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Sr. Manager, Lifecycle Strategy & Analysis - HBO Max at Time Warner in Burbank, CA
HBO Max is looking for an individual that is willing to push the boundaries of the customer lifecycle journey by identifying cutting-edge tactics with the help of data-driven insights. The Sr. Manager Lifecycle Strategy and Analysis is responsible for using data to explore new opportunity areas and help drive our full funnel lifecycle teams towards a more cohesive and engaging experience. You will partner closely with Data Science, Product, Media, Editorial, and Customer Experience to push forth strategies and methodologies with a targeted outcome of improving marketing effectiveness, driving growth, and improving customer engagement and retention. You will support a growing team that analyzes performance across the entire consumer journey, focusing on increasing LTV to reduce churn, increase consumption, and enhance content discovery through owned channels.
Serve as the expert in understanding the relationship between subscriber behavior and every-changing market conditions and apply insights to help drive new opportunities across marketing, distribution, and content.
Tie learnings to key performance indicators and regularly present findings to stakeholders.
Develop and evolve strategies around identifying pain points, analyzing them, and advocating for proactive measures to be put in place in order to mitigate the effects of future occurrences.
Working with a cross functional team to drive the evolution of data backed insights by setting up methods to quickly and effectively identify challenges and opportunities.
Leverage quantitative insights and competitive analysis to identify opportunities to increase retention and improve subscriber quality.
Be proactive about sharing new discoveries by collaborating with the appropriate teams within HBO Max.
Introduce and gain alignment of analytical models and metrics to assess performance of marketing programs including response, incremental impact, engagement forecasting and deep dive analysis to understand short / long term customer behavior impacts.
Have a clear understanding of the consumer needs and work with other analysts and data scientists across the company to find methods for improving the consumer experience.
Bachelor's Degree in finance, marketing, statistics, or engineering; MBA or advanced degree in a quantitative discipline preferred.
4+ years of analytics experience, preferably in entertainment, tech, finance, or consulting.
Proven track record of exploring insights through data and applying recommendations for action items.
Extensive experience with interpreting data to drive customer engagement, preferably in connection with SVOD user experience.
Knowledge of competitive landscape including SVOD and OTT services as well as deep knowledge of user engagement.
Detail-oriented, with excellent communication and presentation skills for stakeholders at all levels.
Advanced knowledge in Excel, Powerpoint, Google Suite
Working knowledge of SQL/Tableau/Snowflake/Looker a plus
Basic knowledge of elementary statistics
Strong ability to interpret data, develop hypotheses on driving customer engagement across all organizations touching the product, and collaborate across organizations to test analyses preferred.
Can set a vision, respond to cultural and consumer trends, as well as shifts in our business needs.
Possesses a deep understanding of the video streaming industry as well as the data-driven.
Executes against a vision via small, medium, and long-term projects
About Time Warner
Warner Media, LLC is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate corporation owned by AT&T and headquartered in New York City, United States. It was originally formed in 1990 by Steve Ross and formerly known as Time Warner from 1990 to 2001 and 2003 to 2018, from the merger of Time Inc. and the original Warner Communications. The company has film, television and cable operations, with its assets including WarnerMedia Studios & Networks; WarnerMedia News & Sports; WarnerMedia Commercial; and WarnerMedia Direct. On October 22, 2016, AT&T announced an offer to acquire Time Warner for $108.7 billion. The proposed merger was confirmed on June 12, 2018, after AT&T won an antitrust lawsuit that the U.S. Justice Department filed in 2017 to attempt to block the acquisition. The merger closed two days later, with the company becoming a subsidiary of AT&T. Despite spinning off Time Inc. in 2014, the company retained the Time Warner name until AT&T's acquisition in 2018, after which it became WarnerMedia. The company's previous assets included Time Inc., TW Telecom, AOL, Time Warner Cable, AOL Time Warner Book Group, and Warner Music Group; these operations were either sold to others or spun off as independent companies. The company was ranked No. 98 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
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Staff DevOps Engineer at Lockheed Martin in Boulder, CO
As a DevOps Engineer on the NextGen OPIR Program, your responsibilities include:
- Working with a small to medium-sized agile team
- Developing Linux based infrastructure and systems that supports a variety of application footprints
- Create and continuously improve guidelines and procedures including process efficiency
- Provide application development for projects and infrastructure support activities
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for new and existing products.
Typically has 5 - 10 years of professional experience.
Basic Qualifications:
- Experience in software development, integration and test
- Proficient in functional or object oriented programming
- Fast learner who can quickly pick up new technologies
- Experience in architecting / developing Linux systems that supports a variety of application footprints (Virtualized and Containerized)
- Good verbal and written communications skills
- Experience with managing deployments of applications
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, and GitLab Runner
- Hands-on experience in the following areas:
- System orchestration via a Kubernetes-based (or similar) stack
- Software defined networking (SDN)
- Distributed Storage (ie. HDFS, Ceph, Gluster)
- Automated build and system deployment (Cobbler, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
- Experience in Agile product development
- Experience with Docker or Kubernetes
- Knowledge of system and network architecture
About Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace, defense, arms, security, and advanced technologies company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in North Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington, D.C., area. Lockheed Martin employs approximately 110,000 people worldwide as of January 2020. Lockheed Martin is one of the largest companies in the aerospace, military support, security, and technologies industry. It is the world's largest defense contractor, based on revenue for fiscal year 2014. In 2013, 78% of Lockheed Martin's revenues came from military sales; it topped the list of US federal government contractors and received nearly 10% of the funds paid out by the Pentagon. In 2009, US government contracts accounted for $38.4 billion, foreign government contracts for $5.8 billion, and commercial and other contracts for $900 million. Half of the company’s annual sales are to the U.S. Department of Defense. Lockheed Martin is also a contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Lockheed Martin operates in four business segments: Aeronautics, Missiles and Fire Control, Rotary and Mission Systems, and Space. The company has received the Collier Trophy six times, including in 2001 for being part of developing the X-35/F-35B LiftFan Propulsion System and most recently in 2018 for the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System. Lockheed Martin is currently developing the F-35 Lightning II and leads the international supply chain, leads the team for the development and implementation of technology solutions for the new USAF Space Fence, and is the primary contractor for the development of the Orion command module. The company also invests in healthcare systems, renewable energy systems, intelligent energy distribution, and compact nuclear fusion.
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Staff VP Enterprise National Contracting I at Anthem in Los Angeles, CA
and 13 other locations
$250K — $250K+*
Staff VP Enterprise National Contracting II
Responsible for leading provider contracting, recruitment, strategic initiatives and building strong relationships with key national providers (including large scale national hospitals and/or health systems, national physician organizations, and/or national provider networks that span a broad geography.
Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:
Oversees and participates in the development of growth strategies and retention initiatives for the Enterprise. Executes Cost of Care actions to deliver on budgeted target.
Drives provider collaboration and engagement.
Ensures compliance with CMS guidelines and HIPAA compliance.
Manages admin budget within target.
Hires, trains, coaches, counsels, and evaluates performance of direct reports.
Leadership – Demonstrated ability to perform successfully as a leader of other leaders, teams and cross-functional groups. The successful executive will build the framework and environment to support our business in achieving human capital goals and support long-term growth to enable business success. Building a strong, deep and highly functioning teams is a requirement.
Promote Anthem mission and culture – Demonstrated success in building and leading successful teams with a culture that is committed to execution, collaboration, communication and a positive growth and learning environment for our associates. The application of regular coaching, timely performance management and active mentoring.
Position Anthem as the preferred strategic partner with key health systems and providers
Align provider solutions priorities to overall Enterprise strategy to unite the business.
Develop strong cross-functional relationships and a collaborative approach across all line of business.
Position Anthem as best in class cost structure.
Provide balanced advocacy in support of the enterprise.
Requires a BA/BS degree; 12+ years of related experience with progressive responsibility working with large and complex health systems that span across multiple states; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background. Master's degree preferred.
Progressive responsibility and leadership experience in network contracting working with health systems and/or post-acute providers.
Demonstrated skills and experience in building and maintaining strategic relationships with key health systems and providers, narrow networks and other joint ventures.
Experience with multiple types of reimbursement methodologies from fee for service through capitation (including Value Based Program contracting and management).
Successful management experience with a demonstrated record of hiring and developing direct reports and extended leadership teams..
Experience in both Commercial and Government business in a health care related field required.
Network contracting and relationship development on both carrier and provider side ideal.
Proven success as an executive, collaborating with other executives and leaders.
Display personal agility to work across a wide array of businesses and stakeholders to develop the credibility to achieve results.
Ability to travel is required (approx. 30%-40%).
About Anthem
Anthem, Inc., is a provider of health insurance in the United States. It is the largest for-profit managed health care company in the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. As of 2018, the company had approximately 40 million members. ,Anthem is ranked 29th on the Fortune 500. ,Prior to 2014, it was named WellPoint, Inc. The company was formed by the 2004 merger of WellPoint, based in California, and Anthem, based in Indianapolis, after both companies acquired several health insurance companies. ,The company operates as Anthem Blue Cross in California, where it has about 800,000 customers and is the largest health insurer. It operates as Empire BlueCross BlueShield in New York State and as Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in 10 states.
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Animated Interview With Bear McCreary Pits Geek Composer Against Geek Composer
All this has happened before...
By Jill PantozziFeb 22nd, 2012, 1:16 pm
Gary Levine plays comedian Richard Lewis (I’m not sure why) in this chat with the real Bear McCreary, composer of modern Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Human Target and more. Watch as “Lewis” chats with McCreary about geek life and then presents him with various scenarios of who would win in a fight between the likes of John Williams and Hanz Zimmer. I heart this so hard. There’s also an uncensored version on Vimeo. (If the end bit seems weird to you, it’s probably because you haven’t watched BSG.)
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Jill Pantozzi - Editor in Chief
Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."
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Best Swinger Parties and Clubs in Mount Holly, North Carolina
Swinger parties in Mount Holly, North Carolina have been common place for a few years now. They are places, which, as their name indicates, are adapted to people who wish to live according to the rules of sex life. There are all kinds of them, and each establishment offers specific services that you can enjoy. Nowadays, these swinger parties are very popular and are among the most popular attractions in big cities. It must be said that more and more people are interested in the swinger life and its many sexual practices. So if this is the case for you as well, you only need to be of legal age to have access to them.
Of course, you'll have to do some research to find the best swinger club in Mount Holly, NC or the place that best suits your desires. But for that, all you will have to do is go through an online dating site. You will find naughty ads and sex ads that may interest you. You can be straight, gay or bi, the main thing is that you are ready to try new experiences and discover incredible sensations through sex. You can also be married or single, no matter what your marital status, you're guaranteed to get everything you're looking for when you join a sex club. However, before you take the plunge, make sure you find out if this lifestyle is really right for you. You can start by reading on to learn a little more about swing and the swinger places where it is tolerated.
Swinger party in Mount Holly, North Carolina.
What do I need to know about swinger parties in Mount Holly, North Carolina?
Swinger parties is above all a way of life. It's a concept that exempts you from the rules and social conventions that normally govern relations between men and women, at least as far as sex is concerned. In other words, a swinger party allows you to completely redefine the rules of your sex life, giving you the possibility to live extraordinary experiences. You will be able to make love in unlikely places, in full view of everyone, play at being a slut or a pig during sex, change partners as you see fit, all this without anyone being able to judge you. Indeed, you should know that in the swinger parties in Mount Holly, NC, discretion is required and all measures are taken to keep the identity of the members secret. You can therefore indulge in all these practices in complete anonymity.
Unfortunately, all these measures are necessary because in our society, few people are willing to accept swinger parties as a legitimate life choice. There are many prejudices circulating about this practice, misconceptions that, by dint of being repeated, end up convincing more and more people. This is why the followers of swinger parties feel, for the most part, forced to hide in order to enjoy their lives. However, this is not the case for everyone, because some single people and even swinger couples in Mount Holly, fully assume their choices and do not hide from them. In any case, it is still a sensitive subject that should only be talked about with close friends and family, at the risk of getting shot in the eyes. So if you want to know more about swinger parties, its practices and the rules it imposes, you will have to go to one of the swinger clubs in Mount Holly. There, you will find people who will know how to enlighten you, and with whom you can discuss without taboo or shame.
Where to find a swinger party in Mount Holly, NC?
All these places are perfectly equipped and will offer you a pleasant setting to live this experience to the fullest. There are several of them in big cities like in Mount Holly. So to find the best swingers club, you will have to go through a sex ad on a free or paid dating site. It really depends on your preferences in this area.
What is a swingers party in Mount Holly, NC?
A swinger couple in Mount Holly, North Carolina.
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The swinger spa and the swinger jacuzzi are also places adapted to the meetings between swinger people who are in Mount Holly, NC. On the spot, you will be able to find people like you, who are attracted by the practices of swinger life. They don't go to these swinger places to find a lasting or serious relationship. On the contrary, their goal is usually to escape the monotony of a boring couple life. So if you want to enjoy a good atmosphere, a warm and pleasant setting to meet swingers like you, think about swinger Jacuzzis and swinger spas. There's not really any difference between these places, apart from the type of services they offer on site. It all depends on the establishment you choose to enjoy your sex pleasure.
What is a swingers club in Mount Holly, NC?
A swinger club in Mount Holly, North Carolina.
An in Mount Holly swingers club is also a very popular swinger place. It's a place reserved for couples, married or not. You can go there with your spouse, to discover new swinger practices, mainly swinging. It is a practice which consists for two couples, to exchange their partner the time of a sexual intercourse. The swingers club is a place specially designed to help couples interested in this practice to find partners. You can also find rooms or rooms fitted out to make you comfortable. But if you prefer to do it in a hotel or at home, the decision is yours. The main thing is to find an agreement that suits you as well as the other couple.
What to do in a swinger parties in Mount Holly, North Carolina?
You can find a swinger couple in Mount Holly, NC and offer them a threesome. You can also form your trio with singles found on the spot. Apart from threesome, you can also try cuckolding, a practice that is more and more frequent in swinger places. The swinger parties in Mount Holly are also perfect places for an orgy. For those who don't know, it is a practice that consists of making love with several partners at the same time. It can also be defined as a sex marathon, during which you will be able to change sexual partners as many times as you like in the same evening.
Many other sexual practices take place in clubs and establishments dedicated to swinger sex. So if you're wondering what to do in a swinger club in Mount Holly, the answer is entirely up to you. According to your desires, the limits you are ready to cross and your physical condition, you will be able to do everything humanly possible to get sexual satisfaction.
Who can go to a swinger party in Mount Holly, NC?
Anyone can choose to go to a swinger party in Mount Holly, NC if they wish. The only condition is to be of age and have an open mind. Indeed, you should know that the swinger clubs in Mount Holly are only for adults. They are also suitable for people who are interested in the sex life and who plan to adopt it. So if you don't meet these two conditions, it's better to simply abstain. If you are still a minor, you will not be allowed to enter. Security guards make sure to check the age of members before letting them in. However, if you are over the age of majority, but just not interested in a mischievous encounter, there is no need to deny you entry. Chances are, especially if you're the type to always follow the rules, you won't be able to feel comfortable in this place. The different sexual practices of the members may well shock you, and one thing is certain, you won't be able to erase from your mind everything you see there. So if you're not swinger and you don't want to be tempted, avoid going to those swinger parties in Mount Holly, North Carolina.
Finally, it is important to remember that the swinger life in Mount Holly, NC is suitable for singles as well as couples. So whatever your marital situation, you can go to the swinger parties in Mount Holly or anywhere else. Be careful however to take the advice of your spouse if you are in a couple, because it is not advisable to hide your membership in a swinger club from your spouse. This is the kind of secret that can harm the integrity of your couple. So think about the best way to break the news to your partner. Who knows, after a few open discussions and a few well-chosen arguments on your part, he or she may agree to try it with you.
There are more and more swinger places in Mount Holly, NC. This is probably due to the growing interest of the population in this kind of entertainment. Anyway, if you are interested in swing and its practices, you can count on this kind of swinger place to help you meet people like you and discover the joys of swinger sex.
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The most criminally underused IPs in gaming
Gaming Movie
"Mortal Kombat" movie unleashes its first look images on Earthrealm
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When it comes to movies, I’ve felt in recent years that the big wigs in Hollywood have nursed an over-reliance on using intellectual properties from other media to inform their blockbusters. Back in the day I was dead excited when a comic book film came out but nowadays I greet the news of yet another Spiderman movie with a good old-fashioned ‘meh’.
Not again…
In video games, IPs from other sources aren’t so heavily relied upon with gaming’s own creations ruling the roost. Don’t get me wrong, Star Wars games and Batman games are plentiful and very welcome (in most cases…go sit in the corner ‘Jedi Power Battles’) but the real superstars are the likes of Mario, Sonic and Lara Croft. Original ideas will always be preferable in my mind and really showcase the sheer creativity of devs around the world, but there are occasions where I’ve encountered a world or idea that I think would really be at home in the video game space. With that in mind I thought I’d come up with a list of IPs in other media which I feel haven’t had a fair shot in gaming. If a dev happens to run across this post and is struck by any of the ideas… RUN WITH IT.
The cancelling of Joss Whedon’s seminal space western after only fourteen glorious episodes remains one of the great travesties of modern TV broadcasting. Firefly was great, truly great and though its subsequent DVD release garnered a big, loyal fan-base which led to a spin off film, there is still sadly no spin off video game. In the big Venn Diagram of nerd culture, Firefly and Gaming have a pretty large overlapping middle segment thingy so the fact that Browncoats (yes there is a collective term for firefly fans) have as of yet not been able to explore Joss Whedon’s rich universe in virtual form is baffling. Now there is a Firefly Video game in development at the moment from Spark Plug games but it’s described as a social, online RPG game for tablets and smartphones which smacks of a flighty, free too play affair rather than the in depth space RPG that Firefly fans really deserve. Here’s hoping that Spark Plug will find success with ‘Firefly Online’ and that this leads to Firefly projects with grander ambitions.
Just imagine a Firefly version of Mass Effect
Discworld is the setting for a gloriously endearing series of books by British national treasure Terry Pratchett. Set on a disc shaped planet traveling through the cosmos on the back of four elephants who in turn are stood on the back of a giant turtle, the books feature a number of protagonists in some of the most hilarious adventures committed to paper. There have been three Discworld video games in the past of the 2D point and click variety but the series itself is so deep and diverse that it’s a real shame that the world hasn’t been delved into beyond three titles. There’s so much you can do with the universe Pratchett has created: a third person adventure featuring Sam Vimes and The Guards roaming around Ankh Morpork, a exploration based puzzler featuring Granny Weatherwax and The Witches or perhaps a 3D platformer starring my personal favourite character Rincewind. What would be important about a Discworld game would be to fill the virtual world with as much Pratchett lore as possible so the fan could have a good old explore. The idea of a fully realised 3D Ankh Morpork already has me pining for a developer to take notice of this untapped resource.
Who wouldn’t want to play a video game set here?
This is an odd entry in this list as Doctor Who has had quite a few video games over the years but it’s a very sorry library of small IOS games, arcade shooters with a Doctor Who skin or very poorly executed 3rd-person adventures that hardly garner the sort of love for which Doctor Who fans are famous for. As the Doctor has been such a big part or British TV schedules for the last decade it’s shame that a big name dev hasn’t got its hand on the licence and done something really special with it. The trick with Doctor Who, its USP if you like, is the fact that one week an adventure can be an OTT sci-fi romp while the following week we can have a deep, emotional drama in a historical setting. A game would have to give us the freedom to travel to different time periods and let us really have a play with what the TARDIS can do. Combine that with the fact that The Doctor rarely resorts to violence and you have a big challenge for any dev. Perhaps it’s a candidate for a Telltale style episodic adventure with each chapter set in a different time period but whatever a good developer comes up with, it’s high time we had a Doctor Who video game we can be excited about.
This is a still from 2010’s royally panned Doctor Who game ‘Return to Earth’. Those are pretty poor character animations for a Wii game
There are plenty of Superhero games about, good ones and bad ones. For every disappointing Spider-Man game that hits the shelves we get an awesome Batman game so it all evens outs in the end. The most popular characters are ofcourse heavily represented but there are quite a few famous figures from comicdom that haven’t had a proper stab at cracking the video game market. I could have picked a whole host of worthy figures: The Green Lantern or Wonder Woman for example but perhaps the most interesting concept would be a Daredevil game. The Man Without Fear has been exceptionally popular in comics since an era-defining Frank Miller‘s run in the early 80s but has had a poor run of it outside of comics with his movie adaptation really fizzling into nothing and a small side scrolling GBA game being his only solo virtual outing.The thing with Daredevil is that it offers a unique opportunity to really try something new in portraying a blind superhero. It would be lovely to see a dev try to take on a unique challenge like putting the gamer in the shoes of a blind protagonist. As Daredevil sees the world around him through sound perhaps there would be a way of levels painting themselves around the sounds a gamer encounters during a playthrough: corridors springing to life as Daredevil’s footsteps echo down them or a talking guard causing the area around him to suddenly light up. I’d love to see the art direction around that sort of game. The Man Without Fear AND The Man Without a Video Game Adaption
Does The Trojan war count as an IP? I don’t know….i’m counting it as an IP. As I was rounding off this post I was trying to think of historical eras that haven’t really been covered in video games: an Industrial Revolution based Sim City sorta of game? An early modern dating sim perhaps? There are a few but everyone knows the most awesome historical era was the sword and sandals period (technical term there) cause you can throw ancient myths into that which leads to wicked cool gaming. Now we have plenty of those types of games thanks to such titles as God Of War and Rome: Total War (no dating sims then) so I could hardly include it here but it occurred that one of the most famous stories of all time, Homer’s Illiad documenting the ancient Greek myth of The Trojan War is grossly under represented. There have been a few attempts like Battle For Troy , a 3D strategy game from 2004 and more recently Warriors: Legends of Troy from 2011 but that’s basically it for standalone Troy games. For such a huge, in depth story with heaps of gaming potential that’s a pretty poor haul. Come on devs, give us a kick ass Trojan War game – it’s certainly out of copyright and has a built in sequel in The Odyssey. No Brainer!
As you can tell this is a pretty eclectic, personal list of games i’d like to see made, but I’m sure you have your own ideas which we’d love to hear about in the comments. In a way I’m glad devs don’t rely too heavily on external IPs because the number of original ideas is one of the reasons gaming is so strong as an artform and remains a completely awesome past-time.
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TAW Special: John Keith On ‘The Big Freeze’
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 19, 2020 | app, Podcast, TAW Player, TAW Special
While Coronavirus has put a stop to the football for now, this isn’t the first time football has been stopped in its tracks for a prolonged period of time. Neil Atkinson is joined by John Keith to talk about ‘The Big Freeze’ of 1962-63, which saw the...
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Reminiscent of Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls and Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, this sweeping, entrancing story is a must-read for fans of remarkable women rising to challenges they could never have predicted.
It's always been easier for Cara Hargraves to bury herself in the past than confront the present, which is why working with a gruff but brilliant antiques dealer is perfect. While clearing out an estate, she pries open an old tin that holds the relics of a lost relationship: among the treasures, a World War II-era diary and a photograph of a young woman in uniform.
Eager to find the author of the hauntingly beautiful, unfinished diary, Cara digs into this soldier's life, but soon realizes she may not have been ready for the stark reality of wartime London she finds within the pages.
In 1941, nineteen-year-old Louise Keene's life had been decided for hershe'll wait at home in her Cornish village until her wealthy suitor returns from war to ask for her hand. But when Louise unexpectedly meets Flight Lieutenant Paul Bolton, a dashing RAF pilot stationed at a local base, everything changes. And changes again when Paul's unit is deployed without warning.
Desperate for a larger life, Louise joins the women's branch of the British Army in the anti-aircraft gun unit as a Gunner Girl.
As bombs fall on London, she and the other Gunner Girls relish in their duties to be exact in their calculations, and quick in their identification of enemy planes during air raids. The only thing that gets Louise through those dark, bullet-filled nights is knowing she and Paul will be together when the war is over. But when a bundle of her letters to him are returned unanswered, she learns that wartime romance can have a much darker side.
Illuminating the story of these two women separated by generations and experience, Julia Kelly transports us to World War II London in this heartbreakingly beautiful novel through forgotten antique treasures, remembered triumphs, and fierce family ties.
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ask a boss Nov. 24, 2020
‘My Boss Keeps Inviting Herself Over to My House’
By Alison Green
Workplace advice columnist Alison Green answers all your questions about office life. Got a question for her? Email askaboss@nymag.com.
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Getty Images
Dear Boss,
Three months after I started a new job as an executive assistant, my position was eliminated. Fortunately, the company offered me a 12-month contract in another department, which would help me out financially while I looked for a permanent position.
When I met my new boss, “Carrie,” I instantly got the vibe that she would be a difficult person to work for, and that was confirmed when I watched her interactions with other staff. So I’ve tried to make a point of ensuring I stay on her good side.
This seemed to work! As time went on, Carrie was appreciative of my work and gave me constant positive feedback. She fought for an extension of my contract and a pay increase, and so I felt awkwardly indebted to her.
But soon it became clear that there was a price to pay for how well she treated me. She expected loyalty at all costs. If she had a screaming match with another staff member, she expected me to spring to her defense, regardless of whether or not she was in the wrong. I have always avoided office gossip and office politics, but I felt dragged into all my boss’s drama-filled exchanges with staff, which usually ended with her crying in the HR office.
I’d also often have to feign interest as she spat venom about all the people in her life. I’d disingenuously offer sympathy, because what else could I do? I need the job until I can find a new one.
I also noticed other staff trying to avoid Carrie socially. They would awkwardly make up weak excuses when she tried to invite herself over to their houses for dinner or for the weekend. Sometimes they couldn’t avoid it because she would keep suggesting alternative dates. It was sad to watch. Obviously she is very lonely, and part of me felt sorry for her — but not sorry enough to invite her to my house! Still, she broke me down, and eventually I gave in and let her come for dinner once.
Then I ended up having major complications from what should have been a simple surgery and had to spend two months recovering at home. My boss insisted on visiting me in the hospital, and when I was out, she invited herself over for dinner on the pretext that she had a “pamper pack” she wanted to give me. How could I reject her when she was being so thoughtful? She ended up staying overnight and hung around the next day (because she had drank too much alcohol and couldn’t drive her car). My husband didn’t like her and wanted me to get rid of her. I wanted to get rid of her as much as he did, but I fear that if I set boundaries with her, she will turn on me. And I need to use her for a reference to find a new job, so I need to keep being nice to her.
But this keeps happening. My phone pinged again this morning. It was my boss saying, “Hey, lovely lady. I miss you! It’s about time we had a catch-up. How about dinner at your place on Saturday?”
I still haven’t found a new job, so I guess she will be coming over for dinner! Unless there’s a way out of this?
Oh nooooo.
Carrie’s behavior here is … highly problematic. The fact that she’s regularly abusive to people (screaming matches?!) is the biggest problem, but using the implicit threat of professional consequences to pressure her employees to fulfill her social needs is a pretty close second. It sounds like everyone around her is afraid of her, and she’s either oblivious to that or, on some level, taking full advantage of it.
There’s also a special flavor of WTF to someone who’s mean and difficult to those around her but then thinks those same people will want to socialize with her outside of work. In their own homes. Overnight. (Shudder.) Even if Carrie were a lovely person, it would be inappropriate for her to invite herself over to her employees’ homes (let alone get drunk and crash there). Most people do not want to host their boss in their homes — and if they do, they’ll issue the invitation themselves. Carrie is abusing her power by trying to force herself on people socially.
And it’s understandable that you feel you need to cater to Carrie’s whims. She’s volatile and punitive, and your income depends on staying in her good graces. It sounds like you’ve been remarkably successful in managing her thus far — she likes you and has even gone to bat for you, and that’s probably because you’re friendly to her and willing to pretend she’s behaving like a normal person when she’s not. (People who are this willing to violate social norms love it when people around them act like they’re behaving normally; it gives them cover and lets them avoid dealing with whatever’s driving their behavior.)
But staying in Carrie’s good graces doesn’t mean that you need to invite her to your home or hang out socially! You can be kind, and even friendly, but still preserve some boundaries.
Conveniently, the fact that we’re in a pandemic right now makes this easier. You can fall back on, “Because of COVID, we’re being really strict about not socializing right now.” If she’ll think that’s odd because you didn’t say that earlier, you can explain that, too: “We had a COVID scare in our family recently, so we’re being a lot more careful now.” (Frankly, this would be a good idea even if Carrie weren’t a nightmare!)
Even without citing the pandemic, though, you can set boundaries. If she were a more reasonable boss, I’d suggest just being straightforward about it: “It’s so kind of you to suggest, but I’m really old-fashioned about keeping boundaries with my boss! Maybe we could grab coffee one afternoon during work instead?” And who knows, maybe this would work with Carrie; it’s still warm and friendly, after all, and that might be enough to soothe her. But there are other options, too, if you don’t want to be that direct.
One of the easiest options is to just be busy. You suddenly have a lot of commitments outside of work — family things, a class you’re studying for, a months-long intensive cleanup of your basement, whatever you feel you can credibly say. Then when Carrie tries to invite herself over, you simply say, “My schedule is awful right now! All my out-of-work time is going to X, and when I’m not doing that, I’m pretty much just collapsed on the couch. I’m not even seeing family right now!” (It helps to follow this with an immediate subject change, ideally work related — “By the way, do we have edits back yet on the Z report?”)
Alternately, you should feel free to make your husband the fall guy. It sounds like he’d be fine with that, and it’s one of the benefits of marriage (or any roommate, really). If you think Carrie will try to steamroll over your objections, try instead saying, “Mark has been wanting to keep the weekends just for ourselves lately.” I’m not normally a fan of blaming others for your own boundaries, but with a boss who’s this pushy, you use what works.
Because you’re concerned about repercussions from Carrie, the key with all of this is to keep your tone warm and friendly. Your tone can communicate “What a lovely thought, but unfortunately I can’t,” even while your brain is thinking, Hell no. Tone counts for a ton in most interactions, especially when you’re declining someone’s overture, so lean heavily on it to keep things feeling harmonious.
Your job security may require you to be friendly to Carrie for now, but you truly can confine that to work. You don’t need to welcome her into your home.
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What Is Expected From The Budget Of 2021?
Union Budget, also known as Annual Financial Statement would be presented on 1st February 2021 at 11 AM. With the big day nearing, industry representatives have started voicing their concerns and expectations from this year’s budget. Will these expectations be heeded? Well, only time will tell that. Until then, let’s look at what industries are expecting from Budget 2021.
Present Day Need
Let’s start by taking a look at the present-day needs.
Expectations Of Individuals
Raising the basic tax exemption limit.
Reduction in the non-corporate income tax rate.
Increase in ‘Standard Deduction‘ amount (at present stays at ₹50,000).
Introduce separate limit for deduction of principal repayment of housing loan.
To focus on employment for reviving the economy.
To increase the affordability of housing by expanding the Income Tax reduction benefits to first-time buyers.
Removing or easing taxes on notional rental income.
Streamlining the insolvency process for Real Estates for quick adoption of resolution plans.
To increase last-mile funding for the completion of mid-income housing projects, to spur its demand.
Reducing GST rates on Insurance Premium (most products lie in 18% tax rate).
Tax Exemption on Home Insurance.
To increase the penetration of Insurance amongst Tier I and Tier II cities with higher tax fee slabs in Section 80C. (Currently exemption up to a limit of ₹1,50,000).
Read more about GST here.
The Federation of Association in Indian Tourism and Hospitality (FAITH) has proposed the creation of National Tourism Council of Chief Ministers headed by the Prime Minister along with Tourism Minister.
To make export earnings tax free.
Income Tax exemption on travelling within India or Income Tax credits for up to ₹1.5 lakh in order to boost domestic tourism.
Luxury carmakers expect a reduction in GST rate (at present stands at 28% GST and additional Cess up to 22%).
Measures to promote investment in Electric Vehicles and its ancillaries.
The reintroduction of the 15% additional deduction for capital expenditure on plant and machinery under Income Tax Laws.
Bring aviation turbine fuel under the GST regime.
Restricting GST on the travel industry to 5%.
Lowering Income Tax rates for travel companies.
To increase the baggage allowance from ₹50,000 to ₹1 lakh, subjected to duty-free shops.
To remove custom duty on newsprint imports, which at present stays at 5%.
To increase the advertisement rates paid by the government by 50%.
To reduce GST on home delivery food from 18% at present to 5%.
This recommendation comes with an intention to bring parity on rates between dining in (which is at 5%) and food delivery (18%).
Read about the budget of 2020 here.
The first Union budget of independent India was presented by R. K. Shanmukham Chetty on 26 November 1947. Morarji Desai has presented 10 budgets which is the highest count followed by P Chidambaram’s 9 and Pranab Mukherjee’s 8.
Until the year 1999, the Union Budget was announced at 5:00 pm on the last working day of the month of February. All that budgets seemed to do was to raise taxes, a presentation in the evening gave producers and the tax collecting agencies the night to work out the change in prices. It was Mr Yashwant Sinha, the then Finance Minister of India who changed the ritual by announcing the 1999 Union Budget at 11 am.
In 2016, departing from the colonial-era tradition of presenting the Union Budget on the last working day of February, Minister of Finance (India) Arun Jaitley announced that it will now be presented on 1 February. Additionally Rail Budget, presented separately for 92 years, merged with the union budget.
Live Mint: Union Budget Expectations from various Industry Sectors
Financial Express: Budget Expectations of Common Man
Live Mint: Budget 2021, Better Governance and Compliance Simplification
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New Findings Of Chandra X-Ray Observatory
In 2020, astronomers added a new member to a family of exotic objects, i.e the discovery of a magnetar. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has made new observations, stating that the magnetar also acts as a pulsar. But what’s a pulsar? A magnetar? Well, let’s demystify this space jargon!
What Is The Chandra X-ray Observatory?
Called one of the great observatories like Hubble telescope, it is a space telescope launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1999, during STS-93 by NASA. It is sensitive to X-ray sources 100x fainter than any previous X-ray telescope, enabled by the high angular resolution of its mirrors.
Source: WIKI
Known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) previously, it was later renamed after the Nobel Prize-winning Indian-American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
What Is A Magnetar?
It is a star which is made up of tightly packed neutrons, formed from the collapsed core of a massive star during a supernova.
Source: Space
How Is It Different From Other Stars?
Also called a magnetic star, it has the most powerful magnetic field in the universe. For context, Earth’s magnetic field is 1 Gauss, a refrigerator magnet is 100 Gauss while a magnetar measures a million billion Gauss! This intensity heats the surface to 18 million° F.
How Was The Latest One Detected?
Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Telescope in 2020. Dubbed as J1818.0-1607, it is the youngest (500 years old) and 31st known magnetar, out of the 3,000 known neutron stars.
How Is This Age Estimation Done?
Based on how quickly the rotation rate is slowing and the assumption that it was born spinning much faster. This one spins faster than any previously known magnetar, rotating once every 1.4 seconds.
What Did Chandra Find Out Then?
It gave astronomers the first high-resolution view of the magnetar, revealing a point source where it was located, 21,000 light-years from Earth and how it gives off radio waves.
Depiction of what goes on in the discovery mission of a neutron star! Source: Lumen
Only 5 magnetars have been recorded like this, making them 0.2% of the known neutron star population. Moreover, J1818.0-1607 is also converting energy more efficiently from its decreasing rate of a spin into X-rays, and this efficiency matches the range of pulsars.
The magnetar has properties similar to a “rotation-powered pulsar,” a neutron star which gives off beams of radiation, detected as repeating pulses of emission as it rotates and slows down.
NASA’s series of Great Observatories satellites are four large, powerful space-based astronomical telescopes launched between 1990 and 2003. They were built with different technology to examine specific wavelength/energy regions of the electromagnetic spectrum: gamma rays, X-rays, visible and ultraviolet light, and infrared light.
Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology. The Hubble telescope is named after him.
Riccardo Giacconi was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy. In 1976 the Chandra X-ray Observatory was proposed to NASA by Riccardo Giacconi.
Phys Org – Chandra observations reveal extraordinary magnetar
Wikipedia – Chandra X-ray Observatory
NASA – Magnetars
Cornell Astro – Famous Telescopes
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North Korea Exhibits New Missile As Message To Biden And US
North Korea has unveiled another missile (nothing new in that). Interesting is the fact that the unveiling occurred just a week before Biden’s inauguration as the US President. In that light, let us take a look at how the US-North Korea relationship was under Trump regime and how it alternated rapidly.
New Missile Unveiled
North Korea recently unveiled a new type of “submarine-launched ballistic missile” at a parade. It has been described by the NK media as “the world’s most powerful weapon.”
North Korea unveils new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile, described by state media as "world's most powerful weapon"https://t.co/OZZuqhrpsW pic.twitter.com/mCf7ON4dNM
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 15, 2021
Message To Biden?
The recent development has come days before Joe Biden takes charge as the US President from 20th January. Besides unveiling the new missile, North Korea Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un also called to be wary of the US “no matter who is in power” there.
“Our foreign political activities should be focused and redirected on subduing the U.S., our biggest enemy and main obstacle to our innovated development.”
Kim Jong Un on the US
North Korea had unveiled an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in October 2020.
The ICBM is reportedly able to hit even the US with a nuclear warhead.
Trump-Kim Era
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un shared an alternating relationship in Trump’s tenure. The relations were tense as Kim accelerated NK’s nuclear programme while Trump continued with his ‘unusual’ diplomacy.
August 2017: Trump tweeted that “[North Korea] will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen” if they make any threats.
September: Trump, at the UN General Assembly, claimed that the “Rocket Man [Kim] is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime“.
Kim called him “mentally deranged” in response.
November: The US officially designated North Korea as ‘state sponsor of terrorism’ – NK was removed from the list in 2008.
Button Battle
In January 2018, Kim claimed that the entire US was within its nuclear weapon range and that he has a “nuclear launch button” on his table. Trump had retaliated by claiming that he had “much bigger” and “more powerful” button on his desk.
Love Over Letters
However, their relation improved drastically with an exchange of ‘letters’.
September 2018: Trump claimed that he and Kim “fell in love” as “he wrote me [Trump] beautiful letters”.
June 2019: Trump visited North Korea – became the 1st US President to do so.
The Result?
No actual progress came though. with denuclearization talks proving unfruitful. It was witnessed in June 2020, when North Korea formally announced to cease attempts to establish diplomatic relations with the US over continued economic sanctions.
The 2016-20 period for the 2 nations witnessed several missile tests and threats by North Korea. Talks with the US also ultimately failed in the period, with several points of tension reminding people of the Korean war.
In 2020, Kim Jong Un declared that North Korea will develop strategic weapons to ensure the security of its state until a lasting peace-keeping mechanism is ready. Read about it in detail here.
Ballistics is the field of mechanics concerned with the launching, flight behaviour and impact effects of projectiles especially ranged weapon munitions such as bullets, unguided bombs, rockets or the like. A ballistic missile is a missile that is guided only during the relatively brief initial phase of powered flight and the trajectory is subsequently governed by the laws of classical mechanics.
Huolongchushui (Fire dragon) were the earliest form of multistage rockets and ballistic cruise missiles used in post-classical China. The name of the weapon was used to strike fear into enemy troops.
North Korea’s human rights record is often considered to be the worst in the world and has been globally condemned, with the United Nations, the European Union and groups such as Human Rights Watch all critical of the country’s record.
Hindustan Times – Kim Jong Un’s new missile could be an attempt to get Joe Biden’s attention
Business Insider – ‘We fell in love … he wrote me beautiful letters’: Trump boasts about improved relationship with Kim Jong Un during West Virginia rally
Reuters – North Korea’s Kim calls U.S. ‘our biggest enemy’ in challenge to Biden
BBC – Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un: From enemies to frenemies
The New York Times – Trump Steps Into North Korea and Agrees With Kim Jong-un to Resume Talks
January 19, 2021 Abhimanyu Chaturvedi Biden, North Korea, US
CES 2021: From Covid-19 Tech to Gaming Vests
Considered one of the greatest tech events in the consumer electronics industry, the CES 2021 was fully digital, due to the ongoing pandemic. Apart from LG using a virtual human as a speaker and a star-trek like AI pet being launched by Vanguard Industries, let’s see other innovations unveiled to avid fans.
What Is CES?
CES or Consumer Electronics Show is organized by the Consumer Technology Association.
Dates: January 11 to 14 (2021).
Attendees: 182,000 (2019).
Product Categories: IoT, AI, smart cities, robotics, etc.
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It is a smart face mask made by Razer, with built-in N95 respirators and Chroma RGB lighting, to allow others to see your face even in the dark. It also uses mics and amps for voice clarity and its charging case features sanitising UV lights, for disinfecting after every use.
Source: GI
The Flying Cadillac
It is General Motors’ Flying taxi and it can transport a single passenger at a speed of 88.5 kmph. Being electrically powered, it is set to be a zero-emission air taxi service.
Robot Butler
Made by Samsung, it helps with daily house chores like doing dishes in the dishwasher. It can also examine exactly how much force is needed to grab specific objects.
Toto Wellness
It is a smart toilet that can analyse one’s stool to determine whether she is healthy or not and it comes with a companion app, that recommends dietary changes to improve digestion.
Toto expands touchless bathroom tech and debuts a health-analyzing toilet at CES 2021 https://t.co/rXyu9wxkY3
— Kore Chiropractic & Wellness (@KoreChiro) January 15, 2021
Developed by Embodied, Inc, it is an animated companion, that is able to respond to natural language while perceiving eye contact, facial expressions, and other behaviors in a child. It can even recall people, places, and objects.
As per the launch, it “helps build social, emotional, and cognitive skills through everyday play-based learning and engaging content developed in association with child development and education experts.”
Oticon More
Made by Oticon, Inc, it is the first hearing aid with Deep Neural Network tech and has been trained with 12 million real-life sounds, rather than lab-constructed sound algorithms.
Other Innovations Revealed
NINU Perfume – personalise scent with an app
bHaptics tactical suits for gamers
Samsung’s Solar powered remote control
BeFC SAS’ Bioenzymatic Fuel Cells
Cubios Inc.’s WOWCube entertainment System
ChiliSleep’s OOLER with water-powered temperature control system
GoSun’s Flow pocket device to sanitize water
Typewise keyboard with a honeycomb layout for two-thumb typing
LG’s rollable smartphone
Source: WOWCube
The Burj Khalifa was constructed by Samsung. Samsung built the tower in a joint venture with BESIX from Belgium and Arabtec from the UAE.
Razer Inc. is a Singaporean–American multinational technology company that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, financial services, and gaming hardware. In October 2020, Razer announced it was launching a new virtual prepaid debit card starting with its home country Singapore in January 2021.
The first CES was held in June 1967 in New York City. It was a spinoff from the Chicago Music Show, which, until then, had served as the main event for exhibiting consumer electronics. The event had 17,500 attenders and over 100 exhibitors; the kickoff speaker was Motorola chairman Bob Galvin.
Money Control – Best of CES 2021: Flying taxis, robot butlers, rollable smartphones
Interesting Engineering – 11+ of the Strangest Technologies Presented at CES 2021
TNW – Who needs humans? LG had a ‘virtual influencer’ unveil devices at its CES keynote
January 18, 2021 Sampada Bhatnagar CES
As Shady Practices In Digital Lending Rise, RBI Forms Committee For Regulation
With pandemic hitting in 2020, and subsequently the economic crisis hitting individuals, the scheme of micro-lending was assumed to be a resort. Well as seamless as it seems, the consequences end up to be frightening. Let us understand the nuisance around the unregulated area of digital lending, and how RBI’s working committee can take the step of regulating this sector.
RBI Committee
On 13th January 2021, RBI announced the forming of a working committee chaired by Jayant Kumar Dash, Executive Director of RBI, to regulate digital lending through loan applications.
Amidst the public outcry and growing concern for unethical and illegal loan practices executed by loan app users, RBI is forming the group to study the digital lending activities of both regulated and unregulated players of financial sector.
What Is Digital Lending?
Prominent as PayDay Loans or Fringe Banking, Digital Banking is the practice of lending money through digital channels, web platforms, or phone applications & employing technology for authentication & credit information. It is only a 4-year old industry in India.
Digital Landing Overview In India
₹800-1200 crores of loans disbursed every month.
Loan Book of around ₹5500 crores.
60%+ loans are offered to citizens residing in Tier I cities.
The age group of borrowers: 20-35 years.
Loan tenure lies between 3-6 months.
Majority of borrowers fall in the income bracket of ₹1 – 5 lakhs.
Illegitimate Lending
Type 1: Shadow Operations
Lendersregister under the Companies Act, develop a mobile application, and start commercial lending.
Peddle 7-30 days loans. Interest rates are 200-500% (annualised) or 0.5-1.5% per day.
Reportedly, these apps have Chinese servers with Indian names.
Type 2: Through NBFCs
Tie up with inactive NBFCs, that lend their name in return for a commission of 1-3% of the disbursed loan.
The sponsors of such loans are nationals from China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia.
The Lending Flow
Step 1: Users download the app from Google Store.
Step 2: On loan application, users need to upload a scanned copy of Aadhar card and/or PAN card.
Step 3: Unlike the formal processes, no e-signature or OTP authentication is required.
Step 4: Users submit a selfie to authenticate themselves. Some ask for signing on a white paper and uploading the same.
Step 5: Loan is approved instantly and money is disbursed.
Dubious Doings
Loans not backed by one’s own NBFC.
Seeks access to borrower’s phone, gallery, contacts, and emails.
No official documentation of repayment schedule.
Up to ₹100 is the processing fee for a loan of ₹1000.
15-30% of recoverable dues go to a collection agent.
Instances Of Social Shaming
Collection Agents harass through:
Endless calls to borrowers & their relatives – contacts accessed from the phone book of the borrower.
Threat texts on Whatsapp followed by abusive phone calls.
Sexual harassment and verbal abuse to women borrowers.
A debt spiral refers to a situation where a country (or firm or individual) sees ever-increasing levels of debt. These increasing levels of debt and debt interest become unsustainable, eventually leading to debt default.
Peer-to-peer lending, also abbreviated as P2P lending, is the practice of lending money to individuals or businesses through online services that match lenders with borrowers. Peer-to-peer lending companies often offer their services online and attempt to operate with lower overhead and provide their services more cheaply than traditional financial institutions.
Bad debt occasionally called ‘Uncollectible accounts expense’ is a monetary amount owed to a creditor that is unlikely to be paid and for which the creditor is not willing to take action to collect for various reasons, often due to the debtor not having the money to pay, for example, due to a company going into liquidation or insolvency. There are various technical definitions of what constitutes a bad debt, depending on accounting conventions, regulatory treatment and the institution provisioning.
The Economic Times – RBI constitutes working group on digital lending
The Economic Times – Debt trap: Inside the world of shady digital lending apps, which promise a loan in a minute
January 18, 2021 Bhumi Shah Digital Lending, RBI
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Target donates money to Turlock schools
Money donated to Turlock Schools in 2010
Turlock Christian High School $1,557.36
Turlock High School $919.48
Dennis Earl Elementary School $670.37
Julien Elementary School $639.37
Chatom Elementary School $589.59
Sacred Heart School $577.69
Crowell Elementary School $326.58
Turlock Junior High School $265.07
Dutcher Middle School $246.62
Osborn Elementary School $219.14
Brown Elementary School $216.52
Pitman High School $214. 96
Walnut Elementary School $214.25
Medeiros Elementary School $175.87
Cunningham Elementary School $168.46
Wakefield Elementary School $129.79
Information provided by Target
With education being shortchanged in the recent down-economic years, funding has become a major problem at many local schools. Some businesses are stepping in to fill the gap left by an ever-shrinking budget, including Target’s Take Charge of Education program.
“With all the restrictions and lack of funds, we greatly appreciate this donation from Target,” said Linda Murphy-Lopes, principal at Julien Elementary School.
The program lets Target shoppers donate one percent of their purchases to a school of their choice using a Target Red Card.
“It allows the consumer to sit in the driver seat,” said Joshua Thomas, Target spokesperson.
The Take Charge of Education program started in 1997 and has given more than $295 million nationally to 125,000 schools including schools in the Turlock area.
Target shoppers can sign up for a Target Red Card credit card or debit card and one percent of the purchases will be donated to a school of the shopper’s choice. Shoppers can choose any school. Any K-12 school is available for selection.
Murphy-Lopes enrolled in the Red Card program to donate to her own school.
“I personally have my Target purchases dedicated to this school because it makes a difference,” she said.
This year Turlock Christian High School has received the most money out of the Turlock schools at $1,557.36.
Some schools use the money for those little extras that they normally couldn’t have with their regular budget.
“We have used it for student activities such as assemblies, student incentives; extras that we cannot fund through our categorical budget,” Murphy-Lopes said.
Chatom Elementary School uses the money for assemblies, reading rewards, incentives and Red Ribbon week activities, said Chanda Rowley, Chatom Elementary principal.
Crowell Elementary School also uses the money to give back to their students.
“All the money goes back to students,” said Linda Alaniz, principal at Crowell Elementary. “We usually buy incentives for the students’ academic or behavior achievements throughout the year.
I believe it has helped keep students excited and motivated in school when they receive some recognition for their accomplishments.”
Every fall Target writes out a check for the schools participating in the Take Charge of Education program to start off the school year with some extra funds, Thomas said. There are also no restrictions on how the schools use the funds.
“The local school can choose how they want to spend the money,” he said.
Since the start of the program in 1997, Turlock High School has received the most funds out of the Turlock schools at $20,055.28, with Turlock Christian High School falling in second at $18,514.23.
Those interested in enrolling into the Take Charge of Education program can visit, www.Target.com/TCOE to sign up for a Target Red Card.
To contact Maegan Martens, e-mail mmartens@turlockjournal.com or call 634-9141 ext. 2015.
UC Merced plans for fall 2021 in-person instruction
More classroom space, renovations ahead for three TUSD schools
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Multiviewer displays
By JOHN LUFF 01 April 2012
The time is approaching when all displays will process images, with many displaying more than one input at a time. In fact, like it or not, essentially all displays now have image processing, including frame rate, aspect ratio and pixel map changes. This arises not from a crying need in the professional marketplace, but rather from consumer applications requiring home displays to support a random variety of input standards.
Beginning with the first flat-screen televisions almost 15 years ago, display processors became a necessary evil. Many of the early processors did only the minimum necessary to display SD and HD images on the same 16:9 display. Quality was, well, only so-so. But, as flat-screen technology has matured, so too has the technology of scaling engines that are employed in displays, as well as in other devices.
Out of that simple, or seemingly simple, addition to displays has sprung the entire class of display processors for multi-image and, I might add, a host of changes coming for monitors themselves. The basic idea that is embodied in a display processor is to map an incoming pixel map (and sequence of time samples, or frame rate) into a different pixel map on the output. The simplest is to take a smaller frame size, say 720 × 486 interlace, and map it onto a larger pixel map for display, perhaps a 1920 × 1080 interlace screen. The display processor interpolates the missing samples between every two output samples, effectively creating new data for the interpolated points. Going the other way (HD to SD with the same frame rate and sampling structure, progressive or interlace) is the reverse, with pixels discarded to decimate the picture to the smaller pixel map. Simple enough! But throw in more complicated problems — for instance, mixing interlace and progressive — and the display processor must be reprogrammable to do more jobs.
In a multi-image processor, the downconversion decimation is done on multiple inputs, which are then added into a single output. The trick, and where the secret sauce is found, is in preserving the image quality. Part of the display remapping is dealing with overlapping spectra from the input and output samples. When filters are not done well, the aliasing can be quite objectionable indeed.
This technology is not new. The first digital effects units had to have multiple tap filters to allow image transforms that were variable. They also included the geometric effects of viewing a frame displaced in direction and center from the dead-center head-on processing that happens in most display processors. We all have direct visceral experience with display processors that can be reprogrammed on the fly in our pockets — in the form of smartphones. Think critically about what the display processor in your phone is doing when you rotate the display and the picture resizes and scales automatically, and then think about the Ampex ADO of 20 years ago.
So, processors are now taking multiple images and using discrete individual processors to output multiple images, or potentially varied sizes, to a combiner that delivers a single composite image to the output device. Fair enough, but is that all? Not today. We expect to have the ability to pick the background images onto which we place the video windows. We also expect to be able to place names on each window, and tally information that must be decoded from data streams derived from production and routing switchers. But in recent years, display processors have had to handle lots of other information as well.
Multi-image systems now are expected to decode closed captions (and/or subtitles) and to display bar graphs for embedded and discrete audio channels. They also are expected to decode other metadata such as VChip; standards for frame size and frame rate; and perhaps emergency alerts, PSIP data and AFD codes.
Some manufacturers have chosen to add support for waveform displays, which grays the line between a “waveform rasterizer” and a multi-image processor. A rasterizer may well provide more than one image at a time, and it is likely in the future that a combination of waveform generation and multi-image processing will allow a video operator to have camera repeat monitors and the waveforms associated with them all in one display processor output. That saves real estate in a monitor wall and reduces the amount of wiring needed, which is a double win in my book.
Multi-image processing systems can support many outputs as well. By combining a routing switcher internally, the user can have the flexibility to reprogram a monitor wall at will — when a new SNG truck signal is received, for instance — even during a show. The size of the router is arbitrary, of course, as is the number of outputs that can be supported. Some systems support literally dozens of outputs and many more than a hundred inputs.
For some applications, this has resulted in tight integration between multi-image processors and external routing switchers. By taking outputs directly from the crosspoint matrix in a router, it is possible in some cases to feed a display system from the router without increasing the physical size of the routing matrix. Doing this saves money and allows interconnection with multiple digital streams. The display processor appears to the router like another control panel making requests to switch outputs. This tight integration in some cases is between products from a single manufacturer, though two manufacturers can easily weave their products together seamlessly if customers strongly encourage them.
Finally, some display manufacturers have begun tiptoeing into the multi-image world directly. One manufacturer showed a monitor at the Hollywood Post Alliance Technology Retreat in February that had both rasterizer and direct inputs tightly integrated into cards resident inside the monitor. It would not be surprising to see further integration of scaling technology inside professional monitors, and perhaps consumer sets as well.
John Luff is a television technology consultant.
Send questions and comments to: john.luff@penton.com
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Sam Smith News 21 May 2020
The 2nd edition of the African Regional Integration Index will be launched tomorrow. Further details of the webinar can be accessed here.
South Africa: Masondo punts common currency as key to intra-African trade (Moneyweb)
A post-Covid-19 global economy could deepen the trend of economic protectionism, and Africa should seize this moment to build intra-continental regional value chains and trade, which will only succeed through the introduction of a common currency, says Deputy Finance Minister David Masondo. Masondo was speaking in a webinar hosted by the University of Johannesburg on Wednesday, which focused on how Covid-19 will influence the emerging global world order. In Africa, Masondo said in addition to tackling the transport infrastructure and other capacity issues that have been a barrier to facilitating more intra-African trade, the continent needs to introduce a common currency. He said the AfCFTA agreement was “a good base to respond to the regionalisation and economic nationalism” across the world but if trade were to take place in multiple currencies it would introduce “exchange rate risks” that would restrict the number of imports and exports that can be facilitated. [Trade barriers, changing currencies: Economic experts weigh in on a post-coronavirus world]
Adetayo Adetuyi: The implications of the postponement of the implementation of the AfCFTA on intra-African trade
Pandemics know no borders: In Africa, regional collaboration is key to fighting COVID-19 (World Bank Blogs)
Many African countries are all too familiar with the social and economic upheaval posed by outbreaks of infectious diseases. Recent experiences with Ebola are fresh in peoples’ minds across West and Central Africa, as are those with TB and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa. As a result, African countries understand the need for regional coordination in overcoming public health challenges. The World Bank Group has responded swiftly to each of these health emergencies – often through a regional response designed to counter immediate threats while also strengthening countries’ capacity to be proactive in detecting and responding to outbreaks. There are important lessons to draw from these experiences as we combat the coronavirus pandemic:
First, leverage existing regional networks and operations to catalyze an immediate, large-scale response.
Second, maximize economies of scale for scientific collaboration across borders
Third, while providing social support now, lay the groundwork for regional cooperation to support recovery of the economy and jobs – so essential for reducing poverty as we go forward.
COVID-19 presents a classic example of why regional coordination, cooperation, and integration are key to Africa’s future. Given the ease with which diseases can spread across countries, we will continue to draw on our regional programs to support countries in managing pandemic prevention and control. The virus knows no borders, and efforts to support regional coordination and cooperation will be essential to defeating it, both in Africa and around the globe. [The author, Deborah Wetzel, is Director, Regional Integration for Africa, the Middle East and North Africa]
The impact of Covid-19 on the manufacturing sector in Kenya (KPMG)
On sales: An overwhelming number of respondents (93%) have experienced a fall in turnover, with at least 23% registering losses in the range of 65-100%, and 51% between 30-65%. 78% attributed this to a fall in demand of products. 4% have seen an increase in turnover, while another 4% have not seen any changes. The sectors that have seen an increase in turnover are Metal & Allied (18%), Chemical & Allied (6%), Paper & Paperboard (5%) and Food & Beverage (3%). The worst hit sectors are the Textile & Apparel and Timber, Wood & Furniture sectors followed by the Leather & Footwear sector.
On liquidity: 8 out of every 10 participants are experiencing cash flow constraints while 9 out of every 10 agree or strongly agree that they are facing challenges in being paid by their customers, as they too need to look at their finances and prioritize their payments. What was a common issue before businesses were affected by Covid-19 has been exacerbated further by the pandemic. For MSMEs, the numbers are grimmer: 64% are having challenges in meeting tax obligations, 76% are finding it difficult to pay salaries and wages, and 79% are struggling to pay for other operating costs.
On logistics: 76% of the respondents experienced challenges in locally sourcing or shipping in raw materials. An example is the leather industry which has been impacted “because with the lock down people are not able to get the raw hides from up country”, as Niaz Hirani, Chair – Leather & Footwear Sector explains. With the majority of raw materials and machinery coming in from countries such as China, India and Egypt, and the added challenges of: seeking credit insurance covers from banks; depreciation of the Kenya Shilling; suppliers invoking the force majeure clauses in their contracts; and other countries imposing their own restrictions, many will not be able to replenish their stocks if the lock down measures are not lifted in the short term. Currently, 69% of manufacturers have raw material stock levels that could only last for 0-3 months.
Kenya: World Bank approves $1bn financing to address COVID-19 financing gap
The World Bank Board of Directors yesterday approved a $1bn budget support operation for Kenya, which helps close the fiscal financing gap, while supporting reforms that help advance the government’s inclusive growth agenda, including in affordable housing and support to farmers’ incomes. The Kenya Inclusive Growth and Fiscal Management Development Policy Financing, is the second of a two-operation programmatic series aimed at recreating fiscal buffers over the medium term and crowding in private investment. Preparation of this DPF preceded the COVID-19 pandemic, but its approval is timely, since it will help to fill the financing gap generated by the severe, ongoing shock to Kenya’s economy. The DPF thus complements the recently approved Kenya Covid-19 Emergency Response Project which seeks to prevent, detect and respond to the COVID-19 outbreak and strengthen national systems for public health emergency preparedness.
World Bank Group: 100 developing countries get support in response to COVID-19
Impact of Covid-19 on the South African economy: an initial analysis (SA-TIED)
This paper reports ‘first pass’ estimates of the costs of the lock-down implemented by the South African government beginning on 27 March 2020. It also presents a series of recovery scenarios. Four channels by which a lockdown and other efforts are expected to influence economic activity are distinguished. In total, these lockdown measures have profound economic implications. The implications of the pandemic in the rest of the world, and hence on demand for South Africa’s export, are not as large as the effects of the domestic lockdown but are still very large by any normal measure. In terms of recovery, the ‘Quick’ recovery scenario results in a GDP decline of about 5% by the end of 2020 - an economic outcome that would have been considered catastrophically bad a little more than one month ago. Persistent effects of the Covid-19 would bring even worse outcomes for GDP in line with the ‘Slow’ and ‘Long’ recovery scenarios. [The authors: Channing Arndt, Rob Davies, Sherwin Gabriel, Laurence Harris, Konstantin Makrelov, Boipuso Modise, Sherman Robinson, Witness Simbanegavi, Dirk van Seventer, Lillian Anderson]
Today’s pdf SARB Monetary Policy Committee statement (547 KB)
Rwanda: GDP growth to slacken in 2020 due to coronavirus. Rwanda’s economic growth is expected to slow to 2% this year from 9.4% in 2019 as the COVID-19 pandemic hits tourism, transport and hospitality, the finance minister said on Thursday. Presenting the draft budget for 2020-21 fiscal year, Uzziel Ndajigimana said growth was expected to rebound next year to 6.3% and improve further to 8% in 2022.
PwC’s Africa COVID-19 CFO Pulse results (pdf): The report captures the views of 55 CFOs in nine countries across sub-Saharan Africa, and compares them to those of 867 CFOs from 40 countries across the globe. The top findings were:
Nearly two-thirds (65%) of African CFOs predict a decline of at least 10% in their company revenue and/or profit this year.
The vast majority (89%) are implementing cost containment measures, or deferring or cancelling planned investments (60%).
62% of African CFOs estimate it will take more than three months to restore ‘business as usual’.
Developing alternate sourcing options (64%) and changing contractual terms (56%) are the main priorities in supply chain strategy.
76% of respondents are very confident about meeting customers’ safety expectations and providing a safe working environment for their employees at their places of business.
60% say remote work is here to stay for some roles, as companies plan to alternate crews and reconfigure worksites.
President Xi Jinping’s address to the 73rd World Health Assembly: Helping Africa must be the top priority in our Covid-19 response. For the sake of boosting international co-operation against Covid-19, I would like to announce the following:
China will provide $2bn (R36bn) over two years to help with Covid-19 response and with economic and social development in affected countries, especially developing countries. China will work with the UN to set up a global humanitarian response depot and hub in China, ensure the operation of anti-epidemic supply chains and foster “green corridors” for fast-track transportation and customs clearance. China will establish a co-operation mechanism for its hospitals to pair up with 30 African hospitals and accelerate the building of the Africa CDC headquarters to help the continent ramp up its disease preparedness and control capacity. Covid-19 vaccine development and deployment in China, when available, will be made a global public good. This will be China’s contribution to ensuring vaccine accessibility and affordability in developing countries. China will work with other G20 members to implement the Debt Service Suspension Initiative for the poorest countries.
COVID-19 in COMESA: Situational Update 14
Special ERG call on the economic impacts of coronavirus. "PEDL, alongside its new partner CDC Group, is looking to fund research that can inform policymakers and other stakeholders on the economic impacts of coronavirus in developing countries so that the costs can be mitigated as much as possible."
The WTO Secretariat has issued a new information note on the pdf Standards‐ and regulation-related policies WTO members have adopted in response to COVID-19 (239 KB) and formally notified to the WTO. Around half of the measures are trade facilitating.
FAO needs $350m to avert rising hunger as countries reel from COVID-19 pandemic’s impact
pdf Covid-19 and food protectionism: the impact of the pandemic and export restrictions on world food markets (2.29 MB)
How COVID-19 is changing the world: a statistical perspective
WTO establishes nomination window for DG selection: WTO members have established a month-long period in which candidates seeking to succeed Roberto Azevêdo as Director-General may submit their nomination bids. General Council Chair David Walker of New Zealand informed members on 20 May the appointment process for the next Director-General would formally commence on 8 June with nominations accepted from that date until 8 July.
Decisive reforms needed for Vietnam to see full benefits of EU trade agreement (World Bank)
Vietnam needs to fill major legal gaps and address key implementation issues to reap the full benefits of the European Union Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), according to a new World Bank report, expected to be ratified by Vietnam’s National Assembly in its May meeting. The report, Deepening International Integration and Implementing the EVFTA, released today, estimates that by simply enjoying the tariff reduction as agreed, EVFTA could boost Vietnam’s GDP and exports by 2.4% and 12% respectively by 2030, while lifting an additional 100,000-800,000 people out of poverty by 2030. Such benefits are particularly urgent to lock in positive economic gains as they country responds to the COVID-19 pandemic. The report argues that Vietnam could benefit even more from the next-generation trade deals such as EVFTA and Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership if they stimulate a comprehensive agenda of economic and institutional reforms to facilitate compliance with non-tariff agreements. The report estimates that such reforms would result in a “productivity kick”, increasing GDP by 6.8%, relative to the baseline scenario, by 2030. The report highlights the need for Vietnam to increase capacity to handle certain key issues, including rules of origin, animal and plant sanitary standards, and investor-state dispute settlement.
Related World Bank reports on Vietnam:
Economic costs associated to the coronavirus pandemic for Vietnam
Potential policy responses to the COVID-19 epidemic
How to jump start Vietnam’s economy?
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Tranium
Idea Of Cryptocurrency
Everything you should know about the technology behind Bitcoin
By admin1 July 22, 2020
The main technology on which the Bitcoin had been founded in 2008 is the blockchain. Bitcoin was the first of the crypto coins to have made its appearance in the world of cryptocurrency. It has a finite supply; in short, there can only be 21 million Bitcoins and no more. To start investing in the Bitcoin, it becomes imperative to understand the technology behind it and how it works.
The blockchain is literally a set of blocks; data is stored in a public ledger called the blockchain. The blocks in the blockchain or ledger have three parts, namely the date, timing and data about transactions. It gives information about who participates in transactions without showing the actual identity of the user. The purchase gets stored in the ledger using a digital signature or a unique username. Every block will therefore have a unique hash that distinguishes it from other blocks. The hash is nothing but a cryptographic code which is made by special algorithms. There are algorithms designed to automate the bitcoin trade as well and they are done through apps like bitcoin era. Visit https://kryptoszene.de/bitcoin-robot/bitcoin-era/ fore more information about bitcoin era.
How does the blockchain work?
Whenever a block adds new data it gets added to this blockchain. Therefore, a blockchain will have many blocks chained together. For new blocks to be added there must be a transaction. This has to be then verified through a network of computers. These computers or nodes will confirm the transactions and after approval they get stored inside a block. Upon verification, every such block gets a unique code or hash. The block can be viewed by everyone but the identities of the sender or recipient of money remains confidential and hidden.
Every node in the network will have its own blockchain copy; so, there can be millions of copies of one blockchain. While every copy is identical, spreading information across multiple computers makes it very difficult to change the information. So, a hacker will have to manipulate every single copy of a blockchain to serve his purpose and this is practically impossible. While transactions are not totally anonymous, identities of parties remain anonymous.
Blockchain technology is responsible for security of data; to begin with, the blocks are stored chronologically and linearly and one cannot tamper with or change the block’s content. Every block has a unique hash and this is created by mathematical functions. When that data is edited, the code will automatically change. This is what protects data because a hacker cannot edit a block without changing the hash. Once a block’s hash is changed the hacker must change the hash in subsequent blocks too and this is a never-ending process demanding a huge amount of power.
Blockchain networks have set up tests for the nodes wanting to add blocks; these tests are consensus models requiring users to prove themselves. Bitcoin uses the Proof of Work algorithm, wherein computers have to prove that they have solved a cryptographic problem. This is done through mining which is not an easy process; to mine, you need specialized computers that demand a lot of energy and power. The Proof of Work cannot stop hacking but it will make attacks futile because a hacker will have to have more 50% of the power in a blockchain under his control to hack all the nodes.
This is why Bitcoin uses the blockchain technology. You will not have to ever worry about whether you money will be stolen, provided you store your coins in a digital wallet and backup your private and public keys.
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UCLan Ribchester Roman dig on BBC’s Digging for Britain
Programme to share findings from excavation
The University of Central Lancashire’s (UCLan) successful intensive dig on the site of the famous Roman settlement at Ribchester will be shared on tomorrow’s edition of Digging for Britain on BBC 4.
In conjunction with Historic England and Ribchester Museum, UCLan archaeology students from first year through to Masters level spent last summer exploring the north gate of the Ribchester auxiliary Roman fort which is traditionally considered abandoned in AD 370. The UCLan team opened a large trench of 30 meters by 10 meters located just inside the North Gate, opposite the granaries, where it is believed the barracks were located.
Dr Duncan Sayer, Senior Archaeology Lecturer at UCLan, commented: “The long-term project goals are to explore the interior stratigraphy of a Roman military fort from latest to the earliest phase. Last year’s finds included a clay floored building with evidence of use as a workshop in the form of a hearth, kiln fragments, slag, and waste from glass working. The walls of this building had been pulled down leaving fragments of wall plaster across the via Sagularis, an interior road which circumnavigates the interior of the fort, as well as the Via Principals, the central road leading to the centre of the fort. This demolition across two important roadways points to deliberate destruction, but importantly not to abandonment.
“Perhaps Ribchester was not entirely abandoned in the fourth century, instead its internal space changed, the roads became less vital, the barracks had already become workshops which were subsequently pulled down to provide the footings for open spaces and temporary markets. As a result Ribchester can be added to the growing body of evidence for the changing use and composition of fourth century forts.”
The field project is in collaboration with the Ribchester Roman Museum, the Diocese of Blackburn and is funded by UCLan. People can find out more about the excavation, which will continue until 2020 and beyond, by watching Digging for Britain on BBC 4, Thursday 24 March at 9.00pm.
UCLan students intensive dig on the Roman settlement is set for BBC coverage
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Understanding Animal Research > News > Antivivisection & extremism > Infiltration raises questions
Infiltration raises questions
Category: Antivivisection & extremism
The recent infiltration of a UK safety testing facility by an antivivisectionist raises many questions. According to a report in The Sunday Times, animals are being used to test ‘botox’ for cosmetic purposes, the law is being flouted and animal welfare practices are poor. But can these allegations be substantiated?
UAR does not condone bad practice in animal research, and the video footage certainly does not give a good impression. However, no-one should accept trial by media sensationalism. Nor can we accept the word of antivivisectionist groups – who are far from impartial. The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) has a long history of making claims following infiltrations which do not stand up to scrutiny. The Home Office will need to investigate thoroughly these claims and the company concerned must be given the opportunity to put their case. If animal welfare has been compromised or the law has been broken, then the company will face the consequences.
Questions that need to be answered include: why do the rabbits appear to be housed singly in small barren cages, when normally rabbits are housed in groups with plenty of environmental enrichment including toys, thing to gnaw and nesting material? Are all procedures carried out properly under licence? Why were mice apparently killed on the floor?If the infiltrator discovered malpractice, why did they stand by and film it over eight months instead of reporting it to the authorities? Did they contribute to it, as infiltrators working for antivivisection groups have seemingly done in the past? ('Spy' for animal rights under fire, Observer 26 March 2000).
There are also several facts that are inconvenient for BUAV and The Sunday Times, so they have chosen not to mention them. Such an unbalanced approach undoubtedly clouds the picture for the public, so for the sake of balance we present a few of the facts here.
Botulinum toxin has many important medical applications. It is a potent neurotoxin used to treat several conditions including cerebral palsy – which affects one in 400 children born in the UK. It is also used to treat some of the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, dystonias and severe facial tics. The Home Office does not issue any licences for the testing of 'botox' as a cosmetic in the UK; if the toxin was merely used for cosmetic purposes, testing on animals would not be allowed under the law.
The potency of each batch of botulinum toxin needs to be tested before it can be used to treat patients. This test still requires mice: the mouse potency bioassay, although less severe tests are being developed. Similarly, pyrogenicity tests on rabbits are still required in certain circumstances, although recent alternatives including tests that use crab and human blood have gone a long way to replacing them.
Dislocation of the neck is an accepted and humane way of killing laboratory mice. Death is instant. We do not see mice ‘writhing’, but twitching, which is a reflex after death.
Thorough investigation of all BUAV’s allegations, some of which are quite technical, will no doubt take considerable time, even if the Home Office starts immediately. Unfortunately the outcome is unlikely to be reported as prominently as the original allegations.
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Labor Trafficking in America
A report from the Urban Institute and Northeastern University documents labor trafficking abuses occurring in major US industries: agriculture, domestic work, hotels, restaurants, and construction. The report finds that loopholes in labor and immigration laws and gaps in local and federal law enforcement are part of the problem. The panel of experts discussed labor trafficking in America and next steps for policy and practice.
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Understanding the Organization, Operation and Victimization of Labor Trafficking in the United States
Sarah Rosen Wartell, president, Urban Institute
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Amy Farrell, associate professor, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, coprincipal investigator of Understanding the Organization, Operation, and Victimization Process of Labor Trafficking in the United States
Colleen Owens, research associate and coprincipal investigator, Urban Institute
Florrie Burke, consultant and chair emeritus, Freedom Network
Shonnie Ball, acting senior coordinator for public engagement, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, US Department of State
Laura Fortman, deputy administrator, Wage and Hour Division, US Department of Labor
Meredith Dank, senior research associate and coprincipal investigator, Urban Institute (moderator)
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Hello Community!
Production Update
Our pilot production run is in full swing and Omnis roll off our production line each day:
The pilot run units will be shipped first to our headquarters in Austin for inspection, and then forwarded to our earliest Kickstarter backers and a few partners. From this point forward, we will continue our manufacturing and steadily increase production throughput, with the first full containers of Omni units to be shipped directly to customers in August. We will provide a more detailed production plan in our next update at the end of this month. See the Virtuix Omni Package
World War Toons with the Omni!
We are excited to announce that Reload Studios’ flagship VR first-person shooter World War Toons is now playable on the Omni. Reload Studios integrated our Omni Software Development Kit (“SDK”) in the game for fun Active VR gameplay. We are currently showing World War Toons played with the Omni together with Reload at the Taobao festival in Shanghai from 7/21 until 7/24.
World War Toons is one of the premier games in development for VR and the first FPS from a major VR studio. Reload Studios was founded by former Call of Duty developers and has raised more than $6MM from investors including Rothenberg Ventures and World Innovation Lab. Our team had a blast playing World War Toons in our office, and the game is one of the best VR experiences we’ve had with the Omni so far. Check out our gameplay video below:
A major title like World War Toons integrating the Omni SDK into its design to support natural locomotion in VR is a big endorsement for the Omni motion platform. Here’s a quote from James Chung, CEO of Reload Studios:
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2020 proved one thing, that we cannot survive without technology. We’ve just got to ensure that it is used for the greater good, says Michael Hayman. This piece originally appeared in Great British Brands The Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma is sinister stuff, capturing our concern......
RENÉE ELLIOTT, SIMON CALVER, TOM ADEYOOLA AND JOHN O’BRIEN MBE TO JOIN SEVEN HILLS BOARD OF ADVISORS
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Latest COVID case is teenage nursing home employee
By Randy Patrick
Published 9:18 pm Thursday, June 25, 2020
Thursday, officials with the Clark County Health Department confirmed one new positive case of COVID-19, an 18-year-old woman. She is an employee of Fountain Circle.
Additional information cannot be provided because of medical privacy laws, the Health Department said in a news release.
The department also reported two additional patients have met criteria for recovery.
The health department is now working 63 active cases of the total 123 positive cases identified in the county. Of these cases, 53 are residents of Fountain Circle, three are employees of Fountain Circle and seven are other community members.
In his daily briefing Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear announced 280 new COVID-19 cases in Kentucky, bringing the total to 14,617. Eight more people died of the virus, resulting in a total of 546. At least 3,719 have recovered.
Long-Term Care Visitation Update
Also on Thursday, Cabinet for Health and Family Services Secretary Eric Friedlander announced that starting Monday, June 29, the state will resume visitation at assisted living and personal care homes, group activities (10 or fewer) in facilities, communal dining and off-site appointments.
“Kentuckians have patiently awaited since March 6 for the opportunity to see loved ones in long-term care facilities again – in person. We are pleased to say that plans are in place to ease back into certain activities,” said Secretary Friedlander, adding that resuming visitation and certain other activities will proceed without taking an eye off the threat that remains with COVID-19.
Starting July 15, visitation will resume in nursing homes and in Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF-IIDs).
About Randy Patrick
Randy Patrick is a reporter for Bluegrass Newsmedia, which includes The Jessamine Journal. He may be reached at 859-759-0015 or by email at randy.patrick@bluegrassnewsmedia.com.
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8:30 am Ahuriri Estuary Weedbusters
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9:30 am Maungawhau-Mt Eden Weedbusting
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Ahuriri Estuary Weedbusters
Thursday 1 October 2020 – Thursday 2 September 2021, 8:30am – 12:00pm
The Ahuriri Estuary is a wildlife refuge near the Napier Airport. The Ahuriri Estuary Group has been meeting regularly since 2002 to control weeds (take your pick!), replant with natives and generally keep the estuary beautiful. We meet on the first Thursday of every month (bar January) between 8:30 am and noon at the Humber Street carpark (Pandora Pond). Be gardening fit, and wear gardening clothes and shoes. We will have most gear as needed but if you have a favourite pair of secateurs bring them along. It can get very cold in winter so appropriate cold and wet weather gear in season. Other tools and morning tea are provided.
Occasionally the meeting place can vary so if you would like to join us, or would like more information about us or the estuary contact Alan Lee at Enable JavaScript to view protected content. or on 027 539 6278.
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Trelissick Park Sunday Weeding Bee
Sunday 4 October 2020 – Sunday 5 September 2021, 1:30pm
Trelissick Park (Wellington) is located in and around the valleys of the Kaiwharawhara and Korimako Streams and includes the Ngaio Gorge. It is part of the ecological corridor between the Harbour and outer green belt and contains areas of original forest remnant. The Trelissick Park Group have been working since 1991 to restore the park to a beautiful wilderness area by clearing weeds and replanting with native trees. Working bees are usually held on the first Sunday afternoon and second Tuesday morning of each month. Bring gardening gloves and hand tools if you have them. Wear weather/sun protection and sturdy boots. Refreshments are provided.
Further information is on www.trelissickpark.org.nz, or from Peter Reimann on 04 938 9602 or at Enable JavaScript to view protected content..
Mahoe Reserve Weedbusting
The Mahoe Reserve, situated in Boundary Road, Lincoln, opposite the High School is a native regeneration project that was started by Lincoln High School students and members of the local community in an old shingle pit. It is now looked after by the Mahoe Committee, a subcommittee of the Lincoln Envirotown Trust. We are recreating vegetation similar to the scrub, woodland and forest that was prevalent in the Lincoln area up until a few thousand years ago when the Waimakariri river changed its course and came through the Lincoln area. This explains the presence of the shingle beds. The recovering woody vegetation then was destroyed again by fires around 700 years ago and later by the introduction of agriculture and permanent settlement about 150 years ago. The plants used in the restoration are all locally sourced to be genetically as close as possible to the original plants. Planting was started in 2003. Unfortunately the shingle pit was used as an unofficial rubbish dump for many years, including for garden waste. This may explain the problems we have with weeds, including convolvulus, hemlock, gorse, broom and many, many other weeds.
Working bees are held on the first Sunday of the month, starting at 2.00pm. Volunteers need to bring tools, hats, sunscreen, their own refreshments, however there is a water fountain at the Reserve.
Contact Sue Jarvis 03 329 5858 for more information. More information about the reserve can be found on: www.lincolnenvirotown.org.nz
Region: Canterbury
Charlesworth Reserve Weedbusting
Sunday 4 October 2020 – Sunday 12 September 2021, 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Charlesworth Wetland Reserve is a 20ha coastal wetland. The Christchurch City Council purchased this wetland that was drained and used for farmland for many years In 2007 the Avon-Heathcote Ihutai Estuary Trust agreed to make this retoration project a trust project and in 2014 wetland plant number 100.000 was placed in the ground. Weed control being the key factor to the success of this project. Boneseed, convolvulus, grass invasion needing constant control. The volunteers meet every Sunday between 3 and 5pm. Meet at Charlesworth Street Carpark for instruction from the Park Ranger. Tools are provided but you will need to wear old clothes, sturdy boots and a hat.
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Tuesday 6 October 2020 – Wednesday 15 September 2021, 9:00am – 3:00pm
The Ohinetahi group of the Summit Road Society meet every Tuesday from 9:00am to 3:00pm to maintain the Ohinetahi Reserve, 150 hectares of regenerating native forest on the steep hillside situated above Governors Bay. We are not short of weeds, and you can expect to encounter gorse, broom, old man’s beard, banana passionfruit and Darwin’s barberry among others. If you are not able to work the full day or every week that is not a problem. Any contribution is welcome. Transport can be provided from opposite 3A Longhurst Tce near the Sign of the Takahe. Equipment needed is gloves, secateurs, loppers, saw and grubber/spade. We can provide some tools if needed. Bring morning tea and lunch.
Contact Anne Kennedy, email Enable JavaScript to view protected content. or phone 337 0364.
Puketi Forest Weedbusting
Tuesday 6 October 2020 – Tuesday 7 September 2021, 9:00am
The Puketi Forest Weedbusters carry out a variety of weedbusting and planting activities in various parts of Puketi Forest. They have a regular morning of weedbusting which is normally on the first Tuesday of each month starting 9.00am.
For more information contact Dan O’Halloran on 4070311 or 0274054456 or Enable JavaScript to view protected content. .
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Maungawhau-Mt Eden Weedbusting
Tuesday 6 October 2020 – Friday 2 July 2021, 9:30am – 12:30pm
Friends of Maungawhau gather every Tuesday 0930 at top of Batger Rd, Mt Eden, Auckland to work on eco-restoration on Maungawhau-Mt Eden, usually removing a range of weeds. Dress as for gardening with long sleeves, long pants, strong shoes for the steep, stony terrain. Gloves, tools, hi-vis vests provided. We work till about 1200-1230 with morning tea at 1100. Our preference is for locals who may become regulars, but anyone is welcome.
Contact Jean Barton on 09 630 7010 or at Enable JavaScript to view protected content. or Enable JavaScript to view protected content..
Motutapu Island Extreme Weeding Bee
Sunday 11 October 2020 – Sunday 12 September 2021, 9:15am
The Motutapu Restoration Trust has regular ‘extreme’ weeding bees every second Sunday (the next few being 1st, 15th and 29th October; 12th and 16th November; 10th December. In 2018 we start 18th February and continue fortnightly from then except for long weekends, Easter etc.). Registration is essential.
The target weed is moth plant – which, if left uncontrolled, threatens the native forest on Motutapu Island (the island next to Rangitoto). The work is tough. A high level of fitness is required. Moth plant produces a sap which can irritate the skin. We recommend you wear light loose clothing that covers your arms and legs, a sunhat and sturdy footwear (as much of the work is on slopes). You need to bring your own lunch (there are no shops on the island) and drink lots of water (we recommend using a camelback so that your hands are free). We provide tools. Motutapu is an island, transport is by ferry. The cost of the ferry is $24.50 (with an approved volunteer card which we give to you when you ‘check in’ with us on the morning of departure) and biosecurity guidelines apply when landing on this island.
Ferries depart from Downtown Auckland at 9:15am and from Devonport at 9:30am.
For more information or to register for each volunteer day email Enable JavaScript to view protected content. or contact Vanessa on 021-0279-4591 or 09-580-3123. Registration is essential.
Sunday 11 October 2020 – Sunday 12 September 2021, 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Tuesday 13 October 2020 – Wednesday 15 September 2021, 9:00am – 3:00pm
Tuesday 13 October 2020 – Friday 2 July 2021, 9:30am – 12:30pm
Trelissick Park Tuesday Weeding Bee
Tuesday 13 October 2020 – Tuesday 7 September 2021, 9:30am
Taking Back Reotahi
Sunday 25 October 2020 – Sunday 26 September 2021, 9:30am – 11:30am
We meet every 4th Sunday of the month to control serious environmental weeds on the flanks of Mt Aubrey/Reotahi - Whangarei Heads. This maunga is treasured culturally, recreationally, and ecologically and we see it being invaded by weeds. We target wild ginger (easy to kill but there’s lots of it), moth plant, woolly nightshade, banana passionfruit, elaeagnus, and cotoneaster in particular. It’s not all hard work, and we stop for a chat over morning tea. Full training given for newcomers on plant ID and weed control methods. Personal protective equipment provided also. For more information contact Kelly Maxwell at Enable JavaScript to view protected content..
Clearing Weeds from Central Park
Sunday 25 October 2020 – Sunday 26 September 2021, 10:00am – 12:00pm
Upstream - Friends of Central Park - Wellington have a working bee on the last Sunday of every month, from 10.00 - 12.00. We usually weed (mainly tradescantia), clearing the stream bed and banks of invasive weeds, and plant natives and some exotics in keeping with the history and established plantings of Central Park. Meet at The Jetty, along the main path by the stream. We provide refreshments for morning tea. Everyone is welcome.
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SWS XI beat Ludhiana City XI to emerge champions
July 3, 2019, Ludhiana
Reference: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/ludhiana/sws-xi-beat-ludhiana-city-xi-to-emerge-champions/796386.html
The Students Welfare Society (SWS) XI beat Ludhiana City XI by seven wickets to emerge as champions in the First Invitation Cricket Tournament (U-19) held at the cricket ground, Bhoura.
As many as 15 teams participated in this tournament, organised by the Students Welfare Society, Aman Nagar, near Jalandhar bypass. Matches of 15-overs each side were played during the tournament held to motivate the youth towards sports.
In the final, batting first, Ludhiana City XI scored 126 runs in the stipulated 12 overs in which the main contributors were Sahil (40), Kunar (35), Bunty (26), Karan (13) and Shivam (12). For SWS XI, Dhunna was the pick of bowlers who captured three wickets in four overs after giving away 20 runs while Vicky claimed two wickets for 40 runs in three overs.
The SWS XI made the required runs after losing three wickets with one over to go. The architects of their victory were Dhunna, Abhi and Shivam who scored 62, 35 and 30 runs, respectively, to help their side achieve the target.
For the losing side, Bunty grabbed two wickets in four overs after conceding 40 runs. Dhunna of the winning side was declared man of the match for his outstanding all-round contribution in this victory.
Agul Mathur, president of the organising society, gave away prizes to the winners. He advised the youngsters to take an active part in sports and lead a healthy life.
The office-bearers of the society, including Karan Vij, Aman Gill, Gagan Sharma, Vishal Tangri, Kuldeep Sharma, Rattan Warraich, Parminder Bangar, Shubham Behal, Sehajpal Pall and Ashish, were present at the prize distribution function.
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Zeeland’s Memorial Day
It is with heavy hearts that Zeeland Festivals, Inc. had to make the unimaginable decision to cancel the Zeeland Memorial Day Parade.
Memorial Day has always been a special day in Zeeland, where the entire community shows up to remember those who have lost their lives for the freedom of our country. In addition to one of Zeeland’s largest annual parades, the Gilbert D. Karsten American Legion Post traditionally hosts a Memorial Day Ceremony in the Zeeland Cemetery to honor the 713 servicemen and women from Zeeland who have made the ultimate sacrifice.
The Annual Memorial Day Ceremony includes a procession of veterans and elected officials, a welcome by the Officer of the Day, National Anthem, prayer, the reading of the roll of names of deceased Zeeland veterans, a Memorial Day Address, Memorial Day wreath presentation, gun salute, and the playing of Taps. It is a ceremony that the community treasures and looks forward to each year.
But this year, due to Covid-19 and the inability to gather in groups, the Zeeland community will celebrate Memorial Day, from the safety of our own homes. We will honor those who have served, are serving, or gave the ultimate sacrifice while in service to our country. The Gilbert D. Karsten American Legion Post and Zeeland Festivals, Inc. have pre-recorded a private 2020 Memorial Day Ceremony; this effort was made possible by a contribution from Request Foods and DP Creative Audio and Video LLC.
The community is invited to join, from home, by viewing the pre-recorded Memorial Day Ceremony on the Zeeland Festivals Facebook page (www.facebook.com/zeelandfestivalsinc) or the City of Zeeland website www.cityofzeeland.com on the morning of Memorial Day.
Although canceling our in-person celebrations was a difficult decision, Zeeland Festivals, Inc. is encouraging community members to consider these 6 ways to honor and remember servicemen and women on Memorial Day:
1. Watch the Zeeland Memorial Day Ceremony on the Zeeland Festivals Facebook page, or City of Zeeland website Memorial Day morning.
2. Walk through the Zeeland Cemetery and observe the many American flags next to the graves of our veterans.
3. Listen closely for the local church bells to ring at 9:00 AM.
4. Participate in the National Moment of Remembrance by pausing for 1 minute at 3:00 PM on Memorial Day.
5. Decorate your home, bikes or front porches with American Flags or other red, white & blue decor.
6. And we didn’t forget the kids! Print off some activity sheets at (www.cityofzeeland.com/memorialday2020) or pick
them up at City Hall (21 S. Elm Street)
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Lawyers for church leader decry Becerra’s comments on client
by: STEFANIE DAZIO, Associated Press
The exterior of a La Luz del Mundo church branch is seen Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Los Angeles. California’s top prosecutor said Thursday that he believes there are more victims of child sex abuse than those listed in charges against the leader of Mexico-based megachurch La Luz del Mundo and several followers. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Remarks by the California attorney general regarding the arrest of the leader of a Mexico-based megachurch charged with human trafficking and child rape may have tainted a potential jury, defense attorneys said Friday.
Attorney General Xavier Becerra spoke at a news conference Thursday and described La Luz del Mundo leader Naasón Joaquín García as “sick” and “demented.”
“No law of California, no law of humankind and certainly no law of God would permit to occur what Naasón Joaquín García is alleged to have committed in this case against young girls and others,” Becerra said.
Attorneys Ken Rosenfeld and Allen Sawyer decried the language used to describe their client Joaquín García.
“Yesterday was a sad day for the criminal justice system in California,” Sawyer said.” ”How is Mr. García’s supposed to get a fair trial?”
Joaquín García and two co-defendants were arrested in California this week, and a fourth remains at large. They face a 26-count felony complaint that alleges crimes including child rape, statutory rape, molestation, human trafficking, child pornography and extortion.
Becerra disputed the lawyers’ claims, saying in a statement Friday evening that “while we are going to vigorously prosecute this case, these defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.”
Joaquín García was originally being held on bail of $25 million, but that amount was increased to $50 million — believed to be the largest ever set in Los Angeles County — after prosecutors argued the church’s millions of followers could raise the money and free Joaquín García, who they say might flee the country.
Rosenfeld and Sawyer say Joaquín García and his family are paying their legal fees and the evangelical church’s finances are not involved. The lawyers spoke Friday at a bilingual press conference outside an east Los Angeles temple of La Luz del Mundo with Joaquín García’s family and church followers standing beside them.
Bibiana Ochoa, 42, a member of the church from Salt Lake City, said Friday the “false allegations” have caused La Luz del Mundo “a deep sadness.”
“We will return the apostle to his flock,” Rosenfeld said. “Five million faithful stand behind a wrongly accused man.”
The three defendants in custody made their first court appearance in Los Angeles on Wednesday. They did not enter pleas. They will return to court Monday for arraignment.
Joaquín García was originally represented by Dmitry Gorin and Alan Eisner. But he has since changed his lawyers to Rosenfeld and Sawyer, who said the other lawyers only handled the first appearance.
The Sacramento Business Journal called Rosenfeld “one of the most successful criminal defense lawyers in the state” last month after he defended “tax lady” Roni Deutch from a lawsuit filed by former Attorney General Jerry Brown. He also represented former San Francisco 49ers defensive tackle Dana Stubblefield in a rape case.
Sawyer was counsel to former Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva, who pleaded no contest last month to a conflict of interest charge after prosecutors dropped other financial malfeasance counts, the Stockton Record reported.
The attorneys said high-profile figures can often be targeted with false accusations. Rosenfeld said Joaquín García is the “victim of technology, a high-tech hit job.”
Some of the allegations appear to be documented by electronic evidence, but his client’s “identity has been assumed online at times,” Sawyer told The Associated Press Friday afternoon.
“There’s a lot of further investigation that needs to occur,” he said.
The case’s complaint does not mention the use of technology besides the production and distribution of child pornography.
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DC doctor uses social media to temper fears around COVID-19 vaccine
Dr. Michael Knight not only made getting his shot public, but he has been documenting his experience in the days after taking the vaccine on social media.
Author: Michael Quander
Published: 7:18 AM EST December 28, 2020
Updated: 7:35 AM EST December 28, 2020
WASHINGTON — A D.C. doctor is taking efforts to ease fears around taking the COVID-19 vaccine a step further.
“It’s my job as a healthcare professional to help you understand the facts,” he said.
Dr. Knight, an associate professor at The George Washington University, took the Pfizer vaccine. He immediately began posting a picture and videos on Instagram telling his followers about some of his symptoms and how long they lasted.
Dr. Knight reported having body aches, headaches, and fatigue in the first couple of days after taking the vaccine but explained those symptoms quickly went away.
“I’d just gotten so many questions from people – from my friends, family members, people who are in healthcare – educated who are very scared,” he said.
Dr. Knight took those fears and questions and tried to help break them down in a way that is easily digestible for the everyday person.
“The COVID-19 vaccine does not have any viral particles in it,” he explained. “What it does is it gives your body – your cells basically a recipe to make a protein that is similar to the protein that is found in the COVID-19 virus. When your body’s immune system sees that protein, it makes antibodies almost like soldiers that will attack that protein.”
Dr. Knight said once a person is fully immunized, those "soldiers" can fight off the coronavirus if it comes in contact with the body.
Dr. Knight told WUSA9 that as a Black doctor and a member of the African-American community, he knows the weight that he's speaking out about and his experience with the vaccine holds.
He pointed to centuries of medical institutions violating Black people’s trust.
“I want to be able to show that I know the science, I understand why you feel hesitant. So, let me be an example for you. Let me be your guinea pig. I’ll take it. Learn from me. Learn from my experience, but also learn from the science,” Dr. Knight said.
He added that it is important for people to see people who look like them and who come from a similar background in the medical world to talk about and validate their concerns, so they do not miss out on – what he calls – an amazing medical breakthrough.
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Bold Fusion 2015
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Bold Fusion 2015 takes place this Thursday at Horseshoe Casino, in downtown Cincinnati. The annual summit provides an opportunity for young, creative professionals to connect with one another and learn how to advance their career, their company and our community.
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By Mark Heyne • Jun 25, 2014
Thousands of university students from across the country intern and co-op with Greater Cincinnati businesses each year, and retaining this top talent is essential to our region's ongoing economic viability. The Cincinnati Intern Network Connection (CINC) helps these young professionals build personal and professional connections so they are more likely to call Greater Cincinnati home after they graduate.
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By Mark Perzel • Feb 15, 2013
C-Change is a dynamic program of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber that provides leadership development and community engagement opportunities for emerging young leaders in the area. This one-year experience recently named its 8th Class, so we’ve invited Julie Bernzott, manager of HYPE Programs at the chamber, in to the studio to talk with Mark Perzel about exactly what happens during the C-Change year, and recount some of the efforts of previous classes to leave a legacy to our community.
Young Professionals' Choral Collective
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Cincinnati has always been fertile ground for amazing choral music, starting with the May Festival, Vocal Arts Ensemble and, now, a unique chorus that offers young professionals in our area not only a chance to sing, but to be involved in our community and meet new people. KellyAnn Nelson, the founder and director of the Young Professionals’ Choral Collective (yp/CC) is in the studio with Mark Perzel to talk about how the group started, what its mission is, and their upcoming Black & Blues Gala on February 16.
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Cincinnati councilman PG Sittenfeld wants to know why young married couples tend to leave the city when they start having children.
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Deloitte: The Future of Work is here and organizations should stop speculating and start acting
Deloitte Review 21st edition identifies key trends shaping the Future of Work
NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2017—As technology continues to blur the line between digital and physical, there is a heightened focus on what the future of work will bring. The latest issue of Deloitte Review examines the key trends shaping the future of work —from new talent models, cognitive tools and augmented reality to the gig economy and more — and how companies and employees alike can take action to help define what comes next.
The newest issue of Deloitte Review features 10 articles on the “Future of Work” including an interview with Deloitte US CEO Cathy Engelbert, New York Times op-ed columnist Tom Friedman, and John Hagel, co-chairman for Deloitte’s Center for the Edge. In the piece, “Radically open: Tom Friedman on jobs, learning, and the future of work,” they discuss how business can adapt to pressing challenges such as the gig economy, richer knowledge flows and the future of schools. Friedman shares insights on how employers and employees should constantly be thinking and planning ahead in order to avoid problems in the future.
The publication’s content speaks to the fact that the future of work is about constantly evolving and adapting to disruptions, uncertainties and expectations. And, it not only impacts the business world but has far reaches into how we approach our everyday lives.
“We are currently in a unique position to alter and shape our future by understanding the powers driving these changes in our lives and business,” said Heather Stockton, Deloitte global future of work and Americas human capital practice leader, Deloitte Global. “Deloitte Review explores what lies ahead and how talent models, cognitive skills, talent demographics and even the very definition of a career is changing.”
“Navigating the future of work: Can we point business, workers, and social institutions in the same direction?” provides a framework for business to understand three key forces shaping the future of work and helps equip them with tools to help make the future of work productive and rewarding for everyone.
In an age where skill sets can become obsolete in just a few years, many workers are scrambling to stay current. “Catch the wave: The 21st-century career” shows how organizations can encourage continuous learning, improve individual mobility and foster a growth mindset in every employee, year after year.
“Work and jobs are dramatically changing as automation and cognitive technologies, along with the gig economy and crowds, transform and augment the workforce. We hope our new issue of Deloitte Review will enable business leaders to better understand the timely opportunities and challenges that lie ahead while giving them insights to start experimenting and making changes today,” said Erica Volini, principal and U.S. human capital leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP.
This issue of Deloitte Review also covers:
“More real than reality: Transforming work through augmented reality” – It’s hard to wire a wind turbine while juggling a thick technical manual, or to ask off-site experts for help without being able to show them exactly what you see. Business leaders can learn how augmented reality may help by overlaying digital data onto the real world to give workers immediate access to vital information.
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“The rise of cognitive work (re)design: Applying cognitive tools to knowledge-based work” – Cognitive technologies and business process reengineering could be a match made in heaven, but it may require organizations to redesign their processes with cognitive technologies’ specific capabilities in mind.
“Reconstructing work: Automation, artificial intelligence, and the essential role of humans” – Some say that artificial intelligence threatens to automate away all the work that people do. But what if there’s a way to rethink the concept of “work” that not only makes humans essential, but allows them to take fuller advantage of their uniquely human abilities?
“Beyond office walls and balance sheets: Culture and the alternative workforce” – Managing organizational culture, often a challenge, is getting even harder with the rise of the alternative workforce. How can leaders bring independent contractors, telecommuters, and gig workers into their organization’s culture if many of the traditional levers do not apply?
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The full publication can be accessed at Deloitte Review. Deloitte University Press publishes original articles, reports, and periodicals to advance the conversation on a broad spectrum of topics of interest to executives and government leaders. Explore more at www.dupress.deloitte.com.
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June 14, 2017 October 30, 2020 by pmbayobale, posted in Adaptation, Best and worst films, Comedy, Drama, Film essay, Hollywood, Movie review, Netflix, Satire, TV, Uncategorized, War movies
A misfire on all fronts.
Not funny enough to be a satire and not hard hitting enough to be taken seriously.
What drove Pitt to do this?
A successful, charismatic four-star general, Glenn McMahon (Brad Pitt) leaps in like a rock star to command NATO forces in Afghanistan, only to be taken down by a journalist’s no-holds-barred exposé.
My reaction while watching this drab affair.
To describe Glenn McMahon, I would have to say that “he was a throwback to another era”.
A bit like the actor that’s playing him.
I didn’t know anything about McMahon before approaching this and after watching War Machine, I certainly don’t want to.
I don’t know whether that was down to Pitt’s performance. BUT it was a joke for all the wrong reasons.
His gruff voice, the face pulling and that weird run? Jogging about the place like he had the sh*ts.
I’m sure it was supposed to be comical BUT it was hard to show empathy towards a complete simpleton. Was that the punch line?
Despite the overlong running length, it was surprisingly watchable as McMahon made his assessments. Scoot McNairy’s droning commentary delivered some insightful quips BUT it went on a bit.
Free reign over his command as long as it didn’t involve bringing in more troops. Therein lies the rub.
Desperate to make some sort of impact and constantly dictated to by office bureaucrats and civilian advisors; it wasn’t long before McMahon realised he’d bitten off more than he could chew.
The tone was dreadfully mismatched. The Men Who Stare At Goats meets Jarhead vibe didn’t really work.
For all the shocking statistics and political sniping, there wasn’t really much going on.
That’s not to say that there weren’t moments to be had. I did laugh when McMahon mistook two Muslims for praying when they were actually trying to install a BluRay player.
The hypocrisy was ridiculous when Glenn demanded to know why Afghan farmers were growing opiates instead of cotton and wheat.
To be honest, I wasn’t surprised at the reasoning: “US cultivation funds will not support the production of a material that can be distributed in the world market and go in direct competition with the US. So we’re growing heroin instead”.
“People will vote for whoever their local squad tells them to in fear of having their heads chopped off”.
At one point, the man was literally left twiddling his thumbs for a month while he waited for the Afghan elections to finish.
The irony even more bittersweet when the US bureaucrats were dissatisfied with the outcome and fixed another to find a more suitable candidate.
A bit like now, really?
I remember Topher Grace (That ‘70s Show) being a good actor. It’s a shame he keeps getting in films that don’t let him do that. Highly unmemorable.
The same could be said for the majority of the supporting cast. Such a waste.
Sir Ben Kingsley was disappointing as President Karzai. He did his best with the material BUT it wasn’t enough.
Lakeith Stanfield (Get Out) stood out as the disillusioned Corporal Billy Cole. His frustration at the troop’s increasingly vague objectives was spot on.
Alan Ruck (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) played the shady government advisor Pat McKinnon well. The true orchestrator of this messy affair.
“The longer you stay, the worse it will be for us all. Please leave now”.
You could feel for McMahon’s frustration as he genuinely believed the manure he was shovelling. Receiving no “face time” with the President other than a passing handshake during a “Meet ‘n’ Greet”.
The man leaked his own report just to get the ball rolling. And even then he was short changed reinforcements by 10,000 men!
McMahon’s estranged relationship with his wife made for uncomfortable viewing. Equating the time they spent together to less than 30 days over the last 8 years. There was zero chemistry and killed the pace like a lead balloon.
It didn’t help that McMahon came across as such a tool.
His cross-examination in Berlin by a belligerent journalist (Tilda Swinton) was like watching a deer in headlights.
There may have been valid points BUT it was just one big rant aimed at an emotionally detached military figure.
I’m not sure whether that feeling of detachment was supposed to be the main theme of the piece BUT it was difficult for me to connect or care about the characters involved.
The closing attack on Helmand was dull and drawn out with the end result predictable and uninteresting.
Like the protagonist, War Machine felt lost in translation. I was left questioning what the filmmakers were trying to do.
This would have been more hard hitting 10 years ago when we had that initial influx of Gulf war movies; Jarhead, In The Valley of Elah, The Hurt Locker.
Calling Obama’s administration weak and hypocritical when the man has already left office seemed a little pointless.
Watchable BUT I can’t say riveting or enlightening.
Despite some eye-opening encounters, this was still a disappointing misfire that failed to deliver enough hard-hitting drama or entertaining humour.
Tagged Alan Ruck, Barack Obama, BluRay, Brad Pitt, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Get Out, Glenn McMahon, In The Valley of Elah, Jarhead, Lakeith Stanfield, Netflix, Sir Ben Kingsley, That 70s Show, The Hurt Locker, The Men Who Stare At Goats, Tilda Swinton, Topher Grace, War Machine9 Comments
SELF/LESS REVIEW
July 30, 2015 by pmbayobale, posted in Action, Best and worst films, Cinema, Drama, Film essay, Hollywood, Movie review, Science Fiction, Thriller, Uncategorized
Pace less BUT for all the negative press, I still found this quite watchable.
A dying real estate mogul (Sir Ben Kingsley) transfers his consciousness into a healthy young body (Ryan Reynolds), but soon finds that neither the procedure nor the company that performed it are quite what they seem.
It may have been cliched, plot hole ridden and a little patchy in places BUT the action sequences were fast, fierce, racy and Reynolds was on fine form. AND for a good portion of the film, I was entertained.
The opening act was slow burning but intriguing. A slick and ruthless Kingsley delivering DeNiroesque gravitas to the role of the ailing billionaire. To be honest, I would have been happy to watch his normal life as the dying mogul. His lesson with a young rival was compelling stuff.
BUT the sloppily put together relationship with his estranged daughter? Not so much. It’s great to see Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery popping up in more movies. But not in such weak supporting roles. Dull, cliched and boring. A waste. And a pointless character by the closing credits.
We follow Kingsley wallowing in his highly extravagant and isolated apartment as he must come to terms with his own mortality. The one thing in all his years he hasn’t been able to conquer. Until now.
Cue the slick but incredibly smarmy scientist Dr Albright. Matthew Goode was brilliant as the mysterious mastermind. The concept of body swapping/mind swapping was quite interesting. Can you put on a price on life? Would you do it?
BUT we know he does. Or else there wouldn’t be a movie. Tragically that means there is one massive Kingsley-sized void when the deed is done. BUT have no fear. Reynolds is here. He played the role quite well. Good to see him doing it seriously. The guy can be hilarious but I’m fed up of the fast talking douche.
The premise was handled with the right balance. A slight hint of believability. Or enough to make you buy into it. It was a nice touch seeing Reynolds in the early stages of his ‘infancy’ as he must learn to walk again.
It did require a little patience. You get the sense of his struggle within two minutes not twenty. BUT it did make a change to see him having to adjust and look like he’s actually gone through an experiment. Unlike Face/Off. Quick laser zap here and voice alter there. Done. (I love Face/Off. Man, I want to watch that right now. Anyway . . . )
I loved the one liners, “It still has that new body smell”. Cheesy but it did the job. Of course, once Reynolds has adjusted; he does what any elderly billionaire would do with a shed load of cash and Ryan Reynolds’ body! Get smashed, drive fast cars, get jiggy with the ladies and play basketball.
It chugged along. BUT it did lull. Luckily, not everything is as it seems. Strange fits and random memories of someone else’s life start plaguing the mind of our playboy. And thankfully, the film finds it’s stride . . . in places.
Damian soon realises that the “vessel” may not be all it cracked up to be. It’s all rather predictable as he asks too many questions and threatens to reveal the organisation to the public after discovering he has taken someone away from their family.
Cue an action packed race (Hmm) as Damian must fight to save his life and whoever the hell he has in his mind and his family.
Natalie Martinez (Under The Dome) did what she could with the role as the confused wife. BUT she was too whiney and mopey. The scenes with her and Reynolds were way too cliched for you to really care. It didn’t help that she kept asking the same monotonous questions. After Damian clearly says repeatedly, “I have no idea”.
Empire’s Derek Luke didn’t do a bad job as Anton. I just wish his henchman wasn’t so bland and unintentionally comical. Once the body/mind swapping ploy is introduced, he keeps popping up as a new face in every scene. It should have been sinister but it just showed how easy he is to dispose of. Wiped out every time he clashes with Reynolds. Oh dear.
Oh yeah. I forgot to say. Lucky for Damian that he’s managed to take the body of a highly trained marine whose skills conveniently kick in every time danger is afoot. The action scenes were quick, furious and quite violent. Apart from the bad body double punch up in the kitchen, I was impressed.
It was the much needed catalyst to get this film going. And it picked the film up every time the corny story line or pace seemed to linger. The final 20 minutes were actually quite good.
It was certainly watchable as Damian has to make a choice. To save this family and the mind of the body he took or . . . NOT. There was a good portion in which I thought things would take a darker turn as he tries his utmost not to help. BUT the end result was tragically predictable.
Matthew Goode was a dastardly villain. BUT he took the back seat for too much of the film. Only reappearing for the finale. A waste of a good character. And for all his secrecy, he was picked apart quite easily.
Things did get unbelievably corny in parts and killed the little tension that the film could muster. There was one scene. Hardly spoilerific. BUT while in hiding, the adorable Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen asks the man possessing her daddy’s body to teach her to swim. Wow. What do you know? There’s a pool round the back. And they must have remembered to pack her little bathing suit while being shot at. Delightful.
Victor Garber was fantastic as Kingsley’s closest friend and business partner. His likeable supporting character actually gets a little subplot. Well, minuscule. BUT it only manages to pierce more holes in the flimsy plot as a “revelatory twist” ended up asking more questions than answering them.
Now did anyone else this but after seeing all the posters that maybe Kingsley would reappear in some other capacity? I thought that every time Reynolds would look in the mirror, he would see Kingsley. Or better yet have Kingsley talk to him. BUT NO! Missed a trick there. Gutted.
Watchable enough. Helped by a charismatic lead in Reynolds. Good action set pieces. BUT too many cliches and a questionable two hour running length spoil something that could have been so much more.
Tagged DeNiro, Derek Luke, Downton Abbey, Empire, Face/Off, Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen, Matthew Goode, Michelle Dockery, Natalie Martinez, Ryan Reynolds, Self/Less, Sir Ben Kingsley, Under the Dome, Victor Garber2 Comments
THE BOXTROLLS REVIEW
October 14, 2014 by pmbayobale, posted in 3D, Animation, Best and worst films, Children's movies, Cinema, Comedy, Family movie, Film essay, Hollywood, Kids movies, Movie review, ParaNorman, Stop motion, Uncategorized
I laika it but I didn’t love it. From the makers of Coraline and Paranorman comes a delightfully animated, if predictable affair that certainly impresses in detail but lacks in story. Enough for the little ‘uns but I can’t help but feel that some of the darker and more satirical moments may whizz over their head and leave them fidgeting in their seats.
As I’ve said before; kids films, or should I say, family films are always a challenge. They have a lot to aspire to and must have enough pace, character and story to entertain children and adults. But normally, a good portion of the time you can bank on them to deliver the goods. Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks have proven this time and time again. They are normally the films I can rely on in the ever growing list of mediocre and plain right terrible movies I’ve had to endure this year.
Now the American stop-motion studio Laika certainly delivered with the creepy but brilliant Coraline. ParaNorman was a mixed bag. A watchable one. At its best, dark, very funny and endearing. But let’s not forget the ending wasn’t perfect. It felt like it had run out of ideas and rushed towards a corny and flat finale.
So what’s this one all about? The Boxtrolls are a community of quirky, mischievous creatures who lovingly raise an orphaned human boy named Eggs (Isaac Hempstead Wright – Game of Thrones) in their cavernous home built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. However, when evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley) comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls. Eggs decides to venture above ground and “into the light”.
Eggs? That’s right. Eggs because that was on the box that our protagonist chose to wear. A nice touch.
The opening was a little slow and a little dark with a Boxtroll appearing to steal a child and Snatcher brokering a deal with the high class elite who appear to be wasting the town’s budget on fancy hats and rich cheese. A fun poke at the inevitable class and society issues that still plague the present day.
The little ones may find themselves fidgeting a little bit. Even I could feel my eyes looking at my watch. That is until our little cardboard creatures finally make their appearance.
The animation is fantastic. Once the little sewer gremlins emerge from their cavernous domain and begin scavenging the streets, I was in awe. Their little expressions and the detail in which they use their boxes as props to climb over gates and as cover from any passing humans. Their bickering and amusement with the rubbish dumped on the streets made them instantly loveable and entertaining.
The 3D was a complete waste of time. Thoroughly disappointing as this film would have been the perfect platform. Also pretty poor with the inflating ticket prices and decreasing cinema numbers. Do not invest.
The cast were perfectly chosen for the roles. And what a cast! Hempstead Wright has already made an impression with Game of Thrones but certainly delivers a solid voicing performance. But he was always going to fall second fiddle to the legend that is Sir Ben Kingsley. His prowess and talent just adds so much to the delightfully disgusting Archibald Snatcher. His name must surely be a nod to the infamous child villain, the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Only a more demented version, with top hat in tow, of course.
Richard Ayoade (Moss from The IT Crowd), Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead) and Tracy Morgan (That’s right! 30 Rock) were brilliant as Snatcher’s numbskull henchmen who constantly try and justify with one another that they are really the good guys. Not enough of them in my opinion.
Elle Fanning (Maleficent) was fantastic as the stroppy but feisty Winnie who befriends Eggs. Jared Harris (Mad Men) and Maurice LaMarche (Futurama) were also voices that stood out in the gang of mindless elitist cheese fanatics.
The Boxtrolls is watchable and at times quite fun. The chase sequences and the encounters with the Boxtrolls were a sight to see. But for me, the story just didn’t seem to flow that well. It seemed a bit mechanical and all a bit predictable. Desperate twists and turns were pulled out of nowhere as the film meandered along.
Twists that were hardly revelatory or necessary for that matter. The whole spiel early on that the Boxtrolls were cannibalistic murderers was always going to be a bluff. Eggs and Fish (the Boxtroll who “adopted” him)’s relationship was nicely done and you could feel for the pair, even if half of the time you couldn’t understand what they were saying to one another. A running joke that happens every time Winnie demands a translation.
Eggs’ adjustment into the human world after ten years of “captivity” was an endearing and funny opportunity. His introduction to a high class social party brought the odd chuckle. But the tone seemed to be too uneven. Coraline was endearing but deliciously dark. Boxtrolls starts off dark. Goes full slapstick and cheesy. Then a little darker with a rushed and incredibly corny finale.
It felt like it wasn’t sure how far to push or how dark to be. An achilles heel for Snatcher was an unexpected twist that led to a deliciously macabre finale.
There’s enough for everyone. Silly boxtrolls for the kids (and adults) and macabre Dickensian visuals with a drop of class satire. Not bad by any means but will it stand against the likes of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Caroline or even ParaNorman? Sadly, not for me.
Tagged 30 Rock, 3D, Archibald Snatcher, Ben Kingsley, cast, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Community, Coraline, Disney, Dreamworks, Elle Fanning, Futurama, Game of Thrones, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Jared Harris, Laika, Mad Men, Maleficent, Maurice LaMarche, Nick Frost, ParaNorman, Pixar, Richard Ayoade, Shaun of the Dead, Sir Ben Kingsley, Snatcher, The Boxtrolls, The IT Crowd, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tracy Morgan
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Review Article Volume 4 Issue 2
Prevalence, Perception and Participatory Management of Aflatoxins in Groundnut with Emphasis on Northern Ghana
Issah Sugri*
Issah Sugri, CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Ghana
*Corresponding Author: Issah Sugri, Issah Sugri, CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Ghana.
Received: December 31, 2019; Published: January 06, 2020
Groundnut is ranked as the most important legume crop in Ghana due to its versatile role as sources of cash, dietary protein, industrial oil, complementary animal feed, and in soil fertility restoration. However, food safety risk in relation to aflatoxins remains a daunting challenge among smallholder farmers due to poor production practices and weak food safety regulation and compliance. One critical concern requiring attention is that close to 60% of Ghanaian food dishes are prepared from maize and groundnut, both are highly susceptible to aflatoxins. In general, the tropical climate across Ghana is ideal for the growth the fungi in susceptible commodities, both in the field and at storage. This review highlights the risk of aflatoxins in groundnut, and identifies integrated management approaches that can be employed to reduce pre-and post-harvest contaminations. This study recommends regular tracking of aflatoxins in food products to facilitate early warning and necessary interventions of regulatory institutions.
Keywords: Aflatoxins; Consumption; Production Practices; Food Safety; Integrated Management
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Achaglinkame MA., et al. “Aflatoxin contamination in cereals and legumes to reconsider usage as complementary food ingredients for Ghanaian infants: A review”. Journal of Nutrition and Intermediary Metabolism 10 (2017): 1-7.
Sugri I., et al. “Aflatoxin management in Northern Ghana: Current prevalence and priority strategies in maize (Zea mays L)”. Journal of Stored Produce and Postharvest Research 6.6 (2015): 48-55.
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Sugri I., et al. “Influence of current seed programme of Ghana on maize (Zea mays) seed security”. Research Journal of Seed Science 6.2 (2013): 29-39.
Oppong-Sekyere D., et al. “Assessment of Postharvest Practices of Groundnuts in Northern Ghana Based on the Participatory Rural Appraisal Technique”. Journal of Scientific Research and Reports 10.5 (2016): 1-17.
Shuaib FMB., et al. “Socio-demographic determinants of aflatoxin b1-lysine adduct levels among pregnant women in Kumasi, Ghana”. Ghana Medical Journal 46 (2012): 179-188.
Wu F and Khlangwiset P. “Evaluating the technical feasibility of aflatoxin risk reduction strategies in Africa”. Food Additives and Contaminants: Part A 27 (2010): 658-676.
Achaglinkame MS., et al. “Aflatoxin contamination in cereals and legumes to consider usage as complementary food ingredients in Ghanaian infants: A review”. Journal of Nutrition and Intermediate Metabolism 10 (2017): 1-7.
Ilesanmi FF and Ilesanmi OS. “Knowledge of aflatoxin contamination in groundnut and the risk of its ingestion among health workers in Ibadan, Nigeria”. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical. Biomedical 1.6 (2011): 493-495.
James B., et al. “Public information campaign on aflatoxin contamination of maize grains in market stores in Benin, Ghana and Togo”. Food Additives and Contaminants 24.11 (2007): 1283-1289.
Magembe KS., et al. “Assessment of awareness of mycotoxins infections in stored maize (Zea mays L.) and groundnut (Arachis hypogea L.) in Kilosa District, Tanzania”. International Journal of Food Contaminants. 3.2 (2016): 1-8.
Sugri I., et al. “Enhancing the livelihoods of women actors in the groundnut value chain through up-scaling of integrated innovative strategies”. CSIR-SARI Annual Report (2017): 170-172.
Tanzubil PB and Adam I. “Incidence and Management of Aflatoxin Contamination in Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) in Northern Ghana”. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Science 8.2 (2019): 1296-1300.
Waliyar F., et al. “Pre and post-harvest management of aflatoxin contamination in peanuts”. In Leslie, J. F., Bandyopadhyay, R and Visconti, A, (eds), Mycotoxins: Detection methods, management, public health and agricultural trade. CAB International (2008): 209-218.
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Citation: Issah Sugri., et al. “Prevalence, Perception and Participatory Management of Aflatoxins in Groundnut with Emphasis on Northern Ghana". Acta Scientific Nutritional Health 4.2 (2020): 34-43.
Copyright: © 2020 Issah Sugri., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Sensory Characteristics of Three Different Levels of Turmeric Powder on Beef Stick Product
Wannee Tangkham*
Department of Agricultural Sciences, McNeese State University, USA
*Corresponding Author: Wannee Tangkham, Department of Agricultural Sciences, McNeese State University, USA.
Received: July 28, 2020; Published: August 19, 2020
The objective of this study was to evaluate sensory characteristics of a beef stick product with three levels of turmeric powder (TP). Specifically, these three levels of TP include: 1) 0% TP; 2) 1% TP and 3) 2% TP. Each treatment was evaluated using a 9-point hedonic scale. Fifty-eight untrained participants evaluated the beef stick product for acceptability of appearance, color, texture, flavor, taste, and overall liking. With respect to overall liking, beef stick product with 1% TP was the most desirable with a score of 7.13, follow by the control treatment (6.84) and 2% TP was least desirable with a score of 6.81. Additionally, beef stick product with added turmeric received positive participant ratings with respect to acceptability and purchase intent with and without health claims. Therefore, adding TP to a beef stick product might be a marketable alternative to original beef stick product.
Keywords: Beef Stick Product; Turmeric Powder; Sensory Evaluation; Hedonic Scale; Untrained-Panel
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Citation: Wannee Tangkham. “Sensory Characteristics of Three Different Levels of Turmeric Powder on Beef Stick Product".Acta Scientific Nutritional Health 4.9 (2020): 14-18.
Copyright: © 2020 Wannee Tangkham. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Discursos que cambiaron la historia
Anita Roddick: comercio con principios
Anita Roddick fue una de esas mujeres emprendedoras que aportaron su grano de arena para cambiar el mundo. Fue la fundadora de la cadena de productos de belleza The Body Shop y una comprometida activista en favor del medio ambiente y de los derechos de las comunidades más vulnerables por la globalización económica.
Creó una compañía exitosa, presente en decenas de países y que, en el momento de su venta –a la multinacional L’Oréal- alcanzó un valor de 980 millones de euros. De hecho, la polémica no estuvo exenta en esa operación: la activista que había unido fuerzas con Greenpeace para boicotear a petroleras como Exxon, acabó vendiendo su empresa sostenible y natural a una empresa poco compatible con sus valores.
En todo caso, Roddick dio un brillante discurso en Seattle en 1999, en el International Forum on Globalization; una organización multidisciplinar centrada en el análisis y la crítica al proceso de globalización. Un discurso en que abogó por un comercio más justo, pero sobretodo, más humano… con principios.
«We are in Seattle arguing for a world trade system that puts basic human rights and the environment at its core. We have the most powerful corporations of the world ranged against us. They own the media that informs us – or fails to inform us. And they probably own the politicians too.
It’s enough to make anybody feel a little edgy.
So here’s a question for the world trade negotiators. Who is the system you are lavishing so much attention on supposed to serve?
We can ask the same question of the gleaming towers of Wall Street or the City of London – and the powerful men and women who tinker with the money system which drives world trade. Who is this system for?
Let’s look more closely. Every day, the gleaming towers of high finance oversees a global flow of two trillion dollars through their computer screens. And the terrifying thing is that only three per cent of that – that’s, three hundredths – has anything to do with trade at all. Let alone free trade between equal communities.
The great global myth being that the current world trade system is for anything but money
It has everything to do with money. The great global myth being that the current world trade system is for anything but money.
The other 97 per cent of the two trillion is speculation. It is froth – but froth with terrifying power over people’s lives. Reducing powerless communities access to basic human rights can make money, but not for them. But then the system isn’t designed for them.
It isn’t designed for you and me either. We all of us, rich and poor, have to live with the insecurity caused by an out of control global casino with a built-in bias towards instability. Because it is instability that makes money for the money-traders.
«The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest,» said John F Kennedy, «- but the myth – persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.» Asking questions can puncture these powerful myths.
I spend much of every year travelling around the world, talking to people in the front line of globalisation: women, community farmers, children. I know how unrealistic these myths are. Not just in developing countries but right under our noses.
Like the small farmers of the USA, 500 of which go out of business every week.
Half a century ago there were a million black farmers in the US. Now there are 1800. Globalisation means that the subsidies go to the big farms, while the small family farms – the heart of so many American communities – go to the wall.
Or the dark, cramped factories where people work for a pittance for 12 hour days without a day off. «The workers are not allowed to talk to each other and they didn’t allow us to go to the bathroom,» says one Asian worker in that garment factory. Not in Seoul. Not in Sao Paulo. But in San Francisco.
We have a world trading system that is blind to this kind of injustice. And as the powers of governments shrink this system is, in effect, our new unelected, uncontrollable world government. One that outlaws our attempts to >make things better.
According to the WTO, we don’t have the right to discriminate between tuna caught without killing dolphins and tuna caught by those who don’t care, don’t worry and don’t try.
According to the WTO, we have no right to hoard patented seeds from one harvest to plant the following year.
According to the WTO, we have no right to discriminate against beef with growth hormones.
According to the WTO, the livelihoods of the small-scale banana farmers of the Windward Islands are worthless – now facing ruin as the WTO favours the big US exporters
The truth is that the WTO, and the group of unelected trade officials who run it, are now the world’s highest court, with the right to overturn local laws and safety regulations wherever they say it ‘interferes with trade’.
It is government without heart, and without heart you find the creativity of the human spirit starts to dwindle too
This is world government by default, but it is a blind government. It looks at the measurements of money, but it can’t see anything else. It can recognise profits and losses, but it deliberately turns its face away from human rights, child labour or keeping the environment viable for future generations.
It is government without heart, and without heart you find the creativity of the human spirit starts to dwindle too.
Now there will be commentators and politicians by the truckload over the next week accusing us of wanting to turn the clock back. They will say we are parochial, inward-looking, xenophobic and dangerous.
But we must remind them what free trade really is. The truth is that ‘free trade’ was originally about the freedom of communities to trade equally with each other. It was never intended to be what it is today. A licence for the big, the powerful and the rich, to ride roughshod over the small, the weak and the poor.
And while we’re about it, let’s nail another myth.
Nobody could be more in favour of a global outlook than I am. Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalisation is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.
Internationalism means we can link together at local level across the world, and use our power as consumers. Working together, across all sectors, we can turn businesses from private greed to public good.
It means, even more important, that we can start understanding each other in a way that no generation has managed before.
Let’s be clear about this. It’s not trade we’re against, it’s exploitation and unchecked power.
I don’t pretend for a moment that we’re perfect at The Body Shop. Or that every one of our experiments work out – especially when it comes to building trading relationships that actually strengthen poor communities.
We are absolutely committed to increasing our trade with communities around the world, because this is the key – not just for our future, but the planet’s. It means that they trade to strengthen their local economy for profit, but not because their very survival depends on it.
Community trade will make us not a multi-national, but a multi-local. I hope we can measure our success in terms of our ability to show just what’s possible if a company genuinely opens a dialogue with communities.
Heaven knows, we’re not there yet. But this is real life, and all any of us can do is to make sure we are going in the right direction, and never lose our determination to improve.
The trouble is that the current trading system undermines anybody who tries.
Businesses which forego profits to build communities, or keep production local rather than employing semi-slaves in distant sweatshops, risk losing business to cheaper competitors without such commitments, and being targeted for take-over by the slash-and-burn corporate raiders. Reinforced by the weight of the WTO.
It’s difficult for all of us. But if we are going to change the world then nobody – not governments, not the media, not individuals – are going to get a free ride. And certainly not business, because business is now faster, more creative and far wealthier than governments ever were.
Business has to be a force for social change. It is not enough to avoid hideous evil – it must, we must, actively do good. If business stays parochial, without moral energy or codes of behaviour, claiming there are no such thing as values, then God help us all. If you think morality is a luxury business can’t afford, try living in a world without it.
So what should we do at this critical moment in world history? First, we must make sure this week that we lay the foundations for humanising world trade.
We must learn from our experience of what really works for poor countries, poor communities around the world. The negotiators this week must listen to these communities and allow these countries full participation and contribution to trade negotiations.
The rules have got to change. We need a radical alternative that puts people before profit. And that brings us to my second prescription. We must start measuring our success differently.
If politicians, businesses and analysts only measure the bottom line – the growth in money – then it’s not surprising the world is skewed.
Let’s measure the success of places and corporations against how much they enhance human well-being
It’s not surprising that the WTO is half-blind, recognising slash-and-burn corporations but not the people they destroy.
It’s not surprising that it values flipping hamburgers or making sweaters at 50 cents an hour as a valuable activity, but takes no account of those other jobs – the caring, educating and loving work that we all know needs doing if we’re going to turn the world into a place we want to live.
Let’s measure the success of places and corporations against how much they enhance human well-being. Body Shop was one of the first companies to submit itself to a social audit, and many others are now doing so.
Measuring what really matters can give us the revolution in kindness we so desperately need. That’s the real bottom line.
And finally, we must remember we already have power as consumers and as organisations forming strategic and increasingly influential alliances for change. They can insist on open markets as much as they like, but if consumers won’t buy, nothing on earth can make them. Just look at how European consumers have forced the biotech industry’s back up against the wall.
We have to be political consumers, vigilante consumers. With the barrage of propaganda served up to us every day, we have to be. We must be wise enough so that – whatever they may decide at the trade talks – we know where to put our energy and our money. No matter what we’re told or cajoled to do, we must work together to get the truth out in co-operation for the best, not competition for the cheapest.
By putting our money where our heart is, refusing to buy the products which exploit, by forming powerful strategic alliances, we will mould the world into a kinder more loving shape. And we will do so no matter what you decide this week.
Human progress is on our side.»
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Yacht Isabela II Receives the Designer Treatment
One of the Galapagos Islands most popular vessels all refurbished and ready to sail!
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February 13, 2013 (Quito, Ecuador) – Metropolitan Touring’s beautiful Yacht Isabela II recently began touring the Galapagos again following a period in dry dock being refurbished by the Ecuadorian designer Diego Arteta. Diego is known for his stunning work on both Mashpi Lodge, located deep in the cloudforest of the Ecuadorian Andes and Casa Gangotena in Quito. Both properties were launched in 2011, with his work on Mashpi Lodge winning the Wallpaper design award.
Refurbished in a palate of cool whites, greys and jade, the interior of Isabellea II will have a calm and stylish feel to it. The onboard library, crucial for an expedition vessel, is also being redesigned. It will feature two computers and a wide array of reference literature in an elegant and peaceful setting. The deck will be sanded and re-varnished in a darker hue, giving a more traditional appearance to the outside, and a contrast to the lighter, airier colors for the interior.
Able to accommodate 40 guests, Yacht Isabela II is a boutique yacht which has built up a fantastic reputation as one of the best ways to tour The Galapagos. There is a strong sense of expedition culture on board, with expert naturalist guides who are famed for their knowledge of these celebrated islands. Her itineraries are among the best of any vessel; taking in the Southern, Northern and Central islands, making her one of the most popular expedition yachts. She offers three types of itinerary, ranging from six to four nights on board, with varying departure days.
The Galapagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands which lie 600 miles west of the South American continent. Home to almost 9,000 species, they are one of the world’s greatest natural history destinations. Metropolitan Touring began operating in The Galapagos more than 40 years ago, giving them unrivalled experience. Their guides and naturalists have extensive knowledge of the islands, and tangible passion for what they do.
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by David Mitchell
When asked what this book is about, Aldrin, my bookish friend who recommended it (and kindly provided a digital copy, as well) to me replied that it was like the Inception of books. (You know, that awesome movie with Leonardo di Caprio?) While I was intrigued by this description, I put off reading the novel in favor of other titles that I found more interesting at the time. It is too late to regret that decision, yes, but finally reading this wonderfully brilliant work is most rewarding.
Cloud Atlas is akin to an anthology of short stories but, at the same time, it is not – it is a sort-of anthology because it is comprised of six stories spanning centuries in between, all about the lives of six different characters/personas. On the other hand, it isn't an anthology because structurally, each character's story is closely intertwined with the one that comes before and after it. Six degress of separation? Could be. It reminded me a lot of the structure of Jennifer Egan's Pulitzer-winning A Visit From The Goon Squad, which got me thinking if the latter was somehow patterned from David Mitchell's masterpiece.
Plot-wise, Cloud Atlas is an inspired, clever, and original work. It is such an intelligent work that, in my opinion, can only be truly appreciated if one goes beyond form and attempt to imbibe the substance. There were parallelisms injected throughout the storyline, and the writing style varied in accordance with the character and time setting. Moods and atmospheres changed, too, made to adapt to every story's setting. A writer who has the capability not only to come up with such novel ideas but actually execute them as well – and brilliantly at that – can only be called a genius.
I only ever get to gush and rave about books that I found so satisfying, like I did with Never Let Me Go and Middlesex, and this is one of those times.
Let me try to put my thoughts down per story.
The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing – Adam Ewing is an American notary who is making the voyage by sea from the Chatham Isles back to his California home. His story is set in 1850. In terms of readability, this was the most difficult to get into primarily because of the old English utilized by Mitchell for the narration. I will admit that it was a tad boring, too, because of the seemingly meandering stories about the New Zealand aborigines/tribes that Ewing spoke of. But once past this chapter (or at least the first part of it), it gets better. I promise.
Letters From Zedelghem – Robert Frobisher, a young English musician, travels to Belgium to be the amanuensis of the once-great and now-blind Ayrs. Frobisher writes letters to his friend, Rufus Sixsmith, about his short stint in Chateau Zedelghem. Set in 1930s Europe, Frobisher's story was the one fraught with romance, lust, and despair.
Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery – Set decades later, in the 1970s, in Buenas Yerbas, California. Luisa Rey, an aspiring journalist, stumbles into a big conspiracy involving a nuclear power plant and important political people and attempts to investigate it. Thriller and mystery are the elements provided in these chapters.
The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish – The book finally reaches the 21st century through Timothy Cavendish, whose ordeal was replete with comedic moments. His chapters are set in the United Kingdom.
An Orison of Sonmi~451 (my favorite chapters) – What was the old Korea is now Nea So Copros, and at what specific age or time these chapters were set, it is difficult to tell. Suffice to say, however, that it is dystopian-themed and is set so far into the future that language has evolved (a photograph is called kodak, shoes are called nikes, a recording device is called a sony, etc.), clones (or fabricants) more than make up for half of the population, and everything (and everyone) is nearly dispensable. Sonmi~451, a fabricant, narrates her story before she is executed for her rebellious actions against the society.
Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After – It is now the very distant future, and the life of Zachry, a Valleysman who, with his tribe, lives in the island of Hawaii (Ha-why) many years after most of humanity is wiped out by an apparent nuclear meltdown, becomes intertwined with that of Meronym, a Prescient, who represents the last vestiges of a civilized society.
From Zachry, the story goes back to Sonmi~451, and then to Timothy Cavendish, and so on. Each chapter was cut short at a very crucial part, and everything is finally revealed after the sixth chapter.
What I love about the book, aside from how it was structurally formed, is the parallelisms. While reading the first parts of the chapters, I came across narrations that, seemingly, have no direct significance to the character speaking it, but when I got to the second halves of the chapters, I realize how these previous narrations actually jive with the rest of the story. I could only imagine how Mitchell conceived his ideas, translated them into words and onto paper, and I am awed. Never have I read a book in which I made so many highlights on certain passages; I feel like my heart is going to burst with heartfelt admiration for it.
Get a load of this, from Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery:
“Symmetry demands an actual + virtual future, too. We imagine how next week, next year, or 2225 will shape up – a virtual future, constructed by wishes, prophecies + daydreams. This virtual future may influence the actual future, as in a self-fulfilling prophecy, but the actual future will eclipse our virtual one as surely as tomorrow eclipses today. Like Utopia, the actual future + the actual past exist only in the hazy distance, where they are no good to anyone.”
And, taken from The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing:
“My recent adventures have made me quite the philosopher, especially at night, when I hear naught but the stream grinding boulders into pebbles through an unhurried eternity. My thoughts flow thus. Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs contrary, however. To wit: history admits no rules; only outcomes.
What precipitates outcomes? Vicious acts & virtuous acts.
What precipitates acts? Belief.
Belief is both prize & battlefield, within the mind & in the mind's mirror, the world. If we believe humanity is a ladder of tribes, a colosseum of confrontation, exploitation & bestiality, such a humanity is surely brought into a being, & history's Horroxes, Boerhaaves & Gooses shall prevail. You & I, the moneyed, the privileged, the fortunate, shall not fare so badly in this world, provided our luck holds. What of it if our consciences itch? Why undermine the dominance of our race, our gunships, our heritage & our legacy? Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things?
Why? Because of this: - one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the Devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost is the hindmost. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.”
Mr. Mitchell, you are a genius, and I am (now) a fan.
Labels: 2012, David Mitchell, Five Stars
Wow, so that's how Cloud Atlas looks like on Kindle?
By the way, Cloud Atlas lost to The Line of Beauty. If you ever get to read the latter, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts, whether the Booker committee made a mistake or not. :)
Aldrin said...
Woohoo! How wonderful it is to find you raving about Cloud Atlas and remembering that you were all but exasperated with the first chapter's ye olde English. Haha. Really enjoyed reading this. :) May I suggest countervailing Cloud Atlas's ludic leitmotif with the straightforward linearity of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet?
ANGUS: I suppose so, yes.
I will read The Line of Beauty later. And I'll let you know my thoughts on it - it's impossible not to. ;)
ALDRIN: I know, right, haha! I was still exasperated reading the last chapter, but not as much as the first one. :D
Okay, I will look up that book as well. Just because I loved Cloud Atlas so much and it was you who recommended it to me. :P
Wow someone else who likes Cloud Atlas. Not that it matters but I prefer Cloud Atlas to Line of Beauty but then It was a while ago that I read these titles. Really enjoyed reading your thoughts, I just wandered over via book blogs.
Hello, Monique!
I love David Mitchell! I've read two of his works -- his first novel, Ghostwritten, and his latest, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet. I love them both! True to my OC self, I'm holding out on reading Cloud Atlas until I find a hardback. (All my Mitchells are hardbacks. I was fortunate enough to spot a 1st ed hardback of Ghostwritten at NBS. Hehehe.)
Oh, I was meaning to ask about your first ever face-to-face discussion in Goodreads. How did it go?
ARABELLA: Hi! Thanks for dropping by. I will read Line of Beauty soon and maybe we can compare notes? :)
PETER: Hello there! :)
I have yet to find other books by Mitchell, but I'm on the prowl. I think I will also buy print copies of his books, starting with CLOUD ATLAS, because he is now one of my fvorites. Call it a bookish quirk. :)
Our first face-to-face discussion with the Goodreads people? It was intensely and intellectually stimulating. Of course, that was my first time ever to attend a book club discussion, so I have no room for comparison. I have to say, however, that I enjoyed it, I learned a lot from the other members, and it won't be the first or last time I'll attend one. :) Thanks for asking! :)
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Declarative reconfigurable trust management. (2009)
by W R Marczak, D Zook, W Zhou, M Aref, B T Loo
Venue: In CIDR,
Declarative Networking
by Boon Thau Loo, Tyson Condie, Minos Garofalakis, David E. Gay, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Petros Maniatis, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Timothy Roscoe, Ion Stoica , 2009
"... Declarative Networking is a programming methodology that enables developers to concisely specify network protocols and services, which are directly compiled to a dataflow framework that executes the specifications. This paper provides an introduction to basic issues in declarative networking, includ ..."
Declarative Networking is a programming methodology that enables developers to concisely specify network protocols and services, which are directly compiled to a dataflow framework that executes the specifications. This paper provides an introduction to basic issues in declarative networking, including language design, optimization and dataflow execution. We present the intuition behind declarative programming of networks, including roots in Datalog, extensions for networked environments, and the semantics of long-running queries over network state. We focus on a sublanguage we call Network Datalog (NDlog), including execution strategies that provide crisp eventual consistency semantics with significant flexibility in execution. We also describe a more general language called Overlog, which makes some compromises between expressive richness and semantic guarantees. We provide an overview of declarative network protocols, with a focus on routing protocols and overlay networks. Finally, we highlight related work in declarative networking, and new declarative approaches to related problems.
Data-centric programming in the datacenter
by Peter Alvaro , Tyson Condie , Neil Conway , Khaled Elmeleegy , Joseph M Hellerstein , Russell Sears , 2009
"... ABSTRACT The advent of cloud computing is turning datacenter clusters into a commodity. By making large clusters trivial to acquire, manage, and maintain, cloud computing promises to seed a phase of innovative software development, with a wide range of programmers developing new services that scale ..."
ABSTRACT The advent of cloud computing is turning datacenter clusters into a commodity. By making large clusters trivial to acquire, manage, and maintain, cloud computing promises to seed a phase of innovative software development, with a wide range of programmers developing new services that scale out quickly and flexibly. However, current cloud platforms focus on relatively traditional, single-server programming models over shared storage, and do little to simplify the task of coordinating large-scale distributed systems. There is as yet no widely-used programming model that lets a developer easily harness the distributed power of a cluster. In this paper, we detail our experience building distributed datacenter software via high-level, data-centric programming. Using the Overlog language and Java, we developed a "Big Data" analytics stack that is API-compatible with Hadoop and HDFS. We describe our experience reimplementing the Hadoop stack and extending it incrementally with new features not yet available in Hadoop, including availability, scalability, and unique monitoring and debugging facilities. Developed in a relatively short nine-month design cycle, our Overlog interpreter and Hadoop implementation perform within a modest factor of the standard Java-only implementation, with a compact and easily-extendible codebase. We reflect on the opportunities and challenges we encountered along the way, which may inform new development environments for distributed programming in datacenters.
..., Cost) AS ( SELECT link.Start, path.End, link.Neighbor, link.Cost+path.Cost FROM link, path WHERE link.Neighbor = path.Start ); Figure 1: Simple Overlog for computing paths from links, along with the analogous SQL statement. in Section 6, this was confirmed by our experience, especially when we were able to convince ourselves of the correctness of our implementations by metaprogramming our logic. Our use of metaprogrammed Overlog was heavily influenced by the metaprogrammed query optimization in P2’s Evita Raced approach [11], and the security and typechecking features of Logic Blox’ LBTrust [29]. Some of our monitoring tools were inspired by Singh et al [36], though our metaprogrammed implementation is much simpler than that of P2. 2. BACKGROUND The Overlog language is sketched in a variety of papers. Originally presented as an event-driven language [27], it has evolved a more pure declarative semantics based in Datalog, the standard deductive query language from database theory [40]. Our Overlog is based on the description by Condie et al. [11]. We briefly review Datalog here, and the extensions presented by Overlog. The Datalog language is defined over relational tables; it is a pu...
SecureBlox: Customizable Secure Distributed Data Processing
by William R. Marczak, Shan Shan Huang, Martin Bravenboer, Micah Sherr, Boon Thau Loo , Molham Aref , 2010
"... We present SecureBlox, a declarative system that unifies a distributed query processor with a security policy framework. SecureBlox decouples security concerns from system specification, allowing easy reconfiguration of a system’s security properties to suit a given execution environment. Our implem ..."
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We present SecureBlox, a declarative system that unifies a distributed query processor with a security policy framework. SecureBlox decouples security concerns from system specification, allowing easy reconfiguration of a system’s security properties to suit a given execution environment. Our implementation of SecureBlox is a series of extensions to LogicBlox, an emerging commercial Datalog-based platform for enterprise software systems. SecureBlox enhances LogicBlox to enable distribution and static meta-programmability, and makes novel use of existing LogicBlox features such as integrity constraints. SecureBlox allows meta-programmability via BloxGenerics–a language extension for compile-time code generation based on the security requirements and trust policies of the deployed environment. We present and evaluate detailed use-cases in which SecureBlox enables diverse applications, including an authenticated declarative routing protocol with encrypted advertisements and an authenticated and encrypted parallel hash join operation. Our results demonstrate SecureBlox’s abilities to specify and implement a wide range of different security constructs for distributed systems as well as to enable tradeoffs between performance and security.
...curity constructs, and specifying custom policies, is difficult. Reconfiguration of their says operator necessitates modification and recompilation of their runtime engine. Our earlier position paper =-=[24]-=- further proposes that extending Datalog with dynamic meta-programming, meta constraints (restrictions on the set of allowed programs), and a cryptographic library may enable one to customize the type...
Towards a data-centric view of cloud security
by Wenchao Zhou, Micah Sherr, William R. Marczak, Zhuoyao Zhang, Tao Tao, Boon Thau, Loo Insup Lee - in Proceedings of the second international workshop on Cloud data management, ser. CloudDB ’10
"... Cloud security issues have recently gained traction in the research community, with much of the focus primarily concentrated on securing the operating systems and virtual machines on which the services are deployed. In this paper, we take an alternative perspective and propose a data-centric view of ..."
Cloud security issues have recently gained traction in the research community, with much of the focus primarily concentrated on securing the operating systems and virtual machines on which the services are deployed. In this paper, we take an alternative perspective and propose a data-centric view of cloud security. In particular, we explore the security properties of secure data sharing between applications hosted in the cloud. We discuss data management challenges in the areas of secure distributed query processing, system analysis and forensics, and query correctness assurance, and describe our current efforts towards meeting these challenges using our Declarative Secure Distributed Systems (DS2) platform.
...e techniques, including database access control [38], query results verification of outsourced databases [14, 31, 33, 35], distributed query engines for enforcing extensible trust management policies =-=[28, 29, 42]-=- in the cloud ecosystem, and declarative techniques for cloud analytics [4]. This paper makes the following contributions. We first enumerate the data management challenges that face multiuser cloud e...
by Boon Thau Loo
"... My research focuses on the development of new programming tools and analysis techniques that improve the process of designing, implementing, and securing large-scale distributed systems. At the University of Pennsylvania, I lead the NetDB@Penn ..."
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My research focuses on the development of new programming tools and analysis techniques that improve the process of designing, implementing, and securing large-scale distributed systems. At the University of Pennsylvania, I lead the NetDB@Penn
...rams. See [2] for the list of the NSF and DARPA grants. Reflecting the inter-disciplinary nature of my research, my research findings have been published in selective venues in the areas of databases =-=[13, 25, 6, 5, 7]-=-, networking [12, 3, 15, 21, 11, 10], distributed systems [18, 9], security [17, 19], and formal methods [20, 22, 23]. I have co-chaired workshops that span multiple communities: the CoNEXT 2008 Stude...
Declarative Secure Distributed Systems
by Wenchao Zhou , 2010
"... In the past decade, distributed systems have rapidly evolved and gained significant traction in the research community, with an increasing interest concentrated on developing and analyzing secure distributed systems. In this paper, we present DS2 (Declarative Secure Distributed Systems), a unified p ..."
In the past decade, distributed systems have rapidly evolved and gained significant traction in the research community, with an increasing interest concentrated on developing and analyzing secure distributed systems. In this paper, we present DS2 (Declarative Secure Distributed Systems), a unified platform for specifying, implementing, and analyzing large-scale secure distributed systems. First, we propose the Secure Network Datalog (SeNDlog) language that enables distributed systems and their security policies to be specified and implemented within a same declarative framework. We show that the existing semi-naïve evaluation can be extended to execute SeNDlog programs that incorporate authenticated communication among untrusted nodes. Second, we demonstrate that network provenance – the metadata that explains the derivation of network state – can be naturally and concisely captured within the DS2 system. We extend existing data models for provenance to enable distribution at Internet-scale, and present techniques for efficient and customizable maintenance and querying of network provenance. Finally, the future research plans on secure provenance and its integration with legacy applications are presented for discussion.
"... As a faculty member, I place equal emphasis on teaching and research. I believe that teaching and research have a synergistic relationship. My education goal mirrors my inter-disciplinary approach towards research: I aim to ensure that students develop a holistic view of distributed systems by drawi ..."
As a faculty member, I place equal emphasis on teaching and research. I believe that teaching and research have a synergistic relationship. My education goal mirrors my inter-disciplinary approach towards research: I aim to ensure that students develop a holistic view of distributed systems by drawing stronger connections between the networking field, and related areas in data management, formal methods, and programming languages. Consequently, I have developed two inter-disciplinary doctoral seminar courses exploring topics at the interaction of databases, networking, formal methods and programming languages. I design courses that have a significant experimental component, where students work in teams to develop sizable software systems based on concepts learned in class. These include building an operating system, fault tolerant distributed mail server, and a peer-to-peer search engine. Since Jan 2007, I have introduced several new courses and improved two existing core classes in software systems and operating systems. Several of these courses are not only core requirements for undergraduates and graduate students, but they are among the highest enrolled courses in our Computer and Information Science (CIS) department. 1 Experimental Systems Courses I will briefly highlight three experimental systems-oriented courses that I have taught at Penn. 1.1 CIS 380: Operating systems
...Net declarative networking system, demonstrated at SIGCOMM 2009 [8]. • Bill Marczak’s senior design project in 2009 resulted in two first author publications in competitive database conferences (CIDR =-=[7]-=- and SIGMOD [6]). His work has also made significant commercial impact, through collaborations with LogicBlox. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of California Berkeley. • Andrew Mao’s ...
reports/919 Towards Secure Cloud Data Management
by Wenchao Zhou, William R. Marczak, Tao Tao, Zhuoyao Zhang, Micah Sherr, Boon Thau, Loo Insup Lee, Wenchao Zhou, William R. Marczak, Tao Tao, Zhuoyao Zhang, Micah Sherr, Boon Thau Loo, Insup Lee
"... This paper explores the security challenges posed by data-intensive applications deployed in cloud environments that span administrative and network domains. We propose a data-centric view of cloud security and discuss data management challenges in the areas of secure distributed data processing, en ..."
This paper explores the security challenges posed by data-intensive applications deployed in cloud environments that span administrative and network domains. We propose a data-centric view of cloud security and discuss data management challenges in the areas of secure distributed data processing, end-to-end query result verification, and cross-user trust policy management. In addition, we describe our current and future efforts to investigate security challenges in cloud data management using the Declarative Secure Distributed Systems (DS 2) platform, a declarative infrastructure for specifying, analyzing, and deploying secure information systems. 1.
...nables us to build upon well-studied database techniques, ranging from database access control [21] to recent work at using query engines to enforce and implement extensible trust management policies =-=[16, 26]-=-. This paper makes the following contributions: (i) We categorize potential threats posed by malicious entities within the cloud infrastructure; (ii) we then discuss data management challenges in the ...
Personal Statement of Research
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"... My research work aims to ease the implementation, management, and analysis of secure distributed systems. I adopt a multi‐disciplinary approach towards address this problem by unifying three bodies of work: (a) logic‐based trust management systems, (b) declarative networking [1][2] that enables comp ..."
My research work aims to ease the implementation, management, and analysis of secure distributed systems. I adopt a multi‐disciplinary approach towards address this problem by unifying three bodies of work: (a) logic‐based trust management systems, (b) declarative networking [1][2] that enables compact specifications of network protocols, and (c) database techniques for analyzing data computations. My research work has been published in selective venues in the areas of database [3, 5, 7, 8], security [4], and runtime verification [6]. I seek to ground my research in practical problems by collaborating closely with industry (e.g. Microsoft Research and LogicBlox) with an eye towards solving realistic problems. My work is motivated by the proliferation of networked information systems currently deployed for a variety of application domains. Despite the widespread usage, designing and implementing these large‐scale systems remains a challenge, in part because of the emerging security threats. Two important challenges are that of (1) securing distributed data‐centric computations, particularly when the computations span administrative boundaries, and (2) monitoring and analyzing security properties of these systems. Declarative Secure Distributed Systems (DS2):
...that enables compact specifications of network protocols, and (c) database techniques for analyzing data computations. My research work has been published in selective venues in the areas of database =-=[3, 5, 7, 8]-=-, security [4], and runtime verification [6]. I seek to ground my research in practical problems by collaborating closely with industry (e.g. Microsoft Research and LogicBlox) with an eye towards solv...
Recent Advances in Declarative Networking
by Boon Thau Loo, Harjot Gill, Changbin Liu, Yun Mao, William R. Marczak, Micah Sherr, Anduo Wang, Wenchao Zhou , 2012
"... Recent Advances in Declarative Networking Declarative networking is a programming methodology that enables developers to concisely specify network protocols and services, and directly compile these specifications into a dataflow framework for execution. This paper describes recent advances in declar ..."
Recent Advances in Declarative Networking Declarative networking is a programming methodology that enables developers to concisely specify network protocols and services, and directly compile these specifications into a dataflow framework for execution. This paper describes recent advances in declarative networking, tracing its evolution from a rapid prototyping framework towards a platform that serves as an important bridge connecting formal theories for reasoning about protocol correctness and actual implementations. In particular, the paper focuses on the use of declarative networking for addressing four main challenges in the distributed systems development cycle: the generation of safe routing implementations, debugging, security and privacy, and optimizing distributed
...re distributed systems, achieved by unifying declarative networking and logic-based access control specifications [12]. DS2 has a wide range of applications, including reconfigurable trust management =-=[35]-=-, secure distributed data processing [34], and tunable anonymity [51]. DS2 is motivated in part by the observation that distributed trust management languages share similarities with both data integra...
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Swiss Firm Poised to Launch Compliant IPO on Ethereum Blockchain
Swiss regulators have given the go-ahead for what is purportedly the country’s first fully compliant initial public offering (IPO) on a blockchain.
Swiss blockchain firm Overture will launch a compliant IPO and offer ordinary class-A shares natively on the Ethereum blockchain, using smart contracts provided by Zug-based EURO DAXX (the European Digital Assets Exchange), a Jan. 29 press release reveals.
A blockchain-native approach to securities offerings
Overture and its financial advisory firm, Andriotto Financial Services, said that the new venture is set apart from other security offerings in that:
“The company has approved the first Swiss articles of incorporation that directly states the digital nature of the shares (tokens) and the use of the blockchain as the technology to keep the shareholders registry […] transfer of the company ownership can be achieved only with a transfer of the tokens on the blockchain and only the ownership of the token can give the status of shareholder.”
Deploying blockchain technology in this manner can boost efficiency in capital markets, they claim, in terms of cost time and other efficiencies secured by disintermediating interactions between actors — i.e. short-circuiting involvement by banks, broker-dealers, central depository systems, notaries, and other financial intermediaries.
This streamlined blockchain-native approach to securities offerings is set to be embraced by major new platforms in the country, such as the forthcoming Swiss Digital Exchange offshoot of Switzerland’s principal SIX Swiss Exchange.
Beyond Switzerland, some industry commentators have suggested that the traditional IPO model — whether issued natively on the blockchain or otherwise — is likely to become increasingly prevalent in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space in 2020.
At Davos this month, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse predicted that more crypto firms will seek to launch IPOs in the coming year, hinting at Ripple’s own potential interest in a public flotation.
The crypto industry has to date focused its energies largely on initial coin offerings, which evolved as an alternative issuance model for still-young, innovative firms that spared them many of the cumbersome legal and regulatory processes involved in a traditional IPO.
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Contest winners, Code Zero up for grabs, and TGS impressions
To start off tonight's blog, here are the winners of the PAX swagpacks…. many, many thanks to everyone who entered, but unfortunately, not everyone could win. After putting all of the names in a hat and having my wife draw randomly, the lucky people are:
Pack #1 – Agent.
Pack #2 – Adam.
Pack #3 – FinalMacStorm.
Congratulations to all three of you! Please e-mail me where you'd like these packages sent, and they will be on their way in tomorrow's mail!
Speaking of contests, I also have a code for Dead Rising 2: Case Zero to give away. If you have a 360 that’s hooked up to the Internet and you're itching to see what kind of trouble Chuck Greene is getting himself into, all you have to do is leave an answer to the following question:
Where would be the absolute worst place to be trapped by zombies, and why?
Interpret the question however you wish, and post your response here. I'll pick a winner later this week!
Games: Tons of news came flooding out of the Tokyo Game Show today. While TGS has been fairly sedate in recent years, it seems jam-packed with all kinds of interesting stuff this time… the highlights:
>A revamp of Devil May Cry, powered by Ninja Theory. There's already been tremendous amounts of talk on the subject, but here's my personal take – DMC3 (the SE version) was the high point of the series, and although Dante & Co. still rock a fairly high cool factor, the series is definitely due for a top-to-bottom shakeup. That said, Ninja Theory remains an unknown quantity in my mind. Their first effort (the PS3’s Heavenly Sword) was uneven and wildly overrated. Their soon-to-be-released Enslaved looks great in screenshots and videos, but its true nature won't be known until controller is in hand. Is Ninja Theory the right studio for DMC? The trailer looks quite intriguing, but time will tell...
>Shadow of the Damned. A demon-hunting game coming from Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil) Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill) and Suda 51 (Killer 7). While there's no doubt that these three are some of the most notable names in the business, I have to admit that the trailer didn't really do a lot for me. It's hard to put my finger on it, but the word ‘kitsch’ kept coming to mind while watching it, and you can almost point to individual elements that were shown and call them out from other games. It's way too early to tell, but my spider sense was tingling a little bit on this one.
> Ico and Shadow of the Colossus remakes confirmed. I'm not a big believer in re-buying software that I already own, but when first playing through both of these classics, I have to admit that I felt as though both of them would have been better served by more powerful hardware. There's not a lot of info right now, but I'm hoping that the games will get a deep retooling rather than a quick and dirty polish-up. Either way, it's always good news to see quality games like these be made available to people who missed them the first time around.
> Dead Rising 2: Case West. If you ask me, Capcom really hit home run with Case Zero… creating a bite-sized ‘prequel’ experience that was complete in and of itself was a brilliant alternative to crafting the kind of standard demo that generally fails to impress, and now they’ve announced another piece of similar DLC. Case West will serve as an epilogue to Dead Rising 2, and will star both current hero Chuck Greene as well as the original DR protagonist, photojournalist Frank West. Although Frank has made appearances in a number of games since starring in DR, players have never really received the kind of closure that they've craved. Anyone who saw the “real” ending to Dead Rising was no doubt wondering what happened next… hopefully this DLC will give us the answer.
> Radiant Silvergun coming to XBLA. More than anything else so far, this is the news that really blew my mind. I've never been much of an importer and only had the chance to play it once years ago, but what I saw was extremely impressive. Besides that, everyone who's played it has had nothing but raves. I've never understood why Treasure never brought this Saturn shooter to the states, and would have bought it immediately if it had ever been available in any domestic format whatsoever. Unfortunately, since new Japanese copies regularly go for between $200-$300 (or more) on eBay, I could never really justify the cost. The thought of having this holy grail of gaming available as a download puts an extremely big smile on my face. Finally, after all these years… I guess dreams really do come true.
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Zolos
Why do you say that Ico and Shadow of the Colossus would have benefited from more powerful hardware?
I played Ico - 4-5 yrs after its release and thought that graphically/artistically it was fantastic.
They are both very minimalistic and that makes them quite time enduring (is there such an expression?)in my eyes.
I have two answers for the worst place to be trapped by zombies, using different interpretations of the question:
1. In a holding cell at the local police station. You can't get out, but it probably isn't too hard for the zombies to find the keys and get to you.
2. In a banquet hall with everything set, except for the food. For the zombies, that would be you.
Dead Rising question
1. On an Aeroplane maybe?
I think the absolute worst place to be trapped by zombies would be a porta-potty; the type you see on construction sites.
The reasons for this are many:
- Bad ambience: You're surrounded by rotting organic forms, plus there are zombies outside!
- No food, except that lint-covered breath mint in your front pocket.
- No water, except for... AAAACK!! ...No water.
- Your sole means of determining what is going on outside are the thin louver slits on one side of your confines, and any sound that manages to waft down the plastic ventilation pipe.
- The best weapon you can muster is a half soggy roll of toilet paper.
- Nothing to barricade the door with.
- No room to pace while brainstorming escape plans.
- The risk of the structure being overturned by zombies attempting ingress is high. Consequences of this, while not deadly, are not pleasant.
- The chances of being rescued are low, unless one of the uninfected deems it necessary to use a porta-potty instead of a bush or tree during the zombie apocolypse.
I really want Enslaved to be good. I got some hands-on time with it a couple of weeks back and was as impressed as I was concerned, but there are certainly the makings and elements of something grand in that game. We will see...
The absolute worse place? Probably a locked closet during some girl's sleepover, where they dare you to do 7 Minutes In Heaven, and your partner's Case Zero. Man, no matter how much you'd scream, those girls outside are just going to laugh and go "Hahaha, we can't hear you all the way up in HEAVEN!"
Dead Rising question:
No. Really.
When zombies are involved, and you're trapped, there is no "best" or "worst" there is only "oh crap, I am going to die."
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woodpecker finch food source
Some woodpecker finches will also eat seeds. The woodpecker finch (Camarhynchus pallidus) is a monomorphic species of bird in the Darwin's finch group of the tanager family, Thraupidae. ATTACHMENT PREVIEW Download attachment finch phylogeny.jpeg. Although they are ready to feast on flies, spiders, beetles, wasps and grubs too!
Smaller woodpeckers, such as the downy woodpecker, may cling to a variety of cage feeders, and woodpeckers will also cling to dried sunflower heads to feed directly from the plants. Birders who offer a range of foods, both naturally and in the appropriate feeders, can easily attract woodpeckers with hearty appetites all year long. Zebras; Aquatic Warbler; Atlantic Dolphins; Trapdoor Spider; Giraffe; Meerkats; Timber Wolf; Praying Mantis; Huntsman Spider; Vampire Bat; Latest Buying Guides . How Old Is Nickmercs Girlfriend, Ask any backyard birder 'what do woodpeckers eat?' B. sizes. There are thirteen species of Galapagos finch varying in size, habitat, food source. Your email address will not be published. Melissa Mayntz has been a birder and wild bird enthusiast for 30+ years. While woodpeckers will use their bills as tools when feeding, they do so by prying insects out of wood rather than just hitting the wood, and no woodpeckers actually eat wood. Partitioning the variance in diet. It forages by crawling along branches or by clinging to tree trunks. [3] Not all populations of woodpecker finches … Vulnerable. The woodpecker finch deserves a special mention for its ability to use tools to dislodge prey, such as grubs, from nooks and crevices in trees. [3] There is conflicting evidence of whether or not this behaviour was acquired through social learning, as juveniles have been observed using tools without previous contact with adults. Funny Slack Profile Picture, When the Opuntia are in flower, the finches feed almost exclusively on pollen and nectar. The woodpecker finch deserves a special mention for its ability to use tools to dislodge prey, such as grubs, from nooks and crevices in trees. developing digital market changes for you. Learn about the Galapagos finches, particularly the woodpecker finch (. – Small tree finch: both eat mainly animal food. Woodpecker finch Warbler finch Cactus ground finch Sharp-beaked ground finch Small ground finch Medium ground finch Large ground finch G r a s p i n g b i l l s P a r r o t -l i k e www.pbs.org 15. Woodpecker … They also often feed on moths, caterpillars and crickets. Their habit of pecking at branches is similar to a woodpecker's drumming on a tree trunk. Researchers estimate that there are about 240 different species of these birds. The sperm whale is the world’s largest carnivore. Planting berry bushes for birds, especially bushes that retain fruit into winter. Some species are incredibly territorial, usually protecting a nest or an important food source. and there will always be many different answers. With the help of over 7,000 of the world’s best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, Arkive.org featured multi-media fact-files for more than 16,000 endangered species. Diet of the Woodpecker. It forages by crawling along branches or by clinging to tree trunks. The Santa Cruz Highlands are a good place to spot tree finches as well as the woodpecker finch. A. vegetarian tree finch B. woodpecker finch C. cactus finch D. medium ground finch 10 Which of the following questions would a scientist most likely ask to determine whether various finch … [2], Woodpecker finch diets mainly consist of arthropods found in and around crevices in trees. [7], Woodpecker finches range in weight from 23g to 29g and are about 15 cm long. When he arrived at the Galapagos Islands, Darwin did not observe the amazing tool-using "woodpecker finch" that can modify twigs to pry out grubs. It will snap off a twig, trim it to size and use it to pry insects out of bark. When Woodpeckers forage, it is often alongside other birds in a mixed-species flock; however, most of the time they tend to feed on the outer edges of the flock. The woodpecker finch, a bird of the Galapagos, is another consummate toolmaker. This is an example of ‘social learning’ whereby the bird learns this technique from observing others. Since its beak can't always … D. food sources. In the darker forest, the dark snails survive and the light-banded snails are eaten. 86 Rgb. All of these birds have zygodactyl feet, with two toes facing forward and two toes facing backward. Clare Siobhan Cc 2020, C. predators. ... During the dry season, when food sources are less abundant, woodpecker finches will use tools to forage for as much as half of their food… Woodpecker Finch. In the winter, seeds and nuts are the most abundant foods, as well as some leftover fruit that remains on sturdy bushes or trees. This bone extends around the back of the skull, then over to the base of the bill. Question 4 options: If a species of ground finch with variation in beak size suddenly had to all compete for large hard seeds, what kind of selection would occur on the species? Lou Romano Ray Romano Related, They will also feed on a range of other … Making a habit of innovation. Melissa Mayntz has been a birder and wild bird enthusiast for 30+ years. In this experiment, researchers are observing the woodpecker finch, using this wooden box to stand in for a tree The woodpecker finch is one of the only birds to use tools to help him find food. Depending on the season, a woodpecker may eat several different things. In fact, while some woodpeckers may use drumming to help dislodge insects to eat or to drill holes to get at sap or burrowing insects, drumming is most often unrelated to eating. Reproduction of the Woodpecker. Their diet includes other arthropods, fruits, nuts (particularly acorns), seeds, flower nectar, sap, berries, bird eggs and lizards. Sharmander Real Name, Depending on the…, Possible Conflicts with Woodpeckers and Controlling Undesirable Activities on your Property. In the grassy fields, the light-banded snails escape bird predators. This finch is well-known for its use of tools. Required fields are marked *, © 2016 Metro Staff | Website Designed and Hosted by. Some species also live in deserts, grasslands, and more. Because there are no true woodpeckers on the Galápagos Islands, this behavior allows this finch to exploit an untapped food source. No, Woodpeckers do not make good pets. The source of the tool and frequency of using varies based on habitat and season. It pecks at branches like a … These birds were one of the subjects of Darwin’s evolutionary theories, since they developed different beak sizes and shapes in order to adapt to different environments and food sources. With the help of over 7,000 of the world’s best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, Arkive.org … shows eight of these finch species, organized according to the type of beak they have and their main source of food as adults. There are several species of finch that use tools, but the most famous might be the Galapagos woodpecker finch. Another, the woodpecker finch, uses twigs to pull insects out of tree trunks and branches. Smaller woodpeckers, such as the downy woodpecker, may cling to a variety of cage feeders, and woodpeckers will also cling to dried sunflower heads to feed directly from the plants. It may circle the right orbit or go to the end of the hollow inside the upper mandible. Galápagos Hawk (Buteo galapagoensis) ... Its head is often covered with large, circular scars, a result of encounters with the giant squid, the whales’ main food source. Using Tools. By using The Spruce, you accept our, Feeding Birds in Winter - Tips and Tricks. The Woodpecker Finch on the left was in the highlands above Puerto Ayora on the island of Santa Cruz. A group of finches that are found on the Galapogas Islands that have evolved from a single species of finch that colonized the islands approximately 0.5-1 million years ago. They feed on both plant and small animal matter, depending on the species. Young isolated at hatching will not know how to do this b. Instead, drumming is a method of communication, typically used to advertise a territory or attract a mate. Stout and elongated bill is pure black on breeding male, partly black on non-breeding male, and pale orange on female. The exact foods preferred by each species vary, but the most popular woodpecker foods include: Insects, especially wood-boring insects, grubs, spiders, and ants Team Building in the Changing Process, Agile … Best identified by bill shape and behavior. 19. D)The insect population began to seek a new food source. A similar single species of finch lived on the main coast of South America close to the islands. Search the Animals. The tool-using woodpecker finch … Woodpeckers are all about their protein, whether from larvae, nuts or seeds. A drab Galápagos finch with a stretched-out-looking bill. [7] It is thought that this behaviour came to evolve due to the harshness of the dry and unstable environmental conditions of the Galapagos Islands. INDIVIDUAL FORECASTS: Forecasts apply mainly to Ontario and adjacent provinces and states. Best Puppy Shampoo. Each finch species had a different food source, and most lived on different islands in the chain. We support your digital transformation in the field of customer services by: Developing an agile business culture. The Spruce uses cookies to provide you with a great user experience. Some of the finch species eat seeds, while others eat insects. The exact foods preferred by each species vary, but the most popular woodpecker foods include: Insects, especially wood-boring insects, grubs, spiders… Woodpeckers stay in the same range year-round, but as the seasons change they alter their diets to take advantage of easily available foods that meet their nutritional needs. Sap is a popular food in the spring when few other foods are available but rich, sweet sap is rising in trees reawakening after a long winter. During other times of the year, they will feed on Opuntia seeds and fruit. Roundabout Roblox Id, Planting oak trees or other nut-bearing trees and bushes for woodpeckers to use. Providing saucer-style nectar feeders can be effective for feeding woodpeckers. a. This is an example of ‘social learning’ whereby the bird learns this technique from observing others. Why are no mainland bird species, other than those able to fly long distances, found on the islands? The large ground finch's tail is short and stumpy, making it-nearly useless in flight, but it serves as an effective counterbalance as the bird hops around. Large tree finch (Geospiza psittacula). This species is especially well-known since it has been observed using a tool, such as a twig, to get at grubs or other invertebrates through a hole or crack in a tree limb. Shown beside Geospiza scandens are the flowers and fruit of Opuntia echios.Shown beside G. … The source of the tool and frequency of using varies based on habitat and season. First, we log‐transformed data as needed to improve normality. Biggest of all the Galapagos finches, the large ground finch has evolved a massive bill to exploit a food source beyond the reach of other species. https://msistaff.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, Defender Bible Limited Edition King James Version With Expanded Apocrypha, Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas Full Movie 123movies. Many novice birders and non-birders mistakenly assume that woodpecker drumming is related to feeding, and that woodpeckers may even eat the wood or sawdust they peck. Suet — common in backyard feeders — can also be an important source of energy for woodpeckers. Ground foragers, for example the Northern Flicker, have tongues with flattened tips. 4anime Apk Ios, During their mating season, woodpeckers use two distinctive calls to attract the … The most important differences between those species were the size and shape of their beaks. Missing Persons Maui, Three irruptive non‐finch passerines whose movements are often linked to finches are also discussed. PINE GROSBEAK: … Woodpecker finch, species of Galápagos. The diet of a woodpecker finch revolves mostly around invertebrates, but also encompasses a variety of seeds. Add to list . The finches on the Galapagos Islands are different from island to island because of their different A. ages. Property For Sale Culross, Planting oak trees or other nut-bearing trees and bushes for woodpeckers to use. [5] However, the density of woodpecker finches is greater in the more humid zones than in the drier ones. Crows: The birds that go fishing with breadcrumbs! A small number of birds on San Cristóbal have dark hoods. She has over 16 years experience writing about wild birds for magazines and websites. Best Self Cleaning Litter Tray. Instead, drumming is a method of communication, typically used to advertise a territory or attract a mate. It has tan upperparts and pale whitish or yellowish underparts that may have a small amount of streaking. Smaller woodpeckers, such as the downy woodpecker, may cling to a variety of cage feeders, and woodpeckers will also cling to dried sunflower heads to feed directly from the plants. The figure, like many gashapon figures, comes in multiple … Planting oak trees or other nut-bearing trees and bushes for woodpeckers to use. She has over 16 years experience writing about wild birds for magazines and websites. Material Management Books Pdf, Woodpecker finch diets mainly consist of arthropods found in and around crevices in trees. Vulnerable. of the following finches most likely competes for food with the large insectivorous tree finch? However, not all members of this species exhibit this behavior, which is probably learned from watching other finches. This high energy food is attractive to beautiful insect eating birds like cardinals, nuthatches, grosbeaks, titmice, finches, chickadees, jays, & Woodpeckers! 80336 München, Branch Berlin Susanne Klinger auf dem Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Vom 27. Variation in diet and diet overlap was also substantial across space, with ground finch diets sometimes clustering as strongly by site as by species or year (Fig. Providing natural foods for woodpeckers is an even easier way to attract these birds and sate their appetites. Soccer Aid Team Fifa 20, In some cases, vigorous drumming also warns off intruders or scares away potential predators, especially if the bird is drumming on a loud, resonant object. One finch, the sharp-beaked ground finch, sucks blood from its source of food. They are a non-migratory species and are endemic to the Galapagos Islands. Tool‐use enabled the birds to reach particularly large and otherwise inaccessible prey hidden in tree‐holes. Viking Rune For Marriage, Offer these cakes in a platform feeder or the … The Warbler Finches are part of the extensively researched, famous "Darwin's Finches" - a group of 15 species of similarly sized Passerine birds, that were first collected by Charles Darwin on the Galápagos Islands during the second voyage of the Beagle in 1835/36 . Nut feeders are usually longer than cake holders and have a round wire mesh to hold the nuts in place. This species has a large, powerful bill with a thick base and is found on a number of the islands. Woodpecker and Mangrove Finches use small twigs and cactus spines as tools to dine on the larva stored in dead tree branches. Different species of Woodpeckers … Mike Bullard Net Worth, Primarily, they do not live in Antarctica, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand, or New Guinea. Red-headed Woodpeckers may now be more attuned to acorn abundance than to beech nuts. The exact foods preferred by each species vary, but the most popular woodpecker foods include: Insects, especially wood-boring insects, grubs, spiders, and ants Team Building in the Changing Process, Agile Teams activate Resources and Potentials, Increasing your added value from a customer’s point of view up to success, Using Artificial Intelligence for effective sales and service support, Consultant Projektmanagement & San Francisco, CA 94111, Diese Seite verwendet Cookies. Woodpecker finch (Geospiza pallida). The woodpecker finch (Camarhynchus pallidus) even uses twigs or cactus spines to pry arthropods out of treeholes. Some woodpecker finches will also eat seeds. At the same time, the great chestnut blight killed virtually all American chestnut trees and removed another abundant food source. To compensate, a Woodpecker Finch breaks off a cactus spine or small twig and, holding it in its bill, probes a cavity, scraping the insect larvae to the opening where its bill can reach. Questions For 35 Week Appointment, However, not all members of this species exhibit this behavior, which is probably learned from watching other finches. Nut feeders. The small ground and medium ground finches consumed a proportion of invertebrates (33% and 5%, respectively) in addition to these plant sources. Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas Full Movie 123movies, WINTER FINCH FORECAST 2016 - 2017 : by Ron Pittaway : GENERAL FORECAST: Cone crops average poor in Southern Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic Canada, New York, Vermont and New Hampshire, but crops are generally good to bumper in Northern Ontario, Western Canada and Alaska. They will also enjoy suet , peanuts , black oil sunflower seeds , peanut butter , and mealworms offered in supplemental feeders. Woodpeckers stay in the same range year-round, but as the seasons change they alter their diets to take advantage of easily available foods that meet their nutritional needs. Developing an agile business culture. In the fall, nuts, seeds, and fruit are popular foods for woodpeckers because of plentiful natural harvests. They will also enjoy suet, peanuts, black oil sunflower seeds, peanut butter, and mealworms offered in supplemental feeders. When food is scarce, the vampire finch will use its sharp beak to peck at the skin of larger birds, mainly the Nazca and blue-footed boobies, until it draws blood. Woodpecker Food Sources Depending on the season, a woodpecker may eat several different things. Woodpeckers are largely arboreal animals that primarily rely on trees for their food source, protection and nesting grounds. The Galapagos Finch is the species being researched. Warbler finches have needle-like beaks and eat primarily insects. Sounds and Vocal Behavior. The Woodpecker Finch feeds on arthropods, including wood-boring beetle larvae (coleopteran). Woodpecker finch, species of Galápagos finch. Another significant part of their diet includes fruit and seeds, making woodpecker finches important dispersers. The dividing line is roughly James Bay south along the Ontario-Quebec border. The Woodpecker Finch, Camarhynchus pallidus, is one of the so-called Darwin's finches. South American Mythology Creatures, A stick or small twig enables it to dig deeper into tree bark for insect larvae. Because there are no true woodpeckers on the Galápagos Islands, this behavior allows this finch to exploit an untapped food source. These birds live nearly across the globe, but they are absent from a few areas. If the only available food source on an island is seeds, which bird species would have the most advantageous beak type? The four focal species of Darwin's ground finches and some of the foods they often feed on. The Woodpecker Finch (Camarhynchus pallidus) is one of the famous "Darwin Finches" which are endemic to the Galapagos Islands. [8] Wood-boring beetle larvae are a staple of their diet. Breeding seasons usually vary among species, including the incubation periods and the number of eggs laid per season. Bolivia Birthday Traditions, They spend their time patrolling their territories and foraging for food by drumming their bills against tree trunks and branches. Best Food For Older Dogs. Starbucks Frappuccino Secret Menu, Galapagos finch, distinctive group of birds whose radiation into several ecological niches in the competition-free isolation of the Galapagos Islands and on Cocos Island gave the English naturalist Charles Darwin evidence for his thesis that “species are not immutable.”… Woodpeckers are ecologically extremely beneficial for the arboreal environment. 500 Word Essay For Speeding Ticket, The Woodpecker Finch has a typical short, finch-like tongue rather than an elongated woodpecker tongue designed to penetrate deep crevices or long burrows and withdraw grubs and other food items. In the spring and summer, these birds feast primarily on insects that provide high levels of protein for breeding birds and growing hatchlings. Birds with larger, thicker … Ask any backyard birder 'what do woodpeckers eat?'. Follow finch wanderings this fall and winter on eBird. Best Dry Dog Food. Almost certainly related to the large ground finch, the woodpecker finch(Cactospiza pallida) is today placed in a separate genus because of its distinctive appearance and habits.The … Woodpecker: Diet / Feeding & Ecological Benefits, Woodpeckers are ecologically extremely beneficial for the arboreal environment. Without a doubt, woodpeckers favors suet among many other foods. Defender Bible Limited Edition King James Version With Expanded Apocrypha, A 2018 study even revealed that crows can build compound tools, as crows observed by the researchers were able to attach small objects together to create a stick long enough to reach a food source … Tail. In the Scalesia Zone, where food was abundant and easily accessible, woodpecker finches rarely used tools. Telephone: +49 221 – 25 95 91 02 As they forage, their hammering enables them to access wood-boring grubs, beetles, ants, termites, spiders, and caterpillars. They eat both adult insects and larvae, which are often located within trees and shrubs. In addition to varying their food choices by season, some species will even store foods for colder months when supplies are scarce. [4], One of the most distinguishable traits of Camarhynchus pallidus which has caused it to gain fame, is its ability to use a twig, stick, or cactus spine as a tool. Our next goal was to quantify how ground finch diets vary in relation to available food types, and as a function of year and site. Woodpecker finch, species of Galápagos. First described by Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands, it is a unique species which uses a twig, stick, or cactus spine as a tool. Galápagos Hawk (Buteo galapagoensis) ... Its head is often covered with large, circular scars, a result of encounters with the giant squid, the whales’ main food source… Sie nutzen agile Methoden um die kollektive Intelligenz und Multiperspektivität aktiv vernetzter Teams zu kultivieren. Wildscreen's Arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth. The Woodpecker Finch, Camarhynchus pallidus, is one of the so-called Darwin's finches. Add to list . Wildscreen's Arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth. Cactus ground Small tree … NOTE: Many birds will have a difficult time finding natural food sources this winter in Southern Ontario and the Northeast. Woodpeckers like all nuts, but peanuts are their favorite. No, Woodpeckers do not make good pets. This skill enables it to survive in conditions which other birds would find difficult. Therefore, (1pts) of finches on the Galápagos. Dog Cooling Mats. This species is especially well-known since it has been observed using a tool, such as a twig, to get at grubs or other invertebrates through a hole or crack in a tree limb. Because there are no true woodpeckers on the Galápagos Islands, this behavior allows this finch to exploit an untapped food source. Woodpeckers, such as the red-bellied woodpeckers, reproduce by forming breeding pairs during their mating season, which typically occur at the onset of winter until the end of spring. Mira Halloween Skin, Understanding what woodpeckers eat can help birders provide the best woodpecker food at their feeders, and can help birders in the field know how to find feeding woodpeckers to observe. In some cases, vigorous drumming also warns off intruders or scares away potential predators, especially if the bird is drumming on a loud, resonant object. Smaller woodpeckers may hide seeds or dead insects under loose bits of bark, or even bury them in the ground to retrieve later if fresher foods aren't available.
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SGA discusses low event attendance
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(SGA senators discussed low event attendance during open forum. Photo by Amanda Martin.)
Student Trustee Karl Bryan criticized SGA members for not attending last week’s Administrators’ Forum in a message shared by Secretary Bridget Green during the SGA meeting on Nov. 28.
Bryan was unable to attend that SGA meeting due to work obligations, but Green relayed his message to the senate during the Student Trustee’s Report.
Elaborating on the statement in a separate interview, Bryan said he was “extremely disappointed” so many SGA members “didn’t bother to show up” to the Administrators’ Forum.
Green said only eight senators attended the Administrators’ Forum, even though SGA duties were cancelled.
Bryan also noticed that few SGA members attended a previous BSU meeting, despite senate being canceled so members could attend.
Bryan added, “Admin Forum is about resolving issues for the student body, and because they didn’t bother to show up, that’s them saying that they don’t care about the issues the student body faces. … They should do their jobs.”
During open forum, Senator Jamal Kirk said the number of students who attended the Unity Workshop FSU hosted on Nov. 13 was “startling.
“At the student walkout, we had about 300 people begging the administration to do something to address the bias incidents that happened, yet when the school provided an opportunity to get involved and take advantage of things and move things forward, five students showed up – and two of them were Gatepost employees,” he said.
Kirk said SGA should reach out to the office that held the event to find out “where the breakdown happened” so they can find a solution to get more students involved in the future.
During his President’s Report, Kyle Rosa said he met with Glenn Cochran, director of Residence Life, to discuss having soap and paper towels supplied for the bathrooms in the residence halls.
Rosa said the amenities were removed as part of the University’s effort to be a green campus, a practice that is not uncommon for state schools. Residence Life is willing to talk about the issue and negotiate if that is what students want, added Rosa.
Students who want soap and paper towels in the bathrooms should talk to their Hall Council representatives, said Rosa.
“They’re actually going to be having a big meeting soon, and that’s where they’ll address this and take a formal vote. From there, hopefully it will pass, and I won’t have to do anything. But if it doesn’t, then we’ll be involved again,” he added.
Members of the Equestrian Club gave a presentation regarding their trip to the Equine Affaire Exposition on Nov. 11.
Club members attended demonstrations about “natural horsemanship” and the uses of various horse breeds throughout history, said Treasurer Matthew Banks.
Club President Julia Barrone said the exposition gave them ideas for future events and for information to include at their National Day of the Horse table in the McCarthy Center on Dec. 13.
SGA also entertained funding requests from campus clubs and organizations.
SUAB received $7,524.13 to take six SUAB members to the National Association of Campus Activities National Convention in Boston from Feb. 17 – 21. Parking fees account for $696 of the total. The conference entrance cost is $384 per person. It will cost $846.93 per room for four days.
Marketing Club received $300 for transportation to CommCreative Marketing in Framingham for a tour. The trip will be open to all students.
• Student Activity Treasurer Sarah Horowitz was voted eBoard member of the month.
• Senator Alex Becket was voted senator of the month.
• Senator Amanda Taylor presented the U-Rock Award to Horowitz.
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Sierra Announces ‘King’s Quest – Chapter 4: Snow Place Like Home,’ Launching Sept. 27
Sierra™ has revealed that King’s Quest™ – Chapter 4: Snow Place Like Home, the penultimate chapter in the new King’s Quest adventure developed by The Odd Gentlemen, is expected to release worldwide on Sept. 27 for the PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment systems, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and Windows PC via Steam.
“King’s Quest is approaching its final chapters, but there are still plenty of adventures, surprises and puns to be had,” said Matt Korba, president and creative director of The Odd Gentlemen. “Today we are incredibly excited to announce that players will be able to experience the last two chapters and bonus epilogue of King Graham’s journey before the holidays.”
King’s Quest – Chapter 4: Snow Place Like Home opens on the fateful night when King Graham and Queen Valanice’s infant child Alexander was stolen from them. When Alexander mysteriously returns home 18 years later, however, Graham must decide how to reconnect with the boy he’s spent a lifetime searching for. And as father and son work together to solve the towering challenges of the puzzling Ice Palace, questions linger about just what happened all those years ago.
The new King’s Quest is the critically praised reimagining of the franchise whose classic spirit of wit and wonder helped define adventure gaming over 30 years ago. As an old King Graham guides his curious granddaughter Gwendolyn through the lost memories of his incredible reign, players will experience firsthand his greatest untold trials and triumphs.
King’s Quest: The Complete Collection (a bundle* containing all five chapters of the game with a bonus playable story epilogue) and the King’s Quest Season Pass (a digital bundle containing Chapters 2-5) are available now as digital purchases through the PlayStation®Store, Xbox Games Store and Steam. The game’s previous installments – King’s Quest™ – Chapter 1: A Knight to Remember, King’s Quest™ – Chapter 2: Rubble Without a Cause, and King’s Quest™ – Chapter 3: Once Upon a Climb – may also be purchased individually.
King’s Quest is rated E10+ (Everyone 10 and Up) by the ESRB. For more information, please visit www.sierra.com, and follow Sierra on Facebook and Twitter.
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Three Fields Entertainment Announces Danger Zone for PC and PS4
Three Fields Entertainment, a small independent British developer led by veterans Fiona Sperry and Alex Ward, today announced Danger Zone, a new 3D vehicular destruction game where players crash for cash by creating the biggest car crash possible.
“We are going back to our roots by creating a game in a genre we are truly passionate about,” said Fiona Sperry, Founder and CEO of Three Fields Entertainment. “Danger Zone takes what made the Crash Mode featured in 2004’s Burnout 3: Takedown so popular and transforms it into an all-new car-crashing, arcade-style puzzle game. We look forward to engaging those same fans by delivering an entirely new and extremely fun experience.”
Powered by Epic’s Unreal® Engine 4 and set in a virtual Crash Testing Facility, Danger Zone combines realistic physics with explosive gameplay and features 20 exciting single player crash testing scenarios, each with their own unique road layout, traffic and pickups.
In Danger Zone, players are challenged to drive into the junction and create the biggest First Impact that causes enough vehicles to crash to earn a “SmashBreaker,” turning their car into a bomb that can explode on command. Players score for how many cars they crash, with bonus points awarded for exploding cars by hitting them while in “SmashBreaker” or for pushing them off the road entirely. If the player’s car falls off the road, it’s game over. Connected leaderboards allows comparison of player scores for the friends you play against and the rest of the community.
The third game developed by the studio, Danger Zone is rated E10+ for everyone ages 10 and up and will be available for PC on Steam and for PlayStation®4 in May 2017 for $12.99/£9.99/€12.99.
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Tom Clancy's The Division is a multiplayer online third-shooter with role playing elements, developed by Massive (also known as Ubisoft Massive) and Ubisoft Reflections, and published by Ubisoft for Windows PC, the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 sometime in 2015.
The Division puts the player in control of a member of a group of combatants who find themselves in the middle of a post-apocalyptic USA, a deadly disease having caused society's collapse in a matter of days.
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Tom Clancy's The Division is set in a post-apocalyptic New York. Inspired by real world preparations for various potential catastrophic events, such as Operation Dark Winter, which is the name given to a series of bio-terrorist attack simulations conducted in 2001, The Division is set after a deadly plague spreads through the United States on Black Friday.
Tom Clancy's The Division is a third-person shooter and uses the genre's standard trope of cover-based combat, featuring varied weaponry and items. As with many other modern third-person shooters, The Division also features RGP-like elements. Although there are no classes, there are skill trees to advance through.
The Division is an RPG shooter and features player skills. These skills can be accessed via your holographic smart watch and can be changed at any time.
— Adrenaline Boost
— Distraction Device
— Indomitable
— Pulse
— Seeker Mine
The following pages detail the various weapons and items found in The Division.
— Weapons
— Consumables
The game's setting is entirely open world and truly massive in scope, allowing players to explore the game's city for missions and supplies.
— Brooklyn
— Manhattan
The following pages cover the multiple different media coverage for this game, from concept art to game trailers.
— Screenshots
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Over 1,000 Thomas Cook staff will take legal action after losing their jobs when the airline collapsed.
At an event in Manchester on Friday, around 1,000 former employees came to sign up to legal action under the Protective Award, which is being co-ordinated by union Unite.
More unionised ex-workers are expected to sign up next week at events around the airline’s other UK hubs.
The firm’s liquidators said they will co-operate with any tribunal process.
The Unite-represented employees join around 100 non-union staff who earlier today said they will take legal action.
Both groups argue the airline and tour company acted unlawfully by not offering a Protective Award, a form of compensation given to staff of larger companies who are made redundant without being properly informed or consulted with.
Like the Unite-affiliated staff, the non-unionised Thomas Cook employees believe the firm acted unlawfully in the way they were dismissed and have appointed lawyers to seek redress through an employment tribunal.
Unite was meeting with former staff in Manchester to also inform members of their rights, how to begin redundancy claims with the government and to advise laid-off workers on job opportunities and updating their CV.
The union said it was calling on other airlines currently recruiting staff to “fast-track” the job applications of former Thomas Cook workers.
One ex-senior manager told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme Thomas Cook was still offering jobs just days before going bust.
Lawyers from one firm, Simpson Millar, told the BBC that thousands of former workers at the firm could be due some money.
Employees are entitled to a Protective Award if they are made redundant from an office of more than 20 people without being properly informed – and are entitled to up to 90 days’ pay.
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What Do You Know About Parkinson Disease?
This illness has existed for thousands of years. Learn more about Parkinson disease by taking this quiz.
1. Parkinson disease is marked by a lack of which chemical in the brain?
The brain-signaling chemical dopamine is one of many neurotransmitters in the brain. It is made by cells in the brain stem. These cells release dopamine, which helps control muscle movement. The shortage of dopamine is caused by the breakdown of neurons in the area of the brain that controls movement. The breakdown of the neurons does not stop and gets worse.
A. Serotonin B. GABA C. Dopamine D. Norepinephrine E. None of the above
2. How many Americans are affected by Parkinson disease?
About 50,000 new cases are reported each year, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
A. 100,000 people B. 200,000 people C. 500,000 people D. 1,000,000 people
3. What is the average age when Parkinson disease first appears?
It is rare among people younger than 40, and the incidence rises with age. It is slightly more common in men than in women, according to the NINDS.
A. 25 B. 50 C. 60 D. 75
4. What is often the first symptom of Parkinson disease?
About 7 in 10 people with Parkinson first have a slight tremor in a hand or foot, according to the Parkinson Foundation. The tremor usually occurs when the muscles are at rest and relaxed. It usually appears on one side of the body. Later it may spread to the other side of the body, but to a lesser degree. Common symptoms as the disease gets worse include:
Slowness of movement
Rigid or stiff muscles
A shuffling gait
A stooped posture
Secondary symptoms include:
Changes in speech
Loss of facial expression (called "flat effect")
Memory difficulties and slowed thinking
Fatigue and aching
A. Headache B. Nausea C. Shaking of a hand or foot D. Turning of the head
5. How is Parkinson disease diagnosed?
It's difficult to diagnose in the early stages. No test currently exists that can diagnose Parkinson. Usually, a neurologist makes the diagnosis by evaluating the symptoms and how serious they are, as well as the results of a neurological exam. The person should also see a specialist in movement disorders to make sure the correct diagnosis is made. A brain scan can help find out if the person has Parkinson or a disease with similar symptoms. Sometimes medicines used to treat Parkinson are given to the person to see if the symptoms improve.
A. With a blood test B. With a neurological exam C. With an X-ray D. All of the above
6. How is Parkinson disease treated?
Parkinson has no cure, but the symptoms often can be improved with medicine and sometimes with surgery. Treatment varies greatly from person to person. It depends on whether the symptoms are mild, moderate, or severe. Levodopa is a medicine that is often prescribed. It is converted to dopamine in the brain. It helps replace the dopamine that the brain no longer makes. Other medicines act like dopamine in the brain, and others that keep dopamine from being destroyed so more of it is available. It is common for a person with Parkinson to take more than one medicine. Possible surgeries include implanting neurostimulators, pallidotomy, and transplanting stem cells.
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CAB Abstracts During the last 45 years more than 2000 scientific research papers, results of health activities, surveys and services, have been published in this Journal. Genus / Species Primary Author Year Volume Page: Alosimus smyrnensis: Health Sci. To recommend a journal for this list please: Send SafetyLit an Email Message, Nšry bhdʼšt ʼyrn̆, Nashrīyah-i Bihdāsht-i Īrān, Published by: Aims Public Health is an international, multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal. Title Abbreviation: Iran J Public Health Title(s): Iranian journal of public health. Iranian Journal of Public Health | Abreviatura de Diario Estándar (ISO4) : Iran. Rule 4.3: prepositions shall be omitted from title abbreviations. The table below outlines in detail the ISO 4 rules and matches to the ISSN maintained list of title word abbreviations (TWA) to derive the abbreviation. 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ISSN: 2251-6085 (Print) 2251-6093 (Online) Iranian Journal of Public Health has been continuously published since 1971, as the only Journal in all health domains, with wide distribution (including WHO in Geneva and Cairo) in two languages (English and Persian). To meet the increasing demand of respected researchers, as of January 2012, the Journal is published monthly. ACTA Genetica Sinica (Peking) ... Iranian Journal of Public Health: Iran J Radiol: Iranian Journal of Radiology: Isis: Isis (Chicago, IL) ISME J: The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology: Isokinet Exerc Sci: Journal of Environmental Health Science & Engineering presents timely research on all aspects of environmental health science, engineering and management.. Please consider asking your library to subscribe to the journals from which these abstracts have been gathered. Item request has been placed! Public Health. 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The Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences (IJMS) is an international peer-reviewed bimonthly biomedical publication, the aim of which is to provide a scientific medium of communication for researchers throughout the globe. Including Water pollution and treatment, Wastewater treatment and reuse, Air control, Soil remediation, Noise and radiation control, Environmental biotechnology and nanotechnology, Food safety and hygiene. It publishes original papers, reviews and short reports on all aspects of the science, philosophy, and practice of public health. Iranian Journal of Public Health Impact Factor, IF, number of article, detailed information ⦠From 2001 issue, the Journal is published only in English language. Publication Start Year: 1972 Publication End Year: Frequency: Monthly, 2012- Country of Publication: Iran Publisher: TihrÄn, Anjuman-i BihdÄsht-i ĪrÄn Description: v. illus. Public Health". Abbreviation Name; I Chuan Hsueh Pao: I Chuan Hsueh Pao. 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Kapiti Energy Win
KCDC SCOOPS 2 AWARDS FOR ENERGY PROJECTS
By Alan Tristram
Otaki Tech Clean Tech Centre
The Kapiti Coast has won double honours in the 2014 EECA Awards for energy conservation.
The judges say: “It has halved its CO2 emissions, and brought strong community engagement.”
The Council has been named winner in the community category for a range of inventive projects to improve residents’ energy efficiency and awareness.
It also took the Public Sector Award for its carbon and energy management scheme, which has made Kapiti the first council in New Zealand to gain CEMARS (Certified Emissions Measurement And Reduction Scheme) certification for managing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
It has succeeded in cutting emissions by 48% in just three years, through renewable energy and other initiatives.
The overall Supreme Winner of the 2014 EECA Awards was K&L Nurseries, winner of the Small to Medium Business category, for a bioenergy installation that is the first of its type in New Zealand)
The Community Award is sponsored by Fujitsu General New Zealand.
Judges say the Kapiti Coast District Council is using “diverse and imaginative” ways to reach the community and raise awareness of energy. And in the least of its achievements, it has surpassed itself and has come in an affliation with this business gas comparison website to ensure cost-effective dissipation of heat. Its Greenest Neighbourhood competition spurs neighbours to work together on carpooling, energy efficiency and sharing community know-how.
And through the ambitious Energise Otaki initiative the Council is working with local businesses and others to support the development of a local clean tech sector in Otaki.
Judges in the Public Sector Award, sponsored by Opus International Consultants, said that, despite being relatively small, Kapiti was leading with an “excellent professional approach.”
To reduce its own energy use, Kapiti has invested in a range of innovative systems – including a transparent roof at the new aquatic centre, wood energy at the sewage plant, a prototype electric rubbish truck, and efficient LED streetlights throughout the district.
Financial savings from these and other projects are ploughed back into energy management and community schemes – for example, cost savings from switching to wood energy at its sewage-drying facility have helped to insulate pensioner flats.
EECA Chief Executive Mike Underhill said the Council had worked hard over several years to achieve what it had.
“Kapiti has strived to reduce its own energy use and costs, delivering good value to ratepayers, while also helping to build energy awareness in local homes and businesses.
“It’s the combination of good day-to-day energy management in its own operations, coupled with strong community leadership, which was recognised by the judges. I’m sure they will continue to inspire other councils.”
Other Joint Winner
Tertiary institute Unitec was the other joint winner in the Public Sector Award for a successful energy-saving programme run across three campuses and 170 buildings.
Drawing on the input of students and staff, the programme has cut energy costs by $200,000 a year.
AUT University was also Highly Commended for its energy management programme.
Other finalists recognised in the Community Award were the Ngati Hine Health Trust, Highly Commended for an energy-efficient earth bank childcare centre; and Little Greenie Building Education, Commended for its efforts to improve energy efficiency in house construction. The Awards honoured winners in ten categories for a range of projects across business, community and the public sector.
The EECA Awards, held every two years, celebrate organisations and individuals that demonstrate excellence in energy efficiency and renewable energy. Collectively, 2014 Awards entrants have saved or generated energy worth around $100 million over the life of the projects, and have reduced or avoided 200,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
The 2014 EECA Award Winners: full list * Supreme winner: K&L Nurseries * Large Business: Momentive Specialty Chemicals & Energy Plant Solutions * Small to Medium Business: K&L Nurseries * Public Sector: Kāpiti Coast District Council / Unitec * Renewable Energy: Government of Tokelau * Energy Management: DNZ Property Fund * Innovation: Momentive Specialty Chemicals & Energy Plant Solutions / Ngati Hine Health Trust * Community: Kāpiti Coast District Council * Christchurch Energy Champion: Community Energy Action / Tait Communications * Energy Leadership: Martin Fryer, Auckland International Airport ENDS Note to Editors: The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) is the Crown agency that encourages, supports, and promotes energy efficiency, energy conservation, and the use of renewable energy in New Zealand. EECA provides information to households through ENERGYWISETM
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Two Films Of Quality
Two films, shot through with compassion, integrity and sheer brilliance, have little else in common, but try to see them before they disappear from our local screens.
Frantz: A War Film With A Difference
By Ralph McAllister
Frantz, directed by the prolific Francois Ozon is set in 1919 Germany, not long after the end of World War One.
Young German Anna visits the grave of her fiancée only to find flowers placed there by a mysterious young Frenchman.
The story then moves to the village and family resentments, as the young man stays,
obviously racked with guilt.
Strong on emotion
Forgiveness and bitterness are central to the plot.
Frantz’s father says ” Every Frenchman is my son’s murderer”, anger echoed by the community at large.
Anna learns to change from rigidity to a reluctant understanding as her relationship develops with this stranger. A shimmering performance from Paula Beer, rightly has won awards for her.
The story is told in black and white with occasional magical shifts into colour.
It is also subtitled. If that begins to put you off, please don’t let it.
A short two hours with enough twists and turns to satisfy the most demanding Hitchcock fans, this film will stay in the memory for a very long time.
Eight hours of a play about AIDS seen in two screenings will probably make you stop reading this review.
Again I urge your forbearance.
This film by Tong Kushner was first seen on stage in America twenty five years ago.
This revival from the National Theatre of Great Britain was received with huge acclaim just recently in London.
Now, courtesy of live recordings, we can witness this searing production and decide whether it is relevant these days and is eight hours too much?
I saw the original productions all these years ago and confess that it was too painful for me then. Too many friends had died in the eighties after catching the virus.
Impressively written and acted
Now I can see the brilliance of the writing and the chilling predictions which are so accurately present today.
Kushner (not Jared!), has, as one of his central characters, Roy Cohn the notorious lawyer who was the legal adviser for the young Donald Trump.
His prejudice and his refusal to acknowledge his own homosexuality are given a blisteringly terrifying performance by actor Nathan (The Producers) Lane.
He is matched every step of the way by Andrew (Spider-Man) Garfield as Prior, the young man who is at death’s door.
Millennium Approaches the first part, is the better piece of writing while Perestroika, the second part, loses some momentum as we climb up to heaven and a surrealistic change that is never as involving as the plights of the mere mortals.
But what was totally unexpected was realising how very funny much of the script offers as relief from the tragedy.
Worth seeing?
I reeled out into Wellington sunshine and had to sit and enjoy just being back from a deeply moving experience, into a world of warmth and tolerance.
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Zach Savich
Zach Savich is the author of five books of poetry, including The Orchard Green and Every Color (Omnidawn, 2016), and a book of prose, Events Film Cannot Withstand (Rescue Press, 2011). His work has received the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Open Award, the Omnidawn Chapbook Award, and other honors. He teaches in the BFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and coedits Rescue Press’s Open Prose Series.
Between generations
The antidotal approach
Complex orphaning
On returning
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Partial objects
Jennifer K. Dick's 'Lilith: A Novel in Fragments'
Alexander Dickow
Author photo (left) courtesy of Jennifer K. Dick.
Artifact, from the Latin arte, “by or using art,” + factum, “something made.” But an “artefact,” in French, is also something accidental, a residual effect created by human beings that distorts observation of a natural phenomenon, like footsteps distorting a seismic measurement. Jennifer K. Dick’s Lilith revolves in part around this ambiguous status between the accidental and the deliberately formed: the reader encounters a series of enigmatic textual objects that seem alternately laden with meaning.
Rochelle Owens
'Patterns of Animus, Part Two,' a continuation
[Rochelle Owens remains, as she has been for the preceding half-century, a necessary voice among the growing company of those American and world poets writing and performing at the limits. The work presented here is a follow-up to the first part of “Patterns of Animus” presented earlier on Poems and Poetics, and a harbinger of yet more works to come.
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Fiches Volcan
July 20 , 2018. EN. Colombia : Galeras , Kamchatka : Ebeko , Hawai : Kilauea , Italy : Etna , Mexico : Popocatepetl .
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Posted 20 juillet 2018
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July 20 , 2018.
Colombia , Galeras :
Subject: Weekly activity bulletin of Galeras volcano
The level of activity of the volcano continues at the level:
YELLOW LEVEL ■ (III): CHANGES IN THE CONDUCT OF VOLCANIC ACTIVITY.
Following the activity of the GALERAS volcano, the COLOMBIAN GEOLOGICAL SERVICE informs that:
For the period from July 10 to July 16, 2018, the predominance of events associated with rock fracturing continues (known as Volano-tectonics), maintaining a decrease in both occurrence and energy. loose seismic. Most of the events continue to be epicentrally located north-east of the summit of the volcanic building at distances up to 6 km, with depths less than 10 km below the summit of the volcano (reference level greater than 4200 ms); Other earthquakes are located northwest of the volcano, at distances up to 13 km, with depths less than 15 km. The VT events recorded during this period showed amplitudes lower than M 1.3 on the Richter scale.
Aerial image of the active cone of the Galeras volcano. Craters and fumarole fields on the west side, September 28, 2005.
During the evaluated period, when climatic conditions in the volcano region allowed, it was possible to observe the gas emissions of the main fumarolic fields of the active cone, with a low outlet pressure, a white color, a low height and direction of dispersal according to the predominant direction of the winds in the volcanic peak region.
The other geophysical and geochemical parameters of the volcanic monitoring of Galeras do not allow to record variations that show a change in the level of activity of the volcano.
The COLOMBIAN GEOLOGICAL SERVICE remains attentive to the evolution of the volcanic phenomenon and will continue to inform in a timely manner of the observed changes
Source : SGC
Photo : SGC
Kamchatka , Ebeko :
VOLCANO OBSERVATORY NOTICE FOR AVIATION (VONA).
Issued: July 20 , 2018 .
Volcano:Ebeko (CAVW #290380)
Current aviation colour code: ORANGE
Previous aviation colour code:orange
Source:KVERT
Notice Number:2018-64
Volcano Location:N 50 deg 41 min E 156 deg 0 min
Area:Northern Kuriles, Russia
Summit Elevation:3791.68 ft (1156 m)
Volcanic Activity Summary:
According to satellite data, a moderate explosive activity of Ebeco volcano continues. Ash cloud drift to the north-east from the volcano.
A moderate gas-steam with some amount of ash activity of the volcano continues. Ash explosions up to 16,400 ft (5 km) a.s.l. could occur at any time. Ongoing activity could affect low-flying aircraft and airport of Severo-Kurilsk.
Volcanic cloud height:
8200 ft (2500 m) AMSL Time and method of ash plume/cloud height determination: 20180720/0045Z – MODIS TERRA (31m32)
Other volcanic cloud information:
Distance of ash plume/cloud of the volcano: 9 mi (15 km)
Direction of drift of ash plume/cloud of the volcano: E / azimuth 80 deg
Time and method of ash plume/cloud determination: 20180720/0045Z – MODIS TERRA (31m32)
Source : Kvert.
Photo : T. Kotenko, IVS FEB RAS , 12/1/2017
Hawaï , Kilauea :
Thursday, July 19, 2018, 12:27 PM HST (Thursday, July 19, 2018, 22:27 UTC)
19°25’16 » N 155°17’13 » W,
Summit Elevation 4091 ft (1247 m)
Current Volcano Alert Level: WARNING
Current Aviation Color Code: ORANGE
Kīlauea Volcano Lower East Rift Zone
Fissure 8 continues to erupt lava into the perched channel leading northeastward from the vent. Lava levels in the channel appeared a bit low this morning and there were no overflows noted. The southern margin of the flow is about 500 m (0.3 mi) from the boat ramp at Isaac Hale Park this morning. Despite no visible surface connection to the fissure 8 channel, lava continues to ooze out at a few points on the 6 km (3.7 mi) wide flow front into the ocean.
No other fissures are active this morning.
An aerial view looking south, with the fissure 8 lava channel on the west side of Kapoho Crater, visible at left. As it nears the ocean, the channelized lava transitions to a broad ‘a‘ā flow that spreads laterally and toward the coast. The ocean entry plume is barely visible in the far distance (top).
Kīlauea Volcano Summit
After the collapse event that occurred 1:28 a.m. HST July 18, seismicity at the summit decreased immediately following the event and is now back to 25-35 earthquake per hour leading up to the next collapse/explosion event, which is expected to occur this afternoon.
Source : HVO.
Italy , Etna :
The summit craters of Etna, the transformist volcano!
Etna is the highest active volcano in continental Europe (3324 m above sea level) and rises along the eastern coast of Sicily over an area of over 1250 km2. The volcano is defined as an « open conduit », that is to say that it has a central conduit that connects the interior of the Earth, from where the Etnaen magmas come, more than 30 km deep, with the surface of the Earth. This open channel allows the magma to rise continuously, releasing the volatile phases through the area of the summit craters from which emerges the characteristic gaseous plume observed every day at the top of Mount Etna.
The area of the summit craters never stays the same over time, on the contrary, it changes continuously. Suffice it to say that only one hundred and twenty years ago, the summit of the volcano culminated with a single central crater, while today we find five, evidence of rapid and marked morpho-structural changes (Figure 1).
Figure 1 – Aerial photograph of the Etna summit crater area taken from the southeast. Next to the names of the five active craters, the year of their birth is indicated in parentheses. Photo: Marco Neri.
How is the summit of Etna arranged?
In the apical zone of the volcano, there are now five main eruptive devices that have formed and expanded in recent decades. Until the beginning of the 20th century, only the central crater was present at the top of Etna. In 1911, the Northeast crater was born on the northern flank of the central crater. Subsequently, Voragine (in 1945) and Bocca Nuova (in 1968) formed inside the central crater. In 1971, on the south-east side of the central crater, forms the South-East crater, which remains active until 2007. Then also began to develop the new crater of South-East, resting on the eastern flank of « Old » Southeast crater. Below, we try to summarize the eruptive history of these devices.
The central crater
It is the only active mouth of the summit, which has existed for at least a century before 1911 (Figure 2). A large crater with a circular edge about 500 meters in diameter, certainly several tens of meters deep, perhaps inherited from the collapse of the crater that took place on Mount Etna during the violent eruption of 1669 which touched the entire southern flank of the volcano.
Figure 2 – Topographic maps published by the Military Geographical Institute updated until 1932. In the center of the map is the central crater, which is approached, just to the north, by the crater Northeast which began its activity in 1911.
The Northeast crater:
He was born in the spring of 1911, just north of the central crater (Figure 2). This crater becomes more active in 1917, when it feeds a brief episode of lava fountain (or paroxysm). Subsequently, its activity is, for the most part, frequent Strombolian explosions of modest energy, accompanied by lava emissions, which together determine, especially from 1955, the progressive growth of a massive pyroclastic cone. . From the summer of 1977, paroxysmal episodes became more frequent, producing eruptive columns up to 12 km high. Many of these paroxysms are accompanied by the emission of lava flows that reach maximum lengths of more than 6 km, as in March 1978. With the last series of paroxysms (between 1995 and 1998), the crater Northeast reaches its maximum size, which rises as the highest peak of the entire volcano (about 3330 meters above sea level, measured in 2008). Subsequently, its activity decreases considerably, being limited to weak Strombolian intra – crateric explosions. It was only during the December 2015 and May 2016 eruptions that the Northeast crater again shows a more intense Strombolian activity, which eventually causes almost total obstruction of the crater and the collapse of its southern border. Finally, in November 2017, the bottom of the Northeast crater sinks and opens, allowing to emit the gaseous plume that characterizes it. Today, the Northeast crater continues to be, albeit slightly, the highest point in Etna (3324 m above sea level, measured in December 2015, Figure 3).
Figure 3 – Panoramic view of Mount Etna from the North, July 2017. In the foreground, the Northeast Crater, whose Southwest edge is the highest point of the volcano. Photo: Marco Neri.
The Voragine:
The crater of Voragine was born in the autumn of 1945 in the central crater and precisely in its north-east part. This crater is less active than the other summit craters, but has produced some of the most violent paroxysms in the recent history of Etna. The strongest of these paroxysms (1960, 1998, 1999, 2015) produce high eruptive columns up to 15 km. The last eruptions of Voragine, very explosive, take place in the first days of December 2015 (Figure 4) and in May 2016. The products of these eruptions are dumped in the neighboring Bocca Nuova then overflow, pouring on the top of the West flank of the volcano. On August 7, 2016, near the North-East limit of Voragine, a degassing mouth opens, still active today. In the first few months, this new mouth of Voragine is characterized by the emission of very hot gas (> 700 ° C), whose temperature drop coincides with the « reopening » of the Crater Northeast in November 2017.
Figure 4 – Paroxysmal eruptive activity of the crater of Voragine, December 2015, taken from the West. Photo by Veronica Testa.
The Bocca Nuova:
This crater was born in the spring of 1968 on the west flank of the central crater. Until mid-1997, the Nuova Bocca is mainly characterized by crater collapse phenomena and from time to time, a Strombolian activity that is modest and effusive intra-craterically, which cause the progressive widening of the crater until at a maximum diameter of more than 350 m. During the years 1997-1999, an intense intra-crater eruptive activity causes the progressive filling of the Bocca Nuova, which culminates then in a violent eruption in October-November 1999 (figure 5). After a new phase of subsidence and deepening of the crater, from 2011, the Bocca Nuova returns to a strombolian and expansive intra-crater production, but modest. The strong eruptions of its neighbor Voragine of December 2015 and May 2016 unload a large part of their products inside the Bocca Nuova, filling it to the brim and obstructing its bottom. From October 2016, the bottom of this crater deepens and opens. Today most of Etna’s gas plume is produced by Bocca Nuova gas.
Figure 5 – Strombolian violent activity of the Bocca Nuova Crater taken from the West, October 1999. The eruptive phenomenon is accompanied by an abundant flow of lava on the western edge. Photo by Marco Neri.
The Southeast crater and the new Southeast crater:
As in the cases previously illustrated, the Southeast crater also begins its activity with the formation of a small mouth that opens during the eruption of 1971, located on the southeast side of the central crater. Subsequently, between 1978 and 1979, the Southeast Crater produced short paroxysmal episodes and modest lava effusions. This eruptive style continues over the next two decades, with lava fountains forming eruptive columns several kilometers high and the emission of large lava flows (in 1980, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1998-1999), interspersed with Strombolian activity that persists for several months (1984, 1996-1998). Since 2000, it has significantly increased the frequency of its eruptions (66 lava fountains and lava flows between January and August 2000, 16 between May and July 2001, 20 in 2006, 4 in spring 2007), which determine the rapid growth of the system. eruptive. After 4 paroxysms from March to May 2007, the eruptive activity moves from the top of the cone to a new mouth that opens on its lower East side, which produces three violent paroxysms between September 2007 and May 2008. After a lull of about one half-year, in January 2011, this new mouth produces an additional lava fountain, followed by dozens of other strombolian and paroxysmal episodes that determine the rapid growth of a massive new pyroclastic cone called the new southeastern crater (Figure 6 and 7). In just four or five years, this new summit crater reaches the same dimensions as the « old » Southeast crater over the last forty years. Since the end of 2013, the activity of the new crater of the Southeast has become less violent and frequent.
Figure 6 – Strombolian and effusive eruptive activity of the New Southeast Crater, taken from Zafferana Etnea. On the right, the bell tower of the church Santa Maria della Provvidenza. Photo by Marco Neri.
Figure 7 – Topographic map of the Etna summit updated in December 2015, recently published in the Journal of Maps (Neri et al., 2017, Taylor & Francis Group, doi: 10.1080 / 17445647.2017.1352041) and downloadable for free via the Internet portal of the same magazine.
Source : Dr. Marco Neri ( https://ingvvulcani.wordpress.com/2018/07/19/i-crateri-sommitali-delletna/ ).
Mexico, Popocatepetl :
July 19, 11:15 am (July 19, 16:15 GMT)
In the past 24 hours, with the monitoring systems of the Popocatepetl volcano, 51 low intensity exhalations accompanied by water vapor and gas were identified, as well as an explosion at 08:31 h. In addition, two volcano-tectonic earthquakes recorded yesterday at 22:25 h and 5:39 h today, with an amplitude of M1,8 and M2,6 respectively were detected. In addition, 28 minutes of harmonic tremor of low amplitude were recorded.
During the night we observed an incandescence which increased at the time of the emissions.
At the time of this report, there is visibility of the volcano, the emission of water vapor and gas has a west direction.
CENAPRED asked not to approach the volcano and in particular the crater, because of the risk of falling of projectiles, and in case of heavy rain, to stay far from the bottoms of the ravines because of the danger of landslides and flows mud.
The Popocatepetl volcanic warning light is located at Amarillo Phase 2.
July 19, 23:00 (July 20, 4:00 GMT)
From 9:30 pm, a sequence of small explosions accompanied by light ash emissions to the west appeared on the volcano.
The foregoing is envisaged in the predicted scenarios and does not imply for the moment any change in the level of volcanic warning of the volcano Popocatépetl
Source : Cenapred.
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How Crispy Your Bonbon
How Crispy is Your Bonbon?
New theory, inspired by chocolate coatings, predicts thickness of thin shells.
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Apr. 3, 2016
Since the 1600s, chocolatiers have been perfecting the art of the bonbon, passing down techniques for crafting a perfectly smooth, even chocolaty shell.
Now, a theory and a simple fabrication technique derived by MIT engineers may help chocolate artisans create uniformly smooth shells and precisely tailor their thickness. The research should also have uses far beyond the chocolate shop: By knowing just a few key variables, engineers could predict the mechanical response of many other types of shells, from small pharmaceutical capsules to large airplane and rocket bodies. The team’s results are reported today in the journal Nature Communications.
The researchers developed a fabrication technique to quickly create thin, rubbery shells, which involved drizzling liquid polymer over dome-shaped molds and spheres such as ping pong balls. They allowed the liquid to coat each mold and cure, or solidify, over 15 minutes. They then peeled the resulting shell off the mold and observed that it was smooth — virtually free of noticeable defects — with a nearly uniform thickness throughout.
Combining this simple technique with the theory they derived, the team created shells of various thicknesses by changing certain variables, such as the size of the mold and the polymer’s density. Surprisingly, they found that the shell’s final thickness does not depend on the volume of liquid or the height from which it is poured onto the mold.
“Think of this formula as a recipe,” says Pedro Reis, the Gilbert W. Winslow Associate Professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “I’m sure chocolatiers have come up with techniques that give empirically a set of instructions that they know will work. But our theory provides a a much better, quantitative understanding of what’s going on, and one can now be predictive.”
Reis hopes that the group’s theory will reinvigorate studies in shell mechanics, a field that saw significant development in the 1950s and 60s.
“This is a really simple, robust, rapid prototyping technique, and we’ve established design principles together with a predictive framework that characterizes the fabrication of thin shells,” Reis says. “I think that will be powerful. We’re revisiting an old topic with new eyes.”
Reis’ co-authors include lead author and graduate student Anna Lee, postdoc Joel Marthelot, and applied mathematics instructor Pierre-Thomas Brun, along with colleagues from the team of François Gallaire at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The thick and thin of it
The team was initially inspired by videos of chocolatiers making bonbons and other chocolate shells. By simply pouring chocolate into molds, then inverting the molds to let excess chocolate drain out, chocolate makers create shells of relatively uniform thickness. Reis’ team wondered whether there was a way to precisely predict the final thickness of chocolate and other shells that start out as a liquid film.
Lee and Marthelot used an analogous technique to experimentally create their own shells, using a liquid polymer solution that they drizzled over dome-shaped molds and spheres. After peeling the resulting shell off each mold, they cut the shell in half and found it was nearly the same thickness from top to bottom. But why?
To answer this question, Reis’ team systematically characterized the coating dynamics in each of their experiments, including the physical properties of the polymer, the size of the mold, how fast the fluid flows down a mold, and the time it takes for the polymer to cure.
Based on their data, the researchers developed a simple formula to estimate the final thickness of a shell, which essentially equals the square root of the fluid’s viscosity, times the mold’s radius, divided by the curing time of the polymer, times the polymer’s density and the acceleration of gravity as the polymer flows down the mold.
The formula boils down to the following relationships: The larger a mold’s radius, the longer it takes for fluid to flow to the bottom, resulting in a thicker shell; the longer the curing time, the faster the fluid will drain to the bottom, creating a thinner shell.
Like waiting for chocolate
The researchers, led by Gallaire, then developed a numerical and analytical model to further test their simple mathematical formula, exploring more complex experimental configurations that are not easily feasible in the lab.
“You could go in the lab and lay down tons of ping pong balls and test various initial conditions, which is what Anna and Joel have been doing to some extent, but with numerics, you can get really creative,” Brun says.
For instance, in their models, the researchers explored complex coating patterns and the effects of changing a polymer’s curing time.
Ultimately, through modeling and experiments, Reis and his colleagues found they were able to control the thickness of a shell by shortening the polymer’s curing time. After mixing the polymer, they simply waited for it to thicken up before pouring it onto a mold. Because the polymer was already slightly solidified, it didn’t take that much longer to fully cure. The result: More polymer solidified onto the mold rather than draining off.
“By waiting between mixing and pouring the polymer, we can increase the thickness of a shell by a factor of 11,” says Lee.
“This flexibility of waiting gives us a simple parameter we can tune, depending on what we want for our final goal,” Reis says. “So I think ‘rapid fabrication’ is how we can describe this technique. Usually that term means 3-D printing and other expensive tools, but it could describe something as simple as pouring chocolate over a mold.”
This research is supported in part by the National Science Foundation.
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Young model of burial clothes gives people more choices of what to wear at the end of their lives
Ren Sainan, a model of shouyi, or burial clothes, recently went viral online. A designer and livestreamer, the 25-year-old woman works at an e-commerce company that provides funeral services in the city of Hangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang province.
When Ren started the job three years ago, she was reluctant to wear the clothes because of the fear of death, but the stories of her customers have helped her appreciate the job more.
Ren once helped a couple buy shouyi, which had fish and flower embroidery on it, for their 20-year-old daughter who was diagnosed with cancer. Days later she received a photo of the girl in the clothes with a smile on her face.
“Our daughter likes it very much, which makes us feel less painful,” the couple expressed their gratitude toward Ren.
Stories like this have made her realize the meaning of the job – what she is doing is not only helping people say their goodbyes at the end of their lives in a dignified way, but is also comforting their living families.
As a designer, Ren has designed 10 kinds of beautiful shouyi to give customers more choices. Some of the clothes are of western style, some are hanfu, or traditional Chinese attire, and some are qipao, a classic one-piece and figure-fitting Chinese dress for women. She even won a shouyi design contest held by her company in Hangzhou China.
Most of Ren’s colleagues are in their 20s, and they never feel uncomfortable to try on the clothes to improve them.
Ren said she received a lot of support from her boyfriend, as well as netizens watching her live stream shows. “People leave positive comments during my shows, saying my story has changed their impression of shouyi and the funeral industry.”
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Amy Truesdale hopes to create Paralympic history in Para-taekwondo
Truesdale would be the first Para-taekwondo athlete to represent GB at a Paralympics
British Para-taekwondo star Amy Truesdale is still hoping to create history at next year’s rescheduled Paralympic Games – even though she has to wait an extra 12 months.
The sport will make its Games debut in Tokyo, 23 years after Truesdale took up the sport.
The 31-year-old has secured a qualifying spot and is in line to be part of the ParalympicsGB squad.
“I don’t think of myself as a history maker because I am tough on myself,” she told BBC Sport.
“But people who know me would say this is an amazing opportunity to be the first person to go and hopefully make history.
“It is a big opportunity I should embrace and probably give myself more credit for.”
Truesdale was born missing her left hand and forearm but showed talent from a young age competing against able-bodied rivals.
She explains: “Being a Para-athlete was never on my radar, because growing up I never came across anyone else with a similar impairment to mine. I did taekwondo because I loved it.
“It’s exciting to think there are other athletes out there with the same impairment and it’s now a Paralympic sport.”
As the sport made its bid to join the Paralympic movement, Truesdale became a key figure, winning the world title in 2014 and has followed that up with more European and world success.
Her sporting path changed dramatically in January 2015 when the sport was confirmed as part of the Tokyo programme. She is now a full-time athlete and has gained a lot more experience, developing her fitness levels and improving her body composition.
The skills she has learned over her time in the sport are putting her in good stead at the moment.
“I think I am a patient person from doing martial arts for as long as I have and I have a lot of patience and dedication, so another year isn’t the end of the world,” she said.
“When I qualified I said I wanted to do two Games so it was always my plan to continue on to Paris in 2024.
Truesdale started the sport in Chester as a youngster
“But at the same time, it is disappointing because for the last few years all my focus was on 2020 and now the year arrives and you aren’t doing it. But it does give me a chance to develop tactics and work on my mental skills ahead of the Games.
“And everyone is in the same boat so you just have to deal with it and manage it in your own way.”
While Truesdale knows that her place at Tokyo just needs to be ratified, her team-mates Joe Lane and Matt Bush must wait to see if they can secure further spots for GB.
The pair, who compete in the under 75kg and over 75kg categories respectively, were due to take part in the final European qualifier in April but that was cancelled with a new date to be scheduled.
With Truesdale back in training at their Manchester base, alongside Lane and Bush, the focus is now on the path to Tokyo.
She spent lockdown with sister Chloe and two-year-old nephew Arlo in Chester and both played a key part in keeping Truesdale’s Tokyo dreams on track.
“Because I am training or away at competitions, 10 weeks is the longest I have spent with them so to be with them for that amount of time was lovely,” she said.
“I used the outside area for training and my sister is very supportive and organised and she was cooking good food every day for the three of us.
“Arlo practised on the bags copying my kicks, following me in my ladder drills and doing his own running and little jumps. I think he really enjoyed it.”
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The inception of the Mechanical Engineering Department may be traced back to 1921 when a diploma course in Mechanical Engineering was started in this Institute. The first degree course in Mechanical Engineering was started from 18th July, 1930. Moving through a few decades, the Department of Mechanical Engineering consolidated to its present condition offering 8-Semester Undergraduate Courses with an approximate intake of 65 students annually and 3-Semester Postgraduate Courses with an intake of 22 students annually.
The Department provides ample laboratory facilities and hands-on training to the Undergraduate students both in the conventional subject as also in the emerging fields of specialization
The Department is backed by a number of well developed laboratories as mentioned below :
Heat power Engg. Lab
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Machine Tools Lab
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Of these laboratories, Sl. Nos (i) to (viii) serve the purpose of training the students in the conventional and basic course of Mechanical Engineering; while laboratories Sl. Nos. (ix) to (xvi) are organized to provide hands-on training to the students in the emerging field of specialization. Each theoretical course is backed by sufficient laboratory experiments. The undergraduate students of this department may well claim the honour of being trained in the most sophisticated and state-of art laboratories available at the present moment in our country.
The Department is mainly backed by Applied Mechanics Department which caters subjects like, Strength of Materials, Fluid Mechanics, Dynamics of Machinery, Engineering Mechanics & drawing. It is also backed by the Central Workshop facilities for providing hands-on training in the conventional machining and other traditional trades like Smithy, Forging, Welding, Foundry and Pattern Making. A Stream Power Laboratory is also being used for training the departmental students.
The department also takes different theory classes and conducts laboratory experiments for other branches of Engineering viz. Electrical Engineering, Electronics & communication Engineering, Architecture, Computer Science & Technology, Metallurgy and Mining Engineering.
Regulars three semesters Postgraduate Courses are offered by the Department for regular students and for a few industry-sponsored candidates. There are three fields of specialization in the Postgraduate studies; namely, (i) Heat Power Engineering, (ii) Production Engineering and (iii) Machine Design. The postgraduate students are mostly trained in the laboratories meant for emerging field of specialization. They are assigned suitable thesis work relating to industrial and academic problems relevant to the present day trends of technical education. The research facilities leading to Ph.D. degrees are available for scholars registered with our University. The research facilities comprise computer facilities and equipment gadgets in various laboratories in the emerging field, central library facilities and the central workshop of the University. The students and research scholars are allowed to work in the department from early morning to 8.00 pm at night.
The Departmental faculty consists of erudite teachers who are constantly engaged in undertaking research work of original nature and subsequent publications. Many of the members of the faculty have earned to their credit quite a number of praiseworthy research papers published in the national and international journals of repute.
The Department is actively engaged in solving industrial problems faced by the industries in and around Kolkata. The Department is providing design and consultancy services for installing and pollution-abating equipment for different industries in Howrah and Kolkata.
The Department organizes Seminars and workshops every year. Industrial visits are also organized.
Most of the Undergraduate students get employed in the final year of the course and many Postgraduate students get jobs before completion of their studies.
Recently, the Department has expanded with the construction of a new floor to accommodate more machines and equipment for new laboratories and for Postgraduate research works. It is germane to mention that the Mechanical Engineering Department has taken a leading role for a Boiler Emission Upgrade Project in India following the MOU signed between Bengal Engineering College (D.U.) and a consortium of Daltech, Dalhousie University & Greenfield research Inc. of Canada under CIDA Project.
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Proprio Raises $23 Million in Series A Funding Led by DCVC
Company on Track to Deliver Groundbreaking Surgical Navigation System
SEATTLE – June 17, 2020 – Proprio, the surgical navigation company, today announced a $23M Series A financing round led by DCVC (Data Collective) with additional investment from Cota Capital. Existing investors BOLD Capital Partners and Alan Frazier, founder of East Seattle Partners and Frazier Healthcare Partners, also participated in the Series A.
Proprio is a computational imaging company providing enhanced visualization systems for precise surgical execution. The Proprio system integrates advancements in robotics, artificial intelligence, and computer vision to simplify surgical workflow, improve procedural accuracy, and reduce or eliminate exposure to radiation. This helps to increase surgical productivity while improving the precision of surgery -- two critically important factors for medical institutions facing enormous backlogs of elective surgeries due to COVID-19, an upcoming shortage of 23,400 surgical specialists in the U.S., and physician burnout which costs the U.S. $4.6 billion annually. As it provides near-term benefits to surgeons and medical institutions, the Proprio platform also creates valuable new data sets to improve clinical capability over the long term.
“As a cerebrovascular neurosurgeon, I am interested in the potential to use Proprio’s system to navigate and digitize the entire surgical experience,” said Dr. Christopher Kellner, neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai in New York City. “It will let surgeons detect nuances that we wouldn’t have noticed otherwise -- creating a new level of first-hand observation that would help us continuously learn and perfect our craft.”
“Proprio’s mission is to improve the precision and efficiency of surgery,” said Gabriel Jones, CEO and Co-founder of Proprio. “This investment supports our world-class team to deliver a surgical navigation system that leverages the latest technological advancements in imaging and machine learning, making it easier to perform high-quality surgeries.”
With the Series A investment, the Proprio Board of Directors adds Armen Vidian, a DCVC partner with extensive operational experience in healthcare and medical devices, including early market development for first-in-class technologies. Also joining as Board Observer is Alan Cohen, a DCVC partner with broad expertise in product development and go-to-market strategy for multiple billion-dollar companies. Mr. Vidian and Mr. Cohen join existing external Board Members: Dr. Teymour Boutros-Ghali, Managing Partner of BOLD Capital Partners; Mr. Ken Denman, Partner at Sway Ventures and past-CEO of Emotient; and Dr. Alan Levy, former CEO and Chairman of the Board at Northstar Neuroscience and Chronos Therapeutics.
“Proprio is creating the most transformative technology in surgery since the X-ray,” said Armen Vidian, Partner at DCVC. “DCVC has invested in Gabriel and his tremendous team, which includes proven leaders in artificial intelligence, computer vision, medical devices, and clinical medicine, because we believe they are uniquely qualified to execute on this ambitious goal.”
Proprio recently added Tony Titus, Amish Patel, and Shannon Eubanks, executives with deep expertise in commercialization, product development, regulatory affairs, and operations to the leadership team. Combined, the Proprio leadership team brings over 100 years of medical device development and commercialization experience to the company. Proprio will use the Series A financing to expand its development teams, accelerate clinical and regulatory timelines, build commercialization capabilities, and install the first Proprio systems in leading institutions.
Proprio technical advisors include Microsoft Healthcare GM Desney Tan, computer vision pioneer Dr. Takeo Kanada, and Dr. Joshua Smith, an IEEE Fellow and University of Washington professor whose research team developed the early computational imaging technology at the heart of Proprio. The company’s co-founders include Mr. Jones, Mr. Denman, Dr. Smith, Head of Engineering James Youngquist, and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Samuel Browd, a leading pediatric neurosurgeon at Seattle Children’s Hospital and a professor of medicine at the University of Washington.
About Proprio
Proprio is the surgical navigation company focused on physician productivity and patient outcomes. The Proprio platform integrates robotics, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and immersive computing to enhance the combined performance of humans and machines in healthcare. The company is backed by leading healthcare and technology investors, including Data Collective, BOLD Capital Partners, Cota Capital, Intel, HTC, and Alan Frazier, founder of East Seattle Partners and Frazier Healthcare Partners.
For more information visit www.propriovision.com.
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Hey Rosetta!'s Tim Baker Captures Moments of Connective Joy on His 'Survivors' EP
By Sam Boer
Having successfully established himself as a solo artist — more than just the former Hey Rosetta! frontman — on last year's Forever Overhead, Tim Baker's latest EP reiterates this beloved Newfoundlander's strengths. Clocking in at under 20 minutes, the Survivors EP is a sweet postscript to Baker's debut full-length that captures his wide dynamic range in only five songs.
The EP's Leif Vollebekk-esque title track is this collection's most impressive offering. Expansive arrangements — featuring shimmering banjo, strings, and woodwinds, cradled in an infectious percussion rhythm — heighten the piece, which might otherwise have been forgotten amongst Baker's growing list of mid-tempo piano ballads. Baker's tried-and-true songwriting is matched with impressive instrumentation again on "Sylvan Valley," a lush celebration of the arrival of summer. The importance of the backing musicians on this EP is emphasized with the reprise of the title track, a continuation of "Survivors" that simply invites these impressive instrumentalists to riff for two minutes.
This EP also struggles with the perennial issue that all B-sides collections face: the fact that they weren't included on the full-length for a reason. In the case of Survivors, none of the offerings feel half-baked, but most tracks do feel like less impactful versions of album cuts. For instance, the solo piano piece "Texas Girl at the Funeral of Her Father" would likely carry more weight if it weren't for more impactful, pensive piano pieces on Forever Overhead like "The Sound of the Machines" and "The Eighteenth Hole." While the Survivors EP certainly does not suffer from a lack of beautiful melodies or unconvincing delivery, it does contain several unmemorable moments that remind you how Baker has already done it better.
Regardless, this EP is an unflinchingly pleasant, personable collection, which speaks to a deeply human optimism that Tim Baker captures with grace. Lines like "Just a bottle of suds / And a spot on the porch / Soon the kids are in love / And they're looking at us" epitomize how well Baker uses his work to capture connective joy. (Arts & Crafts)
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Counter-insurgency industry, mysterious militia’s and parochial politics
by Sanjay Barbora, 6 November 2008
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When bomb becomes the symbol of failure
Initial reactions are an important indicator of how people take stock of events beyond their control. On October 30, as the news of serial bombs exploding around Guwahati spread, people around our office complex called friends and family to make sure that they were safe. As the enormity of the blasts sunk in, one heard that similar explosions had occurred in Barpeta Road, Bongaigaon and Kokrajhar. The overwhelming response among people was one of concern. The administration however reacted by trying to apportion responsibility on perceived perpetrators of the blasts. Government spokespersons and senior security personnel, looking politically dyslexic went on air to say that they were not ruling out the responsibility of one or the other militant group in the attack. Obviously angered by this display of callousness and failure, local people began to stone police vehicles. A local television channel kept repeating footage of an angry man throwing a tyre twice his size at a damaged police vehicle. To add to the death toll, ten more people mostly police personnel were killed in an ambush in North Cachar Hills. A small faction of a militia claiming to fight for the rights of the Dimasa people was said to be responsible for the ambush. Trapped between the anonymity of bombs and the intimacy of an ambush lies the tragic story of contentious politics in contemporary Assam.
While journalists and security experts ask the obvious post-event question of who is responsible for the blasts, this would be an opportune moment to pause and think about why this has happened. Anger and resentment are recurring themes in the political landscape in the region. While Thursday’s events are on a different scale altogether, it would be pointless to see them as a paradigmatic shift in more than three decades of conflict. Which is precisely what the administration and security experts would like us believe, since such hollow profundity sounds sombre and chilling and make them look less insensitive. No, this is a variation of an old Assamese story of the abject lack of a political space to express collective angst of people who feel that an unsympathetic and calculating administration has forsaken them.
Barely three weeks ago the north bank of the Brahmaputra was witness to riots that left many dead and thousands displaced. Many of the displaced still live in makeshift camps in Darrang district. The riots originated in a charged milieu follow ing a general strike called by the All Minority Students Union (AMSU) against the alleged victimisation of Bengali-speaking Muslim youth. Tensions generated during the general strike erupted as non-Muslims attempted to prevent AMSU from mobilising. Again, the state machinery looked thoroughly inept as spokespersons went on their finger-pointing exercise. Similarly , in 2005 hundreds of people were killed and more than sixty thousand displaced in clashes between mysterious militia claiming to represent the Dimasa and Karbi people in Karbi Anglong district.
Why has political difference become a matter of violent confrontation and what does the bomb do to notions of a political process? For a provisional answer to the first part, one has to understand the manner in which constitutional vocabulary and counter-insurgency have created a milieu of distrust among different communities who share the same resource base. Political scientist Sanjib Baruah has written about the manner in which a colonial spatial order has been imposed upon groups of people in Northeast India, whereby notions of a people belonging to a particular habitat has been instrumental in framing identity politics. In Assam antiquated census categories such as “hill tribe”, “plains tribe” and so on are part of political currency during negotiations with the state. The remarkable simplicity of these categories is dangerous when one applies them to complex processes of political mobilisation. Hence, an Oraon extea worker may still live in a relief camp sixteen years after a particular phase of the Bodo movement, where non-Bodos were forced out of western Assam. In every such incident the possibility of dialogue diminishes and prejudices multiplied. Confrontation, therefore, becomes an inevitable reality and every community looks for protection within its own fold, ostensibly to provide security to a collective based on kin ties.
The bomb changes the contours of political possibilities even within such a contentious terrain. Placing a bomb in a public place is an act that circumscribes the development of a political process where dialogue is possible. In Assam, two decades of ferment have led to escalating levels of violence perpetuated in equal part by the state and nonstate actors. During this time, the people of the Assam have been subjected to targeted killings by death squads organised and armed by the state; forced to live in camps following attacks by armed militia; with successive governments showing no interest in resolving the causes of conflict. The Congress-led coalition has been in power for two terms now, and in the course of which it has signed cessation of hostilities — erroneously called “ceasefires” in the local media — with at least five armed groups. The modality of talks with these groups has not gone beyond immediate photo-ops and securing cadres to designated camps. Worse still has been the state government’s pusillanimity in pushing for political dialogue between the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and the government of India. The security establishment has been inept in resolving conflicts in Assam and aggrieved constituencies are looking for plausible answers. Bombs are symptomatic of an overall failure of existing conflict-resolution paradigms.
Instead, the political establishment has chosen to make wild, irresponsible allegations to cover its failures. It has had able support from a pliant and crude electronic media, with television channels pushing out their young defence experts to simplify and even falsify the course of events in Assam. It was frightening to see the absence of journalist ethics in the manner in which smarmy reporters and analysts kept quoting “intelligence sources” and behaving as though they were investigative officers in the case. The sum total of this post-blast administrative madness is the inevitable process of ethnic polarisation on religious grounds. One fears that in our haste to move on from the ghastly memories of the blasts, we will be helping a cynical political establishment that does not want to address the structural causes of resentment in Assam. In a few weeks, our anger might be assuaged by a constant barrage of useless information that tells us who might have been responsible, but we would then be party to turning a blind eye to why another section of people feel resentful.
At times like this, wiser counsel would suggest that we temper our initial reactions with sobering ideas for the future. What Assam does not need is another recipe from the unimaginative counter-insurgency machinery that talks of more militarisation, but one where concern for others is brought back into political discourse.
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Souness, Neville assess whether Liverpool can win Prem title
Graeme Souness and Gary Neville both ran the rule over Liverpool’s title credentials following their impressive 2-1 win at Tottenham on Saturday.
Goals from Gini Wijnaldum and Roberto Firmino helped put the Reds 2-0 up before an injury-time strike from Erik Lamela set up a tense finish.
But anything but three points would have been harsh on the Reds and Klopp’s side maintained their 100% record this season to secure a 2-1 win and their fifth Premier League win in five games.
We explained at full-time why Liverpool can extinguish their title demons this season – and it seemed to be a view shared by Sky Sports pundit Souness.
“The result does not flatter Liverpool, it flatters Spurs,” he said. Liverpool were fabulous, really impressive. The front three were a real menace.
“Any manager who wants to win the Premier League will be impressed with that Liverpool performance today.”
Pressed further on whether this could be Liverpool’s year, Souness continued: “Yes, I think so. This is as good a Liverpool side we’ve seen since they last won it [English championship].
“They have strength all over the park. Look, any side who finishes higher than Liverpool will finish as champions. Today they made a statement.”
Neville, meanwhile, things that Liverpool will take some stopping but stood by his claim he made in The Times that the Reds do not have the strength in depth to challenge on multiple fronts this season.
“The point I was making earlier on in the week I thought was a positive really, in the sense that probably in this time of the season over the last 28 years, I never felt that Liverpool had a strong chance of winning the league title,” the former Manchester United captain told Sky Sports.
“I do not think they have great depth behind that front three and the drop in quality behind that front three is big.
“My view is if they were to go on a long Champions League, League Cup or FA Cup run, that would put that Premier League title at risk because I’m not sure that front three would be able to play Wednesday, Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday, week in, week out.
“Liverpool, obviously, have a great history with the Champions League and with the European Cup. But make no mistake about it, Liverpool FC need to win a Premier League title. And that would be a game changer for them.
“And I do genuinely think they have a chance and to give themselves the best possible chance, and to remove one of those risks would be to not have too many matches for their best XI.
“Because I do believe that with that best XI on the pitch week in, week out, they have an opportunity to do it.”
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NYC Popfest: Mahogany + My Teenage Stride + The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | Music Hall of Williamsburg | 6.14.2008
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Despite the torrential rains and a slew of other shows with potentially the same audience (including Love is All, and to a lesser degree, Vampire Weekend), night three of NYC Popfest 2008 was a whole lot of fun. The venue wasn't sold-out by any means — the balcony wasn't open at all — but people who showed up stayed for all five bands on the bill, with very few people hanging at the downstairs bar during any of the performances. Indie-pop fans are dedicated. I'm breaking the evening into two posts, lest it be 10,000 words long or something, so this one covers the first three bands — all of whom are from Brooklyn.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart were the first band of the night and I was anxious to see them, as I've been liking their music for some time, the got the hot mention in L Magazine a few weeks back, and every time I read an interview they mention how much they dig The Pastels. I seemed destined to love them.
And I did. How can you not love great pop songs drenched in distortion and reverb? My Bloody Valentine comparisons abound, but to me they are more akin to Velocity Girl, if Archie had sung lead more. Or the Ropers or early Lilys or any band on Slumberland in the early '90s.
And they are very cute. In particular, keyboardist Peggy bops around on stage like one of the dancers in A Peanuts Christmas. (I'm thinking specifically of the girl who shakes her head side to side.) A friend commented "they just use distortion because they can't sing." (You should hear them play piano.) I would disagree with the not being able to sing part, but even if that was so… so what? I could name a dozen great bands who did the same. Are TPoBPaH great? With only about eight songs under their belt, too early to say. But loads of potential.
MP3: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – This Love is F-ing Right (buy)
My Teenage Stride are seriously fun and their songs are ridiculously catchy. Sometimes maybea little too obvious in their '80s influences (why yes, that song does sound like The Chills' "Pink Frost" and that one is like The Wedding Present covering the Bunnymen…) but frontman Jedediah Smith is a thief with good taste — and a melancholic sense of humor.
A bundle of energy on stage, the songs had more oomph than on last year's quite good Ears Like Golden Bats. The popfest show was their last with bassist Mat Patalano and guitarist Dakkan Abe (I have a feeling the lineup changes a lot) and it seemed like they were determined to go out with a bang and much jumping around. Patalano, who has his own band The Specific Heats, will be particularly hard to replace — he's a real character. They also played a few songs off their new Lesser Demons EP, and I thought "Theme from Teenage Suicide" was particularly storming.
MP3: My Teenage Stride – Theme from Teenage Suicide
(buy)
Slimming down from the double rhythm section lineup they had around the time of their stellar 2006 album, Connectivity!, the now five-piece Mahogany gave the best performance of the night and it was definitely the best I'd ever seen them play. (Much much better than their muddled set at Mercury Lounge a while back.) Aided in no small part by the great sound at Music Hall of Williamsburg (which helped all the bands, actually), they just really had it together. The downsizing hasn't affected their sonics at all, which are still a huge swirl of guitars and groovy basslines. And though you could definitely call their music shoegaze, Mahogany don't stare at the floor. They were in constant motion with more than a little posing — which made for some great photos, even for a guy with a crappy point-and-shoot. They still don't seem to be able to play more than a five-song set, though. Or maybe they just know when enough's enough.
MP3: Mahogany – The View from the People Wall (buy)
More Popfest pictures on my Flickr.
Mahogany, Music Hall of Williamsburg, My Teenage Stride, Popfest NYC, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
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Scot Bowman
I enjoyed this show as well but it really couldn't compare to the Friday night event at Piano's. The energy at that show was remarkable for NYC.
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Green Cities: An A-to-Z Guide
By: Guoqiang Ren & Zhiqiang Ren
In: Green Cities: An A-to-Z Guide
Edited by: Nevin Cohen & Paul Robbins
Subject:Urban Planning
Beijing is one of the world's truly impressive cities, with a 3,000-year history and 15.38 million people. Contrasts between ancient and modern pervade this city, which is surrounded by blue sky, grassland, and clean rivers. Beijing, the capital of the Peoples Republic of China, lies in the north of the North China Plain, adjoining the Inner Mongolian Highland. Covering 16,808 square kilometers in area, Beijing is the political, economic, and cultural center of China. Five rivers run through the city. Beijing has a long history, and it has been China's capital for more than seven centuries.
With the increasing number of cars in Beijing, traffic conditions are worsening, especially during the morning rush hour
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All these beautiful scenes depend on the changes in Beijing's environment. At ...
City Organizations, Movements, and Planning
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Ren, G., & Ren, Z. (2011). Beijing, china. In N. Cohen, & P. Robbins (Eds.), Green cities: An A-to-Z guide (pp. 26-28). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412973816.n9
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The Families of the 1800s – incomers from across the UK and Ireland
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The 1800s: Incomers from Across the UK and Ireland
Hailing from Ireland, the Baileys, occasionally spelt as the Beeleys, came to Stoney Middleton in the 1800s to work in area factories. They later married into the Hancock and Lomas families. George Bailey was among Stoney Middletonite war dead in World War I.
The Bettneys (also spelt Betney) originated in the parish of Great Longstone, where they had been living since at least the reign of James I of England and VI of Scotland. The first Bettney recorded, Richard (c. 1611-1678) had a grandson, James Bettney, who married Mary Furness of Foolow and then himself lived with Mary at Foolow. James’s nephew, Joseph Bettney (1732-1777) was the ancestor of all the later Bettneys and Betneys at Calver and Stoney Middleton after his 1764 marriage at Baslow to Elizabeth Cawdwell (d. 1809). From the later 1700s well into the twentieth century, the Bettneys were based in Calver. In the late 1800s, a branch of the Bettneys became connected in Stoney Middleton after the marriage of Henry Bettney junior of Calver to Emma Hallam of Stoney Middleton. This writer has done considerable research on the Bettneys, spurred on by a Hallam family recollection that “we were related to Juddy Bettney of Stoney Middleton” (n.b., actually of Calver), a reference to George Henry Bettney, Henry and Emma (Hallam) Bettney’s eldest son.
The defining incomers of the 19th century at Stoney Middleton were probably the Heginbothams, who came from Great Longstone and who became fixtures at Stoney Middleton in the early 1800s when Henry Heginbotham married Hannah Hancock of Stoney Middleton. The Heginbothams were the third prominent shoemaking dynasty at Stoney Middleton, and though much newer in town than the Cockers, they were the first shoemaking family to achieve notoriety. Joseph Heginbotham was the family’s most famous representative, and was very active in local civic affairs, in addition to creating his shoemaking company with his sons. Joseph’s 1911 death made newspapers and his funeral at St. Martin’s was one of the largest in the village for years. Joseph married Caroline Gillatt of Eyam, and their large brood of children were ancestors of many local families, including the Halls and one branch of the Mycock family. Ms. Jane Austin has gathered much helpful information on the Heginbothams.
Also from Ireland, the Dohertys, sometimes spelt as the Doughtys, married into the Swift family, among others, and also into the Baggaley family at Calver, and were present in the Stoney area until at least the early 1900s. The Parkers were founded at Stoney Middleton by a widowed mother from Ireland, Elizabeth, who had a number of children. Elizabeth married secondly Ezra Cocker of Stoney Middleton, the widower of Judith Timperley, and Elizabeth’s daughter, Ann Parker, married Ezra’s nephew, Samuel Cocker, as his first wife, and had a number of children. Another daughter married into the Handley family at Stoney Middleton.
Another important family to arrive in Stoney in the 1800s were the Jacksons, besom, i.e., broom, makers from Sussex. The Jacksons married thoroughly into area Stoney Middleton families, forming alliances with the Barber, Hancock, Sellers, and Timperley families, among others. They favoured names such as Thomas and George, but also the colorful Stonewall, presumably in honor of the American Civil War Confederate general, Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson (1824-1863). Several Jacksons numbered among Stoney Middleton’s World War I dead. The Jacksons were accompanied by another Sussex family, the Jupps, with whom they intermarried, though the Jupps were not nearly as numerous as were the Jacksons. Ms. Jane Austin’s research has documented the Jacksons, the Jupps, and their Sussex origins extensively.
In addition to the Baileys, Dohertys, and Parkers, the 1800s also saw influxes of other Irish families , including the Austail, Carnall, Cullinane, Gerraty, Kennedy, McKinley, Murphy, Nugent, and Scivelle families) as well as several Scottish families, including the Bruce/Bryce family who married into the Booth and the Timperley families of Stoney Middleton, and the Jamiesons, whose men favoured the names Gilbert and Alexander, who married into the Mason and Cocker families, and who later emigrated from England to the USA. Mr. Daryl Hagberg has done an excellent study of the Jamiesons at his own website online.
The Wyatts were from Foolow. Two brothers, George and John Wyatt, arrived in Stoney Middleton in the early 1800s. John’s first wife was Ann Barnsley of Stoney; his second incomer Mary Cope–none of his children by either wife survived. George Wyatt married Grace Marsden of the parish of Eyam; of their many children, only their daughter Ann Wyatt remained local at Stoney Middleton and married Thomas Goddard of Stoney. Thomas and Ann (Wyatt) Goddard’s only child, Mary Goddard, married firstly Joseph Hancock, butcher, of Stoney Middleton, then upon widowhood, remarried to Peter John Hallam of Stoney Middleton. She left numerous descendants, including many noteworthy village denizens of late twentieth century Stoney Middleton. So the Wyatts continue on in the village under many other surnames. Another Wyatt, Joseph, married Margaret White of Baslow; their six children were all baptised at Stoney Middleton; though only one, Millicent Wyatt, survived. Millicent married Sampson Jones of Mansfield at Sheffield and lived thereafter at Rotherham, where her five daughters were born. The expert on the Wyatts is their descendant, Ms. Janet M. Kirk, nee Hancock, who kindly supplied the above details for inclusion in this essay.
Among the smaller families also moving to Stoney Middleton in the 1800s were:
the Andrews of Smalldale in the parish of Hope (who married into the Goddard family),
several families of Barkers, from several different locales in Derbyshire
the Barnes of Eyam, mostly blacksmiths by trade (remarkable for their children whose given names almost always began with the letter “F”),
the Carters of Highlow in the parish of Hathersage (who married into the Chapman family, among others), and who favoured the men’s names Edward and Jeremiah,
the Claytons of Peak Forest (who married into the Furness and Mason families at Stoney Middleton),
the Eidsons from Buler and Greenhowhill, Yorkshire (who married into the Goddard family, among others),
the Goodwins from Monyash (who married into the Hallam and Gregory families),
the Hodgkinsons of Winster (who married into the Barber and Hallam families),
the Mackwells aka Mackrills from the village of Greenhowhill in Yorkshire), who married into the Swift and Goodwin families, among others,
the Maddocks, aka Maddox, family of Wem, Shropshire (who married into the Rowland family of Foolow, then settled at Stoney Middleton and married into the Hallams and the Cockers there),
one branch of the (very numerous) Marples family of Baslow (Isaac Marples and family–Mr. Rodney B. Marples is the world expert on the Marples of Baslow). The Marples men were often called Isaac and William, and the women Ann, Mary, and the unusual Olinda.
the Mothersills of Wetherby, Yorkshire (the first of whom, John, had a wife from Ireland, and the second of whom, William, married into the Mason family and left thereafter for Dronfield, Derbyshire, and then to Workington, Cumberland). Mr. Ted Ormiston, a Mason and Mothersill descendant, has done an excellent Mothersill family tree on Ancestry.com.
the Mycocks of Hazel Grove, Cheshire (who married into the Goddard and Hinch families),
the Pinders from Totley near Sheffield (who married into the Mason family),
the Pursgloves from Eyam (who married into the Chapman family, among others),
the Rains ( also spelt Raynes and Range) family of Middleton by Wirksworth (who married into the Sellers family, among others),
the Rays (who married into the Cocker and Gregory families of Calver and Stoney Middleton, and the last of whom in Stoney, James Ray, later married Elizabeth (Bray) Walker, the Peak Forest-born widow of George Walker of Stoney Middleton), before moving the family to the Manchester area),
the Robinsons of Wardlow (who married into the Heginbotham family and later the Bonsall family), and who favoured the men’s names Jasper, Francis, and James, and who often used the women’s names Annie, Clara, Emma, and Eda),
the Slaters from Youlgreave (who married into the Hancock family), and
the Wall family from Calver and Youlgreave (who married into the Masons, among other local families, and who favoured the men’s names David, George, and Benjamin).
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Steve Milner says:
My father Dennis Stanley Milner recently passed away. His parents were Ben and Mildred Milner nee hancock. mildreds brothers both married into the Jackson family. I have a number of old family photographs one of which Marriage of John Staniforth and Margaret Jackson has been published by Ms Jane Austin mentioned in this article. Could she contact me so we can share information
Jenny Milner says:
My Papa was Ben Milner and I have an Aunt Mildred. Where are you located?
My Dad was Jennie Stonewall Milner.
Dorothy Howlett says:
Having been born and bred in Bingley, living very close to Milners Field, I am astonished by this important history that seems to have passed me by until recently when I have been researching my family history.
The branch of family, Halliday, owned a farm at Milners field, some 43 acres, which I have recently discovered. I am interested if anyone has heard of them and where I might find out more about them. (Pre 1841 census is very sketchy).
I also went to Bingley Grammar School in the 1960’s where one of the ‘houses’ was, probably still is, called Milner.
val cooper says:
I was interested to read about my ancestors the Jackson in the above article. Have been trying to find the research carried out by jane Austin without success can you help. thanks
Glenn Trezza says:
Hi, Ms Cooper,
I don’t believe that Ms. Austin has published her work online. Not sure how often she checks this site, though she knows of it. If there’s an email address you’d be comfortable leaving, I can pass on same to Jane to see if she’s able to reply. Best, Glenn T.
thanks for reply Glen would be happy for you to pass on my email address to jane.
Hi, Ms. Cooper,
I’ve asked, and Ms. Austin is fine with communicating with you. I just don’t know if either of you would want your email posted publicly on this website in comments back and forth that others see. I’m asking Colin and Alison Hall if there’s a way to get email address information without it having to be publicly available. Will keep you posted about same.
Best, Glenn Trezza
Hi, Ms. Cooper, I am waiting to hear back from the website’s administrators and tech support people re: my inquiry about whether there’s a way to pass your email on to Ms. Austin or to pass hers on to you without having to make same publicly available (Jane tells me she’s fine with your having her email, too, but I am still trying to find out how to do so in a way that respects correspondents’ privacy). I will keep you posted about safest ways to get the two of you in touch. Cordially, Glenn Trezza
Hi, Ms. Cooper. The website administrators suggest that you email them on the “Contact Us” option on the website and leave them your email address, which they’ll then give to me and I in turn will pass on to Ms. Jane Austin, so that you and Jane can be in touch.
Best wishes, Glenn Trezza
Helen B Hughes nee Cocker says:
Does anyone have a Cocker family tree?
Ina Thompson says:
You mention the Hallam family, from which I am a descendent (Stoney Middleton). I believe you visited George Hallam and his sister, Muriel. I would be very interested in any information you may have about the family.
Christine Franzen says:
I am very interested in your comments on the Bettneys and your research on Stoney Middleton. My husband and I live in New Zealand. He is descended from Joseph Bettney (1732-77) and Elizabeth Cawdell through the Baslow branch: their son James Betney (1768-1837) married Mary Twigg (1777-1844) and had a son Joseph (1798-1880) who married Martha Lomas. Joseph (1798-1880) is my husband’s great-great-grandfather. Interestingly he was Toll Collector in Stoney Middleton in the 1841 census when my husband’s great-grandmother, Hannah, was 8. You said you have done considerable research on the Bettneys, and I wonder if it is accessible? many thanks, Christine
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Downtown Bank Robbed Wednesday
by Bay City News | November 10, 2011 9:32 am | in News | 0
A bank in San Francisco’s Financial District was robbed Wednesday morning, police said.
The robbery was reported at 9:44 a.m. at a bank in the 200 block of California Street.
A suspect, described as a white man in his early to mid-50s, walked into the building and announced he was robbing the bank, according to police.
Two tellers handed the robber cash, and he then fled and had not been found as of this morning, police said.
No one was injured and no weapon was seen.
Anyone with information about the case is encouraged to call the Police Department’s anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444 or send a tip by text message to TIP411.
Dan McMenamin, Bay City News
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Housing Industry Organizations File Lawsuit Against Buyout Agreement Ordinance
david Campos Eric Mar John Avalos SF Apartment Association Small Property Owners of SF Institute by Bay City News | March 6, 2015 7:20 pm | in In Court | 0
Individuals and housing industry organizations that challenge the constitutionality of a buyout Agreement Ordinance, passed by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors and set to take effect on Saturday, filed a lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco today.
According to the San Francisco Rent Board, the Buyout Agreement Ordinance regulates agreements between landlords and tenants under which landlords pay tenants money or other consideration to vacate rent-controlled housing units.
The ordinance, sponsored by Supervisors John Avalos, David Campos, Jane Kim and Eric Mar, came about in response to anecdotal evidence that shows buyout negotiations occurring when “landlords sometimes employ high-pressure tactics and intimidation to induce tenants to sign the agreements.”
The law is being challenged by the San Francisco Apartment Association, the Small Property Owners of San Francisco Institute, the San Francisco Association of Realtors, the Coalition for Better Housing and Norm Larson, a small property owner in San Francisco, according to the lawsuit, according to the San Francisco Apartment Association.
The plaintiffs are seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the Buyout Agreement Ordinance.
Walt Baczkowski, chief executive officer of the San Francisco Association of Realtors said in a statement released today that “attempting to regulate an agreement between two private parties, the legislation likely violates the First Amendment right to free speech.”
Baczkowski said the Buyout Agreement Ordinance “seeks to punish property owners for exercising a right that every individual has: to enter into a mutually acceptable contract with another person.”
He said he believes the ordinance gives rights to San Francisco tenants that it denies to San Francisco property owners.
According to the ordinance, buyout agreements that come about when a tenant is convinced to vacate a unit, rather than receive an eviction notice, allows landlords to avoid the city’s restrictions on condominium conversions and restrictions on renovations, mergers or demolitions.
Noni Richen, the president of the Small Property Owners of San Francisco Institute said in a statement today that he feels, “The ordinance is so onerous and riddled with procedural requirements that it sets up underrepresented, monolingual and immigrant property owners for procedural noncompliance, and will undoubtedly increase litigation between property owners and tenants.”
The ordinance claims that as San Francisco finds itself in a housing crisis, with disparity between rent-controlled and market rate rent units continuing to grow, the ordinance will regulate landlords who want to vacate individuals and families in rent-controlled units in order to sell their property, knowing that an unoccupied building can likely command significantly higher sale price than an occupied one.
Brook Turner, the executive director of the Coalition for Better Housing, said in a statement today that he believes the ordinance would remove benefits of buyouts, such as helping tenants who would otherwise not be able to afford putting a down payment toward the purchase of a new home.
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National News & Views Malik Rahim for Congress Dec. 6!
Malik Rahim for Congress Dec. 6!
After a century of politicians, it’s time to elect a community organizer
Three years since Katrina and the government continues to fail us. Malik Rahim has spoken out with courage, asked the difficult questions and built viable community alternatives. He is a strong organizer who acted while the politicians waited. Now he wants to take his courage to Congress.
After Hurricane Katrina, Malik founded Common Ground, an organization which:
• opened the first free health clinic in the city of New Orleans,
• helped MLK Elementary and other schools to re-open, and
• gutted over 3,000 homes and provided direct services to nearly 200,000 returning residents.
Malik is in a winnable race for U.S. Congress in Louisiana’s 2nd District. The Louisiana Secretary of State changed the elections calendar after Hurricane Gustav, so the general election for that seat is on Dec. 6.
“We still have one more Congressional election within our grasp,” writes Cynthia McKinney, legendary former congresswoman from Georgia and this year’s Green Party presidential candidate.
“We all know the importance of having someone of conscience in the United States Congress, someone of unbending commitment to our values and not just another representative of ‘business-as-usual’ politics.
“Malik Rahim proved his mettle when we all watched in horror as events unfolded in New Orleans and the Gulf States. What a shame that African-American Hurricane Katrina survivors have had to file a discrimination lawsuit against Louisiana’s Road Home program in order to earn their right of return.
“With Malik in Washington, our own internally displaced population can finally see justice – and not just abundant hot air – delivered from the halls of the U.S. Capitol. We need Malik now and now Malik needs us.
“Bill Jefferson, the incumbent, has been indicted on 16 counts of corruption charges. We need Malik in that seat! For those of you who are close to Louisiana, please consider giving Malik a weekend to knock on doors and make important voter contact in the lead-up to the Dec. 6 Louisiana general election. Please visit www.VoteMalik.com and make a contribution today!”
Message from Malik
“Four days after Hurricane Katrina and two days before founding Common Ground, I made this decision to run for Congress,” Malik writes in a recent email to friends and supporters nationwide. “This decision was made due to the lack of government response to Katrina. My hope is that never again will any disaster turn into such a tragedy.
“This is a winnable seat – a seat not just for residents of the New Orleans area but a peoples’ seat for all those who stand for environmental peace and justice. This goal can only be reached with your support.
“I will provide concrete alternatives to the wars being waged against our communities at home and to the wars continuing abroad. Our communities deserve no less. I will continue to advocate for safe, affordable housing, the establishment of universal healthcare, and invest in a comprehensive storm protection system and wetland restoration. I would initiate repeal of the so-called Patriot Act, author legislation to remove FEMA from the Department of Homeland Security, demand an end to the costly and senseless incarceration of nonviolent offenders and advocate for full funding for our schools. Running a viable campaign requires funding.
“Now with the election imminent, the campaign has set a goal of raising an additional $20,000 by Friday, Nov. 28. With your help, we can achieve that end. You can contribute on the campaign website at www.VoteMalik.com.
“I also urge you to get active with our campaign. Canvass your neighborhood and tell your friends and family. If you are out of town, we need additional volunteers on Election Day and the week leading up to the election. You can phone bank remotely from home or promote the campaign online.
“In closing, I want to remind you that I will work tirelessly for the people of District 2. But even if you are not in my Congressional district, your cause is in my heart; you will have not only a committed advocate, but an office to work out of on the Hill.”
‘Strong people need good representatives’
Pat LaMarche, Green Party candidate for vice president in 2004 and for governor of Maine in 2006 and author of “Left Out In America: The State of Homelessness in the United States,” writes in the Bangor News: “I’m staying just a few blocks from Jefferson Davis Parkway. His statue has withstood everything the elements could throw at it since it was set in place back in 1902.
“Back then Jefferson Davis was still classified as a traitor. He led a great civil war against the United States of America and wasn’t pardoned until 1978 when fellow Southerner Jimmy Carter set the issue of his treason aside.
“When looking at the weathered monument, it’s really not so remarkable that the statue withstood the ravages of nature as it is that it withstood the test of fair play and decency. Why wasn’t this statue angrily torn down in the dark of night, after a lynching, during the civil rights movement or after America watched what happened to Saddam Hussein’s statue in Iraq?
“Certainly that treatment of the Iraqi ruler – and the response of the American public to it – set an example of what to do with tributes to those who tortured, enslaved or executed people simply because of ethnic or cultural differences or because the victims rebelled against such treatment.
“But I’m not in New Orleans now to study history, but because it is the center of Louisiana’s 2nd Congressional District. This year Hurricane Gustav landed in bayou country forcing area residents to evacuate. This disruption in everyday life also interrupted the political season. The district’s voters were then given more time to vet and select their United States representative.
“If you were here, you’d admit that this part of the country, with its vivid reminders of its failing infrastructure, sure needs adequate representation. Then again, if you went up the Mississippi River about 2,000 miles to Minneapolis – where a bridge collapsed last year killing 13 and injuring 145 – you might argue that the whole country needs more adequate representation.
“So this election, rescheduled to Dec. 6, is pretty darned important to the fourth-largest import city in the U.S. Because it will send a voice to Congress about the need to focus our political attentions back home where we can rebuild infrastructure while we recover from this recession, it’s pretty important for the rest of the country, too.
“One of the candidates, a community organizer and activist named Malik Rahim, is running a campaign based on the message that ‘strong people need good representatives.’ Malik – a man who stayed behind after Hurricane Katrina struck, built the first post-Katrina medical clinic and provided desperately needed coordination for disaster relief – further explains that ‘weak people need strong leaders’ but ‘strong people need good representatives.’ He knows how strong the people of New Orleans are and he has proved that working together they can rebuild a city destroyed – not by natural disaster – but by disastrously poor government.
“He’s up against an incumbent who, because of recent indictments, government searches of his congressional offices and alleged misconduct no longer leads or represents. And while incumbent Rep. William Jefferson appears to be no relation to Jefferson Davis, someone should have called it treason when, according to ABC News, the congressman ‘used National Guard troops to check on his property and rescue his personal belongings – even while New Orleans residents were trying to get rescued from rooftops.’
“There are two other candidates in this race for Capitol Hill and, while seemingly fine people, they are mere footnotes in this battle between the man who stayed behind rescuing lives and providing health care and the incumbent congressman who used the privilege of his office to retrieve his personal effects with the help of a ‘5- ton military truck and a half-dozen military police,’ even as his constituents languished torturously in the flood.
“Malik Rahim never got his things rescued because Malik Rahim never left. He stayed behind and opened his home as a distribution center for water, food, clothing, blankets and cleaning supplies. Since then he has stayed in New Orleans, rebuilding homes and helping his neighbors move back. He leaves the area only to raise money and recruit volunteers to help with his rescue organization, Common Ground Collective. Check out CommonGroundRelief.org to learn more.
“It’s time now for Malik Rahim to go to Washington and represent the strong people of New Orleans and for Mr. Jefferson to come home.”
Malik’s platform
Hurricane recovery and flood protection:
• Ensure our region gets the resources we were promised to continue our recovery.
• Fund category 5 (100 Year) flood protection for all of Southern Louisiana.
• Develop Comprehensive Storm Protection by maintaining and preserving ecosystem services, including rebuilding our cypress swamps.
Rebuild a sustainable economy:
• Support economic and fiscal policies to strengthen working people and their families.
• Fund green job training to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and provide pathways from poverty.
• Jumpstart the regional economy by supporting the Gulf Coast Civic Works Project.
Quality public education:
• Invest in our public education system, including funding for smaller class sizes, so that every child is given the opportunity to excel. Education not incarceration.
• Remove high-stakes testing as the sole criteria for federal funding.
• Support a teacher’s right to collective bargaining.
Healthcare for all:
• Ensure that every American citizen has access to quality affordable healthcare.
• Secure federal money to rebuild our health care infrastructure, including Charity Hospital.
• Establish and fund community health clinics.
Comprehensive and sustainable energy policy:
• Decrease our country’s reliance on oil.
• Demand a shift to 20 percent renewable energy sources like solar and wind within five years.
• End tax breaks and giveaways to oil companies.
Reform of the criminal justice system:
• Alternative sentencing for non-violent offenders.
Troops out of Iraq:
• Bring the troops home from Iraq as safely and quickly as possible.
• Use the money that we have been spending in Iraq to rebuild infrastructure in the U.S.
Affordable housing:
• Demand federal funding for the construction of affordable housing in the Gulf Coast.
• Call for a full investigation now on the awarding of contracts for the demolition of public housing developments in New Orleans and their reconstruction.
To learn more, go to www.VoteMalik.com. And send your donation today. Individuals may contribute up to $2,300. The easiest way to donate is online at www.VoteMalik.com, or you can make your check or money order payable to “The Committee to Elect Malik Rahim” and send it to Committee to Elect Malik Rahim, 331 Atlantic Ave., New Orleans LA 70119. The Federal Election Commission requires the following:
• Donors must provide their name, mailing address, occupation and name of employer.
• Contributions must be from U.S. citizens or legal residents.
• Contributions to the Committee to Elect Malik Rahim are not tax deductible.
• Contributions must be made from your own funds, not made by a corporation, labor organization or federal contractor.
If you’re in New Orleans, be sure to Vote Malik in the Dec. 6 election! Early voting started Nov. 18 and runs through Nov. 25.
Email Malik at votemalik@lagreens.org or call him at (504) 905-5676 to congratulate him for being the recipient of the 2008 Thomas Merton Award for his commitment to humanity. For more insight into Malik and his work, see “This is criminal” and “Birth of the Common Ground Health Clinic.”
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Code 61 - Drop the deal
Style: New beat
Label: Limited Club Edition
http://www.discogs.com/Code-61-Drop-The-Deal/release/10899
A Drop the deal
B1 Drop the deal (Rough percussion dub_mix)
B2 Drop the deal (Rough beat-box mix)
Another project by couple and founders of R & S Records, Renaat Vandepapelier and Sabine Maes. With Code 61 they teamed up with Jack Mauer and Rony Brack. Drop the deal was released in 1988 and one of few New Beat tracks to have success on dance charts outside Belgium.
It's a very cheesy track and the band adds additional cheese with their goofy performance of the song (see video). But it also has a descent beat and a very catchy melody. Contains samples of the pope? and spoken words from the tv-show Miami Vice.
The b-side doesn't add anything. Boring remixes that have been done only to have some grooves on both sides of the record.
Found at the Emmaus-Björkå charity shop at a cost of 1,15 €.
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Home SPORTS Euro 2012 preview
by The Other Press June 5, 2012 June 5, 2012
By Eric Wilkins, Staff Writer
Ah yes. That glorious time of year has come. Euro 2012 has finally arrived, soccer fans! But before you hit your favourite watering hole and drown your team’s sorrows/successes in endless pints, take a brief read here to familiarize yourself with the worthy opponents participating in the tournament.
Poland – Greece – Russia – Czech Republic
If you’re putting money down on Euro 2012, beware of investing too much in any of these squads. While Russia should emerge as the winner of this group, some underwhelming results in the qualification stage call their consistency into question. With Arsenal flop Andrei Arshavin declared captain, it appears Russia is placing a good deal of faith in a player who netted all of zero goals in qualifying. Possibly paired up front with him could be fellow Premier League flop Roman Pavlyuchenko. With the strikeforce in the shape it is, Russia may have to depend on their defense, led by solid goalkeeping from Igor Akinfeev.
The Czech Republic, short of Milan Baros discovering his form of a decade ago, will have to rely on much the same strategy. Though when Petr Cech is the man between the posts, is that such a bad idea? Greece, the Euro 2004 winners, is easily one of the most boring teams to take the pitch in this tournament. Their stifling style of play was enough to get them the win eight years ago, and may be just enough to get out of the group this year. Finally, Poland shouldn’t really be here. If they weren’t hosting the tournament, it’s doubtful their no-name team would have made it through qualifications. But here they are, and, as one of the co-hosts, you can’t count them out just yet. Never underestimate the power of playing at home. All the same, look for Russia and the Czech Republic to move on to the next round.
Netherlands – Denmark – Germany – Portugal
This year’s so-called “group of death” should be a fun one to watch. No shortage of stars to keep an eye on here. The Netherlands will be hungrier than ever to take the top prize since being narrowly edged out in the final of the last World Cup. Winger Arjen Robben may be the most motivated player, or at least the one with the most to prove, for the Oranje after his recent misfortune in the Champions League for Bayern Munich.
Denmark is the squad almost everyone has already dismissed, but games aren’t won on paper. With a solid squad complimented by the talented Nicklas Bendtner, the Danes could pull off an upset or two.
Germany is a serious contender every time they play on the national stage, and this tournament is no exception. Having the most entertaining name to say in sport, Bastian Schweinsteiger, in the middle of the park, Manuel Neuer guarding the goal, and the ever outstanding Mario Gomez up front, certainly bodes well for the German hopes to end their current 16-year title drought.
Last, but not least, Portugal. After a surprisingly poor performance in qualification, Portugal nonetheless finds itself at the world’s second most prestigious tournament. As per the usual, despite the talent littered throughout the lineup, a great burden will be placed on Cristiano Ronaldo’s back to carry the team through. I hate myself for it, but I’m taking the favourites in this one; Germany and the Netherlands should come out of group B.
Spain – Italy – Ireland – Croatia
For most casual soccer fans, the mere mention of Spain pricks their ears up, but this group has so much more to offer. Yes, the star-studded cast of La Roja is always entertaining to watch, but don’t expect another championship from this squad. Along with missing prolific scorer, David Villa, if Spain were to take Euro 2012 it would be their third title in a row. Quite a feat. However, I predict a return to mediocrity and choking exits for the Spaniards from here on in.
Italy is another recent title winner in the group. After being gifted the 2006 World Cup using a combination of elegant Italian flopping and biased refereeing, the Azzurri have not been up to much, but that may change this year. With the ever troublesome (both on and off the pitch) Mario Balotelli being given the number nine shirt by coach, Cesare Prandelli, it seems like Euro 2012 is set to see a host of the talented but classless striker’s antics. Several familiar aging faces still anchor the squad, namely Andrea Pirlo in the midfield and Gianluigi Buffon in net, and the Italians may just have something in their bag of tricks this time around.
Ireland has one of the more underrated teams in the tourney. The boys in green have finally found their way back to a top championship after being denied a trip to the last World Cup by Thierry Henry’s “Hand of Gaul.” Ireland manager, Giovanni Trapattoni, runs a tight ship, if an unspectacular one, and the group will need a few timely goals from captain Robbie Keane if they hope to advance. The added incentive for some of the veterans such as Shay Given and John O’Shea is that this may be their last chance to play at a major competition before age catches up to them.
Croatia is always an interesting bunch to watch. Luka Modric is one of the world’s best midfielders, and he has a decent enough supporting cast that the Croats could pull off an upset here and there. Going out on a limb for the first time with my picks here; watch out for the shock of the tourney as Italy and Ireland move on.
Ukraine – Sweden – France – England
In group D we find the other co-host, Ukraine. Like Poland, Ukraine shouldn’t really be here. Their roster seems to have little to boast other than being a commentator’s nightmare, and the few recognizable names they have are well past their prime. In order for them to succeed, Bayern Munich man Anatoliy Tymoshchuk will have to be the team’s rock in the midfield, and Andriy Shevchenko will have to scrape the bottom of the tank and hope there’s enough left for one last go.
Sweden has Zlatan Ibrahimovic. With a suspect back line, but the ever consistent Andreas Isaksson between the sticks, the Swedes may turtle for the most part, and place their hopes on Ibrahimovic or one of their free kick specialists popping one in.
France is coming off one of the most embarrassing events in World Cup history after Patrice Evra led a stand against then coach Raymond Domenech. The French would most likely be satisfied with simply avoiding such a debacle again, but this squad has some serious talent that could do some damage if manager Laurent Blanc can get them to play. When a team has Samir Nasri, Karim Benzema, and Franck Ribery on the field, you had better pay attention. The French could go far as long as no internal fires spring up.
England can never seem to get it together. This year will continue that trend. The only good news for England is that, due to Frank Lampard being ruled out due to injury, the ridiculous partnership of Steven Gerrard and Lamps will not be seen this time around. The other age-old problem still exists though: Wayne Rooney has no one to play with up front. At the very least, English supporters can take heart in having a real goalie once again, Joe Hart. I just can’t see the three lion’s international woes ending here; France and Sweden will take the punch.
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The college football coaching carousel has already begun this season for programs around the country. Many who had disappointing seasons have already begun their searches. In some cases, some have made new hires as well such as Maryland hiring current Alabama offensive coordinator Mike Locksley to be their next head coach. According to Brian Kelly though, the Notre Dame head coach currently expects that he will have staff continuity this off-season.
“There’s always inquires for our guys but I am pretty confident that our group right now is in a very good position and expect to have continuity as I stand here in front of you,” Kelly said when asked about whether or not any of his staff had opportunities or inquires for head coaching jobs,
That is not to say that opportunities were not there for his assistant coaching staff. “I didn’t say that hasn’t been inquires and opportunities,” Kelly stated. “I said I think we are going to have good continuity with our staff right.”
Whenever a team goes on a 12-0 run like the one that Notre Dame is on, programs looking for a new direction obviously look their way for the next up and coming head coaches. If Kelly is right and Notre Dame maintains continuity this year it is fantastic news because their current staff is full of future head coaches.
The obvious candidates are up and coming coordinators Chip Long and Clark Lea. Both have seen their profiles skyrocket this year as both the Notre Dame offense and defense have excelled under their guidance. In addition to those two, Brian Polian was reportedly on Bowling Green’s radar. Mike Elston should be a candidate for a head coaching gig one of these years. And Tom Rees will be on the offensive coordinator market in the near future most likely.
For Long, remember this: against Michigan, Notre Dame played their first game after losing two top 10 NFL draft picks on the line and their top two wide receivers and running backs and played with a wide receiver starting at running back and a now backup quarterback running the offense. And the Irish manufactured enough offense to beat that “vaunted” Wolverine defense.
The worry with Long among the Notre Dame fan base is the Alabama OC opening. Nick Saban reportedly wanted Long last year when he was looking for an offensive coordinator before he settled on Locksley. The fear here is that after a year in which Long’s star only rose that Saban might make a run at him again and throw money at him. As of now though, it doesn’t appear as though Long will pull a Mike Elko and take the money and run even if Saban comes a calling.
Long will have an arsenal to work with next year at Notre Dame with Ian Book returning along with four of the five lineman who will start in the Cotton Bowl and most likely the top three wide receivers. He will have to replace Dexter Williams explosiveness, but year three of the Chip Long offense with a full off-season of Ian Book as the starter could really take off.
Clark Lea doesn’t even have a full year of being a coordinator under his belt, but it’s clear that his star is on the rise as well. Lea took over from Elko and not only did the defense not skip a beat, it got better in almost every department this year. Lea had a lot of talent to work with, but the job he did as a first year defensive coordinator was pretty remarkable. Notre Dame will lose a lot of talent on defense this off-season so his job will be even harder in 2019, but Lea appears more than ready.
As for the other coaches, it sounded like Polian was at least in the mix at Bowling Green and with Kelly basically confirming that there were some inquiries perhaps that is what he is referring to. Polian’s results are not nearly what Lea and Long have produced this year with the special teams being very much a work in progress still, but he does have head coaching experience and is a top notch recruiter.
Should Kelly’s statements yesterday hold true and Notre Dame heads into 2019 with either the exact same or almost exactly the same staff as they will end 2018 with, the Irish should be poised for another run at the playoffs next year as well.
Now, a lot can change between now and February. Remember, at this time last year we thought we were out of the woods with Mike Elko and that he would be back for 2018. Then he reportedly used Notre Dame as a bargaining chip before bolting to Texas A&M in a latterell move. A year later Elko is preparing for Taxslayer Gator Bowl instead of the College Football Playoffs.
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Safari Club International sends out a hunter alert in California. "The banning of predator hunting competitions has been characterized by anti-hunting advocates to be the next major step after the enactment of SB 1221 that bans the use of dogs to hunt bears and bobcats. Their stated goal is to eventually stop all hunting and other forms of taking wildlife." The goal of the ban's supporters is to stop all such competitions statewide! No doubt, fishing derbies would be next... "
Oh, the hysteria. This is straight out of the SCI- NRA playbook... Every time a group tries to protect an animal from human persecution... It is an attack against all forms of hunting... A ban on ALL hunting is next.
Last week Safari Club president Greg Kaufman sends out another alert... Join us on May 8th for a lobby Congress day... Keynote speaker will be Deputy Director of Policy for the USFWS Steve Guertin... "SCI is also looking at every legal and legislative venue to force the service to rescind its decision to ban sport-hunted elephant imports from Zimbabwe and Tanzania. "International hunters are the first line of defense for conservation, management, and anti-poaching throughout Africa."
The Humane Society of the US sums up Safari Club International very well. "It's a perverse and destructive subculture. Thousands of animals suffer and die for the amusement of wealthy elites who have the means to pursue any form of recreation, but choose to shoot the world's rarest and most beautiful animals. There's no societal value to the exercise, just a selfish all consuming mentality of killing, collecting, and showing off trophies. They know the price of every animal, but the value of none..." http://www.rense.com/general45/view.htm
Safari Club International talks a lot about conservation... In 1997, former SCI president Ken Behring shot two Kara Tau Argali sheep when there were around 100 left on the planet. He bribed GOV officials in Kazakhstan in order to shoot the two animals... He then sent the trophies to a Canadian taxidermist... Behring made a 100 million dollar donation to the Smithsonian to build the Behring Hall of Mammals... He asked the Smithsonian to request an import permit for the two argali trophies- after all- a museum was the only other way to get the trophies into the US legally. They withdrew the request when George Miller from California questioned the permit- and a storm of negative publicity followed. Incidents like this have always fueled the clubs negative image. To counter the negative image SCI has food donated to food banks, hunting for the disabled, and hunting for disadvantaged youth.
Matthew Scully wrote a highly acclaimed book called "Dominion." It is a very depressing read about the hunting culture. Scully- "They practice a socially conscious sadism here. Ethics at Safari Club is ordered libertinism, like teaching cannibals to use a napkin and not take the last portion."
http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/opposition/facts/sci_trophy_scam.html#.U12W1RXD_4g
Americans have shown over the years that they are largely ambivalent to shooting animals for food. Polls also show that there is strong opposition to killing exotic animals for sport, fun, and bragging rights... The Melissa Bachmann canned lion images... .The NRA lobbyist and consultant Tony Makris having his hunting show cancelled after shooting an elephant in the face and then drinking champagne and laughing about it afterwards... Despite the public backlash- Safari Club continues to claim that killing is conservation. In every instance- the claim from Safari Club that hunting dollars go back into the local communities cannot be verified... In fact- as we have seen from Zimbabwe just in the last few months... The USFWS suspended trophy imports from Zimbabwe and Tanzania after the service said that regulations and protections were lacking in those countries... This is SCI's MO. They target corrupt and unstable Governments like Zimbabwe- where high ranking GOV and military personnel are involved...
http://www.swradioafrica.com/2014/04/24/zim-conservationists-slam-lawsuit-against-us-elephant-trophy-ban/
http://www.thezimbabwean.co/news/zimbabwe/71351/hunting-of-zim-presidential-elephants.html
The presidential elephant herd is in grave danger... "Meanwhile, a leading, international conservation group has warned in a new report that land grabs in Zimbabwe were a direct threat to elephant populations in Africa." "They will all be shot and that will be the end of the presidential herd." Conservation? I don't think so. So, how does Safari Club gain their influence? It starts with Congress.
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The Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus has around 300 members. Around half of Congress. 70% Republican, 30% Democrat. The Sportsmens Foundation is made up of business people, CEO's, all hunters. Funded by Safari Club International.
http://www.lionaid.org/blog/2011/06/an-open-letter-to-dr-larry-rudolph-president-safari-club-international.htm
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Home News SUPREME COURT THROWS OUT AFOKO
SUPREME COURT THROWS OUT AFOKO
By Adu Koranteng
The Supreme Court has dismissed a case filed by Gregory Afoko challenging the decision of the Attorney-General (A-G) to discontinue his trial over allegations of killing a former Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhaji Adams Mahama.
In a unanimous decision yesterday, the seven-member panel of the court held that Afoko failed to prove that the nolle prosequi filed by the A-G to discontinue the trial was unfair, arbitrary or capricious.
Contempt application
Meanwhile, the Accra High Court hearing a contempt application filed by Afoko has ordered the IGP and the Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department to be present in court on July 3, 2019, when it delivers its ruling on the application.
The court presided over by Justice Jennifer Duodu, gave the order Wednesday morning.
Afoko filed the contempt application with a case that the police service has frustrated the execution of a bail granted to him by the High Court on March 14, 2019.
Alhaji Mahama suffered severe bodily injuries after a substance suspected to be acid was allegedly poured on him in front of his house in Bolgatanga on May 20, 2015.
He later died from the injuries at the Bolgatanga General Hospital.
Afoko’s trial started in 2016 and was nearing completion after the prosecution and the defence had closed their cases.
On January 26, 2019, Afoko closed his case.
The prosecution, led by a Chief State Attorney, Mr Matthew Amponsah, had called 14 individuals as prosecution witnesses.
Subsequently, the presiding judge, Mr Justice Lawrence Mensah, directed the two parties to file their written addresses.
Nolle prosequi
However, on January 28, 2019, the A-G filed a nolle prosequi to discontinue the trial following the arrest of the other suspect, Asabke Alangdi, who had been on the run since the incident occurred in 2015.
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Having been an historic crossroads for centuries as part of various ancient empires, Uzbekistan’s food is very eclectic. It has its roots in Iranian, Arab, Indian, Russian and Chinese cuisine.
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One of Islam's most sacred relics - the world's oldest Koran that was compiled in Medina by Othman, the third caliph or Muslim leader, is kept in Tashkent. It was completed in the year 651, only 19 years after Muhammad's death.
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Uzbekistan was once a rum producig country. There is still a real arboretum in Denau (city near Termez on the border with Afghanistan), grown from a selection station that studied the prospects of plant growing in the unusual for the Soviet Union subtropical climate of Surkhandarya region: only here in the whole of the USSR sugar cane was grown and even rum was produced!
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The wrestling world was sent into a frenzy this week with the release of the Reunion show card confirming the rumours that the WWG was coming back for a one night reunion, its going to feature many stars from the WWG past and is going to be a exciting show. There has been many questions since the announcement was made and one that keeps getting asked is " what happened to the WWG in its almost 3 years absence"
WWG closed its doors almost 3 years ago, in December 2017. No one knew why. Frederick Kavanagh the last owner disappeared of the face of the earth only the resurface a year later but wouldn't answer any questions. Rumour has it that the WWG went bankrupt and no one was interested in buying the dying business, once the top show of wrestling television just didn't have that interest anymore.
Recently a former employee of WWG.com received a email claiming the WWG had been purchased by a unknown person. The email stated that a rumour would start that a reunion show is in the works, it will be followed by a card. Once this happens let the world buzz about it, let it soak in, let the questions begin.
The unknown person then claimed that he purchased WWG back in 2017 and allowed it to die, taking it away from the precious fans. It was only years later that an idea came to this person for him to make tonnes of money. He didn't go into much more detail about that but said the wrestlers contracts had been terminated and the WWG closed it doors. Soon the WWG was forgotten about with other wrestling company's taking the spotlight, even recruiting some of the old WWG talent.
The email ended with a message for the WWG universe, saying they would be at the reunion show and it will be shocking. They also invite every former owner and wrestler to appear because its going to be a show to remember.
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Anti-pirating ad music stolen
You wouldn't steal a movie, so why would you put stolen music on an anti-piracy ad? Dr Karl investigates a curious case of copyright theft.
By Karl S. Kruszelnicki
The music track has been illegally used on anti-piracy ads on dozens of movie DVDs. You probably have one at home right now. (Source: JJRD/iStockphoto)
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If you have bought or rented a movie on a DVD sometime in the last few years, you would have had to sit through the compulsory anti-piracy video at the beginning. You know, the one with the urgent death-metal-thrash techno music in the background, and the words on the screen telling you that you wouldn't steal a car, or a handbag, or a television, or a movie. It then goes on to tell you that: "downloading pirated movies is stealing" and furthermore that "stealing is against the law" and finishes off with the bleak message that "piracy is a crime".
But here's an interesting question. That insistent, driving beat music that runs all the way through that anti-piracy ad — was it paid for, or was it pirated and stolen? The uncomfortable answer is that it was stolen.
Protection of literary property probably began in Great Britain in 1710, with the so-called "British Statute of Queen Anne". This Statute opened with the description that it was: "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Publishers …"
It then pointed out that "Printers, Booksellers and Other Persons have of late frequently taken the Liberty of Printing … Books, and other Writings, without the Consent of the Authors …" and that this nefarious act led "to their very great Detriment, (and) too often to the Ruin of them and their Families".
It sounds very reasonable that authors should be reimbursed for their hard work. So what's the story behind the reportedly stolen music on your DVD's anti-piracy ad?
Most countries have a music royalty collection agency. It monitors radio, TV and movies to make sure that musicians get paid when the music that they wrote is played. In Holland, the Dutch music royalty collection agency is called Buma/Stemra.
Back in 2006, Buma/Stemra approached a Dutch musician, Melchior Reitveldt, to write some music for an anti-piracy ad, with the strict proviso that this music would be played only and exclusively at a local film festival. Mr. Reitveldt wrote the music, it was played, he got paid and all was well.
But then, in 2007, he bought a Harry Potter DVD and to his surprise, there was his music in the anti-piracy ad at the beginning. His composition had been taken and used without his permission. In fact, it had been illegally used on dozens of movie DVDs, both in Holland and overseas. You probably have one at home right now.
So Mr. Reitveldt went to the Buma/Stemra music royalty collection agency to clear up this misunderstanding, and ran into a brick wall. Nothing happened for a long time, and then pathetically small refunds were offered, and then they weren't paid in full, and the delaying tactics went on and on.
Finally, in 2011, about half a decade after the original theft of his music, there was a kind of a breakthrough. Supposedly, one of the directors of Buma/Stemra music royalty collection agency, Mr Jochem Gerrits, spoke to him personally, offering to speed things up. Everything would proceed nicely, if the musician, Mr. Reitveldt, would simply sell the contested piece of music to him, Mr Gerrits. The payout would be one million Euros, and Mr Gerrits would keep one third for all his trouble and hard work, and the musician, Mr. Reitveldt, would keep two thirds.
It's a bit like having somebody steal your property, you report it to the police, and after a lot a dilly-dallying, a senior police officer approaches you offering to give two-thirds of your property back to you, if you give them one third.
Luckily, the musician recorded the conversation. The crooked director of the Buma/Stemra music royalty collection agency had to resign. In June 2012, the court ordered Buma/Stemra to repay the money.
Today, in the new world of the interweb, copyright is complicated. In the old days, if you bought a book, you could give or lend it to a friend. But it's different now. A woman in Duluth, Minnesota did the modern equivalent by sharing 24 songs that had a total retail value of $23.76. The Recording Industry Association of America sued, and the court awarded them $222,000.
In terms of the multiplication factor, that has to be a runaway, chart-busting solid gold smash hit …
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On this new occasion, we have had the opportunity to interview the Metalcore/Nu-Metal band Subxero from the USA. Check out the interview and follow the band on their FACEBOOK PAGE.
1. Where did you get the idea for the band name, you planned it or came out just like that?
Subxero is meant to represent the underdogs in life. The outcasts, the introverts, the people that feel they don’t have a place in this life and society. That’s where the 0%er stems from. We’re all in this life together whether we like it or not. It’s up to us, as decent people, to help each other, to encourage each other, to lift each other. No one is better than anyone else, we’re all Subxero.
2. Why did you want to play this genre?
I’ve always been drawn to the energy that heavy metal and all of its sub-genres creates. The feeling of unity, family, just made me feel good.
3. Did you know each other before the band was formed?
Jason and I, this is Eric-bassist by the way, have been performing together for a long time. Jason knew Josh-drums from a previous band, Josh and Issam-guitar know each other from a band, Jason met Daniel-guitar through mutual friends.
4. Each band member favourite band?
Jason- Demon Hunter
Daniel- Pantera
Issam- Killswitch Engage
Josh- Devil You Know/Light The Torch
Eric- Tool
5. Who or what inspires you to write songs?
Life is our inspiration. There’s plenty of subject matter in the world today. When it comes to the music aspect, normally it will start with a simple guitar riff idea that develops into a full song over time, with contributions from each musician. Lyrics are then written for the song, and then maybe some tweaking and rearranging here and there, until we are satisfied.
6. Where was your last gig?
We played a small outdoor festival in Florida. It was a good time even though it was cold. Yes it gets cold in Florida.
7. Where would you like to perform?
Everywhere. As many places as possible. It’s difficult to narrow it down to one place.
8. Whom would you like to perform with?
Sevendust, AX7, Breaking Benjamin, Tool just to name a few.
9. Whom not?
No one really comes to mind. You’re going to run into “rock stars” when you play so you have to ignore it. We’re all pretty down to earth and completely approachable. We’re all Subxero.
10. Any of you has ever suffered from stage fright? Any tip for beginners on how to beat that?
Daniel does and he says he has to suck it up and enjoy playing. Jason does as well. I don’t have an issue with it. Josh and Issam don’t either. We have a pre-show Jager bomb or three to ease any nervous tensions the fellas might have. As for any advice, just focus on the moment. Make sure everyone is on their “A” game and kick ass. Don’t over think the situation.
11. What bands have inspired you the most?
We each have so many that it’s really hard to list them all. Sevendust, Breaking Benjamin, Tool, Pantera, Iron Maiden, AX7 just to name a few. The list is much more diverse than that as well.
12. What's the weirdest thing a fan has ever asked you for?
I asked the guys this question and let’s just say that there hasn’t been a shortage of odd sexual offerings.
13. What do you think of your fans?
I think our fans are awesome. We can’t thank you enough for enjoying what we do.
14. What do you think of our site?
It kicks ass!! I love finding new music and you definitely have a plethora of bands to check out.
15. Something to add?
We want to thank you for this opportunity. We also want to thank Damon Moreno and the Inner Light Agency team for kickin’ so much ass. Everyone can check us out at www.wearesubxero.com, www.facebook.com/wearesubxero, IG @wearesubxero. Get us on Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, etc. Whatever you use to listen to music, put us on that m’fer. Horns up!!
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Tech Soft 3D Expands and Rebrands to Best Serve Global Development Community
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Weapons on the Wall
INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART, BRISBANE, 2005
SEDUCTION IS IMPORTANT1: CHRIS HOWLETT'S WEAPONS ON THE WALL
"Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it."
Bertoldt Brecht2
The title of Chris Howlett’s ongoing series of exhibitions comes from the description of World War II propaganda posters as ‘Weapons on the Wall’3. This phrase indicates the extent to which such wars are not just about fighting the enemy, but also about waging a war for people’s hearts and minds. Support for a cause cannot be assumed, but must be won through reason, inspiration emotion and, if necessary, deception. Seen in this light, propaganda can be seen as advertising for an ideology; a very particular type of hype, designed to ‘work on people until they are addicted to us’4.
Today, the tactics of propaganda are so deeply imbedded within the fabric of our culture that they are indistinguishable across the fields of media reporting, advertising, cinema or reality television.
It is in this context that Chris Howlett attempts to explore the relationships between art, politics and propaganda. The earlier editions of Weapons on the Wall drew heavily on representations and reporting of September 11, the US invasion of Iraq and the resulting protests against US imperialism. They presented an eclectic array of hand-drawn protest placards, digital prints, paintings of magazine covers ranging from TIME Magazine to Art in America and videos including news reports from ‘ground zero’ of September 11, the cartoon violence of the Simpsons, episodes from M*A*S*H and imagery from internet hate sites.
These seemingly radical juxtapositions point to a certain equivalence amongst these varying statements: whether protesting against war or waging in, spearheading an advertising campaign or a terrorist strike, reporting on world politics or on contemporary art, all seems to come down to sloganeering and spectacle.
The most recent addition to the Weapons on the Wall project brings these investigations closer to home, examining the legacies of colonialism and nationalism within a local context, alongside the media critiques and political interrogations of the earlier exhibitions. An important aspect of this project is an acknowledgement of the complexity that is inherent in the issue under examination. In Howlett’s engagement with politics the idealism of Brecht’s statement is undercut by the awareness that there are no simple answers to the questions being posed, only a never ending series of linked ideologies, oppositional arguments and conspiratorial connections to be explored.
This complexity takes form in the construction of equally labyrinthine environments in which to pit the opposing forces of ‘conservative’ and ‘radical’ politics and aesthetics. The use of objects and images to explore these issues mimics, even as it questions and critiques, the practices of museum display. Howlett’s quasi-museological environment is one in which truth is always uncertain and open to debate. Howlett presents items ranging from ‘tribal’ artifacts (both ‘authentic’ and ornamental) to live animals and insects. He cajoles us with manipulated footage of sporting kings and emperors, engages us in simulated warfare with sci-fi colonialists, entertains us with outdated ethnographic texts.
Importantly, the appropriations pf prosaic landscape paintings, re-presentation of tribal artifacts and provision of computer games consist of a mixture of ‘authentic originals’, ‘assisted readymades’, and items painted, carved, moulded or generated by Howlett himself. While in some cases the products of these labours are more apparent than in others, it remains unclear whether these are acts of tribute, parody or one-upmanship.
These acts of appropriation raise questions of ownership and value, perhaps most clearly demonstrated in the landscape paintings purchased from ‘op shops’.
To these paintings, Howlett has added various figures and slogans, some political and some advertorial. Is the alteration of their content an elevation from the ‘merely decorative’ to the politically purposeful, or is this an act of colonisation in which one artist claims ownership of the work of another? This would certainly seem to be the case when he signs a work on behalf of the original artist – as if their anonymity renders the work authorless and therefore ripe for reclamation. Or is this an act of unrequited collaboration, as evidenced by the listing of the artist’s names in the gallery alongside Howlett’s own.
Similarly, the use of artifacts would seem to reflect a coloniser’s desire for the fetishes of ‘primitive’ superstition, or at the very least for exotic souvenirs. Yet alongside these artifacts (authentic or otherwise) are objects that Howlett has crafted.
As with the landscape paintings, the distinction between the genuine and ingenuous articles is not always clear; some are originals, some have been modified or fabricated from scratch, to varying degrees of plausibility. The more obvious fakes include weapons made using everyday ‘Western’ objects such as cricket bats and fence pailings. These objects appear to be the products of some sort of extreme suburban primitivism or the trappings of a very dangerous game.
An equally ominous game is found situated amidst a confusion of monitors and computer games. Here stands an arcade style game and an invitation for the viewer to assume the mantle of Coltan5 the barbarian, using a virtual reality helmet modelled on Pupua New Guinean mud masks. Donning this mask, we become a player in an environment made up of fragments of the gallery environment itself. Our perception is both focused and distracted by the mask itself. The mask, like the story behind it, not only frames our view of the world but also adds yet another layer of complexity to the worlds in which we operate.
It seems that the one task that Chris Howlett sets for himself is to articulate this complexity; to question the view of the world that is presented to us. Yet perhaps the most pressing question that can be asked by (or of) Chris Howlett is this:
how can artists engage with politics in a meaningful way? When as Brecht suggests, art does take on the responsibility of shaping society, how can it do so other than playing on our ideals and aspirations – and consequently taking on the strategies of advertising and propaganda?
It appears that this is the task that Chris Howlett sets for himself – to present his own voice amongst (rather than above) a million others. Rather than a one-sided debate, we are presented with a cacophony of dissent and argument, not simplified or diluted but dispersed around the room. It is up to us to pick through the rubble of ideologies, to tread the fine line that Chris Howlett draws between seduction and repulsion, and to make up our own minds.
Chris Handran is a Brisbane based artist, writer and curator.
1. Chris Howlett, in converation, October 2004.2. This quote is usually attributed to Bertoldt Brecht. It has also been attributed to figures such as Karl Marx, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Leon Trotsky and appears in varying forms in their writings. One of the more extreme versions suggests: ‘Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to smash it‘. 3. Earlier editions were staged at QUT Art Museum and the Farm Space, Brisbane.4. Joseph Goebbels quoted in Eduardo Cadava Words of Light: Theses on the History of Photography (1997) Princeton University Press, New Jersey, p.83.5. Coltan is an abbreviated name for columbite-tantalite, a vital element in the circuitry for cellphones, computer chips, nuclear reactors, computer games and many other electronic devices. Its high market value has served to exacerbate conflict in the Congo, where around 80 percent of the world Coltan supply is found.
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Groupon shares drop 27 percent
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Groupon shares take a steep fall
Groupon, the daily deals hookup, fell 27 percent in trade Tuesday when additional investors were less than impressed by its previous results.
In the afternoon, Groupon shares dropped 72 percent below its November IPO of $20. With the 27 percent fall in Groupon shares this time, the coupon company lost $1.3 billion already.
But in total, $9.4 billion have been lost since the November IPO release.
The Groupon shares problem is blamed on the current financial circumstances in Europe.
According to Chicago Tribune, Clayton Moran of The Benchmark Company deemed it most appropriate to buy, rather than hold his Groupon shares.
Moran said, “It appears the daily deal business has run into a wall, with some blame going to the European recession. We believe the weak trends are likely to persist,”
Though Groupon was originally a booming enterprise in 2008, the sharp decline in Groupon shares was only subsequent. Forbes was among those who shared the opinion that Groupon would flourish, or was flourishing.
This was an easy assumption to make as people saw a company giving away substantial discounts for restaurant and spa trips.
But alongside the positive thinkers were those who feared that maintaining the company was up to maintaining strong daily deals, which they predicted to be a difficult feat.
But Groupon shares were not the only shares to take a fall Tuesday. Angie’s List Inc. fell 16 percent after its IPO release. Angie’s List Inc. is a website that offers consumer reviews of businesses, similar to Yelp.
Mark May of Barclays commented on the Groupon shares drop.
“While the company is still relatively young and much execution lies ahead, we continue to view Groupon in the early stages of what could prove to be a significant and long-term growth opportunity in the local commerce sector globally.”
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Dash Media CNN News Entertainment Kim Kardashian Paris world news Kim Kardashian Paris jewel robbery: 16 people arrested
Kim Kardashian Paris jewel robbery: 16 people arrested
Internationale media reports that French authorities have arrested Sixteen people in connection with the robbery of Kim Kardashian in Paris almost 3 months ago.
The reality TV star lost ten million dollars worth of jewellery in the October heist, and has since largely stayed out of the public spotlight. The incident, during which Ms Kardashian, 36, was bound, gagged and held at gunpoint, reportedly left her "badly shaken".
The thieves who disguised as police officers, fled from the scene on foot and on bicycles. Days after, a gemstone, presumably dropped during the getaway was found outside the Paris apartment and DNA traces were found on it .
"One of the DNA samples matched an individual known to police for robbery and criminal offences," police said. They kept him under surveillance, along with those he came into contact. After three months of investigations, they were arrested during early morning raids in the Paris region, Normandy and the French Riviera
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Eden House Holiday Apartment Lincoln
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Lincoln Cathedral dates back to1088. It is one of the finest gothic buildings in Europe.
The Cathedral was reportedly the tallest building in the world for 249 years (1300-1549) until the spires were stuck by lightning!
John Ruskin, Victorian writer: 'I have always held... that the Cathedral of Lincoln is out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles and roughly speaking worth any two other cathedrals we have.'
Come and see the famous Lincoln Imp!
Eden House is a 15 minute walk from the Cathedral.
Click here to visit Lincoln Cathedral's official website
Building began in 1068, two years after the Battle of Hastings. The stone walls were added in the 12th century as it was originally a wooden motte and bailey castle.
It has been used as a court and prison for 900 years - there is still a working court in the grounds.
Lincoln Castle also houses one of the four exemplifications of the Magna Carta - one of the most significant documents in British history.
A 15 minute walk from our B&B will take you to this magnificent and historic castle.
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Named Britain's Best Place in 2011 and Britain's Greatest Street in 2012 - both by the British Academy of Urbanism.
Steep Hill is packed with historic buildings, quaint shops, pubs, restaurants and tea rooms. It is not a relic or merely a site of historical interest, but a working street where people live, eat and shop.
15 minutes walk from Eden House, it is also the best way to go to the High Street by foot. It is as its name suggests, quite steep - just a warning!
Our favourite pubs on Steep Hill are The Wig and Mitre for food and wine Widow Cullen's Well for beer and cider; our favourite shops Imperial Teas and Pimento; Brown's Pie shop and the Jews House are great places to eat.
Two inspiring visitor attractions: award winning architecture museum and art gallery. Iron Age, Saxon, Roman, Viking and Medieval artefacts at the Collection and a range of visual art at the Usher Gallery. Exhibition programmes.
Go and check out the Roman mosaic, Iron Age finds or Bronze Age gold bracelets. Or the fine, decorative and contemporary arts at the Usher Gallery. There is also a cafe.
Free admission.
Click here to go to the official website.
Picture from The Collection/Usher Gallery's Facebook page.
The Museum of Lincolnshire Life/Ellis Windmill
The Museum of Lincolnshire Life is a community and social history museum charting Lincolnshire's past and culture.It features the earliest surviving tank, from 1917 and a range of military, suffrage and agricultural history. (Burton Road)
Nearby is the Ellis Mill, a working windmill built in 1798 - we sometimes use their flour for our bread!
(Mill Road.)
Both are just a ten minute walk from Eden House and both have free admission.
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The Brayford Pool and High Street
These best bits of 'downhill' Lincoln are full of modern restaurants, bars and clubs. The Brayford Pool is just opposite Lincoln University, hence the vibrancy. There is a multiplex cinema, a wide range of places to eat and bars including the Hilton's fifth-floor Electric Bar with panoramic views and a good selection of cocktails and sparkling wines.
Clubbing wise in town, there's Home, Tokyo, Lola Lo, Scy and loads more - to suit all tastes and budgets. There are also plenty of good bars for 'pre-drinking' - Dogma is a favourite of my grown-up daughter's due to the two-for-one cocktails. (I had to get her advice for this bit!)
Picture by Charlie Wood
The Medieval Bishops Palace is very near the Cathedral - gardens, undercrofts, crypts and a rich history. (audio tour & gift shop)
Doddington Hall is a short drive away and is an incredible Elizabethan stately home with a farm shop, cafe, restaurant and gardens.
The Drill Hall often has exciting events on. (free concerts on Saturday lunchtime in the cafe)
The Lawn is a former mental asylum, in its grounds now are a museum, hotel, tropical greenhouse and aquarium, cafe, shop...
The Cheese Society sells a huge selection of cheeses and serve fabulous lunches.
Also notable are Tattershall Castle, RAF Scampton Museum, Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum and Lincs Mini Golf! Hemswell Antiques (largest in Europe)
Very informative websites: www.visitlincoln.com www.visitlincolnshire.com www.visitwestlindsey.com/places-to-visit
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Drake may be in a tiff with Joe Buddens, but that isn’t stopping his productivity. After the smash success of ‘What a Time to Be Alive’, Future, and the commercial success of Views, Drake is keeping up the momentum.
Drake has kicked off his Summer Sixteen tour, and on top of delivering a stacked set list of hits, he’s made sure to throw some surprises into his performance. On Saturday night in Kansas City, he gave fans yet another topic to discuss, hinting at an upcoming mixtape.
“What I saw tonight was a beautiful building full of beautiful people from all races and all places,” he told the crowd towards the end of the show. “I want you to protect yourselves and each other so that when I go and work on this new mixtape and come back to Kansas City and I drop that shit, I wanna see everybody in this motherfucker, boy “
Drake’s previous mixtapes have proven on both the Critical and Commercial front. His breakout tape, 2009’s So Far Gone, Being nominated for Grammy.
Released via surprise format- The mix tape not only broke Spotify’s US records but notching 17.3 million streams in just first three days. It allowed him to become the first rapper to top Billboard Artist 100.
If Drake brings bars back to the forefront for a new mix tape “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late “ then many of his fans will be very happy.
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Adults' cruelty to children knows no bounds. Two unrelated events brought this dark knowledge to the fore this week. A group of former child "migrants" from Britain is bringing a class action suit alleging physical and sexual abuse at the Fairbridge Farm School in Molong in central NSW in earlier decades. And 11 Australians were arrested in connection with accessing child pornography on the internet.
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Yet in the midst of so much cruelty and neglect of children, it is the "helicopter" parent, the so-called hovering, over-involved, and watchful parent, that is frequently depicted as the new threat to today's children's well-being.
From Time magazine to the high-brow The Atlantic magazine, from women's rags to broadsheet newspapers, everyone wants to beat up on those parents who are seen as overly sensitive to their children's needs. The new parenting mantra is failure is good for children, and so is a little suffering.
In the last year an avalanche of rebuke has rained down on the heads of parents who spend "too much" time on the soccer sidelines, or ferry their children to "too many" activities, or offer "too much" help with homework". Worst of all are those who commit the unpardonable sin of boosting their child's self-esteem by praising work that may not be first-class.
Jean Twenge, of San Diego State University, who published a much quoted study recently that claimed to show young people in their 20s were "quitters" with inflated egos, castigated parents for having created such a lost and useless generation. Parents had given them too much help, robbed them of independence, and told them too often they were special when, in fact, they weren't.
It has been open season on parents ever since; Wikipedia has an extensive listing on the phenomenon of helicopter parenting, also known as over-parenting, though it notes the phenomenon has not been subject to much academic research.
The latest attack comes in the current edition of The Atlantic by writer turned clinical psychologist Lori Gottlieb who comments on a puzzling phenomenon.
While bad parents have been the bread and butter of therapists, with patients quick to blame their mum and dad for their neuroses, and therapists quick to agree with them, the new flock of patients is different, Gottlieb says. The patients say their parents have been wonderful, kind, supportive. But still the patients feel "empty''.
Despite the patients liking their parents and praising them, it turns out the parents are to blame any way. Broadly speaking, you guessed it, they've been too caring, too quick to smooth the way, and spare their children anxiety and disappointment, according to the phalanx of experts Gottlieb consults.
Doubtless there are smothering parents who inflict deep psychological wounds on their children by robbing them of initiative and independence.
But in the pantheon of parenting sinners, the arrows are being targeted at the wrong people. Parents who are harsh and inflexible in dealing with their children, lack warmth, are inconsistent in their discipline, fail to supervise properly, and are not involved much in their children's lives are much more likely to be a risk to their children's well-being and to create young adults with serious behaviour and psychological problems.
A major 2008 research paper, Parenting and Families in Australia, released by the team behind the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, highlights these parenting styles as the problematic ones.
It is common to sneer at parents who ferry their children to sport and ballet, and other activities. But little is ever said of the parent who prefers to sleep in on the weekend or doesn't care enough to ensure their children participate in sport with their friends.
And while the parent who helps "too much" with the homework is frowned upon, the parent who leaves a child to flounder in confusion and to fall behind escapes public disapproval in the new backlash against over-parenting. The uninvolved parent is teaching their child independence, and what failure feels in order to prepare them for the harsh realities of life.
Yes on the continuum of parenting styles, there are bad examples at either end. But most parents muddle through, doing their best. Minor parenting flaws will not condemn children to a lifetime of neuroses.
Most try to socialise their children into acceptable behaviour, try not to spoil them, and understand the difference between being a friend to their child and being a parent. Most parents know that children like and need limits and boundaries, however much they protest.
But in a world where so much cruelty is still dished out to children by parents and other adults, it is surely better to err on the side of kindness than harshness, on the side of involvement than of absence.
If the progeny of these maligned parents eventually end up in a psychologist's room, complaining of feeling "empty", well, it's their problem. Compared to the offspring of cold, angry, uninvolved or chaotic parents, they stand a better chance of working it out.
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New Zealand is a truly unique yacht charter destination, sparkling island studded bays, cobalt blue seas, edged with long silvery beaches, pockets of subtropical forest, towns immersed in history and charm. The ideal way to explore this area is in your very own private crewed luxury charter yacht.
ABOUT NEW ZEALAND YACHT CHARTERS
New Zealand is one of the most renowned and spectacular sailing destinations in the world. The coastline is peppered with islands and bays, fjords and protected harbours. New Zealanders love being on the water - they have more boats per capita than any other country - and you will understand why when you experience the sheer beauty and diversity on offer here onboard your luxury charter yacht.
The sailing conditions are first-rate and the super yacht regatta, the New Zealand Millennium Cup, is an illustrious annual event. Auckland is also one of the most highly regarded stopovers for the Volvo Ocean Race. And with Emirates Team New Zealand having won the 35th America's Cup the spotlight of the sailing world will be focused here with an increasing number of mega yachts visiting New Zealand and available for luxury yacht charter.
Your luxury motor yacht or sailing yacht provides limitless possibilities to enjoy three different but equally breathtaking regions.
Auckland City is the gateway to the Hauraki Gulf cruising grounds, with over 76 islands to explore, and over 200 sheltered anchorages and miles of beautiful coastline all the way north to the Bay of Islands.
The Bay of Islands is also a renowned cruising destination which combines early New Zealand history with stunning natural scenery and marine life, only 3 hours drive from Auckland.
At the top of the South Island, the Marlborough Sounds have 1500-km of deep sunken river valleys to explore - a cruising paradise of islands and coastline with sheltered bays and bush-clad hills.
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We will design a charter itinerary to suit your personal preferences. We have a portfolio of yachts to choose from and we will match the right sailing or motor yacht to meet your aspirations with a yacht interior and exterior to provide you with everything you could wish for.
The Founder and Managing Director of The Luxury Charter Group was born, and has lived and sailed in New Zealand for over 30 years and we maintain an office here. We have all the local knowledge and onshore connections to ensure you enjoy a seamless itinerary. As well as being pampered by your professional crew on board your mega yacht, it is fun to enjoy ashore and we can advice on local restaurants, shore excursions as well as provide local guides.
For further information about the luxury yachts available in New Zealand and the yacht prices please contact one of the specialist yacht charter brokers at the Luxury Charter Group.
The Bay of Islands has attracted sailors from around the world for over a century, with its sheltered anchorages and temperate sub-tropical climate. It is the ideal yacht charter destination, with lots of anchorages in close proximity, you can decide your itinerary as the mood takes.
The Bay of Islands is 120 miles by sea north of Auckland. By road it is a four-hour drive or by plane, a one-hour flight, north of Auckland. Ask the Team at the Luxury Charter Group about private transfers.
The Bay of Islands has a more temperate climate than Auckland, almost sub-tropical. Aptly named, the Bay is studded with islands providing an area of varied geographic beauty and unspoiled sailing grounds. There are innumerable anchorages, great fishing and diving and white sandy beaches within sheltered waters.
Auckland and the Hauraki Gulf
The Hauraki Gulf offers the yachtsman more than 1,500 sq. nautical miles of cruising and the opportunity to explore numerous islands with sheltered anchorages and deserted beaches.
Auckland is a bustling South Pacific city with a cosmopolitan lifestyle - and right on its doorstep is a fantastic cruising vacation playground, the Hauraki Gulf, with 76 islands, and miles of beautiful coastline to explore. Within 30 minutes of clearing at Auckland International Airport, you can board your private yacht, and within two hours of the marina the islands of the inner Gulf are within easy reach.
With over 200 sheltered anchorages, in the Hauraki Gulf you could choose to visit a different stopover every weekend for a year and not return to the same bay. Distances between islands and anchorages are generally further than they are in the Bay of Islands.
The Marlborough Sounds are a yacht charter paradise. Formed by a network of submerged mountain valleys, islands and tranquil sheltered bays, bush-clad hills and there's over 1500-km of deep-water coastline to explore.
The scenery is spectacular, ranging from towering forest clad mountains, through tranquil bays and coves to the rugged exposed shoreline of D'Urville Island. West of D'Urville is Tasman Bay, where golden beaches, warmer waters and the Able Tasman National Park Walkways await.
Twenty minutes by road from Blenheim Airport (in the heart of the best wine growing region in New Zealand), Picton is usually the starting point for your cruise, although we can reposition vessels to Portage and Havelock.
Since the Marlborough Sounds are more remote and less frequented by luxury yachts, please ask the Luxury Charter Group about relocation. Despite their remoteness the Sounds do offer some unique opportunities to dine ashore at hideaway retreats.
For a fully personalised itinerary for your luxury yacht charter in New Zealand please contact one of the New Zealand specialists at the Luxury Charter Group.
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Kenya: Sharia-compliant insurer optimistic
Islamic finance took centre stage in Kenya in 2011 with the launch of the first ever Sharia-compliant insurance firm in the country.
Takaful Insurance of Africa, which was founded in 2008 but formally licensed in 2011, is considered as the first insurance operator in the region which adheres to Islamic ethical principles in its dealings.
However, despite the excitement that saw the introduction of the company earlier in the year, a number of challenges in the market have combined to make it a bitter-sweet year for the model’s penetration in the Kenyan market.
Key among them is the lack of awareness about the Takaful insurance model, which creates a hindrance in the number of companies and individuals who subscribe to it.
Takaful model
The Takaful model is different from conventional ones in that no interest is charged, while loss is shared between the insurance company and the policy holders.
“There is significant amount of interest in our products precisely because of its uniqueness and the difference between the Takaful and the conventional models,” said Mr Hassan Bashir, chief executive of Takaful Insurance of Africa, in an interview.
“However, the first three months of our operation was spent on creating awareness rather than selling the products. It takes time for people to understand the model,” he said.
Regulatory frameworks, government policies and lack of vibrant Islamic-based investment opportunities in the country have also conjured up to hold back the full realisation of the model’s potential.
For instance, in the case of taxation, the company is expected to pay 2 to 2.5 per cent of its income annually as part of Zakat, a pillar of Islam that requires companies and individuals to pay a set amount of their wealth to needy members of the society.
Besides that, the company has to pay tax just like any other corporate entity to the government, doubling the amount of expenditure it spends on tax.
“Something like that is not recognised in the local tax laws,” Mr Bashir said.
“So the Takaful model will have to pay the corporate tax that every company will pay and then it will have to pay the additional Zakat that is required to be paid. So this company will be taxed more compared to the conventional one.”
Besides, all the earnings generated from interest-based or non-acceptable income by Takaful Insurance is expected to go to charity rather than to shareholders or risk fund accounts.
But the biggest challenge of all has been with investment opportunities within the country.
This has limited the capability of the company to diverse its investment ventures across the country and the region.
This was exacerbated by the weakening shilling, besides rising operational costs and inflation rates.
“We do not have the permission or the leeway to take money out of the country and invest in the Sharia-compliant countries, such as the Gulf Cooperation Council and Malaysia,” said Mr Bashir.
(Sunday Nation/24-Dec-2011)
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Macro Expectations Hold to the High Ground
In January, the ZEW index paints a mixed and somewhat uneven view of its survey universe...
U.S. Small Business Optimism Strengthens in September
• NFIB Small Business Optimism Index increases sharply.
• Strengthen occurs across the board, including hiring and pricing.
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Small Business Optimism Index increased to 104.0 in September after rising to 100.2 in August. It was the highest level since February.
Plans to increase employment occurred amongst a net 23% of respondents, the most in almost two years and up from April's low of one percent. An increased 50% of respondents found few or no qualified candidates to fill job openings in September, the most since February and up from a low of 37% in May. A higher net 32% of respondents felt that the economy would improve, but that remained down from 39% in June. An increased net 13% planned to expand the business, a figure stable for two months. A strengthened net eight percent of firms expected higher real sales, but that remained down from 16% twelve months earlier.
Credit was harder to get by a still low two percent of respondents, down from April's high of four percent.
Pricing power improved greatly. A greatly increased net 13% of firms raised prices, the strongest reading since January and up from 18% who lowered prices in April. A net higher 17% were planning to raise prices in September, the most since February. An increased net 23% of firms raised worker compensation while a higher 16% planned to do so over the next three months.
The most important issues for small businesses were the quality of labor (21%), taxes (16%) and poor sales (12%). The cost of labor troubled a steady nine percent of respondents, increased from six percent in May.
Roughly 24 million small businesses exist in the U.S. and they create 80% of all new jobs. The typical NFIB member employs 10 people and reports gross sales of about $500,000 a year. The NFIB figures can be found in Haver's SURVEYS database.
National Federation of Independent Business (SA, Net % of Firms)
Sep'19
Small Business Optimism Index (1986=100) 104.0 100.2 98.8 101.8 103.0 106.7 104.9
Firms Expecting Economy to Improve 32 24 25 9 13 32 39
Firms Expecting Higher Real Sales 8 3 5 16 18 26 23
Firms Reporting Now Is a Good Time to Expand the Business 13 12 11 22 25 30 23
Firms Planning to Increase Employment 23 21 18 17 19 21 18
Firms With Few or No Qualified Applicants for Job Openings (%) 50 46 44 50 52 51 49
Firms Reporting that Credit Was Harder to Get 2 1 2 4 4 4 4
Firms Raising Average Selling Prices 13 1 -2 8 13 15 7
Firms Raising Worker Compensation 23 18 15 29 31 33 27
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