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Victoria Elena Nones Chicago Illinois
Complaint: If you have any interest in making film, TV or comedy, stay way the hell away from Victoria Nones. She is the classic conman who can talk a great game to get you excited and get you committed, then she will let you down and lie to your face so hard you to think that it was your fault all along. I had been doing improv comedy in Chicago for a while, and had run into Women in Comedy on the scene a few times, though I hadn’t met Victoria specifically, when I heard that there was a program for female comedy writers to produce their pilots in Chicago. Honestly, I was psyched, because I didn’t really want to/couldn’t afford to move to LA or NYC, but I always wanted to write for a TV show. I applied with most of a pilot I had written, it needed work, but I gave it a shot and I GOT AN INTERVIEw On the call it sounded awesome. So awesome. She told me there would be a supportive grou[ and that we would work together to make all of our pilots and shorts happen. She
Complaint: If you have any interest in making film, TV or comedy, stay way the hell away from Victoria Nones. She is the classic conman who can talk a great game to get you excited and get you committed, then she will let you down and lie to your face so hard you to think that it was your fault all along. I had been doing improv comedy in Chicago for a while, and had run into Women in Comedy on the scene a few times, though I hadn’t met Victoria specifically, when I heard that there was a program for female comedy writers to produce their pilots in Chicago. Honestly, I was psyched, because I didn’t really want to/couldn’t afford to move to LA or NYC, but I always wanted to write for a TV show. I applied with most of a pilot I had written, it needed work, but I gave it a shot and I GOT AN INTERVIEw On the call it sounded awesome. So awesome. She told me there would be a supportive grou[ and that we would work together to make all of our pilots and shorts happen. She told me she had people who would help us shoot it on donated time and we could get donations to our stuff written off through the non-profit she had (Women in Comedy),, just it was really what I needed and was so excited about it that when I got in with what now I think was a barely half developed script I didn’t even think about it I just joined. The first class was kind of weird and I wasn’t super sure how this was going to go but I figured that there must be some cool people in the program, and I really wanted to know how to produce. I think Victoria also does, but she seems to think she already knows and she really does not Our homework had nothing to do with anything movie related or script related, it was crazy and then NONE of our homework ended up having anything to do with figuring out making our scripts. It was extra bad because mine wasn’t even done and I was getting zero mentorship in doing writing. We did learn about joke structure and how to do standu[ bits which was great, but what about TV script structure??? I felt like a bunch of our class time was a total waste so I started kinda trying to figure some stuff out on my own. Not like I could ask Victoria anything because anytime I did it was so personal like I was attacking her and then she just ignored my worries and said we’d do it later. We haven’t. But the really annoying stuff came up fast, starting with the fact that Victoria just left us for a full month out of a si month program to go be on a REALITY SHOW. She just LEFT this program that we all were really dedicated to and she did it a bunch of times. Even when she eventually came back weeks went by without learning anything about how to plan our shoots. The mentorship came only from people who came to speak, who actually knew what they were talking about. Victoria Nones doesn’t know a single thing about how to produce a TV show or even what to ask people for, she gave us absolutely nothing. The “crew”” she had promised turned out to be college kids from a school without a serious film progra
Tags: Business Opportunity Scam, Con Man/ Scam Artist ALERT, Seminar Programs
Address: who she expected to work for free. The “”equipment”” she had lined up? She expected those college kids to provide it
Website: that people could only write off cash donations. She takes 20% of whatever money gets donated too as a “”fee”” for her insight into production even though she knows literally nothing about anything. She forced us to give criticism not anonymous so she could react and basically punish us
Phone: for free. Oh yeah
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BBC apologises after including plug for Brut on Radio 4's Today programme
David Tennant and Eddie Irvine among nine new claims for NotW phone-hacking filed against News UK
Acclaimed former foreign correspondent Maggie O'Kane among latest senior journalists to leave under Guardian cuts
By Dominic Ponsford Twitter
Former Guardian foreign correspondent Maggie O’Kane and music editor Michael Hann are among the latest high-profile journalists to leave the paper under an ongoing voluntary redundancy scheme.
Guardian and Observer NUJ father of chapel Brian Williams is also leaving the company, taking early retirement under the scheme. He has been with The Guardian for 27 years.
Press Gazette understands that Guardian News and Media is on course to hit a target of cutting 100 editorial jobs under a three-year cost-saving scheme which was launched just over a year ago.
Parent company Guardian Media Group made an operating loss of £69m for the year to the end of March 2016. A target has been set hit break-even within the next two years.
O’Kane (pictured top) has been with the Guardian for 25 years and her current role is multimedia editor, investigations. She was previously editorial director of Guardian Films.
O’Kane won plaudits for her reports from Sarajevo during the Yugoslavia civil war and reported from numerous other conflicts around the world subsequently.
She began her reporting for The Guardian on a freelance basis from Bosnia in 1992 where she exposed ethnic cleansing and the existence of a concentration camp housing 2,500 starving Muslims and Croats.
Hann was music editor of The Guardian for 11 years and joined the title five years before that.
Press Gazette understands that all the editorial departures under the current cutbacks have been voluntary and the terms on offer are seen as generous. Compulsory redundancies are not currently on the table.
A Guardian News and Media spokesperson said: “We want to thank Maggie, Michael and Brian for all their important work and dedication to Guardian journalism over the years. We wish them all the very best for the future.”
Picture: The Guardian
Press Association to cut 35 jobs as staff offered 'Voluntary Enhanced Redundancy Scheme'
Regional ABCs: Paid-for local press circulation drops by 6.4 per cent
Guardian News and Media
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Could it be time?! JENNIFER ANISTON APPEARS TO BE PREGNANT!
Jennifer Aniston's management company is speaking out over reports that the Friends star is pregnant and expecting her first child with husband Justin Theroux.
Aniston rep told US Weekly ''It's just another total fabrication, Jennifer is not pregnant.''
The rumours started when In Touch, a US Magazine, featured a picture of Aniston in a bikini on the beach with Theroux on it's June 27 cover.
An arrow pointed to Aniston's stomach declared 'First Bump Pics, World Exclusive'' with the headline saying ''Jen's FINALLY Pregnant!''
The photos were also published by the Daily Mail. In them Aniston sports a black bikini top with blue bottoms as she and Theroux stroll along the shore, wade into the ocean and enjoy some paddleboarding.
The Mothers Day star, who married Theroux in 2015 after a three year engagement has face constant speculation about if or when she wanted to have kids.
She told Allure magazine in January last year ''This is continually said about me: that I was so career-driven and focused on myself; that I don't want to be a mother, and how selfish that is.''
"I don't like the pressure that people put on me, on women — that you've failed yourself as a female because you haven't procreated," she said. "I don't think it's fair. You may not have a child come out of your vagina, but that doesn't mean you aren't mothering — dogs, friends, friends' children."
Well, while her agent may be denying.. we kind of hope she is pregnant!
source: kiis1065.com.au
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QATAR STEEL INDUSTRIES
Established in 1980, we built an organization that would last the challenges of an ever-changing market and one that also would be known for its products in the Qatar Steel Industries. Our focus began with and is still mostly in finished and semi-finished steel goods. The demand for which has allowed us to establish a strong network that now spans 15 branches around the Globe. Our clientele know us for our quality, values and our well-established distribution channels to the extent that we have been awarded the “The Golden Merit for excellence and quality in the Arab world Among the Arab Organization for Administrative Development”.
With over 40 years of Experience, we have supplied Contractors, Developers and Governments for projects that now make up renowned residential areas and vital infrastructure that facilitate them. Qatar Steel Industries Factory has become a name that resounds with the highest standards of quality, performance and customer satisfaction. A name that aims to solidify itself in annals of time as an epitome of Sustainability, Innovation and Dynamism. We have done so in the past, thus we endear to do so for the future.
Industries that focus on Manufacturing such as Qatar Steel Factories need to be built on as system of consistent quality management that is presented at great value. We at Qatar Steel Industries Factory have been perfecting the ingredients for this for almost half a century. Where our innovative practices, expert human resource and the latest technological assimilation has given us the edge placing us as a leading market player.
We will continue to be so for we are driven to refine and seek the best techniques, head hunt the best human resource, source quality raw materials, assimilate the most efficient technology and create value that sustains the current and builds new clientele.
Ethical Practices, upholding highest customer satisfaction standards, manufacturing the best quality and range of products, sustaining and expanding a strong distribution network and finally creating value that resonates with the Global Market. That is what we, Qatar Steel Industries Factory envision and seek to consistently work on.
For ours is a conviction that is as strong and as durable as steel.
Currently in the Qatar Steel Industries, we are known to provide certified high quality flat structural and industrial steel solutions. Notably MS tubes, pipes, angles, beams, channels and plates; GI pipes, sheets and Coils; Aluminum sheets and coils; Corrugated roofing sheets, sandwich roof, wall panels and chain link fencing. Their demand and quality certified by well-known contracts and projects dotting the region.
Qatar Steel Industries Factory was established in 1980, and since then we have carved out an unparalleled position in the international market, providing our clients with premium quality structural steel items.We are constantly aware of the environmental responsibility we face. We understand the scarcity of resources and the ever-increasing cost of materials, energy, and labour. In response, we are committed to sustainability, and developing solutions that preserve the environment and habitations where we source our materials. Our products are energy-saving, resource-saving, time-saving, and high-performance solutions for our everyday life. They are durable, lightweight, easy to assemble and maintain. The end users appreciate the savings and convenience brought about by our products. We look forward to the coming years in business and to serving our community. Qatar Steel Industries Factory has positioned itself to create higher value and contribute to the advancement of the society at the heart of its corporate principles. We welcome any marketing and contracting alliance with partners of similar visions and values. Qatar Steel Industries Factory will strive to be the steel manufacturer of choice for hundreds of private and public organisations all over the world. With Qatar Steel’s uncompromising quality and products, we will continue to deliver value to our customers. I thank you on behalf of our shareholders and staff for your continual support.
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OCTAL becomes member In the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR)
January 07, 2015 | Markets | OCTAL | Oman
OCTAL, a world leader in PET resin and integrated PET sheet manufacturing, continues to explore additional ways to positively impact the packaging industry. OCTAL is taking significant steps toward their goal of increasing visibility and sustainability within the PET packaging industry through its recent membership in the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR).
Founded in 1987, NAPCOR is a trade association for the PET packaging industry that advocates for the use recycling and re-use of PET packaging, promoting the features that make it an environmentally sustainable packaging material. Tom Busard, NAPCOR Chairman, Chief Procurement Officer, Plastipak Packaging Inc. states, “We welcome Octal to the NAPCOR group and look forward to having their unique perspective at the table as we navigate PET’s challenges and opportunities.”
Executive Director at NAPCOR, Rick Moore, explains that, “PET’s reputation as a highly recyclable resin has been earned through decades of investment and effort.” In light of OCTAL’s membership in NAPCOR, Moore stated, “We are delighted that OCTAL, a company with global reputation for sustainability, has joined NAPCOR and is willing to participate in the organization efforts to expand the use of PET in packaging.”
William J. Barenberg Jr., COO, OCTAL, stated that, “OCTAL is pleased to announce that the company has become a member of the National Association for PET Container Resources.” He explains that, “OCTAL views our membership in NAPCOR as an indispensable way to become involved with other PET industry leaders, collaborating to find new and improved ways to expand PET’s competitiveness. We intend to do our part in amplifying NAPCOR’s message around PET as the most environmentally advantage clear rigid packaging material.”
OCTAL’s partnership with NAPCOR is part of an ongoing effort to increase awareness of PET as an increasingly sustainable packaging option. As a complement to this effort, OCTAL is commencing commercial operations in the United States by opening a new extrusion facility in Cincinnati during the later half of 2014.
OCTAL has structured its operational platform to keep the DPET flake stream pure so that it can be reprocessed back into a high-quality sheet. The U.S. facility will focus primarily on recycling PET sheet flake from its customers and other manufacturers to create a new, domestically-available product line composed of both post-industrial and post-consumer flake content, including laminates for modified atmosphere packaging.
OCTAL’s new facility, as well as its membership in an organization as influential as NAPCOR, is an opportunity to make a difference in PET packaging sustainability on a global scale. Through a combined effort of leaders in the PET packaging industry leaders, the implementation of innovative ideas and recycling practices will have a positive impact on the continued of PET resin and sheet for clear rigid packaging.
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Sertraline and Habit Reversal in the Treatment of Patients With Trichotillomania
The purpose of this study is to assess the extent of symptom remission in patients with trichotillomania following treatment with sertraline and/or behavior therapy.
Massachusetts General Hospital - OCD Clinic
Charlestown, Massachusetts, 02129, United States
- Patients will have a DSM-IV diagnosis of TTM.
- TTM symptoms for at least 4 months.
- Scalp as primary site of hair pulling.
- HPS score greater than or equal to 15 OR TTM Impact Scale score greater than 30.
- Written informed consent.
- Men or women aged 18-65 years old.
- Females of childbearing potential must have a negative serum beta-HCG pregnancy test.
- Pregnant women or women of childbearing potential who are not using a medically
accepted means of contraception.
- Patients who, in the investigator's judgement, pose a serious suicidal or homicidal
- Serious or unstable medical illness including cardiovascular, hepatic, renal,
respiratory, endocrine, neurologic, or hematologic disease. Patients on anticoagulant
- History of seizure disorder.
- Comorbid bipolar disorder, psychosis, organic mental disorder, or developmental
disorder.
- If there is a history of substance abuse, patients must be in remission at least 6
- Past trials of sertraline.
- Currently being treated with behavioral therapy, specifically habit reversal training,
for TTM.
- Other medications for medical disorders that may interact with sertraline.
Impulse Control DisordersSertraline and Habit Reversal in the Treatment of Patients With Trichotillomania
Charlestown, Massachusetts
Following entry into the study, subjects will undergo a washout period if they are currently taking a psychotropic medication (two weeks for psychotropic medications except for fluoxetine, which requires a four-week washout). Subjects will then be given a single-blind placebo for two weeks and assessed for symptom consistency.
Subjects will take sertraline or placebo in a double-blind design. Subjects will be assessed with the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D-17), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Clinical Global Impressions Scale (CGI), Hair Pulling Scale (HPS), Trichotillomania (TTM) Impact Scale, Psychiatric Institute Trichotillomania Scale (PITS), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Scale, and Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire (Q-LES-Q) at the start of the washout period and at the end of week two in order to be randomized into the study. Subject randomization to a treatment arm will be based on the random table and in equal proportions.
Subject change scores will be assessed for the above scales, and change scores for the four different treatment groups will be assessed.
Masking: Single (Participant)
Drug: Sertraline
Behavioral: Habit Reversal Training
(submitted: July 1, 2005)
April 2004 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Patients will have a DSM-IV diagnosis of TTM.
TTM symptoms for at least 4 months.
Scalp as primary site of hair pulling.
HPS score greater than or equal to 15 OR TTM Impact Scale score greater than 30.
Written informed consent.
Men or women aged 18-65 years old.
Females of childbearing potential must have a negative serum beta-HCG pregnancy test.
Pregnant women or women of childbearing potential who are not using a medically accepted means of contraception.
Patients who, in the investigator's judgement, pose a serious suicidal or homicidal risk.
Serious or unstable medical illness including cardiovascular, hepatic, renal, respiratory, endocrine, neurologic, or hematologic disease. Patients on anticoagulant therapy.
History of seizure disorder.
Comorbid bipolar disorder, psychosis, organic mental disorder, or developmental disorder.
If there is a history of substance abuse, patients must be in remission at least 6 months.
Past trials of sertraline.
Currently being treated with behavioral therapy, specifically habit reversal training, for TTM.
Other medications for medical disorders that may interact with sertraline.
1999-P-003152
Michael Jenike, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
Principal Investigator: Michael Jenike, M.D. Massachusetts General Hospital
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Guest Column | August 24, 2020
Repurposing An Aging Facility To Produce Cell & Gene Therapies: Layout & Design Considerations
By Erich H. Bozenhardt and Herman F. Bozenhardt
As we noted in Part 1 of this two-part article, many life sciences companies are shifting their operations to encompass new life-saving cell and gene therapy products, also known as advanced therapy medicinal products. In many cases, this requires converting legacy manufacturing facilities to produce these new therapies. In this installment, we will look at the basic design aspects to consider when renovating a facility to meet the unique demands of these therapies without compromising quality.
Modern cell therapy and biotech facilities have many basic requirements for continuous operation that need to be built into a robust facility. With future cell therapy and protein production, we are faced with small volumes, smaller working systems, higher value product, and potentially highly infectious materials.
The key consideration in any modern renovation is planning a space that accommodates the ICH/PICS guidelines, EU Annexes 1 and 2, and the FDA’s CFR 211. Due to the wide range of therapies, viral vectors, and bacterial organisms, the CDC’s guidelines for biosafety levels 1 and 2 (BL-1 and BL-2) and corresponding NIH design guides may also apply.
Ultimately, this leads us to a few basic concepts:
Large open processing suites with ample room to move processing skids in and out, as well as isolator systems for various cell processing
Space to stage volumes of disposables
Unidirectional flow of all personnel, materials, equipment, production, and waste
Segregation of all processing suites by air handling unit (AHU) to provide a robust facility
AHU zoning to contain any contamination within the suites
Air pressurization schemes in suites to contain BL-2 materials
Layout Considerations
What do we need to adapt to produce cell and gene therapies?
An important part of renovating a space for a new function is to step away from the existing layout and conduct a space planning exercise. Adjacency and transition bubble diagrams are effective tools for this. The bubble diagram allows us to better evaluate the existing space to determine what could be repurposed and what would comprise the design. It is an important step in defeating the temptation to just stick new equipment in an old space.
What does this new space for cell therapy look like?
Current processes are still working with a few operations that are open. These are typically at the start of the process, the end, and at media supplementation/vector addition. As products reach commercialization, these operations may be closed. When laying out the space, designs should consider both the current need and the potential future state. With the majority of the process closed, an open ballroom-type space can be utilized for most of the process. Smaller spaces (rooms or isolated environments) should be designated for the open operations. Close proximity of the supporting space to the main operation is needed for operations that process the start of the lot or the end. Isolators could allow the open operation to be in the ballroom suite. Isolator vendors have been listening to what is needed to support cell therapy and have developed solutions like rapid pass chamber cycles and improved dexterity gloves. Media/vector operations could be more distant if needed. Throwing a bunch of biosafety cabinets (BSCs) into a Grade B room is not a solution. The EMA guidance very strongly recommends developing a more robust solution.
One area that is critical to cell therapies but is lacking in most existing spaces is space for freezing the product or in-process material. The cell banking operation of a monoclonal anti-body (mAb) facility is too small and the blast freezing processes of vaccine plants are too large. It may be tempting to place this operation in the warehouse, but we must be aware of the processing time constraints and having the right personnel for the operation.
What does this new space for gene therapy look like?
Transitioning to viral vector/in-vivo gene therapy production can seem like a direct matchup to traditional biotech. Mammalian cell culture, chromatography, and tangential flow filtration are common to both mAbs and viral vectors. For viral vectors, the process train is almost exclusively single use, with production bioreactors topping out at 2,000 L, though for most in-vivo, it is in the 500 L to 1,000 L range and for ex-vivo, 250 L or smaller. Viral contamination is a major risk that can’t be mitigated with orthogonal virus reduction methods, so we have to think about protecting the operators and environment from the product. There isn’t a platform yet, and with acquisitions and process development, there isn’t long-term certainty of the process needs. Many times, these thoughts drive the seed train to be in one room and the production bioreactor to be in a room by itself or in a common downstream room.
Infrastructure (Then, Now, And Future)
The infrastructure requirements for viral vector/in-vivo gene therapy are similar to those of traditional biopharmaceuticals that utilize a single-use equipment train, but potentially at a smaller scale. Cell therapies have different infrastructure needs. Large water systems and process/biological waste drainage are gone. Small but highly distributive systems for air, carbon dioxide, and possibly oxygen are present. The one utility that will increase over traditional biopharmaceuticals is liquid nitrogen. Thinking beyond utilities as infrastructure, autologous cell therapies require a change in operations more like bespoke production. Managing this in a compliant and efficient way requires automation and manufacturing execution systems to be thought of as critical infrastructure.
The HVAC design switches from product protection to product and environment containment. This drives us to look at having:
one AHU per operating suite
evaluating whether to add HEPA filters on the returns or if 100 percent once-through air is the better solution (We cannot contaminate the AHU if we ever expect to maintain it.)
separate in/out airlocks
building in unidirectional flow
The particular solution for containment segregation will ultimately have to match the risks associated with a particular process (e.g., BSL-1, BSL-2, airborne agent or not) and operational needs (e.g., multiproduct, how waste is handled). In one example, a multiproduct in-vivo gene therapy facility utilized a clean supply corridor and return corridor philosophy with bubble airlocks in and sinks out. The bubbles were on the corridor AHU, the sinks were fully exhausted, and each suite was recirculated through a dedicated AHU. This facility selectively used low leakage hermetically sealing doors at the boundary of the space served by an AHU to allow the AHU to be taken off-line and the room fumigated while operations continued in adjacent rooms.
A single-product autologous cell therapy facility used a mix of the containment airlock philosophy for rooms with open operations and traditional cascade out for rooms with closed operations.
Operational Considerations
An in-vivo gene therapy facility could require some new operational methods depending on what the site is familiar with, but the methodology is in use in other aspects of the industry. Cell therapies can lead to operational challenges that we as an industry are just starting to understand. How do you maintain chain of custody? This will drive how you segregate equipment and workspaces. How do you manage batch records for products where a batch is for one patient and may need to be released in hours or days instead of weeks? How is the staffing/shift schedule going to adapt to a scale-out type process?
The first major challenge with qualification of a cell or gene therapy facility is that these projects are typically being fast tracked. Sometimes, that is with good reason, as we want to get a product that is demonstrating >90 percent survivability in relapsed cancer to patients quickly. In the rush, though, we can’t lose sight that the process needs to deliver products of a consistent quality. For viral vectors/in-vivo gene therapy, single-use systems and the similarity in scale to process development can lead to simple alignment of requirements if worked out with the vendor up front. Cell therapies run the full spectrum of easy to complex. A CAR T cell process could use standard off-the-shelf lab equipment, whereas a process that uses custom robotics (that require computer system validation) could spend more time in qualification than it took to upfit the production suite.
As the industry expands production in the fields of cell and gene therapies/advanced therapy medicinal products, adapting legacy facilities to these new fields will be a profound consideration. The ability to successfully execute the necessary changes will require a comprehensive understanding of the existing facility’s condition, which might be ripe for renovation already, and a plan to meet the unique demands of these new therapy types. The challenge will be adapting and engineering a legacy facility and including all the critical requirements while not compromising on quality.
Erich Bozenhardt, PE, is the process manager for IPS-Integrated Project Services’ process group in Raleigh, NC. He has 14 years of experience in the biotechnology and aseptic processing business and has led several biological manufacturing projects, including cell therapies, mammalian cell culture, and novel delivery systems. He has a B.S. in chemical engineering and an MBA, both from the University of Delaware.
Herman Bozenhardt has 44 years of experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device manufacturing, engineering, and compliance. He is a recognized expert in the area of aseptic filling facilities and systems and has extensive experience in the manufacture of therapeutic biologicals and vaccines. His current consulting work focuses on the areas of aseptic systems, biological manufacturing, and automation/computer systems. He has a B.S. in chemical engineering and an M.S. in system engineering, both from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
Image courtesy of IPS
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Scholarships 2020/2021
Scholarships are due in the G.O. 5 school days prior to the actual application due date
Scholarship Information Deadline
The Coca-Cola Scholars Program This is an achievement-based scholarship awarded to graduating high school seniors. Students are recognized for their capacity to lead and serve, as well as their commitment to making a significant impact on their schools and communities. Please visit the following website for more information: https://www.coca-colascholarsfoundation.org/apply/ October 31
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Thomas H. Moore Illinois Electric Cooperatives (IEC) Memorial Scholarship Program Illinois electric cooperatives will award 12 $2,000 scholarships in 2021 to financially assist deserving students in the electric cooperative family. To learn more about the scholarship and apply, visit https://aiec.coop/iec-scholarship/ December 15
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Having transformed the former General Motors Delphi plant, Continental Dairy Facilities, LLC (CDF) and fairlife, LLC operate a dairy products plant in Coopersville, MI.
In 2012, Continental Dairy began producing cream condensed milk and nonfat dried milk in Coopersville, MI. Five years later, they are taking in milk from four other dairy cooperatives in 35 different counties and producing over 300,000 pounds of dry nonfat milk per day. This rapid growth has led to multiple plant and production expansions.
In 2013, fairlife joined Continental Dairy Facilities at the Coopersville campus and has also experienced impressive growth. Using a patented cold filtration process, fairlife produces reconstituted milk products with increased protein and calcium levels while decreasing lactose and sugar levels at the same time. Their product line includes milk, energy drinks, flavored milks, and iced coffee beverages.
As production from both facilities has increased, so has the amount of process wastewater generated at the Coopersville campus. As a result, the facility has incurred significant surcharges for exceeding the amount of wastewater the campus is permitted to send to the City of Coopersville Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW).
With the POTW at capacity, the future expansion plans of both production facilities were limited and created an urgent need for an updated wastewater solution that would not only meet the needs of Continental Dairy Facilities and fairlife, but also the City of Coopersville. Finding a feasible solution was imperative to future growth and reducing surcharges from the City. Additionally, there was very little physical space available for upgrades to the existing wastewater pretreatment system.
In order to reduce surcharges and allow for future expansion, CDF (who manages the wastewater system for the joint facility) and their project management firm Select Services LLC reached out to The Probst Group.
After evaluating the system, Probst engineers determined that two (2) 300 square foot dissolved air flotation (DAF) units would present an ideal solution for effectively pretreating the facility’s wastewater. The upgrades would also minimize costs, as Probst designed a solution that would fit within their existing facility.
The DAF units could be operated in parallel, series, or solo mode, based on the flowrates. The physical/chemical treatment process utilized for effective DAF operation is well-suited for dairy wastewater pretreatment and is easy to operate. Skimmings from the DAF (sludge) would be stored in a silo for hauling off-site.
The Probst Group provided a unique solution for this project, providing complete design-build services that allowed the Probst team to leverage our team of suppliers and local contractors to install the new units and required components.
Construction took about 6 months, with most of the time dedicated to equipment fabrication and procurement.
The DAFs were started up in October 2017, and the results were immediate and significant. The DAFs performed so well and took so much biological loading from the system, that the POTW had to request they send more load to help keep the POTW system healthy.
As a result, CDF was able to reduce their chemical use and operating cost to meet the POTW demands, while still avoiding surcharges.
The end result was a huge positive for CDF, reducing their wastewater costs while providing flexibility for future expansion.
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Statement of Former House Chairman Bob Goodlatte and PPSA General Counsel Gene Schaerr on the House’s Failure to Renew Patriot Act Surveillance Provisions
Yesterday’s failure of the Senate-amended reauthorization of Section 215 of the Patriot Act is on balance a win for Americans’ privacy—and it augurs even greater privacy protections in the future.
First, the debate over that reauthorization has moved the entire discussion over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), of which Section 215 is a part, toward greater protection for privacy: The reauthorization bill failed in the House because of opposition from the President—but not on the grounds, as the Justice Department complained, that it placed too many constraints on FBI surveillance. The President’s objection—which carried the day among House Republicans—was that the reauthorization bill didn’t go far enough in protecting Americans’ privacy. This unprecedented failure to reauthorize a portion of FISA on the grounds that it doesn’t adequately protect Americans’ privacy is itself a significant win—and will color the debate both in and on the House-Senate conference that the House has now requested.
Second, the practical result of the failed reauthorization may well be the death knell of Section 215 as we know it. When it was in effect, that provision authorized the FBI to surveil sensitive “business records” containing confidential information about Americans—but without a probable-cause warrant. Echoing the Fourth Amendment, the President’s main ground for opposing reauthorization was that “warrantless surveillance of Americans is wrong”—which is exactly what Section 215 did. So the Administration will be hard-pressed to now support reauthorization of that provision, at least in its current form, in a House-Senate conference or otherwise.
In short, given the President’s rationale for opposing the reauthorization, now apparently accepted by House Republicans, and given similar views among progressive Democrats, there is now a good prospect that Section 215 will never be resurrected, at least without a true warrant requirement. That will be an enormous win for privacy—and for the Fourth Amendment.
Third, the overwhelming 77-19 bipartisan Senate vote for the Lee-Leahy Amendment—and the initial strong support for that provision in the House—provides a baseline for all future FISA reforms. That amendment would reform the process by which the FISA court considers sensitive intelligence agency requests for surveillance of Americans – by providing for the appointment of a legal expert to advocate for privacy. That amendment should and likely will be a condition of any reauthorization of any expiring FISA authorities, including any version of Section 215 adopted in any House-Senate conference.
To be sure, we would have preferred that the Lee-Leahy reforms be adopted and immediately applied to all FISA court proceedings. But on balance, the permanent expiration of Section 215—if it remains expired—combined with the creation of a clear pathway for enacting the Lee-Leahy reforms in the future, should ultimately produce a big net win for Americans’ privacy.
Contact: Gene Schaerr, General Counsel Mark Davis, Director of Policy Bob Goodlatte, Senior Policy Adviser
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Following Shadows
A World War II Novel about Japanese Concentration Camps, the Impact on Families and Triumph of the Human Spirit
by Janneke Jobsis Brown
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Following Shadows is inspired by my own story. As a survivor of an international childhood with parents who were World War II survivors, I know the generational after-effects of starvation and slave labor in Japanese concentration camps for my father, and the terror of Nazi occupation for my mother. I know the challenges of struggling to feel at home across three countries: The Netherlands, Iran and America. All along, my World War II trauma-survivor parents shared their pride over what they and others overcame. Both my parents lost their childhoods to WWII, and especially my father left a hole in his history—his three and a half years in the concentration camps in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).
Contemplating the strengths, fears, faith and hopes of such a background led me to tell the story of a family searching and healing in a fictional format. So, in the last decade I started Following Shadows, traveled to my birth country (The Netherlands) and experienced my father’s death. He died without ever telling any immediate family member what he went through as a survivor of WWII Japanese concentration camps in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Most Dutch survivors could not return to their Indonesian homes. Instead, survivors were slowly repatriated to the mother-country, The Netherlands, which they had never considered their home.
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Poignant and hypnotic, Following Shadows: A World War II Novel about Japanese Concentration Camps, the Impact on Families and Triumph of the Human Spirit by Janneke Jobsis Brown is a historical novel that explores the damaging effects of an experience of a Japanese concentration camp in the Dutch East Indies on a family. We encounter Jakob Vanderveer who suffered the brutality and loss of his father in a concentration camp. When liberation came, he vowed to keep the pain within him. It would be best if no one knew what he experienced, so he thinks.
Now a father, Jakob doesn’t understand that his parenting style is hurting his family and in far deeper ways than he can imagine. The children - Luce, Alby and Corrie - unwittingly do the same thing their father did; hide their pain and frustration. Luce is an alcoholic, Alby a druggie, and Corrie a workaholic. But it won’t be long before tragedy hits. It’s when Alby overdoses himself and almost dies that Jakob understands the level of pain he has inflicted on his family. It’s time to take the lid off the boiling pot and let the secrets out. Follow him and his family on a journey towards healing and wholeness. Will it be too late to undo the harm that has been done?
Following Shadows might be a disturbing story, but it is an engrossing, deeply moving story of pain and healing, a tale with relevant historical underpinnings. Janneke Jobsis Brown’s characters are finely sculpted, real, and believable. Readers encounter humans who are struggling to make sense of their suffering. This narrative features themes of family, the dangers of war, man’s inhumanity to man, and communicates the powerful message that when we share our pain it lessens, and that when we accept our pain we rob it of most of its sting. It’s an engaging and satisfying read.
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kansaskwakker says:
Sure would love it if the talented Renee would come to KU or even Kansas City. The univ has Lied Center would be fantastic. I’m early 60’s and run a lot. she’s a must-have on the playlist. what a songbird, aces at getting me up that hill so Thanks for the Boogie Ride, Renee Olstead and please, please please, play a date at Kansas Univ or the KC area. That would be the swellest thing since ever.
jazzbo says:
When the gorgeous Ms. Genevieve landed the Playboy cover, i knew Renee would give her a shout on her Official page. The primary response. “When are YOU going to be in Playboy?” was expected as well. Let me go on the record that Renee should pass on a pictorial, but perhaps do a cover. Am I a prude? Nope. Would I buy that hypothetical issue? Yep.The fact is, however, that Gia Genevieve is a model, while Renee is a wonderful singer and underrated actress as well as a pin-up model of the old school. “Playboy” tends to trump other things on a resume’,and Renee’s music and acting should not be overshadowed.
bestsoccers says:
Trying to find a copy of Christmas in Love by Rene, anyone know where I can buy a copy, I’ve tried Apple, Amazon, Best Buy, Martiniinthemorning,?
Stefan Lang says:
@bestsoccers You cannot buy it. Maybe you can extract it from the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70f4wjFdyk4 or from here http://mp3tunes.org/mp3/renee%20olstead%20a%20love
Stefan, my response to question #2 of the current contest keeps getting rejected but I know it’s right. I have tried the full names of the songwriters and their stage names. Help?
I had a lot of work to make my flash-version of the new contest, but try the html-Version (multiple choice). It’s easier 😉
What has been germinating with the career of Renee Olstead-King is so exciting to fans of fairly long standing. Her music keeps gaining new listeners (the CD market is unfortunately weak), her modeling (see today’s fanclub post) puts her with the most compelling models out there, and her film career has exploded in the last couple of years. My Pinterest board for Renee reads “should be WAY better known”,,,may not be appropriate much longer…
As the holidays approach. I would like to wish everyone a very happy season. Don’t know how long I have been using this forum,but the explosion in Renee’s career makes me so happy-today Maxim bestowed a “Hot 10” rating. Bout damn time! In her interview, Renee lists Miss Mosh as her #1 girl crush, just one more reason to love her. I am babbling, I know, but Renee’s success is no accident, as we in this club have are very aware.
JerryAngel says:
I am a new fan of Renee Olstead. I plan on buying every album she has. I want her to keep putting out albums. I don’t see enough. I hope you can read me Renee. Please put out more albums singing The Great American Songbook. The standards. Be Michael Buble’s counterpart. I want more. What is going on with your record company? Please tell them you want an album every year. I want your discography to be many albums. You are very talented. Hugs always.
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8K Association Strengthens Performance Spec for 8K TVs
Program now recognizes a broader set of video decoding standards that will promote the wider availability of 8K streaming content.
The 8K Association (8KA), the cross-industry group dedicated to promoting the growth of the 8K ecosystem, has published an updated performance specification for the 8K Association Certified mark program. TV shoppers looking for televisions that offer four times the resolution available from 4K TVs and that meet the high-performance standards of the 8K Association Certified program will benefit from the new broader performance requirements applied to 8K TVs launching in the market starting this year.
In addition to the existing requirements for resolution, luminance, color, and connectivity standards that ensure powerful big-screen performance, the 8K Association Certified logo program now recognizes a broader set of video decoding standards that will promote the wider availability of 8K streaming content. In addition, the updated requirements ensure that 8K TVs can enable access to advanced multi-dimensional surround sound formats for an immersive home theater experience.
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In addition to the 8KA’s updated performance standard for TVs, the organization expects to promote the growth of the 8K ecosystem in the year ahead with a focus on educating video content creators on the benefits of capturing, finishing, and distributing video in 8K resolution.
Established two years ago, the 8K Association has grown to encompass a broad membership of leading companies that represent all parts of the 8K ecosystem. From 8K content creators and technology suppliers that enable 8K content creation to display semiconductor makers, panel manufacturers and the world’s biggest TV brands — 8KA member companies are at the forefront of delivering the most impressive images from lens to living room.
The 8K Association site for industry professionals is available at www.8KAssociation.com.
Find 8K Association Certified products and learn about how 8K can be enjoyed at home at the 8K Association site for consumers — www.Discover8K.com.
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On behalf of Reinstein, Glackin & Herriott, LLC | Jan 19, 2019 | Motor Vehicle Accidents
If you have shopped for a new vehicle in Maryland in the last couple of years, you might have seen vehicles that feature interesting new safety technologies. You might even have taken one of these vehicles for a test drive. The idea that technology can help people drive more safely and avoid accidents is certainly enticing. However, it is important for people to be educated about the true capabilities of these systems.
As explained by The Drive, features that automatically apply the brakes, detect objects in a driver’s blind spot or alert drivers to a potentially unintended lane departure are referred to as driver assist features. That term deserves special attention, especially the inclusion of the word “assist”. Some experts fear that people might start considering these features all but replacements for themselves but, in reality, they are only aids meant to adjunct the human driver’s actions.
If drivers who operate vehicles with these driver assist technologies in them become too reliant on them, they could be putting themselves and others on the road in danger. There is a distinct difference between a vehicle that has some safety aid features and a fully autonomous vehicle designed to operate without any human interaction except in very select situations.
This information is not intended to provide legal advice but is instead meant to give residents and drivers in Maryland some information about how new vehicle technologies might be helping them stay safe and how these technologies might provide new risks to them.
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Most homeless families in Dublin previously in private rentals
Updated / Thursday, 13 Jun 2019 14:42
The report says lone parents, migrants and members of the Travelling community face a disproportionate risk of family homelessness
A new report by Focus Ireland on the key drivers and dynamics of family homelessness in Dublin shows that, for a majority of families, the root cause of their homelessness was having to leave private rented accommodation.
The most commonly cited reason was landlords withdrawing their property from the market.
The charity said its data shows a majority of families who are experiencing homelessness report notably stable housing histories with lengthy and successful tenancies in the rental sector.
However, when trying to look for alternative accommodation after receiving a notice of termination from their landlord, families are at high risk of housing precariousness for sometimes lengthy periods.
The report says lone parents, migrants (parents originally born outside of Ireland) and members of the Travelling community face a disproportionate risk of family homelessness.
The charity adds that, while a majority of families are actively attempting to exit homelessness, the difficulties in sourcing affordable and stable private rented accommodation can be profound.
The report details the findings from surveys with 237 families residing in emergency accommodation in Dublin.
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Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, the Director of Advocacy at Focus Ireland said all the evidence shows that the homelessness crisis is taking place in the private rented sector.
Mike Allen said that the vast majority of the families surveyed had been living in the private rental sector without any problem until the crisis came along.
He reiterated that the vast majority of homelessness is caused by landlords leaving the market, and said families searching for HAP properties face extensive searches.
Three-quarters of the families surveyed were looking for such properties, and two-thirds of them went to more than 20 viewings.
This, he said, dispels the notion that families are refusing properties.
"We found that three-quarters of the families were looking for HAP properties. They were out there looking regularly. Two-thirds of the families that were looking for HAP said they looked at more than twenty properties.
"So they went to look at the property but they weren't accepted. So people talk about families not taking up HAP, but that's not the picture at all."
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My Love/Hate Relationship with Running
This Valentine's Day I'll celebrate with my true love- running.
By Jennifer Riddall
It’s February and everybody is talking about love. But having always been cynical about the concept of Valentine’s Day, I’ll leave the marveling over tacky heart-shaped gifts and expensive wilting flowers to somebody-else.
One passion that I am happy to talk about is running, which I developed a love/hate relationship with seven years ago. Not dissimilar to a human courtship we've had our ups and downs, but it all started with a 5-K Race For Life in 2006 and grew from there. Fast forward past a few 10-Ks, a half-marathon and - *beams* - a full marathon (I have the medal and wonky toenails to prove it) and I am still faithful to my running. Other sports have come and gone but this one has stood the test of time. Although I remain partial to the occasional horse ride or gym membership, not to mention a precarious dabble in surfing, running remains my number one sporting priority.
There are some days when it makes me sick - quite literally on the odd long-run occasion - and there have been times when I even think about hanging up my trainers forever. Every now and then, to reignite the spark, I’ll buy myself a new moisture-wicking top, or a high visibility armband (it doesn't take much), but more often I'll just pry myself off the sofa or away from my desk and loathingly tie up my laces. Whatever it takes to get me back out there. Within minutes of pounding the pavement again I feel a great sense of relief and achievement. That's the thing about running; there is always a reason to feel good about what you’ve accomplished. Whether it's completing 26.2 miles before the sweep bus catches up with you, or just getting out of the house for a quick three-miler, it's completely subjective.
Running has also helped me through some tough times. In 2011 I lost my uncle in a hang gliding accident. It was all very sudden and tragic and I hadn’t experienced anything like it before. A running buddy suggested joining her in a last-minute half-marathon to help take my mind off it. At that point I was running a couple of three and four-milers a week, but 18 days later I found myself at the start line of a race that had 13.1 miles stretched out ahead. Probably the only runner spurred on by the melancholic tones of Adele's “Someone Like You,” I finished in a respectable two hours and one minute (although being so close to a sub-two finish time still bugs me). Amid friendly suggestions to take up yoga or start cooking, I found solace in running as it provided an outlet for my grief.
We are far from a match made in heaven though. Family members and friends tell me to give it up and find something else, worrying that my asthma, heart murmur and flat feet - probably the most unfortunate out of the three - are better suited to something less energetic. But I find it helps. My lung capacity feels like it has increased and my heart palpitations only occur with stress, which is dispelled by running. As for my flat feet, however, they are definitely better suited to swimming and continue to ache like mad, but that's why orthotics were invented.
So, this February 14th I’ll be displaying my version of a PDA (public display of affection) by hitting the streets in my purple Asics and pink New Balance top. I’ll be happily running along to the sound of “Money Can't Buy Me Love,” which reminds me of another reason why I love the sport - it’s free! Apart from, of course, the fancy high-tech running watch (with built-in heart rate monitor) that I received from my husband for my birthday, which just so happens to be three days before Valentine's Day.
Jennifer Riddall is a freelance journalist and former magazine editor of B2B and consumer titles. Writing across a range of subject areas including weddings, parenting, travel, online and land-based gambling, fitness, health and beauty. Follow her on Twitter at @jenriddall and her website jenniferriddall.com.
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Malala’s Top Five Most Inspiring Quotes
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In celebration of the youngest person in history winning the Nobel Peace Prize 2014, Sammy Jones lists some of Malala Yousafzai’s most inspiring quotes.
17-year-old Malala Yousafzai has been named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2014. Her attempted assassination on her journey home from school has attracted unprecedented media attention to the plight of Taliban-occupied Pakistan.
She has spoken at the UN, appeared on America’s The Jon Stewart Show and co-written her autobiography, ‘I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban’. Take a look at some of her most inspiring quotes.
1) “Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.”
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2) “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
3) “My mother always told me,”hide your face- people are looking at you”. I would reply,”It does not matter; I am also looking at them.”
4) “I speak not for myself but for those without voice… those who have fought for their rights… their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.”
5) “Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.”
Do you find Malala inspiring? Do you know any other young people that should be in line for the next prize? Let us know on Twitter and Facebook
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Surrealism > Print > Raffi Kaiser
Raffi Kaiser
Israeli (1931)
Etching, signed in pencil
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About The Artist: Raffi Kaiser
Born in Jerusalem on May 27, 1931. Studies successively at: Fine-Arts School Tel-Aviv, Ecole des Beaux-Arts - Paris, and later at the Accademia di Belle Arti - Florence. 1960-1962 Lives in Toscany, studies Italian Medieval and Renaissance art. 1962 Moves to Paris. 1967 First prize winner - Adolphe Neuman contest. Winner of the "Best Foreign Artist" contest Musée d'art moderne de la Vile de Paris, France. 1968 Individual exhibition -...
About The Medium: Etching
The printing process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In traditional pure etching, a metal (usually copper, zinc or steel) plate is covered with a waxy ground which is resistant to acid. The artist then scratches off the ground with a pointed etching needle where they want a line to appear in the finished piece, exposing the bare metal. The plate is then put through a high-pressure printing press together with a sheet of paper (often moistened to soften it). The paper picks up the ink from the etched lines, making a print.
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Home Education Essex County Education Association: We cannot support reopening of schools in September
Essex County Education Association: We cannot support reopening of schools in September
Eric Strauss
Anthony Rosamilia, the president of the Essex County Education Association — which represents more than 12,000 educators in the county — sent a letter to the county superintendent and dozens of elected officials Friday, saying the county’s teachers do not feel schools should reopen in September.
The letter, signed by the heads of 27 Education Association groups in Essex County, said the dangers stemming from COVID-19 are too real to ignore, even with proposed guidelines from the state. The group said there’s no guarantee safety protocols will work. And that teachers and administrators should be devoting the remainder of summer to preparing for remote learning.
“For us, the danger that COVID-19 presents is all too real,” the letter said. “For the last several weeks, our members have been faithfully participating in reopening committees in our districts. We would like nothing more than to return to our classrooms and offices to educate our students in a safe environment. However, it is clear that the science supports that reopening school buildings this fall is unsafe.
“Therefore, the Essex County Education Association cannot, in good faith, support the reopening of public schools for in-person instruction in September.”
Anthony Rosamilia of the ECEA.
With nearly 800,000 residents, Essex County is the third-largest in the state, trailing only Bergen and Middlesex.
Rosamilia said the association is asking leaders to make a move to all-remote learning as soon as possible.
On Friday, the state released guidance saying parents could request all-remote learning. Rosamilia is asking that be made mandatory for all.
“We are asking that you recognize the obvious, that it is totally unrealistic to expect that we can safely open our schools for in-person instruction in September,” the letter said. “By declaring a remote start for school in September now, this will provide parents time to arrange for child care and educators to better prepare for remote instruction.
“Time, though, is of the essence. Districts are wasting precious weeks creating plans with convoluted schedules and Plexiglas dividers that are plainly unworkable.”
The letter notes the best of intentions and planning, but said the risk to the health and safety of students and staff is too high.
“We know that indoor activities in small spaces for long periods of time presents the highest risk for the spread of COVID-19,” the letter said. “Currently, the New Jersey Department of Health acknowledges that, short term, indoor dining is not safe. The World Health Organization now agrees that COVID-19 may spread through the air in indoor enclosed spaces. Just this week, it was reported that scientists also believe that COVID-19 may be spread by HVAC units.
“Enclosed spaces and long periods of time describe the exact conditions in our classrooms. In addition, chronic problems with HVAC systems in our buildings are prevalent across the county, even in well-resourced districts. To address just that one issue, it would likely take tens of millions of dollars and probably more than a year. This reflects the magnitude of the problems we face.”
Rosamilia said a lack of funding will be an issue.
“There are countless other health and safety issues that are equally daunting, including busing and COVID testing and tracing, and they come during a time when we are facing budget shortfalls and no guarantee of assistance from the federal government,” the letter said.
Rosamilia also said compliance from students will be a challenge.
“Small children are not developmentally able to understand or undertake social distancing,” the letter said. “It will be an impossible task to keep them apart. As educators, we are problem-solvers and inherently optimistic. Just try to teach a lesson on Halloween and you will see optimism personified. But this is not a challenge to be overcome, it is an impossibility.
“If we open buildings for in-person instruction, make no mistake, students will not maintain social distance and the results may be deadly. For some of our students, compliance with rules is often difficult. Therefore, regardless of age level, the maintenance of safety protocols is utterly unrealistic.”
Rosamilia said the organization is eager to return to the classroom — and the social benefits that come along with it. He feels the way classes will have to be maintained potentially could hurt more than help.
“We understand that parents want to resume a sense of normalcy for their children,” he said. “We want that too. But we all need to understand the new realities of classrooms in the age of COVID-19.
“As a teacher for the last 24 years, I can attest that educators have spent the last decade engaged in an effort to emphasize the social and emotional development of our students. Simply put, we understand now more than ever that, for students to learn, they must feel safe, welcome and part of the community. How exactly will they do that with desks spaced 6 feet apart? How will they feel as they are constantly reminded to stay apart from their friends, and to not touch their masks, and to not share supplies and keep to their Plexiglas ‘personal space’ in the classroom? How will that work exactly, with kindergarteners?”
Rosamilia said actions such as going to the bathroom will now require the careful orchestration — and that instructional time will be lost to monitor sanitizing and compliance to social distancing and mask-wearing. He also feels both students and adults will be stressed out by the experience.
More than that, he argues there even with “all these draconian measures,” there is still no guarantee that students will be safe from COVID-19.
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Tierney Gearon's Family as Art
From Atlanta originally, Tierney Gearon was an aspiring ballerina in far away Utah when she was approached by someone from a European modeling agency. They liked her look. They asked her to drop ballet and to become a model. Gearon agreed. Gearon embarked on a successful career as a rising model.
Something unexpected happened along the way, however. As Gearon posed for photographs, she slowly became interested in the process of taking and developing the photographs themselves. She began experimenting with her own camera, taking shots of fellow models. When she showed some of her photographs to someone she knew in the industry, Gearon was surprised to receive high marks on her technique. Thus encouraged, a young Gearon changed careers again and moved behind the camera.
For another five years, Gearon's budding career as a fashion photographer moved from success to success. Her images appeared in national publications and were used on billboard campaigns. It was perhaps no surprise to those who knew her that another career move was in the offing. Gearon's considerable talent was expanding past the horizons of fashion and into fine art photography.
Coinciding with her artistic transformation was another sort of change. Tierney Gearon became a mother. It was her family life that served as inspiration for her artistic evolution outside of fashion and into art photography. Gearon's first major show was called "I am a Camera". Many of the images she presented were of her family and children. Two in particular would vault Gearon into international notoriety.
One image was of her young nude son urinating. The other was of both son and daughter playing at the beach in the nude. The images were innocent, sweet, and far from exploitative. Much to Gearon's surprise, the images sparked a massive controversy. Police visited the Saatchi Gallery where her show was hosted. There were whispers that the images would soon be confiscated. A furore erupted in the national media.
When the public saw the images, it came down firmly on the side of Gearon. The images were harmless and sentimental. They were not sexual or damaging. The images remained at the Saatchi and for a time, Gearon became a household name. The public enjoyed the maternal affection that showed through in many of Gearon's photographs. The images also have a simplicity and colorfulness that resonated with people. The publicity because of the controversy, initially bad, transformed into good publicity that boosted Gearon's career.
Gearon went on to be featured in two exhibitions that received publicity as a consequence of her earlier participation in the controversy. In 2006, Gearon presented a show called "The Mother Project" that was a critical success as well as a hit with the public. In 2008, Gearon opened a show called "Explosure" that was similarly successful. Her work has also been shown in a number of museums and galleries including the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the Parrish Art Museum, and the Gagosian. Gearon did work for The New York Times Magazine that was presented as "Hollywood Heroines".
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Korakrit Arunanondchai is a multi-media artist from Thailand who now lives and works in New York. As I am writing these words, Korakrit is filming a video for his show opening July 18th at The Mistake Room in Los Angeles, which will then turn into a part of a bigger project that he will be throwing himself into in the coming months.
Korakrit’s work investigates the structures of one’s existence, what is it like to be a human and more specifically, an artist and the spleen and pleasures that come with the job. Parallel to the experience of life, one piece keeps evolving into the next, a realistic rendering of memories and relationships, specifically familial relationships.
Korakrit contemplates the contemplative, whether in a performance or video, his subjects are looking: there is the ocean or screens playing a previous video piece. Older works enter new works, and older characters are connected to the newer ones. Like in Balzac’s realist work, everything is interrelated, and keep on evolving as new novels are written. Korakrit’s viewer is also his subject and he/she participates actively in the experience of the work itself.
I believe that Korakrit’s work is meant to be consumed as an experience and not as an object. The word gesamtkunstwerk is often used by Korakrit and others to describe his work for a reason; upon consumption, the viewer fully enters the world of the artist, visually as well as audibly. The work lies in the energy created by the variety of building blocks; together, they create a whole. The layer of a video will be used in another video, in a performance—such as the one he did in February at PS1 in New York—and, as you will read in the interview below, perhaps in a feature film. I sat down with Korakrit before he flew off to Los Angeles, and let the conversation flow naturally.
Installation view of, Korakrit Arunanondchai, at MoMA PS1. Photograph by Matthew Septimus. Courtesy of the artist and MoMA PS1.
In Los Angeles, you’ll be working on a high production video for your show at The Mistake Room. For your video work, you have people make original music and actors playing themselves. How did this collaborative system come together and how do you see it developing?
I’ve always wanted to be able to work with people. When I was growing up, team sports were very important to me. But more importantly, this desire to work with people has to do with my upbringing. Since I was young I enjoyed interacting with living things. I lived alone with my grandparents for a few years as a young child, and I remember being at the beach with them, and the beach was always empty. I felt like this isolation was a byproduct of my grandparents’ old age, being retired. As a young person, I wanted to be around many people.
I want to be around many people when I’m old.
Me too. As a child I always wanted energy and I always wanted people around me and I always wanted action. Since kindergarten I was always really interested in interacting with people and playing games with others. It sucks that a lot of children’s interactions have to do with competing. Like playing a card games against each other or something. I hate how there are winners and losers. I always wanted to be a part of a school play, but I went to a school where school plays didn’t exist. I just really like the idea of people coming together to do something awesome and build up energy. I experienced that for the first time when I joined a band in high school.
But aren’t there also hierarchies within bands? I assume everyone finds their own place depending on their personality.
I think in a band the person who wants to work the most ends up working the most, and other people who care less, end up caring less. That’s similar to making art with people. When I started art school I was always with a group of people. The students from my printmaking major at RISD and I would always sit together and play an exquisite corpse. I’ve always valued a fun creative process, I like sharing a studio—I rarely work in isolation.
But when you work with other people, how much freedom do they have? Do you trust that the decisions they make will be right for the project? Or do you just select the people you work with carefully and let the project develop as the collaboration takes place?
It depends on what we’re doing. So far, most of the projects that I’ve done, especially since 2011, have involved me being the ring-leader because they’ve been about my relationship to my family in Thailand. In a way, it’s inherent to the project content that I somehow am the director even if it’s a collaboration.
I like how your family holds such an important place in your work. How are you—by talking about something so specific, such as your own family dynamic—able to address issues that your viewer can relate to?
Every person has been surrounded by various relationships. I believe that there are certain vehicles such as music, noises, and certain ways of editing that transfer these emotions. In one of my videos, there is a part when I’m watching another video with my grandparents. Looking at a screen with family members is quite universal.
Performance at MoMA PS1 VW Dome with Korakrit Arunanondchai and Boychild, environmental design by Alex Gvojic and music by Harry Bornstein. March 23, 2014. Photograph by Charles Roussel. Courtesy of the artist, MoMA PS1.
When you collect footage, do you already have a clear vision of what you are trying to accomplish?
No. For instance, in this trilogy project I’m working on, when I amass footage I am painting different parts with a rough and abstract idea of what the whole will be, you know? And then I have all these parts, and those aren’t completely considered, and then when I edit, and I bring them together like words in a story and think about the audience I’m addressing to create my narrative.
Let’s talk about the video that you’re going to be filming in LA in July. Boychild, who you’ve collaborated with in previous videos and performances, is going to be dressed as you and playing you in the film. Why?
At this point I use my physical appearance as a medium, so yes, Boychild will be wearing a blonde wig and wearing denim, like me, but Boychild isn’t fully “me” in this video. Boychild is just going to embody that specific aspect of me.
That sounds exciting. You are going to get to look at that aspect of yourself from an outside perspective, as you’re turning yourself into a controlled character that you get to direct.
So exciting! Especially because this is the first time I will officially be directing a video. So far I’ve always been in front of the camera in my work, not shooting it.
Many artists use themselves as subjects at first because their own body is what they have easy access to, would you say that’s also true in your case?
Yeah, especially because most of my videos up to this point have been pretty low budget and DIY. When you’re the subject of your own work you can kind of imagine what you want out of a scene or a piece and then perform it So there’s a certain kind of one-to-one in the video where I have a rough idea of what I’m doing even before the video is shot, you know? I think this method I’ve been using is more immediate and requires less planning, which is perfect for road movies and things on the go.
After this LA video will you go back to being in your own videos?
This video I am doing in LA will be filmed as a commercial, to eventually be a part of the feature length piece I want to direct. So far, not being in it myself is my first logical step. I will be in the narrative and not be an important character physically, but I will still be present somehow because all my works are a continuation of the previous ones.
This video is made in the same universe as the previous ones and the future ones. This future feature will mostly be fiction, but I have been building up and making relationships with it through the semi-documentary project trilogy that I’m currently working on and showing. I think it makes sense, for the character I have been playing to connect these two projects.
I remember after you finished your show at PS1 you said that was the last three years of your life, and now you can move on to something different. Do you still feel that way?
It’s actually not so black and white. The main difference is that my work is turning away from being autobiographical, I am no longer the center of the universe I create. The feature film I am going to make will be largely fictional and maybe even take place in the past. Whereas this current project that I am and have been working on—the video trilogy—is about being an artist, trying to process what’s happening internally and externally. Whereas, the next one isn’t about the artist, it’s more about certain parts and facts of life that I have learned.
So you are moving towards a less literal approach, more metaphorical?
Yeah, this video is a metaphor, but also what I’m experiencing. Now that I am almost done with the more autobiographical trilogy I can understand its core significance: an artist trying to create out of things he’s experienced in the past three year in a semi-narrative form.
So then the future film that you’re starting to work on this summer with the commercial vignette, will be you moving from your own subjective world into this outside world, even though obviously there are going to be traces of you in it?
Yeah but I think the subjectivity will be unavoidable because I am creating it.
Okay, I’m going to change the subject a little bit. When I see your work, I can’t help but see something generational; the denim, the fire, reminds me of this youthful desire to mess up the world, something revolutionary and violent, like the anti-Vietnam war movement. But on the other hand, it is visually very pleasing: the Thai and Buddhist iconography, the colorful plastic flowers. But there is something really international about this language of young people and how we all gravitate toward loud noises and saturated colors.
I believe our generation is attracted to intensity, to loud noise. But intensity can also be the most quiet thing; a slow movement can be intense. I don’t know if this desire for intensity is an attribute of our generation or just an age thing. Maybe every single human being who’s lived has experienced an intense time. I think my mom had a very intense time when she lived in Vietnam during the war and France during the student revolution in 1968. I don’t think our generation is necessarily attracted to intensity, I just think intensity is inherent to living.
When I first went to your show at PS1, I wanted to walk in because of the loud catchy music playing in front of the video, the intensity attracted me, maybe because I’m 25 and I like dancing and going out.
I didn’t think my work had so many generational qualities about it, but I think I understand why younger people would be attracted to it through its formal qualities, like the loud rap music. And in the end, that might repel certain older people who don’t like that kind of sound. But I try and make work that most people, not just my generation, can appreciate. This is how I think of it: if I’m at a dinner party and I sit next to an older person, there’s a way in which I’m telling her a story, and I want her to listen to me regardless of if she can relate to the story or not. I think in the PS1 show in particular, I was really thinking about the Sunday families and the high school students that would go. I want to extend my audience as much as possible, maybe, as large as my friends’ moms and dads, and maybe like my friends’ younger sisters and brothers, and maybe my friends’ babies would like a bleached denim pillow, you know?
Can you tell me about some recent art you have been thinking about and really like?
I think about Pierre Huyghe all the time, he’s my favorite artist. I just saw a show he did at a place called The Artist Institute here in New York. It’s a project funded by Hunter. It’s more of a show about him actually. I’ve been thinking about it a lot. He turned the exhibition space into an eco system.
That’s so cool! Does he influence your work?
You know when I was talking about intensity, I like how he creates unique experiences. I am really inspired by the Sydney Opera House piece he did called A Forest of Lines where he filled the whole Opera house with plants. Can’t really get more intense then that.
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The Top Ten: Animal Films
Vicky Sayers is joined by film critic and broadcaster, James Cameron-Wilson, to explore what makes a great “animal film”. James reveals why this top ten has turned into a “Top Dozen”, Vicky makes her case for some of her favourites, and a last-minute change of heart from James sees War Horse knocked off its spot by a CGI bear called Paddington. In this episode: National Velvet (1944), The Yearling (1946), Greyfriars Bobby (1961), The Incredible Journey (1963), Born Free (1966), Ring of Bright Water (1969), Jaws (1975), Fly Away Home (1996), The Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005), March of the Penguins (2005), Project Nim (2011), War Horse (2011).
Modern Mindset: The Commodification of Art
Adam Cox is joined by Art Valuer and Art Historian Sofiya Davidyan to discuss how it's possible to value art, and the circumstances that lead to art being valued highly and artists becoming brands. Sofiya discusses the nature of society to commodify: to put a value on things, such as relationships and friendships. She also gives an insight into the emotions that art can communicate, and what it means to have an artistic mind.
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Motley Fool Answers: Understanding the Black/White Wealth Gap in America
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 episode, Dr. Trevon Logan, from the Department of Economics at The Ohio State University, joins the team to talk about reasons behind the wealth gap between black and white families in America.
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Motley Fool Money: Surprising Jobs Numbers and Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke
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: Investors react to surprising employment numbers; Zoom Video connects with its latest earnings and doubles revenue guidance; Slack sells off; And DocuSign delivers. Motley Fool analysts Ron Gross and Jason Moser discuss those stories and weigh in on the latest from Dick’s Sporting Goods, eBay, and Levi Strauss. And Ron and Jason share two stocks on their radar: Target and FLIR Systems. Plus, Motley Fool CEO Tom Gardner talks with Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke about the business of Shopify, the value of diversity, and the future of work.
This is Money: Are electric bikes and scooters the future of transport after coronavirus? (Or will it just be cars?)
Since lockdown began in March, there has been a huge uptick in cycling and walking, as people got out and about while staying at home. But while before coronavirus we were all told public transport was a good thing, now with restrictions easing and Britain slowly going back to work, Britons have been told to actively avoid it. Does that mean the inevitable return of the car, or with the Government promising billions to create a new era for cycling and walking, is there a brighter and greener future for mobility. Could one of the keys be electric bicycles and scooters? Editor Simon Lambert reveals all to host Georgie Frost and assistant editor Lee Boyce after giving a GoCycle GX folding electric bike a trial. How good are the batteries, how long do they take to charge, how much do they cost, what schemes are available to purchase them and what is the point of them? Meanwhile, the car industry has been rocked by Covid-19, with job losses aplenty and sales grinding to a halt. Registrations sank 89 per cent to the record-lowest May since 1952, but despite that, sales of electric vehicles were up 22 per cent – and the Tesla Model 3 was the best seller. Could it be time to head to a showroom to haggle a bargain, will there be yet another scrappage scheme and why has Fiat launched a pay-as-you-go model of ownership? This weekend could also be a good time to fill up, with petrol prices set to head higher after weeks of lower motoring costs: many Britons have been able to find unleaded for under £1 a litre. And finally, with more people using their cars to make deliveries, are they properly insured?
Mini Mindset: Making time to be artistic
Adam Cox talks to Emily Harper from art-K, which runs immersive art programmes for children aged 6-16. They talk about the importance of art in children’s development, and how art-K has had to adapt to continue bringing their creativity into people’s homes during the current pandemic.
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The Bigger Picture: Sunak's balancing act, Hong Kong's freedom and the Army and MeToo
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University discusses the delicate balancing act being undertaken by Rishi Sunak. He looks at the battle to keep Hong Kong free under the rule of law and how important Hong Kong's special status is to China. And he explains why the British Army needs its own MeToo moment.
Gadgets & Gizmos: The ultimate tea machine
Share's technology editor Steve Caplin marvels at Bru, the "ultimate tea machine". He also looks at a USB stick claiming to protect against 5G, the BBC's new voice assistant, Virgin Media closing their stores, the hard-to-read font that does NOT enhance memory, an electric surfboard and an electric Cessna plane and how a fantasy advertised on Facebook went badly wrong.
The Business of Film: Top musicals of all time, A Rainy Day in New York and Onward
James Cameron-Wilson looks at the chart of the top musicals of all time. He reviews Woody Allen's new (but not final) movie, A Rainy Day in New York, with its difficult route to screen. And he reviews Pixar's latest, Onward, the cinema release of which was marred by the arrival of the coronavirus.
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Smaato Names Accomplished Adtech Product Strategy Expert Freddy Friedman Chief Product Officer
Home | Press Center | Smaato Names Accomplished Adtech Product Strategy Expert Freddy Friedman Chief Product Officer
Posted on October 5th, 2017
San Francisco, CA – WEBWIRE – Thursday, October 5, 2017 – Smaato today announced that former Glispa Global Group CPO Freddy Friedman has joined Smaato as Chief Product Officer, effective October 2, 2017. Reporting to Ragnar Kruse, CEO of Smaato, Mr. Friedman assumes responsibility for overseeing Smaato’s global product and advertising technology strategy.
Mr. Friedman brings more than 15 years of product leadership experience across the digital and mobile industries to Smaato, where he will play a key role in leading the company’s mobile advertising and product experience efforts during the company’s next evolutionary stage. Smaato already delivers more than 19 billion daily ad impressions globally and reaches approximately 50 percent of the world’s smartphone users–and that number is steadily increasing. Alongside Smaato’s established executive team, Mr. Friedman will tap into his adtech expertise and knowledge around app development, big data and digital media to further scale Smaato’s growth globally.
“We are thrilled to bring Freddy Friedman on board as CPO during this period of rapid growth and dynamism in the company,” said Smaato CEO and Co-Founder Ragnar Kruse. “His analytical thinking, customer focus and proven track record of mentoring and driving product teams positions him as the perfect candidate to serve as part of Smaato’s distinguished executive team in heading global expansion.”
Mr. Friedman was most recently the CPO of Glispa Global Group in Berlin, Germany, where he focused on developing and managing the company’s adtech strategy. Prior to joining Glispa, he served as Senior Product Director at Amobee, where he headed the company’s core product lines, including its SSP, DSP, Trading Desk, and DMP. Before Amobee, he was a Product Marketing Director for the mobile VAS company Mobixell, where he oversaw all global media partnership activity for their mobile advertising unit. Prior to that, he served in a range of product positions at Pelephone, a leading mobile operator.
“Smaato has raised the bar in mobile advertising by creating one of the cleanest, most brand-safe and transparent exchanges for publishers, app developers and advertisers in the industry,” said Friedman. “As CPO, I look forward to broadening and evolving Smaato’s capabilities and bringing new products and services to market.”
Mobile ad spending is anticipated to grow faster than ever, rising from $45.95 billion in 2016 to $86.84 billion in 2020 in the US alone, according to eMarketer. As consumers’ appetite for apps continues to grow, in-app advertising will be a main driver of mobile ad spend. In Q2, in-app ad spending hit a record-high 94 percent of total mobile ad spending on Smaato’s platform. Mr. Friedman will play a critical role in spearheading the development of new products and services that are built specifically for mobile and in-app, and lead product strategy to meet demand in fast-growing markets worldwide.
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Home/News/Bangalore News/All women AI crew set to pilot 17-hr flight from San Francisco to B’luru
All women AI crew set to pilot 17-hr flight from San Francisco to B’luru
New Delhi, Jan 9 : National carrier Air India will operate its first flight from San Francisco to Bengaluru on Saturday.
According to a statement issued by Air India, “The flight will be operated by an all women cockpit crew of Capt Zoya Aggarwal (P1), Capt Papagari Thanmai (P1), Capt Akansha Sonaware (P2) and Capt Shivani Manhas (P2).”
Notably, the direct distance between Bengaluru and San Francisco is approximately 13,993 km and the cities are diametrically at opposite ends of the world with a time zone change of about 13.5 hours.
“The total flight time on this route will be of more than 17 hours depending on the wind speed on that particular day,” the airline said. According to the statement, this will be the longest commercial flight in the world to be operated by Air India or any other airline in India.
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“The flight will operate with a Boeing 777-200LR aircraft VT ALG with a seating capacity of 238 seats including 8 first class, 35 business class, 195 economy class configurations, besides 4 cockpit and 12 cabin crew,” it said.
“The route for this flight will be the safest, fastest and most economical. It will be an around-the-world flight and based on the wind speed and other logistical parameters, the polar route may be chosen as the flight path, which will result in savings on flying time, fuel consumption and curbing carbon footprint.
“Air India is engaging an all women cockpit crew for this flight. Air India has the highest women employee ratio for an airline in the world. Capt Nivedita Bhasin, Executive Director (Flight Safety), Air India, is also traveling on this flight,” the statement said.
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At present, Air India operates non-stop flights from Delhi to New York, Newark, Washington DC, San Francisco and Chicago and from Mumbai to Newark and New York.
In addition, the airline plans to start its first ever non-stop service between Hyderabad and Chicago from January 15.
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Home/News/Delhi/Delhi Riots: Jamia student released on parole to sit for exams
Delhi Riots: Jamia student released on parole to sit for exams
By IANS| Updated: 27th November 2020 6:24 pm IST
New Delhi, Nov 27 : A Delhi court on Friday released Jamia Millia Islamia student Asif Iqbal Tanha — who was arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to organise riots in North-East Delhi in February this year — on three-day custody parole to appear for his compartmental examination in December.
Tanha, who is pursuing his B.A. (Hons) in Persian, had moved the court seeking interim bail from November 30 to December 7 to prepare for three backlog exams scheduled to be held on December 4, 5 and 7.
“The court deems it fit to allow the accused on custody parole for appearing in the said examinations. Accordingly, custody parole is granted to accused Asif Iqbal Tanha on December 4, 5 and 7,” Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat ordered.
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The court said that clearing the exams is necessary for Tanha to pursue M.A. in Persian, and that leniency must be shown to the accused by allowing him to appear for the said exams.
After advocate Sowjhanya Shankaran, representing Tanha, submitted that her client didn’t not have the required reading material to prepare for the exams, the judge directed the Tihar Jail superintendent to provide necessary assistance, provided it is within the permissibility of the jail rules.
Tanha was arrested on May 19 in connection with the case and has been in the custody since then. On October 21, he was granted one-day interim bail for taking the entrance examination for M.A Persian at the Jamia Milia Islamia University.
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In September, his named figured in the chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police in connection with the riots that broke out in North-East Delhi in February after clashes between pro and anti-Citizenship Amendment Act supporters spiralled out of control, leaving 53 people dead and 748 injured.
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Home/News/Priyanka attacks UP government over ‘inaction’ in Badaun gang-rape
Priyanka attacks UP government over ‘inaction’ in Badaun gang-rape
New Delhi/ Jan 6 : The Congress has attacked the Uttar Pradesh government after a 50-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district. As per reports, the crime was committed when the woman had gone to a temple to offer prayers.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi said on Twitter: “In Hathras the government machinery did not listen to the victims, saved officers and suppressed voices… in Badaun the Station Incharge of the police did not listen to the victim’s plea, did not visit the crime scene. There is something wrong in the UP government’s intentions on women’s security”.
The family of the deceased has also alleged police apathy for delay caused in filing the FIR. The Congress is raising the issue as the case has similarities to the Hathras Incident .
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Randeep Surjewala said: “When will the Adiyanath government wake up? When will these heinous crimes end?”
NCW Chairperson Rekha Sharma has also written to Director General of Police, Uttar Pradesh seeking immediate intervention in the matter.
“The Commission is deeply perturbed by the reported incident and the alleged police apathy,” the commission said in a statement.
A NCW member will also be meeting the victim’s family and the officials probing the incident.
“The Commission has also sought a detailed action taken report in the matter from the police. A copy of the letter has also been sent to Superintendent of Police, Badaun,” the NCW statement added.
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Home/News/World/UK judge rejects US request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
UK judge rejects US request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
By Mansoor| Updated: 4th January 2021 6:51 pm IST
WikiLeaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange (Source: ANI)
London: A British judge on Monday rejected the United States request to extradite WikiLeaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange.
UK District Judge Vanessa Baraitser indicated that extradition would have a harmful effect on Assange’s mental health and said she ruled against the US request due to fears that the whistleblower has a high risk of committing suicide as a result, Sputnik reported.
Assange is wanted in the US on the charges of conspiring with Chelsea Manning, an American activist and whistleblower, to commit computer intrusion into the Department of Defence network to steal classified documents, namely Afghan and Iraq war logs and secret Department of State cables.
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Assange is also facing 17 charges under the US espionage Act 1975 in connection with his release of the logs and cables. If proven guilty on all counts, Assange would face a sentence of up to 175 years.
Several witnesses indicated that Assange’s prison conditions put him at high risk for depression and suicide.
Psychiatrist Michael Kopelman, who also testified in court, claimed that a razor blade was found hidden in Assange’s cell, adding that his patient was engaged in thinking about ways of ending his own life.
Assange was taken to prison in April 2019 after being dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had lived for years.
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How the Impact of Gen Z Will Improve the Workplace for the Rest of Us
If you are tired of sitting in never-ending meetings in which no decisions are made or of giving “attaboy” back- pats to millennials every time they do something right, there’s relief on the way. A new generation is coming into the workplace that won’t stand for those kinds of things. Call them the Class of 2018, Gen Z, iGen, Plurals, or whatever other term suits your fancy, experts say that they are bringing a different set of behaviors, values and demands to the office than the generations — millennials, Gen X, Gen Y, or baby boomers — that came before them.
That may not be a bad thing according to Tauseef Rahman, principal consultant at Mercer. “Other generations may want some of the same things (more flexibility, diverse career tracks, broader suites of benefits) too, but have not felt they were in the position to ask,” he said.
Better Benefits for All
Take unlimited vacation, for example, who doesn’t want that? While older generations might have seen it as an extraordinary benefit, many in the post-millennial workforce see it as an entitlement. “Gen Z job candidates come right out and ask why we don’t offer it,” said Umberto Malesci, CEO of Fluidmesh, a New York and Milan-based wireless communications systems vendor. He added that Gen Z does not hesitate to tell their managers what the companies who are competing for their talent have to offer. As a result, “we were forced to improve our benefits for everyone,” said Malesci, pointing out that, in the past, workers were not so bold or so insistent.
Such straight-forwardness and comparison-making is not to be unexpected, according to Marcie Merriman, an executive director at EY. “Prepare to be transparent,” she tells her corporate customers, explaining that Gen Z grew up with internet connected phones and a world full of information always at their fingertips. Between their social networks and sites like Glassdoor and Linkedin, Gen Z knows what an employer’s actual brand is all about; they don’t rely solely on the marketing messages that are passed their way during job interviews. “Gen Z is skeptical by nature,” said Merriman.
Money Is Not All That Matters
This year’s entry level workers are more independent too. “Gen Z wants you to give them a goal and to then go away,” explained Merriman. Paul Szyarto, CEO of Delcon Construction, a web-based construction management software platform based on Microsoft technologies, said that Gen Z mentality is that of “mini CEOs” and that they expect their bosses to be more like mentors than supervisors. To make his newest employees happy, Szyarto assigns projects to them and then lets them set delivery dates and pricing based on hourly rates. “The more efficient they are the more money they make,” he said.
And money matters to Gen Z, but not as much as work-life balance, according to a survey conducted by Propeller Insights on behalf of Canvas Blue, a marketing and advertising firm based in Los Angeles and New York City. Other generations, such as Gen X, Gen Y, and baby boomers have rated pay as number one on the list, while a study conducted by Fidelity Investments revealed that millennials would even take as much as a $7600.00 pay cut for a better quality of work life (career development, purposeful work, work/life balance, company culture.)
While telecommuting, or the ability to work from home, might be selling points to millennials and the generations that came before them, for Gen Z “work” (as in “going to work”) is not a place,” but something that they do anywhere with their technology,” according to Rahman. Gen Z is not typically wowed by the technology that their companies provide either. While baby boomers, Gen X and Gen Y’s might have seen getting a new company iPhone or a speedy personal computer as a perk, the newer generation does not. “Gen Z does not see technology as being expensive or elusive the way previous generations did,” he added.
Gen Z does care about how their workplaces are designed so forward-thinking companies are partnering with design firms to make their offices destinations-of-choice for getting work done. And this isn’t just about ergonomics like standing desks to combat “sitting is the new smoking,” according to Michael Bonomo, director of global workplace at design firm CannonDesign. Forward-thinking companies are using LEED certified materials like Terrazzo made of recycled glass and porcelain that would have otherwise been landfill, open floor plans complete with co-creation spaces where groups can gather on ergonomic couches and love seats to flesh out ideas and such, as well as boutique coffee bars and delicious and healthy snacks which are as trendsetting as anything that can be found on the outside.
Society and Safety
And while people have probably always wanted to work for socially responsible employers, millennials began to verbalize the call and to create companies that answered it. Take eyeglass maker Warby Parker’s Buy a Pair, Give a Pair pledge, Tom’s shoes One for One promise, to give a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair of shoes that it sells, and KIND bar maker’s Pop Your Bubble campaign as examples.
Not only does Gen Z aspire to work for companies like these, but they are increasingly interested in finding out what employers are doing to keep them safe at work, according to Samantha Sackin, managing director of Canvas Blue. Between the unprecedented number of school shootings that may have affected their younger siblings and the rapid uptick of gun violence in the workplace, hiring managers are being asked, perhaps for the very first time, “What are you doing to protect me while I am doing my job?” While the measures taken after 9-11 might still provide older generations some solace, to Gen Z they are a given and not enough. “When Gen Z wants change, they want it now,” said Merriman, pointing to the rapid student uprising “March for Our Lives” in reaction to the Parkland shootings.
Personalized Employee Experiences
According to experts, workers are in a better position to change the workplace right now than they have been in decades for one simple reason; the unemployment rate is the lowest it has been since the year 2000 and there are almost more jobs available now than there are willing workers. Employers who want the best talent will have to raise their games and the workforce is in a position to define what that means.
Rahman says that companies are looking carefully at how they should be spending their money to attract, nurture and retain the best talent and that the answer will likely be less boiler-plate and more around the creation of personalized employee experiences.
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12 Thoughts about Paul Ryan and Family
Paul Ryan and Family
Incoming Speaker of the House Paul Ryan articulated several demands before he would accept the position. Among them was his insistence that his new duties do not interfere with his time for family. Here are my thoughts on this intriguing news.
It is great news that Paul Ryan voiced his concerns that being promoted to Speaker of the House could represent a threat to his work life balance and his time with his family.
It is great that Ryan asserted, “I cannot and will not give up my family time.” (In fact, the Washington Post thinks more working parents should say this, too)
This is especially great because he is a dad and we need more because men speaking up about work family.
Further, he’s a man in a prominent position in an industry that is notorious for being unsupportive of work-family balance.
Even further, Ryan speaks as a leader of one of our two major political parties,
Maybe Paul Ryan read my book?
and particularly the political party that has been less friendly to work-family concerns.
I don’t believe that dads of prior generations did not care about work-family balance. However, I think Ryan’s demands show a generational shift both in priorities and in asserting these priorities. This is a very welcome development!
In my book, The Working Dad’s Survival Guide (now also available as an audio book), I spend 3 chapters on how dads can better navigate their workplaces and advocate for their family needs. I suggest that, when one has leverage and credibility, they should use it to create space for a full family life. This can and has been successfully done, even in demanding workplaces. Maybe Ryan read my book!?
So, in this way, Paul Ryan is just a very visible high-level example of what all men who have leverage in negotiating with their employers should be doing (see also the story of these men).
All this being said, the case of Paul Ryan and family illustrates the divide between the haves and the have nots. Working dads in many lucrative industries like tech and finance are provided with generous parental leave policies and flexible work arrangements- these dads may have the leverage and financial security to use them. In contrast, hourly and working-class working dads do not have such policies offered to them, are generally not in a position to advocate for themselves, and, in effect, are unable to accommodate their work demands around their family needs.
This is where Ryan’s personal example comes into conflict with his political stances, which would not be considered supportive of helping working families find ways to stay gainfully employed and spend quality time with their families. Not to get too political, but the GOP has been lockstep against such policies as pay parental leave, increased access to childcare and even paid sick days.
I wish that prominent working dads would go beyond just and advocating for themselves or even setting a visible example. I feel that those of us with means and influence, to make things better for other work and dads and other working families, have the responsibility to do so. What’s good for Paul Ryan and family should be good for others, too.
Relatedly, I wish that Paul Ryan and other political figures who both care about their careers as being present involve fathers, would stand up for their fellow dads. After all, if we don’t, it won’t get better for the rest of us.
I’ve long believed that when those in business and government who have had to grapple with work and family in their own lives move to positions of leadership, we will finally see rapid progress. Wouldn’t it be awesome if Paul Ryan used his new position to help advance a family-supportive agenda!
What do you think about Paul Ryan’s statement? Let’s discuss in the comments.
#PaulRyan #publicstatements #rolemodel #workfamilybalance
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Woman hit over head with bronze statue in Valentine’s Day Bermondsey burglary
Posted on Wednesday 18 February 2015 by SE16.com
Police in Southwark are appealing for witnesses and information following a violent aggravated burglary in Bermondsey on St Valentine’s Day.
The incident happened at about 2.30pm on Saturday 14 February at an address in Cranswick Road, South Bermondsey.
The victim, a 63-year-old woman was home alone, speaking on the telephone to her sister, when there was a knock on the door.
She asked who it was and a man outside said he had crashed into her car. On hearing this news she opened her front door to inspect her car.
When she had opened the door, the victim was confronted by two men.
The victim attempted to close her door but two men barged their way in to her house and closed the front door. Once inside they were shouting at the victim “Where is your safe?”
The victim – who lives on her own – informed the men that she did not own a safe. One of the suspects then picked up a bronze statue and hit the victim twice on the head.
They then attempted to drag her upstairs. She managed to escape their grip but was hit again with the statue.
The men then searched the house and stole two purses from her handbag before making off.
Police were called to the scene by the victim’s sister who heard the entire incident while on the telephone line. Neighbours who heard a disturbance also called 999.
On arrival, police officers found the victim with a cut to her head, a cut to her left eye, and bruising to her left shin.
The London Ambulance Service was called and the victim was taken to a south London hospital, were she was treated and later discharged.
Suspect 1 is described as a black male, of slim build, aged 18 to 22 years, and was wearing a dark hooded top.
Suspect 2 is described as a black male, aged 18 to 22 years, and was wearing a dark hooded top.
Detectives from Southwark CID are investigating the incident and are appealing for anyone who may have seen anything or anyone acting suspiciously in the area to contact them.
Detective Constable Carri Blackman, from Southwark CID, said: “The victim in this case is an extremely vulnerable lady. This has understandably left her extremely shaken up and we’re determined to try and identify who is responsible.
“I’d urge anyone who might have seen or heard anything unusual or suspicious in the area to get in touch with us, however insignificant you think the information may be – it could help us to solve this case.”
Anyone with information should contact Southwark CID on 020 7232 6142, the police non-emergency 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 quoting reference 3004593/15.
Police raid Bermondsey flat in clampdown on copyright theft
Posted on Tuesday 17 February 2015 by SE16.com
Detectives investigating a website from which thousands of people were able to download blockbuster films and top-rated TV shows for free arrested three men at a flat in Bermondsey on Tuesday morning.
At approximately 6.45am, detectives arrested three men aged 26, 25 and 24 – on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud; copyright theft and encouraging or assisting offences believing one or more will be committed – during a pre-planned operation.
The arrests were made by the London Regional Asset Recovery Team (LRART), who have been assisted in their investigation by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT).
They executed a search warrant at a residential address on Enid Street, Bermondsey, from which they recovered digital equipment and financial documents..
The three men have been taken into custody at a south London police station where they remain.
The website was originally registered to one of the suspects in the UK but was then re-registered to the second suspect at an address in Romania. It is believed that money made from advertising on the website continued to be paid into a London-based bank account.
Detective Sergeant Neil Reynolds, of LRART, said: “The site was extremely popular. It was viewed about 70,000 times a day and, internationally, it ranked thousands of places higher than a well-known and legitimate film download site.
“It can be difficult for people to care about copyright laws being broken but the money made from such sites is often spent on funding other crime. We are looking at how much money was made from advertising on this website and where that money went to.”
Kieron Sharp, Director General, FACT, said: “Websites which set out to direct users to illegal copies of films and TV shows are engaged in criminal activity which not only reaps huge financial benefits for the individuals involved but also undermines the fundamental business model which allows for future investment in the creative industries.
“As these latest arrests show, this type of criminal enterprise will not go without action, and those involved face severe penalties.”
‘Conman’ steals cash from 95-year-old Bermondsey woman
Posted on Friday 6 February 2015 by SE16.com
Police in Southwark have released a CCTV image linked to an artifice burglary at the home of a 95-year-old woman in Bermondsey.
The suspect is believed to have gained entry to the victim’s flat in John Roll Way at about 2.30pm on Friday 23 January.
The man was discovered in the flat with the victim when her granddaughter arrived and challenged him.
He claimed to be a mobility driver, but the granddaughter doubted his story and told him to leave.
After he left the flat, the victim’s bag was checked and they found that money was missing from her purse.
Police were called and further enquiries by officers revealed he had also spoken to other residents in the block, giving different explanations as to why he was there.
Detectives from Southwark CID are investigating and are appealing to anyone who has information as to the identity of the man in the CCTV to contact them.
“The victim in this case is an extremely vulnerable and elderly lady, and the suspect has managed somehow to con his way into her flat,” said PC Ashley Larkin.
“We’re eager to hear from anyone who might know or recognise the person on the CCTV image and would ask you to contact us as soon as possible, as we’re concerned they may be targeting other people in the area.”
Anyone with information or who recognises the person in the image should contact police on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 quoting reference 169846.
Safety warning from firefighters after Odessa Street blaze
Posted on Wednesday 14 January 2015 by SE16.com
Firefighters are reminding people to cook safely and check their smoke alarms after crews rescued a woman from a flat blaze on Odessa Street this morning.
@se16 7 fire engines in Odessa Street pic.twitter.com/V6u5BNBJ8I
— John Austin (@JohnEAustin) January 14, 2015
The fire damaged part of a flat on the top floor of the seven storey block at New Caledonian Wharf and crews wearing breathing apparatus led the woman to safety down an internal staircase.
It is believed that the fire was started by cooking which had been left unattended.
New Caledonia Wharf @se16 it's a high rise building says firefighter – 9 appliances arrive speedily to emergency call pic.twitter.com/hjrQz1tQFd
Station Manager Pat Utting who was at the scene said: “We believe the fire began after a rice pot was left on a stove. Over 60 per cent of London’s house fires start in the kitchen and we would urge people to never leave their cooking unattended as the consequences can be lethal.
“Unfortunately although the flat had a smoke alarm there was no battery in it. It’s essential that your home is fitted with a working smoke alarm and that you check it regularly. You should also never remove the battery. Smoke alarms can buy you vital seconds to escape in the event of a fire. In this case the woman we rescued was only alerted after the rice pot on the cooker went ‘pop’.”
All seems OK but nothing can get in or out of Odessa Street @se16 as fire engines stacked up pic.twitter.com/MDRHHQvbGw
Six fire engines and around 35 firefighters and officers from Deptford, Peckham, New Cross, Old Kent Road and Greenwich fire stations attended the incident. The woman was treated for smoke inhalation.
Rotherhithe Police Station replaced by prefab next to leisure centre
Posted on Saturday 3 January 2015 by SE16.com
On New Year’s Eve the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) published details of its deal with Southwark Council to relocate the 54 officers based at Rotherhithe Police Station to the nearby Seven Islands Leisure Centre.
The front counter at Rotherhithe Police Station closed in summer 2013 but the building is still the base for the neighbourhood policing team covering the north-eastern corner of Southwark.
In October 2013 Southwark Council offered the Met £250,000 towards the cost of creating a new police base at Seven Islands, just across Lower Road from the police station.
MOPAC says that new locker rooms and showers for the police officers will be created in the redundant gym and backstage area at Seven Islands, whilst the police offices will be located in a new modular building (aka prefab or Portakabin type structure) adjoining the leisure centre.
This plan is expected to cost a total of £499,000.
MOPAC has agreed a ten-year lease with the council but the local authority has the option to terminate the agreement after five years as plans are afoot to replace Seven Islands with a new leisure centre at Canada Water.
MOPAC says that the existing Rotherhithe Police Station has a maintenance backlog estimated at £935,000.
Once Rotherhithe Police Station is empty it will be put up for sale by MOPAC.
Child hit by car in Salter Road
Posted on Friday 19 December 2014 by SE16.com
A child was taken to hospital with a suspected broken leg after they were hit by a car in Salter Road.
Police were called by London Ambulance Service just before 6pm on Wednesday evening.
The child was taken to a south London hospital with a suspected broken leg.
Police are continuing to investigate the incident and no-one has been arrested.
Black Friday shopping frenzy: police called to Tesco at Surrey Quays
Police were called to Surrey Quays Shopping Centre early on Friday morning as crowds gathered hoping to grab a Black Friday bargain at Tesco Extra.
https://twitter.com/faisal_popal/status/538127415294578688
Posted in Police & crime, Shopping.
Man shot in the head in Rotherhithe on Sunday afternoon
Posted on Monday 24 November 2014 by SE16.com
A murder investigation has been launched after a man shot in the head in Rotherhithe on Sunday afternoon died in hospital.
The 18-year-old man was injured following an incident in Mossington Gardens on the Abbeyfield Estate at approximately 1.55pm on Sunday.
He was taken to an east London hospital where he died on Monday afternoon.
Officers investigating the murder have made two arrests. A man aged 36 was arrested at an address in south London in the early hours of Monday. Another man, aged 21 was arrested after he handed himself in at a south London police station late on Monday. Both men have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in custody at a south London police station.
A 19-year-old man who was also injured in the incident has been released from hospital following treatment. He was not shot.
Detective Chief Inspector Graeme Gwyn is leading the investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to call the incident room on 020 8721 4805; alternatively contact Crimestoppers via 0800 555 111 or Crimestoppers-uk.org.
Officers retain an open mind as to the motive behind this incident but there is nothing to suggest at this stage that it was gang related.
Councillor’s ‘serious concern’ over street drinking, begging and littering at Bermondsey Tube Station
From the blog of Riverside Lib Dem councillor Anood Al-Samerai:
I also went along to our ward Safer Neighbourhood police meeting to raise serious concern about the area around Bermondsey tube station. It seems to have become a location for street drinking, begging and littering instead of the proud entrance to our area it should be. The police team agreed this as their priority for the next six weeks, our panel chair (another marvellous local resident) is writing to the Borough Commander and I am also raising the matter with the council.
Posted in Police & crime, Politics, Transport.
800 DVD box sets seized in SE16
Posted on Friday 15 August 2014 by SE16.com
From the latest Southwark trading standards bulletin:
Following a complaint about inferior DVD box sets being sold via eBay a warrant was obtained for a flat in SE16.
Approximately 800 box sets of various types were found at the address.
These were seized as it was believed they were counterfeit and an investigation is ongoing.
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Sector Three was born from a feeling that the status quo is no longer fit for purpose.
Our story is just like yours. As leaders; workers; parents and humans we struggled to be content with the outdated rules of work that stopped us being our best selves. So we quit and decided to change the rules.
We set out on a mission to change this, not just for ourselves but for the leaders and staff out there who want the world of work to be more digitally enabled, more progressive and more focused on purpose.
Sector Three is a social business that helps organisations build more meaningful, purposeful and rewarding relationships with their audiences, workers and society. The world is changing exponentially: political turmoil; digital disruption; changing demands from a digitally native and impact oriented younger workforce. We’re on a mission to help as many organisations as possible, before it’s too late.
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Liam is a strategist, speaker, self-confessed ‘wildling’ and the founder of Sector Three Digital in 2009. He has a background in digital technology, systems thinking, org strategy and all things health.
Liam previously co-founded an impactful, nationally respected social enterprise that supports the NHS to improve care around medicines and prescribing. Over the years, he has advised a range of nonprofits, health systems and Healthtech startups, and held NED roles in non profits.
“I am passionate about reshaping organisations to be fit for what comes next. I love putting great tools in the hands of enthusiastic people, empowering and nudging them to do great things. I am a leader who serves staff, and believe that everyone can be engaged and empowered at work, no matter their age, education or background.”
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John Paul (JP) loves to help those that do social good, do better, by applying digital, data and AI cost effectively in their organisations.
JP was previously an AI Strategy director within Accenture AI, part of Accenture Digital. He has helped many FTSE companies digitally transform: defining strategy and identifying untapped value, changing their operating model and organisation, planning and managing large-scale change programmes, leading machine learning, data integration and visualisation projects.
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New Cannabis Compliance Company Launches Public Funding Effort with GrowthFountain
The Herbal Compliance Co. Uses New Investment Rules to Raise Funds
Source: The Herbal Compliance Co. | Mon, 12 Jun 2017, 12:28:12 EDT
HORSESHOE LAKE, Ark., June 12, 2017 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The Herbal Compliance Co. announces the launch of its compliance consulting services for legal medical cannabis and hemp businesses. This unique company will also be partnering with GrowthFountain to raise $1 million in funds through a unique form of investor funding called Regulation Crowdfunding.
Interested investors can see the offering and make an investment by visiting Growth Fountain at https://growthfountain.com/herbal-compliance .
Herbal Compliance fills a need created by differences in marijuana legislation at the state and federal levels. While it is currently legal in 26 states and the District of Columbia to grow and sell marijuana for medical purposes, it is still illegal on a federal level, resulting in thousands of conflicts between state and federal regulations.
“Understanding the laws governing medical marijuana and hemp is our core competency,” explains Chuck Carpenter, president of Herbal Compliance. “But we also offer other types of business consulting like inventory management, branding, and employee education. Our mission is to help companies in this new area of American enterprise to grow and thrive.”
To fully fund their startup, Herbal Compliance is using a new form of funding enabled by recent changes in securities law in the JOBS Act called Regulation Crowdfunding. The rules for this sort of investing went into effect May 2016, allowing non-accredited investors to participate in a funding round for a private company for the first time in history.
“We’re excited to help Herbal Compliance raise the money they need to grow,” says Abe Orden, operations manager of GrowthFountain. “For the first time in 80 years, average Americans now have the opportunity to support and invest in local businesses and entrepreneurs they believe in.”
Herbal Compliance’s campaign started on June 6, 2017 and will continue through Oct. 4, 2017. Their aim is to raise between $100,000 and $1 million with a minimum buy-in of $100 per investor.
About Herbal Compliance:
Launched in January 2017, The Herbal Compliance Co. provides companies in the legal medical cannabis and hemp business with services to ensure that they remain compliant with the law. Services include design and buildout, equipment fulfillment, regulator compliance, remote inventory control and reporting, vendor relationships, brand and marketing, and tax management and education. Learn more at http://www.herbalcompliance.com/.
About GrowthFountain:
GrowthFountain Capital LLC is a Regulation Crowdfunding platform aimed at simplifying fundraising and helping businesses build collateral. GrowthFountain is registered with the SEC and a member of FINRA. Learn more at https://growthfountain.com/.
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"Understanding the laws governing medical marijuana and hemp is our core competency," explains Chuck Carpenter, president of Herbal Compliance. "But we also offer other types of business consulting like inventory management, branding, and employee education."
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Launched in January 2017, The Herbal Compliance Co. provides companies in the legal medical cannabis and hemp business with services to ensure that they remain compliant with the law. Services include design and buildout, equipment fulfilment, regulator compliance, remote inventory control and reporting, vendor relationships, brand and marketing, and tax management and education.
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Warmongering Trickle-Downers
Jan 30, 2019, 06:29AM
Burned by the Glare
Histrionic journalists and unrealistic expectations in interviewing rock stars.
Why would anyone pursue a journalism career today? There’s no money in print or online, no job security, and animosity towards the media is acute—not only because of Trump’s tantrums, but also the devastation wrought by the ubiquity of the Internet and social media. Sudden mass layoffs are par for the course, as we saw with BuzzFeed last week. Understandably dismayed with the stars wiped from their eyes, they raised hell on Twitter and begged for new jobs. But why would they believe this wasn’t inevitable?
On another tip, Molly Young, a freelancer with bylines in GQ, wrote “a celebrity postscript” about her experience profiling St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) for GQ. I’ve no idea why she’d publish this on her own website, it’s a red flag to prospective employers that don’t want the public to see their process. GQ didn’t pull a fast one on Young, and her hurt feelings over a run-of-the-mill aloof celebrity profile are baffling—more than anything, why didn’t she keep this to herself? On their lack of rapport, she writes: “The first time we met, she kept her sunglasses on the entire time and gave answers of 1-4 words to all my questions while a PR person supervised. This might be a typical interview scenario for a person of, I dunno, Angelina Jolie-level celebrity, but it was a perplexing encounter with St. Vincent.”
Why? St. Vincent is a rock star: she’s performed at the Oscars, collaborated with David Byrne, and regularly sells out amphitheaters and large halls. The monosyllabic sunglasses bit is right out of Spinal Tap, an A1 celebrity interview cliché very much in line with the meta media pose Clark took on for the MASSEDUCTION album. “She would not look at me. I couldn't figure it out. Why had she agreed to the story? St. Vincent does not need to be in GQ. This was an elective activity.” No it’s not. Artists have a responsibility to their labels and the people working for them to fulfill promotional duties, no matter how tedious and repetitious they almost always are.
At the end of the note, Young betrays a particularly blinkered outlook on adult life: “I walked home thinking about how unusual it is to experience sustained dislike as an adult. When you're a kid and you have no control over your time, you're constantly forced to be with people (kids, mainly) who find you lame and annoying, which is painful. The primary perk of being an adult is that you have the agency to avoid these situations. Until you don’t.”
What a privilege to never encounter assholes in adulthood. The last thing a journalist should be concerned with is whether or not their subjects like them, and when Young recalls trying to butt into a conversation Clark was having with others at an art opening, Clark’s brusque dismissals become easier to understand. If you’re an awkward, sensitive person, profiling celebrities is the last thing you should be doing.
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2018 Wells Fargo Championship Picks and Preview
Steve Schirmer
And now…back to our regularly scheduled program.
After a one week hiatus from normal proceedings, the PGA Tour is back with traditional stroke play featuring a star-studded field at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, NC. Six of the Top 10 players in the world are set to tee it up this weekend along with other big names like Phil Mickelson, Jason Day, and some dude named Tiger Woods who makes his return to Quail Hollow for the first time since 2012.
The last time we saw Quail Hollow was last year’s PGA Championship won by Justin Thomas, and while that event saw the highest relative to par field average of any event held there the tournament directors are expected to set the course up much easier for the regular tour stop. The course should play slightly shorter than last year’s major set up, the rough won’t be as thick and the greens should run around 12 on the stimpmeter, which is much slower than the lightning fast speeds it saw last August.
My normal protocol when handicapping a PGA Tour stop is to take a look at the last five or six events and identify what profile of golfer fares well there. However, that plan has a bit of a monkey wrench in it given the significant changes to the course in 2016 to get it major ready. The most significant changes were made to the Front Nine. Hole No. 1 was lengthened by about 100 yards and took over the former No. 2 Green, and former Hole No. 3 became the 2nd hole. The renovation of the 1st also changed the desired shot off the tee, as a power fade (for a righty) through the dog leg and away from the trio of fairway bunkers is now the ideal ball flight.
Additionally, the club cut down huge swaths trees to create a new Par 3 4th, while the tee box on No. 5 was moved up to eliminate a Par 5 and make the scorecard a Par 71. Though there weren’t many total yards added to the scorecard, a 7,600-yard course plays a little harder as a Par 71 than a Par 72, and it successfully gave the golfers a much tougher test than in years past.
The course was always considered a bombers paradise, and the renovations only reinforced it. The golfers I’ll be targeting on my betting ticket and on DraftKings primarily will be longer hitters off the tee in both distance and the strokes gained statistics. A few exceptions will be made for moderate hitters if they’re good ball strikers on longer approaches. With a deep field, there’s also a lot of golfers I like that are below $8,000 on DraftKings, so there should be a lot of flexibility to round out your rosters if you want to splurge on a few top dollar names.
Here’s who I have my eye on this week (with DraftKings values and odds courtesy of mybookie.ag):
The Favorites:
Rory McIlroy – 8/1, $11,800
Justin Thomas – 10/1, $11,300
Rickie Fowler – 10/1, $11,100
Jason Day – 18/1, $10,200
Patrick Reed – 20/1, $9,700
Phil Mickelson – 20/1, $9,200
Hideki Matsuyama – 22/1, $9,400
Tiger Woods – 22/1, $9,100
Tommy Fleetwood – 28/1, $9,000
The big favorites are clearly Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler based on their strong course history at Quail Hollow. Rory is a two-time winner at Quail Hollow in 2010 and 2015 and has four other Top 10 finishes there. Justin Thomas captured his first major title at Quail Hollow last August and had another Top 10 there in 2015. And Rickie Fowler scored his first PGA Tour win at Quail Hollow in 2012 and has three other Top 10’s, including at the PGA Championship last summer. All three will probably be very popular plays in DraftKings lineups this week but given their track record and performance this year they should all be solid. With the deep field this week, though, their futures odds leave a bit to be desired and several other names down the card have a little better value.
Despite some lackluster play of late, I’m kind of digging Jason Day this week. The last time we saw Jason at Quail Hollow, we were witness to someone having a complete mental break on his final hole of the 3rd round.
(It’s been nine months and I still have no clue what he was trying to do on his second behind the tree).
Since the West Coast swing he’s been relatively quiet in the results column and he’s struggled in a few statistical categories, particularly on approach shots. But Day has historically excelled at setups reminiscent of PGA Championship conditions – long, hot, muggy courses. That’s exactly what we’ll get at Quail Hollow this weekend and as long as he doesn’t completely lose his mind again, he should be right there at the top of the leaderboard on Sunday. I also don’t expect his ownership in DraftKings to be all that high, so if he does have a nice weekend that could give you a big leg up in bigger contests.
Another favorite who’s flying under the radar is Hideki Matsuyama. Hideki should have won the PGA Championship last year at Quail Hollow but a lackluster Back Nine cost him his chance at snagging his first major title. He’s taken a few weeks off since the Masters and his wrist injury should be healed up by now. Where he’s struggled is off the tee but all other parts of his game appear to be in great shape, particularly on the longer approaches. Both his $9,400 DraftKings price and 22/1 futures odds are pretty appealing to me this week as he looks to get back on track heading towards the U.S. Open in June.
Finally, I’m contractually obligated to talk about Tiger Woods (it’s all about the clicks). He has a bit of a mixed bag of results at Quail Hollow over the years. From 2004-2009 he played the tournament four times and racked up a win and two other Top 5’s. However, he’s missed the cut in his last two appearances in 2010 and 2014 (in all fairness, he was battling injuries during both tournaments). At Quail Hollow, the driver is a key club for the contenders and Tiger has famously struggled with that club all year. It was a bit better at Augusta but he’s fared better off the tee with tighter site lines to narrow his focus, especially when he could get away with hitting a fairway metal or iron. That’s not how Quail Hollow will suit his eye this week and I don’t expect him to contend. Some books have stopped offering Tiger Props, but if yours does I like the side of No on the Top 20 prop at -145, and I even see some value of a Tiger Missed Cut at +350. Better to bench the Big Cat this week…but let’s talk next week when he heads down to TPC Sawgrass.
Other Contenders
Tony Finau – 48/1, $8,700
Warning – Finau might end up being the most popular play in DraftKings this weekend, so if you’re trying to field a more contrarian lineup he should be nowhere near it. But in terms of the futures market (both win and Top 10), he’s someone I really like this week at Quail Hollow. His ankle is still bothering him a bit from his gruesome injury at Augusta, but he once again showed no ill signs it affected him in New Orleans last weekend. Finau is gigantic off the tee and has been stuffing his long approaches close to the pin all year. He’s played very well at courses like Augusta, Torrey Pines and Riviera that demanded excellence with the driver off the tee, and I expect him to contend for a win again this week.
Byeong Hun-An – 55/1, $7,600
Byeong Hun-An doesn’t have a lot of history playing Quail Hollow but he definitely has the game to contend there. He missed the cut at the Wells Fargo in his first start, but at the PGA Championship last year he posted a very respectable T28 finish. An is 21st in Strokes Gained Tee to Green and 12th in Strokes Gained Off the Tee in 2018. He also ranks 12th in scoring on approaches over 200 yards on tour this year, an approach he’ll face plenty this week. His DraftKings price is very affordable and if you are looking for a solid mid-tier golfer look no further than this guy.
Brian Harman – 60/1, $7,900
You may be asking “wait a second, Steve…I thought you said this course is a bombers paradise. Why are you recommending a dude who ranks 163rd in driving distance you hack?!?!”. Well if you ask Harman, he’d tell you he’s long enough off the tee before telling you to go shove it where the sun don’t shine. More importantly, though, is that despite his deficiencies off the tee he’s more than held his own in big ballparks in his career because of his tremendous ability to hit the ball close on long approaches for good scoring opportunities. He also has a good history at Quail Hollow, racking up a Top 10 finish in 2013 and posting a very respectable T13 at the PGA Championship last year under tougher, longer conditions than he’ll face this week. Because the prevailing theme among most gambling experts will be an emphasis on guys long off the tee, his ownership shouldn’t be all that high in DFS formats. He’s a great addition if you look to load up on one or two studs and need to round out your lineup with a few discounted options with upside.
Longshots
Grayson Murray – 110/1, $6,900
Ah, Grayson Murray. The Donald Trump of golf. Like our current Tweeter in Chief, Murray has seemed to make more headlines with his social media accounts than his performance on the course. Murray has been very up and down during his PGA Tour career, but he’s a huge hitter off the tee and has posted a Top 20 in three of his last four tournaments. He also showed very well at Quail Hollow last August as he hung around the Top 10 for most of the weekend. He’s a cheap option for DraftKings and someone to target in matchup or Top 20 props.
Trey Mullinax – 120/1, $6,800
Meet the longest hitter on the PGA Tour at a cool 318.5 yards/drive. Mullinax’s transition from the Web.com tour last year was very rocky (save for a surprise Top 10 at the U.S. Open), but over the last few months, it seems like he’s found what it takes to succeed in the Big Leagues. Mullinax has a pair of Top 10’s in two of his last three starts, including a T2 at the Valero in an event that, like the Wells Fargo, favors those who have length off the tee. Like Grayson Murray, he’s shaping up as a nice Top 20 prop play and a cheap option for DraftKings that could outperform his value.
Wells Fargo Championship DraftKings Lineup #1
Hideki Matsuyama: $9,400
Tommy Fleetwood: $9,000
Tony Finau: $8,700
Emiliano Grillo: $7,700
Byeong Hun-An: $7,600
Xander Schauffele: $7,400
Justin Thomas: $11,300
Alex Noren: $8,100
Bryson DeChambeau: $8,000
Brian Harman: $7,900
James Hahn: $7,800
Grayson Murray: $6,900
Rickie Fowler: $11,100
Jason Day: $10,200
Luke List: $7,400
Jason Kokrak: $7,300
Kevin Streelman: $7,200
Trey Mullinax: $6,800
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WWE RAW: 5 Things WWE got just right on this week’s episode (Oct 21, 2019)
Superstars on RAW made some huge statements this week
Ali Akber
Modified 22 Oct 2019, 17:49 IST
Paul Heyman played his cards right on this week's RAW. #WWE #RAW
RAW opened up to a huge amount of fanfare, as the WWE Universe was excited for the return of Ric Flair. Flair appeared on RAW to select the final member of his team for the upcoming Crown Jewel pay-per-view.
This wasn’t the only segment fans were interested in seeing, as many in the WWE Universe wanted to see what 'The Fiend' Bray Wyatt would have up his sleeves after Seth Rollins burned down the Firefly Fun House to close out last week's show.
Throughout the evening, there were some rather interesting segments and matches that built toward future storylines. There were also several key matches which can once again make RAW a must-watch show.
In this article, we will look at the five things the company got just right on this week’s RAW.
#1 Brought out Cain Velasquez once again
Rey Mysterio returned to the ring for the first time since bringing Cain Velasquez to the season premiere of SmackDown to exact revenge from Brock Lesnar. Mysterio claimed that he was training Velasquez to face Lesnar at Crown Jewel, and thanked the fans for their love and support after the beatdown he and his son suffered at the hands of 'The Beast.'
'The Master of the 619' was cut short by Paul Heyman, followed by Shelton Benjamin, who approached the ring and bullied Mysterio for some time. Benjamin asked Mysterio where Velasquez was to save him now.
This brought out the MMA legend once again to a huge pop from the WWE Universe. Velasquez vanquished Benjamin and put him in a sleeper choke, before Benjamin tapped and escaped the ring.
This was a good way to remind fans of the relationship between Lesnar and Benjamin. Bringing out someone close to Lesnar for Velasquez to dominate, in a similar fashion to how Lesnar beat down Dominick, was the right thing to do.
Velasquez's obvious limp also showed that he was still recovering from injury and may not be 100% for Crown Jewel, but is still ready and willing to take on 'The Beast.'
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The incredible wartime heroics of Taunton hammer attack victim Jim Booth
96-year-old was attacked on his doorstep
Laura LinhamSenior reporter
Police in Taunton are investigating a hammer attack on a 96 year-old war veteran.
Jim Booth was left with serious head injuries after answering the door of his home to a caller offering to do work on his house.
Today police announced they had arrested a 39-year-old man in connect with the attack.
But who is Jim Booth, the D-day hero who was seriously injured in an attack that shocked and appalled the nation?
He joined the Royal Navy as a seaman at the age of 18, serving throughout the war.
Jim Booth was a D-Day hero and Sub Lieutenant (Image: SWNS)
He became part of the Combined Operations Pilotage and Reconnaissance Parties (COPP), which was set up in 1943.
Aged 23 he became a submarine pilot for the X-craft - tiny submarines that waited on the seabed for days at a time.
His team sailed from Portsmouth to Normandy to scout out where the British could safely land.
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Under the cover of darkness, a mini-submarine was towed part of the way over to the Normandy coast before motoring in close to Sword Beach and submerging below the waves.
When the time came the submarine was to surface, using a beacon to guide the troops in to the correct part of the beach.
After submerging themselves on the 4th June in expectation of an invasion on the 5th, the delay caused by bad weather left Jim’s crew dangerously short of oxygen.
The crew held out by sleeping and speaking as little as possible, they surfaced on the 6th, successfully guiding the landing craft in to Sword Beach.
Jim Booth, left, was left with serious injuries after he was attacked during a brutal distraction burglary
He was later awarded the Croix de Guerre military medal by the French for his gallantry.
After his D-Day mission Jim was posted to the Far East to carry out reconnaissance work along the coast of Burma, before heading off to the Mediterranean in command of a minesweeper, HMS Vallay, clearing German minefields.
Speaking about his role in D-Day, Mr Booth told the BBC in 2011: "This operation was special, because Normandy was special and unique, and it was critical in winning the war."
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In July 2015, Charles attended a service on Hayling Island seafront in Hampshire to pay tribute to those who served in COPP.
Mr Booth laid a wreath beside one placed by Charles, who is patron of the COPP Heroes Memorial Fund, during the ceremony.
In civilian life Jim Booth went on to lead a successful teaching career.
In August 2015, Mr Booth joined the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall for a reception in the grounds of Westminster Abbey.
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall dances with Royal Navy Veteran Jim Booth (Image: Getty)
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Charmingly rustic, the town of Guerneville (pop. 4,534) mixes towering redwoods, cool river waters, laid-back attitudes, and Sonoma Wine Country delights in a pleasing blend that makes it a popular destination, as well as an established gay vacation resort.
Guerneville has always been a vacation getaway for San Franciscans — by train in the 1870s to the 1930s, and by car through the 1950s. In the 1970s it became a welcoming resort area for Bay Area gay men and lesbians.
Today, visitors stay in cozy cabins, uniquely rustic resorts, campgrounds, vacation rentals, and other lodgings. They can choose to eat at trendy restaurants, food stands, or hip cafes reminiscent of the flower-power era.
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The only Australian built icebreaker, the beloved RSV Aurora Australis, might soon leave our shores. The Aurora was built in Carrington Slipways upriver from Newcastle. The ship was launched in 1989 and since then has served the Australian Antarctic program for 30 years. Orange Roughy, as it's affectionately known, helped Australia make its mark in Antarctica. It facilitated advancements in oceanography, climate science, marine research, glaciology and conservation including the management of krill fisheries. The icebreaker was decommissioned this year. There had been a push to preserve the ship as a floating museum and function space based in Hobart. But the ship's owner, P&O Maritime Logistics, was granted an export permit so the ship could be sold overseas. "The decision-making process regarding the future of Aurora Australis is ongoing. POML has been approached by a number of interested parties from around the world," a spokesperson said. There Aurora is moored at Princes Wharf in Hobart, awaiting its next adventure. We spoke to scientists, expeditioners and crew about their experiences aboard the icebreaker, including the engine room fire of 1998 and the rescue of a private vessel in 2013. You'll hear actual recordings from aboard the historic ship. For more on the Aurora Australis check out Sarah Laverick's book Through Ice & Fire. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or your preferred podcast platform. Just search for Voice of Real Australia. New to podcasts? See our article on how to listen to podcasts. Get the transcript for this episode. Join the conversation on our Facebook page, and sign up for the newsletter. Do you have a story to share? Get in touch: voice@austcommunitymedia.com.au.
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The only Australian built icebreaker, the beloved RSV Aurora Australis, might soon leave our shores.
The Aurora was built in Carrington Slipways upriver from Newcastle. The ship was launched in 1989 and since then has served the Australian Antarctic program for 30 years. Orange Roughy, as it's affectionately known, helped Australia make its mark in Antarctica. It facilitated advancements in oceanography, climate science, marine research, glaciology and conservation including the management of krill fisheries.
AA hits fast ice off Davis V1 7 Nov 2019. PHOTO: Simon Payne AAD
The icebreaker was decommissioned this year. There had been a push to preserve the ship as a floating museum and function space based in Hobart. But the ship's owner, P&O Maritime Logistics, was granted an export permit so the ship could be sold overseas.
"The decision-making process regarding the future of Aurora Australis is ongoing. POML has been approached by a number of interested parties from around the world," a spokesperson said.
There Aurora is moored at Princes Wharf in Hobart, awaiting its next adventure.
It is really hard to comprehend that this is actually not a dream. We are miles from everywhere, it is the middle of winter in Antarctica, and your ship is on fire.
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We spoke to scientists, expeditioners and crew about their experiences aboard the icebreaker, including the engine room fire of 1998 and the rescue of a private vessel in 2013. You'll hear actual recordings from aboard the historic ship.
Aurora Australis launch Carrington Slipways Newcastle 18 Sept 1989. PHOTO: AAD
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Revealed: These FOUR companies are moving onto this new business park (and there's one more to come!)
Three other companies are joining Q-Railing at the Tunstall Arrow site in Sandyford
The Tunstall Arrow site, in Sandyford
Four businesses have signed up to move into warehouses on a multi-million pound business park - and the fifth and final unit is also set to be filled.
Railing and balustrade contractor Q-Railing has previously been confirmed as the anchor tenant at the 28-acre Tunstall Arrow site.
It is moving out of its current three units in Wolstanton to take on the 43,500 square-foot purpose-built warehouse off James Brindley Way, in Sandyford.
Now three other companies have followed suit by signing up for their units.
Work begins on new 28-acre Tunstall Arrow development
Australian fleet management firm sgfleet, which acquired Longton-based vehicle hire and rental group Motiva last year;
Handling equipment manufacturer Pramac-Generac, which is relocating from its current site in Crewe;
Equipment hire business Boels Rental, which has sites in Stoke, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Italy.
One of the warehouses on the Tunstall Arrow site
The development land was created following the construction of the Tunstall Northern Bypass, which links Chell and Sandyford.
Developer Network Space took on the Tunstall Arrow site in 2013. It was hoped more than 250 jobs would be created as part of the development.
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Development director Simon Peters said: “We want to deliver better places for businesses and provide the very best environment for businesses to thrive.
“We took over the Tunstall Arrow site and its redevelopment has not been straight-forward. Delivering a speculative development in Stoke-on-Trent is a challenge. Many of the available brownfield sites require remediation at much cost, so without funding from Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership and the Ceramic Valley Enterprise Team, we would not have been able to deliver this.
“We have already let four of the buildings, with another one set to be announced. We will soon have five high-quality companies occupying this site. To see international companies investing and opening here in Stoke-on-Trent is a real vote of confidence for the city.”
Business leaders at the Tunstall Arrow site. Pictured left to right are: Simon Peters, development director at Network Space; Alun Rogers vice-chairman of the LEP; city council deputy leader Abi Brown; Q-Railing general manager Bruce Bradshaw; and Janine Bridges, city council cabinet member for the economy
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Experts say there is a huge demand for warehouses in the city.
Site agent Richard Mounsey, of Mounsey Chartered Surveyors, said: “A speculative development of this size is a real risk, but one that has paid off. I have never been involved in a scheme before where we have let all of the buildings before they were completed. This shows that there is a demand from businesses looking to move into the city or relocate.”
Yesterday, business leaders were given a sneak peak at the £11 million site, which is part of the Ceramic Valley Enterprise Zone – an initiative which will see the creation and safeguarding of up to 2,000 jobs.
One of the Tunstall Arrow units
Councillor Abi Brown, deputy leader of the city council and chair of the Ceramic Valley Enterprise Zone Board, said: “The potential of the Enterprise Zone has always been huge and the success to date shows just how attractive it is. The interest we have received from national and international businesses is fantastic for this city.
“We have worked with developers such as Network Space from a very early stage to understand their needs. There has also been a significant push to promote the benefits of the enterprise zone, including work at international trade shows and on innovative marketing projects.
“The fantastic news on jobs which are secured and in the pipeline is a direct result of the hard work by everyone across the enterprise zone project and we are extremely excited about the further benefits this will bring for Stoke-on-Trent.”
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Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) vice chair Alun Rogers said: “The Enterprise Zone is good news for our economy in stimulating inward investment, driving business growth and creating more and better jobs for local people. It is a very strong marketing tool, strengthening the reputation of Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire as a great location with excellent transport links, an enthusiastic workforce and a positive, forward-thinking approach to innovation and growth.”
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TransLink announces "equitable" service reductions, but no word on any pay cuts for executives or police
by Charlie Smith on July 30th, 2013 at 4:09 PM
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TransLink has announced a series of money-saving moves, including the elimination of free travel on Sunday and holidays for family members of monthly pass holders.
Last year, TransLink spokesperson Ken Hardie told the Straight that when fare gates would be introduced at SkyTrain and Canada Line stations this year, those with adult monthly fare cards would still be able to bring along a spouse and up to four children under 13.
“All we can tell you right now is that the offering will still be there,” Hardie promised at the time. “How it will work—at this point, we don’t have that detail for you.”
Today, however, TransLink's executive vice president, Bob Paddon, announced in a news release that the board of directors has decided to eliminate this benefit on January 1.
This and other changes are designed to make the system "more equitable", TransLink stated.
In addition, TransLink is scrapping the employer pass program on January 1. It offers a 15 percent discount to workers who make a 12-month commitment to buy monthly transit passes.
FareSaver tickets are also going to be phased out next year, with discounts becoming available through a "stored value option" on the new Compass Cards.
The West Coast Express's seven-day pass and 28-day pass are also on the chopping block, effective January 1.
Passengers who want to take a bicycle on the West Coast Express will no longer have to pay a $1 fee.
"We took a good hard look at our programs to determine which ones still make sense," Paddon said in the news release. "We found some programs benefited a select few people and companies."
The news release made no mention of any salary rollbacks at TransLink.
TransLink's most recent statement of financial information reveals that 59 of the 169 constables on the transportation authority's police force earned more than $100,000 in 2011.
Meanwhile, TransLink CEO Ian Jarvis was paid $382,954 in 2011. Six other executives, including Paddon, collected more than $240,000 in annual compensation.
Last year, TransLink generated $1.42 billion in revenue and reported $1.43 billion in expenditures.
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Eric Doherty
What I had to say about transit fare hikes last year still stands. We need to lower transit fares, not raise them to reduce carbon pollution.
http://www.straight.com/news/eric-doherty-transit-delays-and-fare-hikes-...
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"Passengers who want to take a bicycle on the West Coast Express will have to pay a new $1 fee"
WRONG - bikes currently cost $1 but that fee is being aboloished immediately
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Gurinder
How about the Executives get chopped and the fares get saved? These moves by Translink make me want to get the dirtiest car on the market and go spew soot wherever I go.
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No Accountability
Translink has virtually Zero Real Accountability.
1. The Fare Gates & Compass Cards costs $171 Million + a waste given the 10+ Year Return on Investment,
2. The On-going Contracts to Operate the $171 Million Fare Gates, The Computer Systems, Database and Cards is in the Millions if not Tens of Millions a year I believe,
3. Translink does not need it's own $50 Million+ a year "Police' Force when current City Police across the mainland can respond in about the same time frame at little additional cost,
4. The Gross waste like overpaying or Equipment like $500,000 to $1 Million for a friggin Bus is ridiculous,
5. Overpaid Management, save the many Millions in Pay & Retirement benefits, get rid of these Fat Cats,
Until there is accountability and cutbacks at TransLink no more extra money like upcoming Road Taxes / Fees.
Which will simply make it more expensive to get to work and increase the price of our Groceries most of which are delivered by Road.
We need reform and accountability yesterday!
Stephen, you have that quote completely wrong. The correct quote totally jives with your point.
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Didn't Translink Police just get a bump in their funding? If the Compass Passes are supposed to reduce those taking advantage of the system, why are more police necessary? What is their incident response rate? They also seem to patrol only from 8-6... I've been on a couple of late night buses where it's been the VPD responding to bus incidents (guy kicking/busting a door, mentally ill man arguing with drunks).
d mack
The option for travelling a family on Sunday for no extra charge for monthly pass holders is an excellent way to encourage more ridership on a traditionally low useage day, and at the same time, help low income families get around to a park outing or other family activities without additional charge. Fares as they stand are too expensive. I encourage passengers of translink to write and have them return the option. Thank you Charlie for reporting on the hypocrisy of this board, and the overpaid police force. Lower the fares and keep the sunday option for monthly passholders!
D. Avey
The Employer pass may have been at a reduced rate but abolishing that now means it is cheaper for me to drive to work. Which I now will seriously consider doing. Why cut that and not the ridiculous student passes that are practically given away at a
Much more highly discounted rate. Translink just doesn't get it but when you consider they cannot actually handle the amount of ridership they have now, i am not surprised they are trying to make it more difficult
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Ian King
Jul 30, 2013 at 10:15pm
@Eric -- Sorry, but I have to disagree about lower fares. Given the choice between cutting fares and increasing service, I'd opt for better service for the foreseeable future. There are already overcrowded routes all over the inner Lower Mainland, and there's no point in increasing demand while sacrificing revenue when there's nowhere to accommodate those extra riders. Bus passes are still a hell of a lot cheaper than car insurance, let alone payments, fuel and maintenance.
@No Accountability -- please find a new bus, street legal in BC, that costs less than $500,000 with all the features that are expected of a modern urban transit bus.
Charlie -- are you going to start taking shots at the wages that drivers and maintenance personnel make next? I would hope not, despite those wages representing a much larger figure than Ian Jarvis and Bob Paddon's pay packets.
Jason King
It was stated that the programs like the employee pass were introduced to bring more people onto transit and to use the buses/trains. I guess Translink no longer cares about attracting people. At this rate it will become cheaper for me to drive to work than take the train like I have been doing with my pass for the past 3 years.
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Share this Story: 'Divorce is imminent': Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are splitting up, sources say
'Divorce is imminent': Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are splitting up, sources say
Sources insist Kim is 'done' after a tough 2020, during which the rapper ran for U.S. President and revealed personal details of the couple's lives on Twitter
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West attend the Vanity Fair Oscar party in Beverly Hills during the 92nd Academy Awards, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 9, 2020. Photo by Danny Moloshok /Reuters
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have been hit by claims their six-year marriage is over.
Page Six sources insist Kim is “done” after a tough 2020, during which the rapper ran for U.S. President while publicly revealing he and his wife considered aborting their first child, daughter North.
'Divorce is imminent': Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are splitting up, sources say Back to video
“She is serious about taking the bar exam and becoming a lawyer, she is serious about her prison reform campaign,” a source told Page Six. “Meanwhile Kanye is talking about running for president and saying other crazy s–t, and she’s just had enough of it.”
Kim reportedly hasn’t been seen wearing her wedding ring.
In a rant Kim insisted was a bipolar episode, Kanye also lashed out at his wife and her mother Kris Jenner for trying to keep him from his kids. He also announced he had been trying to divorce Kim for years.
Kanye later apologized and Kim flew to his retreat in Wyoming in an effort to fix their marriage, but it now appears the union is on its last legs.
Other sources say Kanye is becoming increasingly sick of the Kardashian family and their reality-show lifestyle.
Representatives for the couple have yet to comment on the latest split news, but insiders claim Kim has hired top divorce lawyer Laura Wasser and is in “settlement talks”.
“Divorce is imminent,” the Page Six source says.
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April books: empowering self-help, sweeping tales and brilliant thrillers
Francesca Brown
Stylist’s books editor Francesca Brown rounds up the 10 best books to get your hands on this April.
April is an eclectic and exciting month (whatever your reading tastes) as some of the biggest debuts of the year (see Queenie, Cape May and The Flatshare reviews here) hit the shelves alongside enlightening and entertaining non-fiction such as Flex and Black, Listed and Beth McColl’s loving and stunning mental-health handbook, How To Come Alive Again.
Explore worlds of Victorian mysteries, psychological drama and sweeping epics – a purple patch of really good reading starts here…
The gothic delight: Things In Jars by Jess Kidd
Meet your newest pipe-smoking, ghost-seeing heroine – Bridie Devine. An unflinching investigator of missing children “wearing a shade of deep purple that clashes (wonderfully and dreadfully) with [her] vivid red hair”, she’s been transplanted from Ireland as a child and is now knee-deep in the grotesque world of 1863 London.
Ably abetted by her seven-foot tall mutton chopped maid Cora and the ghost of a boxer, Ruby Doyle, Bridie is hired on the case of a missing child, Christabel, leading to a journey through Victorian London’s weird and wonderful inhabitants, Celtic folklore and the men who’d seek to contain it all. Written with humour, verve and total originality, Costa-winning Kidd is a storyteller to be cherished.
(Out 4 April, Canongate)
The exploration of black identity: Black, Listed by Jeffrey Boakye
Written with passion, humour and insight, Jeffrey Boakye tackles black identity by exploring labels and notions – both given and embraced – across all areas of black culture. As he writes in the opening chapter: “Welcome to Black, Listed, a list of things that melanin-heavy human beings might find themselves being referred to as, if they happen to be alive in the 400-year window that this book peers into.”
Breaking it down into chapters such as official descriptors (Afro-Caribbean, ethnic minority), loaded terms (powerful, them) and terms of endearment (King/Queen) to name just a few, Black, Listed is part-autobiography, part-pop culture guide and part-sociological/historical exploration that bounces from music and films to politics, people and language. It’s set to be a breakout title for 2019.
(Out 18 April, Dialogue Books)
The eye-opening Victorian tale: The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
A brilliant counterpart to Jess Kidd’s story (see above), Sara Collins’ sweeping and addictive tale gives voice to the slaves who powered the 1800s and endured incredible brutality, racism and destruction. Accused of a double murder, Frannie is portrayed by society as a scheming temptress and murderess and is forced, for the first time, to tell her own story in her own words.
From the haunting incident in which a young Frannie steals away with a copy of Candide, only for reading to become both her freedom and her damnation, to a loving relationship that’s brought to a violent end, Collins has created an epic tale that’ll make for total book club joy. Prepare to pass it on to friend after friend.
(Out 4 April, Viking)
The disturbing drama: A Good Enough Mother by Bev Thomas
Dr Ruth Hartland is the director of a trauma therapy unit but has problems of her own including a missing son, Tom. When a young man is admitted under her care, his striking likeness to Tom begins to colour her professionalism and her duty of treatment. Filled with moral and psychological insights into mother-son dynamics, Thomas’ drama/thriller is one of those stories you can see unfolding over three Sunday nights on BBC1 – which is absolutely no bad thing.
What separates Thomas’ writing from your average domestic drama is its compelling persuasiveness; her background as a clinical psychologist means her characters’ actions always make sense even when they’re self-harming (a rare trait for the genre). One telling insight is Ruth choosing audiobooks to listen to while painting – rejecting To Kill A Mockingbird for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – the ultimate maternal horror story…
(Out 4 April, Faber)
The straight-talking self-help: Flex by Annie Auerbach
Are your rigid methods (how you work and what you expect from yourself in the office and beyond) sending you slightly doolally? Then it’s time to spend some time with the straight-talking Annie Auerbach. Sample quote: “I think the image of stressed, juggling womanhood is past its sell-by date… Friendship, leaderships, parenting, Pilates, make-up, public speaking, cake baking, sodding tennis. It’s exhausting, it’s not cool and I’m over it.”
Flex is not just about work (although there is a lot of very wise advice on that score) but about being. Of how to give yourself – whether that’s your mind or body – space to be creative (she makes the salient point that real creativity does not come from staring at your inbox for 40 hours a week), of how to flex the muscles that actually work for you and about re-evaluating things you stick to for no reason. It’s a slim volume of inspiring words, practical help and a fresh way of seeing things that we’ll be forcing on just about everyone we know.
(Out 18 April, HQ)
The retro mystery: The Language Of Birds by Jill Dawson
In 1974, aristocrat Lord Lucan disappeared never to be seen again after the murder of his children’s nanny, Sandra Rivett. Speculation since then surrounded his whereabouts (he was sighted across the globe) or possible demise (one grisly theory is that his body was fed to his friend John Aspinall’s tigers) but very little was known about the victim.
Jill Dawson’s fictional take on the affair quietly but firmly redresses the balance as she makes her heroine, Mandy River, a warm, intelligent and life-filled delight who is not a victim but a woman who clear-sightedly sees a family beset by problems and Lord Morven for exactly who he is. Conjuring a world of class lines and monied entitlement all told by a friend of Mandy’s, this is a carefully and beautifully written book that’ll have you hooked.
(Out 4 April, Sceptre)
The wry thriller: Metropolis by Philip Kerr
If you’ve yet to discover Bernie Gunther and love an intelligent thriller then you’ve got a world of joy waiting for you. A wry, fast-talking, morally loose and questionable anti-hero, Gunther is also one of the thriller genre’s greatest creations, jumping from pre-war Berlin and the steady encroachment of the Nazis to a broken Germany destroyed by its own excess.
Metropolis is the 14th book in the series and also acts as an origin story as Bernie becomes involved with Berlin’s Murder Commission in 1928 slowly finding his feet as a talented – if wry – investigator. Filled with a sense of time and place and a plot that’ll leave your brain working overtime, we can’t recommend Kerr’s writing enough. Sadly, this is the last book in the series as Kerr died of cancer last year aged 62. Bernie remains a shining example of his unique and much-missed talent.
(Out 4 April, Quercus)
The ambitious debut: You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr
“Day by day, farm by farm, the English draw closer. Even on Christmas morning we woke to smoke spooling across the sky like wool waiting to be wound.” In 1901, Sarah van der Watt and her son Fred are placed in a concentration camp and told by the English “you will be safe here”. Instead it becomes quickly apparent that any uprisings will be brutally beaten down and the camp’s inhabitants made into victims of disease, violence and cruelty.
Like Sara Collins’ The Confessions Of Frannie Langton, Damian Barr’s sweeping story places Britain’s violent colonial past under scrutiny by exploring the Boer War (Boer was the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmers) and its reverberations in South African society over a century later. Beautifully written and with moments of moving humanity, this is a book that tilts the world, showing how the actions of the past can never be fully escaped by the present.
(Out 4 April, Bloomsbury)
The big historical fiction: The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
This is a big book in themes, scope and size (550 pages plus a handy timeline) but once you pick up this hefty tome you’ll be transported across decades, emotions, plots and people with gravity-defying ease. From France just before the beginning of the First World War to Palestine’s struggle for independence in 1936 and beyond, it’s the story of Midhat Kamal, a medical student who falls for his professor’s daughter, Jeannette, only for the love affair to fail and send him spinning into the orbits of politics and war.
Uniting themes such as the breakdown of the Middle East (it’s an invaluable understanding into the problems that continue to this day) and the rootlessness of migrants, Hammad creates a real sense of time and place luxuriating in the details of food, smells and sights; take a weekend off and disappear into her vision.
(Out 11 April, Vintage)
The mental health must-read: How To Come Alive Again by Beth McColl
“You are not an oddity here, you’re not a family secret. You’re not a joke. You’re not a disappointment. You’re not a waste of space, or a fuck up, or a failure. You’re none of those things here. You’re just someone who’s been depressed. Someone who’s still depressed… Someone who desperately wants to know their own worth and be alive better.”
Anyone – no matter where they in life – will take something from this book. From the days when you know you need to get basic stuff done (but just can’t make yourself move) to signs it’s time to ask for help, McColl’s practical and loving book is full of insight and useful steps for making it through and giving yourself a break. Just buy it and keep it to hand – there will always be something it can give you.
(Out 4 April, Unbound)
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Francesca Brown is books editor for Stylist magazine and Stylist Loves; she also compiles the Style List on a weekly basis. She is a self-confessed HBO abuser and has a wide selection of grey sweatshirts. Honestly, you just can’t have enough. @franabouttown
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Super Patriot: Iwobi fails to join sports stars that dumped Nigeria
BY JOE APU
In the western world, service to fatherland remains supreme to all. The Americans, British and other nationals hold it in high esteem.
While this trend continues to gladden the hearts of the government of these countries, sports men from the third world were quick to dump their countries for the Golden Fleece.
Though, many sports men and women born in those countries had also worked assiduously to make their country of birth teams, while others simply want to identify with their countries of origin.
In athletics, Britain’s Tripple jumper, Philips Idowu did not contemplate his decision to represent Britain, while the likes of Francis Obikwelu and Gloria Alozie changed nationality to represent Portugal and Spain respeclikes of Francis Obikwelu tively.
Basketball icon, Hakeem Olajuwon released his ambition of an Olympic gold medal with the USA Dream Team and Michael Olowokandi represented Britain.
Football stars John Fashanu shunned Nigeria’s call to national duty back in his playing days and today regretted not representing the Nigeria. Jordon Ibeh, Sammy Aluko and a whole lot of players also preferred to stay with England.
However, that was not the story of Arsenal of England wonder boy, Alex Iwobi.
Despite having played for England at junior levels the youngster had pledged his international future to Nigeria, his country of birth.
Iwobi, who is Nigeria legend, Jay-Jay Okocha’s nephew, had burst onto the scene in recent weeks, scoring his first goal for the Arsenal in the 2-0 win over Everton penultimate Saturday.
Ahead of Iwobi’s trip to Nigeria, the English FA made a last-ditch attempt to sign up Arsenal wonderkid, Alex Iwobi after being impressed with his ability.
Iwobi played for the Three Lions at Under-16, 17 and 18 levels before opting to play for the country of his birth – Nigeria – last year.
The 19-year-old had already played in two friendlies for Nigeria, and made his official debut against Egypt yesterday.
But the Daily Mirror reported England was hoping to tempt him away after being impressed with how he’s broken into the Arsenal first-team.
Iwobi had started three of the Gunners’ last four games and scored on his Premier League debut against Everton on Saturday.
The decision to commit himself to Nigeria over England at international level had been decided, according to his father, Chuka Iwobi.
Reports suggested that the FA had made a last-ditch effort to try to lure him to commit to England, and speculation increased earlier when the youngster was taken to hospital with food poisoning.
However, his father confirmed that Iwobi is for Nigeria at international level in an attempt to emulate his uncle, Jay-Jay Okocha.
“In terms of where he is now, he has allegiance to Nigeria. I am not in a position to say England has come for him or not. I cannot confirm, I cannot deny. He has come to Nigeria, to play for Nigeria. He is, according to FIFA registration, a Nigerian player. So, it is not even a question. He is here to play for Nigeria. According to FIFA records, he is with Nigeria,” Chuka Iwobi told Reports Afrique.
“I am praying for it to be the beginning of a long journey for him playing for Nigeria and getting to that pinnacle of playing for Nigeria as well. Maybe, God willing, who knows? We don’t know where the journey will take him to. Hopefully with hard work, dedication and respect, doing well for Nigeria, he could go the way of his uncle, Jay-Jay Okocha who captained the Super Eagles.
“What a better feeling it would be for me as a father to see him play for Nigeria and becoming a captain in the future, though that’s a long way down the line.”
Iwobi’s decision was inspired in October 2015, when ex-international, Austin ‘Jay Jay’ Okocha challenged his nephew to surpass his achievements with the senior national team.
Iwobi revealed that he received the challenge from his uncle, following his national team debut against DR Congo.
The Arsenal youngster also revealed that Okocha had been a major influence in making him the player that he is today while also stating that it was a tough decision to dump England for Nigeria.
“I remember one time he was playing for Bolton and I was lucky enough to go and watch with my dad,” Iwobi recalled.
“Then we were just having a kick around and he came over, showed me something and then I’d be like, ‘How on earth did he do that?’! Then I would go away and spend the next few days trying to learn it.”
“Playing for England was a good experience, but Nigeria gave me a great opportunity to go and play for my home country, and also follow in the footsteps of my uncle, so I think that is going to be the pathway for me.
“He (Jay Jay) told me that if I played for Nigeria, I could become even better than him. To hear that was massive because he was a great player. He’s given me a challenge and I might have to accept it.”
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Veteran diplomat Hamzat Ahmadu dies at 92
A death has occurred of a veteran diplomat and former permanent secretary Alahji Hamzat Ahmadu.
According to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant, Media to Gov. Aminu Tambuwal, Imam Imam, Ahmadu, who held the traditional title of Walin Sokotod, died at a private hospital in Lagos on Sunday, aged 92.
An accomplished diplomat and technocrat, the deceased served as Personal Secretary to two Nigerian military leaders, Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi and Gen. Yakubu Gowon.
He had also served as Nigeria’s Ambassador to U.S., Germany, France and the former Soviet Union (USSR).
Responding to the news of his death Tambuwal, described the deceased as peace-loving and committed family man who gave invaluable contributions to the unity and development of Nigeria.
“He was an accomplished diplomat who distinguished himself in his chosen specialties.
“As an elder statesman, his wise counsel served both the older and younger generation of leaders not only in Sokoto, but in Nigeria as a whole.”
The funeral prayer for the deceased will be performed on Monday at 10.00 a.m. in Sokoto. ( NAN)
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Grupo Monalisa exec chef Jacob Ramos – Interview
Meet Grupo Monalisa´s executive chef Jacob Ramos in this interview. He is in charge of the sublime cuisine at Sunset Monalisa restaurant in Los Cabos.
When your love for cuisine was born?
When I was 8 years old I first started to like to cook. I would wake up in the morning on the weekends and make my family breakfast so my mom could rest. Everyone really liked my breakfast so it’s something that I really started to like and took a lot of passion. I started to read recipes and gave my mom a grocery list at that age.
Which are the dishes you like to cook the most at home?
Grilled steak and veggies with garlic mash potatoes, and aged balsamic vinegar as the sauce. Its easy. Good. No dishes to clean (except the mash potato pot). And of course I love making breakfast and salsas. The art of making salsa is sublime.
What were your impressions the first time you went to Sunset Monalisa?
I knew instantly that the combination of my food, and the environment, with the way the staff moved and acted, would create an extremely special experience.
I love Leonardo da Vinci, and thought the Sunset Monalisa was the perfect place to paint my own masterpiece.
Who would you consider to be your cuisine-mentors?
Alec Lester he was my first chef. He didn’t except anything less than perfection from me. He taught me everything that I needed as a new chef in a fine-dining kitchen from start to finish.
How is your process of creating a recipe?
I’ve been to many restaurants in my life and have traveled a lot. If I liked the restaurant, I would always go back to use that place as a reference. When coming up with a dish, I will pull out all the books that I remember have something similar. I will pull up all the restaurants that I like at that moment and look at all the menus and recipes in the books. I will research flavor profiles. Start to ravage through all my previous menus and notebooks from years. Then I start to visualize the dish, the colors and flavors, and what plate I will use. That is in menu writing mode.
But basically, inspiration can come from anywhere.
Old dishes keep changing every time I find something new.
Or see something cool. I will think to myself, oh, that would go good on that one dish I did last summer.
What is that most excite you about cooking?
The happiest moment of cooking what I look forward to is people take the first bite and smile with happiness.
I don’t get to see it much because I am in the kitchen, so I guess when someone comes in the kitchen and says that they loved their meal.
Which is your cuisine style?
I cook French; it’s my root of cooking.
But I love Mexican because I grew up eating my mom’s and grandma ‘s enchiladas, so I am always feeling like a trader for loving to cook French over Mexican.
To eat no doubt sushi.
Why would you recommend Sunset Monalisa restaurant in Los Cabos?
It is becoming more than a restaurant. It is becoming a place to come if you want an extraordinary experience.
Where will you get that view? Michelin star quality food. Award-winning wine, artists that sing amazingly. It animates all your senses. With myself and the team, we won’t stop till we are the best, so every time anyone comes, it should be better than the last visit. It’s a place that won’t stop getting better.
Please, tell us a little bit about your background as a chef.
I went to college at the California school of culinary arts in Pasadena in 2001. I worked at a few little restaurants around school that were high quality. One day I lost my cell phone, and the gentleman that found my phone was the director of operations at Patina restaurant, a 1 Michelin star in LA. He somehow pulled some strings and got me in as a prep cook in the catering kitchen. I gave it all, everything I had every day physically and mentally. Within three months, I was sous chef. I worked there for three years and then my chef sent me to the one Michelin star Patina Restaurant. Again starting at the bottom, within three months of working the line all day and night, I became sous chef. I worked a total of 9 years with the Patina group holding many positions over the years, climbing the ranks.
Later, they started building the Ritz Carlton in downtown LA, which was the most prominent, shiniest building. When the Ritz Carlton sign went on, I knew I was going to work there. The chef called and asked me what I wanted to do. I told him I wanted to be the one in charge, and the rest was history. Opening the Ritz Carlton DTLA was the first time in the world that three hotel brands opened in the same building. Ritz Carlton Los Angeles. JW Marriott LA Live and Ritz Carlton Residence.
After doing high volume food for two years at LA Live, I went to open the Ritz Carlton Lake Tahoe with Michelin Star & James Beard award-winning chef Traci de Jardin, and we began the hotel and restaurant. Within the first year, we received nominations for James Beard and was ranked number 3 restaurant in all of the Ritz Carlton company.
After three years with Traci, I met Jose Andres, who was one of the best chefs in the world at the time, and he recruited me to open up the first Ritz Carlton Reserve in North America, in Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico. I trained in Washington DC with the Spanish el Bulli team of all research and development. I moved to Puerto Rico and opened up Mi Casa by Jose Andres in Dorado Beach, a Ritz Carlton Reserve. We received the 4th best restaurant in Latin American and nomination for a James Beard award within our first year of operation.
Three years later, I missed home and had an opportunity to have my signature restaurant within the Ritz Carlton Los Angeles, which I jumped on and moved home, but none the less I still worked in a corporate environment.
Three years later, Giammarco Vela, head of Monalisa Group, found me, and the rest is history. I moved to Cabo to make the dream of having one of the best restaurants in the world.
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U.S. Pandemic Tracker
COVID-19 Maps and Statistics
As of January 19th, 17:15:28 (PST)
U.S. 24,624,652 406,009 1.65%
World 96,238,752 2,058,454 2.14%
U.S. Total Deaths Today: 2,811
Data By County or State
U.S. COVID-19 Deaths
7-Day Running Average
03/01/20 to Present
U.S. COVID-19 New Cases
Hot Zones: 7-Day Deaths
Per Capita Heat Map
Hot Zones: State Rankings
(7-Day Deaths Per 100,000)
death rate accelerating from previous week
death rate stable/decelerating from previous week
1) 15.79 Alabama
2) 15.34 Arizona
3) 11.94 Pennsylvania
4) 11.36 Mississippi
5) 10.56 West Virginia
6) 9.28 South Dakota
7) 9.27 Nevada
8) 9.25 New Mexico
9) 8.69 Arkansas
10) 8.41 California
6.81 U.S. Average
Total Deaths Per Capita
Per Capita Deaths: States
(Total Deaths per 100,000)
1) 221.36 New Jersey
2) 208.99 New York
3) 203.82 Massachusetts
4) 188.57 South Dakota
5) 186.88 Connecticut
6) 185.62 Mississippi
7) 181.74 Rhode Island
8) 181.63 North Dakota
9) 177.52 Louisiana
10) 159.30 Illinois
119.89 U.S. Average
Per Capita Deaths: Counties
1) 1,351.35 Bethel, AK
2) 842.59 Gove, KS
3) 789.73 Jerauld, SD
4) 648.96 Dickey, ND
5) 633.02 Iron, WI
6) 626.03 Hamlin, SD
7) 620.67 Gregory, SD
8) 608.83 Grant, NE
9) 598.61 Galax, VA
10) 597.51 Hancock, GA
Daily Incremental Deaths
Daily Incremental Cases
Cumulative Deaths
Cumulative Cases
Cumulative Death Rates
Cases & Deaths
As Percent of World's
Total Per Capita Deaths
Red/Blue State Comparison
Running 7-Day Average Deaths
COVID-19 Data Summaries
As long feared, the country is currently engulfed in regional flare-ups. These are currently concentrated in the MidWest, the Mountain states and parts of the South. However every region and state is experiencing spikes in cases and deaths. The most severely affected are North and South Dakota, which are experiencing death rates matching or exceeding what hit the NorthEast earlier this year.
As has been true for months, the top four states by per capita death are New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut. However, these rankings may begin to shift later this winter. Again, should North and South Dakota continue on their current trajectory they're both on course to set new records here in the U.S.
With the holidays approaching and much of the population disregarding health warnings (or simply believing they're just a liberal hoax), we can expect record hospitalizations over the next few months. The effect of this may be partially balanced by new rerecently-approved treatments. However, it's unlikely that these new treatments will be widespread enough or effective enough to avoid a large eventual death toll.
Cases have been trending up over the past two months, moving around regionally. Currently the Upper Midwest and parts of the South are suffering the most, while the West and NorthEast have had a relative respite.
Death rates have remained relatively stable and much lower than at the peak of the pandemic. However, increases in deaths normally trail increases in new cases. Therefore it's expected that the death rate will move up again in the coming days.
The Northeast remains the most impacted by the pandemic. The top four states, by per capita death, are New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut. But other states are moving into the top 10. In particular, Lousianan, Mississippi and Florida have recently joined the list.
Even mong the hardest-hit states there's a wide disparity in impact. For example, although Florida is ranked 10th in the U.S. in per capita deaths, it's death rate is still just 40% of (1st place) New Jersey. It will be interesting to see if this changes over the coming winter.
New cases have declined over the past few weeks, while the death rate has remained stable. Throughout August the U.S. has averaged about 1,000 deaths per day, while cases have fallen below 50,000 per day.
As expected the virus has remained regional, popping up in some areas and declining in others. In general, areas that were first hit have done better over time. This is particularly true for the Northeast, which is currently holding new cases and deaths to relatively low rates. In contrast, much of the American south is now deep in the throes of the epidemic. Lousiana and Mississippi are doing particularly poorly and have moved into the top 10 most-affected states. Texas and Florida are not far behind.
There are two outliers in the West. The worst is Arizona, which has struggled over an extended period and now ranks 9th nationally in per capita deaths. The other outlier is California, which never fully flattened its curve, particularly in the southern parts of the state. That said, California is currently doing fairly well overall, with a per capita death rate half the U.S. average.
Nationally, 99.3% of all counties have reported local COVID cases. 79.9% of all counties have reported at least one COVID death.
As feared, death rates have reached a national plateau and are trending higher. From a July 4th low of 526 deaths per day, the 7-day moving average of U.S. deaths has increased 45%.
The Northeast has declined to very low rates, whereas California remains stubbornly high and some southern states have spiked. The worst spikes are currently in Arizona, Texas and Florida, but all southern states are suffering elevated deaths. Nationally, 65% of all U.S. counties have seen at least one COVID-19 death.
In addition, cases have soared nationally. On July 17th the U.S. cases increased by over 77,000 - a record. Once again, these increases are predominately in the southern states with Florida being one of the hardest hit. These numbers point to increased deaths in the week to come. It's possible that some regions might seen disastrous casualties due to overwhelmed hospital systems.
As expected, the CFR (Case Fatality Rate) continues to decline. It now stands at 3.78%, far from its high of 5.85% two months ago. This is of course a function of increased testing. Epidemiologists believe the true CFR is probably in the range of 0.5% - 1.2%. Note that if we assume a herd-immunity level of 60%, even a CFR of "merely" 0.5% would result in approximately 950,000 American deaths.
Death rates continue falling across the nation. Daily fatalities are now at the lowest level in months - from the April 24th high, the moving 7-day average has fallen over 80%.
The decline in death rates continues to be largely driven from the Northeast. Elsewhere the situation is patchier, with some states falling (Washington), some on persistent plateaus (California), and others rising (Arkansas).
The coronavirus has now been confirmed in 96% of US counties. Deaths have been reported in 60% of all counties.
In contrast, cases continue to rise throughout most of the country. No doubt much of this is due to increased testing. However, it is believed that infection rates are rising as well. If so, this should reveal itself in an increase death rate over the coming weeks.
Interestingly, the CFR (Case Fatality Rate) has stabilized at around 5.38% for both the US and the World. It's expected that this rate will continue to decline from here as testing becomes more prevalent. As of this writing, epidemelogists believe the true CFR may be approximate 0.5%. If so, that would imply that approximately 25 million Americans have been infected by the virus.
The Death Rate Change List ranks states by rate of change in deaths over 2-week periods. These numbers tend to jump around a bit, however it is worth noting that southern and Sun Belt states have been among the worst-performing. Arizona, North Carolina, Tennessee are good examples here. If this trend continues, we may witness a sharp increase in deaths in these states over the coming months.
View Full Data Summary Archive
Data Sources: CDC WHO DXY The New York Times
This website is provided as a public non-commercial service. Data is gathered from multiple sources and and cross-checked for accuracy. However it may not always be consistent or fully accurate.
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Price from US$ 3,245
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The 16-passenger Cormorant catamaran offers the generous, comfortable accommodations of a larger ship while preserving the relaxed exclusivity of a smaller vessel. Her 8 cabins all have private bathrooms, individual climate controls, storage space and even private balconies – perfect for watching the spectacular scenery your Galapagos Islands cruise or viewing whales, dolphins and seabirds. During this 4-day/3-night Galapagos Islands cruise, you will be able to explore, hike, snorkel, and view extraordinary rich wildlife – such as lava lizards, Blue-footed boobies, sea lions and giant tortoises. On board the 16-passenger first-class Cormorant catamaran, you will disembark daily on different islands towards the south of the archipelago to discover some of the many species found here that exist nowhere else. At the same time, the volcanic landscapes, gorgeous lagoons and birdlife-rich forests that you discover on this Galapagos Islands tour will add to making you never want to leave.
“We had an absolutely amazing trip! Surtrek coordinated a Galapagos Cruise on the Natural Paradise yacht and then a stay at the Napo Wildlife Center. Everything was beyond our expectations!! I highly recommend Surtrek.”Janda Terese Stevens
Galapagos Islands, San Cristobal (Kicker Rock), Española, Floreana (Post Office Bay) & Charles Darwin Station.
Itinerary at a Glance
Day 1: San Cristobal Island: Arrival in airport and transfer to the M/C Cormorant / Leon Dormido (“Kicker Rock”)
Day 2: Española Island: Suarez Point – Gardner Bay
Day 3: Floreana Island: Post Office Bay – Baroness' Lookout Point – Cormorant Point – Champion Islet
Day 4: Santa Cruz Island: Twin Craters – Highlands // Baltra Island: Airport
Galapagos Map
Day 1 - Wednesday
San Cristobal Island: Arrival in airport and transfer to the M/C Cormorant / Leon Dormido (“Kicker Rock”)
AM: In the morning you will fly from either Quito or Guayaquil (on the Ecuadorian mainland) to the Galapagos Islands. At the airport on San Cristobal Island, after you will pay the entrance fee to the national park, a member of the ship's crew will welcome you and accompany you to your yacht: the M/C Cormorant.
PM: In the afternoon we will follow the route that Charles Darwin once took and sail around the massive tuff-rock called Kicker Rock, which is a nesting site for hosts of seabirds. Here, you will be able to find Blue-footed boobies, pelicans, and frigate birds. This is a great site for scuba diving, and hammerhead sharks can be seen in the area.
Lunch - Dinner
Day 2 - Thursday
Española Island: Suarez Point – Gardner Bay
AM: Española is the southernmost, oldest and one of the most bio-diverse islands of the Galapagos archipelago. Its English name is “Hood Island,” in honor of the British admiral Samuel Hood. Because of its isolated position, there is much endemic wildlife to be explored here – in addition to great snorkeling from Española’s remarkably beautiful beaches. After breakfast, we will go on an excursion to Suarez Point, one of the archipelago’s most outstanding wildlife areas, boasting a long list of species along its cliffs and its sand and pebble beaches. In addition to five species of nesting seabirds, there are the curious and bold Española Island mockingbirds, while other birding favorites include Galapagos doves, Galapagos hawks, Swallow-tailed gulls and the world’s largest colony of Waved Albatross, an unequivocal highlight during mating season (May-December). Several types of reptiles are unique to this island, including the marine iguana and the oversized lava lizard. In fact, this is also the only site where you will be able to see “red” sea iguanas. In addition, when heavy swells are running, Suarez Point is the site of a spectacular blowhole whose thundering spray shoots 30 yards up into the air. The trek here is on a stony path about a mile long. (Excursion duration: about 3 hours)
PM: This afternoon, we will land on Española Island’s eastern shore in Gardner Bay, which is noted for its turquoise-colored waters and its magnificent beach, which we will visit in the afternoon. Around the bay’s small nearby islets, snorkelers will find an abundance of fish, as well as the occasional sea turtle and benign sharks. The bay is also frequented by a transient colony of Galapagos sea lions who love to swim with people. Birds, like the endemic Española mockingbird and different species of Darwin finches, are omnipresent.
Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner
Floreana Island: Post Office Bay – Baroness' Lookout Point – Cormorant Point – Champion Islet
AM: Today we will visit Floreana Island, considered to be one of the most exotic in the Galapagos archipelago. Countless legends are part of the history of this island, as pirates and buccaneers were drawn to here in search of for food and water. Later the island was colonized by Norwegians, Brits, Germans and others who were in search of ways to make money from what they hoped to discover here. The name Floreana is in honor of Juan Jose Flores, Ecuador’s first president. This morning’s excursion is first to Post Office Bay, where the legendary post barrel that whalers historically used to put their mail in is still kept. You can leave a letter here in hopes that it will make to its destination via another tourist.…so don’t forget to bring postcards along. Snorkelers can take a dip on the main beach among the playful sea lions and green sea turtles. Snorkelers can swim on the main beach among playful sea lions. Next, we will visit the Baroness' Lookout Point where “Baroness” Eloisa de Wagner, one of the first human inhabitants in the Galapagos Islands would spend several hours daily observing whales and dolphins.
PM: Later we will visit Cormorant Point visitor site. After a wet landing on the beach, we will go down a 100-meter-long path to a mangrove lagoon, which is home to Galapagos ducks, black herons, oystercatchers, and plovers. With a little bit of luck, you might also see flamingos. Another path leads to a small beach that is an important nesting site for sea turtles. In the shallow water here, one can often find stingrays and Whitetip reef sharks now and then. The next spot is Champion Islet. Though the island itself is off limits to visitors, the waters around this small land mass are great places to snorkel with sea lions and to see colorful tropical fish. Occasionally, dolphins are sighted as the boats approach the shore, and the cool currents here make Champion an excellent site for spotting schools of stingrays.
Santa Cruz Island: Twin Craters – Highlands // Baltra Island: Airport
AM: This morning we will to the Santa Cruz Highlands and see the twin “Los Gemelos” craters, which will be explained by your naturalist guide. These craters are surrounded by scalesia forest, where also live Ruby tyrants and small and large Tree finches. While in the Highlands of Santa Cruz Island, where the lush landscape is a welcome contrast to the arid scenery of the smaller, lower islands. On the way, we will cross through different vegetation zones – from the dry lower region full of cactuses to the scalesia woods in the Highlands. There one can find two small agricultural communities that grow the famous organic Galapagos coffee. While in the Highlands, you will have the option of visiting one of two tortoise-breeding centers: El Chato or Rancho Las Primicias. At either site, approaching these enormous and slow-moving reptiles is always an inspiring adventure. The El Chato tortoise reserve was founded in 1964 to allow visitors to observe the island’s huge Galapagos turtles and White herons in their natural habitat. You will also be able to walk through nearby underground lava tunnels formed during volcanic eruptions. As the outside of the lava hardened, the inside continued to flow to the ocean, creating these tunnels. Alternatively, Rancho Primicias is a great place to see about ten to fifteen Galapagos giant tortoises in the wild. In addition to being able to view the ocean from this location in the Highlands, you can walk through a lava cave that was formed by a volcanic eruption.
Afterwards, concluding this amazing experience in the Galapagos Islands, you will be transferred to the Baltra Island airport for your return flight to the Ecuadorian mainland. Enjoy the last look back at the “enchanted islands,” a unique paradise with inspiring natural wonders.
2021 - Price per person
Room Standard Suite
4 Days US$ 3,245 PP US$ 3,500 PP
*Price per person based upon double occupancy.
*PP (per person)
All meals, as indicated in the itinerary
All excursions
Transfers in the islands
Bilingual National Park guide
Use of snorkeling equipment/wetsuit
Use of underwater camera
Not included in the price:
Flights between mainland Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands (Quito–Galapagos–Quito)
Entrance fee to Galapagos National Park ($100 per person)
Galapagos Immigration Control Card ($20 per person)
Alcoholic and bottled drinks
Tips & gratuities
Travel/medical insurance (highly recommended)
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Onward reviews describe film as 'Frozen for boys,' even if it's not Pixar's best
Josh Weiss
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Feb 24, 2020, 5:50 AM EST (Updated)
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The first reviews for Pixar's Onward hath arrived, and just like any hero on an epic and fantasy-inspired quest worth its sword, the film (in theaters March 6) is currently fighting a metaphorical dragon in the form of good-to-mixed critic opinions.
While early Twitter reactions were pretty strong, and reviews are largely positive, they also aren't afraid to dig into the movie's biggest problem — which is that the screenplay by Dan Scanlon (the Monsters University vet also served as director), Jason Headley, and Keith Bunin prefers to evoke emotion, rather than flesh out ideas or move the story along.
That said, Onward is still getting props for its clever remix of D&D-esque tropes, characters, personas, and spells that have (like Netflix's Bright) brought the fantasy genre into the modern day. Tom Holland (Spies in Disguise) and Chris Pratt (The Lego Movie) are also receiving praise for their voice performances as Ian and Barley Lightfoot, a pair of elven brothers trying to bring back their late father with a 24-hour resurrection spell. The brotherly dynamic between the two is so genuine that The Guardian's Steve Rose decided to describe the film as "Frozen for boys."
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep) voices the boys' mother, Laurel Lightfoot, while Octavia Spencer (Ma) plays the Manticore, a once-great adventurer (now a restaurateur) who helps Ian and Barley on their voyage.
Video of Onward | Official Trailer 2
Take a break from your current campaign, stop in at a friendly inn for some mead, and see what critics have to say about Pixar's latest effort ...
"You won’t feel cheated by it, but you won’t feel elated, either. Yet Pixar, in its very bravura, has more than earned the right to put out a movie like this one — an unabashed piece of product, a kind of Pixar place-holder made with a tiny dash of soul." -Owen Gleiberman, Variety
"Not every entry can be an instant classic like WALL-E, but the majority of Pixar's films are special for one reason or another. Which makes the generic bro humor and familiar Dungeons & Dragons role-play vibe of Onward a let-down. The title's vague echo of the captivating Up is unfortunate." -David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
"For male characters this is still relatively under-explored territory. Beneath the bro-friendly, fantasy-art trappings, Onward finds a little bit of that old Pixar magic. It could be a Frozen for boys – but don’t tell them that." -Steve Rose, The Guardian
"Onward is a good, but not great Pixar movie, with a heartfelt, if emotionally manipulative storyline, and plenty of film magic to propel it forward ... Onward does noticeably lean on tugging on heartstrings to make up for a thin plot." -Molly Freeman, ScreenRant
"Is this A-list Pixar? No, it’s several rungs below the Toy Story movies, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Inside Out. But it is one of the best of the rest, and that’s more than good enough." -Jamie Graham, GamesRadar
"Onward is the latest and strangest of these: a Pixar movie that doesn’t quite look like a Pixar movie, even though it almost feels like one. Perhaps part of the problem is that Onward is both incredibly strange and rather sweet, but it only half-commits to either feeling." -Joshua Rivera, The Verge
"Onward’s ups and downs suggest these probably are less magical times at Pixar. But that doesn’t mean with enough hard work or concentration — or maybe just following your gut — that the magic can’t come back, if only for a little while." -Matt Singer, ScreenCrush
"Dan Scanlon has crafted an adventure that gleefully flies high with its fantasy elements, yet never loses touch with its grounded family tale. In that regard, it feels like '80s Amblin, but without being a stodgy homage. It's got charm from its playful production design to its exuberant voice cast to some deeply silly visual gags." -Kristy Puchko, IGN
Video of The Origin Story Of Forky From Toy Story 4 | SYFY WIRE
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Vision Smart - Lighting has gone wireless
Tamlite’s Vision Smart brings the future of smart, wireless lighting to the present.
Not only do wireless systems facilitate greater flexibility in the present, they also open up more opportunities in the future. Manage facility energy consumption, create holistic estate-wide lighting networks, and schedule automatic emergency lighting tests to give you peace of mind.
Changing our Lighting Needs
The requirements of lighting have changed over the years. Where a lighting design used to focus heavily on energy efficiency, luminaire lifespan and getting a solid return on investment, smarter systems bring more advanced benefits.
The latest wireless systems offer the epitome of control, data management and interrogation, security and advanced emergency lighting, the core requirements of modern lighting solutions.
The New Way to Manage Energy
Managing the energy consumption of a building or facility has never been easier than with Vision Smart. Integrated sensors ensure that every luminaire provides accurate, real time luminaire-usage reports. Facility managers can gather then gather data on how their buildings are used by occupants, and can make informed decisions about their energy.
Panic-free Emergency Lighting
BS 5266 stipulates that those responsible for a building must ensure that their emergency lighting is tested every month, and a 3-hours test conducted at least once a year. Even with basic wired DALI networks, this can cause problems, as automatic tests (involving the switch off and on of the mains power) are scheduled at random, which can cause disruption. Vision Smart allows facility managers to schedule automatic tests when it is least disruptive.
Scalable Lighting Networks
The UK Green Building Council states that 75% of the buildings that will be occupied in 2050 have already been built. This means that implementing smart lighting must begin with our existing buildings.
In a Vision Smart network, every luminaire is smart. With Integrated wireless nodes, fittings can communicate with one another, be set into groups, and work as one holistic system. With no additional wiring required, the system can be scaled up from a single room, to a building, to an entire estate. The essence of Vision Smart is in its flexibility.
A major concern with smart systems is their susceptibility to hack or interference.
Smart systems that operate at a frequency outside of Wi-Fi or Bluetooth are significantly less susceptible to disruption, making them a more secure and stable network. Safety and security are core considerations with Vision Smart, ensuring your data is protected.
Data Interrogation
Heat mapping software provides tangible data to help manage facilities, tracking and monitoring how areas in a building are being used. This data can be used to set lighting levels and sensor settings accordingly in order to reduce energy.
Similarly, luminaire status can be monitored, indicating the condition of various key components, so that potentially damaged fittings can be identified and repaired before they fail.
The below image illustrates the Vision Smart heat mapping software at separate intervals within an education environment:
At 10:00am, most people are in the classrooms, so the majority of energy is being used in these areas.
At 12:30pm, it is lunchtime, so the heat maps indicate a lot of foot traffic in the canteen and corridors.
At the end of the school day, 4:45pm, there are only staff left at the school, so the lights are only required in the offices and select classrooms.
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No more sex identification on birth certificates, New England Journal of Medicine article declares
Authors say sex designations can have 'particularly harmful effects ... on intersex and transgender people'
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A New England Journal of Medicine article published last week states that birth certificates no longer should include sex identification "given the particularly harmful effects of such designations on intersex and transgender people."
What are the details?
The article said birth certificates in 1949 underwent a revision that "created a line of demarcation. The legally identifying fields above the line appear on certified copies of birth certificates, whereas information in the fields below the line, which is used for statistical purposes, is deidentified and reported in the aggregate. Race and parents' marital status, for example, were moved below the line of demarcation to permit self-identification and to avoid stigma, respectively."
Simply put, the authors said it's time to move sex designation below the line.
More from the article:
Designating sex as male or female on birth certificates suggests that sex is simple and binary when, biologically, it is not. Sex is a function of multiple biologic processes with many resultant combinations. About 1 in 5000 people have intersex variations. As many as 1 in 100 people exhibit chimerism, mosaicism, or micromosaicism, conditions in which a person's cells may contain varying sex chromosomes, often unbeknownst to them.2 The biologic processes responsible for sex are incompletely defined, and there is no universally accepted test for determining sex.
Assigning sex at birth also doesn't capture the diversity of people's experiences. About 6 in 1000 people identify as transgender, meaning that their gender identity doesn't match the sex they were assigned at birth. Others are nonbinary, meaning they don't exclusively identify as a man or a woman, or gender nonconforming, meaning their behavior or appearance doesn't align with social expectations for their assigned sex.
Sex designations on birth certificates offer no clinical utility; they serve only legal — not medical — goals. Certainly, knowing a patient's sex is useful in many contexts, when it is appropriately interpreted. Sex modifies the clinical suspicion of a heart attack in the absence of classic symptoms and is a proxy for many undefined social, environmental, and biologic factors in research, for example. But, in each of these applications, sex is merely a stand-in for other variables and is not generally ascertained from a birth certificate.
'Keeping sex designations above the line causes harm'
The piece emphasizes that "keeping sex designations above the line causes harm."
For people with intersex variations, the birth certificate's public sex designation invites scrutiny, shame, and pressure to undergo unnecessary and unwanted surgical and medical interventions.1Sex assignments at birth may be used to exclude transgender people from serving in appropriate military units, serving sentences in appropriate prisons, enrolling in health insurance, and, in states with strict identification laws, voting. Less visibly, assigning sex at birth perpetuates a view that sex as defined by a binary variable is natural, essential, and immutable. Participation by the medical profession and the government in assigning sex is often used as evidence supporting this view. Imposing such a categorization system risks stifling self-expression and self-identification.
People with intersex variations may undergo surgeries before they are old enough to consent, often losing reproductive capacity and sexual sensation as a result. Transgender people receive worse health care and have worse outcomes than cisgender people.3 Health care professionals have a particular duty to support vulnerable populations who have historically been harmed by clinicians and by the medical system in general.
The bathroom thing
The authors of the article go further and address safety concerns related to transgender individuals using locker rooms and restrooms of their choice. "But fears about privacy and safety violations in public accommodations aren't supported by evidence. A study examining the effects of a Massachusetts law protecting transgender people in public accommodations revealed no increase in violations. Meanwhile, many intersex and transgender people avoid public spaces, including restrooms, for fear of mistreatment."
Passports and other documents
The authors also say that if sex designations are removed from birth certificates, it would allow applicants for passports and other government-issued documents "to identify their gender without medical verification."
A number of article commenters questioned the authors' conclusions:
"I consider myself a left of center thinking person but this goes a little too far down a rabbit hole I don't want to step into," one reader noted.
"If a person who is male wants to pretend they are female, does that mean I legally have to pretend with them?" another reader asked.
"Tinkering with birth certificates will not alter the fact that humans are either men OR women, as little as the Flat Earth Society can make the earth flat," another reader commented. "There are tiny flat patches on earth and a tiny number of humans have ambiguous sex but this does not change the fundamental principles."
"This kind of thinking is just another example of how far we are wandering from truth," another reader said.
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Final Oscar Nomination Predictions: ‘La La Land’ Will Lead the Nominations
Gautam Anand
Finally the day has arrived for which we have been laying ground all these months. Over the last few weeks or so, several other industry guilds (SAG, PGA, DGA to name a few) have announced their nominations, and even though they do help in making the Oscar predictions, the truth is they can’t be trusted 100%. Though one thing can be derived clearly from whatever we have seen up until now: ‘La La Land’ is the clear frontrunner. Yes, ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and ‘Moonlight’ have held their own, but January 24th is going to be La La Land’s day. And, despite what many Oscar experts are saying, I am still standing by September prediction: ‘La La Land’ will win Best Picture. It is the “perfect” movie that the Academy can come behind — especially given the grimness that has engulfed movie industry after Donald Trump’s win. But that’s for later, since today we are only going to focus on the nominations.
Anyway, as you all know, we here at The Cinemaholic do our best to bring to you the most accurate Oscar predictions. (We can officially claim to be most accurate predictors on internet considering we have consistently and correctly predicted at least 85 nominees out of 106/107 in 21 main categories for the past three years — a feat no publication, other than us, can claim to make). But each year is different. This year, I have realized, the below the line categories are really difficult to predict.
There are films like ‘Hidden Figure’ and ‘Arrival’ that have picked steam over last few days, whereas films like ‘Fences’ and ‘Loving’ have lost steam. ‘Silence’ has completely lost its ground and I would be surprised if it shows anywhere except Best Cinematography.
At this point, I would like to extend my thanks to Hollywood Elsewhere and Awards Daily, websites that I trust when it comes to getting a sense of the pulse of the industry during the awards season. As far as making Oscar predictions is concerned, I trust my gut instinct and common sense more than anything else.
With that said, take your time to go through the predictions of all the 21 categories (we don’t predict the 3 shorts categories). It is a long list and will need some time to go through one by one. You can also come back, after the nominations are announced, to check how many correct predictions we made. Oscar nominations announcement will happen on Tuesday, 24th January.
All the nominees are listed in alphabetical order.
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
David Mackenzie, Hell or High Water
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Denzel Washington, Fences
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
Amy Adams, Arrival
Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
Emma Stone, La La Land
Hugh Grant, Florence Foster Jenkins
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Viola Davis, Fences
The Dressmaker
“Audition,” La La Land
“Can’t Stop the Feeling,” Trolls
“City of Stars,” La La Land
“How Far I’ll Go,” Moana
“Runnin’,” Hidden Figures
Cameraperson
O.J.: Made in America
Weiner
Final Tally
La La Land: 13 nominations
Arrival: 10 nominations
Moonlight: 8 nominations
Manchester by the Sea: 7 nominations
Lion: 6 nominations
Hacksaw Ridge: 5 nominations
Hell or High Water: 4 nominations
Hidden Figures: 4 nominations
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Article 22nd August 2018 Aintree
Wednesday 22nd August 2018 – Dickon White will be the new Regional Director for Jockey Club Racecourses’ (JCR) North West Region, which consists of Haydock Park, Aintree and Carlisle racecourses, it was announced today.
After taking up the role from 1st September, Dickon will be responsible for the performance of all three of JCR’s North West racecourses, based at Haydock Park. The busy venues stage 65 racing fixtures between them, including Group 1 and Grade 1 races, along with hundreds of other events each year.
Dickon will continue to report to JCR’s Chief Executive, Paul Fisher and as a member of the JCR Board.
He has worked for JCR since 1998 and previously ran Haydock Park for six years as its Managing Director. When JCR introduced its Regional management structure in August 2012, Dickon was appointed Group Betting Director and joined the JCR Board.
Paul Fisher, Chief Executive of Jockey Club Racecourses, said:
“I wish Dickon every success leading our North West Region from next month. He has had a fantastic career within Jockey Club Racecourses over the last 20 years and proved the standout candidate for this role on the back of his ideas for the future, excellent track record at Haydock Park, Aintree and Newmarket, and the superb job he has done more recently as our Group Betting Director.”
Dickon White said:
“Having spent much of my Jockey Club career at both Aintree and Haydock Park, I am delighted to be given the opportunity to lead the talented teams at each of these racecourses in the role of North West Regional Director. I look forward to ensuring that we continue to deliver an exceptional experience for all of our much valued partners, including Horsemen, commercial sponsors and racecourse visitors.
“I have also had the privilege of leading Jockey Club Racecourses’ relationships with betting operators and bookmakers over the past few years, and I very much look forward to continuing those relationships within my new role.”
From 1st September 2018, John Baker will become Managing Director of Aintree Racecourse as announced previously, reporting to Dickon White in his new role.
Notable fixtures at JCR’s three North West racecourses include: in September, the 32Red Sprint Cup Festival at Haydock Park; in October, Countryside Day at Aintree; in November, Betfair Chase Day at Haydock Park, with the Grade 1 feature forming part of The Jockey Club’s Chase Triple Crown, and Aintree’s Community Raceday; in December, Randox Health Becher Chase Day at Aintree and Tommy Whittle Chase Day at Haydock Park; in February, the Betfred Grand National Trial at Haydock Park; in April, the Randox Health Grand National Festival at Aintree; in May, Family Day at Haydock Park, featuring the Armstrong Aggregates Temple Stakes; in June, Carlisle Bell & Cumberland Plate Day at Carlisle; in July, Haydock Park’s bet365 Old Newton Cup Day; in August, Carlisle’s unique Smarkets Ladies Night fixture, with all races exclusively for female jockeys, and Smarkets Ladies Day at Haydock Park, featuring the Rose of Lancaster Stakes; as well as a busy portfolio of music nights, other racedays and non-racing events.
The Jockey Club stages thrilling sporting occasions including the Randox Health Grand National, The Cheltenham Festival and The Investec Derby. Millions of people every year enjoy the special experiences we offer through racing, music, food and entertainment. Governed by Royal Charter, every penny we make goes back into British Racing to help the sport thrive. We were founded in 1750 and today we are the largest commercial group in Britain’s second-biggest spectator sport (2017 turnover: £201.1 million), operating 15 racecourses nationwide, The National Stud, Jockey Club Estates, Jockey Club Catering, Jockey Club Live and our charity, Racing Welfare. For more information visit www.thejockeyclub.co.uk.
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Burning Out on Quarantine? 8 Hobbies That Could Make You $1,052
by Kari Faber
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When we first went into quarantine earlier this year, we were sure it would just be a few weeks. A couple months, at most. Well here we are, nine months later, still quarantined. And we’re tired. Tired of doomscrolling through all of our social accounts. Tired of the random puzzles paint-by-numbers, and so over the roller skates we purchased at the beginning of quarantine with lofty goals.
The burnout is very real, but with a vaccine at least several months out, we still have plenty of time to fill while we take one for the team at home. Might as well make it worthwhile, right? Here are eight hobbies and activities you can safely do at home to make some extra cash.
1. Make $10 Passing Judgements on True Crime
Attorneys like to pre-try a case in front of a mock jury to help strengthen their arguments for the real deal. You can become one of these e-jury members and earn a few bucks in exchange for your time.
Websites like ejury.com pay $5-$10 per case, with the average case taking about 35 minutes. It’s not a ton of money, but think of all the interesting stories you could hear!
2. Let This App Pay You up to $83 When You Win Solitaire Games
Lots of us already play Solitaire on our phones for fun or just to pass the time. Want to see if you can win money at it?
There’s a free iPhone app called Solitaire Cash that lets you play for real money. You could get paid up to $83 per win.
You might be thinking: There’s got to be a catch. This is definitely one of those spammy apps, right?
Wrong. There really isn’t a catch. Sure, you can pay to play in some higher-stakes tournaments, but there’s no pressure. And, in fact, there aren’t even any annoying ads.
With each game, you’ll battle it out against at least five other players. Everyone gets the same deck, so winning is totally a matter of skill. The top three players who solve the deck fastest can win real money — anywhere from $1 to $83.
Over on the App Store, it has over a million downloads and more than 15,000 ratings, averaging 4.7 stars (out of 5).
To get started, just download the free app and start playing your first game immediately.
3. Add $225 to Your Wallet Just for Watching the News
It’s been a historic year in news, and we’re all constantly refreshing for the latest updates. You probably know more than one news-junkie who fancies themselves an expert in respiratory illness or a political mastermind.
And research companies want to pay you to keep watching. You could add up to $225 a month to your pocket by signing up for a free account with InboxDollars. They’ll present you with short news clips to choose from every day, then ask you a few questions about them.
You just have to answer honestly, and InboxDollars will continue to pay you every month. This might sound too good to be true, but it’s already paid its users more than $56 million.
It takes about one minute to sign up, and start getting paid to watch the news.
4. Play Free Scratch-off Tickets
There’s something so satisfying about those gas station scratch-off tickets, but it’s better to avoid them because, well, that’s not Penny Hoarding.
Instead, try scratching for free using an app called Lucktastic. Each day, it releases a new assortment of digital scratch-off tickets. Lucktastic says instant wins range from $1 to $2,500.
You can also earn tokens that you can exchange for free gift cards to retailers including Amazon, Walmart, Sephora and more.
The app is supported by advertising, which allows it to keep the payouts high and the games free. For more info, check out Lucktastic here.
5. Earn $60 to Make the Internet Better
Basically, companies will pay regular folks like us to offer feedback on websites and apps. How’s the design? Can you find your way around? Have questions that aren’t answered?
You can make up to $60 per test through sites like UserTesting. The best part? You don’t need any user-testing experience — just a solid internet connection.
6. Get Paid $5 For Your Opinions Today (and Even More Later)
We know you have LOTS of opinions right now. Might as well get paid for them!
Sure, there are a lot of online survey sites out there. The catch is that, with a lot of them, it takes forever before you can actually get paid. You find yourself taking tons of surveys before you ever see a single cent — if you even qualify for the survey at all.
That’s why we like a website called Survey Junkie. It rewards you no matter what — even if you don’t qualify. And it lets you cash out a lot faster than its competition — you could even get paid today.
You get points for every survey you take, and once you’ve earned 500 points, you can cash out and get your first $5. A lot of sites make you wait until you’ve earned $20 or $25 worth of points before you claim your earnings. You can choose to get paid via PayPal, direct deposit or with digital gift cards.
No, you won’t necessarily get rich taking surveys online, but it’s an easy way to make a little extra cash while you’re killing time. Signing up takes about one minute, and you’ll immediately earn points just for creating your account. You’ll be that much closer to cashing out.
7. Earn up to $69/Hour as a Small Business Owner
Can you open an excel spreadsheet? Does earning $69 an hour sound appealing? How about the freedom to work remotely while helping others succeed?
Those are the perks of working as a bookkeeper, says Ben Robinson, a CPA and business owner who teaches others to become virtual bookkeepers through online courses called Bookkeepers.com.
You don’t have to be an accountant or even really good at math to be successful in this business. In fact, all you need are decent computer skills and a passion for helping business owners tackle real-world problems. The ability to stay moderately organized is helpful, too.
You can make up to $69 an hour, according to data from Intuit, the creator of QuickBooks, and you have no commute. It’s a great opportunity for parents who want a part-time job, recent college grads or anyone who wants to bring in real money working from home.
Robinson shares what it takes to be a virtual bookkeeper, plus tips for making this career work for you in his free class at Bookkeepers.com. If you stick with the classes, you could be running your own business in just a few months.
8. Get Paid up to $600/Week to Drop off Starbucks
Your city is filled with two things: Starbucks, and people who want Starbucks.
An app called Doordash will pay you to pick up and deliver an extra latte when you’re already out and getting your caffeine fix. And it’s not just coffee. You can deliver from Chipotle, Chick-fil-A, Five Guys and hundreds of other restaurants in your area.
With Doordash, you set your own hours and work as much or little as you want, meaning how much you make is up to you.
You’ll earn money for each delivery, plus tips. Jose Neri, from California, reports earning $500 to $600 a week working just lunches and dinners.
The best part? No passengers — that grande, no-whip macchiato will be the only thing to hear your beautiful singing voice.
If you sign up for Doordash now, it’s possible to get your first paycheck this week.
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Police in London investigates Sierra Leonean teenager
January 23, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas News in Perspective 0
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 January 2016
An investigation has been launched by police in London as vulnerable girl from Sierra Leone walks into Kent police station. Detectives are appealing for information about the teenage girl.
Little is said to be known about the girl, who is believed to be aged around 16 and originally from Sierra Leone.
Police are keen to speak to anyone who might have come to her assistance in Gravesend, Kent, on January 19.
The teenager is safe and well, but the circumstances of her whereabouts before she went to Gravesend police station are being investigated.
She is described as black and was wearing red jeans, a black hooded coat and black and white trainers.
Police believe the girl spoke to a number of people and asked for directions to the nearest police station, before arriving in a distressed state at 7.20pm.
Detective Constable Rob Sircar, of Kent Police, said: ‘This is an unusual set of circumstances and we are making enquiries to establish where the girl may have been staying and under what conditions.
‘We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who may have seen the girl walking or those who spoke to her.’
Anyone with information is asked to contact Kent Police on 01474 366149 and quote reference XY/002297/16.
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An inheritance of harm: Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys, reviewed
Aaron Smale | Contributing writer
Colson Whitehead won the 2017 Pultizer Prize for Fiction for The Underground Railroad, a depiction of slavery and resistance in 19th century Georgia. Now he’s back with a similarly grim premise, following two boys through the horrors of a real-life reform school in Florida. Our reviewer is Aaron Smale, whose reporting on similar schools in New Zealand led to a Royal Commission of Inquiry.
There is something depressingly familiar when reading about an industrial or reformatory school. It doesn’t matter what period, what country, what group of people the school is aimed at, the culture and behaviour within such schools is uncannily the same.
Mostly this familiarity emerges in the turgid prose of reports from government inquiries, using language that might hint at the awfulness of those institutions. But such reports never quite get at the feel and taste and embodiment of what it was like to be there.
The Nickel Boys breaks down that perceptual barrier by rendering in elegant and musical prose the experiences of a group of kids who attended the Florida School for Boys. The institution was a real one, and Colson Whitehead’s fictional portrayal brings it to disturbing life.
The story is based around Elwood, a studious but naïve African-American kid growing up in the 1950s and 60s in Tallahassee, Florida. Another character, Turner, is his friend but somewhat opposite in temperament, more street-wise and skeptical.
Elwood’s character and internal and external worlds are fully developed before the reform school even makes an unannounced appearance. His growing awareness of his home situation and the parents that abandoned him to the care of his grandmother runs parallel to the segregated society that confronts him as a black adolescent. The ferment of the civil rights movement is woven through the narrative without being heavy-handed.
His strict and protective grandmother limits the cultural influences he is exposed to but if there is a soundtrack to his coming of age it is a record of the sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. If anything, the ideals he hears in the sonorous exhortations of the preacher put him at more risk, as he dutifully tries to live up to the hope the messages hold out to him.
His aspirations take a cruel turn when he is hitch-hiking to free college classes and instead finds himself in the clutches of a completely different institution – the Nickel Academy.
The realisation of what awaits him only slowly dawns on Elwood and the reader. The presentable façade of the buildings gives way to the discovery of neglect and squalor. The matter-of-fact communications from staff give way to cynicism and abuse. The uncertain silence of the other boys gives way to a petty and irrational violence and cruelty that confounds Elwood’s moral view of the universe. Invisible, brutal hierarchies permeate daily existence, with the black students firmly rooted at the bottom.
The descriptions of the abuse and violence are rarely explicit. The subject is usually approached from a more oblique angle where the reader is given just enough detail to imagine the worst without actually being told what happened next, before skipping on to the next indignity. It mirrors the silence that the boys learn to cloak their suffering in.
But the seriousness of what is going on is foreshadowed in the opening chapter where the story starts in the future discovery of the remains of boys that are unaccounted for. This sets up a foreboding that hangs over the story. Who was in those unmarked graves? How did they get there? Which of the characters meet their demise?
The story progresses inexorably down a dark road that conjures up a sense of dread, even when the writing has a buoyant air. The later chapters are interspersed with some featuring the characters as adults. So they’ve made it out the other side, but at what cost? Who got left behind and how? The writer skillfully propels the narrative forward with these hints and clues.
If the physical and psychological details of the writing are utterly convincing, there is also a running interpretation of that experience by the characters and narrator that speak to the big themes. In one internal reflection, a character ponders how: “It didn’t stop when you got out. Bend you all kind of ways until you were unfit for straight life, good and twisted by the time you left.”
The body count rises, at first with anonymous characters who don’t get any time on stage before starting on secondary characters whose unsympathetic qualities make the reader’s sympathies ambivalent. But then death starts stalking one of the central characters. A clever bait and switch leaves the anticipated ending in tatters. Instead, something more complex emerges.
Nickel Boys is an elegiac piece of writing that remembers what authorities are often determined to forget – institutions that damage and destroy young lives and pass on an inheritance of harm. Those kinds of bricks and mortar institutions may have passed into history, but the harm continues to haunt generations. Unfortunately it also provides cover for state authorities, in jurisdictions around the world, to intervene in yet more harmful ways.
Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead (Hachette, $34.99) is available at Unity Books.
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Comedy Festival reviews: Nic Sampson’s lovely story, Lou Sander’s beautiful shambles… and James Roque’s dick
Sam Brooks | Culture Editor
Sam Brooks hits the Comedy Fest halfway point with a lovely story from Nic Sampson, a beautiful shambles from Brit Lou Sanders, and James Roque mixing theatre and stand-up while maybe getting his dick out.
Nic Sampson: Jewel Heist
Nic Sampson’s show last year, Nic Sampson Has Fallen Down A Well, was one of the best shows I’ve seen by a local comedian. It lured you into thinking you were seeing your average joke-filled observation-heavy hour of comedy and shocked you with something much weirder, much more high concept and much funnier.
This year, Sampson goes straight in for the high concept and it’s a genuine delight: He’s just going to tell us a lovely, funny, increasingly wacky story. Sampson is the rare comedian that can do this, not only because he’s magnetic and endlessly watchable as a performer, but because his writing is sharp enough to keep us hooked in.
The titular jewel heist story is filled with enough jokes and bizarre moments, his Norwegian accent is maybe the funniest out-of-nowhere joke I’ve heard this festival, that it keeps the audience hooked in. It can be difficult for people to sit while one person tells them the story, there are few performers that an audience would actually listen to read the proverbial phone book, and luckily for Sampson his story is strong enough that it lets him riff as a performer.
Much like Guy Montgomery, Nic Sampson cleverly riffs on subverting our expectations. As with last year, when he gave us a stand-up show with a high concept snuck in, this year he gives us a lovely story that is stuffed full with more jokes than a kid stuffs his toy box full of stuffed animals. More than anything Jewel Heist continues the trend of Nic Sampson putting on bloody good shows, which is a very good trend indeed.
You can book tickets to Nic Sampson: Jewel Heist here.
Lou Sanders: The Best of Lou Sanders
Oh my lord what a beautifully confident shambles of a show.
I’ve seen enough comedy at this point in my life to recognise the bad kind of shambles. It’s when someone is genuinely freaked out by their audience, doesn’t know their material, and is visibly grasping at straws just so they get through their hour without screaming into the metaphorical abyss. It’s painful to watch, and sometimes you just want to stand up and hug the comedian.
And then there’s Lou Sanders, who creates the idea of a shambles without actually going full shambles. It’s a risky energy to tap into, because it keeps the audience engaged throughout. We want to see a show go off the rails kind of, it’s like watching the car crash, but we don’t want the actual trauma of it.
Sanders is funny enough to keep us engaged, and there’s appealing edges to her personality, a little dark bit here, a little musical cue here, and a little darkness here. The entire thing is a little bit of a best of show, but there’s a structure here and a killer ending that makes the show truly special and weird.
There’s a shambles and then there’s being guided by a shambles by someone who knows exactly what she’s doing to the audience, and how she’s making them feel at every point. The difference is crucial, and huge.
You can book tickets to Lou Sanders: The Best of Lou Sanders here.
James Roque Wants To Show You Something
He might show you his dick, who knows.
Maybe my favourite trend in this year’s comedy festival is seeing local comedians push the form, and themselves within that form, into riskier places. Nowhere is this more evident than James Roque’s show, a pretty much dead-down-the-centre-fifty-fifty split of comedy and theatre.
The bulk of Roque’s show deals with sex and his own relationship to it. He discusses, frankly and honestly, his approach to porn and how its affected him. The stand-up is solid, the jokes are solid, and he riffs winningly with the crowd. Roque’s performance is impeccable, I don’t think there’s someone in his generation of comedians who builds such an easy rapport with his audience so quickly, and he carries off the darker material in his set like a pro.
Then there’s the theatre part of the show, where a performer playing his therapist gets up onstage and helps him through it, in a loose and openly fictional retelling of his actual therapy. The comedy show becomes a framing for his therapy, and the show goes somewhere darker and more introspective.
It’s fascinating (at least to me, who has to write these things and has to come up on interesting and readable takes on them) to dissect this particular show. The theatre part of it, which focuses on small scenes between Roque and his therapist, functions like excerpts from a larger play. In the context of stand-up, it’s pretty risky stuff to give an audience; people who came expecting some jokes and expecting to sit there and laugh, and not expect to join dots and link things together.
The execution is a little messy, by the end of the show, it’s clear what Roque has gotten from his therapy but it’s not clear what the audience is supposed to get out of this show being framed like this. When the show closes with stand-up, it seems like a wiping of the slate rather than a dovetailing of the two styles he’s been tackling.
It feels like the first step in Roque going somewhere new with his stand-up; it’s messy and a bit shambolic, and it doesn’t quite land the ending, but it’s a damn special experience to watch an artist try out the new toys in the sandbox and mash them together to make something new.
James Roque’s show is sold out!
Waterdeep Mountain High: Ep. 3. The Smuggler’s Run, part one
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Why I only saw women at this year’s comedy festival
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Throwback Thursday: The untold story of New Zealand’s small screen legend Alan Dale
Katie Parker | Guest writer
Alan Dale is a national treasure, acting legend and generally lovely man, who has for far too long flown under the radar. Katie Parker celebrates this humble kiwi great of the small screen.
It was out of unconditional love that I joined my boyfriend to see the Entourage movie last year. As I should have foreseen, it was a misguided way to show it. Having never seen the show, I lacked the affection and nostalgia necessary to enjoy the sparse jokes and defend the flagrant chauvinism and misogyny.
Even the celebrity cameos were ho-hum – until a character called John Ellis appeared late in the film. My heart soared. The horrible show that spawned this horrible movie had a secret, beautiful treasure at its heart: New Zealand’s greatest living television actor, Alan Dale.
Whether you know it or not, Alan Dale is to the small screen what Sam Neill is to the big. A pioneer in the first wave of high concept US television, he is one of our most precious, prolific and lucrative exports. Yet he remains underexposed, undervalued and criminally unrecognised in his home country.
Like all the best stars, Dale followed an unconventional path to success. I highly recommend watching the entirety of this excellent and informative NZ On Screen interview charting his rise to fame:
Allow me to summarise: hailing from Māngere, young Alan enjoyed the odd bit of theatre in his schoolboy days – a pastime he deemed not lucrative enough as he came of age. After a spate of odd jobs, he returned to the craft at 29, landing a starring role in the sadly forgotten 1970s Kiwi soap Radio Waves. With this under his belt and acting work thin on the ground in New Zealand, he made the move to Australia where he was quickly snapped up by Neighbours. There on Ramsay Street, he gave eight and a half years of his life as kindly patriarch Jim Robinson.
But where to go from playing a lovable schmo on an Australian soap? The best part of this interview, and perhaps the entire legend of Dale, is how his move to Hollywood was inspired by former Neighbours castmate Natalie Imbruglia. I could tell it no better than the man himself:
“I was at the gym one morning with the gang of car salesmen I’d got to know … and I’m working out on the elliptical or something watching the TV above me [and] there was Natalie singing that… Born was it? Torn! And she’s lovely and always beautiful. Gorgeous song. And there she was in Hollywood and she was with David Schwimmer and all this stuff in the papers and things. And I think well, ‘God this is not right’. I mean here I am. Is this gonna be me for the rest of my life?”
Within two years he had emigrated.
Though Alan would have been in his fifties when he made the move to Hollywood, it feels as though a star was born – and oh how that star shone. For a time it was as though Dale’s beaming light was inescapable in the televisual landscape, usually as some kind of antagonist. The OC, 24, Lost, NCIS, Entourage, Ugly Betty, The X Files: Alan Dale was the unsung anti-hero of cult television in the 2000s.
This is not to say he has fallen into obscurity. In recent years Dale has appeared in The Killing, The Mindy Project, Once Upon a Time, Dominion and *cough* Hot in Cleveland. I may not have watched Top Coppers, but I am sure his work in it was up to his same impeccable standard.
Even today I still come across poor, ignorant souls who know not of his majesty. How have we let this happen? It is time for us to celebrate this man, and all he has done for us. If by some cruel luck you are unfamiliar with this noble expat, I suggest you quickly acquaint yourselves with the following of his greatest hits:
Jack Delamore in Radio Waves
Before The Boat that Rocked there was Radio Waves. Centering on a Radio Hauraki-esque Auckland radio station, Jack the station manager was Dale’s first ever role. With wild flared pants, a sleek turtleneck and a lovely little fro, he lit up the screen from the very start. Though the show was clunky and short-lived, Dale was destined for bigger things – and it was still a far cry better than Filthy Rich.
Jim Robinson in Neighbours
Full disclosure: I have never watched Neighbours and certainly was not watching it during Dale’s tenure from 1985-1993, given that I was born in 1990. I’ve surmised that his role was something akin to that of Alf Stewart in Home and Away. He was kindly, fatherly, a pillar of the community. The above video depicts Jim Robinson’s tragic demise, and was perhaps the first of Dale’s many, many onscreen deaths. Suffering from a Golden Retriever-induced heart attack, Jim was clearly a gentle soul. It’s no wonder Dale has pursued more nefarious characters ever since.
Vice President Jim Prescott in 24
As treacherous Vice President Jim Prescott, Dale used the aftermath of a terrorist attack to usurp noble POTUS David Palmer and tried to declare war on a fictional Arab nation. Fortunately, it took but a day for Jack Bauer to prove that he was wrong and for order to be restored. Total sweetie pie David Palmer ultimately forgave him though, because who could stay mad at that face.
Charles Widmore in Lost
Charles Widmore was a member of The Others on the Island back in the day and was also enemies with main Lost villain Ben Linus. Charles got exiled due to his secret non-Island family, but dedicated the rest of his life to scotch appreciation, messing with Ben and stopping sexy Desmond Hume from marrying his daughter Penny.
Charles was a consummate douchebag, but a mysterious one. His connection with the island was built up to for many seasons, long after we all hated him for being snobby to Desmond. When he finally died in a showdown with Ben, Lost was at peak crazy. At least with lovely Mr. Dale present we knew we were in safe hands.
The best thing about Charles Widmore was that his British accent frequently swerved into a Kiwi lilt, and one could feel momentarily proud that it was a fellow New Zealander stirring up so much shit.
Caleb Nichol in The O.C
Dale’s greatest role was naughty, haughty, amoral patriarch Caleb Nichol, the secret heart and axis of a show not nearly as concerned with teens as it would have had you believe.
Remember how he called Sandy “Sanford”? Remember when he booty called Julie? Remember when his illegitimate daughter Lindsay showed up and proved so dull that he demanded a paternity test? The man was pure gold.
It is no coincidence then that, immediately subsequent to Caleb’s death, The O.C went swiftly and efficiently downhill.
His death, an unfortunate heart attack by the pool, was made all the crueler as his estranged wife Julie had just decided NOT to poison him. It was a television event, capping off season two and accompanied by Coldplay’s ‘Fix You’. The dramatic tension evaporated with the departure of this snarky sweetie, as did my interest in the show.
RIP Caleb you are forever in my heart, and long live Alan Dale.
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Technology Metals Australia Gabanintha Project Global Mineral Resource estimate as at 27 March 2019.
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Technology Metals Australia Gabanintha Project Ore Reserve Estimate July 2019
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TOPTW CREATIVESTW Creatives: “Counting the Days til Summer” — A Short Story by Kevin Ramsden
TW Creatives: “Counting the Days til Summer” — A Short Story by Kevin Ramsden
A mother’s love stands above all others
By Weekender Editor
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For our last entry for December, we present a short fiction work of Kyoto-based author and professor Kevin Ramsden that reminds us that a mother’s love stands above all others.
Counting the Days til Summer
This is not the first time she’s packed a suitcase for him. But it may well be the last. Previous contents would have most often included a colorful combination of shorts, T-shirts and socks for 7th or 8th grade soccer camps. Now it is a far more eclectic mix of wear-a-day items for the young adult male about town. All freshly washed, ironed and folded, most of these clothes were not chosen or bought by her, yet they are as familiar as her own, as they have passed through her hands on a weekly basis, from laundry basket or bedroom floor, to washing machine and clothes line, to wardrobe and chest-of-drawers. She suddenly starts to feel the inexplicable first pangs of loss, as she realizes she will not be seeing, touching or smelling them again for some time, if ever. Tears start to form then in the corners of her eyes. Not sobbing or wailing tears, but a gentle, moist, prickly reminder of why she is performing this act of motherly duty for her soon to be absent son. Her darling boy.
She pops the last few bits and pieces into the case before closing it. Some of his favorite snacks (easily available all over Japan), his favorite stuffed animal from childhood (probably destined to remain in the case), and a family photo from a not so recent overseas holiday (that she hopes will be displayed in plain sight – though she’s not holding her breath). Then, hearing him yell out, from the living room below a familiar demand for his lunch to be prepared, she wipes her eyes softly on the sleeve of her blouse, puts on a cheery face, and skips down the stairs to attend to her little prince.
(Stay and eat my omelet rice forever!)
It is usually only a 30-minute drive to Kyoto Station door-to-door, but today she is grateful for every red light and set of minor road works on the way. Anything to delay the final farewell that awaits them on arrival. She babbles away with small talk on obvious matters, going over the same material that has been discussed day in, day out in recent weeks. What classes he is going to take. The new friends he’ll make in Tokyo. How close his apartment is to the university. Extracting of promises that he will cook at least some of his own meals, and not rely on instant ramen and convenience stores to keep him alive. And then the large station building looms into view. The car is parked with relative ease. The bags removed from the trunk with a minor squabble over who will carry which. The not long enough walk to the ticket barriers completed. No more excuses for delaying the inevitable. The time has come. And yet, she still manages to keep it together. But only just. Hugs that are not, for once, resisted. Waves and mouthed goodbyes. And with only one backward glance, he’s gone.
(He looks so lost!)
The return journey is largely silent. Neither she nor her husband has the words. Brave faces put on. Attempts at conversation include dinner plans and the weather. Pointless but necessary to avoid discussing their feelings about what has just taken place. Back at the family home, he gives her the briefest peck on the cheek before snatching up his clubs and heading for the range. He will try to relieve the pressure of the enormous weight on his heart by thrashing at small round balls, sending them into space. If he is distanced enough from his fellow rangers, he may allow himself a brief sob or two, when he really feels like howling at the dark and cloudy sky. Back at the house, she is desperately busying herself with the most mundane of tasks, stopping every couple of minutes to check her LINE messages. Hopeful. Zero.
(Have you forgotten me already?)
Finally, when she can put it off no longer, she enters his bedroom. As expected, he has left his phone charger cable behind and a pair of socks are hanging off the end of the bed. And then she sees it. One sheet of folded A4 white paper on the pillow, weighed down by an old, chewed eraser. Scooping it up, she unfolds it to read:
Thank you for being my mum
Thank you for looking after me all these years
I will try to make you proud XX
Slumping down on the bed, she flops onto her back, the paper clutched tightly to her chest, and the floodgates open. The tears flow from a sense of loss at first, a deep, deep emotional realization that the object of 18 years of her joyful devotion has now moved on and will no longer see her in the same way again. And then come the tears of joy, interspersed with little gasps of laughter as she reacts to the contents of the note, and her love for the child she had raised and released. Plucking her cellphone from her apron pocket, she wipes way the remains of the sobfest from her cheeks and sends him a LINE message:
Are you there yet? Let me know when you are settled. Don’t forget to take your medicine. Thanks for the note. It was lovely. Counting the days til summer. Mum xx
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Let's take a look at recent news and happenings around the Sage channel including:
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Sage Announces FY 2016 Earnings Results
On November 30, The Sage Group plc (parent company of Sage North America) reported audited results for the year ended September 30, 2016. Overall, the company is reporting continued strong performance across the business.
Financial Performance Overview
Achieved organic revenue growth of 6.1% (FY15: 6.0%) and the fastest rate of recurring revenue growth for a decade of 10.4% (FY15: 9.0%)
Software subscription growth of 32.3% (FY15: 28.9%), in line with the planned transition and planned decline in SSRS revenue of 8.5% (FY15: decline of 0.7%);
Customers embracing closer subscription relationships with 46% increase in software subscription contracts to just over one million (FY15: 690,000) and an increase in retention rates to 86% (FY15: 84%);
Accelerating revenue growth in Europe, Africa and Brazil; slower performance in Asia (one off regulatory change in the prior year); growth in North America consistent with last year;
Underlying cash conversion at 100%, supporting free cash flow of £254m and the 8% increase in full year dividend to 14.15p
Stephen Kelly, Chief Executive Officer said:
"FY16 saw Sage continue to deliver on the commitment made at our June 2015 Capital Markets Day to perform and transform. The organic revenue growth of 6% is driven by higher quality recurring revenue, which grew at the fastest rate in a decade. The strategy is working – with customers embracing closer relationships with Sage, evidenced by a 46% increase in the number of subscription contracts and a contract retention rate of 86%."
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Sage North America President Departs
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"Marc Scheipe has decided to leave his role as President of Sage North America to pursue other opportunities. I’m sure you will join me in thanking Marc for the contribution he has made to the business and wishing him all the best for his new ventures."
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A Tower Christmas
The Tower Showcases Holiday Cheer Through the Years. Songs, stories and surprises for the whole family.
General Admission, tickets $12 adults, $8 children 12 and under.
The original production “A Tower Christmas: Holiday Cheer Through the Years” showcases popular stories, dances and songs, performed by Central Oregon’s leading actors and community personalities. “A Tower Christmas” is part of the Marquee Series, featuring live community theater productions, sponsored by U.S. Bank and BendBroadband.
Producer Brad Ruder, director Mike Nowak, and musical director Scott Michaelsen (“Spitfire Grill,” “Bend Follies,” “Les Miserables”), have assembled a nostalgic and humorous look at holiday incarnations from decades past:
• Cascade Chorale’s Steven Livingston in “A Christmas Story” montage
• KQAK’s Dave Clemens reads “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (played by Tommy Kuchulis)
• The Bend Children’s Choir performs “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth” and “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”
Talented local musicians Shantae Knorr, Heather Tennant-Salvesen, Ben Larson and Nathan Snyder raise their voices in Christmas medleys from the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s. Gotta Dance performs The Drifters’ “White Christmas.” And—spoiler alert!—St. Nick (aka attorney Terry Rahmsdorff) makes a special guest appearance.
“Plus, four stars of recent stage productions share their renditions of seasonal classics from the 1980s and 90s,” said Ruder.
• Mollie Tennant (“Spamalot”) reinterprets The Carpenters’ “Merry Christmas, Darlin’”
• Ryan Klontz (“Les Miz”) sings Michael Buble’s “All I Want for Christmas is You”
• Kimmie Fountain (“The Producers”) delivers Kathy Mattea’s “Mary, Did You Know?”
• Jim Knox (“Les Miz”) croons Alabama’s “Christmas Shoes”
“We want everyone in Central Oregon to remember those carols, scenes, and stories that—as the song goes—make Christmas the most wonderful time of the year,” said Nowak. “So, come to Bend’s living room, the Tower Theatre, and enjoy some holiday cheer.”
“We are pleased to partner with the Tower Theatre Foundation in supporting local talent, including this one-of-a-kind holiday production,” said Coby Horton, Central and Eastern Oregon Region President of U.S. Bank. “Both U.S. Bank and the Tower have a long heritage of supporting the arts and culture, enriching the lives of our residents and visitors—especially during the holidays.”
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Age is nothing but a number as Roger Federer is fit and happy to play at Australian Open
This year marks Roger Federer’s 21st appearance at the Australian Open, but if you thought he considered skipping the 2020 event then you better think again.
With the 20-time Grand Slam winner turning 39 later this year, questions about retirement always pops up when he turns up at tournaments.
He has insisted in recent months that he has not yet made a decision about retirement, but in recent years he has cut back on his schedule in order to prolong his playing days.
Before the start of the 2020 season, he pulled out of the ATP Cup Down Under and some wondered whether or not he would end up missing the whole Australian summer series.
However, he has touched down in Australia and is ready to go.
“Last week I asked myself, ‘Am I happy to go to Australia, or are you better off staying here and stopping pack immediately?’,” he said.
“I could easily just stay home. I was like, ‘No, no, no’. I was really happy to go to Melbourne and kick off the season there.
“I’ve kept myself in good shape. Obviously I’ve had an amazing team around me.”
He added: “I’ve trained long and hard in the off-season and I didn’t have any setbacks, which is crucial.”
While some players plan from a young age to call it quits once they have won everything there is to win, Federer says he had always “hoped to have longevity”.
“When I was younger – 20, 22, 24 – I was already hoping that one day I could play for a long time,” he is quoted as saying by the Sydney Morning Herald.
“So it wasn’t just decided five years ago that hopefully I’d still be playing at 38.
“It was probably decided a long long time ago after I won my first Australian Open here in 2004 and I got to world No 1 for the very first time.
“I hoped to have longevity. I worked hard for it really.”
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Highest steel beam is raised on Little Tokyo gymnasium.
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Two koinobori flags seemed to swim upward, as a 21-foot, 840-pound white steel beam was lifted high into the air on Friday on the site of the future Terasaki Budokan in Little Tokyo.
Keith Terasaki and Consul General Akira Chiba write messages on the steel beam.
A crowd of approximately 150 gathered below as crane operator Ricardo Alamillo guided the beam into place atop the gymnasium on Los Angeles Street, and they cheered as “We Are the Champions” by Queen played.
The “topping-off” ceremony was a chance to celebrate the fact that the construction phase on the gymnasium is past the halfway point; the facility is scheduled to open in early spring 2020. Ryan Lee, the project manager for the gymnasium, explained its significance.
“It signifies the last steel beam being raised to the highest point in construction on the structure. This is more than just a gym, this is more than just a facility. The Terasaki Budokan is really a testament to what we can accomplish when we all work together as a community,” said Lee. “When its doors open in spring of 2020, it will show the vibrance and energy that is Little Tokyo.”
Prior to the ceremony, people wrote their names and messages with black markers on the steel beam and adorned the beam with wishes written on colorful tanzaku papers.
Among them was Bill Watanabe, former Little Tokyo Service Center executive director, who guided the project for years. He inscribed, “This tops everything.”
George Sugimoto, Consul General Akira Chiba, Keith Terasaki, Jan Perry and Aiko Kawaratani were among the attendees at the ceremony.
“I drive by here every time I come to Little Tokyo, so today is very monumental for me. The only thing that will probably exceed it will be the grand opening,” Watanabe said.
Keith Terasaki and other members of the Terasaki family were also in attendance. The gymnasium is named in honor of the late Dr. Paul Terasaki.
Bill Watanabe, former Little Tokyo Service Center executive director, wrote on the beam before it was placed on top of the building.
“It’s been a long time coming and I’m looking forward to completion,” Terasaki said. “Hopefully it will help build community and bring more people into the area. It’s more than just a gymnasium.”
Consul General Akira Chiba explained that the topping off ceremony is called mune age in Japanese and he led the gathering in a ceremonial single clap at the event’s conclusion.
“I’d like to pay tribute to all those who guided this project along, shaped the vision and worked tirelessly to gain the community and financial support to make the dream a reality,” Chiba said.
Former City Councilmember Jan Perry was recognized for her pivotal role securing the ground lease on the property. She proclaimed that the Terasaki Budokan will be a “legacy project” for Little Tokyo.
“This is a tribute to the resilience of the people who started it, the fact that most of them are still here and that will translate into something that spans the generations,” Perry said.
A construction worker stops to take a photo. The construction phase is more than halfway completed.
Construction will be completed by end of this year. Speaking to The Rafu, Lee said that they are currently staffing and planning for the future operations of the facility. Terasaki Budokan is also seeking to raise an additional $1.8 million towards the $33 million goal.
The facility will feature a two-court gymnasium, an outdoor plaza with a stage, a community room, a toddlers’ playground and a community garden.
“I really think this will provide opportunities and memories for the next generations of youth. Not only Japanese American youth but youth here in Little Tokyo and the surrounding Downtown neighborhood,” Lee said.
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The Answer Company Presents at Sage ERP X3 Global Convention 2014 – Results of the First Sage ERP X3 Version 7 Implementation in North America
VANCOUVER, BC, May 13, 2014 – The Answer Company is honoured to be a presenter at the Sage ERP X3 Global Convention 2014, currently being held from May 12 until May 15 in Lisbon, Portugal. During Tuesday, May 13’s, events, Glenn Charlton, Senior Consultant of Sage ERP X3, spoke to Sage partners from around the world about The Answer Company’s experience implementing the new Sage ERP X3 Version 7 for a Canadian food distributor, Sunblest Commodities.
Presenting alongside The Answer Company were two other international Sage partners: Mr. Batcha Noordin, CEO of India-based Tema Business Systems, and Thomas Perez, Sage ERP X3 R&D Director at GFI, a Reseller of X3 based in France.
The Answer Company was one of the first partners to develop a Sage ERP X3 practice in North America. The company’s founder and President Shawn Ostheimer had the foresight to commit to the product early on and the company has since seen its Sage X3 team perform a large number of successful implementations, and continue to offer support to companies using X3 across Canada.
From its promising start, The Answer Company has continued to bring the most users to Sage ERP X3 in North America, making the company an ideal partner for the Early Adoption Program of Sage ERP X3’s Version 7. The program, launched during the 2013 edition of the Global Conference in Berlin, was designed as the final step to ensure the quality of the release in terms of product, services, and support. The results of this program were presented during Mr. Charlton’s talk at this year’s conference and a newly released Sage video reviews Sunblest’s selection of Sage ERP X3 V7.
The Sage ERP X3 Global Convention is a unique event that provides the opportunity for business partners, Sage employees, executives and experts to learn through sharing their experiences with the solution. In addition to keynote addresses, workshops and breakout sessions, it also boasts an exhibition area and networking events for the Sage ERP X3 community. This year, Sage is expecting over one thousand attendees.
Attending the conference along with Mr. Ostheimer and Mr. Charlton are additional members of The Answer Company’s Sage ERP X3 team, Vice President of Sales Richara Reimer and Solutions Architect Darren Reddies. Having overseen numerous Sage ERP X3 implementations of the system’s 6.5 version, the team carried that experience forward during the implementation of the new version. Aside from ensuring that the implementation of X3’s new version went smoothly, their experience served as a valuable point of reference of implementation methodology and challenges as compared to previous versions.
The methodology for implementing Sage X3 developed by The Answer Company is a product of years of experience, with over 1000 successful implementations and 500 supported companies since entering the software landscape as a Sage Partner over 20 years ago.
The Answer Company’s Sage ERP X3 team’s experience with the Early Adoption Program was overwhelmingly positive, receiving encouraging feedback from the customer.
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Extreme Trauma': First Lawsuit From 'Batman' Massacre Filed
"Extreme trauma."
In this film image released by Warner Bros., Christian Bale portrays Bruce Wayne and Batman in a scene from "The Dark Knight Rises." (AP PHoto/Warner Bros.)
Well, it was only a matter of time before it happened. We just didn't think it would be this soon.
Citing "extreme trauma," "Batman" massacre survivor Torrence Brown, Jr. has filed a lawsuit against three defendants: Warner Bros., the theater where the shooting spree took place, and the alleged gunman's doctor.
Brown "was in Century 16 Theater when [James] Holmes let loose, TMZ reports. "One of Brown's best friends, A.J. Boik, was shot in the chest and died. Brown, who was not physically injured, claims to now suffer from extreme trauma."
Image courtesy TMZ
Through his attorney Donald Karpel, Brown is going against the aforementioned defendants for the following reasons [via TMZ]:
1) The theater. Karpel claims it was negligent for the theater to have an emergency door in the front that was not alarmed or guarded. It's widely believed Holmes entered the theater with a ticket, propped the emergency door open from inside, went to his car and returned with guns.
2) Holmes' doctors. Karpel says it appears Holmes was on several medications -- prescribed by one or more doctors -- at the time of the shooting and he believes the docs did not properly monitor Holmes.
3) Warner Bros. Karpel says "Dark Knight Rises" was particularly violent and Holmes mimicked some of the action. The attorney says theater goers were helpless because they thought the shooter was part of the movie. Karpel tells TMZ, "Somebody has to be responsible for the rampant violence that is shown today."
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Although he trains at American Top Team in South Florida and has already made the walk to the Octagon on three occasions, emerging victorious each time, Evloev is only now starting to garner some of the attention and acclaim befitting of an emerging contender of his stature.
Part of that is because each of his first three appearances came overseas on the prelims, while a motorcycle accident earlier this year scuttled a potential breakthrough appearance on the UFC 248 fight card in March.
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Despite not generating the kind of buzz other new arrivals and promising up-and-comers have managed in recent years, each successful foray into the UFC cage has resulted in more and more people recognizing that the well-rounded 26-year-old has a promising future in the talent-rich featherweight division.
And finally making his North American debut should only further expedite the process.
“A fight in the USA is the perfect opportunity to make yourself known to the whole world,” said Evloev, who holds victories over SeungWoo Choi, Enrique Barzola, and Mike Grundy inside the Octagon.
SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE - OCTOBER 26: (R-L) Movsar Evloev of Russia punches Enrique Barzola of Peru in their featherweight bout during the UFC Fight Night event at Singapore Indoor Stadium on October 26, 2019 in Singapore. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)
“I have always believed that I can get the gold; for me, it's only a matter of time,” said Evloev regarding being recognized as a future contender in the 145-pound weight class. “The only pity is that these people have only started to understand it now.
“I will do all that is necessary,” he added when asked what he needs to do in order to stand out in such a crowded, competitive field. “I will force each and every person to acknowledge my superiority.”
His words convey the kind of self-belief it takes to excel at this level and achieve greatness on the biggest stage in the sport. And Evloev believes with every fiber of his being that he is destined for greatness in the UFC.
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“This is a completely different level; this is what I was striving for,” he answered when asked to reflect on the positive takeaways from his first two years as a member of the featherweight ranks. “I am ready to play at such high stakes.
“But I do not stand in one place,” he continued. “I always change and evolve. With each fight the rates are higher and higher, and I am ready to show the best version of myself with each fight.
“After a year or two, I envision myself only with the UFC belt around my waist.”
Given the depth of talent in the featherweight division and his current position outside of the Top 15, a 12-to-24-month timeline for claiming championship gold is an ambitious goal for Evloev to set for himself.
But considering the unbridled success he’s already enjoyed and the abundance of upside he’s exhibited on the way to 13 consecutive victories, doubting he’s capable of achieving such a feat simply because of the difficulty involved doesn’t seem wise.
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Zhuhai Municipal People's Government and UIC sign a cooperation agreement, granting UIC another plot of land of approximately 367,000 square metres to build its second-phase campus.
UIC launches the Sports Park, giving staff and students a new outdoor athletic facility.
UIC is listed as a Chinese traditional culture inheritance base amongst Guangdong universities and the only base amongst Zhuhai universities by the provincial Department of Education for the College’s Lingnan rite and music programmes.
Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Hong Kong SAR, Mr Wang Zhimin, says during his visit to UIC that the College is exemplary amongst Sino-foreign and Mainland-SAR joint venture universities, and it can provide plenty of support for the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Founding President Professor Ng Ching-Fai retires. Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Tang Tao is appointed as UIC’s new President.
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UIC receives the first intake of 30 students of its taught master’s programmes, including students from Master of Arts in Communication and from Master of Professional Accountancy.
The New Campus Carnival is held to celebrate the opening of many new facilities, including the new Learning Resource Centre, the new Staff and Student Activities Centre, the Maker Centre and more. The UIC Yayue (Chinese court music) Orchestra and a Kayak Relay Race on Central Lake also have their official openings.
UIC celebrates the New Campus Inauguration and launches the Graduate School and more facilities.
New students are officially welcomed at their Inauguration Ceremony. This is the first semester that all UIC students will attend classes at the new campus.
The 9th Graduation Ceremony and Honorary Fellowship Conferment takes place at the University Hall on the new campus for the first time.
The Institute for Communication Studies of Chinese Culture at UIC is established.
UIC and China Unicom Zhuhai sign a collaborative agreement on establishing a big data laboratory.
UIC launches the Zhuhai Key Laboratory of Agricultural Product Quality and Food.
UIC receives approval from the Ministry of Education and will offer Postgraduate Programmes, including Taught Master Programmes in addition to Research Postgraduate Programmes that lead to MPhil or PhD degrees.
Celebrations at a Topping-out Ceremony to mark the completion of the construction of the buildings that make up the Cultural Creativity Clusters at UIC’s new campus.
UIC teams up with the Zhuhai Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau to set up the Zhuhai Innovative Cultural and Creative Industry Research Institute.
UIC announces its motto and anthem. The college motto is "In knowledge and in deeds, unto the whole person."
UIC further reforms the admission policy for students from Guangdong province. They are given the new option to apply for UIC in the early enrolling phase if they obtain first class scores in the National College Entrance Examination. The college also expands the admission range by four provinces to a total of 30. Moreover, it begins to admit students from Hong Kong via the National Education Exams Authority Joint Entrance Exam for Universities in China.
A panel from UIC’s parent institutions, Beijing Normal University and Hong Kong Baptist University, conducts a joint review of UIC for the first time. Upon UIC’s ten-year development, the panel recognises its enormous efforts and remarkable achievements
About 1300 Year One students move to the Hui Xian Village (previously known as New Cultural Village) of the new campus at the Jintong Road.
The first minor programme in music is introduced in the spring semester.
Zhuhai’s first demonstrative and training base for elderly care services is established by UIC and the Zhuhai Social Welfare Centre.
The Zhuhai Municipal People’s Government and UIC Cooperation Agreement Signing Ceremony and UIC New Campus Ground-breaking Ceremony are held. The Zhuhai government grants UIC a plot of land of approximately 200,000 square metres to build a new campus. UIC will integrate the new campus and its adjacent area into a university town to better take part in Zhuhai's economic and cultural development.
The UIC Orchestra is invited to perform in Poland in honour of the 65th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Poland and China.
UIC inaugurates the UIC Hengqin Research Development Centre and the Education Foundation in Hengqin New Area.
The Centre for Social Management Research and Services is launched at UIC.
UIC develops a Comprehensive Evaluation System based on the National College Entrance Examination for student recruitment in Guangdong Province.
The Zhuhai Municipal People's Government and UIC sign an agreement to begin mutual strategic cooperation in establishing UIC as a world-class liberal arts college and developing Zhuhai’s new industries.
UIC and the Administrative Committee of Hengqin New Area sign a strategic cooperation agreement and agree to build a research development centre in the Area.
At its fourth Graduation Ceremony, UIC confers the first Honorary Fellowships on four prominent individuals, who were distinguished contributors to the mission of UIC for their sustained commitment to the development of education and society.
The Division of Business and Management holds its first Advisory Committee meeting, and subsequently the Division of Science and Technology and the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences also convene their Advisory Committees. In these Committees, external expert advisors and people holding senior positions in various fields counsel on the development of UIC
The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants builds its first QP Resource Centre in mainland China located at UIC.
The Shadow Puppet Drama Pavilion is unveiled in the Student Hostels and Cultural Village at the Jinfeng Road campus.
The Learning Resource Centre opens officially in the Student Hostels and Cultural Village at the Jinfeng Road campus.
UIC holds the first graduating commemoration ceremony for 244 graduates.
UIC becomes the first university in mainland China to be accredited for BBA (Hons) in Accounting by the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
UIC is approved by the Ministry of Education to enrol Band One students (with first class scores in the National College Entrance Examination) in 16 provinces and municipalities.
The Student Hostels and Cultural Village at the Jinfeng Road campus is put into service.
Wang Yang, then Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, visits UIC and heaps praise on its innovative education.
UIC launches teaching and administrative facilities of the Jinfeng Road campus at the campus inauguration ceremony. The college logo is unveiled with the UIC Council’s approval.
UIC signs a Memorandum of Cooperation with seven US liberal arts universities of the Minnesota Private College Council (MPCC) to start long-term exchange and cooperation.
UIC’s Accounting Programme is accredited by CPA Australia.
UIC’s first student exchange agreement is signed with Jeonju University, South Korea.
The Inauguration and Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony is held. Construction of the campus at the Jinfeng Road begins.
UIC starts the first academic year with an enrolment of 274 students.
The Ministry of Education approves the establishment of UIC.
Hong Kong Baptist University and Beijing Normal University sign an agreement to establish Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC) in Zhuhai, the first full-scale cooperation in higher education between mainland China and Hong Kong.
Prof Ng Ching-Fai, President and Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong Baptist University, and Prof Zhong Binglin, President of Beijing Normal University, agree on cooperation between the two universities in establishing a higher education institution.
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Middlewoods Resident Recognized for 2017 Distinguished Accomplishment
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James Riley O’Donnell, a 15 year resident of Middlewoods of Farmington Independent and Assisted Living Community, was recently recognized by the Connecticut Assisted Living Association (CALA), with the Distinguished Resident Accomplishment Award. This award honors the service and accomplishments of senior living residents. James Riley O’Donnell, fondly known as Riley, was nominated to receive this prestigious award because of his extraordinary example of aging and his exceptional contributions to the community.
Linda Midwinter, a member of the Nursing staff at Middlewoods, explains, “Riley’s past profession as a guidance counselor has truly carried on into this next chapter of his life. He has a way of making people feel special and cared about.” Riley shows concern for the physical, spiritual and emotion needs of his fellow community members in many ways. He leads a weekly rosary group, visits fellow community members in rehabilitation centers, celebrates the lives of beloved community members who have passed away, and connects with everyone he meets, whether it be staff members, nurses, residents or guests. Midwinter continues, “I feel so very blessed to know James Riley O’Donnell. He has touched the lives and hearts of many here at Middlewoods of Farmington.”
Riley and nineteen other selected recipients throughout the state were honored at the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville. Congratulations, CALA award winners! He is photographed here with award-winners from two other assisted living communities in Connecticut, Crosby Commons and Middlewoods of Newington. Both of these communities are affiliated with United Methodist Homes, a not-for-profit, mission-based organization.
Middlewoods of Farmington Independent and Assisted Living Community is located at 509 Middle Road in Farmington and is affiliated with the UConn Health Center. For more information about senior living at Middlewoods, please visit www.middlewoodsoffarmington.org or contact Ginny Brown at 860.284.5700.
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Home Health Researchers map brain of blind patient who can see motion — ...
Researchers map brain of blind patient who can see motion — (Study)
James M. Patterson
Neuroscientists at Western University’s Brain and Mind Institute, have confirmed and detailed a rare case of a blind woman able to see objects — but only if in motion.
A team led by neuropsychologist Jody Culham has conducted the most extensive analysis and brain mapping to date of a blind patient, to help understand the remarkable vision of a 48-year-old Scottish woman, Milena Canning.
Canning lost her sight 18 years ago after a respiratory infection and series of strokes. Months after emerging blind from an eight-week coma, she was surprised to see the glint of a sparkly gift bag, like a flash of green lightning.
Then she began to perceive, sporadically, other moving things: her daughter’s ponytail bobbing when she walked, but not her daughter’s face; rain dripping down a window, but nothing beyond the glass; and water swirling down a drain, but not a tub already full with water.
Glaswegian ophthalmologist Gordon Dutton referred Canning to the Brain and Mind Institute in London, Canada, where tests by Culham’s team included functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to examine the real-time structure and workings of her brain.
They determined Canning has a rare phenomenon called Riddoch syndrome — in which a blind person can consciously see an object if moving but not if stationary.
“She is missing a piece of brain tissue about the size of an apple at the back of her brain — almost her entire occipital lobes, which process vision,” says Culham, a professor in the Department of Psychology and Graduate Program in Neuroscience.
“In Milena’s case, we think the ‘super-highway’ for the visual system reached a dead end. But rather than shutting down her whole visual system, she developed some ‘back roads’ that could bypass the superhighway to bring some vision — especially motion — to other parts of the brain.”
In essence, Canning’s brain is taking unexpected, unconventional detours around damaged pathways.
During the study, Canning was able to recognize the motion, direction, size and speed of balls rolled towards her; and to command her hand to open, intercept and grab them at exactly the right time. She could navigate around chairs.
Yet she inconsistently identified an object’s colour, and was able only half the time to detect whether someone’s hand in front of her showed thumb-up or thumb-down.
“This work may be the richest characterization ever conducted of a single patient’s visual system,” says Culham. “She has shown this very profound recovery of vision, based on her perception of motion.”
The research shows the remarkable plasticity of the human brain in finding work-arounds after catastrophic injuries. And it suggests conventional definitions of ‘sight’ and ‘blindness’ are fuzzier than previously believed.
“Patients like Milena give us a sense of what is possible and, even more importantly, they give us a sense of what visual and cognitive functions go together,” Culham says.
For Canning, the research at BMI helps explain more about what she perceives and how her brain is continuing to change. She is able to navigate around chairs, can see a bright-shirted soccer goalie and can see steam rising from her morning cup of coffee, for example.
“I can’t see like normal people see or like I used to see. The things I’m seeing are really strange. There is something happening and my brain is trying to rewire itself or trying different pathways,” Canning says.
The research is newly published in the journal Neuropsychologia.
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Rookie Blue “What I Lost” Season 4 Episode 9 airs Thursday, August 15 (10:01-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.
Episode Synopsis: Rookie Blue Season 4 Episode 9 “What I Lost”- Chris’ reunion with his rookie family takes a shocking turn when his son, Christian, is kidnapped while in Andy and Nick’s care. As the squad spreads out to search for the boy, Swarek is confronted with Andy and Nick’s budding relationship. As our officers discover clues to the identity of Christian’s abductor, Chris is slapped with a stunning revelation that might tear his new family apart, on “Rookie Blue,” THURSDAY, AUGUST 15 (10:01-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.
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ARLINGTON, VA - The U.S. dairy industry commended the Administration's decision to terminate the preferential trade status granted to India for its failure to provide "equitable and reasonable access to its market" and comply with other provisions of the statute, as required. By holding India accountable for its unjustified trade barriers, the industry says USTR is setting an important precedent on enforcement.
India has denied market access to U.S. dairy products since 2003, despite receiving preferential access to the U.S. market under a special duty-free trade arrangement called the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). Over those years India has cited a variety of shifting reasons as the basis for its illicit trade barriers, including unscientific restrictions on U.S. livestock feeding practices.
"For 16 years India has enjoyed unilateral access to U.S. markets while flaunting their obligation to provide fair market access mandated under the GSP program, and harming American dairy farmers in the process," said Jim Mulhern, National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) president and CEO. "The Administration has sent a clear message: abide by free and fair trade practices or face the consequences."
"The U.S. dairy industry strongly welcomes this enforcement action by USTR and hopes that it sets the precedent that unfair trade practices will not be tolerated, and compliance enforcement measures will be utilized when warranted," said Tom Vilsack, chairman and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council.
The U.S. dairy industry has worked alongside the U.S. government for years with the goal of coming to a mutually beneficial resolution with the Indian government. However, India has failed to engage in good-faith negotiations to restore market access for U.S. dairy exports. USDEC and NMPF submitted comments to the USTR in September 2017 urging the USTR to utilize congressional-mandated compliance requirements to modify India's GSP status.
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Published Date: February 2018
Philippines Payments Market | Country Report
A comprehensive overview of the cards, payments and consumer banking market in Philippines.
PHILIPPINES CARDS & PAYMENTS REPORT | KEY FACTS
Financial inclusion remains low in the Philippines with only around a third of adults having a bank account.
The central bank launched the National Retail Payment System (NRPS) in December 2015, aiming to increase the proportion of electronic payments carried out in the country from one per cent to 20 per cent by 2020.
Initiatives such as consolidation of the country's three ATM networks into one are making payments interoperable and more user-friendly.
Consumer indebtedness is low by international standards. Total consumer credit as a percentage of personal disposable income stood at 13.4 per cent at the end of 2017.
In mid-2017, the country introduced regulations for the credit card industry. Prior to this, credit card issuers and acquirers were not subject to any specific laws.
The Credit Card Association of the Philippines (CCAP) launched the 'Inter-bank Debt Relief Programme' (IDRP) in 2016 to assist financially distressed cardholders and to recover unpaid debt.
Credit card penetration has hovered between 11 and 13 per cent since 2011. This subdued growth is due to the lack of eligible customers beyond this cohort.
Debit and ATM cards are widespread in the market but are used almost exclusively to withdraw cash. The population of 70 million adults made fewer than 30 million purchase transactions between them in 2017.
Mobile money services are popular in the country. There were an estimated 40 million registered accounts, representing a penetration rate of 57 per 100 adults.
A joint-venture between BPI and Global Payments is the leading merchant acquirer. The main competition comes from issuing banks such as Metrobank and BDO.
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When one encounters any project that bears David Yow’s name, one can only expect the most outlandish of eccentricities, at the very least. I mean the very least. Of course even before I remove the disc I am confounded by the Yow and his two compadres, looking like rednecks coming off of an angel dust-driven bender as they stand over a the corpse of a naked, pale hot chick—her state, presumably, brought on by encountering them in any casual level of banality. Perverted? Yes. Misogynistic? I wouldn’t rule it out. Standard Yow wackiness? More or less.
The direction that Yow’s musical interests have taken is, I’ll admit, striking. Whereas The Jesus Lizard was very much as putrid, thick and infected as the human discharges they named their songs after, Qui’s sonic attack isn’t so blatantly confrontational, at least not in the aggressive approach of his previous acts. This is perhaps due to the fact that he only recently joined the band, or that perhaps he’s calmed down in recent years. Whatever the case, the first track bulges with a fuzzed out guitar and kicks into a jagged groove from which rises the voice of Yow. In this new form he croons with a shortness of breath clarity. Music throughout the album is sparse and minimalistic. As a three-piece, Qui lacks a bassist, which is interesting since Yow started out as a bassist in Scratch Acid.
Qui’s alt-rock roots are not simply rooted in Yow’s sloppy charisma. To wit, there are hints of Tool’s stiff pre-Undertow melodies as well as Shellac’s acidic minimalism and oddly humorous lyricism. Yow’s words range from the simplistic to the mockingly bitter deviant narratives. The album comes to an odd close with a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Echoes,” considering that Pink Floyd’s sound was much fuller than Qui’s is. And Yow is not much of melodic master compared to Roger Waters, let alone David Gilmour. It’s not the best cover song I’ve ever heard and it’s a few notches above filler as every note and progression of the song is treated with the respect Pink Floyd fanatics would demand of such pissants—their words, not mine.
It’s not for me to declare noise rock dead. Nay, noise rock is making what can loosely be considered a comeback what with Lizard disciples Pissed Jeans as well as the return of Unsane and so forth, but this is probably not a part of it. Love’s Miracle has all the brilliant lack of professionalism and wealth of profanity that one can expect from such an act, with or without the current frontman, and it’s certainly a fun outing, at least to me. However it’s hard to say if this will be taken as rabidly as passed pig fuckers or as a casual display of erratic fuzz with funny/occasionally gross lyrics.
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Today’s transportation systems not only get us from one point to another, but also work to answer issues in traffic management, insufficient resources, and the environmental impact of growing cities. Not anymore seen as only a tool for mobility, transportation systems are now viewed holistically as mobile computers to accompany, guide, and customize our trips wherever we go. The application of network technology in transportation led to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which also use data analytics that provide comprehensive insights relevant in resolving congested city concerns.
The research firm Counterpoint predicted that by 2022, the number of vehicles with embedded connectivity will grow by 270% — excluding those with already active connections and features for connecting users’ internet of things (IoT) — thanks in part to the European Union’s (EU) eCall initiative. Continued user interest in ITS, opportunities offered by 5G, and growing business opportunities from automotive-related enterprises such as insurance companies and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are also seen as growth factors in ITS adoption.
Moreover, ITS’ efficiency in infrastructure management and analytics research, as well as loss pre-emption -- life, maintenance, time, funds, and data -- has driven other countries to adopt ITS to automate and manage public infrastructure.
The expected increase in technology adoption, however, does not come without risks — from petty showcases of hacks to possibly bigger threats to safety and financial losses. In a 2018 study by the Ponemon Institute on the automotive industry’s procedures, the cybersecurity programs and practices set in automotive companies have yet to catch up to the technologies of these connected vehicles released in the market. In relation, Consumer Watchdog published a report concluding that a hack of connected vehicles during the rush hour can result to accidents equivalent to the scale of 9/11, definitively resulting in financial losses, damages to infrastructure, and loss of life. What can urban and government planners and developers do in order to secure their growing cities’ and smart transportation’s needs?
[Read: Securing the industrial internet of things: Protecting energy, water and oil infrastructures]
The ITS Framework
As discussed in Trend Micro’s paper, the ITS ecosystem integrates a number of sectors, components and operational systems to work, and a threat or an attack in one may cause other complications in its related industries – unauthorized intrusions via physical, network and wireless attack surfaces. The strategic framework applied on the ITS architecture enables designers and engineers to visualize and implement the technical details necessary, and there are six main categories by which the subsets can be grouped to represent specific functions in the architecture:
Vehicles: Connected or autonomous units of transportation, usually embedded with wireless Local Area Network (wLAN) to access other internal or external IoT devices, or automated to navigate and sense its environment even without human input or intervention via advanced technologies such as cameras, light detection and ranging (LIDAR), sensors and tracking systems such as GPS.
Roadway reporting: For real-time traffic and roadway conditions’ monitoring and efficient movement, commonly achieved with the use of systems such as cameras, detection systems, roadside weather stations, and sensors to send data back to a centralized control center.
Traffic flow controls: Also for real-time traffic data collection and roadway flow conditions’ monitoring, this is achieved using traffic signal control systems, railway crossing barriers, dynamic message signs, and automated toll systems.
Payment applications and systems: Automatically collect, manage and increase revenue streams while reducing other costs, such as radio frequency identification (RFID) payments or tags, kiosk payment machines, or e-ticket applications.
Management applications and systems: A centralized system handling different functions working simultaneously to monitor the flow of traffic and to define the limits of the complex integration. At its minimum, it has the controls for the likes of the traffic management center; parking systems; air, railway and ferry transport providers; construction and maintenance center; emergency services center; tourism information, and; public transportation systems, among others.
Communications applications and systems: Information exchange is at the center of the ITS ecosystem, with all the centers and devices facilitating data in coordinated protocols to ensure efficient traffic flows and safety, increase revenue, and reduce environmental impact. This can be vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and infrastructure-to-infrastructure (I2I), and the tools, media and systems may include apps, social media, websites, alerts and announcements.
Here are some of ITS threats and risks based on three broad classifications covering the applications and systems (A&S) subsets. This also includes some best practices that enterprises and consumers can follow to protect ITS security.
[Read: The IoT attack surface: Threats and security solutions]
Physical attacks and risks
While physical attacks fall at the lowest ranks in Trend Micro’s threat assessments, physical damages to facilities entail heavy losses in finances and recovery. ITS facilities are exposed on roadsides and highways, making them physically accessible to anyone. Malicious actors can tamper with the physical components such as the exposed ports, gauges, and network antennas, causing failures in data upload and reporting.
Another plausible manner that all kinds of vehicles can be physically attacked is through the Controller Area Network (CAN bus), a standard that most vehicles have in order to control and communicate the applications between the devices even without a central computer. The CAN bus’ security gaps have been explored since 2016, but is still further studied to find other devices, components, and techniques by which it can be used to enter other systems such as smart homes and public networks to infiltrate enterprises.
In the trend of ride sharing services, there are also the physical components of other public vehicles such as e-bikes that may experience problems, such as users themselves unable to return them to proper dock stations, technical and environmental challenges, and battery and other vandalism-related issues. Moreover, other means to physically tamper with interconnected vehicles have also been considered, a theoretical scenario of an unknown or even a trusted individual installing additional components to compromise vehicles or to increase sales.
[Read: From homes to the office: Revisiting network security in the age of IoT]
Figure 1. The ITS and its threats
Network attacks and risks
According to Trend Micro’s research, network attacks on ITS pose the highest threat to growing smart cities and transportation systems. Network attacks and threats target the regular operational functions of devices and equipment, disrupting services and possibly leading to data breaches and information theft. Malware is commonly used by cybercriminals to deliver other malicious payloads to paralyze public and private service industries such as government offices, logistics sectors, and other related infrastructures dependent on connectivity and communication, and can further enable cybercriminals connections to other unsecured facilities such as commercial buildings and residential areas to more sinister attacks: distributed denial of service (DDoS), man in the middle attacks (MiTM), or privilege escalation, among others.
Intrusions in the systems controlling and managing these transportation systems can also cause unnecessary and unauthorized use of valuable resources, become sources of sensitive information for high value targets, lost revenue, and stolen property. In instances of shared or rented vehicle services, there have also been cases wherein the devices can be used to track down previous clients’ data – a concern whether the privacy of information may be in violation of data privacy laws.
[Read: US cities exposed in Shodan]
Wireless attacks and risks
Wireless communications for V2V, V2I, and I2I will be the backbone of smart transportation and cities’ operations, especially in the exchange of real-time data and response deployment. But as the well-known jeep hack in 2015 showed, remotely compromising vehicles via embedded components or connected devices are not unknown and impossible. Vulnerabilities in the vehicles or peripherals, as well as unencrypted public wifi connections can be used to hijack vehicles running on the road. In a Georgia Tech research, it showed that only 20% of the interconnected cars stuck in traffic in the middle of Manhattan would be enough to paralyze the city – including emergency responders’ deployment and communications – or even less if the hack were applied to other cities. Further, server-side security would need to improve from the design phase to distribution; as vulnerable websites, weak passwords and app data searchability can quickly expose manufacturers’ customers’ data, control traffic, or software flaws used to unlock and start automated cars.
Considering the devices that manufacturers are integrating such as voice-enabled assistants, known vulnerabilities and techniques of these smart and connected gadgets can also be used to compromise these vehicles. Weaknesses and openings in apps can be used to infiltrate, scan and take over connected transport and vehicles, or used to get into critical infrastructures and industries.
[Read: EU report highlights cybersecurity risks in 5G networks]
Cyberattack and intrusion prevention strategies with actionable measures should be included as an integral aspect of implementing ITS in every country, contributed to by everyone: policymakers, manufacturers, citizens and/or residents, designers, planners, and operators. Increasingly, breaches on public infrastructures and enterprises have been becoming commonplace, and mitigation measures are paramount as an overall proactive defense and protection for the entire system. While no defense stands invincible against determined attacks, here are some best practices to mitigate against physical, network, and wireless cyberattacks:
Implement and strengthen physical security measures around ITS devices’ and/or facilities. Ensure that no unauthorized personnel are around the area to tamper with or vandalize specific components of the facilities. Consider limiting the number of authorized staff who can have physical access to the equipment or facility, and at internally known and sanctioned intervals or periods. Restrict the connected digital equipment brought within range of these equipment to devices only necessary to conduct security audits and maintenance checks.
Apply network segmentation, monitoring, detection, and blocking systems. Before attacks can reach or execute their malicious actions, security systems such as firewalls and threat management gateways can quickly analyze and block attempts for malicious URLs, commands, emails and scripts. In the instance of an attack, security and IT teams can quickly identify, isolate, and contain breaches at a faster pace to stop intruders from going further into the network and endpoints, therefore preventing possible losses of data or infections. Monitoring also helps a multilayered protection system detect anomalies and unusual data exchange faster, especially in the inclusion of analytic technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence – from the equipment to the mobile devices connected to the network.
Conduct regular security audits to make sure there are no gaps in the network, hardware, software and firmware. Map all the connected devices connected to the network at home or in the enterprise, and ensure manufacturers’ default credentials for all smart devices have been changed. Conduct vulnerability scans to find gaps in the system to immediately apply the appropriate solutions. Implement a patch management procedure that ensures downloads for all the systems connected without interrupting services and operations. Use available tools such as Shodan to scan for exposed devices, and for proper mechanisms to be installed such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) on all applicable platforms, or closing all ports to prevent unauthorized incoming or outgoing traffic.
[Read: Securing smart cities]
While ITS’ connectivity and automation offer new opportunities for innovation and convenience, it can also widen the attack surface and provide new opportunities for malicious actors to take advantage of, often at the users’, companies’, and the public’s expense. These emerging changes are putting a new dynamic to traditional vehicle manufacturers and transportation industries: vehicle and transport companies are no longer just producers of machines and equipment but are also entering the innovations, software, and user experience design businesses. Products sold from the showroom no longer mean users have complete ownership as software updates are deployed by companies and their third party contractors, and maintenance of these related products can only be acquired from the companies themselves.
But at its worst, the lack of cybersecurity testing and integration on the onset, innovation outpacing security measures, and the influx of cyber threats can reduce the peoples’ confidence in emerging technologies and dampen innovation, put down enterprises’ reputations, and endanger lives. Implementing vigilant security standards and measures for physical facilities and all its networked connections serves as an initial defense to deter malicious intents. Separating the network into sections and constantly monitoring the flow of data traffic enables containment in the shortest time possible, it also allows for earlier detections of unusual activities, whether it be outgoing or incoming. And security audits and awareness among relevant personnel and employees not only keep all parties updated on the latest security measures that can be implemented, everyone becomes familiar with the responsibilities of keeping the whole system and city safe and working efficiently.
[Read: The first steps in effective IoT device security]
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Dalai Lama Hopes President Trump, Putin Will Work for Peace
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NEW DELHI, INDIA - The Dalai Lama said he hopes that President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will work together for global peace.
The exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists said the world needed leaders with compassion. He made the remarks Saturday at a program in New Delhi organized by the women's chapter of an industry group, according to the press statement.
He said the world is moving toward peace and non-violence, and he hopes Trump and Putin will come closer and work toward creating global peace.
The Dalai Lama had said in Mongolia in November that he had "no worries" about Trump's election as U.S. president and looked forward to meeting him after he took office. Trump was inaugurated Friday.
The Dalai Lama has met former U.S. presidents, including four meetings with Barack Obama. Such meetings anger Beijing, which accuses the Tibetan leader of trying to split Tibet from China. The Dalai Lama says he simply wants a higher degree of autonomy under Chinese rule.
The Dalai Lama has been based in India's northern hill town of Dharmsala since fleeing Tibet during an abortive uprising against Chinese rule in 1959.
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Review: SILHOUETTE (2019)
July 30, 2019 September 4, 2020 Jim Morazzini April Hartman, Ghost, Horror Movie, ITN Films, Jessica Dawn Willis, Low Budget, Mitch McLeod, Movie Review, Savannah Solsbery, Silhouette, Tom Zembrod
A couple trying to rebuild their relationship after the death of a child. That’s a familiar plotline in several genres, most notably drama and horror. In Silhouette writer/director Mitch McLeod, who’s previous film Arc was a relationship drama, mixes drama and horror in large amounts to create a slow burn nightmare.
Jack (Tom Zembrod, Knucklebones, The Harrowing) and Amanda (April Hartman, Staring Back, High Moon) are trying to keep their marriage together after the death of their daughter Sarah (Savannah Solsbery, Sacrament). It doesn’t help that Jack also has issues keeping things in his pants. They relocate to a secluded house to work on their relationship and try to heal the rift between them.
However, it doesn’t take long before Jack becomes entirely too friendly with their neighbor Dawn (Jessica Dawn Willis, Lake Fear, Ghost Note). Amanda meanwhile begins seeing what appears to be Sarah’s ghost. But is she really being haunted, or is it just a troubled mind acting out?
Interestingly one of the first things that caught my attention about Silhouette was the casting of Tom Zembrod. I’ve seen him in a few films now. But he usually spends most of his time covered in makeup or in a suit playing creatures. Turns out he’s as good at playing humans struggling with their demons as he is at playing demons. Indeed the performances in the film are all above average. April Hartman has a difficult task. She to play a role where she has to be convincing while keeping unsure of her sanity. And she keeps us unsure, right up to an unexpected conclusion.
It’s a good thing the cast is at the top of their game because Silhouette doesn’t have much in the way of jump scares or gore to distract an audience. The cast has to sell the material here, which they do despite the just under two-hour running time. That’s about 15 minutes longer than the film needs to be, and it drags a bit during the second half. Tightening this up would have really helped the film.
Despite that and a budget of only $25,000, Silhouette is a very solid film with a lot going for it. The cinematography, in particular, carries a sense of menace that helps keep the viewer on edge.
Silhouette is currently finishing up a well-received festival run. ITN has picked it up and will be releasing it later this year. You can get updates on exactly when on their Facebook page.
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Unbanned Bible Publications
Defending God’s Truth in Church Doctrine and Political History – Renette Vermeulen
Secret Societies Control the Rise and Fall of Empires
Renette Vermeulen
PART 9: ALCHEMY, THE PROCESS THAT TURNS MEN INTO POLITICAL CHRISTS AND GODS
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[Acknowledgement to those who published the photos and images in this study]
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES TO ILLUSTRATE SOME OF THE CARNAGE OF APARTHEID AND ‘THE STRUGGLE,’ AND THE CRUELTY THAT STILL RAMPAGES THROUGH SOUTH AFRICA. I HATE AND DISCLOSE ALL DISCRIMINATION AND WRITE IN MEMORY OF ALL THE THOSE WHO SUFFERED AND DIED UNDER POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS OPPRESSION, AS WELL AS THOSE WHO ARE STILL SUFFERING AND DYING TODAY.
My work is about facts. This report is an attempt to look objectively at both sides of this struggle. The spirits at work behind the scenes of the oppressive laws of the South African apartheid regime and the communist ‘struggle’ were hardly ever exposed. Thus, the real story of apartheid and the ‘struggle’ was rarely told without prejudice. The suffering of the non-white citizens of South Africa was terrible and real, but the extremely violent mass action of the oppressed and the protective Police and National Defense Force operations were seldom reported in context. South African National Defense Force strikes on Russian, Cuban and Libyan terrorist training and torture camps outside South Africa, which were camouflaged as peaceful rural villages, hospitals, and even orphanages, were twisted by the Illuminati-controlled media to misinform all South African citizens and also the whole world.
God commands in Ex. 23:1-2, “You shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. [Do not believe the distorted opinions of the Status Quo, and/or join riots and violent crowds!] Nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice [and truth!]”
· Masonic Societies Disseminate Worldwide Socialism
· Apartheid, just as the new ANC regime, was socialism and Marxism
· Jewish Masonic Illuminati, Darwinian Pyramid of Communist Evolution
· Racism (the Darwinian ‘science’ of alchemy and eugenics) is not about race
· South African Examples of the racists doctrines of alchemy and eugenics
· Brown, Indian, African, White African, and British Masonic Brothers
· Mahatma Gandhi, India, and the Bambatma Revolt
· The 55-year (in 2016) apartheid/communist Holocaust
· Apartheid, the South African ‘Struggle,’ and the Bush or Border War
· Freedom Fighters and the ‘Boys’ on the Border
· Inside South Africa: Police Officers, SANDF Forces, and Jeering Masses
· Right-Wing Racist Murderers
· How many non-whites were killed from 1948-1994 — a period of 46 years?
· Insurgents such as Robert McBride and “The People’s War”
· The Underhanded “Third Power” at work in South Africa
· The Truth About Youth Day, 16 June 1976
· Communist comrades Continue their Murderous Methodology
· Why did Mandela go to, and stayed in jail?
· What really happened at Sharpeville?
· Arrests at the Jewish Liliesleaf Farm, Rivonia
· Mandela and his comrades had enough explosives to destroy the whole country
· A Tribute to Stompie Seipei/Moketsi; Murdered by Winnie Mandela’s Thugs
· Apartheid Torture Camp Vlakplaats
· Unmentioned AND Torture Camps in Neighboring Countries
· All South Africans Suffered – And the Holocaust Continues
· Genocidal Crime Replaced the ‘Struggle’
MASONIC SOCIETIES DISSEMINATE COMMUNISM AND WORLDWIDE SOCIALIST CONTROL
Masonic secret societies worldwide are intertwined and Cabalists, Illuminists, Freemasons, Bonesmen, etcetera, are all committed to the spirit [and teachings] of evolution, Marxism, “New Age humanism” – and racism. Clandestine societies pay close attention to the teachings of Aleister Crowley, writer of the satanic bible. Satanism is a blend of ancient Druidism, teachings of Golden Dawn, Black Magik, etcetera. “Son of Sam” killer Berkowitz said, “It is… totally blood oriented” and seated in ritual animal and human sacrifice. Satanism declares only one law, which all their schisms diligently follow, “Do what thou whilst is the whole of the law!”
Crowley, described by the press as “the most wicked man alive,” was a 33-degree mason. Nicolas Schreck is the son-in-law of Anton la Vey, (illuminati founder of the official church of Satan.) Nicolas displays the swastika, [the antichrist Nazi cross,] and the satanic pentagram above his altar. Schreck said, “National Socialism [Marxism] is one of the few times in history that humanity’s full potential has been released… [Socialist] Adolph Hitler was a picture of Antichrist, who used disorder to bring order, [the masonic ‘Ordö AB Chao,’ creed.] Hitler was a masterful black magician… We are seizing control of the world: the media, scientists… people in every field… People who have no shame and guilt, who work towards order in this world… [masonic/Nazi/communist disorder,] expressing itself in mass murder, and we encourage that. We have no concern for the masses…”
This declaration clarifies the unparalleled socialist-communist carnage, which, without much publicity or condemnation from the media, murdered some known 160 million civilians since World War Two, and is still dispossessing, dispersing, and eliminating millions more.
This global bloodshed and anarchy, unequalled in history, prove that masons and all their different branches, (racists, evolutionists, communists, and New Agers,) are all connected. [‘Aleister Crowley: freemason!’ Martin P. Starr; ‘Masonry and the 20th century Occult Revival,’ David Carrico.]
[Acknowledgement to those who compiled the images in this study]
ABOVE: High priest of the devil, Aleister Crowley, did not simply worship the devil in the church of Satan; he belonged to numerous secret societies simultaneously. In the photo on right, he gives the supreme sign of Baphomet, the goat god of masonic orders, and displays the masonic, pyramidal triangle, which represents the all-seeing eye of Lucifer; proving that secret societies are all entwined.
THE COMMUNIST CLENCH FIST SIGN AND THE RED COMMUNIST FLAG
Texe Marrs explained the insignia on the red communist flag in ‘Codex Magica,’ p. 566, “In all nations where communist politicians and insurgents operate, [they] identify themselves by making the sign of the clenched fist… [This] represents the rebellious attitude of… Babylon toward God…’ Martin Luther King called it the ‘black power’ salute, [though it has nothing to do with African people; it refers to Russian/Communist power.] It is known in Freemasonry [as] the First Sign, or Due-guard…
“The [Communist] Hammer represents [the phallic authority of the masonic Lodge...] The sickle is a universal symbol of the Grim Reaper, [death,] and its red star [represents] Lucifer… as ‘Angel of Light…’ The color Red has to do with Blood, ‘Will, and Power’ – which is satanic power.”
Ex-mason Stephen Knight stated an indisputable fact when he wrote, “Freemasonry is Marxism, and Marxism is freemasonry.” The Red Terror, [symbolized by the Red Flag,] implemented by Dzerzhinsky on September 5, 1918, was vividly described by the Red Army journal Krasnaya Gazeta: "Without mercy, without sparing, we will kill our enemies in scores of hundreds. Let them be thousands, let them drown themselves in their own blood. For the blood of Lenin and Uritsky … let there be floods of blood of the bourgeoisie – more blood, as much as possible…" - Wikipedia. During and after World War 2, the symbolical Unicorn and its Rainbow has been spreading its world-unifying wings (or Global Rainbow) through the communist creed, “Constant Revolution Globally!”
Since then, socialism, the workhorse of Marxism, has infiltrated the entire once affluent world, steadily stealing all wealthy colonial infrastructure to roll it into the laps of the new super-capitalists: the 1%-3% communists at the top. Billions of people worldwide have, and are still suffering immensely under socialism’s deadly guise of ‘liberation, equality, and [so-called] democracy.’
ALCHEMY ‘SCIENCE’ IS DARWIN’S EUGENICS (SELECTED RACE) OR RACIAL HYGIENE
True purpose of socialist mayhem: Darwin’s ‘evolving’ man into god
It is ludicrous to think that the entire creation happened ‘by chance,’ (which so-called scientists call “The Big Bang,”) and that millions of different species on earth created themselves over “millions of years” from a single cell that “accidentally” came to life. [See the article, ‘Creation Science – Kent Hovind teaches the Evolution Theory.’]
So, how did Darwin’s illogic, unproven evolution theory came in control of all the ‘science,’ biology, and even the religion and politics of the world?’ Answer: Through the global collaboration of masonic orders, disseminating the religion of anti-god, anti-christ, anti-creation evolution.
Phillip D. Collins wrote in ‘Engineering Evolution: The Alchemy of Eugenics,’ “[At] the turn of the [19th] century we witnessed the transformation of the elite's religious power structure into a "scientific [socialist/communist] dictatorship.” The history and background of this "scientific dictatorship" is a conspiracy, created and micro-managed through the historical tide of Darwinism, which has its foundations in freemasonry… Historians said that the alchemists of antiquity were attempting to transform lead into gold – [the ‘science’ of alchemy.] In truth, [alchemy] was a fiction promulgated… to conceal their real objectives - the transformation of man into god. Among one of the various occult organizations that aspired to complete this alchemical mission was freemasonry.”
Masonry is Marxism and now, spiritual evolution; thus they believe in racial hygiene
Masonic writer W.L. Willimshurst confirmed, “This, (the evolution of man into superman [or god] was always the purpose of the Ancient Mysteries, and the real purpose of modern masonry is not the social and charitable purposes to which so much attention is paid, but the expediting of the spiritual evolution of those who aspire to perfect their own nature and transform it into a god-like quality. “And this is a definite science, a royal art, which is possible for each of us to put into practice; whilst to join the [Masonry] Craft for any other purpose than to study and pursue this science is to misunderstand its meaning.” According to this alchemical mandate, humanity is a gradually developing deity requiring “scientific” assistance in its evolution.
Willimhurst continues, “The concept of evolution would be disseminated on the popular level as Darwinism was to become the absolute cornerstone of contemporary science.
“Before its popularization, evolutionary theory was the intellectual property of masonry. Mason Erasmus Darwin, Charles' grandfather, originated almost every important idea that has since appeared in evolutionary theory… (Darlington, p. 62, 1959.) Viewing evolutionary theory in conjunction with the ‘scientific’ mandate for man's [spiritual evolution into god] one inevitably recognizes a belief system that exhibits all of the characteristics of a religion… This emergent deity, Man, would be fully enthroned through the efforts of scientists themselves. Galton would reintroduce the concept of alchemy [turning man into god,] under the term ‘eugenics,’ [the so-called ‘science’ of purging races in the quest for a super god-race, which is what Hitler tried to do.] The word ‘Eugenics’ was derived from Greek for ‘well born.’”
Thus, all masonic evolutionists, as Nazi socialist/communists, “have no concern for the masses,” who are not ‘well born’ members of the [Aryan] god-race. Alan Chase explains, "Such thinking underpinned the racial policies of Nazi Germany, [and the thinking of EVERY other Masonic Nationalist-Socialist regime, which are merely] eugenic dictatorships edified by Darwinian evolution… Leonard Darwin, son of Charles, was vice-president of both the 1912 and 1921 International Eugenics Congresses. The first of these two meetings was the outgrowth of a 1911 gathering of the International Society for Racial Hygiene… That Germany, [as all other Nationalist-Socialist/Communist regimes] would see the full enactment of eugenical policies is hardly a coincidence.” - [Download a free copy of ‘Evolution Deceit,’ Yahya.]
Racism (the ‘science’ of Evolution’s Alchemy and Eugenics) is not Really About Color
Racism or eugenics is masonry, Marxism and evolution, and vice versa. Racism and Marxism, therefore, is not really about the color of skin. Racism is the alchemist belief of masonic societies that they belong to a superior or elite nation, culture, creed, political party, etc. Racism descends from the top-structure of the masonic, Darwinian pyramid. Ultimately, racism is about the alchemist belief of elitists that ‘undesirables,’ or those who do not belong to their religion or political party, are ‘useless eaters,’ and therefore the ‘superior god-race’ must lord over them. No matter the race, all ‘uninitiated, unenlightened’ ones are ‘unter mensche,’ [low-life,] and ‘cannon fodder,’ who can simply be sacrificed to ‘the communist cause’ as ‘casualties of war.’
All communists are racists – apartheid racism was socialism and Marxism too
After the National Party came to power in 1948 in South Africa, the Dutch Reformed, Afrikaner-Calvinist Broederbond, which came from the National Socialism and Nazism of masonic orders such as the old Ossewa Brandwag, controlled every sphere of South African life. The members of the Afrikaner Broederbond regime were all devout masons, as Denise Woods proved in her book, ‘Oes die Stormwind…’ (Nonetheless, I do not approve of her trashing of white Africans called “Afrikaners,” who did not know what their leaders did behind political and religious scenes.)
Mason/Illuminati Boer War general and Prime Minister of the old British Union of South Africa, Jan Smuts, was a self-declared New Age evolutionist. Naturally then, he was a communist and racist as well, because these beliefs form the inseparable dogma of masonic orders, which incorporate all race and creed. All these societies are links in the chain of worldwide socialism.
It is unrealistic to believe that the bastion of the apartheid regime, the Afrikaner Broederbond, all members of the Dutch Reformed Church, was an independent masonic branch. As masons, the apartheid regime could not really have been anti-communist.
Clandestinely, the apartheid regime led their citizens to believe they were fighting against the worldwide expansion of Marxism, while, from behind the scenes, they were bringing South Africa
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Rendani Sitholimela is the best overall student of the Vice-Chancellor’s Student Academic Excellence Awards
Following the Official Opening of the 2018 Academic Year was the Vice- Chancellor’s Student Academic Excellence Awards. The Vice-Chancellor’s Student Academic Excellence Awards took place on Thursday, 25 January 2017 at the University Auditorium.
Rendani Sitholimela displaying his certificates and trophies he received for his hard work
Rendani Sitholimela (21), a Computer Science and Information Systems third year student who hails from Tshedza, Nzhelele was awarded the best overall student in academic excellence for the year 2017.
Sitholimela said he always wanted to be the best student and make his family proud. He further stated that the thought of not disappointing his family kept him motivated. He advised other students to never give up. “Put all your mind to everything you do, then you will achieve the best results.” Sitholimela added that students should start believing in themselves and put efforts to what they do, then they will achieve their objectives. He said his dream is to become a software engineer.
Dr Robert Martin (Left) congratulating Rendani Sitholimela (middle) with Prof Jan Crafford (right)
The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) Operations who is also the Acting Vice Chancellor and Principal, Dr Robert Martin said that the award recipients deserve to be praised for having devoted most of their time in their studies. He added that it has become a Univen tradition to make the commencement of the academic year an event of celebrating student academic excellence. Dr Martin congratulated all the award recipients and encouraged those who could not make it this year to work harder in order for them to become recipients of these awards the following academic year.
More than 50 students with outstanding performance received excellence awards as part of the Vice-Chancellor’s Student Academic Excellence Awards.
Prof Nancy Mutshaeni giving the background of the awards and congratulating the awards recipients
Prof Nancy Mutshaeni, Director Centre for Higher Education Teaching and Learning gave the background of the Vice-Chancellor’s Student Academic Excellence Awards and congratulated all the award recipients. The Vice- Chancellor’s Student Academic Excellence Awards is intended to celebrate top academic student achievers to whom certificates, cash awards and trophies were presented. The Vice-Chancellor’s Student Academic Excellence Awards also aimed at promoting a culture of teaching and learning in the Schools through competition for the awards.
Best Performers per Category displaying their certificates and trophies awarded during the ceremony
Students who received the Vice-Chancellor ‘s Academic Excellence Awards
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RESCUE OF HOMELESS STARVING THIN BEAUTIFUL HUSKY PUPPY - More Hope For Paws On The Street
Share Maxie's story to help find her a new home, and support the efforts of dozens of animal rescues in Houston through the Operation Houston Fund: http://www.WA2S.org/donate
Did you know about the Puppy Crying App that's used in this video to help find puppies?
In the meantime, a beautiful mama Husky made an appearance. She came to see what we were doing on her street, but ran back down to the end of the court.
Kelle, seeing what a beautiful dog she was, called to her and I watched in amazement while the gorgeous Husky ran back up the road directly to Kelle! It was clear that mama Husky had recently had puppies as her teets were red and swollen.
Kelle was very concerned that she could have mastitis. We followed mama to the end of the court to see if Kelle could find her babies.
She used an app that plays puppies crying which has worked in the past to have a mama take Kelle to her puppies. She looked under cars and RV’s and in the bushes to no avail.
No puppies! Mama was howling as if in mourning for her puppies, whatever happened to them. It was heart-wrenching to hear.
This beautiful dog was not afraid of humans and was very interactive which could mean that she’d been dumped. She had been loved by someone, sometime in her life.
Could we not find where her puppies were hidden? Were they stolen, sold, or had died? This we did not know.
One thing Kelle did know is that she had to take this mama Husky to the vet and get her off the streets. Meet Maxie.
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Shop G & H, G/F Kai Tak Commercial Building 317-321 Des Voeux Road Central, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Pica Pica is a contemporary Spanish tapas bar led by Chef Edgar Sanuy. The name Pica Pica comes from the Spanish expression “a little bit of this, a little bit of that,” which refers to the tradition of enjoying a fun, casual meal that consists o
LKF29, Wyndham Street, Lan Kwai Fong, Hong Kong
Piccolo Pizzeria & Bar (Central)
Shop D, G/F, 12 Kau U Fong, Central, Hong Kong
Piccolo Pizzeria & Bar is an affordable, casual and relaxed neighborhood pizzeria. We want to be simply honest to “goodness”, serving thin-crusted Rome styled pizzas and hearty classic pastas. Our menu is short: a couple of salads and soups, a
Piccolo Pizzeria & Bar (Kennedy Town)
Shop 1E, Davis Street, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong
Piccolo Pizzeria & Bar (Tai Hang)
1 Wun Sha Street, Tai Hang, Hong Kong
20 G/F Wan King Path, Sai Kung Plaza, Sai Kung, Hong Kong
Piccolos serves good home style Italian food in a relaxed laid back environment. Located in the busy hustle and bustle of Sai Kung Square, Piccolos is the perfect spot to sit back and watch the Sai Kung community go about their business. Servin
Pici - Tsim Sha Tsui
Shop 10/11 & 12 GF, Block A Windsor Mansion 29 - 31 Chatham Rd South, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
Pici - Central
24-26 Aberdeen Street, Soho Central District, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong
Pici is your neighbourhood pasta bar, serving only freshly hand rolled pasta made daily. For straightforward food that is perfectly simple, we serve the best quality ingredients and dishes that are full of flavour and character. Real, down to earth I
Pici - Lai Chi Kok
Shop G03, G/F, D2 Place TWO, 15 Cheung Shun Street, Lai Chi Kok, Hong Kong
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Shop 251 – Phase One, New Town Plaza, Shatin, Hong Kong
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Pier 7 Café & Bar
Shop M, Roof Viewing Deck, Pier 7, Star Ferry, Central, Hong Kong
Located right on the waterfront of Victoria Harbour, Pier 7 commands spectacular display of the city colored-lights on the towering office buildings in Central and a relaxing alfresco area. This is the perfect pre-dinner or pre-theatre place for chil
25th Floor, Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, 5 Connaught Road, Central, Hong Kong
This stunning two-Michelin starred restaurant, situated on the 25th floor, is Pierre Gagnaire’s pied a terre in Hong Kong. It is here that diners can experience outstanding modern French cuisine in a stunning environment. With a culinary team le
PIIN Wine Restaurant
2/F Floor,The Steps, H Code, 45 Pottinger Street, Central, Hong Kong
Pinco & Pallino
G/F No. 6, Po Yan St, Sheung Wan, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
A Bottega with a simple eat and drink Meditteranean philosophy, continental breakfast, hearty lunches and Aperitivo dining at night all accompanied by good wines and traditional cocktails. This Bottega is also traditional in that you can buy yo
R/F (Rooftop), H Queens, 80 Queen’s Road, Central, Hong Kong
HONG KONG’S ROOFTOP GUINGUETTE Located atop H Queen’s, Piqniq by Le Comptoir is a rooftop dining terrace for the free spirited by day that transforms into a vibrant celebration under the stars. Introducing a whole new experience for drinki
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Set in a stunning location in the heart of Wan Chai, Pirata is an unexpected find, yet once there it’s hard to leave. With a feel of home, amongst friends, it’s a place people will crave to be, not only for the food but for the vibe that invites
Pizzeria Jacomax
Shop C, 88 Commercial Building, 38-42 Wing Lok Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Everything started with two Home-Sick Boy Jacopo, co-founder of Jacomax Pizzeria, started his career in his own gelato shop based out of Saikung in 2010 named BIBINI, crafting all home-made gelato on site, which gained him success and recognition
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September weather forecast and climate
Petawawa, Canada
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Average temperature in September
Average rainfall in September
Average rainfall days in September
Average snowfall in September
Average snowfall days in September
Average daylight in September
Average sunshine in September
The first month of the autumn, Septiembre, is also an enjoyable month in Petawawa, Canada, with average temperature varying between 19°C (66.2°F) and 6°C (42.8°F).
In Petawawa, the average high-temperature drops, from a moderately hot 24.5°C (76.1°F) in Agosto, to a comfortable 19°C (66.2°F). In Petawawa, in Septiembre, the average low-temperature is 6°C (42.8°F).
In Petawawa, it is raining for 14 days, with typically 78.9mm (3.11") of accumulated precipitation. Throughout the year, in Petawawa, there are 110.9 rainfall days, and 616.2mm (24.26") of precipitation is accumulated.
Enero through Mayo, Septiembre through Diciembre are months with snowfall in Petawawa. Septiembre is the first month it typically snows. Throughout Septiembre, in the average 0.2 snowfall days, it receives 1mm (0.04") of snow. Throughout the year, in Petawawa, there are 69.3 snowfall days, and 2286mm (90") of snow is accumulated.
In Septiembre, the average length of the day in Petawawa is 12.5h.
In Petawawa, the average sunshine in Septiembre is 5h.
What is the temperature in Septiembre in Petawawa?
In Septiembre, in Petawawa, the average high-temperature is 19°C (66.2°F), and the average low-temperature is 6°C (42.8°F).
How much does it rain in Petawawa in Septiembre?
In Petawawa, in Septiembre, during 14 rainfall days, 78.9mm (3.11") of precipitation is typically accumulated.
When does it start snowing in Petawawa?
Septiembre is the first month it typically snows in Petawawa. Throughout Septiembre, in the average 0.2 snowfall days, it receives 1mm (0.04") of snow.
How many hours of daylight does Petawawa have in Septiembre?
In Petawawa, Canada, the average length of the day in Septiembre is 12.5h.
How long on average sun shines in Septiembre in Petawawa?
In Petawawa, Canada, the average sunshine in Septiembre is 5h.
Average high temperature in September: 19°C
The warmest month (with the highest average high temperature) is July (26.3°C).
The month with the lowest average high temperature is January (-6.4°C).
Average low temperature in September: 6°C
The month with the highest average low temperature is July (11.8°C).
The coldest month (with the lowest average low temperature) is January (-19.1°C).
Average rainfall in September: 78.9mm
The wettest month (with the highest rainfall) is June (81.3mm).
The driest month (with the lowest rainfall) is January (7.6mm).
Average rainfall days in September: 14 days
The month with the highest number of rainy days is September (14 days).
The month with the lowest number of rainy days is February (2.3 days).
Average snowfall in September: 1mm
The month with the highest snowfall is December (595mm).
Months with the lowest snowfall are June, July and August (0mm).
Average snowfall days in September: 0.2 days
The month with the highest number of snowfall days is December (16.8 days).
Months with the lowest number of snowfall days are June, July and August (0 days).
Average daylight in September /
Average daylight in September: 12.5h
Average sunshine in September: 5h
The month with most sunshine is July (Average sunshine: 8.9h).
The month with least sunshine is December (Average sunshine: 2.1h).
Weather Atlas: Petawawa, Canada - September weather forecast and climate information. September weather forecast for Petawawa, Canada. The first month of the autumn, September, is still a comfortable month, with average temperature fluctuating between 6°C (42.8°F) and 19°C (66.2°F). [325199]
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Marriott International Signs Agreement With Grupo Hoteles Panamericano To Bring The Sheraton Hotels Brand To Patagonia Region
The 161-room hotel marks the first Marriott International property in Argentinean Patagonia
Buenos Airies – WEBWIRE – Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Marriott International announced that is has signed an agreement with Grupo Hoteles Panamericano to bring the iconic Sheraton Hotels brand to Bariloche, a major tourism center located in the foothills of the Argentinean Andes. Slated to debut in January 2022, the property is expected to feature 161 rooms after undergoing an extensive conversion.
Located in Bariloche’s city center atop an elevation with outstanding views to the Nahuel Huapi Lake, Sheraton Bariloche, currently branded as Hotel Panamericano Bariloche, is situated just steps from San Martín street- the destination’s buzzing entertainment center featuring a broad selection of bars and restaurants. Bariloche is renowned for skiing, trekking and mountaineering and is the most visited resort town in Argentinean Patagonia attracting two million visitors annually. In recent years, the destination has become the best kept secret for summer skiing with US travelers.
“We are thrilled to expand our portfolio to Patagonia- one of the most beautiful regions in Argentina,” said Laurent de Kousemaeker, Chief Development Officer, Caribbean and Latin America, Marriott International. “This signing further strengthens our strategic collaboration with Gotel Hotel Management to bring more choice to consumers in the Southern Cone.”
Sheraton Bariloche will be managed by Gotel Hotel Management under a franchise agreement. The Argentinean company was created to strategically collaborate with Marriott International to further expand the presence of Marriott brands in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Marriott International and Gotel recently announced the opening of Buenos Aires Marriott, a major achievement that brought the Marriott Hotels brand back to the country at an iconic location.
“We are thrilled to expand our relationship with Marriott International and bring the Sheraton brand to another key destination in Argentina,” said Marcelo Ubach, CEO, Grupo Hoteles Panamericano.
Currently, Marriott International operates eleven hotels in Argentina under the Sheraton Hotels, The Luxury Collection and Tribute Portfolio brands. The Sheraton Bariloche is expected to serve as the eighth Sheraton hotel in Argentina.
About Marriott International
Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) is based in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and encompasses a portfolio of more than 7,500 properties under 30 leading brands spanning 132 countries and territories. Marriott operates and franchises hotels and licenses vacation ownership resorts all around the world. The company offers Marriott Bonvoy™, its highly-awarded travel program. For more information, please visit our website at www.marriott.com, and for the latest company news, visit www.marriottnewscenter.com. In addition, connect with us on Facebook and @MarriottIntl on Twitter and Instagram.
About Sheraton Hotels & Resorts
Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, part of Marriott International, Inc., makes it easy for guests to explore, relax and enjoy the possibilities of travel at nearly 450 hotels in over 70 countries and territories around the world. Sheraton continues to enhance the brand through innovative guest experience, differentiating design, multi-channel marketing and a sharp focus on service. To learn more, visit www.sheraton.com. Stay connected to Sheraton on Facebook, and @sheratonhotels on Twitter and Instagram. Sheraton is proud to participate in Marriott Bonvoy™, the global travel program from Marriott International. The program offers members an extraordinary portfolio of global brands, exclusive experiences on Marriott Bonvoy Moments and unparalleled benefits including free nights and Elite status recognition. To enroll for free or for more information about the program, visit MarriottBonvoy.marriott.com.
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West Coast health professionals had the opportunity this week to provide insight for the president of the Australian Medical Association in South Australia (AMASA) Dr Chris Moy and chief executive officer Dr Samantha Mead about healthcare issues in the region. Dr Moy and Dr Mead met with doctors, health practitioners, local government and community leaders in Port Lincoln, Streaky Bay and Ceduna on Wednesday and Thursday. Streaky Bay Medical Clinic board chairperson Jonas Woolford contacted Dr Moy earlier in the year after he was appointed AMASA president and said he arranged for the visit to make him more aware of what was happening in the region. Dr Moy said the visit was a "show of support" for the region and that there was a serious problem across Eyre Peninsula which needed to be addressed. "My perception has been reinforced that there's a serious problem, and it is growing into a desperate situation," he said. "There is an abandonment of the health system, and a real unfairness which is leading to a situation where people are not getting health care, which is dangerous." Dr Moy said there was not an understanding in Adelaide of the difficulties Eyre Peninsula towns faced, citing the current situation at Streaky Bay as they hunt for a permanent doctor. "In the city people complain about waiting times and not being able to see their preferred doctor," he said. "In Streaky Bay they go to sleep without a doctor, and there has been incredible community commitment to bringing a doctor there. "In the city they complain about little things, but the community doesn't take responsibility like in country areas." Dr Moy said the Eyre Peninsula situation could not simply be blamed on the current state government, rather it was a "result of at least 15 years of system failure". He said funding and interaction with services had been "horrendous". Dr Moy said the model for recruiting doctors, and how doctors worked within country areas, had changed from the days of a community doctor being on call 24 hours a day for seven days. He said the government developing the Rural Health Workforce Strategy had promise, but would need progress from the planning phase. "The world has changed and there needs to be a different model as the one, 24/7 doctor doesn't happen anymore," he said. "I have said to the Health Minister there needs to be funding to implement the plan, and we need to see money spent. "They need to do the right thing by these communities, who are not getting what they deserve." Dr Moy said highlighting issues in regional areas was the first step, but bodies had to come together to resolve those issues. Mr Woolford said the visit would help drum up support for Eyre Peninsula, and Dr Moy would assist with any advice and support moving forward.
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Australian Medical Association in South Australia hears of Eyre Peninsula health issues
Luca Cetta
VISIT: Dr Chris Moy and Dr Samantha Mead of the Australian Medical Association in South Australia visited Port Lincoln, Streaky Bay and Ceduna this week to discuss the issues in the Eyre Peninsula health system. Picture: Luca Cetta
West Coast health professionals had the opportunity this week to provide insight for the president of the Australian Medical Association in South Australia (AMASA) Dr Chris Moy and chief executive officer Dr Samantha Mead about healthcare issues in the region.
Dr Moy and Dr Mead met with doctors, health practitioners, local government and community leaders in Port Lincoln, Streaky Bay and Ceduna on Wednesday and Thursday.
Streaky Bay Medical Clinic board chairperson Jonas Woolford contacted Dr Moy earlier in the year after he was appointed AMASA president and said he arranged for the visit to make him more aware of what was happening in the region.
Dr Moy said the visit was a "show of support" for the region and that there was a serious problem across Eyre Peninsula which needed to be addressed.
"My perception has been reinforced that there's a serious problem, and it is growing into a desperate situation," he said.
"There is an abandonment of the health system, and a real unfairness which is leading to a situation where people are not getting health care, which is dangerous."
Dr Moy said there was not an understanding in Adelaide of the difficulties Eyre Peninsula towns faced, citing the current situation at Streaky Bay as they hunt for a permanent doctor.
"In the city people complain about waiting times and not being able to see their preferred doctor," he said.
"In Streaky Bay they go to sleep without a doctor, and there has been incredible community commitment to bringing a doctor there.
"In the city they complain about little things, but the community doesn't take responsibility like in country areas."
Dr Moy said the Eyre Peninsula situation could not simply be blamed on the current state government, rather it was a "result of at least 15 years of system failure".
He said funding and interaction with services had been "horrendous".
Dr Moy said the model for recruiting doctors, and how doctors worked within country areas, had changed from the days of a community doctor being on call 24 hours a day for seven days.
He said the government developing the Rural Health Workforce Strategy had promise, but would need progress from the planning phase.
"The world has changed and there needs to be a different model as the one, 24/7 doctor doesn't happen anymore," he said.
"I have said to the Health Minister there needs to be funding to implement the plan, and we need to see money spent.
"They need to do the right thing by these communities, who are not getting what they deserve."
Dr Moy said highlighting issues in regional areas was the first step, but bodies had to come together to resolve those issues.
Mr Woolford said the visit would help drum up support for Eyre Peninsula, and Dr Moy would assist with any advice and support moving forward.
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Dr. Michael Williams
Dr. Williams grew up in New Braunfels, Texas and completed a 4 year tour of duty with the United States Coast Guard. After an honorable discharge he pursued a career in Upper Cervical Chiropractic because of the positive impact UCC care made on his own health.
The Patient Becomes the Doctor
You see Dr. Williams was a patient before he became the doctor. He too was suffering from a misaligned upper cervical neck. Causing chronic migraines and other health related issues. After receiving his first upper cervical correction, Dr. Williams immediately began receiving positive feedback from his body. He knew at that time he had found his calling, or had his calling found him?
Dr. Williams moved to Dallas where he received his doctorate of Chiropractic in 2008. Upon graduation he needed more specific training in the upper cervical field. He moved to Austin and began practicing and fine tuning his skills under one of the busiest and most successful Upper Cervical practices in the United States. Through extensive training and hard work he mastered the Upper Cervical technique of Orthospinology and in 2011 opened Williams Upper Cervical Chiropractic and Wellness Center in San Antonio. He is a certified Orthospinologist and is on the Advisory Board for Orthospinology.
Dr. Williams has spoken at, as well as emceed, the Orthospinology Annual Symposium for the last 5 years. He collaborates with local offices of Holistic Health Care and TMJ/TMD disorders to bring a natural health option through Upper Cervical care. His mission is to educate and inspire whole families to achieve optimal health and wellness with Upper Cervical Chiropractic.
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Novak Djokovic looked unbeatable as he destroyed Stan Wawrinka 6-3, 6-0 to show why nobody does it better. One more win will confirm his status as year-end world number one.
It was exhibition stuff from a man approaching the height of his powers, at peace with himself, but causing all kinds of turmoil in his opponents. Wawrinka, who won only seven points in the second-set bagel, had the air of a man who knew that he will never be in the same league as Djokovic, despite the odd success.
What we witnessed here was an indication that tennis can be taken to yet another level, just when we thought no greater excellence was possible. The one-sided nature of the contest was all the more shocking given what had gone before. They had started as near-equals, at least that’s the way it seemed. By the end, all Stan could do was smile in embarrassment.
Djokovic admitted: ”He started off pretty well but after that I managed to get back in, go through my shots and he made a lot of unforced errors. I focused on what I needed to do and I achieved that very well.’
Novak has been blessed with an even greater mental strength in recent weeks. He explained: ‘It’s been a different kind of feeling on court since I became a father, a different motivation and I hope my son can follow me at events like this in years to come. We all have dreams and aspirations that we hope we can achieve one day. Tennis was always one of the most important things in my life. Thank you to everyone for coming tonight.’
For Wawrinka, it was thank you and goodnight before he had time to find his rhythm. The contrast was so marked because he seemed to have rediscovered his best tennis in his opening match at the O2.
Fans had further reason to believe they were in for a scintillating contest when Djokovic started slowly. But it takes extraordinary self-belief to maintain any kind of consistent assault on Novak’s renowned defences. Shots that would be certain winners against other player are returned by Djokovic with interest. That can be soul-destroying, particularly after you have been given an early glimmer of hope.
Wawrinka looked fearless in the opening exchanges and pressured the world number one sufficiently to provoke two unforced errors, leading to a surprising break in the opening game. Similar defiance saw Wawrinka hold his first service game too – but that’s where his confidence began to evaporate.
Djokovic stepped up to take the next five games, breaking the Swiss twice in the process. Stan the Man took a third, consolation game – his last of the match – before Novak wrapped up the first set with ease. Suddenly it was almost as though the Serb had never been in any kind of trouble early on at all.
Even Wawrinka applauded his opponent’s delicate cross-court winner in the second game of the second set. When you are being outclassed by a genius, what else can you do? The crowd rose to its feet to try to inspire Wawrinka into some kind of comeback. We all knew it was nothing more than wishful thinking.
Earlier Tomas Berdych beat Marin Cilic 6-3, 6-1 to keep his hopes alive after being savaged by Wawrinka in his first match. ‘This was about winning and getting through,’ said Berdych, who is still far from where he wants to be, since Djokovic is his last group opponent. But at least he has more chance of progressing than Cilic, the US Open champion who has struggled to find any kind of form since his victorious fortnight at Flushing Meadows.
Last words must go to Djokovic. They form a simple description, yet one that perfectly conveys just what a nightmare Novak must be to play against. ‘I stayed calm. I played some high balls, played some slice, stepped in, short, long, not allowing him to have any rhythm. Just get him out of the comfort zone. Then he makes unforced errors. I tried to be aggressive on the second service return. Then I’m dictating. Then I’m comfortable. It’s a very mental game. I give myself ten out of ten for my first two matches here. It can’t get any better than this.’
The frightening thing is, it probably can. For Novak’s opponents, that signals one horror story after another for the foreseeable future. Anyone fancy taking on the world’s greatest player? No? Then come and watch him in action at Wimbledon 2015 instead. It might just be the most amazing thing you ever see in the world of sports.
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TNA to return to Universal Studios for series of TV tapings
TNA announced yesterday that the company is returning to Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, for five days worth of tapings in February, and then back in March and April for seven more days for Impact.
TNA will tape a total of nine events over five days at Backlot Stage 20 inside the popular theme park between Thursday February 12 and Monday February 16. Eight One Night Only PPV specials will be taped as well as matches for Xplosion. For February 12, the cameras start rolling at 7PM while for all the other days it will be six hours of straight tapings between 1PM and 7PM each day.
Doors to Universal Studios Stage 20 will open one hour before the listed show time. Entry to the venue, which is free of charge, is first come first seated.
In March TNA will tape episodes of Impact at Universal on the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th and then again on April 23rd, 24th, and 25th. Usually the company tapes two back-to-back episodes of Impact on each day.
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The Los Angeles police scandal and its social roots
Part 1 of a series
Don Knowland, Gerardo Nebbia
Substantially more information has been made public in the Los Angeles Police Department corruption and frame-up scandal. News reports have revealed a widespread pattern of unjustified arrests, beatings, drug dealing, witness intimidation, illegal shootings, planting of evidence, frame-ups and perjury at the CRASH unit of the Rampart Division of the LAPD.
CRASH is the acronym for the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, an anti-gang program the LAPD implemented over a decade ago. The Rampart Division covers an eight square-mile area, just west of downtown, which is largely working class, heavily immigrant and densely populated.
LAPD officer Rafael Perez joined Rampart CRASH in 1996. In 1998 Perez was arrested for stealing eight pounds of cocaine, valued at a million dollars, from the Rampart evidence locker. In 1999 Perez began to cooperate in giving evidence against his former associates in the hope of receiving a reduced sentence on the cocaine theft charge. On February 24, 2000 Perez received a five-year prison term on the cocaine theft charges, but he is expected to stay in jail only a little over a year more, given time served and credit for good behavior.
Investigators from a task force put together by the LAPD and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office logged over 50 hours of interviews with Perez over the last six months. Two Los Angeles Times reporters undertook an investigation of the scandal, and bits and pieces of Perez's story began to emerge.
Last month the Los Angeles Times published many of the revelations from 2000 pages of Perez's testimony. The law-breaking activity among police was so pervasive that the Times concluded: “An organized criminal subculture thrived within the LAPD, where a secret fraternity of anti-gang officers and supervisors committed crimes and celebrated shootings.”
Among the most chilling revelations concern outright police murders or attempted murders. In 1996 CRASH officer Kulin Patel shot Juan Saldana when he was running down an apartment hallway. Patel and his partner then planted a gun on Saldana after he went down. When the CRASH supervisor, Sergeant Edward Ortiz, arrived, he delayed calling an ambulance so the officers could concoct a cover story. Saldana bled to death by the time he arrived at the hospital.
In another incident CRASH officers fired 10 rounds at Carlos Vertiz, a 44-year-old man with no criminal record, after they mistook him for a drug dealer. To justify the shooting, officers then planted a shotgun near the dying Vertiz which they claimed he had pointed at them.
In 1996 Perez and his partner Nino Durden shot 19-year-old Javier Ovando in the chest and head and then planted a gun on him. Ovando received a draconian 23-year prison sentence because he would not show contrition. In fact, he was innocent. Ovando was released last year, after serving two years. As a result of his injuries he is now confined to a wheelchair.
On New Year's eve 1996, Rampart CRASH officers opened fire on and wounded two holiday revelers, afterwards arresting them on trumped-up charges. The officers then rehearsed the story that they had fired in self-defense, claiming the revelers had fired guns in the officers' direction. One unnamed officer has reportedly told his attorney that the CRASH cops were out “hunting” that night, that is, looking for people to ambush in sport.
Perez told investigators the lengths to which Rampart officers and their supervisors went to cover up bad shootings. In one instance, a rookie patrol officer shot a man when he opened a closet during a search and was startled to see the man inside. When the rookie's supervisor arrived at the scene he decided the rookie should say the man was holding a mirror, causing him to see his own reflection with a gun and open fire, thinking he had encountered an armed suspect.
Officer Melissa Town shot at a youth who was sitting with a group of friends by a park and then ran when she accosted him. When her supervising sergeant arrived, he pulled a 5-1/2 inch piece of chrome from the bumper of a nearby car and instructed Town that she should say the suspect had pointed it at her.
Organizing the cover-up
Perez has also explained how Department shooting investigation procedures were easily thwarted. Those procedures require local area brass plus a specialized team of detectives from the Robbery-Homicide Division to “roll out” to each officer involved shooting (OIS) scene. The report by the OIS team is relied on by the police chief and the police commission to determine whether a shooting was in or out of policy, justified or not.
According to Perez, the shooting officers' immediate local supervisors typically arrive at the scene first. The supervisors are supposed to preserve the scene and segregate the involved officers so that the OIS team can interview them separately before the officers have a chance to confer and agree on a story. Instead, investigators were diverted from the scene until the involved officers and their immediate supervisors had a chance to come up with and iron out a cover story. Typically Rampart CRASH officers used secret radio codes to accomplish this—they would create a diversion to delay the investigation, such as claiming that other suspects were involved and on the loose.
Not surprisingly, all the dirty shootings related by Perez were found by the Chief of Police to be carried out “in policy,” although in some cases the officers involved were required to receive additional training so that they did not unnecessarily expose themselves to danger in the future. In other words, the LAPD was concerned with the health of the perpetrators of the shootings, not the fate of their victims.
Rampart CRASH officers routinely planted drugs, guns or other evidence on arrestees, or fabricated probable cause—the constitutional prerequisite to search or arrest someone. Many of the victims whose democratic rights were flagrantly violated were innocent of any crime.
These frame-ups sometimes took on a wholesale character. Perez has related an occasion when officers rousted a party where several dozen gang members were ordered to their knees with their hands behind their backs. Officer Brian Hewitt then walked down the line, randomly dictating which youth would be charged with which imaginary crime.
CRASH officers routinely and arbitrarily punched, kicked, choked and otherwise beat suspects or bystanders. At times beatings were a response to suspected infractions committed against officers. For example, the slashing of an officer's tires resulted in officers driving around the neighborhood, indiscriminately beating youth. On another occasion a gang member suspected of slashing a tire was roughed up and then dropped, stripped of any clothing, into rival gang territory.
Many times the beatings were simply for harassment or sadistic pleasure. One youth was shot repeatedly with a bean bag gun purely for amusement. Officer Brian Hewitt routinely beat handcuffed suspects, preferring administering beatings to bothering with booking procedures and reports.
Hewitt was eventually fired in 1998 for grabbing Ismael Jimenez by the neck at the station where all could see, shoving him against a wall and hitting him repeatedly in the chest and abdomen with his fists. The evidence indicates that Jimenez was beaten because the mother of another alleged gang member filed a complaint against other officers who beat her son. Despite serious injury to Jimenez, district attorney prosecutors, citing a lack of evidence, have twice declined to file charges against Hewitt.
Another suspect was used as a human battering ram against a target drawn on a wall because he said he did not know anything about a gun officers were seeking. The young man told investigators that his head was pushed through the plaster and was pierced by splinters from the wooden studs inside the wall.
Officer Hewitt's partner Daniel Lujan beat a youth at the end of a foot pursuit, badly injuring the suspect's knee. When the supervisor arrived at the scene Lujan admitted he had no reason for the beating. The supervisor instructed Lujan to book the man anyway on a drug charge. On another occasion Lujan dislocated a handcuffed suspect's elbow for sport.
LAPD procedures normally require filling out a use of force report when force is used. Perez related how officers routinely fabricated elaborate stories in their reports. For example, a man was sitting on a bench when officers suddenly approached, handcuffed and threw him to the floor, and began kicking his head and body. According to the report the officers filed the man injured himself when he jumped out of a third floor window head first. Police supervisors rubber-stamped this tall tale.
CRASH officers also took revenge on anybody who complained to the LAPD about their methods, or who tried to interfere with their attempts at framing up people. Alex Sanchez, who heads a local group that attempts to help youth to leave gangs, came forward as an alibi witness for Jesus Rodriguez, a 15-year-old accused of a fatal double shooting by CRASH officers. In retribution, a CRASH officer attempted to arrange Sanchez's deportation so he could not testify and clear Rodriguez.
In fact, the close cooperation between Rampart CRASH officers and the US Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport witnesses or others against whom police charges did not stick has become a key aspect of the scandal. In order to promote cooperation by immigrants as witnesses, LAPD regulations have long prohibited turning them over to immigration. CRASH officers routinely ignored that prohibition with impunity.
A social club for uniformed thugs
Perez has also told investigators about the social aspects of this virtually paramilitary unit. CRASH officers often got together at a bar near Dodger Stadium to drink and celebrate shootings. Supervisors handed out plaques to shooters, containing red or black playing cards. Killing was more prestigious than wounding, meriting black as opposed to red cards on the plaque. At least one Rampart lieutenant attended one of these celebrations.
Rampart officers also wore tattoos of the CRASH logo, a skull with a cowboy hat surrounded by poker cards depicting the “dead man's hand,” aces and eights. Other CRASH units wore similar tattoos. CRASH paraphernalia, with this logo, is still for sale at the LAPD gift shop.
An officer could not join Rampart CRASH without a reliable “sponsor” to vouch for the officer's “character.” Officers who had worked with the prospective initiate were contacted to find out if the candidate was too “by- the-book,” that is, undesirable for initiation. A “solid” or “stand-up” candidate was someone who bent the rules—planting evidence, falsifying probable cause to arrest and committing perjury in court testimony.
Once in the unit, the officer's conduct was closely monitored to make sure he or she could be trusted to be “in the loop.” Once in, the officers were trained in CRASH methods, such as planting weapons. The job of CRASH supervisors “in the loop” was to protect the CRASH line officers from investigation by higher-ups of their misdeeds.
Perez's revelations directly involve 30 Rampart CRASH officers and at least three of their supervisors. The investigation has already resulted in 20 officers being fired or relieved of duty. Criminal convictions have been overturned in 30 cases; at least 70 more are under investigation. LAPD Chief Bernard Parks has called for the dismissal of charges against another 99 defendants in 57 cases. The County District Attorney's Office concedes that the number of cases tainted by the Rampart officers under suspicion may run into the hundreds, if not the thousands. Significantly, in the vast majority of these cases, the victims of police frame-up confessed rather than take their chances in the court system.
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Firearms History, Technology & Development: Testing Firearms: Proof Test
The specification lays down shot size and hardness, the number of proof rounds to be fired through each barrel and the pressure to be generated at 25mm and mm. A special "Steel Shot" proof mark will be stamped on each barrel of such weapons that have successfully been proved.
Reproof, or the further test of a gun after its original proof, may be necessary for a variety of reasons, of which the main ones are:. If mishandled or neglected, a gun may be damaged or weakened, even in a short period of service. In such circumstances work necessary to return it to serviceable condition, may render invalid the original proof marks.
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Indications of weakness may only be apparent to those trained to recognise them. For that reason, inspection of guns by a gunmaker, at regular intervals, is recommended, and advice to submit for reproof should be followed without delay to avoid undue risk of personal injury.
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Guns are submitted to reproof at the owner's risk and the gunmaker is entitled to payment for his work, regardless of the result of proof. Guns will not be accepted for reproof, if it is the decision of the gunmaker that they are not in a fit condition to be proved. Any individual may submit arms for proof or reproof direct to either of the two Proof Houses, but it is more usual, and generally more satisfactory for all concerned, that arms be submitted through a gun dealer.
Primarily this is because the majority of old guns require attention prior to proof. Proof Regulations require that shotgun barrels shall be "struck up" and smooth and that insides shall be clean. Pitting should be removed so far as is practicable, bulges knocked down and dents raised. Actions should be in good safe working order and tight on the face to resist the increased strain of proof pressure.
Since stocks, and particularly those with unusual "bend" or "cast", are not designed to withstand the heavy recoil of proof, it is customary for the wood to be removed. Indeed, the Proof Houses do not accept responsibility for damage to stocks resulting from proof. It will be apparent that to fulfil these requirements, the preparation necessary will best be undertaken by a gunmaker who is accustomed to submitting to proof.
In the event of a proof rejection, or failure to withstand the proof test, guns may be repaired and resubmitted. It is unlawful for a weapon to be sold with defaced proof marks, except where later reproof marks have been impressed. It is recommended that such guns be deactivated, so as to ensure that it can never be used by some person unaware of its unproved condition. Up to there was provision only for the proof of guns for black powder; but by that time the use of smokeless or nitro powders was commonplace.
In that year a proof to cover their use, supplementary to definitive proof, was introduced. The service load of the powder intended for use, i. Under the Rules, proof to cover the use of nitro powders was still supplementary to the ordinary proof for black powder, but the words "Nitro Proof" were introduced as a proof mark.
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The NP marks were introduced in but the nitro proof test remained optional until , when new Rules of Proof made it obligatory. By that time most gunmakers had been voluntarily submitting their guns to nitro proof for many years. Except on guns proved since February the NP marks were always used in conjunction with the words "Nitro Proof". The black powder proof marks remain valid, and a gun bearing them may still legally be used with black powder cartridges, provided it has not undergone any alteration taking it out of the category and state in which it was originally proved.
Such alterations include conversion to ejector, rebrazing the lumps, increasing the depth of the chambers to take a longer cartridge or the enlargement of barrels beyond certain defined limits. A gun, through neglect or misuse, may become unsafe even in a short time, and a gun made over fifty years ago may be extremely dangerous.
Shooters are therefore urged most strongly to buy only guns bearing the marks of nitro proof and not to permit the use of nitro or smokeless cartridges in any black powder gun already in their possession, until it has passed the nitro proof. If owners wish to use such guns with nitro powders, they should send them to their makers, other gun firm or gunmaker for advice, estimate for preparation in accordance with the Rules of Proof, the carrying out of such work, and submission for nitro proof.
The charges involved must of course be paid whether or not a gun passes the proof test, but it is better that any weakness be revealed at the Proof House rather than in the field. Muzzle-loading and black powder proved guns may be reproved for black powder. It will hardly be necessary to point out to members of the gun trade that neither their own interests nor those of their customers can be served by the sale of black powder guns which may have become dangerous.
For many years some firms have not sold black powder guns and, in addition, will not do any work to such weapons except preparation for and submission to proof. Such a policy may not be possible in all cases, but apart from any question of legal liability for repairs carried out, it is urged that there is a heavy moral responsibility to point out the age and condition of any of these veteran guns before accepting them for repair.
Care should be taken in accepting small arms for sale, because under the Gun Barrel Proof Acts of to , it is an offence to sell or offer for sale by auction or otherwise, any small arm, i. Caveat emptor does not apply if the arm is unproved. It must be emphasised that the sale of unproved arms between auctioneers and registered gunsmiths or dealers, is as much an offence under the Act as is the more obvious offence of selling an unsafe and unproved gun to a member of the public.
All arms made in Great Britain are proved and marked at either the London or Birmingham Proof Houses prior to sale to the public. Valid proof marks of certain other countries with which reciprocal agreements are in force, also legalise sale in this country. All ex-military arms proofed by the Government Arsenals must pass the civil proof tests, prior to sale to the public. Following privatisation of small arms manufacturers in , all small arms were subject to proof by the British Proof Authorities and do not require reproof.
There is no provision in Proof Regulations to permit the sale of unproved arms as ornaments, nor is there any exemption for antiques. Used small arms, particularly shotguns, may appear properly proved and marked, but may have been weakened and the proof marks rendered invalid, by enlargement of the bore to remove rust or pitting or by other material alterations. This is not uncommon. Special equipment and knowledge of the subject are necessary to determine whether proof marks are valid or otherwise.
The advice of the Proof Authorities as to the disposal of guns bearing proof marks, where barrels are beyond repair, and it is understood that this is already the practice in many auction sales specialising in arms , is that the stock, action and fore-end may be sold, but the barrels may not. A certificate is available, on payment, from either Proof House for guns which are not to be used, as for example antiques or collectors items, which cannot be proved, as where no ammunition is available.
An increasing number of complaints is being received, of the unlawful sale of small arms at auction - at times in condition dangerous to the user. Recommendation is made that auctioneers take expert advice before offering small arms for sale. The Proof House will give every reasonable assistance but must warn that they will institute proceedings where offences are considered to justify such action. The auctioneer, the owner of the arm and the person submitting the arm to auction bear equal responsibility at law.
The purchase of a second hand shotgun involves somewhat similar risks to those incurred in the buying of a second hand motor-car, or an expensive second hand watch. To suggest that one should go to a reputable gunsmith or dealer and buy the best gun one can afford may be sound advice, but it is cold comfort to those who really cannot afford a good second hand gun or to those who may be tempted to purchase a second hand gun from an acquaintance, in the market place, at auction or sale room or even at the local tavern. When contemplating the purchase or sale of a used gun, check must be made that the proof marks remain valid.
Proof marks indicate the soundness of the gun when it was last proved , but the gun may have been so altered that it is unproved in its present state, although the proof marks remain. The incidence of VAT on new guns added to their already high cost. This has placed a premium on the better class of second hand guns so that there are many cheaper, old guns being offered for sale, which in more normal times, would have been considered past further service. Where purchase is contemplated from sources other than reputable gunmakers, gunsmiths or dealers, it is suggested that the gun be submitted to a reputable gunmaker for report on its condition prior to completion of the transaction.
However, the Proof House should not be expected to advise as to mechanical condition, quality or value. Section 1 3 of the Firearms Act , as amended by Section 2 of the Firearms Amendment Act , defines the types of smooth bore guns which may be held on a shotgun certificate. It includes a smooth bore gun which has been adapted to have a non detachable magazine, incapable of holding more than two cartridges.
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In such a case the magazine must bear a mark approved by the Secretary of State, and the adaptation must be certified in writing, by the London or Birmingham Proof House, as having been carried out in a manner approved by him. This adaptation is carried out on pump-action and semi-automatic, large magazine shotguns which, prior to the above Act, could have been legally held on a shotgun certificate. Unless the required adaptation is carried out, these weapons can now only be held on a firearms certificate. The following show those proof marks, approved by the Secretary of State under Section 1 3A of the Act, for denoting that guns have been so adapted.
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Section 8 of the Firearms Amendment Act provides that a firearm which has been certified by one of the Proof Houses as having been deactivated in a manner approved by the Secretary of State, and marked to that effect, shall no longer be regarded as a firearm. Firearms so deactivated and proof marked, are no longer subject to any of the conditions or controls contained in any of the Firearms Acts or Rules. The following show those proof marks, approved by the Secretary of State under Section 8 of the Firearms Amendment Act , for denoting that guns have been so deactivated. The information within these pages form a small extract of the services available from the two Proof Houses.
Advice on the following matters is also available:. A comprehensive booklet is also available, at a small charge, on the "Proof of shotguns and other small arms". Your First Vintage Gun.
Why have proof laws? Proof marks from a pin-fire showing marks; the first time the bore was stamped at proof. This gun shows proof marks only used between and Proof marks will sometimes be found on the tubes like this, but more commonly on the flats. These marks show proof marks. Birmingham nitro proof under rules. London nitro proof under rules Post proof Birmingham proof under rules.
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Experiencing the merging of the past into the present in Chiang Mai where locals are proud of the city’s 700-year history. Its rich traditional heritage and unique culture is a perfect foundation for the development of the city. Chiang Mai is one of the few places in Thailand where it is possible to find in the heart of the city centuries-old chedis and temples next to modern convenience stores and boutique hotels. The original city layout still exists as a neat square surrounded by a moat with vestiges of the fortified wall and its four main gates offering prime access to the old town. For years, tourists have mistaken Chiang Mai as the northern junction and the base from which they can explore other provinces. The phrase "a day in Chiang Mai is enough to see things around" was common. Today, tourists are surprised by the fact that there is always something new to discover Chiang Mai. Intriguing diversity among ethnic tribes coupled with breathtaking scenery makes Chiang Mai one of Asia’s most attractive tourist destinations. Two weeks in Chiang Mai may not be long enough for serious travelers.The old city of Chiang Mai with its fascinating indigenous cultural identity such as diverse dialects, cuisine, architecture, traditional values, festivals, handicrafts and classical dances is a prime location in its own right. In addition, the presence of hill tribes and their wealth of unique cultures enhance Chiang Mai’s distinctive diversity.Chiang Mai is also blessed with pristine natural resources of mountains (dois), waterfalls, and other nature-based tourist attractions. At the same time, Chiang Mai residents are warm, gracious and congenial providing authentic hospitality making visits memorable and meaningful. Moreover, visitors from all walks of life can collect handicrafts of silk, silver and wood produced locally as timeless souvenirs. Chiang Mai is a place where both backpackers and luxury tourists can enjoy themselves to the fullest.
The Past Chiang Mai literally means new city and has retained the name despite having celebrated its 700th anniversary in 1996. King Meng Rai founded the city as the capital of the Lanna (A Million Rice Fields) Kingdom on Thursday, 12th April 1296 during the same period of time as the establishment of the Sukhothai Kingdom. King Meng Rai the Great conferred with his friends, King Ramkhamhaeng of Sukhothai and King Ngam Muang of Phayao before choosing the site where the capital of the Lanna Kingdom was to be founded. From then, Chiang Mai not only became the capital and cultural core of the Lanna Kingdom, it was also the centre of Buddhism in northern Thailand. King Meng Rai himself was very religious and founded many of the city’s temples, which are still important today.At the height of its power, the Lanna Kingdom extended its territory far into Burma and Laos, and southwards to Kamphaeng Phet a province above Sukhothai. The Burmese conquered the Lanna Kingdom in 1556 ending the dynasty founded by King Meng Rai that lasted over 250 years. As Burma had occupied Chiang Mai for nearly 200 years, Burmese architectural influences are visible in many temples. At the end of the 18th century, King Taksin the Great regrouped the Thais in the south and finally drove the Burmese out with the help of King Kawila of Lampang thereby regaining Thai independence from Burma. Chiang Mai was then governed by a succession of princes who ruled the north as a Siamese protectorate under the Chakri dynasty. In the late 19th century, King Rama V appointed a high commissioner in Chiang Mai and it was only in 1939 that Chiang Mai finally came under the direct control of the central government in Bangkok the same time the country was renamed Thailand.In the past, Chiang Mai was only accessible by river and elephants. More convenient access was achieved only when the railway line was completed in the late 1920’s. Moreover, the first motor vehicle driven directly from Bangkok arrived in Chiang Mai in 1932. Such isolation was more favorable to Chiang Mai as it helped to nurture and preserve the unique Lanna culture.When we look at Chiang Mai today, it is the economic, cultural and communications hub of northern Thailand complete with excellent infrastructure, good roads, by passes and road tunnels, and reliable communications infrastructure.
The SettingChiang Mai, with an altitude of approximately 310 meters above sea level, is situated approximately 700 kilometers from Bangkok on the Mae Ping River basin. Surrounded by high mountain ranges, the city covers an area of approximately 20,107 square kilometers and is the country’s second largest province. Chiang Mai borders Myanmar on the north, Lamphun and Tak Provinces on the south, Chiang Rai, Lampang and Lamphun Provinces on the east and Mae Hong Son Province on the west. The terrain is mainly comprised of jungles and mountains, which are home to the hill tribes. In addition, wildlife and exotic flora may be found in the national parks.Most of Chiang Mai’s mountains are oriented from north to south. Together they create a multitude of streams and tributaries including Mae Chaem, Mae Ngat and Mae Klang. One of Chiang Mai’s distinctive features is Doi Inthanon, Thailands highest peak, which is 2,575 meters above sea level. In addition, the province boasts flat, fertile valleys, which spread along the banks of the largest and most important river in Chiang Mai Mae Nam Ping (Ping River) which originates from the Chiang Dao mountain range.
List of Temples in chiang mai
Wat Bup Pha Ram
Wat Chedi Luang
Wat Jet Yod
Wat Phra Singh
Wat Phra Thad Sri Chom Thong
Wat Phra Thad Doi Suthep
Wat Umong
Wat Chiang Man
Wat Jao Mangrai
Wat Rampoeng (Tapotharam)
Wat Chai Mongkol
Wat Duang Dee
Wat Loi Kroh
Wat Dab Pai
Wat Chiang Yuen
Wat Ku Tao
Wat Saen Fang
Wat Pa Pao
Wat Chang Kong
Wat U-Sai Kam
Wat Ku Kam or Wat Chedi Liam
Wat Pra Buddha Ern
Wat Phrathat Doi Kam
Wat Phra thad Doi Noi
Wat Thatom
Wat Doi Mae Pang
Wat Suan Dok
Wat Lok Molee
Wat Srisuphan
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Notice on Online Application for Health Declaration Certificate for Non-Chinese Nationals
Starting from November 28th 2020, non-Chinese nationals who are to fly to China from the United Kingdom need to apply for Health Declaration Certificate online. <?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
The Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom, as well as the Chinese Consulates-General in Manchester, Edinburgh and Belfast, will no longer accept applications for Health Declaration Certificate via email.
Non-Chinese nationals could access the Health Declaration Certificate system on PC, mobile phone or other terminals to fill in the information, declare the health conditions and upload tests reports (instructions on how to use the platform are detailed below). After the Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom, or the Chinese Consulate-General in Manchester, Edinburgh or Belfast, examines and approves the application, the passenger will receive an electronic Health Declaration Certificate via the online system, which is a green QR code marked with "HDC". Passengers must present the green QR code with the "HDC" mark to the airline staff for verification before checking-in.
Annex: Operation guide of the Health Declaration Certificate system
1. Please visit the login page (https://hrhk.cs.mfa.gov.cn/H5/) with PC or scan the QR code with smart phone (see the picture below).
2. Click "En" in the upper right corner to switch to English version (see the picture below).
3. After registering an account with your email address, please log in to fill in the information, declare
the health conditions and upload the negative PCR nucleic acid test and IgM anti-body test results,
the information page of the passport, the itinerary, and visa page.
4. The Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom, or the Chinese Consulate-General in Manchester, Edinburgh or Belfast, will review the documents and issue the Health Declaration Certificate via the same online system, which will be in the form of a green QR code with an "HDC" mark.
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Ulcerate's 'Stare into Death and Be Still' Is a Pensive Evolution of Their Tech Death Sound
By Jack Kelleher
Ulcerate are one of those technical death metal bands that inspire debates about whether or not they're a technical death metal band. The Auckland, New Zealand, trio eschew genre clichés for cathartic big-brain riffs in the vein of Gorguts and Deathspell Omega. Experiencing their music at their best is like hearing a lecture on Nietzsche while playing Dark Souls on drugs. For many, their first taste of that was the band's 2009 sophomore album, Everything Is Fire, unmatched in their discography until 2016's Shrines of Paralysis.
Stare into Death and Be Still is not only the latest album from the band, but also an ideal follow up to Shrines. Rather than trying to match the aggression that made its predecessor so powerful, Ulcerate dial it back on Stare, resulting in an album that's more melodic, melancholic and mature. If Shrines was a bomb going off, then Stare is the ashen aftermath, adding shades of black metal and sludgy post-metal to the band's palette of tech death. You hear it right from the start in the grating guitars and grim melodies of album opener "The Lifeless Advance." "Exhale Ash" and "Drawn into the Next Void" carry on that blackened sound, but there's also an epic side to this album, with sullen head boppers like "Inversion" and the title track.
There are several clean sections that help develop the album's ambience as well, but it's Paul Kelland's anguished growls that really drive it home. This album is still tech death at heart, however, and drummer Jamie Saint Marent ensures you don't forget it. The drums on Stare are consistently spectacular, whether it's the groovy double bass work in "Visceral Ends" or the syncopated cymbals in the clean intro of "Dissolved Orders." While the melodic instruments may venture into moodier territory on this album, the drums keep it brutal and add their aggression to the composition. The only time the album really lags is "There Is No Horizon," which feels redundant and could have been trimmed away for a sleeker runtime.
Stare is a more pensive work than Ulcerate's previous albums, exploring a new side of an already adventurous band. Its big moments are more subtle than the immediate payoff of Everything Is Fire, and it demands repeat listens to fully appreciate it. (Debemur Morti)
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