pred_label
stringclasses 2
values | pred_label_prob
float64 0.5
1
| wiki_prob
float64 0.25
1
| text
stringlengths 57
1.01M
| source
stringlengths 39
45
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
__label__wiki
| 0.89049
| 0.89049
|
Archives audit shows 1 in 3 records improperly reclassified
NEWS MEDIA UPDATE · WASHINGTON, D.C.
NEWS MEDIA UPDATE · WASHINGTON, D.C. · Freedom of Information · April 28, 2006
Since 1995, federal agencies have withdrawn more than 25,000 previously public records from the National Archives, a large percentage of which should never have been removed.
April 28, 2006 · A recent audit at the National Archives has uncovered a massive, decade-long reclassification effort in which government agencies have withdrawn 25,315 records that were previously declassified.
The audit, conducted by the Archives’ Information Security Oversight Office, found that only
64 percent of the records agencies had rereviewed and withdrawn were properly removed. Thirty-six percent of the records withdrawn did not clearly meet the standards of classification set forth in a 1995 Executive Order outlining what must and may be deemed secret, said ISOO Director Bill Leonard.
The reclassification was brought to light last December by researcher and historian Matthew M. Aid who noticed that documents he had previously accessed were no longer available. He alerted Archivist Allen Weinstein who immediately called for a halt to the rereview of documents, and for an audit of what records had been withdrawn, which agencies had withdrawn the records and whether those withdrawals were appropriate. The 60-day audit resulted in an ISOO report outlining its findings and next steps.
“A stunning large percentage of the documents examined were wrongly classified,” Weinstein said Wednesday at a press conference. “More than one of every three documents removed from the open shelves and barred to researchers should not have been tampered with.”
Records that have been reported on or whose contents have been publicly disseminated were not considered to be properly declassified, Leonard said. And people who have copies of records included in the 64 percent that were properly reclassified are “absolutely not” at risk of prosecution should they bring those contents to light, he said.
ISOO found that 10 independent reclassification efforts had been underway since 1995. Under the Executive Order, agencies can reclassify information in limited circumstances for national security reasons so long as it is authorized in writing by the agency head and approved by the ISOO director. Agencies involved with the efforts include the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Energy, the Air Force and the Federal Emergency and Management Agency. The report noted that in one of the CIA’s rereview efforts, it “withdrew a considerable number of purely unclassified records” to hide the name of an entity contained within that the agency simply did not want to disclose.
ISOO and the Archives are implementing measures to ensure oversight to the rereview process, which they report the agencies have agreed to follow. Agencies wishing to rereview documents must submit a written request to the Archives, which will be made public; agencies will have no more than 180 days to review a record, at which time they must either return it or give the Archives a reason for withdrawal; and the Archives will have the final determination — with an appeals process — of whether a record may be removed.
“Because of the absence of standards for the government’s rereview activities, the government has engaged in ad hoc review,” Leonard said. “Now all the agencies have agreed to our new sets of standards.”
— CZ
© 2006 The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press · Return to: RCFP Home; News Page
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8924
|
__label__wiki
| 0.976182
| 0.976182
|
Journalists covering Arkansas oil spill threatened with arrest
Journalists covering an Arkansas oil spill in a suburban neighborhood said they were threatened with arrests, kicked out of the…
Journalists covering an Arkansas oil spill in a suburban neighborhood said they were threatened with arrests, kicked out of the disaster site and had to seek permission from ExxonMobil to fly over the evacuated area.
An ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured in Mayflower, Ark., on March 29, causing 22 homes to be evacuated in the small town located north of Little Rock. So far, more than 19,000 barrels of oil have been collected.
Over the weekend, MotherJones reported that journalists on the spill site were threatened with arrest.
A group of about 10 journalists were touring the spill site last week with state Attorney General Dustin McDaniel when a couple minutes into the tour, local law enforcement officials ordered the journalists to leave immediately or risk arrest, said Michael Hibblen, the news director for local NPR affiliate KUAR and one of the journalists on the tour.
“Suddenly, deputies from the county came yelling that ExxonMobil does not want us on the property and we must leave immediately,” Hibblen said in an interview Monday. “Several of us asked who we could talk to about this, but they said that if we didn’t leave within ten seconds we’d be arrested.”
Hibblen said McDaniel's office and the county administrator gave him permission to tour the site with the attorney general. Hibblen said the group of journalists left the site. McDaniel's office declined to comment, and the Faulkner County Sheriff Department did not immediately return a call for comment.
“Any time you restrict the media or even remotely give the appearance that you’re hiding something, people become a lot more intense about finding out what’s happening,” said Hibblen, who added that journalists seemed to have more access this week.
However, Hibblen said that reporters could not even access the site for the first nine days after the spill. On Sunday, THV11, the local Gannett news station, reported that they were finally allowed to film the damage site.
In a separate incident, InsideClimate reporter Lisa Song said she also was threatened with arrest while visiting the command center at the spill site. Song said a guard let her in. According to an InsideClimate news story, Song was looking to interview an Environmental Protection Agency or Department of Transportation official when Exxon spokeswoman Kim Jordan spotted the reporter and told her to leave. A second person arrived and told Song she would be arrested for criminal trespass if she did not leave right away, InsideClimate reported.
The Mayflower Police Department did not return calls for comment, and ExxonMobil declined to comment.
Journalists also complained that they had to seek permission from ExxonMobil to fly over the disaster site. Immediately after the spill, the Federal Aviation Administration restricted the disaster area's fly zone. All aircraft flying below 1000 feet — mainly helicopters — could only access the site after first getting permission from Tom Suhrhoff, an ExxonMobil aviation adviser, said FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford in an interview.
The restrictions, which were dropped Friday, were for safety reasons, Lunsford said.
“There was a number of aircraft that were jockeying for positions over the most interesting parts of the oil spill, and as a result it was creating an unneeded safety problem,” Lunsford said.
The FAA placed the ExxonMobil official in charge because it did not have an air traffic controller in that area, Lunsford said. Suhrhoff's role during the restriction was not to grant permission but to coordinate when and where aircraft could fly over the area, Lunsford said.
Journalists report numerous media arrests during protests
Consent orders on arrests of journalists released as Ferguson awaits grand jury decision
Reporters Committee letter to Minnesota officials demands end to police attacks against journalists
Some journalists still facing charges after Occupy arrests
Journalists barred from Oklahoma bridge cleanup site
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8925
|
__label__wiki
| 0.581395
| 0.581395
|
Realty World Molesevich & Associates
18 E 5Th St., Mt. carmel, PA, 17851
View 2320 S VALLEY
Enjoying rich history from one of its original owners, Benjamin Cox, a founding Quaker to the current owners who acquired the property in 1985, Rock Hill has enjoyed exceptional and unique stewardship of both the structures and unblemished Chester County landscape. Uniquely impressive 222-acre natural sanctuary known locally as Rock Hill Farm, is positioned about 25 miles west of Philadelphia, and is bordered by three scenic Chester County country roads. Remarkable for its preserved environmental treasures, picturesque residences, and ample farm structures, Rock Hill offers supreme privacy and serenity with easy access to big-city amenities. An exceptional 14,031 square foot main residence along with 5 secondary homes and other stellar dependencies including handsome two-story stone stable, large barn and three greenhouses, all set into a rolling and lush terrain highlighted by streams, old growth forests and wetlands.
View 1911 WALNUT STREET 4801
When you can have anything you wish, and only the absolute best will do - Welcome to The Laurel, the most sought-after address in Philadelphia. Named for Pennsylvania's state flower, The Laurel introduces a lifestyle worthy of this final residential opportunity on prestigious Rittenhouse Square. With world-class amenities and hotel-like services, we offer the carefree enjoyment of city living. This 48th floor Penthouse will soar "Above It All" with astounding 360-degree views of Philadelphia's magnificent skyline. This "mansion in the sky" will have over 9,000 sq. ft. of interior and exterior space, which boasts five outdoor terraces. It is offered as a blank canvas to allow the most discerning buyer an opportunity to create a home that will be uniquely theirs and include everything on their must-have list. Buyer will receive four valet parking spaces and a generous allowance to be applied towards the design and finishing this once-in-a-lifetime residence.
View 1543 MONK
Situated on 67 acres in one of the Philadelphia Main Line~s most exclusive areas, Linden Hill is a singular opportunity for estate living or further development. The main residence and its dependencies are in excellent condition, having been magnificently maintained by the present owners. The property is notable for its world-class architecture and its very private, park-like setting. Designed between 1928 and 1931 by Edmund B. Gilchrist for stockbroker Rodman Ellison Griscom, the property was owned for more than 50 years by the Dorrance family of Campbell~s Soup Company. Enter Linden Hill~s very secluded grounds and travel past fenced pastures and stone outbuildings reminiscent of the quaintest of French villages. An initial courtyard formed by turreted caretaker~s quarters, a 10-car garage, stables and additional staff houses leads to the crest of a hill. Soon, at the end of a narrow walled lane, the magnificent manor house and cour d'honneur reveals itself, a majestic example of French Normandy-inspired design of breathtaking scale and symmetry. Pass through the courtyard entry where brick chimney stacks on guest houses cleverly frame the main house, and behold a truly historic mansion, beautifully maintained with complete respect for its origins, yet offering every modern amenity. Its grand-scale formal rooms offer elegant and easy, expansive or intimate entertaining spaces. Private quarters are equally inviting with family living quarters that accommodate guests for short-term or extended stays. Beyond the main house are two pools, a pool house, tennis court and a beautiful aviary, all set within absolutely stunning gardens and grounds. As a picturesque legacy property that can also serve as a family retreat, look no farther than the timeless and spectacular Linden Hill. Square footage calculation is approximate for the main residence only.
Enjoying rich history from one of its original owners, Benjamin Cox, a founding Quaker to the current owners who acquired the property in 1985, Rock Hill has enjoyed exceptional and unique stewardship of both the structures and unblemished Chester County landscape. Uniquely impressive 222-acre natural sanctuary known locally as Rock Hill Farm, is positioned about 25 miles west of Philadelphia, and is bordered by three scenic Chester County country roads. Remarkable for its preserved environmental treasures, picturesque residences, and ample farm structures, Rock Hill offers supreme privacy and serenity with easy access to big-city amenities. An exceptional 14,031 square foot main residence along with 5 secondary homes and other stellar dependencies including handsome two-story stone stable, large barn and three greenhouses, all set into a rolling and lush terrain highlighted by streams, old growth forests and wetlands. This particular listing represents the portion of the estate east of Crum Creek and consists of 137.6 acres and does NOT house the Main residence of the full estate. It includes one residence, garage, and two hay barns.
View 638 NEWTOWN YARDLEY
3 office buildings totaling approx 85,000 sf on 9.27 acres at the doorstep of Newtown Borough! All elevator served buildings and 444 parking spaces along with a picturesque retention pond; most tenants have been in place for years and find the location perfect as well as the multiple unit sizes which have allowed growing companies room to expand as well as start ups the smaller units they require
Enjoying rich history from one of its original owners, Benjamin Cox, a founding Quaker to the current owners who acquired the property in 1985, Rock Hill has enjoyed exceptional and unique stewardship of both the structures and unblemished Chester County landscape. Uniquely impressive 222-acre natural sanctuary known locally as Rock Hill Farm, is positioned about 25 miles west of Philadelphia, and is bordered by three scenic Chester County country roads. Remarkable for its preserved environmental treasures, picturesque residences, and ample farm structures, Rock Hill offers supreme privacy and serenity with easy access to big-city amenities. An exceptional 14,031 square foot main residence along with 5 secondary homes and other stellar dependencies including handsome two-story stone stable, large barn and three greenhouses, all set into a rolling and lush terrain highlighted by streams, old growth forests and wetlands. This particular listing represents the portion of the estate east of Crum Creek and consists of 84.5 +/- acres with additional residences and structures.
View 799 GRUBBS MILL
This expertly crafted Chester county estate is prized for its rolling hills and scenic landscapes. Built by local renowned builder Griffiths Construction, Wind Hill is a 60-acre sanctuary inviting you to escape to an extraordinary lifestyle. A 5-bedroom main residence with primary suite on the first level is supported by a guest home, independent office and magnificent barn. Worlds away yet easily accessible from the Eastern States and major city centers by rail or road.
View 250 SERENITY
In 1971, Richard and Alice Angino bought a 52-acre abandoned farm and over the next 36 years acquired 810 acres, including an inn and restaurant, nudist colony, and golf resort community. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of hours were lovingly invested in creating incomparable gardens and so much more! Then, at a cost of 10 million dollars, overnight lodges were built, all existing buildings and infrastructure were enlarged and refurbished. Every golf hole became garden-themed and the colony community house was remodeled into a California-style spa. The name, Felicita was carefully chosen. This beautiful Italian word is full of promise and means great happiness. The resort began as a well known golf course hosting the Pennsylvania Classic for several years. It quickly became known as the ultimate destination venue setting the stage for thousands of weddings and events over the next 10 years. The Resort is ready to go for a wonderful mountain retreat with income producing opportunities in all seasons set atop the beautiful Pennsylvania mountains. Surrounded by miles of state park game lands and only 10 miles from Harrisburg, the Felicita Mountain Resort is a wonderful escape from fast-paced city stress without the long travel. This resort would make a magnificent all Inclusive community with infrastructure already present for the amenities such as the spa, stores, food and beverage areas. A quick conversion of the lodges would make fast income producing condos! The potential opportunities are endless. Located directly behind lodges is the perfect location for a multi-use community of town homes and single family homes. Guest can access hundreds of acres of mountain land, trails, and maintained gardens, all surrounded by miles of state parks and game lands. Just beyond that is access to the Appalachian Trail. The resort is only 10 miles from Pennsylvania s capitol, Harrisburg, 1-1/2 hours from Baltimore, 2 hours from Philadelphia and 2-1/2 hours from Washington, DC. Just minutes up Fishing Creek Valley Road is Penn National Racetrack with The Hollywood Casino and Hershey Park.
View 709 N PENN
build by right a midrise for 24 units and 27 townhomes
View 770 GODFREY
***CHECK OUT OUR VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/322007277***Offering privacy and timeless sophistication, this 17-acre estate just 30 minutes from Philadelphia and 90 minutes from New York City was once a prized piece of Ardrossan, the most extraordinary estate on Philadelphia~s esteemed Main Line. Now known as Albermarle, this collection of masterfully and recently restored and expanded, English-style stone buildings is set behind a gated entry and feels like your own 21st-century village: A main residence, guest house, entertainment barn, pool and tennis court now serve as a much-loved family gathering place with a clock tower building used by the owner as a small, well-outfitted, high-tech headquarters for his business interests. Every piece of the estate has been fine-tuned for today~s lifestyles and is complemented by Chuck Gale~s picturesque hardscaping and landscaping and vista views of conservancy land. Importantly, this hidden world, located in a prime ZIP code, offers very reasonable property taxes. Inside the main house, the expansive open floor plan showcases generously proportioned living, dining and great rooms and one of the best chef~s kitchens on the Main Line. Plentiful windows and French doors embrace the exceptional setting and allow for indoor-outdoor flow. Fireplaces stand ready for winter evenings. Formal living and dining rooms are comfortably sized for entertaining. The expansive kitchen readily meets the demands of the largest events in both its design and array of pro-grade appliances, but its casual, fireside dining area no doubt will be a favorite for every day. A grand-scale great room, lodge-like in its feel, offers a soaring fireplace, wet bar, and access to a wine cellar. The views from the extensive patios and other outdoor spaces feel endless. Closing out the main floor is a paneled study, designed to be a quiet retreat, an en suite bedroom, bonus and Laundry rooms. Private quarters are on the second floor. There is a spacious, sumptuous main bedroom suite two additional en suites and an office, offering a total of six bedrooms in the main residence. A separate, charming stone guest house, set up as a ~twin~ and fully updated with two separate and complete living spaces, provides four additional bedrooms. The clock tower offices, also fully restored right down to the timepiece in the tower, now house a reception area, two executive offices, three additional offices, board room with video/large screen equipment, Cat-5 wiring, kitchen, two full baths and four oversized garage bays. For entertaining, the rebuilt, all-season stone bank barn has it all: game/media areas, wet bar, fitness space on the upper level and two bathrooms. This building also offers three additional parking bays for a total of seven on the property. Plan on warm-weather entertaining by the pool, where its lounge area and fireplace are seamlessly integrated into expert hardscaping, and the views are breathtaking. For the buyer seeking a complete, turnkey residence to center family life, business and entertaining, within walking distance to golf and country club facilities, along with a legacy property that offers an exclusive heritage, look no further than the Main Line~s Albermarle. ***Please note: Selected interior photos have been digitally staged to refresh the home~s appearance.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8927
|
__label__cc
| 0.722436
| 0.277564
|
Mike Caro poker word is Positional
Note: Not at the old Poker1 site. A version of this entry was originally published (1988) in Poker Player Newspaper.
Rediscovered, enhanced, and added to Poker1 in 2014.
Oh, good! I always wanted to write about this word, and I never seemed to get around to it.
Just about any semi-conscious human poker player who sat in a game for more than 15 minutes probably made certain relevant conclusions. Among these conclusions no doubt was the impression that it’s better to act after your opponent has acted.
It’s a lot more comfortable to have your opponent bet or check first if you’re holding a medium strength hand. Then you can evaluate your chances relative to the action he’s already taken. If you have to fire your medium strength hand into him before he’s acted, all kinds of terrible turmoil can arise. You can get raised, for instance. And if you decide to check, you might just miss (for fear of being raised) a chance to win a nice extra sum by betting.
Not fun
Having to act first is not fun and frolic.
Okay, that’s the sort of thing that occurs even to novice players after not too much experience in the poker wars.
But, please believe me, there’s more to position than that. First of all, in a normal poker game, the deal (or the dealer position) rotates. So, fair’s fair and we all get a chance at being last to act. Ah, but that isn’t the whole picture. When you are last to act — or nearly last to act — you can play weaker and more speculative hands than you can if you’re in an early position.
Maybe you’re thinking, “Everyone knows that!” But everyone doesn’t. In lower-limit games, where positional considerations are the most valuable, many players look only at the strength of their hands and not their seating position. That means they tend to act too tight in late positions and too loose in early positions.
Enough of that argument. Here’s something really important, even to advanced players. I want to settle an argument. Some books have suggested that you should sit to the left of aggressive players and some swear you should sit on the right.
Some say in limit games you should be on the right side of aggressive players and in no-limit situations you should be on the left.
Stud, too
Well, listen to me, my friends. There has never been a poker game played in the universe where you’d rather be on the right of a sophisticated, aggressive player. One of the first tactical things I instruct my students to do is to locate the most aggressive players in the game and sit on their left as soon as possible. That’s even true with seven-stud, a game most players and some authorities think has little positional value.
The reason many players think position doesn’t matter in seven-stud games is that you don’t know who’s going to act first. By rule, the exposed cards dictate which player must decide first — either a high pair or the highest rank with suits breaking ties in reverse alphabetical order — spades, hearts, diamonds, and then clubs. On the first round, there’s an exception, with the lowest rank starting the action.
Fine. But even though seven-stud games don’t allow you to know in advance who’s going to initiate the action on the first through fourth betting rounds, position matters. You will usually still act after players to your right. So, the normal strategic considerations still hold true.
Significant extra profit comes from acting after loose players who will barge into pots with substandard hands. When you’re a superior player, you exploit your minor edges by raising aggressively. Once these loose players enter the pot and you raise, they feel trapped and often call that raise reluctantly. But if you raise before they get a chance to act, they’re apt to think, “Hey, I’m loose, but not that loose” — and, so, they fold and you lose money.
That’s why it’s so important to sit to the left of loose players (positioning them on your right). This allows you to exploit their weakness of calling small bets with losing hands.
But wait! I said — assuming you’re a winning player with a big advantage — that you should sit to the left of strong, aggressive players. Well, that’s true, too. In fact, it’s even more important in many cases than sitting to the left of loose players. The reason is that these knowledgeable and fearless foes mess up your strategy by acting after you, so you need to avoid that disaster. Sit to their left and make them act first.
You want to act after these opponents act, so you can control the flow and not they. Sure, you want loose, naive players on your right, too, so that they’re already in the pot before you raise and you don’t chase away their action. But that’s sometimes of secondary importance.
Extra profit
The most important thing positionally you can do for your bankroll is sit to the left of the most aggressive winning players at the table, whenever they exist. That won’t be in every game, just some. If you do this, when competing against that type of player, in a typical $10-$20 limit hold ’em game you could easily earn $15 an hour more than some other smart player who doesn’t pay any attention to seating. Of course, you want loose players to act first, too.
So, try to gauge each situation in accordance with this rule: Loose players go to your right as much as possible; but those rare big-winning aggressive players go to your right as a priority. If you have a choice, select your original seat and change chairs during the game in accordance with that simple advice.
That’s the truth. You have my word on it. — MC
Posted on 2014-11-06 2014-11-11 Categories Hold 'em, POKER, Strategy
Let's make sure it's really you and not a bot. Please type digits (without spaces) that best match what you see. (Example: 71353) 81four4eight
Previous Previous post: Mike Caro poker word is Burdens
Next Next post: Mike Caro poker word is Stop
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8941
|
__label__wiki
| 0.908907
| 0.908907
|
California Playbook
Carla Marinucci and Jeremy B. White’s must-read briefing on politics and government in the Golden State
Get the California Playbook Newsletter
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION sinking, 'SPLIT ROLL' close — 49ERS’ YORK spends big on SANTA CLARA races — QUIBI implodes — PELOSI: COVID deal may happen post-election
By JEREMY B. WHITE, CARLA MARINUCCI, GRAPH MASSARA and MACKENZIE HAWKINS
THE BUZZ: With two generational do-overs on the November ballot, California voters may stick to the status quo.
Propositions 15 and 16 seek to undo or modify the decisions of voters past: Prop 15 by raising commercial property taxes that were curtailed by 1978’s Prop 13, and Prop 16 by dissolving the affirmative action ban voters passed via Prop 209 back in 1996. In both cases, supporters were counting on a changed electorate and surging liberal turnout — and the embrace of formidable California Democrats like Gov. Gavin Newsom — to forge a different path forward.
But both measures could fail, according to a new Public Policy Institute of California poll that was conducted after voters across the state had received their ballots in the mail earlier this month. Prop 15 is hovering below majority support, with 49 percent of likely voters backing it and 45 percent planning to vote no. That’s positive news compared to the dire situation for Prop 16; it’s deep underwater, with half of likely voters opposing it compared to just 37 percent support.
A detail of Proposition 15 arguments as seen on Oct. 15, 2020. | Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images
DIGGING DEEPER: Prop 15’s numbers have held fairly steady as business opponents and labor backers have bombarded voters with millions of dollars worth of advertising. Polls consistently place the initiative’s support at around the 50 percent mark. PPIC’s poll, with a 4.3 percent margin of error, provides the latest evidence that the outcome for Prop 15 is likely to be tight. We may not know the result until days after election night, when the late-arriving ballots have been counted.
But it’s hard to see affirmative action’s path to victory. It has failed to gain traction in the polls despite the proponents wielding a massive cash advantage and touting the support of elected officials like Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.). And critical segments of the electorate remain unmoved. Supporters are selling Prop 16 as an equity measure that will empower women and minorities, and they had hoped that a more diverse generation of voters would have a different approach than their 1996 forebears. But women, Latinos and 18- to 44-year-old likely voters were all more likely to vote no than yes.
APPROVAL AND PRIORITIES: Newsom’s popularity in the state continues to eclipse that of frenemy President Donald Trump. Their numbers are inverses of each other on job performance (Newsom gets 58 percent approval among adults, versus Trump’s 35 percent), a gap that expands on the issue of coronavirus management (Newsom 61 percent approval among adults, versus Trump 32 percent). Those strong approval numbers are important for the governor, given that a clear plurality of Californians called the coronavirus the preeminent issue facing our state, followed by the economy; housing and homelessness fell in importance by a few spots.
VACCINE VAGARIES: Managing the pandemic will include overseeing incremental vaccine distribution, and that will be a lengthy process: Newsom emphasized this week that health care workers will get priority and most Californians will have to wait until some time next year. But many Californians are skeptical of its efficacy. Fully 40 percent told PPIC they would not get the vaccine if it were available tomorrow.
BUENOS DÍAS, good Thursday morning. Tonight is the final presidential debate, so get those California topic bingo cards ready (and maybe a stiff drink). Before we get there, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett — and Democrats are planning to boycott what Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called a “sham process.”
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There’s a difference between dominance and excellence.” Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the company’s antitrust trouble, via the WSJ’s Rob Copeland.
TWEET OF THE DAY: Sexual misconduct watchdog Time’s Up @TIMESUPNOW on allegations against top Eric Garcetti aide Rick Jacobs: “We’ve heard enough - first from @yashar and now the @latimes. It’s time for a thorough and transparent investigation into all the allegations here. #TIMESUP”
WHERE’S GAVIN? Nothing official announced.
YORK’S SANTA CLARA PLAY — "49ers owner Jed York sinks $3M into Santa Clara council elections,” by POLITICO’s Carla Marinucci: York, whose family grew the NFL team into a multibillion-dollar enterprise, is spending big political money after years of feuding with city leaders over everything from youth soccer fields to rent owed during coronavirus shutdowns. He's dropped $1.5 million in the last week alone, and his total campaign spending breaks down to $100 per registered voter in the four city council districts he's targeting. It's an unprecedented amount of cash in a city that has a voluntary candidate spending limit of $25,000.
The team owner has a ripe opportunity. Two open seats are on the Nov. 3 ballot, while two incumbents running for re-election face criticism for working with Mayor Lisa Gillmor to protect at-large city contests despite a 2018 Voting Rights Act order intended to diversify the council by creating six districts. Five white members currently fill six seats despite white residents comprising only about 40 percent of the city's population.
BLOW TO KATZENBERG AND WHITMAN — “Quibi Is Shutting Down as Problems Mount,” by the WSJ’s Benjamin Mullin, Joe Flint and Maureen Farrell: “The streaming service … has been plagued with problems since it launched in April, facing lower-than-expected viewership, disappointing download numbers and a lawsuit from a well-capitalized foe.”
EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER — “California theme parks call Newsom rules 'offensive,' say litigation possible,” by POLITICO’s Victoria Colliver: Executives from the state’s largest theme parks — including Disneyland, Universal Studios and Legoland California — raised objections to Gov. Gavin Newsom's new requirements that their counties must have very low infection rates before they can reopen. They contended that their industry is being treated unfairly compared to others.
OK, GOOGLE — “Google AI Tech Will Be Used for Virtual Border Wall, CBP Contract Shows,” by the Intercept’s Lee Fang and Sam Biddle: “Not only is Google becoming involved in implementing the Trump administration’s border policy, the contract brings the company into the orbit of one of President Donald Trump’s biggest boosters among tech executives.”
HOLIDAY FEARS — “California has escaped the national surge in coronavirus cases. But new dangers lie ahead,” by the LA Times’ Rong-Gong Lin: Experts “credit Gov. Gavin Newsom’s overhauled system — introduced Aug. 28 and much tougher than the state’s disastrous first reopening — as a big reason for California having so far staved off a new surge in cases.”
WINE COUNTRY OUTLIER — “Why Sonoma is the only Bay Area county stuck in the strictest reopening tier,” by the SF Chronicle’s Kellie Hwang: “The reasons, officials, experts and community members say, are a combination of socioeconomic factors and a response that did not ramp up fast enough to put a lid on the virus while the county was moving quickly to reopen in the summer.”
— “Sacramento County workers alarmed by COVID-19 outbreaks, lack of deep cleaning in offices,” by the Sac Bee’s Michael Finch and Tony Bizjak.
— “Pelosi suggests coronavirus relief deal could slip past November elections,” by POLITICO’s Nick Niedzwiadek: Talks between the speaker and White House over a coronavirus relief package have remained at an impasse for months, though Pelosi said Tuesday that she and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are “on a path” to a deal. But a larger relief agreement has met resistance in the GOP-controlled Senate, where some Republicans have blanched at a multi-trillion dollar price tag.
TRACK FIRST 100 DAYS OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION: Track the first 100 Days of the Biden administration. Written for political insiders, this scoop-filled newsletter breaks big news and analyzes the initiatives, people and emerging power centers of the new administration. Subscribe today.
PRESIDENTIAL PURSUIT
— “What the Google suit may look like if Biden wins,” by POLITICO’s Leah Nylen: Many in Biden’s party are pushing for strong action against Google. Democratic state attorneys general refused to join the case the Justice Department filed Tuesday because they want to file a broader and more aggressive complaint. Biden is expected to take his cues for how to handle the case from those same Democratic AGs.
— “After being her own boss, Kamala Harris embraces new role as Biden’s No. 2,” by the LA Times’ Mark Z. Barabak and Melanie Mason: “It is no small adjustment. But she has, by many accounts, acquitted herself well, easing the concern of some in the Biden camp who worried about Harris’ ambitions and ability to subsume her personal interest and apply her skills wholly in the service of someone else.”
BALLOT BOX LATEST: The California Republican Party won a skirmish yesterday in its battle with the state over ballot collection. A judge rejected the California Department of Justice’s request for a court order compelling the CAGOP to explain by Friday why it is refusing to turn over information about the locations of ballot collection boxes and the voters who have used them. The ruling was specifically about the timing, rather than the underlying question of what the CAGOP must release.
CA-50 SHIFT: The Cook Political Report sees the vacant CA-50 becoming more competitive, and has shifted the San Diego-area seat from “likely Republican” to “leans Republican.” Former Rep. Darrell Issa is trying to return to Congress and keep the seat in the GOP column after former Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter resigned and then pleaded guilty to misusing campaign funds; Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar is hoping to overcome Republicans’ double-digit registration edge.
PROP 15 — “Why do we keep voting on this? Exploring Prop. 13’s ‘Tax Revolt Family Tree,'” by CalMatters’ Ben Christopher: “Since Prop. 13, the state has voted 33 times on potential amendments to it. These offshoots of Prop. 13 have sprouted their own offshoots, adding additions to revisions to edits of the original text. Forty-two years later, the tree first planted in 1978 has gotten mighty tangled.”
PROP 16 — “Why some Asian Americans oppose the affirmative action measure on the California ballot,” by the Sac Bee’s Ashley Wong.
PROP 22 POSTAGE — “Cash-rich, Uber-backed Prop. 22 campaign scrimps on postage,” by the SF Chronicle’s Carolyn Said: “Proposition 22, the ballot measure to exempt Uber and Lyft drivers and other gig workers from being employees, got a nonprofit postal permit for its deluge of glossy mailers, allowing it to save millions on postage. U.S. Postal Service regulations specifically say that political organizations other than political parties are not eligible. Yes on 22’s lawyers said the campaign is legitimately entitled to its nonprofit mailing status and is not a “political organization” as that regulation defines it.”
IMPACT — “Uber weighs California overhaul if ballot measure on workers fails,” by the WSJ’s Preetika Rana.
ELECTIONLAND: POLITICO is partnering with Electionland, a ProPublica project tracking problems that can prevent eligible voters from casting their ballots in California and around the country. We’re part of a coalition of U.S. newsrooms that are investigating issues related to voter registration, pandemic-related changes to voting, the shift to vote-by-mail, cybersecurity, voter education, misinformation and more. Tell us here if you’re having trouble voting.
CALIFORNIA AND THE CAPITOL CORRIDOR
CARB ALLEGATIONS — Black employees call out systemic racism at California Air Resources Board, by POLITICO’s Debra Kahn: The Sept. 4 letter from a "group of concerned Black employees" includes two dozen accounts of racist or biased behavior at the agency and an "action plan" that calls for appointing at least one Black board member and two other people of color to fill upcoming vacancies on the board that has 14 voting members and two lawmakers in non-voting positions.
— “What Caused August's Rolling Blackouts? Experts Say It's Still Not Totally Clear,” by KQED’s Lily Jamali.
FEDS’ FIREFIGHT — “As wildfires explode in the West, Forest Service can’t afford prevention efforts,” by the LA Times’ Anna M. Phillips: “Throughout California, Oregon and other Western states, the Forest Service has a growing backlog of millions of acres of forest management projects that are ready to go, requiring only funding and manpower to complete.”
MASKS OFF — “After a meeting flouting COVID rules, two supervisors tell Sacramento County CEO to resign,” by the Sac Bee’s Marcus Bretón: “[Nav] Gill’s decision to hold a face-to-face gathering of his senior staff Oct. 15 in an indoor conference room put as many as 40 to 45 people at risk of contracting the coronavirus.”
— “California labor traffickers dodge convictions after state crackdown, report says,” by the Sac Bee’s Jeong Park: “The commission identified a number of flaws in the state’s policies, stemming from poor coordination between agencies and a lack of investment that has created a patchwork of programs.”
POLITICO’S CALIFORNIA BALLOT TRACKER: No state does ballot initiatives quite like California, and interest groups are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to sway voters. It’s all here in POLITICO’s guide to California’s 2020 ballot initiatives.
SILICON VALLEYLAND
— “Facebook Manipulated the News You See to Appease Republicans, Insiders Say,” by Mother Jones’ Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery: “Executives were even shown a slide presentation that highlighted the impact of the second iteration on about a dozen specific publishers—and Mother Jones was singled out as one that would suffer, while the conservative site the Daily Wire was identified as one that would benefit.”
GOOGLE PAYBACK — “Big Tech’s Professional Opponents Strike at Google,” by NYT’s Adam Satariano and David McCabe: “Bolstered by millions of dollars from high-profile sponsors like the financier George Soros and the Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, they have coalesced to become a new class of professional tech skeptic.”
— “Tesla is putting ‘self-driving’ in the hands of drivers amid criticism the tech is not ready,” by WaPo’s Faiz Siddiqui: “Tesla’s technology can detect vehicles and pedestrians in the road and some objects such as trees, but it cannot always see the true shape or depth of the obstacles it encounters, according to some safety experts.”
HOLLYWOODLAND
— “Charlotte Kirk legal saga may have major impact on #MeToo cases,” by the Hollywood Reporter’s Tatiana Siegel and Eriq Gardner.
BROOKS FOR BIDEN — “Mel Brooks endorses Joe Biden for president in first ever political video: ‘Joe Will Keep Us Going,’” by Deadline’s Alexandra Del Rosario.
CANNABIS COUNTRY
— “Harborside acquires San Francisco social equity marijuana retailer,” via Marijuana Business Daily.
FOUR YEARS ON — “California’s marijuana legalization law, Prop 64, is broken and needs reform,” by Harborside co-founder Andrew DeAngelo in Marijuana Business Daily.
— “US cannabis harvest price report 2020,” by Leafly’s David Downs.
— “Religious California state job applicant lost offer over ‘loyalty oath,’ lawsuit says,” by the Sac Bee’s Sam Stanton.
— “These houses are a godsend to the would-be homeless but a menace to the Fire Department,” by the LA Times’ Doug Smith.
— “Investigation concludes San Diego police officers were justified in arresting woman in Ocean Beach,” by the San Diego Union-Tribune’s David Hernandez.
— “Calls intensify for DA to reopen probe into Buena Park police shooting of 19-year-old David Sullivan,” by Voice of OC’s Brandon Pho.
CALIFORNIA POLICY IS ALWAYS CHANGING: Know your next move. From Sacramento to Silicon Valley, POLITICO California Pro provides policy professionals with the in-depth reporting and tools they need to get ahead of policy trends and political developments shaping the Golden State. To learn more about the exclusive insight and analysis this subscriber-only service offers, click here.
Want to make an impact? POLITICO California has a variety of solutions available for partners looking to reach and activate the most influential people in the Golden State. Have a petition you want signed? A cause you’re promoting? Seeking to increase brand awareness amongst this key audience? Share your message with our influential readers to foster engagement and drive action. Contact Jesse Shapiro to find out how: [email protected].
Carla Marinucci @cmarinucci
Jeremy B. White @JeremyBWhite
POLITICO California @politicoca
Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook family
Playbook Playbook PM California Playbook Florida Playbook Illinois Playbook Massachusetts Playbook New Jersey Playbook New York Playbook Brussels Playbook London Playbook
View all our political and policy newsletters
About The Author : Jeremy B. White
Jeremy B. White co-writes the California Playbook and covers politics in the Golden State. He previously covered the California Legislature for the Sacramento Bee, where he reported on campaigns, myriad nationally significant policy clashes and multiple FBI investigations of sitting lawmakers.
He has a bachelor’s degree in English from Tufts University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. A native of Bethesda, Maryland, one of his life dreams is to throw out the first pitch at a 2019 world champion Washington Nationals game. He lives in Berkeley with his wife and his cat, Ziggy Pawdust.
About The Author : Carla Marinucci
Carla Marinucci, senior writer for POLITICO’s California Playbook, has consistently been named one of California’s leading political writers — and for the last two years has also been honored as the state’s top digital influencer in political reporting. Prior to launching the POLITICO California Playbook in 2015, Marinucci was senior political writer for the Hearst flagship San Francisco Chronicle, and before that political editor for the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner. She has covered six presidential elections and seven California gubernatorial elections since 1996, including the historic recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2013, she was honored by the Society of Professional Journalists with a lifetime achievement award for her coverage of California politics.
About The Author : Graph Massara
Graph Massara is a senior web editor and helps produce California Playbook. Prior to joining POLITICO, he was an editorial assistant with SFGATE and a freelancer. He studied memes and media at the University of California, Berkeley, and now lives in Santa Rosa with his partner and two cats.
About The Author : Mackenzie Hawkins
Mackenzie Hawkins is an editorial intern.
California Playbook - POLITICO Archive
View the Full California Playbook Archives »
There’s a Surprisingly Plausible Path to Removing Trump From Office
By Juleanna Glover
History Says Bloomberg 2020 Would Be a Sure Loser
I Thought Being a Health Care Reporter Would Make Cancer Easier. I Was Wrong.
By Alexandra Glorioso
Joe Arpaio’s Surprising Legacy in Arizona
By Fernanda Santos
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8942
|
__label__wiki
| 0.914063
| 0.914063
|
Brexit counterfactual
What if the UK had voted to Remain?
George Osborne, British prime minister — who would have thought?
By Frances Robinson
LONDON — It seems a long time ago, that dawn in June, when the United Kingdom voted 52 percent to 48 percent to stay in the European Union.
Few, if anybody, at the time had talked about the possibility of a “Hard Remain.” To the contrary, many of the loudest voices in the campaign to stay, including then Prime Minister David Cameron, insisted that victory would be a continuation of the status quo, with the U.K. enjoying the pick-and-choose relationship it already has.
The days afterward were a blur. Cameron resigned, a move which baffled many initially. It emerged that he and George Osborne had made a pact over dinner at Sushisamba one night that he’d step down in the event of a margin of less than 5 percent either way.
Former London Mayor Boris Johnson, after a leaked flurry of embarrassing texts that showed he’d “always really been in favor” of remaining, had no choice but to move into the backbenches. Leave’s losing campaign, followed by Boris’s exposure as a cynical hypocrite who sided with Out for purely tactical reasons, was too much even for Britain’s king of teflon, the consummate political survivor.
After a brief period of bloodletting, George Osborne saw off a series of challengers, including Ken Clarke, to become prime minister, moving from No. 11 to No. 10 Downing Street.
“The people have spoken,” he said, wearing his iconic hi-vis jacket in front of a backdrop of gleaming new Minis rolling out of the BMW plant in Cowley. “They have chosen to remain in Europe, giving us a new mandate to deepen, enhance and cement this relationship.”
“Pen truthers” were highly active on social media, especially after Katie Hopkins wrote a column about how she took her own pen because a pencil might have been touched by illegal immigrants.
Of course, there were protests. Nigel Farage had warned back in May that “on a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way,” and his loyal followers wasted no time in taking to the streets.
The “Walk Away from Europe” protest saw 50,000 angry Leave voters march on the Houses of Parliament, their faces painted with the Cross of Saint George and Union Flags, chanting “Say no to the 52 / Britain must leave the EU.”
Heartbroken Leave voters launched petitions calling for a second referendum, doubling down on claims that pencil marks in ballot boxes had been erased by MI5 operatives. “Pen truthers” were highly active on social media, especially after Katie Hopkins wrote a column about how she took her own pen because a pencil might have been touched by illegal immigrants. But even a U.N. investigation could find no evidence of tampering.
In an alternate universe, Nigel Farage is left down in the dumps rather than up in a golden elevator with the president-elect of the U.S. | Philippe Huguen/AFP via Getty Images
At the same time, Remain campaigners held street fairs celebrating European diversity. Owen Jones jumped out of a giant EU-star-covered cake to launch the new series of “Bake Off,” and well-wishers brought flowers to the Polish Social and Cultural Association in Hammersmith.
Arguments raged on social media. “Of course, there should be a second vote — ordinary British people should have their say,” tweeted Farage, blaming stormy weather and rain across the North for keeping older Leave voters at home. “BOO HOO stop crying #BrexitTEARS, losers! #proudtobe52,” responded Lily Allen. Charlotte Church added, “It’s democracy, get over it leaver losers #prosecco for all.”
The pound soared back to pre-referendum announcement highs, prompting many to take an extra summer holiday. “Holidays in #Remainia” became a social media leitmotif for millennials. Cameron, freed of his duties, took his family on an extended break to Mallorca. “Holi-Dave Says EU’re On Your Own, George,” read the top of the Sun.
Few expected that by October, the U.K. would have embarked on a whole new direction.
“Remain means remain,” explained George Osborne at the groundbreaking ceremony of a new Airbus plant in Preston. “The will of the British people is to stay in the EU, and we’ve never been half-hearted as a nation. We need to end this two-speed Europe nonsense and switch to top gear.”
Immigration caps were scrapped. Nick Clegg — now Lord Clegg — was back in the cabinet as minister for European integration charged with fast-tracking the U.K. into the Exchange Rate Mechanism II system, the first part of the eurozone convergence process. Mark Carney announced he would step down as Governor of the Bank of England in 2019 — because on eurozone accession, monetary policy would be controlled from Frankfurt.
After his brief period in purdah, Osborne brought Boris back into his “Hard Remain” cabinet, in what was described as a cunning move to neutralize the Tory Euro-holdouts. Johnson made the most of his Turkish ancestry on a trip to Ankara to support rapid EU enlargement “all the way to the Caspian.” Pressed for a timeline on further integration, he announced that in March 2017 the U.K. would join the Schengen passport-free area.
“It’s simply splendiferous to be able to spirit through this magnificent Continent without so much as laissez-passer,” he said. “We are no longer like Theseus, trapped in a labyrinth of borders.”
The Leave camp tried to object 52-48 was hardly an overwhelming mandate for this level of change, but their concerns were quickly brushed aside. “It’s as if Leave had won and suddenly the U.K. were being dragged out of the single market with zero plan for how to manage the transition,” grumbled one high-profile pro-Leave MEP. “Ludicrous.”
Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt was formally reprimanded by European Parliament President Martin Schulz for mooning the Euroskeptic party during the debate.
UKIP took to the floor in the European Parliament in protest, introducing an amendment offering “Associate Non-Citizenship” for Leave voters. For a small, yearly fee, they’d receive a blue passport, be able to continue to order pints in the pub and contribute to the Royal Yacht Fund.
Former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt was formally reprimanded by European Parliament President Martin Schulz for mooning the Euroskeptic party during the debate, declaring “You can kiss my flabby Belgian ass, losers.” It was not the Parliament’s finest hour.
Six months into hard Remain, much remains unclear, including how much the U.K. will contribute to Greece’s next bailout package. And U.S. President-elect Hillary Clinton has expressed concerns about London’s enthusiastic embrace of the EU combined defense force. David Miliband, the former Labour foreign secretary who is good friends with Clinton and has praised her “fantastic smile,” is taking U.S. citizenship in anticipation of a top job in her administration when she’s sworn in next month.
Rumors are already swirling about Cameron’s plans for a return to politics; some have floated him as a replacement for European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who cited “health reasons” as his reason for stepping down midway through his term. Who knows? It could be that 2017 holds even more surprises than the year gone by.
Frances Robinson is a freelance journalist based in London.
Post-Brexit, Britain will love Europe
By Tom McTague
3 million Brexit headaches
More from ... Frances Robinson
Michel Barnier plans political comeback in France
By Maïa de La Baume and David M. Herszenhorn
The MPs putting Boris Johnson through his paces
By Alex Wickham and Andrew McDonald
British hauliers lose their sandwiches in Brexit ‘Schengenfreude’
Brexit EU referendum
Boris Johnson David Cameron George Osborne Guy Verhofstadt Hillary Clinton Jean-Claude Juncker Martin Schulz Nick Clegg Nigel Farage
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8943
|
__label__wiki
| 0.792625
| 0.792625
|
Lana Del Rey Makes Good on the Broken Promise of "Video Games" with 'Ultraviolence'
C.W. Mahoney
Ultraviolence benefits not only from stronger song craft, but also from tasteful production that sustains a mood befitting Lana Del Rey’s postmodern Nancy Sinatra shtick.
Label: Interscope
US Release Date: 2014-06-13
UK Release Date: 2014-06-13
Lana Del Rey’s debut Born to Die suffered from a crisis-of-authenticity, the outrage and barrage of think-pieces as manufactured as the singer’s found-footage videos and pouting sexuality. But beyond all the hipster handwringing, Born to Die simply didn’t have many great songs, and even standouts like “Video Games” and “Blue Jeans” were marred by a limping production style.
Her second full-length, Ultraviolence benefits not only from stronger song craft, but also from tasteful production that sustains a mood befitting Lana Del Rey’s postmodern Nancy Sinatra shtick. Blues-rock curator Dan Auerbach is a great fit for Del Rey’s hedonist doom-pop. It’s easy to imagine the Black Key dutifully dialing in copious vintage analog delay, pillaging his basement for the fuzz pedal of just the right vintage. But his touch is thankfully light, trading in Born’s dusty beat sequences and sampled rap yelps for Morricone guitars and beach reverb.
The lyrics mostly rehash Lana’s beat-up baby-doll bit, but with melodies like this, who cares? When she sings “I’ve got feathers in my hair / I get down to beat poetry / And my jazz collection’s rare / I can play most anything” on “Brooklyn Baby", it’s hard not read it as taunting the detractors she knows so well by now. One can imagine Del Rey’s bedroom floor Oxycontin sprawl, crafting sexysad Burroughs cut-ups. Yes, every man is a too-cool bad-boy. Yes, she’d do anything for him. Yes, the relationship dynamics are straight out of the '50s. After all Del Rey told The Fader that “feminism is just not an interesting concept.” She teases, “You never liked the way I said it / If you don’t like it then forget it / So I don’t have to fuckin’ explain it.”
The album holds together remarkably well. After all, most good pop albums are pretty much variations on the same single, in this case the superb title track. There are some stumbling points, however. The murky half-time chorus of “West Coast” makes its four minutes seem like eight. The closing track, a cover of the Jessie Mae Robinson penned “The Other Woman", jarringly contrasts the established ambience, feeling tacked-on. Highlights ultimately prevail, though, especially in the delightfully brazen “Fucked My Way Up to the Top", which plays like Bacharach and David for the broke and drunk.
Most importantly, Del Rey’s voice sounds better than ever. Ditching the cooing baby rap of her debut, she doubles down on the numbed croon and low register sass in which she excels. On occasion she whips out the fragile falsetto, playing naughty with Auerbach’s guitar on “Pretty When You Cry” and “Money Power Glory". Most impressive is the Shirley Bassey “You’re invinsible” chorus of “Shades of Cool". Turns out James Bond is just Jimmy, a handsome high-school dropout with a drug stash that rivals his record collection.
And let’s not overlook that title, the least played up of all her literary allusions here. This is a great pop record. Or as Anthony Burgess might have put it: Sip some vehina in your toofles this nochy and sloosh this ptitsa’s warbles. Bolshy timps and a bit of boohoohoo crarking. This cheena may be buggaty, but she sounds like she wants to snuff it.
In Spotlight
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8944
|
__label__cc
| 0.690224
| 0.309776
|
Shah Rukh Khan's Caption For Gauri & Suhana's Picture Will Make You Want To Hug Your Mom!
Chhavi Porwal | Jun 11, 2018
Shah Rukh Khan might be the undisputed king of romance but there is no doubt that he's an even better father to his kids. He posts so many lovely pictures of them with touching captions that we've become as fond of his children as he is.
His latest post about his 18-year-old daughter Suhana, who is currently studying at Ardingly College in Sussex, is heartwarming. Earlier, Gauri Khan shared a few pictures of hers with Suhana on Instagram where both of them looked gorgeous. Shah Rukh, obviously, being the doting father that he is, reshared the picture with an adorable caption, "Was reading and came across this line…. 'Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother' and then this picture of the ladies…sach hi hai!!"
Missing your mum yet?!
Was reading and came across this line....’ Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother ‘ and then this picture of the ladies...sach hi hai!! pic.twitter.com/sk0CwIMoMP
— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) June 10, 2018
We are sure everyone can relate to his wise words.
A post shared by Gauri Khan (@gaurikhan) on Jun 10, 2018 at 5:40am PDT
Earlier, in an interview, he had revealed that his daughter Suhana thinks he goes overboard with editing the pictures but looks like for this one darling daddy took Suhana's advice and did not edit.
We might as well give him an award for being the cutest Bollywood dad already!
While we gush about this father-daughter duo, the rumours of Suhana making her Bollywood debut are only getting stronger. As it is known that she aspires to be an actress, veterans like Shabana Azmi have praised Suhana's acting skills.
@iamsrk Mark my words #Suhanakhan is going to be a seriously good actor.Ive watched a short clip of her acting and it was terrific.Bless her https://t.co/bdqYrEM8S7
— Azmi Shabana (@AzmiShabana) May 28, 2017
With SRK’s condition to have a proper education first, Suhana will be graduating next year from Ardingly and looks like the big day for her isn't that far.
Shah Rukh Khan will be next seen in Aanand L Rai’s Zero alongside Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif.
Chhavi Porwal
Junior Editor
Home > Entertainment > Celebrity gossip
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8945
|
__label__cc
| 0.605881
| 0.394119
|
EPIC: Isaiah - Tuesday
Hi. Welcome to Redeem the Commute. I’m Ryan, your host of the daily challenges. Today is Tuesday, the day we study the Bible together. This week we’re going to study one of the most important prophets in the Old Testament – the Prophet Isaiah. He wrote an awful lot, one of the longest books in the Bible. He was a prophet, so he had the privilege of speaking for God. He wrote in a time when a lot of people were doubting if God really cared for Israel, and God wanted to speak through Isaiah to warn them and comfort them all at once. We’ll focus on just one really important section, called the Song of the Suffering Servant, found in Isaiah 53, in which many people find signs pointing to Jesus, even though it was written 500 years before Jesus walked on the earth.
It is poetic, and prophetic poetry at that, so it’s not 100% clear. Many pronouns, and it’s not always clear to whom they refer. The passage would also have had some application to circumstances at the time, as well as in the future. We’ll focus on the events that happened in the future.
Today we’re just going to read it – and as I do, listen for signs that sound like they might point to Jesus.
Behold, my servant shall act wisely;
he shall be high and lifted up,
and shall be exalted.
As many were astonished at you—
his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
so shall he sprinkle many nations;
kings shall shut their mouths because of him;
for that which has not been told them they see,
and that which they have not heard they understand.
(Isaiah 52:13-15 ESV)
Who has believed what he has heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he has borne our griefs
smitten by God, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
And they made his grave with the wicked
and with a rich man in his death,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him;
he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.
(Isaiah 53 ESV)
Question: What signs did you hear that sounded like they could describe Jesus?
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8948
|
__label__wiki
| 0.710205
| 0.710205
|
RVG
Welcome to the UK and Europe's number one retro games community! Home of classic game reviews, interviews, book reviews, guides. Includes: NeoGeo, Atari, SEGA, Nintendo, Amiga, Commodore, ColecoVision, IntelliVision, ZX Spectrum and much more..
CPC 464
ST/STe
BBC Micro / Acorn Electron
GameBoy Colour
Mastersystem
MegaDrive/Genesis
Sega/Mega CD
RVG Interviews: Chris Shrigley.
June 26, 2019 June 26, 2019 zapiy Codemasters, Core Design, Gremlin Graphics
We originally interviewed Chris Shrigley back in 2014, since then we have updated RVG to a newer and more plush website so we decided to revisit some of our favorite interviews from those days and bring them bang up to date, Chris is one of the good guys, he’s always very approachable and welcomes talking about the old days, so what are you waiting for, its a biggy so read on.
A founding member of Core Design, co-founder of Eurocomm. Chris worked as a Gremlin Graphics in the early years where he programmed lots of games on Commodore 64, Sinclair Spectrum, MSX and Atari games. Chris has created many other games on systems like the NES, Megadrive/Genesis, MegadCD/SegaCD and many more.
BassMasters 2000 (1999), Ex-Mutants (1992), Bounder (1985), Blackthorne (1994), Rock ‘n Roll Racing (1993) are just a few games Chris has worked on.
zapiy
Can you talk us through your career, where you started right up till now and what games you worked on?
Chris “Bounder” Shrigley courtesy of www.gremlinarchive.com
Phew! A big, open question to start. Well, let me see. My actual career started when I joined Gremlin Graphics in 1986. I never really considered it a career until much later though. Before that, I was just some kid, playing coin-op games and messing around on my Commodore 64 in my bedroom. The first game I programmed and got published was a text adventure game called Pub Quest, programmed in BASIC. I was 16. It taught me a lot about game logic, structure, and programming in general. I naturally progressed to assembly language, and collaborated with some friends (Rob Toone and Andy Green), to make something more ambitious and closer to what we were playing in the arcades. We made Bounder over the summer of 1985, and sent it off to Gremlin towards Christmas. They liked it, and offered us all jobs, working full time up in Sheffield. We started in early 1986 and started work on our second game Future Knight.
Over the next couple of years, I worked on a couple of projects with Rob and Andy, but having more than one programmer on a project was an extravagance in those days, so although we were still a tight-knit group, we worked on different projects. I programmed Bounder 2 and Footballer of The Year in the Gremlin Sheffield offices, and Skate Crazy, and Masters of The Universe in the Derby offices. I also helped out on a few more games here and there.
The industry went through a bad patch, and around 1988, Gremlin decided to close the Derby office and make us all redundant. Jeremy Smith and Kevin Norburn took the office over and relaunched the team as Core Design. I worked at Core for just over a year, and programmed a couple of games, including Action Fighter, and Saint and Greavsie. I left Core to set up another company called Eurocom, with my friend Mat Sneap, focused on NES console development.
At Eurocom, I designed Magician, and programmed John Smith (later renamed and released as James Bond Jr). We were tiny, just 4 of us, working out of a shed behind Mat’s dad’s electronics company in Ripley. We were running on a shoestring, hacking development hardware together and reverse engineering everything. My first task was poking numbers into registers on a cobbled together development board, seeing what changed on screen, and trying to make sense of the Japanese documentation. The first year was a struggle, and we went through a cash crunch towards the end of it, and Mat’s dad started to lose a bit of faith. He put us on a 2 day work week, and cut our wages, which made it almost impossible to live, especially for me with a mortgage and a baby. So I started looking around for another job.
Meanwhile, my good friend Andy Green, had also left Core by then and had gone over to work in California for Cinemaware. He was a real trailblazer and he basically persuaded me to talk to Bob Jacob, the company owner, about possibly coming out there to work too, but for his new start-up company, Acme Interactive. I met with Bob in London, all dressed up in a suit and tie. Bob, dressed in flip flops and a t-shirt, took one look at me and laughed out loud, which broke the ice and made the rest of the interview a lot easier. I got the job, and Bob handed me a Sega Genesis manual, written in Japanese to look at (deja vu). I flew out to California about 6 months later, on my biggest adventure yet.
I landed in a warm and sunny Los Angeles, stressed and exhausted, with two suitcases, a frazzled wife, a screaming baby, and $200 in my pocket. We got into a huge Mercedes and Bob drove us to our hotel via the scenic route, up Pacific Coast Highway 1, past Santa Monica and Malibu. It impressed the hell out of us, which was obviously his intention, and was an amazing introduction to California.
The day after checking into the hotel, I was sat at a desk, overlooking exotic landscaping and a pond, setting up a Sega Genesis dev system. Totally surreal and all a little crazy. I worked at Acme Interactive for a couple of years, and made Ex-Mutants, Cliffhanger and helped out on a few other games like Batman Returns, SeaQuest and Thomas The Tank Engine. I got my greencard and just after Bob sold the company to Malibu Comics, I left and took a job at Disney Software.
Disney was my first taste at true, corporate America. I worked on Gargoyles, Toy Story PC, and was a tech advisor on a bunch of external projects. When I joined Disney Software, there were just a couple of programmers and a couple of dozen artists, producers, and managers. This was in 1994, and within a year, the division had been re-branded to Disney Interactive, and had grown to 100s of people. It was madness. There was so much money flying around, it wasn’t even funny. Massive parties, first class travel, and the best equipment for everyone. I was having a blast.
And then it all came to an end. They blew through 100s of millions of dollars and Disney head office pulled the plug. I was laid off, and did some freelance work (NHL 98), and then joined a small, local company called VRTO, which was part of GameTek. I worked on Jimmy Johnsons Football, and shortly after, GameTek pulled the plug and I literally walked across the car park to another game company called Mass Media, and asked them for a job. They said yes and I started the next day.
Mass Media was (and still is) run by David Todd, who was the tech director at Cinemaware with Bob Jacob, back in the day. Small world. I stayed at Mass Media for almost 10 years, and worked on over a dozen games for Gamecube, Gameboy, Playstation, XBox and PC, including Mettle Arms, Full Spectrum Warriors, Star Trek DS9, Bass Masters, and many more. Mass Media was eventually acquired by THQ, and tuned into their advanced technology studio, basically doing all the really hard stuff that none of their other studios could do. THQ slowly ran us into the ground and decided to shut the studio down, when they started having financial troubles. I left just before the crap hit the fan and joined Disney again, working on MMO technology. I figured I needed a change after 10 years doing console games, and also some new challenges. MMO stuff was interesting, so I jumped at the chance to learn some new stuff.
Over the next 5 years or so, I went from working in R&D and cutting edge server technologies, to managing the technology for Toontown Online. I ran the dev teams for the game, web services, and websites, and it was an amazing and intense period of learning. Sadly, Disney decided Toontown wasn’t profitable enough and started winding it down, so I moved onto a new internal project, making the next big MMO for Disney. During my time on that project, I got promoted to Technical Director, and had to run larger teams, and more of them. It changed everything for me, and I was becoming more and more removed from the actual process of making games, instead spending my days in meetings, making long term strategic decisions, and deciding the fates of many people. I wasn’t satisfied or happy, and in early 2013, I decided to quit and walk away from it all.
I left Disney and became an independent game developer and consultant. I now spend my time doing tasty bits of contract work and making my own games for PC and mobile. I also run (sporadically) Indielicious.com, which is a schizophrenic indie game website that I can’t quite figure out what to do with. It’s all pretty idyllic really.
OK, that was fairly epic. Next question ..
Was working in the gaming scene back then as rock n roll as we all imagined it to be?
Oh yes, it was very rock and roll. Apart from the fame and the fortune part. Still, plenty of drinking was done and it was basically just a bunch of lads having a laugh and making cool toys for people to play with at the end of the day. There was a lot going on back then; new ideas, independence, money, hubris.. A potent mix when you add youth and boundless energy. I was very naïve though, and in retrospect got taken advantage of a fair bit. There were a lot of young, energetic people doing massive amounts of work for peanuts (at least at the start), and our energy and enthusiasm was exploited to a certain degree. Exploitation is something that only got worse as the money got more serious and the businessmen realized the real potency of games. But that’s a whole other discussion.
Do you have any anecdotes you can share from those days?
I’ve shared most of the interesting ones over the years. Here’s a random one.. There was a time, back at Core Design, when we dismantled the manager’s office chair to its individual, constituent parts, and hid them all over the office. We taped pieces to the ceiling and under his desk, and even placed a critical bolt in the company post box, which he didn’t find for about a week. He was really pissed with us and walked out after our little prank, and didn’t come back for a couple of days. There was a lot of those sort of shenanigans, for sure.
Can you tell us what it was like working for Codemasters and Gremlin back then?
I only worked as a freelancer for Codemasters and only on one project (Advanced Pinball Simulator). The project was quick and tricky, and all I remember is how hard it was to get paid by them. They probably still owe me a couple hundred quid actually.
Gremlin was a different story. I served my apprenticeship in the games industry at Gremlin. I had some amazing times there, both in the Sheffield and Derby offices. Just a great bunch of people, all really mad about games, all working for the pure love of it. We had tons of freedom, being allowed to design and program the games from start to finish without any real interference from management. We made the games quickly, banging 3 or 4 out a year, and never had time to get bored or distracted. Everything was new and shiny, and we were just making shit up. I was young, healthy, and idealistic. I had good mates, some money in my pocket, I was doing exactly what I wanted to do, we were making cool stuff, and being creative. The world was wide open and belonged to us, and it was always sunny. It was probably one of the best times of my life, so far.
TrekMD
Looking back, which one of the software companies you worked for did you enjoy the most and why?
They’ve all had their high spots, but my favorite was Gremlin Derby / Core Design because we were all mates before we even worked there, and we got on like a house on fire. There were so many shenanigans it wasn’t even funny. We would make so much racket that the adjoining and surrounding businesses would literally shout at us and complain to the building management. It got so bad we were given an official notice by the landlords to shut up or get out. We shut up, mostly. We had a particularly dangerous game we would play based around rounders (or baseball), where the batter would use a length of hoover piping for a bat, and various, random office items were thrown at them. A few times things would end up embedded in the walls. Rob, Andy, Terry, Dave, Simes, Stu, all of them were such a great bunch.
Shadowrunner
How many of you was there at the beginning of Core Design, and how did the company get started?
Core was born out of the death of Gremlin Derby. The industry was in dire straights, and Gremlin couldn’t afford to keep the Derby office going or pay our wages. We heard rumbling from Sheffield that something bad was going down, and we were inevitably summoned up to Sheffield to face the music. I can remember sitting in Ian Stewart’s office being told we were being made redundant. We were pretty shocked. Kev Norburn was there, and in the next breath, he turned round and said he and Jeremy were starting a new company, and offered us all jobs. A few weeks later, Jeremy Smith, Kevin Norburn, Greg Holmes, Rob Toone, Andy Green, Terry Lloyd, Simon Phipps, Dave Pridmore and Myself, were in business as Core Design.
What was your day to day like at Core Design like?
Core was pretty relaxed. I’d usually roll into the office around 10 in the morning. My commute was a 40 minute walk, populated with a couple of stops to buy snacks and pop to sustain me through the workday. The office was a long box with windows down one entire wall and a small, doored-off office at one end where Jez and Kev would hide. I sat at the far end from the office, like the naughty kid at school sitting at the back. I had a corner to myself and my desk looked out the window onto a carpark. I had a PC and a C64 set up with joysticks and floppy drives and lots of paper and books strewn around. A typical day would go something like this; Sit down and chat with Terry and Rob for half an hour, work for an hour or so, have a break and mess around and have a laugh for half an hour, do a bit more work, go for a wander and a wee, eat a snack and drink some pop, mess around while waiting for the sandwich man to come– The sandwich man was named “Normal Norman”, which wasn’t his real name, obviously, but he was a very strange chap and he’d hang around talking about games, giving us the willies, so we called him “Normal Norman”, as you do. After procuring lunch, which was usually a tuna salad cob and a bag of Seabrooks crisps, I’d settle into a bit more work. Lunch varied and depended on how bored or how nice the weather was outside. Most of the time I’d eat at my desk and chat while I worked, but a couple time a week we’d usually end up walking into town for a pint and a chip butty. After lunch I’d usually get quite a lot of work done, happy to sit quietly with headphones on while my body extracted energy and nutrients from my meal. After a couple hours, someone would usually wander over and sit down for a chat, or I’d go and bug Rob or Andy about a bug I couldn’t figure out. We’d often talk each other through our bugs and have those aha! Moments of enlightenment when we realize what plonkers we were being. The afternoon, although quite productive, would be heavily punctuated with snacks and pop and the occasional shop run to buy more. People would start packing up and leaving around 6 in the evening, but often there would be people hanging out in the office working or playing until late into the evening. Quite a few times, I’d go to the office late at night, 10pm or later, either on the way back from the pub or sometimes just to have some peace and quiet, or fix something I’d randomly figured out how to fix, and there would be other people there, hanging out. At the end of projects, I’d essentially live at the office and people would drop in at all hours to give me gifts of food.
How long did you stay with Core, and if you don’t mind me asking, why did you leave?
I was there for about a year. Why did I leave? The short answer is, that I left to start Eurocom with my friend Mat Sneap, making games for NES. The long answer is a bit more complicated and involves secret meetings and angry, shouty people. I’ve said this before in another interview, but I’ll reiterate it here. When Core was started, we were all promised a share of the company. It was apparent, very quickly that this was not going to happen. I was, and still am, a bit of a rabble rouser, especially in the face of injustice, so I called a secret meeting at my house with the others to discuss things. There was a lot of fist shaking and angry muttering, along with lots of pizza eating, but not much else. Someone told Jeremy about the meeting, and I was summoned to his office for a bollocking (and probably worse). I sat down and Jeremy was very pissed with me. I spoke my mind and we shouted at each other a bit, and he fired me. I told him he couldn’t fire me because I already quit, so it’s a coin toss over whether I was fired or I quit. I’d been working with Mat for a couple of months, getting ready to set Eurocom up, so I was ready to bail anyway. I moved on.
Bounder was a huge hit, how did this game come about?
Bounder was the product of a glorious summer, a miserable English winter, and beer. The idea came about when Rob, Andy, and myself, were at the local park playing tennis. We were lazing under a tree, chatting about games and stuff we were playing in the local arcades, and I mentioned I’d written a cool parallax scroll on the C64, basically emulating a game called Exed Exes we’d been playing a lot in the local arcade. Somehow, we ended up talking about a top down game featuring a bouncing tennis ball, on a parallax scrolling play field. We started designing and programming it in earnest, mapping the levels on squared paper, and converting the hand drawn graphics to numbers that corresponded to 2×2 character blocks (basically indexes). Rob did most of the design and graphics, and Andy and I did the programming. We typed everything in by hand, and coded the entire game in a machine code monitor called Zoom Monitor. It was madness, but we had limited resources, and we made do the best we could. As the game progressed, we enrolled the help of Terry Lloyd, a friend who worked in the local computer shop in Derby, to do more graphics and enemy sprites. When we had made enough progress on the game, and got it to a playable state, we sent it off to Gremlin, hoping for everything, but expecting nothing, and actually got a response saying they were interested.
Gargoyles is a great game on the Genesis, and I’m happy to say I bought it as soon as it was released and finished it too (I was a big fan of the cartoon). How much assistance did you get from Disney as far as the license goes and were you allowed to make the game your way or did they specify what kind of a game it had to be?
So you’re the guy who liked it! That game was really hard, so I’m impressed you finished it. We got a lot of assistance making the game. We had access to everything from the cartoon series, and access to all history and backstory to the characters. The animation for Goliath was done by the same people who animated the cartoon, and we had writers and concept artists from the TV show involved too. Even the music was written by Michael Giaccino, who went on to score games like Call of Duty, and TV shows and movies like Lost, Alias, The Incredibles, UP, Star Trek, and Mission Impossible. It was a great project to work on, and had a number of really cool firsts for me, working for a big company like Disney, with all their resources and money. Actually working for Disney was a real thrill too. Growing up in England, I never dreamed I’d end up working for The Mouse.
Rock ‘n Roll Racing has a great soundtrack. Who picked the tunes and was it hard to get the license to use them?
Rock ‘n Roll Racing was a port, so all the music and art and design were already in place. I’ve no idea how the original project was put together, but the version I did was fun and challenging.
Advanced Pinball Simulator was a game I spent many hours playing, how did it come about for you to program this version?
I’ve always been a sucker for punishment, and when I was younger, I just couldn’t do enough programming. I was programming all day, every day, and when the opportunity came up to do the C64 version of APS, I jumped at it. After all, I had a few hours in the evenings free, while I wasn’t working at Core. I can’t really remember how I ended up getting the gig, but I think it was through my friend Rob Toone. He had done a side project, and I think he made the introduction. I remember the project being a bit of a bugger to do, particularly getting all the collision detection going on the character mapped screen.
What made you start developing text adventures?
My friend Rob Toone. He wrote a text adventure and basically made me write one too. Before programming Pub QUest (my first adventure), I was just messing around, typing in listings from magazines, and making sprites bounce around the screen. Pub Quest taught me a lot about structure and logic, and how to put a game together. It also taught me how to finish a game, which is the hardest part of writing a game.
Are you still in contact with anyone from those days? (C64/Speccy era to Sega CD era)
I am with quite a few of them. Rob Toone lives about a mile away from me, and Andy Green lives in Illinois. Terry Lloyd and Simon Phipps are back in England doing their own thing and kicking butt. I keep in touch with a bunch of old timers through Facebook or The Chaos Engine. Only a few of them have dropped out of the games business, which is quite surprising.
Have you ever gone through you old files and found incomplete games that you may release to the retro scene?
I’m a source code hoarder, and have managed to save some source code over the years. I lost a few of my older archives unfortunately, but I did release a game called Hero Quest I made for NES, just before I came out to the States, on Lost Levels a few years back. I have an old source code archive on my website (shrigley.com), with a few complete games for NES and Sega Genesis for educational purposes. I don’t have any C64 stuff though, at least not here in the USA. I still have some boxes stored at my Mums house which may have some treasure in.
Did you ever work on the Konix Multisystem or Atari Jaguar? If so, can you tell us more?
I didn’t. I pretty much went from Genesis to PC to Playstation, and then Nintendo systems and newer Playstations and Xbox. I skipped Konix and Jaguar, basically working on the systems that made the most sense for the companies I worked for.
Blackthorne is one of my favourite games for the Sega 32X. How was it working in the development of this game? What challenges were faced? Was having to develop the game for the 32X helpful or did it make work harder?
Awww, I didn’t do the 32x version of Blackthorne. I worked on the GBA port, which was no walk in the park, by the way. I had to reverse engineer the SNES 65816 assembly code, into C for the GBA. Good times!
Hero Quest (Boxart)
Hero Quest on the NES never got an official release, what happened there?
I did Hero Quest as a quick freelance project for Gremlin, while I was waiting to come out to California to work. I had 4 or 5 months to do the game, and managed to deliver final code just before leaving. I heard very little about the game after that, apart from there were a few bugs and some additional work that needed doing. I was told some other programmer was going to button it up and it would be released in Japan or something. It never did get released, but I don’t know why not. I eventually found the old source code and binaries for the cart, and released it through Lost Levels. The version I had was not the finished one though, but I think a slightly more complete one was uncovered a year or so later.
You’ve worked on games from various entertainment franchises (Batman, Masters of the Universe, Star Trek, James Bond, Gargoyles). Were you a fan of any of these when working on the games?
Yes, absolutely. I’m a card carrying nerd, I’m afraid. Particularly love Star Trek (although Deep Space 9 was never my cup of tea). I used to own a comic shop when I lived in England, many years ago (around the time I was working for Gremlin / Core), so I was also a bit of a comic nut, and collector. When I made Masters of The Universe, I got to go down to London to watch a private screening of the movie before it was released. That was a great experience.
Did you get these as straightforward assignments or were you able to ask to work on these?
No these were just projects that came in the door. It was always cool to get to work on a big franchise or movie tie in (even Cliffhanger), but I never really had much choice.
Do you have a favourite console you prefer to work on? Which did you find more challenging to develop for?
My favourite console was the Sega Genesis, mainly because it was the last piece of hardware I was able to spend any length of time getting intimate with. By the time I finished Gargoyles, I knew the hardware like the back of my hand, and felt very comfortable with it. After the Genesis, it got harder to become an expert, as hardware lifecycles got shorter, and teams got bigger, and you were mostly responsible for a part of a game, rather than the whole thing. Getting down and dirty with the hardware, and poking at the metal got harder, as it was abstracted away from the programmer. Unless you were an engine guy, you never really dealt with the hardware directly. It was always through a library or and SDK.
The most challenging was probably PS3 because of its awkward architecture and use of open source development tools.
Are you a gamer yourself? Do you have any retro systems?
I am a casual, opportunistic gamer nowadays. I tend to spend most of my time making games rather than playing them. I don’t own any modern consoles, and do most of my gaming on PC. I like RPGs, Roguelikes, and dungeon crawlers mostly, and I still play WoW and a fair few indie games. Games like Desktop Dungeons, Race The Sun, Assault Android Cactus, Torchlight, SanctuaryRPG, and many more. I have a million Humble Bundle games I’ve not even had chance to install yet, and tons of games on Steam too. There just aren’t enough hours in the day.
How different has it been working in the gaming industry through the years?
It’s not changed that much to be honest. The business has changed mind you, and it’s got way more serious, with higher stakes and big money involved, but the way games are made is essentially unchanged. They’ve got more complex and the scale is much bigger, but you basically get a bunch of talented, motivated people in a room, you design a game and then make it. All the pieces are the same, just bigger, and all the various disciplines have been broken into multiple specializations. If you get a good team with good bosses who know what they’re doing, making games can still be fun and enjoyable. There are a lot of shops out there that aren’t like that, and a lot of times, making a game is not a fun process.
When you first started, did you ever think that the video game industry would become as big as it has and still be going strong all these years later?
No way. If I’d had that sort of foresight, I’d have taken advantage and made a lot more money than I have. When we started, we were kids really, and I definitely thought it would be a short lived thing. But then a couple of games turned into 5 or 10, and the money got better, allowing me to be a proper adult doing proper adult things, like buying a house and starting a family, and before I knew it I had an actual career. I’m still not sure how it happened.
Looking back at your career, what would you change if you had a time machine and why?
I like where I am and what I’m doing right now, and I think if I went back and changed anything, it would be different and I might not like the new timeline. I have one or two regrets, I suppose, but they all worked themselves out OK ultimately. I did have an opportunity to go and live and work in Japan once, which would have been super cool, and an amazing experience, but it never panned out, and so I’ll never know what happened to that other, Japanese Chris Shrigley.
What are the biggest challenges you faced with the limitations of the hardware, particularly as you continue to expand features title-to-title from one generation to the next ( 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, Memory, Graphical capability, Speed and so on)?
The biggest challenge is reigning in designers and the creative, and their crazy ideas. It doesn’t matter how powerful the hardware is, some bright spark will always want to make something it can’t quite handle. Of course it’s natural to want to keep improving and pushing the limits of stuff, that’s why Humans are the apex species after all, and innovation would never happen otherwise. That desire to make bigger and better games is why GPU and CPU technology is as advanced as it is.
Which one of the C64 games you programmed is your favourite and why?
Probably Bounder, as it’s wrapped up in some very fun and fond memories. We programmed it over the summer of 1985, while drinking lots of beer, breakdancing, driving round country lanes too fast, and generally doing what teenagers do. Just so many good memories of that summer, all tangled up with making Bounder.
You mentioned Bounder was your favourite C64 game you worked on but which one the games across all platforms are you the proudest of and why?
I have a few I’m proud of for various reasons. For example, Bounder, because it was the first and last truly original game I made. Gargoyles for the Sega Genesis, because it was my first big game for a big corporation, with a big team and a lot on the line, and I actually managed to pull it off. But I think the one I’m most proud of is my latest game, Immortal Darkness, for a few reasons. First of all, it’s the game I’ve always wanted to make (or close), and kind of represents my entire career making games, distilling all my knowledge and skill into my magnum opus. I don’t think I’m done though, so maybe not my magnum opus. I definitely think I have more, bigger, better games to make. Second, I did so many things on the game besides coding, like project management, production, sound design, business development, social media, and even marketing, and even after making dozens of games for years and years, making it was an education and I learned tons of stuff. Lastly, I’m proud that I managed to persuade a bunch of amazing and talented people to believe in the game, and work on it for little up-front money, bootstrapping the entire project and sticking with it for 2.5 years, through the dark, lonely, unglamorous hours, and finally publishing it.
Jack the Nipper II: In Coconut Capers is a cracking game, one from wayback, can you recall the developement of the game? How did it all come about?
Greg Holmes sent the original Jack The Nipper game into Gremlin unsolicited. Gremlin got a lot of random games in the mail and most of them were rubbish and just gave us a good laugh. Jack was different though and so was Greg. I have no clue what the deal was, but Greg and the game were snapped up by Gremlin and he became a rank and file programmer, albeit a Speccy programmer. Greg had a big influence on me personally, and we got on well. He had great taste and was like some sort of wise old man, even though he was only a handful of years older than me, and he introduced me to some very cool ideas, music.. and cannabis. I never worked directly on a project with Greg, or on any of his games, including Jack, but he ended up being the dev manager at Core, and unfortunately, we fell out a little when I left. I think he felt like I let him down or betrayed him in some way. I’ve tried tracking him down a couple times over the years, but to no avail.
I spent hours playing Rock ‘n Roll Racing on the GBA, a game that had decent review scores, did you and the team take much notice of your critics and how did it affect you?
Nope, never. I think I stopped reading reviews after my 4th C64 game. The Blizzard GBA ports were a cool little project, but it came and went very quickly and we were already onto the next thing.
You ported Rock n’ Roll Racing, Blackthorne and the awesome Lost Vikings, how did this deal come about to port three games to the GBA and what were the biggest challenges you faced?
I’m not sure how the deal came about, but I know that David Todd, the guy who ran Mass Media, was friends with Mike Morhaime, and they were happy to give us the gig. We’d made Starcraft 64 a few years earlier and they were super happy with our work on that, so I think it was an easy decision. We actually ported all 3 games at the same time, using the same tools and techniques. We wrote a macro language for the 65816 assembly, and ran all the original SNES source files through a converter that spat out strange, C macro versions of them that would build for the GBA. Each of the macro instructions represented a tiny piece of C code that manipulated a simulation of the 65816 registers and stuff. It was really neat and cool, and overly complicated. It did enable us to pretty much port all 3 games simultaneously and have them run and play almost exactly like the SNES versions. My memory is fuzzy, but I think all three games took about 8 months to do, and because of how we ported all 3 at the same time, there was nothing to see or play for most of the dev time. A couple months from the end, as the strange macro language and emulation parts came online, everything just started working like magic, almost all at once. When the project landed on our desks, we simply had a stack of discs and archives to work from. They were all SNES archives and we didn’t question it. My guess is, the tech director figured that SNES was closer to GBA from a tech standpoint, so assets would be easier to wrangle, and porting would be simpler. All the graphics had to be reformatted and sized for the GBA hardware. I wrote a tool that took the SNES art and allowed me to tweak the brightness and color saturation, and output GBA files to use directly in the game.
You coded both Batman Returns and Cliffhanger on the Sega CD/Mega CD why do you feel this add-on ultimately failed?
Lack of developer support eventually. Game systems are only as good as the games on them and they need a steady supply of tasty new games to keep the punters happy. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg thing I suppose. Consumers were wary and maybe a little confused about what it was and why it was better than a Genesis, and so sales were sluggish and didn’t really motivate studios to make games for it. Vicious cycle ensues and the platform dies. Ultimately the failure lies at Sega’s feet because it’s their job to make everyone happy, consumers and developers, which they didn’t do.
What are you up to these days?
All sorts of stuff. I finished and published my latest game, Immortal Darkness: Curse of The Pale King, available from Steam for a very reasonable price (shameless plug), late in 2018, and I’ve been maintaining and bug fixing and releasing updates for it since. I’m also working casually on a personal web project and a new game prototype. I did want to take a long break after wrapping up Immortal Darkness, especially after 2.5 years of plate spinning and running the project, but that never really panned out. I guess I can never sit still for very long.
Are you surprised with the resurgence in retro gaming?
I was a few years ago, but the whole scene is getting pretty mature and sophisticated now, with cool hardware addons and new games being made. The whole coding side of retro seems very healthy too, with lots of tools and info available for the would be assembler coder. I wish we’d had a fraction of what’s available now, back in the day.
Finally thank you for taking the time to chat with us at RVG!
My pleasure. Sorry it took me so long to get the questions answered and back to you 😀
Huge thanks to Chris for taking part in this interview.
Retro head and key holder of RVG.
← Last Action Hero – Commodore Amiga Retro Rewind Review.
The Masters of Pixel Art – volume 3 Only 4 days left. →
RVG Interviews: Mark Healey.
March 1, 2018 zapiy 0
RVG Interviews: Garry Kitchen.
September 8, 2016 zapiy 0
RVG Interviews: Andy John.
August 14, 2018 zapiy 0
RVG Interviews
RVG Interviews: Karen Davies Downey
RVG Interviews: Carleton Handley
RVG Interviews: Antony Crowther
RVG Interviews: Iain Lee.
RVG Interviews: Dave Berry.
RVG Interviews: Steve Turner.
RVG Interviews Barry Leitch.
RVG Interviews: Jason Page.
RVG Interviews: Steve Screech.
RVG Interviews: Simon Phipps.
RVG Interviews: Andy Rixon.
RVG Interviews: Tony Pomfret.
RVG Interviews: Roman Werner.
RVG Interviews: Elton Bird.
RVG Interviews: Simon Butler.
RVG Interviews: Andy Godoy.
RVG Interviews: Pond Software.
RVG Interviews: Stoo Cambridge.
RVG Interviews: Paul Rose (Mr Biffo).
RVG Interviews: Marco Breddin (MicroZeit).
RVG Interviews: Roger Kean.
RVG Interviews: Adrian Cummings.
RVG Interviews: James Boulton.
RVG Interviews: Jim Bagley.
RVG Interviews: Anthony Guter (Mastertronic).
RVG Interviews: Luis Martins.
RVG Interviews: Marc Ericksen.
RVG Interviews: Henk Nieborg.
RVG Interviews: Trevor Storey.
RVG Interviews: John Blythe.
RVG Interviews: Ben Versteeg (Byte Delight).
RVG Interviews: Kevin Edwards.
RVG Interviews: Dean Swain.
RVG Interviews: Mike Dailly.
RVG Interviews: Justin Castle.
RVG Interviews: Paul Machacek.
RVG Interviews: Senile Team.
RVG Interviews: Second Dimension.
RVG Interviews: Erik Hogan
RVG Interviews: Chris Stanley.
RVG Interviews: Mikael Tillander.
RVG Interviews: Langford Productions.
RVG Interviews: Joe Granato.
RVG Interviews: Chris Blackbourn.
RVG Interviews: Matt Phillips.
RVG Interviews: Bitmap Bureau.
RVG Interviews Mike Montgomery.
RVG Interviews: Mark Hardisty.
RVG Interviews: SKYCURSER Dev’s.
RVG Interviews: David Perry.
RVG Interviews: Nick Burcombe.
RVG Interviews: Matt Gray.
RVG Interviews – Jon Ritman.
RVG Interviews – John Mathieson.
RVG Interviews: Jennell Jaquays.
RVG Interviews: Dino Dini.
RVG Interviews: Darryl Still.
RVG Interviews: Jean Francois Dupuis.
RVG Interviews: Fred Gill.
RVG Interviews: Steve Wilcox.
RVG Interviews: Steve Hammond.
RVG Interviews: David Crane.
RVG Interviews: Allister Brimble.
RVG Interviews: Billy Allison.
RVG Interviews: Bill Harbison.
RVG Interviews Brian Fargo.
RVG Interviews Sam Dyer (Bitmap Books).
RVG Interviews Andrew Hewson.
RVG Interviews Rebellion.
RVG Interviews Elektronite.
RVG Interviews: Ian Stewart.
RVG Interviews John Romero.
RVG Interviews Coleco Holdings CEO Mark Thomann.
RVG Interviews Bob Jacob.
RVG Interviews: Cronosoft.
RVG Interviews Ed Magnin.
RVG Interviews Aetherbyte Studios.
Arcade Imperfect Book
New Atari 5200/XE Homebrew - Hexxagon
New Atari 7800 Homebrew - Galaxian!
New NES Homebrew - Crap Job
New Atari 2600 Homebrew - Improved Q*bert
Dan Kitchen Documentary: Four Decades of Development
CGE 2012 - The History of the Atari 7800 ProSystem at General Computer Corp
Montezuma's Revenge 48k Atari version "Director's Cut"
playMOTU - Retro Style He-Man Game
The Untold Story of Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell
3DO 32x Activision Atari Bitmap Books Bitmap Bureau Bitmap Soft C64 Castle Books Christmas Games Codemasters Core Design DMA Design Electronic Arts Elite Firebird Software Fusion Retro Books Graftgold Gremlin Graphics Greyfox Books Halloween Hewson Imagine Software John Szczepaniak Lazycow Matt Gray Megastyle Ocean Polyplay Protovision Psygnosis Psytronik Software Rainbow Arts Rare Read Only Memory Retro Asylum RetroHQ RGCD Rucksack Games Schiffer Publishing Sega Sensible Software Team 17 Trevor Storey Unbound
Greyfox Books
Bitmap Soft
Phoenix Ware
The RVG Squad
Mature Video Gamer
Copyright © A Zaps Media Creation 2021. All rights reserved.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8960
|
__label__wiki
| 0.672186
| 0.672186
|
Charles Summers Hand
Birth 2 Aug 1884 Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Buried 25 Jan 1965 Fellowship Advent Christian Church Cemetery, Taylorsville, Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Father John Alexander Hand
Mother Margaret Lavance Johnson
Family Barbara Vance Teague
b. 18 May 1882, Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Married 8 Mar 1903 Alexander, North Carolina, United States
1. Elsie P. Hand
+ 2. Earl Swan Hand
b. 30 Dec 1905
3. Arthur Glenn Hand
b. 5 Sep 1907, North Carolina, United States
4. Clyde F. Hand
b. 1 Sep 1911
5. Bessie Bell Hand
b. 22 Jan 1914
6. Brace Albert Hand
7. Cloyd Rayford Hand
Barbara Vance Teague
Nickname Vance
Birth 18 May 1882 Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Died 6 Dec 1962 Wittenburg, Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Buried Fellowship Advent Christian Church Cemetery, Taylorsville, Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Father William Gion Teague
b. 4 Nov 1844
Family Charles Summers Hand
b. 2 Aug 1884, Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Bessie Ann Hand
Died 22 Jul 1963 Newton, Catawba, North Carolina, United States
Buried 24 Jul 1963 Mays Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Maiden, Catawba, North Carolina, United States
Family John Lee Vance Harris
b. 9 May 1885, Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Married 13 Jun 1907 Brookford, Catawba, North Carolina, United States
John Lee Vance Harris
Nickname Vass
Birth 9 May 1885 Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Died 11 Aug 1957 Newton, Catawba, North Carolina, United States
Buried 12 Aug 1957 Mays Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Maiden, Catawba, North Carolina, United States
Family Bessie Ann Hand
Romulus Zacharia Hand
Buried 9 Dec 1963 Antioch Cemetery, Little River, Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Family Attie E. Roark
Married 14 Mar 1917 Newton, Catawba, North Carolina, United States
Attie E. Roark
Birth 25 Sep 1894
Died 13 Jul 1972
Buried Antioch Cemetery, Little River, Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Family Romulus Zacharia Hand
John Alexander Hand
Mother Elmira E. Price
b. Abt 1844, Burke, North Carolina, United States
Family 1 Matilda S. Watson
b. Dec 1864, Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Married 16 Nov 1883 Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Family 2 Margaret Lavance Johnson
+ 1. Charles Summers Hand
2. Bessie Ann Hand
3. Romulus Zacharia Hand
Margaret Lavance Johnson
Father James Albert Johnson
Mother Margret Barnhill
Family John Alexander Hand
Elsie P. Hand
Died 9 Jun 1916 Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Father Charles Summers Hand
Mother Barbara Vance Teague
Earl Swan Hand
Birth 30 Dec 1905
Died 7 Jun 1969 Taylorsville, Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Family Blonnie Estell Cline
b. 15 Jul 1909, Burke, North Carolina, United States
Married 24 Jul 1926 Newton, Catawba, North Carolina, United States
+ 1. Glenn William Hand
b. 22 Apr 1927, Burke, North Carolina, United States
2. Infant Hand
b. 26 Nov 1929, Henry River, Burke, North Carolina, United States
+ 3. Paul Junior Hand
b. 4 Aug 1931, Henry River, Burke, North Carolina, United States
+ 6. Myrtle Louise Hand
b. 1 Sep 1939, Alexander, North Carolina, United States
7. Ned Howard Hand
10. Linda Hand
Arthur Glenn Hand
Birth 5 Sep 1907 North Carolina, United States
Died 2 Sep 1997 Valdese, Burke, North Carolina, United States
Clyde F. Hand
Birth 1 Sep 1911
Died 14 Aug 1983
Buried Teague Munday Cemetery, Ellendale, Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Bessie Bell Hand
Birth 22 Jan 1914
Brace Albert Hand
Birth 13 Dec 1914 Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Died 23 Feb 2000 Hickory, Catawba, North Carolina, United States
Buried Fairview Cemetery, Hickory, Catawba, North Carolina, United States
Family Kathleen Odessa Marshall
b. 11 Jul 1917, Hickory, Catawba, North Carolina, United States
Cloyd Rayford Hand
Died 10 Feb 2002 Taylorsville, Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Name Charles Summers Hand
Born 2 Aug 1884 Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Death Certificate - Charlie Hand
Buried 25 Jan 1965 Fellowship Advent Christian Church Cemetery, Taylorsville, Alexander, North Carolina, United States [1]
Charlie S. Hand (1884 - 1965) - Find A Grave Memorial
♥ Barbara Vance Teague , m. 8 Mar 1903
d. 22 Jul 1963, Newton, Catawba, North Carolina, United States (Age 72 years)
♥ John Lee Vance Harris , m. 13 Jun 1907
♥ Attie E. Roark , m. 14 Mar 1917
d. 2 Jan 1903 (Age 37 years)
Spouse / Partner Barbara Vance Teague
d. 6 Dec 1962, Wittenburg, Alexander, North Carolina, United States (Age 80 years)
d. 9 Jun 1916, Alexander, North Carolina, United States (Age 11 years)
d. 7 Jun 1969, Taylorsville, Alexander, North Carolina, United States (Age 63 years)
d. 2 Sep 1997, Valdese, Burke, North Carolina, United States (Age 89 years)
d. 14 Aug 1983 (Age 71 years)
d. 28 Jan 1914 (Age 0 years)
d. 23 Feb 2000, Hickory, Catawba, North Carolina, United States (Age 85 years)
d. 10 Feb 2002, Taylorsville, Alexander, North Carolina, United States (Age 83 years)
Born - 2 Aug 1884 - Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Married - 8 Mar 1903 - Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Died - 24 Jan 1965 - Taylorsville, Alexander, North Carolina, United States
Buried - 25 Jan 1965 - Fellowship Advent Christian Church Cemetery, Taylorsville, Alexander, North Carolina, United States
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8963
|
__label__cc
| 0.522292
| 0.477708
|
Pictures - Conventions - The Sopranos
How to meet the cast of The Sopranos ?
The cast and crew of The Sopranos participate in many convention or fanmeet. The cast also travels to comic-con and multi-fandom conventions in many countries.
The last events
For The Love Of Sci-Fi (2021)
Days of the Dead – Las Vegas (2020)
ReedPop Metaverse (2020)
Online / Virtual Convention
ATX TV… from the Couch! (2020)
Comic-Con Prague 2021
All events about The Sopranos
Casting - The Sopranos
Nick Tarabay
Cara Buono
Bryan Greenberg
Conventions FAQ
What's a TV show / movie convention ?
A convention is an event that usually takes place during two or three days and is dedicated to one or more anime, TV show(s), comics or movie(s).
Organized mainly by fans associations, conventions give fans the opportunity to participate in Q&A with the actors, take pictures with them, get autographs or spend a moment with them during a Meet & Greet.
A TV show, anime, comics or movie convention, is also the opportunity to participate to many activities during the event : quizz, lottery, karaoke... while meeting new people.
They also allow fans to chat with one another about a same center of interest and to return home with a lot of unforgettable memories.
How to participate in a convention ?
To participate to a convention, it's mandatory to get a pass on the ticketing of the organization in charge of the event.
It is important to remember that without a pass, you will not have access to the convention. If you purchased extras without this precious pass, you are not going to be able to use them and you will lose money unnecessarily.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8972
|
__label__wiki
| 0.906334
| 0.906334
|
Bloody Eye Games, Inc.
Bloody Eye Games, Inc. is a small, independent game company based in Chicago, illinois that was founded in 2017 by Alex Hakobian.
Their flagship game is Broadsword: A Game of Legendary Heroes and Epic Adventure, about a group of Heroes fighting together on behalf of the good King and the Realm against the invading forces of the Abyss. A hybrid board game/roleplaying game, it has been designed to be played via Virtual Tabletop (VTT) or physically around a table.
Bloody Eye Games, Inc.Title Publisher Price Date Added Highest Rated Popularity
Broadsword Expansion: Tome of Heroes
Broadsword's first expansion supplement, TOME OF HEROES: CHARACTER OPTIONS, an exciting booklet filled with new races, new classes, and additional options for existing races and classes. What's new: 6 new races, including Dragonkin, Sproutling, and Tusker! 10 new classes, including Bard, Monk, Rogue, and Swordmage! New racial abilities for existing races, bringing... [click here for more] Bloody Eye Games, Inc. $1.99
Broadsword: Quest Book: "Conquering Despair"
Broadsword is an epic fantasy adventure game that seamlessly brings together elements from classic board games with elements from tabletop roleplaying games to result in something truly extraordinary — not quite a full RPG, but much more than a simple board game. Inside this package, you will find: Quest Book, "Conquering Despair" - a campaign of 14 Quests structured... [click here for more] Bloody Eye Games, Inc. $3.99
Broadsword: Complete Rulebook
Broadsword is an epic fantasy adventure game that seamlessly brings together elements from classic board games with elements from tabletop roleplaying games to result in something truly extraordinary — not quite a full RPG, but much more than a simple board game. Inside this package, you will find: Complete Rulebook - Everything you need to play the game. Just... [click here for more] Bloody Eye Games, Inc. $4.99
Broadsword: The Extras
Broadsword is an epic fantasy adventure game that seamlessly brings together elements from classic board games with elements from tabletop roleplaying games to result in something truly extraordinary — not quite a full RPG, but much more than a simple board game. Inside this package, you will find: Character sheet - all your information in one easy to read place. Tokens... [click here for more] Bloody Eye Games, Inc. $9.99
Hottest Titles
01. Broadsword Expansion: Tome of Heroes
02. Broadsword: Complete Rulebook
03. Broadsword: Quest Book: "Conquering Despair"
04. Broadsword: The Extras
How to Sell on Little Wars
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8974
|
__label__wiki
| 0.708672
| 0.708672
|
Peru: Mass strike and protests targets neo-liberalism in Lima
Перу, Lima
9 April, 2015 в 20:36 GMT +00:00 · Опубликовано
Thousands of workers mobilised through their labour unions and participated in two marches through Lima on Wednesday to protest against what they label as "neo-liberal reforms," which benefit private companies and not the average worker.
The first protest was organised by workers in the state oil company, PetroPeru. Protesters mobilised after the state firm decided not to invest in oil fields in the Talara region, purportedly leaving them instead to the Grana and Montero corporation. Workers claim the country stands to lose around $300 million (€278 million) from the government's decision and have vowed to strike indefinitely if a solution is not reached.
The second march targeted 'neo-liberal' structural reforms in the economy, which protesters allege cut workers' rights for the benefit of private business. The specific legislative act that was railed against was Supreme Decree 013, which allows a business to fire 10 percent of its staff if it reports losses for three consecutive months. Trade unionists present at the march feared the act could be utilised against them.
More generally, the strikers, trade unionists and protesters demanded improvements in working conditions, challenged the legality of mass lay-offs and called for an increase in the minimum wage.
"Территория спасения". Частный приют в Липецке лечит бездомных животных и ищет им новых хозяев"Территория спасения". Частный приют в Липецке лечит бездомных животных и ищет им новых хозяев
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8975
|
__label__cc
| 0.728851
| 0.271149
|
SteamOS Is Out! Don't Download It Yet
16th December 2013 / 10:00AM
Last week, Valve sent out the first 300 prototypes of their Steam Machines. That’s exciting, but unless you were one of the few randomly chosen, you can’t get involved. They also released the first version of their SteamOS for everyone to download, which is exciting but you should not get involved. Even Valve don’t think so.
The SteamOS is a Linux-based operating system designed to free Steam and the running of games through Steam from Windows. It should ultimately provide a faster, smoother experience for those wanting to build dedicated games machine, and there are interesting planned features such as in-home streaming. I’m looking forward to that, so I can ping games from my desktop machine to my giant TV on occasion.
This early beta is very early though, so none of those features are working yet. There is no in-home streaming. There is no dual booting. Both of the two install instructions provided by Valve will wipe everything currently on the machine, including all partitions, in the process of giving itself over to Valve. There’s a reason why the SteamOS download page isn’t a fancily designed website but an exposed file structure.
If you’re the intrepid Linux hacker that Valve suggests the beta is aimed at, then make sure you read the SteamOS FAQ before you get started. There’s still plenty of reasons that it might work for you, from your ability to boot from UEFI to whether you’ve a 64-bit machine. It’s also a surprise that the OS is based on Debian and not Ubuntu, when it’s the latter that Valve recommends developers aim for when porting Steam games to Linux.
There are reports beginning to trickle out from those who’ve started using the OS, too. Ars Technica were quietly impressed by the instant support for XBox 360 controllers, though I’d imagine that won’t matter soon when we’re all pressing our thumbs comfortably against the sensitive eyes of Valve’s owl controller.
Tagged with rub Valve's magical owl corneas gently to enjoy the haptic stimulation, Steam Machines, SteamOS, Valve.
Graham is to blame for all this.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8984
|
__label__wiki
| 0.638551
| 0.638551
|
Black History Month: (Self-) Vations
Cognitive cultures #1
(Self-) Vations 26.02.–27.02.2018 19:00
with Jumọke Adeyanju, Adrian Blount, Maiysha Cade, Nasheeka Nedsreal, and Thomias Radin (Thomyyas)
Curator Nasheeka Nedsreal
In collaboration with Black Living Histories Month by Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor, Josephine Apraku and Isaiah Lopaz
Free Entry Suggested donation 3€/5€
In celebration of Black History Month and within the framework of our performance series Cognitive Cultures several Berlin based artists from multiple backgrounds come together to form The Blackism Collective. Blackism is the most succinct term which we employ to describe our mission to promote the autonomy of Blackness, in all its diversity and nuance through performance art and multimedia. Self-Vation speaks to the individual dancer’s and collective dancers expression of varying emotional worlds. In doing so the viewer is obliged to behold experiences of Blackness that are unique, complex and moving. Navigating through various African disaporic channels, using dance, theatre, poetry, music and video, Blackism aims to decolonize and center our entireties. The collective was founded by performers, Nasheeka Nedsreal and Adrian Blount in 2017.
JUMOKE ADEYANJU is a freestyle dancer, major in Hip Hop and House. She started off with Krumping at age 14 then Breakdance and was active with her crew Deetroit Rockstarz in the underground dance battle scene (fka Lizzy Dee) for many years. She is now experimenting with different types of movements, emerging them into what has shaped her all these years. Jumoke is also a curator, moderator, and polylingual poet. She writes in English, German, Kiswahili and Yorùbá.
ADRIAN BLOUNT is from San Diego, CA. She has a BA in Dramatic arts from San Francisco State University and has performed in regional theatres across the USA, with a touring theatre troupe, and Brown University programs: Center for Slavery and Justice, Brown/ Trinity, and Trinity Repertory theatre. Adrian has taught anti-racist and collective healing
workshops with the f_antifa Kongress, Ballhaus Nanynstrasse, co-founded the Blackism Collective and the No Tek No collective.
MAIYASHA CADE is a Hip Hop dancer originally from Boston, MA. Although hip hop dance is her main style, she has roots in Ballet. At the age of 8, she attended The Boston Ballet School for Performing Arts for several years, on a full scholarship, and landed roles in their productions of A Mid-Summers Nights Dream and The Nutcracker. While in Boston, she was a dancer for the NBA Boston Celtics for several years and coached their kids dance team She was also a member of the hip hop dance company Phunk Phenomenon. After moving to NYC she signed with BLOC agency and performed commercially for NIKE, New Balance, MTV, LG Electronics, and others. Working with teens, through dance, is Maiysha's ultimate love. In the past, she has worked with different youth organizations such as The Possibility Project and SOCAPA and has taught in many schools throughout New York.
NASHEEKA NEDSREAL is a performer from Louisiana, working across movement, theatre and music. In recent years, her work explores identity, female and African diasporic narratives, intimacy, ritual and improvisation. In 2014, Nasheeka founded Soul Sisters Berlin, a collective dedicated to connecting Black women throughout Germany and Europe. The collective performed their first original piece entitled, ”Mirror Mirror”, which she co-directed. Nedsreal also works as a fashion model, stylist, actress and childhood educator; teaching English, Dance and Theatre, in schools throughout Germany. In 2016, she began teaching dance class for women of color under the title Black and Brown Bodies in Motion. In 2017, she joined Berlin-based dance company, Grupo Oito and made her premiere in the performance, ”Unrestricted Contact”.
THOMIAS RADIN alias THOMYYAS is a young painter and dancer (freestyle hip hop, house dance, experimental) born in 1993 in Guadeloupe. Through his painting, the artist nourishes his reflection on the relationships between painting, music and dance; his passions since childhood. He then tries to highlight the links between the disciplines that constitute this trinity. Beyond a narrative that portrays supernatural beings and collective fantasies, his painting then refers to the genesis of a human society and its relationship to the divine.
(SELF-) Vations | Photo: Raisa Galofre
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8992
|
__label__cc
| 0.731548
| 0.268452
|
Installing an Insulation Blanket on an Electric Water Heater
Note: Installation is more difficult on gas and oil-fired heaters. Ask a qualified HVAC contractor for instructions.
Cut the tank top insulation to fit around the piping at the top of the tank. Tape the cut section closed after the top has been installed.
Fold the corners of the tank top insulation down and tape to the sides of the tank.
Position the insulating blanket around the circumference of the tank. For ease of installation, position the blanket so that the ends do not come together over the access panels in the side of the tank. Some tanks have only one access panel.
Secure the blanket in place with the belts provided. Position the belts so they do not go over the access panels (Figure 2). Belts should fit snugly over the blanket but not compress it more than 15% to 20% of its thickness. The installation is easier with two people. If working alone, use tape to hold the blanket to the top until you get the belts into position.
If your water heater has the temperature/ pressure relief valve and the overflow pipe on the side of the tank instead of on the top, install the blanket so these items are outside of the blanket. Depending on the piping arrangement and location, you may need to compress, or even cut, the blanket.
Locate the four corners of the access panel(s). Make an x-shaped cut in the insulating blanket from corner to corner of each access panel.
Fold the triangular flaps produced by the cuts underneath the insulating blanket. Repeat steps 6 and 7 for the rating/instruction plate.
The blanket must not be installed on a leaking tank.
© Online-Access
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8996
|
__label__wiki
| 0.700231
| 0.700231
|
ScienceOpen: research and publishing network
My ScienceOpen
+1 Recommend
Record: found
Abstract: found
Article: not found
Framing a concept and an agenda for infectious diseases in EMBO Molecular Medicine
Author(s): Philippe J Sansonetti , MD
Publication date (Print): July 2009
Journal: EMBO Molecular Medicine
Publisher: WILEY-VCH Verlag
Read this article at
ScienceOpenPublisherPMC
Further versions
oa journal (via doaj)
oa repository (via OAI-PMH doi match)
oa repository (via pmcid lookup)
Invite someone to review
Export as citation
Reference Manager (RIS)
There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.
Each year, 12 million individuals on the planet succumb to one infection. Ninety percent of these deaths occur in the developing world. Seventy-five per cent of them are concerned with children. Loss of precious lives, social disturbances that also encompass severe losses of activities (i.e. DALYs) are a major handicap to the most impoverished populations and to the economic development of the nations in which the victims live. Embedded in this precarious situation is the risk of emergence, reemergence and extension of new, or renewed, infectious diseases that can spread to the other end of the planet at the speed of modern air mass transportation. I need not cite here the most recent pandemics that have indiscriminately affected the North and the South, but it is clear that the greatest toll is always borne by the poorest countries. »Each year, 12 million individuals on the planet succumb to one infection.« This situation should not, however, cause us to lose sight of the fact that industrialized nations also nurture their own infectious risks. Complex architectural structures have engendered airborne infections such as legionellosis. Evolving modern medicine places patients in a complex and potentially risky situation that combines invasive procedures capable of delivering microbes to naturally sterile tissues and organs, together with iatrogenic immunosuppression that severely dampens resistance mechanisms to infectious agents. The situation is further aggravated by lingering resistance of hospital microbes to anti-infectious agents, despite major progress made in the control of antibiotic use over the last two decades. In this broad context of nosocomial infections some syndromes, like sepsis and septic shock, emerge as major threats. Both are thought to kill about 150,000 Europeans each year. Another source of infections in our modern societies is industrialization of the food chain. Breaches in hygiene during processing or other manipulations, or in the cold chain that includes personal refrigerators, lead to rapid and broad dissemination of psychrophyle microorganisms such as Listeria and Yersinia. Added to all this, ageing of the Western population (25% of Europeans are expected to be older than 65 in 2050) carries its own, yet complex to evaluate, risk of infectious emergence. Each year, 5,000–6,000 French citizens die of the winter epidemic of flu, a number equivalent to traffic casualties. Vaccine protection decays with age, and a decreasing number of lymphocytes able to ‘handle’ infecting pathogens exhaust themselves fighting chronic, often latent viral infections like herpes viruses that have been acquired earlier in life. The time may have come to think about delaying the age of retirement of the immune system! Research is warranted in this crucial area. Last but not the least, a recent explosion of studies in human genetics has shown that individuals are certainly not equal in the face of infection. Genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases, multigenic or Mendelian is an emerging science »Genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases, multigenic or Mendelian is an emerging science…« that is expected to provide biomarkers of susceptibility or resistance to severe conditions (i.e. meningitis, pneumonia and severe sepsis) that will take their place both in epidemiological studies and also possibly in therapeutics, under the umbrella of what is now called personalized medicine. Let us try to take an optimistic view and think that molecular medicine in the field of infectious diseases now plays a major role in their control and that it will continue to do so in the future. One example may summarize this view and concurrently help to better delineate what the role of EMBO Molecular Medicine could be in this complex arena. Viral Genomic Diagnostics, following its global implementation in Western countries, has brought the risk of accidental transmission of HIV, HBV and HCV by blood transfusion close to zero. This is of course the result of a complex array of molecular approaches encompassing superb basic science that led to the identification of these viruses, development of molecular diagnostic tools such as PCR, and their global implementation. Similar considerations apply to the recognition of HPVs as the cause of cervical cancer and to the development of a vaccine that is now on its way to prevent the disease both in the North and the South. In the field of infectious diseases, a huge amount of excellent science has laid the basis for an understanding in molecular and cellular terms of how microbes (i.e. bacteria, viruses, parasites, yeasts and even prions) alter cellular functions. Cellular and subcellular analyses have, with the help of the combination of imaging, molecular biology and genomics, reached a phenomenal degree of resolution and articles describing this research make their way into journals for various audiences, ranging from the specialized to global. Such papers may make their way as well to EMBO Molecular Medicine provided they are of relevance to the medical field. However, it is a tragedy that this mass of ‘academic’ knowledge is not more efficiently translated into innovative tools to control infectious diseases through diagnostics, therapeutic molecules, vaccines and immunotherapeutic approaches. I often stress that translation is an ethical obligation. »…translation is an ethical obligation.« The fact that it does not yet happen widely enough may simply be that the academic sector is rarely ready, or sufficiently equipped to seize the challenge of translational research, and to bring candidate tools to a point of visibility and credibility that would interest the pharmaceutical/vaccine companies. A lack of communication between the academic and industrial worlds may also be an issue. Translational research is increasingly considered by academia, as some of its approaches, such as high-throughput screening, provide in return molecular tools for basic research. EMBO Molecular Medicine could become a natural medium for high profile projects that foster this virtuous circle. There is more than this however. Intrinsic obstacles hamper the development from the very basic studies (i.e. cellular microbiology) of concepts that could lead to the translational paradigm shift. A non-exhaustive list of such obstacles includes lack of a global vision of the dynamics of infectious processes at the tissue and organ level, human specificity of the microorganism and restriction of studies to animal (mostly murine) models, whereas it is now clear that a switch to studies on samples obtained from sick patients, on human primary tissue explants, or in humanized murine models is essential, particularly in infectious immunology. Let us also consider that certain microbes are likely to account for chronic (inflammatory) diseases that are specifically human, as starter or sustained etiological agents. Reporting of the discovery of such agents should without doubt make its way to EMBO Molecular Medicine. Last but not the least, high level contributions on the genetic susceptibility and resistance to infections, when associated to excellent epidemiological methodologies and strong basic mechanistic studies is also an area of major interest for this Journal. This is the field that one expects may bring the most unexpected contributions in infectious diseases in the future and to prepare, as already mentioned, the revolution of personalized medicine. The agenda is broad, thus any attempt to fully define the role of EMBO Molecular Medicine in the field of infectious diseases would be both a complex and premature endeavour. One certitude is however that the launch of this Journal is very timely »…the launch of this Journal is very timely…« and that by virtue of its unique position at the interface between basic and translational research, it offers both basic and translational researchers the opportunity to synergize their efforts through its pages.
Bacterial extracellular vesicles
: Role: Senior Editor of the Jounal and Head of the Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire at the Institut Pasteur. He is Professeur at the Collège de France
Journal ID (nlm-ta): EMBO Mol Med
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): EMBO Mol Med
Journal ID (publisher-id): emmm
Title: EMBO Molecular Medicine
Publisher: WILEY-VCH Verlag (Weinheim )
simpleProfesseur at the Institut Pasteur and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute foreign scholar Institut Pasteur INSERM U786 Paris, France E-mail: psanson@ 123456pasteur.fr
DOI: 10.1002/emmm.200900031
PMC ID: 3378131
Copyright statement: Copyright © 2009 EMBO Molecular Medicine
Subject: Editorial
Data availability:
ScienceOpen disciplines: Molecular medicine
Similar content 38
EMBO Molecular Medicine: Conquering new frontiers
Authors: Matthias W Hentze
As Plain as the Nose on Your Face: The Case for A Nasal (Mucosal) Route of Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 Disease Prevention
Authors: Craig R. Travis
Anti-viral activity of the extracts of a Kenyan medicinal plant Carissa edulis against herpes simplex virus.
Authors: Joseph Muli, Faith Muli, Mawuli Kofi-Tsekpo …
See all similar
ScienceOpen, Inc.
infoo83ooc@o83onsscienceopen.com
Pappelallee 78/79
Phone: +49-30-609-8490-277
Fehérvári út 79.
© 2020 ScienceOpen – All rights reserved.
ScienceOpen on Twitter
ScienceOpen on YouTube
ScienceOpen on LinkedIn
ScienceOpen on Google+
ScienceOpen on Facebook
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8997
|
__label__cc
| 0.73372
| 0.26628
|
Street cleaners confront moped-riding thieves in SE16
Posted on Wednesday 16 August 2017 by SE16.com
Southwark Council has issued this safety advice in response to the growing problem of mobile phones and other valuables being stolen by thieves on mopeds:
Last week Southwark Council street cleaners confronted a pair of thieves on a moped who had just snatched valuables from a woman on the street around Greenland Dock, Rotherhithe.
The council and police are aware of a number of incidents like this in the area and are working to crack down on people using stolen scooters and mopeds.
Cllr Barrie Hargrove, cabinet member for communities, safety and leisure, said: “Southwark Council is working closely with police to crack down on these despicable thefts, and we are very proud of our staff members who went above and beyond their duty to help try and catch these thieves. We would ask all our residents to remain vigilant and report any incidents like this to the police.”
Residents can also follow some simple advice to prevent becoming targets for these kinds of thieves:
Be aware of your surroundings at all times and keep your personal property secure.
Don’t text while you’re walking – you won’t notice potential thieves approaching.
Use the security features on your phone.
Try going hands free or stand away from the roadside close to a wall so no one can come up behind you.
Your phone comes with a range of security features, such as keypad locks and remote data wiping. Make sure they are all activated to stop thieves from accessing your phone and personal data.
Know how to identify your phone if it’s stolen. Find your IMEI number by dialling *#06# from your phone and keep a written note of it. If the phone is stolen, report it to the police and your mobile provider to stop it being used.
Register your phone on www.immobilise.com to help police return recovered stolen property and combat the sale of stolen goods. Police recover more than 2500 items registered to the website on average every month. Never confront a thief or risk your own safety for the sake of your mobile device
Scooter and moped riders are also being urged to consider additional measures to secure their mopeds and scooters, such as using fitted anchors, security loops, disc and chain locks, and audible alarms.
Residents can also help police tackle moped theft and moped related crime such as theft snatch by reporting to police if you have witnessed or have footage of a bike being stolen or thieves carrying out a snatch theft. Your information will be treated in confidence and will help police to develop intelligence and target the thieves. Please contact us with:
Details of time, date and location
If you have any other information about moped crime
You can do this by contacting the Met police on:
On Twitter @MetCC
On www.met.police.uk – tell us about something you’ve seen or heard.
By calling 101.
You can also report anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
In the event of a crime taking place, always call 999.
Southwark Police have also been tweeting advice:
Phone snatchers on bikes are targeting people in the Southwark area.
Avoid the roadside when using your phone https://t.co/8TqMqVwFyY pic.twitter.com/vYdeQ5LoQP
— MPS Southwark (@MPSSouthwark) August 16, 2017
Register your phone today to help police identify and return it to you in the event that it is lost or stolen #immobilise pic.twitter.com/HO78yrVLaW
Prevent phone snatchers from accessing your personal data by turning on security
settings on your phone https://t.co/8TqMqVwFyY pic.twitter.com/xBO0wTJLqN
Know more than the colour & model of your mobile. Supply your IMEI to help identify it if stolen pic.twitter.com/8RhEd6POXP
Canada Water to lose police ‘contact point’
Posted on Saturday 29 July 2017 by SE16.com
The police ‘contact point’ at Canada Water Library – set up in 2013 to compensate for the closure of the front desk at Rotherhithe Police Station – is to be axed under plans set out earlier this month by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.
Police officers are available at Canada Water Library for three hours a week.
Now the Mayor is planning a further raft of closures of front counters and contact points.
Public consultation continues until 6 October; details on the City Hall website.
Two men jailed for Ben Purdy murder
Two men have been sentenced to a combined minimum of 58 years imprisonment for the murder of 18-year-old Ben Purdy in Mossington Gardens a year ago this week.
Andrew Bayne, 37, from SE8 was found guilty of the murder of Ben Purdy at the Old Bailey on Thursday 19 November.
Ben Purdy
The next day, at the same court, he was sentenced to life imprisonment to serve a minimum of 30 years. He was also sentenced to seven years imprisonment for possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear or violence. The sentences are to run concurrently.
Michael Bagnall, 22, of SE13 was found guilty of the murder of Ben Purdy at the Old Bailey. He has now been sentenced to life imprisonment to serve a minimum of 28 years. He was also sentenced to two years imprisonment for affray. The sentences are to run concurrently.
Detective Chief Inspector Graeme Gwyn, of the Homicide and Major Crime Command, said: “I am very pleased with the sentences handed down today. Ben was hunted through the streets by Bayne and Bagnall, who were armed with deadly weapons and had deadly intentions.
“The trial has been a harrowing experience for Ben’s family and I commend them for their dignity and composure throughout. No degree of justice will bring Ben back to his family but I sincerely hope that the verdicts reached today will bring a measure of comfort to those who miss him most.”
Ben’s mother Joanne said in an impact statement presented to the court: “The trial has been long and stressful for my husband and I. The void that Ben’s death has left will never be filled. We will always have him missing in our lives. We will never be able to see him conquer his dreams or see him walk down the aisle or share any of the achievements that he would have worked towards. All we have are those brief 18 years to hold onto before he was taken away from us so cruelly.”
In an impact statement presented to the court Ben’s father, Stephen Lewis, said: “I have been unable to cope with the loss of my son. It’s such a tragedy for such a young life. Ben had been working hard to build a career as a plumber, his whole future was in front of him and I’m sure he would have had a great future. I have attended court every day during the trial and not once have any of the defendants shown me any remorse or dignity. They left Ben for dead in the street. Our son hasn’t got a life and our lives will never be the same again.”
Sentencing for three other men convicted of offences in connection with the murder will be scheduled in due course.
Laptop stolen from UK Homes for Heroes charity
Police are appealing for information after a laptop was stolen from a charity during a burglary.
The burglary occurred at around 4.45am on Wednesday 18 November, at the premises of Homes 4 Heroes in the Surdoc Club, Cope Street, Rotherhithe.
The charity helps homeless ex military personnel.
A white Toshiba laptop Satellite C55 DA14 was stolen during the burglary and it contained templates used to make identity passes for the charity’s representatives.
The charity has now changed the passes for its staff and volunteers, but advises if anyone has any concerns about someone claiming to be from the charity they should contact UK Homes 4 Heroes on 020 7237 6363.
If anyone has any information regarding either the burglary, or the whereabouts of the laptop, they should call Southwark Police’s CID on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111, quoting crime reference 3033697/15.
A 28-year-old man was arrested in connection with the burglary on Thursday 19 November. He has been charged with burglary and will appear at Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court on Friday 20 November.
Posted in Charities, Police & crime.
Neil Coyle warns of police cuts and highlights drugs crisis in Rotherhithe
Posted on Wednesday 4 November 2015 by SE16.com
Neil Coyle MP has told Parliament that Southwark Police were “unable or under-resourced” to tackle a problem with drug dealing and heroin use on an estate in Rotherhithe.
Speaking in a Commons debate on policing on Wednesday evening, he said that his constituents are “very concerned about the prospect of a 25 to 40 per cent further cut to resources”.
He went on to describe “the rise of the visible use and sale of class A drugs” in central London.
“In Rotherhithe in particular – at Tissington Court – residents felt that the police were either unable or under-resourced to be able to tackle regular heroin use and sale within a block,” said Mr Coyle.
“Families felt unable to send their children up and down the stairwell because of the use of heroin in that stairwell and the impact of use – including the avoiding of barrels on the stairs during the day.
“It took an incredible amount of time get that issue resolved, and a concerted effort on my part with the Rotherhithe councillors who took the issue to the police with the local tenants’ association.”
19-year-old missing from Surrey Quays – police appeal
Posted on Sunday 18 October 2015 by SE16.com
Police are appealing for help to find a man missing from his home near Surrey Quays Shopping Centre.
Charlie Murray, 19, was last seen at 8.15pm on Wednesday 14 October at his home on Hothfield Place off Lower Road.
Charlie is described as white, 5ft 10ins tall, of medium build with short dark brown hair. He has a tattoo on his right arm with the words ‘NEVER GIVE UP HOPE’.
When last seen, he was wearing a plain light blue tracksuit top and plain grey tracksuit trousers.
His family are growing increasingly concerned for his welfare as his disappearance is out of character.
Anyone who has seen Charlie is asked to contact Southwark Police by calling 101.
Firefighters to stage training exercises at Harmsworth Quays
Southwark’s borough fire commander Simon Tuhill has reassured local residents that they shouldn’t be alarmed if they see lots of fire engines at Harmsworth Quays this week.
In #Southwark borough we are planning two large scale training exercises. Both will be in Surrey Quays at a disused print works.
— Simon Tuhill (@LFB_BC_Camden) October 5, 2015
We start with an exercise using 6 fire engines on Wednesday. As a management team we are just putting the final touches on it.
We have tried to plan our training exercises to allow people from firefighter right up to senior officer level to be tested.
I will of course tweet some photos from Wed. If you're near #SurreyQuays Shopping Centre and see you lots of fire engines it's only us!
Man found critically injured by Rotherhithe Tunnel
Posted on Friday 26 June 2015 by SE16.com
Police in Southwark are appealing for information and witnesses after a man was found with serious head injuries at the southern approach to the Rotherhithe Tunnel.
Officers were flagged down at 4.19am on Friday 26 June after a man was found collapsed.
They attended to the man who was unresponsive and suffering from a serious head injury.
London Ambulance Service arrived soon after and took the man, believed to be 19 years old, to a central London hospital. His condition is critical.
Officers believe they know the identity of the injured man and his next-of-kin have been informed.
No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is urged to call police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800-555-111.
Woman shot in leg in Rotherhithe New Road
Posted on Friday 8 May 2015 by SE16.com
Police are appealing for information after a fight between two men outside a barber’s shop in Rotherhithe New Road shortly before 3pm on Friday.
One of the men was armed with a broom and the other with a gun.
During the fight a member of the public – said not to be involved in the altercation – was shot in the leg.
The 38-year-old injured woman was taken to hospital by London Ambulance Service.
Her injuries are not life threatening.
Officers from the Met’s Trident gang command are investigating. No-one has been arrested.
Detectives are keen to hear from anyone who either witnessed this incident or has information concerning the identity of the two men involved, particularly the man armed with the gun.
Anyone with information should call Trident officers on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
St James’s Road collision: woman in critical condition
Posted on Monday 23 February 2015 by SE16.com
Police are appealing for information following a collision between a van and a mobility scooter.
Officers were called to a collision on St James’s Road at the junction with Jamaica Road just after 12.30pm on Friday.
A 69-year-old woman, who was on the mobility scooter, was taken to a south London hospital where she remains in a critical condition.
Anyone with information should call the serious collision investigation unit on 020 8285 1574.
The driver of the van stopped at the scene. No-one has been arrested in connection with the incident.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line8999
|
__label__wiki
| 0.849487
| 0.849487
|
Shop Calendar Login / Register
Join CTBUH
Tall Building Criteria
Research & Academic
Generate Building Lists
Data Studies
Tall & Urban News
About CTBUH
Regional Representation
Offices & Staff
Greenland Shandong International Financial Center
Jinan China
Overview Research CTBUH Initiatives
Note: As this project is under construction, the data is based on the most reliable information currently available. This data is thus subject to change until the building has completed and all information can be confirmed and ratified by the CTBUH.
You must be a CTBUH Member to view this resource.
Height 428 m / 1,404 ft
The current legal building name.
Other names the building has commonly been known as, including former names, common informal names, local names, etc.
Shandong IFC
CTBUH collects data on two major types of tall structures: 'Buildings' and 'Telecommunications / Observation Towers.' A 'Building' is a structure where at least 50% of the height is occupied by usable floor area. A 'Telecommunications / Observation Tower' is a structure where less than 50% of the structure's height is occupied by usable floor area. Only 'Buildings' are eligible for the CTBUH 'Tallest Buildings' lists.
Architecturally Topped Out
Structurally Topped Out
Never Completed
Proposed Renovation
Under Demolition
Under Construction, 2022
The CTBUH follows the United Nations's definition of Country, and thus uses the lists and codes established by that organization.
The CTBUH follows the United Nations's definition of City, and thus uses the lists and codes established by that organization.
Aoti West Road
A single-function tall building is defined as one where 85% or more of its usable floor area is dedicated to a single usage. Thus a building with 90% office floor area would be said to be an "office" building, irrespective of other minor functions it may also contain.
A mixed-use tall building contains two or more functions (or uses), where each of the functions occupy a significant proportion of the tower's total space. Support areas such as car parks and mechanical plant space do not constitute mixed-use functions. Functions are denoted on CTBUH "Tallest Building" lists in descending order, e.g., "hotel/office" indicates hotel function above office function.
hotel / SOHO / office
Both the main vertical/lateral structural elements and the floor spanning systems are constructed from steel. Note that a building of steel construction with a floor system of concrete planks or concrete slab on top of steel beams is still considered a “steel” structure as the concrete elements are not acting as the primary structure.
Both the main vertical/lateral structural elements and the floor spanning systems are constructed from concrete which has been cast in place and utilizes steel reinforcement bars.
Both the main vertical/lateral structural elements and the floor spanning system are constructed from steel reinforced concrete which has been precast as individual components and assembled together on-site.
Mixed-Structure
Utilizes distinct systems (e.g. steel, concrete, timber), one on top of the other. For example, a steel/concrete indicates a steel structural system located on top of a concrete structural system, with the opposite true of concrete/steel.
A combination of materials (e.g. steel, concrete, timber) are used together in the main structural elements. Examples include buildings which utilize: steel columns with a floor system of reinforced concrete beams; a steel frame system with a concrete core; concrete-encased steel columns; concrete-filled steel tubes; etc. Where known, the CTBUH database breaks out the materials used in a composite building’s core, columns, and floor spanning separately.
Concrete Encased Steel
Floor Spanning
Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the architectural top of the building, including spires, but not including antennae, signage, flag poles or other functional-technical equipment. This measurement is the most widely utilized and is employed to define the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) rankings of the "World's Tallest Buildings."
428 m / 1,404 ft
To Tip
The number of floors above ground should include the ground floor level and be the number of main floors above ground, including any significant mezzanine floors and major mechanical plant floors. Mechanical mezzanines should not be included if they have a significantly smaller floor area than the major floors below. Similarly, mechanical penthouses or plant rooms protruding above the general roof area should not be counted. Note: CTBUH floor counts may differ from published accounts, as it is common in some regions of the world for certain floor levels not to be included (e.g., the level 4, 14, 24, etc. in Hong Kong).
Floors Below Ground
The number of floors below ground should include all major floors located below the ground floor level.
Tower GFA
Tower GFA refers to the total gross floor area within the tower footprint, not including adjoining podiums, connected buildings or other towers within the development.
409,300 m² / 4,405,669 ft²
Construction Schedule
CTBUH Member Companies Involved
All Companies Involved
Owner/Developer
Greenland Group
Submit images or information about this project using the Data & Image Submission Portal
Go To Submission Portal
Join CTBUH Submit Data & Photos FAQ Careers Contact Us
© 2021 Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
Subscribe below to receive periodic updates from CTBUH on the latest Tall Building and Urban news and CTBUH initiatives, including our monthly newsletter. Fields with a red asterisk (*) next to them are required.
We use cookies to improve your experience on our website. Review our Privacy Policy for more information.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9002
|
__label__wiki
| 0.908227
| 0.908227
|
Home Breaking News ‘Batwoman,’ ‘Pennyworth’ and ‘Watchmen’ Unlock Hotel Doors at San Diego Comic Con
‘Batwoman,’ ‘Pennyworth’ and ‘Watchmen’ Unlock Hotel Doors at San Diego Comic Con
San Diego Comic Con key card featuring WBTVG’s ‘Batwoman’
This year’s collectible San Diego Comic Con hotel key cards will feature Warner Bros. Television Group’s Batwoman (The CW), Pennyworth (EPIX), and Watchmen (HBO). More than 40,000 room keys will feature the three upcoming comic book/graphic novel-inspired series. The collectible keys will be distributed at nearly 40 of the hotels participating in hosting 2019 Comic Con attendees.
Batwoman and Pennyworth will be hosting panels during the Con, and Watchmen will also have a presence at the sold-out pop culture convention that runs July 17 through July 21 in downtown San Diego.
EPIX’s Pennyworth stars Jack Bannon as a young Alfred Pennyworth, “a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with Thomas Wayne (Ben Aldridge), Bruce Wayne’s billionaire father.” The series is set to premiere on Sunday, July 28th at 9pm ET/PT. Bruno Heller (Gotham, The Mentalist) and Danny Cannon (Gotham, CSI series) executive produce the one-hour drama.
The CW expands their superhero lineup with the addition of Batwoman on Sunday, October 6th at 8pm ET/PT, pairing the new series up with Supergirl starring Melissa Benoist. Ruby Rose stars in the titular role, playing the “highly trained street fighter who soars onto the streets of Gotham as Batwoman.” Greg Berlanti (Arrow, m>The Flash), Caroline Dries (The Vampire Diaries, Smallville), Geoff Johns (Wonder Woman, Aquaman) and Sarah Schechter (Supergirl, Black Lightning) executive produce.
HBO’s much-anticipated Watchmen will premiere this fall and is executive produced by writer Damon Lindelof, director Nicole Kassell, Tom Spezialy, director Stephen Williams, and Joseph Iberti. The cast includes Yahya Abdul-Mateen, Christie Amery, Hong Chau, Adelaide Clemens, Frances Fisher, Louis Gossett Jr, and Andrew Howard. Jeremy Irons, Don Johnson, Regina King, Jacob Ming-Trent, Tom Mison, and Tim Blake Nelson also star in season one.
San Diego Comic Con hotel key card featuring ‘Pennyworth’
Previous articleAMC’s Comic Con Plans: Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, Preacher, NOS4A2 and The Terror
Next articleMarvel’s Comic Con Plans Include ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ and Women of Marvel Panels
Critics Choice Awards TV Nominees: ‘Ozark,’ ‘The Crown’ Snag 6 Each
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9005
|
__label__wiki
| 0.775579
| 0.775579
|
Home TV ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 4 Episode 9 Recap: “People Like Us”
‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 4 Episode 9 Recap: “People Like Us”
Garret Dillahunt as John Dorie, Jenna Elfman as June and Maggie Grace as Althea in ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ season 4 episode 9 (Photo by Ryan Green/AMC)
When AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead returns for the second half of season four it’s with a scene of hurricane-force winds literally tossing walkers into the sky. Season four episode nine titled “People Like Us” catches up with the survivors as Morgan considers a return to Alexandria while Victor turns to wine to make it through the zombie apocalypse.
Season four episode nine finds Morgan (Lennie James) takes out walkers, searching his body for supplies. He finds items including protein bars and canned goods, and uses a walkie-talkie to check in with Al (Maggie Grace). Morgan and Al talk like old friends, and he admits he’s ready to head home. He asks if she’ll drive him.
Next, Morgan pays a visit to Naomi/Laura/June (Jenna Elfman) and John (Garret Dillahunt). John’s moving slowly but seems in good spirits overall. They’ve made their home in a school bus, but Morgan wants them to go with him to Virginia. Morgan’s decided he never should have left Alexandria, Virginia, in the first place. John doesn’t think his body’s up to the trip and he reveals he’s thinking of taking June and Charlie back to his cabin. His cabin’s far but it’s definitely not “Virginia far.”
Morgan lets his friends know he’s leaving tomorrow. He hopes John will change his mind. “I appreciate the offer. I do. But, I think I’ve got everything I need right here,” replies John.
Victor (Colman Domingo) has taken over a gorgeous home complete with an extensive wine cellar. Morgan searches the house for Luciana (Danay Garcia) and finds her relaxing on pillows on the floor, listening to music on the record player. He lets her know he’s about to embark on a road trip with Al.
Victor chuckles about the idea of taking off on another trip and Luciana is adamant she’s never getting inside Al’s van again. They don’t want to go out among the walkers and are comfortable staying put where it’s relatively safe.
Morgan asks about Alicia and Victor explains she prefers not to live in the main house.
Morgan finds Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) outside at the fence line staking walkers. He found notes with requests for help in the room where she’s sleeping, and he offers to help her any way he can. She reveals she doesn’t know who wrote the notes but that she’s been finding them attached to the walkers. She keeps attracting the walkers to the fence in hopes of learning more info about the person who needs help.
Morgan tells her his plans to head back to Virginia and says she should join him. “I think it would be good for you and I think you could do a lot of good there,” says Morgan. Alicia doesn’t want to leave because she needs to help whoever it is that’s reaching out through the walkers. Morgan tells her she has until the morning to change her mind.
Back at the bus, June tends to John’s wounds. They chat about fishing and then June confesses she heard John say he wants to return to the cabin. He admits it’s just an idea he had. As they talk they hear a walker down by the river. It’s about to attack Charlie when Al saves the day.
A walker’s made its way into Victor and Luciana’s house and is on the verge of attacking Luciana when Victor grabs it. Luciana’s listening to her music and has no idea Victor’s killing a walker with a wine bottle. He decides it’s time to find the breach in the fence.
June tries to get Charlie to talk about almost being attacked by a walker, but she remains silent. Apparently, Charlie rarely speaks.
John, June, and Al watch walkers floating by in the river and John admits that only happens when something is wrong upstream. Al volunteers to check it out with June since she isn’t leaving with Morgan until the next morning.
Morgan’s back at his place packing up when Alicia interrupts with the news she’s figured out where the person is who needs help. The note was tacked to the dead with a bolt from a nearby lumber mill.
Morgan and Alicia head out, knowing the lumber mill is most likely overrun with walkers.
June and Al are forced to temporarily stop the van when they come upon a large tree placed across the road. Near it is a box of supplies with a note on the lid that reads: “Take what you need. Leave what you don’t. See you further on up the road.” (The items are the ones taken by Morgan off of the walkers he killed.)
Al, of course, wants to get footage before they continue their trip.
While they’re walking, June asks what John said about her during his video interview. Al confirms people talked about Naomi and Laura, but no one mentioned a “June.”
Morgan wonders what will happen after they rescue these people. Alicia doesn’t know why he cares, given that he’s leaving tomorrow. Morgan explains he left his old group without even saying goodbye, and they don’t even know if he’s alive at this point. He also reveals he left right after his friend told him he’d find his way back to people. He wants to let his friend know he was right. “I think he deserves to know, because he was,” says Morgan.
A walker approaches with another note, ending their conversation.
Victor and Luciana fix the fence, satisfied it’ll work to keep the walkers out. Luciana admits she doesn’t know what’s left or what to fight for, and Victor confesses he’s been asking the same questions. However, he’s going to drink wine while he considers the answers.
Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia Clark and Lennie James as Morgan Jones in ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ season 4 episode 9 (Photo by Ryan Green/AMC)
Morgan and Alicia arrive at the lumber yard and Alicia wants to rush right in. Morgan advises her they should be cautious, but Alicia doesn’t listen.
John’s killing time waiting for June to return by creating a Scrabble game board and pieces. Charlie, still not talking, agrees to play. John says back in the day he didn’t talk much either, and that bad things ate away at him. He says that by telling June what he did and how he feels, it allowed him to forgive himself. Charlie listens and it seems she’s about to speak but then doesn’t.
John leaves her for a few minutes to go kill a walker and while he’s gone, Charlie packs her backpack and takes off.
John heads over to Victor’s place and asks for his help searching for Charlie. John is physically incapable of doing it on his own and Victor reminds him he doesn’t care for Charlie. “What makes you think I would help? She shot my friend,” says Victor. John isn’t about to give up and considers that Victor owes him since he took a bullet to the gut.
Victor finally agrees, but John needs to drive since Victor’s consumed a considerable amount of wine.
Back at the lumber yard, Alicia and Morgan enter the main building and see walkers surrounding a closed door. Together Morgan and Alicia devise a plan to lure the walkers outside. They smash them with a load of lumber before heading back inside to rescue the note writer.
Alicia opens the door only to discover the note writer has turned into a walker. Alicia’s devastated. She believes her mom would have reached the man in time, but she failed. She recalls being out looking for people for a long time – something she was good at. “I’ve got a lot to make up for,” says Alicia. “I do, too,” replies Morgan.
Morgan thinks Alicia’s sleeping in the greenhouse and searching for lost people so she has an excuse to run away. He believes she should be there to help Victor and Luciana, just like her mother would. She reminds him he’s leaving when he should actually stay there for them.
Al is taping walkers in the river when June asks to speak to her without the camera rolling. June says John fell in love with Laura but that’s not the real her. She feared everything and ran away. That’s who she is and now if they return to the cabin, John will realize she’s not the Laura he remembers.
Al reminds her that who she is today is the woman nursing John back to health. She’s not the person she was before. Al, who is reluctant to give advice, helps June figure things out. As they talk, they spot a flock of birds in the sky. June is certain they need to return home quickly.
John drives while Victor drinks wine. Victor checks out buildings they pass but there’s no sign of Charlie. John tells Victor he hopes to return to his cabin after things are sorted out, and Victor wonders what they’ll do after that.
Morgan and Alicia head back but now it’s pouring rain. Morgan realizes they need to find a safe place to take cover, but Alicia stubbornly insists she’s fine on her own.
Luciana’s listening to her records when she hears thunder. A noise in the other room sets her on edge and she picks up a gun to find out what’s going on. She spots Charlie and gives chase. Luciana catches up with her, but Charlie escapes the house without saying a word.
After Charlie leaves, Luciana discovers Charlie returned The Little Prince book. Luciana takes off running trying to catch up with Charlie.
June radios John telling him a storm’s coming. They lose contact as Al almost loses control of her armored van. Al can’t drive in 100 mph wind and as they try and figure out what to do a walker lands on their windshield. Soon the van’s being pelted by walkers driven into the air by the hurricane-force winds.
More on Fear the Walking Dead:
Fear the Walking Dead Cast Interview – Season 4 Part 2
Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 10 Recap
Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 11 “The Code” Recap
Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 12 “Weak” Recap
Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 13 “Blackjack” Recap
Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 14 “MM 54” Recap
Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 15 “I Lose People” Recap
Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 4 “I Lose Myself” Recap
garret dillahunt
Previous article‘Lizzie’ with Kristen Stewart and Chloe Sevigny Unveils a New Trailer and Poster
Next article‘Manifest’ – Josh Dallas Interview on Starring in a Series He Describes as ‘Lost’ Meets ‘This Is Us’
‘SEAL Team’ Season 4 Episode 6 Plot, Photos, Cast and Trailer
‘9-1-1’ Season 4 Episode 2 Photos, Plot, Trailer and Air Date
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9006
|
__label__wiki
| 0.958188
| 0.958188
|
Read exclusive stories only found here. Subscribe to SILive.com.
Coronavirus toll mounts on Staten Island: 4 more deaths; 36 new cases
Photos of the pandemic in NYC: The gradual return to normalcy
By Frank Donnelly | fdonnelly@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Four more borough residents are believed to have succumbed to the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the last 24 hours, while the number of confirmed cases of the disease rose by 36, city Health Department data show.
The deaths come one day after Staten Island had reached a grim milestone - surpassing 1,000 deaths related to the coronavirus.
That toll, which had hit 1,002 on Thursday, increased to 1,006 by Friday afternoon, according to the most recent figures published.
The fatalities include 830 Staten Islanders with confirmed coronavirus cases, up five from Thursday afternoon’s total. In addition, 176 deaths were in the “probable” category, down one from 24 hours earlier.
A death is classified as “probable” if the decedent was a city resident who had no known positive laboratory test for the coronavirus, but the death certificate lists “COVID-19” or an equivalent as a cause of death.
A Health Department source said the figures reflect totals as of when they are reported to the agency and not when the deaths occur.
Also as of 1 p.m. Friday, there have been 13,517 confirmed coronavirus cases on Staten Island since the pandemic’s outbreak, the data said.
That total had been 13,481 cases at the same time on Thursday.
*** CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE COVERAGE OF CORONAVIRUS IN NYC ***
Citywide, there were 202,829 confirmed coronavirus cases as of Friday afternoon.
The number represented a spike of 510 from Thursday’s tally of 202,319.
Across the five boroughs, the death toll stood at 21,782 on Friday afternoon, a jump of 30 from the 21,752 fatalities recorded 24 hours earlier.
The deaths consist of 17,055 individuals who were confirmed coronavirus cases, along with 4,727 others whose deaths were deemed as “probable” COVID-19 cases.
A large majority of the deaths in confirmed coronavirus cases which were investigated by the city thus far have occurred in patients with underlying medical issues, said the Health Department.
Underlying conditions include diabetes, lung disease, cancer, immunodeficiency, heart disease, hypertension, asthma, kidney disease and gastro-intestinal/liver disease, said the Health Department.
Meanwhile, on a positive note, a total of 3,183 coronavirus patients have been treated at and released from the borough’s two hospital systems since the pandemic’s outbreak.
Staten Island University Hospital’s (SIUH) two campuses have discharged 2,044 patients as of Friday, said Jillian O’Hara, a spokeswoman.
Richmond University Medical Center has treated and released 1,139 patients, Alex Lutz, a spokesman, said.
At the same time, the number of hospitalized coronavirus patients in the borough dipped by four.
On Friday morning, 85 patients were being cared for on Staten Island.
The total is a fraction compared to just under two months ago when in-patient numbers peaked.
On April 8, 554 Islanders were hospitalized with the coronavirus.
At SIUH, 50 patients were being treated Friday morning, an uptick of one from Thursday’s total. All the coronavirus patients are at the Ocean Breeze campus, said O’Hara. No coronavirus patients are in the Prince’s Bay facility, she said.
Richmond University Medical Center was caring for 35 coronavirus patients as of Friday morning, a decline of five from Thursday, Lutz said.
With respect to testing, the data show 2,839 of every 100,000 Staten Islanders have received positive results for the coronavirus, according to 2018 Census data projections and the Health Department’s Friday afternoon tally.
Staten Island’s infection rate is second highest among the five boroughs.
Officials, however, stress the examinations do not necessarily reflect the full spread of the virus.
The Bronx’s infection rate still tops the city.
In that borough, 3,199 residents per 100,000 have tested positive. The Bronx has had 45,818 cases.
Queens has the third highest rate of confirmed coronavirus cases in the city, with 2,718 residents per 100,000 testing positive. There have been 61,949 cases in that borough, the second-most populous.
Brooklyn, the borough with the largest population, has the fourth-lowest rate of infection per 100,000 residents – 2,170.
Brooklyn’s 56,057 cases are the second most among the five boroughs.
Manhattan has the lowest infection rate in the city with 1,558 per 100,000 residents testing positive.
There have been 25,379 positive cases in Manhattan, the data said.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9010
|
__label__wiki
| 0.577593
| 0.577593
|
silviacolasanti.it » Money » Industrial Australia, 1975-2000: Preparing for change : proceedings of the 40th Summer School, Australian Institute of Political Science
Download Industrial Australia, 1975-2000: Preparing for change : proceedings of the 40th Summer School, Australian Institute of Political Science fb2, epub
by Australian Institute of Political Science
Author: Australian Institute of Political Science
Publisher: Australia and New Zealand Book Co (1974)
Category: Management & Leadership
Subcategory: Money
Other formats: lit txt lrf azw
Australian Institute of Political Science Management and Leadership English
Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.
Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms. Results from Google Books.
Immigration and Growth, Australian Institute of Political Science, Proceedings of the 37th . A White Australia: Australia’s Population Problem: Twelfth Summer School of the Australian Institute of Political Science. Sydney: The Australasian Publishing Co. Pty.
Immigration and Growth, Australian Institute of Political Science, Proceedings of the 37th Summer School. Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Lt. oogle Scholar.
Department of Demography, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University . In: How many Australians? Immigration and growth. Proceedings of the 37th summer school, Australian institute of political science. Angus and Robertson, SydneyGoogle Scholar.
Department of Demography, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, CanberraGoogle Scholar. Australian Government Publishing Services, CanberraGoogle Scholar. Richards E (2008) Destination Australia. Whitlam G (1985) The Whitlam government 1972–1975.
The Australian Institute of Policy and Science (AIPS) is an Australian non-partisan and non-profit organisation that aims to further public understanding of Australia's public policy and science in Australia. Founded in 1932 as the Australian Institute of Political Science during the Great Depression, the organisation's initial aim was focused on economic matters. In 2006 the organisation changed its name to the AIPS to better reflect its objectives and activities
How Many Australians? book. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Start by marking How Many Australians?
How Many Australians? book. Start by marking How Many Australians?: Immigration and Growth; Proceedings of 37th Summer School as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read.
9th Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) Conference, Melbourne, Australia. Whitehouse, Gillian (2004). Pay equity: 20 years of continuity and change. In: Proceedings of Women, Work and Equity: a special forum to mark the 20th anniversary of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984. IIRA 5th Asian Regional Congress: Dynamics and Diversity: Employment Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region, Seoul, Korea
The Australian Institute of Policy and Science (AIPS) currently has offices in New South Wales, Victoria and .
The Australian Institute of Policy and Science (AIPS) currently has offices in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The Tall Poppy Campaign. The Tall Poppy Campaign was iniatited by AIPS in 1998 to recognise and celebrate Australian scientific and intellectual excellence.
AIPS, the Australian Institute of Policy and Science was founded in 1932 . These 'Young Tall Poppies' go on to participate in a program of school visits. Originally known as the Australian Institute of Political Science, its aim was to further public understanding of Australia's political and economic situation during the Great Depression and beyond. In 2006 the organisation changed its name to the Australian Institute of Policy and Science to better reflect its objectives and activities AQ: Australian Quarterly.
Australian Coral Reef Society. Kuruluş Daha Fazla. 23 Mayıs, 13:31 · Exmouth, Avustralya ·. Herkese Açık. 16 Yorum · Haberin Tam Boyutu. Australian Institute of Marine Science. The coral reefs of Western Australia are diverse, valuable and remote. New report shows record low coral cover at many WA reefs - Latest releases - AIMS. 22 Mayıs, 13:40 ·. 1 Yorum · Haberin Tam Boyutu.
Related to Industrial Australia, 1975-2000: Preparing for change : proceedings of the 40th Summer School, Australian Institute of Political Science
AI 2004: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 17th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Cairns, Australia, December 4-6, 2004, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) fb2 epub
Author: Geoffrey Webb,Xinghuo Yu
Category: Computer Science
Governing Change: Keating to Howard (UUQPAustralian Studies) fb2 epub
Author: Carol Johnson
Category: Social Sciences
From School to Work: A Review of Major Research in Australia (Australian Education Review) fb2 epub
Author: Andrew Sturman
Fundamental Problems in Statistical Mechanics VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Summer School on Fundamental Problems in Statistical Mechan fb2 epub
Author: E. G. D. Cohen
Category: Physics
Mechanical and Thermal Behaviour of Metallic Materials: Summer School Proceedings (Proceedings of the International School of Physics Enrico Fermi) fb2 epub
Author: G. Caglioti,A.Ferro Milone
Chaos and Statistical Methods: Proceedings of the Sixth Kyoto Summer Institute (Springer Series in Synergetics Vol 24) fb2 epub
Author: Yoshiki Kuramoto
Category: Mathematics
High-power gas lasers, 1975: Lectures given at a summer school organized by the International College of Applied Physics, on the physics and ... series - Institute of Physics ; no. 29) fb2 epub
Author: International College of Applied Physics
AI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 20th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Gold Coast, Australia, December 2-6, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) fb2 epub
Author: Mehmet A. Orgun,John Thornton
Summer School on Amorphous Metals fb2 epub
Author: Poland) Summer School on Amorphous Metals (1985 Wilga,Henryk Matyja,Institute for Materials Science and Engineering (U. S.),Warsaw University of Technology,Instytut Fizyki (Polska Akademia Nauk),Piotr G. Zielinski
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9013
|
__label__wiki
| 0.688782
| 0.688782
|
BUY GOLD & SILVER
NWO Tyranny
Epstein Indictment Unsealed; Accused Of Sexual Exploitation And Abuse Of “Dozens Of Minor Girls” As Young As 14
from ZeroHedge:
Prosecutors unsealed an indictment against billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, revealing two counts of child molestation involving “dozens of minor girls” as young as 14 between 2002 and 2005 in New York and Florida, according to Bloomberg.
Of note, this is separate from last week’s order by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals that documents in a defamation lawsuit against Epstein be made public, which may contain the names of high-level individuals.
The case was unsealed early Monday in Manhattan federal court, where Epstein is slated to make an appearance and will likely seek release on bail. Prosecutors have scheduled an 11 a.m. press conference to discuss the case.
According to the indictment, Epstein “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his homes in Manhattan… and Palm Beach,” per ABC7.
“EPSTEIN intentionally sought out minors and knew that many of his victims were in fact under the age of 18, including because, in some instances, minor victims expressly told him their age,” according to the indictment.
Epstein, 66, was arrested on Saturday at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, after arriving from France on a private flight, according to the New York Times.
According to the indictment, he “created a vast network of underage victims for him to sexually exploit in locations including New York and Palm Beach” using victims and employees as recruiters.
Epstein’s “Employee-1” used a network of recruiters to find underage girls.
“Dozens” of underage victims at his NY residence. This adds to the 30+ victims at his Florida home. pic.twitter.com/P8yh7ZtP3h
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) 8 July 2019
“There are some women who now feel they need to come forward. I hope more do. it takes a lot of courage understandably,” Miami Herald Investigative Reporter Julie K. Brown said in a statement to CNN, adding “They were taken advantage of by someone who knew how to prey upon them and groom them to do things he wanted them to do.”
In 2008 Epstein pleaded guilty to procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and felony solicitation of prostitution, serving just 13 months in a Florida state prison after cutting a sweetheart deal with current labor secretary, and then US Attorney, Alex Acosta.
The Miami Herald last year published a series of articles reporting that the top federal prosecutor in southern Florida at the time, Alex Acosta, worked with Epstein’s lawyers to fashion the deal. Acosta, now the U.S. labor secretary, violated federal law when he failed to clear the federal non-prosecution agreement with many of Epstein’s alleged victims, a federal judge ruled in February.
The Herald said it found about 60 victims. –Bloomberg
“Local victims have said that when they were 14, 15 years old they brought 25, 30 girls to him. That’s just one person,” said attorney Bradley Edwards, who represented one of Epstein’s accusers – and noted that President Trump was the only person linked to Epstein who cooperated with his investigation.
Read More @ ZeroHedge.com
Previous article7 THINGS YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ‘JUSTICE SYSTEM’
Next articleTHE TRUTH ON GOLD & SILVER: Exclusive Interview w/Lynette Zang & Egon Von Greyez
Cantillon Effect: Real Estate Prices Must Go Up? US Home Inventories Collapsing While Rents Collapse
Ep. 1438 You’ll Be Shocked to Hear About the Left’s New Agenda – The Dan Bongino Show
SGT Report is the corporate propaganda antidote. Providing exclusive original content and interviews with some of the best known voices in the world of economics and precious metals. SGT Report is your daily source for truth in a time of universal deceit.
© 2018 SGT Report | All Rights Reserved | Web Design by Web Based Coding, LLC
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9024
|
__label__wiki
| 0.800149
| 0.800149
|
The Business of Film: Da 5 Bloods, Worldwide box office & You Don't Nomi
James Cameron-Wilson looks at encouraging news for UK cinemas and explains how BAFTA's awards are changing because of Covid-19. He reviews Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods, out as a Netflix premiere and the documentary You Don't Nomi about the camp classic movie Showgirls. And, with cinemas open in a few countries, he calculates a very unusual world box office chart.
Modern Mindset: A Criminal Mind
Adam Cox is joined by Stephen Gillen, a reformed London gangster and armed robber, who transformed from a Category A convict imprisoned for 11 years to a serial entrepreneur, peace prize nominee, and filmmaker. Stephen shares how he left behind a life of crime to become a successful businessman, peace ambassador and role model, working with members of the police to promote a message of peace and hope. He explains the shift in his thinking and the resources necessary to turn a life around. Stephen also discusses his new autobiography and the movie of his life, The Monkey Puzzle Tree – and where the name comes from. Find out more: https://stephengillen.com/
Stephen Gillen
Policy Matters: Epidemiology and COVID-19
Matt Dickson
Policy Matters
In this episode of Policy Matters, hosts Matt Dickson and Franz Buscha talk to Neil Davies, Senior Research Fellow at the MRC Integrated Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol. Neil is a statistical epidemiologist, so Franz and Matt begin by finding out what life has been like for an epidemiologist since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Neil then explains his recent work showing how some of the myriad statistics we’re seeing relating to coronavirus suffer from their survey design, which can generate misleading apparent relationships between COVID-19 risk and individual characteristics, such as smoking. Next, Neil explains the statistical technique known as ‘Mendelian Randomisation’; which uses natural variation in our genes to help understand how health conditions and other individual characteristics impact on health and other social and economic outcomes. Matt, Franz and Neil go on to explore some of Neil’s recent research using this technique, which shows how education and intelligence impact the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, how BMI affects later outcomes, and why continuing longer in school might lead to increased costs at the opticians!
Neil Davies
Motley Fool Answers: All About ESG Investing
Saving, spending, planning — you've got money questions and we've got answers. Every week host Alison Southwick and personal finance expert Robert Brokamp challenge the conventional wisdom on life's biggest financial issues to reveal what you really need to know to make smart money moves. In this week's show, the team is joined by Motley Fool analyst Alyce Lomax to discuss how to evaluate companies based on their dedication to environmental, social, and corporate governance best practices.
Alyce Lomax
Motley Fool Money: Fed Warnings, Stock Worries, and Mark Cuban
Want to keep up with the latest earnings updates from the States? Well join Chris Hill and the Motley Fool Radio Show team here on Share Radio, direct from Washington DC, for news, views and analysis of the US stocks that matter. In this week's show: The market tumbles as the Fed Chairman warns the recovery might take a couple of years; Adobe hits an all-time high on record revenue; Lululemon slips on earnings; Starbucks closes some locations in the U.S. and Canada; Five Below hangs in; Chewy delivers; Grubhub snubs Uber; And Hertz revs up on news that the bankrupt rental car company is attempting to offer a billion dollars in stock. Analysts Ron Gross and Jason Moser discuss those stories and share two stocks on their radar: Fastly and Globus Medical. Plus, Motley Fool CEO Tom Gardner and analyst Abi Malin talk with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban about the future of sports, the future of work, and the value of money.
This is Money: The rise of the lockdown investor - tips to hunt for better returns
Stock markets crashing tend to put savers off investing in shares, but there has been a sizeable rise in new investors in Britain during lockdown, reports suggest. That came as savings rates plummeted (again) and people decided to go hunting for a bargain amid the stock market turmoil in March and April. But who are these novice investors and what do you need to think about to get started? On this week's podcast This is Money editor Simon Lambert tells host Georgie Frost what first timers need to know about building an investment portfolio - and gives some tips on easy ways to get started and why British isn't always best for investors. Managers can invest in their own fund or investment trust, but how do you find out if they do - and whether they're buying or selling, and does it matter? Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs backed Marcus Bank has pulled its best buy easy-access savings account – assistant editor Lee Boyce reveals why and how we are set to see rates tumble even further. Should you gamble on taking a European summer holiday in July, August or September and if you are tempted, what do you need to know? Euro 2020 should have been starting today, but at least for sport-starved fans Premier League football returns next week. However, you'll need a major tournament-style wallchart if you plan on catching the action, with Amazon Prime, BBC, BT Sport and Sky Sports all having games on – how do you watch for the cheapest price? And finally, property sales in England have started to edge up but apparently million-pound-plus homes in the country are leading the way. Are buyers really swapping Millionaire's Row for Millionaire's Lane?
The Bigger Picture: The BLM protests and problems emerging from lockdown
Political commentator Mike Indian looks at the response to the Black Lives Matter protests and what it means for the study of history and our attitudes towards contentious figures of the past. He examines the latest government moves to ease lockdown, with schools being delayed returning until September, calls to cut social distancing below two metres and the delays to testing and the track & trace app. He also looks at the furore over minister Robert Jenrick.
Gadgets & Gizmos: The rise of the robots
Share Radio's technology editor look at several stories involving robots for publishing news, receiving degree certificates, enforcing social distancing in parks and disinfecting hospitals with UV light. He looks at the revival of the James Bond Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5 WITH attendant gadgets, turning CO2 in the air into petrol, a smart ear-cleaning rod and a dish that solves all the major problems of using butter - only to meet resistance to its purchase at home.
The Business of Film: Cinema openings worldwide, Richard Jewell and The Lighthouse
James Cameron-Wilson looks at those places around the world where cinemas are reopening. He reviews Clint Eastwood's last film, the true-life tale of security guard hero-made-villain Richard Jewell, starring Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell and Cathy Bates He takes us through the latest chart of online movie releases and reviews the rather unusual, yet critically popular, film The Lighthouse with Robert Pattinson and Willem Defoe.
The Week That Was And The Week Ahead: Markets, airlines and Unilever
Joe Healey of The Share Centre analyses the recent behaviour of the stock market and looks at the airline sector. He extols the virtues of Unilever as a defensive stock as the company announces plans to combine its British and Dutch arms. Looking ahead, he tells us what we might expect from Ashtead, National Grid and John Wood.
Joe Healey
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9025
|
__label__wiki
| 0.903147
| 0.903147
|
Brotherly rivalry on hold
Alicia Newton NRL.com Reporter
Thu 2 Apr 2020, 01:55 PM
It was supposed to be the first chapter of a family rivalry nine months in the making.
But the Brailey brothers' Saturday afternoon last weekend, where they were supposed to face off against each other at 3pm, turned out nothing like it had been planned.
As news of the competition's suspension filtered through to the players last week, Knights hooker Jayden Brailey had other things on his mind.
The 23-year-old had just received the gut-wrenching news he'd torn his ACL in a routine scoot out of dummy-half against the Wests Tigers, not that he was aware of it at the time.
Brailey played on despite repeated tests from club physios and doctors during and after half-time.
"I heard something go but just ran it off, they all seemed to be happy with it and so was I," Brailey told NRL.com.
Knights hooker Jayden Brailey tore his ACL against the Tigers in round two. ©Robb Cox/NRL Photos
"It wasn't that sore but when I went out in the second half for the first 20 minutes my knee kept buckling and gave way.
"I just kept pushing through it but thought shit, something's not right. I didn't expect it to be what it turned out to be and was happy to keep playing."
Brailey hopped on the team bus and headed back to Newcastle on the Sunday night after a stirring 80-minute performance.
The former Shark agreed to get scans as a precaution as he turned his attention toward his expected battle with brother Blayke and former club Cronulla pencilled in for six days later in Kogarah.
"My knee blew up a fair bit the next day and my range wasn't too good so I could tell on my physio's face he was a bit worried," Brailey said.
"He said he would call me but I never heard from him all day. He texted me to come in and get a brace on and he'll explain more. My heart sank then, I thought you're kidding, if he's not telling me over the phone it must've been bad.
"I was so upset but I've come to grips with it now."
Brailey reached out to his family first, including Blayke, to deliver the bad news, but his stress only grew larger when Australian Prime Minster Scott Morrison announced a plan to ban all non-essential surgeries at hospitals amid the coronavirus pandemic.
I was so upset but I've come to grips with it now.
Jayden Brailey
It left the Knights with less than 48 hours to get Brailey in for surgery, a task they managed to complete with the gutsy rake making the dash to Sydney in time.
"That was a very stressful day, I was losing it," Brailey said.
"If I couldn't get booked in I would've had to have waited a couple of months, maybe even more. I was so relieved, I got the surgeon I wanted and it couldn't have worked out any better."
Brailey's father Glenn dropped him off in front of the hospital with regulations preventing any family members from walking in with him, even if it was just to reception.
But they were quick to welcome him back into their family home in Cronulla and support his physical and emotional needs.
For Blayke - who has two games into living his dream of being Cronulla's starting rake after Jayden switched to Newcastle - he went from planning to battle his older brother on the park to helping him for days after he went under the knife.
"I've been telling him the whole time he's dodged a bullet because I was coming after him," Jayden joked.
Inside the home gym of Lachlan Fitzgibbon
"It's been a weird time and when the season comes back we'll probably be the first team to play them but yeah, I was looking forward to it and copping an ear bashing from my old teammates.
"I'm sure down the track we'll have a few battles. My younger brother Taj has been the same and my girlfriend as well, everyone has been helping me out. I haven't been short of nurses at home."
If players like Brailey can take one positive light out of the NRL suspension, it's that they remain a chance to get back on the field later in the year.
Although he faces up to nine months out, a return in a potential December finals series could be on the cards.
"All this stuff about the competition has distracted me, it definitely does soften the blow, I won't lie, it's helped a lot," Brailey said.
"My biggest battle with this is mentally. I hate sitting out of games, I bloody hate it, but I would be feeling a lot worse and off it if I saw the boys training and playing every week.
"In saying that I don't want the season to be cancelled, I want the boys to get back on the field and do well but it has eased the mind for the moment that everyone is sitting at home.
"If I can get back this year it will be great and that's something keeping me sane and to aim for.
"But I'm in no rush either, I want to make sure I nail my rehab as best I can. I never want to go through this again."
Jayden Brailey passes during the win over the Wests Tigers. ©Robb Cox/NRL Photos
Newcastle's 2-0 start to the year under new coach Adam O'Brien offered Knights fans a glimmer of hope their six-year finals drought may end.
"We've played well and for it to come to a complete stop it's an empty feeling and to think all that work could be for nothing it's weird," Brailey said.
"It's disappointing because I've felt we've had such good preparation this season and I've had a ball being a player under Adam.
"I've felt so comfortable in the squad that we have and I think everyone got a glimpse of that in the first couple of games.
"But Adam has drilled into us that it will come back at some stage and we've got to remain professional and not let those wins go to waste because it could be the difference."
2021 Sharks NRL squad - Middle forwards
Training Gallery: From the field
Presented By Dynasty 2 days ago
2021 Sharks NRL squad – Halves
2021 Sharks NRL squad – Centres
Academy Sharks stepping up
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9026
|
__label__cc
| 0.532161
| 0.467839
|
SHHE Genie Rambles
My Families
Herbert William White Obituary – Trove Tuesday Blog
shaunahicks
Herbert White is on the far left and his son Robert the young man in the middle behind Dorcas White ca 1912
My Australia Day tribute this year was to Herbert William White – read the post here. He was my great grandfather from Wiltshire. Back in January I wrote about his life using information I had gathered over many years. Today as I thought about who to focus on for this Trove Tuesday post, I was thinking about his son Robert who died at the age of 31 years in August 1924.
Robert James White enlisted in World War One and was on the Western Front. I always wondered if his war service had anything to do with his early death. So I went searching to see if there was an obituary or report of his death in Trove. Many of the Northern papers have been digitised since I last looked. All I found for Robert were advertisements from the Public Curator who was handling his estate.
However what I did turn up was an obituary for his father, Herbert William White. The Townsville Daily Bulletin on 10 May 1924 in the section under Richmond Notes reported on my great grandfather’s death. Although brief it gave me details not recorded on Herbert’s death certificate.
The death on Monday last in the local hospital from pneumonia, Mr Herbert William White, a well known and highly respected resident of Charters Towers during which time he worked in most of the mines there. Mr White who was 60 years old at the time of his death has resided in Richmond with his son, (a returned soldier) who occupies the position of head porter in the Railway Department here.
The deceased contracted that awful disease the ‘Flu’ some time ago, and developed pneumonia which caused his end. He is survived by a wife and grown up family to whom the deepest sympathy is extended. The interment is to take place on Tuesday.
I had thought it strange that Herbert had died in Richmond when for most of his time in Queensland he lived in Charters Towers. Now I know that he was living with his son in Richmond. Where was his wife Dorcas? What about Robert’s wife Florence and two young daughters, were they in Richmond too?
This account places Herbert’s son Robert in Richmond in April 1924, yet Robert himself died in Charters Towers just four months later. Now I am questioning whether Robert’s family were in Richmond or whether they were still in Townsville or Charters Towers. Perhaps the Richmond job was only temporary and Herbert stayed with Robert for that period.
Previous research in staff records for Queensland Railways revealed Robert working in Townsville and Innisfail where he met his wife Florence before returning to Townsville. There is no listing for Richmond, adding strength to the idea it was a temporary transfer. Robert’s will was signed just a month before he died and that placed him in Charters Towers as does the probate documents filed by the Public Curator. Robert was buried beside his older brother Sydney Herbert White in Charters Towers cemetery.
The other new piece of information was that Herbert had suffered the Flu some time ago which then developed into pneumonia. Perhaps Herbert went out to Richmond for the drier climate to help him recover. Herbert was buried alone in Richmond cemetery.
The fact that his son Robert was not buried in Richmond makes me think that Robert was not based in Richmond permanently. Or else there was some other reason he moved back to Charters Towers a few months later. Did he know he was dying too?
There is no doubt that 1924 must have been a terrible year for Dorcas and Florence, losing their husbands within such a short time of each other. Thanks to this Trove account of my great grandfather’s death I have new questions about his final months and also those of his son Robert.
As Robert White is not a direct line I have never obtained his death certificate but perhaps there are clues on it to help explain what was happening between April and August 1924. Railway staff records might also help pin down a temporary transfer. This example highlights why it is so important that we track down as many records as we can because quite often major/minor life incidents are missed in between the usual key documents that we use. Thanks Trove.
Shauna has been tracing her own family history since 1977 and is a Fellow of the Queensland Family History Society. In 2009 Shauna received the Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations (AFFHO) Services to Family History Award for her achievements in Queensland, Canberra and Victoria.
Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2020
by shaunahicks | Jan 2, 2021
Each year, for the last few years, Jill Ball (aka Geniaus) invites us to take part in this activity by responding to the following statements/questions in a blog post. Write as much or as little as you want and complete as many statements as you wish. If you wish to...
Lest We Forget – Remembrance Day & Frederick Trevaskis
by shaunahicks | Nov 9, 2020
Six years ago, on 8 November 2014 I blogged about Frederick Trevaskis and how he died on the battlefield in Belgium on 13 October 1917. Each ANZAC and Remembrance Day I like to do a tribute to one of my military ancestors. Frederick Trevaskis was a distant cousin (my...
Report on Genealogical Society of Queensland’s Exploring Irish Ancestry Seminar, Oct 2020
Due to Covid times, this was a virtual event and first up I missed not seeing in person many of my friends and colleagues. These annual seminars are always a great way to catch up with people. Being virtual does also bring some advantages in that we had talks from two...
Review of Christchurch Family History Virtual Expo 15 August 2020
by shaunahicks | Aug 16, 2020
August is National Family History Month in Australia and New Zealand. Over the last decade, I have had the opportunity a number of times to visit New Zealand for their annual family history expo in Auckland. This year due to COVID 19, attending was not an option so I...
Leave your name and email and click subscribe to stay informed.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9027
|
__label__wiki
| 0.855877
| 0.855877
|
Visit Our Blogs | Client Login
Diversity and Inclusiveness
International - Interlaw
The firm has a strong understanding of business and an impressive national network.
Chambers & Partners
View By: Practice Area Business and Finance --- Commercial Finance --- Corporate Governance --- Corporate Trust --- Emerging Companies --- Equipment Leasing --- Franchise and Distribution --- Internet-Based Businesses --- Investment Management --- Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures --- Private Equity and Mezzanine Finance --- Securities Law Construction Law Data Privacy and Protection Environmental --- Counseling, Permitting and Transactional Support --- Environmental Litigation and Enforcement --- Industrial and Specialty Chemical Compliance --- Environmental Insurance and Risk Management --- Clean Energy and Renewable Fuels --- Emergency Response and Natural Resource Damages Government Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense --- Administrative Enforcement --- Internal Investigations --- International Trade Compliance and Enforcement --- Ombudsman Programs Health Law --- Health Care Business and Finance --- Health Care Intellectual Property and Trade Secrets --- Health Care Labor, Employment and Benefits --- Health Care Real Estate, Construction & Commercial Financing --- Health Care Regulatory and Compliance Intellectual Property --- Intellectual Property Litigation --- Licensing and Technology Transfer --- Trade Secrets --- Trademarks --- Copyrights Labor, Employment and Benefits --- Employment Law --- Employment Litigation --- Executive Compensation --- Immigration --- Labor Relations --- Pension and Employee Benefits Litigation --- Administrative Law --- Alternative Dispute Resolution --- Antitrust Litigation --- Appellate --- Corporate and Financial Litigation --- Insurance and Reinsurance --- Intellectual Property Litigation --- Life, Health, Disability and ERISA Litigation --- Real Estate and Land Use Litigation Product and Tort Litigation --- Catastrophic Injury --- Drugs and Medical Devices --- Product Liability and Tort Defense Public Finance --- Bond Counsel --- Municipal Law --- Quasi-Governmental Entities --- Underwriter's Counsel Real Estate and Land Use --- Land Use --- Lease Restructuring --- Real Estate School Law --- Colleges and Universities --- Independent Schools --- Public Schools Tax --- State and Local Tax --- Exempt Organizations --- Opportunity Zones Trusts and Estates --- Estate Planning --- Estate Settlement --- Fiduciary Litigation --- Trust Administration Workout, Restructure, and Bankruptcy Title Attorney Firm Administration Paralegal Staff Attorney Partner General Counsel Counsel Of Counsel Associate Pro Bono Coordinator Ombuds and Pro Bono Coordinator Office Greenwich Hartford Lakeville New Haven New York Old Lyme Stamford Washington, DC School Albany Law School American International College American University of Armenia American University Washington College of Law Amherst College Barnard College Bates College Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Bentley College Boston College Boston College Law School Boston University Boston University School of Law Bowdoin College Brandeis University Brooklyn Law School Brown University Bryant University Cambridge University Carleton College Case Western Reserve University School of Law Central Connecticut State University Clarkson University Colby College Colgate University College of the Holy Cross College of William and Mary Colorado College Columbia University Columbia University School of Law Columbia University, Teachers College Connecticut College Cornell Law School Cornell University Coro Foundation Fellows Program in Public Affairs Dartmouth College Denison University DePauw University Duke University Duke University School of Law Emmanuel College Emory University Emory University School of Law Endicott College Fairfield University Fordham University School of Law George Washington University George Washington University Law School Georgetown University Georgetown University Law Center Gordon College Grove City College Harvard College Harvard Divinity School Harvard Law School Harvard University Haverford College Howard University Howard University School of Law Indiana University Maurer School Law INSEAD (European Institute of Business Administration) Iona College Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti John Marshall Law School Johnson & Wales University Kenyon College Lehigh University Marymount University Mechnikov National University Miami University Middlebury College Monmouth University Mount Holyoke College New York University New York University School of Law Northeastern University Occidental College Pace University Pace University Lubin School of Business Pace University School of Law Pennsylvania State University Pepperdine University School of Law Pomona College Princeton University Providence College Quinnipiac University Quinnipiac University School of Law Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhodes College Roger Williams University School of Law Rutgers University Sarah Lawrence College Seton Hall Siena College Skidmore College St. Anselm College Stanford University State University of New York at Geneseo State University of New York at Potsdam State University of New York Downstate College of Nursing Suffolk University School of Law Syracuse University College of Law Texas A&M University The American University The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law Trinity College Trinity College, Washington, D.C. Tufts University Tulane University UCLA School of Law University of Bridgeport School of Law University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley School of Law University of California, Los Angeles University of Chicago School of Law University of Cincinnati College of Law University of Connecticut University of Connecticut School of Business University of Connecticut School of Law University of Delaware University of Florida University of Hartford University of Maine University of Massachusetts University of Massachusetts at Amherst University of Massachusetts-Boston University of Miami School of Law University of Michigan University of Michigan Law School University of Minnesota University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina School of Law University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania Law School University of Pittsburgh University of Rhode Island University of Toledo University of Vermont University of Virginia University of Virginia School of Law University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin Law School Vanderbilt University School of Law Vermont Law School Villanova University Villanova University School of Law Wake Forest University Wake Forest University School of Law Washington and Lee University Washington University (St. Louis) Washington University School of Law Wellesley College Wesleyan University West Chester University of Pennsylvania Western Connecticut State University Western New England University School of Law Western Reserve School of Law Williams College Yale College Yale Law School Yale University Yerevan State University
Industries & Practices
Recent News(view all)
Shipman & Goodwin Appoints Three-Partner Leadership Team
Shipman Ranked Among U.S. News' 2021 "Best Law Firms"
Paying It Forward: Shipman & Goodwin Managing Partner Alan Lieberman Stepping Down at Year-End
CT Lawyers Recognized as 2020 Super Lawyers
Three Partners Receive 2020 Professional Excellence Awards
Shipman Achieves Mansfield Certification Plus for 2020
Upcoming Events(view all)
Manufacturing Virtual Series PART 2: Emerging Compliance and Legal Threats to Manufacturers (January 27)
Webinar: EBC Annual Emerging Contaminants Seminar: PFAS – The Forever Chemical (February 9)
Webinar: Sexual Harassment Prevention Training (February 9)
Upcoming CLE Events
Recent Publications(view all)
What Happens to Paid COVID-19 Leave in the New Year?
With COVID-19 Vaccines Finally Arriving, Employers Must Ask and Answer Difficult Questions
HHS Amends PREP Act COVID-19 Declaration for the Fourth Time
Important Notice about EPA Compliance & Enforcement Regarding Ammonia Refrigeration at Ice Rinks
CMS Final Stark Rule Creates New Exceptions, Modifies Existing Fundamentals
Connecticut Rolls Back to "Phase 2.1": What's Next?
Hospital Price Transparency Requirements for 2021
Transfer Act Changes and Plans for New Release-Based Program -- Unfinished Business Remains
Governor Lamont Issues New Executive Order Allowing Testing Alternative to Self-Quarantine Following Travel
Untangling the Knot: The Effects of the CDC's Eviction Moratorium, Executive Order 7OOO, and a Recent Court Order on Landlords and Tenants in Connecticut
As Students Return to School, the U.S. DOL Clarifies the Use of Leave for Childcare-Related Purposes
Connecticut Updates Mask and Face Covering Rule Narrowing Medical Exemption
Connecticut's Department of Public Health Allows Virtual Learning for Practical Nursing Programs
Is it Health Care or Not? Considerations for Independent Schools Exploring "Non-therapeutic" Remote Programs
Administrative Opportunities
We realize that our future depends on a steady flow of new talent -- and that's where you come in.
Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a reminder that its hospital price transparency final rule will become effective January 1, 2021 (84 FR 65524; to be codified at 45 CFR Part 180) (the “Rule”). That rule generally requires hospitals to publicly post their prices. Although some hospitals were holding out hope that CMS would delay implementation of the Rule due to COVID, or alternatively that a court challenge to the Rule would invalidate it, neither has come to pass. The court challenge was rejected by the DC District Court in June, with appeal arguments set to be heard October 15 in the DC Circuit. Nevertheless, CMS has reaffirmed its commitment to the Rule in its annual IPPS rule it promulgated in September. Thus, with less than three months left to comply, hospitals must devote the time and resources necessary to be in compliance by January 1, 2021.
Pursuant to the Rule, it is required that “each hospital operating within the United States, for each year, to establish, update, and make public a list of the hospital’s standard charges for items and services provided by the hospital.” CMS made clear too in its commentary in the Rule that the regulatory definition of hospital is a “broad definition that will encompass all institutions recognized by a State as a hospital,” including examples such as critical access hospitals, inpatient psychiatric facilities, sole community hospitals, and inpatient rehabilitation facilities. Therefore, except for federally owned or operated hospitals, this rule applies to every institution that meets the definition of hospital, whether enrolled in Medicare or not. In addition, all hospital locations operating under the same hospital license are subject to the requirements of the Rule, including outpatient departments located at an off-campus location.
The general requirement to make standard charges public is further specified in two ways that a hospital must make its standard charges public: (1) through a comprehensive machine-readable list of “standard charges” for all items and services; and (2) through a display of “shoppable services” in a consumer-friendly format. Each of these lists must be made public electronically via the internet, must be displayed in a prominent manner on a publicly available website, and must be easily accessible without barriers, including no charge, no username and password requirements for access, and no submission of personal identifying information necessary for access.
First, the “standard charges” list must list all “standard charges” for all of the hospital’s “items and services.” These terms are further defined in the regulations, with “standard charge” defined as “the regular rate established by the hospital for an item or service provided to a specific group of paying patients,” which includes “gross charge, payer-specific negotiated charge, de-identified minimum negotiated charge, de-identified maximum negotiated charge, discounted cash price.” Each of these terms is further defined in the Rule. “Items and services” is defined as “all items and services, including individual items and services and service packages, that could be provided by a hospital to a patient in connection with an inpatient admission or outpatient department visit for which the hospital has established a standard charge,” and is accompanied by the following examples: (1) supplies and procedures, (2) room and board, (3) use of the facility and other items (generally described as facility fees), (4) services of employed physicians and non-physician practitioners (generally reflected as professional charges), and (5) any other items or services for which a hospital has established a standard charge.
Note here that the list of items and services must include time-based charges, unit-based charges and service packages, and must also include the services of employed physicians and non-physician practitioners. CMS, however, declined to define “employment” due to the “variation and complexity in employment models and possible contracting relationships that may exist between hospitals and physicians,” thereby leaving it up to hospitals to identify those practitioners who are employed under their organizational structure. This requirement applies even to the services of employed practitioners that do not appear on the hospital’s chargemaster. Note too that the definition of “third party payer” may include a state’s Medicaid managed care contracts, if they include rates negotiated with the hospital, and could also include a local company with which a hospital has negotiated a specific charge for an item or service such as drug screening.
A hospital must also include a whole host of corresponding data elements in its list of standard charges, including: a description of each item or service provided by the hospital, the gross charge that applies to each individual item, the payer-specific negotiated charges along with the name of the third-party payer and plan, the de-identified minimum and maximum negotiated charges that apply to each item or service, the discounted cash price that applies to each item or service, and any code used by the hospital for the purposes of accounting or billing for the item or service. If a hospital does not offer a cash discount for an item or service, then the hospital’s discounted cash price would generally just be its gross charge as reflected on the chargemaster.
If an item or service does not have a corresponding common billing and accounting code, or other required data element, it is acceptable to leave that information blank. The list must be published in a single digital file that is in a machine-readable format (a defined term under the Rule, but common examples include .XML, .JSON and .CSV formats), must be posted on a publicly available website as described above, must be digitally searchable, must follow a specific naming convention in its file title, and must be updated at least once annually. Hospitals should also pay attention to any confidentiality provisions that may exist in contracts with third-party payers to ensure that they permit disclosures required by Federal law, or can be modified to do so before January 1, 2021. Generally, CMS does not believe that negotiated price information is proprietary as it is made public information through state databases and EOBs by way of example.
Second, the “shoppable services” list must include the standard charge for as many of the 70 CMS-specified shoppable services that are provided by the hospital, plus as many additional hospital-selected shoppable services as is necessary for a combined total of 300 shoppable services. “Shoppable services” are defined in the Rule as “a service that can be scheduled by a healthcare consumer in advance.” Physical therapy and joint replacements are examples of shoppable services, as is the administration of certain medications, such as flu shots or medication infusions for chronic conditions. The list of CMS-specified shoppable services is available here. If a hospital does not offer a CMS-specific shoppable service, it must clearly indicate that it does not provide it and may use “NA” for the corresponding charge. The hospital would then select an additional shoppable service to include in its list of shoppable services to bring the list to 300. If the hospital does not provide 300 shoppable services, the hospital must make public the below information for as many shoppable services as it provides.
Like the standard charges list, the hospital must include corresponding data elements when displaying the standard charges for its shoppable services, including: a plain-language description of each shoppable service, an indicator when one or more of the CMS-specified shoppable services are not offered by the hospital, the payer-specified negotiated charge that applies to each shoppable service (and ancillary service, as applicable) with negotiated charges clearly associated with the name of the third-party payer and plan, the discounted cash price that applies to each shoppable service (and ancillary services, as applicable) or undiscounted gross charge if the hospital does not offer a discounted cash price, the de-identified minimum and maximum negotiated charges that apply to each shoppable service (and corresponding ancillary service), the location at which the shoppable service is provided including whether the standard charges for the shoppable service applies at that location in inpatient or outpatient setting (or both), and any primary code used by the hospital for purposes of accounting or billing for the shoppable service.
“Ancillary service” is defined as an item or service a hospital customarily provides as part of or in conjunction with a shoppable service and may include laboratory, radiology, drugs, delivery room, operating room, recovery room, therapy services, hospital fees, room and board charges and charges for employed professional services. As with the standard charges list, the shoppable services list must be made available on a publicly available website as described above, must be searchable by service description, billing code, and payer, and must be updated at least once annually.
Unlike the standard charges list, a hospital has discretion to choose a format for making public this information. With that being said, however, CMS has made clear that when the hospital offers a shoppable service as a service package that includes all ancillary services, the hospital must display the charge the hospital has established for the service package as a whole, and not a manufactured charge for each of the individual items and services that constitutes the service package. And hospitals are required to list any additional ancillary services provided with the shoppable service package.
Also unlike the standard charges list, a hospital can meet the requirements of posting the shoppable services list by maintaining an internet-based price estimator tool that meets certain requirements. The price estimator tool must meet the following criteria to comply with the rule: (1) provide estimates for as many of the 70 CMS-specified shoppable services as the hospital offers, plus as many additional shoppable services selected by the hospital as necessary for a total of 300 shoppable services; (2) allow healthcare consumers to obtain an estimate of the amount they will be obligated to pay for the shoppable service at the time they use the tool; and (3) is prominently displayed on the hospital’s website and accessible to the public without charge, without having to register, and without having to establish or use a username and password.
Failure to comply with this rule could expose a hospital to civil monetary penalties of up to $300 per day if the hospital fails to respond to CMS’ request to submit a corrective action plan or comply with the requirements of a corrective action plan. In addition, CMS’ September 18, 2020 yearly IPPS rule contains a provision that requires hospitals to provide their median negotiated rates with Medicare Advantage private insurance plans on their Medicare cost reports.
Ultimately, price transparency is likely part of the future business environment for hospitals with continued pushes for cost transparency. Thus, not only should hospitals prepare to comply with the Rule for January 1, 2021, they should be prepared for such transparency and consumer access to prices to only expand in the future. Hospitals that haven’t yet started compliance efforts for the Rule, however, have ground to make up to ensure they can meet that January 1, 2021 effective date.
CMS has issued FAQs, checklists, and other guidance materials on the price transparency rule, available here.
Joan W. Feldman
Vincenzo Carannante
William J. Roberts
Damian J. Privitera
Stephanie M. Gomes-Ganhão
Health Care Regulatory and Compliance
Industries & Featured Services
Greenwich | Hartford | Lakeville | New Haven | New York | Old Lyme | Stamford | Washington, DC
© Shipman & Goodwin LLP 2021. All Rights Reserved.
Attorney Advertising | Disclaimer | Privacy Policy | Contact Us
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9028
|
__label__wiki
| 0.967797
| 0.967797
|
Fans lose faith as NRL loyalty frustrations grow
Fans want players to honour their contracts, the NRL want it as well - but finding a happy medium with the RLPA over such a complex issue is not easy.
by Paul Crawley
2nd Dec 2020 7:39 PM
Bringing back more loyalty into rugby league may sound like a tremendous idea in principle.
But the push to stop players breaking contracts so they can take up more lucrative offers at rival clubs appears to be on a collision course with the Rugby League Players' Association.
The issue came to a head at Wednesday's ARL Commission meeting when chief executive Andrew Abdo was charged with coming up with a solution to stop the rot.
But while ARL Commission chairman Peter V'landys is leading the fight for fed up fans who have had a gutful of the lack of integrity surrounding contracts, the players' union see it as a clear restraint of trade.
Kayo is your ticket to the best sport streaming Live & On-Demand. New to Kayo? Get your 14-day free trial & start streaming instantly >
Not only that, the other problem for the NRL is that the clubs are equally at fault of pushing out contracted players when it suits their purposes.
But the growing lack of faith among fans hasn't been helped by a series of controversial deals in recent months, the latest highlighted by Jason Saab's switch from St George Illawarra to Manly.
While Saab sought a release for mental welfare issues, it is also speculated he will get a significant salary increase after being on close to minimum NRL wage at the Dragons.
It's been suggested that the easy way to stop it is by making a player such as Saab get paid the same at his new club if he does walk out on a contract early.
News Corp ran an online poll on Wednesday asking fans if players and clubs should be forced to honour the full period of any contract and a massive 92 per cent voted in favour.
But the players could counter the flip side to the Saab situation is seeing a long serving player like Josh Mansour pushed out of Penrith with time to run on his contract so the club can keep young gun Charlie Staines.
Abdo conceded the issue needs to be resolved, it's just a matter of how.
"It is clearly a priority," Abdo said.
Andrew Abdo has been charged with finding a solution to the current contract impasse.
"We don't know what the answer is yet, but we are certainly going to look at it and see what we can get done.
"I understand the frustration the fans have around how in the current situation where you can have a player try and get a better deal and not honour their contract.
"We are going to look at a range of ways we can improve that situation and then we will have to work with the RLPA and others on how we implement those reforms.
"I don't know what the answer is just yet."
But while RLPA president Clint Newton was open to discussions, he certainly didn't sound like he was about to roll over.
"At the end of the day we haven't received any information on a proposed rule change," Newton said.
"But I think you can flat out say it would have a fundamental impact on the employment of the players and it would require our agreement as outlined in the Collective Bargaining Agreement."
In fairness to the players, the clubs are hardly the innocent victims in all this.
RLPA boss Clint Newton says they haven’t received anything on a proposed rule change.
Newton didn't want to pre-empt what might eventuate in the coming months, but you don't need to be Nostradamus to see where this is heading.
"I'm not privy to all the details of Saab's matter," Newton added.
"(But) matters like this are more complex than they might appear and such a significant change needs to be properly considered with all the relevant information, including the benefits and consequences because it directly impacts the players.
"We will always demonstrate a willingness to work with the NRL and clubs on issues that would improve the premiership.
"But something of that nature would fundamentally impact the employment of the players."
Originally published as Fans lose faith as NRL loyalty frustrations grow
Origin star spills Carney’s baby news
Star‘s traumatic video of ‘meeting death’
Premium Content Bulldogs recruit’s urgent technique overhaul
Premium Content ‘Bargain buy’: Which NRL clubs can afford Widdop
Historic psychic’s 2021 asteroid prediction
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9031
|
__label__wiki
| 0.689491
| 0.689491
|
R&D /
NASA JPL, DARPA partnership demonstrates autonomous navigation capabilities
The Subterranean Challenge, or SubT, is testing this kind of cutting-edge technology for space exploration – sponsored by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to develop key autonomous capabilities.
Last Updated: 19 November 2020 Published: 04 March 2020
SubT is divided into four circuits spread over three years. With each, teams program their robots to navigate a complex underground course. The first contest, held last August, took place in a mine. For the most recent, called the Urban Circuit, teams raced against one another in an unfinished power plant in Elma, Washington.
Each team's robots searched for a set of 20 predetermined objects, earning a point for each find. For the Urban Circuit, CoSTAR earned 16 points; the number two team, with 11 points, was Explorer, led by Carnegie Mellon University.
CoSTAR's team lead, Ali Agha of JPL, said, "The goal is to develop software for our robots that lets them decide how to proceed as they face new surprises. These robots are highly autonomous and for the most part make decisions without human intervention."
CoSTAR, which stands for Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Robots, brought machines that can roll, walk or fly, depending on what they encounter.
Along the way, the bots have to map the environment and find objects like a warm mannequin that simulates a disaster survivor or a lost cellphone with a Wi-Fi signal.
This particular course, which aims to simulate an urban environment, also included a carbon dioxide leak and a warm air vent.
Joel Burdick, a Caltech professor and JPL research scientist, added, "One of the two courses we had to run had multiple levels, so it was great that the Boston Dynamics robots were fantastic on stairs."
As the bots explore, they send back video and digital maps to a single human supervisor, who they remained in radio contact with for the first 30 metres or so of the course. They can extend that range by dropping communications nodes, a kind of wireless repeater.
Once out of contact, it's up to each robot to decide whether to proceed or backtrack in order to update the team. Each must also rely on fellow robots to access different levels of the course.
For example, a wheeled robot might request a quadrupedal one to climb or descend a flight of stairs.
"These courses are very, very challenging, and most of the difficulty lies in communicating with the robots after they've gone out of range. That's critical for NASA: We want to send robots into caves on the moon or Mars, where they have to explore on their own," Agha added.
Mapping caves on the moon or Mars could identify good shelters for future astronauts.
Moreover, if it exists at all, microbial life has a better chance of survival under the surface of Mars or within the icy seas of planetary moons, like Europa, Enceladus and Titan.
NASA wants to search for life in these regions, where robots would be frequently out of contact.
The next circuit in the Subterranean Challenge will be set in an undisclosed natural cave network this August. A final circuit that blends tunnels, urban environments and natural caves will take place in August 2021.
Teams competing in that final event have the opportunity to win up to $2 million in funding from DARPA.
r-d
WA set to be centre of innovation for lunar, Martian mining tech
Airbus FOAM-C research experiment now underway on the ISS
NASA, US National Science Foundation sign agreement to advance R&D
Exoplanet around distant star resembles our reputed ‘Planet Nine’
NASA issues ‘Jupiter mystery’ update
Successful test for Aerojet Rocketdyne hypersonic missile engine
SmartSat CRC launches start-up spin-off to boost collaboration
Space domain capabilities showcased at annual event
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9033
|
__label__wiki
| 0.633474
| 0.633474
|
Enough is enough – Liverpool must get rid of this lacklustre 31-year-old and invest in better options
by Mizgan Masani March 30, 2019, 11:00 am
Liverpool Opinion – The Reds should sell Simon Mignolet in the summer
According to a report in Express, Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet is unsure of his future at Anfield after falling down the pecking order since the arrival of Alisson Becker.
The 31-year-old’s first-choice role was taken away last January itself. But with the Reds signing the Roma stopper for £66.9m last summer, it was clear that the former would be warming the bench for most games this season even though Loris Karius was loaned out.
Simon Mignolet
As per the report, Mignolet was speaking to one of the local channels in Belgium and expressed his desire to play more games. His contract at Liverpool runs until 2021.
Here’s why the Reds should put him on sale in the summer and sign a new backup goalkeeper:
Liverpool need better quality backup
Mignolet joined Liverpool back in 2013 from Sunderland and straightaway got the first-choice role. While the team narrowly missed out on the title in his first season, the Belgian conceded 50 goals and he never looked like a proper long-term solution.
In the next three campaigns, we saw the frailties in the 31-year-old’s game, which eventually triggered current manager Jurgen Klopp to hand Loris Karius a regular start in the second half of last season.
Now with Alisson in the goal, it is pretty clear that Mignolet is not getting any game unless there is an injury. Furthermore, the latter has got enough opportunities to build the trust with the manager.
Though with how things have transpired, it looks like Liverpool would be better off selling the Belgian.
At 31, Mignolet won’t be able to drastically change his way of approaching his goalkeeping. Hence, it would make sense for the Reds to vacate the backup role and sign someone who can come in and challenge Alisson for a place in the team.
Read more Liverpool news, click here – Liverpool latest news
All in all, with two years left in his contract, Simon Mignolet could be sold for a good price by Liverpool. Hence, this summer is the right time to sell him and use that money to greater effect.
Written by Mizgan Masani
A football enthusiast, who loves to analyse the game in depth. Following various leagues and knowing about the playing styles of different managers intrigues me to the core.
Other than that, I am an Electronics Engineer!
Follow me @mizgans
More From: Liverpool
Why Liverpool should reignite interest in Ben White in January
Done Deal: Liverpool outcast joins Bundesliga outfit on a season-long loan
Done deal: Liverpool complete signing of Wolves star for £45million
Liverpool seriously consider summer move for £36m-rated former PL speed demon
Liverpool agree deal with Bayern Munich to sign veteran star for £20m
AlissonJurgen KloppLiverpoolLoris KariusSimon Mignolet
Celtic appointing this veteran 55-year-old as permanent boss would be the right way forward after Rodgers era – opinion
Who is this high-profile 22-year-old goalkeeper being chased by Arsenal and Celtic? All you need to know
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9038
|
__label__wiki
| 0.552015
| 0.552015
|
Langford Heathfield
Langford Heathfield - Sophie Lauren
Exploring woods
Insect spotting
Langford Heathfield is the Trust's second largest reserve. The mixture of ancient and secondary woodland, scrub, heathland and open rides cut into the woodland provides a great habitat for a diversity of flora and fauna.
Langford Heathfield,
Off Langford Budville to Wiveliscombe road
Langford Budville
OS Map Reference
ST 106 227
92 hectares
Park in lay-bys on the Wiveliscombe road or Poleshill Lane near the information boards.
National Cycle Network Route 3 crosses the southern end of the reserve.
Grazing animals
To ensure the survival and improvement of the wildlife habitat here much annual management work is undertaken. Sections of the grasslands are temporarily enclosed with electric fencing in the summer and grazed with ponies and sheep to ensure these areas stay as open habitat.
You have a choice of two trails; both start and finish at the main access point to the reserve at the Jubilee Seat lay-by. A 3km trail (marked by red arrows) and one of 1km (marked by green arrows). The trails are on boardwalks, which helpfully guide you through both trails, however please make sure to wear sturdy footwear as it could be muddy, wet or frosty under foot. Half way around the long trail you can have a well earned rest on the butterfly bench and take in the beauty of this fabulous reserve.
(Please be aware of electric fencing at the reserve that is used to contain livestock at certain times throughout the year.)
Contact the Trust for further information.
On a lead
Visit the 'Dog walking on reserves' page in the Contact section for more information.
Open at all times
April to August
About the reserve
Langford Heathfield, the Trust's second largest reserve, consists of heathland, scrub, secondary and ancient oak and ash woodland.
This is a wonderfully diverse woodland. The mixture of tree types, big grassy clearings and open rides cutting through the wood make this a great place for birds. Resident through out the year are Green and Great Spotted woodpeckers, Nuthatches, Tree Creepers, Marsh Tits, Long-tailed Tits, Blackcap and Mistle Thrush. The hard to spot Lesser Spotted Woodpecker also occurs. In summer Wood Warbler, and Pied Flycatcher may also visit to breed. Come early in the day and in spring to make the most of the birdsong as it echoes through the wood.
During summer butterflies, including the Silver Washed Fritillary, Speckled Wood, Marbled White and Comma can be seen flying along woodland rides and in clearings in the wood. This reserve also has a diverse moth population.
Make a visit in July when the grasslands are full of grasshoppers and crickets, which rise up in waves as you walk through the grass. Also at this time of the year bees and hoverflies buzz around in huge numbers visiting thistles and bramble blossom along the woodland edge. Few places have such big populations of insects and it is a revelation to see so many together. In particular look out for the large and distinctive Hornets which make this reserve their home.
Beneath the taller trees are dense thickets of Hazel, Elderberry, Spindle and Hawthorn which is good habitat for the Dormice that live in this woodland. There are Badger setts and Roe deer can be seen all year with their numbers increasing in the winter as they come down from the hills to the west. At dusk you may catch a glimpse of bats flying along woodland rides including the Common Pipistrelle, Serotine and the rare Lesser Horseshoe bat.
In summer, particularly on sunny days, Grass Snakes, Adders and Common Lizards can be seen in the open grassland and heath areas, but they are very sensitive to heavy footfalls so you need to tread lightly to have a chance of seeing them.
The open grassy glades in the reserve are full of flowers including Betony, Yellow Rattle, Greater Bird's-foot Trefoil, Common Spotted, Heath Spotted and Southern Marsh Orchids. Earlier in the year the woodlands are full of Bluebells and Sweet Woodruff.
Reserve conservation management - To ensure the survival and improvement of the wildlife habitat much management work is undertaken. The grasslands are temporarily enclosed with electric fencing in the summer and grazed with ponies and sheep and the bracken and scrub are controlled. The woodlands and mature scrub are managed by a combination of coppicing and thinning. This will ensure that the next generation of oak and ash standards can become established and provides a healthy shrub layer. The glades and paths are kept open by annual cutting and the cutting of blocks of bracken on a three year rotation.
In the northern part of the reserve is an extensive area of neutral marshy grassland characterised by Purple Moor-grass, Sweet Vernal-grass, Quaking Grass, Flea-sedge and Meadow Thistle. Other species here include Sneezewort, Petty Whin and Saw-wort. Langford Heathfield is the only location in Somerset where the nationally scarce Pale Dog- violet occurs. This type of neutral marshy grassland is now rare in Britain. An unusual feature of the vegetation in this area is the occasional presence of heathland plants typical of more acid conditions, such as Common Heather, Cross- leaved Heath and Western Gorse.
Although Somerset Wildlife Trust own the land, much of Langford Heathfield nature reserve is common land, where some local residents in particular properties, still have the ancient rights of pasturage (grazing), turbary (turf cutting) and estovers (woodcutting for fencing and firewood.)
Because the reserve is common land, and very damp, it has never been used for intensive agriculture, which results in many important wildlife species surviving here. Most of the reserve was purchased by the Trust in 1982 with Coram’s Wood and Lucas’s Copse added in 1985.
Langford Heathfield is close to Clatworthy Reservoir, Wimbleball Lake and National Trust Wellington Monument.
Somerset Wildlife Trust
Contact number: 01823 652400
Contact email: enquiries@somersetwildlife.org
Environmental designation
Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)
Langford Heathfield documents
Langford Heathfield Map & Info
Langford Heathfield OS Map
Nearby Nature Reserves
Rewe Mead
Emperor Dragonfly - Bob Hastie
Wellington Castle Fields
Betony - Cath Shellswell
Huish Moor
Black Tailed Skimmer - Bob Hastie
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9040
|
__label__wiki
| 0.909363
| 0.909363
|
Church of England Junior School
St Mary's Church, Old Basing
Year 5 and 6 Hockey
Great performance to finish the Hockey League season.
On Thursday 7th March, the St Mary's hockey team travelled to Down Grange to take part in the fifth and final date of the Basingstoke School's Hockey League. We began with a friendly as the team we were playing didn’t turn up. This friendly against North Waltham, who were second in the league, set the tone for an impressive afternoon. Aston guided in from a tough angle to secure a 1-0 win and took a fall in doing so but he was soon back up and in the thick of the action. Our second game was against the fourth placed Park View and after a fast start we were 2-0 up thanks to goals from Josh and Adam. We controlled the game throughout and secured a vital win which will see us move up the table. Our final game was another difficult one against Hook, who were fifth in the table. Again, a fast start saw us control the game and with two goals from Josh, we finished the tournament on a high. It was a great performance overall and the team played well throughout the tournament. I would like to thank the coaching team for all of your help and knowledge.
Copyright © 2021 St Mary's Junior CE School
View Sitemap • High Visibility • Privacy Policy •
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9042
|
__label__wiki
| 0.720202
| 0.720202
|
StencilClub
Check out recent Scoops!
StencilGirl® Products Angel Policy
StencilGirl® Columnists
StencilGirl® Creative Team
StencilClub Reveal February 2018!
It's that first day of the month when we reveal all that's in store for StencilClub members!
There's lots of possibilities with these stencils - from painting to scrapbook layouts to art journaling!
Become a member of StencilClub and you'll not only get these three exclusive stencils shipped right to you mid-month, you'll also get a members-only newsletter with a coupon and links to download Kristie's project video and pdf.
There's more! You can be part of our fabulous art community!
Labels: February 2018 StencilClub, geometric stencils, Kristie Taylor, patterned stencils, StencilClub
Cat Kerr February 1, 2018 at 5:49 AM
These are absolutely wonderful!!
Margie February 1, 2018 at 7:42 AM
Love these! But they’re diamonds vs triangles. Not to nit pick. Once an English major....
Simply Pretty Stuff February 1, 2018 at 8:15 AM
Thanks Kristie, these are wonderful! You also made me think of my grandma and her kitchen. ☺
If you are entering a GIVEAWAY, please add your email address in the event we need to contact you.
To avoid SPAM, please write it like this:
marybeth (at) stencilgirltalk (dot com)
Subscribe to The Scoop!
Have blog posts delivered to your email inbox!
Blog Archive January (10) December (21) November (22) October (23) September (23) August (24) July (23) June (21) May (21) April (21) March (19) February (20) January (17) December (20) November (21) October (21) September (21) August (21) July (23) June (20) May (26) April (25) March (23) February (21) January (25) December (22) November (23) October (26) September (21) August (23) July (23) June (22) May (26) April (22) March (21) February (20) January (25) December (24) November (22) October (25) September (22) August (24) July (26) June (24) May (26) April (21) March (20) February (21) January (20) December (22) November (21) October (18) September (22) August (20) July (23) June (22) May (17) April (17) March (17) February (16) January (15) December (19) November (18) October (13) September (16) August (18) July (15) June (21) May (18) April (21) March (20) February (20) January (21) December (20) November (18) October (18) September (20) August (17) July (22) June (22) May (23) April (22) March (22) February (20) January (22) December (19) November (17) October (18) September (20) August (20) July (22) June (4) May (1)
“StencilGirl” is a federally registered trademark owned by StencilGirl, LLC.
Copyright Mary Beth Shaw & designing artists. Powered by Blogger.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9050
|
__label__cc
| 0.673921
| 0.326079
|
Superhero Strat X
Honors and Accolades
Why Stratosphere?
Infographic Resource Center
Strat X Adventures
IT Savings Calculator
Information for CEOs, CIOs and CFOs
Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS)/Cloud Phone Systems
Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)
CRM/CX
Fiber Connectivity
Data Center and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Enterprise MSSP and MSP solutions
Vonage Business
Does your team have everything they need to work remote?
Comprehensive Managed Cybersecurity
Comprehensive Managed IT Services
Comanaged IT Services
Managed Cloud Phone Systems
Managed Cybersecurity » Detection
Cybersecurity Threat Detection
With new cybersecurity threats emerging on a daily basis, it's crucial for businesses of all sizes and in all industries to take steps to protect sensitive data from hackers and malware. The consequences of a data breach can significantly hurt your organization, particularly if you handle protected health information (PHI), personally identifiable information (PII), or financial data (PCI, GLBA, etc.).
The fallout from a data breach can include not only lost revenue and dampened productivity but also reputation damage and regulatory penalties. Customers could lose trust in your company and take their business elsewhere, and your organization could end up facing steep clean up and recovery costs if you pay an outsourced IT firm to restore everything.
If you wait to act until after a malicious entity has already gained access to your organization's network and caused enough damage for end users to notice, you're already too late to avoid the potentially disastrous consequences of a breach. A proactive approach to security is essential if you're looking to minimize and ideally entirely prevent damage.
Preventive strategies and solutions like employee awareness training, regular security audits, and spam filtering are key to comprehensive IT security. However, keen detection capabilities are also essential in case hackers and malware manage to slip past your defenses. The sooner your organization can detect the presence of malware, the sooner you can act to contain and eliminate it to minimize the amount of damage it causes.
Here are just some of the solutions and services that can detect intruders and stop them from causing significant damage to your business.
Anti-virus. Up-to-date anti-virus software is an essential building block of any comprehensive IT security strategy. These solutions scan files or a computer's memory for patterns that could reveal the presence of malware. Since hackers keep coming up with new versions of malware, it's important to keep anti-virus software updated to ensure it has the latest definitions and can neutralize new threats.
Firewall. A next-generation firewall can not only stop security threats before they infiltrate your network but also leverage advanced malware analytics and real-time threat intelligence to ensure quick detection, response, and remediation.
Application, network, and database monitoring. With proactive 24/7 monitoring, a managed service provider can identify and remedy any IT issues before they have a significant impact on your company. Outsourcing this task to an MSP will ensure someone keeps an eye out for possible intruders and can respond quickly at all hours.
Considering the potentially devastating consequences of a data breach, it makes sense to invest in IT security threat detection.
If you'd like to learn more about IT security solutions and how they can benefit your organization, contact us today by calling 877-599-3999 or emailing sales@stratospherenetworks.com.
Contact Stratosphere
Find out how Stratosphere provided the client with a multi-layered strategic cybersecurity solution.
We will handle your contact details in line with our Privacy Policy. If you prefer not to receive marketing emails from Stratosphere Networks, you can opt-out of all marketing communications or customize your preferences here.
Stay up to date on the latest and greatest in IT with Stratosphere's newsletter.
Get your security assessment today
Our team of cybersecurity experts can determine your company's unique needs and security risk level.
Managed Unified Communications
Copyright © StratosphereNetworks.com All Rights Reserved
CALL CONTACT US
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9057
|
__label__wiki
| 0.646343
| 0.646343
|
StudyStay
Access Apartments Maida Vale South
29-31 Clifton Gardens, Maida Vale, London W9 1AR,
Providing you with a home-from-home during your UK study stay, Maida Vale Access Apartments are ideally situated within easy reach of underground stations.
Click here to book Access Apartments Maida Vale South
Access Apartments Maida Vale provides one bedroom to four bedroom apartments that can sleep between three and eight people in single beds, making them ideal for a group of friends on a long educational stay in the capital. You'll be within walking distance of a tube station served by the Bakerloo Line, providing access around the city. The local area has seen many famous former residents, including former Poet Laureate John Masefield and Dad's Army star Arthur Lowe, who lived in Maida Avenue.
Maida Vale Access Apartments offers 24 hour access – so you can come and go as you please – and a 24 hour maintenance line, for peace of mind. The tastefully decorated apartments have a kitchen with microwave, fridge, iron and board and washer dryer. Each apartment in Maida Vale Access Apartments also contains a bathroom with shower and bath as well as a lounge with TV, DVD player, WiFi access and direct-dial telephone, so you can stay in touch with loved ones. There's a weekly maid service too.
Where is Access Apartments Maida Vale South Located?
Access Apartments Maida Vale South is located in Maida Vale, North West Central London Regional Map, Local Map
Catch a Bakerloo Line train from your nearest underground station and you will be able to travel to London School of Economics and King's College London in around a twenty minute journey (alight at Embankment). London South Bank University is also accessible via the Bakerloo Line (alight at Elephant and Castle). A short journey to Baker Street will take you to Internexus Centre for Language Study and Anglo European Study Tours, both located at Regent's College in Regent's Park.
All of the sites of Access Apartments Maida Vale are within easy reach of tube stations that are served by the Bakerloo Line. The Bakerloo Line will connect you to Baker Street, where you can visit Madame Tussauds and the Sherlock Holmes Museum. The theatres, bars and restaurants of the West End are also within a short journey – just alight at Piccadilly Circus.
Please note: You will need to travel to Bayswater Tube Station – on the Circle and District lines – to check in at Westminster Hotel (see instructions below).
All of the sites of Access Apartments Maida Vale are located around the Maida Vale area, a residential and affluent district. You can enjoy a cricket match at nearby Lord's Cricket Ground, or wander down to beautiful Little Venice and take a ride on a canal boat to Camden Town or Regent's Park, where you can visit the animals at London Zoo.
To check in you will need to go to Westminster Hotel, 16 Leinster Square, Bayswater, London, W2 4PR [click here for a map link].
Once you have checked in you will be transferred by taxi (free of charge) to your apartment. Check in is available 24 hours a day.
The map links above show the general area where Access Apartments Maida Vale are located.
Access Apartments Maida Vale South Facilities
Elevator/Lift Access
All News Channel
Colour Television
Television Lounge
Looking for Group Accommodation in London? Get an instant quote now
StudyStay - Your specialist provider of group accommodation for students and school groups since 2001. Offering quality hostels for groups in London, hotels for groups in London and long stay accommodation in London at discounted prices for large groups.
Alternative accommodation in Maida Vale
Maida Vale Apartments
All Maida Vale accommodation
Universities, Colleges and Language Schools near to Access Apartments Maida Vale South
Language School Listing
London Accommodation Offers
Tomorrow night
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 20+
11 Burford Road,
London, E15 2ST.
Bookings International
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9058
|
__label__wiki
| 0.866076
| 0.866076
|
New on Amazon Prime Video UK
All that’s new and notable on Amazon’s streaming service, updated for January 2021
06 January 2021 / 12:17GMT
An Amazon Prime membership’s benefits go way beyond giving you super-speedy deliveries for free – there’s also a fantastic streaming video service included, offering up loads of movies and TV shows for instant viewing.
Like Netflix, Amazon is constantly adding fresh eyeball fodder to its streaming library, so much so that it can be difficult to keep up with all the new stuff. So, as we do with Netflix each month, we’ve decided to dedicate a regularly-updated article to what’s new – as long as we deem it worth watching, of course.
Looking for the latest thing to stream? Read on, and allow us to guide you through all the best recent additions.
And why not check all these out with a free 30-day trial of Amazon Prime Video here.
Note: the newest stuff is at the top of the list, with material getting progressively older as you scroll down.
Vikings (S6 Part II)
This long-running historical drama (think Game of Thrones with more face tattoos and fewer dragons) finally hits its home stretch with this final batch of episodes. Viewers who have been with it since its glorious early days back in 2013 will doubtless lament the fact that the saga is coming to an end – but unlike many series it’s at least signing off before it becomes totally irrelevant and/or careens off the rails.
Focussing on the reign of Bjorn Ironside and the adventures of his half-brothers Ivar and Ubbe, this final series (like the ones before it) takes plenty of huge liberties with real history in the name of entertainment, but succeeds through its crowd-pleasing representation of the spirit of Norse raiders and explorers.
Watch Vikings on Amazon Prime Video
Don’t Breathe
A lot of the most memorable horror movies are memorable precisely because there’s some kind of killer (literally) gimmick in place, and that’s very much the case with Don’t Breathe. When a trio of teen tearaways breaks into the home of a blind old codger, they don’t count of him also being a ruthless ex-soldier with superhuman hearing, a vicious guard dog and a burning desire to keep the contents of his basement a secret. Cue an hour and a half of toe-curling tension.
Watch Don’t Breathe on Amazon Prime Video
Writer and director Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to In Bruges comes with a similar mix of pathos, violence and pitch-black comedy, as Frances McDormand’s grieving mother challenges the cops of her small southern US town to step up and catch her daughter’s murderer.
Such direct action – she purchases space on the titular three advertising billboards to publicly shame the police – brings her into conflict with Woody Harrelson’s respected chief and his bigoted, immature and angry deputy Sam Rockwell, sparking off a unpredictable sequence of events and an unforgettable conclusion. We won’t spoil any of that, but suffice to say the Oscars won by McDormand and Rockwell for their roles were well-earned, and this movie will likely stay in your head for a long time after the credits roll.
Watch Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri on Amazon Prime Video
Hannibal (S1-3)
Mads Mikkelsen is, quite frankly, one of the most watchable actors of his generation, and never more so than when in the immaculate suits of this TV incarnation of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter. As per the original books, Lecter is a psychiatrist brought in to assist FBI profiler Will Graham, but it's not long before the doctor is taking advantage of his position and manipulating the fragile Graham. This is pretty high-brow stuff, chock-full of startling imagery, Lynchian characters and dinner scenes that will make your stomach growl - a little unsettling once you know what's in most of them.
Watch Hannibal on Amazon Prime Video
Already seen Jaws and fancy a more up-to-date cinematic take on the endlessly popular human-versus-shark trope? Then check out The Shallows, a stylish, sun-drenched thriller in which a carefree surfer dudette played by Blake Lively finds the perfect Mexican beach to catch a few waves: surrounded by jungle, it’s gorgeous, secluded, unspoilt – and watched over by a mean fish with a heck of an appetite. Engaged in a deadly battle of wills with the shark, Lively finds out just how far she can go to survive.
Watch The Shallows on Amazon Prime Video
Genres get hacked up as much as the poor cast members in S. Craig Zahler’s brutal debut film, which starts out like a Western but slowly descends into a nightmarish horror – albeit one with some great comedic dialogue and character moments.
Kurt Russell leads a talented cast as an upstanding sheriff spurred into action when a group of cave-dwelling Native Americans kidnap two of his townspeople – and things don’t go particularly well from there. There’s an old-school video nasty feel to Bone Tomahawk that you don’t often see in modern movies (you’ll know the scene we’re referring to if you’ve seen it), not to mention a refreshing tendency to take its time, allowing you to get properly acquainted with its characters and its world.
Watch Bone Tomahawk on Amazon Prime Video
Having previously delivered award-winning profiles of Amy Winehouse and Ayrton Senna, Asif Kapadia turns his documentarian gaze on the most mercurial footballer to ever grace the game: Diego Armando Maradona.
The Argentine magician’s recent death might make this superb 2019 film even more poignant, but Kapadia’s signature mix of voiceovers and archive footage tells a gripping story from the get-go. In some ways it’s a classic rags-to-riches tale: a poor kid from the slums of Buenos Aires winds up winning the World Cup and leading unfancied Napoli to a brace of Italian Serie A titles. But it’s also a Greek tragedy, with Maradona’s very human failings – hubris and need to be loved – setting this god-like figure on a path to self-destruction.
Watch Diego Maradona on Amazon Prime Video
The Expanse (S5)
The fifth and likely penultimate season of Amazon’s fantastic sci-fi series has made landfall, giving seasoned fans and newcomers alike the perfect lockdown binge material. We won’t get into spoilers here, but The Expanse’s sweeping, multi-character story and its clever mix of intrigue, action and visual grandeur invite comparisons with Game of Thrones (albeit, you know, set in space), and this season sees old conflicts between uneasy allies Earth, Mars and the Belt threaten to reignite, even as much greater threats lurk in the darkness.
Watch The Expanse on Amazon Prime Video
A film about fairies, fauns and fantastical underground kingdoms might not seem like prime scary movie fodder, but Mexican maestro Guillermo Del Toro’s knack of infusing reality with the otherworldly has never been more captivating than in Pan’s Labyrinth. Some of the beasts young Ofelia encounters as she attempts to complete the tasks set for her by the guardian of the labyrinth are the stuff of nightmares, while above ground her homicidal army general stepfather is arguably scarier than them all. Pan’s Labyrinth is like Narnia reimagined by Ernest Hemingway.
Watch Pan’s Labyrinth on Amazon Prime Video
I’m Your Woman
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’s Rachel Brosnahan stars in this taut crime drama which is both set in and feels like it could have been made in the 1970s. And that’s a good thing! Brosnahan plays a disaffected woman who, when her criminal husband apparently goes missing after double-crossing his partners, must suddenly go on the run with their baby. Having never had to fend for herself before, she’s forced to learn a few things – and confront some uncomfortable truths about her life.
Watch I’m Your Woman on Amazon Prime Video
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9059
|
__label__wiki
| 0.876126
| 0.876126
|
IFSC signs a milestone deal with ABC
The International Financial Corporation (IFC) hyped the African Banking Corporation to the international level by putting in US $ 20 million dollars (almost P 120 million) as apart of its expiation across Africa.
The bank, which has its own pent-up financial and expansion programme, said it is now more committed to the organic and regional expansion as a way of releasing growth.
“It has been a long haul in our negotiations and an investment like one by IFSC provides capacity in the region where we operate and where we want to expand into.
“I think this is a vote of confidence for us and we are very excited,” ABC chairman, Oliver Chidawo, said Friday.
The agreement is still awaiting the formal emergency general meeting scheduled for September 21, 2007 which will vote on the decision made Friday.
According to the agreement signed on Friday, the IFC will get 10 percent of the money, or P37 million shares, and the rest will be a convertible for two years or a convertible senior loan that will be translated into ordinary shares thereafter.
The loan, due for seven years with a two year convertible or either maturing to a senior loan, is expected to be used in Botswana, Mozambique and Zambia. It is going to be used for mortgages, retail banking and consumer banking as it is now forced to wear a human face.
Further, it is also expected to leverage the bank in terms of a number of issues such as enhancing its profits, building its credibility in terms of support of letter of credit and over and above improving corporate governance.
“Our single mind is into Africa and our plans are to increase mortgage, SMMEs and microfinance in Africa. And for that we need partners,” Chidawu said.
He said the Friday signing ceremony was a land-mark which aimed at enhancing the partnership, something that was equally shared by the IFCÔÇöWorld Bank investment arm’s director of financial markets, Jyrki Koskelo.
“What we are doing here is to enhance the partnership and looking forward, into mortgages and looking into countries where we go and operate.
However, according to the group CEO, Douglas Munatsi, the bank has still to grow organically before going into some foreign lands.
‘”We believe that with this signing there will come some new credit lines in the likes of ADB and IFSC, which would either think of long term debt or long dated instruments,” Munatsi said.
However, ABC is looking at different options either to come with a right option issue on a private placement or, alternatively, debt raising issue going forward. But, it is believed that the coming in of IFSC will raise confidence within ABC.
BIH signs milestone agreement with ConcerolTel
CAAB signs MoU with Competition Authority
Botswana unhappy with Japanese raw deal
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9061
|
__label__cc
| 0.593059
| 0.406941
|
Tax Reform - IRC Section 965 Mandatory Repatriation
Tax Reform - IRC Section 965 Mandatory Repatriation of Deferred Foreign Income for Owners of Foreign Corporation
Ines Zemelman, EA
The recent tax reform is generally considered as a boon to corporations, reducing the U.S. corporate tax rate. However, the changes affect a wider net than the Exxons and the Apples of the world. The little fish in the big pond, individuals who own incorporated entities globally, are affected as well. This article will describe the changes that these Joe Schmoe’s face.
Prior to the passage of the tax bill, U.S. persons (citizens, resident aliens, and domestic corporations) were taxed on worldwide income, whether earned in the U.S. or abroad. Foreign income earned by a U.S. shareholder of the foreign corporation generally was not subject to U.S. tax until the income was distributed as salary or dividend to the U.S. shareholder.
Under the Law H.R. 1 (originally known as the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.”) a U.S. person with the stock ownership of 10% or more in a (Specified Foreign Corporation (SFC)), must include their pro rata share of previously untaxed accumulated E&P (Earnings and Profits) in subpart F income of the tax year ending before January 1 2018. The “measurement date” for the calculation of Subpart F income subject to deemed repatriation is Nov. 2, 2017 or Dec. 31, 2017, whichever date had the higher E&P balance.
Dividends paid to US shareholders during the mandatory repatriation year do not reduce the amount of E&P available for subpart F mandatory inclusion.
Accumulated E&P balance shown on line 7 of Schedule J of Form 5471.
Pro-rata share of US shareholder Subpart F income is shown on Sch B of form 5471
What does this mean? Reporting more income & paying more tax
With respect to the individual shareholder of the Specified Foreign Corporation, inclusion of accumulated Deferred Foreign Income (DFI) to Subpart F income means the inclusion of the U.S. owner’s pro rata share of the E&P reported on line 7 of Sch J of form 5471 to the personal tax return of the US shareholder for 2017 calendar year as ordinary income.
The portion of the E&P comprising cash or cash equivalents will be taxed at a reduced rate of 15.5%, while any remaining E&P is taxed at a reduced rate of 8%.
Silver lining - election to pay liability in 8 installments.
In the case of a US shareholder of a deferred foreign income corporation, such shareholder may elect to pay the net tax liability under this section in 8 equal installments.
First installment is due on the personal tax return for 2017 year without regard to extension.
Each subsequent installment is due with the following years individual tax returns of the shareholder without regard to extension.
founder of Taxes for Expats
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9065
|
__label__wiki
| 0.632537
| 0.632537
|
Local Roasters Make Inroads
By Margaret McCormick
How do you take your coffee?
You might have had a cup of coffee from Salt City Coffee Roasters without even knowing it. It’s the house brew at restaurants like bc, near Armory Square, and Circa, in Cazenovia.
It’s gaining followers in Syracuse and Central New York, thanks to its presence on the shelves at the Side Hill Farmers Meats and Market store in Manlius, at events like the recent envIRONmental Chef fundraiser to benefit Baltimore Woods – and positive, um, caffeinated “buzz’’ and word of mouth.
Unlike larger local roasters, like Recess Coffee House and Roastery, Café Kubal and Freedom of Espresso, Salt City Coffee Roasters has no “brick and mortar’’ storefront. What it does have is an online presence, a delivery service in Syracuse (Thursdays only and Syracuse only; see website for details) and an owner with drive and entrepreneurial spirit who hopes to have dedicated roasting and retail space in the near future.
Salt City Coffee Roasters is owned by Aaron Metthe, 29, whose business grew out of his interest in coffees of the world, love of a good cup of coffee and “a little formal training and a lot of self-learning.” He offers three or four fairly traded, earth-friendly coffees at a time, which change depending on availability. Beans are roasted each week, according to customer needs, and turn over every week or two weeks.
“The stock stays fresh, because it’s not in a stock room,’’ Metthe says.
The small batch, fresh-roast approach translates to a superior cup of coffee, he adds.
“I would say if someone has never been to local, independent coffee house, they have never tasted coffee this fresh,’’ Metthe says.
Metthe says Salt City Coffee Roasters has enjoyed a “spike in sales’’ since Side Hill Farmers added his coffee to its retail space in the summer. Events like envIRONmental Chef also give him an opportunity to network and grow his customer base.
“Having Side Hill as an outlet is a huge step for me, since I don’t have a brick and mortar,’’ Metthe says.
Until he does, visit the Salt City Coffee Roasters website or call 315-569-4633 for purchase and delivery information.
Another small-scale, local coffee roaster that is “always open’’ is Simple Roast Coffee Co., based in Lakeland. It also lacks a brick-and-mortar location, but you can shop online and order online for local delivery.
You also can enjoy a cup of Simple Roast Coffee and purchase beans at Half Moon Bakery and Café, Jamesville; at the Cazenovia Farmers Market (in season); and at “pop-up” events, like the recent FarmshedCNY organic apple celebration at Adams Acres, Jamesville.
Simple Roast Coffee Co. is owned and operated by Matt Peirson. He received a coffee roaster as a birthday gift last year and fell in love with the roasting process. That planted the seed for his business. Peirson, 26, a graduate of the State University College at Oswego who works as a disability analyst for Hartford Disability and says he plans to open a café and coffeehouse in Central New York. When he does so, he says, one of his biggest expenses will be coffee, so he decided to take on the acquisition and roasting of beans himself.
Peirson says he typically has four coffee offerings: a light roast, medium roast, dark roast and decaf. To learn more, visit the website or call 558-4417.
Margaret McCormick is a freelance writer and editor in Syracuse. She blogs about food at eatfirst.typepad.com. Follow her on Twitter at @mmccormickcny
Loving Lulu
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9070
|
__label__wiki
| 0.539636
| 0.539636
|
Dream Trips
Destinations home
City guides home
Hotels home
Cruises home
Safaris and wildlife
Ask the experts home
Singita Sasakwa
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
9 out of 10 Telegraph expert rating
Africa’s most glamorous camp, on a hill overlooking 350,000 acres of private game reserve, with all the facilities of a five-star hotel. The Big Five wander the plains below, which can be viewed up-close from an open-sided vehicle or on foot.
Save review Save review
Hotel review saved for later
Rooms from £ 1,915
It is not currently possible to book this hotel through our partner sites.
You can check availability directly with the hotel or click the button below to view similar hotels.
View hotels
Telegraph Review
Lisa Grainger
Located in the northeast of Tanzania on the border of the Serengeti National Park, through which more than a million wildebeest, zebra and Thompson’s gazelle migrate annually. The lodge itself is on a hill, with spectacular views over the grasslands, with a private airstrip for plane access (otherwise it’s a seven-hour drive to Arusha).
Style and Character
This mini-lodge feels like the elegant home of a colonial hunter that’s been given a glamorous 21st-century makeover. Living spaces are grandly comfortable, littered with silver, old books, antique furniture and maps, but with modern touches by South African design gurus Cecile & Boyd. Meals are served on verandas, under lamplit trees or in private book-lined rooms; in winter, fireplaces crackle flickering light onto polished parquet floors and Persian rugs.
Previous gallery image Next gallery image
There are as many facilities here as there are in a city hotel, from a glamorous safari-cum-jewellery-cum-crafts shop to a spa, tennis court, infinity pool with Serengeti views and library. There's also a TV room for those who can’t live without technology.
The 10 suites are modern-colonial in style: mixing wooden furniture and fine linens with safari-chic accessories, from feather-decorated lampshades and beaded sculptures to graphic basketware on the walls. Bathrooms have egg-shaped baths, big showers (indoor and out) and little extras that make stays more comfortable: throws on fireside armchairs, hats on handstands, kikois and soft white bathrobes, and delicious-smelling plant-based bath products.
Guests can eat anywhere here, from their own suites to tables set on the edge of a hill, lit by lanterns. The food is sensational, from sweet fruit salad, French pastries and orange-soaked eggs Benedict for breakfast, and light, inventive salads for lunch, to gourmet dinners. Fine wines come from Singita’s cellars, run by esteemed sommelier Francois Rautenbach, who has amassed some of the continent’s finest private reserves and rare bottles, which he can ship to guests’ homes.
Double rooms from £1,915 in low season; rising to £2,620 in high, full-board with all activities and drinks and laundry. Free Wi-Fi.
Access for guests with disabilities?
There are rooms accessible to those with wheelchairs.
Family-Friendly?
Of the 10 rooms, there are two with two bedrooms, one with three bedrooms and one with four bedrooms, with private pools. Babysitting is available and private vehicles can be arranged for families, as well as child-friendly activities.
Grumeti Reserves, Tanzania.
00 27 21 683 3424 singita.com/sasakwa-lodge
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9073
|
__label__wiki
| 0.911987
| 0.911987
|
Alvin Kamara: Vols backfield will be 'scary'
Matt Slovin
mslovin@tennessean.com
KNOXVILLE — An agile running back making his return to Division I football after dominating at the junior-college level, his bulky comrade and an incumbent quarterback with big-play abilities.
The recipe for Tennessee's backfield this year adds up to a frightening concept for opponents, according to one key component.
"It’s going to be scary, me, Jalen (Hurd) and (Josh) Dobbs in the backfield together," said running back Alvin Kamara, who transferred to Tennessee from Hutchinson (Kan.) Community College this offseason. "It’s going to be crazy. We’ve got a lot of things going in that I’m not even going to talk about. We’re just going to show."
On Tuesday, the Vols' first day of two-a-days, Kamara continued to hint at packages that feature him and Beech product Hurd, the Vols' leading rusher from a season ago, lining up together.
Hurd and Kamara are side by side almost constantly during preseason camp. Kamara suggested that Hurd's presence has elevated his own game, though the two have differing running styles — "thunder and lightning," as Kamara put it.
"We don’t really talk about it, but we look at each other in practice and know we've got to compete," Kamara said. "You break a long run, I've got to break a long run. We always try to one up each other. At the end of the day, we shake hands and acknowledge we got a good day of work in."
Kamara spent the offseason improving his pass protection and noted that protecting Dobbs will be an important responsibility for him. He also bulked up — not quite as much as Hurd did but still added about 8 pounds.
Kamara doesn't try to hide his excitement for Sept. 5, when he will return to major college football after leaving Alabama without ever playing a down. And that excitement is compounded by the offensive options, like Dobbs and Hurd, that surround him.
"He has really picked up the offense," Tennessee coach Butch Jones said of Kamara. "He's much more vocal. He's leading."
Fifth-year senior offensive lineman Marcus Jackson could miss the entire season with an undisclosed injury, according to Jones. If Jackson does return, it will be late in the season.
Hillsboro product Kyle Phillips, a freshman defensive end, had his helmet stripe removed by teammates Monday night. He's the first freshman to shed his stripe this season.
Sophomore offensive lineman Jashon Robertson of MBA missed practice once again Tuesday. Jones said the absence was caused by an ankle sprain and he expects Robertson back later this week.
Sophomore cornerback Justin Martin of Overton will be out for approximately a week with a knee sprain, Jones said.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9074
|
__label__cc
| 0.598934
| 0.401066
|
Pain — Lemiach’s Story – Chelte’s Brother tells his version
by theoneringOct 20, 2002Stories
She was never scared. No, my sister was never scared. She saw things differently to all of us, I suppose that’s why she took it so well. I cried when she left. They didn’t see it, but I cried. I only cried on that day. Mother always told me to be strong, but to try to do that when you have lost your sister as well, is one of the hardest things I have been through.
Chelte was a hero in her way. She lived half her life suffering comments about her appearance, personality, anything you could say about her seemed to be an offence. Even her name. It is the Faerie word for Elf, and she looked like one. She acted like one when the time suited her. The only time I really realised how different we were from her was when father died. I was in my 80’s, quite young, but Chelte was only three. That was when people started to say things about her. ‘She’s an Elf. Elves killed our father.’ I thought it was understandable at first, we would be sour towards any of the Elven-Folk, after all, our father was killed by an Elf out of jealousy. Simple hatred had taken our father’s life, and the feeling was reflected onto Chelte. But after a while, it seemed to be routine. We would never say anything to Chelte unless it was out of spite, or necessary. But this was how she grew up. She thought this was love, and never thought any differently.
I was the first to ‘forgive’ her. After all, she was born this way. She had Golden hair (Faeries have never had this. The most common is red, then dark brown.), and her eyes were grey. Even her wings were small, and rather than flash with colour, like most do, you could barely see hers. People saw it as a miracle the first three years of her life. Then it was an abomination. I think I was the first to see that, although she looked like an Elf, she was still a Faerie like us. She always would be, I hoped.
I said to her one day that we loved her really, but it was hard for Srere and Gemmae after mother died. She simply replied ‘I know.’ She was older then, but not more than 17. How could she know? She hardly knew father. I later found out that she had heard Srere and Gemmae talk. Srere was angry, shouting her hate for her sister to the Heavens. She even wanted her dead if it could happen. Gemmae tried her hardest to calm her down, but I always knew she felt the same way inside.
One night, however, Srere’s wish was granted, but at a price. I was not there, but I can relay the scene in my head as clear as day from what Gemmae told me.
The three sisters were talking to our mother, Jennette. Mother was half Elven, and the granddaughter of the Lady Galadriel. This was why Chelte was the way she was, I think. Galadriel was always hard to figure out.
Mother told the three that she was to appoint Srere Queen within the next year. Maybe she knew what would happen? I never knew. Srere was happy, Gemmae recalls, and smiled. It doesn’t sound like much, but for Srere to smile is a sight we never saw often in our lifetimes. Something had genuinely made her happy, and Gemmae said she wished she could stop time, just to see it again.
But Srere never saw him coming. The Captain of the Guard came up from behind my mother, and, with one quick slash of his sword, sent her to the ground, dying.
Gemmae told me that after this, she and Srere stood still, fearing his next move. He did not move though. Chelte made sure of it. The last thing our Captain did was whisper ‘Ahnweris’ and fall to the floor in a pool of his and my mother’s blood.
Ahnweris is one of the Rings of Power given to the Faeries. Mother was unfortunate enough to be given one, and it cost her her life. Gemmae said that the Guard wanted it, why else would he do it? He killed my mother for it.
Srere and Gemmae then saw why the Guard had died. Mother’s knife, Etorla, stuck in his back, Chelte standing behind him, in tears. Gemmae almost wanted to comfort her, but years of hatred and spite got in her way. Srere did something though. Mother was still barely alive. Srere bent over to see her, and mother whispered something in her ear. With those last words, she died, a look of peace on her face.
Streams of tears fell down their faces, and for the first time, the differences of the three sisters no longer mattered. It was the same mother who had died, and the same three daughters who grieved for her.
The next day Mother’s body was put on a boat and taken to the Grey Havens. She was Half-Elven, and, she always wanted to go there. Our Grandmother, Celebel, went with her. Mother was buried there, and we knew it was where she wanted to be.
Srere was then made Queen. Her first act was to summon Chelte to see her. There were shouts, I remember, and then I saw that what had happened the last night made no difference. Srere would always hate Chelte.
Chelte had been exiled under the charge of killing the Captain of the Guard. She had, but only to justify what he had done to our Mother. To exile her was cruel. Srere did not care, and by the end of the week, my little sister was gone.
I still see the look on her face as she left. Her eyes bored through me to see if I would help. But I did nothing. I, her brother, the only thing she had had that was even close to a friend, stood and did nothing. One tear trickled down my face as she stared, and she wiped it away with a smile. She was trying to be brave, but her eyes, too, welled up with tears.
I could stand it no longer. I went with her as far as the edge of the forest.
‘Where will you go?’ I asked.
‘To Lorien. Maybe they will look after me there.’ She answered. I was surprised. Most things she said were in riddles, or tactfully changing the subject. But now she was giving up. What was the point of being herself if all it brought her was hate?
‘I know they will.’ I said. I held out my hands and gave her my spear.
‘You will need something to keep you safe, though, while you journey.’
She looked at me with those grey eyes of hers again, trying to see what I was doing. This was new to her. Love. Her own brother was showing her something she had never even thought existed up until now, and she cried.
I hugged her a final goodbye. She walked off, my spear in her hands, and a smile somewhere on her face.
Srere spoke to me after I returned.
‘ “Send her to Lorien” Mother said. “This is no place for her”. Mother told me to send her away, she knew I would all too gladly.’
‘She thinks you hate her.’ I said.
‘Maybe I do. It was hard to see her, so happy and innocent, the day father died. I know she didn’t understand, but, it was as if she was mocking my loss.’
‘She would never do that to you. Somewhere inside she knew, but whenever she tried to talk to us, we’d push her away. She understands.’ I walked away with that. I could no longer bear it. Later that night, I cried.
The first thing I did when I woke up was go into Mother’s room. I had not yet said goodbye. As I entered, I saw a glass case lying open on a small table. There was a silk cushion in it. I wondered what this was for, but then I remembered. Mother kept Etorla in this case.
Mother’s knife was beautiful. It had a Mythril blade that was curved at the end, and the hilt was gold.
Upon the hilt were four stones. A Sapphire for Srere, an Emerald for Gemmae, a Ruby for me, and an Amethyst for Chelte.
Then it struck me. Chelte had taken someone’s life with this blade. She must think it was now her responsibility. Ahnweris was gone too. Chelte was the thief, but I wouldn’t condemn her. She had a great weight upon her shoulders now.
Chelte was 1, 047 the next time I saw her. It had been near half a century since she was exiled. I had been sent to Lothlorien to bring her back from exile. It was a hard journey, and when I got to the Golden Wood I was told Chelte was not there. She had left for Rivendell two days before. I had to hurry to catch her. I hardly rested and if I could, I ran.
Finally, three days after I set out, I saw a figure in the distance. I called out for them to stop, and, as the figure turned, I saw her. Chelte was standing there. I ran to catch up to her, and when I did, I saw a change in her. She had a more muscular build, and looked confident of herself. She was in Elven Clothes, and had her hair braided back as do the Elves. I could barely see her wings, but a glimmer of the trees behind her back told me they were still there. She had not yet chosen. I was surprised. I soon found out why. At her side was Etorla, and in her hand was my spear. Two worlds still tore at her. I wondered, did she still have Ahnweris?
We journeyed to Imladris, as she called it instead of Rivendell. She told me that the Elves had taught her how to use weapons, and how to fight, instead of be a Lady like most women in Lothlorien. She joked with me, laughed, things I had never before seen her do. This showed me how much I had missed out on learning about my sister. I sighed, but then I thought ‘When all of this is over, she may be coming back’. I smiled, but did not tell her the news.
When we had passed over the Caradhras, fate turned from our favour. We were attacked by Orcs. Here I saw Chelte’s fighting skills, and I was amazed. They surpassed many of the soldiers’ from our home, Sarindas Paran. She killed many of the Orcs, but we were soon attacked by more. I was cut across my sides, a deep wound that has stopped me from fighting as I once did. Chelte managed to escape with a gash across her left arm.
As the number of Orcs weakened, we managed to escape. I was in no condition to even be travelling, it seemed. No, I was near death. It was a two weeks journey from Rivendell and we were cut slightly off course by the Orcs. I begged Chelte to go without me, I would die anyway, and would only burden her if she chose to travel with me.
She did not care one bit. She took me anyway, carrying me if she had to, giving me most of her food and water. She managed to get me to Rivendell, but I was feared to weak to live, even if I was healed.
Chelte was exhausted. In her bid to save my life, she lost concern over her own. She went before the Council of Elrond and told the tale of that fateful day where we almost died, crying and gasping for air. I found out that she was sent from Lorien to tell of Orc attacks that had recently been occurring, and of worries over a Ring of Power. I was concerned for Chelte though, she had one such Ring (although I did not realise at the time, the Ring that was the Council’s concern made Ahnweris nothing.).
Chelte spilled out the message she was sent to tell, and, with one final gasp for air, fainted. She had not rested in two weeks because of me, and, when I learnt of what she had done, I realised we both could’ve died.
We could not leave for over a month, my wounds were too deep and I would need a horse. I wondered why we were still angry with the Elves, my people. They had been so kind. I would tell Srere and Gemmae of this when I returned home.
I didn’t get a chance to, though, as Srere and Gemmae soon came to Rivendell to bring me back. Chelte was asked to come, but I remember her refusing, and those words that rang so clearly in my head:
‘When the Faeries exiled me, the Elves took me in. When I was dying, it was not the Faeries who healed me, it was the Elves. My heart will always stay in Lothlorien, and you cannot change my mind.’
Chelte stayed with the Elves, and, after that, I never saw my sister again. She was born an Elf, and she died an Elf. In a final act of defiance against Srere and Gemmae, she became an Elf, and lived out the dream our mother only wished for.
Middle-earth Map Wall Hanging The Lonely Mountain T-Shirt Lord of the Rings Tree of Gondor T-Shirt
← Prev: The Elf From America-Part Two - The Party Next: Battle of Helm's Deep to Take 15 Minutes - Peter Jackson denies 45 minute battle length →
Found in Home 5 Reading Room 5 Stories 5 Pain — Lemiach’s Story – Chelte’s Brother tells his version
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9075
|
__label__wiki
| 0.566763
| 0.566763
|
SA Abroad
Home Sport Soccer
Bafana finish the year ranked no better, no worse than 12 months ago
South Africa's FIFA world ranking has remained unchanged over the past 12 months - 71st place and 13th in Africa.
in Soccer
Molefi Ntseki coach of South Africa during the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers South Africa training session at the Moses Mabhida Stadium, South Africa on 11 November 2020 © Gerhard Duraan/BackpagePix
South Africa’s FIFA world ranking has remained unchanged over the past 12 months.
READ | ANELE NGCONGCA REMEMBERED AS A ‘GENTLE GIANT’
Bafana Bafana finished 2019 in 71st place and that’s exactly the same position they will finish 2020.
BAFANA PLAYED ONLY 4 MATCHES IN 2020
Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, Molefi Ntseki’s side played just four matches this calendar year.
Those matches comprised two friendlies against Namibia and Zambia followed by back-to-back 2022 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers against Sao Tome and Principe.
All four matches were played on South African soil.
Bafana’s record read: Played four, won two (Sao Tome 2-0 and 4-2), drew one (1-1 v Namibia) and lost one (2-1 v Zambia).
They will enter 2021 ranked 13th in Africa as Senegal lead the CAF standings, followed by Tunisia.
BAFANA WILL NEXT PLAY NEXT MARCH
Bafana will seek to improve their ranking next March when they host Ghana and then visit Sudan in AFCON qualifiers.
A positive result against the Black Stars who are ranked 52nd in the world and eighth in Africa will certainly boost Bafana’s ranking.
Meanwhile, Belgium have retained their status as the world’s top-ranked nation for the third consecutive year after seeing off competition from reigning Soccer World Cup champions France and South American giants Brazil, who rank second and third, respectively.
Now more than ever it’s important to have access to journalism that you can trust. The South African calls on its readers to stand alongside our journalists as guardians of the future of independent and ethical journalism. You can help safeguard our editorial independence here.
Tags: Bafana BafanaCAFFeaturedFIFAfootballSoccer
9000-strong migrant caravan streaming to US-Mexico border (Watch)
Daily Lotto results for Sunday, 17 January 2021
Result | Orlando Pirates crash to shock defeat against Black Leopards
Midmar Mile joins Dusi Canoe Marathon in being postponed
Liverpool 0-0 Manchester United: As it happened
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9081
|
__label__wiki
| 0.697625
| 0.697625
|
GETTING SMASHED
Bizarre moment shopper chucks 500 booze bottles on floor in five-minute Aldi wrecking rampage
Amir Razavi
THIS is the moment a woman smashed hundreds of bottles of booze and lobbed gin at customers in a rampage at Aldi.
She remained silent as she dragged thousands of pounds worth of wine, beer and spirits from the budget supermarket’s shelves in Hertfordshire on Wednesday afternoon.
The woman pulls hundreds of bottles from the shelves before dashing them onto the floor
One shopper queuing to pay for his goods told her to “calm down” – prompting her to launch a bottle of gin at his leg.
Video of the shocking five-minute riot shows the woman, wearing a hoodie, backpack and mustard tracksuit bottoms, slip on bottles and slash her right hand.
She then raised it in the air and carried on tearing the bottles down with her left hand.
A security guard from a nearby store detained her by “bear-hugging” her before she was arrested by cops around 2.30pm.
Telly presenter Lee Clark, 50, watched the drama unfold in Stevenage, Herts, and said: “It was extraordinary – I’ve never seen anything like that before in my life.
She can be seen wading through the sea of glass as she smashes bottle after bottle
“She didn’t say a word the whole time and had a very vacant look in her face.
“A man told her to calm down so she threw a bottle of gin which hit him in the leg.
“She must have smashed well over 500 bottles.
“It was shocking and started getting incredibly dangerous.”
Lee said there were around 50 shoppers in the store at the time, including a mum with a young child.
A Hertfordshire Police spokeswoman said: “Police were called at around 2.30pm on Wednesday to report an incident at the Aldi supermarket in Fairlands Way, Stevenage.
“It was reported that several bottles of alcohol had been thrown onto the floor and smashed.
“Officers attended and a woman has been arrested.”
The spokesperson added: "She was taken to hospital for treatment to injuries to her hands and is now in police custody."
Beer, bottles of wine and spirits were strewn across the floor
The woman's trousers are soaked through with booze
A witness estimated 500 bottles were smashed
The woman can be seen being led away by security
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9082
|
__label__wiki
| 0.680964
| 0.680964
|
Check ups at checkout
By A Correspondent
Thursday January 26 2006, 12.00am, The Times
DOCTOR’S surgeries could be set up in supermarkets under plans in the health White Paper, it emerged last night.
The Government believes that GPs would be more accessible if shoppers could pop in to them. It is also keen to tap into supermarkets’ financial capital and market knowledge.
The White Paper, out next week, refers to “large, one-stop primary care centres”. Dr David Colin-Thome, of the Department of Health, said that GPs might be “nervous” about being employed by supermarkets.
He told Channel 4 News: “The supermarket chain would have to demonstrate that they hold the values of the NHS dear and that they’d be good employers, then I think GPs would be happy. But I think there will be some initial nervousness.”
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9084
|
__label__wiki
| 0.632627
| 0.632627
|
Past six days
Coronavirus: Police with emergency powers will use drones to spot crowds
Graeme Paton, Transport Correspondent | Rhys Blakely, Science Correspondent
Wednesday April 15 2020, 12.01am, The Times
Derbyshire police controversially used drones to take footage of walkers in the Peak District last month
Increasing numbers of drones are to be deployed to enforce the lockdown after police were given emergency powers by the aviation watchdog.
Air safety regulations governing the use of the technology have been relaxed to allow police to enforce social distancing rules in locations such as parks, beaches and housing estates.
An exemption introduced by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) will permit forces across the UK to fly drones at a higher altitude and closer to people than previously allowed. It also slightly relaxes rules around the operating of devices beyond a drone pilot’s visual line of sight — extending their range — providing they are observed by a second officer.
The change to the Air Navigation Order 2016 is intended to make it
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9086
|
__label__wiki
| 0.942306
| 0.942306
|
Brad Pitt World War II Drama ‘Fury’ Acquired by Sony
By Greg Gilman | April 10, 2013 @ 5:19 PM
The actor stars as a tank commander leading a five-man crew on a dangerous mission in director David Ayer's follow-up to "End of Watch"
‘End of Watch’ Director David Ayer at Comic-Con: ‘Hollywood Has Lost Its Way’
By Sharon Waxman | July 14, 2012 @ 1:47 PM
"End of Watch" and “Training Day” director David Ayer told a Comic-Con audience on Saturday that “Hollywood has lost its way,” making movies without heart
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9088
|
__label__wiki
| 0.557645
| 0.557645
|
but Unbroken
Call For Art:
Things that can bend seldom break. Under the crushing weight of history, women have become particularly adept at weathering storms, unbroken by the harshest conditions that would see them snap, but instead, makes them stronger.
News footage covering tropical hurricanes become highlight reels of destruction. Gusts of wind tearing off rooftops, houses crumbling under torrents of rain; a scene set in which armies of palm trees double-over under the weight of the storm, valiantly weather the wrath. After the storm subsides, the coast laid to ruin, the palm tree remains standing—worn and weathered, but unbroken. Unlike other trees, the Palm tree is uniquely built. Fortified from its core to its leaves, it can practically bend in half in the midst of a disaster. Some things in this world are literally built to better withstand the worst of what life has to throw at it. Engineered to bend when they should break, the resilience of women throughout time is proof of that.
This is a call for art depicting the way women have remained unbroken throughout the trials of history. From enslavement to segregation, witch hunts to honor killings, women have fought back, and have remained standing throughout the atrocities of time: arranged marriages, child brides, ritual servitude, acid attacks, forced prostitution, rape, stalking, domestic abuse, the continuous denial of their basic rights and autonomy, and still they stand. In the face of unrelenting violence, they are defiant, unyielding, undefeated; bent, but unbroken.
Work in this exhibition should in some way reflect, whether historically or personally, the power and resilience of women. It can deal directly or abstractly with issues affecting women, and women’s unique ability to rise in the face of adversity, and overcome.
This exhibition is open to any female or female identifying artist of any ethnicity, with work focusing on the African American struggle or other ethnic minority’s struggles and trans-racial issues that affect women, in accordance with the Charles H. Wright Museum’s mission to open minds and change lives through the explorations of African American history and culture.
NOTE: The Contemporary Artists Program gallery is an all-ages, family-friendly, multi-functioning space used for a variety of museum functions. Food and drinks may be served in the space during normal Museum operations while artwork is being displayed. Only two-dimensional works that are ready to be wall-mounted—such as paintings, textiles, fiber art, photography, or bas-relief sculpture—will be considered for display. For safety and security reasons, no art may extend more than four inches from the wall surface.
*SHOW INFO:
Show will run July 28th- October 29th, 2017 at The Charles H. Wright Museum, Detroit MI
Opening Reception : Friday July 28th 7pm-10pm int he Contemporary Art wing at the Charles H. Wright Museum
***OPEN CALL EXHIBITIONS BELOW:***
You Can't Touch a Ghost-Charity/ Jan 19
***PREVIOUS EXHIBTIONS BELOW:***
-Infinite Undoing/ April 2018
-The Collective Experiment/ Jan 2018
-Bent/ July 2017
Show Info/ Exhibiting Artists
Events/Times
--Bent: The Charles H. Wright Museum
-You Are Here/ November 2016
- YAH Show Info/ Exhibiting Artists
- YAH Events/Times
-YAH: The Carr Center
-YAH Best in Show
-Never Not Broken/ March 2016
-NNB Show Info/ Exhibiting Artists
-NNB: 117 Gallery
-NNB Best in Show
-Things Feel Heavy/ July 2015
-TFH Call/ Exhibiting Artists
-TFH Events/Times
-TFH: The Tangent Gallery
-TFH Best in Show/ Raffle Winner
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9090
|
__label__wiki
| 0.701406
| 0.701406
|
The Wide Screen – with Leith Skilling
Tag: Shadow Weaver
“She-Ra” Season 5 Review! No Spoilers!
Would it be too much of a hot take to say that everything Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame did, the fifth and final season of She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power did just as well – if not better in several instances? I’ll let you decide.
Now, to be fair, She-Ra has the advantage of being a Netflix series, with up to thirteen-episode seasons, so it’s probably not entirely right to compare it to any movie, even ones that are three hours long. However, considering that She-Ra‘s final season, whether intentionally or coincidentally, lifts a great deal of material straight from the closing chapters of the Infinity Saga, it seems fair enough to compare the two storylines, and how they are executed, and how the Netflix/Dreamworks cartoon sometimes gets it right where the Marvel Studios blockbusters falter.
But first, a little background. I was not a She-Ra fan until Friday morning, when I decided it was high time I watched the entire series as quickly as possible, in order to catch up with the final season which had just dropped on Netflix. I had tried once before, several months ago, but I never even got past the opening credits. I forced myself through on this occasion, however – and before the first episode was over, I was already very thankful for that decision, because….wow. But don’t even get me started on the four previous seasons. This is strictly a Season 5 review.
Though I do think a little bit of Season 4 finale recap is in order – if you haven’t caught up, be warned: SPOILERS for that season up ahead! In the aftermath of Queen Glimmer (Karen Fukuhara) recklessly deciding to use the Heart of Etheria – a magical superweapon which lies embedded deep within the core of the planet – a great many things have changed in the status quo: first of all, Etheria itself has been carried through a portal out of its empty pocket-dimension and back into the larger universe; Adora (Aimee Carrero) has lost her connection with the ancient warrior She-Ra, and the Sword of She-Ra is broken and useless; and Hordak (Keston John), once the greatest enemy of the Princesses of Power, has been revealed to be nothing more than the puppet and defective clone of a far greater evil – Horde Prime (also Keston John), an alien overlord who has now launched a massive invasion of Etheria, and has simultaneously captured Glimmer, Hordak, and Hordak’s former second-in-command, Catra (AJ Michalka).
Season 5 picks up after a small time jump. Horde Prime’s invasion is well underway now, and Adora, the archer Bow (Marcus Scribner), and all the remaining Princesses of Power are leading a futile rebellion against him. But on Horde Prime’s flagship, Glimmer and Catra are forced to establish a delicate trust bond with Prime and with each other as they plot a way to escape from imprisonment. Prime is essentially Thanos, and with less clever writing he might just have been that: his agenda (to destroy worlds across the universe in order to achieve cosmic balance and bring about a lasting peace) is much like the Mad Titan’s plan to end world hunger by wiping out half of every planet’s population; even more specifically, he too is the long-awaited mastermind behind the plans of an earlier antagonist in the franchise, who arrives on a gargantuan starship from the depths of space, whose army of mindless bodyguards start almost all their speeches with the word “Rejoice”, and who also has a tendency to meaningfully snap his fingers. Like Thanos, he has arrived on Etheria with the intention of claiming a superweapon that just so happens to come in the form of a magical link between a set of multi-colored crystals.
But unlike Thanos, Horde Prime has time to elaborate on his plans, and the characters have time to get to know him, to witness firsthand his strengths, and to begin to understand his weaknesses while they wander his ship. His special abilities, cloning and mind-control, aren’t anything we haven’t seen before, but they do also differentiate him from Thanos. And in one of my favorite scenes from early in the series, we get a chilling look at the devastation Horde Prime has wrought when he serves Glimmer and Catra a dinner consisting of various rare delicacies from worlds he destroyed in the past. Being the last person in the universe to know an entire planet’s recipes may not seem too dramatic, but it instantly makes the fight to save Etheria more personal, and conveys the horrors of Horde Prime’s conquests far better than any war-torn planet or battlefield.
And that’s the thing: whenever She-Ra strays dangerously close to imitating the Marvel films, it immediately veers away again with the help of some clever, quirky twist that makes it feel fresh and invigorating. The final season may have all the same scope, scale and – occasionally – story-beats as Endgame, but it puts its own unique spin on that story. There is only one instance I can think of where this isn’t the case, when several of our heroes (I won’t say which) are left stranded in space on their way to Etheria, but the fuel they need for their own ship is actually crystals in the exact shape of Captain Marvel’s eight-pointed star – Captain Marvel being the one who rescued Tony Stark from being stranded in space after his ship ran out of fuel – so they touch down on a desolate planet only to run into a motley crew of space pirates led by a woman called Starla (Melissa Fumero) and a bald purple cyborg woman with trust issues, in an interaction that plays out almost identically to a similar meeting between Tony Stark and Star Lord’s motley crew of space pirates – which also includes a bald purple cyborg woman with trust issues – in Avengers: Infinity War.
But there’s a not-so-secret weapon at the heart of She-Ra, and that’s the series’ core cast of characters and the relationships between them, which are constantly evolving in new, unpredictable directions. Avengers: Infinity War‘s greatest problem, in my opinion, is how it sacrificed character for plot: it’s a problem that unfortunately carries over into parts of Endgame – but She-Ra doesn’t have that problem: every major character has room to grow, and all their development happens onscreen, so it doesn’t need to be exposited to the audience. The cast is also small enough already that everyone can get a meaningful role: whereas in Endgame, it sometimes felt like certain characters had only survived the Infinity War snap so they could provide comedic relief.
theverge.com
The story’s focus is still on Adora and Catra, as the couple navigates their fragile relationship with some difficulty. But for the first time, it’s not Adora putting in all the effort: Catra, for her part, is finally trying to stop pushing people away from her every time they show her any affection – though, much like Marvel’s Loki, she still plans on exploiting the current chaos for her own advantage, even if it means hurting others. Their relationship goes through some very surprising ups-and-downs this season. Separately, they’ve both changed as well – Adora is busy over-exerting herself as she tries to match the strength and stamina she possessed when she could turn into She-Ra, while Catra is a quieter, less aggressive shadow of her former self.
Catra’s reluctant interactions with the imprisoned Queen Glimmer are also surprisingly fun to watch, as Glimmer too has to make an effort to trust her former enemy, the woman responsible for her own mother’s death. Glimmer has had a rough time these past couple of seasons, losing people she loves and watching as her close circle of friends gives up on her when she needs them most – something which is partly her own fault, as her stubbornness manifests itself in increasingly dangerous decisions. Much like Catra, she is descending into a dark place, and it’s both thrilling and scary to join her on that journey.
Back on Etheria, Bow has also made some changes to his own lifestyle – though not quite enough to make him give up crop-tops, which he still wears proudly even in circumstances where one would think it impossible: such as the crushing void of space. His arc in this season is more understated than others, but it gives him a number of deeply satisfying revelations about his purpose in life, and also briefly reunites him with his two dads, who are still just as charming and witty as ever.
syfy.com
My personal favorite character in the series, the geeky tech-genius Entrapta (Christine Woods), is given plenty of material to work with (quite literally) this season. Lost and lonely without her lab partner Hordak to turn to, she once again has a hard time reminding herself that she can’t just join the bad guys because they have cooler technology.
The other Princesses each get more time to shine, especially now that She-Ra herself isn’t around to steal the spotlight from them in action sequences. Shy, sensitive Scorpia (Lauren Ash), having just recently regained her Princess status after living her entire life severed from the powers of her Runestone, is the most compelling to watch – but then, she’s always been compelling. To no one’s surprise, she gravitates most toward Princess Perfuma (Genesis Rodriguez), who is battling her own insecurities and finds a kindred spirit in Scorpia’s gentle personality. The two more brusque Princesses, Frosta (Merit Leighton) and Mermista (Vella Lovell) have smaller roles this season: though the latter does get some very interesting development later in the season, and, as always, has adorable banter with the boisterous pirate captain, Sea Hawk (Jordan Fisher). A pleasant surprise is the upgrade of guest stars Spinnerella (Noelle Stevenson) and Netossa (Krystal Joy Brown) to recurring characters: they’ve come a long way from the time when Bow couldn’t even remember what their powers were.
Several villains find themselves joining with the Rebellion against Horde Prime’s power – the Horde itself has dissolved, while Hordak is trapped between his loyalty to his maker, and fidelity to his friend Entrapta (is there something more to their peculiar relationship? You’ll just have to watch and find out). Shadow Weaver (Lorraine Toussaint), meanwhile, still maintains that she is loyal to Queen Glimmer, even though her meddling with dark magic, which resumes early in the season as the Rebellion runs out of other options, makes her vulnerable to the temptation of evil.
aminoapps.com
The dark magic itself is still fairly vague, but it is used in a greater capacity than ever before, and there are several fights which utilize it very well – especially those which also involve Glimmer’s father Micah (Daniel Dae Kim), who has had a little time to regain his strength since his decades-long sojourn on Beast Island. All in all, the action has been upgraded significantly this season: in particular, the fight scene which closes out Episode 5 is appropriately epic, and another fight soon after has one character literally leaping across an asteroid belt and blowing up starships with their bare hands. That’s all thanks to the incredible animation, of course.
A She-Ra review wouldn’t be complete without a shout-out to the series’ commitment to diversity – an area in which it wipes the floor with Endgame. While that film mustered up one nameless gay background character, She-Ra ends queerbaiting critiques once and for all with definitive, powerful LGBTQ+ representation.
For me, She-Ra beats out Endgame because of how undeniably right the payoff for every story thread and character arc is in the end. While Endgame leaves room for argument and debate over several characters’ fates, She-Ra ties everything up neatly, in a way that is brave but satisfying – at least for me. There’s no room for the sort of unending, roundabout discourse that plagues other fandoms. This feels like a conclusive, fitting ending for characters I only just met yesterday and for whom I would already sacrifice everything.
Series Rating: 10/10
About Leith Skilling
Follow the Wide Screen
Enter your email address to get notified of new posts by email.
Want to reach me?
This is quick and easy!
Thoughts, comments, writing gigs…
The Illuminerdi
I am now writing for the Illuminerdi, check it out!
Middle-earth Explained: Numenor And The Men Of The West
What’s Up With The WandaVision Commercial Breaks?
That Grim Reaper Clue In WandaVision Episode Two Could Be Huge
“WandaVision” Episodes 1 & 2 Review! SPOILERS!
May Calamawy Joins “Moon Knight”!
Billy "THE KID" Lawrence on “Secret Invasion” Is Happening: Now Give Us MCU Quake.
Frank Jones on “Secret Invasion” Is Happening: Now Give Us MCU Quake.
Van on 6 Characters Who Could Have Saved Grogu From Order 66
Noah Wolff on 6 Characters Who Could Have Saved Grogu From Order 66
Leith on “Blood Of Zeus” Is Fun – But Deeply Flawed.
Agents of SHIELD (20)
Ahsoka Tano (21)
Amazon Prime (29)
Avengers: Endgame (35)
Captain Marvel (23)
Daisy Johnson (19)
Hawkeye (20)
J.R.R. Tolkien (31)
Jedi (31)
Kevin Feige (22)
LOTR (31)
MCU (110)
Middle-earth (19)
Ming-Na Wen (19)
movie news (46)
Phase 4 (25)
Sith (24)
The Mandalorian (28)
trailer reviews (26)
Disney Remakes
Leith Skilling
MonsterVerse Movies
Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings
Pixar Movies
Shang-Chi
Video Game Adaptations
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9092
|
__label__wiki
| 0.912022
| 0.912022
|
THE ALPENA NEWS
Michigan Sports
Editorials and columns
AP Poll: Americans somewhat confident in climate fight
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans are at least somewhat confident that the world will step up in its fight against global warming — but there are limits to their optimism.
That’s according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research that also shows most think their own actions can make a difference.
About 7 in 10 Americans think it is at least moderately likely the world will take action in the next decade to reduce emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide and other gases, but only about 3 in 10 think that’s very likely to happen, according to the August poll.
Two-thirds of those polled said they think pollution reduction would have at least some impact in preventing future warming, but only about a quarter think it would do a lot to keep climate change at bay. About 3 in 10 Americans overall think even if emissions are cut back significantly it will do little or nothing to stop climate change.
“I worry for my children and my grandchildren and for the future and what they have in store for them,” said Vickie Jackson, of Aydlett, North Carolina. “I don’t think it’s going to get any better, unfortunately. It would take everybody to really pitch in and really care.”
Michael Mann, a prominent Pennsylvania State University climate scientist who has been labeled an alarmist by people who reject mainstream climate science, sees it a bit differently.
“I’m cautiously optimistic that we WILL take the actions necessary to avert catastrophic warming,” Mann said in an email. “However, these poll results also show that one of the greatest threats to action now isn’t outright denial. … It’s hopelessness and despair and a growing sense in some communities that we have no agency in addressing this challenge.”
Democrats and younger people show a bit more optimism than Republicans and older Americans.
Eight in 10 Democrats say reducing carbon pollution in the next decade would help prevent additional global warming. About half of Republicans say emission cuts would have little or no impact.
About three-quarters of those under 45 say pollution cuts could prevent future warming, compared with about 6 in 10 of those 45 and older.
Ann Florence, 70, of Jonesborough, Tennessee, said she’s not optimistic the government — especially the Trump administration — will tackle climate change, but she has more hope when it comes to everyday people.
“It’s got to start from the bottom up,” she said. “If I take care of my carbon footprint, I’m helping someone in future generations.”
Scientists say individual actions do matter, especially if those actions are combined with changes across the globe.
When it comes to climate change, most Americans have big worries — about air quality, plant and animal life, drinking water supply, human health and rising sea levels — but what they say they are most concerned about is future generations.
While 44% of Americans say they’re very or extremely concerned about climate change’s effects on them personally, two-thirds say they are very or extremely concerned about future generations.
Chris Dennis, a 50-year-old nurse from Greenville, South Carolina, said he worries about his children, but he also thinks their generation will do more to solve the problem than his.
Jonathan Overpeck, dean of environment at the University of Michigan, said the next generation is key.
“We have a stark choice — leave them a world being destroyed by fossil fuels, or a world that is more sustainable, just, and powered by clean energy,” Overpeck said. “The world’s youth understand this and are making sure we all understand it. Their activism is making a real difference.”
Brett Kelso, a 33-year-old Libertarian-leaning independent who lives in Lincoln City, Oregon, knows a rising Pacific Ocean may destroy part of his town. But he’s not too worried about the long-term climate picture.
“Human beings, as a species, have been very adaptable creatures,” said Kelso, who is too busy raising a 1-year-old and 5-year-old while also working as a personal trainer to agonize over long-term problems.
NASA climate scientist Kate Marvel said it’s hard to predict the future, but “we can all shape the future we want.”
She added: “We’re not passive and we’re not helpless. I think we can be optimistic, but we have to earn that optimism.”
What Biden can and can’t get from an evenly divided Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — So what does a 50-50 Senate get President-elect Joe Biden? Washington has barely had time to ...
Biden’s test: Engineering economic boom in a partisan divide
BALTIMORE (AP) — When Joe Biden entered the White House as vice president, the economy was cratering. Job losses ...
Man allegedly hid 3 months at Chicago airport due to virus
CHICAGO (AP) — A California man who told police that the coronavirus pandemic left him afraid to fly has been ...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization chief on Monday lambasted drugmakers’ profits and vaccine ...
FBI vetting Guard troops amid fears of insider attack
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from ...
Police structure crumbled in Capitol riot
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, many of the police officers had to decide on their own ...
Residents flock to COVID-19 vaccine clinic at Alpena Mall
PI county may back businesses who buck state
Packers get second shot at Brady, Bucs with Super Bowl at stake
China economy grows in 2020 as rebound from virus gains
Alpena firefighters trained on Alpena Township needs
Political concerns raised in proposed AHS course
Starting at $4.75/week.
Copyright © The Alpena News | https://www.thealpenanews.com | 130 Park Place, Alpena, MI 49707 | 989-354-3111 | Ogden Newspapers | The Nutting Company
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9093
|
__label__cc
| 0.558426
| 0.441574
|
Robert Kachelriess
Articles by Robert
By Robert Kachelriess
Things We're Looking Forward to in Las Vegas in 2021
Now that 2020 is over, things can only get better. Right?
The Best Spots For LGBTQ Nightlife in Las Vegas
Pride month may be in June, but in Las Vegas, we celebrate Pride in October.
Rent Your Own Racetrack, Drink a $10k Cocktail, and Other Amazing Ways to Splurge in Las Vegas
Most people blow their money in Las Vegas on the casino floor, but there's no rule that you have to give all your cash over to the slot machines.
The Best Taco Bell in the World Just Opened in Las Vegas
Everything in Las Vegas is better with a DJ -- and that includes Taco Bell.
Only in Las Vegas: Inside the Momenti Boozy Ice Cream Factory
It all started when Leif Pearson wanted to drink on a bus.
What Are the Best Buffets in Vegas? We Ate at All of Them to Find Out.
You can eat at one of the best restaurants in Las Vegas, or you can do what a lot of tourists feel obligated to do: check out a buffet.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9100
|
__label__wiki
| 0.764295
| 0.764295
|
The Digital Fix: Television
The Flash: 3.05 Monster
Posted by Baz Greenland Published
The Flash certainly seems to have emerged from Flashpoint with a new sense of confidence; even a 'filler' type episode like Monster, with very little connection to the on-going story arc, had an effortless charm about it. It was fun, it was ballsy and it was simple in its approach but that made it a joy to watch from beginning to end.
First up, I have to say I love this new Harrison Wells - or H.R. Wells as he is now known. Despite the crazy search for an alternate Wells last week (which is frankly more ludicrous to more I think about it) and the fact that Mime Wells was not chosen, this latest version has allowed Tom Cavanagh to deliver a new facet to his character; an oddball, charming, motivational-coach / writer Wells that it turns out does not have the scientific brain of his predecessors. I loved that it took a while for the others to catch on, the fact that he repeated what they were saying, suggested but never formed an idea himself. Barry and Cisco discovered that it was all source material for his book and he was there not to join in, in their genius debates but motivate them. What I actually want now is an episode where he works with Earth 2 Wells (who will surely pop in with daughter Jesse Quick at some point)...and yes, let's through in mime Wells too!
If the characters clueing into to where Wells fit in was the charming fun of the episode, then the giant monster rampaging through the streets of Central City was the action-packed mystery quota. It allowed Barry Allen and Julian Albert (Tom Felton) to bond as Barry bit his lip and offered to be Julian's CSI protegee. It was the perfect time to bring depth to Felton's character. He had been in the show long enough to show that he was a dick with a grudge against metahumans and Barry (ironically not realising he is both) and it all came to a head when he tried to take matters into his own hands and try and shoot the person controlling the monster - when it was revealed to be a giant hologram terrorising the populace.
The Flash saving the genius kid, who was just trying to fight back against his abusers, stopped Julian from stepping over the line from jerk to murderer and that moment certainly humanised him. The whole privileged British artistorical type fighting tradition by becoming a scientist certainly doesn't help present us Brits in a better light, but it did give Julian some depth and allow a connection to form between him and Barry.
But the real emotional core was Caitlin Snow's exploration of her Killer-Frost powers. Bar playing that evil doppleganger, I felt Danielle Panabaker was a little wasted last season as the twisted love interest of Hunter Zolomon / Zoom, so I am delighted that she has something to really sink her teeth into this year. The visit to her scientist mother Carla Tannhauser (Susan Walters) could have easily been cliched, her mother's cold demeanour a reflection of Caitlin's developing abilities. But there was a real depth to Panabker and Walters' performance as those barriers slowly came down and they bonded over the death of a spouse and a reconnection that had been lost for some time. The attempt by Carla's assistant to trap Caitlin felt a little trite but it didn't spoil this intriguing mother / daughter relationship that didn't feel like another Barry / Henry or Joe / Iris connection. Fences might have started to be mended, but they were certainly still broken.
And it is with Caitlin Snow as Killer Frost that the real potential of season three seems to rest. Could she be the ally turned villain twist in the same away that Angel became Angelus in Buffy The Vampire Slayer season two? It's certainly a far more interesting concept that an evil speedster. Thankfully new villain Dr Alchemy also seems to be bucking that trend.
Monster was a fun, engaging episode that really explored Caitlin Snow's character, warmed Julian Albert to the audience, had lots of fun with the new version of Harrison Wells and had a bloody, big monster in it. The Flash is at its best when it balances its heart with a sense of fun and Monster had both in spades.
Tags Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Flash
Category Episode Review
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game - Complete Edition Review
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9108
|
__label__cc
| 0.699978
| 0.300022
|
The Essential Word
"Giving creative expression to your life."
We collect information from you when you fill out the e-mail form.
When e-mailing us, you will be asked to enter your name and e-mail address.
Any of the information we collect from you may be used to send periodic e-mails to provide information, respond to your inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. We may release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.
Because we value your privacy, we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act). We do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our web site, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.Online Privacy Policy OnlyThis online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our web site and not to information collected offline.
Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our web site at http://www.TheEssentialWord.com/termsconditionsYour Consent
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below.This policy was last modified on 10/25/13.
TheEssentialWord@hotmail.com
This policy is powered by Free Privacy Policy and Rhino Support. Compare Rhino Support to Zen desk and save!
Privacy Policy * Terms of Service * Disclaimer * Contact
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9110
|
__label__cc
| 0.669117
| 0.330883
|
A press your luck skateboarding card game for 2-5 players.
Kickflip is an easy-to-learn and quick-to-play skateboarding card and dice game for 2-5 players. Players will play Trick Cards while rolling dice to determine the success of the Trick. There will be Flip, Grab, and Grind Tricks and playing them in certain patterns will earn bonuses such as rerolls and extra points. Each player will have a total of 3 different turns with each turn scoring its own points. At the end of the game, the player with the single highest scoring turn is the winner!
Game design and art by Chris Williams
All game content is ©2020 Alright Games, all rights reserved. No Part of this product may be reproduced without specific permission. Warning: Choking Hazard. Hobby Gaming Product.
Kickflip web site
Easy to learn and quick to play
3 chances to score with the single highest score winning
Gain bonuses by playing Tricks in a pattern
Alright Games
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9113
|
__label__wiki
| 0.719093
| 0.719093
|
Published On: Fri, Aug 28th, 2015
Politics / US News / World News | By Brandon Jones
Details of US pressure on Norway to detain, deport Edward Snowden released
The US repeatedly asked Norway to detain and deport whistleblower Edward Snowden if he tried to enter the country in the aftermath of his leaks on mass US global surveillance, Norwegian media revealed citing formal requests.
Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs received the first letter from Washington shortly after the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor’s revelations went public when he was stranded in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport.
The note, dated June 27, 2013, was quoted by Norway’s NRK broadcaster: “We request that should US citizen Edward J. Snowden attempt to enter Norway through any means, the Government of Norway notify the Embassy immediately and effectuate the return of Mr. Snowden to the United States by way of denial of entry, deportation, expulsion or other lawful means.”
FBI’s Scandinavia office then followed up with another letter addressed to justice authorities in Norway, Sweden and Finland. It described Snowden as a criminal fugitive and urged them to notify American personnel if the whistleblower booked a flight to one of their countries from Moscow.
The language in documents revealed by NRK reflects how desperately the US wanted to contain the information Snowden had in his possession.
Snowden outing of the NSA – One of the Big cover-ups of the last 5 years
photo donkeyhotey donkeyhotey.wordpress.com
“The Embassy requests the seizure of all articles acquired as a result of the offenses (..) This includes, but is not limited to, all computer devices, electronic storage devices and other sorts of electronic media.”
Snowden’s lawyer, Ben Wizner, told NRK that Snowden would have been denied his international right to apply for asylum before being arrested had the countries complied.
“What is troubling to me is the suggestion that if Mr. Snowden showed up in one of these countries, he should be promptly extradited – before he would have a chance to raise his humanitarian rights under international law,” he said.
“The only correct response from political leaders in Norway or any other free society should be to tell the US that this is a question of law and not a question of politics. And that, under international law, someone who is charged with a political offense has a right to raise a claim for asylum before the question of extradition even comes up.”
Snowden has been invited to Norway to receive the prestigious Bjørnson Prize by the Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Academy for freedom of expression. The award is being presented to Snowden “for work protecting privacy and for shining a critical light on US surveillance of its citizens and others.”
It is still unclear whether Norway would arrest Snowden if he attempted to enter the country.
Norway’s Justice and Foreign Affairs departments said that the US’ requests had not been answered because, under Norwegian law, no country can make an extradition request until the alleged criminal is actually on Norwegian territory.
Jøran Kallemyr, State Secretary in Norway’s Department of Justice, confirmed this view: “What Norway has done is to inform the American authorities how the Norwegian system works,” he said. “If they request an extradition, the prosecuting authorities will decide if the case should be brought before the courts. And the court will decide if the terms for extradition are fulfilled.”
Brandon Jones - Writer and Co-Founder of The Global Dispatch, Brandon has been covering news, offering commentary for years, beginning professionally in 2003 on Crazed Fanboy before expanding into other blogs and sites. Appearing on several radio shows, Brandon has hosted Dispatch Radio, written his first novel (The Rise of the Templar) and completed the three years Global University program in Ministerial Studies to be a pastor. To Contact Brandon email [email protected] ATTN: BRANDON
congessional hearings on NSA surveillanceEdward SnowdenEdward Snowden leakerEdward Snowden RussiaEdward Snowden whistleblowerFinlandInvisible ThreatMoscowmoscow airportNorwayNSA spyingNSA spying AmericansNSA surveillanceNSA surveillance programsNSA whistleblowerRussiaSnowden asylumSnowden in moscowSnowden in Russiaspy networkSwedentemporary asylum for SnowdenUS EmbassyWhistleblowerwhistleblower casewhistleblowers
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9116
|
__label__wiki
| 0.581454
| 0.581454
|
Historic America Road Trips to Visit Our Country’s Great Historic Sites
We’re kicking off a series of "Historic America Road Trips” and the first one focuses on the homes and birthplaces of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
It was compiled by Betsy Havens, one of the members of The History List community; other members of The History List community have contributed to it.
Here's Betsy:
"I live in Louisiana and visited Washington DC in 2012 for the first time. I returned home a different person. I made a side trip to Mount Vernon while there and just fell in absolute love and total fascination with George Washington. After the DC/Mount Vernon trip I had a newfound appreciation for my country and its history. I was also alarmed at how little I knew beyond the basics. History was always one of my favorite subjects in school but I wasn’t motivated to learn anything more than what I had to learn to pass a test.
Mount Vernon made such an impression on me that I became inspired to visit all founding father homes. I received the book,"The Founding Fathers, The Men Behind the Nation," as a Christmas gift, a few years ago, and began to realize how little I knew about our founding fathers.
I also used that book as a launching point to start building my list and to start traveling to these sites.
I have friends and family who aren't necessarily interested in history, but I feel like they've become more interested after following my travels to these historic sites, and this makes me really happy.
My list isn’t a “this is the official list of founding fathers” list. It’s really more of a starting point.
I've barely scratched the surface here. Most of these men aren't 'household names.' Making this list has helped me to learn more about the lesser known founding fathers like Caesar Rodney. They each have their own unique, fascinating story and all made an immeasurable contribution to our nation's founding!"
Betsy’s original list included other patriots, too, so we created "Signers of the Declaration of Independence" and "Patriots of the American Revolution."
Have you taken a trip to see some of America's great historic sites? If you'd like to share it with others, send it in and it may be the basis for another road trip we compile. And if it is, we'll credit you and give you your choice of a shirt from The History List Store.
Posted By Danella Le Roy on March 24, 2017
<< Previous post | Next post >>
The History List Traveler
The History List Traveler — Road trips to historic sites, plus news and tips for people who want to come face to face with history.
The History List Insider
The History List Insider — New products and special offers from The History List Store. Sent roughly once a month.
History event newsletters
Colorado — In development
Iowa — In development
New England — Weekly
History Camp newsletters
History Camp Boston
History Camp Boston Monthly Outings
History Camp Colorado
History Camp Iowa
History Camp Virginia
For history professionals,
Marketing tips for historic sites and history organizations. — Sent occasionally
Conferences and courses for history professionals. — Sent monthly
For history retailers
The History Retailer Roundtable, for historic sites and history organizations with retail operations, and for retailers selling history-related merchandise. — Sent occasionally
Gifts for history lovers
Resources for institutions
History Camp
© 2021 The History List ®
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9117
|
__label__cc
| 0.651187
| 0.348813
|
Revision of PBM Law Sails Through House Without Opposition
HB 2388 makes a previous law regulating PBMs more effective and gives state regulators the ability to police bad actors who violate the law.
Chris Gray
Pharmacy_Tech-1024x6811.jpg
The House unanimously passed legislation Wednesday morning to better regulate pharmacy benefit managers, giving enforcement powers to the Oregon Department of Consumer & Business Services, designed to ensure the PBMs act lawfully and treat pharmacists fairly.
Rep. Rob Nosse, D-Portland, sponsored House Bill 2388, a policy area he inherited from his predecessor, Rep. Jules Bailey, D-Portland, an economist who later served on the Multnomah County Commission.
“He started working on PBMs because he was unable to fill a prescription for his wife at a local chain pharmacy that was having a dispute with its pharmacy benefit manager,” Nosse said, referring to a battle royale between Walgreen’s and Express Scripts over fair payment.
As Nosse explained, pharmacy benefit managers started as third-party claims administrators that health insurance companies hired to handle claims submitted by pharmacists. But they have grown to some of the largest and most profitable companies in the U.S. healthcare industry as they have gained the ability to negotiate prices directly with pharmaceutical companies.
The prices PBMs get from pharmaceutical companies can differ widely from the price that pharmacists pay for their drugs, and PBMs generate profit from that difference. Pharmacists have complained that PBMs often reimburse them below cost.
HB 2388 and previous legislation don’t guarantee profitability for pharmacies, but the regulations do attempt to prevent PBMs from conducting frivolous audits and the previous law required PBMs to be more transparent.
At least one PBM, CVS Caremark, worked with pharmacists and state regulators to reach an agreement that amends the PBM law that was enacted in 2013. Pharmacists complained that the 2013 law was ineffective, however, because it did not generate enough fees from PBMs or give the state adequate means to enforce the law.
The bill gives DCBS the authority to revoke a PBM’s registration if it violates the law. It also carves out a new exception to public records law, allowing the documentation that DCBS receives in the midst of a suspension to be kept private.
“This was a long walk and we are so pleased to have arrived at the end of this trail," said Niki Terzieff, the lobbyist for the Oregon State Pharmacy Association. "Pharmacies, big and small, urban and rural, family owned and chains, will now have an increased ability to focus on what they do best: provide healthcare to Oregonians.”
Reach Chris Gray at [email protected].
PBM, PBM law, pharmaceutical
RE: SB 233
Submitted by Duppyman on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 11:30
This Bill enables DCBS to audit PBM's and to rescind their license for criminal conduct. OK. A license can be revoked for fraud or criminal conduct without this legislation. It helps the pharmacies. OK.
But what about the real issue: the soaring costs of drugs to consumers? This bill does nothing about it. Why aren't our legislators doing something about the real issue we all face?
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9119
|
__label__cc
| 0.626523
| 0.373477
|
Career Development Remove <span class="icon"><img typeof="foaf:Image" alt="" src="https://www.txcte.org/sites/default/files/clusters/19-career-development.png" /></span>Career Development filter
Major Matters Most: The Economic Value of Bachelor’s Degrees from The University of Texas System
Resource ID: CEW-MMM
This report finds that graduates from University of Texas System institutions out earn other bachelor’s degree holders not just in Texas but across the nation, demonstrating that a University of Texas education is a worthwhile investment in the future.
Career Pathways: Five Ways to Connect College and Careers
Resource ID: CEW-CP
Career Pathways: Five Ways to Connect College and Careers posits that integrating education and workforce data will go a long way in removing the guesswork for individuals navigating the college and career maze. A number of states have started to leverage integrated education and workforce data...
America’s Divided Recovery: College Haves and Have-Nots
Resource ID: CEW-ADR
The jobs recovery deepens the economic and political divide between workers with and without a college education. America’s Divided America: College Haves and Have-Nots finds that over 95% of the jobs created in the recovery have gone to those with education beyond a high school education...
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce Reports
This binder contains a list of shortcuts to select Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce reports. Follow the shortcuts to read the reports, and link back to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce site for more information and resources.
Resource ID: CEW-AACME
Earnings vary greatly among college majors. While college access has increased among African Americans, they are overrepresented in majors that lead to low-paying jobs. African Americans: College Majors and Earnings shows that African Americans, who represent 12 percent of the U.S. population,...
Six Million Missing Jobs: The Lingering Pain of the Great Recession
Resource ID: CEW-SMMJ
The economy continues to add jobs at a steady pace and the Federal Reserve Board is considering its first interest rates hike since the beginning of the recession. Six Million Missing Jobs: The Lingering Pain of the Great Recession shows that the effects of the Great Recession still linger in...
Ranking Your College: Where You Go and What You Make
Resource ID: CEW-RYC
The U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard is a web tool allowing users to access an array of information about the quality of colleges and universities throughout the country. It shows how much students earn 10 years after enrolling, which helps them evaluate institutions and...
Learning While Earning: The New Normal
Resource ID: CEW-LWE
Learning While Earning: The New Normal finds that over the last 25 years, more than 70 percent of college students have been working while enrolled. These 14 million college students face the challenge of balancing work, school and other life priorities. The report explores these working...
Hispanics: College Majors and Earnings
Resource ID: CEW-HCME
Majors are not perfectly aligned with occupations, but they do determine lifetime earnings. Today a college education is the gateway to the middle class. Hispanics who have not had access to economic resources over generations receive the most benefit from earning a Bachelor’s degree as...
Hispanos: Carreras Universitarias e Ingresos
Resource ID: CEW-HCUI
Las carreras universitarias no están perfectamente vinculadas a las ocupaciones, pero sí determinan ingresos a lo largo de la vida. Hoy una educación universitaria es la puerta de entrada a la clase media. Los hispanos que no han tenido acceso a recursos económicos a través de generaciones...
Good Jobs Are Back: College Graduates Are First in Line
Resource ID: CEW-GJAB
The growth of U.S. jobs and wages during the recovery is analyzed in Good Jobs Are Back: College Graduates Are First in Line. The findings show that since 2010, the economy has produced 6.6 million employment opportunities. Out of these career opportunities, 2.9 million are considered good jobs...
The Economic Value of College Majors
Resource ID: CEW-EVOM
The Economic Value of College Majors uses Census Data to analyze wages for 137 college majors to detail the most popular college majors, the majors that are most likely to lead to an advanced degree, and the economic benefit of earning an advanced degree by undergraduate major.
Ranking the States
Resource ID: CEW-RTS
State Online College Job Market: Ranking the States ranks the states by how many job openings there are per college-educated workers overall and within industries and career fields.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9123
|
__label__wiki
| 0.566232
| 0.566232
|
Eleanor Baldwin Parke
Probably Eleanor, daughter of Samuel Baldwin Crosse of Jamaica who married William Parke of the Thickets, Jamaica. They had, among others, two sons, William, of Jamaica, and Charles, of Henbury House, Dorset. "William Parke, a younger son, born 5 Nov. 1752, settled in Jamaica about 1760-70, where he owned an estate called The Thickets in St Ann's Parish. He was a Lieut.Gen of Militia, and died 27 April 1813. By his wife Eleanor, dau. of Samuel Baldwin Crosse of Jamaica whom he mar. before 1786, he had: (1) William, who inherited his plantations, (2) Charles, who purchased Lower Henbury in Dorsetshire; and several daus."
William Parke senior died in 1813 in Gower Street, London. His memorial inscription at St James, Hampstead Road, London, reads: SACRED To the Memory of WILLIAM PARKE late of the Hermitage St. Ann's in the Island of JAMAICA ESQre. born the 5th. of November 1752 died the 27th. of April 1813 in the 61st. Year of his Age". After his death, a legal dispute occurred as to whether documents found in his possession in Gower Street constituted formal amendments to the will he had written in Jamaica at an earlier date.
One of the daughters of William Parke and Eleanor Crosse was Eleanor/Ellen Parke who married John Frederick Nembhard at the Hermitage in 1821. She claimed compensation for Pedro River estate in St Ann's as tenant for life under will of John Frederick Nembhard and as annuitant, the compensation for which was awarded to her brother William Parke and John Anderson as executors of the will of John Frederick Nembhard. As Eleanor Nembhard Widow she went on to marry William Bromley Rose in 1836, who may be the William B. Rose who was awarded compensation for ownership of enslaved people in St George, Jamaica.
Burke's Landed Gentry, Vol. 2 (1894) p. 1559 available at http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/bernard-burke/a-genealogical-and-heraldic-history-of-the-landed-gentry-of-great-britain--irel-kru/page-139-a-genealogical-and-heraldic-history-of-the-landed-gentry-of-great-britain--irel-kru.shtml [accessed 22/03/2013]. Quote from Vere Langord Oliver, Caribbeana being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies (6 vols., London, Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, 1914) Vol. 4 p. 181. Eleanor Baldwin Parke claimed compensation as tenant-for-life, suggesting she was a widow of the previous owner, and a William Parke (presumably the son) claimed compensation as remainderman under the will of William Parke. The son William Parke also claimed for Hermitage estate in St Ann as owner-in-fee.
Memorial inscription from Survey of London Volume 21 available at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=65195. Legal case in Edmund Burke, Dodsley's Annual Register, Vol. 57, pp. 262-263 available at http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=h3tIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA262&lpg=PA262&dq=parke+hermitage+jamaica&source=bl&ots=wctaFsj4M5&sig=JjBf1EJn1d-gQYOEXzuUTqAXMiA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vyVMUczlKYaV0QXuyYG4Bw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=parke%20hermitage%20jamaica&f=false [accessed 22/03/2013].
See Mabel Nembhard, Nembhard of Jamaica (privately printed) p. 2, available at http://archive.org/stream/nembhardofjamaic00nemb#page/n3/mode/2up [accessed 22/03/2013] for a family tree of the Nembhards including Eleanor Parke.
Absentee?
Transatlantic?
Jamaica St Ann 23 (Hermitage)
£418 11s 7d
Jamaica St Ann 24
£84 18s 5d
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Hermitage [ Jamaica | St Ann ]
Mother → Daughter
Eleanor Nembhard later Rose (née Parke)
Mother → Son
William Parke
Wife → Husband
William Parke of the Thicketts and Hermitage
Charlotte Neyle was Tucker (née Parke)
Frances Gallimore then Mason (née Parke)
Mother-in-law → Son-in-law
John Reid Gallimore
Relationships [6]
David Barclay
'Eleanor Baldwin Parke', Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/22211 [accessed 20th January 2021].
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9125
|
__label__cc
| 0.500292
| 0.499708
|
Young Talent Recognised at UKFast
Article date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:57 GMT
Hosting and cloud firm, UKFast, has promoted two of the youngest members of its team to senior positions in the Manchester firm, demonstrating the company's investment in young talent.
Due to the phenomenal growth of the company and development of the UKFast 'Academy' to train new sales and account managers, former Head of Account Management Charlotte Bentley-Crane has been promoted to Director of Account Management. Bentley-Crane joined UKFast in 2009.
The company's management accountant, Joe Ryland has now taken the helm of the UKFast accounts team in his new role as Financial Director, taking a place on the board after just 4 years with the firm. Joe is a CIMA qualified, Associate Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA) and an internationally-recognised Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA). He is also a Member of the Association of Accounting Technicians (MAAT).
Ryland and Bentley-Crane are 25-years-old.
Lawrence Jones, UKFast founder and CEO, said: "We look for superstars at UKFast, regardless of age or experience - people who are passionate, pro-active, caring and forward-thinking and want to be the very best that they can be. I'm a firm believer in nurturing talent from within to grow a business in the right way. The progress that both Charlotte and Joe have made in the past 4 years shows that we're doing the right thing for UKFast and our clients."
print this article.Return to Press Releases
Other Press Releases
UKFast Expands Public Sector Presence with G-Cloud 12
UKFast Group Appoints Booking.com Leader as CEO
UKFast Appoints Independent Chair
Change in Shareholding for UKFast Group
UKFast Business Continuity - COVID-19
Q&A: Insights from the 2020 threat landscape
UKFast Business Blog
Why are businesses choosing hybrid cloud?
4 cloud predictions for 2021
"If a business requires a server that can handle high traffic with zero slowdown, 100% guaranteed network uptime and 24/7/365 support, the answer is always UKFast."
Pixel Kicks
"Our solution with UKFast enables over 100 NHS organisations to communicate quickly, which has massively improved our efficiency."
"Start-ups don't want down time so it is important when starting a new business that everything is running at optimum level. UKFast delivers on this everytime."
Innovify
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9127
|
__label__cc
| 0.713876
| 0.286124
|
Weird, Bizarre & Offbeat News
Ton of melted chocolate floods German street
By Eldorado, December 12, 2018 in Weird, Bizarre & Offbeat News
flood of chocolate
Residents of the town of Werl in western Germany have witnessed a major chocolate “explosion” – something which sounds like a stunt Willy Wonka would pull.
In an effort to tackle a very unusual, but sweet emergency, a group of firefighters in the German town of Werl used shovels, hot water, and torches to remove a tonne of liquefied chocolate in a massive spill from the DreiMeister factory.
Pic and short report:https://sputniknews.com/europe/201812121070614364-chocolate-factory-spill-mess-germany/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1072729792095625217/photo/1
Not A Rockstar 8,997
Heart Warrior
Location:Backwoods, Louisiana, USA
Ko TapuKorako Ahau
Tragic.
third_eye 49,611
¤_Ì M ã Ġ î ń Æ Ř Ī ü Ş_ ¤
Location:Malaysia
God has no religion ~ Mahatma Gandhi Legio nomen mihi est, quia multi sumus ...
If it all goes into the sewers ...
freetoroam 40,843
Honourary member of the UM asylum
Location:rivers and canals of England and Wales.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. Terry Pratchett
I just want to put a cherry on top of all that.
But this bit has really taken my interest
READ MORE: Sweet Job: Nutella Makers Looking for Chocolate Tasters & No Experience Required
Now we are talking, applying right now
1 hour ago, third_eye said:
The rats are going to be having a party.
2 minutes ago, freetoroam said:
Its gonna be a season of decadence for them rats ...
4 minutes ago, third_eye said:
Some kebab shops, KFC's and some Chinese takeaways will be selling sweeter meat for a few months.
XenoFish 106,596
I do not believe anything, but I have many suspicions.
Stiff 9,611
Location:52 Festive Road
And the men who hold high places Must be the ones who start To mold a new reality Closer to the heart
This reminds me of that guy who died working in a chocolate factory when he fell in a vat full of chocolate.
At his funeral they played Paper Lace's - 'Billy Don't be an Aero'
Carlos Allende 1,799
Remote Viewer
You get nothing for a pair, not in this game.
Tried summoning up the Two Ronnies from the afterlife to get a joke, but they're too far gone.
If this is not a sign of the end times then I don't know what is lol
Seti42 1,386
Paranormal Investigator
Location:New Mexico, USA, Earth
mmmm...chocolate
Myles 14,620
At least it is not as bad as the Great Molasses spill of 1919.
21 fatalities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
The disaster occurred at the Purity Distilling Company facility on January 15, 1919. The temperature had risen above 40 °F (4 °C), climbing rapidly from the frigid temperatures of the preceding days.[2]:91, 95
Molasses can be fermented to produce rum and ethanol, the active ingredient in other alcoholic beverages and a key component in the manufacturing of munitions.[2]:11 The stored molasses was awaiting transfer to the Purity plant situated between Willow Street and what is now named Evereteze Way, in Cambridge.
Modern downtown Boston with molasses flood area circled
At about 12:30 in the afternoon near Keany Square,[3] at 529 Commercial Street, a molasses tank 50 ft (15 m) tall, 90 ft (27 m) in diameter, and containing as much as 2,300,000 US gal (8,700 m3), collapsed. Witnesses variously reported that as it collapsed they felt the ground shake and heard a roar, a long rumble similar to the passing of an elevated train (coincidentally, with a line of that type close by), a tremendous crashing, a deep growling, or "a thunderclap-like bang!" [emphasis added], and as the rivets shot out of the tank, a machine gun-like sound.[2]:92–95
The collapse unleashed a wave of molasses 25 ft (8 m) high at its peak,[4] moving at 35 mph (56 km/h).[1] The molasses wave was of sufficient force to damage the girders of the adjacent Boston Elevated Railway's Atlantic Avenue structure and tip a railroad car momentarily off the tracks. Author Stephen Puleo describes how nearby buildings were swept off their foundations and crushed. Several blocks were flooded to a depth of 2 to 3 ft (60 to 90 cm). Puleo quotes a Boston Post report:
Molasses, waist deep, covered the street and swirled and bubbled about the wreckage ... Here and there struggled a form—whether it was animal or human being was impossible to tell. Only an upheaval, a thrashing about in the sticky mass, showed where any life was ... Horses died like so many flies on sticky fly-paper. The more they struggled, the deeper in the mess they were ensnared. Human beings—men and women—suffered likewise.[2]:98
Damage to the Boston Elevated Railway caused by the flood
The Boston Globe reported that people "were picked up by a rush of air and hurled many feet." Others had debris hurled at them from the rush of sweet-smelling air. A truck was picked up and hurled into Boston Harbor. About 150 people were injured; 21 people and several horses were killed. Some were crushed and drowned by the molasses. The wounded included people, horses, and dogs; coughing fits became one of the most common ailments after the initial blast. In a 1983 article for Smithsonian, Edwards Park wrote of one child's experience:
kapow53 71
Ectoplasmic Residue
Location:Cowtown, Florida
Must have been a very expensive accident.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9131
|
__label__cc
| 0.661938
| 0.338062
|
Top Australia Helicopter Tours
105 Australia Helicopter Tours | All Australia Tours
Private Helicopter Flight to Hunter Valley with a la carte Lunch - For 2
Enjoy up to 40-minute scenic flight time over Newcastle and the Hunter Valley Wine Region with pilot commentary, photo opportunities and a glass of wine per person along with a la carte lunch at a Hunter Valley restaurant.
40-45 Minute Port Stephens and Stockton Beach Helicopter Flight - For 2
Take off for an epic 40-45 minute scenic helicopter flight and check out the beautiful coastline from Newcastle over Stockton Beach to Port Stephens. You’ll be able to cover a lot of ground during your extensive flight time, so prepare to be amazed by the iconic Australian coastal landscape. Head over the eastern boundaries of the bay and soak up views of Anna Bay, Fingal Lighthouse, Mount Tomaree National Park, Hawks Nest and more. Your helicopter flight will sweep right over Stockton Beach at about 500 feet, so you can scope out the sand dunes, tin city, and the remains of a giant shipwreck that crashed ashore decades ago. Stockton Beach is home to the largest mobile sand dunes in the southern hemisphere and was the location used for several scenes in the 1979 movie Mad Max, so it’s definitely a sight to see. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to see the Newcastle, Stockton Beach and Port Stephens coastline and enjoy an unforgettable adventure.
12 Minute Scenic helicopter Flight - For 2
Your local pilot will keep you well informed of all the top Newcastle sights including ANZAC Memorial walk, Bar Beach, Merewether Baths and McDonald Jones Stadium. Departing from Newcastle Harbour you'll instantly be treated to amazing views of the Newcastle forsehore and coastline. There's no better way to see the sights of Newcastle then from the air!
25-30 Minute Newcastle & Macquarie Helicopter Shared Flight
With epic aerial views out your window, you’ll see all eight of Newcastle’s pristine beaches, Redhead Bluff and Glenrock National Park as the helicopter swoops over the postcard perfect coastline. There are plenty more breathtaking sights packed into your 30 minute helicopter flight, including Australia’s largest saltwater lagoon, Lake Macquarie. From there you can see Belmont township, Blacksmiths Beach and the vivid sand island patterns of the beautiful Swansea Channel. Soar over the lake to scope out the locally renowned Pulbah Island, Warners Bay, Blackbutt Reserve and Shortland Wetlands, before flying all the way down to Catherine Hill Bay. This is one of the most perfect beaches in the world and it looks even better from above. Between the coastal sights, the cityscape skyline and the exhilarating feeling of flying over it all, your helicopter ride will be an experience packed with excitement, so book your seat now!
Coastal Helicopter Shared Flight - 20 Minutes
Passing by all of Newcastle’s eight beaches, Redhead bluff and the Glen Rock National Park, we follow the rugged coastline down to Australia’s largest saltwater lagoon, Lake Macquarie. Keep your eyes peeled as you may spot a range of marine life enjoying there playground below. From there, you’ll head back towards the best views of the City and surroundings. The breathtaking view is something that really makes you love where we live!
Barossa Valley Deluxe: 30-Minute Helicopter Flight
Barossa Valley Deluxe - 30 Minute Scenic Flight Departing Hoffnungsthal Valley we take you past the township of Lyndoch heading along the western ridge of the Barossa Valley to Seppeltsfield. Here you will see vines contouring the rolling hills and palm tree lined roads. Then off to Nuriootpa, where your pilot will point out Maggie Beer’s farm and the famous Penfold’s Winery. Time to head for Stockwell to marvel in the scale of the Wolf Blass Winery and the lime quarry near Angaston, home of Yalumba Wines, Cornerstone and McEvoy-Mitchell racehorse studs. Overhead Tanunda you can see the stunning old buildings of Chateau Tanunda and many old churches. Now heading towards Rowland Flat to take in the views of the towering Jacob’s Creek Winery’s “tank farm”. Some of these tanks hold up to 1.4 million litres of WINE! From there we take you to the southern end of the Barossa, past Lyndoch near Cockatoo Valley and over the Whispering Wall.
Southern Barossa & Tanunda: 20-Minute Helicopter Flight
See the Barossa Valley from the air during a 20-minute helicopter flight from Lyndoch. Take off from the Hoffnungsthal Valley and see Seppeltsfield, the Barossa Valley ranges, Jacob’s Creek Winery, the Whispering Wall, and other landmarks from the air. Hear commentary from your pilot via the provided headset and get a photo next to the helicopter before your flight.
Southern Barossa: 10-Minute Helicopter Flight
Although a tour through the Barossa Valley offers the chance to see some of Australia’s finest scenery, the best view of this slice of Australian wine country is from the air. Take in the totality of the Barossa region during this short scenic flight, departing from Hoffnungsthal Valley. This tour offers a perspective that’s not available on an on-the-ground wine tour; see the scale of the plantings in the valley, as well as the Jacob’s Creek winery’s extensive tank farm.
Jet-Boat Ride and Helicopter Flight from the Gold Coast
Zip through the Gold Coast’s sparkling waters and sunny skies with a package that offers an action-packed jet boat ride and a scenic helicopter tour. See landmarks including Palazzo Versace Hotel, Marina Mirage, SeaWorld, Runaway Bay, Paradise Point, Sovereign Islands and Moreton Bay Marine Park. Your jet boat captain takes the vessel on a 55-minute ride with high-speed tricks that spin the boat around in thrilling circles and turns. The 5-minute helicopter tour provides an aerial perspective on the region’s landmarks and beautiful beaches.
Jet-Boat 30 Minute Express Ride and Helicopter Flight from the Gold Coast
Combine two adrenaline-pumping experiences in the Gold Coast with this express jet-boat ride and helicopter flight. For 30 minutes, zoom around the waters of the Gold Coast Broadwater on a thrilling jet boat ride. As you race through the scenic waterway, your captain points out landmarks including Southport Yacht Club, Palazzo Versace Hotel, Marina Mirage, Seaworld, and Moreton Bay Marine Park. You might even spot wildlife such as dolphins, wallabies and birds. Then take to the skies on a 5-minute helicopter ride for aerial views of the Surfers Paradise skyline, Gold Coast Hinterland and Sea World theme park. Activities may be taken on separate days. Transfers not included.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9135
|
__label__cc
| 0.639855
| 0.360145
|
/News/COVID-19 (Page 8)
Parishes adapt to protect patrons
The next few days normally is a time when area churches are filled to capacity for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced churches to alter their services and traditions because of restrictions on crowd size and social-distancing guidelines. Many ...
Elderly next to get local vaccines
The next groups of Ohioans to be offered the COVID-19 vaccinations are those at least 65 years old, those with severe inherited or developmental disorders, and adults who work in schools that want to have in-person learning, Gov. Mike DeWine said. While DeWine said he didn’t have a specific ...
Vaccine arrives in Valley
Mercy Health-Youngstown, which operates three Mahoning Valley hospitals, has received its first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. The 4,800 doses are for Mercy Health’s medical staff and employees. The vaccine, which needs to be given in two doses, arrived Tuesday with about 400 employees ...
Wed. 9:23 a.m.: Global virus rules for Christmas: Tough, mild or none at all
In Peru, you can't drive your car on Christmas. In Lebanon, you can go to a nightclub, but you can't dance. In South Africa, roadblocks instead of beach parties will mark this year's festive season. How many people can you share a Christmas meal with? France recommends no more than six, in ...
Wed. 9:13 a.m.: US layoffs remain elevated as 803,000 seek jobless aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell by 89,000 last week to a still-elevated 803,000, evidence that the job market remains under stress nine months after the coronavirus outbreak sent the U.S. economy into recession and caused millions of layoffs. The ...
Wed. 8:51 a.m.: Isolation of UK eases but backlog could take days to clear
CALAIS, France (AP) — Goods and passengers from Britain began arriving on French shores today following a two-day blockade imposed because of a new variant of the coronavirus that had isolated the U.K. and raised fears of food shortages. But officials warned the backlog would take days to ...
Wed. 8:44 a.m.: Pfizer to supply US with additional 100M vaccines doses
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer and BioNTech will supply the U.S. with an additional 100 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine under a second agreement. The drugmakers said this morning that they expect to deliver all the doses by July 31. Pfizer already has a contract to supply the ...
Some sports in Trumbull to resume
Some area school districts expect to resume extracurricular activities, including sports, this week. LaBrae schools Superintendent A.J. Calderone said he expects sports teams to resume practices no later than the end of the school day today. Lakeview Superintendent Velina Jo Taylor, too, said ...
Tue. 9:28 a.m.: Biden to address COVID bill, holiday pandemic precautions
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden will speak this afternoon as the nation deals with a COVID-19 surge that's casting a shadow over the Christmas holiday this week. Biden will deliver remarks in Wilmington, Delaware this afternoon, where he's expected to speak on the $900 ...
Tue. 9:24 a.m.: US deaths in 2020 top 3 million, by far most ever counted
NEW YORK (AP) — This is the deadliest year in U.S. history, with deaths expected to top 3 million for the first time — due mainly to the coronavirus pandemic. Final mortality data for this year will not be available for months. But preliminary numbers suggest that the United States is on ...
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9139
|
__label__wiki
| 0.877496
| 0.877496
|
More Boardman firefighters in quarantine
afox@tribtoday.com
BOARDMAN — A week after three firefighters with the Boardman Fire Department tested positive for COVID-19, the number continues to climb.
“We’ve got a problem,” said fire Chief Mark Pitzer as he explained there are now seven positive cases out of 37 firefighters in three stations.
Pitzer updated Boardman Township trustees on the matter during their meeting Monday.
Although there are no hospitalizations of those tested positive, Pitzer said he is monitoring two to ensure they don’t need to go to the hospital.
Last week, nine firefighters, including Pitzer, began practicing quarantine-style behavior, but were still showing up at the stations while being regularly tested.
The two most recent positive cases tested negative late last week, Pitzer said. They worked Friday and Saturday, starting to feel sick over the weekend.
People are contagious 24 to 48 hours prior to experiencing symptoms, he said.
The testing regimen isn’t fully effective, PItzer said.
“All we’re doing is a vicious cycle of testing firefighters” that feel OK, report to work and find out shortly after they — in fact — have COVID-19, Pitzer said.
As a result of the outbreak, the department is down 19 people. Pitzer also noted that one firefighter is on sick leave, while two other firefighter positions need filled.
Going forward, a more aggressive approach is being enacted, Pitzer said.
He spent Monday contacting the original eight other members, telling them to stay home to “truly quarantine.”
“We want to make sure we are providing service to the community,” Pitzer said, which cannot be done if everyone in the department is sick.
Pitzer said the near future is going to be challenging.
“It’s going to be problematic for the next two weeks,” he said, referring to staffing concerns.
The department is striving to have eight firefighters between the three stations. Should the department drop to seven, all three fire stations can still have personnel, Pitzer said.
If the department gets to the point where only six firefighters would be on at one time, then Station 73 on Shields Road would temporarily close. The Canfield fire station on nearby Messerly Road is about one mile from the Boardman boundary, so it would be able to help respond to calls, Pitzer said.
More temporary consolidation of staff would occur if only five personnel are able to work, utilizing the main fire station on Market Street, Pitzer said.
A strict facemask mandate has been enforced since last week, Pitzer said, and disinfection efforts are conducted throughout each day.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9140
|
__label__wiki
| 0.797506
| 0.797506
|
Features & ProfilesTrends & ShoppingStreet StyleGalleriesMenNZ Fashion Week 2019NZ Fashion Week 2018
Features & ProfilesTrendsHow ToWellbeingGalleries
RecipesFeatures & ProfilesDining OutFavourite Cafes
Features & ProfilesGoing PlacesGoing OutStaying InWeddings
Features & ProfilesTrends & ShoppingArchitectureInteriorsFisher & Paykel
Sex & The City Is Back, But The World Has Changed Embrace A Free-Spirited Coastal Mood With Playful Summer Fashion Sizing Up Change: Top Model Agent Ngahuia Williams Removes Model Measurements Bridgerton Style: How To Make The Period Drama's Biggest Trends Work In 2021
20 Ways To Put A Pep In Your Step In 2021 Six Spa Treatments That Evoke That ‘Holiday’ Feeling New In Skin: Five Key Skincare Trends To Try In 2021 The Test Drive: Patchology PoshPeel Pedi Cure From Mecca
Turmeric-Infused Recipes These Hospitality Pros Are About To Launch A Modern Greek Taverna Paul & Lisa Lee Are Bringing An Uncompromising Taste Of Korea To Ponsonby Tomato & Cos Sandwiches With Green Tahini Dressing Recipe
What The Viva Team Are Reading This Summer Viva's Comprehensive America's Cup Cheat Sheet Rupi Kaur: Meet Poetry's Defiant Darling Aussie Band The Avalanches' Latest Album Has Been Four Years In The Making
A Secret Valley Conceals This Luxury Lodge By Lake Wanaka Adventurers Will Love This Remote High-Country Hut Have Privacy On The Peninsula At The Glasshouse Go Off-Grid In Luxury At PurePods Kaikoura Hut
Hops is a key ingredient in beer-making, seen growing here on a Nelson hop farm. Photo / Supplied
Here For A Good Time Not A Long Time: Why Fresh-Hopped Beer Is Winter's Most Exciting Brew
Johanna Thornton discovers fresh-hopped beer, which sees brewers go to great lengths to source its volatile key ingredient
Hop on over here while I tell you a story. A story that now feels like a distant memory. About a time when people could jump on planes, cram into hot sweaty vans and share pizza and beer together at the end of a long day.
READ: The Best Wine & Cocktail Delivery Services So You Can Enjoy A Drop During Lockdown
You see, this is a story about beer and the people who brew it and the lengths they’ll go to create a special seasonal brew called fresh hopped beer. Appearing once a year on supermarket shelves and at beer festivals celebrating its arrival in April and May (but not this year, of course), fresh-hopped beer is the result of a disruption to the yearly hop harvest in March as craft beer brewers descend upon Nelson’s farms to bag up the plant before it’s dried and transport it as quickly as possible to the brewery.
(From left) Hops on the bine; The vibrant green flower cones of the hops plant. Photos / Supplied
But wait, what are hops, you ask? Hops are one of four key ingredients used to make beer, along with water, yeast (for fermentation) and grains (usually malted barley) and the majority of the time it’s used in dried pellet form. It provides bitterness, complexity, stability and aroma to beer, illustrated by hoppy styles like IPA (India Pale Ale).
Using it fresh is a delicate operation because these vibrant green cone-shaped flowers from the hop plant humulus lupus begin to degrade six hours after being picked from the bine (see, you’re learning about hops already). Hops can survive up to 24 hours before turning brown, not unlike grass warming on the top of a compost heap. It’s a case of the fresher the better, with brewers likening working with fresh hops to cooking with fresh herbs over dried (if fresh herbs were only available once a year and had to be smuggled directly from a farmer). But unlike a sub-par pasta sauce made with dried basil, dry-hopped beers aren’t inferior, they’re just different. Fresh hop beers have green, grassy, fresh, oily and floral notes that some people love.
Tuatara on the Kapiti Coast is one of a number of breweries that release a seasonal fresh hop beer to celebrate the fresh hop harvest each year. Its location on a different island to the majority of the hop farms in the Nelson region means it’s not a straightforward proposition to create it. This year the team challenged itself with transporting the precious hops in record time by chartering an Air Chathams plane to transport the loot, bringing most of the team along for the ride.
Tuatara charterd this Air Chathams plane for this year's hops harvest. Photo / Supplied
It’s not the first time the 19-year-old brewery has taken drastic measures to race against the hop clock. It’s created a fresh-hopped brew every year since 2012, with some exceptions. Its first hops haul was via a refrigerated delivery truck and a ferry ride back to HQ in Paraparaumu only for the hops to encounter an engineering hick-up with a faulty pump.
Tuatara head brewer Paul Roigard and founder Carl Vasta check out the crop. Photo / Supplied
Head of Tuatara Carl Vasta recalls the time the team flew 1200 kilos of fresh hops on a Sounds Air Cessna in 2016, with two of the seats removed to accommodate the haul. Last year they lost the whole 800kg harvest when the boiler failed just in time for the hops’ arrival at the brewery. It was a painful loss, prompting the team to create a smaller brew at their experimental brewery The Third Eye using wild hops gathered from the Waikanae River. It’s not a mishap they’d like to repeat.
READ: Why Hemp-Based Food Is On The Rise In New Zealand
Hops are volatile delicate crops, so the timeline to get the hops picked and sent back to the brewery and into the brew is strictly timed. Tuatara aimed for a three-hour return trip from Kapiti to the hop farm in Motueka and back to the brewery in Paraparaumu for this year’s run. The brew had to be started four hours before the addition of hops, with constant communication between the team on the hop-run and the brewery. “It’s a matter of timing the plane with the brew,” says Carl. “Hops can get there a little bit early but if they’re an hour late that’s a problem. We get one chance at making this beer and we make it only once.”
Hops are harvested during an intense 5-6 period in March. Photo / Supplied
New Zealand’s hops supply, and one per cent of the world’s hop supply, is mostly grown in the Nelson region where the microclimate for this beautiful plant is just right. Harvest happens once a year over the space of five-to-six weeks. At hops farm Mac Hops in Motueka, where the Tuatara team sourced its fresh hops, it’s a testing time.
Mac Hops owner Brent McGlashan barely sleeps throughout the harvest. The hop drying process is the most critical stage of the harvest and he’s lucky to clock two hours a night. It’s an intense time for the fourth generation farm, which acquired more than 80 hectares in Upper Moutere in 2017 to keep up with the craft beer boom, taking the total to around 110 hectares worth of hops. “We’ve harvested 250,000 plants this year,” says Brent. “In our biggest year we harvested 750,000 in the space of three months. That was stupid, don’t try that.”
German hoisting machines inside the Mac Hops factory seperate the cones, leaves and sticks. Photos / Supplied
His factory houses German picking machines which hoist the bines from the floor, where they’re stripped of their sticks and leaves and the flower cones separated. A cousin of the cannabis plant, its flower cones are similarly sticky and dank like marijuana with a nose-tingling herbaceous scent. Herbaceous meaning green, like weed.
Freshly harvested hops ready for drying in the kiln. Photos / Supplied
Inside the drying kiln, the hops’ moisture is taken from 80 per cent to 9-10 per cent over a matter of 5-6 hours. Normally the dried hops are sent to Nelson-based co-operative New Zealand Hops for distribution, but not on Tutatara’s farm visit. The team bagged up 19 sacks containing 20kg of precious Motueka Hops (one of 19 varieties at the farm), destined for 8000 litres or 24,000 stubbies of a fresh-hopped hazy IPA it plans on calling Green Eye.
READ: Meet The Passionate Personalities Behind Auckland's Artisanal Offerings
How does the farm cope with brewers descending upon their harvest every year? Tuatara’s head brewer Paul Roigard says they could probably do without it. “But I think they enjoy it. There’s a good relationship between the brewers and the hops farmers on the whole. We need each other. We obviously really appreciate what they do and hopefully they appreciate what we do with their product. The beauty of fresh-hopped beer is celebrating that hop harvest and the seasonality of it.”
This is Paul’s first fresh hop harvest as head brewer for Tuatara, so it comes with added pressure. “For me it’s not the easiest day. In some ways you’d love to just be focusing on the beer. Being a brew we do only once a year, we want to get it right.”
The Tuatara teams unloads the hops stash from the plane, en route to the brewery. Photo / Supplied
When the plane touches down in Kapiti, he can begin to relax somewhat, with the hops mission a satisfactory 15 minutes behind schedule. Here, the hop-filled sacks are hauled off the plane and shuttled into a company van. If it weren’t for the team’s Tuatara t-shirts it could be mistaken for a drug-smuggling operation. The cargo is just as precious anyway, destined for the boiling wort that awaits back at the brewery.
“We’ll add the hops, pump what we brewed today on top of it, soak it for 10 minutes, then run it out to the tank,” explains Paul. “What we’re trying to achieve is to draw out the aromatic fruit flavours rather than any bitterness. It’s a fast-moving process.”
Back at the brewery, the hops is ready to be transferred to the boiling wort. Photo / Supplied
“We add the hops at the end of the boil,” says Carl. “The longer you boil for, the more bitterness you extract, so by putting it in right at the end you’ll extract a small amount of bitterness but not a lot of the flavour.” All of those resinous oily flavours of the hop cone – it’s their time to shine. “We allow contact time to pick up those flavours, pump it through a heat exchanger and into our fermenter. It ferments there for two weeks, and then it’s sent to be chilled and run through the centrifuge before it’s ready to be packaged.”
What’s he on about? When can you drink the beer? The glorious fresh-hopped beer is ready to be drunk in early April, when it begins to appear on supermarket shelves for a limited time only. “These beers are better drunk fresh as most IPAs are,” says Carl. So get in quick.
READ: Why Gin Is So Popular On The Rugged Scotland Island Known For Its Whisky
Back outside the brewery, Carl is reflecting on the journey, a hazy pale ale and a piece of pizza in hand. It’s a journey that has seen Tuatara grow from a shed on his farm in Waikanae to the behemoth it is today, including its purchase by DB Breweries in 2017. “A few of these tanks started off at the farm initially. When we moved here we never thought we’d fill this space. The fresh-hopped Cone Head was our first beer on this site on March 17 2012. We’ve celebrated that ever since with a hop harvest beer.”
This year is no exception. “It’s going to be a great beer.”
• Find fresh-hopped beers at select New World supermarkets from early April until mid-May. Craft beer fans should check their favourite craft breweries (such as Behemoth, Garage Project, Sawmill, Panhead, Tuatara, Parrotdog and Urbanaut) online and via social media during lockdown for release dates and contactless delivery options.
The Decadent, Effortless Whisky Cocktail To Have In Hand This Season
Thursday Dec. 10, 2020
Soak Up The Sailing, Sun & Splash Of Champagne At The Mumm Yacht Club
Wednesday Dec. 9, 2020
Cloudy Bay's Art of the Amphora
Wednesday Nov. 11, 2020
Viva Picks And Pairs: New World Wine Awards 2020
Friday Nov. 6, 2020
Maison Mumm's Chic Cuvee Bottle For The America's Cup
Tuesday Oct. 27, 2020
The Grove Challenges Guests To Stump the Sommelier
Viva Picks & Pairs: Prosecco With Bacon
Thursday Oct. 15, 2020
Why You Should Embrace Aperitivo... And How To Do It With Style
Wednesday Oct. 14, 2020
Viva Picks & Pairs: Sav With Seafood
Wednesday Oct. 7, 2020
Discover The Vibrant Wine Region Right On Auckland's Doorstep
Tuesday Oct. 6, 2020
Is This Summer In A Can? A Refreshing New Seltzer Hits New Zealand Shelves
Thursday Oct. 1, 2020
Cosy Wine Bar Beau Is Set To Be Your New Local
Thursday Sept. 10, 2020
The Spirited Makers Behind New Zealand's Most Innovative Craft Distilleries
New Zealand is renowned for its fine wine and craft beer, and now craft spirits are on the rise too. Sarah Downs chats to a pas...
How Gin Went From Old-Fashioned To On-Trend
Once an old-fashioned drink you cried into, gin is now the chicest spirit in town, reports Rebecca Barry Hill
Meet The Collective Boosting Women In The Beer Industry
A special beer brewed on International Women's Day is just one of Pink Boots' bright ideas
Why Growlers Are The 'Future Of Craft Beer'
It's the best way to get fresh beer and the environment will thank you — here's all you need to know
More Food & Drink / Wine & Drink
Why Fresh-Hopped Beer Is Winter's Most Exciting Brew
Meet The One-Woman Craft Gin Distiller Making Waves On Great Barrier Island
Where To Find Auckland's Best Rooftop Bars For A Drink With A View
These Pre-Made Cocktails Are Perfect For Lazy Entertainers
Top Of The Drops: New Zealand Wines Win Big At Global Competition
Why Gin Is So Popular On The Rugged Scotland Island Known For Its Whisky
About Viva Contact Us Advertise
© Copyright 2015 NZME. Publishing Ltd
Part of NZME. network
subscribe to our EDM
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9148
|
__label__cc
| 0.536456
| 0.463544
|
HomeNewsImohimi Edga resumes as new SARS boss, share hotlines to contact during harassment by its operatives
Imohimi Edga resumes as new SARS boss, share hotlines to contact during harassment by its operatives
New Commissioner of Police accountable of the Nigeria Police Federal Special Anti-robbery Squad (FSARS), CP Imohimi Edgal has released special hotlines, calling in citizens to report excesses of operatives of the unit across the country.
The citizens complaint hot lines are: 08121226468, 08081911644 and 09095097307. Others are: 08055911306 and 08062856290.
It was gathered that Edgal, a crack crime buster was posted to the Federal SARS by the inspector general of Police to reposition the outfit with a view of tackling violent crimes across the country. Edgal’s breakthrough in crimes during his time because the command’s boss was rated high.
As one of the 21st Century Commissioners of Police to be in charge of the Lagos State Police Command, Imohimi Edgal who was at the helm of affairs between September 2017 and March, 2019 is one cop many Lagos residents wouldn't forget in a hurry. To the bad guys in several criminal camps across the state, Edgal was a kill joy and great obstacle to their dare-devilish activities but to the great guys, he was a tough fighter who was able to pursue cultists, armed robbers, kidnappers, ritualists, child molesters, wife abusers and illicit drug dealers to the gate of hell.
The legacy of his robust policing in Lagos within the 18 months he held forth has continued to be remembered nostalgically .
Having served within the Lagos State Command over the years in several capacities and becoming the Deputy Commissioner of Police responsible of operations during Fatai Owoseni’s era because the Commissioner of Police, Edgal was ostensibly on a familiar terrain.
At some point, he had the chance to hold brief for the commissioner in acting capacity. it had been during that period he led a team of crack detectives and operations men from the State Command to dismantle an emerging deadly gang of ritualists going by the name of Badoo.
The gang’s activities were already sending some residents of Ikorodu and its environs to their early graves as some helpless victims were crushed with some mystery stones to death mostly in the dark by members of the cult gang.
At that point , there was an unconfirmed report that for every victim of the Badoo gang whose blood was soaked in white hanker-chief after being killed, the sum of N500,000 was paid by their sponsor.
The spate of Badoo gang’s activities was escalating by the day and were fast extending beyond Ikorodu town and its environs, coming towards Lagos metropolis but Edgal’s operational astuteness combined with fearlessness became a significant obstacle to the blood suckers.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9149
|
__label__wiki
| 0.99117
| 0.99117
|
What Peter Hain will do next: 10 challenges the outgoing Labour MP could take on
He knows Whitehall backwards, is nuts about football and Formula One and has written a string of books, so what will Peter do next?
David WilliamsonPolitical Editor
Neath MP Peter Hain (Image: Richard Williams)
Want to keep up to date on Welsh politics?
Sign up and get political news sent straight to your inbox
Peter Hain will leave the House of Commons next year but he has made it clear he is not 'going away' and is not about to turn his back on politics. David Williamson imagines 10 challenges the former Welsh Secretary could take on:
1. High Commissioner to South Africa
The young Peter Hain was among Britain’s fiercest opponents of the apartheid regime and the sincere warmth with which he was greeted by a freed Nelson Mandela demonstrated the respect he commands in ANC ranks. South Africa has the potential to become a true economic powerhouse and Mr Hain could help the UK forge new ties with the land in which he grew up.
2. International Development Secretary
If (a) Mr Hain accepts a peerage and (b) Labour win the next election it is easy to imagine him being a leading contender for this influential role. It has already been held by a peer, Baroness Amos, and as a Nairobi-born, South African-raised former Africa minister he has a strong CV.
Another cabinet-level role would be Leader of the House of Lords; it’s not hard to conceive this former Leader of the House of Commons pursuing a reform agenda in the second chamber.
What Peter Hain could do next
3. Secretary of State for the Nations and Regions
If greater powers are devolved to the National Assembly and the Scottish Parliament the argument will be revived that the Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland offices should be axed and just one cabinet minister should represent the UK’s nations. As a former Northern Ireland Secretary and an ex-Welsh Secretary, Mr Hain has direct experience of working with devolved governments – and as a peer he would not face the conflicts of interest that would confront a constituency MP.
4. EU Commissioner
Neil Kinnock became an EU commissioner under a Tory Government in 1995 but such a role could become more likely for Mr Hain with a Labour prime minister in Downing St. Mr Hain is a former Europe minister and there is a fine tradition of Welshmen such as Roy Jenkins and Ivor Richard going to Brussels.
5. A Top Job at the IMF
Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, may be determined to stay in post but former Work & Pensions Secretary Mr Hain could find an exciting role in this organisation at a time when debt-saddled countries are struggling to maintain their welfare states. The Neath MP has described his “socialist commitment” to “high quality public services which we must all be prepared to fund through fair taxation” and at the IMF Mr Hain would provide a challenge to state-shrinking neoliberals in the organisation.
6. A Writer
Mr Hain has a knack for telling a compelling story and throughout his career he has found time to write a series of books. As well as his political memoir, Outside In, he has written a popular biography of Nelson Mandela and a critically praised portrait of his parents, Ad & Wal.
He clearly enjoys firing up the word processor – could be a political thriller be in the works?
7. Formula One
Mr Hain’s great passion is Chelsea FC but he is described on his own website as a “motor racing nut”. Formula One races are “never missed, even if at 4am on a Sunday.”
As someone who has managed Government departments he has both the skill-set and the enthusiasm to move into sport; fellow former Northern Ireland Secretary Brian Mawhinney has certainly enjoyed his time as chairman of the Football League.
8. Broadcaster
Last year Mr Hain went with a film crew to South Africa in the aftermath of the massacre of miners at Marikana. The gripping documentary featured interviews with figures ranging from poverty-striken labourers to mining executives and ANC icons.
It was much more than an investigation into a tragic shooting and explored whether the generation that overthrew apartheid had betrayed the values of Mandela. The interview with President Jacob Zuma was a masterclass in journalistic interrogation.
Mr Hain’s background as an ANC supporter did not stop him holding political leaders to account for corruption and his proud identity as a Labour supporter should not prevent him creating challenging investigatory television.
9. Vice Chancellor
Wales has just one Russell Group university. Dreams of turning the nation into a centre for hi-tech industry will be held back if the country’s academic research base does not fulfil its potential.
For a VC, getting a university into the Russell Group is like taking a football team into the premiership. It is the type of challenge you can imagine Mr Hain relishing.
10. Back to the Barrage?
Mr Hain quit as Shadow Welsh Secretary in order to back the latest attempt to construct a barrage across the Severn Estuary that could generate 5% of the UK’s electricity needs. He was also among the strongest supporters of a previous bid to make the project a reality.
The scale of commercial and environmental opposition to the barrage is formidable but perhaps he will be tempted to give it one more push.
More on Peter Hain
Peter Hain: Why his story is far from over
Peter Hain announces he is to step down as MP
EuromillionsEuromillions results for Tuesday, January 19: The winning numbers from £59m draw and ThunderballThe winning Euromillions numbers and Thunderball for Tuesday night's draw are here
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9153
|
__label__wiki
| 0.936933
| 0.936933
|
Norwich City v Cardiff City: Everything you need to know about the clash between the Bluebirds and the Canaries
From the team news to what the manager's have been saying this week, we've got all the key details right here
Steve Tucker
Kenwyne Jones celebrates with team mates after scoring against Fulham (Image: Action Images / Steven Paston)
The latest Cardiff City January transfer news and updates on Neil Harris' future sent straight to your inbox
The likely line-ups
Cardiff City: Marshall, Brayford, Manga, Morrison, Fabio, Pilkington, Gunnarsson, Whittingham, Daehli, Le Fondre, Jones.
Norwich City: Ruddy; Whittaker, Martin, Turner, Olsson, Tettey, Johnson; Redmond, Hoolahan, Lafferty, Grabban.
Cardiff could hand a debut to deadline-day signing Bruno Ecuele Manga following the defender’s £5m move from French club Lorient.
Craig Noone (groin) and Ben Turner (ankle) are both still unavailable.
Norwich include new signings Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe, Ignasi Miquel and Jos Hooiveld in their squad.
Left-back Martin Olsson is available but striker Gary Hooper (dead leg) and midfielder Jonny Howson (knee) are both still out.
Cardiff City – Kenwyne Jones: He has started the season in fantastic form for the Bluebirds. At the end of last season the big striker was often criticised for looking lethargic or uninterested, but all that has gone this term.
Kenwyne Jones scores for Cardiff City at Fulham, and, says Steve Tucker, it should be a matter of who partners him up front
Norwich City – Lewis Grabban: Not many striker have done better than Jones so far this season, but the Canaries’ Grabban is one of them. Five goals in the first five games see him joint-top-scorer in the Championship.
What the bookies say
Cardiff 17/10, Norwich 17/10, draw 11/15.
Last time they met
Both clubs were in the Premier League last season. Over the two games, it was the Bluebirds who held the upper hand fighting out a goalless stalemate at Carrow Road in October.
They followed that with a 2-1 win in February. Craig Bellamy and Kenwyne Jones got the home side’s goals that day.
What the managers say
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (Cardiff): “They have a big squad, probably the same amount of numbers as us. Neil has a similar job to keep everyone happy and on their toes. I think I know what they are going to come with so we’re well prepared this week. The players have done extra sessions and are fresh.”
Neil Adams (Norwich): “We’ve got plenty of good players ourselves, we’ll go there to win the game as we always will and we’ll be ready for what we are going to come up against. It’ll be a tough game.”
Who's the ref?
Mark Haywood (West Yorkshire): He has been the man in the middle for seven games so far this season and has issued 17 yellow cards whilst sending one player off. He last took charge of a Bluebirds game in March 2013 in the when Cardiff lost 2-1 at Middlesbrough in the Championship.
Former Cardiff striker Cameron Jerome is now at Norwich having signed from Stoke this summer following a season on loan at Crystal Palace last term.
With Lewis Grabban in red-hot form, Jerome, now 27, is having to bide his time to get a game. He played and scored in the Canaries’ Capital One Cup win over Crawley last month.
Lewis Grabban
Norwich manager Neil Adams really made his name at the club when he was in charge of the Canaries’ under-18 side. In 2013, the 48-year-old led them to victory in the FA Youth Cup Final where they saw off Chelsea’s highly-rated youngsters.
Steve Tucker says...
Both Premier League clubs last season, both will be hoping to be that again next season. This game brings two of the Championship’s biggest and most talented squads together.
It should be a good game and expect to see it finish in a 2-2 draw with Jones and Grabban both most likely on target.
Today, Cardiff City Football Club is encouraging all supporters to back #StayStrongForOws – a fundraising and awareness campaign for injured Cardiff Blues and Wales player, Owen Williams.
Bruno Manga
Craig Bellamy
Kenwyne Jones
Barclay's Premier League
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9154
|
__label__wiki
| 0.520118
| 0.520118
|
Mercedes-Benz ML 63 Amg
2010 60 MERCEDES-BENZ ML 63 AMG 6.2 ML63 AMG 4MATIC 5d 503 BHP
REAR ENTERTAINMENT, PAN ROOF
ML63 AMG..... NEW ARRIVAL....MASSIVE SPEC...... INDIUM SILVER METALLIC..... BLACK LEATHER INTERIOR EMBOSSED WITH AMG BADGE ON FRONT SEATS....DAB RADIO..... 21 INCH AMG 5 TWIN SPOKE SPOKE DESIGN ALLOY WHEELS..... HPI CHECK CLEAR..... AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION...... REAR ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM.... TV TUNER..... ELECTRIC / SLIDING GLASS SUNROOF..... SATELLITE NAVIGATION...... REVERSING ASSIST CAMERA...... MEMORY PACKAGE - ELECTRIC / MEMORY FRONT SEATS...... ELECTRIC / MEMORY FRONT SEATS..... SEAT HEATING FOR DRIVER AND FRONT PASSENGER...... LOUDSPEAKER SYSTEM - HARMAN/KARDON..... FRONT AND REAR PARKING SENSORS......AUTOMATIC TAILGATE...... RAIN SENSOR AND AUTOMATIC HEADLIGHT ACTIVATION......BLUETOOTH TELEPHONE PREPARATION..... CONNECTIONS FOR AUXILIARY AUDIO DEVICES..... STEERING WHEEL MOUNTED CONTROLS..... ELECTRIC / FOLDING MIRRORS..... 2 KEYS..... HEAD RESTRAINTS..... TRIP COMPUTER..... ELECTRIC WINDOWS..... AIR CONDITIONING..... REMOTE CENTRAL DOOR LOCKING. 21" 5 twin spoke alloy wheels, DAB Digital radio, Electric glass sunroof, Harman/Kardon logic 7 surround sound system + 11 speakers, Memory pack - M Class, Rear seat entertainment, Reversing camera, TV tuner
Other Mercedes-Benz cars in Liverpool
Used Mercedes-Benz C 63 Amg
Used Mercedes-Benz E 63 Amg
Used Mercedes-Benz G-Class
Used Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen
Used Mercedes-Benz Gle-Class
Used Mercedes-Benz ML 63 Amg cars in Liverpool
Get the best deal on a used Mercedes-Benz ML 63 Amg car for sale in Liverpool by making your way to Wavertree Car Centre Ltd today. You'll find every available model listed here on the website, and as all our stock is competitively priced you should have no problem sourcing a pre-owned Mercedes-Benz to suit your budget. Take the opportunity to browse our current range online before contacting a member of the showroom team to find out more. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff will be more than happy to answer any questions and provide advice and guidance when necessary. Alternatively, why not pay a visit to our showroom in person and take a closer look at the selection of used Mercedes-Benz ML 63 Amg car models for sale.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9157
|
__label__wiki
| 0.611898
| 0.611898
|
Double meteor showers peaking Monday night
(CBS) – Skywatchers can catch two separate meteor showers that will be peaking Monday night into early Tuesday. If weather conditions permit, and depending on your location, people may see around 25 meteors per hour thanks to the dueling meteor showers, the southern Delta Aquariids and alpha Capricornids, lighting up the night sky.
According to American Meteor Society (AMS), both showers have been active since early or mid-July. Since a new moon arrives in the coming days, these meteor showers won’t have to compete with as much natural light pollution, making for optimal conditions to witness heavenly debris — actually the dusty trail of comets — flying past Earth.
If you miss the meteor showers Monday-Tuesday, the annual Perseid meteor shower is coming next month. However, this year the Perseids will peak on August 13, two days before a full moon, limiting its visibility.
Monday night will feature not 1, but 2 meteor showers, sparking as many as 25 shooting stars per hour. Details & cloud forecast: https://t.co/5mxnPjzCSP pic.twitter.com/JhKHwmrzDi
— AccuWeatherAstronomy (@AccuAstronomy) July 28, 2019
What are the alpha Capricornids (CAP)?
This shower, which is active from July 3 through August 11, is not very strong and it rarely produces in excess of five meteors per hour, according to AMS. Its most notable feature is the number of bright fireballs it produces during its activity period. The shower is seen equally well on either side of the equator, AMS said.
What are the southern Delta Aquariids (SDA)?
The Delta Aquariids are active from July 12 until August 23. They’re best viewed in the Southern Hemisphere and southern latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, according to AMS. These are usually faint meteors that lack both persistent trains and fireballs. NASA said the meteor shower can bring approximately 20 meteors per hour, with each one zipping by at a speed of about 25 miles per second.
When is the best time to view the meteor showers?
Residents on both U.S. coasts and away from big city lights should be able to see the shooting stars, AccuWeather says. The best times for viewing are expected to be after midnight local time, and before dawn.
NASA recommends to come prepared with a sleeping bag, blanket or lawn chair. You should lie flat on your back and look up, soaking in as much the night sky possible.
FLORENCE COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) -- A Florence County teacher died of COVID-19, according to SC for Ed, an education advocacy group.
Marlene Evans was a kindergarten teacher at Virtus Academy, according to SC for Ed.
by Maria DeBone / Jan 19, 2021
MYTRLE BEACH, SC (WBTW) -- An Horry County artist says she wanted to do something special to honor the fallen officer so she decided to use her talent to help others heal.
Lesley Etherson teaches web and digital communications at the Academy for Arts, Science, and Technology, but previously worked at North Myrtle Beach Highschool with Melton's brother, Milton.
by Elisia Alonso / Jan 19, 2021
HORRY COUNTY, SC (WBTW) - A Forestbrook Elementary School teacher is asking district leaders how learning will get done with barriers.
Plexiglass was recently installed in Teresa Holmes' classroom and she expressed concern to Horry County Schools Chair Ken Richardson via Facebook on Friday.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9159
|
__label__wiki
| 0.970387
| 0.970387
|
Snow, heavy rain in Balkans cause floods, disrupt traffic
by: JOVANA GEC, Associated Press
Stranded residents try to reach their cars in the flooded street, following heavy rain and snowfall in Fushe Kosove, Kosovo on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Many roads have been blocked and bridges damaged, according to the authorities. There have been no casualties or lost livestock so far. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Days of heavy rain and snow across the Balkans left homes and fields flooded Monday, disrupted traffic on highways and at ports and caused power outages.
In Serbia, authorities on Monday started clearing up tons of garbage that was clogging a southwestern lake after it was swept off from landfills by overflowing rivers. Emergency measures were announced in the southern Doljevac and Vlasotince municipalities, where rescue teams helped more than two dozen people evacuate their homes.
The state RTS television reported that numerous homes, barns and fields were flooded and villages were left without drinking water after days of rain and snow around the southern town of Leskovac and nearby areas.
In central and eastern Serbia, thousands of people were left without electricity as heavy snow collapsed distribution lines. Serbia’s state power company EPS said Monday they were working to restore power.
Authorities urged drivers not to take to the road unless absolutely necessary because of heavy snow.
Traffic disruptions and speed limits due to snow were reported in Croatia, where a bus overturned early Monday on the main east-west highway, injuring eight people.
Floods were reported in Albania and Kosovo, where days of heavy rain mixed with snowy weather.
Thousands of acres of land were flooded in western Albania and bridges and roads have been damaged, leaving villages isolated and forcing emergency deliveries of water to hundreds of people.
Power outages were also reported, which meant that some schools could not reopen Monday as authorities struggled to handle water levels at the main hydropower system on the Drini River. The army, police and local emergency teams stepped in to assist isolated residents in Shkoder, Lezha and Durres, where major flooding in 2010 caused devastation.
In Kosovo, officials were talking with NATO-led peacekeepers over how to help flood-hit areas in the west where people have been forced to evacuate their homes. A house in the village of Fushe belonging to 60-year-old Muj Zabeli was flooded and seriously damaged, but Zabeli said he was getting little help.
“No one is interested,” he complained. “You may suffer a loss here and no one would care.”
Slippery roads and strong winds prompted authorities to ban trucks with trailers and double-decker buses on some roads, as many Adriatic Sea ferry connections were halted.
The snow has made the situation even harder for residents in central Croatia, which was hit by a major earthquake on Dec. 29. Many people cannot stay in their damaged homes and have been sleeping in containers.
Heavy rains further south in Montenegro damaged a fortress wall in the southern town of Ulcinj, near the border with Albania.
Llazar Semini contributed from Albania and Predrag Milic from Montenegro.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9160
|
__label__wiki
| 0.798448
| 0.798448
|
Second stimulus checks: McConnell says ‘compromise is within reach’
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate Thursday morning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it’s clear coronavirus relief is needed and it’s time to make a deal.
McConnell urged lawmakers to sign off on issues both sides agree on while the others are hashed out.
“There are many important policies that have strong bipartisan support. There are many others that do not,” he said.
The Kentucky Republican noted “compromise is within reach” and seemed to echo recent statements from President-elect Joe Biden that now is the time to act.
“We can do this, and we need to do this. So, let’s be about actually making a law,” he said.
As of now, it does not appear stimulus checks would be part of an initial package lawmakers would aim to approve before 2020 comes to a close. Recent proposals have not included the much-talked about $1,200 direct payments.
U.S. unemployment claims remain high at 712,000 as virus escalates
On Wednesday, Biden swung behind a bipartisan COVID-19 relief effort and his top Capitol Hill allies cut their demands for a $2 trillion-plus measure by more than half in hopes of breaking a months-long logjam.
Biden said Wednesday the developing aid package “wouldn’t be the answer, but it would be the immediate help for a lot of things.”
He wants a relief bill to pass Congress now, with more aid to come next year. That process seemed to be in line with McConnell’s Thursday statements. However, it’s unclear if the two sides can meet in the middle.
To date, McConnell has been unwilling to abandon a $550 billion Senate GOP plan that has failed twice this fall.
The Democrats have embraced a $908 billion approach from moderate Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, among others. It would establish a $300 per week jobless benefit, send $160 billion to help state and local governments, boost schools and universities, revive popular “paycheck protection” subsidies for businesses, and bail out transit systems and airlines.
“In the spirit of compromise we believe the bipartisan framework introduced by Senators yesterday should be used as the basis for immediate bipartisan, bicameral negotiations,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer said. They said they would try to build upon the approach, which has support in the House from a bipartisan “problem solvers” coalition.
The statement was a significant concession by Pelosi and Schumer, who played hardball this fall during failed pre-election discussions with the administration on a costlier bill. They wanted a more generous unemployment benefit and far more for state and local government. Their embrace of the $908 billion measure was a retreat from a secret $1.3 trillion offer the two Democrats gave McConnell just on Monday.
U.S. virus deaths top 3,100 in single day for 1st time
It’s another sign of urgency for additional COVID aid and economic stimulus as the economy struggles to recover from being slammed by the novel coronavirus. While the jobless rate isn’t as high as was feared, the restaurant and airline industries are desperate for aid, as are other businesses, state and local officials, transit systems and the Postal Service, among others.
The new plan includes a liability shield for businesses and other organizations that have reopened their doors during the pandemic. It’s the first time Pelosi and Schumer have shown a willingness to consider the idea, a top priority of McConnell, though there’s been no discussion on the details, which are sure to be tricky.
McConnell had dismissed the bipartisan offer on Tuesday, instead aiming to rally Republicans around the $550 billion GOP proposal. But McConnell himself endorsed a $1 trillion-or so plan this summer, only to encounter resistance from conservatives that prompted him to retrench. He has acknowledged that another infusion of aid to states and local governments, a key Pelosi demand, probably will pass eventually.
McConnell wouldn’t respond when asked about the Democratic statement. His top deputy, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said GOP leaders might agree to merging the bipartisan proposal with McConnell’s bill.
“I think there’s still time, although it’s short, to put a bill together,” Thune said.
Any relief package would be attached to a $1.4 trillion year-end spending bill required to avert a government shutdown next weekend. Talks on that measure are proceeding but if lawmakers should stumble, a temporary spending bill would be needed as a bridge into next year.
The bipartisan group of lawmakers proposed a split-the-difference solution to the protracted impasse, hoping to speed help to a hurting nation before Congress adjourns for the holidays. It was a sign that some lawmakers were reluctant to adjourn for the year without approving some pandemic aid.
Their proposal includes $228 billion to extend and upgrade “paycheck protection” subsidies for businesses for a second round of relief to hard-hit businesses such as restaurants. It would revive a special jobless benefit, but at a reduced level of $300 per week rather than the $600 benefit enacted in March. State and local governments would receive $160 billion.
There’s also $45 billion for transportation, including aid to transit systems and Amtrak; $82 billion to reopen schools and universities; and money for vaccines and health care providers, as well as for food stamps, rental assistance and the Postal Service.
National News / 56 seconds ago
Your Local Election HQ / 3 mins ago
New River Valley News / 1 hour ago
National News / 1 hour ago
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9163
|
__label__wiki
| 0.726537
| 0.726537
|
Low-cost airline HK Express resuming flights in August
Posted: Jul 6, 2020 / 12:04 AM EDT / Updated: Jul 6, 2020 / 01:32 AM EDT
FILE – In this March 26, 2019, file photo, a HK Express passenger plane takes off from at the Hong Kong International Airport. Hong Kong low-cost airline HK Express, part of the Cathay Pacific Group, said Monday, July 6, 2020 it will gradually resume flights on Aug. 2 as Asian governments ease coronavirus-related travel restrictions. HK Express suspended all flights in March as governments tightened border controls. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong low-cost airline HK Express, part of the Cathay Pacific Group, said Monday it will gradually resume flights on Aug. 2 as Asian governments ease coronavirus-related travel restrictions.
HK Express suspended all flights in March as governments tightened border controls.
The carrier, which normally flies 25 routes throughout Asia, gave no details of its planned schedule.
Cathay’s flagship carrier, Cathay Pacific Airways, earlier suspended 90% of its flights. The airline has staff to take unpaid leave.
Airlines in Hong Kong already were suffering from a downturn in visitors due to political protests last year.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9178
|
__label__wiki
| 0.564875
| 0.564875
|
Kurt Angle to serve as special guest referee for NXT cage fight next week
Kurt Angle, who was released from WWE as part of the mass layoffs that took place in April, will be serving as a special guest referee on NXT next week on USA Network.
Angle is being brought back to officiate the cage fight between Matt Riddle and Timothy Thatcher, a match which will headline next week’s broadcast.
Riddle and Thatcher are former tag team partners as Thatcher was brought in to replace Pete Dunne who is stuck in the UK and couldn’t defend the NXT Tag Team titles with Riddle. But the partnership did not last long as Thatcher turned on Riddle after a couple of weeks. The two already wrestled each other on NXT, a match which Riddle won.
Before being released, Angle was serving as a producer for WWE and was surprisingly let go when WWE fired and furloughed over 50 WWE Superstars, producers, and many more staff from their corporate headquarters.
NXT on USA
Previous articleDouble or Nothing 2020 live on pay-per-view tonight
Next articleSmackdown rating for 05/22/2020
Sareee finally heading to WWE after one-year delay
Japanese star Sareee has tweeted that she will be...
NXT rating for 01/13/2021
Viewers did not turn up for NXT this week...
The Fight Pit match to take place next week on NXT
The Fight Pit match between Tommaso Ciampa and Timothy...
The Rascalz make their NXT debut as MSK
The tag team formerly known as The Rascalz in...
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9179
|
__label__wiki
| 0.966282
| 0.966282
|
Spring: Doc was key to decision
Matt Spring says that Gary Doherty played a key role in him signing for Wycombe.
The duo know each other well from their days together at Luton Town and Spring revealed that Doherty's desire to return to Adams Park on a permanent basis helped him make his own decision.
"I spoke to Doc last time we played against each other (when Wycombe faced Leyton Orient) which wasn't too long ago," he told Chairboys Player.
"He was up at Charlton but was thinking of coming here permanently, so when I knew Wycombe were getting in quality players like that it helped make my decision to come here."
Spring also knows boss Gary Waddock from his time at Luton.
He added: "I knew him anyway and have done for a long time now. I was 17 when I made my debut next to Gary, so on and off I've known him a while and I've heard good things about him (as a manager)."
The signing of Doherty has proved very popular among Blues supporters and the centre-back is certain that midfielder Spring will also become a fans' favourite.
He said: "Spring is going to be a great signing, I'm certain of that.
"He's a winner, he's had a lot of promotions, played at big clubs and is a top midfielder. I think he'll do really well for us."
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9181
|
__label__wiki
| 0.513918
| 0.513918
|
Community groups invest in southwest Warren park with new playground
"We have pretty much been able to plant our flag in this park and make sure this community knows we are investing in this neighborhood again."
by: Rod Cowan
WARREN, Ohio (WKBN) – Fall weather swept into the Valley Friday, but that didn’t stop the enthusiasm over a new playground at Quinby Park in Warren.
Denise Rising, the community outreach coordinator for the Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership, joined several community groups and organizations for a ribbon-cutting of the new playground.
“Our city leaders have taken an interest in developing the southwest area so it’s a destination for community members to just come, and reflect and relax,” she said.
TNP, Community Foundation and grant money helped secure the $85,000 needed to upgrade the playground in the park.
“Also, the city put in some new kitchen equipment,” Rising said. “There are new bathrooms, new furnace and there is a recent grant to upgrade the facility to its historical integrity that is coming early next year.”
Mayor Doug Franklin was also at the event Friday. He’s excited about the future of Quinby Park.
“When I was a youngster, parks were central to our upbringing,” he said. “It is where we all gathered. We played together, we just intermingled and became a community, basically, through our parks and schools.”
The Warren Farmers Market was there with fresh, local fruits and vegetables. You could get hot cider and free tacos, too.
This effort will be enjoyed for many years to come.
“A lot of community groups, organizations working with the city, coming together,” Rising said. “We have pretty much been able to plant our flag in this park and make sure this community knows we are investing in this neighborhood again.”
Now that fall is here, the city is talking to nature groups about improving access to the fishing pond.
For those excited about winter, sled riding and maybe even ice skating will be enjoyed in the months ahead.
by WKBN Staff / Jan 19, 2021
AUSTINTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) - Austintown has a job posting for a patrol officer.
You need to be a U.S. citizen 21 years old or older, have a high school diploma or GED, a valid Ohio driver's license and have a peace officer training academy certificate.
by Nadine Grimley / Jan 19, 2021
HUBBARD, Ohio (WKBN) - The investigation continues into what caused a fire at a Hubbard church as engineers work to make sure the building is stable.
In a damaged sanctuary, a statue of St. Patrick still stands tall -- a symbol of hope following a devastating fire inside St. Patrick's Church.
by Dave Sess / Jan 19, 2021
STRUTHERS, Ohio (WKBN) - Struthers has been enforcing a new code for about a week. It wants all vehicles that are not being used, or can't be used, to be removed.
The new law applies mainly to vehicles that are unlicensed and unusable.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9187
|
__label__wiki
| 0.972894
| 0.972894
|
Latest Louisiana news, sports, business and entertainment at 6:20 a.m. CDT
May 13, 2020 at 3:23 AM CDT - Updated May 13 at 10:23 AM
VIRUS OUTBREAK-LOUISIANA
With reservations, New Orleans prepares to open a bit
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dining in restaurants can resume in New Orleans beginning Saturday — with reservations. Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced a loosening of coronavirus-related restrictions Tuesday. Restaurants can open at 25% capacity, as long as diners make reservations. Walk-in diners will have to provide a name for an on-the-spot reservation. Restaurants will have to keep the information gathered for 21 days to aid with contact tracing if needed. The city reopening plan resembles in the plan going into effect soon in the rest of Louisiana. But there are differences: for instance, while casinos can open statewide Monday, they'll remain closed in New Orleans.
BOYFRIEND-DOG CHOKING
Police: Man caught on camera choking ex-girlfriend's dog
SLIDELL, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana say a man was recorded on a doorbell camera choking his estranged girlfriend’s dog. Slidell police say Shane Michael Mitchell stole Rubyjean and choked her after arguing with the woman on Sunday. They sent undercover investigators to track him down. The 30-year-old Mitchell was jailed on animal cruelty charges and the dog was returned to its owner. Slidell Police Chief Randy Fandal says he was sick to his stomach watching that video, and declared Rubyjean to be “as sweet and well-mannered as could be.” He says he's glad this story had a happy ending for the dog and her owner.
LAWSUIT LIMITS-LOUISIANA
GOP lawmakers look to limit car accident claims in Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s Republican lawmakers are advancing measures that would limit damage claims against businesses in car wreck lawsuits. They are pushing ahead with the pre-coronavirus priority as Democrats argue the debate is inappropriate amid a pandemic. The proposals would change the rules for accessing the courts and suing over injuries. A House committee voted 11-5 Tuesday to send one bill to the full House for debate. A Senate committee backed a similar measure in a 4-3 vote. Supporters say Louisiana’s legal climate encourages people to sue, driving up car insurance costs. Opponents say the changes aren’t proven to lower rates and could keep people from receiving adequate compensation for injuries.
OFFICER-RAPE CHARGE
Louisiana officer accused of raping woman after traffic stop
PORT BARRE, La. (AP) — Authorities in Louisiana have charged a police officer with rape after a woman accused him of engaging in sexual activity with her in exchange for a lighter punishment following a traffic stop. Port Barre's police chief says 21-year-old officer Darwin Fontenot admitted to having sex with the woman in an off-duty encounter after he pulled her over for speeding. Authorities said the Chalmette woman reported the incident to the St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office in April. The report indicated the woman had other violations and Fontenot offered her leniency in exchange for sex. Fontenot was also charged with malfeasance. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney who can comment.
LOUISIANA-MONROE-PRESIDENT
Edwin Litolff named interim Louisiana-Monroe president
MONROE, La. (AP) — The University of Louisiana Monroe has a new person in place to guide the school temporarily until a permanent person is named president. The Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System announced Tuesday that Edwin Litolff will be interim president while the university searches for a replacement for President Nick Bruno whose last day in office is June 30. The search committee will meet May 18 to choose semifinalists for the position. Interviews will take place the week of Aug. 17 and the next president will take office Oct. 1.
LOUISIANA CAPITOL-TIME CAPSULE
Huey Long time capsule in Louisiana Capitol to open in 2031
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A time capsule buried in the walls of the Louisiana Capitol building by former Gov. Huey Long will be opened in 2031. Senate President Page Cortez said Tuesday that Long wanted the time capsule opened 100 years after it was concealed. He says lawmakers will honor that request. Until then, the Senate wants to display the unopened time capsule on the first floor of the Capitol. Cortez says the Senate intends to work with the state archives office on a protective display that won't damage the capsule. The copper box buried behind the cornerstone in the northwest corner of the Capitol was found during rehabilitation work.
DRIVE-BY SHOOTING-CHILD KILLED
Arrest made in drive-by shooting that killed man and boy, 3
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police say a young man was arrested in connection with a drive-by shooting that killed another man and a 3-year-old boy. Police say 19-year-old Ronjae Steadman was taken into custody Tuesday on charges including being a principal to second-degree murder. Police say that a 23-year-old man was dead when they arrived around 7:20 p.m. Monday and that the boy died at a hospital. A 48-year-old woman was injured. Police say a motive and details are part of a continuing investigation. Online court docket notes do not show an attorney who could speak for Steadman.
AP-US-VIRUS-OUTBREAK-FRAUD
Virus unleashes wave of fraud in US amid fear and scarcity
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials say the COVID-19 outbreak has unleashed a wave of fraud. An arm of the Department of Homeland Security called Homeland Security Investigations has opened more than 300 cases in recent weeks that include counterfeit products and medicines as well as fake tests for the virus. Authorities have also found cases of fraudsters attempting to sell nonexistent masks and other protective equipment to hospitals. One case involves a former investment manager in Georgia who was already facing federal charges for an alleged Ponzi scheme that defrauded 1,000 investors around the country. Authorities say they expect to open more cases in the coming months.
Latest Arizona news, sports, business and entertainment at 9:20 p.m. MST
Published May 12, 2020 at 5:23 AM
Here is the latest Gulf Coast Conference sports news from The Associated Press
Latest Mississippi news, sports, business and entertainment at 9:20 p.m. CDT
Latest Louisiana news, sports, business and entertainment at 9:20 p.m. CDT
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9188
|
__label__wiki
| 0.513156
| 0.513156
|
CommentaryTHE FOURTH ESTATE
Hyped-up headlines that don't deliver
Rachel Alexander: News sites exaggerating reality divides nation even more
By Rachel Alexander
Are you tired of hearing that every little thing occurring in politics is something drastic? Although click-bait titles are on the decrease, in part due to Facebook banning those types of sites, there is still a lot of drama that is unwarranted. It has led to an effort to impeach President Trump by Democrats, based on a misleading account by a so-called whistleblower of a conversation Trump had with the Ukrainian president. The transcript of the phone call has been released, exonerating Trump, but there is a continued media barrage claiming he is guilty of a quid pro quo. They have built up something minor into something they claim is impeachable.
Frankly, I'm tired of all the over-hyped headlines claiming the worst is happening. There are thousands of new news sites popping up all the time, something we didn't have to deal with 20 years ago. I click on an article and it's rarely half as drastic as the title proclaims. I feel like I'm constantly in this stage of raised adrenalin from reading the titles. I don't appreciate the undue stress. I understand that news sources now make money based on how many clicks they're getting on articles, so they deliberately hype things up. But it is affecting politics. It has made it easier to believe the worst about people. It is contributing to a feeling that maybe Trump really should be impeached.
The Drudge Report, which used to be fairly conservative, is now posting hysterical headlines against Trump. As I'm writing this, the top featured article there is entitled "30 Minutes That Changed Trump Presidency." It links to a biased left-wing article from the Associated Press, which claims that the phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian president has really hurt Trump's presidency. How do they know? Nothing has happened yet, other than the Democrats deciding to start impeachment proceedings – something they've been threatening the entire time he's been in office so nothing new there.
The Drudge Report has also hyped up negative polls about Trump ("shock poll"), including a Fox News poll that showed 51% of voters want Trump impeached. But nowhere was there a breakdown of the demographics of those polled. Many polls are biased by surveying a larger proportion of Democrats than Republicans. Rasmussen Reports, a reliably conservative polling company that was the most accurate pollster in the 2016 election, analyzed a previous Fox News poll from July about impeachment. The company found that the poll breakdown was 46% Democrat and only 40% Republican. Another problem with the survey is it polled registered voters, not likely voters. That tends to favor Democrats.
Trump tweeted that only 25% want him impeached. It is not clear what poll he was referring to. A recent September poll from Rasmussen Reports found that only 17% believe Trump will be impeached.
I waste a lot of time clicking on the links to overly hyped articles that others post on social media. I get partially through an article merely to find out that it doesn't live up to its headline or description. Yet it will be massively shared all throughout social media. In this era, people hit "share" too often without actually reading the article. A study found that 59% of people hit share without actually clicking on the article. If they would actually read the article, they might discover that it is over-hyped, from a sketchy site and not worth sharing.
The Science Post ran an article last year entitled "Study: 70% of Facebook users only read the headline of science stories before commenting." The first paragraph sounded valid, although vague. The rest of the article was just a block of generic Latin text. However, 46,000 people shared it.
The over-hyping of news just stirs up more hate from movements like antifa. They believe every headline and article that claims Trump supporters are Nazis and white supremacists. Ironically, they follow the famous line of Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
The partisanship of politics is no longer just about the issues. It now includes the media and social media framing the issues. A chorus of voices – especially influential media voices – can escalate the most mundane situation into something dire. We're not talking about politicians murdering people in these hyped-up stories. Murder stories should generate outrage. In contrast, we're talking about behavior that has not yet been investigated, much less prosecuted.
It's like the boy who cried wolf. People are becoming so desensitized to the constant hyped-up articles that when a real scandal comes along, they won't recognize the seriousness of it.
It would be nice if we could return to the days of William F. Buckley Jr. He discussed current issues on his show "Firing Line" in a calm, even-keeled manner. He didn't need to talk hysterically about every topic, people still watched his show in droves. Unfortunately, that may not be possible any more since news organizations make money based on how many clicks articles get. The way to get around this is that readers should stop clicking on the hyped-up titles and be more selective about which sites they visit.
Rachel Alexander is a senior editor at The Stream. She is a political columnist and the founder and editor of Intellectual Conservative. Alexander is a regular contributor to Townhall and The Christian Post. She was ranked by Right Wing News as one of the 50 Best Conservative Columnists from 2011-2017 and is a recipient of Americans for Prosperity's RightOnline Activist of the Year award.
Our presidential election was disturbingly similar to Uganda's
Did Trump incite insurrection?
No changes to everyday life under Biden? Riiiight
Mr. President, pardon Jon Woods, a victim of 'process crimes'
Why so many RINOs have turned on Trump
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9189
|
__label__cc
| 0.509504
| 0.490496
|
WOOLWORTHS MAKING A BIG DIFFERENCE IN SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS
For the past 9 years, Woolworths has been the major retail partner in MySchool, an innovative social investment programme that involves consumers in raising much-needed funds for South African schools. In late 2007 the South African retailer announced that they were widening the reach of this successful programme to include selected charities and environmental organisations with the launch of MyVillage and MyPlanet. Reporting on its latest financial year from July 2007 to June 2008, Woolworths has announced a R18 million contribution to MySchool, including MyPlanet and MyVillage. This brings Woolworths total contribution to this programme to more than R65 million. Funds are raised when customers swipe their cards with any purchases they make at Woolworths stores countrywide. Cardholders choose the schools, charities or environmental organisations that they would like to support when they sign up with the programme and Woolworths makes a percentage donation of each sale to the beneficiary. The money raised is used to improve the quality of teaching and learning in schools and to assist charities in successfully running their initiatives and covering their day-to-day running costs. The Woolworths Trust adds further value to schools through the Making the Difference educational programmes. These highly innovative school programmes enable Woolworths to share its expertise and resources in the areas of nutrition, healthy lifestyles, sustainable living and design with school communities. In the 2008 financial year, Woolworths committed an additional R2 million to expansions and additions to the Making The Difference educational programmes. Launched in 2004, Making The Difference educational programme for primary schools targets Grade 4 learners, their educators and parents through expert teacher resource packs, parent talks and experiential learning outings to Woolworths’ stores, distribution centres and its suppliers. In 2007, the programme expanded its reach to 1500 schools nationally. In line with Woolworths’ Good business journey, the Woolworths Trust has also added two new educator resources to the Making the Difference educational programme for primary schools – “Permaculture” and “Creating a Sustainable South Africa”. Packed with illustrated expertise, classroom resources and interesting activities, these educational guides aim to support and enhance schools’ efforts to improve environmental learning and sustainable practices. Making The Difference Through Design is an inspiring quality education resource guide for Grade 10 -12 educators teaching the Further Education and Training (FET) subject – Design. The programme reaches 500 schools across the Western Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. This year for the first time the Making The Difference Through Design programme hosted a national design competition with participating schools, to promote Design as an exciting and vital 21st Century career opportunity for young South Africans. Brian Frost, Chairman of the Woolworths Trust and Non Executive Director of Woolworths comments: “Ongoing corporate contribution to social development including improving education is critical to the building of a thriving nation. Through our Good business journey, Woolworths has committed itself to goals and programmes that foster sustainability in the country. Our contributions to the MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet and Making The Difference educational programmes are important ways for us to meaningfully engage with communities to share Woolworths’ expertise and knowledge of good food, nutrition, healthy living, sustainability and design.”
For the past 9 years, Woolworths has been the major retail partner in MySchool, an innovative social investment programme that involves consumers in raising much-needed funds for South African schools.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9192
|
__label__wiki
| 0.942287
| 0.942287
|
World's Facts
Facts about Things in the World
10 Facts About Kaka
Home » Sports » 10 Facts About Kaka
Febi November 23, 2016
We believe when you first read the title of 10 facts about Kaka, your head nods automatically. This football player is well known among women’s life. Usually, when we ask women about Kaka the first thing they know is that Kaka is handsome. Well, that’s true. On the other hand, the guys talk about different perspective about Kaka. 10 facts about Kaka will bring the perspective of women and men when they hear about Kaka.
Facts About Kaka 1: He Is One Of The Stars From Brazil
Kaka comes from Brazil with his real name Ricardo Izecson Dos Santos. Her debut as a soccer player brings Brazil to the world soccer match.
Facts About Kaka 2: Sao Paulo Was His First Football Club
He started to play soccer when he was 8. Because of his passion and skills when he was young, Kaka joined the Brazilian soccer club which is Sao Paulo.
Facts About Kaka 3: He Brought Sao Paulo to the League Title
In 2001 Kaka played in Sao Paulo and he scored 12 goals in 27 appearances! Handsome, skillful, and crazy!
Facts About Kaka 4: Wealthy Family Background Doesn’t Make Kaka Becomes Selfish
Brazil is well knows as a poor country. The other soccer players are not as lucky as Kaka. Kaka comes from wealthy family. However, he is a humble man. During the first year, before he was well known, he donated his money for his brother’s educational purpose.
Facts About Kaka 5: His Career In Sao Paulo Was The Debut
His career in Sao Paulo brought the club into a league. He played 118 games in this club.
Facts About Kaka 6: Unlike Other Soccer Player, Kaka Is A Religious Man
Have you ever seen his action after scoring a goal? He usually points his finger to the sky. This is the symbol that he is thankful for the goal he makes.
Facts About Kaka 7: AC Milan Midfielder Is His Other Name
His club is AC Milan which is undoubtedly one of the best clubs among others. In AC Milan Kaka is famous as a midfielder.
Facts About Kaka 8: Women Alert! Kaka Is Married To Brazilian Singer
This is the fact for women in the world. Kaka is a committed person. He married to a Brazilian singer and socialite, Caroline Celico. Once a fan asked him to marry her, but Kaka refused that proposal. Can you imagine how sad is this girl?
Facts About Kaka 9: Paulo Maldini Is His Inspiration
He is a fan of Paolo Maldini, one of the legend soccer players. Once he wished to have Paolo Maldini as his captain.
Facts About Kaka 10: Besides His Career As A Soccer Player, He Is Also A Charity Man
Kaka always concerns to social issue. He always donates his salary to the people who need helps. Kaka is the ambassador of UN that concerns in world hunger issue.
Kaka is one of a kind. With his career as a soccer player, Kaka brings happiness to people who need people like him. So, what do you think about this 10 facts about Kaka?
10 Facts About Ken Griffey Jr
10 Facts About Kayaking
10 Facts About Katie Taylor
10 Facts About Karim Benzema
10 Facts About Kane
10 Facts About Kaetlyn Osmond
10 Facts About Kesha
10 Facts About Kestrels
10 Facts About Kermit The Frog
10 Facts About Kerry
10 Facts About Kerala
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9193
|
__label__cc
| 0.737099
| 0.262901
|
YourDressage.org
Home Achievement It Sure Beats Playing the Piano
It Sure Beats Playing the Piano
Me riding the Trakehner stallion Tanzeln *Ps* at Valhalla Farm in a lesson with SRS rider Herwig Radnetter.
By Matthew Mahoney II
When I rode my first horse in 1996, that was it; from that moment forward I was hooked. Little did my parents know that by letting me ride that first horse, they created a horse-obsessed young boy who would go on to become fiercely devoted to dressage. I started training in dressage at the age of 15 at a local barn outside of Appleton, WI. Shortly after, I became exposed to true classical dressage in accordance with the German training scale through monthly lessons with USDF Bronze, Silver, and Gold Medalist Shelly Reichart. My parents did not share my love of horses or dressage, nor did they support me in this very expensive hobby, and instead pressured me to pursue other activities, such as playing piano. Thus, I made do by riding whatever horses were available to me.
Me horseback riding for the first time in 1996. Note: USDF strongly recommends all riders wear protective headgear when mounted.
I knew that because of my inability to get a horse of my own to train and compete on, my best bet of making progress towards my goals in dressage was to become a working student. I graduated high school a semester early in January of 2009 and headed to Tempel Farms in Wadsworth, IL. There, I received dressage instruction from Jochen Hippenstiel and Andreanna Patzwald on Lipizzan stallions. Despite several of my trainers encouraging me to pursue a career as a professional dressage trainer, I knew that would not be the lifestyle for me, and instead wanted to keep dressage as a hobby. After leaving Tempel, I started undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. The options for dressage horses to ride near Madison, WI were limited, however I did get some riding in here and there. Shortly after graduating with a B.S. in Neurobiology, I moved to Valhalla Farm in Wellborn, FL to continue my dressage education under the tutelage of Iris Eppinger. Conflicted on whether I wanted to pursue a career in veterinary medicine or human medicine, I thought another working student opportunity would dually serve my yearning to work up the levels of dressage and be a good resume builder in the event I decided to apply to veterinary school.
It was here, at Valhalla Farm, that my dressage riding really progressed; riding and training a diverse range of four to eight horses per day, six days a week, with daily lessons and feedback from Eppinger. After returning to WI in 2015, I completed the remaining scores necessary to achieve the USDF Bronze Medal on several local trainers’ schoolmaster horses. I even went on to school the FEI level movements with USDF Bronze, Silver, and Gold Medalist Andrea Schten. I then ended up attending veterinary school at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, but determined after one year it was not a good match for me; again realizing that horses were best kept a hobby. Fast-forward to today – I am a first-year medical student at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI. Despite being overwhelmed with medical school studies and a part-time job, I am finding time to ride quite consistently around the Milwaukee, WI area.
While becoming a physician is without a doubt my perfect career path, it has not come without a price; and for me that price is pushing back my ability to pursue training and competing up the levels of dressage. My goal is to someday train and compete my own horse to Grand Prix and qualify for the Great American/USDF Regional Dressage Championships and US Dressage Finals Presented by Adequan®. Presently, I hope to purchase my very own dream horse upon completion of my intern year in 2024. I plan to fundraise leading up to this time in order to assist me in being able to make this lifelong dream possible.
Adequan
Adequan US Dressage Finals
Regional Dressage Championships
Young Riders
Previous articleOverview of Third Level
Next articleHow are you passing the time in quarantine? Our dressage community is staying busy, Part II
yourdressage
My Clinic Experience
Things Everyone Needs to Know about USDF Horse Registration
Eric’s TRAINING CORNER – Achieving Steps Forward Into A Foggy Future
Considerations When Starting a Young Horse
Road to the Finals: From Ranch Life to Equestrian Paradise Part...
A Star Is Born – Breeding a Dressage Horse
Five Ways to Get Involved with USDF Without Competing
Follow us on Instagram @usdfofficial
YourDressage is a publication of the United States Dressage Federation.
Contact us: publications@usdf.org
Insider’s Guide to Adequan®/USDF All-Breeds Awards
American Dressage Legends: Maj. Gen. Guy V. Henry Jr.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9202
|
__label__cc
| 0.738522
| 0.261478
|
The NSRF website has been developed in compliance to the web accessibility guidelines, as described by the Web Accessibility Initiative: http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/ .
Each checkpoint has a priority level assigned by the Working Group based on the checkpoint's impact on accessibility.
"Priority 1"
A Web content developer must satisfy this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or more groups will find it impossible to access information in the document. Satisfying this checkpoint is a basic requirement for some groups to be able to use Web documents.
A Web content developer should satisfy this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or more groups will find it difficult to access information in the document. Satisfying this checkpoint will remove significant barriers to accessing Web documents.
A Web content developer may address this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or more groups will find it somewhat difficult to access information in the document. Satisfying this checkpoint will improve access to Web documents.
Some checkpoints specify a priority level that may change under certain (indicated) conditions.
This section defines three levels of conformance to this document:
Conformance Level "A": all Priority 1 checkpoints are satisfied;
Conformance Level "Double-A": all Priority 1 and 2 checkpoints are satisfied;
Conformance Level "Triple-A": all Priority 1, 2, and 3 checkpoints are satisfied;
Note. Conformance levels are spelled out in text so they may be understood when rendered to speech.
The NSRF website has been developed in compliance to the Conformance level “A”.
Last modification date: 02/06/2010
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9204
|
__label__wiki
| 0.539148
| 0.539148
|
Overheard ATC Conversations
The following are accounts of actual exchanges between pilots and ATC from around the world:
While taxiing at LaGuardia the crew of a US Air flight departing for Ft. Lauderdale made a wrong turn and came nose to nose with a United 727.
The irate female ground controller lashed out at the US Air crew, screaming: "US Air 2771, where are you going? I told you to turn right onto Charlie taxiway! You turned right on Delta! Stop right there. I know it's difficult for you to tell the difference between C's and D's, but get it right!"
Continuing her tirade to the embarrassed crew, she was now shouting hysterically: "God, you've screwed everything up! It'll take forever to sort this out! You stay right there and don't move till I tell you to! You can expect progressive taxi instructions in about half an hour and I want you to go exactly where I tell you, when I tell you, and how I tell you! You got that, US Air 2771?"
"Yes ma'am," the humbled crew responded.
Naturally the ground control frequency went terribly silent after the verbal bashing of US Air 2771. Nobody wanted to engage the irate ground controller in her current state. Tension in every cockpit at LGA was running high.
Then an unknown pilot broke the silence and asked, "Wasn't I married to you once?"
The controller working a busy pattern told the 727 on downwind to make a three-sixty--do a complete circle, a move normally used to provide spacing between aircraft.
The pilot of the 727 complained, "Don't you know it costs us two thousand dollars to make even a one-eighty in this airplane?"
Without missing a beat the controller replied, "Roger, give me four thousand dollars' worth."
A DC-10 had an exceedingly long rollout after landing with his approach speed a little high.
San Jose Tower: "American 751 heavy, turn right at the end of the runway, if able. If not able, take the Guadalupe exit off Highway 101 and make a right at the light to return to the airport."
It was a really nice day, right about dusk, and a Piper Malibu was being vectored into a long line of airliners in order to land at Kansas City.
KC Approach: "Malibu three-two Charlie, you're following a 727, one o'clock and three miles."
Three-two Charlie: "We've got him. We'll follow him."
KC Approach: "Delta 105, your traffic to follow is a Malibu, eleven o'clock and three miles. Do you have that traffic?"
Delta 105 (in a thick southern drawl, after a long pause): "Well...I've got something down there. Can't quite tell if it's a Malibu or a Chevelle."
Unknown aircraft: "I'm f...ing bored!"
Air Traffic Control: "Last aircraft transmitting, identify yourself immediately!"
Unknown aircraft: "I said I wa! s f...ing bored, not f...ing stupid!"
Tower: "Eastern 702, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on 124.7." Eastern 702: "Tower, Eastern 702 switching to Departure. By the way, after we lifted off we saw some kind of dead animal on the far end of the runway."
Tower: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on 124.7. Did you copy that report from Eastern?"
Continental 635: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff, roger; and yes, we copied Eastern and we've already notified our caterers."
The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them.
So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign "Speedbird 206":
Speedbird 206: "Top of the morning, Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of the active runway."
Ground: "Guten Morgen. You vill taxi to your gate."
The big British Airways 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.
Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by a moment, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground (with arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, haff you never flown to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (coolly): Yes, I have, actually, in 1944. In another type of Boeing, but just to drop something off. I didn't stop."
O'Hare Approach Control: "United 329 heavy, your traffic is a Fokker, one o'clock, three miles, eastbound."!
United 239: "Approach, I've always wanted to say this...I've got that Fokker in sight."
A Pan Am 727 flight engineer waiting for start clearance in Munich overheard the following: Lufthansa (in German): Ground, what is our start clearance time?"
Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak English."
Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?"
Unknown voice (in a beautiful British accent): "Because you lost the bloody war!"
Lots of commercial aircraft are stacked up waiting for approach to O'Hare Int'l, ATC has inflicted numerous delays, and some planes are already 1-2 hours late. The WX is good, it's just that there is a traffic bottleneck somewhere. Pilots, passengers, crew are all getting quite frustrated and angry.
ATC: "All aircraft holding, expect 20 minutes additional delay."
Unknown A/C: "Ahhh . . . bullsh*t!"
ATC: "Aircraft making last transmission, identify yourself."
ATC: "Aircraft making last transmission, identify yourself immediately!"
ATC: "Aircraft using 'bullshit' in last transmission, identify yourself.
American 411, was that you?"
American 411: "Approach, American 411: negative on the 'bullshit,' sir."
NW 202: "Approach, NW 202: negative on the 'bullshit.'"
Delta 55: "Approach, Delta 55: negative on the 'bullshit.'"
NW 33: "Approach, NW 33: we have a negative on that 'bullshit.'"
. . . and so on, right through the entire pattern.
Back to ATC page
©2021 TAGE.COM
Powered By: TAGE.COM HOME | BUG REPORT | CONTACT
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9206
|
__label__cc
| 0.678547
| 0.321453
|
Buffalo Renaissance Foundation
BRF Sculptural Art Initiative
Commissioning USS Little Rock (LCS 9) Set for Saturday, December 16, 2017
January | 2018
By adminabbeyOctober 18, 2017LCS 9 Journey, LCS Crew 109, LCS Program News
BUFFALO, NY – The future USS Little Rock LCS 9, one of the newest US Navy littoral combat ships (LCS), will make her way to Buffalo for an official Commissioning Ceremony on Saturday, December 16, 2017. A ship commissioning is an event that marks the time when a new ship officially enters the US Navy fleet. LCS 9 and her crew are expected to arrive in Buffalo on Friday, December 8, 2017 for a week-long commissioning celebration. A schedule of events for Commissioning Week (December 8 – December 17) is being finalized and will be released next week.
“I was delighted to receive word this afternoon from Commander Todd Peters, Commander of the future USS Little Rock LCS 9, that the ship’s commissioning will officially take place on 16 December 2017 at Canalside in Buffalo.” commented Maurice L. Naylon III, chairman of the Commissioning Committee.
The local Commissioning Committee, was established in November 2015 as a special committee under the Buffalo Renaissance Foundation, Inc. – a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. The USS Little Rock LCS 9 Commissioning Committee is a non-federal entity and not part of the Department of Defense or Department of the Navy.
The Committee is an all-volunteer effort responsible for the oversight and organization of activities in support of the Commissioning Ceremony. In addition to organizing, managing, funding and producing the activities and events for the Commissioning week, the Committee is charged with raising money to fund a number of scholarships and initiatives. Net proceeds will benefit scholarships for students in our community as well as provide financial support for the decommissioned USS Little Rock on permanent display at the Buffalo & Erie County Naval and Military Park at Canalside.
“The mission of our committee is to pull-together a first class event – something fitting of the historical significance of this commissioning.” commented Naylon. “We also have the responsibility of raising money to fund initiatives that will honor and preserve the legacy of both ships that carry the name USS Little Rock.”
“While Buffalo has the privilege of hosting this great ship, her crew and her officers, we tip our hat to the great people of Little Rock Arkansas who are supporting this event and will share in the pride we feel in the commissioning of the new USS Little Rock LCS 9.
The event is historic for LCS 9, her crew, the Navy and all of Buffalo and Western New York as this will be the first time in the 242-year US Navy history, that a new ship is commissioned alongside her namesake.
The original USS Little Rock, was in service from August 27, 1944 until her decommissioning in November 1976. It is the only remaining Cleveland class ships and is now on permanent display at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park at Canalside.
In August 2015, Buffalo NY was selected as the host city for the Commissioning of the new USS Little Rock (LCS 9). The new USS Little Rock (LCS 9) is a littoral combat ship. The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program is a bold departure from traditional Navy shipbuilding programs based on its use of innovative acquisition, construction, manning, training and operational concepts. These lighter, faster and technologically advanced warships are designed to operate in close to shore environments.
More information the USS Little Rock LCS 9 Commissioning Committee can be found at www.usslittlerocklcs9.org. USS Little Rock LCS 9 Commissioning Committee social media accounts include: Facebook: USS Little Rock – LCS 9, on Twitter: @usslittlerock9, and on Instagram: usslittlerocklcs9.
More information on the Buffalo Renaissance Foundation can be found at www.buffalorenaissance.org.
More information on the US Navy LCS ships can be found at http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4200&tid=1650&ct=4
← BRF unveils newest Sculptural Art piece | Winter 2019 Newsletter →
BRF unveils newest Sculptural Art piece
New USS Little Rock undergoing tests in advance of commissioning in Buffalo
Archives Select Month February 2020 January 2019 January 2018 December 2017 April 2017 March 2017 April 2016 March 2016 January 2016 November 2015 October 2015 June 2015 January 2015 December 2014 October 2014 August 2014 July 2014 December 2013 June 2013 January 2013 October 2012 June 2012 November 2011 February 2009
home | about us | news | grants | donations | contact
history | letter from our president | board of directors | past presidents | renaissance man award
directors only | facebook
© 1981 - 2021 Buffalo Renaissance Foundation All Rights Reserved
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9224
|
__label__cc
| 0.68791
| 0.31209
|
There is an idea that has cropped up in two areas to do with limiting the bandwidth of covert channels. It has nothing to do with limiting exhaust noise from internal combustion engines. See “Billing and the Factory” in this about earlier introduction to these ideas. Also US patent 5,574,912 presents (and transcends) some of these ideas.
Engineering a Covert Channel
The basic idea is best illustrated in the billing reference above. Think of the slow data channel (SDC) as a coin slot. I use the term muffler here. The muffler is an object with one input integer stream and one output integer stream. The sum of a stream at a point in time is merely the sum of the integers in the stream up to that time. The integers of the streams of the muffler are all positive. The muffler input is made accessible to the confined object and the muffler output is made accessible to a software agent with a responsibility to pay the program owner. The muffler design goal is that the output sum track the input stream but with delay and noise added so as to limit the signal available from the output to a known small quantity, and thus trade-off payment latency with signal bandwidth.
The client is likely to want to limit his payments. The most direct way to offer this control is to enhance the muffler function by giving the client an additional facet to the muffler by which he can read and limit the flow, much as he might observe and control CPU consumption via a meter service key. From a bandwidth perspective the holder of this service key is considered as inside the confined object. Payments that he allows with the muffler service key are delayed and otherwise muffled. A invocation on the muffler input stream, signaling payment, will not return until the holder of the service key authorizes that payment. After such authorization, payment is muffled but certain, or at least beyond the control of the muffler service key.
We have described the rough function of the muffler and its facets and who should hold them; now we consider how to bring about this arrangement securely. In the scenario below B is the application builder who wishes to charge for use. Here is the chronology:
As B creates the factory F for his application he also invokes a MCC (muffler creator creator). MCC is broadly available and trusted by all these parties.
A parameter to this invocation is a deposit key to B’s account. The yield of this invocation is a MC we will call P here. B includes P as a component of F.
B distributes the factory requestor’s key and P as a pair to potential bashful clients.
Client C needs an instance of B’s application. C consults MCC to verify that P is indeed from MCC. C then invokes P (the MC) passing a withdrawal facet for C’s bank account. Two keys to a new muffler are returned: IS, the input stream; and SK, the muffler service key.
C invokes F via its requestor’s key passing in IS. C retains SK to control and limit payments.
Among the first steps taken by the new application instance is to verify that IS is indeed to B’s account. This test is performed by the instance asking P of the validity of IS.
Each player now has the correct keys and has verified this.
Remaining Design Problems
This design is not yet properly recursive. What C does to create an instance of the application cannot be done by the confined application for it must lack access to a bank withdrawal key.
Perhaps payment limitation and observation should be part of bank logic instead of muffler logic.
At the foundation of the recursion problem is the question of the payment path from the code of the sub-contractor to the sub-contractor. Are the two security latencies in series?
To throw in more problems before we solve the above, let me mention a payment scheme suitable to some applications. The application produces an answer but only then prices it in light of the answer. It might even tantalize the requestor by displaying evidence of the answer. It is no skin off the application owner’s nose if the requestor refuses to pay. Presumably the requestor has paid for the CPU cycles one way or another. If, on the other hand, the requestor has paid a sub contractor, such payment is skin off the nose.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9228
|
__label__cc
| 0.563699
| 0.436301
|
Nov 8, 2015 - Historians on History, Historical Accuracy, Historical Amnesia/Cleansing, Myth of Saving the Union, New England's Cultural Imperialism, Propaganda No Comments
The Northern Record Speaks a Lie
The victor of wars writes the history, inflates his lofty intentions and controls what is set in the record. William Joseph Peele was a simple North Carolinian who is credited with the creation of the Agricultural and Mechanic Arts schools in the State, and support for a State Historical Commission which would set the record straight.
“Mr. Peele could not get away from the idea that the cause of the Civil War was commercial jealousy. Henry Adams and Mill say that in ’61 the people of England entertained the same opinion. Peele did give credit to the North for so shifting the issue that it seemed to be a war for freedom.
“The agitation about the Negro, as a counter-irritant to distract attention from the injustice of Federal revenue laws, was [said Peele] more than a success; for the shallow politicians of both sections forgot the real issue; but the beneficiaries never lost sight of it. I will use a homely illustration:
A and B are doing business on the opposite sides of a street; B begins to undersell A; A becomes angry, but cannot afford to tell his customers the cause; he hears that B once cheated a Negro out of a mule; he makes that charge; they fight; the court record of the trial shows that the fight was about the Negro and the mule; but there is not a business man on the street who does not know that the record speaks a lie.”
(William Joseph Peele, by Robert W. Winston, Proceedings of the North Carolina Historical Commission, November, 1919, page 116)
Got anything to say? Go ahead and leave a comment!
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9238
|
__label__cc
| 0.74908
| 0.25092
|
Fringe 2019: Ink at La Chapelle
June 18 2019 // Erica Bridgeman // Columns
Ink was a visual metaphor for the cyclical self-destructive relationship between an artist and their craft. It was a brilliant depiction of how one invests themselves in their work and how the result of doing so can cost so much. It was also a beautiful story of one man overcoming debatably self-imposed adversity, and learning how to create without suffering.
As implied by the title, the metaphor was created by the simple use of ink and paper, fortified by shadow and light. The inherent minimalism of the stage drew all of our focus onto every movement and gesture of Alastair Knowle’s character: a man who is literally made out of his own art. His appearance, the set, and his gestures were all incredibly striking. I will never cease to be amazed by Alastair’s comfort and familiarity with his own body, his facial expressions, and his fluidity. His command of the stage and clear communication of meaning without words was both impressive and immersive.
The show itself told the story of an artistic journey, one which so many artists are familiar with. We flirt with inspiration, create something beautiful, and seek approval and validation. Then we move on to another muse, another whirlwind of creation, another hit of dopamine. We do this over and over again, a trail of finished or discarded work in our wake, immersing ourselves deeper and deeper into our art until there is no distinguishing between where our hand ends and our brush begins, no telling who is the canvas and who is the artist, no hearing where the music trails off and our own heart picks up the beat. This show, however, posed the excellent question of who is in control? Is the artist holding the pen, or is the pen holding the artist? What happens when the artist lets go of the reins and allows the art to take over? How high will that price be? For our hero, it seemed at times as though it might be costing him his life. Each time he survived, he dove back into the work and let it consume him again and again, until the surprisingly uplifting conclusion.
From a technical perspective, this show was executed with more excellence and precision than any Fringe show I have ever seen. Music and sound cues were timed perfectly with his gestures, the lighting was stirring and dramatic. The wordlessness of the piece did not leave us in silence, because music was used to indicate the emotional and mental states of the artist throughout the piece, making any moments of true silence far more impactful and meaningful.
Alastair created a world that, despite being black and white, was incredibly full of colour. He told a story that many of us have lived before, but he did it with a grace and strength that can only leave us with hope and inspiration for our own creative journeys. If you are an artist, this piece might help you identify yourself and your own struggles. If you aren’t an artist, maybe this piece can help you understand a bit about what we go through. Either way, it is a work of art in itself.
Transistor Sister
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9239
|
__label__cc
| 0.626151
| 0.373849
|
Procurious
#webringthedonuts
iPad Competition Terms & Conditions
Online Procurement Business Network
Procurement Business Network FAQs
Procurement Business Network Partners
Quiz test
Tag Archives: supply management
Generation Procurement
Space Trucking: The Challenges Of Managing A Supply Chain That Is Truly Out of This World
January 24, 2019 Procurious HQ
We investigate the perennial deadly hazards of operating on the world’s truly most remote supply route: the ‘road’ to the International Space Station.
Sergey Nivens / Shutterstock
Are you responsible for sending your people into danger? In a new Procurious blog series, The World’s Deadliest Supply Chains, we investigate the most high-risk supply chains out there.
The fiery disintegration of a manned Russian Soyuz rocket above the steppe of Kazakhstan on October 11 highlights the perennial deadly hazards of operating on the world’s truly most remote supply route: the ‘road’ to the International Space Station orbiting between 330 and 435 kilometres above the earth.
In this case, the Soyuz occupants, US astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin, got lucky after what NASA described diplomatically as the mission’s successful “abort downrange”.
Because of a problem later identified as a faulty sensor, the launch terminated two minutes after blast-off. The men, who were to be the first members of the 58th expedition to the station, escaped in their capsule and were rescued on the ground 32 hairy minutes later.
Other ISS missions haven’t been so fortunate: on February 1, 2003 the space shuttle Columbia imploded on re-entry, killing all seven astronauts on board.
The Soyuz setback highlights an awkward rostering problem for NASA: since the cessation of the space shuttle program in 2011, the US has relied on ‘buying’ seats on the Soyuz to swap over crews on its half of the ISS.
Who said Uber pioneered ride-sharing? The US recently swallowed its pride and confirmed the acquisition of three extra Soyuz seats in 2019, amid concern that its program to replace the space shuttles was proving too ambitious.
But with a three-person crew due to blast off in a Soyuz in early December, the latest mission to the station has some chance of getting back on track.
The most expensive structure in the world – and, indeed, beyond – the ISS was built between 1998 and 2011 at a cost of $US150 billion. To date, 15 modules have been assembled (rather like a Lego set) with a further five to be added.
The maximum crew of six performs scientific experiments, eats, sleeps and exercises as the metal orbits the earth 15.5 times a day at a speed of 29,000 kilometres an hour.
Maintaining a semblance of normal life for the crew requires a large amount of provisions – an average of 2722 kilograms per mission. The transit of any goods – anything from toothpaste to heavy scientific equipment – needs to be planned painstakingly months in advance.
When it comes to supplying the ISS using unmanned craft, the procurement controllers have more flexibility because a mini United Nations of spacecraft regularly visit the station (all with different docking procedures).
Despite the perception that the ISS is exclusively a US-Russian concern, the program is actually a venture between five agencies: NASA, Russia’s Roscosmos, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, The European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
Thus, the station has been supplied by not only the shuttle and Russian craft such as the Progress and the Soyuz, but by unmanned milk runs from Japan’s H-II Transfer Vehicle (also known as the Kounotori, or White Stork).
Whether the craft are manned or unmanned, the visits are eagerly anticipated by the space station’s cramped occupants. After all, a delivery of fresh fruit and vegetables makes for a welcome respite from the everyday diet of textureless, vacuum-packed mush.
(Sadly for the cosmonauts, vodka deliveries are off limits).
So far, the ISS has been visited by more than 150 craft – an average of slightly more than eight per year – including 50 crewed Soyuz, 70 Russian Progress one-way freight vessels and 37 space shuttles.
A key link in the ISS logistics chain is NASA’s Payload Operations Centre in Huntsville, Alabama. Described as the heartbeat of the ISS research operations, the centre co-ordinates all scientific experiments carried out on the station as well as the “payload activities” of the international partners.
In space, no-one can call roadside assist. As a result, equipment requiring regular replacement – such as the antenna, batteries and pumps – are kept on external pallets called ‘express logistics carriers’ and can be put in place by robotic arms.
Despite the supply mission setbacks, on November 2 this year the ISS celebrated 18 years of continuous habitation, eclipsing the previous record of just under 10 years set by the crew of the Soviet-era Mir station.
But nothing lasts forever, with the future of the ISS under review. While NASA and Roscosmos have pledged to co-operate on a replacement facility, tetchy on-the-ground relations between the two nations means there’s a likelihood they will go their own way.
In the meantime, the US is hardly enamoured with its ‘can I hitch a ride with you, comrade?’ approach and is working on its own crewing and supply options so as to mitigate its reliance on the Russians.
Both Boeing and Elon Musk’s SpaceX have separate contracts to develop space ‘taxis’, but their timetable for crewed test flights originally scheduled for August and this month are behind schedule.
Suffice to say, there’s mounting pressure from Capitol Hill on the rival contractors to complete the new era craft sooner rather than later.
After all, in the extraterrestrial trucking game, it always helps to have a Plan B.
If you’d like to read additional related content or get involved with thought provoking discussions check out the Supply Chain Pros group – a one stop shop for all your supply chain needs.
space supply chainsupplier relationship managementsupply management
Critical Factors When Selecting Your Suppliers
August 9, 2018 Euan Granger
Procurement exists in a dynamic, fast-paced, constantly changing environment. So surely the reasons we use to select our suppliers and supply partners would change over time too? Wouldn’t they?
It’s been over three years since the Procurious network was canvassed on what critical factors they look for in their suppliers. The world has moved on a-pace in the intervening period and it’s interesting to take an inward look to see if procurement has developed at the same pace, particularly in its supplier selection processes.
Gone are the days of the cheapest price (or at least they should be!). Gone, and consigned to a very dark part of history, are the days where supply decisions were made over lunch or in private meetings, and related more to who you knew than what you knew, which golf course or members’ club you were part of. Or even (sharp intake of breath) what you might be offering the buyers in return.
Even the list below, the key factors highlighted last time out, may have been superseded. So what are the new criteria? Or, if they are still the same, why is this the case?
Cost and Quality vs. Social Value and #MeToo?
If we take a look back at the responses from the network in 2015, we find ourselves looking at a list with a number of the usual suspects on it:
Cultural Fit – including values
Cost – covering price, Total Cost of Opportunity/Ownership
Value – value for money and value generation opportunities
Experience in the market and current references
Response to change – in orders and products
Quality – covering products and service quality and quality history
In addition to this, some that didn’t make the top 7 as it was included trust and professionalism, strategic process alignment and technical ability. There’s nothing that looks out of place on the list. In fact, they’re all eminently sensible and fair criteria to be considering.
The problem is it that it reflects a very traditional view of procurement.
Given the changing environment that procurement operates in, wouldn’t we expect to see these criteria changing too? In the past couple of years, geo-political instability has dominated the landscape and shows no sign of disappearing soon with Brexit and a potential trade war between USA and the rest of the world just two examples.
But what about the other factors we need to be considering? Social value has jumped to the top of many organisations’ lists, increasing work with SMEs and Social Enterprises. And let’s not forget an increased focus on harassment, discrimination and equal opportunities following #MeToo and campaigns like Procurious’ own ‘Bravo’.
What Does the Network Say?
When asked their opinions on what the critical factors were, the Procurious network highlighted the following:
Previous Safety Performance
Cultural Fit
Price/Cost
Quality and Consistency
I’ve highlighted in bold the criteria that appear in the previous list that also appear in the new one. As you might expect, they are the common criteria that procurement are known for, and may be expected to deliver as standard.
It doesn’t appear that other factors in line with Sustainability, Social Value and Equal Opportunities (to name but a few) are getting much of a look in. However, we’d need a much bigger sample to be sure. And that’s where the wider knowledge base comes in.
Procurement’s Response
Having a trawl through the latest articles on supplier selection and key criteria two things struck me. One, there were very few articles, blogs, thought leadership posts or even research papers from the past couple of years. The most recent one I found was from early 2017 and even using a broad range of search terms, it was difficult to find anything relevant.
The second, and perhaps most surprising/concerning, thing was how few mentioned any different criteria for suppliers. Only one article I could find mentioned Social Responsibility or Environmental Performance/Sustainability. The remainder still focused on the criteria commonly found in a Commercial or Technical/Quality evaluation. The most common criteria still were:
Years in business and financial stability
Quality and Delivery
Cultural Match
What does this say about procurement? Is the profession still falling back on the old favourites when it comes to supplier selection? Or could it be that traditional “thought leadership” is no longer leading the way, and organisations are working differently without shouting it from the rooftops?
For me, it’s a combination of all of the above. There’s no denying that it’s hard to separate procurement from cost and quality (after all, it’s what we’re there to do). And why wouldn’t professionals use criteria that are both reliable and easy to measure, particularly when time and resources are tight?
Getting our Message Across
Speaking from experience, however, there are areas in which overall value is much more prevalent. In the Scottish public sector, organisations are mandating Community Benefits for contracts above a certain value. These can cover everything from creating apprenticeships to financially supporting community projects.
In addition, Local Authorities have started to mandate evaluation of ‘Fair Work Practices’ in all procurement exercises. Again, this can cover a multitude of elements, such as paying the living wage, no zero-hour contracts, equal opportunities and good training and development. Suppliers are being forced to consider these criteria to the benefit of their employees and the wider society.
There is good work going on in procurement, but maybe we aren’t making the most of communicating our message to the wider market. And if communication is one of the key factors in supplier selection and subsequent relationship management, it’s high time the profession started telling suppliers what is important to us and seeing what they have to offer.
supplierssupply chain managementsupply management
A New Role Emerges: Supply Chain Scrutinisers
November 6, 2017 Procurious HQ
Any increase in transparency is good news for the supply management profession. That’s why the rise of the 3rd-party Supply Chain Analyst is a development that the profession should welcome, rather than fear.
How many articles have you read about Apple’s supply chain? Dozens, no doubt. Tesla’s is similarly scrutinised, along with McDonald’s, Walmart’s and a handful of other household names.
The reason for the growing popularity of this news is twofold.
Firstly, increased transparency in reporting means that researchers have a lot more to work with. For example, a recent Forbes article from Jonathan Webb reports that recent legal changes in Taiwanese corporate law means analysts can now take advantage of mandated monthly earning reports.
Secondly, corporate supply chains are finally being recognised as a key factor that contribute to commercial advantage – such as risk levels and speed-to-market – or commercial disadvantage. As such, top analyst firms such as Bloomberg now employ supply chain research experts whose insights can affect a companies’ share price just as dramatically as a surprising result in a quarterly earnings report.
What does the role look like?
Here’s an example of a supply chain analyst role currently being advertised with Bloomberg:
https://careers.bloomberg.com/job/detail/62154
The role calls for someone who is capable of “researching and analysing business relationships on over 23,000 companies globally, “providing a roadmap for clients to view supplier and customer relationship networks, helping them identify and manage supply chain risk and generate investment ideas”.
The researcher is expected to interact with analysts, fundamental and quantitative portfolio managers and news agencies. In other words, the data uncovered by a supply chain analyst is much-anticipated and eagerly consumed. Gartner’s annual Supply Chain Top 25 Rankings, for example, make a splash not just within the supply management profession but within investment circles too:
Cleaning up the supply chain
Valuation and investment insights aside, another major role of supply chain analysts is to uncover malpractice such as human rights abuses, corruption, and environmental breaches. The biography of the aforementioned Forbes contributor, Jonathan Webb, says it all:
“I’m focused here on the murky world of supply chain corruption, looking at commercial bribery, supplier compliance and other nefarious goings on in the supply chain.”
And this is where the really interesting part of the supply chain analyst’s role begins. Once the domain of investigative journalists, supply chain malpractice is now being uncovered by experts who travel to hotspots to reveal and report on issues ranging from conflict minerals in the Congo, sweatshops in Bangladesh, and toxic waste in China.
Again, the big-brand household names are those that come under the most scrutiny for supply chain sustainability and human rights abuses, with subsectors such as clothing manufacturers and chocolate makers receiving the highest level of focus. Reporters and political enemies of Ivanka Trump, for example, continue to probe her clothing brand’s supply chain as a likely area of weakness. In response, the company has apparently made public information harder to find than ever.
What does this mean for the next generation of procurement pros?
The emergence of the supply chain research analyst opens up a new career path for procurement and supply management professionals. If you’re currently working as a data analyst for a single organisation’s supply chain, in the future you may consider scaling up your role to pull trends and insights from the supply chains of tens of thousands of organisations.
In other procurement news this week…
Procurement Fraud Is Costing NHS
The NHS Counter Fraud Agency (NHSCFA), launched 1st November, has estimated all types of fraud cost the health service a total of £1.25bn, with procurement fraud the second largest contributor after patient fraud
One of its aims is to identify problem areas in preventing – and increasing reporting of – invoicing and procurement fraud
This is the first time the health service has released an official estimate of the cost of fraud to the NHS. The total figure is roughly 1 per cent of the NHS budget
Read more at Supply Management
Stephen Hawking’s warning on AI
Stephen Hawking is concerned that artificial intelligence could replace humans. The world-renowned physicist fears that somebody will create AI that will keep improving itself until it’s eventually superior to people
“If people design computer viruses, someone will design AI that improves and replicates itself. This will be a new form of life that outperforms humans”
Read more on The Independent
Weetabix sets out new supply chain vision
Milan Pankhania, who was appointed head of supply chain for operations at Weetabix, has just completed three months in the role and he has been identifying areas where the company could make efficiencies or cut waste
“My role is to help drive efficiencies across the supply chain process, while striving for excellent customer service,” he said.
“The focus for my strategy will absolutely include cost control and proactive risk management. It isn’t about cutting costs though, it’s about doing the right things to manage risk”
supply chainsupply chain transparencysupply managementvisibility
Rising Stars: I Fell Into Procurement (With Style!)
May 5, 2017 Procurious HQ
Did the ISM and ThomasNet 30 Under 30 Rising Stars always have a burning desire to embark on a procurement career or were they late converts? Procurious investigates….
Last month, THOMASNET and ISM announced the 2016-2017 winners of the 30 Under 30 Rising Supply Chain Stars award, presenting the profession with an inspirational batch of role models who are sure to attract more Millennials to the supply management profession.
Procurious has been lucky enough to sit down with many of the winners to find out what the award means to them, what it takes to be one of the 30 Under 30 Rising Stars and the key skills needed for a procurement and supply chain career.
But how did these rising stars first embark on their careers? Were they passionate about procurement from the offset or did a chance encounter or inspiring internship inspire them to “fall into” procurement later down the line?
Andrew Bagni, Procurement Manager at General Dynamics Mission Systems recalls that “ten years ago supply chain wasn’t as hot a topic as it is today. Specific supply chain degrees weren’t offered at my college at the time but this is now an option for students.”
Perhaps it’s not surprising, then, that 66 per cent of this year’s 30 Under 30 Stars didn’t plan a career in procurement.
The Slow Burners
Bagni applied for an internship with General Dynamics “in the hope of gaining some of the business experience l was lacking at 18 years old! I worked the internship for the summer, which went really well and carried on throughout college whilst I was studying business management. It’s not been a lengthy career so far but the whole of my career has been spent working in supply-chain despite having fallen into it completely by chance.”
Nick Imison, Subcontract Administrator at Northrop Grumman Systems Corp, had a similar experience to Bagni: “I fell into it sideways. I was a finance major. I went to job trade fairs, interviews, and just wasn’t passionate about finance. One day I stumbled on a supply-specific career fair, which was put on by the University of San Diego who push undergrads and postgrads to the supply chain field. They were very convincing and introduced me to the many sides of the business, giving me a holistic view. That piqued my interest and, from there, I enrolled in a few supply-chain courses.
Corey Gustafson, Senior Buyer at Deluxe Corporation initially attended school in Wisconsin to train in engineering, ” I went on a programme that focused on the printing industry including graphics and communication management and eventually started taking a procurement and supply-chain management course. The instructor happened to be the program director for the supply-chain programme and it was the best course I’ve ever taken. I was interested in the way the function impacts the business and wanted to continue with to focus on that.
The Die-Hard Procurement Pros
Not all of the 30 Under 30 winners came to procurement by accident, however. Barbara Noseda, Global Sourcing Associate at Johnson & Johnson, has a particularly notable passion for, you guessed it, shipping containers! “I know it might sound random” she says, “but I swear it’s the truth! I did my bachelors degree agree around shipping and logistics in Hong Kong and then went into supply chain. Even today, every time I can get on a project about shipping containers I jump on it.”
Matthew Montana, Category Lead at Pacific Gas and Electric Company, was also interested in supply-chain at the offset, “supply-chain really caught my attention. I liked the analytical aspect and qualitative aspect. There’s a good balance between creative thinking and working with numbers. It’s the balance of quantitative and qualitative that really drew me to supply chain.
And Matthew has another reason to be passionate about procurement. His father also works for Pacific Gas and Electric. “He’s been in supply chain for several years now. Growing up and seeing him work there and seeing how good the company has been to him and his good career influenced me. It’s a good company and a good industry. I had inside info and insight from him so he was one of my mentors early on.”
Amanda DeCook, Sourcing Associate A.T. Kearney, knew exactly where her career was headed, “I knew which University I was going to and I knew I wanted to pursue a Business Major. Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business has the best supply chain program in the USA, and I loved the tangible, practical skills involved in the course.”
Indeed, several of the 30 Under 30 stars credit their colleges for propelling their careers. Jeff Novak believes his “college had a lot to do with [his career choices]. I went to Penn State Uni, which is one of the top supply-chain schools in the states, if not the world. It seems that however your procurement or supply-chain journey starts out, you could have a vibrant and successful career ahead of you- take it from the 30 Under 30’s!
The 30 Under 30 Rising Supply Chain Stars will meet for the first time as a group at ISM2017, where ISM and THOMASNET.com will roll out the red carpet to celebrate the winners’ achievements and broadcast their success stories to other young people considering a career in supply management.
30 Under 30career adviceISMplanning your careerprocurement careerprocurement talentrising starssupply chainsupply managementTHOMASNET
Big Ideas Summit
Big Ideas Summit 2017: Pay Your Bills
March 12, 2017 Procurious HQ
It’s not about the money, money, money… except that it kinda is. Barclays Chairman, John McFarlane, reminds us that we need to pay our supplier bills on time!
At the Big Ideas Summit 2017, we once again challenged our thought leaders to share their Big Ideas for the future of procurement.
Our attendees spoke about everything from creativity to politics, from cognitive technology to workplace agility, current affairs, economics and the future. Whatever your industry and wherever you are in the world, there are some top tips to takeaway!
If You’ve Got Bills You Gotta Pay – Pay Them!
Barclays Chairman, John McFarlane, has a simple but utterly fundamental Big Idea to share for 2017: Procurement pros must pay their bills on time!
John acknowledges that it’s a great time for people working within procurement. There are now global marketplaces, the online arena continues to grow exponentially and power has transferred into the hands of consumers. This is a truly unparalleled period for the function.
But despite all the changes that are occurring, John was keen to remind procurement professionals that suppliers really matter and the importance of paying bills on time should never be underestimated. If you don’t pay when you should, you’re accountable for endangering a perfectly good customer.
Looking after your long-term interests and nurturing your relationships is more valuable than always thinking in the short-term.
Want to find out more about Big Ideas 2017? Join the group on Procurious.
You’ll find all of the Big Ideas Summit 2017 videos in the learning section on Procurious. If you enjoyed this Big Idea join Procurious for free today ( if you haven’t done so already). Get connected with over 20,000 like-minded procurement professionals from across the world.
big ideas in procurementBig Ideas Summit 2017digital conferenceprocurement conferencesupply management
Do Labels Matter? The Debate That Just Won’t Go Away
November 17, 2016 Hugo Britt
Purchasing? Procurement? Strategic Sourcing? Supply Management? As the profession continues to evolve, old labels tend to come unstuck and peel away.
Getting Out of the Back Room
It started in the 1990s. Like drab caterpillars transforming into magnificent butterflies, purchasing professionals left their brown cardigans draped over the backs of their uncomfortable chairs in dimly-lit back offices and emerged, blinking, into the bright hub of the business.
No longer a service department, we were suddenly business partners. We talked strategically rather than tactically, proactively seeking to understand what the organisation was trying to accomplish, and find ways to contribute to its competitive advantage.
But, what did we decide to call ourselves?
Almost thirty years later, the only thing that has really been agreed upon is to leave the term “purchasing” behind. Perhaps if there was one global, all-encompassing professional body, the decision would have been made for us, but unfortunately this isn’t the case.
In the U.S., the National Association of Purchasing Agents (founded 1915) changed its name to the National Association of Purchasing Management (1968). It finally became the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) in 2002.
In the UK, CIPS changed its name from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply to The Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply as late as 2014.
Across private businesses and government departments there’s a bewildering array of labels and job titles. This, of course, makes the standardisation of job descriptions and salary levels unnecessarily difficult.
Getting Out of the Box
I’m half-way through ISM’s “Fundamentals of Purchasing” guided learning (e-learning) course under the tutelage of Dr Wade C. Ferguson, President, Erv Lewis Associates, LLC. The course begins with some of ISM’s definitions around Supply Management and what the profession actually entails. It led to one of the class (me, actually) asking Wade’s opinion on the term procurement versus supply management.
His reply: “Changing definitions represent the evolution that the profession has gone through. In the company I worked at for over 30 years, we changed our name from “purchasing” to “procurement”, but it didn’t really change anything, as procurement is basically a subset of supply management.
“It’s a necessary and important subset, but if you want to be more encompassing, we prefer the term ‘supply management’. It underscores the recognised breadth of the modern supply chain and the need for coordination and value optimisation.”
Wade argued that the reason for dropping the old label was a profession-wide effort to, “Get out of the box. Out of the myopic purchasing view, to understand what the organisation is really trying to accomplish. When we can do that, we’re perceived as being strategic, not just a tactical cost centre.”
Pigeon-Holed by Labels?
This argument makes sense when you look at ISM’s definition of responsibilities under the Supply Management umbrella:
Purchasing/Procurement
Warehousing/stores
Transportation/traffic/shipping
Disposition/investment recovery
Product/service development
Manufacturing supervision.
If you wanted to keep things in separate boxes, then I’d estimate that roughly half of the components above belong to Procurement, while the other half belong to Supply Chain.
This separation of responsibility might work in a company where, say, you have a Chief Procurement Officer working closely with a Chief Supply Chain Officer. But why not combine those two roles into one? It’s all interconnected, and it makes sense. And Head of Supply Management could be the label that encompasses the whole picture.
Here’s the thing – maybe, just maybe, the narrowing effect of “Procurement” labels is one of the contributing factors holding Chief Procurement Officers back from that coveted spot at the boardroom table.
Even for those CPOs out there who do in fact have responsibility for the supply chain as well. It’s possible that their very title means that this vast part of their role isn’t actually recognised by the people that matter.
Don’t Abandon the Progress We’ve Made
In a previous article, Procurious founder Tania Seary also called upon the profession to stop worrying about what we call ourselves:
“In my opinion, re-branding procurement is a distraction, especially since we’ve made enormous progress in educating businesses about what procurement does. Rather than having to re-educate the C-Suite about what a Commercial Director or Chief Relationship Officer does, that energy could be better spent actually showing people what we have and can achieve.
In line with why we created Procurious to begin with, we know that the procurement and supply chain profession has struggled to overcome outdated stereotypes, so it’s time we join forces to become collectively valued. By empowering future procurement leaders, we can change the face of the profession from the inside out, rather than worrying about the label itself.”
Things Certain to Change Again
“The only constant in life is change.”
…just as the only quote that the Greek philosopher Heraclitus will be remembered for is the one above.
The Procurement/Supply Management/Whatever-you-want-to-call-it profession has changed so much in the past thirty years that there’s no reason why it shouldn’t change again. By the time we’ve settled our current labels debate, it may already be outdated.
definitions of procurementprocurement strategysupply management
Procurious Blog
Why Procurement Will Soon be One of the Most Sought After Professions
Tired Of Small Orders Delivered In Huge Boxes? Technology Has The Answer
This One Surprising Trait Will Help Increase Procurement’s Visibility In The C-Suite
How To Ask Suppliers For Discounts The Right Way
How To Say Goodbye To Negative And Contentious Supplier Negotiations
#firstmovers
Future Of Supply Chain Now
Procurious News
technical procurement
Women in Procurement
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9247
|
__label__cc
| 0.62596
| 0.37404
|
- Wing Tips - http://blogs.delawareonline.com/eagles -
FILLING A VOID?
Posted By Geoff Mosher On March 7, 2010 @ 9:53 pm In Free agency,Michael Vick,NFL,Philadelphia Eagles | 2 Comments
[1]By GEOFF MOSHER
So, this is purely speculation on my part, but I'm wondering if the Eagles' vision of cornerback Marlin Jackson is at free safety. Jackson, the free-agent cornerback and 2005 first-round pick, is expected to visit the Eagles this week if the Ravens don't sign him first. Jackson is stopping by Baltimore on Tuesday before he's scheduled to arrive at the NovaCare Center, and the Vikings are also reportedly interested.
Jackson, 26, has played cornerback for most of his five seasons in Indianapolis but also played some strong and free safety. Multiple knee injuries - including two knee ligament tears - has relegated him to 11 games over the past two seasons. He's only played 16 games once in his career, so it's a safe assumption that some of the physical skills that made him the 29th overall pick might have faded with those major injuries. Jackson also spent most of his time playing in Indianapolis' Cover 2 defense, in which the corners are usually bigger and more physical and play the position like safeties.
It's also worth noting that cornerback isn't the Eagles' biggest area of need for veteran help. They have established starters in Pro Bowl left corner Asante Samuel and right cornerback Sheldon Brown. Behind them are nickel corner Joselio Hanson and Ellis Hobbs, who the team has promised will be back. The youngest of those four is Hobbs, and he's 26. At safety, however, aside from veteran strong safety Quintin Mikell, the Eagles have third-year pro Quintin Demps and second-year pro Victor "Macho" Harris. Demps struggled through injuries last year and didn't make improvements from his rookie season. Harris, a converted corner, is fast and can stick receiver but lacks the true instincts of a safety. (Sean Jones, by the way, is a free agent and isn't expected to return).
Remember, the Eagles tried to sign veteran free-agent cornerback Shawn Springs last year with the intention of converting him to safety after Brian Dawkins' surprise fleeing to Denver.
I'll try to get some information from league insiders to see if this makes sense.
Other tidbits from free agency
* Aaron Kampan, the last remaining marquee defensive end on the market, is a done deal with Jacksonville [2]. If the Eagles plan to spruce up their pass rush, they'll have to use the draft and bank on production from a rookie, or swing a trade. Their draft history at defensive end isn't nearly as good as their free-agent hits. Trent Cole, a two-time Pro Bowler picked in the fifth round of 2005, is their claim to fame, but they missed on 2003 first-round pick Jerome McDougle and 2008 third-round pick Bryan Smith. Jury's out on Victor Abiamiri, but if the trial ended today, he'd be guilty of not living up to 2007 second-round billing.
* A team source confirmed what I reported in Wing Tips last week during the NFL combine: the Eagles will pick up the $1.5 roster bonus due March 9 for Michael Vick. No, it doesn't me he can't be traded or is less likely to be dealt. It just gives the Eagles more time.
Article printed from Wing Tips: http://blogs.delawareonline.com/eagles
URL to article: http://blogs.delawareonline.com/eagles/2010/03/07/filling-a-void/
[1] Image: http://blogs.delawareonline.com/eagles/files/2010/03/lg.jpg
[2] is a done deal with Jacksonville: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jOGx75SLZgMl2-j2d-UfYuJnEo-AD9EA3DG80
Copyright © 2009 Eagles Blog. All rights reserved.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9250
|
__label__cc
| 0.517623
| 0.482377
|
Difference between revisions of "Field Combat"
207.139.232.134 (talk)
(→Miscellaneous)
Gau (talk | contribs)
(Removed i-mockery content, replaced with generic statement.)
(Note: include some of the utilities for Field Combat)
==Hacks==
==Hacks==Aside from an [[i-mockery]] hack, no hacks of Field Combat are known.
The only known ROM hack for this game is "Women in Combat Duty." It is an unofficial simulation of adult females serving in combat positions in the armed forces (particulary the Army and/or the United Stated Marine Corps) created by RyanVG in the year 2003. You can download this gem at http://www.planetemu.net/index.php?section=roms&dat=231&action=showrom&id=241074
==Miscellaneous==
In the original unhacked version of Field Combat, the story took place in the distant future. As a military general/grunt in your army, you had to summon helicopters, tank and infantrymen to fight the evil robotic army that has taken over the Earth. But only you can take over their bases.
In the hacked version (thereafter to be called Women in Combat Duty), you are a female major general who knows when to call in the troops and when to fight the battle herself. You must fight the evil Iraqis for they do not believe in the modern day principles of women fighting in the midst of heavy combat action.
Field Combat has been hacked.
Template:Magnify
==Hacks==Aside from an i-mockery hack, no hacks of Field Combat are known.
(Note: include some links here)
This article is a stub. You can help by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://datacrystal.romhacking.net/wikid/index.php?title=Field_Combat&oldid=2798"
NES Games
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9252
|
__label__wiki
| 0.749517
| 0.749517
|
You are here: Home » Uncategorized »
BBC Question Time LiveChat 3rd May 2012
Tonight Question Time comes from Question Time from London for the second week in a row – presumably because the BBC chickened out of the promised Mayoral Special last week.
On the panel: Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith MP, Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Hatemen MP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Walter “Ming” Campbell MP, leader of the PCS union and semi-detached nutter Mark Serwotka and the businessman and panelist on Dragons’ Den Theo Paphitis
Your Moderators line-up consists of David Vance, David Mosque, TheEye and John Ward.
At 11:35pm (UK time) the BBC’s election coverage will begin so we will probably keep the chat window open for a while longer to watch the early biased punditry.
<p>&lt;a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=8151362b7e” &gt;Question Time 3rd May 2012&lt;/a&gt;</p>
Author: All Seeing Eye
The Troll on Keep Your RedShirt On
microdave on A WordCloud Take on Chris Huhne’s Sentencing
microdave on What A Way To Die…
LSP on Irony (Barclays Edition)
LSP on Farewell the The Old Seven and Sixpennies?
A WordCloud Take on Chris Huhne’s Sentencing
Keep Your RedShirt On
It’s all becoming clear
You can’t outrun a hellfire!
What A Way To Die…
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Baroness Thatcher
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
Copyright © 2021 All Seeing Eye. All Rights Reserved.
Neat Skype Status - Skype Status Icons plugin
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9255
|
__label__wiki
| 0.572911
| 0.572911
|
Hi,某某某某某某某某 Logout
中文版 | Front Page | Favorite
Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR)
Ecological Civilization and Urbanization
Sustainability Reports Compilation
Energy and Climate Change
Health Safety and Environment
Climate Change and GHG
Newsletters and Annual Meetings
CBCSD News
CBCSD Member News
CBCSD Projects
CBCSD Videos
Current Location:Home->Newsroom->News
Opinion: Where the World Resources Institute got it wrong about regenerative agriculture
Date：08-07-2020 Source：
A couple of weeks ago, the World Resources Institute hosted a webinar to discuss the potential for regenerative agriculture to sequester carbon. In the institute’s 564-page report from last year — Creating a Sustainable Food Future — WRI chose not to include the potential carbon sequestration of certain farming practices in its calculations, preferring to focus the report’s emphasis on other activities such as reducing land conversion and a concerted consumer move towards plant-based diets as a means to mitigate agriculture’s impact on the environment.
The gist of the discussion: Although a number of regenerative practices are beneficial for improving soil health, productivity, and more, claims about the amount of carbon that they can sequester are overblown. The takeaway: regenerative agriculture is not the panacea that so many people claim it to be, including policymakers, farmers, and consumers.
“Soils have physical capacity to store more carbon. However, due to scientific and practical challenges, and scientific uncertainty, we think the realistic ability to sequester additional carbon in working agricultural soils is limited in scale,” read one of WRI’s webinar slides. “Stabilizing existing carbon in agricultural soils is important to sustaining long-term productivity, but additional actions will be necessary to close the 11 Gt emissions mitigation gap.”
The webinar, which was accompanied by a blog post from the WRI report’s authors, generated a number of reactions including a thorough rebuttal from a leading group of academics from across the world, including Keith Paustian, the winner of the FoodShot’s Soil 3.0 Groundbreaker Prize last year.
As a farmer who uses many of the practices listed under regenerative agriculture like intensive grazing management, multi-species grazing, and finishing animals on grass in lieu of grain, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the WRI webinar also left a bad taste in my mouth. My reaction was less about the specific criticism of carbon farming and more due to the assumption that sequestering carbon is the sole focus of this movement.
Invest with Impact. Click here.
As WRI outlines quite clearly in its massive report there’s no silver bullet solution for a more sustainable food system. In fact, the Institute presents a menu of 22 actions the industry needs to take if greenhouse gas emissions are to come down and global warming kept below catastrophic levels. So why can’t regenerative agriculture be another menu item?
There’s possibility, and then there’s feasibility
While I disagreed with its main conclusions and view of regenerative agriculture, the presenters brought up a few good criticisms. Many of the studies that seek to evaluate the total amount of carbon that could be sequestered in the soil through regenerative practices are measuring the total possibility, which is a very different beast compared to measuring the actual feasible outcome. This is a good point. A major problem facing the regenerative agriculture movement is a lack of convincing and varied data.
There are some excellent case studies — one of which came up in the conversation and even caught the ire of plant-based burger company Impossible Foods last year. White Oak Pastures in Georgia concluded, after a third-party life cycle assessment conducted at its ranch, that its grass-fed beef operation was carbon-negative. This means its cows sequestered more carbon than they produced in their lifetimes. But the replicability of what that farm achieved has been called into question.
As with everything in farming, where you are located, what type of soil you have, climate, water availability and so on all play a role in how successful certain practices can be, regenerative or not. What works well on my farm in the Ozarks will likely fail miserably on a 10,000-acre ranch in New Mexico.
But does that mean work should halt in this area because there’s no one size fits all method? Granted so-called “plug-and-play farming” has got us to where we are today; able to feed the global population and then some, but equally it’s created a centralized, polluting agriculture industry that’s now under attack.
WRI admitted that regenerative practices like cover cropping were still beneficial and worthy pursuits, but said they’re potential to mitigate climate change was overplayed. Of course, it’s going to take a lot more than just management intensive grazing or cover cropping to draw down enough carbon to reverse climate change and protect existing carbon stores. And WRI’s own “menu” of 22 actions in its report points to that lack of a silver bullet.
Fossil fuels remain the largest source of GHG emissions in the US. Electric cars have been touted as a way to reduce one’s personal fossil fuel footprint. But electric cars won’t be enough on their own to undo the damage considering that fossil fuels power electricity, heat, and more. So, should we refrain from buying them?
Why exclude regenerative practices altogether when there is still so much to learn, so much to test and so much potential?
WRI is missing the entire spirit of regenerative agriculture
As I’ve mentioned in nearly every article I’ve written for AFN about regenerative agriculture, the movement is in its nascent stages and therefore often open to interpretation. You can’t open a dictionary and find a neat, one-sentence summary of what it hopes to accomplish. Even five years from now I think a one-liner will be a poor fit for regenerative agriculture.
This is where WRI seems to have really missed the mark. The promise of regenerative agriculture isn’t a mere bid to sequester more carbon; it’s an attempt to not only acknowledge the nuances of producing food to feed billions of people but to embrace them in conjunction with nature. It just so happens that it has been shown to sequester carbon at the same time as bolstering soil health, improving local biodiversity, cleaning waterways, producing more nutritional food, extracting less from nature, and applying fewer harmful chemicals.
It also has the potential to put more money into farmers’ back pockets. Sales channels for regeneratively-raised food are often shorter, giving farmers a greater cut, sometimes they can charge premiums consumers are willing to pay, but more importantly, they will also often be spending less money on inputs such as chemicals, albeit with higher day-to-day management costs.
We are living in a time when farmers are facing some of the worst prices and highest operating costs of all time, while consumers suffer a myriad of diet-related health problems and the ecosystem continues to be burdened with the unavoidable realities of a production system where success is based solely on yield.
Regenerative agriculture demands a proper accounting for the human cost of our current food production system whether through the abhorrent conditions for agricultural workers and the prices paid to farmers that fail to reflect the true cost of food production. Our current food system not only takes an extractive approach to the land but an extractive approach to the men and women who have made it their life’s work.
While the recent pandemic has highlighted some resilience in our food system, it’s also revealed the many pitfalls of a heavily consolidated system where food is transported thousands of miles and through multiple hands. Regenerative agriculture pushes for decentralized food production that relies more on models bespoke to the communities they seek to feed.
Will Harris, founder of regenerative posterchild White Oak Pastures, has said the idea isn’t to expand his business but to have many businesses pursuing similar practices similar to his.
“White Oak Pastures will never be a multinational corporation,” Harris told Civil Eats last year during a high profile media spat with Impossible Foods. “There will never be a truly regenerative, humane, fair farm that will scale to a national level—much less multinational. Instead, every rural county in all 50 states should have a White Oak Pastures or two.”
Deconsolidation, increased food sovereignty, and valuing more than just yield is a hard sell for many current stakeholders in our food system who tend to view most things through the lens of a profit margin. It could also mean you’re not able to buy tropical fruits in December in the MidWest of the US, but we certainly won’t perish as a result.
There is a division among regenerative agriculturalists about whether the movement must focus on data to substantiate its claims — such as how much carbon can be sequestered — or whether the time has come for a more holistic approach to answering the question of whether our food system is working. Maybe it’s time to create a system that values both. And maybe it’s time to realize that our food system needs to do a whole lot more than sequester carbon, like pay farmers for the true cost of producing food.
WRI’s criticism of regenerative agriculture based on its conclusions about the feasibility of carbon sequestration is a foolish exercise in throwing the bovine out with the bathwater.
CBCSD and Members Participated and Suggested on the Project for Technical Regulation on Low-carbon Pilot Community
CBCSD and Members Participated in the APEC Cooperation Network Construction Forum of Green Supply Chain
Calculation Method of CO2 Emissions in Petroleum and Natural Gas Exploitation Enterprises & Calculation Method of CO2 Emissions in Water Network of Chemical Enterprises
CBCSD Attended the Workshop for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development and Delivered Introductions
WBCSD: Tackling the Challenge, How to Make Informed Choices on Forest Product?
The National New-Type Urbanization Plan Released, Board Members of CBCSD Help the Sustainable Development of Cities
Board members of CBCSD Actively Participated in the Carbon Trading and International Climate Change Process
Two industrial Standards Compiled by CBCSD Passed Examination
Widespread Use of the Achievements Businesses Energy Saving and Greenhouse Gas Management
CBCSD held Chemical industry enterprise value chain (range 3) greenhouse gas emissions, accounting and reporting guidelines
Introduction to CBCSD
Legal Disclaimer | Contact Us
Copyright (c) China Business Council for Sustainable Development(CBCSD). All Rights Reserved
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9263
|
__label__wiki
| 0.780879
| 0.780879
|
Everything Explained.Today
A-Z Contents
THOMAS V
Thomas Vogel (footballer, born 1965)
Thomas Vogel (footballer, born 1965) explained
Thomas Vogel
Fullname: Thomas Vogel
Birth Date: 28 June 1965
Birth Place: Weimar, East Germany
Height: 1.87m (06.14feet)
Position: Striker
Currentclub: FC Carl Zeiss Jena (advisor)
Youthclubs1: BSG Traktor Mellingen
Youthyears2: –1984
Youthclubs2: BSG Motor Weimar
Years1: 1984–1988
Clubs1: BSG Robotron Sömmerda
Caps2: 62
Goals2: 9
Clubs2: FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt
Clubs3: 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Clubs4: Tennis Borussia Berlin
Goals5: 11
Clubs5: FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Manageryears1: 1999
Managerclubs1: FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Manageryears2: 2002–2003
Managerclubs4: FC Elmshorn 1920 (athletic director)
Managerclubs5: FC Carl Zeiss Jena (advisor)
Thomas Vogel (born 28 June 1965 in Weimar) is a German football coach and a former player who works as a presidential advisor at FC Carl Zeiss Jena.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Thomas Vogel (footballer, born 1965)".
Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2021, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9266
|
__label__cc
| 0.713767
| 0.286233
|
Health Doctrine
Medications for Depression – Side Effects of Antidepressants
Drugs or foods competing for enzymes in the liver, or damage to the liver itself, can delay the metabolism of a drug so that the drug stays at a high level for a long time. Kidney damage can also raise the level of drug in the blood. Both the time of day the drug is taken and whether it is taken on a full or empty stomach can change the amount and rate of absorption as well. Drugs are metabolized at different rates in different people; a small dose may be as effective in some people as a large dose in others. This variation depends not only on obvious differences, such as weight and height, but also on age, race and sex. In the past, most dosages were calculated for the average-size white male. In 1993, legislation was introduced in the United States so that the drug trials run by pharmaceutical companies before the drug was marketed had to consider dosages for females as well. Blood tests during these trials measure the level of drug in the blood, allowing for further fine-tuning.
All the cells of the body use NTs to conduct information, not just those in the brain. Therefore, medications affecting the level of NTs may also affect the stomach, the muscles, the urinary tract, the sex organs, the eyes, and many other systems. Some of the side effects are minor and fairly predictable; even if they make you uncomfortable, you need not stop the drug. These side effects are not dangerous and they usually diminish in a week or so. But if you develop a more serious reaction, such as a skin rash, severe infection, jaundice, or a marked decrease in urination, you should stop the drug and call your doctor, or go to the A & E department of your local hospital, right away.
Do not stop these medications because you feel a bit better and think you don’t need them anymore. If you stop them for even a few days, the changes in the cells will stop and you will have to start the process all over again. Since it can take four to eight weeks to get the medication’s full effect, this will be very discouraging. Studies show that only about 60 per cent of people end up properly taking the drugs they are prescribed, for either medical or psychiatric illnesses.
For example, Dorothy was prescribed paroxetine for severe, debilitating depression. She took it for three weeks, but stopped taking the medication a week before her appointment with the therapist because she hadn’t noticed any improvement. She was alarmed by darting electric shock-like feelings in her head. As soon as she restarted the paroxetine, these disappeared; they had been a withdrawal reaction to the abrupt stopping of paroxetine. Her doctor gradually reduced the dose over a three-week period, so she wouldn’t have withdrawal effects. Since the paroxetine had not been effective for Dorothy, she started on another antidepressant, and her depression lifted over the next three weeks.
If the drugs are working, you will first notice an improvement in sleeping and eating, and then a sense of calm, so that you are less upset by stresses. After about four weeks you will notice your mood improve. At first, be cautious about activities that require alertness and coordination. If you like a glass of wine when you go out with friends, it’s probably best to forgo it when you first start the medication. It’s also probably safer not to drive until you are familiar with the effects of the drug. If you are very agitated or unable to sleep, your doctor may prescribe a mild tranquilizer or sleeping pill until the antidepressant takes effect.
Millie came to see her doctor complaining of a ten-pound (5-kg) weight loss, early-morning wakening, agitation, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, and guilty feelings about an abortion she had had twenty years previously that she couldn’t stop thinking about. She felt that life was not worth living, but had no plans to kill herself. She had been depressed and listless for about a month. Her doctor diagnosed a major depression and chose to start her on venlafaxine at a dose of 75 mg daily.
Within four days, Millie called saying she was more agitated and didn’t feel she could continue on the medication. She had also thrown up a couple of times. The doctor suggested that she continue the medication but take the dose on a full stomach after her supper. When she returned to the clinic for her next appointment, she said she was feeling a bit less frightened and was sleeping longer. Her appetite had returned and she had not lost any more weight. She was told to increase the dose to 150 mg daily. Three weeks later, she reported that she was beginning to feel more like her old self.
If you don’t feel any better after about six to eight weeks, then another drug, usually from the same group, can be tried. If there is some change but not as much as you would like, the antidepressant effect can sometimes be increased by adding an augmenting drug such as lithium, tryptophan – an amino acid that metabolizes (is converted) into the NT serotonin – or the hormone thyroxin. Your doctor can also prescribe antidepressants from two different groups at the same time, or a ‘dual-action’ drug that fits into more than one group.
Note that you will not develop tolerance or addiction to antidepressants. You will gradually feel better, but not ‘high’. If you do feel elated on antidepressants, you may be developing hypomania (bipolar II, or ‘soft’ bipolar disorder), or mania, and the addition of a mood stabilizer will help.
Tagged as : Antidepressants, Depression, Medications, Medications for Depression, Side Effects of Antidepressants
Be Well, Be Positive !
Tweets by @HealthDoctrine
Air Pollution Alcohol Aspirin Blood Pressure BMI Brain breast cancer calcium cancer Cancer Treatment chemotherapy cholesterol Daily Mail Dental care Depression Diabetes DNA drug Exercise FDA Healthcare service heart attack Heart Disease High Blood Pressure HPV Hypertension Immune System Lung Cancer Milk obesity pregnancy Pregnant Women prostate cancer Skin Cancer Smoking Stress Stroke teeth tumor Type 2 Diabetes University of Washington Vitamin C Vitamin D Vitamin E weight loss
Hernia Medical Center
Melanoma Skin Cancer Treatments
Human Cytomegalovirus CMV
Duodenal Cancer Symptoms
Thrombosis Disease Symptoms
About Us and Editorial Team
Health Doctrine Institute
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9282
|
__label__cc
| 0.5432
| 0.4568
|
Holly Williams
Journalist and writer
Review: Fight Night, Unicorn Theatre
This timely revival of a play by provocative young Belgian company Ontroerend Goed puts the power in the audiences’ hands – quite literally. We’re given a little keypad as we enter; a host (the entertaining Angelo Tijssens) brings on five candidates. As well as being asked to anonymously press buttons to give up our own personal data – from the basics of age and gender to rather more revealing opinions on traits we admire or words we find offensive – we can use these keypads throughout the show to vote for our favourite candidate. Like I said, timely.
Not that any of them talk politics – this is political theatre where the focus is on the structure, not the ideology. We have no context: this is a game in a room, outcome-free. None of the candidates say what they’re standing for or why; instead we get personality. Are they a little bit racist? Are they religious? Are they kind or honourable, manipulative or chaotic? Eventually, in this cleverly constructed production, we are confronted with whether or not they even really believe in the system of democracy they are taking part in.
Fight Night is a thought-provoking and brisk game, which makes the audience participate in ways that – as with many of this company’s shows – occasionally has them bristle with discomfort. Our first vote for our favourite candidate must be cast before we’ve even heard them speak. Those with the lowest number of votes are regularly asked to leave the stage; shades of Big Brother or other telly game shows here, as well the forthcoming general election.
The play continually skewers the prejudices and snap judgements of the electorate, as well as candidates’ ingratiating attempts to play personality politics. Finally, it asks us to question the very nature of voting systems and democracy itself. Which is more effective – the blunt instrument of the majority vote, or to step outside the system and refuse to play along? Presumably the outcomes are a little different in each performance; lets just say, if he’d been in my audience, Russell Brand wouldn’t have been feeling too buoyed.
It’s stealthily effective – what seems enjoyable but slight at first keeps morphing to ask new questions about how we make decisions and why. Being staged at the Unicorn should help attract young audiences and provide a platform for talking about political structures, from the way our electoral systems work to how coalitions are formed to how we react to dissidents. It’s advertised for ages 14 and up, which seems fair; there were several children much younger than that in my audience, but parents would need to be happy with them hearing the words ‘cunt’, ‘faggot’ and ‘nigger’ repeatedly… like I said, Ontroerend Goed like to mess up our comfort zones.
But while Fight Night lays bare certain distinctly unappealing aspects of our democratic structures, the lack of context or consequence means the stakes are never very high. It succeeds within its own tense world, but does not map real life political situations in way that is terribly fruitful. Fun, clever, but ultimately a little too self-contained.
To 3 May; unicorntheatre.com
April 22, 2015 May 26, 2015 by holly in Theatre Tagged election, interactive, political theatre, young people
Lauren Laverne and Sam Baker: too busy to surf? Head to The Pool
Review: Stand, BAC
Holly Williams is a freelance journalist and theatre critic. A former staff writer and arts editor for The Independent, her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Time Out, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and ELLE.
All content by Holly Williams
Design by Lobo
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9287
|
__label__cc
| 0.618738
| 0.381262
|
International Karate-do Goju-kai Association (I.K.G.A.)
Home Goju Overview Kata
I.K.G.A. Organization
I.K.G.A. Members
Goju Overview
kata, it is a Japanese world which literally means “Form”. Karate kata, is a pre-arranged series of movements and techniques (stepping, turning, defenses and attacks) where the practitioner is counseled to visualize the opponent’s moves and react accordingly. The practice of the katas enhances the physical, visual and spiritual awareness.
Fukyu Kata 普及型
The purpose of Fukyu kata or "common kata for the all styles of karate", was to unify all karate styles in one so to make Karate as a general and more standardized Japanese-like art for the sake of popularization.
Taikyoku Kata 体極 Taikyoku literally means first course. It means also, according to a translator of the Karate do Kyohan: "... a philosophical term for the macrocosmos, for it's differentiation in heaven and earth (energy and matter): so, it's the chaos of emptiness." Gichin Funakoshi, the founder of the Shotokan Karate do style, created the original Taikyoku katas. The Goju-Ryu versions have been adapted to certain aspects of the Goju style, like Shiko and Sanchin Dachi. They all follow the basic "H"-pattern and they are: Jodan, Chudan, Gedan, Kake Uke, Mawasi Uke.
Gekisai Kata 撃碎 Gekisai literally means to destroy, "Di Ichi (Ni)" means number one (two). This Kata was created by the founder of Okinawa Goju Ryu, Miyagi Chojun Sensei. It consists of basic techniques which facilitate the later learning of difficult ones in the classic Kata starting from Saifa.
Kihon Kata 基本型
Kihon kata means a "kata of basics". It is intended to teach basic movements and technique so that the karate-ka is ready for the next more advanced learning stages.
Sanchin 三戰 Sanchin means "three battles". It does not refer to actual physical battles, but the internal battle of harnessing body, mind, and spirit through will. It is a classically "hard" Kata, involving continuous muscular tension throughout the body, as well as hard "ibuki" breathing. It is characterized by loud, focused and intense breathing, as well as the sanchin pigeon-toed stance which is characteristic of Goju-Ryu.
Tensho 転掌Was created by Miyagi Chojun Sensei. It means flowing hands. It's a combination of the hard dynamic tension with "ibuki" breathing (go) and soft flowing hand movements (ju), while the power comes from the Tandem. This Kata is very characteristic for the Goju-Ryu style and finds it's roots in a Chinese 'soft'-Sanchin version.
Kaishu Kata 開手型
Kaishu kata means a "kata with open hands." This is a more advanced level and it is serves as a "combat application reference" kata and is open to vast interpretation (Bunkai) of its movements purpose (hence, "open hands").
Saifa 碎破 Literally means tear apart and destroy/smash and tear. It is the first classic Kata in the Goju-Ryu repertoire of Kata. Classic in the sense that is was handed down by Ryu Ryuko Sensei to Higaonna Kanryo Sensei. Its origins are most likely to be found in the white crane boxing-style in China.
Seinchin 制引戰 Probably means silently marching far or to pull depending on the interpretation. It's a very old Chinese Kata, of which the roots probably can be found in the Hsing-I system. This Kata consists, unlike most other Kata, only out of hand techniques. It belongs to the tiger series of the Kata.
Sanseiru 三十六手 Written in Chinese characters, is the number 36. Symbolically it is calculated from the formula 6x6. The first 6 represents eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and spirit. The second six symbolizes colour, voice, smell, taste, touch, and justice.
Seipai 十八手 Similarly, is the number 18. It is calculated from 6x3. The 6 is the same as the second 6 of Sanseiru. The 3 represents good, bad, and peace. This Kata truly exemplifies the true spirit of Okinawa Goju-Ryu: a mixture of soft, round techniques (the ju-principle) with hard ones (the go-principle). Yagi Meitoku often said it is based upon crane techniques which can be seen in the leaning stances, whipping style of striking, and evasive footwork.
Shisochin 四向戰 Literally means fight in four directions. One reason for this is that this Kata typically includes a combination of techniques executed in four directions. It is of Chinese origin, taught to Kanryo Higaonna by Ryu Ryuku. It is said to be one of Chojun Miyagi's favourite Kata in his later years, and that it was well suited to his body.
Seisan 十三手 Literally means thirteen hands. It contains 8 defensive and 5 attacking techniques, with which there is a change of direction. Thirteen is a prime number and in China is a number representing good luck and prosperity. Traditional Goju-Ryu falls back upon techniques which involve the grabbing and the controlling of the opponent while a weak spot of the body is hit. This Kata is a perfect example of this principle. It emphasizes close range fighting using short punching and low kicking techniques to break through the defence of the opponent. Seisan is an extremely important Kata in Goju-Ryu and it should be practiced for many hours for it contains a wealth of information and knowledge.
Kururunfa 久留頓破 Means forever peacefulness, stops tearing. This was handed down from the Chinese master, Ryu Ryuku to Higaonna Kanryo Sensei but the original creator of this Kata is unknown. Kururunfa contains a wide variety of open-hand techniques and especially hand/hip co-ordination techniques. Like Seisan, Kururunfa has soft movements followed by hard movements, however in Kururunfa the difference between hard and soft are much more marked with slow drawn out movements followed by a pause with devastating explosive techniques to follow, then the cycle repeats again.
Suparinpei 壱百零八手 (Pechurin), One hundred and eight (3x36=108). This Kata has special significance in Buddhism. It is believed that man has 108 evil passions and so in Buddhist temples on December 31st, at the stroke of midnight, a bell is rung 108 times to drive away those spirits. The number 108 is calculated from 3x36. The symbolism of the number 36 is the same as in Sanseiru (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and spirit; colour, voice, taste, smell, touch and justice). Suparinpei is Goju-Ryu's longest Kata. It utilises a large number of techniques, including breath control, and it contains the greatest number of applications and depth of meaning. It is said the mastery of Suparinpei is the mastery of the Goju-Ryu system.
Tokutei Kata 持定型
Genkaku 玄鶴 Gen means "deep, profound, dark, black, mysterious, obscure" en Kaku means "crane"; Gen-kaku can thus be translated as Mysterious Crane or Black Crane.
Chikaku 地鶴 Chi means "ground, earth" and Kaku means "crane" and thus Chi-kaku can be translated as Crane on the ground.
Kouryu 天龍 Kou means "yellow" and Ryu means "dragon" and thus Kou-ryu can be translated as Yellow Dragon.
Tenryu 黃龍 Ten means "air, heavenly, celestial, god" and Ryu means "dragon"; Ten-ryu can thus be translated as Heavenly Dragon, Divine Dragon or Dragon from the sky.
Σχολή Εκπεδευτών ΕΛΟΚ
Πανελλήνιοι Αγώνες Goju-Ryu 2010 - Πάργα
Who can practice Karate?
Is Goju Ryu traditional?
Copyright © 2009 International Karate-do Goju-kai Association (I.K.G.A.), all rights reserved , Hosted by Multihosting .
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9288
|
__label__wiki
| 0.560281
| 0.560281
|
Intellectual Roundtable
Asking — and answering — life's interesting questions
Why Do We Like What We Like?
We all like things: a particular band, or a preferred author. We have a favorite food, and a best friend. Having a preference is such a basic element of who we are that it was the first thing you were allowed to do on Facebook — to “like” something.
How we determine these likes is less clear.
Hence our question: Why do we like what we like?
Related questions: What does it mean to like something? How do we change our likes? Why do we dislike what we dislike?
Spread the word about Intellectual Roundtable:
Author Question AskerPosted on March 26, 2017 October 10, 2020 Categories Likes & DislikesTags Our Favorite Questions
5 thoughts on “Why Do We Like What We Like?”
Sure, genetics, childhood nurturance, culture, experience, and rebellion during our formative years play a role in what we like. But I want to focus on some less talked about determinants of why we enjoy what we enjoy: anatomical superpowers, aspirations to be more like our heroes, and ideas that hit us as so profound that we spend a lifetime (or very long time) exploring their truths.
First, let’s explore anatomical superpowers. Some people, for example, have bodies made for running. One day they run, all goes well, and it makes them feel happy. They run some more, get better at it, enter races, and win some medals. If all that keeps them happy, they continue testing and improving what began as an unknown anatomical superpower.
I have an anatomical superpower. My tastebuds and nerve receptors on the roof of my mouth are especially attuned to the pleasures of dark chocolate. Give me some good quality dark chocolate, I put it in my mouth, and a calm, yet somewhat energetic bliss washes over my body. Since learning about my love of dark chocolate, my pleasure for run-of-the- mill milk chocolate has fallen, and I have learned to like quality dark chocolate I suppose like some people become experts at tasting fine wines. But none of this — none — would have been possible without the especially attuned taste buds and nerve receptors on the roof of my mouth that give me the relaxing bliss that quality dark chocolate seems to be made for.
Next, let’s look at aspiring to be more like our heroes. I have aspirations to be like many of my heroes. For instance, I want to possess the command of the English language that Bono from the band of U2 has. It seems like 90% of the time the man opens his mouth, beautiful and inspiring words come out. (The other 10% make him sound like the pretentious prick some people are certain he is.) Anyhow, I wish I had his command for inspiration.
Another one of my heroes is agrarian writer and poet, Wendell Berry. He too has a way with words. And his words line up well with the way he lives his life. Wendell Berry is concerned about many things in today’s world. One thing in particular, because of his essays, makes me aspire to be more like him — the need to be more involved with food production.
Food was once a major part of our culture. Yet we’ve given this part of who we are over to industry. And with that, few of us know where our food comes from.
I’ve been a gardener for most of my life. So, I’ve been involved in food production, in a small way, for quite some time. However, as the years go on, I want to weave this practice more into my life. And I started feeling this way a little over 20 years ago, when one of my political science professors turned me on to Berry’s essays.
Being more like Wendell Berry makes me feel proud. I like feeling proud.
Lastly, some time ago I ran across a scientific truth that changed how I wanted to look at the world: much of what’s in front of us, we see but don’t register. We fail to commit it to memory. And thus in many cases, we fail to understand and appreciate the world as much as we could. We certainly miss out on much of the beauty surrounding us.
This idea — that we fail to fully see what right in front of us — has led to a passion for taking pictures of vegetation in my garden. But it goes further than that. I love taking pictures of the details of the vegetation. So I get real close up. The “veins” of leaves, the ripples in some flowers, the droplets of water on a plant after the rain — these things amaze me. But I wouldn’t be aware of much of this is I didn’t plunge my eyes right next to a plant to discern, “Is this a picture waiting to be taken?”
A little aside: my wife hates it when I think I see something I want to take a photo of, but I haven’t yet changed from spiffy, work clothes to garden attire. What can I say? I really, really like to catch a great photo.
So there you have it. Anatomical superpowers, aspirations to be more like our heroes, and ideas that hit us as so profound that we spend a lifetime exploring their truths — these are just three of the reasons I like what I like.
Dave Anderson says:
I say we like what we like based on a mix of biology and identity formation. Biology conditions us to be attracted or repelled by certain things in our environment; even when it doesn’t make sense anymore, like be attracted to high-calorie foods or being repelled by people in the “out group.” Identity formation is interesting when you realize the specifically human way to think is in words. From the point we first learn language, we begin literally narrating a story too ourselves about ourselves. We create a narrative that doesn’t just describe who we are — it is who we are. Change our internal narrative and you change our identity. As one example, when any of us steps back and takes a close look at how many of our personal choices conform to the groups we most identify with and/or aspire to be a part of, it’s impossible to not see the careful internal monitoring to make sure the choices we make line us up with the groups that help to short-hand who we are. This can be both good and bad, but I find it helpful to be aware of it.
Cecily says:
I think much (though not all) of what we like is based on how we were raised. Take food for example. I have noticed that picky eaters are, more often than not, raised by picky eaters. If a parent won’t eat a certain food, their child will usually refuse it also, even if they have never tried it. Adventurous eaters have children who, at least, try new foods and often have more diverse diets.
Who we choose to spend our time with also affects why we like what we like as well. When our peers gravitate towards certain music, activities and behaviors we tend to follow, seeking out new people who like similar things. I think it is mostly our environment that affects why we like what we like
LeeUrton says:
There’s no doubt that how you were raised contributes to your preferences. For example, children will often adopt the same religious views as their parents.
But surely there’s more to it than that. For example. I love science and science fiction and have ever since I was a young boy. However, there are no scientists anywhere in my family, nor did I have any more contact with science or scientists than any other child. Why did I gravitate toward that? Where did that interest come from?
Cecily, were your parents gardeners? Is that where your love of gardening comes from?
Lee, I certainly agree with you that we don’t get all of our preferences for what we like or not from how we are raised. I have a son who is vegetarian, even though he wasn’t exposed to vegetarianism through family and friends. He made that decision based on his own research and choices. I do think that we are greatly influenced by what we are exposed to as young children, though some of our likes are developed through our personal experiences and natural tastes.
And, yes, my father was a hydroponic gardener and raised our own meat and my mother grew flowers. Also, my grandparents and great grandparents were potato farmers.
Next Next post: Is Happiness The Most Important Purpose In Life?
Intellectual Roundtable Facebook Page
Our Favorite Questions
What is the value of inefficiency?
How can we encourage debate?
Is technology neutral?
Freedom or security?
What are you optimistic about?
What makes a tradition?
How do you think others see you?
How can we maintain wonder?
How much is enough?
How much of our thoughts are our own?
What Is Unknowable?
What Gives A Person Value?
Is Happiness The Most Important Purpose In Life?
Why Are We Fascinated With The Unknown?
What Is Your Favorite Sense?
What Is The Best Part About Getting Older? The Worst?
What Do You Want To Learn This Year?
What Makes Something Memorable?
Would You Be Friends With Yourself?
What Are You Skeptical Of?
Cecily on What Do You Want To Learn This Year?
LeeUrton on What Do You Want To Learn This Year?
Michael Dahl on What Do You Want To Learn This Year?
Ruby on What Is The Best Part About Getting Older? The Worst?
linsod on Why Is Love Important?
linsod on What Is The Best Part About Getting Older? The Worst?
Cecily on Crossword Puzzle Or Jigsaw Puzzle?
Ben Weiss on What Is The Best Part About Getting Older? The Worst?
Ben Weiss on How Many Times Did You Move As A Child?
LeeUrton on What Is The Best Part About Getting Older? The Worst?
New Questions Every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday
Intellectual Roundtable Proudly powered by WordPress
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9290
|
__label__cc
| 0.554928
| 0.445072
|
kbupdate.info ›
Visio 2000 articles, fixes and updates - Year 2011
Daily Updated!
chronological list: 2020 | 2018 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013/11 10 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004
alphabetical list: A B C D E F H I M O P R S T U V W Y
This list contains all of the known Microsoft Knowledge Base articles, howtos, fixes, hotfixes, webcasts and updates of Microsoft Visio 2000 that have been released in Year 2011. The list is daily updated.
870622 How to troubleshoot problems that you may experience when you try to print to a local printer by using Office programs in Windows XP Q870622 KB870622 September 18, 2011
297885 Visio2000: Microsoft Office XP Upgrade Causes Visio to Stop Responding When Started Q297885 KB297885 September 13, 2011
© Copyright 2006 - 2021 kbupdate.info
All content copyright of their respective owners.
|
cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9294
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.