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Standing up to divisiveness, providing aid for immigrant families
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Leaders from all quarters of our state and nation are standing up to racist and divisive rhetoric that seeks to divide America for political purposes. We stand with them.
“Send them back” – and other jeers and taunts – do not belong in our civic dialogue. These words are polarizing, traumatic, and dangerous.
These tactics divide us – and tear at the fabric of our country, woven from the many waves of newcomers who, while bringing diverse experiences, perspectives, and cultures, seek freedom and the American dream of a better life for their families.
Unfortunately, fear and vilification of immigrants have a long history in our country. Like most of you, my family came to the U.S. in search of the American Dream. I vividly recall my mother recounting stories of being ostracized and bullied, as a first-generation Italian immigrant in New York, including being told to “go back to where you came from.” I will not hear “go back” like my family once did, and for that very reason I feel compelled to speak out when newcomers to America are ostracized and threatened.
California can pave the way for national healing in the years ahead. Our state confronted, and overcame, anti-immigrant sentiment in the 1990s; we now have some of the most effective immigrant integration policies in America. Our civic leaders, community volunteers, and nonprofit organizations work tirelessly to assist newcomers to the U.S. because we are an inclusive and welcoming state.
At the Irvine Foundation, we’re grateful to be able to help by funding those working to heal and support our immigrant families and communities. Earlier this month Irvine’s Board of Directors approved $1.3 million in new funding to support California organizations (see below) providing rapid-response shelters and greater oversight of detention facilities to protect, defend, and reunite families who are separated and imprisoned for seeking refuge in the U.S. (In 2018, we gave $1 million to reunite families at the border). These funds are in addition to our ongoing grantmaking to Protecting Immigrant Rights – $ 7.3 million in 2019 – as well as our long history of funding efforts that enable immigrants to integrate effectively into their communities.
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The worsening border crisis is an affront to basic human rights and California’s values of inclusion and dignity for all its residents. Whatever you think of our asylum and immigration systems, it is wrong to vilify families and children who came to the U.S. in search of safety and a better life. The inhumane conditions families are enduring will have lasting, painful consequences for them and for our country. But we are confident that the work of our grantees, along with so many others working in common cause, is making our state stronger, safer, and more prosperous.
We are also looking ahead to what will be needed to recover from this ugly period. We are working with other foundations, assisted by the Institute for the Future and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, to think through different scenarios for the future of immigration in California. In addition to responding to the crisis at hand, we need to invest in proactive efforts that address the underlying dysfunctions that cause these divisions.
We look forward to working with those who seek to reunite us around our historic American values of inclusion, refuge, and diversity.
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“Change”, the festival of architecture for a new approach to sustainability
Here comes “Change”, the festival of architecture for a new approach to sustainability and urban, cultural and environmental innovation
Online and in-presence events, hosted until October 31 at MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st century arts in Rome
Do you remember the appeal made to Italian President Sergio Mattarella by architects all over the country? They were asking for a new way of designing a society that will have to learn to live with pandemics.
The time has come, to go to the core of the issue. At Maxxi in Rome (National Museum of 21st century arts, designed by Zaha Hadid and led by the foundation with the same name of the Ministry for cultural heritage and activities) “Changes – Architecture. Cities. Life” sees the light - a festival of architecture for a new approach to sustainability and urban, cultural and environmental innovation.
Organized by Open City Roma, Maxxi and the Rome Chamber of Architects, the festival began on September 24 and will go on until October 31, with several in-presence events and some digital ones – talks, brainstorming, exhibitions, installations, urban itineraries and workshops. The aim is that of stimulating the progress of ideas, knowledges and projects, in order to answer the most urgent question – how can we find the balance between human needs and the planet’s ability to meet them? Through an interdisciplinary perspective, Change faces the themes of urban regeneration and social innovation, of carbon neutrality and energy saving, of the use of intelligent systems of innovative materials, of the re-naturalization of urban spaces and sustainable mobility.
Therefore the architects debate among themselves, since inevitably the echo of Climate Change affects urban planning and architecture has the need to change with respect to cities. The pressure by Covid-19 pandemics brings forward the alarm from scientists but also from the architects. Since, according to the Director of Open City Roma Davide Paterna “squeezed in between climate changes and pandemics we are living a moment of great uncertainty, but uncertainty can be used as a starting point for a new path, by catching all new elements brought forth by the technological knowledge reached by human science in this phase”.
For more than a month designers and thinkers will discuss about a sustainable, innovative and responsible future. Ideas will be triggered and multidisciplinary skills will be put at stake, in order to understand and innovate in a sustainable way. Movies and documentaries on architecture, cities and sustainable change will be shown. Trips to the greenest buildings in Rome will be organized. A festival that is not only related to the urgent need to face the causes and effects of climate change, but also to all that must be revised.
“If the 19th century has been the age of Enlightenment” Mr Paterna says “this beginning of the new Millennium must give way to a new course in our evolution as a specie, thus settling a balance between economy, science and environment”.
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Put the left foot in, shake it all about
Defining workplace transformation within the frameworks of digital, people, and company.
By Tamsin Oxford
Johannesburg, 06 Aug 2020
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What does it mean, precisely, when human resources (HR) and the media talk about ‘workforce transformation’? Is it a nice coat of paint in the cafeteria that’s always an odd shade of brown, or is it digital tools and technologies that are designed to redefine the role of the employee? Or is it throwing technology at people and hoping that some of it will stick? According to Deloitte, workforce transformation is a strategy that ‘reimagines all aspects of workforce management’. It’s about skills development, work experiences, and understanding the impact of technological and social disruptors. For Dell, workforce transformation is one simple statement: to create a digital workplace that benefits everyone and everything.
However, no matter how you shape it, workforce transformation in the post-pandemic world is recalibrating digital, people, workplace and strategy. Over the past six months, workforce transformation, itself a disruptor of roles and job security, has been disrupted. The world has been forced into collaborative and remote working styles that have, for many organisations, proved best in class when it comes to productivity and employee satisfaction. Social media giants Twitter and Facebook have said that the new work from home normal will remain in place for some employees, Square and Shopify have both admitted that home is where the workplace is, and Dell has declared itself a remote-friendly organisation. A crowd-sourced list on Remote.Lifeshack has more than 890 companies listed as either permanently or temporarily remote, indicating that this enforced reality is rapidly becoming voluntary.
The virus triggered the largest work from home mobilisation in history, but it also highlighted that many organisations lacked resilience and agility when it came to its digital investment into its people. Many have tried even harder to enforce legacy workplace practices onto digitally transformed workforces. It’s been awkward, more than a little embarrassing, and has highlighted exactly how poorly people respond to micromanagement.
The pandemic has drawn a hard line under the need to significantly invest in a solid workforce transformation strategy that can withstand future uncertainty and embrace what the new normal has defined as, well, normal.
Explosive developments
Back in 2017, in those giddy, virus-free days, McKinsey Global Institute estimated that as many as 375 million people would have to either change jobs or skillsets by 2030 in order to survive. In the 2020 survey, 87% of executives revealed that they were already starting to feel the pain of the skill gaps, but few really knew what steps had to be taken in order to resolve the problem. As the research company points out, both companies and employees are struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing world that’s not just being hit by a virus, but by explosive developments in automation and artificial intelligence that have been, let’s face it, prioritised over the past few months.
People need more than just a nice laptop and a helpful login to a project management tool. They need leaders. They need resilience and agility. They need skills development and opportunity. And they need the kind of workforce transformation that leverages the multi-faceted potential of technology to get the best possible results for them, and their company. This is the next, bold step that defines true workforce transformation in 2020 – the step that says: So, we’ve been forced to digitally transform, now what?
This is the ‘Now what?’
Brainstorm: What are the benefits of enabling workforce transformation?
Jenny Oliver, business manager: Digital Transformation at Decision Inc.: Digital technologies will increasingly be key to attracting and retaining employees, and in enabling a motivated and diverse workforce. Increased productivity, stronger collaboration and increased digital dexterity across departments will also result in a more competitive organisation.
Lorna Hardie, regional director, Sub-Saharan Africa at VMware: Agility is probably the most significant benefit. If your workforce can use the tools at its disposal to improve workflows, and increase productivity, your immediate benefit is a team or a unit that is working on pulling the same strings at the same time.
Maxine Paul, Group HR manager at Seidor Africa: Enabling a transformational workforce enables innovative, independent, skilled and motivated workers. It also attracts and retains a talented workforce and ensures diversity and inclusivity.
Lerato Matabola, talent manager at Basalt Technology: A transformational workforce is a happier workforce with more autonomy. This means a team that is more motivated and therefore more productive. Enabling a transformational workforce can stimulate innovation, increase workforce skillset and boost worker performance.
Aimeé McNamara, Human Resources manager at Synthesis Software Technologies: As organisations compete for talent in a limited skills pool (exacerbated by emigration in the South African context) in some industries more than others, organisations are having to look beyond benefits and remuneration as a means of retaining talent.
Brainstorm: Can companies leapfrog off the pandemic to achieve relevant workforce transformation?
Jenny Oliver, Decision Inc.: Wellbeing frameworks should become part and parcel of a workforce transformation strategy and encompass mental, social and physical wellbeing. Now is the time to re-write the recruitment strategy to include remote working and locations to provide you with the best talent and an optimal mix of permanent and non-permanent teams and implement automation to replace on-site tasks wherever possible.
Helene Liebenberg, chief operations officer at Tarsus Distribution: The pandemic has sped up some aspects of technology adoption, but it hasn’t transformed the culture at most organisations. People can work from home, but the legacy processes, hierarchies and cultures remain in place. In fact, we have seen many old-school management behaviours increase during this time, for example micromanagement of employees’ time.
Maxine Paul, Seidor Africa: Post the pandemic, organisations shouldn’t just be relying on legacy systems or looking to return to normal, but should be focusing on employee experience and enabling the workforce with the now new way of work.
Lerato Matabola, Basalt Technology: Traditional office hours could become a thing of the past as many organisations embrace working from home and flexible schedules.
Brainstorm: What technology do you believe is the most important for enabling workforce transformation?
Lorna Hardie, VMware: Collaboration tools that enable people to work from anywhere, Software-as-a-Service and cloud technologies that allow you to extend the borders of your business and separate you from the shackles of on-premise architecture. Also, the digital devices that enable this mobility, and, lastly, connectivity. Without connectivity, none of the above will work.
Jeandie Leone, commercial manager, Workforce Staffing: Data visualisation tools and centralised analytics platforms to track productivity, business leads, service delivery and financials. Also, standardised reporting technology to eliminate data inaccuracies and ensure efficient data collation and report generation.
Alex Mouton, eLearning Business Unit manager, Dax Data: Technology solutions that facilitate a more efficient and effective way of working, through delivery and management of training initiatives, or through other areas such as the digitisation of document processes, are the key to success. These include enterprise-level learning management systems, digital document workflow tools and e-signature services.
Jolene Castelyn, head of Marketing at Ricoh SA: The four most important technologies to create and sustain that transformation of the workforce are remote working, process automation, cloud and infrastructure solutions, and safe and smart workplace enablement.
Henda Edwards, executive head: Carrier and Communications at Vox: Consider the entire workplace ecosystem to ensure that you have stable connectivity, collaboration tools, cyber security capabilities, and managed IT services with remote support.
Change in practice
Brainstorm discovers what some of South Africa’s leading organisations have done to embed workforce transformation in the digital era.
When asked to define best practice in workforce transformation, every company has a different story. Some are ever so proud of how they allowed Susan to work from home once a week because she had a new baby. Others are delighted with their modernised views of allowing remote working on the weekends. But there are those that have actually undergone workforce transformation driven by strategy, people and digital and that have embedded best practice into the organisation’s foundation and approach, and this is what they had to say.
At Decision Inc., Jenny Oliver, business manager: Digital Transformation, believes that the company’s focus on using digital technologies to allow people to work effectively from anywhere is key. The company has a workforce that’s multi-skilled, digital and capable of working from anywhere at any time and it’s supported by automation solutions that take away the mundane and the repetitive.
For Lorna Hardie, regional director, Sub-Saharan Africa at VMware, the focus is not just on the talk, but on the action. “We don't just talk about digitally transforming our teams, we talk about ensuring cultural and inclusive transformation. The VMware culture is one where we aim to appeal not only to millennials, but to top talent across the generations. It starts with people and ends with technology.”
This is on a par with how many companies are approaching true workforce transformation, by embedding people-first values into all layers of digital and strategy. MIP Holdings, for example, has taken one step that many can learn from – self management.
“In the new normal, where a distributed workforce will become more common than teams based in offices, employees and the business need easy access to the information they require for each individual to manage themselves,” says Richard Firth, CEO of MIP Holdings.
This sentiment is echoed by Maxine Paul, Group HR manager at Seidor Africa. For her, trust and responsibility cannot be an afterthought when it comes to driving workforce transformation. It’s also a view shared by Lerato Matabola, talent manager at Basalt Technology: “It’s about having clear business goals and trusting employees to innovate to achieve those goals. Essentially, employees select what they want to work on, which naturally leads to higher engagement and better results.”
Best practice can easily be defined within the constraints of a specific business model or industry. What works for one may not be even remotely relevant or possible for another.
This is what makes Vox’s strategy so important. The company believes that workforce transformation cannot be based on one thing alone, and it needs to constantly adapt and evolve.
Says Henda Edwards, executive head: Carrier and Communications at Vox: “We still learn as we continue on this path as it is unchartered territory. But wera are committed to embracing this transformation.”
So far, so transformative. But not many of those interviewed mentioned the role of the employee in making workplace transformation a reality. What about the people? Well, at CRS Technologies, employees are considered the driving force behind transformation. The company has an open-door policy that takes ideas advocated by its people and implements them, if they make sense. This is also the approach taken by About IT.
“The future never arrives so it’s always a shifting goalpost in terms of technologies, which is why it’s so important to create a solid human foundation. That sets the tone for a clear digital strategy that enables you to reimagine the business,” says Jillian Erasmus, marketing manager at About IT.
These views are shared by leading research houses such as Deloitte, McKinsey and Forrester. The best practice foundations are simple: people and digital. The layers that then define how you approach people and digital are wrapped around the industry you play in, the needs of your workforce, and the strategy that defines your organisation’s culture. To truly deliver on transformation for your workforce, these layers need to be constantly adaptive and relevant to both your people and your company.
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Business growth prompts Winjit Johannesburg, SA office relocation
Winjit has now moved its Johannesburg office base from Sunninghill, where it has been based since 2009, to its new office in Maxwell Office Park, Midrand.
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In the wake of substantial growth, Winjit has now moved its Johannesburg office base from Sunninghill, where it has been based since 2009, to its new office in Maxwell Office Park, Waterfall, Midrand.
Winjit has been working with customers in South Africa for the last 10 years. The company has worked with industry leaders in NBFC, logistics, media, automobile and other industries in South Africa. Winjit is now working with its partners in hiring and skilling local talent through internship programmes from universities in South Africa. The expansion is a part of strategic initiatives by Winjit to invest in the South African market and cater to African customers from South Africa.
Winjit’s expert team of engineering professionals have provided innovative technology and engineering solutions that have resulted in world-class recognition. The team derives motivation from solving real-time problems for the long run, with the ability to scale-up. The experience in technology best practices is the result of ongoing investments in user experience research and testing, technology innovation, business intelligence and operational quality.
Winjit’s AI offerings cover a wide range of solutions that converge the best of IOT, computer vision, machine learning, fintech and blockchain. The company’s R&D team developed the flagship emerging technology products PredictSense – automated machine learning platform, and IoTSense – full-scale IOT platform. Winjit also provides extensive high-end expertise in the world of fintech with broad offerings such as RPA, Smart OCR, WhatsApp chatbot, blockchain and banking solutions, among others.
Commenting on the relocation of Johannesburg office, Stu Chalmers, Business Development Manager for Winjit South Africa, said: “The relocation of our Johannesburg operation to Waterfall is the kick-start of an exciting year ahead for us in 2020-21. Winjit continues to go from strength to strength; we have been winning a large amount of business both from within our Johannesburg base and at an international level. This move is a new progressive development for us, which will enable us to provide higher levels of service excellence for our customers and it also gives us room for further expansion with an increase in staff levels.”
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Judge Dismisses All Claims Against Postle Case Defendants
June 6th, 2020 | Last updated on June 6th, 2020
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This was an unexpected turn.
US District Court Judge William Shubb dismissed all charges and motions against Mike Postle, Stones Gambling Hall, and Stones’ employee Justin Kuraitis.
The judge made this ruling just weeks after oral arguments regarding the motions to dismiss the cases, motions by Stones, Kuraitis, and Postle. Shubb seemed to lack an understanding of poker’s skill component and the technology behind livestreaming, but he did argue strongly against some of the defendants’ arguments for dismissal. Shubb particularly debated the validity of the Kelly v. First Astri case at the center of the defendants’ motions.
Another hearing was scheduled for June 1 to hear arguments regarding the plaintiffs’ motion for sanctions against Postle and his seemingly-ghostwritten legal documents. They called into question the participation of William Portanova, an attorney who seemed provide legal assistance to Postle despite Postle’s claim of representing himself.
Suddenly, however, hours before the hearing was to begin, Shubb cancelled it. “The Court shall issue a separate order,” the docket text read.
Two days later, Shubb issued his rulings to dismiss it all.
The Mike Postle case was dismissed.
Unfucking believable.
— Doug Polk (@DougPolkVids) June 3, 2020
Granting Defendants’ Motions to Dismiss
The order pertained to the motions to dismiss charges against them by King’s Casino (doing business as Stones Gambling Hall), Kuraitis, and Postle.
Essentially, every one of the 11 total charges against the defendants was dismissed. The court did grant the plaintiffs 20 days from June 3 to file an amended complaint against King’s Casino and Kuraitis only “if they can do so consistent with this order.”
Disappointment is not a strong enough word, but we will continue the fight with an amended pleading. In the interim, I would encourage everyone to read the judge's opinion, which is detailed and well-written. My admiration for our clients has no bounds. https://t.co/bt5POVWawe
— Mac VerStandig (@mac_verstandig) June 3, 2020
Shubb did the same for the motion for sanctions against Postle. “Regardless of whether Postle had his motion ghostwritten by that attorney or cut and pasted from the brief his attorney filed in that prior case, the court sees no reason to impose sanctions here.”
While the judge cited cases in which federal courts frowned upon the practice of ghostwriting, those same courts rarely imposed sanctions. So, Shubb declined its discretion to impose sanctions.
“It is therefore ordered that plaintiffs’ motion for sanctions be, and the same hereby is, denied.”
Reasons for Dismissals of Claims Against King’s/Stones
Shubb first addressed the allegations against King’s Casino in great detail. He started with the motion in its entirety and cited two cases, the aforementioned Kelly ruling and Vu v. California Commerce Club. He points to both cases regarding the recovery gambling losses, putting the onus for that task on California’s public policy. Additionally, the rake in poker games could contribute to more concrete, identifiable damages.
Shubb went on to address each claim separately.
The judge dismissed this charge because the plaintiffs failed to “particularly plead the damages they suffered as a result of this alleged fraud.” However, he left it open to amend the complaint with details of the days of the Stones poker action in which they were defrauded and identify the rake paid to Stones in those games.
Constructive Fraud
Shubb concluded that the plaintiffs failed to prove a “fiduciary or confidential relationship between themselves and Stones.” He also said that the plaintiffs didn’t prove their “vulnerability” to constructing a fiduciary relationship, with vulnerabilities including old age or youth, lack of education, grief, sickness, or weakness of mind.
Negligent Misrepresentation
Shubb wrote that the plaintiffs failed to fulfill the essentials of this charge, and they didn’t reveal the name of the confederate that could testify to their charges. This, he said, prevented him from assessing any intent to defraud, meaning Stones couldn’t be shown to have known of the cheating.
Consumer Legal Remedies Act
This charge involved deception as a part of a transaction of Stones selling its services as a fair cardroom. While the plaintiffs alleged that the service was poker, but the judge contended that gambling is not work and a game not a service.
The judge concluded that there was no physical harm to the plaintiffs and that Stones did not intend to harm the exact plaintiffs rather than any possible poker players. Shubb also said that the plaintiffs failed to show that they had any special relationship with Stones.
C'mon man…
For claim of Negligence against Stones and "special relationship" they have w/ customers … judge says lawsuit "fails to
adequately suggest that any cheating was intended to specifically affect them, rather than any possible poker player." pic.twitter.com/nuSr0dI2DV
— Chad Holloway (@ChadAHolloway) June 3, 2020
Libel Per Se
This pertained to the Stones’ tweet against Veronica Brill alleging she fabricated her claims against the establishment. The tweet didn’t mention her by name, but she claimed she was identifiable in that tweet by reasonable implication. Shubb, however, said it didn’t meet the necessary elements of libel per se.
Reasons for Dismissals of Claims Against Kuraitis
Judge Shubb next took to the claims against Kuraitis, who served as a director in charge of the Stones Live online broadcasts. He managed the booth with the technology that recorded the hole cards and all of the poker action in order for commentators to do their jobs in a separate booth.
The judge addressed each claim against Kuraitis, too.
The judge dismissed this charge against Kuraitis for a bit of a different reason than he did for Stones. He found that “agents are not vicariously liable for the torts of their principals,” which is why the plaintiffs may amend their complaint to seek rake from Stones but not Kuraitis. Since there was no clear connection between Kuraitis and the rake, the charge was dismissed.
Essentially, the plaintiffs could not prove that Kuraitis believed anything other than what he told the plaintiffs with regard to cheating. The judge dismissed allegations that Kuraitis deliberately concealed cheating, and the plaintiffs’ claim that they had a confederate to testify otherwise failed because the plaintiffs did not name that person. This, however, may be amended in a new complaint if the plaintiffs want to name that person and bring his or her claims to the fore.
As mentioned in the Stones’ dismissals, Shubb noted that the plaintiffs alleged no physical harm. Further, he contended that Kuraitis had a duty to ensure fair play to Stones as an employee of Stones, not to the plaintiffs. He also shirked at the idea that Kuraitis had a duty to “the game.”
Just letting the poker community know that if you decide to cheat on a live stream you are free to do so. There will be no accountability for your actions and you are free to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars. The casino, and employees who might help you, are not accountable
— Veronica BLM (@Angry_Polak) June 3, 2020
Reasons for Dismissals of Claims Against Postle
Who’s still with me? Anyone?
The judge broke down the five claims against Postle into two categories, one focusing on a RICO (Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act) violation, and all of the others lumped into the other. He broke those two sections down as follows:
Fraud, Negligent Misrepresentation, Negligence Per Se, Unjust Enrichment
Judge Shubb ruled that all of these claims focus on gambling losses, which he addressed regarding Stones already. And since those types of losses are not recoverable through the court, he again pointed to a need for a public policy change to address this issue.
This charge pertained to the allegation that Postle used an “instrumentality of wire transmissions” to cheat at the poker games. Shubb said that plaintiffs must allege conduct of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity causing injury to plaintiffs’ business or property. In order to prove said injury, they must show proof of “concrete financial loss.”
Shubb pointed to past cases that found gambling losses insufficient to prove those injuries. Not only did he classify poker as gambling, he said the players would have paid the rake whether Postle cheated or not. And the plaintiffs simply didn’t show concrete injury.
Amended Complaint Forthcoming
The last paragraph of the court’s order gives plaintiffs 20 days from June 3 to file an amended complaint.
Mac VerStandig, attorney for the plaintiffs, made no qualms about their intention to file that amended complaint against Stones.
Some musings on yesterday’s news in the Postle/Stones case. (Also, y’all realize we’re going to amend and go forward against Stones, right? Reports of the case’s death are greatly exaggerated.) https://t.co/5FQsLmb2BL
In a follow-up piece for PokerNews, VerStandig indicated sincere disappointment that Stones – a licensed and legal casino – would rely on an antiquated doctrine prohibiting gamblers from seeking judicial recourse for their losses. “The message such sends to the gaming community forming its patron base is suboptimal-at-best,” he wrote. “Moreover, it is a doctrine born of an anachronistic era.”
VerStandig also noted that Postle became a victim in this ruling in that he cannot show proof of his gifted poker play. He never proved his poker prowess or substantially countered the hours and hours of evidence against him, the detailed analysis of footage that show a strong likelihood of cheating.
He's about to be rich from his poker skills, or is he going to blame me too when that doesn't work? https://t.co/qzxCppjLye
His also issued a warning regarding the message of the judge’s orders of dismissal sent to the poker community:
“If the laws of a major state will not give standing to our gaming grievances, my oft-repeated admonishments to avoid underworld brutality will seem quaintly aloof. If the laws of a major state will not permit entertainment of a cheating case on the merits, the next Mr. Postle among us – even if someone falsely accused or victimized by happenstance – will be without a traditional forum to clear her or his good name.”
Disclaimer: This author is not a lawyer and has virtually zero qualifications to analyze legal documents or arguments. Nevertheless, she persists.
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Published: July 17, 2015, 5:59 pm
Tags: Florida, News, Local, Neighborhood Crime
Detectives investigate woman’s death in Broward
School resource officer arrested for allegedly soliciting a minor for sex
Surveillance video shows car tied to Plantation killing, police say
Jeron Perkins, 25, fatally shot outside apartment complex
PLANTATION, Fla. – Police have released a surveillance image that shows a vehicle believed to be involved in a fatal Plantation shooting earlier this month.
According to police, Jeron Perkins, 25, was shot and killed July 7 at the Del Oro apartment complex near Northwest 70th Avenue and 16th Street.
Residents told Local 10 News that they heard a series of gunshots. They said they thought the man had moved to the neighborhood with his girlfriend last month.
A man who didn't want to be identified said he heard a girl screaming and saw the victim on the ground.
Police said two men fled the scene in a white 4-door Kia.
A motive for the shooting is unknown.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS. A reward of up to $3,000 is being offered for information that leads to an arrest and conviction.
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Published: December 5, 2016, 10:32 am
Tags: Neighborhood Crime, News, Local, Monroe County, Crime
Marathon woman accused of choking 6-month-old Siberian husky
Witnesses take dog to veterinarian, deputies say
MARATHON, Fla. – A Marathon woman was arrested Sunday on an animal abuse charge after a Nov. 20 incident in which she choked her daughter's 6-month-old Siberian husky, authorities said.
Monroe County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Becky Herrin said witnesses found the dog, Lulu, wandering around Aviation Boulevard and knew that her owner lived at the Coconut Cay Apartments.
Herrin said witnesses took Lulu to Diana Linares, 45, whose daughter owns the dog.
Witnesses told deputies that they saw a man at the apartment lift the dog by her front paws and hit her chest several times with his knee.
Witnesses said they then saw Linares repeatedly pick up the dog by the collar, lifting her off the ground and choking her.
Herrin said Linares choked the dog for up to 30 to 60 seconds at a time.
The two witnesses eventually talked Linares into giving the dog back to them, and they took Lulu to the Marathon Veterinary Clinic.
Herrin said Lulu suffered an injury to one of her eyes, which the veterinarian said was caused by either asphyxiation or blunt-force trauma.
Animal control officers were called to the clinic and referred the case to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
An arrest warrant was issued for Linares, who was taken into custody on Sunday.
The man accused of being involved in the incident has not yet been identified.
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In addition to the live DVD and five studio albums released since 2002, the hugely prolific Butch Walker was named “Producer of the Year” by Rolling Stone in 2005 for his work with some of the biggest names in music. He has written and produced hit records by a staggering number of acclaimed artists, including Weezer, Fall Out Boy, Pink, Katy Perry, Avril Lavigne, Panic! At the Disco, Dashboard Confessional, Pete Yorn and Avril Lavigne.
The Spade is an adrenaline-pumping blast of hook-fueled rock and roll that features 10 new tracks written by Walker in collaboration with his longtime band-mates, The Black Widows: Fran Capitanelli on lead and rhythm guitar, Jake Sinclair on bass and backing vocals, Chris Unck on rhythm guitar. The album was recorded in Venice, California and features Butch’s friend Patrick Keeler of The Raconteurs on drums.
The record showcases Walker’s sharp lyrical wit and unbridled affection for the anthemic pop of his youth. From first single “Summer of ‘89” (where he sings “Nobody really knew Bryan Adams wasn’t cool / The TV just told me he was”) to “Synthesizers” (“I don’t have a synthesizer / I can still get down like Duran Duran in 1985”), the album is full of knowing winks, half-cocked smiles, and monster sing-alongs. Walker writes with a boozy swagger, leading his band through what sounds like the soundtrack to the world’s greatest house party.
Walker’s previous album, “I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart”, earned sterling reviews, with Rolling Stone calling him “one of America’s best singer-songwriters” and the LA Times calling it a “reaffirmation of the pleasures of witty phrasing and a perfect chorus”.
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Peter Kellner on the need for collaboration in the field of medicines discovery
Research | Regulatory
Board Member Peter Kellner writes about the role of the Medicines Discovery Catapult and the importance of collaboration post-Brexit
Peter Kellner, Medicines Discovery Catapult
Britain’s long-term prospects, post-Brexit, will plainly be affected by our trading arrangements with the rest of Europe and the wider world.
The full impact may not be clear for some years. But, as this week’s industrial strategy published by the government rightly makes clear, our prospects also depend on our ability to convert Britain’s undoubted strength in innovation and science into products and services that are made in Britain; and that is down to us.
Not for the first time, medicine provides some of the most exciting opportunities. In the 1940s, the production of penicillin by Glaxo at Barnard Castle transformed the industry. Today, we are unlikely to find an equivalent, single magic bullet; but the challenges facing the industry, and future opportunities, are just as great as in prepenicillin days.
Bluntly, the existing global model for developing medicines is failing. The process takes longer and costs more than it used to. Success rates are declining just as patient demand is rising, and the return on investment to the top tier of “Big Pharma” has fallen.
In principle, the way forward is clear. Involve patients and their stakeholders in the prioritisation of what medicines are most needed, then take advantage of the latest advances in DNA and gene technologies to craft chemicals and biologicals into such products.
The tricky bit is converting this approach into practical steps that can end up improving both the world’s health and Britain’s economy. The Medicines Discovery Catapult, established by Innovate UK, is well placed to help. As a new business, it has no financial or institutional stake in the old model.
And as a not-for-profit company, it is able to promote and support genuinely collaborative research. It can help bring together the R&D strengths of charitable, private, academic and service sectors in ways that advance the interests of all these sectors and threaten none of them.
For example, many patient charities fund important academic research and have valuable data sources and relationships. Working with the Catapult, with its independent expertise and capacity to bridge the gap between that research and commercial applications, charities have a trusted partner. Together we can help to speed up the process of getting new therapies to those that need them.
Already a number of patient charities are discussing plans for collaborative R&D with us — as are universities and biotech and contract service companies. We hope to make early progress in areas like antimicrobial resistance, inflammation and diseases of the central nervous system, such as Parkinson’s and dementia.
Success in any, let alone all, of these quests would make a big difference to many people throughout the world — and also enhance jobs and investment, and hence prosperity, in Britain.
That is not all. As a director of the Catapult, and also chairman of NCVO (the National Council for Voluntary Organisations), and formerly President of YouGov, Britain’s pioneering online polling company, I have engaged with all four sectors: private, public, academic, voluntary. I am more convinced than ever that modern societies succeed when, and only when, these four sectors all pull together.
This means moving on from the old binary debates about public and charity versus private enterprise, and avoiding the traps associated with such activities as “picking winners” and imposing red tape. Even without Brexit, a new, more flexible, business ecology would be needed to encourage innovation that serves us all.
With Brexit, that need is especially urgent for Britain. Developing new medicines can inform that wider business and political agenda, as well as help to fight some of the world’s most serious diseases.
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LV= General Insurance voice skill answers first 1000 questions
LV= General Insurance’s voice skill for Amazon Alexa and Google Home Assistant has passed 1000 questions successfully answered, with a number of these relating to the impact of Covid-19.
Since its launch in January of this year, the industry-first voice skill has been available for customers to have policy-based questions answered without having to contact anyone or read through their documents.
Over 1000 questions have now been answered at an average of just over seven per day since launch, with 13pc of these relating to Covid-19 restrictions. The most popular questions have been:
• Can I drive in Europe?
• Can I drive other cars?
• What are the cover benefits?
Of the questions relating to Covid-19, the most common have been:
• Can I still make a claim?
• Am I covered to use my car for volunteering?
• How is LV= dealing with coronavirus?
The voice app, which has a customer rating of 4.7 out of 5, is available on all Alexa and Google Home devices. Once downloaded, customers will be able to ask their smart speaker to “Open LV”.
Jon Mansley, LV= GI Sales and Marketing Director, said:
“We’re really pleased with the take-up of our voice skill, which is clearly providing some reassurance to our customers during this difficult time. It’s great that we can give answers across a range of products and subjects to people in their own homes, and it also ensures that our call handlers are freed up to deal with queries from key workers, or administer the distribution of our Green Heart Support fund.”
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About Liverpool Victoria General Insurance Group Limited
LV= General Insurance provides car, home, pet, travel, landlord breakdown and home emergency insurance to over 7 million customers in the UK.
We’re the UK’s third largest personal lines insurer with just over £2 billion in annual premium income.
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LV= General Insurance uses the LV= brand under licence from the Liverpool Victoria Financial Services Group and the L&G brand under licence from the Legal & General Group.
We are part of the Allianz Group, one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers with more than 92 million retail and corporate customers.
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GLOBAL MARKETS LIVE: Boeing’s 737 Max to resume flights in Europe, Merck’s latest acquisition…
The European Aviation Safety Agency should give the green light for Boeing's 737 MAX to resume flights. We’re also talking about AstraZeneca's vaccine data, Elliott's bid for Aryzta in Switzerland and the ambitions of Zurich and Siegfried.
Earnings season. Prosus, Naspers, Agilent, Warner Music, CSPC Pharmaceutical, Ackermans, Daily Mail and Quadient are among companies reporting their results today...
Pfizer and BioNTech applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday for approval of their Covid-19 vaccine.
AstraZeneca announces an average efficacy of 70% for its Covid-19 vaccine.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will give the green light for Boeing's 737 MAX to resume flights in European skies in January, EASA Executive Director Patrick Ky said this weekend, quoted by Reuters. Last week it was the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that lifted the flight ban on the Boeing 737 MAX in the United States.
Merck announced the acquisition of privately held biopharmaceutical company OncoImmune for $425 million in cash.
Prosus reported a 29% increase in half-yearly earnings to $2.2 billion, and confirms the launch of the share buyback program unveiled at the end of October.
General Electric unions estimate that the group has cut 5,000 positions in France in five years.
Zurich Insurance has confirmed its interest in certain MetLife activities in general insurance, after Reuters' indiscretions suggesting a $4 billion buyback offer.
Siegfried is thinking of going into biotechnology, according to its managing director Wolfgang Wienand interviewed by the magazine Finanz und Wirtschaft.
Elliott Advisors has submitted an offer to buy Aryzta at CHF 0.80 per share.
FDA approves Regeneron's antibody cocktail against coronavirus.
Californian online platform Wish wants to raise $25-30 billion by going public on Wall Street, according to the Financial Times.
The australian regulator opened an investigation into the malfunctions that affected the listings on ASX Limited a week ago.
Aluflexpack is investing €65 million in its Croatian plants.
Evergrande Property Services wants to enter Hong Kong.
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Africa Express Line advances energy efficiency with new order for Star Cool containers
The shipping line aims to reduce operating costs and meet sustainability objectives through energy efficiency, effective cargo control and cold chain transparency
Star Cool Controlled Atmosphere offers high energy efficiency and effective care of perishables
Africa Express Line Ltd (AEL) is expanding its refrigerated container fleet with the addition of 500 Star Cool Integrated™ containers manufactured by Maersk Container Industry (MCI). Dedicated to the environment and food safety, AEL selected the industry’s only fully integrated refrigerated container and the Star Cool Controlled Atmosphere (CA) technology for its proven high energy efficiency and effective care of the ripening process of perishables. The containers will be deployed to service AEL’s owner, French fruit exporter Compagnie Fruitiere, in routes to and from Europe and West Africa.
“We set out to invest in containers that would protect the high-value produce we transport while saving energy,” says Mathew Shed, Technical Director at AEL. “After comparative field trials, the controlled atmosphere technology clearly demonstrated its ability to help ensure the produce arrives at its destination in optimal condition. We will also take advantage of the energy saving applications and remote monitoring capabilities of Star Cool. Not only will they help us optimise operations, but they will also help us stay true to the CSR commitments we share with our owner, Compagnie Fruitiere.”
All Star Cool containers will be equipped with modems for remote access to monitor the assets, temperature, atmosphere, and alarms logged in real time in the Star Cool units. To further propel energy performance, AEL will activate the StarConomy reefer control application, which is proven to halve energy use while maintaining the same temperature inside the container, preserving produce quality.
“We have a long-standing relationship with AEL and we are delighted that they again have chosen to add the most efficient container model,” says Soren Johannsen, Chief Commercial Officer, MCI. “The integrated Star Cool 2017 model provides a whole suite of new efficiency-enhancing features to support the needs of modern container operations – from monitoring and controlling the atmospheric conditions on the inside of the container to digitalised solutions that allow for transparency and expanded data access.”
Built-in digitalised solutions
Star Cool reefers feature a combination of built-in digitalised solutions that can be leveraged any time to further support AEL’s efficient service and surveillance of its Star Cool fleet. This includes an energy meter that offers a reliable and precise tool to measure energy use in real time, either manually or via AEL’s full modem coverage.
In addition, Intelligent Trip Inspection (ITI) now comes standard in all Star Cool reefers. ITI provides an enhanced digital inspection system that removes the need for timely and costly pre-trip inspections. ITI provides self-diagnostics that confirm whether the container is ready for the next trip and highlight if steps in the ITI process need further investigation.
Servicing Europe – West Africa routes
To supplement its fleet of specialised reefer vessels, AEL is chartering the new build 2,345 TEU, m/v ‘MIMMI SCHULTE’, equipped with high reefer plug capacity, to carry the new 40-foot high cube Star Cool CA reefers. Delivered directly from MCI’s factory in Qingdao, the maiden voyage will go to West Africa.
Maersk Container Industry (MCI) develops and manufactures refrigerated containers, dry containers, and the Star Cool™ refrigeration machine for the intermodal industry, including shipping lines, fruit multinationals and leasing companies. Widely recognised as the most energy-efficient reefer, the Star Cool Integrated™ reefer features innovative technologies such as Controlled Atmosphere (CA). The company employs around 5,000 employees. It has R&D and engineering test facilities in Denmark, two production facilities in China and one in Chile, as well as a global network of 400 service providers. Building on a heritage of more than 100 years in shipping and strong core values, MCI is part of the Transport and Logistics division of A.P. Moller - Maersk. For more information: www.mcicontainers.com
About Africa Express Line
Africa Express Line Ltd (AEL) is a British Registered Shipping Company created in January 2002. AEL is located in Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent. From this location AEL operates a fleet of 9 very modern specialist reefer and container vessels on a number of dedicated weekly Liner Services to and from Europe/Mediterranean and West Africa. While its small group of AEL professional employees specialise in the handling and transport of perishable fresh fruit cargoes, they are also able to cater for time sensitive cargoes, either on deck, under deck or in a container. For more information: www.africaexpressline.com
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Topics:Classifieds, Location Based Services, Poynt, Search, Times Internet, TimesPoynt
Indiatimes & Poynt To Launch Local Search App TimesPoynt
Indiatimes*, the Internet and Mobile arm of the Times of India group, has partnered with local search services application Poynt, with the objective of providing local information to users via the mobile. The service, called TimesPoynt will launch in the first quarter of 2011, and will be available on J2ME devices (including Nokia), iPhone, Android and BlackBerry smartphones. It will feature sections for local restaurants, nightlife, movies, events, weather and mapping. So, it appears that Poynt is providing the app, and, expectedly, Indiatimes, the content and distribution with its media reach. Indiatimes also intends to help establish relationships for TimesPoynt for third-party content and services.
According to its website, Poynt allows the following services: Search, click to call (the listing), sharing and emailing the information, movie information and trailers, movie reviews and ratings, event listings and directions to the event, restaurant guide, booking of a table in a restaurant (in partnership with OpenTable, toptable and livebookings.com), fuel prices, weather information etc. Poynt integrates Poynt integrates VZ navigator, Google maps and BlackBerry maps. So, we guess there’s an opportunity for Indiatimes to bring partners on board for multiple services. Here’s a demo from Poynt’s website:
Remember that Indiatimes relaunched TimesCity earlier this year. It’s understandable that Poynt would have wanted to retain some part of the branding for India (hence TimesPoynt, for which Indiatimes has registered a domain name) but IndiaTimes shouldn’t have introduced another brand in the local information segment. Given what all Poynt can do, perhaps they’ve decided to use it as an open platform for aggregating external services in India. The mobile Internet base in India is still small – while there are around 468 million active users (at last count), the country’s mobile Internet user base is estimated at 15-25 million.
*Disclosure: Indiatimes is an advertiser with MediaNama
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Home » News » Aston Microphones announces the 3rd and final public test session for the all new Aston Element, the world’s first ‘People’s Microphone’
Aston Microphones announces the 3rd and final public test session for the all new Aston Element, the world’s first ‘People’s Microphone’
News | 9th July 2020 9:00
And the big surprise… a first sneak preview of the bundled shock mount and pop shield that Element will come included with the mic!
Have your voice heard: www.astonmics.com/votingform.aspx
As Aston enters the 3rd month of public voting to help create the final sound of their new mic, they are teasing us with yet more information in this stunning new product. Rumours have been circulating about accessories and we’re now able to give you a first look at the entire package…
Like all Aston mics, Element incorporates a huge amount of innovation. Everything from new capsule technology, the chassis design, the uber-cool magnetic pop filter and custom shock mount, and even the backlit-LED logo 48V phantom power indicator (or as Aston likes to call it, ‘the cool light!’) go way beyond the limits of products in this class.
Over 4000 customers from across the world have helped, so far, to define the sound of Element in peer-reviewed blind listening tests against the biggest brands in the business. During the course of this 3-month public testing series, Aston have developed the sound of the mic using data collected from these comparison tests, which have included major brand competitors such as Blue, Rode, AKG, Audio Technica and Neumann.
To take part in the 3rd and final round of public voting, register here: www.astonmics.com/votingform.aspx
James Young, Aston CEO, comments “We chose to put Element up against the mics we consider to be the best in their class, so we could push the boundaries of performance. All these brands make superb products, but our goal was to make a mic which is able, in blind tests, to be consistently voted as the favourite. Of course, this doesn’t mean it’s the ‘best’ because mic choice is very subjective. However, what it does mean is that, in these public tests, the majority of people prefer the sound they get from Element compared with big brand competitors… and that means that at the very least, you can be absolutely confident that you’ll get superb results every time.”
Have Your Voice Heard
Session 3, the final round of public voting for Element, is now open. Aston still need your help to perfect the sound of what they are dubbing ‘The world’s first People’s Microphone’. To get involved in blind listening tests and have your say in the final sound of this stunning new mic, all you need to do is register to vote at https://www.astonmics.com/votingform.aspx, download the audio files, listen and then rank them in order of preference.
As well as playing a vital part in helping Aston to create the Aston Element, registered voters will also be given Aston Family Developer status, receive a certificate of participation, stickers, badges and the opportunity to pre-order a limited edition Aston Family Developer mic bundled with shock mount and pop shield at special introductory price.
About Aston Microphones
Aston Microphones has become a major player in the global microphone market in the 4 years since our launch in January of 2016. Our products were nominated 3 times in 4 years for a prestigious TEC Award winning Best in Show for ‘Starlight’ at NAMM 2016, and winning Best Microphone at the recent NAMM 2020 TEC Awards… a string of successes never before accomplished by ANY Pro Audio company in their first 4 years.
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Gulf of Oman attacks: Japanese company and US offer differing narratives
Kokuka Sanyago says its staff saw two 'flying objects' strike its ship, while Washington releases video purportedly of Iranian forces removing a mine
A picture released by US Central Command shows damage from an explosion, left, and a likely limpet mine, on the hull of the civilian vessel M/V Kokuka Courageous in the Gulf of Oman (Reuters)
Published date: 14 June 2019 07:22 UTC | Last update: 1 year 7 months ago
Differing narratives over an attack on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman emerged on Friday, as the Japanese company that owned one of the ships said it was hit by two "flying objects", while the US released a video suggesting the vessel had been mined.
The United States has laid the blame for the attacks squarely at Tehran's door, with US President Donald Trump saying the incident had Iran "written all over it".
The Kokuka Courageous was sailing through the Gulf of Oman towards the port of Khor Fakkan in the UAE before it was evacuated after it was attacked, Yutaka Katada, president of Japanese company Kokuka Sanyago, told a news conference.
The Japanese ship and the Norwegian-owned Front Altair were both struck by explosions while sailing through the Gulf on Thursday.
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Katada said the Kokuka Courageous's crew saw flying objects approaching the ship.
"The crew told us something came flying at the ship, and they found a hole," Katada said. "Then some crew witnessed the second shot."
Katada added that the ship's 25,000 tonnes methanol shipment had not been damaged in the attack.
He also noted that there was no possibility that the ship was struck by a torpedo and said that the crew saw an Iranian military ship in the vicinity of the Kokuka Courageous on Thursday night Japanese time.
US claims IRGC removed mine on oil tanker
Katada's statement comes after the United States Central Military Command released a video that it said showed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) removing an unexploded mine from the Kokuka Courageous.
US Navy Captain Bill Urban, a spokesperson for his country's US Military's Central Command, said that the images showed the IRGC removing an "unexploded limpet mine" from the Japanese oil tanker Kokuka Courageous.
Just in: Pentagon video of what it says is an Iranian boat removing an unexploded mine from one of the attacked oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. pic.twitter.com/XSxIPcyV6Q
— Philip Crowther (@PhilipinDC) June 14, 2019
The images were released by Washington following Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's statement late Thursday holding Iran responsible.
On Friday, Trump told Fox TV: "Iran did do it."
"You know they did it because you saw the boat," Trump said. "I guess one of the mines didn't explode and it's probably got essentially Iran written all over it."
"You saw the boat at night, successfully trying to take the mine off - and that was exposed," he added.
US military's timeline of Gulf of Oman attacks
8:09 am local time: A US aircraft observed an IRGC Hendijan class patrol boat and multiple IRGC fast attack craft in the vicinity of the Altair.
9:12 am local time: A US aircraft observes the IRGC boat pull a raft from the Altair from the water.
9:26 am local time: The Iranians requested that the motor vessel Hyundai Dubai, which had rescued the sailors from the Altair, to turn the crew over to the Iranian FIACs. The motor vessel Hyundai Dubai complied with the request and transferred the crew of the Altair to the Iranian boats.
11:05 am local time: USS Bainbridge approaches the Dutch tug Coastal Ace, which had rescued the crew of 21 sailors from the Kokuka Courageous who had abandoned their ship after discovering a probable unexploded limpet mine on their hull following an initial explosion.
While the Hendijan patrol boat appeared to attempt to get to the tug Coastal Ace before USS Bainbridge, the mariners were rescued by USS Bainbridge at the request of the master of the Kokuka Courageous. The rescued sailors are currently aboard USS Bainbridge.
4:10 pm local time: An IRGC Gashti Class patrol boat approached the Kokuka Courageous and was observed and recorded removing the unexploded limpet mine from the Kokuka Courageous.
However, in a statement the US military said: "We have no interest in engaging in a new conflict in the Middle East. We will defend our interests, but a war with Iran is not in our strategic interest, nor in the best interest of the international community."
Iran denies involvement and said it was alarmed by allegations that it was responsible for the attack on the tankers.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javid Zarif said Washington had "immediately jumped to make allegations against Iran without a shred of factual or circumstantial evidence".
Zarif tweeted that the US was seeking to "sabotage diplomacy" amid a visit to Iran by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and "cover up its economic terrorism against Iran" in enforcing crippling unilateral sanctions.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said the accusations were "alarming".
'We have no reason not to believe the American assessment and our instinct is to believe it because they are our closest ally'
- Jeremy Hunt, UK foreign secretary
"We are responsible for ensuring the security of the Strait and we have rescued the crew of those attacked tankers in the shortest possible time," Mousavi said on state radio.
"Obviously, accusing Iran for such a suspicious and unfortunate incident is the simplest and the most convenient way for Pompeo and other US officials. These accusations are alarming."
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Friday backed the United States' assessment.
"We are going to make our own independent assessment, we have our processes to do that, (but) we have no reason not to believe the American assessment and our instinct is to believe it because they are our closest ally," Hunt told the BBC.
Crude oil prices surged as much as four percent following the incident over worries about Middle East supplies.
Zarif slams 'suspicious' incidents
On Thursday Zarif said the two oil tanker incidents were "suspicious" and called for regional dialogue to avoid tensions.
Zarif tweeted that "reported attacks on Japan-related" oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman had taken place while Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was meeting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei "for extensive and friendly talks".
Japan's Kokuka Sangyo said its ship was hit twice over a three-hour period.
The owners said the 21 crew members abandoned ship after an incident on board that resulted in damages to the ship's hull starboard side.
The tanker was about 70 nautical miles from the United Arab Emirate's Fujairah and about 14 nautical miles off the coast of Iran.
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The second tanker, Front Altair, sailed out of Ruwais in the UAE, and Kokuka out of the Saudi port of al-Jubail, according to shipping tracking data.
Front Altair was headed to Taiwan, while Kokuka's destination was Singapore. Both ships' status was "stopped", with the former reaching that status at 06:47 GMT and the latter at 06:21 GMT.
Front Altair’s status was updated to “underway using engine” at 09:05 GMT on Thursday, according to marinetraffic.com.
Taiwan's state oil refiner CPC said the Front Altair, owned by Norway's Frontline and carrying 75,000 tonnes of the petrochemical feedstock naphtha to Taiwan, was "suspected of being hit by a torpedo" around 04:00 GMT.
Frontline said its vessel was on fire but afloat, denying a report by the Iranian news agency IRNA that the vessel had sunk.
The master of the Front Altair ordered the 23-member crew to abandon ship after a blast, International Tanker Management, the technical manager of the vessel, said in a statement. It said the crew were picked up by the nearby Hyundai Dubai.
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Europe faces an interesting set of immigration challenges and opportunities: Demographic pressures as many European societies age, a lively and at times tense policy and political debate over questions of identity and immigrant integration, and a unique policy environment that has knit many European countries together with regards to free movement, the management of outer borders, asylum, and other immigration-related topics. MPI has long conducted research and analysis of European policy on topics ranging from labor mobility and border security to immigrant integration, citizenship, and foreign qualifications recognition, which can be found below.
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This discussion highlights the best practices and experiences of different countries in engaging and maximizing the contributions that diasporas can and do make to the development of their country of origin, and more broadly the experience of policymakers in both sending and receiving countries and the related challenges and opportunities they face.
This discussion includes a status of preparation of the 2012 GFMD summit, including a discussion on the possible ideas and projects presently being contemplated that would fully integrate migration into the development framework, with a special focus on Africa.
This practical handbook highlights policies and programs that can magnify the resources, both human and financial, that emigrants and their descendants contribute to development. It gives concrete examples of policies and programs that have been effective, and pulls out both useful lessons and common challenges associated with the topics at hand.
A discussion with Rosario Farmhouse, Alejandro Mayorkas, Jasenko Selimovic, Peter Sylvester, and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President.
The launch of the Diaspora handbook and a joint panel discussion that explored the opportunities and challenges that governments face when developing strategies to engage diaspora populations.
This report explores how French national identity and sense of belonging are both defined and expressed. The discussion revolves around the issues of “hyphenated identities” and whether the split allegiances of dual citizens weaken social cohesion in France.
This report focuses on the effects of migration on political extremism in North America, Western Europe, and Central and Eastern Europe. The author explores nativist reactions, analyzes the role of migration in the identity and discourse of nativist actors, examines public effects of their impact on migration policies, and summarizes ways in which states respond to anti-immigrant extremism.
This report analyzes developments in UK integration policy over the past 15 years—a period in which immigration levels increased substantially, with the composition of migration flows becoming increasingly temporary and diverse in nature. The analysis focuses on whether or not policy has influenced national identity, integration outcomes, and neighborhood cohesion.
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Men’s Fashion Weeks in Europe Have Been Canceled
By anita 10 months ago
The spread of COVID-19 is leaving a long list of canceled and indefinitely postponed events
The spread of COVID-19 is leaving a long list of canceled and indefinitely postponed events in its wake: the NBA season, the Met Gala, and even the Tokyo Olympics have all been moved, rescheduled, or put on indefinite hiatus. Friday brought news that the men’s fashion calendar would shift, too: the men’s spring/summer 2021 fashion weeks in London, Milan, and Paris, originally scheduled for June, have been taken off the schedule.
In addition to the men’s week, the French Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, which oversees the French fashion industry, announced it is also canceling Haute Couture week, which was set for early July. In a statement, the federation said it “is actively working with its members on alternatives,” The New York Times’s Vanessa Friedman reported. The Camera Nazionale della Mode Italiana (The National Chamber of Italian Fashion) wrote in a press release about what its alternatives might look like: “We are however working on new digital formats and new ways of encounter, in order to create a new storytelling on the days originally scheduled for the Milan Men’s Fashion week: b2b and b2c platforms for the benefit of brands, luxury companies, and all the other players in the fashion industry. We are aware that great efforts will be made in order to have the new collections ready by June to start an innovative selling campaign.”
And while fashion shows have taken on spectacle status over the past few years, they remain critical for everyone involved in the industry to do their jobs. Fashion week is where both globally recognized and up-and-coming fashion brands go to meet with and sell to buyers from department stores and the cool neighborhood shop on your block. Magazine editors get on planes to discover what to put into pages months down the line. And, on a more superfluous note, but no less soothing to our now-always-frazzled mental states, it’s where Virgil Abloh and Kanye cry-hug and models stomp like malfunctioning robots and Thom Browne dresses people up as suited giraffes and hippos. Brands and fashion weeks are now scrambling to figure out how to replace at least some of what will be lost.
What form the postponed fashion weeks will take is up in the air. The menswear trade show Pitti Uomo is planning for an experience that operates primarily in the safer confines of the world wide web; MFW and PFW might do something similar, especially when it comes to finding a non- or low-contact way for buyers to see collections and put in orders. Another possible alternative might be the live streams that designers and brands have been letting consumers in on for multiple seasons now. That infrastructure may become crucial this summer.
However, finding a way to share and stream a new collection might be the least of designers’ worries. Emily Bode, who presents collections for her brand Bode at Paris Fashion Week, said Friday afternoon that “we assumed [the shows] would be canceled or postponed” for a litany of reasons. The first: that, because of its global scale, the coronavirus pandemic has made it near-impossible to even produce new clothing. “We can’t begin fall production until our factories reopen…and because we can’t start fall production, development of spring is even further behind,” she said.
Not to mention the very real fear that much of the world may still be social distancing come June. “It’s both [of those factors],” Bode said. “I think it’s hard to tell where we will be in even three weeks’ time, so June is entirely too risky.”
Seeing the cancellation or postponement of three major fashion weeks (and it feels all but guaranteed that New York will also cancel its men’s week in the summer) puts a finer point on the dire position fashion brands are in, as well as the ripple effects sure to be felt by everyone involved in the fashion universe. There is a whole global network of not just well-known brands and shops but textile makers, seamstresses, manufacturers and so on who rely on the fashion industry for their livelihoods. Now, some of the most important events for sustaining those in the community are in jeopardy.
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Seattle Sounders' Jordan Morris ties rookie record scoring streak
May 8, 201612:26AM EDT
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With Seattle Sounders forward Jordan Morris scoring his fourth goal in as many games, his name entered the MLS record books: Morris' strike from distance against the San Jose Earthquakes pulled him into a three-way tie for the longest MLS goal-scoring streak by a rookie.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Jamaican international Damani Ralph set the mark with a four-game stretch for the Chicago Fire in 2003. That benchmark was met by New York City FC's Patrick Mullins (albeit) with the New England Revolution, pre-expansion draft) in 2014, and now has been met again by Morris.
Morris' goal against the Earthquakes comes after scoring the game-winner in a 1-0 Seattle win over the Columbus Crew last week. His other two goals came from a 3-1 loss to the Colorado Rapids, and the game winner in a 2-1 win over the Philadelphia Union.
The Seattle rookie will go for the record on the road against FC Dallas next Saturday, May 14 (9pm ET; MLS LIVE)
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Starring: Eric Roberts, Jon Voight, Kyle T. Heffner, Rebecca De Mornay
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
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Trivia: This is, the way I see it, a VERY serious mistake by the filming crew of the movie. The Alaska Railroad, where the shooting of the movie took place, wanted all their logos and paint schemes of all the trains in the movie to be camouflaged. But yet, on the first shot of the locomotive of Eastbound 12 (yes, that is the shot of it before it mysteriously changes from ONE GP40 to TWO ALCo MRS's), you can see the blue and yellow paint scheme of the Alaska Railroad. On the DVD you might even be able to see the printed ALASKA on the side of the loco.
Trivia: In the original script Manny was supposed to be a convicted killer but writer Edward Bunker changed it to a safe-cracker because he didn't feel the other prisoners would respect a killer. Curiously this makes Warden Rankin's bitter and homicidal hatred towards Manny (which included welding him into his cell for 2 years) rather questionable as safe cracking isn't remotely as serious as murder.
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Trivia: In the film Eric Robert says jokingly to Sara "Why are we here? I'll tell you why...We're on our way to Las Vegas to see our good friend Wayne Newton." In Best of the Best 2 (1993) Eric Roberts arrives at Las Vegas at the end to stop a fight, which is being hosted by Wayne newton.
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Factual error: The train consists of four locomotives, but close ups beaneath the train show the wheels of freight cars.
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Manny: You do what you have to do, I'll do what I have to do. Whatever happens, happens.
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Answer: It wouldn't derail, it would break the bolt on points - the part of switch that moves, causing the points.
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Rankin: Let me tell you where you assholes stand. First there's God, then the warden, then my guards, then the dogs out there in the kennel, and finally, you. Pieces of human waste. No good to yourselves or anybody else.
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Over 100 arrested, 21 officers hurt after St. Paul protests
Tim Nelson
July 10, 2016 1:41 p.m.
A protester who had marched down Grand Ave. is arrested early Sunday morning in St. Paul.
Christopher Juhn for MPR News
Updated: 3:06 p.m. | Posted: 8:41 a.m.
More than 100 people protesting the fatal police shooting of Philando Castile were arrested in St. Paul late Saturday and early Sunday, police said.
Fifty of the arrests for third-degree riot stemmed from the demonstration that blocked Interstate 94 in both directions for several hours. At least eight of the 50 arrested were from out of state, according to the State Patrol.
Another 52 were arrested by St. Paul Police in connection with public nuisance and unlawful assembly around 4 a.m. on Grand Avenue.
Photos:A Saturday of marching, protests and tense moments
At least 21 officers were hurt after being hit by rocks, firecrackers and bottles thrown by protesters, though none suffered serious injuries.
At a news conference Sunday morning, St. Paul police Chief Todd Axtell called Saturday night the most violent he's seen in his 28-year career.
Police say the rock at left hit an officer with such force on Saturday, July 9, 2016, that it damaged the officer's metal badge, center. The badge at right was also dented by an object thrown at an officer.
Tim Nelson | MPR News
The chief said "it's really a disgrace. And protesters last night turned into criminals. And I'm absolutely disgusted by the acts of some. Not all, but some."
Mayor Chris Coleman, also speaking at the news conference, denounced the "shameful violence."
"This is not about grief. This is not about protest. This about rioting. This is about violence," Coleman said.
Black Lives Matter condemned any and all violence that occurred throughout the evening. On social media, leaders blamed outside agitators for the danger posed by the violence during the freeway incident.
White anarchists and agent provocateurs have been endangering Black lives this entire shutdown.
— Black Visions (@BlackVisionsMN) July 10, 2016
The protests and arrests capped off a day of rallies and marches for racial justice, which came after a week of violence.
Minneapolis NAACP President Nekima Levy-Pounds on Facebook Sunday encouraged supporters to join a solidarity march and rally at 2 p.m. at the St. Anthony Police Department in honor of Philando Castile.
On Wednesday, police fatally shot Philando Castile at a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, and a drive-by shooting Friday in north Minneapolis claimed the life of a 2-year-old boy and put a 15-month-old girl in the hospital. And outside Minnesota, there was the police killing of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and the slaying of five police officers in Dallas at a protest.
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Taroudant, Morocco - After the Istiqlal party, one of the old conservative parties of the kingdom, proposed last year a draft law to decriminalize and regulate the cultivation of cannabis for medical and pharmaceutical uses, the country is re-examining policies toward cannabis and looking to some degree of legalization of this corp.
Cannabis farmers in Morocco
Larbi Arbaoui
Larbi is a freelance writer and assistant editor at Morocco World News.
Taroudant, Morocco – After the Istiqlal party, one of the old conservative parties of the kingdom, proposed last year a draft law to decriminalize and regulate the cultivation of cannabis for medical and pharmaceutical uses, the country is re-examining policies toward cannabis and looking to some degree of legalization of this corp.
Despite a centuries-old tradition of growing cannabis in the Rif Mountains, and the raising voices to decriminalize the cultivation of the crop, the proposal may face fierce opposition.
The cannabis cultivation, which was legal in some regions of Rif until 1974, is deep-rooted in the regions of the north of Morocco, and farmers are growing cannabis regardless of the legal prosecutions.
Like many other farmers in the region, Abdelkhalek Benabdallah openly grows cannabis despite its illegal status in the kingdom. “We are regularly subject to blackmail by the gendarmes,” the farmer said as he prepared his September harvest, according to AP.
Last year, the Party of Modernity and Authenticity held an international debate, which involved national and international experts, under the theme “The role of positive uses of cannabis to create an alternative economy.”
During that event, Khadija Rouissi, MP from the PAM, said “If we legalize the cultivation of cannabis, trade will become more transparent and organized.”
According to United Nations estimations, about 80,000 families in the Rif Mountains are living from growing cannabis.
The latest report of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed that Morocco and Afghanistan are the world’s largest producers of hashish.
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More Future Fuels: Bacteria To Power Hydrogen Fuel Cells?
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Hydrogen fuel cells for automotive use are one of those "great in theory, flawed in principal" ideas for the future of car propulsion. New technology using bacteria could eventually change that.
Fuel cells have several advantages over pure battery-electric power, for example. Firstly, hydrogen has greater energy density than the average battery, so you can drive for longer on the electricity generated by the fuel cell. It's also much quicker to fill a tank of compressed hydrogen than it is to wait for a battery to charge.
Emissions are low too - typically, only water drips out of the tailpipe, and because they don't need charging from the mains, there's no power plant pollution to worry about. Then you have all the usual electric car advantages such as quiet and smooth running and the adaptability of not having to assign a set place for a fuel tank, engine and transmission.
Unfortunately, hydrogen is expensive and difficult to produce in meaningful quantities, and incredibly energy intensive to produce too - to the point where you use more energy to extract hydrogen from the easiest method, electrolysis of water, than you get from it as a fuel.
Limitless hydrogen from bacteria
Ideally, what you need is a way to produce hydrogen with minimal energy input. Bacteria could be the answer.
The BBC has reported on a team of U.S. researchers who have demonstrated a fuel cell powered by bacteria that produce a limitless supply of hydrogen. Production of the hydrogen works on a very similar principal to that of current electrolysis technology, but the bacteria replaces the electrodes. Certain strains of bacteria produce a stream of electrons as a by-product of breaking down organic matter.
Co-author of the research, Professor Bruce Logan from Pennsylvania State University, explains: "We use those microbes, particularly inside something called a microbial fuel cell (MFC), to generate electrical power.
"They produce this electrical current, which are electrons, they release protons in the water and these combine with electrons".
This means an electrical power source - and large amounts of electrical energy - are no longer needed to power the electrolysis, and bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen are produced from the electrical charge passing through the water from the bacteria.
The team admits the technology is in its infancy for the time being, and it's certainly not cheap at the moment either. Prof. Logan likens the technology to solar power, which has taken many years to develop and reduce in cost.
Could it be used to power fuel cells in cars like the Honda FCX Clarity? Time will tell. For the time being, the researchers are working on developing larger cells to test the viability of such a system.
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Star & Dagger – Tomorrowland Blues
(Cauldron 333) UK release date: 22 July 2013
by Max Raymond
published: 24 Jul 2013 in Album Reviews
Sean Yseult and Dave She Wolf are not exactly newcomers, the former being from White Zombie and the latter being from Cycle Sluts From Hell, but Star & Dagger are very much a new entity. They’ve been joined by vocalist Von Hesseling on this debut LP, Tomorrowland Blues, and with the added assistance of Dave Catching and Gene Trautmann (they’ve both worked with Queens Of The Stone Age and Eagles Of Death Metal), this sounded like an enticing prospect.
Sadly, what seems great on paper doesn’t exactly sound nearly as good in practice. This is a straight-up rock album that whizzes by in the space of just over half-an-hour. In My Blood wastes no time in setting the scene with its beefy basslines and crunching guitars but, much like the tracks that follow, it’s unremarkable. End Of Days is energetic but not particularly engrossing and Freak Train ought to be more rousing than it actually is. The tempo changes significantly for the thuddering Selling My Things but it drags on to the point where it outstays its welcome.
Its second half doesn’t fare much better. Sidewinding starts with a promising bass riff and crashing drums but it doesn’t build. Following another slow one, the forgettable Before It’s A Crime, comes the double salvo of Your Money and Used To Me: dull rehashes of the early ’90s grunge era.
It’s only at the very end where suddenly all the pieces come together. Your Mama Was A Grifter is a groovy, bluesy romp that catches your attention almost immediately. It’s arguably the only track that drifts from the default aesthetic on Tomorrowland Blues and it’s telling that it happens to be the most successful tune.
Away from the songs themselves, there are signs Star & Dagger have the makings of a good band. There are moments where the musicianship is to be admired (the pummelling introduction to End Of Days and the wailing guitars in Your Mama Was A Grifter) and it’s a crying shame that Hesseling’s excellent vocal performances are wasted on lacklustre songcraft. She has a commanding presence that rises above everything else.
But Tomorrowland Blues, for all its bluster, is a fair-to-middling rock album that doesn’t really offer anything new to the party. It might sound dirty and raw but the songs are are pretty basic and unlikely to light a fire in your belly. Yet when they take risks they are a lot more interesting; more experimentation might be the way forward if Star & Dagger are to blaze a path of glory – as well as some sharper and hard-hitting tunes.
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How to Shuck an Oyster
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Story by Christina Morgan | Photos by Casey Hilder
Think shucking oysters is a labor-intensive experience best left to culinary professionals? With instructions and tips from Donald “Bama” Matthews, head chef and kitchen manager at The Boiling Point Seafood & Oyster Restaurant in Southaven, you’ll be shucking on your own in no time.
Though it’s easy for him now, Matthews wasn’t always an expert shucker. He first got hands-on experience with oysters more than 30 years ago in an Alabama restaurant. “I had a guy who taught me,” he says. “Once he showed me, I caught on real fast. I could do it with my eyes closed now.” To begin, Matthews stresses the importance of wearing a metal glove prior to handling the oysters.Stone shaped, oysters come in various sizes, though most can be easily cupped in a palm of a hand. The shell’s jagged, and sometimes sharp, edges are capable of cutting through skin.
Therefore, holding the oyster with the metal glove is key. Also, always inspect the oyster to ensure it is fully closed. Tightly shut shells indicate the oyster is alive inside, which is necessary for consumption. Open shells signify the oyster is dead and no longer edible.
Cleaning the oysters is a multi-step and important process. “We rinse them three times before we sell them,” Matthews explains. With cold water, first clean the outer shell thoroughly to remove grit and sand. Then, after opening the shell, let the cold water wash over the insides. Lastly, spritz salt water atop the oyster before serving.Shucking the oyster occurs during cleaning, once the outer shell is free of debris. While some shuckers may use other types of knives, Matthews prefers a putty knife. Boiling Point co-owner Darrell Clements encourages this. “You want something a little dull because people are bad to cut themselves.” Shucking more than 60 oysters in roughly 20 minutes, Matthews explains what novices should look for in order to open the shell. “The back is raised up and the front end will be slightly open. That’s good, that’s what you want. It looks almost like a mouth or a beak.” Stick the putty knife into the front end opening of the oyster and flip up while twisting the wrist. “Turn it like you would turn a key lock,” Matthews continues. There will be a slight pop as the shell comes apart. From there, work the putty knife around the shell to loosen it entirely. Clements adds, “The ones you can hardly open, you don’t want to use. It’s not worth it.”Once the oyster is open, rinse again with water. Discard the back side of the shell, which will be the side with the thinner membrane. “The thicker the meat, the better tasting,” Matthews notes. He will also leave the oyster attached to its shell. “This tells the patron it’s a true fresh oyster.”
Co-owner Mario Alfonso says it is vital to keep oysters stored in a cool area. “After they’re shucked, we store them in a single row on ice and keep them below 41 degrees.” Alfonso notes serving raw oysters on ice has two purposes — keeping them cool, while also preventing them from sliding.
Rock salt can be used as a bed for char-grilled and baked oysters. Clements adds that shucked oysters can be stored in a cooler up to three days. Be careful not to freeze them, he warns.Receiving oysters from the Gulf of Mexico out of Louisiana, The Boiling Point serves oysters raw on the half shell, baked including the popular Rockefeller version, char-grilled and fried. Baked and char-grilled oysters can be served multiple ways with various toppings or sauces, such as bienville or parmesan garlic. “Everyone has their own way of eating them,” Clements describes. For example, Matthews prefers them baked with lump crab stuffing atop with fresh rémoulade, known as the St. Charles. Whereas Clements opts for a freshly shucked platter, with a squeeze of lemon and a combination of cocktail sauce and horseradish nearby for dunking and salt, Tabasco sauce and soda crackers alongside to finish off the one-bite process. “Sam Dye, the former mayor of Horn Lake, taught me how to eat them at an Ole Miss Football game when I was in my late 20s.” Or there’s always Alfonso’s way — not at all.
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In this festive season, some exchange sweets. Others gift lavish presents. For a few bibliophiles who know their friends well enough, this is the time to share books as festive gifts.
So I wasn’t too surprised when Leroy phoned, as if in some tearing hurry, on Christmas day, asking if he could drop in. He had “something to give”, as he put it. In his treasure trove, were three books which had so far missed being in my Goa collection. The third we will look at some later time.
Goa books suffer from what you could call the “Goa book syndrome”. When just released, hardly anybody seems aware of or interested in picking up a copy. Then, as time passes, and people start hunting to buy one, but most of the copies are scarce, hard to find, or completely out of print. So sharing books with fellow collectors can be a good way to beat
this challenge.
In keeping with the season – or perhaps entirely by coincidence – the books that came my way dealt with two priests, once prominent figures in Goa, yet now largely forgotten outside their circle of friends and influence. They were men who lived in different centuries and were in fact known for achieving things beyond just the religious.
Fr Jacome Gonsalves has been forgotten for decades – or is it more? – in the land of his birth, Goa. It is only of late that interest in him and his work has been somewhat re-enkindled.
The missionaries that Goa itself sent out are sometimes recognised for their work, and at the top of the list is Jose Vaz of Sancoale, now canonised. Blessed Agnelo of Anjuna is also in the line for sainthood. In this list, the contribution of others like Jacome Gonsalves of Divar tends to get forgotten, overlooked or overshadowed.
It takes some searching to find out about the achievements of the man from Divar. K M de Silva has commented that Goncalves’s Tamil writings on Catholic doctrines “have become the largest in number, in that language, produced by a single author.”
Alfred F Braganza has commented that Jacome Gonsalves’ writing “showed great Tamilian and Singhalese influences, apart from his compiling a Tamil Singhalese-Portuguese dictionary as early as 1772”.
Silva has also commented that the “Konkani Brahman from Goa” entered the island of Ceylon “surreptitiously to minister to the Roman Catholics in the littoral”, found refuge in Kandy, and “very soon mastered both Sinhalese and Tamil”. This was after the Dutch took over parts of Ceylon from the Portuguese. That his motivation was religious, of course, does not necessarily detract from the work he did.
His written works covered a wide range of themes — scripture and theology, devotional hymns, lexicography (Sinhalese–Portuguese, Portuguese–Sinhalese and Portuguese–Sinhalese–Tamil dictionaries) and even religious polemics.
Besides, Goncalves’ Tamil writings — on the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church and refutations of a religious kind — were the largest in number, in that language, produced by a single author.
The bibliography on Fr Jacome is penned by Jose FF de Albuquerque, the former chief engineer of the Public Works Department (Government of Goa), who took to an active life in writing after his retirement from a wholly unrelated engineering top job. Unfortunately, Albuquerque passed away, even while his post-retirement writing was beginning to flower. He has also penned another book on his island-village of Divar.
It is not a coincidence that both the author and his subject hail from Divar, an island of very many achievers. Being from there, he was in a position to appreciate the contribution of his ‘ganv bhav’ more than others normally would.
As the blurb puts it: “In the course of researching material for his earlier book on the Island of Divar, the author became fascinated with the life of Fr Jacome who, three and half centuries back, lived in the very neighbourhood of the author.”
Today, Goa has forgotten its people, while libraries in Europe store some of their work. The Biblioteca Nacional in Lisbon is believed to possess in its “Arquivo Historico Ultramarino in Lisbon are seven MSS mostly ascribed to P Jacome Goncalves, who worked in Sri Lanka at the beginning of the 18th century.”
These include a dictionary, translation of parts of the Gospel, sermons, catechisms, and the like.
Albuquerque looks at Goncalves’ early years in Goa, with the Oratory in the City of Goa, his missionary works, and his growth as a scholar, among other themes. His ancestral home is today a village school, which a visitor would quite possibly pass by. This just goes to show how much history we could have in our backyards, sometimes without being even aware of it.
The listing of Goncalves’ bibliography, and another section on reference sources for his literary work, makes for both important and interesting reading.
This 132-page priced at `150 only, has been published by the Xaverian Publication Society of Pilar.
Another book on a now-neglected figure – loved by his supporters and controversial to his critics – is called ‘Padre Chico: To the Manner Born’.. Edited by Oscar de Noronha for Third Millennium, it is a hardbound `500-priced 376-page book on a priest, youth mentor, organiser, and football and music enthusiast.
His case over a high-profile post-1961 citizenship conflict was noticed far and wide, and this book offers some details about it. But it might not be fair to discuss such a complex issue in a few words which might not do justice to it.
Editor Oscar Noronha’s approach has been to build a pen-portrait of the man through the words and writings of people who knew him. From some essays, one gets a good idea about various facets of the man. Some comments give a deep insight into his life and work.
Among the contributors to this volume are relatives, journalists, authors, sportsmen and sports journalists, priest, politicians, ex-editors, lawyers and others. Names among these include the artist Dom Martin; Kuwait Goans campaigner, A Veronica Fernandes; Eddie D’Sa from the UK; notary Fernando Jorge Colaco; late editor, Carmo Azavedo; ex-union minister, Eduardo Faleiro; prominent church influencer, Lucio da Vega Coutinho, amidst others.
Depending on one’s perspective, there is scope to disagree with some perceptions put forward here. But this book does give a different insight into the Goa we (think we) know. Not only that, it also throws light on understanding some facets of Goa, even in their wider context. Suffice to say that the many personal views of Padre Chico throw up both useful insights and some surprises if one reads through this closely.
One can only wish Goa had to take the books it produced a bit more seriously….
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John Stamos Bewildered on ‘Late Night' About Harsh ‘Fuller House' Reviews
By Eric Jankiewicz • Published March 4, 2016 • Updated on March 4, 2016 at 5:18 am
Sometimes you just have to laugh things off.
And John Stamos demonstrated this idea during his visit on “Late Night” as he and host Seth Meyers read scathing reviews of his new show “Fuller House.”
“There’s a point where nostalgia becomes more like necrophilia,” Meyers read off a card from one of the reviews. “And Fuller House immediately crosses that line.”
Stamos, wearing his reading glasses, looked at the audience in utter bafflement.
“That’s not nice,” he said. Then, he responded to the review, which appeared in The Washington Post, “Is necrophilia if you get screwed by a dead magazine?”
Earlier, Stamos said he was a little worried about creating a “Full House” reunion show.
“I was so nervous about doing this again because it’s so beloved as you” –Meyers – “say and I didn’t want to disappoint people.”
He noted that the reviews, “were so wacky and they’re real”
Meyers read another review, “Netflix’s ‘Fuller House’ is like a porn parody without the porn.”
Stamos noted that he actually saw a pornographic movie that parodies “Full House.”
“There’s a real porn that just came out it’s called ‘Full Holes’,” Stamos said. “It’s very specific with its catch phrases.”
Out of these vitriolic reviews, the most benign came from The New York Times.
“The series begins as a sitcom family reunion,” Meyers reads. “It becomes a self-conscious, dated and modeling reminder of the ceaseless march of time and your inevitable demise.”
“So he liked it?” Stamos said.
“He liked it” Meyers said.
Stamos brushes off the reviews with laughter and concluded to say that Netflix renewed the show for a second season.
“You know what, the fans loved the show,” he said.
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Matt Hoffman, Senior Editor for NeurologyLive, has covered medical news for MJH Life Sciences, NeurologyLive’s parent company, since 2017, and previously wrote for its sister publication, HCPLive. Follow him on Twitter @byMattHoffman or email him at mhoffman@neurologylive.com
Stephen D. Silberstein, MD, discussed the powerful impact that the new class of CGRP inhibitors is beginning to have on migraine.
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In May 2018, the FDA approved a first-in-class medication, erenumab (Aimovig), for the treatment of migraine. The monoclonal antibody inhibits calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), a long-sought target in the development of therapies.
Erenumab’s class is robust, as well. In addition to the Novartis/Amgen product, there are 3 other members: eptinezumab (ALD403, Alder Biopharmaceuticals), fremanezumab (Ajovy, Teva), and galcanezumab (Emgality, Eli Lilly)—the latter 2 of which have FDA decisions pending for September 2018.
In addition to monoclonal antibodies, small molecular inhibitors against CGRP, known as gepants, are also in development. Chief among these agents are ubrogepant and rimegepant, both of which have shown promise in phase III clinical trials.
Stephen D. Silberstein, MD, the director of the headache center at Jefferson University Hospitals, sat with NeurologyLive’s sister publication, MD Mag, to discuss the effect of these therapies on the landscape of migraine treatment, and what may still be to come.
Regarding ACHIEVE-1, what was the most outstanding result of the trial?
Stephen D. Silberstein, MD: I think the easiest way to look at it is that we have a new class of medications for the acute treatment of migraine, for somebody to take when they get a migraine attack. This is a new class of drugs called “gepants.” What are the advantages? Well the drugs we all use are triptans, and as you well know, people who have cardiovascular disease, stroke, significant hypertension—they can’t use them, and they have side effects. The major advantage to this class of drugs called gepants is the fact that they do not have cardiovascular risk, so the side effects are like a those of a sugar pill. That’s the background.
The new study is designed to look at the effects of the medication during a migraine attack, and what it showed was—to me, the most amazing part—1., the side effects are no different than a sugar pill, and 2., the pain relief and pain-freedom in 2 hours, which was significantly separated from placebo. Showing not only the drug was safe and had no side effects, but it was effective.
Maybe it’s just coincidental—but what’re your thoughts on the timing of all these developments that have resulted in a rush of migraine therapies to the market?
SS: For the first time in a long time we’ve gone from no news to lots of good news. We’ve gone to these new medicines for the acute treatment of migraine, and we have new medicines for the prevention of migraine.
This is all based on the concept that there’s too much CGRP—calcitonin gene-related peptide—floating around, and we can neutralize it with small molecules like gepants and other drugs that sort of suck it up. So, basically speaking, unlike other drugs where there is rebound headache by taking too much, by taking a drug with a known method of action that works for prevention, this drug will have the paradoxical effect of the more you take, the fewer headaches you get. So, not only is it safe and effective, it’s anti-rebound headache. So, if you take too many triptans you end up with too many headaches. You take too much of this and your headaches may not happen for a while.
We’re starting to see more and more results pertaining to year-long efficacy and beyond, are there any expectations for the limits that are reachable with this class of drug?
SS: Antibodies are nothing more than a long-acting form of the gepants, and we know from studies, that up to a year they continue to work—and they work better. So, based on that evidence I would strongly suspect that when we see the long-term results of acute treatment it will continue to work just as well in a year from now, as it does now.
Anything thoughts about the safety and tolerability of them?
SS: I think it’s important to realize that these drugs have no appreciable side effects. In the past, other drugs in the class caused some liver function abnormalities, and people used to say CGRP blockage is dangerous, but the fact that we have 4 monoclonal antibodies directed against a CGRP-receptor with no effect on the liver, means that it’s not the CGRP that does it. You know when you make a molecule you build a building block, and I think the issue was the building block they used for older drugs may have been metabolized as something in the liver, but I think this new generation of drugs—to the best of our knowledge—looks entirely clean.
From here, there’ll be this study, long-term follow up for long-term safety, then hopefully we’ll have it on the market for use.
Is there anything else you want to add on these developments in migraine?
SS: Well, as everyone knows, we’re in the midst of an opioid epidemic. Part of the reason we have an opioid epidemic is that people are treating the symptoms of migraine, not the cause of migraine. We actually did a survey, and we’ve found that if you have chronic migraine—that’s migraine more than 15 days of the month—50% of patients are prescribed narcotics or opioids. If you have episodic migraine—that’s less than 15 days a month—it’s one-third. If you start giving opioids to people with frequent headaches, then the result is they will overuse them, have rebound headaches, and their headaches will become intractable. By moving to new classes of drugs that both prevent migraine and treat migraine without producing it, I think we’re going to help kill the opioid epidemic.
Transcript edited for clarity.
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THE relationship between Dynamos and Christian Ntouba (pictured) has reached an irreconcilable point, and the Cameroonian now wants to terminate his contract with the Harare giants and return home.
BY HENRY MHARA
Ahead of the blockbuster clash between DeMbare and Highlanders at the National Sports Stadium this afternoon, the Ntouba soap opera has continued to hog the limelight as the Harare giants struggle to take care of the welfare of one of their most prized assets.
Dynamos and Ntouba are at loggerheads over a $16 000 outstanding amount emanating from unpaid signing on fees, salaries and allowances.
The forward, who still has seven months left in his contract, is unhappy with the way the club has handled his financial situation, as they continue to dither on clearing the dues and wants to be cut loose from the relationship.
His manager Gilbert Sengwe yesterday said his client has been frustrated by the lack of commitment from the Dynamos leadership and is ready to lose everything that he is owed in order to get a way out.
“He (Christian) is just fed up with the whole saga,” said Sengwe.
“He feels he is no longer wanted at the club. I have tried to talk to him, but he says the environment is no longer conducive. He has been training with the squad until yesterday (Saturday), but that should change next week.”
Ntouba has been training with Dynamos, but missed the team’s opening three matches of the season in protest over the outstanding fees.
His work permit has since expired, which makes him ineligible to work in the country.
“His work permit expired on Saturday, and Dynamos has not done anything to correct that, one major indication that they are no longer interested in his services. He is frustrated, and angry. He wants to go back to Cameroon.
“As his manager I can’t do anything anymore because he has actually told me that they can keep the money. He doesn’t want the money anymore. He is asking to be cleared so that he can go back to his country. He does not see any reason to stay any longer here because he is not playing, and not paid his monies.”
No comment could be obtained from the Dynamos executive as chairman Keni Mubaiwa and secretary-general Webster Marechera were not reachable.
Dynamos last week claimed that they had deposited the money into Ntouba’s account, but Sengwe said they had only deposited $3 000 into a “wrong account.”
“Dynamos refused to facilitate him to access foreign currency since he is a foreigner. He wants forex, so he can send it back to his family. Ntouba then opened a new account with a different bank so that he could be able to access the money in foreign currency.
“He notified the club in writing about the change in bank accounts. But Dynamos went on to deposit money into the old account, which he cannot even access because he is now using a new passport.
“Dynamos say he should transfer the money to his new account, but he cannot do that because of the change in his particulars.”
These developments would come as a big blow to underfire coach Lloyd Mutasa who was hoping to have his top marksman for the season, starting with a must-win match against old foes Highlanders at Rufaro Stadium this afternoon.
Mutasa has picked just one point from a possible nine in the first three games of this campaign, results that have not gone done well with the club’s supporters.
Failure to pick maximum points again today, and alarm bells will ring even louder.
Highlanders are arriving in Harare high in spirits after a good start to their season, where they are undefeated in their opening three matches, with two wins and a draw.
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PV Sindhu arrives in Hyderabad to hero’s welcome
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) had erected welcome arches and installed hoardings to welcome Sindhu and Gopi
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Hyderabad, August 22, 2016: Olympic silver medal winner P.V. Sindhu arrived in Hyderabad on Monday to a hero’s welcome. The star shuttler was received at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport by her parents, relatives, ministers and officials from both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
Sindhu and her coach Pullela Gopichand were accorded a grand welcome as they came out of the airport.
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Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Mohammed Mehmood Ali and his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N. Chinnarajappa and ministers from the two states presented bouquets.
Sporting an infectious smile and proudly displaying her medal, Sindhu came out to loud cheers by a large number of badminton players, her friends, and school students.
Sindhu and Gopichand then boarded an open top bus for the ride to the Gachibowli Stadium.
Fans lined the 20 km route from the airport to the stadium to catch a glimpse of the star, who made history by becoming the first Indian woman to win a silver medal at the Olympics.
Politicians and officials welcomed Sindhu at special tents put up along the route. The tents were decked up with huge pictures of the star shuttler.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) had erected welcome arches and installed hoardings to welcome Sindhu and Gopi.
Acharya Jai Shankar University of Agricultural Sciences at Aramgarh had installed a huge hoarding of Sindhu at its main gate.
At Gachibowli Stadium, Sindhu will take a victory lap amid the rendering of patriotic songs by a police band.
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The atmosphere at the stadium was electrifying with thousands of students from various schools gathering here to welcome “silvern” Sindhu.
Carrying the national flag, students filled the stadium and kept cheering at regular intervals. Artists were presenting a cultural show on a special dais.
The GHMC, Sports Authority of Telangana, and Telangana State Olympic Association have made elaborate arrangements for a grand state reception and felicitation for Sindhu.
Huge screens were installed in the stadium to enable people to closely watch the proceedings.
After the felicitation, Sindhu will meet, at his camp office, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who has announced a reward of Rs 5 crore, a 1,000-yard plot, and a government job for her.
Andhra Pradesh has also announced Rs 3 crore cash, land and a job for Sindhu. The state government also decided to separately felicitate her. (IANS)
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Rangers trade Russell Wilson to New York Yankees
Published: Feb 07, 2018 at 07:03 AM
Russell Wilson was traded Wednesday.
No, not from the Seattle Seahawks. It was the Texas Rangers, rather, who sent him packing.
In one of the more odd stories you'll hear about a superstar in the NFL, Wilson was traded from the Rangers to the New York Yankees for future considerations, ESPN's Jerry Crasnick reported.
If you're unfamiliar, Wilson actually has a somewhat reputable baseball career. In 2007, out of high school, he was drafted in the 41st round by the Baltimore Orioles. He turned that down to go to N.C. State. In 2010, he was drafted in the fourth round by the Colorado Rockies, and actually spent two seasons in their farm system before opting to go the football route instead.
In 2013, the Texas Rangers selected Wilson in the Rule 5 Draft, mostly to have Wilson show up to spring training for a bit, speak with the team and gain some good publicity for the organization.
While the Yankees pulled the trigger to acquire him Wednesday, fear not Seahawks fans. The plan, at least for now, appears to be for New York to replicate those same tactics with the former Super Bowl champion.
"While football is my passion and my livelihood, baseball remains a huge part of where I came from and who I am today," Wilson said in a statement. "I've learned so much on the baseball field that translates to my game physically and mentally playing quarterback in the NFL. I thank the Rangers and their great fans for making me feel at home and a part of the family! While I embrace the chance to be a New York Yankee, I will forever be grateful to have been a part of a world class organization like the Texas Rangers."
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Caesars Gets Bought. What Will Change in New Jersey for 2020?
Nevada-based Eldorado Resorts began with a single hotel/casino in downtown Reno back in 1973. Finally, the company’s $17.3 billion purchase of Caesars Entertainment Corp has been approved by federal and state regulators.
Don Carano founded the Eldorado, and his family developed a casino and winemaking empire. Eventually, Eldorado grew to include 26 casino properties in 12 states, with more than 18,000 employees. Mr. Carano died in 2017, but several Carano family members remain as company executives.
Moving forward, Eldorado will take the Caesars name, claiming the title as the biggest casino company in the world. As the combined company, Eldorado now owns and operates over 55 properties spread across 16 states, including eight resort/casinos on the prestigious Las Vegas Strip.
The purchase deal also included Caesars properties in Canada, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Dubai, and a golf course in Macao, the Chinese gambling district. This positions Eldorado/Caesars as the world’s largest casino operator, surpassing MGM Resorts International.
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“We’re pleased to have finally completed this transformational merger,” said Tom Reeg, former CEO of Eldorado Resorts. Mr. Reeg has now assumed the title of CEO of Caesars Entertainment Inc.
Reeg assured the tens of thousands of combined employees they would be welcomed into the new company. He also assured stakeholders he would create value by using “strategic initiatives to position the company for continued growth.”
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The new Caesars plans to sell off a few properties to assuage antitrust concerns. The Federal Trade Commission and state regulators in New Jersey and Indiana raised the concerns before the sale was approved. In Nevada, the company plans to sell at least one property on the Las Vegas Strip.
In New Jersey, the New Jersey Casino Control Commission only approved the deal after the newly combined company agreed to sell Bally’s Atlantic City.
However, that will still leave the new Caesars Entertainment owning three out of nine casinos in Atlantic City. Those three are Caesars, the Tropicana, and Harrah’s. Overall, not much will change in New Jersey due to the merger.
Executives from the combined company also assured federal regulators the company will sell properties in Kansas City, South Lake Tahoe, and Shreveport, Louisiana. Indiana regulators were also informed that the company would likely sell its casinos in Evansville and Elizabeth and Hammond.
Eldorado’s CEO Tom Reeg, worked around the clock to find buyers for some of the properties. He finally raised nearly $772 million in a new stock offering, sold $6.2 billion in junk bonds, and negotiated new bank loan terms to get the deal finalized.
On the Las Vegas Strip, the combined company now owns Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood, Paris Las Vegas, the Flamingo, Harrah’s Las Vegas, Linq Hotel, Ballys, Cromwell and the Rio off the Strip. The company will assume the crown as one of the single, biggest employers in Nevada.
With more than a 10% share of the combined company, billionaire investor Carl Icahn is the largest single shareholder. Icahn purchased a huge block of Caesars shares following the company’s emergence from bankruptcy in late 2017. Furthermore, Icahn negotiated the sale of Caesars to Eldorado.
J.P. Morgan, Macquarie Capital, and Credit Suisse were financial advisers for the deal.
Before the state-mandated casino closures in response to COVID-19, Caesars Entertainment had more than 65,000 employees, including around 30,000 in Nevada. Fortunately, most of the Caesars properties have now reopened.
The Eldorado/Caesars merger also includes properties in Florida, Arizona, Illinois, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Maryland.
Recovering from the COVID-19 closures is perhaps the biggest challenge facing the new Caesars.
The smaller markets where Eldorado has operated have bounced back faster compared to the premier tourist destination of Las Vegas; Sin City has been much slower to recover, due to the lingering COVID-19 restrictions. However, Reeg indicated to Nevada regulators that he expects Vegas to rebound during the fourth quarter.
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NAIA Wrestling Coaches' Top 20 Poll — No. 1
Grand View (Iowa) extends top-ranked streak to 40-straight polls
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Grand View (Iowa) locks down the No. 1 ranking for the 40th-consecutive edition of the NAIA Wrestling Coaches’ Top 20 Poll, the national office announced Wednesday. The next installment of the Coaches’ Poll is slated for December 6.
Top 25 Highlights (historical information dates back to 2000-01)
• Grand View boasts 11 ranked grapplers en route to 160 total points. The Vikings hold the No. 1 ranking for the 45th time in program history, which is the most for any program dating back to the start of the 2000-01 season
• The last time the Vikings were not ranked No. 1 was on October 17, 2012.
• Josh Wenger at 141 pounds and Grant Henderson at 165 pounds highlight the ranked grapplers for Grand View, as both individuals list atop their respective weight class. Wenger is 6-2 on the young season, while Henderson is 8-1.
• Sawyer Miller of Indiana Tech (125 pounds) and Dalton Bailey of Life (197 pounds) are the only new top-ranked individuals. Bailey spent a number of weeks at No. 1 last season before falling to Grand View’s Evan Hansen in the national championship final. However, the senior avenged that loss last week, downing Hansen 7-4 in the title match at the Grand View Open to retake the top spot.
• No. 16 Southeastern (Fla.) and No. 18 Reinhardt (Ga.) are the newcomers to the poll. Southeastern was ranked multiple times last season, while Reinhardt is garnering its first-ever top 20 mention.
• Since 2001, only Grand View (2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17), former members Notre Dame (Ohio) (2010-11) and Lindenwood (Mo.) (2006-07) have spent the entire season ranked No. 1.
Poll Methodology
• The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the eight conferences.
• Two days prior to the national poll, each qualifying group rater submits the top six individuals from each weight class in his conference into the system. Only wrestlers listed on a conference ballot are considered for the national ballot.
• The top 20 individuals in each weight class are based on how each voter ranks the best individuals. An individual receives 20 points for each first place vote, 19 for second place and so on through the list. This same point system is used to determine the team ranking.
• The postseason poll is determined using the individual and team results from the national championship
• For the complete Top 20 calendar, click here.
2017-18 NAIA Wrestling Coaches’ Top 20 Poll – No. 1 (November 15, 2017)
Rank Previous Rank School Total Team Points
1 1 Grand View (Iowa) 160
2 2 Missouri Valley 128
3 6 Indiana Tech 123
4 4 Menlo (Calif.) 118
5 3 Providence (Mont.) 101
6 7 Cumberlands (Ky.) 91
T7 11 Life (Ga.) 90
T7 5 Campbellsville (Ky.) 90
9 10 Williams Baptist (Ark.) 88
10 8 Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) 83
11 9 Southern Oregon 63
12 17 Montana State-Northern 60
13 15 Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) 59
14 13 Baker (Kan.) 57
15 12 Morningside (Iowa) 55
16 RV Southeastern (Fla.) 48
17 T18 Briar Cliff (Iowa) 45
18 RV Reinhardt (Ga.) 42
19 14 Midland (Neb.) 40
20 16 Concordia (Neb.) 36
Others receiving votes: Eastern Oregon 34; Benedictine (Kan.) 34; Lindenwood-Belleville (Ill.) 31; York (Neb.) 30; Oklahoma City 30; Graceland (Iowa) 28; Lyon (Ark.) 28; Northwestern (Iowa) 26; Truett McConnell (Ga.) 25; Missouri Baptist 25; Hastings (Neb.) 22; Bacone (Okla.) 22; Marian (Ind.) 20; Doane (Neb.) 20; Warner Pacific (Ore.) 19; Wayland Baptist (Texas) 19; Cumberland (Tenn.) 17; Ottawa (Kan.) 16; Jamestown (N.D.) 16; Saint Mary (Kan.) 13; William Penn (Iowa) 12; Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.) 12; Bethany (Kan.) 9; Kansas Wesleyan 6; Lourdes (Ohio) 6; Brewton-Parker (Ga.) 5; Oklahoma Wesleyan 5; Waldorf (Iowa) 2.
Top Ranked Individuals | Individual Rankings
125 – Sawyer Miller, Indiana Tech
133 – Jake Sinkovics, Cumberlands (Ky.)
141 – Josh Wenger, Grand View (Iowa)
149 – Jaedin Sklapsky, Campbellsville (Ky.)
157 – Brandon Weber, Montana State-Northern
165 – Grant Henderson, Grand View (Iowa)
174 – Nicholas Meck, York (Neb.)
184 – Charles Sharon, Campbellsville (Ky.)
197 – Dalton Bailey, Life (Ga.)
285 – Demetrius Thomas, Williams Baptist (Ark.)
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The latest report into gangland snitch Nicola Gobbo's scandalous relationship with Victoria Police, due to be released on Monday, is sure to be the most damning. A former police chief, anti-corruption investigator and Australia's High Court have all slammed the Lawyer X affair, labelling the behaviour as reprehensible and negligent. But Margaret McMurdo's royal commission report comes at the end of a nearly two-year long inquiry where some of the worst aspects of the saga were revealed and examined for the first time. The report brings with it the potential for prosecution of Ms Gobbo and the police who were closest to her, as well as more convictions being overturned as a result of what many say is the darkest period in Victoria's legal history. It will also be the first report into the saga to be released publicly at the same time as those involved read it. Two people have already had convictions overturned and dozens more are lining up to be next, including one of the country's most recognisable crims, Tony Mokbel. Up to 1000 more people could have had their cases tainted by Ms Gobbo's informing against clients. Ms McMurdo, a former Queensland Supreme Court Justice, has already revealed she won't recommend criminal charges herself. But the appointment of a special prosecutor to build a case has been flagged. Anti-corruption watchdog IBAC also has the potential to investigate. It has before. Murray Kellam's scathing 2015 findings were released during the latest inquiry, including claims former Victoria Police boss Graham Ashton once described her as a "glittering prize". Much has changed since then though, including revelations she was recruited as an informer against an ex-lover in 1995 and against her then-employer in 1997. The scandal has been pulled apart and examined from every conceivable angle. Senior police were grilled, handlers spent weeks in the witness box defending how they used her, and crooks claimed they spent years behind bars solely because she turned on them. Ms Gobbo eventually appeared herself by phone in February. She claimed she was glad to be there, but the effort it took getting her implied otherwise. Her first two registrations as an informer were news to her, she claimed. Her explanation for the third registration bounced between claims she wanted to get the "Mokbel monkey" off her back and to escape the gangland clutches, and admissions she loved being the centre of it. "And as pathetic as it is for me to admit, looking back I did derive some self-importance and some feeling that I was relevant, or validated, by reason of being wanted by people like Tony (Mokbel)," she said. A large part of the inquiry was spent untangling decades of her lies - whether much stock can be taken from what she told the inquiry remains to be seen. No doubt Ms McMurdo will have her views. Her role in the affair will end on Monday when she presents her final report to Governor Linda Dessau. It's expected to be tabled in parliament and released publicly the same day. What Ms Gobbo or Victoria Police make of the recommendations will remain to be seen. In September Victoria Police conceded that allowing Ms Gobbo to inform on clients was "profoundly wrong". "Our failure at that time to ensure that these circumstances were identified and disclosed was also a significant and missed opportunity to right a wrong," the force said, with an apology to the courts. Ms Gobbo is in hiding. Australian Associated Press
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After two years examining Nicola Gobbo's Lawyer X saga, a final report will be released on Monday.
The latest report into gangland snitch Nicola Gobbo's scandalous relationship with Victoria Police, due to be released on Monday, is sure to be the most damning.
A former police chief, anti-corruption investigator and Australia's High Court have all slammed the Lawyer X affair, labelling the behaviour as reprehensible and negligent.
But Margaret McMurdo's royal commission report comes at the end of a nearly two-year long inquiry where some of the worst aspects of the saga were revealed and examined for the first time.
The report brings with it the potential for prosecution of Ms Gobbo and the police who were closest to her, as well as more convictions being overturned as a result of what many say is the darkest period in Victoria's legal history.
It will also be the first report into the saga to be released publicly at the same time as those involved read it.
Two people have already had convictions overturned and dozens more are lining up to be next, including one of the country's most recognisable crims, Tony Mokbel.
Up to 1000 more people could have had their cases tainted by Ms Gobbo's informing against clients.
Ms McMurdo, a former Queensland Supreme Court Justice, has already revealed she won't recommend criminal charges herself.
But the appointment of a special prosecutor to build a case has been flagged.
Anti-corruption watchdog IBAC also has the potential to investigate.
It has before.
Murray Kellam's scathing 2015 findings were released during the latest inquiry, including claims former Victoria Police boss Graham Ashton once described her as a "glittering prize".
Much has changed since then though, including revelations she was recruited as an informer against an ex-lover in 1995 and against her then-employer in 1997.
The scandal has been pulled apart and examined from every conceivable angle.
Senior police were grilled, handlers spent weeks in the witness box defending how they used her, and crooks claimed they spent years behind bars solely because she turned on them.
Ms Gobbo eventually appeared herself by phone in February.
She claimed she was glad to be there, but the effort it took getting her implied otherwise.
Her first two registrations as an informer were news to her, she claimed. Her explanation for the third registration bounced between claims she wanted to get the "Mokbel monkey" off her back and to escape the gangland clutches, and admissions she loved being the centre of it.
"And as pathetic as it is for me to admit, looking back I did derive some self-importance and some feeling that I was relevant, or validated, by reason of being wanted by people like Tony (Mokbel)," she said.
A large part of the inquiry was spent untangling decades of her lies - whether much stock can be taken from what she told the inquiry remains to be seen.
No doubt Ms McMurdo will have her views.
Her role in the affair will end on Monday when she presents her final report to Governor Linda Dessau. It's expected to be tabled in parliament and released publicly the same day.
What Ms Gobbo or Victoria Police make of the recommendations will remain to be seen.
In September Victoria Police conceded that allowing Ms Gobbo to inform on clients was "profoundly wrong".
"Our failure at that time to ensure that these circumstances were identified and disclosed was also a significant and missed opportunity to right a wrong," the force said, with an apology to the courts.
Ms Gobbo is in hiding.
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Tatars fear persecution in Crimea
Following the Crimea referendum, Inter-ethic tensions remain a concern for a Tatar regional leader. Gavino Garay reports. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/reuterssubscribe More Breaking News: http://smarturl.it/BreakingNews Reuters tells the world's stories like no one else. As the largest international multimedia news provider, Reuters provides coverage around the globe and across topics including business, financial, national, and international news. For over 160 years, Reuters has maintained i
2 The global water cycle
The flow of water through the land, the atmosphere and the sea is shown in Figure 3.
Performative architecture as a guideline for transformation: Defense Line of Amsterdam
Performance as an architectural design paradigm has been emerging during the recent years. We have developed an understanding that we formalized as a taxonomy for performative architecture that considers performance from three points of view: health, safety and security performance; functional and efficiency performance; and psychological, social, cultural, and esthetic performance. This paper focuses on a design project that explores these ideas as a performative architecture proposal. The proj
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10 Review of the learning outcomes
After studying this unit you should be able to:
explain what the common law is and how it developed:
In 1154 Henry II institutionalised common law. Judges travelled throughout the country bringing consistent justice to every citizen, and the practice developed where past decisions would be cited in argument before the courts and would be regarded as being of persuasive authority.
The Holloway Series in Poetry - Honoring the Life and Work of Larry Eigner
When Larry Eigner arrived in this world "palsied from a hard birth" the accepted view was that the severity of his injury made him uneducable. An inspired bar-mitzvah gift of a 1940 Royal portable typewriter opened a pathway to his becoming a poet. This event celebrates the publication in four folio volumes of the Collected Poems of Larry Eigner. POETS/SPEAKERS. Robert Grenier, Lyn Hejinian, Richard Eigner, Rebecca Gaydos, Kit Robinson, Michael Davidson, George Hart, Albert Gelpi, Hillary Grav
3.10 More difficult fraction sums
Sometimes you have to find equivalent factions for all fractions in the sum in order that the denominators are the same.
To add or subtract fractions, use equivalent fractions to make the denominators the same and then add or subtract the numerators.
Modelling pollution in the Great Lakes: a review
The main teaching text of this unit is provided in the workbook below. The answers to the exercises that you'll find throughout the workbook are given in the answer book. You can access it by clicking on the link under the workbook. When prompted to watch the video for this unit, return to this page and watch the clips below. After you've watched the clips, return to the workbook.
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3.2.1 Remarks
By ‘contains’, we mean that we can find part of the surface that is homeomorphic to a Möbius band. The edge of the Möbius band does not need to correspond to an edge at the surface, so that a surface without boundary can be non-orientable (as we shall shortly see).
When seeking Möbius bands in a surface, it can be helpful to look at all possible closed curves on the surface and thicken these into bands.
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10.4 Summary
By biological evolution we mean that many of the organisms that inhabit the Earth today are different from those that inhabited it in the past.
Natural selection is one of several processes that can bring about evolution, although it can also promote stability rather than change. It follows that natural selection is not the same thing as evolution.
The four propositions underlying Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection are: (1) more individuals are produced than ca
Art Forum: Danni Zuvela and Joel Stern
The ANU School of Art and the ACT Government present the 2012 public Art Form series. OtherFilm are an artists' collective dedicated to exploring experimental film, video, sound and performance; they work as curators, programmers, artists, researchers, writers, historians, teachers, hosts, agents and activists. In this talk they discuss OtherFilm's origins in the underground/DIY film and music scene and show some highlights from selected exhibitions and programs they have curated. They also spe
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1.6.3 Using sound effects to good effect
Sound effects can communicate information in a variety of ways. In particular, they can do the following.
Reinforce the visual component of the UI. Thus turning a page on the screen could be accompanied by an appropriate sound. This could be taken even further in a children's program about animals, which could include sounds of lions roaring and elephants trumpeting.
Confirm the successful completion of an operation. F
Addition and Subtraction of Decimal Numbers
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Literary Festival 2016: Worlds Elsewhere: global Shakespeare [Audio]
Speaker(s): Ben Crystal, Andrew Dickson, Dr Varsha Panjwani | Shakespeare has been translated into virtually all the world’s most commonly spoken languages. His plays are performed in a rich variety of theatrical traditions. How did he become the global phenomenon he is today? And how is his work received and interpreted across the world? Ben Crystal (@bencrystal) is an actor, writer and producer. He is the artistic director of Passion in Practice and its Shakespeare Ensemble. Andrew Dickson (
Literary Festival 2016: Fact versus Fiction? The Spanish Civil War in the Literary Imagination [Audi
Speaker(s): Professor Helen Graham, Eduardo Mendoza, Professor Paul Preston | Marking the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, our panel of prominent historians as well as one of Spain's most important novelists will explore the effect of the war on the literary imagination from George Orwell to the present day and reflect on the challenges of incorporating real events into fiction. Helen Graham is Professor of Spanish History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her books include The
Exploring the boundaries of international law
This free course, Exploring the boundaries of international law, is designed to provide you with an introduction to key concepts underpinning your study of international law. It introduces the concept of international legal personality, explores the status of the state, the principle of sovereignty and summarises the principles of jurisdiction. First pub
21W.747 Rhetoric (MIT)
This course uses the study of rhetoric as an opportunity to offer instruction in critical thinking. Through extensive writing and speaking assignments, students will develop their abilities to analyze texts of all kinds and to generate original and incisive ideas of their own. Critical thinking and original analysis as expressed in writing and in speech are the paramount goals of this class. The course will thus divide its efforts between an examination of the subject matter and an examination o
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2.4 Comparing early sources of news
Radio and newsreels
Taylor compares the merits of radio and newsreels, as sources of news, with those of newspapers.
21M.263 Music Since 1960 (MIT)
This course begins with the premise that the 1960s mark a great dividing point in the history of 20th century Western musical culture, and explores the ways in which various social and artistic concerns of composers, performers, and listeners have evolved since that decade. It focuses on works by classical composers from around the world. Topics include the impact of rock, as it developed during the 1960s - 70s; the concurrent emergence of post serial, neotonal, minimalist, and new age styles; t
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1.3 Summary of part A
The right to privacy includes:
the right to be left alone
freedom from intrusion into your personal life
control of personal information
protection of your dignity, independence and integrity
freedom of movement.
The right to privacy conflicts with:
the right to freedom of expression
national security consider
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NZ Rugby denies conflict of interest after acquiring Sky shares
13 Oct, 2019 09:03 PM 4 minutes to read
New Zealand Rugby chairman Brent Impey denied there was any conflict of interest now that the organisation had acquired a 5 per cent stake in Sky.
He said NZR would not stand in the way of Sky bidding for other rugby rights and that his organisation remained committed to doing what was best for the game and for viewers.
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He did, however, acknowledge that this was possibly the first time in the world that a sport has become a shareholder in the broadcaster.
"We've broken new ground here," he said.
Asked whether Spark's problems in streaming the Rugby World Cup had any impact on the decision, Impey said the "so-called technical glitches" of Spark had nothing to do with company awarding its rugby rights to Sky.
Impey did, however, acknowledge that reaching rural New Zealand was a "critical part" of the discussions.
He said the technology wasn't there yet when it came to delivering its services to rural sections of society and that Sky has proven itself a capable broadcast partner.
Sky has served as New Zealand Rugby's partner for the past 25 years.
Spark was not given an opportunity to bid for the rugby rights, with NZR coming to a decision within the timeframe of the exclusive re-negotiation agreement it had with Sky.
Impey said that the deal was really struck at the 11th hour, with that exclusive period coming to a close on Sunday night.
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Neither Impey nor Sky chief executive Martin Stewart would comment on the value of the deal, which sources estimate to be worth as much as $400 million.
Given that NZR did not take the rights to market, it was not able to benefit from a potential bidding war between Sky and Spark Sport.
Impey said he was not concerned by this, because his team had done extensive research on what the rights were valued at and were comfortable that they got a fair price.
Sky shares rebound
Sky TV shares shot up 20 per cent today after confirming its blockbuster deal for All Blacks and Super Rugby broadcasting rights.
The rally lifts Sky TV's total market capitalisation by about $74 million to $447m.
Shares in Sky TV rallied by 18c in the opening minutes of trade on the back of a deal between the pay TV operator and New Zealand Rugby being confirmed.
By 10.05 am Sky TV shares were trading at $1.07.
Sky TV confirmed this morning it had acquired the All Black and Super Rugby rights until 2025.
The deal also involves New Zealand Rugby taking a 5 per cent stake in Sky TV and could mean other broadcasters are locked out of rugby coverage in the future.
• Sky confirms massive All Blacks, Super Rugby deal
• Sky TV set to snare All Blacks, Super Rugby rights until 2025 via massive $400 million bid
• NZ shares rise; Sky TV recovers on rugby rights rumour
• Pay TV wars: Spark Sport nab cricket rights from Sky
The deal has had an immediate impact on Sky shares, which last week plunged below $1 for the first time in its 21 years as a listed company off the back of Spark's acquisition of the Black Caps cricket rights.
In the aftermath, Sky's share price dropped by 18c (16.22 per cent) to as low as 87c last week.
In an announcement posted to the New Zealand Stock Exchange, the broadcaster told investors it had finalised the major deal.
The company did not say how much the deal was worth, but sources suggested Sky tabled an offer of $400 million back in September.
The company confirmed that the cost of the rights materially increased from its current arrangements.
News of the deal first broke last week Friday, when sources told the Herald the deal was in the final stages.
Sky said today the deal was reached on the evening of October 13 and was subject to shareholder approval at this Thursday's annual meeting.
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Netflix surpasses 200 million subscribers, halts cash burn
Auckland couple used children as 'puppets' in tax evasion scheme
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Episode 26: Rise of the Dead Pundit, with Adam Proctor (Part I)
October 20, 2020 Nicholas Kiersey Leave a comment
Hey everyone! Welcome to Episode 26 of Fully Automated… or, at least, Episode 26, Part One!
This is a super long overdue episode with a guest I have wanted to have on the show for a long time: Adam Proctor, the host of Dead Pundit’s Society. Adam has been doing his show FULL TIME for the last four years, delivering not only on his commitment to evangelizing “socialism for ordinary ass’ed people” but to making an incredibly important (and often misunderstood) contribution to the critique of political economy.
In Part One of this episode, we discuss Adam’s background, and the story behind the Dead Pundit’s Society. DPS emerged as part of the 2016 leftist podcast wave. Some I suppose would associate Adam with the “dirtbag left,” and shows like Chapo Trap House. But the story is more complicated than that.
One of the interesting things about DPS is the niche it has always occupied, between audience accessibility and issues-driven programming, on the one hand, and a commitment to rigorous academic thought, on the other. There’s a certain public intellectual function to the show. So, in this episode, we discuss the role of the left intellectual. And the question of how to balance this sort of awkward relationship, of being neither an entertainer nor an academic, but something in between.
DPS covers a wide range of themes — everything from state theory through race essentialism. These are less controversial topics today, perhaps, but in 2016 Adam was taking huge risks by trying to mainstream them among an American left that was still largely committed to horizontalist or “occupy” style ideals. Four years into this project, it is clear that DPS has played a major role in articulating these ideas to a wider audience that one might have imagined possible, back in 2016.
In Part One, you’ll hear us address the early days of the show, and Adam’s notorious attempts to take on freedom of speech issues, cancel culture, and race essentialism. We also talk socialist strategy, and the application of work by Sam Ginden and Leo Pantich to the Grexit question. And as if these takes weren’t controversial enough, wait ’til you see what we get into in Part Two! (Coming later this week).
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Episode 18: Science, Technology & Art in International Relations, with Anna Leander
August 1, 2019 Nicholas Kiersey Leave a comment
Hey everyone, and welcome to a very special episode of Fully Automated. Why so special? Well, because this is our first ever joint episode! We’ve teamed up with the Science Technology and Art in International Relations (or STAIR) section of ISA, for the first of what we hope will be a series of collaborations on the politics and economics of science and technology (and art!) in global affairs.
Joining me as a co-host on this episode is Stéphanie Perazzone, who graduated recently with a PhD in International Relations and Political Science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (IHEID). Stéphanie is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), the University of Antwerp. She is working on a Swiss National Science Foundation-funded research project entitled “Localizing International Security Sector Reform; A Micro-Sociology of Policing in Urban Congo.” She is also the Communications Officer for STAIR.
Our guest for this episode is Anna Leander, the winner of the 2018 STAIR ‘Transversal Acts’ Distinguished Scholar Award. Anna is Professor of International Relations at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, with part-time positions also at the Copenhagen Business School. She is known primarily for her contributions to the development of practice theoretical approaches to International Relations and for her work on the politics of commercializing military/security matters. According to her bio, she is “focused on the material politics of commercial security technologies with special emphasis on their aesthetic and affective dimensions.”
In the interview, Stéphanie and I invite Anna to reflect on a number of the topics she has taken on, in the course of her career. One question of interest is the influence of Pierre Bourdieu on her thinking, especially concerning the role of symbolic power in reproducing systems of political violence, and the political value of reflexivity as a precursor of resistance. We also ask her about her work on the increasingly overlapping relationship between the commercial and the technological, and her thoughts on methodology in relation to studying this and other recent trends and developments in the security world.
Listeners interested in following up on Anna’s work might want to check out some of the following articles, which all get discussed to some extent in the interview:
The Paradoxical Impunity of Private Military Companies: Authority and the Limits to Legal Accountability. Security Dialogue, 41(5), 467–490. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010610382108
Ethnographic Contributions to Method Development: “Strong Objectivity” in Security Studies, International Studies Perspectives, Volume 17, Issue 4, November 2016, Pages 462–475, https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekv021
The politics of whitelisting: Regulatory work and topologies in commercial security. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34(1), 48–66. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775815616971
Thanks for listening. As ever, if you have any feedback, you are welcome to connect with us on Twitter @occupyirtheory. And the STAIR section can be reached @STAIRISA
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Episode 16: What the Brexit? — LIVE at #ISA2019, Toronto (March 29)
April 5, 2019 Nicholas Kiersey 1 Comment
Brexit & Beer, with Philip Cunliffe & Luke Ashworth
Welcome back, listeners, to what I hope you’ll agree is a very special episode of Fully Automated. As you know, the last two episodes have been focused on the Brexit debate, and whether or not the cause of the British left is best served by a departure from the European Union (EU), or by “remaining and rebelling” within the EU, in the hope of reforming it.
Two episodes ago, our guest was Lee Jones — an advocate of ’The Full Brexit.’ During the show, Jones advanced the idea that the ideals of the Left cannot be satisfied within the EU, whereas the most meaningful historic victories of the left have been achieved only by wielding the power of the state. Then, in our last episode, we heard a rebuttal of this idea from Luke Ashworth, who suggested that while the political entity we know as the modern state has played an important historical role for the Left, its time has been fleeting, and the forces of globalization are today of such power that any project of returning to sovereignty will prove inevitably fruitless.
Recorded late in the afternoon on Friday, March 29, in the lobby bar of the Toronto Sheraton, during the 60th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, this episode brings Jones and Ashworth back to the microphone, this time for a live, in person debate. To keep things cordial, we bought them a brace of beers. And they appreciated the gesture it would seem, as the exchange proved to be probably the most collegial airing of political grievances in podcast history.
But, as if that wasn’t exciting enough, this special “Showdown in the Sheraton” episode also brings together another famous Brexit rivalry — none other than Phil Cunliffe and Sean Molloy, both of the Department of Politics and International Relations, at the University of Kent. Well known for their epic public disagreements on Twitter, this episode is a rare opportunity to hear Cunliffe (whose voice listeners may also recognize from the Aufhebunga Bunga podcast) and Molloy pretending to be polite to each other.
A quick note for listeners: with the Parliamentary dynamics surrounding Brexit now in a state of rapid flux, we’ve here largely avoided the topic of whether or how Theresa May can at this stage secure her deal, and avoid a ‘drop out’ Brexit. That said, for listeners who are interested in a play-by-play analysis of what’s going on in the House of Commons, we can recommend staying tunes to Novara Media’s Tyske Sour. Today’s show featured Sienna Rodgers and Owen Jones, and looked at a number of important questions, including whether Theresa May is prepared to sacrifice the Conservative Party, in order to cede meaningful ground the Labour Party’s demands for a Common Market deal, and the various divisions within Labour on question of a second referendum.
Finally, the bar we were in was starting to get pretty noisy by the end of the session. We’ve done our best to clear up the sound, but we ask your patience all the same.
(PS: listeners coming to this page may be curious if Molloy has plans to release any t-shirts bearing his “Tortuga on Themes” slogan. He has not responded to our queries).
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Episode 12: Marxism in IR, with Maïa Pal
June 7, 2018 Nicholas Kiersey Leave a comment
Our guest for Episode 12 of Fully Automated is Maïa Pal, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford Brookes University. Among other things, Maïa is a scholar of early modern European history, focusing on the colonial origins of the modern state. She is an editor for Historical Materialism. And she is currently working on a book project, entitled Jurisdictional Accumulation: an Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital (forthcoming, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). You can find her on Twitter @maia_pal
This episode represents the third installment in our occasional series, on Marxism in International Relations. Previous guests in this series include Bryant Sculos (Episode 9), on the the topic of Marxist pedagogy, and Kevin Funk and Sebastian Sclofsky (Episode 10), about the sorry state of Marxism in IR, and in Political Science more generally. In this episode, however, Maia helps us begin to think about what it might mean to apply Marxism, in IR.
I invited Maïa on the show after I read her recent piece, Introducing Marxism in International Relations, in e-IR. In this piece, she argues that the contribution of Marxism in IR is to reveal what other, less critical approaches may contrive to hide. That is, how many concepts we normally take for granted in IR, like the international itself, can distract us from analyzing the social relations that comprise them, and the history of the material conditions that shape those relations, in turn.
As we discuss, some of even the most critical scholars in IR eschew Marxism because they fear it constitutes a kind of dogmatism. In the interview, however, you’ll hear Maia refer to a letter that Karl Marx wrote, to Arnold Ruge, in which he states:
“But if the designing of the future and the proclamation of ready-made solutions for all time is not our affair, then we realize all the more clearly what we have to accomplish in the present—I am speaking of a ruthless criticism of everything existing, ruthless in two senses: The criticism must not be afraid of its own conclusions, nor of conflict with the powers that be.”
So, in this spirit, Pal outlines for us what we might perhaps want to call a relentless Marxism — one unafraid to examine itself, and its own suppositions about the world.
As Maia says in the interview, the function of Marxism in IR is to challenge and destabilize many of the concepts it cherishes, and which might appear otherwise stable to the scholar: not just the division between the national and the international, but that of the political and the economic. Marxism, Maia suggests, shatters the “linear progressive narrative of the history of international relations,” as a discipline, and opens us up to the possibility of a much more messy and brutal history; a history of empire, and imperial conquest!
We covered A LOT of ground in this interview, and the result is a slightly longer episode than usual. But I hope you’ll stick with us to the end. Later in the show, you’re going to hear us talk about some of the implications of Maia’s work for the left today: whether or in what respects can we say the state in globalization still has political capacity, and how might the left conceive of this capacity as it grapples with the question of anti-capitalist strategy; and how debates about xenophobia among the working class and so-called ‘deplorables’ can overlook not only the nuances of working-class electoral preferences, but can distract us from thinking about the ‘normal’ racism of the state as it works to categorize migrant populations as undeserving of access to wealthy zones and spaces, within globalization.
Towards the end, we’ll also chat about what its like to be an editor with a left-academic journal like Historical Materialism, and get a little bit into the rationale behind the journal’s latest issue, on identity politics. Finally, we get into Maia’s current book project, and why she believes that Marxists need to pay more attention to the significance of ‘jurisdictional accumulation’, both in the pre-history of capitalist globalization, and as a specific condition shaping the play of global capitalist dynamics today.
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Episode 8: Colin Coulter on Ireland, Austerity’s “Model Pupil”?
October 9, 2017 Nicholas Kiersey Leave a comment
Coulter & Nagle, Eds.
On today’s episode, we are joined by Colin Coulter, of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Colin is a Lecturer in Sociology, and he has an article out recently in Critical Sociology, co-authored with Francisco Arqueros-Fernández and Angela Nagle, entitled Austerity’s Model Pupil: The Ideological Uses of Ireland during the Eurozone Crisis.
As some listeners may know, I have myself been working on a book about the role of culture in Irish austerity. And I’ve always found Colin to be a really great writer on this subject. He has a real knack for seamlessly blending together both analysis of the material dynamics of the Irish financial crisis, with a critique of the role of culture as force sustaining the legitimacy of austerity as the necessary solution. This cultural project is one being carried out by government institutions, to be sure, but also by a number of other cultural agencies that exist within Irish society, as they seek to orient Irish people better to understand their responsibility in causing the crisis.
But Colin also has an analysis of how certain strains within the Irish academic left have perhaps enabled this process — namely by overlooking questions to do with the production of capitalist culture. Colin explains the role of capitalist culture in Ireland in a really accessible manner, so its great to have him on the show. I think you’ll really enjoy the interview.
You can find a copy of Colin’s article on my Dropbox. Remember, if you like what you hear, please leave us a positive review on iTunes. As ever, if you have any feedback, you can reach us on Twitter @occupyirtheory. Enjoy the show!
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Episode 3: Book Club – Peter Frase’s ‘Four Futures’
June 6, 2017 Nicholas Kiersey 1 Comment
Four Futures
This episode is the first in an occasional ‘book club’ series of podcasts we will be doing, in an around the topic of fully automated luxury communism. This episode’s book is Four Futures, by Peter Frase (which is part of the Jacobin series, from Verso Books).
My guests on the show are Laura Horn and Phil Davis. Laura is a political economist working at the University of Roskilde, just outside of Copenhagen in Denmark. While her own research has mainly focused on dimensions of capitalist restructuring in the European Union, she has a strong political and personal interest in the nexus between political economy and science fiction. Four Futures is one of the texts she uses in her course ‘Repoliticising Capitalism: Contradictions, critique and alternatives’.
Phil Davis is a molecular biologist working in the Biodefense sector in the Washington DC area. He’s currently working towards a master’s degree in Bioinformatics from University of Maryland University College. Four Futures sits at the intersection of his enthusiasm for both left-wing politics and futurology. His hobbies also include music.
If you have any questions or comments, please send us a tweet @occupyirtheory
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Reply, ‘Always Already Podcast’ on Martijn Konings’s ‘Emotional Logic of Capitalism’
March 12, 2017 Nicholas Kiersey 1 Comment
It was my pleasure recently to be invited by the ‘Always Already Podcast’ team to put in a guest appearance on their show, and respond to their recent episode on Martijn Konings’s fascinating book, The Emotional Logic of Capitalism. They offered me a 10-minute slot, and ran it in Episode 19 of their Epistemic Unruliness series. Below, you can find a slightly edited and extended version of my remarks, which were provoked by their own engagement with Konings’s book, but also by my own, continuing work on austerity and recession in Ireland. For ease of reading’s sake, I have added in some material from remarks I made at another talk I gave on February 17, this year, at Ohio State’s ‘Research in International Politics’ (RIP) group, entitled Austerity as Tragedy? From Neoliberal Governmentality to the Critique of Late Capitalist Control:
Continue reading Reply, ‘Always Already Podcast’ on Martijn Konings’s ‘Emotional Logic of Capitalism’ →
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Debating Austerity with Dan O’Brien
UPDATE: the letter below was subsequently printed, and can be read here (with some alterations made by the paper’s editor, it seems)…
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/nothing-to-fear-about-prospect-of-a-socialistled-government-34157028.html
This is my letter to the Irish Independent (I know, I know, why bother…), about Dan O’Brien’s piece today:
Dan O’Brien (29/10) claims that because there are no self-described neoliberals, it is not possible to engage with their ideas. But surely he would not deny the historical existence of self-described free market radicals, like Milton Friedman and Gary Becker, or the historic influence of their ideas on government policymakers, like Paul Volker and Margaret Thatcher.
Neoliberalism, quite simply, is a theory that advocates applying the laws of the market to as many domains of human existence as possible, as intensely as possible. Neoliberals take up the ideas of early liberals, like Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Those thinkers had faith in the virtue of market-based competition as a mechanism for optimizing the distribution goods and services. Moreover, they believed the experience of buying and selling in the marketplace was a moral corrective, producing over time a class of responsible and capable citizens, named ‘entrepreneurs’.
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#RubySeries List for #ISA2015
February 10, 2015 Nicholas Kiersey 4 Comments
Following Cynthia Weber’s recent post over at Duck of Minerva, there has been a lot of debate about the International Studies Association’s planned ‘Saphire Series’ for the upcoming annual conference in New Orleans. Some of that debate has been taking place at the #occupyirtheory/ipe Facebook group. With now over 175 comments, there have been a wide ranging set of proposals and ideas about the issues raised by the Series, and how to respond to them. Many will be using the #Ruby hashtag on Twitter to maintain communications on these issues as the conference proceeds. Another idea has been for people to list any panels they feel might offer the possibility of institutionally balancing the dominant ‘white, male and tenured’ voices the Series is showcasing. Interested readers can also follow the Twitter hashtag #RubySeries for updates on these panels.
Disclaimer: this list is based on suggestions made in context of an open and ongoing discussion at the OccupyIR group on Facebook, among other places, about ISA’s Sapphire Series. It is not intended as a way of ‘promoting’ select panels. It is merely a way for people to link their panels together in an expression of solidarity in response to the perceived elitism of the Sapphire series. If you are part of a panel that you do want listed, let me know. Similarly, if you do not want your panel listed, I am happy to remove it for you.
Ruby Series: Celebrating Multiple Voices in Conversation
Current as of 02/17/15 — 71 Panels!
WA10: Presidential Theme Panel: Advancing Global IR (I): Challenges And Prospects
WA11: Rethinking Silence, Voice and Agency in Feminist Approaches to Security
WA21: Local Actors and the Diffusion of Gender Norms in Developing Regions
WA41: Decolonizing Methods: New Tools for Global IR
WA52: Anti-Colonial Poetics and the Lived Experience of Politics
WA 56: Presidential Theme Panel – Indigenous Peoples, Values And Sovereignty, In The Study Of Global Politics
WB30: Presidential Theme Panel: Bandung+60: Legacies and Contradictions
WB31: Postcolonialism, Feminism And Global International Relations: Remembering The Legacy Of Geeta Chowdhry
WB78: Women’s Activism in Revolutions and Crises
WC18: Embodiment, Experience and War: Methodological Challenges and Reflections
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September 25, 2014 Nicholas Kiersey Leave a comment
***CFP for a panel***
Title: Global Crises / Capitalist Expressions: Critical Connections
Where: EISA 9th Pan-European Conference, Sicily, 23-26 September 2015
Abstract: What are the ways that relations of global capitalism can be made intelligible through analyses of various “crises”? This panel seeks to develop the analysis of contemporary capital by way of capturing its expressions, or effects, in a range of contemporary global crises (economic, environmental, epidemic, colonial, militaristic, etc.). We hope to highlight different iterations of global capitalism through its intrinsic tendency to crisis, and by doing so, to underscore the possibilities of a variety approaches to the critique of capitalism. Thus, we invite papers addressing a breadth of potential sites and scenes of contemporary capitalism’s globality, from those involving more immediately situated struggles over the limits it places on everyday material existence to more widely-scaled analyses, focusing on the governmental and governmentalizing dynamics of globalization itself. Gathering these various approaches together, this panel will be an opportunity to explore the stakes of global capitalist discourse and practice as it advances norms of market-based existence, individual responsibility, flexible partnership and resilience, all the while beset by the aporias of uneven development, financialization, war profiteering, corporate welfare, and the reckless extraction and consumption of resources.
For more info, contact Nicholas Kiersey (at the address on this website) or Garnet Kindervater. Submissions no later than Monday, September 29, please.
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Nicholas Kiersey is Professor of Political Science at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is the host of the "Fully Automated" podcast. He is currently working on a book about why the left needs socialist governmentality.
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HH Vishwaguruji receives Yoga Ratna Award at House of Commons in London
At the invitation of the All Party Parliamentary Group – Indian Traditional Sciences (APPG), author and founder of the Yoga in Daily Life Scientific System, His Holiness Bharat Gaurav Paramhans Sri Swami Maheshwaranandaji or Vishwaguruji (most respected and honorable title received from members of the Kashi Vidvat Parishad), attended as guest of honor the United Nations 5th International Day of Yoga celebrations in London, UK.
House of Commons IDY Celebration
Vishwaguruji addressed the distinguished audience at the House of Commons by praising India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi Ji, for proclaiming the International Day of Yoga (IDY) at the United Nations, NY, in 2014. Since then, IDY has been celebrated worldwide, including with great enthusiasm by Yoga in Daily Life disciples on all five continents. According to the words of Vishwaguruji, that singular achievement of Narendra Modi Ji clearly indicates the end of the age of Kali Yuga and the beginning of the era of Satya Yuga: “Yoga is one, it means Oneness. The first words written by Patanjali were 'discipline will create the path to Yoga', meaning just now – don’t think 'we will begin Yoga tomorrow', no, just now, we should make a sankalpa (a resolve), about what we should do.”
“Humankind should become vegetarian,” was the important message of Vishwaguruji at the 5th International Yoga Day celebration. There is no room for violence against any creatures living in the world and animals should not suffer for the pleasure of humans; they should not be exploited for food. “We should strive for healthy organic food, without poisonous pesticides, and we should protect fresh drinking water, nature and our environment,” Vishwaguruji declared.
Yoga Ratna Award
As a tribute of appreciation for his 50 years of dedication to advancing the spread of ancient Indian original knowledge and wisdom of Yoga around the globe, Vishwaguruji received the Yoga Ratna (Jewel of Yoga) Award from the All-Party Parliamentary Group at the House of Commons IDY celebration. In the coming year – 2020 – Vishwaguruji will host and present the Grand Opening event of the world’s largest constructed OM symbol – the OM Ashram in Jadan, district Pali, Rajasthan, India. Vishwaguruji also announced he has begun all necessary steps for the entry of the OM Ashram as a candidate for designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Special ceremony by the Basaveshwara statue in the center of London
During his IDY celebration visit to London, Vishwaguruji attended a special ceremony with a dedicated puja at Basaveshwara statue in the center of London. Basaveshwara (1134-1168) was a pioneer of democracy and social reform from South India, and his statue was unveiled in 2015 by Indian Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi Ji.
IDY program at Nehru Centre, London
The International Yoga Day ceremony began at the Nehru Centre in London, where Vishwaguruji, greeted as Guest of Honor, stated: “Dear Sisters and Brothers, we are bringing again the blessing of all great saints, yogis, rishis, many other great saints, from thousands and thousands of years. They gave that knowledge to mankind of how to live life and how to protect each and every entity, take care of our vegetation and live on this planet as a divine planet, protecting all creatures in the water, on the earth and in space. From time to time, negative energy comes. There are always the rakshasas and devas, but always the Yogis and the Saints are protecting us. I send my respects to all of you and my wish that we come to the sattvic path – no meat, no alcohol – with discipline.”
2nd International Conference on Yoga – Gandhi Hall, High Commission of India, London
Yet another event to which Vishwaguruji was invited as Guest of Honor, was the IDY Conference in India House in London, where he addressed international delegates by emphasizing the importance of yoga practice and of applying the great philosophies of Yoga into one’s daily routine. Through this discipline, we will gain all the physical, mental, social and spiritual benefits, as Vishwaguruji said: “We must feed the cow in order to receive the butter. Practice brings about reality.”
Vishwaguruji also led simple yoga exercises and a practical demonstration bringing to each person the opportunity to experience the life force, prana, in their body. He personally demonstrated the correct technique for chanting AUM – – the primordial sound, through which the whole universe has come into existence.
Bharat Gaurav Vishwaguruji concluded his talk with a reminder that Yoga brings us to the understanding and experience of Oneness – that we are all One: brother and sister humans, animals, plants and vegetation, the whole universe: “One in All and All in One”.
Bharat Gaurav Award and Order of the Croatian Star with the Effigy of Katarina Zrinska
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Poultry meat and eggs are vital animal protein sources for people in Vietnam and poultry production plays an important role in the economy of many rural households. The country is also looking towards increasing poultry exports. Controlling the introduction of new avian influenza virus strains is a major challenge though.
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Vietnam’s current population of 95.5m is projected to reach 100m by 2025, with half this figure living in towns and cities.
The country’s poultry population is 385.5m, and set to reach 500m by 2025.
The average poultry consumption per person was 13kg in 2017. It is estimated to increase to 17kg in 2027.
Vietnam’s GDP is US$223.8bn, with a projected growth rate of 6.5% for 2020.
Market stall, Vietnam. Image: Giel Ton
Vietnam’s poultry population grew at an average of 5.5% in the 10 years to 2017. It is projected to reach 500 million in 2025, with annual egg production at around 15 billion.
This is despite an epidemic of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) hitting the country at the end of 2003 and the virus now being endemic.
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The persistence of HPAI, as well as other animal diseases, has a significant impact on the development of livestock production. In particular, the emergence of Africa swine fever (ASF) at the beginning of 2019 is anticipated to have major implications for the poultry industry as consumers switch from pork to other meats such as chicken, with the resulting increased chicken production leading to an increased risk for avian influenza.
The Vietnam government, in collaboration with international and development organisations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and USAID, has implemented national animal disease control programmes for the period 2019-2024. These aim to minimise animal disease outbreaks, build disease safety zones and develop safe supply chains.
However, most animal holdings are small with poor biosecurity. They are often located near residential areas, making it difficult to apply biosecurity and disease control measures.
The illegal poultry trade along the long border between Vietnam and China is an added challenge.
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Around 70% of the total chicken population in Vietnam are kept in households, mainly for commercial purposes. They provide 60% of the country’s egg yield. The number of chicken in household ranges from a few birds (backyard) to up to 2,000, with a popular flock size of several hundred birds.
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Clutch “Earth Rocker” review.
Posted on March 15, 2013 by Oran
In our opinion, Clutch just don’t do bad albums. Some are better than others, but judging by standards of other bands who we will not mention, the Maryland groove masters can’t put a foot wrong. Standout albums of the bands career would be the desert stoner crushing sophomore “Clutch” that had belters such as “Texan Book Of The Dead” and “Escape From The Prison Planet” and their undeniably incredible “Blast Tyrant” that is home to stone cold classics such as Cypress Groove, Profits Of Doom, Promoter and the anthem that is The Mob Goes Wild.
In fact, the bands career has seen them release a consistent flurry of albums from Transnational Speedway League in 1993 to their most recent Earth Rocker being their tenth opus.
Anticipation on the first listen to this album was bubbling over as the first track and album title “Earth Rocker” came crashing out of the office speakers. A solid, driving, up-tempo jam, laced with Neil Fallon’s words dripping with the swagger and talent that most vocalists would kill for. The instant connection of the chorus “I’m an earth rocker, everybody hear me now” creates a want and need to see this song live, even on the first listen! “Crucial Velocity” which is the first track to be released from the album, bursts out of the traps and packed to the hilt with attitude and loaded with catchy snarling wha pedal infused riffs from the always amazing Tim Sult.
It’s pretty clear that there is no let up on this record, as the tracks just keep coming at the listener with rolling, up beat tempo slabs of smoking hot blues driven groove. One of the standout tracks on the album has to be “D.C Soundattack”. Folks, this is a instant bezerker of a tune and will be on repeat for the foreseeable future on the office sound system. Loaded with just everything that represents Clutch at being top of their game and ready for world domination, DC Soundattack has it all. The swagger, the undeniable brilliance of rhythm section heroes, drummer Jean Paul Gaster and bassist Dan Maines really shine through on this track and overall throughout the album.
Earth Rocker just keeps getting better with “Unto the Breach” displaying another fine performance of Fallon’s brilliant lyrics and emotional connection with the music. Just over halfway through the album the pace finally gives up with a chance to take a breather with “Gone Cold”, a slightly gentle pace with a sense of absence and down on your luck vibe. This track has a beautiful sound and is just a reminder that just as much as Clutch can rock the living shit out of anyone and anything, they can also write subtle atmospheric music that doesn’t involve distortion or rapid tempos, but can still be as heavy and thought provoking, evoking the pure essence of what Clutch really are, just a fantastic group of individuals who have an incredible talent for writing great music.
The amps are back to 11 on “The Face” and the galloping beats return with “Book, Saddle and Go” which sees Dan Maines dominate with the deep rumble overtones of his bass. “Cyborg Bette” charges forward bringing the album back to the pace of it’s opening numbers before the incredible “Oh , Isabella” drips drifts through the air with connotations of Thin Lizzy and early AC/DC. A heart soaring chorus during this song shows a beautiful chord selection that requires a few repeats to satisfy the need to feed your ears.
Album closer “The Wolf Man Kindly Requests..” has a steady groove with a great chorus seeing some well constructed time changes that flow effortlessy around the rhythm of Fallon’s lyrics and the dinging of Gaster’s ride cymbal.
All in all, Earth Rocker is a fine album that literally has not a bad tune on it. I believe the phrase is “all killer, no filler” well, we would have to agree most definitely. Not only are the songs well written, executed with the staple Clutch style and dripping with unstoppable groove and swagger, but the album itself has to be one of the most well produced sounding records that has hit the Overdrive office in a very, very long time. The star of the album in our case has to be the amazing talent of drummer Jean Paul Gaster who just amazes with his stunning display of loose grooves and not to over the top drumming.
You can’t help but feel that Clutch simply play their hearts out on this record and really care about what they do and how to inject each band members personality into every track. Overdrive predicts that this record will make the top five ‘best of” lists throughout the rock community global press and will no doubt escalate the bands overall profile to a much wider audience. As much as we really want this to happen for the band, we can’t help but not share this treasure in the hope that we can see Clutch play the venues where you are up close and personal. An outstanding album and a must have for anyone that understands what good music is.
Earth Rocker released on March 19th via Weather Maker Music
For more information on Clutch hit these links Clutch/facebook, Clutch/twitter
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HomeLifestyleBooksOn Arabic Literature at This Year’s Dhaka LitFest
On Arabic Literature at This Year’s Dhaka LitFest
November 24, 2016 M. Lynx Qualey Books 0
The Dhaka LitFest was held this year from November 17-19. Although its broader focus was on South Asia, festival organizers also had a mini-focus on Arabic literature:
Holding a chair open for Ahmed Naji.
Last year, the fest featured Palestinian poet and novelist Ghassan Zaqtan, along with poet-translator Fady Joudah. Zaqtan and Joudah won Canada’s prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize, and Zaqtan was listed for the Neustadt Prize. But somehow his 2016 novella Describing the Past, gorgeously translated by Samuel Wilder, largely escaped Anglophone attention.
Too bad it wasn’t on sale at Dhaka LitFest: Many visiting writers this year described, with surprise, how they had sold every copy of their books on sale at the festival.
This year, the festival featured Egyptian novelist Nael Eltoukhy, author of Women of Karantina (translated by Robin Moger) among other novels. He was joined by myself, ArabLit editor M. Lynx Qualey, and also by Max Rodenbeck, author of Cairo: The City Victorious, who now works for the Economist in New Delhi.
The two Arab and Arabic-focused events were both packed with festival-goers, and for the most part they asked excellent, pointed questions. Several crowded up after, asking for book recommendations. At an event about “World Literature: Hidden Realities,” a woman in the audience asked about how we could get more translation moving between non-European languages, such as between Bangla and Arabic.
Indian novelist Anjum Hasan, also on the panel, suggested that this might be difficult. But she asked why India — which has a substantial English-language publishing industry — couldn’t start by bringing world literatures to English and publishing them in India, rather than waiting for London or New York City to decide what to translate from Chinese, Arabic, or Indonesian.
But the most poignant moment for Arabic literature at the Fest was when a chair was left open for Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji at the event about censorship, “Words Under Siege,” and PEN International’s Romana Cacchioli (pictured above) read Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh’s open letter to Naji.
Not every Bangladeshi author is a fan of the fest, of course, and there were complaints that it was a “fig leaf for a one-party state.” Some commenters on twitter re-iterated the 2013 critique that it was “The Potemkin Village of the Secular Liberal Elite in Bangladesh.” Certainly, the festival was a secular event, and certainly literary festivals are generally elite, but having V.S. Naipaul headline the festival was a strong statement.
At the panel “After the Arab Spring,” one audience-member asked about whether there were religious novelists in Arabic and how they were received. What came to mind for me was Amr Khaled’s Rafi Barakat, which was generally trashed in literary spheres; Eltoukhy also suggested that religious-themed literature was largely marginalized and that it was probably, generally speaking, not very good.
Dhaka is still a young festival, existing in an exceedingly difficult environment. Hopefully its relationship with Arabic can continue, and thrive, and lead to new connections.
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Steam is getting a UI overhaul soon, according to new Steamworks post
By Shaun Prescott 26 September 2016
A revamped home page and improved visibility is on the way.
A significant update to Steam's UI appears to be on the way, according to a leaked post by Valve. Originally posted in the closed, developers-only Steamworks group, the document outlines all forthcoming changes to the storefront, including a home page visual refresh and new discoverability sections, among other things.
Originally leaked on NeoGAF, I've verified with a member of the closed group that the document is legit. Chief among the changes is the home page refresh, which Valve writes "will be getting a visual refresh to use bigger game images in some places, add some new ways of surfacing games, and remove some visual clutter".
A new left column will be added, with a menu linking to several destinations including new releases, top sellers, recently updated, upcoming releases and specials. Meanwhile, a new section called "popular among friends" will do as the name implies: highlight titles recently played or purchased by people in your friends list. There will also be a new section on the home page dedicated to "top selling new releases".
Images via NeoGAF.
More interesting, is the promise of new "global customer preferences" which will allow users to permanently filter out categories on the home page they're not interested in. "This will let customers opt to exclude particular types of products, such as Early Access, Software, Videos, and VR from appearing on their Steam home page and on a couple other browse pages," Valve explains.
Whether you'll see a new release on the home page will also be more determined by your habits and preference. At the moment, a title gets 1 million impressions on the home page upon release, though they aren't targeted. Now, they will be.
"With the upcoming changes, newly released titles will appear in a few different ways on the 'New on Steam' page and in the 'New on Steam' Queue," the post explains. "The goal is to reach a more engaged group of customers, and drive more relevant traffic directly to your store page. This change should result in your title appearing to a smaller, but better targeted group of potential customers based on their preferences and tastes. New releases will continue to be recommended to specific users on the Steam Home page and can appear in popular lists if doing well." Visibility for game updates will be similarly refined.
The Steam Curators functionality will be updated significantly, allowing curators to mark whether a title is "recommended", "not recommended" or whether their post is "informational" rather than a judgement. Curator selections will now appear in the main, front page banner occasionally, and followed Curators will have a dedicated section on the home page, as well as its own landing page.
For the full rundown, here's the leaked document on NeoGAF. It's expected to roll out "in a few weeks", though Valve is welcoming feedback from developers.
Shaun Prescott
Shaun is PC Gamer’s Australian editor and news writer. He mostly plays platformers and RPGs, and keeps a close eye on anything of particular interest to antipodean audiences. He (rather obsessively) tracks the movements of the Doom modding community, too.
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Angels Believe and Receive
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Britain's leading angel expert Glennyce S. Eckersley and world-renowned intuitive life coach Gary Quinn have been inundated with requests from readers eager to know how to bring the magic of the angels into their own lives. In this, their delightful new book, Glennyce and Gary answer their readers' prayers, taking them on a celestial journey around seven stars.
Each star is linked to a special angel. Incredible true stories reveal the miracles that this angel has already worked in real life, while exercises, affirmations and meditations will help readers to experience the angel's special qualities for themselves. In addition to appealing to Glennyce and Gary's thousands of existing fans, Angels: Believe and Receive is sure to attract many more people who are looking to improve their lives and experience the power of the angels.
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Glennyce Eckersley has collected stories of angels and near-death experiences from all over the world and is well known for her knowledge of the subject, for the talks she gives around the country and her appearances on TV and radio. She lives in Manchester.
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Tips to help prepare yourself to speak frankly and openly with your daughter about it all.
By: Emma Waverman
Most of us would rather eat nails than talk to our girls about sex, but this aversion to “the talk” is jeopardizing important information our daughters need to hear.
The sex talk for today’s generation of teens is definitely not the sex talk of the past. Gone is the hush-hush embarrassed discussion of mechanics passed on from mother to daughter and father to son.
Today the talk should be a conversation, with diverse talking points along the way. The lofty goal of any parent is to take the conversation beyond the physical side of sexual intercourse and empower their kids to make good decisions about their bodies. This means teaching them to find pleasure in their sexuality, understand the importance of consent and navigate the modern sexual landscape.
But what should your kid know and when? We asked Cory Silverberg, a noted sex educator and author of “What Makes a Baby” and Marnie Goldenberg, a “sexplainer” on a crusade to raise sexually intelligent kids, if there is a timeline parents should follow to teach their kids about sex.
They both agreed it is important to have an open environment where kids feel safe to ask questions. It may be hard, but parents should answer questions without embarrassment and should never make kids — of any age — feel that their bodies are dirty or shameful. Goldenberg says parents should want to be the people who their kids come to with their questions, because that will give them a chance to impart their values about sex and relationships.
Start Early, Talk Often
Here’s what you should be letting your kids know and when. We started at the very beginning, because the odds are, like most parents in Canada, you’ve skipped a few steps along the way.
2-Year-Olds
Their bodies: Two-year-olds should know the names of all body parts, including penis, vagina and vulva. Why vulva? Goldenberg says that the vulva is what children see when they look at their own body. Parents can explain that the vagina is the internal part where babies comes out.
Bath time is the perfect time to go over these things, says Silverberg. When singing “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes,” add in everything. Try singing: “head, shoulders, knees and penis/vulva.”
Studies have shown that children who use the proper names for their body parts are less likely to be sexually exploited, says Goldenberg.
Three- to 5-Year-Olds
Making babies: This is the time when kids may start to notice pregnancies around them. Answer their questions directly and follow their lead. Tell them that, to make a baby, you need an egg and a sperm. The sperm and egg mix together and result in a baby. You can even add that daddy has the sperm and mommy has the egg, and they danced together and made you. They don’t need to know about the explicit act of intercourse at this age, but don’t be afraid to tell them, Goldenberg says. And you can share that the baby comes out of a woman’s body through the vagina or through a small incision. The doctor or midwife helps the baby come out.
Their bodies: The way parents act as role models is very important to young kids. How we talk and treat our own bodies teaches our kids how to feel about themselves. They should know body parts and their functions.
“Kids are curious,” Silverberg says. “Explain that the pee comes out of the urethra and the baby comes out of the vagina.” This is important in case they ever need to explain to a doctor what hurts, she says.
Six- to 8-Year-Old
Making babies: Six- to 8-year-olds might be curious about the mechanics of sexual intercourse. Sometimes parents fear that telling them will ruin sex (make it something to be afraid of) or take away their innocence, says Silverberg. But this is not true, especially if parents examine their own fears and approach the conversations in a matter-of-fact way.
If your kids aren’t curious or haven’t asked you any questions about sex, you don’t get a pass to ignore the topic altogether, Goldenberg says. Children this age talk in the schoolyard, and your kids may be getting the facts wrong from their friends. This is your chance to give the correct information in the context that you find appropriate and with the values you find important.
Their bodies: This age group should know their bodies are theirs alone, and that they can feel good. Ask your child, “What makes your body feel good? Does running, stretching or eating something delicious make your body feel good?” Reinforce that their body is theirs, and other people can’t touch them or give them hugs without consent.
Kids this age are exposed to a variety of media messages. Take advantage of sexual topics in TV commercials and movies by making them into teaching moments. Encourage kids to ask you questions about what they saw, whether it is a tampon commercial or a kissing scene.
Eight- to 10-Year-Olds
Making babies: They may have more technical questions about pregnancy and birth at this age, as well as questions about sexual relationships. Answer those questions openly and without judgment, because you are setting the stage for puberty, a time when they will become even more aware of sex. If you don’t know how to answer something, be honest and return with an answer at a later date.
Their bodies: This is the pre-eye-roll stage, says Goldenberg, so it’s the time to start talking about puberty — before it happens. Girls and boys should learn about menstruation.
Goldenberg explains it this way: “A period is something I get — most women do — when my body is not making a baby. It tells me that my body is working. It is water mixed with a little blood that my body doesn’t need anymore. The blood and water builds up in my uterus over a month as a little waterbed for a baby in case I get pregnant. It would be a cosy place for a baby to grow. But when it isn’t used, it comes out of my vagina. It doesn’t hurt and, though it looks bloody, I am not cut inside.”
Tweens and Beyond
Making babies: Now is the time to make sure your kids know about pregnancy prevention and how to stop sexually transmitted infections.
Their bodies: Conversations with your teen should empower them to be able to speak openly with their partners.
Kids should understand says Goldenberg. Ask them what they think consent means or what they think it should look like, says Goldenberg. Boys and girls should be thinking about what a “yes” looks like — not just what a “no” is like.
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The School District of Philadelphia’s competencies were developed through an internal task force, led by the Office of Leadership Development & Evaluation. The task force created an aligned vision for leadership in the School District of Philadelphia. The design of the competences assists in promoting role responsibilities and a career pathway that promotes strong leadership at each career milestone.
Below are the competencies which are the foundation of all leadership development provided by the Office of Teaching & Learning for the District’s teacher leaders.
Click here for a downloadable version of the teacher leader competencies.
INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP (IL): Uses deep master of curriculum, instruction, and assessment to ensure all students engage in learning that demonstrates high academic achievement and growth.
SERVES AS CONTENT-SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCE: Serves as the curricular, instructional, and assessment expert in specific content areas and provides teachers with robust content-specific support designed to improve teacher practice and achieve consistently strong academic outcomes for all students
CONDUCTS CLASSROOM VISITS, DIAGNOSES & COACHES: Uses release time to support teachers in improving their practice through frequent classroom visits, targeted feedback, and other coaching and co-planning support
SUPPORTS culture of HIGH EXPECTATIONS and data-driven instruction: Supports a culture of high expectations and data-informed instruction by using relevant data to identify and prioritize opportunities to improve curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional development
SUPPORTS IMPLEMENTATION OF PLANNING STRUCTURES: Supports teachers with understanding high-impact instructional practices, aligned to the PA Core Standards through the implementation of rigorous and relevant curriculum and daily, unit, and long-term plans in specific content areas
PERSONAL LEADERSHIP (PL): Demonstrates the growth mindset, self-awareness, adaptability, and resourcefulness to inspire and achieve vision and goals
APPLIES GROWTH MINDSET: Applies a growth mindset to personal growth and development by actively seeking feedback; takes responsibility for behavior, mistakes, and results and changes behavior/actions to become a more effective leader
CONSIDERS DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES: Seeks to understand the needs and motivations of leaders, teachers, students, and families; considers a diverse set of perspectives when making decisions
DEMONSTRATES INTEGRITY: Demonstrates integrity by modeling and teaching high expectations for self and others to achieve school-wide vision, goals, and values
TAKES INITIATIVE: Takes initiative, going above and beyond typical expectations and making necessary innovations to achieve the comprehensive school plan
ADAPTS PERSONAL LEADERSHIP: Understands and articulates the impact of their own strengths and weaknesses; adapts personal leadership style to motivate, influence, and persuade others
TALENT MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT (TMD): Recruits, selects, develops, and retains a highly effective team, fostering a culture of performance management and continuous learning that values and prioritizes staff and student learning
SUPPORTS TEACHER RETENTION: Contributes to the retention of talented teachers by serving as a mentor, motivator, coach, and subject content facilitator
SUPPORTS TEACHER DEVELOPMENT: Develops non-evaluative individualized coaching plans for teachers and supports them in setting and meeting student learning and teacher practice goals; responds to the diverse learning needs of teachers and identifies, promotes, and facilitates varied and differentiated professional development and support
SUPPORTS ACCOUNTABILITY: Provides constructive feedback on strategies to strengthen teacher practice and address student needs aligned to the comprehensive school plan
ENCOURAGES DATA-INFORMED DECISION MAKING: Creates a climate of trust and critical reflection for teachers to analyze, reflect, and synthesize relevant student data from their own and other classrooms to improve teaching and student learning
MAINTAINS GROWTH MINDSET: Supports the conditions for a school-wide staff culture that embraces a growth mindset and feedback by developing the capacity of the teachers to grow through observation, feedback, coaching, professional development, and/or collaboration
COMMUNITY & CULTURE (CC): Understands and builds relationships with students, families, and all stakeholders in their school community and establishes an environment that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusivity
SUPPORTS RIGOROUS, EQUITABLE EXPECTATIONS: Supports the implementation of rigorous and equitable academic and behavioral expectations and promotes instructional strategies that address issues of diversity and equity in the classroom
FACILITATES INTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS: Supports teachers to implement class structures that facilitate trust and positive relationship-building between teachers and students
COMMUNICATES EFFECTIVELY: Communicates in a compelling and adaptive manner to build the trust and buy-in of teachers and students while reinforcing an environment in which teachers and students from diverse backgrounds and perspectives can succeed
DEMONSTRATES CULTURAL PROFICIENCY: Sustains an environment in which students, families, and teachers from diverse backgrounds and perspectives can thrive; identifies and mitigates inequities within the school and implements systems that value and respect the diversity and culture of all students, families, and staff members
BUILDS COMMUNICATION CAPACITY: Models and teaches effective communication and collaboration skills with teachers, students, and families, focused on attainable, equitable outcomes for students of all backgrounds and circumstances
VISION & GOALS (VIS): Articulates and implements a short- and long-term vision and strategy to ensure student success
SUPPORTS ARTICULATION OF SCHOOL’S VISION: Works with school leadership to invests teachers, students, and families in the school’s instructional vision, mission, and values
SUPPORTS COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL PLAN IMPLEMENTATION: Leads department- and/or content-specific meetings to analyze classroom and school-based data, facilitate problem-solving, and maintain a unified vision for teacher practice aligned to the comprehensive school plan
DEMONSTRATES HIGH EXPECTATIONS: Demonstrates and models high expectations in all settings by setting goals that are responsive to classroom data and that challenge teachers, students, and self to excel
SUPPORTS INNOVATION: Creates an environment that encourages and assists teachers to design innovative plans for classroom initiatives that improve student outcomes and achieve the comprehensive school plan
ORGANIZATIONAL & OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT (OM): Manages the key resources and systems needed to ensure the effective management of school systems and operations
SUPPORT SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT: Coordinates school-based operational routines and procedures as needed; acts as representative for principal or other school leaders for various school functions as necessary
DEMONSTRATES FLEXIBILITY: Demonstrates flexibility when plans or situations change unexpectedly; advises on strategies to maximize resources and ensure effective management of classroom systems and operations
SUPPORTS EFFECTIVE PRIORITIZATION: Strengthens teacher focus on the critical details essential to keeping their classrooms running; advocates for sufficient time, preparation, and support for teachers to work individually and in teams to improve practice.
COMMUNICATES EFFECTIVELY: Uses clear and organized communication systems to regularly communicate with leaders, teachers, students, and families
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Midtown II Diner Site to Become High-End Restaurant
The location sold for $3.85 million in December.
By Fabiola Cineas· 1/20/2017, 2:55 p.m.
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Rittenhouse Realty Advisors this week announced the $3.85 million sale of the recently shuttered Midtown II restaurant location in Center City. The Midtown Village/Washington Square West spot, at 122-124 South 11th Street, is directly across the street from Jefferson University Hospital and had been the diner’s home since 1974.
According to Rittenhouse Realty Advisors, the new, undisclosed owner wants to “capture the business of the large workforce at the hospital.”. The property’s sought-after Center City zoning, which permits core commercial mixed-used spaces, attracted prospects from Washington, D.C., to New York City, allowing the team to seal the deal in a short period of time, a statement from the firm said. The sale was finalized in December.
In May 2016, Midtown II owner Gus Hionas told Billy Penn that he had been forced to sell the property after a news story about health-code violations at the diner caused business to drop nearly 40 percent. He claimed there was an assault on mom-and-pop businesses in the city, saying that establishments serving homemade meals in Philly would all vanish and places with 24-hour food service would become obsolete.
His prediction is a growing reality — the decline of lunch counters and diners in Center City is real. Earlier this month, Little Pete’s announced that it would close by the end of August, to be replaced by a Hyatt Centric hotel.
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PIPER DELIVERS WARRIORS TO FARMINGDALE STATE COLLEGE
Piper Aircraft Inc. recently delivered two new Piper Warrior aircraft to Farmingdale State College, Farmingdale, New York. In addition, the college which is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system plans to purchase a new Piper Arrow. The nearly $1 million purchase of the three aircraft will expand Farmingdale’s learning fleet to…
PIPER OFFERS ARCHER LX READY, SET, FLY TRAINING PROGRAM
Piper Aircraft Inc. is offering new Archer LX customers their own private pilot training in about three concentrated weeks at Vero Beach Municipal Airport. The Piper Ready, Set, Fly program helps new aircraft owners learn to fly safely and efficiently, and promotes growth in general aviation by encouraging people to become pilots. The Ready, Set,…
PIPER NAMES GLOBAL WINGS AS NEW AIRCRAFT DEALER IN CARIBBEAN & PARTS OF SOUTH AMERICA
Piper Aircraft Inc. named Global Wings LLC as its new aircraft dealer for the Caribbean and portions of South America, including Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Global Wings President Nick Schneider said, “We have already eagerly begun to sell Piper aircraft throughout the region. The airplanes built by Piper are very well suited for many business…
PIPER PLANS ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW PRIVATE PILOT TRAINING PROGRAM, CARIBBEAN DEALER AT SUN ‘N FUN
Piper Aircraft Inc. plans to display a number of aircraft from its single-engine and multi-engine line at the Sun ’n Fun International Fly-In & Expo in Lakeland, Fla. beginning March 29. The company will also use the iconic fun flying venue to provide details about its Ready, Set, Fly private pilot training program and announce…
PIPER APPOINTS NATIONAL AIRWAYS CORP. AS AUTHORIZED DEALER FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA
Piper Aircraft Inc. has appointed National Airways Corp. (NAC) as the company’s Authorized Dealer for Sub-Saharan Africa, effective immediately. NAC, through its wholly owned subsidiary 43 Air School, is the largest Piper fleet operator in Africa. “NAC’s proven expertise with the Piper product line, its Piper fleet experience and proven aviation success in Africa makes…
PIPER APPOINTS AUSTRALIAN SALES AGENT; EXHIBITS AIRCRAFT AT AVALON 2011
Piper Aircraft Inc. has named Piper Australia Aircraft Sales Pty Ltd, Melbourne, as the company’s new aircraft sales agent for the Commonwealth of Australia. Piper Australia Aircraft Sales is an associate company of Moorabbin Flying Services; with an all-Piper fleet, MFS is one of the best flying schools in Australia. Piper Aircraft made the announcement…
PIPER GROWS MARKET SHARE, BILLINGS, NEW AIRCRAFT DELIVERIES IN 2010
Piper Aircraft Inc. significantly increased its new aircraft market share, billings and deliveries during 2010, highlighted by the company’s performance in the pilot training sector. And for the first time in recent Piper history, international exports accounted for more than half of the company’s volume by deliveries and dollars. For the year 2010, Piper delivered…
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Piper Aircraft Inc. has appointed Cutter Piper Sales, Carlsbad, Calif., as Piper’s dealer for new aircraft sales in Southern California. Cutter Piper Sales is a division of Cutter Aviation headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz. The appointment is effective immediately. “Our experience with Cutter Aviation as our dealer in the southwestern United States has been superb,” said…
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Domtar buys adult diaper maker Indas for $563M
Aims to be a leading supplier of incontinence products in Europe.
November 20, 2013 by CANADIAN PRESS
Domtar
MONTREAL — Domtar is setting its sights on becoming one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of adult diapers after confirming industry speculation that it will acquire privately owned Laboratorios Indas for about $563 million.
The Montreal-based forest products company will pay $403 million, to acquire the European company’s equity. It will also assume debt that will bring the total value of the transaction to about $565 million.
“The acquisition of Indas advances our transformation into a leader in personal care, an attractive market segment that is an important growth engine for Domtar,” said president and CEO John Williams.
“With the addition of the new business, Domtar will become one of the leading adult incontinence products manufacturers in Europe, providing the critical mass upon which to build a pan-European business.”
Since entering the adult incontinence business in 2011 with the acquisition of Attends HealthCare, Domtar has added the European Attends business and US-based EAM Corp., which develops and supplies the core material used in feminine hygiene products, baby diapers and puppy pads.
Domtar has said it is on track to deliver $208.6 million (US$200 million) in pre-tax operating income or EBITDA by 2017 from the personal care assets it currently owns. However, the company is hoping acquisitions in the Americas and Europe will allow it to boost that contribution to between $313 million and $521 million (US$300 million to US$500 million).
Indas is Spain’s top diaper maker. Spanish buyout firms Portobello and Santander’s Vista Capital bought the company in 2007 for about 350 million euros.
Michael Fagan, senior vice-president of Domtar’s personal care division, said Indas’ line of products will be added to Domtar’s current portfolio.
In addition to incontinence products, Indas makes absorbent-related hygienic and medical products that are sold through pharmacies, hospitals and retail stores. The company, which operates a manufacturing facility in Toledo, Spain, has annual earnings of about 46 million euros ($65 million) on 190 million euros ($270 million) of annual sales.
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Catholic routs Northview behind Jackson's big night, senior lineman's return
Eric J. Wallace
Pensacola Catholic leaned on its star playmaker in Friday night’s rout of the Northview Chiefs. The return of an imposing offensive lineman has only made his job that much easier.
Junior running back Ja’Kobi Jackson turned seven touches into 200 total yards and three touchdowns as the Crusaders rolled 41-22 against the Chiefs on homecoming at Gorecki-Lebeau Stadium.
Jackson’s big night began on the first play from scrimmage as the Crusaders’ talented junior rumbled in for a 59-yard score after Catholic recovered a Northview onside kick. By the end of the quarter, Catholic led 21-0 and fulfilled their coaches’ plan coming into the game.
“We preached to them this week in the practices we had that it was real important to come out fast,” Catholic head coach Matt Adams said. “The offensive line did a great job to make some holes and the guys were running hard. Defensively, they came up with some big stops early.”
The win returned Catholic (4-4) to its winning ways after consecutive losses to American Heritage (Delray Beach) and Class 1A power Madison County.
Senior lineman Robbie Parker didn’t get to enjoy the fruits of the Crusaders’ early-season surge into playoff contention, which included a three-game win streak over higher classification schools.
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Parker suffered a knee injury on the first play of the Crusaders’ Green and Gold preseason scrimmage, an injury which he said came dangerously close to damaging his ACL and ending his high school career altogether.
The injury luckily turned out to only be a Grade 3 MCL tear, but still cost Parker the first six games of his final high school season.
The 6-foot-4, 310-pound lineman didn’t mope over his misfortune, however, and lent his veteran presence to underclassmen until he was able to return last week in a limited role against Madison County.
“What really helped me was staying in practices and helping out the young guys,” Parker said. “Not so much being a coach but being an older, varsity mentor as an upperclassman.”
“I feel like coming back against Madison County really helped me, especially with this game. You come back with your hardest opponent, I mean, what can you expect the rest of the season?”
Catholic’s offense managed 296 total yards in Parker’s first full-time return to action. Senior running back Seth Wilson also had two rushing touchdowns.
The Chiefs (4-3) battled down the stretch and, after being shut out in the first half, found greater offensive success playing through senior standout Seth Killam.
Killam did most of his damage at wide receiver, hauling in eight receptions for 129 yards and a touchdown. Sophomore Jayden Jackson had 14 carries for 119 yards, including a 66-yard touchdown run in the second half.
The Crusaders return to competition against Class 6A schools in the season’s final two games as Catholic plays at Booker T. Washington (0-7) and Pace (4-3).
Catholic is currently projected to make the state playoffs in Class 3A Region 1 according to the FHSAA power rankings. Crusader seniors like Parker are feeling more than motivated to make sure that postseason berth is clinched in the coming weeks.
“Nothing is promised so you have to go in thinking this might be your last game,” Parker said. “I really feel like we’re playoff contenders this year, so if I can get three or four more games that’s fantastic. It’s more film for colleges and time for me to represent my school.”
Eric J. Wallace can be reached at ejwallace@pnj.com or 850-525-5087.
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Global Retail Giant N Brown Group Partner With Interact to Drive Digital Internal Communications Strategy
Interact Ltd / Odyssey Interactive Ltd
MANCHESTER, England, June 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Leading Multichannel Retailer N Brown Group - Whose Brands Include JD Williams, Simply Be And Jacamo - is set to Integrate Cutting-Edge Intranet Software in Order to Improve Communication, Increase Engagement and Promote Agile Working Amongst its Employees.
Expanding global retail specialist N Brown will work in partnership with intranet experts Interact, to deliver a cutting-edge digital solution to its internal communications strategy this year. The initiative supports their strategy to become a digital-first organisation.
"We now see over 60% of demand coming from online, as the market continues to shift towards a technology-dominated arena. As part of our future growth strategy and transformation programme, we are investing heavily in our colleagues and systems to ensure we rise to that challenge, placing a digital-first mind-set at the forefront of our mission", explains People Director, Caroline Massingham.
"With over 2,500 employees spanning over different brands, locations and roles, ensuring our employees remain engaged with the N Brown vision to be the universally loved experts in 'fashion that fits' is a considerable challenge. When investing in the overhaul of our intranet we were therefore looking for a partner who not only demonstrated cutting-edge technological solutions, but would also help support our communications and engagement strategy and facilitate agile working throughout the Group.
"After an extensive tender process, Interact were the clear front runners."
The new N Brown Group Intranet is set to launch later this year, combining a fresh interface with future-proofed technology, social tools and collaborative apps to integrate with existing business processes. The Interact solution will also boast a comprehensive search facility, enabling users to source colleagues and information easily and efficiently through the use of keywords and tagging. A cloud-based platform, it will be accessible for all users regardless of location or platform.
"The existing intranet system utilised by the N Brown Group was failing to match its vision for a "digital first" approach to driving business forward," said Nigel Danson, Interact CEO and Founder.
"The governing objective was to roll out a fresh solution that supports the communications and engagement strategy, and would also facilitate agile working, enabling users across the range of different brands, roles and locations to collaborate and identify with the brand mission and values. Our expertise in this field has enabled us to rise to the challenge. In particular, our ability to integrate social tools will enable users to like, share or comment on content, while an intelligent search functionality ensures users are able to not only source information but also colleagues more effectively. By breaking down previous barriers to communication, we can facilitate a new approach to employee engagement for the Group."
Interact is the leading provider of intelligent intranet software for retail organisations globally, serving large retailers such as ASOS, AO.com, Waterstones, James Perse and Sheetz.
Interact - the software
Interact is intelligent intranet software. The flexible and scalable solution has more than 1,000,000 users and has revolutionized the way companies communicate, collaborate, share knowledge, and streamline internal processes. Interact promotes a culture of collaboration and idea sharing by using corporate social networking and micro blogs. Non-technical users can quickly and easily update the intranet.
Interact - the company
Founded in 1996 with headquarters in the UK, Interact operates globally and is one of the fastest growing intranet software companies. Interact has built a strong reputation of delivering successful and collaborative intranet solutions to leading companies such as Stagecoach, ASOS, Cable & Wireless, NSPCC and Make-a-wish Foundation.
For further information, visit: http://www.interact-intranet.com
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Pompey Mourn Ray Hiron
Former Blues striker passes away
by Portsmouth FC
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Pompey are mourning the death of Ray Hiron, who has passed away at the age of 76.
The Gosport-born centre-forward struck 117 goals in 364 appearances during his 11 years on the south coast.
A Hall of Fame inductee, he was spotted playing for Fareham Town and also worked in the city’s dockyard
He hitched a lift on a friend’s motorbike in 1964 to pen professional terms at Fratton Park during his lunch break.
With just two reserve outings behind him, Hiron was handed his senior debut in a 1-1 Division Two draw at Bury.
The towering target-man was a constant nuisance to opposition defences and once hit four goals in a 5-2 victory over Norwich at Fratton Park.
He brought up a century of league goals for the Blues by diving full length to head home Ken Foggo’s cross against Nottingham Forest.
Hiron was awarded a testimonial against Southampton in 1975, fittingly scoring both goals in a 2-1 win over Pompey’s south coast rivals.
He left to sign for Reading in the summer of 1975, spending three years with the Royals and later working at the Mountbatten Centre.
The thoughts of everyone at Portsmouth Football Club are with Ray’s family and friends at this sad time.
A hero for an entire generation of #Pompey fans.
RIP Ray Hiron 💙 pic.twitter.com/93ABuZlfoQ
— Portsmouth FC (@Pompey) April 6, 2020
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1,000 flights canceled, snow record set in Midwest
By Brett Cihon
CHICAGO -- A March storm, its eyes set on Washington, D.C., broke a snowfall record in Chicago and prompted the cancellation of more than 1,000 flights for Wednesday.
The system was expected to dump up at least 4 inches in Pittsburgh beginning Tuesday evening as it moved toward the District of Columbia and Baltimore, which braced for potentially significant accumulations, according to the National Weather Service.
Chicago's O'Hare International Airport had 6 inches of snow by Tuesday afternoon, besting a 1999 record for the date by 2.2 inches. It was the first 6-inch snowfall in the Windy City since the Groundhog Day blizzard of 2011, the National Weather Service said.
United Airlines said about 650 flights system-wide for Wednesday were canceled, most to and from Dulles International Airport near Washington.
"They will try to get as many aircraft out of Dulles today (Tuesday) as possible so they are not sitting in a snow storm," United spokeswoman Megan McCarthy told CNN. "This helps speed up the resumption of flights after the storm is passed."
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Flic Everett appointed editor of Candis magazine
by David Prior
Flic Everett has been appointed editor of Candis, the Wirral-based national women's monthly.
Everett is a former columnist on the Manchester Evening News who has also worked as a feature writer on The Mirror, Real, Company, Scarlet and other womens’ titles. She has also freelanced for The Guardian, The Sun and The Daily Mail, among others.
New Candis editor Flic Everett
She's previously been acting features editor and assistant editor on Candis, which recorded an average monthly circulation of 152,924 between January and June 2014.
Everett was editorial director at travel site Road, Rail & Sea up until last summer, but she is no longer involved.
She said: "I'm delighted to be appointed as the editor of Candis - it's a great magazine with a very loyal readership, and I'm hugely looking forward to my new role."
As well as her journalism career, Everett also ran a clothes shop in Manchester called Rags to Bitches and she has written a number of books including How to be a Sex Goddess and Sex Tips For Girls.
Her latest, Help! I'm a Granny, is released next week.
Previous editor, Debbie Attewell, has been promoted to editorial director of Newhall Publishing Ltd and will oversee all content publishing titles including Candis.
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1991 American Eagle 1 oz Silver Coin PCGS MS69
1+ $54.99 $55.56 $57.28
American Eagle 1 oz Silver Coins are the single most popular bullion coins in the world. The American Eagles highest single-year mintage came in 2015 when a total of 47 million coins were sold, this following the 2014 date mark selling more than 44 million coins. The American Eagle remains the leading bullion coin in the world and is regularly available with certified specimens. Provident Metals now offers 1991 American Eagle 1 oz Silver Coins to you for purchase online in near-perfect condition.
Arrives in a protective plastic slab courtesy of the PCGS!
6th year of release for the American Eagle 1 oz Silver Coin!
Limited number of certified near-perfect silver coins available!
Contains 1 Troy oz of .999 pure silver.
Issued a face value of $1 (USD) by the government of the United States.
Bears a Grade of Mint State 69 from the Professional Coin Grading Service.
Walking Liberty on the obverse.
Heraldic eagle of the United States on the reverse.
When you purchase a 1991 American Eagle 1 oz Silver Coin through this product listing, Provident Metals has the coins available with a near-perfect certification from the PCGS. Coins in Mint State 69 condition showcase full, original mint luster with no more than two minor detracting flaws. Those flaws are limited in nature to minuscule contact marks or hairlines that are located outside of the primary focal points of the coin.
Walking Liberty is featured on the obverse of 1991 American Eagle 1 oz Silver Coins. This image was created in 1916 by Adolph A. Weinman and depicts Liberty in left-profile relief as she walks toward the sun on the horizon. Her right hand is reaching out toward the sun on the horizon as her left hand carries the branches of oak and laurel while the American flag is draped over her shoulders.
The heraldic eagle of the United States is shown on the reverse face of 1991 American Eagle Silver Coins. This iconic emblem was first introduced in 1792 and has been modified for countless American coins over the past 225-plus years. The design featured here was modified in 1986 by John Mercanti, with its most notable change being the inclusion of a triangular cluster of 13 stars above the eagles head.
The American Eagle Silver Coin has varying mintages with each release date. The 1991 coin sold 7.191 million coins, the high-water mark for the decade of the 1990s. This was a nearly 2-million-coin jump from the 1990 release and was the highest mintage mark for most of the decade until the 1999 coin sold 7.4 million coins.
Provident Metals customer service is available to assist you on the phone at 800-313-3315. We are also available on the web through our live chat and email address features.
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Investor/Financial Comms Campaign of the Year 2008
Recognizing work that is primarily targeted at investors/stakeholders or other financial audiences.
Makovsky & Company and New York Life Investment Management: Launch of a New Asset Class: Introducing 130/30s
New York Life Investment Management's (NYLIM) Equity Investors Group, a quantitative asset management company that is one of many investment boutiques within NYLIM, was a relative newcomer to the quantitative arena when it decided to launch its 130/30 strategy. A 130/30 equity strategy is one that is benchmarked to an equity index and invests 130% of its assets in long positions and 30% in short ones. The earnings from the short sales are used for the extra 30% in the long ones.
An asset class that spiked in popularity in 2007, 130/30 products were abundant last year and NYLIM's campaign had much to accomplish: establish its credibility and thought-leadership in a crowded space, demonstrate the 130/30 leadership of its retail distribution arm, MainStay Investments, and achieve quality media coverage among a small cadre of institutional asset management and other relevant media outlets. Moreover, it had to do so against organizations with greater assets in the 130/30 arena.
NYLIM started by conducting meetings with critical media, forging relationships with key influencers in preparation for the big 130/30 launch. It also authored a white paper that explained how the 130/30 fund worked and put forth a message that could appeal to both retail distributors and institutional investors.
By the time of the launch, NYLIM was able to leverage its relationship with the media for exclusive embargoed stories targeting its two audiences. It also maximized its white paper as an educational tool and media-coverage generator.
One judge praised the specificity of the campaign, calling it "excellent." Another said it was a "well-crafted entry; [a] very traditional campaign, but [the] entry sold us on why that was the right strategy. Solid work in a very cluttered space."
In the end, the launch of NYLIM's 130/30 products gained traction despite its comparatively low assets. By September 30, NYLIM had amassed more than $107 million in assets under 130/30 management, with over $200 million more in commitment by the time the organization compiled its PRWeek Awards entry.
Media-hit results also surpassed the niche investment outlets with coverage in titles like The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and The International Herald Tribune, with their message transmitted intact to readers and investors. Finally, this PR campaign is credited with achieving the ultimate goal - helping to generate sales.
Weber Shandwick and AECOM Technology Corp.: AECOM Wows Wall Street: World's Largest Design Firm Unleashes a Communications Machine to Rally the Financial Community and Employees
Despite planning one of the largest IPOs on the NYSE for 2007, AECOM and its communications partner Weber Shandwick faced a hurdle - the engineering giant lacked name recognition on Wall Street. Also, as an employee-owned company, it had to ensure that going public wouldn't affect employee willingness to own shares. Stationed in "war rooms" in both its New York and LA offices, AECOM, with WS, created an extensive communications plan that would overcome these challenges. Both companies and their advisors created "Brainshark," interactive presentations for staff that explained their role in a newly public AECOM. An employee Q&A process was also introduced and the CEO got involved with informational letters and a video. Executives were also prepped with their own sessions to establish messaging and to prepare for an AECOM road show. The effort also employed global webcasts, a live event at the NYSE, and media outreach. AECOM achieved high-profile business coverage, including The Wall Street Journal. It also opened at the top of its range with a $20 IPO.
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RAHC - Remote Area Health Corps
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Based in Toowoomba, Queensland, 58 year-old General Practitioner Dr Tony Ferris readily agreed to undertake a RAHC placement in Lajamanu, a community 550 kilometres south west of Katherine.
The medical facilities available, although slowly improving, did not provide the standard or variety of facilities Dr Ferris was used to in Toowoomba, but he relished the challenges this presented.
“I was often using and relying on my own clinical skills in this environment, a lot more than I normally would in my general practice,” Dr Ferris said.
Dr Ferris had had a desire to return to the Northern Territory since working there a few years earlier. However like many health professionals, he couldn’t easily leave behind his family commitments and a busy general practice, even for a short time.
“Trying to organise oneself to actually get out there is the first barrier,” he said.
But Dr Ferris believes contributing to the improved health and wellbeing of Indigenous children, young people and families as well as improving access to services and health outcomes for Indigenous Australians makes the journey and organisation worthwhile.
“The most rewarding part of my placement with RAHC was to be directly involved in the process of ‘closing the gap’,” Dr Ferris said. “I loved the remoteness and I have always had an interest in remote Aboriginal health and Indigenous culture. I really wanted the opportunity to give something back to this community”.
In comparison to his previous healthcare experiences in the Northern Territory, Dr Ferris believes the work offered by RAHC is much more of a primary healthcare service.
“Working with other healthcare workers in the NT was generally a satisfying experience, particularly the district medical officers who were very helpful and positive towards the work we were doing”.
Tony believes providing support to the hard-working permanent health workforce in remote Northern Territory communities through the RAHC initiative will ultimately benefit Indigenous communities.
“From a psychological point of view, many women in the community feel like they’re being supported and are not as forgotten out there as they have previously felt. The children too will benefit from health checks and the subsequent follow up of the overall initiative,” he said.
His advice for any other doctors thinking of going to the Northern Territory is simple: “Get out there”.
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Here’s Why This Airline Was Named “The Best in the World” for over Two Decades
Brooke NelsonUpdated: Jan. 14, 2020
You should be booking flights on this carrier WAY more often.
IM_photo/shutterstockAirline carriers have been getting a bad rap lately. But Singapore Airlines might just change your mind about that.
For 22 years, this carrier has been named the best international airline in the world by Travel+Leisure’s World’s Best Awards. Readers ranked the airlines based on categories such as cabin comfort, service, food, customer service, and value. (Singapore has the best airport in the world, too!) It’s the only company to have held the No. 1 spot in any World’s Best category for as long as the competition has been in existence. And it’s easy to see why!
Book a Premium Economy seat, and you’ll forget you’re not riding the high life (pun intended) in first class. At 19.5 inches wide, the seats allow for some extra-comfy shoulder room, and built-in footrests—coupled with an eight-inch recliner—make you feel you’re practically at home. (Here’s how to sleep well on an airplane.) And let’s not forget the two USB ports, adjustable reading lamps, priority treatment from check-in to boarding, and neat amenities such as a cocktail table, noise-cancelling headphones, and champagne. Since it’s all included in the price, you will essentially get a first class treatment while traveling in coach.
We’ve heard you – the new Singapore Airlines Premium Economy Class will be available for KrisFlyer redemption and upgrade. Tag & share this news with your frequent flyer friends – it’s A Great New Way To Fly with #SIAPremiumEconomy! #FlySQ #SingaporeAir
A post shared by Singapore Airlines (@singaporeair) on May 18, 2016 at 3:30am PDT
Already amazed? We’re just getting started. If you upgrade to first class, prepare for heaven on earth. The 35-inch-wide leather seats can transform into flat beds, and the new Boeing 777-300ER flights include mood lighting and curved privacy partitions, to boot.
Forget about those tasteless, mushy meals you have to choke down on other flights. “Singapore Airlines uses a pressurized tasting room to ensure their meals taste just as good at an elevation of 30,000 feet as they would on the ground, in spite of the way cabin pressure changes can affect how you perceive taste,” Travel+Leisure writes.
An international panel of eight renowned chefs preps in-flight meals that include steak, caviar, and two different champagnes for first and business class passengers. You’ll even find regional favorites on the menu, such as Randy’s Donuts in Los Angeles and Blue Bell Ice Cream in Houston. Frozen meals, who?
Authentic, new dishes – such as the Teochew Cuisine @flyrilakkuma had – is just one of the lengths we go to, to give you a delicate dining experience at 35,000ft. #FlySQ #SingaporeAir #SQFoodie
A post shared by Singapore Airlines (@singaporeair) on Jun 28, 2017 at 2:14am PDT
Plus, there’s so much to look forward to in the future. Singapore Airline’s recent upgrade allows business class passengers both a cradling and a lounging position. And it’s among the first to fly the world’s biggest passenger planes, which include amenities such as onboard showers and even a lounge. Book us a ticket, stat!
If you’re flying economy with a different airline, don’t worry: Here’s how to get some serious upgrades.
Originally Published: July 20, 2017
What It’s Like Being One of the Few Black Pilots in the World
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Prison Architect Adds Women's Jails
Joe Donnelly
19th December 2015 / 10:00PM
Prison Architect [official site] emerged from its long stint in Early Access earlier this year and recently clinched the Best Management Game accolade in RPS’s Advent Calendar 2015. Now it has, finally, added female prisons. Luckily, there’s more to it than simple sprite swapping, as Introversion’s Chris Delay and Mark Morris detail in the accompanying video featured below.
“We didn’t want to just swap the graphics, we wanted to do more,” explains designer Delay. “The criticism that’s often leveled is that women are kind of one dimensional,” adds producer Morris. “Or, worse than that, that they’re like an idealised male view of what a woman should be in a game rather than just characters. Simply changing the sprite back does not make a woman’s prison. We’ve had many conversations over the years about how we might sensitively do this.”
In essence, Morris and Delay want this update to have meaning – not just against external discourse but to the game itself. Female prisoners have different needs compared to their male counterparts, for example, and their needs trees function in a slightly different manner. For female inmates, keeping a watchful eye on both Family and Hygiene needs is more important, and women in the game don’t fight as effectively against guards of the opposite sex.
As is the case in real life, some female prisoners have young babies and are entitled to look after them within the prison, thus new facilities by way of Mother and Baby Units have been introduced. Likewise, Family Cells are new, which are set apart from regular rooms and are equipped with cots and integrated showers.
Similarly, Nurseries serve to house a number of mothers at once where they’ll live and eat with their wee ones. This directly affects the game’s underlying systems, as, logistically, the Nursery now becomes a direct supply and demand point for the Kitchen. This also means that mums living in these quarters will live an almost separate existence to the rest of the prison population, thus I’m intrigued to see how this affects their relationships with both one another and everyone else.
Prison Architect’s Steam users will be updated automatically while non-Steamers can grab Update 2 here. Full update details can be found this-a-way, which also include alterations to the game’s modding API, as well as a few minor bug fixes.
Tagged with Introversion Software, Prison Architect.
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Steelers-Ravens game moved to Tuesday night
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According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the Steelers-Ravens game scheduled for Sunday at 1:15 p.m. has been moved to Tuesday at 8 p.m. on NBC.
This is the second postponement for the Steelers-Ravens game, as the game was originally scheduled for last night, but a COVID-19 outbreak within the Ravens' organization has caused the league to delay the game.
It was reported last night that Lamar Jackson tested positive for COVID-19. Jackson is the eighth Ravens' player in the last week to test positive for the virus. Prior to Jackson testing positive, Baltimore placed eight players on the reserve/COVID-19 list since Monday -- running back Mark Ingram, running back J.K. Dobbins, nose tackle Brandon Williams (close contact), outside linebacker Pernell McPhee, defensive end Calais Campbell, offensive lineman Matt Skura, offensive lineman Patrick Mekari and defensive end Jihad Ward.
The Ravens added Jackson to the reserve/COVID-19 list today, along with fullback Patrick Ricard, defensive end Justin Madubukie and long snapper Morgan Cox. Bringing the Ravens' total to 12 players on the reserve COVID-19 list since Monday.
The league announced that the Ravens-Cowboys originally scheduled for Dec. 3 on Thursday night has been moved to Monday, Dec. 7 at 5 p.m. on Fox. With the Steelers-Ravens game moved to Tuesday, the Steelers will have four days to prepare for the Washington Football Team, who will have nine days to prepare for the Steelers after playing yesterday afternoon against the Dallas Cowboys. It will be interesting to see whether the league keeps the Steelers-Washington game at it's scheduled time, which is Sunday, Dec. 6. at 1 p.m.
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Home World News Rest of the World News WHO says UK variant of COVID-19 has spread to 50 nations, South Africa's in 20
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the novel coronavirus mutation first discovered in the UK has now spread to at least 50 countries. While the South African variant has now spread to at least 20 territories. Further, as some nations have even begun COVID-19 vaccination drives, United Nations (UN) health agency noted that a third new coronavirus "variant of concern", that is found in Japan, might also affect the immune response and requires more research on its behaviour. The WHO said that more the SARS-CoV-2 spreads across the world, the more it will change. SARS-CoV-2 is a virus that causes COVID-19.
"The more the SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads, the more opportunities it has to change. High levels of transmission mean that we should expect more variants to emerge," said the WHO.
More than 1,750 experts from 124 countries - convened by WHO - discussed critical knowledge gaps and research priorities for emerging variants of the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes #COVID19
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— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) January 13, 2021
In a statement on January 13, following the day-long meet with 1,750 experts from 124 countries to exchange information on the COVID-19 pandemic, UN agency noted that it is normal for viruses to mutate. However, of all the significant variants reported by several nations till now, only some are associated with increases in transmissibility but not disease severity. WHO said that the research is currently underway to determine if the virus mutations have an impact on public health tools and measures.
“So far an astounding 350 000 sequences have been publicly shared, but most come from just a handful of countries. Improving the geographic coverage of sequencing is critical for the world to have eyes and ears on changes to the virus,” said Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO Technical Lead on COVID-19.
Read - France Detects Two Clusters Of UK Coronavirus Variant, Borders With UK To Remain Shut
Read - USA Variant Of Covid-19 Found, New Strain More Transmissible Warns White House Task Force
'Escape mutant' could decrease vaccine efficacy
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have now identified ‘escape mutant’ that might have the ability to decrease the efficiency of vaccines. The mutation named E484K has been reportedly found in the variant of the novel coronavirus that was first spotted in South Africa nearly two months ago but has now spread to at least 12 more countries. As per the CNN report, Penny Moore, associate professor at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa called the mutation ‘alarming’.
"We fear this mutation might have an impact, and what we don't know is the extent of the impact," she said.
Read - 'Vaccine Less Effective': WHO Chief Scientist Raises Concern Over South African Variant
Read - Pfizer Study Suggests Vaccine Works Against Virus Variant
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The Oil and Gas Industry: Potential Investment Rewards and Risks
The importance of paying attention to investment potential without losing sight of risks is currently epitomized by the oil and gas industry. The need for investors to scrutinize both risks and rewards is always a delicate balancing act — this is reflected in traditional financial tools such as risk-reward ratios and cost-benefit analyses. But the gyrations of energy-related commodities have caught even some industry experts by surprise.
For example, a barrel of oil currently trades for about $40 per barrel — down 50 percent from 2014. The short explanation for this downward trend is provided by a combination of sluggish economies (in Europe, Asia and elsewhere) and increased production from new (and cheaper) extraction methods such as fracking. A longer explanation will include mention of unpredictable factors in a complex industry along with erratic behavior in commodities markets due to speculation and investor psychology.
Declining prices for oil and gas can have both positive and negative consequences. While about 35,000 workers in the American energy industry were laid off in a recent six-month period, the tourism and agriculture industries reaped the positive benefits of declining energy prices. Individual consumers who commute to work on a daily basis are certainly cheering for the continuation of low gas prices.
What will happen next? Some investment banks such as Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch (now owned by Bank of America) suggest that the industry has its worst days behind it. While there will rarely be an easy solution to the occasional chaos in financial and energy markets, Research Optimus can help investors do a better job of monitoring and understanding what is going on in the oil and gas industry as well as in other industries. It can show you how to assess the investment opportunities in comparison to the potential risks.
What Is the Long-Term Perspective for Oil Producers?
Any investment has a “cycle” of ups and downs. This is why one common-sense investing theory is to “Buy low and sell high.” While there can be short-term cycles that reflect price fluctuations over days and weeks, long-term investors such as Warren Buffett largely ignore short-term fluctuations in favor of the long-term investment potential for both commodities and companies.
Until new technology replaces the underlying need for oil and gas, large oil and gas producers have a viable future. Read our previous blog on challenges of energy industry here: “Oil and Gas: Information and Communications Challenges.” One banking analyst (Bank of America Merrill Lynch) stated, “With global demand estimates moving higher on the margin, we maintain our view that the market is running out of reasons to push oil lower.”
However, even in a moderately bullish scenario for the oil and gas industry, some producers and distributors will fare better than others. There are already some energy companies suffering from a cash shortage due to declining oil prices — hence the industry layoffs noted above. Taking a long-term view of the industry is a prudent approach for all investors. For example, Research Optimus can help investors and investment professionals “crunch the numbers” needed to analyze which companies have current cash-flow risks.
Oil and Gas Investments in a Portfolio
Portfolio management is an ongoing challenge for both experienced and novice investors. Oil and gas investments have provided an “edge” in many portfolios during the past three decades because of diversification opportunities, tax advantages and profit potential.
The strategy of diversifying an investment portfolio usually includes a goal of having investments that will go up while others are going down. Historically speaking, oil and gas stocks are often “counter-cyclical” to many other non-energy stocks. Having a sound group of energy stocks will generally (in a long-term cycle) balance a portfolio and act as a “buffer” against slow economic growth that can drive non-energy stocks downward in market value.
Tax benefits — particularly in the United States — can act as a meaningful “price support” mechanism for oil and gas investments. Even before actual oil and gas production is realized, exploration and production companies receive substantial tax breaks that are typically higher for the energy industry than any other industry. Expenses such as tangible and intangible drilling costs and lease costs can be deducted from operating revenues to minimize taxes owed.
The profit potential of oil and gas drilling can be substantial when oil reserves are found. In addition to producing revenues for many years to come, the RoI (return on investment) is frequently five to ten times the amount of the initial investment. This profit margin is hard to replicate in most other industries.
The External Environment for Oil and Gas — Natural, Political and Economic Risks
Reducing all risks to zero is virtually impossible for any investment — the most prudent goal is to understand, manage and control risks. Some risks such as the following will be largely beyond the oil and gas investor’s control:
Drilling success is never assured — Failure to discover an oil or gas reserve can result in a 100 percent loss of the drilling company’s investment. Smaller firms will particularly be at more risk due to limited financial reserves that can absorb such losses.
Political conflicts can impact everything — Political instability in areas such as Iraq or Nigeria is an obvious example. But even in stable areas such as Canada and the United States, governments can change the legal “rules” for oil and gas production.
Drilling success is not the same as economic success — Even when drilling ventures discover oil or gas reserves, declining global market prices can make the overall result unprofitable in the near term.
Fraud and scams are not uncommon — Complicated tax and accounting regulations in the oil and gas industry make it more feasible for fraudulent-minded “cheaters” to hide true costs and results. Due diligence is essential at every step.
Is there a solution for understanding and managing these predominantly “uncontrollable” risks? Analyses provided by Research Optimus represent one of best possible ways to perform your investment “due diligence” ahead of time. We have more than a decade of experience in reducing risks through our proprietary research methods. Research Optimus can help investors thoroughly evaluate individual oil and gas companies as well as the global energy markets.
A Few Final Words from Research Optimus
Investing in the oil and gas industry is traditionally subject to “on the one hand and on the other hand” considerations — perhaps even more so in the current atmosphere of declining energy prices. For example, on the one hand, oil and gas industry investors can benefit from the triple benefits of portfolio diversification, tax breaks and high potential profit margins. On the other hand, energy investors must be cognizant of natural, political and economic risks noted in the preceding paragraph.
What should you do? If you agree with the prevailing long-term wisdom that oil will always be needed, prudent investing can produce profitable opportunities even in the face of risks. One sound solution is to find an experienced investment research partner — Research Optimus can help you optimize your long-term investment strategy.
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$78 Million for Pension Bond Refinancing
In 2002, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors refinanced a pension bond to get a lower interest rate and lower short-term payments, but the deal will cost taxpayers $77.6 million.
The Fresno Bee reported:
“The pension expenses are for county workers whose costs are covered partly by state and federal dollars – such as social service department workers who handle public assistance programs. When the county refinanced its pension bonds in 2002, the 10 extra years of payments meant the ultimate expense would exceed the cost of the earlier bond by $77.6 million. The county expected that about half of that would be covered by state and federal agencies.”
Now, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has asked the county to pay to cover the additional costs that resulted from the refinancing, and the state has indicated it is in the process of billing the county, too. Together, the state and federal governments are expected to ask the county for approximately $37.7 million for the pension bond refinance costs.
The county is challenging the federal and state actions. (Source: The Fresno Bee, March 13.)
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Sergio Fiorentino Edition Vol.3
barcode: 4713106280158 | 9CD | T.T. 11h 13' 02'' | 36 pages booklet | ℗ & © 2020
CD1 | 74:02
Johann Sebastian Bach / Ferruccio Busoni / Sergio Fiorentino
Prelude and Fugue for organ in D major, BWV 532
Fantasie in C major, Op.17 (1836/38)
Charles Gounod / Franz Liszt
Paraphrase - Valse de l’opéra Faust, S.407 (1861)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Sergio Fiorentino
Walzer in A-flat major (Op.40/8)
Richard Strauss / Otto Singer II / Sergio Fiorentino
Concert Paraphrase on “Der Rosenkavalier” Waltz
Johann Strauss II / Carl Tausig
Paraphrase on “Man lebt nur einmal!” Walzer, Op.167 (Valse-Caprice No.2)
recorded: live | The Breakers, Newport, RI | 8 July 1996
Johann Strauss II / Leopold Godowsky
Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes by “Die Fledermaus” (1907)
encore/bis:
Waltz No.1 in E-flat major, Op.18 “Grande valse brillante”
Piano Quintet in F minor, CFF 121 (1879)
Sergiu Schwartz, 1st violin | Geoff Nuttall, 2nd violin
Barry Shiffman, viola | Suren Bagratuni, cello
recorded: live | The Breakers, Newport, RI | 13 July 1996
Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat major, Op.16 (1796)
Jane Murray, oboe | Charles Stier, clarinet
Susan Wood, bassoon | Eric Ruske, horn
recorded: live | Wakehurst Tent, Newport, RI | 12 July 1997
Theme with Variations in A minor (1863/64)
Valse-Caprice in D major, Op.4 (1868)
recorded: live | Ochre Court, Newport, RI | 10 July 1996
16 Waltzes, Op.39 (solo piano version, 1865)
recorded: live | The Elms, Newport, RI | 16 July 1997
6 Bagatelles Op.126 (1824)
Piano Sonata No.26 in E-flat major, Op.81a “Les Adieux” (1809/10)
recorded: live | Marble House, Newport, RI | 16 July 1997
4 Preludes, from Op.28:
- No.15 in D-flat major (Sostenuto)
- No.16 in B-flat minor (Presto con fuoco)
- No.17 in A-flat major (Allegretto)
- No.23 in F major (Moderato)
3 Waltzes:
- No. 1 in E-flat major, Op.18 “Grande valse brillante” (Vivo)
- No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Op.64/2 (Tempo giusto)
- No. 2 in A-flat major, Op.34/1 “Valse brillante” (Vivace)
2 Nocturnes:
- No. 8 in D-flat major, Op.27/2 (Lento sostenuto)
- No. 5 in F-sharp major, Op.15/2 (Larghetto)
4 Etudes, from Op.10:
- No. 4 in C-sharp minor (Presto)
- No. 6 in E-flat minor (Andante)
- No. 8 in F major (Allegro)
- No.10 in A-flat major (Vivace assai)
4 Mazurkas:
- No.32 in C-sharp minor, Op.50/3 (Moderato)
- No. 5 in B-flat major, Op.7/1 (Vivace)
- No.25 in B minor, Op.33/4 (Mesto)
- No.23 in D major, Op.33/2 (Vivace)
Polonaise No.1 in C-sharp minor, Op.26/1 (Allegro appassionato)
Ballade No.3 in A-flat major, Op.47 (Allegretto)
encores/bis:
Two Waltzes:
- No. 5 in A-flat major, Op.42 “Grande valse” (Vivace)
- No. 6 in D-flat major, Op.64/1 “Minute Waltz” (Molto vivace)
Johann Sebastian Bach / Ferruccio Busoni
Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major, BWV 552 “St. Anne”
Piano Sonata No.21 in B-flat major, D.960, Op.posth.
Moment musical No.3 in F-minor, D.780, Op.94/3
Piano Sonata No.13 in A major, D.664, Op.posth.120
Franz Schubert / Franz Liszt
Der Müller und der Bach (“Die Schöne Müllerin”, D.795 No.19)
Frühlingsglaube (D.686)
3 Études de concert, S.144
Hungarian Rhapsody No.12 in C-sharp minor, S.244/XII
4 Impromptus, D.899, Op.90
Piano Sonata No.2 in G-sharp minor, Op.19 “Sonata-Fantasy”
Waltz No.7 in C-sharp minor, Op.64/2
Alice Tully Hall, New York | 6 April 1997
Piano Sonata No.2 in G-sharp minor, Op.19 “Sonata-Fantasy” (1892/97)
Piano Sonata No.2 in B-flat minor, Op.36 (2nd version, 1931)
Waltz No.2 in A-flat major, Op.34/1 “Valse brillante”
Waltz No.6 in D-flat major, Op.64/1 “Minute Waltz”
Song Without Words in C major, Op.67/4 “Spinning Song”
Etude de Virtuosité in F major, Op.72 No.6
recorded: live | Alice Tully Hall, New York | 6 April 1997
Alice Tully Hall, New York | 11 March 1998
Piano Sonata No.31 in A-flat major, Op.110
Fantasie in C major, Op.17
Etude No.4 in C-sharp minor, Op.10/4
Romanze in F-sharp minor, Op.28 No.2
Étincelles, Op.36 No.6 (from: 8 Morceaux caractéristiques)
Seguidillas, Op.232 No.5 (from: Cantos de España)
Sergei Rachmaninoff / Sergio Fiorentino
Vocalise, Op.34 No.14 (transcription 1962)
recorded: live | Alice Tully Hall, New York | 11 March 1998
WGBH Boston Radio “Classical Performances” by Richard Knisely
interview with Sergio Fiorentino
recorded: live in studio | WGBH Studio 1, Boston | 12 July 1996
WGBH Boston Radio “Classical Performances” by Alan McLellan
Ballade No.4 in F minor, Op.52 (1842/43)
recorded: live in studio | WGBH Studio 1, Boston | 14 April 1998
Sergio Fiorentino plays Yamaha Disklavier
Nocturne No.8 in D-flat major, Op.27/2
Waltz No.5 in A-flat major, Op.42 “Grande valse”
recorded: studio | Yamaha Piano Salon, New York | 1997
Sergio Fiorentino (Napoli, 22 December 1927 — Napoli, 22 August 1998)
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ALFONSO MOSESTI - Italian Violin Concertos
JASCHA HEIFETZ - legendary Los Angeles concerts
FRANCO GULLI - reDiscovered
SERGIO FIORENTINO - complete Rachmaninoff live
PIETRO SCARPINI - Busoni & Liszt
RUGGIERO RICCI - concertos
SERGIO FIORENTINO - live in Taiwan
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IVRY GITLIS - the early years
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PIETRO SCARPINI - Mozart
SERGIO FIORENTINO - live in USA
JEAN TER-MERGUERIAN - violin's soul
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RH-018 | 9CD | GABRIELLA LENGYEL - Jenő Hubay’s last pupil
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Split Decision at PTAB
[UPDATE: January 18, 2019] Mike and others on the Yahoo Boards raise an alternative argument why the PTAB got it wrong: "Instead of trying to show NR in milk was somehow disabled by some mystic bacteria, they should have focused on the fact that NR exists in milk in trace amount. One gallon of milk contains only 0.8mg of B3, of which 60% is Nicotinamide and 40% is NR. On the contrary milk is rich in Tryptophan which is a NAD+ precursor. The concentration of Tryptophan in one gallon of milk is 1600mg. So it is quite obvious that Tryptophan was the active ingredient [in the dog milk] and NR was just trace contaminant.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) yesterday issued a split decision on Elysium's attempt to invalidate the '086 patent, covering pharmaceutical NR compositions. [Previously, Elysium failed to invalidate ChromaDex's other major NR patent, '807, covering health supplements.]
The PTAB ruled that Claims 1, 3, 4, and 5 of the '086 Patent were invalid as having been anticipated by prior art, because skim milk and buttermilk were known to cure black tongue in dogs in the 1920s, even though NR had not been discovered at the time, and it was not known what caused the cure.
However, Claim 2 of the patent covered isolated NR, and the NR in the dog-curing-milk was not isolated, so Claim 2 remains valid.
You can read the PTAB's decision here:
Final Written Decision by PTAB
We'll get into the excruciatingly fine legal analysis shortly, and see whether the PTAB's reasoning makes sense, but first let's just look at the big picture issues, like what does it mean, and what happens next.
There are a lot of reasons why nothing changes as a result of this ruling.
First, there is a decent chance that both sides will want to appeal to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, because neither side is likely to be happy with the PTAB's decision, so the ruling could be either overturned or broadened, with significant impact.
Second, there is a federal patent infringement case in Delaware that will consider a broader array of invalidity and non-infringement defenses by Elysium, as well as damage claims by ChromaDex, so the PTAB's decision, even if it were not appealed, does not finally resolve the dispute either way.
Third, the legal impact of the split decision, even if it were the final word, doesn't disturb the parties' positions very greatly. ChromaDex might like to have five claims to assert, or 25, but Claim 2 by itself, plus the entirely of the '807 patent, seem like they are enough to support all the patent infringement actions ChromaDex might want to assert right now against Elysium.
In the long term, if this ruling turns out to be the law, then it creates a potential loophole for pharmaceutical compositions in which NR is present in less than 25% concentration, but Basis is more like an 80% concentration, so that won't help Elysium.
I think of Elysium as having gotten a runner to third base when the inning ended, which is impressive, but worth zero points. Or alternately, Elysium dodged four of the five bullets that ChromaDex shot, but it only takes one bullet to fatally injure your business, and Elysium came up just shy of what they needed.
But even that analysis pays too much attention to the '086 patent and ignores the '807 patent, which is not currently in doubt, and more obviously applies to health supplements, which is what Elysium's only product currently is.
So that's why the result of this is a big Who Cares, and why ChromaDex's share price has not risen or fallen much as a result of the decision -- if anything, the share price has been more stable than usual.
The PTAB did a great job explaining its reasoning, but the reasoning it explained is not entirely compelling, so I imagine that both parties will want to appeal, and it appears that they have 63 days to file their notice of appeal, which is March 20. [Sixty-three days sounds like an arbitrary number, but it is exactly nine weeks, which is the smallest number of weeks that gives the parties at least two months, so maybe there is some lawyerly logic in the number 63.]
Elysium probably has some pharmaceuticals dreams, and it will not want to be limited to insipid 25% doses, and it will crave a new audience to argue that the 25% rule isn't rational. So I would expect Elysium to appeal.
ChromaDex doesn't need to resuscitate the four invalidated claims to win against Elysium's Basis, but it might be helpful to have those claims for future battles against future infringers -- maybe even against future versions of Elysium's products, and ChromaDex has already laid out compelling arguments, so it wouldn't be surprising to see them appeal (or cross-appeal, depending on who gets there first).
Indeed, if ChromaDex is is committed to vigorously enforcing its IP rights, then it would be surprising if it did not appeal, unless the PTAB's decision was a preclusive and silencing slam-dunk. Judge McMahon's decision in New York was exactly that sort of a hard blow to Elysium's legal position, so we do not expect to see an appeal in New York, but I don't think the PTAB has done anything comparable to either side.
The PTAB's Decision
I will give the PTAB credit for a thoughtful, thorough, and well-written decision. It seems apparent that they in fact heard and considered the parties' arguments, and maybe I even agree with more than half of what they wrote.
But it's a pretty tough task to completely silence opposing doubts when you argue that a patent on a pharmaceutical fed to humans containing a specific ingredient to achieve a specific affect was anticipated by milk fed to dogs at a time when neither the specific ingredient nor its specific effect were known to exist. How does that teach one the art, which is the whole point of patent disclosure? So here goes.
Claim Construction
There were three contested terms at issue to be defined -- "Pharmaceutical Composition," Active Agent," and "Isolated." On "Pharmaceutical Composition," the PTAB sort of went both ways, but ChromaDex won the other two:
Pharmaceutical Composition
The PTAB seems to have agreed with both sides, accepting Elysium's contention that food can be a pharmaceutical composition, and accepting ChromaDex's contention that not every food is a pharmaceutical composition.
Patent Owner’s contention that foods are not pharmaceutical compositions is unpersuasive. Although we agree with Patent Owner that not all foods are necessarily pharmaceutical compositions, the Specification of the ’086 patent expressly teaches that the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention can include food.
That begs the key issue, which is WHEN food is or is not a pharmaceutical composition, and thus that issue was not resolved as a part of the claim construction, but later on in the analysis.
Active Agent
ChromaDex should have won the entire dispute when it convinced the PTAB that the patent applied to pharmaceutical compositions in which NR is an active agent:
We have considered the parties’ arguments, and find that the term “pharmaceutical agent” as used in the present claims calls for the presence of at least one active agent...We agree with Patent Owner that, based on these teachings of the Specification, one skilled in the art would have been able to identify an effective amount of NR for use in a composition. Thus, based on the full trial record, we do not find that Patent Owner’s proposed construction [requiring that NR be an "active agent"] renders the claim indefinite. Based on the foregoing analysis, we construe the term “pharmaceutical composition” to be a composition, including a food composition, which contains NR as an active agent in an amount effective for the treatment or prevention of a disease or condition associated with the nicotinamide riboside kinase pathway of NAD+ biosynthesis.
That's ChromaDex 1, Elysium 0. I credit the PTAB for seeing past Elysium's weird arguments.
I also would have expected that that determination would have been decisive of a favorable outcome for ChromaDex -- how could NR have been an "active agent" in buttermilk? -- so the issue of whether the PTAB in fact complied with its own construction will be central to any appeal.
Elysium lost again on "Isolated." The PTAB said,
Claim 2 recites the limitation that the NR “is isolated from a natural or synthetic source.” In our Institution Decision, we construed the term to mean “that the nicotinamide riboside is separated or substantially free from at least some of the other components associated with the source of the molecule such that it constitutes at least 25% (w/w) of the composition.”
Elysium wanted that to say, isolated means "separated from at least one other component," which ChromaDex mockingly pointed out would include separating the milk from the cow.
PTAB agreed with ChromaDex,
As we noted in our Institution Decision, construing the term “is isolated” as suggested by Petitioner would render the term unreasonably broad in that it would encompass separation of even an insignificant amount of other components. The teachings in the Specification of the ’086 patent counsel against such a broad construction when defining the term “isolated” with respect to NR.
And based on that construction, Claim 2, which applied to isolated NR, survived, because the NR in Goldberger's dog-milk wasn't isolated.
Claims 1 and 3-5
So how could the prior art of feeding dogs some milk in which NR had to be an active agent have constituted prior art anticipating Niagen if no one said -- or even knew -- what the active agent was in the dog milk? That comes down to the concept of inherency.
I'll pause here to note that one of our Elysium Precognition Trolls was close enough to Elysium's legal team that they were able to forecast ten days in advance that the PTAB's decision would turn on the issue of inherency:
That's something short of rocket science, since inherency was discussed several times at Trial, but so were a lot of other things, including the several issues that Elysium lost on.
So here is a paragraph that we will be spending a lot of time on if there is an appeal:
Given that a food, such as the skim milk used by Goldberger et al. can be a pharmaceutical agent, there remains the questions of whether NR was necessarily present in Goldberger’s skim milk and whether such NR was necessarily active in the manner required by our claim construction. (emphasis added)
ChromaDex answers the question, "No," for two reasons.
Although the NR was might have been present and active in Goldberger's dog-milk, it was not necessarily present and active, because:
(1) It might have been degraded, and thus not present, and
(2) It might have been bound, and thus not active
No one tested the milk at the time, and there are no studies that show that NR is necessarily present (not degraded) and necessarily active (not bound or otherwise made non-bio-available) in every milk sample.
Inherency requires that a condition necessarily have been true, not just probably true, and it was Elysium's job to show by a preponderance of evidence that the NR in the milk (1) necessarily was an active agent, and (2) necessarily was present and active in the dog-milk.
The PTAB was convinced:
We find that the references’ teachings support the conclusion that not only is NR a constituent of milk, but that it is active in the production of NAD+.
How did they get to that?
Based on the evidence of record we find Patent Owner’s contention that the NR in milk is not active because Trammell I teaches that NR in milk is bound to other components in milk to be unpersuasive in light of this clear demonstration in the record that NR is an active agent in milk.
Say again? What was the "clear demonstration?"
* The researchers in Trammell I reported that both conventional milk and organic milk contained NR.
* Trammell II reports a study of the bioavailability of NR taken orally. In the background discussion, the researchers report that milk is a source of such NR.
* Canto reports...that “NR is found in milk . . . constituting a dietary source for NAD+ production.”
* Bogan...teaches that “NR is a newly discovered salvageable precursor of NAD+ that occurs in cow’s milk.”
* A filing with the Food and Drug Administration relating to the safety of an NR supplement Niagen teaches that “[h]umans are exposed to NR via dietary sources such as milk.”
* Dr. Baur states in his declaration: As it is now known that blacktongue in dogs is a disease caused by NAD+ deficiency, it follows that the resolution or prevention of blacktongue by milk supplementation, as shown in Goldberger et al., is direct evidence that the milk stimulated greater NAD+ biosynthesis upon oral administration. (Ex. 1005, Goldberger et al., at 1404.) This conclusion is confirmed by later studies, discussed above in paragraphs 13-14, directly demonstrating that oral intake of NR increases NAD+ concentration in multiple tissues. Thus, Goldberger et al. teaches the oral administration of a composition containing NR that necessarily increases NAD+ biosynthesis upon oral administration
Each of these references clearly demonstrates that not only that NR is present in milk, but that it is a source or precursor for NAD+ production.
I disagree. Those references all show that NR is typically present in milk, and is considered an NAD precursor, but none of them says that NR is necessarily present in milk -- that is, it must not be degraded or destroyed -- or that it necessarily is an active ingredient -- that is, it is must not be deactivated or unavailable in some circumstances. Thus, they are not responsive to the issues raised by Dr. Zhou, that NR is not always present and might not be active, and nobody tested the milk back in the 1920's, so we can't be sure.
I would also point out -- although for some reason it doesn't get discussed in the parties' papers -- that there are NAD precursors in milk, such as nicotinamide and tryptophan, so the fact that the dog-milk had AN active agent doesn't mean that NR was an active agent.
So what does the PTAB say about these counter-arguments?
Patent Owner also contends that Petitioner has not shown that the milk used in Goldberger et al. was not degraded by natural bacteria. Resp. 23. We are not persuaded. As Patent Owner points out, Goldberger et al. expressly states that the milk used was fresh skim milk that has been allowed to stand in an ice box for not more than 24 hours. Reply 22–23; Ex. 1005, 1403. The Inventor, Dr. Brenner, in his Declaration filed during prosecution of the ’086 patent stated that NR is “stable for at least 24 hours at room temperature in milk.” Ex. 1003, 132, see also Ex. 1023, 22 (NR levels do not change significantly when milk is stored at room temperature for 24 hours). Based on this admission, we find one of ordinary skill in the art would have expected the level of NR to remain substantially the same when the milk is stored in an ice box. While there may be unusual circumstances in which bacteria in the milk renders the NR inactive, nothing of record suggests that the skim milk of Goldberger at al. is unusual in any way. As such, there is no basis for us to speculate that the NR in such skim milk was degraded or otherwise inactive. Inherency cannot be avoided by taking “extraordinary measures.”
So the question comes down to who is speculating? Is ChromaDex speculating that the NR might have been absent or inactive, or is the PTAB speculating that it probably was present and active?
The key word in that sentence is "probably" because the test for inherency is "necessarily," not probably.
Does the PTAB's evidence show that the NR was necessarily present and active?
I don't think so. Most of the comments they quote are just general statements, like "Milk is a source of NR" and "NR is found in milk," which do not begin to address, or even attempt to address, whether NR is necessarily or always present and bioavailable in milk.
Dr. Baur's statement least of all. He chains together these links in his syllogism:
1. Dog milk cures an NAD deficiency
2. NR cures an NAD deficiency
3. Therefore, Dog milk necessarily contains NR that cures an NAD deficiency
Any college undergrad in an Intro to Logic class would tear that to shreds. You obviously don't need to take Intro to Philosophy to get admitted to grad school in the natural sciences.
But the PTAB consists of lawyers that shouldn't fall for such shoddy reasoning.
Admixture I also suspect the PTAB might have gotten it wrong on "admixture." It's a weird word, archaic and/or technical. Presumably it's different from "mixture." Possibly in the dictionary "mixture" means something that IS mixed, and "admixture" means "the action of adding an ingredient to something else."
If that were right, then the PTAB should not say, as it does,
We find nothing in the record that supports Patent Owner’s contention that the term “admixture” requires that the ingredients be purposefully mixed.
Maybe not in the record, but in the dictionary, which would be enough.
But if you don't like semantic battles, a different approach leads to the same conclusion. The word "isolated" is also present, and it's hard to imagine what isolated could mean if its opposite is also present, mixed. It would make more sense to interpret the phrase "isolated" to mean extracting the NR, and then "admixture" to mean adding it, rather than accepting Elysium's weird shortcut that that something is isolated while still in its natural state, and also admixed without anyone doing anything. It would seem that those interpretations, one of which (admixed) the PTAB accepted, disregard the claim language.
A funny thing happens near the end of the written decision. On page 36, there is a sentence fragment, which I have highlighted in yellow:
Goldberger and Tanner expressly states that the buttermilk used was “fresh, locally produced, and of fair quality.” Ex. 1006, 93. As such, there is no basis for us to speculate that the NR in such buttermilk Based on the foregoing analysis, we conclude Petitioner has established that the buttermilk used in Goldberger and Tanner was a pharmaceutical composition comprising NR as an active agent in an amount effective for the treatment or prevention of a disease or condition associated with the nicotinamide riboside kinase pathway of NAD+ biosynthesis.
That looks like a word processing error, which is a sign that a more aggressive editorial process hit that portion of the document. And so should it have.
The PTAB is trying to say that the dog milk was just like any other milk, because it was "fresh, locally produced, and of fair quality," as opposed to milk that had spoiled or for another reason lacked normal properties.
But that begs the question of whether the normal properties of milk necessarily caused the effects seen in the Goldberg experiment, which they might have, but there is no evidence that they did, and some evidence that they might not have. The presence of alternate NAD precursors, along with the evidence in the record that NR might not be active, ought to be sufficient to defeat inherency, I would think.
Which takes us back to the malformed sentence, "there is no basis for us to speculate that the NR in such buttermilk."
I would have said just the opposite, that there is no basis to speculate that the NR in the buttermilk WAS present, WAS active, or CAUSED the observed effects in the dogs. Entirely possible, but there is no evidence in the record to demonstrate that it was necessarily so, and the evidence cited by the PTAB does not even attempt to make that case. Not even Elysium's own expert plausibly made that case: Even though he used the word "necessarily," he introduced it awkwardly into his conclusion, without its being even implicit in his premises.
My guess is that that paragraph got re-worked a couple times in an attempt to preemptively demonstrate to the Federal Circuit that they applied the correct standard. But saying it does not make it so, and failing to say it because you can't wordsmith around the problem is worse.
At best, Elysium dodged four of the five arrows in ChromaDex's quiver, but was felled by the last one, unless they can convince the Federal Circuit to adopt an interpretation of "isolated" that is so nonsensical that it was even rejected by the PTAB, which is the most sympathetic audience Elysium will ever have.
With a little luck, the Delaware Court will take this ruling as cause to proceed with the patent infringement case on both patents, so we can actually get to the bottom of the dispute, although Delaware is slow right now (I hear) and the Trump-McConnell government shutdown is not helping (I heard that some clerks in some federal courts are getting told to stay home since they are not getting paid).
I predict that both sides will appeal, since both sides have a lot to be disappointed about with this decision. Elysium will be praying to Jude, the patron saint of lost causes. ChromaDex has a decent chance of joining the 25% of appellants who achieve complete reversal of the PTAB's decision, but, as with all litigation, the only sure winners are the lawyers.
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Artist in Residency 2018
With Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo
Residency 01.01.–31.03.2018
In Collaboration with Artists at Risk (AR) Safe Haven Berlin
Presentation 29.03.2018 19:00
With a launch of Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo's book 'Dismantling the System of Mugabeism' which he finished during his residency, followed by a talk between the author and Marita Muukkonen and Ivor Stodolsky (Artists at Risk)
Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo is a human rights defender, democracy activist, writer, poet and protest musician hailing from a small mining town named Kwekwe at the center of the Republic of Zimbabwe. He is also the co-founder and director of Z.O.Y.P., the Zimbabwean Organization for Youth in Politics. In his writings, as well as in his music, he addresses the government oppression and dictatorship in Zimbabwe which has led to the regime targeting him and putting him under state surveillance. After receiving death threats, Artist At Risk took on the case to welcome Nkosilathi as the first resident of AR-Safe Haven Berlin, co-hosted by SAVVY Contemporary. During is stay, he is finishing his new book, an attempt at ‘Dismantling the System of Mugabeism’ while taking time to recover before returning home to Kwekwe to continue his activism.
ARTISTS at RISK (AR) is a new institution at the intersection of human rights and the arts. AR is dedicated to mapping the field of persecuted visual art practitioners, facilitating their safe passage from their countries of origin, hosting them at “AR-Safe Haven Residencies” and curating related projects, including the “AR Pavilion”. Artists, writers, curators, critics and scholars are targets of politically motivated threats and persecution in great parts of the world. Perpetuum Mobile (PM) initiated Artists at Risk (AR) as a platform and network which currently comprises 7 operational residencies. AR develops cooperation-programmes with artist-in-residency centres, art/film/theatre unions, cities and human-rights networks. Perpetuum Mobile (PM) furthermore curates events, conferences and the dedicated “AR Pavilion” — recently at the Athens Biennale; parallel to the Istanbul Biennial; at Matadero-Madrid — which showcases the artistic practices of Artists-at-Risk (AR) Residents.
Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo's residency at Artists-at-Risk (AR) Safe Haven Berlin is curated by Perpetuum Mobile (PM) and hosted in co-operation with SAVVY Contemporary. It is co-funded by Perpetuum Mobile with a grant, together with European Alternatives, from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Nkosie spoke with SAVVY’s Jörg-Peter Schulze about his practise and ideas. The interview took place during a walk on a cold but friendly winter day in Feburary at Volkspark Humboldthain in Berlin.
Portraits of Nkosie: Raisa Galofre
First of all, welcome to SAVVY Contemporary and thank you for giving us the opportunity to have this conversation with you. I'd like to start with an observation that made me curious: you usually attach a WhatsApp contact to the videos you upload to YouTube or sometimes one finds it at the end of articles by and about you. I’m curious, can you talk a bit about what came out of this practice? Is there something especially memorable?
Putting my WhatsApp number on my articles or on my songs has helped me to get direct feedback from thousands of people in my country who are interested in my work. The feedback helped me to improve in my work as people directly raise their concerns pointing out the grey areas which they might notice and where I must improve so this actually is a practise which has helped me to get more of free consultancy and constructive feedback from the people of Zimbabwe who follow my work.
How do you see the role of WhatsApp in terms of being a safe space for exchange – is it even safe? Maybe censorship doesn’t take place there but everyone can access these semi- or sub-public spaces and denounce its members. In Germany this development just began, I guess in Zimbabwe it is already full on with groups that have 10.000+ members. Or is that number too high? How much can an oppressive system be undermined this way?
WhatsApp is becoming the most efficient tool or method of communication in my country. Anything which interests the people spreads like veld fire once shared on WhatsApp and within minutes it will be viral. Most of my poems and music are viral on WhatsApp and other social media platforms and this helped to spread my message to the people of Zimbabwe. In terms of safety no communication method is 100% safe but WhatsApp is encrypted and safer than calling which can be bugged or intercepted. The oppressive regime in Zimbabwe censors almost everything in the media but with the coming in of WhatsApp they have failed to exercise their censorship tactics on it except creating a cyber security law which they are now using to try and intimidate people that you can get arrested if you send something ‘subversive’. However WhatsApp is still the quickest way we are using as young people to interact and share information.
It’s also important for your music and books to circulate. Let’s talk about your work. How do you personally try to undermine the system? What is it that you want to achieve?
I use arts particularly poetry, protest music and I write non-fiction books to challenge the political status quo in Zimbabwe. We have a government which has been oppressing the people for almost four decades, political corruption and kleptocracy is also high in my country. So my activism, using arts as a tool, is the little contribution I can make towards advocating for democracy, human rights and respect of the rule of law in Zimbabwe. What is that I want to achieve? I want the tyranny in Harare to know that they can’t just oppress the people and get away with it. My protest art will play a watch dog role and demand justice. Some of my works are Pisarema raNkosilathi, a protest musical album, Zimbabwe A Revolution Waiting To Happen and Robert Mugabe From Freedom Fighter To The People’s Enemy.
What role does art play in your activism? How’s that connected for you?
Art is an important tool to convey my message to the people of Zimbabwe, it is an effective tool in movement building and conscientizing the masses. Protest music and poetry provides edutainment which brings people together for a common cause and it has proved to be a powerful way of raising political awareness in my country as people continue to interact and debate about the issues which I raise through my arts.
You are a big fan of reggae music and it’s obvious that it has a big influence on your work. It’s really music that has a lot of message, especially the conscious type that you do. Did you chose the genre or did the genre chose you?
You really made me laugh here. A little bit of both! Reggae is in me and I am in reggae I grew up loving reggae music. It is a genre which was used by pioneers of protest music the likes of Peter Tosh and Bob Marley who used music to challenge the social injustice of that time so this is what I grew up listening to and it could appease the revolutionary spirit in me. So in my protest music I use reggae and most of my songs also went viral on social media.
And how does a residency program as here in Berlin with SAVVY or going to Europe feed into that?
I am here on a three months residency with Artist At Risk which also partners with SAVVY. It was an honour to be given that residency so that I can breathe in fresh air as you know my arts touches the political nerves in my country leaving me being targeted by politicians who feel threatened by work as a result some even target my life. So am here to take a break from all those hustles and threats against my life whilst re-strategizing and rethinking new interventions that I can take to continue with my artivism when I return back home in April. I sincerely appreciate the work being done by Artist At Risk and AVVY in terms of supporting various artists from different countries. They must keep up the good work they are doing.
At the end of your stay here, you’ll launch your new book, can you tell us something about it. Your last book was about Mugabe. Now that he's gone, his system is still in place. Still a lot work to do. What’s next?
I am launching a book titled Dismantling the System of Mugabeism. In this book am arguing that yes Mugabe the person is gone but the system of dictatorship which he left behind is still intact. So for Zimbabwe to be totally democratized there is a critical need to dismantle the system of Mugabeism and put in place new political structures. The ‘new’ political dispensation in Zimbabwe is just the continuation of the same old story of a ZANU-PF tyranny only Mugabe is missing in the picture but the people who are in Zimbabwe’s government today are the same people who destroyed Zimbabwe alongside Mugabe so we are on the same bus what changed is the driver. For meaningful change to happen Zimbabweans must stand up and dismantle Mugabe the system, the culture and the institution which is very allergic to democracy.
What’s your ambition? I think it’s closely related to your home community in Kwekwe?
All I desire to see is a democratic state where the rights of our people will be respected and all our freedoms stipulated in our constitution being given to us.
We didn’t really talk about poetry –maybe you can let one poem speak for itself? Would you share one with us?
They say a lot about you like a mermaid
But who has ever seen you
You are written all over the books like verses of the bible
But how many obey your rules
Millions are spent every year celebrating something which looks like you
But your presence has never been felt
Where are you Freedom, do you exist?
When I was born my mum told me I am free
Stories of colonisation and slavery were our daily bread
Politicians at Munhumutapa building claim they liberated us
But oppression flows all over the country like Zambezi river
Flooding all our democratic rights
My life is endangered like a rhinoceros
Because of my love for you Freedom
I am yearning for you.
I HAVE to ask! Do you still give out your WhatsApp?
Yes, I do that since it’s the only way to keep me in touch with my audience. My number is +32485850059.
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Canada Water – attempted theft and violent assault on Overground train
British Transport Police have released a CCTV image after a man was violently assaulted during an attempted robbery.
The incident occurred at 6.45am on Sunday 20 May on board a London Overground train from Canada Water to New Cross Gate.
The victim, a 43-year-old man, was approached by a man at Canada Water and asked if he could use his phone to make a call. They both then boarded the train at Canada Water with the man taking a seat next to the victim where he asked what was in his bag.
Feeling intimidated, the victim stood up in an attempt to move but was grabbed round the neck by the man who then attempted to pull his bag from his shoulder.
Other passengers intervened and the man left the train at New Cross Gate station.
The victim received bruising and was severely shaken by the incident.
Officers would like to speak with the man shown in these CCTV images as they believe he may have information which could help with the investigation.
If you recognise him, or have any information which could help the investigation, please call BTP on 0800 40 50 40 or text 61016 quoting reference number 104 of 20 May.
Man jailed for sexual assault at Canada Water Station
Posted on Thursday 12 July 2018 by SE16.com
Mahamedally custody image
A violent man who sexually assaulted a woman, before assaulting a member of TfL staff at Canada Water station, has been jailed.
28-year-old Courtney Mahamedally from Islington before City of London Magistrates’ Court on 2 July after pleading guilty to sexual assault and one count of common assault.
Shortly before 2.30am on 6 January this year, the victim, a 19-year-old woman, was on the London Overground platform at Canada Water station, waiting for a train. Mahamedally then approached the victim on the platform, jumping at her and grabbing her around the waist.
The victim and defendant then struggled, with Mahamedally shouting “you’re not going anywhere”.
Meanwhile, staff watching CCTV contacted the police and went to assist the victim. As police responded, staff intervened, during which a member of staff was punched in the face by the defendant.
Mahamedally was arrested at the scene and taken to custody.
He was handed a six month prison sentence for the sexual offence and a 12 week prison sentence for common assault, to run concurrently. He was also ordered to pay £500 compensation, £115 to victim services and costs of £300, he will also be on the sexual offences register for seven years.
DC Helen Parsfield from British Transport Police, said: “Mahamedally initially pleaded not guilty, but when he was presented with the overwhelming evidence, he later admitted the charges. I’m grateful to the members of staff who went to assist the victim during what must have been a frightening experience.
“Unwanted sexual behaviour on the London Underground network will never be tolerated. I’d like to thank the victim for helping us bring this violent man to justice, he’ll now spend six months behind bars and seven years on the sex offenders register.”
Siwan Hayward, TfL’s Head of Transport Policing, said: “Everyone has the right to travel without fear or intimidation and alongside the police we will eradicate unwanted sexual behaviour from public transport in London. This case sends a clear message to all potential offenders that they will be caught and brought to justice for their disgusting crimes, as well as showing that violence and abuse towards our staff will not be tolerated and offenders will be prosecuted. TfL works closely with the police day and night to ensure the safety of our customers.”
Posted in Police & crime, Transport.
Stave Hill: man arrested over ‘shocking and brazen attack’
Posted on Saturday 9 June 2018 by SE16.com
Police investigating a robbery in the Stave Hill Ecology Park have made an arrest.
The 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of robbery in the early hours of Thursday 7 June. He was taken into custody at a south London police station and later bailed pending further enquiries to a date in late June.
The arrest follows an incident that occurred at around 11.25 on Friday 1 June near the Trust for Urban Ecology building in the park.
Two women, aged 37 and 40, were walking with their children through the park when they were robbed of their phones at knifepoint by two males. During the incident one of the women was stabbed in the hand.
A man, aged 49, who came to the assistance of the victims, also received a stab injury.
The two males suspects fled on foot through the woods following the incident.
The two injured people were taken to hospital for treatment and have since been discharged.
“This was a shocking and brazen attack in broad daylight which resulted in two people receiving stab injuries and a number of children being terrified,” said Inspector Owen Pyle, who is in charge of neighbourhood policing in Southwark.
“While we have made an arrest, our work remains ongoing to ensure those responsible for this abhorrent crime are brought to justice.
“There will be increased police patrols of the area over the next few weeks in the run up to the summer holidays, particularly around school start and finish times, to reassure residents and deal with any issues.
“I would urge the community to report all incidents or suspicious behaviour to police; even if the information seems insignificant, it may be the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle for us.”
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call Southwark Police on 101 quoting ref: 2786/1Jun. Alternatively, contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Local residents concerned about recent apparent increases in crime and antisocial behaviour in SE16 have organised the Canada Water Reclaim March on Sunday 24 June, starting at Stave Hill.
Man jailed and banned from Surrey Quays Station for hate campaign against staff
Posted on Wednesday 6 June 2018 by SE16.com
A man who conducted a campaign of fear against a member of staff at Surrey Quays station has been jailed for more than two years.
37-year-old Patrick McFetridge from Druid Street threatened and intimidated the worker at Surrey Quays station nine times between November 2017 and February 2018, including racially abusing them, swearing at them and making threats to kill.
During his three-month scare campaign, McFetridge told the member of staff he would cut their face and come after their family. He also urinated on the counter while the victim was stood behind it, which required specialist cleaning afterwards.
McFetridge was arrested and later charged with putting a person in fear of violence and criminal damage, which he denied.
Following a trial he was convicted of the offences and on 18 May he appeared before Blackfriars Crown Court, where he was sentenced to 30 months behind bars. He was also handed a five-year restraining order and a Criminal Behaviour Order banning him from Surrey Quays station for five years.
Detective Constable Richard Rowe, from British Transport Police, said: “For no reason at all, McFettridge targeted this member of staff, leaving his victim fearing for their life.
“We will not tolerate the abuse of rail staff for simply doing their jobs and the sentence handed to McFettridge shows the courts take an equally dim view of such behaviour.”
Siwan Hayward, Head of Transport Policing, said: “Our staff work extremely hard assisting customers and ensuring the network is a safe environment for all. Like everyone, they have the right to go about their job without fear or intimidation. The sentence handed down to McFetridge reflects the seriousness of his actions and that we do not tolerate, in any way, abuse against our staff.”
Police appeal after hit-and-run collision near Surrey Quays Station
Posted on Tuesday 6 March 2018 by SE16.com
Police are appealing for witnesses following a hit-and-run collision in Rotherhithe.
Officers were called to Rotherhithe Old Road – near Surrey Quays station – at about 8.55am on Monday morning to a report of a car in collision with a pedestrian.
The pedestrian – a 46-year-old woman – was taken to hospital where she remains in a serious but stable condition.
Her next of kin have been informed.
The vehicle involved, a blue Mercedes B200 Sport, failed to stop at the scene.
The car was found later that day abandoned on the Kirby Estate in SE16.
As part of the investigation, officers returned at around 11am on Tuesday to take photographs of the scene.
Officers from the Roads and Transport Policing Command are investigating.
Any witnesses or anyone with any information is asked to call police on 101 quoting CAD 1599/05 March.
British Land buys Rotherhithe Police Station
Posted on Saturday 27 January 2018 by SE16.com
As part of the current round of consultation on the Canada Water Masterplan, developer British Land has revealed that it has exchanged contracts with the Mayor’s Office for Policing & Crime (MOPAC) to buy the former Rotherhithe Police Station, which closed last year.
The site will be incorporated into the company’s broader plans for the area.
You can see the consultation materials here; the deadline for online feedback is Sunday 4 February. Mini-exhibitions will be held on Tuesday at Silverlock Hall and Wednesday at Mayflower Hall.
Emergency services hold exercise at the Printworks
Last weekend the fire brigade held a major exercise at the Printworks (formerly Harmsworth Quays).
Southwark’s firefighters shared these images on Twitter:
Fantastic Major Exercise held at Printworks London in Surrey Quays today. Crews from all over London assisted @LFBSouthwark. Crews worked so hard to rescue casualties. Huge thank you to @LFBFireCadets @SELSAR1 @LAS_HART @CasUnionCharity @salvationarmyuk for supporting this event pic.twitter.com/g9KF87gjRd
— LFB Southwark (@LFBSouthwark) January 20, 2018
Cops swap Rotherhithe Police Station for Seven Islands
Posted on Tuesday 28 November 2017 by SE16.com
Rotherhithe Police Station closed on Monday as local officers relocated to their new base inside Seven Islands Leisure Centre.
Although the front counter closed in 2013, officers have continued to work from the building.
Now the building on Lower Road has been earmarked for sale by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.
Colleagues moved out of Rotherhithe Police Station forever today – some great memories, good times and lots of brilliant police work to be had here over the years – Closed forever, never forgotten, we will miss you…x @MPSRotherhithe #Rotherhithe pic.twitter.com/UWSbW55v3G
— Cathedrals Police (@MPSCathedrals) November 27, 2017
Halloween antisocial behaviour – police impose Dispersal Areas north and south of The Blue
Posted on Monday 30 October 2017 by SE16.com
Details of two Dispersal Areas in Bermondsey (using powers under the Antisocial Behaviour, Crime & Policing Act 2014) have been announced by Southwark Police:
Dispersal Area authorised from 12:00 on Monday 30th October 2017 until 06:00 Wednesday 1st November 2017. Please see below for full details pic.twitter.com/GcdCFx4JFn
— South Bermondsey (@MPSSBermondsey) October 30, 2017
Dispersal Area authorised from 12:00 on Monday 30th October 2017 until 06:00 Wednesday 1st November 2017. Please see below for full details pic.twitter.com/Fh1iwb1yhr
Rotherhithe Police Station: sell-off imminent
Posted on Sunday 27 August 2017 by SE16.com
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has confirmed that Rotherhithe Police Station in Lower Road will be put up for sale in September, five years after a sell-off was agreed in principle by his predecessor Boris Johnson.
News of the latest sell-off attempt came in response to a question tabled by Andrew Dismore AM:
Of the police buildings closed and earmarked for disposal under the previous Mayor there are five that have been vacated and will be openly marketed for sale from September. The 5 properties are:
Belvedere Police Station
Rotherhithe Police Station
Greenwich Police Station
Olwen House, Loman Street
Douglas Webb Section House
Rotherhithe Police Station’s front counter closed in 2013 but the police contact point provided at Canada Water Library as a partial replacement is now itself under threat.
Last week Neil Coyle MP tweeted that he had attended the final ward panel meeting to be held in the Lower Road building:
Attended final ward panel this eve at #Rotherhithe police station. Troubled to see police struggle with local crimes including knives/mopeds
— Neil Coyle (@coyleneil) August 24, 2017
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Vernode announces launch of new Cloud Hosting packages
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Future of Sex podcast creator Bryony Cole talks the future of funbots and New York’s first sextech hackathon
In what turned out to be a surprising SFW podcast Future of Sex podcast creator Bryony Cole joined us to talk about the future of sex, teledilonics and sex robots. Not content to let the media and the world stay squeamish about the topic of sex robots Cole expects many of us to have had sex with a robot by 2047 and believes many of our children will first experience sex with a robot before they attempt it with a human.
Cole is also running New York’s first Sextech Hackathon on June 10, 2017, From 9:30am to 8pm, at the ThoughtWorks office, 99 Madison Ave, 15th floor. You can RSVP here.
Talking candidly about sex and tech is hard and Bryony made it all kinds of fun. Please do listen in.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update - a message from the race director
UPDATE: JULY 16
Malibu, CA - 16/07/2020
Dear runners, we understand how important it is for you to be kept updated, especially in these uncertain times. Therefore we want to shed some light on our current situation given the latest developments related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) surge in numbers which we have been monitoring in close contact with Malibu and California state officials.
Our highest priority has always been, and remains to be the safety of our participants, volunteers, supporters and residents.
To uphold this, we had to make a very difficult decision to temporarily close registration while we prepare for a 'Plan B’. Please know that we are doing whatever we can to ensure you can participate in our annual event in some capacity.
Therefore, in the likely event that the Malibu Half Marathon and 5k cannot take place as planned, these are the options we have been working on for you:
1. A Virtual 5K and Half Marathon option (If you're thinking: "Ugh, not another virtual run!", we challenge you to give us a chance to surprise you with an exclusive Run Malibu Experience). You will still receive your race shirt and medal by mail and even a discount to sign up for future events.
2. A NEW 100-mile Virtual Challenge for the month of November.
3. 100% deferral including add-ons (bib by mail, VIP lounge access and iTAB) to the 2021 or 2022 event with no additional fee.
Note: If you switch to a virtual event all add-ons (bib by mail, VIP lounge access and iTAB) will be refunded.
We share in your disappointment and are immensely grateful for your patience and support during this difficult time. However, we are also excited to offer our runners' community a platform to stay connected and motivated during a time where we are all physically distanced.
We hope to give you an update in the coming week. Please make sure you follow our social media accounts (@runmalibu) and are subscribed to our newsletter to receive the latest news from the Malibu HQ as soon as it's released.
Your race director,
update: July 7, 2020
The Malibu Half Marathon & 5K team keeps monitoring daily developments regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. We recognize the personal commitment that is made by each of you and we understand how important it is for you to receive status updates on the race.
At this time, we are unable to say definitively whether or not the race will proceed and we want you to know that we are preparing for both outcomes.
Work is being done every day knowing that external factors could determine that we cannot safely hold the race. In addition, we’re also working to ensure that in the event of a cancellation, we are able to provide you with the following unique options outside of our standard event policies:
100% deferral including add-ons (bib by mail, VIP lounge access and iTAB) to the 2021 or 2022 event with no additional feel
Virtual 5K and Half Marathon (If you're thinking: "Ugh, not another virtual run!', we challenge you to give us a chance to surprise you with something you've not seen yet!)
NEW: 100-mile Virtual Challenge for the month of November
If you switch to a virtual race all add-ons (bib by mail, VIP lounge access and iTAB) will be refunded.
As a community of runners and humans, we're in all of this together, and we will get through this stronger than we ever expected. Please stay active and be safe.
Update: MAY 12, 2020
The Malibu Half Marathon & 5K team is monitoring all developments regarding the coronavirus pandemic and continues to work closely with local and state officials as we continue to prepare for the November 8th race. Our priority continues to be the health and well-being of members of our community, participants, volunteers, and supporters. We will continue to provide updates as we get closer to the race.
Hello Run Malibu Family, first and foremost I want to share my deepest sympathies with everyone impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak as we navigate through these difficult times. Our priority as a race is always the health and well-being of the global running community.
We have been carefully monitoring developments related to coronavirus (COVID-19) and based on the information available to us today, we are continuing our preparations for the event. It is our commitment to keep all participants informed. We will continue to provide updates as we get closer to the race. Fortunately, we don't have to face all of this alone. We can still be a community and support each other! In fact, now more than ever, the lesson remains the same: We Are #StrongerTogether. Join me and the #RunMalibu Virtual Community to connect, share, inspire and be inspired by like-minded individuals and, gain access to exclusive rewards:
Join Our Exclusive Facebook Group
Join Our Strava Club
Please stay active and be safe.
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Malibu RACE Sets Standard for Best Charity Lounge Event Expected to Raise $50K+ for charity
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3 Luxury Winter SUV’s
Tags: Cars, Luxury, SUV's
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Given the choice between staying home — wrapped up in layers of blankets, sipping on hot chocolate and perhaps lighting a cigar— or braving the cold in a luxury and style we’d most certainly choose the former. But even in the thick of winter, life doesn’t stop — the kids still need to get to school, you have to go to work, and the groceries don’t deliver themselves.
Fortunately, today’s breed of SUVs are as rugged as their forbearers while retaining a level of sophistication and refinement. Supple leather, heated seats and steering wheels and high-end sound systems are to be expected, but they’re at their finest in these 3 SUVs that run the gamut from relative bargain to absurdly opulent.
Volvo has committed to having zero deaths in their cars by 2020. A tall order, sure, but with the recently redesigned XC90 it looks like they’re on track. The XC90 has received the Top Safety Pick+ award, and while other mid-sized SUVs have won it the XC90 is the only one to also receive a superior frontal crash prevention rating with standard equipment. The new redesign has also made the XC90 more handsome and more luxurious than ever before. In Inscription trim, it comes with semi-aniline Nappa leather paired with one of the industry’s most comfortable and supportive seats. There’s also open-pore wood trim, an optional Bower & Wilkins sound system, and clean, purposeful Scandinavian design. Altogether, it makes the XC90’s interior one hell of a nice place to be.
The prestigious LX 570 presents an unmistakable combination of elegance and iconic solidity. Inside, the vehicle displays an extraordinary level of luxurious refinement – from the leather and wood steering wheel to the beautiful front console. Shimanoku Brown inlays, carefully sanded and varnished by hand, have an exquisite sheen. Power comes
from the largest V8 petrol engine ever fitted to a Lexus – smooth and sophisticated in its delivery, yet able to provide massive torque when needed. The LX 570 also gives you the freedom to go almost anywhere. Whether crossing rough country, cruising at speed, or just negotiating city traffic, this luxury SUV will carry up to eight people to their destination in great style and comfort.
When it came on the scene in early 2000, the Porsche Cayenne was one of the only sport utility vehicles to actually provide speed and handling prowess in a mid-sized SUV package. Today, it remains the optimal choice for drivers who want sports-car-like driving dynamics in a legitimate SUV— that’s especially true in GTS guise. It offers 440 horsepower (140 more than the entry-level version) making it good for a 0-100 sprint of 4.9 seconds, as well as optional ceramic composite brakes and Porsche dynamic chassis control. Add some performance winter tires and you’ll be ready to conquer winter sideways and smiling.
Fashion Trends At The 5FM Live Loud Youth Festival
The Party Goes On
Saturday the 18th June saw a mass of youth under the age of 18 gather together at the Innesfree Park in Sandton for an evening of new friendships, lasting memories and the best in local music.
SABC’s 5FM Live Loud Youth Fest in an annual gathering for South Africa’s under 18’s looking to celebrate the legacy of those remembered for their role in shaping this country on that fateful but pivotal day of June 16th, 1976. With a list of 5FM radio personalities and djs, the Live Loud Youth Fest offers a safe and carefree environment for youths to party with no cause for concern whilst allowing them to experience the best that the radio station has to offer in a live setting.
With youth comes the some of the latest and trendiest looks and styles hot off the streets of suburbs, townships and urban culture. Evoke took to the fields of Innesfree park to photograph these looks – here’s a selection of what a few of South Africa’s youth are wearing:
The Hottest From The SAMAs Red Carpet
Tags: #SAMA22, Celebs, Durban, ICC, Red Carpet, SAMAs, South African Music Awards
Saturday, June 4th saw an abundance of South Africa’s biggest, baddest, and most beautiful music, television, and the odd few political celebrities grace the 22nd Annual South African Music Awards Red Carpet. From Bonang’s sleek silver dress to Boity’s dramatic and viral sequenced outfit, we captured it all. Here are a few of our favourite moments on the #SAMA22 Carpet.
Phola
Tags: Phola, TV
Phola is a 26-part reality series that navigates the lives of young South Africans in post-apartheid South Africa. Read more
Selimathunzi
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Selimathunzi welcomes two new presenters into the fold. Read more
Tags: Drama Series, High Rollers, Justin Strydom, SABC3, TV
One of SABC’s most popular local drama series, High Rollers revolves around the love for money, family and God. Read more
SABC2 Schedule Changes
The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) TV Network have introduced an exciting revamped schedule.
SABC2 has introduced an exciting revamped schedule, complete with brand new shows, new seasons of some of our viewers’ favourite programmes and slot changes.
“This schedule revamp is a direct response to the evolving television landscape, and in keeping up with the SABC’s audience current needs and expectations. In making these changes the corporation ensured that it remained aligned to its mandate as a public service broadcaster, continuing to entrench its dominance in this competitive environment and meet the set business requirements”, commented Group Executive: Television, Ms Verona Duwarkah.
TV SCHEDULE CHANGES & HIGHLIGHTS:
The channel’s Sotho/Tswana/Sepedi News moves from 19:30 to 18:00.
Mooiloop! returns with the series on Mondays at 19:30. The series also introduces a new host, actress and TV personality Elma Postma known for her role as Dezi Terreblanche on 7de Laan. Mooiloop! is a travel series consisting of a combination of lifestyle and travel elements, shot in a unique reality style format.
An international drama series Person of Interest starts on Monday the 7th of March at 20:00. An ex-assassin and a wealthy programmer save lives via surveillance that sends them the identities of civilians involved in impending crimes. However, the details of the crimes including the civilians roles are left a mystery.
SABC2 will also introduce for the first time, sitcom Parys Parys at 19:30 on Tuesdays. Sketched in the picturesque background of the Free State jewel Parys, an ordinary Afrikaans family share their daily trials and challenges with the viewers.
Also on Tuesdays, the channel will repeat season 1 of the much loved Afrikaans drama series Geraamtes In Die Kas. Geraamtes In Die Kas is set in the world of four psychiatrists and psychologists as they balance their chaotic lives with patients, families and careers, while maintaining their own sanity.
The annual The National Teachers Awards will be broadcast on Tuesday the 8th of March at 20:30. The teachers’ scheme is one of the ways in which the Department of Basic Education acknowledges and encourages dedicated and caring teachers in their efforts to develop each learner as a citizen of a democratic, non-racial and non-sexist South Africa.
Motswako moves to 19:30 on Wednesdays followed by Ngula Ya Vutivi/Zwa Maramani on the new time-slot of 20:00. Xitsonga talk show Vusaseki moves to 20:30.
The long running wild-life documentary, 50/50 returns to SABC2 on the 18th of February 2016, introduced in the new time slot of Thursdays at 19:30. Seasoned presenters Ntokozo Mbuli, Bertus Louw and Bonne de Bod will remain as presenters of the new season.
Investigative current affairs programme Leihlo La Setshaba moves to 20:30 on Thursdays.
A documentary Murder She Solved starts on Thursday the 4th of February at 22:30. It tells the true stories of female crime solvers who, against all odds, have solved some of the most daunting murder cases in North America.
The 18th of February sees the much anticipated return of lifestyle programme Pasella at 19:30. As the name indicates Pasella is a bonus to the viewers as it exposes them to the lifestyles of their favourite celebrities, bringing content packed with all that a viewer has come to expect.
Pasella will be followed by season 41 of Noot Vir Noot. Celebrating 25 years on television this year, Noot Vir Noot will be broadcast at 20:00.
International comedy series My Wife And Kids move to Saturdays at 18:30.
The channel also launches a new reality show Showville on Saturday the 6th of February at 19:30. Showville is hosted by Rob Van Vuuren and Bontle Modiselle.The show makes dreams a reality by bringing the glamour and glitz of television to the small, remote and often overlooked dorpies across South Africa. It will offer ordinary citizens their 15 minutes of fame as they showcase their talents in front of the camera.
Also returning in February is season 2 of local comedy Abomzala at 20:30. A sitcom about single women on the other side of 30 trying to find their Mr right.
The Afrikaans investigative news property Fokus returns to SABC2 on Sunday at 18:30.
Complete with brand new shows, new seasons of some of SABC viewers’ favourite programmes, slot changes and a list of spanking new personalities ready to thrill viewers with an enhanced television viewing experience.
The channel has introduced several changes to the weekday primetime schedule.
The local drama slot at 20:30 has been reduced to 24 minutes. We have acquired what we believe is an exciting offering to premiere in the Thursday 20:30 slot. Mfolozi Street Season 2, the series, starring Hlubi Mboya, Robert Mpisi, Luthuli Dlamini among others, promises to certainly raise a few industry standards in storytelling.
The channel has made a bold decision for the Friday entertainment primetime slot by acquiring a new 48-minute music entertainment show, Urban Music Xperience, hosted by Luthando “Lootlove” Shosha and Adil More, to be scheduled at 21:00, followed by Skyroom Live at 22:00. A revamped series of Live Amp, hosted by Pearl Thusi and DJ Warras, will now premiere on Friday at 19:30.
The 5th season of Fan Base at 18:00 will offer viewers an exciting revamp and a new versatile presenter in Akhumzi Jezile.
The weekend schedule will see changes in both daytime and primetime.
Saturday 09:00 will be the repeat of Urban Music Xperience.
This means that Mzansi Insider, which has acquired a new co-presenter in Rorisang Thadekiso, then moves to 10:00, an hour later than it had been previously scheduled. This has a further impact on the Generations Legacy Omnibus, which will now start at 11:00.
Season 14 of Friends Like These at 18:00 provides our viewers with added fun with comedian, Trevor Gumbi, in the driving seat and the introduction of new and exciting games.
Sunday 09:00 will be Gospel Gold, presented by Thabiso Mokhethi and Sthembile Mhlongo, followed by Mzansi Insider at 10:00.
At 12:30 on Sunday, SABC1 introduces an uZalo Omnibus in line with audiences’ expectations.
A 48-minute drama slot has been created on Sundays at 20:00. Titles acquired for this slot are Ngempela and Sokhulu & Partners.
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Welcome to Saga Kraft: myths, fairytales, legends stories, comfort us, inspire us and heal us. Please join us. As we share our stories, both old and new, more than anything, we are open to the story and it's unfolding at times. It may be one story told by one person at times it's the same story told through three different voices.
In the end, we go where the story takes us and we invite you to follow. I'm C a writer, artist, and storyteller. I'm Betsy, a medium and teacher of mystery traditions. I'm Gabriella, an artist and practitioner of folk magic. We are magical fairy godmothers in training. Well, first of all, I want to give thanks to Odin and Saga.
I wanted to thank all of the, other of the deities and the different beings that are part of Odin's story. I give thanks for the idea of intention, focus, sacrifice, and the creativity that, that unlocks. And I asked that Odin be present with us at this time.
I would call the Norns, too. Thank you so much for your amazing blessing and wisdom. And help me do well by you. I want to honor Yggdrasil and the wisdom of the natural world. And the wisdom of the ancient tree of every culture and how it brings us together through story through mystery, through nourishment, being able to tap into the sacred waters that run underneath and contain us I ask for the presence of healing, of these waters and the presence of the healing of the sacred tree.
As it reaches out to us. As we reach for it, it reaches back. So I honor and thank for this longing and for this exchange. Um, I give thanks to the Valkyries and. The Ravens. And as he said, the natural world, and I also give them thanks for stories that live on, like the story of living so on. And I do ask that in these strange and changing times that we invite also in welcome Saga into our midst and ask her in her craft and her wisdom to support these stories as they go out into the world, these different snapshots of this particular vision. Thank you so much for coming into my life. And I think all of our lives as well, and I'm just greatly thankful I wanted to thank all the liminal. Yeah. I want to thank our sweet, unknown listener.
Whoever you may be.
This is a story about Odin and all the magical beings that gather around his initiation. The three Swan Valkyries glided in over Yvonne holla at sunset. Wearied by nine long years of domestic captivity, they would have shouted with joy to see the shining shields of the einheriors hall still in Swan forum.
All they could do was honk excitedly, coming to a landing by the scarred purchase of Oden's Ravens. They began their transformation back to their womanly forms. One Raven, large as a sheep. Turned its ruffled head from the direction of the few warriors left, fighting on the practice field and said, currently he isn't here.
Don't bother changing back. He wants you to cleanse and ready yourself for duty at Urdu as well. He did know we were there muttered old room whose gift for knowing things had prompted her to say just that repeatedly during their captive years as wives. Of course, he did said the other Raven, Moonen looking interestingly out the three between Heimdall in us.
He knows everything. Why didn't he rescue us then said, hairball Alvita the most contentious of the three, nine years is a long time. Maybe you should have done exactly. As he said, when you said it said hook and gruffly, just because you've been given will doesn't mean you shouldn't use discretion with it.
I just wanted to see if that cowardly warrior could show some nobility before he got a free ride to ball. Holla hairball said defensively. His father's a drinking buddy of the all father said, mooning, check those things out before you make your own decisions. Anyway, you should get going big doings going on and you don't want to have Oden's baleful I am just now right.
Veer off said lack of the Swan white. Thank you for your courtesy. She held onto her dignity. Even during her running waddling, start to flight, the three swans lifted off and circled above the field, looking for the hidden and magnetic pathway to the base of the world tree, where the well was situated, finding a trace of it.
300 meters of the swans pictured the well in their minds and honed in on the proper frequency, engaging with the pathway. They settled into easy flight aided by the magic of the path. Shifting worlds shifting scenery, they merged into a realm where the immense three Yik Dressel dominate the view, making the base of the tree, but it's tangle of roots.
They side a collective sigh of relief. Or does well, a pool, never looking quite the same look, eerily the pool that had attracted them to drop their Swan coats and Bay. After a particularly gruesome battle, it was there that they had their coat stolen by three Elvin hunters, along with their means for transforming back into swans.
Unable to flee without their coats, to their horror. They felt very nature change from imperious Valkyries to docile and adoptive water as they landed beside the well that fatal disability was what they, each hoped would be washed from them in the healing and restorative waters of the ancient well of origin.
There was no sign of the Norns there, but the similar appearance of the pool indicated that the resident northerns were well aware of the Valkyries, even though it's the off others orders that we bathed here said Lagurtha, I think we had best obeyed for days. House rules of only two swans on the pool at a time.
As a Swan's drop there, coats and slid their gleaming bodies into the pool. Cool hair four began to look for a good place by the base of the tree for a restorative nap. As she came closer to the tree, she became aware of a curious energy emanating around the tree. Unlike the dappled sunshine around the pool, dark shadows were present under the tree, the consciousness of the tree, normally benign and somewhat draws a remote.
Felt very present, very awake and even a bit twitchy. She shed her coat, tying it around her womanly waist and noted to her surprise that her battle senses we're opening up what is going on here. She wondered she put some money thought into picturing the rather irascible norm it's clearly in her mind, the destiny goddesses remained stubbornly out of her sight.
I summon you nor, and she said exerting her well, a wavering transparent image of the northerns appearance was spinning a thick rope with, they look like fibers from a gallows news and shredded shrouds from corpses. Scold was cutting symbols that glowed like embers from a fire into the roots of the tree.
And was unrolling tapestries that had already been cut from their looms. As one, they all turned to hair VAR and said, get out. I can set hair for the all fathers sent us the northerns all looked at one another with raised eyebrows and as one shook their heads, then back off and stay out of the ways that Arista and don't bother us again.
You can bathe with them, said for Dawn day over her shoulder, I relaxed my rules for this one day only her final glimpse before the NORNS disappeared from her sight. Rather as though they drew down a shade was a skull pushing some sigils far up into the corner of the tree's trunk. These did not glow.
And as they were pushed disappeared from sight scold murmured, I'll save these for another day. She swung her curved blade with a whistling sound hairball, hurry to the pool and said to her companions, there's something very strange about to happen here. Actually, it has already started. She told them about her interaction with the NORNS as she entered the pool, she said, hurriedly for Donna gave me leave to enter the pool.
Lagurtha thinking it through said. Odin wants us here for something. If our battle senses are awake, we'd best be ready for anything and hope that we are doing his will said all room with a dark look at hair for, come on, let's clean up an armor ourselves. As they said about this plan, they did not yet notice that another had come to the well, this lady glowed and crackled with vitality.
She approached the well and seeing her own luminous beauty of reflected in the well adjusted her golden necklace to best advantage and noticed with a self loving smile that in order to scribe in the well, she would have to dim her own radiance. What is he up to? Why has he summoned me? She asked the well, the pool changed its appearance.
Again, this time to that of a crystal and surface swirling with clouds. As she watched her smile faded and she scrutinized the images. She was shown scene after scene of Odin summoning, the recent dead. Most of these were below gallows, whether punishments or sacrifices, she didn't know. She wants Tim summoning Volvos from there in tomb sleep.
She saw his commands to his bulkers to slay hero after hero army, after army. The death toll mounted. She even saw an image of Odin secretly watching her practice, her arts of side bastard, truth getter. She murmured laughing a little and frowning. She saw him throw his sphere over her people starting the first war, then prowling around the battlefield afterwards, trying to sniff out the magic of her Vanya.
She saw how many, a ruler dedicated the slain in battle to Odin. After that doing, as he did throwing the spear, she felt a stirring at her side and saw that she had been joined at the well by an elder elf, acknowledging Kim with a smile. She noted his quiet serenity. With his presence, the images in the pool changed and she saw elf after elf being summoned from within grave, mounds and questioned by Odin to give to him the secrets of the dead they're in tuned, the wind stirred the light around the trees base darkened.
As the clouds passed over the sun, the trees started creaking and groaning shivering as branches rustled. The all father Odin phase white and set single eye glaring approach. The tree, each movement he made was heavy with his intention. It carried gung near his sphere, a length of white cloth and a sharp iron knife solidly standing before the tree.
He spoke his intent to the tree in a low growl. All the deaths. He had incited, he offered to the tree, filling his lungs. He simultaneously blew out and stab the iron knife into the tree. He placed his spear against the trees, massive trunk. The NORNS appeared instantly behind him, or that came forward and dropped a corpse news around him.
Without turning. He pulled the news down to his ankles from his neck, my way he said, I need my breath Freya moved forward, catching his attention. She nodded to him, hunger to ear. She breathed God of the hangs. She held her fist over her heart and bowed. The Swan, Bob Curry is restored to their militant regalia with Spears and hand step forward and knelt feel Ghia Amenia de Sierra said Odin to them.
Each nodded solemnly the elder elf showed himself Lord of the grave mound about. Ponderously the tree lowered a great branch with much creaking. The Ravens were already perched on the branch. Raven, God, they croaked in unison, schooled, waved her knives saying, Oh, cut you down. When it's time for Don day tourist strip from the white cloth and tied it around his eye and socket.
The branch whipped up scattering, the Ravens and dangling Odin from its high reach, head hanging down where long bridge trailing in this manner. In silence days, past the Swan Valkyries, the Ravens and the northerns kept a vigil for him. The winds came and went sometimes crooning, sometimes shrieking.
Those closest to Odin came and went. Freya came always at dusk, pretty big eyes shining with calm, demeanor, sang to him, beloved Thor a few days later, still armored from whatever battle he'd been in gazed upon his father hanging in extremity and named him victory. God, Loki. Examining the increasing magic circling around the one eyed God called out high one while laughing, Dangler slate near on the eighth day pod.
The urban roots below Odin with three of his age, the legs at dark fall on the ninth day. Magic reaching a nearly unbearable pitch in great suffering. Odin cried out. I sacrifice myself to myself under cracked and rumble lightning split the sky Lagurtha took hold of good near fiercely, launched herself and speared Odin with it through the heart.
Oden's hands immediately clutched the shaft of the spear. Spear God. She cried out to him. Frenzied dying, Odin swung, wildly. Scold through her blade at the corner rope and cut Odin from the tree, riving, screaming, Odin fell and continue to fall into that death. As the roots of when a great hole in the ground, the Valkyries fell to their knees.
Symbols exploded out of the roots and struck Oden's corpse with considerable force, shocking him into an after death life. Blindfold gone, light and power blazed out of the MTI socket. Some of the glowing symbols flashed out onto the onlookers chaotic light and sounds spiraled wildly. Exultant the NORNS cried out, volunteer slaying God equipping to him forces not yet burst into the world.
That would be called runes. Songs of secret knowledge and with them, the vast wisdom and power held by the dead
I'm doing from the norms. It's mostly for Dani, but actually some of it was, they were chiming in together sometimes and have little disagreements before settling on. So there you go. Okay. Sacrifice. There is always a thread hanging that needs to be cut, sacrifice to make sacred, to trim off the old, in order to weave in the new sacrifice death that consecrates life Odin is always discontent.
Can't knowing enough. He has like some of you that way never satisfied. That's the real reason he wanders. He says he needs to recruit people. Really. He just wants to know everything about everyone everywhere. Anyway, on this day he wanted to know that. Yeah. So he did, it looked like a deep purple spot on his tapestry.
Purple is the hardest color for everyone involved. So when earns, spun purple, we all knew it was going to be well interesting. And exhausting purple is exhausting in the best possible way. We were tending to the roots of big drama, feeding her the compost of life, you know, like they expressed emotions, forgiven slights, and reconciled dreams.
When we noticed Odin watching with an obsessive kind of interest, he is always that way, really, either interested or not he was staring and then he pulled out a noose. I remember one of us muttered purple. I'm not sure which one. Now it doesn't matter. In any event, he looked at us as if we might do something, try to talk him down a bit or shoot him or covered him in dried fruit or any one of a million other things that only he would think of when we told him that we hadn't seen the purple, but didn't choose it.
It was or log not weird inside with really. I don't know what he thought, but he seemed happy that we weren't going to go rogue on him. Then it was so sweet. He asked us to walk over him. Of course, we told him that's what we're here for. Then climbed up into the tree to help tie the rope. So he couldn't fall prematurely.
We're longest, mostly her department. So we got the news, it's all cinched up and dangling over the, well, he didn't really seem to want the well, but we wanted to be sure that if he fell, he wouldn't hurt himself. More than was necessary anyway, and that he would have access to creation or recreation in his case.
Then he climbed up stabbed himself with gum there, no easy task. I tell you. And there he hung day in and day out for nine days. You can in union brekkie and Gary, they all just sat there with him, guarding him. Pretty was watching him through her scrying pool. She didn't want to add at any pressure. So sweet.
His visitors came and went mostly his ancestors. He brought him some honey cake, but he wasn't in the eating mood. What would the spirit inside? We read? I took the cake and put it on a ledge just inside the weld. You keep it fresh until he was done. Birthday cake. Somebody brought him to me and to magical meet.
Of course you wouldn't give a dying God, just a regular class. Now they call that the meta poetry. But it's really more like the, me to beauty and power for us. That's what poetry is. And he learned the spells and carved the runes. I know the room thing seems strange, but he carved them in himself. You scored them into his heart, mind and soul as he hung there.
Sometimes weeping, sometimes laughing, you know how it is when reality is too big to fit into your body and you waffle between disparate ecstasy. It was like that. At first it was slow. He'd be groaning all morning, then grinning all afternoon, but it's set up as he dangled until at the end of it, it was hard to tell which end of the spectrum he was on.
You suspected both. On the last night, the Valkyrie has stayed with him in a candle light vigil. It was one of the most beautiful things we've ever seen. And we rarely agree on that kind of thing. It was well purchased night, sort of like your Halloween, but without the customs and candy, wild instinctual magic builds up all year and then breaks loose that night only to be reigned in the following day.
Unless of course it is first assumed into the body of a God. And that night it was in the morning has extended fever, broke, broke him, broke his rope, broke his makeshift gallows, and he dropped like a rock. Then like a feather truth be told until the well where he drank and drank and drank. He climbed up and out retrieving then enjoying his birthday cake.
And for one moment, and one moment only Odin was satisfied. Sacrifice releases the past sacrifice, restarts the heart sacrifice reveals the magic.
This part of the story is an honor of the sacred seeker. My first awareness is not of the tree, but of the darkness and stars of unknown origin shimmering in the distance. For nine days. Now, I must have lingered between worlds feeling the rustling of leaves around me. As I reversed myself to embrace myself and to all that have been hidden from me, I've had no food or drink of the living world, but the other world feeds me and quenches.
The thirst of my spirit for the longing of my soul will surely outlast the thirst of the flesh and I shall remain. Not knowing which way is up or down nor of what world I came from. I wait, suspended, reversed, undone, and ecstatic with delirium. By what sorcery have I been bound here? What treacherous winds have stolen my power and left me defenseless.
I hear it. The whistling wind mocking my confusion or is it my own laughter. Rising with the light as my heart beats loudly, like the roaring thunder desperately. I stare into the deep void and darkness around me until I see her true form, which is to my delight, the womb. And in that moment, I know it is I who bound myself to this moment.
It is I who longed for her and all her mystery and was willing to offer myself fully to binds around my feet. Unwind for, they never held me. And my position was always of the one about to fall into the abyss, which has no direction, only the entry, which is now revealed to me in all her glory, like a long lost lover.
I am embraced by her naked and longing. She is taking me in as deeply as I have, let myself surrender my dare to grasp at her swelling movements, but they have no form or move too fast for me to hold on to. Time is different here or rather it does not exist. And neither does the reason. I see so many things, most of which I cannot comprehend the sounds or shapes and shapes or songs vibrate through my very being these shapes, like dancing, like expand and collapse and begin to drift towards me and from the depth as they come closer.
I see that it is a form of a man, these shapes of cloaked. And he is me. And for me, he comes and I know there's no escaping. Only one of us will reemerge. Only one kind of remember who shall it be? Will it be I the seeker of mystery or I, the giver of sacred markings, no time for deliberation and a timeless place.
So it has been decided. My memory of hunger is awakened. Now when my deep longing must be filled in one final breath, I devour my approaching dark self and his knowledge forever in me. That final breath is also my first breath, which has forced me out and caught me in a pool of dark water. And now I can see the tree majestic floating above me.
With a one eyed man stretched across it's thick luminous branches. He sees me looking back at him and laughed loudly, his voice slinging like a bell of a most familiar song. Thank you so much. Those that were fun. What a beautiful marriage of three. Yes. I thought it was lovely and I really liked the way they fit in more than I thought they would.
I really feared that they were going to actually divert more than they did, but no, no. I think they were part of the top history, coatings tapestry, and the tapestry of all others who are part of that. Quite remarkable, actually. Hail Odin.
Alright. A Swan maidens. Wow. They were glorious. Thank you. That that telling was absolutely glorious. I'm really struck by the beauty of Oden's experience as you spoke of it, Gabriela and the power of the threads of the tapestry and the way of all those threads are connecting from so many places and so many people and so many timelines and so many worlds.
And I think in this telling of the stories for me, I felt as though. It gave me a glimpse of what that experience must be like. Beautiful. Thank you. I'm feeling deeply grateful for being part of this story and for the story wanting to be told and wanting to be told that this time it's such a potent time and a time where so many worlds are coming together and where perspective can change an entire world.
And calling someone by their sacred name as they surrender to some part of themselves that is completely unknown and terrifying to see them in that moment and to witness that is a huge blessing and a changing of the world as it was. So I kind of want to interview you as Odin. How did you feel about the people around you?
As Odin. And that moment there was no Odin. There was only the suspended one. There was only belonging. One. There was no awareness of anybody around him, around me as Odin. There's no one else around the beings around are formless, unknown. I am unknown. I am simply waiting for something great. And I am completely lost as to why I'm waiting, but I am aware of the great care and protection.
That's granted to me in this unknown moment. I am cared for. Well, I loved them. I thought both of yours particularly are tremendously beautiful. I'm struck by how they came together and the details were of the same story. Yet. They came together out of the dark. They were not, they were truly out, they found them, they found each other as if they were completely aware of the other being written at the same time, pulling the elements, but changing the elements enough to where they were still their own beings, their own stories.
See, what glimpse of Odin did you get through the eyes of the NORNS my feeling about Odin through the eyes of the norms was that he was a sweet boy. Like could look at our little boy has grown up.
So I felt very much like he was moving from man to God. Like this was the moment that he really became a God. And so it was almost like graduation. I felt, you know, he was going to his graduation now and everybody was a little worried, cause I know it's going to hurt for him, but simultaneously they also know he's going to be fine.
And I'm curious about the Swan maidens and whether their oath have changed after witnessing Odin, entering this dimension of the unknown and of the highest mystery. Great question. I mean, my sense of them was that when they arrive in the scene and behalf. They're looking in the past that they're nine years of servitude and they're quickly brought into a different alignment with themselves and a remembrance of themselves, but also a taking of who they are and to some form that was much greater than that.
And I feel as though it took their relationship with Odin to a much higher level as well of gratitude. But also of, uh, in being called field. Yeah. Humming, uh, this year Odin was, is acknowledging them as part of himself asking them to have the grace to be separate from him, but so hold him in his space where he could become greater in himself as they were becoming greater in themselves too.
It was beautiful. Um, from that respect, I also, I felt as though they knew that he, we all knew that he's sacrificed all of them and everything they had for this too, and that they accepted that. I don't know if that answered your question or not. Absolutely. Absolutely. It just felt like it was such a shift in the story, as you were telling it, when the sacred names were being called, when everything leading up to that moment and the threads and everybody was witnessing, it just felt like something has really shifted.
Everyone was there to be taken from, to participate and especially Odin of what the ultimate sacrifice. Knowing that it must be witnessed or it wouldn't count, or it wouldn't be as potent. So he's called everybody there. I mean, my story, I was surprised to see that as the runes, you know, took their hold of him, that they splashed out onto everyone who was there witnessing as well.
And that feels like a further, further entanglement of all those tapestries, but also. A sharing of the deep wisdom that all of them in their own ways have really contributed to. I love that that moment was in the story because the ruins are claimed by other gods, by other beings. And in this perspective, it brings it all together into.
Yes. They came to being because of his sacrifice and in so many ways, but also the other people who are there and the other gods who were there have given them form through themselves really, really profound. And see, I must ask about purple. Thank you. I was going to do that too. I am most I'm completely going with it because it, yes, it makes sense.
It is, it is a difficult color in many ways. It's the most difficult color to create a fabric, which is why it was historically used for divinity because it's very, very hard to create. That's lovely. Thank you. Another way of signaling to him, what's happening for him? Right. That was beautiful because what would it be like if we were able to have our minds open enough to perceive those threads while they're forming, which can help us to see the direction that we're going.
And so many of those threads were not only carrying him forward, but creating a form for him to do it in as well. Yeah, almost cocooning him. I really liked in all of them how he didn't quite know what was going on because so many people, at least that I've heard tell the story as if you know, Oh, it is up there, been about us, but in my mind, not at least when I looked into it, for me, it was so about, he was just following his intuition and following his guidance, not combating the world.
But rather being himself, which is a way of combating the world, but not one. We usually give that kind of respect too, that intense, longing for knowledge or wisdom, but also for something greater in my seeing of it or my story, it felt like everyone who was there was drawn by that longing and.
Participated in that longing and then benefited from that longing also, but one never knows how, what exactly the benefit is going to be. That's the great unknown. Well, and for me, this story of Odin in particular feels the most human and he feels human. And even as the story came for me, A few years ago, parts of it.
I felt connected to as a man, not as a God, as a man who in that moment knows not of his divinity, but of his vulnerability and surrender, which is his greatest asset in that moment into the ministry. So he can be fully open to it. And she reveals herself only under those circumstances. I feel like that's so often our greatest asset is our ability to be open and vulnerable and present in the moment.
And to know when it's appropriate to be open. And when it's appropriate to sit up, to stand up to show up, like those are both, all of these aspects are in our birthright, too. Being in mystery and being ourselves and truly showing up. Yeah. There's so many ways that this is the story of how Austin became.
Yeah. I think you did a wonderful job, Gabriela of letting us experience through the eyes of Odin, what a transcendent, and sometimes even bewildering experience, it might be too. Open oneself in that kind of surrender was be very beautiful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. I loved in the Swan maidens too, thinking about, you know, and add.
And so it went in this one page that was, I loved that I was reflecting too on what a different world we would live in. If we were all asked to be so fully present all the time to really show up and to do things and that. It's a matter of formality versus a heartfelt, how do we show up in a way that is truly heartfelt and really apply ourselves and our energies to the gifts of whatever is happening in each moment, I'm quite taken by them.
I have to say, I cut out a little bit of their bickering that had been going on, you know, just a pool because we felt myself moving into the solemnity of the Mo of the moments already once they entered into that landscape. But I, for myself also really loved that they felt those battles senses, opening and knowing, you know, knew that.
They had to stop all of that, pay attention and get ready for whatever was going to happen. I liked that about them. I loved that too. And just the idea of how do you know when the battle is internal versus external? How do you show up to the real battle, which sometimes is within yourself for myself, right.
And the elements really are the same and how. They sensed the great shift in destiny as the battle, which is possibly what they are tuning to when there is a battle, destiny is about to change. Things are about to get into a different, a different space. And in this way, that's how they would respond with their intuitive knowings of a great shift coming that way, coming their way.
And I loved the Norns interacting with them as well. And recognizing, uh, by another authority they have been, um, and just sort of them being in part knowing of this moment, but also being changed by that moment or. There are some elements unknown to them. Like as if they're taken back possibly because preparation making the color purple it's on the other side, the color purple is a really, you know, it's a really challenging one to make.
So they're not even paying attention that what, who is coming here. Why are all these people here? Maybe that's why it's so hard to make. Cause because somebody's always distracting you when you're making it. I have to say, I didn't make this story up. This story just came through, but I love the reflections that were in it too.
The reflections of the pool itself as people saw that. But also even more importantly, the reflections that each of them gave to Odin when he needed it, when he was on the tree in various stages, each name carrying him. Perhaps helping him coalesce into something truer and greater, as you were saying, becoming that divinity.
Sometimes we don't know what's happening to us until somebody reflects it back to us. Like the northerns reflecting the purple. This is the choice of this is what happens when this color is part of your top string in truth. I'd love to hear more of all of these people's stories.
Me too. Like, what's it like the morning after exactly, exactly the morning after who had sex with who,
how was the fruit cake and who got, which runes, you know, so exactly. Deliberating how they will be shared with the rest and if they will be shared well, thank you. I just love it's doing this. I loved going and getting with the noise. I loved about it. It's a bit eerie about how each of the stories wove together.
So well, cause as I was. No transcribing my story as it came through, I was thinking so much of my story is happening way before, you know, or somewhat before. But in the context of yours I'll make sense. I am absolutely delighted by how beautifully they were woven together. What an absolutely balanced braid they created.
Well, I feel like this week might. Then has to be to hang on the tree myself, because I felt that way when we were doing it. But as we opened this and did the hell. Yeah, I think that idea of dedication of dedicating, even the chaos that's happening now is something that all focus on in this week. I'm dedicating my actions, dedicating what I hear in the news to the wellbeing of whatever it is that's emerging collectively, and hoping that what's emerging in that way is going to be for the benefit of all.
Thank you for your contributions to that. Thank you. I think that I will also concentrate on them. Welcoming emergent grace. I will as well. Is our three woven stories is our three strands of vision strengthening the intention for a better world for world. We are consciously and subconsciously longing for and birthing in a world in which the viewpoints of individuals matter and are part of what emerges for everyone's wellbeing.
That includes the people, the tree, the animals, the birds, all of it. Right. What do we want the new rooms to be? Maybe the rooms are the names of everybody sacred calling, but they might've forgotten our names and our truly sacred yearnings also.
Well, as always, I want to thank Saga the great mistress of stories, and I think she's helped us each in her own way come to bring something very beautiful through. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Saga
Special thanks to the fantastic Zoe Magik for her phenomenal editing skills.
Myths, stories, and how to use them.
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Myths, fairy tales, legends: Stories comfort us, inspire us, and heal us. Please join us as we share stories, both old and new.
More than anything, we are open to the story and its unfolding. At times, it may be one story told by one person. At times, it’s the same story told through three different voices. In the end, we go were the story takes us . . . and we invite you to follow.
Sea, a writer artist and storyteller.
Betsy, a medium and teacher of mystery traditions.
Gabriela, an artist and practitioner of folk magic.
We’re magical fairy godmothers in training.
May our stories meet yours.
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Billy Besson and Marie Riou Win Overall Trofeo Princesa Sofia
Published on April 2nd, 2016
Bay of Palma, Spain (April 2, 2016) – As an indicator as to possible Olympic sailing medal form in Rio, the Trofeo Princesa Sofia IBEROSTAR regatta which finished today (Saturday) in Palma revealed two absolute stand outs.
France’s charismatic four times wold champions Billy Besson and Marie Riou won the Nacra 17 class with a day to spare and win the overall Trofeo Princesa Sofia IBEROSTAR for the best performance at the regatta.
“We are working towards Rio and every result is important, but the finishing place is not a big thing, at this stage it is more about how we sail, trying to do the best job on board each and every day,” Besson noted. “That is what we are trying to do. But you can never be perfect, you keep trying. But winning is great and it will be great to be able to meet and kiss the queen!”
The famous Bay of Palma dealt the armada of over 800 boats competing at the 47th Trofeo Princesa Sofia IBEROSTAR a full range of different breezes, just what was really wanted by those sailors who have their courses set towards the 2016 Olympic regatta in Rio.
For the first time Spain’s showcase Olympic event offered European countries their last opportunity to qualify their nation for the Olympics. For other sailors it was a selection trials event. And for very many, the traditional curtain raiser to the European Olympic classes season, was a chance to polish their skills in a high pressure, big fleets situation.
Preceding as it does, the 470 European Championships on the same waters, the 49er European Championships in just over one week in Barcelona the RS:X Worlds in Mexico and the Sailing World Cup in Hyeres coming up it this Palma regatta is what is considered a vital ‘training’ rather than ‘outcome’ regatta.
Billy Besson’s outgoing demeanour may contrast with that of the 470 Men’s winning helm Mat Belcher. The 2012 470 gold medallist is perhaps more reserved and wearing his clear, single minded focus on his sleeve. But both Besson and Belcher share the same incredible work ethic and quest for perfection in all that they do.
Belcher and Will Ryan were outstanding as they triumphed in the 470 Men’s class by 28 points, winning seven of their total of 16 races. This week they have seemed unstoppable. Of the message such a dominant win delivers to the 470 fleet and the wider world Belcher less than six months before the Games observed:
“If I was another competitor going into the Games and saw a performance like this then I suppose they might think (of themselves): ‘We have things to work on’. But all the teams are working on different things at the moment. Each event is treated differently by different crews. And so really we just only focus on ourselves. We are trying to get ourselves ready. We are focused and are working as hard has we can.”
After finishing fourth, behind the USA’s Stu McNay and Dave Hughes and third placed Pangiotis Mantis and Pavlos Kagialis, Great Britain’s 2012 470 silver medallist Luke Patience says of Belcher and Ryan.
“The Aussies are beatable. They have beaten more times recently but they are so good. They are the hardest boat to beat. They were absolutely launched this week. Our perception is their average speed is always high. They may not always be the fastest boat on the pitch but they are never, ever, ever, ever slow!”
New Zealand sailors completed a notable double in the Men’s singlehander classes. In the white hot Finn class Josh Junior brought world champion Giles Scott’s winning streak to an end. Scott’s challenge was hurt by a broken rudder fitting on Friday, but Junior sailed an accomplished, consistent series. His triumph was matched in the Laser fleet by Andy Maloney who lead from the middle of the week.
Maloney said: “I was looking to sail consistently this weel which I did. I was trying to start better and try and sail risk free. And today i wanted to treat it like the Olympics. Only Tonci could beat me and so I had to cover him and so I exectuted that strategy well.”
Brazil’s Robert Scheidt, pursuing his sixth Olympic medal, proves he is peaking on time. After winning in Miami in January, winning today’s medal race gave him second overall. And there, too, is a message to the Laser fleet. The 42 year old is hitting form as he hoped.
“I am happy with my week. I did not start so well. Day 3 was bad. But to bounce back and finish strong is good for me. The fleet is very tough. I have certain details to improve, starts, light airs, some manoeuvres. You can always keep improving, especially in a very physical boat like the Laser where you have to keep training, you have to work the whole time.
“The Olympics will be high pressure for sure. Having said that I have been to five Olympics already so I feel like I know what it will be like. The hardest thing will be before it starts, those weeks, but once it starts you are in the bubble. You are in the mindset, you do what you have to do. The Laser is so hard now there are ten guys who can win the medal.
“Of course there are always things to work on. But last year I was in fourth and fifth and not in the medals and this year I won Miami and finished second here in Palma. So I hope these guys are worried now!”
For others overall victory probably means much more. Ireland’s Ryan Seaton and Matt McGovern won the 49er class, a big endorsement of the progress they have made, keeping 2012 Olympic Champions Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen in second. Outteridge concluded:
“We should have done a bit better. We did not start so well with a capsize early in the week and a capsize in the big waves in the gold fleet. You pull them out of our scores and that is 20 points we lost. We are OK. I would not say we are happy. We can sail a lot better. We need to get more time in the boat. We need more time in the windy conditions, which, for Rio may not be as important, it is typically lighter and flatter. But Barcelona and the Europeans are a big event for us and so coming here and racing in the waves was really important. The result is important here. But it was more important not to do badly!”
The Dutch pair Annemiek Bekkering and Annette Duetz closed out their win in the 49er FX class.
Finland’s Tuula Tenkanen also scored her firs big European regatta win leaving Belgium’s 2012 bronze medallist Evi van Acker to second in the Laser Radials, in the 470 Women it was also the first big success for the rising Polish duo Agnieszka Skrzypulec and Irmina Mrozek Gliszczynska who clinched victory with second in the Medal race. And Britain’s Tom Squires shrugged off tiredness brought on by a tough travelling schedule to win the RS:X Men while Russia’s Olga Maslivets sailed for victory in the RS:X Women.
Top North Americans: By winning the Medal Race, Stu McNay and Dave Hughes (USA) moved up to second in the Men’s 470. Marion Lepert (USA) also won the Medal Race in the Women’s RS:X but stayed in tenth. Paris Henken and Helena Scutt (USA) finished third in the Medal Race but remained in eighth in the 49erFX, a fourth in the Medal Race also kept Charlie Buckingham (USA) in ninth, while Luke Ramsay and Nikola Girke (CAN) slipped to ninth in the Nacra 17 after a sixth in the Medal Race. A 2-1 by Dee Smith (USA) in the 2.4mR moved him up to fifth position.
Event Website – Scoreboard – USA Team report
Note: Trofeo Princesa Sofia Iberostar on March 28-April 2, one of the world’s most enduring Olympic classes regattas, was the final USA selection event to determine the Olympic representative in the Men’s Laser, the Men’s RS:X and the Women’s RS:X events. Full report.
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San Francisco Mayor London Breed names new affordable housing director
Dominic Fracassa April 21, 2020 Updated: April 21, 2020 7:46 p.m.
Eric Shaw was appointed on Tuesday to lead San Francisco’s affordable housing office.
Photo: Courtesy of the San Francisco Mayor's Office
San Francisco Mayor London Breed said Tuesday that she’s appointed Eric Shaw, an urban planner with expertise in community development, to lead the city’s affordable housing office.
The Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development plays a pivotal role in financing affordable housing projects in San Francisco, a task that has taken on outsize importance in a city confronting a punishing housing crisis.
“Eric has extensive experience in community planning, and I’m looking forward to working with him to create a more affordable and equitable San Francisco,” Breed said in a statement.
Shaw was selected after a national search that followed former Director Kate Hartley’s departure last July. Deputy Director of Housing Dan Adams had been leading the office in an interim capacity since then.
Prior to taking the housing position, Shaw was an adviser to the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, where he worked on planning and community development aspects of the 2018 Camp Fire recovery.
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“I am looking forward to being part of the mayor’s team to create more housing and make San Francisco a more affordable and equitable place to live,” Shaw said in a statement. “With the current coronavirus pandemic, MOHCD’s services are more important than ever, especially in our vulnerable communities.”
He’ll take the helm of the office at a time of unprecedented economic upheaval brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, one that has inflamed housing insecurity, punched a billion-dollar hole in San Francisco’s budget, frozen many construction projects and thrown into question how much federal money might be available to cities for affordable housing.
Given the delicate ties between affordable housing financing and the broader economy, “this is absolutely a challenging time,” said Kristy Wang, director of community planning policy at urban policy organization SPUR.
Funding sources for affordable housing, like fees developers pay when building market-rate housing or office buildings and affordable housing bonds — “those are all things that are contingent upon our economy growing and/or voters feeling flush,” Wang said. “From a money perspective, it’s going to be a challenge.”
San Francisco voters passed a $600 million affordable housing bond — the largest in city history — last November, enough to build fewer than 3,000 units.
Figures from the affordable housing office last fall showed that it takes five years and around $700,000 to build a single affordable housing unit in San Francisco. That figure has likely increased in the intervening months.
Dominic Fracassa is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: dfracassa@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @dominicfracassa
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Pine Lake Park
The renovation here has been extensive and has made this open space one of the most beautiful parks in San Francisco! To start, this park is graced with a gorgeous meadow and eucalyptus grove. This place is perfect for one of San Francisco's inconsistent hot days-- there is Laguna Puerca Lake that keeps the area a bit cooler. The lake is beautiful to admire and great to sit by and lounge!
Off-leash dogs are allowed
It is adjacent to Stern Grove, which makes a great additional trip on your excursion. There are decent footpaths to explore, and plenty of parking.
Pine Lake Park is owned by the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department.
L-Taraval -- 46th Avenue/Wawona/Zoo stop. Walk down to Sloat and catch the 23-Monterey inbound bus.
17-Parkmerced -- Junipero Serra Blvd. and Sloat Blvd. Transfer to the 23-Monterey (outbound) bus.
18-46th Avenue -- Sloat and 47th Ave. Transfer to the 23-Monterey (inbound) bus
23-Monterey -- Sloat and Vale; walk north past Crestlake Drive.
28-19th Avenue -- 19th Ave. and Sloat; walk west along Sloat to Crestlake, follow Crestlake to the walking trail (alongside Vale Ave.) that leads into the park. If you don't want to walk, you can transfer to the 23-Monterey outbound bus.
29-Sunset -- Sunset Blvd. and Yorba St. Walk east along Yorba to Crestlake, then follow Crestlake to Vale Ave.
A homesteader, a widow, a tenor, and a park superintendent became the unlikely mix that produced Stern Grove and Pine Lake Park. George M. Greene was the pioneer who homesteaded a land grant that is now the site of the Grove and who planted its eucalyptus trees in 1871. Rosalie Meyer (Mrs. Sigmund) Stern was the widow seeking a memorial to her husband in 1931. Tenor Lawrence Strauss stood on the Grove's southern hillside and sang a song, at Rosalie's request, while she listened from the northern slope and thrilled to the clarity of the sound. And Superintendent of Parks, John McLaren, was the man who first told Rosalie that the eucalyptus grove was 'a place that you should have.' Its excellent acoustics sealed the deal. This natural amphitheater would be a fitting way to remember Sigmund Stern, whose life had been an example of civic service and sharing. In 1931, Rosalie bought the property for $50,000 from George Greene and deeded it to the city, stipulating that it be used solely for recreation -- 'music, dramatics and pageantry,' and 'under the jurisdiction and control of the Playground Commission of San Francisco,' of which she was president.
Source: The Stern Grove Midsummer Music Festival: The First Fifty Seasons by Laurence Rothe, Stern Grove Festival Association, 1987.
Preparing the property for dedication as the Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove, Rosalie Stern enlisted architects Gardiner Dailey and Bernard Maybeck to design the landscape and restore the Trocadero, the elegant Victorian hotel/resort built by Greene in 1892. Frequented by San Francisco's carriage trade, it was, in its early 1900s heyday, the rendezvous of the elite, a hideout, a refuge, and sometimes a site of revenge. Prohibition closed the Trocadero because, Greene said, 'I wouldn't have bootlegging here.' He was living there when Mrs. Stern bought the property.
On June 4, 1932, Mayor Angelo Rossi dedicated Stern Grove with speeches from assorted dignitaries and a program of performances by children. The dedication concert established the tradition that the Grove's Midsummer Music Festival be preceded by the Recreation and Park Department's Carnival, a showcase for performances by children from the city's parks and playgrounds. On June 19th, Gaetano Merola of the San Francisco Opera, conducted the first concert in Stern Grove's amphitheater, and in 1938 the Midsummer Music Festival became the annual outdoor concert event that continues to this day.
In 1932, Rec and Park began to acquire additional land, and, by 1938, had increased the park acreage to 33.5 acres, for a cost of just $170,200. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was enlisted to grade the roadway down to the amphitheater, build walkways and erect retaining walls. Today, with the adjoining Pine Lake tract, the Park spreads over 63 acres, bounded by Sloat Boulevard, Wawona Street, 19th Avenue on the east and 34th Avenue on the west. There are tennis courts, lawn bowling and croquet courts, golf putting greens, picnic tables and a children's playground.
Pine Lake, around which gentlemen used to row their ladies in the Trocadero's days, has a major, ongoing ecological problem, says Dylan Hayes of the Friends of Stern Grove/Pine Lake. In 1997, its surface was covered with a smothering blanket of the invasive aquatic primrose (Ludwigia hexapetala). Rec and Park had it removed with an aquatic harvester, freeing habitat for use by the aquatic wildlife and helping restore the ecological balance. However, the plant has come back in full force and again needs mass removal. Hayes hopes to help coordinate future efforts with Rec and Park's Natural Areas and Volunteer Programs (N.A.P.). The Friends generally hold workdays via the N.A.P. on the third Saturday of the month. They work with other community and school groups doing habitat restoration and addressing such other problems as erosion of the lake's surrounding slopes due to off-trail use, and the impacts of increased park visitation. To get involved, contact Dylan Hayes at (415) 759-0101.
- Jeanne Alexander, Neighborhood Parks Council
If you have a chihuahua, go to http://chihuahua.meetup.com/445/ to get more information about other chihuahua owners meeting here at Pine Lake.
Clubhouse/ Activity room, Day Camp Clubhouse/ Activity room, Day Camp Kitchen, Restrooms
Crestlake St. and Vale St.
Park Amenities >
Upcoming Events for Pine Lake Park
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Mountain Training walk you through the joys of travelling by foot
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Irish Tech Start-up Blocworx announces launch of two new products
Irish Tech Start-up, Blocworx, who are leading the way in digitising workplaces and processes, announced launch of two new products: Covid-19 Return To Work Protocol and HIQA Covid-19 Nursing Home Protocol. These systems enable organisations to comply with the new Covid-19 protocols by giving a walkthrough of the steps required and providing the ability to digitally track the activity that’s required of them.
Covid-19 Return To Work Protocol
This product controls the workplace health and safety measures requested by the government for businesses to safely return to work. The system is designed to help businesses returning to work track activity such as Temperature Checking, Employee Activity, Escalations & Contact Policy, Cleaning Checks, Inventory Supplies of hygiene products and Self-Assessments for Employees just to name a few. Blocworx Covid-19 Return To Work Protocol contains the essential business model adjustments needed to adhere to the governments requirements at only €149.99 per year a further 30% discount is available to Supply Network Shannon and Next Level Members.
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Blocworx also announced the forthcoming launch of a HIQA Covid-19 Nursing Home Protocol, a system that helps Ireland’s residential services for the elderly track their patients, staff and the workplace to comply with new legislation. Adding these systems to the marketplace, Blocworx is equipping enterprises to battle the pandemic by keeping track of their employee’s health and work conditions. Identifying symptoms early will help enterprises diagnose, treat and prevent their staff and residents from the worst impact while keeping a primary focus on the overall business continuity. The HIQA Covid-19 Nursing Home Protocol system covers your data collection and reporting. The HIQA Covid-19 Nursing Home Protocol system covers your data collection and reporting for only €299.99 per year, a further 30% discount is available to Supply Network Shannon and Next Level Members.
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Messi/Ronaldo/Neymar Watch
Reports: Ronaldo Upset By Real's Interest In Neymar
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By Kurt Buckerfield
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The forward is believed to be upset that the club are willing to spend an exorbitant amount of money on the Paris Saint-Germain attacker while seemingly being unwilling to offer him an improved deal.
He also apparently feels that Neymar would take the spotlight away from him if he did join the Spanish giants.
Since his controversial comments, the Portugal forward is yet to announce whether or not he is staying at Los Blancos.
Zidane: Why I Decided To Quit Real
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The gratin of baby potatoes filled with beef belly ragout and topped with a parmesan crust at Angele Restaurant and Bar in Napa. (Photo by Beth Schlanker)
Here are spoon-size portions of previous restaurant reviews by Jeff Cox, accompanied by the date they originally appeared in The Press Democrat. Reviews will appear on a seasonal basis.
Angele Restaurant & Bar, 540 Main St., Napa, 707-252-8115, angelerestaurant.com. This sweet restaurant with a view of the Napa River tries very hard to be French — and succeeds. The dishes honor the ingredients, and they’re served in charming and flavorful ways. The entrees run to the standards like salmon, steak, pork chop, scallops, quail and duck breast, but it’s among the many appetizers that chef Rogelio Garcia’s creativity is truly found. The desserts are delicious and the wine list extensive. Highly recommended. Reviewed 9/14/14. $$$.
Aventine Glen Ellen, 14301 Arnold Drive, Glen Ellen, 707-934-8911, glenellen.aventinehospitality.com. A 170-year-old grist mill is home to Aventine, brought up to date and surrounded by decking shaded by ancient trees along a year-round creek. The food is Italian aimed at the American palate, with excellent lasagna, wood-fired pizza, and grilled salmon and lamb dishes. A full bar and good wine list make this place perfect for relaxing after a hard day’s wine tasting. Reviewed 8/24/14. $$$
Baci Cafe & Wine Bar, 336 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg, 707-433-8111, bacicafeandwinebar.com. Classic Italian dishes, many of them from the northern part of Italy, are expertly prepared by chef Shari Sarabi, who’s originally from Iran but cooks as though he’s from Milan. A large wood-fire oven turns out some of the best pizza in the region. The sauce Bolognese is the real thing, and there’s tiramisu and panna cotta for dessert. The wine list features bottles from Italy and around Healdsburg. Reviewed 12/1/13. $$$
Brasserie Restaurant at the Hyatt Vineyard Creek Hotel & Spa, 170 Railroad St., Santa Rosa, 707-636-7388, vineyardcreek.hyatt.com. The kitchen turns out some excellent dishes from executive chef Chris Ciero, including small plates and appetizers such as mini ravioli and Humboldt Fog tomato galette, and main plates that include a near-perfect flatiron steak and herb-roasted chicken. The menu allows diners to select a small or large portion of meat or seafood, choose one of six sauces, and add two side dishes of their choice. Reviewed 1/18/15. $$-$$$.
Brasa Churrascaria and Brew Pub, 505 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa, 707-623-9382, thebrasa.com. This is a Brazilian barbecue restaurant with some of that country’s authentic recipes carefully prepared. Don’t miss Brazil’s national dish, feijoada completa, a delicious pork and black bean stew. Discover the joys of a cocktail called the caipirinha and the Brazilian cachaça spirit used to make it. The rodizio, at $40, is a feast of grilled meats and side dishes that’s the basis for a good party. Reviewed 8/31/14. $-$$.
The patio at Campo Fina in Healdsburg. (Photo by Kent Porter)
Campo Fina, 330 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg, 707-395-4640, campofina.com. This small-plates sister restaurant to the incomparable Scopa has the same crowd-pleasing Italian food, including perfect pizzas from the wood-burning oven. There’s an patio in the backyard and a bocce court. The place specializes in house-developed and classic cocktails, as well as Italian and local wines. The food is so good you might just think you’re in Italy. Reviewed 10/12/14. $$-$$$
Diavola Pizzeria and Salumeria, 21021 Geyserville Ave., Geyserville, 707-814-0111, diavolapizzeria.com. Chef and owner Dino Bugica spent years learning about real Italian food from his real Italian family and by living and working in Italy. It shows in his hand-crafted salami, authentic pizzas, pasta dishes, entrees and desserts. The house-made salami and cheese appetizer is not to be missed. Diavola is a magnet for food lovers in sleepy, out-of-the-way Geyserville, and deservedly so. Reviewed 5/11/14. $$-$$$$
Earth’s Bounty Kitchen & Wine Bar, 5755 Mountain Hawk Way, Santa Rosa, 707-827-9700, earthsbountykitchen.com. The emphasis is on local, sustainable, farm-to-table fare, and the quality of the ingredients is a plus, even when some of the dishes don’t quite work. There’s something for everyone, from mac and cheese to grilled albacore, and the desserts are scrumptious. In addition to the restaurant, there’s a deli and wine bar. Reviewed 9/28/14. $$-$$$
The Farmer & The Fox, 3111 St. Helena Highway N., St. Helena, 707-968-5434, cairdeanestate.com. Joseph Humphrey has cooked at many iconic restaurants in the North Bay, and now he’s at this classy Scots-themed restaurant in the Cairdean Estate — a collection of shops and eateries at Cairdean Vineyards & Winery. His food, as always, is super, with a Scottish lilt: barley stew with fried quail, butterscotch soufflé, and one of the best burgers around. Great cocktails, too. Reviewed 1/25/15. $$-$$$
The Gypsy Café, 162 N. Main St., Sebastopol, 707-861-3825, gypsy-café.com. The Gypsy Café occupies the spot where the Pine Cone restaurant operated for decades. It’s a great spot for breakfast and lunch; dinner is served only on Fridays, but there’s lots from which to choose. Chef Martin Maigaard calls his cooking “modern comfort food,” and so it is, with pot roast, local salmon in season, free-range fried chicken and vegetarian pasta, among other dishes. The wine list is small but from premium Dry Creek Valley producers. Reviewed 8/3/14. $$-$$$
Big Bowl of Roasted Wood Oven Mussels, cooked with fennel, garlic, onion and beer, at Jackson’s Bar and Grill in Santa Rosa. (Photo by Christopher Chung)
Jackson’s Bar and Oven, 135 Fourth St., Santa Rosa, 707-545-6900, jacksonsbarandoven.com. This beautifully designed restaurant in the Railroad Square district is the place for meeting friends and hanging out in Santa Rosa. A wide array of drinks and a menu chockablock with well-crafted American dishes like burgers, pizzas, braised short ribs, fish tacos and great desserts (don’t miss the beignets) all add up to a place you like to be in, with a staff that likes you in return. Reviewed 9/1/13. $$-$$$$
Juanita Juanita, 19114 Arnold Drive, Sonoma, 707-935-3981, juanitajuanita.com. The mural on the outside of this taqueria shows Juanita, the original owner, in profile. It’s beginning to show its two decades of age, but the food inside is as good as ever. Everything from the tacos to the featured plates of enchiladas, jerk chicken, chile Colorado, carne asada and chanchamito, is a cut above the ordinary. Yes, burritos are available, but no tamales or chile rellenos. Reviewed 11/30/14. $-$$
KIN, 740 McClelland Drive, Windsor, 707-837-7546, kinwindsor.com. A big, boisterous place with a friendly atmosphere, KIN serves American comfort food (meaning an eclectic mix of favorite dishes of many cultures), and has a nice list of craft beers. Its name implies its purpose: bring the whole family, from toddlers to seniors, because there’s something on this menu for everyone, including wood-fire pizzas. Reviewed 11/23/14. $$
La Toque, 1314 McKinstry St., Napa, 707-257-5150, latoque.com. Located in the Westin Verasa Napa hotel, Ken Frank’s La Toque is one of Napa Valley’s premier places to eat. It has earned a Michelin star, and Frank’s modern French cuisine deserves it. The plates are small but intriguing. The wine list is glorious, with wines from everywhere. Whatever you order will be first rate. Reviewed 1/11/15. $$$$
Le Bistro, 312 Petaluma Blvd. S., Petaluma, 707-762-8292, lebistropetaluma.com. Chef Corey Basso has been cooking classic French and Italian dinners at this small neighborhood bistro since 1988, refining and improving the dishes as he goes. Now they are just about perfect. They’re not complicated (fettucini with prawns, chicken breast, grilled lamb loin, a fresh fish of the day) but are thrillingly delicious. Reviewed 4/20/14. $$-$$$
Lamb and apricot curry, front, and saag paneer, cheese with spinach, rear, at Marigold Indian Bistro in Sebastopol. (Photo by Beth Schlanker)
Marigold Indian Bistro, 7225 Healdsburg Ave., Sebastopol, 707-329-6965, marigoldbistro.com. Chef Uddab Timilsina makes Indian cuisine exciting, not just because he’s mastered the art of combining Indian spices in intriguing ways, but also because his dishes are made with top-quality ingredients, which gives them the added appeal of freshness and purity of flavor. Along with the usual Indian dishes, he occasionally ventures into less charted territory. His lamb and apricot combination, for instance, is wonderful. Reviewed 11/9/14. $$
OSO, 9 E. Napa St., Sonoma, 707-931-6926, ososonoma.com. Owner David Bush is a talented chef who creates elaborate plates of food that might better be handled with some restraint. But his eclectic menu is invariably well prepared, and the emphasis is on raw seafood and slow-cooked meats. Guests must be 21 or older, because of the restaurant’s tavern license. The wine list is a major feature, filled with interesting selections. There’s a prix-fixe dinner and wine pairing menu, too. Reviewed 12/21/14. $$
Rossi’s 1906, 401 Grove St., El Verano, 707-343-0044, rossis1906.com. The former Little Switzerland and its polka bands have been transformed into a Southern-style roadhouse with cherry-wood-smoked ribs, tri-tip, pork, chicken and shrimp, and live music Thursday through Sunday starting at 5 p.m. The good barbecue is accompanied by the usuals: fries, mac and cheese, hushpuppies and great onion rings. More than half of the 26 beers available are on tap. This is a fun place with good eats. Reviewed 1/4/15. $$
Rustic, Francis’s Favorites, at Francis Ford Coppola Winery, 300 Via Archimedes, Geyserville, 707-857-1485, francisfordcoppolawinery.com. Francis Ford Coppola needs no introduction, but at his restaurant-resort-watering hole in Geyserville, you’ll get one anyway. The restaurant features the Italian foods of Coppola’s childhood, plus some adult loves such as an Argentine grill from which come big portions of beef with chimichurri sauce. The wine list is mostly from his winery, and that’s fine. A wood-burning oven makes wonderful pizzas. Reviewed 11/10/13. $-$$$$
Dungeness crab puffs are served at SEA Noodle Bar in Santa Rosa. (Photo by Conner Jay)
SEA Noodle Bar, 286 Coddingtown Center, Santa Rosa, 707-521-9087, seanoodlebar.com. This authentic Thai noodle shop is chef-owner Tony Ounpamornchai’s third restaurant in Sonoma County, and it’s just what a hungry public wants: noodle and rice bowls with tofu, chicken, duck, pork and prawns at moderate prices. His appetizers are every bit as good as the bowls, and even prettier in appearance. Don’t miss the potstickers and the Dungeness crab puffs. Reviewed 8/17/14. $$.
Shiso Modern Asian Kitchen, 19161 Sonoma Highway, Sonoma, 707-933-9331, shisorestaurant.com. Chef Ed Metcalfe cherry-picks items from various Asian cuisines, but with a special emphasis on Japanese dishes. His ingredients are wonderfully fresh and the vegetables are sourced from his own garden. There’s a well-filled-out list of sakes along with beer and wine. His chirashi (chef’s choice) may be the best way to go. It’s a unique restaurant with a scrumptious take on Asian food. Reviewed 12/28/14. $$
630 Park Steakhouse at the Graton Resort and Casino, 630 Park Court, Rohnert Park, 707-588-7115, gratonresortcasino.com. Here’s your big-time casino-style steakhouse. A 42-ounce prime T-bone for two is $120, a personal 20-ounce rib-eye is $54, and filet mignons start at $43 for the “petite” cut. The meat is as terrific as the prices portend, and the kitchen also serves up chicken and seafood, such as a 28-ounce Northern Australian lobster tail for $149. Side dishes of vegetables, potatoes and mac and cheese run around $10 each. Ah, g’wan. You only live once. Reviewed 12/29/13. $$$$
Sonoma lamb loin with fava beans, porcini mushrooms and spring garlic is served at Torc Restaurant in Napa. (Photo by Conner Jay)
Torc, 1140 Main St., Napa, 707- 252-3292, torcnapa.com. Chef Sean O’Toole cooks classic American and Californian dishes with refinement and elegance. His ingredients are impeccably good, and he uses them in a way that’s both thought-provoking and enjoyable. His impossibly tender slices of spring lamb, for instance, sit on a bed of shredded lamb shoulder mixed with bits of fresh mint. They come with small balls of fried dough filled with garlicky cream. The wine list is eclectic and ranges far beyond Napa Valley. Reviewed 6/15/14. $$-$$$$
Vignette Pizzeria, 6750 McKinley St., Sebastopol, 707-861-3897, vignette-pizzeria.com. Mark Hopper, a graduate of Thomas Keller’s operations, decided to go all-out to make classic Neapolitan pizzas at his 62-seat eatery in The Barlow center. He achieves his aim, and then some, because he has Sonoma produce to use as toppings and in his salads and appetizers. The result is spectacularly good pizzas, but leave your preconceptions about pizza at home and enjoy what he gives you. Reviewed 9/21/14. $$-$$$
zazu kitchen + farm, 6770 McKinley St., Sebastopol, 707-523-4814, zazukitchen.com. While many restaurants claim to cook farm-to-table, Duskie Estes and John Stewart take the concept to a new level at zazu, located in a spacious room in The Barlow center. They have a small farm at home where they raise animals, gather eggs and grow crops, and a kitchen garden by the restaurant, too. Stewart makes great bacon and salumi, Estes ferments vegetables, and the kitchen turns out American comfort food that’s impossibly tasty. Reviewed 9/15/13. $$$-$$$$
Editor’s Note: Travel, dining and wine tasting can be complicated right now. Use our inspirational ideas to plan ahead for your next outing, be it this week or next year. If you visit restaurants, wineries, and other businesses during the pandemic, remember to call ahead, make reservations, wear a mask and social distance.
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It's not a taco. Or a biscuit. But Taco Bell has released this abomination upon the world anyway.
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Forage maize not looked back
Writers Posted 21/07/20
The only crop Nick has in the ground is forage maize – and it’s not looked back.
By Nick Adames
West Sussex Diary
So the season moves on. The wet late winter and early spring turned suddenly to ‘fine and dry’ then very quickly to drought. Some spring cereal crops now look almost beyond hope and the pattern of several previous years seems to be repeating itself.
The only crop we have in the ground at this time is forage maize which we planted on 21 April after two inches of rain; risking frost, but although there were a couple of light ones the crop sailed on, got its roots down, beat the wireworm, and has not looked back. Now in late June it is approaching seven feet, and the only damage it has suffered came from the sprayer wheels, but it largely recovered, so the anticipation is of a good crop when it is cut in September. Never having run a modern sprayer I’m not an expert, but I do seem to remember having the crop sprayed previously by one fitted with narrow ‘rowcrop’ wheels? They would have saved a lot of damage here, although perhaps it is not an option now the spray booms cover 36m? Perhaps it weighs too much?
The vines planted by the vineyard in May are showing strong growth. Most ‘heads’ were over the top of their protective tubes by 30 June so clearly have their ‘feet’ down in some moisture, which will be a relief. When we had the herd, the whole area now put to vines was quite easily reached by the underground pipes and hydrant system which we used to get rid of dirty water. While these are still there, the pipes are now considered unnecessary. In fact I imagine deep rooting plants like vines will very soon be finding adequate moisture even in the very driest seasons. We shall see.
We had been planning to drive north by now to see the progress of the forest in Argyll, but for all too obvious reasons, we have not left Sussex. There should be a lot to see as it is now almost 22 months since we were there and, I am told by my local ‘eyes’, the sitka plantations have grown phenomenally. I think growth will need to be more than ‘phenomenal’ for them to be fit for harvesting while we are still alive and kicking! It is around a 35-year cycle and they were planted in 2010/11.
Additionally, I have to have a close look at the bit of new land next door to the forest which the agents, Scottish Woodlands, were hoping to get planted up with further sitka spruce by the end of the year. However, with the way everything seems to have been affected by the virus issue, I imagine, this might be a difficult deadline for them to meet.
At least the land should be easier to plant, since it is not so high and doesn’t run up into rocky outcrops, as the top ground on the main forest does. While many steeper features were untouched there, to meet environmental concerns, they ploughed down over some very steep land containing a good many acres. The trees planted there are now taking a healthy hold but are not quite so forward as those on the better land.
This new land is on fairly gentle, south to south easterly-facing slopes. Up to 650ft it appears to have been farmed on a ‘dog and stick’ system for years, but from the point of planting it should be quite straightforward. Unfortunately not really suitable for vines yet… Who know what will be growing up there in another hundred years, though?
Having suffered, like most, with the press paranoia surrounding this year’s virus, it is quite likely my feelings are being shared to a greater or lesser degree by everyone in my, so called, vulnerable age group. Most people one speaks to feel the steps taken to protect the population were good, yet the reaction of the tabloid papers has been very largely dishonest and incoherent.
They just seem determined to create fear of a virus which is not nearly as bad as Asian Flu in the late 1950s and certainly miniscule compared to the Spanish Flu 100 years ago. I lived through the Asian variety and I hardly remembered anything about it from press and radio; we all just got on with our daily lives. Those were the days when the media of the day generally reported facts and told the truth, rather than speculating, usually from their own politicised perspective. Today every headline or ‘lead’ story starts with the words “could” “might” or “maybe”; as opposed to “has” or “results show”. Too many of today’s journalist/newsreaders present the news from their own political angle. So the truth suffers.
The extent of general published lies and scares being put out is really appalling. It has stopped this household reading the papers or listening to news, beyond the first ‘half a minute’s’ headlines. It has also had the effect of persuading me to just get back to my normal life, and apart from not shaking hands or ‘hugging or kissing’ everyone, I am very happy to take my chances. Certainly there will be no face masks. I actually think that, along with many others, I had the virus in January. I certainly had a cough like never before.
We read many reports about the behaviour of ‘the public’ coming into the country for peace and privacy. I can only say, having opened the home farm up in the spring, for neighbours to walk ‘off footpath’, we have had no reports of it being abused. Everyone seemed appreciative and as a PR exercise I would recommend it; so long as there are no livestock or crops involved.
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For a farmer of any age to retire is problematic
Fingers crossed for 2021
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Poulton le Fylde
Trains to Poulton-le-Fylde station
Poulton-le-Fylde station live train times
Poulton-le-Fylde station information
Poulton-le-Fylde station address
Poulton-le-Fylde station
Breck Road
Poulton-le-Fylde
FY6 7AA
Poulton-le-Fylde ticket office opening hours
Ticket machine is located in the Booking Hall - it cards only
Poulton-le-Fylde train station facilities
Getting ready for your next journey? Whether you’re planning a trip or getting ready for your commute, find out everything you need to know about Poulton-le-Fylde station facilities here before you travel. At most train stations you’ll find ticket machines to buy or collect tickets, as well as customer help points if you need a helping hand. There are also seating areas in most stations so you can sit back and relax while you wait for your train. For detailed information about the facilities available at Poulton-le-Fylde station, take a look below.
Poulton-le-Fylde at a glance
Poulton - Le - Fylde
PFY
Does Poulton-le-Fylde station have ticket gates?
Is there CCTV at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Are there customer help points at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
No, customer help points aren't available at this station.
Assisted travel opening hours
Monday to Sunday – 24 hours
Are there toilets at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
The National key toilets are operated by a RADAR key.
Are there baby changing facilities at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Are there showers at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Is there a waiting room at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Are there seated areas at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Is there a bureau de change at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Are there luggage storage facilities at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Is there a tourist information office at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Are there luggage trolleys at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Are there public telephones at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
No, this station doesn't have public telephones.
Is there a post box at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Is there Wi-Fi at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
No, this station doesn't have Wi-Fi.
Is there a cash machine at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Are there shops at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
No, there aren't shops at this station.
Are there cafés, pubs or restaurants at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
No, the station does't have cafés, pubs or restaurants.
Are there ticket machines at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Can I collect train tickets from Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Are smartcards issued at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Can smartcards be topped up at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Can smartcards be validated at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
More information at www.northernrailway.co.uk/smart
Are there bus connections at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Busline 0871 200 2233
Are there metro connections at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Does Poulton-le-Fylde station have connections to a port?
Does Poulton-le-Fylde station have connections to an airport?
Yes, the station has connections to an airport.
Airport connections information
Blackpool airport is approximately 8 miles away
Pick Up / Drop Off at the bus stop opposite the station entrance on Breck Road.
Is car hire available at or near Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Does Poulton-le-Fylde station have a taxi rank?
Taxi rank outside / Bus Stop Opposite
Station Car Park - 20 spaces
Is there bike storage at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
No, bike storage isn't available at this station.
Is there a sheltered bike storage area at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
No, there is no sheltered bike storage area.
Is there CCTV in the bike storage at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Yes, this station has CCTV in the bike storage.
Is bike hire available at or near Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Is there a ramp at Poulton-le-Fylde station to get on the train?
Level access from Breck Road into ticket hall then by means of passenger operated lift, now available to the island platform from first to last train. Alternatively 37 steps with rest platform and handrail from ticket hall to island platform.
Are there accessible drop off or pick up points at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
No, there aren't accessible drop off or pick up points at this station.
Are there wheelchairs available at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Yes, wheelchairs are available at this station.
Are there accessible ticket machines at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Cards only. Other users can obtain Promise to Pay tickets
Is there a lowered ticket counter at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
No, there isn't a lowered ticket counter at this station.
Are there induction loops at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Are accessible taxis available at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Is staff help available at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Are there accessible public telephones at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
Are there accessible toilets at Poulton-le-Fylde station?
No, this station doesn't have accessible toilets.
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Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
Falcon 9 Block 5
Date/Time May Change
Mon · May 31st, 2021
Watch In Person
Type: Robotic Exploration
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is the first-ever mission to demonstrate the capability to deflect an asteroid by colliding a spacecraft with it at high speed – a technique known as a kinetic impactor. DART is a planetary defense-driven test of one of the technologies for preventing the Earth impact of a hazardous asteroid: the kinetic impactor. DART’s primary objective is to demonstrate a kinetic impact on a small asteroid. The binary near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos is the target for DART. While Didymos’ primary body is approximately 800 meters across, its secondary body (or “moonletâ€) has a 150-meter size, which is more typical of the size of asteroids that could pose a more common hazard to Earth. The DART spacecraft will achieve the kinetic impact by deliberately crashing itself into the moonlet at a speed of approximately 6 km/s, with the aid of an onboard camera and sophisticated autonomous navigation software. The collision will change the speed of the moonlet in its orbit around the main body by a fraction of one percent, enough to be measured using telescopes on Earth.
Space Launch Complex 4E
Vandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Length: 70 meters
First Launched: May 11, 2018
Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.
The Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket has been launched a total of 48 times with 48 successful and 0 failed launches.
B1063 will attempt to land back at LZ-4 after its second launch.
Landing Zone 4 – LZ-4
LZ at Vandenberg
Return to Launch Site – RTLS
A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from.
Abbreviation: SpX
Administration: CEO: Elon Musk
Launchers: Falcon
Spacecraft: Dragon
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX has many pads, on the East Coast of the US they own SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral and LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center for their lower inclination launches. They also own SLC-4E at Vandenberg, California for their high inclination launches. Another site is also being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
California, Falcon 9 Block 5, SpaceX, USA, Vandenberg AFB
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Wall St. gains, Nasdaq hits record high as holiday shopping begins
Bitcoin’s Massive “Cup and Handle” Formation Can’t Be Ignored
Wall Street gains, Nasdaq hits record high
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street stocks advanced, with the Nasdaq closing at a record high, on Friday in a holiday-shortened week as retailers kicked off the year-end shopping season amid record COVID-19 hospitalizations.
The Nasdaq outperformed as investors favored tech-related, market-leading stocks that have fared well during the pandemic, while economically sensitive cyclical stocks weighed.
All three indexes rose for the week, in which the S&P 500 reached a new closing high and the blue-chip Dow ended above 30,000 for the first time ever.
“It’s an abbreviated session and volume is light, so the only conclusion is that the rally is not faltering for now,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York.
“It does bode well for next month,” Cardillo added. “Will we see a Santa rally? Most likely. Will it be as robust as November? That’s a big question mark.”
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 37.9 points, or 0.13%, to 29,910.37; the S&P 500 gained 8.7 points, or 0.24%, at 3,638.35; and the Nasdaq Composite added 111.44 points, or 0.92%, at 12,205.85.
Of the 11 major sectors in the S&P 500, healthcare companies enjoyed the largest percentage gains while energy shares had the biggest percentage loss.
Chipmaker stocks, which have been resilient throughout the global health crisis, once again outperformed the broader market, with the Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index rising 1.2%.
Shares of Walt Disney Co dipped 1.3% after the company said it would lay off about 32,000 workers, up from the 28,000 announced previously. Jobs will be cut mainly at Disney’s theme parks.
Tesla Inc built on its recent rally, its shares advancing 2.0% even as U.S. regulators opened an investigation into front suspension issues in about 115,000 Tesla vehicles.
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The S&P 500 posted 23 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 154 new highs and nine new lows.
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Retailers opened their doors to Black Friday shoppers, with social distancing practices and other measures put in place to mitigate infection risks, while offering steep discounts.
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In the latest development on the road toward developing a vaccine against COVID-19, Britain gave drugmaker AstraZeneca the green light after experts raised questions about the vaccine’s trial data.
As U.S. hospitalizations for coronavirus set a grim record of more than 89,000, the race for a medical solution to the pandemic has led to promising vaccines from Pfizer Inc, Moderna Inc and others, fueling optimism for light at the end of the tunnel.
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Hue Jackson: We have more talent at every position this year
Browns coach Hue Jackson has won one game in two seasons with the team, so it’s no surprise that he wants to turn the page on that as fast as we can.
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We All Wanted To Be Eddie Van Halen
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Sounding Board October 7, 2020 11:25 AM By Chris DeVille
This was the ritual: From my preteen years all the way through the end of high school, I would return home from school in the afternoon and head straight to the basement to shred. For reasons related to both love of music and social climbing, I spent countless hours attempting to emulate famous rock songs, write my own, and master the art of the high-speed guitar solo — preferably with liberal finger tapping, pinch harmonics, and whatever other kinds of gaudy theatrics I could think of. I got good enough at it that I liked to go to Sam Ash sometimes and show off, a source of deep embarrassment in hindsight, but one that speaks to my personal conception of cool at the time. If you’d asked me in seventh grade, I would have told you I wanted to be Kirk Hammett. In eighth grade, I’d have said Dimebag Darrell or (gulp) Joe Satriani. By freshman year the obvious answer was Jimi. Yet in hindsight the platonic ideal I was chasing is clear: I just wanted very badly to be Eddie Van Halen.
I wasn’t yet born when Van Halen’s stone cold classic debut album dropped in 1978. I could have been the baby on the cover of 1984. By the time I started to become aware of pop culture as the ’80s bled over to the ’90s, Eddie Van Halen was thoroughly established as the definitive guitar hero of my lifetime. Van Halen the band was well into its bloated Sammy Hagar era by then, but the archetype of the god-level shredder was alive and well, and it was well understood that Eddie was the most godlike of them all. I can’t remember where I first encountered him: Was it the worshipful namecheck in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure? The “Jump” video still circulating years later on VH1? The “Right Now” needle drop in the ads for Crystal Pepsi?
What I’m saying is I missed the heyday, but by no means did I miss the hype. This made my first few years of Van Halen fandom a bit confusing. Sadly, I didn’t hop aboard the VH train in earnest until “Can’t Stop Loving You” was popping off at Top 40 radio in 1995 in the twilight of the Hagar era. The first album they released after I became a fan was 1998’s godforsaken Gary Cherone ordeal. But I bought that terrible CD, and I tried very hard to like it. Such was the extent of my fealty to our six-string overlord. The man made “Eruption.” I owed him this.
“Eruption,” y’all. I mean, shit. I mean, goddamn. Where were you the first time you heard it? I distinctly remember playing it for my family on the boombox in my living room, gobsmacked by the existence of a song that amounted to nothing more than the raddest guitar solo in recorded history. How could this be real? They just skipped to the best part of the song and made it the whole song? So much of what made Eddie Van Halen great was on display in that 102-second outburst: the extreme virtuosity, the absurd dexterity, the magnificent showmanship, a savvy compositional impulse that turned less than two minutes of rapid-fire guitar notes into an epic poem. Channeling Mozart and Hendrix in equal measure, he made an unbelievable feat of writing and performance look easy. The man understood the difference between masterful and masturbatory.
To actually do what this guy did required not just hours of perfectionist woodshedding but also a preternatural grasp on music as both an art and a science. Operating on the peerless plane to which Eddie attained required him to take his craft extremely seriously and himself not seriously at all. Lots of wannabe guitar deities learned to mimic the guy’s skills and leaping, grinning stage antics — some even memorized his solos — but how many of them infused their wankery with the wild, electric joy that coursed through Van Halen songs? Lots of rock stars veered between vastly different styles within the same song just to show off, but how many could execute “Hot For Teacher”‘s toggle from neo-classical finger tapping to breathless chicken-shack country-blues with such pizzazz? How many would even think to do that? He consistently wrapped his mastery into the context of great songs, making sure his brilliant flourishes became part of a greater whole. So many of his peers and adherents were like Harlem Globetrotters pulling off trick shots for their own sake, ostentatiously playing up the degree of difficulty, whereas Eddie was Michael Jordan pulling off breathtaking feats in the context of an elimination game.
His talents extended far beyond the reality-reordering lead guitar work that made him famous, and he always deployed them to serve the song. Think about how many of Van Halen’s most iconic singles are based on a gnarly, bluesy Keith Richards chord-based riff, or, as in the case of “Panama” or “Why Can’t This Be Love” or “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love,” blurred the line between that kind of foundational grit and his signature high-wire theatrics. Eddie was not above bashing out a few chunky power chords when his songs demanded it, which was often. (David Lee Roth required ample space to preen.) His fingers were nearly as magical on the keys as on the strings, whether pounding out massive synth chords or cascading dramatically across the piano. He was also gifted as a writer and arranger; he famously transformed “Beat It” while Michael Jackson stepped out of the studio for a few hours, much to MJ’s delight. Music was like a video game wherein he kept unlocking higher and higher levels. Yet no matter how good he got at this stuff, he never seemed to stop having fun with it.
Even if many my age couldn’t grasp just how much of an innovator he’d been, no perspective was necessary to be blown away. EVH had an undeniable spark that helped him to win over everyone from suburban parents to the punks who might otherwise sneer at such latex-clad excess. Maybe the greatness of forebears like Clapton, Page, and Iommi was plainly evident, but Van Halen’s genius jumped out of the speakers and the television screen. Not only could he rapturously careen across the fretboard, he was as hammy as Roth and twice as likable, flashing smiles and launching his body skyward without a shred of self-consciousness. It was like if Queen’s Brian May, maybe the only classic rock guitar legend whose playing approached Van Halen’s larger-than-life immediacy and mind-boggling flair, was bringing the same levels of charisma as Freddie Mercury.
This is something several generations of basement hacks just like me often failed to grasp. No matter how many times you ran through your scales or how dramatically you deployed your whammy bar, technical prowess alone wasn’t going to put you in Eddie Van Halen’s league. Even killer songwriting wasn’t going to do it. His combination of God-given instinct and ability, meticulous hard work, mad-scientist inventiveness, and affable magnetism was one of a kind. The journeyman indie and alt-rock guitarist Matt Sweeney summed it up succinctly in the space of a tweet yesterday: “The greatest thing I say about anyone is that they are the Eddie Van Halen of their field. Breaks my heart to hear the world’s one and only Eddie Van Halen is gone. RIP to the greatest.”
The impossibility of the task did not stop me from spending most of my formative years trying to replicate Eddie Van Halen’s splendor. Eventually I gravitated away from the shredder persona and got into indie rock, rap, and pop, genres where virtuosic guitar was the exception and not the rule. I developed that common hipster allergy to instrumental wizardry and mostly moved on from heavy metal and arena rock outside the circle of the critically acclaimed. Ostentatious guitar heroism for its own sake still strikes me as obnoxious and overbearing, and I’m thankful that obligatory solos have mostly gone extinct. But press play on “Eruption” and the thrill comes rushing back. Revisiting Van Halen’s sonic fireworks in the wake of Eddie’s death, I’m instantly reminded why this stuff once struck me as incomprehensibly rad, and why I spent so many afternoons trying to wring the same kind of magic from some coiled metal and a block of wood.
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Baseball roundup: Woodchucks shut out, Rafters rally to win
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BATTLE CREEK 12, WISCONSIN 0
WAUSAU - Battle Creek shut down the Woodchucks at Athletic Park.
The Woodchucks gave up 12 runs on 19 hits, committing one error, as the Bombers gave up nine hits but held Wisconsin at bay to shut them out.
The game was scoreless until the top of the third when Battle Creek put one on the board. They added three more in the fifth to make it 4-0 and put up five in the sixth to stretch the lead to 9-0. Another two runs in the eighth and one in the ninth closed out the 12-0 win.
Reese Alexiades went 2-for-3 while Nick Loftin, Javier Valdes, Alex Toral and Zach DeLoach each contributed a Woodchucks hit.
Every Battle Creek player had at least one hit in the effort, with Caleb Henderson going 3-for-6 with two RBI and Will Baker going 4-for-5 with an RBI. Jordan Cross and Michael Brown each chipped in two RBI.
Woodchucks starter Brenson Hall struck out two and walked one in four innings, giving up four earned runs on eight hits. Wisconsin had three other pitchers throughout the game.
Battle Creek's Chase Wheatcroft had one strike out in five innings, allowing three hits.
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Wisconsin Rapids struck first in the first inning to go up 1-0. Kalamazoo found an answer in the top of the fifth to tie the game, then scored two more in the top of the sixth to make it 3-1.
The Rafters rallied in the bottom of the frame and scored six to take the lead 7-3 then matched the rally with another six in the eighth to bring the score to 13-3.
Ethan Stringer and Jake Dunham each went 2-for-5 with three RBI and Brody Wofford went 1-for-3 with four RBI.
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Rafters starting pitcher Gareth Stroh struck out four and walked one in 5 ⅔ innings.
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This former pub has been transformed into a bistro with its very own pick'n'mix sweet shop inside!
Bench Bistro, in Nantwich, has opened a sweet shop in its restaurant
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A new bistro is offering diners a novel eating experience – with pick ‘n’ mix sweets as well as main courses.
The small sweet shop, where customers can choose their own treats, has been created inside Bench Bistro in Nantwich .
The business venture has been launched by Richard and Verity Shaw, who have ample experience in the hospitality trade, having previously worked together at The Cheshire Cat in the town.
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Food arrives on a selection of small plates and can be eaten individually or combined to create an exciting array of flavours.
And sweet-toothed fans can also munch on the sweets. It also specialises in a ‘stupendous’ afternoon tea which is so vast that takeaway boxes are provided if you can’t finish it all.
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Section 13-1 of the Texas Securities Act provides that all registered dealers and registered investment advisers are subject to on-site inspections of their records.
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Inspection Staff will then review the records at the physical location(s) within the office where the records are maintained. They may make copies of the records for subsequent review at the offices of the State Securities Board.
Inspection Staff may ask the dealer's or investment adviser's personnel questions relating to records, compliance procedures, or other matters which the Securities Commissioner has authority to investigate.
In most cases, Inspection Staff will conduct an exit interview with personnel of the dealer or investment adviser at the conclusion of the inspection. This interview may outline some of the issues identified during the inspection.
9. What if records required to be maintained by Board Rules are commingled with records not required to be kept?
As provided in Sections 115.5(e)(9) (Securities Dealers) and 116.5(c) (Investment Advisers) of the Rules and Regulations of the Texas State Securities Board, Inspection Staff may review and copy all commingled records.
10. What if records are maintained in an electronic medium?
As provided in Sections 115.5(e)(9) (Securities Dealers) and 116.5(c) (Investment Advisers) of the Rules and Regulations of the Texas State Securities Board, Inspection Staff may access and print such records, or download such records in electronic form. When records are kept on-site in electronic format, the dealer or investment adviser must also have the ability to make those electronic records available for immediate and complete access by Inspection Staff.
11. What happens after the inspection?
Inspection Staff will review the records obtained and may request additional information from the dealer or investment adviser. Generally, upon completion of this review, the Agency will take one of the following actions:
Send a letter to the dealer or investment adviser closing the inspection;
Issue a letter of caution addressing violations; or
Refer the matter to the Administrative Litigation Section of the Inspections and Compliance Division or Enforcement Division for further action.
12. How does the Agency treat information obtained during an inspection?
As provided in Section 13-1 of the Texas Securities Act, information obtained during an inspection will be treated by the Inspection Staff and the State Securities Board as confidential. The information may, however, be provided to other law enforcement or regulatory agencies, it may be used in connection with an official proceeding, or made available in compliance with other applicable law.
13. What happens if a dealer or its agent or an investment adviser or its representative fails to allow immediate access to records or refuses to provide information requested by representatives of the Securities Commissioner?
The inspection may be terminated by the Inspection Staff and the matter referred to the Administrative Litigation Section of the Inspections and Compliance Division for appropriate action.
Failure to allow immediate and complete access to records at the physical location(s) within the office where they are maintained or refusal to provide information requested by Inspection Staff may be grounds for disciplinary action pursuant to the Texas Securities Act, including revocation, suspension, probation, and reprimand of a registered dealer, agent, investment adviser, or investment adviser representative. Further, administrative fines may be assessed against a person or entity that violates the Act by failing to grant access to records as required by the Act and Board rules.
14. Who should a dealer or investment adviser contact with questions or comments regarding an inspection?
The Director or Assistant Director in charge of the office conducting the inspection.
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IHOP Franchise Opportunities
The IHOP franchise is a popular restaurant franchise that boasts of a 50 year American heritage of great food and excellent service.
With so many franchise options in the market, it is difficult for the entrepreneur to decide on which is the best one for him.
Many people engage in franchising to find their own financial freedom in the ownership of their own business, and usually venture into the restaurant franchise type making IHOP a popular choice for food loving entrepreneurs everywhere.
IHOP is one of the most popular family restaurants in the country and has since been serving the community with good food, service and hospitality since 1958. The restaurant is best known for its delicious pancakes and breakfast meals. It is owned and operated by a subsidiary of DineEquity, Inc, the California based International House of Pancakes, Glendale. The company started franchising in 1960 and has branches in more than 49 states with establishments in Canada and Mexico. The franchise of the company is widespread throughout the country as it is very popular for its profitable income and good credibility among customers. It is because of these factors that the IHOP franchise is an attractive for interested entrepreneurs.
There are several franchise territories and growth markets still available for interested applicants. The Non Traditional Growth Markets include colleges and universities, casinos and airports, Domestic Growth Markets are in St. Louis, Kansas City, Mississippi and Nebraska while International Growth Markets are in Central America, Caribbean and Canada.
To avail of this franchise opportunity there is a minimum financial requirement of around $1.5 million in net worth with around $500,000 in liquid assets. The initial franchise fee is at $20,000. Other requirements for franchise approval include basic business experience and restaurant experience.
Once the applicant has been approved of the application he may then be brought in for training while the establishment is under construction. There are strict guidelines and requirements in the construction of the new restaurant which includes the general site information of having approximately 185 people seating in 5,000 square feet of space. The population of the area should be around 25,000 to 50,000 per 3 mile population and 80,000 to 150,000 per 5 mile population. The physical requirements include frontage of a minimum of 150 feet, approximately 260 feet of depth and a lot size of approximately 40,000 to 50,000 square feet if stand alone and 10,000 to 20,000 if part of a shopping or grocery establishment.
Other physical site requirements include the utility service of 6 inch line minimum lateral sewer, 2 inch and 55 pounds minimum flow pressure fire service , 2,00,000 BTUs of gas and 1,00 Amps 120/208 3 phase 4 wire of electrical assembly.
The lease terms are usually in triple net with a base term of 20 years and options extending to around 30 years with or without a contribution from the landlord.
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Justin Kinsey said on August 4, 2011
Sao Paulo, Brazil- state and city of Sao Paulo size of New York and I am an american, studying international business Portuguese and Brazil has a well developed economy( high taxes) but Brazilians spend spend spend and dont have breakfast places in Sao Paulo especially, AMERICAN BREAKFAST! it would bring a lot of business having thousands of people driving and walking by each day. I'm looking for more information on how i could own apart of the IHOP franchise and help expand it across the would starting with Brazil :) you can reach me by email fastest and please know another useful tip is by 2014 world cup will be all over Brazil and 2016 i believe is Olympics bringing people from all over the world and americans knowing the name IHOP and to show Brazil a perfect family restaurant for any time of the day (optional 24/7 business or not) i prefer not reason 1. Brazil requires 2x pay after 10 p.m. 2. Electricity is more expensive at night--so way to make profit, and a great idea from JUSTIN LEE KINSEY-from oklahoma and getting ready to make an impact on International business!!! again, email is fastest way to reach me justin_kinsey2000@yahoo.com (fyi, i have many more business plans) thank you for your time
marcia galanis said on September 15, 2012
I am interested in IHOP franchise in the city of Recife-pe Brazil.and how much cost to do the business.thanks
JUAN J TARIFFA said on November 8, 2012
I am interested opening a IHOP franchise in Mexico....can you please guide me in the information, requirements, permits, down payment, etc. This information will be very helpful. Thank you.
kenneth Atkins said on February 28, 2013
I would like to open a IHOP in Leland NC. 28451 I have a site in mind that I'm sure would bring in a lot of money as of now you have to drive into Wilmington NC to enjoy a IHOP meal let me know what you think and how you can help me get it started thanks for listening.
Leslee Frazier said on June 9, 2013
I have an ideal location in Katy, Tx. Katy is the fastest growing community in the United States and has 1 IHOP and is starving for another. Please contact us as this would be a great investment and an outstanding opportunity.
Saani Long said on April 24, 2014
I'm interested in finding out about the opportunities and possibility of a franchise IHOP in Kingston Jamaica. Would you allow this could u provide all possible information.
Kimberly Arjunsingh said on February 26, 2015
I would like to open an IHOP in Trinidad on the biggest university campus. Please contact me ASAP
hermanpsablan@yahoo.com said on March 2, 2015
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Sati said on July 30, 2015
Hi, I'm interested to get i hop to finland
Rach said on August 22, 2015
I live in the UK and I'm very much interested in opening an ihop in England, London. Please can you contact me with further information. Thank you
Stacey Nicholas said on September 26, 2015
I'm interested in getting an ihop open in Carthage, MS
Felicia Laumann said on November 13, 2015
I am very interested in opening a ihop in st.robert, Missouri.
Edgar Alvarez said on March 25, 2016
I'm very interested in opening a IHOP in New York.
Tesfalem said on October 21, 2016
I am very interested to opening a IHOP in Dubai.
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Tanzania To Buy 5 Planes and Open New International Airport in Dodoma
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The Tanzania Airport Authority (TAA) informed that the government is set to buy five new aircrafts including a cargo plane in the next five years to support its ambition of becoming an industrialized country and business hub in the region.
The announcement was made by Tanzania’s President John Magufuli while officiating the 12 Parliament in Dodoma on 13th November 2020.
In his speech, President Magufuli said the cargo aircraft will support agriculture and livestock sectors, horticulture production, and fish export in particular for optimal support of government development plans.
In addition, President Magufuli announced that his government is set to build a modern international airport at Msalato in Dodoma as well as rehabilitate and upgrade a number of airports in Kigoma, Shinyanga, Tabora, Mtwara, Songea, Iringa, Mmanyara, Tanga, Mara, Lindi, Singida and Simiyu
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FDA Approval Sought for sBLAs for New Pembrolizumab Dosing Schedule
Lisa Astor
The FDA has accepted 6 supplemental Biologics License Applications (sBLAs) for review for a potential update to the dosing schedule for pembrolizumab across several indications.
The FDA has accepted 6 supplemental Biologics License Applications (sBLAs) for review for a potential update to the dosing schedule for pembrolizumab (Keytruda) across several indications.1
The sBLAs are seeking to include an every-6-weeks dosing schedule option for 400 mg of pembrolizumab infused over 30 minutes for patients with melanoma, classical Hodgkin lymphoma, primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma, gastric cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, and Merkel cell carcinoma. The agency has set a target action date of February 18, 2020.
“We are committed to improving cancer care, which includes identifying ways to ensure patients have a flexible dosing option that may reduce the amount of time they spend receiving treatment,” Scot Ebbinghaus, MD, vice president, clinical research, Merck Research Laboratories, said in a statement. “If approved, the 6-week dosing schedule will provide physicians and patients with greater flexibility in their treatment plans across a variety of cancer types, including melanoma where Keytruda is indicated in both the adjuvant and metastatic settings. We look forward to working with the FDA to file additional Keytruda dosing sBLAs later this year.”
The European Commission approved this dosing schedule in the European Union on March 28, 2019, for all of the PD-1 inhibitor’s monotherapy indications, including nonsmall cell lung cancer, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, urothelial carcinoma, microsatellite instability–high or mismatch repair deficient solid tumors, and cervical cancer.
Pembrolizumab is currently approved in the United States for many indications at a dose of either 200 mg or 2 mg/kg every 3 weeks infused over 30 minutes. If the newer schedule was approved as an additional dosing option for patients, it would apply for the following indications:
Patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma;
Adjuvant treatment of patients with melanoma with involvement of lymph node(s) following complete resection;
Adult and pediatric patients with refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma, or those who have relapsed after ≥3 prior lines of therapy;
Adult and pediatric patients with refractory primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma, or who have relapsed following ≥2 lines of prior therapy;
Patients with recurrent locally advanced or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma whose tumors express PD-L1 (combined positive score ≥1);
Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who have been previously treated with sorafenib (Nexavar);
Adult and pediatric patients with recurrent locally advanced or metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma.
A pharmacokinetics analysis of the 400 mg every-6-weeks dosing schedule tested safety and exposures compared with the approved doses.2The 400 mg every-6-weeks dosing regimen had similar predicted exposures to the 200 mg every-3-weeks regimen and clinical outcomes were expected to be similar with the newer schedule.
The geometric mean of the predicted peak concentrations at steady state for the 400 mg every-6-weeks regimen was about 65% lower than that of the 10 mg/kg every-2-weeks schedule.
Investigators expected the every-6-weeks schedule would produce similar efficacy, safety, and benefit-risk profile to the approved regimen with a more convenient schedule for patients.
FDA accepts Merck’s supplemental biologics license applications for KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) six-week dosing schedule for melanoma and multiple other indications [news release]. Kenilworth, NJ: Merck; July 9, 2019. https://bit.ly/2xzRfnE. Accessed July 9, 2019.
Lala M, Li M, Sinha V, et al. A six-weekly (Q6W) dosing schedule for pembrolizumab based on an exposure-response (E-R) evaluation using modeling and simulation.J Clin Oncol.2018;36(suppl 15; abstr 306. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2018.36.15_suppl.3062.
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Palais du Louvre, Paris; Melun, Île-de-France
Paris and Environs Sketchbook
Turner Bequest CCLVII 59 a
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the upper half of this page with a view of monumental Parisian buildings. The long classical frontage to the right belongs to the Palais du Louvre on the right bank of the Seine as it flows through the city. Turner made several sketches of the riverside in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction. For the watercolours of the city’s quaysides which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24683–D24685 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 118–20). These culminated in several engravings in the 1835 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate impressions T05621–T05623. A smaller view of a town with a long bridge at the bottom of the page was taken at Melun, located some thirty miles south-east of central Paris. For a list of the sketches which Turner made in this riverside town, see the sketchbook Introduction. For the watercolour of the town which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24690 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 125). This led to an illustration in the 1835 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate impression T04725.
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Emmanuel Jal
Website: GUA Africa
Emmanuel Jal's hypnotic voice rises from hellish origins as a beacon of hope for those caught in seemingly endless cycles of war and despair.
Hip-hop star Emmanuel Jal first exploded into dance halls with Gua in 2005. His music has energized music lovers of all ethnicities and nations. But Jal's life story is far darker. Swept up into the Sudanese rebel army at age seven, he finally escaped with 400 fellow soldiers, 16 of whom survived, the rest succumbing to starvation, ambush and animal attacks. Rather than resort to cannibalism, Jal ate snails and vultures until he arrived at a refugee camp, where he was adopted by aid worker Emma McCune and later sent to England.
Jal found an outlet for his turbulent life story in music. His lyrics tell moving and disturbing stories, but wrap them into hope and love. He is active in charity work across Africa, fighting against poverty and child warfare. War Child, his biography, was released in early 2009 along with a documentary film.
“Jal's narrative flows between darkness and light, the terror that befell his family and kinsmen, the horrors he went on to inflict upon others, and a deep-seated desire to set things right.” — Washington Post
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The reception for this past wave of talks from TED Global 2009 centers around the theme of accountability. People seemed especially moved by Emmanuel Jal’s music on his life as a war child and Michael Pritchard’s revolutionary water filter. We even got a TEDGlobal speaker sparking a discussion on one of these highlighted talks (in […]
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For five years, young Emmanuel Jal fought as a child soldier in the Sudan. Rescued by an aid worker, he’s become an international hip-hop star and an activist for kids in war zones. In words and lyrics, he tells the story of his amazing life. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2009, July 2009 in Oxford, UK. Duration: […]
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Emmanuel Jal at TEDGlobal 2009, Session 8: July 23, 2009, in Oxford, UK. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson Emmanuel Jal, a tall, dreadlocked young man takes the stage and introduces himself as a rapper. It’s unusual to have a rapper at TED, but as Jal tells his story it’s obvious that he’s not your […]
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The Metro Nashville Police Department announced a realignment of leadership Tuesday after the recent appointment of Hermitage Precinct Commander Michele Donegan as new director of Nashville's Emergency Communications Center.
The realignment will affect two police department precincts and three divisions and will become effective Sept. 1.
Capt. Preston Brandimore, a 15-year-veteran who has headed the criminal investigations division since 2013, will succeed Donegan as commander of the Hermitage Precinct.
Twenty-year police veteran and Central Precinct Commander Jason Reinbold will take over the criminal investigations division. Capt. John Drake, a 27-year department veteran, will succeed Reinbold as commander of the Central Precinct. Reinbold has held the position since October 2010.
Drake has headed the domestic violence division since July 2014 and will be succeeded by Capt. Michelle Richter, a 23-year police department veteran who has overseen the records division since November 2011.
Capt. Jason Starling, a 17-year department veteran who has been one of the department’s overnight field supervisors since July 2014, will succeed Richter in the records division.
“These five individuals are extremely talented and have the benefit of a wide range of experience through having worked in a variety of police department components over the years,” Police Chief Steve Anderson said in a statement released Tuesday. “All five are excited about their new roles in continuing to serve Nashville’s citizens and visitors. I have every confidence that they will be exceptional in their new management roles.”
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