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Kobe's Iniesta sets his sights on deep run in Asian Champions League
By Michael Church
AFC Champions League - Group G - Guangzhou Evergrande v Vissel Kobe
(Reuters) - Andres Iniesta has set his sights on steering Asian Champions League debutants Vissel Kobe to the latter stages of the competition as the Spanish World Cup winner looks to finish a disappointing year on a high for the Japanese club.
Iniesta was on target for Kobe on Wednesday as the J-League side defeated twice champions Guangzhou Evergrande to become the first club to secure their place in the last 16 of the eastern half of the draw in the continental championship.
Vissel have endured a difficult domestic season, with coach Thorsten Fink fired in late September and Kobe still languishing in 11th place in the 18-team J-League despite owner Hiroshi Mikitani lavishing significant funds on his team.
But Iniesta is hoping a change of scenery and the win over Guangzhou in the club’s first game since arriving in Doha at the weekend can kick-start an improvement in Kobe’s fortunes.
“It hasn’t been easy in Japan, but in a different competition maybe the players have a different motivation,” the former Barcelona midfielder was quoted as saying on the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) official website.
“This level of competition can push us higher. This is our first game, and we want to be here playing until the end. That’s our target.
“It’s our first win in Qatar, and we have six points now. This is very important for us to go to the next stage, and I think today we showed that we deserved the result. I think it’s very important for us now to keep going like this.”
Kobe beat Suwon Bluewings before the competition was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic and are guaranteed a top-two finish in Group G, which has only three teams after Malaysian’s Johor Darul Ta’zim were unable to travel to Qatar.
Fifteen clubs are playing in Doha in a biosecure bubble as the AFC attempts to complete the competition with a format which replicates that used in September and October for teams from the west of the continent.
Iranian side Persepolis have already qualified for the final and the side from Tehran will meet the leading team from the east of the continent in Doha on Dec 19.
“I’m very happy to get this result,” Iniesta said.
“In the league we really struggled to score goals, but also to stop them being scored against us, but today our defenders did well and organised well, and we were able to score three goals.
“We’ll keep fighting, and we’ll go as far as possible in this tournament.”
(Reporting by Michael Church in Hong Kong, Editing by Ken Ferris)
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'I can handle the pressure,' says Lampard after Chelsea lose again at Leicester * Fifth defeat in eight Premier League games for struggling side * ‘There are players not playing as well as they should be’
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Southampton face Arsenal in the next round of the FA Cup.
Leicester are top of the Premier League by a point after beating Chelsea.
Where do Chelsea go from here? Frank Lampard dare not ask Roman Abramovich
Leicester City go top – but where on earth do Chelsea go from here? Frank Lampard dare not ask. The pressure is mounting on the Chelsea manager a fifth defeat in eight games - and no matter how much he calls for patience, there is only so much even he can expect from Roman Abramovich.
The Blues haven’t won back-to-back league games since November
There were also wins in the Bundesliga for Wolfsburg, Borussia Monchengladbach and Hoffenheim.
Shaw put in a man-of-the-match display against Liverpool
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Frank Lampard: Chelsea boss favourite to be next Premier League manager out the door
Chelsea’s latest Premier League setback against Leicester City has left Frank Lampard’s future as manager in serious doubt. Brendan Rodgers’ Leicester were in impressive form at the King Power Stadium as goals from Wilfred Ndidi and James Maddison saw off Chelsea 2-0 and sent the Foxes top of the table on Tuesday night. As for Chelsea, the result was their fifth defeat in their last eight games.
Leicester star James Maddison taking a leaf out of Frank Lampard’s book after goal helps sink Chelsea
Leicester star James Maddison admits he has taken a leaf out of Frank Lampard’s goalscoring book after adding to the Chelsea boss’ woes on Tuesday night. Maddison scored as Leicester beat the Blues 2-0 at the King Power with a dominant display which sends them top of the league. The defeat was Chelsea’s fifth in their last eight league games and the Londoners have slipped to eighth having been touted as title contenders themselves only six weeks ago.
The home side dominated the encounter and were always in control after a fifth-minute goal
Bryan is poised to make his first top-flight start since early October.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer talks up Luke Shaw’s recent performances
The left-back was man of the match against Liverpool on Sunday.
Pep Guardiola rules out new signings for Man City in January transfer window
Record goalscorer Sergio Aguero has been absent because of injury and coronavirus self-isolation.
Ole Gunnar Solskjær says Manchester United's position is down to 'hard work'
Ole Gunnar Solskjær says Manchester United's position is down to 'hard work' * United manager says ‘staying at the top is the challenge’ * United can regain lead from Leicester on Wednesday
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Unarmed Black Teens Kill More People Than Cholera
James Fulford
According to ABC, a Houston police officer, race unknown, shot an "unarmed" attacker also race unknown, who was punching him and has almost knocked him unconscious:
Police responded to the scene at 11600 Riderwood Drive in southwest Houston Thursday evening. According to police, the officer, identified as J. Loosmore, was walking his dog with his wife when another man's dog attacked his dog.
Loosmore allegedly told the man he was going to file a report. He says while he was on the phone with dispatchers, the man started punching him. Loosmore told investigators that he was afraid the man would be able to take his gun.
"He begins punching him multiple times in the head and chest. At that point in time, the officer (Loosmore) tells us he actually felt his vision grey out like he was losing consciousness," HPD spokesman Kese Smith said.
HPD: Off-duty officer shot man after he was punched during dog fight , October 13, 2016
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If the account is accurate, and is supported by the physical evidence and whatever information may have been recorded in the call to the dispatcher, then this would appear to be a easily justified shooting, and a circumstance under which any citizen would have been justified in using deadly force as well.
One of the themes pushed by a rabidly anti-police Black Lives Matter movement uncritically parroted by their co-conspirators in the mainstream media is that unarmed people are not a deadly force threat.
That is insane.
There are more than twice as many deaths every year from the personal weapons (arms, feet, elbows and knees) of “unarmed” people than there are shotguns or rifles. This was born out again in the FBI’s just-released Uniform Crime Report for 2015. 624 Americans were kicked or punched to death by “unarmed” people in 2015. Only 252 were killed with rifles in 2015, and just 269 with shotguns.
Yes you read that correctly. 125 more people were beaten to death last year by “unarmed” people than were murdered with rifles and shotguns, combined.
Unarmed people can very much be a lethal force threat, and using deadly force against them is often justified from a moral, ethical, and legal standpoint.
“Unarmed” Man Shot In Houston While Attacking Off-Duty Cop by Bob Owens ,October 14, 2016
About 54 percent of known murderers were black in 2015, which suggests that blacks punched or kicked to death 337 people that year.
I discussed this at a the time of the Trayvon Martin Hoax in an article called “Unarmed” Black Teenagers—Threat, Menace, Or Both? David Frum Doesn’t Seem To Know (Frum was buying the "Trayvon was the victim" narrative) and again when 6'4", 292 pound Michael Brown attacked Darren Wilson in Ferguson.
There are two issues—the first is that the unarmed teen may be able to kill you with his bare hands, or kick you to death after knocking you unconscious.
The second is that if he can knock you unconscious he can take your gun, and kill you—or any number of bystanders—with it.
The experience of having your vision "grey out" as if you're about to lose consciousness is called "having your bell rung" in the boxing ring.
When Darren Wilson had his bell rung by Michael Brown, who had already attempted to take his gun, he was in danger of death. The best thing that could happen in that situation is that Brown would take Wilson's gun, kick him half to death, and then shoot himself.
It's more likely that he'd kill Wilson and then kill lots of other people—the kind of thing it's a police officer's duty to prevent. When you see a graphic like this, remember that each of these unarmed teens represents the attempted murder of police officer. And blacks are much more likely to do that than whites:
To make my point that unarmed black teens are dangerous. I titled this post "Unarmed Black Teens Kill More People Than Cholera"which sounds like hyperbole, but actually in a typical year there are seven cholera deaths in the United States compared with the estimated 337 killed by (mostly young) unarmed blacks.
That's because of First World water systems. The crime rate, on the other hand, suffers from Third World criminal population.
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Paul Christensen: The Reluctant Summer
Winter didn’t die easily here in Vermont. Its hand was still gripped around the doorknob, keeping us from leaving the house. We had to endure the ongoing death rattle in its throat, the slivers of ice that formed at the end of its breath. We were tired already, exhausted to the bone wearing our heavy coats to go to the store, to check the mail, to peek around the corners of the house at the scrubby little weeds shivering in the wind. I pitied the frail green things that wanted to come back, like orphans weeping underground. I could hear their muffled cries and hoped I too could endure the siege of this stubborn ghost. Then came the corona virus and we were given a three-month sentence to live once more in the dull heat of a furnace, in the cataracted light of our windows. I hauled out the trash, and longed for the sound of a car on the road.
Then the murder of George Floyd bit into us like the fangs of a snake, gnawing at our frazzled nerves, causing us to be pinned against the reality we dreaded to acknowledge. I sat there in a morbid state of despair, clasping my hands, listening to the drone of endless repetition of the news, the photographs, the cops crowded around the wheel well of a car, with the head of George Floyd pinned below, under the knee of a man who had lost his humanity and become a senseless brute. I could feel the rage building as I saw the nation writhe, then uncoil its wrath and take to the streets. I was demoralized to realize that my whole life had been lived in the twisted emotions of a country poisoned to its soul with racist hatred.
Winter had darkened the sky again, throwing its black cloak over the house and drowning us in inconsolable remorse for what we had become as a nation.
I went out into the sunshine and felt the sun glowering over me. I was accused of something, but I didn’t want to examine that feeling too closely. I felt like a jeweler who has been handed an engagement ring and must tell the young woman with big eyes that she has been given a bit of paste by a stingy lover. I walked into the grass to the bay window where I have been coaxing my the flowers to blossom for a month or longer. They were already drooping their long necks and letting their beautiful blossoms fade and fall apart. So things go on. Nature has no regrets. I stood there and realized that my emotions were not of one thing or condition, but were as frail and seducible as these lovely green shoots. I felt a breeze tickle my cuffs and send a little sigh full of cool air up my legs. The hot sign was only one part of the day’s repertoire. The air was fresh, and in the shadows, where I now stood, it was instructing me in the wisdom of forbearance.
The struggling roses at the end of my yard were writhing a little from the heat, but they were pulsing with energy. I know I shouldn’t take my lessons from what the tamed world is showing me, but I need consolation, and here it was. Let the birds above me sing me a love song, I’m ready for it. The nests are full of the anticipation of hatching eggs, and the birds were edgy that I was milling around with suspect intentions. I wanted to assure them I meant no harm and retreated to the house. I heard snippets of Al Sharpton’s eulogy yesterday as we were driving up north toward St. Johnsbury. I hoped he was making sense of this tragedy, but he has often spread himself too thin.
Our car trip took us past Warren Falls, and the towns grew smaller and dustier, with old porches piled with chairs that had not been taken down yet for the warm months. It was like the world we had stumbled into was encased in an invisible amber. Nothing much had changed from the 1940s. A general store warned that it would not answer the door unless you called on your cell phone. My wife did as required and ordered two cups of coffee, which we sipped on our little tortured roads, many of them cracked like old dishes from the ice storms of a few months ago. Hikers were out, and bikers were huffing along up the hills beside us. The woods were as incongruous as Magritte paintings, as if evening had settled in by two p.m. while the houses on the road were blazing with early afternoon light. When we got back, we slurped up some gin and tonic, and ate a light supper. Then I awoke to find myself funked out again, with the news reminding me that the protests were going on and that more police violence was erupting in Buffalo, and in other towns where innocent bystanders were being thrown to the pavement. That’s what dimmed the air around me into that murky light you sometimes see at the edge of a storm.
We still can’t sit down at a restaurant or wander around in a department store trying to forget where we are. Things remain shuttered here, bammered down, as a drifter once described Sunday in a Texas town. You had no real incentive to visit larger towns like Burlington or Brattleboro, because they were ghostly and uninviting in their hibernation. Best to stay with the villages, which might have a farm stand set out by the road. The apple trees along some roads are luminous with pink blossoms, and the bees are floating in a drunken ecstasy over so much nectar. If I were a pagan, I would be tooting on my pan pipe and dancing in the weeds. But I’m a fallen Christian, a lapsed Catholic with no particular god to bow my head to. Still, I feel deep stirrings of religious hunger in such moments, and wonder who I might pray to.
I am made of many contradictory emotions, I contain multitudes of them, and no one has mastered me. Not yet. I could sob, but then I might just as easily find myself bursting into laughter at something that popped into my memory unexpected. I have lived a long time and my mind is like a choir loft filled with singers all tuning their voices for the evening service. A freight train cuts through my solitude with its deep breath and shrill cries into the surrounding marshes. I am like marble, slashed with brown and red and creamy swirls of emptiness, and gleaming with that startling smoothness that holds us together. Around me, right now, I hear the throb of insects, the whirr of bees and wasps, the stealthy creeping of spiders hunting for a place to erect a web.
The heat means we are sliding forward through planes of light, each one brighter and starker than the one before. We are entering the palace of summer, with its gilded ceilings, its vast windows thrown open to the breeze, the staircases circling upward to rooms as vast as our dreams. We arrive at this juncture of the tormented year uninvited. We may press our cheeks to the casements and stare into that grand baroque invention of heaven, and come away struck with awe. Nature has built its summer castle on the ruins of winter, which rises upward as if nothing could stop its transformation of reality. And yet we turn and go home, and shut the door. We sit alone, in our persistent misery, wondering what summer really means, if it is only here for a few dazzling months. Behind it, waiting for the cue to recite its own lines, is fall with its red maples and black rivers, its rocks turned to faded silver. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little lives are rounded with a sleep. And as we lie in our beds we hear the anguished cries of a wounded nation, one struggling to understand the poison rooted in the marrow of its soul. Life is sorrow, and the weather merely beats down on it with ferocious power, flooding our aspirations and dismantling our shabby little cultures meant to shelter and console us.
Paul Christensen is a poet and writer who divides his time between Vermont and the south of France.
Copyright 2020 Paul Christensen.
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Countering electronic surveillance
Posted: May 4, 2012 | Author: scoronel | Filed under: Safety | Tags: Azerbaijan, Chris Soghoian, Committee to Protect Journalists, Electronic surveillance, Journalist Safety, Katrin Verclas, Safer Mobile, TeliaSonera |4 Comments
In a chilling account in this month’s issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, freelance journalist Matthieu Aikins recounts how hackers in the employ of the Libyan government were able to access the email accounts of foreign journalists. It wasn’t that difficult – nothing that a hacker of average skills in say, Manila or Bucharest, couldn’t do. Among other things, Libyan authorities got a spreadsheet from a CNN email account; it had a list of names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of the network’s underground sources in Tripoli.
In the past few years, the surveillance capacities of intelligence bodies around the world have multiplied beyond imagination, thanks in part to surveillance technologies developed in the U.S. and Western Europe. But even without those technologies, governments in many countries have been able to count on the cooperation of telecoms companies who willingly release data on subscribers in exchange for leniency on their licensing and other requirements.
Last month, the Swedish Television aired an hour-long documentary on the Swedish state-owned telecoms firm, TeliaSonera, which has co-invested in phone companies in the “dictatorship belt” of former Soviet Republics. These companies, the documentary showed, routinely provided intelligence agencies with mobile-phone data on journalists, human rights activists, opposition politicians, unionists, and even ordinary citizens. A TV viewer in Azerbaijan, for example, was questioned by state security after he had sent an SMS vote for the Armenian, instead of the Azerbaijani, candidate in the hotly contested EuroVision song contest.
Earlier this week, the Columbia Journalism School hosted a panel on information security to mark the launch of the Committee to Protect Journalists’ revised Security Manual for Journalists. The consensus: Unlike activists, journalists are painfully unaware of how their many devices – computers, tablets, mobile phones – expose them and their sources to great risks. And despite the ubiquity of electronic surveillance, most news organizations, even the biggest ones, do not train their reporters on data security.
As Danny O’Brien, CPJ’s Internet Advocacy Coordinator said, we have seen in recent years the “democratization” of surveillance. The capacities to monitor phone calls, email and other electronic traffic are now available not just to governments, but also to organized crime and to hackers for hire. Yet journalistic security practices still hark back to the pre-digital era.
There is no foolproof way to secure electronic data. And many journalists covering regular news beats probably don’t need to resort to high-level counter-surveillance measures. But everyone, particularly investigative journalists, has to be careful. The first step is to assess risks and map out the individuals or groups – government agencies, criminal gangs, companies – that may be interested in a journalist’s data and sources. Journalists should also remember that even if they are not being surveilled, their sources might be, and so the email correspondence and voice communications they have with those sources may be compromised. (Read more on Information Security in CPJ’s safety manual.)
Some tips from the panel:
As a general rule, says Chris Soghoian, an Internet privacy expert, free services for the mass market are not secure because they are built so providers can collect data on users. Facebook, Yahoo Mail and HotMail don’t encrypt their traffic; Gmail does, but Google servers have access to users’ email so they can place ads. Google also has a track record of surrendering data on its users on the request of governments.
Katrin Verclas of SaferMobile, says “mobile devices are a dictator’s wet dream” because these are phenomenally insecure. Safer Mobile recently released a Mobile Security Survival Guide for Journalists. The group’s website also has tips for safer voice calls, securing mobile e-mail and doing secure chatting. But while there are tools and applications that allow users to encrypt their mobile phone data, says Verclas, encrypted data leaves a footprint in the network, and might raise a red flag.
Encrypt sensitive documents and data. A simple way to do this is through TrueCrypt, a free, downloadable open-source encryption program that allows users to encrypt files or an entire disk or flash drive.
Cloud services – Dropbox, Google Docs, iCloud, etc. – are not secure, says Soghoian. It’s better to use the word processor on your computer and then back up on secure services like Spider Oak, which is relatively simple to use (Spider Oak also gives free accounts of up to two gigabytes of data).
Don’t bring laptops or smartphones when traveling to sensitive areas. Use a netbook instead, and a cheap, disposable phone that has minimal information.
Skype encrypts calls but is not totally secure and it keeps contact lists on its server (more on Skype vulnerabilities here). SaferMobile also says that Skype has a history of providing user data to governments.
Simpler is better, says O’Brien: In some cases, it might just be easier to use just a notebook. You know where it is and you can hold on to it.
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Google unveiled its new Pixel 4a and Pixel 5 smartphones this week (Oct 15) and the lightning fast, lightweight devices are quickly proving to be a winner for users across the globe.
The Pixel 4a and Pixel 5 both pack 5G speeds, feature the latest Google hardware, software and AI, have a remarkable battery life and cameras that are firmly on a premium digital SLR quality.
As more networks globally plug-in to 5G networks, the Pixel 4a and Pixel 5 are ready to capitalise on that and offer high-quality YouTube videos and more thanks to lightning fast download and streaming speeds.
While 5G might not be available immediately on all networks globally, both of the new smartphones already impress from a video quality and audio perspective – especially when listening in wired and wirelessly – whether it is watching a film, a clip on YouTube or on a Duo call with a colleague, client or friend.
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.NAVY Top-Level Domain General Availability
The .NAVY extension has entered the General Availability phase, therefore now it is possible to order/apply for domain names within the: .NAVY extension/suffix. Please contact our support via e-mail or use the contact form in order to buy .NAVY domains.
.NAVY - general information
The .NAVY domain aims specifically at navy-related websites, such as those dedicated to naval veterans, currently serving personnel, family members or support communities and organisations. It is a well defined extension that provides a unique platform for any group, business, individual or organisation that is associated with the term 'navy'.
Additional requirements for the .NAVY domain include:
1. No Misrepresentation of Affiliation with Military: Registrant must make sure that there is no misrepresentation or false implication of the Registrant's or its business's affiliation with, sponsoring or endorsement by one or more country's or government's military entities if such affiliation, sponsorship or endorsement does not exist.
2. .NAVY (and .AIRFORCE) is prohibited in Australia: According to Australian Defence Regulation 1957, No. 16, individuals and businesses, who are subject to Australian law, are not allowed to use the terms “Navy” (and “Air Force”) in respect to a trade or business.
.NAVY is a new generic Top-Level Domain (Business Niche gTLD) announced by ICANN, the Internet domain authority. The New gTLD Program`s goal is to enhance competition, innovation, and consumer choice. You can see it as your opportunity to get that perfect domain which has been taken by someone else. The introduction of .NAVY domain extension is divided into three phases: Pre-registration, Sunrise and Landrush. After Landrush period, the .NAVY domain will become public and registrations will be available to everyone (General availability).
A free and non-binding way to get a head start securing the new domain name. Indication of an interest in a given domain and eventually registering name(s) in .NAVY when registration becomes available.
Time at the launch of the .NAVY domain before public domain registration for the .NAVY begins, allowing brand/trademark owners to register, or block related domain names. See our Managed TMCH Submission service.
The initial launch phase for broad general distribution when anyone (usually companies) can submit a request for a domain name under the .NAVY. Landrush registrations are typically NOT first-come, first-served. Duplicate requests are auctioned between the parties desiring an identical name.
Finally, domain names under the .NAVY will be available to the general public, at normal retail prices on a first-come, first-served basis. Applicants may attempt to register previously pre-registered domains within .NAVY. When a domain is registered, it is officially reserved and registered in real time.
If you are not a brand owner, before General availability you are allowed to take part only in the first phase and pre-register your desired domain names within .NAVY. The use of our gTLD pre-registration module is free of charge and without any obligation to buy later on. We will keep you updated on future developments related to your preregistered domains, including information about pricing and regulations, once these have been announced by the registry responsible for a given gTLD. Please note that pre-registration of .NAVY is not a queue. Although we will try our best, we cannot provide any kind of guarantee that pre-registration will eventually lead to successful registration of your chosen domain within the .NAVY extension.
For non-trademark holders Pre-registration of .NAVY will be available until General availability.
Why .NAVY?
.NAVY is a perfect extension for websites dedicated to maritime community. It is a definitive domain that can be used by navy personnel, both on active duty and veterans, navigational and educational sites, navy-related business and organisations as well as individuals and communities. The .NAVY domain provides a meaningful alternative for .com's and net's or country code domains, and creates a special platform the navy-oriented Internet users to connect online.
Frequently Asked Questions for .NAVY domain names and Business Niche
Why should I register .NAVY domain name?
You are free to choose from hundreds of domain extensions tailored to your website's needs to give it a unique virtual identity. Furthermore, with .NAVY extension your website is likely to turn up in more searches and generate more online traffic.
When will .NAVY be available?
The dates of each phase depend on the Registry managing the new gTLDs. In the case of .NAVY, the specific dates will be published as soon as they are available to the public. At the moment, the following information is available:
Why should I pre-register .NAVY now?
We will keep you updated on any developments related to your pre-registered .NAVY domain, including information about pricing and regulations, once these have been announced by the registry responsible for .NAVY.
Does it cost anything to pre-register .NAVY?
The use of our gTLD pre-registration module is free of charge and without any obligation to a future purchase. Please note that pre-registration of .NAVY is not a queue. Although we will try our best, we cannot provide any kind of guarantee that pre-registration will actually lead to the successful registration of your chosen domain within .NAVY.
Are there any limitations on .NAVY pre-registrations?
No, with Web Solutions you are free to pre-register as many [new gTLDs] as you wish free of charge. However, although we will try our best, we cannot provide any kind of guarantee that pre-registration will lead to the successful registration of your chosen domain within .NAVY.
Are trademarks usable in .NAVY domain registration?
If you are a brand owner, it is important that you register your trademark(s) with the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) prior to the release of .NAVY. Brands are protected by the TMCH in two ways: with a Sunrise Service and a Trademark Claims Service. Web Solutions further offer a Managed TMCH Submissions service. Click here to read more.
Am I obligated to register a .NAVY I pre-registered?
Pre-registration of .NAVY names with Web Solutions is free of charge and with no obligation to buy the domain name later on. By expressing your interest in a .NAVY name and pre-registering it, you can be assured of our assistance in keeping you up to date on any developments regarding .NAVY.
Why would I want to pre-register .NAVY with Web Solutions?
Can anyone register a .NAVY domain name?
How do I host my .NAVY domain name?
Web Solutions' services include hosting and email service for .NAVY. To order hosting, email service and SSL certificates, click here or contact our Support Team at support@web-solutions.eu or via phone on +44 (0) 208 133 3994.
All the .NAVY domain names may be hosted on your own name servers. If you specify no name servers, we will provide DNS for your .NAVY domains free of charge.
.NAVY Status/Dates
Category: Business Niche
The face of e-commerce is about to undergo a complete transformation. With the delegation of new gTLDs the kaleidoscope of online retailers as well as wholesalers offering their products and services will become easier to navigate for that select group of customers, such as those interested in various .EQUIPMENT.
It's important to promote your online business using tools that are effective. And this is where new gTLDs come in handy with easy to remember domains such as .PROMO, .DEAL, .BARGAIN or .DISCOUNT. Let your target audience know about your special .EQUIPEMT products or special services you wish to advertise during the approaching holiday season by getting creative with domains like .SHOPPING, .GIFTS or .HOLIDAY.
Whether your area of expertise is .AUCTION(s), mountaineering .EQUIPMENT or .TOYS, the right Internet address will definitely help you get ahead of the competition.
If you would like more information about the .NAVY domain ending, have other questions about the Business Niche domains or our pre-registration service, please don't hesitate to contact us at relations@web-solutions.eu or via phone: +44 (0) 208 133 3994
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Author: Thommen, F.
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Bieri, G.; Heilbronner, E.; Hornung, V.; Kloster-Jensen, E.; Maier, J.P.; Thommen, F.; von Niessen, W., Electronic states of substituted haloacetylene and cyanoacetylene radical cations, Chem. Phys., 1979, 36, 1. [all data]
Maier, J.P.; Thommen, F., Radiative and nonradiative decay rates of state selected H-(C«equiv»C)-2H+, D-(C«equiv»C)-2D+, A2«PI»u, determined by a photoelectron-photoion coincidence technique, J. Chem. Phys., 1980, 73, 5616. [all data]
Forster, P.; Maier, J.P.; Thommen, F., Radiative and non-radiative decay rates of alkyl substituted diacetylene cations at selected energies within their 2A states determined via photoelectron-photoion coincidence measurements, Chem. Phys., 1981, 59, 85. [all data]
Kuhn, R.; Maier, J.P.; Thommen, F., Fluorescence quantum yields and lifetimes of fluorobenzene cations in selected levels of their B and C states determined by photoelectron-photon coincidence spectroscopy, Chem. Phys., 1981, 57, 319. [all data]
Maier, J.P.; Misev, L.; Thommen, F., 191. Laser-induced fluorescence and photoelectron-photon coincidence studies of 3,5-octadiyne cation, Helv. Chim. Acta, 1981, 64, 1985. [all data]
Maier, J.P.; Thommen, F., Fluorescence quantum yields and lifetimes of fluorobenzene cations in selected levels of their B and C states determined by photoelectron-photoion coincidence spectroscopy, Chem. Phys., 1981, 57, 319. [all data]
Maier, J.P.; Thommen, F., Photoelectron-photon coincidence measurements of the fluorescence quantum yields of cis-1,2-difluoroethylene cation in selected levels of the A2A1 State, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans. 2, 1981, 77, 845. [all data]
Maier, J.P.; Misev, L.; Thommen, F., Dicyanoacetylene cation. Laser-induced fluorescence and photoelectron-photon coincidence studies, J. Phys. Chem., 1982, 86, 514. [all data]
Maier, J.P.; Thommen, F., Relaxation of dihaloacetylene cations in their A and B states studied by photoelectron-photoion coincidence spectroscopy, Chem. Phys., 1982, 70, 325. [all data]
Maier, J.P.; Thommen, F., Photoelectron-photoion coincidence studies of halobenzene cations in their excited electronic states, J. Chem. Phys., 1982, 77, 4427. [all data]
Kuhn, R.; Maier, J.P.; Thommen, F., Photoelectron-photoion coincidence studies of the A and B excited electronic states of X-C«equiv»C-C«equiv»CN+, X = CH3, CD3, Cl, Br, I, J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom., 1984, 34, 253. [all data]
Maier, J.P.; Thommen, F., Relaxation dynamics of open-shell cations studied by photoelectron-photon coincidence spectroscopy, Gas Phase Ion Chem., 1984, 3, 357. [all data]
Klapstein, D.; Maier, J.P.; Misev, L.; Thommen, F.; Zambach, W., J. Chem. Soc., 1982, Faraday Trans. 2 78, 1765. [all data]
Klapstein, D.; Maier, J.P.; Misev, L.; Thommen, F.; Zambach, W., Emission and laser-excitation spectra of rotationally cooled methylcyanodiacetylene cation (A~2EaX~2 E) and photoelectron---photon, J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom., 1983, 31, 3, 283, https://doi.org/10.1016/0368-2048(83)85076-2 . [all data]
Maier, J.P.; Marthaler, O.; Misev, L.; Thommen, F., J. Chem. Soc., 1981, Faraday Disc. 71, 181. [all data]
Maier, J.P.; Marthaler, O.; Thommen, F., Ã2«SIGMA»+g --> X2«PI»u emission band system of dicyanoacetylene radical cation in the gaseous phase, Chem. Phys. Lett., 1979, 60, 2, 193, https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2614(79)80013-5 . [all data]
Maier, J.P.; Ochsner, M.; Thommen, F., Intramolecular decay of some open-shell polyatomic cations, Faraday Discuss. Chem. Soc., 1983, 75, 77, https://doi.org/10.1039/dc9837500077 . [all data]
Maier, J.P.; Thommen, F., Fluorescence quantum yields and cascade-free lifetimes of state selected CO+2, COS+, CS+2 and N2O+ determined by photoelectron---photon coincidence spectroscopy, Chem. Phys., 1980, 51, 3, 319, https://doi.org/10.1016/0301-0104(80)80106-6 . [all data]
Maier, J.P.; Thommen, F., J. Chem. Soc., 1981, Faraday Trans. 2 77, 845. [all data]
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Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917). Man with the Broken Nose, Reduction (L'homme au nez cassé, réduction), ca. 1863, reduction ca. 1900; cast 1970. Bronze, 3 3/4 × 2 1/2 × 2 3/4 in., 1 lb. (9.5 × 6.4 × 7 cm, 0.45kg). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, 84.75.8. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 84.75.8_bw.jpg)
Man with the Broken Nose, Reduction (L'homme au nez cassé, réduction)
For one of his earliest independent works, Rodin discarded conventional notions of beauty and chose as his model a local handyman whose rough but dignified features, including a broken nose, likely reminded him of the ancient portrait busts he studied at the Louvre. Vividly alive, and thus to him beautiful, it was a face the artist was compelled to model in clay, as Rainer Maria Rilke recounted:
Rodin’s motive in modeling this head, the head of an aging, ugly man, whose broken nose even helped to emphasize the tortured expression of the face, must have been the fullness of life that was cumulated in these features. There were no symmetrical planes in this face at all, nothing repeated itself, no spot remained empty, dumb, or indifferent.
This face had not been touched by life, it had been permeated through and through with it as though an inexorable hand had thrust it into fate and held it there in the whirlpool of a washing, gnawing torrent. A smaller variant of the head would later appear in The Gates of Hell, and Rodin had it cast in a variety of sizes, of which this reduction is one. In 1875 a marble version his assistant carved became the first of Rodin’s works to be accepted at the Paris Salon.
ARTIST Auguste Rodin, French, 1840-1917
CAST BY Georges Rudier Fondeur, Paris
Place Made: France
DATES ca. 1863, reduction ca. 1900; cast 1970
DIMENSIONS 3 3/4 × 2 1/2 × 2 3/4 in., 1 lb. (9.5 × 6.4 × 7 cm, 0.45kg) (show scale)
MARKINGS Foundry mark: "G. Rudier./Fond. Paris."
SIGNATURE Proper left neck: "A. Rodin"
Rodin: The Cantor Gift to The Brooklyn Museum
Rodin at the Brooklyn Museum: The Body in Bronze
ACCESSION NUMBER 84.75.8
EDITION Edition: 8/12
CREDIT LINE Gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
CAPTION Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917). Man with the Broken Nose, Reduction (L'homme au nez cassé, réduction), ca. 1863, reduction ca. 1900; cast 1970. Bronze, 3 3/4 × 2 1/2 × 2 3/4 in., 1 lb. (9.5 × 6.4 × 7 cm, 0.45kg). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, 84.75.8. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 84.75.8_bw.jpg)
IMAGE overall, 84.75.8_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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english, english professor, english teacher, karl wilcox, neil nedley, newbold college, philosophy, southwestern adventist university
Gifts come in all shapes and sizes. For example, this summer Weimar College received the gift of Karl Wilcox with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English. “Dr. Wilcox is a welcomed addition to our academic curriculum,” commented President Neil Nedley, M.D.
Weimar Institute President Neil Nedley MD interviews Dr. Karl Wilcox, professor of English. (Photo by RD Gallant, dean of men at Weimar Academy)
Dr. Wilcox incorporates a plethora of life experiences into his lectures ranging from his studies of Chaucer, the Father of English literature, to Bible stories, Medieval studies, and his love for mountaineering and wilderness education.
This semester, Dr. Wilcox is teaching college students about Bible texts and interpreting texts accurately as part of his curriculum. “It’s what I mostly pound into students’ heads,” said Dr. Wilcox.
“I teach Freshman English using Bible stories because the Bible is the most profound literature every written,” he said.
“In all of my classes the primary teaching objective is for students to learn how to reason effectively using Bible principles; thus, I do not do all their reasoning for them.”
He also stated that “the only thing that can defeat postmodern relativism is godly reason informed by a close reading of Scripture.”
With extensive travels and background, Dr. Wilcox incorporates his mountain guiding experiences in Alaska and Africa, the ice climbing in Scotland, and ski trips to Norway into the classroom.
He and his wife Heidi, and two elementary-age school children, moved to Northern California this summer from the Fort Worth, Texas, area where he has been an English professor at Weimar’s sister institution Southwestern Adventist University.
His resume includes serving as a senior guide for “Sky’s the Limit Rock Climbing Guide Service” in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada, to being a lecturer in Renaissance and Medieval Literature at Newbold College in England.
Dr. Wilcox has published articles on the Book of Job in a leading Old Testament Journal. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, and a M.Phil. from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
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What is 326 Deciliters in Gallons?
Deciliters to Gallons
326 dL in gal
326 Deciliters =
8.612 Gallons
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Convert 326 Deciliters to Gallons
To calculate 326 Deciliters to the corresponding value in Gallons, multiply the quantity in Deciliters by 0.026417205124156 (conversion factor). In this case we should multiply 326 Deciliters by 0.026417205124156 to get the equivalent result in Gallons:
326 Deciliters x 0.026417205124156 = 8.6120088704748 Gallons
326 Deciliters is equivalent to 8.6120088704748 Gallons.
How to convert from Deciliters to Gallons
The conversion factor from Deciliters to Gallons is 0.026417205124156. To find out how many Deciliters in Gallons, multiply by the conversion factor or use the Volume converter above. Three hundred twenty-six Deciliters is equivalent to eight point six one two Gallons.
Definition of Deciliter
A deciliter (also written "decilitre", symbol: dL) is a metric unit of capacity, equal to one tenth of a liter or about 3.38 U.S. fluid ounces.
Definition of Gallon
The gallon (abbreviation "gal"), is a unit of volume which refers to the United States liquid gallon. There are three definitions in current use: the imperial gallon (≈ 4.546 L) which is used in the United Kingdom and semi-officially within Canada, the United States (liquid) gallon (≈ 3.79 L) which is the commonly used, and the lesser used US dry gallon (≈ 4.40 L).
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MGSU expands resources as mental health crisis worsens due to COVID-19
BeWell@MGA gives students 24/7 access to counselors and mental health resources.
Author: Katelyn Sabater
Published: 5:45 PM EST January 13, 2021
Updated: 10:45 PM EST January 13, 2021
MACON, Ga. — New studies show that COVID-19 is raising anxiety among college students.
Middle Georgia State University is making sure their students stay on track with a new mental health program called, “BeWell@MGA.”
“In the beginning, there definitely was an increased level of anxiety,” said senior Kamryn Toney.
That last year of learning can be stressful for anyone. Add a pandemic into the mix and "stressful" doesn’t seem to cover it.
“I’ve never experienced anything like this, so it was difficult to adjust,” said Toney, “And again, I was more focused on, 'How do I stay safe? I don't want to get this myself or bring it home to my parents who do have underlying conditions.'”
Stories like Toney’s aren’t unique.
According to Jennifer Brannon, Vice President of Student Affairs, mental health problems on campus have increased because of COVID-19.
“The pandemic has added even more to it, and now it's just, it's blatantly obvious that we need to be able to provide our students with access all the time.”
That’s how they university came up with “BeWell@MGA,” a hub that gives students 24/7 access to counselors and mental health resources.
According to a study by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, more than half of college students who participated said they felt “some anxiety” from the pandemic. Close to 21% said they were “very anxious.”
“It's pretty impressive that they're continuing to go to class and try to get their degrees, but there's a lot of concern and scare about the world we're living in right now,“ said Brannon.
Kamryn said just knowing the BeWell program is there allows her to focus on school.
“I feel it takes a load off of me, so if I know that I do get anxious, there's something there that I can go to.”
To learn more about BeWell, go to their website.
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Harvest Workers Among COVID World's Last Normal Travelers
By Susan Shand
Alexandra Ichim's hands moved quickly, cutting and dropping grapes into plastic containers. Nearby, a few Italian students also working in the vineyard tried to work just as quickly but could not.
Alexandra Ichim lives in Romania. She had never worked in vineyards before traveling to Italy's Lombardy area for the September grape harvest. For the Italian work, the 20-year-old came on a 12-hour bus ride and returned by plane to Romania when the harvest was finished.
Alexandra Ichim, a 20-year-old Romanian, works during a grape harvest in Rocca de Giorgi, Italy, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
Eastern European seasonal workers, many of them Romanians, are important for getting food to homes throughout Europe. Their willingness to work hard in temporary jobs for low pay makes them valuable in agricultural areas. They send most of their earnings home, where many people are poor.
At a time when travel for work is seen as dangerous for everyone, seasonal workers are among the world's last border-crossers. The European Union does not offer them any special protection should they fall sick.
Around one in five Romanians works overseas. About 1.2 million of them have made a home in Italy. Thousands of others travel back and forth for temporary jobs in Italy, France and Spain.
When coronavirus struck, around a million people living throughout Europe returned to Romania. They ignored the Romanian president's calls to stay in place and avoid bringing the virus home.
Workers can earn around 1,200 euros a month by working eight-hour days in Italy. By comparison, they can make around 700 euros for a month of 10-hour days in Romania.
Alexandra Ichim speaks perfect Italian and has lived off and on in Lombardy with her mother since 2006. She was in Romania with her father when the coronavirus outbreak first struck Italy earlier this year. She was working in a factory, but it later sent her home because of the virus.
Ichim left to join her mother nearly as soon as the borders reopened. At the time, Romania's infection rate was low, and no quarantine was required. But a few weeks later, a 14-day quarantine was required in Italy for travelers from Romania and Bulgaria.
One area in Italy, Trento, permitted farms and vineyards to put in place "working quarantines." Seasonal workers were permitted so long as they wore face coverings and stayed in housing at the farm.
"A company cannot afford to keep a foreigner for 14 days without putting him to work," said Roberto Caponi of the Italian agriculture confederation. Also, the fruit growing in the fields cannot wait, notes Ottavia Giorgi di Vistarino.
Her family's vineyard includes four hillsides in Rocca de' Giorgi, a small community about 60 kilometers south of Milan. The harvest starts with Pino Nero for Spumante, an Italian sparkling white wine.
Ichim joined a group of workers for the first Pino Nero harvest in September. The winery's full-time chief is Christian Florisan. He is also Romanian, as are many of the men who work the wine presses.
"Corona(virus) has brought the agriculture business to its knees more than any others. Everywhere, at home in Romania and here in Italy, we are having difficulties finding people," said Florisan. He has lived in Italy for 14 years.
Florisan added that many workers are afraid of catching COVID-19 and being forced to quarantine, which might use up all the money they have earned.
He estimated more than 50 percent of his workers are Romanian, but the numbers are down by 25 percent this year. Across Italy, wineries are down 36,000 workers, which means not all the fruit will be harvested in time.
All who came from Romania had medical exams, Florisan said.
As many as a million seasonal workers cross EU borders every year, notes the European Commission.
When the virus first broke out, Romania's president asked citizens not to return from their jobs outside the country, but his appeal was mostly ignored. Many Romanians either needed or wanted to return for what would become weeks of staying at home. Back in Romania, suspicious neighbors contacted government officials to report returnees from Italy or Spain or France.
Now, Romania has Europe's second highest coronavirus death rate after Spain.
Ichim and her boyfriend, Dennis Sirca, were already planning to return to Romania and may have to quarantine when they arrive.
That is fine with them because they made two to three times as much during the harvest as they could have in their "real" jobs. Ichim said she would do it again.
"In Romania, we do not make money, we cannot make money working so we came here to do the grape harvest," she said.
After borders closed last spring, Western Europeans realized they needed the Romanians and other seasonal workers for the harvest. German and British companies even sent planes to get Romanian workers.
I'm Susan Shand.
The Associated Press reported this story. Susan Shand adapted it for Learning English. George Grow was the editor.
Words in This Story
vineyard – n. a place where grapes are grown to make wine
outbreak – n. the sudden appearance of a contagious disease
quarantine – v. to live alone when one has a contagious disease
afford – v. to be able to pay for
confederation – n. an organization or group
wine – n. an alcoholic drink made from grapes
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Rubbish Residency
I'm artist in residency at Brighouse Recycling Centre for Brighouse Festival 2018. I will be working on site researching and and undertaking Rubbish Conversations leading up to the Festival (5-14th October), culminating in a performance on site and exhibition at Brighouse Library
Day 2 on Site 09/09/18
I met some more members of the team at the Recycling Centre today and we had some really good Rubbish Conversations.
I asked them what the strangest thing they’d had thrown away was. After a bit of thought, the strangest thing one of the team said was money. People throw money away. Not just by accident, which does happen, people throw foreign currency away too. Even current GBP is thrown away in house clearances and such like where people don’t have the time or inclination to sift through everything. Jewellery gets chucked away too – gold in amongst costume jewellery. They try to sift through things like boxes and bags to retrieve valuable materials that can go in the Revive charity shop but it’s not always possible, and depending which skip it ends up in, might not be retrieved in the materials processing either.
Today there were a lot of items thrown away that were outgrown and out of fashion. This mirror was no longer wanted due it’s dated look. It’s 50 years old and was bought in a second hand shop originally, 50 years ago, before they were called charity shops. It will go back into the on site charity shop for resale:
These modular shelving units were thrown away because they’re not on trend any more, again retrieved for resale:
A daughter’s roller skates that have been outgrown:
A daughter’s desk who has finished her full time education:
I love collecting the stories behind these rubbish objects and finding out why they are now ‘rubbish’. It would really interesting to follow the items through the recycling shop and find out where they end up going and for what reason.
I also had a delivery from a lovely women off our local trashnothing! network of magazines to use in upcoming workshops and collages and gleaned a shiny bin lid from the skip.
Alice Bradshaw
Day 1 On Site
Talking Rubbish
I spent the morning on site today meeting the team, talking rubbish and talking some photos.
We had a good chat in the office about rubbish: the sorting categories and value of rubbish. Apparently there’s no money (for them) in glass which surprised me, whereas metal (unsurprisingly) and cardboard are the most value.
Materials are either worth something or they have to pay to have it taken away to be processed. Glass is cost neutral. The glass bins are clear, brown and green. Someone had left a blue gin bottle by the green bins in an uncertain guess. Blue glass should go in the clear bin apparently.
We discusssed people’s perceptions of the centre and that calling it a tip is irksome. “People come and literally tip stuff in the skips without bothering to check it’s the right skip sometimes.” The media play a big role in the perception of the recycling services and do the team no favours in the public perception and negative attitudes. We also talked about Brexit and how that might affect rubbish.
We talked about the site users and I loved that they have ‘regulars’ that stay for a chat.
I chatted to one person who was getting rid of some paint for a relative. He had just split with his fiancé who had moved out and he was clearing out the house. He’ll redecorate now for a fresh start. Split paint / tainted paint.
I went into the Revive charity shop on site and had a nosey around. It’s a treasure trove in there and the juxtaposition of objects is brilliant. There seems to be a high turn over of copulating animal salt and pepper figurines.
I had a good chat with the staff in there too. One of the team told me there are three women in total across all the Calderdale sites and some the older generation of the public have told her this is no place for a woman, and she’s too glamorous to be here. I would actually love her job, although apparently it’s freezing in winter. Another one of the team told me that the public often say in summer things like, “We’re paying your wages to stand around in the sun!” which they find ridiculous because they’re not just standing around and what about the other half of the year – been paid the ‘stand around in the freezing cold’?
We had a really good about consumer society and throwaway culture: how working here has been a real eye opener to what people throw away and why. House clearances and getting rid of items after a death or break up is common and people just want rid. Then there’s the built in obsolescence and continual upgrading to the almost-identical next product. How it’s changed from the years when things were built to last and passed down through generations.
Another guy was telling me about having a washing machine for years and years: When they redid their kitchen they got a new one that kept breaking and they had the engineer out several times in the first year. Then I found this book in the hoards and hoards of books in the shop:
So of course I bought it and will take it back to my studio. I’m hoping to have some studio time in between working on site to ‘process’ everything: all my scavenging from the charity shop and the photos, stories and information I’ve gleaned.
Rubbish Collages and Rubbish Research
As I gear up for my first proper day on site on Thursday, I’ve been making some collages out of discarded/recycled (charity shopped) materials combined with Suez’s leaflets (which inevitable become recycled materials too).
The first one of these (above, front and reverse side) I sent to Louise Ashcroft as part of her mail art project Penpals I’ve been involved in (sending each other art in the post that responds to the previous piece).
I’ve made some more collages and am looking forward to my regular scavenging in the plentiful book section of the Brighouse Recycling Centre Review charity shop.
I also watched The Secret Life of Landfill which was really insightful about the history, present and future of landfill. Suez’s main targets are around recycling and minimum landfill and I also found this little promo video on the history of Suez.
One of the previous Rubbish Conversations I had with the area manager and site manager was about the terminology we use. They don’t call it ‘rubbish’ or ‘waste’ – everything is ‘recyclables’ or ‘household recyclables’. As my whole Master by Research was looking about these definitions this is really key. Their categories are all about material composition – also a crucial art labelling component.
I’m really looking forward to my weekly/daily recycling!
I’ve had the Suez site user induction at the Halifax transfer site which is mostly common sense with a bit of jargon thrown in for good measure. There was a test at the end! Which has inspired me to maybe incorporate a little rubbish quiz into the end of my festival talk/performance.
The induction talked a lot about being aware of your environment: top (weather), middle (equipment/machinery), bottom (terrain) and the importance of safety workwear. I’m kitted out in steel toe cap boots and have got a hi vis vest printed.
My official start date on site is 6th September.
Rubbish Guided Tour
Thursday 11th October, 1-2pm
Brighouse Household Waste Recycling Centre, Atlas Mill Road, Brighouse
Alice Bradshaw is Brighouse Arts Festival 2018’s artist in residence and will be based at Brighouse Tip researching & undertaking Rubbish Conversations, culminating in a public performance on site on Thursday 11th October at 1pm.
The Guided Tour will be a performative walking tour of the Brighouse Household Waste Recycling Centre on Atlas Mill Road in Brighouse. Free to attend, booking recommended but not essential.
The tour will start at 1pm, please be prompt as safety is important on site. Audience will be at own risk.
Alice will also hold an exhibition at (venue tbc) for the duration of the festival.
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/brighouse/brighouse-household-waste-recycling-centre/alice-bradshaw-guided-tour
Halifax, UK
Alice Bradshaw is an artist, curator, researcher and writer based in West Yorkshire, UK. http://www.alicebradshaw.co.uk
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Millbrook wheelchair contract needs £2m injection as long waiting times persist
Wheelchairs by Joe Peskett on September 19, 2018
Millbrook Healthcare’s wheelchair services contract, which covers eight CCGs across Kent, requires an additional £2m from commissioning groups so it can tackle waiting times.
Leading commissioners ceded that there are lessons to be learned but disregarded calls to terminate the £6.2m a year contract and instead said it was better to work through challenges.
Millbrook has held the contract since April 2017 and now more than 2,000 patients have been waiting more than 18 weeks for equipment, compared with over 1,000 when it took over from the previous provider.
According to a report to commissioning groups, the increasing complexity of cases has meant the equipment budget has been overspent by 21%.
Now, CCGs are being asked to set aside money which includes over £1m to cover cost pressures associated with complex referrals; over £500,000 to cover inherited caseload, additional therapists and van leasing; £276,000 of ‘start up’ stock that was not received from the previous provider; a potential further £480,000 to meet cost pressures in the final three years of the contract.
The report from Kent County Councils’ health overview and scrutiny committee noted that there had been calls in recent months to strip Millbrook of its contact.
Professor Mike Oliver, who represents the Kent Wheelchair Users’ Group, said he did not accept the CCG’s decision to continue working with Millbrook to resolve the problems and said he was considering writing an open letter to CCG Clinical Chairs to say that the contract should not be continued.
The report stated that Thanet CCG had been advised on the timescale and cost that would be involved if it were to re-tender the contract.
“It is not possible simply to remove a contract and offer it to another provider… This is a further reason why we believe working with Millbrook Healthcare to resolve contract challenges is the route most likely to get the best outcomes for patients in the shortest time, although we will keep this contract under review.”
The CCG said “there are lessons from this experience” and it is setting up a service user improvement group to help deliver improvements.
Millbrook has been asked to develop an improvement plan to deal with the backlog quickly and also to present data to the CCG that distinguishes between the inherited and the new backlog.
Ailsa Ogilvie, chief operating officer at Thanet CCG, said in July that the backlog was not known at the time of awarding the contract and since the contract began, there had been “significant requests for powered chairs that had exceeded procurement expectations”.
In the first year of the contract Millbrook Healthcare raised concerns regarding the inherited backlog.
The CCGs and Millbrook said in a joint statement that 10 new staff members have been recruited, more equipment has been ordered and the repairs waiting list has been reduced.
They said: “Wheelchair users in Kent and Medway and their families remain at the heart of our service improvements, and it is our aspiration to ensure they get an excellent service.”
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John Sargent says:
I used to have the contract for four of these areas, albeit a few years ago. The company that won the contract from us went broke within six months. The authorities should have learnt that they can’t get something for nothing but never do. Millbrooks entered into a contract for a price and are in breach of it. Their under quoting probably prevented another company that quoted a realistic price from getting the contract. Therefore Milbrooks are responcible as are the bodies that thought they could get away with employing them. Using smaller local companies spreads the risk and avoids the “to big to fail” syndrone..
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Large fish traps in Singapore waters
Oil spill off Pulau Tekong in Johor waters 15 Jun 2017
Does Singapore have marine water quality standards like Malaysia?
Water Quality in Singapore
Mangrove loss threatens migratory shorebird route in N. Sumatra
mongabay.com
A guide to Singapore's guides
Olivia Ho and Lian Szu Jin Straits Times 16 Jun 17;
Dazed and confused by sprawling collections of artefacts? Unsure why a national monument matters? Lost while wandering in the wild?
There are also numerous burgeoning guide groups for community heritage trails, art outreach, nature walks and more.
Who are these dedicated people? The Straits Times provides a guide to the guides.
BUG LOVER FINDS CALLING AS NATURE GUIDE
Mr Ivan Kwan, who started guiding in his early 20s, set up his ownnature guiding company in December last year and covers places such as Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (above). PHOTOS: FELINE LIM, PATRICE LAMOUREUX
Ivan Kwan, 35, full-time nature guide
Guide at: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Pulau Ubin, Chek Jawa Wetlands, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Central Catchment Nature Reserve, Pasir Ris Park and anywhere else on request (go to www.natureadventures.sg or e-mail hello@natureadventures.sg)
"I was the weird kid who always played with all sorts of bugs and insects," says Mr Kwan as he transfers a small, furry spider from a railing along Sungei Buloh's Mangrove Boardwalk into his hands.
"This is a heavy jumper, one of the largest jumping spiders in Singapore," he adds, as he takes the photographer and me on a tour around the wetland reserve.
He grew up in Tampines and loved observing the frogs and tadpoles found in the grassy field next to his block, as well as the insects that flew into his house.
He has grown up to be a passionate nature guide, giving tours to places such as the wetland reserve and Chek Jawa for 10 years with different organisations.
In December last year, the bachelor set up his nature guiding company, Nature Adventures SG.
He started guiding in his early 20s. During his last year studying geography at the National University of Singapore (NUS), he started volunteering as a nature guide for NUS Toddycats - a volunteer group with the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum.
After he graduated, he worked as a research assistant at NUS, then as a conservation projects manager at National Parks Board.
He also volunteered with a group called the Naked Hermit Crabs and took visitors to the boardwalk at Chek Jawa.
His favourite place to guide at is Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve because of the crocodiles there. During the interview, he demonstrates his skills, recognising faraway birds such as a white-bellied sea eagle from its call.
Setting up his nature guiding company, he says, is a way of "doing what I'm passionate about as work".
labels singapore, singaporeans-and-nature
Oil tanker sinks off Johor, six crew members missing
PETALING JAYA: An oil tanker sank in Johor waters after an explosion on board and six of its Indonesian crew members are missing.
The Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said it received information on the incident from the Singapore Police Coast Guard (SPCG) at about 5am on Thursday that the MT Putri Sea could not be contacted by the tanker's agent.
It said the incident could have happened 4.6 nautical miles south-west of Tanjung Pengelih in Johor.
MMEA deputy director-general (logistics) Maritime Rear Admiral Datuk Mohd Taha Ibrahim said the agency sent a patrol vessel from Tanjung Sedili to investigate.
He added that the Penggalang 15 reached the area at 6.15am and found the tanker not in sight, but there were traces of an oil spill in the area.
A search and rescue operation involving four boats was activated at 12.30pm Thursday, Admiral Mohd Taha said.
The missing crew members have been identified as Akhmad Faharuddin, 35, Muhamad Heri Hernanda, 28, Raden Abdur Rahem, 31, Rendy Alamanda, 28, Sulkifli, 39, and Yohanis Sumari, 35.
The tanker, registered in Equatorial Guinea, is believed to have been carrying crude oil.
Oil tanker believed to have sunk
PETALING JAYA: An oil tanker is believed to have sunk after it caught fire off Tanjung Pengelih in Johor, with six of its crewmen missing.
“MT Putri Sea is believed to have been carrying crude oil. It is registered at Malabo Port, Equatorial Guinea,” said Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) deputy director-general of operations Rear Admiral Maritime Datuk Mohd Taha Ibrahim.
The vessel was carrying six crew members, all of them Indonesians, aged 28 to 39.
In a statement yesterday, he said MMEA found traces of oil spill around the area.
MMEA, he said, received information from the Singapore Police Coast Guard at about 5am yesterday that MT Putri Sea could not be reached by the vessel agent and that it could have caught fire and sunk about 4.6 nautical miles south-west of Tanjung Pengelih.
A search and rescue mission had been activated, he said.
Vessel sinks off Pengerang waters after explosion, 6 Indonesian crew members missing
New Straits Times 15 Jun 17;
JOHOR BARU: Six Indonesian crew members are missing when an Equatorial Guinea-registered tanker vessel sank 4.6 nautical miles from Pengerang, Johor at about 5am today due to explosion in its engine room.
Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) deputy director-general Rear Admiral Maritime Datuk Mohd Taha Ibrahim said the agency was alerted by the Singapore Police Coast Guard about the vessel, MT Putri Sea, catching fire after an explosion.
The vessel was sailing on the waters of Tanjung Pengelih, Pengerang at the time.
"The tanker ship registered in Malabo Port, Equatorial Guinea was carrying fuel and was believed to have sunk 4.6 nautical miles off Pengerang waters after an explosion where fire engulfed the vessel's main engine room," he said.
"A patrol boat from Tanjung Sedili D7 Maritime District was deployed immediately but when they arrived at the location they could not find the ship identified as MT Putri Sea," he said.
Taha said they believed the ship had sunk based on the trail of fuel on the ocean surface.
He said the six crew members on board were all Indonesians aged between 28 and 39 years, and all are still missing.
"A search and rescue operation has been activated to locate the missing ship crew members," he said.
Oil tanker sinks off East Johor Straits near Pulau Tekong, 6 Indonesian crew members missing
Today Online 15 Jun 17;
JOHOR BARU — Six Indonesian crew members are missing when an Equatorial Guinea-registered tanker vessel sank 4.6 nautical miles from Pengerang, Johor at about 5am Thursday (June 15) due to an explosion in its engine room.
Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) deputy director-general Rear Admiral Maritime Mohd Taha Ibrahim said the agency was alerted by the Singapore Police Coast Guard about the vessel, MT Putri Sea, catching fire after an explosion.
The vessel was sailing in the waters of Tanjung Pengelih, Pengerang at the time, which is off the East Johor Straits near Pulau Tekong.
Mr Taha said they believed the ship had sunk based on the trail of fuel on the ocean surface.
"A search and rescue operation has been activated to locate the missing ship crew members," he said. NEW STRAITS TIMES
Search continues for crew members of sunken oil tanker
KATHLEEN ANN KILI The Star 16 Jun 17;
KOTA TINGGI: The search and rescue operations are ongoing for six missing Indonesian crew members of an oil tanker which sank after an explosion on board.
The MT Putri Sea is believed to have sunk off Tanjung Pengelih here on Thursday.
Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Southern Region operations deputy director Maritime Capt Sanifah Yusof said Friday that some 50 officers from the agency, the navy and marine police on seven boats are involved in the search.
The vessel, carrying crude oil, had reportedly lost contact with its agent in Singapore at about 4.6 nautical miles south-west of Tanjung Pengelih at around 5am on Thursday.
The Singapore Police Coast Guard alerted MMEA on the incident.
Capt Sanifah said the operations on Friday covered some 35 nautical miles from the waters off Tanjung Setapa to Teluk Ramunia.
“The operations include containing and cleaning-up of the oil spill, as well as setting up signages and buoys at the location where the MT Putri Sea is said to have sunk.
“The cause of the incident is still under investigation.
"The Marine Department will be issuing a notice to trace the owner of the vessel,” he added.
The 46.3m-long MT Putri Sea, which carried the call sign 3CZU, was registered in Equatorial Guinea.
The missing crew members were identified as Akhmad Faharuddin, 35, Muhamad Heri Hernanda, 28, Raden Abdur Rahem, 31, Rendy Alamanda, 28, Sulkifli, 39, and Yohanis Sumari, 35.
SAR continues for missing crew members, MT Putri Sea vessel after explosion
Rizalman Hammim New Straits Times 16 Jun 17;
JOHOR BARU: The search and rescue operation for the missing MT Putri Sea vessel and its crew members continued today with efforts being concentrated over a 35 square nautical miles area between waters off Tanjung Stapa and Teluk Ramunia.
Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Southern Region deputy director of operations Captain (Maritime) Sanifah Yusof said the operation involved assets and personnel from various agencies including MMEA, the Royal Malaysian Navy, marine police, the Marine Department and Johor Port.
"A total of seven assets and 50 personnel are involved in the operation," said Sanifah in a statement.
He said today's operation also includes measures to contain an oil spill and to place isolated danger buoy at locations where the vessel is believed to have sank.
"The cause of the incident is still being investigated and the Marine Department have issued a notice to identify the owner of the vessel," said Sanifah.
Yesterday, it was reported that the Equatorial Guinea-registered tanker had sank 4.6 nautical miles off Pengerang waters after an explosion where fire engulfed the vessel’s main engine room.
MMEA had said that they believed the ship had sunk based on a trail of fuel on the ocean’s surface.
There are six Indonesian crew members on board.
Ship Carrying Indonesian Crew Members Sinks off Johor Coast
Tempo 16 Jun 17;
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A cargo ship carrying 15 Indonesian crew members sink off Johor Bahru west coast in Malaysia.
“The incident took place on June 14. Fourteen were unharmed and one was treated at Melaka Hospital and one died. The process to send them back will be carried out by the Transportation Attache of Indonesian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur,” Indonesian Consul-General in Johor Bahru Haris Nugroho said today, June 16.
Aside from the incident, reports also said that a trade ship carrying six Indonesians caught fire on June 15.
“On June 15, we were informed by SPCG [Singapore Police Coast Guard] that a trade ship MT PUTRI SEA carrying six Indonesian crew members caught fire… southeast of Tanjung Pengelih [Malaysia].”
All crew members reportedly managed to leave the ship.
“A motorboat from DM 7 Tanjung Sedili has been tasked with investigating the incident. But upon arrival at the scene, it did not see the ship being reported. A monitoring and search were subsequently conducted,” he said.
Hari said that oil spill allegedly from the burned ship was found. He suspected that the ship sunk in the incident.
“The next step is to await Jabatan Laut [Malaysian Marine Department] to place buoys at the scene and carry out oil spill security measures. SAR team is searching six missing crew members,” Haris Nugroho said.
Sunken oil tanker MT Putri Sea found
M. KUMAR The Star 18 Jun 17;
PETALING JAYA: The Royal Malaysian Navy has found the wreck of the MT Putri Sea, which is believed to have sunk off Tanjung Pengelih following an explosion.
RMN chief Admiral Tan Sri Ahmad Kamarulzaman Ahmad Badaruddin said on Twitter that the navy hydrography vessel KD Perantau had detected an underwater object, which is believed to be the missing MT Putri Sea.
"Bravo to KD Perantau for successfully detecting MT Putri Sea using multi-beam sonar," he tweeted on Sunday.
The oil container MT Putri Sea lost contact with its agent in Singapore approximately 4.6 nautical miles south-west of Tanjung Pengelih at around 5am on Thursday.
It was reported that the ship, which was carrying crude oil, may have sunk soon after an explosion on board.
Six crew members were reported missing.
The 46.3m-long MT Putri Sea was registered in Equatorial Guinea.
The missing crew members were identified as Akhmad Faharuddin, 35, Muhamad Heri Hernanda, 28, Raden Abdur Rahem, 31, Rendy Alamanda, 28, Sulkifli, 39, and Yohanis Sumari, 35
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Cambodia: Opposition Official Seeks More Information on Silica Sand Exports
BEN PAVIOUR and SEK ODOM Cambodia Daily 15 Jun 17;
CNRP lawmaker Son Chhay has formally asked Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem to provide detailed trade records for silica sand, the only variety of sand still allowed to leave Cambodia after an export ban was enacted last year amid corruption allegations.
The minister must “not just say things, but provide evidence,” Mr. Chhay said on Sunday, adding that he might ask parliament to summon Mr. Sem for a second round of sand trade-related questioning after he denied any trade irregularities in December.
The ministry suspended sand exports and new dredging licenses in a memo posted to its Facebook page on November 2 after months of accusations of misdeeds tied to enormous monetary discrepancies in records of sand exports to Singapore.
But in the request signed by Mr. Chhay last Friday, the lawmaker said the National Assembly had never been notified of the ban’s details, or of a later clarification on May 2 that exempted silica sand, which, unlike Singapore-bound sea sand, is mined from the ground.
Mr. Chhay asked the minister to “provide more documents and detail related to the announcement by the Mines and Energy Ministry after environmental activists and media described irregularities and suspicions of corruption over the business of sea sand exports.”
The letter, which National Assembly President Heng Samrin forwarded to Mr. Sem on Tuesday, requests the names of registered silica sand dredgers, the places they mine, environmental impact assessments completed on those sites, and documentation related to the quantity and destination of silica sand exports.
Alex Gonzalez-Davidson, the exiled head of environmental NGO Mother Nature, which has spearheaded activism against dredging, said he was concerned about silica sand exports as they enriched the alleged culprits of past ecological destruction.
“Cambodia is sadly becoming more and more of a mafia state, and as such the exploitation of natural resources is nothing but an opportunity for those in charge of state organs to become filthy rich,” he said.
Son Chhay plans to summon mines minister regarding sand
Meas Sokchea Phnom Penh Post 23 Jun 17;
Opposition lawmaker Son Chhay said yesterday he now plans to summon Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem for questioning in parliament after he failed to respond to his inquiry in writing regarding information on the export of silica sand.
Chhay, who is also planning to summon Labour Minister Ith Sam Heng, said the requests to appear for questioning will be delivered late this month when National Assembly President Heng Samrin returns from a mission abroad.
In a June 9 letter, Chhay requested Sem to provide information and documents related to silica sand extraction and exports, in response to revelations that the specific type of sand is exempt from a ban on sand exports.
“As principle, [Sem] must answer,” he said. “We have not seen his reply. So, it’s an abuse of the Constitution.”
Under the Constitution, a minister must provide a verbal or written response within seven days of receiving questions from lawmakers, Chhay noted.
Last year, the Mines Ministry temporarily suspended sand exports after controversy erupted over the discrepancy between the $5 million of sand exports to Singapore that Cambodia recorded from 2007 to 2015 and the $752 million that the city-state recorded as imports from the Kingdom.
Chhay also plans to summons Sam Heng – one of three ministers instructed by Prime Minister Hun Sen in February to ignore any requests by the opposition to appear before lawmakers at the assembly.
National Assembly spokesman Leng Peng Long said lawmakers have the right to summons government officials, but he said the questioning shouldn’t be used for “political gain.” In such cases, he said, the Assembly and Hun Sen would not allow the ministers to appear for questioning.
Chhay called on Sam Heng to appear in the National Assembly to answer questions about garment workers and migrant workers living in Thailand who weren’t able to travel to their hometowns to vote during the June 4 commune elections.
Dith Tina, a spokesman with the Ministry of Mines and Energy, said the ministry would respond to the opposition lawmaker’s inquiries, and that his questions required more than “simple answers that can be done within seven days”.
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AVA issues code of animal welfare for pet owners
Channel NewsAsia 15 Jun 17;
SINGAPORE: The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) on Thursday (Jun 15) issued a new code of animal welfare for pet owners to take effect on the same day.
The Code of Animal Welfare (for Pet Owners) sets out minimum standards which pet owners are expected to meet regarding accountability, animal housing and environment and animal management and care.
Published on the AVA's website, the code specifies minimum standards all pet owners should meet, including on diet and feeding; how pets are housed, tethered and transported; what to do if a pet goes missing; as well as care guidelines for specific animals, for instance, cold-climate dog breeds.
“The issuance of the code is another step forward for animal welfare in Singapore," said the AVA's CEO Tan Poh Hong. "Owning a pet is a lifelong commitment and AVA has always advocated responsible pet ownership."
"With the code, pet owners will now have an official guide that explains their responsibilities," she said, adding that AVA would continue to work closely with pet owners, animal welfare groups and other stakeholders to enhance animal welfare standards in Singapore.
It is not an offence if a pet owner fails to meet a minimum standard in the code, however the AVA said that this failure could be used to "support prosecution or other enforcement actions for animal welfare cases".
The new code follows the establishment of a similar code for the pet industry in Singapore which AVA announced last August.
Both codes were drafted by the Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration Committee for Animal Welfare (MSCC), chaired by Member of Parliament for Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC Alex Yam.
Established in October 2013, the MSCC is made up of private and public sector representatives including Members of Parliament, animal welfare groups, vets and the AVA.
SOME GUIDELINES FOR PET OWNERS
- If your pet is lost, make a missing pet report to the police or AVA, and make an effort to find it such as putting up "missing pet" advertisements.
- Pets should be housed in a well-ventilated, comfortable and clean environment. They should not be exposed to excessive noise, sunlight, heat or strong winds.
- Pets that are not compatible should be housed separately.
- Keep your pet in a safe area where it cannot easily escape or be released accidentally.
- Tethers should be fastened to a secure object that will not fall or hurt your pet.
- When using a carrier, make sure your pet can stand, turn around and lie down in it.
- Observe your pet daily and take it to the vet if you notice any signs of illness.
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Malaysia: Four fish bombers nabbed
KOTA KINABALU: One group gave authorities the slip while another was nabbed for using explosives to catch fish near Pulau Gaya and in waters off Sandakan respectively, in two separate cases here.
In the first case, four men ditched their catch weighing over 140kg after marine officials patrolling near Pulau Gaya saw two pump boats cruising without lights at about 6.35pm on Wednesday.
Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency director for Kota Kinabalu First Admiral Adam Aziz said when the team approached the pump boats, four men jumped into the sea and fled towards the water village on a nearby island.
“The suspects were seen throwing something like bottles into the sea before they jumped in,” he said in a statement here yesterday.
A check on the boats led to a find of some 140kg of fish stored in plastic containers.
“We also found various items believed to be used for fish bombing,” said Adam, adding that the suspects were being hunted down.
This case will be investigated under the Fisheries Act, he said.
In the second case, four foreigners were nabbed near the Langkayan area in waters off the Sandakan district at about 5pm on Wednesday.
Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency operations deputy chief for Sandakan Commander Mohd Khairulanuar Abd Majid said its patrol team saw a pump boat tilting sideways and went to investigate.
“Our men found five bottles filled with explosive substances believed to be used to bomb fish and a drum filled with about 50kg of fish,” he said.
Four Filipinos, aged between 15 and 47, were detained for investigation under the Immigration Act for travelling without documents and the Fisheries Act for fishing using illegal methods.
MMEA chases fish bombers near Pulau Gaya, seizes 2 boats, 140kg of fish
AARON LEE New Straits Times 14 Jun 17;
KOTA KINABALU: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has seized explosive items, diving equipment and 140kg of fish that were caught illegally off Pulau Gaya yesterday.
Kota Kinabalu MMEA director First Admiral Adam Aziz said two pump boats were also confiscated during the operation at 6.35pm yesterday.
“MMEA personnel initially spotted two suspicious-looking pump boats at 0.2 nautical miles off Pulau Gaya.
“As our men got closer, the skippers of both boats immediately sped off towards the island.
“At the shore, four men were then spotted jumping into the water to make their escape, leaving the boats behind,” he said.
Further checks found numerous explosive items and diving equipment believed to have been used for illegal fish bombing activity.
“About 140kg of fish were also confiscated and all the seized items were taken to the MMEA jetty in Sepanggar for further investigation.” he said.
The case will be investigated under the Fisheries Act 1985.
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Marine expert warns of climate emergency as fish abandon tropical waters
Daniel Pauly is calling for a new plan to manage fishing levels as the industry’s expansion combines with global warming
Helen Davidson The Guardian 15 Jun 17;
As climate change pushes marine species towards cooler waters, and the fishing industry expands around the globe, the tropics are emptying out, a leading fisheries expert has warned.
The federal government is expected to release its new management plan for marine reserves in coming weeks, after a 2016 review recommended winding back protections. However Dr Daniel Pauly has called for the creation of more, saying they are the only realistic form of mitigation to the current crisis.
Pauly, principal investigator at the Sea Around Us research organisation, said it was unknown whether the “explosion” of fishing industries or global warming was having the biggest impact on fish stocks, but both needed to be addressed.
“The depth, the distance from the coast, all of these were factors which protected fish. Now we go everywhere … now nothing protects the fish,” he said during an observation tour of Darwin’s tropical harbour.
“Climate change is something that is already being perceived by fish. It’s already happening and they’re already moving,” he said.
Warmer waters were pushing marine species away from the equator at a rate of about 50km per decade as they followed the ideal temperatures for feeding and spawning.
“In temperate areas you will have the fish coming from a warmer area, and another one leaving. You’ll have a lot of transformation but they will actually – at least in terms of fishery – adapt. In the tropics you don’t have the replacement, you have only fish leaving.”
Research by Pauly and the Sea Around Us has repeatedly called for greater focus on fisheries data from a global perspective rather than local, to properly assess the impact of commercial competition and climate change.
“Locally the work must be done also, but you can get insights if you look at the global issue,” he said.
Sea Around Us research has found that while the lack of industrial-scale fishing meant the problem wasn’t as bad in Australia, there were signs of a decline.
Pauly said there were only a few nations – of which Australia was one – that studied the species loss in the tropics.
“You can have entire fisheries collapsing without knowing because you cannot separate the global warming-induced migration from the reduction due to fishing, or even pollution. So we will never know for sure why this or that collapse has occurred, except in a few cases.”
In 2012 the Gillard government established 42 marine reserves around Australia, but these were effectively suspended by the Tony Abbott-led Coalition government, which commissioned a review.
In 2016 the review reports recommended winding back protections – advice at odds with Pauly’s views – in order to balance competing environmental, commercial, and socioeconomic interests.
A new management plan for marine reserves, based on the recommendations, is due to be delivered by the commonwealth Department of Environment in coming months.
Pauly said creating more marine reserves was the only real option for governments to mitigate the damage in the meantime, and aiding population growth in particular areas would spill over into fishing zones.
“The only thing you can do – and it’s only mitigation – is keep the population big in the sea,” he said.
Populations bounce back quickly when fishing stops, Pauly said, and a higher variance of individual fish assisted a natural evolution of greater tolerance to warmer temperatures.
“Marine protected areas, marine areas, are one mitigating factor, and it’s the only thing you can do.”
Pauly said marine reserves needed to exist along side good management, which Australia already had with “outstanding policies” like maximum yields.
Seasonal closures weren’t enough, added Prof Jessica Meeuwig, of the University of Western Australia’s marine futures lab.
Large breeding fish were still taken during open seasons, drastically upsetting population balances, and partial protections in place were inadequate.
“It’s like having a Ferrari with a lawnmower engine – there’s no grunt,” she said.
“That’s one of the big things we need to start having a conversation about. When you say marine park, that it’s actually a marine park that’s protected. The Great Barrier Reef marine park, 67% of it is open to fishing, and Ningaloo has 66% open to fishing.”
“It gives people a false sense of security because they think they’ve protected something when they haven’t.”
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5 land parcels for general agriculture in Lim Chu Kang, Sungei Tengah up for tender
Ng Huiwen Straits Times 14 Jun 18;
SINGAPORE - Five land parcels for general agriculture in Lim Chu Kang and Sungei Tengah were put on sale by public tender on Thursday (June 14) by the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA).
Of the five, three land parcels may be used to farm food crops, seafood, cattle or goats for dairy milk and/or food frogs, AVA said in a statement. These are located in Neo Tiew Crescent and Sungei Tengah Road.
The remaining two land parcels may be used only for non-food farming, such as for ornamental fishes, aquatic plants and/or ornamental birds. These land parcels can be found in Jalan Lekar in Sungei Tengah.
The land parcels have a lease term of 20 years, and measure an area of between 10,000 sq m and about 12,000 sq m.
More details on the land parcels are available on AVA website at www.ava.gov.sg/landsales
Tender packets containing details and conditions of tender of the land parcels are available for sale at the AVA Service Centre.
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Malaysia: Build airport in Mersing, not Tioman - Reef Check Malaysia
PETALING JAYA: Rather than building an airport in Tioman that can cause damage to the island's fragile ecosystem, an airport should be built in Mersing instead, says coral reef monitoring group Reef Check Malaysia.
Reef Check Malaysia general manager Julian Hyde said that Tioman is "already suffering" from recent developments, leading to water shortages and damage to coral reefs.
"The (Tioman) airport would have inevitably meant further development of resorts and infrastructure, which could only cause additional damage to the islands' fragile ecosystems, both on land and underwater," he said.
"We hope the Government will conduct a detailed study of the islands' capacity for further development," said Hyde.
"Such a development would serve these islands, too, potentially creating far greater benefits for less impact," he said.
Reef Check Malaysia's statement comes after Berjaya Group executive chairman Vincent Tan announced the group would submit a proposal to the government to build an airport in Tioman to boost tourism.
Tan said the group would finance the construction cost of the proposed airport.
However, Bernama reported that Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) managing director Badlisham Ghazali said that there were environmental concerns regarding the building of a new airport on the island.
He said the new airport may entail lengthening the current abandoned airport runway into the ocean through land reclamation.
Badlisham said that MAHB and the Government had looked at similar plans before, but no approval was given because the construction will "spoil the beauty" of the island.
There was a plan to build a new airport on Tioman in 2003. However, former Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat cancelled the project in 2009, citing environmental concerns.
Since Berjaya Air stopped providing flights to the small Kampung Tekek airbase in Tioman several years ago, only chartered 12-seater single-engine flights are available.
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There are so many people who grow up hearing things like, ‘you should not do this’ or ‘you are not meant for this’ and even ‘you cannot ever do this’. It is important that we allow our kids to break free of the shackles and restrictions and let them choose freely whatever it is that they want to pursue.
Geeta Chauhan who is a national level wheelchair basketball champion recalls how she had faced plenty of obstacles en route to her glorious career. He remembered how society always felt that she was too fragile and labeled her as being not good enough even before giving her a chance.
However, she was not born to give up. She never knew how to let go without a fight and this is why she decided to make the most of the adversity which life threw at her. It was polio which took away her healthy walking ability at the unripe age of 6.
“From the very beginning, my father was against me doing anything at all. After Class 10, he didn’t want to fund my education, as it seemed to be a waste of money. He said that my future was anyway going to be resigned to the four corners of the house. Again, my mother stuck by me, pushed hard enough to let me through and help me make my dreams come true!” she adds.
She finished her B.Com and M.Com and then started seeking a job. She was rejected in as many as 28 interviews mainly because of her physical condition as she was bound to a wheelchair but she still didn’t give up. She ultimately landed up a marketing job but it was eventually the basketball which gave her the passion that kept her going.
She is an inspiration for anyone who wants to win despite the odds.
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Clash over land dispute leaves 20 injured in Balkh
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AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: As many as 20 people were wounded in a clash between two parties over land dispute in Balkh province, official sources said.
Chief of the provincial council Mohammad Ibrahim Khair said the clash took place on Sunday morning in Dash-e-Shadian area of the provincial capital, Mazar-e-Sharif. He said that several members of the Jamaat-e-Islami and Harakat Islami parties clashed over 500 acres of land and pelted stones at each other.
Police reached the spot to bring the situation under control. The scuffle forced the policemen to resort to aerial firing. Over 20 people were wounded in the clash, he added.
The provincial council chief said that nearly 14 years ago the two parties divided around 1,000 acres of land equally in Dasht-e-Shadian area but later Harakat Islami claimed that all land belonged to it. The case went to a court but ended up with no result as the two parties could not reach an agreement.
Khair alleged that some people were trying to turn the dispute into a serious political issue, therefore, he requested the concerned authorities to resolve the problem. He urged the two parties to resolve the issue through the country’s judicial system in an amicable way.
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Home Headlines Haitian-Americans Win Long Awaited Visa Program To Reunite Families
Haitian-Americans Win Long Awaited Visa Program To Reunite Families
Haitian immigrants have long been discriminated against in America
AFRICANGLOBE – Advocates of the Reunite Haitian-American Families Campaign have achieved a significant victory in the Oct. 17 Department of Homeland Security announcement of a Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program (HFRPP). Prior to this federal announcement, longstanding support for FRPP grew from key national efforts like the Reunite Haitian American Families Campaign that is sponsored by the national coalition Black Immigration Network, which includes such organizations as the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees and Haitian Women of Miami.
Co-chair of the Reunite Haitian-American Families Campaign and executive director of BAJI, Opal Tometi, explains: “Immigrant rights organizations launched the campaign as the domestic and international Haitian community dealt with the powerful earthquake that shook the Haitian capital of Port au Prince. Living conditions began to worsen as communities displaced to tents began to number into the hundreds of thousands. This fragile situation degraded further with the onset of a cholera outbreak from unscreened U.N. troops.”
“In response to this crisis, President Obama approved family-based visas for 110,000 Haitians in a move similar to the policy created for Cuban beneficiaries. When Haitian visa recipients stayed on waiting lists, some for over a decade, a call went out for a Family Reunification Parole Program that would expedite family reunification by allowing already approved visa recipients to legally enter the U.S. and reunite family members,” said Ninaj Raoul, executive director of Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees and co-chair of the Reunite Haitian-American Families Campaign.
The Department of Homeland Security has responded to the demands of immigrant groups and the Reunite Haitian American Families campaign. Members of this campaign believe this is an important step for recipients whose visas are within two years of being current.
Analysts have shown that nearly 110,000 Haitians have been on the waiting list for up to 12 years. Depending on the implementation approach and the way the program is structured, it is currently estimated to cover only 5,000 individuals who cannot file immediately.
BAJI Executive Director Opal Tometi observes: “It is clear that we are being heard, but it is important that we understand that this is just one step in our journey to get the needs of the Haitian-American community met. We will watch the Department of Homeland Security closely to see how they plan on implementing this program and call on them to proceed with a strategy to expedite the process for all Haitians who’ve already been approved.”
Advocates for the Haitian FRPP call for a broader program with the Cuban parole program as a model. Support for a broad and comprehensive FRPP is resonating in a Haitian community that by 2009 reached 830,000 members across the country.
Marliene Bastien, executive director of Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami/Haitian Women of Miami and co-chair of the Reunite Haitian-American Families Campaign, told reporters, “We will continue to work for the rest of the group who are qualified to get them the opportunity to be reunited with their family members because they have been waiting for so long.”
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Last March, Cab Drivers United set up a meeting with high-ranking Chicago Police Department officials to discuss policing practices that target cab drivers. As a result, the department issued a “cease and desist” to the officers who made a habit of targeting cab drivers. The results are in, and they look good.
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“When we met with the Chicago Police Department, we talked about three officers who were responsible for 23 percent of all tickets written to cab drivers in 2014, which amounted to about 1,500 tickets,” said Nnamdi Uwazie, a veteran Chicago cab driver.
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“When we met with the Chicago Police Department, we talked about three officers who were responsible for 23 percent of all tickets written to cab drivers in 2014, which amounted to about 1,500 tickets,” said Nnamdi Uwazie, a veteran Chicago cab driver and Cab Drivers United/AFSCME member. “One of our members talked about receiving two tickets from two different officers for illegally parking his cab in two different locations at the exact same time.”
Cab Drivers United issued a formal open records request to find out if the officers heeded the warning. “Since our meeting in May, the three officers in question have issued zero tickets to cab drivers,” Uwazie said. “For so long drivers were at the mercy of the city, but now with Cab Drivers United/AFSCME, we have the power to demand respect and fight abuse.”
More than 4,000 Chicago cab drivers have joined Cab Drivers United/AFSCME to build a powerful union to advocate for respect and justice.
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Tigerair agrees to sell Tigerair Philippines to Cebu Pacific Air, both carriers agree to an alliance
Tigerair (formerly Tiger Airways) (Singapore) has issued this statement with Cebu Pacific Air (Manila):
Tigerair and Cebu Pacific Air, the largest budget carriers based in Singapore and the Philippines respectively, have announced plans to enter into a strategic alliance. Both parties will collaborate commercially and operationally on international and domestic air routes from the Philippines, thereby creating the biggest network of flights to the region.
The alliance will enable both parties to leverage their respective strengths and harness synergies to enhance their network coverage, flight frequencies and customer service, and jointly market their routes using interline arrangement.
Subject to regulatory approval, the interline partners will jointly operate common routes between Singapore and the Philippines. As part of the strategic alliance, Tigerair will divest its 40% stake in Tigerair Philippines to Cebu Pacific.
Group CEO of Tigerair Mr Koay Peng Yen said, “Tigerair and Cebu Pacific share a vision for both airlines to join forces and create the largest budget airline network between Asia and the Philippines. This partnership with Cebu Pacific is consistent with our asset-light strategy, and builds upon our other alliances. We also look forward to achieving greater cost savings from the coordinated operations while providing more travel options and greater convenience for our customers.”
President and CEO of Cebu Pacific Mr Lance Gokongwei said, “This strategic alliance will allow both Cebu Pacific and Tigerair to leverage our extensive networks spanning from North Asia, ASEAN, Australia, India, all the way to the Middle East. Our customers can expect an even wider range of travel options, and seamless travel connections while enjoying our trademark low fares.”
Top Copyright Photo: Michael B. Ing/AirlinersGallery.com. Sporting the new titles and look, Tigerair’s Airbus A320-232 9V-TAS (msn 4493) arrives in Bangkok.
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Bottom Copyright Photo: Ken Petersen/AirlinersGallery.com. Cebu Pacific Air’s Airbus A320-214 RP-C3262 (msn 4537) also arrives in Bangkok.
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Cebu Pacific is interested in buying Tigerair Philippines
Cebu Pacific Air (Cebu Air, Inc) (Manila) has started negotiations to possibly acquire rival Tigerair Philippines (formerly SEAIR) (Manila and Clark) according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer. If the two parties can reach agreement, the acquisition would need to pass several regulatory hurdles including the Philippines CAB.
Tigerair Philippines was formed when Tigerair (Tiger Airways) of Singapore acquired 40 percent of SEAIR (formerly Asian Wings) and renamed the airline.
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Top Copyright Photo: Michael B. Ing/AirlinersGallery.com. Cebu Pacific Air’s (Cebu Pacific Air.com) Airbus A320-214 RP-C3273 (msn 5498) with Sharklets approaches Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi) for landing.
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Bottom Copyright Photo: Kok Chwee K.C. Sim/AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus A320-232 RP-C6319 (msn 5188) with “It’s more fun in the Philippines” lands in Singapore.
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RAK Airways suspends all operations again
RAK Airways (rakairways.com) (Ras Al Khaimah) has again suspended operations as of today (January 1) as it restructures. The airline issued this statement today:
UAE’s RAK Airways announced today (January 1, 2014) the suspension of all operations starting on January 1, 2014 until further notice. In a written statement today, the airline said, ‘The decision for suspending operations was taken following increased pressures on the carrier’s performance due to continuous market conditions, increased operating costs and the impact of the regional political instability on the overall aviation industry.’.
‘‘The board of directors took the decision today to suspend the operations until further notice. We believe this decision is in the best interest of the airline and its shareholders. We will take this time to re-evaluate the best options available for RAK Airways future as well as those that fit the industry requirements of the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.”
RAK Airways current network included flights from RAK International Airport to Doha, Peshawar, Islamabad, Lahore, Jeddah, Riyadh, Calicut and Kathmandu.
RAK Airways regrets the inconvenience caused to its customers as a result of this decision. All passengers who have made bookings with RAK Airways will be re-booked on alternative airline or receive full refund for any payments made.
The UAE airline originally launched scheduled passenger operations on November 29, 2007. The airline suspended all operations in 2009, reorganized and resumed operations on October 10, 2010. This is the second suspension of services.
The airline is vowing to reorganize and relaunch operations at a later date.
Copyright Photo: Rainer Bexten/AirlinersGallery.com. RAK Airways (rakairways.com) Airbus A320-214 A6-RKC (msn 2158) is seen at the RKT hub (all others by RAK Airways).
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Frontier Airlines is now owned by Indigo Partners
Frontier Airlines (2nd) (Denver) as of yesterday (December 3) is now owned by Indigo Partners through an affiliate. Indigo Partners issued this statement:
Indigo Partners has announced that, through an affiliate, it has completed the acquisition of Frontier Airlines from Republic Airways Holdings on December 3, 2013. Final terms of the transaction, which was first announced on October 1, 2013, are not being disclosed.
Indigo Partners and its principals, led by managing partner William A. Franke, have considerable experience in successful, airline-related investments.
“Today is an exciting day for Frontier Airlines and Indigo Partners, as we can now embark on a new chapter in Frontier’s history of providing safe, reliable and fairly priced air service,” said Franke. “As air travel costs have moved higher, demand has grown for more affordable options and more choices. One key element to Frontier’s future success will be operating as an ultra low cost carrier that offers low fares. This model, coupled with the Frontier touch, will ensure opportunities for the Frontier team, and provide safe and reliable ULCC air service to our communities and beyond as we grow Frontier under this vision.”
Frontier will remain headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
David Siegel, CEO and President of Frontier Airlines, resigned from Republic’s Board of Directors.
Indigo Partners is a private equity firm established by W. A. Franke in 2003 to pursue acquisitions and strategic investments in the air transportation and related industries. The firm was a significant investor in Tiger Airways based in Singapore and Spirit Airlines based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and maintains lead investments in Wizz Air Holdings, Plc, a ULCC with multiple bases in Central and Eastern Europe and Volaris Airlines, a ULCC based in Mexico City. Indigo Partners is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.
Republic Airways Holdings, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, is an airline holding company that owns Chautauqua Airlines, Republic Airlines and Shuttle America. The airlines operate a combined fleet of more than 250 aircraft and offer scheduled passenger service on over 1,300 flights daily to more than 110 cities in the U.S., Canada and the Bahamas through fixed-fee flights operated under airline partner brands, including American Eagle, Delta Connection, United Express, and US Airways Express. The airlines currently employ approximately 6,000 aviation professionals.
Copyright Photo: Mark Durbin/AirlinersGallery.com. Indigo Partners is likely to keep the popular animals on the tails which plays well on their TV advertisements in the main Frontier markets, giving names to the talking tails. However the new very bold FLYFRONTIER.COM titles as displayed on Airbus A320-214 N220FR (msn 5661) with Sharklets may not survive. It will be interesting to watch for any changes to the current Frontier strategy by these low-fare airline investment fund people.
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This entry was posted in Frontier Airlines (2nd), Indigo Partners, Republic Airways Holdings and tagged 5661, A320, A320200, A320214, Airbus, Airbus A320, Airbus A320200, FlyFrontier, FlyFrontiercom, Frontier Airlines, Frontier Airlines (2nd), Indigo Partners, N220FR, Republic Airways Holdings, San Francisco, SFO on December 4, 2013 by Bruce Drum.
Belle Air Europe follows its parent and ceases operations
Belle Air Europe (subsidiary of Belle Air) (Ancona, Italy and Pristina) followed the lead of its parent organization and ceased all operations the next day on November 26.
Copyright Photo: Rolf Wallner/AirlinersGallery.com. Belle Air Europe’s Airbus A320-214 EI-LIS (msn 3492) taxies at Zurich.
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This entry was posted in Belle Air Europe and tagged 3492, A320, A320200, A320214, Airbus, Airbus A320, Airbus A320200, Belle Air Europe, EILIS, ZRH, Zurich on December 3, 2013 by Bruce Drum.
Vueling Airlines announces a new base in Rome, can Alitalia survive?
Vueling Airlines (Vueling.com) (Barcelona) is expanding operations in Italy (especially Rome).
The company will launch a new Rome (Fiumicino) base next summer season starting on April 2, 2014. Vueling will launch 22 new routes from Rome’s Fiumicino Airport throughout the summer. Vueling will base eight Airbus aircraft at the airport. The new destinations from Rome include Alicante, Amsterdam, Athens, Bari, Berlin, Brindisi, Brussels, Catania, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Genoa, Lamezia Terme, Munich, Mykonos, Palermo, Prague, Rhodes, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Split, Thira (Santorini) and Turin.
Vueling is also adding new routes from Florence for the summer season.
Can Alitalia survive this new assault by lower cost Vueling and Ryanair?
Copyright Photo: Paul Bannwarth/AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus A320-214 EC-HTC (msn 1540) prepares to land in Nantes.
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This entry was posted in Vueling Airlines and tagged 1540, A320, A320200, A320214, Airbus, Airbus A320, Airbus A320200, ECHTC, Fiumicino, Nantes, NTE, Rome, Vueling Airlines, Vueling.com on November 27, 2013 by Bruce Drum.
Iberia Express to add Madrid-Stockholm service, will start repainting its fleet
Iberia Express (Madrid) will add a new route linking the Madrid hub and Stockholm (Arlanda) on March 30, 2014. The new route will be operated with Airbus A320s two days a week per Airline Route.
In other news, taking the lead from its parent Iberia, Iberia Express will begin to repaint it fleet in this new Iberia-like color scheme. The airline issued this statement (translated from Spanish):
“Starting this week, we renew our brand to adapt to the new brand architecture of Iberia while maintaining our identity: dynamism, agility and proximity.
Besides changing the logo, we will replace our visual identity by creating a style based on freshness, flexibility and photographic style.
The incorporation of the new image will be performed gradually in all the graphic elements of the company.”
Copyright Photo: Ton Jochems/AirlinersGallery.com (all other images by Iberia Express). Iberia Express’ Airbus A320-214 EC-JSK (msn 2807) taxies at Palma de Mallorca in the special Tenerife – Salmes Cup 2013 promotional color scheme.
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This entry was posted in Iberia Express and tagged 2807, A320, A320200, A320214, Airbus, Airbus A320, Airbus A320200, color scheme, ECJSK, Iberia Express, Palma de Mallorca, PMI, Salmes Cup 2013 on November 27, 2013 by Bruce Drum.
Finnair to add Pisa, Biarritz and Alanya for the 2014 summer season
Finnair‘s (Helsinki) new summer flight schedule, beginning on March 30, 2014, will offer flights to three new seasonal destinations including, Pisa, Biarritz and Alanya and will add additional frequencies to Düsseldorf, Zürich, Antalya and Vaasa. Flights to Xi´an in China continue on March 30 and to Hanoi in Vietnam on June 2.
This summer Finnair will operate three weekly flights to Alanya, Turkey from April to August. Finnair will also offer additional frequencies to its existing route to Antalya, Turkey. Flights to Turkey operate eight times per week and most of the flights are during the daytime. Finnair is the only airline to operate scheduled non-stop flights from Finland to Antalya and Alanya.
In order to serve the demand from the local business market, extra frequencies will also be added to Vaasa with an evening flight departing at 6:10 P.M. from Helsinki. With the addition of this flight Finnair will now operate six flights per day to Vaasa.
Extra frequencies are also being added to Copenhagen, Dubrovnik, Malaga, Paris, Rome and Tel Aviv from June to August. Popular destinations returning to the summer schedule include Toronto (Pearson), operating with upgraded Airbus A330 aircraft from June 1 to September 21, and Chicago (O’Hare) as a codeshare with Oneworld partner American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth).
Finnair will also open a new route to Tromsø for the 2014 winter season. The arctic city in the far north of Norway will be served from Helsinki three times per week from January 1 until March 28, 2014.
Copyright Photo: Andi Hiltl/AirlinersGallery.com. A320-214 OH-LXI (msn 1989) lands in Zurich.
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This entry was posted in Finnair and tagged 1989, A320, A320200, A320214, Airbus, Airbus A320, Airbus A320200, Alanya, Finnair, OHLXI, ZRH, Zurich on November 26, 2013 by Bruce Drum.
Virgin Atlantic to cut back on the “Little Red” London Heathrow-Manchester service
Virgin Atlantic Airways (London) will cut one of four London Heathrow-Manchester “Little Red” Airbus A320 flights next year according to TheBusinessDesk.com. The airline explained the reduction was not due to decreased demand but rather having to give back one LHR slot to another unnamed carrier.
However The Independent reported last month the “Little Red” feeder flights were experiencing low sales.
Read the full report from The Independent: CLICK HERE
Copyright Photo: Terry Wade/AirlinersGallery.com. The “Little Red” domestic flights are operated by Aer Lingus in full Virgin Atlantic colors. Airbus A320-214 EI-DEO (msn 2486) arrives at London (Heathrow).
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This entry was posted in Aer Lingus, Virgin Atlantic Airways and tagged 2486, A320, A320214, Aer Lingus, Airbus, Airbus A320, Airbus A320200, EIDEO, Heathrow, LHR, London, virgin atlantic, Virgin Atlantic Airways on November 19, 2013 by Bruce Drum.
Nasair rebrands as Flynas with a new color scheme
Nasair (subsidiary of National Air Services) (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) has repainted this Airbus A320-200 with Sharklets in a new livery in Singapore. The new look rebrands the carrier as “Flynas” which trades on its website flynas.com URL address. The change was announced on November 13.
Copyright Photo: Kok Chwee K.C. Sim/AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus A320-214 VP-CXJ (msn 5716) appears in Singapore after emerging from the paint shop.
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The Court of Appeal handed down judgment on 21 December 2020 in R(Driver) v Rhondda Cynon Taf CBC [2020] EWCA Civ 1759. This was a judicial review challenge to a major £38m school reorganisation in the Council’s area, and is the first case in which the Court of Appeal has considered the proper approach to the interpretation of dual language English/Welsh legislation (in this case, the School Organisation (Wales) Act 2013), in circumstances where it is contended that there is a material difference between the language of the two texts. The Court of Appeal (Vos, Lewis and Davies LJJ) allowed the Council’s appeal against the High Court’s judgment, and declared that its decision to proceed with the school reorganisation was lawful.
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ACLU of Massachusetts statement on Supreme Court DACA decision
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision this morning, upholding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, today released the following statement in response:
“We commend the court for holding that the Trump administration acted unlawfully in ending the DACA program. Make no mistake: President Trump and his administration’s decision to abandon the DACA program was a political one, not a legal one.
“Here in the Commonwealth, thousands of Dreamers call Massachusetts home. But today’s decision will not stop the Trump administration’s relentless efforts to deport millions of people. Massachusetts must do more to protect its residents from the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda. State elected officials must do all that they can to make sure all immigrants in Massachusetts are safe and free. The legislature must enact the Safe Communities Act to ensure we don’t spend our state and local resources helping ICE deport our neighbors, and the Work and Family Mobility Act to ensure that Dreamers can continue to drive safely and legally in Massachusetts.”
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Tamil Nadu Floods: For marginalised communities, recovery will be hardest, says ActionAid India
Date : 3-December-2015
The urban homeless, slum dwellers, fishing communities and tribal communities in Cuddalore, Thiruvallur, Tuticorin and Chennai City areas need immediate and long term help.
With heavy downpour wrecking havoc in several parts of Tamil Nadu, ActionAid India has begun its emergency response efforts with a focus to reach out to thousands of vulnerable communities in Chennai city, Cuddalore, Thiruvallur and Tuticorin – the regions that were severely affected by the incessant rains and flooding that has already claimed nearly 269 lives.
Our team is already on the ground, to provide immediate relief to atleast 6000 families in our operational areas.
The priority is to reach the most vulnerable communities – daily wage workers, fishing communities, tribal and Dalit communities along the coastlines. In Chennai city our immediate attention will be to help people who were already homeless, people living in slums and the urban poor. Emphasis is to reach out to women, girls, children and elderly in these areas.
“These are people who were already vulnerable and surviving on paltry daily wages. They are now without homes and without work. Their recovery will be the hardest”, says Sehjo Singh, Director, Programme and Policy at ActionAid India.
Ravi SK, currently heading Tamil Nadu operations said,“Tribal communities such as Irulas who were already excluded socially and economically, need urgent attention too. The impact of the floods on such communities is long term. Salt-pan workers, single women who were already living in extreme poverty in places like Cuddalore must be given special attention, as their vulnerabilities have multiplied here. Our priority is to reach the unreached, at this point”
“ActionAid India and its partners have a decade long experience of responding to disasters in Tamil Nadu. Our experience in post-Tsunami recovery efforts, widely recognized for its ability to reach the most marginalised will help us here, particularly in building community women’s leadership during the recovery phase.”, added Sehjo Singh.
The relief and recovery needs on the ground point to a longer list – comprising of food and ration supplies, tarpaulins, blankets, shelter support, first aid kits, hygiene kits for women and girls, drinking water provisions and provisions for pregnant mothers and young children. Help is also needed to rebuild lost livelihoods of people, such as fishing nets, fishing boats and damaged crops.
“It is a mammoth task ahead. But the people of Tamil Nadu had shown incredible resilience when faced with a mammoth Tsunami a decade ago. It is that spirit that will keep us all going”, Sehjo added.
Sehjo Singh and Ravi SK are right now in Delhi and available for interviews.
For queries please write to abhilash.babu@actionaid.org or call +91 9717250202
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AEGIS PROCESSING SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCES NEW CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Aegis Processing Solutions is pleased to announce the hiring of Kenneth Romine as chief operating officer. Romine comes to Aegis from Veterans of Foreign Wars where he was director of member services.
With more than 22 proven years of experience in business operations and human resources functions, Romine, who is also a former Aegis Processing Solutions client, was a natural choice to lead the organization towards its strategic goals.
“Ken’s operational expertise and his extensive industry experience will strengthen our position in the nonprofit donation processing industry as we continue to innovate,” said Lori Read, CEO of Aegis Premier Solutions, parent company of Aegis Processing Solutions. “As a former Aegis client, Ken brings an added level of knowledge to this position.”
"I am extremely excited to join a passionate and growing organization whose purpose is to protect and support nonprofit organizations’ fundraising initiatives, while ensuring security is the upmost priority, allowing clients to rest easily at night," said Romine.
Prior to his position at VFW, where he was responsible for managing revenue, ROI, member service center operating budget and sales, Romine served in the U.S. Army and retired after more than 20 years of dedicated service. During his time in the military, he served in numerous senior level positions in larger business operations and executive human resources roles that included chief of operations and chief of human resources.
Romine’s military assignments included eight locations, both domestic and international, as well as a 15-month combat tour to Kalsu, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His military awards and decorations include The Meritorious Service Medal (four), Army Commendation Medal (nine), Army Achievement Medal (ten), the Drills Sergeant Badge and the Parachutist (Airborne) badge.
Romine is an active Legacy Life member of the Department of Kansas VFW where he currently serves as the Post Adjutant for Post 56 in Leavenworth. He holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Science in management/human resources from Park University in Parkville, Missouri. He and his wife Karli, along with their four sons, reside in Lansing.
As part of the company’s leadership reorganization, current Aegis Processing Solutions President Tom Bender will transition into the role of quality assurance director. Bender, who began his tenure with Aegis in 1989, has served in numerous roles within the company. His expertise in the nonprofit caging industry helped establish Aegis as the industry leader.
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John Obi Mikel says he will lead Nigeria at Africa Cup of Nations
The former Chelsea star last played for Nigeria at the 2018 World Cup in Russia and was not involved in the qualifying for this year’s Nations Cup.
"Mikel has met with coach (Gernot) Rohr in England and he has confirmed he will feature at the Nations Cup in Egypt," said a top team official.
The 32-year-old Obi, now with English Championship side Middlesborough, has won 85 caps and scored six goals since his full international debut in 2005 against Libya.
Experts said his experience and leadership would be invaluable to a squad that includes many players making their debut in this competition after Nigeria missed out on the last two editions. The tournament in Egypt is widely seen as the last hurrah for the player in international football.
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The “Bulletin Monumental” is a quarterly journal aimed at a specialized audience and at amateurs interested in heritage and architecture from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Nowadays each issue is illustrated with photographs and plans and has 96 pages divided into the following sections:
– Reports: current research into monuments and heritage.
– News: brief articles about recent research and architectural finds made during restoration or excavation work.
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– Reviews: comments and reports published recently in other international journals.
The Bulletin Monumental is the first French review of the history of monumental art and architecture from the Middle Ages to modern times and the only one that offers its readers a general perspective of the news via its information sections.
The Bulletin Monumental continues to explore new areas of research, in particular with the publication each year of one or two issues on specific themes. In this way it not only contributes to the broadening of knowledge but also helps update the different techniques used in this field.
At the beginning of 2014 at the library belonging to the Council of the Alhambra we received the last published issue of this journal, which has been a part of our collection since 1989. It is a pioneering Journal in the heritage and architecture fields, which has been published since 1834 and has links with the French Archaeology Society.
The recent purchase of the Leopoldo Torres Balbás collection enabled us to increase the number of issues of this title, as Balbás owned various issues published between 1903 and 1940, which were part of his private library.
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LT Drew Hingtgen, 2011 BSN graduate of Allen College, currently serves in the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) as an Instructional Officer with the Commissioned Officer Training Academy. His primary job responsibility is to provide education and guidance to transform public health professionals (e.g. RN, MD, DDS, NP) into USPHS officers. He began his career with the US Army working as a medical/surgical nurse in El Paso, TX for one year before transferring to Ft. Leonard Wood, MO where he was an ICU nurse for three years. Following that, LT Hingtgen transferred into the US Public Health Service and has held many roles there including a correctional staff nurse within the Department of Homeland Security, nurse manager, and a Special Operations Officer. He has traveled all over the world and has been the lead medical provider for detainees during high risk international flights.
What led you to pursue your education at Allen College?
I pursed my BSN at Allen College because of the response I received from the staff. I applied to many nursing schools and none were as helpful and friendly as the staff at Allen. Nothing makes it easier than a school that makes you feel like they care and want you to attend. I also felt Allen didn’t put up any unnecessary walls or challenges when it came to applying.
How did Allen College help prepare you for where you are now?
Allen helped prepare me for where I am now by pushing me outside my comfort zone on many occasions. I never had any interest in correctional nursing and passed up the opportunity to experience it while at Allen. When the opportunity came up later down the road I still had no interest but figured I would just go for it. The risk paid off and I ended up loving it.
Please share any accomplishments, awards, proud moments, published articles, etc.
In 2016 was awarded the Hazardous Duty Award by holding a position for greater than six months within a detention center with significant risk to my health and life. I was also appointed as a Special Operations Officer allowing me to travel to many foreign locations.
In 2018 I was selected for a position at the USPHS Headquarters as an Instructional officer allowing me to influence and guide the new officers to USPHS.
What piece of advice would you give to current Allen students?
My biggest piece of advice would be to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Additional advice: network, network, network. Be open to geographical moves for what you want. Always take care of your physical and mental health. If you’re not healthy, you won't be able to care for others.
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My hobbies include walks with my family, weekend hikes, endurance events, obstacle course racing, and long runs. I have also gotten big into retro video game collecting and repair.
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Charters Towers is a city within the dry tropics, some 120 kms south west of Townsville. It is noted for its schools, tourism, gold mining and cattle.
The 45 hectare campus is dominated by three architecturally important buildings, the Chapel, (the Spirit) the Mattingley Resource Centre (the Mind) and the Halse Dining Hall (the Body). The landscaped surroundings, frequented by many birds, allows the boarding, classrooms and sporting facilities to fit comfortably into their surrounds. The Matlock Complex — the Junior School, is quite separate.
The School has wide grassed ovals and playgrounds for outdoor pursuits and learning. It is an environment which reflects the pride that the School family has in its School.
All Souls St Gabriels School is a “small” school. Its optimum size is 375-425 students, from Pre-Prep to Year 12. Compared to other schools of its size, we offer an impressive range of facilities.
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Alvine Engineering worked in concert with Wellmark YMCA , the architect, structural, and civil engineers, to collaboratively design the innovative $29 million facility, making it one of the largest downtown YMCAs in the United States.
The Wellmark YMCA building transformed a vacant two-story convention center into a new downtown recreational centerpiece. With a new gym, large locker rooms, whirlpools, saunas, 1/8-mile indoor track, handball and racquetball courts, squash courts, indoor cycling studio, and wellness center, the Wellmark YMCA is a state-of-the-art facility.
The gigantic area dedicated to cardio has about 65 pieces of cardio equipment, including personal TVs, and has the ability to expand to about 100 pieces.
“To be in the heart of downtown Des Moines with a 50-meter pool and attached to the skywalk [system] with the facilities and programs [we offer], it will be a YMCA second to none,” said Vernon Delpesce, former president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Des Moines. The Olympic-sized swimming pool will offer 1,500 seats bordering three sides of the pool. A warm-up pool also serves the natatorium of the YMCA.
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Heel Concussion Can Pound A Hoof
By Ron Perszewski posted on May 17, 2010 | Posted in Anatomy
Don't think of heel concussion as a problem; it's a part of the normal footfall as a hoof moves through its stride. But excessive heel concussion is a different matter — with the sneaky potential to get lost amid concerns about navicular syndrome and other causes of palmar pain.
Asked about excessive heel concussion, equine veterinarian Tracy Turner says, "In some of the cases I've seen, the horses are sore enough that they almost act like they have a fracture. The bars and the heels and the laminae in the area become so inflamed that it becomes incredibly painful for the horse."
If not caught early and remedied, pain from excessive heel concussion can change the biomechanics of the foot. Turner, a member of the International Equine Veterinarians Hall Of Fame who practices in Elk River, Minn., says the horse starts loading the foot differently, which can damage the navicular region over time.
From a medical standpoint, heel concussion is not a problem until it creates bruising or damage to the laminae or other, deeper structures. "Once it becomes painful, the horse will respond to the pain. Clinically, you will see signs very similar to any other type of palmar foot pain such as navicular syndrome. That will be caused by the horse landing on his toe to get away from the pain," Turner says.
Common At The Track
Excessive heel concussion is particularly common in racehorses, due to the speed of their stride and the often-hard tracks on which they run. Turner says the combination can lead to deep bruising, and that enough deep bruising and damage to the laminar tissue might be one reason some racehorses have trouble growing heel after their racing career. "That's speculative, but where the actual horn grows from has been damaged, so it could be hard to grow a good foot," he adds.
Farrier Steve Stanley of Versailles, Ky., shoes regularly at Standardbred tracks in the area and agrees that excessive heel concussion is a common problem. "It's the easiest thing to fix, yet among the most common causes causes of lameness at the racetrack," he says.
The problem most often occurs with racehorses when the dorsal wall becomes too full and the shoes are too short and stay on too long, forcing the hoof — including the heel — to migrate forward, Stanley says. As the wall at the toe becomes too thick, the foot is no longer balanced properly. The imbalance changes the way the hoof handles the load and leaves the heel with too little support to absorb the extra-hard concussion of racing, he says.
The changes adversely affect the hoof-pastern alignment and can lead to a broken-back orientation between P3 and P2.
"I think this is the point when serious damage begins to occur," Stanley says. "The foot can develop an underrun heel, with corns and bruising in the heels. The horses will start striding differently, change their gait to become more comfortable, or even become very lame, not just a little off. The horse just cannot perform up to its potential."
An inexperienced farrier or one who is not looking for the problem might find the first indication of excessive heel concussion when he or she trims the foot and uncovers corns, or bruising in the heel. However, the hemorrhaging is evidence of damage that occurred weeks earlier, Stanley says.
The problem can be discovered much earlier. Stanley says farriers should watch for short-striding as an early sign of possible heel concussion. "You can definitely tell that's happening if you're watching the horse move or perform, which you should be doing if you want to give your best input toward a solution," he says. "Often the trainer or the rider will bring it to your attention."
Another early indication of excessive heel concussion is an overly strong pulse or throbbing in the foot, right below the ankle, a sign that the body is pumping blood to the area to cope with an injury, he says.
Stanley believes farriers should learn to check for a pulse there and teach themselves what is normal and abnormal. He also recommends the use of heel testers.
Stanley cautions that heel concussion problems can be confused with heel pain of other sorts, including navicular syndrome. To differentiate between a heel concussion problem and other sources of heel pain, the first thing to do is evaluate the foot, he says.
"If you can see mechanical problems with the balance of the hoof, it's more likely to be heel concussion than true navicular syndrome," Stanley says. "Take the time to look at the foot from the side and watch the horse stride. Check the balance of the foot; balance problems in the foot often create bruising and are a big indicator."
Thorough Testing
Turner suggests a number of methods a farrier can use to pinpoint soreness from excessive heel concussion. Hoof testers can be reliable, and a farrier should expect to find more pain in the heels instead of deeper in the hoof.
A wedge test could also be helpful, putting pressure right on the heels and making the horse stand on them. This should create more pain in the heels than it does over the frog, which would indicate a deeper pain, he says.
Also, lightly tapping on the hoof wall with a hammer can help locate the pain and inflammation, which would be similar to focal laminitis in the wall or in the bar.
And if heel concussion is a problem, driving in the heel nails during shoeing would probably be more painful than what would be expected, he adds.
But Turner warns that once a horse becomes sore and starts showing lameness, there might not be any indications specific to excessive heel concussion.
"If the farrier doesn't see a big bruise, and the only thing the horse presents with is a reluctance to load the heels because they hurt, I don't know how the farrier can differentiate it. That's when he needs to advise his clients to call in a vet," he says. "The heels might not be the problem. It could be a deeper injury that the farrier has not recognized."
The vet will probably repeat the examination process with hoof tester, wedge test and perhaps some type of imaging such as X-rays, Turner says.
A thermal imaging examination of the hoof could help pinpoint inflammation in the wall or other shallow location in the foot, though the technique is less precise if the injury is deeper within the hoof capsule, he adds.
A vet also has the option of confirming the diagnosis with a palmar nerve block, which would eliminate all pain coming from the lower heel. " If it doesn't, you know that's not what you're dealing with," Turner says.
Back Up The Heel
Correcting the hoof problem to eliminate excessive heel concussion involves moving the toe back and providing heel support, Turner says.
However, using a longer shoe can be a problem in itself at racetracks, where owners and trainers worry about having a horse grab its front shoes during competition, he notes.
Certain types of pads can be helpful, he says, including rim pads to lessen the concussion.
He adds, "It might have to be a compromise where I need to support the heel and add protection with acrylics or urethanes, or maybe even down time. I have heard of people doing turndowns, bending the heels of the shoe down to create a mild floating of the heels, but that's not done very often."
He warns against the use of toe grabs, which increase concussion on the heels, he says, and recommends using a rim shoe. "There are quite a few possibilities, so you work with what you have," he says.
Stanley says bringing the hoof into balance is often enough to help considerably. Next, redistribute the force of the landing to lessen the impact on the heel.
"I like bar shoes or Circuit plates," he says. "Heart bar shoes work well, but can change a horse's gait.
Anything that spreads the force over a bigger area has to lessen the intensity of impact. That is simple physics, and the horse will prove it in short order through improved performance," Stanley says.
On racehorses, Stanley prefers a Circuit plate, a thin aluminum plate that goes under any kind of shoe and doesn't affect the way a horse lands.
"The ground-bearing surface of the shoe is largely unaffected," he says. "A bar shoe or a heart bar shoe stops a little quicker without much slide when it hits the ground.
"This is because of increased ground surface at the heel. It also adds weight in the heel, and some horses don't race as well that way," Stanley says.
"Racehorses need a little bit of slide when the hooves hit the ground because of the velocity at which they're moving," he adds.
The better approach is to prevent excessive heel concussion by focusing on hoof balance to eliminate the mechanically induced pain that is often seen, Stanley says.
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Posted on October 20, 2017 November 18, 2017 by Michelle Galimba
Uncle Abel Versus The World
Uncle Abel is not really my uncle. You call almost everyone of the older generation Uncle or Aunty in Hawaiʻi. In the twenty years that I have known Uncle Abel we’ve been on the opposite sides of the question more often than not, which is to say in enemy camps, although not exactly enemies. But the differences don’t matter as much as what we have in common. What matters is that we love the same place. We have a shared history with a small bay and section of land called Kāwā. He lived there for years, and I worked there for years.
Kāwā might not look like much at first glance. It’s a small bay with a rocky, pebbly beach where the wind is usually blowing briskly. There is no white sand and no palm trees. The surf is rough and the water cold. However, on a small bluff above the bay at Kāwā are the spectacular ruins of an ancient heiau (temple) and on the flat below the foundations of a village site. These are what we used to call “archeology,” and what we now refer to as “cultural resources.” Not long ago relics such as these were considered of minimal significance compared to the demands of commerce and progress, but now they have become vital links to the pre-contact, pre-industrial past. There is a large brackish pond behind the beach that is considered an important wet-land for multiple species of endangered native birds. Kāwā also has one of the few surf-breaks in the district and that in itself makes it precious to surfers of all ages.
I worked with my family on the ranch lands above the bay where Abel lived. We both impinged on each other’s realm with a casual, lawless tolerance that is nearly un-imaginable now-adays. We pumped brackish water out of the pond and his crew of hippie-hangers-on set up camp on a piece of land inset within the ranch. They had a Rainbow Festival one weekend and a number of the visitors stayed on for months in a constantly dwindling camp. We thought they were funny and harmless. None of that would be possible now. You have to do everything by the book even out here. You have to have all your permits in order these days.
We haven’t spoken much, Abel and I, over the years, but we’ve been on the same land. We’ve known of each other as distant neighbors. Weʻve both heard stories of each other, as one does in a small community; we’ve seen each other coming and going for a couple of decades now.
Abel is politically radical, a native sovereignty activist who camped for years near the beach at Kāwā. I’m politically centrist, non-native, middle-class, highly indoctrinated into conventional life. I can count on my two hands the nights I’ve slept anywhere but on a nice, soft bed. I’m on the slightly unconventional side of conventional; Uncle Abel takes unconventional to a whole other level.
Uncle Abel has the long gray-white hair and the thin, high-cheek-boned face of a Chinese sage, but his skin is dark brown, mottled with sun spots. His eyes, somewhat rheumy now, can glare at you with a manic insistence. Today he is wearing two ti leaves around his neck which he has tied together and shredded. Also he is wearing a pareau in black, green, gold and red. All of these things have a specific meaning: the two leaves – a minimalist ascetic lei -asserts his pure spiritual authority; the pareau echoes the colors of the flag of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.
We are both at a county government hearing for an advisory commission that recommends lands for preservation. Abel is giving one of his famous speeches. He is protesting everything. I’ve always admired his gift as a speaker. He had the dramatic genius of a Shakespearean actor. When he was in top form, he was a public enemy to those in power and a cult favorite for those who were not. He was able to keep large crowds spell-bound by his unpredictability and mad prophet oratory. Even if you did not agree with him, even if he made you uncomfortable, Uncle Abel meant “action” – as in quite possibly police action. It was high entertainment.
Abel has a signature line that he uses in every speech I’ve heard him give: “Ka’ū (the name of our district)” he intones meaningfully, drawing out the last vowel, “ has never been conquered.” He says this in a dramatic whisper, turning around to confront his audience his eyes wide, daring anyone to contradict him. His voice rising in volume, he continues: “I no recognize no government: county, state, federal. We was never conquered you see? We the government. We, the people.”
Technically speaking he is wrong. Our district was conquered over and over again by various ancient chiefs, but we are dealing with political myth-making here, not pedestrian historical facts. And his favorite line expresses something that is, in a mythical sense, essential. Ka’ū is the hinterland of the island. It has always been sparsely populated and poor. This is mostly because there are few sources of fresh water, because the district is downwind from the volcano, because the soil is rocky, the climate arid, and the oceans rough. It is a difficult place to make a living. Nevertheless, the people of this district, Ka’ū, are passionate about their land and fierce in their politics. Ka’ū is known as a land of rebels. We don’t bend the knee.
But Abel had the calling to take it quite a bit farther than the rest of us. He wonʻt go along with our modern conveniences, like private property, representative government, hot showers and refrigerators, and in his passions he calls shame upon all of it and all of us. (He does have a Facebook page though, of course.) In his radical rejection of all modern forms of life, we part ways with Abel, and yet not completely. We say to ourselves, “Well, he is crazy.” And yet he humiliates us in our acquiescence and opens up a space for questioning the status quo.
He has heart. Even his most ardent detractors would have to give him that. And there are plenty of people who dislike him intensely. Mostly people who he has challenged in their position of public or private authority. My friend who works for the county parks department has had many run-ins with Abel. He says: “Abel doesn’t like me much, because I made him spend his seventieth birthday in the county jail.”
He loves to make trouble to those in power. He’s good at it. Once when the County evicted him from Kāwā he planted a taro patch on the lawn in front of the big glass windows of the Mayorʻs office. He is a political performance artist, a show-boat, an anarchist. But I’ve never heard of him doing anything low-down and dishonorable. At least recently. Well, he used to shake down the beach visitors. From what people have told me, including he himself, he would demand things – hoʻokupu (small offerings) like toilet paper, or money – to support his occupation. He once asked my father if he could kill one of his cows. My dad said no.
There was a rumor that he had murdered somebody in Honolulu a long time ago. Thatʻs why he holed up in Kāwā in the first place. And then somehow he decided that it was his to guard. I would be very surprised if the rumor was true. There is an Old Testament madness to him, but no malice and no sneakiness. He might say outrageous things about you but he’ll do it straight to your face, which is better than some people. Heʻs not a violent person – well, there was that one time that he and his sister got into a doubles wrestling match in the brackish pond with Kyle Soares and his wife. The police had to break it up, evidently. And, well, Iʻm sure there was plenty of blame to go around on that one. But other than that, Abel is peaceful, as far as I know.
Having named himself the konohiki, or guardian of the place, Abel lived at the beach for years, and kept a close eye on all goings on. He was famous for confronting anyone who showed up in an official-looking vehicle and chasing them off. As konohiki he considered it his right to do so, as they were threats to his authority. He also grew native food plants and organized surfing contests at the beach in the heyday of his self-appointed reign as guardian.
Other people in the community had better documented familial ties to the lands of Kāwā than Abel. They considered him a usurper and a fraud. Some people found his retinue of penniless hippies distasteful. But they mostly tolerated Abelʻs antics because his occupation threw a wrench in any attempt to develop Kāwā and helped to maintain their native, familial claims to the land without actually having to live on the beach themselves.
Abelʻs advocacy for Kāwā may have backfired on him. His term as konohiki of the beach at Kāwā ended when it was purchased by the County of Hawaii for public space and natural resource preservation. At first Abel refused to leave and there were many tense confrontations between he and his followers and County officials. Eventually Abel was evicted. On one level he failed, in that he is no longer the konohiki of Kawā. On another level he succeeded in his very failure – the public purchase of the wild beach and ancestral sites of Kawā protect it for the foreseeable future from the commercial developments that transform shorelines all over the world into resorts and other artificial paradises.
Is Abel a saint or a fool? A visionary or a clown? One thing is clear: he long ago stopped worrying about how to make a living or being respectable or playing the game. He gave all that up in a way that makes me slightly vertiginous just to think about. He walks a wild edge of the mind with only the place, Kawā, to return to, to keep him centered. He is a brave person.
Image: Kawa Bay is pictured here in 2011. (Laura Ruminski/West Hawaii Today)
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8 Replies to “Uncle Abel Versus The World”
Jody Tishmack says:
Uncle Abel sounds like an ascetic living in India, people who renounce the world and live without possessions. In India these people also live off the charity of others, so in some ways they still need society. But perhaps in being an example to others they give something back as well as receive.
It seems kind of hypocritical that he would have a Facebook page, but perhaps he thinks it a necessary evil in order to reach a larger audience. Or maybe he isn’t against technology, just private property and government.
Sounds like a unique character.
Kittrena says:
The facebook page wasn’t created by Abel, but a close friend of his just after the violent SWAT team eviction from the beach. He doesn’t have a smart phone, or a computer. Also, he was in the hospital on Oahu for heart surgery, during the rumored “attack” at the pond by the Soares family members, who were taking their horses into the sacred pond, which is not pono. He was jailed for a week during his 70th birthday, based on false testimony of a County park supervisor, for an incident when Abel was trying to stop the workers from spraying poison at Honuapo, in the ponds, and the caves inhabited by owls. Many owls died. They are still poisoning there.
Hi Jody,
Yes, Abel does look a bit like a Hindu holy man.
The Hindu tradition of life-stages, in which house-holding where you try to be as prosperous as possible is followed by renunciation of everything you have worked so hard to accumulate, is so fascinating to me. It’s very different from our tradition of “retirement” in which you are supposed to build up a nest egg to live off the interest of in your golden years. I’m not sure how renunciation rather than retirement plays out in real life, but that it is encoded in the foundation of their culture as a “normal” or even admirable option is really fascinating to me. We in the West don’t really have anything like that in our culture.
Except perhaps the example of Saint Francis.
Sasha Grant says:
This felt like a really passive aggressive article airing a private feud with Uncle Able to a public forum. The tone is almost mean and directed at a man who has many admire for advocating for earth, the people and the water. Uncle Able brought attention to UA KOE KE KULEANA O NA KANAKA
which is to reserve the rights for native tenants by occupying Kawa”a. No where in this article does the author mention this. Disappointing article.
Hi Sasha, I’m sorry you feel that way. Although Uncle Abel and I don’t always agree on everything, I respect him as a unique and big-hearted human being.
Shelley Mahi-hanai of the Ha'i koko says:
Aloha. A refreshing and almost correct article. Uncle Abel was sent to Kawa by the Kupuna Council who know his genealogy and has the right to be there at Kawa under undivided interest to protect and hold Kawa. Abel is actually related to Chiefs and Royalty. I have seen the genealogy with my own eyes and so did Mayor Harry Kim at a mtg last May 2017.
In the act of the 2 percent fund and our zeal for open space, we did not have some of the basic rights and laws in the P.O.N.C. to protect native tenants. Long ago, when I first was sent to visit Kawa, it was a beautiful garden by the springs, vast open space, and ancient historic features everywhere. So beautiful, it was what can be called “Kaimamahila” so beautiful it attracts trouble to itself. We the people did covet Kawa, when we didnt do enough for Heirs and native Tenants of Kawa. “Reservation of rights of native tenants…in 993…1530…7715…” these are Kawa, the pond, and Hilea. A recent meeting with mayor on just last monday with documents and the law that the Honorable Harry Kim must follow. The problem was too, police never knew of court ordered native tenant rights or HRS 172-11….not even the Judge! That’s why, all this evidence went to the World Court, because of lawlessness by the County..after meetings with Sheriffs, DOCARE, OHA, CAPITAL HILL WASHINGTON…. progress for heirs and tenant is coming along. Mayor Kim said his attorney for Corporation Counsel will also look over HRS 172-11 where the rights of the Heirs inure even if land was alienated and the issue of court ordered policy on native tenants. Uncle Abel qualifies as both! I cant wait till when we have the “Malamalama o ke Aina o Kawa na kau Hoa’aina” please correct my hawaiian?! I believe we can start having a MOA –“Memorandum of Agreement or MOU–“Memorandum of Understanding” Kim said we might need a Public Vote…to change the P.O.N.C.. charter for non-purchase open space agreements. What say you?
A,loha Mahalo Shelly Makaala
Ted Gump says:
For us outsiders, two things: 1. Don’t play the game. Be more like Abel every year. 2. Understand pono, whether in the Palolo villages under vines or up Honoli’i.
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Stan Douglas, The Secret Agent (still), 2016, six-channel video projection with sound.
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Opening: Hanna Liden at 56 Henry
The inspiration behind this exhibition, titled “No Weather Data Available,” is curbside detritus and abandoned urban material—specifically umbrellas. Two cast-concrete umbrella sculptures, colored in charcoal and orange, dangle at varying heights from the ceiling, while a third is hung from a noose attached to the ceiling. According to a press release, “Her objects are tragicomic follies, slapstick approximations of quotidian objects, or possibly fossils from an extinct civilization.”
56 Henry, 56 Henry Street, 12–6 p.m.
Opening: Michael E. Smith at Andrew Kreps Gallery
After a memorable and totally weird show at SculptureCenter last year, Michael E. Smith gets his first show at Andrew Kreps this week. It’s sure to feature more of his creepy-strange sculptures, which feature used objects like nail guns and soda bottles that the New Hampshire–based artist finds on the street or on eBay. Understated yet also moving, Smith’s work is evocative of Detroit, the economically strained city where he was born. And, though his largely monochromatic work is mournful, Smith’s sculptures are also beautiful—they seem to have organic matter growing on them sometimes, which might mean that, in the wake of extreme tragedy and failure, it’s always possible to start over.
Andrew Kreps Gallery, 537 West 22nd Street, 6–8 p.m.
SOPHIE MSMSMSM, Product, 2015.
COURTESY NEW MUSEUM
Panel: SOPHIE at New Museum
Enigmatic artist and producer SOPHIE will host Pupture, an evening exploring synthesis in art. Joined by multi-hyphenate artists including Gerry Bibby, Travis Boyer, Hayden Dunham, FlucT, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, and Henrik Oleson, the discussion will be punctuated by live performances and original music. The group—which offers experience in areas of dance, sound, music, video, photography, painting, and performance—will discuss the role synthesis plays in the creation, structure, and meaning of a work.
New Museum, 235 Bowery, 7 p.m. Tickets $20/15
Talk: William Wegman at the Strand
To celebrate the release of William Wegman: Paintings—a book that takes postcard images and constructs bizarre and humorous worlds around them—the artist will be present to discuss his career with Robert Krulwich, a Peabody Award–winning Radiolab cohost, NPR science correspondent, and general fan of Wegman’s.
The Strand, Rare Book Room, 828 Broadway, 7–8 p.m. Attendees must buy a copy of William Wegman: Paintings or a $20 gift card to attend
Opening: Stan Douglas at David Zwirner
For his 13th solo show in New York, Vancouver-based artist Stan Douglas will present a new film titled The Secret Agent. Douglas has been making work about specific locations and past events since the late 1980s, and often uses both new and antiquated technologies as well as the frameworks of existing Hollywood genres such as film noir and the Western. Accompanying the exhibition on West 19th Street, the gallery’s West 20th Street location will present an overview of Douglas’s photographic career from the late 1980s to the present.
David Zwirner, 519 West 19th Street, 6–8 p.m.
Still from Chantal Akerman’s No Home Movie (2015).
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Screening: No Home Movie at Brooklyn Academy of Music
Last year, one day before No Home Movie had its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival, Chantal Akerman died at age 65. She was one of film’s greatest feminist voices, and also one of its most underrated, and now BAM and Film Forum have gotten together to give the Belgian director the massive retrospective she deserved. BAM’s retrospective kicks off with a two-week theatrical run for No Home Movie, a documentary about Akerman’s mother that relies on a Blackberry camera and other devices for its cinematography. Formally ambitious and somewhat confounding, the film was booed when it premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival and received gentle praise in America, but it’s a can’t-miss film for fans of Akerman, who once called No Home Movie “the center of my oeuvre.” —Alex Greenberger
Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Avenue, 2 p.m. (also screens 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m., and 9:30 p.m.). Tickets $14/$10/$7
Opening: Maggie Lee at Real Fine Arts
At this point in her career, Maggie Lee is still known mainly for just one work—Mommy, her 2015 feature film that parallels the loss of her mother with the discovery of herself as an artist. That kind of subject matter can be treacly, but, in Lee’s hands, it’s a very stylized, smart affair. Partially a visual essay about how the Internet constructs memory, and partially a very moving documentary, Mommy has understandably been shown in a number of settings, and was even screened theatrically in New York in December. Now, Lee follows her film a solo show at Real Fine Arts. Titled “Fufu’s Dreamhouse,” the show will feature a series of vitrines that act as homes for Japanese Barbie-like dolls. Each vitrine will act as a different personality and is, in a way, a self-portrait for Lee. “Think a teenage girl’s bedroom crossed with hamster cage, if you will,” a gallery spokesperson said in an email. —Alex Greenberger
Real Fine Arts, 673 Meeker Avenue, Brooklyn, 7–10 p.m.
A work from Brad Troemel’s “New and Handmade by Me.”
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Opening: Brad Troemel at Feuer/Mesler
The phrase “network of production” is thrown around a lot in press releases, but rarely ever is it as literal as when used to describe Brad Troemel’s work. Troemel has become famous for his Internet-based art about how objects get produced and consumed—he cocreated a Tumblr called the Jogging, in which Troemel and others photographed quickly made works, destroyed the objects, and left the images online to get re-blogged by others. (The rapper Gucci Mane used one the Jogging’s images as an album cover.) He continues his interest in how the Internet spurs production with this new show, titled “New and Handmade By Me,” for which Troemel used Pinterest to find techniques that interested him and learned how to make works using glycerin soap, bath bombs, handmade gingerbread houses, and other things. In a very endearing release, Troemel writes, “The idealistic hope for making a healthier world together and the nihilistic paranoia that the world will end at any second once again arrive at the same practical conclusion: doing it yourself. And for this exhibition, ‘New and Handmade by Me,’ that’s just what I’ve done!” —Alex Greenberger
Feuer/Mesler, 319 Grand Street, 2nd Floor, 6–8 p.m.
Opening: Sara Greenberger Rafferty at Rachel Uffner
Sara Greenberger Rafferty turns her attention to external interiority in the form of plastic consumer works, specifically those which fall in the realm of shopping. Images of books, diaries, online clothes shopping, and designer dresses and underwear all serve to represent the notion of “global capitalism and so-called individuality that are worn on the body until stained, frayed, or otherwise worn-out,” according to a release.
Rachel Uffner Gallery, 170 Suffolk Street, 6—8 p.m.
Update, March 30: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated the opening date for Stan Douglas’s show at David Zwirner, “The Secret Agent,” as March 30. It is on March 31.
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“Lamar Valley”
24 x 30"; Colored pencil, acrylic in linen. Painting in the Lamar Valley embodied everything that was summer at Yellowstone: great vistas, lots of photo-taking tourists, and bison!
21 x 26"; Charcoal, colored pencil, acrylic on linen Painted on site in Yellowstone National Park along the Yellowstone River near Otter Creek. No otters were spotted, but there were plenty of tourists (which probably explained the lack of otters)!
“Speckle”
Graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, acrylic on panel; 24 x 30". This is a study of light using the Rock River in Wisconsin as a source of inspiration.
Colored pencil and acrylic on linen; 24 x 30" This was perfect inspiration to formally reflect on my favorites aspects of painting: composition, value, and color.
Graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, acrylic on linen; 30 x 66". Passage is the culmination of a body of work depicting the Turkey River near its confluence with the Mississippi near Cassville, WI. It is an area of great vistas and majestic beauty. This painting was begun on site. I dragged the unstretched linen up the river bluff to sketch in the basic compositional elements. The proportional layout used is referred to as the square-root-of-5 rectangle, which also relates to the concept of the Golden Section.
Graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, acrylic on linen; 20 x 60". The century farms, scattered about Wisconsin, have always felt to me swallowed by the enormity of the surrounding environment. This image was drawn on site, with colors and light I found interesting on the fall day I blocked in structural elements.
Colored pencil and acrylic on linen with a bevel edge stretcher. Sometimes, I like to play with the physical edges of my paintings. The bevel transitions the image in a manner that suggests a continuation beyond the picture. The painting itself was painted on site along the Rock River in Wisconsin in several separate installments. The layout of the painting reflects the Golden Section with underlying composition elements diagrammed using its ratios.
David Sear
I am an Art Professional
David A. Sear is an award winning 2-D artist whose work is represented in private, corporate and museum collections. Wells Fargo, Bank First Mutual, West Bend Mutual Insurance Company, The Marcus Corporation, State of Wisconsin Collection, Worcester Art Museum, Neville Public Museum, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Marshfield Clinic and Northwestern Mutual have all collected his work. Mr. Sear holds a B.F.A. degree from Clarke College (Dubuque, Iowa) and an M.F.A. from Long Island University (Brookville, N.Y.).
In August of 2020, Sear was the Artist-In-Resident at the Landis Art/Science Residency program through Yellowstone Forever. The program works in cooperation with Yellowstone National Park. It was an amazing stay. He greatly enjoyed the many social distanced visits by all the onlookers passing by, including the bison. He is working to put the finishing touches on the many paintings he started there.
Sear is represented by Fine Line Designs Gallery, Ephraim, located in Door County. His website: www.davidsearart.com.
Growing up near the Mississippi River, I spent lots of time there in the tow of my father. He was a marathon fisherman and the days I spent with him on the channels and backwaters left indelible impressions of light, sound, smells and movement. Like Twain, I have used it as a source and setting to create a body of work. It’s from this interest and inspiration that I continue to explore local rivers in Wisconsin such as the Rock or Maitowoc. Rivers occupy a certain mythology in our stream of consciousness: as a metaphor, a place of tranquility or rage, a place of commerce and trade.
I incorporate the Golden Section and other related symmetries in my compositions. The Golden Section is a mathematical ratio generally ascribed to the ancient Greeks who used it to define their pursuit of the Perfect Ideal. I find harmonic proportions that relate to nature to be quite compelling. I prefer to use the rectangle, flip it on itself, and use its ratios to align elements in my compositions. The outer dimensions of my work generally relate to this Ratio with reciprocal relationships scribed inside these shapes.
My approach to artmaking first involves mapping out a “Golden Section” grid on the painting surface. If it’s linen, then it is attached to a flat, portable support. I usually begin the work on location, blocking in major structures and capturing light. Pieces are then finished in the studio, sometimes over a period of years. I draw with colored pencils and other implements while placing these marks in layers of acrylic. This creates surfaces that convey light, texture, and color.
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B.C. Finance Minister Carole James explains eligibility for the province’s one-time $1,000 worker relief payment in a TV broadcast from the B.C. legislature, May 1, 2020. (Hansard TV)
COVID-19: B.C. unemployment rate more than doubles in April
More than 400,000 applied for B.C. emergency benefit
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The full force of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions has cost the B.C. economy almost 400,000 jobs since they came into effect in mid-March, Finance Minister Carole James says.
That’s the same number of people who have applied for a one-time emergency benefit of $1,000, James said May 8 after Statistics Canada’s monthly labour force survey came out.
“This is an incredible jump from before the pandemic, when our unemployment rate was just five per cent, leading the country,” James said.
The labour force survey’s B.C. numbers show nearly half of the job losses in retail, wholesale and food services. Officially, B.C.’s April unemployment rate is 11.5 per cent, but it does not include the number of people who stopped looking for work in April as businesses wound down or remained closed, with widespread layoffs.
Finance Minister @carolejames says she's considering @Wilkinson4BC's suggestion of waiving PST, employer health tax for two months as businesses come back #COVID19BChttps://t.co/RjJcYXUEwK
James said the gradual reopening of businesses announced this week is “a light at the end of the tunnel” for the province, but things could still get worse before they begin to rebound. The B.C. government got approval for a $5 billion pandemic relief fund in a brief sitting of the B.C. legislature in March, and $1.5 billion of that is set aside to help revive the economy.
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B.C. Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson called on James and Premier John Horgan this week to provide a two-month tax holiday on provincial sales tax for businesses as they look for ways to reopen and rehire laid-off employees. James said the government’s policy of letting businesses defer those tax payments until October remains in effect, but she is considering that and other ideas as business activity is tracked into this summer.
Statistics Canada reported May 8 that B.C. lost 264,100 jobs in April, when COVID-19 restrictions on movement and business were in force for the first entire month. Nationally, the unemployment rate for April would have been 17.8 per cent if the agency’s labour force survey had counted the estimated 1.1 million people who stopped looking for work because the pandemic shutdowns limited job opportunities.
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Aspen basketball swept by Roaring Fork with playoffs starting Monday
Austin Colbert
acolbert@aspentimes.com
Aspen's Sam Kahn looks for driving room on Saturday against Roaring Fork.
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Aspen High School boys basketball coach Alex Schrempf usually is an upbeat guy, and that’s been an important trait over the team’s recent stretch of losses.
“It’s been an interesting experience for us, because just like a single game, the season comes in waves,” Schrempf said. “We have our runs and we have our slumps, and one of our biggest challenges is really convincing the guys to stay positive.”
The current slide continued Saturday in a 54-33 loss to visiting Roaring Fork (15-4 overall, 7-2 WSL) in the final game of the regular season. The Skiers, now 8-11 overall and 2-7 in 3A Western Slope League play, are riding a seven-game losing streak into the postseason.
Although, that stretch has included the league’s top teams, including Friday’s 56-31 loss at Basalt High School. What Schrempf said it doesn’t show is how much the team has improved from the start of the season.
“I wish our record could reflect the growth and the progress and the hard work that they have put in,” Schrempf said. “We had the chance to display some growth, and I think we have. There are a lot of little things that we didn’t do well at the beginning of the season that we are doing a lot better job of.”
Next for Aspen is a Monday district pigtail game. The official match-ups weren’t available Saturday, although the Skiers are likely to host Moffat County. AHS split with the Bulldogs in the regular season and each finished 2-7 in league play, however only one of those meetings was an official league game, Aspen’s 76-71 win on Jan. 21.
Schrempf believes the team has shown it can compete with anybody this season — the challenge is putting it together for four quarters.
“Monday is going to be about believing that, believing in ourselves,” Schrempf said. “When we stick to the script, when we limit our old habits and really focus on the little things, which are also our new habits, things go well.”
Gunnison is likely to host Olathe in the other pigtail game Monday. Basalt beat Olathe 71-39 Saturday to close out the regular season with a 17-2 overall record. BHS finished tied with Coal Ridge atop the league standings at 8-1 in WSL play, although the Titans will earn the top seed due to their 58-52 win over the Longhorns on Feb. 7.
Both Coal Ridge and Basalt will host district games on Tuesday, their opponents to be determined following Monday’s games.
Also Saturday, the Aspen girls lost 51-4 to Roaring Fork to finish the regular season 1-18 overall. The Basalt girls lost 59-44 to Olathe to finish 4-15 overall.
Both teams will play in Monday pigtail games, with the official match-ups expected to be announced today. Most likely, Basalt will host Coal Ridge while Aspen will travel to Gunnison. Grand Valley went 9-0 in WSL play to earn the league’s top seed.
The losers of Monday’s pigtail games are done for the season, while the winners move on to play again Tuesday.
Roaring Fork’s Maya Lindgren signs to play DIII college hoops at Iowa’s Coe College
The dual-sport student-athlete was named to the Class 3A Western Slope League all-conference first team for softball as one of two Carbondale players on the Basalt High School softball team team last fall.
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Ellis blames the players; what a surprise
Badger123 February 25, 2016 14
So while Doug Ellis had a tiny dig at the board and Randy Lerner, he has basically blamed the players for our poor performance this season.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I have the utmost respect for Ellis.
But it’s only because of his age.
Even now, in his very advanced years, he just can’t help putting himself forward can he?
‘I was one of a few chairmen who got together to form the Premier League, way way back.”
Yes, we know Doug.
But you were also the first Chairman to pay yourself, remember, you greedy bastard?
And then there’s this line;
“Dozens of people have approached me and asked me to come back.”
Who would want a 92 year old back running the show, when it’s common knowledge that the bloke has sadly lost the plot?
Still, it doesn’t really matter. He’s an old fella and I’m happy that he thinks how he does, if it pleases him.
And this post wasn’t really meant to be about slating the man anyway, even though I’ve done so many times previously.
His day has gone and his opinion isn’t important really.
But what does annoy me is the fact he blames the players in the way he has, in saying they haven’t been good enough.
Perhaps it’s a matter of semantics, but I got the strong hint that he was suggesting that they weren’t performing.
Whereas I’m more minded to think that they just aren’t good enough, full stop.
Which is where you have to look at where the blame is for that.
And it ultimately comes down to whoever was responsible for advocating and then signing them.
And whoever sanctioned those signings.
I suppose in fairness that Ellis would have found it difficult to have actually said that the blame lies with the man who has the ultimate shout, in Randy Lerner.
I mean, criticism seems to mean an immediate ban from Villa Park these days, doesn’t it?
But it’s no surprise, as it’s far easier to blame those at the bottom.
In my experience I’ve found that if you have a poor workforce, the management have invariably got something badly wrong, whether it be incompetence or just having taken their eye off the ball.
I’m not talking about supervisor level necessarily (Garde).
But heads need to roll.
Back to Ellis’ comments then and we have this one;
“It’s my life. Thirty-five years, just ask my wife she’ll tell you. I’m married to Aston Villa.”
Hmm, we’ll ignore that indiscretion as a Blues Director then, eh Doug?
Sorry, I just couldn’t resist that one and at least it was before he married the Villa.
Oh and weren’t you associated with the club before 1981 Doug? Apart from a certain period that you seem to have glossed over (again)?
Good grief, he’ll be telling us how he invented the bicycle kick next. And actually played as a professional.
Excuse me while I puke.
Fair play to the bloke, he still keeps turning up to watch a load of rubbish every other week and in that sense he’s a better man than me.
Although no doubt he doesn’t have to pay and gets a splash up meal thrown in as repayment for the torture.
I think I might have hit on a marketing idea there, that might stem the colossal fall in attendances we’re going to see next season.
Just the three courses for me, Foxy, me old fruit.
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Badger123 February 25, 2016 at 4:16 am . Permalink
Yep, free admission and a nice bit of steak or roast beef and I reckon you might get me back down the Villa again.
Even under this clown regime.
Much more likely that ticket prices get frozen and we’re sold the shit that “it’s good because there are more games” rubbish, in reality.
I can’t think of another single area where poor quality doesn’t mean a price reduction.
I’m sorry if it seems I’m being harsh on the old fella, but if he keeps coming out with the BS, I’ll keep countering it.
“Never in the field of footballing conflict, has one man owed so much to so many”, imo.
I can’t stand the bloke, I’m afraid 🙁
Bill Pearson February 25, 2016 at 7:07 am . Permalink
Badger very well put, he should also remember that it was himself that had chosen Lerner, I as you know worked for the man and as you’ve said puts himself in the limelight nine times out of ten. If at anytime a camera was being used he’d be on it, the day they take his name out of Villa Park ,I’d be happy. Ellis move on to Villa partly for money from Sun holidays after being turned down from Birmingham city board, the name deadly speaks volumes for things he did. Blame the players ? shows you how he thinks ,get on your boat and stop drinking.
Hitchens 60 February 25, 2016 at 8:15 am . Permalink
He might be 92 and deserves respect but if he puts himself in the press then he’s fair game for comment. He may be ‘married’ to the Villa but he’s never forgiven them for having a great ‘fling’ in the European Cup whilst he was off elsewhere. He’s shown complete disrespect for that team and for Denis Mortimore in particular. That’s unforgivable in my book.
He just can’t resist bigging himself up and Badger – bang on about the players. Poor managers always blame the workforce (which they hired in the first place) for their own shortcomings!
Can we rename the Trinity Road stand the Mortimore Saunders stand – now that’s true respect.
Claret and Blue February 25, 2016 at 9:11 am . Permalink
“…he was suggesting that they weren’t performing.
Head or Coffin and Nail come to mind.
nath February 25, 2016 at 10:39 am . Permalink
something this site hasn’t mentioned yet. or maybe you have but i missed. is the hate coming from media and past villa players, managers or just other club supporters towards our club. talk about kicking somebody while they are down. i never noticed before how much we are hated. i can understand footy fans from rivals. but media and ex players and managers all seem to have it in for us.
i would be interested to see your views on this and reasons why ??
saddened February 25, 2016 at 11:14 am . Permalink
Nath – completely agree and tried to mention it in a previous post, the media hate us and are so smug we are going down – But then I have heard the club are arrogant beyond belief – not returning calls, banning people who are negative, almost impossible to get comments from the club etc.
I often speak to an ex player who is still involved with the club and he says its rotten to the core, no-one from the administration upwards gives a damn, they are treated poorly and want to take the club for all they can…Very sad times ahead I think !
Bill Pearson February 25, 2016 at 1:07 pm . Permalink
Natch, said myself there is a definat hate for our club, And its been given to us by bad leadership.
saddened February 25, 2016 at 2:02 pm . Permalink
Bill if I worked for an owner that couldn’t be arsed and never visited us, I have to say I probably wouldn’t give a damn either….. he’s poisoned us and God only knows where this will end !
nath February 26, 2016 at 12:06 pm . Permalink
i agree bill & saddened leadership and lack of it is the cause of the villa hate bandwagon.
always bad news every week. never any positive news. new chairman needs to hurry up, to be seen doing something surely or is he waiting until summer ??? its frustrating times now and ahead. they all need a good shaking and slapping.
pat57 February 25, 2016 at 11:46 am . Permalink
Garde news conference –
“I don’t see the commitment from all the players every day in training sessions,” said Aston Villa manager Remi Garde. “If I had the choice of other players I would like to select I would like to, but I don’t have the possibility.
He confirmed that he’ll be at Villa until the end of the season’
That means come May he’ll be off then,
Can’t blame him 🙁
saddened February 25, 2016 at 12:12 pm . Permalink
Pat57 – I saw it, and he can’t wait to be off, and nobody could blame him.
He is picking players he doesn’t want to, this is becoming more frightening as the days go on.
Relegated without a manager – Proud History, Bright Future !
Hitchens 60 February 25, 2016 at 4:11 pm . Permalink
Could the remit to Hollis ( and King?) be to refinance the club (not to provide new investment I hasten to add) or am I being ridiculous?
As I understand it all our long term debt is ‘owned’ by Lerner – he (or his family trust) hold all the loan notes. The club has significant assets in terms of property (if not players!). If he refinances the debt (I.e. Takes out his loan notes by ‘selling’ them) then together with receipt of the parachute payments it would probably be enough to see him taken out financially – he could then let the club go with its debts for a nominal sum or he could put it into administration.
I ask this because everything seems to point to trying to increase income, whilst slashing running costs and withdrawing any capital investment which might weaken the balance sheet. Running costs were first reduced under the guise of the FFP rules and latterly because of our upcoming demotion. This all could be part of a refinancing exercise designed to allow Lerner to get rid of his ownership without being out of pocket. It would also explain why there is such a negative malaise running through the club – everyone has picked up on ‘proud history – no bl**dy future’.
Of course he has to secure the refinance to make it work!
Or perhaps I’m just being overly pessamistic. No doubt someone with a better grasp of such matters will put me right.
VillaAwayInDiv3 February 25, 2016 at 8:50 pm . Permalink
QUOTE….” completely agree and tried to mention it in a previous post, the media hate us and are so smug we are going down – But then I have heard the club are arrogant beyond belief”……
I was so embarrassed and just could not respond when my son in law told me
about the Villa’s non response to a plea from him…….He wrote to a lot of local football clubs and stores etc asking for items to put in a charity auction.Some might have heard of the Decembeard beat bowel cancer appeal.
Anyway he did not get a response off a few but as I say I was so embarrassed that the Villa could not even reply in some way…even the Albion got all their players to sign a ball….he had to buy the ball though.
Bearing in mind that he lives around Great Barr and THE local club deafed him out just left me speechless …and ANGRY.
Sad times……..
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Hidden City of Alchemy
by Melissa H Coleman
The hail of gunfire from the motor-wagon increased, smashing one of the lanterns and spilling kerosene down one side. Lizzie fired again, pulling the trigger until no bullets remained inside the gun and the hammer clicked against the firing pin. With more gunfire from the vehicle behind, an errant spark from a ricocheting bullet caused the liquid to ignite. Flames roared up the side and she flinched back, almost losing her grip on a swearing Albert. He turned towards her. “We have to jump.” Is he mad? Jump where? Seeing her hesitation, Albert stood up on the driving board, putting one booted foot on the wooden dash. Before she realised his intention, he gathered her towards him, lifting her easily with one strong arm. She found herself clutched to his broad chest with her arms around his neck. With a grunt he leapt, and in that weightless moment her heart rose with his momentum, threatening to beat out of her chest. They landed square on the back of one of the fire-panicked horses. With his arms around her, he gathered the excess rein in one hand and reached between their bodies. Despite the danger, or perhaps because of it, even the back of his gloved hand across her corset sent electric tingles through her as he pulled out a wickedly sharp knife. She moved with him as he leant forward to cut the traces and free the horses from their confinement. As the horses leapt away, she gripped the gun tightly, making sure it would not fall. She wanted to reload, as she heard the motor-wagon in pursuit behind the flaming clarence. How would they survive this? The burning carriage rolled out of control behind them, jounced wildly, the remaining reins tangled in the front wheels. With a jerk the burning clarence pitched end over end, smashing into the cobblestones with a thunderous crash. The horses, now freed, whinnied in fear and raced forward. Clutched against Albert’s chest, Lizzie heard the motor-wagon slam into the carriage and swerve into a wall.
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Hidden City of Alchemy is a Steampunk adventure injected with just the right amount of science fiction, romance, and historical fiction, to keep the reader on their toes. A smart and brave heroine with a love for inventing discovers a dangerous family secret in a diary after her mother is kidnapped by German spies. Lizzie must leave London and travel to France while learning the shocking truth about her ancestor and about a chemical which could destroy the world, if it should fall into the wrong hands. AU UPDATE 2.28.2020: “An exciting ride through a steampunk world filled with adventure. Surprises around every corner!” - Madolyn Locke, award-winning author of ‘The Quilt’ Stand-alone steampunk tale from Melissa Coleman 5-star readers favourite award-winning author of A Confabulated Compendium of Anecdotes and The Halfling. Young English woman, Elizabeth Peters has a ski-sloped nose, a hereditary defect from her father’s side. But what is distinguishable about her is her intelligence. She’d rather spend her time inventing gadgets, redesigning engineering contraptions and doing word puzzles than becoming a respectable housewife as her mother wishes. Elizabeth’s world is turned upside down one evening when she arrives home to find the house has been ransacked and her mother missing from her basement workshop – presumably kidnapped by German spies. After sifting through the wreckage, she discovers a dangerous family secret in a peculiar-looking cryptic diary, a strange talking ring and a French man - Albert Bourdillon. Lizzie must leave London and travel to France while learning the shocking truth about the owner of the diary and about a chemical which could destroy the world, if it should fall into the wrong hands. A chemical threat so lethal it could destroy herself, the people she loves and the world. Hidden City of Alchemy is a Steampunk adventure injected with just the right amount of science fiction, romance, and historical fiction, to keep the reader on their toes.
Melissa's debut novel, The Halfling, was awarded 5-star reviews from Readers Favourite and her second offering likewise received great reviews, earning 5-stars. Her journalistic writings have appeared in Regional and National newspapers, and online media outlets. You can visit Melissa's blog for news, reviews and upcoming events or the latest progress on future novels and short stories. In 2018, Melissa married her best friend and changed her name to reflect that. Contact Melissa Coleman: Website: www.melissahcoleman.com Email: wordsmith@melissahcoleman.com Social media: @melhnorthauthor Goodreads: Melissa H. North AU UPDATE: Award-winning author Melissa Coleman published her first Steampunk anthology - A Confabulated Compendium of Anecdotes - in 2017. She is a freelance journalist, a bibliophile, and a karaoke champion, although her pet Maremma would beg to differ. Through her books Melissa provides a glimpse into her imagination, unfettered by the laws of logic and probability, a most anomalous wordsmith. She loves to transport readers to a time when zeppelins and automatons are considered the norm and where heroes with retrofuturistic gadgets monopolise the page.
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Season 5 Episode 37: A Flourishing Workplace That Reflects Christ to the World // Josh McDowell, Josh McDowell Ministry
Season 5 Episode 37: A…
Thanks for joining us on Season 5 of The Flourishing Culture Podcast, brought to you by The Best Christian Workplaces Institute. You’ll learn how to build a flourishing workplace culture that drives the ministry impact of your organization, your church, or your company brought to you by the Best Christian Workplaces Institute. Now here’s your host, BCWI CEO, Al Lopus.
It’s a rare experience to be mentored by a leader who has a worldwide ministry, written books that have sold tens of millions of copies, and spoken to nearly 50 million people around the world. Today, Josh McDowell shares his secrets to finishing strong and leading a flourishing workplace.
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Josh McDowell has been at the forefront of cultural trends and groundbreaking ministry for more than 50 years.
In 1961, Josh joined the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ International. Not long after, he started the Josh McDowell Ministry, a ministry of Cru, the U.S. division of Campus Crusade for Christ International.
Josh’s ministry is all about reaching young people, worldwide, with the truth and love of Jesus.
As a speaker, Josh has addressed more than 46 million people in 139 countries. His landmark book, Evidence That Demands a Verdict was named one of the 20th Century’s top 40 books and one of the thirteen most influential books on Christian thought over the past 50 years by World Magazine.
The happier people are the harder they work. The more satisfied people are the more they give.”
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In this episode, you’ll hear about:
The story behind Josh’s book, Evidence That Demands a Verdict (03:36)
What remains today as the most compelling evidence that resonates with people for the truth and life of Jesus? (05:52)
Making use of technology in ministry (08:44)
The focus of the individual with nowadays youth (10:02)
The top epidemics in any country in the world has been loneliness, depression, mental illness, and pornography (10:35)
Why does Josh McDowell Ministry have a flourishing culture? (12:33)
“The happier people are the harder they work. The more satisfied people are the more they give.”(12:37)
“It’s very important to always communicate back what’s happening as a result of your work.” (13:30)
The effects of flourishing workplace culture at Josh McDowell Ministry (16:12)
The link between having a healthy, even flourishing culture, and reflecting Christ to the world as a ministry. (18:38)
The spiritual practices that lead Josh to live with integrity, humility, and transparency and create high levels of trust with his coworkers (21:45)
Conscious awareness of Christ in everything (24:04)
You’re never above being held accountable (29:21)
“Always pursue a loving, intimate relationship with your spouse and spend time with your children” (30:31)
Practice the presence of Christ (30:57)
Where are today’s leaders thriving and growing–and where are they struggling? (32:15)
When someone loves their pastor and their church they seldom go astray (34:40)
The importance of listening and open communication in marriage (36:53)
Advice for young leaders in the faith who want to finish well (39:05)
Have the right kind of relationships (41:28)
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If you enjoyed this episode, please rate it on iTunes and write a brief review. By doing so, you will help spread our podcast to more listeners, and thereby help more Christian workplaces learn to build flourishing cultures.
Category: Podcast November 23, 2020
Author: Al Lopus
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Al Lopus is the Cofounder and CEO at Best Christian Workplaces Institute. He is an organizational culture and leadership consultant, coach, speaker and author.
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Season 6 Episode 03: How Flourishing Culture Builds Momentum for the Future // Trace Thurlby, The Global Orphan Project
Season 6 Episode 02: Retaining Top Talent Starts with a Selective Hiring Process // Kristen Miller, Emily Hoover, Traders Point Christian Church
Season 6 Episode 01: Workplace Trends for 2021 // Al Lopus, Jay Bransford, BCWI
Encore Episode: Experiencing the Kingdom in Your Workplace Culture // Jeff Lockyer, Southridge Community Church
Encore Episode: How to Live an Unhurried Life in your Work // Alan Fadling, Unhurried Living, Inc.
Encore Episode: Build a Healthy Marriage; Be a Better Leader // Les Parrott
7 Workplace Trends for 2021
Culture | 7 Min Read
How to Create Remarkable Culture
How Inspirational Leaders Build Trust
How to Communicate Major Decisions in a Crisis
Cultivating a Climate of Truth and Grace
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KILL DEVIL HILLS, THE – The Drought [CD, 2007]
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The Drought (CD) | Order it!!
After their amazing fiirst album “heathen songs” (Bang!-lp/cd17) THE KILL DEVIL HILLS come back with this second album where they continue in the direction of the first one but dirtier and with more rock.
If in the first album we had to name Nick Cave and Hugo Race as influential sounds, now we are pleasantly forzed to think of THE BEASTS OF BOURBON when we listen to some of the killer tracks in this record.
This gang of Western Australia animals handle their swamp folk blues sound and take it to a wilder and more extreme world of sounds where melodies and violins are remaining present in a wall of sound in order to force you to stop and listen.
After touring Australia and America, THE KILL DEVIL HILLS release this album in order to show us how they are not “the next big thing”. They are already a fact of the most impressive sounds in the boiling Australian scene.
BANG! Rcds, releases this band again and, as usual, with Bang! quality. Limited edition of 500 handnumbered copies, deluxe gatefold LP and triple cover digipack CD with inner booklet.
If you heard the first one, for sure you will get it. If you didn´t, go and listen to both of them.
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The New Zealand Embassy retained DNC Architects, Inc. (Architect of Record) to undertake a service of evaluations and studies with the goal of a phased renovation of the existing Embassy building and site in 2002. Evaluations included building and life safety codes, handicap, building MP&E systems and optimization planning.
Since the original renovation was completed, security standards have changed requiring modifications to the previously completed work. This phase included architectural “hardening” & security upgrades to the main entrance lobby. Enhancements included new perimeter fencing, automated auto and pedestrian gates, vehicle barricades, landscape features and detection systems.
A separate portion of the project consisted of the phased renovation of the Embassy (while remaining occupied) & included all offices, public areas, conference rooms, Ambassadors suite, secure storage & food service facilities. The renovation not only included architectural improvements and finishes, but mechanical, electric and plumbing systems upgrades, as well as security enhancements and furnishings.
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Protecting the teenage sister of the one person who could ruin the safeguard of the Young Outlaws MC was never something Colt (Cannon) Gunner had expected to take to church. But when it’s vital to the survival of the club, then Cannon would make sure that it was settled with the crash of the gavel.
The last thing he’d expected was to have a crazy connection with the too young, too pretty, feisty blonde woman that they were tasked to keep safe. The more he tries to deny his craving for her the more he seems to be drawn in.
Being a 1%er may make you an outlaw but committing a crime with her just couldn’t happen.
That would be UNLAWFUL.
This book is a romantic suspense, forbidden love and contains dark elements. Reader discretion is advised.
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ONCE A MYTH
From New York Times bestseller, Pepper Winters, comes a new Dark Romance Series, Goddess Isles.
For those who loved Monsters in the Dark, Indebted, and Dollar Series, you'll LOVE this one!
“There was a boy once. A boy who wasn’t strong enough to save me when I was taken.”
There was a girl once. A girl called Tess Snow who sat with me in the dark, waiting to be sold.
There was an owner once. An owner who bought me, entrapped me, and made me his unwilling goddess.”
Eleanor Grace is a naïve dreamer. Trusting and young, she believes her travel-loving boyfriend can save her when her freedom is snatched and sold. Squirrelled away to an island at dawn, delivered to a man even darkness won’t touch, she’s bound by a contract.
Sullivan Sinclair is the giver of fantasies. Any wish, any desire—he is the master at quenching any appetite. His private paradise and perfectly trained goddesses are there for one purpose: to ensure every guest is extremely well satisfied.
He bought her.
He trapped her.
She belongs to him.
First book of the Goddess Isles
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THREE TO RIDE
Rachel Swift is a woman on the run.
A stalker sent Rachel's world reeling. Now she's running for her life, and Bliss, CO, seems like the perfect place to hide. Bliss is a strange little town, filled with artists, nudists, and the occasional conspiracy nut. It's a good place to start over.
Max and Rye are just the men to catch her.
Horse trainer Max and Sheriff Rye gave up on their dream of finding one perfect woman to share long ago. Rachel walks in, and they're both in love and fighting their true natures.
A town like no other….
When Rachel's past catches up with her, all of Bliss is in danger. Rachel knows she should run, but how can she leave behind the love she's found with Max and Rye and the home she's built in Bliss? With her whole town behind her, Rachel is ready to make her stand. It's time for her to get back in the saddle and ride.
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From USA Today bestselling author W Winters comes an emotionally gripping romantic suspense.
It’s been a long time since I’ve looked at a man and wanted something more.
Even longer since one has looked at me with a gaze that I couldn’t tear my eyes from.
One look and I was tempted; one taste and I was addicted.
No one is perfect, but that’s how it felt to be in his arms.
I started to think everything was going to be alright. That life had finally put the pieces of my broken heart back together.
Fate may have brought us together, it’s a pretty little thought my poetic mind had.
But there’s no doubt that the sins of his past would tear us apart.
ROCK STARS DON'T LIKE BIG KNICKERS
He's a hot rock star, she's the girl next door and she's just landed a job with him - what on earth could go wrong?
Martha Bright is a feisty, stubborn, single mother who has just landed herself a job. While becoming housekeeper for the new owner of the ‘Big House’ in the Cheshire village where she lives, isn’t her dream job, it will do for now. However, there is one major problem with it. Her boss isn’t the woman who interviewed her, but Luke Mahoney, lead singer of the band Dirty Riches. The man who Martha lusted after years before, when they went to school together, and the man who is so hot that it petrifies her.
Luke is arrogant and sexy and finds it highly amusing that his flirting embarrasses Martha, but at the same time he’s intrigued by her.
She’s feisty, stubborn and gorgeous and Luke finds himself wanting to spend more and more time with her. So, despite a shaky start involving a naked Luke and a mortified Martha, they start to grow closer and their friendship starts to develop into something more. But then everything changes with the arrival of Luke’s gorgeous model girlfriend, Rachel. Luke’s sudden change in attitude towards Martha, hurts her and she realises that he’s just a typical egotistical, rock star and will never be anything more than her boss.
Pretty soon though, with the help of his bandmates, Luke realises that Martha is the right woman for him and sets about repairing their relationship. But, with Luke keeping a huge secret and Rachel determined to hold onto him, will he ever manage to prove to Martha that he’s the right man for her. If he does, will he be able to keep the woman he actually loves or will Rachel get her way?
Rock Stars Don’t Like Big Knickers, is full of humour, romance and secrets and will have you hooked with every turn of the page. Add in a strong, sexy woman, some hot band members and a Sex God of Rock and what more could you want to curl up on the sofa with – apart from your own Luke Mahoney.
This book includes some mild sex scenes and moderately bad language.
UNDER HIS CONTROL
He is used to getting everything he wants. And now he wants her.
Cell phone lost, a karaoke embarrassment posted on YouTube, and puking on one gorgeous guy’s shoes.
That was quite the party evening of the otherwise rather shy Adele, who just moved to San Francisco from a small town.
Thankfully, the guy was kind enough to take her home anyway.
But when she starts her new job on Monday, Adele is shocked. The man from the party is her new boss, Logan Steel!
His name says it all: The billionaire who runs his company with a firm hand and can be freezing cold when he needs to be. Which seems to be most of the time. Nothing is more important to him than always being in control and each of his steps is carefully planned.
Adele knows she should quit her job immediately - but that’s easier said than done because she’s completely broke and needs to pay her bills. And apart from that, Logan has an incredibly magnetic effect on her. His dominant nature and mysterious aura spark a hot desire, which the virgin Adele herself did not know even existed.
When Logan suddenly starts asking her to work overtime in his office, it all comes down to the inevitable...
But one question remains: Can Adele really trust Logan - or is she just a puzzle piece in his outrageous plan?
Stand-alone Romance, no cliffhanger, HEA guaranteed! Contains a preview of "In His Office."
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From the New York Times, USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Sandi Lynn.
Dive into the world of four alpha male millionaires in boxed set 2 featuring the Millionaires of New York.
This romance box set includes the following titles:
The Escort
One Night In Paris
Playing The Millionaire
The Negotiation
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IN THE HEIR
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ruth Cardello returns with an irresistible series about sexy billionaires and the strong-willed women who tame them.
Brett Westerly is his father’s golden child, but it’s come at a cost. As head of the family corporation, he throws himself into his work—hiding in his office is easier than confronting the reality of his broken family.
After a bitter divorce that split the family and divided loyalties, the wealthy Westerly matriarch offers an early inheritance to any grandchild who marries and invites the entire family to the wedding. Brett’s brother Spencer rashly gets engaged, and Brett knows it’s his duty to intervene.
But he never imagined the unwelcome desire Spencer’s fiery fiancée would spark in him. Now the man who’s used to getting everything he could want has met the one woman he can’t have.
Ever since she was a girl, Alisha Coventry considered Spencer and his sister Rachelle the family she didn’t have. When Spencer asks for her help, Alisha has no problem becoming his fake fiancée—until she meets Spencer’s sexy older brother Brett. The chemistry between them is undeniable—forbidden—but as their relationship deepens, Brett is determined to have her.
Alisha only wanted to help the family make amends. Now she’s falling for the wrong Westerly.
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UP FOR HEIR
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ruth Cardello puts two hearts on the line when a Boston billionaire takes a second chance on the woman of his dreams.
Spencer Westerly is his own man. He didn’t need his father’s money to build his wildly successful tech company—and he doesn’t want to deal with the fallout from old family secrets. But as much as Spencer wants to avoid Westerly drama, his grandmother—the family matriarch—is determined to pull him back into the fold. And she’s discovered the perfect lure: his college sweetheart, Hailey.
Although she broke his heart, Hailey is still the only woman he’s ever loved. Now that she’s back and looking as desirable as ever, Spencer is determined to get a second chance.
A lot has changed for Hailey Tiverton.
The only thing that hasn’t? The inexplicable pull she feels toward Spencer. When they were younger, his work was his priority. Now, he’d better be willing to prove that, this time, love comes first…
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To do list for my last day of my Paris vacation...
1. Walk along the river
2. Visit all the chocolate shops in the city
3. Wander along the cobblestoned streets.
Things I don't expect to happen...
1. Meet a charming Englishman while strolling along the Seine
2. Spend the afternoon with him exploring Paris, and kissing. So many French kisses...
3. Board a plane that night wishing I'd gotten his last name.
Besides, you can't fall for someone in one day, especially when you live a world apart...
Your French Kisses is a romance in the Boyfriend Material series. The recommended series order is...Book 1: Asking For a FriendBook 2: S-E-X and Other Shiny ObjectsBook 3: One Night Stand-InBook 4: Your French Kisses
THE START OF US
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely comes a sexy, emotional and deliciously addictive trilogy...
Let me tell you everything I know about love...
Love is a lie, a game, a chase. And most of all- it's a battle every man and woman must fight for themselves.
I don't trust love for a second.
Until I meet Trey.
He's just like me - dangerous, scarred, and keeping secrets that might be darker than mine.
And I can't seem to stay away from him even though I've promised to.
How can this be the start of something when tomorrow it has to end?
The Start of Us is the first novel in the No Regrets Trilogy.
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One kiss can change everything.
Fun and flirty Monica Stevens lives for food, fashion, and boys ... in that order. The last thing she wants to take seriously is dating.
When a night of flirty banter with Seattle's hottest NFL quarterback turns passionate, her care-free life could be at risk.
Seattle's most eligible bachelor, Zachary Ryan, is a Southern Gentleman at heart, a star NFL quarterback, and an undercover entrepreneur.
He's also addicted to the flirty office assistant with a sassy mouth--and not just because she tastes like chocolate and strawberries. She's the perfect distraction from the daily grind.
As their connection grows, Monica knows it's time to let go. If only she could.
To have a future, we must first deal with our pasts. But what if the two are connected?
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A terrible misunderstanding separates high school sweethearts. Years later they meet again, and Jo finds her fledgling plans—and her heart—at risk once more.
When Sam meets the daughter she gave up for adoption and starts to fall for the girl’s adoptive dad, every part of her screams, run. A romance between them would be too weird, wouldn’t it?
There’s an extreme heat wave at River’s Sigh B & B, but things have never been colder between Noelle and her husband Cade. Can shattered love ever be restored?
HOOK, LINE & SINKER
Brian and Katelyn fall for each other hook, line and sinker—but real life isn’t a fairy tale. If they can’t solve the increasingly dangerous threat posed by Katelyn’s ex, they won’t get a chance to pick up the pieces from their pasts or to find out if true love is real.
Four page turner, full-length novels about overcoming heartbreak and finding your true home. Treat yourself today!
LETS BE JUST FRIENDS
What if the man you’ve always loved isn’t the right one for you?
Rose Atwood has been in love with her best friend for years, and she’s tired of keeping her feelings under wraps for fear of getting hurt. Being Tyler's best friend is becoming more difficult with every passing year and every new woman in his life—especially Georgiana Smithson, a snotty, beautiful girl who’s in Law School with them.
When Rose, dumped by her long-term boyfriend, moves temporarily into Tyler’s apartment, tension spikes. Georgiana wants Rose out of the house. Rose wants Georgiana out of Tyler’s life. And Tyler… well, he doesn’t really know what he wants.
As an unexpected argument brings Rose and Tyler closer than they’ve ever been, they must decide if there’s more to their relationship than being just friends. And they must do it quickly, as Georgiana is determined to do everything in her power to keep Tyler and Rose apart. After all, all is fair in love and war.
Will Rose make a leap of faith and trust Tyler with her heart?
Will Tyler make the right choice, or will he be too late?
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JUST LOVE ME
I’m God’s gift to women. What can I say?
When I’m out and about, I catch the ladies checking out the goods.
I’m at the beach today, and my sister has her posse of friends with her.
One, in particular, is beyond beautiful, with a killer body to match.
It’s Sloane, my little sister’s best friend, all grown up and filled out in all the right places.
I can't resist the forbidden.
Once I get her alone, I discover her secret.
She’s a virgin?
I don’t mess with virgins anymore, not since high school.
Next. I’m moving on. I don’t want Sloane, dear Sloane, getting stuck on me.
After a couple of months, I’m usually done and over it. I tell her I’m doing her a favor.
The problem is that I can’t stop thinking about her.
This can’t continue. Sloane Hart is getting under my skin.
I was invisible to him.
Justin Harlow is my best friend's hot brother, and I’ve been in love with him for as long as I can remember.
Fast forward ten years later, and I’m at the Harlow family's beach party.
Justin has one killer set of abs and is devilishly handsome.
Mr. God’s gift to women notices me today.
The way his eyes rake over my body from head to toe tells me he wants me.
He’s dangerous for my heart and my body.
I know I’m in trouble.
Just Love Me 1, a captivating best friend's older brother novel you won't be able to put down!
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BETTING ON HIM
He’s a gangster going straight. She’s a waitress going bankrupt. Will their gamble on a marriage of convenience pay off in true love?Alex Wilde desperately wants to be free of the family’s mob business. But when his infamous father is murdered, the family attorney makes a suggestion he can’t ignore: find a bride before the funeral or they'll force a wedding with a nice Russian gangster girl. When he meets a feisty cocktail waitress, he thinks he’s found his way out.
Faye Tandy is desperately in debt and hard-pressed to find help. Alex’s offer of a phony marriage for a ton of cash couldn’t come at a better time and she’s happy to help him exit the criminal world. The fact that he’s tall, dark, and handsome is an attractive bonus.
But when she discovers the Russians have a contract out on her head, she wonders if divorced and bankrupt would be a better choice than rich and dead...
As Faye’s fake feelings for Alex turn real, she’s terrified her trip to the altar might be her last. Will Alex and Faye’s throw of the dice succeed or will they lose the lawless game of love?
Betting On Him - A Wilde Love Novel is a hilarious contemporary millionaire mafia romance. If you like feisty heroines, sharp heroes, and passion that’s meant to be, then you’ll love Kelly Collins’ sure bet story.
Buy Betting On Him - A Wilde Love Novel to bet big on love today!
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If you love the intensity of the Crossfire series and Fifty Shades of Grey, make the 100 Series your next binge read! Now in Kindle Unlimited for the first time ever!I came to New York to escape my brutal past and create my art. I've worked hard all my life, but now I'm in over my head and sinking fast. To survive now I need a miracle. So when I'm offered the chance to house-sit at a posh Manhattan high-rise, I grab it like the life line it is. Suddenly, I'm living a Cinderella life of luxury . . . one that thrusts me into the path of an intense, dangerous man who is far from Prince Charming.
Possessive. Dominant. Ruthlessly seductive. Billionaire Dominic Baine is a dark, carnal king in this city, ruling everything in his reach.
He can have anyone, but the only woman he wants is me. Our attraction is immediate and all-consuming. I know he's going to ruin me, crack me wide open and leave me broken. I know I should be careful not to give him my heart as easily as I surrender my body to him.
Because if I let him get too close, those searing blue eyes are going to see through me--right down to the secrets I would do anything to protect. And being careful is the last thing I want when Nick is holding me in his arms.
LIES DECEIT & RARA SKIRTS
Lancashire 1985 – Hairdresser Shelley and factory worker Tina have been inseparable best friends since school. However, all that changes when they meet and marry men from completely different backgrounds, forcing them to choose where their loyalties lie.
Shelley marries Chris Charlton, an educated pretty boy who’s still tied to his mother’s apron strings. Blissfully contented Shelley believes she has it all, but when Chris’s head is turned by the forbidden fruits of his colleague, Mandy, her perfect life come crashing down around her.
On the other side of town, the once outgoing and confident Tina, is now a shadow of her former self, leading a miserable existence as the downtrodden wife to chauvinistic brute, Darren Doyle.
Now moving in different circles, neither women are aware of the others plight. When Shelley and Tina’s paths finally cross again, will the women realise the importance of their once steadfast friendship, or do they cling in desperation to their failing marriages?
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Rule #1: Don’t date gym members
Rule #2: Don’t date employees
Rule #3: See rules #1 and #2
Rio Reese is a great gym owner. But when it comes to bookkeeping, he’s clueless. Thankfully, his gym’s newest member is an accountant with the skills to straighten out the train wreck his books have become. Too bad she’s also pretty, kind, smart. . . and totally off-limits. The rules are clear. Getting involved with gym members and employees is strictly forbidden. Which means he’ll just have to keep her in the friend zone. No matter how much his heart protests.
Gina wasn’t looking for a second job when she signed up at the gym, but apparently she’s incapable of saying no to Rio.
Even though she’d like him to be interested in her for more than just her brain, she’ll do what she can to help keep his business afloat. All she’ll have to do in the meantime is figure out how to ignore her growing feelings for her sinfully attractive new boss.
Rio finds that when Gina’s around, things just don’t go as planned. He’s falling hard for her and is about to shred his no-dating policy when he discovers that Gina is keeping a secret from him that threatens his business. While his heart sways in one direction, his bruised ego runs in another. Between running a fragile startup business and finding the truth, Rio must make a hard decision.
Could breaking all the rules and loving Gina be the best thing that ever happened to Rio? Or the worst?
Fall in love with the Loved by Reese series.
Book 1: When Rio Surrenders
Book 2: When Rome Falls
Book 3: When Edinburgh Dreams
Book 4: When Sydney Loves
Book 5: When London Calls
BILLIONAIRE BULL
Untameable and Wild.
Two words that describe me perfectly.
I'm a bull in my business and in the bedroom.
Women. Wine. Wealth.
Life could not be better.
But then, Maya shows up in my life.
She ruins my reputation and now she has my attention.
She's feisty and I like that.
Those eyes, those sweet juicy lips, her smooth curves.
She's playing hard to get but fu@k that.
I can't wait anymore. No more playing games.
I’m not letting her go. I will put everything on the line to make her mine!
The Billionaire Bull is book 1 in the Untamed Billionaires series with a guaranteed HEA.
THE BIG OHHH
"Have you ever had sex in a Vauxhall Combo? No neither have I but it's starting to sound appealing." "I'm Willow Dixon, I'm 24 years old and I'm frustrated. I have a hot new boyfriend and you would think I'd be walking bow-legged with a sexy new man in my life, but the earth hasn't exactly moved for us yet and if I had to describe my sex life using a movie title, it would be 'A Series of Unfortunate Events', one of which includes a brief visit from Elvis."
As the saying goes, 'True love never did run smooth and that is certainly true for Willow and Charlie. They seem to have everything going against them including interfering parents, a troublesome alcoholic mother and a variety of annoying siblings, all of whom go a long way to ensuring that Willow doesn't get the big ohhh that she's longing for.
If you want to laugh, shout out with frustration and maybe have a little tear of emotion, then The Big Ohhh is the book for you. Not only will it give you all the feels but you get the cheesiest playlist ever and some great tips that may help you obtain what Willow couldn't!!!
SMALL TOWN MISTERS COLLECTION
Don't miss out on an exclusive never before seen Honeymoon Epilogue!First comes love, then comes marriage…Except for a small town Cop who can’t get his pregnant girlfriend to say ‘I do’.
Except for an easygoing Hometown EMT who lost his wedding venue right before the wedding.
Except for the town’s Golden Boy who has no idea why his fiancée is pulling away.
Can these Heroes get their Honeymoon Ever After before it’s too late?
Hero In My Bed: A Roommate Romance
I need to stay away from the town’s hot golden boy.
He’s waaaay out my league.
That doesn’t mean I can’t have my dirty fantasies though, right?
I know I can’t have him.
But we end up roommates after a stupid accident.
Unable to escape each other.
I try to resist him.
To forget the way he makes me feel when I’m pressed against his hard body.
But I’m losing the fight.
And when he kisses me?
I know I’m screwed.
My only solace is that it will only be for a couple of days.
But Preston…
Let’s just say he has other plans for me.
Bad Boy Benefits: A Single Mom Romance
From the moment I first saw her, I knew she was meant to be mine.
The gorgeous single mom with piercing green eyes behind sexy librarian glasses.
But she thinks I’m a player.
Says she wants nothing to do with me.
But I’ve seen the desire in her eyes when she looks at me.
I know she wants me too...
Loving My Enemy: An Enemies to Lovers Romance
Honeymoon Ever After: Exclusive Epilogue
LESSONS FROM A ONE NIGHT STAND
If you’re a guy like me, and you find yourself having banged your sexy new boss—the school principal—in the back of your Jeep one drunken night, here’s a few takeaways based on my experience...
Lesson One: Always get her FULL name.
Lesson Two: Consider asking what she does for a living.
Lesson Three: Find out why she’s moved to town. Get details. Details are crucial.
Lesson Four: Don’t alter her bio in front of an auditorium of high school students unless you know she has a sense of humor for that sort of thing.
Lesson Five: If you ignore Lesson Four, apologize instead of flirt when you’re sent to the principal’s office.
Lesson Six: NEVER sleep with her again.
Lesson Seven: Pay attention to this one—it’s the most important of them all.
Don’t fall for your one-night stand.
DIVE IN DEEP
Tall, dark, and gorgeous with cobalt-blue eyes.
It doesn’t hurt that he’s the billionaire owner of the resort we’re staying at.
And all of it is just what I needed for my celebration weekend after graduating with my master’s.
It’s our last girls’ weekend before my friends and I go our separate ways, and it’s going to happen with a bang.
Literally. Hopefully.
It would be a first.
The desire was to keep things casual, but our connection is far too deep for that.
Him being ex-military and me being an Army brat.
The rules we each set up are shattered thanks to the raging passion between us.
But eventually, I have to go home.
What I never expected in a million years was that he might follow me.
Enough swimming in the shallow end of the pool.
We’re diving in deep.
RIDGE
✓Fake Relationship
✓Makeover
✓Frat Guy
✓Strong Girl
✓Revenge
✓Opposites Attract
She has a broken heart and revenge on her mind...
Last year Karrie was riding high. She had a boyfriend she loved, a softball scholarship, and the best roommate a girl could have.
When it turned out her man was a lying, cheating ballsack, she may have gone off the rails a bit.
Now, it's a new year and Karrie's ready to build herself back up and move on to bigger and better things.
Still, a little revenge would go a long way in helping the healing process.
He's got a plan for revenge that will suit them both...
Ridge is used to being the BMOC. Sergeant of Arms of his frat and the ability to land any chick within snapping distance has made life pretty easy for him.
His home life is another story. He and his brothers are in the middle of a battle between his socialite mother and asshole father.
Ridge is looking for a stand-in to placate his mother and her matchmaking ways, and he has a feeling he's just met the girl he can perfectly mold.
This makeover has nothing to do with love and everything to do with Karrie and Ridge using each other to get what they want. What starts as a ruse soon becomes an attraction they cannot deny. When it's all said and done, they'll both have more to confess than a need for revenge.
JONQUILS FOR JAX
**Now a USA Today Bestselling series!**
Jacqueline “Jax” Rousseau is vivacious, rich, smart and beautiful…but that doesn’t mean she’s lucky in love: she’s dated doctors, lawyers, actors and politicians who’ve all managed to end up disappointing her. In fact, she’s on a self-imposed hiatus from love when she has an unpleasant run-in with her neighbor’s gorgeous new landscaper, Gardener Thibodeaux. Jax is not accustomed to gruff, ill-mannered men that can’t be charmed, but when he saves her skin, she realizes that something about Gard intrigues her...and if she can find her way through the armor that surrounds his heart, she might finally find a love that won’t let her down.
HELLIONS RIDE BOX SET
The Hellions Motorcycle Club is a family of their own making.
Roundman, president of the Hellions Motorcycle Club, has kept the chaos surrounding the Hellions contained for the last thirty years. When the dangerous side to their business threatens his daughter Delilah "Doll" Reklinger, he makes the only decision he feels he can.
He sends her away. Calling on the one charter club president he trusts, he sets up a ride to keep her safe.
Talon "Tripp" Crews has proven his loyalty to his club many times before.
What happens when the chemistry between he and Doll tests his restraint? She's off-limits. His head knows this but his body won't deny the attraction. She's feisty, fierce, and fearless. Constantly in close confines together, will they give in to the desire?
Can one ride turn lust into love?
*This is a full length novel with over 300 pages in paperback format. It can be read as a stand alone book and concludes with a HEA no cliffhanger.
Forever Ride (Book 2)
Merciless Ride (Book 3)
Eternal Ride (Book 4)
*This is a bonus novella to the Hellions Ride series. It can be read as a stand alone book and concludes with a HEA no cliffhanger, but is best read after Merciless Ride.
This series contains mature content not suitable for those under the age of 18. This series contains strong language, strong sexual situations, and violence not for the faint of heart. This is not meant to be an exact depiction of life in a motorcycle club but a work of fiction to entertain.
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A tortured Irish rock star. An American beauty. A desperate, fierce connection.
Love with a rock star can burn bright . . . or go up in flames.
Rock star Gavin McManus is living it up on tour, savoring every performance, party, and pretty fan. And yet, he can't keep from feeling that something - no, someone - is missing.
And then, a call made to a radio station by Sophie, the girl who left him heartbroken back in school, upends his life.
Their public reunion makes them an instant paparazzi favorite. But beneath their seemingly perfect surface lies a complicated, tangled past.
Gavin, tormented by the scars of his childhood, seeks refuge in his love for Sophie. In return, she craves the way he makes her feel like only she can fix him. It's a desperate kind of love, but it's what works for them.
Until it doesn't.
When the tabloids expose Gavin's family secret, the backlash is more than he can handle. At the same time, the band's gorgeous guitarist is all too eager to step in and be the support Sophie needs.
With their life together burning out, can Gavin and Sophie reignite their white-hot connection . . . or will it consume them?
Tangled Up In You is the first book in the Rogue Series. If you like your dark contemporary romances filled with complex characters, glamorous settings, and angst, then this epic roller coaster love story is for you.
STOLEN BY A STAR
Book 1 of this series:
Dawn Bailey always loved books, and her dream was to own her own quiet bookstore to care for those who shared her love of books. Her highly successful, but terminally ill, father had suddenly retired and surprised her by investing in the perfect little book shop that the two of them could run together…
but he never mentioned his physical condition and prognosis to her. But before disease took her father out of running the shop, he saw a stranger happen to duck into the shop to escape for a few moments of peace.
Then over time he witnessed this stranger begin to fall deeply in love with his daughter for all the right reasons. She must have been the only one in the city not aware of who this stranger was, and she didn’t really seem to care.
And that brief and chance meeting began a most unlikely and beautiful romance between two very different and unlikely people.
Dawn’s father watched as this famous stranger cared deeply for his daughter, and honored her father in a way that will touch the reader’s heart. This is a quality series that will warm your heart and touch deep emotions and dreams.
An emotionally scarred beauty who has closed the door on love...
...isn’t ready for a hardened cop who wants to be her hero.
Is she destined for a lonely life, or is there hope for her frozen heart?
Winter’s latest nightmare of a date gets worse with an ex-boyfriend sighting - the same jerk who betrayed her trust. Desperate to escape, she wiggles out a bathroom window to avert a crisis, only to crash into a bigger one.
Winter falls into a police stakeout and lands in the arms of handsome NYPD homicide detective Wyatt. He’s furious at the distraction, but can’t take his eyes off her.
As the tension between them heightens, he needs to figure out how to romance a stubborn ice queen and make her melt. Will his efforts be in vain, or can he fight through her defenses so real love can salvage them both?
If you swoon for romances by Megan March, Penelope Ward, or Lara Swann you’ll flip for Lola Stvil! Find out why excited readers are saying “I plan on telling everyone I know about this story!” Don’t wait.
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Books in the "Hunter Brothers" series (All stand alone novels and can be read in any order)
Anything For Love (The Hunter Brothers, book 1)
Anything For Her (The Hunter Brothers, book 2)
Anything For Us (The Hunter Brothers, book 3)
Anything For Them (The Hunter Brothers, book 4)
Anything For Family (The Hunter Brothers, book 5)
BRODY'S REDEMPTION
Ex-con Joe Brody has been called a lot of things. Some true. Some not. But now that he's out of prison and back in his hometown his focus is getting a job and a home for his ill father to convalesce. Easier said than done when no one will hire him.
Ashley Cade has a teething toddler and lives with an elderly man as part of an agreement she made to buy his house. Complicated? Not as much as it sounds. Wilson is a dear and his huge Victorian a gem in the rough. The lonely old man even recommends a friend's son as a handyman to help with the repairs and finally Ashley is making progress. And Joe? Joe is... intriguing to say the least.
But when the police chief tracks Joe down and Ashley discovers the truth, everything changes.
Wilson swears Joe is innocent. Joe swears he's innocent. But the evidence says otherwise and she doesn't know who to believe when her future business--and her child's life--are at stake....
ROYAL CATCH
A gruff prince in need of a wife
A commoner impersonating a princess
And a bridal competition gone terribly awry…
I'm the crown prince of Villroy, heir to a kingdom, bound by duty to marry and produce an heir.
I expected a quiet arrangement through royal channels, instead I got a palace full of women vying for my hand. And how do they “win” this barbaric game set up by my crafty mother? By figuring out how to save the kingdom’s faltering economy through a series of challenges.
This undignified circus is beneath a man of my stature! Proof being that a saucy, ill-mannered woman wearing body-hugging clothes is in the lead. I could never love someone like that, let alone marry her.
The plan sounded simple.
I pose as my friend, pick up her inheritance, and return with the cash to keep her out of jail. (Apparently, being a princess in hiding is no excuse for identity theft.) So, yeah, I’m not exactly royal. I’m an orphan, a self-made woman, and proud of it. Suddenly I’m in a battle royale with a bunch of crazy competitive women for “riches beyond our dreams.” I’m in a time crunch, which means I need to win this competition fast. Only, that means winning over the judge; the smoldering hot grim-faced Gabriel. And now I find myself wanting to compete for more than just the money. But could a royal prince ever fall for a commoner like me?
This royal romantic comedy stands alone with a swoonworthy happy-ever-after! No cliffhangers.
BLIND MANS BLUFF
Can you love someone and still be free?
Emma Wyatt agrees to tutor a recently blinded, embittered soldier because of the $50,000 paycheck his brother offers. Blind herself, Emma dreams of independence and freedom. She wants to own a large kennel and live away from her overprotective family. But when she's attracted to her student, she fears falling for him means giving up her dreams.
Can you protect someone when you cannot see?
Good soldiers show no weakness. Ian MacGregor holds his battle with claustrophobia close to his chest, unsuccessfully trying to cope on his own. He’s lost in the dark and struggling to accept his fate. Ian knows duty, honor, serving his country. But his desire for Emma is overshadowed by the danger lurking around them. Emma would be better off with someone else. Someone sighted.
Someone able to protect her from the person determined to keep them apart.
BLIND MAN'S BLUFF is the first full-length novel in the Stone Gap Mountain Series. Be sure to check out THAT SOUTHERN SUMMER NIGHT, a Stone Gap Mountain Novella, for another teaser in this exciting new contemporary series.
From bestselling author Stephanie St. Klaire comes the shocking beginning of a 5-star series, McKenzie Ridge. Dawson and Sam kick off this standalone romantic suspense series that you won’t want to put down...until you’re ready to binge read the rest. All FIVE books are available now!
It isn’t just love on the line, it’s lives too…
Dawson and Sam agree on one thing...relationships are more work than they’re worth. But in their darkest hour they couldn’t deny their attraction to each other and now that he's in her life, he'll do whatever he can to stay there.
Dawson can’t shake the feeling that they are being watched and soon learns their small town has a fatal secret when it becomes clear Sam’s car crash was no accident — someone is trying to kill her…
He’s in a race against time to protect her from a stalker determined to finish their task. They won’t need to look far to find what they’re searching for as they walk right into the cross fires of a crime that’s anything but random and brings their community to its knees.
Secrets and lies are revealed when tragedy strikes putting everything on the line, including lives, as a deranged criminal hides in plain sight.
Love, fear, and impossible choices have him charging to her rescue, but will it be in time…
Jamie Cook is a work-in-progress. He’s always wanted what his parents have: a good marriage, lots of kids, and financial security. He thought he’d have the first two with his ex-girlfriend while the third would come once he got his house-flipping business off the ground. When his ex doesn’t subscribe to his five-year plan, he makes Cook Brothers Construction his sole focus.
Then he moves next door to April Williams, a sassy single mom he can’t stop riling up. Throw in her matchmaking mother-in-law, who’s set her sights on Jamie being April’s knight in a leather tool belt, and a house threatening Jamie’s sanity, and it should be a recipe for disaster, but Jamie wants this three-month project to last forever.
That’s if he can stop being the neighbor from hell and prove to April he’s not just flipping a house—he wants to flip her heart.
Work In Progress is a full-length, neighbors to lovers house flipping romantic comedy that can be read as a complete standalone and is book 1 in the Cook Brothers series.
THE WEDDING TRAP
Beth Bradley has a problem. Everyone is expecting her successful music executive boyfriend, Charlie, to be her date for her best friend’s wedding. There’s one hitch: Charlie doesn’t exist. Unless she can think of something fast, she’s headed for the most humiliating weekend of her life.
Alex Tanner has a problem. The former Navy SEAL's search for a double agent lands him at the Kensington Hotel, and he needs a cover to finish the job. When the sexy maid of honor blackmails him into pretending to be her lover, he thinks he's been handed the solution.
Except Beth has a way of stumbling into trouble, and when the man Alex is hunting starts targeting Beth, Alex has to decide between solving the mystery or protecting the woman who has stolen his heart.
Part romantic comedy, part thriller, and filled with plenty of intrigue, The Wedding Trap is the first novel in the Second Service contemporary romance series.
RUTHLESS KING
Get ready for the darker and dirtier side of New Orleans with a brand new alpha romance from New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Meghan March.
New Orleans belongs to me.
You don’t know my name, but I control everything you see—and all the things you don’t.
My reach knows no bounds, and my demands are always met.
I didn’t need to loan money to a failing family distillery, but it amuses me to have them in my debt.
To have her in my debt.
She doesn’t know she caught my attention.
She should’ve been more careful.
I’m going to own her. Consume her. Maybe even keep her.
It’s time to collect what I’m owed.
Keira Kilgore, you’re now the property of Lachlan Mount.
*Ruthless King is book one of the Mount Trilogy*
STIFF SUIT
James "Iceman" Bracelyn is wound tighter than a vintage Rolex. Besides his CEO role at Ponderosa Resort, he's guardian of the family's biggest secrets, including a doozy that keeps him up at night. Alone. In that big bed he'd rather not share, thank you very much.
That's fine with Lily Archer, who likes her flings flaming hot and fleeting. Her man-eater rep might be slightly exaggerated, but she'll gladly dial it up to rescue James from himself—and a bottle of Glenlivit—at his brother's wedding.
Intimacy's the last thing either one wants, but it's tough to dodge when they're drawn together by the world's drooliest dog, a TPing escapade gone wrong, and a good old-fashioned desktop hookup.
That's problematic for James, whose ability to hide the family's riskiest secret is complicated by the secret's refusal to get the hell out of his guest room.
Can Iceman keep his frigid shell intact while falling for the hottest science geek sex goddess he's ever met, or will the ticking time bomb blow it all to smithereens?
DEPTHS OF LAKE
It was another day at the ranch, training horses and working fifteen hour days. And then the last person I ever expected showed up. Lake McCain: a Marine, tall, ripped—and the best friend of my dead fiancé. Cal died to save Lake, and now Lake claims that he carries a debt to me that he can never repay.
I wanted to brush him off. But then my mom, the manager of the ranch, went and hired him. We spend hours working together with the horses. Lake doesn’t say much. He’s layered and dark and he tries to seem shallow and simple. But he isn’t. There are things under his surface that matter. He works, quiet and strong, and never once lets me down.
Until he confesses that he may be falling in love with me. I can’t deny that there is something between us. But a relationship? I just can’t. I’ve used up all my chances at love. My past relationships have ended in death or disaster, and now I have to live with all of that.
I’m Riley James, and there are depths to Lake—depths to myself—that I don’t think I’ll ever fully understand.
FALLING FOR THE COWBOY
Never trust a man who wears nothing more than a cowboy hat and ripped jeans who asks if you’d like to save a horse and ride a . . . well, you get the picture.
That should’ve been enough for me to walk away.
I’ve been warned on several occasions about southern men—with their sexy accents, charming manners, and the ability to easily get any woman in bed—which is something I’ll be avoiding.
Being a professional photographer has many perks—traveling around the world, calling all the shots, and working with subject matter that isn’t bad to look at
—but Colton Langston with his washboard abs and baby blue eyes, could care less about my current project. He’s trouble, I know it, and he’s determined to make me work for every single photo. When I’m forced into riding lessons, I get way more than I ever bargained for, and by the time my trip is over, I’m in too deep.
Being with him was thrilling, but falling for him was unpredictable.
And ignoring him will be impossible.
**This is a complete enemies-to-lovers STANDALONE novel — filled with plenty of humor, steam, & romance! 18 & up only due to explicit sexual content, language, and adult content.**
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"A sexy, wild, and red-hot romance. I LOVE this man!" - Lauren Blakely, NYT Bestselling author of WELL HUNG and MISTER O
A Standalone Contemporary Romance from the NYT Bestselling author of the Fixed Trilogy...
I'm good in a boardroom, but I'm better in the bedroom. Much better. I can charm the skirt off any woman in one encounter. I'll even give her an orgasm before I put her in a cab. Or three. No more or she'll start making plans for the future and I'm not into that.
Or I wasn't until Genevieve Fasbender. She's the first woman in five years that I want to spend the whole night with.
And she's the first woman who's told me I'm not what she wants in a lover, even after multiple O's. She's brash and bold and stubborn as hell, and she doesn't believe it's possible to satisfy her.
But I'm up for the challenge.
And after an incident in my brother's office closet―a downright dirty incident―I think I'm just the guy to deliver.
Genevieve Fasbender will never know what's coming.
"SPOILER: You're going to fall in love with him." - CD Reiss, USA Today Bestselling Author of the Submission Series
ALSO IN AUDIO & KU
I’ve kissed a lot of frogs, just to be covered in warts. I’ve been lied to, cheated on, and used more times than I can count. I don’t have it in me to keep going. I need a break from it all. I need time for the wounds to heal, and the scars to fade. Wouldn’t you know it’s my luck, to meet a gorgeous man, after declaring my self-imposed break? He’s charming, sexy, and determined to change my mind.
I wasn’t looking for her, but when I overheard her conversation, I had to add my two cents. Within minutes of talking to her, I knew she was unlike anyone I’d ever met. Bruised from past relationships, she’s built a fort around her heart. Doesn’t she know the prince always rescues the princess? I think about her all the time.
The more I’m around her, the more I want to be. I’ve made my choice. It’s her. Now, all I have to do is prove to her that I’m the difference.
BEYOND THE BASES
ALSO IN KU & AUDIO
What happens when you want more in life than just running the bases?
You hang out at home plate and stop playing the field.
He's sexy and irresistible. I've done my best to ignore the magnetism that flows between us. I don't need complications in my life. I can't get wrapped up in his world, the last thing I need is to get attached to a professional athlete. I don’t have time for heartbreak.
Something about her pulls me in. I want to get to know her. I want a chance to show her I'm more than just my career, my paycheck.
I'm the man for her. I know I am. No matter how much she resists this connection between us. It doesn't change the fact that she’s my grand slam.
AVAILABLE IN AUDIO
From New York Times bestseller, Pepper Winters, comes a new Dark Romance Series, Goddess Isles.
SWEET HARTS 5-Books RomCom Bundle
Get sugared up with five hot romances where the men are all Hart, the women are anything but Sweet, and naughty leads to love that burns as hot as a Southern heat wave. They’re not good matches, they shouldn’t be together and they definitely cannot fall in love. Or can they?
The little liar! You know you’ve been played when you meet a woman you shouldn’t be attracted to and like her anyway. Cleo Sweet is a mess. She dresses badly, eats like she’s starved and says whatever pops into her head.
She is nothing like what mom calls my ‘type’ and yet, I can't forget her.
I need to figure out why I want Cleo Sweet. The trouble is…she’s fighting my seduction every step of the way. I have a plan. It’s sneaky. It’s bad, but it’s oh so right for catching the skittish Miss Sweet.
Dreams are for saps. I’m a lawyer, a formidable power in my own right, and a woman with plans. I want love, marriage, babies and all that sappy nonsense that goes with it. Problem is, I keep striking out. With Zeus Hart in my life, directing things, I fail to see what’s right in front of me. He just may be the one. When I am accused of a crime and face the chances of getting put away, he steps in and rescues me like the hero of some fairy tale I’ve waited all my life to exist in. Problem is…I need to rethink my concept of a hero to fit the larger than life man who has me in his sights. Love, mischief and a chance at salvation is being handed to me. But can I accept it?
WARNING: This is no ordinary romcom. It's sexy, steamy, and crazy funny. Read with caution ;)
THE DARK KINGDOM ANTHOLOGY
In The Dark Kingdom, villains reign supreme.
Fourteen authors come together to turn your childhood stories into dark and sinful pleasures.
Step into a world where everything you loved just got a lot darker.
Where the line between love and taboo crosses without a second thought.
Are you prepared to enter The Dark Kingdom?
Join authors Alice La Roux, Anna Edwards, Brooke Summers, Gemini Jensen, Isabel Lucero, Karen Frances, Krissy V, Leah Negron, Logan Fox, P.T. Macias, Raven Amor, Samantha Fontien, Sean Azinsalt, and Taylor Porter as they take you on this dark and delicious journey through The Dark Kingdom.
I’m the fastest and most feared skater in the NHL.
With a temper like mine, I can’t afford to make mistakes.
But one insane night in Vegas, and I wake up married to the biggest mistake of all:
Persephone VanDoren—the head of our team’s charitable foundation.
Sure, the petite blonde is sweet enough to give the entire state of South Carolina a toothache, but I’ve never been one for the debutantes.
She’s everything I’ve fought against my whole life—wealthy, perfect, gorgeous, and her sharp little tongue presses every single one of my buttons.
Our fights are almost as electric as our chemistry and there is no denying the tension sizzling between us. But I’m a monster with a dark past that will ruin a princess like her.
She needs this marriage to appear real.
And I need to remember it’s fake.
Because the longer we stay hitched, the more I want to be her forever.
The whole world views me as her personal Hades, but I’ll go to war with both our demons to save her happily ever after.
Womanizer.
Casanova.
Heartbreaker.
Skirt-chaser.
And my personal favourite, Mr Steal Your Girl.
I've been called them all.
But still, the women keep on coming.
And coming.
Hundreds of women slide into my DM’s and I slide into their…well, I think you can see where I'm going with this.
Men want to be me and women want to bed me.
Despite what the bunny boilers of San Francisco call me, I go by the name of Buzz.
I'm 6’4” and the proud owner of a six-pack, beard and too many tattoos to count.
I’m a walking wet dream.
For the longest time, I didn’t believe in love. I didn’t even believe in relationships. I couldn’t understand why anybody would willingly choose to have sex with only one person.
Until I met Lori.
She turned my entire world upside down and made me feel things which I didn’t even know I was capable of. But when I couldn’t deal with her career as a honey trapper, I lost her.
But now I want her back.
And I always get what I want.
It’s lucky that I found her again.
It’s unlucky that she has a new boyfriend.
Unlucky for him.
***Although Buzz can be read as a standalone, it is advised to read The Honey Trap first as it provides some background to Buzz and Lori's story. The Honey Trap is currently free in Kindle Unlimited.***
THE HONEY TRAP
After catching her childhood sweetheart cheating on her, Sophia Hamilton is hell-bent on stopping other women from getting played like she was.
And so the played becomes the player.
Fast forward two years and Sophia is now one of San Francisco’s most successful honey trappers. Getting paid to expose cheating men has become the norm but just when she thinks she has seen it all, she is offered a unique proposition which threatens to turn her entire world upside down.
Mason Hunter is a hotel tycoon, millionaire and cheater. Or is he?
Sophia has six weeks to find out.
She quickly discovers that Mason isn’t the only one keeping secrets and she becomes caught up in a tangled web of lust, lies and misplaced loyalties.
Lines are crossed. Rules are broken. The real Mason Hunter is about to be exposed.
The hunt is on.
AWK-WEIRD
There’s more to me than just being awk-weird. I own my own flower shop, have some great friends, and I have my eye on adopting the most adorable kitten. But sadly, hot guys don’t tend to be blown away by my trivia-spouting, dorky self.
So when a Thor-lookalike who happens to be a professional hockey player hits on me at my bestie’s wedding rehearsal party... You better believe I climbed that tree like a cat. And the fact that it happened not once, not twice, but three times? Yeah, that’s pretty much a once-in-a-lifetime experience for a woman like me.
There’s zero chance I’ll end up ever seeing him again...right?
Until the pregnancy test comes up positive. What happens next?
Oh my God, I wish I knew…
Each book in the Ice Knights series is STANDALONE:
* Parental Guidance
* Awk-Weird
* Loud Mouth
*~* STANDALONE NOVEL *~*
When someone asks what I do for a living, I answer it plain and simple . . . I’m a hunter. I hunt the dregs of society and I’m very damn good at it.
I’m Ian Chandler, FBI agent and a member of the Circle of Justice, an organization of justice seeking vigilantes. My mission is to solve a string of ‘accidental’ hiking deaths occurring around my Wyoming town. When Grace Myers –a woman who’s been missing for days –shows up on my land, it turns out she’s the key to it all. Someone is hunting her, and I make it my duty to keep her safe.
However, the deeper I get into the case, the more dangerous it becomes; especially, now that I’ve fallen for the woman I have to protect. If hunting is the game, I won’t fail. I always hit my mark.
LOVES SECOND CHANCE
From the BEST-SELLING AUTHOR of the Forever Fae series, L.P. DOVER. Love's Second Chance is a steamy, romantic love story of how two people who were meant to be together get their second chance at a new life, a new love, and a new beginning. Each book in the Second Chances series can be read as STANDALONES.
Korinne Anders had it all. She had the perfect job, the perfect house, and the perfect husband. When tragedy strikes, her world takes a devastating turn. Six months after losing her husband to a car accident, Korinne vows it to herself never to love again. If she doesn’t allow another man in her heart, then there’s no reason for her to feel the pain of loss.
This plan seems to work, but is put to the test when Korinne’s best friend can’t stand to see her suffering any longer.
Korinne’s long-time friend, Jenna Perry, has an idea and it involves helping her friend find the spark of life in her soul no matter what it takes. Korinne didn’t know that Jenna’s plan meant bringing back a past love, a second chance with the man that Korinne had to leave in college, but always kept a place for in her heart.
When Galen Matthews learns of Korinne’s loss and that she’s finally moved back home, he wants nothing more than to be there for her. The love he felt for Korinne years ago has never left him, and now he’s given a second chance to not only mend her heart of her loss, but to also continue the love they shared in the past. Will his love and determination make her strong enough to give fate a second chance, or will her fear of losing another love make her run away?
What will Korinne do when she’s faced with a love so powerful that no matter what she does there’s nowhere to run from it?
**SECOND CHANCE STANDALONE SERIES**
Love's Second Chance
Trusting You
THROTTLE ME
What happens when the good girl falls for the bad boy?
Suzy is a control freak and has her life mapped out. She's content with the status quo, but her plan comes to a screeching halt when he enters her life and turns it upside down.
City gave up on love when his heart was crushed in college, but a chance encounter on a dark road makes him question what he had sworn off forever - a relationship.
A night of passion and lust causes them to question everything.
Is the tattooed bad boy her knight in shining armor? Can their relationship survive when a fantasy falls apart and a secret comes out that could change everything?
Throttle Me is the first book in the USA Today bestselling Men of Inked series by Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Chelle Bliss.
THE BILLIONAIRES SECRET HEART
Josephine:
It was the worst blind date in the history of the universe, until Holden Winters swept in and rescued me.
Are you kidding? Holden Winters?
A scion of the notorious Winters family, Holden is gorgeous, wealthy, and brilliant. He dates socialites and pop stars, not computer science grad students more comfortable in a hoodie than couture.
Our night together was a fantasy…and a huge mistake.
Holden:
I don't usually steal other guy's dates. I don't have to. A look is all it takes, and the women fall over themselves to get to me. Then I saw Josephine, sitting with her dweeb of a date, just waiting for a man who
could appreciate her lush curves and sharp brain. When she ghosted on me, I shouldn't have been so shocked, but women never walk away from me. Josephine thought she could call the shots - she didn't realize that a Winters man always gets what he wants. And I wanted her.
The Billionaire’s Secret Heart is a standalone romance with a happy ending. It’s the first in The Winters Saga, and introduces the notorious men of the Winters family. You can read it on its own, but you'll want to read the others once you get a taste of the Winters men ;}
Please Note: The Billionaire's Secret Heart, The Billionaire's Secret Love, & The Billionaire's Secret Kiss are novella length books
DECIDEDLY OFF LIMITS
Best Friend Rule #1: never want the guy’s sister.
Six months ago, I broke off my engagement because I was tired of not even being a distant second to my fiancé’s career.
Which is why Trent Salway, my brother’s best friend, is strictly forbidden.
One workaholic in my life is more than enough, thank you.
We’ll just ignore how I’ve been secretly crushing on him for as long as I can remember.
The problem? My best friend—Trent’s sister—is determined to find me Mr. Right.
Before being deployed on a Navy SEAL mission, my best friend makes one simple request:
I’m supposed to make sure that his sister Kelsey isn’t dating any assholes while he’s away.
Doesn’t sound too hard, right?
Living up to my promise includes crashing at least one blind date—not my finest moment, I might add—and spending more and more time with Kelsey.
Sparks fly between us, as do a few items of clothing.
Now, I have to decide what to do about the woman I’m falling for—the one whose brother will take me down faster than he takes down the enemy.
And I have to decide if I can be something other than a workaholic or if Kelsey is decidedly off limits.
Warning: Contains naughty uses for silk ties, forbidden sex, and enough profanities to make a sailor proud.
My brother’s best friend.
The bad boy next door.
My sworn enemy…
Now he’s back to claim what’s his.
For most of my life, Ben Hayes was the gorgeous bad boy musician next door. My brother’s heart throb best friend.
Then, he was my boyfriend for six of the happiest years of my life. Until he dumped me on social media in front of millions of people, officially cementing his role as my worst enemy.
Three years later, Ben returns to our small beach town with an ego the size of California, a drinking problem, a movie deal that’s about to fall through, and a secret that only he and his dying father know.
I’m not the same pathetic girl I was when he broke my heart. I’m stronger now. I won’t let him break me again.
But it’s hard to resist those ocean-blue eyes, that sculpted, tattooed body, that smooth voice, that enormous… Well, you get the picture.
Every time he makes me laugh or swoon, my defenses fracture. The walls around my heart are crumbling fast. And Ben’s wrecking ball of a secret is about to deliver the final blow.
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RED THORNS
Sons of Anarchy meets Grease
Danika is a sophomore in college. She’s super organized and knows what she wants. She even has a five and ten-year life plan.
Dani's goal of keeping her nose in her textbooks and getting impeccable grades has served her well. Made her parents proud. Kept her on a path toward the white-picket fence and clean-cut husband she always dreamt she wanted. The life her parents wanted for her more than anything.
Until she sees Max pull up to campus on his bike.
Max is the president of the Red Thorns, the toughest motorcycle crew in Ann Arbor.
He took over during a time of turbulence and has restored balance and the closest thing to peace men like him can achieve. He’s a steady and fierce leader who leaves no room for error and commands the respect of his men.
Everything is running smoothly for him and his crew until they take a new job and find themselves back in the kind of hot water Max has been working hard for three years to avoid.
When a girl enters the picture, things are made infinitely more complicated.
Suddenly, Max has more to worry about - and protect - than he thought he did. There’s danger on the horizon, and there’s nowhere to go but forward.
Red Thorns is the first book in a planned trilogy. It's a college bully romance, but the love interest is NOT the bully. It ends in a cliffhanger.
Book 2: Red Rose releases March 20th
Book 3: Red Queen releases April 24th
CONVICT ME
She was a shy little virgin, looking to rebel.
I was a bad accident waiting to happen.
I’m the bad boy your parents warn you about. I’ve been to prison, killed for someone I love and now I’m suffering through college.
Then I see her…sweet, so naïve it hurts, and of course beautiful. She’s scared of me the moment we lock eyes, but beneath that fear is curiosity.
From that moment on I’m consumed with a need to make her mine, to claim her…but when my past collides with my future will I risk the chance of going back to prison to protect yet another person I love?
**This is a complete standalone. It contains NO CHEATING, NO CLIFFHANGERS, and a HEA. It also contains dark material not suitable for some readers.**
I needed a job, and he had a special position just for me...
Man seeking woman; the job description was vague, but money was all I really needed.
On the verge of losing everything, I decided to take a chance and respond to the ad.
Turned out the man on the other end of the phone was August Burke, New York City's hottest bachelor.
Tall, muscular, dripping in sex appeal, his voice made your thighs tremble and your heart race. Most women would kill for one night with this man.
Except, what he wanted from me was way more than any man should ever ask for, and I'm not that desperate.
But, he won't take no for an answer. He decided he wanted something, and that something was me.
His offer could fix all my problems, it could erase the weight I'm carrying on my shoulders.
Only, I'm not the type of girl who will do anything for money...
See how far this billionaire heartthrob will go to keep what's his. A girl struggling to make ends meet, a man who has the power to change it all, and the one request that brings these two opposites together. This is a full length novel, with a guaranteed HEA.
From NYT Bestseller Corinne Michaels & USA Today Bestseller Melanie Harlow, comes a second chance standalone romance novel.
Ian Chase broke my heart at seventeen, and I’ve spent the last eighteen years hating him for it.
He makes it easy, with his smart mouth and playboy lifestyle—which I unfortunately have to observe since he lives behind me. Every time I see him climbing out of his pool, practically naked and unreasonably sexy, my blood boils.
I’ve always loved to loathe him.
I never planned to need him.
London Parish is my little sister’s best friend, not that it stopped me from falling for her.
Our history is complicated. The only thing we have in common is being godparents to my sister’s three adorable kids—until our lives are changed in one tragic moment.
Now we’re trying to raise the children we love, mourn an unthinkable loss, and fight an undeniable attraction.
My life is already upside-down, and the last thing I need is for old feelings to resurface.
Because I’ll never be able to keep her, no matter how hard I try to hold her close.
KIWI RULES
ALSO IN AUDIO
I may have lost my leg. I may have lost my job. I didn't have to lose my courage.
You don’t find many too-pretty rich boys in the New Zealand Defence Force. Turns out there’s a reason for that. Fortunately, you can find your true self in the oddest places. Of course, you can lose yourself in those places, too—at least some pieces of you.
Since I was back home with a new leg, some facial alterations, and time on my hands, I might as well help out my sister. Showing a potential buyer around some of New Zealand’s quirkier ecotourism sites, having a few adrenaline-fueled adventures? Fine. It wasn’t like I’d never been camping, unlike the walking tornado that was Miss Karen Sinclair.
Unfortunately, Karen had never heard of the phrase, “Let me get that,” let alone, “We don’t have time.” She’d definitely never heard, “There’s no more room in the car.”
And then there was the sexual frustration.
SHOPPING FOR A BILLIONAIRE BOX SET
The series continues with a zany post-Vegas-wedding mess where Andrew and Amanda have to figure out WHO they married (book 9), the chauffeur/bodyguard has his own second-chance romance (book 10), and Shannon and Declan have a honeymoon with a lot of, erm... bite (book 11).
How could you go wrong with so much laughter, heart, and plenty of steamy romance?
The New York Times bestselling Shopping for a Billionaire series continues in this giant boxed set that includes books 9 (Shopping for a CEO's Fiancee), 10 (Shopping for an Heir), and 11 (Shopping for a Billionaire's Honeymoon).
Get the enormous audiobook as well, narrated by Sebastian York, Sebastian York (yes, 2 books in a row!), and Zachary Webber and Tanya Eby.
THE PRETEND BILLIONAIRE BOX SET
The Pretend Billionaire Groom - Part 1
Rose is a veterinarian in Wessler, a small town she calls home. Her father has just passed away. In order to secure her inheritance, she must be married by age twenty-six. And that's when she calls in her crazy, unemployed, and carefree best friend named Tommy.
When Tommy's responsible brother comes into town from New York City to attend the wedding, he learns they're all taking a road trip to Vegas. The clock is ticking… Old friends reunite to get Tommy and Rose to the altar as fast as possible.
But sometimes…things don’t go exactly according to plan.
Jade Roberts is in love with Talon Steel but no longer welcome in his home. While she resolves to move on, she still longs for the passion she and Talon shared…and when her boss asks her to dig up information on the Steels, she’s only too happy to comply. Talon and his brothers are hiding something, and Jade is determined to find out what it is.
The moment Talon saw Jade he wanted her, ached for her, craved her…and now his desire has become his obsession. He knows she deserves better than his broken soul, but he can’t stay away from her, and he finally confesses his love. If he and Jade are to have a future, he knows he must make peace with the dark shadows and horrors of his past.
But as Talon begins his journey of healing, Jade uncovers some startling secrets…
In my world, power is taken not given.
In my world, women are a pastime and nothing more.
In my world, emotions are dangerous and need to be locked down.
Maya was born into this, but she doesn’t understand it. It makes her vulnerable, and now she’s been promised to a man I wouldn’t let my worst enemy marry. She needs help – my help.
I step in and take her as my bride in order to save her skin.
Our marriage might be fake, but our passion is real.
My ring on her finger is the tie that binds us.
Maya thinks she can walk away once the danger has passed. She believes our passion is fleeting. She hopes I will simply let her go.
She’s wrong.
On. Every. Single. Count.
We’re playing a dangerous game. One where the lines are so blurred, we can’t see them.
I’m going to take her and make her mine, and in this game, she’ll play by my rules.
But someone wants Maya out of the game completely, and our world is about to implode.
This is part one of a duet.
CLAIMED BY THE DON
A Dark Mafia Romance
I BOUGHT HER, AND NOW I'LL CLAIM HER.
She was a nobody--just another face in the city.
I was the Don of the Contarini Crime Family and a king of New York.
She wasn’t ever a part of my plans, until I saw her on the auction block.
Now she's all mine--from those full curves to her inexperienced lips--and begging to be claimed.
Begging for me to show her just who's boss.
Every Don has a reputation to keep.
She thinks I’m a monster. Let her.
She thinks I’m her worst nightmare. Let her.
She’ll scream and she’ll fight me. Let her.
She has no idea how much worse things could be for her.
She has no idea that I’m the only one who can keep her safe.
Claimed by the Don is a dark mafia romance and Book 1 of the Contarini Crime Family trilogy about a powerful mafia don who locked his heart behind a cage of violence, and the woman he buys. Contains violence, language, dark themes, and steamy intimate moments. You have been warned.
A USA Today bestseller! Sometimes you fall for Mr. Right. And sometimes for Mr. Right Now…
Did you hear the one about the girl who walks into a bar and catches her live-in lover kissing someone else? No? You’re the only one in town who missed it.
Luckily Alec is there to wrap me up in strong arms and carry me out the door before things get too ugly. And that’s not all Alec is good at. Our unexpected chemistry makes him the perfect rebound guy.
I should know better than to hook up with my rival’s little sister, but the fiery look in May’s eyes really turns my crank. She needs cheering up, and I’m just the guy for the job.
It’s not like I’ll fall in love. Not even after a string of scorching hot trysts, and the realization that we’re good at the same things: wild nights and familial disappointment. I don’t do love, never have, never will. So this is the perfect arrangement, for both of us.
Nobody would approve, but nobody has to know…
This is a stand-alone novel set in the True North world.
BOSTON ESCAPE
A Road Trip Romance...
From USA Today Bestselling author Melissa Belle comes a sexy, cross-country romance in the Boston Boys series.
She trusts him with her body…but can she trust him with her heart?
I’m taking a mancation. A vacation without men. The reason? I always pick jerks. My best friend from college may have hit the jackpot and married a billionaire, but my billionaire boyfriend turned out to be a jackass. So...no men for me. And certainly no wealthy ones.
Then I find out who my travel companion is for my week off. Some sort of Adonis volleyball-playing, former Hollywood star.
Gorgeous. Check.
Scratch that. Smoking hot.
Capable. Check.
Wealthy and powerful. Check, check.
Willing. Check, check, check.
And definitely all-male.
But he promises we’ll just be friends.
Except I want to climb him and ride him and…we’re going to be sharing a motel room.
For an entire week.
I’m so screwed.
I decide to take a one week vacation to get back to Boston. So I sign up to be a shotgun rider.
Except I didn’t expect my traveling companion to be so gorgeous.
And sweet.
And funny.
And determined to stay far away from the male species.
But I can’t let her go without me. So I tell her she’s not my type. I say she's too peppy.
All lies.
I want her so badly I’m shaking. And I have to survive an entire week not touching this woman.
I’m completely screwed…
MEN OF INKED 1-3
Join the Gallo siblings as their lives are forever turned upside down by irresistible passion and unexpected love. The box set contains three full-length novels--Throttle Me, Hook Me, and Resist Me--plus two bonus novellas.
THROTTLE ME - Men of Inked #1
Suzy's a control freak and has her life mapped out - work hard, find a man with a stable job, and live happily ever after. She's content with the status quo, but her plan comes to a screeching halt when he enters her life and turns it upside down.
City gave up on love when his heart was crushed in college, preferring to be the typical bachelor. He spends his nights hopping
from one bed to another and his days working at his family tattoo shop, Inked. A chance encounter on a dark road makes him question what he had sworn off forever - a relationship.
A night of passion and lust causes them to question everything. Is City the knight in shining armor to the damsel in distress? Can their relationship survive when a fantasy falls apart and a secret comes out that changes everything?
HOOK ME - Men of Inked #2
Michael Gallo found his calling in life - he wants to kick ass. He works at Inked as a piercer, but spends his mornings training and dreaming of winning a championship. Michael is the road to achieving his goal when a chance encounter alters his world forever. The title is no longer enough - he must capture the woman of his dreams.
Dr. Mia Greco is dedicated to saving lives and helping those less fortunate. She doesn't have time to meet Mr. Right with her busy schedule. She buries herself in her work and helping humanity. Fate steps in and sweeps the carpet out from under her. She tries to deny the pull to him, a man that uses his fists for gain, but the universe won't let her walk away so easy and Michael isn't one to take no for an answer.
He has a secret that may rip them apart. There are forces bigger than them at work; drawing them in and making their worlds collide - not letting either one of them walk away.
RESIST ME - Men of Inked #3
COVERT VENGEANCE
Revenge came at a heavy price.
Valkyrie hacker Amber Brown is deadly in her own right, but her preferred weapon is a keyboard. So after her teammates left her for dead, she took her revenge the way she was trained to—swiftly and brutally. Except one of her targets might be innocent. To right that wrong, Amber vows to rescue the at-risk Valkyrie no matter the cost, and this time she’s working alone. So when a sexy stranger shows up in the middle of a firefight and announces he’s been sent by her sister, it’s going to take a whole lot more than his word to make her trust him.
Chasing redemption may prove deadly.
Elite gun for hire Jesse Cordova lives on the edge of the law. When a new job offer sets off warning bells, he digs deeper and finds the startling truth. The woman he’s been tasked with capturing is a secret government assassin, and Amber Brown is unlike any target he’s gone after before. But bringing her in opens them up to a whole new level of danger, pitting them against one of the most ruthless assassins in the world. Now that the sexy Valkyrie has stolen his heart, Jesse will risk everything to see their mission through—knowing that the only way this ends is with one of them dying.
GRIT AND GRIND
Being a best-selling romance author doesn’t make falling in love any easier …
Christopher Kaiser’s books were taking the romance genre by storm. Rumor even had it that his sexy stories had actually been inspired by personal experiences. But the notorious Southern playboy wasn’t ready for a stand-alone relationship. What would happen to his writing if Christopher settled for just one muse?
He was about to find out …
Aspiring author Klara Woods found herself lacking inspiration. A string of bad relationships and a meet-cute gone wrong had left her with empty sheets … in more ways than one. Taking matters into
her own hands, Klara decided to jump-start her career by attending a writer’s workshop in her hometown of Memphis.
But it was her love life that was about to get a rewrite in the city of grit and grind.
Grit and Grind is a contemporary romantic comedy and can be read as a stand-alone novel.
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PC Games > Hidden Object Games > Dark Romance: Curse of Bluebeard
Dark Romance: Curse of Bluebeard
Free sample version
Domini Games proudly presents the newest addition to the Dark Romance series!
For years, Bluebeard has taken wives in the hopes of getting an heir. But each time a child is born, it turns into a monster! Now he's set his eyes on a local girl, Rachel to be his new bride. The fact that she's already betrothed means little to him. Can you help this young couple escape a dark fate before it's too late? Experience the magic of innovative story telling in this romantic hidden-object puzzle adventure!
For a more in depth experience, check out the Collector's Edition
Dark Romance: Curse of Bluebeard is rated 4.2 out of 5 by 18.
Rated 5 out of 5 by camper99z from Great game! I loved this game. It was fun to play, the mini games were different and you could choose easy or hard depending on how much challenge you want. Overall, really great game!
Rated 5 out of 5 by ninja226 from The best of the Dark Romance series The schtick with the Dark Romance series is you play the game from the perspective of two separated lovers. There's a locket with the two lovers at bottom left, which glows with fire to let you know you need to play from perspective of the lady vs the man. The graphics are exceptionally well done, except for a few scenes in which the lady's head seems askew on top of her body. The voiceovers are true to character except for a few scenes where the voice seems discombobulated to the graphic. Having played the other DR series, I think this is the best of the series. The storyline is easy to follow. HOPs are varied, and even challenging in a few. However, you have the option of Match3 if you detest junk piles. All puzzles have the option of Easy vs Hard mode, which is chosen individually as encountered. The puzzles range from super easy to super pain. I thoroughly enjoyed the game and think it has wide appeal to lovers of HOS mystery fairytale adventure games.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Cindel221 from Bluebeard is great fun! Loved this game, very well done for an adventure/HOG game. There were lots of variety for puzzles, not too many HOG's and an interesting storyline. Beautiful graphics.
Rated 5 out of 5 by leamjax from loved it!! I enjoyed the characters comments,so funny and really enjoyed the storyline,graphics and puzzles,Hope to find another game like this:)
Rated 5 out of 5 by deddu from Dark Romance This is a puzzle driven long adventure with all the elements of an CE in an SE game. It has a map, a journal (that you can go to only when it pops up), a task list, and teleportation. The hidden objects are matching, silhouettes, use an item to find or open another. You are switched between Richard and Rachel as you try to save Rachel.
Rated 5 out of 5 by SuperOmmi from Great Game! Wish I'd bought the CE. BASED ON COMPLETED GAME Not a whole lot to add as it's all been said, but this was very entertaining. The storyline was interesting and held together throughout. The gameplay was smooth. The artwork beautiful and fittingly eerie in places, and the VOs well done and well-acted (except for the female lead whose voice was a lil bit annoying.) The puzzles were fun and challenging. I don't necessarily need all the CE bling. When I buy a CE it's because I enjoy the gameplay enough to want it to continue with the bonus chapter. I miss the days of less "who cares" bling and more bonus chapter. Either way, this game made me want to play the bonus chapter. I've found that, unlike some series who really give you excitement in the demo but fall flat during the gameplay, the Dark Romance series tends to underplay in the demo and bring in the A game throughout the remainder. They build on the plot as you go along providing a first-class experience from beginning to end. This isn't the first time I've underestimated this series and chosen the SE only to regret the decision later. This series is going on my CE buy list from now on!
Rated 5 out of 5 by BooksandGameFan from My top favorite game of the year! I just loved this game! It's on my list of top favorite games of the year.<P> It has all the features you would expect to find in a 5 Star Hidden Object game such as a custom difficulty setting, an interactive map and a bunch of collectibles and morphing objects if you buy the CE. Curse of Bluebeard is a puzzle filled adventure, with a variety of puzzles, ranging from easy to hard, similarly, the hidden object scenes are also highly entertaining. I found the music very nice and relaxing and the graphics and scenery beautiful! My favorite part of this game series is playing both hero and heroine (Rachel and Richard) and you get to witness the story unfold from different perspectives. Domini implemented this flawlessly! I've played all of the games in this series and I've enjoyed them all immensely, this game is by far my favorite! Give it a try I think you'll really enjoy it!
Rated 5 out of 5 by biscuitsmama from THIS MIGHT JUST BE THE BEST GAME IN THE DARK ROMANCE SERIES Tales, and yes even games, about the dreaded Bluebeard fill library shelves and today’s game is yet another about the fictional, demented and evil Count who left a string of dead wives in his wake. As games of Bluebeard go, this one is actually well done and quite an excellent game. As the game begins Count Bluebeard has set his sights on his next wife, one he hopes will give him an heir that does not become a monster. He uses dark magic to find the purest soul in the kingdom and chooses the beautiful and kind Rachel. The only problem is Rachel loves Richard, a young man who hopes to become a doctor and one who has no fortune. Bluebeard has been sending Rachel many marriage proposals but she has somehow managed until now to avoid him. Running out of patience, Bluebeard breaks into Rachel’s home and threatens to kill Richard and it is then that Rachel agrees to marry the Count if he will spare Richard’s life. With Richard imprisoned things are looking very desperate for the young lovers. As is the case with all of the Dark Romance games you will play both characters – alternating between them to save the day. The game’s graphics are excellent, clear, and colorful. The game offers a custom mode but there is really very little to do with it aside from setting your hint and skip times. Your tools include an interactive map that is found early in the game. The HOPS are well-designed and items are fairly easy to find. I love the interactive scenes where it is a bit difficult to figure out what items must be used and where. If you don’t want to bother hunting for items or figuring out the interactivity, you can switch to an alternate match 3 game. Now, where I think Curse of Bluebeard becomes excellent is with the puzzles. There are a lot of puzzles in the game with varying levels of difficulty. Something I enjoy is that we have the option with almost all of the puzzles to select between the easy or hard mode when solving them. If you would prefer the CE version of the game it includes collectibles, morphing objects, achievements, bonus chapter, strategy guide, wallpapers, concept art, music, Book of Spells, Boudoir, and replay of 24 puzzles. Since there are several types of collectibles to find along with the morphing objects, for me this is a great CE package. After so many morbid and bloody games during October,(awful storylines) I had been waiting for a game I actually wanted to play and Dark Romance Curse of Bluebeard was perfect. Even though the basic theme is a bit dark I love the way the game is designed and the story is told. It is always fun switch between the two characters as I move through the Dark Romance games which add a new dimension to the gameplay. I had been waiting for the game to be released and it was be an instant buy for me. As always, even though I love the game please try the demo to see if it will be a game that you will enjoy.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Zerotix from More than the typical Fairytale At first glance, Curse of Bluebeard seems like the typical fairytale or fable based 'save kidnapped loved one' plot, but it makes up for this enough that it stands out on its own as an enjoyable game. The plot is simple- a take on the story of Bluebeard, you play as young lovers Richard and Rachel, whose life is thrown through a loop when Bluebeard forcibly takes Rachel to be his bride. Now the two must work together to stop the madman once and for all- and they do work together. Unlike most stories where the kidnapped party just vanishes for a majority of the game, occasionally dangled like a carrot, you can play as the kidnapped maiden as well. Switching between the main leads not only allows for different locations and scenarios, but actually helps the story. It is easier to feel an attachment to these two and their story when we are able to see them from both sides, and it helps to feel like the kidnapped party is not entirely helpless. I feel like everywhere where there is a cliche, Curse of Bluebeard makes up for it by doing something original. Your loved one is captured- but you can play as them and have them try to escape. There's wild beasts roaming around- but they're not as they seem and may even be allies to your plight. Even the fairytale concept itself, which both follows and diverges from the plot of Bluebeard. That being said, not everything about the story and game is perfect. It gets a little... Peculiar towards the end. Like, you can tell exactly what they cut out to be in the bonus chapter. I still felt content with the story I got. Wish the game was a little longer though. I got 3.5-4 hours out of it, which feels a bit short. The quality was enough that I wasn't too disappointed. Animations weren't perfect but weren't the worst I have seen. One of the things I would like to compliment is how the traveling felt. After getting dropped off in prison at the beginning of the game, you start moving along towards Bluebeard's Castle without feeling like you're teleporting from one wildly different scene to the next. Maybe that's just me, but I thought it helped make the story more engaging. I would also like to compliment the mechanic to change puzzle difficulty while playing them. I didn't need to change to easy more than twice, but it was nice that if you were getting frustrated with a puzzle that you had the chance to make it easier instead of skipping it altogether. In short, I really liked the game! I think I'd give it a 4.5, but since I can't I'd rather give it a 5 than a 4. The story isn't super original, but it's fun. The switching character dynamic makes the characters feel more fleshed out. It's a little shorter than I would like but does feel satisfying in the end.
Rated 5 out of 5 by FORTUNATUS from WOW What an exceptionally produced game; it is the first in a long time I actually will complete. The graphics are beautiful; the storyline compelling with a mix of charm and creepy making it a beautiful blend of intrigue. The SFX, voice, characterization, music and every aspect of the sound quality was top notch. I highly recommend this game; definitely check it out via DEMO; the story does not fade from there in any regard. Highly recommended; happy gaming!
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Birmingham Mums
Sprinkle of Glitter vlogger Louise Pentland shares her parenting secrets
Louise is in Brum to launch her new book
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Louise Pentland is one of the UK's top parenting vloggers.
Her Sprinkle of Glitter YouTube channel has more than 2.5m subscribers avidly watching her sharing her life with her two daughters Darcy, seven, and Pearl, four months.
She opens up about everything from post-natal depression to breastfeeding difficulties, single parenthood and feeling isolated.
Her debut novel Wilde Like Me, based on her own experiences of being a single mum, went straight to number one in the Sunday Times charts.
Now, the book has been released in paperback and Louise is at Birmingham Waterstones on Wednesday at 6pm to meet fans and be interviewed by BrummyMummyof2 vlogger Emma Conway.
Sprinkle of Glitter vlogger Louise Pentland
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We caught up with her to ask her for her parenting secrets, how she started her blog and turned it into such a huge success.
"My blog started when I moved into a new house and started blogging about fixing it up," says Louise, who lives in Northampton.
"After that, I began writing about things that interested me like fashion and beauty and it just grew.
"A friend suggested I made a Youtube video."
Louise put together her first video in 2010.
She never dreamt it would turn into a career.
"It was just a bit of fun, I didn't think you could make it a job, I didn't know there was money in it, it was just a hobby.
"I went on maternity leave and I thought perhaps I might be able to make a bit of pocket money out of it so that I could stretch to a year's maternity rather than three months.
"And it became my work.
"I should be on maternity leave now with Pearl but I'm doing this and loving it."
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The Sprinkle of Glitter YouTube channel is now a full time job for Louise.
So, what's the secret to monetising blogging and vlogging?
"There's no magic secret to making money out of it," said Louise, who met her partner Liam three years ago.
"It takes a lot of time and hard work.
"I think it's important to listen to what your audience wants, be consistent in providing your content, maintain integrity and keep it fresh.
"The latter is hard, especially after nine years.
"But, like any job, it's always evolving and changing. You work your way up through lots of hard work, there's not a magic ticket."
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Louise's top parenting tips
1. Lower your expectations for your time
You cannot do everything in a day. You might feel you want to prove you have a great career, a perfect home and that you look glamorous but you can't really do all that. You can end up feeling quite upset and dejected if you've put plans in place and you don't get to do it all yourself. Lower your expectations.
2. Remember children don't bear grudges
Start every day afresh, don't carry on where you left off before. Start the day with a happy face.
3. Little babies like a schedule
Everything is easier with a schedule. When you have a plan, you can conquer the world.
I know there are different schools of parenting and it can be quite controversial but you can be flexible with your schedule. I think life is a little easier for you and your baby if you both know what you're doing and where you stand.
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4. My advice to single mums and dads
Enjoy your kids, especially if you're a single parent and you have to split your time with your ex-partner. Also accept help from friends. You don't have to do everything yourself just because you are a single parent.
5. The best activity to do with kids is reading
I'm not just saying this because I'm an author! Reading is free. It's good for your child, it's a good thing for you do to and you come away feeling like supermum.
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6. Stickers make for excellent bribes
Bit of a controversial one, this! If you need to get things done, use stickers or reward charts. I offer points for TV time. It's a little bit like bribery but it works.
7. Be wary of social media
Remember what you see on social media is just someone's highlights, it's not real. They might look like a lovely happy family out with their baby in the sunshine but that's just one photo taken on one afternoon, it's not showing you everything else that's happening in their life. If you're sat there in three-day-old joggers, remember the celebs you follow probably are too.
8. Make life easier for yourself
Remember you don't have to be a hero. Make things as easy for yourself as you can. Do bulk cooking, use sleeping bags, do whatever you can to make your life easier.
9. Give your kids twice as much love and half as much money
Children don't care about the things you buy them so much as the time and attention you give them. Reading, doing crafts or cookery, taking them to the park, just spending time with you is much more valuable to them than the things you buy.
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Louise's book
Louise’s bestselling debut novel Wilde Like Me is based on Louise’s own experiences raising her daughter Darcy as a single mother after she got divorced in 2014.
It talks about the difficulties of juggling parenting and career as a single parent, the loss of identity after having a child and the special bond that grows between parent and child.
Louise Pentland's book Wilde Like Me
"It's not my story but I have written about what I know," said Louise.
"I know motherhood, single motherhood and dating.
"The reaction so far has been great. People say they can relate to the characters.
"I've always wanted to have a book that reflects real life. So much women's fiction is a bit glossy, there are so many stories about young single women in office jobs, falling in love.
"I wanted something that reflected my life. I suddenly found myself single with a three year old and I wasn't running around going on hot dates and working in offices.
"One day I joked with my agent that I should write about that and she said I should do it. And now here I am with a second book on the way."
Louise's sequel Wylde About The Girl is due out on August 9.
"When I first started writing, I thought it would be easy," she laughed.
"Then I realised oh my god there's a reason why being an author is a full time job.
"I was a full time mum, working full time on creating YouTube content.
"I don't know how I found the time to do it really, I didn't sleep a lot and I ended up cancelling on a lot of friends but I think they understand now.
"The first book took about a year and the second around another year but with two to three months out when I was having my baby so around nine months, about the same time as it takes to have a baby!"
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Louise's thoughts on having a private life
Many people think they know all there is to know about Louise as she posts so many videos about her home life.
However, she insists this is not the case at all.
"I'd say I share around 40 per cent of our lives, and around 60 per cent is kept private," she explained.
"I don't give out details about my relationship and his career. No-one knows what he does and my audience respects that.
"As Darcy is getting older, I'm sharing less of her as I want her to be able to develop off camera and to blossom into an individual without any judgement.
"I feel comfortable sharing Pearl as she's a baby and babies can't be judged but as you get older and start to develop, I think people do start to judge.
"People sometimes say I prefer Pearl to Darcy but that's not true. When Pearl gets older, I'll share less of her too.
"I'm lucky that all of my audience is so wonderful and friendly.
"I used to be followed by a lot of teens but now it seems to be more people in their 30s and 20s.
"It's really nice when someone comes along and says they've been watching a video or reading my book.
"I'm comfortable sharing what I share."
Brummymummyof2 Emma Conway, who has won 2 MAD blogging awards, with husband Stephen and kids Ethan and Erin
Louise on Brum
Louise is no stranger to Birmingham as she visits fairly regularly to see her friend and fellow blogger Brummymummyof2 Emma Conway.
"I've been to visit Birmingham a few times to see Emma and to go to events at the NEC," she said.
"We always fly from Birmingham airport too.
"There's great shopping in Birmingham, you can get everything at the Bullring. I did one of my Louise Live shows at Birmingham Rep and it was good.
"You're good eggs in Birmingham!"
Louise's paperback book Wilde About Me is out now. Buy it here from Waterstones or Amazon
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ATP – WTA Tennis News
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En ce jour: Andy Murray l'emporte contre Roger Federer en Finale de Toronto
By Remi | 08/15/2019
The dominant figures on the Tour in the last couple of years, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray reached the semi-final of the Masters 1000 event in Toronto 2010 (only for the second time after Cincinnati 2009) and it was Andy Murray who went all the way to clinch the 15th ATP title and the fifth at the Masters 1000 level, beating Rafael Nadal in the semis and Roger Federer in the title match.
Andy became one of only a few players who defeated Roger and Rafa at the same event and also the first who managed to defend the Canadian Open since Andre Agassi in 1995. It wasn’t easy to settle into a rhythm in the rain-interrupted final but Andy emerged as a winner following a 7-5, 7-5 triumph in two hours and five minutes, claiming the seventh win over Roger in 12 encounters and the first since Indian Wells 2009.
The Briton struggled to find the first serve and Roger couldn’t take advantage of that, creating four break chances and stealing the rival’s serve three times. Instead of building on that, Federer struggled a lot behind the initial shot, dropping more than 40% of the points and having to play against ten break points, giving serve away five times after almost 30 unforced errors to end on the losing side and miss a chance of winning the third crown in Toronto after 2004 and 2006.
Andy had 24 winners and 24 unforced errors and Roger stood on a negative 20-31 ratio, unable to impose his shots and take advantage in the shortest rallies against the rival who played well during the entire week to lift the first title of the season.
Murray made sure to get off to a perfect start, breaking in the very first game of the match after forcing an error from Roger and holding at 15 with a service winner in game two to confirm the lead. Federer was yet to hit the zone, handing serve away once again in game three following a backhand error to send Murray 3-0 up and leave himself with a lot of work to be done in the rest of the set if he wanted to get back into contention.
The Swiss started to climb back in game four after breaking Andy at love, firing a service winner in game five to move closer to the opponent. A forehand winner pushed Murray 4-2 in front but Roger was now the ruler in his games, reducing the deficit and hoping for another chance on the return before the end of the set.
It didn’t come in game eight when Andy held after a backhand error from Federer who was now serving to stay in the opener. He held at 30 to reduce the deficit to 4-5 and grabbed that desired break a few minutes later after a costly double fault from Murray who missed a big opportunity of closing the set.
Roger squandered a game point at 5-5 and sprayed a forehand error to gift another break to Andy who did everything right this time around, forcing a backhand mistake from Federer to clinch the first set 7-5 in 47 minutes.
The rain started to cause troubles at the beginning of the second set and Roger was the first who suffered from the lack of rhythm, spraying a forehand error in game five to find himself a set and a break down, drifting further away from the positive outcome.
They had to go off the court for almost an hour with Andy serving in game six, with Federer pulling the break back when they returned to level the score at 3-3 and gaining a boost to fight until the very last point. A forehand winner sent Roger 4-3 ahead before Murray made a good hold as well, firing a service winner to keep himself on the positive side of the scoreboard and throw the pressure back to Roger’s part of the net.
Federer stayed focused, closing the ninth game with a forehand drive volley winner but Andy was not to be denied, bringing the tenth game home with an unreturned serve and preparing himself for what was to be the pivotal game of the entire encounter.
Roger collapsed under pressure this time and Murray broke with a volley winner after a well-constructed attack that gave him the opportunity to serve for the title in the next game. Federer had a chance to prolong the set and possibly the match but missed a clean forehand that could have given him two break points, earning the one last possibility to reach the tie break.
Andy repelled it with an ace and hit another one to open a match point, squandering it when his drop shot failed to pass the net. The second championship point was the lucky one for Murray who could have started a title celebration, the first since Valencia last year.
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Sirki's Children
The exciting, racy and bittersweet sequel to Sirkkusaga.
It has been thirty years since the attempted coup against the queen, the Reignweald and the Dominion are at peace but when Psi start being kidnapped as others go berserk it becomes obvious that an old foe is rebuilding its strength to threaten the Novae once more.
Sirkku Da N’tan has problems of her own, Bren has disappeared into another dimension, her lover has left to seek a new life and two of her children can hardly be said to get on.
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Born in the 1957 the year the Space Race started when the USSR launched its first satellite and growing up with astronauts and cosmonauts on the TV meant Yuri Gagarin and Gordon Cooper were familiar names as a child. Getting up early one morning just in time to see a grainy Neil Armstrong make one small step for mankind on black and white British television started the obsession for science fiction, the same television that showed Doctor Who and Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and a personal favorite, UFO with the Moonbase girls in their shiny costumes (very interesting to a growing boy!) and the joy of seeing Star Trek on our first colour set, their uniforms in varied hues like a rainbow palette.
An early otherworldly memory is a picture book about mice building a rocket and travelling to the moon for green cheese! Reading Science Fiction at a young age by way of Kemlo, Tom Swift Jr and the wonderful TV21 with its pseudo newspaper format and the later and lesser Countdown comic that followed, the first “big” read was The Fall of the Towers by Samuel R Delaney, the book was his father’s, quite a weighty tome and many others were to follow. At school the English teacher set him reading John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids, The Chrysalids and the great-grandad of alien invasion stories The War of the Worlds by HG Wells.
Completely hooked, he worked his way through the Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Lensman series by EE Smith then anything by Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Edmund Cooper, John Wyndham, Ray Bradbury et al. Reading everything of worth and many not so worthy, Kyt wanted to write and wanted to write what he loved most, Science Fiction! The English teacher had several large essays thrust upon him about a secret organisation battling aliens (sorry UFO), robots that looked like human beings and a story about a policeman on a colonised planet with his girlfriend playing the damsel in distress (might re-use that one) and the teacher read them patiently and gave them his critique, they were not at all bad!
Plotting and planning, drawing characters and vehicles but somehow never writing much down. His family moved from Lincolnshire to Leicestershire and Kyt started an apprenticeship, enjoyed a social life and eventually met a wonderful girl (who would put up with him!). Marriage and children followed and Kyt found himself sharing books with his eldest son in an echo from the past, occasionally tinkering with writing but still no book emerged…
Six months from sixty, the urge to write returned and an old plot from teenage years re-emerged, the hero remained as was, but a minor character pushed her way forward to become the heroine and the original ending became the new beginning. McGuffins and contrivances moved with the times and book was finally written!
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The conference will bring together military and government personnel and key industry figures to discuss the latest developments in CAS operations and systems. 2018’s agenda will Focusing on air-to-ground operations, personnel training and mission simulation, digitally aided close air support (DACAS), joint fire targeting and delivery, battlespace management, and national programme updates, and much more.
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A balloon featuring logo of Jio. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
Reliance Jio Makes All Domestic Voice Calls Free From Jan. 1
Sameer Bhardwaj
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. made domestic calls to other operators free, a day before the telecom regulator is set to abolish the interconnect user fee.“Honouring its commitment to revert off-net domestic voice call charges to zero as soon as IUC (interconnect user charges) are abolished, Jio will once again make all off-net domestic voice calls free, starting Jan. 1, 2021,” the Mukesh Ambani-owned carrier said in a statement. “On-net...
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. made domestic calls to other operators free, a day before the telecom regulator is set to abolish the interconnect user fee.
“Honouring its commitment to revert off-net domestic voice call charges to zero as soon as IUC (interconnect user charges) are abolished, Jio will once again make all off-net domestic voice calls free, starting Jan. 1, 2021,” the Mukesh Ambani-owned carrier said in a statement. “On-net domestic voice calls have always been free on the Jio network.”
Operators pay IUC of 6 paise a minute every time their subscriber calls up a user on the rival network. Reliance Jio initially was a net payer as it offered voices services free and urged the regulator to abolish the fee even as incumbent carriers wanted the zero-IUC regime delayed. After the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India deferred it by a year, Reliance Jio started charging for its voice calls starting October 2019 citing recovery of IUC charges. The company, however, had promised to stop charging IUC once it’s abolished by TRAI.
Reliance Jio in December 2019 had introduced ‘All-In-One’ plans, priced 40% higher that its previous plans. Those offered unlimited Jio-to-Jio calling but calls to other networks were capped at 300 or 12,000 minutes depending on the plan, which had in-built IUC charges.
While a free call would mean the limits on the minutes will go away, the prices will remain unchanged. This implies that the in-built IUC in the plan will get absorbed in the tariff. The average revenue per user of Reliance Jio was Rs 145 in the quarter ended September, up 14% year-on-year. That compares with Bharti Airtel Ltd.’s ARPU of Rs 162 in the second quarter, a rise of 27% over the year earlier.
Reliance Jio’s cheapest plan of 2GB for 28 days starts at Rs 129, a 13% discount to rivals. Among other popular prepaid plans are 1GB per day at Rs 149 for 24 days, 1.5GB/day at Rs 199 for 28 days, and 1.5GB/day at Rs 555 for 84 days.
To be sure, Reliance Jio now is a net earner of IUC, and abolishing the fee is likely to hurt its revenue and margin. Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea Ltd., on the other hand, are will benefit as they turned net payers last year.
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An employee directs a colleague moving rolls of steel with a crane in Odisha, India. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
Steelmakers Set to Lead India Metals to Best Quarter in Decade
Swansy Afonso
Dec 24 2020, 3:30 AM Dec 28 2020, 4:54 AM December 24 2020, 3:30 AM December 28 2020, 4:54 AM
(Bloomberg) -- India’s steelmakers are on course to leading the country’s metal index to its biggest quarterly gain in more than a decade, as consumption recovers and prices surge globally.
The S&P BSE Metal Index has surged by around a third so far in the three months through December, jumping the most since the quarter ended June 2009. Metal companies are in an earnings upcycle after two years of downgrades, and steel demand and pricing has improved sharply, according to a Jefferies Group LLC report this month.
Shares of the country’s oldest steel mill, Tata Steel Ltd., have climbed more than 70% since Oct. 1, clocking its best performance in more than 11 years on higher steel prices and after it entered into talks for sale of its Dutch unit. Steel Authority of India Ltd. has rallied around 75%, while JSW Steel Ltd. and Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. have jumped more than 30%.
“India-based steel capacity is capitalizing on a global shortage of steel and the inability of the other global manufacturers to supply,” said Saurabh Bhatnagar, partner and national leader for metals and mining at Ernst & Young India. “While there is a continuous increase of demand from China on account of the government aided growth and focus on sectors such as infrastructure and construction, the revival of demand from India is pushing steel prices up.”
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Steel prices have soared on the back of reviving demand, especially in China, and as iron ore bursts past $170 a ton on concerns of supply shortages in top exporters Brazil and Australia. Prices are likely to remain at these levels until supply to China normalizes to pre-COVID levels, Bhatnagar said.
“Local steel price increases are purely a reflection of import parity pricing,” according to Ritesh Shah, an analyst at Investec Capital Services India Pvt. Ltd. “We have been positive on the steel cycle, that is, steel pricing and profitability,” since March and continue to remain constructive on the profitability of steel mills into 2021, he said.
Spot prices for Indian hot-rolled coil steel and aluminum are about 20% above the previous quarter’s average, which has further improved the earnings outlook for metal companies, Jefferies said. Copper prices in London have also rallied around 17% this quarter.
Aluminum maker Hindalco Industries Ltd. and iron ore miner NMDC Ltd. have risen more than 30% so far during the quarter, while Vedanta Ltd. brought up the rear with a near 10% gain after a failed delisting bid and concerns over upstreaming of its cash to parent.
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GLORY DAYS OF THE WINDANSEA SURF CLUB
In the early 1960’s surf clubs became popular along the Southern California coast. Many towns had them. Some of the more well-known were Hope Ranch, from Santa Barbara, the Malibu Surfing Association, Dapper Dans, from Manhattan Beach, Bay Area, from all over the South Bay, Seal Beach Surfers, the Hole in the Wall Gang, from Huntington Beach and the Newport Beach Surfing Association. The two biggest would have been the Long Beach Surf Club and the San Diego based Windansea Surf Club. The Windansea Club being the most famous and long lasting, in fact still going today.
I was a member of the Long Beach Surf Club in 1963 and on the team that competed in the big “Malibu Invitational” that year. The top clubs were invited to a contest held at Malibu and everybody wanted to be on a team. This was the only way you were ever going to get to surf the point at Malibu with only you and five other people in the water. We were pretty sure we were going to win the event as we had, at least what we thought was, the strongest team at that time. What we didn’t know was that Chuck Hasley, a notorious San Diego surfer and party animal, had thrown together some of the greatest surfers, and party animals, in the world and had gotten an invite to the event. This was sort of a surprise to everybody. He hired a bus, which left Maynard’s Bar in Pacific Beach at closing time, to take the crew up to Malibu. They had a band in the back, plugged into a generator, and reportedly at least one keg of beer onboard. There is rumor of them hanging Pat Curren out the window naked, so he could pee. This was because the bus driver refused to stop. The team was loaded with the likes of Joey Cabell, Bobby Patterson, Mike Hynson, Skip Frye, Mickey Munoz, Butch Van Artsdalen and a total all-star lineup to fill out the 10-man team.
The bus rolled up to Malibu in the morning, just before the first heats were called. Guys were staggering out and passing out at the same time. We were all in shock. Somehow, someway, that Windansea team put 5 out of 6 guys in the finals and Joey Cabell won it. Butch Van Artsdalen lost his trunks in the paddle relay race. This did nothing to stop him and he completed his leg of the race without them. The Windansea Surf Club won going away.
I was 15 at the time. After seeing this whole thing, I started thinking “now THESE guys are having way more fun than we are.” I wanted to be on THAT team. The next week I jumped ship from the Long Beach club and joined Windansea.
A guy named Thor Svenson, who was evidently a talent agent of some sort, got involved with the Windansea club at that time and did his best to “clean up the image.” This was sort of at that time when there was a big push in surfing, as a whole, to do that kind of thing. Surfers had a bad reputation. I always kinda gravitated to that side of it. Not doing vandalism or anything like that, just the parties and chicks and the whole romantic bohemian kinda vibe. But there were those who felt that if surfing was to ever become any kind of “sport” it needed to have what they thought of as a “better” image. Thor was that guy for the Windansea Surf Club.
Probably my favorite thing about being a member was having my club jacket, t-shirt and patch on my trunks. I was young and proud to be a part of it. Also, it enabled me to surf at Windansea, the La Jolla surf spot, without any grief from the locals. I was an Orange County guy and if you weren’t from San Diego you were not all that welcome to surf there.
By the 1970’s surf clubs sort of faded away, not totally but they certainly didn’t have the charm that they did in the 1960’s. In recent years I see they are slowly making a comeback. This is very cool, I always thought they were a good idea.
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Cool story about cool n fun days👍🏼 Thnx CC
Ozstar De Jourday link
Dear Corky
Thank you so much for this amazing bit of History from you.
You are awesome. Maybe we can do a Luau Expression Session at Windansea Beach with your Club this Summer or sometime when the waves are good.
Ozstar De Jourday WSC PREZ 1996-2002 & 2013
Lonnie Argabright (President of the HSC) link
Corky, You forgot to mention Haggerty's Surfing Club which was formed in 1960 which was the first truly organized Surfing Club following the Palos verdes Surfing Club formed in 1936. We are no longer active but many members wear the colors and attend most Southern Calif. Surfing events today and have the South bay's most legendary Shapers such as Hap Jacob's, Bing Copeland, Greg Noll and Dewey Weber (R.I.P.) as members.
Jess Foss
Corky...great memories...from great times!
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Throughout history there are Christians who chose to run into the brokenness, not away from it. And one just won the Nobel Peace Prize.
It’s “Nobel Season,” the week-long period when the winners of the Nobel Prizes are announced. Most of us have to take the Academy at its word when it says that the winners in fields such as physics, chemistry, and medicine and physiology are worthy of the honor.
But the Nobel Peace Prize? That’s different. Ordinary, informed people can recognize questionable winners—no, I’m not to going cite any examples—and, more importantly, deserving honorees.
This year’s winners, Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege, are definitely deserving.
Murad is a Yezidi woman who was enslaved by ISIS and repeatedly raped and tortured. After a near-miraculous escape, she made her way to Germany, where she campaigned against what the Nobel Committee called “the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict,” in the Middle East and around the world.
Murad’s remarkable and inspiring story befits a remarkable and inspiring woman.
The other recipient is Dr. Denis Mukwege, a surgeon from the Congo.
To understand Mukwege’s story, you need to know a little about the recent history of the Congo and central Africa more generally. In 1996, Rwanda invaded the eastern part of the Congo. While the ostensible reason was to eradicate the remaining forces responsible for the Rwandan genocide two years earlier, that reason was soon forgotten in what came to be called “Africa’s World War.”
Nine countries and twenty-five militias fought for control of all or part of the Congo and its mineral riches. By 2008, an estimated 5.4 million people had died, and countless women had been sexually assaulted as a military tactic.
While control of the Congolese government is no longer in doubt, an enduring legacy of the conflicts in the region is the use of rape as a weapon of terror.
Let me be clear: Rape as a weapon of war is not limited to Central Africa. It is as old as warfare itself.
But what sets Central Africa apart is Denis Mukwege. In 1999, the French-trained surgeon opened the Panzi Hospital in the country’s most war-torn region. Since its opening, the hospital “has treated more than 85,000 patients with complex gynecological damage and trauma, an estimated 60 percent of injuries has been caused by sexual violence.”
Mukwege, who has been dubbed “the man who mends women,” is a ferocious critic of those who perpetrate sexual violence and the governments that stand idly by. In September 2012, in a speech at the United Nations, he criticized the Congolese government and others for failing to stop what he called “an unjust war that has used violence against women and rape as a strategy of war.”
His words struck a nerve: When he returned home, armed men attacked his home, killing his bodyguard and taking his children hostage. He escaped and went into exile long enough to recover from his injuries but returned to the Congo two months later.
Why does Mukwege run towards the danger when the “sensible” thing would be to run away from it? You can probably guess: his Christian faith. The son of a Pentecostal pastor and a minister himself, Mukwege was inspired to pursue medicine watching his father pray for the sick.
As his advocacy shows, his mission goes beyond medical care. Speaking before the Lutheran World Federation, he said that “It is up to us, the heirs of Martin Luther, through God’s Word, to exorcise all the macho demons possessing the world so that women who are victims of male barbarity can experience the reign of God in their lives.”
Mukwege joins Leymah Gbowee of Liberia as recent African Christians who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in restoring what human sin and evil have broken.
Award or no award, this is, as Mukwege puts it, the “mission entrusted to us by Christ.”
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Shoppers at The Mall in Cribbs Causeway see 'first ever' trial of driverless vehicles this week
This is the first time in Britain a truly autonomous pod has been trialled
Tristan CorkSenior Reporter
Driverless vehicles for shoppers are being trialled at The Mall in Cribbs Causeway for the first time this week.
Shoppers are being given the chance to check out the autonomous pods taking short trips from the end of the car park to the door of the shopping centre.
People have until the end of Sunday (January 26) to see this experience of the future, and the company behind the driverless pods are assessing how they operate, how people interact with them and what people think of them.
The pods are providing a mock shuttle service from an area at the far end of Car Park H, with the pods entering the shopping centre in the south-western entrance close to M&S.
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The British-made pods have been running up and down nearby Filton Airfield in tests for the past few months, and this week members of the public have been able to have a go inside.
The pods operate completely autonomously, navigating their way across the car park, around people, pushchairs, bikes, pets and mobility scooters.
There have only been a few similar trials before - notably at the Olympic Park in London recently - but they have always had a dedicated engineer on board overseeing a safe journey.
The route being taken by the vehicles (Image: CAPRI)
This is the first trial in the country where members of the public are sitting inside and moving without any supervision inside at all.
The pods have been made by the CAPRI consortium, and could be the way of the future for transport around areas like shopping centres, pedestrianised zones.
“With a number of environmental, efficiency and mobility benefits associated with connected and autonomous vehicles, there is great potential for the UK to enter a diverse range of international markets,” said technical director George Lunt, from one of the firms involved, AECOM.
“However, for this idea to fully develop, it is vital the public are on board and have the chance to experience a mobility service that can potentially transform the way they travel,” he added.
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“Together with our partners, we must explore and bring together the technical, social and operational aspects to ensure the research and development gathered will not only allow us to be at the forefront of CAV development but also create a legacy for future generations,” he added.
The driverless pods trial is backed by South Gloucestershire Council - it’s leader Toby Savage said it was an ‘important step’ in changing the way people travel and think about automated transport.
“Capri brings together a number of high-tech businesses and organisations which are providing excellent opportunities for the development and growth of CAV services in the region,” he said.
Kids trying the vehicles out (Image: CAPRI)
“The trial which is taking place at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway is an important step towards transforming the way people travel and perceive automated transport.
“We're excited for South Gloucestershire to be at the forefront of innovation and CAV research and development in the UK, and as a place where industry and research institutes are already choosing to innovate, we are open to providing the infrastructure, platforms and resource we have available to help support innovation,” he added.
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When do you think you will you be able to afford to retire?
Increasing numbers of us are working past state pension age, new research has revealed
David Clensy
Will you be worried about money when you're old?
More than half of people planning to retire this year would consider, or already are, working past their state pension age, research has found.
Some 51 per cent of people surveyed are working past their state pension age or would consider doing so, Prudential found.
This marks the fifth year in a row of the surveys by Prudential where over half of people set to retire in the coming months are or would consider working past state pension age.
A fifth (20 per cent) of those considering working past state pension age hope to start a new business or earn money from a hobby, while 9 per cent would think about continuing full-time in their existing job.
Millennials will need 'a million pound pension pot to retire'
A further 28 per cent would consider working fewer hours with their existing employer, while 29 per cent would look for a new employer.
Stan Russell, a retirement income expert at Prudential, said: "Our research has shown that a period of 'pretirement', where people choose to delay their retirement plans, change jobs, earn a living from a hobby, or go part-time, instead of giving up work altogether, has become the new norm for retirees in recent times."
Many of us are likely to be forced to work into our late 70s, the latest research suggests
Some 1,000 people planning to retire in 2017 took part in the survey.
Minister for Employment Damian Hinds said: "Staying in work for longer can make a significant difference not only to someone's income but also their physical and mental health.
Today's workers are paying £200 a year to plug pension gap
"Older workers also have a huge amount to offer employers, which is why we joined forces with industry to launch our Fuller Working Lives strategy, and help more older people and business leaders recognise the benefits."
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Glazed brick relief panel: sand and lime mixture; shows the standing figure of an archer, facing right. He is wearing a richly decorated robe, with a twisted fillet around his head, shoes with three pairs of long laces, gold bracelets and plain annular ear-rings and carried a spear with a spherical ferrule on the butt resting on one foot, a quiver decorated with kidney-shaped coloured inlays, and a strung bow with tips ending in bird's heads. It is part of a larger frieze representing rows of guards, perhaps the 'Immortals' who formed the king's personal bodyguards, converging from left and right. Composed of separate moulded bricks covered in brown, yellow, white, green and black coloured glaze, with figure in low relief against flat light green glazed background. The bricks measure approximately 35 cm long x 8.5 cm high.
Ruler: Darius I
6thC BC
Made in: Susa
Excavated/Findspot: Susa, Achaemenid palace East Gate
Height: 198 centimetres (22 courses)
Weight: 1120 pounds (weighed for 1975 gallery display)
Width: 70 centimetres
Curator's comments
Labeled in G52 as Glazed brick relief panel 6th century BC Susa, East gate of Achaemenid palace This was part of a larger frieze depicting rows of guards converging from left and right. Each carried a long spear with a metal butt, a quiver and a strung bow. A variety of polychrome glazed and unglazed relief-decorated bricks were used in the Achaemenid palace decoration at Susa. These included a monumental entrance staircase with rows of servants and crenellated battlements with rosettes and palmettes, roaring lions, winged bulls and griffins. On permanent loan from the Musée du Louvre WA 132525 / L.78
Reconstructed from bricks found by Dieulafoy, de Morgan and Me Macquenem in area around entrance of Palace of Darius, western part of 'cour est'.
Bibliographic references
Curtis & Tallis 2005 / Forgotten Empire: The world of Ancient Persia (cat. 51, p. 87)
Dieulafoy 1893 / L'Acropole de Suse d'aprés les fouilles exécutées en 1884, 1885, 1886 (pp. 280-292, figs. 154-64, pls. IV-VI)
De Mecquenem 1947 / Contribution à l'étude du palais achéménide (pp. 47-54)
Harper P O et al. 1992a / The Royal City of Susa (pp. 226-8, nos. 155-156)
Curtis 2000a / Ancient Persia (p. 45, fig. 47)
On display (G52/dc5)
Exhibited: 2006 7 Mar-11 Jun, Barcelona, Fundacion La Caixa, 'L'imperi Oblidat' 2005-2006 Sept-Jan, London, BM, 'Forgotten Empire' G52/IRAN, from official opening. G49/IRAN, from official opening 17/11/95.
Heavily restored from 55 separate fragments, with extensive overpainting
Acquisition name
On loan from: Musée du Louvre, Paris
Acquisition notes
Deposited 2/4/59 (WAA deposit book entry 1226). Although technically on permanent loan this object is effectively transferred to this Museum and thus images of it and/or permission to film may be given without reference to the Musée du Louvre. However it should always be credited on labels and in publication materials as "On permanent loan from the Musée du Louvre, Sb 4001". Any application to change the display of this object, transfer on exhibition abroad or undertake conservation should also be referred in writing in advance to the head of the Department des Antiquites Orientales at the Louvre.
BM/Big number
Loan.78
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number: Sb 4001 (Louvre number)
Treatment: 12 May 1995
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Setback or shock: when will plastics demand bounce back from coronavirus?
The Chemical Industry’s Response to a Crisis while in Crisis
New sorting technology can help overcome recycling business disruptions
by TOMRA Recycling
The rapidly evolving effects from the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, global pandemic has governments and companies enacting unprecedented measures to protect the lives and livelihoods of the populace. Emergency social distancing and quarantine orders to flatten the curve of transmission rates have been enacted globally.
Students are remotely learning as schools close to stem the spread of the virus. The “non-essential” workforce is recommended, ordered in some cases, to stay from home, using technology to work remotely. Meanwhile, some essential services workers are receiving increases to their hourly rates as hazard pay.
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Recycling industry feels the pinch
Deemed essential services in many countries, the waste and recycling industries face virus-related impacts, as collection services and practices are being altered to protect workers. Receiving recyclable materials has a high rate of interaction with the public, and the recycling process often involves close worker interaction.
As a result, many locations around the world have temporarily halted collection of a portion or all recyclable materials. In the United States, Michigan and South Carolina facilities have halted the collection of recycle materials placed curbside, turning to landfilling instead. In the United Kingdom, where recycling centers are not considered “essential,” some councils have reduced bin collection services, while others have closed recycling entirely to prevent close contact among people and possibly spreading the virus.
To mitigate the inherent risks associated with coronavirus, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued the general safe practices guidelines of frequent handwashing with soap and water, use of hand sanitizer, avoid touching the face with unwashed hands and avoid close contact with those who are sick. At the time of writing, OHSA recommended that waste agencies handle solid waste with potential or known COVID-19 contamination like any other non-contaminated waste – use typical engineering and administration controls, safe work practices and personal protective equipment (PPE), such as puncture-resistant gloves and face and eye protection, to prevent worker exposure to the waste and recycle materials managed.
To minimise worker interaction, recycling companies are adjusting business practices, such as moving to staggered collection shifts, to prevent virus exposure. Manual sorter repositioning and staggered breaks have been implemented for social distancing. Where sorter repositioning is not possible, temporary barriers between workers are being placed where advance safety.
Strain on supply
Consumer buying and recycling habits in Europe have seen a spike in virgin PET demand, combined with decrease return rates, taxing the recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) market, the most widely recycled plastic in Europe. French recycling operations anticipate reduced collection rates for polyethylene and polypropylene as well, at a time when the market typically sees the start of peak season for rPET and recycled polyolefins.
A vast majority of U.S. states with bill deposit programs have suspended enforcement, limiting the returns of aluminum cans as well as glass and plastic bottles. Still other states have stopped drop-off programs at recycling facilities and reduced facility operating hour reductions to combat the virus.
Automation and technology advances
It is said that necessity is the mother of invention. In times of social and business disruptions, people find ways to overcome the challenge. We are seeing this play out with the coronavirus pandemic. Displaced students are learning virtually, quarantined citizens are finding virtual ways to stay connected and “nonessential” workers are keeping business running through work-at-home initiatives.
The waste and recycling industries face the compounded issue of material and labor shortage trends for the foreseeable future. Recycling operations must make the most with the material they receive, with fewer workers. “Advancements have been made in sorting circuit automation at both front and back ends, which have helped recycling operations decrease the number of manual sorters while increasing material purity,” mentions Fabrizio Radice, Head of Global Sales and Marketing TOMRA Sorting Recycling.
China National Sword in 2017 started the innovation engine for plant builders and manufacturers of equipment used at MRFs and metal recycling yards. Before National Sword, recycled product with up to 10 percent impurities was acceptable. After, impurity content of no more than 0.05 percent was mandated, and other countries eventually followed China’s lead.
“The industry has grown from material recovery to recycled product refining,” says Eric Thurston, Sales Manager Metals for TOMRA Sorting Recycling. “Companies want the sorting circuit to do the majority of the work, so they can redirect manual sorters to better utilise the talents.”
Equipment automation is helping to deliver better separation of mixed materials at the front end of the recycling circuit. The expanded use of more advanced front-end screening and separating equipment is helping to better classify paper, containers, glass and metals, based on size, colour, density and ballistic properties. “The better the separation at the front end, the more efficient the back-end sorting will be, and the fewer manual sorters will be required,” comments Thurston.
On the circuit’s back end, where material is sorted into final products, significant improvements in equipment technologies are helping to reduce the number of manual sorters required for final product quality. Newer laser technologies introduced over the last three years make it possible to remove more impurities from metal and paper products. Sensor improvements now enable optical sorters to pick out fine molecular differences in PET and paper materials to get a cleaner product sort.
“By taking a systems-thinking approach to the entire circuit and upgrading both the front and back ends,” says Nick Doyle, Recycling Area Sales Manager, West North America for TOMRA Sorting Recycling, “we are helping MRF operators significantly decrease their manual sorter count, in some cases by 50 percent or more. This is not only beneficial in current times with the coronavirus pandemic, it better utilises worker talents and saves operators substantial sums of money annually.”
Today, more of the recycling circuit’s components can be networked together to further advance efficiencies. Sorting machines can capture operating data, such as when the circuit is running, duration, output and service alerts, that can be accessed remotely via an Internet connection. This allows managers to employ fact-based decision making about the equipment and circuit, improve operating efficiency and increase sorting accuracy.
More available data combined with significantly improved computing capabilities has expanded the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in sorting equipment to help recycling operations solve much more complex sorting problems than in the past. Robotic sorters and sensor-based sorting equipment are now integrated with advanced machine learning capabilities to recognise patterns in the waste stream and make a smarter sort. Doyle suggests that operators consider pairing advanced optical reducing sorters with robots using AI to help boost quality, while the need of manual sorters.
As a final consideration as to whether a circuit should be upgraded to improve sorting accuracy, Doyle offers, “If it hasn’t been upgraded within the last three years, it may not be as efficient as possible, and a company might be using more manual sorters than necessary. Investing in the circuit now, when volume and labor availability are down, can help to reduce the impact on the business and pay dividends when the business rebounds to pre-pandemic levels.”
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Where will you be when the sun goes out? The Great Smoky Mountains National Park reports that the guided trip to Clingmans Dome for the August 21 solar eclipse already is sold out. The park can provide information on other viewing areas http://www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/2017-solar-eclipse.htm
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Prussian astronomer, Friedrich Bessel, developed the complex mathematical formula for predicting solar eclipses in 1824.
The speed of the moon as it moves in front of the sun is approximately 1,398 miles per hour.
Total eclipses cannot be seen from either the North Pole or the South Pole.
The Citizen Cate (Continental-America-Telescope-Eclipse) Experiment has enlisted scientists from 60 sites across the country to film the eclipse. When edited together, the film will be the longest video of an eclipse ever recorded. It is expected to help investigators research the corona which normally is invisible.
In Mark Twain’s 1889 book “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” the protagonist saves himself from being burned at the stake by predicting a solar eclipse in the year 528.
One of the most memorable eclipses in filmdom is the crucifixion scene in “Barabbas” which was filmed during an actual eclipse in February 1961.
The Science Fiction Writers of America named Isaac Asimov’s “Nightfall” the best story written prior to 1965. The plot revolves around pending darkness in a world perpetually in sunlight.
The sun is about 400,000 times brighter than the full moon. Be sure to invest in special filtered glasses to preserve your eyesight.
Venus should be visible to the upper right of the eclipsed sun.
The sun’s diameter is about 400 times larger than that of the moon. But because of the distance between the sun and the moon, both appear approximately the same size when viewed from Earth.
Total solar eclipses are rare. One can be viewed from somewhere on Earth about every 18 months.
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Zoho: Full stack, operating system, and data protector
February 26, 2020 CRM News and Info
I recently had the honor of attending the Zoho Analyst Summit along with 64 other analysts and influencers. Aside from being a great event and beautifully run by the Zoho management team, it sparked a significant outpouring of analyst posts and articles on Zoho’s perspective and roadmaps. I didn’t write one myself. I had the Watchlist in the way that pretty much singularly focused me but I have the further honor of presenting the post of someone who also attended: industry analyst, rock star influencer and I do mean a rock star — and great friend of mine — Brian Solis. To most of you, he’s no stranger, having been a thought leader in the field. He started out by transforming the PR industry, being the pioneer who brought social to PR — among his many other innovations — and now is one of the best-known minds in the digital world. So, without any more of my obvious admiration, here’s Brian’s take on Zoho.
Take it away Brian.
The worlds of CRM and ERP are undergoing yet another renaissance. Following the ongoing cloud (r)evolution, AI, voice, UX/UI and macro trends such as digital transformation and the rise of the cognitive enterprise are inspiring waves of great innovation from industry leading and up-and-coming technology vendors alike. But there’s one unique vendor that’s also going through a renaissance of its own while also pushing the market forward in its own way.
Recently, I joined over 80 industry analysts in Austin to meet with Zoho executives as part of Zoho Day, its annual analyst summit. Zoho is a cloud software company offering an incredibly rich, friendly and affordable suite of artisan cloud applications that power small-to-enterprise businesses. It’s also one of the most unique companies I’ve ever had the joy to follow. It was founded in 1996, and I first met the team during the “Office 2.0″ days of the early 2000s in San Francisco.
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For many years, Zoho has been a company that the industry has rooted for, but not necessarily recognized it as the most innovative or dominant brands driving the direction of software markets. Industry giants such as Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP have been highly competitive in sales and marketing, publicly innovative, and ambitious in their acquisition and partnership strategies to build capabilities and drive growth. Zoho, on the other hand, has quietly, but diligently, focused on internal innovation, community building, and customer satisfaction. The company has famously stated, “We invest more in product development and customer support than in sales and marketing. It always struck us as paradoxical to charge the customer extra for the privilege of marketing back to them.”
Even after following the company for so long, I forget that Zoho has been around for 24 years and was “bootstrapped” without ever taking outside investment or capital. The company is beholden only to its customers, employees and partners and not shareholders, boards and those who prioritize returns and dividends over innovation, usability, experiences and customer success. While it may seem as a counterintuitive approach to success, the results are clear.
Zoho is a global company with a portfolio of over 45 applications, 50 million+ SMB and SME users, and a workforce of over 8,000 employees around the world. The company has seen 30% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the last five years.
And still, the Zoho I was reintroduced to in Austin made it clear. The company is making bold moves all in the name of users and its customers. The question is, where does it want to go and grow?
Zoho User-Centricity: A Purpose-Built Full Stack Provider
At a time when cloud software is coming increasingly commoditized, the platform has to become a key differentiator and continue to do so as part of its business model. Zoho is clearly investing here. Like Salesforce’s Mark Benioff, Zoho CEO and co-founder Sridhar Vembu, is also purpose driven, leading not only through technology innovation, but also through philanthropy and building an organization founded on human-centered principles and values. For example, the company invests in people and their professional development through Zoho University, where students do not pay fees, and instead earn a stipend while they learn. Zoho proudly shares that 15% of its workforce does not have a traditional college degree. Additionally, the company expands by building offices outside of big cities, helping employees enjoy a more affordable lifestyle while growing local economies.
This human-centered approach is clear in its software and platform development as well. The user experience is paramount. And by experience, I mean the emotional and intellectual connection between customers and brand and applications and productivity, and growth and success. If master chefs can add a little love to their recipes, cooking, plating, course design, and dining experiences, Zoho applies the same formula for software development, customer experience, employees experience, and also Zoho’s local economies around the world.
To say it’s a company rich with personality, values, and purpose would be an understatement. It’s also rich in true customer and employee-centeredness wrapped in technical artistry.
“When you choose Zoho, you get more than just a single product or a tightly integrated suite. You get our commitment to continuous refinement and to improving your experience. And you get our relentless devotion to your satisfaction.”
What also sets Zoho apart from competitors is that the company owns (read, built) its full stack and is constantly improving every facet of it. It’s purpose-built with every layer intently interconnected and thus, it can control performance and optimize connectivity and scale. Competitors tend to build out stacks based on partnerships and acquisitions. The pro is that companies can gain access to best-in-class technologies and talent, greater market share, and project an aura of growth and innovation to the market. The cons can be complexity in native experiences, integration and maintenance, gaps in capabilities, and higher costs.
The Full Zoho Stack
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To Zoho, this is how to deliver a seamless and end-to-end user experience (UX). Zoho is as much a cloud software company as it is a technology company. All software is homegrown, developed internally at the company’s headquarters in India. Zoho also owns its data centers powered by its own solar farms. Networking is facilitated through domestic and international carriers as part of the company’s Zoho PhoneBridge. The company built its own computer telephone integration (CTI) with a bridge to 80 telecom operators in the Services layer.
Aside from competing against traditional and up-and-coming CRM and ERP vendors, Zoho’s app services, data centers and proprietary layers of its full stack position the company against the likes of Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle. And, since Zoho’s full stack includes Zoho-owned hardware and data centers, it indirectly (and directly) competes against Amazon, AWS, Azure, and Google. You better be good, safe, reliable, and cost-effective to compete at this level. As you start to cast a wider market net and move upstream, you need a performance and trustworthy technology infrastructure to support hyperscale and integration and also the leadership, expertise, and talent to manage the digital transformation of your customer’s businesses.
ZohoOne: The Operating System for Business
Zoho wants to be the Operating System for Business
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Operating systems are extending from computers and mobile devices to the enterprise as cloud software starts to break down operational silos. For example, Aera Technology recently launched its Aera OS as a cognitive automation platform to enable what it calls the “self-driving enterprise.” Zoho too is introducing its “business operating system” with ZohoOne, a platform of over 45 purpose-built, integrated apps and services that the company says can fully power any business while delivering unified user and customer experiences. The company shared that the average ZohoOne powered organization currently runs an average of 19 Zoho apps across the enterprise.
This move goes beyond cloud-based software suites. Zoho is placing a stake in the ground that it is joining the ranks as a global XaaS provider while architecting and owning the entire ecosystem.
ZohoOne was created with connectedness and scale in mind, aiming to replace the disparate patchwork of cloud applications, legacy tools and processes with one cloud-based system.
No matter what platform or apps you use today, Zoho literally has a product suite across the spectrum of sales, marketing, support, HR, finance, and operations. More so, every layer and every app is designed to work seamlessly as part of a holistic system, including a unified data model, scalable and integrated databases and a custom development platform.
Zoho Unified Data Model
The concept of a business OS is particularly compelling when it comes to delivering connected, seamless, and more intuitive user and customer experiences — Zoho customers (users) and their ultimate customers (consumers).
As CRM systems become increasingly intelligent and connected, businesses are aiming to get closer to their customer truths and a shared, cross-functional ability to deliver more relevant and personalized experiences. To do so, systems and data must be unified, connected, and optimized. By having a unified data model connected to all systems, companies get closer to a true 360 customer view. Beyond Zoho’s OS, the rest lies in how organizations then mobilize around customers (placing them at the center of the business).
Zoho’s position is that to serve as a proper OS, you need to own the stack or at least ensure open and intuitive integration across existing stacks. To serve as a scalable partner, you also have to build apps that are better and more integrated than what organizations are using or building today, offer irresistible pricing, and own a reputation for protecting that pricing, while also providing a platform that allows for full app customization on the customer side.
Not every customer has the same out-of-the-box needs, but they do all share animosity toward price creep. And unfortunately, that’s a common business practice in enterprise software.
Additionally, and perhaps most importantly, to become an operating system for any business, you need trust; trust in the platform and trust in the team that built and supports it. This is, after all, still a relationship business.
As Zoho moves upstream and also becomes the hub of any sized organization, the company will have to continually invest in building trust and managing relationships, especially (and uniquely) designed for SME and enterprise customers.
Zia: Zoho’s Custom-Built Artificial Intelligence
If you’re going to build your own stack, how far down the rabbit hole do you go? As we shift into a post digital transformation era of enterprise evolution, artificial intelligence (AI), and eventually cognitive automation become imperatives.
When I say AI, I don’t just mean chatbots, voice, conversational AI, or robotic process automation (RPA). I mean intelligent augmentation and automation connected to all fundamental business applications and operational processes.
Several companies are already making huge investments here and are highly recognized for it. Salesforce with Einstein, IBM Watson, and Aera Technology’s Aera (an impressive startup with $ 170 million funding to date) are pioneering the future of enterprise operations, and are setting intelligent operational standards right now.
Zoho Zia: AI at Work
On day two of the analyst summit, we were introduced to the breadth and depth of Zoho’s AI, representing over 10 years of inhouse development across an impressive array of capabilities in all of its enterprise apps. Like Einstein, Watson, and Aera, Zoho developed a front-end AI assistant named Zia, which stands for Zoho Intelligent Assistant. Think of Zia as the UI to a rich set of intelligent capabilities, not unlike Amazon’s Alexa. But more so, Zia delivers benefits to enterprise users and ultimate customers using Zoho-powered platforms. And also like Alexa, developers can build skills that teach Zia advanced abilities and also to integrate with third-party software. Additionally, the company has built development platforms that cater to the no code, low code and pro code markets. This means that it can attract a greater set of developers at varying levels with each, solving for different and unique capabilities and needs.
Part of this approach is to fortify its full-stack, OS model. The other part, I learned, was something more profound…protecting the privacy of business customers and their customers.
With an expected 50+ Zoho apps available on the platform, Zia becomes instrumental in connecting the dots between employees, data and business systems.
Zia doesn’t just facilitate search; it introduces conversational AI into the workflow. Much like Salesforce demonstrated on the main stage at Dreamforce 2019 with “Hey Einstein,” Zia combines natural language processing (NLP), understanding, analytics, forecasting, and reporting to simplify complex processes, connect users to instant insights, and help executives make more informed decisions in real-time. Zia not only connects information across its ecosystem, but also integrates third-party apps in the Zoho Marketplace and the World Wide Web to augment queries, results, and cognizance.
To Zoho Privacy Matters Across the Ecosystem
All relationships are built on trust. As such, I would be remiss if I didn’t talk about Zoho’s bold move toward user privacy.
Hosting an analyst event can be a tough job. This is an audience that is not only ridiculously smart and experienced, but every person there is responsible for shaping markets. Zoho’s stance on privacy however, drew applause and ignited deep, thoughtful conversations.
For starters, Zoho doesn’t allow any third-party cookies on its site, knowing that it’ll lose invaluable Google Analytics data. Furthermore, Zoho’s investment in AI development was done in the name of protecting privacy as well. It ensures that no data ever leaves its private data centers. And, speaking of data centers, everything is hosted with Zoho to prevent having to comply with Terms of Service (ToS) of outside hyperscalers and partners. As a result, Zoho is thwarting what it calls “adjunct surveillance,” which stops the trading of customer data with the likes of Google, Twitter and Facebook as an external market and revenue source.
Zoho’s Data Protection Pledge to Customers
Raju Vegesna, Chief Evangelist at Zoho recently shared at Diginomica, “Heavyweight tech corporations are turning into surveillance companies, tracking the behavior of businesses and users — who have become heavily reliant on their ubiquitous services and platforms. By championing advertising-first business models, Big Tech is knowingly putting user and business data at risk. The result has been a series of data leaks as well as consumer privacy breaches.”
Zoho’s Data Protection Promise
Does this inhibit growth? Yep.
Does this build a unique form of trust amongst users? Yes indeed. That’s the goal anyway.
As Sridhar said at a Zoholics event in 2019, “we’re proud to leave money on the table.”
After all, if a company can’t live its values, how can it expect customers to trust and believe in the company’s vision and mission?
With Zoho, trust is paramount. It’s a competitive advantage, beyond price, against marketing and technology savvy competitors that are largely recognized for driving market trends and dictating technological standards.
With all of the wonderful announcements and insights that were shared at the event, the company still has work to do, beyond tech, to not only grow, but also mature.
Even though the company has been around 24 years, even though the company is absolutely doing so many incredible things around the world, for employees, for customers, for local economies, and for the planet, and even though the company’s stack and app ecosystem are industry-leading and cost-compelling, Zoho’s competing against players that are also pushing the industry forward. Truth is, they are much better at sales and marketing too. They’re steering the industry narrative.
To grow and deliver its vision and mission to a much broader userbase, it’s time for Zoho to adopt a new marketing philosophy. Ironically, as I was writing this, I saw a Zoho commercial on TV during a basketball game. So maybe that makes my last statement already moot. But honestly, there’s much work to do. Just visit the company’s website, follow its market-facing industry perspectives, read the company’s collateral, and compare it against savvy and ambitious competitors. Try to make an decision in the best interests of your company, regardless of size, based on what you see on your own. Zoho can be louder, more vocal in its vision and mission, and bolder in its thought leadership.
As Zoho goes upstream, the current go-to-market approach won’t scale, even though the technology will. Zoho needs an enterprise POV (and perhaps, a dedicated brand and brand experience). It could greatly benefit from introducing a dedicated enterprise customer journey, touchpoints, and relationship model.
Money aside, companies of all sizes, could benefit from the company’s platform. It just isn’t 100% clear that it can address the needs of more demanding, complex customers. Those customers are in the throes of digital transformation. They need help. They’re overwhelmed with companies vying for their attention and business.
I’ll tell you this, if Zoho wants to do it, I know it can do it. I’m rooting for it.
After spending one-on-one time with Sridhar Vembu and Vegesna, one thing I can whole-heartedly support is the company’s prioritization of philosophy in the C-Suite. It’s not always about technology. It’s about partnership.
Right before leaving Austin to return to San Francisco, Vegesna shared that Zoho constantly asks itself, “what is the purpose of what we do?” They made it clear that in every decision they make, it’s about doing the right thing with a long-term mindset.
In closing, Vegesna told me that Zoho sits at the intersection of philosophy, economics, and technology. The company is already making positive impacts in business, with employees and local economies, and also on the planet. I added that perhaps the company should add sociology to its crossing. He agreed.
I’m excited to see what’s next.
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UPS wins full FCC approval to start commercial drone deliveries
October 2, 2019 Big Data
(Reuters) — UPS on Tuesday said it won the U.S. government’s first full approval to operate a drone airline, which gave it a lead in the nascent U.S. drone delivery business over rivals Amazon and Alphabet.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted UPS’ Flight Forward drone subsidiary a Part 135 Standard certification on Friday. The company said the certificate allows it to expand its delivery service in campus settings such as hospitals and universities, but added that residential deliveries are years away.
The certification allows UPS pilots to fly drones beyond their line of sight and opens the door for the delivery company to expand Flight Forward. The fledgling unit is immediately doubling the number of drone flights it does for its flagship customer, Raleigh, North Carolina’s WakeMed Health & Hospitals.
“We’ll easily get to 20-plus flights per day, per drone,” said Scott Price, UPS’ chief strategy and transformation officer.
“It’s a business, it’s not a prototype or a test,” Price said of Flight Forward, which is paid to ferry blood and tissue samples to WakeMed’s central laboratory from points around its main hospital campus.
UPS said its latest certification clears the way for Flight Forward to add other campus delivery projects without seeking government approvals for each one.
“There are hundreds of campuses in the United States,” said Price, who added that UPS is eyeing drone deliveries on hospital, corporate and university campuses as it builds Flight Forward.
“This is a big step forward in safely integrating unmanned aircraft systems into our airspace,” U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao said in a statement.
Under the new FAA approval, UPS Flight Forward pilots may now operate multiple drones under one certificate.
Earlier this year, Alphabet’s Wing, the sister unit of search engine Google, was the first company to get U.S. air carrier certification for a single-pilot drone operation. It is testing home deliveries in a rural area around Blacksburg, Virginia.
Amazon, known for its splashy drone delivery tests, also has won experimental certifications to test its drones.
The FAA is writing rules for drone operations, including guidelines for sharing airspace with passenger planes and flying over populated areas.
Residential deliveries, Price said, are “years out.”
(Reporting by Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles; Editing by David Gregorio)
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On demand now — full session lineup from Microsoft Business Applications Summit!
June 13, 2019 Self-Service BI
The conference might be over, but there’s so much more in store! Get ready to transform your business with the latest in Microsoft Business Applications. Explore 200+ sessions, workshops, and keynotes from Microsoft Business Applications Summit, available now in the Power BI Community.
You can also watch the opening keynote on-demand.
Build your skills at your own pace.
Learn directly from the engineers behind Dynamics 365, Power BI, Excel, PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, mixed reality, and more. Download presentations to review in-depth and connect with experts in community forums.
Get fresh ideas to solve your toughest challenges.
Dig into game-changing technology — like AI and mixed reality — to amplify the impact of the tools you use every day. Collaborate with the community and share hints and hacks.
Jumpstart what’s next for your business.
Watch visionary keynotes and get a first look at the new features and capabilities coming next for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. Learn how to take your data, your insights, and your business to the next level.
Here’s a sample of just some of the sessions available on demand, and be sure to check out the Power BI Community for the full rundown:
Microsoft Power BI: The future of modern BI — roadmap and vision
Microsoft’s BI leadership team shares the Microsoft Power BI vision and strategy. Learn how Power BI brings success to organizations and helps you harness the insights that live within your data.
Microsoft Power BI: AI-powered analytics
Learn how AI can empower you to solve your toughest business problems.
Microsoft Power BI: BI power hour
Filled with fun and informative demos, the BI power hour is designed to show the flexibility and power of Microsoft BI.
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From accessibility testing checklists to tips for cultivating more inclusive design habits, this session will show you how to leverage Microsoft Power BI’s latest accessibility features and make your reports accessible to everyone.
Get inspired, boost your skills, and power major digital transformation at your organization. It’s just a click away — watch now.
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President Gorman Seedling says the country is full
April 8, 2019 Humor
“Ambitious INS agent Gorman Seedling and his assistant Eli attempt to capture Beldar and Prymaat, but they are able to elude the two agents.” – “Parents need to know that Coneheads is a 1993 movie inspired by the popular Saturday Night Live sketches from the 1970s. There is brief male nudity: Men’s buttocks are exposed in one scene.”
Darn those illegal aliens. Trump remains a 20th Century caricature of anti-immigrant racist populism.
“The system is full. We can’t take you anymore. Whether it’s asylum, whether it’s anything you want, it’s illegal migration, we can’t take you anymore. Our country is full, our area’s full, the sector is full. We can’t take you anymore, I’m sorry, can’t happen. So turn around, that’s the way it is.”
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Like most Trumpian ideas, and aside from his personal policy violations (chain migration), restricting immigration is ass-backwards.
Indeed, it is clear that immigration strongly affects U.S. labor markets – over the past thirty years, foreign-born workers have grown to record numbers.
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For decades here, the fertility rate hovered right around replacement level. Now, American mothers have on average fewer than two babies each. That results in an aging population and, without more immigrants, the economy won’t have enough replacement producers and consumers. Forecasters calculate that everything from infrastructure to national defense can be strained by an aging population because spending on entitlements crowds out other budget items.
The United States has always attracted immigrants. Welcoming newcomers from around the world has been to our demographic, economic and social benefit. Building a wall on the border with Mexico will cost us dearly, in dollars spent and much more. If the wall succeeds in keeping migrants out, we won’t have a labor force big enough and young enough to support our economy, let alone to “make America great again.”
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The Coneheads was a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live (SNL) about a family of aliens with bald conical heads. It originated in the 1977 premiere on January 15th (episode 35: season 2 episode 11) and starred Dan Aykroyd as father Beldar, Jane Curtin as mother Prymaat, and Laraine Newman as daughter Connie. It was later made into a movie.
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2018 Cloud Survey Results: Review the full report
November 8, 2018 Big Data
Jennifer Cheplick
Since launching our industry surveys a few years ago, Syncsort typically included one or two questions about cloud. This year, we wanted to know more, so we fielded a cloud survey specifically to address this hot topic. The response was overwhelming – over 900 IT professionals, at mostly large- and medium-sized companies, participated.
On Premise or in the Cloud – the Fundamentals Still Apply
The widespread adoption of cloud computing was not a big surprise in our findings, as we’ve been experiencing this with most of our customers – including those adopting cloud-first strategies. However, the lack of strategy and a centralized approach to plan and manage applications in the cloud was quite unexpected – fewer than one-third of professionals reported having this in place. This is particularly interesting because most respondents (70%) say internal IT staff is responsible for cloud security, disaster recovery, and performance and capacity management at their organizations.
The benefits of cloud computing are undeniable. Business continuity, IT efficiency and operational cost savings topped the list in our survey results. But, on the flips side, higher-than-expected costs, integration, and challenges with data security, privacy and governance were common pain points.
Perhaps a proactive strategy and centralized management could help alleviate some of these concerns and help companies get even more value from the cloud. These fundamental best practices are just as important in the cloud as they are on premise – maybe even more so.
Syncsort Cloud Survey Results
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Maintaining Your Microsoft Dynamics CRM to Realize Its Full Potential
August 16, 2018 Microsoft Dynamics CRM
I’m guessing you regularly service your car, changing the oil and performing a maintenance check when it’s recommended by the manufacturer. Neglecting regular maintenance could mean a shorter and more troublesome life for your vehicle.
The same principle apples to your CRM software solution. It’s not based on mileage, but your CRM should be checked at least once a year to make sure it’s running at peak efficiency.
Microsoft is committed to twice-yearly online upgrade schedules for Dynamics 365 CE (Customer Engagement). They have now added strict deadlines for performing upgrades to the latest versions. The new policy emphasizes the benefit of keeping your CRM solution in top condition. As you address the impact of any changes in the new version, you’ll want to determine how best to leverage the system’s enhanced capabilities within your organization.
If your business runs Dynamics 365 CE online or Dynamics CRM 2016, you may realize that Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Version 9 was introduced in October 2017 and has been available as an upgrade since the first quarter of 2018 for most current customers. Time is running out for you to upgrade to version 9.0, the latest major version.
Microsoft sent out email messages urging this upgrade if you are not already using version 9. You’ll need to schedule an upgrade before the middle of August or Microsoft will schedule it automatically for you. After the middle of this month, you may lose any flexibility in the upgrade schedule. What is certain is that your upgrade must be completed before the last day of January 2019, because according to Microsoft’s website, after February 1, 2019, they will support only the latest version.
This post is not intended to make you panic. But we do urge you to take action.
Go to the Dynamics 365 CE portal and check to see if updates are available for your online environments. Determine the dates currently available for upgrading for your production instance.
Choose the optimum time and date for performing your upgrade. Go ahead and schedule a date for your production upgrade. If you have familiarized yourself with the changes inherent in the update, schedule your update sooner rather than later. However, if you need time to analyze the impact of the version 9 update on your solution and your business, you may want to schedule the update later to give you more time.
A sandbox instance will allow you to preview changes before upgrading. If you do not have a sandbox instance in addition to your production instance, your Microsoft Dynamics partner can help you set one up. Sandboxes are no longer a frill, but a necessary component of an orderly and well-managed upgrade experience.
You’ll want your sandbox upgrade scheduled at least two weeks before that of your production instance. Plan to copy your production configuration to the sandbox before the sandbox upgrade. That way you’ll be able to run through various scenarios or perform complete regression testing. Use the interval between the sandbox upgrade and the production upgrade to test and resolve any issues raised. If your system relies on heavy customization using plug-ins or JavaScript, you may require more time between the sandbox and production upgrades.
Contact the ISVs about their software that you are running with your Dynamics 365. Find out if there are updates required to bring their software into line with Dynamics 365 CE version 9.
After you have scheduled your upgrade with Microsoft, it is time to step back and plan for a more measured and intentional analysis.
What to consider when analyzing Dynamics 365 CE:
Does the current production system match the vision of how you want Dynamics 365 CE to deliver value to your business? If not, where does it fall short? Are there unused features that might increase your solution’s capabilities and value? Are there fields that could be used more consistently and effectively.
What new features of the upgrade will be the most beneficial? Are there features on which you currently rely that will be eliminated?
What technical debt have you built up since the system went live or since the last major overhaul? This includes built but outdated, obsolete, or unused automation (including workflows and JavaScript). Where have users implemented “work arounds” because the current system fails to support their needs?
What about the information managed by the system; could it be managed better? What other areas of the business use this information that currently do not use Dynamics 365 CE? How might bringing new information into Dynamics 365 CE enhance the value of the system to users and more completely provide a 360-degree view of your business?
The answers to these questions will help you plan out necessary tasks required before the upgrade to your sandbox instance, between the sandbox and production upgrades, and after the upgrade. Keep in mind that Microsoft will be offering upgrades in April and October and will generally insist that you upgrade in six months or less from the new software being available. These updates can be your incentive to regularly re-evaluate the direction of your business and perform needed changes along with testing, training, communication, and documentation.
Now, more than ever, it is time to pay attention to that maintenance light that just went “on” for your Dynamics 365 system.
Velosio has broad experiencing in helping our clients with upgrades for both on premise and online hosting as well as transitioning between on premise and online, replacement of legacy CRM systems, enhancements, customizations and advanced configuration, integration, and data warehousing. If you have questions about upgrading or transitioning your system, contact our experts and let us help you ensure the success of your project.
By Velosio, www.velosio.com
LOL… kos on Full Frontal sends that message about waiting until 2019 to think about the “I” word
July 3, 2018 Humor
Pretty funny piece on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee featuring fearless leader debunking the Tom Steyer self-funded Trump-impeachment campaign. (it takes a couple of days for TBS to put up tonight’s episode)
Because as kos says, it’s not really about impeachment as it’s Tom Steyer wanting to run for POTUS in 2020.
And in tonight’s piece, Adam Schiff reminds us that even with impeachment there’s that outcome of Pence becoming POTUS.
It is more than [insert verb] behind impeachment…
In October 2017, Steyer spent around $ 10 million for a television ad campaign advocating the impeachment of President Donald Trump and plans to spend millions more on a digital ad campaign to call for Trump’s impeachment.[75] In the ad Steyer identifies himself only as an “American citizen” and alleges that Trump “brought us to the brink of nuclear war, obstructed justice at the FBI and, in direct violation of the Constitution, has taken money from foreign governments and threatened to shut down news organizations that report the truth.”
Trump has responded by calling Steyer “wacky and totally unhinged.”[76]
The ad campaign had led to speculation that Steyer might campaign for either California Governor or California Senator in 2018.[77]
The video of the now inevitable 2019 Trump deposition for the Summer Zervos defamation suit will be more than enough in 2019 to move impeachment forward, as will whomever decides that their story of assault by Lord Dampnut or the story of their children (real or aborted) merits violating an NDA.
Also, the pool of POTUS candidates should be larger than the egos of hedge fund capitalists, regardless of their ideologies.
Even in 2019-20, Trump will run for re-election using impeachment as a GOP talking point, FSM — forfend.
2/21 Webinar: Be a Full Stack Power BI Jedi – A walkthrough of Power BI most advanced features through Star Wars data
February 21, 2018 Self-Service BI
Be a Full Stack Power BI Jedi – A walkthrough of Power BI most advanced features through Star Wars data.
Are you a Power BI Jedi? Do you have the powers to become one, and join the fight for insights? In this hands-on session we will build together a Power BI report that analyzes Star Wars data from a web service. We will create custom functions to iterate over paged results and extract the entire dataset of characters and species. We will apply three different techniques to calculate the body mass index (BMI) of the Star Wars characters, and create smart mashups using Cartesian Product to classify BMI into different categories. Finally, we will apply What-If techniques to explore better BMI calculations for droids (Being made out of metal, doesn’t help your BMI).
When: 2/21/2018
Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Qk5V8dvgg
Gil Raviv is a Microsoft MVP, Analytics Group Manager at Avanade, and a Power BI expert. As a former Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel Product team, Gil led the design and integration of Power Query as the next-generation Get-Data technology in Excel 2016, and became an extreme M practitioner (M=Power Query formula language).
Gil is a highly skilled Software Development & Product Manager with 18 years of experience, and four US patents in the domains of social networks, cyber security, and web. He also held a variety of innovative roles in the Israeli Cyber Security industry, where he was harnessing the power of data analytics and big data to deliver new security products from advanced threat detection and reporting solutions for enterprises, to protection of kids on Facebook.
In his blog DataChant.com, Gil has been evangelizing about Power BI & Power Query since he moved to his new home at Chicagoland, and recently received the Microsoft MVP Award in Data Platform Category. Read more here.
Contact the author at gilra@datachant.com
Find Gil’s MVP Profile or other MVPs here.
2017: CRM in Full Stride
December 24, 2017 CRM News and Info
There was a lot in customer relationship management to like in 2017. The industry racked up north of US$ 35 billion and the cloud reigned supreme.
However, future growth presents a challenge. We’re going to need to look beyond selling generic seats to grow the CRM market from here.
Oracle’s Emergence
It’s a whole new ball game now that Oracle has credible cloud CRM. It’s been building up for a while, but this year saw the first important financial results.
Oracle is a serious contender, and with more than 425,000 customers needing to upgrade their aging systems of all kinds, other vendors will need to bring their A-games to compete for the business.
Oracle’s customers need the constellation of products — Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service — to get the job done, and vendors without that orientation might find the sledding tough.
The Ecosystem
Salesforce’s AppExchange recorded its five-millionth download this year — a clear testament that it’s working and delivering value for partners and customers.
A vibrant ecosystem is the greatest indicator of future CRM success. Partners are the laboratories of CRM, bringing novel solutions to the world. No CRM vendor can take them for granted.
Virtual reality is one of the few new technologies that can tell their own stories without needing a lot of sales help. VR in field service, for example, gives technicians the ability to share and receive visual context for what they do.
In the process, VR makes and saves money for users. A no-brainer for the right business, VR had a good year and will have a better one in ’18.
Blockchain Technologies
Too bad we can’t yet extract blockchain from cryptocurrencies. When these currencies crash, as all Ponzi schemes do, blockchain will be the residue worth hanging on to.
Blockchain already is having a test flight with numerous vendors saying they do something security- or supply chain-oriented with the stuff, but I suspect BC’s best years are ahead.
This one’s just getting started.
Going Vertical
Vertical market CRM is one of the new areas. Although it’s been around for a while, the idea of verticals got a boost from analytics and machine learning.
Since vertical markets often come with an amount of regulation, automation to speed compliance is one of the big advantages they supply. This means we can focus back on the work of the vertical application, which will save hours of person time and drive better revenues.
At the moment, the Internet of Things is joined at the hip with CRM, but I see an opportunity to split off this baby. CRM deals with people and IoT deals with things. In many ways they have the same functions, but they’re processed differently.
Vendors should, in my humble opinion, consider developing separate divisions for each — thus focusing attention on relative strengths. There’s nothing complicated here, but by keeping the divisions under one roof they can ensure cross-functionality.
I suppose we need to deal with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Although they had good runs in ’17 there will be more to do in ’18.
AI brings up the unpleasant thought that Moore’s Law began going sideways in ’17, when Intel lengthened the two-year chip generation to about five years. Articles in MIT’s Technology Review suggest the phenomenon of exponential growth is nearing an end right at the time when we’ll need extra horses to drive analytics engines.
My spies who seem to know say that your graphics processing unit can handle the load if space gets tight on the central processing unit — and they’d be right, except the GPU already is pledged to other activities, I believe.
So we’re approaching a time when we might need to consider new architectures — but not yet.
CRM had a great year and is poised for another — but it’s becoming a closed club not very welcoming to newbies.
Entrepreneurs should give up the quest to be the next Salesforce (that happened nearly 20 years ago when Salesforce said it could be the next Siebel). Opportunities abound in verticals and ecosystems, and that’s where future CRM-er’s should invest time and treasure.
Whatever happens in 2018, I hope you’ll continue reading this space. Thanks for your time and attention, and happy holidays!
Denis Pombriant is a well-known CRM industry researcher, strategist, writer and speaker. His new book, You Can’t Buy Customer Loyalty, But You Can Earn It, is now available on Amazon. His 2015 book, Solve for the Customer, is also available there. He can be reached at
denis.pombriant@beagleresearch.com.
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Barbados to Host Caribbean Tech Event
LIAT Expands Fleet With New ATR
Caribbean carrier LIAT has expanded its flight with another new ATR-72 aircraft. The plane, which is the 10th ATR for LIAT, recently arrived at Antigua’s VC Bird International Airport. The 68-seater plane will go into commercial service in the middle …
Jamaica’s Latest Green Energy Project
Jamaica’s government is going greener. The country announced recently that it would join the Solar Head of State coalition and install solar photovoltaic panels on the island’s national executive office, Jamaica House. The announcement comes in keeping with the island’s …
All Airports in the Bahamas Are Open
After the passage of Hurricane Matthew, the Bahamas has announced the reopening of all airports across the country. The announcement was made on Saturday by the country’s Department of Civil Aviation and in consultation with the Bahamian Department of Meteorology. …
Investing in Caribbean Tourism Leaders
It’s time for an urgent investment in the next generation of Caribbean travel and tourism leaders to elevate service standards within the region, according to Jerry Inzerillo, CEO of Forbes Travel Guide. “We have the soul to do it– this …
This is the New St Lucia Cabinet
After the opposition United Workers’ Party’s victory in St Lucia’s recent general election, new Prime Minister Allen Chastanet has named his Cabinet. The most anticipated appointment in the new St Lucia cabinet? Tourism, where Dominic Fedee will take the reins …
The Caribbean Community’s 2016 Plan
Crime, strategy and the Caribbean Court of Jusice Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow has assumed the chairmanship of CARICOM, succeeding Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart. The six-month chairmanship began Jan. 1. “Our resolution is to continue to strengthen our integration …
Grenada Pitches Citizenship by Investment in Asia
By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada is the latest Caribbean nation to offer citizenship by investment, and now the country is looking to pitch its passports in Asia. Grenada Implementation Minister Alexandra Otway-Noel said Grenada was the “perfect option for …
Cayman’s Treasure Island Resort Sold; Margaritaville Resort Planned
A significant new project in the Cayman Islands By Alexander Britell In a potentially significant deal, Howard Hospitality Group has announced the acquisition of Grand Cayman’s Treasure Island resort. HHG said it had already begun planning a major redesign and …
A Cabinet Reshuffle in Jamaica
By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica’s Cabinet has undergone a slight reshuffle. The country’s Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, announced reassignments of several ministers in a statement issued Friday. The reshuffle, which takes effect on Monday, sees Horace Dalley assigned …
An Historic Election Win in Belize
Above: Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow is sworn in By the Caribbean Journal staff Belize Prime Minister Dean Barrow has been sworn in for a third consecutive term. The historic win for Barrow and his United Democratic Party came in …
British Virgin Islands Upgrading Seismic Network, With Help From Puerto Rico
By the Caribbean Journal staff A team of engineers from the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez has arrived in the British Virgin Islnads to begin a series of upgrades to the territory’s seismic network. The project is being carried out …
Costa Rica, CARICOM to Join Forces in Climate Change Fight
By Dana NilandCJ Contributor Costa Rica is joining forces with CARICOM to promote common interests in the fight against climate change. New Costa Rican Ambassador to CARICOM, Lydia Peralte noted CARICOM-Costa Rica’s mutual climate change concerns and interests in a meeting …
St Kitts and Nevis “Reviewing” Number of Hotel Concessions
By Dana NilandCJ Contributor The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis is “in the process of reviewing” the number of concessions granted to hotel developments in the twin-island federation. “At the end of the day we want development but we …
Talking Caribbean Tech in Belize
By Gerard BestCJ Contributor A full line-up of international tech experts will gather in Belize from Nov. 2 to 6, when the capital city plays host to a historic regional ICT development conference. Among the expert facilitators will be Bevil Wooding, a Founder and a Director of the Caribbean …
A Boost for Green Energy in the Eastern Caribbean
By the Caribbean Journal staff The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development is increasing its support for the development of green energy in the Eastern Caribbean. The DFID has announced an agreement to contribute around $3.9 million USD to the …
UN: Haiti Taking “Resolute” Steps Toward Renewal of Democracy
Is Haiti’s political process moving forward? By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti is taking “resolute” steps toward renewing its democratic institutions, according to MINUSTAH Chief Sandra Honore. The United Nations’ top official in Haiti pointed to the first-round elections in …
Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro Makes First Visit to St Kitts and Nevis
Maduro’s inaugural visit By the Caribbean Journal staff Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro made his first-ever visit to St Kitts and Nevis this week. The trip included the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the two countries “as symbols of …
Barbados Gets $10 Million Loan for Job Creation
A new loan from IDB By Dana Niland CJ Contributor The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $10 million loan in an initiative to reduce poverty and create jobs in Barbados. The program aims to alleviate the country’s poverty and …
Op-Ed: The Future of Caribbean Air Transport
Living in the time of COVID-19 has underscored how difficult it is to maintain our distance. Many of us are longing for a time when we can feel comfortable to reconnect with our family and friends and restart regular economic …
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Why This Might Be the Ultimate Caribbean Small-Batch Rum
The eastern Atlantic coast of Martinique is full of winding roads and banana trees, a place of imposing villas and plantations and endless fields of sugarcane. And here, hidden in an old stone estate up a hillside on the N6 …
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Dart Real Estate to Reopen, Expand Cayman Brac Luxury Resort
By Joe Pike, Special Contributor Shuttered for close to two years, five-star luxury resort Le Soleil d’Or on Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands was acquired by Dart Real Estate in the spring of 2019 and was set to reopen this past …
Saint Lucia Begins Work on $175 Million Airport Transformation
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Sri Lanka Reiterates its Commitment to Meeting all its Financial Obligations
by Reporter
in Business News, Financial, News
Central Bank of Sri Lanka
Financial News: The Government of Sri Lanka finds inferences in recent media reports questioning its ability to honour its debt service obligations.
The Government notes with dismay such inferences made by certain media to imply that Sri Lanka is at risk of falling into a sovereign debt crisis by comparing Sri Lanka with other sovereigns which are said to be in similar situations.
The Government wishes to categorically deny all such baseless claims, and would like to reiterate to all stakeholders that Sri Lanka will duly honour all its debt service obligations in the period ahead.
The recent volatilities in yield levels of Government of Sri Lanka’s International Sovereign Bonds (ISBs) during the Covid-19 pandemic period are no different to what has been observed across a majority of emerging and frontier market economies.
It is noteworthy that despite such volatility, global institutional investors, fund managers and analysts recommend Sri Lankan debt instruments for investment, while remaining confident of Sri Lanka’s credit quality.
The Government also wishes to clarify that the unintended delay in holding the general elections and the submission of the government budget must not be considered as leading to any policy uncertainty or procedural standoff, but a result of the health policy response to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to the country’s constitution, His Excellency the President is empowered to authorise the government operations in the absence of an annual budget for a period up to three months after convening the Parliament following the elections.
Thus, the government operations function without any hindrance, and any uncertainty surrounding the date of holding the general elections will be resolved after the ruling by the Supreme Court on the same in the coming days.
In the meantime, the Government has already introduced measures to curtail expenditure, while the delay in presenting the government budget automatically limits the space for additional expenditure for this year. Further, the cost of Government financing from both domestic and external sources has markedly declined so far during 2020.
The Government has taken proactive measures in mobilising funds from multiple sources of market based and official sources of financing to effectively improve the terms and conditions of financing. Given volatile market conditions across the globe, the issuance of an international bond by the Government is not anticipated in the near term, thereby rendering the current yields observed in the international bond market irrelevant.
The focus of financing will be to further explore bilateral and multilateral sources to benefit both risk and cost considerations of debt management, and these discussions are well underway. Further, the country is in the process of exploring SWAP facilities with regional central banks, while arrangements are being made for syndicate financing with identified foreign sources.
Meanwhile, the faster than expected rebound of Sri Lanka’s economy from the Covid -19 outbreak would also lend support to the Government’s efforts to consolidate fiscal operations in the period ahead. Sri Lanka has been able to contain the spread of the pandemic successfully in a short period of time with minimal disruptions to activity. Sri Lanka faced a partial lockdown only for eight weeks, i.e., during the second half of March, April, and the first half of May.
During this time, many offices, financial institutions, factories, delivery services, agricultural services, public services were functioning. The month of April each year is a festive season, in which economic activity is in any case subdued. The stimulus measures announced by the Government and the Central Bank are expected to help a fast revival of businesses and support the individuals affected by the outbreak. Accordingly, Sri Lankan economy is expected to record a growth of around 1.5 per cent in 2020, with much of that growth expected to occur in the second half of the year.
Sri Lanka’s exports and tourism sectors are gearing up for an early recovery, which could support a faster revival of activity while easing any pressure on the external sector. According to latest market information, Sri Lankan factories have received fresh additional orders to manufacture health and safety related equipment.
Sri Lanka’s traditional export commodities such as Tea has attracted record prices at auctions due to good demand from major importers. Hotels remain ready for an early resumption of tourists with extra sanitary preparations. Moreover, the lower fuel import expenditure and the temporary restrict ions imposed on nonessential merchandise imports are expected to cushion any adverse impact on the trade balance.
As such, despite the transitory adverse impact on tourism, transport sector and workers’ remittances due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the narrowing trade deficit is expected to cushion the current account deficit in 2020. Contrary to unfounded inferences and comparisons, Sri Lanka has already initiated measures to return to normalcy and gradually being opened up for business throughout the country.
In this backdrop, the Government of Sri Lanka categorically disagrees with recent assessments of risks and rating decisions by some international rating agencies.
In conclusion, the Government emphasizes that Sri Lanka has demonstrated its commitment to honouring all its obligations on time, even during difficult times in the past, and will continue to do so in the future, while engaging with all investment and development partners.
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Recent Press Coverage
Bear Valley buyer to focus on mountain experience
Enterprise staff | Posted: Friday, August 22, 2014 6:00 am
With autumn’s leaves mere weeks from turning, Bear Valley Mountain Resort’s new owners have already started preparing for the upcoming ski season.
Pending the final approval of the U.S. Forest Service, which is anticipated to go through without issue, Skyline International Development Inc. is the new owner of the mountain resort.
“A lot of work has gone into it,” said Michael Sneyd, CEO of Skyline. “Our focus right now is to improve the mountain experience, the guest experience and to make sure that the Bear Valley brand reaches the heights it enjoyed in the past.”
The Toronto-based company’s binding purchase and sale agreement includes only the on-mountain assets of the resort. But with the purchase of the ski area, Skyline has an option to purchase development land in Bear Valley Village over the next three years.
Though Sneyd said that is Skyline’s plan, he added the company will focus this year on the ski area in particular. Skyline is working with current onsite management and the newly appointed asset managers, Northern California ski industry duo Chris Ryman and Betsy Cole to develop a list of priorities. Sneyd said at the top are improving snowmaking abilities and enhancing the midmountain lodge.
Ski co-op brings resort community to the table
Article by Andrew McLeod
Founded in 1967, Bear Valley is one of the state’s older resorts, with an aging infrastructure. An economically challenged customer base has made Bear Valley less reliably profitable in recent years and contributed to unstable ownership. However, the development of a co-op with more than 900 members has laid the groundwork for a novel partnership that seeks to revitalize the resort and improve Bear Valley’s chances of survival.
If its members decide to proceed, the Bear Valley Mountain Cooperative will soon take joint control with new owner Skyline Investments, a firm that was attracted to the resort by the high-level of community interest shown by a co-op organizing effort that exceeded its membership drive goals by over 10%. Read More
Bear Valley, Skyline reach an agreement
By Alicia Castro | Posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 6:00 am
Co-op may continue in revised partnership
The forward progress of Bear Valley Mountain Resort will soon be in the hands of Skyline International Development Inc., and leaders of the investment company want to take the Bear Valley Mountain Cooperative along for the ride.
“The co-op is the engine,” said Skyline Chairman and President Gil Blutrich at a town hall meeting Saturday. “Skyline is the supercharger.”
Blutrich shared his vision at the gathering hosted by the co-op at the Bear Valley Lodge Cathedral Lounge. Co-op members were given information about new options – including opt-outs – and the 250 to 300 people in attendance were introduced to Skyline executives, who enthusiastically spoke to an ongoing collaboration.
“We see a partnership between Skyline and the co-op as a critical element in the future of Bear Valley by making sure Bear Valley remains a viable and productive resort operation,” Skyline CEO Michael Sneyd said. “The key to making the operation profitable is to continue to improve the brand in the Bay Area and really bring back the ski-area visits that Bear Valley enjoyed.”
The Skyline Era Begins At Bear Valley
With Packed Morning Meeting (with full video)
Cathedral Lounge at the Bear Valley Lodge played host to another packed meeting on Bear Valley's Future. This morning's meeting started with a presentation led by BV Co-op's Steve Troyer who thanked the community and also recapped some of it's journey's Skyline's CEO Michael Sneyd said Skyline would not be here without the Co-op. Click here for more.
Bear Valley Mountain Co-op Update
Posted by: thepinetree on 07/08/2014 09:44 AM
Bear Valley, CA....The cooperative effort is gaining speed and that train is about to arrive at the station this month! If you are thinking about taking part in this effort to support jobs and drive the future of our local mountain resort, go to the co-op web site and get informed!
www.bvmcoop.org
This weeks events: The Bear Valley Mountain Cooperative presented a summary of their plans to purchase the mountain and village to a packed audience in Bear Valley on Saturday, July 5th. They detailed the structure and process to purchase the mountain and village along with details on how the co-op plans to roll out and pay for much needed improvements at Bear Valley
Possible pairing weighed for resort purchase:
Posted: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 6:00 am | Updated: 9:24 am, Tue Jul 29, 2014.
With two potential buyers seeking to purchase Bear Valley Mountain Resort, a third option may be in the resort’s future.
One of the buyers, Bear Valley Mountain Cooperative, released a statement Friday saying it had initiated discussions about collaborating with the second buyer, Skyline Investments based in Ontario, Canada. (click here to read more)
Bear Valley Mountain Cooperative In Negotiations
for Bear Valley Mountain and Village Properties.
Own part of this unique gem of a resort today!
Bear Valley, CA...The Bear Valley Mountain Cooperative has signed a non-exclusive letter of intent to purchase Bear Valley Mountain and village properties. This means that the time has come for supporters of Bear Valley and the Cooperative effort to purchase their co-op membership through the co-op web site at www.bvmcoop.org. The recent developments were announced at town hall style meetings held simultaneously at the Bear Valley Mountain and Bear Valley village on Saturday, April 12th.
Click the Pinetree.net image above to read more and hear community comments!
The Bear Valley Mountain Cooperative
is now open for business:
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 6:00 am | Updated: 8:18 am, Tue Apr 15, 2014. By Alicia Castro
The community cooperative hosted two informational meetings near the resort Saturday, April 12, when it announced the co-op is now accepting membership sign-ups and is also in the process of negotiating with the resort’s current ownership group.
Residents, Skiers Hope To Become
Bear Valley’s New Owners
BEAR VALLEY (CBS13) — An iconic ski resort is looking for a new owner, and local ski lovers andhomeowners are joining forces.Bear Valley is halfway between Lake Tahoe and Yosemite National Park off of Highway 4.It’s a ski resort that locals say is as picturesque as it is pristine, and that’s how they’d like to keep it.“Well one, we don’t have a Starbucks,” said Bear Valley GM Jim Gentling.After another potential buyer for the resort backed out, a group of homeowners and skiers are stepping up to form a co-op and buy the resort themselves.“It was really the idea of one homeowner,” said Paul Petersen.
Click here or CBS banner to see and hear the interview!
Bear Valley Co Op In The News - 3/20
Radio Interview - Bear Valley Mountain Cooperative
A group of homeowner, business owners and residents of Bear Valley recently voted to form a cooperative with an intent to purchase the Bear Valley Resort and Village. The resort and village have been up for sale since early 2013. We’ll talk with Paul Petersen of the Bear Valley Mountain Cooperative and John Wagnon of Vail Resorts about the latest developments in plans to purchase the property.
Listen to Bear Valley Mountain Cooperative
Will Bear Valley ski resort become a co-op?
Posted on Tuesday, March 11 at 7:00am | By Jules Older
A small group of skiers, homeowners and enthusiasts has announced that they want to buy Bear Valley Mountain Resort, a much-loved northern California ski area, and turn it into a cooperative called Bear Valley Mountain Cooperative.Steve Troyer, a Bear Valley homeowner, presented the idea to the homeowners’ association board after a potential buyer for Bear Valley withdrew last September.This wasn’t the only buyer who didn’t buy. Bear Valley’s mountain and village have been for sale for some time, and while serious inquiries have been made and due diligences done, no one has signed the bill of sale.
March 20,, 2014
Locally Owned Skiing
Co-op formed to potentially purchase California's Bear Valley Mountain
by Eugene Buchanan
Hey, Californians: Want to own part of a ski area? Here’s your chance.California’s Bear Valley Mountain could soon be going the way of REI, the Green Bay Packers, and Vermont’s Mad River Glen by becoming a co-op.“The mountain is having challenges and the owners are trying to sell it,” says former Mountain Hardwear and Timbuktu CEO Mike Wallenfells, who has a house in Bear Valley and has been skiing it for years. “We’ve formed a cooperative that hopes to take over the mountain and make a uniquely locally owned and operated community mountain…think Mad River Glen in Vermont.”
Bear Valley Co Op In The News - 3/1
March 1,, 2014
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Homeowners and skiers hope co-op is answer to resort sale
By Dana M. NicholsRecord Staff WriterFebruary 25, 2014 12:00 AM
BEAR VALLEY - Snow and money haven't been falling as heavily on Bear Valley the past few years as they did decades ago. The resort has been on the market for more than a year, but no deal has been consummated that would bring investment to revive the resort.
So now, a group of skiers and Bear Valley homeowners has formed a co-op in hopes they can buy the ski operation and manage the resort, which is vital to the local economy."I love Bear Valley. I've told my wife that I'd like to die there," said Steve Troyer, one of the masterminds of the co-op and a member of the co-op's interim board of directors. .....click on recordnet.com logo to read more
Residents look to control Bear Valley’s destiny
By Stephen Crane | Posted: Friday, February 21, 2014 6:00 am
Bear Valley Mountain has been in flux the past few years. Last season, winter enthusiasts waited throughout the summer with bated breath to find out if the resort was even going to open. This season, a deal was in the works to sell the resort’s assets to a new owner’s group, but it fell through at the last minute. The potential buyers felt that time had run out to adequately prepare for the upcoming season.“It’s obvious to all of us who live and work in Bear Valley that things can’t continue the way they have,” said Eric Jung, a Bear Valley resident since 1969 who works for Bear Valley Real Estate.... click the Calavaras logo to read more
Written by Mike Morris, The Union Democrat February 21, 2014 12:30 pm
A movement to have Bear Valley Mountain Resort run as a cooperative is gaining momentum.After a prospective buyer of the ski resort backed out last year, a Bear Valley homeowner pitched the co-op idea at a homeowners association meeting in the fall. An “exploratory” group, consisting of Bear Valley business owners and homeowners, researched the idea. Following a town hall meeting late last year, the Bear Valley Mountain Cooperative was officially launched this week. click the Union Democrat logo to read more.
Bear Valley's Future...The Community Makes It's MoveBear Valley, CA....Sky High Pizza was packed on Sunday afternoon as the vision for community ownership of Bear Valley Mountain Resort and Village was presented to the public. The Cooperative has been formed, goals have been set and a workable financial framework has been created. Now it is time to see if the Bear Valley community and the area at large agrees that this is the best plan for a stable and prosperous future. With Bear Valley Mountain Resort and Village on the market the community will be competing with other resort and development companies that are suitors for the properties....
Coop Launch Town Hall - 2/16
When: Saturday February 16 at 4:00
Where: Skyhigh Pizza and Pub. Come early for drinks and stay for dinner or the Crab Feed!
What: We updated the community about the launch of the Bear Valley Mountain Cooperative which will look to use members and the orgainzation to purchase Bear Valley Mountian and Village. Details were presented about the initiative and how become a member once the organization is officially formed. Download the PDF of the presentation right here!
BVCOOP Town Hall II 2.16.pdf
Kick Off Town Hall - 12/28
When: December 28th at 4:00pm
Where: Skyhigh Pizza and Pub. Presented by Steve Troyer and Mike Wallenfels who are part of BV Community Ownership Exploratory team also including Paul Peterson, Martin Wegenstein, and Kimi Johnson.
What: We discussed how Bear Valley has huge opportunities as a recreational desination, the potential steps to financing the village lift, update and concerns on the tatus of the mountain sale process, and outlined options available for the community taking ownership of the Mountain. About 100-125 people in attendance with several volunteering to help. Committed to follow up meeting to keep community informed.
The BVRI board has was informed on the concept at the membership meeting in
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Buying a PS5? Your Pre-Order Just Became a Whole Lot Harder
September 23, 2020 UTC: 2:31 PM. September 15, 2020 UTC: 10:01 AM. by Thomas Bardwell
A new report reveals that Sony has downgraded its PS5 production forecast by 4 million for the current fiscal year.
Low system-on-a-chip yields – as low as 50% – have reportedly hampered the rate of production.
Sony is set to host a dedicated PS5 showcase tomorrow, where it is expected to reveal pricing information and a release date.
The chances of securing a PS5 pre-order have taken a significant hit as Sony is reportedly scaling back production by four million units for the current fiscal year due to manufacturing woes affecting the yield of the console’s custom system-on-a-chip.
According to a new Bloomberg report, the Japanese gaming giant now expects to ship 11 million units by March 2021, a significant cut from the 15 million production estimates reported during the summer. By December, Sony planned to produce up to 10 million units to cater to heightened demand spurred by the pandemic. This may no longer be the case, implying a curtailed launch supply.
The report reveals that production yields of the AMD-designed system-on-the-chip hit a low point of 50%, with half of the units not fit for purpose. Yields are reportedly steadily increasing, but have yet to reach sustainable and reliable levels.
Low SoC yields hamper Sony’s ability to produce as many PS5 units as intended. | Source: PlayStation/Sony Interactive Entertainment
Yield hiccups are part and parcel of new products as silicon manufacturers adapt machinery and perfect processes, but as analyst Daniel Ahmad points out, Sony’s are ‘more severe than expected.’
These lower yields mean the production of fully-assembled console has slowed; the SoC is the core component around which the rest of the machine is built. The issues have severely hampered Sony’s ability to pump out as many PS5s as intended.
PS5 Demand To Dictate Launch Shortages
While the revised production cut is substantial, it is roughly double the 5 to 6 million units Sony originally aimed to produce, as confirmed in April. Furthermore, a forecast of 11 million units by March 2021 will be slightly higher than PS4 production in the first six months after launch, roughly around 10 million.
It’s difficult to estimate whether the demand for the PS5 will surge past the number of available units at launch. The company has yet to reveal the price details for the console’s two versions, though it is expected to do so during a dedicated PS5 broadcast tomorrow.
Demand will very much depend on the price point Sony opts for, notably how it stacks up to the aggressively priced $299 Xbox Series S and $499 Xbox Series X. Should Sony undercut competitor Microsoft, we’re likely to see a run on pre-orders, which could drastically impact the ability for would-owners to pick up a PS5 at launch.
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Chelsea manager Lampard was unable to explain why his side failed to take their chances. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY OPTUS SPORT.
Chelsea Central sources can report that manager Frank Lampard lost his cool with his players at half-time against Aston Villa as his side threw away a 1-0 lead.
The Blues have now dropped five points in their last two Premier League games and had they taken the most of their chances since beating West Ham 3-0, Lampard and his expensive squad could be one point behind champions, Liverpool.
Losing 3-1 to Arsenal, a side that has already lost eight times this season, was humiliating for Chelsea and Lampard has now let his emotions show for the second time in the matter of a few days.
Arsenal won their first game since beating Manchester United in October and Lampard was furious. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY THE LONDON EVENING STANDARD.
Speaking to Sky Sports after the Arsenal game, the former midfielder said: “It was an opportunity to go second against a team that are having a tough time.
“You either make it difficult for them or you give them a little opening and we did that from minute one and continued for 45 minutes. It was lazy to give away a penalty and lazy to give away a free-kick that he (Xhaka) puts in the top corner.”
While most managers tend to protect their players from criticism in the media, Lampard’s comments were aimed at getting his side to take responsibility on the pitch by taking control of tricky games.
Frank Lampard admits Chelsea are going through a difficult time as they ended 2020 with just one win from five Premier League games. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY SKY SPORTS.
Against Aston Villa, the Blues went into halftime with a one-goal lead but Lampard was in an irate mood as he shouted at his players in the dressing room for showing Aston Villa too much respect when the away side was on the ball.
This is according to sources that have told Chelsea Central that Lampard only spoke for two minutes before instructing Cesar Azpilicueta to organise his teammates.
The second half went the way that Lampard feared as his side conceded after just five minutes, allowing Anwar El Ghazi to score in the 50th minute, earning the Villians a point on the road.
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At a ceremony on September 15 in Bogota, the Mexican embassy awarded CEMEX in Colombia with its Bicentennial Award for its work in improving the lives of Colombians and its role in strengthening the bonds between Colombia and Mexico.
CEMEX in Colombia President Cesar Constain was on hand to receive the recognition from Florencio Salazar Adame, Mexican Ambassador for Colombia, before a group of attendees that included important representatives of the national government, private industry, the diplomatic corps, and pro-cooperation agencies from both countries. Former Colombian President Belisario Betancur was among the night's distinguished guests.
During the ceremony, special mention was made of the sustainability and corporate social responsibility agenda that CEMEX has pushed forward since its arrival in the country. CEMEX's strategy has focused on generating growth and development opportunities in the areas of housing, the environment and education through programs such as: Patrimonio Hoy, Bloqueras Solidarias, Community Centers, Planting the Future, Sport Academies, and Starting Point as well as the implementation of United Nations-approved Clean Development Mechanisms and the rehabilitation of quarries and mining areas.
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Home Conventions CAFs Chicago’s CAKE announces Cupcake winner and opening of exhibitor applications
Chicago’s CAKE announces Cupcake winner and opening of exhibitor applications
Is it 2018 already? Apparently! It’s deifnitely time to start sending out those exhibitor applications for indie shows. CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo) has just announced that exhibitor applications will open on Monday, November 6 and run until November 30. Applications are up on their site: cakechicago.com. The show takes place June 2–3 at the Center on Halsted.
Like many indie shows, CAKE is curated so the organizaer urge you to “take your time and put together a strong application.”
CAKE is a curated show, and the organizers aim to highlight the best artists, both established and emerging, working in independent and alternative comics, displaying equal care for small press publishers and self-publishing artists. Through a jurying process that involves many members of Chicago’s comics community, we strive to create the diverse and representative festival for which CAKE has become known. Additionally, we strive to produce a demographically inclusive show that reflects, encourages, and advances the full depth and breadth of artists working in our community.
CAKE’s standard table space is a half table (3′ x 2.5′). A registration fee of $65 is due upon acceptance into CAKE. There is no application fee. Please direct any questions to [email protected]. We will reply to all queries as quickly as possible.
CAKE also announced that Adam Griffiths has won the fourth annual Cupcake Award, which is given to support up and coming cartoonists. Winners’ receive $250 to help print a new comic, a free half table at the 2018 CAKE festival; and mentorship support from special guest juror Edie Fake. MORe on the happy winner:
Adam is a cartoonist, illustrator, artist living in Takoma Park, MD. He was excited to receive the award, saying, “I was surprised and honored to be selected by the superb cartoonist and storyteller Edie Fake as the Cupcake Award winner for 2018! For someone like myself who is really just beginning to release books, getting feedback from a seasoned creator about my narrative methods and materials presentation is a priceless opportunity that can only improve the quality of the stories I have to tell.”
Adam just released the first installment of his graphic novel Washington White (pictured below), which can be purchased at http://adamgriffithscartoonist.bigcartel.com/
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Clean car standards help Tennessee kids breathe easier
Lindsay Pace
Like many Tennessee moms, I spend a lot of time behind the wheel of my family’s car, crisscrossing across town for work, taking my daughter to and from preschool, and making never-ending pit stops for more groceries.
Gas is a big part of my family’s budget, and every time I fill up at the pump I think about what else that money could go for -- if only my car were more fuel efficient.
Thankfully, over the last six years, national Clean Car Standards -- jointly issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration (NHTSA) -- have ensured that new vehicles are manufactured with improved fuel efficiency, saving families money at the gas pump. In fact, these standards have already saved America’s drivers $50 billion at the pump.
But the savings don’t stop there. With better fuel efficiency, we are also reducing tailpipe pollution, keeping the air we breathe clean. Cleaner air makes for healthier children. In this way, cutting back on gasoline use is improving lives and stretching our dollars. As a mom, I think this is a winning combination.
The Clean Car Standards are especially beneficial for our heavily congested metro areas, as tailpipe emissions can combine in the atmosphere with our famous Tennessee sunshine to form smog -- a powerful lung irritant and trigger for asthma attacks.
According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, Memphis is the hardest place in the country to live with asthma due, in part, to its poor air quality. Knoxville and Chattanooga respectively jockey for 7th and 8th positions.
Tennessee is the only state to have three cities listed in the top 10 worst places to live with asthma, a title no one wants to boast.
That’s why Tennesseans need the the National Clean Car Standards. They help protect our children’s developing lungs, and those who live with respiratory ailments, such as asthma.
That sounds sweet to this mom’s ears. The problem is, those Clean Cars Standards are now under attack, with the Trump Administration seeking to roll back fuel efficiency on all new vehicles.
A recent poll shows that Tennesseans overwhelmingly support increased fuel efficiency, reports the National Resources Defense Council.
No one wants more pollution and dirtier air, but that’s exactly what will happen in Tennessee if we roll back clean car standards.
In 2012, Sen. Lamar Alexander and Sen. Bob Corker both supported the Clean Car Standards. These standards are working: they are saving families money and they are reducing our tailpipe pollution.
I urge our senators to support the Clean Car Standards and not slam the brakes on them.
Lindsay Pace is the Tennessee Field Coordinator for Moms Clean Air Force.
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Android game app conceals GPS tracker
A malicious application that conceals spyware and GPS tracking behind a mobile phone game has been discovered in the Android app store.
The GPS SPY application uses a game called 'Tapsnake' as a front for its mobile spying tool. The game is installed by a third-party with access to the handset of someone they want to spy on. When the GPS function of the game is enabled using a keycode given during installation of GPS SPY, geo-location data is then extracted via the game. Once enabled, it cannot be exited, sending GPS location data every 15 minutes to report the location of the phone and user,
Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for web security firm, F-Secure, said: "The spy has to have physical access to the phone he wants to spy on. It could be used in the instance of a jealous wife installing a game on her husband's phone and then tracking him to see where he's going," he added.
IDC and other market research companies have noted Android-based devices are experiencing the highest growth in sales among smartphone manufacturers. As a result, the amount of malware targeting the platform is expected to rise. A text-based Trojan was reported to have hit a number of Android devices last week.
The open-platform model of Android's app store, Market, is causing increasing concern. "It's important to make people aware that stuff like this is going on. Google will do what they can. But it's an open platform and impossible for them to keep everything out," said Mikko Hypponen. "The game has had a few thousand downloads. Those who just found the game [in Android's app store] and thought it was a normal game are not at risk but should still get rid of it," he said.
Hypponen expects Google to remove the application from the marketplace. "It's still available but I guess it won't be for long," he added.
GPS SPY application is a mobile spying tool and costs $4.99 on Android Market.
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Press Conference: No New AUMF - End Endless War!
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Contact: Janet Weil, CODEPINK, janet@codepink
"For far too long, our nation has been engaged in perpetual war." – Congresswoman Barbara Lee
Peace and justice advocates will hold a press conference opposing President Obama’s request for a new Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) and calling for non-military responses to the tragic situation in Syria and Iraq.
When: Tuesday, February 17, noon
Where: Oakland Federal Building, 1301 Clay Street, Oakland, CA
Speakers include: Emily Yates, Iraq War veteran; Jackie Cabasso, Executive Director of Western States Legal Foundation; Cat Brooks of ONYX/Black Power Network; Paul Cox of Veterans for Peace; Stephen McNeil of American Friends Services Committee; Janet Weil, CODEPINK staffer and military family member.
President Obama’s request for a new AUMF to give retroactive congressional support for a US military campaign against ISIL, ongoing since August 2014, has already been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats in Congress. This new AUMF would give the green light to at least 3 more years of military involvement in the Middle East, has no geographical restrictions, and leaves intact the 2001 AUMF which entrenched the “world as battlefield” strategy.
After the press conference, some speakers will take a statement to Congresswoman Lee's office in the Oakland Federal Building. With her colleague Mike Honda (CA - 17), Congresswoman Lee has put forth legislation “to emphasize diplomatic, political, and economic solutions to work towards a lasting, inclusive future away from violent extremism.” See full statement here: http://lee.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/congresswoman-lee-congressman-honda-introduce-legislation-to-advance-a
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CVS, Target to require shoppers to wear a mask in stores
The new mandate builds on local and state requirements in many areas
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As COVID-19 cases continue to climb, CVS and Target are joining the list of retailers that will require customers to wear face coverings in their U.S. stores. CVS’ new policy will go into effect on Monday, while Target’s will go into effect on August 1.
Target said the move to make masks mandatory at all of its locations “builds on the more than 80% of our stores that already require guests to wear face coverings due to local and state regulations.”
Target said customers who don’t already have a mask will be given a disposable one at store entrances.
Retailers increasingly take up mask requirements
Earlier this week, Walmart, Kroger, Best Buy, and Kohls all announced that they would be requiring all shoppers to wear a face covering in stores to prevent the spread of the virus. Dacona Smith, Walmart’s COO, said wearing a mask “is a simple step everyone can take for their safety and the safety of others in our facilities.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) currently recommends that everyone “should wear a face cover when they have to go out in public” to prevent the virus from spreading from person to person.
To date, more than three million people in the U.S. have tested positive for COVID-19. Studies have found that mask-wearing is a highly effective way of mitigating the spread of the virus.
“Up to this stage, we do not have a safe and effective vaccine. What remains practical is still either social-distancing measures or wearing masks,” said researcher Dr. Yuen Kwok-yung, a leading microbiologist from Hong Kong University.
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A $1.1 BILLION spend on rail freight improvements between Sydney and Newcastle is being hailed by governments as a win for train commuters but is due to bring more pain for motorists already stuck at the Adamstown railway gates.
The capacity of the 160-kilometre corridor is due to increase by about half, from 29 to 44 freight trains a day, once work is completed on the Northern Sydney freight corridor project, which the state and federal governments announced yesterday.
But it does not provide for the Fassifern to Hexham freight bypass of Newcastle that would get freight trains off the tracks in the inner-city and eradicate long waits for motorists at the Clyde Street, Islington, and St James Road, Adamstown, level crossings, where gate closures would become more frequent with train movements.
The federal government would provide $840 million and NSW $214 million.
The works would begin in February and finish in 2016, and would include a Hexham rail loop – a siding to hold freight trains as passenger trains pass – that would cost $24 million.
The upgrade is designed to increase freight train movements, cut carbon emissions by more than 100,000 tonnes a year and take 200,000 trucks a year off the state’s roads.
Premier Barry O’Farrell said yesterday the project would be a “real benefit for commuters travelling into the city from the Central Coast and the Hunter”.
Infrastructure NSW chief executive Paul Broad said the works were a win for the Hunter as they would also help businesses remain competitive through efficient freight movements and attract more economic activity to the area.
But he said planning for a Fassifern to Hexham bypass was needed given the increasing freight movements and congestion they would bring, and should be considered as part of the 20-year Infrastructure NSW plan he was helping to draw up for the O’Farrell government.
Newcastle lord mayor John Tate said it was good that the state and federal governments were co-operating on transport but that any further impact on Adamstown was “intolerable as far as the city is concerned”.
Hunter Business Chamber chief executive Kristen Keegan also applauded the state and federal collaboration.
“Separating freight and passenger trains and taking trucks off the road is good news although the chamber acknowledges the problems at the Adamstown crossing,” Ms Keegan said.
“The two levels of government will have to work collaboratively to handle the impact of increased freight transit through Newcastle, which is problematic and needs to be addressed in the next stage of the project.”
Newcastle federal MP Sharon Grierson said the works were “good improvements for passenger and freight rail”.
“The next big step should be a Fassifern to Hexham freight bypass and connection to the Port of Newcastle but before that can happen we need to know what the state government’s plans are for the Port of Newcastle,” she said.
Mr Broad believed the increasing economic activity in the Hunter and nearby regions could sustain a case for a container terminal at the Port of Newcastle in the future regardless of the state’s plans to significantly increase
Port Botany’s container capacity.
A spokesman for federal Transport and Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese said a freight bypass was a matter for the NSW government and it had not been in touch about the matter.
A Transport for NSW spokesman, who responded to inquiries put to Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian’s office, said future freight projects “will be considered as part of the NSW Long Term Transport Master Plan development process”.
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Dan Haar: Simple ventilator hack could save lives ‘as we fly’
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Dan Haar March 24, 2020 Updated: March 24, 2020 9:51 p.m.
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1of2State Sen. Saud Anwar, D-South Windsor, a physician who is vice chairman of the legislative Public Health Committee, is among lawmakers planning to cut back on the ability of young people to acquire electronic cigarettes and vaping material. He is show here in a 2020 file photograph.Photo: Dan Haar /
2of2A ventilator at Manchester Memorial Hospital was retrofitted to respirate four patients at a time, by Dr. Saud Anwar, a state senator from South Windsor, and Marvin Bristol, a cardiopulmonary educator. The technique was first published by two doctors in 2006 and has not been tested on humans but could help ease the critical shortage of ventilators in the coronavirus crisis with COVID-19 patients.Photo: Courtesy of Eastern Connecticut Health Network
If the desperate need for ventilators wasn’t already clear, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo brought it to the nation in a speech aired widely Tuesday after the feds offered to send his state 400 of the breathing machines.
“What are we going to do with 400 ventilators when we need 30,000? You’re missing the magnitude of the problem,” Cuomo said.
That’s a big gap and there’s a simple fix, some would say a hack, to multiply the number of lives docs can save. A few people areound the world are working on it, among them, state Sen Saud Anwar, a pulmonologist at Eastern Connecticut Health Network, the hospitals in Manchester and Rockville.
One ventilator, made to treat one patient at a time, apparently can still work with four patients at the same time with some quick, cheap plumbing work. It is, as one person called it, a modification right out of Apollo 13.
Anwar knew about the technique, described in a paper by two doctors in 2006. As far as he knows, it’s only been used once in the United States, after the horrific mass shooting at the Las Vegas Strip on Oct. 1, 2017, when a gunman killed 58 people and wounded more than 400.
Then in the middle of this month, one of the two who first wrote about the fix — Dr. Charlene Irvin Babcock in Detroit — posted a video showing how to do it. Anwar moved into action quickly and made it happen at Manchester Memorial Hospital, along with Marvin Bristol, a cardiopulmonary clinical educator at ECHN.
The dry run test with four simulated lungs was last week and it went great, Anwar said Tuesday.
“We are truly building this airplane as we fly,” he said.
The technique has had some media attention in Detroit and in tech publications. Anwar, who has a large following on Facebook videos, and has been active online in the coronavirus crisis, put it out it out to his network, with as many as 16,000 views.
“Most hospitals are getting ready to do this. We are using each other’s experience,” he said.
Most hospitals may be a bit optimistic. Hartford HealthCare showed a similar technique in an online presentation Tuesday in which a respiratory therapist connected two people to a “split ventilator.” Gov. Lamont also referred Monday to 2-for-1 efforts.
But four? A spokeswoman at Hartford HealthCare, parent of Hartford Hospital, St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport and several other hospitals in Connecticut, said that’s not in the works. Likewise, Stamford Hospital isn’t looking at a four-way split right now.
It may well come to that. So far, the Connecticut hospitals have the ventilators they need to treat the patients they have. ECHN, for example, Manchester Memorial and Rockville General hospitals, has 16 ventilators. But as we’ve seen over the last three days, the patient numbers are rising fast. On Tuesday, Lamont said he has put out a call for hundreds of ventilators.
Anwar, a Democrat from South Windsor who was mayor of that town before he was elected to the state Senate, is an early adapter and is spreading the religion of the 4-way split. “I’ve been guiding people how to do this,” he said.
One concern: The technique has not been tested on live humans. In the Las Vegas emergency, the patients didn’t need long-term ventilation — as they do if they have COVID-19 — as one doctor pointed out in a story last week in Vice.
Babcock said in that article in Vice, “it’s probably better than nothing in dire circumstances.”
Anwar seems more confident it would work.
“One can get four patients on a single ventilator but it has to be done in an extremely focused manner,” he said. “The catch is that the four patients need to be of a similar size with similar illness and similar lung physiology.”
It looks simple in a video from Babcock, an emergency room physician at Ascension St. John Hospital in Detroit.
Using three T-tubes and three adapters, tubes are multiplied from the exhalation and inhalation sides. There’s some worry about cross-infection, but the machine has filters to take care of that. The patients need to be heavily sedated, or “medically paralyzed,” and the tubes need to be the same length.
“The air flows in the path of least resistance,” Anwar said.
Will it solve the ventilator shortage crisis that we saw with tragic results in Italy, as doctors had to let people die for lack of machines? Not entirely, but if Connecticut can play a role in early adaption, so much the better.
We hope it’s never needed. If the numbers happen the way epidemiologists warn — half or more of the population getting COVID-19, 15 percent of all patients needing hospital care and many of these in intensive care — the four-way split will save lives.
“The pulmonologists in our state and the critical care doctors in our state, they are going to be ready,” Anwar said.
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Microsoft Patches IE Zero-Day, 98 Other Vulnerabilities
by Churchill Aribodor · February 12, 2020
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for February 2020 address 99 vulnerabilities, including an Internet Explorer zero-day reportedly exploited by a threat group known as DarkHotel.
Microsoft disclosed the existence of the Internet Explorer zero-day on January 17, when it promised to release patches and provided a workaround. At the time, the company noted that it would likely only fix it with its February updates.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-0674, is caused by a memory corruption in the scripting engine used by Internet Explorer 9, 10 and 11. More precisely, the weakness exists in a library named jscript.dll, which provides compatibility with a deprecated version of the JScript scripting language.
CVE-2020-0674 can be exploited for remote code execution in the context of the targeted user. The attacker must convince the victim to visit a malicious website in order to exploit the flaw.
Microsoft has credited Google’s Threat Analysis Group and Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360 for reporting the vulnerability. While Google has not released any information about the attacks involving CVE-2020-0674, Qihoo 360 said they were carried out by the DarkHotel group, which some have linked to South Korea.
Microsoft has also patched four important-severity vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed before the company released fixes. These include two privilege escalation issues in Windows, an information disclosure bug affecting IE and Edge, and a secure boot bypass method.
In total, the company has patched a dozen vulnerabilities rated critical in Windows and its web browsers.
Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has looked at Microsoft’s advisories and highlighted one vulnerability in Exchange that can be exploited for code execution by sending a specially crafted email to the target. Exploitation requires no user interaction and a successful attack can allow a hacker to take complete control of an Exchange server.
Another flaw highlighted by ZDI is a remote code execution vulnerability involving Windows link files.
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Logan Paul's New Antonio Brown Diss Track Is Fire (And So, So Dumb)
Isaac Cabe ·
Hey, do y'all remember that guy who caught a lot of heat over showing the body of someone who committed suicide in Japan on his vlog? Guy by the name of Logan Paul? Yeah, that was never going to be the end of his career. For reasons that people in their 30s can't seem to understand, YouTube stars are a whole lot more career-resilient in this new internet age than the movie stars and pop stars of yesteryear, and Logan Paul is on the forefront of bringing his internet persona IRL.
Now, it seems, he's got a beef with disgraced former NFL player Antonio Brown, and holy crap, is it catchy.
That diss track is way too good for how dumb their feud seems to be. You don't want it to be good. You want it to suck. But from a skill and production standpoint, it's right up there with diss tracks like "Rap Devil," only Antonio Brown isn't gonna come back at Logan Paul with a "Killshot" or anything. So how did we end up at this point?
Last year, Paul fought a boxing match against fellow YouTuber named KSI in the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and it was pretty big, given that it was a couple (surprisingly jacked) guys from YouTube. After the fight, Paul was interviewed and asked if he had any future opponents in mind. His response was -- for a number of marketing-based reasons, we're sure -- Antonio Brown. Over on Brown's end of things, it would make sense, and Paul laid it all out. Brown is no longer in the NFL, is staring down the barrel of a few lawsuits, and could probably use some cash -- not to mention an entertainment-based entry into a post-NFL career. A fight with Paul would honestly probably be a ridiculous boon to Brown.
The two didn't take long to start talking smack on Twitter:
Talks had stalled, though. Paul (through his representation) apparently had brought multiple legitimate fight offers to Brown's representation, only to be turned down. Paul, in his frustration, threatened to come back with a diss track if things didn't start moving. That was back in January, and people almost got more hyped about the idea of a new Logan Paul song than about another Logan Paul boxing match.
Then, last week in Miami, Paul and Brown actually met face to face and got people really hyped over the idea that they might actually fight. Hoo boy, what a show. But still, no diss track.
Turns out, it was because Logan Paul was gonna really put the work in for this song. Antonio Brown has had a disaster of a year professionally, and Paul puts in so much detail from Brown's career that this piece probably belongs in like, the Louvre. From Brown's literal frostbitten feet being used as an analogue for cowardice, to threats that he might knock Brown out in the ring worse than one of the nastiest hits in professional football history, it's a lyrical freight train. It's made even funnier when you realize the "Mr. Whole Lotta Money Going Broke" chorus line is a dig from a "professional YouTuber" at a criminally terrible music video on Brown's YouTube channel. Even the wardrobe choices by Paul are sharp digs -- at one point, he's wearing a black Pittsburgh Steelers JuJu Smith-Schuster jersey. Smith-Schuster was the wide receiver who effectively replaced Brown in Pittsburgh.
Good luck getting this song out of your head, and God help these two batshit crazy guys should they decide to actually box each other.
Isaac wouldn't dare fight either of these guys, he values his brain too much. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @NotFunnyIsaac
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World Cup 2019, South Africa vs Sri Lanka, 2nd Warm-up match, Review – Faf leads from the front as Proteas begin with a bang
Phehlukwayo and Dwaine Pretorius bowled brilliantly in the death to contain their opposition to 251 runs in 42.3 overs.
Anuraag Featured Writer
Updated - May 24, 2019 11:31 pm
Faf du Plessis. (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images)
South Africa missed out narrowly in the previous World Cup in the semi-finals, and they seem determined to complete the task this time around in England. In their quest for a maiden world title, they defeated Sri Lanka by 87 runs in their first assignment in the English lands in the first warm-up game in Cardiff.
The Saffers were put into bat first after Sri Lankan skipper won the toss. It didn’t prove to be a great decision from Dimuth Karunaratne as Aiden Markram and Hashim Amla began the hunt with a fiery start. The duo added 47 runs in no time before Markram departed courtesy some brilliant bowling from Suranga Lakmal.
Hashim Amla has been under the pump for so long and a good knock was all he needed to break the shackles. He played some wonderful cover-drives and looked positive, much to the delight of their fans. On the other end was skipper Faf du Plessis, who just can’t stop scoring runs at this point in time. The duo hammered away runs for fun and toyed with the Lankan bowling attack.
These middle-overs extracted a lot of runs for the South Africans and Amla in the process completed a half-century. Faf too got to his own in the 21st over and kept striking the ball beautifully. Amla fell for a 61-ball 65 and that brought curtains to a 128-run partnership between him and the skipper. Du Plessis followed suit and was dismissed the very next over, which saw South Africa lose their way a little.
Van der Dussen, JP Duminy and Andile Phehlukwayo chipped in with some cameos and helped South Africa get to 337 in their 50 overs, but they clearly were 20 runs short having gotten such a blazing start. Lakmal was the pick of the bowlers for Sri Lanka, who picked two wickets and gave away 63 runs in his 9 overs.
Karunaratne holds the fort briefly but Proteas sail along
Kusal Perera and Lahiru Thirimanne fell very early for the Lankan Lions, reducing them to 10/2 in no time. Kusal Mendis and skipper Dimuth Karunaratne chipped in with a crucial partnership at this point, which emphasized more on damage control rather than keeping up with the required rate. They added 62 runs for the 3rd wicket before Mendis was dismissed for a 31-ball 37.
Karunaratne continued to build on his good start and stitched another fantastic stand with Angelo Mathews. These two senior players kept plugging in the odd boundary and lifted the Lankan spirits briefly. Skipper completed his fifty and their partnership ensured the required rate didn’t go out of control completely.
After adding 98 for the fourth wicket, Karunaratne departed just 13 short of a hundred and from then on, it was the usual story for the Islanders. A good start here and there, but no promise in the middle order saw Mathews fight a lone battle. He got to his half-century, but that didn’t reap anything significant for his side
Phehlukwayo and Dwaine Pretorius bowled brilliantly in the death to contain their opposition to 251 runs in 42.3 overs. Phehlukwayo registered figures of 4/36 whilst the Lungi Ngidi picked up a brace. South Africa will next face Windies in their second and final warm-up game.
Brief Scores
South Africa: 338/7 in 50 overs (Hashim Amla 65, Faf du Plessis 88; Suranga Lakmal 2/63)
Pakistan: 251 all out in 42.3 overs (Dimuth Karunaratne 87, Angelo Mathews 64; Andile Phehlukwayo 4/36)
Result: South Africa won by 87 runs
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WATCH: Cop Lets Wasted Politician Go on DUI—He Gets Drunk Again, Smashes into Car Head On
Tom Bean, TX — In America, there are two sets of laws — one for the government class of police, politicians and well-connected elite — and one for everybody else. This corrupt system punishes the citizens for crimes the elite commit with impunity. The recent DUI stop of City Councilman Benjamin Vincent in Tom Bean, Texas, illustrates this corruption and shows how it can be detrimental to the safety and well-being of citizens.
Last Sunday, Vincent was pulled over by Whitewright police officer Andrew LeFevre after he was seen swerving all over the road, driving into oncoming traffic, and sliding through intersections.
When the officer initiated conversation with Vincent, it was obvious from the start that he was highly intoxicated. He thought it was October and couldn’t complete a sentence or answer any of the questions without blurting out utter slurred nonsense.
After the city councilman admitted to drinking and was seen breaking numerous laws, the officers decided to let him go.
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“My suggestion is that you call a sober licensed family member to come get you,” LeFevre said. And just like that, this man who should’ve been arrested for driving dangerously drunk was let off with no consequences.
“Now Mr. Vincent, I want you to understand how big of a deal I’m cutting you here,” LeFevre said in the body camera video taken by Officer Mark Munt. “Between attorney fees, court fees, posting bond, insurance hikes, drivers license surcharges, DWIs can cost north of $20,000. Not to mention the stigma associated with it, the headache and hassle associated with it, having a criminal record. I’m really not trying to jam you up, but what I need you to understand and grasp from all of this is the seriousness of it.”
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But Vincent did not grasp the ‘seriousness of it.’
On Tuesday, Whitewright Police Chief, Beau Heistand made an ominously predictive statement to the press after acknowledging his officer let a dangerous drunk driver back out on the road.
“There are a lot of fatalities that are caused by that and allowing someone to get a slap on the wrist and call someone to come take them home isn’t going to get anywhere,” said Chief Heistand.
He was right.
Only a few days later, after he’d been let off for putting the public at risk by driving while highly intoxicated, Vincent was right back at it. This time, however, the cops wouldn’t find him before he hurt someone.
As the Herald Democrat reports, the two-vehicle wreck involving Vincent and Elmer Stuckey, the driver of a Tom Bean Independent School District vehicle, caused injuries to both drivers, and both were transported to the hospital. In the early afternoon, Vincent was released from the hospital and arrested by a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper. Vincent was booked into the Grayson County Jail for intoxicated assault with a vehicle causing serious bodily injury.
“Today about 10 a.m., officers with our agency and the Tom Bean Fire Department responded to a call of a major accident at the intersection of State Highway 11 and Britton Street,” Tom Bean Police Chief Tim Green said. “Upon initial observations, it was determined the accident involved a member of Tom Bean City Council and an employee of the Tom Bean Independent School District.”
Because police chose not to arrest a man because he was a city councilman, an innocent man was severely injured. Their corruption led to the suffering of others and it could’ve been far worse.
For his actions, LeFevre was fired.
As innocent citizens are given DUIs for being completely sober, wasted politicians are granted get out of jail free cards and allowed to hurt other people. While many people will claim these are signs of a broken system, those who pay attention know it was, in fact, intentionally set up this way.
As you watch the video below, put yourself in Vincent’s shoes. Do you think cops would’ve treated you the same way if you did what he did?
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Shocking video shows “idiot” in dirt bike gang collide with car after allegedly running red light
Bethan Sexton
SHOCKING footage shows the moment an off-road bike collides with a car after allegedly running a red light.
Video of the incident, which took place in Neville’s Cross, Co. Durham, was shared by police in a bid to identify the biker who fled the scene following the crash.
It is believed the biker was travelling within a group of seven off-road bikes on 6 September before he shot across a junction and hit the Volkswagen Golf.
As the clip begins, the dashcam car is seen behind the white VW as the traffic pulls off from a set of lights.
One biker speeds across the road, narrowly missing the white car and forcing the vehicle to brake suddenly.
The second biker follows shortly after and shows no signs of slowing down as he hurtles towards the car.
He slams into the side of the stationary vehicle and is thrown across the VW’s bonnet.
His bike collapses against the side of the car while another biker drives past.
The man then gets up from the floor and hauls his bike off as the driver of the car exits her vehicle.
The rest of the bikers then speed across the junction without stopping to help.
The biker flees the scene leaving the driver standing outside of her car in the middle of the crossroads.
The dramatic clip was released by Durham Constabulary online on 11 September.
Video of the incident, which took place in Neville’s Cross, Co. Durham, was shared by police in a bid to identify the biker who fled the scene following the crash on 6 September.
They shared the video saying: “Police are appealing for information after an off-road bike collided with a car last weekend.
“The collision took place on the A167 at Neville’s Cross, at around 12.45pm on Sunday, September 6.
“A group of 7 bikes are believed to have ridden through a red light, resulting in one of the riders colliding with a white Volkswagen Golf.
“Dashcam footage of the incident shows the crashed rider – on a blue and white bike – flee the scene.
“Witnesses reported that the group headed south on the A167 towards the Duke of Wellington.
“Officers investigating the crash are keen to identify any of the riders involved, and have released the below dashcam footage.
“If you have any information relating to the incident, or can identify any of the riders in the footage below, please contact Durham Police on 101, quoting incident number 167 of September 6.”
The video has stunned social media users.
Emma Wilson wrote: “Poor woman – near miss 1st which must have scared the hell out of her and then the second bike crashing into her side of the car too.”
Lorraine Smith added: “Nice to see his mates stopped to see if he was okay. That’s a busy main road at all times, no place for those.”
And Paul Archer said: “Not often I say things like this but that should have gone right in the side of them, few broken bones is about all they deserve.”
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Crib Death by Nancy Springer
Maybe we should get one of those alarms that goes off if he stops breathing,'' she said, holding her baby boy in her arms. She stood in the holy shrine of the house, the nursery, just home from the hospital and afraid to put the newborn in the crib.
''You've been reading too many magazine articles,'' he said, the newly-proved-man, the father-of-a-son, her husband. ''Did the doctor say anything about crib death?''
''No. He said the little package looks fine.''
''Then what are you worrying about?'' He put his arm around her. There was something so tender and tired about her. especially since she had given birth, that he felt protective of her. First baby, first house, first love. They were old-fashioned enough to believe they would be married forever.
She did not know how to tell him about the awareness she carried, the new sense of mortality, pulling her shoulders down with more than the wight of the infant in her arms. She only said in a wondering way, ''It could happeb you know. Bad things can happen any time.''
''Right. The roof could fall in.'' His embrace tightened on her, joggling her gently; he wanted her for himself. ''Put the little critter down and let's go sit.''
She did, she put the infant down in the crib, between the padded bumpers protecting his head from the hard slats, on the bunny-print sheet, where he stirred and wailed and then settled into sleep again, making a warm, compact peach-fuzz-and -terrycloth bundle of himself, not much bigger than a bread loaf. But instead of leaving the room, the young woman stood staring at him.
She said ''I'm going to get one of those alarms.''
''No,don't'' He knew how he'd hated itas a child, that his mother was always hovering. Don't touch the dog, you'll get germs. Don't take off your jacket, you'll get fall. . . . He had sworn that his children would be raised to be joyous and free, to run barefoot and romp with mongrel puppies, to climb high and not be fused at.
He said, ''I thouht we agreed we're not going to make a neurotic out of this kid.''
''It wont make him a neurotic. He won't even know about it.''
''That doesn't matter. It's the idea. You know what I mean.'' He took her hand, tugging at her. ''You've got to let him grow up--natural.'' He struggled for words. ''Like a--like a bird learning to fly.''
It was fine thought. She nodded and came with him. But she came back a few moments later and checked to make sure the baby was breathing.
When the baby cried that night, she was awake within a heartbeat and on her feet. The newborn's faint, kittenish wail buzzed through her like an electric shock, as effective as any conceivable alarm. She went and fed him at the breast almost before he could wail again, warming him in her arms but herself cold, sitting in the rocking chair in her thin nightgown. In the morning, talking with her husband, she learned that he had not heard the baby cry, though he slept beside her in the same bed.
He said, ''Wake me up, next time. I'll go get him for you, and you can feed him in the bed and stay warm.''
But when she tried to do so, the next night, the man was so slow to wake that she could not stand it. The sound of the crying baby rang theough her like the phone bell of hell, jangling every nerve. She jumped up and ran to pick up the infant herself, and fed him in the rocking chair again, strangely disturbed. Like a raw nerve awareness throbbed in her of how helpless the baby was, how utterly he depended on her, how utterly helpless were all babies everywhere.
And. . . . in the silence, between the crying,death stalked. Crib death, the killer cat on padded paws, soundlessly taking infants as they slept.
Motherhood laid her open like a honeyed wound. She felt herself listening even in her dreams, not for a baby's cry but for a silent alarm. In her dreams she made a connection between herself and the sleeping of babies as surely as if electric wires ran to her heart. She willed herself to hear the threat of intruding, silent death as surely as she would hear a baby's wail.
The man, the protector, slept lumpishly. She, only she, felt the mortal peril.
Day after day, night by passing night, she willed herself to hear soundless danger. Her husband felt the change in her. In the warm marriage bed, even in their lovemaking, she was not entirely with him; she was listening for something he could not hear. In the night she went to the baby when he heard nothing. ''Let him cry a minute or two,'' he complained. ''Maybe he'll go back to sleep. It's time he started sleeping through.'' All day every day baby busied her; he wanted her to himself again, if only of the nights.
The baby grew quicly, changed quickly, a butterfly creature. He stopped wailing for food at night and began waking at dawn instead, cooing rather than crying. He rattled the crib rails and made small babbling noises. His father nick named him The Gugs, for the noises. The baby took after the man, who was happy in the morning, one of those people who annoyed others with his cheeriness before breakfast.
The man hoped his wife would sleep deeply through the nights now that her baby no longer cried for her in the dark. But she did not. Even though the baby no longer woke her, he still felt her listening. Sleeping, she lay rigid with listening, though he did not know for what. It baffled and annoyed him, this unspoken aloofness of hers, this sense that motherhood had given her a mission apart from him. As if having a baby around the house had not turned his life crazy enough. . . .
His life went truly insane with a scream in the night.
The woman screamed in her sleep, awoke panting and screaming; the screams roused her husband to a groggy awareness. He blinked, struggling up to see what was wrong. She had turned on the light, she was sitting on the edge of the bed and jabbing at the pushbuttons on the phone. In his nursery across the hallway, The Gugs was silent. Stumbling only slightly, the father went over there, examined the small, fleecy-warm, softly breathing body in the dim white glow of the lambie-shaped night light. The Gugs was sleeping. Nothing wrong there.
He heard his wife moan in the bedroom and went back to her. She was listening to the buzzing signal in the receiver, her face damp and grey with fear. ''C'mon,'' she whispered. Then the click, the muted voice, and she shouted, ''Check the baby! Don't ask questions, just do it! Go check the baby right away!''
She waited a moment, looking breathless, and then softly replaced the receiver in the cradle. Her face had gone slack, but she was shaking so hard that she shook the bed.
''They hung up,'' she said, staring straight ahead. ''I don't know if the baby's all right.''
Having just chaceked The Gugs, he did not understand. ''Who hung up?''
She did not answer. Or perhaps she thouht she was answering when she said, ''The baby had its head caught between the crib rails. It was choking itself.''
Bewildered, the man went back to bed and took refuge in sleep. When he awoke in the morning he treated his memory of the night much as he would a disturbing dream, pushing it away as far as he could, to a shadowy distance where it skullked, worrying at the underbelly of his mind.
Within a few nights his wife's shriek woke him again. More alert this time, he listened to the frantic chittering of the phone. Ten, eleven numbers. Long distance. He didn't think it had been long distance before. Different people this time. He did not get up to look into the crib, because he could hear a faint yowl of protest from nursery, quickly subsiding into sleepy murmuring sounds.The mother's scream had disturbed The Gugs.
And she was moaning as before, and desperate, and crying into the phone as before, ''Check the baby! Right now!'' A brief pause. ''Never mind who I am! Check the baby!'' She hung up hard, tears in her eyes. ''Idiots!'' she said to her bare feet on the floor.
Her husband looked at her quivering back and said, ''Who?''
''I don't know. I don't know if the baby's all right.''
''The baby's fine!''
''Their baby.''
He couldn't push it away any longer.
''You called up somebody you don't know in the middle of the night and told them to check their baby?''
She said, ''It was strangling in one of those elastic crib mobiles they had strung too low. Morons!''
Her tone, passionate yet matter-of-fact, made him feel cold. She really believed what she was saying. She thought she knew--
''How do you know?''
''I saw.''
''What do you mean, you saw?''
''I--'' For the first time, her voice faltered. ''I saw! In my sleep!''
''You dreamed it, you mean.''
She shouted at him, ''I saw! I saw the baby with its face all swollen and the cord around its neck. . . . '' Her voice broke. He slid over and sat next to her, put one arm around her, and she sobbed against his shoulder. ''Probably dead already before they got there,'' she mumbled.
''It was just a dream,'' he told her gently.
''It was not!'' She pulled back from him, glaring, her tears gone. ''I saw, I tell you! I knew the number to call.''
''Whatever,'' he said, because he did not like what he was thinking: that she was losing it, going off the deep end, over the edge, soft in the head, call it all the wry old names: crazy. He did not like to think it, but he had to because he knew the things she thought were happening didn't happen. He knew that better than anything. There was a difference between dreams and what was real. He knew that; if he didn't know that he would be crazy too. He went back to bed and felt cold, even under the covers. He did not touch his wife again, nor did he sleep. He suspected she was not sleeping either, but they didn't talk until morning, when the gurgling and babbling of their baby signaled them that it was time to get up. Then they carefully acted as if what happened in the night had not happened.
She tried to be funny and cheerful and loving around him, then and n the days that followed. She smiled a great deal, she made a point of doing things for him and fixing his favorite foods. Though he said nothing, she could see in his eyes what he thought and feared, that she was going ''mental.'' She clipped money-saving coupons, hoping he would notice she was a good wife. Knowing he was thinking doubtful thoughts about her made her bright and lively with terror. She could scarcely bear the fear that he would leave her. Before the coming of the baby she had lived to be with him; she had no personhood except that of his wife, mother of his child. She needed him nearly as much as her baby needed her.
Each night when she went to bed she felt dread that the alarm in her mind would awaken her again. She was not accustomed to having anything matter to her but her husband. She wanted only to please him. He was her life. Or had been, until recently.
Yet, when once again she awoke shrieking in the night, she reached for the phone and punched the numbers and sat waiting in agony for the answer at the other end, all before she looked at him.
Somewhere, in a distant, unseen house, a phone ringing, a man or woman reaching grumpily to answer it, a baby . . . . dying . . . .
''Crib death,'' she whispered between clenched teeth.
''Put that down!'' the man om the other side pf the bed ordered- - or begged.
Staring tautly at the wall, ounting the ring signals- - too many!- - she did not answer him. He got to his feet, came around the bed and tried to take the receiver away from her. She pushed his hand away with surprising strength. ''No, wait!'' she shouted, and then she was crying her alarm to the sleepy woman on the other end of the line, and hearing the peevish wail of her own baby, awakened by her yell, and hearing- -
''They're doping CPR,'' she reported tensely to her husband. ''They're going to call the ambulance.'' There was a click as the line went dead at her ear, and limply she set the receiver down.
Her husband stood staring at her as if something had just scuttled out from under the baseboard of her mind. ''You're crazy,'' he said, not responding to the rising plaint of the baby in the next room.
She started to cry. He sat down next to her. ''I didn't mean it like that.'' he said ''I- -I'm just scared they'll take you away. You can't go calling people like you do. They'll come looking for you.''
''But- -but you heard,'' she offered.
''There really was a baby- -''
''I don't care!'' he shouted before she could say what scared him worst. ''I can't live like this! Hon, you've got to quit''
She looked straight at him with the tears running down her face. ''I can't just let them die,'' she whispered.
''I tell you, I can't take it! The way she talked panicked him, and his mind, sinking into quicksand madness, grabbed for solid ground, pulled itself out onto an ultimatum ''You've got to choose,'' he said grimly, ''between them and me.''
And he went and lay down again, leaving her to go quiet the baby's crying and her own.
In the morning they went silently about the business of dressing and eating and tending The Gugs. The man gave his wife the routine peck, Dagwood-style, and disappeared into the outer world, going to work. The woman began a frenzy of housework, as if clean floors could somehow make things right. Gong to the store, later that day, she purchased numerous newspapers along with amnoia. She spent the evening silently searching them as her husband just as silently ignored her searching. It seemed to her that if she could only find a news item about a baby saved from crib death by an unaccountable phone call in the night, she would somehow be proved, made right, justified, instead of being all wrong . . . . There was nothing of babies, alive or otherwise, in any of the newspapers. And in spite of her searching, she knew gut-deep that a news story would not have made any difference. No more difference than a clean floor made.
She had been given a choice. What her husband had said---she knew he meant it. Better than he knew himself, she knew that. She had babied him too long for him to change.
She went to bed, her marriage bed, in terror, not yet knowing how she would choose.
No soundless threat of infant death woke her that night, or the next, or the next. She awoke full of nervous energy each morning and made omelettes and hash browns and other good things for breakfast. The man, an optimistic person by nature, grew hopefuş that the crisis had passed, and talked kindly with her over the hot food, and kissed her with more than routine feeling when he left for work and again when he came home to a good dinner. In the evenings, in front of the TV, he put his arm around her, and she pressed close to his side. The closeness seemed to help her, a little, with the aching struggle going on inside her.
In the dark of the fourth night, at that cat-stalking-quiet, pulseless time after midnight when traffic had stopped on the residential streets and paperboys were not yet making their rounds, the woman woke sobbing and lay on her back in the bed, staring up into darkness as the tears ran down her temples and into the fine, permüfrizzed hair in front of her ears. She did not move except to sob. Her husband slept soundly, as always, and her weeping did not awaken him, and after a while she wept herself back to sleep.
The man awoke in the morning, refreshed as always from his sound slumber, to a room awash in dawn light and dawn hush and the peace that passeth understanding. He stretched and yawned loudly to awaken his wife, and smiled for no good reason, and glanced over at her. But she turned her face away from him.
''It happened again,'' she said.
''What?'' He propped himself up on an elbow to loook at her. ''I didn't hear anything.''
''You wouldn't,'' she said.
''I did before.''
''It wasn't like that. There wasn't a number to call. I didn't do anything.'' She started to cry, silently, like someone who has mourned for a long time, like a war victim, as if she was already worn out with crying. The tears ran, but her face did not move.
''A baby died,'' she said to the bedsheets. ''I just lay here and let it die.''
The man put his hand on her shoulder and shook her, eagerly, excitedly. ''No, no, Honey, don't you see? It's starting to go away. You did fine! What you did was good!'' His chest heaved with relief.
''Wow. For a while there I was afraid we were going to have to send you to the hospital or something.'' He leaned over and kissed her on the side of her face, near her weeping eye, and she lay and accepted the kiss, and felt it warm her, and knew her husband would not leave her, and felt her own deep relief. She had chosen. She could not risk losing him. Nothing worse than that could happen to her. . . .
Silence. Dawn-golden silence. The morning lay, a vast hand of benediction, hushed and holy on them both.
The man glanced at the beside clock, and his smile lit his face like sunrise. ''All right!'' he said. ''Nearly seven o'clock, and no noises from The Gugs yet! The little guy sure is sleeping late today.''
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Official Page: www.nancyspringer.com
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Nancy Connor Springer (born 1948 in Montclair, New Jersey) is an American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery, and science fiction.[1] Her novel Larque on the Wing won the Tiptree Award.[2] She also received the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America[3] for her novels Toughing It and Looking for Jamie Bridger, in addition to receiving the Carolyn W. Field award for I am Mordred. A prolific author, she has written more than fifty books over a career that has spanned nearly four decades.
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Anime Dallas Chairman Attended and Held Anime Convention Despite Exposure to COVID
Danny Gallagher
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Danny Gallagher | December 9, 2020 | 4:00am
Anime Dallas, an annual anime fan convention, went ahead as scheduled last weekend even though large gatherings have been discouraged by local and national medical experts.
Dallas County is under a red level warning risk, restaurants have been required to reduce capacity and bars were closed after more than 15% of local hospital beds were filled with COVID-19 patients for more than seven straight days. None of that stopped Anime Dallas from holding its annual convention last weekend under mandatory safety requirements.
It also didn't stop voice actor and convention chairman and founder John Swasey from attending, even though he was exposed to someone with the virus.
Swasey told the Anime News Network (ANN) that he and his daughter came into contact with an infected person on Nov. 26, a little over a week before the Anime Dallas convention was scheduled to start at the Hyatt Regency DFW hotel.
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Convention officials did not return our request for comment but defended their decision to hold the convention on its Facebook page. The post released on the opening day of the convention laid out guidelines such as requiring all attendees to wear masks and undergo temperature tests at the registration desk.
The convention's website also announced they would limit attendance to 800 people for the entire weekend and 400 people per day, offer seating spaced at 6 feet apart and provide and require the use of hand sanitizing stations before entering an open space "including our artist alley, dealers room and game room."
According to an executive order issued by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that was revised on Friday, Dec. 4, "People may not be in groups larger than 10 and must maintain six feet of social distancing from those not in their group."
"It seems very cavalier and insensitive." – Cosplay podcaster Taffeta Darling
"For your information, many of our guests, including me (our president) and my daughter who is also attending as a guest as well, received negative COVID-19 test results before the event; we don't have COVID," Swasey wrote on the con's Facebook page on Friday, Dec. 4. "Many top convention staff have been tested for coronavirus the week prior to the convention and have received negative results as well."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website notes that testing only ensures a clean bill of health from COVID at the time of the testing since symptoms can develop days later. The CDC also advises people who are exposed to the virus to quarantine at home for 14 days from the date of the exposure. Swasey and his daughter could only have quarantined for a week, according to ANN.
"It seems very cavalier and insensitive," says Taffeta Darling, a Dallas-based cosplayer and co-host of The Fangirls of Dallas podcast, who used to regularly attend several area fan conventions before the first shutdown order back in March started — the same weekend as the start of the All-Con gathering. "They could have easily handled it in a better way and it's disappointing."
Darling was one of several people who expressed outrage on Anime Dallas' Facebook page at the decision to hold the event. Swasey responded to the criticism saying he and the event's organizers took several steps to ensure the safety of its participants with mask requirements, temperature checks and other measures.
He also noted that he didn't want to put the convention's vendors and participants at any great financial risk or deprive groups like the North Texas Food Bank which receive donations from the event.
"We've seen significant vitriol online about attending Anime Dallas," Swasey wrote. "We're so disheartened to see that. This show has never been about profit. Every year, we are raising money for charity. Our event is about bringing some security and revenue to these vendors, artists and actors. Our event is also about community. This community means very much to us. Anime has been our job and our livelihood for a long time for many of us."
Darling says she understands how vendors and convention organizers and attendees have been decimated by the coronavirus but feels it would have been better if they erred more on the side of caution.
"I know we all have to make a buck, but there's better ways it could have been handled," Darling says. "For them to say they're doing it for the community, it doesn't feel that way. They could have asked the community for input. Most people I know were mortified."
Swasey and convention officials have not responded to our requests for comment.
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John Rapoport’s Blog via Truthseeker
“It should come as no surprise that Trump is now working the crowd like a carnival barker, hyping the vaccine. . . . Trump pushing it as the messianic solution is madness.” — John Rappoport
Note: In this climate, many people assume that if you say ANYTHING favorable about Trump, you support him all the way. If you say anything negative about him, you hate everything about him. I’ve never been in either camp. Read on.
As the vaccine rolls out in record time, Trump stands there selling it like a new golf course, the greatest gold course ever designed. [1]
Not long ago, in the headline of an article, I called Trump and Biden frauds. [2]
I’ve also explained why Trump is a better fraud for America than Biden.
With Trump, we get glints of freedom; with Biden we get the long dark night.
Biden’s people are already forging close relationships with the fascist governors. These connections include: how to push the vaccine.
It’s going to go this way, if Biden is installed in the Oval Office. Governors will say, “Well, people, we need every community to achieve 70% compliance with vaccination. And where that doesn’t happen, it looks like…we’ll have to declare new lockdowns, in order to protect all of us…”
That’s the carrot and the stick.
Under Trump as president, a similar scenario would play out, but he would be trying to open up the economy at the same time, through encouragement, through disparaging the governors who are taking the hardest line on lockdowns.
That may seem like a distinction without a difference, but it isn’t. It’s a signal to his millions of passionate followers: go back to work, open up the economy, find a way, defy restrictions.
If you’re laboring under the delusion that ANY president is going to unilaterally solve COVID fascism, and you don’t have to do anything yourself, you’re on the wrong track.
We have a giant snake encircling and winding through the population, and we have to cut off pieces of it wherever and however we can.
It would be pretty to think a politician is going to wade in and cut off the head of the snake in one mighty blow, but I don’t advise waiting for it to happen.
This is why I’ve said I don’t have faith in Trump, I have faith in the people who want freedom. Many of those people support Trump.
To be sure, Biden’s people would like to declare a federal mandate forcing every American to take the COVID vaccine, but at least for now, that’s not how I think his controllers are going to move.
They realize a federal mandate would not only face stiff legal challenges, it would create a high level of resistance—higher than presently exists—in the public.
They could try to pass a law stating that, in any designated area or zone, failure to achieve a 70% vaccination rate would, “during this state of emergency,” trigger a vaccine mandate; but I don’t think they’ll even go that far.
Biden’s controllers are focused on forging VERY tight relationships with the governors, and with big corporations. Those corporations, some of them, will demand vaccination for their employees, at the same time saying these employees have the right to refuse, in which case they’ll either have to work from home, or find a job elsewhere.
Biden forces will also push companies to opt for “immunity passports,” making it more difficult for people to travel, shop, gather in large numbers, unless they take the COVID shot.
If all this sounds like all-out war, that’s what it is.
The vaccine is a new front, a new phase in the war.
We would all like to find an easy way out, but that’s a pipe dream.
As far as Trump is concerned, he bought the big COVID con right at the beginning. He showed no real understanding of the situation, and he stood aside and allowed the destruction of the economy. He has never admitted just how widespread that destruction is, or his role in it.
So it should come as no surprise that he is now working the crowd like a carnival barker, hyping the vaccine.
Over the past months, some of Trump’s followers have assumed his glorification of the coming vaxx was a brilliant strategy on his part. He had a secret “rescue” from the vaccine planned.
Well, here we are. I don’t see rescue. I see Trump selling the vaxx. Nothing new.
Biden’s forces are also pushing climate change, open borders, defunding the police, and other disastrous policies that make him a worse option than Trump. But this article is about COVID. And in that sphere, Trump is better than Biden in the way I’ve described above.
What we actually needed, back in January, was a truly courageous president who stood up and refused to allow lockdowns, on Constitutional grounds—boldly, without compromise, giving away NO freedoms. We didn’t have that kind of leader.
This COVID vaccine is experimental, the people are guinea pigs, and the RNA technology embedded in the vaccine has been shown, in the past, to cause autoimmune reactions—meaning the body attacks itself. [3]
Trump pushing it as the messianic solution is madness.
[1] https://youtu.be/fE3sD1HyOVM?t=1285 and https://youtu.be/sP261kvVPYE?t=119 (“President Trump Delivers Remarks at an Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit”, 12/8/20)
[2] https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/10/21/covid-is-a-fraud-so-is-trump-so-is-biden/
[3] https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/01/26/vaccine-for-the-china-virus-the-planet-is-the-guinea-pig-for-a-vast-experiment/
21 thoughts to “Trump Glorifies the New Covid Vaccine: What Else Did You Expect?”
Put it all together, and it’s plain that there is anti-vaccine sentiment in this presidential campaign, but it’s all coming from Trump. No one has undermined the credibility of vaccine science as assiduously as he has.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-09-08/trump-anti-vaxx-record
This article is more relevant.
https://sputniknews.com/us/202012101081420628-what-would-happen-if-electoral-college-voters-rebel-against-the-official-results-on-monday/
Trump and Biden and Gates and Fauci and UN Agenda 2030 and the WHO and the CDC are depopulation demonic satanist psycopaths.
I wonder how the Trumpers spin this one? It’s all part of his secret plan to expose the vaccine companies, Trump is playing 40d chess. Are the pro-Trump people right or are the delusional?
Note: I’ve selected popular venues found on the internet and note none of these popular personalities talks about Jewish control or Israel. All of these people have something to add to the discussion but they ALL REFUSE TO TALK ABOUT JEWS so IMO they are lost in their own delusions.
Here are some of the pro-Trump headlines on Before It’s News:
Trump’s Revenge Served Cold!! Game Over!! Massive Evidence Comes Out And Deepstate Has No Where To Go!! (Must Video)
Must See Report! The Enemies Within Exposed! Election Coup 2020: Obama, Blden, Brennan, [DS], Fox News & the Communist Infiltration!
Massive US Carrier Fleets Positioning Off Both Coasts! Is the Hammer About to Drop? – Michael Jaco Must Video!
Hal Turner: 50,000 Chinese Soldiers Were Bombed and Killed in Maine Which Was Listed as an Earthquake
Situation Update, Dec. 9th – Humanity’s Breakthrough Moment: We Refuse To Be Enslaved! – Mike Adams Must Video
What is the reality of the situation? Is Trump working for us or his masters?
Here is another one that went viral, the New Age spin that Trump is a “lightworker”:
Is Donald Trump a Lightworker?
Efficient Life Church
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDEwaHkG7wY&feature=emb_title
SACHA STONE, MARIE RUSSELL, MADONNA ENGLISH & ALPA SONI DISCUSS – “TRUMP V SACRED COWS”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofAXADQZWbs
Charlie Freak of freaksensetv
They all are filled with the hope dope and view Trump as a kind of savior
I certainly wouldn’t mind giving Ivanka a “jab”….
O deary me, why doth your comments fill me with despair?
If even the word “jab” is enough to get you salivating like a Pavlovian puppy, I’m surprised the word “Ivanka” hasn’t sent you into paroxysms of libidinous frenzy!
After all, just pronounce the “v” in “IVANKA” as a “w” . . . and WOW! . . . you’re almost there! 🙂
…AFTER giving Trump a jab in the mouth! 😊
Methinks, MB, thou doest breathe too heavy…. 😊
Your comments are valuable…
No person in political office will ever be perfect for everybody….
We know what small potatoes we are down here on this level of the pyramid…
We have to take the best deal we can get…
Yes we know the Jews are the ZOG and Trump kisses their asses…
but I’m real curious to know what your position is on some of these subjects….
Do you favor the border wall, would you put troops on the South border and shoot hard dope traffickers?
Do you favor using deadly force against rioters?
Were you for or against the TPP?
Do you believe Trump is a Russian asset, tool of Putin, or is he trying to cooperate with Putin to move the world past NATO and the whole Jewish media external enemy warmonger scam?
Do you think the dems stole the election in the swing states?
Are you a Second Amendment advocate, or do you want more restrictions on guns?
Do you support the ‘Stand your Ground Law’?
Do you think the Dems, BLM, Antifa and 95% of the MSM are in cahoots with the Rothen Chinese?
quote: “Do you favor the border wall, would you put troops on the South border and shoot hard dope traffickers?
NO. Legalize all drugs. Enforce border laws, you can’t just walk into any country you want. Amerika is ridiculous, biggest military, most police, yet millions just waltz across the border. Why? Because that is what the owners want, the Republican owners want cheap labor. Democrats want to make those people ciitizens for votes. They both are in on it.
You can not stop humans from using drugs (or becoming reverently religious). That is another topic based on how humans were installed on a prison planet to suffer. Other nations have legalized drugs to stop drug running. Just read any Libertarian articles on it.
Just round them up. No one ever had the right to destroy private or public property. Can’t do it anywhere else so why is it allowed in police state Amerika? Because that is what they want.
Big powerful Amerika can’t keep their own statues from getting teared down? Why? Israel runs the deep state, and Israel is tearing down everyone else’s monuments but their own. So because everyone is afraid of Jews, no one calls out Israel and Jews for paying and organizing antifa/BLM/ISIS
Obviously as a gun toting redneck I would shoot rioters if I could, but the law prevents me. You see the law protects criminals from their just desserts.
Free trade all the way. Protectionism always fails. There are a million articles on why.
The Russian thing is Left Zionist propaganda meant to cover Israeli deep state operations. When Mossad Asset Rachel Madcow says Russia, Russia, Russia she really means I am a Jew liar covering for Israel, Israel, Israel. Why kind of crazy nation do we have when foreign intelligence agents like Jeff Zucker and Wolf Blitzer tells us the news. What a frickin laugh!
As far as I can tell, Putin is the only sane state actor on this planet.
Democrats have been stealing elections for a long time, I believe JFK got stolen votes. The latest is epic, Donald Trump probably won by a massive landslide, and Biden who couldn’t attract more than a half dozen supporters certainly did not get the most votes ever. BTW probably most the democratic congressman were installed by vote rigging. Yes the election was stolen and Trump’s ego and vanity is why he struggles against it.
I love guns and have owned up to 20 at one time, used to buy and sell them. So of course I support the second amendment and I also support the outlaw who says we don’t need no stinking badges. If you think a law protects your gun rights you are wrong, it is will and the choice to use the gun against the armed gang called the state.
It was REPUBLICAN NIXON who opened up trade with China.
Obviously I am not one of them, but I do not support Zionist whore traitor Trump, and that has you puzzled. No President should ever hold another country above our own, and it is clear that all our politicians slavishly whore themselves to Jews and Israel, not just Trump but every god damned candidate of every stripe, it is disgusting and treasonous and it makes Amerika a colony of Israel.
ISRAEL DID 911 in case you haven’t heard.
You can’t understand how you can be for freedom and not for Trump. Trump is an actor, who was hired to fool you by his owners, he works for them and his job is to strip you of your freedoms. Like the border wall, to keep you trapped inside the police state, like homeland security set up after 911 to protect the jews from repurcussions of doing 911.
A real patriot calls out Israel for 911 THEN TELLS HIS GENERALS TO GO LEVEL ISRAEL.
But Trump is no patriot, no freedom lover, no friend of yours, he is selling you down the river, he is selling the nation out to a foreign state, just look at the boy toy Jared Kushner in the White House, the mole of Netanyahu. Trump is pathetic to say the least, in reality he is a traitor because he is protecting Israel, and Israel did 911.
So no, I do not support a traitor like Trump.
Mandoo... says:
Ditto. I detest Trump for his erratic methods in selecting his cadre of bureaucrats, his ass kissing obeisance to the little country in the Middle East that has cost us enormously with both lives and treasure.Trump could virtually solve his own problems, but I think that basically, he’s a doltish lightweight that can’t get out of his own way. He’s a horrible judge of character and his adoration to score big on the Covid vaccine accomplishment is something that’s horrible to see. He’s a science zombie, knows little or nothing and he’s proud of his ignorance. His family should be dropkicked out of the White House but what do you expect from an asskissing lunatic anyway? He’s a dope, a lowlife, a guy who thinks he knows everything.But……he’s a cut above the commie slime in the opposing party. So, basically, I detest Trump immensely, but I detest Biden much more. Eventually, he’ll treat us like total shit and sell us down the river. I have no doubts that he’ll botch the upcoming attempt to get back into the White House. Bibi has him by the cojones and won’t let go. His kids all married in the Tribe and Donald really could care less what you need and want from the White House.
Fauci, Gates, Trump, Biden, CDC, WHO… etc etc etc
Come on…. please, get a grip… do you REALLY take these nimcompoops SERIOUSLY anymore???
I’m willing to take seriously the one person in the last presidential race who advocated securing the border…
The fact that the media hates the guy adds to his popularity…
Who else does the media hate that bad?
But if Trump doesn’t have the grit to do what needs to be done now to save the country from these plotters, bloody as it will be, then, as good as he has sounded, he’s not the heavyweight the situation calls for…
I wish everybody on this site would answer the questions I posed to YJ…
Since the drug problem caused by Ollie North and Reagan…. I have written here many times that I would favor ALL reservists spend their boot camp and yearly active times training along the Mexican border.
But there is too much money involved to ever have the illegal drugs stopped. Ollie and Ronnie made sure of that.
https://rumble.com/vbihsb-veteran-warns-city-council-its-not-gonna-be-peaceful-much-longer.html?fbclid=IwAR1gfRoe_a1r0yEg1c9I_KZ2SEiIyW2A8__irUg0CFSbxoNRwu8EgLgNfUc
🇧ark, this is what i see.
check out my comments on Duran video, Trudeau, Hunter and Barr, in particular this bit (so you don’t need to even hit the link)
Maybe, just maybe, Trudeau is right to have done that.
Because China is NOT the enemy, it [is] (sic) a potential friend, ally and protector.
Because WHAT if 20 pro-Trump states secede even on part time basis because they find Biden utterly unacceptable?
Check the map of the Lower 48, see how the secessionists cut a wide swath right down the middle of America, seamlessly joining Canada and Mexico.
A new NAFTA?
Or even better, extension of SILK ROAD???
And guess what, next up I see this:
Texas GOP Chief Suggests Forming ‘Union of States’ After SCOTUS Tosses Election Challenge
And guess what, I hear this:
By rights, the “Union of states that will abide by the constitution” should retain as its rightful president, one Donald J Trump until this travesty has been remedied either by gun or reasonable solution, i.e., thoroughly implemented audit of all claimed election discrepancies and reevaluation of the electoral count.
by-the-way: i see absolutely NO reason why Trump is plugging “made in Yishroel™” coronavax, i’d like to dropkick him in the head for that.
Absolutely No reason, even by Sun Tsu standards of wartime deception, he gets nothing out of that, no mileage whatsoever (at this point he no longer needs protection from Jew media and Big Tech as before with equally toothless symbolix like embassy, Golan, WH keys), only puzzlement growing into contempt.
I do hope that i am wrong, I do (x3).
But again note that in practical terms it amounts to a big, tho ugly zero, it will be kamala’s pimp who makes that decision (to enslave or not to enslave—what would Talmud say).
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Today, 12/12 is Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe—the holiest day in Mexico and Latin America generally for the faithful (the Hill of Guadelupe in D.F. is one of the handful of places on earth truly worth of visit)
Nuestra Señora, ruega por nosotros, at some point it is or will be all we got left, when ammo is spent.
truenameamended says:
So what copes do people have left on Zion Don? Are there any? The political dark arts of Arthur Finkelstein and his ilk really took the Trump crowd for a ride for four years. This shameless Jew slave didn’t even respect his base enough to pull one last bait & switch on them with soft white nationalisms to get re-elected. Nope, he opted for full-black pandering, knowing full well it would cost him the election. That’s how little he cares about the people who support him and how slavishly devoted to the whims of his Jewish handlers he is.
-New laws against anti-semitism
-Jerusalem embassy
-murdered Iranian general
-LoWeSt bLaCk uNeMpLoYmEnT eVeR
-“prison reform” aka set black criminals loose on the public
-Lady MAGA
-Most gay-friendly president ever
-Unprecedented crackdowns on pro-white activism
-Less deportations than Obama
-H1Bs at all-time high
-No wall
-DACA alive and well
-Pardons for the satanic, foreskin-eating demons Sholom Rubashkin and Jonathan Pollard, among others
Need we go on? The list of shame is practically endless, so shilling for vaccines that will undoubtedly kill and maim many people is just par for the course and hardly even noteworthy. Zion Don has disgraced and embarrassed himself at every turn, proving himself a pathetic, thoroughly disingenuous, enthusiastically philo-Semitic con man who couldn’t even muster the spine to make a half-hearted appeal to the people who put him in office the first time. Fraud aside, I’m glad he lost. It’s what he deserved after so many naked betrayals.
Let’s just hope and pray that with the King of Israel gone, the millions of Right-wing normies in this country start looking for answers in places they actually exist, rather than clinging to a childish fantasy of Blompf “fighting the deep state” behind the scenes and coming to their rescue like some comic book superhero.
Also worth noting, in the run-up to the 2016 election, Trumpenstein openly cast doubt on the safety of vaccines. Though I never bought into Trump as the person he portrayed himself as, that impressed me. It’s a very important issue and he did something no high-profile politicians would dare do.
From calling into question the safety of vaccines and voicing a pro-choice vaccination stance, to shilling for what is sure to be a highly dangerous and almost completely untested set of vaccines that represent a new low for ZOG’s medical-industrial-complex. And what did he have to gain by shilling for the death shots? Absolutely nothing. Add it to the list of the Trumpenstein failures. The man doesn’t have a genuine bone in his body.
COVID-19 was PATENTED in 2003!!!
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus –
An outbreak of a virulent respiratory virus, now known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), was identified in Hong Kong, China and a growing number of countries around the world in 2003. The invention relates to nucleic acids and proteins from the SARS coronavirus. These nucleic acids and proteins can be used in the preparation and manufacture of vaccine formulations, diagnostic reagents, kits, etc. The invention also provides methods for treating SARS by administering small molecule antiviral compounds, as well as methods of identifying potent small molecules for the treatment of SARS.
Patent US-2006257852-A1
Inventor(s)
RAPPUOLI RINO (IT)
MASIGNANI VEGA (IT)
STADLER KONRAD (AU)
GREGERSEN JENS P (DE)
CHIEN DAVID (US)
CHIRON CORP (US)
This web page summarizes information in PubChem about patent US-2006257852-A1. This includes chemicals mentioned, as reported by PubChem contributors, as well as other content, such as title, abstract, and International Patent Classification (IPC) codes.
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/patent/US-2006257852-A1
Now or Never: A Call to White Resistance
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M&A Due Diligence and the GDPR Class Action Lawsuits?
An interesting class action lawsuit (“representative legal action”) has been filed in the UK against Marriott International for the breach it experienced last year. The lawsuit, details of which can be found online, should be considered a development in what could become the next big headache for #privacy #informationsecurity and #dataprotection professionals. Before delving into the details of this legal action, here is a quick refresh on the breach.
How critical is M&A due diligence to data breach reporting?
From 2014 to 2018, hackers gained access to Starwood Hotels Group’s systems that contained customer personal data. Marriott acquired Starwood in 2016 and did not detect the breach either. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found that Marriott failed to undertake sufficient due diligence when it bought Starwood and should have done more to secure its systems. A variety of personal data contained in approximately 339 million guest records globally were exposed by the incident, of which around 30 million related to residents of 31 countries in the European Economic Area (EEA). Marriot was fined about $130 million by the ICO. In a statement, the UK’s Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham indicated that the high fine is due to Marriott’s failure of accountability demonstrated by its lacking due diligence when acquiring Starwood.
What is so interesting about the legal action against Marriott?
The breached personal data was not sensitive. Hackers gained access to names, email and postal addresses, telephone numbers, gender, and credit card data. The data did not include the special categories of personal data that are listed in Article 9 of the General Data Protection Regulation. In fact, most of the exposed elements are commonly shared or easily found in public sources.
No claim of harm to the impacted individuals. This legal action goes after Marriott for failing to demonstrate accountability over personal data, as stated by Commissioner Denham, not because any of the exposed customers were adversely impacted by the breach. If anyone should have a legitimate claim of harm against Marriott, it’s the credit card companies that must pay for the fraudulent transactions on their cards, not the cardholders.
Legal financing firms show an interest in privacy. Companies that make their money by funding lawsuits and taking a percentage of the settlement (sometimes referred to as litigation funders) are starting to pay attention to the data protection space. This legal action is being fully funded by Harbour Litigation Funding, a global litigation funder. Pay attention data professionals – the sharks are circling your boat!
Class action lawsuits are not common in the European Economic Area. Most people associate these types of legal actions with the American litigation system. However, it should be known, that class action lawsuits are not an American invention. This type of legal action started in the UK. More importantly, for those companies falling under the jurisdiction of the GDPR, a cursory review of legal mechanisms in Europe, shows that Italy, the Netherland, Poland, and Spain also allow for class action suits for the protection of consumers.
What can we learn from this case?
Here is what we can learn from this case about data and M&A accountability failures that can lead to legal action.
First, find all the personal data. Don’t just look for the data of EEA residents. The GDPR cast a wide net of applicability that goes beyond the data subjects’ country of residence.
Don’t just protect the data, minimize it. Data minimization can be applied with various means, including masking and encryption, and can be based on the data location (e.g., not putting all your eggs in one basket), volume, users’ roles, and data retention considerations.
When acquiring or merging with another company, assess and remediate any gaps in implementing the appropriate privacy and security controls.
You can’t be breach-proof, but with the right tools, you can be smart about detecting and stopping breaches. Furthermore, once detected, you must follow the relevant breach reporting requirements.
These four points cannot be addressed through internal surveys, interviews, and training. To do it right, you must adopt technology solutions. Adopting new technologies requires an investment of time and money, but so does addressing corrective actions from regulators and class action lawsuits. Can you guess which one is more costly?
Sagi Leizerov, Ph.D., SVP Enterprise Privacy Solutions at Dataguise
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Beacons for the Blind
Before a genetic disease damaged Michael Hancock’s vision, he was an avid pilot, an avocation that inspired his current research. Hancock, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, has developed a system of infrared beacons that will help blind people find their way inside unfamiliar buildings. He calls his invention find, for friendly infrared navigation device, and modeled it after aircraft navigation technology.
The beacons in Hancock’s system are placed over office doors, rest rooms, water fountains, and elevators, or at relay points like hallway intersections. Each beacon sends a set of numbers, coded in infrared signals, down both directions of a hallway. The beacons flash one after the other, rather than simultaneously, to prevent interference among the signals. The numbers indicate the room, floor, and hallway where the beacons are located. To get to a room marked by a beacon, you use a small receiver, about the size of a television remote-control unit, which picks up the infrared signals. Using a braille list, you punch in a room number and then point the receiver around until it finds the infrared signal of the closest beacon.
The receiver is programmed to know which beacons are between you and the target beacon. If the room you want is on a different floor, the receiver will automatically send you to an elevator. But if the first beacon the receiver picks up is on the way to the destination, the receiver beeps (or if a person is also deaf, it vibrates). If that beacon is not on the way, you sweep the receiver around until it finds one that is. As long as you’re hearing those beeps, you’re on course, says Hancock.
Once you are in the right hallway and within 100 feet of your destination, the receiver will pick up the target beacon and lock out all other signals, giving you double beeps to tell you that you’ve found the right beacon. When you are within three feet of the room, a weaker beacon, placed lower on the wall, takes over and guides you with triple beeps to the doorknob.
Hancock is working on improving the system. He has just installed a voice chip in the receiver to replace some of the beeps with spoken directions. To date he has successfully tested FIND at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Austin. For blind children that go to school, this system would give them some independence, says Hancock. They wouldn’t have to have a buddy take them places.
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Legends of Tomorrow: The Magnificent Eight
by Billie Doux
"Why can't a gang ever be a bunch of good guys?"
This episode was a lot of fun. Five minutes in the old West town of Salvation, and Sara had drunk Mick under the table, Leonard had outgunned a bad guy during a poker game, our guys started a barroom brawl, and then they started a war with the Stillwater gang. And people died. Which could change the timeline.
Come on. This "let's go hide in a time fragmentation" is ridiculous. We keep being told that the Legends are not supposed to screw with the timeline, but that's what they do, and Rip keeps letting them do it. And that's because there would be no point to this series without meddling in the timeline. Frankly, Legends of Tomorrow needs to be like Quantum Leap, "putting right what once went wrong."
And maybe that's where the series is going. Because Martin Stein just saved a boy's life, and that boy clearly was supposed to live, become H.G. Wells, and write famous science fiction novels, including a masterpiece about time travel. I'm going to just ignore the fact that H.G. Wells lived on another continent, and that the lung damage from tuberculosis that advanced couldn't be reversed in a day.
This was Ray's episode, and Brandon Routh kept making me laugh out loud. This time he got to be John Wayne, the new sheriff, and he saved the town from the bad guys. Or at least he did it with the help of the other Legends as well as the mysterious Jonah Hex, whom I'm told has an interesting comic book background. Whatever. Jonah had, like, the best costume ever. My favorite moment was Jonah crossing himself when he saw Martin and Jax turn into Firestorm. In fact, that whole fight scene with the superheroes, the Hunters and their ray guns was terrific. Too funny.
Even though I haven't been all that interested in Rip (so far, anyway), his previous relationship with Jonah Hex made me want to know more. Did they meet in Calvert, Oklahoma in 1868, or did they know each other before? How did Jonah learn about time travel? Why did he give Rip his duster? Did Rip name his son Jonas after Jonah? Rip hated leaving Calvert to its fate because he feels the pull of heroism. Another clue that this series has to change in order to work.
Speaking of change, Mick has become fascinating, hasn't he? He's gone from angry and somewhat moronic comic relief to the second most experienced time traveler in the cast, with untold years spent at the Vanishing Point and apparently, a new interest in being a "good boy." Mick knows who the Hunters are, and he's familiar with the Pilgrim, the Time Master's most deadly assassin, who will be pulling a Terminator and going after their younger selves. Clearly, starting with Mick in Central City, 1990. Which makes me want to watch next week's episode right the heck now.
Maybe the point of this series is to just have time travel fun. Because note which episodes are the most fun. I'll give you a hint: the ones that don't feature Vandal Savage. Plus, as much as I like the friendship between Sara and Kendra, the only two women in the Legends crew, the story always slows down when we get to the Hawks. It's too bad, because Kendra interacting with an earlier version of herself could have been fascinating. Instead, it was again all about yeah, yeah, yeah, Carter is the only man for Kendra, her relationship with Ray is doomed to heartbreak and tragedy. Isn't Kendra's relationship with Carter essentially tragic, too? I'm tired of this love triangle already, even with one of its participants dead and buried. You can just feel that Carter is on his way back.
I also kept thinking that Sara was so happy and enjoying herself in the old West, but, and I'm going to put this particular spoiler in white in case you haven't seen the Arrow episode "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" (highlight to read) she would feel quite differently if she knew that her sister Laurel just died.
Everybody remember where we parked:
-- This week: the town of Salvation in the Dakota Territory, 1871. Kendra's earlier self met Hannibal Hawkes (Carter) in 1830. And we learned that any object present at the Hawk's first death can be used to kill Savage, even a bracelet. It would be cool if Kendra took out Vandal Savage with a bracelet.
-- Martin Stein revealed that his father was a criminal and a gambler. I liked the way he told Snart that "like father, like son isn't inevitable."
-- I loved all the costumes in this episode, not just Jonah Hex's. Brandon Routh rocked his western attire. Leonard Snart looked terrific all in black; it went well with his fading facial bruises. Sara looked great dressed as a guy, too.
-- I also loved Ray mentioning to Jonah that they could fix his face on the ship. Lol.
-- This week while watching Supergirl, I started wondering what they'd do if they have to cast her cousin and it occurred to me that they have Brandon Routh working in the very same DC universe. He not only looks the part, he's played the part. Am I nuts? Too obvious?
Kendra: "That tastes like gasoline."
Mick: "Pretty much. Hit me again."
Martin: "You killed him."
Leonard: "You're welcome."
Rip: "What is it about you people that whenever we go to a new timeline, you feel the need to pick up strays?"
Jonah: "Those boys you were trading hands with in the saloon, they all members of the Stillwater Gang."
Ray: "Why can't a gang ever be a bunch of good guys?"
Ray: "Look, this town is being terrorized by the Stillwater Gang. And I aim to do something about it."
Mick: "You 'aim to'? You getting all native on us, haircut."
Jonah: "For a bunch of time travelers, you don't seem to understand the future much."
Three out of four glowing six-guns,
Billie Doux loves good television and spends way too much time writing about it.
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percysowner said...
Once they have wrapped up the Vandal Savage storyline, I think it would be great if they morphed to a Quantum Leap philosophy. It would give the show a continuing concept that works and would help give all their meddling purpose. Have stopping Vandal Savage have consequences in the time line that they need to clean up for their world to exist. And ditch the Hawk people, because they aren't working for me either.
Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 11:22:00 AM EDT
I really liked this. I just wish we could spend more time on Kendra and Sara being badass and less on Kendra's romantic woes.
Ray shone here, I really like his optimism. Miller looked fab as ever. So glad Mick is back on the team.
Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 4:29:00 AM EDT
I cant wait til Ray meets Kara, or even superman if they manage to squeeze him into the crossover
Saturday, October 29, 2016 at 4:23:00 AM EDT
I think the best thing about this episode was that Vandall Savage wasn't in it. Also Jonah Hex is always amazing.
Time travel seems to work the opposite on this show as it does on The Flash. Case in point, H. G. Wells needed to be saved. My brain hurts.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 3:19:00 PM EST
An Honest Fangirl said...
I got very annoyed at younger Kendra saying that any romantic relationship with anyone other than Carter was doomed to heartbreak or tragedy. I literally yelled at my screen "It ends in death with Carter!" Ugh. If you're going to put Ray and Kendra together, then just let them be freaking happy for once without the specter of Carter looming over them.
I liked how Snart immediately said that they couldn't leave Jax behind.
Whelp, those Hunters weren't really much of a threat. I hope that Pilgrim is a bigger one.
Sunday, April 1, 2018 at 9:42:00 PM EDT
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Thinking ’bout the Things
Afric McGlinchey
Shiner, by Eva HD, Mansfield Press, 108 pp, $17.00, ISBN: 978-1771261210
Eva HD’s first book of poetry, Rotten Perfect Mouth, was published by Mansfield Press in 2015. Shiner followed a year later. A science lecturer and poet friend of mine, who is disdainful of most poetry, introduced me to her. “Now there’s a poet worth reading,” he said. With my expectations set somewhat higher than usual, I dived in.
“Our mouth is open, and what are we expecting?” So begins the first poem in Shiner. A few lines on, the “we” becomes a singular entity, which metamorphoses a couple of lines later into “carp walking on down the street”. In the surreal image, there is, perhaps, a hint of Beckett’s sense of the absurd, and also the state of his existential crisis in The Unnameable: “thirsting away, you don’t know what for”.
As with her debut, the strongest impression in Shiner is of her casual register (she often uses words like “dunno” and “uh”) and her focus on what Heidegger refers to as the thingness of things. While being swept along in a storm of detail, the reader becomes aware of a troubled consciousness, though the occasional indications are wry and anti-sentimental. At a family lunch where her aunt is offering her figs and her nephew “cat’s cradles his / fingers on my tongue”, she writes, “I’m running out of ways to say I’m fine and so I say I’m fine.” But in the very next sentence: “My nephew addresses / the insects personally and individually”. This is her particular talent – deflection.
Why is she not “fine”? The process of revelation is oblique, until “Thirty Eight Michigans” (a poem that won the prestigious Montreal poetry competition, judged by Eavan Boland). But even here, we find the speaker using a tone that elides full-frontal lamentation:
You are thirty-eight Michigans away from me,
thirty-eight wolverine states into your cups
in the sky, because being dead is like being
profoundly tanked, profound as an empty silo,
with your thoughts and your arms and your
credit cards ignoring you, just eyes, eyes, and behind
those eyes nothing, or the sky, or the smell of manure,
or thirty-eight Michigans of black, bloated ice.
With this long single opening sentence and unexpected juxtapositions of images, “we” (to borrow her implied complicity with the reader in her opening line) find ourselves being pulled along on a current, where “thirty-eight Michigans” becomes the impossibility of distance between the living and the dead. And yet it doesn’t stop the speaker from attempting a conversation.
Like Elizabeth Bishop, HD is aware of the power of anaphora: “just eyes, eyes, and behind / those eyes, nothing, or the sky, or the smell of manure”. While there is a flow that sounds spontaneous, the poem is calibrated so that one meaning is offered, and then immediately subverted. Her repetition of “profoundly” and “profound” in the same line is risky but she gets away with it because she links the adverb to “tanked” – implying both “very” and also “in that drunken stupor of deep revelation” – then undercuts it in the next phrase: “profound as an empty silo”. Tone in her work is often layered, and here the line could be seen to contain anger too, as well as a teasing sarcasm that may have gone on between them.
She goes on to loop one thought to the next, so thirty-eight Michigans becomes a unit of measurement: measuring distance in the first line, and depth in the second. The level of drunkenness implied is perhaps a rebellious, wild act, which brings her to “wolverine”, a motif in the collection. Her line ending also deliberately manipulates the sense: “into your cups / in the sky”. Where the thirty-eight states earlier implied a stretch of distance between the speaker and “you”, now the notion of death is introduced.
These container words – “cups”, “silo” (as well as the notion of a container in the word “tanked”) –allow for the possibility of the sky being seen as a container too: “and behind / those eyes, nothing, or the sky”. Though they might seem random, “your thoughts and your arms and your / credit cards” all suggest a significant relationship. The “ignoring you” could also be seen to slide in meaning from the “you” addressed to the speaker herself.
In the second stanza, by extending the conceit of the thirty-eight Michigans, a stronger sense of personality is evoked, as well as the closeness of their relationship:
One Michigan is bigger by far than a football field,
and two or ten is one of those I’m a man who needs
no woman type of motorcycle trips and fifteen is all the
old routes of tea or silk or spice or Trans-Siberian
misery rolled; but thirty-eight is the size of the space where Oh,
I need to call you, though laying hands upon
the phone I am repelled by a force field of practicality,
grasping at the incongruities of the calendar year and my
desire and your non-existence.
While her selection of end words in the first stanza appears judicious, as the poem progresses, weak line endings such as “the” and “my” slide into a haphazardness (also seen elsewhere in the collection), but this flaw does little to diminish the power of the poem. Another strangeness is the lack of hyphens in “I’m a man who needs no women type”, but again, this and the unfinished cliché, “rolled”, are part of her idiolect. In spite of the apparent openness, mystery is left intact. A reader might be tempted to guess at the cause of death, but there are so many options here. “Laying hands” affectingly evokes the biblical image of healing (and thus, an illness); the mention of motorbike road trips and black ice hint at an accident. And then, later in the poem, “balking at being” could imply suicidal thoughts. This is a poet who knows how to hold the interest of her reader. The poignancy of the elegy is all the more powerful for her strenuous avoidance of sentimentality: “I am repelled by a force field of practicality”. Another motif throughout the collection is a notation of time: the day, the month, the season; so here, “the incongruities of the calendar year” suddenly give all those earlier markers an emotional resonance.
HD is an observer who, to paraphrase Eavan Boland, forces the contours of ordinary reference and experience into a new shape. In one poem after the next, unsuspecting couples, old men, family members and even babies come under her scrutiny. The opening prose poem quoted from earlier eavesdrops on voices in a city street: “That one punk chick in the lace corset going I don’t like that guy, I never liked him, with the weird eyebrow? I don’t trust his face” (“Nuestra Boca Abierta”). But while she witnesses those around her with a detached irony, affection, bitterness, or even disgust, as with the opening sentence, she includes herself as well: “All my muscles are / unimpressed: with me, the air / the lovers in the park” (“Baseball On The Radio At Night”). It’s safe to say that she is disillusioned by life – or at least, people – in general. “If Dickens were alive today, he’d / call it Managing Expectations”, she writes in “Bootblack”.
Most of her usually long-lined poems are formed in irregular-sized stanzas, but she is fond of the sestina too, which, in this collection, are easy giveaways. There are no fewer than three, and I would say they are the least effective in the collection – due, perhaps, to some unsubtle end-word choices: “marble”, “ticket”, “birthday” etc. Her sonnets – there are several of these too – are much more successful.
A key concern for her is animal rights. She describes animal experiments and contrasts the restless pacing of creatures in the Detroit zoo with the way free wolverines “run and run, scale / sheer cliffs and sprint the far sides” of mountains. With cutting brevity she highlights the hypocrisy of seemingly caring carnivores and fish eaters: “Was this salmon wild / before it was dead?”
For Eva HD, “our lives are porous, slipping into one another” (“Feidakis’ Birds”) and this seems the overriding theme of the collection. Poems touch on current world affairs, pop culture, history, music, religion. In her “Aubade in Eleven Postcards” she addresses Oppenheimer, Alex Bell, the French painter Albert Marquet, and St Christopher, among others.
Perhaps she sees gender as porous too, often using “you” to avoid gender pronouns. In a hospital visit, only the patient’s age is indicated: “phlegm hides in a crocheted pocket of crinkled neck”. Gender-avoidance, where it occurs, might, of course, be to disguise the person she is writing about. Elsewhere, men are more overtly visible than women. There is a general masculine energy throughout, not least because of casual conversations with a male taxi driver, a crazy character on a bench, old men in the square and fishermen down by the harbour. Scraps of conversation are frequently relayed. “I wonder if something could be done for the pain”, she says to a night nurse, Petros, who replies, “No. It’s important to suffer before you die.”
I owe my scientist/poet friend a pint for introducing this book to me. There is subtlety in the emotional range of Eva HD’s work, and the content conveys a restless, disquieted consciousness. But it is her idiosyncratic personal music in particular that captivates. In Eavan Boland’s words, this is a voice that “is making its own reality with a devil-take-the-hindmost defiance”.
Afric McGlinchey’s second poetry collection, Ghost of the Fisher Cat (Salmon Poetry), was nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. www.africmcglinchey.com
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Hampton Downs 101: what did we learn?
By Matthew Hansen • 04/11/2016
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Rating and debating the first ever Hampton Downs 101
It’s been four days since the inaugural Hampton Downs 101 endurance event, and the motorsport world in these parts has already moved on to the next big meeting — this weekend’s ITM Auckland SuperSprint.
But the importance of the 101 cannot be underestimated. Voices everywhere are telling us that these GT3-spec cars are the future of mainstream Australasian motorsport. These are meant to be the future — the replacement to the so-called V8 ‘cookie-cutter dinosaurs’ of that ‘other’ series.
So how did they go? Did the 101 stake a claim to topple the Supercars in a straight one-on-one double-fister in the proverbial dark alleyway? Does the sport have a new king?
Well, nah. Not quite anyway.
I attended for three days photographing and writing for the NZ Herald and Driven, and there were plenty of things to like as well as a few things to grumble about.
The most important element, above all else, was the crowd. And I’m quite happy to report that it was very healthy indeed.
Anecdotally the largest crowd Hampton Downs has ever seen since it was built is the supposed 25,000 who watched the first ever round of the V8 SuperTourers. Talking around to others who worked for the V8ST team at the time however, the number was closer to 12,000.
However, I’d like to think that I’ve attended every ‘major’ event at Hampton Downs since, and nothing’s ever come close to matching it — until last weekend.
The number 20,000 has been thrown around in terms of weekend attendance, but I'm hesitant to buy it — happy to be proven wrong, but the crowd appeared less significant than the 12,000 that viewed the SuperTourers. Not knocking the organization; it was still an incredible crowd — one they should be proud of.
The people came in droves on both Saturday and Sunday, and were quite well spread out. Most gathered on the hill on the outside of Porsche Dipper or on the outside of the front straight, but people were also in places three or four deep towards the other end of the circuit overlooking the track extension.
In fact there were so many people that I overheard discussions about people having to bring in more food stands for the Sunday, which is something rarely ever said at any other domestic race event.
On the note of food, options were stellar. Even the typical hot chips and hot dog were of an improved quality — let alone the plethora of other options suitable for just about anyone. I had Pita Pit on Saturday, a Lebanese kebab on Sunday, and was more than content.
Playing devil’s advocate for a second, it should be noted that getting a large crowd to an inaugural event like the 101 should in theory be quite easy.
The product is flash and new, and therefore should be an attractive proposition to the average punter. The hard bit is when you have to convince that same punter to come back the next year, and the year after, and the year after …
The new circuit had its good and bad points. Sadly it’s a relatively follow-the-leader affair, as noted by young Richard Moore when I queried the Kiwi about it on the Friday afternoon.
“It's tight and it’s technical. It's a lot of fun. You'll be able to pass into what is now turn two, but from there on it's pretty much going to be a procession. Which is a bit of a shame, but it's a really, really cool layout,” he said.
On a positive note though, it creates some excellent photo spots, and the growingly infamous ‘Double Bastard’ corner is the kind of curve ball a lot of modern racers rarely face. In the age of Herman Tilke–designed tracks, full of friendly corners and huge run-off areas, it’s nice to make drivers have to deal with a corner that looks like a complete train wreck.
And what of the racing? Well it wasn’t the typical rough and tumble that some spectators may have been hoping for judging by Driven’s own unscientific online poll.
The beauty of the rivaling Supercars Championship is that passes can be performed with a spot of rubbing and swapped paint. GT racing however involves cars that are much more fragile, making bump and grind a cardinal no no.
As a result, the dynamic of the races change. And factor that into an endurance format, and you can understand why a portion of Sunday’s race was perhaps a little bit ‘follow the leader’.
The Australian GT Championship’s staggered pit-stop regulations ensured that there was a requisite amount of passing, as quicker cars got hobbled out of leading positions at each pit cycle. But for some that didn’t seem to be enough.
At the very least, there was drama. A potential fairy tale of epic proportions looked set to take place; little-known Aucklander Graeme Smyth looking set to stun the field and win for Maranello Motorsport in an antique Ferrari 458 GT3 with 10 laps to go. But a late safety car created some good old fashioned drama — as we reported earlier.
Smyth was devastated. But his loss was in a way a saving grace for the race — ensuring that the first Hampton Downs 101 was going to be remembered as a savage and unforgiving race.
The problem was that while us in the media room — with our monitors and live timing, were able to follow proceedings with reasonable ability — the crowd weren't so lucky. If they had a radio and ear-phones tuned into the commentary, they were fine, but for the majority of others it was a struggle without the aid of a big screen.
I’m now interested to see what those at Hampton Downs do over the next 12 months to make things bigger and better for 2017. Time will tell whether our wee little country can sustain three marquee motorsport events in a single month.
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What is Neuromyelitis optica (NMO)?
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an uncommon disease syndrome of the central nervous system (CNS) that affects the optic nerves and spinal cord. Individuals with NMO develop optic neuritis, that is inflammation of the optic nerve, which causes pain in the eye and vision loss, and transverse myelitis, which is inflammation of the spinal cord, causing weakness, numbness, and sometimes paralysis of the arms and legs, along with sensory disturbances and loss of bladder and bowel control. NMO leads to loss of myelin, which is a fatty substance that surrounds nerve fibers and helps nerve signals move from cell to cell. The syndrome can also damage nerve fibers and leave areas of broken-down tissue. In the disease process of NMO, for reasons that aren’t yet clear, immune system cells and antibodies attack and destroy myelin cells in the optic nerves and the spinal cord. In some ways NMO acts like MS, but is more severe and acute, typically. As with many other conditions, PEMFs are not likely to cure the condition but may be very useful in a supportive role to decrease complications and support the tissues. Nutrition and use of supplements specific for inflammation and the nervous system are also necessary to enhance the value of PEMFs.
What can PEMFs do for people with Neuromyelitis optica (NMO)?
PEMFs would be expected to reduce inflammation, improve the capacity of the cells to absorb nutrients and supplements and possibly even potentially to help recover nerve cell damage. There were two studies on MS reported in my book, Magnetic therapy in Eastern Europe. All treatments produced some benefit but two treatment courses with PEMF exposures from shoulders to legs, in 3 regions, for 10 minutes each exposure, were better than any other treatment option at a statistically very significant level. The author concluded that magnetic therapy was always well tolerated and because this method is simple, it is useful in the outpatient care of MS patients, in both improving subjective and objective functional use of muscles. Similar results were seen with another study in improvements in ambulation. Because NMO and MS are similar in several ways clinically, the benefits seen with MS patients may be reasonably expected with NMO.
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Phil Spencer now head of Xbox
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Microsoft has announced that Phil Spencer is the new head over at Xbox, taking over for Marc Whitten, the latest executive to leave the company.
Spencer, formerly head of Microsoft Game Studios, seems the appropriate and natural fit for the role which includes directing the teams responsible for Xbox Live, Xbox Music, and Xbox Video, as well as Microsoft Studios.
I will now be leading the Xbox, Xbox Live, and creative teams including Xbox Music, Xbox Video and Microsoft Studios as we deliver the next generation of games and entertainment. Combining these teams will strengthen the connection between some of the world’s most innovative creators and those building the Xbox itself. I am incredibly proud of the talented Xbox employees around the world and believe, like they do, in the power of technology to bring games and entertainment to life across console, PC, tablet and mobile devices. It’s been a remarkable year for Xbox and I am honored to lead the team at this incredible time for Microsoft and the games industry.
We’re curious to see what other changes we’ll see at Microsoft in the time before E3 2014, and we will of course keep you updated on all of it.
What do you think of Spencer’s new role? Is it too much, too soon? Or is he just the guy Microsoft needs heading up the new gaming front in Redmond? Let us know on Twitter and Facebook, and of course, in the comments below!
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Your Attention is a Battlefield: Unsound Festival Review
One moment at Unsound Festival typified why this year’s theme, “Surprise,” was a pertinent experiment. In the midst of peak time during Friday night’s club-oriented program at Hotel Forum, the crowd lost its collective shit to nothing more than a blacked out stage, white lights and beatless builds of sound that never resolved. The audio was distinctly not the sort to excite a juiced-up crowd; it consisted of endlessly unspooling Shepard tones and extreme volume levels, and as the frequencies rose and fell you could feel your eardrums resonating in sympathy. White beams of light were mounted on multidimensional axes, and their rays carved shapes above the crowd that beautifully enunciated the drifting tones of the audio…and people were carrying on like teens at an EDM show. Grown men screamed and wooed to raw sound and light. People turned to each other in disbelief and elation. Best of all, this amazing energy was directed at the experience itself rather than an artist. There was no need to hallucinate a controlling hand behind the light and darkness. Human agency ceased to matter and for just a moment sound was free.
For its ninth annual installment, the Krakow-based and globally oriented festival declined to announce large swathes of a bill that drew together forgotten maverick composers, up-to-the-minute grime mutants, splashings of metal and much more. Where events like Budapest’s UH Festival cater directly to the margins with programming that mostly consists of sit-down performances by noise-jazz musicians and academic contemporary composers, Unsound takes a more populist route in connecting the dots between diverse scenes, styles and localities. Their concept of “experimental” isn’t as difficult as you might think, as it includes plenty of four-on-the-floor dance music from fundamental Detroit pioneers like Richie Hawtin and DJ Bone and live techno sets that toe a familiar line.
Unsound’s inclusive and comparatively accessible bookings have contributed to its stature as arguably the most popular festival in its growing field of “adventurous” events. Unsound tends to occur on the same week as corporate industry festival ADE, and both perform similar networking functions for their respective taste cultures. Like other events in the non-profit network of independent festivals devoted to “advancing sound cultures,” ICAS, such as UH, CTM and Mutek, Unsound programs lectures, films and intimate events in daylight hours before descending into concerts and club nights in the evenings over the course of eight days.
The curators’ decision to keep things under wraps was an act of revealing by concealment; not knowing who or what you’re seeing—or more importantly, not caring—is a vitally important aspect of musical experience that seems antithetical to the big modern festival. Rather than try to navigate this tension, Unsound created set-piece conditions and left the audiences to make of them what they would. There were equal opportunities for transcendence and confusion, so in that sense, some of the surprises acted as Rorschach tests upon which crowds projected a collective groupthink that shaped the ultimate mood of each performance. While to some the concept felt at times like an annoying or manipulative gimmick, the point was that such opinions, negative or otherwise, were up to the individuals in the audience.
The openness also served to illuminate some of the difficult issues facing the state of modern listening itself. Consider the aforementioned performance from Friday night in contrast to Thursday’s event in the Wieliczka salt mine. The combination of a Twitter-happy audience and a hyper abundance of make-believe catalyzed a wild goose chase for an absent Burial. A few misguided Twitter dispatches that the bass music luminary was performing for the first time at Unsound lit the Internet afire and led to a deluge of dodgy “reporting” from apparently believable sources and the odd themed meme (we also created an opportunistic Burial-themed post poking fun at the commotion).
Burialgate showed that even when people are presented with a fleeting opportunity to just listen, they continue to ask questions that really couldn’t matter less. Think about that tendency, a scarily strong urge to look beyond the experience itself and into some fucked-up concept of knowledge. Then think of the Friday performance wherein the audience submitted to the unknown and felt something revelatory, elemental and structural. The former is a tendency that turns music into a facade, a playing field for petty games that have little to do with music’s greatest powers. Call me hyperbolic but I believe this same inability to just stop for a second is the germ cell of evil. It’s the same strain of hyperactivity that divided frequency into 12 black and white keys. It’s the same tendency that made us unable to pay attention to music for more than a few minutes. It’s the same tendency that streamlined all musical development into the lubrication of commercial exchange. The Friday performance (later revealed to be Cologne-based A-Musik and Mego alumni Marcus Schmickler), was the complete opposite. It was indicative of openness. It was the germ cell of peace.
Maybe this is a lot to draw out of a music festival, but I feel it’s important to state because an event like Unsound shows that these opposing forces are easily confused and increasingly exist in close proximity to each other, especially when we consider the rise of “adventurous” music festivals, many of them taking direct cues from Unsound. What’s more, many industry types, artists, label heads and fans purport to stand for open listening yet invariably prop up a more caffeinated perspective. What’s cool about Unsound is that it makes such a dialogue possible but it doesn’t demand you do anything in particular with it. So while on the one hand it was an unparalleled success in a curatorial sense and shamed most every festival of comparable size and vision, it also touches on the terminal issues facing music in the 21st century.
Published October 22, 2015.
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Debates over intellectual property often assume that recognition of any property element in intellectual property leads to overprotection, and that ‘governance’ is a counterpoint to the excesses of property protection. In this chapter I show that governance is itself a property device, one that not only substitutes for exclusion but often works in tandem with exclusion rights. A governance strategy allocates entitlements more directly based on use than does exclusion, and helps define modular packages of rights. For ‘fluid’ property, of which property in a nonrival resource like information is a prominent example, governance is especially important, because multiple use is crucial and it is difficult to separate out ‘things’ for property protection. The role of governance in intellectual property helps explain the difference between patent and copyright, the strengths and weaknesses of licensing, the role of equity, and the importance of group institutions.
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Leading scholars in the field of law and economics contribute their original theoretical and empirical research to this major Handbook. Each chapter analyzes the basic architecture and important features of the institutions of property law from an economic point of view, while also providing an introduction to the issues and literature.
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Yun-chien Chang and Henry E. Smith
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Thomas W. Merrill and Henry E. Smith
Avoiding the reduction of property to a bundle of rights or to the working out of a single master principle, the architectural theory of property sees property as an integrated system or structure anchored in certain unifying principles. Because our world is neither chaotic nor additively simple, property law and institutions must achieve their plural ends in a fashion that manages the inherent complexity of the interaction of valued resource attributes and human actions. In managing complexity, some of the law’s structures receive functional explanations and justifications that differ from the explanations and justifications that apply to the system as a whole. In working as a whole, the system exhibits a number of tightly interwoven design principles, including: the centrality of things, rights to exclude and possession, hybrids of exclusion and governance, modularity, differential formalism, standardization and the numerus clausus, and “property rule” protection and equity. The architectural approach allows us to revisit some basic questions in property theory and to capture the dynamic reality of property law and institutions.
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ECNL “RESILIENCE IN A CRISIS” WEBINAR WITH CHIEF MENTAL PERFORMANCE ADVISOR CRISTINA FINK TO BROADCAST THURSDAY
RICHMOND, VA (August 24, 2020) – The Elite Clubs National League will host an educational webinar “Resilience in a Crisis” on Thursday, August 27, 8 PM ET, providing strategies to cope effectively and support players during times of COVID-19.
The webinar will be presented by the ECNL Chief Mental Performance Advisor, Dr. Cristina Fink, and moderated by ECNL Boys Commissioner, Jason Kutney. Dr. Fink will share thoughts and strategies on how to help players deal with uncertainty, anxiety and stress.
Coaches, administrators and parents are encouraged to join and gain insights to support our nation’s youth athletes who have been significantly impacted by COVID-19. The ECNL has coordinated this education session in response to recent studies that have shown that the rates of anxiety and depression among youth athletes have significantly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the webinar Dr. Fink will share tips and tools that she has used to help world-class athletes manage uncertainty, anxiety and stress, including four R’s to resilience:
Recognize: Acknowledge your emotions, understand what is causing your emotional reaction
Regain Control: Take a time out to manage the emotions you have
Rationalize: Restate the situation as objectively as possible using facts, not emotions
Re-focus: Re- focus on the goal, others involved, a possible solution…
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Cristina Fink, PhD, is a highly experienced performance psychologist with over 25 years of experience in teaching, counseling and sport administration. Counseling clients include Olympic Medalists and World Champions as well as professional and national soccer teams. She was the Sport Psychologist for several teams in the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games. She competed in two Olympic Games (Seoul 1988 and Barcelona 1992) and held the Mexican High Jump Record with a 6’4” (1.94) jump for 22 years.
Cristina is the author of a number of published papers and books, and a keynote speaker in many national and international conferences. She is the Associate Athletic Director for Student Athlete Welfare at Rowan University. She works with INFP (International Network of Football Psychologists) where her peer group includes sport psychologists from top professional European clubs. She is in charge of Performance Psychology for the Football Science Institute FSI.
Jason Kutney is the ECNL Boys Commissioner, a position he took in early 2019 with a focus on expanding the League to meet the needs of the nation’s top youth athletes. Previously, Kutney was the Sporting Director and CEO of the Pittsburgh Riverhounds, and was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2013 for his involvement in the Highmark Stadium project, after a 9-year professional playing career in the A-League and USL.
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On 12th May 2014, on International Nurses Day, Rob resigned his full-time position at Qld Health, and commenced full time as director and principal educator of ECT4Health. Since committing full-time, the ECT4Health team have delivered over 260 seminars and workshops and enjoyed over 7 CPD cruising holidays with groups of Nurses and Paramedics.
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Trauma is a public health crisis in the United States that especially impacts vulnerable populations and increases risk of severe emotional disturbance and mental illness. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), more than two‑thirds of children reported at least one traumatic event by age 16.
Due to this crisis, programs and organizations that serve children and families are increasingly turning toward trauma-informed approaches to mitigate and prevent the effects of childhood trauma. Although pockets of innovative work to adopt and hone trauma-informed approaches is happening nationwide, cross-systems coordination that could strengthen these efforts has remained limited, strained, or absent.
To address this issue, our team at EDC partnered with James Bell Associates (JBA) on a two-year study entitled Trauma-Informed Approaches: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice to Build Resilience in Children and Families. Funded by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), the study’s goal was threefold:
1. Identify promising models and strategies that build resilience in communities
2. Document common elements leading to positive impacts
3. Illuminate gaps to inform future policy and research efforts
Working closely with JBA, we convened a group of trauma experts, conducted key informant interviews, and co-authored several publications that are designed to advance efforts to facilitate collaboration, cross-sector learning, and evaluation capacity-building in trauma-informed care.
Products and publications stemming from this work follow:
A research brief including 33 studies on systems-level trauma-informed approaches summarizing program activities, targeted outcomes, and evidence of progress toward those systems-level outcomes
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How can stakeholders achieve a common understanding of what it means to be trauma-informed?
How can stakeholders support a trauma-informed workforce?
How can stakeholders strengthen measurement and build evidence of impacts?
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This important work helps to promote understanding of how state and local child- and family-serving systems define trauma-informed approaches, the outcomes targeted by these approaches, and the evidence of progress toward these outcomes.
We invite you to visit the EDC project page on trauma-informed approaches to learn more about these endeavors and some of the key impacts of the work.
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They're too expensive for their limited functionality.
Devindra Hardawar, @devindra
Entertainment System Controllers
Critic 5 Reviews
Users 1 Reviews
Type Controller / gamepad
Connection Wireless
Console compatibility Nintendo
How much would you pay to be transported back into the 8-bit era? Nintendo already gave us a taste of nostalgia with the $60 NES Classic, and now it's offering a similar experience with a pair of NES controllers for the Switch. The big downsides: They also cost $60 and they're only available for Switch Online subscribers. And, not that this comes as a surprise, they're practically useless outside of NES games on the Switch.
Engadget Score
Uninspiring
Looks and feels just like the original
Wireless connectivity works well
Only useful for NES titles
Requires Switch Online subscription
Nintendo’s NES gamepads for the Switch are pretty much what you’d expect: a dose of retro action in a pricey, wireless shell. They’re great for emulated NES titles, but basically useless elsewhere.
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I'll be honest, I've never really liked the NES controller. As a kid, I hated the way it dug into my palms and lacked any sort of contours. When the SNES arrived with its more ergonomic gamepad, which also featured more buttons on the front, and better directional pad and shoulder buttons, I was happy to let my NES gather dust. (The SNES controller was such a groundbreaking design that its influence is still felt today -- you can see traces of it in all of Sony and Microsoft's gamepads.) But in retrospect, I can see how important the NES controller was for the gaming world. It represented a huge leap over the clunky joysticks and huge keyboards earlier consoles came with. It was simple and approachable, something kids and adults alike could use with zero training.
The Switch NES controllers look just like the original, with the same blocky corners, plastic-yet-solid construction and concave buttons that hold your fingers just right. But of course, there are some major differences: They're wireless, and they feature L and R buttons at the top, nestled into a Switch rail connection. You charge them by sliding them onto your Switch while it's docked. But unlike the console's Joy-Cons, you're not meant to hold the Switch while the NES pads are connected. They're solely meant for detached wireless play.
After sliding on the controllers and running through a system update, I was ready for some retro action. That's when I ran into my first issue: They can't get to the home screen in normal Switch games. My console automatically resumed Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and I was annoyed to find that I had no way to exit the game with the NES controller. I had to turn on a Joy-Con just to do that. Once I got back to the home screen, I had no trouble navigating around and launching the NES game collection on the retro gamepad.
My main testing criteria for NES emulators and gear is simple: How well do they play Super Mario Bros. 3? It's 8-bit platforming at its most refined, which makes it a great test for controller accuracy and reliability. As I re-learned how to fly Racoon Mario and traversed the first world of the game, I was surprised to find that I genuinely enjoyed using the NES gamepad. It was like flashing back to my childhood bedroom, where I'd spend hours diving into Mario 3 with my younger brother.
Of course, the controller feels much smaller now in my grown-up hands, and it's far from ergonomic. But it's well suited for a game like Mario 3, where you need to hold down the B button to run, while occasionally rocking your thumb on the A button to jump. That's what I spent years doing as a kid, and it just feels more natural when the buttons are laid out horizontally, instead of the angled positioning on modern controllers. It might just be muscle memory, but I felt far more comfortable playing Mario 3 on the NES pad compared to either the Joy-Cons or pricey Switch Pro Controller. Jumping into River City Ransom and Ninja Gaiden was a similar blast from the past -- beating up street thugs and ninja jumping across obstacles felt just as good as before.
But does anyone really need the NES gamepads? That's the tougher question. At $60 for the pair, it seems insanely expensive for controllers that are only meant for emulated NES titles. And don't forget you'll also have to subscribe to the Switch Online service ($20 a year for individuals, $35 a year for families) to play those games. You're better off just shelling out $70 for the Switch Pro controller, which is a huge upgrade over the standard Joy-Cons for most modern titles. The NES gamepads might be an easier sell if they were closer to $40, at least then it wouldn't feel like you're shelling out for a full-priced game.
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Digital Media concept Wall of screens smart TV
February in numbers: television
January, the month of resolutions. Whilst some opt for the treadmill sprints, others avoid the shin splints—retiring to the couch to watch the box.
The BBC triumphed in the January ratings, taking home 32.2 per cent of the total viewing shares with viewers loyally tuning into Call the Midwife, Silent Witness and McMafia. The BBC widened the gap and left its competitors almost 10 per cent behind, with ITV’s total viewing share coming in at 23 per cent.
ITV was particularly tested by the BBC when – on the final Sunday of January – ITV broadcast Piers Morgan’s interview with Donald Trump, the first international interview he has agreed to since becoming president. Despite pre-broadcast anticipation on social media, the BBC News at Ten took home the gold with an audience of 3.9 million, compared to 3 million for the Trump interview.
However, it is not all doom and gloom for ITV. Whilst the battle for Saturday night ratings has calmed since the end of Strictly Come Dancing and the X Factor, ITV’s The Voice UK has subsequently filled the Saturday night gap. The BBC attempted to compete this month with the launch of their new game show, All Together Now. However, ITV withstood the challenge—The Voice UK averaged 5.4 million viewers compared to the 3.6 million tuning in to All Together Now.
Above the Fold MediaAll Together NowBBCBBC News at TenCall the MidwifeDonald TrumpITVMcMafiaPiers MorganSilent WitnessStrictly Come DancingThe Voice UKX Factor
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CLEMSON PINT: Sean Pollard
Clemson offensive lineman, Sean Pollard, addressed the media on Thursday after the Tigers third and final 'Live Scrimmage' of fall camp.
Pollard on offensive line depth in 2018 compared to previous years...
"I thought we were deep every year. In my opinion we've always had functional depth....We've had a lot of o-line play a lot of ball. It's nice to have that and it's a blessing to have that."
Pollard on his move to the offensive guard position...
"I've enjoyed it. Coaches said 'you're moving to guard,' yes sir. I really didn't ask questions. Battling Dexter [Lawrence] and Christian Wilkins is a little bit different than Austin [Bryant] and [Clelin Ferrell]. But it's been fun, I've enjoyed it. I played guard in high school. Haven't since my sophomore year so it's a bit of a learning curve but it's gotten easier since spring."
Pollard on getting to battle the 'hyped' defensive line every practice...
"You're going against the best defensive line in the country. Obviously every day I'm not gonna come out smiling like I'm excited I get to go against that defense. But it's also a blessing. We realize [Coach Venables] is the best d-coordinator in the country, the best d-line in the country, I mean, we're gonna see more on our practice field then we do in games."
"Some days it sucks but it's a good feeling to know you're going against them every day and getting better."
Pollard on if he thinks O-Line has been holding their own against D-Line...
"I think so. Yall heard about the first scrimmage, second scrimmage was a good battle and third scrimmage was a great battle today. We're definitely having fun and definitely holding our own, we're not just getting destroyed."
"Overall it's just a blessing going against them. Iron sharpens iron for sure."
Pollard on other offensive lineman who don't get a lot of publicity...
"[Matt Bockhorst] has a nastiness in him. It's crazy. He'll finish all the D-linemen. They'll get aggravated with him but they respect him cause he's definitely gonna play till the whistle."
"[Blake Vinson] is smart and he's fast."
"And [Cade Stewart] is a baller. He's so strong. He ran just as fast as some of the nose guards did so he's an athlete. And it's just fun having competition."
Pollard on Lyn-J Dixon and how he compares to where Etienne was this time last year...
"[Coach Elliott] goes and finds them and it's awesome. The O-line, we don't block for just one person, we block for everyone. We make holes. We know we have great running backs across the board that are gonna be able to make plays. As a freshman he's doing great. He runs hard, he runs fast and he doesn't take any prisoners. He runs straight downhill and it's awesome to see."
Pollard on what he's seen out of Gage Cervenka...
"He's great. I would trust him in a game. He knows what he's doing. He's smart, he's strong, he's athletic; that's all you need in a center. He's doing really well all camp. He's probably had his best camp since he's been here. He's improved. He's a true student of the game. He's taken a pride in his craft and has gotten so much better just like the whole O-line has this fall camp."
Pollard on the challenges with moving from Tackle to Guard...
"Footwork's hard and it's the most important thing but it's just how quick everything gets on you. At tackle you can kind of sit back and watch things play out - at guard you don't have that time. You gotta step and you gotta react. It's all reactionary. If your footwork's not key, you're not gonna pick up stuff on the inside. At guard, you have to rely on your footwork."
Pollard on coaches saying it was Kelly Bryant's best day of camp...
"I was blocking for him. On O-line, we know what we're suppose to do, we're not gonna question our quarterbacks. They're all really good players; every single one of them can go out there and start for us and play. All I know is when we block for any of them, they're all gonna make completions cause they're all great quarterbacks. So as the O-line, we take pride in keeping them clean so they can go out and show out."
"If Kelly's having a great day, then his O-line had a great day too. I don't know what the quarterback's suppose to do but if they said he had a great day then he had a great day."
Sean Pollard
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