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Knitters 'must keep pushing on'
HINCKLEY UNITED welcome back central defender Tom Bonner from a one-match ban for the home clash with ailing Hyde United in what is a 'must win' game for Dean Thomas' men.
They cannot afford any slip-ups if they are to hoist themselves out of the bottom three and preserve their Blue Square North status as the season moves into the final furlong.
With Leigh RMI and Vauxhall Motors virtually assured of slipping into the Unibond Premier, it leaves Hinckley, Hucknall and Blyth, plus possibly Solihull Boro, on a survival mission.
Thomas said: "We need to win our last four games to make sure we stay up but that's assuming the others don't drop points over the next fortnight which I think is doubtful.
"But we must keep pushing on. Our performances over the last month have been pleasing, with 11 points from a possible 15."
A positive outcome against The Tigers would give Hinckley another boost prior to them entertaining Tamworth on Monday night in their final home fixture is another crucial fixture.
"We have picked the best possible time to come into form. In the last few games we have got better and keep picking up points which is all we can do.
"Hyde are vulnerable - their season promised a lot but they haven't delivered. Their defence is weak but we have to be wary of their strikers because they are all on the top scorers list."
Hinckley United (from): Jones, Roma, Platnauer, Bonner, O'Loughlin, Lavery, Richards, Birch, Story, Storer, Webster, Kelly, Murphy, Lloyd, Edwards, Belford, Byron.
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Amateur Sport
Festival goes off with a bang
HINCKLEY Under-11s shared the West Coast Festival Challenge Cup with Luctonians after an explosive start to the tournament, at Brean Sands and Weston-super-Mare, when a German mine was washed up and detonated by bomb disposal experts.
John Wilkinson
Hinckley lost their opening game 2-0 on tries to a strong Ealing side, but recovered to beat Weston-super-Mare 3-0 before then losing 2-1 to Luctonians. Second-day draws against Hove (2-2),
who had won their first three matches, and Blackburn (1-1) earned a rematch with Luctonians in the Challenge Cup decider where a terrific scrap ended without a score.
Hinckley's tries were supplied by Bowler (3), Atkinson (2), Ruskin and Williams. n STOKE OLD BOYS Under-13s continued their winning run by over-powering tour hosts Great Yarmouth 63-0.
Prolific centres Connor Slater (6) and Kier Williams (2) again led the try spree with winger Matty Kavanagh (2) and No.8 Harry Marks, picking up from the base of a scrum to score from close range, also weighing in and the conversions shared between Ben Griffiths (2) and Ellis Whittle (2).
Stoke are saying farewell to two of their youngsters in the summer, Ellis Whittle and Arron Powers, who are leaving the area, and the club's coaches thank them for their hard work and effort and wish them well.
* UNBEATEN all season, Old Coventrians Under-7s added the Leamington Festival title to their tally with a gutsy all-round team effort in difficult, wet conditions.
Wins over Leamington B (6-3 on tries), Leamington A (5-2), Camp Hill (4-1), Daventry (7-4) and Long Buckby (8-3) set them up nicely for this weekend's season finale at the Camp Hill tournament.
Try scorers at Leamington were Shaun Allsopp (11), Thomas Keay (8), Paul Wells (4), Ross Warwood (3), Jack Sarjeant (2), James Keay and Joshua McMurray. Harry Macindoe was named player of the tournament.
OCs Under-11s finished runners-up in their age group to an unbeaten Long Buckby side, who won their clash 1-0 to take the title.
Alex Cooksley included a memorable maiden try in OCs' 5-0 win over Camp Hill, which was supported by victories against Daventry (6-0), Leamington (3-1) and Broadstreet (4-0). Other scorers were Aarron Hall (5), Frank Wagner (4), Jack Tolley (3), Elliott Sheepy (2), Sam Greening (2) and Kishan Patel.
OCs Under-8s experienced mixed fortunes. After losing their opening game against Long Buckby (5-1) in a closer game than reflected by the scoreline, they narrowly lost to Daventry (4-2) and Leamington (4-3) before showing their character to record victories over Camp Hill (7-2) and Broadstreet (6-4).
Try scorers for OCs were Alex Kelly (8), Joe Russell (4), Charlie Blakemore (2), Nat Booth (2), Johnathon Over, Matthew Sood and Joe Haynes.
Broadstreet started off with an 8-7 win over Camp Hill, but then suffered defeats to Leamington (3-2), Long Buckby (8-2), Daventry (4-2) and OCs. Their tries came from Tom McGeever (5), Harry Brooks-Keith (4), Jake Gardner (4), Adam Bruce (3), Robbie Humphries and James Tucker.
Street's Under-9s played five well-contested matches, overcoming Camp Hill (1-0) and Old Coventrians (2-0), drawing with Leamington (2-2), and being edged out by Daventry (2-1) and eventual tournament winners Long Buckby (1-0). Tries were scored by Luca Dhanda (2), Warren Smith (2), Connor McKenna and James Richardson.
* KERESLEY Under-7s finished in style at the Sutton Coldfield tournament, beating Bournville 6-4 on tries in their final game after defeats by Wolverhampton (8-6) and Silhillians (8-4).
Tyler Smythe (5), Keiran Rawlings (4), Travis Allcock (3), Jack Tague (2), Kian Mcreath and Jack O'Donaghue got Keresley's tries.
* HARBURY's mini and midi teams started their weekend tour at Gloucester with a visit to Kingsholm where, after a look round the stadium, they took part in a training session with some of the Guinness Premiership club's players before watching them beat Saracens 39-15.
All 107 children and parents enjoyed the experience and met some of the players after the game. Lesley Vainikolo, Chris Patterson, Ryan Lamb, Mike Tindall and James Simpson-Daniel were all happy to have photographs taken with the lads.
After an overnight stay in Gloucester, the tour party moved on to Warley for a series of games. Harbury's Under-9s recorded a 3-0, 3-1 double on tries scored by Matt Laity (2), Lewis Connon (2), Theo Waklin and Joe Hunt against a combined Under-9s and 10s home side.
The Under-11s game also went Harbury's way as, 2-1 down at half-time, they hit back to secure a 4-2 verdict through tries from Finn Toner (2), Bradley King and Ben Taylor.
* LOCAL clubs Nuneaton, Barkers Butts, Old Coventrians, Stratford, Rugby Lions, Hinckley and Market Bosworth come up against Worcester, Bedford, Lutterworth, Paviors, Towcestrians, Broadlieans, Kesteven, Old Northamptonians, Northampton Old Scouts and Wolverhampton in the Warwickshire Under-14 Invitation Cup tournament at Nuneaton's Liberty Way ground on Sunday (£2 adults, children free).
The seeded teams are ONs, Scouts - who together form Northampton's Elite Player Development Group - Worcester A and Leicestershire champions Bosworth. Games last 15 minutes and cup, plate, bowl and vase competitions will be played.
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Concrete Solutions & Supply Privacy Policy
Effective Date of this Policy: July 1, 2020
Concrete Solutions & Supply (“We” or “Us”) (“we,” “us,” or “our”) offer services and products (collectively, “Services”) to our customers, website visitors, and users (“you”). We also own this website, concretesuppliesantioch.com (the “Site”), to help us provide these Services to you. We sometimes collect Personal Information to provide information and Services that you request, and to better understand our customer’s wants and needs. Personal Information is information that specifically identifies an individual. Personal Information can include, but is not limited to, your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, and credit card information. Personal Information also includes the specific types of information defined under locally applicable law.
This Policy applies only to Personal Information collected through the Site and does not apply to any other data or information collected by us online or offline except to the extent this Policy is expressly referenced or incorporated into such other Services, such as by internet link on a website or presentation or display to Users.
We are committed to protecting the privacy of your information. Please take a moment to read this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) to understand how we collect, use, store, and delete Personal Information about you when you visit and/or use the Site; or use any of our Services.
Policy Integration
This Privacy Policy incorporates our Cookie Notice, which is accessible from a notice presented to users of the Site and/or Services and can be accessed here: Cookie Notice
What Types of Information Do We Collect?
Information You Voluntarily Provide
We collect Personal Information you and others voluntarily provide when you use the Site and the Services. This could include information when you create an account, sign up for news alerts or newsletters, or contact us with questions. There may also be optional functions of the Site that you must provide Personal Information to use. The ways we will use such information will be provided on the page where you provide that information. Such optional services may include:
You opting in to location-based services;
Use of integrated services with third parties (e.g., logging using credentials from a different platform, linking accounts from different platforms)
Forum subscriptions after you create a forum registration;
Submitting general contact forms; and
Submitting inquiries in any form (e.g., e-mail, phone, mail, etc.).
When you provide us with Personal Information, you agree to provide accurate, complete and true information. You agree to not use a false or misleading name that you are not authorized to use.
In order to provide our Services and deliver products, we also need to collect and store Personal Information. The types of information we may collect from you may include name, physical address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, gender, geographic area, geolocation information (using your IP address, GPS, or sensors in nearby equipment, such as WiFi access points and cell towers), and any other information you choose to provide in connection with the Services.
Information Your Web Browser Provides
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect information provided by your web browser. This information includes, but is not limited to, your device’s unique identifiers and IP address, the pages within the Site that you visit, the number of visits you make to the Site and pages that you visit, any referring websites/URLs, the number of clicks you make while at the Site, the time that your device visited, the identity of your service provider, and the name and version of your operating system. This passively collected data is used to administer, operate, and improve the Site and Services, and to provide individualized advertising to you. We may use IP addresses and device data to identify a user who is noncompliant with our Terms of Use, or to protect the site or other users.
We may also use information in the aggregate that has no personal identifying characteristics to understand aggregate user and customer behavior. Non-personally identifiable information is not treated the same as Personal Information and we may use and disclose such information for various purposes.
We use cookies and other technology to collect information, provide Services, and support features of the Site. Please see our Cookie Notice, linked here: Cookie Notice, which is fully incorporated with this Privacy Policy.
We may receive information about you, including Personal Information, from third parties. We may combine this information with other Personal Information we maintain about you and such information will be handled under the terms of this Privacy Policy.
How Do We Use and Share Personal Information?
We use collected Personal Information to authenticate your access and use of the Site; to respond to your e-mail inquiries (when we deem such response to be appropriate); to respond to your submission of “Contact Me,” “Register Now,” “Get Started,” “Message Provider,” or other forms which involve your requests for information from us; to send you notices about changes to the Site; to send you notices about our services (including service-related announcements): to send you marketing information through our CRM system; and to manage and improve the Site to optimize our products and services.
To prevent fraudulent use of our systems; to enforce our Terms of Use or comply with laws; to maintain a record of how you use our platforms; for administrative purposes; and for any other purposes that we may disclose to you when we request Personal Information and your consent to use it.
We may use Personal Information to send you marketing materials that we believe might match your interests. You are able to opt-out of these marketing materials by using a link within the materials themselves.
We may use location or other information that you provide to better deliver personalized content to you.
We may also use your Personal Information (such as search terms) to optimize our exposure and availability on external web search engines such as Google. More on this use may be found below.
There may be times when we need to share your Personal Information with third parties to provide you Services, for the proper functioning of website features, to comply with the law, and for other lawful bases consistent with locally controlling laws and regulations. The occasions when we will share your Personal Information because of these reasons are explained below.
We may use third party data analytics services to maintain databases, distribute information, process transactions, and for hosting services. When we engage a Service Provider to provide such business-related functions, we limit the amount and types of Personal Information we share and insist upon reasonable measures on behalf of the Service Provider to safeguard such information.
We may disclose and transfer Personal Information to a third party in the event that a merger, acquisition, debt financing transaction, sale of our assets, other similar transaction, bankruptcy, insolvency, or receivership occurs. The third party would thereafter be entitled to review and use such information (including Personal Information) in connection with its business activities, and in such case, the Privacy Policy of the third party may thereafter apply to such information, rather than this Privacy Policy.
We may disclose Personal Information if we believe we must to comply with a law, or if disclosure is in our interest to protect property or other legal rights. This may include disclosing Personal Information to enforce contracts and agreements, to protect the rights or property of others, or to help protect the security of our Service and the information of other users.
Our Services and Site may allow you to integrate accounts with a third party service. When you elect to integrate your accounts, you are electing to share your Personal Information with the third party for this purpose. Any Personal Information disclosed to a third party providing an integrated service is outside of our control and is subject to that third party’s own terms and policies.
We may share aggregate, non-personally identifiable location information with third parties to assist in understanding our user’s interests and usage of our Site and Services.
We may use third party data analytics services to help us improve our services.
These include Google Analytics, which helps us understand how you use our Services. Google Analytics collects data about your traffic via Google advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers, as well as data collected through standard Google Analytics implementation. We strive to adhere to Google Analytics Advertising policies.
We will not facilitate the merger of personally identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information collected through any Google Advertising product or feature.
We reserve the right to test, turn-on, or turn-off any of the Google Analytics features from time-to-time without notice to you. By utilizing certain Google Analytics Advertising features, we are required to disclose the following information:
We use the following Google Analytics Advertising Features: The Site may employ Google® Analytics Display Advertising features.
The Site and other third-party vendors may use first-party cookies (such as the Google® Analytics cookie) or other first-party identifiers, and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together. Visitors to the Site can opt-out of the Google® Analytics Advertising Features used, including through Ads Settings, Ad Settings for mobile apps, or any other available means (for example, the NAI's consumer opt-out).
Our use of cookies is detailed in our Cookie Notice, which is available here: Cookie Notice You may revoke your consent to the use of web analysis at any time, either by downloading and installing the provided Google Browser Plugin or by following your internet browser’s instructions to enable, disable, or clear cookies.
Further information on Google Analytics is available in the Google Analytics Terms of Use, the Privacy and Data Protection Guidelines of Google Analytics and in the Google Privacy Policy
We store the information we collect about you for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we collected it and in accordance with applicable law and legitimate business interests.
When assessing the data retention period, we take into account the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which we process the data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
We have reasonable and appropriate security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of any personal information we receive about you. We maintain appropriate security standards to protect the personal information that we maintain.
Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) we cannot control security and privacy indefinitely; (b) the security, integrity, and privacy of information or data exchanged between you and us cannot always be guaranteed; and (c) any such information and data may be viewed or compromised when in transit by a third party.
We strive to keep our records accurate and will make appropriate corrections when you notify us. Please let us know if there is incorrect information in any statements or other communications that you receive from us. If you would like to correct or update your personal information, please contact us at Dataprivacy@revlocal.com.
Questions About Your Data
If you have questions about this Policy, or how we handle your Personal Information, please contact us at: Dataprivacy@revlocal.com.
Special Disclosures
“Do Not Track” Disclosures
California and Delaware require websites accessible by users based in those states to indicate whether the website respects “Do Not Track” browser settings. We follow the standards explained in this Privacy Policy and do not interact with or implement “Do Not Track” requests.
Our Services and Site are not directed at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13 without obtaining parental consent. It is our procedure to promptly delete any Personal Information collected from a child under the age of 13 upon discovery of such a circumstance. If you believe that we may have collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, please contact us using the contact information at the end of this Policy and we will take appropriate steps to rectify this inadvertent collection.
If you a consumer located in California and we collect your personal information, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may apply to you. In such a case, our Supplemental CCPA Privacy Policy will apply and will control in the event of any conflict with this general Privacy Policy.
Likewise, other California Privacy laws may apply to you in certain circumstances.
Pursuant to California Business and Professions Code Section 1798.83 (or such successor provision), as amended and supplemented, residents of California have the right to request from a business with whom the California resident has an established business relationship certain information with respect to the types of Personal Information the business shares with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes and the identities of the third parties with whom the business has shared such information during the immediately preceding calendar year.
In addition, an operator of a commercial website subject to California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 must allow California residents under age 18 who are registered users of online sites, services or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted. If this applies to you and you wish to make such a request, your request should include a detailed description of the specific content or information to be removed. Please be aware that your request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.
If you are a California resident, believe that one of the above code provisions applies to you, and would like to make such a request, you may submit a written request using the contact information located at the end of this Privacy Policy.
European Data Subjects
The European Union (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) provides certain regulations for the processing of personal data of users who are located within the EU. The GDPR applies when an entity offers goods or services to a person located within the EU or monitors the behavior of a person if the behavior takes place in the EU.
We are an entity based in the United States that provides personalized digital marketing services to local businesses in the United States. Although our Site may be accessible in some locations outside of the United States, it is not our intention to offer Services to individuals located outside of the United States. Any information we collect will be stored and processed in the United States and if you are located outside of the United States, the laws of the United States may offer less protection that the laws of your place of residence. We will collect and maintain any Personal Information only as long as we need it for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. By providing your Personal Information to us through your use of the Services or Site, you agree to our transfer, storage, and processing procedures based in the United States. Please note that different regions and countries can have their own privacy and data security laws; some of which may be less protective of your Personal Information than the laws of your own region or country.
In the event that we offer Services subject to the GDPR, we will comply with the requests of European data subject requests to: (1) access Personal Information, (2) have inaccurate or unnecessary Personal Information rectified or deleted, or (3) stop using your Personal Information in a certain way. If your use of our Services or Site is subject to GDPR you would also have a right to lodge a complaint with your local EU regulator.
Changes and Updates to this Policy
We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated notice on the Site and update the notice's effective date. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: Dataprivacy@revlocal.com.
Concrete Solutions & Supply Privacy Notice for California Consumers
Effective Date: July 1, 2020
Last Reviewed on: June 30, 2020
This Privacy Notice for California Consumers supplements the information contained in the Privacy Statement of #Business Name# (“collectively, “we,” “us,” or “our) and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California ("consumers" or "you"). We also own this website, www.revlocal.com (the “Site”), to help us provide our services to you. We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Notice.
To the extent temporarily exempted from application of the CCPA, this Notice does not apply to employment-related personal information collected from California-based employees, job applicants, contractors, or similar individuals (“employment information”) or to personal information reflecting a written or verbal business-to-business communication ("B2B personal information"). For clarity, to the extent required by Cal. Civ. Code 1798.100, this Notice does apply to employment information in so far as the law requires disclosure at or before the point of collection of the categories of personal information to be collected and the purposes for which the categories of personal information shall be used.
This Policy applies only to Personal Information collected through the Site and does not apply to any other data or information collected by us online or offline except to the extent this Policy is expressly incorporated in connection with such other Services, such as by internet link on a website, reference within a contract, or other presentation or display to Users.
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device ("personal information"). Personal information does not include:
Information excluded from the CCPA's scope, like:
personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994.
In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from its consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
A. Identifiers A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers. YES
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.
Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. YES
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information). YES
D. Commercial Information Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. YES
E. Biometric Information Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. NO
F. Internet or other similar network activity Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. YES
G. Geolocation data Physical location or movements. YES
H. Sensory data Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. YES
I. Professional or employment-related information. Current or past job history or performance evaluations. YES
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)). Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. NO
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information. Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. YES
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following purposes:
To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery.
To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Site, products, and services.
To personalize your Site experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Site, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).
To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Site, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Site, products, and services.
To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our [Website users/consumers] is among the assets transferred.
We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose
Category F: Internet or other similar network actiity.
Category H: Sensory data.
Categories of Disclosures
Sales of Personal Information
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold any personal information.
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information
We do not provide these access and data portability rights for employment or B2B information.
Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
We do not provide these deletion rights for B2B personal information.
Visiting our Data Subject Request Web Form.
Emailing us at Dataprivacy@revlocal.com.
Calling us at (800) 456-7470.
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative, which may include:
We will use the data we have to match against data provided.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.
Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us.
We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Site that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to Dataprivacy@revlocal.com or write us at:
Attn: General Counsel
We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated notice on the Website and update the notice's effective date. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which we collect and use your information described here and in the Privacy Policy, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Website: Data Subject Request Web Form
Email: Dataprivacy@revlocal.com
1. About this Cookie Notice
This cookie notice applies when you use any of our Services that refer or link to this notice. This notice may be supplemented by additional cookie notices, or terms provided on certain areas of the Service or during our interactions with you. With the exception to the cookies that are set by third parties, the company that owns or administers the Service, as identified therein, is the primary controller of your personal information provide to, or collected by or for, the Service. This Cookie Notice is subject to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
2. What are “Cookies” and Why Do we Use Them?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites and applications work, or work more efficiently, and help them remember certain information about you, either for the duration of your visit (using a "session" cookie) or for repeat visits (using a "persistent" cookie). The cookies used on this website are as follows:
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Mum-of-two Jules Sebastian reveals her top tricks for parenting and juggling a busy schedule - and how she is tackling turning 40
TV presenter and fashion stylist Jules Sebastian has shared her parenting tricks
The 39-year-old said she hides veggies in meals to make sure the kids eat them
Jules said she is taking good care of her skin as she approaches the age of 40
By Sophie Haslett For Daily Mail Australia
With two young children and a busy career as a fashion stylist and TV presenter, Jules Sebastian more than has her hands full.
But the 39-year-old from Sydney said she has a host of tips and tricks up her sleeve to make sure each day runs smoothly.
Speaking to FEMAIL ahead of her partnership with Amazon Australia and their new 'Baby Wish List', Jules revealed her top parenting tips and tricks - and how she is tackling turning 40.
With two young children and a busy career as a fashion stylist and TV presenter, Jules Sebastian (pictured) more than has her hands full
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But the 39-year-old mum of two (pictured with her kids) shared her top parenting tips with FEMAIL - which include hiding vegetables blended up in her meals
When it comes to her day-to-day parenting style, the 39-year-old confessed it's been a learning process.
'I've figured out over the years that my priority is my kids and my family,' Jules told Daily Mail Australia.
'I consider them above everything else, including my career, and then squish in what I can in around their hours.'
Every single day, Jules said she tackles her schedule on a day-to-day basis.
'I have to play it by ear as every day is different for me but the same for them. But what I've found helps me both in work and my social life is the ability to say no,' she said.
'I find if I think about myself on the day and whether I'll want to be somewhere, then I can quickly figure out if it's worth doing or saying yes to.'
'I've figured out over the years that my priority is my kids and my family,' Jules told Daily Mail Australia (pictured: her kids) - this means that she puts family above her career
'I have to play it by ear as every day is different for me but the same for them. But what I've found helps me both in work and my social life is the ability to say no,' Jules (pictured) said
What are Jules's tips for getting the boys to eat healthier?
* Hide vegetables in their meals and whizz them together so they're getting their veggies without even knowing it.
* Make smoothies and include as many fruits and vegetables as possible.
* Make healthy eating fun by getting the kids involved with the cooking.
* Keep feeding your children foods as persistence is key and they will eventually grow to like something.
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The mum-of-two swears by certain strategies to make sure her two boys eat healthily.
'I'm a big fan of hiding vegetables,' she said.
'Even on Monday night, I whizzed together all of this carrot, broccoli and onion and hid it in a spaghetti bolognese.
'They all hoovered it up without even realising there might be something they didn't like.'
Jules also said she makes sure to give the two boys smoothies - which they love - but instead of just putting fruit in them, she also packs them full of veggies and milk, too.
'I'll throw an avocado in there and try to make the process of eating healthily as fun as possible,' she said.
She will involve the boys in the kitchen and keep feeding them something they think they don't like until they start eating it.
'Keep putting something they like on a plate and eventually they will eat it,' she said.
She added that being healthy is about more than a good diet and making sure the boys run around outside.
'Yes, I like to make sure they have all the major food groups ticked off in their lunchboxes, but I think good health is also about limited screen time, happiness and good sleep.'
Jules (pictured) also said she makes sure to give the two boys smoothies - which they love - but instead of just putting fruit in them, she also packs them full of veggies and milk, too
With herself, Jules said that while she's loved all aspects of motherhood, it has taken her some time to become completely at one with it.
'When the kids were really little, I struggled with my own health a lot,' she said.
'But now that they're a little bit older, I've been able to make my fitness a priority and make sure I have time for it.
'Now, I lie out my activewear the night before and put it on as soon as I get up. Then I do the school run and make sure I go to the gym for 45 minutes.
'It's made such a difference to my mood,' she said.
It's not only her figure that has transformed over the past five years, Jules said, but also her attitude towards her health - she said she's become obsessed with her skin in recent times
It's not only her figure that has transformed over the past five years, Jules said, but also her attitude towards her health.
'What with me turning 40 this year, I've suddenly become obsessed with my skin,' she said.
'I'm all about the idea that beauty starts from the inside and so make sure my diet is good and I'm getting plenty of sleep as well as using all the right products.'
Jules swears by many of the gut health products by Carla Oates from The Beauty Chef, and said she has the Glow powder, Hydration, Collagen and Antioxidant supplements on high rotation.
'I just whizz them all into a smoothie and have one each day,' she said.
Jules (pictured) is working with Amazon Australia, who have just launched a new 'Baby Wish List' for new parents
Jules is working with Amazon Australia, who have just launched a new 'Baby Wish List' for new parents.
The 'Wish List' enables expectant parents to create a list ahead of their baby’'s arrival to help them keep track of the products they want and need.
They then have the ability to share with friends and family who may be looking to buy the new baby a gift.
For more information about the Baby Wish List, please click here.
Amazon: Baby Wishlist
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'The cruelty of Nora being taken away is unbearable': Nora Quoirin's parents say their girl 'touched the world' as they thank searchers - but demand to know if her naked body was missed by police or dumped near Malaysian waterfall by criminal
Nora Quoirin reported missing from the Malaysian eco-resort where she was staying with her family on August 4 after a window was found open
Hikers found the 15-year-old's body next to a waterfall near the resort Tuesday
Parents Meabh and Sebastien say their 'hearts are broken' following her death
They are also questioning why it took so long to find the girl's body, and whether her remains were moved after she had died
By Paul Thompson In Malaysia For Mailonline
Published: 01:48 EST, 14 August 2019 | Updated: 05:43 EST, 14 August 2019
The family of tragic teenager Nora Quoirin whose body was found in the Malaysian jungle Tuesday have said their 'hearts are broken' by news of her death.
Parents Meabh and Sebastien, who were on the first day of a holiday with 15-year-old Nora when she vanished on August 4, paid tribute to her as 'the truest, most precious girl', adding: 'The cruelty of her being taken away is unbearable.'
A spokesman for the Lucie Blackman Trust, which had been helping the family with their search, said the parents still have questions over why it took so long to find Nora's body - which was discovered next to a waterfall not far from their resort more than a week after she disappeared.
'One of those questions is, has the body been there all the time or is there a criminal involvement? Was the body dumped there afterwards?' spokesman Matt Searle said.
Nora Quoirin, 15, who disappeared on the first day of a family holiday to Malaysia on August 4, was found dead Tuesday not far from the resort where she had been staying with her parents
Nora's family (pictured) are said to have many questions about how long it took to find the teenager
Sean Yeap was part of a group of volunteers who found Nora's body and said he believes that Nora was not in the spot when search teams first passed through.
He revealed that her remains were not hidden or covered by foliage, and speculated that she may have walked there on her own before collapsing.
He said: 'I think maybe she was elsewhere and walked to the stream perhaps to drink some water.
'The place where she was found is not easy to find. I wonder if she had been following the stream as there were no footprints which means she could have been walking in the water as it was not very deep.'
Nora had travelled to the 12-acre resort on August 3 with her parents, sister Innes, 12, and brother Maurice, eight.
After going to sleep with her siblings in an upstairs bedroom, she was discovered missing by her French father shortly after 8am the following morning.
Police were left with no clues about her whereabouts other than that a large downstairs window at the property had been left ajar.
Sniffer dogs lost her scent around 100 yards from the two-storey holiday cottage.
Nora's parents identified her body last night at Tuanku Ja'afar hospital in Seremban. She had been airlifted there after being winched out of the jungle.
A post-mortem examination will be carried out by senior pathologists from Kuala Lumpur this morning.
A statement issued by Nora's family said: 'We would like to thank all the people that have been searching for Nóra and trying their best to find her.
'We thank the local people here and those far and wide for their prayers and support at this time. Nóra has brought people together, especially from France, Ireland, Britain and Malaysia, united in their love and support for her and her family.
This is the waterfall at which the teenager's body was found yesterday following a ten-day search in jungle
'She has truly touched the whole world. To all our friends and family at home, we can't thank you enough for all your love.
'Nóra is at the heart of our family. She is the truest, most precious girl and we love her infinitely. The cruelty of her being taken away is unbearable. Our hearts are broken. We will always love our Nóra.'
Family lawyer Sankara N. Nair added that the girl's relatives are 'highly traumatised following the loss of their child. They are in a state of shock'.
The statement was issued by the missing person's charity The Lucie Blackman Trust. Spokesman Matt Searle said the family had asked for privacy to grieve the death of Nora and would not be making any other comment to the media.
Searchers found the body near a waterfall that the missing schoolgirl had excitedly talked about visiting.
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The grim discovery was made yesterday, more than a week after the 15-year-old disappeared from an eco-resort during a two-week family holiday.
Nora's body was found unclothed by a group of hikers who had joined the tenth day of a widespread search operation across the perilous terrain.
It is understood that Nora was wearing only underwear at the time of her disappearance, while a police chief previously confirmed that she was barefoot.
The schoolgirl's grandfather, Sylvain Quoirin, who is a mayor in France, had previously said it was 'unthinkable' Nora would have wandered off alone because of the severity of her learning difficulties.
She had a condition known as holoprosencephaly, where the brain fails to develop normally, had limited verbal communication and could only write a few words.
She attended a school for young people with learning and communication difficulties.
The teenager's devastated family faced an agonising wait last night to find out whether her death had resulted from an accident or a crime.
Police chiefs insisted the disappearance was still being treated as a missing persons case, though a parallel criminal probe remains open.
Investigators said they were awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination before deciding on the next steps.
Matthew Searle, head of missing persons charity the Lucie Blackman Trust, which is working with Nora's family, said: 'It's absolutely the outcome that none of us was hoping for.
'They [the family] are going to have a large amount of questions. One of those questions is has the body been there all the time or is there a criminal involvement? Was the body dumped there afterwards?'
Nora's family searched in vain for the missing schoolgirl for more than a week
Before Nora's body was found mother Meabh, who is from Northern Ireland, and Sebastien, who is French, attended Mass at the Catholic church in the city of Seremban, 10 miles from their holiday home.
Father George Harrison, who held the service at the Church of Visitation, said he prayed with the pair and gave them a blessing.
Speaking to the Mirror, Father Harrison said the pair were 'calm and staying strong' and that an additional prayer will be said for Nora this Sunday after her body was found. Father Harrison may also bless Nora's body.
Volunteers discovered the body at 1.57pm yesterday close to a stream at the foot of a ravine on Berembun mountain, 1.6 miles from the Dusun resort where Nora's family was staying.
The area, which is popular with local tourists and located in an area known as the Pantai hills, had previously been searched – but no clues were found.
The Dusun resort offers guided tours to the Lata Berembun waterfall, involving a 20-minute trek to the jungle entrance and a further one-hour walk along a defined jungle trail.
In a sad twist, it emerged yesterday that the teenager – who was born with a debilitating brain condition – had been keenly anticipating a trip to the waterfall.
Only hours before her body was discovered, a member of the hiking club that found her said the group had been instructed to check the location.
Shirley Yap, who was among a group of around 20 volunteers from the nearby town of Seremban, said: 'We had heard she was excited about seeing a waterfall when she arrived in the resort.'
The hikers, including leader Kenny Chan, were taken to give statements at a police station in the nearby village of Pantai, which served as the headquarters for the search operation.
Following the discovery, the schoolgirl's devastated parents, Meabh and Sebastien, were taken to the area where her body was found.
They were later supported at the resort by relatives who had flown in from Singapore, London and Glasgow.
State police chief Mohamad Mat Yusof, who has led the searches, said: 'We will inform the post-mortem result tomorrow. Based on that we will decide if we need to investigate further if we are not satisfied.'
He said that the search and rescue operation had yet to be called off, should authorities need to look for more evidence tomorrow.
A police vehicle at the entrance to the Dusun Resort where Nora vanished
The deputy chief of Malaysia's police force Mazlan Mansor had earlier said that officers have so far found no evidence of criminal behaviour.
But he refused to confirm whether Nora had suffered any injuries or if anybody else may have been involved in her death.
He described Nora as 'completely naked' but 'intact' when she was found, adding it was too soon to determine how long her body had been at the scene.
Nora's parents, who have lived in London for 20 years, had previously expressed fears that the schoolgirl had been abducted and had put up a £10,000 reward for information. Mrs Quoirin, 45, held back tears during a statement in which she said the family's 'hearts are breaking' without her.
'Nora is our first child. She has been vulnerable since the day she was born,' she said.
The teenager had a smaller than average brain and struggled to act independently having been born with Patau's syndrome, or holoprosencephaly.
The condition left her struggling to complete everyday tasks and with limited speech, walking ability and co-ordination.
During the search operation, rescuers had also played Mrs Quoirin's voice through loudspeakers in the hope her daughter would hear, saying: 'Nora, darling, Nora, I love you, Mummy is here.'
Mr and Mrs Quoirin, a data analysis firm salesman and market research company director, met in Northern Ireland and the family live in Streatham, south London.
The search for Nora had involved up to 350 staff from various government bodies over a period of ten days, alongside helicopters and drones equipped with thermal imagining technology.
British, Irish and French police had been dispatched to Malaysia to join the search. Scotland Yard said it was ready to deploy remote support.
The Dusun resort, located around 39 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, is nestled in the foothills of the Titiwangsa Mountains and borders the Berembun Forest Reserve.
The jungle is home to an array of harmful animals, including snakes, biting insects, tigers and wild boar.
Hikers burst into tears when they found Nora's body which looked as 'if she were sleeping'
Nora (pictured) was discovered dead yesterday next to a waterfall she had spoken excitedly about visiting
A hiker who found the body of missing teen Nora Quoirin has told how she looked as 'if she were sleeping' when they saw lying close to a stream.
Sean Yeap was with a group of volunteers taking part in the search and rescue operation to try and find the 15-year-old.
He described how they saw the teenager lying by the riverbed with her head resting on her hands.
'It looked like she was sleeping,' he told MailOnline in an exclusive interview. 'Her head was resting on her hands. But we all knew she was dead.
'It was very sad and two women in the group did not want to come close and they started crying.'
The body of the teenager was formally identified by her parents Sebastien and Meabh at a hospital in the town of Seremban on Tuesday night ending days of anguish. A post-mortem to determine cause of death is set to be revealed later today.
A statement issued by the family today thanked those who took part in the search while saying 'the cruelty of her being taken away is unbearable.'
Police have admitted the area where she was found had been searched before. Nora was found naked lying near a stream.
While police are treating her death as that of a missing person they are still carrying out a criminal investigation after her parents said the special needs teen was abducted from the eco-resort where they had booked a two-week holiday.
Yeap was with a group of 24 experienced hikers who had left the Dusun resort to look for Nora on the 10th day of the search having volunteered to join experienced search and rescue teams.
Kenny Chan (left), Shirley Yap (centre) and May Lou (right), members of the hiking group that found Nora's body, issue a statement in Malaysia
Led by team leader Kenny Chan, the men and women set off to follow a trail on a palm oil plantation about 1.2miles from where Nora disappeared on August 4th.
He said they met an Indian man who told them he was familiar with the area and would assist them.
They followed a trail through the oil plantation when one of the group said he could smell a strong odour coming from the jungle. It was then they came across tragic Nora's body.
'We did not approach but stood about 15 metres away and out team leader called the police.
'I could see the body. She was lying with her hands behind her head like you do when you go to sleep. There were some scratches on her arm and some bruises but otherwise there were no injuries. I am not sure, but I think she had been dead a few days.'
Yeap, an insurance salesman, said the body was not covered with any leaves or jungle foliage.
He said if search and rescue teams had walked through the area they would have spotted her but speculated that when the area was first searched she was not there.
'I think maybe she was elsewhere and walked to the stream perhaps to drink some water,' he said.
Sankara Nair, lawyer for the Quoirin family, speaks to reporters following the discovery of her body in the Malaysian jungle
Yeap and the others, including housewife Shirley Yap, stood back from the shocking discovery and waited for police. Two of the group began crying and were comforted by others,.
'We knew not to touch the body and let the police do their work,' he said. 'The police took about 40 minutes to get there and sealed of the scene. We all had to make statements at the police station.'
Yeap, a Chinese/Malay who spoke through an interpreter, said he feels nothing but sadness for Nora's parents.
'I feel so sorry for them but I am glad that we were able to find the body and they did not have to wait even longer to know what happened.'
Other member of the group who belong to the Kepayank Hiking Club read out a statement that they said was the 'truth' of what took place.
Since Nora's body was found rumours have swirled particularly as she was found naked.
Shirley Yap, 50,read from a prepared statement describing how the group had formed a line either side of trail towards a stream.
She fought back tears when asked to describe finding the body.
'It is not good. It sad to see a body like that,' she said.
Describing the lead up to finding the body, Yap said they had spread out either side of a path and followed a trail through an old palm oil plantation.
After searching for 30 minutes they followed the trail downhill towards a stream.
She said: 'One of our members saw the body lying across the small stream and called out. All of us turned back to where the body was found.
'We stopped 10m from the body and all knew we should not stop too close to the scene of the body and waited there for the police to arrive. It was hard for the police to find us as the area was quite unacceptable.
The place where Nora was found remained sealed off by police today
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Farmers at the frontline in water policy reform
Farmers at the frontline in…
Having listened to farmers and irrigators, as well as intense lobbying by Nationals MPs, the Federal Government has acted on water policy reform and today unveiled its Murray-Darling Communities Investment Package.
This means Victorian communities, including those within the Nicholls electorate, will benefit from an overhaul of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan that will see more than $230 million invested in creating jobs, economic activity, and healthy rivers in regional areas.
Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia, Keith Pitt, and Federal Member for Nicholls, Damian Drum, said a crucial aspect of the package involved splitting the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, with a new independent statutory compliance body to be created.
Additionally, the Federal Government has emphatically ruled out water buy backs.
Mr Drum said the package should be viewed as an important first step in water policy reform.
“Hopefully, we will start to see some balance in water policy in the future,” Mr Drum said.
“I have been calling for the MDBA to be split up for over a year and now with an independent statutory compliance body to be created, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder will have to take responsibility for their actions, as well as abide by the same rules as our farmers.
“Under this government, ‘buy backs’ are off the table, as are ‘on-farm efficiencies’ – this is what our farmers have been calling for.
“No more destructive, dangerous and lazy buy backs.
“These reforms are a great start and Keith Pitt should be acknowledged for the changes he has made.”
Mr Pitt said the initiatives were practical and realistic and based around three key themes: (i) investing in communities; (ii) improving river health; and (iii) building trust and transparency between governments and communities.
“The Murray-Darling Communities Investment Package is a way for all of us to move forward and get the most we can from the plan,” Mr Pitt said.
“Communities have told us in no uncertain terms that they are sick of being talked at and not listened to.
“That feedback came through loud and clear in the Independent Assessment of Social and Economic Conditions in the Basin report which I released today.
“It’s time to shift our focus to engaging and involving communities in developing the solutions that are right for them and to stop treating the water recovery task as something separate.
“Strong representation from government MPs and senators, including Damian Drum, of community issues and concerns throughout the Basin has contributed to the reforms announced today.
“It is why the Liberal and Nationals Government is committed to build a culture of genuine engagement and trust with communities and between governments.”
Mr Drum said it was time to make the Basin Plan pay dividends to communities rather than communities pay for the Basin Plan.
“Our government is committing nearly $40 million to improve compliance to provide the assurance communities and governments are seeking while importantly keeping regionally-based staff in our regions,” Mr Drum said.
“A total of $34 million is being allocated by government across those communities hit hard by water recovery to help increase economic activity, diversify economies and create jobs through the extended Murray-Darling Basin Economic Development Program.
“There’s $20 million committed to a Healthy Rivers Program to fund community-driven proposals to improve the health of local rivers and wetlands.
“Four new Indigenous river ranger teams will also be stood up across the Basin.
“Importantly, this package includes a new approach to the delivery of Sustainable Diversion Limit adjustment projects and the 450GL to help Basin governments and communities achieve Basin Plan requirements.”
Mr Pitt said he looked forward to working with his Basin state colleagues to implement the reforms and deliver the Basin Plan.
A full list of initiatives is available in the Murray-Darling Community Investment Package available on the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment’s website.
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Foster Farms donates more than 35,000 servings of chicken to Selma Area Food Bank
Published 8:42 am Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Company’s COVID-19 Hunger Relief Efforts is providing 2.4 million servings of poultry to families in need
DEMOPOLIS, Alabama – On Tuesday, June 2, Foster Farms delivered a donation of more than 35,000 servings of chicken to Selma Area Food Bank to help feed local families. Last month, the family-owned company announced a donation of 2.4 million servings of poultry to food banks and hunger relief organizations in Alabama, Louisiana and on the West Coast. Truckloads of poultry are now being delivered to these organizations providing lean protein to families in need.
“Up and down the West Coast and in communities where we live and work, the economic effects of COVID-19 have been devastating,” said Foster Farms VP of Communications Ira Brill. “We are committed to supporting the important work our community organizations and longtime food bank partners are doing to fight hunger during these unprecedented times.”
“In all of the years I have worked on the front lines supporting those in need, I have never seen such a steep spike in demand,” Jeff Harrison, executive director of Selma Area Food Bank. “Foster Farms’ donation comes at a critical time when need has skyrocketed. We are grateful for their generous support in helping put food on the table for so many.”
Foster Farms maintains production facilities in Demopolis, Alabama, Louisiana, California, Oregon, Washington, and is leveraging its resources to expedite relief efforts. The donations are a continuation of a decade-long commitment to fighting hunger and responding to community need in time of crisis. Foster Farms encourages others to join in its efforts by donating to their local food bank or hunger relief organization.
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The Challenger 605 embodied the original, basic design of the Challenger 600 with its “walk-about cabin”. Vast improvements were made by Bombardier Aircraft, who eventually took over the Challenger 600 line of business jets. These advancements came from knowledge gained throughout the Canadair Regional Jet, development program by Bombardier Aircraft.
Bombardier describes its Challenger 605 as a stellar business performer. Bombardier incorporates superior strength, versatility and reliability with cost efficiency equivalent to a much smaller jet. It is unusually wide-bodied and can carry up to nineteen passengers in its 8.2 foot wide cabin. The cabin has also been improved to be one of the most quiet available today, making rest and work more productive. The Challenger 605 is a private jet well-suited for frequent cross-country trips under rigorous conditions, and refinements like a more advanced engines and winglets make the Challenger 605 capable of outstanding mission flexibility.
Bombardier built the Challenger 605 with the primary goal of passenger comfort. Improvements such as full time internet connectivity, greater cockpit comfort, Ethernet based audio/visual system, improved lavatory ergonomics, newly designed galley with more space and possibilities, and larger, higher windows providing more light and better views have all been incorporated into the Challenger 605. Passenger safety is also paramount in the design of the Challenger 605. The advanced, Collins, Pro Line 21 avionics suite, delivers state of the art situational awareness and less workload for its pilots.
Passengers aboard are transported at high speed cruise speeds of Mach 0.82, or 82% the speed of sound. At this swift speed, passengers are able to travel 4,600 miles. The Challenger 605 will fly passengers is total comfort and tranquility from Palm Springs to Chicago for a morning meeting and back again in time for dinner without the need to refuel! Bombardier boasts the Challenger 605 can carry 9 to 12 passengers across oceans and continents with unequalled ease and efficiency with exceptional mission capabilities. The Challenger 605 was built on a proven airframe design and the robust systems and engines have been incessantly tested and refined over 25 years. The Challenger 605 continues to carry on the outstanding legacy of comfort, reliability, dependability and capability of the original Challenger concept.
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Back in April, we featured a guest blog from Kartemquin Films' Tim Horsburgh on the PBS Needs Indies Campaign about PBS' decision to move its flagship independent film series Independent Lens and POV, from Tuesday nights to Thursday nights (a night when many local affiliates could opt instead to show other programming). Following an outcry from more than 1200 filmmakers and viewers, PBS decided to move the series to a national broadcast timeslot on Monday nights beginning this fall with the new season of Independent Lens.
While this is a positive step for the national broadcast, it may be a moot question if you live in the Washington DC Metro area. The good news is that we have a treasure of three local PBS affiliates (WETA, WHUT, and MPT) to choose from. The bad news is that NONE of the three show either POV or Independent Lens on the national carriage schedule.
Recently Docs In Progress Executive Director Erica Ginsberg asked panelists about this discrepancy at a Silverdocs panel called I Loved That Doc! Why Can't I Find It on TV? Donald Thoms, the Vice President of Programming at PBS made it clear it has to do with the decentralized nature of public television programming. While this system allows local stations to play programming marketed to local interests and to pick up programs from APT, NETA, or local producers, it may also have a lot to do with financial realities since local affiliates pay fees for shows acquired and distributed by PBS. As Michon Boston from WHUT made clear, stations like theirs cannot afford to carry every national carriage show and so must pick and choose.
Ginsberg cited the fact that that very week when POV was making its season premiere with Jennifer Fox's My Reincarnation on Thursday night at 10 pm, the show would not air until Sunday on WETA (at 1:15 am no less!) and not until the following Sunday on MPT (10:30 pm) and WHUT (12:00 am).
The challenge for filmmakers, of course, is that all the marketing that PBS, POV and Independent Lens may do for programming may be timed to the national broadcast, but is meaningless for viewers in communities who either are not getting the program on at that time or may never get it at all. Social media marketing is very important (especially to PBS and local affiliates which are trying to reach a younger demographic that may no longer subscribe to print newspapers or is likely to get information on upcoming programs through push-methods of e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter rather than visiting a local affiliate website or reading a TV Guide-type listing). Social media is not limited by geography: if a big marketing push goes out for a film, it reaches EVERYONE at the same time, whether or not the program is actually showing at that time. This creates a challenge both for documentary filmmakers and audiences who love documentaries to rely on the buzz which is so key to getting attention for a film in a day and age when we are all overwhelmed by information. Additionally the traditional approach of hiring a station-relations manager to handle regional marketing may not be financially feasible for all filmmakers (particularly ones who had hoped that being on a national program would help them avoid that additional expense).
POV and Independent Lens have both done stellar jobs in getting the films in their lineups shown in a myriad of places -- festivals, community screenings, educational screenings, and online. They are amazingly supportive to the films and filmmakers in their lineup. However, the question then remains as to the value of the actual "B" in "PBS" - the Broadcast. And that brings us back to the decentralized public television system.
While some stations could argue that their viewers are not as interested in documentaries as they might be in Downton Abbey, Antiques Roadshow or 1970s British comedies, it seems odd to make this argument in the Washington DC market. Probably in no other city in the country are there more people who are interested in social issue documentaries because they themselves are eating/sleeping/breathing/working on these issues every day. The DMV embraces our wonkiness and this can be seen by the number of people who not only attend, but participate in documentary film screening discussions - at Silverdocs, at Docs In Progress screenings, and at screenings going on every day of the year at film festivals, embassies, community centers, museums, think tanks, university campuses, and traditional cinemas around town. Heck, WETA has even been the presenting station for just about every Ken Burns film even though the director lives in New Hampshire. (Needless to say, Burns gets carried in the DC area on the national carriage schedule, but the same does not apply to the several dozen filmmakers whose works screen on POV or Independent Lens).
So what can you as documentary filmmakers and fans do about this? Well one of our alums Erik Lang was sitting at that panel and actually took it upon himself to blog about the issue.
If you want our local affiliates to know that you want to see POV and Independent Lens at the same time as the national carriage, you need to tell them. Here's how:
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Stop the presses: Nolan Finley is displeased with Joe Biden
Come on, Nolan. It's not even August yet. This is the best you can do?
"I wish Joe Biden was better," the headline on his Thursday column plaintively whines. Well, buddy, join the club.
Nolan Finley is very, very disappointed. (File photo)
But in a week during which the actual president of the United States slurred his way through a commencement speech at the U.S. Military Academy, when he whine-tweeted about how he "ran" down a gentle ramp afterward, when yet another book written by a former administration member revealed he doesn't know Finland is an independent nation, tried to get the Chinese to help him get re-elected, and that his staff pass notes to one another reading "He is so full of shit," and this all in one week -- you write about Biden?
Dude. You possess the singular honor of not endorsing Trump in 2016. Don't squander it.
But nooooo:
Many of us will find ourselves in the same place we were in 2016, forced to hold our noses and pick the lesser of two evils, whoever we perceive that to be based on our self-interests.
Pretending that Biden is the man for this very troubled moment in America is delusional. And pointing out his shortcomings, by the way, doesn’t make you a Trump lover.
Biden is a leaky balloon, unable to achieve liftoff in this campaign. During the dual crises this spring, he has not found the presence to inspire the nation to the hope that relief is coming.
A far better columnist at another newspaper, Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times, compared the nation to a burning building not long ago. We are the unlucky occupants crawling along the floor with our howling infant, trying to find our way out. Suddenly, a fireman appears at the window, and it's Joe Biden. Do you hand him the baby, or regret he isn't exactly the sort of firefighter you wanted?
Finley, faced with the conflagration, complains that the fireman isn't handsome enough, that Democrats picked the wrong firefighter from the field of applicants. No argument here! But we'd remind him that the Republicans had a similarly crowded field in 2016, conservatives across the spectrum, most at least semi-competent, and they chose the guy who thinks Finland is part of Russia.
Do better, Nolan. We still have months to go.
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Biden counters Trump in Michigan with ads, possible visit
Joe Biden is trying harder in the battleground that is upper Midwest amid fears Trump's "law and order" message is helping him gain steam with white voters.
Biden's strategy partly focuses on Michigan, The Washington Post reports:
He delivered a forceful anti-Trump speech in Pittsburgh, afterward bringing pizza to a firehouse. He began giving newfound attention to Minnesota, a state Democrats haven’t lost in nearly 50 years, and his campaign is eyeing potential trips to Wisconsin and Michigan.
Biden also began running ads in places like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — three states that secured the presidency for Trump in 2016 — that show empty football stadiums and text that reads, “Trump put America on the sidelines. Let’s get back in the game.”
The Post spoke to Democrat congressmen from Michigan about Biden's chances. Here's Rep. Daniel Kildee, of Flint:
“I understand why folks might be a little anxious — we’re all anxious about a lot of things because nothing is normal right now ... But in terms of this week, and this speech, I think Joe Biden showed that he can lead. ... The law-and-order issue by itself is Trump exploiting fear. And people are beginning to hear those dog whistles and see them for what they are.”
Rep. Andy Levin, who represents a portion of Macomb County, has meanwhile reportedly been pushing for Biden to visit.
“I don’t need Biden here on Nov. 2,” he said. “I need him here — I’m pushing for him as early as possible, before all the absentee balloting gets going.”
He said he has heard from a number of lukewarm Biden supporters who felt reassured by his Monday speech.
“I’m hearing a lot of relief, and I’m hearing a lot of, ‘Okay, this is an organizing principle about how to handle this,’ ” Levin said.
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Article published in SANDRP regarding impact of Mirzapur Thermal Power Plant on water resources: My analysis
As you all might be aware by now from my facebook updates and also from the Vindhya Bachao portal, that the proposed 1320 MW thermal power plant near BHU South Campus is under huge protest by us. Its nearly one year, the Environment Clearance of the project is yet to be recommended by MoEF and the project has been deferred twice by Expert Appraisal Committee of Coal Mines and Thermal Power Project. A detailed report on environment and wildlife issues is already submitted to MoEF which is also available online through www.vindhyabachao.org/welspun , this article is specially written by me to highlight the issues related to water resources. I hope this will convince you why this project is dangerous and why BHU is against the project since the beginning. This article also present you a small glimpse to the most major environmental challenge the country is facing-from thermal power plants
This article was originally published on 20th March, 2014 on blog of 'South Asia Network of Dams, Rivers and People' and is available online at link
Water for Power: Irrigation Dam to be Used for Thermal Power- Drinking Water Supply of BHU, Agriculture, and Existence of Waterfalls at Risk
Posted on March 20, 2014 by sandrp
Welspun Energy which is famous for renewable sources of energy like solar and wind power plants in India, is now becoming more infamous in thermal power sectors in India. While, the Environmental Clearance of one of its thermal power plant in Katni (Madhya Pradesh) is under controversy since 2 years alleging fake public hearing and protests from farmers for forcefully acquiring land with help of local administration,… an action replay is observed in another thermal power plant proposed by the company in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh. While High Court of Madhya Pradesh has issued notices to Central and State government of M.P. for Katni Thermal Power Plant raising question on the whole EIA process[i], the proposed 1320 MW Mirzapur thermal power plant is awaiting EC and is facing huge opposition from local people and Banaras Hindu University which has its new 2700 acres of south campus very near to the project site. Students of BHU even sent a written petition to MoEF alleging that public hearing was not communicated properly and the EIA concealed several critical information.In this article, we tried to highlight the issues related to water where the company has been alleged to conceal information and not taking into account the factors which will is bound to have significant impact on environment.
A 1320 MW coal based thermal power plant is proposed at village Dadri Khurd in Mirzapur by M/s Welspun Energy (U.P.) Pvt. Ltd. Issues like concealment of wildlife data and utilizing forest areas caught the eyes of environmentally concerned people after the Site Visit report prepared by Vindhya Bachao was made public. One of the key issues raised was the impact of water withdrawal and the manner in which it is proposed in the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report. The project proponent concealed information regarding the presence of an entire river, water-falls, a University campus of 2700 acres and the fact that the same water source provides drinking water to the entire campus!
The project was considered for Environmental Clearance by Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) – Thermal Power and Coal Mines on 26th March, 2013 and 18th November, 2013, and was deferred both the times. Local activists and Banaras Hindu University have made representations for shifting of this project to MoEF (Ministry of Environment and Forests) already. The project is being under consideration for third time by EAC in its meeting dated 25th March, 2014. This article presents a short summary of the contradictions between the claims made by the Company and the reality at the ground level. It also illustrates the extent to which a company can go to mislead the authorities to get an Environmental Clearance.
1. No EIA of withdrawal of water from Ganga
Ecological Flow ignored while giving NOC to withdraw Ganga water
The project proponent wrote in its EIA that 40 lakh liters of water per hour will be required by the power plant which will be withdrawn from River Ganga via Upper Khajuri Reservoir. In the NOC (No Objection Certificate) letter given by CWC (Central Water Commission), the dry period of Ganga has been written as January to May. According to researchers based in Varanasi and Mirzapur, the water flow in Ganga improves only around July after the onset of monsoons. Apart from this, one can visually make out the state of river Ganga in Mirzapur which starts drying in October and by November end, the river looks completely dry. In any case, the extraction of water in lean season will not only affect the river ecology but the livelihood of people dependent on the river as well specially the fishermen. Mirzapur stretch also reportedly has Gangetic Dolphins, which will be also affected due to the proposed activity. However, it is ironical to see that the country’s premier institutions like CWC ignored the water flow of Ganga at Mirzapur while giving NOC to withdraw water. Not only the lean season has been altered for the project but the high level of pollution in Ganga has also kept aside while allowing so much water (36 MCM) to be pumped for the power plant. Mirzapur lies between Allahabad and Varanasi, both of which lie on the banks of Ganga, and are responsible for its severely polluted state. No doubt the water quality of Ganga at Mirzapur is not great and there should be enough water present in the river to allow safe dispersal of pollutants and improving the self cleansing capacity of the river. In such a crisis, the decision of the CWC to allow withdrawal of water from Ganga is extremely incongruous.
In a response to a representation that we sent to the MoEF regarding this, the company replied that they are using just 0.0003% of total 60,000 Cu.mec. water flow in the Ganges. It must be mentioned here that this calculation was based on the consideration of 4 lakh litres of water required per hour, instead of 40 lakh/hour. As discussed earlier, such huge extraction of water will have significant impact on the river flow in lean season. There has been no impact assessment of the withdrawal of water from Ganga which was required to be done as per the TOR issued to the project.
The Distance of Upper Khajuri Reservoir by road from Mirzapur is at least 24 Km and from Upper Khajuri reservoir to the proposed site is another 7 Km. The elevation of the proposed project site is at 630 feet while the elevation of Upper Khajuri dam and river Ganga is at approx. 510 feet and 260 feet respectively. The pipeline crosses through several Reserve Forests like Barkachha RF, Daanti RF, Marihaan Reserve Forest and Patehra which are home to at least six Schedule I species including Sloth Bear, Chinkara and Vultures. According to a reply under RTI application from the forest department, it is also noted that the region has a very small population of Swamp deer and Mugger Crocodile too.
Picture 1: Map showing location of BHU Campus, Wyndham Fall, River Khajuri & Lower Khajuri Fall, presence of which were concealed in the EIA Report
2. Diversion of Irrigation Reservoir to Industrial Use, was there any participation of the affected people in this decision?
i) Imprudent approach to use Upper Khajuri The project proponent says that the water for dry season of Ganga will be met from Upper Khajuri Dam, which will be filled up during monsoon.The company also added that 9.5 MCM will be also pumped for agricultural needs of the people. Firstly, the reservoir is very much in use and is source of irrigation and drinking water. The subsequent question that arises is whether they have the permission for additional 9.5 MCM to be withdrawn and whether there is any checking mechanism to monitor that only 36 MCM water is being pumped and no more? Will they be able to maintain the water quality, which will be effected due to ingress of Ganges water?
According to the information available on WRIS-NRSC website, the Upper Khajuri Reservoir is a very old reservoir developed in 1962 as a medium irrigation project with potential created at 7280 Ha with a live storage-capacity of 37.834 MCM.
Our concern here is, whether the idea of filling up of a rain-fed reservoir with the severely polluted water from Ganga will solve the problem or escalate it? There are several agricultural fields adjoining Upper Khajuri reservoir that will be submerged. In addition, the clean water available to the farmers will be completely jeopardised and there will be increased threat of contamination of the fields due to the constant filling of polluted water from Ganga. It is worth noting that the current source of water for the reservoir is rainfall surface run-off which gets enough time to clean its water from suspended particles and other contaminants.
Picture 2: Upper Khajuri Reservoir| 10.02.2011. Photo: Debadityo Sinha
ii) No Mention of downstream features and impacts of alteration to Upper Khajuri reservoir The EIA report does not mention the important downstream features and uses of Upper Khajuri Reservoir. The Upper Khajuri Reservoir (UKR) is connected to Lower Khajuri Reservoir (LKR) via River Khajuri. River Khajuri runs alongside the Banaras Hindu University’s South Campus (A k.a. RGSC-Rajiv Gandhi South Campus) and has to two of the famous water-falls of Mirzapur, namely Wyndham Fall and Kharanja Fall.
Wyndham fall is a very famous historical water fall and nature park being maintained by Forest Department, which is on River Khajuri. The length of the river between Upper and Lower Khajuri Reservoir is very short, which is approximately less than 10 Km. The LKR is the source of drinking water to the entire BHU South Campus and any alteration to Upper Khajuri Reservoir will directly affect the Lower Khajuri Reservoir as both of them are connected via River Khajuri.
The EIA report not only ignores the presence of 2700 acres of RGSC-BHU, but also does not even mention the presence of River Khajuri, Wyndham Fall and Lower Khajuri Reservoir (LKR). LKR, commissioned in 1949 as per CWC register of Large Dams in India has gross storage capacity of 120.37 MCM (Million Cubic Meters). UKR, commissioned in 1958 has gross storage capacity of 44.74 MCM and live storage capacity of 37.83 MCM. As CWC register shows, both are irrigation projects.
A representation from Banaras Hindu University has already been sent to MoEF on 18th September, 2013, in which they have mentioned that any alteration to Upper Khajuri will jeopardise the drinking water source of the campus. In the same letter it has been demanded to shift the site of the project far from the campus.
Opposition is also coming from the students of RGSC. Students recently sent a petition with more than 500 signatures showing opposition to the use of Upper Khajuri dam and saying that Khajuri River has cultural values for the students and they are sentimentally attached to the river system, especially the Wyndham fall and Kharanja fall. They also showed concern regarding water quality as it is also the source of drinking water for them. The same petition also alleged that the information about public hearing was not communicated properly, due to which no one from RGSC could participate in the Public Hearing and register their complaint.
Picture 3: Wyndham Fall | 08.08.2010. Photograph: Debadityo Sinha
Picture 4: Cleanliness Drive at Wyndham Fall by BHU students with DFO Maneesh Mittal| 02.02.2012. Photograph: Eco One-BHU
Picture 5: Cleanliness Drive at Kharanja Fall by BHU students with DFO Adarsh Kumar| 02.02.2014. Photograph: Eco One-BHU
3. No Impact on water resources?
Under the Terms of Reference recommended by MoEF for EIA of the project, it was mandatory to:
“Study on the impact on river/marine ecology (as may be applicable) due to the proposed withdrawal of water/ discharge of treated wastewater into the river/ creek/ sea etc shall be carried out and submitted alongwith the EIA Report.”
The company repeatedly maintained in the EIA report that there will be no impact on water resources due to the project.
In the EIA report they wrote that the project will be designed for zero waste water discharge and the waste water generation will be only 1% of freshwater withdrawn. This magical prediction is based on their theoretical design. However, it is highly impractical. Moreover, there is no mention of River Khajuri, Wyndham fall and most importantly, the fact that the same water source is also used for drinking water by BHU and also irrigation. Apart from withdrawal of water, what concerns us is the impact of water pollution on the water sources. In a thermal power plant project, the water pollution range from discharges from cooling tower blow down, boiler blow down, demineralisation plant effluent, coal handling plant dust suppression, ash handling, Leachate of heavy metal (especially Mercury) from ash pond, effluent from oil handling and transformer areas, power house and turbine area effluent and domestic waste water. No detailed assessment of impacts on water due to withdrawal or discharge is given in the EIA report.
Though the company’s arguments have seems to have convinced State Government and Central Water Commission, it is becoming very hard for the BHU Professors to accept that this will not jeopardize the drinking water supply of the campus. As the Upper Khajuri dam and river Khajuri is being used extensively for drinking water, this will severely affect the water quality. As the length of river Khajuri between UKR and LKR is short, one cannot expect the self cleaning capacity of the river will be too sufficient. The impact of the water withdrawal on the aquatic ecology, groundwater recharge, irrigation, water falls was also required, none has been done.
EAC in its meeting dated 26th March, 2013 raised this issue to project proponent and asked for some other alternative water source for the project site, since the dam was constructed for drinking and agricultural needs and not for industrial purposes.
In our representation to EAC we also emphasized that water from Ganga will have very very high levels of BOD, coliforms and other pollutants, which will cumulatively jeopardize the water quality in the streams leaving this entire region in severe crisis of drinking water. Apart from that, contaminants like Zinc, Aresinc, Chromium, Phosphate, Copper and radioactive element like Uranium will impose heavy threat to the water quality of the local water sources as the waste water will be finally discharged in local nallah which will drain either into Khajuri river or some other wetland. The company has still kept a mum on the disclosure of that local nallah till now, where the wastewater is to be discharged.
On raising the issue regarding water discharge and impact on water resources to EAC in November last year, the company responded as follows:
“The desired water is sourced primarily from Ganga River flowing at a distance of 17 km from project site for which desired approvals have already been obtained from State & Central Government. The same is only intermediately stored at Upper Khajuri Dam, which is finally pumped to reservoir at project site. Therefore, our source of water is not common as Vindham Falls…
I. Referring Point No. I, we confirm that Upper Khajuri Dam will be used as intermediate storage of water from Ganga & ultimately will be pumped to our project site after fulfilling the commitment with State Government for irrigation & other purposes of local community…
Total water requirement for power project including irrigation requirement would be met by pumping water from river Ganges and storing In Upper Khajuri Dam and there is no conflict of interest as for as BHU and Vindham fall is concerned.”
We just hope EAC takes note of the silly and unscientific replies of the project proponent while making any decision in future of this project. In any case, an assessment of the quality of the Ganga water, how it will affect the UKR and Khauri river and downstream ecology and how will it ensured that water used by the company will be exactly same as the water pumped from Ganga minus the losses? Why can the project not be asked to build their own facility rather than using the UKR?
4. Other Issues with the Project
There are numerous environmental issues which were raised by Vindhya Bachao in its ‘Site Visit Report’ submitted to MOEF on 15th November, 2013 – including location of the project site inside a forest area, presence of Schedule I animals in the project site – which are in direct contradiction to the claims made in the EIA report that no forest land is involved and no endangered animal is present in project area. Some other issues were also reported like illegal means of getting signatures in support of the project in the form of job application form. The Site visit report prepared by Vindhya Bachao, BHU’s representation and all EIA documents of the project can be accessed at www.vindhyabachao.org/welspun.
It is also interesting to see what stand Mr. Narendra Modi, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate who will be contesting from Varanasi, just 60 km downstream of Mirzapur, will take. While he tries to woo people of Varanasi for clean Ganga, will he understand the ecology of Ganga? And can he prevent further destruction of this mighty, holy river from companies like Welspun. This becomes particularly interesting since Welspun has flourished in Gujarat under Modi’s rule.
Debadityo Sinha (debadityo@gmail.com)
END NOTES:
[i] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/the-good-earth/High-court-notice-to-Centre-Madhya-Pradesh-govt-on-Welspun-plant/articleshow/29517083.cms
[ii] http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/did-welspun-fudge-facts-its-coal-fired-power-plant-mirzapur
[iii] http://greenbhu.blogspot.in/2014/03/students-of-rgsc-sent-petition-to_20.html
[iv] http://india-wris.nrsc.gov.in/wrpinfo/index.php?title=Upper_Khajuri_Reservoir_JI01845
[v] http://india-wris.nrsc.gov.in/wrpinfo/index.php?title=Upper_Khajuri_D00870
[vi] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/Farmer-commits-suicide-in-Katni-district/articleshow/21444754.cms
[vii] http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bhopal/land-allotted-to-welspun-farmers-to-stage-protest/article1-965389.aspx
[viii] http://india-wris.nrsc.gov.in/wrpinfo/index.php?title=Lower_Khajuri_D00555
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भारत तेरी गंगा मैली ! ( एक कविता )
Ganga is treated as Goddess and evening prayer is being offered at several places on river bank. This picture is one of the Evening Prayer at Varanasi, taken January, 2011. गंगा को बचाने की कोशिश यूँ तो हुई है हज़ारों बार गंगा बचाओ गंगा बचाओ शुरू हुआ एक कारोबार । प्लान पॉलिसी की आड़ में बढ़ते गए और अत्याचार अत्याचार पर रोक लगाने चुन आई नयी सरकार । गंगाजी के विकास को नालों के निकास को संतों की बकवास को लिखा गया इस बार । अविरल हो, निर्मल हो कुछ नहीं तो सम्मान हो बहने दो बस बहने दो बस यही एक मांग है । नदी हूँ मैं नदी हूँ मैं बहना ही मेरा काम है भूल से भी ये मत भूलो गंगा भी मेरा नाम है । - देबादित्यो सिन्हा
Wetlands in India: Their Importance and hydrologic alteration as threat from urbanization
Content: Introduction > Wetlands in India: Current Scenario > Wetland Services > Urban Water Crisis and Altered Hydrology Cycle (Case study: Chilika Lake) > Concerns (Case study: Sonbhadra) > Conclusion Introduction Wetlands as the name suggest is any land which is wet or contain water. There has been much definition for wetlands but none can be said perfect definition. Since years, the most common definition used by scientific texts is, wetlands are lands transitional between terrestrial and aquatic eco-systems where the water table is usually at or near the surface or the land is covered by shallow water (Mitch and Gosselink, 1986). However a more clear and detailed definition can be found of that of Ramsar Convention , entered into force 1975 as ‘ areas of marsh, fen, peat, land or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that is static or flowing, fresh, brackish or salt, including areas of marine water the depth of which
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Queensland Women in STEM Awards
Posted by Southern Cross Catholic College, Scarborough on 3 April 2019
On Sunday Southern Cross Catholic College Year 11 Science Ambassadors Mekayla Chandler, Olivia Sanderson, Natalija Pankov and Molly Moroney had a taste of what their future could look like when they represented the College at the Queensland Women in STEM awards.
Southern Cross Catholic College was invited to nominate for this prestigious invitation as they were recognised for offering STEM opportunities with a focus on female participation. Southern Cross Catholic College joined City Point Christian College, the Islamic College of Brisbane, Ministers of State and leaders from industry and academia in this prize giving event at the State Library as part of the World Science Festival. The winners were truly amazing and operating at the leading edge of their fields in terms of innovation and result.
Olivia, Mekayla, Natalija and Molly are all aspiring scientists themselves and as Science Ambassadors they are excited to bring back their learning and inspiration to every campus to start encouraging girls in the pursuit of science and STEM. A lunchtime talk is planned for next term to show what the Queensland Women in STEM winners have achieved and what can be achieved by any woman who wants to make a difference in the world through STEM. With encouragement there is no reason why a future winner can't come from Southern Cross!
The students are pictured with the Hon Di Farmer, Minister for Child Safety, Youth and Women and Leeane Enoch, Minister for Science who presented the awards in a ceremony and with Dr Paul Birch, the Chief Scientist for Queensland and Dr Anu Choudhary, award recipient.
This was a wonderful opportunity for Southern Cross and for these young women who represented us beautifully. The event even featured on 10 News First.
Author: Southern Cross Catholic College, Scarborough
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Here is your first look at PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ new desert map
November 18, 2017 John Papadopoulos 4 Comments
Bluehole and NVIDIA have released the first screenshots for the desert map that will be coming to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. This map will be available once the game fully releases later this year, and these screenshots will give you an idea of what you can expect from it.
As NVIDIA noted, this map is still under a WIP state. As such, these visuals do not represent the final version of this map. And we seriously hope that Bluehole will further improve it visually. Because as it is, this new map looks like a blurry mess, especially due to its low-resolution textures.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a battle royale game that is currently available on Steam in Early Access. The game has sold more than 20 million copies so far, and its full release will most probably hit Steam in December.
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Chinese investments in Duqm under detailed design
All 10 industrial and petrochemical projects earmarked for development at the China-Oman Industrial Park in the Duqm Special Economic Zone (SEZ) are currently under detailed design, according to the head of the consortium overseeing the implementation of the ambitious hub. Ali Shah (pictured), CEO of Wanfang LLC, said the design of the projects — which include a mega methanol and methanol-to-olefins (MTO) scheme, major power plant, world-scale solar equipment manufacturing facility, oilfield goods and pipeline plants, and a sprawling hospitality venture — will lead to sub-usufruct agreements being inked with the individual investors.
Invited to comment on the status of the massive undertaking, which will see up to $10.7 billion of investment flowing into the hub, Ali Shah said Oman Wanfang, the main developer of the 1,172 hectare industrial park at the SEZ, was working closely with the SEZ Authority at Duqm (SEZAD) to take the initiative through to fruition.
Speaking at the OER Business Summit, organised by UMS Events, on Monday, he however noted that the lack of commitment towards the allocation of gas for the 10 projects was still an issue.
‘We would want gas for our heavy industries, and although Khazzan gas has now come on stream, there is no commitment yet for gas from the Omani side’, he said.
Later, speaking to the Observer, Ali Shah noted that some of the large petrochemical plants planned at the China-Oman Industrial Park would require gas as feedstock for their operations. The investors in question, he explained, are not expecting natural gas for “cheap”, but rather at a “competitive price”.
“We are talking about gas not as a fuel resource but as feedstock for these industries. So if we do not have competitively priced gas, we cannot go to the investors,” he said.
Ahead of the start of actual construction work on the projects, Oman Wanfang is currently developing the infrastructure and utilities across the sprawling park, said Ali Shah. “Right now, we are doing the land levelling, roads, water and electricity utilities, and corridors. We are working closely with SEZAD to achieve these goals.”
Lined up for initial development in the heavy industrial zone, the Chairman said, is a mega methanol-to-olefin (MTO) plant alongside a giant greenfield methanol scheme promoted by Chinese petrochemicals corporation Mingyuan Holdings Group Co Ltd with an investment of around $2.3 billion.
- Oman Observer
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Home / news / Talks ongoing for gas supply to China-Oman Industrial Park in Duqm
Talks ongoing for gas supply to China-Oman Industrial Park in Duqm
Oman Wanfang LLC, the developer and operator of the China-Oman Industrial Park under implementation at Duqm Special Economic Zone (SEZ), says it is in discussion with the Ministry of Oil & Gas for the gas requirements of the multibillion-dollar industrial investments planned at the Park.
Gas availability, supply and cost remain a ‘bottleneck’ that would need to be resolved if a number of large petrochemical and industrial schemes envisioned at the Park are to progress, said a key executive of Oman Wanfang.
“We have had several rounds of negotiations between the investors, the SEZ Authority at Duqm (SEZAD) and the Ministry of Oil & Gas,” said Liao Zhenhua (pictured), Deputy General Manager — Oman Wanfang. “The bottleneck is for gas supply — how we can get the required capacity, the timeframe for supply, and at what price,” he added.
Zhenhua made the comments in a presentation at the 2017 Dossier Construction Infrastructure Awards & Summit, organised by UMS Events, at Sheraton Oman Hotel yesterday.
The issue of gas supply for some of the $10.7 billion in Chinese investments planned at the Park was also discussed during a joint roadshow staged by SEZAD and Oman Wanfang in Dalian, China last month, he said.
Later, in comments to the Observer, Zhenhua said locally sourced and competitively priced natural gas is imperative to the success of a slew of heavy industrial and petrochemical schemes due to come up at the Park. He ruled out imported and regasified LNG as an alternative energy source for these ventures, arguing that energy imports would hurt the viability of the projects in question.
Among the first major investments lined up for implementation at the Park is an integrated Methanol and Methanol to Olefin (MTO) complex promoted by China’s Mingyuan Holdings Group Ltd, said Zhenhua. Natural gas is the primary feedstock for the giant scheme, which is proposed to be built with an investment of around $2.8 billion in Phase 1. It includes a roughly 1.8 million tonnes per annum (tpa) capacity methanol plant, 700K tpa methanol-to-olefin plant, 300K tpa polyethylene plant and 450K tpa polypropylene plant.
Gas will also be required to power a 300MW captive power plant jointly planned by Hebei Electric Power Design Research Institute and Ningxia Electric Power Design Institute with an investment of around $400 million. Also envisaged as part of the complex is a 50,000 tonnes per day capacity seawater desalination plant proposed by Ningxia Water Treatment Co Ltd with an investment of around $80 million.
Part of the 1,172 hectare site earmarked for the China-Oman Industrial Park has already been prepared for the laying of the infrastructure and utilities ahead of the actual commencement of construction work on the industries, says Zhenhua.
“Detailed drawings were submitted for approval last week, which will pave the way for the development of utilities and infra to commence,” the Deputy General Manager said. “We hope for Phase 1 of the Park to be completed within the next five years.”
- Oman Daily Observer
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Pat Neely
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I’m an early-bowed string player and teacher who, for several decades, has specialized in the viola da gamba, violone, vielle, and baroque bass. I hold a BA in music from Vassar College and an MFA in Historical Performance from Sarah Lawrence College. I’ve played with many early music ensembles here and abroad, and I currently direct Abendmusik – New York’s early music string band, which presents a three-concert series in New York City.
Carmen Johnson-Pájaro
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I’m a violinist and arts administrator currently based in New York City, though originally from Birmingham, Alabama. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the New England Conservatory, I’m now pursuing a degree in historical performance at The Juilliard School. I look forward to working with EMA’s IDEA Task Force to foster a diverse community of artists, scholars, and audiences alike!
Drawing on my training as a musician with a BM in Flute Performance from The University of Connecticut, I am a classical radio broadcaster. I am the host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, a program I originated on WSHU Public Radio in my hometown of Fairfield, CT. Since 1998, Sunday Baroque has been nationally syndicated, with more than a quarter million weekly listeners on 230+ stations. I also continue to perform as a soloist and chamber musician.
A native of Taiwan, Joyce Chen is a professional harpsichordist based in Philadelphia while pursuing a PhD in Historical Musicology at Princeton University. Her academic research includes a variety of topics, including acoustics, musical instruments, aesthetics, and performance practice; she is currently preparing for an online opinion piece on Asian practitioners of early music for Early Music America. As an avid performer, Joyce has been featured as a soloist in the 2019 Early Music America Emerging Artist Showcase in Bloomington.
I am a Bolivian historical violinist and scholar interested in researching and presenting non-euro centered early music while recognizing the syncretism and connections with traditional music. I studied Historical Performance at Case Western Reserve University, Royal Academy of Music and currently pursue a PhD in Musicology at McGill University with a research focus on 19th c. performance practices in South America using as a case study the music of Peruvian composer Pedro Ximenez Abrill Tirado.
Gus has been the Executive Director of Early Music Seattle (Formerly Early Music Guild of Seattle) since 2000 and is a graduate of the doctoral program in early music performance at Indiana University. His performance interests include Trio Guadalevin and The Eurasia Consort – a reflection of his position that early music should include all of the world’s deep-rooted music traditions.
I am the administrative director of the New York Continuo Collective, as well as a board member of the Pat O’Brien Library, and a member of the board of S’Cool Sounds. A player of the theorbo, baroque guitar, dulcian, saxophones, and blues harp, my interest is in every music that swings in its own, appropriate way. A former attorney for The Legal Aid Society of New York, Criminal Defense Division, I believe that we can all do better.
My primary instruments are the viola da gamba, baroque bass and vielle. Currently I am the Assistant Orchestra director at Woodcreek MS where I have a viola da gamba ensemble open to orchestra students including Summercreek HS. I am spreading the gospel of the viol to students of diverse backgrounds.
Benjamín Juárez
Director of the Center for Mexican Studies of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Boston, he teaches at Boston University, where he served as Dean of the College of Fine Arts. He has made over a dozen of historically informed recordings of Mexican Cathedral music from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Benjamín is also a corresponding member of Mexico’s Academy of History and advises several organizations on strategies for diversity and inclusion.
Reggie Mobley
I’m a countertenor and Southern transplant bringing the gift of music and hospitality to frigid New England. I’ve been singing as a professional soloist for the better part of this century. Not only Bach and other 17th c. cats, but also everything from Jazz to Barbershop. I’m also a director with the Handel and Haydn Society also serving as their first ever Programming Consultant. I also sling a mean Manhattan.
I’m a violinist from Valencia, Venezuela based in Nashville, TN. I started my musical training in the El Sistema music program, and I am a doctoral candidate at Indiana University. This is my fourth year teaching modern and historical violin and period strings at Vanderbilt University. I also play with the Nashville Opera and I am concertmaster of Music City Baroque.
I was a member of the Monterrey Symphony Orchestra (OSUANL) and Opera Nuevo Leon, and previously taught Violin at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL); I’ve performed in the Chamber Music Festival of Nuevo Leon, Festival Internacional de Música Mexicana, CONARTE, KBYU-Radio, Radio-Nuevo Leon. Currently, I perform with The Unitas Ensemble, Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, Crescendo, American Baroque Orchestra, and The Oriana Consort. I am a Certified Music Practitioner in training.
I’m Jonathan Woody, bass-baritone, originally from Prince George’s County, Md. Since 2010, I’ve been based in Brooklyn, NY, where I perform primarily early and new music on concert and chamber stages. I’ve taken my work on the road around the US and Canada, performing with leading historically-informed vocal and instrumental ensembles. I also work as a composer and draw inspiration from the intersection of early and contemporary musical languages.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has had tremendous effects on our societies. The loss of lives and the health crisis in general has been devastating.
Secondary to this, as societies closed down to limit the spread of the disease, economic activity ground to a halt. As a result, we may be facing the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression. This crisis also creates an opportunity to revisit and improve economic policy and create a better and greener future for Europe.
Representing various actors in the financial system, Accountancy Europe, CFA Institute, FESE and EBRD firmly believe that capital markets can play a crucial part in mitigating some of the economic fall-out.
Together, in 2019, they re-launched the European IPO Task Force , which in its report highlighted and promoted the need for more equity financing to support the European economy. In light of the present crisis, this is more urgent than ever.
During the crisis, markets experienced extreme volatility. In the critical days, equity markets stayed open to ensure orderly and well-functioning pricing of assets and provision of liquidity. Despite extreme trading conditions, Exchanges continued offering safety, integrity and fairness in the trading place.
A significant increase in trading volumes was observed and trading volumes gravitated towards transparent Exchanges, whereas bilateral and less transparent venues were often unable to provide immediate executions. Equity markets worked seamlessly, while fixed-income markets (as during the financial crisis) very often proved to be very illiquid.
Various solutions for monetary and fiscal stimulus packages are being discussed at both European and national level. In the short-term, credit and liquidity enhancements will be important to support businesses that are struggling with a lack of liquidity due to a situation where the economy has been temporarily put on ice.
While the banking system can help ensure immediate liquidity, to stabilise and ensure a sustainable and solvent European economy, equity recapitalisation will be needed. Companies need to have available financing options to ensure employment and wealth creation in Europe.
Equity Markets are crucial to restore the solvency of companies, as:
Listed companies can raise fresh equity capital via secondary offerings in the market;
IPOs will continue to enable an important source of capital to innovative growth companies, despite challenging market conditions;
European and national developmental banks and governments should provide equity participation to companies with a sustainable post-crisis business model that are experiencing solvency issues due to Covid-19.
The EU Capital Markets Union (CMU) should become the focal point for all efforts into recapitalising the European economy and ensuring EU citizens can participate in the economic returns from the rescue funds provided. There is currently a large amount of cash in the banking sector that bears no interest and, so far, has not been mobilised to finance the EU real economy. Policy makers need to mobilise attractive investment possibilities for EU end-investors into equity to rebuild the economy. Smaller entities and growth companies are disproportionately affected by the Covid crisis and need to be supported. We also believe that synergies between CMU, sustainable finance and SME financing agendas is the key to creating the long-term and green recovery that Europe’s economy needs.
As part of President von der Leyen’s strategy to help SMEs’ access to finance, bridging the missing gap for SMEs, who are currently bank-financed, to ensure they are able to grow and be nurtured up to the IPO stage and beyond is vital. In support of this, a potential pan-European equity fund could be formed by the EU to attract cross-border investors. This fund will need to be truly pan-European and have an attractive set-up for institutional and retail investors.
The post-crisis world will be built upon the choices we make now. Therefore, we call for the following:
A revamped CMU which balances between private and public markets is a must. CMU will also be key to implement the European Recovery Fund and build a sustainable and resilient EU economy;
The proposed fund for EU IPOs should be pan-European and support both IPOs and secondary issuances, while contributing to relaunching IPOs;
To re-equitize the economy, a concrete proposal for the fund through public/private partnerships should be drafted. For investors outside the EU this would provide them with an opportunity to get an EU wide perspective on their investment. We are ready to engage in further dialogue on this instrument to ensure its ultimate success;
The various stimulus packages should include specific bridge financing for viable SMEs/growth companies that were planning IPOs when the Covid crisis hit. This bridge financing would help to finance their growth stage for the next few months and facilitate the relaunch of their IPOs. Once equity markets stabilise again, EU financing could possibly be maintained or partially converted into equity to provide stability in the uncertain times;
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The COVID crisis has confirmed that highly leveraged companies are at higher risk of failure, and indeed were amongst the first ones to fail. We need a more diverse financing of companies in Europe and allow all companies, and in particular smaller businesses, to strengthen their balance sheets by reducing their reliance on external debts. Thus, we call on the EU and member states to address the existing debt-equity bias on taxation. This invariably will require measures to strengthen equity investments over measures that favour debt.
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7 Modern Industries Thomas Edison Created
Throughout his life, Edison created and radically altered not only the lighting industry, but many others that created the American economy. In fact, $8 to 12 billion of the US’s economy today can be tied to Thomas Edison’s innovation. Here are 7 main industries in which he had a major impact:
1. Lighting Industry
One of the earliest catalogs of the Edison Lighting Company, circa 1887
Probably his most iconic invention, the light bulb gave birth to a huge industry for providing lighting across a wide variety of illumination needs. Along with creating the lighting industry, many writers credit Edison’s light bulb with promoting the productive capacity of humanity, increasing nighttime safety, and making evening entertainment events more popular.
2. Music & Radio
Theo Wangemann recording in Edison Laboratory Music Room, circa May 1905
The ability to record sound and re-play it is one of the world’s great pleasures; and it stems from Edison’s phonograph and the world’s first recording studio at Edison’s West Orange labs. Here, the first great recordings fostered an ever prospering desire to create new sounds and rhythms. Think of the national awards and accolades we bestow upon recording artists every year at show like the Grammys, American Music Awards, and more! Not to mention the booming podcast industry of the modern era.
3. Motion Pictures
Black Maria, the World’s First Recording Studio, built by Thomas Edison in West Orange, NJ
Just a few hundred feet from Edison’s recording studio, the invention of the motion picture camera took place in West Orange, NJ; and about a block away, Edison built the first motion picture studio, unlocking the world’s fascination with movies. We enjoy movies today on large and small screens everywhere. Again, think of the awards we celebrate every year for this highly creative and expanding industry.
4. Battery Industry
The lineup of Edison Storage Batteries, Edison’s more profitable invention!
We hear so much today about the value of battery energy storage for electric vehicles and the storage of solar generated electricity. We can thank Edison for his development of alkaline storage batteries in the early 1900’s for battery technology today. They were not only the back bone of mining helmet lights or his own electrical car in his time, but also for our cell phones, modern electric vehicles, and large scale utility system applications today!
5. Research & Development
Thomas Edison in his West Orange research and design lab, the first of its kind
Probably his most important innovation was Edison’s commercial research labs. This became the basis for R&D labs in every major company in the and served as the model for the network of national labs which drive our America’s science and engineering legacy. In 2019, America spent about $550 billion on organized research in all sectors of the economy!
6. Electric Power Industry
Thomas Edison exhibiting in his hand a replica of his first successful incandescent lamp which gave 16 candlepower of illumination, circa October 1929
Our entire electrical energy system is based on the model Edison demonstrated in 1882 at Central Station in New York City. Improved over the years and converted from DC to AC, this industry provides the power for our homes, industrial practices, internet connection, and keeps our cell phones and other hand-held devices charged.
7. Electronic Devices
The first “electronic” patent circa 1883
Did you know that Edison filed the first “electronic” patent in 1883? It was a phenomenon that Edison observed in 1875 and refined later while he trying to improve the incandescent lamp. They call it the “Edison Effect.” This discovery was applied to modern electronics like transistors, microchips, phones, televisions, and x-ray sources.
This entry was posted in Did You Know? on March 17, 2020 by Edison Innovation Foundation.
This Bioconcrete Would’ve Impressed Thomas Edison
Concrete is everywhere we look in our modern world. Thomas Edison even innovated the concrete making process, improving the output of rotary kilns by a factor of four; and then going on to develop poured concrete houses and other large structures. He also worked in biology to discover a new natural resource for rubber when there were fears that it would run out.
He once said, “Great forces, material forces, undoubtedly exist, under our very noses, of which we know at present absolutely nothing about.”
Bioconcrete technology is the exact kind of bioengineering that Edison took an interest in later in his career. It is concrete that heals itself using bacteria.
A piece of bioconcrete created by Henk Jokers to heal itself
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Henk Jonkers, of Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands, has designed a new type of concrete that can fix its own cracks. His secret sauce involves calcium lactate, setting the bacteria and calcium lactate into capsules made from biodegradable plastic and adding the capsules to the wet concrete mix.
When cracks eventually begin to form in the concrete, water enters and opens the capsules. The bacteria then germinate, multiply and feed on the lactate, and in doing so they combine the calcium with carbonate ions to form calcite (limestone) which closes up the cracks. The concrete mending process may take a few weeks to complete.
Bioconcrete fixing a crack on its own with new technology from Delft University
We have all seen those rust-brown streaks that stain things like bridge abutments, pillars, and many other concrete objects. The real problem with concrete cracks is water in-leakage and the rusting of reinforcing bars that can weaken the structural integrity of the concrete structure.
Bioconcrete is a good way to address the problem of water leakage and rusting of reinforcing bars. It is a prime example of how nature and engineering can work well together.
Work continues with this technology to develop a spray-on healing liquid for large surface areas. Who knows? Maybe they would have used this technology on the old Yankee stadium, if it was still around, which was built with Edison Portland Cement.
Yankee Stadium built by Edison Portland Cement early 1923
This entry was posted in Did You Know? on February 28, 2020 by Edison Innovation Foundation.
How Thomas Edison Celebrated His Birthday, February 11
February 11th is the birthday of the world’s greatest inventor, Thomas Edison. In fact, people around the country celebrate it as “National Inventor’s Day” in his honor!
Edison, however, did not stray very much from his regular day when he celebrated this day. On Edison’s 73rd birthday, he reported to his desk bright and early ready to work. Age meant little to him.
According to Edison, “There is no reason why men should not live as old as the Sequoia trees of California if they take care of themselves”.
However, 73 was a special year for him. Since he started his career as a telegraph operator, Edison knew very well that 73 signified “all good wishes” in Morse Code! This would be the first real celebration he had in years.
10 States that Know How to Invent Like Thomas Edison
In his lifetime, Thomas Edison received 1,093 patents in the United States alone. His record wasn’t surpassed until 2003 by a Japanese inventor, 72 years after Edison’s final patent application. Today, we have come a long way with about 1,762 patent applications filed across the world each day.
According to the U.S. Patent Office, 161,809 patent applications were filed in the United States in 2018. A majority of those patents, about 68%, were filed in the Top 10 Invention States of all time…including Thomas Edison’s home state of New Jersey! Based on analyzed data from the U.S. Patent Office, below is the ranking of the states with the most patents awarded to its citizens from 1963 to 2018:
This entry was posted in Did You Know? on January 28, 2020 by Edison Innovation Foundation.
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Are Many States Behind Schedule With Their Common-Core Contracts?
By Andrew Ujifusa — July 28, 2014 3 min read
Cross-posted from the Marketplace K-12 blog
by Michele Molnar
An analysis of contracting for common core-related materials shows a limited number of states accounted for the 600 opportunities in 2012 and 2013, with many other states showing no activity so far, according to Paul Irby, a market analyst at Onvia, a Seattle-based government business intelligence company.
Eleven states made at least 10 common core-related contracting awards in the last two years, while 20 states have had no awards, or only one, according to Onvia’s review of bids, requests for proposal (RFPs), and awarded contracts in its proprietary database of government contracts.
Here’s how that unevenness looks on a map:
The orange states on this map had at least 10 common core project opportunities in the two years spanning 2012 and 2013, with major spending in areas like re-tooling a curriculum and professional development, according to the “Market Analysis: How Common Core is Shaping Public Sector Education Contracts” report.
Interestingly, Oklahoma, which recently repealed the common core, is in the category of states with 10 or more project opportunities between 2012 and 2013. And North Carolina, where the governor signed a bill to review the standards, is in the “five to nine” project opportunity category.
“We definitely know there’s a lot of political controversy about common core, but our approach was not to focus on the politics, but on the contracting trends data,” said Irby in a phone interview.
Spending Expected to Pick Up
“It seems like the majority of spending will happen between right now, and next year, when testing formally starts,” said Irby. And the pressure’s on. “There are all these states that haven’t even started,” he added.
Among Onvia’s other findings:
Common core opportunities grew 20 percent from 2012 to 2013, as more states moved from planning to the implementation stage.
School districts outpace state education departments as buyers, with 61 percent of the bids, RFPs, and awards originating from districts, compared to 24 percent that came from states.
With many schools unprepared for online testing, opportunities are anticipated in the area of providing computing devices and upgrading school bandwidth.
Most awarded contracts thus far are under $100,000, but some in the millions of dollars—which skews the average award amount to $375,200, while the median is $35,200.
Here’s how Onvia calculates that the contracts break down:
Types of Common Core Spending
Onvia’s report looks at examples of contracts in instructional materials, professional development, and curriculum consulting.
Examples of contracts in these areas include:
$2.6 million from the Stockton Unified School District in California, for elementary math online learning materials from the Mind Research Institute;
$712,600 from the school district in Lewis Center, Ohio for elementary level mathematics textbook materials from the Great Source Education Group of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;
$388,800 from Tulsa Public Schools for a five-day teacher training on implementing the common core from Battelle for Kids;
$155,000 in Warren City, Ohio for a curriculum gap analysis/instructional review from Scholastic.
Few contracts showed up in the testing/assessment category, the report indicated. An Education Week analysis showed that the national landscape is fragmenting as states plan for common core testing, so this part of the marketplace is still a question mark. Education Week also explored the common core-influenced market, and the complexities of districts’ and states’ spending decisions as they implement the standards.
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28-Jan-2020 Laura Jones
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With a climate as clement as California's, who wouldn't want to spend their luxury holiday outdoors?
Beyond Disneyland and Hollywood, the coastal state of California has plenty more to see. Although the state's plush hotels and resorts may make you never want to leave, take a moment to breathe in the fresh ocean air and you'll feel instantly invigorated to start exploring the wonderful wineries, national parks, rugged mountains and cosmopolitan cities of California...
With a landscape incorporating the glacier-carved valley of Yosemite, mountainous coastline of Big Sur and the enigmatically empty Mojave Desert, you could lace up your hiking boots and walk for days in California. The Golden State's 1.6 million acres of state park - along with nine National Parks - comprise hiking routes in abundance, leading you through steep-walled canyons, beneath towering redwood trees and into bubbling natural hot springs. If it's pedal power you prefer, you won't be alone. California is a cyclist's paradise; whether it's off-the-beaten track routes through the wilderness or a casual city cycle along the beachfront, it's the best way to travel. Easily reached from Los Angeles, San Diego and Las Vegas, Greater Palm Springs is Southern California's most storied desert oasis, characterised by long sunny days and spectacularly starlit nights. Traverse the alluring desert dunes and granite monoliths of Joshua Tree National Park or the incredible slot canyons surrounding the San Andreas Fault Line, before retiring amongst the rugged mountains and pretty palms at The Ritz-Carlton, Rancho Mirage.
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Family cycling in California
Further north, unearth the plunging waterfalls and granite grandeur of Yosemite National Park, idyllic for hiking and biking! A twelve-mile loop of paved paths guides cyclists around the 1,000-square-mile park, while hiking paths lead you into the wilderness to find bountiful waterfalls and budding wildflowers. Amid the swathes of evergreen forest, Tenaya Lodge at Yosemite is the perfect mountain retreat; you can even join the daily nature hike if you simply haven't tired of the scenery! If it's a movie-worthy finale you're looking for, venture along one of the three trails which lead to the iconic Hollywood Sign. Wander amongst the Santa Monica mountains and take in the fragrant wildflowers before you arrive at the look out, where you'll be rewarded with views of the sign, bustling downtown Los Angeles, and on a clear day, the cobalt blue Pacific Ocean.
Wine Country Charm
Approximately 85% of all U.S wine originates from California, with the state housing 3,000-plus wineries, from boutique, family-owned cellars to big-name wine makers with vines seemingly sprawling as far as the eye can see. Since the state's first vineyard was planted in 1779, wine-tasting has become one of California's must-do activities, and with so many award-winning labels and lesser-known tipples to taste, we're not surprised! Just a short drive from San Francisco, you'll unearth the grapes and vines of the notoriously alluring Napa Valley. Hop aboard the 100-year-old railcars of Napa's vintage Wine Train and relish polished, personal service and a gourmet, multiple-course meal onboard, or roam the region's wineries on foot and bask in the golden hue of the warm, afternoon sun. For those wishing to spend a night or two amongst this naturally beautiful setting, wine enthusiasts are warmly welcomed at Meadowood Napa Valley's two-hundred-fifty-acre estate, a quaint venue for tastings by nearby vintners and grapegrowers and home to one of only two, three Michelin-starred restaurants in the region.
Napa Valley Wine Train
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Napa Valley Vine Trail
Nearing double Napa Valley's size is Sonoma County, where world-class wines are only the beginning. Sonoma's slower-paced lifestyle means there's more time for picnics paired with Pinot Noirs, touring the gastronomic gems of the Sonoma Palaza and meeting with fourth- and fifth-generation wine-producing families, to discover how their tipples have travelled through the ages. An authentic, yet luxurious taste of life in Sonoma Valley, Farmhouse Inn's exclusive Winery Partner Programme promises guests privileged access to the finest Sonoma wineries, providing a taste of the finest tipples and epicurean delights with bespoke tours led by an expert sommelier.
Step outside your plush hotel and you'll find local life thriving in California. The Golden State's multitude of cities see residents intermingled with visitors on every street, equally enjoying the star-studded culture and authentic activities of this ever-diversifying destination. Set on a seven-by-seven-mile peninsula, San Francisco is a city of sights; from cycling across the Golden Gate Bridge and riding the world's last manually operated cable car system, to strolling through the streets of Chinatown and across the pier at Fisherman's Wharf, there's plenty to pack in. Hidden away at the heart of it all is urban oasis, San Francisco Botanical Gardens - 55 acres of extraordinarily beautiful plants and flowers from around the world. If you prefer boat trips to blooms, make the short hop across water to Alcatraz Island, where you'll learn more about the former federal prison's history and previous inhabitants.
In Southern California, Los Angeles is buzzing with activities and adventures. You're never far from celebrity culture in L.A., but you're never closer than when in Hollywood. Stroll along the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where more than 2,000 of entertainment's most illustrious names are immortalised, or venture to neighbouring Beverly Hills and indulge with shopping and street art on the equally eminent Rodeo Drive and Melrose Avenue. Although it's encircled by the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles, if it's chilled out, coastal city culture you're looking for, Santa Monica is the place to be. Famed for palm-lined streets, golden beaches and, of course, the photogenic pier, it's the perfect detox from the hustle and bustle. Try living like a local and experience the active, SoCal lifestyle; try your hand at paddleboard yoga, hit the surf breaks or simply take a sunset jog along the sand - you'll feel soothed by Santa Monica in no time.
From my home in picturesque North Wales, my travels have taken me from the idyllic Greek Islands to the bright lights of New York - always with a very full suitcase, of course!
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Tayshia Adams' Instagram About Becoming The Bachelorette Is So Fierce
By Rachel Varina and Lexi Williams
Just when it seemed Season 16 of The Bachelorette couldn't get any more eventful, a second lead has finally taken Clare Crawley's spot. Tayshia Adams' Instagram about becoming the Bachelorette is proof this season is officially unlike any other. The 29-year-old confirmed on Nov. 5 she's taking over Clare Crawley's quest to find love after a very unusual, very dramatic turn of events.
In early August, a theory started circling that Clare found an immediate connection with contestant Dale Moss and wanted to leave the show. While that was all just a rumor for a while, as soon as Season 16 started, it was clear that's where her story was heading. Basically: Clare saw Dale. Clare said she felt like Dale could be her husband. Clare gave Dale her first impression rose. Clare fell in love with Dale. And now: Clare left the show with Dale.
Enter: Tayshia Adams.
Prior to Season 16 airing, there was a rumor that Tayshia would be taking over as the Bachelorette after Clare left mid-season. It wasn't until the Oct. 27 episode that a clip of her coming out of the water was shown, finally acknowledging that she would be part of the season. Still, despite it being pretty clear what was going on, it wasn't officially confirmed that Tayshia was the next Bachelorette.
But all that changed during the Nov. 5 episode. After Clare and Dale got engaged and peaced out, Chris Harrison brought in Tayshia, officially dubbing her the Season's new Bachelorette. And with that on-screen announcement came the real-time Instagram reveal, with Tayshia nodding to all the rumors while taking the throne as the series' newest lead.
Based on her short and sweet caption ("BLESSED✨") it's clear Tayshia is just as excited to finally announce her journey as fans are to see it unfold. As for what's going to happen next, fans will just have to wait and find out.
Season 16 of The Bachelorette continues with Tayshia as the lead (!) on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
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Top 10 Games for Smartphone
Author : Anand Singh | Category : Smartphone | Last Updated : August 12th, 2014
No matter, what’s the age, Games always attract people. Different devices have different fun level. The most entertaining devices are smartphones and entertainment increases with attractive Games.
We have two categories of games for smartphones, first, individual games which can be played offline, and the second is interactive game, you can challenge friends on Facebook.
Unicorn Dash
Unicorn Dash is a survival game where the main objective is to score the highest score possible. For this, you have three attempts. The unicorn runs through the forest and you have to avoid a series of gaps and obstacles.
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The game begins with a hero running away from a temple and bizarre monsters. This is another game in the infinity style. The goal is to escape as long as possible to beat record. Temple Run is one of those games that seem repetitive at first sight. The scenario could be more varied, but you never know what surprise awaits you around the next corner. Fun Guaranteed.
Rovio got another version: Angry Birds Space is a continuation of the real thing that brings much more than just new phases in different environment. The idea of the game remains to defeat the evil green pigs to play with different types of birds in slings protections, trying to circumvent the gravity, the main distinguishing feature of the version.
The game shows both zero-gravity scenarios and the orbits of planets that pull the birds that are coming. This makes the shots more complex, as when using two or three space bodies with gravitational fields to achieve a pig that is more hidden.
The game is simple as to cut fruits to earn points. But only those who have played and spent time trying to beat their own records know how much the game is addictive.
The application has completed two years of existence, and this time the game’s developer Halfbrick became so popular that it has already been installed in almost a one third of the iPhones in the U.S.
Robotek is a strategy game that involves robots. The game objective is simple; eliminate the opponent group of robots with weapons that will be chosen throughout the battle.
For this, choose between the buttons red, yellow and blue. The first boot other robots on the stage, to serve as shields for you. The yellow button, you can create force fields and decrease the resistance of the enemy defense. The blue button is responsible for the attack. It makes you throw a microwave, laser beams and electric shocks.
A word with Friends is a game of Hunt-words: put up letters to form words in a framework with which to earn points. In this game you can choose a friend from Facebook to play against as opponent.
Until recently it was possible to play this game only in iOS or Android, but Zynga has announced that the game will be available also on Facebook, well, who have a game in progress on your mobile device may continue to play it directly from the social network.
Sing Something
Sing something is a game that combines the popular Draw Something with a karaoke. The user sings a song by the microphone of the cell in a particular category and your friends have, then, to guess the track.
Every hit, you win gold coins, and joining is possible to go in the middle of the game, as well as Draw Something. Another interesting feature of the game is the ability to listen to music or even know them by YouTube, before challenging someone.
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Scramble with Friends is an evolution of Words with Friends. Users only have two minutes to find as many words as they can in the table of letters.
Playing the new game is quite simple: the player simply drag finger across the letters to form words. The only rule is that each letter must touch the letter that comes before it.
The latest game Draw Something is one of the biggest phenomena since the popularization of mobile smartphones. The game rocked the mobile market, has won more than 50 million users and resulted in a recovery hard to believe for such a simple game.
The game works like the “Image and Action”: after downloading the game on Smartphone, the player has three choices of words to draw of friend. In every round you and your friend earn coins, which vary with the difficulty of the word, which can serve for the purchase of tools, such as new color options to draw.
Song Pop
The idea is to guess the name of the singer or the song playing. Thus, as the Draw Something you can play with your friends on Facebook, has a list of categories of music to choose from and earn coins every spin.
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6 thoughts on “Top 10 Games for Smartphone”
Aasma
Angry Birds is my favorite and I always enjoy it. Though the concept of “Unicorn Dash” game is also seems quite interesting.
Anton Koekemoer
As an avid smartphone user (Business and Personal alike) I would like to thank you for the heads up on the Excellent looking Games / Apps for your smartphone. Though I can’t help myself to wonder what the fees applicable to these games are. Guess we’ll just have to follow the links and review a bit more. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing this list I’m going to download all of them 😀
well you can add here Forest runner too, that is also one of the best game 🙂
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Investments Post-COVID-19: These are the Sectors to Watch
The coronavirus pandemic is not over yet, but in many countries, the general belief is that the worst is behind us. Economies around the world are slowly reopening and many of the industries that have suffered from the pandemic are recovering. While some sectors, such as travel and leisure, took a tremendous hit during the pandemic, other sectors, such as gaming, streaming video and food delivery actually benefitted from the crisis.
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The global economy and financial markets were impacted across the board, and it seems that no industry was spared. Be it positive or negative, it is safe to assume that nearly every aspect of our lives will be forever changed by the COVID-19 outbreak.
Perhaps the most significant change will have to do with remote employment. Recent trends in technology, such as smart cities, hyperconnectivity and mobility now have a new addition: The Work-From-Home (WFH) Revolution.
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Half of 2020 is over and it was a devastating 6-month period. And yet, it seems that the lockdown measures implemented by numerous countries have been successful. Countries are reporting declining numbers of new COVID-19 patients and lockdown measures are being lifted. Throughout the crisis, investors were keen on locating value and identifying the market segments that are benefitting, or stand to benefit in the future. Now, the objective of many investors is to understand how different sectors have changed and try to find the next investment trends.
The Gaming Industry
For video gamers, passing the time during the lockdown was not that difficult. Many of them are used to playing hours on end and were just given more time to do so. Moreover, the gaming community undoubtedly added some new members during the lockdown, as even the World Health Organization recommended gaming as a way to pass the time.
The gaming industry was on the rise even before the pandemic started, and has established itself as one of the most profitable segments of entertainment, surpassing the music and film industries. Now, the post-coronavirus world has more gamers who joined because of the lockdown, but many of them are likely to remain consumers.
For example, at the time of writing, Logitech is up 33.22% since February 19, 2020. These gains are due in part to surprise increases of 16.34% in EPS and 7.35% in revenue reported as part of the company’s latest earnings report. Another example is popular casual game developer Zynga, which rose nearly 30% over the same time period, due in part to its new partnership with Amazon aimed at offering content to Prime subscribers.
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Just because people were under lockdown, does not mean they stopped shopping. With a smartphone in every pocket and numerous online shopping options, online commerce was popping during the pandemic. From essentials such as dry foods and produce, to luxury items and electronics, online shopping today has everything available at anyone’s fingertips.
A prime example is Amazon (pun intended). During a time in which its fellow tech giants were struggling to maintain their business, the retail giant was struggling to meet demand. While most companies in the US were furloughing employees, Amazon was hiring. As the largest eCommerce company in the world, the trillion-dollar mammoth could be seen as a yardstick of the industry, showing that it, too, benefitted from the lockdown.
Other examples include online retailer Overstock, which was up a whopping 143.86% since February following a better-than-expected earnings report, and furniture provider Wayfair, which skyrocketed 113.85% over the same period.
The ShoppingCart CopyPortfolio on eToro gives investors a solid investment product, which enables them to invest in the eCommerce industry. Alongside obvious stocks, such as Amazon and Alibaba, the portfolio also offers exposure to smaller players, such as the aforementioned OverStock and WayFair. The ShoppingCart CopyPortfolio showed double-digit gains both in April and May of 2020 and, as of the time of writing, is up 70% for Q2, 2020.
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A subsector of eCommerce, online food ordering has made its way from niche to norm, to a leading solution. During the COVID-19 crisis, millions around the world took advantage of online food delivery platforms for both grocery shopping and dining in.
Contemporary smartphone and GPS technologies have enabled the creation of courier services, which operate in cooperation with restaurants. Solutions such as Uber Eats, GrubHub, Takeaway.com and Meituan Dianping have become the go-to apps for people wanting to satisfy a certain culinary craving, but who cannot leave their homes.
This was apparent in several of the stocks in the sector. Online meal kit delivery service Blue Apron jumped 187.78% since February 19, 2020 and UK-based grocery delivery giant Ocado popped 77.55%.
While it may intuitively be perceived as a low-tech segment, food delivery is today so technology reliant, it is definitely a part of the larger foodtech industry (read more here). The investment philosophy behind eToro’s FoodTech portfolio examines the global drivers that are changing the food industry. With this perspective, online delivery is seen as a segment that represents the change in consumer behaviour and tastes in the food industry.
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When a pandemic strikes so hard and so fast, it is only logical that the giants of the pharma and biotech industries will try and rise up against it — and COVID-19 is no exception. Numerous companies around the world, from small startups to the largest pharma conglomerates, began racing to develop a vaccine or other effective treatment.
Among the scientific fields exploring possible solutions for the coronavirus is CRISPR. The innovative gene-editing method, which is said to be a potential cure for everything from HIV to ALS, is also currently being studied as a possible coronavirus treatment.
CRISPR-focused biotech company Regeneron climbed 51.84% since February, as it has harnessed its velocisuite technology to track and record the pandemic.
This technology is quite novel (you can read more about it here), and the biotech industry has great faith in its potential. On eToro, you can invest in the companies studying and using this innovative technology through the CRISPR-Tech CopyPortfolio.
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The coronavirus pandemic was a significant test of contemporary society’s ability to function remotely. From social networks to smartphone communication to video conferencing, the Internet was pushed to its limits. Moreover, numerous companies around the world have utilised remote work practices, and some have even said they will maintain these practices throughout at least the rest of 2020.
In effect, the COVID-19 pandemic may have altered the way businesses operate forever, by normalising remote positions, and this will require a complete readjustment of remote practices. This is where 5G comes into play. The next generation of high-speed, wireless communication is already being deployed and is set to significantly improve almost every aspect of digital communication — including enabling more people to work remotely.
Marvell, a leading player in 5G technology has climbed 39.54% in less than four months. The company reported better-than-expected quarterly results at the end of May.
Smartphone internet access, Internet of Things (IoT), streaming video and gaming, as well as driverless cars are just a few of the technologies that will be improved, or enabled by 5G. Investors who believe in the current investment conditions for 5G technology could look into the 5GRevolution portfolio on Toro.
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Making an Investment Decision After Coronavirus
Indeed, equity markets took a significant tumble during the coronavirus crisis. Many global supply chains were brought to a halt and the series of virus-related market events took its toll on numerous companies. However, the crisis has also served as a catalyst for present and future economic growth. Both private investors and financial institutions are now studying the current market conditions, trying to locate the segments that will show sustainable growth. As always, investors should be extremely cautious when deciding on their next investment, however, the segments mentioned above may be a good place to begin for those looking for an entry point into long-term investment.
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The Sofia and Sevilla Innovation Labs both launched for the first time in 2014 follow the model of the 12 year-old Bologna Lab. The Sofia Lab takes place once a year in March, at the same time as the Sofia International Film Festival and Sofia Meetings. It is open to all exhibitors with priority given to professionals from Central and Eastern European countries.
In partnership with la Cineteca di Bologna (Italy) and taking place in the context of the festival "Il Cinema Ritrovato", dedicated to lost or forgotten heritage films, the Bologna Lab's running theme is audience development with a focus on future generations of filmgoers in the growing heritage of cinema. It takes place once a year at end of June.
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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attends a news conference at a hotel in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. Pelosi is in Honduras as part of a U.S. congressional delegation on a Central American trip that seeks to explore the causes of immigration amid a crisis of migrants on the southern U.S. border. (AP Photo/Elmer Martinez)
MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she sees comprehensive immigration reform not only as Congress’ official work but also as its moral responsibility as she finishes up a tour of Central America.
Pelosi traveled with a congressional delegation to explore the causes of immigration and possible solutions. The group visited Guatemala and El Salvador, along with migrant detention facilities in McAllen, Texas.
The Democratic speaker said Sunday in Texas that she made the trip because she wanted to ensure that the U.S. effectively honors the dignity of the immigrants who enter its borders.
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In the spirit of Giving Tuesday and the start of the Holiday season, we sat down with Amar Patel, co-founder of Thousand and Master of Dad Jokes. (“Did you hear about the coffee who filed a police report? ...It happened right after he got mugged.” Oh Amar!)
This past summer Amar rode 250 miles through Glacier National Park in Montana for the Glacier Ride, a charitable bike ride in support of Glacier National Park Conservancy. So, not just any old pleasure cruise. This 6-day ride helps raise awareness for climate change-related issues, plus Amar fundraised over $3,000 for his ride to fund preservation, education and research projects for the park.
In addition, he learned a lot, so without further ado: here are 6 Things Amar Learned During His Climate Ride Experience!
Hi there Thousand! Amar here. I was lucky enough to go on a group ride of a lifetime, combining some of my favorite things- cycling, the planet, and friends and family. Here are some of the things I learned on this trip:
1. #itsnotthemiles
Prior to the Climate Ride I never did a long ride, let alone a multi-day tour. I was really concerned about the miles and being able to finish. However, as soon as the group got there, the miles were the last thing on everyone’s mind. Glacier National Park has one million acres of breathtaking beauty, pristine wilderness and sweeping landscapes. It was a great reminder that there are some amazing places out there to explore and cycling was an awesome way to do it.
2. The Environment Really Needs Us
Glacier National Park is at the center of understanding climate change. As part of our journey, we were lucky to hear Glacier National Park Superintendent and climate change expert Jeff Mow speak. Due to rising temperatures (3x faster than the rest of the country due to its elevation) Glacier National Park’s geological makeup has been severely impacted. Most notable, the Park has only 26 remaining glaciers, down from 150! By 2030, they are estimated to be completely melted and gone entirely.
3. The Human Will is Stronger Than Ever
It was incredibly heartwarming to see 50 people pause their lives for a week to help the national parks and bring awareness to climate change. I think people always tend to band together when something they care about is at risk. And it isn’t just this group of riders that wanted to make a difference- since concerns started rising around federal budgets being cut for national parks, private donations to the glacier national park conservancy nearly doubled.
4. We Can All Do Small Stuff To Help
The concept of climate change is pretty massive and sometimes I feel overwhelmed about what I can do to make a difference. But there really are small changes we can all make. For example, animal agriculture accounts for 15% of greenhouse gases- eating less meat, using organic materials, and buying locally can help curb the carbon impact. Or, if you’re like me and changing your diet is sometimes difficult to do, changing out lightbulbs to energy efficient LED bulbs is a pretty easy way to help. And one of the largest (and simple!) things we can do is making sure to properly dispose of refrigerant (chemicals used in air conditioners and refrigerators). Boom- helping!
5. There Are Great Organizations Out There Making A Difference
Climate Ride started with a simple idea of making a difference and has raised over $3M to date for environmental, national park, and bike advocacy causes. But beyond the individuals on this trip making an impact, there are businesses making sure they play a strong role in protecting the environment. During the trip I learned about how Patagonia, a brand we have always looked up to here at Thousand, reduced the carbon emissions of their wetsuits by 80% when they transitioned from neoprene to natural rubbers. I am proud that Thousand is part of 1% For The Planet and continue to be inspired by some other great companies doing work to help.
6. Riding In A Group Is Always More Fun
Sharing conversations while riding, inspiring family members to push through injuries to finish the ride, bonding together to aid stranded riders, grabbing bits of litter on the road to keep our environment clean- this trip was full of moments like these and countless others. The old saying “The journey is the destination” couldn’t be more true; it was the folks that went on the ride that made it.
Thanks to everyone who made this ride possible for me- from people who donated, to those who lent moral support, to my co-workers at Thousand who kept things going. You truly made one of the most memorable weeks in my life happen, and I couldn’t be more grateful to share this experience with you.
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When trap shooter Suzy Balogh was on the podium getting her Olympic gold medal placed around her neck in 2004 she was thinking about one thing. "I was thinking of my mum back at home who had undergone a mastectomy, chemotherapy and had actually been doing radiation treatment that very day. I decided I wanted a world where there are zero deaths from breast cancer," she said. "The day I found out I had qualified for the Athens Olympics I also found out my mother had breast cancer. The family had been keeping it from me during the trials. "My mother has been cancer free for 16 years thanks to breast cancer research." Now, the Olympic and Commonwealth champion trap shooter is giving back. The Hitting Targets director is holding a ladies try clay target shooting charity event to raise funds National Breast Cancer Foundation on December 5 and 6 at the Sydney International Shooting Centre in Cecil Park. The PiNK CLAYS event will give women the chance to try clay target shooting which has a growing female participation. It will have shotguns and low recoil ammunition options available. The event will also host a ladies competition with a prize pool of more than $1000 entry for any A-category licensed female shooter as well as charity auctions, lucky door prizes, stalls and demonstrations. "At Hitting Targets we believe one death from breast cancer is one too many. To reduce deaths, we're raising funds for more research," said Balogh, who has been a NBCF Speakers Ambassador since 2005. "Grab your gal pals together and give clay target shooting a try - it is exhilarating and empowering."
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'Zero deaths': Olympian targets breast cancer research
Chris Boulous
Olympic and Commonwealth champion trap shooter Suzy Balogh.
When trap shooter Suzy Balogh was on the podium getting her Olympic gold medal placed around her neck in 2004 she was thinking about one thing.
"I was thinking of my mum back at home who had undergone a mastectomy, chemotherapy and had actually been doing radiation treatment that very day. I decided I wanted a world where there are zero deaths from breast cancer," she said.
"The day I found out I had qualified for the Athens Olympics I also found out my mother had breast cancer. The family had been keeping it from me during the trials.
"My mother has been cancer free for 16 years thanks to breast cancer research."
Now, the Olympic and Commonwealth champion trap shooter is giving back.
"Grab your gal pals together and give clay target shooting a try - it is exhilarating and empowering."
The Hitting Targets director is holding a ladies try clay target shooting charity event to raise funds National Breast Cancer Foundation on December 5 and 6 at the Sydney International Shooting Centre in Cecil Park.
The PiNK CLAYS event will give women the chance to try clay target shooting which has a growing female participation. It will have shotguns and low recoil ammunition options available. The event will also host a ladies competition with a prize pool of more than $1000 entry for any A-category licensed female shooter as well as charity auctions, lucky door prizes, stalls and demonstrations.
"At Hitting Targets we believe one death from breast cancer is one too many. To reduce deaths, we're raising funds for more research," said Balogh, who has been a NBCF Speakers Ambassador since 2005.
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Growing Portuguese Client Base Prompts Liquid Markets to Launch Office in Porto
Cypriot forex broker Liquid Markets has announced a somewhat controversial move by establishing an office in Portugal. Despite its relatively
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Cypriot forex broker Liquid Markets has announced a somewhat controversial move by establishing an office in Portugal.
Despite its relatively small size and considerably less well developed economy when compared with other western European nations, the company experienced enough demand from Portuguese traders to justify presence in the region. This could be considered quite surprising when bearing in mind that there has been a substantial emigration of up to 240,000 people, mostly young highly educated professionals, from Portugal since 2011 due to the economic crisis having severely affected the financial situation of many of Portugal’s citizens.
Liquid Markets was the result of a rebranding exercise in November 2012, having previously operated under the Tadawul FX name, subsequent to which the company continued its metamorphosis further by introducing the cTrader ECN platform just last month, followed by Currensee’s social trading facility just two weeks ago.
The company operates a non-dealing desk (NDD), ECN, DMA and STP execution model which is available to its traders across all international markets, including clients of the new Portuguese operation.
Price feeds are obtained from a large number of tier 1 liquidity providers in order to keep abreast of the competition in the direct market access area.
All accounts offer flexible leverage, with fast execution with no requotes or hidden fees and are available with a minimum deposit of $2,000. All traders also are able to access free technical analysis and tools such as Autochartist Chart Patterns to help them trade more effectively and quickly identify opportunities in the market to capitalize on.
The new offices in Portugal will provide local support to Liquid Markets traders which will be provided by an experienced local customer support team.
Portugal as a region is less synonymous with online trading than some of its neighbors, and as yet the Portuguese Securities Market Commission does not define forex under its auspices despite being subject to MiFID; however Liquid Markets is regulated in the United Kingdom by the FSA, in Cyprus by Cypriot regulator CySEC and also by BAFIN in Germany.
Leading the Portuguese operation are Gonçalo Albuquerque, an industry professional having previously worked as an independent fund manager in Porto, and Roberto Torrão whose career background is also in the forex sector.
Goncalo Albuquerque commented: “With the growing interest and competition in the Forex Industry, Portugal has only just begun to reveal its investment potential. We are excited about providing the local market with a great opportunity to trade with a well-established highly professional broker, offering a choice of trading platforms, a large number of instruments and the most competitive and high quality trading conditions available locally.”
“We will be providing Portuguese language support directly from our offices here in Porto, allowing traders to enjoy the same superior support Liquid Markets is known for, but in their own language.”
Nicolas Bang, CEO of Liquid Markets, said in a statement: “The opening of our new offices in Portugal is one more step in our plans for continued global expansion of Liquid Markets and our overall goal to become a leading global player in the Forex Industry.”
“Portugal has always presented an excellent opportunity for us with its increasingly expanding financial market, and we are pleased to be able to offer our excellent trading conditions and superior local support to better meet the trading requirements of the growing number of Portuguese investors.”
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Adil Siddiqui
Its a good sign since the whole debt ridden PIGS! Plus IG closing their office. Saxo has a good presence their.
Michael Greenberg
it’s supposed to be exactly the same, but i’m awaiting clarification from IB
Good access to Brazilian market. Very cheap to find well educated work force.
they had me with kobe beef, what’s wagyu?
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FinCanna Flagship Investment, CTI Reaches First $1M USD in Cannabis Extraction Revenue
$1M USD in Revenue Generated at Only a Fraction of Capacity Since Start-up of Operations
Vancouver, British Columbia, June 7, 2018 - FinCanna Capital Corp. (“FinCanna”) (CSE: CALI) (OTCQB: FNNZF) a royalty company for the U.S. licensed medical cannabis industry, announced today that Cultivation Technologies Inc., (CTI) its first investment in California, has achieved US$1 million in cumulative revenue since it commenced commercial operations in late January 2018.
FinCanna announced previously this week that CTI has expanded its network of dispensaries carrying Coachella™ Premium brand of cannabis concentrates and vape cartridges which features all the major concentrate types, including diamonds, sauce, shatter, batter, and sugar, with an ongoing list of strains, to ten locations including premium dispensaries across California.
“We are very pleased to see the sales performance of CTI which has translated into its first US$1 million in revenue at only a fraction of its capacity.” said Andriyko Herchak, President and CEO of FinCanna Capital. “With its sales team in place building out an ever-expanding distribution footprint, and it’s manufacturing ramping up we see a bright future as we move into the second half of 2018.”
CTI is working to maximize the commercial potential of its extraction facility, which can process an estimated 6,000 pounds of biomass per month, which translates to approximately 3.7 million grams of raw cannabis oil annually. FinCanna is entitled to receive 50% of the profits from this extraction facility.
CTI, through its subsidiaries, Coachella Manufacturing and Coachella Distributors, has helped pioneer cannabis “Extraction-as-a-Service” or “Contract Manufacturing” which it provides to brands, cultivators, manufacturers and distributors who require licensed Butane Hash Oil (“BHO”) processing for their biomass or contract manufacturing services for various products.
With divisions that fulfill the various levels of procurement of cannabis products, including distribution to retail dispensaries, CTI has been at the forefront of this developing industry – including meeting the complex standards required to be fully-licensed within the state.
Coachella Manufacturing is one of the first companies to operate a legal solvent extraction facility for cannabis in California. In support of safe manufacturing practises, CTI, has been actively engaged in sponsoring state legislation AB2679, which sets the standards and institutional best practises for cannabis extraction using solvents.
“We’re quite encouraged about the revenue growth CTI is experiencing in just a few short months since launching operations,” said Miguel Motta, President & CEO of Cultivation Technologies, Inc. “We’ve learned a lot about the market and expect to build upon our initial success in 2018 and beyond.”
About Cultivation Technologies
Cultivation Technologies, Inc. provides infrastructure, manufacturing, extraction, distribution, technology, and branding to the legal medical cannabis industry. The company owns 6-acres in Coachella, California, which is entitled for a 111,500+ square foot facility featuring cultivation centers, manufacturing facilities, a testing lab, a distribution hub featuring transportation, and a centralized processing center. For more information, visit www.CultivationTech.com. The Company acquired temporary licenses for "Type 7" manufacturing and distribution from the State of California in January 2018.
About FinCanna Capital Corp.
FinCanna provides financing to top-tier companies in the licensed medical cannabis industry in exchange for a royalty on revenues. FinCanna, led by a team of finance and industry experts, is building its diversified portfolio of royalty investments in scalable, best-in-class projects and companies in U.S. legal states, with a focus on California. For additional information visit:
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Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim Will Feature Hand Drawn Animation
Source: Collider
One movie that we're looking forward to quite a bit is Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which is gearing up to start shooting this month in Toronto. We've written plenty about the cast and story before, so we know almost everything about it, right? Well, Collider recently talked to Brandon Routh, who is playing one of evil ex-boyfriends known as Todd Ingram, and learned that apparently the movie will feature some hand drawn animation. Just in case you didn't know, Scott Pilgrim is based on Bryan Lee O'Malley's comic book series, which features awesome black and white drawings. Yea, this sounds cool.
Routh says that the film will have some "really cool things," more specifically that it will feature "a mix of real people and drawn animation" and that "people are going to be shocked by this." We're not exactly sure what that all means, but in the comic, whenever Scott Pilgrim battles one of the evil exes (there are seven in total) in order to eventually win the heart of Ramona V. Flowers, the fight plays out like a "boss battle" reminiscent of any video game. Now imagine seeing that adapted to the big screen in a cool combination of hand drawn animation and live-action Michael Cera ass-kicking. Sounds pretty cool, right?
Peter from SlashFilm speculates that it probably won't look like Sin City (green screen) or A Scanner Darkly (rotoscoping). If we can dream, too, maybe this means we'll literally see some black and white hand drawn animation overlaid with real actors "fighting", like a trippy mix of a comic book and a video game. Whatever the result, I'm expecting this to be pretty damn cool. I'm curious whether there are so more unique things that Edgar has planned for Scott Pilgrim that we don't know about? At least you now might start to understand why we're so excited for this! I just knew Edgar had some tricks up his sleeve…
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Sounds like the biscuits! This is quite exciting. I'm quite excited! Hand drawn is so retro! Wouldn't they be better with 3d? Ha ha. Of course not, can't wait.
Crapola on Feb 4, 2009
I asked Brian Lee O'Malley about this (via Twitter) and here was his response... "I honestly have no idea what he is talking about"
PiratedTVPro on Feb 4, 2009
Has anyone been looking at Edgar Wright's MySpace bog? He posts a photo a day and the most recent are Scott Pilgrim related.
Radam on Feb 4, 2009
Michael Cera's in this? cool
Scott McHenry on Feb 4, 2009
I just started reading this series a few weeks ago its great. Only fear I have for it is Michael Cera. He's always played his roles as very quiet and shy. Don't see how'll he play the hyper full of energy scott. That animation sounds nice. I have full faith in Edgar, and the reat of the cast even though I still can't get past Cera. Seems to me he was forced on the movie based on popularty from Juno and Superbad. Which are very different from this movie. Cera will have to expand past his normal acting range.
jesse on Feb 4, 2009
@#5 I agree with you completely. A few other people I've talked to who've read the books, seem to think my interpretation of Scott is a little off. My wife says Scott is a lot closer to Michael Cera than I say he is. If that's true, I think I like my version.
Jeff on Feb 4, 2009
lol sounds like an 80's rock video. Having said that I do have some thoughts
Silver on Feb 5, 2009
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Heavy Mood
Tilly and the Wall's 2008 record O found the band revising and expanding their sound, relying less on the folky pop template that their first two albums used so well in favor of a harder, more punk-inspired approach that was both a little angrier and a little less effective for being so. At first. it seems that 2012's Heavy Mood is even more angry and aggressive as it leads off with two strident and over-amped dance punk songs ("Love Riot" and "Heavy Mood") that flatten out any subtleties in their sound and just pound the listener over the head with loud drums and over-the-top vocals. After this inauspicious start, things get better as the mood relaxes and the group returns to the kind of styles and sounds they are more equipped to deliver. The girl group ballad "All Kinds of Guns" shows off their bruised romantic side; "Echo My Love" is a nicely melancholy, new wave-inspired love song, and "Thicker than Thieves" is a galloping, heartfelt pop song that shows how well the electronic percussion can be blended with the tapdance beats they made their name on when they started. The band is definitely at their best on these kind of small scale, intensely personal songs that delve into real, somewhat desperate emotions; the kind that everyone has had at one time or another. When they stretch beyond this and start making big statements (like on "Love Riot" or the embarrassingly bombastic "Defenders," which ends the album in a blaze of children's vocal choruses), the group come off as patronizing and hollow. Luckily, these moments are contained at the beginning and end of the record and with the technology of the day, are easily skippable. Some judicious editing on the band's part would have made this a worthy follow-up to their first two excellent albums but as it stands, it's more of a confused and confusing record that is hard to recommend to anyone except fans who came on board when O was released. ~ Tim Sendra
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Eden Hazard hints at Chelsea stay amid interest from Real Madrid
The 27-year-old gets his World Cup campaign under way this afternoon
Chelsea fans might be worried to read that star Eden Hazard is open to a switch to Real Madrid this summer should the Champions League winners come calling.
The 27-year-old has been constantly under the spotlight over his future with the Blues failing to make the Premier League's top four and reported interest from the La Liga side.
While it is a question that Hazard has constantly batted away, insisting he is happy at Chelsea, the Belgian, who gets his World Cup campaign under way this afternoon against Panama, admits a move to Spain is something that could entice him.
"I don't want to speak about transfers now. I have been asked so many times about that. I am focused on the World Cup," Hazard told L'Equipe:
"But as I have already said, I have won everything in London outside the Champions League. If I am here in my career, it is thanks to Chelsea.
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"It would be too easy to say: I want to leave because I have done everything. It is for that before everything that I would really like to know what will happen at the club next year.
"I am waiting to see if the coach stays or goes. If I stay, it will be because the team will be better than the season we have just experienced.
"I do not want to stay if we are less good. Real Madrid can interest me, everyone knows that.
Eden Hazard is waiting to see what happens over Antonio Conte this summer (Photo by Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)
"But if tomorrow this club does not want me, we will no longer speak about it. If they want to buy me they know what they have to do.
"It is necessary to have a project. I still have a project at Chelsea.
"If I have a beautiful World Cup, things will be easier."
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Foreword Reviews
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A Shared Memoir
Reema Zaman
Amberjack Publishing (Feb 5, 2019)
Hardcover $24.99 (300pp)
“Long ago I stopped trying to explain you to anyone,” Reema Zaman says to her imaginary interlocutor, addressed simply as “Love.” Caught “somewhere between formed and forming,” Zaman archives a personal journey that’s intimate and attuned to a wider cultural moment. A staggering work filled with presence, I Am Yours provides a profound explanation of love, delivered as an act of witness.
In Bangladesh, Zaman’s family rose through the socio-economic ranks, from poverty to brushing shoulders with the world’s one percent, due to her father’s work at the UN. An astute, empathic observer by the time she graduated high school, Zaman witnessed a world of difference, inside and outside her home. For university, she embarked to the US to study acting, intending to use it as a form of activism. Inevitably, her path lead to New York City.
But these are dry facts. They don’t begin to touch on the substance and meaning that Zaman finds in their scope.
An epistolary to love, Zaman’s story is stunning. In a never-ending test to prove herself worthy, she achieves and achieves. Yet, frequently, her achievement feeds a punishing internal voice or makes her a target for external punishment. The sexism, assault, and fundamental violence she experiences because of fat phobia, race, misogyny, and patriarchy—all the shattering particulars of her life—are shown as no more than the warp and weft of any system that insists womanhood should simultaneously make and break a person.
Toward the end, Zaman determines that “sometimes, a scrap of sentence is the match that lights a flame. If I ever write a book, it will be to give all of us more than a hurried line of love.” Powerfully vulnerable and eloquent, Zaman’s voice is a fire—full-throated, wide-open, and roaring.
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Gibbs -- A Multi-Sport Phenom!
Professional Basketball,
European Women’s League, led Team Etzella (Luxumbourg) to European Cup.
First Team Kodak All-American Basketball team while playing for Cabrini University. Recently was named the greatest athlete (male or female) in the history of Cabrini Univ.
-Still holds many records for Cabrini, even though she competed for only 3 seasons:
Career Points - 2,395;
Single Game - 48 points
Career Assists - 680
Career Steals - 318
— holds the top 3 positions for single year scoring records (824, 788, 783)
— holds the top 3 positions for single year assist records (240, 230, 210)
Invited to U.S. Women’s Basketball Olympic team try-outs
High School All-American, All-State, All Delco County in Basketball while competing for Chester High, Chester, PA. Average 28 ppg, 10 assists pg.
High School All-American and State Champion (relay) in Track and Field. Penn Relays.
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On to San Antonio!
The Rationalist House in New Zealand.
Visit Rationalist House in New Zealand
As a member of FFRF, I am glad to have had the opportunity to visit the Rationalist House in Auckland, New Zealand. I was able to meet with the secretary, Judy de Leeuwe, who took the time to give me a tour of the office and library areas. She also gave me, unexpectedly, two books (The Secular Trend in New Zealand and Heathen in Godzone), pamphlets like “What do you know about your school’s religious instruction,” and three issues of its magazine, The Open Society.
We had about a half-hour discussion about secularism in New Zealand and the United States. New Zealand Rationalists have a proud history of fighting the intrusion of religion into its education system and government. I talked about FFRF and its approximately 31,000 members, brought a copy of my book Thoughts of a Freethinker for them, and was glad to add a small donation to their very worthy organization. Hope other freethinkers from FFRF get the opportunity to visit.
Michael Kaye
Losing Faith in Faith made me an atheist
My friend gave me a year-old copy of Mother Jones magazine which had your ad in it, and per that ad, I would like to become a Life Member of FFRF!
I love the Ron Reagan ads you have from time to time on MSNBC: “Not afraid of burning in hell.”
Dan Barker’s book Losing Faith in Faith made me an atheist on Dec. 1, 1998. Based on other readings, I made the big step after a friend sent me Dan’s book. I received it Nov. 30, 1998, read half of it that very day and got up the next morning and said: “As of today, I am an atheist.”
When I then went out to my car to drive to work, the Christian radio station came on automatically when I started the car. I thought, “I have to find another radio station. Enough of this nonsense!”
I have been in debt to Dan Barker ever since, so it is about time I send you some of the money that no longer goes to church tithes, about which I had always been very conscientious.
Wanda Shirk
Letter to FFRF helped stop prayer breakfast
Last year at about this time, I contacted FFRF about the 45th Annual Arcadia Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast, featuring the State of the City Address. I had contacted the city and talked to the assistant city manager. He was dismissive of my concern about mixing public business with a prayer event, which included clergy from three different religions. He told me nobody was forced to attend, people were paying for it, it’s always been done like this, will continue as is in the future, and, if I didn’t like it, I didn’t have to go.
After this response, I reached out to FFRF, knowing full well how busy you are. A short while after that, I was informed that one of your lawyers had sent a letter to the city of Arcadia. Recently, I received the city’s announcement for this year’s City Address. It was under the heading of “46th Annual Mayor’s Community Breakfast,” and no prayers or clergy were on the program. Your letter worked!
William Syth
Anti-abortion movement is centered on religion
Understanding the driving force behind the anti-abortion movement may help the fighters for reproductive rights focus more clearly. Anti-abortion arguments are grounded in religious faith, not scientific fact, information or reason. Studies show that the more people are involved with religion, the less they support the right of a woman to have an abortion. Conservative religious institutions are vocal about fiercely held anti-abortion views. Anti-abortion protests are rife with signs about God and Jesus. And anti-abortion laws are driven by religion.
Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana, who recently signed an anti-abortion bill, said his view on abortion “comes from my religion.” When Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama signed her state’s new law, she remarked, “Every life is a sacred gift from God.” Identifying the anti-abortion movement for its reality — attempts by religious citizens to impose their beliefs on others — helps clarify the antagonists in the debate.
Ken Lefkowitz
Many Christians show their hypocrisy daily
It was disturbing but well within the realm of reality to see that the FFRF sign outside the Washington state Capitol had been vandalized. It’s probably a good thing that most billboards are out of reach, while sending the necessary message of reason.
However, I am not sure that message is getting across after reading your Crankmail section! I have been a merchant seaman in the Army, in Vietnam, etc., and the language that these “Christians” use makes me blush — almost. It is hilarious, and the daily dose of hypocrisy we see around us is very educational, to say the least. Now, I am off to buy some miracle spring water! Ha!
FFRF a worthy cause for state-church separation
I’m 52 years old and cannot recall a time in my life when the critically important principle of state-church separation has been more under siege than it is today. I am accordingly pleased and honored to be able to continue donating to the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
James W. Bailey
Are the religious more charitable? Unlikely
Phil Zuckerman’s article (“Secularism doesn’t destroy society or moral order”) in the December issue, while defending secularism from the smears of Attorney General William Barr, repeated a claim that I have often heard before: Namely, that in the United States, religious people volunteer more often and contribute more to charity than do the nonreligious.
This assertion originated in a study conducted earlier this century by Arthur C. Brooke, who just happens to be an evangelical Christian with an obvious axe to grind. I have long been skeptical of this claim.
The only way to definitively confirm the alleged disparity with respect to charitable contributions would be to conduct an extensive double-blind study of audited tax returns from a random sample of religious and nonreligious Americans to determine how much they actually contributed as opposed to what they claim to have contributed. Suffice it to say that Brooke did not, and could not, do this, as the IRS does not require taxpayers to indicate religious affiliation on tax returns and certainly does not provide tax returns to researchers in any case.
If Brooke had solicited audited tax statements from religious and nonreligious citizens, he would not have been provided with the necessary random sample, but a self-selected one. Instead, Brooke appeared to rely heavily on anecdotal data, which is notoriously unreliable. I saw him on C-SPAN years ago defending his thesis. He gave the example of two Red Cross donation pails, one placed on a street in secular San Francisco and the other on a street in the more religious Fargo, N.D. He stated that far more people put far more money in the Fargo pail, supporting his argument! I wonder what the result would have been if instead of two Red Cross pails, Brooke had placed AIDS relief pails in the two cities!
In addition, secular people like me, in stark contrast to the strongly devout, tend to reside in high-tax states like New York and California, which provide needed social services, funded by tax dollars, reducing the need for charitable contributions to the poor. However, I am willing to bet that the secular population contributes far more than do the religious to cultural institutions such as museums, opera houses, the ballet and symphony orchestras. I suspect Brooke had no interest in those types of charitable contributions.
Many leading American philanthropists have been or are atheists or agnostics, such as Andrew Carnegie, Ted Turner, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
Finally, it is no secret that much of the volunteering and charitable contributions among the religious benefit their own houses of worship, where volunteering and tithing is mandated or strongly encouraged. The religious benefit directly from the time and money they devote to their churches, synagogues, mosques and temples, where they spend much of their lives in religious services and social events. How this proves their moral superiority over nonreligious people eludes me.
Dennis Middlebrooks
Nails in hands can’t hold up a body
Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Practically Everything should be required reading for anyone identifying as a freethinker. His newest book The Body (currently on The New York Times bestseller’s list) should also be a good read.
Bryson notes in The Body, “A good deal of what we know about the comparative strengths of the hand . . . comes from a series of improbable experiments (done by a French scientist in the 1930s) to test how well humans would remain on a cross . . . discovered nails driven through the palm of the hand . . . would not support the weight of a body . . . because the hands would literally tear apart.”
So, if you need any more evidence that the crucifixion was simply made-up by Saul (aka Paul), read this for yourself, preferably before “Good Friday.”
And, be reminded, that “Good Friday” is still an official “full-paid” state holiday in New Jersey.
William Dusenberry
Christmas music, teapot agnostics and perspicuity
A few of my random thoughts for FFRF members.
• If there is one thing I dislike about Christmas the most, it would be the insufferably banal music. Whomever is responsible for “The Little Drummer Boy” should be tried for crimes against music. I would make an exception for “O Holy Night,” not for the cliché words, but it’s a really lovely melody. It could be striking as an instrumental piece.
• Recently, I came across the charming phrase “teapot agnostic,” which is based on something Bertrand Russell said. If he claimed there was a teapot in orbit around the moon, Russell said you could not disprove it. But failure to disprove something is not a good reason to believe in it.
• In general, the word “perspicuity” means freedom from ambiguity or obscurity. In religion, however, “perspicuity” has acquired the specialized meaning that scripture is clear and obvious. By inference, anyone who is capable of reading the bible can understand it. The MacArthur Bible Commentary is 2,040 pages to explain the clear and obvious. Apparently, people who write such things do not see the irony.
David M. Shea
Next time they’ll get my ‘Scroll of 10 Truths’
On occasion, I have well-meaning young members from Christian churches come to my door with leaflets in hand. Of course, they know nothing of my past experiences with a dangerous and radical fundamentalist cult.
To politely say, “No, thanks, I’m not interested,” works for a while, but eventually they reappear. So, for the inevitable next time, I’ve drafted a message page of my own to hand to them, called “Scroll of the 10 Truths.” Basically, I’m just interested in their reactions when they come face-to-face with the truth. I’m not the confrontation type. I prefer education presented with reason and restraint.
Scroll of the 10 Truths
1. Faith in God or the devil is delusion.
2. “In God we trust” is not what we know.
3. Adam and Eve were not the first humans.
4. Religion serves to exploit and subjugate.
5. Forgiving wrongdoing is a complicit wrong.
6. Introduction of religion divides, not unites.
8. “One nation under God” is a nation divided.
9. Religions are deceptions promoted as holy.
10. Creation of all things in six days is a lie.
Paul Wellmer
FFRF pushed council to end religious invocations
As an FFRF member, I was overjoyed to see the article in the Feb. 3 Venice (Fla.) Gondolier detailing the organization’s efforts to stop the practice of a religious invocation at the beginning of City Council meetings. Apparently, the new mayor (if only temporarily) agreed that a moment of silence would be more respectful of all in attendance. It will be interesting to see if he will maintain that position, especially as the city is undoubtedly already planning the 11th Annual Bible Read-A-Thon in a public park, where the mayor has historically been the first reader. At least that event is attended voluntarily, and doesn’t subject a captive audience to potentially unwelcome religious indoctrination as do the City Council’s invocations.
Kevin Bobier
Pastor burning book wants us back in the Dark Ages
I saw the picture of Pastor Locke burning a copy of The Founding Myth in the latest issue of Freethought Today and was sickened by it, but not surprised. The look on his face would be the same evil look if he were watching an innocent woman accused of being a witch being burned alive. He is among many who wish to return society back to the Dark Ages where humanity stagnated for a millennium. People of his same mind are those who also destroyed the classical world in the first few centuries AD. With the relentless efforts by FFRF, reason and science will keep our society moving forward.
Bill Van Scoy
Religion has been worse than pornography
I was driving along I-70 through the interminable flatlands of Kansas when I passed an “adult entertainment store” called The Lion’s Den. In a field immediately adjacent to this establishment, some religious types had erected a sign saying: “Pornography destroys — Jesus heals and saves.” While allowing that pornography (even where only consenting adults are involved) certainly has its dark side, it should be pointed out to whoever put up the sign that religion has done far more harm to humanity than pornography has ever done, or is ever likely to do. Just think of all the countless deaths in the religious wars fought through the centuries! When was the last war fought over pornography? It sounds like the basis for a good Onion article or a Monty Python skit. In parting, let me recommend Tom Lehrer’s song “Smut” — if you haven’t heard it, check it out.
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Revealing the Rothschild Prayer Book c. 1505–1510 from the Kerry Stokes Collection
Written by Kay Sutton and Margaret M. Manion
The Rothschild Prayer Book is an acknowledged masterpiece of Renaissance manuscript illumination. Acquired by the Kerry Stokes Collection in 2014, it includes miniatures of unsurpassed beauty and refined execution by the most renowned and sought-after illuminators of the era. This unique book is a must-have for art historians, scholars and lovers of fine art.
ISBN 9781925162394 (Hardback)
Formats Large Format Illustrated (300 x 240mm) (Hardback)
Categories Gift Ideas
Publisher Australian Capital Equity
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Margaret M. Manion is one of Australia’s pre-eminent art historians, whose scholarship on Medieval and Renaissance art, in particular the art of the illuminated manuscript, is acclaimed internationally. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (of which she was Deputy President) and of the Australian College of Education. She was a foundation member for Australia of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art, a foundation member of the Società di Storia della Miniatura, Italy, and served for two terms as Foreign Adviser to the International Center of Medieval Art, New York. She is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Emeritus Trustee at the National Gallery of Victoria. Read more
Kay Sutton graduated from the Courtauld Institute at the University of London with a Bachelor of Arts in the History of Art, and completed a PhD on Lombard manuscript illumination at the University of Warwick. In 1996 she joined Christie’s, where she heads the manuscript team with worldwide responsibility for the appraisal, research, cataloguing and marketing of Medieval, Renaissance and earlier Western manuscripts. Read more
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Israeli False Pretences for Renewal of Gaza Offensive
By Global Research News
Global Research, August 22, 2014
Gaza Ministry of Health, Palestine
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli-false-pretences-for-renewal-of-gaza-offensive/5397133
The Ministry of Health Gaza abhors the ongoing massacres of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by Israeli military forces, in which 65 people have been killed and 220 injured since the collapse of the ceasefire agreement on Tuesday – a collapse that lies squarely at the feet of the Israeli regime.
Former Israeli Attorney General Michael Ben Yair today admitted that the Israelis staged the alleged Hamas breach on Tuesday in order to assassinate Al Qassam leader Mohammed Deif.
This deceitful outrage continues to be used as an excuse to carry out massive attacks on Gazan civilians – according to Israeli news agency ynet a few tons of explosives were used to destroy the building in which Mohammed Abu Shamala, Raed al-Attar and Mohammed Barhoum were killed in Rafah, killing at least five and injuring at least 50 additional civilians and completely destroying dozens of homes, leaving a crater the size of a residential block in their place – and the Gaza health services to pick up the pieces.
This deceitful outrage even served as an excuse to bomb preparations for a funeral in a graveyard, killing four people.
This deceitful outrage, and the ongoing murder and mutilation of scores of Gazans under its cover, is proof positive of the complete lack of good faith of the Israeli party in the Cairo negotiations for a lasting ceasefire.
The Ministry of Health Gaza cannot and should not be expected to mop up after gross Israeli excesses, which blatantly contravene international and humanitarian law, and fundamental human rights.
We demand the international community take immediate and concrete action to end the bloody carnage being wrought in Gaza by the lying and murderous Israeli regime.
We demand immediate steps be taken to end Israeli impunity for its clear and ongoing war crimes, leaving a trail of dead and injured from every part of the Gaza Strip to the doors of each and every overloaded emergency room still operational.
We demand an immediate end to the illegal, unjustified and crippling blockade that impairs the proper functioning of our health sector at the best of times, but that in times of crisis such as these, causes widespread and completely avoidable, unjustifiable and unnecessary pain, suffering and death to our people.
Dr Yousef AbuAlrish, Deputy Minister of Health +972 597 918 339
Dr Medhat Abbas, Director General, Ministry of Health +972 599 403 547
Copyright © Global Research News, Global Research, 2014
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President's Tenth Special Message for FY 1983
OGC-83-15: Published: Aug 16, 1983. Publicly Released: Aug 16, 1983.
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GAO reviewed the President's tenth special message for fiscal year 1983 which proposed three deferrals of budget authority totaling $16.1 million.
Except as noted, GAO identified no additional information that would be useful to Congress in its consideration of the President's proposals and believed that the proposed deferrals were in accordance with existing authority.
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On 03 December 2020, by Anne Doridou-Heim
May the concert begin! Two handwritten scores by the genius led the sale con allegro.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), The Marriage of Figaro [1786], autograph manuscript of the first version of the Scena con Rondo, four oblong 4to double-pages, (22.3 x 31 cm., approx. 8.2 x 12.1 in).
Result: €481,000
The auction started out big: one page of the lost Magnificat by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), of which only seven bars are known to date, which sold for €101,400. That was just the overture. Next came Mozart’s autograph manuscript of the first version of the Scena con Rondo, the last act of The Marriage of Figaro, which fetched €481,000. It is a real working document shedding light on the genesis of a masterpiece that Mozart considerably modified, shortening the accompanied recitative in the final version.
The 38th Aristophil sale was a real hymn to music. The online auction featured works by the world’s greatest composers. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) made a stunning entrance with an autograph fragment of his cantata BWV 188, Ich habe meine Zuversicht, which fetched €182,000. Then the power of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was heard. A letter the composer sent from Vienna on February 26, 1823 in which he mentioned his bagatelles and Missa Solemnis, and added two musical quotations, posted €91,000. Another letter, addressed to Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven’s student as well as a patron, about a musical composition by Rudolph and troubles he was having tutoring his nephew Karl, sold for €58,500. Two brief works for piano by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) inspired by Polish folklore, Allegretto and Mazur, obtained €93,600. Institutions had front-row seats at this auction. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France (French National Library) preempted the autograph manuscript of Sonata for Oboe and Piano by Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) for €18,850 and the series of seven pieces for organ by Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), Corps glorieux (Glorious Bodies), written in the summer of 1939, for €58,500.
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4.1.3. We are required to do so to comply with our internal policies and procedures or the law, or with direction from the courts or other authorities.
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4.1.6. It helps our trusted third-party service providers to provide and improve our service to you or to carry out surveys and user analysis to understand your needs and preferences. We will also share your information with mass mail service provider, who securely hosts emails and acts as a supplier to distribute our newsletters. We require these service providers to keep your personal information safe and secure. These trusted third parties would only be permitted to use your personal information for the purposes we specify.
4.2. We may also share your information with other GEMS group companies and affiliates.
4.3. We won't rent or sell your details to any other organisation or individual. We may share some broader statistics and customer profiling information with third parties, but we'll keep it anonymous, so you won't be identifiable from that data.
5. Where we store and process the information
5.1. The information we collect from you is partly stored on servers in the UAE and EU, as well as in the location where the relevant GEMS school or business operates (such as in specific EU member states, the UAE, Egypt, Qatar, Singapore, Malaysia, Kenya, Uganda, India etc.). Your data may be transferred, stored and processed in countries which do not have data privacy laws as strong as those in the UAE, and may also be processed by people operating outside the UAE who work for us or one of our suppliers. By submitting the information, you acknowledge and agree to this transfer, storing or processing across national borders and entities as needed to provide you with the service you have asked from us. We will take commercially-reasonably steps necessary to ensure that the information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
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6.1.1. We understand the importance of securing your personal information in our care. We utilize reasonable security measures that include technical, administrative and physical safeguards to secure your personal information in our care from unauthorized access, modification, disclosure or destruction.
6.1.2. However, if you provide us with personal information over the internet, you should be aware that the absolute security of the information transmitted over the internet or stored in electronic storage cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we take reasonable efforts to protect such personal information, you acknowledge that we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any personal information provided by these means and you provide it to us at your own risk.
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7.1. If you are provided with a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and user name for the Site and you are responsible for all activities that are carried out under them. We do not have the means to check the identities of people using the Site and we will not be liable where your password or user name is used by someone else.
7.2. You agree to contact us immediately and inform us of any unauthorised use of your password or user name of which you become aware. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion, you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of this Privacy Policy or the Terms and Conditions.
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8.6. We may request proof of your identity before we disclose such information to you. That's so we can prevent unauthorised access. Just write to us at the contact details provided in the Contact Us section below.
9.1. By submitting information to us, you consent to our collection, storing and processing of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You are entitled to request that we stop any consent-based processing of your personal information after you withdraw that consent. Please contact us at the relevant contact details in the Contact Us section below.
9.2. You are entitled to ask us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes. Please contact us at the relevant contact details in the Contact Us section below.
9.3. What about personal information relating to minors? As educators, protecting the online privacy of children is especially important to us. If you are under 21 years old, please do not provide us with your name, contact details or any other information about yourself. To find out more, please read our Terms and Conditions.
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HEARTACHE AT WEMBLEY
Rainham School for Girls miss out on winning the cup after penalty shoot-out defeat
In Gillingham Football Club’s first appearance at Wembley in a Community Cup National Final the outcome was reminiscent of the club’s very first trip to Wembley back in 1999, with the winners having to be decided by a dreaded penalty shoot-out.
The National Final of The npower Football League Girls Cup between Rainham School for Girls and Allstree Woodlands School, representing Derby County, took place on the pitch before the final of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy between Crewe Alexandra and Southend.
For full information regarding the build up to the Final please click here.
The sun shone on Wembley as the team and teachers arrived at their hotel on Saturday afternoon and checked in, they were full of energy and after a quick catch up they settled in to their rooms.
With the ground tour taking place in the morning the girls had some free time to relax and catch up on the football scores, and of course the promotion for the Gills, before heading out for some much needed nourishment and then back to the hotel for an early night.
The next morning the girls were up bright and early for breakfast before being collected by Andy and Amanda from the Football League. Both teams then made the short walk to Wembley Stadium, with stops along the way for photos.
As the teams walked up Wembley Way, past the statue of Bobby Moore, they entered the stadium through the players’ entrance the realisation of what lay ahead started to set in.
The teams were shown to their dressing room, before being allowed in to the Crewe dressing room for a sneaky look around, prior to making their way on to the pitch via the tunnel.
The girls then had the opportunity to take in the grandeur and vastness of the stadium as they walked around the edge of the pitch, stepped in to the dug outs and up to the Royal Box where they couldn’t resist pretending to lift a cup.
It was then back to their dressing room to get changed and prepare for the task ahead, during which time they were handed their official team sheets and letter of good luck from England International Steph Houghton.
The girls changed into their new npower kit, warmed up and went through tactics and formations for the game before being briefed by their referee, Marvyn Amphlett.
As the nerves and butterflies set in the teams stepped out of the dressing room and made their way to the tunnel. As the music started Captain Millie Waud lead the way as the girls walked out on to the pitch and on to the big screen to the cheers and screams of their family and friends before each player was announced to the crowd.
The teams then shook hands and had one last quick warm-up. The referee then blew the whistle and the game was underway, it was close from the start with both teams attacking the opposing goal but for the first half neither team could quite create the opener.
After a quick team talk at half-time both teams were back at it, with Derby coming the closet to scoring when they twice hit the post but again neither team could grab the winner.
As the seconds ticked down the possibility of the dreaded shoot-out grew closer and as the final whistle sounded penalty takers would need to be decided.
There would be three penalties taken and if the scores were level after three it would go to sudden death. Waud, Charlie Hudson and Miriael Taylor were the brave three who volunteered to take the penalties and Waud was up first.
As a heartbeat sounded over the speakers she stepped up to the penalty spot, the crowd grew silent and Waud strike it down the middle and into the arms of the goalkeeper, Derby then squeezed their first past goalkeeper Keisha Lemar.
Hudson stepped up next and placed a beautiful shot wide and it looked to be going in but the Derby keeper pulled off a brilliant save to deny her effort. Lemar then matched the save with her own to keep the score at 1-0 to Derby.
Taylor then calmly stepped up and slotted her low effort past the keeper to keep the team in with a shout. Derby’s last taker stepped up and placed her shot high in the corner, Lemar got a hand to it but could only push it into the top corner and the winners were decided.
As Derby celebrated the girls couldn’t hold back their tears as they walked up to the Royal Box to the cheers and support of all those in attendance and collected their Runners-up trophy and medals, before returning to the dressing room. The tears slowly subdued as everyone railed round to lift their spirits and once the girls were changed, they headed back out to the stadium to their seats and the open arms of their families and friends.
Thank you to npower and the Football League for a fantastic competition and weekend and to the team from Allstree Woodlands School, their teachers and the staff from Derby County who were gracious in their win.
The biggest thank you of course goes to the girls, Millie Waud, Keisha Lemar, Hannah Tyler, Hollie Chappell, Charlotte Chaney, Miriael Taylor, Charlie Hudson and Eryn Killian, their teacher Kirsty Lomas and Rainham School for Girls for representing Gillingham FC for the very first time at Wembley.
Their attitude and application was first class and even though they didn’t lift the winners trophy this time, the prize was making it all the way to Wembley for an opportunity of a life time to play on the pitch and we hope those memories will be something that stays with them for a lifetime.
Please click here for more photos from the day.
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International Journal of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Print ISSN: 2522-6614, Online ISSN: 2522-6622
2019, Vol. 3, Issue 6, Part A
Evaluation and histopathological correlation of abnormal uterine bleeding in menopausal transition in a tertiary care centre at Cheluvamba hospital, Mysore
Author(s): Lohith HM and Anjali R
Introduction: AUB at menopausal transition is alarming and needs thorough evaluation, as it could be the only clinical manifestation of cancer.
Methodology: This prostective study was done to evaluate the gynaecological causes of AUB in menopausal transition in OBG Department, MMC&RI, Mysore. These women were evaluated; clinical, ultrasound and histopathological findings were correlated.
Results: In the present study, heavy menstrual bleeding (66.7%) was the commonest type of bleeding pattern. Leiomyoma, DUB and Adenomyosis were the principle causes of AUB. Leiomyoma accounts for the 60.6% of cases, DUB accounts for 15.9%, Adenomyosis accounts for 9.09% and Leiomyoma with Adenomyosis accounts for the 14.39% of cases.
Conclusion: Endometrial biopsy and its interpretation play a pivotal role in the management of AUB cases in menopausal transition. It emphasizes the role of health care professionals to encourage teaching and implementation of alternative procedures to ensure that women receive the maximum benefits with least morbidity.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33545/gynae.2019.v3.i6a.384
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Lohith HM, Anjali R. Evaluation and histopathological correlation of abnormal uterine bleeding in menopausal transition in a tertiary care centre at Cheluvamba hospital, Mysore. Int J Clin Obstet Gynaecol 2019;3(6):09-14. DOI: 10.33545/gynae.2019.v3.i6a.384
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Angie Fischer Joins gyro Cincinnati as President
CINCINNATI [March 12, 2018] – gyro, the world’s first full-service, global creative B2B powerhouse, has appointed Angie Fischer as President of gyro Cincinnati.
Fischer brings more than 17 years of marketing and brand engagement experience. She is a Harvard graduate who joins gyro from Curiosity Marketing where she recently received the University of Cincinnati Goering Center’s “Rising Leader” honors. At Curiosity, she headed up strategy and relationships for top brands including Procter & Gamble, Perfetti Van Melle and Dean Foods.
Fischer knows gyro at its core. When gyro first formed nine years ago, she helped lead gyro Chicago with USG serving as an anchor account. Today, her journey has come full circle. As President, she joins Executive Creative Director Mike Tittel to lead gyro’s strong Cincinnati office, which has won Best Place to Work for each of the past seven years.
Earlier in her career, Fischer had spent nearly seven years at HSR Business to Business. HSR served as the foundation of gyro’s creation. As Group Vice President, she oversaw its top accounts including First Data, Motorola, AK Steel and others.
Fischer’s marketing career began in Silicon Valley and included stops at Broadbase, E.piphany and Critical Path. In fact, she began working for the first while still enrolled at Harvard University.
Before Curiosity, she was also VP/Director of Brand Engagement at Northlich, where she oversaw the account teams across a broad range of clients including P&G, American Greetings and Ohio State Medical Center.
“We are happy to have one of gyro’s original builders return back home,” said gyro Global ceo+cco Christoph Becker. “Angie brings the special type of energy and passion that we are known for and that our clients love us for. She knows gyro, what we stand for, and will be a tremendous driver of our powerful UNO culture.”
Adryanna Sutherland, gyro U.S. COO, added: “Angie’s expertise in high-tech, healthcare, food and manufacturing aligns perfectly with gyro’s core practice areas. She brings great experience and drive to our already formidable gyro Cincinnati team.”
Fischer said: “gyro has clearly set the tone for what it means to be a leader in the B2B space. Their culture and creative stature, combined with expertise in media and technology, is irresistible. I had to come back for more.”
In her spare time, Angie has a passion for food having studied culinary arts at the California Culinary Arts Academy. She is also a devoted mother of two.
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Home » Ternion releases FLAMES 17.0
Ternion releases FLAMES 17.0
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Ternion® Corporation is pleased to announce the release of FLAMES®, version 17.0. This new version includes many changes and enhancements that make FLAMES-based applications even more powerful, user-friendly, and easy to develop. See the What’s New in Version 17.0 manual in the FLAMES documentation for complete information on the following and other enhancements:
More Context Sensitive Help. Many more windows in FORGE and FLASH have been enhanced to include a Help button. Now, nearly every window includes a Help button. Clicking the Help button opens the FLAMES documentation to the topic that describes the window.
Entity List Filters. Most of the entity editing windows in FORGE have been enhanced to allow the list of entity names to be filtered. Depending on the window, the list can be filtered by dataset, entity class, entity name, tags, and script content. Filtering the lists can be very helpful, especially when editing large scenarios or when searching for specific entities.
Expanded Input Descriptions. In all Input Editors in FORGE and FLASH, if an input is the name of an object that must have one or more tags, the names of the tags are displayed in the Description when the input is selected. Similarly, if an input is the name of an object that must support one or more interfaces, the names of the interfaces are displayed in the Description when the input is selected.
Date Format Settings. The new General Scenario Settings allow you to specify the format in which dates are displayed in various places in FORGE and FLASH. The date format can be set to use only integer values in dates, which helps in defining scenarios that can be opened without errors on computers located in different countries.
XML Scenario Files. The new General Scenario Settings allow you to specify the format in which scenario files are written. By default, scenario files are now written in XML format to allow additional information to be stored in the files. This is a step toward a planned future enhancement to FLAMES – a custom scenario file browser that displays the description of a scenario.
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Display Supported Interfaces. The interfaces supported by an entity object are now displayed in the Entity Properties window in FORGE.
DIS Option Enhancements. Wildcard characters may now be used in mapping external DIS entity types to local DIS Unit types. This allows a single local type to be used to represent multiple external types and can greatly simplify scenario creation. In addition, you can specify the name of a script dictionary entry that will be processed for the new local Units immediately after they are created. This will, for example, allow special-purpose equipment models to be attached to the Units.
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Champions League 2. Tag, Mittwoch 2. Okt
October 2, 2019 - Champions League 2. Spieltag, Mittwoch Paarungen. Europas neue Champions League Saison geht weiter, 5-facher champion Barcelona empfängt Internazionale, Benfica fährt zu Zenit, St. Petersburg und Ajax spielt gegen Valencia. Das Finale wird im Atatürk Olympic Stadion in Istanbul am 30. Mai 2020 stattfinden.
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Liverpool are the defending champions. They defeated English rivals Tottenham Hotspur in last season’s final to win the title for the sixth time.
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Minnesota > Swanville > Schools > School Profile
Swanville Secondary
602 De Graff Avenue, Swanville, MN 56382
Swanville Public School District
This school is rated about average in school quality compared to other schools in Minnesota. Students here are making about average year-over-year academic improvement, ... More have about average college readiness measures, and students perform about average on state tests.
College readiness 5/10
Test scores at this school are about the same as the state average, though still below the top-performing schools in the state. Because test scores in some states are so low, many students at this school may not be performing at grade level.
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602 De Graff Avenue
Swanville, MN 56382
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Missing prescription medications can lead to serious consequences
Home Industry News Missing prescription medications can lead to serious consequences
Safer and more affordable medicine for all? How Pharmacogenomics may level the playing field Drug costs also affect younger people who may be responsible for a co-pay and a portion of their deductible early in the year. To cut costs, some patients may take half a prescribed dose so their prescription lasts twice as long. "But if they don't tell this to their provider, and their health condition doesn't improve, they may get prescribed a higher dose, which could then put them at risk for negative side effects," Haydo said. Other reasons for not taking prescription medication include a lack of understanding about a medication or a health condition. Also, some people stop taking certain medications when they don't notice a significant health change. "But with high blood pressure and cholesterol medicine, you don't feel any different until you have a problem," Mulder said. To overcome these barriers, "start by being honest with your provider or pharmacist," Haydo said. People should speak up when they don't understand a prescribed medication or their health condition, or when they're feeling overwhelmed by that information. People also should speak up when they can't afford their medications. The doctor or pharmacist may be able to find a more affordable medication that's just as effective. Other options include: Discount cards such as GoodRx that may help with the costs of some brand-name medications State-run programs such as PACE and PACENet for people 65 and older Patient Financial Services at Hershey Medical Center Children's Miracle Network and Four Diamonds Grant-funded programs for specific conditions, such as heart failure Several options also exist for people who want to take their medications but sometimes forget a dose. For younger adults, pill reminder apps can send a daily notification to a smartphone. "For others, a daily pill box will organize medication by day of the week so people don't miss a dose," Mulder said. Source:
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Homesless covid deaths should act as a wake up call
Responding to ONS statistics released today that reveal 16 people who were homeless have died as a result of Covid-19, Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran said:
Yet more lies from PM as he tries to dodge blame for care homes crisis
Responding to Boris Johnson's comments during Prime Minister's Questions that "no one knew early on in the pandemic that the virus was being passed on asymptomatically", Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson Munira Wilson said:
Davey: We must match the scale of the crisis with the courage to invest
Speaking after the Chancellor's Summer Statement, Acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey said:
The PM blaming care homes for his failure is shameful
Responding to the Prime Minister's comments today saying that "we discovered too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures in the way that they could have,” Acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey said:
Landmark domestic abuse legislation passes House of Commons
Tonight, the Liberal Democrats have hailed the passing of the “landmark” Domestic Abuse Bill. The Liberal Democrats tabled a number of amendments designed to further support survivors of domestic abuse.
Lib Dems secure cross-party support to protect migrant women in “historic” Domestic Abuse Bill
The Liberal Democrats have hailed as “historic” the Domestic Abuse Bill, which is due to be passed by the House of Commons today [Monday 6th July], while also securing cross-party support for amendments to protect migrant survivors of abuse.
Govt shouldn't need to mull on EU coronavirus vaccine scheme
Responding to reports that the UK Government is considering whether to participate in the EU coronavirus vaccine scheme, Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs and Brexit spokesperson Alistair Carmichael said:
Govt woefully underprepared to ensure every young person can return to school
Speaking following the statement on schools reopening, Liberal Democrat Education Spokesperson Layla Moran said:
Govt must stop spending money on measures that don't prevent crime
Responding to the Government’s statement on prisons today, including the announcement that four new prisons are to be built in the next six years, Liberal Democrat Justice Spokesperson Daisy Cooper said:
Lib Dems back health leaders' push for review into lockdown easing
Responding to an open letter published in the British Medical Journal from health leaders calling for an urgent review to determine whether the UK is properly prepared for the "real risk" of a second wave of coronavirus, Acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey said:
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Funding and partnerships >
Value-based reporting and management Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Analytics and data
Efficiency and productivity
Shared Purpose
d.dawson@nhs.net
Led by King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, partnered by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Based at King's College Hospital in three services: cardiac, liver and stroke.
Introduced a system that uses ‘value’ – health outcomes divided by cost – as the key performance metric.
Aimed at measuring and reporting the value of what services do, rather than focusing on process, financial and quality targets.
The NHS faces great pressures to save money, change models of care, restructure systems and join up services. However, change projects in the NHS often focus more on process targets and financial measures than on care outcomes.
A team at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has developed a system that uses ‘value’ – health outcomes divided by cost – as the key performance metric. The team’s central proposition was that management based on value drives faster, better innovation and unites the interests of payers, providers and patients.
The key components of the project were the development of a new method of value data capture, a set of value-based reporting tools and a value-based management system.
The approach enabled trusts to access data that are more meaningful and comparable, less at risk of distortion, and could account more effectively for clinical and patient-specified outcomes.
Cardiac, liver and stroke were established as those areas upon which to initially focus. Outcome measures were developed for all three conditions, along with cost data analysis following the whole care pathway. Activity and value stream maps for each condition were also drawn up to understand how patients flow through the system.
The project has enabled remarkably effective collaborations between finance, management and clinicians, with each professional group developing greater knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the others’ work.
For further information about the project, please email David Dawson, Deputy Director of Strategy at Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
This programme ran from 2012 to 2015 and supported nine teams with funding of £420,000 each to...
Value-based reporting and management Case Study (60.31 KB)
Shared Purpose - Final Report - Kings (1.98 MB)
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LIFE CHANGING GIGS
WHAT ARE WE UP TO?
STUFF WE’VE DONE
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The Power of Love – Thanks to fans
Hope and Social Blog, Uncategorized
Well it’s been all bubbling away behind the scenes. Plans for this October’s tour are coming together and through the wonders of twitter, facebook, BBC radio, youtube, crowd sourcing, blogs and TopMan we’re amassing quite a bunch of help. So thank you.
Chris Gregory (@MrFurrball on twitter), in Kentish Town, gave Hope and Social a big ol’ plug live on air on BBC Radio 2’s The Radcliffe & Maconie Show. Beeb favourites Radcliffe and Maconie featured Chris taking part in “officially the longest listener-generated, thematically-linked sequence of musically-based items on the radio”, “The Chain”. You could hear the plug for yours truly at in The Chain from around 49.15 on BBC iPlayer, We’ve now acrchived it; see below. Now if we can just get them to play the record… Rest assured we’ll be adding: “I’ve heard the name vaguely” – Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2 to our quotes list.
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Meanwhile, across the pond, possibly our youngest fan from the US exclaims her favourite Hope and Social track:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d0yLG6aIxA&hl=en&fs=1&]
If you’re struggling to catch it all, she’s saying “Hi Hope and Social, I like King of Spain and I’m Ophelia”. You can hear King of Spain in the background too if you listen closely. Aaaaaaw bless.
While we’re getting down with the kids, it seems that UK fashion store TopMan are cottoning on to the styles the band have been sporting this year, the blue jacket:
We’re slightly uneasy being at the spearhead of the fashion war for once, particularly as we’ve spent so much of our lives unable to see the curve, let alone be ahead of it. (Picture courtesy of Ed Heaton / @thesoundmill)
Things are heating up nicely in advance of our Autumn tour, a few more dates may drop in, but we’re pretty much there. All details will be up on hopeandsocial.com. We’re very happy to be returning to Joseph’s Well in Leeds and to make our first foray to a new venue in York, “City Screens’ Basement Bar”.
Our special “Be the Architect” show at The Crypt Studio (where the album was recorded) is selling well and we’re ecstatic that the event will be photographed and documented by the rather fantastic Phil Barber of The Sound Gallery – Why not check out some of his fancy work at a recent U2 show? Rather cool huh?
Through the power of crowd sourcing, and Twitter communications, the lovely people who held a Hope and Social launch party in Denver are not only making it over to the Crypt show, but also bringing new toys for us to play with, courtesy of an anonymous benefactor. We don’t know quite what we’re getting as yet bar it includes free strings, capos and piano pickup mics, but how lovely it is that people will put themselves out for you like this.
Even further afield, Saskia (a teacher in Australia) has been playing our song to her class and getting them singing along. Anyone know how much international postage on 30 kazoos or so would be? Saskia’s “Lovely Thing” is up here.
A big thanks goes out to Ben, Lynette and Si Wiffen for the pulling in of favours, the offering sofas for the studio, sending tickets, inspiring and energising and for really being great helping us organise the crypt show. Can’t say a big enough thanks to you guys. Big and genuine thanks also to the US contingent, Ellen, Chris and Guitar Centre for your generosity in bringing new and exciting strings, capos, piano mics and other toys for us to use, and to Ophelia for her lovely message. So I suppose that’s the point of this post, really to say thanks, you’re all brilliant.
And if anyone wants to buy me one of these, I’m a 34. Ta!
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Permitting Program
Sunken Military Craft Act
Sunken Military Craft Act of 2004
SMCA Brochure
Final Rule 32 CFR 767 (Text)
Underwater Archaeology, Permitting
MS Word (Microsoft Word)
For Archaeological Investigations and Other Activities Directed at Sunken Military Craft and Terrestrial Military Craft under the Jurisdiction of the Department of the Navy
The Department of Navy (DON) manages a collection of over 17,000 sunken ship and aircraft wrecks that are distributed worldwide and date from the American Revolution to the beginnings of the nuclear age. These wrecksites are often the final resting places of sailors who paid the ultimate sacrifice in service of the nation, carry significant historical importance, or may contain environmental or public safety hazards such as oil or unexploded ordnance. Accordingly, U.S. Navy ship and aircraft wrecks are in principle to be left in place and undisturbed. At times, however, artifact removal or site disturbance is necessary or appropriate to protect a cultural resource, conduct scientific research, or provide for public education. In these instances, the Naval History and Heritage Command may issue a research permit authorizing activities aimed at disturbing, removing, or injuring a sunken military craft under DON management.
Permits:
While DON prefers that non-intrusive in situ research take place on sunken and terrestrial military craft, federal regulations (32 CFR 767) provide for a process by which the DON may authorize disturbance, removal, or injury of sunken or terrestrial military craft under its jurisdiction for archaeological, historical, or educational purposes.
Please click on the links below to download the associated application form and review the pertinent guidelines.
Permit Application Form
Permit Application and Reporting Guidelines
Special Use Permits:
Special use permit applications may be considered in the case of certain activities directed at sunken or terrestrial military craft that would result in site disturbance, removal, or injury, but would be minimally intrusive or would be directed at non-historic sunken military craft. Special use permits place fewer requirements on the applicant but do not typically allow for the recovery of artifacts.
Please click on the links below to download the associated special use application form and review the pertinent guidelines.
Special Use Permit Application Form
Special Use Application and Reporting Guidelines
Please review the above permit and special use permit guidelines carefully as they elaborate and provide clarification on the application and evaluation process, principal investigator credentials, reporting requirements and conditions of an approved permit. Submit the completed application form and attachments to NHHCunderwaterarchaeology@navy.mil.
The Frequently Asked Questions page provides additional information and guidance on the permitting process and associated policies.
Activities That Do Not Require a Permit
1. Diving on or photographing a sunken military craft as long as the wrecksite and associated artifacts are not disturbed.
2. Conducting remote sensing operations over sunken military craft as long as the wrecksite is not disturbed.
3. Inadvertently disturbing a wreck site in the course of fishing or other maritime activities, such as the laying of submarine cables and pipelines, or the operation of vessels.
4. Any activity that is not directed as a sunken military craft.
Published: Thu May 14 10:12:05 EDT 2020
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Box Office International The Race Heat Vision Behind the Screen THR Presents
Guillermo Del Toro Turns Down 'Star Wars: Episode VII'
1:17 PM PST 1/7/2013 by Erik Hayden
"The rate of characters that have been killed at DreamWorks since I came in has elevated 60 percent...In all great fables somebody has to f—ing die!"
The Rise of the Guardians producer, on suggesting the death of Sandman in the middle of the animated movie that also features such mythical characters as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and Jack Frost.
The director says that his upcoming schedule is "busy enough" without adding the space opera sequel to his slate.
Scratch another high-profile director off the list of potential Star Wars: Episode VII helmers.
Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo Del Toro said in a interview with Indiewire that his agent took a phone call gauging interest in directing the Star Wars film, but his schedule was already "busy enough."
STORY: 15 Potential Directors for the New 'Star Wars' Films
"We got one phone call to my agent saying, 'Is Guillermo interested?' And basically I have so much stuff already of my own, and I'm pursuing stuff that I'm generating already...," the director told Indiewire. He later added: "It was just a phone call, it didn't go past that, it was very nice to be asked, but believe it or not, I'm busy enough."
Del Toro is the latest wish list director to shoot down speculation. J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg and Brad Bird are among the names of directors who have indicated they won't be involved with a Star Wars film.
GUEST COLUMN: Director Kevin Smith: My Prayer for 'Star Wars'
The untitled Episode VII, slated to hit theaters in 2015, has tapped Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3) to pen the screenplay. THR previously reported that Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back, and Simon Kinberg also will write installments for the new series of films.
Del Toro's directorial effort, sci-fi film Pacific Rim, will hit theaters later this year.
Erik Hayden
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Texas Sports Nation // Rockets
Doc Rivers chooses Sixers as Rockets continue coaching search
Jonathan Feigen Oct. 1, 2020
Doc Rivers didn’t wait long to take a job after parting with the Clippers on Monday. He’s taking the 76ers job, meaning he’s off the Rockets’ list.
Photo: James Nielsen, Staff / Houston Chronicle
Doc Rivers needed three days to pick his next coaching stop. The Rockets, who had interest though without progressing beyond that, continued to move more deliberately in earlier stages of their process.
Rivers and the Philadelphia 76ers agreed to terms on a five-year deal on Thursday, just a day after Rivers met with Sixers owners and general manager Elton Brand.
In the three-plus weeks since Mike D’Antoni said he would not return, the Rockets have focused the initial stages of their coaching search on former head coaches Tyronn Lue, Rivers’ lead assistant with the Clippers who led the Cleveland Cavaliers to a championship, and Kenny Atkinson, the former Nets coach, and on Nuggets assistant Wes Unseld Jr. and Mavericks assistant Stephen Silas.
The Rockets have requested permission from the Nuggets and Mavericks to speak with their assistant coaches, according to two individuals familiar with the process. The Rockets also have interest in former Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy. They are expected to meet with Lue early next week, but Lue, who interviewed for the position with the Sixers, will also be a candidate with the New Orleans Pelicans and Clippers.
Unseld was the runner-up to become the Bulls coach and is a candidate for at least one of the other jobs open. Silas, who was a finalist for the position with the Rockets when D’Antoni was hired in 2015, was also a candidate in Chicago.
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The Rockets search could expand, but the team is initially targeting former head coaches and top assistants and would not choose a former player with no coaching experience.
Rivers was the Sixers’ choice over D’Antoni, who was considered the front-runner for the position before Rivers left the Clippers on Monday. D’Antoni could become a candidate for the position with the Indiana Pacers. ESPN reported in August that the Pacers would target D’Antoni if he became available.
Rivers, 11th in NBA history in wins and second behind Gregg Popovich among active coaches, takes over a team that was a disappointing 43-30 this season and was eliminated by the Boston Celtics in as first-round sweep.
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Jonathan Feigen has been the Rockets beat writer since 1998 and a basketball nut since before Willis Reed limped out for Game 7. He became a sports writer because the reporter that was supposed to cover the University of Delaware basketball team decided to instead play one more season of college lacrosse and has never looked back.
Feigen, who has won APSE, APME and United States Basketball Writers Association awards from El Campo to Houston, came to Texas in 1981 to cover the Rice Birds, was Sports Editor in Garland before moving to Dallas to cover everything from the final hurrah of the Southwest Conference to SMU after the death penalty.
After joining the Houston Chronicle in 1990, Feigen has covered the demise of the SWC, the rise of the Big 12 and the Rockets at their championship best.
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Dan Patrick Gives Rich People an Official Seat at the Table
Michael Barajas | January 16, 2015 | 1:00pm
The most powerful officeholder in the State of Texas has tapped a slew of millionaires, billionaires, heavyweight GOP donors and corporate figureheads -- over half of whom have donated directly to his campaign -- to meet in secret and advise him on what should be done about some of our state's most pressing issues.
That might sound like hyperbole. It's not. It's literally the plan that incoming Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced yesterday to a group of reporters in Austin. Even the Associated Press abandoned its usually benign tone to lead its story on Patrick's unprecedented move this way:
"Billionaire political donors and other special interest heavyweights who already spend lavishly on lobbying will begin formally advising Texas lawmakers on crafting bills under a partnership announced Thursday by incoming Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick."
Patrick on Thursday released the names of 56 people who will make up "advisory panels" to tackle issues like economic and workforce development, economic forecasting, energy and oil and gas, tax policy, transportation, and water. These boards will meet privately and will not be subject to state open meetings laws. Patrick says he's tasked these panels with generating policy proposals that he'll consider as he shepherds bills through the 84th Legislature.
Included in the list of names Patrick released yesterday are people like Houston's Ned Holmes, a real estate developer and major GOP fundraiser. Landry's CEO Tilman Feritta, who has donated nearly a quarter million dollars to Patrick's campaigns since 2005, will sit on the lieutenant governor's economic forecasting panel. Midland oilman Tim Dunn, who donated $50,000 to Patrick last year and has given millions to the hard-right policy group Empower Texans, will help Patrick brainstorm energy policies and oil and gas regulations.
Billionaire and die-hard natural gas proponent T. Boone Pickens will run Patrick's oil and gas panel; not surprisingly, Patrick has already announced that, as part of his legislative agenda for the new session, he wants to bolster the market for natural gas, in part by running a larger percentage of state vehicles on compressed natural gas. If you're looking for an example of how the advisory boards' makeup might tilt the scales in favor of corporate interest instead of public good, look no further than Brint Ryan, who will lead Patrick's tax policy advisory panel. As the Texas Observer points out, Ryan is a consultant who specializes in finding tax breaks for major corporations like Raytheon and ExxonMobil, a proponent of what lefties and tea-partiers alike decry as corporate welfare.
Watchdog group Texans for Public Justice has already crunched the data from campaign contributions, and found that 43 of the 56 names tapped by Patrick have helped fund his campaigns in the past, the largest donor being Landry's Fertitta.
It's no secret that those who stand to make money from policy decisions eagerly hope to influence lawmakers. Why else would there be over 1,600 registered lobbyists every time the Lege meets? What makes Patrick's move different, and unprecedented, is that he's rounded a bunch of these people up and made them an official component of his governing team.
"We've been trying to make the case for 15 years that corporate elites have more power and clout than they should have in this state," TPJ founder Craig Mcdonald told us today. Mcdonald says Patrick basically just helped him prove that point, making the state's influence-peddling structure more public than ever.
"Formalizing these panels, making it official, it basically brings to the forefront what's been wrong with Texas for a long time," Mcdonald says.
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January 19, 2017 | The Morning After “Morning in America”
Bill Bonner
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Is an American author of books and articles on economic and financial subjects. He is the founder and president of Agora Publishing, and author of the daily financial column, Diary of a Rogue Economist.
BALTIMORE – The Financial Times is wrong about most everything.
The Davos consensus, too, errs regularly. So does former U.S. treasury secretary Larry Summers.
And when former Democratic senator William Proxmire revealed Alan Greenspan’s economic forecasting record in the latter’s confirmation hearings, it was a long list uninterrupted by success.
And now, all are agreed: “Trumpismo” won’t deliver the goods.
These usually unreliable sources may be on to something.
But Greenspan’s views – expressed in a private meeting with us in our office here in Baltimore on Tuesday – are closest to our own: Donald Trump won’t even get the truck started.
The Financial Times quotes industry leaders in Davos calling the immediate effects of Trumpismo a “sugar rush.”
In the same paper, Summers predicts a “bitter comedown from Trump’s sugar high” and that “disappointment and disapproval will set in within a year.”
You know our thoughts already: It’s not Trump’s fault. This is an economy that has been corrupted by the fake dollar and the Fed’s EZ money policies.
Like a hothouse flower, it can’t survive outside the strange environment of artificially low interest rates, market backstops, and bailouts.
Take these away – which would happen in a real boom – and the whole thing dies, like a poinsettia suddenly taken outside into the winter snow.
At our meeting, Greenspan seemed eager to talk about it. “Aren’t you going to ask me about the last 10 weeks?” he prompted.
Amid all the mumbly-fumbly from the former Fed chief (he hasn’t lost his famous talent for obfuscation) was this clear and unequivocal insight: “It won’t happen.”
Greenspan was referring to investors’ fondest hope and their most impossible dream: that the president-elect will reverse three decades of declining GDP growth, falling productivity, and drooping middle-class wages by sheer willpower.
Trump, if you believe the press, is supposed to cut taxes and boost spending, thus touching off a Reagan Redux… the morning after the “Morning in America.”
“I spent a lot of years in D.C.,” Greenspan explained to us.
At 90, he still lives there… still consults and socializes with the swamp critters… and still keeps his ears open.
Once the Trump team confronts the reality of the federal budget, he says – with $1 trillion-per-year deficits as far as the eye can see – and it gets into the bitter infighting in Congress, it will realize that it may never pass the legislation it promises. Not quickly. Not easily.
“It will be another Congressional food fight,” President Reagan’s budget director David Stockman replied.
David, who now writes the Contra Corner newsletter, is an old friend of Greenspan’s from back in the early days of the Reagan administration.
The memory of these “Congressional food fights” was so vivid in David’s mind, it was as though he still had gravy stains on his lapels and Jell-O in his hair.
“There is no way the Tea Party caucus is going to rubber-stamp a series of debt-ceiling increases,” he argued. (David was the one who briefed Reagan on budget issues before and after his victory over Jimmy Carter.)
“It just won’t happen.”
“This is a non-sustainable outlook. Trump may have some magic formula he hasn’t divulged to anybody. But I don’t see where we go from here,” added Greenspan gravely.
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March 15, 2016 6:00AM EDT | Dispatches
Dispatches: Ethiopian Pastor Pays the Penalty for Speaking Out
Felix Horne
@felixhorne1
A year ago today, Ethiopian security forces arrested Pastor Omot Agwa and six colleagues at Addis Ababa’s Bole Airport and took them to the notorious Maekelawi police station, where torture is routine.
Pastor Omot Agwa was charged by Ethiopian authorities under the anti-terrorism law after being detained for nearly six months. © Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas / WG Film
The arrest came several months after Omot, a respected activist from Ethiopia’s Gambella region, served as translator for the World Bank Inspection Panel. The panel investigated the Anuak indigenous people’s allegation that the Ethiopian government was committing widespread forced displacement and other serious human rights violations in relation to a World Bank project in Gambella.
The authorities eventually released four of the seven, but Omot, Ashine Astin, and Jamal Oumar Hojele were charged on September 7, under Ethiopia’s draconian counterterrorism law. The seven had been on their way to a food security workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, organized by international groups. It was described in the charge sheet as a “terrorist group meeting.”
Omot faces 20 years to life in prison, accused of being a co-founder and leader of the Gambella People’s Liberation Movement (GPLM), a long inactive group that has not been designated a terrorist organization by the Ethiopian parliament. Ashine is accused of preparing a presentation titled, “Deforestation, Dispossession and Displacement of Gambela in General and Majang People in Particular.”
Sadly, their plight is a familiar story in Ethiopia. Those who criticize government policies – including development programs – are routinely arrested and accused of supporting armed opposition groups. Sometimes they are charged under the counterterrorism law. Sometimes they are not charged but are detained for lengthy periods. Sometimes they are tortured. The courts almost never investigate detainees’ allegations that they were tortured to confess. Acquittals are rare and those accused are routinely convicted without any meaningful evidence presented by the prosecution.
In recent years, Ethiopia’s government has produced economic and development progress, but accurately assessing the extent of that progress is impossible when people must risk detention or worse to express their views. As with the Oromo protesters who have been risking their lives to demonstrate over the past months, the arrest of Omot and his colleagues reminds us that the government only tolerates one view of government policies. Those who want to voice a different perspective, or who represent communities that bear the brunt of Ethiopia’s top-down, repressive policies, are silenced and sometimes accused of terrorism.
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Hudson River Valley History
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Stone Church Road
Hours: Daily 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Air show schedule: Every Saturday and Sunday, 2:00PM
Historical Description:
The Aerodrome was the vision of Cole Palen. After serving in the United States Infantry in 1944, he returned to the United States where he entered the Roosevelt Aviation School at Roosevelt Field to train as a mechanic. It was here that he fell in love with early aircraft. At an auction, he purchased a SPAD XIII, Avro 504K, Curtiss Jenny, Standard Jl, Aeromarine 39B and Sopwith Snipe aircraft. In 1959, he bought a Rhinebeck farm that now serves as the airfield. One year later, the first air show took place.
The Site:
The Aerodrome contains four museum buildings, which focus on aircraft from the Pioneer Era, World War I and the Lindbergh/Barnstorming Era. The Aerodrome holds air shows to display the early years of aviation. Saturday shows focus on the history of flight with Pioneer, World War I and Lindbergh era aircraft. Sunday shows feature an exciting World War I dogfight as well as Barnstorming aircraft.
From the North, South, and West: New York State Thruway Exit 19 to Rt. 209 North. Follow signs to Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge. Cross over the Hudson River. Right turn at the second traffic light onto Route 9G South. Next traffic light, turn left onto Route 9 North for 1/2 mile. Right onto Stone Church Road for 1-1/2 miles. Left on Norton Road.
From the East: Mass. Pike or I-84 to Taconic State Parkway. Exit at Rt. 199 Rhinebeck/Red Hook. Rt. 199 west for 6.8 miles. Left onto Orlich Road, then an almost immediate right onto Norton Road for 1-1/2 miles
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PLN v. Co. of Bernalillo, et al., NM, Complaint, censorship, 2015
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Case 1:15-cv-00107-SCY-KBM Document 1 Filed 02/05/15 Page 1 of 15
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO
PRISON LEGAL NEWS, a project of
the HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER,
Plaintiff,
COUNTY OF BERNALILLO;
PHILLIP GREER, Chief of Corrections, in his official
capacity;
RAMON RUSTIN, Former Chief of Corrections,
individually;
DONALD VIGIL, Assistant Chief of Corrections, in his
individual and official capacity;
VIRGINIA CHAVEZ; Assistant Chief of Operations, in
her individual and official capacity;
TOM SWISSTACK, Deputy County Manager for Public
Safety, in his individual and official capacity;
DOES 1-10, in their individual and
official capacities,
Case No.:
COMPLAINT FOR
DECLARATORY AND
INJUNCTIVE RELIEF UNDER
THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT 42
U.S.C. §1983 AND DAMAGES
JURY TRIAL DEMANDED
Defendants.
PRISON LEGAL NEWS (“PLN” or “Plaintiff”) brings this action to enjoin
Defendants’ censorship of books mailed to people in their custody at the Metropolitan Detention
Center (“MDC”). Defendants’ mail policies and practices unconstitutionally prohibit delivery of
books, including Plaintiff’s books, to pre-trial detainees and other prisoners at MDC in violation
of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Defendants’ policies and practices
also deny Plaintiff and other senders of censored mail due process of law by failing to provide
notice of and an opportunity to challenge each instance of censorship as required by the
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
JURISDICTION AND VENUE
This action is brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1331 (federal question), as this
action arises under the Constitution and laws of the United States, and pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §
1343 (civil rights), as this action seeks redress for civil rights violations under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
Venue is proper under 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b). On information and belief, at least
one Defendant resides within this judicial district, and the events giving rise to the claims
asserted herein all occurred within this judicial district.
Plaintiff’s claims for relief are predicated upon 42 U.S.C. § 1983, which
authorizes actions to redress the deprivation, under color of state law, of rights, privileges and
immunities secured to the Plaintiff by the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S.
Constitution and laws of the United States.
This Court has jurisdiction over claims seeking declaratory and injunctive relief
pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201 and 2202, and Rule 57 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as
well as nominal and compensatory damages, against all Defendants.
Plaintiff’s claim for attorneys’ fees and costs is predicated upon 42 U.S.C. § 1988,
which authorizes the award of attorneys’ fees and costs to prevailing plaintiffs in actions brought
pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
Plaintiff is informed, believes, and based thereon alleges that in engaging in the
conduct alleged herein, Defendants acted wantonly and/or with the intent to injure, vex, annoy
and harass Plaintiff, and subjected Plaintiff to unjust hardship in conscious disregard of
Plaintiff’s constitutional rights.
As a result of the forgoing, Plaintiff seeks exemplary and punitive damages
against the individual Defendants.
PLN is a wholly owned project of the Human Rights Defense Center, a not-for-
profit Washington charitable corporation recognized under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code with principal offices in Lake Worth, Florida. In addition to publishing and distributing
books of interest to prisoners, PLN publishes Prison Legal News: Dedicated to Protecting
Human Rights, a sixty-four (64) page black-and-white monthly journal of corrections news and
Defendant, County of Bernalillo, is a municipality and governmental entity
organized and existing under the laws of the State of New Mexico. Defendant County of
Bernalillo is responsible for the training, supervision, acts, omissions, conduct, policies (written
or unwritten), patterns, practices, customs and procedures of the public employees acting within
the course and scope of their duties at MDC during all times relevant hereto.
Defendant, Chief of Corrections, Phillip Greer, currently serves as a final policy
maker for MDC. Defendant Greer oversees, plans, coordinates, and evaluates all MDC policies
and practices at issue, and is chiefly responsible for its implementation. Defendant Greer also
formulates programs and/or policies to alleviate any actual or foreseeable deficiencies with the
policies and practices at MDC. He is sued in his official capacity only.
Defendant, Former Chief of Corrections Ramon Rustin, was a final policy maker
for the MDC. This Defendant was personally involved in the adoption and/or implementation of
the mail policies at issue. Defendant Rustin held the same title and performed the analogous
duties of the present Chief of Corrections, Defendant Greer, supra. He is sued in his individual
capacity only.
Defendant, Assistant Chief of Corrections, Donald Vigil is responsible for the
implementation of inmate policies at MDC, including the inmate mail policies challenged herein,
and for the hiring, screening, training, retention, supervision, discipline, counseling, and control
of the personnel at MDC who interpret and apply the mail policy for inmates. He is sued in his
individual and official capacities.
Defendant, Assistant Chief of Operations, Virginia Chavez, manages the
operations of non-security services at MDC including but not limited to: finance, human
resources, contract compliance, case management, medical and psychiatric services, food
services, information technology, in-house programs, and mail services. She is sued in her
Defendant, Deputy County Manager for Public Safety, Tom Swisstack, is
responsible for the oversight and coordination of the Metropolitan Detention Center, to include
any programs or services related to inmate mail or policies related to the same. He is sued in his
The true names and identities of Defendants DOES 1 through 10 are presently
unknown to PLN. Each of Defendants DOES 1 through 10 are or were employed by and are or
were agents of Defendants when some or all of the challenged inmate mail policies and practices
were adopted and/or implemented.
Each of Defendants DOES 1 through 10 are or were
personally involved in the adoption and/or implementation of the mail policies for inmates,
and/or are or were responsible for the hiring, screening, training, retention, supervision,
discipline, counseling, and/or control of MDC staff who interpret and implement these inmate
mail policies. They are sued in their individual and official capacities. PLN will seek to amend
this Complaint as soon as the true names and identities of Defendants DOES 1 through 10 have
been ascertained.
At all times material to this action, the actions of all Defendants as alleged herein
were taken under the authority and color of state law.
FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS
PLN distributes approximately fifty (50) different books about the criminal justice
system, legal reference books, and self-help books of interest to prisoners. These books are
designed to foster a better understanding of criminal justice policies and to allow prisoners to
educate themselves about related issues, such as legal research, how to write a business letter,
health care issues, and similar topics.
PLN distributes its books to prisoners in approximately 2,400 correctional
facilities located across all fifty states, including the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the New
Mexico Department of Corrections.
PLN engages in core protected speech and expressive conduct on matters of
public concern, and its books cover topics such as the operation of prison facilities, prison
conditions, prisoner health and safety, and prisoner rights. Plaintiff’s books, as described above,
contain political speech and social commentary, which are entitled to the highest protection
afforded by the U.S. Constitution.
A. Censorship and Lack of Due Process
Defendants have censored PLN’s books mailed to people held in custody at
MDC, by refusing to deliver the books and, in some instances, by returning the books to PLN’s
offices via the “Return To Sender” service of the United States Postal Service. Defendants
continue to censor PLN’s books.
Defendants have censored PLN’s books on at least eighty-four (84) occasions
from June 2012 to the present, including the items identified below.
Among the books censored by Defendants are: Protecting Your Health & Safety:
A Litigation Guide for Inmates (“PYHS”), Prisoner Diabetes Handbook: A Guide to Managing
Diabetes – for Prisoners, by Prisoners (“PDH”), and The Habeas Citebook: Ineffective
Assistance of Counsel (“The Habeas Citebook”). PLN is the exclusive distributor of PYHS and
also distributes PDH for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which publishes both books. PYHS
explains the legal rights of prisoners regarding their health and safety including the right to
medical care and the right to be free from inhumane treatment, among others. PDH is a
handbook designed to educate people who have diabetes about how they can manage their
medical condition while incarcerated. The Habeas Citebook is published and distributed by
Plaintiff, and describes the procedural and substantive complexities of federal habeas corpus
litigation with the goal of assisting prisoners in the process of identifying and litigating claims
involving ineffective assistance of counsel. The Habeas Citebook is also a valuable resource for
pre-trial detainees involved in active litigation of pending criminal charges.
Protecting Your Health and Safety
Since June 2012, at least forty-three (43) copies of PYHS were individually
addressed and mailed by PLN to people incarcerated at MDC, including:
Date Mailed:
Prisoner:
Shane Sanders
Shane Swann
Earl Mayfield
Sheronda Hobbs
Joey Morrison
Joseph Gilstrap
Wendell Gunthorpe
Xavier Thompson
Julius Edwards
Darryl Roybal
Ronald Brewington
Memori Hardwick
Jonathan Danielson
Aaron Yazzie
Joseph Watts
Chad Kersten
Lasha Knight
James Kohut
Andrew Olivas
Zach Pagett
Robert Carr
Jim Hartley
Jimmy Willeto
Harry C. Williams
Alfonso R. Thompson
Carlos L. Smith
Jay Cee X Smith
Clive D. Phillips
John A. Martin
Aaron B. James
Roby W. Brown
Bruce S. Arnold
Nathaniel Avery
Jacob L. Caddell
Iyesha A. Calderon
Christopher M. Gamble
Forty-two (42) of the above-listed copies of PYHS were sent back to PLN by
return mail, at PLN’s expense, indicating various reasons for the return including the following:
(1) “RETURN TO SENDER”; (2) “UNAUTHORIZED”; and (3) “NO BOOKS.” One (1) copy
of PYHS sent to Shane Swann on June 7, 2012 was not returned to PLN. However, PLN
received correspondence from Mr. Swann confirming that he did not receive PYHS.
Prisoner Diabetes Handbook
In February 2013, PLN mailed an individually addressed copy of PDH to Ronald
Brewington who was incarcerated at MDC. Defendants censored this book by refusing to
deliver it to Mr. Brewington and returning it to PLN after marking: (1) “RETURN TO
SENDER”; (2) “UNAUTHORIZED”; and (3) “NO BOOKS!!,” on the outside of the package.
The Habeas Citebook
Since July 2014, PLN mailed individually addressed copies of The Habeas
Citebook to the following forty (40) prisoners at MDC, which were subsequently censored:
Matthew Harris
Dale G. Jones
Dean R. Jones
Marie L. Jones
Aaron Bradley James
Benny L. James
Henry R. Jameson
Ronald I. Johnson
Phillip Martin
Alfred C. Martinez
Angel S. Martinez
Jeffery A. Moore
Jay Cee Xavier Smith
Keith L. Thompson
Timothy J. Wilson
Tyrone White
Luis C. Grajeda
Timothy Carrera
Matthew E. Baker
Leonard Allred
Oscar Carbajal
Joey L. Franklyn
All of the above copies of The Habeas Citebook were sent back to PLN by return
mail, at PLN’s expense, indicating various reasons for the return including the following: (1)
SENDER”;
“UNAUTHORIZED”;
BOOKS;
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In all the above instances of censorship, Defendants failed to provide due process
notice to PLN of the reason for rejecting PLN materials by, among other inadequacies, failing to
explain the penological justification for their censorship decisions, failing to identify the specific
mail policy they relied on, stating different reasons for censoring identical items of mail, and
otherwise failing to give meaningful notice of the censorship. With all of the rejected materials,
Defendants did not provide any further information to PLN other than what is noted above. At no
time did Defendants provide an opportunity for PLN to appeal the rejection of its mail.
MDC’s mail policy 15.03 states:
The Facility allows inmates to receive magazines, newspapers and periodicals
that are generally available to the public, but must be received through the mail
from the publisher. Hardcover books or any other type of books are not allowed
to be mailed in, even through the publisher.
The policy further requires that:
The Mail Clerk responsible for receiving mail shall return any printed materials
and publications (i.e. Magazines, newspapers, periodicals), which are
unauthorized or of questionable nature back to the sender…Books are
automatically returned to sender.
MDC’s mail policy fails to require that notice of censorship be given to either the
intended recipient or the sender of a censored book, nor does it provide an avenue by which the
censorship decision can be appealed.
Defendants’ conduct prohibiting PLN from mailing its publications to inmates
confined at MDC violates the First Amendment. Defendants’ policies, practices and customs
have a chilling effect on PLN’s future speech and expression directed toward people confined
there. Defendants’ policies, practices and customs are unconstitutional both facially and as
applied to PLN.
PLN publishes and distributes content concerning the rights of inmates and the
means by which they may obtain relief from unconstitutional conditions of confinement. As a
result, PLN is informed and believes that Defendants have retaliated against PLN by refusing to
deliver PLN’s written materials to inmates held at the jails.
Due to Defendants’ actions as described above, Plaintiff has suffered damages,
and will continue to suffer damages, including, but not limited to: the violation of the Plaintiff’s
constitutional rights; the impediment of Plaintiff’s ability to disseminate its political message;
frustration of Plaintiff’s non-profit organizational mission; diversion of resources; loss of
potential subscribers and customers; an inability to recruit new subscribers and supporters; the
loss of reputation; and the costs of printing, handling, mailing, and staff time.
Defendants’ actions and inactions were and are motivated by ill motive and intent,
and were and are all committed under color of law with reckless indifference to PLN’s rights.
Defendants, and other agents of MDC, are responsible for or personally
participated in creating and implementing these unconstitutional policies, practices, and customs,
or for ratifying or adopting them. Further, Defendants are responsible for training and
supervising the staff persons whose conduct has injured and continues to injure PLN.
Defendants’ unconstitutional policy, practices, and customs are ongoing, continue
to violate PLN’s rights, and are the moving force behind the constitutional violations. As such,
PLN has no adequate remedy at law.
PLN is entitled to injunctive relief prohibiting Defendants from refusing to deliver
publications and books from Prison Legal News and other publishers without any legal
justification, and prohibiting Defendants from censoring mail without due process of law.
Count I – 42 U.S.C. § 1983
Violation of the First Amendment
Each paragraph of this Complaint is incorporated as if restated fully herein.
The acts described above constitute violations of Plaintiffs rights, the rights of
other correspondents who have attempted to or intend to correspond with prisoners at MDC, and
the rights of prisoners confined at MDC, under the First Amendment of the United States
Constitution.
Plaintiff has a constitutionally protected liberty interest in communicating with
incarcerated individuals by sending books to them via U.S. Mail, a right clearly established
under existing case law.
The conduct of Defendants was objectively unreasonable and was undertaken
intentionally with malice, willfulness, and reckless indifference to the rights of others.
Plaintiff’s injuries and the violations of its constitutional rights were directly and
proximately caused by the policies and practices of Defendants, and those policies were the
moving force behind the violations.
The acts described above have caused damages to Plaintiff, and if not enjoined,
will continue to cause damage to Plaintiff.
Plaintiff seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, and nominal and compensatory
damages against all Defendants. Plaintiff seeks punitive damages against the individual
Defendants in their individual capacities.
Count II – 42 U.S.C. § 1983
Violation of the Fourteenth Amendment
the rights of prisoners confined at MDC, under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States
Plaintiff has a right under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
to receive notice and an opportunity to object and/or appeal Defendants’ decisions to prevent
PLN’s books from reaching prisoners at MDC.
Defendants’ policy and practice when censoring PYHS, PDH and The Habeas
Citebook, or any other books fails to provide Plaintiff or other senders with individualized notice
of the censorship or an opportunity to be heard.
proximately caused by the policies and practices of Defendants, and which were the moving
force behind the same.
damages against all Defendants.
Plaintiff seeks punitive damages against the individual
Injunctive Allegations
Defendants’ unconstitutional policies and practices are ongoing and continue to
violate Plaintiff’s constitutional rights and the rights of other correspondents and prisoners. As
such, there is no adequate remedy at law.
Plaintiff is entitled to injunctive relief prohibiting Defendants from refusing to
deliver or allow delivery of PYHS, The Habeas Citebook, PDH, or any other books without legal
justification. Plaintiff is also entitled to injunctive relief prohibiting Defendants from censoring
mail without due process of law.
REQUEST FOR RELIEF
WHEREFORE, the Plaintiff respectfully requests relief as follows:
A declaration that Defendants’ policies and practices violate the Constitution.
Nominal damages for each violation of Plaintiff’s rights by the Defendants.
A preliminary and permanent injunction preventing Defendants from continuing
to violate the Constitution, and providing other equitable relief.
Compensatory damages in an amount to be proved at trial.
Punitive damages against the individual Defendants in an amount to be proved at
Costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, under 42 U.S.C. § 1988, and under
trial.
other applicable law.
Any other such relief that this Court deems just and equitable.
/s/Laura Schauer Ives
Laura Schauer Ives, NM Bar No.: 12463
lsi@civilrightslawnewmexico.com
Kennedy, Kennedy & Ives, LLC
1000 2nd Street NW
/s/Bruce E. H. Johnson
Bruce E. H. Johnson*, WA Bar No.: 7667
brucejohnson@dwt.com
Angela Galloway*, WA Bar No.: 45330
angelagalloway@dwt.com
1201 Third Avenue, Suite 2200
/s/ Lance Weber
Lance Weber*, Fla. Bar No.: 104550
lweber@humanrightsdefensecenter.org
Sabarish Neelakanta*, Fla. Bar No.: 26623
sneelakanta@humanrightsdefensecenter.org
*Admission Applications Pending
JURY DEMAND
Plaintiff hereby demands a trial by jury on all issues so triable.
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Piracy didn’t fade, it just got cleverer
By Adrian Pennington2018-06-21T09:13:00+01:00
Galvanised into action the media industry can claim some success in reducing incidents of illegal streaming. But the threat remains high as pirates turn to more sophisticated methods of attack.
This time last year the industry was in a spin. In close succession, hackers had breached Netflix, Disney and HBO, threatening to release script details or entire shows to the web unless ransoms were paid. Even then, Game of Thrones season seven was pirated more than a billion times, according to one estimate.
Pirated more than a billion times: Game of Thrones
Euphemistically known as content redistribution, piracy was rife in sports broadcasting too.
The industry’s worst fears were confirmed shortly before IBC when ‘The Money Fight’ between boxers Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor haemorrhaged cash for operator Showtime as three million people watched illegally.
In recent months, though, no such high-profile incident has occurred – or at least been made public. The industry would appear to have stemmed the tide.
Massive investment pays dividends
This is at least in part due to the firepower being thrown at the problem.
Ovum estimates that the spend on TV and video anti-piracy services will touch U$1bn worldwide by the end of the year - a rise of 75% on 2017. Increasing adoption of these anti-piracy services bundled with premium content protection technology stacks such as DRM, fingerprinting, watermarking, paywalls and tokenised authentication will see losses reduce, predicts the analyst, to 13% in 2018 from 16% in 2017.
Last June, Netflix, HBO, Disney, Amazon and Sky were among more than 30 studios and international broadcasters ganging together to form the anti-piracy Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE). It shut down Florida-based SET Broadcast pending a lawsuit alleging the streaming subscription service was pirating content. ACE has also initiated legal action against Kodi set top box makers in Australia, the UK and the US (including TickBox TV and Dragon Box) for providing illicit access to copyrighted content.
In the UK, the Digital Production Partnership (DPP) unveiled its Committed to Security Programme at IBC2017 to help companies self-assess against key industry security criteria. It has since awarded the appropriate ‘committed to security’ mark to two dozen companies including Arqiva, Base Media Cloud, Dropbox, Imagen, Piksel and Signiant.
“We have seen the impact of new countermeasures and legal actions implemented in several advanced markets over the past 18 months,” reports Simon Trudelle, Senior Director of Product Marketing at content security experts, Nagra.
“For instance, ISPs and cloud platform providers in Western Europe are now better informed and are more cooperative when notified of an official takedown notice.
Trudelle says that, as a result, a large chunk of pirate infrastructure has moved to jurisdictions outside of Western Europe, where intellectual property rights are more challenging to enforce. Because this pirate infrastructure is further away from major cloud and CDN hubs in Western Europe, it reduces the quality of the pirate services.
Simon Trudelle
Also, the EU’s data privacy directive, GDPR, has grown awareness in fighting illicit streaming services.
“Broad communication on data and privacy issues help consumers realise that their illegal actions could be traced, or that their personal data, including ID and payment information, could be stolen and misused by organised crime,” says Trudelle.
Previously, content theft has been a crime that couldn’t be enforced - authorities wouldn’t know what to do or how to stop it. Now, according to content security vendor Verimatrix’s CTO Petr Peterka, authorities are better equipped to understand what piracy looks like, how to find it and how to stop it - all of which makes it more difficult for pirates to hide or be anonymous.
“The most effective approach to countering threats of piracy starts with education, then moves into rights expertise, with rights enforcement being the final step,” says Peterka.
But far from receding, the security threat remains as high as ever. Even at 13%, the revenue expected to be lost this year by global online TV and video services (excluding film entertainment) amounts to U$37.4bn.
A new major case of piracy has erupted during the FIFA World Cup, proving it’s still a major issue for the media industry. FIFA is taking action against Saudi TV channel BeoutQ for alleged illegal broadcasts of the opening games of the World Cup, infringing the exclusive regional rights to the competition held by Qatar’s beIN Media Group.
Read more Catching the pirates offside
The most serious threat comes from the Asia-Pacific region, which will account for roughly 40% of all revenue leakage, according to Ovum.
“[The focus of] attacks have moved – slightly - from Tier-I premium content towards Tier-II and Tier-III formats (regional and local content),” says Ovum principal consultant for Media & Broadcast Technology, Kedar Mohite. “Attackers are specifically targeting local markets… focusing on Hollywood titles distributed through local touch points in Asia-Pacific.”
Furthermore, the fragmentation of access points to content from web, devices, platforms and workgroups (a pre-launch IP theft scenario) means premium content security has to continuously evolve.
Maxine Holt
“Cybercrime is now the main source of funding for organised criminal groups,” says Ovum Research Director Maxine Holt. “These groups are extremely well funded and therefore have the time and the inclination to launch extended attacks that can lay undetected for many, many months.”
Content protection agency MUSO charted over 300 billion visits to piracy websites across music, TV and film, publishing, and software in 2017, more than a third of which were to pirate sites hosting television content (106.9 billion). It records that the nation with the worst offenders is the U.S where 27.9 billion visits were made to pirate sites in 2017 (followed by Russia with 20.6bn and India with 17bn).
“There is a belief that the rise in popularity of on-demand services – such as Netflix and Spotify – have solved piracy, but that theory simply doesn’t stack up. Our data suggests that piracy is more popular than ever,” says MUSO co-founder and CEO Andy Chatterley. “The data shows us that 53% of all piracy happens on unlicensed streaming platforms.”
More advanced content security measures may have made it more difficult to hack into the cryptographic components of the content protection system, with consequently fewer ‘traditional’ security breaches. However, even as protection mechanisms get more sophisticated, the number of vulnerabilities continues to increase.
“The most effective approach to countering threats of piracy starts with education, then moves into rights expertise, with rights enforcement being the final step.” Petr Peterka, Verimatrix
Commercial piracy
“Content is available on many more networks, giving pirates more points of attack than just the smartcard,” says Peterka. “Pirates are now trying to go up stream all the way to content creation itself because pirating that content before it enters the conditional access/DRM domain gives them the biggest benefit. This is why content owners are now employing watermarking before it even hits movie theatres; piracy has to be addressed all the way up to the original source.”
“In some respects, piracy is actually getting worse,” Twentieth Century Fox’s SVP for Content Protection and Technology Ron Wheeler told the Pay-TV Innovation Forum. “Illicit streaming devices and associated services cost users real money and therefore target the same paying customers that legitimate broadcast and OTT services do.”
Nagra says such “commercial piracy” is a more sophisticated form that involves advanced streaming platforms, front-end marketing sites and payment servers that aim to compete with legitimate services.
OpenTV experience: Nagra
Source: Nagra
“These offerings are particularly damaging in emerging markets, where consumers can hardly tell the difference between legitimate services,” says Trudelle.
No threat goes away - it morphs over time. Attackers are combining different forms of attack and even sharing codebases to circumvent the defences the cybersecurity industry puts in. At the same time, security experts have also ramped up their solutions to disrupt these threats.
Irdeto is using artificial intelligence to detect illegal streams through semantic analysis of social media advertisements or web page indexes, to identify broadcaster logos and even athletes via facial recognition. With the stream flagged as an illegal piece of content, a takedown notice is issued.
“Once pirates realise the detection techniques that are being employed they start adjusting their methods – blanking or switching out logos for example,” says Irdeto VP of Cybersecurity Services Mark Mulready. “The more mischievous ones are actually putting on other logos of other broadcasters.”
That’s where the next phase of the machine learning project comes in. “We’re trying to teach the system to recognise things like football strips so it can actually determine which game is on from seeing, for example, Barcelona’s colours.”
Nagra is introducing new watermarking solutions for OTT delivery apps at IBC2018. This will allow content and rights owners to trace leaks to their origins on a consumer streaming device, enabling operators to turn off a suspicious user and disrupt pirate services during live events. The company is also expanding its monitoring and takedown capabilities.
Verimatrix’s Peterka says: “We may never stop piracy but making it more difficult and less economical for pirates to steal can help slow it down. To stay on top of content protection, it is essential that service providers keep investing in security to discover and patch any vulnerabilities in a timely matter.”
Meanwhile, crypto currencies like bitcoin have made it easier for attackers to ‘cashout’ undetected while the emergent Internet of Things will only magnify the threat.
Petr Peterka
“We are no longer dealing with a handful of companies with closed ecosystems solely responsible for securing data on the device,” warned McAfee CEO Christopher Young recently. The cybersecurity firm tracks 600,000 unique threats a day on 300 million devices and says cybercrime drains U$600 billion from businesses a year.
“With open systems the network also connects to hundreds of billions of devices. How will we secure this large-scale connected device ecosystem without stifling growth and innovation? We stand on a precipice today.”
Watch Roundtable: How to deal with the threat to content
Content Piracy
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Digital Camera Home > Digital Camera Reviews > Canon Digital Cameras > Canon EOS 20D
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Slightly smaller and lighter upgrade brings greater speed and ease of use along with higher res and lower image noise.
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Review First Posted: 08/19/2004, Update: 11/19/2004
* Canon EOS 20D SLR designed from the ground-up to be digital
* 8.2-megapixel CMOS sensor, 3,504 x 2,336 pixel images
* ISO of 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200
* Five frames per second, photo-centric design – touch shutter button in Play mode and camera returns to Record mode.
* Compatible with all Canon EOS system lenses as well as new EF-S with a focal length multiplier of 1.6
* Multiple improvements and enhancements throughout the camera.
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The Canon EOS 20D is the latest in what's become one of the longest and largest lines of digital SLRs. With strong roots in the film world, Canon cameras are a staple at any event where you're likely to see a group of professional photographers clicking away, their signature white lenses and red rings dominating the sidelines at sporting events worldwide. If you ask experienced photographers what the Canon name means to them, many would say that they associate the name with innovation, the company having brought such technological advances as Eye-Controlled Focusing (Canon EOS 5, 1992) and the USM ultrasonic motors used in the more recent Canon EF lenses, which are extremely quiet and very fast.
The Canon 20D is the latest in Canon's broad line of digital SLR models, sporting increased resolution and improved electronics relative to previous models. While it has a similar look, the EOS 20D has upgrades and improvements in so many areas that it's difficult to decide which to mention first. It is the culmination of all Canon has learned over the past year from consumer and professional photographers regarding the cameras currently in the market, from the EOS Digital Rebel to the EOS 10D, all the way up to the 1Ds and 1D Mark II. Naturally, Canon has also kept improving the technology of their sensors and processors over the years, which they characteristically fold into the latest model. The result for this year is the EOS 20D: a camera that is smaller, lighter, and faster with a higher resolution imager, while retaining most of what users loved about the 10D.
Built around an 8 megapixel CMOS sensor and incorporating a number of enhancements aimed at improving image quality, the Canon EOS 20D is a significant upgrade from the 10D model. Despite the 10D's well-deserved reputation for low image noise, the new Canon 20D offers dramatically improved noise performance at high ISOs, with the result that its images at ISO 1600 are remarkably clean-looking, and its shots at ISO 3200 are eminently usable. Simultaneous with the increase in resolution, the Canon EOS 20D also brings improved shooting speed, with a 5 frame/second continuous mode and unusually deep buffer memory. For all its technical sophistication though, the camera avoids any sense of needless technology for technology's sake: The Canon EOS 20D is clearly focused on a single purpose: Helping photographers capture excellent images. Read on, there's a lot of ground to cover...
8.2-megapixel, 22.5 x 15.0mm, 12-bit RGB CMOS sensor delivering 3,504 x 2,336-pixel images.
Single-lens reflex digital camera with interchangeable lenses (supports all Canon EOS series lenses, plus new EF-S, short back focus lenses). Focal length multiplier of 1.6x as compared to a 35mm camera.
Variable ISO (100, 200, 400, 800, 1,600, and 3,200 settings).
TTL optical viewfinder with detailed information display, diopter adjustment, and depth-of-field preview.
1.8-inch, low-temperature TFT LCD with 118,000 pixels.
Automatic, Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, Depth-of-Field AE, Programmed AE (Landscape, Macro, Night Portrait, Portrait, Sports, and Flash Off), and Manual exposure modes.
Operates in "shooting priority mode," meaning the camera does not need to be set in "play" mode to view pictures. Pictures can be viewed in between shots, and even if camera is showing a picture or in a menu, pressing the Shutter button halfway prepares camera to take a photo immediately.
Continuous Shooting mode capturing as many as 23 images as fast as five frames per second with shutter at 1/250 second or faster.
Variable white balance with Auto, six manual presets, Custom (reads from a neutral gray or white card), a color temperature setting, and a new White Balance Correction and Auto Bracketing mode. White balance can be changed on-capture for RAW-format files, using either presets or manually selecting a neutral target in the image from which to reference white point.
TTL autofocus with nine focusing points, manually or automatically selectable. One shot AF, AI Servo AF with focus prediction, AI Focus AF, and manual focus with AF assist beam.
Built-in E-TTL II type retractable-type flash with red-eye reduction. Guide Number is 13/43 at ISO 100, m/ft, flash angle covers the field of an 17mm lens. Topside hot shoe for external flash connection of EX Speedlight flashes, E-TTL II, as well as a PC flash sync socket.
Flash exposure compensation of +/- 2 stops in one-half or one-third stop increments. Flash exposure lock function. First and second curtain sync function. External shoe supports E-TTL, E-TTL II, FEL, and FP (high speed sync) flash metering.
Red-eye Reduction by built-in illuminator.
Adjustable exposure compensation from -2 to +2 EV in 1/2 EV or 1/3 EV increments in all exposure modes.
Auto exposure bracketing (AEB) from -2 to +2 EV in 1/2 EV or 1/3 EV increments in all autoexposure modes.
White balance bracketing.
Shutter speeds from 1/8,000 to 30 seconds, and a Bulb setting for longer exposures.
Electronic self-timer with a fixed duration of 10 seconds.
Optional external hand grip/battery pack adds secondary shutter release and control wheel, as well as AE lock and focus point buttons for vertical-format shooting.
Image storage on CompactFlash Type I or II, compatible with IBM MicroDrives.
USB 2.0 connectivity. NTSC/PAL selectable video out connectivity. N3 remote control socket.
24-bit JPEG and 36-bit RAW data file formats. Available resolution settings are: 3,504 x 2,336; 2,544 x 1,696; and 1,728 x 1,152.
Backlit LCD data readout, for easier operation in the dark.
Magnesium-alloy body panels, stainless steel chassis.
DPOF (Digital Print Order Format) and DCF (Design Rule for Camera File System) and PictBridge compliant.
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Sony DSC-H7 Review
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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H7
8.00 Megapixels
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(5.8mm x 4.3mm)
15.00x zoom
(31-465mm eq.)
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Extended ISO:
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4.3 x 3.3 x 3.4 in.
(110 x 83 x 86 mm)
18.1 oz (514 g)
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The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H7 is a replacement for the DSC-H2, and combines eight megapixel resolution with a 2.5" LCD display and an impressive Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar branded 15x optical zoom lens, offering a range from a better-than-average 31mm wide angle to a very useful 465mm telephoto. As with previous H-series models, the DSC-H7's lens incorporates Sony's Super Steady Shot optical image stabilization to minimize blur caused by camera shake - an essential feature for such a long zoom when not using a tripod.
Other Sony H7 features include ISO sensitivity to a maximum of ISO 3200, a new advanced sports shooting mode which combines predictive continuous autofocus with high shutter speeds, a Memory Stick Duo / PRO Duo card slot plus 31MB of built in memory, and power from a proprietary Lithium Ion rechargeable battery. The DSC-H7 also offers high definition component video output, via a proprietary cable.
The H7 includes Sony's new face detection technology, capable of detecting up to eight faces simultaneously. Sony's system is apparently linked not only to the camera's autoexposure and autofocus systems as in most similar systems, but also to white balance and flash metering as well - allowing the camera to ensure proper flash exposure and pleasing flesh tones. Also, the H7 marks one of the first applications of Sony's Bionz image processor - first seen in the company's Alpha digital SLRs - in their compact camera models. Sony says Bionz will offer improved image quality, faster response times, and better battery life in its compact cameras.
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H7 ships from April 2007 and is priced at US$400.
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10 stunning photos of the Northern Lights that will make you feel like you're camping out under the stars
Talia Lakritz
"Symphony of the Lights" by Iurie Belegurschi.
Iurie Belegurschi/Capture the Atlas
Capture the Atlas published the best photos of the Northern Lights taken in 2020 in their annual Northern Lights Photographer of the Year collection.
The full collection of 25 photos features photographers from 18 different countries.
These 10 images from the collection show the Northern Lights glowing in places like Russia, the South Pole, and Norway.
Every year, the travel and photography blog Capture the Atlas features the best Northern Lights photos in its Northern Lights Photographer of the Year collection.
The Northern Lights can be seen from September through April in the Northern Hemisphere and March through September in the Southern Hemisphere. The glow is caused by solar wind entering the Earth's atmosphere and releasing energy.
Here are 10 images from this year's collection. You can view all 25 photos on Capture the Atlas.
Photographer Sergey Korolev titled this image "Heavenly Dance."
"Heavenly Dance."
Sergey Korolev/Capture the Atlas
"I've been hunting landscapes and Northern Lights on Russia's Kola Peninsula for several years and I still find new spots," Sergey wrote. "I found this stone beach on the coast of the Barents Sea a few years ago. At the time, I was mesmerized by the shape of the boulders, which moved with the rumble of the ocean waves, as well as the steep mountains rising from the sea."
Ben Maze took this photo, titled "The Hunt's Reward," in Tasmania, Australia.
"The Hunt's Reward."
Ben Maze/Capture the Atlas
"Having been out of reception and civilization for over a day, fellow photographer Luke Tscharke and I had no idea the aurora would strike on this night," Maze wrote. "We'd just heard rumors of a potential solar storm. We could barely contain our excitement when the lights first showed up on our camera's screens. We later realized we were in the best place on the entire continent to witness the rare show, with Lion Rock being on the southernmost cape of Tasmania and much more cloud-free than the rest of the state at the time."
Roksolyana Hilevych stumbled upon these "Dragon Eggs" in Norway's Lofoten Islands.
"Dragon Eggs."
Roksolyana Hilevych/Capture the Atlas
"I found this unknown place on the Lofoten Islands as I was moving around the Gimsoya Islands," Hilevych wrote. "That night was very cold, with temperatures reaching -20 degrees Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit). It was probably one of the best shows of watching and photographing the Northern Lights I've ever experienced, because in a place like this, it's not easy to find something new with such a magical foreground and the ... Northern Lights dancing all night long."
Benjamin Eberhardt captured this photo at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in the South Pole.
"Antarctic Night."
Bejnamin Eberhardt/Capture the Atlas
"The South Pole is probably one of the most remote and challenging environments to do photography, and it is strenuous for both humans and technology," Eberhardt wrote. "To achieve 24 hour-long time-lapse shots, you need some creativity to heat and insulate your equipment in order to keep it running, and even rotating, in temperatures ranging down to -80 degrees Celsius (-112 Fahrenheit). In my case, this was a learning curve over multiple months, with a lot of trial and error and frostbite. On the upside, once you have tackled all the challenges, you have plenty of reasons to be proud of your shots."
Agnieszka Mrowka captured the "Convergence" of the Northern Lights in Jökulsárlón, Iceland.
"Convergence."
Agnieszka Mrowka/Capture the Atlas
"It was late September 2020, and finally, the perfect conditions for the Northern Lights came together ... unusually calm weather and the moon illuminating the ice of the most popular glacier lagoon in Iceland," Mrowka wrote. "It was a fierce and peaceful night to remember."
In "Finland At Night," photographer Kim Jenssen was about to give up on seeing the Northern Lights when they suddenly appeared.
"Finland At Night."
Kim Jenssen/Capture the Atlas
"After spending many hours waiting in the cold forest of Ruka, Finland, at -36 degrees Celsius, and without any visible aurora activity, we decided to walk back to our cars," Jenssen wrote.
"On the trail down, I saw something on my left side and told my friend to stop and wait. Suddenly, the aurora started to 'dance,' and all I had to do was to jump in the snow, get my camera ready, and shoot! There was no planning or time to focus on composition. After five minutes, the Northern Lights disappeared, but it was a night with a happy ending."
The Northern Lights reflected off icicles in Dennis Hellwig's "Lofoten Ice Lights."
"Lofoten Ice Lights."
Dennisi Hellwig/Capture the Atlas
"These beautiful icicles were created by thawed ice that froze over," Hellwig wrote. "I noticed this place during the day, and when the Northern Lights were visible, I returned to photograph it."
Ole Salomonsen took this photo, titled "Spring Fireworks," at the end of the Aurora season in the Arctic.
"Spring Fireworks."
Ole Salomonsen/Capture the Atlas
"That night was one of those when the forecast was uncertain, but I decided to go out to this fantastic location called Ersfjordbotn, which is a 20 minute drive from the City of Tromsø, and I was so glad that I did it," Salomonsen wrote. "A magnificent display took place over my head after one hour of waiting. I shot many different images, but this one stretching all over the sky with me standing on the rock in the foreground shows very well how amazing and large the auroras can be."
Iurie Belegurschi called this photo "Symphony of the Lights."
"Symphony of the Lights."
"My plan for the night was to photograph the Northern Lights at Thingvellir National Park, Iceland," Belegurschi wrote. "The day before the chase, there was a blizzard and the roads were full of snow. After waiting four hours for the Aurora to show up with no luck, I decided to drive home. My car got stuck in the snow and, when I was waiting for help, the Northern Lights finally showed up and 'danced' for about ten minutes. I was lucky to get stuck next to this pond and take this shot with the Aurora reflected on the water."
Mohad Almehanna was in Canada's Yukon when he took this photo, "When A Dream Became A Reality."
"When A Dream Became A Reality."
Mohad Almehanna/Capture the Atlas
"The day I took this photo, the weather was extremely difficult; the temperature was 20 degrees below zero and the strong wind didn't make the situation any easier," Almehanna wrote. "... The overwhelming feeling of seeing the spectacular phenomenon for the first time and racing against time and cold to get the photo was such a thrill that I want to experience again."
A NASA astronaut shared a stunning image of a meteor shower and the northern lights from space
Staggering photos show what life is like in the world's northernmost town, where it's dark 4 months of the year and you're likely to run into a polar bear
A photo of a grumpy sea turtle apparently giving the finger won the top prize at this year's Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
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Updated Dec 24, 2017 @ 2:15 pm
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez were at it again this weekend, doing some last minute Christmas shopping in Miami, and holding hands all the while. Swoon.
The twosome made the rounds of the city's tony Design District, stopping at such spots as Dior, Louis Vuitton, Rolex, Loro Piana, and Burberry, among others.
J.Lo looked every bit the ideal version of casual as she sported a graphic white sweatshirt and distressed jeans, which she dressed up with platform pumps, an Hermès cuff, and her signature hoop earrings. Plus, those mirrored shades, because of course this is Miami after all. The songstress pulled her hair up in a tight topknot for the occasion.
Rodriguez, for his part, wore a tight gray T-shirt that showed off his toned physique (again, it’s Miami) with white jeans, untied sneakers, a gold watch, and black sunnies. He also clutched a bottle of water, because it’s important to stay hydrated while shopping, y’all.
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California Workers’ Comp Rating Bureau Exploring Blockchain, Behavioral Science
By Don Jergler | June 22, 2018
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One wouldn’t normally associate blockchain with workers’ compensation, two completely different industries that seem worlds apart.
But as it turns out, the technology is of value to at least one very important entity in the space.
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau in California is looking into using blockchain technology as a better, safer, way to get the workers’ comp carriers and agents and brokers access to the massive amount of data the WCIRB collects.
The organization isn’t stopping there. It’s funding efforts to look into using behavioral science, machine learning and other digital and technological innovations under an ongoing modernization effort.
Bill Mudge, president and CEO of the WCIRB, the provider of actuarial-based information and research and advisory rates for a state that comprises roughly one-fifth of all the nation’s workers’ comp premiums, talked about these changes with Insurance Journal.
This has been edited for brevity and clarity.
Insurance Journal: We’ve been hearing the WCIRB has been in the midst of some technological/digital changes. Can you talk about what’s been going on and why?
Mudge: Tech enablement for us over these past six years as a company is really core to our transformation as an organization to a much more customer-focused company, with a broader perspective really across the entire California workers’ compensation community.
For insurers, but for also employers, and agents, and brokers. This industry, technology and data have really shifted the landscape of our business to provide really greater meaning about workers’ comp system dynamics and much more granular analyses than we ever have.
Let me give you an example, our recent insights and heat maps that we have out about geographical cost differences across California, you know California geographic cost differences are really dramatic now that we’ve teased them out and understanding those cost drivers is critical for buyers and for sellers. The investment we’ve made in these modern technologies, and tools, and quite frankly talent that thinks differently about the business, to expand our horizons, insights, as well as greater access to data for our customers and their ability to self-service has really been, I think, sorta core to what we have evolved to in the last several years as a company.
Now, I’ll give you a little perspective on that. Today through our various mediums, right, WCIRB.com, it’s open to the entire public, it’s our public-facing website, WBIRB Connect is for insurers and agents and brokers to do business that they need to do in transacting insurance, and our analytics portal, WCIRB Inquiry, for insurers, there’s just a wealth of capabilities available today that didn’t exist just a few years ago. I’ll give you context to that, we’re on pace this year to reach more than 2.5 million customer interactions through those various channels.
IJ: Specifically, what are carriers getting from all this change?
Mudge: For carriers the business is really shifted in my three decades doing this and much more so in the last several years where workers’ comp today for us and for carriers is really much more of a data-driven business, from the macro view of systemic cost drivers to the ability to benchmark outcomes and book a business performance across a variety of variables, we’re integral to all of that, as we have the entire insurance industry and dataset sitting here electronically within the WCIRB and spanning across decades and data about every insured risk.
We started to provide that data in an appropriate, authorized, authenticated way to carriers. It’s really critical to their decision making and, in a broader sense, I think also the stability of a healthy competitive market. I mentioned WCIRB Inquiry and it really provides insurers the ability to have data access at their fingertips and benchmarking capabilities that doesn’t exist with any other bureau.
We also provide carriers now, we got into the web services business, something we call X-Mods and More as a product that can deliver machine-to-machine data that’s accurate at the point of need in a just-in-time way to really facilitate more efficient insurance transactions.
For carriers it’s greater insight about this long tail line of business and the system changes that are going on underlying California comp, and then their ability to have access and know where they are in their own books of business and then also be able to get data in a just-in-time way to make the transaction of insurance a lot more efficient than it’s ever been.
IJ: What about agents and brokers, what changes are you making that will affect them and what should they take away from all of this?
Mudge: There’s a lot of real positive changes for agents and brokers. We started embracing them as a customer group in a much broader way several years ago. They’ve been big fans of our call center. We take about 80,000 calls a year at the WCIRB believe it or not, and the largest user population is agents and brokers.
Let me start briefly with WCIRB.com, that front door, if you will, electronically to our company. We revamped it last year and one of the key landing pages we put up there is for agents and brokers. We launched something earlier this year called the agent broker toolkit. It’s on their landing page. It’s organized in icons around kinda the typical sequence and conversation that an agent would have with a client about the key topics in workers’ comp, from where the business is located, as I said geography matters a lot in California as a cost driver, to classifying their business. How do 500,000 businesses in the state of California get fit into about 500 industry classifications?
From experience rating to ownership changes and how those effect experience modifications, to preparing for final audits, all that stuff and knowledge is now at the fingertips of the agent and it’s mobile enabled.
Also, I’ll tell you, agents can find on WCIRB.com a class search tool to enable them to help in the classification of their client’s business and x-mod estimators for the company that produces the x-mods, the WCIRB, to assist their clients as well in doing sort of what if or risk management scenarios if certain types of claims are able to be eliminated from the workplace.
We built something a few years ago called WCIRB Connect, and I mentioned that, it’s really the work horse system for insurers and for agents and brokers. It logs over a million customer sessions now annually. On Connect, agents and brokers can do a lot of their business right there.
IJ: The board approved some R&D funding recently to take a look at some technological innovation, specifically in areas of data and behavioral science. What’s going on with this and why is behavioral science pertinent to workers’ comp?
Mudge: In California, we’re the single largest workers’ compensation market in the country, not surprisingly given one of the largest economies in the world. We comprise about 20 percent of all the nationwide workers’ comp premiums. We’re a little over $17 billion dollars on a first dollar premium basis and it’s a dynamic system and an innovative business climate in California. We have to continue to innovate as well to remain relevant to the communities we serve, and our board gets that.
We went to the board and said, boy, we’d like to explore some future thinking things like machine learning, like web scraping, like insurtech, like behavioral science you’re asking me about, to see how new tech can enhance our value proposition. Here’s the thing on behavioral science, it’s really particularly intriguing to me. I think one of the reasons I’ve stayed in workers’ comp for so many years is because workers’ comp’s all about human beings and how do human beings react in this system.
What we’re thinking is we could blend our actuarial or data science with the humanistic side of science. We can sometimes get caught up in the data or people call it big data, and yet workers’ comp it’s more about how people relate to or react to the system that I’d suggest portends future trends that we’ll later see in the data.
Rather than look in the rearview mirror, if you will at our actuaries, and we kinda get a confused, some might say, “Well that was great, you told us what happened, right?” We want to start looking out the windshield with the assistance of behavioral scientists, not people from the workers’ comp arena. We’ll bring that side of the equation, but people who study human behavior at places like UC Berkeley and we’re looking to partner our actuaries and medical researchers with their behaviorists to study the workers’ comp system from a humanistic and sort of data-istic, if you will, way. Now, that’s a mouthful, right? It’s a big undertaking.
IJ: Blockchain is something you wouldn’t relate to workers’ comp, so can you tell us a little bit about what WCIRB is doing with this technology?
Mudge: We haven’t done anything with it yet. I guess you could say we’re going to school on the possibilities of it and particularly as we learn about blockchain, as we watch others, whether it be in the banking or financial services world, or the retail world, and their business, we’re really interested in this area of blockchain called smart contracts.
We collect a lot of data at the WCIRB. In fact, we collect tens of millions of records annually. In that collection of the data, there’s just a lot of process and movement of data through various secure channels and human involvement. It’s not an inexpensive proposition.
Blockchain maybe offers the opportunity to say well what if the data never moved, right? What if it stayed at its home, its source of truth? What if through a smart contract those that are authorized to access certain data for specific purposes could do so through the blockchain.
Let me give you an example, all insurance policies that are written by insurers in California, those all sit in their systems with those insurers who wrote those policies. Today, they pretty much all sit in digital form. As the designated statistical agent for workers’ comp, that’s us the WCIRB, those policies and all the data surrounding them is to be reported to us, so the data moves.
What if we, the insurers, were all parties to a private digital ecosystem, a blockchain, for policy and statistical purposes with rules and governance and of that that’s built right within the chain, this so-called smart contract, right?
It’s really intriguing to us. We’re exploring the development of a business case or two and thinking about a proof of concept to see maybe the art of the possible on this. It’s not going to happen overnight, but, boy, I can envision if this could work out it could be a real game changer.
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1. Direct sea route Thailand – Bangladesh under FTA Agreement
Free Trade Agreement between Thailand and Bangladesh is agreed in principle, by both side, during the 5th Joint Trade Committee (JTC) meeting between the two nations on Jan 8 2020 in Bangkok. Thailand is ready for Free Trade Agreement talks and required for FTA joint study on its’ feasibility. http://maritimebulletin.net/2020/01/14/direct-sea-route-thailand-bangladesh-under-fta-agreement/
2. Ghost yacht, probably Thai, found drifting in Malacca Strait
Indonesian fishermen spotted sailing yacht drifting in waters of Muara Batu, North Aceh, northeast Sumatra, Malacca Strait, on Jan 12, while fishing. Yacht was drifting some 20 nm off Muara Batu coast. They approached the yacht, but didn’t see anyone on board, so they boarded her and didn’t find anybody. Yacht, in apparently good condition (and not a cheap one, either), was abandoned. http://maritimebulletin.net/2020/01/13/ghost-yacht-probably-thai-found-drifting-in-malacca-strait/
3. Accident in Gatun Lock, Panama Canal
Two tugs collided in Gatun Lock while providing transit of a Greek tanker VELOS LEO, in the afternoon Jan 12. One tug literally climbed over another. Cause of accident yet unknown. Tanker wasn’t damaged and continued her transit, en route from Beaumont USA to Lazaro Cardenas port, Mexico. Tanker completed transit late Jan 12, and entered the Pacific. http://maritimebulletin.net/2020/01/13/accident-in-gatun-lock-panama-canal/
4. Extended Drought Forces Panama Canal to Adopt New Fees and Reduce Reservation Slots
The Panama Canal will reduce the number of available reservation slots and introduce new fees as part of a series of measures to sustain water levels and ensure reliability of the waterway following years of drought. https://gcaptain.com/extended-drought-forces-panama-canal-to-adopt-new-fees-fewer-reservation-slots/
5. Another Challenging Year Ahead for Container Shipping, Drewry Says
2020 will prove another challenging year for ocean carriers in terms of capacity management, according to Drewry.
Although the consultant claimed the industry would be able to cope.
Drewry calculates that 1.2m teu of capacity will be added to the fleet this year, of which almost half comprises 23 20,000-plus teu ULCVs for HMM, CMA CGM and MSC. https://gcaptain.com/another-challenging-year-ahead-for-container-shipping-drewry-says/
6. Iran Won’t Target Strait of Hormuz Over Soleimani’s Killing. Analysts Believe
Iran is unlikely to block the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s busiest oil-shipping channel, in reprisal for the killing of Qassem Soleimani for fear of aggravating its Gulf allies and China, regional analysts said on Monday. https://gcaptain.com/iran-wont-target-strait-of-hormuz-over-soleimanis-killing-analysts-believe/
7. Coalition Launched to Accelerate Global Offshore Wind Capacity
Danish power company Ørsted and Norwegian energy giant Equinor are spearheading the launch of international coalition to accelerate global offshore wind capacity and other ocean-based renewable energy technologies as part of an effort to mitigate the harmful impacts of climate change. https://gcaptain.com/coalition-launched-to-accelerate-global-offshore-wind-capacity/
8. Container Lines Boost Blank Voyages As Q1 Downturn Looms
The downturn in U.S.-China trade is forcing ocean carriers to cancel a growing number of weekly sailings in the trans-Pacific trade lane, according to a container shipping expert. The cancellations point to a longer recovery in trade between the world’s two largest economies and augurs a poor start for U.S. ocean freight demand in 2020. https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/container-lines-boost-blank-voyages-as-q1-downturn-looms/
9. Maersk strengthens port coverage in Spain with the new service to Gijón
In order to further improve the service level and port coverage for local customers, Maersk continues to develop its network across Spain. On 23rd January, the first sailing of Maersk’s new Z03 feeder service will take place, connecting the port of Gijón (APM Terminals Gijón) with Algeciras and therefore further with Maersk’s global ocean network. https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/maersk-strengthens-port-coverage-in-spain-with-the-new-service-to-gijon/
10. HMM to Operate World’s Largest Container Ships Staring This April
Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) plans to introduce the world’s largest container ships on its Asia-Europe routes starting this April.
HMM will put into operation a total of 12 24,000-TEU super large vessels, one per week, staring this April, the Busan New Port Terminal said on Jan. 12. https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/hmm-to-operate-worlds-largest-container-ships-staring-this-april/
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Russell Westbrook and Hiromichi Ochiai on Their Brand New Collaboration
The NBA superstar and the founder of the Japanese label FACETASM discuss how combining their unique points of view led to basketball’s most fashion-forward shoe.
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Lil Durk and Dwyane Wade Discuss How Self-Doubt Breeds Success
The native Chicagoans bond over their hometown, overcoming adversity, and therapy.
Damian Lillard, The Rapper Who Happens To Be An NBA Superstar
“I think over time, even if I’m not considered the best, people will remember that Dame was a real rapper.”
Jonas Wood FaceTimed Us to Talk Exotic Coffins and the Time He Ended Up on Lebron James’s Instagram
Ahead of his first solo show at the Dallas Museum of Art, the painter FaceTimed us to talk about the NBA, exotic coffins, and his famous basketball hoodies.
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Dippy in Rochdale to hit the small screen once more
Dippy the dinosaur is continuing to make waves after leaving Rochdale, with hisadventure in the borough set to feature in a channel 5 documentary series airing this week.
By Flora Byatt
Dippy the dinosaur is continuing to make waves after leaving Rochdale, with his
adventure in the borough set to feature in a channel 5 documentary series airing this week.
Natural History Museum, World of Wonder, is a six part series which focuses on the famous London museum.
In episode two, which airs this Thursday, January 14, at 8pm, the team will feature Dippy’s visit last year to Number One Riverside as part of a national tour.
The team filmed the 21 metre long dinosaur cast, alongside local visitors, and had a chat with Coun Janet Emsley, Rochdale’s cabinet member for a safer and
inclusive community, and Lorraine Cornish, head of conservation at the Natural
History Museum, as part of their episode about dinosaurs and other prehistoric
treasures.
Dippy opened in Number One Riverside in February last year, alongside the
accompanying exhibition at Touchstones Rochdale.
The experience was closed in March to protect the public amid the coronavirus pandemic, but reopened for a short time later in the year with safety measures in place.
It’s the second time Dippy’s stay in Rochdale has featured on national television,
following his appearance on the famous children’s programme, Blue Peter, late last
year, where viewers tuned in to see young dinosaur fan, Warwick Carter, join
presenter Ritchie Driss to place Dippy’s head on at the end of the build.
Coun Janet Emsley said: “I’m not surprised that Dippy’s legacy is
continuing, even now that he’s left our borough and I’m looking forward to catching up with my favourite dinosaur once more, albeit through my television.
"Last year was a very difficult year, but Dippy was unquestionably a rare highlight, and it will be wonderful to be reminded of this wonderful exhibit and what a special time it was for our borough.”
Although Dippy was not able to open for the whole run during his time in Rochdale, the famous cast proved a smash hit in the North West, the seventh of his eight stop UK tour.
More than 122,000 people visited Number One Riverside and more than 46,000
went to see the exhibition at Touchstones.
Around 8,000 schoolchildren visited with their classes and hundreds engaged with special zoom sessions organised by thecouncil’s children’s services team to enable children to engage with Dippy during lockdown.
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James Vance - Artist, Designer
James Vance is comfortable working in a variety of mediums. His paintings, drawings, and sculpture have been exhibited in New York, Miami, and Asbury Park, and have been featured in Visionaire and other international publications. In addition to working as a gallery director, James has designed theater sets, large-scale set pieces, and exhibitions for fashion and art events, most recently for The Whitney Museum of American Art. James is also known for his dramatically scaled prop and mural work which has appeared in the windows of Barneys New York, Bergdorf Goodman and other stores worldwide.
Born in Miami, Florida, 1965
Currently based in Asbury Park, New Jersey
2004 to Present - Freelance Designer
Visionaire Publishing, NYC - Director of Special Projects & Visionaire Gallery
Q2 Television, NYC - Set Designer & Prop Maker
Barneys New York, NYC - Visual Merchandising & Murals
Theatrical Set & Exhibition Design
2015 DANCENOISE: Don’t Look Back, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
2002 Dreaming in Print: A Decade of Visionaire, Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC
2001 Sony 'Play' / A Decade of Visionaire, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
2001 Visionaire's Exquisite Corpse, Carlton Arts Festival, Sao Paulo
1993 DANCENOISE: Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
1992 Kyle DeCamp, LADYLAND, The Kitchen, NYC
1992 DANCENOISE: Hedda Gabler, Hedda Gabler, La MaMa, NYC
1991 DANCENOISE: It’s A Girl, Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival), Vienna
1991 DANCENOISE: It’s A Girl, Serious Fun At Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC
1990 DANCENOISE: When Women Had Tails, The Kitchen, NYC
1989 DANCENOISE: All The Rage, P.S. 122, NYC
2019 Queer City: A CNN Experience, Hudson Mercantile, NYC
2018 Tastemakers And Rule Breakers, Red Bank Design Center, Red Bank, NJ
2018 Male Bonding, The Collective Art Tank, Asbury Park, NJ
2018 By A Thousand Cuts, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2017 Pleased To Meet You, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2016 Wooden Walls / Holiday Show, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2016 SeaChangeAP / Wooden Walls Public Art Project, Asbury Park, NJ
2016 Anniversary Show: 7 Year Itch, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2012 Fun Is The Law, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2012 Fortune Favors The Bold, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2010 Fancy, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2009 Home Show, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
1995 Salon des Tree, Central Park, New York, NY
1995 The Moderns, Feature Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Red Windows: Benefit for the Little Red School House, Barneys New York, NY
1994 Holiday Disaster Installation, Barneys New York, Yokohama, JP
1993 Holiday Disaster Installation, Barneys New York, NY
1992 People Pleasers, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Slogan Paintings, Barneys New York, New York, NY
1988 Linoleum Tile Paintings, Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY
1988 Birdcages To Benefit Max, Pyramid Club, New York, NY
1986 Micro, Now Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Group Show, Artifacts Art Salon, Miami Beach, FL
1985 Burnt Toast, Joy Moos Gallery, Miami, FL
1985 Art on Española, Miami Beach, FL
1984 Get Fresh, Joy Moos Gallery, Miami, FL
2017 Billy Anania, Asbury Artist Takes Numbers In Infinite Directions, The Asbury Park Press
2016 Richard Virgilio, Wooden Walls Art Project Artist James Vance Talks About #1871, The Asbury Park Press
2016 Billy Anania, Asbury Park Mural Project Pushes Beauty to the North Side, The Asbury Park Press
2015 Hilton Als, Summer Encounters, The New Yorker
2015 Gia Knurls, The Whitney Embraces Dancenoise, a Brash ’80s Performance Duo, The New York Times
2015 Siobhan Burke, Dancenoise Brings Biting Commentary (and Fake Blood) to the Whitney, The New York Times
2013 Jennifer Paull, Bergdorf Goodman’s Literary Windows, Book Riot (blog)
2010 Windows at Bergdorf Goodman, Assouline
2008 Modern Paper Lighting, Lighting Trends (blog)
2008 The Art of James Vance, Rochambeau (blog)
1998 Simon Doonan, Confessions of a Window Dresser, Callaway Editions
1996 Visionaire No. 16 Calendar, (Father’s Day) Visionaire Publishing
1993 Herbert Muschamp, Windows to the Mind of Christmas, Devouring Passion, The New York Times
1993 Visionaire No. 10 The Alphabet, (F) Visionaire Publishing
1993 Mayer Rus, Barneys New York & Yokohama, Interior Design, SANDOW
1993 Jennifer Dunning, Dance in Review, The New York Times
1991 Jennifer Dunning, Travel Hints to Doomsday Courtesy of Dancenoise, The New York Times
1986 Robert Becker, Miami: Creating a Scene, Interview Magazine
Freelance Clients
Shelter Home, Bergdorf Goodman, Fendi, Hasbro, Estée Lauder, Geoff Howell Studio, FAO Schwartz, Versace, Robert Isabell
Editorial Set Design
Wallpaper, Harper’s Bazaar, House & Garden, Vanity Fair, Interview
© 2020 James Vance Studio
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Big jump in M&A activity as CRH and C&C lead way in €1.7bn deals
SIGNIFICANT transactions featuring the likes of CRH, C&C, Greenstar and Icon helped boost Irish merger/ acquisition (M&A) activity in the second quarter of the year, with 20 more deals than during the first three months of the year.
Fri, 09 Jul, 2010 - 01:00
Geoff Percival
Some 55 deals were recorded during the second quarter of the year compared with 37 in the first quarter, according to the latest edition of NCB Stockbrokers’ M&A Tracker Survey published yesterday.
While activity during the three months was significantly boosted by 13 bolt-on acquisitions made by building materials giant, CRH; the €300m sale of C&C’s spirits and liqueurs division to William Grant & Sons; the €162m takeover of Greenstar’s UK division by Biffa Waste Management and Icon’s acquisition of Swiss group, Timaq Medical Imaging also played a part.
Indeed, the overall deal value for the quarter – which amounted to just shy of €1.7bn – was the highest for some time, with only the second quarter of 2008 coming close, with a value of €1.58bn boosted hugely by the merger of IAWS and Hiestand to form Aryzta.
Commenting on the findings, NCB Corporate Finance director, Jonathan Simmons, said: “The main points in relation to the current quarter’s survey are that for the third quarter in succession, deal volumes have remained above the low level of deals recorded in quarters two and three of 2009; acquisitions of distressed businesses/assets continue to occur and a number of large transactions – comparable with those of any previous quarter – have taken place.
“In particular, the continued level of around 40 deals a quarter is to be welcomed, and hopefully this level can be maintained throughout the second half of the year, supported by a number of factors. These include the de-leveraging of balance sheets, non-core asset disposals, further sales of distressed assets and foreign interest in Irish businesses which can act as a buffer against what is still a challenging environment, particularly for those transactions requiring debt funding,” he added.
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State’s hands-off approach is actively preventing resolution
Unions claim there are forces at play within Government that would prefer to see the demise of Bus Éireann, writes Stephen Rogers.
Wed, 12 Apr, 2017 - 01:00
Throughout the current Bus Éireann debacle, Government members in general — and Transport Minister Shane Ross in particular — have been at pains to say that the resolution of the dispute is a matter for the company and its staff representatives and they cannot be seen to be getting involved.
A few hours after the Workplace Relations Commission talks ended early yesterday morning Paschal Donohoe once again defended the minister in his former transport department, saying the Government is putting in place supports for the Labour Court and WRC, but is not playing any role other than that.
Until now, the hands-off approach by the Government and National Transport Authority had been seen, not just by unions but also by large sections of the public, as doing nothing to help find a resolution to the dispute.
However, the opinion of unions now is that not only are the Government, State agencies and consultants involved behind the scenes, but they are actively preventing a resolution.
“It appears that management is controlled by consultants and others outside the process who are content to see 2,600 good jobs lost in order to advance the privatisation of public transport,” said Siptu official Willie Noone. His union claimed management is not being allowed to manage the destiny of this company.
“Other agencies that were not party to the discussions at the WRC have been applying undue influence on the proceedings, restricting the ability of Bus Éireann to actually reach agreement,” said NBRU general secretary Dermot O’Leary. “It would seem that there are forces at play here which would prefer to see the demise of Bus Éireann, rather than concentrate on securing its future, for the benefit of staff and commuters alike.”
Mr O’Leary went further in an interview on RTÉ radio, pointing out that during the WRC discussions Bus Éireann management was hopping into cars all over city to meet Department figures. He said the department is playing a “restrictive role” in relation to how the issue could be resolved.
The fact is that, as they headed into the Labour Court yesterday afternoon to present their case, staff representatives were deeply disaffected and inherently distrustful of what the other side could bring to the table.
As that mood filtered down to the grassroots it will have escalated among people who, as of today, have spent 20 days on the picketline. It will have made the chances of acceptance of any recommendation to emerge from the Labour Court even more remote.
Savings have to be made. A company that was losing €50,000 a day when operating normally and €500,000 a day over the last 19 days of strike needs drastic action to survive.
The unions say they offered savings worth €18m coupled with an 11% increase in efficiency. That is significantly more than what had initially been sought from payroll cuts — in February the company said it wanted to reduce its cost base by €30m, 40% of which was to come from payroll costs.
The company concedes progress has been made and agreement reached “to eliminate many work practise inefficiencies”. However, it claims an offer it made to help to deliver financial viability was rejected by driver unions.
While no formal recommendation was forthcoming from the WRC in relation to a new consolidated wage rate incorporating overtime and premium payments, it did emerge a figure in excess of €19 per hour was on offer from the company, but unions said a figure closer to €22-23 per hour was needed.
What this dispute will come down to is firstly whether any resolution which does emerge will ensure the short-term survival of the company in the face of the massive losses it has endured; and secondly whether the efficiencies it achieves are enough to make it lean enough to compete with private operators with stripped-back terms and conditions for the routes which are to be put out to public tender in 2019.
It now seems inevitable that at least 10% of the Bus Éireann workforce will leave the company in the coming months and a consolidated pay rate will be pursued as the way workers will be remunerated going forward.
When the immediate dispute is resolved structural change of Bus Éireann will take buy-in from all stakeholders. As the NBRU told Transport Minister Shane Ross just a day into the current strike: “The role requested of your office is not, as some would have it, a direct involvement by you as minister, but one by which you can create the environment for a multi-stakeholder forum to address all of the issues at Bus Éireann.”
If there is not that buy-in from all involved, it seems hard to envisage how the State bus company will be able to compete for routes come 2019.
As Fianna Fáil transport spokesman Robert Troy pointed out: “At this late stage Minister Ross continues to refuse to convene parallel talks between all stakeholders at Bus Éireann with the aim of overcoming the deep structural problems facing the company. It’s a sad state of affairs when the minister for transport has no thoughts or potential solutions to help overcome the most destructive transport strike to hit the country in decades.”
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Irish Eurovision hopes go up, up and away as Murray fails to make final
Vocalist, managed by Louis Walsh, says Kiev experience the ‘best 3 minutes of my life’
Thu, May 11, 2017, 19:37
Patrick Freyne Kiev
Brendan Murray will perform 'Dying To Try' at the Eurovision Song Contest in Ukraine. The ballad was co-written by Swedish songwriter Jörgen Elofsson and British songwriter James Newman. Video: RTÉ
Irish Eurovision entrant Brendan Murray performing at the Eurovision semi-final. Photograph: Andres Poveda.
Brendan Murray’s balloon has deflated. The Irish man sadly failed to make the final of the 62nd Eurovision song contest with ‘Dying to Try’.
Before the voting finished, he had said, “whatever happens, I will always remember this.”
And minutes after he sang he tweeted: “Best 3 minutes of my life.”
Before the semi-final, Murray and his mentor, Louis Walsh, were being photographed in Maidan Nezalezhnosti, birthplace of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.
Walsh gazed at the unfinished “Arch of Diversity” partially painted to resemble a rainbow but unfinished due to far-right intimidation. He read a huge canvas sign aloud: “Freedom is our religion.”
“Why so glum, Patrick?” asked the music manager. “I suppose you ARE with The Irish Times.”
I was glum because a woman was trying to sell me military ribbons and I had no money. She turned her attentions to Walsh.
“Help!” he whispered.
Walsh then gazed at the nearby “Arch of Diversity”, partially painted to resemble a rainbow but unfinished due to far-right intimidation.
He read a huge canvas sign aloud: “Freedom is our religion.”
He had arrived in Kiev the night before to support his mentee, 20-year-old Brendan Murray, as he represents Ireland in the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest.
Walsh had suggested Murray as our entry to Michael Kealy, the head of Ireland’s Eurovision delegation.
He also selected the song Murray will sing - Dying to Try.
Walsh said he spent a lot of time hustling songwriters.
“I picked a ballad because it shows off his voice and ballads worked for Ireland before.”
Murray’s brother, sister, and uncle had also come to the Ukraine, all the way from Galway. The photographer politely manoeuvred them all into position for a photo, ahead of Murray’s appearance in Thursday’s second semi-final.
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Hey guys! 😊 The song I'll be representing Ireland with this year at @Eurovision is,
"Dying to try" 🇮🇪😊🇮🇪😊https://t.co/EUG2KVRbE4 pic.twitter.com/KuDDAwLyhS
— Brendanmurray (@brendan_m96) March 10, 2017
“I can see Russia from my house!” said Walsh, possibly unwisely, given this nation’s ongoing conflict with Russia and the fact the square contained a lot of soldiers. He said it twice. He also likened the soldiers to the Village People.
Murray himself seemed pretty unflappable, and was happy to pose for photographs with anyone who asked.
Ireland’s Brendan Murray performing ‘Dying to Try’ during the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 at the International Exhibition Centre in Kiev.Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images.
“My wife says you’re her favourite,” said a man from the Austrian delegation.
“Save your voice,” Walsh kept saying. “He’s such a nice kid. He never wants to say ‘no’ to anyone, but with a big ballad you have to be able to hit the high notes. There are notes here that nobody else is singing.”
Murray has played on big stages before, with the now defunct Walsh-managed boyband Hometown.
Eurovision will be his first time singing alone “since I was in a talent show at age 13”.
So his first time singing publicly on his own in years will be in front of 200 million people or so? “Pretty much, yeah,” he said.
The day before, he said, he had spent the rehearsal worrying about hitting his cues.
On Thursday, after supportive calls from Shane Filan and Nicky Byrne from Westlife, he appeared relaxed enough.
In contrast, his older sister Sinead was “sick with nerves”. She had played in bands herself when she was younger.
“She was on Kenny Live once,” said her uncle, Brendan Fitzgerald.
“I was born in the wrong decade,” she said, smiling.
Murray had his guitar with him, though he wasn’t going to be using it in his performance.
On Wednesday, he escaped the interminably-long dress rehearsal to relax backstage on a beanbag playing Beatles songs.
“We snuck him out,” said Rayna Connery, the RTÉ press representative.
“He’s always playing the guitar,” said Murray’s older brother Barry. “He chats to you as he’s strumming.”
On RTÉ’s bus to the venue, Nicoline Refsing, the award-winning Danish set designer, told me that Murray’s balloon-themed set was a metaphor for the uncontrollable nature of love.
“You need something audiences will remember when they’re voting,” she said.
She also looked after the Swiss entry. Oh dear, did she have split loyalties?
“They’re both my babies. I want them both to win.”
Walsh was in mischievous form on the bus. He praised Kealy and his team effusively but he also teased them.
“Everyone’s brilliant EXCEPT the backing vocalists,” he said, as the backing vocalists disembarked. “Ah Louis!” said one of them.
“The backing vocalists are actually brilliant,” said Louis.
In Ireland’s Eurovision heyday, said Walsh, performers sold a lot of records.
He should know - he has attended 10 Eurovisions and worked with many of Ireland’s entries, including Johnny Logan, Linda Martin, and Jedward.
“But it’s mainly a television show now,” he said. “There are all these fans, and they’re great - it couldn’t happen without them - but do they even buy records? They’re always asking for free ones.”
Further back on the bus, Murray made videos for social media.
“Eurovision 2017!” he said, as someone filmed him.
“Save your voice, Brendan,” Walsh said again.
As we got off the bus, Walsh said: “This could be a rehearsal for him to come back and win it. He’s got the vocals, he just needs the winning song.”
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Brendan Murray
Kenny Live
Linda Martin
Louis Walsh
Michael Kealy
Nicky Byrne
Nicoline Refsing
Rayna Connery
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How does it work - STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR
Did you recently get an instant transfer into your STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR account at midnight, and were wondering why or how that happened. Well, it could be the remittance against any service rendered or any financial transaction that was to be transferred to your STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR account. If you are wondering on how that came about, let us share some information about STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR online that will come in handy:
STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR NEFT transactions are performed when the remitter performs a financial transaction, and authorizes their STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR to complete the transaction. When the transaction is requested, the remitter needs to fill in various details about the beneficiary like name of the beneficiary, name of the STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR bank branch where the beneficiary has an account, IFSC code of the beneficiary STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR branch, account type and account number to add the person as a beneficiary. In the wake of STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR online transactions, the remitter is requested to validate the addition of the beneficiary by entering the OTP (One Time Password) and confirm the addition of the beneficiary.
On successful addition of the beneficiary on STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR online portal, the remitter needs to click on the beneficiary name, and the details are shown on the screen. With STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR m-Banking being the preferred way to perform financial transactions, the person enters the amount to be transferred to the beneficiary and then confirm the transaction. On confirmation, the originating STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR debits the remitter, and prepares a message that is sent to the pooling centre (also called NEFT service centre).
For transaction from STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR, The pooling centre then forwards this message to the NEFT clearing centre which is operated by National Clearing Cell, which is a part of Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai. The clearing centre then includes this transaction in the next available batch. After this series of transaction being through, the clearing centre sorts the funds transfer transaction destination based on the STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR and then performs the debit from the originating STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR and transfers it to the receiving bank for credit. After this transaction is completed, the destination banks are sent remittance messages through their pooling centre (NEFT service centre).
After successful confirmation, the destination STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR sends the respective transaction messages to the beneficiary. The transactions are performed by every government and private bank. Let’s take one for example:
STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR has its branches everywhere in India, has presence in Rajasthan, Kerala, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu, Jharkhand, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Punjab, Gujarat, Chandigarh, Assam, and has a rich history. The leading banking giant performs multiple financial transactions every day, but have you ever wondered how a transaction from STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR reaches HSBC bank account or others. The originating bank in this case is STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR , and performs a transaction to transfer funds STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR into an other bank account. In such a scenario, the remitter’s bank that is STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR shares the information with NEFT service centre, which then validates the IFSC code with the receiving bank, and on successful confirmation the money is transferred between banks that is from STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR to other.
These transactions can be performed between STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR to any bank in India and worldwide, but here’s something to be aware about. In case you pick a location, and don’t have the right IFSC Code, you can search for it on iservefinancial websites, to avoid any hassles. In case, the code doesn’t match, and you initiated a transaction from STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR at a time, let’s say at 12:15 pm, then the initiating bank in our case STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR needs to refund the money back to the remitter before the next transaction batch, which in this case will be 2:30 pm.
After successful credit back to the remitter, the financial transaction will be complete, and if the beneficiary is able to receive the funds, the transaction is complete. The same process applies for STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR RTGS and STATE BANK OF BIKANER AND JAIPUR IMPS too, and the latter has become a major way to send money anytime to anyone without any time constraints. With the world of technology going through a boom, things will be even quicker in days to come.
Growth in professional loan segment witnessed by bajaj finance
5 July 2017:Bajaj finance ltd one of the fastest growing financial company reported a 55 percent dynamic growth in its doctor loans segment. Being an arm of its professional loan portfolio the segment has witnessed the considerable development of Rs 148 crore in march 2017 from rupees 95 crore in september 2016.
Online disbursal of bajaj finance ltd which accounts for 25 percent of its total disbursement also doubled from Rs.8 65 crore to Rs.16.47 in the six month period. The doctor loan segment which is valued at Rs.500 crore of which bajaj finance ltd relish an impressive 35 percent of the total market share.
Bajaj finance ltd which is a subsidiary company of bajaj finserv ltd is now aiming growth of 70 percent in the doctor loan segment FY 17-18.
Bajaj finance ltd has registered a growth of 56% as against the previous year having been able to disburse in the fourth quarter of 2017 a total amount of Rs424 crore.
HDFC Limited Cut Home Loan Rate By 0.15%
28th November 2016: Joining the rate cut war, HDFC the biggest home loan lender in the country cut the home loan rate by 0.15% today. Home Loan up to Rs. 75Lakh for women borrowers will now be available at 9.15% and for others it will be 9.20%.Since the credit growth of the corporate sector in the country is slow, the banks are focussing on retail loans.
Canara bank is hoping for an enduring springs in 2017-18
21 July 2017:Canara bank’s gross non-performing assets ratio has climbed to 1.56% during net NPA ratio increased to 7.09% from 6.33% in the previous quarter. The bank cannot blame for its optimism because most of the lenders are now left with doubtful thread of hope after bad loans damaged their books for the past two years. The Bengaluru-based public sector lender reported a net profit of Rs.251 crore for the quarter ended June. For Canara Bank 2017-18 supposed to be year of recovery and growth, it says in its results presentation to analyst and investors. The growth in net interest income has improved to 17.59% in the June quarter from little over 14% in the previous quarter should also comfort investors. It come simultaneously improved loan growth of 6.7% especially in slow moving quarter. Canara Bank believes that some digging on its assets quality should obliged, before investors begin to bet on the recovery. The headline bad loan ratios on a gross and net basis are likely to show that the lender’s troubles have increased.
Billionaire Piramal Is All Set to Gamble on Rs 84 Lakh Crore Housing Bonanzas
26 June 2017:Billionaire ajay piramal is always in a search for opportunities to rebuild and expand his business. This time he has stepped in to the financial services and wants to sell mortgages and built affordable homes with Rs 84 lakh crore housing investment boom. PM Narendra modi is so keen on giving a great emphasis on affordable housing to propel job creation and economic growth and thus giving a boost to the financial services.
Closely-held Piramal Realty Pvt Ltd is considering affordable housing projects while the other listed piramal is awaiting a licence so that they can offer home loans to home buyers at an affordable price. As a rise in income and a government push to house nation’s 1.2 billion populations will require 60 million new homes by 2024 and unloose investment of rs 84 lakh crore over the next seven years.
There will be an enormous growth which will be clearly visible in the near future in the housing finance sector since this market in India is very far from its saturation point. More than 16 mortgage financiers started operating in the country in two years of span and took the total to 75. HDFC dominated the sector and became the largest mortgage lender with illustrious loans of nearly Rs 3 lakh crore. Apart from all these facts the Mortgage penetration in South Asian countries stands at nine percent of nominal GDP, which is still low as compared to global standards with 32 percent in Malaysia, 56% in Singapore, and 68% in the US. This mortgage Push by Piramal is an effort in the line to establish their financial service business as Indian lenders. As piramal said ‘there is a space for a company who is ready to play it on a larger panorama, since we have the funding and the track record of the company is way too good, we will be able to come in that space’.
Magma Fincorp, in order to grow its home loan business, is all set to shift its focus towards affordable segment
7 August 2017:Kolkata based Magma Fincorp to shift its focus from the loan against property segment. Instead it will focus on the affordable segment to grow its home loan business. According to Manish Jaiswal, M.D and C.E.O, while loan against property is targeted at the SME it is all the more risky. The total housing loan book also includes loan against property which is approximately Rs.2972 crores. “At present the share of home loan is close to 30% while loan against property is 70% of this total business. We intend to reverse this mix in the near future” as said by Jaiswal. During the current fiscal, Magma’s focus would be on bringing down the cost of the funds and managing asset quality even if that comes on the back of lower growth in business. ‘’Growth is secondary to the quality of the portfolio and profitability’’, as said by Kaushik Banerjee, CEO, Asset Finance, Magma.
RBL Bank Selects 10 Startup Winners in The Big Pitch 2.0 Finale
24 November 2017:RBL Bank, one of India’s fastest-growing private sector banks, announced 10 winners at the grand finale of The Big Pitch 2.0 — a major startup incubation and funding contest held at Amity University, Noida. The Top 10 finalists; FullTank Technologies, LittlePixi, SocioGraph Solutions, Team Rentezee, Tnine, GalaxyCard, ilove9months, NDAX, Loktra and Veda Labs were selected for funding and incubation opportunities. These companies demonstrated innovative solutions such as unique business models like Use of artificial intelligence in improving sales, app based credit cards and blockchain based asset exchange. Surinder Chawla, Head – Geography, Branch and Business Banking, RBL Bank, said, “At RBL Bank, we have been committed and focused on serving the dynamic needs of the start-up ecosystem right from ‘seed and development’ to ‘maturity’. The Big Pitch 2.0 – a one-of-a-kind start-up incubation event that was held for the second year in succession, gave potential startups a robust platform to seek advice from professionals, articulate ideas behind their business models and gain access to funding for their proposed ventures. I am delighted that RBL Bank’s The Big Pitch 2.0 and India startup Club (ISC) has been catalytic in introducing startups to reputed mentors and encouraging them to achieve their entrepreneurial goals.”
Banks rush to set up Aadhaar centres as UIDAI's Sept 30 deadline draws close
25 September 2017:UIDAI has asked all banks to set up Aadhaar enrollment and update centres by Sep 30. The banks need to have at least one centre for every 10 branches they are operating. UIADI in a circular said that it is will charge a penalty of Rs 20,000 per month for every single centre not opened before the deadline. Earlier the UIDAI has asked to start centres by August 30 but banks urged that they will require more time as the process of sourcing biometric device is still in progress. The Centre is trying to step up Aadhaar service centres as every account holder is required to submit the Aadhaar number to banks by December 31. Canara Bank said that is opening 1040 Aadhaar centres across the country. The centres will work inside the branches and will provide Aadhaar enrollment and update to the general public. "We will provide the infrastructure and the centres will be run by authorised agencies," bank General Manager MM Chiniwar said. "We are ready with the infrastructure. The Aadhaar agencies have to set up theirs," he added.
Govt to speed up the public sector banking mergers
21 August 2017:In order to push consolidation in the public sector banking space, the government is looking forward to set up a new mechanism to speed up the decision of the merger of the public sector lenders. “We are discussing various combinations for merger in public sector banks. The basic premise remains the same, that is to put the process on a fast track,” said a government official aware of the deliberations, adding that this option may also be explored for the IDBI Bank stake sale. The government announced its intention of reducing its stake in IDBI Bank to below 51 per cent last year. Finance minister Arun Jaitley said in June that the government was “actively working” toward consolidation but did not share any details, stating this was price-sensitive information. According to another government, the idea is under deliberation. Cabinet approval won’t be needed at every stage with this mechanism in place, making the process faster. The cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday expanded the scope of the alternative mechanism for pursuing the government’s strategic sale disinvestment programme.
Here is how some banks are leaving borrowers hog-tied after every RBI rate cut
13 October 2017:All the home loan and vehicle loan borrowers were rejoicing when the RBI cuts lending rates. But unfortunately, the customers still did not get any benefit as the banks don’t effectively transfer the cut to the borrowers. The practice came in light recently when a panel of RBI exposed the banks which "deviated in an ad hoc manner from the specified methodologies" that determine lending rates. "We think that the internal benchmarks like the base rate or the MCLR, based on data, seem to give banks a very high amount of discretion lot of factors that are flexible for them to ensure that lending rates can be kept high even when monetary policy rates are going down an accommodative path," RBI deputy governor Viral Acharya said after the report. Berating such banks, RBI has said that they have undermined the integrity of the interest rate setting process. The base rate and MCLR were also not in sync with global practices on the pricing of loans. According to RBI data banks’ base rates only reduced by 0.61% while policy rate was reduced by 1.75%. Banks were also slow to pass the reduction in MCLR. "Of the 12 banks whose spreads widened, six banks took up to six months to pass on the benefit of lower MCLRs to their lending rates; the remaining six banks passed on the benefit of their lower MCLRs, but only partially even after six months. This is intriguing as changes in MCLRs are expected to be passed on to at least fresh borrowers immediately," the report said.
NBFCs all set to report best Q1 performance after many years
18 July 2017:The non banking finance companies are all set to generate 15%-30% rise in earnings boosted by a rise in mortgage lending and an increase in demand in farm equipment. The regular monsoons and farm loan waivers have lifted the expectations of the rural economy. The first quarter is expected to be driven by high growth induced by retail housing, strong collections from farm sector etc. The housing finance companies report for a profit about 17% to 20% due to a low cost of borrowing. However analysts have reckoned that there will be a decline in the cost of funds driven by extreme liquidity. While HDFC is expected to expand in the commercial sector LIC is likely to tap into the developer and loan against property. After demonetisation analysts see improving trends in growth across product segments in NBFCs. Bajaj Finance is expected to deliver 36% growth. All NBFCs excluding Bharat Financial are expected to show a healthy growth rate as said by Motilal Oswal.
As Banks Focus Moves to Retail, Share of Personal Loans Increases
23rd November 2016: The Reserve Bank of India said as the focus of lenders/banks moved to retail loans, the share of personal loans in the banking system increased from 17.9% in March2016to 19.3% in June 2016. As per the RBI, the credit to industry grew at a slow pace of 5.2%, and its share in total credit system increased from 40.4% to 41.6%.
Axis Banks Now Offers Block Chain Solutions
:Following ICICI Banks and Yes Bank, Axis Banks becomes the third bank to offer block chain services in India. Block chain services will simplify cross-border banking. Blockchain technology will reduce transaction time as well as increase transparency, which is both the need of the hour in terms of international remittances. Fintech Ripple has collaborated with Axis Bank to provide block chain services.
SBI: Post Demonetization Sees Increase in Credit Card Applications
24th January 2017: SBI sees a massive increase in new credit card users post the demonetization era. In December 2016, SBI issued over 1.15 lakh credit cards. This brings their subtotal to 47.5 lakh credit cards issued until date. Additionally, people are spending more using their credit cards post demonetization. This increase averages around 25 - 30%. Other players like HDFC, ICICI, and Axis Bank have also reported an upsurge in applications as well as average monthly spend.
HDFC Bank MCLR- Effective
5th January 2017: The revised MCLR of HDFC Bank effective from 7th January 2017 is as given below in the table. Lending rate of HDFC bank including rates for Home Loan, Personal Loan, car Loan and all the other types of loan are based on MCLR.
Tenor Overnight 1 Mon 3 Mon 6 Mon 1 Yrs 2 Yrs 3 Yrs
MCLR 7.85% 7.90% 7.90% 8.00% 8.15% 8.20% 8.30%
* Mon=Month & Yrs=Year
Odisha government signs MOU with SBI
15 October 2017:The Directorate of Treasuries of Odisha’s government and the State Bank of India has signed an MOU for integration of SBI e-Pay with the cyber treasury. An official said that this MOU is an initiative by the state government to facilitate revenue collection from citizens through digital banking. The SBI e-Pay is the payment aggregator service wing of the bank which will facilitate online payment of government dues by the customers of any public/ private sector banks by using the payment gateway of SBI. Users can use any modes like a debit card, credit card, mobile banking, net banking besides cash deposit facility at any SBI branch across the country. It will promote hassle-free digital transaction and one noble initiative to enhance digital penetration by the state's finance department and SBI, Bhubaneswar Circle, the official said. The MOU has been signed by Bhabani Prasad Nanda, Director, Treasuries & Inspection and Goutam Roy, DGM, SBI on behalf of Odisha government and SBI respectively.
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Networks Unlimited Africa brings festive season cheer to Tembisa school
Issued by icomm for Networks Unlimited
There is no doubt that it has been difficult for many local companies to survive during 2020. Imagine, then, how much more challenging it must have been for worthy causes like The Love Trust and its beneficiary, Nokuphila School in Tembisa, Midrand?
This is the question asked by Anton Jacobsz, CEO at Networks Unlimited Africa, a leading value-added distributor within the sub-Saharan African market. He explains: “The Love Trust is a South African non-profit educational organisation which has, to date, reached over 20 000 primary and secondary beneficiaries in disadvantaged communities. Because the lockdown period has made it even harder for non-profit organisations to stay afloat, our company has made a point of continuing to offer our support to this worthwhile organisation."
A team from Networks Unlimited has once again gone the extra mile during December to assist Nokuphila School with the donation of 32 grocery food packs, including mainly everyday essentials.
Networks Unlimited has also made other donations to Nokuphila School throughout the year, including stationery and art packs for the children’s art curriculum, as well as IT equipment to help with the running of the school itself. In celebration of Women’s Month in August, Networks Unlimited also gave 29 sanitary hampers to some of the older girls at Nokuphila school, as well as an extra hamper for the school itself.
Under the umbrella of The Love Trust, Nokuphila School provides quality education, supplemented by nutrition and access to transport, to underprivileged and vulnerable children who attend the school. The Love Trust believes in reducing poverty and social inequality through holistic education and social care that includes academic excellence, spiritual strength and moral integrity, and runs a number of initiatives focused on childhood development and the upskilling of teachers.
The Love Trust is also the 53% broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) partner of Networks Unlimited Africa, in a partnership arrangement which allows Networks Unlimited Africa to support its goal of helping vulnerable children through real practical and educational support.
“Nokuphila School and The Love Trust are together continuing to focus on the twin realities of food support, as well as educational assistance, during this crisis,” says Jacobsz, “and we are keenly aware that education is a key that will allow us to unlock the potential of South Africa going forward.
“We are proud to offer our continued support to Nokuphila School, in this way showing our ongoing commitment towards building up South Africa through the advancement of some of its most vulnerable children,” he concludes.
The Love Trust’s details are as follows: www.lovetrust.co.za
Vivienne Fouche (+27) 082 602 1635 vivienne@pr.co.za
Siyandiswa Mthanti (+27) 011 202 8400 siyandiswa.mthanti@nu.co.za
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The Latest: Wake Forest pausing football activities
Ohio State head coach Ryan Day talks to his players during an NCAA college football game against Indiana, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
Wake Forest is pausing all football team activities until at least Wednesday because of recent positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing.
The announcement came shortly after the Atlantic Coast Conference said the Demon Deacons’ home game against No. 10 Miami for next Saturday has been postponed. It also followed the cancellation of last weekend’s game against Duke in a long-running instate series, with that decision due to positive tests, quarantines and injuries.
In a Zoom call Saturday evening, athletics director John Currie said the program had a “handful” of positive tests and later referenced “four or five cases over the last four or five days.”
“Our guys are resilient and still want to play football,” Currie said. “And we’ll be looking forward to getting back out there.”
Wake Forest last played Nov. 14 in a loss at North Carolina. The Demon Deacons’ next scheduled game is Dec. 12 against No. 2 Notre Dame, a game postponed from September due to coronavirus issues within the Fighting Irish program.
Wake Forest is scheduled to close the season at Louisville on Dec. 19.
The Atlantic Coast Conference is considering options to find No. 10 Miami a game for next weekend, a person with knowledge of the matter said Saturday after the Hurricanes’ planned Dec. 5 game at Wake Forest was postponed because of coronavirus-related issues within the Demon Deacons’ program.
The ACC would have to decide by the early part of the week if there is a way to get the Hurricanes on next weekend’s schedule, according to a person familiar with the talks who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because neither the Hurricanes nor the conference discussed the issue publicly.
The Hurricanes (7-1) have not played since winning at Virginia Tech on Nov. 14. For now, their next scheduled game is Dec. 12 against North Carolina.
—- Reporting by AP Sports Writer Tim Reynolds in Miami
Butler has postponed two more men’s basketball games after confirming a positive COVID-19 test.
The Bulldogs were scheduled to face Eastern Illinois on Sunday but called it off after one positive COVID test. When a second test also came back positive, athletic department officials announced it would not Northern Kentucky on Dec. 6 or Kansas State on Dec. 11.
School officials have not identified who has COVID, only that it came from someone in their Tier 1 group — meaning it’s a player, coach or someone on the support staff.
They said the individual is asymptomatic, is in isolation and those deemed “close contacts” have been instructed to quarantine for 14 days. The Bulldogs (1-0) also have paused all team activities until Dec. 10. Butler is scheduled to host its next game, against Big East foe St. John’s, on Dec. 14.
The New Orleans Saints placed starting left tackle Terron Armstead on the COVID-19 list on Saturday, leaving him ineligible for Sunday’s game against the Broncos in Denver.
Players can be moved to a team’s COVID-19 list because of a positive test or because of known exposure to someone who has contracted the coronavirus.
The Saints also ruled out return specialist Deonte Harris, who had been listed as questionable a day earlier because of neck injury that kept him out of practice this past week.
The Saints, who recently had been carrying fewer than the maximum 53 players on the active roster, promoted three players from the practice squad: receiver Austin Carr, offensive lineman Will Clapp and defensive tackle Ryan Glasgow.
The San Francisco 49ers and other teams may need to find a temporary new home after Santa Clara County has banned all contact sports from holding games and practices for the next three weeks.
County officials issued the new directives on Saturday in response to rising cases of the coronavirus in the area. The rules go into effect on Monday and will remain for three weeks.
The 49ers have home games scheduled for Dec. 7 against Buffalo and Dec. 13 against Washington at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. The team also practices at that site in the county. The team had immediate comment on the new rules.
The rules also will impact the San Jose Sharks of the NHL and college teams at Stanford and San Jose State.
The NHL hasn’t announced a date for the start of training camp but the Sharks have said they would look into alternate sites if needed.
Stanford and San Jose State also have several sports in season. The Cardinal have one scheduled home football game left on Dec. 12 against Oregon State.
The Spartans have home football games on Dec. 5 against Hawaii and Dec. 11 against Nevada. San Jose State practiced before the season a few hundred miles away at Humboldt State because of restrictions in Santa Clara County.
The Pittsburgh Steelers placed running back James Conner on the COVID-19 list on Saturday, joining three teammates already on the list as well as over a dozen Baltimore Ravens, casting further doubt on the playing a rescheduled game currently set for Tuesday.
Conner, who leads the unbeaten Steelers (10-0) with 645 yards rushing and five touchdowns, joins defensive end Stephon Tuitt, defensive tackle Isaiah Buggs and reserve offensive lineman Kevin Dotson on the COVID-19 list.
The Steelers also announced special teams coordinator Danny Smith will not coach on Tuesday due to what the team described as an “illness.” Quarterbacks coach Matt Canada will also be unavailable due to an illness.
The announcement came the same day six more Ravens joined the COVID-19 list, an outbreak that seems to put Tuesday’s game in Pittsburgh in serious jeopardy. The game was originally scheduled for Thanksgiving night before being pushed to Sunday afternoon and then Tuesday night.
The Baltimore Ravens have placed six more players on the COVID-19 list, including outside linebacker Jaylon Ferguson and right tackle D.J. Fluker.
The moves further deplete an already thin roster ahead of Tuesday night’s game at Pittsburgh. The game was initially scheduled for Thanksgiving night before being bumped to Sunday and then Tuesday because of the Ravens’ COVID-19 outbreak.
Defensive lineman Broderick Washington was also placed on the COVID-19 list Saturday, along with offensive lineman Will Holden. Two others, defensive backs Khalil Dorsey and Tavon Young, were on injured reserve before joining the list.
Ferguson has played every game this season at outside linebacker and Fluker was coming off three straight starts at right tackle.
The Ravens already had several starters on the COVID-19 list, including quarterback Lamar Jackson and running backs Mark Ingram and J.K. Dobbins.
Also on Saturday, the Ravens added receiver Dez Bryant to the 53-man roster and signed defensive back Pierre Desir to the practice squad.
Las Vegas Raiders running backs coach Kirby Wilson won’t coach this week because of COVID-19-related reasons.
The team said Saturday that Wilson will miss the game at Atlanta. Senior offensive assistant John Morton will handle Wilson’s duties on Sunday against the Falcons.
The Raiders currently have three players on the COVID-19 list: running back Theo Riddick, tackle Trent Brown and defensive back Lamarcus Joyner.
The Denver Broncos reported no new COVID-19 cases Saturday and returned to work a day after canceling practice following back-to-back days with positive test results.
Quarterback Jeff Driskel tested positive Thursday and kick returner Deontae Spencer tested positive Friday. Spencer’s infection prompted Broncos coach Vic Fangio to cancel Friday’s practice even though the NFL gave Denver permission to practice.
Fangio said Saturday there were no new COVID-19 cases and the team resumed on-field preparations for its game against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday.
Ohio State officials say they’re not sure when the team can practice again because of the outbreak of COVID-19 cases that forced cancellation of Saturday’s game at Illinois.
“It’s kind of fluid,” Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said.
Dr. Jim Borchers, the team physician, said the decision to cancel Saturday’s game came on Friday as the numbers increased. He said the program did not meet the threshold for cases that would have forced a seven-day pause of team activities.
The third-ranked Buckeyes are scheduled to play at Michigan State next Saturday.
The Mountain West Conference canceled Saturday’s game between Boise State and San Jose State because of an “upward trend of COVID-19 cases and contact tracing” in the Broncos program.
The cancellation came a few hours before kickoff. The game was to have featured two of the three unbeaten teams in conference play. It could have been a key decider in the race for a spot in the conference championship game.
The conference said the game would be declared a no contest and there is no plan to reschedule.
Boise State (4-1, 4-0 MWC) is to play next at UNLV on Friday. San Jose State (5-0, 5-0) is scheduled to host Hawaii next Saturday.
The Indianapolis Colts will be without running back Jonathan Taylor on Sunday after the rookie was put on the Reserve/COVID-19 list.
He is one of three Indy starters sitting out because of COVID when Indianapolis as Indy hosts Tennessee for the AFC South lead.
Pro Bowl defensive tackle DeForest Buckner went on the COVID list earlier this week and defensive end Denico Autry has not yet been activated after going on the COVID list last week. Autry leads the Colts with six sacks.
Coach Frank Reich also has ruled out two other starters — center Ryan Kelly (neck) and linebacker Bobby Okereke (ankle).
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Airworthiness Directives; Airbus Airplanes
Andrew Morgan
November 27, 2017 12:00:00 am
Start Preamble
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).
We propose to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Airbus Model A318 series airplanes; Model A319 series airplanes; Model A320-211, -212, -214, -216, -231, -232, and -233 airplanes; and Model A321-111, -112, -131, -211, -212, -213, -231, and -232 airplanes. This proposed AD was prompted by reports of early cracking on certain holes of the crossbeam splicing at certain fuselage frames. This proposed AD would require repetitive inspections for cracking of the fastener holes in certain fuselage frames, and depending on airplane configuration, would provide an optional terminating action to the repetitive inspections. We are proposing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products.
We must receive comments on this proposed AD by January 11, 2018.
You may send comments, using the procedures found in 14 CFR 11.43 and 11.45, by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
Fax: 202-493-2251.
Mail: U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Hand Delivery: Deliver to Mail address above between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
For service information identified in this NPRM, contact Airbus, Airworthiness Office-EIAS, 1 Rond Point Maurice Bellonte, 31707 Blagnac Cedex, France; telephone: +33 5 61 93 36 96; fax: +33 5 61 93 44 51; email: account.airworth-eas@airbus.com; Internet: http://www.airbus.com. You may view this referenced service information at the FAA, Transport Standards Branch, 1601 Lind Avenue SW., Renton, WA. For information on the availability of this material at the FAA, call 425-227-1221.
Examining the AD Docket
You may examine the AD docket on the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov by searching for and locating Docket No. FAA-2017-1093; or in person at the Docket Management Facility between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The AD docket contains this proposed AD, the regulatory evaluation, any comments received, and other information. The street address for the Docket Operations office (telephone 800-647-5527) is in the ADDRESSES section. Comments will be available in the AD docket shortly after receipt.
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Sanjay Ralhan, Aerospace Engineer, International Section, Transport Standards Branch, FAA, 1601 Lind Avenue SW., Renton, WA 98057-3356; telephone 425-227-1405; fax 425-227-1149.
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Comments Invited
We invite you to send any written relevant data, views, or arguments about this proposal. Send your comments to an address listed under the ADDRESSES section. Include “Docket No. FAA-2017-1093; Product Identifier 2017-NM-018-AD” at the beginning of your comments. We specifically invite comments on the overall regulatory, economic, environmental, and energy aspects of this proposed AD. We will consider all comments received by the closing date and may amend this proposed AD based on those comments.
We will post all comments we receive, without change, to http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information you provide. We will also post a report summarizing each substantive verbal contact we receive about this proposed AD.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), which is the Technical Agent for the Member States of the European Union, has issued EASA AD 2016-0139, dated July 14, 2016 (referred to after this as the Mandatory Continuing Airworthiness Information, or “the MCAI”), to correct an unsafe condition for certain Model A318 series airplanes; A319 series airplanes; A320-211, -212, -214, -216, -231, -232, and -233 airplanes; and A321-111, -112, -131, -211, -212, -213, -231, and -232 airplanes. The MCAI states:
Following addition of a new airworthiness limitation item (ALI) task 531110 in the Start Printed Page 55956Airworthiness Limitation Section (ALS) Part 2 in the revision dated April 2012, numerous findings have been reported of early cracks on the four holes of the crossbeam splicing at frame (FR)16 and FR20 on both left-hand (LH) and right-hand (RH) sides.
This condition, if not detected and corrected, could affect the structural integrity of the airframe.
To allow an earlier crack detection, Airbus decided to transfer the repetitive inspections from ALI task 531110 to Airbus Service Bulletin (SB) A320-53-1286, later revised, including new recommended inspection thresholds.
For the reasons described above, this [EASA] AD requires repetitive special detailed [rototest] inspections (SDI) of the two upper rows of fasteners of the crossbeam splicing at FR16 and FR20, on both LH and RH sides, [installation of new fasteners on crack-free frames, related investigative and corrective actions,] and, depending on aeroplane configuration, provides an optional terminating action to the repetitive inspections required by this [EASA] AD.
Related investigative actions include checking the edge margins of the holes. Corrective actions include reaming affected crossbeams and frames and cold working the frames. You may examine the MCAI in the AD docket on the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov by searching for and locating Docket No. FAA-2017-1093.
Related Service Information Under 1 CFR Part 51
Airbus has issued the following service information:
Airbus Service Bulletin A320-53-1286, Revision 01, dated December 22, 2015, which describes procedures for rototest inspections for cracking of the holes in certain fuselage frames and crossbeams.
Airbus Service Bulletin A320-53-1295, including Appendixes 01 and 02, dated June 29, 2015, which describes procedures for modifying the airplane, including cold working instructions in certain fuselage frames and crossbeams.
This service information is reasonably available because the interested parties have access to it through their normal course of business or by the means identified in the ADDRESSES section.
FAA’s Determination and Requirements of This Proposed AD
This product has been approved by the aviation authority of another country, and is approved for operation in the United States. Pursuant to our bilateral agreement with the State of Design Authority, we have been notified of the unsafe condition described in the MCAI and service information referenced above. We are proposing this AD because we evaluated all pertinent information and determined an unsafe condition exists and is likely to exist or develop on other products of these same type designs.
Difference Between This Proposed AD and the MCAI or Service Information
Where the MCAI, paragraph (4), specifies a repair approved by EASA or under a Design Organization Approval (DOA) other than Airbus, paragraph (j) of this proposed AD refers to a repair approved by the FAA, EASA, or an EASA DOA other than Airbus. The MCAI did not specify whether FAA approved repairs are acceptable for compliance.
Costs of Compliance
We estimate that this proposed AD affects 928 airplanes of U.S. registry.
We estimate the following costs to comply with this proposed AD:
Labor cost
Parts cost
Cost on U.S. operators
Inspections 116 work-hours × $85 per hour = $9,860 per inspection $960 $10,820 $10,040,960.
Optional Modification 28 work-hours × $85 per hour = $2,380 3,020 5,400 Up to $5,011,200.
We have received no definitive data that would enable us to provide cost estimates for the on-condition actions specified in this proposed AD.
Authority for This Rulemaking
Title 49 of the United States Code specifies the FAA’s authority to issue rules on aviation safety. Subtitle I, section 106, describes the authority of the FAA Administrator. “Subtitle VII: Aviation Programs,” describes in more detail the scope of the Agency’s authority.
We are issuing this rulemaking under the authority described in “Subtitle VII, Part A, Subpart III, Section 44701: General requirements.” Under that section, Congress charges the FAA with promoting safe flight of civil aircraft in air commerce by prescribing regulations for practices, methods, and procedures the Administrator finds necessary for safety in air commerce. This regulation is within the scope of that authority because it addresses an unsafe condition that is likely to exist or develop on products identified in this rulemaking action.
This proposed AD is issued in accordance with authority delegated by the Executive Director, Aircraft Certification Service, as authorized by FAA Order 8000.51C. In accordance with that order, issuance of ADs is normally a function of the Compliance and Airworthiness Division, but during this transition period, the Executive Director has delegated the authority to issue ADs applicable to transport category airplanes to the Director of the System Oversight Division.
Regulatory Findings
We determined that this proposed AD would not have federalism implications under Executive Order 13132. This proposed AD would not have a substantial direct effect on the States, on the relationship between the national Government and the States, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities among the various levels of government.
For the reasons discussed above, I certify this proposed regulation:
1. Is not a “significant regulatory action” under Executive Order 12866;
2. Is not a “significant rule” under the DOT Regulatory Policies and Procedures (44 FR 11034, February 26, 1979);
3. Will not affect intrastate aviation in Alaska; and
4. Will not have a significant economic impact, positive or negative, on a substantial number of small entities under the criteria of the Regulatory Flexibility Act.
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List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 39
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The Proposed Amendment
Accordingly, under the authority delegated to me by the Administrator, the FAA proposes to amend 14 CFR part 39 as follows:
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PART 39—AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES
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1. The authority citation for part 39 continues to read as follows:
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49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 44701.
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§ 39.13
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2. The FAA amends § 39.13 by adding the following new airworthiness directive (AD):
Airbus: Docket No. FAA-2017-1093; Product Identifier 2017-NM-018-AD.
(a) Comments Due Date
We must receive comments by January 11, 2018.
(b) Affected ADs
(c) Applicability
This AD applies to Airbus Model A318-111, -112, -121, and -122 airplanes; A319-111, -112, -113, -114, -115, -131, -132, and -133 airplanes; A320-211, -212, -214, -216, -231, -232, and -233 airplanes; and A321-111, -112, -131, -211, -212, -213, -231, and -232 airplanes, certificated in any category, all manufacturer serial numbers, except the airplanes specified in paragraphs (c)(1), (c)(2), and (c)(3) of this AD.
(1) Airplanes on which Airbus modification 161255 has been embodied in production.
(2) Model A319 series airplanes on which Airbus modifications 28238, 28162, and 28342 have been concurrently embodied in production.
(3) Model A318 series airplanes on which Airbus modification 39195 has been embodied in production.
(d) Subject
Air Transport Association (ATA) of America Code 53, Fuselage.
(e) Reason
This AD was prompted by reports of early cracking on the four holes of the crossbeam splicing at certain fuselage frames (FR). We are issuing this AD to detect and correct cracking at two upper rows of fasteners of the crossbeam splicing at FR16 and FR20, on both the left-hand (LH) and right-hand (RH) sides, which can result in reduced structural integrity of the airplane due to the failure of structural components.
(f) Compliance
Comply with this AD within the compliance times specified, unless already done.
(g) Repetitive Rototest Inspections
Before exceeding the threshold specified in table 1 to paragraph (g) of this AD, or table 2 to paragraph (g) of this AD, as applicable to airplane configuration (pre- or post-modification 20416 or pre- or post-modification 21999): Do a special detailed (rototest) inspection of the two upper rows of fasteners of the crossbeam splicing at FR16 and FR20 on both LH and RH sides, in accordance with the Accomplishment Instructions of Airbus Service Bulletin A320-53-1286, Revision 01, dated December 22, 2015. Thereafter, repeat the inspection at the intervals specified in table 1 to paragraph (g) of this AD, or table 2 to paragraph (g) of this AD, as applicable to airplane configuration (pre- or post-modification 20416 or pre- or post-modification 21999).
Table 1 to Paragraph (g) of This AD—Inspection of Pre-Modification 20416 or Pre-Modification 21999 Airplanes
Threshold (A or B or C, whichever occurs later) A: Before exceeding 36,800 flight cycles (FC) or 73,600 flight hours (FH), whichever occurs first since the first flight of the airplane.
B: Within 27,400 FC or 54,900 FH, whichever occurs first since the last inspection as specified in airworthiness limitation item (ALI) task 531110-01-1 accomplished before the effective date of this AD.
C: Within 30 days after the effective date of this AD, without exceeding 38,800 FC or 77,600 FH, whichever occurs first since the first flight of the airplane.
Repetitive Inspection Interval (Not to exceed) 27,400 FC or 54,900 FH, whichever occurs first.
Table 2 to Paragraph (g) of This AD—Inspection of Post-Modification 20416 or Post-Modification 21999 Airplanes
Threshold (A or B or C, whichever occurs later) A: Before exceeding 34,700 FC or 69,400 FH, whichever occurs first since the first flight of the airplane.
B: Within 12,900 FC or 25,800 FH, whichever occurs first since the last inspection as specified in ALI task 531110-01-2 accomplished before the effective date of this AD.
(h) Post-Inspection Actions
Depending on the results from any inspection required by paragraph (g) of this AD, do the actions in paragraphs (h)(1) or (h)(2) of this AD, as applicable.
(1) If, during any inspection required by paragraph (g) of this AD, any crack is detected: Before further flight, do all applicable related investigative and corrective actions in accordance with the Accomplishment Instructions of Airbus Service Bulletin A320-53-1286, Revision 01, dated December 22, 2015; except where Airbus Service Bulletin A320-53-1286, Revision 01, dated December 22, 2015, specifies to contact Airbus for appropriate repair, and specifies that action as “RC” (Required for Compliance), accomplish corrective actions before further flight in accordance with the procedures specified in paragraph (r)(2) of this AD. Repair of an airplane as required by this paragraph does not constitute terminating action for the repetitive inspections required by paragraph (g) of this AD for that airplane, unless specified otherwise in the repair instructions.
(2) If, during any inspection required by paragraph (g) of this AD, no cracks are detected: Before further flight, do all applicable fastener installations, in accordance with the Accomplishment Instructions of Airbus Service Bulletin A320-53-1286, Revision 01, dated December 22, 2015.
(i) Airplanes on Which Airbus Repair Instruction R53112926 Was Applied
For airplanes on which Airbus Repair Instruction R53112926 at issue A or B was applied on the frame and/or crossbeam at FR16 LH or RH, or at FR20 LH or RH: Within 24 months after the effective date of this AD, modify the repair using a method approved by the Manager, International Section, Transport Standards Branch, FAA; or the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA); or Airbus’s EASA Design Organization Approval (DOA). If approved by the DOA, the approval must include the DOA-authorized signature.
(j) Airplanes on Which a Repair With Installation of EN6114 Countersunk Fasteners Was Applied on the Frame and/or Crossbeam
For airplanes on which a repair with installation of EN6114 countersunk fasteners, approved by the FAA, EASA, or an EASA DOA other than Airbus, was applied on the frame and/or crossbeam at FR16 LH or RH, or at FR20 LH or RH, in the area covered by Start Printed Page 55958paragraph (g) of this AD: Within 24 months after the effective date of this AD, modify the repair using a method approved by the Manager, International Section, Transport Standards Branch FAA; or EASA; or Airbus’s EASA DOA. If approved by the DOA, the approval must include the DOA-authorized signature.
(k) Optional Terminating Action for Airplanes Post-Modification 20416 or Post-Modification 21999
Modification of an airplane post-modification 20416 or post-modification 21999 in accordance with the Accomplishment Instructions of Airbus Service Bulletin A320-53-1295, including Appendixes 01 and 02, dated June 29, 2015, constitutes terminating action for the repetitive inspections required by paragraph (g) of this AD for that airplane.
(l) Post-Repair Actions for Certain Airplanes
For an airplane that has been inspected per ALI task 531110 and repaired before the effective date of this AD using the instructions in an Airbus Repair Design Approval Sheet (RDAS): Within 30 days after the effective date of this AD, contact the Manager, International Section, Transport Standards Branch, FAA; or EASA; or Airbus’s EASA DOA for instructions and accomplish those instructions accordingly. If approved by the DOA, the approval must include the DOA-authorized signature. Accomplishment of the instructions required by this paragraph, does not constitute terminating action for the repetitive inspections required by paragraph (g) of this AD for that airplane, unless specified otherwise in the instructions.
(m) Partial Terminating Action for Airplanes Post-Modification 20416 or Post-Modification 21999
For an airplane post-modification 20416 or post-modification 21999, modification in accordance with the Accomplishment Instructions of Airbus Service Bulletin A320-53-1295, including Appendixes 01 and 02, dated June 29, 2015, for the applicable fastener holes, where no damage or cracks were detected (i.e., those not repaired) during the latest inspection as required by paragraph (g) of this AD, constitutes terminating action for the repetitive inspections of those fastener holes as required by paragraph (g) of this AD for that airplane.
(n) Actions for Airplanes With Certain Repairs
For an airplane that has been repaired before the effective date of this AD in the areas described in this AD using the instructions in an Airbus RDAS unrelated to ALI task 531110: Before exceeding the compliance times specified in table 1 to paragraph (g) of this AD or table 2 to paragraph (g) of this AD, as applicable, contact the Manager, International Section, Transport Standards Branch, FAA; or EASA; or Airbus’s EASA DOA for corrective action instructions and accomplish those instructions accordingly. If approved by the DOA, the approval must include the DOA-authorized signature. Accomplishment of corrective action(s) on an airplane, as required by this paragraph, does not constitute terminating action for the repetitive inspections required by paragraph (g) of this AD for that airplane, as applicable, unless specified otherwise in the instructions.
(o) Terminating Action for ALI Tasks
(1) Accomplishment of an inspection as required by paragraph (g) of this AD or instructions as required by paragraph (l) of this AD, as applicable, constitutes terminating action for the inspection requirements of ALI task 531110, for that airplane.
(2) Modification of the two upper rows of fasteners of the crossbeam splicing at FR16 and FR20 on both LH and RH sides of an airplane, in accordance with the Accomplishment Instructions of Airbus Service Bulletin A320-53-1295, including Appendixes 01 and 02, dated June 29, 2015, as specified in paragraphs (k) and (m) of this AD, constitutes terminating action for the inspection requirements of ALI task 531110, for those holes for that airplane.
(p) No Reporting Requirement
Although Airbus Service Bulletin A320-53-1286, Revision 01, dated December 22, 2015, specifies to submit certain information to the manufacturer, and specifies that action as “RC” (Required for Compliance), this AD does not include that requirement.
(q) Credit for Previous Actions
This paragraph provides credit for actions required by paragraph (g) and (h) of this AD, if those actions were performed before the effective date of this AD using Airbus Service Bulletin A320-53-1286, dated June 29, 2015.
(r) Other FAA AD Provisions
The following provisions also apply to this AD:
(1) Alternative Methods of Compliance (AMOCs): The Manager, International Section, Transport Standards Branch, FAA, has the authority to approve AMOCs for this AD, if requested using the procedures found in 14 CFR 39.19. In accordance with 14 CFR 39.19, send your request to your principal inspector or local Flight Standards District Office, as appropriate. If sending information directly to the manager of the International Section, send it to the attention of the person identified in paragraph (s)(2) of this AD. Information may be emailed to: 9-ANM-116-AMOC-REQUESTS@faa.gov. Before using any approved AMOC, notify your appropriate principal inspector, or lacking a principal inspector, the manager of the local flight standards district office/certificate holding district office.
(2) Contacting the Manufacturer: For any requirement in this AD to obtain corrective actions from a manufacturer, the action must be accomplished using a method approved by the Manager, International Section, Transport Standards Branch, FAA; or EASA; or Airbus’s EASA DOA. If approved by the DOA, the approval must include the DOA-authorized signature.
(3) Required for Compliance (RC): Except as required by paragraphs (h)(1) and (p) of this AD: If any service information contains procedures or tests that are identified as RC, those procedures and tests must be done to comply with this AD; any procedures or tests that are not identified as RC are recommended. Those procedures and tests that are not identified as RC may be deviated from using accepted methods in accordance with the operator’s maintenance or inspection program without obtaining approval of an AMOC, provided the procedures and tests identified as RC can be done and the airplane can be put back in an airworthy condition. Any substitutions or changes to procedures or tests identified as RC require approval of an AMOC.
(s) Related Information
(1) Refer to Mandatory Continuing Airworthiness Information (MCAI) EASA Airworthiness Directive 2016-0139, dated July 14, 2016, for related information. This MCAI may be found in the AD docket on the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov by searching for and locating Docket No. FAA-2017-1093.
(2) For more information about this AD, contact Sanjay Ralhan, Aerospace Engineer, International Section, Transport Standards Branch, FAA, 1601 Lind Avenue SW., Renton, WA 98057-3356; telephone 425-227-1405; fax 425-227-1149.
(3) For service information identified in this AD, contact Airbus, Airworthiness Office—EIAS, 1 Rond Point Maurice Bellonte, 31707 Blagnac Cedex, France; telephone +33 5 61 93 36 96; fax +33 5 61 93 44 51; email account.airworth-eas@airbus.com; Internet http://www.airbus.com. You may view this service information at the FAA, Transport Standards Branch, 1601 Lind Avenue SW., Renton, WA. For information on the availability of this material at the FAA, call 425-227-1221.
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Issued in Renton, Washington, on November 7, 2017.
Dionne Palermo,
Acting Director, System Oversight Division, Aircraft Certification Service.
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Welcome to the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research!
The Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research (aka the Welch Center) remains a vibrant, intellectually stimulating, and highly productive academic unit that bridges the Schools of Medicine and Public Health at Johns Hopkins. In 1989, the Dean of the School of Public Health (DA Henderson), the Dean of the School of Medicine (Richard Ross), the Chair of Epidemiology (Leon Gordis), and Paul Whelton (an emerging institutional leader) established the Welch Center. Since its inception, the Welch Center developed and sustained a well-earned reputation for its academic rigor, collegial environment, and interdisciplinary approach to conducting high quality research and educating a diverse cadre of trainees.
In celebration of our 25th anniversary, we held a symposium attended by numerous luminaries, including current and former trainees and faculty - Leon Gordis, Paul Whelton, Neil Powe, Al Sommer, Mike Klag, Linda Fried, and Dan Ford. Mike Lauer, MD, Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, gave the keynote address. Especially memorable were remarks made by Ron Daniels, President of The Johns Hopkins University.
Over the past few years (2014-2018), Welch Core faculty members have:
Published nearly 300 papers each year in peerreviewed journals
Directed or co-directed ~30 courses
Trained over 100 students in the School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health
Made scientific discoveries related to risk prediction, prognosis, prevention, and treatment
Fostered a highly collegial environment that cultivates future leaders in academic medicine and public health
Promoted diversity and inclusion across several dimensions, including race-ethnicity, gender, and scientific disciplines
Led an impressive portfolio of research across the spectrum of epidemiologic, clinical, and translational research.
Contributed substantively to major institutional initiatives, including the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) and the Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet)
Collaborated with Johns Hopkins Health Care, Walgreens, and Healthways to support translation of research findings
Sustained large research programs in the community (ProHealth in West Baltimore and the George W Comstock Center in Hagerstown)
Initiated major new initiatives, including Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, the American Heart Association Strategically Focused Research Network on Obesity, the Resolve to Save Lives initiative to improve hypertension control globally, the Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium, and the Alacrity Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness.
Notwithstanding our success, we have also experienced great sadness. Three beloved faculty members passed away – Nancy Fink, Fred Brancati, and Linda Kao. We dearly miss them. Subsequently, three of the four Hopkins leaders who founded the Welch Center died – Leon Gordis, Richard Ross, and DA Henderson. We remain indebted to them for their vision and wisdom.
Looking ahead to the next 25 years, I remain optimistic. Despite many challenges, we have flourished. I am confident that our faculty and trainees will remain incredibly successful and that the Welch Center will continue to be a model interdisciplinary unit at Hopkins and elsewhere.
Lawrence J Appel, MD, MPH
C. David Molina Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and International Health
Director, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research
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Modulating Conscious Movement Intention by Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and the Underlying Neural Mechanisms
Zachary H. Douglas, Brian Maniscalco, Mark Hallett, Eric M. Wassermann and Biyu J. He
Journal of Neuroscience 6 May 2015, 35 (18) 7239-7255; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4894-14.2015
Zachary H. Douglas
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Biyu J. He
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Conscious intention is a fundamental aspect of the human experience. Despite long-standing interest in the basis and implications of intention, its underlying neurobiological mechanisms remain poorly understood. Using high-definition transcranial DC stimulation (tDCS), we observed that enhancing spontaneous neuronal excitability in both the angular gyrus and the primary motor cortex caused the reported time of conscious movement intention to be ∼60–70 ms earlier. Slow brain waves recorded ∼2–3 s before movement onset, as well as hundreds of milliseconds after movement onset, independently correlated with the modulation of conscious intention by brain stimulation. These brain activities together accounted for 81% of interindividual variability in the modulation of movement intention by brain stimulation. A computational model using coupled leaky integrator units with biophysically plausible assumptions about the effect of tDCS captured the effects of stimulation on both neural activity and behavior. These results reveal a temporally extended brain process underlying conscious movement intention that spans seconds around movement commencement.
movement intention
slow cortical potential
spontaneous activity
tDCS
The two cardinal dimensions of our day-to-day conscious experience are perception and volition (Gray et al., 2007). Volition refers to the sense that one is freely choosing one's actions. It provides the foundation for an individual to attribute agency to the self, and for society to attribute responsibility to an individual. A distorted sense of volition is a hallmark of many neurological and psychiatric illnesses such as alien hand syndrome, psychogenic movement disorders, and schizophrenia (Scepkowski and Cronin-Golomb, 2003; Jeannerod, 2009; Hallett et al., 2012). Thus, understanding the biological basis of volition has paramount scientific, philosophical, legal, and clinical value.
In contrast to the folk psychological view that volition is constituted by conscious intention-causing action, current neuroscientific data favor the view that the sense of volition occurs when conscious intention accompanies self-generated action, and an apparent mental causation is drawn between intention and action (Wegner, 2003). Supporting this view, conscious intention and movement can be dissociated under brain stimulation or pathological states (Fried et al., 1991; Blakemore et al., 2002; Hallett, 2007; Desmurget et al., 2009). In an influential study, Libet et al. (1983) asked subjects to make spontaneous finger movements and report the time at which they first became aware of their intention (W) to move (W-time) using a fast revolving clock. This time was determined to precede movement onset by ∼200 ms, much later (∼1–2 s) than the unconscious initiation of movement indexed by the motor readiness potential [bereitschaftspotential (BP)], supporting the view that conscious intention accompanies but does not cause movement. Despite intense interest in this phenomenon (Lau et al., 2004; Sirigu et al., 2004; Haggard, 2008; Soon et al., 2008; Fried et al., 2011), the neurobiological underpinning of conscious intention remains elusive. One puzzling set of experiments showed that an event happening tens to 200 ms after movement onset could still alter W-times reported to be ∼200 ms before movement (Lau et al., 2007; Banks and Isham, 2009), yet the brain mechanisms mediating such an effect have never been elucidated. Moreover, it remains debated whether conscious movement intention is generated by an instantaneous event (e.g., when the underlying neural activity crosses a threshold; Fried et al., 2011), or by a temporally extended process spanning at least hundreds of milliseconds (Lau et al., 2007; Matsuhashi and Hallett, 2008).
We used high-definition transcranial DC stimulation (HD-tDCS; Datta et al., 2009) to modulate spontaneous neural activity at selected nodes in the motor–premotor–parietal circuit and investigated the resulting effect on conscious movement intention in the context of self-generated movement. It has been suggested that tDCS is an ideal tool for modulating slow brain potentials such as the BP (Elbert et al., 1981). Surface-anodal tDCS has been shown to enhance neural excitability by inducing tonic depolarization of resting membrane potential and increased spontaneous neuronal firing rate (Nitsche et al., 2008). The aftereffect of HD-tDCS, mediated by BDNF-dependent long-lasting synaptic potentiation (Fritsch et al., 2010), has been shown to last for >2 h (Kuo et al., 2013).
The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Twelve right-handed healthy volunteers (seven female) with normal or corrected-to-normal vision participated in the study. The study used a within-subject design, with each subject undergoing six different tDCS treatments (see below). Their mean age was 25.6 years (age range, 23–38 years). All subjects provided written informed consent.
Overall experimental design
Each subject participated in six experimental sessions. In each session, subjects received anodal or sham tDCS, and immediately afterward performed the behavioral task under electroencephalography (EEG) recording. The behavioral EEG portion of the experiment was conducted within a window of ∼1.5 h after the end of tDCS stimulation. Due to the time required to prepare EEG electrodes, the start of the experiment ranged from 18 to 33 min (mean, 23.6 min) after the end of tDCS stimulation, and the end of the experiment ranged from 60 to 100 min (mean, 70.6 min) after the end of tDCS stimulation. Three different brain regions were targeted, each of which was stimulated with anodal and sham tDCS in different sessions. Sessions were scheduled on separate days, with adjacent sessions spaced at least 7 d apart. Previous studies (Kuo et al., 2013) have found that the effect of a single session of HD-tDCS (at 2 mA for 10 min) lasts for >2 h after stimulation ends. Anodal and sham stimulation to the same brain region was always performed in adjacent sessions to mitigate potential long-term drift in subjects' performance over multiple sessions, while the sequence of stimulated regions and the order between anodal and sham stimulation were counterbalanced across subjects. In all analyses, sham data from the three sessions were pooled together, unless otherwise noted.
Neurotargeting
In all subjects, anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data were acquired on a General Electric 3 T scanner with an eight-channel head coil, using an MP-RAGE sequence with a resolution of 1 × 1 × 1 mm3.
The following three brain regions were selected for stimulation: supplementary motor area (SMA)/pre-SMA, contralateral (left) primary motor cortex (M1), and contralateral (left) angular gyrus (AG). The locations of these brain regions were determined based on coordinates published in prior studies (Table 1, Fig. 1B). For SMA/pre-SMA, coordinates were determined as the average between SMA and pre-SMA to stimulate both regions equally, since the spatial focality of tDCS precludes stimulation of each region separately.
Anatomical locations for stimulated brain regions
Stimulation sites were determined based on each individual subject's anatomical MRI, using the Brainsight neuronavigation system (Rogue Research Inc.). Each subject's MRI data were registered to the standard MNI space using custom AFNI scripts for nonlinear transform (Cox, 1996). After the targeted coordinates were applied to MNI space, the MRI was transformed back into the individual subject's space for targeting. A mark was made on the skin at the scalp location nearest to the target region for placement of the tDCS anode.
tDCS was administered under the supervision of a credentialed physician or nurse practitioner. Current was generated by a neuroConn DC Stimulator Plus channeled through a 4 × 1 Multichannel Stimulation Device (Soterix Medical). A 4 × 1 montage consisting of five sintered Ag/AgCl ring electrodes (Stens; Minhas et al., 2010) was used, consisting of one anode directly over the stimulation site surrounded by four equally spaced return electrodes (i.e., cathodes) at a radius of 5 cm from the anode (Fig. 1A). The electrodes were held in place in plastic electrode holders in a fitted cap (EASYCAP). The electrode holders were filled with SignaGel, creating a gel contact of ∼4 cm2 per electrode (peak current density at the anode, ∼0.5 mA/cm2; peak current density at the cathodes, ∼0.125 mA/cm2).
A 4 × 1 ring HD-tDCS has been used to replicate findings of conventional tDCS, which uses saline-soaked sponge electrodes with a bipolar montage. HD-tDCS has been shown to have better spatial focality, larger effect on cortical excitability, and longer aftereffect than the conventional bipolar tDCS (Datta et al., 2009; Caparelli-Daquer et al., 2012; Kuo et al., 2013). In addition, HD-tDCS has been shown to be safe and tolerable at 2.0 mA for 20 min, and allows for effective sham (Borckardt et al., 2012; Villamar et al., 2013).
Anodal stimulation consisted of a linear ramp-up period of 30 s at the beginning, followed by 20 min of sustained stimulation at 2.0 mA, and, last, a linear ramp-down period of 30 s. Sham stimulation consisted of a 30 s ramp-up period to induce a tingling sensation, after which the current was turned off abruptly, and the subject waited for 20.5 min. During both anodal and sham tDCS, subjects were asked to relax and remain awake. For the effectiveness of sham stimulation, see Sham effectiveness in Results.
EEG recording
Subjects were seated in a dimly lit, electromagnetic interference-shielded, soundproof room. Stimuli were presented on an LCD monitor (resolution, 1920 × 1080; refresh rate, 120 Hz). Sixty-four Ag/AgCl actiCAP EEG electrodes (Brain Products GmbH) were placed according to the international 10–20 system. Sixteen additional electrodes were placed over central frontal areas to allow better recording of the motor readiness potential (Fig. 2). Two reference electrodes were placed on the left and right mastoid. The following four electro-oculogram (EOG) electrodes were placed: two above and below the right eye; and two at the outer corner of both eyes. Two electromyogram (EMG) electrodes were placed 2 cm apart over the right index finger flexor muscle (flexor digitorum superficialis). All electrodes were prepared with 10% chloride ABRALYT HiCl abrasive electrolyte-gel (EASYCAP). EEG, EOG, and EMG data were collected using the BrainAmpDC system (Brain Products GmbH) in DC recording mode with a sampling rate of 500 Hz.
Behavioral task
Self-paced movement task.
Subjects performed a self-paced movement task in which they were asked to click a mouse with their right index finger at a time of their choosing (Fig. 1C). Each trial started with the appearance of a clock in the center of the screen, with a black dot positioned at a random location around its perimeter. After a 1 s delay, the black dot changed to red and began to rotate around the clock with a period of 2.56 s per rotation. Subjects were asked to allow the dot to make at least one full rotation before clicking but to allow the urge to move appear spontaneously on its own, without any preplanning of when to move, and then to click the mouse immediately upon feeling the urge. After clicking, the dot continued to rotate for a random period between one to two full rotations. Subjects were then prompted to report the timing of movement (M-time) or awareness of W by using the mouse to precisely position the red dot at the same position as the onset of movement or awareness of intention. After a fixed intertrial interval (ITI) of 4 s, the next trial began. In M-trials, subjects were asked to report the location of the red dot on the clock when they began to move their finger. In W-trials, subjects were asked to report the location of the red dot on the clock when they first became aware of their intention to move.
Control task.
To control for the precision in using the clock, subjects also performed an auditory timing task [sound (S) trials; Fig. 1D]. This task approximately matched the format of the self-paced movement task except that rather than making a spontaneous movement, subjects listened for a brief auditory tone (1 kHz) presented for 100 ms. The interval between the onset of the red rotating dot, and the onset of the tone was randomly chosen between 2.56 and 10.24 s (i.e., one and four full rotations of the dot). After the tone ended, the dot continued to rotate for a random period between one and two full rotations. Subjects were then asked to report the time on the clock when they heard the tone.
In the original study by Libet et al. (1983), the reported time of an S-stimulus delivered at random times was used to “correct” for potential error in the timing report during M- and W-trials by subtracting the reported S-time from M- and W-times on a session-by-session basis. However, although the S-trials share with M- and W-trials the process of monitoring the revolving clock and reporting the timing of an event based on it, monitoring an unpredictable external event (skin or auditory stimulus) is unlikely to be a subset of processes involved in monitoring an internal event (movement intention or motor awareness). Thus, in line with recent prior studies (Sirigu et al., 2004; Lau et al., 2007), we opted to use the S-trials as a separate control condition instead of correcting for M- or W-times based on S-times.
Task structure.
Subjects first completed five practice trials of each task type, followed by two blocks of M-trials, two blocks of W-trials, and one block of S-trials. Each block included 30 trials. The block order was staggered and counterbalanced across subjects. The task paradigm was implemented in Python and presented using the OpenSesame software package (Mathôt et al., 2012).
EEG signal preprocessing
EEG data preprocessing was performed using BrainVision Analyzer 2 software (Brain Products GmbH), Matlab (MathWorks), and EEGLAB (Brunner et al., 2013).
First, scalp and eye electrodes were referenced to digitally linked mastoid reference electrodes. Continuous EEG and EOG data were filtered with a bandpass filter between 0.01 and 150 Hz (24 dB/oct) and a 60 Hz notch filter. All filters were applied off-line using a symmetrical Butterworth filter with zero phase shift. Second, blinking and eye movement artifacts were removed using an independent component analysis (ICA) applied to all EEG and EOG electrodes. ICA was computed using the InfoMax Extended algorithm implemented in Analyzer 2 with a maximum of 512 steps and a convergence bound of 1 × 10−7. Next, EEG signals were epoched from 4 s before to 2 s after the button press in M- and W-trials, and from 4 s before to 2 s after the tone onset in S-trials. Baseline correction was performed using the first 500 ms of each segment (i.e., 4000–3500 ms before button press), and linear detrending was applied to remove slow drift. Last, artifact rejection was performed by removing all trials with ≥1000 μV fluctuations or activity >5 SDs from the mean using EEGLAB.
EMG electrodes were referenced in a bipolar montage. A 0.01–50 Hz bandpass filter (24 dB/oct) and a 60 Hz notch filter were applied to the EMG signal, which was then epoched similarly to the EEG data. Movement onsets were identified using an algorithm that detected the first data point with both a positive second derivative and an activity level >4 SDs above or below the 500 ms baseline period at the beginning of each segment. The automatic algorithm was validated by visual inspection of every trial. Averaged across all tDCS conditions, EMG onset was at 158 ± 3 ms (mean ± SEM across subjects) before the onset of button press in W-trials, and 157 ± 3 ms before button press onset in M-trials. None of the anodal stimulation conditions significantly altered the EMG onset compared with sham (all p > 0.9, random-effects population t test).
Event-related potential analysis
For event-related potential (ERP) analysis, an additional <15 Hz low-pass filter was applied to epoched data using a Hamming windowed sinc FIR filter in EEGLAB.
Motor readiness potential.
A pool of 17 electrodes centered around C1 was selected based on the strength of the BP signal in the sham condition in a 300-ms-long window right before button press. These electrodes were Cz, C1, C3, C5, CCP1h, CCP3h, CCP5h, CP1, CP3, FCC1h, FCC3h, FCC5h, FCz, FC1, FC3, FFC1h, and FFC3h (Fig. 2). Electrode nomenclature follows the 128-channel high-density EEG based on the extended International 10–20 system (Oostenveld and Praamstra, 2001).
Lateralized readiness potential.
Traditionally, lateralized readiness potential (LRP) is defined as a double subtraction, as follows: C3–C4 difference potential for trials with right-hand responses (RH) is subtracted from C3–C4 difference potential for trials with left-hand (LH) responses [LRP = (C3–C4)RH−(C3–C4)LH] (Jahanshahi and Hallett, 2003). We calculated the left component of the LRP under right-hand responses [(C3–C4)RH]. Previous work has shown that this is a fair measure of lateralization and that, due to deviations in brain symmetry, the double subtraction method may introduce error and does not provide significant benefit over a single subtraction (Oostenveld et al., 2003).
Parietal cortical activity.
Using a Brainsight neurotargeting device on subjects wearing a cap with standard 10–20 locations, we determined that a pool of electrodes including P1, P3, and PO3 were directly over the left angular gyrus (as defined by MNI coordinates in Table 1; Fig. 2). This selection of electrodes is consistent with previous literature, which often used the P3 electrode to index activity of the inferior parietal lobule (Herwig et al., 2003).
For behavioral data, M- and W-times were referenced to the onset of button press, and S-times were referenced to the onset of auditory tone. A two-sample random-effects t test including both within-subject across-trial variances and across-subject variances (Borenstein et al., 2007) was used to compare behavioral results between anodal and sham condition. Two different analyses were conducted. In the first, behavioral data under anodal stimulation of each brain region were compared with sham data pooled across all three regions. In the second, behavioral data under anodal stimulation of each brain region were compared with sham stimulation of the same brain region.
Additionally, repeated-measures ANOVA with factors of stimulation site (AG, M1, SMA) and treatment (anodal, sham) was conducted to provide an overall assessment of how the experimental manipulations affected behavioral measures. This ANOVA design was applied to the mean and SD of W-time and M-time, as well as to the mean and SD of the time from trial onset to button press (“click time”). The purpose of these analyses was to investigate the specificity of the behavioral effect of tDCS.
For ERP analyses, EEG signal amplitude was compared between anodal (of each brain region) and sham (pooled across three regions) conditions using a two-sample t test without assuming equal variances on every time point in the segmented epoch. Results were corrected for multiple comparisons using Bonferroni correction with a correction factor derived from Bartlett's theory (Jenkins and Watts, 1998; Vincent et al., 2007; Van Dijk et al., 2010; He and Zempel, 2013). This correction factor takes into account the amount of autocorrelation in the data, which was used to derive the true degree of freedom and the number of independent tests.
To assess the relation between tDCS influences on W-time and brain activity, we computed the across-subject Pearson correlation between the effect of tDCS on W-time and its effect on ERP amplitude. ERP was averaged across trials for each subject. The effect of tDCS on both behavior and brain activity was calculated as the difference between the anodal and sham conditions. A search algorithm was used to identify time windows in which the effect of tDCS on ERP correlated significantly with its effect on W-time, which used 300-ms-long windows that advanced in 50 ms steps. The results were corrected for multiple comparisons using Bonferroni correction with the Bartlett correction factor derived for ERP data smoothed with 300-ms-long, 50 ms-step moving averaging windows. Final windows selected for windowed tests were determined by the first and last time point in groups of adjacent significant search windows. To exclude potential outliers, windowed tests were further confirmed by robust linear regression analyses.
Computational model
To capture the main features of the EEG and behavioral data as well as their modulation by tDCS, we constructed a simple yet biophysically plausible model following the spirit of the mean-field approach (Wong and Wang, 2006). The model implements three interacting leaky integrator units (beim Graben et al., 2007), corresponding to SMA/pre-SMA, M1/premotor cortex (PMC), and AG (see Fig. 6B). We take activity from the M1/PMC node as a proxy for the LRP, activity from the AG node as a proxy for parietal activity, and activity from the SMA/pre-SMA node as a proxy for the BP. The model makes the following simplifications: (1) it explicitly models only SMA/pre-SMA, M1/PMC, and AG activity, thus, it does not explicitly model other potentially relevant regions, such as the basal ganglia, primary sensory cortex, and the ipsilateral M1/PMC; (2) given the limited spatial resolution of tDCS and EEG, the model does not differentiate between SMA and pre-SMA, or between M1 and PMC; (3) it posits a simplified pattern of connectivity among these regions; and (4) in definitions of specific parameter values, the general features of the parameters such as their sign and time course were determined a priori by theoretical and empirical considerations, while the specific numerical values are set to capture relevant features of the empirical data without an exhaustive parameter search.
In general, the rate of change of a leaky integrator x as a function of time is described as follows:
where τ is a time constant controlling how rapidly the activity decays over time, and y(t) is the input to x at time t. For simulation purposes, we used a discrete time axis incrementing in steps of Δt = 1 ms. Let xSMA(t), xM1(t), and xAG(t) denote the activity at time t for the leaky integrator units corresponding to SMA/pre-SMA, M1/PMC, and AG, respectively. For each unit, the time course of activity was evaluated over the interval t = [−10 s, 2 s], where t = 0 represents the time of button press. The activity at the initial time point t = −10 s for all units was set to 0. From then on, activity was calculated iteratively at each time step. For all units, we set τ = 1000 ms to produce simulated neural activity with rates of accumulation before button press, and rates of decay after button press, comparable to those observed in the empirical ERP. Mechanistically, such a long time constant could be implemented by recurrent neural networks within each brain region (Wang, 1999; Major and Tank, 2004).
Although our empirical ERP results were assessed only within a time window of [−4 s, 2 s] around movement, we simulated a much longer time window in the model. This long time window was used to capture the tDCS modulation of baseline activity, as specified by the parameters bM1 stim and bAG stim described below. During t = [−10 s, −4 s], these baseline modulation parameters integrate to a stable asymptote, corresponding to a shift in baseline activity. To compare simulated neural activity with empirical ERPs, which were baseline corrected (see EEG signal preprocessing), simulated activity in the time window [−4 s, 2 s] was also baseline corrected using the activity at −4 s.
The input term y(t) differs for each unit, depending on the connectivity of that unit to the other units and external inputs (see Fig. 6B). In the simulation of the sham condition, y(t) was defined for each unit as follows.
Input to SMA node.
The input function for SMA is as follows:
where ISMA(t) defines the external input received by SMA, and followed:
to produce slow ramping up of activity in SMA in the 4 s period preceding button press, corresponding to the empirically measured readiness potential. Input turns off after t = 0, allowing SMA activity to decay to baseline following button press. We note that the two-step input function assumed for SMA and AG (see below) is one potential mechanism for generating activity time courses that resemble empirical ERPs. The shape of the ERP under the sham condition could also be produced by a leaky integrator model coupled with a threshold mechanism (Schurger et al., 2012), or nonlinear dynamics within each brain region. The purpose of the model is not to propose detailed mechanistic account for the generation of ERPs under the sham condition; rather, our main focus is on explaining tDCS modulation of ERPs and W-time, as well as the correlation between them, by using biologically based assumptions about the effects of tDCS.
Input to AG node.
The input function for AG is defined as follows:
where IAG(t) defines the external input. AG also receives input from M1, weighted by a factor wM1→AG(t).
IAG(t) followed:
to reproduce the slow ramping-up activity in the parietal ERP, followed by a return to baseline after button press at t = 0.
We supposed that input from M1 to AG primarily reflects computations related to forward modeling, in which a copy of the motor command is relayed to parietal areas to assist in the prediction and on-line control of movement (Wolpert et al., 1995; Desmurget et al., 1999; Sirigu et al., 1999; Ogawa et al., 2007). We therefore modeled the input from M1 to AG as occurring in a 500 ms window around button press, as follows:
A direct connection between AG and M1 in the human brain is supported by prior probabilistic tractography results (Caspers et al., 2011). Following previous literature (Wolpert et al., 1995; Wolpert and Flanagan, 2001; Ogawa et al., 2007), we model the input from M1 to AG as an inhibitory influence for the following considerations: the parietal cortex has been suggested to compare the state estimates computed from efference copy with sensory feedback for on-line error correction (Desmurget et al., 1999; Sirigu et al., 1999; Ogawa et al., 2007); a simple and efficient implementation of such a comparison is a subtraction between the two streams, implemented by simultaneous inputs of excitatory sensory feedback and inhibitory efference copy. This framework also accords well with results showing increased activity in AG when the sense of agency is violated, which is presumably due to incomplete cancellation between sensory feedback and efference copy (Farrer et al., 2003; Nahab et al., 2011).
Input to M1 node.
We defined the input function for M1 as follows:
Thus, in this simple model we account for M1 activity solely as a function of inputs from AG and SMA.
The input from both AG and SMA to M1 were set to be excitatory, with the input from AG to M1 extending a longer period from 4 s before to 500 ms after button press, while the input from SMA occurred in a 1-s-long time window immediately before movement (see Fig. 6C). Specifically, we set the following:
These model choices are based on a framework (Desmurget and Sirigu, 2009, 2012) supported by lesion and cortical stimulation observations, which suggests that the inferior parietal lobule is involved in the initial formation of movement intention (Sirigu et al., 2004; Desmurget et al., 2009) and early movement planning (Wheaton et al., 2005), as well as continued forward modeling and movement monitoring (Desmurget et al., 1999; Sirigu et al., 1999), whereas SMA/pre-SMA emits a “go signal” close to movement onset by releasing the inhibitory control exerted on M1 (Fried et al., 1991; Ball et al., 1999). An excitatory influence from AG to M1 in the left hemisphere was also observed in a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) study (Karabanov et al., 2013).
Modeling the effects of tDCS on network dynamics.
Anodal tDCS enhances spontaneous neural excitability and firing rate by inducing tonic depolarization of resting membrane potential (Creutzfeldt et al., 1962; Purpura and McMurtry, 1965); it is also associated with locally reduced GABA levels (Stagg et al., 2009). In addition, DCS paired with low-frequency synaptic activation causes BDNF-dependent long-lasting synaptic potentiation (Fritsch et al., 2010). Accordingly, our model incorporated two mechanisms whereby tDCS altered network dynamics. First, stimulated nodes exhibit an elevated baseline level of activity, reflecting enhanced excitability. Second, the connectivity strengths among nodes are modulated by tDCS.
Formally, the effect of AG anodal stimulation is captured by changes to the input received by AG, as defined by the following:
There are two modifications from the input function for AG under sham stimulation (Eq. 3). First, the additional term bAG stim captures overall enhanced excitability of AG by elevating its baseline activity at t = −4000 ms. We set bAG stim = 2. Second, the input from M1 onto AG is modulated by a constant kM1→AG|AG stim, set to a value of 3, which reflects enhanced synaptic strength induced by tDCS.
Similarly, the effect of M1 anodal stimulation was defined by the following input to M1:
where bM1 stim = 1, kAG→M1|M1 stim = 1.2, and kSMA→M1|M1 stim = 1.1.
Finally, the effect of SMA anodal stimulation was defined by the following input to SMA:
where bSMA stim = 0.5.
Simulating reported W-times under different tDCS conditions.
We next investigated whether the above model could account for the effect of tDCS on W-time. Our empirical ERP analyses suggested that the effects of tDCS on LRP as early as −2850 ms, and on parietal activity as late as 950 ms, correlated with tDCS modulation of W-time (see Fig. 4). Accordingly, we supposed that the genesis of W-time is implemented by a temporally extended process ranging from 2850 ms before to 950 ms after movement, during which a weighted average of visual input from the rotating clock was computed to construct a final estimate of W-time. We characterized the weights used for this temporal averaging as a function of M1 activity to capture the close correlation between LRP and W-time in the empirical findings (see Figs. 4, 5). We further supposed that not all values of M1 activity in the specified time window were weighted evenly, but rather that activity hundreds of milliseconds before button press would likely be weighted more heavily than activity seconds before or hundreds of milliseconds after button press. Finally, to take into account the ∼80 ms lag between visual stimulus and subjective visual perception (Eagleman and Sejnowski, 2000; Dehaene and Changeux, 2011; see Fig. 6A), we supposed that the weight derived from M1 activity for a given time t in fact multiplied a value of (t − 80).
Formally, we defined W-time as follows:
where W-time is a weighted average of (t − 80) ms in the interval t = [−2850 ms, 950 ms]. The weights w(t) were in turn defined as a weighted function of M1 activity over this time window, and normalized such that w(t) summed to 1:
The β(t) weights on M1 activity were defined as a normal probability density function, as follows:
where μ = −330 ms and σ = 800 ms, to capture the intuition that the weights should be highest hundreds of milliseconds before movement (see Fig. 8A). β(t) was fixed across tDCS conditions; thus, the only source of variation in w(t), and hence W-time, came from variation in xM1(t) across conditions. The time courses of xM1(t) and w(t) under sham, AG and M1 stimulation conditions are shown in Figure 8, B and C.
Simulating interindividual variability in the effects of tDCS.
To assess whether the model could capture the empirical correlation between tDCS modulation of W-time and its effects on ERP, we conducted a Monte Carlo simulation. We simulated 1000 subjects. For each subject, the parameters of the model were defined as above, except that Gaussian noise was added to the parameters modulated by tDCS (i.e., b and k terms). For simplicity, the noise terms added to different parameters modulated by the same tDCS condition were fully correlated across subjects to capture the variation in the effective strength of tDCS across subjects. For each b parameter, the SD of the noise was set equal to the value used for that parameter in the main simulation, with the constraint that b > 0. For each k parameter, the SD of the noise was set as the distance between the main simulation value and the lower bound 1, with the constraint that k > 1.
Testing model predictions
The increased spontaneous neural excitability posited by the model (b terms in Eqs. 5 and 6) predicts baseline shifts in the ERP, which are rendered invisible by the standard baseline correction procedure in EEG signal preprocessing (see Fig. 7). To test this model prediction, we additionally computed LRP and parietal ERP without baseline correction under different tDCS conditions (see Fig. 9A–D). It is important to note that this analysis is expected to be noisier, as the results are affected by slow artifacts in DC-EEG recordings such as electrode drifts over time (Rockstroh et al., 1989).
To test the model prediction regarding increased synaptic efficacy (k terms in Eqs. 5 and 6), we computed functional connectivity (FC) between spontaneous EEG signals using the ITI period. Spontaneous BP, LRP, and parietal activity were extracted from the same electrode groups as for ERP analyses (Fig. 2), and a mean signal value was extracted for each 4-s-long ITI. Functional connectivity was computed as a Pearson correlation between BP and LRP, and between LRP and parietal activity, across ITIs. Correlation values were Fisher z-transformed before averaging across subjects (see Fig. 9E,F). In a second FC analysis, spontaneous EEG signals during the ITI period were smoothed with a 200-ms-long, half-overlapping moving-average window, and concatenated across ITIs; and Pearson correlations were computed on concatenated signals. The results showed an identical pattern to those from the first analysis (data not shown).
Twelve healthy young volunteers participated in the experiment, each performing the experiment by Libet et al. (1983) in six different sessions under different conditions of tDCS. In separate blocks of trials, participants judged the time of when they first became aware of their W-time or when they first began their physical movement (i.e., M-time; Fig. 1C). To control for precision in using the clock, subjects also judged the time of a brief auditory tone (i.e., S-time; Fig. 1D). Subjects performed this task immediately after HD-tDCS (Fig. 1A), within a window of <1.5 h after the termination of stimulation current. While performing the task, subjects' brain activity was monitored by high-density EEG recording. The six different tDCS conditions included anodal and sham stimulation of three brain regions: the SMA/pre-SMA, the contralateral M1, and the contralateral AG (Fig. 1B, Table 1). These brain regions were selected based on prior studies of movement initiation, movement intention, and motor awareness (Fried et al., 1991, 2011; Lau et al., 2004, 2007; Sirigu et al., 2004; Desmurget et al., 2009). The stimulation sites were targeted based on each subject's anatomical MRI, using a neuronavigation system (Fig. 1B).
HD-tDCS setup and task paradigm. A, An example of the tDCS ring montage with the central anode over SMA/pre-SMA and return electrodes (cathodes) spaced at a 5 cm radius. B, Stimulation targets marked on the reconstructed scalp and brain surface of one subject. C, Each trial started with the appearance of a clock in the center of the screen, with a dot positioned at a random location around its perimeter, which turned red after 1 s and began to rotate around the clock with a period of 2.56 s per rotation. After at least one full rotation, subjects clicked the mouse with their right hand when they felt a spontaneous urge to do so. After clicking, the dot continued to rotate for a random period between one and two full rotations. The subject was then prompted to report M or W by using the mouse to precisely position the dot. D, Control task in which, instead of making a spontaneous movement, subjects were asked to report the time when they heard a brief auditory tone that lasted for 100 ms and occurred at a random time between 2.56 and 10.24 s after the clock started rotating.
EEG recording and analyses montage. Eighty scalp electrodes were recorded; their locations are shown on the map. Background color shows the current source density map in a 300-ms-long window right before button press, averaged across all sham sessions. The amplitude of the current source density map was used to select electrodes pooled for analyzing BP (shown in red). The LRP was calculated as a subtraction between electrode C3 (contralateral to hand movement) and C4 (ipsilateral to hand movement). Parietal activity was obtained by pooling across three electrodes overlying the AG (shown in yellow).
Sham effectiveness
At the end of each session, subjects were asked to guess whether they received sham or anodal tDCS in that session, and to rate their confidence level in this response on a scale from 1 to 10 (where 1 indicates “I have no idea” and 10 indicates “I am certain”). Subjects were not able to distinguish anodal from sham tDCS significantly above chance level (p = 0.099, proportion test) and reported overall low confidence in their answers (mean ± SEM, 3.83 ± 0.34). Moreover, their confidence report did not correlate with their objective performance. Their reported confidence was slightly (but not significantly) higher when their guess was wrong (4.24 ± 0.53 in incorrect guesses, 3.56 ± 0.45 for correct guesses; p = 0.29, Wilcoxon rank-sum test). Last, subjects' ability to distinguish sham from anodal stimulation did not increase over time, as assessed by Spearman rank correlation between the percentage of accuracy (pooled across subjects) and session number (from 1 to 6; r = 0.37, p = 0.47). These results indicate that subjects did not have explicit or implicit insight into whether they received anodal or sham stimulation in a given session.
Behavioral results
Under sham condition, the reported W-time was on average 188 ± 22 ms (mean ± SEM across subjects) before the recorded button press, and the reported M-time was 73 ± 15 ms before button press (Fig. 3A). Both values are consistent with previous literature (Jahanshahi and Hallett, 2003). Subjects judged the S-time to occur 54 ± 13 ms after the physical onset of the tone. Both AG and M1 anodal stimulation shifted the reported W-time significantly earlier, by 61 ± 27 ms (p = 0.016, random-effects population t test) and 70 ± 35 ms (p < 0.009), respectively. By contrast, SMA/pre-SMA stimulation did not significantly alter W-time. None of the anodal stimulation conditions significantly changed the reported M-time or S-time (Fig. 3A). These results remained the same when each anodal condition was compared with sham stimulation of the same brain region (Fig. 3B). A two-way repeated-measures ANOVA using W-times as the dependent variable found a significant effect of treatment (anodal vs sham, p < 0.05) and a significant interaction effect (treatment × stimulation site, p < 0.03), while the effect of stimulation site was not significant (p = 0.09). Post hoc analyses suggested that the interaction effect was driven by AG and M1 anodal stimulation, both of which significantly shifted W-time earlier compared with the corresponding sham stimulation (AG: p = 0.003; M1: p = 0.004; random-effects population t tests). The same ANOVA design did not reveal any significant effect of stimulation site, treatment, or their interaction on the SD of W-time or M-time (all p > 0.17).
Behavior results. A, Mean reported S-, M-, and W-times under different stimulation conditions. Sham data were pooled across three sessions in each subject. M- and W-times were referenced to the onset of button press; S-times were referenced to the onset of the tone. Error bars represent the SEM across subjects. Reported times were compared between anodal stimulation of each brain region and pooled sham data, using population-level random-effects t tests. B, Same as A, except that sham results are shown separately for different brain regions, and each anodal stimulation condition was compared with sham stimulation of the same brain region. Asterisks indicate significant comparisons.
We additionally investigated whether tDCS modulated the frequency or variability of subjects' button presses. To this end, we determined the time from trial onset to button press in every trial (click time), and computed the mean and SD of click times across all W-trials or all M-trials, under each tDCS condition. The results are subjected to a two-way repeated-measures ANOVA across subjects [factors: stimulation site (SMA, M1, and AG) and treatment (anodal vs sham)]. All of the main effects and interaction effects were not significant (all p > 0.2), suggesting that tDCS did not alter movement statistics.
Early LRP and late parietal activity independently correlate with W-time modulation
What brain mechanisms might contribute to the effects of AG and M1 stimulation on the reported time-of-movement intention? To address this question, we investigated the following three ERPs chosen a priori for their ability to index neural activity in brain regions modulated by tDCS in this study: the BP (Kornhuber and Deecke, 1965; Libet et al., 1983), which has a generator in the SMA and pre-SMA (Ikeda and Shibasaki, 2003); the LRP (Haggard and Eimer, 1999), which has a generator in M1 (Jahanshahi and Hallett, 2003); and parietal activity from a group of electrodes overlying the AG (Fig. 2; see Materials and Methods).
AG stimulation significantly enhanced the LRP ∼1–3 s before button press (p < 0.05, Bonferroni corrected; Fig. 4) without significantly altering the amplitude of BP or parietal activity. Using a search algorithm to identify time windows during which tDCS modulation of LRP significantly correlated with its modulation of W-time (p < 0.05, Bonferroni corrected), we found an early window in the LRP (2.5–2.85 s before button press)—just before the profound elevation of LRP amplitude—correlating significantly with the behavioral modulation (Fig. 4A,B). The larger the effect of AG stimulation on LRP amplitude in this time period, the earlier the subject reported their movement intention relative to sham (Pearson's correlation: r = 0.71, p < 0.01; robust linear regression: p < 0.016). The early LRP activity alone accounted for 50% of across-subject variance (i.e., interindividual variability) in the modulation of W-time by AG stimulation. In addition, the best-fit regression line passed through the origin (Fig. 4B), suggesting that when early LRP amplitude was unchanged from sham condition, the reported W-time was unchanged. Because AG stimulation was over left parietal cortex, whereas the LRP is a measure of activity lateralization over primary motor cortices, the above finding raises the question of whether a similar pattern would hold for activity lateralization over parietal cortex. A control analysis using parietal activity in the same time window suggested that this was not the case (r = −0.11, p > 0.7).
EEG correlates of the effect of AG stimulation on W-time. A, LRP in W-trials under AG anodal and sham stimulation, averaged across subjects. Negativity is plotted upward per EEG convention. Red dots mark the time points where the two curves significantly depart (p < 0.05, Bonferroni corrected). Purple dots mark the center of 300-ms-long windows during which the effect of AG stimulation on LRP amplitude significantly correlated across subjects with its modulation of W-time [p < 0.05, Bonferroni (Bonf.) corrected]. The yellow window indicates the time period selected for the windowed test in B, as determined by the first and last time points in adjacent significant search windows. B, The effect of AG stimulation on LRP amplitude in a window of 2.5–2.85 s before movement (yellow window in A) is plotted against the effect of AG stimulation on W-time for each subject. Both effects are calculated as the difference between anodal and sham conditions. The ordinary least-squares (OLS) linear regression fit is shown as the solid red line. This is supplemented with a robust regression analysis to assess the potential impact of outliers on the correlation results. The robust regression fit to the data (red dashed line) closely matches the OLS fit, suggesting that outliers do not drive the correlation result. Each data point is labeled with the weight assigned to it by the robust regression algorithm. Lower weights indicate data points that contribute less to the robust regression fit. C, D, Same format as in A and B, for parietal activity. The yellow window in C indicates the time period (0–550 ms after movement) selected for the windowed test shown in D. E, F, E is reproduced from C, except that the yellow window indicates the second temporal cluster of significant parietal activity correlations with W-time, in the period of 450–950 ms after movement. The corresponding windowed test is shown in F.
Although the effect of AG stimulation on parietal activity did not reach significance after Bonferroni correction, parietal activity tended to return to baseline faster after movement under AG stimulation (reaching p = 0.02, uncorrected; Fig. 4C). A search algorithm revealed two contiguous clusters of 300-ms-long windows in which the modulation of parietal activity by AG stimulation significantly correlated with its modulation of W-time (p < 0.05, Bonferroni corrected), with one cluster spanning 0–550 ms after movement, and the other spanning 450–950 ms after movement (Fig. 4C,E). In both time windows, the faster parietal activity returned to baseline, the earlier was the reported W-time (0–550 ms: Pearson's r = −0.78, p < 0.003; robust regression, p = 0.003, Fig. 4D; 450–950 ms: Pearson's r = −0.75, p < 0.005; robust regression, p < 0.006; Fig. 4F). Not surprisingly, these two time windows contained highly redundant information. The effect of AG stimulation on parietal activity in the two windows are highly correlated across trials (r = 0.85, p < 0.0005). Moreover, while the first time window alone accounted for 61% of across-subject variance in the modulation of W-time by AG stimulation, a general linear model incorporating both windows had only marginal improvement, explaining 64% of behavioral variance. Hence, in the following analysis, we focus on parietal activity in the first time window (0–550 ms).
Since both early LRP and late parietal activity correlated with the effect of AG stimulation on W-time, an important question is whether they contributed to the behavioral modulation independently. Two pieces of evidence suggest that this is the case. First, the effects of AG stimulation on early (2.5–2.85 s before movement) LRP and late (0–550 ms after movement) parietal activity were not correlated across subjects (p > 0.2). Second, using partial correlation, we found that controlling for the effect of late parietal activity, the early LRP window still significantly correlated with the modulation of W-time (r = 0.71, p < 0.014); similarly, controlling for the effect of early LRP, the late parietal activity still significantly correlated with W-time modulation (r = −0.79, p < 0.005). A general linear model incorporating both early LRP and late parietal activity as predictors suggested that they together accounted for 80.9% of interindividual variability in the modulation of movement intention by AG stimulation. In line with the secondary role of parietal activity in the 450–950 ms time window after movement, adding this activity to the general linear model yielded no further improvement, which still accounted for 80.9% of behavioral variance.
Peak LRP amplitude correlates with W-time modulation
We did not find significant across-subject correlation between the modulation of W-time by M1 stimulation and its modulation of BP, LRP, or parietal activity after Bonferroni correction (for a potential account, see Computational model). Next we adopted a median-split approach by separating all subjects into an early-W and a late-W group based on their reported W-times in each condition (sham, AG, and M1 stimulation). The reported W-times were significantly different between the two groups in all conditions (all p < 0.005). We then computed the LRP for each group (Fig. 5A,B). The biggest difference between early and late W-time groups resided in the peak amplitude of LRP around button press (assessed as the mean of a 300 ms window centered around movement), which was significantly larger in the early-W than the late-W group under both AG and M1 stimulation conditions (p < 4e-7 and p = 0.014, respectively). In addition, the peak LRP amplitude exhibited a monotonic relationship with the reported W-time across groups and conditions: the larger the LRP amplitude, the earlier the reported W-time (Fig. 5C; Spearman rank correlation, ρ = 1, p < 0.003). Consistently, at the population level, the peak LRP amplitude was significantly larger in both AG and M1 stimulation conditions than sham (p < 0.004 and p < 0.03, respectively), which is in line with W-times being earlier in these two conditions (Fig. 3). Neither BP nor parietal activity showed the same pattern of results.
LRP peak amplitude correlates with W-time. A, Subjects were split into two groups based on their reported W-times in AG anodal and sham conditions, and the mean LRP was calculated for each group. The peak LRP amplitude was assessed in a 300 ms window centered around movement (yellow window). Mean reported W-times for each group are marked as ticks along the x-axis. B, Same as A, for M1 anodal stimulation (stim) compared with sham condition. Sham data are identical to those in A. C, Scatter plot for peak LRP amplitude against W-time for each group of subjects defined by the median splits in A and B. The location of the crosshair and the error bars indicate mean ± SEM across subjects. The W-time is significantly correlated with LRP peak amplitude across subject groups (Spearman rank correlation ρ = 1; p = 0.0028).
The above results demonstrate that a temporally extended process lasting seconds around movement onset contributes to the reported time of movement intention. Brain activity as early as >2.5 s before movement and as late as 550 ms after movement contributes independently to the final reported W-time (Fig. 4). A parsimonious account of our results is that the final reported W-time is computed as a weighted average of the visual representation of the revolving clock during this process, and both AG and M1 anodal stimulation shifts this process earlier in time (Fig. 6A). To formalize these intuitions, we constructed a computational model using coupled leaky integrator units to represent activity in M1, AG, and SMA (Fig. 6B,C; for details, see Materials and Methods).
Schematic of the computational model. A, A conceptual account. Our empirical data suggest that W-time is influenced by neural activity occurring ∼2–3 s before, and up to 1 s after, button press. One parsimonious account is that the brain process underlying movement intention lasts for seconds, spanning the period before and after movement, and that tDCS shifts the temporal boundaries and relative intensity of this process across time. Assuming that W-time is generated by a weighted average of the perceived clock time during the intention process, shifting this process earlier in time would lead to an earlier estimate of W-time. The subjective perception of clock time may lag the physical time by ∼80 ms, but this lag is assumed to be constant across tDCS conditions. B, Model structure and all relevant parameters for simulating the ERP results. Three leaky integrator units are simulated, corresponding to SMA/pre-SMA, M1/PMC, and AG, respectively. Their connectivity pattern is shown. W parameters describe the influences between nodes, and their potentiation under tDCS is shown by asterisks (corresponding to the k parameters in the model). Parameters capturing tDCS effects are shown in red. For a detailed model description, see Materials and Methods. C, Schematic time courses of all time-varying parameters in the model.
Simulated M1 and AG activity in the time window [−4 s, 2 s] are shown in Figure 7, B and D, respectively. These activity time courses were subjected to baseline correction (Fig. 7A,C) to compare with empirical LRP and parietal activity, respectively. Our model accounts for the following features of the empirical ERP results: (1) under sham stimulation, the LRP remains close to baseline during [−4 s, −1] and then undergoes a large peak with onsets around t = −1 s and peaks around t = 0 (Fig. 4A, data; Fig. 7A, model); (2) under AG stimulation, the LRP is enhanced in the interval t = [−4 s, −1 s] and the LRP peak around t = 0 is also enhanced (Fig. 4A, data; Fig. 7A, model); (3) under M1 stimulation, the activity of the LRP in the interval t = [−4 s, −1 s] is not enhanced, but the LRP peak around t = 0 is enhanced (Fig. 5B, data; Fig. 7A, model); (4) under sham stimulation, the parietal activity gradually ramps up over the interval t = [−4 s, 0 s], with an inflection point around t = −1 s (Fig. 4C, data; Fig. 7C, model); (5) under AG stimulation, the parietal activity returns to baseline after t = 0 faster than under sham stimulation (Fig. 4C, data; Fig. 7C, model); and (6) under M1 stimulation, the parietal activity does not significantly differ from that under sham stimulation (data not shown; Fig. 7C, model).
Model output for M1 and AG activity. A, B, Simulated xM1(t) time courses before (B) and after (A) baseline correction under different tDCS conditions. Raw simulated xM1(t) activity (shown in B) is used for W-time computation (Fig. 8), while the baseline-corrected activity (shown in A) is used for comparison with the empirical LRP. C, D, Simulated xAG(t) time courses before (D) and after (C) baseline correction. The baseline-corrected activity (C) is used for comparison with the empirical parietal ERF. By supposing that tDCS affects baseline activity and synaptic strengths in the stimulated brain region, the model reproduced the main pattern of ERP results observed in the empirical data. Specifically, the model reproduces the empirical findings that AG stimulation elevates early and peak amplitude of the LRP and causes a faster return to baseline of parietal activity, whereas M1 stimulation elevates only the peak amplitude of the LRP.
An intuitive explanation of how the model captures the effects of tDCS on ERP is as follows. When AG is stimulated, its baseline activity is elevated (Fig. 7D), although the elevated baseline is rendered invisible by baseline correction customarily applied in ERP analysis (Fig. 7C). With an elevated baseline, AG more powerfully activates M1 than it does under the sham condition, which accounts for the elevated LRP in the time window [−4 s, −1 s], as well as the enhanced peak around t = 0 (Fig. 7A,B). Under AG stimulation, AG is also sensitized to the inhibitory input from M1, and this accounts for the faster return to baseline of the parietal activity (Fig. 7C). When M1 is stimulated, its baseline activity is also elevated (Fig. 7B), although the elevated baseline is again rendered invisible by baseline correction (Fig. 7A). Further, M1 stimulation causes M1 to become sensitized to input from SMA, resulting in an elevated peak in the LRP around t = 0, which remains after baseline correction (Fig. 7A).
Using a readout mechanism based on temporal averaging of the visual input, where weights depend on M1 activity (Fig. 8A–C; for details, see Materials and Methods), the model produced W-times of −190 ms in the sham condition, −246 ms in the AG stimulation condition, −263 ms in the M1 stimulation condition, and −187 ms in the SMA stimulation condition, a close match to the empirical data (Fig. 8D). Thus, the model captured the main findings that both AG and M1 stimulation shifted the reported W-time significantly earlier relative to sham, whereas SMA stimulation did not. Intuitively, the success of this model is due to the fact that M1 activity is elevated in the early time period under both AG and M1 stimulation (Fig. 8B), which shifts the temporal weighting function w(t) slightly earlier than in the sham condition (Fig. 8C). This shift lends more weight to early time values in the computation of W-time, resulting in earlier computed W-times.
Simulation of W-time computation and across-subject correlations between tDCS effects on neural activity and W-time. A, Components entering into the W-time computation in the sham condition, normalized to the peak of each time course. xM1(t) is the simulated M1 activity under sham condition. xM1(t) is weighted by a fixed weighting function β(t) to yield the final set of weights, w(t). W-time is computed as a weighted average of perceived clock time in the time interval t = [−2850 ms, 950 ms], using w(t) as the weights (Eq. 8). B, Simulated M1 activity under AG and M1 stimulation and sham conditions, without baseline correction (same as in Fig. 7B). C, w(t) under the same conditions. Due to elevated M1 activity in the early portion of the time window under AG and M1 stimulation, as depicted in B, w(t) distribution is shifted slightly earlier than in the sham condition. D, Simulated W-times from the model closely match the mean reported W-times by the subjects under different tDCS conditions. E, Using a Monte-Carlo simulation of 1000 subjects, the model captures the across-subject correlation between the effects of AG stimulation on early LRP and W-time (r = 0.99), as well as the correlations between the effects of AG stimulation on late parietal activity in both temporal clusters and W-time (r = −0.97). F, The simulated 1000 subjects were split into two groups based on their computed W-times under AG (left) and M1 (right) stimulation; the mean M1 activity was calculated for each group and baseline corrected to compare with the empirical LRP (Fig. 5A,B). Simulated M1 activity under the sham condition is shown for comparison.
We next computed the across-subject correlation between tDCS modulation of W-time and its effects on early M1 activity and late AG activity, using the same method as applied to the empirical data (Fig. 4). The simulation yielded an early LRP–W-time correlation of r = 0.99, and a late parietal–W-time correlation of r = −0.97 for both parietal clusters in the time windows of 0–550 and 450–950 ms (Fig. 8E). Thus, the model captures the correlation patterns observed empirically. The empirical correlations are slightly lower, with an early LRP–W-time correlation of r = 0.71, and a late parietal–W-time correlation of r = −0.78 and −0.75, respectively, for the first and second time windows, presumably due to noise in the recording system and potentially additional neural factors not accounted for in the model.
Last, we investigated whether the model could capture the empirical result of a larger peak LRP amplitude in the early-W group than in late-W group under both AG and M1 stimulation (Fig. 5). The simulated 1000 subjects were split into two groups based on their W-times under AG and M1 stimulation conditions. The simulated M1 activity (after baseline correction, for comparison with the empirical LRP) was averaged within each group and shown in Figure 8F. Since variability was only introduced to tDCS-modulated parameters, sham results were identical across the simulated subjects. These results show that the peak amplitude of simulated LRP is indeed higher in the early-W group than in the late-W group under both AG and M1 stimulation, capturing the patterns seen in the empirical data.
Above we have shown that a computational model comprising coupled leaky integrators reproduces the main findings in the empirical data, including tDCS modulation of W-time and ERPs, as well as the correlations between these effects. This model postulates a simplified connectivity pattern among three nodes—SMA/pre-SMA, M1/PMC, and AG—that is inspired by prior experimental findings (see Computational model in Materials and Methods). The key insight from the model is that by incorporating empirically observed neurobiological effects of anodal tDCS, namely, enhanced spontaneous neural excitability and synaptic potentiation (Nitsche et al., 2008), and assuming a simple temporal-averaging computational mechanism of W-time, the model was able to reproduce the full pattern of empirical findings regarding tDCS modulation of W-time and the associated neural changes. While it is impossible to rule out all alternative mechanisms to explain our empirical result showing that early LRP and late parietal activity independently correlate with the reported W-time, an extended temporal-averaging process appears to be the most parsimonious explanation. Last, we wondered whether it is possible to directly observe model predictions about the effects of tDCS in our empirical EEG data.
First, in line with earlier physiological studies (Creutzfeldt et al., 1962; Purpura and McMurtry, 1965), the model assumes that anodal tDCS enhances spontaneous neural excitability, which predicts a shift in the baseline activity of LRP under M1 stimulation and in the baseline activity of parietal ERP under AG stimulation (Fig. 7B,D). This baseline shift is invisible in our empirical ERP results (Figs. 4E, 5B) due to the baseline correction procedure used in EEG signal preprocessing (see Materials and Methods). Baseline correction is typically considered necessary for analyzing slow ERPs due to drift artifacts in DC-EEG recordings (Rockstroh et al., 1989). Nonetheless, could we observe a baseline shift in the EEG signal due to tDCS as predicted by the model? An additional ERP analysis following a procedure similar to that described above, except without baseline correction, suggested that this is indeed the case—there was a baseline shift in the LRP under M1 stimulation and, similarly, in the parietal ERP under AG stimulation, as predicted by the model (Fig. 9B,D). Baseline-corrected ERPs as presented earlier, are reproduced in Figure 9, A and C (with arrows indicating effects that correlate with the change in W-time), to compare them with model output (Fig. 7).
Testing model predictions. A, C, Empirically observed LRP and Parietal ERP as a function of tDCS condition. Arrows indicate the explanatory targets for the model: portions of the LRP and parietal ERP whose modulation by tDCS is correlated with tDCS-induced shifts in W-time (Figs. 3, 4, 5). B, D, Same as A and C, but computed without performing baseline correction. The model predicts that M1 and AG stimulation elevates baseline activity in these regions (Fig. 7B,D); a qualitatively similar pattern is seen in the empirical ERPs without baseline correction. E, Functional connectivity between LRP and parietal activity electrode groups (corresponding to the M1/PMC–AG pathway in the model) under sham, AG anodal, and M1 anodal conditions. Functional connectivity was computed as the Pearson correlation on spontaneous activity extracted from the intertrial interval periods and Fisher z-transformed. F, Functional connectivity between LRP and BP electrode groups (corresponding to the SMA/pre-SMA–M1/PMC pathway in the model) under sham and M1 anodal conditions. In all panels, group-averaged results across 12 subjects are shown.
The second model assumption regarding the effect of tDCS is synaptic potentiation, which has been previously observed in physiological studies (Fritsch et al., 2010). We reasoned that such synaptic potentiation might manifest as changes in functional connectivity between brain regions that could be probed using our empirical EEG data. It is important to stress that the model posits a simplified pattern of connectivity inspired by prior experimental findings, which constituted a minimal set of assumptions required to capture the key empirical findings in this study. Functional connectivity in EEG data, on the other hand, is influenced by many other factors not accounted for in the model, such as input from other brain regions not simulated in the model (for a discussion on model simplifications, see Computational model in Materials and Methods). Nonetheless, we computed functional connectivity between spontaneous EEG signals from different electrode groups using the intertrial interval period (see Testing model predictions in Materials and Methods) and observed trend effects that were consistent with model predictions (Fig. 9E,F). First, the functional connectivity between LRP and parietal electrode groups was reduced under AG stimulation (Fig. 9E), which is consistent with the model postulation of an inhibitory pathway from M1 to AG that would be potentiated under AG stimulation (Fig. 6B). By contrast, LRP–parietal connectivity was enhanced under M1 stimulation (Fig. 9E), which is consistent with the model assumption of an excitatory input from AG to M1 that would be potentiated under M1 stimulation (Fig. 6B). Last, the connectivity between LRP and BP was enhanced under M1 stimulation (Fig. 9F), accordant with the model postulation of an excitatory input from SMA to M1 that is potentiated under M1 stimulation (Fig. 6B). These qualitative observations provide further support for the connectivity pattern and tDCS effects posited in the model, which were inspired and constrained by prior empirical findings.
We observed that anodal HD-tDCS over both M1 and AG significantly altered the reported W-time during a self-generated movement task. In both cases, the reported W-time became substantially earlier, moving from −188 ms under sham condition to −249 ms under AG stimulation (p = 0.016), and −258 ms under M1 stimulation (p < 0.009; Fig. 3A). By contrast, SMA stimulation did not significantly alter W-time (p > 0.05), and none of the stimulation conditions significantly altered the reported M-time or the reported S-time.
While we are not aware of any precedent in the literature showing that M1 modulation influenced movement intention, previous studies have shown that patients with lesions in AG report W-times that are much later than those reported by healthy subjects (Sirigu et al., 2004), and direct cortical stimulation of AG can produce conscious intention to move and even illusory movement perception (Desmurget et al., 2009). These results are consistent with our observation that enhancing neural excitability in AG using anodal tDCS moved the reported W-time significantly earlier. Together, these findings support a recent framework differentiating the involvement of AG in the initial formation of movement intention from the role of SMA/pre-SMA in releasing M1 from inhibition more proximal to movement onset (Desmurget and Sirigu, 2009, 2012). Nonetheless, it remains a possibility that our negative finding with SMA/pre-SMA stimulation was due to insufficient current amplitude within HD-tDCS safety parameters given the cortical depth of this region (Fried et al., 1991, 2011). An MRI-guided finite element model (FEM) of the current distribution under HD-tDCS showed that the spatial focality of HD-tDCS is vastly improved over traditional bipolar tDCS and, as expected, current density falls off with increasing cortical depth (Datta et al., 2009, 2012). This model was partially validated using empirical data (Datta et al., 2013; Edwards et al., 2013). In particular, an FEM simulation using a 6 cm ring montage (similar to our 5 cm ring montage) found that with M1 stimulation, current distribution reaches as deep as the ventricles (Datta et al., 2012). Since current conductivity along the medial wall is higher than through brain tissue, due to the higher conductivity of CSF and blood vessels, it is very likely that HD-tDCS current under our stimulation parameters reached SMA/pre-SMA. Nonetheless, future FEM simulation of HD-tDCS over medial brain regions will be helpful for interpreting the current results.
To avoid electrical interference between tDCS and EEG recording, subjects performed the self-generated movement task under EEG recording right after the termination of tDCS current. On average, the experiment was performed within a window of 24–71 min after the termination of tDCS current. A previous study has established that the aftereffect of HD-tDCS delivered at a lower intensity (2 mA, 10 min) than that used in the current study (2 mA, 20 min) lasts for >2 h. Hence, the modulation of W-time by tDCS observed in this study was entirely mediated by its modulation of spontaneous neural activity and synaptic strength. Recent neuroimaging and electrophysiology studies have demonstrated the functional and cognitive relevance of spontaneous brain activity (Raichle, 2006; Boly et al., 2007; Fox et al., 2007; Hesselmann et al., 2008; Wyart and Tallon-Baudry, 2009; Berkes et al., 2011; He, 2013); the present work, using a causal manipulation, adds significantly to this growing literature.
Our EEG recording obtained during task performance revealed the neural mechanisms underlying tDCS modulation of W-time. We observed that AG stimulation enhanced LRP amplitude 1–3 s before movement onset, and caused parietal activity to return to baseline faster after movement (Fig. 4). Strikingly, these neural effects independently contributed to tDCS modulation of W-time, and together accounted for 81% of across-subject variance in the behavioral effect. In addition, both AG and M1 stimulation produced a larger LRP peak amplitude around movement onset, specifically in subjects with the strongest W-time modulation (Fig. 5). Mechanistically, how does tDCS modulation of spontaneous neural activity induce changes in ERPs under task performance, which are time locked to movement onset and baseline corrected? In particular, baseline correction, while a necessary step in EEG signal preprocessing to remove slow artifacts, eliminates any potential difference in baseline neural activity between conditions. This question is addressed by our computational model. Previous studies (Nitsche et al., 2008; Fritsch et al., 2010) have established that anodal tDCS induces depolarization of resting membrane potentials and slightly elevated spontaneous neuronal firing rates, as well as increased synaptic efficacy. We incorporated these mechanisms into the model, which described M1, AG, and SMA as interacting leaky integrator units whose baseline (i.e., spontaneous) activity and pattern of synaptic connectivity are modulated by tDCS (Fig. 6). This model reproduced the empirically observed effects of AG and M1 stimulation on ERPs (Fig. 7). It illustrates how, under recurrent network architecture and with modulation of synaptic strength, tDCS modulation of spontaneous neural activity could translate into changes in ERPs that are time locked to movement onset, after baseline correction. Moreover, the model proposes a potential account for the empirical observation that while M1 stimulation induced few changes in the ERPs, it nevertheless produced a significant earlier shift in the reported W-time. In the model, this is because M1 stimulation induced tonically elevated M1 activity, which influences the computation of W-time (Fig. 8B,C) but is rendered invisible by baseline correction in the ERP analysis (Fig. 7A). Reassuringly, a post hoc ERP analysis without the baseline correction procedure revealed baseline shifts in the ERP due to tDCS stimulation that are consistent with model predictions (Fig. 9B,D).
A simple hypothesis for the genesis of the W-time is that when the underlying neural activity crosses a fixed threshold, movement intention reaches conscious awareness, and that instant constitutes the later reported W-time (Lau et al., 2006; Fried et al., 2011). While the race-to-threshold model is an attractive framework for perceptual decision making (Gold and Shadlen, 2007) and movement execution (Schurger et al., 2012), it cannot explain our (Fig. 4C–F) or previous TMS and psychophysics results (Lau et al., 2007; Banks and Isham, 2009) on conscious movement intention. These results show that brain activity happening hundreds of milliseconds after movement can still influence W-times reported to be much earlier. By contrast, in line with the hypothesis that conscious movement intention is generated by a process that unfolds in parallel with the unconscious initiation of movement (Wegner, 2003; Hallett, 2007; Lau et al., 2007; Desmurget and Sirigu, 2009), our results reveal a temporally extended process contributing to the final reported time of movement intention (illustrated in Fig. 6A). This process starts seconds before movement (as supported by our early LRP result; Fig. 4A,B) and concludes hundreds of milliseconds after movement (as supported by our late parietal result; Fig. 4C,D). The final reported time of movement intention likely depends on ongoing neural computations occurring during this process, perhaps consisting of a weighted average of the visual representation of the revolving clock. In addition to the start and end times of this process, its intensity may also play a role in the final reported W-time (our peak LRP result; Fig. 5), potentially by changing the weight profile of the temporal averaging (Figs. 6A, 8C). It is important to stress that this account does not in any way imply physical backward causality, because although the W-time was reported to be ∼200 ms before movement, the report itself was made much later (2.56–5.12 s after movement in this study).
We captured these qualitative observations in the model, which implements in a quantitative way the above account of how W-time might be computed from a weighted average of the visual input over a time period spanning from ∼2.8 s before to ∼1 s after movement, where the weights depend on M1 activity (assumed to underlie the LRP). With these minimal assumptions, the model reproduced the earlier reported W-times under both AG and M1 stimulation conditions (Fig. 8D). To simulate individual subjects, we introduced variability to the parameters describing the effects of tDCS. The model output captured all main aspects of the empirical data, including across-subject correlations between tDCS modulation of the reported W-time and its effects on the early LRP and late parietal activity (Fig. 8E), as well as higher LRP peak amplitude in the early-W group than the late-W group (Fig. 8F). This model thus illustrates the plausibility of a temporally weighted averaging process contributing to the reported time of movement intention. Mechanistically, such temporal averaging could potentially be performed by trajectory-based processing that is time sensitive (Maass et al., 2002; Rabinovich et al., 2008; He, 2013).
Last, in addition to the parallel, temporally extended processes underlying intention and movement initiation (Fig. 6A), there may be another, third, process that drives both of them. This third process might correspond to activity in high-level prefrontal and posterior cingulate cortices (Soon et al., 2008), or an unconscious “prior intention” process, as previously proposed (Desmurget and Sirigu, 2009). In principle, tDCS in the current study could have differentially modulated the influences of this third process on the intention and movement initiation processes. Although this scenario is unlikely given that we did not directly stimulate these high-level areas and given the relatively crude spatial resolution of tDCS, at present it cannot be entirely ruled out.
In conclusion, we observed that enhancing spontaneous neuronal excitability in both M1 and AG substantially lengthened the interval between the reported time of movement intention and the time of movement execution. Slow brain waves recorded by EEG explained as much as 81% of interindividual variability in this effect, revealing a temporally extended process spanning seconds around movement onset that contributes to the final reported time of movement intention. In addition, a computational model using biologically based assumptions about the effect of tDCS on brain networks accounted for all main aspects of the empirical findings. While the possibility of a temporally extended process underlying movement intention was previously raised (Lau et al., 2007; Matsuhashi and Hallett, 2008), the present data are the first to directly demonstrate such a process. Interestingly, patients with psychogenic tremor report W-times much closer to movement onset than control subjects (Edwards et al., 2011), and have reduced activity in AG (Voon et al., 2010). Hence, our results might suggest potential avenues of treatment for neuropsychiatric illnesses involving a distorted sense of volition. Last, in line with a recent study (Li et al., 2014) showing that slow cortical potentials (SCPs) correlate with conscious visual perception, here we observed that causal manipulations of SCPs influenced the reported time of conscious movement intention, which further extends the link between SCPs and conscious awareness (He and Raichle, 2009).
This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. We thank Irene McClain for medical coverage; Adam Steel for assistance with the Brainsight system; and Qi Li, Alex Baria, and Amy Lin for help with setting up EEG electrodes.
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“They really pushed these pills as a panacea for all sorts of pain and they did so on very little or no evidence,” Ko said.
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Tyler Russell and Jonathan Katz with their new mobile enterprise.
A new form of entertainment where a team must solve a series of clues and puzzles to win the game and “escape” have opened across the country in recent years.
The Escape Bus is Orange County’s first mobile escape room, giving gamers and thrill-seekers a new immersive experience. Its futuristic game Firewall is set in the year 2033. Players are immersed in a hacker consortium and captured in transport they must work together to escape.
After visiting escape rooms in Budapest, Laguna Beach resident Tyler Russell, co-founder of The Escape Bus, said he envisioned the Escape Bus as elevating the standard escape room to a whole new level. “We’re combining unique technology, visual effects and an exciting storyline, and we’re making it mobile. The Escape Bus will come to you!” he says in a statement.
A former passenger school bus was converted into a multi-room escape experience, equipped with state-of-the-art technology.
Gamemaster and co-founder Jonathan Katz said Firewall is designed to navigate players through an experiential story. “We want them to forget about their cell phones and social media for 45 minutes as we give them a one-of-a-kind entertainment experience.”
The Escape Bus can accommodate two to six players at a time and will be available for Open Escapes, parking in various locations all over Southern California, as well as bookings.
To stay up-to-date on its whereabouts, visit www.theescapebus.com. For more information on pricing, call: (949) 357-2871.
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Tim Burton switches on Blackpool Illuminations
By Lancashire Business View
Legendary Hollywood director Tim Burton has flicked the switch to turn on the 2015 Blackpool Illuminations.
Burton, a self-confessed fan of Britain’s best-loved seaside resort, filmed his latest project Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children in the town earlier this year and, to say thank you, VisitBlackpool bosses gave him their highest honour – the chance to flick the famous switch.
The evening also saw a star-studded line-up of musical entertainment wow the audience at Blackpool’s Tower Festival Headland Arena with some of the biggest names in British music, including The Vamps, Lawson and Professor Green, all performing.
Before switching on the lights, Tim Burton told the 20,000-strong crowd: “When they asked me about flicking the switch I felt like Dr Frankenstein flicking on the electricity, so it’s pretty cool.
“I love Blackpool, I’d love to do another film here. It’s an amazing place.”
The concert marks the start of the 2015 Illuminations season, with the world famous lights now shining bright every night until November 6, which this year features the start of Blackpool’s new £2.4m Lightpool project funded by the Coastal Communities Fund, Blackpool Council and LeftCoast.
Coastal Communities Minister Mark Francois said: “I am delighted we have been able to support Blackpool Illumination’s through a £2m grant from the Coastal Communities Fund.
“This investment will help boost the local economy and the Northern Powerhouse. We are committed to drive investment in the north and help our seaside communities thrive.”
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One of the best features of the App Store is that you can re-download apps you've already purchased. You can do this an unlimited number of times without having to pay for them more than once.
Downloading apps you've already paid for is especially important if you accidentally delete an app or if you lose apps due to your iPhone breaking or being stolen. There are a couple of ways to do this, including finding the app from the App Store and downloading it normally.
These directions apply to iOS 5 and newer versions of iOS. However, the steps are slightly different between some versions (and the visuals often very different), so be mindful of the callouts below.
How to Use Your Phone to Download Apps You Already Bought
Using your phone to re-download the app is probably the easiest method:
Tap App Store from your home screen.
Open the Updates tab at the bottom.
For iOS 6 and iOS 5 devices, tap Purchased at the bottom of the screen, and then skip down to Step 5.
On an iPhone running iOS 11 or newer, tap your photo at the top right corner of the screen.
If you're using iOS 10 or an older version of iOS, you won't see this image; just skip this step.
Tap Purchased, or if you have Family Sharing enabled, choose My Purchases (or the name of the person who originally purchased the app, if it wasn't you).
Select Not on This iPhone to see a list of apps you've gotten in the past that aren't currently installed on your phone.
Search or scroll through the list to find the app you want to reinstall, and then tap the cloud icon next to it.
The app will download to your device for free.
Another way to get old apps again is to visit their normal download page. Even if you bought the app and have since deleted it, the button to download it will not be a purchase button but instead the cloud icon as you see it above.
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How to Use iTunes to Re-download Previous Apps
You can also download previous purchases using iTunes.
The App Store was removed from iTunes in version 12.7, released in 2017. These instructions only apply to versions of iTunes earlier than that. Unless you're running an old version of iTunes, your only option for re-downloading apps is to do it directly on the iPhone.
Open iTunes and select the Apps icon in the top right corner, just underneath the playback controls (it looks like an A).
Choose App Store just beneath the playback window at the top center of the screen.
Select Purchased in the Quick Links section at the right.
This screen lists every app you've ever downloaded or purchased for any iOS device using this Apple ID. Browse the screen or search for the app using the search bar on the left.
When you find the app you want, select the download icon (the cloud with the down arrow). If asked, sign in with your Apple ID.
When the app finishes downloading to your computer, synced your iPhone with iTunes to put the app on your phone.
How to Redownload Pre-installed iOS Apps
If you're running iOS 10 or newer, you can delete a number of apps that come pre-installed with iOS. This wasn't possible in earlier versions, and can't be done with all apps, but some basic apps like Apple Watch and iCloud Drive can be deleted.
These apps are treated like regular apps, so when you delete them, they're no longer accessible from your device. Just re-download them from App Store to make them show up again.
What About Apps Removed From the App Store?
Developers can remove their apps from the App Store. This happens when they no longer want to sell or support an app, or when they release a new version that's such a major change that they treat it as a separate app. In these cases, you might want to download an old app that you can't get from App Store.
Fortunately, you can, in most cases. It likely depends on the reason an app was removed from the App Store, but generally speaking, if you've paid for an app, you'll find it through the App Store like described above.
The apps you probably won't be able to re-download include those that break the law, infringe copyright, are banned by Apple, or that are actually malicious apps disguised as something else (you probably don't want those anyway).
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Self-Constructed: Ingrid Hernández’s Sense of Belonging
By Marco Vera
Photo: Ingrid Hernández, photo from the "Tijuana Comprimida" series.
Photographer Ingrid Hernández’s stunning, in-depth record of Tijuana’s developing neighborhoods, settlements, and organic compounds documents the personal lives of a community behind closed doors. Through a convergence of indoor and outdoor portraiture, her works reflect on the soul and intimacy of the city’s uncontrolled environments and dreams. Hernández’s almost sociological photographic journeys guide viewers through beginnings and migration, into a modern-day sense of belonging(s), as pilgrimages and reincarnations take invested leaps of faith towards manifest destiny. Hernández’s photos depict a refuge in eternity and limbo on the border, a testament to the legacy of trying one’s luck, sharing meals and borrowing electricity in a semi-industrialized way of life. Her images testify to the birth of a new life and neighborhood simultaneously, capturing its rituals, hardships and pensiveness in the still life of her framework and conscientious expositions.
Hernández is a self-made artist herself, a sociologist whose interest and passion for photography fueled her desire to venture into Tijuana’s unauthorized urban landscapes. “All of my life I thought I would be an academic, I have a master’s in sociology, which provided me with several tools of investigation," Hernández says. "But upon graduating, I grabbed the camera and commenced these lengthy journeys into the city’s self-constructed settlements, or rather, the new neighborhoods emerging in Tijuana, those which were not residential areas with pre-designed housing, but rather plots of land where people built with whatever materials were at their reach." After several months of work based on photographs and interviews, she stopped to examine what she had. "[I asked] myself what I had produced, trying to reflect upon what I was searching for in photography. I found images of self-constructed homes, of repurposed materials, and also discovered that I was not interested in traditional portraiture, since there were no people within the frame of any of my photographs.”
Photographer Ingrid Hernández in action. | Photo: Angélica Escoto.
The communities Hernández photographs play by a new world order, where the unalienable rights of expansion, substance and the pursuit of happiness justify the guilty verdict, as she digs deeper and these yearnings take center stage. Adversity raids prosperity, as Hernández’s confident photography asserts camaraderie and subjectivity in these multinational living quarters. The madness, absurdity, and personality of this reality on the outskirts is central to her photo essays. Her photos reflect trial and error, synthetic epochs, and decay. Hernández has an incessant alliance and passion for Tijuana’s courage in searching to better itself.
Ingrid Hernández, photo from the "Hecho en Casa" series.
The influence of sociology lends a most distinct human quality to Hernández’s work, a body of photographic imagery and migratory mise-en-scène developed through a careful methodology over time. “To me it’s always been important to say that one’s studies give shape to something that is already of interest, in that sense, it’s not like a university makes you who you are, rather you search for a university to locate and lend form to your restlessness," Hernández says. "Hence my interest, first in sociology, then my development as an artist utilizing photography and social investigation methodology to work with the migrant population in vulnerable situations, in irregular settlements and self-constructed homes." Her major and later, her master's degree, brought her closer to anthropological and sociological investigation techniques that she later brought into her artistic practice. "I was convinced I didn’t just want to practice photography, I also wanted to deeply get to know the context of where I was producing images and the people that inhabited these spaces.”
A mindful approach and the development of intimacy are fundamental to Hernández’s representational perseverance and fraternity with the residents. She sought to generate a relationship through her projects, an involvement that generally takes plenty of time to construct. "Each project I develop takes about one to three years of communitarian work," she says. "During that time, I relate to and spend time with the community, I listen, talk and participate in different moments in the lives of the people I work with, all the while conducting interviews, taking photographs and sharing the work with them. At the end of each project, we host an exhibit at the site where the project developed with the purpose of being able to demonstrate my representation of their spaces; I also later exhibit the work via images and text that are descriptions of the context where I worked."
Ingrid Hernández, photo from the "Outdoor" series.
Characteristically shifting her focal point towards interior/exterior personal space as opposed to traditional portraiture, Hernández brings to light the absence of human interaction within the frame, making for an artistic statement that is both inquisitive and expository, investigative and interconnected, all the while smashing the familiarities of photojournalism. “Historically, images that expose households in poverty conditions contain a charged ideological baggage based on compassion, voyeurism and the tragedies of ‘others.’ I’ve been working deliberately with the self-constructed household because I want to subvert that dominant representation in social documentation," Hernández states. "In this manner, I conceive of these images based on a concept stemming from the syntax of objects and space, emphasizing the order and manner in which objects arrange themselves within the domestic environment."
Articulating the dynamics of migration via the photographic image, Hernández addresses the magnitude of possessions as subsistence mechanisms. “I search to highlight the particular, the property and individuality present in the way an object is utilized, its disposition in a place, giving it purpose within a space according to gestures, whims and mania that obey a dimension of the human condition that goes beyond utilitarian simplicity or social condition. In this sense, I am not interested in showing the human figure, I am not seeking portraits of people, rather I intend to construct images of spaces and objects that reference [in an oblique tone] the people they belong to. I want these images to incite thought on the human condition, parting from the material world,” Hernández explains.
Like many of the border artists of her generation, Hernández engages in providing accessibility to a means of artistic production and discussion for the Tijuana community through an independent brand of promotion and support networking. Relaciones Inesperadas is a collective born over three years ago out of the desire to give shape to the different artistic, investigative, and arts education practices being carried out by Hernández, Abraham Ávila and Mayra Huerta. “One day we decided to unite our cumulative practices and systematize our work. With Relaciones Inesperadas we are primarily looking to generate relationships between the diverse agents in the arts ecosystem through educational programs, residencies and conferences. Our goal is to professionalize, reflect, collaborate, and produce knowledge in this field from an investigative and interdisciplinary focus,” Hernández says. Relaciones Inesperadas is an active, involved and intellectual development hub intensely spearheading a pride in arts participation and fostering talent in Tijuana. “To this day, we’ve developed about 45 workshops with internationally renowned instructors living in or outside of Mexico. We’ve also hosted about 20 talks with specialists in different topics, held in a conference format, attended by Tijuana artists, academics, investigators and the general public." In 2016, they will be welcoming the second generation of their Contemporary Art Production Program, made up of various modules, exhibits and international residencies, continuing the creative spirit on the border.
Photo: Ingrid Hernández.
For more of Ingrid Hernández’s work, visit her website.
For more information on Relaciones Inesperadas, visit their Facebook and web page.
Top image: Ingrid Hernández, photo from the "Tijuana Comprimida" series.
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Sean MacKay May 8, 2020
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With anxiety mounting throughout March as the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic intensified, Canada’s central bank took swift action to slash interest rates at several points during the month.
The cut announced by the Bank of Canada on March 27th meant that the overnight rate — which influences mortgage rates — had reached a level not seen since the 2008-2009 global recession. The rate, at 0.25 percent, sits at the “effective lower bound” established by the bank, which means that it does not intend to lower it further to zero or into negative territory.
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In a comprehensive housing report published earlier this month, BMO Senior Economist Robert Kavcic wrote that the central bank is unlikely to hike the rate until 2022.
The report, titled “Canadian Real Estate: Closed Until Further Notice,” Kavcic noted that the rapid cuts to the overnight rate have led five-year fixed-rate mortgages to decline to levels that match historic lows. Rates are available in the 2.4 percent to 2.6 percent range, said Kavcic, 50 points lower than rates seen last year, which were already very low by historical standards.
The BMO economist believes that the low rate environment will be the most significant, immediate support to the country’s housing market as the economy gradually reopens and business resumes over the next few months.
“[Low rates] will support demand as the economy re-opens, and we don’t believe Bank of Canada rate hikes are on the horizon until 2022,” wrote Kavcic.
The Bank of Canada’s next scheduled interest rate announcement is due on June 3rd, which is also the date that Tiff Macklem is set to assume the role of governor, taking over the position current governor Stephen Poloz has held since 2013.
It is unlikely that the bank will move the rate any lower even under new leadership, though Macklem, who was an associate deputy minister in the Department of Finance during the 2008-2009 financial crisis, has said it’s important to deliver an unprecedented response to this unprecedented situation.
One thing that appears to be certain is that mortgage rates will remain historically low for many months, or even years, to come.
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A seat belt lock-off is a part of a car seat that is designed to hold the vehicle seat belt tight to maintain a good installation. Lock-offs come in many different styles and can be very obvious color-coded levers and latches, or they can be simple clips that don't stand out visually on the car seat.
The lock-off pinches or clamps the vehicle seat belt to create a fixed length of seat belt webbing that holds the car seat securely into the vehicle. The lock-off helps address the many types of seat belt systems that are present in vehicles today by simplifying the installation process.
Some types of car seat installations may previously have required the use of a locking clip, which can be difficult for parents to install properly. A built-in lock-off can eliminate the need for a locking clip and can increase the ease of use of the car seat. In this way, the ease of use feature (the lock-off) also improves the safety of the car seat because the parent is more likely to use the simpler mechanism properly.
Many car seats have lock-offs on both sides so that they can be used for installation on either side of the car. Other car seats have just one lock off in the center. Some may have separate lock offs on either side of the car seat and for rear-facing and forward-facing installations. It's easy to get confused by all of those clips or latches, so be sure you read the instruction manual that came with your car seat to see which lock off you're supposed to use. If you don't have the instruction manual, you may be able to find one on the manufacturer's website, or you can call the manufacturer phone number on the car seat label for help.
Car Seats With Built-In Lock-Offs
Pictured is a built-in lock-off on an older Britax convertible car seat. This lock-off clamps the shoulder portion of the seatbelt to create the fixed length of webbing that secures the car seat.
The Chicco Key Fit and Key Fit 30 infant car seats have a very simple but effective lock-off. In fact, they're so simple that you may not even notice they're part of the car seat. On the base of these infant seats, under the top portion of the belt path, there's a thin piece of orange plastic. This piece is attached to the car seat on one end and open on the other end. To use the lock off, you slide the shoulder portion of the seatbelt into the orange plastic piece. There's a lock off on both sides of the base.
The Graco Snug Ride 30/35 also has a lock off on the infant car seat base, but it's a central one that can be used for installation on either side of the vehicle. There are two hinged pieces that fold out. Both the lap and shoulder portions of the seatbelt are routed across the center of the lock off, and both of the hinged pieces are folded over the top. When they click into place, the seat belt is locked down.
Newer Britax car seats may have a feature called Click Tight, which is a type of lock off. There's a part of the seat portion that lifts up like a trunk lid. The seatbelt is routed underneath that piece. When the "trunk lid" is closed again, it functions as a lock off.
The Cybex Cloud Q infant car seat has a similar hinged lid piece on the car seat base.
Because there are so many types of built-in lock-offs, parents should always read the car seat instruction manual carefully to learn how to use this feature. Some car seat manufacturers allow you to lock the vehicle seat belt while using the car seat lock-off, while others do not. Again, be sure you read the car seat and vehicle instructions to ensure you're using all features correctly.
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We are Long Jump Surfaces, our expert team have completed many projects to install and maintain long jump runway facilities of various sizes with specialist sand landing pits in a range of specifications. If you'd like more information about the installation of long jump surfaces in Ansty, our friendly and experienced team are here to help.
Athletics tracks and long jump surfaces in Ansty RH17 5 are very popular at schools, universities and sports clubs. It's important to have these surfaces installed to the highest standards so that children are able to improve their skills and take part in a variety of sports.
Sand Pit - The landing pit area is an important part of the full long-jump facility installation in Ansty as it provides a safe surface for athletes to land on and gives accurate distance scores once the jump has been completed. Washed and dried silica sand is used in the landing pit and the area size may be altered to meet the requirements of each project. For more information on sand pits for long jumps please click here http://www.longjump.org.uk/sand-pit/west-sussex/ansty/ Rubber edgings can also be installed around the perimeter of the sandpit to enhance the safety qualities of the local acility.
The sub-base for a polymeric long jump runway will include a layer of angular stones and then a layer of macadam. A needle punch runway could have the same sub base system or it could just have the angular stones without the macadam. We will also install a long jump pit in Ansty RH17 5 which is located at the end of the runway and provides athletes with a save place to land their jump.
You may come across the AAA Sports Organisation when looking into the athletics sector; the AAA is known as Amateur Athletic Association. It is the original governing body for athletics and was around before UK Athletics. The group continues to exist to stand for the volunteer area of the sport but not to govern. Various academic institutions in Ansty RH17 5 and also other organisations in Great Britain work together with the Amateur Athletic Association.
These standards are awarded to children with badges along with certificates. Plaques are also given out in Ansty by the Amateur Athletic Association, to kids who achieve Grade 1 which improves the number of people who participate in athletics. Small grants or loans are available to young people looking to take up a career in athletics by the AAA Charity for the Young.
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In both primary and secondary schools that cannot get a full-sized track, this really makes a fantastic alternative which is much less expensive as well as takes up significantly less room. For more details on athletics please click here http://www.longjump.org.uk/athletics/west-sussex/ansty/ When someone completely enjoys performing a certain activity such as long-jump or discus, they are able to progress onto professional clubs inside the United Kingdom. There are not many facilities that target people at the beginners level, which makes young children unwilling to take part in athletics.
It is very important for little ones to participate in sports at a young age - KS One and Two - and carry on through KS Three and KS Four. A new sports and athletics model in Ansty RH17 5 has been produced by UKA, permitting small children to gain access to sports and athletics areas. The newest model could be constructed in vibrant colours to appeal to younger people and is also more cost-effective, meaning it is a fantastic entry-level sports facility for academic institutions.
Considering that the specification and design of compact facilities could be altered, near enough any club or school can have one put in. A lot of establishments in Ansty tend to get long jump runways in addition to high-jump fans put in within their compact facility. We're able to adjust the size and dimensions of each construction to fit the available space on site.
The flexible design of compact sports and athletics facilities ensures that they are highly relevant to a variety of situations. To find out about athletic areas please visit this page http://www.longjump.org.uk/area/west-sussex/ansty/ For a lot of projects, existing sports and playgrounds could be developed in educational institutions to produce a far more diverse sporting provision. Children of every school key stages can benefit from personal growth when learning additional skills through distinct sporting activities.
To find out more details about the long jump runway specifications and construction, as well as the funding opportunities available for schools in Ansty RH17 5 please take a look around the rest of our website or feel free to contact us.
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Represents cities in transmission and distribution utility rate case proceedings at the Public Utility Commission of Texas
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The Vigilantes Ride (1943) DVD-R
Starring Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor, Bob Wills, The Texas Playboys, Shirley Patterson
Directed by William A. Berke
Print Quality: B
Utilizing a plot that Columbia had used twice before with Buck Jones and again with Charles
Starrett, this version shifts the state of the Rangers from Texas to Arizona, where Ranger
Rod Saunders (Stanley Brown) is killed by a band of outlaws and his brother Ranger Lucky
Saunders (Russell Hayden)swears to avenge his death. The outlaws, led secretly by town
businessman Anse Rankin (Tristram Coffin), have been terrorizing the town and the
citizens. Rankin accuses the Rangers of being unable to cope with the situation and
organizes a Vigilante Defense League, with himself as the head and with the intent of
forcing the ranchers to pay tribute for protection against his own gang. Lucky, working with
Captain Randall (Jack Rockwell), resigns in disgrace from the Rangers and pretends to go
over to the side of the outlaws.
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TB – Return of the Plague
Priya Garg, DTMH 2015
Deep in the heart of Swaziland, a small child in a purple dress, wearing a white respirator mask, dances rhythmically, her tiny legs twisting to the sound of music from her headphones, her footsteps echoing across the humble floors of the Tuberculosis isolation ward.
In the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine building, we sit, on our tiered lecture theatre rows, watching J Neuman’s documentary; ‘TB, Return of the Plague’. From consultant paediatrician to ICU physician, anaesthetist to post-foundation doctor, we are all universally gripped by the vividly moving and overwhelmingly human stories unfolding before us.
After a few sessions spent learning about maternal & child health, respiratory illness and sharing small triumphs in the Dagnall Laboratory, staring down the microscope at tiny, oblong-shaped vividly pink Mycobacterium bacilli dotted across our stained blue slides, today was the day many of us put our week’s learning in to context.
Following spirited lectures from Professor Bertie Squire, immediate past President of the International Union against Tuberculosis & Lung Disease, we spent that afternoon discussing in our seminar groups as to how we might implement our theoretical learning in the field and what we would do as clinicians in a rural district of Malawi where HIV is rife, laboratory testing sparse & distant, deaths from TB high, even for our patients on treatment, and multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB thrives.
Here, as the film was projected onto our screen, we could see the TB control plans we were guided by our mentors to create, during our discussions, acted out by the physicians and nurses with Medecins Sans Frontieres, the numbers plotted in the surveillance graphs for ‘treatment cured’ and ‘treatment failed’ becoming the people whose journeys we followed with MDR and even XDR (extensively drug resistant) TB, and the unfamiliar, remote terrain we saw on our paper maps, forming the extensive panorama of trees, fields, dusty tracks and soaring mountains before us.
On screen, we were introduced to Zandile, a young, fragile, MDR-TB patient who was soon confined to her bed, a shadow of her previous self, weight plummeting, horribly nauseous, and deaf from the Streptomycin in her cocktail of daily medication, eyes large and staring, desperately cared for by her mother.
We also watch Bheki, a builder and Zandile’s football-mad brother, recently and devastatingly diagnosed with MDR-TB, battling with not only slowly losing his sister to the disease and the grueling physical symptoms, but also the stigma of TB. Furthermore, Bheki has to contend with its complex and lengthy drug regime with numerous adverse side effects, the uncertainty of prognosis, and the impact it has on his independence, his ability to play the sport he loves and do the job he takes pride in.
Ultimately, we see the impact the accumulation of these factors has on his mental health, leading to periods of anger, frank despair and often, utter hopelessness.
Sadly, Zandile is too weak to survive her TB treatment. The local community rallies around brave Bheki and his strong mother as they bury Zandile with hundreds of loving copies of her funeral program. Her death, an emotional, too frequent occurrence in those who contract this currently treatable, and curable, disease.
The WHO (World Health Organisation) estimates that despite its treatability, TB is second only to HIV/AIDS as the greatest killer worldwide from a single infectious agent, with 95% of deaths occurring in low-middle resource settings.
As a brutally young XDR-TB sufferer says, speaking directly to the camera, having self-discharged from hospital to spend her last living days in her own home; ‘TB; it is not fair’.
Here, it is painfully obvious how terrifying TB can be, how difficult it can be to adhere to a heavy pill burden without support, how quickly resistance can occur and spread without adherence to treatment, and how frequently it can and has, ripped families apart. There is clearly much need for continued research, education and medicine, particularly in high endemic, resource-poor areas.
As we aim to be better informed about tropical medicine, the DTM&H provides us with the tools and inspiration to try to not only become more familiar with diseases like TB, but also to hopefully, one day, diagnose, help and treat.
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The surgical faculty at MMC is comprised of excellent, busy clinical surgeons. The magnet attracting them to MMC is the opportunity to teach medical students and residents and to continue to bring new ideas and technology to the bedside and to the operating room.
The teaching staff includes surgeons who received their training at MMC as well as those whose training and experience were in institutions across the country. Many have held faculty positions in other University programs and all hold current faculty positions at the Tufts School of Medicine. Both individually and as a group, the faculty balances an interest in the broad aspects of their specialty as well as one or more subspecialty focuses, such as Transplantation, Critical Care, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Surgical Oncology, etc. The relatively small size of the MMC Surgical Residency encourages close contact with this faculty and results in a strong sense of mutual respect and support.
James Whiting, M.D.
Director of Surgical Education
Surgical Residency Program Director
Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital -General Surgery
Fellowship: Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center – Transplantation
Subspecialty: Transplantation
Kartikey Pandya, M.D.
Associate Program Director
Medical School: Florida State University College of Medicine
Residency: Maine Medical Center – General Surgery
Fellowship: University of Michigan Medical School – Surgical Critical Care Fellowship: Montreal Children’s Hospital –Pediatric Surgery
Subspecialty: Pediatric Surgery
Jaswin Sawhney, M.D.
Internship: Mayo Clinic– General Surgery
Residency: Christiana Care Hospital System – General Surgery
Residency: University of Pittsburgh – Hand Surgery
Fellowship: Tulane University – Clinical Research
Fellowship: Brown University School of Medicine – Surgical Critical Care
Subspecialties: Surgical Critical Care, Surgery of the Hand
Chris Turner, M.D.
Medical School: Columbia University School of Medicine
Residency: SUNY Down State Medical Center - General Surgery
Fellowship: Children’s Hospital of Michigan - Pediatric Surgery
Graduate Education: Harvard School of Public Health
Brian Nolan, MD
Surgeon in Chief
Medical School: University of Connecticut
Internship: Maine Medical Center - General Surgery
Residency: UMass Memorial Medical Center - General Surgery
Fellowship: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Subspecialty: Vascular Surgery
Nathan Aranson, M.D.
Medical School: University of Massachusetts Medical School
Residency: LA County Hospital/USC Medical Center – General Surgery
Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital – Vascular Surgery
Elizabeth Blazick, MD
Integrated Vascular Surgery Residency Program Director
Medical School: University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital - General Surgery
Paul Bloch, M.D.
Medical School: Chicago Medical School
Residency: University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics - General Surgery
Fellowship: University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics – Surgical Infectious Disease
Fellowship: Eastern Virginia Medical School – Vascular Surgery
Anna Boniakowski, MD
Medical School: University of Michigan Medical School
Residency: University of Michigan Medical Center
Specialty: Vascular Surgery
Thomas Brady, M.D.
Medical School: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Residency: Maine Medical Center - Genera Surgery
Subspecialty: Colorectal Surgery
Damion Carter, M.D.
Medical School: University of Illinois College of Medicine
Residency: University of Washington Medical Center - General Surgery
Fellowship: Harborview Medical Center – Surgical Critical Care
Subspecialty: Surgical Critical Care, Burn & Soft Tissue
Bruce Chung, M.D.
Medical School: State University of New York Upstate Medical Center
Residency: Strong Memorial Hospital - General Surgery
Fellowship: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center – Surgical Critical Care
David Ciraulo, D.O.
Medical School: University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
Internship: Peninsula Hospital Center - Transitional
Residency: Harrisburg Polyclinic Hospital - General Surgery
Fellowship: Hartford Hospital – Trauma and Surgical Critical Care
Subspecialty: Trauma and Surgical Critical Care
Roy Cobean, M.D.
Medical School: University of Vermont College of Medicine
Residency: Medical Center Hospital of New York - General Surgery
Fellowship: University of Washington Medical Center – Trauma/Critical Care
Subspecialty: Bariatric/Colorectal Surgery
Daniel Cullinane, MD
Medical School: Georgetown University
Residency: Georgetown University – General Surgery
Fellowship: Vanderbilt University – Trauma & Surgical Critical Care
Subspecialty: Surgical Critical Care
Brad Cushing, MD
Medical School: University of Rochester School of Medicine
Residency: New England Medical Center – General Surgery
Residency: Mount Sinai Hospital – General Surgery
Fellowship: University of Maryland Medical Center – Trauma & Surgical Critical Care
Elizabeth Desjardin, M.D.
Medical School: University of Minnesota Medical School
Residency: Maine Medical Center - General Surgery
Fellowship: Northwestern University Medical School – Breast Surgery
Subspecialty: Surgical Oncology (Breast)
Jon Dreifus, M.D.
Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Fellowship: Georgia Baptist Medical Center – Laparoscopic Surgery
Subspecialty: Laparoscopic Surgery
Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, M.D.
Residency: New England Deaconess - General Surgery
Fellowship: Tufts New England Medical Center – Vascular Surgery
Timothy Fitzgerald, M.D.
Medical School: University of Michigan Medical Center
Residency: University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Washington Hospital Center - General Surgery
Fellowship: University of Toronto – Surgical Oncology
Subspecialty: Surgical Oncology
Kristina Giles, MD
Medical School: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Residency: Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center – General Surgery
Fellowship: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center – Vascular Surgery
Lee Hallagan, M.D.
Director of Undergraduate Medical Education in Surgery
Fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Surgical Critical Care
Jeffrey Halter, M.D.
Medical School: University of Miami School of Medicine
Residency: State University of New York Upstate Medical Center - General Surgery
Fellowship: Ohio State University College of Medicine – Pediatric Surgery
Robert Hawkins, M.D.
Medical School: Albany Medical College
Fellowship: Lahey Clinic Hospital – Vascular Surgery
Chris Healey, M.D.
Medical School: Brown University School of Medicine
Residency: University of Vermont Medical Center - General Surgery
Gary Hochheiser, M.D.
Fellowship: Vanderbilt University Medical Center – Thoracic Surgery
Subspecialty: Thoracic Surgery
Dougald MacGillivray, M.D.
Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
Residency: New York Hospital – Cornell University Medical College - General Surgery
Cathel MacLeod, M.D.
Residency: Rush-Presbyterian – St. Luke’s Medical Center - General Surgery
Fellowship: University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics – Colorectal Surgery
Kimberly Malka, MD
Medical School: University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Residency: University of Massachusetts Medical Center – Vascular Surgery
Baird Mallory, M.D.
Medical School: University of British Columbia
Residency: Montreal General Hospital - General Surgery
Fellowship: Sainte-Justine’s Hospital
Sarah Mayo, M.D.
Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine
Fellowship: Maine Medical Center
Subspecialty: Colon and Rectal Surgery
Bryan Morse, MD
Medical School: University of South Carolina
Residency: Greenville Memorial Hospital
Fellowship: Emory University – Surgical Critical Care
Subspecialty:
Ian Neilson, M.D.
Medical School: Queen’s University
Residency: McGill University – Royal Victoria Hospital – General Surgery
Fellowship: Montreal Children’s Hospital – Pediatric Surgery
Fellowship: Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh & UPMC – Pediatric Surgery
Juan Palma-Vargas, MD
Medical School: University of Guadalajara
Internship: Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Med – General Surgery
Residency: El instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social/Western Medical Center
Fellowship: Duke University Medical Center - Transplantation
Subspecialty: Surgery, Transplantation
Fred Radke, M.D.
Medical School: Dartmouth Medical School
Residency: Maine Medical Center
Specialty: General Surgery
Joseph Rappold, M.D.
Medical School: Temple University School of Medicine
Residency: Naval Medical Center San Diego
Fellowship: University of California San Diego Medical Center
Shantanu Razdan, MD
Medical School: Grant Medical College
Residency: Harlem Hospital – Columbia University – General Surgery
M. Parker Roberts, M.D.
Medical School: Tulane University School of Medicine
Residency: Tulane University and the University of Texas Affiliated Hospitals - General Surgery
Stacey Rotta, MD
Medical School: University of California Davis School of Medicine
Internship: Hospital of St. Raphael
Residency: Yale New Haven Hospital
Fellowship: UC Davis Medical Center – Surgical Critical Care
Richard Royal, MD
Medical School: Oregon Health and Science University
Residency: York Hospital
Residency: University of Maryland Medical Center
Fellowship: University of Cincinnati – Pediatric Surgery
Fellowship: National Cancer Institute of Health – Surgical Oncology
Fellowship: MD Anderson Cancer Center – Surgical Oncology
Kirk Sahagian, D.O.
Residency: William Beaumont Army Medical Center - General Surgery
Subspecialty: Bariatric and Colorectal Surgery
Forest Sheppard, M.D.
Medical School: University of Virginia School of Medicine
Residency: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center - General Surgery
Fellowship: University of Colorado Denver – Surgical Critical Care
Paige Teller, M.D.
Fellowship: Emory University Hospital
Elizabeth Turner, M.D.
Medical School: McGill University Faculty of Medicine
Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - General Surgery
Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital - Surgical Critical Care
Laura Withers, M.D.
Residency: St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital - General Surgery
Fellowship: Orlando Regional Healthcare, Surgical Critical Care
Orlando Regional Healthcare, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care
Leslie Wu, M.D.
Fellowship: Yale New Haven Hospital - Endocrine Surgery
Elena Ziarnik, M.D.
Medical School: Medical College of Wisconsin
Residency: Baystate Medical Center - General Surgery
Fellowship: Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Thoracic Surgery
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Home Office Furniture Greenville, IL
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Home Office Furniture Enoch, UT Now the Utah attorney general’s office has begun investigating why 2018 was so deadly. outside a Salt Lake City home last April, the ACLU said. aclu spokesman jason Stevenson, who did research for.
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EAST GREENVILLE, Pa., March 09, 2020 — Knoll, Inc., (NYSE:KNL), Knoll operates two factories in Italy, which produce office and studio product to be sold primarily into the.
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Mega Millions: how to play, what are the odds, and what to do if you win
Information on Pa. student loans is literally below ground, in an abandoned Butler County mine
Pennsylvania coronavirus update: 5,341 additional cases reported; vaccinations coming to congregate living facilities
Welch, anti-Smith Super PAC use same media consultant
By By Colby Itkowitz
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WASHINGTON — The Super PAC airing an anti-Tom Smith commercial uses the same media consultant as Smith's opponent, Steve Welch, according to a Federal Election Commission filing.
The Freedom Fund for America's Future Inc., the Washington, DC-based Super PAC, which formed on March 19, paid $145,000 on April 18 to BrabenderCox for media creation and purchase of airtime. Welch's U.S. Senate campaign also uses BrabenderCox.
John Brabender did not immediately return calls for comment.
The Super PAC ad running statewide uses the same attacks Welch has lobbed at Smith in the Republican Senate primary, focusing on Smith's history as a registered Democrat.
Campaign finance rules do not allow Super PACs to directly coordinate with a campaign on specific expenditures. But there's little stopping both from using the same consultant.
But Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation called it "fishy."
"They know where the campaign wants to focus, while it's technically not coordination, it is essentially the same effect. By using the same consulting firm, they're able to coordinate without coordinating," Allison said.
Coordination between campaigns and Super PACs has been blurred this whole election cycle. Foster Freiss, a major backer of the Super PAC supporting Rick Santorum, stood on stage with Santorum at a campaign event. Former Obama White House aide, Bill Burton, is now running a Super PAC supporting President Barack Obama. A Super PAC backing former presidential candidate Jon Huntsman was heavily funded by Huntsman's father.
Paul Ryan, an expert in campaign finance at the Campaign Legal Center, said the case of Welch's campaign and the Super PAC using the same consultant falls under "common vendor" law. As long as BrabenderCox says there is a firewall, wherein different employees are working with each group, then they are in the clear.
Ryan said it is one area where the law is "porous." While the Supreme Court in its Citzens United case contended that because unlimited corporate money would be separate from a campaign there'd be no risk of corruption, Ryan said "the law accommodates very close relationships."
"None of the laws here make any sense," Ryan said. "The law itself was written in a vacuum void of any political reality."
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
American COVID-19 deaths surpass 400,000, with death rate accelerating, on final full day of Trump’s term
Cathy Crawford LaLonde, Joan Crawford’s daughter who lived in Lehigh Valley, has died
In the midst of pandemic, Catasauqua boy gets a new heart, new lease on life
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Mission & Value Statement
Social Security Planning
Long Term Care Protection Strategies
Family Protection - Insurance Planning
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The Retirement Savings Dilemma
One of the most well-known investors of the 20th Century, Benjamin Graham, said that “the investor’s chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself.”¹
What Graham understood—and modern research is catching up to—is the idea that we all have emotions and biases that affect our decision-making. The innate wiring built to survive pre-modern times can be counterproductive in our modern world, especially when it comes to investing.
Let’s take a quick look at a few of the human emotions and biases that can adversely impact sound investment decision-making.
Fear and Greed — These are the two most powerful emotions that move investors and investment markets. Each emotion clouds our capability for rational and dispassionate decision-making. They are the emotions that lead us to believe that prices may continue to rise (think the Tulip price bubble of 1636) or that everything has gone so wrong that prices may not recover (think Credit Crisis of 2008-2009).
Some investors have found a way to conquer these emotions, be brave when everyone else is fearful, and resist the temptations of a too-exuberant market.
Overconfidence — Peter Bernstein, a noted economic historian, argued that the riskiest moment may be when we feel that we are right.² It is at that precise moment that we tend to disregard all information that may conflict with our beliefs, setting ourselves up for investment surprise.
Selective Memory — Human nature is such that we tend to recast history in the manner that emphasizes our successes and downplays our failures. As a result, we may not benefit from the valuable lessons failure can teach. Indeed, failure may be your most valuable asset.
Prediction Fallacy — Humans have an innate desire to recognize patterns and apply these patterns to predicting the future. We erroneously believe that because “A” occurred and “B” happened that if “A” happens again, we can profit by anticipating that “B” will repeat. Market history is littered with examples of “rules of thumb” that have worked, until they no longer worked.
Financial markets are complex and unpredictable. Our endeavors to tap their opportunities to pursue our financial goals are best realized when we don’t burden the enterprise by blindness to the inherent behavioral obstacles we all share.
Quoteswise.com, 2017
Strategy in Practice, George Tovstiga. 2013, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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