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Star Wars: Episode IX' Director Colin Trevorrow Is Fired
Di: Michael Cavna
Letto da: Sam Scholl
On Tuesday, they announced the removal of Colin Trevorrow as director of “Star Wars: Episode IX.” The news comes just over two months after Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired as the directors of the stand-alone Han Solo film and replaced by Ron Howard.
"Star Wars: Episode IX' Director Colin Trevorrow Is Fired" is from the September 05, 2017 Comic Riffs section of The Washington Post. It was written by Michael Cavna and narrated by Sam Scholl.
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The Mill Cottage
United Kingdom, Oxfordshire
Walking distance to a village / town
The Mill Cottage is straight from a fairy tale built on the
banks of a river. Even though you can easily walk to the lively
village of Burford, one feels worlds away from it all. This idylic
setting is perfect for children to play all day and adults to sit
and read by the river bank. This house is characterised by its
combination of cosy english countryside decor and bohemian flare.
This creates a very relaxed environment echoed by the endless
greenery, streams and forests surrounding the property. The
Daylesford Spa, Farm shop and Restaurant are only 20 minutes
away.
5-10k /pw
Price based on 7 night stay. Property also available per night.
The property is a picturesque stone cottage set on the banks of a river close to the centre of Burford, Oxfordshire. Its charm appeals to families and friends wanting to get out of the city.
The house sits on an island surrounded by water. There is a 7 acre wood over the bridge. A shelter outside provides seating areas and table tennis and other children's games. The garden is full of hammocks, swings and outdoor seating areas. There is also a little rowing boat. The property also comes with an original Airstream trailer which can be used for outdoor camping adventure (there is no loo or shower).
On the ground floor of the house there is living room with exposed wooden beams, and an open fireplace, and a kitchen/breakfast room. There is also a downstairs cloakroom and boot room.
Staff and Dining
The property is fully self-catered. Housekeeping available on request at an extra cost. The owner can also provide numbers for a cleaning service and nanny agency.
On the first floor there is a hallway with a master bedroom and ensuite bathroom and a second double bedroom overlooking the gardens. There are also 2 single bedrooms with trundle beds off the hallway. They share a separate bathroom with bath and integrated shower. On the second floor there is a double attic bedroom with an ensuite bathroom.
Ensuite bathrooms for the master and attic bedroom, and a shared bathroom for the 2 single bedrooms.
Why Annabel loves this property
Avenue loves this charming family cottage in a magical river setting, walking distance to Burford.
Excursions / Interests
Daylesford Organic Farm
Daylesford is probably the most famous farm shop in Britain. A retail heaven of organic gorgeousness on the edge of the Cotswolds, it has grown over the past 10 years into something between a mall and a Japanese temple, selling not just food and produce, but clothing, gardening equipment, homeware, yoga classes and spa treatments.
Soho Farmhouse
Soho Farmhouse spans 100 acres of Oxfordshire countryside. It offers so many activities for families, including horse riding, gym, tennis courts, swimming pools and boating.
Mill house is walking distance to Burford. Burford’s famous High Street sweeps downhill towards the River Windrush, its three-arched medieval bridge and its impressive church, both sides of the street flanked by an unbroken line of ancient houses and shops. Burford is popular with visitors, both for its beauty and history but also for its shopping, especially antiques, and for the wide variety of places to eat, with restaurants, pubs and teashops.
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What Are the Possible Side Effects of Heparin?
What is heparin?
Heparin is an anticoagulant derived from animal mucosal tissues (typically from pigs) used to decrease the clotting ability of blood, preventing potentially harmful clots from forming in blood vessels. As for what is heparin used for, there are numerous treatment uses, including preventing clots during open heart surgery and kidney dialysis.
Is heparin used for anything else?
Although heparin is most often used in patients with blood clot-related health concerns, you may be familiar with heparin for another reason, as some cord blood banks use the anticoagulant in their collection bags.
The cells in the blood drawn from the umbilical cord can remain healthy and alive in transit to a lab facility for processing, but without an anticoagulant in the collection bag, the blood will clot, which may make processing impossible.
Are there risks involved with heparin uses?
Use of heparin to treat patients is largely considered a safe practice, but serious side effects can occur, including heavy bleeding and breathing issues. While rare side effects may be expected in a complicated treatment regimen, heparin also has a history of contamination and recall that is a cause for greater concern.
The most infamous case is the 2008 recall, when hundreds of people had adverse reactions, some fatal, because of poor quality control during manufacturing that led to contaminated products being shipped around the world.
But, that’s not the only heparin recall: despite tighter FDA regulation of quality control, there were further heparin product recalls in 2010 and 2015.
Of course, heparin that is unsafe to use in a living patient also poses a substantial risk in safe cord blood collection, processing, storage, and later use. With heparin being derived from animal tissues, the numbers of potential impurities are relatively large when compared with a wholly synthetic, laboratory-made compound.
Heparin can contain bacteria or viruses from the animal that can contaminate patients or cord blood, which prevents storage, forcing a family to miss the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bank their newborn’s stem cells. While there are, now, established guidelines to detect and identify impurities, the numerous incidents in the last few years incentivize finding other anticoagulants.
Are there better alternatives for cord blood banking?
Fortunately, there is another safer anticoagulant that is commonly used by cord blood banks — and this one is FDA-approved for that purpose. Citrate phosphate dextrose (or CPD) also prevents cord blood from clotting in the collection bag on the way to the lab for processing, without the risk of contamination or quality control associated with heparin.
CPD has a perfect safety record — just one batch of a CPD product was recalled in 2013, due to a labeling issue, with no potential for safety or contamination risk, as the CPD itself was not defective.
Not only is CPD safer, but it can also be more effective. According to leading hematologists, when heparin is used as an anticoagulant, blood can start to clot at 12 hours. This is typically long before processing can occur, increasing the odds of a poorly stored stem cell count, and limiting treatment opportunities.
These are all reasons why Americord uses CPD. It’s the safer, more consistently-effective method. We’re committed to helping people live healthier, longer lives, and that means seeking out the best practices to maximize our client’s investment in their newborn’s future.
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Streator Investments
We just announced that we’re investing over $3.5 million to improve operational efficiencies and enhance customer service to our service in Streator.
Illinois American Water’s Streator District is investing in a new operations and distribution facility. Construction on the new facility, which will be located on West Main Street in Streator, will begin this spring.
According to Jon Mase, operations superintendent for the Streator District, this investment of about $3.5 million will improve operational efficiencies and enhance customer service. “With the complex work we perform there’s a growing need for technology and training space as well as increased storage for tools and equipment. The new building will enhance our internal operations which will, as a result, support improved service to our customers,” said Mase.
The facility will be approximately 12,000 sq. ft. and will include an improved customer service area; expanded equipment storage and maintenance garage with five garage bays; and dedicated operations and maintenance areas.
Mase added that the new facility will “support employee safety.” He continued, “By improving efficiency, we help to prevent injury, and there’s nothing more important than ensuring our colleagues go home safe every day.”
Vissering Construction from Streator has been contracted to complete the construction. SUMAC, INC., a minority-owned firm, is the architect for this project. Construction is projected to be completed by the end of the year. For more information about Illinois American Water, visit www.illinoisamwater.com.
Illinois American Water Partners With Illinois Farmers to Prevent Over 29,000 Dry Tons of Residuals and Biosolids From Entering Landfills
In 2019, Illinois American Water partnered with Illinois farmers to apply over 29,000 dry tons of residuals and biosolids, rather than sending them to a landfill. The water treatment residuals and wastewater treatment biosolids from Illinois American Water’s Champaign County, Chicago Metro, Granite City, Peoria and Streator service areas were applied to agricultural fields across the state.
Biosolids are primarily organic materials produced during wastewater treatment. Residuals are produced during the water treatment process and are typically alum or lime based. These materials are beneficial for agricultural land application.
According to Ryan Schuler, environmental compliance supervisor for Illinois American Water and manager of the residual and biosolid reuse program, the partnership is a best practice supported by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He said, “We work closely with EPA and follow strict land application guidelines, ensuring the land application not only prevents material from entering landfills, but is also applied to farmland properly to decrease farming-related chemical use and adjust pH to further protect our natural resources.”
Solids generated from the water or wastewater treatment process are held in basins or drying lagoons. In the fall, after crops have been harvested, the alum residuals, lime residuals or biosolids are land applied. Farmers then plow the field after the application or in the spring to incorporate the residuals into the soil. Alum residuals benefit the farmland by helping with the retention of soil moisture, whereas lime residuals benefit the fields by adjusting pH to optimal levels. Biosolids add nitrogen and phosphorus to the agricultural fields.
Illinois American Water works with land application contractors to ensure the residuals are applied to farmland that has undergone required sampling. Also, application isn’t made to sites that are wet, frozen, or near a potable water supply. According to Schuler, there are a number of technical requirements, but the effort is worth it.
“We work with water, our most precious resource, daily. We know how important it is to protect our resources and to reuse what we can. Reusing these natural conditioners on farmland is one of the ways we implement green technology into our operations. We feel this is the right thing to do and we are thankful to the farmers who partner with us on this effort,” said Schuler.
Illinois American Water’s Pontiac District Awarded a Partnership in Conservation Award for Environmental Stewardship
Our Pontiac District was recently awarded a Partnership in Conservation Award from the Livingston County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD). The award was presented during the SWCD’s annual meeting.
According to the SWCD, the local water service team earned the recognition for environmental education and watershed protection efforts. Specifically, Illinois American Water’s Pontiac team partners with the SWCD to educate local youth about water quality and wise water use. The Pontiac District also participates in the Vermilion Watershed Task Force and local river cleanup efforts.
Corey Robinson, operations superintendent for Illinois American Water’s Pontiac District said of the award, “When your work, your passion, revolves around providing quality drinking water to your friends and neighbors, you know firsthand how important it is to help protect and conserve our water resources. We feel strongly about doing our part and we’re proud to partner with local organizations like the Livingston County Soil and Water Conservation District.”
In addition to partnering with the SWCD, Illinois American Water also works locally with Pontiac Township High School on proper pharmaceutical disposal programs, which help to protect water sources. The company has also supported student efforts for source water testing and the school's Operation Endangered Species and Alligator Snapping Turtle project.
Environmental grant funding has also been contributed to local environmental stewards like Pontiac Township High School, Trees Forever and the Conservation Technology Information Center’s Indian Creek Watershed project. The 2020 Illinois American Water Environmental Grant Program is currently accepting applications. The deadline is March 31, 2020. More information can be found at www.illinoisamwater.com.
Champaign Water Title!
The only thing better than winning awards for taste and quality once is being back-to-back champs two years in a row! Our Champaign, IL, team is going back to state after winning a 15 county competition.
Illinois American Water’s Champaign County District placed first in the 15-County Water Supply Operator Association’s water taste test competition. This is the second year in a row and the fourth time overall for this honor to be awarded to Illinois American Water’s Champaign County team.
A sample from the Mattis Water Treatment Plant was the winning entry. Water samples were judged on taste, odor and clarity.
As the regional winner, Illinois American Water’s Champaign County District will represent the region in the statewide taste test competition held during the Illinois Section of American Water Works Association’s (AWWA) Conference, WATERCON 2020, in Springfield next month. The winner of the state competition will compete in AWWA’s national Best of the Best water taste test held during AWWA’s Annual Conference and Exposition (ACE20) in June. Over 12,000 water professionals across the country will gather at ACE20 where the best-tasting tap water in North America will be declared.
Brian Wiemers, senior manager of production, said, “We take great pride in the product we deliver to homes and businesses every day. Winning the regional taste test and the opportunity to compete on a state and, possibly, national level is a testament to our team’s commitment. We’re proud to provide award-winning drinking water to our friends and neighbors.”
Illinois American Water’s Champaign County District won national Best of the Best honors in 2005 and 2006. Illinois American Water is one of only two water systems to earn the national honor twice.
COVID-19 and our Commitment to Safety
American Water’s primary concern is the health and safety of our employees, families, customers and the communities we serve. For the latest information, situation updates and what you should know about the Coronavirus, please visit the Center for Disease Control website at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
Illinois American Water: Investing in Public Health & Safety
At Illinois American Water, our team knows the critical role we play in our customers’ daily lives. We’re a key ingredient in your cup of coffee and we support firefighters with the water they need for public safety, while also providing reliable sanitary service for public health. We keep life flowing.
This is why we continuously invest in the local water and/or wastewater infrastructure. In 2018 and 2019, Illinois American Water invested over $250 million to install over 70 miles of water and sewer mains. Water and wastewater treatment processes, equipment, security and technology were upgraded to provide safe drinking water and reliable sanitary service. In addition, hundreds of fire hydrants and water meters were installed or replaced.
The need to invest in this critical infrastructure isn’t unique to Illinois American Water. Communities across the country are facing significant and complex system upgrades which can no longer be delayed without risk to public health and safety. Funding these investments can be a challenge, especially in smaller communities where project costs for necessary infrastructure will dramatically increase rates. In addition to funding, many communities find it difficult to attract industry experts from the ever-shrinking pool of Class A water operators.
At Illinois American Water, over 70 Class A water operators monitor our operations around the clock. Thousands of water quality tests are conducted daily throughout the treatment process. Nationally, a team of PhDs are continuously researching and testing treatment methods for emerging contaminants. In the field, our skilled workforce maintains over 4,500 miles of water main located under streets, bridges and railways. This work, coupled with our proactive investment, ensures every drop of the 115 million gallons of water we deliver a day is safe.
Sterling Celebrates 4 years of safety
Our Sterling, IL, team recently celebrated 4 years of safety. We’re committed to our employees coming home each and every day as good or better than when they came into work.
Illinois American Water’s Sterling District is celebrating four years without experiencing any lost-time accidents. According to Operations Superintendent Charlotte Dunne, the Sterling District’s excellent safety record is a result of daily focus and commitment.
Illinois American Water employees work around the clock to provide critical water service to homes and businesses. To provide these critical services for public health, fire protection and household uses, employees may need to work in confined spaces, among motorists and in extreme weather. Employees may also handle chemicals, conduct excavation and operate equipment.
Dunne said, “Safety is on our minds every minute of every day. There is nothing more important than ensuring our employees go home in the same condition they arrived at work, if not better. We owe that to our coworkers and their families. There is no room for shortcuts when it comes to safety.”
To ensure safe work practices, Illinois American Water employees regularly attend both classroom and hands-on training. Employees also participate in facility and job site audits to ensure compliance with established workplace safety practices. The skilled workforce is also equipped with proper personal and work zone protection equipment, chemical handling requirements and training, work zone safety training, and more. Company contractors are held to the same safety expectations as employees.
Dunne said, “The work we do is complex. We continuously evaluate and act to remove hazards to prevent injuries. I am proud of our team and their continued years of excellence in safety.”
Illinois American Water’s Sterling District serves approximately 6,500 customer connections.
CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion Pledge
On January 16, Illinois American Water employees joined colleagues from across American Water for the first annual Inclusion Day. At events across our company, our employees committed to continuing to advance inclusion and diversity in the workplace.
In Illinois, employees joined in Inclusion Day by taking part in conversations and events, and by signing American Water’s Inclusion & Diversity Statement. Our Champaign County District employees collected donations for the Crisis Nursery, an organization that provides childcare for children up to six years old, free of charge, during a crisis situation.
Nationally, our President and CEO Susan Story signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion Pledge, committing herself personally and American Water to continuing to advance inclusion and diversity in the workplace. Chief Operating Officer and CEO-elect Walter Lynch joined Story in signing the pledge.
In photo, Inclusion & Diversity Champions Alexis Caston (left) and Ronne Gerdes are pictured in front of the signed Inclusion poster with some of the donations.
Community Project Grants
Water sustains and supports all life on earth. With an American Water Environmental Grant, your community or community-based organization can lend the water supply or watershed a helping hand by working to improve, restore or protect it. Eligible projects can receive up to $10,000, provided they meet the criteria.
The application deadline is March 31. Please visit our can be found on our Environmental Grant Program page for more information and application instructions.
Multiple ILAW Customers Competed in Makers Madness
Over a dozen Illinois American Water customers—and our water!—competed in the first round of the first ever “Makers Madness” contest hosted by the Illinois Manufacturer’s Association. Second round voting just opened and a few of our customer’s products are in a tight battle for the next round. These 16 Illinois products will continue competing in multiple rounds as voters decide which product is the Coolest Things Made in Illinois.
Take a look at the remaining products and vote at www.makersmadnessil.com.
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Nadyn Jouny
The personal is political - and fiery and courageous Nadyn Jouny personified this feminist mantra. Nadyn experienced firsthand the pain of structural violence in legal systems that strip women of their rights.
When she decided to file for divorce, the religious Shitte courts under the Lebanese Personal Status laws, denied her custody of her young son Karam. Nadyn, like so many other women across Lebanon and other countries, was caught in the impossible pain of leaving an unwanted and abusive relationship and also losing the rights to her child. But Nadyn fought back, as she would until her last day.
She used her media savvy to become an outspoken voice to women fighting discriminatory family laws in Lebanon and internationally. Nadyn co-founded the self-funded group, “Protecting Lebanese Women” (PLW) and banded with many other Lebanese mothers facing similar custody issues. Together, they advocated to raise awareness of the injustices they were facing, protesting in front of the religious courts for their rights and bringing international media attention to extreme injustices they were facing.
Nadyn also worked with ABAAD - Resource Center for Gender Equality, another women’s rights organization in Lebanon, to campaign for women’s rights, equality in family law and custody and against forced and early marriages.
For many of her colleagues, she came to “symbolize a Lebanese mother’s fight against suppression and misogyny of all sorts," using “her personal experiences and her individual journey of empowerment to give hope to others that they can be a catalyst for positive change.”- ABAAD - Resource Centre for Gender Equality, Lebanon
On October 6, 2019 Nadyn was tragically killed in a car accident on her way to protest unfair tax increases in a country already facing spiralling financial crisis. Nadyn Jouny was only 29 years old at the time of her death.
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Victoria has had a very rewarding career providing thousands of people with nutritional and lifestyle counselling to help them with their health challenges. To this day, she continues to provide health and business coaching.
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Laura Holden
Music at the touch of a keypad
The Internet has revolutionised the way we listen to music and watch video and we can easily combine the two now. Long gone are the days when you had to go round your friends house who had MTV to watch your favourite bands music video.
It has also made it a lot more accessible for younger children and yes, I am a mum who from early on in my children's life, I found YouTube a Godsend for being able to put out an hours worth of nursery rhymes on to silence my whining child. When my oldest was born 6 and half years ago I naively put a CD player in the nursery with a few old lullaby cds thinking this is how I would rock him to sleep. The CD player is now covered in dust and the CDs have been used as a frisbee, long scratched and broken. The reality is that my children could swipe on my iPone before they could talk and they love the auditory and visual stimulation that pictures moving to sound gives them, however mindless it often is to us.
But this week we had a reality check. Both kids have got tablets which were Christmas presents, with the appropriate kids settings on. My 3 year old asked for Baby Shark so I typed it in and he watched it plus the similar suggested videos which come up afterwards. “Scary Flying Shark and Halloween Nursery Rhymes” came up next and he found it hilarious. Thinking he was happy I got on with things I had to do.
That night he got really upset at bedtime and he's usually great at going to bed. When I finally calmed him down and got him to tell me what was wrong he said he was scared of sharks, which I thought strange as like many kids at the moment he's really into sharks! I said there aren't any sharks here and settled him down. The same thing happened the following night and he said he was scared of a shark flying in to our house and eating him in the night. Then I remembered Scary Flying Shark. I calmed him down and said goodnight and then searched for the video.
I was overcome with guilt that I let him watch this video. After the initial fun song, it was a cartoon horror story of a shark who died and came back to haunt people, flying into their houses at night, biting their arms off, plus zombies, ware-wolfs and ghosts as well. I thought the Halloween nursery rhymes would be “3 Little Pumpkins” etc which he loves. Shouldn't nursery rhymes be suitable for nursery age?!!! Oh wait... it has “Wheels on the bus” at the end.
Now fuming, I reported the video to YouTube and then deleted the app on both children's tablets. Then I see Facebook and the reports of Momo videos leaked into Kids YouTube. Did he see something more sinister as well? Whether that was a hoax or not, like many other parents it has left me feeling guilty, angry and scared for my children and wondering how I can protect them. So I thought I would share some of my thoughts with you:
~ Don't put your trust in the Kids Settings. It seems that there is so much content out there and it is not all checked so it may not all be age appropriate. Nursery Rhymes made me think it would be ok, but Halloween probably should have rung alarm bells. What is appropriate for an 8 year old isn't got to be ok for a 3 year old. Although you can set age limits, YouTube itself even say, “No automated system is perfect.”
~ Do report anything you think is unsuitable (you need to log in to Google or YouTube) as they do say they take this seriously.
~ A police officer friend recommended that you watch videos they might like first, like an hour of nursery rhymes or an hour of Peppa Pig – not avidly just have it on while you cook dinner for example. Then when you know it's safe, save it. Then only let you child watch your saved videos and you know you can leave them with it for a certain amount of time.
~ Do they NEED to watch YouTube? We realised we have so much content available in this house why are they even watching YouTube anyway? We bought the tablets so they could play interactive educational games after all! We have Netflix, Amazon, Sky Kids and cupboards of DVDs so why even bother with unboxing toys, Thomas with a strange voice and putting toy cars through a shredder?!
~ There are some great safe apps instead. We've loved Little Baby Bum (same as what they put on YouTube but you pay about £1.50 for not having the adverts – totally worth it), various CBeebies apps and the Thomas Minis app where they can build their own track. (Although my son was doing this then watching someone else do it on YouTube. Whaaat??) Also, it's not a kids app but Garage Band, which is free on Apple devices, is great as they can play a piano, guitar, bass and other instruments so its great to get them making the music themselves and hear the different (realistic) sounds.
~ Turn the Wifi off on the tablet they are using. Then there's no annoying adverts and no chance that anything in the app can connect to anything unwanted.
~ Something I only just discovered on our Amazon tablets is the “On Deck” videos which lets you download Amazon Prime content and save them to watch even without Internet access. Super Simple Songs do a good nursery rhyme/kids song compilation which includes Baby Shark!!
~ Do something that doesn't involve a screen. I know I feel guilty when they've watched too much TV in a day, but we all know sometimes its the easiest way to get things done and we all do it. But if you've got the chance to do something else then do! Play their favourite music and see what actions they can remember without being prompted by the screen. Dance or play musical instruments together! Or get them to pre-tend they are making their own YouTube video to encourage them with imaginative play! My son actually asked us to record him talking about all his toy cars. He was fantastic and so knowledgable and it was a great home movie to keep.
There is loads more advice on online safety out there recommended by the Police and other official bodies, plus Internet Safety Day which is delivered in schools. This is by no means an exhaustive list and these are just my own personal changes which I've made and hope will be useful for you too. For all I would like to blame the Internet and the threats it poses to my children, a lot of these platforms were never designed with children in mind, and it really is our responsibility as parents to ensure their safety online as with anything else. If we give them devices with this capability we need to teach them how to use them appropriately, and set examples ourselves.
I'd rather my kids were making music themselves than watching it
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Ceria/silicon carbide core–shell materials prepared by miniemulsion technique
Lars Borchardt1,
Martin Oschatz1,
Robert Frind1,
Emanuel Kockrick1,
Martin R. Lohe1,2,
Christoph P. Hauser3,
Clemens K. Weiss3,
Katharina Landfester3,
Bernd Büchner2 and
Stefan Kaskel1
Lars Borchardt
Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Dresden University of Technology, Bergstrasse 66, D-01062 Dresden, Germany
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Martin Oschatz
Robert Frind
Emanuel Kockrick
Martin R. Lohe
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW Dresden), Institute for Solid State Research, Helmholtzstrasse 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Christoph P. Hauser
Max Planck Institut für Polymerforschung, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
Clemens K. Weiss
Katharina Landfester
Bernd Büchner
Stefan Kaskel
1Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Dresden University of Technology, Bergstrasse 66, D-01062 Dresden, Germany
2Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW Dresden), Institute for Solid State Research, Helmholtzstrasse 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
3Max Planck Institut für Polymerforschung, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
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This article is part of the Thematic Series "Micro- and mesoporous solids: From science to application".
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Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 638–644. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.2.67
Received 31 May 2011, Accepted 25 Aug 2011, Published 27 Sep 2011
Full Research Paper
For the first time we present the synthesis of CeO2/Si(O)C core–shell particles prepared by the miniemulsion technique. The Si(O)C core was obtained by means of a polycarbosilane precursor (SMP10), which was subsequently functionalized with ceria and pyrolyzed to the ceramic. The size of these particles could easily be adjusted by varying the surfactants and the surfactant concentration, or by the addition of comonomers. Hence particle sizes ranged from 100 to 1000 nm, tunable by the preparation conditions. All materials were characterized by photon cross correlation spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and elemental mapping investigations. Furthermore, first catalytic tests were carried out by temperature programmed oxidation (TPO) of methane, and the activity of this material in lowering the onset temperature of methane combustion by 262 K was documented.
Keywords: ceria; cerium dioxide; core shell; miniemulsion; oxycarbide; silicon carbide; TPO catalytic
In recent years miniemulsions have been studied intensively [1-3]. Polymeric nanoparticles [1,2] from homo- or copolymers [3] as well as hybrid materials [3,4] such as magnetic [5-8] or silica/polymer nanoparticles [9,10] have been synthesized by this approach. The size of the generated particles can easily be controlled [11,12] through the amount of surfactant added to the system, allowing particle sizes usually in the range of 50–500 nm and with a narrow size distribution. Hydrophobic polymeric particles are usually prepared from a direct (oil-in-water) miniemulsion, with the monomer as the dispersed oil phase. The nanodroplets are generated by shearing this system with ultrasound. A highly hydrophobic osmotic pressure agent (costabilizer) is added to the oil phase, effectively suppressing diffusional degradation (Ostwald ripening) of the droplets. Thus, the droplet sizes and the composition of the droplet components remain unchanged. This, in consequence, enables the preparation of copolymer particles of defined composition and the encapsulation of further, monomer soluble materials [4]. For the preparation of inorganic, ceramic materials usually the inverse miniemulsion technique has to be applied. Here, water soluble precursor compounds (e.g., Ti- or Si-glycolates, Zr or Ce-salts) for sol–gel synthesis and, if desired, templating surfactants, such as CTAB, are dissolved in water, acting as the dispersed phase. After miniemulsification and sol–gel reaction, porous oxide nanoparticles are obtained [13-17]. However, miniemulsions can also be useful for the synthesis of nonoxide ceramics, such as carbides or nitrides, which can serve as catalysts or catalyst support for highly exothermic or high temperature reactions. Important requirements concerning these materials are chemical inertness and temperature stability.
A material with high temperature stability, as well as excellent heat conductivity, hardness and mechanical stability is SiC [18]. Next to bulk SiC, also composites [19], porous [20-25], and nanosized [26] silicon carbide are becoming increasingly interesting. There are several reports in literature showing that these materials are able to compete with supports such as alumina, silica or activated carbons, particularly in exothermic reactions [27-30].
In particular, the use of polymeric precursors for the synthesis of SiC ceramics (polymer derived ceramics) [31,32] has been found to be an easy approach. Herein, we report the synthesis of nanosized silicon(oxy)carbide spheres by the miniemulsion technique with the aid of a polycarbosilane precursor. The first studies using this approach were reported by Kroke et al. [33]. Here we present a new method to achieve catalytic functionalization and control of the particle size for these spheres either by using different surfactants, surfactant concentrations or by copolymerization with comonomers such as styrene (Sty), methyl methacrylate (MMA) or acrylic acid. Furthermore the prevalent problem of sphere sintering during pyrolysis has been overcome by means of a coating procedure. In this contribution, we describe the functionalization of SiC spheres with ceria shells. Ceria is known as an oxidation catalyst for soot combustion reaction [34,35]. Thus, we report for the first time a CeO2/SiC core–shell system with tunable particle sizes through a miniemulsion technique, and demonstrate its use as a catalyst for the oxidation of methane.
Polycarbosilane (PCS) nanospheres were synthesized from a miniemulsion of SMP-10 (allylic functionalized polycarbosilane) in water (Figure 1). In order to demonstrate efficient tailoring of the sphere size, we used several surfactants in varying concentration. The addition of comonomers was investigated with regard to their effects on particle sizes.
Figure 1: Scheme of the synthesis of CeO2/Si(O)C core–shell nanoparticles via miniemulsion technique.
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The results of photon cross-correlation spectroscopy (PCCS) reveal that PCS-spheres synthesized with 2.5 wt % (with respect to the inner phase) of the cationic surfactant cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) or the anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) have diameters of approximately 300 nm, whereas the use of nonionic Lutensol AT50 results in larger spheres of 500 nm (Figure 2A).
Figure 2: Photon cross-correlation spectroscopy (PCCS) measurement of PCS/water miniemulsions with A) different surfactants, B) different concentration of CTAB surfactant and C) different comonomers.
Figure 2: Photon cross-correlation spectroscopy (PCCS) measurement of PCS/water miniemulsions with A) differe...
This is not surprising, as nonionic surfactants are less effective in stabilizing colloids. Thus a larger amount of nonionic surfactant is required to achieve the same particle size as with an ionic surfactant. The variation of SDS concentration in the range of 1–10 wt % does not influence the particle size, but in the case of CTAB an increasing amount of surfactant leads to increasing sphere sizes. This is contrary to our expectations, but FESEM (Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy) investigations verified that at high CTAB concentrations large particle aggregates are formed. Elucidation of the particular mechanism behind this effect is part of the current studies, but we assume that SMP-10 partially hydrolyzes during the synthesis, creating negative charges on the particle surface which may form ion pairs with the positively charged cetyl trimethylammonium cation, thus compensating the surface charges. Nevertheless it must be stressed again that it is possible to control particle sizes in a range of 300–1000 nm by varying the CTAB concentration. Furthermore we showed that for the synthesis of smaller particles the addition of comonomers is useful. The sizes of PCS spheres prepared with 50 wt % of styrene or MMA were reduced to 100 nm (surfactant 2.5 wt % SDS) (Figure 2C). Particles sizes as well as their elemental distribution were very uniform, indicating that copolymerization had occurred. The addition of acrylic acid did not influence the size of the resulting PCS spheres. Scanning electron micrographs verified all these trends but also showed that the PCS spheres synthesized with SDS (PCS-SDS, PCS-Sty, PCS-MMA) exhibited a narrower distribution of particle sizes than those synthesized with CTAB or Lutensol AT50 (Figure 3). The green PCS spheres exhibited a low specific surface area of ~9 m2.g−1.
Figure 3: Scanning electron micrographs of PCS spheres synthesized with different amounts of CTAB (PCS-1 - PCS-10), different surfactants (PCS-Lut, PCS-SDS) and comonomers (PCS-MMA, PCS-Sty).
Figure 3: Scanning electron micrographs of PCS spheres synthesized with different amounts of CTAB (PCS-1 - PC...
Functionalization and pyrolysis
The dispersion of PCS spheres can be destabilized either by adding acetone, by the evaporation of water at 353 K overnight, or by centrifugation. Subsequently, the resulting PCS spheres are either pyrolyzed instantaneously or functionalized before pyrolysis. The latter results in a core–shell-structured hybrid material. A promising method for the synthesis of core–shell hybrid materials in general was described by Landfester et al. [36]. They created surface functionalized polymer spheres coated with hydroxyapatite. Accordingly, we used the surface functionalized PCS/acrylic acid spheres for the growth of a CeO2 shell. Additionally, dip coating of the unfunctionalized PCS spheres in an ethanolic Ce(NO3)3 solution was investigated. Functionalized as well as unfunctionalized PCS spheres were pyrolyzed at 1073–1573 K. Preliminary investigations showed that a simple bulk pyrolysis of PCS spheres, especially at high temperatures, either leads to particle aggregation or to large amounts of sintered spheres being obtained, which lose their spherical shape. Therefore pyrolysis was additionally performed on a silicon wafer in order to obtain single particles. All samples were X-ray amorphous, which is in agreement with the fact that crystalline SiC is usually generated from SMP-10 precursors at temperatures above 1573 K [22].
Figure 4A shows the individual particles and illustrates that the shape of the PCS spheres was conserved during pyrolysis. Figure 4B shows SiC-Acr spheres synthesized from PCS/acrylic acid. The carboxylate groups were used for molecular binding of ceria [36]. Although a CeO2 shell cannot be seen on SEM pictures, the EDX-analysis of the discrete spheres confirms the presence of cerium (1.5 wt % Ce). Furthermore the catalytic tests, shown in the next chapter, prove the presence of ceria. The core–shell structure could be seen more clearly when CeO2/Si(O)C particles that were synthesized by an impregnation approach were considered. From the scanning electron micrographs an average shell thickness of approximately 60 nm was obtained. Figure 4C illustrates the formation of these ceria shells on silicon carbide spheres. The cerium loading of these materials was increased up to 4 wt % Ce.
Figure 4: SEM micrographs of (A) unfunctionalized SiC-SDS spheres, (B) SiC-Acr/CeO2 spheres prepared by molecular bonding approach and (C) SiC/CeO2 spheres prepared by impregnation.
Figure 4: SEM micrographs of (A) unfunctionalized SiC-SDS spheres, (B) SiC-Acr/CeO2 spheres prepared by molec...
Element mapping with EDX was used in order to verify the core–shell structure. To achieve this, a sphere with a partially fractured shell (Figure 5A) was analyzed with regard to the distribution of cerium, oxygen and silicon. Figure 5C proves that cerium is only present in the shell of this hybrid material. The shell also contains a higher amount of oxygen than the core. The presence of oxygen at the inner sphere part can be explained by the formation of Si(O)C, which is well known for polymer derived silicon carbides [37]. It should be noted that oxygen impurities can also be introduced into the SiC core through the partial hydrolysis of the polycarbosilane precursor during the miniemulsion step, which is carried out in aqueous solution. The distribution of silicon is shown on Figure 5E. The overall composition of these core–shell particles is 4 wt % Ce, 19 wt % O, 44 wt % Si and 33 wt % C. As this data only hints at the presence of Ceria and the amounts are too small for detection in X-ray diffraction experiments, TEM investigations were carried out on different samples.
Figure 5: Elemental mapping investigations on CeO2/Si(O)C core–shell nanoparticles prepared by impregnation.
The cerium oxide particle phases were determined by comparing the lattice spacings measured from the TEM images with literature data. It can be shown that CeO2 is present in the samples, but also phases with less oxygen, such as Ce2O3, can be found. In Figure 6 an image of a CeO2 particle, the corresponding FFT and a filtered image are shown. The lattice spacing was determined in fourier space for the strongest peak and found to be 2.59 Å which is in good agreement with the data given for CeO2 (2.60 Å, ICDD, No. 44-1001).
Figure 6: TEM image of a cerium oxide particle (left) with the corresponding diffractogram (middle) and a filtered image for better visibility of the lattice fringes (right).
Figure 6: TEM image of a cerium oxide particle (left) with the corresponding diffractogram (middle) and a fil...
Catalytic methane combustion
The catalytic activity was determined by temperature programmed oxidation (TPO) of methane. TPO was performed on SiC/CeO2 and SiC-Acr/CeO2. For comparison of the results, CeO2 nanoparticles that were precipitated from aqueous solution and the unloaded Si(O)C shell particles were chosen. The results of the TPO measurements are presented in Figure 7. The onset temperatures for pure ceria nanoparticles and the unloaded particles, representing the uncatalyzed reaction, are 758 K and 1130 K, respectively [38]. The investigated ceria modified Si(O)C spheres show catalytic activity for the combustion of methane. The onset temperatures for SiC/CeO2 and SiC-Acr/CeO2 are 1018 K and 868 K, respectively. In comparison to the ceria nanoparticles the activity is lower due to the smaller amount of active material in the sample. Although SiC-Acr/CeO2 has a smaller amount of active material (1.5 wt % Ce) than SiC/CeO2 (4 wt %), it shows a higher activity, which can be explained by the more efficient immobilization of the cerium nitrate on the acrylic acid modified surface of the PCS spheres during functionalization. The specific surface area of SiC-Acr/CeO2 (15 m2.g−1) is higher than that of SiC/CeO2 (<0.01 m2.g−1), thus this also has to be considered as a contribution to the difference in catalytic activity. The enlarged specific surface area for SiC-Acr/CeO2 is attributed to additional amorphous carbon in the spheres resulting from the combustion of acrylic acid during pyrolysis. However, the results are promising; especially considering that only 1.5 wt % of Ce was needed to decrease the onset temperature for methane combustion by 262 K.
Figure 7: TPO measurements of CeO2 nanoparticles (A), SiC-Acr/CeO2 (B), SiC/CeO2 (C) and the unloaded SiC shell, not containing Cerium (D).
Figure 7: TPO measurements of CeO2 nanoparticles (A), SiC-Acr/CeO2 (B), SiC/CeO2 (C) and the unloaded SiC she...
We presented the synthesis of silicon(oxy)carbide spheres by a miniemulsion process. The size of these spheres can be adjusted through the use of different surfactants or surfactant concentrations. For a given surfactant concentration, nonionic surfactants, such as Lutensol AT50, cause larger particles to be formed than do ionic surfactants, such as SDS or CTAB. The increase of the surfactant concentration leads to larger spheres for particles synthesized with CTAB, whereas no influence was detected for spheres synthesized with SDS. The addition of comonomers such as styrene or MMA also lowers the particle size. Green PCS bodies were functionalized in two different ways with a ceria shell and were converted to silicon(oxy)carbide by pyrolysis under an inert atmosphere. The resulting hybrid materials were studied with scanning electron microscopy and elemental mapping, which verified the core–shell design of this new material. Finally, it was shown that these materials are suitable as catalysts for the oxidation of methane.
Synthesis of PCS spheres
SMP10 (Starfire Systems), comonomer, 30 mg of hexadecane (Fluka, 98%) and 30 mg of AIBN (Fluka, 99%) were mixed and added to solutions of different amounts of surfactant in 30 g water (Table 1). After stirring the mixture for 1 h, miniemulsification was achieved by ultrasonicating the mixture for 120 s with a Branson sonifier W450 Digital at 90% amplitude and 100% cycle. During sonication the mixture was cooled in an ice-bath. The miniemulsion was polymerized by heating to 353 K for 8 h in an argon atmosphere (Figure 1).
Table 1: List of polycarbosilane nanospheres prepared by the miniemulsion technique.
SMP-10 [g]
Comonomer
PCS-1 1.65 - - CTABa 0.0165
PCS-2.5 1.65 - - CTABa 0.0413
PCS-10 1.65 - - CTABa 0.165
PCS-Lut 1.65 - - AT50b 0.0413
PCS-SDS 1.65 - - SDSc 0.0413
PCS-Sty 0.825 Styrened 0.825 SDSc 0.0413
PCS-MMA 0.825 MMAe 0.825 SDSc 0.0413
PCS-Acr 0.825 Acrylic acidf 0.825 SDSc 0.0413
acetyl trimethylammonium bromide (Acros, 99%), bLutensol AT50 (BASF), csodium dodecyl sulfate (Fluka, 99%), dstyrene (Acros, 99%), emethyl methacrylate (Merck, 99%), facrylic acid (ABCR, 99%).
Functionalization
The miniemulsion was placed in a cabinet dryer for the removal of water. 60 mg of the resulting polycarbosilane (PCS) powder was added to a 0.75 M solution of 1 g Ce(NO3)3·6 H2O (Aldrich, 99%) in 3 mL ethanol, treated in an ultrasonic bath and finally separated by centrifugation.
In case of the surface functionalized PCS-Acr spheres (comonomer = acrylic acid), 3.5 mL of this PCS-Acr miniemulsion was added to an 0.1 M aqueous solution of 440 mg Ce(NO3)3·6H2O (Aldrich, 99%) and stirred overnight at RT. The PCS-nanospheres were destabilized by adding acetone, centrifuged and washed with water.
Coating and pyrolysis
The functionalized PCS nanospheres were either pyrolyzed as synthesized or coated on a silicon wafer at 1073 K under an argon atmosphere (RT–573 K at 150 K·h−1, then 5 h at 573 K, followed by heating to 973 K at 30 K·h−1. After reaching 973 K, the sample was heated to 1073 K at 120 K·h−1 and maintained for 2 h). In case of coating, the nanospheres were redispersed in EtOH and coated (1.1 mm·s−1) onto a silicon wafer by means of a dip coater. Afterwards the wafer with the particles was pyrolyzed at 1073 K under an argon atmosphere.
FESEM (Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy) and elemental mapping investigations on polymers and ceramics were carried out with a Stereoscan 260 SEM with EDX analysis system using SE (Secondary Electrons) and BSE (Backscattered Electrons) detectors, respectively. Elemental analyses using EDX were obtained as a mean value of five measurements at a magnification of 3000. TEM investigations were carried out by crushing the synthesized powders in a ball mill, followed by ultrasonically assisted suspension in ethanol or isopropanol. The resulting suspension was dropped onto a copper grid coated with holey carbon and dried using an infrared lamp. The TEM investigations were carried out on a Cs-corrected JEOL JEM-2010F. Particle sizes were determined with photon cross-correlation spectroscopy (PCCS) using a Nanophox particle sizer (Sympatec GmbH). The dispersions were diluted with demineralized water for the measurement. Catalytic investigations were carried out as described in previous studies [38].
The authors would like to thank Dr. Alicja Bachmatiuk and Dr. Mark H. Rümmeli (Leibniz Institute IFW Dresden) for guidance and help during the TEM measurements, as well as the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, especially the priority program 1181 Nanomat, for funding this work.
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Corporate Commentary published on January 8, 2021
Q1 2021 Corporate Bond Market Outlook
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For 2021, we expect economic and profit growth normalization, particularly toward summertime and the second half of the year, as vaccine distribution accelerates.
While credit fundamentals remain challenged, higher cash balances have begun to stabilize net leverage, while high gross leverage should steady as cash flows rise in 2021.
Share buybacks and merger and acquisition (M&A) deals both posted double-digit declines in 2020. With high investment grade (IG) cash balances and improved visibility, both may accelerate in 2021.
COVID-19 brought environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk exposures and management of them into greater focus during 2020. Balance sheet repair and managing for broader stakeholders was key.
After a record year, IG supply is expected to drop notably in 2021. Gross and net may decline to $1 trillion and $0.4 trillion in 2021, respectively. Investor demand should sufficiently cover net issuance.
Improving fundamentals and favorable technicals suggest a rangebound to slight narrowing bias to spreads. Still, spreads are tighter than average and may face resistance.
It is Déjà Vu All Over Again
One year-ago, the weighted-average option-adjusted spread on the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate Investment Grade Index stood at +93 basis points (bps). The Index ended just 3bps wider in 2020 after peaking at 373bps when credit curves inverted in March. If one fell asleep a year ago and woke up today, one might conclude that not much changed over the past year. How incorrect that assessment would be. The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on unemployment, economic growth, and risk asset performance during the first half of 2020. IG corporate spreads peaked at nearly +400bps and equities declined by about 30 percent by late March. But then the cavalry arrived in the form of extraordinary monetary stimulus. The entry of the Fed into corporate bond markets in April was a crucial catalyst and IG spreads reacted strongly to its actual and potential buying power. In 2020, with the sharp decline in Treasury yields, the U.S. IG corporate bond market generated an impressive 9.9 percent total return. However, with spreads slightly wider year-over-year (Y/Y), the excess return versus duration-matched Treasuries was a more modest 49bps.
In 2021, we expect positive vaccine results and additional fiscal stimulus to jump-start growth, particularly in the second half of the year. Technicals should continue to support spread product, but further spread tightening may be limited. Easy financial conditions, low yields, record cash balances, and a significant decline in net supply in spread products should be supportive of risk assets. In such a scenario, we think the IG corporate market can modestly outperform Treasuries and other risk-free assets at a starting point of +96bps, with our expectation for rangebound spreads.
Implications for corporate credit are notable. We expect a focus on balance sheet repair to continue, particularly for those industries most negatively impacted by the pandemic (e.g., Energy, Materials, Industrials, Consumer Discretionary). However, less-impacted sectors such as Communications, Consumer Staples, Health Care and Technology may be more apt to focus again on deploying cash for discretionary share buybacks and opportunistic M&A that were largely on hold for most of 2020.
A risk to our investment thesis is that slower than expected distribution or penetration of the COVID vaccine has a negative knock-on impact to economic growth and corporate earnings. Potentially bigger changes to U.S. policy than expected related to taxes and regulation or an exogenous shock (e.g., spike in oil prices, geopolitical or trade concerns) are additional risks. A different risk is that with an effective vaccine, companies rediscover a preference for debt-funded shareholder enhancements (e.g., share buybacks, M&A, special dividends), after a year of protecting their balance sheets, and animal spirits—those forces that Keynes posited as market drivers—accelerate.
U.S. Election - Credit Implications
For IG corporate borrowers, U.S. federal tax policy is important, and changes in tax rates seem less likely unless the Democrats win both U.S. Senate races in the runoff in Georgia and a slim majority in the Senate. As we go to press, the Dems appear to have won both seats, although the races are extremely close. If results hold, the likelihood of a boost in the corporate tax rate increases. In that case, with taxes potentially rising from 21 percent to 28 percent, estimated earnings growth would be expected to decline by a comparable amount. This outcome would clearly be a credit-negative although we would note that the corporate tax rate was 35 precent prior to the 2017 tax cut and IG issuers were well able to negotiate that. And, Democrats may look to increase fiscal stimulus, which would be a partial offset for the economy and by extension corporate profits.
Once through the pandemic and considering President-elect Biden’s goal to raise the minimum wage, we could see some upward trajectory on wages put pressure on labor-intensive issuers like Retailers and Restaurants, among others, with a credit-negative knock-on effect on margins and earnings. However, on the flipside, increasing employee wages can reduce staff turnover and increase loyalty and productively, which can be longer-term positives, from an ESG perspective.
Under a Biden Administration we may see increased regulation of the Banking sector. We would view that potential as credit neutral. Additional Banking regulation may reduce risk-taking, limit certain investing activities, and potentially lower earnings, but it could also include boosting capital requirements and taking a closer look at physical and transitional climate risks. Higher capital cushions strengthen balance sheets and generally favor credit ratings and bank bondholders.
The new Administration may look to increase regulation to counter the rise in greenhouse gas emissions in carbon-heavy sectors. This is viewed as credit negative due to the earnings and growth hit it could cause, in Energy and Utilities sectors. That said, issuers in these sectors have been transitioning to renewables and cleaner sources of energy, which could partially mitigate more regulations.
Large Technology issuers may continue to be under a microscope however we place a low likelihood of large-scale break-ups. But, even the prospect could encourage some companies to engage in divestments, spin off’s or other means of selling assets to mitigate anti-trust scrutiny. While not necessarily suggesting a negative credit event, it is something we will be alert to in the sector.
Finally, For Basic Industry, Manufacturing and Industrials, trade policies and tariffs will be a key focus.
While credit fundamentals remain challenged, higher cash balances have begun to stabilize net leverage, while high gross leverage should steady, as cash flows rise in 2021. For example, net leverage for the mean IG corporate bond issuer was 2.78 times at 3Q20 compared to 2.66 times the prior year, a muted increase, per Bloomberg data. In contrast, gross leverage rose to 3.50 times at 3Q20 from 3.17 times the prior year, which is a record high.
IG companies raised cash in various ways during 2020, including record term debt issuance, to ride out COVID-19 and pandemic-related economic and profit uncertainty. Cash resources for the IG non-Financial cohort grew by about $500 billion Y/Y, per Wells Fargo. The pace of IG downgrades and fallen angels slowed in the second half of 2020, per rating agency data. However, some sectors are still vulnerable to downgrades. Balance sheet repair looks set to continue for those industries most negatively impacted by the pandemic (e.g., Energy, Materials, Industrials, Consumer Discretionary).
For 2021, we expect economic and profit growth normalization, particularly toward summertime and the second half of the year, as vaccine distribution accelerates. After an estimated 14 percent Y/Y decline in 2020, per FactSet, S&P 500 operating earnings are expected to grow by 22 percent in 2021, although that estimate could come down if corporate taxes rise. Share buybacks and M&A deals both posted double-digit declines in 2020. With high IG cash balances and improved visibility, both may accelerate in 2021. Less-impacted sectors (e.g., Communications, Consumer Staples, Health Care, Technology) may deploy excess cash to shareholders and refocus again on debt-funded M&A.
IG corporate gross ($1.7 trillion) and net ($1 trillion) fixed-rate supply were both records by a large margin in 2020, per Barclays. In 2020, corporate supply rose sharply due to very low rates, liability-management exercises and tactical cash raising. Fortunately, investor-demand indictors generally remain healthy. For example, IG fund inflows were about $0.3 trillion in 2020, per EPFR/Informa, and foreign-owned U.S. corporate bond holdings rose by a similar amount, per TICS. High U.S. Treasury net issuance should favor demand for non-government net credit issuance, which is expected to decline notably in 2021, per JPMorgan. Gross and net U.S. IG issuance may decline to $1 trillion and $0.4 trillion in 2021, respectively. U.S. IG offers yield over competing markets, and foreign flows should remain solid, prospectively. Accordingly, we think investor demand should sufficiently cover net IG issuance in 2021.
One year-ago, the spread on the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate Investment Grade Index was 93bps. The Index ended just 3bps wider in 2020, after peaking at 373bps in March when credit curves briefly inverted. Easy financial conditions, low yields, record cash balances, and a significant decline in net supply in spread products should be supportive of risk asset valuations, including corporate bonds in 2021. Technicals should continue to support spread product, but further spread tightening may be limited given current valuations. Opportunities should exist out the curve with the 2s/10s corporate spread credit curve steeper than its 10-year average. Triple-B bonds appear to offer selective value but, quality spreads are tight and credit picking is crucial.
ESG Spotlight
Expanded Engagement Adds Insights in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic brought environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk exposures and management of them into greater focus during 2020. Balance sheet repair and managing for broader stakeholders was key. IG companies seemed more attuned to ESG issues and issuers that effectively managed finances, human capital, and supply chains should be better positioned in a recovery.
Information discovered during our more than 100 bond issuer ESG engagement meetings in 2020 explored best practices in sustainability. As issues unfolded during the year, including COVID-19 and social and racial justice issues, specific themes took on added relevancy for corporate and municipal bond issuers and our analysts. Our corporate engagement meeting assessments support our view that bond issuers are more attentive to addressing ESG issues and reporting on their progress. For more, please see the full report here.
CREDIT TRENDS DASHBOARD
In our Credit Trends Dashboard, we capture our views of the key drivers of IG corporate credit.
Risks and Opportunities in Today’s Corporate Bond Market
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Climate Risk: Not Just for the Energy Sector
By Joshua Perez , Joshua Stein
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Corporate Bond Market Outlook Q4 2019
Our latest Corporate Bond Market Outlook reviews 2019 and provides our perspective on the IG market for 2020.
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Warkworth, Northumberland
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BY DAVID ROSS, EDITOR
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HERITAGE RATING: ?
HERITAGE HIGHLIGHTS: 12th century Warkworth Castle
Warkworth village from the castle
Warkworth is a very attractive village in mid-Northumberland, occupying a loop of the River Coquet, about one mile from the sea.
On a high rise above the river stands the medieval stronghold of Warkworth Castle, a fine Norman fortress, home to the powerful Percy family, Dukes of Northumberland. The castle features prominently in Shakespeare's play 'Henry IV'. The castle may have been founded by Prince Henry of Scotland or by Henry II of England. The first written record of a castle comes from 1157.
King John visited Warkworth in 1213 and Edward I followed in 1292. The castle withstood two Scottish sieges, and later passed to the crown. It fell into decay in the 18th century but was rescued by the 3rd and 4th Dukes of Northumberland. It is now in the care of English Heritage.
A lovely walk along the river from the castle brings you to the Hermitage, a chapel carved from the solid stone of a cliff face. The Hermitage is accessible only by boat from a mooring on the east bank. The story goes that the chapel was built by a knight named Sir Bertram, in memory of his lost love and his brother. Sir Bertram lived the remainder of his life in the Hermitage. Look for a carved figure of the Virgin Mary on a window sill inside the chapel.
Warkworth market place
The name Warkworth probably derives from the Saxon for 'the enclosure of Werce'. There has been a settlement here since at least the 8th century, when King Ceowulf gave the church at Warkworth to the monks of Lindisfarne.
The parish church of St Lawrence stands at one end of the market place and boasts one of the longest naves in the country. It stands on the site of an 8th-century wooden church built by monks of Lindisfarne.
Viking raiders destroyed that early building in AD 875. It was rebuilt in stone in the 9th century and foundations of that pre-Norman building were discovered during archaeological investigations in 2008. Inside the church is an effigy of a 14th-century knight.
Warkworth Old Bridge
At the northern edge of Warkworth is a lovely medieval bridge, built in the late 14th century to replace an earlier stone bridge. A fortified tower, later converted to become a tollhouse, defends the southern end of the bridge. The cobbled bridge surface is just 11 feet wide and has two pedestrian refuges built into triangular cutwaters. The medieval bridge continued in use until a modern bridge was opened beside it in 1965.
The Mason's Arms pub
The Mason's Arms
On one side of the market place stands the Mason's Arms, an attractive historic pub that has a surprising link to the first Jacobite Rebellion. It was here in 1715 that the rebels dined before publicly proclaiming James Stuart the rightful King of England.
On the evening of 8 October 1715, the Earl of Derwentwater and 40 of his supporters dined at the Mason's Arms. The next morning, following a service at St Lawrence Church, the 'Old Pretender' was declared king by Thomas Forster, MP for Bamburgh. A timber beam in the bar of the Mason's Arms records the gathering of the rebels.
The River Coquet is a popular salmon fishing river, and by tradition, the first salmon caught every year is presented to the Duke of Northumberland.
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Address: Warkworth, Northumberland, England
Attraction Type: Village
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Sun Hotel Warkworth - 0.3 miles
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Friday 18 July 2014 00:00 to Wednesday 23 July 2014 00:00
La Voila Blanche, Park Street Mews, British Council Library
WHAT IF ART REALLY CAN HELP CHANGE THE WORLD WE LIVE IN?
Social Canvas is a public space art and design initiative conceptualized and deployed by British Council, Sri Lanka.
Water shortages, environmental pollution, sustainable development, public well-being and security are all pressing social issues prevailing in our country.
As institutions and individuals, how do we address these issues? How do we get a nation to actively participate in solving these pressing matters? How do we reach audiences through dynamic new mediums that cut through the clutter and get these messages across?
Welcome to Social Canvas; an aesthetic initiative by the British Council in Sri Lanka to use art in public spaces to effect social change.
The initiative aims to create new and sustainable working relationships between creative individuals and the corporate sector by creating public art that addresses social issues in the country.
The first phase of Social Canvas will come to life in the form of three key events.
The official launch of the project, in the form of a symposium and open dialogue on how art & design can help address social issues in public spaces.
Venue: La Voile Blanche, Mount Lavinia
Time: 7:00 p.m.
19th – 22nd July 2014
A four day workshop headed by Vivien Lovell of Modus Operandi Art Consultants in the UK on creating a series of art installations that each deal with a prevalent social issue in the country.
Venue: Park Street Mews
A presentations night to a selected audience for a first look at the results of the workshop.
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My Best Girl (1927) & Sparrows (1926) (Mary Pickford double feature)
Friday and Saturday, Aug. 10-11, 2012:
A Mary Pickford double feature
My Best Girl
1927, USA, 80 minutes, 35mm, Milestone Film, silent with a musical score
Directed by Sam Taylor
Produced by Mary Pickford
Written by Kathleen Norris (story), Hope Loring (adaptation),
Allen McNeil (screenplay) and Tim Whelan (screenplay)
Starring Mary Pickford, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Sunshine Hart, Lucien Littlefield
Fri: 7:30 pm; Sat: 3:50 &; 7:30 pm
PLUS, on the same program:
1926, USA, 84 minutes, 35mm, Milestone Films, silent with a musical score
Directed by William Beaudine,Tom McNamara (uncredited)
Written by Winifred Dunn (story), George Marion Jr. (titles),
C. Gardner Sullivan (adaptation)
Starring Mary Pickford, Roy Stewart, Mary Louise Miller, Gustav von Seyffertitz
This is a double feature:
your ticket admits you to both films
Synopsis of My Best Girl courtesy of Milestone Film:
Thanks to the superb work of Sam Taylor (one of Harold Lloyd's favorite directors), legendary cinematographer Charles Rosher and producer/star Mary Pickford, My Best Girl has become one of Hollywood's greatest romantic comedies, pairing Pickford with husband-to-be Charles "Buddy" Rogers.
Maggie is a lowly shopgirl in a big-city five-and-ten-cent store. She meets Joe who has just started out in the stockroom. Unbeknownst to her, Joe is the owner's son, trying to prove himself to his wealthy family. Falling in love with Maggie, Joe gives up his society sweetheart Millicent. Learning of this, the boy's father unsuccessfully tries to buy Maggie off. Realizing that because of her, Joe is going to be cut-off from his family, she poses as a floozy golddigger (in one of Mary Pickford's great comic scenes) to convince him to let her go. When the father finds out of her sacrifice, he discovers the error of his ways and agrees to their marriage.
Synopsis of Sparrows courtesy of Milestone Film:
Ernst Lubitsch called Sparrows “one of the eight wonders of the world” and this wonderful film still ranks as a masterpiece of Gothic suspense.
Hidden deep in the Southern swamps, the Grimes family operates a "baby farm" where unwanted or "lost" children are cruelly underfed and overworked. Mama Mollie (Pickford), the oldest of the kids, protects the others as best she can and keeps up their courage by telling them that God watches over them just as He does the smallest sparrow. When the police close in to rescue a kidnapped two-year-old who has been stashed at the farm, Grimes makes plans to throw the toddler into the bog. To save her little "sparrows," Mama Mollie leads them on an escape through the alligator-infested swamp in one of the most harrowing scenes in cinema history. This powerful Gothic suspense thriller was based on 1920s news reports of real life baby farms. Sparrows' elaborate sets and magnificent cinematography create a nightmare world that later inspired the classic film Night of the Hunter.
Hollywood's first major female superstar, the eternally youthful Mary Pickford commanded unprecedented clout in the industry, but her iconic status as "America's Sweetheart" has proved more enduring than the vehicles that put her there. A new series of reissues confirms her extraordinary comic and dramatic rangenot to mention her indefinable appeal as a movie starbut, more surprisingly, the films themselves prove more compelling than their reputations had previously suggested. With its stark religious overtones, creepy atmospherics, and concern with the perils facing orphaned children, Sparrows, a potent 1926 slice of Southern Gothic, was a huge influence on Charles Laughton's noir masterpiece Night Of The Hunter. In the Lillian Gish role, Pickford mothers a group of younger, forgotten kids toiling in a backwoods swamp for a cruel hick (Gustav von Seyffertitz) operating a "baby farm" far from the scrutiny of the law. When he threatens to toss a kidnapped infant into the gurgling bog, she leads them through alligator-infested waters to safety. Sparrows resembles a Brothers Grimm fairy tale in its vivid, harrowing textures; setting this dark world against Pickford's angelic face boldly demarcates the line between good and evil. Produced a year later, My Best Girl is considerably brighter and more programmatic, a frothy romantic comedy that showcases her effortless charm and deft slapstick skills. Pickford plays a modest clerk at a popular five-and-dime store who falls for the owner's son (Charles "Buddy" Rogers, her future husband), a clumsy new hire working incognito to prove himself to his father. A formulaic Cinderella story by design, My Best Girl coasts along on the stars' playful chemistry and their delightful running games of make-believe, which play into the film's mood of pure fantasy. It's a more typical role for Pickford than Sparrows, but her indomitable pluck can make even the most conventional romance seem accomplished.
- Scott Tobias, A.V. Club, March 29, 2002
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York. (Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg)
Rife With Anxiety, Markets Are Churning at the Fastest Rate Since 2008
Dani Burger
Jul 04 2018, 4:27 PM Jul 05 2018, 3:04 PM July 04 2018, 4:27 PM July 05 2018, 3:04 PM
(Bloomberg) -- Once the hallmark of this bull run, complacency has made way for angst.
From junk bonds to emerging-market stocks, market turnover is through the roof, reaching multi-year highs. Within the S&P 500 Index, investors traded more than $2.9 trillion worth of shares in each of the past two quarters, a feat last achieved in early 2008.
Burgeoning uncertainty -- from monetary policy and protectionism, to cracks in the synchronized growth story -- has spurred elevated trading across assets.
“Market turnover tends to be high when uncertainty is high, as institutional investors tend to reshuffle their portfolios,” JPMorgan Chase & Co. strategists including Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou wrote in a note last month. “Negative growth revisions coupled with political and policy risks including the Italian crisis and trade war risks are creating a lot more uncertainty this year relative to last year.”
It’s a similar story for developing-nation assets at the mercy of a strengthening U.S. dollar and trade tensions. Volume on the MSCI Emerging Market index reached $1.9 trillion in the three months through June, the most since 1998 when a wave of currency devaluations and defaults ripped through emerging economies from Thailand to Russia.
Churn on the most popular exchange-traded funds has similarly surged. ETF trading typically picks up during major macro events, as investors hedge and move positions with broad exposures. The iShares high yield credit ETF saw record quarterly turnover this year, while about $3.4 trillion worth of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF was traded in the six months through June, the most tumultuous first half since 2008.
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33 Cyberpunk 2077 Exposé
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Doom and Quake were the only really great games id ever made, and even then they seemed better years ago when I didn't care as much about actual story or depth. AND even then D & Q were mainly a big deal because they pushed first-person computer gaming so far beyond where it had been before. With Quake 2 and Quake 3 they at least added some more color back into their games but they seem to have given up on that.
Doom is still their most fun game for me, it's not really focused on 'realism' (whatever that means in a fictional computer game world anyway), so you run around at 60 mph, carry 7 weapons at once, fight 300 things at a time, the levels don't really make any 'sense', etc. etc. etc.
Quake was true 3D but too brown and NIN-y, Quake 2 was okay but the levels generally somehow felt tiny, Quake 3 was fun for a little while, Doom 3 was plastic-y and dark and tried too hard to be scary, Rage, I dunno, I doubt I'll ever try it, I've already played Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, other post-apocalyptic zombie/mutant games that I can't remember
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Your One Stop Guide for Awesome Things to do in Kreuzberg Berlin
During our first ever trip to Berlin, Germany we were able to stay and explore in one of the coolest neighborhoods the city has to offer and experience the best things to do in Kreuzberg. While we wish our inaugural trip to this vibrant and amazing European city could have been longer we feel as though in our short stay we experienced one of Berlin’s best scene.
When you walk around Kreuzberg, Berlin you feel why this is where the birthplace of the counterculture movement of Berlin is and why it’s known globally for this scene. You can’t help but notice the alternative youth and lifestyle that made this area what it is today, even if it is becoming a bit more gentrified than it once was.
Kreuzberg, Berlin is also where the diversity in the city is. After World War II this was the cheap neighborhood where the immigrant guest workers lived after the area had been heavily bombed in the war. Today, this is where you will see the influences and beauty of immigration in this area from after WWII to today, especially with the global dining selection.
Besides being the punk rock and alternative scene for Berlin, Kreuzberg is also the epicenter and home to the LGBTQ community in Berlin.
We fell in love with this area like many others which is why we highly recommending spending time to get to know this area of Berlin. We’ve highlighted the best things to do in Kreuzberg, Berlin to help you plan your next trip.
Also, check out the best things to do in Friedrichshain, another cool area to explore in Berlin.
Traveling more through Europe? Check out this awesome Europe bucket list to help get ideas of where else you should visit!
Best Things to do in Kreuzberg, Berlin
Turkish Market
Experience one of the most prominent areas in Berlin for immigration after the war. One of the best things to do in Kreuzberg, Berlin is visit the Turkish Market on Tuesdays and Fridays between 11 am and 6:30 pm. You will feel as though you’ve transported to the streets of Istanbul rather than navigating your way through this lively market in Berlin.
A large percentage of immigrants that came to Berlin after WWII were Turkish, and this is the area they lived in. Wander through the market just off of the Kottbusser Tor stop and enjoy Turkish cuisine or shop for various products and handicrafts.
Sadly, we were in Berlin neither on a Tuesday or Friday and missed our opportunity to visit the Turkish Market, however, our next trip this will be a priority.
This is one of those things to do in Kreuzberg, Berlin that is sort of a letdown but our list would be incomplete without even a mention of Checkpoint Charlie. Coming to Berlin and not at least peeking at Checkpoint Charlie would be like going to Hollywood for the first time and not peeking at the scene down Hollywood Boulevard.
This was one of the most famous checkpoints along the Berlin wall separating West Berlin and the GDR. Western allies, the US, were guards at this checkpoint. Today, there are gentlemen dressed in US military outfits who charge for photos.
This feels like a tourist trap, mostly because it is. Take a peek, snap a photo, and move on because there are plenty of other amazing things to do in Kreuzberg, Berlin that your time will be better spent at.
If you’re a lover of modern art this next thing to do in Kreuzberg is for you. Check out the different and changing exhibitions in the Berlinische Galerie from modern art collections to photography. The building the museum is located in is a masterpiece of itself.
There are some permanent exhibitions and temporary so there’s always an excuse to go even if you’ve already went on a previous visit!
One of the best museums and things to do in Kreuzberg is the Jewish Museum. Located in a beautifully designed modern building and filled with modern art installations with deeply connected to what the Jewish community went through during and after World War II in Germany as well as historical and informative exhibits.
The two installations that stood out the most to us were Fallen Leaves in Memory Void and the Garden of Exile.
Fallen Leaves in Memory Void by Menashe Kadishman represents the innocent lives of the 10,000 metal faces on the ground who lost their lives due to violence. You’re invited to walk over the 10,000 metal plates with faces expressing horror which make an eerie clanking sound that echo throughout the empty space in the hall named, Memory Void. You can’t help but just look at the expressions on the face and feel a somber weight as you pass through the corridor.
The Garden of Exile is another installation but outdoors. The concrete structures form a square pattern on a slight slope. You’re invited to walk through the sculpture, as I was walking through it I suddenly felt a bit nauseous. I am already sensitive to motion sickness in a moving vehicle and the feeling I had walking through the Garden of Exile was very similar to that. Without putting much thought into it I went to the edge to sit down until I felt better.
This is when I noticed the sign that said, “enter at your own risk,” and explaining that people feel sick walking through. After looking it up, apparently the feeling I was experiencing is common and a part of the exhibit’s purpose to portray disorientation.
Markthalle Neun Food Hall
One of our favorite things to do in Kreuzberg, Berlin for food is visit Markthalle Neun. This hip food hall is filled with tons of great food options from fresh Italian food to burgers and cute bars. Shop around and pick out what you want to eat then find a picnic table to share with your friends.
This is a particularly great spot to eat at if you are with a group since everyone can pick the type of food they’d like. If you want to build your own picnic, you have that option as well since there is an Aldi also located inside Markthalle Neun.
Check Out Bergmannstraße
One of our favorite areas to explore and things to do in Kreuzberg, Berlin is wander the streets of Bergmannstraße. This area is filled to the brim with cute shops and independent boutiques from designers to second-hand stores.
There’s also a great selection of restaurants and cafes with a fun scene or if you want to explore more food options check out Marheineke Markthalle.
Bergmannstraße is also close to Curry 39, a very popular and famous currywurst stand in Berlin. Currywurst is a must try while you’re in Berlin if you haven’t had it before. It’s basically a sausage with ketchup and curry seasoning which has a unique and tasty flavor. Curry 39 often has a long line, however, if you go right before the lunch rush you might luck out like we did, we got there at around 11:30 am and there was no line! We were told that is VERY rare.
Oberbaum Bridge
Another iconic thing to do in Kreuzberg is visit the beautiful Oberbaum Bridge. This bridge connects Kreuzberg to Friedrichshain over the River Spree and is not only a great way to get from one neighborhood to another but also great for photographs.
The Oberbaum Bridge also has an interesting history as the two sides of Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain have sort of fought over the bridge over the years with their famous water battle. Every year since 1998 until 2013 the two different sides of the bridge, Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg hold an anarchic battle using nonviolent objects such as rotten produce or water. Each year there was a new winner.
Besides the famous water fights that took place here, the Oberbaum Bridge was also another checkpoint during the Cold War era and the bridge was used as a crossover checkpoint from the West to East.
You may also recognize this bridge if you’re a fan of the Matt Damon Bourne movies as it was used for a filming location in The Bourne Supremacy.
Explore Oranienstraße
Another one of the best areas to explore and best things to do in Kreuzberg is exploring the scene at Oranienstraße. This area is famous for its nightclubs and entertainment scene and is great for anyone looking for good nightlife. One of the most famous bars is SO36 and was one of the famous hang out spots for music icons, David Bowie and Iggy Pop.
Oranienstraße is also home Café Ora, a cool bar set in a former pharmacy with apothecary themed cocktails and décor.
We were also told that 1001 Falafel had some of the best falafel in town and that the Korean Fried Chicken, the Angry Chicken spot was also a must. Had we not already ate, we would have been all up in that Korean fried chicken since we LOVE IT and miss it so much from our days living in Seoul.
Find the Street Art of Kreuzberg, Berlin
If you’re into street art then this is one of the best things to do in Kreuzberg, Berlin for you. Check out some of the most famous murals and street art around Kreuzberg. Here were a few of our favorite spots:
Located in Mariannenstraße you can find the giant spaceman, despite popular belief, this is not one of the largest stenciled murals, the artist actually painted this piece on a grid scaled larger from his smaller copy.
To get to this piece you need to take the U-train station to Kottbusser Tor. After you arrive, walk east on Skalitzer Strasse and take the first left turn up Mariannenstrasse and you won’t be able to miss it.
Street Art on Curvy Street
You can see giant murals and work by the famous artist BLU on Curvy Street. You can find most pieces in the area between Schlesischer Straße, Curvystraße, and Spree.
See more by the artist BLU by walking on Oppelner Strasse and Oberbaumstrasse near the River Spree. This was the one we saw and didn’t realize it was by artist BLU and didn’t take a photo. The mural is made up of a face of man made by many smaller people, the piece is known as Backjump.
Elephant Playing With a Balloon by Jadore Tong (S.Y.R.U.S)
Another one of our favorite pieces in Kreuzberg, this giant mural is not far from the Jewish Museum and Berlinishche Galerie connected to a basketball court and next to a children’s playground by an apartment complex.
The Bethanien
Once an old hospital run by nuns then a squatters residence in the 70s, now an entire urban complex full of great things to do in Kreuzberg like art exhibits, restaurants, an open air cinema with movies in English, and even a pharmacy that is still operating from the old hospital days. Besides being a compound of cool things to do in the area set in these historical buildings, the Bethanien is still an area for squatters today. See more here.
Treehouse By The Wall
Another cool thing to do in Kruezberg is check out Treehouse By The Wall. While this doesn’t look like much in person, it’s the backstory and history that goes along with this little plot of land that makes this spot fascinating.
Turkish immigrant, Osman Kalin, noticed a small plot of land that was unused on the west side of the wall that technically belonged to East Germany during the era of the wall. The wall was built around this little plot on a curve to save money and technically belonged to the GDR even though he was on the west side, so the west couldn’t do anything with the land and the east couldn’t reach it.
Kalin saw this plot of land and decided to grow a garden on it, the East Germans decided he was allowed to grow his garden there, it was actually the West who gave him a hard time about using the plot of land.
Eventually, the little piece of land went from being a garden to having a full on tree house built by Kalin. The East German guards enjoyed Kalin and even waved to him. Kalin even offered them garlic and produce from his garden, he didn’t care about politics, he just was a kind person.
In the 1980s the anarchists in the alternative scene in Kreuzberg respected Kalin for doing his own thing. He became a local celebrity in some sorts.
After the wall came down, authorities wanted to build a road in its location but Kalin and locals fought on his behalf to keep the land. Sadly he passed away last year but his family keeps the property currently and tells his story to this day.
Check out the Kreuzberg Beach Bars
Another one of the best things to do in Kreuzberg is check out the local beach bars. It’s funny to call them ‘beach bars’ but the city calls them that as they are often located right along the River Spree.
One of our favorite spots was Club der Visionӓre recommended to us by a Berliner. This bar has a laid back, cool vibe with electro music and a wooden sun deck.
Apparently, Sunday afternoons are the best but we came on a weekday evening and it was still a fun, relaxed scene with good music and drinks.
Just a few steps further is Badeschiff, a public floating swimming pool along the river with stand up paddle boards, sand, beach lounge chairs, and a bar! Sadly, this was closed for a private event during our visit but just peeking in this spot looked awesome! We will have to visit this on our return to Berlin.
Not a beach bar, but located right next to the beach bars mentioned above is an awesome restaurant and something you need to add high on your things to do in Kreuzberg Berlin list. Freischswimmer is a riverside restaurant directly across from Club der Visionӓre, you can actually see into the club from this side of the restaurant.
They serve up great food on their wooden deck with a great view and perfect for a relaxing dining experience. We enjoyed the atmosphere the most and it was a perfect location for a meal right after a few drinks at the beach bars.
Check out the best beach bars in Berlin here.
Where to stay in Kreuzberg, Berlin
We recommend staying where we stayed, at Mövenpick Hotel Berlin in Kreuzberg. This hotel offers comfortable rooms, ours offered a specialized mattress that adapts to our weight, body, and sleeping position along with a remote that let you adjust the firmness or softness for your hips and shoulders on each side of the bed. We had great sleep here!
We also enjoyed their delicious breakfast spread every morning and there is a fitness facility and spa on site too. We were also walking distance to alot of the attractions in Kreuzberg which also made it very convenient and there was a bus stop right outside for those spots not so close.
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Kia planning a tiny, affordable, short-range electric car
Susannah Guthrie
Kia's Europe boss says the car will be a response to people's increasing avoidance of public transport.
Kia Motors is developing an ultra-compact electric car to rival existing models such as the Citroen Ami, in an effort to provide people with affordable alternatives to public transport in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.
In an interview with Auto Express, Kia Motors' Europe COO, Emilio Herrera, said the South Korean carmaker had noted the rise in the use of private transportation following the COVID-19 outbreak and was working to fill a gap in the market for a small, economical, sustainable, urban-friendly car.
“We are already studying a proposal on having very small micro vehicles for urban use – we see a real potential,” he explained.
“Those vehicles we are targeting are EVs – 100 per cent electric with a small range, but being used only in an urban environment."
Kia's model, Mr Herrera said, would rival existing offerings like the Citroen Ami, a Europe-only micro electric vehicle offering a range of only 71km and a top speed of 45km/h.
Above: The Citroen Ami.
Much like the Ami – which can be purchased outright for €6000 (AU$10,030) or rented by the minute, month or longer-term – Kia's car would also likely be available on a subscription basis.
“It’s something we’re investigating at this point in time because we believe it could be an alternative to public transportation, providing we can deliver it at a very similar cost to public transportation," Mr Herrera explained.
"So that means a subscription model, or you can rent it for a week or month, so it needs to be pretty flexible like public transportation. We’re really looking at very low monthly prices for subscription, so it can really compete – and the Ami is one of the vehicles we’ve looked at.”
Mr Herrera said the car won't only be available in Europe, saying: “The idea with this project is for it to be global, not just for Europe. It will have the synergies of scale to ensure that this vehicle would be available at a very cheap price for consumers.”
Mr Herrera did not confirm whether the new car's platform would be the same one currently being developed by Kia's sister brand, Hyundai, in partnership with Californian EV startup Canoo.
“We could eventually share the platform with Hyundai, but the idea is to have a dedicated platform from Kia that we could eventually share with Hyundai," he said.
A rendering of the vehicle obtained exclusively by Auto Express suggests it will look similar to a Picanto while borrowing its boxy silhouette and some frontal design elements from Kia's E-Soul (pictured above) – an all-electric city hatchback the company hoped to introduce in Australia in 2020, but has now been pushed back indefinitely.
Currently, the smallest Kia available in Australia is the petrol-powered Picanto, which starts from $16,190 drive-away and leads the city-car segment in the national sales race.
A Kia Motors Australia spokesperson told CarAdvice the Australian arm had no further information on the car or its likelihood of making it to our market.
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The History of Pai Gow Poker
We admit that this is the strangest and most confusing combination of words to name a casino game. It sounds oriental, yet poker is identified with the western world. Pai Gow Poker is actually a mix of an Asian game called Pai Gow and poker. This centuries-old game was played with numbered tiles, which later were replaced with cards in order for the game to appeal more to westerners, and thus Pai Gow Poker was created.
Pai Gow Poker is played just like poker, only that a joker is used as well. All the hands are valued according to the standard poker rules, so there is really not much to it that players can find difficult. This game is a really fun alternative to poker where the reduction of the house edge is very much possible if you stick to a winning playing style. It’s a simple, yet entertaining game to play.
The game has both ancient and modern origins. The game of Pai Gow was invented during the Song Dynasty and was played with tiles that resembled dominos. It was played with up to 8 players that arranged their pieces in a way to form two hands, which today in Pai Gow Poker are called “back hand” and “front hand”. These two hands are used to beat the house, and you need both of them to win in order to beat the house.
This is how Pai Gow was played then. Pai Gow Poker on the other hand is played exactly the same today, only instead of tiles we use standard poker card deck with which we form two poker hands, one is a five card hand (the back hand) and the other is a two card hand (the front hand) which is used to form a pair of cards.
The Creation of Pai Gow Poker
The first time that Pai Gow appeared in the western gambling world was in a Las Vegas in 1979 in a casino called the Caesars Palace. This was the only casino that offered it for that time. Six years later, Pai Gow Poker was invented. It is considered strictly an American invention, and the first time it appeared was in the Bell Card Club in California, where the game quickly took over the entire floor space with Pai Gow Poker tables dominating the entire service only to become an exclusive Pai Gow Poker Club.
The owner of this club, Mr. Torosian came up with the game when he got introduced to the old Chinese card game of Pai Gow which was a bit complicated for western standards, so he changed the hands with poker hands which made it much easier to understand and the game quickly took off. The joker wild feature was also an idea of the owner of the Club. The biggest mistake that the creator Mr. Torosian did was not to patent the game. Today, Pai Gow Poker generates revenues that go into millions, and sadly he is left out.
Modern Day Pai Gow Poker
By the 90s all casinos across the US have embraced this exciting new game. The game even spread overseas to South America and Europe, and even China where Macau casinos liked the idea very much. Pai Gow Poker today is part of all big online casinos as well. Actually, online Pai Gow Poker is particularly popular table game among casino players. The game is reported to be very low risk game allowing high stakes to be played so it should be a very favorable game for high rollers.
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Omar Oakes
Is the 'crisis of creative effectiveness' overblown?
A new book suggests advertisers are overlooking the importance of right-brain thinking.
Lemon: book launched to coincide with EffWeek
Are half of our brains being neglected?
It would appear so, according to the IPA's new book Lemon, published last week for the EffWeek conference. The book, authored by System1 chief innovation officer Orlando Wood, went so far as to claim the industry is going through a "crisis in creative effectiveness".
The reason, Wood argues, is that advertisers are overlooking the importance of right-brain thinking – the rational half of the cranium. This is due to a more polarised political climate and more short-term attention spans; advertising apparently now appeals more to "left-brained" thinking with a more narrow focus.
This means that work has become "flat, abstract, dislocated and devitalised", Wood says.
Lemon's findings are supported by the venerable Les Binet and Peter Field, while Ogilvy vice-president and strategy guru Rory Sutherland praised the work as "wonderful".
However, critics like Iain Jacob argue that claims of a decline in creativity are "lazy thinking".
Jacob said: "[Clients] are just going to a broader range of places to find their creative gold. The hegemony of the old system might be what is actually in crisis."
So, is the crisis overblown?
Orlando Wood
Chief innovation officer, System1
If there are signs of hope, then I couldn’t be more delighted – and the quantity of advertising has never been in question. Individual examples aside, however, the broad picture from large data sets is clear – advertising isn’t moving audiences today. It’s less noticeable and less memorable than it used to be. Creativity is alive, but it’s operating against gale-force headwinds – a wind tunnel that flattens and homogenises.
Creativity is increasingly "single-use" and its long-term effects are withering on the vine. But there’s a real hunger for solutions and I’ve been hugely heartened by the breadth of support I’ve received from across the industry, from those who commission, make and carry advertising.
Adrian Rossi
Creative chairman, Grey London
Victorian follies were buildings constructed primarily for decoration – extravagant constructions that had no practical purpose whatsoever. In light of this, the question could be reframed to ask whether Cannes Lions is approaching a critical mass of advertising follies.
Bar a few very notable exceptions, it is an awards show that now encourages left-brained work. Why? It is human instinct to follow what is successful, but the majority of awarded work has failed to achieve the right balance. So it is not surprising people are then creating one-off, unemotional ideas.
But where there is plenty to seek encouragement is outside the bubble of Cannes. There is wonderful, effective work being produced, but it is not on-trend. We need to reclaim the word "creativity" as a force for effectiveness, not one of folly.
Bridget Angear
Joint chief strategy officer, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO
Peter Field is not a man known for his use of hyperbole or dramatically colourful language, so when he says there is a crisis of creativity (which he did in June of this year), we should sit up and take notice. And most of us at the coalface of developing ideas will have witnessed this pressure to focus on short-term, sales-driving tactics, often at the expense of longer-term brand-building initiatives.
Whether we buy the explanation that it is because we have all become too left-brained or not, it has never felt more important to acknowledge and reward clients who still believe in building brands for the long term. As the APG Awards last week did. And perhaps we all need to learn to love consistency as much as we love change and encourage our clients to do likewise.
If we do that, then perhaps just as Mark Twain quipped in response to rumours that he had died, "reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated".
Jo Arden
Chief strategy officer, MullenLowe London
We love to catastrophise in advertising. In an effort not to, let’s think of this as a correction, not a crisis. There’s clearly a divergence of what gets creatively awarded and what actually works. But the fact that we’ve clocked that and we’re collectively a bit worked up about it suggests we can also sort it out.
The solution is threefold: reconnect with audiences and build deep empathy with them; make work that addresses problems first and juries second; and be proud only when creativity and effectiveness exist together, not trade one off for the other.
Rory Sutherland
Vice-chairman, Ogilvy UK
I, for one, don't think the crisis is entirely overblown. The more the industry attempts to be efficient, the less effective it becomes. An obsession with metrics and quantification only works if you are measuring the right things. We aren't.
Phil Barden
Managing director, Decode
The idea of logical/creative differences between brain hemispheres is one of the ‘extreme and long-abandoned brain myths’ according to neuroscientist Thomas Ramsoy (Journal of Advertising Research, September 2019).
There are differences but, without applying scientific rigour and understanding, there’s a danger of simplistic reduction to left = logical/rational, and right = creative/emotional or, even worse, left = System 2 and right = System 1. Allocating mental processes such as implicit/explicit or goal orientation to one or the other hemisphere lacks scientific rigour. Also, this division is not helpful as it establishes and reinforces the same old trade-off that we’ve suffered for years: thinking of rational/emotional as two antagonists from which one must choose – and this is an obstacle to effective advertising.
A more rigorous and helpful approach comes from a behavioural science perspective: advertising is effective if the message fits the ‘jobs to be done’ (motivation) and if the way the brand is staged as a means to this end – to deliver against the jobs – is dramatised in an emotionally engaging way. The emotional response watching an ad is a response induced by the ad that helps to process the ad’s content. Emotion is the effective vehicle to convey the right message, but the motivating aspect of communication is the message – not the emotional response while watching. To be effective we must combine both: the motivating proposition (what) staged in an emotional way (how) – and this doesn’t require a trade-off.
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Capitalism vs. Slavery
by Phillip W. Magness | Aug 10, 2020 | History
Similarities between slavery and socialism, and indeed the aggressive anti-capitalist rhetoric of proslavery ideology, are seldom examined in the “New History of Capitalism” literature.
What is capitalism’s view toward slavery? It seems like a crazy question, but not so much actually, not in these times. So let us begin with the opening line of the first chapter of George Fitzhugh’s Sociology for the South, first published in 1854.
Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxim Laissez-faire and “Pas trop gouverner,” are at war with all kinds of slavery, for they in fact assert that individuals and peoples prosper most when governed least.
Fizhugh’s point was to inveigh against economic freedom and in defense of slavery. His radical tract sought to make out an elaborate ideological case for slave labor and indeed all aspects of social ordering. Such a system, he announced, would resolve the posited state of perpetual conflict between labor and the owners of capital by supplanting it with the paternalistic hierarchy of slavery — a model he advocated not only for the plantations of the South but also for adaptation to the factories of the Northeast.
In total, Fitzhugh presented a horrifying vision of a national society reordered around the principle of chattel slavery. And as his introductory remarks announced, attainment of that society required the defeat of its remaining obstacle, the free market.
Although rightly rejected today, the Virginia-born Fitzhugh attained national prominence in the late antebellum period as one of the most widely read defenders of a slave-based economy. Charles Sumner called him a “leading writer among Slave-masters,” and his regular contributions to the pro-South magazine DeBow’s Review gained him a national readership in the 1850s.
In 1855 Fitzhugh embarked on a publicity tour of the Northeast, jousting with abolitionist Wendell Phillips in a series of back-to-back lectures on the slavery question. By 1861, he had added his voice to the cause of southern secessionism and began mapping out an elaborate slave-based industrialization policy for the Confederacy’s wartime economy.
Fitzhugh was also an avowed anti-capitalist. Slavery’s greatest threat came from the free market economic doctrines of Europe, which were “tainted with abolition, and at war with our institutions.” To survive, he declared, the South must “throw Adam Smith, Say, Ricardo & Co., in the fire.”
Such rhetoric presents an under-acknowledged conundrum for modern historians. It is academically trendy at the moment to depict plantation slavery as an integral component of American capitalism.
A multipart feature series in the New York Times advances this thesis, depicting modern free market capitalism as an inherently “racist” institution and a direct lineal descendant of plantation slavery, still exhibiting the brutality of that system. This characterization draws heavily from the so-called “New History of Capitalism” (NHC) — a genre of historical writing that swept through the academy in the last decade and that aggressively promotes the thesis that free market capitalism and slavery are inextricably linked.
Many leading examples of NHC scholarship in the academy today are plagued by shoddy economic analysis and documented misuse of historical evidence. These works often present historically implausible arguments, such as the notion that modern double-entry accounting emerged from plantation ledger books (the practice actually traces to the banking economies of Renaissance Italy), or that its use by slave owners is distinctively capitalistic (even the Soviets employed modern accounting practices, despite attempting to centrally plan their entire economy). Indeed, it was NHC historian Ed Baptist who produced an unambiguously false statistic purporting to show that cotton production accounted for a full half of the antebellum American economy (it actually comprised about 5 percent of GDP).
Despite the deep empirical and historical deficiencies of this literature, NHC arguments are still widely enlisted not only as historical analysis of slavery’s economics but as an ideological attack on modern capitalism itself. If capitalism is historically tainted by its links to slavery, they reason, then the effects of slavery’s stain persist in modern American capitalism today. In its most extreme iterations, these same historians then advocate a political reordering of the American economy to remove that stain. In other words, to reconcile our society to its history and atone for the sins of slavery, we must abandon what remains of American capitalism.
The NHC literature’s use of the term “capitalism” is plagued by its own definitional fluidity, which, at times, encompasses everything from laissez-faire non-intervention to protectionist mercantilism to state-ordered central planning. Most economic historians take care to differentiate between the features of these widely varying systems; however, the NHC literature has adopted a habit of simply relabeling everything as “capitalism.” A command-and-control wartime industrial policy thus becomes “war capitalism,” while a slave-oriented mercantilist regime of protective tariffs and industrial subsidies becomes “racial slave capitalism,” and so forth.
When brandished in modern politics, it quickly becomes clear that the same scholars have only one “capitalism” in mind. The NHC genre’s own economic inclinations veer unambiguously in a leftward direction, suggesting their real ire is toward the classical liberal free market variety of capitalism. Wealth redistribution, the nationalization of health care and other entire economic sectors, socialistic central planning of industries around labor activism, and even a plethora of climate change policies thereby become necessary acts of “social justice” to correct for capitalism’s supposed slavery-infused legacy.
We therefore arrive at the curious position wherein “atonement” for slavery, as presented by the NHC historians, involves politically repudiating the same free market doctrines that Fitzhugh deemed the greatest danger to slavery itself in the decade before the Civil War.
Returning to Fitzhugh’s defense of slavery, we find deep similarities to anti-capitalist rhetoric today. The economic doctrines of laissez-faire, he wrote in 1857, foster “a system of unmitigated selfishness.” They subject nominally free labor to the “despotism of capital” wherein the capitalist class extracts an “exploitation of skill” from wage laborers, as found in the difference between the value of what they create and the much lower compensation they receive.
As Fitzhugh argued, by way of the example of a wealthy acquaintance who had “ceased work” and lived off of his fortune, the capitalist’s “capital was but the accumulation of the results of their labor; for common labor creates all capital.” He then succinctly explained the result by noting “the capitalist, living on his income, gives nothing to his subjects. He lives by mere exploitation.” As Fitzhugh continued:
It is the interest of the capitalist and the skillful to allow free laborers the least possible portion of the fruits of their own labor; for all capital is created by labor, and the smaller the allowance of the free laborer, the greater the gains of his employer. To treat free laborers badly and unfairly, is universally inculcated as a moral duty, and the selfishness of man’s nature prompts him to the most rigorous performance of this cannibalish duty. We appeal to political economy; the ethical, social, political and economic philosophy of free society, to prove the truth of our doctrines. As an ethical and social guide, that philosophy teaches, that social, individual and national competition, is a moral duty, and we have attempted to prove all competition is but the effort to enslave others, without being encumbered with their support.
The difference between the value of the laborer’s product and this substantially lower wage, Fitzhugh explained, provided a measure of the exploited share of his work.
If this line of reasoning sounds familiar, it is due to a very real parallel between Fitzhugh’s formulation of the capital–labor relationship and that of another famous contemporary. Fitzhugh had effectively worked out the Marxian theory of “surplus value” over a decade before the publication of Marx’s own Capital (1867), and derived it from the same sweeping indictment of the free-labor capitalism.
The two thinkers would only diverge in their next steps, the prescriptive solution. Whereas Marx rejected chattel slavery and extrapolated a long historical march to an eventual socialist reordering through revolutionary upheaval, Fitzhugh saw a readily available alternative. “Slavery is a form, and the very best form, of socialism,” he explained. Wage labor, he predicted, would be forever insufficient to meet the needs of the laborer due to deprivation of his products from his skill. Slavery, to Fitzhugh’s convenience, could step in and fill the gap through the paternalistic provision of necessities for the enslaved, allegedly removing the “greed” of wage exploitation from the process.
Since slaves became the charge of the slave master and were placed under his care for food and shelter, Fitzhugh reasoned that “slaves consume more of the results of their own labor than laborers at the North.” Plantation slavery, according to this contorted line of thinking, thereby mitigated the “exploitation” of wage labor capitalism and returned a greater portion of the posited surplus value. In the Marxian counterpart, a socialist state fulfills a similar function.
Fitzhugh’s eccentric extrapolation from what are essentially Marxian doctrines has the effect of turning Marx’s own untenable “solution” to capital ownership on its head. But the two thinkers unite in their grievances: a shared enmity toward market capitalism, and a desire to cast free market allocation of resources aside through coercive social reordering to achieve their respective ideal societies — mass enslavement or global communism.
These similarities between Fitzhugh and socialism, and indeed the aggressive anti-capitalist rhetoric of proslavery ideology, are seldom examined in the NHC literature. In its quest to politically tar modern capitalism with the horrors of slavery, these historians have adopted a practice of evidentiary negligence that conveniently excludes the explicit anti-capitalist ideological tenets of the very same slave system that they rebrand as a foundation of the modern capitalist economy .
Fitzhugh was not alone in adopting and adapting anti-capitalist ideology to the defense of slavery. Indeed, he heavily extrapolated it from Thomas Carlyle’s own racist attacks upon the “dismal science” of economics on account of its close historical ties to abolitionism. That these proslavery thinkers found a parallel rationale in socialism and deployed it to attack a common enemy of free markets, irrespective of their otherwise-divergent claims, is indicative of a shared illiberalism between the two. In practice, unfortunately, the immiserating historical records of each reveal that the only remaining distinction between their political outcomes consists of the choice between the slavery of the plantation and the slavery of the gulag.
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Phil Magness is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of numerous works on economic history, taxation, economic inequality, the history of slavery, and education policy in the United States.
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Al Waxman est un Acteur, Réalisateur et Scénariste Canadien né le 2 mars 1935 à Toronto (Canada)
Al Waxman
Nom de naissance Albert Samuel Waxman
Nationalité Canada
Naissance 2 mars 1935 à Toronto (Canada)
Mort 18 janvier 2001 (à 65 ans) à Toronto (Canada)
Al Waxman est un acteur, réalisateur et scénariste canadien, né le 2 mars 1935 à Toronto, et mort le 18 janvier 2001 à Toronto (Canada).
Waxman was born in Toronto to Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents operated and owned Melinda Lunch, a small restaurant. His father, Aaron Waxman, died when Al was nine.
Waxman's career began at the age of twelve on CBC Radio, but it was not until 1975, when he began playing the role of Larry King on CBC's King of Kensington, that he became a Canadian icon.
In the 1980 award winning film Atlantic City starring Burt Lancaster, Waxman appeared as a rich cocaine buyer with a seemingly endless amount of cash.
During the 1980s, Waxman starred as the gruff but endearing Lt. Bert Samuels in the highly successful CBS television drama Cagney & Lacey.
During the 1990s, Waxman appeared in a variety of films and television shows, but began spending more time acting and directing in the theatre. In 1991, Al hosted Missing Treasures, a TV show which profiled missing children in Canada. He was also a founding member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.
In 1997, he was awarded the best actor Gemini Award for his performance in the television film Net Worth.
Waxman also appeared at the Stratford Festival, beginning with his critically acclaimed performance as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman in 1997. He also directed The Diary of Anne Frank at the Stratford Festival in 2000. He was to return to Stratford for his highly anticipated portrayal of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice in 2001. In the wake of Waxman's death, one month before rehearsals were to begin, Paul Soles accepted the part of Shylock and the play was performed in honour of Waxman.
His last television role was as celestial Judge Othneil in Twice in a Lifetime. The last episode, on which he worked right up until the afternoon before his elective heart bypass surgery, was about a man, popular in his community, who needed routine bypass surgery, but died during the operation. Although some sections of the episode were rewritten, at the end of this final episode, Waxman's character is asked rhetorically "why do the good die young" to which he has no answer. He's then told "you were quite a warrior". His response – not merely the end of the episode, but one of Waxman's last lines ever recorded, and spoken with a smile – was: "I had my day".
Throughout his career, he responded to the need for his services in community work and was involved with charitable causes from coast to coast. He was a spokesperson for organizations such as United Appeal, United Jewish Appeal, Israel Bonds, Variety Club, the Muscular Dystrophy Telethons, and Big Brothers (for which he also became an honorary member). From June 1979 to June 1981, he was the National Campaign Chairman for the Canadian Cancer Society, and from 1988 to 1989, he was an official spokesperson for the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario. Together with his wife, Sara Waxman, he also created the Sara and Al Waxman Neo-Natal Unit at the Shaare Zedek Medical Centre in Jerusalem.
Al Waxman was accorded many tributes for his volunteer and philanthropic work. In 1978, he was honoured with the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal. In 1989, he was the recipient of the B'nai B'rith of Canada Humanitarian Award. In 1996, Waxman was inducted into the Order of Ontario and, in 1997, into the Order of Canada. In 1998, he was given the Earle Grey Award for lifetime achievement in Canadian television.
Waxman died in Toronto during heart surgery on January 18, 2001, at the age of 65.
Following his death, a statue of him, created by Ruth Abernethy, was erected in Kensington Market, the Toronto neighbourhood where King of Kensington takes place. The inscription in front of the statue reads "There's lots to do down the road, there's always more. Trust your gut instincts. In small matters trust your mind, but in the important decisions of life – trust your heart." In May 2014, the statue was vandalised with graffiti and resembled the Joker, a Batman villain. A relationship anarchy symbol was also on the statue's forehead. However, Abernethy said she doesn't take the vandalism personally. The statue was later cleaned and polished.
Musician Jaymz Bee of the Bee People (prior to his work with Look People, the Royal Jelly Orchestra, and various projects) was a founder of the Al Waxman Fan Club. The fan club began in 1984 following the heyday of the King of Kensington television show. Bee, his associates Clay Tyson (son of Ian & Sylvia), Bazl Salazar, Bruce J. Scott, and artist Max MacDonald, would host parties and write songs in honour of Waxman. They created a dance called "The Waxman Wiggle". Some Bee People song titles include: "Have Al Instead", "Al or Nothing", "UniversAl" and "Puff, The Waxman Poodle". While the fan club initially appeared to be a publicity stunt, this led to a long and successful association between Jaymz Bee and Al Waxman. Waxman attended some of the fan club events as organised by Bee, most of which raised money for charities such as the Canadian Cancer Foundation and Big Brother.
Bee attended Waxman's funeral and, with his fan club, held a wake in Toronto on January 25, 2001. They had a New Orleans-style funeral march with a jazz band and paraded from The Cameron House to Kensington Market where they recorded his hit TV theme song with Vezi Tayyeb at Kensington Sound. The AWFC boasted over 1,000 card carrying members and, while the bulk of members were from Toronto, some were as far away as Japan and Africa. President Bee received a terse reply from Buckingham Palace notifying him that the Queen does not "join a fan club". Al Waxman realized over the years that this organization, while appearing tongue-in-cheek, was a group of bona fide fans who enjoyed celebrating "the King of Canada". Members of the now dormant AWFC can still be seen wandering through Kensington Market to shake the hand of the Al Waxman statue that resides there.
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Filmographie de Al Waxman (37 films)
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At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story (2007)
Origine Canada
Acteurs Wendy Crewson, Carl Marotte, Walter Learning, Al Waxman, Miko Hugues, Fiona Reid
Rôle John Hofsess
Judy Garland, la vie d'une étoile (2001)
Acteurs Judy Davis, Tammy Blanchard, Victor Garber, Hugh Laurie, John Benjamin Hickey, Alison Pill
Rôle Louis B. Mayer
Christmas 1924: Two-year-old Frances Gumm performs in public for the first time, singing "Jingle Bells". Her mother, Ethel, watches from the audience while her father, Frank, watches from backstage. Ethel is unhappy with her marriage because of her husband's homosexuality. To help herself cope, she moves the family to Hollywood with the hope that her daughters will break into the movie business.
Les liens du coeur (2001)
Réalisé par Maggie Greenwald
Acteurs Brooke Shields, Cherry Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, Anne Meara, Al Waxman, Melanie Nicholls-King
Rôle Frank Cataldi
En Floride, Sandy Cataldi vit en couple avec Janine Nielssen. Très amoureuses l'une de l'autre, Sandy et Janine décident de se marier. Rapidement, elles désirent avoir un enfant et ont recours à l'insémination artificielle. Si la famille de Sandy est enthousiaste à cette idée, celle de Janine, qui n'a toujours pas accepté son homosexualité, réagit violemment et la rejette.
Summer's End (2000)
Réalisé par Helen Shaver
Acteurs James Earl Jones, Jake LeDoux, Brendan Fletcher, Wendy Crewson, Al Waxman, R. D. Reid
Rôle Grandpa Trapnell
Hurricane Carter (1999)
Réalisé par Norman Jewison
Thèmes La prison, Le racisme, Sport, Arts martiaux, La boxe, La peine de mort, Le boxe anglaise
Acteurs Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber, John Hannah, Dan Hedaya
Rôle Warden
À la fin des années 1950, Rubin Carter, boxeur de talent, est condamné à la perpétuité pour un triple meurtre qu'il n'a pas commis. Décidé à faire connaitre sa vérité, il décide de publier son autobiographie. Malheureusement pour lui, sa situation n'évolue pas. Des années plus tard, un adolescent, convaincu de son innocence, décide de se battre à ses côtés pour lui rendre sa liberté.
A Saintly Switch (1999)
Réalisé par Peter Bogdanovich
Genres Comédie, Fantasy
Thèmes Sport, Football américain
Acteurs David Alan Grier, Vivica A. Fox, Al Waxman, Shadia Simmons, Rue McClanahan, Frank Welker
Rôle Coach Beasily
At the film's opening, Dan and Sara are experiencing marital fallout. According to their pre-teen children, Clark and Annette, they both underestimate each other's role in the family. When a new position with the Saints takes them to New Orleans, the Andersons purchase a dilapidated mansion. Upon arrival, they start fighting worse than ever. The children go up into the attic and discover a book of spells, finding out from their babysitter, the resident voodoo sorceress, that this house once belonged to the most powerful sorceress in the area. Desperate to save their parents marriage, the two cast a spell which inadvertently switches their parents' bodies.
Critical Care (1997)
Réalisé par Sidney Lumet
Genres Drame, Comédie
Thèmes Maladie
Acteurs James Spader, Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren, Anne Bancroft, Albert Brooks, Wallace Shawn
Rôle Avocat Sheldon Hatchett
Dans un hôpital en crise, un médecine est impliqué dans la dispute entre deux demi-sœurs, l'une voulant débrancher leur père plongé dans le coma, l'autre non.
Contrat sur un terroriste (1997)
Réalisé par Christian Duguay
Genres Drame, Thriller, Action, Aventure, Espionnage, Policier
Thèmes Espionnage, Politique, Le terrorisme, Politique
Acteurs Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley, Claudia Ferri, Céline Bonnier, Leni Parker
Rôle Carl Mickens - CIA
Deux agents de la Central Intelligence Agency et du Mossad, Shaw et Amos, forment et utilisent un sosie du terroriste vénézuélien Ilich Ramirez Sanchez alias Carlos, en la personne du Lt. Cmdr. Annibal Ramirez de l'US Navy, pour le traquer...
Bogus (1996)
Genres Science-fiction, Fantastique, Comédie, Comédie dramatique, Fantasy
Thèmes L'enfance, Films pour enfants
Acteurs Whoopi Goldberg, Gérard Depardieu, Haley Joel Osment, Nancy Travis, Andrea Martin, Denis Mercier
Rôle le principal
À la suite du décès de sa mère dans un accident de voiture, Albert, sept ans, doit quitter Las Vegas et son monde de paillettes, de clowns et d'illusionnistes pour retrouver une nouvelle maman, la meilleure amie d'enfance de sa mère. Harriet, célibataire endurcie et femme indépendante et dynamique, ne comprend pas ce petit orphelin rêveur qui, pour se défendre de son pragmatisme lui oppose un personnage invisible, Bogus, colosse jovial et chaleureux. Harriet s'efforce de ramener l'enfant à la réalité jusqu'au jour où elle se rend à l'évidence : Bogus n'est pas un fantasme.
Genres Drame, Biographie, Action, Policier
Thèmes L'immigration, Mafia, La mer, Transport, Gangsters
Acteurs Armand Assante, William Forsythe, Anthony Quinn, Vincent Pastore, Richard C. Sarafian, Dominic Chianese
Rôle Bruce Cutler
De 1973 à 1992, l'ascension du gangster John Gotti, membre de la famille Gambino, une des plus importantes de la mafia new-yorkaise, qui allait devenir le parrain après en avoir éliminé Paul Castellano, le chef en place qu'il haïssait, avant de connaître la chute, notamment de sa surmédiatisation dans les médias et par la trahison de son consigliere Sammy Gravano.
Aigle de fer IV (1995)
Réalisé par Sidney J. Furie
Genres Thriller, Action, Aventure
Thèmes Le terrorisme, Transport, Aviation, Forces armées des États-Unis, Écoterrorisme
Acteurs Louis Gossett Jr., Al Waxman, Joanne Vannicola, Marilyn Lightstone, Dean McDermott, Aidan Devine
Rôle Gen. Kettle
Affecté à une école de pilotage pour jeunes délinquants, un ancien as de l'US Air Force se voit relégué au rôle d'entraîneur d'un groupe de recrues peu disciplinées. Alors qu'il tente de mener à bien sa mission, il découvre que l'école sert de couverture à un odieux traffic ....
Net Worth (1995)
Réalisé par Jerry Ciccoritti
Thèmes Sport, Hockey sur glace
Acteurs Aidan Devine, R.H. Thomson, Carl Marotte, Al Waxman, Richard Donat, Dan Lett
Rôle Jack Adams
Based on the true story of the Detroit Red Wings' Ted Lindsay, a nine-time NHL All-Star who, along with Doug Harvey of the Montreal Canadiens, headed up a small group of players in a battle to protect the rights of players against monopolistic NHL owners of the 1950s era, including Bruce Norris of the Red Wings, Conn Smythe of the Toronto Maple Leafs and James D. Norris of the Chicago Black Hawks as well as NHL president, Clarence Campbell. The film focuses on the conflict between Lindsay and Jack Adams, Detroit's general manager, as well as Lindsay's struggle to win over the trust and support of the players, including Lindsay's long-time team mate, the legendary Gordie Howe, amidst coercion and threats from the league and the owners. Lindsay's efforts would ultimately result in the formation of the NHL Players Association.
Explosion immédiate (1992)
Genres Drame, Thriller, Action
Thèmes Le terrorisme, Transport, Automobile, Road movie, Film de poursuite
Acteurs Pierce Brosnan, Ron Silver, Ben Cross, Philip Baker Hall, Lisa Eilbacher, Tony Plana
Rôle James Garvey
À la suite de violentes explosions décimant la classe politique, le gouvernement décide de faire appel à un expert en explosifs du FBI pour mener l’enquête. À chaque attentat, pas le moindre indice, ni la moindre de trace d'explosif. Danny O'Neill (Pierce Brosnan) doit mettre fin à cette série d'actions terroristes qui ébranle le pouvoir, mais le temps joue contre lui...
New York, alerte à la peste (1992)
Genres Thriller
Thèmes Film catastrophe, Film catastrophe américain
Acteurs Kate Jackson, Al Waxman, Jeffrey Nordling, Chip Zien, Barbara Williams, David Hewlett
Rôle Mayor Andy Carmichael
Dans l'avion qui la ramène à New York, Sarah se sent malade. Arrivée sur place, elle meurt à l'hôpital. La cause semble être la peste. Alors que le gouvernement tente de le cacher à la population, le Dr Nora Hart est chargée de retrouver chaque personne ayant eu contact avec la victime.
L'arme secrète (1991)
Réalisé par Aaron Norris
Acteurs Chuck Norris, Michael Parks, Alberta Watson, Ken Pogue, Al Waxman, Marcel Sabourin
Rôle Marco Luganni
Cliff Garett est un flic new-yorkais qui découvre au cours d'une enquête de routine que son partenaire, Ronny Delanay, n'est qu'un ripoux. Ce dernier, à la solde d'un groupe de trafiquants, le liquide pour ne pas être démasqué. Transporté à l'hôpital, Garett lutte contre la mort mais, pour ses supérieurs, il est officiellement mort...
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Doctrine and Covenants 2021
Introductory Materials
March 29–April 4
Voices of the Restoration
The Restoration of the Fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ: A Bicentennial Proclamation to the World
April 19–25. Doctrine and Covenants 41–44: “My Law to Govern My Church”
This Page (MP3) Entire Book (PDF)
“April 19–25. Doctrine and Covenants 41–44: ‘My Law to Govern My Church,’” Come, Follow Me—For Individuals and Families: Doctrine and Covenants 2021 (2020)
“April 19–25. Doctrine and Covenants 41–44,” Come, Follow Me—For Individuals and Families: 2021
“My Law to Govern My Church”
“If thou shalt ask,” the Lord promised, “thou shalt receive revelation upon revelation, knowledge upon knowledge” (Doctrine and Covenants 42:61). What questions can you ask in order to receive the revelation you need?
Record Your Impressions
The rapid growth of the Church in 1830 and 1831—especially the rush of new converts coming to Kirtland, Ohio—was exciting and encouraging to the Saints. But it also presented some challenges. How do you unify a quickly expanding body of believers, especially when they are bringing with them doctrine and practices from their previous faiths? For example, when Joseph Smith arrived in Kirtland in early February 1831, he found new members sharing common property in a genuine attempt to imitate the New Testament Christians (see Acts 4:32–37). The Lord made some important corrections and clarifications on this and other topics, largely through a revelation recorded in Doctrine and Covenants 42, that He called “my law to govern my church” (verse 59). In this revelation, we learn truths that are fundamental in establishing the Lord’s Church in the latter days, including a significant promise making clear that there is always more to learn: “If thou shalt ask, thou shalt receive revelation upon revelation, knowledge upon knowledge” (Doctrine and Covenants 42:61).
See also Saints, 1:114–19.
Ideas for Personal Scripture Study
Doctrine and Covenants 41
“He that receiveth my law and doeth it, the same is my disciple.”
By early 1831, the Saints were starting to gather in Ohio, eager to receive the law that God had promised to reveal there (see Doctrine and Covenants 38:32). But first, the Lord taught how His disciples should prepare to receive His law. What principles do you find in verses 1–5 that would have helped the Saints receive God’s law? How might these principles help you receive instruction from Him?
God’s laws govern His Church and can govern our lives.
The Saints considered the revelation found in Doctrine and Covenants 42:1–72 to be one of the most important the Prophet had received. It was among the first to be published, appearing in two Ohio newspapers, and it was known simply as “the law.” Many of the principles in this section had been revealed by the Lord before. While the section does not include every commandment the Lord wanted His Saints to obey, it is worth pondering why these principles were important to repeat to the newly restored Church.
It might help you to read section 42 in smaller portions like the following and identify the principles taught in each. As you do, consider how this law to guide the Church could also help guide your personal life.
Verses 4–9, 11–17, 56–58
Verses 18–29
See also 3 Nephi 15:9.
Doctrine and Covenants 42:30–42
How did the Saints “consecrate of [their] properties” to support the poor?
An important part of the law revealed in section 42 is what came to be known as the law of consecration and stewardship. This law taught the Saints how they could, like the followers of Christ anciently, have “all things common” (Acts 2:44; 4 Nephi 1:3), with “no poor among them” (Moses 7:18). Saints consecrated their property by giving it to the Lord, through the bishop (see Doctrine and Covenants 42:30–31). The bishop returned to them what they needed (see verse 32)—usually what they had consecrated and more. Members donated their surplus to help the poor (see verses 33–34). This law was a great blessing to the Saints, especially to those who had left everything to come to Ohio. Many Saints were generous in their donations.
Though we do it differently today, Latter-day Saints still live the law of consecration. As you read Doctrine and Covenants 42:30–42, ponder how you can consecrate what God has given you to build His kingdom and bless those in need.
See also Linda K. Burton, “I Was a Stranger,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2016, 13–15; “The Law,” Revelations in Context, 93–95, history.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
Christ and the Rich Young Ruler, by Heinrich Hofmann
Doctrine and Covenants 42:61, 65–68; 43:1–16
God gives revelation to guide His Church.
Imagine that you are having a conversation with a new member of the Church who is excited to know that the Church is guided by revelation. How could you use Doctrine and Covenants 43:1–16 to explain to him or her the Lord’s pattern for guiding His Church through His prophet? How could you use Doctrine and Covenants 42:61, 65–68 to teach about receiving personal revelation?
See also “All Things Must Be Done in Order,” Revelations in Context, 50–53, history.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
Ideas for Family Scripture Study and Home Evening
Doctrine and Covenants 41:1–5.
What are some examples of civil laws, and how do those laws benefit us? How do Heavenly Father’s laws or commandments bless us? Family members could draw pictures of themselves obeying God’s laws.
Doctrine and Covenants 42:45, 88.
What would help your family “live together in love”? (see also Mosiah 4:14–15). Consider writing or saying positive things about one another or singing a hymn about love within the family, such as “Love at Home” ( Hymns, no. 294).
Maybe you could read this verse while putting a puzzle together. Use the puzzle to teach how God reveals His mysteries—“revelation upon revelation, knowledge upon knowledge.” Family members could share how God has revealed truth to them a little at a time.
Perhaps there is something your family could use to create the sounds of a thunderstorm as a way to introduce a discussion about verse 25. How is the Lord’s voice a “voice of thunderings”? Search the verse together for ways the Lord may call on us to repent. How can we be more responsive to the Lord’s voice?
For more ideas for teaching children, see this week’s outline in Come, Follow Me—For Primary.
Suggested song: “I Want to Live the Gospel,” Children’s Songbook, 148; see “Ideas to Improve Your Family Scripture Study.”
Improving Our Teaching
Nurture a loving atmosphere. The way family members feel about and treat each other can profoundly influence the spirit of your home. Help all family members do their part to establish a loving, respectful home so that everyone will feel safe sharing experiences, questions, and testimonies. (See Teaching in the Savior’s Way, 15.)
Joseph Smith Preaching in Nauvoo, by Sam Lawlor
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It fosters teamwork and discipline
At Areteia School, we understand the importance and the benefits of music, and how they have a positive effect on children personally, academically, culturally and socially. For this reason, we strengthen the pupils’ artistic abilities. As part of their learning they are given the chance to learn to play at least one instrument. At the same time, they develop their vocal capacity through singing, which allows them to gain confidence in themselves.
At Areteia School, the pupils have direct experience with music. In this way, music contributes to the pupils’ comprehensive education, developing their intellectual capacities and artistic and creative sensitivity while they are taught to strengthen self-discipline, effort, sensitivity and teamwork, among other abilities, which will all help them throughout both their personal and academic life.
The musical education introduced from Infant Education makes a critical contribution to our pupils’ comprehensive development. That’s why we place emphasis on a greater musical education through knowledge of music language and playing a string instrument such as the violin, an instrument which can be played in a group and which is suited, given its different dimensions, to a child’s development. The violin contributes to an increased capacity for visualisation of time and space; to developing mental flexibility; to learning to think in tones, timbre and times with no help from words or phrases; and to bringing children’s intellect closer to the notion of thinking abstractly.
In addition, thanks to the help and knowledge of the great professionals here at our school, the children are motivated to learn musical feeling and improve their knowledge. We seek academic excellence, for which we understand the importance of subjects related to artistic skills.
We offer a musical education which activates the processes which affect the nervous system and stimulate the two cerebral hemispheres; favours creativity and strengthens emotional and affective links; promotes the growth of neurological connections; and directly increases IQ.
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BBC Two panel show about the week's topical news. 182 episodes (19 series), 2005 - 2021. Stars Dara O Briain, Hugh Dennis, Andy Parsons, Frankie Boyle and others.
Next new episode is on tomorrow at 9:30pm. Series 19, Episode 9
Catch-up on Episode 8 on BBC iPlayer Series 10, Episode 6 is repeated on Dave on Saturday at 10pm.
Mock The Week Menu
Earlier series
S Special: Highlights Special
S Special: Christmas Special
Host Dara O'Briain is joined by regulars Frankie Boyle, Hugh Dennis, Russell Howard and Andy Parsons with guests David Mitchell and Adam Hills.
The show starts with the headliners round, and the panel coming up with suggestions for the initials B.G.M.C. that correspond to a photo of the Olympics opening ceremony in China, then follows discussion about the games in general. The 4 x 1 joke relay round features stand-up material from Andy, Adam, Frankie and Russell, and then the comedians try to figure out what is the economy-related question if the answer is '691 million', and talk about the credit crunch and 'staycations'. The show ends as always with scenes we'd like to see - this week they are the things you wouldn't hear at the Olympics, and lines you wouldn't hear in a war film.
Dara O Briain Host / Presenter
Hugh Dennis Regular Panellist
Andy Parsons Regular Panellist
Frankie Boyle Regular Panellist
Russell Howard Regular Panellist
David Mitchell Guest
Adam Hills Guest
Simon Bullivant Writer (Additional Material)
Rob Colley Writer (Additional Material)
Steve Punt Writer (Additional Material)
Colin Swash Writer (Additional Material)
Geraldine Dowd Director
Dan Patterson Series Producer
Mark Leveson Producer
Ewan Phillips Producer
Ruth Wallace Producer
Jed Leventhall Executive Producer
Things You Wouldn't Hear at the Olympics
The team contemplate some things you wouldn't hear at the Olympics.
Featuring: Hugh Dennis, Andy Parsons, David Mitchell, Adam Hills, Frankie Boyle, Russell Howard.
Russell Howard on teaching 3 year-olds about homosexuality
When you're three you're into custard and jumping
Featuring: Russell Howard.
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"If Adam and Eve can't make it work in Paradise, how am I going to make it work in Lewisham?" - Sara Pascoe
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Create Your White Label CRM
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A Quickie with James Austin McCormick
Tell me about your latest book and why we should read it.
My latest book, ‘Dragon: The Prisoner of Valathia,’ is the latest in a light hearted, action packed science fiction series. The ‘Dragon’ in the title refers to a sentient space craft rather than a mythical beast. If you’re a fan of space opera, then I believe this one will be for you. This latest (and most probably the last) is somewhat different from the others. This time there is as much character development as there is action. Sillow, a chain smoking, somewhat cowardly and neurotic elf, has always been a semi-comic character. This time however we take a look behind the clownish mask of the orphan misfit, at his existential angst, as he sets out to learn about his own mysterious background.
If someone was to write your life story what would the title be?
I think it would be ‘Itchy Feet.’ I’ve lived and worked in a few countries but have been in the same job and back in England for the last thirteen years. The urge to travel again is over-powering but with two young daughters it isn’t as easy to live overseas as it once was.
What’s the strangest fan question or request you’ve received?
Probably, do you find inspiration in your own life for your books. Almost everything I write is speculative fiction and as far removed from everyday life as one could imagine. For me writing is all about escapism.
If you could co-write with anyone in the world (alive or dead) who would it be?
Dead would be Robert E. Howard. If I could visit Cross Plains Flats in Texas and see him typing away on that old type writer, I couldn’t imagine anything better. Alive would be Clive Barker but I’ve heard he’s a very, very difficult person to collaborate with.
Tell me something about you nobody else knows (yet!).
I used to have a stammer and suffered from panic attacks. I only conquered it when I started working in a shop and had to deal with the public.
Finally, please recommend 3 books that you have recently read and tell me why you’ve chosen these.
1) The Count of Monte Cristo
I love all of Alexandre Dumas’ works but this one is just exceptional and deserves the title of epic. Anyone who’s only seen one of the film versions, trust me, they don’t remotely capture the scale of this 1000 plus page novel.
2) The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham.
I’m always working my way through a list of classics and I’ve just finished this one. Although science fiction (in the fall of civilisation category) there is incredible depth to the book, questions about what society actually is, what it means to be human, is there a point to existence and even whether do we as a race deserve to survive. It doesn’t really give any answers but provokes a lot of questions.
3) Killing Floor by Lee Child.
A while ago I came across Make Me (number 20 in the Jack Reacher series) in my local library and read it in about three days. I just couldn’t put it down. Anyway, I decided that I was going to go back and read the series from the first book. I’m just in awe of Jack Reacher, the man who bullies the bullies.
Who is James Austin McCormick?
I’m a college lecturer from England and a fan of all types of speculative fiction, most notably science fiction, horror & sword and sorcery fantasy. Where possible I try to blend these elements together in my own writing.
H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs were my first writing inspirations and more recently Frank Herbert and Clive Barker whose works I never grow tired of re-reading.
I live in the rainy city of Manchester with my wife and two young daughters, the elder of which is something of a budding writer herself.
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Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve have embarked on a major policy shift that will likely keep interest rates lower for longer. | Image: REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
Dow’s Explosive Rally Continues as Fed Begins September Policy Meeting
September 23, 2020 UTC: 2:31 PM. September 15, 2020 UTC: 1:51 PM. by Sam Bourgi
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied by as much as 235 points on Tuesday.
The Federal Open Market Committee begins its two-day policy meeting in Washingon on Tuesday.
Economists polled by CNBC expect the Fed to keep interest rates at rock bottom until 2023.
The Dow and broader U.S. stock market extended their relief rally on Tuesday, as investors awaited reassurance from the Federal Reserve that monetary policy will remain highly accommodative for the foreseeable future.
Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq Rally
All of Wall Street’s major indexes opened sharply higher, mirroring a bullish pre-market for U.S. stock futures. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied by as much as 235 points.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average extended its relief rally on Tuesday. | Chart: Yahoo Finance
Tech heavyweights Apple and Microsoft were the Dow’s biggest gainers, followed by Boeing and Intel.
The broad S&P 500 Index of large-cap stocks rose 1%, with ten of 11 primary sectors reporting gains. Energy, information technology, and communication services were the biggest gainers.
Surging tech stocks pushed the Nasdaq Composite Index sharply higher. The benchmark rose 1.4% after the open.
A measure of implied volatility known as the CBOE VIX continued lower on Tuesday. The so-called “investor fear index” declined more than 3% to 24.92 on a scale of 1-100, where 20 represents the historic average.
FOMC Meeting Underway
The Federal Reserve kicked off its two-day policy meeting on Tuesday, and the first since Chairman Jerome Powell announced a new strategy geared towards average inflation targeting. Watch the video below:
Under the Fed’s new framework, policymakers will allow inflation to overshoot its 2% target in pursuit of other macroeconomic objectives. In other words, the central bank will keep interest rates at rock bottom for the foreseeable future.
The Federal Open Market Committee will deliver its policy statement Wednesday afternoon alongside its quarterly economic projections. No change in monetary policy is expected.
Interest rates are expected to be zero-bound until at least 2023, according to a new CNBC survey of economists.
On the economic data front, U.S. industrial production rose 0.4% in August, the Federal Reserve reported Tuesday. The capacity utilization rate rose to 71.4%.
In international news, China’s industrial production rose 5.6% annually in August and retail sales rose 0.5%.
Dow Surges 350 Points Despite ‘Predictable’ Pullback on the Horizon
Dow Inches Higher as Wall Street Awaits FOMC Inflation Forecast
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7 Days to Die Xbox One (EU)
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Action, Building, Exploration, Multiplayer, Open World, Singleplayer, Character Customization, Early Access
This product includes 7 Days to Die Xbox One (EU).
The top 3 reasons to play 7 Days to Die Xbox One (EU)
Huge, unique and rich environments, offering the freedom to play the game any way you want.
Craft and repair weapons, clothes, armor, tools, vehicles, and more.
Take over a ruin, or build from the ground-up. Design your fortress to include traps and defensive positions to survive the undead - the world is fully destructible and moldable.
About 7 Days to Die Xbox One (EU)
Set in a brutally unforgiving post-apocalyptic world overrun by the undead, 7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. It presents combat, crafting, looting, mining, exploration, and character growth, in a way that has seen a rapturous response from fans worldwide.
Includes two player split screen mode, with support for up to 4 players online, in Player versus Player, co-op survival, or co-op creative modes.
Unleash your creativity and build the ultimate world by yourself or with friends. Enjoy unlimited access to nearly 400 in-game items and 1,200 unique building blocks in creative mode.
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Congress returns with virus aid, federal funding unresolved
by: ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press
FILE – In this Nov. 10, 2020, file photo the morning sun illuminates the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. After months of shadowboxing amid a tense and toxic campaign, Capitol Hill’s main players are returning to Washington for one final, perhaps futile, attempt at deal making on a challenging menu of year-end business. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of shadowboxing amid a tense and toxic campaign, Capitol Hill’s main players are returning for one final, perhaps futile, attempt at deal-making on a challenging menu of year-end business.
COVID-19 relief, a $1.4 trillion catchall spending package, and defense policy — and a final burst of judicial nominees — dominate a truncated two- or three-week session occurring as the coronavirus pandemic rockets out of control in President Donald Trump’s final weeks in office.
The only absolute must-do business is preventing a government shutdown when a temporary spending bill expires on Dec. 11. The route preferred by top lawmakers like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is to agree upon and pass an omnibus spending bill for the government. But it may be difficult to overcome bitter divisions regarding a long-delayed COVID-19 relief package that’s a top priority of business, state and local governments, educators and others.
McConnell is focusing on confirming Trump’s remaining judicial nominations, including a vote Monday on a district judge in Mississippi and at least one additional appeals court vacancy.
Time is working against lawmakers as well, as is the Capitol’s emerging status as a COVID-19 hotspot. The House has truncated its schedule, and Senate Republicans are joining Democrats in forgoing the in-person lunch meetings that usually anchor their workweeks. It’ll take serious, good-faith conversations among top players to determine what’s possible, but those haven’t transpired yet.
Top items for December’s lame-duck session:
KEEPING THE GOVERNMENT OPEN
At a bare minimum, lawmakers need to keep the government running by passing a stopgap spending bill known as a continuing resolution, which would punt $1.4 trillion worth of unfinished agency spending into next year.
That’s a typical way to deal with a handoff to a new administration, but McConnell and Pelosi are two veterans of the Capitol’s appropriations culture and are pressing hard for a catchall spending package. A battle over using budget sleight of hand to add a 2 percentage point, $12 billion increase to domestic programs to accommodate rapidly growing veterans health care spending is an issue, as are Trump’s demands for U.S-Mexico border wall funding.
Getting Trump to sign the measure is another challenge. Two years ago he sparked a lengthy partial government shutdown over the border wall, but both sides would like to clear away the pile of unfinished legislation to give the Biden administration a fresh start. The changeover in administrations probably wouldn’t affect an omnibus deal very much.
At issue are the 12 annual spending bills comprising the portion of the government’s budget that passes through Congress each year on a bipartisan basis. Whatever approach passes, it’s likely to contain a batch of unfinished leftovers such as extending expiring health care policies and continuing the authorization for the government’s flood insurance program.
Democrats have battled with Republicans and the White House for months over a fresh installment of COVID-19 relief that all sides say they want. But a lack of good faith and an unwillingness to embark on compromises that might lead either side out of their political comfort zones have helped keep another rescue package on ice.
The aid remains out of reach despite a fragile economy and out-of-control increases in coronavirus cases, especially in Midwest GOP strongholds. McConnell has supplanted Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as the most important Republican force in the negotiations, but he hasn’t shown much openness for politically difficult compromises required for a COVID-19 deal that might anger conservatives. Neither have McConnell’s warnings of a wave of COVID-related lawsuits against businesses, schools and nonprofits open during the pandemic come to pass, undercutting his demand for blanket protections against such suits.
Pelosi seems to have overplayed her hand as she held out for $2 trillion-plus right up until the election. The results of the election, which saw Democrats lose seats in the House, appear to have significantly undercut her position, but she is holding firm on another round of aid to state and local governments.
Before the election, Trump seemed to be focused on a provision that would send another round of $1,200 payments to most Americans. He hasn’t shown a lot of interest in the topic since, apart from stray tweets. But the chief obstacles now appear to be Pelosi’s demand for state and local government aid and McConnell’s demand for a liability shield for businesses reopening during the pandemic.
At stake is funding for vaccines and testing, reopening schools, various economic “stimulus” ideas like another round of “paycheck protection” subsidies for businesses especially hard hit by the pandemic. Failure to pass a measure now would vault the topic to the top of Biden’s legislative agenda next year.
DEFENSE POLICY
A spat over military bases named for Confederate officers is threatening the annual passage of a defense policy measure that has passed for 59 years in a row on a bipartisan basis. The measure is critical in the defense policy world, guiding Pentagon policy and cementing decisions about troop levels, new weapons systems and military readiness, military personnel policy and other military goals.
Both the House and Senate measures would require the Pentagon to rename bases such as Fort Benning and Fort Hood, but Trump opposes the idea and has threatened a veto over it. The battle erupted this summer amid widespread racial protests, and Trump used the debate to appeal to white Southern voters nostalgic about the Confederacy. It’s a live issue in two Senate runoff elections in Georgia that will determine control of the chamber during the first two years of Biden’s tenure.
Democrats are insisting on changing the names and it’s not obvious how it’ll all end up.
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DVD Review - 'Sideways in a D-type!’
Few people have the chance to get behind the steering-wheel of a racing car. Even fewer are able to compete at the highest level of Historic Racing, let alone at the Goodwood Revival, behind the wood-rim of a D-type Jaguar. This DVD gives the viewer the chance to experience what it’s really like at 150mph wheel to wheel, right on the limit, in the Sussex Trophy.
Win Percy will be well-known to most as a highly-experienced long-distance racing driver whose main efforts were for Tom Walkinshaw driving XJS Jaguars and Group C Jaguar prototypes in the 80s and 90s. At Le Mans in 1987, Win became famous for his 40ft-high flight at the ‘kink’ of the Mulsanne that resulted in the car turning over and sliding for 600mts before finally coming to stop, a mere tub with engine, suspension and bodywork torn off in the accident. The victim of a tyre blow-out that destroyed the rear bodywork and wing (thus losing downforce), Percy walked away from the wreck unscathed, despite having his helmet worn down to the lining when sliding down the road.
This story, and many others, is told as part of a new DVD produced by the owners of the 1955 long-nose D-type Jaguar XKD505, entitled ‘Sideways in a D-type!’ The film starts with original 1950s’ footage, including a lap of the original circuit (open to the public and complete with obligatory wandering Frenchman on bicyclette…) by Mike Hawthorn equipped with in-car cine camera and microphone. Hugely enjoyable, and then followed by a 10-minute interview with Norman Dewis (Jaguar’s test driver and occasional racer of the time), and an in-depth talk with Win Percy conducted by Naomi Webb, joint-owner of the car.
Cut to the main feature of the film - the in-car race footage from the Sussex Trophy at the 2002 Goodwood Revival. Regular enthusiasts may know that this was the second of Tony Dron’s three wins in this event driving the 1960 Ferrari 246S, but for the vast majority of the race Win Percy leads in the D-type and each lap is replayed from the cockpit with sections of external TV footage spliced in. From the time Win starts the warm-up lap and confesses to nerves before the flag drops, to the final-lap chequer, you are kept on the edge of your seat as the Dorset driver strives to keep the sliding car, its tyres gone after 4 laps, on the super-fast Sussex circuit. Back-markers are despatched easily, until one fails to see the big green car coming (Win has misunderstood the headlamp switches and believes the lights to be on) and he is forced to take to the grass approaching St Mary’s. Using only 6,100/6,200 rpm maximum where lesser mortals would be revving the valves off the motor, Percy maintains his lead “just lifting off for Fordwater (147mph!) - you can’t take it flat in a ‘D’” with the charging Ferrari slowly reeling him in. Great respect is paid to Dron and when the inevitable happens with only a couple of laps to go, he tries valiantly to regain ground but the lighter Dino is in better shape and second is settled for.
Not produced by a top-level film company, this DVD is nevertheless a superb example of race-driving at its finest. One can imagine Hawthorn, Hamilton and Moss circulating at much the same sort of speed in the ‘50s. Tony Dron, the other protagonist, rates it highly, in fact he's "Never seen anything of its kind that's so exciting". Win Percy has not been well recently and the net proceeds of the DVD and video sales will go to help him. Ever-friendly to Classic Driver over the years at race-meetings throughout Europe, we are pleased to publicise this film for Win and wish him all the very best in the future.
The film is available in DVD or Video, in various formats, at £18.95/US$33.95 plus the appropriate postage and packing. Please visit the website www.xkd505.com or CLICK HERE to go direct to the order page. Make sure your DVD or Video is compatible first!
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By Sean Corrigan Economics 25 October 10
Plaza Accord redux
As we head into what will, in all probability, turn out to be just another tax-payer soaking, fatuous gab-fest, the G20 meeting has begun to generate headlines relating to the possibility – or otherwise – of concocting a new ‘Plaza Accord’.
In a broad sense, there are indeed some parallels – though perhaps not the ones the market is trying to draw. Back in the mid-1980s, the crude American political response to its growing lack of competitiveness was also to insist that others pay the price for its mistakes. Indeed, that latter-day secular saint, Paul Volcker, makes it clear in his 1992 book ‘Changing Fortunes’ how that archetypal fixer, James Baker, effectively bounced the Reagan White House into the agreement by informing the president directly of negotiations, that had been taking shape for some months past, only on the very eve of the fatal meeting.
In a BIS conference on central bank co-ordination held in the rather less fraught circumstances of 2005, Volcker’s verdict of hindsight was that: “In my view, Plaza was never very necessary because the exchange rate was going south anyway so far as the dollar was concerned.”
At that same gathering, former BOJ Deputy Governor Yutaka Yamaguchi was rather more forthright in his judgement, telling his audience bluntly that:
To me and many of my former colleagues of the Bank of Japan, monetary policy under the Plaza-Louvre process represents a failed model of international cooperation. The coordination process, particularly when translated into a domestic context, effectively constrained the flexibility of monetary policy…I believe it would be too simplistic to paint the Japanese bubbles as having originated solely in the easy money policy of the time. Nonetheless, one always wonders if monetary policy couldn’t have been different. … the external pressure on Japan to ease monetary policy was real. But why was it accepted by the Japanese side?
First, the Bank of Japan was asked, to put it mildly, to serve the national priority of the time. Historically, this priority for the central bank was typically war-financing. For Japan in the 1980s, the national concern was the trade war or how to moderate trade tensions
Given that Baker’s persistent bullying of his G-5 peers also led – via the concerted interest rate cuts which were supposed to help the subsequent Louvre agreement to put a halt to the dollar’s precipitous fall – to the stock market, junk bond, and Western property bubbles of the late ‘80s, the portents for some kind of repeat showing are hardly auspicious.
What could not be more evident is that the recent resurrection of the phrase, ‘Plaza Accord’ – and its breathless elevation to a near-ubiquitous buzzword – is nothing more than a crude propaganda tool to justify a further depreciation of the US dollar, paying scant regard to the possibly disastrous reserve currency impacts this might have on others.
What is rather cleverer – in that amoral, Bernaysian way of the spin doctor – is that the present focus has very much been upon the Chinese yuan, by analogy to the 1980s Japanese yen, as a currency crying out for upward revaluation when the truth is that the concerns of a quarter-century ago were almost exactly the converse of those now being expressed – viz., how to engineer a devaluation of a ‘Superdollar’ whose nominal exchange rate had soared beyond all bounds of normality, not one which, as today, was bumping along at its lowest parity of the modern era.
So, when the Chinese display a little reluctance to play sacrificial goat to the needs of the American electoral cycle, we can see their point, not just in relation to the appalling experience of the previous attempt at realignment, but also in its singular lack of applicability to the circumstances of today.
Mixed up in all this building acrimony is, of course, the looming threat of another grotesque piece of academic hubris from the Bernanke Fed – possibly to be backed up by its admirers in the Bank of England. These latter are not only being egged on by an uncertain coalition government in the hope it will mollify its recently announced programme of spending cuts, but they found a seeming endorsement in the Nelsonian blind-eye turned to the actual numbers by Governor King when he jaw-droppingly asserted this week that some ‘gauges of inflation are extremely subdued’ (sic).
In that perverse Wonderland where the laws of nature have been replaced by the fevered imagination of Keynes and his disciples, it is assumed (though often, with characteristic, General Theory inconsistency, it is sometimes not) that investment equals savings – an ex post truism which, in the real world, can yet hide a great deal of non-trivial, ex ante discoordination. Since savings are also rigidly governed by income through the operation of the iron, psychological law of the ‘propensity to consume’ (NB we Austrians are supposed to be the masters of unsubstantiated apriorism!), and since, further, Keynes has no place for a banking system in his convoluted imaginings, this leaves rather a conundrum about how the rate of interest can possibly be determined.
The deus ex machina which extricates our hero from this blind alley of his own construction is that yields are therefore set by a straight decision between holdings of bonds and cash – by consumers’ supposed expression of their ‘liquidity preference.’
The fabulous inference of this whole, sorry concatenation of false assumptions, dubious extrapolations, and pseudo-mathematical inevitability, is that, if ‘liquidity preference’ reaches high enough levels as ‘animal spirits’ wane, even a zero nominal rate of interest can do nothing to dissuade people from withholding their spending power in a fashion that does not link it to some form of investment elsewhere in the system. Note, here, that, being committed to this particular line of reasoning, Keynes cannot conceive of there being any justifiable reason why it may be that investment is rather being deterred by all-too rational fears of suffering intervention-driven losses, no matter how low the interest rate.
Once they decide to keep the proceeds sitting in ‘sterile’ money hoards in this manner, people become guilty of reducing everyone’s income stream, including their own. So, by depressing the price of both assets and goods, the dreaded deflationary squeeze of the ‘liquidity trap’ appears – a grim spectre variously made manifest of late to the usual rag-tag of permabear economic pundits and – rather more worryingly – to a number of policy-setting central bankers and their advisors.
Here, we must pass by the more profound, classical insight that, even were this situation to arise, it would be self-correcting if only sufficient price flexibility were encouraged for buyers’ and sellers’ real receipts to stabilise, stopping only to make the simple observation that money is only a medium of exchange, and that the pool of its nominal availability is therefore as irrelevant to the scale of the transfer of economic goods as is the size of the typeface employed in a letter, or the dimension of the enclosing envelope, to the transmission of a given quantum of information by mail.
But the principal practical objection we must raise is that this overlooks the fact that few people modern day Ebenezers actually do hoard cash: rather, they place any surplus, at the very least, on deposit at their local bank. There, it perforce remains at the disposal of the bank’s loan customers. Should enough of these not be found willing, or able, to borrow the monies, the bank will simply invest in existing or newly-issued securities instead, thus removing the original ‘blockage’ (albeit at one remove from its source) and effectively helping many a would-be hoarder swap his previous bond holding for a monetary claim on the bank.
Here, it is next objected that, were it truly concerned about the economic outlook, the bank could simply devote the new deposits to increasing its own pile of reserve assets and so, once again, choke off the circulation of money, with all the dire consequences supposed to be attendant thereon. But, all too few stop to ask how this is meant to be effected. By swelling its holdings of vault cash to a mountain? By buying up all the precious metals it can lay its hands on? Or buy placing the funds, in turn, with the central bank?
If this latter case – obviously the one which applies today – then, by the inexorable arithmetic of banking, the central bank must also add to its assets dollar-for-dollar with its increase in reserve liabilities. To do so, it buys up the stock of securities that the initial cash hoarder wishes to liquidate and which the original bank does not wish to hold in his place.
So, if Scrooge wants to turn his mortgage bonds, for example, into ready money while he waits out the crisis, he sells them to Chicken Little Bancorp which sells them to the Fed and $1 trillion dollars or so later, everyone should be happy, fractional-reserve free-bankers and late-era Hayekian, nominal-spending stabilizers included; hard money men less so.
Of course, things will not quite work out in such a neat, aggregative fashion in the real world because while borrowers and lenders, buyers and sellers, assets and liabilities may balance out in the round, the populations of the former and the composition of the latter may undergo profound alteration and with it the economic landscape may become greatly altered from that of the Boom. In fact, it is deep in the nooks and crannies of the multitude of specific mismatches, dashed expectations, and faulty speculations which this shift in activity entails where sizeable frictional losses can occur on the road to an unavoidable adjustment whose progression it should be our primary aim to facilitate by removing all the entrepreneurial uncertainty we can.
Ironically, these are changes of exactly that fine, micro-structural kind which the Keynesians generally ignore in both their analysis and their policy prescriptions, making the first facile and misconstrued and the latter all too often detrimental to that very adjustment whose lack they later blame on the malfunctioning of the ‘free’ market.
Theoretical considerations aside, we do have to wonder just what sort of ‘liquidity trap’ we are in – a state of paralysis where only cash will do, remember – when US (indeed, global) high yield issuance hits its highest on record, as it did this past quarter, and when this effusion is conducted at the lowest yields since before the crisis broke, and at close to the lowest recorded in the last 45-years.
We also wonder just what sort of ‘liquidity trap’ we are in when equity IPOs increase 55% in value and 215% in number from the same period in 2009.
We further wonder just what sort of ‘liquidity trap’ we are in when US-based M&A rises 22% YOY, with private equity involvement up 117% to a 2 ½ year high and, as such, responsible for more than 10% of all deals.
We wonder, too, just what sort of ‘liquidity trap’ we are in when the number of ETFs grows 22%, their assets rise 14%, and trading volumes jump 15% in the first nine months of the year.
Finally, we wonder what sort of ‘liquidity trap’ we are in when an experienced CRE professional can tell an interviewer that: “…there’s a very active market… with all kinds of money entering and paying ridiculously high prices for assets … as if the crisis never happened… this is mostly institutional money using other people’s money to chase product…”
We are not alone in our scepticism: Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher noted the other day that:
“In my darkest moments, I have begun to wonder if the monetary accommodation we have already engineered might even be working in the wrong places. The …TIC… data show that foreign interest in buying Treasuries remains robust. Yet, far too many of the large corporations I survey that are committing to fixed investment report that the most effective way to deploy cheap money raised in the current bond markets or in the form of loans from banks, beyond buying in stock or expanding dividends, is to invest it abroad where taxes are lower and governments are more eager to please.”
For his part, John Hussman put it much more succinctly, saying:
“Throwing a trillion U.S. dollars against the wall to see what sticks is not sound monetary policy. By pursuing a policy that relaxes constraints that are not even binding, [this] depresses the U.S. dollar, threatens to destabilize international economic activity, encourages a “boom-bust” cycle, provokes commodity hoarding, and pops off the Fed’s last round of ammunition absent an immediate crisis, the Fed threatens to damage not only the U.S. economy, but its own credibility.”
Quite. Not that this will stop anyone in the US – and probably the UK – from trying, of course.
Nor has anyone convincingly mapped out just what will happen, come that fine sunny morning when Chicken Little Bancorp does decide to go back into the banking business; or when Ebenezer finishes his nightly sojourns with the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future and decides to order goose and gewgaws all round for the Cratchits and that newly swollen cashpile gets put back to work buying things – scarce, hard-of-reproduction things – in place of ephemeral, instantly-created financial assets.
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Castrese Tipaldi says:
16 December 10 at 13:32
Reading this piece, I’ve felt a strange feeling: to agree (as usual) with your conclusions while disagreeing with one of your assumptions. It looks like you do not consider all savings to be investments. If it is so, then I’d like that you provided also the reason why you think they are (logically, not in practice) different. That’s because their logical identity is one of the most firm pillar of my economic thought, but if you differ, as I consider you one of the best economic mind in the world today, I feel the urge to reappraise my position.
It’s not a problem to agree with Keynes or not, because that sycophant has said everything and its contrary. We need a premise too. The reasoning does not apply to the contemporary economic world, ruled by money-confetti and by the Economic School of Surrealism, with their nefarious train of lies, damned lies and statistics (also known as “data”). Logic has long lost its place in such a world. It does apply in a world where Money is a good, produced through an economic process, forced out from Earth at heavy cost, while today it is just another piece of debt, only it has not to be discounted, and it’s able just to transfer the obligation, never to pay it.
Well, in this world not devastated by the Great Parasites every saving is ipso facto an investment, as I think. Every postponed consumption, every wealth produced or earned by the economic agent which is not consumed by him is an investment, made to consume (hopefully) more and better in the future. The practical form of the investment is not relevant, nor is its outcome.
The usual objection is that holding Money you are not producing anything, but I think it rests on a misunderstanding. I’ve tried to address it also in this essay: http://houseofmaedhros.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/graduation-thesis-homage-to-the-master/
I tried to get it published by the Mises Institute, but they declined with the bizarre motive that Rothbars said differently.
That objection assumes that every investment other than Money produce something economically useful. It is clearly not so! If you invest in a factory and produce goods that nobody needs or wants, you are not producing anything, you are wasting capital. The examples of malinvestments I could do, which will not only add nothing to the economic wealth but in fact will diminish it, would last for hours.
On the other side, investing in the good (also used as) Money could very well result in more goods availables in future for the same quantity of Money (at last you’re investing in economic progress here), could result in securing a stream of additional income if you lend it, could result in preserving wealth for future better ideas of production (preserving wealth has its own economic merits), and so on. It’s anyway an investment, which can result or less in accumulation of wealth, just as any other form of investment.
That’s my thinking in short, you can refer to the essay linked for a more extensive explanation. I hope you’ll have time to address the issue.
My compliments for the good work.
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Holiday trends to watch: Adult Play-Doh; stores that ship
By JOSEPH PISANI and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writers
Kathy Willens
A KidiZoom Creator Cam by VTech is displayed at the Toy Fair, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in New York. The digital camera comes with a green screen and animated backgrounds allowing kids to go to outer space, get chased by T-Rex, or make things disappear. The camera comes with a tabletop tripod, which can also be used as a selfie stick.
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Floats that are part of the modified Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade are seen from the Empire State Building in New York, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. Due to the pandemic, no crowds of onlookers were allowed to attend the annual parade.
NEW YORK (AP) — The pandemic is turning this into a holiday shopping season like no other.
Toy companies are targeting stuck-at-home grown-ups with latte-smelling Play-Doh and Legos that turn into Warhols. Those who added a puppy to their family during the pandemic will see tons of gift options for their new furry friend. And with more people shopping online, stores are doing double duty as shipping centers to try to get gifts to doorsteps as fast as possible.
TOYS FOR ADULTS
Kids aren’t the only ones who need some fun. Toy companies are targeting bored adults stuck at home during the pandemic. Need something to fidget during your next Zoom meeting? Hasbro has new moldable Play-Doh varieties that smell like stuff grown-ups would recognize: lattes, fresh cut grass and smoked meats.
Lego, meanwhile, wants adults to put on their headphones and “forget about the rest of the world” while turning the plastic pieces in their new kits into hangable art, like Andy Warhol’s famous Marilyn Monroe portraits.
Marissa DiBartolo, editor in chief of toy review site The Toy Insider, says she’s seen more coloring books and challenging puzzles being designed with adults in mind.
FROM YOUTUBE TO THE TOY STORE
The canines on “Paw Patrol” better watch their tails. YouTube stars with millions of viewers are heading to the toy aisle, a place where TV cartoon characters used to rule.
It’s all because kids are spending so much time watching YouTube instead of cable TV, says DiBartolo. That’s made stars of the video-streaming site just as recognizable as those on Nickelodeon.
Figurines of Blippi, a man who wears orange suspenders and hosts educational kid videos on YouTube, are being sold at Target and Amazon. At Walmart, toys featuring Ryan Kaji, a kid who reviews toys on his Ryan’s World YouTube channel, have been hot sellers. Toy company VTech is playing into the trend in another way, selling a KidiZoom Creator camera that comes with a green screen so kids can add special effects and pretend to be YouTube influencers themselves.
And if you need another sign of just how big YouTube stars have become, a 42-foot-tall (13-meter-tall) balloon based on Kaji from Ryan’s World appeared Thursday in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, floating next to TV icons like SpongeBob and, yes, Chase from “Paw Patrol.”
STORES AS SHIPPING HUBS
Retailers including Walmart and Best Buy that were already using their locations as hubs to ship e-commerce orders are now coming up with new strategies to get even faster. The moves come as they face a holiday crunch expected to tax shipping networks and likely result in delivery delays.
Walmart this week launched a special program for the holidays. It has some of its online orders being fulfilled directly from stores using delivery services like Postmates and DoorDash instead of carriers like FedEx or UPS. The aim is to ensure customers will be able to get their orders quickly, even on the same day.
Meanwhile, Best Buy says that 340 of its stores are being specially designated to handle a higher volume of online orders, though all its stores ship e-commerce packages. Its goal: to have the 340 stores ship more than 70% of its ship-from-store units during the holiday quarter.
And then there are many small-to-medium sized businesses increasingly turning to operators of micro-warehouses — mini-shipping hubs that are located in urban areas — to help pack and delivery goods. Ben Jones is the CEO and founder of Ohi, which operates five micro-warehouses for various brands like sparkling tonic Olipop, or provides software for third parties at 115 locations for e-commerce fulfillment across the U.S. He says he’s seen more brands using his software because many aren’t able to guarantee delivery by Christmas via standard shipping if items are ordered after the first week of December.
GIFTS FOR THE POOCH
More people adopted puppies and kittens during the pandemic, and stores are pouncing to cash in. Petco is selling matching pajamas for dogs and their humans with snow flakes and Christmas trees. And Chewy, the online pet store, is getting more personal, inscribing pets names into bandanas, bowls or beds.
Consulting firm Deloitte expects half of shoppers to spend some of their money on pet treats and other supplies this holiday season.
FORGET ABOUT IMPULSE SHOPPING
It’s not just frenzied crowds that will be absent this holiday season. So will impulse shopping — the practice of throwing in extra items like toys or bath balms as shoppers go in and out of the aisles.
Typically, 25% of holiday shopping is based on impulse, according to Marshal Cohen, chief industry advisor at NPD Group, a market research firm. This year, Cohen said he expects that figure to drop to about 10% as shoppers dramatically shift their buying online to avoid physical stores. And when they do go to stores, customers will be buying with a purpose, picking up things they need as they try to minimize exposure to COVID-19
“Impulse shopping is the icing on the cake,“ Cohen said. “It is the difference between a successful profitable holiday and a ho hum holiday.” ———
This story has been updated to correct that Petco is offering matching pajamas for owners and dogs, not matching sweaters.
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Kathy Burke returns to Channel 4 to tackle money in Kathy Burke: All Money (w/t)
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Praise for Kathy Burke’s All Woman
“The best programme on TV this week by a country mile.” Guardian Guide
“Never less than entertaining, bracing and thought-provoking.” The Times
“The real highlight was Burke herself, impossibly funny one moment and quietly insightful the next.” The i
Award-winning actress, writer and theatre director Kathy Burke is returning to Channel 4 for a new two-part documentary in which she’ll delve deep into the world of money. Who has it? Who doesn’t? Who deserves it and who definitely doesn’t? And who has won, and lost it all?
We are a society obsessed with the pursuit of wealth and yet we sometimes demonise those that don’t have it and sneer at those who have recently acquired it. Some won’t talk about theirs at all. As a society, we have a very complex relationship with cash, one that cuts through all classes.
In Kathy Burke: All Money (2 x 60’ w/t), Kathy wants to understand why we treat people differently based on how much money they have… or don’t have? And after the biggest global crisis of a century, will our attitudes change?
Born into very little and now wealthy and successful, Kathy says she’s perfectly happy with what she’s got, and doesn’t understand why people worship money or feel they have to spend their lives earning ever more. Across the two episodes, Kathy will aim to meet a raft of people across a broad spectrum of wealth – from the very affluent to those living below the breadline.
Kathy Burke said, “As someone who came from living in poverty in Islington to now owning a house there, I feel I’m a perfect person to look into one of the world’s most divisive subjects”
Gilly Greenslade, Commissioning Editor for Factual Entertainment at Channel 4 said, “We are delighted to welcome Kathy Burke back to Channel 4 to give us her unique and unrivalled take on something we Brits can find quite embarrassing to talk about, money. Kathy is perfectly placed to infiltrate a range of worlds, and most importantly, she’s willing to ask the questions others wouldn’t get away with.”
Colleen Flynn, Executive Producer for Flicker Productions added, “We couldn’t be more excited to be working with the amazing Kathy Burke again, this time bringing her insightful and unique perspective to the world of money as she puts yet another issue to right.”
Kathy Burke: All Money (w/t) was commissioned Gilly Greenslade, Commissioning Editor for Factual Entertainment at Channel 4. The 2 x 60’ series will be made by Flicker Productions and the Executive Producers are Colleen Flynn and Kathy Burke.
Lesley Land, Channel 4 Press Office
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Pandemic Underlines Importance of Communication in Business
By: Alan Drumm | Posted on: 30 Jul 2020
As Ireland comes out of lockdown, businesses across the country are beginning to adapt to the new normal.
In this new environment, organisations are not just growing accustomed to new procedures and processes, they are having to deal with challenging commercial realities.
Right across the country, business models and plans are being reassessed as firms reflect on how they operate in a landscape that continues to be characterised by uncertainty.
Speaking in conversation with Dr Michelle Carr, Barrie O’Connell, Partner in Charge of KPMG’s Cork office, touched on many of these challenges.
It’s been really interesting to watch how clients have adapted their business models so quickly.
Some clients have continued with their essential business, such as those in the pharma or food sectors - albeit that their business models have had to change, but then you have some clients who have suffered very significant downturns, where revenue has collapsed by 80% or 90%.
There has been a whole range of experiences, so it’s important for us to just get on the phone with clients, understanding their perspectives, the issues they are coming to terms with, and maybe offer a point of view or some insight.
Much of what Barrie and his colleagues shared with clients was informed by the experiences of KPMG’s firms in China, Italy and Spain, each whom had dealt with comparable scenarios as Covid-19 hurtled westward.
That insight enabled KPMG’s Cork office to respond to some of their clients’ needs. The advice they suggested ranged from offering guidance around the Government’s wage subsidy scheme to proposing ways in which firms might reposition themselves so that they can recover in the months ahead.
In the meantime, however, businesses need to be proactive and demonstrate a great deal of agility in order to take full advantage of the recovery.
There are a whole range of forecasts out there, and the only certainty is that it’s uncertain, but 2020 will be a tough year.
At what point will we see a recovery? Will it be 2021 or 2022? It’s difficult to say. People involved in the aviation sector, for example, believe that it will be some time before it recovers. Hopefully, other sectors will start to recover quicker.
I think it’s critical for businesses to focus on their business models. I have had a few conversations with clients where they have seen a downturn in one channel, but another channel has seen an upturn. How do you focus on that channel, diversify and grow it?
It’s also incumbent on all of us to support SMEs by shopping locally. Ultimately, to protect jobs, that sector is critical. How we, as a community, support them is important.
Notwithstanding the uncertainty, Barrie’s optimism is underscored by the fact that KPMG’s Cork office remains committed to hiring the graduates who have already been accepted onto its grad programme.
Although social distancing will alter the nature of the programme, the essence of it will remain the same.
That sentiment was echoed by Declan Maunsell, Audit and Insurance Partner at PWC, who drew on some of the lessons learned during the financial crisis.
We will come out of this in due course. It’s about being ready for the recovery and having a pool of qualified accountants available. That’s why we’re committed to our grad programme.
We’re positive about the longer-term outlook and our role as a training firm. Businesses will continue to need accountants.
However, unlike the financial crash, the pandemic is likely to change the way in which organisations operate and deal with clients.
In turn, Dr Carr believes that future graduates will need to develop holistic communication skills that will allow them to excel in a world where online meetings and correspondence will become the norm.
Writing alongside Professor Mathias Beck in the in the Irish Times recently, Dr Carr touched on this subject, describing how communication would prove to be an important means of keeping staff motivated and engaged while they worked from home.
Although communication skills are not a mainstay on traditional accounting programmes, the pandemic has magnified their importance, leaving Dr Michelle Carr, Barrie O’Connell and Declan Maunsell with some food for thought as they consider future strategies.
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==Mental health==
It seem Biden suffered from early stages of [[Dementia]].<ref>[https://redstate.com/bonchie/2020/10/12/watch-joe-bidens-probable-dementia-was-on-full-display-today-n262206 Watch: Joe Biden's Probable Dementia Was on Full Display Today]</ref> Biden has symptoms of dementia like forgetting basic facts of his own, like forgetting how many grandchildren he has,<ref>[https://redstate.com/bonchie/2020/08/17/joe-biden-forgets-how-many-grand-children-he-has-again-n251481 Joe Biden Forgets How Many Grandchildren He Has...Again]</ref> thinking that he run for senate not US presidency,<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-repeats-gaffe-that-hes-running-for-the-senate-appears-to-not-remember-mitt-romneys-name Biden repeats gaffe that he's running 'for the Senate,' appears to not remember Mitt Romney's name]</ref> forgetting that he is run against president Trump not George Bush,<ref>[https://www.toddstarnes.com/politics/biden-appears-to-forget-trumps-name-tells-reporter-hes-running-against-a-guy-named-george/ Biden Appears to Forget Trump’s Name, Tells Reporter He’s Running Against a Guy Named “George”]</ref> mistaking between his wife and his sister,<ref>[https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/joe-biden-mistakes-his-wife-his-sister Joe Biden Mistakes His Wife for His Sister]</ref> and even forgetting where he is!!<ref>[https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-goes-blank-stare-forgetting-tries-fails-pass-off-joke/ Biden Goes Into Blank Stare After Forgetting Where He Is, Tries and Fails To Pass It Off as Joke]</ref> despite all this symptoms, Democrats deny anything about Bidens dementia, and let someone mentally disqualified to be president of United States.<ref>[https://thedailycoin.org/2020/08/09/democrats-endgame-is-beyond-strange-with-dementia-biden-in-severe-mental-decline-the-plan-is-to-get-him-elected-but-never-let-him-assume-the-duties-of-president/ Democrat’s Endgame Is Beyond Strange: With Dementia-Biden In Severe Mental Decline, The Plan Is To Get Him Elected But Never Let Him Assume The Duties Of President]</ref>
==Positions==
47th Vice President of the United States
From: January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017
Predecessor Dick Cheney
Successor Mike Pence
Former U.S. Senator from Delaware
From: January 3, 1973 – January 15, 2009
Predecessor Cale Boggs
Successor Ted Kaufman
Former Member of the New Castle County Council from the 4th District
From: November 4, 1970 – November 8, 1972
Predecessor Henry Folsom
Successor Francis Swift
Jill Biden
See also: Biden Crime Family and Biden Putsch
Joseph Robinette “Joe” Biden, Jr., or Creepy Uncle Joe, Grandpa Gropes, Quid pro quo Joe and many others (born[1] November 20, 1942, see: Biden's age), was the Vice President of the United States and served as President Barack Obama's token segregationist. He is famously known as the architect of mass incarceration[2] and of the most extensive voter fraud organization in history.[3] He is also a pawn of the Chinese Communist Party.[4] As the Democratic party nominee in the 2020 presidential election he was endorsed by Neo-Nazi white supremacist Richard Spencer[5] and the official organ of the genocidal Communist party of China.[6] Biden has been implicated in pay-to-play corruption in the Biden-Burisma scandal[7] and is in a business partnership with the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China.[8][9]
Electoral Map as of November 10, 2020. Biden 227, Trump 231, 80 uncounted.[10]
Through voter fraud, Biden amassed enough fraudulent ballots to give the appearance of a Blue Mirage. Biden has made it clear that he woild not hold China accountable for the CCP pandemic.[11] He pledged to raise taxes by undoing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which helped the economy boom, and threatens to replace all the jobs lost during the coronavirus with clean energy jobs,[12] promote the Green New Deal, and the supposed "Equal Rights Amendment." Forced abortion would be "the law of the land", which is like requiring abortions.[13]
On April 25, 2019, Biden announced his candidacy against President Trump in 2020 and was the immediate Democratic party frontrunner.[14] The Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania received $70 million form the Communist Chinese government. The Biden Center did not disclose the money came from China, as required by law.[15] Biden personally received $900,000 from the Biden Center, money which may have originated with Chinese communists.[16]
Biden chief of staff Ron Klain publicly agrees that elections are rigged.[17]
1 Compromised by the CCP
2 2020 Presidential campaign
2.1 The largest voter fraud organization ever
2.2 Biden-Burisma and Big Tech election interference
2.3 The laptop from hell: Hunter becomes the hunted
3.1 You ain't Black
3.2 Biden Amendment repeal of portions of the Civil Rights Act
3.3 Superpredators
3.4 Biden Crime Bill
3.5 Mass incarceration
3.6 Anita Hill hearings
3.7 Flagship of the Confederacy
3.8 Xenophobia
5.1 Antifa
5.2 Fracking
5.4 Supreme court
5.5 Illegal Immigration
5.6 Gun rights
5.7 Islam
5.8 Abortion
5.9 TPP
5.10 China
5.12 Iran
Compromised by the CCP
Biden toasts CCP boss Xi Jinping. According to the Black Book of Communism, the leftist regime of Beijing has murdered more than 60 million of its own people over its 70 years of existence.
Biden's son Hunter Biden is partnered with the Chinese state. Joe Biden holds a 10% interest. Hunter's entire investment partnership uses Chinese state money from its social security fund to the China Development Bank. The partnership, Bohai Harvest RST, is actually a subsidiary of the Bank of China.
Though the entire size of the fund cannot be reconstructed, a co-founder who is now detained in China, reports that Bohai Harvest RST is not the $1-1.5 billion reported, but rather $6.5 billion. Hunter's stake, as of 2020, is worth at least $50 million if he were to sell it.
All players on the Chinese side of the partnership are linked with influence and intelligence organizations. China uses very innocuous sounding organization names to mask PLA, United Front, or the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs influence/intelligence operations. Hunter was the target of an operation to compromise him and his father.
The operational mastermind behind the efforts to compromise the Biden family is a man named Yang Jiechi. He is currently the CCP Director of Foreign Affairs leading strategist on America, a Politburo member, one of the most powerful men in China, and Xi Jinping confidant. As Chinese ambassador to the United States when Biden chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he met regularly with Senator Biden. Later he was Minister of Foreign Affairs when the Bohai Harvest RST investment partnership was made official in 2013.
Yang Jiechi is the point person in China for dealing with the United States. This raises major national Security concerns about a Biden administration dealing impartially with an individual in this capacity. These are documented facts from Chinese corporate records such as IPO prospectuses and media, and raise very valid concerns about Biden linkages to China.[18]
In a recorded call made sometime after Ye Jianming, Hunter's business partner, went missing in February 2018, Hunter is heard speaking in an agitated tone,
"I get calls from my father to tell me that The New York Times is calling, but my old partner, Eric, who literally has done me harm for I don’t know how long, is the one taking the calls because my father will not stop sending the calls to Eric. I have another New York Times reporter calling about my representation of Patrick Ho – the f****** spy chief of China who started the company that my partner, who is worth $323 billion, founded and is now missing. The richest man in the world is missing who was my partner. He was missing since I last saw him in his $58 million apartment inside a $4 billion deal to build the f****** largest f***** LNG port in the world. And I am receiving calls from the Southern District of New York from the U.S. attorney himself. My best friend in business, Devon, has named me as a witness, without telling me, in a criminal case — and my father, without telling me."[19]
The Chaldean Catholic Cathedral in El Cajon, California was defaced with swastikas, Biden 2020, upside down crosses and BLM imagery.[20]
See also: Joseph Biden 2020 presidential campaign, United States presidential election, 2020, and Democrat election fraud
More than 26% of African Americans refused to be put back in chains by Joseph Biden and left the Democrat plantation.[21] Credible rape allegations and failing cognitive skills of the Democrat nominee were largely ignored by the liberal biased mainstream media.[22] Former Bernie Sanders co-chair Nina Turner said voting for Joe Biden is like "eating half a bowl of s***."[23][24]
After the election, a common question circulating on social media was, "Who did you for, Trump or that senile old racist?"
The largest voter fraud organization ever
Dozens of documented examples of election shenanigans.[25]
See also: Cloward-Piven strategy, Voter fraud, Ballot harvesting, and 2020 Voter fraud timeline
The probability of mail-in voter fraud creating chaos after Election Day, November 3, 2020, is very real. Some states may force residents to use mail-in ballots during the current health emergency. Voting by mail makes it easier to commit fraud, intimidate voters, and destroy the protections of the secret ballot. Without the oversight of election and polling officials, mail-in ballots are the ballots most vulnerable to being altered, stolen, or forged. Fraud by duplicate voting can occur, once by absentee or mail-in ballot, and then again in person. Employees of private companies hired to contact and register voters have been known to change party affiliations of voters and forge signatures on voter registration forms, among other things.
Ten days before the election Biden went back into hiding and boasted of having assembled "the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in history.”[26] When Democrats want to tilt elections in their favor outside the ballot box, Marc Elias of Perkins Coie is the go-to guy. Perkins Coie is the Democratic law firm, paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign, that hired Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Donald Trump in 2016. They failed, but still compiled the Steele dossier full of foreign-solicited lies about Trump and Russia, which was leaked by Obama intelligence officials to try to sabotage the new president’s administration, sow doubt in his election victory, and invalidate the votes of 63 million Americans. From Wisconsin to Nevada, to California, Marc Elias and the Democrats pushed lawsuits disguised as “election reform” to water down important election safeguards and increase the opportunity for fraud, abuse, and corruption. In August 2020 Politico reported,
Dominion election equipment with Chinese components used in 28 states.[27]
Coronavirus has turned the Democratic Party’s voter contact program, one operative said, into something more like a tech support operation than a traditional door-knocking effort.....Priorities USA, the Democratic super PAC, is spending $24 million on voter mobilization, which includes vote-by-mail education. Fair Fight, a group founded by Stacey Abrams, has rolled out voter protection programs in 17 states....
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on the USPS and on mail-voting is raising concern among voters, operatives say.
“We've seen such an increase from young people in terms of concern about their ballot casting,” said Jared DeLoof, the states director of NextGen America, which targets younger voters. “They want to vote, they want to make sure that that vote is going to count.” [...]
Democrats believe they will also have to follow up with some voters after their ballot has been cast, in an effort to help them fix ballots that have been rejected for technical reasons. State rules vary widely on if or how voters can correct their ballots, and the time windows to do so can be short.
While Democratic campaigns and groups navigate the patchwork of state rules governing mail ballots to encourage turnout, Democratic election attorney Marc Elias is trying to change many of those rules.
This is the other half of the party’s vote-by-mail efforts: a sprawling legal effort that spans every battleground state and is costing tens of millions of dollars. Priorities USA, just one of Elias’ clients, has expanded its voting litigation budget to $32 million.
“One of the features of vote by mail is that between the point that the voter cast the ballot and the point that the ballot is counted, several things have to go right,” Elias said in an interview. “One is that the ballot has to be received by the election officials in time. ... And the second is that the ballot needs to be verified and accepted.”
Elias, who was the lead attorney in former Sen. Al Franken’s (D-Minn.) 2008 recount victory and the general counsel for Hillary Clinton and John Kerry’s presidential campaigns, is pursuing what he calls “four pillars” of legal changes to election laws during coronavirus. The first, that mail ballots should include paid postage with them, has some cross-partisan support.
The other three do not, locking Elias in a wide-range legal fight with Republicans all over the country, including the Republican National Committee and its legal budget of at least $20 million. Those fights are over Elias’ push to mandate that states count ballots postmarked by Election Day but received after the fact; overhauling signature matching laws, which Elias derides as based on pseudoscience; and allowing for third parties to collect and turn in voters’ sealed absentee ballots, which Democrats call “community collection” and Republicans largely deride as “ballot harvesting.”
“One thing you do is you make sure that people whose ballot is being challenged based on signature matching, that the people that are doing that have been trained, are applying uniform non-discriminatory standards. And most importantly, the voter is notified and has an opportunity to cure,” Elias said of his legal strategy. (A cure process mandates that a state contacts voters whose ballots have been rejected to give them the ability to fix — or cure — their ballot.)
Several Democratic-backed lawsuits have also pushed to expand who can cast absentee ballots. In 44 states, any voter can, at a minimum, request an absentee ballot if they choose to do so, and some states have changed that requirement as a response to the pandemic. [...]
Republicans argue that allowing for outside parties to collect and deliver ballots could lead to coercion or fraud. [...]
Depending on how close the races for the White House and battleground Senate seats are, "we could be headed for a Bush v. Gore situation in every battleground state, depending how close the results are."[28]
The RNC and the Trump campaign pushed back against the Democrats’ assault on the integrity of elections. All across the country, Democrats tried to use coronavirus and the courts to legalize ballot harvesting, implement a nationwide mail-in ballot system, and eliminate nearly every safeguard in our elections.
One in five mail in ballots have been rejected in several 2020 elections. Nearly two-thirds (62%) say there is fraud in U.S. elections, and that fraud would concern them under Democrats’ nationwide mail-in ballot system. Americans overwhelmingly approve of the safeguards Democrats are suing to eliminate like signature matching (84%), voter identification (80%), and a ballot receipt deadline of election day (83%). Voters also oppose (67%) allowing campaign workers to collect mail-in ballots, also known as ballot harvesting.[29]
Biden-Burisma and Big Tech election interference
Biden family text with Hunter telling his sister Naomi that thier "Pop" Joe Biden received 50% of the Burisma kickbacks.[30]
Documents show payments from Burisma to Hunter Biden.[31][32][33][34]
For first time in American history social media companies took direct action against a major U.S. publisher,[35] The New York Post when it published a story on former VP Biden's collusion with Burisma executives and Ukrainian oligarchs.[36] The Post is among the top five newspapers by circulation in the United States.
Big Tech giants Facebook and Twitter began interfering in the presidential election by blocking links to the article on the Biden-Burisma scandal.[37] Facebook and Twitter have many foreign stockholders.[38] Former James Comey general counsel James A. Baker (DOJ), who was complicit in the Obamagate and FISA abuse scandals, is Twitter's lead counsel.[39]
One email from a Burisma executive reads,
“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.”
Former Vice President Biden has repeatedly lied about having any knowledge of his son Hunter's dealings with Burisma. Hunter Biden earned in excess of $3 million while serving on Burisma's board of directors during the Obama administration. The former vice president bragged to the Council on Foreign Relations that he threatened the President of Ukraine with withholding $1.8 Billion in foreign aid and loan guarantees, which the former vice president was in charge of, unless a prosecutor investigating Burisma kickbacks to the Biden family was fired.
A firestorm erupted over Big Tech censorship of the news and calls for repealing their Section 230 immunity. Youtube began banning dozens of top Conservative channels.[40] Twitter continued banning people who posted the Hunter Biden story.[41] Twitter banned White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany for sharing the Hunter and Joe Biden corruption article.[42]Senate Judiciary Committee announced Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will be subpoenaed over censorship of NY Post.[43] Wikipedia editors censored the Hunter Biden Bombshell, and called the New York Post an ‘unreliable’ source.[44] Twitter locked the Trump Campaign account less than 3 weeks before the 2020 Presidential election.[45] Rep. Jim Jordan posted the Biden-Burisma story on a federal government website after Twitter censors House Judiciary GOP, at which point the link was promptly censored by Twitter.[46] Twitter itself shut down completely.[47][48] Google was reported to be meddling in U.S. Senate elections.[49] A Rasmussen Poll shortly after found 61% of Likely U.S. Voters now think the impact on politics of social media like Facebook and Twitter has been bad for the nation.[50]
Facebook and Twitter are no longer service carriers of electronic information, but rather now acting as publishers and broadcasters of news. Hence their immunity from broadcasting libelous information on their platforms - such as accusations of President Trump being a Russian spy for example - should be revoked. Yahoo News! reported:
Instead of simply asking pertinent questions, or debunking the [New York] Post’s reporting, a media blackout was initiated. A number of well-known journalists warned colleagues and their sizable social-media audiences not to share the story. By the afternoon, Twitter had joined Facebook in suppressing the article, not only barring its users from sharing it with followers, but barring them sharing it through direct messages as well. It locked the accounts of White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, the Post, and many others for retweeting the story.
Twitter initially cited its “Hacked Materials Policy” and a “lack of authoritative reporting” as justification for censoring the Post, one of the most widely read papers in the nation. Though the reliability of the story is yet to be determined, Twitter has offered no evidence that any of the information was illegally obtained. No similar standard was applied when the New York Times published Trump’s tax returns, even though anyone who had legal access to them is likely to have broken the law in sharing them with the Times. Whatever the case, it’s all in the public record now.
A healthy democracy with a properly functioning and independent press would debate, investigate, and rigorously fact check new information. They wouldn’t work to squelch a story. It’s certainly not the job of giant tech companies who claim to function as neutral platforms to decide what news consumers can or can’t handle.
The most generous reading of Twitter and Facebook’s actions is that the rules are evolving, messy, and inadvertently unfair. A less generous — but more plausible — reading is that the tech giants single out specific stories damaging to progressives’ preferred presidential candidate. It will backfire.
For one thing, it further damages the reputation of Big Tech. For another, it renders the industry more susceptible to a new regulatory regime already being championed by some in Congress. Mostly, however, it just makes the story they’re trying to suppress a far bigger deal.[51]
Glenn Greenwald writing in The Intercept remarked,
"It has been astonishing to watch Democrats over the last twenty-four hours justify this censorship on the grounds that private corporations are entitled to do whatever they want."
Google saw a spike in searches for ‘can I change my vote’ after the release of a Hunter Biden sex tape.[52] The New York Post, Gateway Pundit, and Big League Politics all were placed on Twitter's suspension hit lit the final week before election day.[53]
A study from the Media Research Center showed that Twitter and Facebook censored President Donald Trump and the president’s affiliated campaign accounts at least 65 times in 2019 ans 2020, while leaving Biden untouched.[54]
The laptop from hell: Hunter becomes the hunted
Hunter Biden with meth pipe.[55]
The former vice president's son, Hunter, never visited Ukraine, did not speak Ukrainian, had no experience in the oil and gas industry, received over $50,000 a month in wire transfers from Burisma in which he paid half to his father,[56] was dishonorably discharged from the Navy for cocaine addiction, returned a rental car with crack and paraphernalia in it,[57] had a baby out of wedlock whom he refused to pay child support for until ordered by a court while he was having an affair with his widowed sister-in-law.[58] Biden was paid $3.5 million from the wife of the Moscow mayor to launder $200 million in violation of the Magnitsky Act.[59] Tens of thousands of dollars in payments to an Eastern European prostitution and human tafficing ring were also discovered.[60] Professor Jonathan Turley noted the obvious facts:
“The Bidens appear to have lied for years as a raw influence-peddling scheme worth millions stretched from China to Ukraine to Russia...Moreover, these countries likely have had the compromising information all along while the Bidens — and the media — were denying reports of illicit activities”.[61]
Senate lawmakers formally requested the Department of Justice to appoint a special counsel to investigate foreign payments to the Biden family:
"These alleged revelations raise serious questions about former Vice President Joe Biden's reported participation with his son's business, dealings, specifically whether the former vice president (1) received foreign monies during his tenure in the Obama administration and (2) if former Vice President Biden allowed his son to peddle access to his father with foreign business entities.
We request that the Department of Justice immediately appoint an independent, unbiased special counsel to investigate the issues that we have raised — as well as any corresponding legal or ethical issues that might be uncovered from the former vice president's 47 years in public office,[62][63]
CNN airbrushed out the Washington Redskins logo from this 1970s photo of Joe Biden and son. The Washington NFL team dropped the name 'Redskins' in June 2020 because it was deemed "racist".[65]
In addition to Biden's longstanding alliance with fellow Democrat segregationists in the U.S. Senate, Biden is known for a history of making racially insensitive remarks. Reportedly, Biden’s political approach to race has long been geared toward assuaging the racial anxieties of white voters. Biden exposed his racial insensitivity towards the 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate and running mate, Barack Obama, when he declared, "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." He later claimed, "Barack Hussein Obama is change enough for most people."[66] Biden called Confederate flag advocates "very fine people"[67] and members of the U.S. military "stupid bastards"[68]
You ain't Black
See also: 2020 Antifa riots
Democrat presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden made a particularly offensive and egregious racist comment toward African American's during a radio interview.[69] Biden's comments were an effort at voter intimidation. Black Entertainment Television (BET) co-founder Bob Johnson called him out saying in part,
"This proves unequivocally that the Democratic nominee believes that black people owe him their vote without question; even though we as black people know it is exactly the opposite. He should spend the rest of his campaign apologizing to every black person he meets."[70]
Biden was roundly criticized by Black leaders for his racist comments.[71]
Biden won the Democrat presidential nomination when South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn endorsed him, and the dominos of the Democrat machine fell into place. In short choreographed order, the remaining white candidates, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg and a host of local officials began goosestepping in lockstep. Kamala Harris,[72] Cory Booker, Julian Castro, and Tulsi Gabbard had been driven out earlier in a rigged process that allowed rich white billionaires - Steyer and Bloomberg - to buy their way in once all the minority candidates were forced out.[73] Clyborn admitted he cringed when he heard Biden's racist attack on Black people.[74]
Biden cynically tried to take advantage of George Floyd's killing, which occurred only days later, to repair his relations with Blacks by attacking the police and accusing them of systemic racism. Police groups and unions which Biden courted since the 1990s on behalf of the Clinton administration with the Biden Crime Bill, mass incarceration, and effort to put 100,000 new cops on the street to deal with "Superpredators", responded by withdrawing their support.[75]
When Biden supporters tore down statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson because they were slave owners, Biden never condemned the violence and vandalism and accused President Trump of being America's first racist president. Biden conveniently overlooked the racism of President's Woodrow Wilson and Lyndon Johnson, and a dozen other Democrat presidents who were slave owners. Charlemagne tha God responded that he wished Biden would just "shut the eff up forever."[76]
Biden Amendment repeal of portions of the Civil Rights Act
Biden called segregation "a matter of Black pride" and pushed for a Constitutional Amendment to outlaw Court ordered de-segregation.[77]
See also: Segregation and Systemic racism
The debate over the crimes of the Democrats slave power[78] was reopened in 2019 while some far leftists were pushing for slave reparations.[79] During Sen. Biden's decades long collaboration with segregationist Senators, there is no record of Biden ever calling them "clown's, "racists", or telling them to "shut up". Contrarily, Biden had nothing but kind and loving words of praise at their retirements and funerals.
In 1972 Biden re-cycled the racist rhetoric of John C. Calhoun, arguing that school segregation was a "positive good" for Blacks. Calhoun famously laid out his doctrine of separation of the races as a civilizing force among Blacks which became Democrat talking points before the Dred Scott decision, throughout the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the New Deal. In a Democrat filibuster on the floor of the Senate, Calhoun famously said:
"I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good—a positive good."
Biden resurrected the idea that segregation was "for their own good" and that Blacks were grateful for it.
“I think the concept of busing … that we are going to integrate people so that they all have the same access and they learn to grow up with one another and all the rest, is a rejection of the whole movement of black pride, a rejection of the entire black awareness concept, where black is beautiful, black culture should be studied; and the cultural awareness of the importance of their own identity, their own individuality.”[80]
Biden: "My children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle."[81]
In the 21st century Biden tried to separate himself from his previous racist statements on school integration:
"Poor kids are just as smart as white kids."
Biden led a coalition of segregationists that was opposed by Republican Sen. Edward Brooke, the first African American senator elected since Democrats forced the end of Reconstruction after the Civil War. National Public Radio's David Ensor asked Biden, "What about a constitutional amendment? Isn’t that what you’re gonna have to end up supporting if you want to stop court ordered busing, too?" Biden responded,
"That would clearly do it. I’m hopeful, and I have — now that I have some sort of new allies in this area, it’s become respectable now for liberals to at least say publicly what they’ve been saying in private, that busing doesn’t work. We are trying to figure out whether or not we can come up with an innovative piece of legislation which would limit the remedy, and I don’t — honestly don’t know whether we can come up with something constitutional. And if we can’t, I will not in an attempt to eliminate busing violate the Constitution. I won’t do that. The only way, if I’m gonna go at it, I’m gonna go at it through a Constitutional Amendment if it can’t be done through a piece of legislation."
Ensor reported that Biden proposed renewing segregation because busing "wasn't working" ("wasn't working" to the electoral advantage of Democrats and not necessarily to the cause of equal rights for Blacks), and Biden was afraid that older liberal colleagues were blind to how Black separatists felt about their children being bused to white schools.
"There are those of we social planners who think somehow that if we just subrogate man’s individual characteristics and traits by making sure that a presently heterogeneous society becomes a totally homogeneous society, that somehow we’re going to solve our social ills. Quite to the contrary."
Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance.[82] Biden told the Philadelphia Enquirer on October 12, 1975:
“Liberals have rejected common sense. Anybody who has studied the area knows that we don't have a workable rehabilitation program. Yet we continue to insist that the function of prison is to rehabilitate, not punish. I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace — someone who’s not afraid to stand up and offend people, someone who wouldn’t pander but would say what the American people know in their gut is right”[83]
George Wallace praised Biden as "one of the outstanding young politicians of America."[84] Wallace is famous for coining the slogan in a gubernatorial inaugural address,
"Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!"[85][86]
The same year Biden authored an amendment to gut Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Politico writes of the whole sordid affair,
Biden morphed into a leading anti-busing crusader—all the while continuing to insist that he supported the goal of school desegregation, he only opposed busing as the means to achieve that end. This stance, which many of Biden’s liberal and moderate colleagues also held, was clever but disingenuous. It enabled Biden to choose votes over principles, while acting as if he was not doing so....In a seminal moment, the Senate thus turned against desegregation. The Senate had supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 1965 Voting Rights Act and 1968 Fair Housing Act....the Senate remained the last bastion for those who supported strong integration policies. Biden stormed that bastion...[77]
“I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace — someone who’s not afraid to stand up and offend people, someone who wouldn’t pander but would say what the American people know in their gut is right” - Joe Biden
Sen. James Abourezk of South Dakota related how Biden reacted when Abrourezek tried to block the amendment:
‘Abourezk, you **********, if I ever vote for another one of your bills, it'll be a cold day in hell.'
‘Calm down, Joe,' I told him, ‘You're eventually gonna thank me for doing this.'
‘Like hell I will you dirty *******.'
A few days later, Biden came into the scheduled committee meeting, this time with a broad, friendly grin aimed directly at me.
‘Jesus, Abourezk, you were right,' he said. ‘I am gonna thank you. You should see the Delaware newspapers—big front-page headlines saying, ‘Biden Battles Liberals in Washington.' He was unabashedly elated. ‘They love me back home, how did you know this would happen?'[87]
The New York Times published a lengthy story on Biden's advocacy of segregation. In a 1977 congressional hearing related to anti-desegregation orders, Biden emphasized,
"Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle."[88]
Republican Sen. Edward Brooke, the first black senator ever to be popularly elected, called Biden's amendment “the greatest symbolic defeat for civil rights since 1964.” Brooke accused Biden of leading an assault on integration.
Prof. Ronnie Dunn said opposition to busing was motivated by racism and that without the court-ordered policy Biden probably would not have become vice president in 2009. “What I find ironic is that [Biden] was the vice president under a president who, if it hadn’t been for the social interaction that occurred during the era of busing, I argue we likely would not have seen the election of Barack Obama." Dunn, an Urban Studies professor at Cleveland State University and author of the book Boycotts, Busing, & Beyond, said Biden made the case in favor of maintaining segregation. "That was an argument against desegregation.” Dunn said Biden must address the issue if he runs for president. “People have to be held accountable."[89]
Biden's opposition to integration didn't stop there. HuffPo reported:
"That little girl was me." The Biden Amendment of 1975 to the 1965 Civil Rights Act restored funding for schools that practiced racial segregation. Democrat presidential contender Kamala Harris was ostracized and silenced after exposing Biden's corrupt and racist history.
In 1977, two black men nominated for key Justice Department posts by President Jimmy Carter easily won approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee. After confirmation by the full Senate, Drew Days III became the nation’s first black head of the department’s civil rights division and Wade McCree became the second black solicitor general. Only one member of the committee voted against them. It wasn’t segregationists Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) or James Eastland (D-Miss.). It wasn’t even former Ku Klux Klan member Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.). The lone Judiciary Committee vote against the two men was Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.).[90]
In 1981 Biden said in a Senate hearing, “sometimes even George Wallace is right about some things.” Wallace is famous for saying in 1963, “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”[91] Biden read the "N" word into the Congressional Record during an open hearing in 1986.[92] In a farewell address to retiring Democrat segregationist Sen. John Stennis, Biden said:
"To think that I would be one day on the floor of the United States Senate, being paid such accolades by such a man of character and courage as John Stennis is beyond my wildest dreams. And I mean that sincerely."[93]
When Biden announced his candidacy Politico attempted to poo-poo and explain away Biden and liberal Democrat racism with a back-handed slap at school vouchers for minority students, which liberal elites have strenuously opposed ever since the Biden Amendment passed:
School desegregation, as part of a broader suite of civil rights reforms, was once as a vital component of the Democratic Party platform. Yet since the 1970s, Democrats, in the face of concerted white backlash, have largely accommodated themselves to increasing segregation in public schools across the nation. Party leaders, even the most progressive among them, rarely propose serious solutions to this vexing problem. A sincere critique of Biden’s busing record would require a broader reckoning of the Democratic Party’s—and by extension the nation’s—abandonment of this central goal of the civil rights movement. And it’s hard to see that happening anytime soon.[94]
Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey condemned the 2020 Democrat primary frontrunner at the Juneteenth annual commemoration of Republican Abraham Lincoln ending slavery in the United States.
You don’t joke about calling black men 'boys'...frankly, I’m disappointed that he hasn’t issued an immediate apology for the pain his words are dredging up for many Americans. He should.[78]
Superpredators
Biden colluded with segregationists to undermine the Supreme Court decision of Brown vs. Board.
In a 1993 Senate floor speech, Biden warned of "predators on our streets" who were "beyond the pale" and said they must be cordoned off from the rest of society because the justice system did not know how to rehabilitate them. Biden described a
"cadre of young people, tens of thousands of them, born out of wedlock, without parents, without supervision, without any structure, without any conscience developing because they literally ... because they literally have not been socialized, they literally have not had an opportunity."
Biden went on in the same breath,
"It doesn't matter whether or not the person that is accosting your son or daughter or my son or daughter, my wife, your husband, my mother, your parents, it doesn't matter whether or not they were deprived as a youth. It doesn't matter whether or not they had no background that enabled them to become socialized into the fabric of society. It doesn't matter whether or not they're the victims of society. The end result is they're about to knock my mother on the head with a lead pipe, shoot my sister, beat up my wife, take on my sons."
Biden said, that he didn't care "why someone is a malefactor in society" and that criminals needed to be "away from my mother, your husband, our families." Biden added "we should focus on them now" because "if we don't, they will, or a portion of them, will become the predators 15 years from now."
Biden's comments echoed first lady Hillary Clinton's inflammatory statement about "Superpredators" with "no conscience, no empathy" and "we need to bring them to heel."
Biden Crime Bill
Main article: The New Jim Crow
Biden was a staunch opponent of school desegregation in the 1970s and leading crusader for mass incarceration in the 1980s and 1990s. Biden described African American felons in the aftermath of the Central Park 5 jogger case as 'predators' too sociopathic to rehabilitate,[95] and white supremacist senators as his friends.
Biden boasts as one of his greatest legislative achievements passage of the 1994 Crime bill which locked up 10% of the Black adult male population of the United States.[96]
When President George H.W. Bush asked for a record increase in funding to fight the War on Drugs, Biden told a TV interviewer
"In a nutshell, the President's plan does not include enough police officers to catch the violent thugs, enough prosecutors to convict them, enough judges to sentence them or enough prison cells to put them away for a long time."[97][98]
The Superpredator Act of 1994. Feinstein, Kerry and Biden are clearly visible with President Clinton. The bill is known for its sentencing disparities which led to mass incarceration of Blacks.[99]
Biden, Ted Kennedy, and Strom Thurmond worked on proposals that raised maximum penalties, removed a directive requiring the US Sentencing Commission to take into account prison capacity, and created the cabinet-level “drug czar” position. In 1984, they passed the Comprehensive Crime Control Act, which, among other things, abolished parole, imposed a less generous cap on “good time” sentence reductions, and allowed the Sentencing Commission to issue more punitive guidelines.
Biden bragged on the Senate floor that it was under his and Thurmond's leadership that Congress passed a law sending anyone caught with a rock of cocaine the size of a quarter to jail for a minimum of five years - the notoriously racist hundred-to-one sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. In the same speech Biden took credit for civil asset forfeiture and seizure laws, and demanded to know why Papa Bush hadn't sentenced more drug dealers to life in prison or exercise the death penalty once Congress had given him that power.[100]
Biden's version of a new crime bill added more than forty crimes that would be eligible for the death penalty. Biden boasted “we do everything but hang people for jaywalking.”[101] The NAACP and other groups lobbied against the bill.[102] Although the 1991 crime bill was defeated by Republicans, the 1994 Biden/Clinton crime bill was passed.[103]
By 2001, the United States had the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Human Rights Watch reported that in seven states, African Americans constituted 80 to 90 percent of all drug offenders even though they were no more likely than whites to use or sell illegal drugs. Prison admissions for drug offenses reached a level in 2000 for African Americans more than 26 times the level they had been under Ronald Reagan.[104] Biden's "social planning" had proven effective.
In May 2019 journalist and historian Shaun King observed,
I’ve heard a very dangerous lie being told about how the systems of mass incarceration were built in this nation. I didn’t expect to have to respond this way because I didn’t expect Joe Biden to lie about the 1994 Crime Bill. He wrote it. He fought for it. And the results were devastating. Every single expert on this topic agrees.
This week Joe Biden took the stance that not only is he not sorry for the Crime Bill, but that it didn’t even increase mass incarceration. And it’s shameful because either he’s willfully lying, which is horrible, or he’s just plain ignorant about the true impact of the bill, which is also horrible. Either way, I have a major problem with it because these laws are still in effect and they are doing damage in our communities every single day, 24 hours a day.[105]
The Leftist Jacobin magazine summed up Biden's record:
"It’s not as if Biden didn’t know what he was doing.... He just didn’t care. Biden had made a calculated decision that the elections he would win were worth the damage he inflicted....
But even if Biden has subsequently learned the error of his ways, the rank cynicism and callousness involved in his two-decade-long championing of carceral policies should be more than enough to give anyone pause about his qualities as a leader, let alone a progressive one."[106]
See also: War on Drugs
Sen. Cory Booker told the NAACP convention in Detroit in response to another so-called "criminal justice reform" proposal by Biden:
For a guy who helped to be an architect of mass incarceration, this in an inadequate solution to what is a raging crisis in our country.[107]
Biden now advocates for a man sentenced to prison to choose to be incarcerated in a women's prison.[108]
Anita Hill hearings
Biden as chair of the Judiciary Committee, called for extended hearings to delay a vote on Thomas and accommodate her last-minute allegations with televised hearings that traumatized the country. Biden told Sen. Arlen Specter that “It was clear to me from the way she was answering the questions, [Hill] was lying” about the central theme of her testimony. Biden used homophobia, allegations by a Republican Senator that Anita Hill had "certain proclivities" to discredit her testimony, to attack Hill's critics while at the same time fight the nomination of an uppity Black. Biden has been widely criticized for his racist, sexist, and bigotted handling of the hearings.[109][110]
Thomas said he would rather have been the victim of an assassin's bullet than suffer what the hearings did to him.[111] Democrats were outraged that a Republican president would nominate a conservative African-American role model for Black youths to the Supreme Court.
Hill described her private conversation with Joe Biden shortly before he entered the 2020 presidential election as "deeply unsatisfying."[112]
Flagship of the Confederacy
See also: Southern Manifesto
The Southern Manifesto was a document written after the landmark Supreme Court 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education, which integrated public schools. It was drawn up by legislators in the United States Congress opposed to racial integration in public places. It was signed by politicians from the former Confederate States. All but twenty-eight of the 138 southern Democrat members of Congress signed the Manifesto, including 19 of the Majority Democrat Senators.[113]
The Southern Manifesto was signed on a large mahogany conference table in Sen. John Stennis' office which Stennis used as his desk and referred to as "the flagship of the Confederacy." The table was used by segregationist and co0signer of the Southen Manifesto before, Sen. Richard Russell before his retirement. When Stennis retired in 1988, Biden took over Stennis' office, including the conference table. When Biden was elected vice president in 2008, Biden had the conference table moved into the vice president's residence.
Biden told an audience in 2006,
Richard Spencer officially endorsed Joe Biden. Spencer organized the 2015 Neo-Nazi Charlottesville March and is one of the "fine people" Biden claims Trump praised.[114]
"the country that isn't an erstwhile democracy, where they have the greatest disparity, and it's one of the wealthiest countries in the hemisphere. And because of a corrupt system that exists in Mexico, there is the 1% of the population at the top, a very small little middle class, and the rest in abject poverty.
Folks, I voted for a fence. I voted and, unlike most Democrats - some of you won't like it - I voted for 700 miles of fence. Let me tell you, we can build a fence 40 stories high - unless we change the dynamic in Mexico, and you will you like this - and punish American employers who knowingly violate the law when in fact they hire illegals. Unless you do those two things, all the rest is window dressing. Now I know I'm not supposed to say it that bluntly. But they are facts. They are the facts.
And so, everything else we do is in between here, everything else we do is at the margin. The reason why I thought, parenthetically, why I believe the fence is needed is not really related to immigration as much as drugs. I'm the guy who wrote the national crime bill. I'm the guy that wrote the national drug trafficing. I'm the guy who wrote the law that set up a drug czar. Let me tell you something, folks. People are driving across that border with tons, tons, hear me, tons, of everything from by products for methamphetamine, to cocaine, to heroin. It's all coming up through corrupt Mexico.
So I would have, as they say in the southern part of my state, I had an altar call. I had a come to the Lord meeting. You think I'm joking? I'm not joking. Maybe you know about me. I've been doing this a long time. I've known every single major world leader in every country for the past 20 years. And I know a lot of them well...don't tell me, in Mexico, you expect to get the same kind of treatment that we give other democracies, and then you don't act in a democratic way. Not on my watch., Not on my watch.[115]
It seem Biden suffered from early stages of Dementia.[116] Biden has symptoms of dementia like forgetting basic facts of his own, like forgetting how many grandchildren he has,[117] thinking that he run for senate not US presidency,[118] forgetting that he is run against president Trump not George Bush,[119] mistaking between his wife and his sister,[120] and even forgetting where he is!![121] despite all this symptoms, Democrats deny anything about Bidens dementia, and let someone mentally disqualified to be president of United States.[122]
Biden refused to denounce terrorist Anarcho-coummunist group of Antifa during the first debate with president Donald Trump. he claimed they are just an idea not organization. he pretend that FBI Bureau’s director Chris Wray told lawmakers that Antifa is an ideology not terrorist group, but the fact this is not what Wray said, Wray said: “any number of properly predicated investigations into what we would describe as violent anarchist extremists,” which included individuals who identity with Antifa.[123] it seem Biden and Antifa have some relations, when someone press Antiffa.com, Biden election page will appear.[124]
During Democratic primarily elections stated that he will end fracking severly times.[125][126] after his winning primarily elections he pretend that he is never said that he will not end fracking to his supporters in Pennsylvania, and he denied all what he said on ending fracking. Washington Post admit that Biden will loss his popularity in Pennsylvania because his comments on fracking.[127]
Biden flip-flops on defunding police. He changed his positions three times on defunding police.[128] in 8 July 2020 he agree on defunding some level in police. [129] in the first presidential debate Biden accuse police and calling them as ‘systemic racists’. [130]
Biden wants to violate the Constitution by expanding Supreme court members.[131] At presidential debate, Biden refused to confirm that.[132]
Biden didn’t consider Illegal immigrants as illegals, he call them instead as undocumented immigrants. [133] in presidential debate he admit that he will give citizenship to 11 million illegal immigrants. [134] Biden stated that he want to reform ICE policies, without saying which of this policies want to reform. [135]
Biden plan to control people's right to own guns, for example, banning semi-automatic firearms.[136] he pretend that his plan did not violate the Second Amendment.[137] Biden has no tolerance for anyone who oppose his anti-gun campaign, in 10 March 2020 he threatened to fight a civilian worker in Detroit, he disrespected him by calling him 'Sh*t' because he opposed him.[138]
Biden planed to bring hundreds of thousands of Muslims from radical countries.[139] Biden was criticized when talking to his fellow Muslims, He promised to Muslims to let kids learn Sharia law in schools.[140] To convince Muslims to vote for him he used one of the most radical hadiths: whoever sees evil let him change by his hand, if he cannot then with his tongue, if he cannot then with his heart (by hating), and that's the weakest faith. this is same hadith which used by the September 11, 2001 attack perpetrators.[141]
Biden has a far left position on abortion, he said that he will support abortion in all circumstances including late term abortion.[142] he also said that he will stop any state from preventing abortion.[143]
Biden planed for return to Trans-Pacific Partnership, despite it damages on US economy.[144] he want to abolish all tariffs which created by president Trump.[145]
Biden has good relations with communist government of China. China was one of first countries which welcomed media declaration of Biden wining. vice foreign minister He Yafei said: despite differences in political ideology, there could still be opportunities for long-term cooperation. “Multilateralism, I will say, is very much needed at this critical moment,” he said. “For China, the US and the EU, all of us should rethink who we are and what roles we can play in the future.[146]
Biden criticized president Trump for his meeting with North Korea president Kim Jong-un, despite this meeting avoid nuclear war. Biden and Obama failed to shutdown Nuclear program of North Korea, they let North Korea to get Nuclear power, and now Biden pretend that his policy will force North Korea to shutdown Nuclear power, without clarifying what this policy.[147]
In contradiction on his policy with North Korea, Biden will let Iran first country of terrorism sponsoring to get Nuclear power. Biden also criticized president Trump for quick act to assassinate terrorist and war criminal Qasem Soleimani.[148] Biden planned to rejoin to Iranian Nuclear deal, he will also canceled all sanctions on Iranian regime and let them to get money to support their terrorist militias.[149] Mullahs government of Iran like China was one of first countries which welcomed media declaration of Biden wining.[150]
See also: Joe Biden early life and career
Ukrainian collusion timeline
Race baiting
↑ his birth name was Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.
↑ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cory-booker-calls-joe-biden-an-architect-of-mass-incarceration
↑ https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/10/24/biden_we_have_put_together_the_most_extensive_and_inclusive_voter_fraud_organization_in_the_history_of_american_politics.html
↑ Gertz, Bill (November 11, 2020). Biden favors China appeasement. The Washington Times. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
↑ https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/24/white-supremacist-who-organized-charlottesville-race-riots-endorses-joe-biden/
↑ https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198289.shtml
↑ https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/hunter-biden-emails-show-leveraging-connections-with-dad-to-boost-burisma-pay/
↑ https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/a-collusion-tale-the-bidens-and-china/
↑ https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/biden-son-brother-pitched-us-infrastructure-deals-chinese
↑ https://www.forexlive.com/news/!/decision-desk-trump-won-the-state-of-north-carolina-20201110
↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52-vVoPcJAk
↑ https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/06/the-election-fallacy-of-the-intellectual-conservatives-beltway-republicans-are-decepticons/
↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/06/biden-vows-make-roe-v-wade-law-land-abortion-law-overturned/
↑ Biden is considered the Konstantin Chernenko of the modern Left.
↑ https://nlpc.org/2020/05/21/complaint-filed-against-university-of-pennsylvania-and-biden-center-for-undisclosed-china-mega-donations/
↑ https://www.dickmorris.com/penn-univ-paid-biden-900000-wont-say-how-much-was-from-china-lunch-alert/#commentblock
↑ https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/12/bidens-pick-for-chief-of-staff-agrees-that-elections-are-rigged/
↑ https://www.baldingsworld.com/2020/10/22/report-on-biden-activities-with-china/
↑ https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1321184369562759172
↑ https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/chaldean-catholic-cathedral-vandalized-in-san-diego-with-white-power-blm-and-swastikas-29343]
↑ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-media-are-very-disappointed-in-hispanic-voters
↑ https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/new-evidence-appears-to-corroborate-tara-reades-sexual-assault-claim-against-joe-biden-video/
↑ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/how-trump-could-win-reelection/612205/
↑ https://youtu.be/aOGJOlnli0c
↑ https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/dozens-of-documented-examples-of-election-shenanigans/
↑ https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/10/24/joe-biden-brags-about-having-most-extensive-voter-fraud-organization-in-history/
↑ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/huge-corrupted-software-used-michigan-county-stole-6000-votes-trump-also-used-swing-states-uses-chinese-computer-parts-machines/
↑ https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/21/democrats-vote-by-mail-plan-399671
↑ https://www.protectthevote.com/
↑ https://thespectator.info/2020/10/15/unlike-pop-joe-biden-i-wont-make-you-give-me-half-of-your-salary-video/
↑ https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2019/11/06/breaking-source-reveals-hunter-biden-took-off-the-books-payments-from-burisma-aided-by-fbi-coverup/
↑ https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2019/11/12/here-are-the-payments-to-hunter-biden-leaked-from-ukraine/
↑ https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hunter-biden-served-as-ceremonial-figure-on-burisma-board-for-80000-per-month/
↑ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/leaked-bank-records-confirm-burisma-biden-payments-morgan-stanley-account
↑ https://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-and-facebooks-assault-on-freedom-of-the-press_3540670.html
↑ *https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/
*https://youtu.be/r4Kcc7a114I
*https://youtu.be/89ByR-vrnc4
↑ https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/14/election-interference-facebook-suppressing-new-york-post-bombshell-story-of-damaging-hunter-biden-emails/
↑ "Finalized January of 2011, the transaction included a $450 million investment from Goldman Sachs, $50 million from DST, and $1 billion from unnamed foreign investors." http://whoownsfacebook.com/#Goldman
*https://qz.com/519388/this-saudi-prince-now-owns-more-of-twitter-than-jack-dorsey-does/
↑ https://nypost.com/2020/06/16/twitter-hires-former-fbi-chief-counsel-as-deputy-lawyer/
↑ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8844807/YouTube-BANS-QAnon-videos-crackdown-conspiracy-theories.html
↑ https://www.wnd.com/2020/10/twitter-now-banning-users-posting-ny-post-story-hunter-biden/
↑ https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/15/twitter-bans-white-house-press-secretary-for-sharing-hunter-and-joe-biden-corruption-article/
↑ https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/15/senate-judiciary-committee-will-subpoena-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-over-ny-post-censorship/
↑ https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/15/wikipedia-editors-censor-hunter-biden-bombshell-call-new-york-post-unreliable-source/
↑ https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/politics/2020/10/15/twitter-locks-trump-campaign-account-less-than-3-weeks-before-presidential-election/
↑ https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/15/jim-jordan-posts-hunter-biden-burisma-story-twitter-censors-house-judiciary-gop/
↑ https://www.mediaite.com/online/twitters-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week-continues-massive-outage-right-before-presidential-town-halls/
↑ https://youtu.be/Dupm8W0sF8c
↑ https://patriotdailypress.org/2020/10/13/google-researcher-warns-google-may-be-shifting-power-to-flip-senate/
↑ https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/october_2020/61_think_social_media_bad_for_politics
↑ https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-facebook-shameful-repression-york-010644456.html
↑ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/google-searches-can-change-vote-spike-following-hunter-biden-sex-tape-release/
↑ https://bigleaguepolitics.com/big-league-politics-gateway-pundit-new-york-post-among-news-outlets-placed-on-twitter-suspension-weeks-before-election/
↑ https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/19/new-study-shows-facebook-and-twitter-censored-trump-65-times-biden-zero/
↑ https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2020/10/14/cdmedia-reporting-since-nov-on-biden-crime-family-confirmed-leftist-media-enablers-attack/
↑ https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/10/15/howie-carr-hunter-biden-scandal-too-hot-for-alt-left-media/
↑ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/17/exclusive-2016-arizona-police-report-cocaine-pipe-found-in-car-rented-by-joe-bidens-son-hunter-biden-authorities-declined-to-prosecute/
↑ https://nypost.com/article/inside-the-life-of-hunter-biden-joe-bidens-scandal-plagued-son/
↑ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/maybe-just-like-gettin-ass-whooped-black-trump-supporter-posts-epic-takedown-black-biden-supporters/
↑ https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2020/09/23/senate-report-links-hunter-biden-to-human-trafficking-ring-n959766
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↑ https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/two-huge-new-developments-emerge-hunter-biden-laptop-saga
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↑ Ryan Grim | The Intercept_, Joe Biden’s Stunningly Racist Answer on the Legacy of Slavery Has Been Overlooked, https://theintercept.com/2019/09/13/joe-biden-democratic-debate-slavery/, September 13, 2019
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Miliband forces Ed Balls to U-turn on economic policy – but how long will he be able to contain him?
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Many papers this morning consider the first pronouncements by Ed Miliband's new shadow chancellor, Ed Balls.
Balls is to move into his boss's suite of offices (which Cameron and Osborne shared in opposition) and appears to have been ordered to backtrack on the position he had been taking on how to deal with the deficit.
Just five months he was attacking Labour for its "dangerous" plans to halve the deficit within four years, but on yesterday's World at One on Radio 4 he declared:
"I am clear. If there was a Labour government today, we would be halving the deficit over five years."
So the question is: for how long will Miliband be able to keep his shadow chancellor in check?
This is the issue which Peter Oborne hihglights in his Telegraph column today:
"When Ed Miliband went to work as a researcher to shadow chancellor Gordon Brown 15 years ago, Balls was already entrenched as the senior political adviser. Balls offered the heavyweight policy guidance, Miliband was the office junior who made the coffee. The two men both entered parliament at the 2005 general election, but it was Balls who had most influence. Miliband was always in the slipstream of his older – and more intellectually talented – rival. It takes a extremely formidable party leader to appoint such a dominant and feared figure to such a powerful post as shadow chancellor – and Ed Miliband is not yet such a leader. But Alan Johnson’s totally unexpected decision to resign for personal reasons left him no choice. Balls it had to be – and the decision is fraught with consequence, not just for the Labour Party, but also for the future of British politics."
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail carries the handy aide memoire below of how Ed Balls' position on the deficit has changed since last summer.
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Home Costa Rica News Zika Virus Could Slow Costa Rica Vacations
Zika Virus Could Slow Costa Rica Vacations
written by admin 2016/01/17
Costa Rica News – A travel notice issued by the Centers for Disease Control over the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which can cause babies to be born with brain damage, has Latin American tourism businesses on edge, particularly those in the Caribbean’s flourishing “babymoon” vacation business.
The CDC had been urging all travelers visiting areas of Latin America and the Caribbean to take extra precautions against mosquito bites to avoid contracting the virus. But officials upgraded the warning late Friday to a Level 2 travel notice and are now advising pregnant women and women trying to become pregnant to consider avoiding travel to the affected areas out of concern that Zika may cause a catastrophic birth defect called microcephaly.
Most experts don’t expect a CDC alert to substantially hurt overall travel to Latin America. But the flourishing Caribbean “babymoon” vacation business, which offers pregnant women and their spouses or partners “one last, relaxing hurrah before the baby comes,” according to About.com’s family vacations editor Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, could be more vulnerable.
The Caribbean Tourism Organization reports that 12.9 million American tourists visited the region in 2014, the most recent year for which statistics were available, a 5.5 percent increase over 2013. It is not clear what percentage of the travelers were on babymoon trips, but the percentage is small, experts say.
“We likely will see a significant decline in trips by women who are pregnant or trying to conceive to these regions in light of the apparent link between the virus and birth defects,” Euromonitor analyst Amanda Bourlier told NBC News via email before the CDC travel notice was issued. “But this demographic represents a relatively small subset of total travelers and as such we anticipate the economic impact from the tourism side should be limited.”
Recent news reports about the rapid spread of Zika and growing evidence of its dangers don’t appear to have had much of an impact on the budding industry so far.
Fodors.com is still seeing a spike in the babymoon-related searches it has come to expect this time of year. And while some couples may cancel their trips or head elsewhere, many are sticking with their plans.
Jacyln Rutigliano, 29, and her husband are concerned about the news, but not enough to cancel their babymoon scheduled in two weeks on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.
“My husband spooks more easily than I do with these things,” said Rutigliano, “But until news hits that shows our destination is specifically impacted, I believe he’ll continue to proceed with caution.”
But Nancy Yale, president of Cruise and World Travel, which books a lot of babymoon trips, said she had one couple decide to cancel their Caribbean babymoon trip to Nevis, which was scheduled for February. Instead they will spend five days in Florida, she said.
“We’re also checking with travel insurance companies to see if a CDC travel alert about the virus would be a covered reason for cancellation,” she said.
The Cruise Lines International Association said it is in close contact with public health authorities about Zika virus concerns.
“Cruise ships publish a daily flier which includes information for passengers relating to health and safety. Zika virus, and corresponding prevention measures, would be one of the topics covered, if appropriate,” the association said in a statement, adding that “the recommended repellent is available on cruise ships.”
For those looking for alternative destinations for spring break, “the easiest Plan B is to pick a fun destination right here in the U.S. of A. such as baseball spring training in Arizona or Florida, maple sugaring and/or late-season skiing in Vermont, whale watching in San Diego or a living history immersion in Williamsburg, VA,” said Kelleher, the vacations editor.
And for alternative warm-weather romantic getaways, Fodors.com Editor-in-Chief Arabella Bowen suggests Palm Springs, California or the Hawaiian island of Maui. If sun and heat aren’t requirements, she recommends “Utah’s splurge-worthy Amangiri resort.”
Harriet Baskas, TODAY Contributor
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The trucking industry is adopting technology to ramp up its strategic fleet management. Is it time for farmers to get on board too?
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Fleet management technology is already pre-wired into an increasing number of tractors and combines. To date, uptake has been modest, but the machinery sector expects interest to explode in the next two years. Photo: File
It’s standard now for truck companies to use GPS and sensors to track operations and vehicle maintenance from a central office. Driver performance gets recorded, efficiency gets analyzed and truck costs get scrutinized, not to mention all the stats that need to get pulled together for government paperwork in the transportation sector.
On the farm, though, progress isn’t so fast. And it’s true that finding out whether our tractors are idling at Tim Horton’s isn’t really a problem for most of us, and we don’t need to file the same kind of endless road reports.
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Even so, the costs to own, operate and maintain farm equipment are huge for today’s farmers, and the pay offs for efficient co-ordination of equipment and reduced downtime can be bigger than ever.
But how do we achieve those goals?
Rob Saik, founder of AgriTrend Agrology, based in Red Deer, Alta. still remembers the day 30 years ago when he was putting in some crop and he needed a wrench, but was eight miles from home. He drove all the way back to the shop only to find out when he finally got back to the field that a bolt had snapped too, and he had to make the round trip all over again.
It’s the sort of snafu that most farmers at the time experienced. Talk about downtime… and frustration!
Then along came two-way radios, cell phones, texting and, more recently, GPS, and the picture felt like it was getting a lot better.
But there is more. Beyond agronomic data, today’s GPS systems and the computer sensors on our farm equipment can wirelessly transfer data that can be used to maintain, fix, move and co-ordinate equipment like never before.
Plus, that wireless capability brings in the potential to link our machines directly to the experts at the dealership.
Welcome to the new world of farm fleet management.
By integrating the dealership into field operations, fleet management technology can not only prevent breakdowns, but improve efficiency and curb operating costs too.
photo: AGCO
Farm equipment that can communicate data directly to the home office or a dealership’s computers will facilitate tracking a machine’s exact location, how it is operating, and whether something will fail shortly or needs to be fixed.
A crew can then be sent out to the field right away with the proper part, reducing or potentially even eliminating downtime. No more frustrating wrench runs.
Plus, since locations are known, the job of co-ordinating equipment and inputs can be more efficient. If fuel or fertilizer is getting low, a truck can be organized so it’s waiting at exactly the right time at exactly the right end of the right row. Even lunch could be delivered hot.
One example of this type of system is AGCO’s AGCommand Fuse. This enables a central program to connect data with vehicles, either by USB or wireless. A typical new Challenger tractor has eight to 10 computers on board, all measuring and controlling things like RPMs and engine temperature, but also tracking maintenance needs, plus watching sensors that indicate if a part or a system is at risk of failure — not to mention collecting and processing the agronomic and field information.
New tractors often come pre-wired for electronic fleet management, although few farms are taking advantage… yet.
As already noted, today’s technology can shoot all this data wirelessly to a home office or directly to a dealership. But there’s more. A web-based application can also make it easy to access that data, along with iPad and iPhone mobile apps.
Wireless transmission of data is also making it faster to use the data in real time. This is particularly useful when co-ordinating movement of people and equipment over vast farms with multiple locations, especially in variable weather with limited application windows. The data can be linked directly to the farm’s main office computer and/or to the dealership’s condition monitoring centre, or even shared with a trusted adviser.
In Alberta this past summer, Saik talked with a large farm customer with two farms, one south of Calgary and one near Peace River. While they chatted, the farmer watched his equipment on his iPad as both farms were being seeded simultaneously.
Saik has also witnessed first-hand how a large-farm manager in Ukraine tracked 25 to 30 tractors. Employees inserted ID cards under their tractor seats to ensure their butts were in the seat, and sensors measured seeding depth relaying the information back to the main office to ensure the job was getting done correctly.
“It’s on these multi-person, multi-equipment farms where fleet management really starts to pay for itself,” says Saik.
Yet in Canada, it’s generally the medium-sized farmers, not the really big farmers, who are making the jump to high-tech solutions. It seems easier to integrate wholesale changes like this to moderately sized farms, believes Saik. The 20,000-acre-plus farms are focused on trying to move large amounts of equipment as quickly as possible. To fully leverage GPS technology takes time, technological expertise and sometimes patience and imagination, and it’s a whole other leap to integrate the data into a fleet management system.
“Adoption of this type of technology is psychographic, not demographic,” says Saik.
To date, the uptake of technology has been limited by the lack of easy interfaces and the time it takes to cobble together systems and to manage the data. Once these get easier, more farmers will jump on board, says Saik.
The AGCO Fuse program works with all makes and sizes of equipment. The ability to send data has been on their new equipment for the last few years. The software is part of the maintenance agreement and for the first year it’s free. Yet very few people take advantage of it — so far.
Two buckets of data
“There are basically two buckets to this data,” says Jason O’Flanagan, AGCO’s North American field marketing and sales support manager for advanced technology solutions. “One is for agronomic data (for example, yield data) and the other is mechanical and performance.”
Spatial positioning platforms that tell you where things are at any given time has been revolutionary and it’s everywhere. Outside of agriculture, it’s as ubiquitous as cell phones.
Now it’s becoming ubiquitous on the farm too, allowing us to integrate geography, application and weather into a data summary locked into the system forever.
AGCO’s Fuse technology, for instance can monitor tractor location, engine performance, hopper levels and more, enabling farmers to cover more acres more efficiently, especially in tight windows.
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Today, the data from scouting, tissue and soil sampling, and yield monitors can also be layered over each other throughout the season and over years to become more and more accurate, says Saik. “This last summer we (Agri-Trend) had some 79,000 in-season scouting images on our Agri-Data platform, all meta-tagged and geo-coded, so we knew the exact time and place of any event. We could see that at 3:44 p.m. on the northwest corner of a specific field, there was herbicide carryover on the headlands.”
Fleet management by contrast depends on the data from the mechanical and performance bucket.
One of the big opportunities is to co-ordinate equipment with deliveries of inputs and outputs. “It can help you get maximum efficient use of the equipment and labour,” says O’Flanagan.
Similar to AGCO’s software, Trimble’s Connected Farm Fleet can compare the use of each vehicle during a 24-hour period, capturing time spent idling, moving, working and travelling and any reasons for delays. It can also monitor fuel usage, battery voltage, oil pressure and help you view trends of vehicle health and performance graphed over time.
Preventive maintenance, tracking, fuel use, stress alerts, engine use and efficiency, driver in seat, and RPMs can be monitoried, and alarms can be sent calling for help when warranted. For example, with the AGCO system, if a cable harness is fraying, an error code can be immediately sent so the farmer or mechanic knows exactly what part needs to be replaced. Then they can get out to the field right away to replace it before the whole machine goes down.
Preventing downtime during the critical season is where the payback can be huge for this system, no matter how big the fleet, says O’Flanagan.
This data can also be used to create bigger-picture analysis of a fleet. For example, a graph can give you an exact number of operator hours and how long equipment sat idle at the side of a field in the year. Instead of estimating, this can tell you if the implement isn’t sized appropriately for the tractor and operation.
It can also give an indisputable record of what the equipment did at any given location and time, which may be necessary as more environmental regulations and litigation are pushed onto farmers.
There’s no doubt that having and sharing information can be powerful. Using it to increase efficiency and decrease downtime, in real time, could be revolutionary. Which leads us to the potential next step — driverless tractors and combines.
Maggie Van Camp
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Critical Hit Game Awards 2020: Best Art Direction
By Darryn Bonthuys
Posted on 3 weeks ago
We’re living in an age where photorealistic games aren’t too far beyond the realm of possibility. Every year video game visuals evolve in leaps and bounds, further lessening the uncanny valley gap and coming oh so close for being recognised as a slice of real life. But video game graphics aren’t just about realism.
It’s how they’re used, how they tell a story, and the impression that they leave behind. A pixel is worth a thousand words in the era of 4K visuals, and these are the games that pushed the graphical envelope to beautiful new heights in 2020. Let’s start with some honourable mentions!
And the winner is…Ghost of Tsushima
I think it’s a testament to the strength of Ghost of Tsushima that its thrilling action was regularly interrupted by people wanting to pause the action and snap a few screens in its fantastic photo mode.Developer SuckerPunch’s feudal Japanese sandbox is nothing short of gorgeous, but it’s done in a manner that heightens the realism and is respectful to its source material.
Here is a land, juxtaposed between raw beauty and sophisticated progress, begging to be explored. All too often a sandbox is mere set dressing that’s easily ignored due to its biomes having been experienced a thousand times already, but Ghost of Tsushima is an unrelenting tour of ancient Japan that regularly results in your jaw hitting the floor. You’d wander into a broken village where embers of devastation danced on the wind or you’d stroll into a field of blood-red flowers and face down a horde of invaders.
You’d turn snow into a bloody paste when assassins came after you, you’d bask in the beauty of a temple that time forgot or you’d mourn the devastation brought forth to a once vibrant forest, the land now scorched and the trees hollow burnt-out husks. And that’s where Ghost of Tsushima stands out from the pack.
Already a brilliant action game with an intense story, Ghost of Tsushima is never visually boring. It makes the most of its world to deliver a memorable experience, showcasing just how brilliant the PlayStation 4 was at the very end of its lifecycle. It is a sumptuous feast for the eyes, a benchmark in storytelling through visuals alone, and a fitting end to one of the greatest console generations of all time.
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Gaming and Misbehaving: Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
2014-11-02 12:00:00by RedHeadPeak
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Tomb Raider has always been a relatively sensible series. The odd magical item or mythical monster aside, the franchise is one that wishes to be taken seriously. We play these games for a more level-headed kind of fun. But there's one place where Lara Croft can go to be silly:
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Last week I addressed the way in which I "misbehaved" whilst playing Dishonored, taking the game (and myself) to a much darker place than the game creators anticipated. This week, I wish to summarize how myself and a friend made a mockery of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. The main aim of this write-up is to remind you of all the times you've misbehaved in games, but I'm also hoping you'll try this out for yourself.
The local co-op game is a rare breed. Once upon a time, the term "multiplayer" usually inspired thoughts of split-screen and friendly rivalry, but nowadays playing with strangers across the world is more commonplace. Here ends the old man grumble. The point is: when you do find a good local multiplayer game, it's something to be cherished; and Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is a great game for you and a mate.
Firstly, Guardian of Light is a co-operative game in the fullest sense. You and a friend must fully cooperate if you are to make it through the game and find all the collectibles. One player takes control of Lara, who is equipped with a grappling hook and cable, whilst the second player controls Totec, a Mayan stereotype armed with spears. Both characters can use an array of other weapons – Totec can use assault rifles with proficiency because the-game-says-so-shut-up – but between gun fights the two characters must use their respective tools to traverse obstacles.
Totec can throw up to three spears into walls to provide balance beams across spike pits; Lara can winch herself up walls or can create a tightrope to nearby ledges. When both characters are holding an end of the grappling hook cable, one character can be lowered down safely. Some bonus rooms require a combination of these skills (and some ingenuity) in order to claim the prize. It's this focus on teamwork that makes Guardian of Light a really entertaining local co-op experience.
It's a shame I had to ruin it.
My friend and I disagree on how the silliness started. We both know that it began when I dropped him, but I state that it was an accident, whilst he believes it was on purpose. He/Totec was dangling over a cliff face, abseiling with the use my/Lara's grappling hook, reaching out for a hidden treasure, when I accidentally released a button and sent him tumbling to his doom. As with every death, he respawned nearby a moment later. We laughed about it, but we both knew he'd want payback. A short time later I was balancing on a well-placed Mayan spear above a nest of spikes ready to jump to the far side. My companion suddenly loosed three spears in random directions. Why? Because there can only be three spears on-screen at once. When he threw the fourth spear, the first one disappeared. I was quick enough to take flight a split second before my perch sparkled out of existence, but from then on we were wary of each other.
Have you ever tried a "trust fall"? You have to fall backwards, whilst a colleague promises to catch you (if they don't you'll hit the floor) and then you swap places. Now imagine that you're doing this for two hours, but you've decided to let the person fall once for every five times. That is what playing Guardian of Light with me (or my friend) is like. We should have been a team, working together to succeed, but it was just too much fun to trip the other person up. You come back to life so long as the other person stands, so there's no need to feel guilty. So there we were, two men in our mid-twenties, trying to convince each other that this time we'd work together sensibly, unable to stifle our mischievous giggling.
Things got worse when we took another ingredient from the game and added into the mix of stupidly: unlimited explosives. Press a button and an explosive is planted at your feet; a second press will remote-detonate the bomb. Whereas pistol and rifle fire passes your partner by, this explosive can hurt you and your friend. So, naturally, these bombs were used to periodically test each other's reflexes. We wouldn't actually try to blow each other up; simply dropping a bomb near your "friend" to spook them was enough entertainment.
And then there is the greatest part of the game: the balls. You see, many of the game's puzzle rooms revolve around giant spheres, which must be rolled into pressurized sockets or into holes in the floor to unlock a gate or to gain access to other areas. Sometimes these balls are covered in spikes and must be avoided or use as a weapon against your enemy.
This feature is nothing new to gaming. They are a simple, practiced way of building logic puzzles into an adventure game. Much less common though, is the way that these orbs react to the use of explosives mentioned above. If a puzzle ball sits within the blast radius during detonation, said ball will soar into the air before dashing across the room. Anything in its path will be forced out of the way. If it's a spiked ball being pinballed, then anyone in the way is getting squished.
And so the silliness continued. When we weren't pushing each other into murder holes or throwing C4 at each other, we were playing Uber-Dodgeball. Where possible, we would roll Bally (because of course it had a name) with us through the level, firing him at each other as we went. In wide, open rooms this pastime evolved into a fully-fledged sport. We would stand on opposite sides of the room and use explosives to bat the ball towards our opponent. We'd win a point if the ball hit the back wall. It was a cross between volleyball, table hockey and siege warfare.
Needless to say, our run-through took significantly longer than expected. The game's platform, puzzle and action-shooter areas are challenging enough without being betrayed, blown up or bowled over by your own ally. Being laughed at the whole time, I might add. Plus the fact that the game offers you a quick respawn means that there is always time for revenge. Silly, senseless, slapstick revenge.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light never asks to be taken completely seriously. It has a comic book look to its cutscenes, there are traces of humour in the dialogue and the main villain is accidentally hilarious (he appears at the start of almost every level, boasts about his unstoppable power, then runs off so he can do the same thing at the start of the next level. Mwah-ha-ha, run away, repeat). Nevertheless, the game never implies that the players should be as silly as we were. We were offered the grappling hook, spear, bombs and balls as useful tools to aid us on our quest. Instead we misbehaved, and had a lot of fun tripping each other over.
Did you have a similar experience with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light? What other ways have you been very silly whilst gaming? How often do you push a videogame just to see if it will bend or break? Leave a comment below!
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Batavia church open house leaves its future uncertain
Members of the public took self-guided tours of the First Baptist Church building at the intersection of Route 25 and Wilson Street in Batavia on Tuesday. Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer
Art de la Cruz shares his memories of growing up in the First Baptist Church congregation to friend Sandy Eckblade. Both were born and raised in Batavia, but Eckblade went to another church. De la Cruz is still a member of the congregation, which moved the church to Mill Creek in Geneva. Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer
James and Donna Cryer of Geneva walk through rooms at the old First Baptist Church in Batavia. James went to school through sixth grade at the church and married Donna there in 1966. Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer
Members of the public took self-guided tours of the First Baptist Church buildings at the intersection of Route 25 and Wilson Street in Batavia Tuesday. Demolition is being considered. Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer
The Rev. Richard Kenneavy of North Aurora was married to his wife, Sherry, in 1971 at the First Baptist Church in Batavia and later baptized in this tub at the front of the church in 1994. Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer
Art de la Cruz shares his memories of growing up in the First Baptist Church congregation to friend Sandy Eckblade on a tour of the building Tuesday. The city owns the building and is considering whether to tear some or all of it down or do some repairs while awaiting a buyer. Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer
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At least 100 people poked around the former First Baptist Church of Batavia during a city-sponsored open house Tuesday related to the fate of its three buildings.
Many of them had attended church in the building before the congregation moved in 2008 to a new building in the Mill Creek subdivision west of town and renamed itself Faith Baptist.
The city, which owns the church, is considering whether to save all of it, tear down all of it or save just the sanctuary, which was built in 1889. The campus, at Washington (Route 25) and Wilson streets, needs much repair and remodeling to make it fully accessible if the sanctuary and two additions are to be reused.
A consultant's report estimated the cost of the work, including shoring up the foundation and a main support beam for the sanctuary, at $3.5 million. Doing just roof and window repairs to stop water infiltration would likely cost $775,000.
City workers Tuesday counted how many people entered the sanctuary at a time, fearing a large crowd would be too much for the cracked beam to bear.
Save part?
There were mixed feelings among the former church members, but more than one could be heard saying they didn't mind so much if the additions, built in the 1930s and the 1950s, were knocked down.
But member Sherry Kibling Kenneavy, who is the third generation of her family to belong to the congregation, felt it was OK to let the sanctuary go. "God left with us," she said.
Her husband, the Rev. Richard Kenneavy, recalled being married there, then baptized 23 years later. He also recalled that because the church had no air conditioning, windows were open on Sunday mornings.
"There would be some convertible (at the corner traffic light) playing 'Little Deuce Coupe' while we were trying to pray," he said.
The multiple levels and lack of an elevator played into the decision to build elsewhere as the members got older, he said. Installing an elevator would have cost so much it would have bumped the church over the building-remodel dollar threshold at which fire-suppression sprinkler installation would also be required by the city, he said. The church also received a land donation from the Mill Creek developer.
Kicking the tires?
Gerard Dempsey, chairman and chief executive officer of Batavia Enterprises Inc., said it was his first time in the building and that he never knew the property was for sale.
"Very, very interesting," he said of the sanctuary. He said the property's location at a busy intersection at the entrance to downtown was a plus. Asked if BEI was interested in purchasing the building, he demurred, "We're interested in all buildings," he said. BEI develops and manages properties throughout the Tri-Cities and has repurposed several schools and churches, including two in Batavia. BEI President Dan Stellato also toured the building.
The city commissioned a study in 2009 outlining what could be developed on the property, with and without the buildings.
Mayor Jeff Schielke said no date has been set for the council to revisit the issue and that the building likely will be used again this year for the Batavia ACCESS toy giveaway in December.
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Ellisland attraction plans receives Burns backing
The £10 million plans to create a tourist attraction at the Bard's former home near Dumfries - revealed by the Standard last week - have been given the thumbs up by the region's Burns enthusiasts.
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Curator Stuart Cochrane from Ellisland unveiled the plans last week (Image: Jim McEwan)
Support has come flooding in for the plans to create a £10 million tourist attraction at Robert Burns’ former home at Ellisland Farm.
Site curator Stuart Cochrane told the Standard the proposals will go on show at public exhibitions in the coming months.
He said: “We are keen to show the public and potential funders the plans and need the help of local people in building up support over the next six months.
“Ellisland was gifted to the nation in 1928 by two Durisdeer brothers ‘for the contemplation of the life and works’ of the Bard so we have to work within that perimeter but all suggestions will be appreciated.”
The proposals have been welcomed by fans of the Bard.
David Smith, of the Burns Howff Club, said: “The plans as laid out for Ellisland are certainly exciting, if a bit ambitious, and if the funding can be secured it will mean that Ellisland will become a major attraction for all Burns enthusiasts.”
Miller Caldwell, of Dumfries Burns Club, said: “As a club we are supporters of the Friends of Ellisland and were delighted to learn of their plans.”
A noted Dumfries Burnsian John Caskie said: “I have been following these plans and while they are a bit adventurous I am hoping that the local community and Burnsians everywhere will get behind them and give them their support. It would be wonderful to see it happen and be successful.
“I attend many Burns suppers and events and it always astonishes me that people don’t realise that Ellisland is still there and can be visited.
“And they don’t realise that Auld Lang Syne and Tam O’Shanter were written there by Burns.
Ellisland is a very important place and it is time that it gets the recognition it deserves and this will put it on the map.”
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Riley Keough and Taylour Paige star in “Zola,” director Janizca Bravo’s frantic tale of debauchery, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. Credit: Courtesy Anna Kooris/Sundance Institute
Sundance‘s most talked about films
From ‘Zola’ and ‘Bad Hair’ to ‘The 40-Year-Old Version,’ our reviews cut through the buzz
By Tre’vell Anderson Jan 31, 2020, 10:04 AM EST
The worst part about the Sundance Film Festival—besides schlepping through snow and almost passing out due to Park City’s insane altitude—is making sense of the hundreds of indie films premiering. Every single project hopes the festival will be a catalyst for commercial and critical success à la Napoleon Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine or Get Out, which all premiered at the fest in 2004, 2006 and 2017, respectively. But more often than not, it’s just the first stop in a long line of festival screenings that end with the movie being buried on an obscure streaming platform—or worse—living on a dusty hard drive at the bottom of someone’s closet. This year will be no different.
There are a number of films, however, that have risen above the fray to become some of the more buzzy titles at Sundance. I’ve selected eight to review—because “buzzy” doesn’t always mean “good,” and a lot of reviews written by cis white men for trade publications ain’t gonna give you that “ooh-ah-ah sensation” (to quote Drag Race queen Monique Heart). Here are my very-much-informed takes on the fest’s supposed best.
Perhaps the most anticipated film of the fest, Zola is surely the first to start as a series of 150 tweets from a stripper who found herself duped by another dancer and her pimp while on a road trip to Florida. From the very first line, “You wanna hear a story about why me and this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense,” director Janizca Bravo weaves a fabulously frantic tale of debauchery worthy of the film’s social media beginnings. Bravo co-wrote the film with Broadway darling Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play) based on tweets from A’Ziah King, a.k.a. @zolarmoon. Led by Taylour Paige’s enthralling and mesmerizing performance, perfectly complemented by Riley Keough, Nicholas Braun and Colman Domingo, the film is a roller-coaster ride of too-good-to-be-true happenings that keep you on the edge of your seat, laughing out loud. With this film, slated for theatrical release this summer, Bravo cements her reputation as a filmmaker to watch.
Radha Blank is the writer, director and star of “The 40-Year-Old Version” premiering at Sundance. Credit: Courtesy Jeong Park/Sundance Institute
As critics, we love to say a film is a “love letter” to something. But there’s no better way to describe the masterpiece that is The 40-Year-Old Version. It’s a love letter to hip-hop penned by a Black woman who hasn’t always felt loved by the genre and culture. Written, directed by and starring Radha Blank, who plays a fictionalized version of herself, the film follows a playwright forced to navigate the old, white gatekeepers of theatre in order to stage her next production. In the meantime, she teaches at a local high school to pay the rent. After a tumultuous day at work, a rapping alter-ego of hers named RadhaMUSprime awakens, inspiring Radha to drop a mixtape. Blank’s film debut, after writing for television series including She’s Gotta Have It and Empire, The 40-Year-Old Version is an instantly canonical comedy with a level of social commentary that will make it forever relevant. As an actress, Blank jumps off the screen with relatability, and her chemistry with co-star Oswin Benjamin is palpable.
Save Yourselves!
Sunita Mani and John Reynolds star in “Save Yourselves!” Credit: Courtesy Matt Clegg/Sundance Institute
What would you do if you were stuck in the middle of the woods for a week with your partner, with no WiFi or phones at the precise time aliens attacked Earth? Writer-directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson take this premise and run with it in Save Yourselves!, an intriguing sci-fi comedy led by the engaging performances of John Reynolds and Sunita Mani. Admittedly, I watched it through my gel-manicured fingers—thrillers, even of the upbeat variety, aren’t my thing. But perhaps that’s what makes this flick a decent time for those who can stomach the anxiety it induces. I can’t say it’s great, but I didn’t hate it.
An archival still from the doc “Crip Camp.” Credit: Courtesy Steven Honigsbaum/Sundance Institute
I often judge documentaries that are meant to be endearing and emotional by how many times I cry. I’m not someone who cries easily, so if you are able to get a tear to run down my face, you’ve done something right. If I cry more than two times, you’re cookin’ with Crisco! Watching Crip Camp, a doc about an unorthodox summer camp in the early 1970s for teens with disabilities that birthed a generation of activists, I cried four times. Co-directed by Nicole Newnham and former camper James Lebrecht, and executive produced by former U.S. President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama, Crip Camp draws on a massive store of archival footage and new interviews with former campers to show how they bonded together, migrated west to Berkeley, California and advocated for—and won—improved accessibility for millions with the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. It’s a powerful, moving tribute on the 30th anniversary of the Act that captures the enduring spirit of people who won in spite of the odds against them. For anyone interested in doing archival documentary work, this film is the new prototype.
Yaani King Mondschein, Elle Lorraine and Lena Waithe star in the feature "Bad Hair.” Credit: Courtesy Sundance Institute
Justin Simien’s latest film, about a woman whose new weave is both possessed and possessive, has the makings of something truly inspired. The horror-comedy from the creator of Dear White People, however, doesn’t quite stick its landing. The first half of the too-long film is not well-paced, and some of the narrative cues are heavy-handed. That said, the top-notch acting makes up for where the script falls off, and audiences are introduced to Elle Lorraine (Trina from HBO’s Insecure), the new leading woman everyone needs in their productions. Opposite more senior actors Vanessa Williams, James Van Der Beek, Laverne Cox and a hilarious Lena Waithe, Lorraine more than holds her own with comedic timing and aplomb with dramatic fare far beyond her years. Ultimately, the late ’80s-set film will continue the conversation about the Black community’s relationship to our hair, building on the commentary found in Spike Lee’s School Daze, Chris Rock’s doc Good Hair and other films.
Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen
Laverne Cox, executive producer of “Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen.” Credit: Courtesy Disclosure Films
One of the greatest tragedies of being a young person of trans experience is that we don’t often know the history of our trans-cestors. Because of a world that is still working to erase us and our contributions—or, at minimum, force us to blend in with the cis majority—we lack an understanding of our lineage and the power we naturally possess. Disclosure, a doc chronicling the history of trans representation in film and television since the beginning of moving images, helps to course correct. Executive produced by Laverne Cox and directed by Sam Feder, it’s a stirring analysis of how Hollywood has played a major role in the disparagement of trans people, featuring all-trans interview subjects, including actors Jen Richards, Marquise Vilsón and Angelica Ross and activists Zeke Smith, Tiq Milan and Nick Adams, among others. It’s necessary viewing, for trans and cis folk alike—and not just because I’m in it, too!
Nicole Beharie and Alexis Chikaeze star in “Miss Juneteenth.” Credit: Courtesy Rambo Elliott/Sundance Institute
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Steven Garza appears in the doc “Boys State.” Credit: Courtesy Thorsten Thielow/Sundance Institute
Sponsored by the American Legion, Boys State is a weeklong summer program for high school teens in which attendees become part of the operation of fictional local, county and state governments. (American Legion Auxiliary sponsors the separate but similar Girls State.) There’s a convening in every state. For their doc Boys State, Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss embedded with thousands of 17-year-old boys at Texas’ Boys State to create this revealing documentary about the next generation of potential political leaders. Following a number of youth as they stage campaigns for offices including Party Chair, Attorney General and Governor, the film gives us a look into what we have taught youth about electoral politics—the good, the bad and the ugly. As someone who attended Boys State in South Carolina when I was in high school, this film is at once an accurately enraging revelation that makes me fearful for the future of our democracy, and an inspiringly galvanizing effort that unearths the glimmers of hope to which we can cling.
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Three Twins, the ice cream fixer-upper
Before he could make a pint of his Three Twins organic ice cream, owner Neal Gottlieb had to rehab the former Zurheide plant in Sheboygan, Wis.
Quart packages of Madagascar vanilla ice cream tumble onto a conveyor which leads to a metal detection device.
The versatile ice cream filler handles one lane of quarts and two lanes of pints. The two-lane filler can produce 120 pieces per minute, double the output of the plant in California.
A code is inkjetted on the bottom of the package. A scale (seen in the background) is used to make random checks of packages.
Quarts move into the shrink tunnel to be bundled in packs of three. One bundle consists of two packages with the lids on top flanking a package with a bottomfacing lid. Another bundle has the opposite configuration. This helps in building pallets efficiently.
Bundled packages are conveyed into the hardening room, where pallets are built by hand. Refrigerated trucks arrive several times a week to load pallets and take them to a warehouse in Illinois.
Three Twins Ice Cream bought the plant used by Zurheide, which went out of business in 2008. Improvements to the building include beams in the basement to shore up the first-floor mix room (shown) and packaging room, sanitary tile and a covered milk receiving bay.
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KEYWORDS ice cream news / ice cream plants / ice cream processor / ice cream products
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Neal Gottlieb, the founder of Three Twins Ice Cream, needed more capacity to keep up with demand for his organic ice cream. His facility in Petaluma, Calif., was maxed out. Adding shifts was not feasible. Gottlieb bid the work to co-packers but said their quotes were “sky-high” and the quality of the test runs was a “disaster.”
In 2013, he caught wind of an auction in Sheboygan, Wis. Equipment in the Zurheide Ice Cream plant, which closed in 2008, was up for auction. The building was probably going to be razed. At the 11th hour, Gottlieb bought the equipment and the real estate. Upon closer inspection, Gottlieb realized that before he could make ice cream, he had to rebuild the ice cream factory.
From September 2013 to August 2014, Gottlieb made improvements to the three-story, 15,000-square-foot property. He shored up the first floor and re-tiled it, built a milk receiving bay that met Wisconsin dairy codes, overhauled the freezer and made other investments. By August 2014, the plant was making ice cream.
Doing business in the Midwest
During that time, Gottlieb learned about the costs of doing business in the Midwest. He said that because real estate prices are modest in Sheboygan (a nice house can cost less than $100,000), he expected labor costs would be, too.
“The cost of living is so much lower, I thought the wages would be lower,” he said.
They aren’t, as he found out. Sheboygan County is home to good-paying manufacturing jobs. The top employers in the county are Kohler, Bemis and Nemak. Food manufacturers include Sargento, Johnsonville Sausage and Dairy Farmers of America. Unemployment is low. Dane Checolinski, the director of the Sheboygan County Economic Development Corp., said there are 3,000 unfilled jobs in the area. That puts pressure on wages. Entry level wages in the dairy industry are $17 to $18 an hour compared to $14 for business in general, Checolinski said.
The region is supportive of manufacturing in general and of food processing specifically. Glacier Transit and Storage, for example, has added refrigerated warehouse space in the county in the last two years. The city of Sheboygan welcomed Three Twins. It loaned the company $120,000 over 10 years to buy the building and equipment.
Since its founding in 2005, Three Twins now sells its pints and novelties in every state in the union. About 5,000 stores carry the company’s products, Gottlieb estimated. (See related article)
He started making ice cream in a 560-square-foot scoop shop in San Rafael, Calif. He used a 20-quart batch freezer. He was the only employee. As his company grew, he opened a manufacturing facility in Petaluma in 2010. The growing sales of the company put a strain on the ice cream plant, but Gottlieb wasn’t specifically seeking to purchase another plant.
“We needed a solution and it presented itself in the form of this facility that we could buy,” Gottlieb said. “It ended up taking a lot longer to get it actually into production, and costing a lot more money than was expected. But in the long run it’s been really beneficial to the company.”
Organic ingredients and a simple recipe
Gottlieb said he is asked why his ice cream tastes so good. The answer is “simplicity.”
“It’s really easy to make great ice cream,” he said. “You start with good ingredients, and you don’t muck it up. So it’s milk, cream, sugar and eggs. It’s really simple.”
Three Twins does not use artificial flavorings or colorings, stabilizers, corn syrup or fractionated milk products.
“We don’t try to fake it. I don’t think you can fake people’s taste buds. And nowadays, more and more people are reading labels.”
The retail price of a pint of Three Twins ice cream is about $6. That’s a reflection of the ingredients the company buys.
“First and foremost, everything has to be organic,” Gottlieb explained. “As Three Twins has grown up, we seek to have more information about our sourcing. We stick with suppliers that we know” and that are sourcing in an ethical manner, he said.
Fair Trade suppliers charge more for their ingredients because they meet a higher standard as far as living and working conditions of the farm workers, Gottlieb said. Sugar, vanilla and some chocolate ingredients are certified Fair Trade. Three Twins’ vanilla supplier had not been sourcing an organic fair trade version until Gottlieb asked for it. Now it does, and the supplier sells the vanilla to other food manufacturers as well.
Touring the Three Twins plant
On the day of Dairy Foods’ visit, the plant was making quarts of Madagascar vanilla ice cream. Nate Dehne, who worked in the Zurheide’s plant, now manages the Three Twins facility. Cory Koll, the mix leader, also worked at Zurheide.
Milk from a single Wisconsin dairy farm arrives by tanker at the receiving bay. Samples are tested in the upstairs dairy lab, which is one of the approved domestic milk laboratories on the Food and Drug Administration’s Interstate Milk Shippers list. After passing inspection, the milk is pumped to one of three tanks. Supplemental organic cream arrives in totes from Wisconsin dairy farmers, including Westby Co-operative Creamery.
In the mix room, milk, cream, sugar, powders and frozen egg yolks are liquefied. The mixture is vat-pasteurized in a water-jacketed 600-gallon vessel. Vat pasteurization is gentler than steam-treating, Gottlieb said. (When a recipe calls for chocolate, dark chocolate pieces are melted until liquid in a separate vat.)
The mix is pumped to flavor tanks and then to a filler that can handle a variety of formats and products. The equipment fills pints and quarts and can be converted to make cones and sandwiches. Quarts roll through in a single lane, pints in double lane and cones in three lanes. Other formats include 10-quart containers and 5-liter gelato pans. When a recipe calls for inclusions, a varigator is set up on the line.
The two-lane filler can produce 120 pieces per minute. The Sheboygan plant is twice as fast as the one in Petaluma.
As the quarts are filled, they fall down a conveyor belt and are turned upside down. They pass through a metal detector and then an ink-jetting machine that prints a code date on the bottom of the package. Then the packages are sent to a shrink tunnel and bundled in shrink wrap. They are bundled with two packages up and one down and two down and one up. This makes the bundles easier to stack. In the freezer, an employee grabs the bundles off the line and stacks them on racks to harden. Once the company makes a sufficient number of pallets, a trucking company takes them to a cold storage warehouse in Illinois.
Cones and sandwiches
A new product for Three Twins is the organic sundae cone. Gottlieb said his company is the first to make an organic version. The sundae cone is sprayed with chocolate and filled with Madagascar vanilla ice cream. Then it’s topped with chocolate and peanuts. Some of the chocolate spray collects in the bottom of the cone and forms a little nugget in the tip.
There are two versions of the ice cream sandwich. The traditional sandwich has vanilla ice cream between two chocolate wafers. The other is lemon ice cream between vanilla wafers.
Three Twins also developed dry organic sugar cones that are co-packed for the company. Consumers who don’t live near a Three Twins scoop shop can buy a pint of ice cream and a 12-pack of cones at retail, take them home and scoop their own treat.
The co-packer Three Twins had been using stopped making organic novelties. With the purchase of the plant in Wisconsin, Three Twins brought sandwich production in-house. It bought the co-packer’s equipment and installed it in Sheboygan.
The plant manufactures ice cream five days a week on one shift. The company can accommodate increased demand by adding another shift. There are about a dozen employees in Sheboygan, with about eight or nine on the production floor. When the plant produces cones, a few more people help out. The plant also brings in temporary workers during the summer when ice cream demand increases. In California, the plant in Petaluma runs with about 15 employees. The office staff is about 14. Counting part-time help in the scoop shops, the company payroll is about 80 individuals, Gottlieb said.
Although the Wisconsin plant was not move-in ready when Gottlieb bought it, and required significant improvements, the investment will pay off in the long term. First, the company has control over the quality and the costs (something co-packers were not able to do). Second, as demand for ice cream grows, Three Twins can add additional shifts without having to buy additional equipment or seek a third location.
On the consumer side, Three Twins will ride the wave of increasing interest in organic and clean-label foods. But as Gottlieb knows, a food has to taste good, too. In this case, Three Twins has the best of both worlds.
Three Twins Ice Cream
Sheboygan, Wis.
Size of plant: 5,000 square feet of manufacturing; 15,000 square feet total
Date purchased: September 2013
Date opened: August 2014
Products and formats: Organic ice cream in pints and quarts; sandwiches; cones
Production shifts and employees: 1 shift, five days a week; 8 to 9 employees
Equipment: Raw tanks, vat pasteurizers, liquefiers, flavor tanks, freezer, pint and quart filler, cone filler, sandwich maker, inspection equipment
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) furnishes upon request, at no charge to the applicant, a Government headstone or marker for the unmarked grave of any deceased eligible veteran in any cemetery around the world, regardless of their date of death. For eligible veterans that died on or after Nov. 1, 1990, VA may also provide a headstone or marker for graves that are already marked with a private headstone or marker. When the grave is already marked, applicants will have the option to apply for either a traditional headstone or marker, or a new device.
Flat markers in granite, marble, and bronze and upright headstones in granite and marble are available. The style chosen must be consistent with existing monuments at the place of burial. Niche markers are also available to mark columbaria used for internment of cremated remains.
When burial or memorialization is in a national cemetery, state veterans' cemetery, or military post/base cemetery, a headstone or marker will be ordered by the cemetery officials based on inscription information provided by the next of kin or authorized representative.
Spouses and dependents are not eligible for a Government-furnished headstone or marker unless they are buried in a national cemetery, state veteran's cemetery, or military post/base cemetery.
Note: There is no charge for the headstone or marker itself, however arrangements for placing it in a private cemetery are the applicant's responsibility and all setting fees are at private expense.
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The NLRA Does Not Prohibit Class-Action Waivers in Employment Arbitration Agreements: The Fifth Circuit’s D.R. Horton Decision
The Fifth Circuit issued its long-awaited decision in D.R. Horton, Inc. v. NLRB, No. 12-60031 (5th Cir. Dec. 3, 2013). In its D.R. Horton decision, the NLRB had held that section 7 of the NLRA prohibited class-action waivers in mandatory arbitration agreements imposed by employers, because such waivers impeded the right of employees to engage in collective activity. The Fifth Circuit summarized the NLRB's decision as follows:
Taking this view of Section 7, the Board held that the NLRA protects the right of employees to “join together to pursue workplace grievances, including through litigation” and arbitration. The Board concluded that an “individual who files a class or collective action regarding wages, hours or working conditions, whether in court or before an arbitrator, seeks to initiate or induce group action and is engaged in conduct protected by Section 7 . . . central to the [NLRA’s] purposes.” In the Board’s opinion, by requiring employees to refrain from collective or class claims, the Mutual Arbitration Agreement infringed on the substantive rights protected by Section 7.
Disagreeing with the NLRB, the Fifth Circuit held that the Federal Arbitration Act trumped section 7 of the NLRA, at least as applied to ordinary employment matters:
The NLRA should not be understood to contain a congressional command overriding application of the FAA. The burden is with the party opposing arbitration, and here the Board has not shown that the NLRA’s language, legislative history, or purpose support finding the necessary congressional command. Because the Board’s interpretation does not fall within the FAA’s “saving clause,” and because the NLRA does not contain a congressional command exempting the statute from application of the FAA, the Mutual Arbitration Agreement must be enforced according to its terms.
(Citation omitted).
The Fifth Circuit thus held that the class action waiver in the arbitration clause was enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act.
On a secondary issue, the Fifth Circuit held that the arbitration clause could not restrain the filing of an unfair labor practices charge with the NLRB. The court found that the clause created the impression that it would prohibit such claims:
The arbitration agreement would violate the NLRA if it prohibited employees from filing unfair labor practice claims with the Board. Even “in the absence of express language prohibiting section 7 activity, a company nonetheless violates section 8(a)(1) if ‘employees would reasonably construe the language to prohibit section 7 activity.’” Cintas Corp. v. NLRB, 482 F.3d 463, 467 (D.C. Cir. 2007) (citation omitted).
The agreement clearly provides that employees agree to arbitrate “without limitation[:] claims for discrimination or harassment; wages, benefits, or other compensation; breach of any express or implied contract; [and] violation of public policy.” It also provides for four exceptions to arbitrations. None of these exclusions refer to unfair labor practice claims.
Most importantly, the Mutual Arbitration Agreement concludes with an employee’s acknowledgment that he or she “knowingly and voluntarily waiv[es] the right to file a lawsuit or other civil proceeding relating to Employee’s employment with [Horton] as well as the right to resolve employment-related disputes in a proceeding before a judge or jury.” (emphases added). The reasonable impression could be created that an employee is waiving not just his trial rights, but his administrative rights as well.
The Fifth Circuit thus upheld the NLRB's ruling that the employer must take corrective actions to eliminate the impression that the arbitration clause applied to unfair labor practice charges.
In a dissenting opinion, Judge Graves concluded that the arbitration clause did violate section 7 of the NLRA and that it should not be treated differently from any other contract that infringed on section rights.
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1.1 The Office
1.2 Seinfeld
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1.5 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
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20 Best Restaurants In Long Beach, NY
Sorrento's
Sorrento's is a restaurant located in Long Beach, New York at 255 West Park Avenue. They are open every day except Monday.
255 West Park Avenue, Long Beach, NY, 11561
Nagahama is a restaurant located in Long Beach, New York at 169 East Park Avenue. This restaurant serves miso soup, seaweed salad, beef and chicken, beef, chicken, avocado salad, and house salad. They also serve kani (crab) salad, gyoza, vegetable, clam miso soup, salmon, shrimp gyoza, and shrimp and vegetable. They are open every day of the week. The restaurant is small and cozy and the staff...
169 East Park Avenue, Long Beach, NY, 11561
Lido Kosher Deli
Lido Kosher Deli is a restaurant located in Long Beach, New York at 641 East Park Avenue. This restaurant serves broiled chicken livers, salami, diet health salad, frankfurters, fried kreplach (kosher wonton), boiled beef flanken in the pot, and kasha varnishkes. They also serve hungarian beef...
Sugo Cafe
Sugo Cafe is a restaurant located in Long Beach, New York at 62 West Park Avenue. This restaurant serves caprese salad, moscatel filet, federicos pork braciole, sardinian, fresh black truffle pasta, chicken francais, and chocolate cake. They also serve finishing condiments, mushroom, sugo three...
62 West Park Avenue, Long Beach, NY, 11561
Grotta di Fuoco
Grotta di Fuoco is a restaurant located in Long Beach, New York at 960 West Beech Street. They are open every day except Monday. Grotta di Fuoco, which translates to Fire Cave, is an industrial, rustic space with subtle lighting, raw steel, reclaimed wood, and concrete finishes. Step inside,...
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1032 West Beech Street, Long Beach, NY, 11561
Swingbellys BBQ
Swingbellys BBQ is a restaurant located in Long Beach, New York at 909 West Beech Street. This restaurant serves moist brisket, mac & cheese, brisket grilled cheese, st. louis ribs, early bird, burnt ends chili, and 12 hour brisket. They also serve buckboard breakfast, breakfast mac, house made ranch, bleu cheese, chicken & rib platter for, smokehouse benedict, and smokehouse beans. They are...
Gino's Restaurant & Pizzeria
Gino's Restaurant & Pizzeria is a restaurant located in Long Beach, New York at 16 West Park Avenue. This restaurant serves sausage, spinach manicotti, siciliana pan, homemade lasagna, extra toppings, linguine di mare, and veal or chicken marsala. They also serve veal cutlet parmigiana, fettuccine alfredo, baked ziti siciliana, chicken cutlet parmigiana, veal piccatta, artichoke hearts, and...
Lost And Found is a restaurant located in Long Beach, New York at 951 W Beech St. They are open every day except Wednesday.
951 W Beech St, Long Beach, NY, 11561
Himawari is a restaurant located in Long Beach, New York at 116 East Park Avenue. This restaurant serves hirame, king cobra, chicken shogayaki, soft shell crab tempura, tekakdon, tempura udon, and box 11. sushi. They also serve sabagari, sashimi deluxe, dinosaur, fish tempura, tako su, lido beach, and shiro maguro. They are open every day of the week. Food Takeout from Himawari, best Japanese,...
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300 W Park Ave, Long Beach, NY, 11561
Brixx & Barley
Brixx & Barley is a restaurant located in Long Beach, New York at 152 West Park Avenue. They are open every day of the week. Located in Long Beach NY, we are a premier gastro pub that specializes in serving amazing restaurant food, brick oven pizza, ice cream, craft beer, and have ...
Super Pollo
Super Pollo is a restaurant located in Long Beach, New York at 18 East Park Avenue. They are open every day of the week. Our menu offers the perfect food for an invigorating dinner, such as our delicious rotisserie peruvian chicken, steaks, sandwiches, or big salads! Our goal is to satisfy your hunger and put a big smile on your face! (Whole chicken, avocado salad, french fries w/slice hot...
18 East Park Avenue, Long Beach, NY, 11561
Corazon de Cuba
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Fresco Creperie & Cafe
Fresco Creperie & Cafe is a restaurant located in Long Beach, New York at 150 East Park Avenue. This restaurant serves cheese crepe, honey, ham and cheese, vegetable, lemon, smoked salmon salad, and smoked salmon. They also serve apple and brie, fresco's house salad, bresaola and brie, hedgehog style, cinnamon apple, blue cheese and chicken salad, and tonno salad. They are open every day of the...
Tandoor Grill is a restaurant located in Long Beach, New York at 1042 West Beech Street. They are open every day of the week. Korma is a type of curry which is considered royal in India and therefore has the name "Shahi" because of its richness in cream and garnishing with nuts and raisins. It is made to the milder side because of its cream content and can be enjoyed. Dishes contain cashew and...
Cha Ba Thai
Cha Ba Thai is a restaurant located in Long Beach, New York at 12 West Park Avenue. This restaurant serves thai salad with peanut dressing, thai basil rolls, papaya salad, gang jued woon sen (clear noodles soup), lemon grass salad (choice of shrimp or squid), chicken satay, and fried tofu. They also serve ice cream, sautéed hot sweet basil, sautéed ginger, nua nam tok (thai beef salad), fried...
Currywurst Company
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Lolas Kitchen
Lolas Kitchen is a restaurant located in Long Beach, New York at 180 W Park Ave. This restaurant serves shrimp mrgarita, rigatoni nawlins, granny smith apple, pernil tortillas, chicken tidbits, portobello stack, and tuscan ala. They also serve buffalo wings, paradise pasta, crispy calamari kuns pao, maryland crab cake, p.e.i mussels, margrita, and sante fe'. They are open every day of the week.
The Beach House is a restaurant located in Long Beach, New York at 906 West Beech Street. They are open every day of the week. Our all new 2016 Catering Menu will be available shortly – in the interim, please feel free to call us in regards to any catering requests. Long Beach – (516) 208-8733. The Beach House offers five star food and nightlife, open 7 days a week, serving lunch and dinner at...
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Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Tales from the Yawning Portal
Dread tales told in the dead of night!
When the shadows grow long in Waterdeep and the fireplace in the taproom of the Yawning Portal dims to a deep crimson glow, adventurers from across the Forgotten Realms, and even from other worlds, spin tales and spread rumors of dark dungeons and lost treasures. Some of the yarns overheard by Durnan, the barkeep of the Yawning Portal, are inspired by places and events in far-flung lands from across the D&D multiverse, and these tales have been collected into a single volume.
Within this tome are seven of the most compelling dungeons from the 40+ year history of Dungeons & Dragons. Some are classics that have hosted an untold number of adventurers, while others are some of the most popular adventures ever printed.
The seeds of these stories now rest in your hands. D&D’s most storied dungeons are now part of your modern repertoire of adventures. Enjoy, and remember to keep a few spare character sheets handy.
For use with the fifth edition Player’s Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master’s Guide, this book provides fans with adventures, magic items and deadly monsters, all of which have been updated to the fifth edition rules. Explore seven deadly dungeons in this adventure supplement for the world’s greatest roleplaying game.
Tales from the Yawning Portal includes the following adventures:
Dead in Thay
Forge of Fury
Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan
Sunless Citadel
Tomb of Horrors
White Plume Mountain
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Sheep research could aid insights into childhood dementia
A new research approach could help progress towards therapies for a devastating childhood illness.
Studying sheep with a genetic condition that mirrors Batten disease – a rare nervous system disorder that causes dementia and early death in children – could speed discoveries about the disease and possible new treatments.
New research shows that the progress of disease in sheep closely resembles its development in children, because of similarities in their size and physiology.
The approach should enable detailed studies of how the disease affects various functions in the body, and give reliable results regarding potential treatments.
Improved disease model
Scientists at the Roslin Institute are studying a small flock of sheep with the same faulty gene that gives rise to this disease in humans.
This gene mutation interferes with the health of lysosomes – the cell’s waste disposal and recycling system – and has a devastating impact upon children.
Sheep with a mutation in the gene – known as CLN1 or PPT1 – can be monitored and tested in similar ways to human patients, for example using MRI scans, to give valuable insights into the condition. They can also be used to test how therapies could be administered, and at what dose.
Symptoms of the condition in the large animal model should more closely mimic the experience of children with the illness, compared with conventional studies on mice or fruit flies.
The Roslin team, who made the sheep using the genome editing technology CRISPR/Cas9, are working with Batten disease experts in the US, including their collaborators at Washington University in St Louis, to move this work forward.
Devastating childhood illness
There are several different genes which can cause Batten disease, and can present at various stages of childhood and typically lead to loss of vision, cognitive and movement dysfunction, seizures and early death. The CLN1 form of the disease develops in early childhood and can progress rapidly.
The affected sheep show many hallmarks of the disease in children, from signs of disease in cells through to changes in the size of the brain.
“Large animals such as sheep can help bridge the gap between understanding disease in small species such as flies or mice and how it affects humans. Our results show that these sheep are a very useful model for improving our knowledge of Batten disease and will prove crucial for assessing the effectiveness of future therapies.”
Tom Wishart Reader in Molecular Anatomy, the Roslin Institute
The study, published in Scientific Reports, was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Roslin Foundation; BioMarin Pharmaceutical, the RS MacDonald Trust, the Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain (SIDB) and the Euan MacDonald Centre for MND research.
** The Roslin Institute receives strategic investment funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and it is part of the University of Edinburgh’s Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. **
** This article has been prepared with materials provided by SRUC. **
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... by air
Travel to Düsseldorf by air is possible via Düsseldorf International Airport. The state capital Düsseldorf can be conveniently reached by direct flight from more than 200 cities worldwide: www.dus.com/en
At the airport there will also be a reception counter for visitors to the Grand Départ Düsseldorf 2017, where information about onward-travel can be obtained.
Thomas Schnalke, spokesperson for Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH, says, "Düsseldorf and the whole area are looking forward to many thousands of visitors travelling to the Grand Départ from far and wide. The sporting highlight will be the visiting card that our city will be issuing this year. The airport will therefore be optimally ready for the visitors who will be travelling by air to the Tour de France. Our state capital Düsseldorf can be conveniently reached by direct flights. Airlines are making visitors from almost all keen cycling countries like Italy, Spain, France, England or the USA an outstanding flight offer that will make it very easy for them to travel to the event. Visitors can then travel on into the city by bus, U- and S-Bahn (underground and local tram) or taxi. Our city and airport are noted for the short distances between and in them. That is what marks them out internationally."
... by train
Visitors from Germany can travel from anywhere in Germany by Deutsche Bahn long-distance train for an attractive and exclusive fixed price of 99 euro (2nd class) or 159 euro (1st class) and with 100 % green energy on all regular Deutsche Bahn routes. Both prices are valid for travel to and return from any station of Deutsche Bahn in Germany. The offer will be valid from 27th June 2017 until 4th July 2017. Tickets are obtainable at www.duesseldorf-tourismus.de/gd-offers/.
Visitors from North Rhine-Westphalia should best use regional trains and the "SchönerTagTicket NRW" (NRW SuperSaver Ticket) (30 euro for 1 person; 44 euro for 5 persons). It is valid for all underground and local trams, buses throughout North Rhine Westphalia and 2nd class on all local trains. The ticket can be purchased in advance with the app of the Düsseldorf travel company "Rheinbahn" (www.rheinbahn.de/app) or on the Internet (www.rheinbahn.de/shop).
Visitors from the area covered by the Rhein-Ruhr Verkehrsverbund (VRR) (VRR Transport Network) and the city of Düsseldorf should likewise use local S- and U-Bahn trains (local and underground) and buses. For this the Rheinbahn recommends the "TagesTicket" (DaySaver Ticket) for up to five persons (from 6.80 euro up in price level A).
... by bus and rail within Düsseldorf
Whether one travels to the event by air, rail, long-distance bus or private car, from the airport S-Bahn station terminal or airport long-distance station, car parks and Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof (Central railway station), which long-distance buses also call at - the local transport company "Rheinbahn" will take one into and through the city in comfort.
In the Düsseldorf City area the Rheinbahn recommends the "TagesTicket" (DaySaver Ticket) from 6.80 euro at price level A. With this ticket individual visitors or groups of visitors of up to five persons can travel cheaply, because it permits them to travel to the various event sites as often as they wish. The tickets are obtainable on the Internet at www.rheinbahn.de/shop or - the quickest way - direct with the Rheinbahn app (www.rheinbahn.de/app). There tickets can be paid for very conveniently by mobile phone invoicing, without registration.
The Rheinbahn's network map for the Grand Départ weekend and alle timetable data are available in the Rheinbahn German-English info sheet and at www.rheinbahn.com
Rheinbahn management spokesman Michael Clausecker says, "The Rheinbahn wants to actively use this unique opportunity and show that bicycle and Rheinbahn offer the ideal link for more and more people. Our eye-catchingly branded vehicles run through the entire city and advertise the Grand Départ. That will be a real super-event for Düsseldorf and the area, and we look forward to being part of it."
... by long-distance bus / tourist bus
... by long-distance bus or coach / by tourist bus (charter)
... by long-distance bus or coach
Visitors can also travel by them to Düsseldorf for the Départ of the Tour de France Grand. For more information about travel to the event and a direct link to the provider, Flixbus, which calls at Düsseldorfer Hauptbahnhof (Central railway station), please go to: www.duesseldorf-tourismus.de/gd-offers/
... by tourist bus (charter)
Düsseldorf Tourismus is offering coach tour operators an online reservation system for coach parking spaces, which has already proved successful during the Christmas market. Further information is available by emailing: hospitality@duesseldorf-tourismus.de
... by private car
Route closures will already be put in place on Friday. Up until the end of the time trial at 16:45 and a certain period of time needed to take down the barriers on Saturday, 1st July, major restrictions are to be expected on general traffic in the city. The city districts of Carlstadt, Altstadt, Oberkassel south of Luegallee, "Weiße Siedlung" Golzheim, to left and right of Stockumer Kirchstraße, and the estate north of Beckbuschstraße will be closed to general traffic during this time.
Travel by private car - particularly into the city centre - for the 2nd stage is not to be recommended either. The 2nd stage of the Grand Départ will begin at 10:00 on Sunday, 2nd July, with the start of the publicity caravan at the Burgplatz. The race proper is set to start at 12:00. The period of unavoidable restrictions on general traffic in Düsseldorf will last from 07:30 until 16:00. The stage runs through the city districts of Altstadt, Carlstadt, Hafen, Unterbilk, Stadtmitte, Pempelfort, Düsseltal, Grafenberg, Gerresheim, Rath, Mörsenbroich, Derendorf, Niederkassel, Oberkassel, Lörick und Heerdt.
For visitors arriving by car, special Park & Ride parking spaces are provided in Düsseldorf's city district. The parking ticket includes one Rheinbahn day ticket for four persons for the onward journey to the Tour route. Park & Ride tickets can be pre-booked online until Friday, 30 June, 9 pm, after which the Park & Ride tickets will be sold at the respective parking areas (cash only). Information on the Park & Ride offers and booking at: www.parkvogel.de/granddepart
For disabled people arriving by car, parking areas are provided on Maximilian-Weyhe-Allee (only Saturday, 1 July) and at the Aquazoo. Parking tickets can be pre-booked online until Friday, 30 June, 9 pm, after which the tickets will be sold at the respective parking areas (cash only). Information on the parking tickets for people with disabilities and booking at: www.parkvogel.de/granddepart
Dr. Christian Jahncke, manager of SITA Airport IT GmbH ("Parkvogel") says, "We look forward to being permitted to assist Team Düsseldorf 2017 to host the Grand Départ. Parking on this week-end will be a challenge for every visitor. We offer all visitors facing this challenge, whether they are coming by private car or camper van, the opportunity to reserve their parking space in advance online at www.parkvogel.de. So visitors can travel here worryfree and just look forward to this unique event!"
... by camper van
Around 750 fully-equipped pitches for mobile homes or cars with caravans are available at the Caravan Centre of the trade fair Messe Düsseldorf (P1). The pitches are close to the start/finish area of the 1st stage. Caravan parking tickets can be pre-booked online until Friday, 30 June, 9 pm, after which the caravan parking tickets will be sold at the parking areas (cash only). The caravan parking ticket on the competition days 1 & 2 July includes one Rheinbahn day ticket per day for four persons for the onward journey to the Tour route. Information on the caravan parking tickets and booking at: www.parkvogel.de/granddepart
... by bicycle
Those who very appropriately want to come by bicycle to Düsseldorf for the Grand Départ will very quickly find the best cycle route into the City of Düsseldorf at www.radroutenplaner.nrw.de.
Details about accessibility for cyclists to the Tour route on the day of the 1st stage can be found on this cycle route map.
In addition to the already existing bicycle parking facilities, the City of Düsseldorf will be offering a further 33,000 bicycle parking spaces at least around the track of the 1st stage of the Grand Départ. These will be grids where bicycles can be parked and locked. The parking facilities will be shown on a layout map and marked with signs at the parking point. The Altstadt (Old Town) can be reached and cycled through on Saturday, 1st July. Approach will be from the south via Apollo-Platz and Mannesmannufer. However, a north-south route right the way along the Rhine bank will not be possible. Between the "Oberkasseler Brücke" bridge and the "Messe" area (Fair Centre) the cycle route by the Rhine will be closed. From the north the start and finish point for the 1st stage can be reached via the Lohauser Deich or the Beckbuschstraße/Arena-Straße. The left and right banks of the Rhine will be accessible via the "Theodor-Heuss-Brücke" and the "Rheinkniebrücke" bridges, which are also a part of the diversion route for cyclists.
Cyclists can get to the 2nd stage of the Grand Départ by the available cycle paths and even cross the Tour route at any time, except when the publicity caravan, the support vehicles and the racers are passing through.
As a help for cyclists to navigate within the city area we recommend www.duesseldorf.de/radschlag or the RADschlag app (cycle guide app).
... by taxi
Taxis will be subject to the same restrictions as private car traffic on both days of the Grand Départ Düsseldorf 2017. Temporary taxi ranks will be set up in the vicinity of the stage route. Before starting their journeys visitors should find out from the taxi drivers whether they can take them all the way to their destinations.
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What's behind Russia's disinformation campaign in Georgia?
The US state of Georgia and the post-Soviet Republic of Georgia have more in common than a similar name: allegations of voting irregularities and disinformation campaigns. How is the latter dealing with Russian meddling?
Logging onto their computers in the morning just over a year ago, civil servants and NGO fact-checkers saw an unlikely sight. Over 15,000 Georgian websites had been hacked to display a photo of the disgraced former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili with a message: "I'll be back."
The Georgian Foreign Ministry blamed Russia for the cyberattack, likening it to hacks from the August 2008 war.
Russian disinformation campaigns are seen by security experts as following a "4D model:" dismiss the critic, distort the facts, distract from the main issue and dismay the audience.
Russia occupies a fifth of Georgia's land through the proxy states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Russia and Georgia may share history and Orthodox Christianity, but since the Rose Revolution in 2003 Georgia has pursued a pro-Western foreign policy, signing an EU Association Agreement and aspiring to join NATO, a policy supported by 75% of the population.
But the Kremlin has still tried to achieve its strategic goals the best way it can: through disinformation, targeting Georgia's neighbors or partners and promoting extremist groups within Georgian society.
Russia undermines Western values
The tactic of taking images and videos out of context to target certain groups is a widely used approach
Russia's goal, according to Batu Kutelia, the deputy chairman of the Atlantic Council of Georgia, is "to prove that liberal democracy is impossible to have." Rather than simply promoting pro-Russian propaganda, the goal is to make multicultural Western countries look weak and therefore less attractive partners for Georgia.
European countries, particularly those with large immigrant or refugee populations, are portrayed through fake news as violent and lawless. A video of protesters in Algeria shared on Georgian Facebook was titled in Russian "Germany: Police got stuck in the Muslim Quarter."
Another example came in September, with a faked letter from the European Commission thanking the Georgian president for hosting a non-existent refugee camp.
Sowing the seeds of doubt
The tactic of taking images and videos out of context, often to vilify Muslims and migrants, is common. Another post from a Facebook page calling itself You Are Georgia showed badly beaten women, claiming they were British victims of violence by migrants. But reverse image searches established that none of the women portrayed had been attacked by migrants; most of them were victims of domestic violence.
How does Russia get stories like this out there? Election monitors of the NGO International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) discovered a coordinated network of 11 disguised Facebook pages with 762,832 subscribers. Most of them shared seemingly-harmless "clickbait" content about animals or personality quizzes, but which ISFED say "aim to cultivate trust of citizens toward Kremlin-supported news agencies, to lower their guard, or collect their information."
Sputnik articles were also regularly shared by a network of 26 anonymous accounts in local Facebook groups.
The Kremlin does not just broadcast fake news into Georgia, it also supports local Georgian groups who further their interests. The largest nationalist anti-liberal groups Georgian March and the Alliance of Patriots have Facebook pages administrated from within Russia, according to ISFED research. An investigation by the London-based Dossier Center alleges that the Alliance of Patriots, which openly promotes rapprochement with Russia, received $8 million (€6.7 million) in electoral funding directly from Moscow. The former Georgian ambassador to the United States, Vasil Sikarulidze, told DW that Russia has a long history of "capitalizing on already existing differences within society," which is easierto take advantage of in a young democracy like Georgia.
Th United States has pledged to support Georgia to counter Russian influence
Fake news and countermeasures
These groups create a narrative that Georgia's other neighbors are causing problems, inciting Islamophobia, xenophobia and anti-Turkish sentiment, particularly in the border region of Adjara. A billboard put up by the Alliance of Patriots implied that the region was soon to be under Turkish occupation. Outcry from across the political spectrum and a legal challenge led to the billboard being taken down.
Fake news was also spread that Georgians in Istanbul had been attacked by Turkish nationalists. Using open-source intelligence, the Atlantic Council's researchers geo-located the street shown in the article and confirmed no Georgians had been involved in an attack. The disinformation was traced back to a Georgian March activist.
So what drives Russia's attack on democracy? According to the Atlantic Council's Batu Kutelia, the "Russian authoritarian state thinks it has an advantage over liberal democracy — autocracies are more stable so they are able to do more long-term planning."
The best way to defend against information warfare, he said, is by "strengthening emerging democracies."
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India survive scare, Afghanistan stun Australia in ICC U19 Cricket World Cup
Kuldeep Yadav of India celebrates with teammates during the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2014 match between India and Scotland at the Dubai International Stadium on February 17, 2014 in Dubai, UAE. (IDI/GETTY)
Afghanistan bowler celebrates taking a wicket in the ICC Under 19 Cricket World Cup match against Australia. (IDI/GETTY)
Published Monday, February 17, 2014
Afghanistan caused a major upset in the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2014 defeating three-time champion and 2012 runner-up Australia by 36 runs at Abu Dhabi Oval 2 on Monday.
Half-centuries by Mohammad Mujtaba, Ihsanullah and Hashmatullah Shaidi helped Afghanistan post a respectable 253 in 49.2 overs, before fast bowler Abdullah Adil and left-arm spinner Sharafuddin Ashraf shared seven wickets between them to bowl Australia out for 217.
Mujtaba (75, 102b, 5x4, 2x6) and Ihsanullah (63, 78b, 8x4) added 126 runs for the second wicket and later Hashmatullah (57, 64b, 7x4) provided a late impetus to Afghanistan’s innings after it had elected to bat first.
In turn, Australia managed just one partnership of note when for the fourth wicket, Jake Doran (45) and Damien Mortimer (43) put on 70 runs before being bowled out for 217 in 48 overs with James Bazley top scoring with 54 not out.
Abdullah returned figures of 9-0-45-4 while Sharafuddin had figures of 9-1-55-3.
In the other matches of the day, India’s left-arm spinner Kuldeep Yadav became his country’s first bowler and second overall to record a hat-trick in the history of the tournament as the defending champion survived a scare to beat Scotland by five wickets at Dubai International Stadium.
Bangladesh defeated Namibia by 52 runs at Abu Dhabi Oval 1 and two-time former champion Pakistan recorded a comfortable 145 runs victory over Papua New Guinea (PNG).
India has qualified for the quarter-finals from Group A while the second quarter-finalist will be confirmed after Wednesday’s matches between India and PNG, and Pakistan and Scotland.
At present, both Pakistan and Scotland sit with one win apiece.
In Group B, the situation has becomes extremely exciting following Australia’s defeat.
On Wednesday, Bangladesh will play Australia and Afghanistan will take on Namibia.
If Afghanistan and Australia win their matches, then there will be a three-way tie between Afghanistan, Australia and Bangladesh with net run-rate to decide which two sides advance from this stage.
At present, Bangladesh has a net run-rate of +0.924, Australia +0.650 and Afghanistan -0.031.
On Sunday, South Africa from Group C and Sri Lanka from Group D had sealed their places in the quarter-finals after recording back-to-back victories.
While the top two sides from each Group will progress to the Super League, the bottom two sides will feature in the Plate Championship.
Yadav, the 19-year-old from Kanpur, took a split hat-trick when he dismissed Nick Farrar, Kyle Stirling and Alex Baum off his successive deliveries.
He later picked up the wicket of number-10 batsman Mark Watt to finish with figures of 10-1-28-4 as Scotland was bowled out for 88 in 29.4 overs.
Yadav received excellent support from Banaras’ 19-year-old off-spinner Aamir Gani who returned figures of 9.4-1-28-4, while Scotland opener Andrew Umeed was the only batsman to offer some resistance when he scored 44 that came off 77 balls and included four fours.
India, chasing a modest score, almost made a mess of things when it slipped to 22 for five with left-arm spinner Chayank Gosain (three for 31) and fast bowler Gavin Main (two for 20) causing the damage.
However, Sarfaraz Khan and Deepak Hooda put on 70 runs for the unbroken sixth wicket to steer India home without any further hiccups.
Khan remained unbeaten on 45 from 51 balls with five fours and a six while Hooda contributed 24 from 40 balls with two fours.
Pakistan bounced back from Saturday’s loss against India, to beat PNG by 145 runs.
Openers Imam-ul-Haq and captain Sami Aslam put on 125 runs for the first wicket – their second successive century partnership –as Pakistan posted 283 for eight in 50 overs.
Imam top scored with 88 that came off 117 balls and included nine fours, while Sami hit 10 fours in a 78-ball 62.
In turn, PNG was dismissed for 138 in 30.5 overs with opener Kiplin Doriga scoring a 56-ball 51 that included three fours and a six.
For Pakistan, left-arm spinner Zafar Gohar was the pick of bowlers when he returned figures of 8.5-0-35-4, while fast bowler Zia-ul-Haq took two for 26.
Bangladesh’s Mossadek Hossain produced a quality all-round performance as the Asian side carved out a comfortable 52 runs victory over Namibia.
Mossadek first scored a 70 not out from 76 balls with four fours to lift Bangladesh to 233 for five and then returned figures of 10-0-29-3 as Namibia was skittled out for 181 in 49 overs.
Other star performers for Bangladesh were opener Shadman Islam (65) and left-arm fast bowler Musrafizur Rahman who batted three for 24.
Scores in brief:
Group A, India beat Scotland by five wickets at Dubai International Stadium: Scotland 88 all out, 29.4 overs (Andrew Umeed 44; Aamir Gani 4-28, Kuldeep Yadav 4-28) India 92-5, 22.3 overs (Sarfaraz Khan 45 not out, Deepak Hooda 24 not out; Chayank Gosain 3-31)
Man of the match - Kuldeep Yadav (India)
Group A, Pakistan beat Papua New Guinea (PNG) by 145 runs at ICC Academy 1: Pakistan 283-8, 50 overs (Imam-ul-Haq 88, Sami Aslam 62, Hasan Raza 44; Kabua Morea 3-45, Alei Nao 2-55, Riley Hekure 2-57) PNG 138 all out, 29.2 overs (Kiplin Doriga 51; Zafar Gohar 4-35, Zia-ul-Haq 2-26)
Man of the match – Imam-ul-Haq (Pakistan)
Group B, Australia beat Afghanistan by 36 runs at Abu Dhabi Oval 2: Afghanistan 253 all out, 49.2 overs (Mohammad Mujtaba 75, Ihsanullah 63, Hashmatullah Shaidi 57; Cameron Valente 3-59, James Bazley 3-69) Australia 217 all out, 48 overs (James Bazley 54 not out, Jaron Morgan 47, Jake Doran 45, Damien Mortimer 43; Abdullah Adil 4-45 ; Sharafuddin Ashraf 3-55)
Man of the match – Mohammad Mujtaba (Afghanistan)
Group B, Bangladesh best Namibia by 52 runs at Abu Dhabi Oval 1: Bangladesh 233-5, 50 overs (Mosaddek Hossain 70 not out, Shadman Islam 65, Litton Das 31, Joyraz Sheik 22, Nazmul Hossain Shanto 22; Jano Coetzee 2-29) Namibia 181 all out, 49 overs (Xander Pitchers 40, Gerhard Erasmus 37, Jaen Kotza 35; Mustafizur Rahman 3-24, Mossadek Hossain 3-29, Nihaduzzaman 2-37)
Man of the match - Mossadek Hossain (Bangladesh)
Tuesday’s fixtures (first round)
South Africa v Zimbabwe, Zayed Cricket Stadium
West Indies v Canada, Abu Dhabi Oval 1
Sri Lanka v UAE, Sharjah Cricket Stadium
New Zealand v England, Dubai International Cricket Stadium
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Doubling down on open, Part II
Shay Banon
Please note: Since we initially published this blog, we have added two blogs with additional details: License change clarification and Why we had to change the license.
Upcoming licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
We are moving our Apache 2.0-licensed source code in Elasticsearch and Kibana to be dual licensed under Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License, giving users the choice of which license to apply. This license change ensures our community and customers have free and open access to use, modify, redistribute, and collaborate on the code. It also protects our continued investment in developing products that we distribute for free and in the open by restricting cloud service providers from offering Elasticsearch and Kibana as a service without contributing back. This will apply to all maintained branches of these two products and will take place before our upcoming 7.11 release. Our releases will continue to be under the Elastic License as they have been for the last three years.
This change in source code licensing has no impact on the overwhelming majority of our user community who use our default distribution for free. It also has no impact on our cloud customers or self-managed software customers.
In recent years, the market has evolved, and the community has come to appreciate that open source companies need to better protect their software to continue to innovate and make the investments required. As companies continue the shift to SaaS offerings, some cloud service providers have taken open source products and provided them as a service without investing back into the community. Moving to the dual license strategy with SSPL or the Elastic License is a natural next step for us after opening our commercial code and creating a free tier, all under the Elastic License, nearly 3 years ago. It is similar to those made by many other open source companies over these years, including MongoDB, which developed the SSPL. The SSPL allows free and unrestricted use, as well as modification, with the simple requirement that if you provide the product as a service, you must also publicly release any modifications as well as the source code of your management layers under SSPL.
Our open origins
My personal journey with open source goes a long way back. In 2005, I open sourced my first project, Compass, to provide a Java framework on top of Apache Lucene while I was building a recipe app for my wife. In the following five years, I invested many weekends and nights working on it, from writing code to helping users with bugs, features, and questions.
I had no idea what I was signing up for, especially with a day job “on the side,” but I fell in love with the opportunity to make such a positive impact — trying to build a great product, but more importantly, a great community around it, through the power of open source.
In 2009, I decided to do it again, and started to write a brand new project called Elasticsearch. I spent many nights and weekends building it, and in 2010 open sourced it. I even quit my job and decided to dedicate my full attention to it. To be there for the users, through writing code, and engaging on GitHub, mailing lists, and IRC.
And when we founded Elastic as a company in 2012, we brought the same spirit to our company. We invested heavily in our free and open products, and supported the rapid growth of our community of users. We expanded from just Elasticsearch to Kibana, Logstash, Beats, and now a complete set of solutions built into the Elastic Stack: Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security.
We have matured the products, fostered vibrant communities around them, and focused on providing the greatest amount of value to our users. Today, we have hundreds of engineers who wake up every day and work to make our products even better. And we have hundreds of thousands of community members who engage with us and contribute to our shared success.
I am proud of the company we built, and humbled by the level of trust that we have earned with our user base. This starts by being open and transparent, and continues with being true to our community and user base in our choices.
Free and open FTW
Back in 2018, we opened the code of our free and paid proprietary features under the Elastic License, a source-available license, and we changed our default distribution to include all of our features, with all free features enabled by default.
We did this for a few reasons. It allowed us to engage with our paying customers in the same way we engage with our community: in the open. It also allowed us to build free features that empower our users without providing those capabilities to companies that take our products and provide them as a service, like Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and profit from our open source software without contributing back.
This approach was well received — today, over 90% of new downloads choose this distribution — and has allowed us to make so much of our work available for free while also building a successful company.
The list of improvements under this new free and open, yet proprietary, license, is overwhelming. I am humbled by the amazing progress our team and community has made across all our products, so much so that I would love to share some of them:
We've dramatically improved the speed, scalability, and reliability of Elasticsearch, with a new distributed consensus algorithm and significantly reduced memory usage, in addition to new data storage and compression approaches that have reduced the typical index size by nearly 40% while improving indexing and query throughput. We added new field types for geospatial analysis, and more efficient ways to store and search logs and perform fast, case-insensitive search on security data. In Kibana, we cut load time by 80% and eliminated whole-page refreshes thanks to a multiyear replatforming project, while at the same time introducing an intuitive drag-and-drop data visualization experience with Kibana Lens, key capabilities like dashboard drill-downs, and so much more.
Over the last three years, we also built first-class experiences around our most common use cases. In the security area, we created a free and open SIEM right inside Kibana, with a powerful detection engine that supports simple rules as well as complex correlations via a new query language called EQL in Elasticsearch. We include hundreds of detection rules, which we develop publicly, in collaboration with our community. And we joined forces with Endgame, a leading endpoint security company, and have released powerful malware protection for free as part of the Elastic Agent, our unified, centrally managed observability and security agent for servers and endpoints, with more to come.
In observability, the story is similar. We've built an entire observability suite right inside Kibana — from a live-tail logging UI to an intuitive infrastructure-level view of the key metrics and alerts across your hosts, pods, and containers. And we now have a fully featured APM product with open source data collectors and agents, supporting OpenTelemetry, real user monitoring (RUM), synthetic monitoring, and the recent addition of user experience monitoring.
With Elastic Enterprise Search, we introduced App Search, a layer on top of Elasticsearch that simplifies building rich applications and provides powerful management interfaces for relevance tuning, as well as analytics on how it's being used. We also provide a free Workplace Search product that makes it easy to integrate and search the content sources that you use to run your life or company, like Google Workplace, Microsoft 365, Atlassian Jira and Confluence, and Salesforce.
It is simply amazing that we've been able to build all of these capabilities and provide them for free to our community. It has been humbling to see the level of engagement and adoption around our products and how these new features have helped so many people and businesses succeed. And this was possible because the overwhelming majority of our community chose our default distribution under the Elastic License, where all these features are free and open.
Why change?
As previously mentioned, over the last three years, the market has evolved and the community has come to appreciate that open source companies need to better protect their software in order to maintain a high level of investment and innovation. With the shift to SaaS as a delivery model, some cloud service providers have taken advantage of open source products by providing them as a service, without contributing back. This diverts funds that would have been reinvested into the product and hurts users and the community.
Similar to our open source peers, we have lived this experience firsthand, from our trademarks being misused to outright attempts to splinter our community with “open” repackaging of our OSS products or even taking “inspiration” from our proprietary code. While each open source company has taken a slightly different approach to address this issue, they have generally modified their open source license in order to protect their investment in free software, while trying to preserve the principles of openness, transparency, and collaboration. Similarly, we are taking the natural next step of making a targeted change to how we license our source code. This change won't affect the vast majority of our users, but it will restrict cloud service providers from offering our software as a service.
We expect that a few of our competitors will attempt to spread all kinds of FUD around this change. Let me be clear to any naysayers. We believe deeply in the principles of free and open products, and of transparency with the community. Our track record speaks to this commitment, and we will continue to build upon it.
Starting with the upcoming Elastic 7.11 release, we will be moving the Apache 2.0-licensed code of Elasticsearch and Kibana to be dual licensed under SSPL and the Elastic License, giving users the choice of which license to apply. SSPL is a source-available license created by MongoDB to embody the principles of open source while providing protection against public cloud providers offering open source products as a service without contributing back. The SSPL allows free and unrestricted use and modification, with the simple requirement that if you provide the product as a service to others, you must also publicly release any modifications as well as the source code of your management layers under SSPL.
We chose this path because it gives us the opportunity to be as open as possible, while protecting our community and company. In some ways, this change allows us to be even more open. As a follow-up to this change, we will begin moving our free proprietary features from the Elastic License to be dual-licensed under the SSPL as well, which is more permissive and better aligned with our goals of making our products as free and open as possible.
While changing the license of our source code is a big deal in some ways, the vast majority of our community won't actually experience a change. If you are a customer of ours, either in Elastic Cloud or on premises, nothing changes. And if you've been downloading and using our default distribution, it's still free and open under the same Elastic License. If you've been contributing to Elasticsearch or Kibana (thank you!) nothing changes for you either.
We will continue to develop our code in the open, engage with our community, and publish our releases for free under the Elastic License as we have done for the last three years. We remain committed to keeping all of our free features free — we are not making any changes to which features are free and which are available in a paid subscription.
Our belief in the importance of a unified community has never been stronger. This change sets us up to continue to demonstrate our commitment and earn your trust in the future as we have done over the last 10 years.
FAQ on the license change
This post contains forward-looking statements that involve substantial risk and uncertainties, which include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the licensing of the company’s code, the market opportunity for software as a service and open source server side software, the benefits of open source innovation, the impact of the licensing model used by the company, our future investment in research and development, and our assessments of the strength of our solutions and products. These forward-looking statements are subject to the safe harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements reflect our current views about its plans, intentions, expectations, strategies and prospects, which are based on the information currently available to us and on assumptions we have made. Although we believe that our plans, intentions, expectations, strategies and prospects as reflected in or suggested by those forward-looking statements are reasonable, we can give no assurance that the plans, intentions, expectations or strategies will be attained or achieved. Actual outcomes and results may differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements due to uncertainties, risks, and changes in circumstances, including but not limited to those related to: our ability to timely and successfully implement and achieve the benefits of the new dual licensing model; acceptance of the new licensing model by customers and our user community; our ability to continue to build and maintain credibility with the developer community; the effects of competing SaaS services; our ability to maintain, protect, enforce and enhance our intellectual property; the impact of the expansion and adoption of SaaS offerings on open source licensing models; and our beliefs and objectives for future operations. Additional risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially are included in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2020 and any subsequent reports filed with the SEC. SEC filings are available on the Investor Relations section of Elastic’s website at ir.elastic.co and the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Elastic assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
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EURIAL was established in 1988 when two dairy cooperatives in the Grand-Ouest area of France, UCAL and COLARENA, formed alliances to create EURIAL. These two groups amalgamated their dairy production and processing tools.
In 1992, EURIAL decided to invest in its brands, with Soignon goat’s cheese, and Grand Fermage butter.
The history of EURIAL has been written through ambitious local and international projects, such as the construction of the Soignon plant in 1995 and the Herbignac mozzarella plant in 2008. Not to mention their acquisition of Capra, a Belgian goat cheese producer, in 2009.
In 2016, EURIAL merged with the AGRIAL Group.
The new dairy division was created with the aim of producing steady and sustainable growth. In June, Eurial acquired the GUILLOTEAU Company and its PAVÉ D’AFFINOIS brand.
In 2018, the milk division strengthened its presence in European markets through acquisitions, such as the SENOBLE Italy and its BONTA VIVA brand, and partnerships with the DCOOP cooperative in Spain with their goat’s cheese. It is also consolidating its presence in Germany with its 2019 acquisition of RÖTKAPPCHEN, a major stakeholder in cow’s cheese and Germany’s no.1 goat’s cheese.
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2020 Indoor Cup: Final Weekend Recap
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2020 Indoor Cup: February 1 and 2 Recap
Over this past weekend, the U9, U10, U14 and U19 boys and girls participated in the third and final weekend of the 2020 Eastern Pennsylvania Indoor Cup at In the Net in Palmyra. Over 198 games were played between 123 teams and we crowned 16 champions in two days! Thank you to all the teams that participated in this final weekend and the friends and families that supported them! We are looking forward to next years Indoor Cup!
Below is a recap of every division and their championship match!
U9 Boys (Elite | Challenge)
The U9 Elite Division kicked off the final weekend of Indoor Cup with Lower Merion SC Irmaos Red displaying tremendous scoring with a +20-goal differential and taking home the gold.
Luzerne County Fusion and Western Lehigh United faced off in the U9 Challenge division in a tough battle that saw Western Lehigh United come out on top with a 2-0 victory.
U9 Girls (Elite | Challenge)
It was truly a team victory for Keystone FC Premier in the U09 Elite Division final. The teams showed what skill and discipline in all three games by scoring 12 goals and only letting in one
In their first Indoor Cup appearance, Northumberland-Sunbury SC Lightning was able to come out on top with a 3-1 win over Valley SC Voltage in the U09 Challenge Division.
U10 Boys (Elite | Challenge)
Palumbo Elite had a convincing victory in the U10 Elite Division final over Boyertown Arsenal. They stole the show by scoring three times in the final.
In the U10 Challenge Division, Dynamo United took their second gold of the competition after a convincing 3-1 win against Southern Chester County SC Dragons in the U10 Challenge Division.
U10 Girls (Elite | Challenge | Premier)
Two powerful teams came out in the U10 Elite Division. Lehigh Valley United and Ukrainian Nationals had both won their groups to have the chance to go on and wear gold. Ukrainian Nationals was able to come out on top with a 5-2 win.
The U10 Challenge Division Final did not disappoint. It was a thrilling match from start to finish that only had one goal separate the teams. Parkwood Ertz came out on top by defeating Hughesville Green Hurricanes 1-0. Parkwood did not let in a single goal the entire day!
Springfield SC Strikers dominated the day by scoring 14 goals and conceding only two. They faced off against CSSC Phoenix in the U10 Premier Division Final. It was back and forth until the Strikers opened it up and scored four times to take home gold
After coming out on top of the U14 Elite Division, Hershey SC had to face off against a fast and tenacious Lower Mac United that ended up taking home the gold. Final score, 5-1, Lower Mac.
Lower Mac United almost took each division at the U14 level until they faced Nitro SC. Nitro SC came away with the U14 Challenge gold with a killer instinct for goal and rock-solid defense only allowing one goal against in four games.
LMSC Impact Red stole the show in the U14 Elite Division by scoring 12 times and not conceding a single goal. It was an impressive team effort. They defeated Northeast United in the final by a score of 3-0.
We had a nail-bitter in the U14 Challenge Division final between Hulmville Force and Sting PA DiFulvio. It was a back and forth affair until Hulmville Force broke the tie to score the one and only goal.
We had many close finals throughout the 2020 Indoor Cup, and we had just that in the U14 Premier final. North Union United Strikers White defeated Horsham SA Hurricanes 1-0. Both teams had many opportunities, but the Strikers were able to break through and score.
U19 Boys (Elite)
It was an all North Union United final in the U19 Elite Division with the two teams squaring off to see which of the two sides was better. Cannons Blue ousted Cannons White with a 2-1 final score.
U19 Girls (Elite)
It was a rematch in the U19 Elite Division final between HMMS Eagle FC Impact and North Union United Strikers. Eagle FC defeated the strikers earlier in the day 3-1 but the strikers wanted revenge. In the final, it was a back and forth affair that saw seven goals and Eagle FC coming out on top by a score of 4-3.
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HealthCanada to review Botox safety
The FDA hasn't hopped on Public Citizen's demand for a warning of safety problems with the commonly used wrinkle-fighter Botox. Health Canada, however, says it's reviewing safety information on the drug, approved in that country for cosmetic purposes and for treatment of muscle tics and stiffness.
The Canadian drug regulator says it started checking into safety data after some European studies indicated that the drug--botulinum toxin--might spread from the injection site and cause adverse reactions. "[A]fter a thorough review, Health Canada will take action, if necessary," the agency said.
Public Citizen wrote the FDA last week, asking for warnings about Botox and its sister drug Myobloc (made by Allergan and Solstice Neurosciences, respectively). The petition included information on hundreds of mild and severe reactions to the drugs, reported in Europe and the U.S.
- read the report from The Canadian Press
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Rajunder Singh Grewal Appointed as CEO of SNFinancials Ltd.
Rajunder Singh Grewal has been appointed as the newest CEO of SNFinancials Ltd, who joins the firm following a stint
Jeff Patterson | Executive Moves ( Executives ) | Tuesday, 23/12/2014 | 17:04 GMT+2 2014-12-23T15:04:27+00:00 2014-12-23T15:04:27+00:00
Rajunder Singh Grewal has been appointed as the newest CEO of SNFinancials Ltd., and joins the firm following a stint at Fidelis Capital Market Solution Pvt Ltd. as its director.
SNFinancials Ltd. is a Cyprus-based firm, originally holding a New Zealand license under the name of Fidelis Capital Markets. Last week, FX Veteran Diana Munoz landed at the firm as executive director.
While working at Fidelis, Mr. Grewal was responsible for a variety of tasks, including the development of new investment products for clients, as well as oversight of the corporate strategic management of the company. Prior to Fidelis, Mr. Grewal also worked as the COO of FXcentric Bullion Financial Services Ltd.
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MetaQuotes Extends MT5 Capabilities with ‘Time & Sales’ Feature
MetaTrader 5 users will be able to see trade execution speed and the volume of trades on various price levels.
Aziz Abdel-Qader | Technology ( Retail FX ) | Wednesday, 20/07/2016 | 17:13 GMT+2 2016-07-20T15:13:22+00:00 2016-07-20T21:47:31+00:00
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MetaQuotes Software Corporation today published on its official blog an overview of the ‘Time & Sales’ feature, one of the available options in the new MetaTrader 5 build 1375 which was launched last week.
The most recent addition from the software developer of MetaTrader terminals, the widely used trading platforms in the forex retail market, enables users to view in-depth trading data for all exchange transactions directly from the Market Depth window. Information on every trade includes the time when the trade was executed, buy or sell, as well as the price and volume of the trade.
Source: MetaQuotes Software Corporation
According to MetaQuotes, trade volumes are displayed as a histogram, with a color coding of different trade directions. For easy visual analysis, the new tool uses different colors to indicate different trade directions: blue is used for buy trades, pink for sell trades, green means undefined direction. The new MT5 version also features the ability to export the data to a CSV file to allow further analysis using third-party applications, such as MS Excel.
How to help understand the market
Providing data about trade volumes and frequency, the new feature allows traders to prepare a more detailed market analysis. For example, trade execution speed and the volume of trades on various price levels help traders to estimate the importance of individual levels. Furthermore, an increasing activity of buyers and sellers can indicate the upcoming rise or fall in security prices. What is more, the volume of trades also allows traders to understand the behavior of market participants, as well as to estimate the activity of the players.
“Although the Time & Sales option is primarily used by intraday traders, it also provides useful data for long-term traders who prefer to hold their positions open for a few days,” the company noted in the official blog.
In order to test the new Time & Sales feature, your broker’s platform should be updated to version 1375, which also allows you to take full advantage of the MetaTrader 5 capabilities in exchange trading.
The new upgrade comes a few months after the software company introduced the netting model to trade exchange instruments and the hedging model for currency trading on the MT5. According to MetaQuotes, the move has led existing and new brokerages to license MetaTrader 5 and begin offering the suite to their clients.
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SEFs Show Modest Uptake of FX Options and NDFs Volumes
Swap Execution Facilities, the new trading venue launched after OTC rulings were implemented in global financial markets have been unable
Adil Siddiqui | Exchanges ( Institutional FX ) | Saturday, 09/08/2014 | 18:16 GMT+2 2014-08-09T16:16:12+00:00 2014-08-09T16:16:12+00:00
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The US government was the first major developed nation to implement OTC clearing amendments discussed in the G20 Summit five years ago. The new rules expected to shape the future of off-exchange financial instruments. A new trading venue, Swap Execution Facility (SEF), was pronounced under the implementation process where a selection of classified OTC instruments were to be traded and cleared. However, data shows that trading activity in over-the-counter FX products have yet to take off.
Several financial services firms were granted status as SEF to offer users trade execution in FX Options and non-deliverable forward contracts. Two long years of consultation, between regulators and participants, led to the regulators classifying the two products as SEF traded. However, volumes have yet to shine for the 19 registered SEFs with each venue competing for a small piece of the pie. Although FX Options and NDFs are to be traded on SEFs for US clients, firms have diverted trade flows to outside markets to overcome the hassles around SEFs.
Trading volumes submitted by the BoE’s semi-annual FX Survey show that the world’s largest FX centre saw trading volumes increase in both FX options and NDFs. According to the report, the average daily trading volume increased to $55 billion in NDFs for the six months up to April, from $43 billion (six months up to October 2013). With similar results seen in currency options. FX options average daily trading volume reached $129 billion in April 2014, from $113 billion in October 2013.
On the other hand, SEFs have seen promising results in interest rate products (IRS). The product is the most liquid instrument traded on the venue, along with FX derivatives and Credit Default Swaps. Weekly notional volumes in IRS have been hovering around the $2 trillion mark according to a new volumes tracker index launched by the Futures Industry Association. The most liquid FX SEFs are BGC, Tradition and GFI, according to the FIA.
Depressed SEF volumes in FX have been scarred by the overall slump in trading volumes across the board. Interbank venues such as EBS and Thomson Reuters have seen consistent declines as participants feel the brunt of decreased volatility in financial markets. Earlier this year, James Cawley, CEO of Javelin, a US-based SEF, stepped down from his role after disappointing results at the venue.
Leading FX and CFD broker dealer, GAIN Capital was granted temporary SEF status from the US regulator, the CFTC, in April 2014.
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Eliminating State Income Taxes With a NING Trust
/ By Neil Schoenblum
Tags: Estate Planning & Asset Protection,
How Non-Grantor Trusts Help Protect Your Assets from State Income Tax
In 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was signed, restricting many of the deductibles on state income taxes. As a result, a great deal of discussion lately has surrounded the use of the Nevada Incomplete Non-Grantor (NING) Trust.
Grantor vs Non-Grantor Trusts
Unlike grantor trusts which are taxed to the grantor, a non-grantor trust is a “separate taxpayer.” This means that it can reside in a different state, like Nevada, with no existing state income tax.
The NING is an exceptional tool to avoid state income taxes and protect assets. By eliminating state income taxes, the net rate of return on investment is increased.
For instance, in the case of California, which imposes a maximum 13.3 percent income tax, the elimination of state tax may mean huge savings and corresponding increase in the net return on investment. It may also mean extraordinary savings upon the disposition of highly appreciated securities and other intangible investments.
Even better news—this powerful tax planning tool has actually been approved in several private-letter rulings by the IRS. Wyoming and Delaware have also followed suit with their own WING and DING Trusts respectively.
[Editor’s Note: Read more about tax strategy with the article “Multigenerational Tax Strategy for High Net Worth Families,” by Gerry Nowotny.]
Three Limitations on the NING Trust
Not all Californians or residents of other tax-heavy states can benefit from the NING Trust. Care must be exercised in structuring it.
1. State of Residence
First, the trustee needs to be in Nevada or another state with a well-designed asset protection trust statute. If the NING trust is not created in such a state, the grantor’s creditors are able to reach the trust assets and the income is taxed to the grantor.
In addition, distributions to resident beneficiaries will commonly be taxed. So, the NING trust is for those prepared to accumulate income over some period of time. Of course, annual accumulation of tax-free income has a cascading effect on the growth of the accumulated amount. This growth can mimic an IRA.
Pay close attention to the laws in your state of residence. New York, for example, changed its laws to tax the grantor in all situations.
2. Type of Assets
Another limiting factor relates to the character of the assets—the NING is for investors who own intangibles like stocks, bonds, mutual funds or other securities.
If, for example, the NING holds California real estate or tangible property like works of art, the state income tax cannot be avoided. But even this is hardly an insurmountable obstacle. These tangible assets can be owned by an entity whose shares or units, being intangible, could be owned by the NING. By converting the tangible into an intangible, the benefits of the NING become available at little or no additional cost. Note that intangibles received as stock option compensation would not be appropriate for a NING, since all compensation can be taxed when and where it’s earned.
3. Control of the Trust
A final limiting factor relates to the grantor’s loss of control over the assets placed in trust. Although the grantor of the trust cannot exercise direct control over the assets, this does not mean that the grantor is without access or must surrender total say in the eventual disposition and investment. For example, the grantor can be a discretionary beneficiary.
Furthermore, through careful design of powers, the grantor can exercise considerable influence over who gets what when distributions are ultimately made. With respect to investment decisions, the grantor’s involvement can be even more direct.
When it comes to financial planners, the trust can still use financial planners from the grantor’s state of residence. If the trust has an investment committee, the committee can direct trustees living in Nevada to use a financial planner in California, for example.
Examining the Benefits of a Non-Grantor Trust
Let’s look at an illustration to demonstrate just how powerful the NING is for certain taxpayers using California as an example.
The Big Hit Example
Assume the Cal Investor owns shares in a corporation, and the shares he owns have a low basis. The corporation might be a tech startup and the Cal Investor might originally have put up some minimal capital. The company has taken off and is now being wooed by a number of mega Silicon Valley suitors. Let’s suppose that this actually occurs and our investor will be receiving $50 million above his basis in payment for his shares. If the shares are held by a NING, there will only be federal tax on the gain realized and recognized. There will be no California income tax.
On the other hand, if Cal Investor owns the shares directly, his additional income tax will be in the range of $6,650,000. This is assuming he is already in the maximum 39.6 percent federal income tax bracket due to other income he reports within the transactional year.
Depending on the particular taxpayer, this amount of tax savings may be somewhat overstated. There are a number of reasons for this.
First, there will likely be an offsetting federal deduction for the state taxes paid. However, this benefit may not be available if the taxpayer is subject to alternative minimum tax, because the calculation of that tax does not allow a deduction for state income taxes.
Another reason that benefits from a non-grantor trust may be overstated is due to the low level of taxable income of a trust where the maximum marginal rate of taxation for the federal income tax and the net investment income tax come into play. An individual does not hit the maximum bracket until the taxpayer has much more taxable income. On the other hand, if the taxpayer is already in the 39.6 percent bracket due to other sources of income during the year, the rate differential between trusts and individuals will not be a factor.
In the case of the Cal Investor, let’s assume a net $6 million savings on the sale of the stock after various offsets. This is not the end of the story. Assume the proceeds from the sale are accumulated in trust for 15 years. Assume further an annual return, net of federal tax, of four percent. In this scenario, that original $6 million savings from the NING trust will equal $10,805,661. Without the NING, this significant sum would not be available to the taxpayer or other beneficiaries
The Steady Accretion Example
The foregoing “big hit” example is not the only instance in which the NING Trust may prove appealing. Suppose the Cal Investor’s brother, LA Larry, who is single and earns $450,000 per year, contributes $10 million worth of inherited securities to a NING. The securities average an eight percent return each year, or $800,000. The trust will accumulate this income for 15 years. Each year’s income will incur roughly $80,000 in California income tax, based on the 2018 rate table, which is adjusted for inflation. Assuming a net return after federal tax of five percent on these taxes saved annually, at the end of 15 years, there will be an accumulated savings of $2 million that otherwise would not exist. The NING enables this result and does so without requiring LA Larry to surrender any real access to the assets should he need them.
[Editor’s Note: Learn more about protecting your assets in the webinar Estate Planning & Asset Protection in an Hour. Or, get up to speed on The Legal & Tax Aspect of Investing: Asset Protection; Estate Planning, and Tax Efficiency.]
As the “Big Hit” and “Steady Accretion” examples demonstrate, the NING Trust is a powerful vehicle for preserving and increasing wealth for people who are subject to high state income taxes. Every situation differs, and a particularized analysis is required before choosing the NING route. Still, for many tax-burdened individuals, the non-grantor trusts may be the perfect remedy.
[Editor’s Note: This article is an updated version of an article first published by Financial Poise on September 9, 2015.]
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John Hawkes and Mos Def Set to Lead 'Jackie Brown' Prequel 'Switch'
Over a year and a half ago there came word that a prequel to Jackie Brown (which was based on Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch) was being crafted as an adaptation of the novel Switch, a story which deals with younger versions of Robert DeNiro and Samuel L. Jackson's characters Louis Gara and Ordell Robbie. While director Quentin Tarantino wouldn't be involved with the prequel, he did give the project his blessing, and I think we're all going to be glad he did as Variety reports Sundance King John Hawkes (Martha Marcy May Marlene, Winter's Bone) will star in the film with Mos Def, or Yasiin Bey as he's now known.
The film is in the hands of writer/director Dan Schecther (Supporting Characters) which takes place 15 years before the events of Jackie Brown and follows Ordell and Louis as they team up to kidnap Mickey Dawson, the wife of a corrupt Detroit real estate developer. When the husband refuses to pay the ransom for his wife's return, the ex-cons are forced to reconceive their plan, and the angry housewife uses the duo to get her revenge. Def/Bey just finished up a great guest arc on the last season of "Dexter" and Hawkes is fresh off a buzzed about performance from The Surrogate at Sundance last month. Both are perfect choices to fit into DeNiro and Jackson's shoes, but I'm more interested in seeing what Schecther does with this high profile project. What's cool about the filmmaker is he wrote the script on spec without permissions from the author and both Leonard and producer Michael Siegel just loved his work. That's pretty bad-ass.
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I really like the way this sounds. Mos Def and Hawkes are both great actors and Jackie Brown was excellent (IMO). But, you know, that might just be a bias on my part.
Cracky on Feb 1, 2012
I love this, sounds great. can't wait to see what they do with the charatcers they Quentin, Jackson, and DeNiro have created.
The_Kid89 on Feb 1, 2012
As long as they stay with Hawkes and Def, I'm in! Those two as younger portrayals of DeNiro and Jackson is brilliant.
Nick Malone on Feb 1, 2012
I dunno, Didn't "Mos def" change his name?
Johnny Dewep on Feb 1, 2012
Check the last line of the first paragraph.
Ethan Anderton on Feb 2, 2012
Sounds interesting.
M.K. Nielsen on Feb 2, 2012
I like Mos as an actor, but I just can't see him being menancing in anything! I can't see him being a foul mouthed, killer like Sam was in Jackie Brown...would have prefered Anthony Mackie perhaps..
jah p on Feb 2, 2012
Any more adaptations from Leonard are welcome!! Hawkes as a young Deniro, amazing...Would like to see if Mos Def can pull it off
Moot on Feb 3, 2012
Hawkes I can do with, but Mos Def has big shoes to film and I don't think he's got it to 'emulate' or at least channel Sam L Jack. We'll see though
Sedna on Feb 5, 2012
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By theskippster - United States
Today, I was in Walmart. I saw a demo for Guitar Hero on the DS so I started playing. I was kicking ass and really feeling great about myself. I then looked away for a second, looked back down, and saw that the notes were still being hit. The demo had been on automatic-player the entire time. FML
By Honestly - United Kingdom - Measham
Today, I had to teach my mother that tampons do not belong in the toilet. FML
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Today, I snuck up on my girlfriend to give her a kiss. Only after I planted a big one did I realize it was not my girlfriend, or even a girl for that matter. FML
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Today, I told my husband that while he was away I had had a miscarriage. His response? "If you can't take care of our baby while it is still inside you, how can I trust you to take care of it when it comes out?" FML
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Today, I got a ransom note saying, "We have kidnapped your husband and won't release him unless you postpone the wedding." The wedding is tomorrow and it was in his handwriting. FML
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Today, I was watching TV when the Jim Beam commercial came on with the hot girl saying how she likes her men fat and hairy. My mom walked in and said, "See honey, you still have a chance." FML
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Today, a kid came into the classroom I teach in to tell me there was "something" in the girls' toilets. "What kind of something", I asked? I was not expecting the answer "A period mural". FML
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Today, my mother decided to share with me that my father is impotent, and they hadn't had sex in a year and a half. Thanks, Mom. I can never unhear that. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Marion
Today, I was getting intimate with my girlfriend. She pulled down my trousers, saw my Poke-ball boxers, and absolutely lost it. I had to lie next to her in bed for the next 10 minutes hearing her howl with laughter while crying "Dickachu, I choose you!" FML
By Peach
Today, my husband finally decided to help with the laundry. He washed a pen and it exploded in the dryer. FML
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Today, I was working behind the bar at a club. After serving drinks to a guy, he asked me if I could carry them outside to the two girls waiting for him. I scowled at him and told him I wasn't a waitress. That's when I realised he had one arm. FML
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Today, my "friends" pulled an elaborate prank on me. First, they changed my ringtone to a recording of someone saying "Allahu Akbar" on repeat. Then, they called me as we had a moment of silence in honor of the 9/11 victims. FML
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Today, my apartment has been echoing all day with the wails of my cat, Butters. He's yet again managed to trap himself in the umbrella stand. In the past, he has eventually gotten himself out, but this time I think I might have to use a hacksaw. FML
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Today, I got a letter in the mail, my mother has applied for a reduction in her child support payments for my brother and I. She's paid $10 child support in 16 years. FML
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Today, I went to a big job interview. Everything went well at first, with the interviewer being impressed by my CV. I was then interrogated over not having a Facebook account, and practically accused of being a criminal, because people without them "always have something to hide". FML
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Today, I finally felt ready to make love to my boyfriend for the first time. It all went great, until I tried putting the condom on him. In the process, I managed to nick his penis not once, but three times with my nails. His eyes brimmed with tears and he completely lost his erection. FML
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Today, I went to see a movie. While buying tickets, the girl behind the counter asked to show my ID card to proof I'm at least 16 years old. Not wanting to make a drama, I showed it. She took a look at it and declared it as fake. That ID is real and I'm 24. FML
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Today, I was notified that my work is cutting my pay almost in half. I just renewed my long-term lease on an expensive apartment because I was able to afford it before this morning. Now I have no idea how I’m going to pay for it. FML
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Today, I went to the beach with a friend. We'd forgotten to get our towels out of the SUV, so I rushed back to the parking lot. I opened the passenger-side door and climbed in to begin my search. After ten seconds or so, I realized I'd busted into someone else's car. FML
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Today, I found out that my over-controlling parents would be moving in next door. I'm almost 23, and moved 5,365 KM away to get away from them. FML
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Look mom!
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Today, my boyfriend tried to be dominant during sex. It was so out of character for him, I couldn't help but break into hysterical laughter. FML
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Today, I decorated my boyfriend's house for Christmas as a surprise, just in time for him and his family to come home. Also just in time for him to tell me he's Jewish. FML
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Today, feeling lonely after my recent breakup, I put on my nicest clothes and went out clubbing with a few friends. I brought a guy back to my place, and we got intimate. It was going well, until he took off my push-up bra, then panicked and drunkenly asked, "Where'd they go?!" FML
By gnitegracie | 0
#244375 - Saturday 30 May 2009 9:46
ProTip: Learn/play real guitar.
That'll give you a more genuine sense of accomplishment.
By essentee | 0
hahahahahah that is hilarious! wish i were there to see it!
satanic_fml | 13
#1271510 - Thursday 19 August 2010 19:49
YDI for being dumb
By fifafan626 | 0
haha who cares. am i first? i know thats annoying
gymtanlaundry | 0
#932367 - Wednesday 10 March 2010 16:17
breenarae25 | 0
#1474823 - Thursday 30 September 2010 1:48
no, no you aren't first.... hahahahahahaha no
Mcstud1y | 30
#6380256 - Friday 14 August 2015 3:23
Nope 2
By Luckster | 0
It doesn't take talent to play that game anyways.
fakedsincerity | 32
#5670737 - Thursday 12 September 2013 23:59
what does it take then?
By sheila_babeela | 0
haha! that happened to me when I was playing at the arcade at the movies
By Jordie210 | 0
hilarious. omg.
stevenJB | 25
#4094627 - Monday 27 February 2012 5:14
^^ and
By missus_butter | 0
Being good at Guitar Hero doesn't make you a hero of any kind. YDI, but that was really funny.
karmaSUCKS321453 | 0
the op should be saying fml for actually thinking his life is f**ked because he wasn't actually kicking ass at guitar hero :/
By mandy_x_fml | 0
Hahahah!
By GlobeNinja | 0
you gots the skillz!
By aimotatop | 0
Wish I was there to see it xD I love seeing people do that in stores...
But yeah, must've sucked.
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School Lunch Suspected in Chinese Food Poisonings
By News Desk on April 17, 2012
A week after an apparent food poisoning incident at a Kunming, China elementary school, nine children remained hospitalized Monday. Food poisoning was initially blamed for putting 368 children in the Kunming hospital, which located in the Yunnan province in southwest China, on April 9.
Now there are new reports of two other food poisoning incidents in recent days in the same area.
Ramifications are swiftly following the elementary school illnesses. Two school principals lost their jobs April 13 when the county government investigation team said it found the school canteen involved was operating without health department certification and the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration, on its website, said local health authorities should conduct food safety inspections in school canteens throughout the nation.
Chinese food safety officials say the April 9 outbreak is the third experienced recently in the Yunnan province. The others were on March 13, when yolk pie sickened 203 students, and the other was on April 11, when 203 students at another school became ill following lunch.
China started a school nutrition program on March 1, paying 3 yuan or about 47 cents per day per student for school lunches. All three Yunnan school-based food poisoning incidents occurred after that date.
China Daily quoted a local nutritional expert who said the rural schools lacked the management and equipment needed to safely implement the new school lunch program.
Since last week, 359 children — all students in the rural primary school — were released from the hospital. They have all returned to classes. The children who remained hospitalized were said to be in stable condition.
The week-old investigation continues and China’s food safety authorities have ordered the Dingla Primary School to suspend serving lunches while the probe is underway.
The food poisoning appears to have occurred at lunch. The students’ symptoms included vomiting, diarrhea and fever.
Kunming is both the capital and largest city in Yunnan.
Tags: China, Dingla Primary School, foodborne illness, Kunming
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Texas A&M vs Arkansas Odds, Spread, Location, Date & Start Time for College Football Week 5
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Texas A&M vs Arkansas Game Info
NCAA College Football Week 5
No. 23 Texas A&M Aggies (2-2, 0-1 SEC) vs. Arkansas Razorbacks (2-2, 0-1 SEC)
Date: Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019
Time: 12 p.m. EST
Venue: AT&T Stadium – Arlington, TX (Neutral Site)
Coverage: ESPN
SJSU 31
Hogs 24
— Arkansas Razorback Football (@RazorbackFB) September 22, 2019
Texas A&M vs Arkansas Betting Odds
All betting lines, odds and prop bets are available on FanDuel Sportsbook.
Moneyline: TAMU: (-1900) | ARK: (+1075)
Spread: TAMU: -23 (-115) | ARK: +23 (-105)
Total: 57.5 – Over: (-110) | Under: (-110)
Public (Spread) Betting Percentages: TAMU: 66% | ARK: 34%
Odds to Win 2020 College Football Playoff: TAMU: (+15000) | ARK: (N/A)
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Texas A&M vs Arkansas Head-to-Head Record & Betting Trends
- Texas A&M defeated Arkansas, 24-17, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington in the the most recent meeting between these programs last season on Sept. 29, 2018.
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Apple Superpowering iPad With iOS 4.2 in November
Early in today’s special event, Apple gave everyone a sneak peak of the next, next iOS release–4.2. It’s all about the iPad.
By Kit Eaton 1 minute Read
Early in today’s Fall special event, Apple surprised everyone with a sneak peak of the next, next iOS release–4.2. It’s all about the iPad.
iOS 4.1 hasn’t even been released yet (the most current software for iPhones and iPads is version 4.0.2), and iOS 4.2 is still weeks away–but Steve Jobs thought it important enough to introduce to the world now. The upgrade will bring the iPad up to speed with the latest user interface and app innovations that have been available on the iPhone for several months.
First up, wireless printing is coming to the iPad, which will be a seriously welcome boon for users who are getting used to the content-delivering powers of the iPad. It’ll be a blow to app vendors who’ve been selling wireless printing apps… but them’s the breaks.
AirPlay is another quasi-new thing: It’s the replacement for the existing Apple wireless play system, Called AirTunes, and it’ll let you stream audio files wirelessly to Apple devices and “other” ones too. “Now, what is AirPlay? You know what AirTunes is,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said during the event. “We’re changing the name of AirTunes to AirPlay, and it’s not just music anymore. You can stream all kinds of media anywhere in your house.”
Later in the presentation, Jobs demonstrated an iPad playing a movie streamed from Apple TV.
All the other features of iOS4, including folders, multitasking, and more will also arrive when it’s released in November.
In addition, Apple announced the upcoming release of iOS 4.1, which will fix a slew of bugs and bring some new features to the iPhone. The biggest new feature is the support of High Dynamic Range photos (HDR). This is a new piece of imaging software that takes three photos in rapid succession–one normal, one under-exposed and one over-exposed. It then combines the three to give you an optimal image, in theory. The examples shown during the event looked somewhat unnaturally lit, but it’s difficult to gauge without seeing one of these photos up close.
To keep up with this news follow me, Kit Eaton, on Twitter.
I'm covering the science/tech/generally-exciting-and-innovative beat for Fast Company. Follow me on Twitter, or Google+ and you'll hear tons of interesting stuff, I promise. I've also got a PhD, and worked in such roles as professional scientist and theater technician...thankfully avoiding jobs like bodyguard and chicken shed-cleaner (bonus points if you get that reference!)
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AMA Tells Pharmacists: “Don’t Call Us We’ll Call You”
By Larry K. Houck –
Pharmacists are under increasing pressure to take extraordinary steps to verify prescriptions for controlled substances, especially in light of the fact that the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) has asserted that pharmacists are the gatekeepers or the “last line of defense” in the fight against prescription drug abuse. Alan G. Santos, DEA, Combatting Pharmaceutical Diversion: Targeting “Rogue Pain Clinics” & “Pill Mills,” Prescription Drug Awareness Conference, May 4-5, 2013, unnumbered slides. However, if the American Medical Association (“AMA”) adopts either of two committee resolutions at its 2013 meeting, pharmacists who serve that gatekeeper role should not expect cooperation from prescribing physicians. One AMA delegation has introduced a resolution to the Organized Medical Staff Section that would characterize routine pharmacist inquiries “for verification of the rationale behind prescriptions, including diagnosis, treatment plan, ICD-9 codes and/or previous medications/therapies that were tried/failed, and for routine pharmacist calls for such verification of this rationale, to be an inappropriate interference with the practice of medicine and unwarranted.” AMA Organized Medical Staff Section Resolution 12 (A-13), AMA Response to Drug Store Chain Intrusion into Medical Practice, received May 15, 2013. Delegations from New England have put forth an almost identical resolution to the AMA House of Delegates that also, while noting the regulations “only” require pharmacists to ensure the prescription is legitimate, pharmacists are “under no circumstances should be required to confirm the appropriateness of a prescription; the decision is purely a medical one, completely in the purview of the treating physician.” AMA House of Delegates Resolution 218 (A-13), AMA Response to Drug Store Chain Intrusion into Medical Practice, received May 17, 2013. Furthermore, calls from pharmacists to doctors’ offices to verify prescriptions will be deemed an “inappropriate interference with the practice of medicine and unwarranted ….” Id. If pharmacists continue to conduct routine prescription verification, the AMA plans to take its fight to the implicated companies (i.e., drug store chains), DEA, and other involved state and federal regulators to stop what the AMA believes is interference in the physicians’ practice of medicine and their medical treatment decision-making. If those efforts fail, the AMA will turn to Congress for legislation to eliminate any form of pharmacist prescription verification requirement, or to otherwise clarify physician and pharmacist roles in dispensing controlled substances.
The impetus for the AMA resolutions appears to be the policy of a “national drug store chain” that requires its pharmacists to call and speak with the practitioner to “verify” controlled substance prescriptions prior to filling them. While both proposed resolutions recognize a pharmacist’s “responsibility to vet any prescription for legitimacy,” they characterize pharmacist due diligence efforts not as a “last line of defense” against the prescription drug epidemic but instead an invasion of the patient-physician relationship. The resolutions suggest that pharmacists’ questioning prescribers about their controlled substance prescriptions is a perversion “of the “spirit and intent” of DEA’s pharmacist corresponding responsibility regulations. While DEA regulations do not specifically require a pharmacist to contact practitioners to verify controlled substance prescriptions, DEA’s interpretation of its regulations and recent administrative actions against pharmacies demonstrate that closely scrutinizing most if not all controlled substance prescriptions, including verifying prescriptions with prescribing physicians, is at a minimum exactly what DEA expects pharmacists to do.
DEA regulations have long established that a corresponding responsibility rests with dispensing pharmacists to ensure, with the prescribing practitioner, that a prescription for a controlled substance has been issued for a legitimate medical purpose by the individual practitioner acting in the usual course of professional practice. 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a). Many pharmacists, even with the current prescription abuse epidemic fueled by rogue practitioners, remain reluctant to question a practitioner about their controlled substance prescriptions. This is not unreasonable, given that it is the physician, armed with a medical degree and clinical training, sees the patient, treats the patient, and determines the appropriate medical treatment. While pharmacists are responsible for guarding against fraudulent prescriptions and potential doctor-shopping patients, questioning the prescribing practices and medical judgment of a physician and evaluating whether a prescription was issued for a legitimate medical purpose is far more difficult.
DEA traditionally viewed medical practitioners as the gatekeepers who determined through examination, administering, dispensing and prescribing which patients legitimately needed controlled medications. However, in recent years, because of the diversion created by rogue Internet pharmacies and pain clinics, DEA has focused more on pharmacists as the controlled substance gatekeepers, holding them accountable for dispensing pursuant to prescriptions not issued for legitimate medical purposes. See East Main Street Pharmacy; Affirmance of Suspension Order; 75 Fed. Reg. 66149 (Oct. 27, 2010). DEA officials have expressed their belief that the pharmacist, with their pharmacological training, rather than practitioners, is the “drug expert” in the healthcare arena and therefore responsible for policing practitioners. Responding to the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic: Hearing Before the S. Caucus on Int’l Narcotic Control, 112th Cong. 2 (2012) (Statement of Joseph T. Rannazzisi Deputy Assistant Administrator, DEA). Pharmacists must fulfill their corresponding responsibility through reasonably diligent efforts and judgment to ensure that a prescription has been issued for a legitimate medical purpose. See East Main Street Pharmacy; Affirmance of Suspension Order, 75 Fed. Reg. 66149 (Oct. 27, 2010).
The AMA’s proposed resolutions are directly at odds with DEA’s legal and regulatory position on a pharmacist’s corresponding responsibility to ensure that prescriptions are issued for a legitimate medical purpose and in the course of a physician’s professional practice. For example, DEA has based an Order to Show Cause, in part, on a pharmacist’s assertion that it was “not [his] job to question a physician.” Id. DEA also requires pharmacists to resolve certain “red flags” signaling invalid prescriptions, including at a minimum verifying controlled substance prescriptions with the physician’s office prior to filling those prescriptions. See id.; Holiday CVS, L.L.C., d/b/a CVS/Pharmacy Nos. 219 and 5195; Decision and Order, 67 Fed. Reg. 62315 (Oct. 12, 2012).
Noticeably absent from the resolutions are any indication that the AMA will urge its physician members to assist pharmacists in their corresponding responsibility to ensure that controlled substances are issued for a legitimate medical purpose. If the AMA adopts either of the proposed resolutions, pharmacists will not only encounter continued physician resistance to prescription verification, but also find it even more difficult to comply with their corresponding responsibility to ensure that the prescriptions they fill have been issued for legitimate medical purposes.
The AMA and DEA must come to a consensus concerning the scope of a pharmacist’s corresponding responsibility to ensure that prescriptions are legitimate in light of the prescription drug epidemic so that patients obtain needed medication, pharmacists are not second-guessing medical decisions, and pharmacists who fill controlled substance prescriptions are not legally culpable for a physicians’ illegal or otherwise improper prescribing practices.
The AMA Organized Medical Staff Section and House of Delegates will consider the resolutions during the association’s 30th Annual Assembly this week in Chicago.
Categories: Controlled Substances | Drug Enforcement Administration
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Democrats plan to fight data localization laws
Written by Chris Bing
U.S. democratic leadership will oppose future data localization policies and practices — those that physically restrict data centers to where their contained data originated — according to the party’s 2016 draft platform published Friday by the Democratic National Committee.
“Democrats will fight against unfair theft of intellectual property and trade secrets. We will also increase access to global markets for American intellectual property and other digital trade by opposing quotas, discriminatory measures and data localization requirements,” the party platform reads.
The Trans Pacific Partnership also introduced a ban on data localization, though numerous democratic lawmakers opposed the Obama administration-led agreement.
Some support data localization legislation because it can help determine legal jurisdictions for foreign governments, who design internet usage rules, Ron Cheng, partner with the international law firm O’Melveny & Myers, wrote.
Alternatively, data localization can inhibit foreign tech companies from being competitive in a foreign market because of the installation cost associated with standing up a new domestic data center, according to a case study examining Russia’s data localization laws published by the BSA Software Alliance — a trade group established by Microsoft Corporation, which represents a cohort of prominent U.S. tech firms.
Recently, China has pushed for data localization laws that would require private, foreign tech companies to migrate Chinese user data to equipment located within the country.
The news follows one week after likely democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton released her own “tech and innovation” platform, which similarly explains efforts to safeguard the “free flow of information” by discouraging data localization laws.
Clinton’s platform criticizes data localization as “the use of surreptitious means of accessing sought-after data, and unilateral assertions that often put U.S.-based companies in the middle of conflicting legal regimes.”
China, Cloud, data, Data centers, DNC, Hillary Clinton, legislation, News, privacy, Tech, TPP, White House
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FedMentor of the Week: Izella Dornell
Written by Goldy Kamali
May 2, 2011 | FEDSCOOP
Deputy Chief Information Officer for the Dept. of Commerce Izella Dornell is our FedMentor of the Week!
Izella was named Commerce Deputy CIO in July 2010. In 2009, she joined the Commerce as Special Assistant for Program Management and was directly responsible for the department-wide portfolio investment review process. She began her professional career at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, as a technical intern and has held several key program management leadership roles in major Human Spaceflight programs for over 30 years both at JSC and NASA headquarters. While at JSC, she served as Space Shuttle Program Control Manager, Resource Manager for Space Exploration, and Human Spaceflight Integration Manager for the Space Shuttle, International Space Station and Constellation Programs. During her detail assignments at NASA headquarters, she was Deputy Chief of Staff and Acting Director of Resources for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate.
What was your first government job and what did you learn from that experience?
Was there anything you did early in your career that influenced your success?
What’s the best career advice you have ever received?
What advice do you have for young employees who may feel overwhelmed in their new roles?
What resources would you recommend for someone to help further their career?
Why would you recommend someone early in their career consider working for the government?
Archives, FedMentors, FedScoop TV, Izella Dornell
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Launch Of Rebranded Paramount+ Streaming Service Set For March
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Polls: Half Of Americans View Trump Presidency As A Failure
Election 2020| Nov 19, 2020, 07:37pm EST |
More Legal Losses For Trump: Georgia, Arizona Courts Block Efforts To Delay Certifying Election Results
Alison DurkeeForbes Staff
Judges in Arizona and Georgia struck down lawsuits Thursday brought by Republican plaintiffs seeking to challenge or delay the results of their states’ elections, delivering a blow to the Trump campaign and GOP’s attempts to block battleground states from certifying their election results and challenge Joe Biden’s presidential win.
Election workers count Fulton County ballots at State Farm Arena on November 4, 2020 in Atlanta, ... [+] Georgia. (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)
A state judge in Arizona dismissed a suit by the state’s Republican Party seeking an audit of ballots in Maricopa County, and denied the GOP’s request to delay the certification of the county’s election results.
The judge noted in the order that the Arizona Secretary of State, who intervened in favor of the county, can seek attorney’s fees from the GOP plaintiffs under an Arizona law that allows doing so in cases brought “without substantial justification” or “solely or primarily for delay or harassment.”
U.S. District Court Judge Steven Grimberg—who was appointed by President Donald Trump—dismissed a lawsuit brought by a voter in Fulton County, Georgia, who wanted the court to block Georgia from certifying its election results and claimed the vote tallies are “suspect and tainted with impropriety.”
Grimberg’s decision was based on the plaintiffs’ lack of standing, but he also said when announcing it that the lawsuit “does not have merit” and was brought too late.
The Trump campaign was not directly involved in either lawsuit, though the Georgia plaintiffs’ attorney told the court he was retained by the campaign.
“To halt the certification at literally the 11th hour would breed confusion and disenfranchisement that I find have no basis in fact and law,” Grimberg said Thursday when announcing his order.
The Trump campaign also suffered a court defeat in Pennsylvania on Thursday, as a court in Bucks County rejected the campaign’s effort to throw out 2,177 mail-in ballots due to minor deficiencies. The campaign also withdrew an attempt to appeal a ruling upholding mail-in ballots in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, but a court did side with GOP plaintiffs who challenged 2,349 ballots in Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is located.
The Arizona and Georgia rulings are a setback to the Trump campaign’s reported new post-election strategy, which comes as the campaign and GOP’s post-election lawsuits have largely failed in court. Multiple reports suggest that rather than use the courts to directly overturn the election—which would not be possible, based on the current litigation—the campaign is focused on delaying or blocking battleground states from certifying their election results, which would then give GOP state legislators a possible opening to overturn the will of the voters and appoint their own electors. That strategy has begun to take shape in recent days: the campaign filed an amended legal complaint in Pennsylvania arguing the court should “[provide] for the Pennsylvania General Assembly to choose Pennsylvania’s electors,” and Trump is reportedly inviting Michigan state lawmakers to the White House after personally calling Republican election officials who attempted to block Michigan’s Wayne County from certifying its results. Experts have broadly denounced Trump’s efforts as likely to fail, however, and several state legislators who would have to participate in any attempts to undermine their state’s voters have said they do not intend to do so.
The failed Arizona and Georgia lawsuits marked the last major GOP legal challenges to the election that were currently pending in those states, and the states’ election results are required to be certified by Monday and Friday, respectively. Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani suggested during a press conference Thursday that the campaign may still attempt to bring further lawsuits in those states, however, and the campaign suggested in a court filing Thursday that it may continue its attempts to have federal courts decertify states’ electors up until the Electoral College meets on Dec. 14.
Judge throws out Arizona GOP lawsuit on Maricopa County vote audit, rejects request to delay canvass (AZ Central)
Trump-Appointed Judge Rejects Lin Wood’s ‘Creative’ Election Lawsuit in Georgia (Law & Crime)
Trump Campaign Drops Michigan Lawsuit After GOP Board Members Try To Take Back Votes Certifying Election Results (Forbes)
Giuliani’s Wild Press Conference, Debunked: No Trump Campaign Voter Fraud Theories Are Holding Up In Court (Forbes)
Alison Durkee
I am a New York-based journalist covering breaking news at Forbes. I previously covered politics and news for Vanity Fair and Mic, and as a theater critic I serve as a
I am a New York-based journalist covering breaking news at Forbes. I previously covered politics and news for Vanity Fair and Mic, and as a theater critic I serve as a member of the New York Outer Critics Circle. Follow me on Twitter @alisond64 or get in touch at adurkee@forbes.com.
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Hundreds of Rules May Be Void after Agencies Miss Procedural Step
Regulatory agencies are routinely violating federal law by not submitting final regulations to Congress, according to a recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report. Any rule agencies have not submitted to Congress could be susceptible to a lawsuit.
OIRA Meetings Stir Controversy over Coal Ash Regulation
Jan 11, 2010 by Matthew Madia
Industry representatives have repeatedly visited the White House to discuss pending regulation of coal ash, raising suspicions that industry may be influencing the rule. In December, amid these meetings, EPA announced it was backing away from its earlier pledge to propose coal ash regulations by the end of 2009.
EPA Takes Aim at Past Air Pollution Screw Ups
Jan 7, 2010 by Matthew Madia
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a revision to the national air quality standard for ozone, a.k.a. smog. EPA is proposing to tighten the primary standard to a level somewhere between 0.060 and 0.070 ppm (parts per million), down from the current standard of 0.075 ppm set in 2008. Under the Clean Air Act, EPA must set the primary standard at a level protective of public health.
Whoops, Agencies Forget to Send Rules to Congress, Potentially Invalidating Them
Hundreds of regulations may not officially have the force and effect of law because rulemaking agencies have not performed a simple procedural task, according to a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report issued last week.
Under the Congressional Review Act, a 1996 law that essentially gives Congress a window of opportunity to veto agency regulations, agencies must submit to Congress and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) copies of new final regulations.
A Busy Year for EPA’s Air Office
Dec 22, 2009 by Matthew Madia
As the Washington Post reports today, EPA is temporarily delaying a decision to regulate coal ash, a toxic byproduct formed when smokestack scrubbers capture pollutants otherwise destined for the air. Today is the one-year anniversary of a major coal ash spill that sent a billion gallons of toxic goo cascading across hundreds of acres of land in eastern Tennessee.
In Drinking Water, What’s Legal Can Be Poisonous
In another of The New York Times’ startling articles on the state of U.S. waters, Charles Duhigg reports on the myriad chemicals polluting drinking water supplies and regulators’ inability to manage them.
EPA Announces Endangerment Finding for Greenhouse Gases
Dec 8, 2009 by Matthew Madia
Greenhouse gases are officially a threat to public health and the environment in the eyes of the federal government. Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its endangerment finding for greenhouse gases. The finding will now compel the agency to regulate emissions under the Clean Air Act.
Midnight Regulations Roundup
The Obama administration continues to chip away at the Bush administration’s midnight regulations campaign. Obama agencies took action on two more Bush-era midnight regulations this week and a third last week.
Interior Publishes Notice on Mountaintop Mining
Nov 30, 2009 by Matthew Madia
The Department of the Interior published today an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking that lays out options for mitigating the environmental impact of mountaintop mining. Specifically, the notice discusses a Bush administration rule finalized in December 2008 which allows mining operations to dump waste in or near rivers and streams.
More Flimflammery on Mountaintop Mining
In a Nov. 18 press release, the Interior Department trumpets “Initiatives to Better Protect Streams in Coal Country.”
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Excavating Q: The History and Setting of the Sayings Gospel
Excavating Q
The History and Setting of the Sayings Gospel
John S. Kloppenborg Verbin (Author)
In this tour de force, the author offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of Q, the collection of Jesus' sayings long hypothesized as the source for the canonical gospels of Matthew and Luke. Part I deals with the methods for studying Q, their presuppositions, and a survey of current research. Part II addresses more theological and theoretical issues relevant to the Synoptic Problem, Q as a document, its redaction, and its social setting.
Publication Date August 4, 2000
"Whilst it is designed in part to introduce readers to the subject, this book is in fact much more than this. It is a fascinating analysis of and reflection upon the current state of the debates about Q, and it pilots the way ahead for future debate. The social location of the Q people within Galilee, their distinctive theology and relation to Cynics, and the way in which Q raises questions about the historical Jesus will challenge scholars of all levels. It is essential reading for all interested in Christian origins."
— Ronald A. Piper, Editor, The Gospel Behind the Gospels: Current Studies on Q (1995)
"Excavating Q is a major synthesis, providing a meaningful integration of literary, archaeological, social, and theological concerns. By drawing together threads in the current discussion about the historical Jesus, first-century Galilee, and Q, Kloppenborg Verbin steps into the forefront of the discussion. This work makes lasting contributions to our understanding of the synoptic tradition and the social history of Jewish and Christian origins."
— Douglas E. Oakman
coauthor of Palestine in the Time of Jesus
"Having launched the current resurgence of interest in Q with the publication of The Formation of Q (1987), Kloppenborg Verbin rode the crest of the Q movement as leader of the International Q Project; and now with his masterpiece, Excavating Q, he brings in the harvest of Q studies. This is without a doubt the most thorough, wide-reaching, and convincing analysis of Q, tracing the course of Q since its discovery in 1838 down through its central position in the new dimensions of theology for the coming millennium. From now on, Excavating Q is required reading for anyone wanting to discuss Q."
— James M. Robinson
Editor, The Critical Edition of Q
Part I: Text and History
Q and the Synoptic Problem
The Character and Reconstruction of Q
The Composition and Genre of the Sayings Gospel Q
The Q Document and the Q People
Reading Q in the Galilee
Part II: Theology and Ideology
The Jesus of History and the History of Dogma:
Theological Currents in the Synoptic Problem
Putting Q on the Map
Making Difference
Social Characterizations in Theological Perspective
Sites and Geographical Features
Index of Ancient Texts
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Comfort animals used to help victims of the Goodwin Fire
Marcy Jones' Reports
PHOENIX (KSAZ) - There's a reason dogs are called "man's best friend." They're sweet, non-judgemental, and most of all, comforting.
That's why when hundreds of residents were displaced during the Goodwin Fire, they called in the dogs.
"Many were separated from their pets," Marla Martella said.
Pam Reinke and her dog, Abby, have been team members of Hope Animal Assistance Crisis Response for 13 years and while they're prepared for the worst of times, Pam says the training is extensive.
"I take FEMA course, learn about incident command," she said.
Martella, also a team member, says they get called out to a wide range of disasters.
"It could be floods, fires... our team responded to Katrina," she said.
But Marla adds one thing remains the same; the incredible ability for animals like her dog, Abby, to sooth humans during the darkest hours of their lives.
"Even if they haven't talked for a while day about what's been bothering them," she said.
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140 Switch Review – In Rhythm Color
Steven Weber December 16, 2019 News, Switch
Can you hear that sound? Can you feel the beat? In 140 by Carlsen Games, feeling the music and listening for patterns is fundamental to being successful in this rhythmic puzzle platformer. 140 was originally released way back in 2013 and has received awards for its design and gameplay approach, but does 140 have what it takes to make as colorful of a splash on the Nintendo Switch? Our 140 Switch Review knows all!
If you haven’t heard of Carlsen Games before or played 140 or THOTH, then you really can’t go wrong with taking a jaunt into the colorful world of 140. In essence, 140 is a platformer that revolves around the players little square, and the various rhythmic based challenges set before you to pass to the next level tier. There really isn’t much to the controls, with only a jump button and the thumbstick required to move about, but the simplicity only outlines the variety of exceptional design decisions Carlsen Games made when constructing each level.
The first stage seems simple enough, with very mild puzzles outlining the basics of your objectives. You bounce about, finding and picking up a ball which acts as a key to open a door to the next level. Along the way, players will encounter checkpoints before a, particularly tough platforming encounter. At the end of each stage, there is a boss encounter that will test both your rhythm and twitch reflexes. Each level, as one can expect, gets tougher to the point where I found myself questioning whether parts of the level could even be done.
Most of the puzzles revolve around a beat and timing. Counting out the beat aided my quest in most cases, but there were times where you had to keep time with multiple obstacles which are almost impossible to do numerically. Getting inside a rhythmic groove certainly helps, until you reach some bosses where quick actions are even more important than listening to the beat. One example is a crazy kaleidoscopic square that fires triangles at you. The only way to counter the attack is to find which triangle was pointed towards you and fire a shot to deflect it. As easy as that sounds, it gets remarkably frustrating when you can’t simply face your cursor in the direction of the triangle, but you have to count out a beat and place it one or two positions prior to where you wish to fire your deflection shot.
These kinds of interesting, tempo-based challenges can feel over the top at times but are equally rewarding when you finally complete one. 140 is calculatingly smart, exceedingly challenging, and an all-around musical marvel. Carlsen Games knows how to do so much with a smattering of sounds and shapes. The Switch version of 140 doesn’t enhance or change the way 140 is played at all. The game itself can be beaten in under 2 hours, with plenty of mistakes made along the way, but for gamers looking for a challenging platformer with rhythmic properties, there are very few games that can compare to 140 in that department.
Tags: 140, Carlsen Games, nintendo, platformer, Rhythm, switch
140 on the Nintendo Switch is still the same award winning rhythmic platformer, now on the Switch! 140 provides simplistic controls in conjunction with challenging beat-based puzzle-platformer action that will take players only a few hours of their time to beat. The experience is definitely worth the cost of admission.
Challenging platformer action
Great rhythmic based puzzles
Simplistic controls anyone can learn
Can get very difficult and frustrating
Very short game, can be beaten in under 2 hours
Steven Weber is a writer, he also loves to game. He produces several streams, all of dubious fame. If you’ve ever wondered, “How does he spend his time?” It’s spent writing this biography and trying to make it rhyme.
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Stuck at Home Doesn’t Have to Mean Bored at Home (August 23 update)
Posted on Aug 23, 2020 Sep 5, 2020
Below are the latest additions to “Stuck at Home Doesn’t Have to Mean Bored at Home.”
The purpose of the original post and these updates was to provide ideas for maintaining some quality of life while on lock down. The original post has been updated continually to contain all of the suggestions, whereas the separate update posts are intended to provide an easy way to know what’s new.
However, because people are now venturing out more, there is no ongoing need for regular updates to the list of things to do. Accordingly, additional updates be on an ad hoc basis – and, you can always (even when things return to normal) go back to the original post, which has the full range of things to do.
In the meantime, here are a few updates to enjoy . . .
MIT Technology review discusses a new technology called Minglr in “Remote workers want to re-create those watercooler moments, virtually.” Minglr is “open-source software that anyone can download and use to meet with people who indicate they’re free to chat. The interface is like AIM and Zoom rolled into one . . . .”
Home Not Alone (with Kids)
With the new school year just getting underway, KidsOutAndAbout.com put together a portal of over 1,000 resources and ideas: “The Ultimate Parent Survival Guide to 2020 – 2021.” This one happens to be for Boston, but there are others. Start at their home page here (entertainment calendar), and look for what’s closest to you. Check it out! And, for the adults in the family, check out the companion site: BeyondtheNest.com.
Aquariums, Zoos, Museums & More
Thank you to David Cusick of UpgradedPoints for identifying “The 75 Best Virtual Museum Tours Around the World [Art, History, Science, and Technology].”
Broadway (and Other) Shows
Don’t miss David Blaine “redefine magic once again for an unprecedented live event at a time when the world could use a positive distraction” on August 31 at 6:00 AM EDT on YouTube.
Cooking, Cookies, and Other Food Options
epicurious has what looks like a terrific list of “17 Recipes That Feel Like Vacation (Even if You’re Not Going Anywhere).”
If you’re a little more adventurous, Thrillist’s weekend project is to Make Your Own Ceviche.
While you’re at it, try pairing whatever you’re making with some wine. To get started, the Commonwealth Wine School is offering “Wine Tasting 101: It Tastes Good – What Else Should I Know?” on Tuesday, August 24.
With all the (extra) ice cream eating during the pandemic, “This Time-Tested Ben & Jerry’s Tip Will Save Your Ice Cream From Freezer Burn.”
And, if you want some milk with your non-freezer burned ice cream or other dessert, Thrillist provides directions on “How to Make Your Own Plant Milks At Home.”
The New York Times has identified five podcasts that let you “Travel The World With Your Ears,” including “Rough Translation” from NPR, which addresses the question, “How are the things we’re talking about being talked about somewhere else in the world?” Enjoy!
Wired (US) says, “Let us help you avoid a DIY disaster,” with their “How to Cut Your Hair at Home” guide, complete with updated links.
More recently, I received an inquiry from Mike at WiseBarber in San Diego, who told me that he put together “a detailed ultimate hair guide about How to Cut Your Own Hair for Men in 7 Easy Steps packed full of useful tips and tricks from my own experiences as a barber.” He’s right! If you are primarily using trimmers, it’s a very helpful guide. And, even if you are not, there are still some useful tips.
Travel (Virtually … or Not!)
I was approached by NerdBear in connection with their list of “25 Video Games That Allow You to Travel and Cure Wanderlust.” It’s not quite true virtual travel, but it does look like a terrific “collection of games for different ages where you can explore the U.S., Nepal, Peru, the U.K., Greece, Japan, and many more.”
Random / Other Lists
Real Simple is right that “COVID-19 doesn’t have to stop you from savoring autumn safely.” In that spirit, they offer “33 Fun Things You Can Still Do This Fall (Even During a Pandemic).”
Thanks to The Download for identifying @michaelfrost6’s tweet, “2020 – the year poor spelling turned deadly.”
And, last but not least: “Watch – Funny Short Clips that Will Make you Smile.”
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Genuine Madrid versus Athletic Bilbao: La Liga live stream, TV channel, how to watch on the web, news, chances
Genuine Madrid gets an opportunity to apply enormous weight on Barcelona when Los Blancos face Athletic Bilbao on Sunday in La Liga activity. It's Matchday 34 with Real driving the title race by four for Barca, however a triumph at the San Mames would move Zinedine Zidane's group seven focuses clear in front of Barca's visit to flooding Villarreal later in the day. A success seriously and Barca dropping focuses may basically have the title race practically chose.
Here's the manner by which you can watch the match and what to know:
Date: Sunday, July 5
Time: 8 a.m. ET
Area: San Mames - Bilbao, Spain
Television: beIN Sports
Live stream: fuboTV (Try for nothing)
Chances: Real Madrid - 138; Draw +270; Bilbao +400 (by means of William Hill Sportsbook)
Genuine Madrid: Los Blancos enter on a five-game series of wins since play returned, and the safeguard has surrendered only two objectives. While they haven't been excessively persuading in assault, they simply take care of business and keep on amassing focuses. They may have been somewhat lucky against Getafe by getting a late extra shot, yet they'll take it and had the right to win that one with the odds made. Yet, Bilbao has a safeguard in excellent condition, and they may simply require a snapshot of enchantment or some karma on a set piece to broaden its lead over Barca.
Athletic Bilbao: Athletic is still in the race for an Europa League spot, trailing the main six by four with five games to go. A point here will be sufficient to keep them in the race, however getting into the main six stays dubious. An improve resistance should see them keep this nearby however, as Athletic has yielded two objectives in its last four games, winning three of them. The other match was a misfortune to Barcelona. There is some genuine strain to get an outcome in the event that they would like to play in Europe next season.
Genuine makes another stride towards the title with another restricted success. Pick: Real Madrid 1, Athletic Bilbao 0
Athletic Bilbao versus Real Madrid, 2020 live stream: Time, TV channels and how to watch La Liga on the web
The way to the 2019-2020 La Liga title isn't getting any simpler for Real Madrid. Zidane's men visit Athletic's San Mames scarcely two days after what was an intense home match against Getafe, and they'll do as such without Raphael Varane and Eden Hazard.
Athletic have been playing incredible football since the arrival of the opposition and are in any event, battling for a spot in the Europa League next season, which would be amazing thinking about their to some degree helpless beginning to the crusade.
Obviously Real Madrid have likewise been great and in actuality they're the main group who have dominated each and every match after the isolate. Los Blancos have an important lead over Barcelona and could manage the cost of two draws on their last five games and still win the title. All things considered, the three focuses against Athletic would be critical for Madrid to say something and demonstrate that they need to win La Liga in predominant design.
Step by step instructions to WATCH, STREAM LA LIGA
Time: 14:00 CET (neighborhood time), 08:00am EST.
Setting: San Mames, Bilbao, Spain.
Accessible TV: BeIN Sports (USA), Movistar La Liga (Spain)
Accessible Streaming: BeIN Sports Connect (USA), Fubo.TV (USA).
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Fired Jewish paramedic sues over supervisor's 'Anne's Franks' comments
Jamie Satterfield
Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Jewish man contends he was subjected to disparaging comments about his faith while working at the Grainger County Ambulance Service, including a suggestion he open a hot dog stand entitled “Anne’s Franks,” court records show.
Attorney Lyndsey L. Lee has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Grainger County Ambulance Service on behalf of Joshua Jenkins, a Loudon County resident of Jewish faith who worked for the agency for two years before he was fired in March 2016.
The lawsuit alleges Roger Ritchie, director of the ambulance service, and Jenkins’ direct supervisor, Patrick Donnelly, made disparaging remarks about his faith and fired him because he complained. The legal action details a few of those alleged encounters, including an incident in which Ritchie allegedly made light of Anne Frank, an iconic figure in the Jewish faith whose diary during the Nazi occupation was published after she died in a concentration camp in 1945.
“On or about September 12, 2015, Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Ritchie were in Mr. Ritchie’s office when Mr. Ritchie commented that if he were not a paramedic, he would open a hot dog stand called ‘Anne’s Franks’ and proceeded to draw a mock logo that included the words: ‘Fire Roasted Anne’s Franks We Jew Hotdogs Since 1945.’”
The lawsuit also alleges Donnelly told Jenkins in January 2016 to “get off your lazy Jewish (expletive)” and handle Donnelly’s ambulance calls.
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The ambulance service, via attorney Rhonda Bradshaw, denies discriminating against Jenkins, in an answer filed in response to the U.S. District Court lawsuit. The answer denied “as written” the claims about the hot dog stand commentary, which is legal language used to dispute not the verbiage but the context. Bradshaw flatly denied Donnelly’s alleged remark in the ambulance service’s answer.
Jenkins is seeking $500,000 in compensatory damages as well back pay, various other related job loss expenses and punitive damages. The case is set for trial before U.S. District Judge Ronnie Greer Dec. 4. So far, no settlement conferences have been held, according to the court docket.
'Anne's Franks'
Jenkins worked as a paramedic for the Grainger County Ambulance Service. His age is not listed in the lawsuit.
“Mr. Jenkins is of Jewish faith, a fact that at all times material was known by Mr. Ritchie and Mr. Jenkins’ supervisor, Patrick Donnelly,” the lawsuit stated.
Three months after Ritchie’s alleged “Anne’s Franks” comments, Jenkins “began seeing a mental health provider after experiencing suicidal ideations and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and major depression,” the lawsuit stated. He was prescribed an antidepressant and told Ritchie so, according to the lawsuit.
A month later Donnelly allegedly “stated to Mr. Jenkins that Mr. Jenkins needed to ‘get off [his] lazy Jewish ass’ and run Mr. Donnelly’s calls for him,” the lawsuit stated.
Jenkins complained to Ritchie about Donnelly’s remark, and, according to the lawsuit, Donnelly was reassigned to another shift and removed as Jenkins’ boss in January 2016.
“However, Mr. Donnelly continued making disparaging remarks about Mr. Jenkins and encouraging Mr. Ritchie to terminate Mr. Jenkins’ employment,” the lawsuit stated.
Pretext for firing?
In February 2016, Ritchie sent Jenkins a series of text messages in which Ritchie said he was cutting down on Jenkins’ responsibilities because he didn’t “want to load (Jenkins) up with stuff right now just in case,” the lawsuit stated. Ritchie also wrote, according to the lawsuit, that Jenkins’ “service has always been appreciated,” and Jenkins was Ritchie’s “go-to guy, more so than anyone else” and had been “a tremendous help.”
A week after Jenkins received those texts, the lawsuit alleges Ritchie sent him a text “informing him that he was being terminated and that his services were no longer needed.”
Jacquelyn Eagle, office manager for the ambulance service, later told Jenkins that Ritchie said Jenkins was being fired “due to his mental health and because they believed he was suicidal.”
His separation notice stated only that Jenkins’ “services (were) no longer needed.”
Faith root cause?
Jenkins contends his complaints about the alleged religious slurs was the real reason he was fired.
“During his employment, with knowledge of Mr. Jenkins faith, Mr. Ritchie and Mr. Donnelly made harassing comments to Mr. Jenkins regarding people of the Jewish faith and Mr. Jenkins specifically that a reasonable person would find offensive or derogatory and Mr. Jenkins did find offensive and derogatory,” attorney Lee wrote.
“Mr. Jenkins’ faith was the sole, or a substantial motivating, factor in Defendants’ decision to terminate Mr. Jenkins’ employment,” the lawsuit stated.
Bradshaw denied that on behalf of the ambulance service.
“These Defendants admit that upon information and belief Mr. Jenkins is of the Jewish faith but would deny any action by them that would constitute a violation of any civil rights act, or human rights act under the statute,” she wrote.
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By Mel Johnson on February 2, 2017
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Devoted Son Uses Music To Battle His Dad’s Alzheimer’s
As Alzheimer’s took hold of Ted McDermott, he started forgetting his family. He also started getting violent. His family watched on, heartbroken. But then his son, Mac, had a brilliant idea. Ted has always been a talented singer. So, his devoted son uses music to battle his dad’s Alzheimer’s!
Credit: Facebook / The Songaminute Man
God gifted Ted with a beautiful singing voice, something he’s always treasured. There was a time when Ted traveled around Britain, singing in night clubs and pubs. When he finally settled down and started working in a factory, he continued to sing on the side.
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In 2013, Ted and his family got terrible news. Ted was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. It progresses over time, causing problems with memory, thinking and behavior.
As the disease took hold, Ted started forgetting his family.
"In the last few years his memory has deteriorated a lot – often not recognizing me as his son,” his son Mac explained. “It's a horrible illness."
The memory loss was tough. But the outbursts only made things worse.
“The more the Alzheimer’s kicked in, the more Dad became violent – both physically and verbally. It was incredibly difficult to manage, and terrifying at times,” Mac said.
Then, one day, Mac had an idea.
“My dad’s been a singer all his life and entertainer all his life,” Mac explained. “He’s a real character and he loves singing. He’s got a good voice.”
Ted has music in his bones. So, Mac reason that maybe it would reach him in a way no one else could.
When Mac noticed Ted starting to zone out, he put on some of his favorite songs. Just as he’d hoped, Ted sang along, remembering the lyrics!
Mac was on to something. And now the devoted son uses music to battle his dad’s Alzheimer’s!
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Mac found that listening to music with his dad works wonders.
"When we’ve got him singing again he’s back in the room. It’s these moments that we treasure," he said.
Ted became known on Facebook as The Songaminute Man. Mac started filming these special moments in a James Corden Carpool Karaoke style.
Listen to Ted sing by clicking HERE or on the image below:
The videos of the sweet son driving his beloved dad around while the two belt out melodies together quickly went viral. Ted was officially a singing sensation!
Thanks to all the hype the father and son duo received online, a dream came true for the pair. Record executive Alexander Van Ingen spotted the videos and quickly signed Ted as an artist. He described Ted as “truly remarkable for any singer, let alone one 80 years of age.”
Ted will soon release his first single, a cover of Frank Sinatra’s You Make Me Feel So Young, to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society. And Mac can’t believe it.
"It's amazing to think he has a single coming out," he said.
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2010-11 ISU Figure Skating Results
The 2010-11 figure skating season began on July 1, 2010, and ended on June 30, 2011. Below are links to the major ISU figure skating results for the 2010-11 season which include the Junior Grand Prix (JGP) and Grand Prix (GP) events.
2011 ISU World Figure Skating Championships
Apr 25 – May1, 2011 – Moscow, Russia
2011 ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships
Feb 27 – Mar 3, 2011 – Gangneung, South Korea
2011 ISU Four Continent Figure Skating Championships
Feb 15-20, 2011 – Taipei City, Chinese Taipei
2011 ISU European Figure Skating Championships
Jan 24-30, 2011 – Bern, Switzerland
2010-11 ISU Grand Prix Final of Figure Skating (Junior/Senior Combined)
Dec 8-12, 2010 – Beijing, China
2010 Trophée Eric Bompard
Nov 25-28, 2010 – Paris, France
2010 Cup of Russia
Nov 18-21, 2010 – Moscow, Russia
2010 Skate America
Nov 11-14, 2010 – Portland, OR, USA
2010 Cup of China
Nov 4-7, 2010 – Beijing, China
2010 Skate Canada
Oct 28-31, 2009 – Kingston, ON, CAN
2010 NHK Trophy
Oct 21-24, 2009 – Nagoya, Japan
2010 JGP Czech Skate
Oct 13-16, 2009 – Ostrava, Czech Republic
2010 JGP Pokal der Blauen Schwerter
Oct 6-9, 2009 – Dresden, Germany
2010 JGP John Curry Memorial
Sep 29 – Oct 2, 2009 – Sheffield, England, GB
2010 JGP SBC Cup
Sep 23-26, 2009 – Karuizawa, Japan
2010 JGP Cup of Austria
Sep 15-18, 2009 – Graz, Austria
2010 JGP Brasov Cup
Sep 8-11, 2009 – Brasov, Romania
2010 JGP Courchevel
Aug 25-28, 2009 – Courchevel, France
Japan’s Rika Kihira became the first lady to land a triple Axel combination (triple Axel-triple toe) in an ISU international event (2017-18 Junior Grand Prix Final). She is also the youngest lady to land a triple Axel in competition (2016 JGP Slovenia) and the first lady to land 8 (fully rotated) triple jumps in the free skate at the (2016 JGP Slovenia).
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Promotion to Reserved Category of SC,ST
May 3, 2020 GEDWEBZIP
MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 3227
Promotion to Reserved Category
KAUSHAL KISHORE Will the Minister of
PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS be pleased to state:-
(a) whether the non-gazetted employees belonging to the SC/ST categories working with the Central Government and the autonomous institutions are not given promotion as per the reservation guidelines;
(b) if so, the reasons therefor;
(c) whether a number of proposals for amendments in the rules for promotion are under consideration of the Government; and
(d) if so, the details thereof and the reaction of the Government thereto?
Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office. (DR. JITENDRA SINGH)
(a) & (b): As per extant instructions, reservation to the members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes is provided in the matter of promotion when promotion is made: (a) through Limited Departmental Competitive Examination in Group B, Group C and Group D posts; (b) by selection from Group B post to a Group A post or in Group B, Group C and Group D posts; and (c) by non-selection in Group A, Group B, Group C and Group D posts. Reservation in all the above cases is given at the rate of 15 per cent for the Scheduled Castes and 7.5 per cent for the Scheduled Tribes. However, reservation in promotion is not given in the grades in which the element of direct recruitment, if any, exceeds 75 per cent.
As per extant instructions, Autonomous Bodies/Institutions including Municipal Corporations, Cooperative Institutions etc. under the administrative control of the Central Government also provide reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in their services on the lines of the reservations in services under Central Government.
However, as desired by the Honble Supreme Court in Contempt Petition No.314/2016, conveyed to the Law Officer and intimated by him, instructions in pursuance were issued by Department of Personnel and Training on 30.9.2016 not to rely upon Office Memorandum of 10.08.2010 for implementation of own merit concept in promotion for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Due to this, there may be administrative difficulties while considering cases for promotion of employees, including SCs and STs, where selections in promotion have already been made on own merit or are to be made by applying own merit by the concerned cadre controlling authority.
(c): No, Madam.
(d): Does not arise in view of reply given to Part (c) above.
Source : Rajya Sabha
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I AM S BISWAS,PA ON 1.1.06 WORKED IN QAE(EFS) KOLKATA UNDER DQA(N) AS SC CNDIDATE AFTER COMPLITION OF 10YRS SERVICE I HAVE NOT CONSIDER PS POST. MY APAR RATING OUT OF 10-8, 9 WHY NOT CONSIDER. PL REPLY
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Interest rates are rising around the world. You wouldn’t know it from the stand pat position of the Bank of Canada, which continues to hold overnight loan rates to chartered banks down to one per cent. That administered rate sets the tone and the rate of interest for short bonds and many bank loans. But the bond markets in Canada, the U.S., Europe and around much of the rest of the world anticipate higher interest rates and have duly raised both the cost of borrowing and the payoff for holding bonds.
The reasons that markets are raising yields on bonds are complex. But rising yields are not only a signal to Canadian investors who want to buy fixed income assets, they also show how global debt markets see the future. Knowing why rates are rising will be important in making off-farm investments and, frankly, in not losing your shirt as the 29 year long bull market in bonds ends.
First, we need a bit of history. In 1982, interest rates were hitting double digits. You could buy solid corporate bonds that paid 16 per cent per year to maturity. Corporations were issuing preferred shares with 12 per cent dividend that the investor could put back to the issuer at any time and get cash. Then Paul Volcker, head of the Federal Reserve, broke the back of raging inflation, raising short rates to chokehold levels. The overnight Fed Funds rate went to 14 per cent. A lot of steam was taken out of the economy and interest rates began to come down.
Down they slid in an almost continuous path with a few blips such as the interest rate spike in 1991, another in 1998 when Russia defaulted on its ruble debt, and then down and down until first Fed Chair Alan Greenspan and then his successor Ben Bernanke pushed rates down to what amounts to zero in an effort to restart the U.S. economy. Needless to say, the Bank of Canada followed along in near lockstep with the Fed.
Now things are changing. Interest rates around the world are headed up because the global economy is reviving, increasing the demand for bank loans and loans from the public — bonds, in other words. Interest is the price of money, so with demand for money up, interest rates will rise.
There are also fears of default by nations, particularly in Europe, where the government bonds of Greece have been rated as junk by all three big credit companies — Moody’s, Standard &Poor’s and Fitch. Greek bonds now pay 11 per cent, which is just theoretical. Greece could default or restructure its debt, forcing investors to swap bonds due in a few years for others due in 20 or 30 years. That’s what Argentina did in 2002 in a US$70 billion default, then the world’s largest, substituting 30 year, low interest bonds for others coming that it could not afford to redeem. That’s why Irish and Greek and now Portuguese bonds have been sold off and why, with fear of default and nasty restructurings built into their prices, they are selling at half or less of their issue prices.
Finally, there is fear of inflation. The immense slack in the global economy has held inflation at bay since 2008. But prices are starting to rise. In a January 7, 2011 Global Economic Forecast, Scotia Capital’s economics department predicted that in 2011 consumer prices will rise at 2.1 per cent in Canada, 1.5 per cent in the U.S., 3.3 per cent in the United Kingdom, 4.5 per cent in China and 5.5 per cent in India. All the rates are up from 2010 and the pattern is clear — inflation is back, if not with a bang then at least with a whimper. And that inflation has to be priced into bond returns.
The trend is already clear in Government of Canada bonds. Ten year Canada bonds that have recently paid 3.2 per cent to maturity will yield 3.5 per cent by the end of 2011 and then four per cent by the end of 2012, Scotia Capital predicts. In the U.S., 10-year Treasuries that have recently yielded 3.25 per cent to maturity will pay 3.75 per cent by the end of 2011 and four per cent by the end of 2012. Each 0.25 per cent rise in rates will cut about 1.75 per cent off the price of the bond. In a low interest rate environment, that means these ten year bonds will have flat to negative returns.
In the global bond market, things are downright tantalizing. The BRICs — Brazil, Russia, India and China — have high interest rates reflective of their boom conditions, inflation outlooks and prospects are for rates to climb further this year. In mid-January trading, Brazilian government bonds were priced to yield 26.5 per cent to maturity. Take off Brazil’s 12 per cent inflation rate and the bonds offer a real return of 14.5 per cent. Russian rates at 7.7 per cent to eight per cent for 10 year bonds, and Indian 10-year bonds priced to yield 8.24 per cent to maturity show the effects of rapid economic growth.
It is hard to buy these global bonds directly from Canadian investment dealers, but you can buy global bond mutual funds and exchange traded funds that hold them.
Should you do it?
We need some perspective. Historically, the numbers reported by global fixed income funds are not encouraging. For all of 2010, global bond fund produced an average return of 3.35 per cent after fees. For 10 years ended Dec. 21, 2010, global bond funds returned just 2.72 per cent per year compounded annually. Canadian bond funds returned 5.52 per cent last year and 4.72 per cent per year compounded annually for the 10 years ended Dec. 31, 2010. Why did foreign bonds underperform Canadian issues? Risk is the reason. Bonds that offer double digit rates come from issuers with histories of default, like Brazil, or inflation worries, again like Brazil.
So where can you make money safely? Safety means you stick with government and investment grade corporate bonds that have the almost magical quality of reverting to cash at maturity.
There remains a lot of risk in European government bonds from the peripheral nations, especially Ireland, Greece, Portugal and even Spain. Europe’s recovery is uncertain as the European Central Bank, which is mandated only to control inflation, is running ad hoc stimulus programs. National debts continue to climb, rioting workers insist they won’t pay to bail out banks, and the recovery remains on shaky ground, says Chris Kresic, partner and co-head of fixed income at Jarislowsky Fraser Ltd. in Toronto.
“The European problem is that growth of real GDP is down while real interest rates are up,” Kresic says. “That implies more debt and no cure. Governments will have to issue more debt to stay afloat.” In his view, fundamentals will weaken currencies, the chances of an extended recession will make investors more concerned about corporate earnings and balance sheets, and interest rates will remain high or climb further. In other words, the high yield bonds you buy today could lose a lot of value if apprehensions about default strengthen, as Kresic says they will. His advice — stay out of trouble and avoid these high yield, high risk bonds.
But U.S. and Canadian bonds are another matter. Fears of inflation have created attractive opportunities in long issues, notes Tom Czitron, managing director and chief investment officer at Morrison Williams Investment Management LP in Toronto. There is a 3.95 per cent jump in yield by going from a two-year U.S. Treasury bond to a 30-year Treasury bond. In Canada, the boost in the two-year to 20-year spread is two per cent. If U.S. inflation turns out to be moderate, the 30-year Treasury bond will produce a good real return for three decades and offer a capital gain if some before maturity, Czitron says.
Finally, there is the vast market of non-investment grade corporate bonds. Canadian junk bonds are still a good play, says Barry Allan, president of Toronto-based Marret Asset Management Inc. For 2011 he predicts that junk should have a good year, rising on average six per cent to seven per cent as issuers’ balance sheets improve. That will be twice the gain to be expected on investment grade corporate bonds, he adds.
Nobody ever said investing is easy. But with some care, an investor can lock in a solid if unspectacular return in bonds and avoid the chaos of the stock market.
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Gilbert C. "Gil" McLaughlin, 94, of North Attleboro, passed away on Friday, May 3, 2019, at the Veterans Administration Hospital, in Brockton. He was the husband of the late Janice E. (King) McLaughlin.
Gilbert was born in Toronto, Canada, the son of the late Ethon C. and Hanna R. (Boardbridge) McLaughlin. He served his country as a Merchant Marine. Gil also had several jobs throughout his working career.
Survivors are three daughters: Nancy Reidel and her husband Charles of North Attleboro; Linda Donadio and her husband Robert of Franklin and Sharon Higgins of Cumberland; five sons: William McLaughlin of Attleboro; David McLaughlin and his wife Rita of Seekonk; David Munroe and his wife Carol of Acton; Wayne Munroe of Lowell; and Kevin Munroe and his wife Smita of Clinton; several grand and great grandchildren; a sister: Eileen McLaughlin of Martha's Vineyard. He was the father of the late Lois Flint.
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An American Plan
Course Number STU-1306
Hours/Location Thu, Fri 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Option Studio
Kersten Geers
David Van Severen
This is the first of a series of studios focusing on American Architecture. The research will happen sideways. Not through analysis of local phenomena, or an accumulation of everything ‘American’, but rather through testing how different tools of architecture in general (its core instruments) could be used ‘with America in mind’ and thus as a critical tool for production.
Architecture, or at least ‘our’ architecture, is ultimately made with a very reduced set of tools: plans, sections, details and perspectives. These tools are all we have to make the project. For this first edition, we start with the plan. Since the 16th century, the simple plan has been forever in negotiation with the complexity of the building. The plans of Palladio, of which many surviving ones don’t ‘belong’ to a particular project, are case in point. A particular plan hints at a building but leaves a lot open for interpretation. The plan as such merely suggests a possible architecture; a snapshot amongst many hypotheses.
In this studio we would like to connect a fascination for the plan with a question for Harvard campus. Is it possible to make a project for a Harvard forum of one floor? If until recently the reckless occupation of place was considered at least provocative, current evolutions in ecological and technological insights might inspire one to think otherwise. Thus the straightforward question of this studio: Develop a building of one floor that houses all the above, a gigantic surface, one plan. What is its location? What are its goals? How do we use all of its perceived disadvantages to its own advantage? The problem is perhaps the solution.
The outcome of this studio should be one plan and many details. What does it mean when a building is reduced to one principal drawing? Perspectives and details become collateral, and should rather illustrate possible interpretations of the plan developed.
This course has an irregular meeting schedule.
Kersten Geers will be in residence on August 30 and 31, September 27 and 28, October 11 and 12, November 8, 9, 29, and 30, and December 10, 11, or 12 for Final Reviews.
David van Severen will be in residence on September 13 and 14, October 11, 12, 25, and 26, November 29 and 30, and December 10, 11, or 12 for Final Reviews.
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DARTMOUTH, N.S. — Advanced Hotels has opened the 125-room Holiday Inn Express & Suites Halifax-Dartmouth in Dartmouth, N.S., in the heart of the Burnside Industrial Park.
The new-build hotel features the brand’s newest design solution, which features an appealing combination of fresh, energetic and engaging elements, creating a distinctive style. Key design features include an open, pod-style front-desk area, flexible seating in the Great Room and streamlined guestrooms.
Additional amenities include the brand’s complimentary Express Start Breakfast, 380 sq. ft. of meeting space, an indoor swimming pool, fitness centre, 24-hour business centre and Keurig brewers in every room.
“We’re excited to welcome IHG back to the community with the opening of the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Halifax-Dartmouth property,” says Ron Miller, the hotel’s general manager. “We look forward to serving leisure and business travellers with a hassle-free stay that combines comfort, convenience and value for an overall enhanced experience.”
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With ‘Howdy, Modi!’ Houston’s Indian community says hello to the world
Lisa Gray Sep. 17, 2019 Updated: Sep. 18, 2019 6:21 a.m.
With ‘Howdy, Modi!’ Houston’s Indian community says...
1of11Bhavana Gollapudi laughs during dance practice at Gujarati Samaj on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, in Houston. Several forms of classical Indian dance groups will join other styles of dance as part of a bigger performance entitled “Woven” by artistic director Heena Patel.Photo: Annie Mulligan, Contributor / Houston Chronicle
2of11Dancers line up to listen to instruction during dance practice at Gujarati Samaj on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, in Houston. Several forms of classical Indian dance groups will join other styles of dance as part of a bigger performance entitled “Woven” by artistic director Heena Patel.Photo: Annie Mulligan, Contributor / Houston Chronicle
3of11Classical Indian dance teachers discuss different moves during practice at Gujarati Samaj on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, in Houston. Several forms of classical Indian dance groups will join other styles of dance as part of a bigger performance entitled “Woven” by artistic director Heena Patel.Photo: Annie Mulligan, Contributor / Houston Chronicle
4of11Dancers practice at Gujarati Samaj on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, in Houston. Several forms of classical Indian dance groups will join other styles of dance as part of a bigger performance entitled “Woven” by artistic director Heena Patel.Photo: Annie Mulligan, Contributor / Houston Chronicle
5of11Co-producer and director Heena Patel directs dancers during practice at Gujarati Samaj on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, in Houston. Several forms of classical Indian dance groups joined together with other styles as part of a bigger performance entitled “Woven” by Patel.Photo: Annie Mulligan, Contributor / Houston Chronicle
7of11Dancers pose during practice at Gujarati Samaj on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, in Houston. Several forms of classical Indian dance groups will join other styles of dance as part of a bigger performance entitled “Woven” by artistic director Heena Patel.Photo: Annie Mulligan, Contributor / Houston Chronicle
8of11Dancers laugh during practice at Gujarati Samaj on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, in Houston. Several forms of classical Indian dance groups will join other styles of dance as part of a bigger performance entitled “Woven” by artistic director Heena Patel.Photo: Annie Mulligan, Contributor / Houston Chronicle
9of11Artistic director and co-producer Henna Patel comforts classical Indian dance teacher Rathna Kumar during dance practice at Gujarati Samaj on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, in Houston. Several forms of classical Indian dance groups will join other styles of dance as part of a bigger performance entitled “Woven” in honor of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Houston.Photo: Annie Mulligan, Contributor / Houston Chronicle
10of11Dr. Lavanya Rajagopalan coordinates with other classical Indian dance teachers during practice at Gujarati Samaj on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, in Houston. Several forms of classical Indian dance groups will join other styles of dance as part of a bigger performance entitled “Woven” by artistic director Heena Patel in honor of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Houston.Photo: Annie Mulligan, Contributor / Houston Chronicle
On Sunday, India Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Houston is expected to attract more than 50,000 people to NRG Stadium — plus roughly a thousand volunteers, 400 singers and dancers, U.S. President Donald Trump and a significant protest outside.
The mammoth event — exuberantly named “Howdy, Modi!” — reflects the growing size, power and complexity of the Indian-American community, both in the Houston area and the U.S.
“People I talk to are beyond excited,” said Houston novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. “They are throwing themselves into it heart and soul. I have friends who are volunteering for this event as if it’s a full-time job.
“This is going to be a kind of family celebration. We want to say, ‘Look at our community here! We are successful. We are strong. We have done good things for Houston!’ We would like Modi to know all of this.”
“We have been working hard for the last three years to have him visit Texas,” said Jiten Agarwal, the president and CEO of Expedien, an IT firm with offices in Houston and New Delhi.
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Harsh Vardhan Shringla, the Indian ambassador to the U.S., said that while in Houston, Modi will meet with the heads of major energy companies. It’s widely assumed that both parties are interested in bolstering India’s imports of liquefied natural gas.
“India is a large and attractive market for business, particularly the energy sector,” said LyondellBasell CEO Bob Patel, himself an Indian immigrant. “There’s certainly going to be significant opportunity there over the long term.”
Rishi Bhutada, the official “Howdy, Modi!” spokesperson, is normally a finance executive at a manufacturing company. On Memorial Day, he said, when Modi announced that he’d visit Houston on Sept. 22, many of the city’s Indian-American groups hurriedly joined forces, creating the Texas India Forum, a nonprofit umbrella group that now includes more than 600 organizations from across the U.S.
They secured NRG Stadium, Bhutada said, because no other large venue was available for the date.
In mid-July, the Texas India Forum announced the event, offering free tickets via its website, which helpfully explains the event’s name for non-Texans: “‘Howdy,’ shorthand for ‘How do you do?,’ is a friendly greeting commonly used in the southwestern United States.”
Within three weeks, all 50,000 tickets had been claimed — roughly 8,000 of them by Modi fans traveling from outside the Houston area. More than 5,000 people are now on the waiting list. The event will be shown on Indian TV channels in both the U.S. and India. Bhutada said that hundreds of watch parties have been organized in Texas, and “literally thousands” across the U.S.
In early August, Modi’s visit to Houston abruptly became far more controversial. The prime minister announced that he was revoking the special status that had allowed the heavily Muslim region of Kashmir to have its own constitution. Modi had been accused of Hindu nationalism before. Now, with Kashmir under lockdown, and Pakistan on edge, questions swirled about India’s reputation for peacefulness and plurality.
Several groups representing India’s religious minorities plan to protest Modi’s visit. On I-45, outside NRG Stadium, a red billboard urges protesters to “Stand with Kashmir, stand with humanity.” On Saturday, Sikh tractor-trailer drivers held a dress-rehearsal rally, driving big rigs decorated with flags and protest signs to the NRG Center.
Aban Rustomji, a Zoroastrian who was born in India, raised in Pakistan, and moved to Houston in 1979, says sadly that she’s worried by the “mass infringements of civil rights” that she sees in India. But not all Zoroastrians agree with her, and disagreements over Modi have split the city’s tiny Zoroastrian community. “It’s like Republicans and Democrats,” she said sadly. “We argue over the Thanksgiving table. We know that we cannot say certain things and remain friends.”
Many in Houston remain steadfast Modi supporters, pleased by the prime minister’s attitude toward modernization, the environment and improving India’s economy. And preparations for “Howdy, Modi!” continued to roll.
A week before the show, at the brand-new Gujarati Samaj event center, director Heena Patel was putting dance troupes through their paces. “Howdy, Modi!”, billed as a community summit, will include not just speeches by the prime minister, Trump and other dignitaries, but also made-for-a-stadium entertainment. “Woven,” a 90-minute show, aims to convey the Indian-American experience via biographical video clips and roughly 400 singers and dancers, the vast majority volunteers from Houston.
Dance teacher Rathna Kumar’s troupe had been practicing furiously all day. At 3 p.m., when Patel released the classical dancers and moved on to a Bollywood troupe, the classical girls swarmed to a stack of pizza boxes; they hadn’t yet eaten lunch.
At Kiran’s, a restaurant in Upper Kirby, chef Kiran Verma has put her staff of 17 on high alert: They’ll be working both lunches and dinners every day until the Tuesday after the prime minister’s business. The private rooms were all booked. On Sunday, normally an off day, she and the kitchen crew worked nine hours to prep for the coming rush. “There are a few things,” she said cryptically, “that for security reasons I can’t discuss.”
Taral Patel is chief of staff for Fort Bend County Judge KP George, one of the most powerful Indian-Americans in U.S. government. Soon after Modi’s visit was announced, Patel said, the receptionist who answers the county’s main phone line began fielding questions from constituents who wanted to know whether George would meet with Modi. Some felt strongly that he should; others, that he shouldn’t. He will. The county receptionist, Patel said, was hurriedly briefed on Kashmir.
Sociologist Stephen Klineberg, who for almost 40 years has overseen the Kinder Houston Area Survey, follows Houston’s fast-growing Asian-American communities with great interest. “A great part of the story,” he said, “is that there’s terrible conflict between Pakistan and India over Kashmir. Such hostility and hatred. But that hostility disappears when Indians and Pakistanis come to Houston and America. What is a big tension over there, here becomes much less powerful.”
That shift is particularly notable between immigrants and their children, who are often friends with Pakistani-Americans. Raj Mankad, director of communications at the Rice 360 Institute for Global Health, grew up in Alabama, the child of immigrants. He won’t attend “Howdy, Modi!”, but his aunt and uncle are such fans that they’re flying on a chartered plane from New York to Houston, just for the day — unable to stay in Houston long enough even to see their nephew.
Divakaruni is disappointed that she’ll miss Modi’s visit because she’ll be on the book tour for her new novel, “The Forest of Enchantments.”
“It’s the first time Indian-Americans in Houston have had an event of this size, this scale, this excitement,” she said. “It’s more than political - it’s political, cultural and social. It takes a big event like this to show people what a big, important part of Houston we are.”
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Every Amazon Pilot You Should Stream This Weekend
By Leigh Weingus
This week, Amazon dropped five new pilots. We were obviously excited, especially since we're obsessed with "Transparent," the Jeffrey Tambor pilot that that dropped in February. So we decided to see what the streaming site's comedy pilots were all about.
With the long weekend coming up, we know you're planning on catching some awesome TV between barbecues. But before you fully commit yourself to catching up on "Scandal" (although that's a good idea too), check out what we thought of Amazon's latest pilots.
"The Cosmopolitans"
What's it about? Written and directed by Whit Stillman, "The Cosmopolitans" follows a group of ridiculously good-looking, well-dressed and well-spoken Americans looking for love in Paris. Their conversations about romance are so classy that they almost seems old fashioned, although that may be because Tinder isn't involved.
Who’s in it? Adam Brody ("The O.C."), Chloe Sevigny ("American Psycho," "American Horror Story") and Carrie MacLemore.
Should you Stream it? Absolutely. If the characters are this magnetic in the pilot, they're only going to get better. -- Leigh Weingus
What’s it about? “Red Oaks” follows David, an assistant tennis pro working at a New Jersey country club in 1985. When his father suffers a heart attack, he admits to never loving his mother in what he thinks are his last moments. His father quickly recovers and now David must deal with this new knowledge about his parents as he begins his last summer before going off to college.
Who’s in it? Craig Roberts (“Submarine”) stars as David, Paul Reiser plays the owner of the club and Jennifer Grey (“Dirty Dancing”) plays David’s mother. The pilot is directed by David Gordon Green (“Pineapple Express”) and executive produced by Steven Soderbergh.
Should you stream it? The pilot plays like the unfunny, rich-kid version of “Wet Hot American Summer,” but full of cliche characters and bland storylines. The overweight stoner dude wants the hot blonde chick, the tennis pro has to prove himself to the country club owner, the sleazy married guy gets a bunch of girls and there’s skinny dipping in a lake. Not terrible, but also not memorable. Go watch Soderberg’s spectacular series “The Knick” on Cinemax instead. -- Erin Whitney
"Really"
What's it about? A bunch of married 30-something couples living in Chicago. They have great kids and seem happy enough, except that all the guys aren't getting enough blow jobs.
Who's in it? Sarah Chalke ("Scrubs"), Jay Chandrasekhar ("Community") and Selma Blair ("Anger Management").
Should you stream it? Probably not. When I first started watching it I thought it was cute -- Chalke and Chandraskehar have good chemistry -- but as the episode went on I found myself praying for it to be over. The jokes fell flat, and frankly, it was kind of depressing. If that's married life, I want no pat of it! -- Leigh Weingus
"Hysteria"
What’s it about? After some girls who make terrible life choices (like meeting some randos from the Internet in a warehouse to learn a dance routine) contract a strange disease, the epidemic seems to spread through social media. In order to solve the mystery, a young doctor must go home to face her tragic past and apparently lie naked in bed for no reason.
Who’s in it? Mena Suvari ("American Beauty," "American Pie") and T.R. Knight ("Grey's Anatomy")
Should you stream it? Depends. T.R. Knight does a good job and the storyline keeps you guessing, but the whole premise of a disease spreading through social media is pretty ridiculous (unless you count duck-face pics), and there are a lot of cringe-worthy moments. In the end, the show is kind of like "Hart of Dixie" meets "True Detective," except instead of Rachel Bilson getting into hilarious hijinks or Rust Cohle delivering devastating monologues, you have Suvari lying naked in bed and looking at a computer screen that isn't even facing her. -- Bill Bradley
What’s it about? When the morally bankrupt Judge Pernell Harris gets baptized, everything in his reality changes. After his daughter-in-law was raped, Harris’ son shot himself and became comatose. While the family decides whether or not to pull the plug, Harris becomes a born-again Christian and begins seeing visions that he thinks are leading him to the rapist.
Who’s in it? “Hand of God” stars Ron Perlman (“Sons of Anarchy,” “Hellboy”) as Judge Harris, Dana Delany (“Desperate Housewives) as his wife and Garret Dillahunt (“Raising Hope”) as a god-fearing criminal. The pilot is also the TV directorial debut of Marc Forster, director of “Monster’s Ball,” “Finding Neverland” and “World War Z.”
Should You Stream It? If only the religious themes weren’t so overbearing, perhaps “Hand of God” could be an all-around solid drama. The pilot is a mix of police procedural and psychological vengeance thriller that has potential to grow, but overall it’s most promising factor is Ron Perlman's believable performance. -- Erin Whitney
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