeoma Oluo is the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race. Her work on race has been featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post. She has twice been named to the Root 100, and she received the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award from the American Humanist Association. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
"So You Want To Talk About Race is a landmark book for our times. Oluo does more than deliver tough, blunt truths about the realities of racism, power and oppression. She also, in bracing fashion, offers a vision of hope; a message that through dialogue and struggle, we can emancipate ourselves from what she calls 'the nation's oldest pyramid scheme: white supremacy.' That is why I don't think this is merely one of the most important books of the last decade. It is also one of the most optimistic. To write such a book in these difficult times is in and of itself, a daring and beautiful act."—Dave Zirin, sports editor at The Nation and author of What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States
"Ijeoma Oluo-writing on any subject-is compassionate brilliance personified, and I am so grateful for her work and her voice. She is the first writer I name when anyone asks who they should read to help them think about and navigate issues of race and identity, help them understand what solidarity means and what it requires of all of us. So You Want to Talk About Race is a book for everyone, but especially for people of color who need to feel seen and heard."—Nicole Chung, author of All You Can Ever Know
"Ijeoma Oluo's So You Want to Talk About Race is a welcome gift to us all -- a critical offering during a moment when the hard work of social transformation is hampered by the inability of anyone who benefits from systemic racism to reckon with its costs. Oluo's mandate is clear and powerful: change will not come unless we are brave enough to name and remove the many forces at work strangling freedom. Racial supremacy is but one of those forces."
—Darnell L. Moore, author of No Ashes in the Fire
"Read it, then recommend it to everyone you know."
—Harper's Bazaar, "One of 10 Books to Read in 2018"
"Impassioned and unflinching"
"Simply put: Ijeoma Oluo is a necessary voice and intellectual for these times, and any time, truth be told. Her ability to write so smartly and honestly with strokes of humor about race in America is heaven sent and demonstrates just how desperately we all need to be talking about race, and perhaps, more importantly, this insightful book shows those in power or privilege how they need to listen."—Phoebe Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of You Can't Touch My Hair and Everything's Trash, But It's Okay
"What Ijeoma Oluo has done, and continues to do, is nothing short of revolutionary -- she has created a conversational guide and laid out a movement-building blueprint for people of all races who are invested in self-assessment, open to being challenged, and committed to collective progress. One of the most important voices of our time, Oluo encourages us to be the conversation starters in our own lives and to keep talking -- someone who needs to hear us is listening."
—Feminista Jones, author of Reclaiming Our Space
"I don't think I've ever seen a writer have such an instant, visceral, electric impact on readers. Ijeoma Oluo's intellectual clarity and moral sure-footedness make her the kind of unstoppable force that obliterates the very concept of immovable objects."
—Lindy West, New York Times-bestselling author of Shrill
"So You Want to Talk About Race strikes the perfect balance of direct and brutally honest without being preachy or, worse, condescending. Regardless of your comfort level, educational background, or experience when it comes to talking about race, Ijeoma has created a wonderful tool to help broach these conversations and help us work toward a better world for people of color from all walks of life."
—Franchesca Ramsey, host and executive producer of MTV's Decoded and author of Well, That Escalated Quickly
"You are not going to find a more user-friendly examination of race in America than Ijeoma Oluo's fantastic new book. The writing is elegantly simple, which is a real feat when tackling such a thorny issue. Think of it as Race for the Willing-to-Listen."
—Andy Richter, writer and actor, -
"So You Want to Talk About Race is warm and foundational enough for people beginning their journey to understanding racism in America, and thought-provoking and challenging enough for people who believe themselves to be well-versed on the subject. In short, it's for everyone. Ijeoma's voice cuts through all the noise and stays with you."—Emily V. Gordon, co-writer of The Big Sick and author of Super You: Release Your Inner Superhero
"Fascinating, real, and necessary, a superb compendium reckoning with race, gender, and identity in white America."
"Ijeoma Oluo is armed with words. Her words are daggers that pierce through injustice, while also disarming you with humor and love."
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"I am in awe of Ijeoma. She is the smartest, most courageous and electrifying young writer on race relations today -- the voice of our times. Let her be your guidepost. She will make you think and she will make you feel. Follow Ijeoma Oluo and thrill to the challenge, beginning right here with So You Want To Talk About Race."—Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility
"When you need a super team to help you make sense of today's complex conversation on identity and representation, Ijeoma needs to be your number one pick. No one cuts through the chatter with more humor, insight and clarity. No matter the issue, Ijeoma's thinking is always essential reading."
—Jenny Yang, comedian, writer, and co-founder and co-producer of Dis/orient/ed Comedy, -
"Oluo has created a brilliant and thought-provoking work. Seamlessly connecting deeply moving personal stories with practical solutions, readers will leave with inspiration and tools to help create personal and societal transformations. A necessary read for any white person seriously committed to better understanding race in the United States."
—Matt McGorry, actor, -
"Straight talk to blacks and whites about the realities of racism.... A clear and candid contribution to an essential conversation."
"Ijeoma Oluo has built a career on speaking truth to power... [here] she offers a guidebook for those who want to confront racism and white supremacy in their everyday lives, but are unsure where to start."
"So You Want to Talk About Race is a phenomenal read and it's helping me articulate conversations I want and need to have."—Adib Khorram, Morris Award-winning author of Darius the Great Is Not Okay
"With this book, Ijeoma Oluo gives us -- both white people and people of color -- that language to engage in clear, constructive, and confident dialogue with each other about how to deal with racial prejudices and biases."
—National Book Review
"One of the few guiding lights to emerge in our post-election landscape...the goal isn't to call out the 'bad' white people and console the 'good' ones, but to raise the bar for all of us committed to equality and justice."
"White readers will find answers to many of the questions we might be afraid to ask. Readers who are people of color will find their experiences seen, heard, and believed. All readers will find themselves enraptured."
—The Denver VOICE
"Oluo's approach to the complex topic of race in America is direct, helpful, and compassionate."
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"Ijeoma Oluo's work is where candor meets wisdom, where intelligence meets action, where prose meets power. With her indelible combination of lived experience and research, she is one of the most important people writing about this current moment for our country and our world. So You Want to Talk About Race is a book that I have recommended to countless people-and that I will continue to recommend for years to come."—Rakesh Satyal, author of Blue Boy and No One Can Pronounce My Name
"A must-read primer on the politics of American racism."
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For Archie fans, character's death makes an impact
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DERRIK J. LANGAP Entertainment Writer
This photo provided by Archie Comics shows the cover of the comic book, "Life with Archie," issue 36. Archie Andrews will die taking a bullet for his gay best friend. The famous freckle-faced comic book icon will die in the July 16, 2014 installment of "Life with Archie" while intervening in the assassination of Kevin Keller, Archie Comics' first openly gay character. (AP Photo/Archie Comics)
This photo provided by Archie Comics shows Archie in his final moments of life in a scene from the comic book, "Life with Archie," issue 36. Archie Andrews will die taking a bullet for his gay best friend. The famous freckle-faced comic book icon will die in the July 16, 2014 installment of "Life with Archie" while intervening in the assassination of Kevin Keller, Archie Comics' first openly gay character. (AP Photo/Archie Comics)
This photo provided by Archie Comics shows Archie in his final moments of life in the comic book, "Life with Archie," issue 37. Archie Andrews will die taking a bullet for his gay best friend. The famous freckle-faced comic book icon will die in the July 16, 2014 installment of "Life with Archie" while intervening in the assassination of Kevin Keller, Archie Comics' first openly gay character. (AP Photo/Archie Comics)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- For the fans of Archie Andrews, his impending death marks a fitting end for the do-gooder comic book icon.
The famous 73-year-old red-headed comic book character will die in Wednesday's installment of "Life with Archie" when he intervenes in an assassination attempt on senator Kevin Keller, Archie Comics' first openly gay character who is pushing for more gun control in Riverdale. Andrews' death was first announced in April and will mark the conclusion of the series that focuses on grown-up renditions of Andrews and his pals.
"Not to be too grandiose, but this demise is a fitting and tonally perfect tribute to a character who has always put his friends first," said Chris Cummins, who writes about comic culture for DenOfGeek.us. "This is a publicity stunt for sure, but one with heart that will have permanent ramifications."
Andrews' final moments will be detailed in "Life with Archie" No. 36, while issue No. 37 will jump forward a year and focus on Riverdale honoring the legacy of their freckle-faced pal, who first appeared in comics in 1941 and went on to become a colorful icon of Americana and wholesomeness. Other incarnations of Andrews will continue to live on in other Archie Comics series.
"We wanted to not only grab people's attention but really show the heroic nature of the character," said Archie Comics publishers and co-CEO Jon Goldwater. "He's willing to literally die to save his friend, Kevin. Archie would have died to save any of his friends. I think Archie would've even died to save a stranger."
Keller first joined Veronica Lodge, Betty Cooper, Jughead Jones and Reggie Mantle in Archie Comics in 2010. He later appeared in his own solo title. In "Life with Archie," he's a married military veteran and newly elected senator who's pushing for more gun control in Riverdale after his husband was involved in a shooting.
While the original comic book series starring Andrews began as an innocent look at a group of pals at Riverdale High School, Archie Comics has in recent years strived to appeal to modern sensibilities with "Life with Archie," a more socially relevant spin-off aimed at longtime adult Archie fans. Over the past four years, "Life with Archie" plots have involved Keller's marriage, the death of longtime teacher Ms. Grundy and Archie love interest Cheryl Blossom tackling breast cancer and affordable health care.
Archie Comics similarly launched a horror spin-off series last year called "Afterlife with Archie" that envisions a zombie outbreak coming to Riverdale and recently enlisted "Girls" creator and star Lena Dunham to write a four-part Archie story set for release next year that chronicles the production of a reality TV show in Riverdale.
Andrew Wheeler, who writes about the comic book industry at ComicsAlliance.com, praised the way that Andrews will be killed off. He wrote on Monday that "Archie's sacrifice isn't just a moment of heroism; it offers an unambiguous condemnation of America's lax gun laws" and said that it's "not surprising to see Archie Comics tackling such a serious issue" because the publisher "doesn't shy away from risky ideas."
Who shot Archie? Goldwater isn't spoiling the killer, only teasing it's a stalker who wanted to take Keller down.
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From Garum To Ketchup
I’m sure that you know what is ketchup, but probably you haven't got the slightest idea of what garum is.
However, garum and ketchup are two different sauces unite by a long history. But today, the latter is viewed as bland, commonplace and a culinary atrocity, while the former is considered an exciting, exotic, and mysterious condiment.
As a matter of fact they represent two different eras: garum represents a bygone one that many historians wish was a culinary reality, and chefs nostalgically try to recreate; while ketchup is the epitome of modern commercial days that many gourmet chefs wish was history and try to get rid from their menu.
But both sauces have something in common: they have been surrounded by wrong myths. Garum, for instance, was neither invented by Romans nor did it disappear when Rome fell; and ketchup was neither invented by Americans nor, was in the beginning sweet, thick or tomato based.
What is garum?
In the ancient Mediterranean world, Egyptians and Greek gutted and salted fish and stored them in large vessels. The natural process of osmosis, produced a liquid, called garòs (in latin garum), that was used in some culinary preparations. It was mentioned in the works of Plinio, Aristophanes, Sophocles and Aescylus. It was incredibly popular in Greece and much later in Rome, where people would add it to almost anything. It was, in effect, the ketchup of the ancient world.
Since there was a fish called garos, or garòn, in Greek, it's a fair bet to say that the sauce was made mostly from that fish.
So garum was initially a culinary solution to the problem of fish preservation. While highly nutritious, most fish have a pH level below neutral. After death, fish are highly susceptible to decomposition. Several mechanisms were thought and created to preserve fish and avoid due to putrefaction. The use of salt or salt brine for preserving was common throughout the ancient world.
What and where are the connections between garum and ketchup?
You must know that the word ketchup is derived from the Chinese ke-tsiap, a pickled fish sauce. Probably at the beginning ketchup had the same use of garum. This sauce made its way to Malaysia where it became kechap and ketjap in Indonesia.
Seventeenth century English sailors first discovered the delights of this Chinese condiment and brought it to the west. Ketchup was first mentioned in print around 1690 (the Chinese version is actually more akin to soy sauce).
Ketchup went through various changes, particularly with the addition of tomatoes in the 1700s.
By the nineteenth century, ketchup was also known as tomato soy. We must wait until 1876 when the Heinz Company began selling tomato ketchup.
Today tomato ketchup is the primary type of ketchup in the United States, and the descriptor of tomato was gradually dropped.
So ketchup wasn't always ketchup...
Ketchup originally came from Asia as a fish sauce that contained fish brine, mushrooms, herbs and spices, but what is ketchup today?
Ketchup has been a staple condiment in the U.S. for decades. Heinz sells around 650 million bottles of its original-style ketchup every year.
Ketchup mainly contains tomato concentrate from red ripe tomatoes. Distilled vinegar, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, salt, spice, onion powder and natural flavoring are then added to produce another layer of sweetness and saltiness to the product.
There are 15 calories per serving and all of those come from carbohydrates. Fat and protein do not contribute to the calorie content. According to the ketchup label, there are four grams of sugars per tablespoon. There are 190 mg of sodium per serving, as well.
The American Heart Association recommends intake of sodium should be limited to fewer than 1,500 mg per day. One tablespoon contains almost 13 percent of this recommendation.
The high sodium content of ketchup can lead to high blood pressure, heart attack, asthma, and potentially even stomach cancer.
However, ketchup has its positive benefits. It contains one of the most powerful antioxidants called lycopene. When tomatoes are cooked, the way they are to make ketchup, the concentration of lycopene increases.
If you are curious about the taste of Garum, you should give it a try. It might not an easy task to find it but you can buy it online and have it shipped.
It has a pungent and specific taste that you’ll either love or hate!
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Information Security Project Manager at Bank of the West in San Marino, CA
Bank of the West
San Marino, CA 91108
We are currently seeking an Information Security Project Manager. The Information Security Project Manager will be working as part of the. Information Security team, within Enterprise IT Risk Management Department. In this role, the Information Security Project Manager will track initiatives and projects within the Enterprise IT Risk management group to completion. They will report on all projects to senior management and CISO and highlight risks to the projects and provide insight into the resource utilization.
As an East West Bank employee, you will be part of a growing and stable organization that provides career path development opportunities while serving a growing and profitable market.
Experienced, implementation focused, self-motivated Project Manager to drive key technology projects to completion.
Lead teams to implement technical projects to specification, on time, and within budget.
Liaise with the company central PMO and IT PMO and govern projects in accordance with the company methods, including creation of the prescribed standard project documentation and reporting.
This role has a central and key role in working with Information Security, Internal Audit, Business Stakeholders, and Regulatory Bodies to ensure the company information security projects assigned are risk 'managed for 'regulatory compliance and in compliance to company standards and policies.
Projects in scope for management will involve industry leading products and technologies in Information Security, IT Risk Management, and Identity Access Management.
Collaborate effectively with Enterprise IT Risk Management staff, IT colleagues, Business Stakeholders and vendors to help the projects to completion.
Provide status reports of project efforts to the CISO and senior management.
Regularly provide aggregated view of all the potential risks identified by the Enterprise IT Risk management team.
Represent the Enterprise IT Risk Management team to support Business Stakeholder driven projects and IT initiatives and to help communicate security requirements and pull in the right resources to support the projects.
Work closely with operational risk, compliance, legal and audit teams.
Stay abreast of new laws, regulations and standards, and assess their impacts to the business.
Verify security content training initiatives, as well as internal and external communication are conducted regularly.
Oversee testing and validation of security controls across projects.
6 or more years in Information Technology and/or information Security, project management.
Prior experience working in Financial Institutions preferred.
Familiarity and experience with Agile project management methodology.
Expertise in MS Office, MS Visio and MS Project, and Jira.
Excellence in communicating project related risk.
Excellent team leadership skills and the ability to motivate and influence teams.
Consistently demonstrates and follows high standards of integrity in business and decision making.
Demonstrates excellent communication and interpersonal skills; able to communicate clearly and concisely in a variety of settings and styles.
Gains support for change by providing context and responding with sensitivity to concerns and takes initiative to recommend/develop innovative approaches to getting things done.
Can quickly find common ground and solve problems for the good of all and is a team player and encourages collaboration.
Ability to motivate the team to achieve excellence, while giving credit and recognition where it is due.
Applicable knowledgeable with the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook and the Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT), EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), National Institute of Technology (NIST) standards, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), International Standards Organization (ISO) standards, Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) regulations and frameworks, etc.
Demonstrated understanding and comprehension of a wide range of cybersecurity solutions.
Additional Qualifications
Proven trustworthiness and history of acting with integrity, taking pride in work, seeking to excel, being curious and adaptable, and communicating well.
Self-starter requiring minimal supervision.
Strong written and verbal communications
Analytical and problem-solving mindset.
Highly organized and efficient.
Demonstrated strategic and tactical thinking, along with decision-making skills and business acumen.
Master’s or other advanced degree (MBA, information assurance, computer science, etc.) preferred but not required.
Bachelor's degree in business administration, information assurance or related technical field.
6+ years of related project management experience in IT and Information Security
Preferable, but not required: CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA, PMP
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Staff Software Engineer (Back End) at Zendesk in Madison, WI
Systems Architecture & Engineering, Software Development
The Zendesk Buying Experience team is looking for a well-rounded Staff Engineer with strong experience in crafting web solutions at scale. Join us to build a simple and secure experience across the Zendesk family of products.
The ideal candidate will have deep technical knowledge and experience in designing distributed systems that are scalable, reliable, and resilient. A technical leader who understands the design trade-offs.
What you get to do every day
Partner across all areas of the SDLC, including requirements gathering, working with product owners, and building services and solutions.
Work across teams and organization boundaries to standardize and integrate services, new libraries, tools, and workflows
Actively participate in code reviews and design discussions
Develop a strategy around diagnostics, reporting, alerting, auditing, and APM to better monitor our services in production.
Collaborate with downstream teams to identify gaps in quality and suggest solutions to mitigate them.
Partner with our Group Tech Lead and Architects to stay abreast of issues affecting the Zendesk platform.
Work with engineering and product teams to prioritize the work focusing on security, performance, and scaling into the roadmap.
What you bring to the role
Experience in service delivery in distributed systems at scale with a consistent record of designing complex web services with low latency.
Proficiency in Web technologies: HTTP(s), RESTful web services, Docker, Java, and AWS
Experience with relational databases and NoSQL storage (preferably MySQL).
Experience with CI/CD and Delivery systems (Github Actions, Travis, Jenkins)
Customer-first mentality when dealing with service incident management, data analysis, and root-cause analysis.
Ability to work independently yet fully collaborate with worldwide, remote teams, technical executives, and architects at the company.
Act as an ally for management and be deeply invested in building an inclusive team environment
A hunger for learning new technologies and an eagerness to grow your knowledge and capabilities.
Architecting maintainability into the product and driving for the highest standards
Experience with multiple programming languages (Ruby, Go)
Experience implementing observability layers and reporting tools (DataDog, New Relic, Kibana, Rollbar)
Knowledge of modern web security features (authorization, identification, certificates, keychain, SSO, OAuth, SSL)
Experience with billing platforms and services (Zuora, Braintree, PayPal), multi-currency, payment processing, subscription modeling, fraud detection
Experience building concurrent data streaming and building real-time systems using point-to-point and publisher-consumer messaging design patterns (preferably Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Experience working on open source projects with an active GitHub repo
Clear, concise, and effective verbal and written communicator with the ability to share technical details clearly across org boundaries
Experience in direct customer engagement related to business planning, feature explorations, and support-related activities
Previous experience leading a team through software development and technical greenfield work experience
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Covid-19 blowing Africa's HIV fight off track — experts
Sipokazi Fokazi Journalist
Africa's HIV programmes could be severely affected by protracted lockdowns and shifting of resources to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
Image: RODRIGO ARANGUA / AFP
If the disruptions to HIV programmes, which have largely been influenced by the global response to Covid-19 and protracted lockdowns, continue unabated for another six months, an additional half a million people living with HIV in Africa will die and mother-to-child transmission of HIV will be set back by a decade.
Speaking during the opening of the 23rd virtual International Aids Conference on Monday, UNAids executive director Winnie Byanyima said despite the progress made by many countries in their fight against HIV, too many people are still dying from HIV-related deaths.
In Africa, women remain at the greatest risk of contracting HIV with 59% of new infections affecting women and young girls.
“We know why. It is gender inequalities, gender-based violence, structural barriers that limit girls’ safety from HIV. They are not at school and are not safe at home. We can do more for women and girls in Africa and equalise opportunities for them,” she said.
Byanyima said the onset of Covid-19 brought more negatives to work done on the continent to combat HIV, which had been “built over the years with passion and lives of the people living with HIV”.
She said the disruptions, which saw HIV infrastructure repurposed and those who worked within HIV services, such as technicians, community-led services and volunteers, being moved to work on Covid-19, were worrying.
“We were already off track in achieving our HIV goals, but now coronavirus is completely blowing us off track and that’s a concern.” Last year’s HIV deaths of 690,000 as opposed to the target of 500,000 deaths were indicative of this slow progress.
“We’ve modelled together to and put an alert out with the World Health Organisation to show that if these severe disruptions were to continue for another six months we would have 500,000 additional deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and we can’t afford that. We could have a reversal of mother-to-child transmission taking us back to 10 years ago.
“So the message is keep both balls in the air ... keep the services going for both diseases,” she said.
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Byanyima also warned that the continent could feel the pinch of the pandemic with funding by richer nations set to dwindle due to the negative effects that Covid-19 had on economies of richer nations.
Of the $26.2 billion needed to fight HIV/Aids in the continent, there was already a financing gap of $7.6bn. “Over the years we’ve seen our funding partners from Europe and the US faithfully standing in solidarity with the poorest countries and we salute that, but we are seeing real threat. With their economies hit hard by Covid-19, there is a real danger of losing ground on financing the countries that are in need
The conference, which is the largest conference on HIV in the world, attracting the brightest minds fighting HIV/Aids including scientists, doctors, activists and people living with HIV, is being held virtually this year, in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic.
More than 25,000 participants are expected in this conference, which is also exploring how the Covid-19 crisis is affecting health services for those living with HIV. Delegates from 175 countries are attending the conference, originally set to have taken place in Oakland and San Francisco, US.
“These are remarkable times — and defining times — for the global HIV movement and for the world,” International Aids Society president and chair of the conference Anton Pozniak said. “Every conversation we have now sits at the confluence of the Covid-19 pandemic and a new global reckoning with systemic racism.”
“We don’t yet know the extent of increased risk that Covid-19 poses for people living with HIV, but we do know that social distancing efforts and government lockdowns have disrupted HIV prevention and treatment efforts — and put vital HIV research on hold.” WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus shared findings of a new WHO survey showing significant disruptions in access to HIV treatment because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The survey showed that due to protracted lockdowns 73 countries were at risk of stock-outs of ARVs, and that HIV medicines had been “significantly curtailed as a result of the pandemic”.
“The findings of this survey are deeply concerning. Countries and their development partners must do all they can to ensure that people who need HIV treatment continue to access it. We cannot let the Covid-19 pandemic undo the hard-won gains in the global response to this disease.” Erik Lamontagne, a senior economist at UNAids, also shared the findings of survey done in 138 countries including SA, which showed that Covid-19 had a devastating impact on the 13,562 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community worldwide.
UNAids executive director Winnie Byanyima says the impact of Covid-19 on bigger economies will be felt more by Africa
Nearly half the survey participants faced economic difficulty, with many unable to meet their basic needs, skipping meals or reducing meal sizes.
Nearly half of those who were working expected to lose their employment in the wake of the pandemic, and 13% had already lost their jobs.
About 26% of participants living with HIV reported that they had experienced interrupted or restricted access to refills of antiretroviral treatment.
Lamontagne said the crisis has pushed 1% of respondents to start engaging in sex work. Among this group, the pandemic has reduced their ability to negotiate safer sex practices, thus potentially increasing their risk for acquiring HIV.
Respondents also reported reduced access to safe injection equipment and opioid substitution therapy.
Lamontagne noted that these findings demonstrate some of the reasons that Covid-19 “threatens to undo global progress towards HIV prevention and treatment goals”.
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Posted in caporalato, displacement, geography, ghetto, informal economy, Italy, legal geography, Mediterranean, migration, racism, Uncategorized | Leave a reply
Appointments with ‘legality’: Italy’s slums
Another tragedy has affected African labourers in Italy’s plains this month. On 6 March, bulldozers demolished the San Ferdinando workers’ ghetto, located in the centre of Calabria’s orange plantations and Calabria’s Ndrangheta organized crime stronghold. The ghetto, which has claimed the lives of three people over the last year, had become a thorn in the eye of Italy’s Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, who has ordered the erection of a tent camp as well as a restoration of public order in the area.
In 2011 the research team Bitter Oranges recorded living conditions in San Ferdinando in this video.
The eviction of San Ferdinando (close to Rosarno, which has been termed one of Italy’s new slavery sites) forms part of Italy’s interior minister’s promise to move “from words to actions.” Matteo Salvini is also the head of the right populist League party, whose members are currently establishing an institutional alliance with the European Far Right. Since his election he has repeatedly declared his intention to “raze to the ground” Italy’s shantytowns, including Rom and refugee settlements. Over the last year, more than a dozen such camps have been demolished, including the Baobab Experience in Rome, which hosted over hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers, as well as various Sinti and Rom settlements around Turin, Pisa and the Italian capital.
The official motivation for the eviction has been one of insecurity and a lack human dignity. But the Caritas settlement does not appears to offer much of an alternative. On 22 March, another person died in its tent camp situated only a few meters away from the old ghetto. The victim’s name is Sylla Nouma, a man in his thirties. “We hoped not to deplore situations like this any more,” the mayor Andrea Tripodi declared to the press. “It was an unexpected tragedy,” Vincenzo Alampi, the local Caritas director added. Although the causes of the fire are still be ascertained, a possible reason might have been a short circuit departing form the electric wires located in the corner of the tent.
The government-directed evictions, which Matteo Salvini systematically calls “appointments with legality”, particularly appear to target precarious workers’ settlements located in the heart of Southern Italy’s vegetable and fruit plantations nowadays. After the forced eviction of Rignano Garganico and Boreano last year (both situated in the tomato districts of Foggia and the Alto Bradano), the bulldozers have started moving to the South now. Last May local authorities destroyed the informal labour settlement of Campobello di Mazara, in Sicily –leaving workers no choice but to occupy new buildings: while 128 inhabitants were haphazardly hosted in a camp managed by the Red Cross, others have started to erect smaller settlements in the periphery of neighbouring Castelveltrano, in the heart of Sicily’s olive plantations. A similar fate now awaits San Ferdinando’s settlers. At the time of the eviction, the local prefect estimated the number of slum residents at 1.592 people, according to the Repubblica newspaper. While 200 were immediately transferred to official migrant reception centres, around 900 found temporary accommodation a new tent camp managed by Caritas. Local authorities have announced 30 housing units to accommodate future migrants coming to the area. But the mayor has repeatedly warned against housing migrants without also providing for local residents in this area stricken by poverty and criminality. In the meantime, the Interior Ministry has promised 350.000 euro’s to “restore liveability” in the area of San Ferdinando.
An unexpected tragedy? Fire in Rignano Garganico January 2017
Because of pervasive uncertainty and a lack of consideration by official policies, more and more migrants now have started to move to other vegetable and fruit plantations in the area. Last month, some West African migrants already found refuge in a previous industrial plant in the plains of Metaponto, in neighbouring Basilicata, where the strawberry harvest is currently happening at full speed. Local associations are currently assisting the squatters with social and health services in the absence of official lodging facilities. Most likely, the slum will experience the same fate in a couple of months, when strawberries will have been picked, and the tomato planting season will begin once again in Foggia and Basilicata.
La Felandina squat in Metaponto (c) OMB
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Migrant abuse (cont’d)
A consortium of associations led by the Coalition for Freedom and Civil Rights (CLID), the Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI), and Indiewatch confirms earlier findings about the systematic abuse against migrants, including children, at two locations in Sicily and Potenza that were mentioned in a previous post: Lampedusa and Palazzo San Gervasio. The report (English summary here) says migrants and asylum seekers at the two sites have been victims of human rights violations and the right to defence, as well as inhumane living conditions and violence. Specifically referring to Palazzo, ASGI notes what it calls “very serious violations of the right to defence, which impeded the migrants from being assisted by their attorneys during the confirmation hearings.” In the meantime, an attempted escape by 22 detainees from the detention center yesterday has resulted in a mass search operation by the police, resulting in the arrest fr 12 of them. Human rights organisations are worried about the increasing repression of those who remain internalised. A complete report (in Italian) about the joint visit by Campagna LasciateCIEntrare and Osservatorio Migranti Basilicata, together with Europarlamentarian Eleonora Forenza has been made available here.
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Palazzo Salaam
For the next 23 days still, Swiss television is showing a documentary on Palazzo Salaam –the occupied former University building in the southeastern Roman periphery that has recently been threatened with closure by the Renzi government.
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The paradox of territory
In Italy, quite a number of occupied buildings I previously indicated – inspired by Heather Merrill – as ‘black spaces’ (the shelters, detention centres, condemned urban buildings, and other locations representing those who, by virtue of their asylum status and association with African territories, are rendered non-citizens, even though they are an integral part of modern Western societies and the economies that sustain them) are currently threatened with eviction.
In Turin, the occupants of exMOI, 750 refugees from 26 different African countries (apparently including 15% are women and 30 children) have been ordered to pack and leave. During their March last Saturday, they carried huge banners depicting their Black mediterranean presence.
protests against evictions from exMOI
In Rome, the occupants of Palazzo Salaam (an estimated 1.200 refugees and beneficiaries of humanitarian protection, mostly from the African Horn) loose their residence permit as a result of the new housing legislation proposed by the Matteo Renzi government.
In Bologna, 200 families occupying exTELECOM, a building opposite the new city council, are threatened with eviction.
Given the chronic shortage of places to host refugees and asylum seekers across the country, UNHCR and Medici per i Diritti Umani, a medical charity, estimate, thousands of asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection are living in precarious housing conditions. For example in Turin, a local migrant association estimates that around 600 refugees and people benefiting from a humanitarian protection status live across 7 occupied buildings in the city. Considering other such ‘black places’ in Bologna, Rome, and Florence in this calculation, the numbers easily add up. This number does not even include the homeless refugees whom, as one Malian who fled to Germany explained, are sleeping under the bridges of Italy’s metropoles.
The paradox lies precisely in the new housing legislation (or ‘piano casa’) that was voted in 2014 but is being put into practice only recently. Article 5 of this plan says: “Whoever occupies a property illegally without title cannot apply for a residence nor for a connection to public services in relation to this property, and [by consequence] all acts in violation of this prohibition shall be declared null in front of the law.” The converted law (voted in March 2014) is even more severe: “Those who illegally occupy residential public housing cannot participate in the procedures fro obtaining housing for five years following the ascertained date of the illegal occupation.”
Besides the curious liaison between residential property and public space in this legislative measure (residential public housing), the concrete application of it means that whomever occupies a building of black of better alternatives, can be denied official residency. This poses a source of anxiety particularly for the refugees and asylum seekers whom since the Nord Africa Emergency of 2012-2013 have been thrown out in the streets for a lack of assistance by the (theoretically) protecting state.
The comment by Antonio Mugolo, president of Avvocati di Strada, an association that takes up the defence of homeless people in Italy, is telling in this respect: “Without residence,” reminds Mumolo, “you cannot vote, you cannot cure yourself, you cannot receive a pension nor benefit from local welfare, you cannot obtain formal employment, you are not entitled to legal assistance … [In short] taking away the residence permit from people who occupy a building literally means placing those people outside of society, making them invisible, erasing in one single shot the possibility to confront their difficulties… It is remarkable that a plan, which should help families to confront the crisis, precisely bears these consequences,” he concludes.
Somehow this situation reminded me of the inherent violence expressed in the term state territory. So whereas, on the one hand, as Stuart Elden would say, territory is a political technology to measure land and control terrain, territory is also the effect, the product of spatially fixing relational networks into this bounded space. Close to Michael Watts‘ and David Delaney‘s reading, the legislative measures I briefly illustrated above indeed illustrate the consciously violent (or ‘terrorising’?) work of territory, which, besides its calculative techniques, of marking, bordering and categorizing political space, also involves the material imposition of sovereign political power through such fixed spatial units. Citizens and non-citizens alike thus find themselves frequently caught in the deadlock of territory as it provides no alternative space for making a life and developing a livelihood outside of its constraining perimeters. With sometimes paradoxical results.
courtesy Nick Hannes
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Detained Voices
After the suspended lives of Berlin and Milan (see previous post), this time a call arises from the more secluded spaces of Europe’s asylum system, as hundreds of people are on hunger strike in over half of the UK’s immigration detention centres – the biggest uprising against Britain’s racist detention system for a decade. Two blogs record their detained voices on this worldpress site and on this Facebook page. They are calling for solidarity protest and international support.
From: Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention by Tings Chak (2014)
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Where is the Law?
Society and Space just published a marvelous virtual theme issue on international migration, with contributions from Rutvica Andrijasevic and William Walters, Deirdre Conlon and my former colleague Susan Thieme, amongst others.
The collection adds further depth to the ongoing discussion in critical legal geography on the complex and expanding spaces of the law, expressed for example in a recent collection edited by Irus Braverman and others. These authors draw in turn on a long-standing scholarship of legal anthropologists like the Von Benda Beckmanns, Boaventura Santos, legal geographers like Nicholas Blomley and David Delaney, and legal scholars like Zoe Pearson and Oren Yiftachel.
In the guest editorial of Society and Space, called ‘the where of asylum’, Mustafa Dikeç asks the pugnant question:
“Does law produce spaces where it no longer applies? Does it, in other words, set up spaces of lawlessness?”
Parallel to Irus Braverman and colleagues, Dikeç addresses this question not merely from a practical legal perspective (how law is shaped) but out of a profound curiosity into power’s spatial constitution, as John Allen would put it.
What animates this growing body of work, Dikeç writes, is the idea that law may be involved in producing spaces of lawlessness. In other words: violence that is commonly depicted as ‘lawless’ may actually be committed through the law –or rather: through the continuous reproduction of its exception. It is this latter strand that seems to be the main concern of contemporary legal-spatial research.
Dikeç’s question came to mind lately when watching a series of recent Italian documentaries on the expanding migrant ‘ghettos’ in Puglia, Campania and Basilicata (the issue is generating worldwide attention nowadays, some day I need to produce a list of recent contributions). Set up as labour camps for the numerous seasonal land labourers (or braccianti) who invigorate South Italy’s plantation economy, these ‘ghetto’s’ reflect the extremely violent and exploitative forms of encampment capitalist labour regimes engender across international borders today (not to speak about the strong semantic resonance of the term). But they also express how the law (particularly asylum law) consciously creates it own exception, which is henceforth placed outside of its protective realm.
In other words, the conscious abandonment of protection as a fundamental value of state sovereignty within the EU’s national state frameworks is not just made possible through the systematic prevention of access to its territory, or the official detention of migrants across Europe’s many camp sites. But it is also justified through the reproduction of these liminal environments, which simultaneously constitute the law’s outer-space – or frontier zone – and the inner space of cross-border capitalist undertakings. Reflecting on Europe’s schizophrenic hospitality, Andreas Oberprantacher writes:
It is crucial to realise, however, that it is not just states that are implicated in the creation and management of a heterogeneous population of illegal aliens, but also actors that are usually acting in concert with liberal democratic states, so that two major elements of the rule-of-law, that is jurisdiction and accountability, are effectively diffused in a rather viscous and all-too-often treacherous frontier regime.
Somebody who has been working on the transformation of the state’s legal space theoretically more recently is David Delaney. In his recent book, Nomospheric Investigations, he tries to overcome the discrepancy between the legal and the spatial as two autonomous realms. The nomosphere is the cultural-material environment that emerges out of the performative engagements through which the social signification of the ‘legal’ and the legal signification of the ‘social’ materialize and mutually constitute one another. At the same time Delaney makes it plain that nomic settings, like the home, the archive, or the workplace, do not exist in isolation from one another. But they are the contingent products of pervasive cultural processes associated with the nomosphere (he uses the term nomoscapes). His work feels reminiscent of feminist scholarship about the location of knowledge (I think of Donna Harraway and Bell Hooks for example) as well as some of the more recent critical scholarship on borders (of which the Society and Space theme issue is just one recent outcome) I look forward to engage more in-depth with.
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Liminal – Margin – Frontier
Liminal:
- of, relating to, or being an intermediate state, phase, or condition (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
- of or pertaining to the threshold or initial stage of a process (Oxford English Dictionary)
- "neither here nor there (...) betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention, and ceremony” (Victor Turner, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, 1969: 95)
Margin:
- site where the law is projected through the active unsettling of rights (Veena Das and Deborah Poole, Anthropology in the Margins of the State, 2004)
- space where state practices and imageries are co-present with other systems of rule (Benedikt Korf and Timothy Raeymaekers: Violence on the Margins: States, Conflict and Borderlands, 2013)
- The margin of the page … the geographic margin... there is a continuous exchange between margin and meaning … so ultimately what matters is on the margins. Well, I say that what is essential is located on the edge …. (Baltrusaitis,
Borderland:
- “… [zone] of cultural overlap, characterized by a mixing of cultural styles. They are liminal spaces, simultaneously dangerous and sites of creative cultural production open to cultural play and experimentation as well as domination and control” (Hastings Donnan, “Anthropology of Borders,” in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, ed. Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, 2001)
Frontier:
- “a fault line and (…) a contested zone (…) a zone of conflict and competition” (Richard J. Reid, Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa, 2011)
- “a shatter zone”, a “zones of refuge” inhabited by “peoples (…) who have (...) been fleeing the oppressions of state-making projects” (James Scott, The Art Of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, 2009)
- "a political fact, a matter of political definition of geographical space” (Igor Kopytoff, The African Frontier: The reproduction of Traditional African Societies, 1987)
- "Das herrenlose Land” (Carl Schmitt, Der Nomos der Erde im Völkerrecht des Jus Publicum Europaeum, 1997 [1950])
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YOUR RIGHT TO CHOOSE NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS IS UNDER THREAT !
Be warned … YOUR favourite herbal, homeopathic and nutritional products YOU use daily for keeping good health and wellness will soon either be banned or become unaffordable, unless YOU say ‘NO!‘ This will later expand to include natural skincare products, functional foods and African Traditional Medicines.
The current regulatory regime imposed on traditional & natural health products stems from controversial Complementary Medicine regulations first gazetted in November 2013, and broader regulations to regulate ‘health supplements’ gazetted in August 2017. In August 2017 these regulations and further restrictions were written into the general regulations for medicines in support of the controversial Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill which was gazetted in January 2015. All these regulations fall under the 1965 apartheid era drug control legislation, namely the Medicines & Related Substances Act [Act 101 0f 1965]. These draconian and unconstitutional regulations WILL soon result in the eradication of a thriving +/- R15 billion traditional & natural health product industry, leaving health conscious consumers with severely restricted healthcare choices, higher private and State medical expenses and the loss of over 5,000 full-time jobs and many more part-time income opportunities.
Good health is about choice in healthcare.
Natural health products and natural therapies are recognized by progressive Governments around the world as “effective, appropriate and cost-effective” solutions to helping hundreds of millions of people manage their healthcare every day.
The fact, between 70 – 85% percent of South Africans make the choice to use traditional & natural therapies and products to help with common illness and manage chronic disease, yet access to services, products, education and accurate information is being increasingly restricted.
An ever growing body of scientific and historical evidence attests both to their high safety profile (low risk) and their ability to promote wellness and prevent and reverse many common 21st century lifestyle diseases. Yet for two decades, the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) and it’s predecessor, the Medicines Control Council (MCC), have been waging a relentless war against free access these products, while aiding and abetting in the pharmaceutical expropriation of pockets of the traditional & natural health product sector.
The time to ACT is NOW!
Whether you’re are a health conscious consumer or industry stakeholder, you need to urgently take action to save the traditional & natural health product sector in South Africa. We need your support to protect your rights by becoming a TNHA member, or by donating towards our campaigns to protect, educate and empower the traditional & natural health product sector, the practitioners who prescribe them and health conscious consumers who have a constitutional right to access natural health choices.
The TNHA has been leading the charge in opposing the Complementary Medicines regulations since 2013. This has included active participation in Parliamentary hearings on health policy and new legislation, lobbying political parties, working closely with local and international alliance partners and monitoring international drug and food law harmonization programs and taking legal action in our courts. We are currently launching legal cases to have the Complementary Medicine and Food Supplement regulations scrapped. We are also spearheading lobbying efforts to have traditional & natural health products placed under the jurisdiction of a new Traditional & Natural Health Products Regulatory Authority under new legislation outside of the Medicines Act, an Act which was explicitly intended to regulate high risk, new-to-man, chemical drugs. This will be facilitated through the tabling of a Traditional & Natural Health Products Bill which is being drafted by our expert legal team and will be tabled by supportive MPs in Parliament.
Eight years of inappropriate and draconian regulation and not a single natural health product registered yet?
The SAHPRA (and previous MCC) have failed to register a single traditional or natural health product since they were called up for registration on the 15th of November 2013.
In April 2016 the previous Registrar of the Medicines Control Council, Ms Joey Gouws, made a presentation to industry stakeholders where she revealed that the Medicines Control Council had received approximately 120,000 product notifications by companies for traditional & natural health products sold on the market between February 2002 and December 2011. This was pursuant to regulatory notice R.204 gazetted on the 22nd of February 2002.
She also stated that out of these 120,000 products for which they had received notifications, approximately 150 applications for product registration had been received since the November 2013 regulations came into effect. This low number attests to the industry’s inability to comply with the stringent, costly and inappropriate registration requirements for pharmaceutical drugs. Of those 150 applications, only 6 [six] product applications were later deemed acceptable by the Authority for further assessment. These 6 products received the ‘right of sale’ in the government gazette on the 16th of April 2016, pending their application for registration.
To date none of these 6 products have had their applications approved or rejected. We have maintained contact with the applicants for some of these six products and have been reliably informed that there has been little progress in assessing them. Their queries concerning the progress of their assessment have have not been cogently addressed.
It appears the SAHPRA is either unable to assess traditional & natural health products under its current drug assessment framework, or they are deliberately obstructing and eliminating the entire traditional & natural health product sector by making it impossible for manufacturers and importers to comply financially and technically with procedures and standards which are only appropriate for novel chemical compounds (pharmaceutical drugs).
Our drug regulator is not fulfilling its statutory obligations
On the other hand, the Medicines and Related Substances Act [Act No. 101 of 1965] has imposed a primary responsibility on the SAHPRA (and previous MCC) to register high risk pharmaceutical drugs and to make sure they pass the litmus tests of quality, safety and efficacy before being sold to the public. The previous Medicines Control Council failed to fulfil it’s mandate in this regard by issuing blanket registrations to over 9,600 ‘old medicines’ or ‘grandfathered medicines’ between 1965 and mid 1987. These drugs have been allowed to be sold on the market for decades in various schedules without any modern assessment of their safety or effectiveness. This means that one in every three drugs currently sold in pharmacies today may not have been tested for their safety, or may have labels claiming cures and benefits which have never been scientifically validated.
Further to this, there are reportedly over 16,000 drugs which drug companies have applied for and are still awaiting assessment since 2011. In 2017 the MCC only had the capacity to assess and register 150 drugs in that year. At their current bench-marking of assessing and registering 150 products a year, it will take an estimated 170 years to clear the existing backlog of a combined 25,600 drugs. It will take another 800 years to assess the 120,000 traditional and natural health products which require the same CTD documentation and rigor to be assessed as drugs. It is patently absurd to expect the traditional and natural health products industry to have their products registered by 2019 for discipline specific complementary medicines and 2022 for health supplements.
It is abundantly clear that the SAHPRA does not have the capacity, whether financial, technical or human, to begin making a dent in its historical backlog of pharmaceutical drug applications. Each year the application numbers keep piling up. With a combined 25,600 pharmaceutical drugs stuck in the assessment pipeline, it is incumbent on the SAHPRA to prioritize its scarce resources to exercise its primary mandate of registering high risk, novel and generic pharmaceutical drugs. Within this shocking reality, there is zero possibility, capacity or intention by SAHPRA to address its own demands for the registration of the massive number of natural and herbal health products.
A New Vision and Solution is Required.
It is irrational that 120,000 low risk traditional & natural health products of which many have been sold for decades without any verifiable reports of harm, and which are not explicitly defined in the Medicines Act be forced to be registered as quazi-drugs by the 2019 and 2022 deadlines imposed by the SAHPRA. For the Government to take such extreme legislative measures against an industry which on the one hand contributes significantly to the economy (estimated R20 billion) and to job creation (estimated 120 000 income opportunities), while on the other hand saves the country hundreds of millions of Rands through disease-prevention, indicates that fatal errors in logic and merit-assessment have occurred.
Any Laws being drafted or enforced should address modalities, systems, materials, scenarios and conditions where clear harm is being done or has the potential to cause injury, which in the case of natural medicine is so extremely low, and which has demonstrated globally to have zero proven deaths associated with their usage.
The TNHA demands that the existing Complementary Medicine regulations and Food Supplement regulations which have been gazetted since November 2013 under the Medicines and Related Substances Act be scrapped in their entirety, and that a new Traditional & Natural Health Products Act be passed by parliament which clearly separates these essentially safe products from pharmaceutical drugs. This envisaged legislation will clearly define these products and subject them to an appropriate regulatory framework administered by experts in the modalities represented.
Fair, Responsible & Responsible Regulation is Needed!
The Natural Health Alliance supports responsible regulation which provides a level playing field for the industry. This will allow the sector to realize its full potential for the benefit of all.
The TNHA aims to ensure regulations effectively protect consumers while still encouraging innovation and accountability. So for the future the answer is both simple and complex.
The simple answer is that before anything else can work, natural health product regulations must be right. To protect the consumer and enable practitioners and businesses to carry out their proper function without monopoly control from a competing modality, good regulations are vital. Poor regulations though can do just the opposite.
If natural health regulations don’t set the proper framework innovation within the natural health industry is stifled while only a handful of large conformists prosper. The complex part of the answer is ensuring that the regulations work for us and not against us and they safeguard both consumers and the industry against future manipulation.
The TNHA works closely with many other groups both in South Africa and around the world to address these issues. To act as an effective lobbying force the natural health industry needs a single umbrella entity that has its only focus to act as a regulatory watchdog without hidden agendas.
Change has to occur at the political and regulatory level to ensure all businesses are able to operate in a fair and reasonable way without double standards or pharmaceutical bias. There needs to be controls on bureaucracy to ensure that large companies do not achieve monopolies by regulation. There also needs to be a system that encourages innovation and demands accountability.
The Natural Health Product Industry is facing serious threats from a number of directions. If these threats are not countered then the ability of individual consumers to take responsibility for their own health and make their own decisions from a range of effective and safe products and therapies will be seriously diminished, if not destroyed.
The Natural Health Alliance believes in ‘Consumer Empowerment’ – the understanding that being responsible for looking after our own health is the most fundamental of human rights.
Recognizing the interconnection between growers, importers, manufacturers, suppliers, practitioners and consumers of natural health products.
A commitment to educating our members and the public about policies and regulations that affect them, our planet and future generations.
Putting health before wealth, upholding traditional values and being open to new ideas that serve to strengthen and protect the natural health sector.
Seeking to understand opposing views and the merits of those views so we can work towards policies that support a common vision.
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Kingdom Wars is an Adventure-based, MMORPG, RTS, Fantasy-based, and Combat video game created and published by Reverie World Studios. It is a 3D free to play online game that allows the player to freely move across the world to collect resources and create buildings and units to expand the land… read more
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Elements: Epic Heroes is an Action-Adventure, MMORPG, Combat, Strategy, and Fantasy-based video game by Zadzen. According to the story, the dark force is ready to invade the land. But before this, they have to face off the protagonist.
During the gameplay, you must try to destroy all enemies using your powerful hero with unique abilities. There are several playable characters, and you need to choose your favorite one to become the master.
During the gameplay, the player can control the forces of heroes and go to attack enemies and claim rewards after defeating them. It allows the player to team up with more than four players and overcomes all bosses.
Elements: Epic Heroes includes vital features such as different challenging game Modes, Leaderboards, makes new friends, Chat option and collect gems, etc. With quite stunning gameplay, brilliant graphics, great mechanics, and content-rich story.
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Kingdom Wars is an Adventure-based, MMORPG, RTS, Fantasy-based, and Combat video game created and published by Reverie World Studios. It is a 3D free to play online game that allows the player to freely move across the world to collect resources and create buildings and units to expand the land.
During the gameplay, the player can interact with other players, takes quests, and try to complete them all to become the master. There are several levels, and each level offers different and more enjoyable gameplay than the last one.
Kingdom Wars has prominent features such as Wage War with neighboring regions, different Modes, Stunning Combat, fully 3D dynamic Map, different Challenge, and more.
With quite exciting gameplay, easy controls, Ultra-HD visuals, and beautiful graphics details, Kingdom Wars is one of the best MMORPG and RTS games to play and enjoy.
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Tours to Baltic States, Helsinki & St. Petersburg
Number of incoming tourists of late years has been rapidly growing due to both outstripping development of airports and ports, and being a part of the European Union and NATO, however the most touching is multilateral offer of travel tours along the Baltic States letting us to attract more and more visitors to the Baltic countries. By virtue of our long-term cooperation with suppliers we provide high quality services and exclusive prices being our main priorities to render you the best value offer.
Individual travel
Our individual tours are custom-made for the discerning traveler. We create exciting itineraries, like :
Fly and Drive
SPA & Wellness programs
Tailor-made programs
Touch& Travel creates multiform programs along the Baltic States as well as tailor-made tours in line with customer's individual needs and desires.
We have a number of tours with different interest groups, e.g. opera or classical music lovers, architectural tours, nature tours, agricultural visits etc.
NEW CITY BREAK TO ST. PETERSBURG IN 2020
We offer 8 guaranteed departures in season 2020, including 4* & 5 * hotels, tours, transfers & folk dinner. Tours will be arranged in following languages: English, German, French & Italian.
Please note that tourists from more than 53 countries now can travel to St. Petersburg with an e-visa only, please require for more information.
ART & TRAVEL, TOUR TO MANORS IN LATVIA
If you're looking for places to stay on a grander scale, then Latvian manor houses is just for you. Treat yourself like royalty and stay in a historical setting with state-of-the-art amenities. We have included five great manor houses for the NEW 10-day FLY & DRIVE tour program.
Special winter city break to Riga !
It' s right time of the year for travel and great idea to visit Riga before Christmas with your colleagues or family. We have a nice Christmas market (November 30 - January 8), taking place at the Dome Square. This program includes an exiting master class at one of the most delicious & coziest restaurants in the old town..
Opera Festival in 2020 (4-8.06.2020)
Founded in 1998 as the first festival of its size and scale in Eastern Europe, it has already become a treasured tradition. The festival is highly anticipated by both Latvian audiences and opera-lovers from abroad, which form the majority of all Riga Opera Festival fans.
Program & rates for Opera Festival in 2020 are here:
Escape to Nature (to Kemeri Nationa Park of Latvia)
You will enjoy a recently refurbished 3km boardwalk trail which takes you through a picturesque landscape of stunted trees, red sphagnum moss and dark pools of water at this raised bog. You will visit local craftsman & beekeeper and more..
Baltic Highlights & Jewish heritage
Our tour starts in Vilnius..Many famous Judaism scholars and rabbis lived and worked in Vilnius; that is why over the 700 years of their presence in Lithuania Jews created a rich and diverse culture. Vilnius was called the Jerusalem of the North. So we start with Vilnius and end up with Tallinn.
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Days/ Nights: 8 days / 7nights, Route: Vilnius - Riga - Tallinn.
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Days/ Nights: 4 days / 3nights
Date: 30.12.2020 - 02.01.2021
We welcome you to celebrate new years eve in Riga!
Tour: Biking tour in the Baltic States
Bikes are new modern Estonian produced tour bikes, model comfort and cruiser, 3-6 speeds, hand or foot brakes, equipped with bike bags, luggage boots, mud flaps, reflectors, bells and helmet. Child seat available upon request. Max 21 guests in the groups.
Early music festival in Latvia
Dates & festival program to be updated soon !
The International Early Music Festival is the most charming, posh and smartest cultural event in Latvia. The concerts are homed by Rīga churches and concert halls, as well as by the Rundāle Palace - the most outstanding Baroque palace in Latvia. The festival is reviving the masterpieces by Percel, Vivaldi, Telemann, Gluck, Handel et als Baroque masters. There are gorgeous garments, authentic instruments and the Baroque architecture and interiors present. The closing concert at the Rundāle Palace Park has been always attended by thousands - and there has always been the fragrance of the rosario there.
Tour: FLY & DRIVE, Days/ Nights: 10 days / 9 nights
A flydrive tour is where you fly into a country, pick up a rental car and visit the area/region staying at different places along the way. Your trip ends at an airport where you drop off the car and head home. We have many routes to offer, but this is a most popular one.
10 days & 9 nights, at 3 or 4 * hotels with almost new cars !
Green card course & city break in Riga !
only EUR 199.00 per green card.
In golf you need to undergo a training course to be able to start playing on the golf course. After successully finishing it, you will receive a Green Card. This card certifies you for life to play on the majority of the golf courses around the world.
We offer city break to Riga, including green card course.
You are welcome ! Here some activities to suggest for your next travel !
LV: Rīga is one of the few European cities where Art Nouveau architecture, art and design objects have survived in great numbers. It is even called "the metropolis of Art Nouveau". There are 800 Art Nouveau buildings in Rīga, mostly located in the city's centre - particularly on Alberta Street. Riga Art Nouveau Centre can also be found on this street, in the former apartment of the renowned Latvian architect Konstantīns Pēkšēns, who lived and worked here till 1907 and designed this beautiful building.
LV: If you want to enjoy the view of the historical centre of Riga while going along the City Canal and to see the landscape of the city from the River Daugava, use the Riga by Canal opportunity to take a boat trip with one of the four tourist boats.
Riga by Canal ships departs from Bastion Hill (Bastejkalns) pier, 100 metres from the Freedom Monument. Length of the ride is 1 hour.
LV: The Central Gastro Market, located in a historical zeppelin hangar at the Riga Central Market, has gathered over 20 various different types of caterers, offering the best of Latvian and global cuisine. This is the first food-court type concept in the Baltics, where everything can be found at one place to enjoy the atmosphere of the city while enjoying a variety of different foods.
LV: Sigulda cable car offers a trip over the Gauja old valley, overlooking a charming landscape of several kilometres, including Sigulda and Turaida castle, Krimulda manor house, as well as the Bobsleigh and luge track "Sigulda". The cable car connects both river banks in width of 1025 meters.
Sigulda is located 50 km from Riga city.
LV: We invite you to visit ABAVAS winery which is family owned producer of premium craft drinks from Latvian grown fruits and berries. Established in 2010, it is currently leading and best known winery in Latvia, with growing friend and fun base abroad.
Our drinks have been highly acknowledged by professionals both locally and internationally and won numerous awards.
Our cellar and vinery is based in Arlavciems, 50 km from Riga, Close to town of Tukums.
LV: Architecture and waterfalls of KULDĪGA
Nicknamed "the Venice of the North," Kuldiga is an endearing blend of flowing water and historic buildings on the candidate list for UNESCO world heritage listing.
Take in the breath-taking sight of the Ventas rumba, Europe's widest waterfall, and the handsome 19th century brick bridge.
LV: Rundale Palace is set amidst the fertile Zemgale Plains in the south of Latvia. Most of the interior decorations were created between 1765 and 1768 when a sculptor from Berlin Johann Michael Graff, and Italian painters from St. Petersburg Francesco Martini and Carlo Zucchi worked at the palace.
The representation rooms in the eastern wing of the palace - the Gilt Hall, the White Hall, and the Great Gallery - are open to the public.
LT: The 52 km bike path that winds through the Curonian Spit is one of the most spectacular in Lithuania. The trip begins with a ferry from Klaipėda, the Lithuanian sea port, and leads towards Nida.
The route stretches through Kuršių Nerija National Park, which UNESCO has recognised as one of the most unique natural and cultural heritage sites in the Baltic Sea Region. Its most charming features are the pine forests and the wind-blown sand dunes which provide stunning views of the Baltic Sea and the Curonian Lagoon.
LT: The legendary residence of the rulers of Lithuania, the lakes and picturesque shores, the heritage of the Karaims and aristocratic life - only in Trakai can you find so many valuable things in one place.
This is the only historical national park in Lithuania and all of Europe, making it a must-see for local tourists and foreign guests alike.
LT: While walking around the Old Town of Vilnius, you cannot miss the architectural ensemble of Vilnius University and the Church of Saints John with its Baroque bell tower. An original bell tower, designed by a famous architect and the intelligent follower of Vilnius Baroque school, Jonas Kristupas Glaubicas (Johann Christoph Glaubitz), is the tallest building in the Old Town of Vilnius which invites visitors to climb up to the very top and view the Baroque capital. At the end of the academic year, the church hosts the biggest celebration of Vilnius University students - a solemn diploma award ceremony is held here.
LT: It is the most romantic spot in Lithuania. It is a real diamond of Lithuanian Baroque of the 17th century. Built by a wealthy, influential and very religious Pac family, the monastery many times suffered from wars. However, time failed to destroy the beauty created by Italian artists Giovanni Battista Frediani, brothers Pietro and Carlo Puttini, Joano Meri, Giuseppe Rossi and Florentine painter Michelangelo Palloni. Today it is revealed by music played under the vaults of the church - many concerts and music festivals are organised here, and the sisters of St Casimir safeguard the peace of the monastery.
LT: In the historical Lithuanian capital of Trakai, you can find kybyn - pastries with meat that are made by the Karaims who live here. At the old Tatar village in Raižiai, in the district of Alytus, the locals will treat you to šimtalapis - their traditional "hundred-leaf" cake with poppy seeds. In Vilnius, enjoy some Russian dumplings and be sure to try Jewish bagels as well as Jewish herring with raisins and cinnamon. And of course try Lithuanian speciality- CEPELINAS, this, heavy, filling dish is most delicious when it is made from fresh potatoes.
EE: Tallinn Bay Dinner Cruise
A tour with the old cruiser "Katharina" is the best way to admire the wonderful panorama of the Old Town of Tallinn and its towers. You will learn about Tallinn's maritime history, and admire the historic shoreline and fancy cruise ships in the port. The navigation bridge is open to visitors and souvenir pictures can be taken there.
The ship has three saloons, seating max 200 guests, two sundecks,
seminar room, bar and restaurant.
EE: Kuressaare Episcopal Castle, also known as Kuressaare Castle, is one of the most interesting and best preserved fortresses in Estonia and Europe. The castle has become one of the most remarkable buildings in Northern Europe built during the 14th-19th century.
There is a history museum which tells stories of the distant past and recent history of Saaremaa and the locals through permanent exhibitions and traveling exhibitions.
EE: SPA in Tallinn, Haapsalu, Narva-Jõesuu, Kuressaare and Pärnu, have a long history as a health vacationing destinations, continue to be highly regarded resort towns to this day. The healing mud found in Estonia is also greatly valued nowadays.
In addition to sea mud, be sure to try the unique treatments in Värska, where freshwater mud is combined with mineral water that originates from the depth of half a kilometre below the surface.
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Trakai Castle
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Tallinn old town walls
Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg
Orthodox Church, St. Petersburg
Jurmala, main street
Karaite Kenessa, Vilnius
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Queen Elizabeth's Tea Supplier Shares the Secret to Brewing a Perfect Cup
The temperature is of utmost importance.
By Caroline Hallemann
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The only thing more British than a perfectly brewed cup of tea, is perhaps a perfectly brewed cup from Queen Elizabeth's official tea merchant, Twinings.
The brand's relationship with the royals dates all the way back to 1837, when they were "honored" by Queen Victoria, and appointed as her supplier of tea, explains Stephen Twining, the brand's director of corporate relations, and the 10th generation of his family in the tea business.
"As a company," he tells T&C, "we've had the honor of supplying every successive British King and Queen from that day to the very current day."
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Unfortunately, he's sworn to secrecy with regards to exactly which blends the British monarch prefers. "The first rule of doing business with the Royal households is of course confidentiality," he says, confirming that they do continue to hold multiple royal warrants. (Rumor has it that in the mornings the Queen enjoys Twinings Earl Grey tea with a little milk and no sugar, according to a former royal chef.)
But Twining is a bit more forthcoming with their recipe for a perfectly brewed cup of black tea. Here's what to do:
First, warm your kettle with hot water and discard that liquid. Then, draw fresh cold water, and heat it to exactly its boiling point. (Note: green tea requires a slightly lower temperature.) Immediately pour the water over your tea bag, and wait—maybe longer than seems necessary—for the cup to steep.
"In tea, color is not flavor," Twining says. So even if you think your tea looks ready, let it sit for the full four minutes. (Twinings has a handy chart of optimal brew times for different varieties of teas, here.)
Add milk and sugar to taste, and enjoy! As Twining says, "You must enjoy it the way you like it."
Twinings is available for purchase online, or, once it's safe to travel, the brand offers tastings at their 300-year-old flagship store in London, the oldest tea shop in the city.
Caroline Hallemann Digital News Director As the digital news director for Town & Country, Caroline Hallemann covers everything from the British royal family to the latest episodes of Outlander, Killing Eve, and The Crown.
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About How Commission Works—Because Money Matters
Alyse Kalish
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Commission can be a confusing topic for anyone, whether you’re great with money or not. Maybe you’re considering a job with a commission structure or are currently in a field where commission is a big chunk of your compensation. If you’re not sure how it all works in the business world, we’ll break down the concept so you come out a little wiser than you were before.
What Is Commission?
Commission is additional compensation that’s earned based on job performance. When you agree to a commission-based role or commission structure (often by signing an agreement), you agree to be paid a certain amount of money that’s dependent on hitting some goal—goods sold, meetings closed, hires placed, to name a few examples.
What Kinds of Jobs Work Under a Commission Structure?
When you think of commission, your mind immediately goes to a sales-type role (think of a retail salesperson trying to get you to buy that extra pair of jeans). Commission is popular in most sales jobs because their responsibilities are heavily tied to a company’s revenue goals. Having the opportunity to earn commission—sometimes a hefty amount—motivates those individuals to hit or get close to their quarterly or yearly goals.
But commission can pop up in other places, too. In recruiting, you’re often provided a commission on each candidate you successfully place—usually a percentage of their annual salary. As an account manager, you can earn commission on clients you upsell or renew for the year. And in real estate you can get a cut of the money you make selling a property. In fact, in some roles commission makes up almost all of your compensation, meaning your income is variable and highly dependent on your output.
When Is Commission Paid Out?
It works differently at every company, but in general commission payment can be distributed monthly, quarterly, or yearly, depending on a company’s structure and when commission is considered “earned.”
For example, a company may define commission “earned” for a salesperson as when the new client signs a contract. This means that the employee who sold the deal won’t get their commission until a signature is collected and the deal is verified (which usually means they double check to ensure the right salesperson is compensated and the overall transaction is clean and accurate).
Another example: In recruiting, typically commission is earned when someone is hired and stays at the company for a period of time, maybe three or four months. If the new hire leaves before then, the recruiter doesn’t get the commission.
How Is Commission Calculated?
Commissions can be calculated by a set percentage or by a formula. As mentioned above, a recruiter generally gets a percentage of the new hire’s starting salary (usually 10 to 20%), while sales people may have a formula-based commission structure.
Take this scenario. In sales, your total compensation could be 50% base salary and 50% commission. So if your total yearly compensation agreement is for $100,000, $50,000 of that is guaranteed for the year and $50,000 is based on how well you perform. You may earn less than the $100,000 if you don’t reach your goal, but you may also be able to earn more than that number as long as your company doesn’t have a cap or “ceiling”—meaning the point at which an employer stops paying you more commission.
The commission calculation could look one of three ways (or a combination of these):
Commission graph courtesy of Mary Schafrath.
The straight line shows what it would look like if you were to make your percentage to goal equal to the percentage of your commission—otherwise known as a standard commission rate. So if you’re 60% to goal, you’d earn 60% of your commission.
But a company may use an upward sloping curve to decide commission (where you’d earn less than 60%) because they want to really incentivize employees to get as close to their goal as possible—and to even exceed it and make a lot more money. What can be frustrating about this, of course, is that it’s not an easy formula to follow, so it’s not entirely clear what your commission will look like until you receive your paycheck.
They could also use a tiered model (the staircase line). This means you earn the same dollar amount of commission until you reach a certain percentage of your quota, where it jumps up in amount.
There may be other exceptions when you can earn more than the formula typically allows. If you sell a deal where the customer signs on for two years or a special kind of product, for instance, you may earn extra commission for that.
There’s also a concept called a “minimum performance threshold” or “floor,” which is common for more senior-level employees. This basically means that the person must get some percentage to goal in order to start earning any commission—the understanding being that a certain level of underperformance is unacceptable.
If you’re unclear as to how your commission is calculated, talk to your HR or finance departments, or your boss or team lead.
What Happens if I Leave a Job Before Getting My Commission Check?
Whether or not commission is owed to an employee after they’ve been terminated or left a role depends on a number of factors, including what’s defined as “earned” between the company and the employee and state wage law (you can see your state’s rules and regulations around wages here).
Some states consider “earned” commission mandatory wages and thus require employers to pay up even after the person has left the role, but because your company decides what constitutes commission “earned,” things can get a bit murky. For example, says employment attorney Brian Heller, a partner at Schwartz Perry & Heller, LLP, suppose “a company has a policy that commission is due when the new client pays its first invoice.” So if a salesperson spent months wooing a client, but got fired the day before that client was expected to sign and pay its first fee, “that salesperson has not earned any commission yet” because of the way the policy is structured.
Generally speaking, if you don’t have anything in writing, there’s no guarantee you’ll get your commission. You can check out this section of the Workplace Fairness website on what to do if your employer won’t pay you your earned commissions.
If you’re concerned about a company’s commission structure, make sure in your interviews and when networking to ask thoughtful questions—such as “What is the commission structure like for this role?” or “How do you measure success?” or “How have you received commission in the past?” (and read this article outlining all you need to know about receiving fair bonuses, too).
But on the flip side, companies also have the right to protect themselves from employees who may try to rig the system to earn more commission.
Let’s say a salesperson closes a deal and then leaves the company right after receiving their commission check, and that client ends up backing out later on and not paying up. That’s a big loss for the company that could have been prevented by redefining the terms of their commission structure.
As a result, companies will often have what’s called a “clawback” to encourage employees to see deals through to the end. A clawback means that if revenue isn’t collected or a deal falls through, the employer has the right to collect that commission from the employee, or deduct that portion from future commissions the employee earns.
Can Commission Be Negotiated?
Muse career coach Theresa Merrill explains that commission is harder to negotiate than other types of compensation—like a signing bonus—because it’s less discretionary and usually a set standard across the company.
But that shouldn’t stop you from trying anyway: “[A] good negotiation has both sides making concessions. So if you don’t get the base salary you expected, then push for a higher commission,” she says. She adds that proving you know how to effectively negotiate shows you’re a great salesperson—which only makes you look better when applying and interviewing for sales-oriented roles.
Merrill was able to do this with one of her coaching clients. “We negotiated a sliding scale where the commission percentage adjusts based on performance,” she recalls. “Which is a win-win situation. Higher revenue for the salesperson drives them to produce more.” If you can tie your commission plan back to your ability to overperform and produce, you’re more likely to convince the hiring manager to be more flexible.
If nothing else, agree to revisit the commission structure after you’ve been working at the company for a while, she suggests, and get it in writing.
Remember though, as a general rule it’s always smart to negotiate your base salary first. Because this is the part of your income that you can always count on year after year—and won’t fluctuate with performance—it’s worth trying to increase that number before arguing for a higher commission.
Will My Commission Change When I Get Promoted or Change Roles?
Your commission can change one of two ways while in a job. If you’re promoted or shift into a slightly different role, your commission plan may change completely. For example, if you become a manager of a sales team, your company could institute a floor to your commission structure, or shift your commission to more of a bonus plan. But what’s usually more common when you move up within your role or get a raise is that your base salary and variable salary (in other words, the amount of money you can make in commission) increases but your commission percentage or plan doesn’t change—unless you have an agreement otherwise to revisit it.
Let’s say you get promoted from sales associate to sales executive. You were originally earning $40,000 in base salary and up to $40,000 in commission a year (a 50/50 split). Now as a sales executive your base salary is $60,000 and you’re able to earn up to $60,000 in commission for the year. Yay, more money!
But with all promotions comes more responsibility, too. In sales, for example, your sales goal or quota is often some multiple of your base salary. So if at your company your yearly quota is 10 times your base salary, as a sales associate you’d need to bring in $400,000 in order to earn 100% of your commission, or the full $40,000. But now as a sales executive you’d have to shoot to bring in $600,000 to earn your whole commission.
The basic idea is that when you move up, you’re expected to produce more—with the understanding that you’ll earn more as a result.
Is Commission Taxed?
Yep, like all good things in life! (Sorry.) If you’re wondering how (and how much) bonuses and commission get taxed, read this.
How Do I Know if a Commission-Based Job Is Right for Me?
Like anything, a commission-based role has its perks and downsides. The biggest benefit is clear: the opportunity to earn more money. The harder you work and the more you accomplish, the more you’re rewarded. This can be incredibly motivating for driven, competitive, and goal-oriented people.
For others, working under commission can be stressful. If you underperform or struggle to hit goal, your income takes a hit. As a result, people who like structure or need a more stable source of income may not like working under this kind of pressure.
There are also in-between scenarios. Many individuals thrive on salaries that are almost entirely made up of commission, while others love working under a plan where only 30% of their income is variable while the other 70% is base salary. The beauty of this is that the job market really provides both kinds of options—so you can take your pick.
Remember: Your success in a commission-based role is also dependent on the team you join, the company you work for, the product you’re selling, and the job requirements you have to fill. So know that going in and feel out the situation before deciding.
Does your potential manager seem to support their direct reports in finding and landing deals? Is the product in demand and easily marketable, and the sales pitch around it sound? Do the company’s and role’s revenue goals seem reasonable and realistic? If you’re not sure, ask the experts in and around your network.
Previously an editor for The Muse, Alyse is proud to prove that yes, English majors can change the world. She’s written almost 500 articles for The Muse on anything from productivity tips to cover letters to bad bosses to cool career changers, many of which have been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Inc., CNBC's Make It, USA Today College, Lifehacker, Mashable, and more. She calls many places home, including Illinois where she grew up and the small town of Hamilton where she attended Colgate University, but she was born to be a New Yorker. In addition to being an avid writer and reader, Alyse loves to dance, both professionally and while waiting for the subway.
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Giant(s) Surprise?
By Madyson Eisen
Sometimes things occur when you least expect them. As luck would have it, the New York Giants beat the San Francisco 49ers on Monday night. It seems Odell Beckham Jr. was right with his 9-7 prediction. The Giant's star receiver confidently said that the team will win the rest of their games to advance to the playoffs.
This was an important win, as it gave the team a boost of pride and hope—something that they definitely lacked last season.
Eli Manning had a great game with three touch downs and zero interceptions. However, Odell Beckham Jr. was obviously the star of the game. He caught two touchdown passes and made 73 yards.
The 27-23 score was close, but a win is a win, and that’s the mindset of this feisty New York football team right now. Can the Giants now go ahead and take it a step further by defeating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday? We'll just have to wait and see!
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Pia Miller Flaunts $650 Custom-made Denim Jacket
Last month Pia announced her engagement to Patrick Whitesell. The 37-years-old expressed on Instagram that she is quite keen to tie the knot with multi-millionaire Patrick. She flaunted a light denim jacket with Mrs. Whitshell was written on the back of it. Miller showed off her looks with black sunglasses and black trousers. In the second snap, the Bite Club actress turned around and showed that she is too much excited to become Mrs. Whitshell. The jacket also boasts faux pearls on the shoulders, and there were ripped and fading details.
Image Credit: Marie Clarie Australia
Pia Miller Engaged Patrick Whitshell
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It’s about a month that Pia Miller has announced her engagement to multi-millionaire Patrick Whitshell. The 37-years-old actress seems to be quite excited about her nuptial with Patrick. The actress has been dating Whitshell for a year. Right after she posted on Instagram that she is now officially engaged to Patrick, congratulations from celebrity friends started to pour in. However, the engagement rumors were swirling way before when she was spotted with Patrick at an Oscar-after party, and she was wearing the diamond ring. The multi-millionaire is rich and wealthy; his net worth is approximately $440 Million. Pia was also previously married to AFL player Brad Miller. However, it’s not clear yet when the nuptial is going to take place, but the couple is quite happy together, and it appears they will soon tie the knot.
Pia Miller flaunts $650 Custom-made Denim jacket. Pia is quite happy after getting engaged to Patrick Whitshell. Now, Pia has posted a snap of her in which she was donning a custom-made Denim jacket. On the back of the jacket, Mrs. Whitshell was embroidered. She captioned the post that it is a beautiful gift by her sister Paz Loyola-Blanco. The Chilean-born actress further added that she couldn’t wait to be Mrs. Whitshell. Sydney label Kyha Studios design the custom-made jacket. The price of the jacket is $650. Pia Miller announced her engagement to Patrick Whitshell on November 28, it was a subtle post, and she flaunted her diamond ring.
Also read about: Pia Miller is Gifted $700 Champagne Bottle for rejoicing Her Engagement
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Jilted Citi Needs to Move On
Citi threatened legal action after Wells Fargo outbid it on a government-assisted deal for Wachovia, but analysts questioned whether the fight is worth it.
Laurie Kulikowski
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may not have seemed like something worth fighting for when federal authorities subsidized a deal to
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on Monday, but that all changed with
Wells Fargo's
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surprise $15.1 billion bid Friday.
accepted offer is clearly the better deal for shareholders, employees and U.S. taxpayers, but Citi is threatening legal action over Wachovia's breach of an exclusivity agreement. Some industry pundits wonder whether Citi should sweeten its bid, or just walk away from the deal.
"Citi is crazy," says Cassandra Toroian, the president and chief investment officer of Bell Rock Capital, which has a small position in Wachovia. "The legal fees and time on this is not something they should be bothering with. They need to go find another deal."
San Francisco-based Wells Fargo said early Friday that it planned to purchase all of Wachovia in a stock-for-stock bid totaling $15.1 billion, or $7 a share. The deal is remarkably better for shareholders than
Citi's
offer just a few days earlier, in which it offered to purchase just the firm's banking operations for $2.16 billion. Citi's deal also needed the help of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which agreed to take on most of the risk of Wachovia's loan portfolio. Wells Fargo's deal is completely unassisted.
Citi said in a statement Friday morning that the Wells Fargo deal constituted a "clear breach of an exclusivity agreement" Wachovia had entered with Citi and demanded a halt to the new transaction.
"Citi was negotiating in good faith and nearly completed the definitive agreements required to consummate the Citi/Wachovia transaction that was announced on Monday," the bank said in a statement. "The value of the Citi agreement to Wachovia shareholders was substantially in excess of Wachovia's closing price on Thursday, Oct. 2. Citi has also been providing liquidity support to Wachovia Bank since Monday's announcement."
Wells Fargo and Wachovia danced around the issue on a conference call Friday.
"We think that this deal is solid," Wells Fargo Chairman Dick Kovacevich said. "We're not aware of any merger agreements that had been consummated at the time
with Citi. ... We feel very confident that this transaction has been done appropriately."
Wachovia CEO Robert Steel said on the call he could not speak to the issue on whether or not Wachovia had a binding agreement with Citi, prior to the Wells Fargo's deal.
A Citi spokesman declined to comment regarding its next move.
A Wells Fargo-Wachovia merger makes a lot of sense for the two companies, says Bart Narter, the senior vice president of Celent's banking group.
"Wachovia and Wells Fargo are nearly perfect complements to one another, with strengths on both the East and West Coasts, respectively," Narter says. "Wachovia's recent acquisition of Golden West gives it an overlapping branch footprint in California and both also have major activities in Texas. Other than these two very competitive markets, the two banks are the yin and yang of retail branch banking."
But with Citi expressing displeasure over the announcement, "
we can expect that there will be further battles between these giants as the great bank consolidation trend continues," Narter adds.
A Citi-Wachovia combination would have given the New York-based financial titan the kick start its struggling domestic retail franchise needed to be competitive against other large players including
(BAC) - Get Report
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and Wells Fargo.
Wachovia has more than 3,000 branches mainly on the eastern seaboard and in California and Texas, among other states.
Citi had planned to fold its U.S. retail bank -- about one-third of the size -- into the Wachovia platform, it said. It also would have provided some much-needed stable funding and liquidity source through Wachovia's deposit base. Citi had said that it would have had more than $600 billion in deposits just in the U.S. -- a 9.8% market share -- and more than $1.3 trillion globally.
"This combination creates a dominant U.S. franchise," Citi CEO Vikram Pandit said on Monday.
Still for all the scuttled deal's positives, it may not be worth the fight for Citi to pursue legal action or raise its bid -- if it is even allowed to, given that the FDIC was a partner in the original deal.
Wells Fargo, according to presentation materials, will now become the nation's largest bank with 6,675 stores, $1.4 trillion in assets and close to $800 billion in deposits, surpassing JPMorgan Chase, even with the addition of Washington Mutual, which is took over last month after federal regulators seized the ailing Seattle thrift.
The deal is a "compelling opportunity" for Wells Fargo, given the expanded footprint on the East coast and added complements in its existing footprint, writes Andrew Marquardt, an analyst at Fox-Pitt, Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller.
Marquardt's colleague David Trone said Citi "loses an attractive, accretive deal, complete with government-assistance on the tail-risk in Wachovia's asset quality," according to a separate note. "The deal was struck at the 11th hour and clearly had not been formally completed."
Trone believes that a "key problem" in the original Citi-Wachovia deal was the "orphaning of Wachovia's attractive retail brokerage franchise," since many of its "financial advisors reside in the Wachovia bank branches," he writes. Additionally, "Citi's own collective of problem assets and operational challenges make it likely that any future deal will have to be very attractive strategically and immediately accretive."
A deal with Wachovia would likely have detracted Citi from continuing its mission to shed $400 billion in non-core assets and businesses from its balance sheet, despite Pandit's reassurances on Monday.
"Nothing is going to take our eye off the ball in getting fit," Pandit said. "We're committed to the same things we talked about" in terms of expense reduction, business repositioning and asset reduction.
Christopher Mutascio, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus, says any counteroffer from Citi for Wachovia will be difficult.
"Citi was getting $24 billion of Tier-1 capital from the FDIC in its government-assisted deal for the banking operations of Wachovia," he writes in a note. "We believe that if Citi needed Fed assistance to do the original deal, it may not have the capacity to up the ante and counter the Wells Fargo offer. And, clearly from a Wachovia shareholder perspective the Wells Fargo offer is a better deal."
Toroian echoed Mutascio's thoughts.
"They couldn't get it done without federal assistance. A sweetened bid only works if it's without strings and I don't think they are in good enough shape to do that," she says. "Citi has not done a deal in a long time, let alone one of this magnitude. ... Wells Fargo is now going to be a very major player in the U.S. national banking market -- good for them for stepping up and doing this."
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Wall Street Shrugs Off Rate Cut to End Mixed
Stocks on Wall Street end a choppy trading day narrowly mixed and little changed following the Fed's not-surprising move to cut its target interest rate to 1%. Frank Curzio details the day's action in The Real Story (above).
Updated from 3:30 p.m. EDT
Stocks on Wall Street ended a muddled Wednesday with mixed results, after the
cut its target interest rate to 1%. Blue-chip stocks sold off sharply in the final minutes of trading, while technology shares held on to modest gains.
, which rose as much as 298 points in the final hour, plummeted from that session high as the close approached, ending down 74.16 points, or 0.8%, at 8990.96. The index has yet to post two consecutive days of gains this month. The
lost 10.42 points, or 1.1%, to 930.09. The
gained 7.74 points, or 0.5%, to 1657.21.
Following a two-day meeting that began Tuesday, the Fed announced it had cut its key interest rate by 50 basis points to 1%, a move that had been widely expected by investors.
In its policy statement accompanying the cut, the central bank said that its board of governors had voted unanimously for the change. It said that the economy has slowed substantially and it expects inflation to moderate to levels of price stability.
Tumultuous credit markets are likely to continue to restrain spending, the Fed said. The agency also noted that recent policy action, including "extraordinary liquidity measures," should help improve credit conditions.
"The real story regarding the Federal Reserve is its various liquidity operations; the federal funds rate is second fiddle," wrote Tony Crescenzi, chief bond market strategist at Miller Tabak, on his
RealMoney.com
blog this morning. He said that household and business debts are tied to the prime rate, which in turn is pegged to the target fed funds rate. As such, a reduction in the target rate would still have an impact, he wrote.
Dirk Van Dijk, director of research at Zacks Investment Research, said the Fed's move was expected, but some may have been disappointed that the Fed didn't cut further. He said the U.S.'s current economic environment resembles that of Japan in the 1990s, where interest rates remained near zero while the economy stagnated. However, "I'd rather have a situation like Japan in the '90s that the U.S. in the '30s," he said.
The risk involved in low interest rates, said Van Dijk, is that in the next year or year and a half, the money that is now flooding the markets suddenly takes hold and inflation skyrockets. At the same time, he said, the current situation warrants the cut.
Lending markets had shown signs of relaxing ahead of the Fed's decision. Three-month dollar Libor, a measure of the rate banks charge one another for large loans, fell 5 basis points to 3.42%. The overnight Libor rate declined 10 basis points to 1.14%.
Corporate earnings were also occupying investors' attention. Electronics manufacturer
(SNE) - Get Report
reported a 72% decline in its quarterly profit due in part to recent sharp appreciation of the yen. Shares slipped 3.9% to $21.14.
In the telecommunications space, cable company
(CMCSA) - Get Report
reported rising net income. Shares tumbled 9.9% to $15.28.
Telecom services firm
posted declining revenue and earnings and said it would cut 1,200 jobs during the fourth quarter, and shares dropped 10% to $2.33.
Oil refiner and gas station operator
(HES) - Get Report
posted higher quarterly earnings. The stock gained 5.2% to $53.13.
Meanwhile, glass-panel manufacturer
(GLW) - Get Report
reported revenue that was below expectations and reduced its fourth-quarter sales guidance.
(GRMN) - Get Report
, which makes navigational devices, beat estimates but cut its full-year forecast.
Corning fell 8% to $10.51, while Garmin rose 2.4% to $21.95.
As for consumer staples,
(PG) - Get Report
bested analysts' profit estimates, and packaged-food firm
(KFT)
said its income rose year over year on a one-time gain from its disposal of the Post cereal business.
Procter & Gamble shed 3% to $61.33, and Kraft shares declined 2.2% to $28.25.
The government's Troubled Asset Relief Program remained in focus, as
reported that
GMAC
, a finance company jointly owned by
(GM) - Get Report
Cerberus Capital
, is applying for status as a bank holding company to access the Treasury Department's $700 billion capital-injection plan for banks.
For its part, GM announced Wednesday that it sold 2.1 million vehicles in the third quarter, down 11% from a year ago.
Reports on a merger discussions between GM and Chrysler also emerged during the session. Citing two people who have been briefed on the talks, the
reported that several issues surrounding a potential deal have been resolved. According to the report, remaining obstacles include how the companies will finance the deal. Shares ended the day up 8.2% at $6.76.
also reported that cell-phone maker
(MOT)
is working to cut back its phone division and refocus on using
Google's
(GOOG) - Get Report
Android software for its devices. Motorola stumbled 6.5% to $5.46, and Google gave back 2.9% to $358.
In analyst actions, consumer-goods firm
(JNJ) - Get Report
caught a JPMorgan downgrade to neutral from overweight. The stock sold off 4.1% to $61.53.
Moving to economic data, the Census Bureau's read on September durable-goods orders showed a surprise 0.8% uptick, up from a 5.5% decline in August and better than the 1% drop expected by economists. Excluding transportation, new orders dropped 1.1%, and taking out defense, they edged down 0.6%.
The Energy Information Administration reported that crude-oil inventories rose by 500,000 barrels for the week ended Oct. 24, an increase that fell short of expectations.
Following the report, crude oil soared $4.77 to settle at $67.50 a barrel. Gold gained $13.50 to $754 an ounce.
Longer-dated U.S. Treasury securities were falling in price. The 10-year was down 2/32 to yield 3.84%, and the 30-year was shedding 22/32, yielding 4.23%. The dollar was falling sharply vs. its major foreign competitors.
Overseas, European exchanges were mostly rising. The FTSE in London moved higher, while the DAX in Frankfurt was edging downward. As for the
Asian exchanges
, Japan's Nikkei closed sharply higher, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng logged a modest gain.
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Company: RTX
Job Description***This position is for early career individuals who have less than 2 years of professional work experience and who will receive a degree during the current academic year or who received their degree within the last 18 months*** Raytheon Missiles and Defense (RMD) is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, security and civil markets where you'll be part of a global team working together to solve some of the most demanding challenges on the planet. We are the world's largest developer, producer and integrator of weapon systems. In fact, we've produced over one million missiles in our history. Military forces in more than 50 countries look to us for a high-quality product portfolio that includes missiles, smart munitions, projectiles, kinetic kill vehicles and directed energy weapons. We are able to accomplish this feat because our employees live our Values of Trust, Respect, Collaboration, Innovation and Accountability. Diversity is a part of our culture and a key to our success. When world-class talent works together in a place that is respectful and inclusive, we solve some of the world's hardest problems. We know that a diverse company is a strong company. The people of Raytheon Technologies come from different backgrounds. We value our different perspectives and styles of tackling the world's most complex challenges and toughest threats. Through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), our employees are empowered to impact business results, build professional networks, advocate for causes that matter to them and contribute to their local communities. Diversity of thought is critical to the future of innovation. We leverage these unique voices to generate solutions toward a united and singular purpose: to define the future of aerospace. The Test Equipment and Environments Center (TE&EC) includes all of the engineering disciplines responsible for systems design & test on all Raytheon Missile Defense (RMD) products. Our engineers are responsible for all elements of the development lifecycle for test including: test requirements, test system design, flight simulations, hardware-in-the-loop, computer-in-the-loop, advanced engineering prototyping technology, flight operations for manned and unmanned vehicles, environmental testing, environmental characterization and engineering laboratory management. We are hands-on, designing with the latest technology and tools, and integrate state of the art test solutions with the most advanced engineering systems in the world. Within the TE&EC, the Test Operations & Environments (TO&E) Department includes the Environmental Test (ET) organization, which has the direct responsibility of providing environmental testing services, instrumentation, and data acquisition expertise to all missile programs. We are seeking a Systems Engineer for the Environmental Test organization. The candidate will be responsible for the execution and oversight of environmental testing such as vibration, shock, quartz lamp, thermal, structural, and modal, as well as vibration fixture design. All while collaborating in a team environment with ET Support Engineers, fellow ET Test Engineers, and internal program customers. The candidate will also be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the test including setup, control, monitoring, troubleshooting, and data collection. U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position needs an active U.S. Security Clearance as of day one of employment. Responsibilities: * Develop and verify test plans and procedures as well as review plans and procedures written by others * Oversee and conduct vibration/shock and temperature/altitude/humidity testing to validate models for the purposes of new product qualification, production acceptance, flight test clearance, engineering evaluations, and failure investigations * Oversee and conduct structural testing to validate models and ensure safety margins * Oversee and conduct aero-thermal heating testing using quartz lamps to simulate extreme heating environment during flight * Design, model, and analyze vibration and structural test fixtures * Assist in creating schedules and budgets * Implement engineering best practices to ensure testing is performed accurately and on schedule Required Education, Skills, and Experience : * Bachelors of Science or Bachelors of Arts degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM). 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All foods at Pret A Manger restaurants are prepared in-store, using fresh, natural ingredients. There are many vegan options: soups, salads and sushi, wraps and sandwiches, treats and snacks, like various kinds of vegetable crisps, chocolatey fruit bars, nuts, marinated olives, popcorn, fresh fruit – and much, much more. Additionally, there are weekly soups and chef’s specials. Of course, you can order various hot and cold drinks: juices, teas, smoothies, hot chocolate and coffee. At Pret A Manger, trained baristas prepare the coffee specialties. The coffee beans are organic. Their “ice cold fruit smoothies” are made with a blend of real fruit and apple juice – no added sugary syrups, no preservatives, no flavourings and no added ice. You can get any of their hot drinks made with organic soya milk. Vegan dishes are labelled as such. Moreover, Pret A Manger has started to feature vegan-vegetarian food in its Veggie Pret store in London. More Veggie Prets will be opened.
Pret A Manger has long-term relationships with its farmers, supporting sustainable, ethical farming. Leftovers are donated to charity. The Pret Foundation Trust is committed to alleviating poverty in the UK by helping break the cycle of homelessness.
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A prop replica is a collectible recreation of a movie or television prop That Is Intended to Accurately re-create the item as it Appeared in the original media. Work was prop replica can Range from the use of resin to cast a copy of an existing item, the modification of an existing product That May-have-been used by a property master, and the utilization of electrical components for added functionality – Such As lighting effects and sound.
Film-accurate props
There are different schools of thought in the movie community. Some prefer to produce the props, they have come back from the factory, while others are striving to duplicate every scratch, ding, and imperfection they can be found on the original prop; a technique referred to as weathering .
Invisible details, such as wiring and electronics, do not affect the visual accuracy of the invention. Blinking lights and illuminated buttons appear everywhere on the bridge to the Darth Vader’s belt, and attempting to faithfully reproduce the exact circuit boards and lamps are in most cases impossible or impractical. This is particularly true for older movies. Similarly, mechanical effects and the choice of materials often boils down to practicality and the purpose of the prop rather than close attention to detail. A suit designed to be worn with a suit may be made differently than one that is intended for a sealed case.
Types of propping
Costuming or Cosplay – recreating entire outfits used in various media.
Paper props are recreated licenses, IDs, money, signs, and other documents.
Hardware propping uses the original propellers (such as a particular vacuum tube model, or a motorcycle boot buckle) to recreate a prop.
Kitbashing – modifying an existing model or toy.
Building prop replicas
Propping draws from many areas of expertise including drafting , carpentry , electronics , metalworking , computer-aided design and sculpting and mold making .
Frequently replicated
There are many props regularly replicated by fans and merchants. Some of the most common include:
Proton packs from Ghostbusters series
Talkboy from Home Alone 2
Lawgiver from Judge Dredd
Rick Deckard’s sidearm from Blade Runner
Boba Fett’s armor and weapons from Star Wars series
Imperial stormtrooper armor and weapons from Star Wars series
Darth Vader ‘s mask from Star Wars series
Lightsabers from Star Wars series
Dean Winchester ‘s leather jacket from the hit drama / comedy series Supernatural
Henry Jones Sr.’s “Grail Diary” from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Wonka chocolate bars from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
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Old Bergen Museum - Bergen City Museum
Nyhavnsveien 4, Bergen
www.bymuseet.no
gamlebergen@bymuseet.no
The open-air Old Bergen Museum is a reconstructed small town consisting of around 50 wooden houses dating from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
In the 1800s Bergen was Europe’s biggest wooden city, a distinctive city environment with closely spaced wooden buildings, busy streets, markets and alleys. At old Bergen open air Museum you can experience some of this atmosphere, with houses from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. What did it look like? What did people talk about?
In beautiful natural surroundings you can meet both masters and servants from the past. You can peek in windows, open doors, and walk into exhibitions and historical interiors. The museum’s role players help to bring the site to life and provide answers to some of the questions on how life could have been lived in Bergen one or two hundred years ago. Teatrical plays at the square four times a day.
But the visit should not stop there; old Bergen is a large place! A walk in the surround park is ideal for a sense of peace and quiet and can be visited without a ticket.
Old Bergen Museum also provides the setting for several fantastic fun-filled days for the family, such as Midsummer Night, summerschool etc. With prior notice, it is possible to arrange tours outside of standard opening hours.
The Museum opened in 1946 and was built around the summerhouse "Elsesro" which shipbuilder Rasmus Rolfsen built for his wife Elsebe. The property was owned by the Rolfsen family from 1784 until 1903. Here, the family built a shipyard and a summerhouse, and later a park in the style of a formal English garden. Old Bergen foundation succeeded in establishing the museum as a safe haven for Bergen’s old buildings, which were threatened with being torn down. The houses which now stand in the museum arrived between 1945 and 1981. The open air Museum has today 55 wooden houses, most of which originally stood in the centre of Bergen.
Museumshop and a small cafè where you can buy the famous "bergensk skillingsbolle".
7 minutes by bus from the center or 30 minutes walk. Plan your trip, check bus route on www.skyss.no/en/
Advance bookings for groups only outside ordinary opening hours:
E-mail: gamlebergen@bymuseet.no
Emails are only answered during office hours Monday – Friday. 25% group discount for 10 people or more. Additional costs for guide.
It is free to enter the Bergenhus Festning historic area. Recommended for walking and recreation.
Due to Covid-19 we take precautions and measurements according to the laws and regulations applying. We are up-to-date on current infection control measures.
To give the audience a safe and good experience, we have limited the number of visitors in the museum, a minimum of 1 meter distance.
Disinfectant is offered. You will find more information on arrival at the museum.
A walk in the surrounding park is ideal for a sense of peace and quiet and can be visited for free.
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Unit 67, Boat Race House, 61-67 Mortlake High Street, London, SW14 8HL
Sale Price £695,000
OFFICE FOR SALE - RARELY AVAILABLE IN SOUTH WEST LONDON
Virtual freehold for sale
Contemporary modern finishes
On-street permit car spaces available
Mortlake BR Station circa 340 m
River Thames setting
Undercroft gated cycle spaces availabl
Period brick-built character offices
Unit 67 is located on the ground floor of traditional Victorian property dating from 1877, which we understand was originally part of a malthouse development. The subject property enjoys direct frontage onto Mortlake High Street.
The property measures 1,387 sq. ft. (128.8 sq. m.
The property is available to purchase on a ‘virtual freehold’ basis; namely on a 999-year lease from 24 March 2000 at a peppercorn rent.
REDUCED SALE PRICE
61 - SOLD
65a - SOLD
65b - SOLD
67 - £695,000 + VAT
On-street business car parking permits are available from London Borough of Richmond, who wish to support and encourage employment generating uses in the Borough. Permits are reasonably prices for businesses in Zone M, being £155 pa for the first car, £234 pa for the second car, and £310 pa for the third car upwards. Up to 5 business permit spaces are available with no 61. Business permits can be used throughout the CPZ Zone M, (not just in spaces allocated for business use), which are otherwise only controlled during the hours of 9.00 – 11.00 Monday to Friday. Visitors and employees needing space outside these restricted hours may park in allocated CPZ zones free of charge.
Rating: Anticipated B, based upon analysed refurbishment specification.
According to the Valuation Office Agency website the Rateable Value of the unit is as follows: -
67: Rateable Value: £22,500; Rates Payable 2020/21: £11,520.00 per annum
This property is not suitable for residential conversion, as it has been identified by London Borough of Richmond as being worthy of employment generating protection from Permitted Development rights, (by way of Article 4 exemption).
For further information or viewings please contact joint agents Vokins (020 8400 9000) or Featherstone Leigh (020 8332 2707).
Situated within the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Mortlake is an established, attractive and desirable south west London location. It is situated approximately 6 miles from central London and is bounded by Chiswick to the north, East Sheen to the south, Barnes to the east and Richmond to the west.
Mortlake enjoys good transport links with Barnes Bridge mainline railway station circa 850m to the north east and Mortlake mainline railway station circa 340m to the south west of the site, providing regular services to Richmond (4 minutes) and London Waterloo (23 minutes).
Mortlake is served by various bus routes with a bus stop a few metres away from the main entrance to the site offering access to the 419 (Richmond to Hammersmith), 969 (Roehampton Vale to Whitton) and the N22 (Fulwell to Piccadilly Circus).
Road links from Mortlake are also very good; Junction 1 of the M4 is approximately 2 miles to the north and can be accessed via Mortlake Road (A205). The M3 is approximately 7.5 miles to the south
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Enquire about: 61-67 Mortlake High Street, London
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Good Morning Pensacola
Chris Plante
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1370 WCOA AM History
‘Frontline Battle’ between former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. ends in a draw
The 8-round exhibition fight between Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. on Saturday ended in a draw.
Fifteen years after retiring, the former heavyweight champion squared off against fellow boxing legend Jones Jr. for a fight titled “Frontline Battle.” The World Boxing Council (WBC) supported, commemorated and scored the four-hour live event at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The rounds were 60 seconds shorter than usual — two minutes, instead of three — and the fight was sanctioned by the California State Athletic Commission.
The pair used 12-ounce gloves without any protection.
The WBC used a remote scoring system to judge Tyson’s and Jones Jr.’s performance. Three champions judged and scored each round, with the criteria focusing on style, technique, effective punching, effective defense and effective aggressiveness.
“Despite the isolation and tribulations COVID-19 has caused, Tyson and Jones Jr. have shown us that when a person embraces a positive mental outlook, turns on his or her positive mental switch, all challenges can be overcome which is why we have created a one of a kind commemorative belt created specifically for the occasion,” WBC President Mauricio Sulaimán said in a news release.
Tyson, the former heavyweight world champion, is considered one of the most feared boxers of all time. He finished his first year as a professional boxer with a 15-0 record, with all wins coming by knockout.
“Iron Mike” was 20 years and four months old when he became the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history. He has a 50-6 career record, with 44 of the 50 victories coming on knockouts. He last fought in 2005, when he lost to Kevin McBride.
Jones Jr. is a former world champion who sports a 66-9 record. Jones Jr. won his last bout in 2018 against Scott Sigmon.
The fight was a pay-per-view event sold for $50 in the United States.
Some of the money will be donated to charities that fight human trafficking and breast cancer, according to Jones Jr. Tyson’s Legends Only League will also donate a portion of proceeds to the WBC José Sulaimán Boxers Fund to support boxers who “have fallen into hard times,” the news release said.
The fight was the first of a series produced by Legends Only League.
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Unstable Frontiers
Technomedicine and the Cultural Politics of “Curing” AIDS
John Nguyet Erni
John Erni gives a hopeful view of how we might challenge the way scientists, healers, and the mass media look at the task of treating AIDS.
Drawing on diverse sources, from popular media to medical literature to cultural theory, Erni shows how the dual discourse of curability/incurability frames the way we think about and act on issues of medical treatment for AIDS.
“In Unstable Frontiers: Techno-Medicine and the Cultural Politics of ‘Curing’ AIDS, John Erni enlists a range of recent theory to illuminate the political interests and representational modes that have helped to define the ways that the medical establishment and the media talk about HIV. Erni’s heartfelt and insightful book is a valuable contribution to the study of the cultural politics of AIDS.” Jeff Nunokawa, Princeton University
Political Science, Environment, Film and Media
"John Erni's heartfelt and insightful book is a valuable contribution to the study of the cultural politics of AIDS."
Jeff Nunokawa
The "cure" for AIDS: The search goes on, keeping pace with our belief that AIDS is incurable. How such a seeming paradox works-and how it may well work against the proper treatment of the disease-is the subject of Unstable Frontiers, a probing, critical look at the cultural politics behind the quest for a cure for AIDS.
This massive commercial and scientific project, John Erni suggests, actually hinges on our contradictory definitions of the disease as curable and incurable at the same time. Drawing on diverse sources, from popular media to medical literature to cultural theory, he shows how the dual discourse of curability/incurability frames the way we think about and act on issues of medical treatment for AIDS. His work makes a major advance in our understanding of-and, perhaps, humane response to-a national crisis.
In his critique of the logic and fantasies underlying the double definition of AIDS, Erni explores a broad range of issues: the scientific paradigm used to develop AZT; the politics of alternative treatment practices, of clinical drug trials, and of AIDS activism; and the notions of time and temporality operating in AIDS treatment science. He also addresses the problematic popular themes, such as "AIDS is invariably fatal" and "Knowledge = Cure."
Unique in its approach to a social and political issue still in the making, the book reveals how AIDS has challenged technomedicine's historical position of authority-and in doing so, recasts this challenge in a powerful and ultimately hopeful way.
John Nguyet Erni is assistant professor of communication at the University of New Hampshire. He has published essays on AIDS and is currently working on a book about AIDS in Thailand.
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An insightful exploration of "queerness" and its presence and impact on contemporary mass culture. Over 3,000 paperback sold. (1993)
192 pages, 3 b&w photos, 4 b&w plates, 6x9, 1994
John Nguyet Erni is a professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He has published numerous essays on AIDS.
In this important book, John Erni analyzes the languages and practices associated with the phenomenon of ‘curing’ AIDS. . . . Unstable Frontiers is necessary and important reading for anyone concerned about AIDS in any of its many representation
and that should be all of us.”-Journal of Communication
Crisis of Desire AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood A passionate call for liberation from the myths surrounding HIV—now in paperback!
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We first met London when we were walking around Parker Square (the apartments where Brendan and his family live) looking for kids going into Kindergarten. At that point, Kistin was the only girl we had enrolled, and we were trying to even out our boy/girl ratio. Things changed when we saw London. London was walking down the sidewalk with her little sister Reagan. Reagan was one of the most strikingly beautiful toddlers I'd ever seen. Her big brown eyes sparkled through her curly black eye lashes which I had to convince myself weren't fake. What instantly impressed me about London was the way she was caring for her little sister. London faithfully kept her arms close to Reagan in the event that she took a tumble.
Trying to appear as unassuming as possible, we walked up to London and introduced ourselves. We made kid small talk about her little sister, complimented her hair barrettes, and tried to appear as cool as possible. London told us that she was 4. Technically, London was not old enough to start Kindergarten – the district doesn't allow kids to enter Kindergarten until they are 5. But there was something magnetic about her. So we took a leap of faith and asked her to point us towards her apartment so we could talk to her mom. London graciously guided us to a blue door on the corner, went inside to get her mom, but returned with the news that her mom wasn't feeling well. Although I must admit, it was a long shot, we gave her some papers including an application and told her to have her mom call us.
I wanted London in my class. All I could do was hope.
A few days later, we were back in the area dropping off some uniforms to other enrolled families and of course we had to go see if we could find London. But having slept since then, we couldn't remember which apartment was hers. I was telling myself how silly I was for not writing down the address, but we asked around and finally a middle school girl said she knew where London lived and lead us right to her house. We knocked on the door, and there was London. Unfortunately, mom wasn't home. We asked London how she was and made kid small talk again for a few minutes, then London’s mom walked up. I was so excited. I told her mom we'd been looking for her. At first she looked concerned as if she was in trouble. I quickly explained why we were so adamant. Kalie recited the schpeel, which we could both recite in our sleep at this point. In that moment, something happened. Her mom’s face transformed from an air of distrust to a smile. Pleased with the educational options we could offer her daughter, she filled out the application on the spot. London would be in our class after all.
In the moment I don't know that Kalie and I understood the full implications of having London in our class. But the past three weeks have shown me why there was something inside Kalie and I that compelled us to chase after this little girl. The little moments have shown us that there is something in London that is deeply connected to the heart of God. The other day Kalie was watching the kinders on the playground (something she kindly does daily so I can prep math centers) when London looked up at her mid-slide and said "Miss Kalie, I think God's smiling down on me right now because He made me special."
Before each meal, I try to give all of the kids a turn to pray, but I would be lying if I didn't say that when it's London's turn I can't wait to hear what she will say. Many of the kids know the recited prayers, which are helpful and sufficient. But when London prays I think she really knows she's talking to God (a concept that is hard to grasp for most 4 or even 40 year olds). She tightly clasped her hands together and squeezed her eyes shut as her brow wrinkled in sobriety. "Dear God. Thank you that you made us special. Thank you for waking us up this morning. Thank you for this dinner. Amen." I wish my words could somehow do justice to the sincerity of her heart as she prayed for our lunch.
On Friday after our field trip each student was issued their snack rations: 1 bag of goldfish and a cheese stick. We let them finish their snack on the bus ride back to school, but London told Miss Crystal that she was not going to eat all of her goldfish. She wanted to take them home to share with her sisters.
It's amazing to feel challenged by the heart of a 4 year old. It's amazing to palpably feel the softness of her heart as she reflects on the God who made her special and eagerly shares the little she has with those she loves.
The little moments continue.
On Friday we took the class to Cave Spring for a fun day of exploring and adventure. When we got to a baby waterfall, London's group had collided with mine. She was eager to hold my hand as she attempted to conquer her fear of walking across the pathway of rocks through the stream. London held my hand and started timidly walking on the rocks. After she had taken a step she stopped. The same sober brow from her lunch prayer was back, but this time out of concern for the rocky path ahead. I asked London if she'd like me to go first. She nodded, so I walked in front as London tightly squeezed my hand. After assuring London she was safe, I slowly navigated a path for us to get to the waterfall. As I looked back, I was struck by London's desire to put her foot exactly where mine had been. A couple of times she stepped on my foot because she was so determined to take the exact same path I had taken.
Again, I was struck by the ways little London teaches me about the heart of God. While many of "the buddies" (as I often endearingly refer to them) were mindlessly hopping across the rocks to their own path, London knew who she trusted and wanted to follow exactly in those steps. Of course there was nothing special about the path I chose. There were many right ways to get across the creek. But London, even in her fear, trusted my footsteps and followed them exactly. I can't help but think about the ways I wander, the ways I slip because I do not follow the right footsteps. I'm so easily tempted to take my own path when the most perfect feet have already walked before me.
Continually challenged by many of my inaugural kindergartners, I can't help but feel overwhelmed with thankfulness that I get the opportunity to cherish the small moments when God's beauty shines through their individual personalities. Constantly, I witness the little moments that remind Kalie and I that this is worth it. It's worth the thousands of dollars it takes to feed the kids and turn on the lights and fill up our bus with $100 of diesel every week. Because we get to nurture and notice the beauty that God has already put in the little people we spend our hours with.
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