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Grantland’s Bill Barnwell Thinks Antonio Brown’s 5/50 Streak Is Silly
By Dave Bryan
Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown has caught at least five passes for a minimum of 50 yards in 34 consecutive games and that’s an NFL record. Bill Barnwell of Grantland, however, thinks the streak is silly.
Antonio Brown’s five-catch, 50-yard streak has always been silly; not only is it an entirely arbitrary cutoff, but it undersells how great of a player he is. Even though they’re minimums, those figures add up to 80 catches for 800 yards. It’s the sort of streak that your basic starting wide receiver would aim to hit on a weekly basis. Brown is the best wideout in football: We can set our sights higher.
While Barnwell deems Brown’s record as being silly and not overly reflective of his greatness, it’s still impressive just the same. Prior to Brown breaking the record, it belonged to Laveranues Coles, but his streak was only for 19 games. In fact, only nine different players in the history of the NFL have been able to string together 11 or more games with at least five catches and 50 yards receiving.
Sure, Brown’s streak doesn’t define him like Barnwell suggested in his post and other yardage numbers are certainly more dignified. However, it does show how incredibly consistent that Brown’s been over the last two-plus seasons.
Additionally, perhaps Barnwell will like this streak of Brown’s even better. Heading into Sunday’s game against the St. Louis Rams, Brown has managed to catch at least seven passes for a minimum of 70 yards in 13 straight games. To put that into better perspective, no player in the history of the NFL has managed to do that in nine consecutive games, let alone 13.
In closing, yes, young wide receivers should aim to hit five catches every week and a minimum of 50 yards as it appears to be tough to do on a weekly basis. Brown’s streak is sure to come to an end at some point, but I’m willing to bet it will be a long time before it’s ever broken.
Are these manufactured records? Sure they are, but that doesn’t make them any less impressive.
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ISIJ International Vol. 31 (1991), No. 5
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Recent Progress in Fundamental and Applied Researches in Blast Furnace Ironmaking in Japan
Jun-ichiro Yagi
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DOI:10.2355/isijinternational.31.387
Recent studies from many different points of view have remarkably improved ironmaking technology. Fundamental studies on the solid flow, behavior of powders, heat exchange between gas and particles in a packed bed clarified substantially the essential mechanisms of the phenomena. These studies contributed to the correct estimation of internal state of a blast furnace, specifically to high injection of pulverized coal. Comprehensive investigations on the oxygen blast furnace process and the SC process showed capability to develop new processes for ironmaking. Studies on mathematical models and artificial intelligence increased the reliability for the estimation of internal state and the control method. The development of a sideway tuyere probe proved the phenomena occurring in and around the raceway. Exergy analysis elucidated the way for the energy savings and compared different ironmaking systems from the energy efficiency.
This review outlines such excellent papers recently reported in Japan for further progress of ironmaking technology.
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Recent Advances in Blast Furnace Ironmaking in North America
W-K. Lu, M. G. Ranade
A survey on blast furnace practices in American and Canadian steel companies in 1989 was conducted and aggregate data were reported. Recent developments in raw materials which contribute to improvements in blast furnace ironmaking are reviewed. Five blast furnaces, two large and three medium size, are described in more detail as examples. Comments are made on future developments in ironmaking in North America.
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Recent Advances in Blast Furnace Ironmaking in Western Europe
A. Poos
Prior to 1974, the evolution of the ironmaking sector in Western Europe was strongly marked, on one hand by the rapid growth of steel industry, and on the other hand by the replacement of lean local ores by iron-rich imports from overseas. The former evolution was abruptly stopped by the energy crisis and was followed by a period of contracting production and streamlining of the existing installations.
The few new blast furnaces built replaced a larger number of small obsolete units, and the production was concentrated on the most performing furnaces. New ecological constraints put further pressure on the ironmaking sector. The necessity to reduce or completely suppress tuyere injection of oil also had an adverse effect on furnace productivity and on the smoothness of the operation.
Today, all these difficulties have been overcome and the West European blast furnaces achieve excellent performances. The typical plant has two blast furnaces in the range of 8-11 m of hearth diameter, with modern equipment for controlling and monitoring the burden distribution at the top and computerized control rooms. The mean productivity is about 50 t/m2·24 h and the average total fuel rate lies below 500 kg/tHM. Coal injection has been a rapid expansion over the past five years, and end of 1991 the total installed coal injection capacity will exceed 10 Mio t of coal/annum. High injection rates above 170 kg/tHM have been reached on several blast furnaces, reducing the coke rate below 330 kg/tHM and, in at least one case, even below 300 kg/tHM. Trials presently in progress aim at coal injection rates above 300 kg/tHM.
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Recent Advances in Blast Furnace Ironmaking Technology in Australia
J. M. Burgess
This review presents some of the recent advances in ironmaking technology in Australia. The first part of the paper summarises blast furnace operations in terms of productivity, fuel rate and hot metal chemistry in BHP. It is shown that in the recent past Australian furnace operations have been characterised by high productivity and low fuel rate. In the second part of the review, the main blast furnace research and development topics are presented. The first of two research streams, which is shorter term in focus, is associated with the development and implementation of computer models and associated sensors to assist present operations. Some of the developments which are reviewed in this field include burden distribution studies, models of the momentum, heat and mass transfer processes occurring in the furnace, raceway studies, opto-electronic and other sensor developments, and studies associated with hearth liquid drainage. The second stream, which addresses longer term strategies, is associated with studies on future blast furnace operations. In this stream, research work on the combustibility of pulverised coals in the blast furnace environment is described. The results shown indicate that Australian research has made a substantial contribution to knowledge in blast furnace ironmaking, and that the studies undertaken are of considerable benefit to Australian blast furnace operations.
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Transport Rate of Gaseous Phosphorus into Solid Iron under Reducing Atmosphere
Minoru Sasabe, Yoshinari Kiyosawa, Michio Otsuka, Katsuhiko Tanaka, Mitsuru Tate
Transport rate of gaseous phosphorus into solid iron under reducing atmosphere was observed by a gravimetric procedure to obtain fundamental data to discuss transport mechanism of phosphorus into reduced iron in a blast furnace.
A kind of killed and rolled steel sheet and non worked electrolytic iron sheet were used as samples. Partial pressure of phosphorus vapor was controlled by using equilibrium relation between PP2, Ca3 (PO4)2, SiO2, C, CaSiO3 and CO. Phosphorus partial pressure and temperature were every one order between 4×10–6 and 4×10–2 atm, and every 50°C between 900 and 1050°C, respectively.
Experimental results are as follows:
(1) Transport rate obeyed a parabolic rate law.
(2) Relations between the rate constants of the parabolic rate law, k, the phosphorus partial pressure, PP2, and the temperature, T, are as follows:
In the case of killed steel, log k=0.14 log PP2+5.68–15.6 ×103/T
In the case of the electrolytic iron, log k=0.14 log PP2+4.94–15.6×103/T
(3) Reaction product on a surface of solid iron was Fe2P.
Re-examination of Method of Kinetic Analysis on the Rate of Stepwise Reduction of a Single Sinter Particle with CO-CO2-N2 Gas Mixture
Tateo Usui, Munekazu Ohmi, Shinji Kaneda, Mitsushi Ohmasa, Zen-ichiro Morita
In a previous work, single particles of commercial sinter were reduced stepwise with CO-CO2-N2 gas mixtures. In the analysis, the reduction of calcium ferrite (CF) was not taken into consideration. Values of chemical reaction rate constants kc and effective diffusivities De in the unreacted-core shrinking model were determined by trial and error so that the calculated reduction curve might agree with the experimental one.
In the present work, the method of the kinetic analysis are re-examined:
(1) A new method to obtain the rate parameter values in a prescribed way has been developed and the experimental data have been statistically analyzed; values of kc and De have been determined so as to minimize the difference area between calculated and experimental reduction curves.
(2) Final fractional reduction in the hematite to magnetite stage under rising temperature conditions up to 1 173 K, Ff', was measured after measuring the one at a predetermined temperature, Ff ; below about 1 003 K, CF is hardly reduced and practically Ff =0.7 when oxygen reducible in this stage is assumed to be come from hematite and CF. The ratio Ff /Ff' is also given as a function of reduction temperature.
(3) Some additional experiments on single particle stepwise reduction to the previous work were done in a temperature range from 753 to 1 333 K and rate parameter values have been re-evaluated by the above-stated method in consideration of the facts in (2); temperature dependencies of kc and De are presented.
Pressure Loss and Hold-up Powders for Gas-Powder Two Phase Flow in Packed Beds
Koichiro Shibata, Masakata Shimizu, Shin-ichi Inaba, Reijiro Takahashi, Jun-ichiro Yagi
Flow characteristics of gas-powder two phase flow in packed beds were experimentally examined for clarifying the aerodynamic behavior of powders in a blast furnace. It was found that two phase flow showed higher pressure loss compared with clean gas flow. Based on the experimental results, a mathematical model for gas-powder two phase flow in packed beds was developed. In this model, three kinds of interaction forces were considered, including:
1) the interaction force between gas and packed particles (Fg-b)
2) the interaction force between gas and powders (Fg-p), and
3) the restraint force of powder motion due to (i) the gravitational force of powders and (ii) the collision and the friction between powders and packed particles Fp-k.
Fg-b could be given by the Ergun type gas flow resistance, and (Fg-p) could be expressed by the Stokes flow law and the Richardson-Zaki's voidage function. Finally, Fp-k could be empirically correlated by using the Fanning equation and the Froude number. This model allows satisfactory prediction of the pressure loss and the hold-up of powders in the packed bed. Furthermore, it was confirmed that the increase in the pressure loss was mainly caused by the increase in the hold-up of powders in the region of low gas velocity and by the interaction force between powders and packed particles in the region of high gas velocity.
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Kinetic Analysis of Coke Gasification Based on Non-crystal/Crystal Ratio of Carbon
Yoshiaki Kashiwaya, Kuniyoshi Ishii
Gasification of metallurgical coke was studied at 1 000, 1 200 and 1 400°C with Ar-CO-CO2 mixtures. Reaction of coke in blast furnace is dominant from 1 000°C. And at the same time, growth of graphite crystal in coke begins around the temperature.
In present paper, two types of carbon structure were classified by means of X-ray diffraction. One is crystallite that contributes to X-ray diffraction, the other is noncrystalline carbon that contributes to background intensity alone. In this study, reaction model that the two kinds of carbon have different reactivity and react simultaneously and independently, was developed and kinetic analysis was performed. The following results were obtained.
(1) Lc is linear function of temperature and there is no influence of reaction.
(2) La is linear function of temperature in Ar atmosphere. But in existence of reaction, the size of La becomes to be smaller. From this result, it was considered that the gasification reaction proceeds such as mode of decreasing La. Reaction mechanism combining to characteristic of crystallographic structure is proposed.
Preheating Techniques to Manufacture Metallurgical Coke
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Recently, reserves of good coking coals have become less available and comparatively more expensive. Resources are being extended by the use of coal blends with different coking properties and/or selective additive. Coal preheating technology emerged as a technique to overcome some of these problems. It has several advantages including: increases in coke oven productivity, improvements in quality of metallurgical coke, greater uniformity of charge, less air pollution by using a closed charging system, levelling of the charge, a saving in energy because dry coal is more efficient in the preheater than in a coke oven, and the possibility of using poorer and cheaper coking coals. The disadvantages of this technique are the handling of fine and hot coal, the carry-over and the preheater fines.
Currently, the preheating process is being re-considered in combination with dry-cooling of coke in a European Research Project called "Jumbo Coking Reactor", which is based on past and current experience of development of modern cokemaking technology.
This study reviews preheating technology as a means to widen the range of coking coals including not only the high-volatile coals which are more abundant, but also semi-anthracite and petroleum coke. A 6 t Experimental Coke Oven and a 2 t/h Preheating Pilot Plant (Precarbon Process) were used.
Analysis of Steam Flow in Coke Oven Chamber by Test Coke Ovens and a Two-dimensional Mathematical Model
Kiyoshi Miura, Keizo Inoue, Kohji Takatani, Kunihiko Nishioka
The deviation in the carbonization rate in the coke oven chamber has been investigated with the use of test coke ovens and a 2-dimensional mathematical model.
In the measurement using a 250 kg test coke oven, in the case of using a wet coal charge, there were several points of delay in the carbonization rate at random times, but in the case of a dry coal charge, there were no points of delay and the carbonization progressed uniformly. It was confirmed that the deviation in the carbonization rate was affected by the moisture content of the charged coal.
In order to evaluate flow pattern and heat transfer caused by the steam and the decomposition gas during carbonization, a 2-dimensional gas flow mathematical model was developed. This model consists of mass, energy involving terms of convection and momentum balance equations in both the gas and solid phases. It was confirmed that temperature change, changes in gas pressure and steam flow pattern in a test coke oven with the heating wall at the upper portion were estimated by this model. In the model calculation, the coke fissures and a local distribution of the bulk density affected the steam flow and caused a deviation in the carbonization rate.
Fundamental Mechanisms of Pore Formation in Iron Ore Sinter and Pellets
Y-H. Yang, N. Standish
The fundamental pore formation mechanism in iron ore sinter and pellets was investigated, using iron ore/limestone tablets with and without addition of coke. The results showed that pores were formed at the sites of limestone and coke particles, and that the particle size and amount of limestone and coke particle size all had strong effect on the pore structure. Different types of pores in sinter and pellets were classified in terms of their origins. These results are useful in understanding the sintering and pelletizing process.
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Hiroshi Obata, Hiroyasu Takahashi, Masaru Nakamura, Toshihiko Natsumi, Kiyoshi Komamura
To meet the demand for increased production, higher productivity has been carried out based on the following targets at Chiba No. 4 Sinter Plant of Kawasaki Steel Corp.:
1) Maintenance of high bed height operation by ensuring stable permeability in the sinter bed,
2) Cost saving sinter production through improvement of sinter yield, and
3) Maintenance of low SiO2 operation.
The following results were obtained from the implementation of various countermeasures.
(1) A highly productive operation of 1.8 t/hm2 without adding any binders.
(2) The total amount of return fine has been decreased from 400–450 to 260–300 kg/t-sinter.
(3) Sinter production cost has been decreased and the minimum cost per unit has shifted to a higher output.
Development of Firing Schedule to Prepare Composite Pre-reduced (CPR) Pellets ISIJ International Vol.34(1994), No.6
Blast Furnace Operation for Low Silicon Content at Fukuyama No. 5 Blast Furnace
Yasuo Niwa, Takashi Sumigama, Akira Maki, Haruo Ito, Hideaki Inoue, Takeharu Tamura
The low silicon operation with the silicon content of less than 0.2 % was performed for 16 months from January, 1988 to April, 1989 at Fukuyama No. 5 blast furnace of NKK Corp. The following are the factors attributable to this longterm low Si performance.
1) Prevention of temperature drop of hot metal in the hearth by the decrease in heat loss from the hearth associated with the improvement of tapping conditions
2) Decrease in heat loss from the shaft and prevention of inactivated state in the lower part of the furnace by the improvement of burden distribution
3) Stable operation based on an expert system for furnace heat control and burden distribution control
Low Si content operation was accomplished by lower flame temperature which resulted in the restraint of SiO gas formation and higher thermal flow ratio which contributed to lowering the cohesive zone level.
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Investigation on Behavior of Unburnt Pulverized Coal in Blast Furnace
Yuji Iwanaga
In order to clarify the combustion reaction when PC (Pulverized Coal) is blown into the tuyeres of a blast furnace and the effects of resultant unburnt PC on reactions, in the furnace, some fundamental experiments were carried out. The main results obtained are as follows:
(1) Most of PC blown through the tuyeres rapidly burns in the raceway.
(2) Unburnt PC tends to adhere to the softened and fused ore bed.
(3) Unburnt PC adhering to the ore bed is consumed by the direct reduction of FeO and improves the softening and melting-down properties of ores effectively.
In this way, PC entering inside the blast furnace without burning was found to be consumed effectively.
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Gasification Rate Analysis of Unburnt Pulverized Coal in Blast Furnace
Some fundamental experiments were carried out concerning the combustion reaction of PC (Pulverized Coal) blown into the tuyeres of a blast furnace and the effects of resultant unburnt PC on in-furnace reactions. The main results obtained are as follows:
(1) The gasification reaction rate of UPC is about 7 times as fast as that of coke. The presence of H2 promotes the reaction, while CO works oppositely.
(2) As UPC (Unburnt Pulverized Coal) is gasified more quickly than lump coke, the degradation of coke in the raceway becomes less.
In this way, PC blown into the blast furnace without burning was found to be effectively consumed.
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Influence of Ore/Coke Distribution on Descending and Melting Behavior of Burden in Blast Furnace
Morimasa Ichida, Kazuhiro Nishihara, Kenji Tamura, Masayasu Sugata, Hajime Ono
The influence of ore/coke distribution on the descending and melting behaviors of burden was analyzed by using a three-dimensional semicircular warm model of the blast furnace under conditions set as similar as possible to the physical phenomena in the furnace. It is confirmed that the ore/coke largely influences the descending velocity of burden and gas flow. It is estimated that an increase of +0.1 in the heat-flow ratio in the wall region of bosh results in a decrease of about 5°C in the temperature near the reaceway and in the wall temperature of bosh. It corresponds about 80°C in the value converted into that of the actual blast furnace based on the Stanton number. In Tobata No. 1 blast furnace of Nippon Steel Corp., it is verified that an increase of the ore/coke in wall region results in an increase of the descending velocity in wall region, and the ore/coke and the descending velocity are ones of the main factors which decrease the temperature in the lower part of the furnace. At the all coke operation, as the wall temperature in the lower part of the furnace tends to decrease, the ore/coke near the wall should preferably be decreased by the charging of ore closer to the furnace center. At the operation by injecting a large quantity of pulverized coal, as the melting capacity near the wall is large, the ore/coke in the wall region should preferably be increased and the ore/coke in the center region should preferably be decreased by the charging of ore farther from the furnace center.
Blast Furnace Operation for Low Silicon Content at Fukuyama No. 5 Blast Furnace ISIJ International Vol.31(1991), No.5
Influence of Inner Wall Profile on Descending and Melting Behavior of Burden in Blast Furnace
Morimasa Ichida, Kazuhiro Nishihara, Kenji Tamura, Masayasu Sugata
The influences of the inner wall profile and ore/coke distribution on the descending and melting behaviors of burden were analyzed by using a three-dimensional semicircular warm model of the blast furnace under conditions set as similar as possible to the physical phenomena in the furnace. It is confirmed that in the case of a profile with blocks installed on the belly where the horizontal stress acting to wall is at its maximum, a sluggishly descending zone of a thickness 2-5 times of the projecting length of the blocks is formed near the wall just above the blocks. It is estimated that the thickness of sluggishly descending zone near the wall increases with increasing projecting length of the blocks on the wall and with decreasing installation interval of distance between the blocks and it decreases with increasing ore/coke near the wall. It is estimated that the height of the dead man decreases with the formation of the wall sluggishly descending zone due to the blocks on the wall. For decreasing the thickness of the sluggishly descending zone near the wall, the ore/coke near the wall should preferably be increased as far as the heat-flow ratio is permitted. Such a burden distribution is effective for pulverized coal injection operation in which the melting capacity near the wall is large.
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Swedish fintech Zaver has raised $1.2M seed for its P2P payments platform
Steve O'Hear @sohear / 2 years
Zaver, a Swedish fintech that has built a payments platform to facilitate peer-to-peer trades and more, has picked up just over $1.2 million in seed funding. Backing the burgeoning startup are VC firms Inventure and Inbox Capital, as well as a number of relatively well-established angel investors.
They include Joen Bonnier (partner at Atomico), Tom Dinkelspiel, Pontus Hagnö, Fabian Hielte (owner of Ernström & C:o and a previous investor in Spotify and iZettle), Bo Mattsson (founder of Cint) and Fredrik Österberg (founder of Evolution Gaming).
Aiming to disrupt the market for P2P payment solutions, Zaver is developing a SaaS and accompanying apps to bring together buyers, sellers and merchants with the promise of “secure payments on your terms.” The fintech startup aims to facilitate trades between peers by enabling the use of flexible payment methods such as direct payments, “buy now, pay later” and installments.
To support this, Zaver’s platform claims to embed “intelligent fraud detection” algorithms in tandem with the automatic creation of “verified digital agreements” between transacting parties.
“The Zaver app is the first platform-independent checkout solution for P2P transactions,” says Amir Marandi, who co-founded Zaver alongside Linus Malmén — both former engineering students at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
“With Zaver’s intelligent fraud prevention, automated and immediate credit decisions and cryptographically signed digital receipts, peers can do safe payments on their own terms with people they really don’t know that well,” he says. “We try to make P2P trades as safe as possible for all parties involved and offer flexible payment options, without compromising on the user experience.”
In addition, Zaver for Business enables merchants to utilise the platform to increase conversion and reduce transaction costs. “Our mission with this product is to reduce the need of a physical card reader,” adds Marandi.
Zaver’s typical user is described as a young student who wants to sell their iPhone on a classified site in a secure way, or a plumber who wants to buy a used VW Golf today and pay later. Meanwhile, the typical customer of Zaver for Business is a company with omni-channel sales, selling products/services online and offline.
“Our main competitors are not the kind of business you might expect,” explains Marandi. “It’s not the banks, but rather upcoming startups wanting to innovate the payment industry. The most direct competitor today I would say is the credit card industry.”
To that end, Zaver makes money from the transaction fees it charges merchants (which it says are up to 70 percent cheaper than traditional payment services), and on interest charged when someone chooses to pay via installments.
Adds Marandi: “Using automated systems for the entire customer journey we are able to offer individualised interest rates at the point of sale. The system automatically chooses an interest rate for you, based on your creditworthiness.”
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First Responders Honored at Minute Man
Cyndy | December 18, 2013
The survivors of this 2010 crash at Minute Man Air Field were among those who returned to the scene to honor the emergency workers and first responders in Stow and Boxborough.
Courtesy H.F.
By Rob Kean
On Easter Sunday 2010, a father from Needham watched his 10-year-old son take off with his grandfather in the latter’s Cessna from Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford. A short time later, he received that phone call every parent dreads.
There’d been an accident.
Attempting to land at Minute Man Air Field in Stow, grandfather and grandson had encountered an ill wind that bounced their plane off the tarmac, and though a “go-around” flight maneuver was attempted, the aircraft plunged nose-first into the ground and cartwheeled before coming to rest upside down in the early Spring mud.
Confusion and chaos reigned for the two people hanging inverted in a ruined plane. And then the sound of sirens on the fast approach, as Emergency Service teams from Stow and Boxborough raced to the scene. And for the father from Needham, it was speaking directly to one of these first responders on the phone that breathed life back into him, with the knowledge that his son and dad were going to be okay.
And so three-and-a-half years later, but still eternally grateful, all three returned to the scene of the crash this past Saturday, joining other thankful survivors of local accidents for Boxbourgh-Stow Emergency Services Appreciation Day. The event, hosted by The Friends of Minute Man Air Field, the Airport Commission, local pilots, and airport owners Nancy and Don McPherson, was held inside Nancy’s Airfield Café, and open to all. But the guests of honor, of course, were those wearing uniforms, the elite men and women for whom being heroes is simply doing their jobs.
The back room of the Café was filled with police and firefighters from both Stow and Boxborough, along with their families and others who were there to honor their services.
And honored they were. The piloting grandfather recalled the wreckage of that day, and the calming skill of the paramedics who treated his grandson’s head injury, along with his own discombobulated vital signs. “At my age, I didn’t realize my heart could beat that fast,” he said. “I tell you…I’m so glad the paramedics were there.”
A man named Scott stood as well, and told of his own life-altering moment back in 1994, when his plane went down on Marble Hill. Nineteen years later, he sees no end to his admiration for the fire personnel who saved him.
Even the proprietor of Nancy’s Airfield Café herself gave a testimonial. Two weeks before Thanksgiving, a stove was left on in the restaurant kitchen, and soon billows of smoke darkened the sky, terrifying all except the firefighters who charged right in. On this day, two weeks before Christmas, she stood in her fully intact café, serving up lunch and gratitude to her heroes. “You saved my business,” Nancy McPherson told them.
Host Don McPherson serves up the cake as part of an event honoring the Stow and Boxborough Emergency Service workers. Stow’s Police Chief William Bosworth, Fire Chief Joe Landry, Boxborough Police Chief Warren Ryder and Fire Chief Randolph White attended as representatives of their respective departments.
Also on-hand were State Reps Kate Hogan and Jen Benson, who presented citations to Stow Fire Chief Joseph Landry and Stow Police Chief William Bosworth, as well as Boxborough Police Chief Warren Ryder and Fire Chief Randolph White
Representative Benson spoke of reflecting, on her way there, on the Marathon Bombing, and voiced her never-ending admiration for “those who run toward danger when everyone else is running away from it.”
Meanwhile, the objects of all this adulation received it humbly. Chief Landry deflected thanks back onto the McPhersons, for hosting the event, and for running such a first-class operation at the Air Field. Starting a round of applause for the hosts, everybody else was applauding him and his cohorts.
As the speeches ended, lunchtime conversations began. Police officers and politicians talked shop over soup, while EMTs responded to the scene of simple good eats. The father from Needham, a physician by trade, played photographer on this day, while his son and father talked about the next time they would go flying together. At the table next to theirs, Stow firefighter Judson Swinimer oversaw the hot dog consumption of his three young kids.
When asked how it felt to have a hero for a dad, his daughter Chloe grinned shyly. “I’m really proud of him,” she said.
Then she buried her face in her father’s chest.
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Raven Smith receives Norman Bobins Leadership Award
Raven becomes the youngest recipient of The Private Bank Norman Leadership Award at the 23rd Annual Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards presents by the Local Support Corporation (LISC)
Raven Smith wanted to cast Chicago in a positive light. She wanted those living outside her beloved city to know that, while some people called it “Chiraq” because of its violence, she preferred her own motto—“Straight from the Go.”
Her message was meant to show that “all good things come from Chicago.”
Smith, a 2016 Morgan Park High School (MPHS) graduate, began selling T-shirts featuring that motto in late 2015, donating proceeds to anti-violence programs. The campaign soared—and Smith was recently honored for her hard work.
On Feb. 28, Smith received the PrivateBank Norman Bobins Leadership Award at the 23rd annual Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards (CNDA) presented by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Chicago at McCormick Place.
According to officials, Smith is the youngest person—by far—to receive the award, which is named for the non-executive chairman of The PrivateBank and Trust Company.
The story first appeared in the Beverly Review click here to read full story
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The clean-up has begun from Hurricane Laura as officials along the Louisiana coast warn returning residents they will face weeks without power or water.
The death toll from the category-four hurricane has reached 14, including 10 in Louisiana and four in Texas. Half of the deaths were attributed to carbon monoxide poisoning from the unsafe operation of generators.
United States President Donald Trump departed the White House on Saturday and plans to tour the damage in Louisiana and neighbouring Texas.
He told reporters he considered delaying his Thursday night speech accepting the Republican Party’s nomination for re-election because of the storm. But he said that, as “it turned out, we got a little bit lucky. It was very big, it was very powerful, but it passed quickly”.
Across southwestern Louisiana, people were cleaning up from the destructive hurricane that roared ashore early on Thursday, packing 150-mph (240-kph) winds. Many were deciding whether they wanted to stay in miserable conditions or wait until basic services were finally restored.
Trump said that the considered postponing his Republican convention headline speech due to the storm [Alex Brandon/AP Photo]
‘Incredible damage’
Lauren Sylvester returned to her townhouse in Lake Charles on Friday after heeding a mandatory evacuation order and staying with her mother in a city about 95 miles (130 kilometres) away.
The inside of her unit was not directly damaged, but the roof lost shingles. Around her home, it was a different story. Power lines and trees were down.
“It’s still an incredible amount of damage,” said Sylvester, who was heading back to her mother’s house as soon as she finished cleaning up.
As well as high-speed winds, the hurricane caused a storm surge as high as 15 feet (4.5 metres) [Gerald Herbert/AP Photo]
Simply driving was a feat in Lake Charles, a city of 80,000 residents hit head on by the hurricane’s eye. Power lines and trees blocked paths or created one-lane roads that drivers had to navigate with oncoming traffic.
Street signs were snapped off their posts or dangling. No stoplights worked, making it an exercise in trust with other motorists sharing the roads.
Mayor Nic Hunter cautioned that there was no timetable for restoring electricity and that water-treatment plants “took a beating,” leaving barely a trickle of water coming out of most taps.
“If you come back to Lake Charles to stay, make sure you understand the above reality and are prepared to live in it for many days, probably weeks,” Hunter wrote on Facebook.
Caravans of utility trucks were met on Friday by thunderstorms in the sizzling heat, complicating recovery efforts.
There were 464,813 customers without power in Louisiana on Friday, according to the site Poweroutage.us.
The Louisiana Department of Health estimated that more than 220,000 people were without water. Restoration of those services could take weeks or months, and full rebuilding could take years.
Forty nursing homes were relying on generators, and assessments were under way to determine if more than 860 residents in 11 facilities that had been evacuated could return.
Local businesses in the Lake Charles area offer free meals to residents affected by the devastating category-four hurricane [Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters]
Storm moves across Southern US
The much weaker remnants of the hurricane continued to move across the Southern US, unleashing heavy rain and isolated tornadoes. North Carolina and Virginia could get the brunt of the worst weather on Saturday, forecasters said.
When the storm moves back over the Atlantic Ocean, forecasters said it could become a tropical storm again and threaten Newfoundland, Canada.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards called Laura the most powerful hurricane to strike Louisiana, meaning it surpassed even Katrina, which was a category-threee storm when it hit in 2005. He said on Friday that officials now believe the surge was as high as 15 feet (4.5 meters).
Haiti’s civil protection service said 31 people had died due to Hurricane Laura, which blasted the island nation as a tropical storm last weekend before turning into a hurricane.
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The eagerly awaited first fellowship of controversial Prophet Elvis Mbonye left viewers shocked as he declined to issue his now famous prophecies citing a refusal to settle for the new normal. In an on online service watched by thousands, the Prophet said him prophesying would “ be a concession to gathering online, rather than physically” further stating that it is not the will of God that church should meet online!
The Covid-19 SOPs given by the government and Ministry of Health have heavily impacted gatherings and as a result, ministries with large congregations have resorted to online services. The prophet however insists that this is a ploy to diminish the influence of the Kingdom of God.
He however proceeded to give the Prophetic Word of the year , saying “This is the year of the Overcomers” amidst cheers from those present. He also stated that this would not be a “gloomy” year, probably meaning that this would be a good year. Given that many of his prophecies have actually come to pass, should we pay more attention to him? We eagerly await the prophecies this year.
Presidential hopeful Joseph Kiiza Kabuleta has expressed dissatisfaction with the media over what he says was”alarmist reporting” over the Covid-19 pandemic which he calls “COFIT” a term we believe is a wordplay between covid and profit, a view held by many that claims that the disease was exaggerated to maximize funding and corruption. Kabuleta has come to be known for his straight shooting style and admirable command of facts and policy, even being touted as the “smartest candidate” in the race.here is the full statement:
MEDIA AND THE COFIT ENTERPRISE
By Joseph Kabuleta
“Don’t look at where you fell, but where you slipped”
We know where the media fell. They fell when they were caught in the crossfire between opposition politicians and trigger-happy security hitmen; when they were unfairly targeted as they went about their noble duty of covering this explosive elective season. Sadly, some journalists are nursing wounds; others weren’t so lucky.
But it’s important for us to understand where they slipped.
If someone is sitting by the roadside sipping on his brew and he sees a gang of people sprinting past him, as if for their lives, it’s understandable if he impulsively joins without asking questions. But if after nine months he is still sprinting, and has still not asked any questions, then there’s something terribly wrong with him.
When we first went into lockdown in March, it was probably the best course of action because we didn’t know the full extent of the Cofit threat. But in the first 90 days, it was clear to all and sundry that it was never going to rank among Uganda’s top health challenges. And that’s not my opinion.
The Daily Monitor on July 15th quoted Dr Baterana Byarugaba, the Mulago Hospital Executive Director, describing the Cofit strain in the country as a mild form of flu which does not require hospital admission since it can be treated at home or in lower health facilities.
“l told Ugandans right from the beginning that the type of coronavirus we expect in Uganda is the mild one. It can be treated at health centre II, III, IV or the district hospital,” the top Medic said.
I read the story with glorious delight supposing that finally common sense, (or should I say science sense) would inform our decisions as a nation. But it’s difficult to know where science stops and politics starts. It’s become clear over the months that Cofit is not just a virus that causes respiratory problems, it’s a lot more than that; it’s a weapon in the hands of politicians that gives them power beyond their wildest dreams. In America, for instance, Democrat Congressman Jim Clyburn said Cofit is a “tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our (leftist) vision” while actress and activist Jane Fonda said that Cofit was “God’s gift to the left.”
Our media could have taken the side of poor Ugandans by showing the immense suffering and death from preventable sicknesses that resulted from the harsh Cofit measures; they could have highlighted the plight of businesses permanently closed and workers rendered redundant and sent back to villages. They could have wondered why truck drivers were testing negative in Kenya and positive in Uganda, or wondered why Cofit deaths only started after Prophet Museveni showed us a macabre lineup of coffins in his address, or why every celebrity who dies since then is ruled as Cofit (no autopsy required)
They could have told us that according to Worldometer, Cofit has a 0.28% mortality rate (or a 99.72 survival rate) and that it doesn’t rank anywhere in the Top 10 of Uganda’s health challenges; they could have told us that a child dies of malaria every two minutes (and Uganda accounts for 3% of the world’s malaria fatalities), which means that more Ugandans die from mosquitoes in ten days than Cofit has (allegedly) killed in the nine months it’s been on our lips.
Ugandans (especially of my age) have lived through real pandemics. As a young man growing up in the early 90s, nobody had to remind me that AIDS was real. Goodness me, I knew it was! And I didn’t need police to force me to wear protection, I knew the consequences. The fact that we are constantly being reminded that ‘Cofit is real’ tells a story of its own.
The media could have asked why Uganda, with one of the lowest Cofit cases or deaths, still holds on to a 9:00pm curfew when Kenya moved to 11:00pm in September, as did South Africa and several countries. The media could have told us that Malawi, Burundi, Tanzania and, recently, Ghana all held successful elections with full blown campaigns in 2020, and we aren’t hearing people dropping dead from Cofit in any of those countries. May be they should have tried to find out if people are dropping dead in Tanzania which altogether ignored all Cofit measures and went on to acquire middle-income status while Ugandans were still in lockdown.
They could have told us about the asymptomatic Cofit patients who were filmed dancing the night away in hospital wards, or of people suffering from other diseases who dare not go to hospital because they fear to be given a fake Cofit label and held for two weeks against their will.
The media could have told us that Cofit deaths across the world have been grossly inflated. Minnesota lawmakers say Cofit deaths could have been inflated by 40% after examining death certificates (according to The Washington Examiner) while Fox News reported that in Colorado 45% of Cofit corpses “were also found to have bullet wounds”.
They could have told us that 22 European countries, all of which had tens of thousands of Cofit deaths, opened their schools in the fall, and there has not been any reported spikes in cases as a result. They could have told us that more people have been killed by security men enforcing Cofit measures than by the virus itself.
Well, they could have…but they didn’t. And that’s where they slipped.
Instead they chose to go down the path of alarmist reporting and in so doing became, inadvertently or otherwise, enablers of Uganda’s trillion-shilling Cofit enterprise. Like Squealer in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the media used flowery language to drum up fear by keeping people’s eyes transfixed on swelling numbers while the thieves carried their loot and stashed it away, and loan money was distributed among family members or used in regime prolongation.
The recent joint television news bulletin, and the adverts that followed, were the peak of hysterical reporting. “Zuukuka Tusaanawo” (wake up, we are perishing) screamed an advert featuring top media personalities. What a load of……(fill in appropriate word).
Remember, all the tyranny we have witnessed in this season has been done in the name of Cofit, and such sensationalist reporting justifies it; it gives dictators like Museveni the perfect pseudo-moralistic cover to unleash their most despotic fantasies while actually pretending that it’s for the good of the people. Unfortunately, the terror has now spread to the very media people whose hyperbole enabled it in the first place. There is such a thing as the law of cause and consequence, after all.
Instead of the media walking out of pressers and threatening to boycott government functions, let them threaten to stop all Cofit reporting. Museveni himself would come running with chocolate in hand.
If the president extended curfew by just two hours, for instance, he will have put as many as 200,000 Ugandans back to work especially in the hotel, restaurant and entertainment industries; but he doesn’t care, and sadly neither do many middleclass Ugandans who suppose that it’s their moral obligation as responsible citizens of the Global Village to fret over Cofit just because their ‘fellow citizens’ in Europe and America are doing so. Of course they can afford to do that because their corporate jobs have, for the most part, insulated them from the devastation of the government-instituted Cofit measures. They can enjoy working at home, beer in hand, as they listen to CNN and BBC and still expect the full complement of their salaries at the month end, and that makes them feel every bit like ‘their brothers’ overseas.
Such aspirational conformists are more likely to be offended by my stance on Cofit because they haven’t traversed crook and creek of this country and seen the damage reigned on this fragile society; not by the virus, but by the measures supposedly instituted to mitigate it.
You see, perhaps the most enduring damage this regime has done to our society is creating a three-part hierarchy of class and needs. At the zenith are a handful of connected ‘1986 generation’ and their families who feel entitled to all power and wealth. Beneath is a small (and shrinking) middleclass, and at the bottom of the pyramid is a mass of peasants. Every society, to various degrees, is ordered in the same fashion, but what makes Uganda unique is that the megalomaniacs at the top don’t give a nickel about the plight of the middleclass and the middleclass in turn don’t care a bit about the quandary of the peasant. The charlatans at the top will impose punitive taxes on the middleclass, then dip into NSSF coffers at a whim to share out their savings, and no one can stop them.
And the middleclass Ugandan, armed with his medical insurance, and safe in the knowledge that his wife is unlikely to die in child birth (20 Ugandans do EVERY DAY), and his children are very unlikely to die of malaria (20 do EVERY DAY), or from malnutrition (thousands do every year), will go around trumpeting Cofit because it’s more relevant to his status than malnutrition or malaria.
I could just as easily go down that path. I could also close my eyes to mothers failing to get breast milk because they can only afford half a meal a day (black tea with a piece of cassava), and the malnourished babies that emerge as a result; I could close my eyes to the teenage girls that were given out in marriage because schools closed, or those given out to meet family needs; I could ignore the fact that our president is opening 5-star markets in cities which have 1-star referral hospitals; I could also choose to look the other way and enjoy my middleclass lifestyle, but as an aspiring leader, I cannot.
As a leader, my aspiration is to remove the privileged/entitled class, to expand the middleclass (and their income), and to shrink the peasantry; but mostly to blur the lines that separate each category.
It doesn’t bode well for our country if the average Corporate Ugandan knows more about racism in America than about extreme poverty in Teso or Busoga because that disqualifies him/her from the solution to those local problems.
And finally, I have come to the realization that the biggest pandemic afflicting our country is poverty and the virus that causes it is called M7-1986. Vaccination against it is January 14
Alliance for National Transformation presidential candidate Gen. Mugisha Muntu has been blocked from campaigning in Kamwenge according to a statement he released earlier today.Below is the full statement:
Today in Kamwenge, as we have done since the start of the campaign season, we headed out to speak with the people. We had earlier in the week agreed on the venue with security agencies. No one had anticipated that it would rain as much as it did, making it impossible for us or the people to access.
After identifying an alternative place only 100m away from the original venue, negotiating with the owner and communicating the same to the public, we headed to the second venue only to be stopped by police.
Our policy has always been to do all we can to be reasonable, even in the face of unreasonable action on the part of the state. We engaged the police leadership in a civilized, respectable manner well knowing that they intended to not only frustrate us, but cause us to act in ways that would give them an excuse to cause chaos. This was on top of their intimidating the radio we had booked and duly paid to appear on.
While we are confident that we are on the right side of both the law and reason, we have chosen not to endanger the lives of our supporters or the general public by escalating the situation. We will do everything humanly possible to avoid a single life being lost or blood being shed on account of our campaign.
And yet this truth remains: the regime’s days are numbered.
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The Monks Trail – Scotland Tour
Scotland tour May 2018 – Iona, Lindisfarne, Rosslyn, Melrose, the Highlands
Scotland – Glencoe – The Highlands
Join us for a Spiritual Tour of Scotland
May 7-16, 2018 – 9 days – $3099 + Air
Borderlands, Inner Hebrides, Highlands
This tour is confirmed… Cleared for Airfare purchase, and there are 7 spaces left on the tour.
This spiritual tour of Scotland goes from the North Sea at Lindisfarne (which is actually England) to Iona, an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland where St. Columba founded his famous monastery that began the establishment of Christianity in Scotland. The tour moves within the context of the old stories of the monks of Iona and Lindisfarne who carved out a sacred trail between these two monastic settlements – a sacred trail followed by monks, kings, queens and the ancient pre-Christian people of Scotland. The tour also includes some of the stunning scenery of the Scottish Highlands with tales of the clans that once lived there. There are many sacred sites and places of healing and mystery on the Monks Trail tour.
Rosslyn Chapel – made famous by Dan Brown, author of The Divinci Code
Highlights of the tour are Rosslyn Chapel (made famous in The Divinci Code), Holy Island (aka Lindisfarne) in the North Sea where St. Aidan founded a monastic community in the 7th century, Kilmartin Valley with the largest concentration of Neolithic monuments in Scotland, The Jacobite Train – a ride through the Highlands on a steam-powered train (4 hour tour), Iona – the Holy island where St. Columba established his monastery, which led to the conversion of the Picts, Lake of Menteith and the Inchmahome Priory and forest, and Stirling Castle.
The Nun’s Path in the forest on Inchmahome Island. Trees are believed to date back to the 1500s
The Focus is thin places
The focus of all our tours is “thin places” or places where the veil between this world and the eternal world is thin… where both worlds are woven together. And as on all of our tours, you’ll see the unspoiled hidden places few visitors ever see on other commercial tours. You’ll be traveling within the context of a story while peeping into the ancient past of mystical hills, stone circles, passage tombs, holy wells, monastic ruins, castle ruins and archeological wonders.
Nether Largie Standing Stones in Kilmartin Valley Scotland
The Monks Trail is this tour’s theme. There are many sacred site son the borderlands between Scotland and England and on up into the Highlands. Some of the Christian sites are built on former pagan sites. Over the years the rituals melded together and a single spirituality is layered into the landscape. On this tour, there will many mystical sites – thin places – where one might experience walking in two worlds.
Highland cow on the Isle of Mull
THE MONKS TRAIL – ITINERARY & DETAILS
A full-time tour guide will be with the tour from start to finish as will our coach driver. Your guide will be Mindie Burgoyne, tour operator and owner of Thin Places Mystical Tours. She has a long history of investigating thin places in Western Europe and an understanding of earth energies and the power of spiritual pilgrimage.
Tours & admissions for 24 Group Excursions – Rossyln Chapel • Melrose Abbey • Island of Lindisfarne • Lindisfarne Priory • Lake of Menteith • Inchmahome Priory and Forest •Linlithgow Palace • Doon Hill and the Fairy Knowe • Glencoe Scenic Drive • Glencoe Valley Hike • Glencoe monuments • Jacobite Steam Train (steam train through the Highlands), Dunadd Fort • Ballymeanoch Standing Stones • Temple Wood Stone Circle • Nether Largie Chambered Cairn • Nether Largie Standing Stones • Isle of Mull scenic drive • Isle of Iona • Iona Abbey • Afternoon in Oban • Rob Roy’s Grave • Stirling Castle • Cairnpapple Hill
Expert local guides will be with your group for a more in-depth visitor experience. These guides are local to the area and will be able to speak specifically about some of the sites on the tour.
Ground Transportation – We enjoy the comfort of our own motorcoach for the entire 9 days. Guests are free to leave things they use daily (walking sticks, jackets, etc) on the bus. Bus may also include an onboard bathroom and wifi (depending on the size of the tour group).
FREE DAY is included on the Lake of Menteith – Enjoy relaxing at the luxurious Lake of Menteith Hotel or participate in an optional daytime excursion (horseback riding, fishing and more). These excursions are at your own expense.
Airfare is not included. Guests must arrange their own airfare to and from Edinburgh International Airport
TOUR START and END – We start and end the tour close to the Edinburgh Airport. Our coach driver will pick up the tour group at Edinburgh International Airport on Monday, May 7, 2018, at 12 noon. From there we will begin our tour, heading for Rosslyn Chapel and then the Island of Lindisfarne where we will spend two nights. On the last night of the tour, guests are booked into a hotel close to Edinburgh Airport where they can easily take a short cab ride to the airport the following morning. Guests may want to consider a PRENIGHT (May 6th) in Edinburgh for a little extra time to unwind and adjust before the tour. From there you can take a taxi back to the airport May 7th to meet the group.
COST – $3099
Cost is $3099 (based on double occupancy) and is for the land only. It includes lodging, all breakfasts, and four dinners. It also includes land transportation, admission costs, and the private guides. Posts about some of the sites will appear periodically on this blog.
Single room supplement is $550.
We suggest guests purchase travel insurance on their own.
Deposit of $500 (plus $550 single supplement if applicable) per person must be submitted to hold the spot.
Tour is limited to 25 guests.
DISCOUNT FOR ALUMS
$50 discount for every Thin Places tour they’ve been on prior to 2018.
24 Group Excursions
9 nights in hotels / B&Bs
Double, triple & single occupancy available
All hotel taxes/fees
Transportation via luxury coach for daily touring
Breakfast every morning
Full-time host & guide – for all 9 days of the tour
Ferry tickets and passage for Mull and Iona
Island excursions to Iona, Mull and Lindisfarne
Emergency Local Contact available 24/7
ITINERARY – The Monks Trail
Day 1, Monday, May 7th – LINDISFARNE – Guests will gather at the Edinburgh Airport at 12 noon and meet the tour guide and coach driver. From there everyone will head to Rosslyn Chapel where some believe the Holy Grail ended up. Rosslyn is filled with mystery and a very heavy energy. Then stop at Melrose Abbey – the place where Robert the Bruce’s heart is buried. Then head out to the North Sea in Northumberland and cross into Holy Island (Lindisfarne) during low tide. Check into your hotel / b&b and enjoy a Welcome Dinner on Holy Island. In the evening, walk the beach, listen to the quiet, take in views of the castle. Dinner and overnight on Lindisfarne.
Day 2, Tuesday, May 8th – LINDISFARNE – Sleep in. Have breakfast. Visit the monastic ruins, walk the sea glass beach, hear the stories of monks and princes and Vikings that have occupied the island, then say a prayer at Cuthberts Isle. Take a walk down to the castle. Birdwatch. Enjoy your day in this most magical place. Guided tour in the afternoon. Shop for local crafts. Visit the Lindisfarne distillery, then grab dinner on the island. Enjoy the company of the other guests. Experience the island at night. Overnight in Lindisfarne. (Read I found a Monk on the Seaglass Beach in Lindisfarne)
DAY 3, Wed. May 9th – CASTLES & FAIRIES – Explore the gateway to the otherworld of fairies at Doon Hill according to Rev. Robert Kirk, author of “The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies” in 1691. Rev. Kirk believed this hill was inhabited by the fairies and frequently conversed with them. He was allegedly taken by the fairies and later found dead on the hill. Today the hill and its forests are believed to be teeming with elementals. Also visit Linlithgow Palace ruins, where King James V of Scotland married Maire Deguise (and the fountain flowed with wine) and where Mary Queen of Scots was born. Dinner and overnight at the Lake of Menteith Hotel
Linlithgow Palace Ruins and the fountain that “flowed with wine”
Day 4, Thurs., May 10th – LAKE OF MENTEITH FREE DAY – Awaken at the Lake of Menteith Hotel and enjoy the day at your leisure. Take a walk, go fishing, horseback riding or take a cruise out to one of the islands in the center of the lake, visit the 13th-century ruins of Inchmahome Augustinian Priory and walk the mystical forest among trees believed to date back to the 1500s. Overnight at the Lake of Menteith Hotel.
Day 5, Fri, May 11th – GLENCOE -head into the Highlands enjoying the scenic views. Stop in Glencoe – a haunted place where a terrible betrayal and massacre of thirty-eight McDonald clan members took place. It was the betrayal more than the murders of McDonalds in their sleep that has kept this story alive for over three-hundred years. Take a short hike at the foot of the mountains, visit the village and the memorial. Learn about the Isle of Discussion and see where the McDonalds are buried. Overnight and dinner in Fort William.
Day 6, Sat., May 12th – JACOBITE STEAM TRAIN – referred to as “the greatest railway journey in the world,” this 84 mile round trip starts near Britain’s highest mountain – Ben Nevis, then it visits Britain’s most westerly mainland railway station, Arisaig; then passes close by the deepest freshwater loch in Britain, Loch Morar and the shortest river in Britain, River Morar, finally arriving next to the deepest seawater loch in Europe, Loch Nevis! You’ll enjoy the Scottish Highland scenery in a whole new way. Overnight in Fort William
Day 7, Sun., May 13th – KILMARTIN GLEN – Visit Dunadd Fort – the royal center of Dál Riata where the first Scottish kings were crowned – and where St. Columba likely traveled to converse with an early king. Hear that story, place your foot on the inauguration stone and look out over the Kilmartin Glen. Then take a walk through the glen where there are over 150 prehistoric monuments located within a 6-mile radius. This is one of the most important concentrations of Neolithic and Bronze age monuments in all of Scotland. Visit standing stones, tombs and stone circles. Overnight in Oban.
Tobermory – Isle of Mull
Day 8, Mon., May 14th – MULL & IONA -Head for the Port of Oban where the bus will board a ferry to cross over onto the Island of Mull – the second largest island of the Inner Hebrides. You’ll hear stories of mystical patches that transcend our existence. After the sweeping scenic views in Mull, board another (small) ferry to head out to the Isle of Iona where St. Columba founded his monastery in the sixth century. Tour the island and visit Iona Abbey. Walk the beach, visit the old nunnery. Then return again to Oban for dinner and sleep. Overnight in Oban.
Day 9, Tues, May 15th – STIRLING CASTLE – EDINBURGH – Heading back to Edinburgh you will tour Stirling Castle, one of Scotland most historically important castles- home of the Stuart Kings with its grand hall, Chapel Royal, vaults, stunning rooftop views and gardens. Then visit Cairnpapple Hill, a 4000-year-old burial complex with a tomb you can actually enter. Finally, arrive in Edinburgh where you can enjoy the late afternoon in the city before your farewell dinner with your new friends. Overnight and Farewell dinner at hotel near Edinburgh Airport.
Day 10, Wed., May 16th – Awaken in Edinburgh and either head to the airport for home, or continue touring on your own (we can help with suggestions for an extended tour).
The itinerary is subject to change considering weather and availability factors. Overnights are in Lindisfarne, Lake of Menteith, Fort William, Oban and Edinburgh
MAKE YOUR RESERVATION TODAY.
$500 per person deposit needed to reserve your spot (plus the $550 single supplement if applicable). Final balance due to be paid by 90 days before the tour.
Still have questions? Email Mindie at mindie@thinplacestour.com or call 410.623.2193 or 301.648.2010
*NOTE: Itinerary is subject to change based on availability and in some cases – the weather.
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QC residents at Black Nazarene feast urged to undergo COVID-19 testing
MANILA, Philippines — Quezon City's local government on Wednesday urged its residents who participated in the celebration of the Feast of the Black Nazarene in Manila on Saturday to come forward for coronavirus testing.
“As a precautionary measure, we encourage our residents who attended the celebration to have themselves immediately checked for COVID-19 in our testing centers for free,” Mayor Joy Belmonte said in a statement sent to reporters, adding that she had already requested the Manila Police District for a list of Quezon City residents who signed the health declaration forms for monitoring purposes.
“We cannot rule out the possibility of becoming infected due to the large number of attendees. We need to make sure we do not infect our family and our community partners,” she also said in Filipino.
Thousands of devotees flocked to Quiapo Church and nearby areas to attend the 15 Holy Masses celebrated in place of the procession of the Black Nazarene that was canceled to avoid the spread of the virus.
Experts at the time had already warned that a spike in COVID-19 cases would likely occur as a result of the mass gathering.
Rolly Cruz, head of the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit, said that any QC residents who attended the event and are now showing COVID-19 symptoms such as flu and cough to coordinate with their barangays for a referral to the nearest testing sites and health centers where they can undergo free COVID-19 testing.
As of the Department of Health's latest case bulletin issued Wednesday afternoon, a total of 1,453 new coronavirus infections were recorded, bringing the national caseload to 492,700.
The OCTA Research Team on Wednesday also disclosed that it had observed an “upward trend” in COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila following the holiday season, which saw an increase in mobility and social gatherings.
It added that the reproduction number—or the number of people who may be infected by a confirmed case—in the capital region has increased to 1.17.
"With the end of the celebration of the Translacion of the Black Nazarene, let us remember our responsibility to each other. For those who physically attended at Quiapo, visit [this link] for important reminders about your health," the health department also said for its message of the day on Sunday, January 10.
— Franco Luna with a report from Gaea Katreena Cabico
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COVID-19 disaster is not natural – it was created by UK government ideology
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's an incompetent neoliberal zealot
Frank Augstein/PA Archive/PA Images. All rights reserved.
The economy came first and the pandemic second, with superman Johnson ready for the role and leading the way. In fact, Johnson took a half-term holiday shortly after and never could make that phone booth transformation, much as he tried.
It might be argued that the full significance of COVID-19 was only recognised later. If that is the case then Johnson and his government were fully at fault. The UK did have a sound biosecurity strategy, but exercises showed that it was not ready. There was plenty of knowledge and expertise around to say what to do, and the rapid responses in East Asia were already clear: New Scientist reported on the outbreak and the regional precautions being taken right back on 7 January, more than three weeks before COBRA even met.
If the biosecurity strategy had been followed, we would still have had a major crisis – but it would almost certainly have been far less bad than the disaster we now have. Tens of thousands of lives have been lost – the final figure may be over a hundred thousand – and there will be deep long-term health impacts, let alone the economic damage.
Something went disastrously wrong from the start and if Johnson’s Greenwich speech shows anything, that includes the powerful hold of a deeply flawed economic ideology.
The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, is borrowing £400 billion this year to combat the country’s worst recession in over 300 years. A £4 billion cut in overseas aid and a public-sector pay freeze will be among the early cost savings but the long-term economic damage is expected to last at least a decade.
What has gone wrong? We are assured that this was a natural disaster; that the COVID-19 pandemic was totally unexpected and that the government has done its best in the difficult circumstances.
This is fundamentally wrong.
COVID-19 was a natural hazard not a natural disaster until the government conspicuously failed to respond as it should. The UK was thought to be one of the countries best prepared for a pandemic but turned out to be one of the worst because of government failings right from the start.
For two critical months in January and February there was an appalling failure to respond to what was already known, in spite of continual warnings and many missed chances.
By the time of the first COBRA emergency meeting on 24 January, other countries were already acting with vigour and effect. Indeed, some governments in East Asia had started responding to what was happening in China even before the end of December 2019. By contrast, Johnson did not bother to attend that COBRA session, nor did he go to the next four.
There have been many criticisms of Johnson’s government since March but though these are justified, the real indicator of failure takes us back to the beginning.
Yes, ministers were still in post-election euphoria and enjoying the approach of Brexit Day, but these were minor diversions. If we want to know what really lay beyond the inaction we can do little better than recall Johnson’s Greenwich speech on 3 February, immediately after Brexit.
After bemoaning the slow growth in world trade he went on:
Source https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/covid-19-disaster-is-not-natural-it-was-created-by-uk-government-ideology/
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UIT» Faculty & Staff Services» Teaching & Research Computing» Classroom Technology» Classroom Equipment Usage
Classroom Equipment Usage
Please note that as information and updates are made, the details found on this page may change. For this reason, along with security reasons, please do not print out these instructions. You can advise others of the information on this page by passing out the link to this webpage.
A. Seminar Rooms
Teaching Space with a computer/projector on a cart
These are the steps to use the equipment in the most basic room setup - a computer on a cart with a projector.
Turn on the computer (just as you would in your office or home) and wait for it to come to the login screen
Once the computer is on (as per the previous step), log into the computer with your Passport York username and password (all instructors would have their Passport York login information and this is also a security measure to make sure only instructors can use the equipment however the previous login (username: itc | password: York5065) is still available for use until further notice)
If there is a screen in the room that you can reach, pull down the screen by hand. If it is a powered screen, use the switch to pull down the screen.
Turn on the projector/display in the room by pressing the power button, or by using the remote control (attached to the computer cart)
Wait for it to warm up which may take about 180 seconds or less
You are now able to teach the class with the projector/display showing what's on the monitor
At the end of the class, turn off the projector/display by using the remote control and pressing the standby button and confirm by pressing it again, and don't forget to log out of the computer (because you logged in with your own Passport York username and password)
Please see the corresponding videos for the instructions above:
eg. 1
Teaching Space with TV Display and equipment rack
These are the steps to use a room with TV Display and equipment rack.
Go to the Crestron touch screen and unlock the system
If the screen is dark, this means it is asleep, touch the screen to wake it up
On the Crestron touch screen, put in 5 0 6 5 and followed by Enter
At this point, turn on the projector/display via the touch screen by pressing the projector key
The projector/display will now start the warm up cycle (normally be less than 180 seconds)
If there is a second projector, turn on the second projector the same way
Open the drawer (that would be normally locked until you put in 5 0 6 5) and take out any necessary equipment for teaching/instructing
Wireless keyboard, lapel mic, etc.
Turn on the Lapel Mic (power button found on the unit) - from the Crestron touch screen, adjust the sound level/volume as necessary
Turn on any other equipment that may be used for teaching
Turn on the Document Camera by pressing the main power button on the unit
Turn on the VCR, DVD, etc. as you would at home by pressing the main power button on the unit (or using the remote control if available)
Assign the equipment to the projector/display system
For the PC, on the touch screen, press PC, and then Projector to assign the PC to the projector/display
If there is a second PC screen, press that PC button, and then the other Projector button to assign the second PC screen to that other projector/display
For the Document Camera, on the touch screen, press Doc Cam, and then Projector to assign the Doc Cam to the projector/display
For the VCR, DVD, etc., on the touch screen, press DVD (or VCR, etc.), and then Projector to assign the equipment to the projector/display system
If there is a screen in the room that you can reach, pull down the screen by hand. If it is a powered screen, use the switch to pull down the screen. If there is no switch, on the touch screen, press the Screen button to bring down the screen
At the end of the class, put away the equipment, turn off the projector/display by using the remote control and pressing the standby button and confirm by pressing it again, and don't forget to log out of the computer (because you logged in with your own Passport York username and password)
Please see the corresponding video for the instructions above:
Teaching Space with a Short Throw Projector and Whiteboard
See Vendor's whiteboard usage instructions
See Vendor's application specific instructions
B. Classrooms
Teaching Space with a computer/projector and equipment rack at the side of the room
These are the steps to use a room with the equipment rack at the side of the room.
C. Lecture Halls
Teaching Space with a computer/projector and equipment in a wall cabinet
These are the steps to use a room with the equipment in a wall cabinet.
Open the cabinet and then the drawer (that would be normally locked until you put in 5 0 6 5) and take out any necessary equipment for teaching/instructing
Turn on the VCR, DVD, etc. as you would at home by pressing the main power button on the unit (or using the remote control if available) as you would at home
Teaching Space with a computer/projector and equipment at the podium
These are the steps to use a room with the equipment cabinet at the podium
Near your knees, open the cabinet and then the drawer (that would be normally locked until you put in 5 0 6 5) and take out any necessary equipment for teaching/instructing
Teaching Space with recently upgraded equipment
The most recently upgraded classroom equipment is currently in
CLH A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M
HNE 030, 031, 032, 033, 034, 035, 036, 037, 038, 401
SLH A, B, C, D, E, F
VH A, B, C, D
New Crestron System
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Weight Watchers slims down with plans to shed coaches
Louise Moon
Oprah - Michel Euler/AP
Weight Watchers is attempting to slim down with plans to potentially shed up to half its UK coaches as soon as next week.
The move comes as the brand tries to shift its business online as a result of the pandemic and amid increasing competition.
The US company – which rebranded as WW International in 2018 – could make up to 50pc of its nearly 800 UK-based coaches redundant, according to sources, although some of the departures will be voluntary.
WW’s coaches motivate members through their programmes via live chats and in-person sessions. The move comes just two years after the 57-year-old brand shifted from weight loss to overall health and wellness.
Despite being one of the best known names in the diet industry – thanks in no small part to the backing of American TV host Oprah Winfrey, its third largest shareholder – WW is grappling with large debts and increased competition.
It has also had to hike spending on advertising by 22pc in the last three years. Revenue dropped 7pc to $1.4bn in 2019 compared to the year before, while sales for the last three months of this year are expected to be the lowest quarterly figures since the end of 2017, according to estimates by analysts polled by Bloomberg.
Earlier this month WW launched a new ‘holistic’ programme on its app including workouts, food recipes and experiences, as the pandemic forced the company to focus on its digital offerings. In March it rolled out virtual workshops for the first time.
A WW spokesperson said: “As the ongoing Covid crisis has forced the closure of our workshops around the world, we have had to make difficult decisions that will impact some of our valued team members.
“With the accelerated growth of our digital offerings in both our WW app and the launch of virtual workshops, we are taking this time to look at our physical footprint.”
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Louth, Ireland : Classification : Pictures / Photographs
Military Photographs can be useful in helping identify items, but also in providing background information that helps us understand the events and the impact that it would have had on our ancestors.
Classification: Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, World War I, Pictures / Photographs
Title: A Street Near You - Exploring the Legacy of the First World War.
Link: https://astreetnearyou.org/#=undefined&lat=10&...
Description: Exploring the local legacy of the First World War, but at a global scale.
Extra Info: Mapping out the locations of WW1 casualties, showing the home locations.
Classification: RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, Marines, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Prisoners of War, Pictures / Photographs, Aircraft, Ships, Newspapers
Title: Guardian Newspaper
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/-sp-...
Description: Guardian Newspaper - How it Covered the Last Century
Extra Info: The newspaper articles cover the period 1899-1999.
Classification: Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, Army, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Napoleonic Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Pictures / Photographs
Title: Mary Evans Picture Library
Link: https://www.maryevans.com/
Description: Mary Evans Picture Library
Extra Info: Over 2 million historical and cinema images. Easy to search - can limit by type of photograph and century. Includes pictures of war memorials, wars, ships, tanks, soldiers and much more.
Classification: Graves / Memorials / Roll of Honour, RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Prisoners of War, Pictures / Photographs, Aircraft, Ships, Other Transport, Diaries / Log Books / Letters
Title: Science and Society Picture Library
Link: https://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk
Description: Science and Society Picture Library
Extra Info: Over 50,000 images including many images of war, poster campaigns, letters from the wars and more.
Classification: World War I, World War II, Boer Wars, Crimean War, Napoleonic Wars, Other Battles / Wars / Conflicts, Prisoners of War, Pictures / Photographs, Diaries / Log Books / Letters, Information
Title: Wellcome Collection - Images of 2000 years
Link: https://wellcomecollection.org/works
Description: Wellcome Collection - Images of 2000 years
Extra Info: Many images of war, including images of Christmas postcards send during WWI. Can be downloaded or printed for a fee.
Classification: RAF / RFC / RNAS, Navy, Army, Marines, World War I, Pictures / Photographs, Aircraft, Ships, Hospitals / Nursing
Title: World War One - Photographs and Pictures
Link: http://www.ww1photos.com/
Description: World War One - Photographs and Pictures
Extra Info: Includes postcards of WWI, many photographs of the trenches, a special gallery of Gallipoli photographs, animals in war and more. Many free photos, others may be purchased.
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VOL 28 NO 71 REGD NO DA 1589 Wednesday, 20 January 2021 |
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Into 28th Year of Publication
27th Anniversary Issue - I
27th Anniversary Issue - II
27th Anniversary Issue - III
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Tributes to Nobel laureate poet Neruda
MA Rahman | September 30, 2017 00:00:00
September 23 last was marked by the 44th death anniversary of Nobel literature prize laureate Pablo Neruda. Born on July 12, 1904, he bade the world bye on this day in 1973. Pablo Neruda was the poet's pen name and later the legal name. The Chilean poet and politician's original name was Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda.
Neruda wrote in a variety of styles such as erotically charged love poems as in his collection Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair, surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political manifestos.
In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language." Neruda always wrote in green ink as it was his personal colour of hope.
"There are reasons to remember Neruda. In him, factors were combined that constitute modern man. He wrote profound verses. He was a cultured man at home, linked with traditions that make up the mosaic of life," states local columnist and journalist Syed Badrul Ahsan speaking elaborately on Neruda's political and poetic life at a programme held in Dhaka marking the occasion. The seminar on 'An Ode to Neruda' was organised by the English Club of Notre Dame University Bangladesh (NDUB) in memory of the poet. Vice Chancellor of NDUB, Fr Patrick Gaffney, and Registrar Fr Adam S Pereira, also spoke on the occasion as special guests.
The NDUB English Club (NDUBEC), the host of the event introduced Neruda to the audience in brief. Only at the age of 19, this Chilean poet Neruda was a household name in Latin America.
At the event Syed Badrul Ahsan recited some of the verses from Neruda's poems, for instance, "I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees," to give an example how strong and effective Neruda's imageries and metaphors are.
After his lecture, NDUBEC members stage plays on Neruda's poems, for the first time in Bangladesh, directed by the co-moderator of English Club and Lecturer of English Department -- Ahmed Tahsin Shams.
The performers glimmering in the spotlight mesmerised everyone in the audience which was full to the brim with chemistry and melancholy at the same time.
Neruda's poetic narrative was deconstructed and contextualised in the performances. One of the famous poems by Neruda named 'If You Forget Me', performed by Jarin Tasnim and Issack Halder, students of CSE and BBA respectively, was staged in a way as if two characters were in a conversation beside a lakeshore on a moonlit night, where the woman went beyond the archetype feminine notions, yet romantic.
The next performance 'Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines', performed by Shahrear Amin Rafi, Arnab Pial and Md Saifuddin Al Quaderi, presented the universal melancholy in love through three different characters sharing their tales through triologue.
The plays were directed by Lecturer of the Department of English Language and Literature Ahmed Tahsin Shams. It was cinematographed by Alex Romario and Rayhan Robin, stage lighting was assisted by Shimanto Barua, background sound by Sanjoy Kumar Barman and Rasel Ahmed, audio recording of the performances was done by Lal Tewari, members of NDUBEC.
President of NDUBEC Sydul Islam Symon, and other executive members -- Tahia Mahbub, Shakil Mahmud, Marjan Jui, Golam Morsalin, Tamjid Mia, and others also helped to organise the event. Registrar Fr Adam concluded the event with the certificate giving ceremony.
Neruda was a close advisor to Chile's socialist President Salvador Allende. When Neruda returned to Chile after his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Allende invited him to read at the Estadio Nacional before 70,000 people.
Neruda was hospitalised with cancer at the time of the coup d'état led by Augusto Pinochet but returned home after five days when he suspected a doctor of injecting him in the stomach with an unknown substance for the purpose of murdering him at the order of Pinochet.
Neruda died in his house in Isla Negra on September 23 1973 six and a half hours after that injection. Although it has always been reported that he died of prostate cancer or heart failure, on November 5, 2015 the Interior Ministry of the Chilean government issued a statement acknowledging a ministry document indicating the government's official position that "it was clearly possible and highly likely" that he was killed as a result of "the intervention of third parties".
Pinochet, backed by elements of the armed forces, denied permission for Neruda's funeral to be made a public event. However, thousands of grieving Chileans disobeyed the curfew and crowded the streets.
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Os Hillman and Pamela Hillman Bios
Os and Pamela Hillman 2020
Os Hillman is Founder and President of Marketplace Leaders Ministries, an organization whose purpose is to train men and women to fulfill their calling in and through their work life and to view their work as ministry.
Os is an author of 21 books, speaker, consultant and recognized authority in the role that faith and ethics play in the marketplace. Os began sending out a daily internet email newsletter entitled TGIF Today God Is First in 1998. Today TGIF is read daily worldwide in 104 countries. Os has equipped leaders in 26 countries. Marketplace Leaders has an online bookstore, TGIFbookstore.com serving the faith and work movement.
Os has been featured on CNBC, LA Times, NY Times and many Christian media. He has been a regular contributor to Crosswalk.com, Charisma online, and Christian Post. He has spoken at Harvard University and was a visiting professor at Regent University for a season.
Before starting Marketplace Leaders, Os owned and operated an ad agency from 1984-2001. During this time he served clients such as American Express, Steinway Pianos, US Kids Golf, Peachtree Software, ADP Payroll Services, Parisian Department stores (now Belk), Thomas Nelson Publishers and many non-profit organizations. His company won many prestigious awards from the Direct Marketing Industry such as the International Echo Award, Direct Marketing’s highest achievement for excellence in direct marketing for specific ad campaigns.
Os attended the University of South Carolina on a golf scholarship and was a golf professional for three years before going into business in 1980. Os also attended Calvary Chapel Bible School. Os is married to Pamela and Os has one married daughter, Charis. He and his wife live in Cumming, Georgia a suburb of Atlanta.
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November 3, 2017 Economics
NABOO bought tracksuits to the participants of the “case of the backpacks” with Avakov Jr.
The national anti-corruption Bureau, which is investigating the involvement of the businessman from Kharkov Vladimir Litvin to the acts of corruption committed during the purchase of backpacks for the interior Ministry, itself bought tracksuits.
This is evidenced by the public procurement Prozorro, writes “Ukrainian truth”.
NABU wanted to buy 42 sets sports suits for a total amount of UAH 273 thousand (by 6,5 thousand UAH each). The auction was attended by three entrepreneurs. Won Lytvyn, who offered the lowest price – 170 thousand UAH 449 86 kopecks.
According to released information, the purchase took place, when Lytvyn has already passed in the “case of the backpacks”. According to tender documents, the agreement was signed April 10. The validity of this contract has started to operate since April 10, 2017 and will end on 31 December this year.
Kharkov Vladimir Litvin in 2014 was the head of the IT company Turboseo. According to media reports, his phone number was used by the company “Dniprofan” while purchasing backpacks for 2014-2015 for the interior Ministry.
We will remind, “business of the backpacks” NABOO is investigating for more than two years. October 31 this year, the NEB had searched the apartment of the son of the interior Minister Arsen Avakov Alexander. The Bureau emphasized that the actions are within the business to ensure in 2014-2015, the Ministry of interior backpacks.
The interior Ministry in response issued a formal statement on the fact of searches Avakov Jr. Action NABOO the Ministry called political. And he Avakov sure that the son will prove his innocence in court. The head of the Specialized anti-corruption prosecutors Nazar Golodnitsky, in turn, insists – in fact, there is no political implication, and the law all are equal.
Monday evening, 31 October, NAB announced suspicions Avakov Jr. and former Deputy Minister of internal Affairs Sergey Chebotar. They are suspected in embezzlement of 14 million UAH. The third defendant is the head of the PCS-the company Turboseo Volodymyr Lytvyn from Kharkov.
The evening and night of 1-2 November, all three, the court chose the measure of restraint and release under personal obligations. Ordered not to leave the city of residence, to inform the investigation and court to change their place of residence or registration, to be to the investigator for questioning, to surrender all passports, refrain from communicating with witnesses.
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‘What have I done wrong?’: students falsely reported over terrorism
What happened to the days when the local constabulary would have a chat with Mum and Dad about allegedly wayward offspring? Welcome to The Police State folks: Where innocent kids are transformed into embittered adults (and therefore potential terrorism candidates). So much for all the universal love and inclusivity! Martin Harris
Henrietta Cook Brisbane Times
© Supplied Teens are being wrongly identified as radicalised, experts warn. A week before Year 12 exams, Abshir heard an unexpected knock on his front door.
The Canberra student’s family say he was confronted by two Australian Federal Police officers who were responding to a tip-off from his teacher.
The teacher was concerned the young Muslim man was at risk of radicalisation.
The warning signs?
The teenager wrote an essay about Muslim terrorists and western intervention.
He also travelled to the Horn of Africa to donate sporting equipment to needy children as part of a compulsory volunteering subject.
While the investigation was eventually dropped and the student was never charged, the experience left him shaken and affected his grades.
© AAP The AFP interviewed the teen about his essay on foreign fighters but did not pursue the investigation. Federal and state governments have identified schools as a key battleground in the fight against radicalisation, with teachers being trained to spot potential extremists.
But there are growing concerns about the effectiveness of many of these school-based initiatives for countering violent extremism – known in the handbook jargon as CVE.
Dr Clarke Jones, a criminologist from the Australian National University who is familiar with Abshir’s case, said teachers lack the expertise to identify students at risk of radicalisation.
He said these initiatives often target Muslim students who have done nothing wrong and can sever important connections between children and schools.
“The parents are not consulted, the kids are automatically referred through the school to police,” he said.
“When a person is confronted by police it automatically creates this thinking: ‘What have I done wrong?
This is embarrassing, who has seen the police come to the door? Am I in trouble? Will I go to jail?’.”
The academic has read Abshir’s essay and said he didn’t find anything unusual or concerning about it.
“I write material that is far more critical of overseas operations,” he said.
“There was nothing in the essay that would stand out to me as any indication that this young man was radicalised.”
The AFP and ACT Education Directorate would not comment on the case…
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“We did what we did in Africa ...was a continuation of our own most valued traditions and an expression of our own deepest historic instincts,” late Prime Minister Golda Meir (pictured) said in her memoirs. (AP Photo) “We did what we did in Africa ...was a continuation of our own most valued traditions and an expression of our own deepest historic instincts,” late Prime Minister Golda Meir (pictured) said in her memoirs. (AP Photo)
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In 1969, Golda Meir was appointed Prime Minister of Israel, making her the fourth leader of the modern Jewish state.
Golda Meir was born in Kiev in 1898 at a time when pogroms and persecution were part of daily Jewish life in that part of the world. It left a lasting impression on young Golda.
When Golda was eight years old, her family emigrated to America, where she became an active member of Young Poale Zion, a Zionist Labor movement. She was passionate about fulfilling her dream of moving to the Land of Israel and doing her part to build a Jewish state.
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Human Resources: Ever hear the one about …
Higher ed HR professionals share humorous employee stories
By: Carol Patton and JD Solomon | Issue: July, 2019
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Carol Patton writes about human resources issues.
As a recruiter at Emporia State University in Kansas for many years, Asher Delmott has heard some real doozies. Take the applicant who called herself an established office administrator, but never held any job for more than four months. Or consider the candidate whose last job was temporary, but he repeatedly stressed that no foul play had occurred.
But perhaps Delmott’s favorite story (and mine) is about the individual who applied for a job in the school’s theater department. In his cover letter, he claimed that he possessed letters from Queen Elizabeth II, former President Barack Obama and other famous people, expressing that one of their personal wishes would be fulfilled if he landed this job.
As an HR professional, you may think you’ve seen or heard it all. Maybe not. Consider these favorite stories shared by your HR colleagues at other schools, which demonstrate that in the HR world, anything can happen.
Texas State University: Several years ago, the facilities maintenance department had an applicant for a blue-collar job, says John McBride, assistant vice president of HR at the school. But a standard background check turned up a three-page rap sheet, including assault convictions from San Antonio to Laredo.
“So we called, suggesting that the department not hire this person,” McBride says. “Someone in the department replied, ‘Thank God. We were all afraid of him; we were too scared to tell him that we didn’t want to hire him.’”
University of Phoenix: Recently, the HR staff began recruiting for a management-level position. One individual from a nearby state looked promising, so a staffer scheduled an interview and informed him about the university’s reimbursement guidelines for lodging, meals and transportation, says Cheryl Naumann, chief HR officer at the school.
After the first round of interviews, the candidate handed the recruiter his receipts for reimbursement.
“They were for a couple of bottles of wine, two pork loins and a spa massage,” she says. “We had so many questions: Where did he cook the pork loins, or did he take them back home on the plane with him? Did he consume both bottles of wine in one day? Needless to say, this person didn’t get hired.”
Missouri State University: Several months ago, HR Director Tammy Few received an anonymous email with a video attachment. The sender believed that the man in the video was a university employee who was stealing money from a tip jar in a local doughnut shop. The store featured the video on its website, asking the community for help in identifying the thief.
“You should have seen me,” she says, laughing at her attempts to see whose hand was in the tip jar. “I’m 46 years old, and I had to magnify the video. I realized it wasn’t him. It was his girlfriend, who wasn’t our employee, so I deleted the email.”
The University of Texas at Dallas: A university employee couldn’t understand why she couldn’t use Family and Medical Leave Act time to cover the week she was in jail.
“She said it wasn’t her fault that she couldn’t make it to work; the jailer wouldn’t let her out,” says Colleen Dutton, chief HR officer at the university.
Dutton recalls other stories, too, such as employees’ ex-girlfriends who sent letters to HR about how their boyfriends cheated on them and should be fired or disciplined.
One employee contacted HR after becoming frustrated when his boss did not respond to an email requesting mediation to settle differences with a coworker. But he wrote “meditation.” His boss simply thought the employees were spending a few minutes sitting cross-legged in an office chanting, “Om.”
And there was the HR professional who was counseling an employee about sexual harassment.
“The counselor didn’t realize that his fly was unzipped the entire time,” says Dutton.
Do you have your own memorable, humorous, interesting, alarming
or just plain head-scratching HR story to share with our readers? We want to hear it. Please contact Marybeth Luczak at mluczak@lrp.com.
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How football journalists are using the tactics of extremists to manipulate readers
by Tony Attwood
I’ve been dwelling on the perfidious nature of newspaper and blog commentaries on Arsenal for a while, because although on their own mostly they are fairly trivial and pointless, combined they can add up to a feeling of doom, gloom, desperation and incompetence; which it appears is their main purpose.
Take this headline from the Daily Canon which was the most read article on News Now’s Arsenal service a couple of days back when it was published
“Exclusive: Arsenal forward set to miss up to ‘4 weeks’ with hamstring injury”
All things considered it is an interesting headline, not least because I wasn’t able to find any other blog or newspaper running the story. Well, you may say, yes it was an exclusive, but normally exclusives are then repeated by other media. On this one nothing. And it carries the implication that the forward in question is one of our main up front attackers from the first team squad. But actually it was about teenager John-Jules.
What’s more the “up to” in the headline makes it meaningless. “At least two weeks” would give us a clue but “up to four weeks” makes it sound really serious when it could be anything but.
Now my prime thought here is not so much about the fact that the player was a promising youngster – and as we know youngsters do tend to get more injuries, because their bodies haven’t yet hardened up to the stresses and strains of football, nor have they learned how to get out of the way of situations that can lead to serious injury. Rather it is that it should be run in this form to suggest that another disaster is hitting Arsenal.
And above all, the number of readers, making it the most popular article of the day, shows once again that if all the site wants is readers, then it got what it wanted. If it wanted to inform the author might have written the story in some other way. “Promising youngster John-Jules injured” would have been more to the point.
Football journalism is thus not about informing or entertaining. It is about manipulation of the perception of the readership. Yet it could also be about informing people – either with newly found facts or with commentary that is based around a certain number of facts which can then be expanded with some speculation, which is clearly shown to be speculation.
But if we have speculation all the time (which is really what opinion pieces are) and all the opinions are pointing in the same direction (at the moment, as for the last 90 years, Arsenal is in chaos) it is more than likely that some people might start to believe it. Which is by and large what seems to be happening.
To show how this works, take a look at a few of the other stories of late…
Arsenal board ready to take drastic action to force Mesut Ozil out of the club (Mirror)
Arsenal enter ‘advanced talks’ for signings of two players (Red London)
From Spain – Arsenal set to sign attacker after agreeing to meet £14m asking price (Football-Talk)
Denis Suarez transfer: Arsenal move takes fresh twist as Barcelona name latest squad (Mirror
Arsenal have suffered a fresh blow in their pursuit of Barcelona’s Denis Suarez. (Mirror)
Now these all appeared around about the same time, two days ago. And in reality we are no further forward with any of the stories because by and large there was nothing there to take forward.
The Suarez story, for example, with its “fresh twist” centres totally on the fact that the player was named in Barcelona’s squad for a Cup game with Levante. And that was it. Him being in the squad gives a “fresh twist” and puts the transfer in doubt! And that revelation was followed by “The news will come as a disappointment to Arsenal, who were hopeful of signing the player on an initial loan deal this month.”
But just in case any readers had not got the message by then that everything around Arsenal was bad news we had stories such as…
Opinion: Emery cannot afford to make same suicidal decision against Chelsea he made vs West Ham (FootballFanCast)
Arsenal hero Emmanuel Petit launches scathing attack on old club, defends Arsene Wenger Daily and (Sunday Express)
Gary Cahill next club odds: Fulham and Arsenal joined by top flight rivals in race for defender (Football.London)
James Rodriguez blow for Arsenal as Bayern boss breaks transfer rumour silence (Mirror.co.uk)
‘We don’t have £3m’ – Arsenal fans question club’s finances for James Rodriguez loan move (Football.London)
It is all doom, doom, doom, we are all doomed. And why? Because giving negative stories to the population is the easiest way to manipulate the population. The consequences of a mad dictator telling the populace that they are under threat from an identifiable religious group are far worse of course – I am not comparing the two in terms of the result – but the tactics are just the same.
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11 comments to How football journalists are using the tactics of extremists to manipulate readers
genorm
‘Trivial and pointless’ you said, Tony, yes. I’ve given up on newspapers, bigoted TV pundits and many blogs. The sound is off for televised games, our music is on. Every time there is an Arsenal mention, it usually follows, ‘X slams Arsenal’ or ‘Y blasts Arsenal’ and these are mainly ex-players. Until something appears via the official site, nothing is real.
@genorm Glad to know I am not the only one who turns the sound off.
Wouldn’t it be good if TV companies had an additional soundtrack with just the crowd noise – no “experts” to tell you what to think.
One can but dream
Why are ex players such poor “experts”. It is hard to believe they actually played the game given the dearth of their knowledge
Sky did run just the crowd noise channel for a while, but stopped it because its numbers were going up while the numbers listening to the commentators were going down.
I don’t think their tech allows them to see how many people listen with the sound down quite a few I suspect.
markyb
Indeed very little on the 5-2 beating of the sacred Spurs youth team in the youth cup other than ‘Keown slams Per for going to Basketball’ can imagine the headlines if the result was the other way.
GoingGoingGooner
My stream for the FA cup tie with Blackpool was crowd noise only…quite nice.
Samuel Akinsola Adebosin
I think if Arsenal beat Chelsea in the PL at the Ems tomorrow Saturday, the beating could see the football journalists applying the break to their football journalism manipulations that are seeing Arsenal fans in particular and the football world fans in general being manipulated to break-stopped in their knocking and bashing of Arsenal at least for the time being.
I think if Arsenal beat Chelsea in the PL at the Ems tomorrow Saturday, the beating could see the football journalists in their football journalism manipulations of the Arsenal fans in particular and those in the football world in general to forced break-stopped in their knocking and bashing of Arsenal at least for the time being.
Brickfields Gunners
Am glad to see the legions of Arsenal fans who have cotton on to the dispicable behaviour of the media , experts and commentators, and have ‘silenced’ their infuence by avoiding their toxic giberish.
They are all agents provocateurs of the crappish level.
While we wile away the hours, here’s some humour, to bring back that smile .
My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels.
She asked, ‘What’s on TV?’
I said, ‘Dust.’
And then the fight started….
My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary.
She said, ‘I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 100 in about 3 seconds.’
I bought her a weighing scale.
When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive.
So I took her to a petrol pump
My wife was standing & looking in the bedroom mirror. She was not happy with what she saw and said to me, ‘I feel horrible. I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to give me a compliment.”
I replied, “Your eyesight is perfect.”
I asked my wife, “Where do you want to go for our anniversary?”
It warmed my heart to see her face melt in sweet appreciation.
“Somewhere I’ve not been in a long time.”
So I took her to my parents’ house.
Dedicated to all married couples. But don’t send to all
I sent it to my friend. He sent it to his wife and then the fight started.
A wife replies…..
We come from dust.
We return to dust.
That is why I don’t dust.
It could be someone I know !
rondejonge
hahaha Brickfield cracking me up!!!
Philbet
Talking of food, I went to a Chinese last night and ordered from The Specials menu.
I really stuffed myself.
Too much foo young
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Tommy Lee Sparta Announces World Tour Days Before His Arrest For Illegal Gun
by Orlando Dowlatt December 15, 2020
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Tommy Lee Sparta announced his new world tour just before his arrest on suspicion of carrying illegal gun.
Jamaican entertainer Tommy Lee Sparta is looking to take the world by storm, as he announces his upcoming Under Vibes World Tour. The entertainment world was put on a standstill earlier this year with the onset of the coronavirus, which sent shivers down the spines of many, and claimed the lives of others. The world is now actively trying to find a way to cope with the virus, while drugmakers work around the clock to perfect a vaccine. Jamaica is still quite cautious about granting permission for gatherings, and rightfully so, after the increase in numbers that followed mass gatherings from several electoral campaigns and a tested reopening from earlier this year.
Naturally, the lockdown has carved a huge hole in the earnings from entertainers, and it seems Tommy is looking to reclaim some of the wealth. His tour is scheduled to run from March 1 – May 12, 2021, with stops in Europe and Africa, already confirmed. Kenya, Ghana, Southafrica, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, The UK, Switzerland, and France will finally get a taste of Tommy Lee Sparta.
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Opening acts booked to get the crowd pumping before the Jamaican superstar takes stage are Jupitar, Kalibwoy, Blakmexiah, Chucky Serious, and Nat Easy.
Tommy’s gothic image, while sometimes frowned upon in Jamaica, is loved and embraced in other aspects of the world. The entertainer is also a savage when it comes to working a stage and should have no problem with keeping his audience captivated with his catalog of hits. In March, Tommy Lee Sparta teamed up with international acts Lil Xan and Inas X for a trap number titled “Ride For Me.” His delivery proved to fans that he possesses the ability to effectively cross over into other genres while incorporating his hardcore dancehall vibe.
We’re all hoping for a successful Under Vibes Tour if and when it kicks off next year, but currently Tommy Lee Sparta is behind bars potentially facing prison time if found guilty for possession of illegal gun.
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by Myrtle Machuca on January 19, 2021 in Pets Shop
Animal shelter euthanizations in Michigan have fallen significantly from 2009 to 2019, the most recent year the data was available, an analysis released by the Michigan Pet Fund Alliance shows.
Deborah Schutt, the alliance’s founder, credited “the relentless dedication of animal welfare advocates throughout the state and beyond” for saving the lives of dogs and cats that otherwise might not have made it out of shelters alive.
Numbers for 2020, which won’t be available for a few months, could be even better with some shelters and rescue agencies reporting that during the self-isolating pandemic, pet adoption have been booming.
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y’all jamie lynn spears keeps killing her cats bc her Tesla is “too quiet” and wants Elon musk to install some sort of noise to alert cats of the car’s ignition???
bitch it’s called a horn 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/eXLj2ERKBF
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Betty White reveals how she plans to spend her 99th birthday in quarantine
Betty White is getting ready to celebrate her birthday!
The legendary actor and comedian will turn 99 on Jan. 17, and it sounds like she will be having a relaxing, low-key day.
“You probably didn’t ask, but I’ll tell you anyway,” White told “Entertainment Tonight.” “What am I doing for my birthday? Running a mile each morning has been curtailed by COVID, so I am working on getting ‘The Pet Set’ re-released, and feeding the two ducks who come to visit me every day.”
Delta will no longer allow emotional support animals on flights
FILE – In this April 1, 2017 file photo, a service dog strolls through the aisle inside a United Airlines plane in Newark, N.J., while taking part in a training exercise. United announced Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, that starting with flights in February it will no longer accept emotional-support animals. Delta announced a similar policy Monday, joining American and Alaska Airlines.
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With new federal rules in place, Delta Air Lines said it will no longer allow emotional support animals on its flights.
Airlines and passengers had raised concerns about safety and other issues as more and more
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Who Deserves Impeachment More – Trump or Schiff?
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the next candidate for impeachment, the congressman from Hollywood – Adam Schiff!
by Strategic Culture Foundation May 26, 2020 480 Views 5 Votes 1 Comment
Authored by Daniel Lazare via The Strategic Culture Foundation:
Donald Trump was impeached last winter for one technical violation of the law and a host of made-up ones. The technical violation was his move to block $391 million in Ukrainian military aid.
It was a violation because it because it interfered with Congress’s exclusive spending powers. But it was purely technical because presidents traditionally have wide latitude in determining how expenditures are made. Back in 1801, Thomas Jefferson’s treasury secretary, Albert Gallatin, argued that the executive branch should be allowed “a reasonable discretion” while, 160 years later, John F. Kennedy had no scruples about unilaterally moving more than $1 million – a lot of money in those days – from one budget account to another to pay for a pet project known as the Peace Corps. No one thought much of it at the time, so Trump’s decision to hold up an appropriation in 2019 doesn’t seem like a big deal.
And it wasn’t, as the December 18 articles of impeachment made clear. Rather than dwelling on the blockage itself, they quickly moved on to the real question at hand, which is why it occurred. The answer, of course, was to pressure newly-elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch an investigation into why a notorious oligarch named Mykola Zlochevsky had given Joe Biden’s son Hunter a lucrative no-show job and why the then-vice president had then pushed for the firing of a prosecutor looking into Zlochevsky’s company, Burisma Holdings.
Since any such investigation would have reflected poorly on Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, Democrats charged that Trump was seeking to “obtain an improper personal political benefit” by “enlist[ing] a foreign power in corrupting democratic elections.” After welcoming Russian interference in 2016, he was now angling for Ukrainian interference in 2020 – or so they maintained. But the charge never made sense for one all-important reason: however much Trump might benefit, the public had a legitimate interest in learning why Biden had allowed his son to enter into an obviously corrupt relationship at a time when he was supposedly serving as Obama’s point man in rooting out Ukrainian corruption.
It’s as if 1920s Chicago crime buster Eliot Ness had looked the other way while a close relative took a job with Al Capone. So while Democrats made a big show of moral indignation, Senate Republicans were unmoved with the partial exception of notorious featherbrain Mitt Romney, and Trump was acquitted.
But now let’s take a look at Schiff’s sins and see how they compare. Back in 2017, he was the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and therefore the man Democrats counted on to lead the charge that Trump had colluded with the Kremlin in order to steal the election. He did so with gusto. Quoting from a dossier prepared by ex-British MI6 agent Christopher Steele, he regaled a March 2017 committee hearing with tales of how Russia bribed Trump adviser Carter Page by offering him a hefty slice of a Russian natural-gas company known as Rosneft and of how Russian agents boosted Trump’s political fortunes by hacking Hillary Clinton’s emails and passing them on to WikiLeaks. Conceivably, such acts could have been purely coincidental, Schiff acknowledged.
“But it is also possible,” he went on, “maybe more than possible, that they are not coincidental, not disconnected, and not unrelated, and that the Russians used the same techniques to corrupt U.S. persons that they have employed in Europe and elsewhere. We simply don’t know, not yet, and we owe it to the country to find out.”
Hours later, he assured MSNBC that the evidence of collusion was “more than circumstantial.” Nine months after that, he informed CNN’s Jake Tapper that the case was no longer in doubt: “The Russians offered help, the campaign accepted help, the Russians gave help, and the president made full use of that help.” In February 2018, he told reporters: “There is certainly an abundance of non-public information that we’ve gathered in the investigation. And I think some of that non-public evidence is evidence on the issue of collusion and some … on the issue of obstruction.”
The press lapped it up. But now, thanks to the May 7 release of 57 transcripts of secret testimony – transcripts, by the way, that Schiff bottled up for months – we have a better idea of what such “non-public information” amounts to. The answer: nothing. A parade of high-level witnesses told the intelligence committee that either they didn’t know about collusion or lacked evidence even to venture an opinion. Not one offered the contrary view that collusion was true.
“I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting [or] conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election,” testified ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch told the committee that no one in the FBI or CIA had informed her that collusion had taken place. Sally Yates, acting attorney general during the Obama-Trump transition, was similarly noncommittal. So were Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes and former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe. David Kramer, a prominent neocon who helped spread word of the Steele dossier in top intelligence circles, was downright apologetic: “I’m not in a position to really say one way or the other, sir. I’m sorry.”
But rather than admit that the investigation had turned up nothing, Schiff lied that it had – not once but repeatedly.
Let that sink in for a moment. Collusion dominated the headlines from the moment Buzzfeed published the Steele dossier on Jan. 10, 2017, to the release of the Muller report on Apr. 18, 2019. That’s more than two years, a period in which newspapers and TV were filled with Russia, Russia, Russia and little else. Thanks to the uproar, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein secretly discussed using the Twenty-fifth Amendment to force Trump out of office, while an endless parade of newscasters and commentators assured viewers that the president’s days were numbered because “the walls are closing in.”
Schiff’s only response was to egg it on to greater and greater heights. Even when Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller issued his no-collusion verdict – “the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” his report said – Schiff insisted that there was still “ample evidence of collusion in plain sight.”
“I use that word very carefully,” he said, “because I also distinguish time and time again between collusion, that is acts of corruption that may or may not be criminal, and proof of a criminal conspiracy. And that is a distinction that Bob Mueller made within the first few pages of his report. In fact, every act that I’ve pointed to as evidence of collusion has now been borne out by the report.”
So Trump colluded with the Kremlin, but in a non-criminal way? Even if Mueller got Schiff in a headlock and screamed in his ear, “No collusion, no collusion,” the committee chairman would presumably reply: “See? He said it – collusion.”
The man is an unscrupulous liar, in other words, someone who will say anything to gain attention and fatten his war chest, which is why contributions flowing to his re-election campaign have risen from under $1 million a year to $10.5 million since the Russia furor began. The man talks endlessly about the Constitution, patriotism, his father’s heroic service in the military, and so on. But the only thing Adam Schiff really cares about is himself.
Trump’s sins are manifold. But with unerring accuracy, Schiff managed to zero in on the one sin that didn’t take place. Considering that the $391 million was destined for ultra-right military units whose members sport neo-Nazi regalia and SS symbols as they battle pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukraine, Schiff’s crimes are just as bad, if not worse. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the next candidate for impeachment, the congressman from Hollywood – Adam Schiff!
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Winner of the Nigerian Idol Season 2 in 2012. Mercy is a powerful vocalist and a renowned songstress in the Nigerian music industry. MM1, as she’s fondly called, started her musical career by lending her vocals to musical projects by gospel music artistes such as Sammie Okposo, Joe Praize, Buchi, Chris Morgan, and Preye.
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Travis Scott donates merchandise profits from Alabama concert to Planned Parenthood
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After a week of anti-abortion bills being passed in Alabama and Missouri, Travis Scott decided to donate his merchandise sales from a weekend concert at the Hangout Music Fest in Alabama to Planned Parenthood.
Travis headlined the music festival on Friday and during his set, he announced that he would be donating any proceeds from his merchandise to Planned Parenthood, a nonprofit national organization that provides reproductive healthcare.
—Jay-Z and Timbaland accused of copyright infringement in a $2 million lawsuit—
Although the Astroworld rapper didn’t specifically mention the recent abortion ban in Alabama, he told his fans that he was making the donation out of love and reminded them that love is the way forward.
“I wanna just donate my net profits from our merch today to Planned Parenthood,” Travis said during his set. “I love y’all and I just want everyone to know that love is the strongest thing we can have,” before performing SZA’s song “Love Galore.”
Pitchfork said Scott added: “We feel for those out in Alabama,” before breaking out with his “Love Galore,” song.
This comes on the heels of Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signing an abortion bill into law, considered to be the most restrictive ban of its kind in the nation. The law, passed by the Republican-led chamber makes performing abortions a felony unless the woman’s health is at risk.
—Oprah donates $500,000 to Newark high school ‘Lights On’ program—
Many celebrities have denounced the Alabama and Missouri laws, including Offset, John Legend, Rihanna and more. Offset posted a tweet that he has since taken down, equating the anti-abortion bills to slavery.
Additionally, on Friday On Thursday, the Missouri Senate approved legislation that makes it illegal to perform abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy. Like Alabama Missouri’s bill and grants exceptions for women whose lives could be endangered by their pregnancies, but do not allow for exceptions in cases of rape or incest. Missouri’s bill is expected to be signed into law by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R).
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McConnell suggests shutdown could last for weeks
By Jordain Carney - 01/02/19 05:01 PM EST
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellWhat would MLK say about Trump and the Republican Party? Biden's minimum wage push faces uphill battle with GOP GOP senators wrestle with purging Trump from party MORE (R-Ky.) after a White House meeting with President Trump Donald TrumpGiuliani used provisional ballot to vote in 2020 election, same method he disparaged in fighting to overturn results Trump gets lowest job approval rating in final days as president Fox News' DC managing editor Bill Sammon to retire MORE and other congressional leaders said Wednesday that the partial government shutdown could continue for days or even weeks.
"It was a civil discussion. We're hopeful that somehow in the coming days and weeks we'll be able to reach an agreement," McConnell told reporters, opening the door to a lengthy shutdown that is already in its 12th day.
McConnell and other members of congressional leadership of both parties met with Trump and members of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for what was billed as a "briefing" on the border.
But lawmakers say that was quickly derailed with Republicans accusing Democrats of interrupting and Democrats stressed their time would be better spent talking about the partial shutdown.
McConnell added that they had a "good discussion" on border security but acknowledged they had not yet found a way to break the stalemate over Trump's U.S-Mexico border wall.
"I don't think any particular progress was made today, but we talked about all aspects of it. It was a civil discussion," he said.
The shutdown began Dec. 22 after Democrats refused to agree to Trump's demand for $5 billion in funding for a wall on the Mexican border.
House Democrats are expected to vote on Thursday on a package to reopen the government. One bill would fund DHS through Feb. 8. The second would fund the remaining six bills through Sept. 30, the end of the 2019 fiscal year.
But the White House and Senate Republicans have vowed not to move the bill once it reaches the Senate.
"As I've said for the last two weeks, the Senate will be glad to vote on a measure that the House passes that the president will sign. But we're not going to vote on anything else," McConnell said.
Asked if that meant he won't take up the House bill, he added: "That's right."
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Profile: New HUSA VP Proves To Be Missing Piece
By Shirley Carswell on February 17, 2017
By Acacia James, Contributing Writer
Posted 2:50 PM EST, Fri., Feb. 17, 2017
Arabella Okwara, 21, is a senior political science major, African-American studies minor from East Providence, Rhode Island. She is the current vice president of the Howard University Student Association’s 56th administration, and is also the president of the international pre-law fraternity, Phi Alpha Delta. Being in such a high position for more than one organization could be seen as stressful, but Okwara is making it work.
Okwara was appointed HUSA’s VP by HUSA Executive President Allyson Carpenter this past fall. This appointment occurred after the unexpected resignation of former HUSA VP Jordan Roper. According to HUSA, Roper resigned due to the workload of being HUSA’s VP.
“There was no constitutional protocol on how to fill a vacancy for HUSA executive, so I released an executive order,” Carpenter said. “Arabella shares our values, but brings a different approach that has proven to be effective.
Okwara was already familiar with Carpenter when she worked with the HUSA Senate and her during an event called ElectHer, which was an event held to promote young women to run for public office. During their work together on these events, the two realized that they worked well together.
“Because I had been dedicated to student government already, it was a kind of a natural fit,” Okwara says. Although she was somewhat hesitant in the beginning she accepted the offer to be HUSA Vice President “willfully and gratefully.”
Okwara’s past experiences with student government and politics include being on HUSA Senate as a representative for Colleges and Arts and Science, where she later stepped up into the constitutional review committee chair position. This position entailed her looking over constitution proposals, and vetting policy board members ensuring that they were sound members.
Okwara’s role as Vice President has been to position herself as a mediator between Senate, and Executives. She says a lot of her role has been attending meetings and working out issues that may come along. “Sometimes students will tweet Allyson with their issues, and we try to work to get them solved.”
So far, Okwara has been working on a Transportation Alternatives Committee, “under that will fall the Bike Project, which students will receive more updates on in the future through HUSA’s mid-year report,” Okwara said. She is also focusing on putting an advisory committee together to work on different methods to improving Howard’s shuttle system, such as better shuttle stops and better times for the shuttle to be running. Another facet of transportation she is looking into is getting students metrocards, and also partnering with an affordable ride sharing app for students.
Luckily Okwara has not faced any challenges or adversity, and said, “I’m fortunately enough it’s been a very smooth transition.”
Although she’s extremely dedicated to student government, Okwara’s political practices are taken beyond campus as well. She has interned with IMPACT, which is an organization dedicated to helping young Black politicians and professionals. She has also worked with the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, who she says does a lot of research and conventions for young political leaders as well.
In the future, Okwara has hopes to strengthen and further her political career.
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40 Dolphins Found Dead In Area Hit By Mauritius Oil Spill
Environmentalists, meanwhile, have demanded an investigation to find out whether the dolphins were killed due to the oil spill.
India | 29 Aug 2020 6:21 AM GMT / Updated : 2020-08-29T12:02:07+05:30
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As many as 40 dolphins have mysteriously died in an area hit by an oil spill from a Japanese boat in Mauritius, officials and witnesses said on Friday, August 28.
According to a report by Reuters, Yasfeer Heenaye, a fisherman, said he saw between 25 and 30 apparently dead dolphins floating in the lagoon.
"There was a mother and her baby. He was very tired, he didn't swim well. But the mum stayed alongside him, she didn't leave her baby to go with the group. All the way she stayed with him. She was trying to protect him," Heenaye told the media.
The calf later died in front in front of him. While Reuben Pillay, a professional drone operator and environmentalist tracked the mother dolphin, he said, "In a few minutes she went on her side, one fin in the water, and one out of the water and then she started flapping her tail really really rapidly."
"She swam in circles in front of the boat, she moved her tail very violently and after about five minutes she just stopped moving, and she sunk ... We heard cries, I thought it was a woman on the boat - but they told me, no - it was the dolphin," he added.
The dolphin eventually stopped moving and slowly sank, and the dead body floated on the water.
Meanwhile, environmentalists have demanded an investigation to find out whether the dolphins were killed due to the oil spill. Autopsy results of the 25 dolphins that washed ashore on Wednesday and Thursday are awaited.
According to preliminary autopsy results of the two dolphins that were examined, not trace of hydrocarbons were found in their body.
On July 25, the Japanese ship, the MV Wakashio's hull had struck a coral reef off the island, unleashing a vast oil spill. When the ship's hull cracked early this month, an estimated 1,000 tonnes of oil had leaked into the sea.
Also Read: Massive Oil Spill From Damaged Ship Threatens Mauritius, Volunteers Struggle To Contain Disaster
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Bill Aimed At Reducing Teacher Shortage Introduced to House
February 20, 2020 February 19, 2020 Jordyn Pair
A bill proposed to the Michigan House of Representatives on Tuesday could help ease the teacher shortage in Michigan.
Introduced by State Rep. Sheryl Kennedy (D-48-Davison), the bill would allow retired teachers to return to K-12 classrooms as long-term substitute teachers without affecting their pensions or retirement benefits.
“Michigan’s public schools are experiencing a critical shortage in qualified substitute teachers,” Kennedy said in a statement.
The new bipartisan bill, titled House Bill 5497, would remove the current earnings caps for teachers coming out of retirement, as well as allow retired teachers to return to the classroom to substitute teach in as little as 30 days.
Kennedy serves as co-chair of the legislative Educator’s Caucus.
More than 2,500 Michigan classrooms were being taught by a long-term substitute teachers during the 2018-2019 school year, according to an analysis by Bridge Magazine, a tenfold increase in just five years. The substitute teachers are not certified teachers.
Bridge also reported that a 2019 survey showed that just 25 percent of Michigan teachers said they would recommend the industry to young people and that enrollment in Michigan teacher prep programs dropped 70 percent in eight years.
A report released on Monday outlined the three main issues causing the teacher shortage in Michigan: lack of recruitment, poor retention rates, and lack of diversification. It also included a list of 10 recommendations aimed at boosting teacher numbers, including increased pay, a statewide task force and an annual conference to help facilitate communication between teachers and policymakers.
“If we want to ensure our children receive the world-class education they deserve, we should be doing all we can to encourage our most experienced educators to return to the classroom, not turn them away,” Kennedy said.
To read the recently released report on teacher shortages, click here.
Jordyn Pair is a reporter with Battleground State News and The Michigan Star. Follow her on Twitter at @JordynPair. Email her at [email protected]
Photo “Sheryl Kennedy” by Sheryl Kennedy.
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VRB® Energy Completes Phase 1 Commissioning of 10MW/40MWh Utility-Scale Solar and Storage Project
VRB® Energy Completes Commissioning of Phase 1 of the Hubei Zaoyang 10MW/40MWh Utility-Scale Solar and Storage Integration Demonstration Project
3MW/12MWh Vanadium-Redox-Battery Energy-Storage-System (VRB-ESS®) Commences Operation
BEIJING, CHINA and VANCOUVER, CANADA, January 11, 2019 — Robert Friedland, Chairman of VRB Energy, and Dr. Mianyan Huang, Chief Technology Officer and President of China Operations, are pleased to announce the company has completed the commissioning of Phase 1 of the Hubei Zaoyang 10-megawatt (MW)/40-megawatt-hour (MWh) Utility-Scale Solar and Storage Integration Demonstration Project, with a 3 MW 12 MWh vanadium-redox-battery energy-storage-system (VRB-ESS®) commencing operation.
“I am delighted to see the commissioning and operation of the largest capacity vanadium redox battery built in China to date. This project represents a key step in applying China’s rich vanadium resources to renewable energy development that will transform the energy industry and help alleviate environmental problems,” said Mr. Friedland.
“Hubei Province has abundant vanadium mineral resources. This project combines locally sourced vanadium with VRB Energy’s advanced energy storage technology to serve as a brand new partnership model for fostering local economic development, energy transformation, comprehensive utilization of resources and sustainable development,” said Mr. Xie Guoguang, Chairman of Hubei Pingfan Ruifeng New Energy Technology Ltd. – the project’s investor.
Upon completion of the commissioning and the commencement of operations, Chinese government official Mr. Li Lecheng, member of the Standing Committee of Hubei Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Xiangyang Municipal Committee, led government leaders from Xiangyang City and Zaoyang City in inspecting the project.
Secretary Li affirmed the significance of the project and the achievements in its construction. He encouraged the parties involved in the project to continue efforts to promote project construction methods and learnings, accelerate construction of renewable energy generation and storage, and drive development and localization of the energy storage industry in order to advance economic development and environmental protection.
Building on the valuable experience gained from construction of this project, the project investor and all parties involved in the construction are working closely on pursuing multiple 100MW-class vanadium redox battery storage projects in Hubei, China. These projects would help to fulfill a key initiative under China’s 2017 energy storage policy published by the National Development and Reform Commission – the macroeconomic management agency under the Chinese State Council that has broad administrative and planning control over the Chinese economy – to deploy multiple 100 MW-class vanadium flow batteries as part of broader efforts to increase renewable energy use, lower emissions and improve efficiency in the electricity sector.
VRB Energy’s engineers inspecting the VRB-ESS.
Officials from the provincial and municipal governments touring Phase 1 of the Hubei Zaoyang 10MW/40MWh Utility-Scale Solar and Storage Integration Demonstration Project.
About VRB Energy
VRB Energy, formerly known as Pu Neng, is a fast-growing, privately-held clean technology innovator. The company has developed the most reliable, longest-lasting vanadium flow battery in the world, with more than 30 megawatt-hours installed and in construction worldwide, and more than 800,000 hours of demonstrated performance. The combination of VRB Energy’s proprietary low-cost ion-exchange membrane, long-life electrolyte formulation and innovative flow cell design sets it apart from other providers.
VRB Energy’s vanadium redox battery (VRB®) systems store energy in liquid electrolyte in a patented process based on the reduction and oxidation of ionic forms of the element vanadium. This is a nearly infinitely repeatable process that is safe, reliable, and non-toxic. Components can be nearly 100% recycled at end of-life, dramatically improving lifecycle economics and environmental benefits compared to lead-acid, lithium-ion and other battery systems.
VRB Energy is majority-owned by High Power Exploration (HPX), a metals-focused exploration company that also invests in metals and minerals-based technologies to sustainably support an urbanizing planet and the global transition to renewable energy.
HPX is a subsidiary of I-Pulse, a global leader in developing innovative commercial applications for pulsed power technologies that convert small amounts of electrical energy into limitless power to address a broad and growing suite of applications across multiple industrial markets. I-Pulse is a private company with offices in San Francisco, London, Toulouse, Tokyo and Vancouver.
For more information on VRB Energy, HPX and I-Pulse, please visit our websites at www.vrbenergy.com, www.hpxploration.com, and www.ipulse-group.com.
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Yves H.
North American Publisher / ISBN: Venture - 1-56971-565-3
Categories: Crime, European
Review by Frank Plowright
We’re in darkest noir territory here as Hermann and son Yves H. take a dive into the playground of black and white American gangster films. Hermann even tips the nod by casting likenesses of Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and possibly John Carradine, just a modified feature or two away from the originals.
All good crime stories require a patsy, the guy who stumbles in and thinks he can control the scene, and here it’s fresh from the country detective Sam Leighton. The sordid lure of New York has sucked him in against his mother’s advice and he’s going to make good by following leads about dead gangsters despite the warnings of his senior officers to leave well enough alone. Turns out the underworld answers to this guy named Joe and he has a thing for this dame named Gladys, who’s not averse to a tumble on the side. Then there’s this private dick named Philip Meadows, got kicked off the force years back, but that don’t mean he can’t keep looking out for the public, and if there’s a chance he can nail Joe, well he ain’t gonna turn that down.
Yet despite all that we’re not in cliché city here. There’s a vague and unsettling undercurrent as Leighton goes about his business. His strings are being pulled and he’s taking his lumps, but there’s something he’s not quite getting at, and what is that business with his tombstone on page six?
Yves H’s script is very clever, toying with crime fiction genre tropes, but delivering a punch to the gut final panel that blasts away all assumptions. Blood Ties is a little wordy in places, and the inconsistencies mount up, but there is an explanation.
For his part Hermann has years of excellence behind him as a consummate storyteller, and the decision to tell the majority in muted tones accentuates the 1950s period feel. This edition is an attractive European style hardbound volume, but better value is Dark Horse’s 2015 Trilogy USA. It collects Blood Ties along with Manhattan Beach 1957 and The Girl From Ipanema, all three crime stories with an American setting wedded to European sensibilities.
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Thanos: The Infinity Relativity
Writer / Artist
Categories: Science-Fiction, Superhero
Review by Ian Keogh
Jim Starlin set something really big simmering when he once again revived Adam Warlock in The Infinity Revelation. As well as giving a credible explanation for Warlock’s now frequent returns from the dead, he intimated that somehow this resurrection was tainted. There are further interesting complications as the plot unfurls.
Relativity is a very different beast from its predecessor, but equally fascinating. Whereas Revelation was contemplative and puzzling, this is open and action-packed, and as has often been the case in Starlin’s stories, the prize is an object of immense power. There’s an amusing self-awareness about this aspect of the plot, with Starlin having a laugh along with us, before he escalates the action. The device attracts the attention of numerous cosmic (for want of a better word) beings. Starlin boosted Annhilus considerably in Thanos vs. Hulk, and that now has a relevance as he’s personally able to go fist to fist with some of the galaxy’s most powerful beings rather than relying on vast armies.
It’s comforting to have Starlin again illustrating his stories. The work of others can at their very best approximate what Starlin does, but never better that, and the investment he has in creating a story is reflected in the power and detail of his art. An interesting aspect art is how he constantly modifies the look of his cast from story to story with Thanos the only stable aspect (although he has toyed with his visualistion also). The most obvious example is Adam Warlock, here changed to reflect his new persona and abilities, but Pip the Troll also looks slightly different, slightly thinner, as does Gamora. There’s less leeway with other members of the Guardians of the Galaxy, but Starlin’s Groot is noble and distinctive despite not having much of a role.
As might be expected with the cast and creator involved, The Infinity Relativity is a headlong rush to final pages. This isn’t a story concluded until The Infinity Finale, and as in all good stories it appears darkest before the dawn. There is, however, a sidebar, to be found in The Infinity Entity.
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Jason Richards July 5, 2016 NewsLeave a comment
After the vote, Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London, said the protesters against Brexit were confused.
He has accused the government of failing to explain how leaving the EU can work in the UK’s interests.
He declared that this vote led to “a kind of hysteria, a contagious mourning” among part of the population.
People were confused and did not know what to vote. Their primary concern was about the freedom of immigrants to come in their country without barriers.
The real reasons for Brexit are related to security risks:
Immigrants have been allowed to enter the EU countries too easy. Among these immigrants, even the terrorists could infiltrate.
So, people voted for Brexit because the risk of a woman being raped could occur at any moment. Or those foreign people could quickly take the jobs of British citizens.
Many people were against England leaving EU the racism, but they are aware that immigrants can be a potential threat.
ISIS is a group of psychopaths. It is a terrorist group with carefully considered beliefs, and their actions seem to herald an apocalypse they believe in.
The terrorist group has successfully smuggled thousands of covert jihadists into Europe.
Those who lead ISIS want to unravel all the leading powers. They started with the EU, and they want to control even the US.
The campaign for British exit feeds on old homegrown resentments. They include nostalgia for imperial certainties and pre-globalized jobs for life. The Brits have resentment for immigrants and rules imposed by “unelected” courts.
The Brexit’s catch-all slogan is “Take back control” and it is designed to appeal to social isolationists.
The fundamental reason why British voters want to exit a 43-year relationship with the 28-nation European Union (EU) of 500 million citizens is because of:
Industrial unrest in Europe,
The refugee crisis,
Terrorist attacks.
The senseless murders and slaughtered people in the suburbs fed up these reasons.
So, the Leave vote from 23 June gave voters an opportunity to kick the government and the political elites who are accused to have let them down.
The former mayor of London, Mr. Johnson said in his latest weekly Telegraph column that the stock market has not plunged.
He declared the FTSE is higher than when the vote took place and that there has been no emergency budget.
He stated that the crowds of young people are experiencing psychological tremors of Project Fear, which is a term used in British politics. It is used to denote campaigning deemed to be based on scaremongering. It is an attempt of the government to manipulate public opinion since the run-up to the Iraq War.
Will the EU punish London for its exit, or does the EU need British markets too much to dare?
Why are people experiencing fear even after the Brexit? Do you believe that immigrants and terrorists will not be able to enter the UK from now on? Do you believe that ISIS will become unable to attack US, England or other states? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
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Spaced Dwarf – A familiar dress is back on our screens…
Posted on October 19, 2017 // 0 Comments
The twelfth series of Red Dwarf is now firmly underway, and whilst Episode Two had a direct link to TVO via guest-star Richard Glover, the third episode has an altogether weirder connection. Still a guest appearance of sorts, but more of a platter of organic processes mixed with a pinch of irony and a side helping of self-deprecation.
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Timewave sees Rimmer naming a gassy planetoid after himself, before they gang discover a 24th century ship on a crash course caused by a wibbly wobbly spacetime event. The ship – and the society it originates from – has a strict no-criticism law, which obviously affects the quality of just about everything they do.
Ziggy Bryson (played by Extras star Jamie Chapman) greets the Boys from the Dwarf, and is very excited to see them. Obviously, they can’t quite play along, leading to their inevitable incarceration at the hands of the ship’s police force – led by none other than Johnny Vegas – before Bryson attempts to remove all negative thoughts from their minds…
However, for reasons we’ve been unable to fathom, Ziggy’s outfit of a military inspired, bulbous pink dress with a plumed helmet to match will be recognisable to any diehard fans of Spaced – the cult classic sitcom from Simon Pegg & Jessica Hynes. Yes, it’s none other than that of non-gender specific conceptual artist Vulva!
Cast your minds back to 1999’s first series of Spaced, and the third episode Art sees Tim & Daisy accompany Brian (the ever wonderful Mark Heap) to a performance by conceptual artists Vulva (David Walliams) and Hoover (TVO regular Paul Kaye).
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Tim is wired after lots of cheap drugs and an all-nighter playing Resident Evil 2, Daisy is stressed out following an embarrassing job interview that could’ve been salvaged by purchasing Huge Fat Cocks, and Brian’s attempts at impressing his former collaborator go a little bit off script.
It’s a classic sequence in a much loved show, and Walliams iconic outfit was clearly granted life after the series. We’re not entirely sure where it’s been for the last eighteen years (!) but there’s no mistaking it in these promotional pictures for the new Red Dwarf.
To the best of our knowledge, there’s no crossover in wardrobe department personnel across the two shows, and we haven’t seen the dress appear in anything else before or since, but if anyone out there knows where Vulva’s iconic outfit has been all this time, do let us know.
You can catch Timewave on UKTV Play now, and on Dave at 9pm on Thursday 26th October. It will be released on Blu-Ray and DVD on 20th November. Spaced is available on DVD now. Finally, you can revisit the cast talking about the Spaced scene below…
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AkzoNobel focuses on COVID-19 response, ready to resume momentum towards Winning together: 15 by 20 ambition when markets normalize
AkzoNobel pauses key parts of the company’s transformation and suspend its 2020 financial ambition in response to significant market disruption resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Once markets normalize, AkzoNobel intends to resume its positive momentum and drive performance in line with industry frontrunners.
The company is taking maximum precautions to ensure the safety and well-being of its employees, while also taking all reasonable steps to sustain business operations and continue serving its customers. AkzoNobel takes care to fully support and comply with the requirements of relevant authorities. In affected countries and regions, employees are working remotely if their jobs allow. As the situation continues to evolve, the company is constantly adapting its... ... More: Official Press Release AkzoNobel
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GM shares hit record high as automaker reveals electric van and delves into flying cars
Renderings from GM of the “Cadillac halo portfolio” that includes concepts of an autonomous shuttle (right) and an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, also known as a flying vehicle.
Screenshot via GM
Shares of General Motors hit a record high in intraday trading Tuesday after the automaker unveiled a new electric van and revealed potential plans to delve into futuristic flying cars.
The Detroit automaker’s stock was up by as much as 8.8% to $48.95 a share as of Tuesday morning, leading to a roughly $70 billion market cap. Its previous high of $46.76 occurred in October 2017. It’s a record since the automaker emerged from bankruptcy during the Great Recession and went public in 2010.
GM CEO Mary Barra and other executives discussed the plans as part of the CES technology conference, which is being streamed online this year.
The EV600 electric van is scheduled to go on sale later this year through a new commercial business unit of GM’s called BrightDrop. The division is planning a full portfolio of electric products, not just vehicles, including a delivery pallet that was unveiled Tuesday.
The potential foray into “personal air mobility” was announced as part of Cadillac’s portfolio of luxury and EV vehicles. It included an autonomous shuttle and an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, or more commonly known as a flying car or air taxi.
Michael Simcoe, vice president of GM global design, said each concept reflected “the needs and wants of the passengers at a particular moment in time and GM’s vision of the future of transportation.”
“This is a special moment for General Motors as we reimagine the future of personal transportation for the next five years and beyond,” Simcoe said.
The flying vehicle is designed to hold one passenger and travel roughly 56 mph between rooftops and other urban destinations, according to the company. A GM spokeswoman confirmed GM has designed models of both autonomous concepts, but computer renderings were simulated during the presentation. She declined to provide other details.
Despite uncertainties around personal air mobility, Morgan Stanley expects the autonomous urban aircraft market may be worth $1.5 trillion by 2040.
The segment is attracting major investments from the automotive and aviation industries. Fiat Chrysler earlier Tuesday announced a new partnership with air mobility company Archer to help lower costs and accelerate the launch of an eVTOL aircraft. Other companies involved in the segment include Joby, Boeing-backed Wisk and Hyundai Motor.
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HomeBusinessThe Issue is the iPhone – Apple (AAPL)
The Issue is the iPhone – Apple (AAPL)
February 24, 2013 Ron Haruni
Five months ago Apple (AAPL) was the most valuable public company on earth and a darling of Wall Street. But after ending FY’12 down more than 24 percent from an all-time high of $705.07 that briefly pushed the co.’s market cap beyond $650 billion, the iPhone giant failed to make the cut in Citigroup (C)’s latest ranking of so-called ‘World Champion’ stocks.
And the list was pretty long. After nominating 185 companies, Citi Research, the analyst arm of Citigroup, narrowed its list to a final global basket of 50 stocks that included many of Apple’s tech peers, such as Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), and Qualcomm (QCOM). Apple’s ticker however, was no where to be found. So, is Apple too injured to play ball with the big guys?
Stephen Weiss, managing partner at Short Hills Capital, worries that it is.
In an interview with CNBC, he points out that while other companies that made the list, such as M’soft, don’t have better growth characteristics, increasing competition in the smartphone market and declining profit margins are two key elements that should be taken under consideration when analyzing AAPL.
“The issue is the iPhone,” Weiss said. “It’s a high priced device with more than 50% of profits at Apple coming from the phone. Margins are twice that of the competition.”
Weiss thinks with such strong competition in the smartphone space, once dominated by Apple, the company will have a hard time fighting the trend of profit-eroding price competition.
Trader Pete Najarian, co-founder of OptionMonster disagrees. He believes that with AAPL — currently trading at a very low P/E ratio of 10.20x current earnings and 7x net of the cash — pulling back from $700 to $450, at current levels the market will accept lower margins.
Jon Najarian, co-founder of OptionMonster is of the same opinion. “The stock have gone through a 30% correction. At these levels, I see it as a value. I don’t understand why Citi doesn’t.”
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dsa February 24, 2013 at 6:35 pm
I think you mean Five months ago Apple (AAPL) was the most overvalued public company on earth
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Trump’s Yemen coalition just bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital
By Colin Taylor
Over the past year and a half, Donald Trump’s administration has slowly but steadily escalated our nation’s involvement in Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war against the Houthi rebels of Yemen.
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The United States military provides logistical assistance and material support to the Saudi-led coalition, which includes nine other nations but has failed to achieve any substantial strategic gains in three years of slaughter.
What they have managed to accomplish is artificially create a famine by restricting food imports into the war-torn desert nation that threatens the lives of eight million people and exacerbate a cholera epidemic that has killed thousands and threatens another million people, on top of a relentless bombing campaign that has significantly inflated the civil war’s staggering death toll of 13,000 people. By November 2017, more than 130 children were dying every single day.
The sadistic excesses of the Saudi coalition were put on full display this weekend when a coalition airstrike leveled a Doctors Without Borders (Medicin Sans Frontiers, or MSF) cholera treatment center in Abs, Yemen.
"This morning´s attack on an @MSF cholera treatment centre in Abs by the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition shows complete disrespect for medical facilities and patients. Whether intentional or a result of negligence, it is totally unacceptable." pic.twitter.com/1PUEQXSmvE
— MSF Yemen (@msf_yemen) June 11, 2018
While casualty figures are not available as of yet, the damage to the structure is devastating, and MSF has been forced to freeze their humanitarian efforts in the area until their safety can be assured.
#MSF has temporarily frozen its activities in #Abs #Yemen until we guarantee the safety of our staff and patients."¨João Martins, MSF's Head of Mission #Yemen pic.twitter.com/H7WhLrtaJt
Of course, their safety should have been guaranteed since MSF regularly provides coalition forces with the locations of their hospitals, though that hasn’t stopped the Saudis from bombing their hospitals before.
They have committed these war crimes and dozens of other atrocities against innocent Yemeni civilians with the blessing of the United States. We sold them the jets they fly, the bombs they drop, and use our satellites to help them find targets. Our special forces are on the ground to support Saudi troops.
This is our war, and we are responsible for the horrifying crimes against humanity that are carried out with our blessing and enabled by our technology.
The burden of guilt doesn’t just fall on Trump – though his bowing and scraping before the Saudis certainly contribute to their ruthless sense of impunity. President Obama sold Saudi Arabia $100 billion in sophisticated weaponry and turned a blind eye to Saudi butchery.
The Senate was recently presented with a bipartisan bill to put an end to the United States’ complicity in these awful crimes, but ten Democrats voted against it, deciding it was more important for us to continue pouring our tax dollars into continuing our participation in a murderous war we didn’t start and have no reason to be in.
Few public figures bothered to acknowledge the event, the public unconcerned that one of the main sources of bipartisan cooperation in Washington is ensuring that our wars never end and the killing never stops.
A blown out hospital and the deaths of the people that relied on that hospital for treatment is their reward – just more sad names added to the endless scroll of the victims of American imperialism.
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Delegation of Power for Retention of Vehicle for Office Use
Published in Finance.
Audit Branch
No. 3682-F(Y) Dated, 15th July, 2014
In terms of Memo No. 1232-F(Y) dated 9th February 2012, financial power for retention of hired vehicle was delegated to Additional Chief Secretary/ Principal Secretary/ Secretary of a department provided the vehicle was hired initially with permission of Finance Department. The retention of the hired vehicle can in no case be for a period of more than one year at a time. Simultaneously, permission was also given for replacement of the vehicle sanctioned with the approval of the Finance Department. The matter of extending this delegated power to the Divisional Commissioners was under consideration of the Government for sometime past.
Now, therefore, the undersigned is directed by the order of the Governor to authorise the Divisional Commissioners to retain the vehicles hired for their establishments, where necessary, for a period not extending one year at a time provided the vehicles in question were initially hired with approval of the Finance Department. Divisional Commissioners are also authorised, in case of necessity, to replace one hired vehicle with another similar vehicle, provided vehicle was initially hired with approval of the Finance Department.
While issuing orders in exercise of the powers delegated in this order the following sentence should be inserted in the order – “This order is issued in exercise of the power delegated under Finance Department Memo No. 3682-F(Y) dated 15th July 2014”.
Approval/ Concurrence of Finance Department will be required in case of fresh hiring of vehicle.
This order will take immediate effect.
Sd/- H.K. Dwivedi
Principal Secretary to the
No. 3682-F dated 15.07.2014, Source
Amendment of Rule 47 of WBFR regarding Office Vehicle
Financial Power for according Administrative Approval
Financial Power for Sanctioning any Extra Item
Sixth Pay Commission - Further Extension of Term of Office
Office remains Open with 25% Staff w.e.f. 20.04.2020
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, is made from scratch the traditional way---by hand. The recipe is guarded, as carefully as qebap recipes are in the old country. “I won’t give it to anybody,” said Lumani, an Albanian native. “They ask me, I say no.” His closely guarded qebap is a treasure worth discovering in downtown Middleton. Lumani and his wife Zamira have operated a restaurant here since 1991 – they also co-own Villa Dolce, a nearby Italian restaurant. Sofra Family Bistro was originally named Bavaria Family Restaurant but in 2008, the Lumanis added new Albanian items to the menu and renamed the restaurant Sofra Family Bistro. “Sofra means ‘family table,’” Zamira Lumani said. “We are very family-oriented so it made sense.” The restaurant features breakfast items like omelets, crepes and Turkish coffee, and lunch items include sandwiches, burgers and wraps. In addition to qebap, the menu also includes international offerings like chicken Apolonia, lamb gyros, and Mediterranean-spiced beef skewers. “All of our food is homemade,” Zamira said. “We take great pride in our food and our quality of food.” The restaurant has a loyal following, including customers who have been coming to Sofra for years. “They mean a lot to us–they mean the world to us,” Zamira said of their customers. “We like to think we treat them like family and they treat us like family.” The qebap is a big draw, attracting customers from Chicago and beyond. Gjyner said that in his native Albania, restaurants that serve qebap are local institutions, often operated by the same family for six or seven generations. These restaurants guard their recipes closely and when Lumani sought to add qebap to Sofra’s menu, he had no family recipe to draw from. He wasn’t going to find this recipe in a cookbook or on the Internet, but he grew up with this delicacy – the recipe was in his heart, he just had to develop the right mix of ingredients. As Gjyner describes it, making qebap is as much an art as it is a science. So, he experimented with different sources of ingredients and blends until one day, he had it. “Everything has to be perfect,” he said. About Sofra Family Bistro 7457 Elmwood Ave, Middleton, WI 53562 (608) 836-6614 sofrabistro.com Hours: daily, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Carry out service is available as well as delivery via EatStreet. Indoor and outdoor dining are also available. Special catering and business group menu packages are available–call the restaurant to inquire.", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://visitmiddleton.com/depot/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/sofra-food.jpg" } }
Meet Your Good Neighbor Front Porch Series: Sofra Family Bistro
Don’t bother asking Gjyner “Gerry” Lumani for his qebap recipe.
The delicious Albanian sausage served by his restaurant, Sofra Family Bistro, is made from scratch the traditional way—by hand. The recipe is guarded, as carefully as qebap recipes are in the old country.
“I won’t give it to anybody,” said Lumani, an Albanian native. “They ask me, I say no.”
His closely guarded qebap is a treasure worth discovering in downtown Middleton. Lumani and his wife Zamira have operated a restaurant here since 1991 – they also co-own Villa Dolce, a nearby Italian restaurant. Sofra Family Bistro was originally named Bavaria Family Restaurant but in 2008, the Lumanis added new Albanian items to the menu and renamed the restaurant Sofra Family Bistro.
“Sofra means ‘family table,’” Zamira Lumani said. “We are very family-oriented so it made sense.”
The restaurant features breakfast items like omelets, crepes and Turkish coffee, and lunch items include sandwiches, burgers and wraps. In addition to qebap, the menu also includes international offerings like chicken Apolonia, lamb gyros, and Mediterranean-spiced beef skewers.
“All of our food is homemade,” Zamira said. “We take great pride in our food and our quality of food.”
The restaurant has a loyal following, including customers who have been coming to Sofra for years.
“They mean a lot to us–they mean the world to us,” Zamira said of their customers. “We like to think we treat them like family and they treat us like family.”
The qebap is a big draw, attracting customers from Chicago and beyond.
Gjyner said that in his native Albania, restaurants that serve qebap are local institutions, often operated by the same family for six or seven generations. These restaurants guard their recipes closely and when Lumani sought to add qebap to Sofra’s menu, he had no family recipe to draw from.
He wasn’t going to find this recipe in a cookbook or on the Internet, but he grew up with this delicacy – the recipe was in his heart, he just had to develop the right mix of ingredients. As Gjyner describes it, making qebap is as much an art as it is a science. So, he experimented with different sources of ingredients and blends until one day, he had it.
“Everything has to be perfect,” he said.
About Sofra Family Bistro
7457 Elmwood Ave, Middleton, WI 53562
sofrabistro.com
Hours: daily, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Carry out service is available as well as delivery via EatStreet. Indoor and outdoor dining are also available. Special catering and business group menu packages are available–call the restaurant to inquire.
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TOEFL IBT Listening Practice Test 05 from Barron’s TOEFL iBT Solution
Listening 1 “Professor’s office”
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TOEFL IBT Listening Practice Test 04 from Barron’s TOEFL iBT Transcripts
Audio Conversation
Narrator: Listen to part of a conversation between a student and a professor.
Student: Professor Collins. I’m really sorry. I mean … These are my daughters. They’re twins. I wouldn’t ordinarily bring them to an appointment, but the babysitter didn’t show up. and I couldn’t leave them. I didn’t want to cancel. I hope it’s okay.
Professor: It’s okay. I have three kids of my own, and I’ve been in the same situation.
Student: Thanks. Well, this shouldn’t take much of your time. I really just have one question.
Professor: All right.
Student: I’m having a problem understanding the difference between declarative memory and procedural memory. I think from my notes that they’re both examples of . . . let me see … I have it down here . . . “Declarative and procedural memory are two broad types of memory circuits in long-term memory.”
Professor: That’s right. But you need to distinguish between them.
Student: Exactly.
Professor: Okay, well, declarative memory is a memory that links us to a fact. Like a name or a date or even an experience.
Student: So when I remember a professor’s name when I see him, that’s declarative memory?
Professor: Yes, at its most basic level, it is. But declarative memory also includes problem solving. Like today, when you decided to bring your daughters to my office, you were using declarative memory to access previous experiences and facts that would allow you to make a decision.
Student: Oh, right. I remember your example in class. That makes sense now. You were talking about problem solving by recalling experiences. But wasn’t that episodic memory?
Professor: Very good. Yes, it’s called episodic memory. But declarative memory includes episodic memory, which is the ability to access prior experiences or personal episodes in our life, usually for the purpose of making a decision or solving a problem. So episodic memory is a subcategory of declarative memory, so to speak. And semantic memory is just the storehouse of facts that we have in our memory circuits…
Student:… which is also a subcategory of declarative memory?
Professor: Precisely.
Student: Okay. Then procedural memory doesn’t include facts or experiences.
Professor: Not directly, no. Procedural memory refers to skills that we’ve learned and are now remembering in order to … to perform the skill without really thinking much about it Like, for example, riding a bike or… or do you play a musical instrument?
Student: Piano, sort of. Not really.
Professor: Okay. Well, when you ride a bike then, you aren’t thinking about the name of every part of the bike and how to use the handle bars or the pedals .. or at least not consciously.
Professor: But at some level, you are remembering how to do these things, so you are using your memory.
Student: And that would be procedural memory.
Professor: Yes, it would.
Student: Okay, then. That’s why you said that declarative memory can be more rapidly learned, but it can also be more rapidly forgotten – because a fact can come and go in the memory. But procedural memory takes repetition and practice, so it’s harder to unlearn I’m not saying that very well.
Professor: But you have the idea. Often with declarative memory, you’re consciously trying to remember, but with procedural memory, you’re performing a skill without consciously trying to recall how … without each step in the process.
Student: That’s what I mean But…
Professor: Yes?
Student: Well, I was thinking about language. When my girts were learning to talk …
Professor: Oh, I see where you are going. You want to know whether language learning is declarative or procedural.
Student: Yeah.
Professor: What do you think?
Student: I was thinking that maybe it’s both? Because you have to memorize vocabulary, but eventually, it’s more like a skill like riding a bike … because you don’t think about each individual word. It’s more… more automatic. Um. Do you see what I mean?
Professor: A very good analysis. I think you’ve got this.
Student: Okay. Well, thanks a lot.
Professor: And, uh, if you ever need to ask me a question and if s… hard to get in to see me, just drop me an e-mail.
Student: I thought about that, but…
Professor: Look, I’m always glad to see you, but I answer a lot of questions like this by e-mail every day and if it’s easier for you, that’s fine with me.
Student: That’s very kind of you. Thank you so much.
Audio Discussion
Narrator Listen to part of a discussion in a literature class.
Today we’re continuing our discussion of Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift We left off last session at the point where Gulliver began his fourth voyage as the captain of a merchant ship. As you’ll recall, his crew had confined him and cast him ashore on an island. While making his way along a road, he was attacked by a herd of deformed beasts with brown skin and no tails, but suddenly the attack was interrupted by the appearance of a beautiful horse. And this is where we left off. So what happens next?
Student 1:
Well, another horse comes along, and they appear to be having a conversation, the two horses. I mean, and they keep using the words Yahoo and Houyhnhnm so Gulliver is able to understand that Yahoo refers to the animals that attacked him and Houyhnhnm refers to the horses. Then Gulliver goes home with the horses.
And what is Gulliver thinking about while he’s observing the Yahoos and the Houyhnhnms?
Oh, this was good. He starts to understand that the only difference between himself and the Yahoos is his clothing. But he’s… he’s horrified by this, so we see him trying to be more like the horses.
Professor: How do you know that he’s striving to emulate the Houyhnhnms?
Student 2: Well, he learns their language… so he can communicate with them.
Right. So this brings us to the most important part of the narrative—the comparison between the Yahoos and the Houyhnhnms. First tell us how the Yahoos are portrayed. What do they eat? How do they look?
Well, I think the author used the word depraved several times. They eat dog and donkey meat and even garbage, and they drink, um, they drink… too much. And he says they’re filthy, and they stink.
So their behavior… the Yahoos’ behavior… is neither rational nor moral. Now take a look at the description of the Yahoos that Gulliver has known in England. Let me refer to the book here. Okay, Gulliver explains that Yahoos in England fight wars for religious reasons, that lawyers use reason to argue for the wrong side, that the wealthy live to acquire more luxuries, and that greed makes them ill. By this, we assume that he’s referring to the rich gourmet diet that causes gout and other health problems among the upper classes. So this is in contrast with the Houyhnhnms, right? How so?
Student 1 Student 2:
Well… Yes …
Student 1: Sorry, go ahead.
I was just going to say that they eat oats, bread, and honey, but not meat not other animals. And they don’t drink.
I think it’s important that they don’t even understand the concept of a lie. That proves that they are … that they have a very innocent nature.
Good point You’re referring to the fact that they failed to grasp how the crew was able to initiate the mutiny that brought Gulliver to their island.
Student 1: Umhum.
Okay, so what do the Houyhnhnms think about Gulliver? And what does Gulliver conclude about him¬self?
Well, Gulliver isn’t really a Yahoo and he isn’t really a Houyhnhnm either. I’d say he’s kind of in the mid-dle. But, he’s trying to become a Houyhnhnm. When he goes back to England, he’s actually afraid of other humans… I mean… Yahoos.
But he cant quite achieve his transformation, can he? Even though his pride motivates him to continue the impossible pursuit of perfection So, what does this all mean?
I think it’s like the other chapters. The fourth voyage is … its another critique of the weaknesses in human nature.
Then Swift is making the point that although humankind is capable of rational behavior, we seldom choose to exercise it. The very meaning of the word Yahoo in the Houyhnhnm language is “evil.” So Swift is very satirical then. And when we consider the time period for the book, the early 1700s, we must appreciate the exceptional departure from the literature of the era, which was mostly written to flatter or entertain. Swift used satire to provide the reader with a perspective that’s very different from that of other writers in an age of science and reason.
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RANK VI USSR
T-72AV (TURMS-T) PACK
V Rank
Research:120 000
Purchase:300 000
2.2 Mobility
3.1 Main armament
3.1.1 Ammunition
3.1.2 Ammo racks
4.1 Radars
The Gun, Air Defence Artillery, Self-Propelled: 20-mm, M163 is a rank V American self-propelled anti-aircraft gun with a battle rating of 8.0 (AB/RB/SB). It was introduced in Update 1.63 "Desert Hunters".
Hull break
Low structural strength makes the vehicle susceptible to serious damage
Armourfront / side / back
Hull38 / 44 / 38
Turret17 / 17 / 17
Crew4 people
Visibility117 %
Armour is not on the operator's side in the M163, as it is thin enough to be destroyed by 12.7 mm machine guns from the sides and rear, and any cannon-sized armament from the front. The turret is partially open, leaving the crew vulnerable to enemy light arms fire. If attacked, the best bet for taking a hit and surviving is to point the engine towards the enemy and hope it absorbs the shot.
Armor Composition
Aluminum Alloy 5083 - Main, Additional
Structural Steel - Front and Rear Fenders
Rubber-Fabric Screens - Fenders/Sideskirts
Gun Steel - Launcher
Front (Slope angle)
Hull 38 mm (45°) Upper Glacis
38 mm (26°) Lower Glacis
29 mm (45°) Engine Maintenance Hatch
44 mm Upper
32 mm Lower
Turret 0-17 mm Turret Front
150 mm Gun Mantlet
17 mm 17 mm 0 mm
Additional Armor 6 mm Upper Glacis 6 mm Upper N/A N/A
Note: The additional armor does not fully cover the plate it is mounted to.
The design allows you to swim and control movement in the water
Speedforward / back
AB70 / 17 km/h
RB and SB65 / 15 km/h
Number of gears3 forward
1 back
Weight11.2 t
AB404 hp
RB and SB212 hp
Power-to-weight ratio
AB36.1 hp/t
RB and SB18.9 hp/t
Max Speed (km/h)
Weight (tons)
Engine power (horsepower)
Power-to-weight ratio (hp/ton)
70 17 11.2 301 404 26.88 36.07
65 15 188 212 16.79 18.93
AB9 900 → 13 662
Total cost of modifications113 900
Talisman cost2 100
Experts300 000
Aces1 200
Crew Replenishment
20mm_Vulcan_HEI_ammo_pack
Horizontal Drive
20mm_Vulcan_API_ammo_pack
Adjustment of Fire
Elevation Mechanism
Artillery Support
Improves visibility by enhancing natural light or active illumination.
Main armament
20 mm M168 cannon
Ammunition2 200 rounds
Belt capacity1 100 rounds
Reloadbasic crew → aces
26.0 → 20.0 s
Fire rate3 000 shots/min
Vertical guidance-5° / 80°
Main article: M168 (20 mm)
The M163 is equipped with a 20 mm M168 VADS, or Vulcan air defence system. The M168 is a variant of the M61 cannon, which can be found in-game on vehicles such as the Japanese T-2, and the American F-4C Phantom II. Used initially during the Vietnam war, the M168 was a 20 mm air-cooled rotary cannon attached to a small turret on the M163. Dangerous to anything in the sky, it will lock on and rip through anything in its path.
20 mm M168
Turret rotation speed (°/s)
Reloading rate (seconds)
Capacity (Belt)
Fire rate
2,200 (1,100) 3,000 -5°/+80° ±180° N/A 66.05 91.41 111.00 122.80 130.59 26.00 23.00 21.20 20.00
Default: AP-I · HEI-T · AP-I
HEI-T: HEI-T · HEI-T · HEI-T · AP-I
AP-I: AP-I · AP-I · AP-I · HEI-T
Penetration statistics
Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
Default 53 50 39 28 20 14
HEI-T 53 50 39 28 20 14
AP-I 53 50 39 28 20 14
Ammo racks
Ammo racks of the M163
rack empty
2 belts 1 (+1) 0 (+2) No
The M163 has an amazing rate of fire with the M168 gun, thus it has amazing damage output. In an anti-aircraft role, it is best used as a point-defence SPAA, defending a group of allies/cap zone from air attack. Its range isn't as good as the M247, so it's best to keep in mind the approximate 1 km targeting zone of the M163.
The M163 wields about 60 mm of penetration, which is enough to mortally wound/destroy many Axis-country's vehicles such as the Leopard, AUBL, and Centauro.
The high rate of fire also allows the M163 a sort of CIWS (Close-In Weapon System) type of role, as it can easily spray in the direction of an incoming bomb, thus destroying it and saving nearby allies. This is especially easy against the infamous FAB-5000 bomb from the Russian Pe-8, as the bomb is large and easy to track.
An M163 firing at a FAB-5000, right before the bomb is hit and destroyed.
Main article: AN/VPS-2
The M163 is equipped with an AN/VPS-2 tracking radar, with no search radar. The radar is fitted to the side of the turret.
In order to lock on you must be looking through your sight, position the crosshair over a target (within 7 km) and press the lock on key. The target must be within a 2° cone from the centre of the crosshair.
AN/VPS-2 - Tracking Radar
Azimuth Tracking
Elevation Tracking
target speed
7,000 m 100 m 360° -20°/+85°
(lock between -20°/+20°) 15 m/s (54 km/h)
Quick acceleration
Good traverse, especially when fully upgraded
Insane rate of fire of 3,000 rpm; can literally shred incoming enemy aircraft, AP rounds are dangerous against lightly armoured vehicles
Has a tracking radar
Light armour
Top speed of 32 km/h off-road when stock
Not keen to climbing hills until performance modules are equipped
Relatively slow for the rank
Slow in water
Inaccurate/wobbly in water
One of the longest rearm/reload times in the game
No search radar
Effective range is not good for a rank V SPAA
Inaccurate while approaching far targets
The M163 VADS (Vulcan Air Defense System) was a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) based on the chassis of the M113 armored personnel carrier (APC). It was nearly unmodified from the base M113, and featured the same armor scheme, rear loading ramp, and the General Motors 6V53 series 6-cylinder 2-cycle diesel engine (212 hp). An open-topped turret was fitted to the center of the roof of the vehicle, and an M61 Vulcan 20mm rotary cannon was mounted in the turret. The gun could fire at 3,000 rpm or 1,000 rpm, and the elevation was from -5° to +80°. The M163 was operated by a crew of four, and there was a wide variety of ammunition for the main gun. A tracking radar was fitted to the turret to improve the chances of destroying an enemy aircraft, but the anti-aircraft ability of the M163 was limited and it was only useful against low-flying aircraft within 5 kilometers, and the chances of destroying the aircraft were best within 1 kilometer.
The M163 entered service with the United States Army in 1969, but at least six vehicles were sent to the Vietnam War before the type had entered service. The vehicles sent to South Vietnam were not fitted with the tracking radar, and they were used mostly in an infantry support role. The M163 was later upgraded to the M163A1 and A2 standards. The M163A1 had an improved gun mount, and the M163A2 featured the improved M113A2 powerplant. The M163 PIVADS (Product Improved Vulcan Air Defense System) upgrade was introduced in 1984. The PIVADS upgrade featured improved radar and accuracy of the gun, and it also introduced armor-piercing capabilities with an APDS round. Over time, the M163 began to be used more in an infantry support role, as surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems became more common. It notably served during the First Gulf War. The M163 was retired from US Army service in 1993.
The M163 was also used by a number of other nations. These include Albania, Chile, Ecuador, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Portugal, South Korea, Thailand, and Tunisia. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) upgraded a number of M163 vehicles with a launcher for 4 x FIM-92 Stinger SAMs, and these were called the Machbet. The IDF also upgraded their vehicles with improved electronics. The M163 is still in service with a number of the nations listed above.
Amphibious tanks discusses the M163 at 1:43 - War Thunder Official Channel
The Shooting Range #18 - Metal Beasts section at 00:45 discusses the M163.
Other vehicles based off the M113 platform:
M113A1 (TOW)
SIDAM 25
[Weapon Systems] M163 Vulcan
M163 VADS. (2020, 13 June). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M163_VADS&oldid=962270535
M163 Vulcan Air Defense System (VADS). (2019, July 2). Military Factory. Retrieved July 15, 2020, from https://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/detail.asp?armor_id=141.
USA anti-aircraft vehicles
Based on M3 M13 MGMC · M16 MGMC · M15A1 CGMC
Based on M24 M19
Post-war M42 · M163 · M247
Retrieved from "https://wiki.warthunder.com/index.php?title=M163&oldid=88648"
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Fifth rank ground vehicles
Anti-aircraft vehicles
Ground vehicles with hull break mechanics
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Ground vehicles with night vision device
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A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He reviews stuff precisely when he means to.
Super Castlevania IV Review
Castlevania is one of the most storied franchises in all of gaming. Renowned for its intricate action and grim atmosphere, the sidescrolling series would eventually reach new heights when it combined Metroid-style exploration and RPG elements into the mix with the classic, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. But before Symphony helped create the “Metroidvania” sub-genre, Castlevania’s most acclaimed entry was Super Castlevania IV on the Super NES, which many still hail as the best “traditional” Castlevania to date. In many ways, Super Castlevania IV lives up to the legacy its built in all these years since its original release. But in some areas, the game shows a bit of age.
Storywise, the game is a remake of the original Castlevania, with Simon Belmont venturing to defeat the evil count Dracula, after the vampire lord has resurrected from a previous defeat 100 years prior. But other then the simple plot, the game is entirely original from the previous games in the series, with new levels and gameplay mechanics that built on its predecessors and brought the series up to date for the 16-bit era.
The game takes place over eleven stages, and like any old school action game, the goal is to simply make it to the end of a stage and defeat its boss to progress further.
Simon Belmont is equipped with a whip that can lash out in eight directions. The whip can also be used to swing across chasms in various points in the game. It can even be swung to shield Simon from projectiles. Additionally, secondary items such as throwing axes and boomerang-like crucifixes can be found throughout the stages, and require ‘hearts’ (think Magic Points with the collectibility of Mario’s coins) in order to be used.
The combat is undoubtedly the best aspect of the gameplay, as whipping down hordes of monsters becomes a thrilling experience.
Unfortunately, there are some areas in gameplay that haven’t aged particularly well. The most notable of which being the jumping, which feels both slow and stiff. Granted, Castlevania is based more on action than platforming, but theres enough jumping from one object to the next to make the clunky jumping become a major problem at some points in the game.
Another problem – strange as this may sound – comes from walking up and down stairs. When Simon sets one foot on the first step of a staircase, he becomes “glued” to the steps, unable to jump, which leaves him vulnerable to enemy attacks. The sense of control when Simon is walking on a staircase just feels awkward.
The extensive knockback that Simon receives from enemies also becomes a bit of a problem, and you may get more game overs from Simon being knocked back into a pit than from losing all your health. Notably, vertical-based segments become a particular pain, since previous platforms disappear once they fall out of the screen’s focus, so one hit from an enemy often sends Simon plummeting to his doom.
The game as a whole can get pretty difficult. At the best of times this is due to the game’s wonderful level design (with every level feeling distinct from one another), and at its worst due to the aforementioned stiff mechanics. There are some segments that should be reasonably difficult, but they are often made downright frustrating by the awkward control.
While the controls often damper the experience, the adventure as a whole is still memorable, and more than worth a look for fans of classic action games. The level designs are creative, sometimes even genius, as the game took advantage of the SNES’ capabilities of scaling and rotation in inventive ways.
The game still looks great, and sounds even better. The character designs are detailed, and the graphics are appropriately gloomy, with even the title screen setting up its dreary atmosphere. The soundtrack is a highlight in both the Castlevania series and the SNES library, which is no small feat, considering the hefty soundtracks to be found in both categories.
There’s certainly a lot to love about Super Castlevania IV: Its hard to imagine its presentation could get any better for its time, the combat is fun, the boss fights are memorable in a “difficult but fair” kind of way, and the level design is a constant delight. The downside is that as great as the overall game is, Simon’s slow and often awkward sense of control can hinder the fun. The overall package is something to behold, but Simon himself seems to have aged in the years since the game’s initial release.
Super Castlevania IV is an epic, eerie quest. But it lacks the timelessness and seemingly perfect execution of design that Symphony of the Night boasts. A classic for its time that’s deserving of a revisit, if maybe not a timeless classic in its own right.
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Author themancalledscottPosted on July 14, 2015 May 28, 2020 Categories Classic Gaming, Video Games, Wii UTags Castlevania, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Classic Games, Konami, Nintendo, Super Castlevania IV, Video Games, Virtual Console, Wii U
3 thoughts on “Super Castlevania IV Review”
alex9234 says:
Please do reviews of the first 3 games and Bloodlines! Oh, and Rondo of Blood too please. If you haven’t played Rondo of Blood…you are missing out. Especially when it comes to the soundtrack because it’s the best in the series IMO.
themancalledscott says:
I’ll try to get around to all of them when I can. I can’t make any guarantee when I’ll do them, but I’ll try not to make it too long of a wait. Thanks for reading! And feel free to suggest any games for me to look into and review (though again, I can’t always guarantee what or when I’ll be able to review something…hence the headline at the top of the homepage).
Justacommenter says:
This is still probably my favorite Classicvania, and while some moments can sorta suck (I never look forward the climbing segments of stage 3 or when you go up the stairs with that rolling disc of death), it’s still a great platformer.
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July 26, 2020 amjadali 0 Comments libya, russia, turkey
Turkey on Wednesday announced that it agreed with Russia that the Libyan conflict would not be resolved through military means and that it could only be settled through a UN-facilitated, Libyan-led-and-owned political process.
In a statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said the two countries would continue joint efforts, including encouraging the Libyan sides to the conflict, to create “conditions for a lasting and sustainable ceasefire.”
The ministry said that in high-level consultations, Ankara and Moscow agreed to facilitate the “advancement of the intra-Libyan political dialogue” in line with the 2020 Berlin Conference on Libya and in coordination with the UN.
In January, a conference took place in the German capital Berlin in order to start a political process and reach a permanent cease-fire in Libya. Global powers and regional actors expressed commitment to support a cease-fire, respect arms embargo and support the UN-facilitated political process.
The two countries will call on the Libyan parties to take measures for the “safe humanitarian access and delivery of urgent assistance to all those in need” and will “consider” creating a Joint Working Group on Libya.
It added that they would convene the next round of consultations in Moscow in “the near future.”
Reaffirming their “strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Libya,” they underlined the necessity to “combat terrorist individuals and entities.”
They also reaffirmed their determination to continue talks to achieve security and stability in the North African country and improve the humanitarian situation there.
Since the ouster of late ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, two seats of power have emerged in Libya: Haftar in eastern Libya supported mainly by Egypt and the UAE, and the Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli, which enjoys the UN and international recognition.
Libya’s legitimate government has been under attack by Haftar’s forces since last April, and more than 1,000 people have been killed in the violence.
Haftar has the support of the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Russia while the UN-recognized government is backed by Turkey.
Restoration of Libyan unity ‘ultimate goal’: Russia
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the restoration of the Libyan territorial integrity as “the ultimate goal” of the Libya settlement.
Speaking at a press conference in Moscow, following a meeting with his Algerian counterpart Sabri Boukadoum, Lavrov said as long as the Libyans are split, there will always be risks that external players will bet on one or the other side.
“The situation in the country demands to bring the warring parties to the negotiating table and to help them find a solution, respecting the interests of all Libyan people,” the minister said.
Russia works with all parties to the conflict as well as the neighboring countries and external players to rebuild the Libyan statehood, Lavrov pointed out.
“Russia assigns the most active role to Libya’s neighbors, including Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt, because security in these countries depends on how successfully the conflict is resolved,” the minister said.
In turn, Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum said political dialogue is “the only way to resolve the crisis in Libya”.
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At 1000 Degrees Neapolitan Pizza, the name says it all: customizable pizza cooked at a scorching temperature that’s ready to eat in two minutes.
San Antonio is about to get its first location of the blossoming franchise, with plans to open in mid-October at 11224 Huebner Road in the City View Villiage Shopping Center. It’s not the first ultra-fast pizza model to enter the San Antonio market, but it could be the fastest by a minute. MOD Pizza, which has three area locations and a fourth planned, says it can turn out pizzas from its 800-degree oven in about three minutes.
It’s all about options at 1000 Degrees, where patrons can get a 10-inch or 14-inch pizza with seven different meat options, 12 types of veggies and eight varieties of cheeses and sauces, all assembled in front of your eyes. Pizza crusts are a classic Neapolitan style, or a Roman style that is a thicker variety that’s rolled out into more of a flatbread.
There also is a specialty menu with pizzas such as the Trenton Tomato Pie, Smokey Pollo and the Hawaiian Fire, made with a spicy sriracha marinara. All of the pizzas will be sold for $10 or less. There aren’t any limits on the toppings for “build your own” pies, but owner Ashley Andres recommends going with no more than five to avoid the possibility of a sagging crust.
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Home Government New Rochelle rabbi has COVID-19; County Executive Latimer tells residents to continue...
New Rochelle rabbi has COVID-19; County Executive Latimer tells residents to continue patronizing businesses
Peter Katz
A rabbi at the temple Young Israel of New Rochelle, which is where the 50-year-old attorney who was the first person to be diagnosed with COVID-19 in Westchester is a member, has tested positive for the disease, according to a statement Friday by Yeshiva University, where the rabbi teaches classes.
Ari Berman, president of the university, identified him as Rabbi Reuven Frank. Berman said that Frank is in self-quarantine. The university has recommended that his students self-quarantine as a precautionary measure until further notice. Berman teaches two classes at the university’s Washington Heights campus.
On Thursday, Westchester County Executive George Latimer, New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson, Deputy County Executive Ken Jenkins, and others went to Eden Wok, a Kosher Chinese restaurant on North Avenue in New Rochelle, for lunch and a news conference urging people to continue patronizing businesses as usual and not be overly concerned about picking up the virus during the normal course of their daily activities.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo reported on Friday that the number of cases of the illness in New York state has risen to 44 cases.
Cuomo earlier in the week had said that a friend of the 50-year-old attorney from New Rochelle who was the first person in the county diagnosed with the illness also tested positive as did that person’s wife, two sons and daughter. This is in addition to the wife, son and daughter of the attorney who are quarantined at their home in New Rochelle.
The attorney is hospitalized at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Manhattan. In addition, a neighbor who drove the man to the hospital has also tested positive.
Schools in Hastings-on-Hudson and Mount Vernon were closed Thursday and Friday for cleaning as a precaution. The Hastings school district said it had been notified that a district parent had been at one of the places previously closed due to a confirmed case of coronavirus and it was making a precautionary move to close schools so its buildings could be sanitized.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo at a news conference Wednesday said about the children of the 50-year old attorney, “The son is 20 years old and attends Yeshiva University. The daughter is 14 years old and is in the SAR school. And the neighbor is not just a neighbor, but actually drove the attorney to the hospital and therefore was in the car with the attorney in that closed environment – and the neighbor tested positive.
“That then triggers the detective work where we go back and we try to make as many connections as possible. And do as much research and investigation as possible. And then notify people, right? Whenever you find a case it is about containment and doing the best you can to keep the circle as tight as possible. The head of Yeshiva University – I spoke to this morning – the school that the son attends will be closed for today. The SAR school is also closed for today. We’re going to meet in Westchester this afternoon at noon with the heads of the school and the county and the local health officials to get some more facts and start to track back to the best we can.
“I also want to announce we’re going to recall SUNY and CUNY students from study abroad programs in five countries – China, Italy, Japan, Iran, South Korea – those are countries that have been on the quote-unquote watch list, recall list the federal government has set. The students will come back on a chartered plane which will land at Stewart Airport – they will then be quarantined for 14 days in dormitory settings. We’ll then stay in touch with them after the 14 days and do follow-up work.”
The New Rochelle attorney was initially hospitalized at New York-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville.
The unidentified attorney apparently did not travel to China nor to any of the countries where the outbreak of the virus has been severe. He apparently did make a recent trip to Miami, but officials did not have full details.
It was at a noontime news conference Tuesday at the County Office Building in White Plains that Westchester County Executive George Latimer and County Health Commissioner Sherlita Amler said the man lives in New Rochelle with his wife and two of their children. One child attends Yeshiva University in Washington Heights and the other attends private school in Riverdale, the SAR Academy. It and the Westchester Day School and Westchester Torah Academy closed because of potential spread of the virus.
The man’s other two children are in Israel. The man had been commuting to work in New York City, and apparently used Metro-North Railroad. The Yeshiva student had been staying the college campus rather than living at home while school was in session.
The attorney’s wife and children had been in quarantine at home when it became clear that the attorney had COVID-19. It was determined that the man had attended events at the temple Young Israel of New Rochelle. Amler directed that the temple halt all services immediately and for the foreseeable future due to possible COVID-19 exposure.
Amler also determined that congregants of the temple who attended services on Feb. 22 and a funeral and bat mitzvah at the temple on Feb. 23 must self-quarantine until March 8 at the very earliest. She said the Health Department would order quarantine for anyone who was at those events at the temple and did not self-quarantine. The temple has approximately 380 families as members.
New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson, Westchester County Health Commissioner Sherlita Amler and County Executive George Latimer. Photo by Peter Katz
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, state Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins and other officials held a news conference in Albany on Tuesday morning during which Cuomo a $40 million spending bill for the state’s response to the virus situation. The funds will allow the state to hire additional staff and obtain equipment and any other resources deemed necessary.
Cuomo said of the Westchester man, “We are now going through possible connections to track down possible connections to find people. The SAR School in Riverdale closed, that is today, that is a school that one of the children attended. There may be some more schools that voluntarily close just until they determine exactly if there were children who might have exposed other children because you have to now track back all of these situations. Our information is the gentleman had an underlying respiratory illness and he is ill and he is hospitalized.”
Cuomo said that the state university system will ask students studying in countries where the virus is prevalent to come home. In addition, it will review its programs for study abroad in anticipation of expanded travel restrictions being imposed by the federal government.
Latimer said that the county is well-positioned with necessary funds and resources to handle additional cases of the illness. He said that the mathematics indicate that such cases are likely, especially the background of what’s been happening globally.
He said that private aircraft flying to the Westchester County Airport from overseas where the illness has been rampant are being advised to stay away and go instead to John F. Kennedy International or Newark International airports, which have been designated as entry points that can handle screening for the disease.
Amler said that the number of people the county has been monitoring has varied from a recent peak of 26 to as low as four. She said the number goes down as people pass the 14-day incubation period for COVID-19 without becoming ill and can go up as people are identified.
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Sensitive Detection of gene flow
Posted on April 28, 2019 by gcochran9
One problem with arguing with ignorant people is that they don’t usually have indicator lights that tell you exactly how ignorant they are. This matters when you’re trying to explain something: it’s not always clear how much goes without saying.
About the imaginary high levels of gene flow between distant populations in the past: if that had happened, Fst between those populations would be close to zero. It’s not. And when an inevitable consequence of a certain proposition is false, the proposition is false.
But here’s another example: falciparum malaria probably originated in Africa ( it’s closely related to a kind of malaria that infects gorillas). At some point it spread to humans, and it’s a bear – in terms of evolutionary pressures, probably the worst disease in the world.
Many different expensive genetic defenses have arisen in populations exposed to malaria. But those seen in southeast Asia/PNG are, at the molecular level, entirely different from the ones seen in Africa. As far as I know, there is no overlap at all. You see mutations of the same gene showing up in those far-separated populations ( convergence) , but the SNPs are never the same.
The sickle-cell allele would have been advantageous in, say, PNG lowlands, and if even a few copies had ever arrived there, it would have become common rather rapidly. A smidgen of gene flow from sub-Saharan africa , even 20 individuals total, would have left a genetic signature in PNG. [ just as a few copies of Denisovan altitude-tolerance alleles were enough to transform Tibetans] That smidgen would have grown geometrically with time: it would function as a very sensitive detector of African gene flow. But it never happened. Contrariwise, some of the malaria defenses in PNG ( like Melanesian ovalcytosis) would have spread widely in Africa with even a little gene flow. But that never happened either.
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Suppose you had a mother with the African anti-malaria allele and a father with the PNG one. Does the child get both effects, and is super-resistant to malaria?
mobiuswolf says:
Good question, must have happened by now. Fight! Fight!
Maybe resistant, but certainly sick due to messed-up red cells.
Assuming everybody had it at the time?
We’re all ignorant. ;o)
Steve Sailer says:
Here’s a map of where falciparum malaria was found in 2007:
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/figure?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000048.g004
There are a lot of places around the periphery of the Indian Ocean where it is endemic. Looking at this map it wouldn’t seem implausible for resistance to it to have spread. Are there places outside of sub-Saharan Africa where the sickle cell mutation has spread due to positive selection for it because falciparum malaria is endemic?
For example, in 1981 Barack Obama met the black slave of one of his college buddies on his family’s plantation in Pakistan, a country that has a modest amount of this kind of malaria. Is this mutation spreading South Asia, or is the social discrimination against the estimated several hundred thousand sub-Saharans in South Asia enough to keep it down?
What about in the New World in places with some degree of this kind of malaria? Are people like Hugo Chavez, George Zimmerman, Albert Pujols, or Neymar Jr. more or less likely to have the mutation than by random chance?
https://www.kidsnewtocanada.ca/conditions/sickle-cell
Here’s a gene-frequency map of the HbS allele – basically for 1500. Before blacks were imported to the Americas. Even then, much of that spread was due to the [Arab] slave trade, but in malarious regions, HbS protected against falciparum malaria, was net beneficial, and spread further after introduction. In non-malarious regions, its frequency shrank with time.
Just to complicate life, the incidence of kids with severe illness goes as the square of the gene frequency.
The Arab slave trade involved a lot of castrating of male slaves. Are there any genetic mutations that would behave differently if they spread only through mothers?
Yes, of course. Anything based on mitochondrial mutations can only be spread by females, for one thing. Anything X-linked would spread differentially among females vs. males– a mutation which was beneficial in heterozygotes but dangerous in homozygotes would spread more rapidly if only females were brought in. G6PD jumps to mind (another anti-malarial trait). Another factor is age discrepancy– this is mostly young girls (early teens, sometimes less than that) being sold as concubines to older males, so traits which took time to develop would not be selected against as sharply as in “normal” societies. (There would be no equivalent to extended families or towns being known for, and avoided in marriage because of, “bad blood”, such as happened for Huntington’s Disease.)
In general, anything that was less severe in females than males would tend to spread faster under these conditions (and the reverse, as well, of course). But you’d also have to take into account the high rates of inbreeding in traditional Arab countries– mutations are going to spread much faster anyhow in those societies.
” Anything based on mitochondrial mutations can only be spread by females, for one thing. Anything X-linked would spread differentially ….”
I had hoped someone might say something that wasn’t bleedin’ obvious.
sudx says:
A DARC question says:
If it were an old variant that would be the case. Out of genuine curiousity, how old is this variant? West African populations have spread across the continent fairly recently. Whats the frequency like in pops within Africa like the Khoi that are not West African but have West African gene flow fairly recently? Same, different, higher than expected on admix fraction, etc.
Could one individual have left a signature? I think you had argued that in a previous post, but cannot remember which.
Yes, although the probability is fairly low. The probability depends on how advantageous the allele in question is.
But since the advantage is all in the heterozygote, it would spread quite easily if it made it past the first generation.
It can also be lost by chance – likely, when the copy number is very small. Generally, the chance of success is 2s, when s is the selective advantage. Result from the theory of branching processes. Haldane worked this out over a hundred years ago.
The Reich team has shown how the Yamnaya replaced surrounding populations up to 100% all the way down to the Mediterranean back in the Bronze age. But after that partial population replacement another one occurred moving back in the opposite direction as malaria spread and genes that helped protect against it’s worst effects spread northward. Falciparium malaria as shown in the above map linked to by Steve Sailor used to be devastating in Europe all the way north well beyond Rome back before modern medicine beat it back to it’s present locations. The older history books always talked about the decline of Rome as if these killing diseases had no effect. They clearly did.
Do Southern Europeans still carry genes that protected against malaria to a significant extent? And were those genes imported from Africa or local? Malaria was still around in Southernmost Europe well into the last century (Spain until 1964, Greece 1974, in Italy it was never fully erradicated. As David Chamberlain has commented, malaria coincided with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the V century AD.)
https://it..wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassemia
A much clearer picture will emerge in the decades to come as to why northern populations simply died out when they tried to move back to the south where multiple diseases such as faciparium malaria existed, the crusaders for example who tried to take back Jerusalum. The tools created by the Reich group are fantastic for telling us detailed pictures of far more than population replacements. We will soon see why there are parts of ancient graveyards in Egypt no less that are comprised of blonds and redheads where none survive today. Nothing pushes human evolution harder and faster than pathogen resistance. When these deadly diseases moved into the Mediterranean from farther south those people that survived in southern Europe were given a tremendous advantage if they carried genes that protected them from the worst effects of the newly arrived diseases. Same thing happened in the Americas, those that survived the new diseases post 1492 greatly benefited from had some European decent. Those that survived in southern Europe where newly arrived diseases ravaged the local populations benefited from African ancestors who carried better genes for disease resistance.
A blond Brad Pitt as Achilles or a blue eyed fair haired Jesus strikes one as preposterous if they represent the population that lives in those areas today. But things have changed, they could have been back then.
Henry Scrope says:
I remember reading about British conscripts from the Fens of East Anglia being unfit for service in 1915 due to the endemic malaria there, can’t find a reference though.
Michael Kennedy says:
The Mayo Clinic is in Minnesota because old Dr Mayo kept moving north to avoid malaria in places like St Louis.
There was malaria in the Nordic countries as well. For example, last known case in Finland was in 1954.
Folderol says:
“The Reich team has shown how the Yamnaya replaced surrounding populations up to 100% all the way down to the Mediterranean back in the Bronze age.”
So far, they have shown the exact opposite with Yamnaya-related ancestry reaching only up to 50-70% even in the early steppe-related horizons of central and northern Europe. Lower in subsequent cultures due to increased admixture.
Much less than that in Mediterranean Europe with both Bronze Age Iberia and Greece showing <20% Yamnaya-related ancestry. Similarly low levels in Iron Age Iberia (small increase) and Iron Age Greece (about the same as Bronze Age).
The Yamnaya did replace 100% of the population living nearest to their source point in the centuries after they began expanding, there is no argument from anybody on this point. The graves of these early Yamnaya expantionists show no admixing with the first farmers. However you are correct there was partial replacement as they progressed further south and there was considerable intermixing between Yamnaya and surrounding populations later in time.
You should actually read these studies instead of trying to interpret whatever summaries you find wherever.
The early steppe-derived horizons of northern Europe – Corded Ware and Bell Beaker – had substantially less than 100% of Yamnaya-related ancestry. Later Bronze and Iron Age northern cultures even less due to increased admixture with local pre-IE groups. Even the steppe itself sees a drop in Yamnaya-related ancestry as early as Potapovka, due to farmer ancestry being brought back east.
Everything you wrote is basically wrong and your theory about malaria effecting a significant drop in Yamnaya-related ancestry just seems crazy.
You are putting words in my mouth i didn’t come close to saying and then calling me crazy. I enjoy the internet, but it is what it is. It won’t change. Good luck Folderol. I can yammer this and you can yammer that and all we are doing in reality is petting our bloated egos. Meanwhile back at the ranch real science is rolling forward in a very interesting area we all know very little about, human prehistory. I proposed an interesting hypothesis, that isn’t crazy, but it is far from proven as well. That African ancestry increased in southern Europe after diseases that originated from Africa and possibly other equatorial regions spread north for one simple reason. The Africans had better genes that allowed them to better survive these diseases.
We shall soon see, because new tools in science are being developed that can actually tell us what happened.
Its The Ships says:
Disease may have had a helpful effect on increasing African ancestry proportions but….
Say we proposed that disease increased the proportion (and to a far greater extent) of European ancestry in the Americans. In a sense, you’d be right. But in another deeper and more distal sense, the real explanation is simply that Europeans were able to get to the Americas. Ocean going ships.
In the same way, African ancestry in the ME probably increases mainly simply because more Africans are able to get there (as some mix of slaves, traders, mercenaries, raiders, that depends on time and place), and that’s because of the camel and the rough “infrastructure” that supported desert caravans, and again because of ships.
“0 to 1 percent African genes in Greeks and Southern Italians” as per Hoverica elsewhere in the thread, so the Africanization of southern Europe was relatively minor. It will be interesting to see when the data set becomes available how the genes in warmer Mediterranean Europe changed in response to the influx of diseases that came from the south. The African genes may have spread but it didn’t effect the gene pool very much. Sardinia is a very interesting place genetically being that it changed very little genetically since the first farmers arrived. Sardinians had to retreat to the mountains and leave the coast for two reasons. Once Phoenicians brought Malaria to the Island the Sardinians had to vacate the coast to the dryer highlands. Mussolini may be a villain to the rest of the world but he is a hero in Sardinia as he is credited with successfully combating Malaria. The other plague that hit Sardinia in ancient times was slave raiders coming from the coast of Africa. Sardinia has the weirdest national flag in the world in direct response to the slave raiders. It has four severed heads of Africans on it called the flag of four Moors. When slave raiders were caught their heads were cut off and placed on sticks as a warning to other slave raiders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Sardinia
Evidence implies the following. African genes are below 1 percent in southern Italy and Greece. That is not much genetic impact however there appears to be a huge impact by genes that gave even slight disease resistance advantages over many generations. Near pure bred Yamnaya that moved to the south after the arrival of Falciparum Malaria and other nasty diseases had arrived simply died out.
What Cochran has repeatedly stressed regarding population sinks and slow but steady growth of disease resistant genes is a far more accurate picture than simply an Africanized general population increasing. When the crusaders moved to Palestine, when blonds and redheads in classical times moved to Egypt, they simply fell below replacement level because of decreased disease resistance and winked out of existence .
Yamnaya and the Farmers says:
The Yamnaya have about 10-15% ancestry from EEF – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-08220-8 –
“Ancient human genome-wide data from a 3000-year interval in the Caucasus corresponds with eco-geographic regions”.
Using qpAdm with Globular Amphora as a proximate surrogate population, we estimated the contribution of AF ancestry into Yamnaya and other steppe groups. We find that Yamnaya Samara individuals have 13.2 ± 2.7% and Ukraine or Caucasus Yamnaya individuals 16.6 ± 2.9% AF ancestry (Fig. 4; Supplementary Table 17)—statistically indistinguishable proportions. Substituting Globular Amphora with Iberia Chalcolithic does not alter the results profoundly (Supplementary Table 18).
The rest of Yamnaya’s ancestry is probably largely from a steppe zone somewhere north of the Caucasus mountains but largely southeast of Ukraine, but there may be a small percentage from the northern EHGs from further north at places like Samara.
Yamnaya may have a greater overall percentage of ancestry from cultures like Sredny Stog from Ukraine which were intermediate Yamnaya and EEF/Ukrainian Hunter Gatherers.
“The graves of these early Yamnaya expantionists show no admixing with the first farmers.”
The Hungarian Kurgans have yielded samples which were 100% farmer, there is a CWC burial found with a 100% farmer. Bulgarian Yamnaya burials show large farmer admixture.
Brad Pitt as Achilleus is historically correct. The Achaians of the Illiad left no posterity.
Sardinian Achilles says:
Achilles would probably be best represented today by a Sardinian; we find Greek Mycenaean era samples (1700–1200 BCE) to present about 13% Yamnaya ancestry, 12% “CHG” ancestry and 75% EEF ancestry – https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23310. This includes samples from elite tombs, which are pretty much indistinguishable or at any rate don’t have more steppe ancestry.
That’s rather more EEF than any Greek person today and rather less Yamnaya ancestry. Less than Southern Italians to boot (though they have more Near Eastern ancestry to boot), certainly less than Northern Italians, or Spanish or Basques. The Sardinians are fairly comparable in EEF (maybe slightly more EEF, but closer to Mycenaeans than any other modern people), but with less CHG and more Western Hunter Gatherer ancestry (and probably more of WHG’s associated Northern European skeletal traits, albeit the Sards seem to have some island dwarfing changes in their genetics that are unique to them).
This is highly likely to be a continuous ancient Greek profile (including for the Ionians and all the rest), up until the rise of the massive Hellenistic and Roman Empires and the Slavic migrations and all the changes that came with this. I say this as we find that Greek colonists at Empuries in Northeast Spain at 500 BCE (other than some obvious Iberian locals and Gauls) to be exactly genetically the same as the Mycenaeans – https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6432/1230
Hirisplex prediction on the ancient Mycenaean samples matched with them being generally dark eyed and dark haired. (One of the Minoan samples, without Yamnaya ancestry, had a Hirisplex prediction that they may have been blonde, but none of the Mycenaeans was blonde, and all were predicted as dark haired).
Sard: Those Archaeogenetic grave-robbers you quote are all the time coming up with new fancy theories while the Poet is immortal. Homer’s Hektor and the Trojans are black haired and the Achaian leaders and their gods are blond and bright-eyed. gcochran9 (June7, 2014) wrote: If people from village X in Sardinia look amazingly like Otzi or an LBK farmer, and almost completely lack a genetic component common in other modern Europeans, that’s the way it is.
J, I daresay you will insist that, whatever genetics finds, those Japanese depicted in those manga cartoons really did have blue hair, and Goliath really was ten foot tall, and human women really did mate with fallen angels to produce the Nephilim…
Sard, I do see Japanese youth with blue hair, yes, whatever genetics finds. Really. Regarding Sardinian Achilles (you?), more research is required.
You’re naive if you believe that to be, as in the mangas, a product of nature…
On the Mycenaeans, we have Mycenaean frescos which more purportedly than Homer and with no hurdles of translation and poetic flourish depict the Mycenaeans themselves (no blonde gents or ladies), and we have the archaeogenetics as discussed, and we have a classical period in which no one much talks about how the blonde barbarians they met really looked just like Achaean heroes. I would suggest there is a fairly clear most likely hypothesis here.
(For clarity’s purposes Sardinian Achilles (you?) not a statement on my personal phenotype or ancestry, simply a random name given as “anon” creates confusing discussions.)
I insist that Brad Pitt as Homer’s Achilles is correct. The history was composed generations after the events, that is, after successive inflows of Northern peoples and mixing in South West Asia. Actual Mycenaeans may have been as you say, agreed, but Homer’s Achaian heroes are as he would have liked them to be. Like Brad Pitt.
If you look to argue that Homer, for whatever reason, described the appearance of the Achaeans in somewhat idealized terms as blondes, etc. (perhaps he was taken with the majesty of some Scythian warrior or other?), then I suppose that is one thing (presuming that this read of described hair colour is even right). Perhaps Brad is, then artistically accurate to Achilles.
But it is not quite the same thing at all, as what is implied from Dave posting that “A blond Brad Pitt as Achilles or a blue eyed fair haired Jesus strikes one as preposterous if they represent the population that lives in those areas today. But things have changed, they could have been back then.” and a response that Brad Pitt as Achilleus is historically correct. The Achaians of the Illiad left no posterity.. And the genetics in no way agrees with this implication.
Since the conversation has turned towards malaria, let me point out the fact that after the fall of the Ancient world, the formerly well drained and irrigated areas around the Mediterranean were abandoned and reverted to swamps. That was followed by the spread of Anopheles and depopulation and rapid spread of African genes protecting from malaria. The Fulani did not become Danish, and Mediterranean populations did not become Bantu, but they became a bit darker. Southern Italians, Greeks, Palestinians all carry African genes and most have black hair. It seems to me reasonable to assume that the frequency of blonds after thousand years of malaria would decline severely.
Regarding Achilleus was not a historical personage; or, rather, the figure in the poem might or might not be distantly connected to a real figure, but that isn’t the point. Achilles, as we have him and as the Greeks had him, is a mythical figure and a poetic creation. So the question is not ‘What did Achilles look like?’ but ‘How does Homer portray him?’ We have only one thing to go on here: Achilles is said in the Iliad to have xanthos hair. This word is translated as ‘blond’ or “golden”. https://aeon.co/essays/when-homer-envisioned-achilles-did-he-see-a-black-man
The BBC’s Troy: Fall of a City (2018-) which cast black actors in the roles of Achilles, Patroclus, Zeus, Aeneas … I thought Brad Pitt believable, but I do not insist, the BBC may be artistically (and politically) more correct. Let them have it.
Hoverica says:
Original human hair was black. Blondes are recent and only common in a few places. There’s just 0-1% Sub-Saharan African genes in Greeks and Southern Italians. Northern and Eastern Europeans have more East Asian genes than that, so they should have more black hair than Meds according to your “reasonable assumption”.
@J, genetics thus far indicates that European populations were universally darker in the past than they are today, and that detectable pigmentation variants associated with lighter eyes, hair and skin, are at higher frequency today than in the past, pretty much universally across Europe.
Most dramatically and best studied in the north, but probably also in the south and even in the likes of Lebanon, e.g. as Khan puts it based on Lebanese dna – https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2017/05/26/the-canaanites-walk-among-us/ – “Selection has continued, so that alleles for lactose tolerance and lighter skin have changed in frequency even since that period. The derived allele for SLC45A2 is found at about 2/3 frequency in modern Lebanon, but was absent in these five Sidonians. Though the sample size is small, this was somewhat surprising, and suggests that they were a swarthier people than modern Lebanese.”. Despite African admixture into Muslim Lebanese….
Inasmuch as this is not totally speculative (selection for malaria would lead to individuals having darker hair for some reason that is unexplained and is unconnected to the introgression of African ancestry overall?), and perhaps the genetics is presenting incomplete models of phenotype, it does not back that blonde hair or any sort of light pigmentation was more frequent in populations on the northern shore of the Mediterranean in the past, or even likely its eastern or southern shores. Ancient people probably darker (excepting “poetic creations” who may well have been lighter, like the angels of Medieval art.)
The genetically closest populations to these guys are modern southeast Europeans – Greeks, Italians, European Jews (Ashkenazi, Sephardi etc.) who have more European than actual Jewish ancestry.
Hmmm…. may be true in Fst due to stronger genetic drift in Ogliastrian Sardinians, I’m less sure of it being true net of that (Italians have much more Slavic, central European and Near Eastern ancestry than Mycenaean).
Italians don’t have Slavic or Central European ancestry, only the few non-Italian-speaking minorities from the northern border regions do.
And I don’t know what you mean by “Near Eastern”. EEF is already Near Eastern, so is the CHG/Iran that makes up half of Yamnaya. All Europeans are more Near Eastern than anything else.
But if you mean something more recent, Italians don’t have that either, except a few % in Sicily from the Moors.
North and Central Italians certainly (and Southern) have ancestry likely from Central European origin cultures like Bell Beaker which is lacking in Mycenaeans (well before we think about any Germanic related input which is unclear and low). Greeks have clear Slavic input in the mainland or else more Near Eastern input in Crete / Anatolian Greek speakers etc.
EEF is a different kind of Near Eastern than Levant related ancestry which comes in later to some degree in Southern Italian populations in a fairly reasonable proportion and increases distance to heavily EEF populations like the Mycenaeans.
Don’t get me wrong, Southern Italians and Greeks, net of drift in Sardinians, are still probably a close second in relationship to the Mycenaeans. But there are clearly changes and differences in their populations.
Yeah, I though you meant Germanic input. Not sure I’d call Bell Beaker “Central European ancestry” though. And you originally said Italians had Slavic ancestry, not Greeks. That’s what I was claiming was false.
Levant_N is very similar to the Anatolian_N of EEF (like Iran_N is very similar to CHG). It wouldn’t increase distance to EEF populations that much. Besides, Southern Italians aren’t shifted toward the Levant; they’re shifted toward Yamnaya (especially the CHG/Iran part).
Sazzini (2016) modeled all Italians as “Sardinian” + “Iranian/Caucasus” + “Russian” – so EEF/Anatolian_N/Levant_N + CHG/Iran_N + EHG/ANE.
Apologies, meant to write “Italian+Greek” there and got lost along the way.
Levant_N has some Fst from Anatolia_N, PPNB to Barcin farmers about 0.022 vs CHG/Iran Neolithic to Barcin about 0.074 or WHG to Barcin about 0.103, so it’s not nothing although it is relatively compared to between other ancient groups. S Italians are shifted towards both Levant and Steppe relative to EEF groups.
Southern Italians cluster with Mycenaeans between Minoans and Modern Greeks:
2d dimensions only, heavily compressed. (Take the graphic that literally and you’d think Latvians were closer to EHG than Yamnaya and yet…)
Well, Yamnaya are EHG + CHG, so they look about in the right place. And Latvians have other admixtures too, so they’re shifted away from Yamnaya.
Here’s what the Mycenaean study says:
“Mycenaeans were least differentiated from populations from Greece, Cyprus, Albania, and Italy, part of a general pattern in which Bronze Age populations broadly resembled present-day inhabitants from the same region.”
South Italians/Sicilians also cluster with Peloponnesian Greeks, the closest descendants of Mycenaeans:
Hov, I’ve already granted that, in Fst terms, Sicilians / mainland Greeks may be marginally closer than Sardinians, so we’re kind of circling at this point. But they don’t overlap them and there is still some pretty serious difference in ancestral proportions, and some population differentiation.
Btw, for some direct data on how Sicilian folk today differ from inhabitants of the island, check out: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/584714v1 – “The Arrival of Steppe and Iranian Related Ancestry in the Islands of the Western Mediterranean” dated March 21, 2019. This has actual ancient dna from Sicily itself… Check out Figure 4 and differences between their models for present day and ancient Sicilians from the Late Bronze Age…. (teaser – “Finally, when we model modern Sicilians, we find that they require not only Steppe and Iranian related ancestries” (in addition to EEF) “but also North African ancestry, confirming the ample historical and archaeological evidence of major cultural impacts on the island from North Africa after the Bronze Age”).
(https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/583104v1 – Population history from the Neolithic to present on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia: An ancient DNA perspective dated March 21, 2019, also good on what really happened on Sardinia).
Modern Sicilians have ~5% North African admixture from the Phoenicians and Moors. Other Southern Italians have almost zero. All the other components are found in the ancient individuals as well.
Rev. Right says:
” [ just as a few copies of Denisovan altitude-tolerance alleles were enough to transform Tibetans] ”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ancient-humans-dwelled-at-great-heights-scientists-find-11556730001
Erik Sieven says:
I know that in South India sickle cell disease prevalence is higher among “tribal communities”. I’ve always thought that those tribal communities are the descendants of the people who had lived there long before the Indo-Aryans or even the Dravidians came. But now I think the higher sickle cell anemia prevalence implies rather recent African influx?
Not much: it implies at least a little African ancestry (if current ideas are correct and the HbS mutation happened only once) but it mainly implies that those tribals are exposed to a lot of malaria. It doesn’t take much gene flow to transmit a strongly advantageous allele: the Fulani have a fair amount of the European lactose-tolerance allele, but that’s not because they’re mostly Danish.
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“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.”
Posted on June 4, 2019 by gcochran9
Allen Guelzo wrote a book about the battle of Gettysburg “Gettysburg: The Last Invasion” , in which he says some confused things about smoothbores and rifles. One of my regular readers noticed and mentioned this some time ago.
“Rifling bestowed greater range and accuracy on a musket, but it did so at the price of forming a trajectory for the bullet which “dropped” rather than went straight to a target. To hit a target thus required exact knowledge of the speed and distance of a target, something which in battle was rarely available.”
Which has left Wiki thinking that rifle bullets had curvy paths while musket balls flew straight. Not so!
Here’s a decent discussion ( by RogueOne). The key point is that a spin-stabilized bullet can be pointy yet not tumble: so it has a smaller cross-section and experiences less wind resistance. So it goes farther.
All the time that the bullet is flying, it’s dropping, under gravity. If it goes twice as far as a musket ball, that takes twice as long – and it drops four times as far. D = 1/2 g t^2 – one of the secrets of the Occident, known to but a few.
Guelzo suggests that people couldn’t really take advantage of the rifle’s greater range: but they could. The Springfield was sighted for 100, 300, and 500 yards – and when 15,0o0 Rebels are coming at you, you have a decent chance of hitting somebody at the greater distances possible with a rifle. Well-trained sharpshooters could even be decently accurate at those ranges, as Sedgwick found.
Charges didn’t work as well as they had with muskets.
Modern rifles have considerably higher muzzle velocities. Assume that one has four times the muzzle velocity of an 1861 Springfield: then it will take 1/4 the time to reach the same target, and will drop 1/16th as far. A flatter trajectory. How do we do it? Velocity !
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Most Newtonian, and also very entertaining.
Is this not very basic physics? I know that I shouldn’t be surprised that people don’t know it, though.
Lior says:
Yeah, but if gravity and lower velocity makes it harder to shoot straight than why do stormtrooper with laserguns and no gravity always miss?
Effects of nearby black holes? </ tongue-in-cheek >
If they’ll shoot at a blackhole, they’ll probablly miss.
engleberg says:
Star Wars was a Civil War western, the stormtroopers are union sailors or whitejackets, sailors don’t handle small arms all day like ground pounders. And since Hector great with shield work, the head villain can take a punch; but since Teucer’s prayer to Apollo was better, villains have less luck with missile fire.
Gord Marsden says:
The Magnus effect which would be induced randomly on a musket ball would make them inaccurate, the drag would also slow them down more than a shaped bullet, rifling was discovered by repeated cleaning of a gun and the spin of the cleaning rod as it was forced through. Te look down a clean bore would have shown spiral scratches .
Bonner Tal says:
But how much does rifling reduce muzzle velocity? Using some fraction of the propellant to induce spin must have an effect, right? But I guess that effect is swamped by not having to use a ball.
The reduction of velocity is pretty small. Related:
http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2015/02/does-barrel-twist-rate-affect-muzzle-velocity-litz-test/
That’s astonishingly ignorant.
Also: rifle sights are zeroed in such a way that they provide a parabolic trajectory. The M16A1 assault rifle was typically zeroed for 25 meters – a trajectory that would take the bullet above the line of aim and bring it back down to the point of aim at approximately 250 meters.
If you find it “astonishingly ignorant” for a historian, then you are…
It can be common, yet still be astonishing. Some things never cease to amaze me.
glenndc says:
Tenured?
the Historian is tenured, the astonished is the grad assistant
NOT tenured, and you are rude, Darn, took three tries 🙂
The term “flat-shooting cartridge” is used a lot by hunters and shooters. For the most part it means a cartridge with high muzzle velocity. To a lesser degree they are also talking about bullets with higher ballistic coefficient, the effect of which is to reduce drag and maintain higher velocity at long distances.
Friendly Fred says:
Why is it that when two 18th century armies were facing each other with guys standing shoulder-to-shoulder firing at other guys standing shoulder-to-shoulder only a short distance away the death-and-wounds rate wasn’t close to 100% on the side that got fired at first?
Part of that would be as above. Bullets burying themselves in the ground at their feet or flying over their heads.
They missed a lot, and reloading took a while.
On the contrary, they were quite effective compared to modern rifles used in suppressive fire tactics.
Stephen Saintonge says:
Those muskets didn’t have sights, and many infantrymen went into action the first time without having ever fired their weapon.
Apparently, they tended to tip the musket up till the muzzle was in line with the enemy’s chest, which throws the ball high. Veterans learned to “aim” at the enemies feet, keeping the bore more nearly horizontal.
What an enthusiast can do after lots of practice, on a range with no one firing at him has little relationship to what a badly trained and frightened recruit can do on the battlefield.
And suppressive fire is, by definition, not supposed to hit, just to keep the enemies pinned down.
Woof says:
They tended to be drunk out of their minds, and not exactly the best and brightest of their societies. Malnutrition, fetal alcohol syndrome, one too many blows to the head while growing up, scaring from childhood illnesses, most of these troops would not be allowed in the army today. It also explains in part the sadistically brutal punishments. The army at least fed, shod and clothed them
Texan99 says:
What people don’t know about Newtonian laws of motion can be seen in any Hollywood movie in which our hero jumps out of a plane on takeoff (he invariably falls in water with all lateral speed cancelled), or any space opera with the possible exception of 2001: A Space Odyssey. One of our favorites is “Gravity,” in which our heroine wants to catch up with someone in the same orbit but further along, and speeds up to do so, as if they were on a racetrack on Earth.
My favorite: damsel falls from a tall building. At the last moment, some flying superhero suddenly catches her, mid-flight, instantly changing her trajectory without doing any harm.
random observer says:
I dimly recall reading a parody of that exact scene in the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeve. The piece questions why Superman’s arms didn’t just slice Lois into three pieces which would continue falling.
Well yeah but that is really not intuitive on the movie screen. AFAIK there are two ways to do it, either speed up towards the target but also fire thrusters downward, towards the Earth, because otherwise it would put you in a higher orbit and actually slow you down related to the target, this might even look OK on screen, or fire thrusters downward, go on a lower orbit with a higher orbital speed, catch up, and then fire thrusters upwards to go back on the higher orbit, catch up, and slow down.
Theoretically, Guelzo also had editors. I looked him up, he’s a Great Courses lecturer.
Seems like a great example of CP Snow’s Two Cultures. Except, of course, the inhabitants of (ahem) one of those two cultures often know a good deal about the other, while the reverse is true less often. As to the third culture Snow added later, social science, it knows little of either of the other two, except what it thinks it learned from NPR.
A friend of mine: you can study Science and learn about the triumphs of the human intellect. You can study the Arts and learn about the triumphs of the human intuition. Or you can study Social Science.
And you can learn about the triumphs of… politically driven bullshit?
Scott Harrington says:
Smoothbore musket – analogy is bowling with the kid bumpers up. Bullet follows erratic path down the barrel (wadding helps a little and helps trap some of the gases behind the round) and range is limited.
Rifled musket – analogy is a spiral thrown football (American) which gives a rotational spin to the round perpendicular to the flight path and travels further with some more punch – think long pass to the end zone vs. throwing a shotput. Expansion of the concave base of the bullet would allow the bullet to slide down the barrel easier but engage the rifling when fired.
Ken’s drawing above illustrates best the path of both the incoming bullet and the space that the soldiers needed to swiftly cross (under the curve – safe ground) when attacking. Gun powder (oft misnamed as black powder) creates quite a lot of smoke, fouls the piece quickly, and is difficult to be precise on combustion rate. (trivia – properly compacted gunpowder expands 500 times it’s original size rapidly / it is an explosive in that state.) Special rounds with zinc washers at the base served the purpose of removing lead and unburnt power fouling from the musket.
Interesting conjecture comparing the two. At the First Battle of Bull Run, Stonewall Jackson closed to the enemy so that his .69 caliber buck and ball rounds (smoothbore) were more effective than the .58 caliber Minie bullet (rifled).
Very little target shooting amongst the infantry regiments, using the wall of lead philosophy. There were trigonometric designed hand held range finders called stadia to assist officers, but seem not to be used much.
I have lost the link but there was an actual formula by a European mathematician that calculated the probability of a hit on the battlefield dependent on height and width of the target (poor soldier.)
One of the statements on Civil War accuracy – [“It takes a man’s weight in lead for every soldier killed in battle.” A well known saying during the war, meaning that much ammunition had to be produced for each of the enemy killed. It reflected the belief that most shots hit trees, horses or nothing. From “The Language of the Civil War” by John D. Wright page 159-160.] The trouble was it could be the first shot that would get you – damn that thing called statistics!
mass firings of rifled barrels at a further range would have been as effective. and not so dangerous getting fired back at . interesting tanks have gone back to smooth bore with sabot style guided shells . best of both worlds , accuracy and range , and essentially modern wading
sam57l0 says:
Regardless of whether you’re shooting muskets or rifles, someone not aimed at could still be hit by a bullet. We call that “Bad, BAD, Luck.”
Re: Rifling:
https://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/2010/05/rifling-history.html
The Rogue One guy explains that “Rifles have significantly flatter trajectories than smooth bore muskets, as long as they have the same weight bullet at the same velocity.”, so isn’t it relevant that Civil War era rifles had much lower initial muzzle velocities than old Brown Bess did?
It would be, if ’twere true. But it isn’t.
arch1 says:
Wouldn’t a musket ball decelerate more quickly than a same-mass spin-stabilized bullet due to its larger cross-section? If so, then it would take more time (during which it would fall farther) to reach any given distance.
Yes – if you interpret the “velocity” in the quote to be “muzzle velocity”, which is fair.
..in which case the statement Halvorson quotes is true.
Brent Noseworthy’s book reports the velocity of a Brown Bess to be 1500 fps compared to 1115 for an 1858 Enfield Rifle, 1050 for a Minie rifiled musket, or 2000 for the later Krag-Jorgenson. This basically corresponds to what I’n seeing on Wiki and Google.
About 1050 fps for the Brown Bess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxzjDN2-VoU
I don’t know enough about the different models of the musket to explain how variations can affect fps, but the best sources I keep coming across suggest that 17th and 18th century muskets fired at about 1500 fps, which would at least make them more accurate than rifles of the Civil War era at close ranges.
file:///C:/Users/Derek/Downloads/David%20Miller%20PhD.pdf
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A. I don’t think so.
B. At close range, not much difference.
At 1050 fps, a bullet fired horizontally would drop about 16 inches. At 1500 feet, about six inches. Not a lot of difference.
For standing opponents, a rifle sighted for “one-half second” will do at battlefield ranges. For a 1050 fps bullet, a rifle sighted to 175 yards, and aimed at the point where the neck meets the chest will still hit him somewhere out to about 280 yards.
@Halvorson
If true, does that mean Guelzo’s excerpted explanation makes sense? “Rifling bestowed greater range and accuracy on a musket, but it did so at the price of forming a trajectory for the bullet which “dropped” rather than went straight to a target.”
It isn’t true, and if it were, true, it wouldn’t make Guelzo’s comments make sense. Nothing would.
Smoothbore weapons are superior though. Why else would all modern tank cannons be smoothbore ?
Tank guns “fire a very long, thin kinetic-energy projectile, too long in relation to its diameter to develop the necessary spin rate through rifling ” instead, fin-stabilized.
BAP says:
You need at most 1:7 lenght ratio to stabilize a projectile and those rods have 1:20+ ratios.
Earlier shaped charges (before they became irrelevant due to them stalling with HMX from the 50s vs constantly improving ceramics) needed smoot bores because spin tends to lower the effectiveness of the copper jet.
Plus a rifling in a 1500 – 1900 m/s enviroment wouldn’t last long. Even non-rifled barels will last about 50 shots when fired at full power.
Only the British stayed with tank rifling due to the use of HESH rounds but these too became irrelevant in 1990 or so due to Dyneema anti-spall liners.
Citizen AllenM says:
The advances in technology forced by the civil war are a great example of how war research can push a country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Dixon
1500 yards was impossible thirty years before 1874.
Consider how that war progressed from a Waterloo style jaunt (first Battle of Bull Run) to a full preview of the first world war (Siege of Petersburg VA) in just four years.
This is relevant and fun: Shooting 12 Gauge Slugs at 200 and 300 Yards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gvC2o00O_M
So is this: Shotgun Slugs: Smoothbore vs. Rifled Barrel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p_0LIx2LHI
Note that the presenter is normally an excellent shot.
It appears to be a grain of truth in what he says, although it appears only to affects ranges > 300 m where smoothbores already lose all accuracy. And sights, of course, always adjusted for use at intended range.
I found this in Russian, it has a Swedish interwiki, so it seems legit
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Деривация(военноедело)
There’s a famous quote from someone I can’t remember the name of, that at 200 yards you just can’t hit a man-sized target with a smoothbore musket, except by aiming well off to the side. In that case, you might eventually tag it by accident.
A British test concluded that a volley directed at a body of men at any distance over 150 yards would probably be wasted, and at over two hundred yards was sure to be wasted. And Scharnhorst conducted tests for the Prussian Army that led him to conclude that 120 yards was extreme range for a musket volley. Anything over that, leave them to riflemen.
Benjamin P. Glaser says:
One of the things that also led to low-“hit the target” rates in battle is that there is conjecture/research (sometimes not that different) that few soldiers actually aim their rifles at the enemy, instead preferring to shoot wildly and inefficiently due to either moral weakness (not wanting to kill anyone) or incompetence.
If you take “aim” to mean put a body in the sights, do you really think it’s nonsense “that few soldiers actually aim their rifles at the enemy”? Especially in the Civil War era, where Guelzo, if you believe him, compares amount of shots against wounds and goes on about smoke.
I remember meaning the passage above but, not being a lovable geek like all you all, my mind opted to make it make sense by assuming that he only meant: soldiers trained on smooth-bore became even more inaccurate when handed rifled muskets without proper training. That doesn’t make sense either, so thanks for the discussion.
Guelzo simply had no idea what he was talking about.
Young says:
All bullets drop at the same rate. A Brown Bess round and an M 16 round fired on a lavel plane should hit the ground at about the same time a finger-dropped bullet dropped from the same height as the muzzels reaches the ground. The M 16 will go farther than the Brown Bess because it is going faster. The dropped bullet will go nowhere but straight down. But all 3 should hit the ground at the same time if fired from a level stand.. Galileo; not Newton.
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Abbe Irshay to be new principal at Lindero Canyon Middle School
Posted by neil | Jun 15, 2011 | Uncategorized |
This morning, Dr. Zimring, Rose Dunn and Dan Stepenosky met with the staff at White Oak Elementary to announce that Dr. Abbe Irshay will be leaving White Oak to become the new principal at Lindero Canyon Middle School. District personnel and Dr. Irshay have also met with the staff at Lindero this morning to announce the change (earlier this week, the District announced that Ron Kaiser is retiring at the end of this school year). Prior to serving as principal at White Oak Elementary for six years, Dr. Irshay was an assistant principal at Lindero Canyon Middle School for eight years.
The District will be speaking with White Oak staff this afternoon in more detail about filling White Oak’s principal position, and any suggestions/concerns that the staff may have. The White Oak principal position will be “posted” today at www.edjoin.org (search by district). Both internal and external applicants may apply. The District will not comment on any current principals elsewhere possibly being moved to White Oak (preferring to avoid stoking the rumor mill).
Full Announcement from LVUSD
Dr. Abbe A. Irshay Named Principal
of Lindero Canyon Middle School in LVUSD
Dr. Abbe Irshay, principal of White Oak Elementary School, has been appointed to the principalship of Lindero Canyon Middle School in Agoura Hills, effective July 1. Dr. Irshay succeeds Ronald Kaiser who announced his retirement earlier this week. For the past six years, Dr. Irshay has been the principal of White Oak Elementary School in Westlake Village; and, prior to that, she was the assistant principal at Lindero Canyon Middle School.
While principal of White Oak Elementary School, Dr. Irshay led the school in the development of several new programs that have helped the school maintain their high API scores. Several years ago, Dr. Irshay created a Response to Intervention Committee at the school that developed a program to serve students struggling with reading. Through their Technology Committee, several computer programs were reviewed to serve students in the area of math. They finally decided on and purchased IXL, a computer program that allows all students to work at their own performance levels in math. With the purchase of a site license by the school, students could use this program in either of the two White Oak computer labs or at home; they also will be able to access the program during summer vacation.
Dr. Irshay has also served on several district-wide committees including the Visual and Performing Arts Committee and has been an integral member of the negotiating team. With Dr. Irshay?s leadership, the district held the first annual all-elementary songfest. She has also worked on the Curriculum Council and has mentored several of the new elementary principals over the last few years.
Prior to coming to Las Virgenes, Dr. Irshay was the coordinator for the New Media Career Academy and the Performing Arts Magnet School at Hollywood High School. She began her teaching career at Sun Valley Middle School.
In making the appointment, Dr. Donald Zimring, superintendent of the school district, praised Dr. Irshay for her energy, vision, and commitment to students, stating, ?Abbe brings a wealth of knowledge and experience that will enable Lindero to build upon its well-deserved reputation and develop new options and opportunities geared to 21st century learning.?
Dr. Irshay currently resides in Thousand Oaks with her husband, Stephen, a local Marriage and Family Therapist and university professor. They have four children: Eric, Brittany, Dana and Aimee.
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Successful installations aren’t limited to bathrooms, driveways
THE TIGER KING: Interior areas of the Malayan tiger exhibits have received in-slab radiant heating, in addition to the exterior hot rocks like the man-made one seen here.
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Radiant is more than coils of PEX tubing under the ground. It is a technology with diverse applications. Often bearing the moniker ‘wet heat,’ radiant technology can range from common applications like bathroom floors and driveway installations to creative projects like walls and ceilings, sports fields, and golf course root zones. There are different types of radiant, such as geothermal to radiant, solar to radiant, and radiant floor warming as opposed to space heat. Don’t forget about electric radiant systems, either. Some contractors are even beginning to use the waste heat off their radiant systems to heat outdoor structures and hot tubs. Here are two examples of creative uses for radiant.
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Radiant Technology in Zoos
The world may never know what happened to the Tiger King, but the Tulsa Zoo has invested in radiant heat applications across its Lost Kingdom exhibits, and its tiger habitat received a special surprise. Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this zoo has displays that give animals the choice of being indoors or outside, without concern for temperature. There are more than 100 square feet of warm areas for animals to sit and bask year round. The completed project, which opened in 2019, is a large exhibit resembling ancient Asian ruins. Animal such as Malayan tigers, snow leopards, binturongs (bearcats), red pandas, Siamang monkeys, and Komodo dragons dwell in the Lost Kingdom.
The in-slab radiant solutions constructed may seem traditional, but when the materials were routed through man-made rocks where Malayan tigers and Komodo dragons could sun themselves, the installation results moved to a new level of creativity. Guests to the exhibit also benefit from the radiant installations in the Lost Kingdom. In traditional zoo setting, the dens used for different species during inclement weather are often tucked away, keeping the animals out of sight several times throughout the year. The radiant spots throughout the Lost Kingdom exhibit, however, allow the animals to have visible dens and maintain comfort. No matter what the weather, the animals are comfortable and guests can always see them.
ELECTRIC RADIANT: The radiant system installed in this kennel will keep its occupants comfortable throughout the year.
Below the surface of the man-made rocks, Watts Radiant ProMelt electric snow and ice melt cable heat the surface, keeping them warm and dry. According to Greg Sutcliffe, engineer at Tulsa-based Phillips + Gomez, the hot rocks are strategically located to provide optimal viewing for guests while at the same time offering animals the chance to seek warmth whenever they like.
More than 50 lineal feet of the ProMelt snowmelt cable is encased in each of the 24-square-foot sunning beds, providing 50 watts per square foot.
“Typically, out of the factory, ‘cold leads’ — those parts of the wired ProMelt product that do not heat — are 10 feet long,” explained Cary Pestel, owner of Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Boone & Boone Sales, the manufacturer’s rep firm for the job. “These lengths of braided steel wire lead to the heating elements of the ProMelt cable. For the job at the zoo, they needed cold leads that were that much longer — 50 feet, in fact. Watts Radiant did that for us, no questions asked.”
Pestel explained that all of the Lost Kingdom’s interior radiant zones and hot rocks are hydronically heated.
“In-slab sensors send signals back to Watts Radiant’s pre-engineered, preassembled hydronic control panels — which pull water from two 50-gallon, 40,000 Btu electric water heaters — tasked with heating fluids for all of the interior radiant zones.”
Interior areas of the Malayan tiger exhibits have received in-slab radiant heating in addition to the exterior hot rocks. There, three separate hydronic radiant heat zones, served by 400 feet of half-inch RadiantPEX+, provides the tigers with warmth whenever they need it.
Radiant Technology and Tubing
Sometimes the creativity of radiant applications doesn’t come from the application type, but instead comes from the materials used to install the application. Many times, when contractors think radiant tubing, the word PEX comes to mind first. This widely used material is affordable, readily available, and chosen for diverse hydronic applications. There is another tubing, however, that provides a different set of creative abilities to radiant designers and installers.
FLEXIBILE APPLICATION: CCI Mechanical Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah, used 2,400 lineal feet of 5/8-inch Onix EPDM synthetic rubber tubing for several exterior stairways.
The synthetic rubber tubing referred to as Onix remains flexible in frigid winter conditions and maintains structural integrity at temperatures above 180°F. The tubing is cross-linked EPDM, a synthetic rubber extruded into a tube and wrapped with an aluminum shield oxygen barrier and two more layers of EPDM. This flexible composite hose is reinforced with aramid cord, the same material used to make fire and bulletproof shields. Its aluminum barrier is unaffected by sunlight, UV radiation from fluorescent lamps, moisture, or elevated temperatures. Sandwiched between EPDM layers, the aluminum layer can’t be scraped off or damaged by typical jobsite abuse.
This piping was used in several spots in an open-air development that spans nearly 800,000 square feet (20 acres) of downtown Salt Lake City. A mechanical plan was developed and CCI Mechanical Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah, was involved in several large-scale heating and cooling projects throughout the complex. The company used 2,400 lineal feet of 5/8-inch Onix EPDM synthetic rubber tubing for several exterior stairways.
“CCI requested that they be allowed to buy the tubing specifically for the stairways because of its superb flexibility — a valuable attribute when doing stairs and risers,” said Mike Lundquist, president of Lundquist Sales Inc.
The rubber hose’s ability to flex, even after it’s installed, also played into its specification on many radiant jobs.
“Naturally, we’re very proud of the work our crews did at City Creek Center,” said CCI’s Dave Katsanevas, vice president and senior partner. “Considering the overall scope and magnitude of the job, the duration of the project, and the involvement of many people at CCI, it’s been very rewarding for us to see it come to fruition this way.”
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Stephen Moyer & Casper Van Dien Star in Sci-Fi Adventure G-LOC
An epic sci-fi adventure set in a distant world, G-LOC premieres on DVD, Digital, and On Demand August 11 from Lionsgate. Fan favorites Stephen Moyer (“True Blood”) and Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers franchise) star in this poignant, allegorical story set in a fantastic other-world where humans are pitted against one another for survival. Also starring John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings franchise), Tala Gouveia, Toby Osmond, and Shayne Ward, the G-LOC DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $19.98.
OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS: With Earth virtually destroyed, Bran Marshall flees to the Rhea, a planet hostile to Earthlings. Escaping onto a Rhean supply ship, he finds the crew slaughtered, with the only survivor a female warrior named Ohsha. As the two try to kill one another, the ship is damaged by meteorites. Bran (Moyer) and Ohsha must join forces to salvage the craft before it impacts the planet below — and the humans that live there. This gripping sci-fi epic stars Stephen Moyer, Casper Van Dien, and John Rhys-Davies.
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Survey: The Most-Disabled ADAS Feature
June 29, 2020—A survey from Erie Insurance found that drivers with ADAS features turn some of them off manually.
“Drivers said their most common reasons for turning off or disabling features is that they find them annoying or distracting,” said Jon Bloom, vice president of personal auto for Erie Insurance, in a press release.
The most-disabled feature was adaptive cruise control at 30 percent of respondents. The most common complaint was that drivers just wanted to be able to control their highway speed. The same argument for human control was made by respondents who agreed with the second-most-disabled ADAS feature, which is lane assist.
The most popular feature in the survey was the backup camera. Only 6 percent of respondents disabled it, according to Erie. But those who did disable it say they don't trust the camera view.
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Starcom EVP Pavia On His New Role And Today's Digital Specialist At The Agency
by AdExchanger // Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 – 11:27 am
Mark Pavia was recently hired as Executive VP, Digital Managing Director at Starcom USA, a Publicis agency. Read a bit more in Ad Age.
Pavia discussed his new position and the evolving role of digital specialists within the agency.
AdExchanger.com: What attracted you to the EVP role at Starcom?
MP: It was a number of things. Coming from the Martin Agency, as Director of Innovation – and my previous work at Four Points Digital - the opportunity to do something on a large scale is very attractive. The resources at the VivaKi and SMG levels are impressive. And another thing that attracted me is this notion of human experience strategy, what [CEO Lisa Donohue] believes and the type of people Lisa's hiring at the senior management level.
I have worked in a completely non‑siloed environment my whole career and attached at the hip with a creative director since the day I started in media over 25 years ago. So to come to a company like Starcom and have the opportunity to create really scalable experiences - that's powerful.
Can you talk about what the responsibilities of this role entail?
It's about making sure that we have a best‑in‑class digital product. I'll be working with SMG and VivaKi to move Starcom’s client and vendor relationships "upstream" as well as taking advantage of what they're developing "downstream" in terms of new product innovation.
The other piece is the human element - to foster people's careers here and help them do great work.
Speaking of careers in agencies, do you see a progression in the digital specialist, if you will, from your earlier agency days compared to what you see now? What is it today that specialists need that that they didn't need before?
Let me go back about 12 years ago to when we started Four Points Digital. At the time, we were trying to hire people who were really good multi-taskers because the job required it. We found those people - and it’s even more important today because there are still more elements to juggle.
Also, early on, the notion of performance was in its infancy, and today it's far more mature. Having folks understand all the resources that they have available to them in the agency is critical.
In fact, we have come full circle [at the agency] in my opinion. Back in the early days, digital folks were fine being "siloed" off because they had their "membership badge." Today, that notion has evolved to where you're seeing people think in a much more, non‑siloed way. Digital has become connective tissue. It used to be a line on a flow chart or something somebody wanted to test. It was crazy.
So, when I look at people, I think, "Are they multitaskers?" because the job absolutely requires it. People who succeed are the ones, frankly, that just think in simple, human terms and know how to connect all the dots.
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James Haslam
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On September 19th, 2017, we launched the Coalition Against Ad Fraud - known to many as CAAF.
Since then, the initiative has grown from a handful of fraud-focused partners, willing to take strong steps against mobile ad fraud, to a wealth of networks all over the world.
Alongside its growth CAAF has brought education, the key to defending against fraud, to the masses, providing members the opportunity to share knowledge together.
Through our ongoing work we’ve become better equipped to fight fraud, and have helped create solutions that have been shared industry-wide.
All the while, us and our members have never lost sight of our main goal: to end ad fraud for good.
What CAAF has achieved so far
Now boasting more than 20 members, and having hosted three global events, CAAF continues to go from strength to strength.
In the upcoming months we’ll be holding more events, first touching down in Tokyo, very soon. Not only that, but we’ve been hard at work creating guidelines for the coalition, to set shared industry standards for definitions of mobile ad fraud.
This will help support our ongoing discussions, and help us collectively get past the “what are we dealing with?”, to be able move onto the “how we can deal with the problem?”.
Who is a member of CAAF?
A total of 22 networks have joined the coalition. These include ironSource, Vungle, Aarki, Nend, i-mobile, Dynalyst, Applift, Inmobi, Fyber, Jampp, Remerge, Liftoff, Youappi, AdAction, AdColony, Persona.ly, Headway Digital, Zucks Network (United), Zucks Affiliate (United), Curate Media, Motive Interactive and Madvertise.
All have helped shape CAAF as we know it today, and all continue to contribute knowledge, ideas, and continued expertise to the group in ongoing online discussion and at our local meetings.
Importantly, this list isn’t static - as you’ll see, we’re constantly adding more to the group. In fact, we’re pleased to announce three new members.
Welcoming our three newest members
We’re proud to name Revmob, Chartboost and Moloco as new CAAF badgeholders. Below you can see what they have to say about the news.
Moloco's data-driven culture and industry-leading technology perfectly position us to seize victory in the fight against ad fraud. Fraud is the key challenge currently facing our community, and we are eager to work with all parties who accept our shared responsibility to clean the space. Organizations like CAAF represent a critical step toward finding the solution. Fraudsters are devious, but upstanding marketers working together will defeat them once and for all. Becoming a part of CAAF gives us the opportunity to best understand the frontiers and nuances of ad fraud. By joining forces to fight ad fraud, we can allow marketers to refocus on their actual job - delivering the right users at the right price point.
DJ Jeon
Chief Technology Officer,
Moloco
According to industry reports, 11.5% of mobile ad spend goes into fraudulent traffic. It is more important than ever that we come together as an industry to increase transparency, set clear parameters for fraud, and develop tools for detection and reporting. At Chartboost, we have a zero tolerance ad fraud policy and have a long trajectory of partnering with advertisers, publishers and data/attribution platforms to chase non-human traffic. That is why we are very excited to join Adjust’s Coalition Against Ad Fraud (CAAF). We are eager to be partnering with the brightest minds in the mobile landscape to share insights, improve detection methods and develop anti-fraud infrastructure.
Pepe Agell
Chief Strategy Officer,
Eliminating fraud is an essential step towards Revmob's mission to delivering qualified customers in a smart, automated way, achieving our client’s KPIs. Fraudsters are getting more sophisticated every day, which requires us to invest heavily in anti-fraud solutions. As a tech company, we at Revmob decided to develop our own tools, not only to detect and block fraud right away, but also to prevent it. The experience accumulated since our first days in 2011 played an important role to ensure we have the most advanced weapons to fight this war. We are very excited to join CAAF to share and learn, as we believe only together we can win.
Guilherme Souza
Revmob
Now, advertisers can enlist!
We’re opening up CAAF to advertisers, aiming to add more powerful voices into the mix to call for more action on fraud in the industry.
If you’d like to know more, take a look at our CAAF page here, and contact us via the link if you’d like to consider joining. We’d be pleased to have you!
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The 10 Most Followed Tennis Players On Social Media
The debate over the greatest tennis player of all-time rages on but which tennis star has the most social media followers?
By Alex McMahon
Modern sport and social media go hand-in-hand. Everyone wants to be the best in the sport, just like everyone wants to be the most popular player on social media.
If tennis betting is your thing, you will already be familiar with the names on this list. Some of the greatest players ever to pick up a racquet make the cut…
Most Followed Tennis Players:
Rafael Nadal – 39.3 million
Roger Federer – 35.6 million
Sania Mirza – 30.9 million
Serena Williams – 28.8 million
Maria Sharapova – 26.6 million
Novak Djokovic – 23.2 million
Andy Murray – 8.7 million
Ana Ivanovic – 7.4 million
Juan Martin del Potro – 7.2 million
Caroline Wozniacki – 5.9 million
The new kids on the block are playing catch up. Established tennis stars have been gaining followers for years while tennis’ youngsters are just breaking onto the scene.
Without further ado, it is time to take a look at the 10 most popular tennis players on social media. Caroline Wozniacki is first up on our tennis social media followers countdown…
10 – Caroline Wozniacki
Now retired, Wozniacki was one of the players of her generation. When she announced her decision in early 2020, the Danish star had 30 WTA singles titles and a Grand Slam title.
Wozniacki just about sneaks into this most followed tennis players list, with a total fan base of 5.9 social media followers across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
9 – Juan Martin del Potro
The 2009 US Open champion has won 22 ATP singles titles throughout his illustrious career – an impressive feat in one of the toughest eras in male tennis history.
Del Potro’s 3.3 million Twitter followers earn him a place in our rankings. One of the most consistent players around, he sits ninth in the list of the biggest tennis stars on social media.
8 – Ana Ivanovic
Serbia’s greatest ever female tennis player, Ivanovic won 14 WTA Singles titles throughout her career. In addition, she was crowned French Open champion in 2008 after beating Dinara Safina at Roland Garros.
Particularly popular on Facebook, Ivanovic is active on all forms of social media and her place as one of the 10 most followed tennis players on social media is secure.
7 – Andy Murray
The most successful British tennis player of all-time, Murray has enjoyed incredible success at the highest level – though his career has been plagued by injury in recent times.
Now with 8.7 million social media followers, Murray isn’t the most active tennis player on Instagram or Twitter but fans are still keen to know the latest updates ahead of major tennis tournaments.
6 – Novak Djokovic
Djokovic sits third on the most men’s Grand Slam titles list with 17 – two behind Nadal and three behind Federer. In terms of social media followers, he also ranks behind his closest rivals.
However, Djokovic’s 23.2 million social media followers puts him some way clear of Murray. He has a relatively even spread of tennis fans across Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
5 – Maria Sharapova
One place and 3.4 million social followers ahead of Djokovic, Sharapova is a renowned figure in women’s tennis. Now retired, she ended her career with a total of five Grand Slam titles.
With a grand total of 26.6 social media followers, including 14 million tennis fans on Facebook, the Russian remains a popular icon in the sport despite off-field controversies.
4 – Serena Williams
The most successful female player in the Open Era, Serena Williams is one title away from equalling Margaret Court’s Grand Slam wins record. Without a doubt, she is one of the best ever tennis players.
Approaching 29 million followers mark across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, Williams is one of the top tennis stars on social media and the American could climb into the top three.
3 – Sania Mirza
888sport India tennis fans will know all about Sania Mirza. While she is yet to win a Grand Slam singles title, she is a four-time Grand Slam doubles champion.
Widely regarded as the best Indian female tennis player, Mirza’s fan base is huge on social media. With over 30 million followers, she is well worth her place in these tennis rankings.
2 – Roger Federer
Quite possibly the best tennis player of all-time, Federer is a fan favourite. He leads the way in Grand Slam titles (20) and was the highest earning athlete in 2020.
However, he has to settle for second spot in our tennis followers chart. With a total of 35.6 million followers, he is clear of third but has some way to go to knock Nadal off top spot.
1 – Rafael Nadal
The most famous tennis player on the planet, Nadal has clinched 19 Grand Slam titles during his illustrious career. The Spaniard is a true legend of the sport – and long may his success continue.
Now topping the 39 million social media followers mark, Nadal ranks as the most followed tennis player on social media. His figures on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are something to behold.
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Spanish police disable knifeman with bollard sneak attack
Spanish officers have managed to bring down a knife-wielding man shouting “Allahu Akbar” using the unlikeliest of weapons – a traffic bollard.
The man entered the border post between Morocco and the Spanish territory of Melilla on Tuesday, threatening police.
Spanish Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido posted security camera footage of the drama -- which took place on Spanish soil -- showing the man in a blue top walking slowly through the border post holding a knife, police closing in on him.
One of the officers hurled a portable road barricade at him, throwing him to the ground as other agents pounced to remove the knife.
"A man entered the border post and once inside, pulled out a large knife and confronted (police) shouting 'Allahu Akbar' (God is Greater), slightly injuring a policeman," Irene Flores, spokeswoman for the central government's representative office in Melilla, told AFP.
Mr Zoido is yet to confirm whether the incident was an attempted terror attack. The man remains in police custody.
Ms Flores said an initial investigation indicated the man was Moroccan, but this has yet to be confirmed.
A police spokesman had earlier said the man ran into the border post, but that is not visible on the footage.
Restive border
Melilla and its sister Spanish city Ceuta, both Spanish territories on Morocco's northern coast, are the only two land borders between Africa and the European Union.
Many Moroccans live there or go there daily to buy tax-free products.
They are also a strong draw for migrants desperate to reach Europe, many of them from sub-Saharan Africa.
These regularly storm the border fences or try and smuggle themselves in.
The Melilla border has been hit by three car-ramming incidents this year, with people driving vehicles with migrants hidden inside into the border post at high speed.
But this is believed to be the first incident of this type.
Spain has so far been spared the kind of extremist violence that has occurred in nearby France, Belgium and Germany.
But it was hit by what is still Europe's deadliest jihadist attack in March 2004, when bombs exploded on commuter trains in Madrid, killing 191 people in an attack claimed by Al Qaeda-inspired extremists.
Since 2016, Spain has emerged as a potential target for jihadists, with extremist websites mentioning it for historical reasons, since much of its territory was once under Muslim rule.
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Generally, authorities in Spain -- the world's third largest tourism destination -- remain discreet on the terror threat.
But they publicise every arrest of alleged jihadists, most of them detained for propaganda, recruitment for extremist groups or "glorifying terrorism".
According to the interior ministry, more than 180 "jihadist terrorists" have been arrested since June 2015 when Spain raised the terror alert level to four out of a maximum of five, in domestic and foreign operations.
In Ceuta and Melilla, where poverty and unemployment are rife, such arrests are frequent.
The last in Melilla dates back to June 23 when a man suspected of having tried to recruit fighters for the ISIS group was detained.
"Radicalisation in Spain isn't uniform over all the national territory but appears to be concentrated around clusters or pockets of radicalisation," said Clara Garcia Calvo from the Real Instituto Elcano think tank, who researches global extremism.
She told AFP that these "clusters" were in Madrid, Barcelona, Ceuta and Melilla.
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Ukraine fears Russia 'ready to attack'
2:56am Mar 24, 2014
Ukraine's Western-backed leaders have voiced fears of an imminent Russian invasion of the eastern industrial heartland following the fall of their last airbase in Crimea to defiant Kremlin troops.
Saturday's takeover involving armoured personnel carriers and stun grenades provided the most spectacular show of force since the Kremlin sent troops into the heavily Russified peninsula three weeks ago before sealing its annexation on Friday.
Alarm about a push outside Crimea by Moscow's overwhelming forces - now conducting drills at Ukraine's eastern gate - were fanned further on Sunday by a call by its self-declared premier for Russians across the ex-Soviet country to rise up against Kiev's rule.
The interim leaders in Kiev fear that Russian President Vladimir Putin - flushed with expansionist fervour - is developing a sense of impunity after being hit by only limited EU and US sanctions for taking the Black Sea cape.
"The aim of Putin is not Crimea but all of Ukraine ... His troops massed at the border are ready to attack at any moment," Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council chief Andriy Parubiy told a mass unity rally in Kiev.
Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsya reaffirmed that message in an interview broadcast on Sunday on a top US political talk show.
"We do not know what Putin has in his mind and what would be his decision. That's why this situation is becoming even more explosive than it used to be a week ago," Deshchytsya told ABC's This Week.
Europe's most explosive crisis in decades will dominate a nuclear security summit opening in The Hague on Monday that will include what may prove to be the most difficult meeting to date between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
The encounter comes with Russia facing the loss of its coveted seat among the G8 group of leading nations and US financial restrictions imposed on the most powerful members of Putin's inner circle for their decision to resort to force in response to last month's fall of Ukraine's pro-Kremlin regime.
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British MP ‘who was in touch with Boris Johnson’ has coronavirus
Nadine Dorries, now in isolation, becomes first legislator to catch COVID-19 as UK moves to limit financial fallout.
Health officials are now trying to trace where British Conservative MP Nadine Dorries contracted the virus and who she has been in contact with [Reuters]
Nadine Dorries, British health minister, has tested positive for coronavirus.
“I can confirm I have tested positive for coronavirus … and have been self-isolating at home,” the Conservative member of parliament said on Tuesday.
Health officials are now trying to trace where Dorries contracted the virus and who she has been in contact with, she added.
Dorries, who helped craft the legislation to fight the coronavirus, is the first British politician to be diagnosed with COVID-19, raising immediate concern about whether she has spread the infection.
The Times newspaper reported that she had been in touch with hundreds of people, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
She fell unwell on Friday while signing the document that declared coronavirus a notifiable disease, meaning companies could obtain insurance cover, said the paper, adding she was now believed to be on the road to recovery.
“I would like to thank … the wonderful NHS staff who have provided me with advice and support,” she said, referring to Britain’s National Health Service.
The shock news is likely to increase calls to suspend parliament, despite the government’s reluctance to do so in the middle of a health crisis.
Six people have died in Britain from the virus, with 373 confirmed cases.
Meanwhile, the Bank of England cut its key interest rate by 0.5 percent to 0.25 percent on Wednesday, as an emergency measure in response to the outbreak of COVID-19.
The central bank said the move would “help support businesses and consumer confidence at a difficult time”.
The UK is due to announce more measures to support the economy in a budget later on Wednesday.
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How to Watch Sky from Italy.
Today you can have all the Sky UK channels available on your television in Italy, with the best quality and the vast selection of UK programming.
Thanks to Sky’s services, you can also add British channels to your recorded list on the TV, accessing not only more programs, but also exclusive and unmissable content: sports, movies, news and entertainment programs.
In fact, English television is famous all over the world: from journalistic information to sport, with direct and in-depth analysis of the Premier League, documentaries, all movies and TV series in the original language.
With Sky UK, English television arrives directly at your home. But let’s see how it works, what are the advantages and what programs are most watched by UK viewers.
Sky Uk in Italy? Simple, let’s find out together.
First we start from the base: the reception of English TV channels works via satellite, so it is necessary, as for Sky Italia, a satellite dish installed and pointed correctly at ASTRA II 28.2 °. The signal strength in Italy is very good, no further measures or additional equipment will be required. In any case, our advice is to consult a technician to ensure that the reception and signal strength are sufficient, as they may vary from area to area.
As for the Sky UK subscription from Italy, despite the Brexit and the news at European level, it is not necessary to own neither an English bank account nor a billing address on the island of Her Majesty the Queen. The order of the package and the payment can in fact be made with an Italian address and a credit card of any country.
Obviously we will need a decoder to receive the signal of English television, and if you do not already have it you can immediately order the Sky + HD box together with the TV package, to enjoy Sky UK programming right from your sofa at home. or the most exciting and complete TV offer in Europe.
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Colorado Ban on Panic Defense Goes Uncovered by Major News Media
/ July 20th, 2020 / By Hirsh Joshi
Given how chaotic the news seems to be everyday, it can be easy to miss stories that are crucial and consequential to certain communities. On July 14, Colorado became just the 11th U.S. state to outlaw the use of the ‘trans panic’ and ‘gay panic’ criminal defense.
The ‘trans panic’ defense is a legal strategy used as mitigating evidence for a defendant accused of assaulting or even murdering a gay or trans individual. Defendants claim to have been so shocked, offended, or outraged at perceived sexual advances from a member of the LGBTQ+ community that they argue diminished capacity or self-defense.
One may think that the advancement of LGBTQ+ rights would be covered prominently by major news media. In this case, that thinking proved to be wrong.
According to AllSides’ analysis, very few major news sources reported the news within the first day. The Hill was our only featured source to report on the news. Media outlets known for covering news affecting the LGBTQ+ community such as LGBTQ Nation, The Advocate, and Pink News reported on it, as did some local Colorado newspapers including the Denver Post. However, coverage of the ban was absent from major media on both the left and right.
The ban is considered a significant win for LGBTQ+ rights by civil rights activists. Since 2014, Illinois, California, New Mexico, Maine, Rhode Island, New York, Nevada, Hawaii, Washington, and New Jersey have also banned the panic defense. A 2018 congressional bill aimed to ban the trans panic defense for federal defendants. The same bill was reintroduced as H.R. 3133 in 2019. The Illinois ban was passed during the tenure of Governor Bruce Rauner. He is the only Republican governor to pass such a bill as of July 2020.
When New Jersey banned the panic defense in early 2020, mainstream media sites like NBC News, the New York Post, US News and World Report, and the New York Daily News did report on the incident. The Washington Times reposted an Associated Press story on the matter. Washington state’s ban of the panic defense, also in early 2020, was also covered similarly by some of the outlets listed above. The Seattle Times reported on Washington’s ban and HuffPost reposted an AP story. Reuters ran a story about the panic defense in general and briefly mentioned Washington’s move.
The ongoing push for LGBTQ+ equality has garnered substantial media coverage in the past few years, but national crises like the coronavirus pandemic and inflammation of racial tensions have made other stories outside seem hard to find. Underrepresented communities are no less worthy of media attention amid other social and political predicaments; some might argue those crises make reporting on minority communities and uncommon perspectives even more important.
Balancing coverage is a constant and inescapable challenge. Sometimes, stories relevant to local or state regions don’t make their way to the national forefront, and editors will always have to make tough editorial decisions about what to cover with limited resources. But it is still worth noting when certain stories have not gotten the attention some would think they deserve.
Never settle for the top headlines or most popular stories. Always check multiple sources and go the extra mile to read content that will round out your worldview. Even when a few topics seem to dominate the headlines, there’s always more news to be covered.
Hirsh Joshi curates news and conducts research as part of the AllSides news team. He has a Left bias.
This piece was reviewed, edited and expanded on by Managing Editor Henry A. Brechter (Center bias), News Editor Micaela Ricaforte (Center bias) and Director of Marketing Julie Mastrine (Lean Right bias).
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Takuya Satō, Yōko Hikasa Join Cast of Altair: A Record of Battles Anime
posted on 2017-05-25 13:10 EDT by Jennifer Sherman
TV series starring Ayumu Murase premieres on July 7
The July issue of Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Sirius magazine revealed on Thursday character designs and two new cast members for this summer's television anime of Kotono Katō's historical fantasy manga Altair: A Record of Battles (Shōkoku no Altair). Takuya Satō will play Ibrahim, and Yōko Hikasa will play Shara.
The anime stars: (Note: character name romanizations are not official.)
Ayumu Murase as Mahmut
Makoto Furukawa as Zaganos
KENN as Kyros
Katsuyuki Konishi as Sleiman
Kenjiro Tsuda as Rui
Kenichi Ogata as Khalil
Junichi Suwabe as Abiriga
Yu Kobayashi as Lelederik
Takahiro Sakurai as Graratto
The series will premiere on July 7 in the late-night Animeism block of the MBS, TBS, and BS-TBS channels. The series will run for two cour (two quarters of a year).
The manga's story centers on Mahmut, a young member of Türkiye Stratocracy's council who holds the political and military title of Pasha. The council's combination of warmongers and pacifists divide it. The threat of war and danger from the belligerent Empire put Türkiye's safety at risk. As the country's youngest military leader, Mahmut is determined to keep the peace. But with so much at stake, a long history of enemies and alliances draws the young man far into a political world he hopes to keep in check. The Pasha's journey is not easy, and war may prevail despite his efforts.
Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Getbackers, Rurouni Kenshin TV series and OVAs, Mobile Suit Gundam UC) is directing the project at MAPPA (Kids on the Slope, Yuri!!! on Ice, In This Corner of the World). Noboru Takagi (Durarara!!, Baccano!, Kuroko's Basketball) is handling the series composition, Toshiyuki Kanno (Garo the Animation, Black Blood Brothers) is the character designer, and Takashi Igari (episode director of The [email protected], Punch Line) is the assistant director. Ryo Kawasaki (Fate/Grand Order: First Order, Luger Code 1951, Reikenzan: Eichi e no Shikaku) is composing the music.
The rock band Sid is performing the anime's opening theme song "Rasen no Yume" (Spiral Dream).
Katō launched the manga in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Sirius magazine in 2007, and the 18th compiled book volume shipped on January 17. The 19th volume will ship on June 23. The series inspired the Shōkoku no! four-panel manga on Sirius' official website in 2012. The magazine serialized Shiina Soga's Shōkoku no Altair-san (Altair of the Tiny Nation) spinoff manga from 2012 to 2013, and Hirokazu Kobayashi and Chika Katō's Shōkoku no Altair Kaiden Tōkoku no Subaru spinoff series launched this past January. The first compiled book volume of Shōkoku no Altair Kaiden Tōkoku no Subaru shipped on January 17, and the second volume will ship on June 23.
Kodansha Comics released the first volume of the manga digitally in English on March 21.
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ANJA PERCIVAL: PRINTMAKER
I live & work in Durham, UK
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I am a printmaker, specialising in etching on copper.
To read my artist's statement, please refer to the 'Techniques' page.
After initially pursuing a scientific career, I then studied Fine Art at Falmouth College of Arts, where I discovered my love for printmaking. Between 2005 and 2009 I spent the majority of my time working at several different printmaking workshops in Copenhagen and Odense, but in December 2009, I relocated back to the North East, and soon after my return I was awarded ‘Printmaker of the Year’ at Printfest 2010.
I now predominantly work from my studio in Fowlers Yard, Durham. I am also still a member of Northern Print Studio in Newcastle, and maintain strong links with Fyns Printmaking Workshop in Odense. My studio in Fowlers Yard is an open access workshop, where the public can visit to see printmaking in action, or participate in day courses that teach the etching techniques that I commonly use.
I have secured gallery representation both nationally and internationally, with outlets including London, New York, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. In 2012 I held a solo exhibition in the Galilee Chapel of Durham Cathedral, and that same year my work was selected to hang in the newly refurbished Millbank House, within the House of Lords. In 2014 I was thrilled to participate in the International Print Biennalewith the first solo show in my own studio, in association with Northern Print, the regional centre from printmaking in the North East. In 2016 I was shortlisted to create a piece of work for the Velux headquarters in Copenhagen, and my work was selected to participate in the New Light Prize Exhibition at Panter & Hall in London.
Most recently, I participated in Printfest 2019 and was thrilled to receive two Awards. My etching 'Window Light XV' won the Hawthorn Award, and I also received the Visitors Choice Award for my work, sponsored by James Cropper PLC.
Falmouth College of Arts,
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Residencies & Awards
Visitors Choice Award at Printfest
Hawthorn Award at Printfest for my etching 'Window Light XV'
Haigh Award at Printfest for my etching 'Window Light XIV'
Shortlisted for New Light Prize
6 week residency at The Danish Art Workshops in Copenhagen
Printmaker of the Year at Printfest
Bodil Prize awarded at Fyns Grafiske Værksted, Odense
Grafik i Väst, Sweden
Fyns Grafiske Værksted, Denmark
Grafiske Værksted Havarthigaarden, Copenhagen & Fabrikken for Kunst og Design, Copenhagen
Newlyn Society of Artists
Northern Print, Newscastle
Aniela Regini Printworks, Penryn, Cornwall
Porthmeor Printmakers Society, St. Ives, Cornwall
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A Lament for the Tragic State of the Fraudulent Christian
by A.J. Castellitto / on March 12, 2017 at 6:28 am /
Barronelle Stutzman
The penalty for impersonating a police officer is imprisonment up to five years, give or take a few.
The penalty for practicing medicine without a license can often range anywhere between one to eight years in prison, depending upon the severity of the offense.
The penalty for impersonating a Christian? God will make the final ruling on that one…
“And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.” Matthew 7:23
The question must be asked. Are we guilty of impersonating a Christian?
Are we faithful representatives? Are we acquainted with the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Does it compel us to resist the common wisdom of our day?
Blessed are those that stand up and speak out with charity and dignity. Barronelle Stutzman is one of those precious ones standing up before God and man.
Christians must remain mindful and vigilant, knowing the struggle and warfare against sin to be a perpetual, existential reality of true life. On the flipside, we must guard our consciences against the bondage of legalism. Righteousness lies not in us, but in the grace bestowed by the One we serve.
We can never serve Him perfectly. Like the prodigal son, we may even go astray for a season, but be certain we will come crawling back. Assuredly, we will be received in the arms of a loving Savior.
The ‘Christian’ tag is thrown around way too loosely these days. It is not something we could ever earn. It’s not something that can be blindly tainted and diluted by some liberal philosophy.
The knowing must precede the doing. The word of truth can never fill our hearts if we are unwilling to truly hear it. If the Bible remains closed so will our hearts. God’s plan is simple. It needn’t conform to the times, only to our minds…
And ultimately our hearts.
*America has stood as a beacon of liberty to the world because our Constitution protects people’s freedom to peacefully—and publicly—work and live according to their convictions.
More than 75 prominent religious and thought leaders have come together as charter signatories of “Preserve Freedom, Reject Coercion,” a statement that affirms every American’s freedom to peacefully live their lives according to their beliefs…
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Not only was conservative speaker Ann Coulter forced out of her speaking engagement at University of California-Berkeley, but following the riots there, a student senator told the school paper that the continued presence of the police on campus was “re-traumatizing” students on campus. To think
The Last Man Standing
As I was driving down the highway the other day, I noticed the car in front of me — a Toyota Prius — one of those electric hybrid cars that environmentalists love to be seen in, as it shows how concerned they are about saving the planet. What first caught my attention was that this vehicle was
Enemies Within Re-Writing American History
The founder of the ACLU, Roger Baldwin, stated, “I am for socialism, disarmament, for abolishing the state itself…I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the
Anti-Children Conversion Therapy Ban Bill Passed in Connecticut
Conversion Therapy Ban? All the euphemisms are used to get this bill to be emotional, caring and helpful to CT’s children, but it is a bill from the depths of Hell and a vessel to keep imprisoned those children with psychological issues who struggle with the trans-gender and homosexuality mental
Modern ‘Diversity’ is A Lie
The current shibboleth that is widely touted and accepted without question today is the claim that diversity is a value to be embraced by all. In fact diversity in many quarters is being forced upon hapless students in the educational institutions of our land. But upon closer examination, it is not
The America Healthcare Dialectic Cannot Stop Here
When we consider the rightness or wrongness of any federal government program or agency the discussion of its “rightness” must always begin with the question of authority. Does the federal government have the authority to do this thing in the first
SOS: Speaking of Seniors – They Were Surprised!
I brought the chart that I usually use when I speak about Medicare problems and what I do to fix them. I explained that the Medicare system breaks down hundreds of times every day. That is the most common problem with the Medicare system. It is the problem that government bureaucrats and government
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What are Portrait Paintings?
Portrait painting is a genre in painting which aims at portraying a human subject. Portrait paintings are valuable and convincing when they disclose to us something about the individual. A well-executed portrait painting isn't only a visual portrayal of a man; it intends to say something about the substance of the subject. What the representation uncovers may not be totally self-evident. It can be suggested through a specific expression or thing, or the hues used in the artwork.
Artists may attempt to achieve a result as realistic as possible or an impressionistic similarity in portraying their subject. The eyes and eyebrows create a greater part of the facial expression. An art portrait can depict the subject full length, half length, head and shoulders - also called a bust, or head, as well as in profile, three-quarter view, or full face, with varying directions of light and shadow. They can be created in various media including oils, watercolor, pen and ink, pencil, charcoal, pastel, and mixed media.
What are Figurative Paintings?
Artwork in which portrayals take reference of scenes, objects of the real world can be classified as figurative painting. The term ‘figurative painting’ was used to describe art especially since the arrival of abstract art. Figurative artwork distinguishes itself from modern abstract art which rarely depicts distinctive objects from the real world. In a way, figurative art is opposite of abstract.
Contemporary figurative art may involve use of human subjects, and the artist may often take the liberty of giving the artwork his or her own touch by altering or exaggerating the features. In fact, this is what differentiates figurative paintings representing human subjects, from portrait paintings, which are closer to reality.
Portrait and Figurative Paintings as Wall Art
Portrait art depicts emotion of the subject and figurative art conveys a mood, which is why both these forms of art are capable of evoking strong emotions in an individual. Portrait paintings of iconic figures, or a known subject, may hold sentimental value, and a family portrait painting is a priceless piece of legacy. Portraitures of unknown faces are usually picked up for the skill of artistry and the expressions or facial features, they depict. Contemporary figurative paintings are great for adding a pop of colour or a strong character to a nude décor. Artoreal has an enticing range of portrait and figurative paintings to choose from, great to complement contemporary as well as traditional home décor.
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AG sues Beverly Hills lawyers to stop frivolous lawsuits
Attorney General Bill Lockyer on February 26 filed a consumer protection action against the Trevor Law Group of Beverly Hills, alleging the firm committed unfair business practices in slapping thousands of small businesses with abusive lawsuits filed solely to obtain nuisance settlements and attorneys fees.
The Attorney General filed his complaint under the Unfair Competition Act (UCA) -- Business and Professions Code Section 17200 -- the same statute the Trevor Law Group used to sue auto repair shops, restaurants and markets in the Los Angeles area.
"The Trevor Law Group operates a shakedown operation designed to extract attorneys fees from law-abiding small business owners," said Lockyer. "With its unlawful practices, the Trevor Law Group has abused one of the state's most important consumer protection statutes and dishonored attorneys who practice law in the public interest."
The complaint, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf of the people of California, seeks full restitution of money acquired by the defendants as a result of their violations of Section 17200. The lawsuit also asks the court to impose civil penalties of not less than $1 million. Additionally, the complaint requests the court to order the defendants to drop all lawsuits that they have brought under the UCA and false advertising law. Finally, the Attorney General's complaint seeks a permanent injunction barring the defendants from filing new lawsuits under the UCA and false advertising statute without court approval.
The action also names as defendants: the Consumer Enforcement Watch Corporation (CEWC), the organization used by the Trevor Law Group as the plaintiff in their cases; Damian Trevor, Shane C. Han and Allan Hendrickson, lawyers with the firm; and CEWC owner Ron Jamal Kort.
The complaint alleges the Trevor Law Group and CEWC have "abused the process of law" and unlawfully exploited a UCA provision that permits private plaintiffs to represent the public in bringing actions for unfair or unlawful business practices.
The defendants have filed 22 lawsuits in which they have named as defendants 2,207 auto repair shops, more than 1,000 restaurants and markets, and 210,000 "Does," or unnamed plaintiffs, according to the complaint. In the lawsuits that name multiple defendants, the complaint alleges there is no connection among the businesses, nor is there a relationship between the businesses and their alleged misconduct. That lack of connection violates Code of Civil Procedure Section 379.
Defendants represent they are in the business of enforcing consumer laws through litigation," the complaint states. "Defendants are actually in the business of extracting money from small businesses under the guise of purporting to enforce consumer protection laws ... Defendants' real purpose is to obtain monetary payment for themselves to which they are not entitled."
According to the complaint, the defendants formed the CEWC in April 2002 to serve as named plaintiff in their Section 17200 lawsuits. They then filed the actions based solely on notices of regulatory violations they found on government agencies' Websites - violations the regulators deemed insufficient to warrant disciplinary action.
Shortly after filing the suit, the complaint alleges, the Trevor Law Group and CEWC used form letters to contact the businesses to try to obtain quick settlements. They told auto repair shop owners the cases typically settled for $6,000 to $26,000. The settlement range they provided restaurant and market owners was $7,000 to $13,000. If all the named businesses settled at the low end of the ranges, the complaint notes, the Trevor Law Group and CEWC still would realize a $20.2 million windfall.
The form letters also falsely told business owners that settling the case would protect them from similar lawsuits filed by other plaintiffs. Further, the complaint alleges, the Trevor Law Group and CEWC demanded the settlements be kept secret from the public, whose interests the defendants purported to serve. Finally, according to the complaint, the Trevor Law Group and CEWC entered into an illegal agreement which called for the firm to share with CEWC some of the money it received from settlements.
The Attorney General's Office said it continues to investigate four other law firms and their named-plaintiff organizations for possible abuses of Section 17200.
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Gary, TX (75643) 5-Day Weather Forecast
The weather in Gary at 11 am: Expect a hazy sky. The wind speed should vary around about 8 mph.
Gary at 17 pm: Clouds will cover the sky. The wind is forecast to reach 6 mph.
The weather in Gary at 11 am: An overcast sky will probably give a little rain. The wind is forecast to reach 12 mph.
Gary at 17 pm: Heavy rain is expected under a gloomy sky. The strength of the wind will vary around 10 mph.
The weather in Gary at 11 am: Clouds will cover the sky. The strength of the wind will vary around 8 mph.
Gary at 17 pm: Expect a gloomy sky, but no rain. The strength of the wind will vary around 12 mph.
The weather in Gary at 11 am: Expect a hazy sky. The wind is forecast to reach 12 mph.
Gary at 17 pm: The weather will be overcast, and the sun will probably stay hidden. The wind is forecast to reach 10 mph.
The weather in Gary at 11 am: Expect some risk of showers under a variable sky. The strength of the wind will vary around 15 mph.
Gary at 17 pm: The weather will vary between sunny spells and cloudy periods with risk of sudden showers. The wind will reach about 10 mph.
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Juric: We have evidence and photographs that five powerful men abuse children
The founder of "Tijana Juric" Foundation recently disclosed that five powerful men from Belgrade, Novi Sad and Subotica had sexual intercourse with children
Source: Vecernje novosti Wednesday, January 22, 2020 | 11:27
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"The evidence and the photos we have that concern people known to the public who abuse children are not just in my possession. Two friends of mine have them as well, and if something happens to me, they will release it to the public", Igor Juric told "Novosti".
According to Juric, this is a "public secret" that no one had the courage to disclose so far.
"I knew it existed, that is, everyone in the society, and you, journalists, especially know that it is, as it is popularly called, a 'public secret'. For the first time, people who respect the Foundation's work and who trust us have also delivered certain evidence”, Juric pointed out.
"In particular, we've been working on this for a long time, it's hard to reach out to these people, it's hard to prove what I'm talking about. The people involved in the fight against trafficking know exactly what I'm talking about. We'll file criminal charges when there's sufficient evidence to send them away, where they belong. We have gathered enough material to make their names public, but that is not my goal. I want to see them in jail. In cooperation with our legal team, we agreed that we need to come up with a few more crucial pieces of evidence in this particular case. But I disclosed this on purpose, so that these people know that we know about them. I want to thank all the brave people who take a great deal of risk by helping us", Juric concluded.
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Director of Police: Ninoslav Jovanovic reveals details of the abduction
Police Director Vladimir Rebic said Ninoslav Jovanovic told the prosecutor that he had made the decision to abduct the girl at a spur of the moment
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Gendarmerie in Malca - the ring around the abductor tightens?
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Monika was found here PHOTO / VIDEO
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Monika has been found, remains in hospital
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Jan 20, 2021In farewell address, Trump celebrates his legacy, extends best wishes to next administration
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Patiala: Punjab CM appreciates the services of Rajindra Hospital
Deputy Commissioner Conveys Chief Minister's message to the frontline Corona Warriors
Holds Meeting With the Faculty of the Govt Medical College
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Patiala, August 10, 2020: Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh has applauded the services of frontline Corona Warriors Contributing to the Punjab Government's fight against COVID-19 under 'Mission Fateh' at Rajindra Hospital.
Patiala Deputy Commissioner Mr. Kumar Amit in a high level meeting with all the faculty of Government Medical College conveyed the message of Punjab CM. He said that the general public and the patients admitted here would have high faith in Rajindra Hospital as it was catering patients of more than 10 districts of Punjab at present.
Mr. Kumar Amit said that the Chief Minister had expressed immense satisfaction that the doctors and other medical staff of Government Rajindra Hospital, Patiala who had been working 24 hours a day to defeat the COVID-19 despite putting their lives at risk.
In this meeting Mrs. Surbhi Malik in charge of Covid Care, Assistant Commissioner Dr. Nirmal Oseppachan, Principal Dr. Harjinder Singh, Medical Superintendent Dr. Paras Kumar Pandav and Heads of all departments were present.
The Deputy Commissioner said that all the doctors would have to be ready for the next level of battle to be waged against COVID as the testing capacity in Patiala district was now being increased from 800 to 2200 per day by various means. He said though this would increase the number of cases but we would have to be ready by making functional MCH building. The ICU ward has also been shifted to 5th floor from existing 8th floor and number of beds has been increased from 32 to 83 in ICU and at the same time the super specialty block of the hospital will also be used for COVID care.
Mr. Kumar Amit asked all the Heads of Departments of the Medical College to lead their senior and junior residents to treat the patients in a better way while avoiding contract COVID infection themselves as the next three months would be more challenging for us.
Encouraging the doctors, the Deputy Commissioner said that this dreadful time could only be overcome through mutual co-ordination, so they should come up with a strategy to come forward for the better qns effective treatment of COVID patients. On this occasion, all the doctors assured that they would treat the patients with utmost dedication towards their profession so that we can all be victorious in the battle that is being fought against COVID.
In farewell address, Trump celebrates his legacy, extends best wishes to next administration
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Tequila Co. Founder Tells Jury Aykroyd’s Vodka No Influence
Law360, Los Angeles (March 21, 2017, 10:01 PM EDT) — The founder of a tequila company accused by Dan Aykroyd’s Crystal Head Vodka of ripping off its unique skull-shaped bottle on Tuesday defended her creation before a California federal jury, testifying she’d never even heard of Crystal Head Vodka when she designed her bottle.
On the third day of the trial in downtown Los Angeles, Globefill Inc., maker of Crystal Head Vodka, called to the stand Kim Brandi, the founder of Elements Spirits Inc., which Globefill has accused of trade dress infringement for selling KAH brand tequila in Mexican Day of the Dead-inspired skull-shaped bottles.
Globefill’s attorney David Berg of Berg & Androphy questioned Brandi about an “odd coincidence” he had raised during his opening statement — that KAH tequila bottles and Crystal Head bottles both have their spouts placed at “virtually the same” angle on their respective skulls.
“Well, if you didn’t copy [Globefill’s] bottle wouldn’t you be in agreement that it’s a coincidence that they’re the same angle?” he said.
Brandi admitted the two spouts were placed at nearly the same angle, and when asked by Berg, admitted that there are similarities between the two bottles.
Globefill Inc. is represented by David Berg and Michael M. Fay of Berg & Androphy and Hernan D. Vera of Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow PC.
The case is Globefill Inc. v. Elements Spirits Inc., case number 2:10-cv-02034, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
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A Message From Chief Judge Barbera On COVID-19
If You Have Any Questions About Your Case, Please Call The Following Numbers
Sixth Amended Administrative Order on the Suspension During the COVID-19 Emergency of Foreclosures, Evictions, and Other Ejectments Involving Residences
Sixth Revised Administrative Order on the Emergency Tolling or Suspension of Statutes of Limitations and Statutory and Rules Deadlines Related to the Initiation of Matters and Certain Statutory and Rules Deadlines in Pending Matters
Fifth Amended Administrative Order Extending the Statewide Suspension of Jury Trials and Maintaining Grand Juries
Fifth Administrative Order Clarifying COVID-19 Health Measures in Courthouses and Judicial Branch Facilities
Sixth Administrative Order Restricting Statewide Judiciary Operations Due to the COVID-19 Emergency
Fifth Amended Administrative Order Lifting the Suspension During the COVID-19 Emergency of Foreclosures, Evictions, and Other Ejectments Involving Residences
Fifth Revised Administrative Order on the Emergency Tolling or Suspension of Statutes of Limitations and Statutory and Rules Deadlines Related to the Initiation of Matters and Certain Statutory and Rules Deadlines in Pending Matters
Fourth Amended Administrative Order Re-imposing the Statewide Suspension of Jury Trials and Maintaining Grand Juries
Fourth Administrative Order Clarifying COVID-19 Health Measures in Courthouses and Judicial Branch Facilities
Fifth Administrative Order Restricting Statewide Judiciary Operations Due To The COVID-19 Emergency
Fourth Amended Administrative Orders Lifting The Suspension During The COVID-19 Emergency Of Foreclosures, Evictions, And Other Ejectments Involving Residences
Third Administrative Order Clarifying COVID-19 Health Measures In Courthouses And Judicial Branch Facilities
Fourth Revised Administrative Order On The Emergency Tolling Or Suspension Of Statues Of Limitations And Statutory And Rules Deadlines Related To The Initiation Of Matters And Certain Statutory And Rules Deadlines In Pending Matters
Third Amended Administrative Order Re-Imposing The Statewide Suspension Of Jury Trials And Maintaining Grand Juries
Second Amended Administrative Order On The Progressive Resumption Of Full Function Of Judiciary Operations Previously Restricted Due To The COVID-19 Emergency
Second Administrative Order Clarifying COVID-19 Health Measures In Courthouses And Judicial Branch Facilities
Third Amended Administrative Order Lifting the Suspension During the COVID-19 Emergency of Foreclosures, Evictions, and Other Ejectments Involving Residences
Second Amended Administrative Order Lifting the Statewide Suspension of Jury Trials and Resuming Grand Juries
Third Revised Administrative Order on the Emergency Tolling or Suspension of Statutes of Limitations and Statutory and Rules Deadlines Related to the Initiation of Matters and Certain Statutory and Rules Deadlines in Pending Matters
Amended Administrative Order On The Progressive Resumption Of Full Function Of Judiciary Operations Previously Restricted Due To The COVID-19 Emergency
Second Amended Administrative Order Lifting the Suspension During the COVID-19 Emergency of Foreclosures, Evictions, and Other Ejectment Involving Residences
Administrative Order Regarding Face Masks at Courthouses and Judicial Buildings in Maryland
Second Revised Administrative Order on the Emergency Tolling or Suspension of Statutes of Limitations and Statutory and Rules Deadlines Related to the Initiation of Matters and Certain Statutory and Rules Deadlines in Pending Matters
Amended Administrative Order Lifting the Suspension During the COVID-19 Emergency of Foreclosures, Evictions, and Other Ejectments Involving Residences
Amended Administrative Order Lifting the Statewide Suspension of Jury Trials and Resuming Grand Juries
Administrative Order on the Progressive Resumption of Full Function of Judiciary Operations
Amended Administrative Order on Remote Proceedings Held During the COVID-19 Emergency
Administrative Order Lifting the Statewide Suspension of Jury Trials and Resuming Grand Juries
Revised Administrative Order on the Emergency Tolling or Suspension of Statutes of Limitations and Statutory and Rules Deadlines Related to the Initiation of Matters and Certain Statutory and Rules Deadline in Pending Matters
Administrative Order on Suspension during the COVID-19 Emergency of Foreclosures, Evictions, and Other Ejectments involving Residences
Fourth Amended Administrative Order Expanding And Extending Statewide Judiciary Restricted Operations Due To The COVID-19 Emergency
Amended Administrative Order Further Clarifying The Emergency Tolling Or Suspension Of Statutes Of Limitations And Statutory And Rules Deadlines Related To The Initiation Of Matters And Certain Statutory And Rules Deadlines In Pending Matters
Administrative Order Extending The Length Of Statewide Judiciary Restricted Operations Due To The COVID-19 Emergency
Chief Judge Barbera’s Amended Order Clarifying The Emergency Tolling or Suspension of Statutes of Limitations and Statutory and Rules Deadlines
Chief Judge Barbera’s Administrative Order Extending The Length Of Statewide Judiciary Restricted Operations Due To The COVID-19 Emergency To June 5, 2020
Chief Judge Barbera’s Administrative Order On Incarcerated Or Imprisoned Adults
Chief Judge Barbera’s Administrative Order On Juvenile Matters
Amended Administrative Order on Expanding Statewide Judiciary Restricted Operations Due to the COVID-19 Emergency
Amended Administrative Order on Emergency Tolling or Suspension of Statutes of Limitations and Statutory and Rules Deadlines
Administrative Order On Emergency Tolling Or Suspension Of Statutes Of Limitations And Statutory And Rules Deadlines Related To The Initiation Of Matters And Certain Statutory And Rules Deadlines In Pending Matters
Administrative Order On Expanding The Statewide Suspension Of Jury Trials And Suspending Grand Juries
Administrative Order Expanding Statewide Judiciary Restricted Operations Due To The COVID-19 Emergency
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Administrative Order on Remote Hearings Held During the COVID-19 Emergency
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SEVENTH ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER RESTRICTING STATEWIDE JUDICIARY OPERATIONS
DUE TO THE COVID-19 EMERGENCY
WHEREAS, Pursuant to the Maryland Constitution, Article IV, § 18, the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals is granted authority as the administrative head of the Judicial Branch of the State; and
WHEREAS, The Court of Appeals has approved Chapter 1000 of Title 16 of the Maryland Rules of Practice and Procedure setting forth the emergency powers of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals; and
WHEREAS, Due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, and consistent with guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Maryland Department of Health (MDH), an emergency exists for which measures continue to be required to mitigate potential for exposure for individuals visiting a court or judicial facility and judicial personnel; and
WHEREAS, The administration of justice necessarily has been affected by the pandemic and will continue to require the professionalism, courtesy, and cooperation of the members of the bench and the bar in navigating the changes to practices and procedures; and
WHEREAS, Remote proceedings have proved to be useful and effective in facilitating the courts’ performance of core functions during the COVID-19 emergency and will continue to be necessary; and
WHEREAS, The COVID-19 emergency continues to require the Judiciary to reassess the current phase of operations in the phased approach, marking a retreat from full operational functions, while employing safety measures and monitoring local health conditions to continue to support the health and safety of Maryland residents and Judiciary personnel; and
WHEREAS, The Amended Administrative Order on the Progressive Resumption of Full Function of Judiciary Operations Previously Restricted Due to the COVID-19 Emergency, filed June 3, 2020, provided for five phases of a progressive return to operations, and these phases shall be utilized should a change in the level of operations be necessary during the remainder of the COVID-19 emergency; and
WHEREAS, The surge in COVID-19 infection rates throughout Maryland requires an extension of Phase II operations consistent with the health conditions and concomitant risk to individuals visiting a court or judicial facility and to judicial personnel,
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Mary Ellen Barbera, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals and administrative head of the Judicial Branch, pursuant to the authority conferred by Article IV, § 18 of the Maryland Constitution, do hereby order this 22nd day of December 2020, as follows:
(a) Should the CDC or MDH protocols require a return to restricted emergency operations during the COVID-19 emergency, a progressive, phased return to full operations by the courts in the Maryland Judiciary, court offices, administrative offices, units of the Judiciary, the Offices of the Clerks of the Circuit Courts, and the clerks’ offices of the District Court shall be the policy of the Maryland Judiciary, consistent with the measures taken since March 12, 2020; and
(b) Emergency operations consist of five phases, each progressive phase representing an increase in the level of operation within court locations. As the COVID-19 profile changes throughout the state over the next several months, it may become necessary to retreat from a later to an earlier phase, or to adjust the phase in one or more specific jurisdictions within the state, as determined by the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, with any required changes in phases to be announced as soon as feasible; and
(c) Phase I is the state of emergency operations consistent with the Fourth Amended Administrative Order Expanding and Extending Statewide Judiciary Restricted Operations Due to the COVID-19 Emergency, filed May 4, 2020, as noted in the attached Exhibit; and
(d) In Phase II, as amended in the attached Exhibit, courts shall address matters that can be heard both remotely and on-site, as well as matters that must be prioritized. In the previous period during which the Judiciary operated in Phase II (June 5, 2020, through July 19, 2020), the Offices of the Clerks of the Circuit Courts and the clerks’ offices of the District Court were closed to the public with limited exceptions. Beginning November 30, 2020, through March 12, 2021, pending further Order of the Chief of the Court of Appeals, in Phase II, the Offices of the Clerks of the Circuit Courts and the clerks’ offices of the District Court shall remain open to the public for emergency purposes as listed in the attached Exhibit and by appointment for other matters. In Phase II, court activities shall proceed with restrictions to limit the concentration of individuals and allow social distancing, consistent with guidance of the CDC or MDH or both; and
(e) In Phase III, courts schedule and hold a broader range of matters than in Phase II, including certain non-jury trials in the District Court and the Circuit Courts and attorney disciplinary matters in the circuit courts, with limited in- person services to be offered as determined by the administrative judge and posted electronically and in the court facility, as described in the attached
Exhibit. The Offices of the Clerks of the Circuit Courts and the clerks’ offices of the District Court are open to the public. Court and clerk activities shall proceed with continued restrictions to limit the concentration of individuals and allow social distancing, consistent with guidance of the CDC or MDH or both, and subject to staffing as determined in Sections (v), (w), and (x) of this Order; and
(f) In Phase IV, courts resume non-jury trials and contested hearings in criminal, civil, family, and juvenile matters, as described in the attached Exhibit, with continued restrictions to limit the concentration of individuals and allow social distancing, consistent with guidance of the CDC or MDH or both; and
(g) In Phase V, courts resume full operations, including jury trials. On October 5, 2020, jurisdictions proceeded to Phase V, as described in the attached Exhibit, with continued restrictions to limit the concentration of individuals and allow social distancing, consistent with the guidance of the CDC or MDH or both; however, surging COVID-19 infection rates in Maryland required the Judiciary to return to Phase III operations on November 16, 2020; and
(h) Effective November 30, 2020, through March 14, 2021, pending further order of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, courts shall operate under Phase II as described in Section (d) and the Exhibit of this Order; and
(i) Pending further order of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, the courts are authorized and shall conduct remote proceedings to the greatest extent possible during the health emergency, using communication platforms consistent with the Administrative Order on the Implementation of Remote Electronic Participation in Judicial Proceedings, filed June 18, 2018, and the Amended Administrative Order on Remote Proceedings Held During the COVID-19 Emergency, filed May 1, 2020, and the relevant Maryland Rules, including amendments presented in the 205th Report of the Rules Committee and approved by the Court of Appeals to take effect on July 1, 2020; and
(j) Regardless of Phase, this Order permits the courts’ consideration or resolution of:
(1) Matters that can be addressed without a hearing; and
(2) Matters requiring a hearing or court trial, to the extent that an individual court has the capacity to hear such matters, either in person or on a remote basis, with access to the public as justice requires. Courts shall notify all participants to the proceeding if a matter will go forward; and
(k) Jury trials scheduled to commence between November 16, 2020, through April 23, 2021, shall be postponed and rescheduled in accordance with the date established by the Fifth Amended Administrative Order Extending the Statewide Suspension of Jury Trials and Maintaining Grand Juries, filed December 22, 2020; and
(l) Phase I Matters, as identified in the Exhibit, shall continue to be scheduled or heard, either in person or remotely; and
(m) In Phases I and II, Phase I Matters and Phase II Matters, as identified in the Exhibit, shall be scheduled and heard, if at all possible, before the end of the Phase II period; and
(n) The courts are to provide services, either remotely or in person, as appropriate to the Phase and jurisdiction, to the extent feasible, and consistent with the recommendations of the CDC, MDH, and local health departments, including, but not limited to, self-help centers, alternative dispute resolution programs, family division services, law libraries, and child care for litigants, witnesses, and those who have business in the court; and
(o) No person who has been diagnosed with and remains ill with COVID-19, or is aware of having been exposed to a person infected with COVID-19 as described in CDC protocols, may enter a Judicial Branch facility; and
(p) No person who has been advised by a doctor, hospital, or local health department to self-quarantine or ordered to quarantine may enter a Judicial Branch facility during the quarantine period; and
(q) To the extent that, during this emergency, any person who attempts to enter a Judicial Branch facility and appears to be ill with a respiratory illness, protocols developed as part of extant continuing operations plans shall be employed to provide to that person, to the extent possible, the services needed without placing other court visitors and staff at risk; and
(r) Any such person and/or his or her attorney, if applicable, who has a scheduled proceeding, event, or services in a Judicial Branch facility must contact the appropriate office regarding his or her status; and
(s) Consistent with the recommendations of the CDC, MDH, and local health departments and the Fifth Administrative Order Clarifying COVID-19 Health Measures in Courthouses and Judicial Branch Facilities, filed on December 22, 2020, any person who seeks entrance to courts and judicial facilities shall be:
(1) subject to COVID-19 screening questions,
(2) subject to non-contact temperature checks where available,
(3) required to wear face masks that cover the nose, mouth, and chin completely, without vents, and
(4) required to maintain social distancing; and
(t) Any person may be denied entrance to or required to leave a court or judicial facility as a result of the screening process or as a result of refusing to comply with the requirements to wear a face mask, or maintain social distancing:
(1) if, as a result of the screening process, such person shall be provided information regarding alternative means to address the purpose of that person’s intended visit to the court, and
(2) if, as a result of refusing to comply with the requirements to wear a face mask, or maintain social distancing, such person shall be required to leave the courthouse or facility; and
(u) Through March 14, 2021, pending further order of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, in order to achieve the requirements of social distancing, administrative judges may limit the number of people entering the courthouse or a courtroom. The courts shall inform individuals seeking access to the courthouse that access to courtrooms and other court spaces may be limited; and
(v) Regardless of Phase, credentialed press shall be admitted to the courthouse and courtrooms (other than hearings that are closed to the public), subject to available capacity and in compliance with the guidance of the CDC and MDH; and
(w) Regardless of Phase, personnel shall report to work as required by their administrative judges, court administrators, clerks of courts, administrative clerks, and administrative heads of units of the Judiciary. An employee who is unable to serve due to illness or otherwise, will be excused consistent with applicable leave policies. Job duties, schedule, and the means of completing assigned work of any and all Judiciary employees may be adjusted or revised as necessary; and
(x) Courts seeking to stagger personnel reporting in person temporarily during Phase II and III operations shall do so consistent with the guidance provided by the Administrative Office of the Courts’ Department of Human Resources (November 2020); and
(y) Regardless of Phase, sufficient court personnel shall be available to perform their duties between the hours of 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday, holidays excepted, with commissioners to follow established schedules; and
(z) Through March 14, 2021, pending further order of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, all incumbent Maryland judges, except those judges whose only office is that of Orphans’ Court, continue to be cross-designated to sit in any trial court in the State of Maryland; and
(aa) The following activities are considered non-essential, pending further order of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals:
(1) In-State Travel. Travel within the State on official business is to be minimized to the greatest extent possible without disrupting the essential functions of the Judiciary, consistent with official directives by health and law enforcement officials, and
(2) Out-of-State Travel. All out-of-state business travel shall be suspended until further notice, and
(3) Out-of-Country Travel. All out-of-country business travel shall be suspended until further notice, and
(4) Judicial College. All in-person judicial education, professional development, and technology education classes shall be suspended, until further notice,
(A) To the extent that classes might be delivered using remote means, such classes shall be offered to those personnel who are enrolled.
(B) To the extent that these classes were necessary to fulfill judicial education requirements, these requirements shall be suspended for calendar year 2020, and
(5) Committee Meetings. Meetings of committees, subcommittees, workgroups, and other similar judicial governance entities shall be conducted by conference call or other remote hosting technology. The Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals may make an exception where the administrative head of a committee, subcommittee, workgroup, or other similar judicial governance entity provides written justification that the committee cannot fulfill its essential purpose, and
(6) Gatherings. Unless there is an emergent need, judicial personnel shall refrain from attending and/or hosting non-essential work- related gatherings; and
(bb) The Sixth Revised Administrative Order on the Emergency Tolling or Suspension of Statutes of Limitations and Statutory and Rules Deadlines Related to the Initiation of Matters and Certain Statutory and Rules Deadlines in Pending Matters, filed December 22, 2020 (Sixth Revised Administrative Order on Emergency Tolling or Suspension), issued pursuant to Maryland Rule 16-1003(a)
(7), shall control as to statutory and rules deadlines for the initiation of matters and for conducting certain court proceedings, except that the deadline for the scheduling of criminal jury trials shall be governed by the Fifth Amended Administrative Order Extending the Statewide Suspension of Jury Trials and Maintaining Grand Juries, filed December 22, 2020; and
(cc) Regardless of Phase, search warrants must be addressed on a 24-hour, 7-day per week basis. Search warrants shall be handled electronically to the greatest extent possible. The administrative judges of the Circuit Courts and the District Court each shall designate a judge responsible to cover search warrant duty for a specified timeframe; and
(dd) Application of case time standards shall be governed by the Administrative Order on Case Time Standards and Related Reports for Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021 in Light of the COVID-19 Emergency, filed May 1, 2020; and
(ee) The suspension of Maryland Rules 2-507 and 3-507 shall be governed by the Sixth Revised Administrative Order on Emergency Tolling or Suspension; and
(ff) Regardless of Phase, scheduling orders issued by the Circuit Courts in civil and family law matters and by the appellate courts shall continue to be addressed by motion on a case-by-case basis by the administrative judge, or, in the appellate courts, the Chief Judge, or his or her designee; and
(gg) The Maryland Electronic Courts system (MDEC) continues to be available for electronic filing and is required to be used in all MDEC counties. Through March 14, 2021, pending further order of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, in non-MDEC counties, litigants are permitted to use MDEC for appellate filings pursuant to the Administrative Order on the Permissive Use of the MDEC System for Appellate Filings During the COVID-19 Emergency, filed on March 27, 2020; and
(hh) Through March 14, 2021, pending further order of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, in Baltimore City, Montgomery, and Prince George’s Counties (non-MDEC jurisdictions) only, to the extent that any of these Courts determine to make a virtual drop box available for filings during the COVID-19 emergency period, such drop boxes may be utilized consistent with protocols adopted in an administrative order issued by that Court, announced electronically, and posted on that Court’s website; and
(ii) Through March 14, 2021, pending further order of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, for pleadings not required to be filed electronically or where permitted by virtual drop box, filings will be received by mail and may be received via physical drop boxes installed at local courthouses:
(1) Filings subject to the Fifth Revised Administrative Order on Emergency Tolling or Suspension shall have a filing date as determined by that Order, and
(2) For filings not controlled by the Fifth Revised Administrative Order on Emergency Tolling or Suspension, the date of filings will be considered the date a mailed filing has been postmarked or, if filed via a physical drop box, the previous business day, unless there is a timestamp on the drop box; and
(jj) Clerks of the Circuit Courts, the Court of Special Appeals, the Court of Appeals, and the District Court of Maryland shall continue to process MDEC filings, filings by virtual drop box where permitted, and paper filings; and
(kk) The Sixth Administrative Order Restricting Statewide Judiciary Operations Due to the COVID-19 Emergency, filed November 24, 2020, shall be rescinded effective immediately; and
(ll) To the extent that this Administrative Order conflicts with extant Administrative Orders, local administrative orders or policies, this Administrative Order shall prevail; and
(mm) This Administrative Order will be revised as circumstances warrant.
/s/ Mary Ellen Barbera
Mary Ellen Barbera
Chief Judge
Filed: December 22, 2020
/s/ Suzanne C. Johnson
Suzanne C. Johnson
Suzanne Johnson
EXHIBIT TO THE DECEMBER 22, 2020, SEVENTH ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER
RESTRICTING STATEWIDE JUDICIARY OPERATIONS DUE TO THE COVID-19 EMERGENCY1
A. PHASE I: March 16, 2020 through 4:59 PM, June 5, 2020 All matters identified in Paragraph B, as well as those emergency matters identified in Paragraph C that the administrative judge or his or her designee determines must be heard in person or can be heard with remote electronic participation, are defined as “Phase I Matters.”
B. The following emergency and urgent matters shall be scheduled or heard, either in person or remotely. The court shall notify all participants necessary to the proceeding:
(1) In the Court of Appeals:
(A) certain election law matters
(B) certain petitions for Writs of Mandamus
(C) certain certified questions of law
(D) quarantine and isolation matters
(2) In the Court of Special Appeals:
(A) requests for injunctive relief pending appeal
(B) appeals in cases in which a lack of action would result in a dispositive outcome
(C) appeals from quarantine and isolation petitions
(3) In the Circuit Courts:
(A) bail reviews/bench warrants
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(B) arraignments for detained defendants
(C) juvenile detention hearings
(D) juvenile shelter care hearings
(E) peace order petitions (juvenile respondents)
(F) emergency evaluation petitions
(G) quarantine and isolation petitions
(H) extradition cases
(I) body attachments
(J) extreme risk protective order appeals
(4) In the District Court:
(B) emergency evaluation petitions
(C) quarantine and isolation violations
(D) body attachments
(5) District Court Commissioners shall handle the following matters:
(A) new extreme risk protective order petitions
(B) new domestic violence protective petitions (adult respondents)
(C) new peace order petitions (adult respondents)
(D) initial appearances
(E) applications for statement of charges
(F) acceptance of bail bonds
(G) bench warrant satisfactions
C. For all other emergency matters, including those listed below, the administrative judge or his or her designee shall review the petition, determine whether it must be heard in person, or can be heard with remote electronic participation, or can be scheduled after the emergency period has ended, or can be resolved without a hearing, including, but not limited to:
(1) CINA matters, consistent with FCCIP Subcommittee of the Maryland Judicial Council recommendations of April 3, 2020
(2) emergency delinquency hearings, including motions related to juveniles who are detained, committed pending placement, or committed, consistent with the Administrative Order Guiding the Response of the Circuit Courts Sitting as Juvenile Courts to the COVID-19 Emergency as it Relates to Those Juveniles who are Detained, Committed Pending Placement or in Commitments, filed April 13, 2020
(3) emergency Habeas Corpus petitions
(4) emergency issues in guardianship matters
(5) domestic violence protective orders
(6) appeals from peace orders
(7) family law emergencies, including time urgent matters related to special juvenile immigrant status
(8) temporary restraining orders
(9) criminal competency matters
(10) motions regarding:
i. extreme risk protective orders
ii. domestic violence protective orders
iii. peace orders
(11) contempt hearings related to peace or protective orders
(12) matters involving locally incarcerated defendants, consistent with the Administrative Order Guiding the Response of the Trial Courts of Maryland to the COVID-19 Emergency as it Relates to Those Persons who are Incarcerated or Imprisoned, filed April 14, 2020.
PHASE II: 5:00 PM, June 5, 2020, through July 19, 2020; AND
November 30, 2020 extended through MARCH 14, 2021
Phase II represents an expansion of matters that can be heard by courts both remotely and on-site. Phase II shall include Phase I Matters, as well as matters that must be prioritized as listed below (pages 5 through 9) of this Exhibit (collectively, the “Phase II Matters”). To the extent that Phase II Matters may be handled remotely, courts are encouraged to do so. For any proceeding held during Phase II, the court shall notify all participants necessary to the proceeding.
Fully operational. All matters within the appellate jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals, with hearings occurring remotely. All matters related to the Court of Appeals’ regulatory authority over the practice of law and judicial conduct, with hearings occurring remotely. Approval and promulgation of the rules of practice and procedure in the Maryland state courts.
Fully operational. All matters within the appellate jurisdiction of the Court of Special Appeals, with most hearings occurring remotely; and mediation proceedings conducted by the Court of Special Appeals’ ADR Division, which may be handled remotely.
PHASE II: CIRCUIT COURTS
In addition to PHASE I Matters:
CIVIL:
(1) emergency evaluation petitions
(2) quarantine and isolation petitions
(4) body attachments
(6) scheduling conferences
(7) status conferences
(8) on the record appeals
(9) matters that can be handled remotely or without testimony or both
CRIMINAL:
(1) bail reviews, bail reconsiderations, and bench warrants including matters involving locally incarcerated defendants, consistent with the Administrative Order Guiding the Response of the Trial Courts of Maryland to the COVID-19 Emergency as it Relates to Those Persons who are Incarcerated or Imprisoned, filed April 14, 2020
(2) arraignments for detained defendants
(3) extradition cases
(4) matters addressing competency; criminal responsibility issues not requiring witness testimony status; and discovery and Hicks issues
(5) deferred sentencing – for non-incarcerated defendants
(6) plea agreements without recommendations for sentences of incarceration; deferred sentence matters; and motions that can be handled remotely or without testimony or both
PHASE II: CIRCUIT COURTS (cont.)
(3) uncontested divorces and other uncontested family law matters
(5) domestic violence, peace, and extreme risk protective order appeals
(6) family law emergencies that have been determined to require an expedited hearing, including time urgent matters related to special juvenile immigrant status
(9) default hearings
(10) exceptions hearings not requiring witness testimony (uncontested or consented to or requiring legal argument only)
(11) matters that can be handled remotely or without testimony or both
JUVENILE COURT:
CINA (DEPENDENCY):
with priority scheduling for those juveniles turning 21 within 90 days of the beginning of Phase II
(1) shelter care hearings
(2) CINA matters, including, if not contested and/or by proffer, adjudications, dispositions, permanency plan, and permanency plan reviews
(3) Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) by consent and/or by proffer
(4) exceptions hearings (uncontested or consented to or requiring legal argument only)
(5) Family Treatment/Recovery Court review hearings
(6) guardianships under juvenile causes
(7) adoptions concerning CINA and TPR juveniles
JUVENILE (DELINQUENCY):
with priority scheduling for those juveniles: turning 21 within 90 days of the beginning of Phase II; returning from placement; with issues with permanency plans; closures of cases; and possible placement on the juvenile and/or adult sexual offender registries
(1) juvenile detention hearings
(2) peace order petitions (juvenile respondents only)
(3) arraignments and first appearances
(5) adjudication with agreed to-plea and/or by proffer
(6) disposition with consent and/or by proffer
(7) disposition reviews
(8) delinquency juvenile treatment plans and reviews
(9) closure of probation and jurisdiction of Juvenile Court not requiring testimony
(10) juvenile expungements not requiring testimony
(11) juvenile permanency plans and reviews, if not contested or by proffer or both
(12) juvenile waivers, if consented to and not requiring testimony
PROBLEM-SOLVING COURTS:
including drug, mental health, family/dependency recovery, DUI, veterans’, juvenile drug, and truancy courts
Any other matters that can be scheduled, heard, or resolved in accordance with Sections
(i) and (j) of the Seventh Administrative Order Restricting Statewide Judiciary Operations are encouraged to be taken up by the circuit courts during Phase II.
PHASE II: DISTRICT COURT
CRIMINAL & TRAFFIC:
(1) bail reviews and bail reconsiderations, bench warrants including matters involving locally incarcerated defendants, consistent with the Administrative Order Guiding the Response of the Trial Courts of Maryland to the COVID-19 Emergency as it Relates to Those Persons who are Incarcerated or Imprisoned, filed April 14, 2020
(2) trials for incarcerated individuals
(3) trials for other criminal actions alleging violent acts
(4) trials for alcohol-related motor vehicle cases
(5) guilty pleas, with deferral of any incarceration start date considered
(6) hearings on petitions for mental health evaluations and competency to stand trial
(7) preliminary hearings
(8) hearings on petitions for violations of probation
(9) juvenile waiver hearings
(10) any other criminal proceeding that can be conducted remotely
(2) quarantine and isolation violation petitions
(4) temporary and final domestic violence, peace, and extreme risk protective orders petitions, during court hours
(6) any other civil proceeding that can be conducted remotely
LANDLORD/TENANT:
(1) rent escrow actions, provided local inspection practices are capable of being
conducted
(2) emergency breach of lease involving threats or injury to people or property and associated warrants of restitution
(3) emergency wrongful detainer actions and associated warrants of restitution
(4) emergency tenant holding over actions and associated warrants of restitution
(5) processing of warrants of restitution for failure to pay rent actions to begin after July 25, 2020, consistent with the Sixth Amended Administrative Order Lifting the Suspension During the COVID-19 Emergency of Foreclosures, Evictions, and Other Ejectments Involving Residences, filed December 22, 2020
including drug, mental health, DUI, veterans’, re-entry courts and dockets
(i) and (j) of the Seventh Administrative Order Restricting Statewide Judiciary Operations are encouraged to be taken up by the District Court during Phase II.
DISTRICT COURT COMMISSIONERS shall continue to handle the following matters:
(1) Interim domestic violence protective, peace, and extreme risk protective order petitions, after regular court hours
(2) initial appearances
(3) applications for statement of charges
(4) acceptance of bail bonds
(5) bench warrant satisfactions
(6) continued acceptance of circuit court bail bonds
PHASE III: July 20, 2020, through August 30, 2020; and
November 16, 2020, through November 29, 2020
In Phase III, courts schedule and hold a broader range of matters, including certain criminal trials in the District Court and the Circuit Courts, with limited in-person services to be offered as determined by the administrative judge and posted electronically and in the court facility. Phase III shall include Phase II Matters and shall be, collectively, “Phase III Matters.” To the extent that Phase III Matters may be handled remotely, courts are encouraged to do so. For any proceeding held during Phase III, the court shall notify all participants necessary to the proceeding.
PHASE III: CIRCUIT COURTS
In addition to PHASE II Matters:
(1) motions requiring witness testimony
(2) settlement hearings
(3) attorney disciplinary proceedings
(1) motions
(2) expungements
(3) violation of probation hearings
(4) non-jury trials
(5) jury prayer status hearings
(6) sentencings previously deferred
(1) resume handling of temporary domestic violence protective order petitions during court hours
(3) pendente lite hearings
(4) contempt proceedings
(5) adoptions
(6) guardianship – non-emergency
(7) child support matters: establishment
(9) court-ordered mediations
PHASE III: CIRCUIT COURTS (cont.)
CINA (DEPENDENCY)
(1) all matters and motions that are contested and/or requiring testimony
(2) CINA adjudications, dispositions, permanency plans, permanency plan reviews
(3) exceptions hearings requiring witness testimony
(4) contested TPR proceedings
JUVENILE (DELINQUENCY)
(1) all matters that are contested and/or requiring testimony
(2) adjudication
(3) disposition and disposition reviews
(4) closure of probation and jurisdiction of Juvenile Court
(6) juvenile expungements
(7) juvenile permanency plan and permanency plan reviews
(8) juvenile and adult sex offender registration matters
(9) waiver hearings, including to and from Juvenile Court
(10) exceptions hearings
PROBLEM-SOLVING COURTS, including drug, mental health, family/dependency recovery, DUI, veterans’, juvenile drug, and truancy courts.
Any other matters that can be scheduled, heard, or resolved in accordance with Sections (i) and (j) of the Seventh Administrative Order Restricting Statewide Judiciary Operations are encouraged to be taken up by the circuit courts during Phase III.
PHASE III: DISTRICT COURT
(1) criminal cases, prioritizing trials for incarcerated defendants, other criminal cases alleging violent acts, and alcohol-related motor vehicle matters.
(3) minor traffic matters, including previously postponed matters
(4) violations of probation
(1) civil matters, including trials, and previously postponed matters
(2) temporary domestic violence protective, peace, and extreme risk protective order petitions during court hours
(1) rent escrow actions, provided local inspection practices are capable of being conducted
(2) tenant holding over actions and any associated warrants of restitution
(3) any breach of lease action and any associated warrants of restitution
(4) any wrongful detainer actions and any associated warrants of restitution
(5) processing of warrants of restitution for failure to pay rent actions to begin after July 25, 2020, consistent with the Sixth Amended Administrative Order on the Suspension During the COVID-19 Emergency of Foreclosures, Evictions, and Other Ejectments Involving Residences, filed December 22, 2020
(i) and (j) of the Seventh Administrative Order Restricting Statewide Judiciary Operations are encouraged to be taken up by the District Court during Phase III.
DISTRICT COURT COMMISSIONERS:
PHASE IV: August 31, 2020, through October 4, 2020
In Phase IV, courts resume non-jury trials and contested hearings in civil, family, and juvenile matters. Courts schedule and hold a broader range of matters, with limited in- person services to be offered as determined by the administrative judge and posted electronically and in the court facility. Phase IV shall include Phase III Matters and matters listed below (pages 16 through 17) and shall be collectively, “Phase IV Matters.” To the extent that Phase IV Matters may be handled remotely, courts are encouraged to do so. For any proceeding held during Phase IV, the court shall notify all participants necessary to the proceeding.
Fully operational. All matters within the appellate jurisdiction of the Court of Special Appeals and mediation proceedings conducted by the Court of Special Appeals’ ADR Division, with remote proceedings as appropriate.
PHASE IV: CIRCUIT COURTS
In addition to PHASE III Matters:
Non-jury trials and de novo appeals
(1) post-conviction hearings
(2) three (3) judge panel sentence reviews
(1) hearings and trials
(2) child support contempt hearings
JUVENILE (DELINQUENCY): Fully operational CINA (DEPENDENCY): Fully operational PROBLEM-SOLVING COURTS: Fully operational
(i) and (j) of the Seventh Administrative Order Restricting Statewide Judiciary Operations are encouraged to be taken up by the circuit courts during Phase IV.
PHASE IV: DISTRICT COURT
CRIMINAL/TRAFFIC/CIVIL CITATIONS:
(1) All criminal matters
(2) Minor traffic matters
(3) Schedule dockets beginning October 5, 2020, for parking, red light, speed camera, school bus, toll/MTA, and other civil citations, including previously postponed matters
CIVIL: all civil matters
LANDLORD/TENANT: failure to pay rent cases
PROBLEM-SOLVING COURTS: fully operational
(1) fully operational, and
PHASE V: October 5, 2020, through November 15, 2020
In Phase V, all courts resume full operations, including jury trials in criminal and civil case types in the circuit courts. To the extent that Phase V Matters may be handled remotely, courts are encouraged to do so.
COURT OF APPEALS: Fully operational.
COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS: Fully operational.
CIRCUIT COURTS: Fully operational, including jury trials in criminal and civil case types in the circuit courts.
DISTRICT COURT: Fully operational.
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Sporting Events To Look Forward To In March 2019
Written by: Tom Mortimer
Summer is here! Well, it’s not, but it’s like it is! Global warming sure is going to be great until it kills us all.
But leaving behind the disintegration and destruction of humanity for just one minute, why don’t we look forward to what’s happening in the sporting world this March? It’s better than thinking about losing our loved ones to the ever-rising sea levels, in my opinion.
Just below (👇) we have a 2019 Sporting Betting Calendar which you can leaf through, and then underneath that we go into a lot more detail.
Big, big, biiiiig month is March for football. Champions League contenders will fall, title races will diminish, and the return of international football will piss pretty much everyone off.
We’ll start with the club football first, so as not to disturb the international football haters, and it’s the Champions League where it’s at in March, really. Though April is where it gets really tasty with the quarterfinals and semifinals, March with its solo round of 16 ties is the juicy but not fulfilling appetiser, the prawn cocktail before the big beef wellington. These are the games we have to look forward to:
Dortmund vs Tottenham (0-3) – 05/03
Real Madrid vs Ajax (2-1) – 05/03
Porto vs Roma (1-2) – 06/03
PSG vs Man Utd (2-0) – 06/03
Juventus vs Atletico Madrid (0-2) – 12/03
Man City vs Schalke (3-2) – 12/03
Barcelona vs Lyon (0-0) – 13/03
Bayern vs Liverpool (0-0) – 13/03
Four of the eight ties look done and dusted – it’s highly unlikely Dortmund will score four unanswered goals past Spurs, Real Madrid surely won’t slip up at home with a lead already intact, the injury-plagued United aren’t going to turn their deficit around in Paris, and City won’t lose at home to Schalke – but there are four ties that are still delicately poised.
Bayern vs Liverpool is the pick. The first leg was a nervy affair played at a frantic pace, yet despite it probably being the least open game of the round it was arguably the most absorbing, and the second leg is likely to be the same with so little to choose between the two sides. Indeed, with Boyle Sports, both sides are 20/23 to qualify.
Atleti vs Juve is also a mouthwatering one, and despite that two-goal deficit, it’s tough to rule out Juve with the firepower they possess, especially as it only takes Ronaldo half a yard’s space to fire in from any angle. It’s going to be mighty hard, though; Atleti have kept a clean sheet in all four Champions League games since their capitulation in Dortmund, and in their 37 games this season, they’ve only conceded two goals or more 7 times and have kept 21 clean sheets. That’s why they’re 2/9 to progress with Ladbrokes – Juve are 3/1 if you fancy them.
Then there’s Porto vs Roma which was probably the least appetising tie following the draw, but now it’s anything but. Roma are currently 1/2 favourites with Betfair, yet Porto can never be ruled out the Dragao.
And finally, it’s Barca vs Lyon, another one poised at 0-0, though anyone backing Lyon is either clinically insane or a Lyon fan who could never contemplate his side losing. Or both. Barca dominated the first leg in France having 24 shots to Lyon’s 5, and surely no one expects the second leg to be any different. The bookmakers don’t; Lyon are even money with Unibet with a +2 handicap.
And then away from the Champions League, we have the Europa League round of 16 first and seconds legs on the 7th and 14th, and of course loads of domestic action as well. Here’s some big games to look out for across the month:
Tottenham vs Arsenal – 02/03
Lazio vs Roma – 02/03
Real Madrid vs Barcelona – 02/03
Everton vs Liverpool – 03/03
Napoli vs Juventus – 03/03
Arsenal vs Man Utd – 10/03
PSG vs Marseille – 17/03
AC Milan vs Inter – 17/03
Celtic vs Rangers – 31/03
Ajax vs PSV – 31/03
Liverpool vs Tottenham – 31/03
Barcelona vs Espanyol – 31/03
Now for a bit of international football, and come on don’t groan – the international break is great if you throw yourself into it. I know people love their clubs, but international football can have some batshit storylines and ridiculous drama.
Sure, the start of Euro qualifying is the worst bit, but over in Africa there are some huuuuuuuge games with AFCON places at stake – Libya vs South Africa with Libya needing to win to leapfrog SA, DR Congo vs Liberia with the DRC needing to do the same, Mozambique vs Guinea Bissau in another winner takes all, and Tanzania, Lesotho and Cape Verde are all battling it out for the final qualification place in their group.
Then in Euro qualifying, these are the picks:
Holland vs Germany -24/03
Maybe the international football haters were right this month after all.
Some markets we see value in this month
Barcelona -3 vs Lyon – 21/5 with 888 Sport
Malta and Faroe Islands to draw – 19/10 with Betfair
It’s all set up for Wales to win their first Six Nations since 2013 and their first Grand Slam since 2012, isn’t it?
That magnificent victory over England last weekend has put them on the cusp of glory, and now it’s only Scotland and Ireland who can stop them. A defeat over the cumbersome yet improving Scotland should be straightforward enough, and then it’s all down to the Ireland game in Cardiff on the final day (assuming the Irish beat France on the 10th). And my, what a game that will be.
Wales will have to win it too. Presuming Wales don’t pick up a bonus point victory in Scotland next Saturday, Ireland will go to the Millenium Stadium knowing victory will see them leapfrog Wales. But probably not into first place, because that’s where England come in.
Though England have that Wales loss on their record, they’re far from out of the running, and should Wales lose, England’s two bonus points picked up in their two victories so far leaves them in prime position to swoop in and steal the title. Plus, even if Ireland pick up a bonus point over France on the 10th, England’s point difference is currently 33 superior to Ireland’s, and that’s not being clawed back, especially with England still having Italy still to play.
And that’s why England are still favourites to win the title in the Six Nations betting odds at 4/6 with Ladbrokes; the undefeated Welsh are 13/8 with Coral, and Ireland, hoping for a miracle, are way out at 11/1 with Black Type.
This is the full fixture list for March:
Scotland vs Wales – 09/03
England vs Italy – 09/03
Ireland vs France – 10/03
Italy vs France – 16/03
Wales vs Ireland – 16/03
England vs Scotland – 16/03
Just two matchdays to play, but so much drama to come.
Wales to win the Grand Slam – 15/8 with Betfred
Italy to beat France – 53/10 with Royal Panda
Right, so seeing as I know practically nothing about horse racing, I’m going to leave you in the capable hands of Luke Parkinson for this one:
“Nothing else really matters in March for the sport of horse racing other than the Cheltenham Festival.
The four-day meeting in the middle of the month is pretty much the World Cup of horse racing with the best of the best from England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and sometimes France, battling it out to become a Festival hero.
It all gets underway with the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at 1:30pm on the Tuesday, when the famous Cheltenham roar kicks into gear as the crowd hit fever pitch and the tapes rise for the first race of the meeting.
28 races are run from Tuesday 12th until Friday 15th March, with a Championship race being the feature event each day at 3:30pm. They include the Champion Hurdle, the Champion Chase, the Stayers’ Hurdle and of course, the Gold Cup.
In truth, there isn’t a bad race at the entire meeting with 14 of 28 races being Grade One’s and a further eight being either Grade Two or Grade Three. In a nutshell, this is jumps racing of the very highest quality. It doesn’t get any bigger or better than this.
With Cheltenham though, comes a fancy for a flutter, so we’ve taken a look at each of the feature races and picked out a name to follow.
Day One: Champion Day – 12th March 2019
13.30 The Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle
14.10 The Racing Post Arkle Challenge Trophy Steeple Chase
14.50 The Ultima Handicap Steeple Chase
15.30 The Unibet Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy
This is a hot race for the opening day and is likely to go the way of one of the top three in the betting. The favourite, Buveur D’Air, is aiming for a hat-trick of Champion Hurdle victories but faces a tough test from two classy mares, Apple’s Jade and Laurina, who have a weight allowance in their favourite. Both already have Cheltenham Festival victories in the bag, but Apple’s Jade has some excellent form this season and looks the one most likely to win this. 15/8 with Boyle Sports if you fancy it.
16.10 The OLBG Mares’ Hurdle
16.50 The National Hunt Steeple Chase Challenge Cup (Amateur Riders’ Novices’ Steeple Chase)
17.30 The Close Brothers Novices’ Handicap Chase
Day Two: Ladies Day – 13th March 2019
13.30 The Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle
14.10 The RSA Steeple Chase
14.50 The Coral Cup Hurdle
15.30 The Betway Queen Mother Champion Steeple Chase
Look no further than Altior at 4/9 with Betfair for this one. He is widely regarded as the best National Hunt horse in training at the minute and it seems that only Altior can stop Altior from winning a second Champion Chase. Conditions were against him last season, yet he still stormed clear up the hill to win in some style. The spring air means that conditions are likely to suit him down to the ground and it would be the biggest shock of the meeting if he got beat. He’ll equal Big Bucks record of 18 successive victories over fences with victory.
16.10 The Glenfarclas Cross Country Steeple Chase
16.50 The Boodles Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle
17.30 The Weatherbys Champion Bumper
Day Three: St Patrick’s Thursday – 14th March 2019
13.30 The JLT Novices’ Chase
14.10 The Pertemps Network Final
14.50 The Ryanair Steeple Chase
15.30 The Sun Racing Stayers’ Hurdle
The Willie Mullins-trained Penhill won this on his first start of last season, and the plan looked to be repeating itself until connections ruled him out of the meeting recently. That leaves Paisley Park at 9/4 with Ladbrokes as the overwhelming favourite and on what he has showed this season, that is entirely justified. He’s practically beaten everything in this division in the UK, so unless something like Faugheen or Samcro can spring a surprise from Ireland, then this is his to lose.
16.10 The Brown Advisory & Merriebelle Stable Plate
16.50 The Trull House Stud Mares Novices’ Hurdle
17.30 The Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup Handicap Steeple Chase
Day Four: Gold Cup Day – 15th March 2019
13.30 The JCB Triumph Hurdle
14.10 The Randox Health County Handicap Hurdle
14.50 The Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle
15.30 The Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup
Presenting Percy has been a long-time favourite of this race, but after only seeing him once over hurdles this season, he’s easy to go against. Clan Des Obeaux and Native River are the next two in the betting, but the Gold Cup could go the way of Thistlecrack at 14/1 with Sportnation who has been edging back to form with every race this season and has an excellent a record at Cheltenham. He’s won three of his five visits to the track, all at three miles or more, and that makes him a solid each-way player at for the biggest race of the meeting. H
16.10 The St. James’s Place Foxhunter Steeple Chase Challenge Cup
16.50 The Johnny Henderson Grand Annual
17.30 The Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle
In the cricket we’ve got plenty of Cricket World Cup tune-ups with the final England vs Windies ODI on Saturday, and then four five-match ODI series’ with India playing Australia, South Africa hosting Sri Lanka, Afghanistan facing Ireland in the UAE, and Australia and Pakistan also facing off in the UAE, while the only two World Cup nations not featuring, New Zealand and Bangladesh, will play a three-match test series across the month.
In the boxing we’ve got six World title fights to look forward to with Dmitry Bivol vs Joe Smith Jr., Shawn Porter vs Yordenis Ugas, Tevin Farmer vs Jono Carroll, Errol Spence vs Mikey Garcia, Oleksandr Gvozdyk vs Doudou Ngumbu, and the only British competitor Charlie Edwards who defends his IBF Flyweight title against Angel Moreno.
Then on top of that, there’s five big nights in the UFC with Fight Night 146, 147 and 148, UFC 245, and UFC on ESPN 2; loads of darts with the resumption of the Premier League Darts and the UK Open on the 1st; and also the return of the Formula 1 season with the Bahrain Grand Prix on 31st March.
Finally, TV
Dancing on Ice and The Voice continue through March, and because I have no idea what’s happening over there, I’ll point you to Laura Waldron who does. Here are her two latest articles – Another Pair gets Frozen Out of Dancing On Ice & The Voice Auditions Are Over, Bring On The Battles.
And also here you can find The Voice betting odds and Dancing on Ice betting odds too.
Have a lovely March, and don’t think too much about the destruction of the earth!
Author: Tom Mortimer
Tom is the editor at Betting Circle and has been creating online content for over 10 years. Tom mainly writes about sport and gambling, but every now and then also delves into fleshier subjects like politics and psychology. When he was 18 he created HungarianFootball.com and over the last few years he's written on a freelance basis for ESPN, WorldSoccer, Goal.com, among many others.
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SHELLEY GORMAN INVITATIONAL | TOURNAMENT DETAILS
Jaylee Ismay | 14th January 2021 Share
Basketball New South Wales is pleased to announce the details of the Shelley Gorman Invitational which will take place this weekend, 15th-`17th of January at the University of Sydney Sports Centre.
The Shelley Gorman Invitational is an invitation-only female tournament held over three days with a pool of $15,000 in cash prizes thanks to Hoyts. With the shortened WNBL season and the abundance of talented athletes that call NSW home, the event will aim to be a fun, exciting, and quality tournament for all involved from athletes to officials.
The tournament is named after former Australian Opal and BNSW Hall of Fame member, Shelley Gorman. Shelley Gorman is known to many simply as ‘Gorms’, and was one of the toughest and fittest players ever to wear an Australian uniform. She was first selected to represent Australia at the age of eighteen at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and was successful during her next two Olympic campaigns securing the bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and winning silver on home soil during the 2000 Sydney Olympic games.
During her representative career, Gorman was also dominant in the WNBL playing over 321 games split between Melbourne East, A.I.S., Dandenong, Sydney Flames and the Canberra Capitals. And in 2010, Shelley was inducted to the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame for her 17 years of professional basketball and dedication at the top level of the game in Australia followed by her induction in 2019 into the Basketball New South Wales Hall of Fame.
Lauren Jackson AO OLY, Head of Women in Basketball, Basketball Australia and former teammate of Gorman, expressed her excitement on the inaugural event being named after the formal Opal.
“Shelley is one of my closest friends and she was also one of my favourite teammates. I never knew anyone who worked harder or dedicated so much time to be in the best possible, physical shape so that she could perform on game day the way she did,” said Jackson.
“She is one of the most genuine and beautiful human beings and to see her honoured this way, with her name on this tournament it’s so special and so deserving. This is so awesome and I can’t wait to see the talent that this tournament brings to life!”
The tournament will boast a large array of WNBL players such as Leilani Mitchell, Shyla Heal, Lauren Nicholson and Alison Schwagmeyer who will battle it out for first place. Joining the jam-packed list of athletes participating will also be two teams that will feature various NSW U20 athletes for their first taste of high-level basketball in 2021.
Basketball New South Wales, Chief Executive Officer, Maria Nordstrom was thrilled to support an all-female basketball tournament especially named after one of NSW’s most successful players.
“To have an all-female tournament to showcase the large array of talent in NSW is hugely exciting for our sport, especially after opportunities have been limited for our athletes and officials during the last twelve months,” said Nordstrom.
“It will be fantastic for our U20 athletes to finally get on court and face off against experienced players to further their development on the court as well as continuing to prepare for potential tournaments.”
“I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone that has assisted in creating and overseeing the first Shelley Gorman Invitational, I look forward to watching some first-class basketball.”
The tournament will be broadcasted live and exclusive on the BNSW Youtube page HERE.
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Sneak Peak Excerpt EMPOWER by JESSICA SHIRVINGTON @SourcebooksFire @JessShirvington
December 3, 2013 By Mary
Empower (Embrace) by Jessica Shirvington
It has been two years since Violet Eden walked away from the city, her friends, her future and – most importantly – her soulmate, Lincoln. Part angel, part human, Violet is determined to stand by the promises she made to save the one she loves.
Living in the perpetual coldness of a broken soul she survives day to day as a Rogue Grigori in London.
But when an unexpected visitor shows up at her door, the news he bears about someone she swore to protect leaves Violet with no choice.
Even worse, she fears that this might all lead back to the night she tries hardest to forget. And what was taken without her permission.
Violet is going back to New York … and she knows exactly who is going to be there.
With Phoenix in her dreams and Lincoln in her heart she knows it is only a matter of time before the final choice must be made.
SQUEEE!
I so can’t wait until May, 2014 when this one is released!
You can preorder your copy by clicking on this link Empower (Embrace)
“But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
My sweater was coated in a layer of mist—-again—-a by–product of life in London. I barely noticed the constant drizzle anymore. It’s not as if the cold bothered me, not when I was the very definition of cold.
What was bothering me was the smell. There is something rank about a meat market at night—-especially when you’re wedged into the eaves wondering what, over the years, has been sprayed about and never cleaned away. I shuddered.
The Smithfield Market was currently in vogue, but a gritty sense of history thickened the air, giving it a density that made me sure this wasn’t the first time the site had been used for wicked intent. And right now, it was hunting hour.
At least I was the hunter.
I watched quietly as the exiles came into the center of the massive terminal–style space, vaguely interested to note that there were six of them, instead of the four I’d expected. No bother, I suppose. I still had the element of surprise on my side.
The past two years had taught me not to let the everyday hiccups get to me. Sure, the additional muscle would hurt, but only in the physical sense, and I could cope with that. Rolling with the punches is necessary when you are a Grigori—-a human–angel hybrid—-a weapon against the ever–increasing numbers of exiled angels on earth. For me even more so, since they gave me such a colorful nickname. I’m the Keshet—-the rainbow. I didn’t ask to be, but I made my choices and I stand by them.
So, there I was. Although I was still trying to figure out exactly what being the rainbow meant, mostly I found that the desire to know conflicted with my continuing need not to think about it at all. One thing I did know was that somehow I could create space with the angels—-an unknown place where we were able to take form and communicate. My angel maker—-whose name I still didn’t know—-said it was a place of new possibilities. For what, I was not sure.
But I know this is what I am. It is what I will be.
The final two exiles sauntered up to the four already waiting. It used to be impossible for me to be this close to exiles without them going into a frenzy, sensing my presence. But I’d learned many lessons over the past year, the most useful of which had been how to keep my guards up and locked so tight that even exiles couldn’t sense me when I was truly concentrating.
Which—-judging by the thin film of sweat on my forehead—-is now.
The exiles dumped the huge calico sack they had been dragging along the floor and pulled it open, revealing three mutilated bodies to join the two maimed ones already on display.
From my position it was difficult to tell how old the corpses were, and if the smell was able to give a clue, I wouldn’t have known, the stink of death and flesh being an overall theme of the place.
It was no wonder the exiles liked it so much.
Normally, exiles wouldn’t bother with the cleanup—-leaving evidence was of no concern. Normally, the exiles enjoyed the mess and despair they left behind. But not these exiles. These dark exiles were working for someone else. They’d been following a plan, using a hit list, and it was all too well constructed for any one of them to mastermind. Our intel told us they’d been hired. Such behavior would usually be considered beneath them, but apparently this group of exiles had decided the job was thrilling enough to suffer the humiliation of working for the highest bidder—-even if that was a human.
As for the billionaire businessman, well, that’s not my department, but someone will pay him a visit. Right after all the evidence of his wrongdoing—-minus the exile activity—-is handed over to the authorities and his bank accounts are heavily siphoned to pay for the futures of his victims’ families. And our fee, of course.
Which, thanks to certain people, is exorbitant.
Two of the exiles were dressed impeccably: one in a steel–gray suit and sporting villain–typical slicked–back hair; the other wore a slim–collared black suit that hugged his tall figure and set off his of–the–moment tousled, light brown hair. The remaining four were less striking in casual wear, though nonetheless picture perfect. All six looked over the bodies like fishermen comparing the size and quality of their haul. My hand grazed my dagger, the blade that had been given to me after I first embraced my powers and became a Grigori warrior three years ago. I was never without it. I even had a sheath attached to my bed for a quick draw if needed.
I’d learned the hard way—-through the death and suffering of people I loved and, strangely enough, through my own death and suffering—-exiles stop at nothing. Their insanity and misguided missions know no bounds, and they take pleasure in causing great pain and suffering to humankind.
At least tonight I would only face exiles of dark. A couple of years ago, the two opposing sides, light and dark, had called a truce. Of course, I tried not to think back to that time.
I tried constantly.
The discovery of the scripture that could end all Grigori had found its way into my hands. That in itself was part of the reason the Assembly had rejected me. They blamed me for trading with the dark exile, Phoenix. My decision had allowed him to resurrect Lilith—-his mother, the first dark exile—-from the dead, and she had taken control of the Grigori Scripture. But at the time, my choice had been a simple one. Phoenix had Steph, my best friend, and I wasn’t about to take any chances with her life. I’ve never regretted that choice.
Not like so many others I’ve made.
In the end, that made it easier to walk away from a place in the Academy when Josephine decided to change her mind. Of course, that was after I’d given my life, Lincoln’s soul had shattered, and
Phoenix had died—-proving that not only was he the son of Lilith, but he was also the human son of the first man, Adam—-all so that I could kill Lilith. And those reasons weren’t even the ones I tried not to think about.
But I can’t go there right now.
I caught myself. I was working and the last thing I could afford to do was acknowledge that I was thinking about him.
The six exiles started to shift the remains of the bodies toward the incinerator, tossing them with supernatural strength and no care. I half expected them to try and mince the meat and load it onto trays for sale tomorrow. I wouldn’t put anything past them.
“Make sure you take the index fingers,” one of the suited exiles instructed. “Mr. George is expecting me to deliver them to him tonight.”
That’s a shame. Though I’m sure Mr. George will receive a knock at his door nonetheless.
“I still don’t understand why we don’t just kill him too,” another said.
“Are you challenging me?” The exile who had spoken first stepped forward.
His questioner mirrored his actions.
“If I must.”
Exiles never back down. Their pride and egotism combined with their unique brand of insanity is just too much to ignore. Angels were not created to take corporeal forms on earth. Though they have existed for eternity, in human bodies, they manifest emotions in ways their innate nature can never process. It makes them unstable. And almost unstoppable.
I wriggled into a better position and waited patiently, knowing that this would work in my favor.
Sure enough, the exile who had spoken out first also struck out first, engaging with the suited exile. It didn’t last long. The suit, clearly the older of the two and a true fighter—-my guess was he had once been either a Domination or a Power—-overpowered his opponent, snapping his neck and making quick work of removing his heart.
We had our methods of ending their immortal existence; they had theirs.
Happy days. I now have one less exile to take care of.
I checked the time and sighed. If I didn’t get this show on the road, I’d lose my window. And fighting alone was always my preference.
The drop to the ground was at least two stories high, but I landed behind the group of exiles lightly, thanks to my angelic enhancements.
Breathing calmly, I let go of the power I was holding tightly within, just enough to lower my shields.
The exiles, who had been preoccupied with their boasting, stiffened instantly and spun around to face the new threat. It was almost comical, the look of surprise on their faces. I guess a
Grigori had never snuck up on them before. Responding quickly, the suited exile stepped forward, shoving two of them to the side, the five of them quickly forming a semicircle around me.
So nice ofthem to stand in single file.
But the way he studied me—-with trademark exile insanity and undisguised raw desire—-made me think that this one recognized me. It happened from time to time.
I wanted to sit around and chew the fat. Really. I couldn’t think of anything I’d rather do with my time than hear about how they intended to rip me limb from limb and how that would make them as great as gods and me the most pathetic of humans. But when you’ve heard it all before and always walked away—-or, at the very least, been carried—-while they were returned for their ultimate judgment, it gets old. So, I cut to the chase.
“You have a choice. Make it or I will make it for you,” I said, knowing that of all Grigori, I alone had the right to put it like that. “Consider wisely,” I reinforced. After all, I could return them like any other Grigori with one of our blades, but if I willed it, I could also strip them of their angelic strengths and leave them human—-a fate exiles considered worse than an eternity in the pits of Hell. As far as I was aware, I was the only Grigori who could do this without requiring the exile in question to first choose such a fate. Which, of course, never happened.
“You brought Lilith to her end,” the suit said, his head tilted to the side, as if confused.
Yeah, that’s right, little ol’ me.
And it onlycost me everythingthat mattered.
I raised my eyebrows. “Time’s almost up,” I said, refraining from closing my eyes briefly as I felt a surge of power within, something that had been happening increasingly. I was getting stronger, and exactly what that meant and how to harness it wasn’t the kind of knowledge I was excited to discover.
I could strip them all, make their choice for them, and be done with it, but I’d only done it twice. Onyx had been my first, and I’d seen the pain it caused him. I didn’t like knowing I was the one who took away his choice. Who was I to do such a thing? The second had been a demonstration, and had resulted in the exile in question meeting a quick death. I can’t say I regretted it—-he’d been one of the exiles so happy to see me strapped to a crucifix and tortured for hours—-but still…
Anyway, tonight was more like training, and I’d been taught to be thorough. So, when the suit threw the first exile at me—-knowing he’d be nothing more than a momentary distraction while I took him down and he lined up the next one—-I got to work.
I braced, grabbing my dagger and moving into position. By the time the exile came within range, my dagger had sliced through his heart and he was no longer there. Simply gone. Where did their physical forms go? Beats me.
barehanded, and even though the trick worked for exiles taking out other exiles, something told me that it did not alter our rules. Permanent results for Grigori over exiles only came via the blades of angels.
Or my blood.
The third exile went much the same way, and soon enough I was left being circled by the two suits. To my surprise, they actually worked together—-exiles aren’t good at that—-boxing me into a corner. The brown–haired exile in the black suit moved in on me when the other one feigned a move to my right. I took a closed fist across the face and a foot to the stomach.
I heard a crack—-broken rib—-but I didn’t register the pain. That kind of pain was barely a tickle compared to the agony I carried inside, every moment of every day.
My pause gave the other exile the chance to take a swing. His foot collided with my hand so hard that my dagger went flying across the room. I kept my eyes on my attackers but my ear on my weapon, listening to the reverberations as it slid along the concrete floor and eventually hit the far wall with a clang.
The exiles smiled.
Then I leapt into the air, gaining enough height to grip the brown–haired exile’s throat between my knees. Twisting my body as I fell through the air, I dragged the exile down with me, his neck breaking with a loud crunch.
It wouldn’t keep him down for good, but a broken neck buys time.
The exile in the gray suit grabbed me roughly from behind and threw me into the wall.
I groaned as I slid down the metal piping my back had hit. It was the opposite wall to my dagger.
It wasn’t an ideal situation. And I wasn’t fool enough to delude myself into thinking I could make it to my dagger. I was regretting my decision not to wear any other weapons tonight, but my dagger was the only weapon that, when sheathed, was invisible to human eyes.
Think, Vi.
I’d come down behind a wall of old crates. I was considering how I could use them to my advantage when I spotted a piece of the slim metal piping I’d broken in my fall. It lay by my foot.
I could hear the exiles moving toward me. They were cackling.
“We should take her body with us to the tournament tonight,” one said.
The other one laughed. “That would definitely put dark in the lead.”
“And everyone would know that we were the ones who killed her.”
Can anyone say“premature victory”?
Without stopping to think, I pulled off the bracelet from my left wrist, using the specially designed clasp to cut open the flesh around my silver marking, currently swirling in the presence of exiles, and let it spill onto the end of the metal bar.
I was already spinning by the time the second one was sent flying through the air toward me. My foot stopped his momentum and threw him back. I was on him in an instant, my dagger going straight to his heart. It didn’t need to be the heart to return them, just a killing blow inflicted by a Grigori weapon. You could slice into exiles all day long with your garden–variety knife or shoot them with a gun, but neither option worked. I’d never seen a Grigori manage to rip out an exile’s heart
It took just a few seconds, and as soon as I palmed the pipe, the exiles started to throw the crates aside then came into view, their smiles wide with anticipation.
I stood. I didn’t return their smiles. I didn’t bother to do anything other than what needed to be done.
I lunged, raising my elbow into the face of the black–haired exile as I spun, the metal pipe striking his companion through the heart. He was gone. I turned back to the first exile and, hoping that there was still enough of my blood on the pipe to do the trick and using my supernatural speed for all it was worth, I jammed the pipe straight into his neck.
His face wore an expression of pure surprise.
I’d seen that look before.
I sighed and my shoulders slumped forward, unfulfilled. This was my job, one that I would do for as long as I existed, which could be a significantly long time. But two years ago, I’d accepted that there was no longer any satisfaction to be had in my world.
No fairytales.
Only the cold.
Turning toward where I thought my dagger had landed, my surroundings suddenly changed.
I was no longer seeing the warehouse. There were flashes of white, moving fast, pounding hooves. Horses. Silver streaked through the air like a dance. Swords. Slashes of red painted the sky. Something sharp and deadly ripping through flesh—-wet and gruesome. Claws. Thousands and thousands of beings as far as I could see fought ruthlessly, with no sign of tiring. In the center, two warriors battled beneath a blinding light. I could not make out their faces.
I blinked hard.
The image was gone, and in its place Gray stood against the wall of Lincoln’s warehouse, casually flipping my dagger in the air. “Would you like me to applaud?” he asked.
Leaning against a metal support pole, he had that midtwenties look I’d come to associate with the older Grigori—-though I had no idea how old he really was—-and was dressed in his usual black jeans, black T–shirt, and black leather jacket. Black really was the only color worth investing in—-blood stains everything else. He sported about a week’s worth of growth on his face, though his head was shaved, the scars that ran over the top of his skull telling of a history both terrible and secret. Grigori did not generally scar, so I knew that whatever had caused these had occurred before Gray had turned seventeen.
I swallowed over the lump in my throat and glanced around as I composed myself. The whole…hallucination…had lasted only a couple of seconds. I clenched my jaw.
Christ. It was nothing. I’m just imagining things.
I snapped my bracelet back in place over my marking and shot him a dry look. “Should I be charging a spectator fee?”
My voice sounded normal but my ears felt like they were still ringing with the echoes of battle.
“Not if the show is going to be over so fast, princess.”
I glared at him for persisting with the stupid nickname. “You know, you could’ve stepped in and given me a hand.”
“Sure,” he said with a solemn nod. “And you could’ve waited until the meet time we’d all agreed on too.”
I looked away briefly. “So, why are you here early?” I asked, hoping to divert the conversation.
Gray tilted his head. “Because I know you.”
I shrugged off the veiled accusation, even though it was true. To a degree.
“It was easier this way.”
He threw my dagger into the air, and I caught it by the hilt and slipped it back into its sheath.
“Well you can explain that to the others, since they just arrived.”
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Tap in "2021 the year of" to a search engine and immediately you head to the Chinese zodiac. Year of the ox, apparently. Well, from February 12 after Chinese New Year's day anyway. A little closer to home it just might turn out to be the Year of Internal Travel. For more than the most obvious of reasons. Clearly the likelihood of hundreds of us jumping on massive metal tubes at once - ie: flying - and travelling thousands of kilometres will be severely limited for some time to come yet. But alas, Australia is a big place with many options - if you are fortunate enough to be able to take them up. From a taking a break perspective, there's the Tourism Australia "holiday here this year" refrain. There are epic adventures, off-grid getaways, weekend getaways, multi-day family road trips ... take your pick! There are bushfire-slammed regions all across the country wanting to show off their resilience and powers of recovery - from Corryong in the Upper Murray to South Australia's Kangaroo Island. And then, of course, you could try a train. Why drive when someone else can? These four train journeys should take in some of the best bits of your country, Craig Tansley says. But then with the economic impact of the pandemic, there's also the unexpected need for people to up stumps. Only today the Daily Liberal reported on 500 jobs being available in the NSW cities of Dubbo and Orange. Regional Development Australia (RDA) Orana staff have counted 1291 job vacancies since November including "additional vacancies across the hospitality and retail sectors in the lead-up to the Christmas holiday season". The number of available jobs is currently sitting around 500, they say. There are reasonable opportunities in the mining, construction and health. RDA Orana's third Inland Growth Summit is on February 26. You can find out more here. Voice of Real Australia is a regular newsletter from ACM, which has journalists in every state and territory. Sign up here to get it by email, or here to forward it to a friend. In case you are interested in filtering all the latest down to just one late afternoon read, why not sign up for The Informer newsletter?
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Voice of Real Australia: 2021, the year of internal travel
Janine Graham
Year of the Ox, the CHinese say. Or maybe the Year of Internal Travel. Photos: file
Tap in "2021 the year of" to a search engine and immediately you head to the Chinese zodiac.
Year of the ox, apparently. Well, from February 12 after Chinese New Year's day anyway.
A little closer to home it just might turn out to be the Year of Internal Travel. For more than the most obvious of reasons.
Clearly the likelihood of hundreds of us jumping on massive metal tubes at once - ie: flying - and travelling thousands of kilometres will be severely limited for some time to come yet.
But alas, Australia is a big place with many options - if you are fortunate enough to be able to take them up.
From a taking a break perspective, there's the Tourism Australia "holiday here this year" refrain. There are epic adventures, off-grid getaways, weekend getaways, multi-day family road trips ... take your pick!
There are bushfire-slammed regions all across the country wanting to show off their resilience and powers of recovery - from Corryong in the Upper Murray to South Australia's Kangaroo Island.
And then, of course, you could try a train. Why drive when someone else can? These four train journeys should take in some of the best bits of your country, Craig Tansley says.
But then with the economic impact of the pandemic, there's also the unexpected need for people to up stumps.
Only today the Daily Liberal reported on 500 jobs being available in the NSW cities of Dubbo and Orange.
Regional Development Australia (RDA) Orana staff have counted 1291 job vacancies since November including "additional vacancies across the hospitality and retail sectors in the lead-up to the Christmas holiday season".
The number of available jobs is currently sitting around 500, they say. There are reasonable opportunities in the mining, construction and health.
RDA Orana's third Inland Growth Summit is on February 26. You can find out more here.
Voice of Real Australia is a regular newsletter from ACM, which has journalists in every state and territory. Sign up here to get it by email, or here to forward it to a friend.
In case you are interested in filtering all the latest down to just one late afternoon read, why not sign up for The Informer newsletter?
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The story of Aspirin – a versatile medicine with a long history
Herbal medicine has used salicylic acid, the natural substance related to synthetic aspirin, from myrtle, willow and meadow sweet, since ancient times (at least 2500 BCE). Ancient history has many examples of humans using salicylic acid for medicinal purposes; there are clay tablets from the Assyrians in the Sumerian period (around 4000 years ago) in which willow leaves are recommended for rheumatic disease, the Egyptians describe the use of willow leaves or myrtle for joint pain or inflammation and Hippocrates (460-377 BCE) recommended an extract of willow bark for fever, pain and child birth. Ancient Chinese, Roman and Native American civilizations have all long recognised the benefits of plants containing salicylic acid for their medicinal benefits1,2,3,4.
Meadow sweet, another source of acetylsalicylic acid, was one of three most scared herbs to the Druid Celts (the other two are water-mint and vervain) and is one of the 50 ingredients in the drink ‘Save’ mentioned in Chaucer’s 14th century Knight’s Tale (known as Medwort or Meadwort)5.
It was an English clergyman, Reverend Edward Stone who carried out the first scientific study of the benefits of willow bark when he used it successfully to treat fever ‘ague’ in 50 of his parishioners. He documents this in a letter to the President of the Royal Society in 1763 6.
In 1828, Johann Andreas Buchner, Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Munich purified salicin from willow bark. A number of scientists worked on refining the process, but it was Professor Hermann Kolbe, at Marburg University who first worked out the chemical structure of salicylic acid and made it synthetically in 1859. Unfortunately, it had an unpleasant taste and irritated the stomach1. The first clinical trial of salicylate was recorded in 1876, by Thomas MacLagan, a doctor from Dundee who used salicin to obtain complete remission of fever and joint inflammation in his patients who were suffering from acute rheumatism1.
Salicylic acid is a benzene ring with a phenol (HO) group and a carboxylic acid (COOH) group. Whereas other scientists had focused on the carboxylic acid group, Dr Felix Hoffman, a German chemist at Friedrich Bayer and Co, concentrated on the phenol group and managed on August 10th 1897 to acetylate the phenol group and produce pure stable acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) for the first time1,2. In this work he was supported and inspired by a number of other scientists including Arthur Eichengrün, Carl Duisberg and Wilhelm Siebel1,2,4. Dr Hoffman’s discovery was the first time a drug had been made synthetically and was the birth of both aspirin and the pharmaceutical industry 2. After recognising the importance of Hoffman’s discovery Professor Heinrich Dreser, Head of the Pharmacology Institute at Bayer, tested it first on himself, then in a series of animal experiments before successful clinical trials in humans1.
The new compound was named and registered Aspirin on February 1st1899. The ‘A’ comes from acetyl and ‘spir’ from the first part of Spirea ulmaria (Meadowsweet) a botanical source of salicylic acid1.
Aspirin in cardiovascular disease prevention
In the 1950s Laurence Craven, a general practitioner from California, published his work using aspirin to prevent vascular events. Craven recommended aspirin for patients 45-65 years of age who were at risk of a heart attack due to weight or sedentary lifestyle. He found that in those who took aspirin no myocardial infarctions (MIs) occurred. Craven also observed that none of his patients taking aspirin experienced a stroke6.
Many different scientists contributed to our understanding of how aspirin effects platelet function. Dr Harvey Weiss in the late 1960s reported that aspirin displayed a rapid and irreversible inhibition of platelet aggregation7. It was Sir John Vane’s research group who were first to discover the role of prostaglandins in haemostasis 4. In 1971, Vane described aspirin’s inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis in a Nature publication8. In 1982 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in recognition of this work and aspirin started to become established as a drug for treating and preventing cardiovascular. In 1985 Carlo Patrono with his research group showed that low dose aspirin permanently inhibits thromboxane9.
In 1974 realising the growing potential for aspirin and the importance of uniting the research community to study its benefits Nick Henderson FIPR HonFRCVS, established the International Aspirin Foundation to increase the knowledge and understanding of the drug. He remained an active member up until his death, age 92 in December 2018.
Professor Richard Peto, an epidemiologist at Oxford University, published in 1980 a meta-analysis of 6 trials and showed a highly significant 23% reduction in vascular disease mortality for those taking aspirin10. Interestingly this work also inspired Archie Cochrane to set up the Cochrane collaboration with the aim of organising medical research findings and facilitating evidence-based choices for clinicians, patients and policy makers2.
In 1988 the Second International Study of Infarct Survival ISIS-211 showed the benefits of aspirin after a heart attack. As a result, cardiologists start using aspirin as immediate standard practice for suspected MI. ISIS-2 also showed the importance of large randomised trials with thousands of patients in order to demonstrate these lifesaving benefits.
Also, in 1988 Physicians Health Study provided evidence that long term low dose aspirin resulted in a reduction in MI and a role for aspirin in the primary prevention ischemic heart disease12.
In 1994 The Antiplatelets Trialist Collaboration confirmed that aspirin could prevent further cardiovascular events and death in people with established vascular disease13. Then, in 2002, The Antithrombotic Trialist’ Collaboration14 publish a meta-analysis demonstrating the antiplatelet effect of aspirin and its role in preventing death, myocardial infarction and stroke in high risk patients. Aspirin also has an important role in the immediate treatment of minor stroke in order to prevent recurrent stroke15,16. Reviewing both its preventative effect for the two big killers cardiovascular disease and cancer the US Preventative Task Force17 in 2009 recommend aspirin for primary disease prevention in certain groups.
A 2020 publication looking at the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease has shown that aspirin is still one of the best options18.
Aspirin in cancer prevention and management
1988 Professor Gabriel Kune noticed that people taking aspirin had a 40% lower risk of developing cancer of the large intestine19. Other research has further supported this finding and a time dependent reduced incidence in colorectal cancer has been observed20-22. In 2011, Sir John Burns23 showed the role of aspirin in helping to prevent cancer in carriers of hereditary colorectal cancer.
Further studies are ongoing to fully understand aspirins role in cancer prevention including the role of aspirin in reducing the risk of metastatic spread24,25 in established cancer.
Primary disease prevention
Results from recent primary prevention trials such as ASCEND, ASPREE, ARRIVE, AspECT seAFOod etc. have triggered a lot of debate and discussion26 and prompted refinement of further research studies. It is becoming apparent that an individualised approach is important as well as careful consideration of age and all risk factors. Individualised dosing regimens will be needed to fully exploit the potentially lifesaving benefits of this fascinating drug. A one size fits all approach is not appropriate and factors such as increased platelet turnover in certain disease conditions e.g. diabetes leads to ‘unblocked’ platelets in the circulation when a once daily aspirin regime is used4, in addition body weight can effects aspirin effectiveness 27.
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Elwood P. Aspirin yesterday, aspirin today, aspirin tomorrow: a history of prophylactic aspirin. 2017 International Aspirin Foundation
Goldberg DR. Aspirin: Turn-of-the century miracle drug accessed 12/05/2019 @ https://wwwsciencehistory.org/distillations/aspirin-turn-of-the-centuary-miracle-drug
Schrör K. Acetylsalicylic acid. 2016 Wiley
Meadowsweet Botanical.com. A Modern Herbal by M Grieve. Accessed 09/05/20 @ http://www.botanical.com/botantical/mgmh/m/meadow28.html
Wood JN. From plant extract to molecular panacea: a commentary on Stone (1763) ‘An account of the success of the bark of the willow in the cure of the agues.’ Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2015 370(1666):20140317.
Miner J. The discovery of aspirin’s antithrombotic effect Tex Heart Inst J 2007; 34(2): 179-186
Vane JR. Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis as a mechanism of action for aspirin-like drugs. Nat new Biol 1971; 231: 232-5
Patrono C, Ciabattoni G, Patrignani P. et al. Clinical pharmacology of platelet cyclooxygenase inhibition. Circulation 1985; 72(6):1177-1184
Peto R. Editorial: Aspirin and myocardial infarction. Lancet.1980;i:1172-1173
ISIS-2 (Second international Study of Infarct Survival) Collaborative Group. Randomized trial of intravenous streptokinase, oral aspirin, both, or neither among 17,187 cases of suspected acute myocardial infarction: ISIS-2. J Am Coll Cardiol 1988; 12 (suppl A): 3A-13A
Final report on the aspirin component of the ongoing Physicians’ Health Study. Steering Committee of the Physicians’ Health study research Group. N Engl J Med 1989; 321:129-35
Antiplatelet Trialists’ Collaboration. Collaborative overview of randomised trials of antiplatelet therapy-1. Prevention of death, myocardial infarction and stroke by prolonged antiplatelet therapy in various categories of patients. BMJ 1994; 308: 81-106
Antithrombotic Trialist Collaboration. Collaborative meta-analysis of randomised trials of antiplatelet therapy for prevention of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke in high risk patients. BMJ 2002; 324:71-86
Rothwell PM, Giles MF, Chandratheva A et al. Major reduction in risk of early recurrent stroke by urgent treatment of TIA and minor stroke. EXPRESS study. Lancet 2007; 370:1432-1442
Rothwell PM, Algra A, Chen Z et al. Effects of aspirin on risk and severity of early recurrent stroke after transient ischaemic attack and ischaemic stroke: time course analysis of randomised trials. Lancet 2016; 388:365-375
US Preventative Task Force Aspirin for the prevention of cardiovascular disease: recommendation statement. Ann Intern Med 2009; 150:396-404
Chiarito M, Sanz-Sánchez J, Cannata F et al. Monotherapy with P2Y12 inhibitor or aspirin for secondary prevention in patients with established atherosclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet 2020; 395, 10235: 14487-1495
Kune GA, Kune S and Watson LF. Colorectal cancer risk, chronic illness, operations and medications: case control results from the Melbourne Colorectal Cancer Study. Cancer Res 1988; 48; 15: 4399-4404
Rosenberg L, palmer JR, Zauber AG et al. A hypothesis: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs reduce the incidence of large-bowel cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1991; 83; 5: 355-358
Rothwell PM, Wilson M, Elwin CE et al. Long-term effect of aspirin on colorectal cancer incidence and mortality:20-year follow-up of five randomised trials. Lancet 2010; 376:1741-1750
Rothwell PM, Price JF, Fowkes FGR et al. Short-term effects of daily aspirin on cancer incidence, mortality, and non-vascular death: analysis of the time course of risks and benefits in 51 randomised controlled trials. Lancet. 2012; 379:1602-1612
Burns J, Gerdes A-M, Macrae F et al. Long-term effects of aspirin on cancer risk in carriers of hereditary colorectal cancer: an analysis from the CAPP2 randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2011; 378:2081-2087
Chan AT, Ogino S, Fuchs CS. Aspirin use and survival after diagnosis of colorectal cancer. JAMA 2009; 302:649-658
Rothwell PM et al. Effect of daily aspirin on risk of cancer metastasis; a study of incident cancers during randomised controlled trials. Lancet 2012; 379 9826: 1591-1601
Chan AT, McNeil J 2018 Aspirin and Cancer prevention in the Elderly: Where do we go from here? Gastroenterology doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2018.11.063
Rothwell PM, Cook NR, Gaziano M et al. Effects of aspirin on risk of vascular events and cancer according to bodyweight and dose: analysis of individual patient data from randomised trials. Lancet 2018; 392 10145: 387-399.
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Naramore Grave
Barre, Massachusetts
Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.
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Frank Naramore was a notorious drunk and adulterer. He would often drink his wages before returning to his dilapidated house where his wife, Elizabeth, and six children waited in poverty.
Elizabeth reached out to family and friends for help. Eventually the tortured mother reached out to the welfare organization, Overseers of the Poor in Baldwinville, Massachusetts. When they visited her home in the now defunct village of Coldbrook Springs, the organization made the decision to place five of the Naramore children in foster homes, while Elizabeth and her 11-month-old daughter in a poor home in the town of Holden. They told her they would return in one week to carry out the plan, but tragically this would be too late.
On March 21, 1901, distraught at the prospect of losing her children, and possibly suffering from extreme postpartum depression, she brought them all (Ethel, 9; Charles, 7; Walter, 6; Chester, 4; Elizabeth, 3; and 11 month old Lena) one by one into the kitchen, and killed them with a club and axe. She tried to kill herself by cutting her throat and an artery in her leg, but was unsuccessful.
The horrifying crime was discovered later that day by a neighbor, dropping off some groceries. Elizabeth Naramore confessed her crimes to Deputy Sheriff Sylvester Bothwell and was taken swiftly into custody. At the childrens’ funeral, the presiding Rev. Charles Talmage railed against Frank Naramore for the tragedy, and at society at large for allowing the family to live in such poverty. At trial, Elizabeth was only charged with the muder of her eldest child, and was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Following the trial, Frank Naramore disappeared into obscurity. Elizabeth was placed in a state mental hospital, where she spent five years before being deemed sane, and being released. She too faded into history after her release.
The local cemetery in Coldbrook Springs did not have a pauper’s section and no one came forward to pay for a burial in the Baptist Church, so the children were buried outside of Riverside Cemetery in nearby Barre, Massachusetts. The graves went unmarked (except for slight indentations where the children were buried), until 2002 when donations were made to erect a granite tombstone.
Today the Naramore grave is located to the left of Riverside Cemetery in Barre. It is usually surrounded by toys and offerings to the Naramore children. However their deaths were not in vain. As it states on the gravestone itself, the murders led to many of the child welfare protections that exist today.
The grave is located on Granger Road, about a mile down a dirt road off Route 62
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Neorealism, Now and Then, in Troubled Lands
AFS Essential Cinema: Children of Abraham/Ibrahim 4
By Josh Rosenblatt, Fri., Jan. 8, 2010
It's hard to believe it's been three years since the Austin Film Society premiered its first Middle Eastern film program, Children of Abraham/Ibrahim, as part of the Essential Cinema series. Yet here we are, three years older, and here AFS is, with a fourth batch of movies to screen, while over there, Jews, Muslims, and Christians are three years deeper into a 1,500-year-old calamity of violence and inherited hatred that's starting to look like it really won't be resolved until Judgment Day.
Thankfully, human beings have a remarkable capacity for turning pain into poetry, and sometimes the upside to great tragedy is great art. Two films from this year's slate – the once-banned 1958 film Cairo Station and Ajami, which was released last year and promptly swept the Ophir Awards, the Israeli equivalent to the Academy Awards – are proof of that truism. Both are masterpieces that, like all great social art, speak to and transcend their eras. In Cairo Station, the setting is 1950s Egypt, a time when an ancient religious society was struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing world of commerce, opportunity, and social mobility. Ajami, meanwhile, takes place in present-day Jaffa, a crime-ridden, drug-infested, multicultural section of Tel Aviv that harbors both age-old grudges and all the mayhem of a modern major metropolis; imagine Detroit transplanted to Rwanda.
At the heart of these two movies, and at the heart of the region they come from, lie intractable dualities. Tradition vs. modernity. Society vs. the individual. Religion vs. compromise. In Cairo Station, about Egypt's marginalized urban poor, an ancient caste system is under attack by the forces of commercialism, capitalism, and a new rock & roll youth mentality. An impoverished, crippled newspaper peddler named Kenaoui (played by the director, Youssef Chahine) falls in love with a voluptuous but cruel lemonade seller named Hanouma (Hind Rostom) who works at the same train station he does. Overcome by his obsession, Kenaoui grows more and more desperate, until his scorned desires turn murderous. Meanwhile, Hanouma's handsome fiancé fights to unionize his fellow train porters, provoking the ire of those who refuse to accommodate the demands of a changing, secularizing world.
Nominated for the Golden Bear at the 1958 Berlin International Film Festival, Chahine's movie introduced neorealism to a region that until that point had known mainly gaudy musicals, but its provocative take on human sexuality, its acknowledgement of the influence of Western capitalism and culture, and its unblinking exploration of social ills led the Egyptian government to ban it from theatres for nearly 20 years. According to censorship laws of the time, "the inordinate emphasis of erotic parts" and the depiction of "social problems as hopeless" were strictly forbidden. Without wading too deep into the politics or morality of censoring film, one has to admit that with a hero like Kenaoui, whose hopelessness is nearly impossible to measure, and a heroine like Hanouma, who is pretty much one large erotic part, Cairo Station was practically begging to be banned. And what better reason could there be to go see a movie?
I don't know if Israeli writer/directors Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani have seen Cairo Station or, if they have, whether it affected the way they shot Ajami, but there's no doubting that their movie owes Chahine's an enormous debt. If Cairo Station opened the door to socially conscious neorealist film in the Middle East, then Ajami has shot it off its hinges.
Like City of God, Amores Perros, and Gomorrah, Ajami is the story of a violent ecosystem where seemingly unrelated characters collide in unexpected and often tragic ways. The film revolves around the lives of three beautifully drawn but irredeemably damaged characters: the first, an Arab Israeli who resorts to criminal means to come up with the money to pay off the gangsters threatening his family; the second, a Palestinian who works illegally in Israel while trying to find a way to pay for his mother's bone marrow operation; the third, a Jewish Israeli policeman coming to grips with the murder of his brother and that realization that the streets he patrols are being lost to the casual violence of the drug trade. Watching their separate collapses dovetail is like watching the whole sordid, inevitable, pathetic story of modern Israel play out writ small.
In Ajami's interlocking, Balzac-like world where family, tradition, tribalism, revenge, and history weigh like a thousand-pound stone on the backs of the living, the possibility for redemption is slim, nearly nonexistent. But the film doesn't succumb to despair, even when its characters do. On the contrary, it is so full of life as to almost transcend the boundaries of its historical context. I say "almost" because when you're trying to find redemption in Israel, that's the most you can reasonably hope for. More than that and you're dooming yourself to 1,500 more years of disappointment.
The series runs Tuesdays at 7pm at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. Admission is free for AFS members and $6 for nonmembers. For more info, visit www.austinfilm.org.
Jan. 12: Cairo Station (D: Youssef Chahine, 1958) / "Cairo as Seen by Chahine" (D: Youssef Chahine, 1991)
Jan. 19: The Land (Al-ard) (D: Youssef Chahine, 1969)
Jan. 26: Laila's Birthday (D: Rashid Masharawi, 2008)
Feb. 2: Son of a Lion (D: Benjamin Gilmour, 2007)
Feb. 9: Ajami (D: Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, 2009)
Feb. 16: Three Monkeys (Uc Maymun) (D: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2008)
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Vodafone Germany Adds WhatsApp to Their Contact Centre
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Filed under - Call Centre News, Genesys
Vodafone Germany is now using WhatsApp, SMS and another top business messaging platform supported by Genesys.
With Genesys Messaging, 1,500 of the company’s agents can connect easily and intuitively with customers on this growing channel, which already averages 300,000 monthly interactions.
WhatsApp is the messaging platform of choice for more than 80% of all mobile phone users in Germany. As such, the organisation knew it was vital to provide service via this channel so its customers could communicate with agents as easily as they do with friends and family.
Today, WhatsApp generates about 75% of the company’s messaging volume, and Genesys Engage enables it to meet this demand.
“We expect to handle over 600,000 messaging interactions per month by 2020,” explains Jörg Knoop, technology digital incubator at Vodafone.
“We envision WhatsApp and messaging will be central to our customer communications in the future and will enable us to securely respond to customer queries through our customers’ Vodafone WhatsApp chat.”
“In addition, more than every third conversation is already fully handled by the inhouse intelligent virtual assistant TOBi.”
The multinational telecommunications company handles all customer service interactions across each of its channels, including voice, email, chat and messaging, through Genesys Engage, an omnichannel, multi-cloud contact center solution for large businesses.
The fully integrated offering enables agents to either handle the query in WhatsApp or, if needed, call the customer with a touch of a button, with the benefit of all conversation history appearing in front of them regardless of the channel.
This gives agents complete visibility into their customer’s history in the same view, so they can deliver more connected experiences.
Using Genesys Engage, the company has differentiated itself from competitors by providing a superior customer experience.
In addition to the benefits derived from the WhatsApp messaging integration, the company has realised significant customer-centric improvements across its key contact channels.
With a shift in the way consumers interact with brands, Genesys Engage allows the most sophisticated enterprises to maintain a competitive advantage by enabling them to deliver personalised service across any channel.
It combines world-class intelligent routing, real-time contextual journeys and tools for digital transformation.
Additionally, it empowers organisations to integrate automation and artificial intelligence (AI) across all channels, including messaging applications, such as WhatsApp.
To find out more about the Genesys Messaging solution, visit: www.genesys.com/messaging
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A14 Bar Hill traffic: more chaos ensues from new road layout
The A14 Bar Hill's new road layout is still causing chaos for commuters
Nicola Gwyer
Bar Hill's new road layout is making it a nightmare to get in and out of the village.
The new layout at junction 29 of the A14 has been a total frustration for drivers since it opened this week.
Not only is the chaos affecting Bar Hill residents but also anyone trying to do their Tesco shop.
Traffic has been queueing on Saxon Way past the Bar Hill Tesco since 4pm this evening. Reports indicate traffic is really bad in other areas as well.
For the latest traffic updates on the A14 and beyond, follow our live blog below.
You can always stay in the loop with the Cambridgeshire Live app which can send alerts to your smartphone about breaking news and traffic problems in and around the county.
You can also follow us on social media like Facebook and Twitter , and be sure to like are dedicated traffic and travel Facebook group for just the county's traffic news.
That’s all from us for now. Stay up to date with the latest news in your local area on the Cambridgeshire Live website.
More on the A14...
More traffic further up the A14
And just a little further up the A14, there are delays between Swavesey and Godmanchester.
One driver says the traffic causing a 'danger to life'
She said: “It’s just crazy. It’s a danger to life and it needs to change.
“God help an ambulance or fire engine if they need to get through in that area because it’s just totally gridlocked”.
Read more, here.
How traffic is look around Bar Hill Tesco tonight
How traffic is looking around Bar Hill (Image: Google)
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soccerlife reacted to CDNFootballer in CPL General October 1, 2018
Vast majority of USL contracts are one year with an option.
Most USL teams are around 500K so CPL will likely be roughly at or a bit above them as far as salaries go (and Ottawa is around that mark as well despite what the fanatic, the Fury PA announcer, or the Fury's FO spin to drive their narrative).
soccerlife reacted to LAK in CPL General October 1, 2018
The PA announcer?
Even if that was credible, I'm still not convinced that only giving the Fury one transition year is enough for them to bow out. How long are the contracts with the current roster? I also don't believe the $500K reports from Fanatic. I think it's a little higher than that and there are other reasons for them not joining this year. Time will tell I guess.
FYI I don't think the salary cap is super high, I think it's under $1mil, I just don't think it's as low as $500k. There just isn't enough evidence other than some fan speculation.
soccerlife reacted to rob.notenboom in CPL General September 28, 2018
The worst kept secret in Canadian Soccer is now out.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/soccer/article-canadian-premier-league-signs-apparel-deal-with-italys-macron/
soccerlife got a reaction from Greatest Cockney Rip Off in CPL General September 27, 2018
That is too funny. I had the same thought as I was reading the post. BBTB finally got on board that the CPL is happening, now he needs to find another way to bash it. Too bad BBTB only listens to people from Ottawa about the wages. Ottawa folks want people to believe their story to make it more credible as to why they are not joining the league. I find it interesting that Fury Fanatic (or somebody) said Ottawa was for sure in the league for 2020-22 area. What will change for them to do that? Anyway, I don't believe the wages will be at $500,000.
soccerlife got a reaction from MtlMario in CPL General September 27, 2018
soccerlife reacted to Ansem in CPL General September 20, 2018
Clubs are expected to spend more than $5M a year...
Another reason why most don't buy the $500k thrown out by Fury Fanatic
soccerlife got a reaction from LAK in CPL General September 18, 2018
That is the best breakdown I have seen that nobody seems to consider. Folks have jumped from it not being $1-1.5 to it being $500. Your breakdown makes total sense.
soccerlife reacted to KW519 in York 9 2019 launch/offseason thread September 12, 2018
Are you guys really faulting him for scouting European based players instead of L10 based players?? Do you honestly think a York based club hasn't been made aware of any potential prospects playing throughout the GTA? Without scouting trips like this, how are you guys expecting clubs to bring over foreign talent if they're not out there doing the ground work?
Perhaps it’s just me, but people sure seem to have difficulty sitting back, collecting information, and parsing out what things people have said that end up holding up and which ones don’t.
Immediately following Ottawa’s announcement, there were suddenly several pieces of ‘information’ being put out on social media by people in Ottawa. It was remarkable how much in agreement all of these infobytes were. It was hard not to see them as having a single source (Fury FO maybe?). Now only a couple of days later, several of those talking points have either been walked back or have been outright debunked. A quick list:
CanPL will be L1O quality.
This has neither been verified or debunked but of course that’s not really possible when the league has yet to sign a player.
Ottawa will have to blow up their roster or their players will have to take a 50% pay cut.
Clanachan addressed this directly by saying that Ottawa was offered the accommodation that they could operate in 2019 under their current situation. Of course that doesn’t address what might happen in 2020, so I can see how it still might be a sticking point (although much less so). Most importantly, in subsequent media appearances, Mark Goudie did not dispute the statement by Clanachan. If it was untrue, one would expect that he would have.
Players will be billeted and won’t have a housing allowance or arrangement.
Clanachan gave no details on this in his statement. But that didn’t stop one of the key sources of this information from walking back and casting doubt on his own earlier assertions. See below.
The salary cap will be extremely low.
This was not really clarified in Clanachan’s statement. And while he had some stronger points (Ottawa being offered a year with the same roster rules being the strongest), stating that the budget was ‘north of 7 figures’ is disingenuous when you know that the key point is salary cap.
There are no TV, travel, or other sponsorship deals.
Well it appears like the jersey deal is virtually ready to be announced. And as for others, broadcasting being the most important of the lot, having things in the works is great and all but ultimately, talk is cheap and a broadcasting deal is about delivering. If CanPL delivers that, Ottawa will look pretty foolish (or perhaps more foolish depending on where you stand on this). If they don’t, it will look like a lot of hot air on CanPL’s part.
Two final things:
1) People should be asking questions of both the Fury and the league right now. Why suddenly were several people connected to the Fury all saying the exact same or very similar things at the same time and why did some of those things turn out to be quite off-base? (I have a very good idea why, but I’m going to hold my tongue on that one) Why, given the opportunity to do so, did Dave Clanachan not simply say what the salary cap was going to be? And why was CanPL’s information released late in the day with (apparently) no subsequent media availability from CanPL officials? Did anyone see an interview with anyone from CanPL after their ‘State of the League’ was posted? Admittedly I might have missed it, but I didn’t see one.
2) If Mark Goudie’s main objection to joining CanPL was the fact that’s it’s new and unproven, how is that any different now as compared to any other time in the previous two years? This can’t possibly be the reason as it then would have been the reason in January or April and not at this late date.
Anyway ... enough ranting for tonight. Answers to many of these things will come out one way or another eventually. But when those answers come out, will people remember the questions?
soccerlife reacted to Alex D in CPL General September 11, 2018
This is what has been bothering me the most. OSEG has been publicly saying the right things but also appears to have spoon fed their arms length burner twitter accounts with seemlingly disingenuous and malicious information. Given the Fury's role in the death of the NASL and the USL's history of skulldugery, something stinks.
*edit.
The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, but this was handled piss poorly.
soccerlife got a reaction from CDNFootballer in Ottawa CPL Club September 10, 2018
Exactly what I thought. Another forum guy said it was more than $500,000 (Rob). Maybe they will keep the rosters to 23-24 in order to give a bit more to the players.
soccerlife reacted to Lord Bob in Ottawa CPL Club September 7, 2018
I mean, whether Ottawa would rather blow up their team to join CanPL or blow up their team within two years in USL anyway because that's what happens in USL is interesting, but not relevant.
The CSA can't sanction a direct competitor to CanPL like USL. That would be insane. Why would you want to give owners and potential owners a chance to drive to Rochester rather than fly to Langford, for the benefit of American soccer? And as much as the Fury have done for Canadian men's soccer, it's not ever going to be as much as seven other teams and counting.
It's nothing personal, but this can't be accepted.
soccerlife reacted to jedinathan in Ottawa CPL Club September 7, 2018
The way I've been viewing this whole Ottawa thing is as follows.
Ottawa saw a chance to hit the ground running and seeing as how they were the only club playing that had a shot at moving straight over to the league, it would seem that they wanted to get the edge. Who could resist snapping up and grabbing some of the hottest Canadians before the league started, showcasing them for a year in the USL, then going and dominating the CPL?!?!?! No one! So Ottawa gambled. They picked a number they thought would be a salary cap, aimed for it, and assumed they would be able to grandfather in player contracts.
Then the CPL starts actually laying down some rules. All of a sudden, some clubs want to spend less, and the cap starts to lower. Then people start talking about how to create a competitive and level playing field from the get go. Ottawa starts getting frustrated and refuses to budge. CPL calls the bluff, and Ottawa is forced to either cut all its players and join the CPL or stick it out in the USL until such a time as when the CPL allows the players to move along over with the club, or the players are out of contract and it just makes sense of the club to move over (also: third option, which I personally don't like but should put it out there... the club just wraps it up and folds).
All this in addition to what I'm hearing is a massive salary that Ottawa is carrying. To say they are above the standard USL salary would be a bit of an understatement. There's a lot of players on a lot of money there, and to say (as I've seen on twitter) that they "wouldn't be able to support their families" is just not true (that or living expenses are A LOT more in Ottawa than I would expect).
Did Ottawa do the right thing? Sure, for their bottom line for now, and they get to act the hero by providing some very targeted narrative about supporting Canadian players. Did they do the right thing for CanSoc? Not in my opinion. Players who deserved as much as they're getting would have found other clubs that would have paid them the same or comparable. But Ottawa wouldn't have been as stacked on Canadian talent as they currently are, and would have been forced to take on some younger developing players to fill in gaps.
TL:DR Ottawa gambled that they could carry their current salary and roster into the CPL. When they couldn't they balked and are creating a narrative for a positive spin.
soccerlife reacted to Viruk42 in Ottawa CPL Club September 7, 2018
The USL is only in its second season with Div II sanctioning. This season it added 4 teams through expansion, 2 from the NASL, but it also had two go on hiatus and one fold. The year before it added 3 and one folded (not including the Austin Aztek's which also dissolved in 2017 but last played in 2015). That doesn't sound very stable to me?
As for high level of play, everything remains rumours at this point. You're right, there's no reason to believe CPL will be at the level of USL. Of course, there's also no reason to believe it won't be higher.
What we do know, on the other hand, is that it definitely won't be at the level of MLS. Hence why few people are calling for the MLS teams to leave. The three MLS teams are, as far as I know, making money - unlike the Ottawa Fury. The three MLS teams attract an average of over 20k fans each - more than 4x the Fury's average attendance. So it makes sense for MLS teams to stay in those leagues, but for the Fury? How is it better for them to continue losing money and bringing in ~5k fans playing against Bethlehem (who?), Richmond (where?), Penn FC (what?), or the various MLS farm clubs (why?) instead of creating real rivalries with Hamilton, York, Halifax, etc.
This *may* be better in the short term for the Fury. It won't be better in the long term, either for them or the CPL. The same cannot be said for the MLS teams, nor for the impact their absence will have on the CPL
soccerlife reacted to BuzzAndSting in Ottawa CPL Club September 7, 2018
Again, you clearly don't understand the current landscape.
No one does. Despite Stuart's assurances in his tweets, he and the Fury don't either. The Fury took risks to join the NASL which was no sure thing, and yet they're not willing to take a risk on this, that's the sticking point for a lot of this. On top of that the Fury have been attending every meeting with the CPL up until they apparently found out they wouldn't be able to keep their entire roster in tact and they may be required to cut their budget. As others have pointed out they have turned their roster over every off season so that excuse also doesn't sit will with a lot of fans. All of this doesn't sound like a club who was worried about the stability of the league to me.
You and others seem to believe that the level of the USL is a big draw for the fans in Ottawa, I disagree. The majority of fans in Ottawa that I know and see at games are casual soccer fans, families, kids and those just looking for a fun afternoon. I understand the level of the CPL may be lower in the beginning but at least it's all ours and eventually it will grow. For a lot of the casual fans I know they have already expressed a desire to see games against Hamilton, Halifax and Calgary, now the Fury will lose that. They may not even be allowed into the V Cup which historically has brought a lot of buzz and awareness to the team.
Because the Fury compete at a level that will be similar to the CPL, maybe not exactly right away but similar. And it's in the best interest of the game in Canada to have them in the CPL, that's why everyone here wants them in the CPL.
Most of the passionate Fury fans will defend this decision because that's what passionate fans do but don't come here and expect die hard Canadian soccer fans to be okay with this. I'm a huge Fury fan and I respect their decision but I'm disappointed and will no longer support the team. I spend a certain amount of money on games, jerseys, etc... each year and from now on that money will be spent on CPL teams instead of the Fury.
soccerlife reacted to admin in CanPL should announce it is playing 1 league game a year in Spain August 18, 2018
Make a big ass snotty deal about it too.
So that local people in Spain can see their Canadian heroes in person.
soccerlife reacted to ironcub14 in York 9 2019 launch/offseason thread July 26, 2018
I wanted to say quickly that I do care enough about hoping this team finds success to say that, if you do have good feedback and concerns that you want to provide to the club, as many of you are on this thread, that Ben Z, the VP of Ticket Sales for York 9, he is easily and readily reachable and accessible. His phone number is literally on his Twitter name, and his York 9 work email is on his LinkedIn.
I've already provided some of the concerns that I had before, and got some good feedback from him personally, such as the fact that they at least will be offering the $200 supporter seasons, thank god for that. But there's a lot of other concerns about this team as well, and it's obviously much better that he hears various opinions from as multitude of a number of supporters as possible, and really, the sooner the better, there's really not much to be gained by being patient and playing the waiting game. So yeah, if you have good feedback to provide, I'd definitely suggest passing it on to Ben for sure, it's for sure even more effective than posting it on this forum here when you take it straight to the source.
Though I did in fact tell him before to check out this very thread to make sure he understands what the fans and supporters out there think about the whole project. I do hope he is doing so, and I do hope you all relay your thoughts and opinions to those who need to hear it, because we can't be letting CPL teams not find success in this social media age of 2018 and beyond.
soccerlife reacted to BenFisk'sBiggestFan in CPL General May 9, 2018
Cavalry makes a little more sense knowing that the stadium will be at spruce meadows...
soccerlife reacted to Gopherbashi in CPL General May 9, 2018
Oh my god guys, we're less than 60-90 hours until an actual announcement!
soccerlife reacted to LAK in CPL General May 9, 2018
Which, considering the ownership and history of the ownership group, I don't mind that name. It kind of has meaning now.
soccerlife reacted to shermanator in CPL General May 5, 2018
Tommy Wheeldon has been involved from the start. He's not an owner, but he's the soccer brains behind the operation. Bringing professional soccer back to Calgary has been his idea for a long time, and I'm glad it's finally happening in public.
soccerlife reacted to mlsintoronto in CPL General April 27, 2018
Hey Blizzard... please take this with the intended spirit. I have always given you credit. In the early days of TFC I learned from you and I appreciated your perspective. I have defended you here and elsewhere when people have tried to shout you down.
You are a reasonable person, with a very valuable perspective!
I don't know if I have ever met you in person, and if I have I hope I have thanked you for the education because I do value what I have learned from you.
Given all these things...I ask you to consider this: You can help drive a positive discussion, or you can, well, do the opposite. In a normal situation your view, and especially your perspective (which is earned, unlike a lot of people on this board) is a valuable part of the discourse.
But right now... this minute... We are at a critical point in our history. Not just CPL... ALL OF CANADIAN SOCCER.
I ask you to ask yourself: "AM I ADDING TO THE CONVERSATION IN A POSITIVE MANNER?" If the answer is yes then have at it! Move the conversation forward and educate the people here who are eager for information. But if the answer isn't "no"... then maybe... for a few days or weeks.... maybe suppress your opinions. They are no less valid... but maybe don't type them out on this board. Let's pretend everything is wine and roses and move the conversation forward. Everyone here wants it.
soccerlife reacted to ted in CPL General April 27, 2018
Yeah, tears are a bit much, but actually, publicly, finally getting started is an important milestone.
soccerlife reacted to shermanator in CPL General April 27, 2018
I think the new logo looks tremendous. I look forward to doing my part in building this league where it matters most, which is in the stands, starting with Al Classico on April 29 and May 5.
I hope everyone reading this is thinking the same.
soccerlife reacted to admin in CPL General April 27, 2018
If the people on this forum can't be happy and excited about what is happening today, this league is fucked.
Get a grip people.
We need to STOP being in tear down mode. Switch to being builders. Do it in your fucking head, NOW.
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Canada has swiftly become one of the leading countries in the marijuana industry. With weed now legal across the country, many major companies dealing in recreational marijuana, medical marijuana, and CBD have become huge points of interest for investors. If you’re looking for a solid investment with a lot of potential for growth, then it’s time to check out some of the top Canada stocks to invest in.
These companies range from cannabis behemoths to up-and-comers with promising futures. It’s always best to do as much research as possible before you invest and make sure you diversify your portfolio to avoid too much financial risk. However, with the legal marijuana market in Canada estimated to be worth $5.2 billion by 2024, it’s a great time to invest. Here are the top 5 Canada stocks to invest in.
1. Canopy Growth Corp. (NYSE: CGC)
Canopy Growth Corp. was initially founded in 2013 in Ontario under the name Tweed Marijuana Inc. Since then, it’s gone on to become the biggest cannabis company in the world and a huge fixture on the stock market. Canopy Growth Corp. started publicly trading on the New York Stock Exchange in May 2018 and is now one of the top Canada stocks to invest in.
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Along with Canopy Growth Corp., Aurora Cannabis is one of the biggest and most promising Canadian cannabis companies. As of last year, Aurora had an annual production capacity of 625,000kg of cannabis. The company supplies patients and users all over Canada, as well as having international operations in a whopping 24 countries.
While Aurora has been slipping on the stock market recently, it’s been making big moves to expand into new markets. For instance, its recent acquisition of HempCo Food and Fibre, a Vancouver-based hemp company, will be huge for expansion considering the enormous popularity of CBD products today. With more dispensaries opening across Canada this year, there’s also much room for growth in the cannabis consumer market.
With its rocky status on the stock market, some users may be wary about investing in Aurora Cannabis. However, with stocks being lower than usual at 7.38 CAD and the company making long-term moves to increase their success, it could be a good time to invest in the marijuana behemoth.
3. Auxly Cannabis Group (OTC:CBWTF)
If you’re looking for a fast-rising cannabis stock with enormous potential for growth, then look no further than Auxly Cannabis Group. While Auxly doesn’t have the same name recognition as Canopy or Aurora (yet) their unique business plan has them on a trajectory to success, as shown by their 342% in quarterly earnings this summer.
Auxly Cannabis Group is set to grow even further thanks to its vast array of streaming partners. While these were initially announced in 2017, many partners are still working on gaining licensing and setting up their operations. As we move into 2020 and these partnerships start paying off, Auxly will begin to show more of its huge potential.
The company is also unique in its focus on non-flower products. With dry flower having lower profit margins, Auxly Cannabis Group wants to focus more on high-margin products such as tinctures, vape-oils, edibles and concentrates. With stocks priced at just 0.90 CAD, Auxly Cannabis Group is by far one of the best Canada stocks to invest in right now.
4. Green Organic Dutchman (OTC:TGODF)
The Green Organic Dutchman is an underrated Canada cannabis stock that’s projected for high growth in 2020. The company is constantly expanding its potential, recently increasing its annual production capacity to 17,500 kg. With a range of high-quality facilities and a solid plan for the future, The Green Organic Dutchman is well worth looking into.
TGOD stocks recently experienced a surge in the stock market as the company renewed its licenses with Health Canada until 2022. In addition to its enormous potential for production, the recent developments show that The Green Organic Dutchman is a futureproof cannabis company with the potential to become a leading name.
The Mississauga-based company plans to focus on high-margin derivative marijuana products such as organic cannabis oils and edibles. TGOD has clear potential for growth and even offers valuable information for investors on its website. Check this stock out before it gets too high.
5. HEXO (NYSE:HEXO)
HEXO (previously known as the Hydrothecary Corp) is an interesting Canada stock for numerous reasons. The Quebec-based company now supplies cannabis products to legal dispensaries in major Canadian cannabis provinces such as Ontario and Alberta, as well as having a lucrative five-year deal as the preferred cannabis supplier for Quebec.
The company now has 1.8 million square foot of production facilities across Canada and is also looking to expand globally. HEXO has also made some major deals, such as its recent acquisition of Newstrike Brands and its collaboration with Molson to create cannabis-infused drinks by the end of the year.
If you’re interested in a long-term play, then HEXO is well worth considering. With many interesting things happening for the company it looks like their stock has the potential to surge over the next couple of years.
These are some of the best Canada cannabis stocks to invest in, but there are plenty of other stocks worth considering such as Aphria Inc., The Cronos Group, CannTrust Holdings Inc., and OrganiGram Holdings. No matter where you decide to put your money, keep in mind that investing is always a risk and sometimes you have to be patient to make big earnings. With that said, it’s an amazing time to invest in Canada stocks as the cannabis market continues to grow.
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Taking landscape photography to the next level with Canon telephoto lenses
Using a Canon telephoto lens for this landscape shot, Vladimir Medvedev took advantage of the haze and the long distance between the mountains to concentrate the viewer's attention on the contrasting foreground, creating an interesting pattern in the fir trees. Taken on a Canon EOS 5D Mark II (now succeeded by the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV) with a Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM lens (now succeeded by the Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS II USM) at 70mm, 1/200 sec, f/11 and ISO100. © Vladimir Medvedev
Do you naturally associate landscape photography with wide-angle lenses? A good telephoto lens can raise a landscape photographer's creative game considerably – whether to draw out natural patterns that are less apparent when viewed through a wide-angle lens, or to enhance the density of a scene to capture a more naturalistic sense of scale.
Landscape photographer Vladimir Medvedev believes using telephoto lenses for landscape photography isn't just an interesting flight of fancy, but is essential for creating amazing photographs. "Using different focal lengths is one of the most powerful artistic techniques in the photographer's arsenal," he says. "Telephoto lenses enable you to emphasise details that cannot be achieved with wide-angle optics. No amount of processing will help compensate for the lack of a long-focus lens, so I can't imagine any expedition where I would go without a telephoto."
Here we examine the creative benefits of using telephoto lenses for landscape photography, and look at the best Canon telephoto lenses to use, with insights from Vladimir and fellow landscape photographers David Noton and Radomir Jakubowski, plus expertise from Canon product specialist John Maurice.
David Noton has used the layers of trees, rolling hills and mist in the scene to create a sleepy autumnal morning landscape, focusing on the trees in the foreground to isolate details. Taken on a Canon EOS 5DS R with a Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens at 100mm, 0.6 sec, f/11 and ISO100. © David Noton
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Isolate details and reduce depth of field
David says that the ability of long focal length lenses to isolate detail is particularly useful for emphasising a sense of scale. He often uses this technique to pick out one subject from a bigger backdrop. "Shooting landscapes in close-up is particularly appealing for me when I want to show the grandeur of a landscape," he says. "Trying to get it all in never works, while isolating one tree against the immense backdrop of a mountain rising above, does."
Radomir also uses this technique – as well as making use of the reduced depth of field that telephoto lenses inherently display. "With a wide-angle lens, the foreground is in focus and everything in the background seems to be little and unimportant," he says. "With the telephoto lens, the elements in the image are perceptibly pushed together. For my work, a landscape image with a telephoto lens allows me to take a photo that is more intimate."
For landscape photographers who need sizeable reach in a small package, John Maurice, European Product Marketing Manager at Canon Europe, recommends the Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens. "The 100-400mm is perfect for those who want a portable, professional telephoto zoom with great reach," he says.
At the Mongolian canyon in the middle of the Gobi desert, rocks part the sand, like the walls of an ancient city. Vladimir has used a Canon telephoto lens to focus on the stone walls in the foreground, capturing incredible detail. Taken on a Canon EOS 5D Mark II with a Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM lens at 116mm, 1/125 sec, f/9 and ISO200. © Vladimir Medvedev
John also points out that for Canon EOS R System users the Canon RF 70-200mm F2.8L IS USM lens – the third in the Canon trinity of RF-mount zoom lenses with constant f/2.8 aperture – offers exceptional image quality in a compact design that truly makes it stand out against other f/2.8 lenses. "The compact nature of this f/2.8 zoom makes it remarkably portable when compared to similar lenses," he continues, "and the wide aperture will allow you to isolate subjects while simultaneously adding compression when capturing landscape scenes."
While telezooms typically have the upper hand when it comes to their zoom range, a fixed telephoto lens such as the Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM can offer improved sharpness and a wider aperture that could be more beneficial in low-light conditions. John says: "This is a stunning telephoto prime that makes for images that truly impress with isolated depth of field and razor-sharp results even at f/2.8, or using teleconverters for extra reach."
David has used a telephoto lens to concentrate on key elements in the foreground of this scene, particularly the branches of the trees. The final product is this pastel-toned landscape shot, showing a misty dawn on The Gallup from East Hill, near Milborne Port, Somerset. Taken on a Canon EOS 5DS R with a Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens at 100mm, 3.2 secs, f/11 and ISO100. © David Noton
Vary compositions from a single spot
The focal length flexibility in telephoto zooms gives photographers the option to recompose their landscapes without having to move from their shooting position. When shooting landscapes with telephoto lenses, David leans towards telephoto zooms because of their durability and flexibility for composition.
"Both the Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens and Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS III USM lens are optically superb lenses offering a convenient focal range, and are portable, rugged and weatherproof," he says. "Working with a zoom allows me to accurately compose without the need to crop. Every pixel is precious, after all."
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David adds that for long lens landscapes, the L-series Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM and Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS III USM lenses have powerful features that make shooting simpler. "Wind is a frequent problem when shooting landscapes, and the sturdiest tripod in the world will not keep a long lens totally steady in a stiff wind," he says. "In such situations, I find the only option is to shoot handheld, with a higher ISO if necessary, and to lean on the lens's Image Stabilization (IS), as much as I can – it's fundamentally important for landscape photography."
Indeed, Radomir echoes that he also needs a telephoto lens with Image Stabilization because he shoots a lot of his landscape images handheld. "I enjoy shooting handheld with Image Stabilization because I find it easier to get sharp results and can use longer exposure times without blur," he says. "However, when I use a tripod and a remote shutter release, I turn the Image Stabilization off [because the remote shutter mitigates the risk of camera shake]."
John also recommends the Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS II USM lens, which is well-priced and also includes a three-stop Image Stabilizer. "The 70-300mm is both practical and high quality with excellent reach," says John. "The lightweight nature of this lens makes it a good choice for those who like to explore, especially hikers."
"Every year I head to Switzerland and use mostly telephoto lenses to capture the changing seasons," says Radomir. "In 2019 it rained for days, when suddenly the clouds moved up through the valley and I could capture this autumnal scene." Taken on a Canon EOS 5DS R with a Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM at 5 secs, f/11 and ISO160. © Radomir Jakubowski
Capture rich colours
Vladimir says zooms are especially useful when shooting from obscured locations or when vantage points are scarce. He also finds shooting landscapes with telephotos can often provide better contrast and colour accuracy than shooting with a wide-angle lens because telephoto lens hoods are usually longer, so block out sun flare better.
"I always shoot my telephotos with a lens hood," says Vladimir. "This increases the micro-contrast, removes unnecessary glare, and even protects the optical glass. Lens hoods on telephoto lenses are, for me, the most effective, and allow you to shoot even against the sun, achieving good rich colours."
"Early one morning, as I searched for rock ptarmigan [a game bird] in the Alps, I noticed the clouds and the mountains looked like Mordor from The Lord of the Rings trilogy," says Radomir. He used a telephoto lens to zoom in on the most dramatic part of the scene. Taken on a Canon EOS 5DS R with a Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM at 1/80 sec, f/6.3 and ISO200. © Radomir Jakubowski
Shoot in the golden hour
The two favourite times to shoot landscapes are around the golden hours of sunrise and sunset, with twilight giving serene deep blues that flood the skies. But lower levels of light bring a problem: longer exposure time. To counteract the camera blur that may result, Radomir likes to open the aperture wide to let in as much light as possible. "At night I prefer to use a fast lens such as the Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS III USM lens," he says. "You need the extra wide aperture of f/2.8 to let more light in and allow you to see something at night through the viewfinder."
John agrees. "The Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS III USM lens is known for its reliability and constant f/2.8 aperture," he says. "It's versatile and offers powerful Image Stabilization and sharpness."
However, Radomir points out that this doesn't prevent other telephoto lenses with maximum apertures of f/4 and greater from being useful, too. It all depends on the light that's available when shooting. "If you use the Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens wide open at f/4.5 during low-light and night shoots," he says, "you just need to make sure there's enough moonlight to see through the viewfinder."
David finds that shooting in twilight hours, during long periods of low light, are when he gets his favourite landscape photographs. "The evocative blue and golden hours are when I'm out there, stood by the tripod, waiting for the light," he says. "At night all sorts of possibilities unfold. Shooting in such low-light situations is not easy, but fast apertures and sensitive autofocus help."
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012
S.D. 1
RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED.
SECTION 1. The Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§ . Community based governance on Hawaiian home lands. It is the policy of the State to support participation in governance by promoting the empowerment of democratically-elected Hawaiian homestead community self-governance organizations.
In furtherance of this policy, the commission may establish a working relationship with a democratically-elected Hawaiian homestead community self-governance organization to promote community welfare. The commission may establish criteria to determine the boundaries and location of a Hawaiian homestead community and to qualify an organization as a democratically-elected Hawaiian homestead community. Criteria for eligibility shall include but not be limited to the following:
(1) The organization and its leadership is a bona fide representative body of native Hawaiian residents, homestead lessees, qualified successors residing within the homestead community, and native Hawaiians who have designated that homestead community as their primary choice of residence with the department of Hawaiian home lands and who are awaiting an award of a lease under this Act;
(2) The organization is governed by free and fair elections; and
(3) The organization demonstrates sufficient capacity to implement any task the commission authorizes the organization to perform or to deliver any service that the department of Hawaiian homelands would otherwise perform or deliver.
The commission may contract with and delegate authority to a Hawaiian homestead community self-governance organization to perform governmental services for the homestead community represented by that homestead organization. Any such contract shall include a requirement that the government service shall be performed at a level and quality comparable to the services that would otherwise be provided by the department of Hawaiian home lands.
The department of Hawaiian home lands may adopt rules in accordance with chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to implement this section."
SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Hawaiian Homes Commission Act; Community Based Governance
Establishes community based governance on Hawaiian home lands. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)
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A testament to the necessity and the ultimate inescapability of faith, even in a profoundly secular world.
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January 22 nd 2010
God Is: My Search for Faith in a Secular Worldby David Adams Richards. Doubleday Canada, 2009.
David Adams Richards's new nonfiction book, God Is. My Search for Faith in a Secular World, is by turns an intricately argued polemic and a moving memoir of the writer's life and his journey back to faith. Richards tells us early on that he came in his own halting way back to faith "not because of those who believed, but because of those who did not." It was not a priest or person of faith who set a young Richards in search of God, but those who mocked faith and sought to be daring and unconventional by doing so, only proving themselves to be cowards of the most conventional kind.
It was in realizing how mockery could destroy not only the one being derided but also the integrity of the one hurling the insults that Richards drew away from the inner circles of the secular academy and the arts scene. In God Is, with his characteristic forthrightness and candour, Richards makes it clear his point is "not to say that one has to promote religion in order to create," but rather to criticize artists who "believe that the mention of God harms their creation, and that the dismissal or disrespect of that which is associated with God enlivens it . . . They think this is somehow revolutionary and inspired—rather than old hat and insipid."
Though Richards holds no punches in this polemic, he is also disarmingly honest in his own self-reflections. He admits that though "I believed in the blood of the saints as true and sacred, nothing about religion pleased me either. And I had no avenue to worship. I did not go to church. Much of it, I felt, was hobbled by pettiness. And, to put it bluntly, I was lazy."
Richards moves easily in the book between history, literature, film, and personal memories to present an argument that feels less like ethereal polemic and more like earthy revelation. "Only as time went on," he writes, "did I see that the world of faith was open-ended. However much one put into it, one received. This is what I had to acknowledge in order to forgo my reservations about it. When I did, the idea of religious people, of those who actually were (not those who used it for their own benefit), struck me as being grander and wiser, and they were actually more at peace than I had ever dreamed possible."
As much as the book is an argument for faith—for one's undeniable right to believe—and as much as it gives account of God revealing Himself in different ways, it also bears witness to how desperate humans can be apart from God and faith. This is seen most powerfully in Richards's recollection of how, while struggling with alcoholism and trying desperately to write a novel, he kept a loaded shotgun in his closet.
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But even in recounting those most desperate of times, Richards never misunderstood his context. "Not one of us doesn't pray to God continually—even if it is only to tell God to go to hell, that we need our tenure and our research money . . . I believe that the conversations we hold by ourselves are always with God." He even extends this as far as those authors who deride anyone who believes—even those writers who hold to the swaggering secular doctrine "where not to demean religion is sacrilegious."
In the end, this latest work of nonfiction by one of Canada's most powerful writers is as affirmative as it is combative, as compassionate as it is forceful. Though Richards has, of his own admission, set himself over and against the literary establishment, he gives this generous reading of the works produced by that establishment: "How many books and poems and paintings and how much music, in conflict with God, is really arguing with Him in the very same way Job himself did? And what we see, many times, through the beauty of these paintings and books is not the absence of God, but the presence of God in the argument, which makes the art so necessary. In the very agony of our argument, He answers us through the paintings and books wherein we try at times, and exert all our energy, to refute Him. And He simply says, 'Be still and know that I am God.'"
This seems to me the ultimate message of the book: that God is always present, even in the most inauspicious of places, be it a rundown stable or a literary work that seeks to blaspheme His name.
This is a work by an unflinchingly honest writer—a testament to the necessity and the ultimate inescapability of faith, even in a profoundly secular world.
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Samuel Martin holds a B.A. in English from Redeemer University College and a M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto, and he is a Ph.D. Candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is also the author of the story collection This Ramshackle Tabernacle, which was shortlisted for the BMO Winterset Award, and the novel A Blessed Snarl, hailed by the 49th Shelf as one of "the most anticipated books" of 2012.
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Mezcál & Tequila
The word “mezcal” comes from the náhuatl language and the exact word mexcalli, coming from two words: metl and ixcalli. Metl signifies maguey (which is a type of agave) and ixcalli simply means cooked. Inhabitants of Mezoamerica used to use the cooked maguey as a meal. It has been proved that maguey is in use for over 9000 years. Maguey has diverse utilisation: serves as food, source of fibers for clothes and shoes, and a construction material to build light houses. Its spikes have been used as nails and needles for rituals and today maguey is used for the traditional medicine.
Because of its versatility, maguey was respected by ancient inhabitants of Mesoamerica and they even assigned is a goddess, Mayahuel.
Sources from colonial time describe a wide variety of fermented beverage; which were produced before indigenous people entered in contact with Europeans. Beverages as pulque, tesgüino y pozol were part of important religious rituals, accessible to priests and noble people only.
There are 3 different theories about beginning of distilled beverages in Mesoamerica:
First theory is that distillation started at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the XVI century. Spaniards brought copper, used by Arabs to obtain essences, and in Europe was used to produce distilled products. During their conquest, Spaniards met maguey and fermented beverages made from it, and simply decided to distill it to obtain beverages with more alcohol content.
Second theory says that the process of distillation was brought to Mesoamerica by Filipino people during XVI century, coming from Manila. Firstly the sailors used to distill coconut water to obtain vodka. Filipino method employed cheap materials like wood and clay, thanks to that it was easy to adapt and develop the production on larger scale.
The third theory says that the distillation process was known before Spaniards arrived to America (it is confirmed by archaeological remains). Distillation was known as early as 1500 BC and the local people used techniques different than the ones brought by Spaniards and Filipino.
Independently of its origin, the distillation process became very popular in the XVII century. Each city was producing its own distilled beverage using local maguey and wood, as well as clay and metal appliances. In such way every region of Mexico created their own unique brands of distilled beverages, with different instruments and methods of producing.
In that time mescal was known as a sort of vodka or plant wine. With time, the words vodka and wine disappeared, and the only word: mezcal remained.
In XVIII century production of mezcal became an industry.
During the New Spain and Spanish Colony consumption of mezcal has been prohibited as an abuse of public health and an act against royal interest, but in fact this prohibition supposed to boost import of alcoholic beverages from Europe.
Despite prohibition, mezcal was still widely produced in small farms and families.
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THE MURDER IN HANBURY-STREET, WHITECHAPEL
REMARKABLE STATEMENT BY THE CORONER
The inquest concerning the death of the woman named Annie Chapman, who was so foully murdered in Hanbury-street, Whitechapel, on the 8th of September, was concluded yesterday, when the coroner delivered an elaborate summing-up of the evidence, and the jury returned a simple verdict of "Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown". From the summing-up of the coroner we extract the most important passages:-
The deceased had evidently lived and immoral life for some time, and her habits and surroundings had become worse since her means had failed. She lived principally in the common lodging-houses in the neighbourhood of Spitalfields, where such as her herd like cattle. She showed signs of great deprivation, as if she had been badly fed.
The glimpses of life in those dens which the evidence in this case discloses is sufficient to make us feel that there is much in the nineteenth century civilization of which we have small reason to be proud; but you who are constantly called together to hear the sad tale of starvation, or semi-starvation, of misery, immorality, and wickedness which some of the occupants of the 5,000 beds in this district have every week to relate to coroner's inquests, do not require to be reminded of what life in a Spitalfields lodging-house means.
It was in one of these that she was seen a few hours before her mangled remains were discovered. There is some conflict in the evidence about the time the deceased was despatched. It is not unusual to find inaccuracy in such details, but this variation is not very important. She was found dead about six o'clock. But many minutes after Mrs Long passed them cannot have elapsed before the deceased became a mutilated corpse in the yard of 29, Hanbury-street.
The wretch must have seized the deceased, perhaps with Judas-like approaches. He seized her by the chin. He pressed her throat, and while thus preventing the slightest cry, he at the same time produced insensibility and suffocation. There is no evidence of any struggle. The deceased was then lowered to the ground, and laid on her back; and although in doing so she may have fallen slightly against the fence, this movement was probably effected with car. Her throat was then cut in two places and savage determination, and the injuries to the abdomen commenced. All was done with cool impudence and reckless daring; but, perhaps, nothing is more noticeable than the emptying of her pockets, and the arrangement of their contents with business-like precision in order near her feet.
The body has not been dissected, but the injuries have been made by some one who had considerable anatomical skill and knowledge. There are no meaningless cuts. The organ has been taken by one who knew where to find it, what difficulties he would have to contend against, and how he should use his knife, so as to abstract the organ without injury to it. No unskilled person could have known where to find it, or have recognized it when it was found. For instance, no mere slaughterer of animals could have carried out these operations. It must have been some one accustomed to the post-mortem room. The conclusion that the desire was to possess the missing abdominal organ seems overwhelming.
If the object were robbery, the injuries to the viscera were meaningless, for death had previously resulted from the loss of blood at the neck. Moreover, when we find an easily accomplished theft of some paltry brass rings and an internal organ, after at least a quarter of an hour's work, and taken by a skilled person, we are driven to the deduction that the abstraction of the missing portion of the abdominal viscera was the object, and the theft of the rings was only a thin-veiled blind. It is not necessary to assume lunacy, for it is clear that there is a market for the missing organ. To show you this, I must mention a fact which at the same time proves the assistance which publicity and the newspaper press afford in the detection of crime.
Within a few hours of the issue of the morning papers containing a report of the medical evidence given at the last sitting of the court, I received a communication from an officer of one of our great medical schools that they had information which might or might not have a distinct bearing on our inquiry. I attended at the first opportunity, and was informed by the sub-curator of the Pathological Museum that some months ago an American had called on him, and asked him to procure a number of specimens of organs that was missing in the deceased. He stated his willingness to give £20 a-piece for each specimen. He stated that his object was to issue an actual specimen with each copy of a publication on which he was then engaged. He was told that his request was impossible to be complied with, but he still urged his request. It is know that this request was repeated to another institution of a similar character.
Now, is it not possible that the knowledge of this demand may have incited some abandoned wretch to possess himself of a specimen? I need hardly say that I at once communicated my information to the Detective Department at Scotland-yard. By means of the press some further explanation may be forthcoming from America, if not from here. Surely it is not too much even yet to hope that the ingenuity of our detective force will succeed in unearthing this monster. It is not as if there were no clue to the character of the criminal or the cause of his crime. His object is clearly divulged. His anatomical knowledge carries him out of the category of a common criminal, for that knowledge could only have been obtained by assisting at post-mortems, or by frequenting the post-mortem room.
If the assumption be correct that the man who was talking to the deceased at half-past five was the culprit, he is even more clearly defined. In addition to his former description we should know that he was a foreigner of dark complexion, over forty years of age, a little taller than the deceased, of shabby-genteel appearance, with a brown deer-stalker hat on his head, and a dark coat on his back.
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UK Betting Industry Exempted from Punishing AML Directive
Posted on: March 21, 2017, 01:00h.
Last updated on: March 21, 2017, 11:43h.
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The UK bookmaking industry has been exempted by the country’s Treasury from the new Fourth EU Money Laundering Directive, thus escaping the onerous and expensive fate of conducting due diligence on every transaction of €2,000 (£1,740 / $2,150) and above.
The UK betting industry breathed a collective sigh of relief as it was exempted from the Fourth EU Money Laundering Directive this week. (Image: Sports Betting Tipster)
As the industry breathed a heavy sigh of relief, the government said the decision had been made after consultation with UK’s National Risk Assessment (NRA), which deemed betting, both online and off, to be low-risk in comparison with other sectors. Both land-based and online casinos, however, will not be exempted.
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But the government emphasized that the industry must remain diligently committed to it anti-money laundering (AML) duties, or it may just find itself having to fill out the EU’s tedious transaction report forms after all.
According to the UK Gambling Commission, “the government has made clear that it will regularly review its position in relation to the money laundering and terrorist financing risk that gambling providers present.”
As a condition of licensing, gambling operators are already required to conduct AML assessments of their business and develop and implement stringent AML policies.
The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, meanwhile, requires operators to continually monitor and evaluate gambling activity by one customer within different parts of the business over time, in order to spot indicators that might suggest money laundering.
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The Association of British Bookmakers ABB, which had lobbied for exemption, welcomed the decision this week. Many bookmakers had been fearing the worst.
“The ABB believes that the Treasury has come to the right decision with regard to the risk relating to money laundering in high street betting shops,” it said in a statement.
“ABB members will continue to focus on ensuring land-based operators remain low risk in relation to money laundering, both through direct action and engagement with relevant regulators and industry bodies such as GAMLG [Gambling Anti-Money Laundering Group].”
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Postcards from the field: Increasing productivity of small-scale cocoa farmers in Ghana
Published on 14 Dec 2020
Photo: Isaac Ampomah (right) talking to cocoa farmer in the farm
“I like the Atiwa forest, its green environment and various trees and animal species, and the unpolluted air that one can feel,” said Isaac Ampomah, a master’s student from Ghana. He is currently researching the effects of the government policy changes on fertilizer provision to small-scale cocoa farmers in the Atiwa West District and Kwaebibirem Municipality, near the Atiwa Forest Range in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
“I also like it that people here know the importance of the forest, and they have not destroyed it much,” he added. Ampomah works with the Forest and Horticultural Crops Research Center (FOHCREC) on the European Union funded project Governing Multifunctional Landscapes (GML), which is led by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
Through his research for the project, Ampomah has found that small-scale cocoa farmers have seen an increase in their production when they benefit from the government fertilizer subsidy programme and apply fertilizer accordingly. He has also observed that the number of youth involved in farming has increased as a result of better productivity. Moreover, farmers report reducing the encroachment into the forest, since they can get high yields of cocoa from their pieces of land. “we should see more farmers doing the same and become a trend,” Ampomah said.
“This project has made me aware of value addition opportunities that can be explored to help cocoa small-scale farmers increase their incomes, and protect and conserve forests,” Ampomah said.
The student is interested in learning more on how value can be added to the traditional way of farming and how to support farmers gain entrepreneurial skills. “I believe in educating, sharing and imparting knowledge to people along the agricultural value chains, that is why I am constantly exploring innovative ways of improving Ghana’s small-scale agriculture,” he said.
Photo: cocoa farmer and his sons in the farm
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Bradley PD says recent crime is being committed by the same people
by: Kevin Schwaller
Posted: Jan 17, 2020 / 03:29 PM CST / Updated: Jan 17, 2020 / 03:36 PM CST
PEORIA, Ill. — The Bradley University Police Department said the recent criminal activity on and around the college’s campus is being committed by the same people.
Two students this week reported guns being pulled on them in either attempted or successful robberies this week. In total, police said all the recent cases happened after dark where the victim was walking alone, several where they were walking alone between their parked vehicle and a building.
In a safety announcement made Friday, the BUPD said the message is to not walk alone in the dark.
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The BUPD is continuing to work with the Peoria Police Department to track down the individuals in question.
There have been 10 safety alerts issued this school year. Bradley and City of Peoria leaders recently met to combat crime in the area. Bradley is enhancing some safety measures and adding new ones in an effort to keep campus safe.
The BUPD has modified and enhanced its patrolling strategies. It has 21 sworn officers who patrol both on campus and in surrounding neighborhoods, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Law enforcement is also recruiting additional security personnel to provide a larger security presence on and around campus.
Expansion of the Hilltop Safety Cruiser program is underway as well. Students can call (309) 677-2800 between dusk and 3 a.m. when spring and fall classes are in session.
Security cameras are also being enhanced around campus n strategic areas.
Anyone with information about the recent crimes is asked to call the BUPD at (309) 677-2000 or PPD at (309) 673-4521.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) -- In a 5 to 4 vote, city council members will continue discussing the Welcoming City Ordinance in the coming weeks.
Council members Donna Boelen, Kim Bray, Mboka Mwilambwe, and Joni Painter voted against the ordinance, expressing various concerns with the current proposal.
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PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) - A local couple is using government funds to give back to the community, in memory of their late daughter.
"We've got a roof over our heads, we've got food on our table. There are people hurting right now and so... we thought of this," said Julie Ozog.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) -- A Twin Cities bar dished out a free lunch Tuesday to the men and women who protect and serve with the Bloomington Police Department.
Windjammer Lounge in Bloomington handed out the free lunches Tuesday afternoon at the police station to police officers within the city's department to show them that they have support for what they do.
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Home Archives ARE WE SAINTS OR SINNERS?
ARE WE SAINTS OR SINNERS?
Rob Hobson
The Daily Mirror, an organ which is usually associated with derogatory Chelsea stories, decides today to make us its flavour of the morning.
Without wanting to quote extensively from the article, the journalist gives us a fairly lengthy diatribe on how debased the business behind the modern game has become, how dubious are the dealings of football people in general, and therefore what a wonderful man Roman is for firing money at cash-starved Chelsea. Money which, he goes on to point out, will be trickling down to the other clubs who are happily signing away their key players to us.
Meanwhile the Standard runs with a piece inspired by comments from David Gold, Birmingham chairman, in which he bemoans the Chelski “spree” because his fan base has become dissatisfied with their £5.5 million signing of David Dunn. They cast covetous eyes down the M1, he says, and want to know why they don’t have a Russian billionaire to show them as good a time?
Now, gags about the glamour factor of Birmingham City are an obvious route which we’re not going to go down. But what amused me in particular was a comment to the effect that “it’s exciting for Chelsea but is a concern for clubs such as ours. It does create problems that there are bigger people and bigger amouts of money out there, so it’s difficult for smaller clubs.” And this has what… happened overnight? All of a sudden, Mr Gold has been nudged out of his 12-year slumber to realise that some clubs are… heaven forbid… bigger than others. And by following that argument to its logical conclusion, some clubs might have more money to spend than others.
I can take the jibes. I can accept the relentlessly witty label of “Chelski” (in fact, I rather like that one). I can deal with the chants and the jeers. But please don’t whine at me. Football has undergone a huge cultural and commercial renaissance over the last few years. We’ve cycled up the hill and were in freefall down the other side, hard on the heels of Leeds United. I have no time for the moaners who begrudge us the safety line.
Quickly, to finish off, the round of rumours and roubles. A link with Kieron Dyer was mentioned yesterday and seems to have been picked up today by a few of the nationals. For £25 million, apparently. Your comments and thoughts on this would be good to see. Claudio has gone on record as saying that Duff’s signing is by no means the end of our spending this year, with Juan Veron looking (again) to be the tabloids’ favourite as our next purchase. We know how CFCnet readers feel about this guy, but it seems clear that some comment or approach has been made. Watch this space. I have a sneaking suspicion that Roman will not be happy until he brings in what he perceives as a real “galactico” signing to herald his arrival, so more fun and games over the next few weeks, it seems. Keep it coming.
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ASHEVILLE — It was only a matter of time.
Sweeten Creek Brewing hopes to launch its newest IPA, "Sinkhole Sellout," on Friday, Aug. 16.
"Beer names are actually such a struggle," said Ted Gross of Sweeten Creek. "Every time you think you've had an original idea, it turns out like 50 people have beaten you to it."
Gross was surprised to find there are already a number of IPAs that include the word "sinkhole," though few of them appear to refer to literal sinkholes, he said.
Sweeten Creek is committed to "clean, true to style IPAs," Gross said. "We're selling out by selling a New England IPA."
"We filed for label approval today, although it will be a draft-only offering initially," Gross said.
Gross was inspired after encountering the Merrimon Avenue sinkhole's tremendous social media following — the "Asheville Sinkhole Group" on Facebook is already up to 2,400 members from 1,400 just three days ago.
It seemed fitting to name the "trendiest thing in IPAs" after the "trendiest thing in Asheville," Gross said with a laugh.
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