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In Ferguson, DOJ Probe Only Confirms What Community Has Long Known
'What the DOJ has memorialized on paper, we will memorialize in action.' —Tory Russell, Hands Up United
Sarah Lazare, staff writer
"Hands up!" sign displayed at a Ferguson protest. (Photo: Jamelle Bouie/flickr/cc)
A Department of Justice probe into the now-notorious Ferguson Police Department confirmed Wednesday what residents of this majority-black city in Missouri have long charged: racism is endemic throughout the local "justice" system—manifesting in everything from traffic stops to predatory court fines to physical attacks.
Now, the activists whose sustained protests put Ferguson in the global spotlight are responding to the revelations with observations of their own. They say the abuses documented in the DOJ's 102-page review are not new information to municipal residents; they are not unique to Ferguson; and, ultimately, they constitute a call-to-action.
"What the DOJ has memorialized on paper, we will memorialize in action," said Tory Russell, cofounder of Hands Up United, which was formed shortly after the August fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
Russell continued in a public statement:
Ferguson is just a symptom of an international problem, one that is fueled by social, economic, and racial inequality, by a lack of access to education, resources, employment, and one that wont go away until we take an introspective look at ourselves as a nation and as a global community facing daily flashpoints between the privileged and the repressed.
"Ferguson is a microcosm of how marginalized communities interact with the state, but also a spark that inevitably stokes that flames of justice in the hearts and minds of people of all creeds peppered throughout this country." —Tory Russell, Hands Up UnitedThe DOJ, is an organ in these systems of inequality. The same CS gas that police used to disperse our assemblies in Ferguson, is the same CS gas, manufactured here in the US with support from US taxpayers, that is used to disperse assemblies in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. For those of us on the receiving end of this gas our struggles are intertwined.
Moreover, our socio-economic systems appear to thrive in (or at the very least, understand) the chaos of flashpoints between the haves and have-nots. What is harder, for everyone to understand to and address, is how to challenge the predicate series of systemic injustices that fuel and fertilize these flashpoints.
Ferguson is a microcosm of how marginalized communities interact with the state, but also a spark that inevitably stokes that flames of justice in the hearts and minds of people of all creeds peppered throughout this country.
Additionally included in the press statement were remarks by Tef Poe, also a cofounder of Hands Up United, who said:
While we should not diminish the significance of the DOJ’s findings, and the prospect of subsequent attempts to reform policing in Ferguson and St. Louis, we also need to remain cognizant to the fact that Ferguson is but a microcosm of repressive and violent community-police interactions nation-wide.
Today the DOJ’s report has validated that traffic stops in Ferguson disproportionately target people of color and Ferguson courts have become sources of revenue – straying away from their purpose of protecting our communities. We who live this, every day, having been slapped with exhaustive series of tickets, or bench warrants, for our minor infractions, or due to simple mistakes, already knew this.
"This is not news for those of us who have felt a baton in our back or a boot on our neck— moreover, the incidents Ferguson Police choose not to document are perhaps the most frightening and hardest for us to forget." —Tef Poe, Hands Up UnitedIn incident reports filed by Ferguson Police, detailed in the DOJ report, nearly all of the situations wherein police used force were against people of color. This is not news for those of us who have felt a baton in our back or a boot on our neck— moreover, the incidents Ferguson Police choose not to document are perhaps the most frightening and hardest for us to forget.
To see what we have been saying and living for decades validated by the Department of Justice is not insignificant, but these problems are like a cancer—whether the symptoms spread through a body or a whole community, they cannot be addressed piecemeal. To isolate and exemplify Ferguson, is to infatuate over the finger while the organs of our State and the soul of our Country continue to metastasize.
To begin to address this cancer we must first begin by viewing it as such. This cancer is one that saturates everything—like smoke lingering on your clothes after a night out—and it is not reserved for a specific demographic. This smoke lingers on our clothes inasmuch as it lingers on Darren Wilson’s blood stained uniform —the only difference is that we’re ready to change that. ”
Organizers with Millennial Activists United, a youth-led, grassroots coalition in the St. Louis area, put it succinctly:
the DOJ said water is wet.
— brittany. (@bdoulaoblongata) March 4, 2015
Understand we had to be tear gassed, shot at, maced, arrested, etc. for a damn "report" to basically agree w/ our reasoning for resistance.
— Miles Baévis (@keenblackgirl) March 4, 2015
The DOJ's release of the report, which coincided with its announcement that it will not prosecute Wilson for shooting Brown, prompted protests on Wednesday against racial disparities. Numerous eye witnesses say that police arrested those who gathered to demonstrate, sparking renewed outrage among local organizers, including the network Ferguson Action:
Thinking of our family arrested in #Ferguson last night. Why is this racist police dept. allowed to function at all? http://t.co/9OQ7bKQnqJ
— Ferguson Action (@fergusonaction) March 5, 2015
Raven Rakia pointed out in The Nation on Thursday that police practices in Ferguson, and local resistance, have nation-wide implications.
"The flames of Ferguson following Michael Brown’s death captured the country’s attention, and brought the Justice Department to town," wrote Rakia. "But what of all the other small and big cities across the United States engaging in the same practices? If we are to look towards Ferguson as a lesson, changes may come only following a sustained grassroots movement from those directly affected."
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Ferguson, Police State, US Department of Justice, Race, People Power, Black Lives Matter, Michael Brown
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Love International Croatia announces Roman Flugel, Move D, Ben UFO, Craig Richards and more
EuropeEventsFestivalsEuropeEventsFestivals October 30, 2017
© Photography by Michael Njunge for Here & Now (fb.com/wearehereandow)
The mesmeric Love International is back next summer, once more returning to Croatia’s coastal idyll in Tisno and creating an incredible odyssey under the sun and stars.
In just two years, Love International has further refined and honed the concept of a holiday and festival blended together, where one segues into the other and back again, seemingly without missing a beat. As much as the experience is about the music, it’s also about the people too – from those who travel from around the world to attend, to the artists, the crew and the local population – right over to Tisno itself; with its picture-postcard white-washed homes and charm by the bucket load, bordered by the shimmering Adriatic, the days stretch into the nights and back again with beatific ease, everything elongated, nothing hurried. The festival is set right on the gorgeous coast, a little slice of paradise far from the madding crowd, with its own beach and a real sense of intimacy.
The team at Love International are incredibly proud to announce the first wave of artists joining them for the festival’s 3rd year on the seductive Dalmatian coastline. It’s an inspired selection who are all are the fore of their respective fields, from headline names through to the next wave of genuinely exciting DJs and producers. First up is Roman Flugel, who weaves across many styles from ambient, house, techno, electro and leftfield, whilst the sublime crate digger Move D continues to explore and challenge the boundaries of electronic music. And speaking of genre-skipping talent, Joy Orbison’s bouncing garage-house has been celebrated for blending elements of house, two-step, jungle, techno and dubstep has kept him right at the fore of club culture.
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Further debuts include Avalon Emerson’s techno and house filtered through the futurism of Detroit techno; and fellow female icon Octo Octa’s melody and vocal-inspired house music, woven with 90s nostalgia and Balearic joy, brings her to the region for the first time. The Idjut Boys have plenty of their own too, with 20 years of throwing parties and DJing around the world between them, and two further acclaimed names also feature; Jane Fitz’s enduring dedication to her craft has seen her wide-ranging sets become the stuff of legend, and newcomer Powder’s music is a blend of rich melodies and dance floor delight.
Love International also features some friends returning, for some now an annual pilgrimage to the coast; Hessle Audio’s Ben UFO is pretty much first on the list, as is Fabric’s iconic Craig Richards – the pair are now further revered for their all night back-to-back sets at Barbararella’s. Glaswegian duo Optimo fuse techno, electro, rock and leftfield, whilst Prosumer is a Tisno face and regular, a disco ambassador of immense stature. Felix Dickinson has been an instrumental part of the UK’s underground dance scene for the last 3 decades whose relevance continues to evolve, and Daniele Baldelli offers a different pace with his chuggy cosmic disco sets. Shanti Celeste has released on Future Times, Idle Hands and Secretsundaze, acclaimed vinyl archivist and musical curator Gideön has many years of experience to offer Love International, whilst whilst Saoirse’s continued rise to prominence stems from her tireless work ethic both in clubs and behind the scenes. Finally, Futureboogie’s Christophe and Dave Harvey – also Love International’s co-founder – complete the first wave of names.
© Photography by Khris Cowley for Here & Now (www.fb.com/wearehereandnow)
The festival’s other co-founder, Tom Paine, explains: “We believe we are attracting like-minded people to the festival – that’s the essence of what we want to create here. It’s developing a sense of community which everyone brings with them, and that feeling really comes through during the entire week. We are again working with DJs and live performers who understand this too; many of them stay for as long as they can before and after they play.
We are very proud to be bringing in some debut names to Tisno, as well as our old friends returning, and the first wave of names we feel is a great marker for how the complete billing will be looking early next year. At Love International we are honing our philosophy even further – it’s not always about the biggest DJs and artists, for us it’s about having the best, whether right at the top of their game or part of the next taste-making generation. We can’t wait to have them over in Tisno do to their thing!”
With lots of amazing environments to choose from – from the glorious waterside Beach Bar, the stunning shaded Olive Grove, the larger Main Stage in the centre of the site, the incredible boat parties, the intimate Terraza, the Secret Island Party and of course the incredible fully-open air club Barbarella’s – Love International creates a sublime experience. Tisno features lots of great food and drink in wide variety of restaurants and bars, along with lots of accommodation options. There are secluded places to relax by the crystal-clear waters dotted around the town and along the coast. The historic cities of Zadar and Split are close by, as are is the stunning Krka National Park and a whole world of islands to explore, too.
Love International
Weds 27th June – Weds 4th July 2018
@ The Garden Resort, Petrica Glava 34, 22240, Tisno, Croatia
First names revealed: Ben UFO, Craig Richards, Optimo, Roman Flugel, Move D, Joy Orbison, Avalon Emerson, Prosumer, Felix Dickinson, Daniele Baldelli, Shanti Celeste, Octo Octa, Gideon, Idjut Boys, Jane Fitz, Powder, Saoirse, Christophe, Dave Harvey
Standard tickets are £135 for the week
Club nights and boat parties are extra
www.loveinternationalfestival.com / @LoveIntFestival
by Damion Pell
Damion Pell
Loves long walks along the beach, holding hands and romantic 80's power ballads, partial to electronic music and likes to make the odd mix or two.
@damionpell
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Microsoft » Windows 10 » 1709 ~~~~x64~ : Security Vulnerabilities (CVSS score >= 4)
Cpe Name:cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_10:1709::~~~~x64~
1 CVE-2019-1230 20 2019-10-10 2019-10-15
None Remote Low Single system Partial None None
An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows Hyper-V Network Switch on a host operating system fails to properly validate input from an authenticated user on a guest operating system, aka 'Hyper-V Information Disclosure Vulnerability'.
2 CVE-2019-0966 20 DoS 2019-07-15 2019-07-18
None Local Network Low Single system None None Complete
A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system, aka 'Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability'.
3 CVE-2019-0965 20 Exec Code 2019-08-14 2019-08-19
None Local Network Low Single system Complete Complete Complete
A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Windows Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate input from an authenticated user on a guest operating system, aka 'Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'.
A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V Network Switch on a host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system, aka 'Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-0714, CVE-2019-0715, CVE-2019-0717, CVE-2019-0718.
None Remote Low Single system Complete Complete Complete
A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Windows Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate input from an authenticated user on a guest operating system, aka 'Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-0620, CVE-2019-0709.
A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Windows Hyper-V Network Switch on a host server fails to properly validate input from an authenticated user on a guest operating system, aka 'Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'.
10 CVE-2019-0714 20 DoS 2019-08-14 2019-08-20
A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system, aka 'Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-0710, CVE-2019-0711.
14 CVE-2019-0709 20 Exec Code 2019-06-12 2019-06-12
A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V Network Switch on a host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system, aka 'Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-0695, CVE-2019-0701.
A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Windows Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate input from an authenticated user on a guest operating system, aka "Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." This affects Windows Server 2016, Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, Windows 10 Servers. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8489.
A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Windows Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate input from an authenticated user on a guest operating system, aka "Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." This affects Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 10, Windows 10 Servers. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8490.
20 CVE-2018-8434 200 +Info 2018-09-12 2018-11-30
None Local Network Medium Single system Complete None None
An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Windows Hyper-V on a host operating system fails to properly validate input from an authenticated user on a guest operating system, aka "Windows Hyper-V Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 10, Windows 10 Servers.
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Homeless boy, 7, writes Santa heartbreaking note asking not to forget about him
Blake was worried Father Christmas wouldn't be able to find him after he and his mother fled to a homeless shelter in Texas to escape his abusive father
(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Spread the Christmas cheer!
A homeless seven year-old boy has written a heartbreaking letter to Santa Claus asking not to be forgotten this Christmas.
The lad, known only as Blake, recently fled his abusive father and is now living with his mother at a shelter in Fort Worth, Texas.
He recently wrote Father Christmas a note expressing his anxiety about being left out this festive season.
"Dear Santa, we had to leave our house," he wrote.
"Dad was mad. We had to do all the chores. Dad got everything he wanted. Mom said it was time to leave and she would take us to a safer place where we don't have to be scared. I'm still nervous. I don't want to talk to the other kids. Are you going to come this Christmas?
Blake wrote to Santa Claus after he and his mother had to flee their home (Image: SafeHaven of Tarrant County)
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"We don't have any of our stuff here. Can you bring some chapter books, a dictionary, and a compass and a watch? I also want a very, very, very good dad. Can you do that, too? Love, Blake."
His mother said she discovered the letter in her son's backpack a few weeks ago.
She shared it with SafeHaven, the domestic abuse survivors charity whose shelter the family is staying at, and staff posted the note to social media.
People were so moved by it that the centre has been flooded with donations. Their generosity means Blake will receive the books, dictionary, compass and watch of his dreams. The "very, very, very good dad" might take a little longer.
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SafeHaven has thanked donors for their Christmas kindness but refused to divulge any more details about Blake or his mother.
"Victim safety has been our priority for over 40 years, and we would never compromise that through a social media post or otherwise," a spokesperson said.
"Blake and his mom are safe! Thank you for your concern for his family."
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Get on Track programmes move online
The coronavirus pandemic has touched everyone's lives in the UK and has forced all organisations to review the way they work and in many cases, dramatically change their day to day activities. All programmes run by the Trust are delivered in person by our team of athlete mentors so the government lockdown made us look closely at how we could support the young people we are currently working with.
Despite being unable to work with our young people in person, we're pleased to say that we are still delivering 75% of our community based Get on Track for Wellbeing programmes, funded by Sport England. We have used a combination of three things in order to ensure our groups receive the support they need:
We have set up weekly Zoom calls to keep in touch with the groups and provide an outlet for group discussions
We've created private Facebook groups to share videos and set group goals and targets for the week
Our athletes have created short fitness videos that can be shared across groups to help maintain fitness levels
A great example of this approach has been the Folkestone group, led by athlete mentors Claire Bennett and Hannah Beharry. To get everyone active this week, they held an online dance party to get the energy up before starting on the main part of the sessions. It's been a real team effort with our partners on this programme, Swale Leisure, but as you can see from some of the responses from the young people below, it's been absolutely worth it.
"The virtual sessions help me because it means I’m socialising with people. I don’t get to do that outside of playing on my Xbox or speaking to my parents" Roisin
"Since lockdown started, Get on Track has really helped me to socialise and connect with my family” Shania
"I like the virtual sessions because you know you have to get fit and find a way to stay focused and stay active" Kayleigh
Other programmes in Scarborough, Liverpool and Grimsby are also ongoing and the feedback from the groups has been really positive. Jody, who works for our partners North Yorkshire Sport on the programme in Scarborough, said:
It’s good that James and Paul (athlete mentors) can still deliver content from the programme and set the group tasks as it will help them and give them something to focus on. It's great to still be able to get the group together, they benefit from still been able to ‘meet’ as a group! It can be hard to get young people to jump on the chat especially as some are really anxious, but we had more join this week so hopefully each week we’ll continue to get more.
As of 12th May, 54% of the programmes we were running before the restrictions started are still talking place virtually. We will continue to refine our online offering over the weeks and months ahead and continue to support our young people throughout these difficult times.
Get on Track for Wellbeing is delivered in partnership with Sport England and local delivery organisations in eight coastal towns in some of the most deprived areas of the UK. We are working with 700 young people in coastal communities all across England to help them become more active.
Updated: 13th May, 2020
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DVD Fireplace
Post date Thu 27 September 2007
8 Comments on DVD Fireplace
Most bizarre thing seen in the shops recently: DVD Fireplace, $19.99.
Clive James used to show this kind of thing on his TV show. Video fish tanks, fireplaces, washing machines… does anybody really buy this stuff?
← Doctor Who 2007 → How to waste $6.30 and 10 minutes
8 replies on “DVD Fireplace”
Thu 27 September 2007 at 8:34 am
reminds me of the Leunig cartoon of a father pointing to a TV set, showing his son a sunrise, when out the window, the real thing is happening!
Thu 27 September 2007 at 1:01 pm
Reminds of when I was in Canada many years ago and a friend said a small television station used a video of a fireplace to test their signals. But when they removed it people complained because they liked having it on, found it relaxing.
Caseysays:
Fri 28 September 2007 at 12:22 am
Ha…the last firm I worked for decided to not give their employees expected raises, and then decided to skip out on giving them promised christmas bonuses too. Shortly afterwards it was revealed that the 3 senior associates were given massive raises and bonuses (think in the order of high 6 figures each) so that they could have the funds to buy out the owner of the firm who wanted to retire. And one of the first things the new owners did when they took over the firm was spend $14,000 on a plasma screen tv for the reception area, and the only damn thing they ever played on the tv was that stupid fire place scene. All of us unrewarded employees were constantly reminded of how little we were thought of every time we walked past that tv and saw what should have been our raises and christmas bonuses burning away inside that tv screen. The senior associates had always taken credit for everyone else’s work all the time and seemed to do nothing but play golf every other day while the rest of us worked our butts off, so there was little respect for them in the first place, so when these jerks became the new owners it was just the straw that broke the camel’s back. Within two months, more than half of the 3 dozen employees quit. One of the guys that decided he’d had enough, made a video of him ripping up his contract and throwing it into his fireplace, then turning to the camera with a big smile on his face and waved “goodbye.” He put it on a dvd, came to work early on a friday morning and put it on loop replay on the TV and left. It was beautiful. It sure brought a wicked smile to everyone’s faces.
Jedsays:
Fri 28 September 2007 at 5:25 am
These fireplace videos have been around for years. First they were an endless loop of video tape and now they are in DVD. They are heavly advertised and sold around Thanksgiving and Christmas time.
Chris Tillsays:
I got the fishtank one when I first got into DVD back in 1998 – thought it would be a great idea, played it once, and never played it again.. that was 99c down the drain (back in the day of bargain DVDs from the US via a combination of various schemes ;)).
Stevensays:
Tue 2 October 2007 at 8:02 am
I have the fireplace, fishtank, and a few others. The fireplace makes you feel warm on a cold night. Also the making of on the DVD is fantastic, their search for the ultimate flame and just the right fireplace. Also the fish are cheaper than the real thing and you don’t have to fead them and just turn them off when you are sick of them.
Savannahsays:
I like your story Casey :). The CBA in Alice Springs has a Great Barrier Reef DVD always on (with the sound turned down) many people watch it while they are lining up for the tellers. I must admit the wait doesn’t seem as long. Might be alright for crowd control.
Rob Ksays:
Wed 3 October 2007 at 3:12 am
I’ve also got the fireplace one. It’s the full deal – with or without music. Big flames or embers. It’s even got a “making of” section, which was actually funny.
Like Steven says, it’s a warm feeling. Plus it’s a nice noise to have on in the background. At night, with all the lights down, it’s pretty neat.
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Thespian Conference
Denver Academy’s Thespian troupe annually attends the Colorado State Thespian Conference in downtown Denver at the Colorado Convention Center. This year's festival was full of fun workshops and shows. Our Thespian Troupe was awarded Gold Level Honor Troupe status! Congratulations to Jenn, Rachel, Patrick, Noah, Sami, and Rachel on their competition pieces! And a special congratulations to Patrick and Noah who qualified for Nationals!
Spring Musical Auditions
I would love for you to audition to be a part of the musical this year. Rehearsals start after school in January and the performances are March 12, 13, 14th.
Auditions for our spring musical: The Unsinkable Molly Brown will be December 5, Thursday in the theatre starting at 3:30pm.
WHAT TO PREPARE:
Please prepare a one-minute song. Find a karaoke youtube version of your song (or any mp3 that doesn't have vocals) on your phone or device.
SYNOPSIS: Miners, brawls, pretty girls, love, romance, maritime disasters and Meredith Willson's music and lyrics – The Unsinkable Molly Brown is the rags-to-riches love story of Molly and Leadville Johnny Brown, owners of the richest mine in the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. A comedic, yet honest, commentary on the classes and the human spirit of the Colorado settlers, this grand musical is a tour de force with rousing and sentimental songs, as well as dances that are reminiscent of the times.
This spirited tale of a legendary, real-life American original follows the exploits of Molly Brown, whose feisty determination to rise above her impoverished beginnings leads her from the backwoods of Hannibal, Missouri, to the palaces of Europe. Along the way, she marries a lucky prospector, enters the highest echelons of Monte Carlo society, survives the sinking of the Titanic and, most importantly, earns the approval that she so desperately seeks from those "Beautiful People of Denver."
Funny, light, uplifting and uniquely American, The Unsinkable Molly Brown charmed Broadway and film audiences with its irresistible, outrageous title role, in the tradition of such unforgettable characters as Auntie Mame, Dolly Levi and Mama Rose, as well as Meredith Willson's rousing score, in the tradition of his immortal The Music Man.
Come see a full cast description on the call board in the theatre
If you are interested in tech, please come see me in the theatre to get a contract!
Serving the Larger Theatre Community
Rachel performed a beautiful song for (In)Sight Colab Theatre Company (aka Theatre Esprit Asia) to help raise money for their new year of theatre. This theatre spotlights inclusive, innovative, and inspiring works to illuminate our shared human experience. Congratulations, Rachel, on an amazing performance!
High School Theatre Happenings
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A classroom science experiment in Nashville…
Crashes and Disasters
A classroom science experiment in Nashville turned into a chemical fire, injuring 17
By Eli Rosenberg | The Washington Post
May 9, 2018 at 9:30 p.m.
More than a dozen students at a high school in a Nashville, Tennessee, suburb were injured along with their teacher when a science experiment turned into a chemical fire, sending nine people to the hospital.
Merrol Hyde Magnet School, a K-12 institution in Hendersonville just northeast of Tennessee’s capital, was evacuated after the Wednesday morning incident in a high school chemistry lab.
The nine who were taken to hospitals were treated for burns to their faces and arms, Hendersonville Fire Department Chief Scotty Bush told reporters. Officials said they were all expected to be released before the end of the day. A total of 17 people were treated from the incident.
“This could have been a little bit worse,” Bush said, thanking emergency workers and school officials. “Due to their abilities to take care of things, they acted quickly.”
Bush said the accident occurred when a chemical reaction caused a flash fire of about three to five seconds.
Other children at the school were relocated as the fire department used fans to clear chemical fumes and tested the building’s air quality, ABC News reported.
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The school is expected to reopen Thursday.
Accidents in school chemistry labs are not unheard of.
About three years ago, a popular chemistry lab demonstration in Virginia went awry and burned five high school students, two seriously, prompting the National Science Teachers Association to send out a safety advisory to tens of thousands of science teachers.
The fire at W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax County (Virginia) also led the school system to rewrite its safety protocols and ban the demonstration – known as a “rainbow flame” – which involves igniting a pool of ethyl alcohol on a lab table and adding salts to change the color of the flames, The Washington Post’s Moriah Balingit reported. The school district’s superintendent temporarily suspended all science experiments involving open flame.
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For many students nationwide, switching to virtual learning in spring 2020 was a major shift. However, online school has been the norm for one Janesville teen, and it helped him follow his passion.
Seventeen-year-old Devon Casper started attending school virtually in third grade.
“The classes I have right now definitely would not have been an option to me,” Casper said of his online classes.
Casper has autism, and the traditional school he went to just was not the right fit.
“It just made it worse,” he remembered.
Casper’s mom enrolled him online, and that made all the difference.
“They gave us a free computer and printer, and we got started right off the bat and it immediately helped me with math and language skills,” Casper said.
Casper now attends school virtually at Destinations Career Academy of Wisconsin (WIDCA). There, he has been able to follow his passion for technology.
“I got into computers from the first time I got my own computer. I would take it apart and put it back together and I would start programming for it,” Casper explained.
Over the last six years, Casper has been able to take a variety of classes in programming and IT.
“I could learn things that would take me a lot longer in normal school,” he explained.
Pat Acker, career readiness coordinator at WIDCA, said he hears similar feedback from many families.
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Acker said the virtual setting teaches students important professional skills, no matter what career they choose.
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Casper has one year of virtual school left before graduation. He’s looking at going into sales or becoming a mechanic, while continuing computer repair on the side.
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Acker added that WIDCA is expecting to see more families interested in enrollment in 2020, as many traditional schools remain physically closed in the fall.
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Ireland Ratifies EU-Armenia Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement
On 3 December 2019, following the approval of Dáil Éireann, the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Coveney, T.D., confirmed Ireland’s ratification of the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Armenia.
Welcoming Ireland’s ratification the Tánaiste said, “I am delighted to confirm Ireland’s ratification of the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement between the European Union and Armenia that deepens Armenia’s relations with the EU and its Member States.”
The Tánaiste added, “Along with our EU partners, Ireland was inspired by the peaceful democratic achievements of Spring 2018 in Armenia and will continue to encourage and support Armenia’s impressive reform efforts.”
The Agreement provides a comprehensive framework for Armenia and the EU to work together for the benefit of the citizens of Armenia. This Agreement will broaden and deepen the EU’s relationship with Armenia and will provide for closer cooperation in economic, trade and political areas in addition to enhanced sectoral policies.
The CEPA has now been ratified by 17 of the 28 EU Member States (including Ireland).
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Race Between Rangel and Espaillat Comes Down to the Wire
By Jill Colvin, Carla Zanoni and Jeff Mays | June 25, 2012 12:37pm
U.S. Representative Charles Rangel enjoys the annual Celebrate Israel Parade on June 3rd, 2012.
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UPPER MANHATTAN — As the race to unseat Rep. Charlie Rangel comes down to the wire, the candidates are making a final push to try to rally supporters and get out the vote.
"Nobody expected this to be so competitive,” said Manhattan Young Democrats New Media Director Jon Reznick. “In the past races there wasn't really a choice to make, but now you have to look closely at the candidates."
State Sen. Adriano Espaillat is widely considered to be Rangel’s strongest challenger in a newly redrawn 13th Congressional district, which has a Hispanic majority for the first time. If he wins the primary in the heavily Democratic district, he would likely become the first Dominican-American Congressman — a fact he hasn’t been shy about repeating.
State Sen. Adriano Espaillat had warned that the redrawing of Rangel's long-time seat would spark a "nuclear political war."
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“In the streets, all over the district, what you hear is, ‘We need change,’” Espaillat said during an early morning appearance on Good Day New York Monday ahead of another day of 15-hour day of campaigning at senior centers and subway stations in and around Washington Heights before polls open at 6 a.m. Tuesday.
But as race reaches its final stretch, it is also exacerbating long-standing tensions between blacks and Hispanics and Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, as well as neighborhood turf wars between Harlem and Washington Heights.
“Todo mundo coincide en la necesidad de un cambio en el Distrito 13. Vota hispano este 26 de junio. Vota por Adriano Espaillat,” read one robo-text received by residents in Washington Heights.
Translation: “The whole world agrees on the necessity of change in District 13. Vote Hispanic on June 26. Vote for Adriano Espaillat.”
Espaillat’s campaign, which has been bolstered by thousands of dollars from anti-Rangel super-PACs, denied knowledge of the text, whose origins remain a mystery.
Espaillat insists that he has been working to find support across racial and ethnic lines.
“We have a big tent approach to politics,” he said during a recent candidates’ forum held on 155th Street, the border between Harlem and Washington Heights. “We want to include everyone in our approach, rather than pitting one people or one neighborhood against the other.”
But some supporters said it’s only natural for race to be at the forefront.
“You’re talking about electing a Dominican and maybe kicking out the most powerful African American politician in America in the last 40 years,” said Larry English, 56, the former chair of Community Board 9 and long-time resident of West Harlem who is black and supports Espaillat.
He said that in any race where supporters have tried to elect an African American for the first time, they have turned to appeals of, "It’s our time.”
“Those last three days, you play every card that you can to get your vote out,” English said. “So if you can create an ethnic pride in the community, you oughta play that pride.”
Elections experts agreed the phenomenon is nothing new.
“Primaries can encourage candidates to make explicit racial appeals,” said Hunter College professor Kenneth Sherrill, who explained that voters typically use party labels to decide which candidates share their values and their stances on issues that matter most.
When party isn't a factor, as in a primary, he said voters are forced to search for other markers, “so the power of race, ethnicity, religion, gender is multiplied.”
But while many had assumed Espaillat would sweep the Latino vote, divisions between Dominicans and Puerto Ricans remain.
Rangel, whose father is Puerto Rican, received a wave of endorsements from Hispanic leaders with Puerto Rican backgrounds, including Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., East Harlem Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez, and State Sen. Jose Serrano Jr.
Some Puerto Rican leaders have also endorsed Espaillat, but his support remains firmly grounded in the Dominican community.
“We have never played a battle like this where the national feeling for two groups are being pitted against each other,” said Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf, who predicted a renewed focus on Espaillat’s background during his final push.
“It’s the one card that the Espaillat camp has and they will play it,” he said.
Meanwhile challenger Clyde Williams, a former aide to presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, who received the endorsements of both the Daily News and New York Times, and has also received thousands in anti-Rangel super-PAC money, has been trying to paint himself as a unifying alternative.
At a recent fundraiser called Latinos for Clyde, participants danced to Salsa music. On the turntables was one of the best known Latino hip-hop DJs, Tony Touch.
"When I look around the room, I know I have support from Dominicans, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans," said Williams, who moved to Harlem in 2001.
"People say there is a divide but that's not true. We have much more in common than not,” he said, citing as an example the high unemployment rate that black and Latino men share.
The candidates have also been playing on long-standing divides across the district, which now runs from Harlem, through Washington Heights and Inwood into sections of The Bronx.
Speaking at a rally with supporters across from the Columbia University West Harlem campus expansion site in Manhattanville last week, Espaillat accused Rangel of funneling money into West Harlem, while overlooking other parts of the neighborhoods, including the more Hispanic Washington Heights and Inwood and East Harlem.
“The so-called renaissance of 125th Street must be spread to 135th Street. It must go to 160th Street. It must go up to Washington Heights and now the Bronx,” he said, echoing earlier comments at the 155th Street forum that Rangel had treated East Harlem like Harlem’s “stepchild.”
But David Rodriguez, a consultant who supports Williams, said that Espaillat has also ignored the residents of East Harlem, the heart of Puerto Rican Manhattan, also known as El Barrio.
"You never hear from him in East Harlem,” Rodriguez said.
Another candidate, Upper West Side businesswoman Joyce Johnson, has also tried to stress the gender division between her and the opponents she has dubbed “the boys.”
“Everyone has been focused on one of the candidates being the Latino candidate,” she said, “but nobody has spoken about the obvious: I am the only female candidate.”
Still, race appears to remain on the forefront of voters’ minds.
As Johnson was campaigning recently, a black man approached and asked her, "What are you?" she recalled.
Johnson gave her name, but that’s not what he wanted.
"What race are you?" the man demanded, seeming relieved when she replied that she was African American with a family that has deep Southern roots.
"I'm going to vote for you then," he said.
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By John Pring on 7th July 2014 Category: Archive, News Archive
Who are the disabled people who have the most significant impact on the way we live today?
Well over a year after Disability News Service began the process of finding the UK’s most influential disabled people, we are finally ready to publish those 100 names.
The idea, of course, was to rank disabled people in terms of their current influence. Or, to put it another way, to compare the effect they have on society, on how we think and feel, on how we live, and on how we are governed. On the products and services we buy, the films and television programmes we watch, the political parties we vote for, the books we read, the campaigns we support, and the protests we attend.
There has been a lot of fine-tuning since DNS published a draft version in April 2013, including plenty of feedback, some of it from disabled people who disliked the idea of ranking one activist or pioneer against another and found the concept divisive and unhelpful, while others spotted flaws in the methodology.
The draft list ballooned to more than 250 names, and the difficulty of comparing Paralympians with artists with activists with politicians became more and more obvious. Often, it seemed like asking whether a tiger was better than a watermelon.
Several readers of the draft list suggested splitting the names into categories – sport, arts, media, etc – to make it more likely that it would compare like with like. So that’s what I did, coming up with 10 categories that appeared to offer everyone a potential resting place.
It was also clear that DNS needed to enlist the help of other disabled people with expertise in those 10 categories, to assist with the final ranking process. About a dozen people agreed to help, and I am extremely grateful to them. Because all but three wanted their help to remain uncredited, I decided to keep all of them anonymous. Much better for DNS to act as a lightning rod for any criticism. The final decisions were mine, at least for this first year.
The 10 categories I chose were: academia/research; activism/campaigning/voluntary sector; arts; business; entertainment; equality/consultancy/access; media; politics; public service; and sport. For those who are influential in more than one area – as many are – they have been placed in the category in which they appear to have most impact.
The process is still far from perfect, and some of the panellists certainly believe the process could be improved further in future years. I agree.
For each category, in addition to the top 10, I have included an alphabetical list of those who nearly made it onto The List, those on the fringes who have too much talent to leave out completely. Even so, I am certain that I have left many influential disabled people out. I hope that these omissions will be corrected in future years.
With some of the categories, it was harder to determine who had true influence – people who are listened to, rather than just heard. Activism and campaigning – where so much is done behind the scenes, often from a bed or a couch, or behind George Osborne’s infamous drawn curtains – is one of those areas. Others are easier. With business, you can look at profits, employees, and turnover, while entertainers can be judged at least partly by their viewing and cinema figures, audience numbers, and Twitter followers.
I hope The List will spark discussion among disabled people about those who are on it, and those who are not.
I also hope that these names will eventually seep into the mainstream and act as a database of disabled talent, and provide role models for the next generation of disabled influencers.
We are living through a period when many disabled people feel under attack – from the media, from politicians and from wider society – so I hope The List will remind some of those doing the attacking of how much we contribute to society. It would be refreshing to see disabled people being written about as the influencers and contributors to society that they are, rather than as ‘spongers’, ‘scroungers’ and ‘benefit cheats’.
I hope The List (below, with the 10 categories in alphabetical order) will provide a resource for those seeking evidence of how many disabled people there are in Britain today with talent, reach and influence… and yes, even power.
John Pring, Editor, Disability News Service
Academia/research:
1 Professor Stephen Hawking – theoretical physicist and author with an international reputation; books include A Brief History of Time; now director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge
2 Dr Tom Shakespeare – writer and academic with impressive international credentials; was part of World Health Organization team who produced the World Report on Disability; now a senior lecturer at Norwich Medical School. Not afraid to come out against the bulk of the disability movement on key issues such as legalising assisted suicide and the relevance of the social model
3 Professor Peter Beresford – professor of social policy at Brunel University and director of the Centre for Citizen Participation; chair of the national, user-led Shaping Our Lives network; frequent contributor to national and specialist media
4 Professor Nick Watson – director of Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research at University of Glasgow; co-author of the influential Bad News for Disabled People report; editor of nine books, including co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies
5 Dr Sarah Campbell – principal co-author of Spartacus report, which led to We Are Spartacus online movement; wrote several reports for We Are Spartacus, and assisted with MP briefings; former high-flying mathematics researcher; campaigned successfully for access improvements for disabled academics
6 Professor Colin Barnes – renowned academic with an international reputation, still with influence within disability movement; founded both the Disability Press and the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds; visiting professor of disability studies at Halmstad University in Sweden
7 Dr David Bolt – founder of Disability Studies Centre at Liverpool Hope University; founding editor of Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies; director of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University
8 Professor Barbara Taylor – professor of humanities at Queen Mary University of London; intellectual and cultural historian; author of two books on early British feminism, and of new asylum memoir, The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
9 Dr David Slingsby – editor-in-chief, Journal of Biological Education; associate lecturer, Open University; member of British Council’s disability advisory panel; member of advisory panel of the Access to Elected Office Fund
10 Professor Mike Oliver – retired in 2003, but still influential; academic and author who first named the ‘social model of disability’; was UK’s first professor of disability studies
Fringes: Stef Benstead; Dr Paul Darke; Catherine Hale; Dr Heather Johnson Straughan; Professor Anna Lawson; Mike Shamash; Mo Stewart; Dr Jan Wallcraft; Dr Alison Wilde
Activism/campaigning/voluntary sector:
1 Tara Flood – director of The Alliance for Inclusive Education; retired Paralympian; human rights activist; former member of government’s Equality 2025 network
2 Mike Adams – chief executive of ecdp; chair of government’s Access to Work expert panel; has been a cheerleader for turning disabled people’s organisations into both revenue-raising service-providers and campaigners
3 Liz Sayce – chief executive of Disability Rights UK; author of government report on supported employment; former director of policy and communications at Disability Rights Commission
4 Debbie Jolly – co-founder and steering group member of Disabled People Against Cuts (she and other members of DPAC’s steering group made it clear they believe DPAC’s influence is due to the collective work of its supporters and contributors); public speaker and writer; board member of European Network on Independent Living
5 Jenny Morris – blogger, writer and campaigner with significant parliamentary contacts; now officially retired, but still an active campaigner, and much of her past academic work on discrimination, independent living, disabled children and human rights is still influential
6 Kaliya Franklin – campaigner, blogger, founder of The Broken of Britain campaign; part of the team that researched and wrote the Spartacus report, Responsible Reform; member of Labour’s taskforce on disability poverty; now co-development lead for People First England
7 Tracey Lazard – chief executive of Inclusion London, the capital’s leading disabled people’s organisation; prominent anti-cuts campaigner
8 Sue Marsh – hard-hitting Labour activist with influential blog Diary of a Benefit Scrounger; political strategist for The Broken of Britain campaign; prominent member of Spartacus campaign; frequent appearances in mainstream media
9 Miss Dennis Queen – campaigns on disability, gender issues, and consenting adults and sexual rights; member of Disabled People Against Cuts and long-standing member of Disabled People’s Direct Action Network (DAN); writer, musician, blogger; national convenor of Consenting Adult Action Network
10 Rhian Davies – chief executive of Disability Wales; chair of Coalition on Charging Cymru; member of Equality and Human Rights Commission’s Wales committee
Fringes: David Adams, Geoff Adams-Spink, Susan Archibald, Simone Aspis, Ruth Bashall, Sue Bott, Gary Bourlet, Linda Burnip, Laraine Callow, Melanie Close, Helen Dolphin, Lisa Egan, Jim Elder-Woodward, John Evans, Dr Kevin Fitzpatrick, Andy Greene, Miro Griffiths, Gavin Harding, Mark Harrison, Kevin Healey, Julie Jaye Charles, Deborah King, Kelly Knox, Andrew Lee, Carrie-Ann Lightley, Eleanor Lisney, Euan MacDonald, John McArdle, Sean McGovern, Julie Newman, Pat Onions, Ruth Owen, James Partridge, Anne Pridmore, Peter Purton, Anne Rae, Andy Rickell, Dr Terry Riley, Mike Smith, Steven Sumpter, Zara Todd, Faryal Velmi, Mark Wheatley, Bob Williams-Findlay
1 Jenny Sealey – artistic director of Graeae theatre company; was co-artistic director of London 2012 Paralympic opening ceremony; rights campaigner, who has been prominent recently in campaigning against new government rules on Access to Work
2 Colin Hambrook – editor of Disability Arts Online; visual artist and poet
3 Tony Heaton – sculptor, lecturer and chief executive of the disability arts organisation Shape; board member of Inclusion London
4 Ruth Gould – artistic director of DaDaFest, the disability and Deaf arts agency that delivers the internationally-known biennial DaDaFest festival; performer, creative director, producer and writer
5 Liz Crow – artist-activist and director of Roaring Girl Productions, whose work currently focuses on dissecting the government’s welfare reforms
6 Jamie Beddard – theatre director, performer and writer; directed Breathe, the show which opened the London 2012 sailing events in Weymouth
7 Rachel Gadsden – expressionistic artist, whose work featured in the Unlimited London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad across both mainstream and disability arts sectors; currently working on a project with UK and Middle East communities and arts organisations, examining ‘perceptions as to disability, culture, diversity and openness about impairment’
8 Katherine Araniello – film-maker and performer whose work often subverts images of disability; board member of Live Art Development Agency
9 Paula Garfield – actor, writer, producer, director; co-founder and artistic director of Deafinitely Theatre
10 Nabil Shaban – film, theatre and television actor; writer; artist; director and producer; co-founder of Graeae theatre company
Fringes: Alex Bulmer, Caroline Cardus, Claire Cunningham, Esther Fox, Ju Gosling, Maggie Hampton, Caglar Kimyoncu, Simon McKeown, Julie McNamara, Maria Oshodi, Tanya Raabe, Garry Robson, Yinka Shonibare, Allan Sutherland, Chris Tally Evans, Ann Whitehurst
1 Mark Nelson – co-founder of Remark, the largest Deaf-run company in the UK, which specialises in TV production, BSL translation and training; signs many children’s TV programmes, including CBeebies’ Bob the Builder
2 Amo Raju – chief executive of Derby-based The Disability Syndicate, which has been in the vanguard of business-orientated disabled people’s organisations. Has built up the organisation from three to more than 60 staff. Typical quotes: ‘Business is our magic word,’ and: ‘I don’t mind being called a predator.’
3 Liz Jackson – entrepreneur, author; founder of award-winning Great Guns Marketing, the UK’s leading business-to-business telemarketing company; featured in Channel 4′s The Secret Millionaire
4 Shezad Nawab – entrepreneur and business consultant; founder of Global Synergy Group; co-founder and managing director of fabsolutions; background in commodities trading, international trading and motivational speaking
5 Neil Heslop – group director of RNIB Solutions; CV includes spells as head of strategy and general manager of retail operations at O2, and as former chief executive of Cincinnati Bell Wireless in US; co-founder and long-standing trustee of charity Blind in Business
6 Terry Nelson – managing director at TNAR Ltd; developed a specialist aqua running buoyancy suit which allows people to exercise intensively in deep water with no risk of injury; the TNAR suit has been used by football clubs including Real Madrid, Manchester United, Liverpool and Manchester City, and the England team
7 John Pickup – founder and managing director of Amputees in Action, the UK’s largest agency for amputees, which provides extras, support actors for film and television and participants for casualty simulations for emergency and military services
8 Dr Stephen Duckworth – director of Disability Assessment Services for Capita, where he is responsible for the company’s contract to assessment claimants of the new personal independence payment; previously account director responsible for Serco’s relationship with the Cabinet Office, Number 10 and the Treasury
9 Chris Lewis – founder and chief executive of Lewis Insight; telecommunications industry analyst; public speaker at events in UK and around the world; works with RNIB and Vision 2020
10 Neil Barnfather – entrepreneur with numerous business start-ups under his belt; chief executive of web hosting firm eHosting
Fringes: Gary McFarlane, Dr Gregory Burke
1 Stephen Fry – author; film and television actor; presenter of television shows such as QI; huge Twitter following; president of the mental health charity Mind
2 Ash Atalla – founder and managing director of Roughcut Television, which specialises in comedy and entertainment, with recent output including Mad Mad World for ITV1, the Sky1 sitcom Trollied, and the BBC3 sitcome Cuckoo; former producer of The Office and head of comedy at Talkback Thames
3 Susan Boyle – achieved instant fame in 2009 after her audition performance on Britain’s Got Talent audition; has subsequently released five albums, with the first two reaching the top spot in both the US and UK, and all five reaching the top ten in the UK; her website says she has had more than 300 million YouTube hits
4 Adam Hills – comedian and TV presenter; host of Channel 4’s Paralympic-themed The Last Leg
5 Warwick Davis – actor and broadcaster, with his latest series Weekend Escapes with Warwick Davis airing on ITV in spring 2014; co-founder of Willow Management agency for short actors
6 Cerrie Burnell – CBeebies presenter and actor; author of the children’s book Snowflakes, and of her theatre show for young children, The Magical Playroom
7 Evelyn Glennie – world-renowned and multi-award winning solo percussionist; led the drumming during the ‘Pandemonium’ section of the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony; music consultant; jewellery designer
8 Terry Pratchett – author of the hugely successful Discworld fantasy series; campaigner for legalisation of assisted suicide, and on dementia issues
9 Robin Millar – one of Britain’s most successful record-producers; pioneer of digital music technology; trustee of Creative and Cultural Skills; a director of The National Skills Academy; honorary professor of commercial music at London College of Music
10 Alex Brooker – sports journalist now making an impression on Channel 4′s The Last Leg, having featured in Channel 4’s coverage of the London 2012 Paralympics; also becoming a television panel show regular, on shows such as 8 Out of 10 Cats; co-hosted Channel 4’s The Jump in 2014 with Davina McCall
Fringes: Andrea Begley; Liz Carr; Jack Carroll; Laurence Clark; Lizzie Emeh; Mat Fraser; Lisa Hammond; Blaine Harrison; Susan Hedges; Cherylee Houston; Francesca Martinez; Kitty McGeever; Sophie Partridge; Penny Pepper; David Proud; Mik Scarlet; Clare Summerskill; Jessica Thom; Storme Toolis; Ruby Wax; Natasha Wood; Robert Wyatt
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1 Phil Friend – well-connected disability consultant who has worked with some of the best-known UK companies, and on projects in Estonia, Romania, Poland, Germany, Canada and the US; chair of Disability Rights UK; prominent campaigner against legalisation of assisted suicide; vice-president of Level Playing Field; associate of the Business Disability Forum
2 David Ruebain – chief executive of Equality Challenge Unit; solicitor; former director of legal policy at Equality and Human Rights Commission; widely published on education, disability and equality law; member of editorial board of Disability and Society; fellow of the British-American Project; founding member of The Times newspaper law panel
3 Margaret Hickish – consultant who played huge part in ensuring accessibility of London 2012; now access and inclusion manager for National Rail, with responsibility for 17 of Britain’s largest rail stations
4 Kate Nash – leading authority on setting up disabled employee networks; diversity consultant; non-executive director at Remploy; political advisor to Royal Mail; Motability governor; Disability Rights UK ambassador; chair of Department for Work and Pensions’ residential training college review
5 Dr David Bonnett – award-winning consultant architect, lecturer and accessible design guru; his company, David Bonnett Associates, is involved with projects ranging from ‘large urban and historic landscapes to listed buildings, cultural projects, residential schemes and transport interchanges’
6 Jane Young – adviser, researcher and consultant; finished working with the Just Fair coalition on its significant human rights report, Dignity and Opportunity for All, in July 2014; background in disability equality and social care in local authorities and the voluntary sector; has advised policy-makers at local and national level.
7 Agnes Fletcher – equality consultant who reviewed Equality and Human Rights Commission’s disability committee; was a member of Labour’s taskforce on disability poverty (married to Adam Thomas, no 9)
8 Joyce Cook – chair of Level Playing Field, the user-led charity representing disabled sports fans; managing director of the Centre for Access to Football in Europe; board member of several football-related diversity groups; was a member of the Olympic Delivery Authority’s built environment access panel
9 Adam Thomas – a national leader in designing accessible kitchens and the only wheelchair-using kitchen designer in Britain; lectures and trains occupational therapists in accessible kitchen design (married to Agnes Fletcher, no 7 )
10 Kay Sheldon – board member of Care Quality Commission; campaigner for service-users to have strong voice in how health and social care is provided and monitored; consultant, researcher and writer; became high-profile whistleblower when she gave evidence about CQC failures to Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust public inquiry
Fringes: Will Bee, Paul Bepey, Stephen Brookes, Suzanne Bull, Clenton Farquharson, Barry Ginley, Simon Minty, Tracey Proudlock, Sarah Rennie, Richard Rieser, Andy Shipley, David Sindall, Simon Stevens, Maria Zedda
1 Alison Walsh – Channel 4’s disability executive; works with ‘commissioning team and Channel 4’s programme suppliers to ensure mainstream inclusion of disability across all programme areas, and to develop disabled talent on screen and behind the camera’; previously a freelance writer specialising in disability and travel
2 Alastair Campbell – author, diarist, journalist, broadcaster; sought-after speaker on communications in UK and abroad; former communications and strategy director for Labour government; fundraising chair for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research Fund; supporter of mental health anti-stigma campaign Time to Change
3 Frank Gardner – BBC security correspondent; author of two best-selling books
4 Gary O’Donoghue – BBC Radio 4’s chief political correspondent; has been a BBC news journalist for more than 20 years
5 Nikki Fox – broadcaster and presenter; documentary-maker; in April 2014, BBC News appointed her to the new role of disability correspondent
6 Frances Ryan – social affairs journalist, commentator and feature writer; work includes columns on New Statesman website and in The Guardian’s Society section; has appeared as a commentator on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5live, BBC Wales, LBC and on BBC’s Sunday Politics; teaches political theory at The University of Nottingham
7 Peter White – BBC journalist; presenter of Radio 4 shows You and Yours and In Touch; regular contributor to national newspapers such as The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Sunday Times and The Independent; in-demand after-dinner speaker and conference chair
8 Peter Apps – political risk correspondent for Europe, Middle East and Africa for Reuters news agency, covering ‘a range of stories on the interplay between politics, economics and markets’
9 Richard Butchins – award-winning documentary-maker; work includes films on work capability assessment and disability living allowance reform for Channel 4′s Dispatches; photographer and author of todayslondoner photo-blog; in 2014, Butchins won a development grant from the Unlimited 2013 disability arts programme for 213 Things About Me, to be based on a list of personal traits written by a young woman with Asperger’s syndrome; author of novel Pavement
10 Ade Adepitan – TV presenter, retired Paralympian (wheelchair basketball)
Fringes: Kate Ansell, Mark Brown, Paul Carter, Rob Crossan, Michael Darracott, Sean Dilley, Tom Dowling, Cheryl Gabriel, Vidar Hjardeng, D H Kelly, Christiane Link, Dave Lupton, Ian Macrae, Srin Madipalli, William Mager, Toby Mildon, Sophie Morgan, Louis Neethling, John Pring, Damon Rose, Martyn Sibley, Charlie Swinbourne, Charlotte Walker, Philippa Willitts
1 Dame Anne Begg – Labour MP and chair of Commons work and pensions select committee; was vice-chair of the speaker’s conference on political representation; chairs the all party groups on offshore oil and gas and on commercial radio; former teacher
2 Robert Halfon – prominent Conservative MP; has secured media attention through high-profile campaigns on issues such as lowering fuel duty; was first MP to employ a parliamentary apprentice; named Campaigning MP of the Year by the Spectator magazine in 2013
3 David Blunkett – former Labour home secretary, education secretary and work and pensions secretary, now a backbench MP although will be leaving parliament at the 2015 general election; his education review for Labour was published in 2014; visiting professor in Sheffield University’s department of politics; board member of National Citizen’s Service Trust
4 Anne McGuire – Labour MP and co-chair of the all-party parliamentary disability group; former minister and shadow minister for disabled people; former teacher and voluntary sector manager; another MP set to leave parliament in 2015
5 Baroness Brinton – Liberal Democrat peer with particular interest in education, skills and learning; board member of UK Committee of UNICEF and Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust
6 Stephen Lloyd – Liberal Democrat MP; member of Commons work and pensions select committee until January 2014, when he was appointed parliamentary private secretary to energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey; chair of all-party parliamentary group on deafness, co-chair of Citizens Advice group, and vice-chair of apprenticeships group; previously worked in business for more than 20 years
7 Paul Maynard – outspoken and independent-minded Conservative MP, first elected in 2010; set up all-party parliamentary group for young disabled people; interests include public transport
8 Emily Brothers – standing as Labour general election candidate in Sutton and Cheam in 2015, where she will take on the prominent Lib Dem former minister Paul Burstow; head of policy at Equality and Human Rights Commission
9 Marie Pye – lead member for equalities, London Councils; Labour councillor in London borough of Waltham Forest; consultant and equality duty expert; chair of East London Housing Partnership
10 Baroness [Celia] Thomas – Liberal Democrat peer; headed the Liberal and then Lib Dem whips office in the House of Lords for nearly 30 years, until she was made a life peer in 2006; chair of the Lords delegated powers and regulatory reform committee
Fringes: David Buxton, Kelly-Marie Blundell, Greg Judge, Shana Pezarro, Eleanor Southwood, Baroness [Rosalie] Wilkins
Public service:
1 Baroness [Jane] Campbell – campaigning crossbench peer; independent living pioneer; campaigner against legalisation of assisted suicide through Not Dead Yet UK; co-chair of all-party parliamentary disability group
2 Baroness [Tanni] Grey-Thompson – increasingly influential peer; retired Paralympian; board member of Transport for London and non-executive director of UK Athletics
3 Lord [Chris] Holmes – appointed Conservative peer by David Cameron in July 2013; disability commissioner for Equality and Human Rights Commission; retired Paralympian; director of Paralympic Integration at London 2012; patron of British Paralympic Association
4 Lord [Colin] Low – crossbench peer and campaigner; headed inquiry on access to advice and support on social welfare law , which reported in 2014; president of European Blind Union; a vice-president of RNIB; former law and criminology lecturer
5 Alice Maynard – chair of disability charity Scope; management consultant; chair of Transport for London’s independent disability advisory group; chair of government’s Right to Control advisory group; associate of Business Disability Forum; board member of the Association of Chairs
6 Jackie Driver – head of correspondence at Equality and Human Rights Commission; chair of Breakthrough UK; board member of DEAF (Deaf Education Advocacy Fellowship); coaches and mentors local deaf and disabled people
7 Sir Bert Massie – governor of Motability; ambassador for Disability Rights UK; former chair of Disability Rights Commission; governor of Liverpool John Moores University; chaired Labour’s taskforce on disability poverty, which reported in 2014
8 Dr Rachel Perkins – member of ministerial advisory group for the government’s mental health strategy; co-chair of ministerial working group on equalities in mental health; external advisory member of inter-ministerial group on disability employment; trainer, consultant and author on mental health; was chair of Equality 2025, the government’s high-level disability advice body, until it was disbanded in 2013
9 Jane Cordell – former high-flying diplomat, now specialises in coaching, communication and equality through her consultancy Getting Equal; trustee of Disability Rights UK and Manchester Deaf Centre; chair of DaDaFest
10 Asif Iqbal – public appointments ambassador for Government Equalities Office and Cabinet Office; ambassador for Deaf Parenting UK; member of Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee; board member of Deafinitely Theatre; winner of Muslim News community development award 2013
Fringes: Diane Mulligan, Kirsten Hearn, Saghir Alam, Ann McFarlane
1 Sir Philip Craven – as president of International Paralympic Committee, currently the face of the international Paralympic movement; member of International Olympic Committee; board member of British Olympic Association; retired Paralympian (wheelchair basketball)
2 Tim Reddish – chair of British Paralympic Association; ‘motivational’ business speaker; retired Paralympic swimmer; was national performance director of disability swimming from 2003-2010; board member of London 2012 organising committee LOCOG
3 Richard Whitehead – Paralympic gold-medal winner at 200 metres, but also world record holder in marathon and half-marathon; was first leg amputee to break the three-hour mark for a marathon; in 2013, ran 40 marathons in 40 days, from John O’Groats to Land’s End, to raise money for charity
4 Jonnie Peacock – Paralympic sprinter and one of the faces of the London 2012 Paralympics, after winning gold in the T43/44 100 metres, the most high-profile event at the games, and also set to be the blue riband event at the 2016 Rio Paralympics; has more than 50,000 Twitter followers
5 David Weir – winner of four athletics gold medals at London 2012 Paralympics; helped launch a new Paralympic training academy in April 2013
6 Ellie Simmonds – swimmer; winner of four Paralympic gold medals, and holder of multiple world records; in January 2014, signed a deal with Random House to produce four children’s books; projects ambassador for the Active Kids For All initiative; patron of Dwarf Sports Association UK
7 Sophie Christiansen – gold-laden Paralympian, slowly building a reputation as a disability rights campaigner
8 Hannah Cockroft – one of the faces of the London 2012 Paralympics, and now, like Christiansen, slowly building a reputation as a disability rights campaigner
9 Kelly Gallagher – the first British alpine skier ever to win a gold medal at either a Paralympic or Olympic Games when she won the super-G event for visually-impaired skiers at the Sochi games in March 2014
10 Jade Etherington – winner of four medals at the Sochi 2014 winter Paralympics, the most by any British winter Paralympic athlete in a single games
Fringes: Mike Brace, David Butler, David Clarke, Craig Crowley, Jody Cundy, Gerry Hughes, Martin McElhatton
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The genes in Spain fall rather evenly
Gene ExpressionBy Razib KhanMay 27, 2010 1:23 PM
A new paper is out which drills down a bit on the genetic substructure in Spain. Genetic Structure of the Spanish Population:
Background Genetic admixture is a common caveat for genetic association analysis. Therefore, it is important to characterize the genetic structure of the population under study to control for this kind of potential bias. Results In this study we have sampled over 800 unrelated individuals from the population of Spain, and have genotyped them with a genome-wide coverage. We have carried out linkage disequilibrium, haplotype, population structure and copy-number variation (CNV) analyses, and have compared these estimates of the Spanish population with existing data from similar efforts. Conclusions In general, the Spanish population is similar to the Western and Northern Europeans, but has a more diverse haplotypic structure. Moreover, the Spanish population is also largely homogeneous within itself, although patterns of micro-structure may be able to predict locations of origin from distant regions. Finally, we also present the first characterization of a CNV map of the Spanish population. These results and original data are made available to the scientific community.
They used a 160 K SNP-chip for this, though for the PC charts below they were constrained to ~100,000 SNPs. Nothing too revolutionary in the paper. The fact that Spaniards have more haplotype diversity vis-a-vis the "CEU" sample in the HapMap, which consists of Utah Mormons, isn't too surprising, since those individuals are Northern European and Northern Europeans tend to be a touch less diverse than Southern Europeans (more heterozygosity in Southern Europe than in the North). A common explanation for this is that Northern European populations emerged as subsets of Southern populations which expanded out of Ice Age "refugia" within the last ~10,000 years or so, and this migratory process would have induced some bottlenecks and so reduced their diversity. The findings in this paper are broadly consistent with the idea that Spain was a refugium, and so one of the sources of the population of Northern Europe. But, note that there are lots of controversies about recent European demographic history right now, so I wouldn't take the aforementioned model as a given. Also, one major issue which sticks out is the lack of Basque populations in the sample, since that's a group which has long been of interest, and some aspects of many demographic scenarios hinge on their nature. No surprise that Visigoths, Berbers and Arabs didn't perturb these results too much. I believe that these groups did arrive in Iberia in large numbers, but on a relative scale their proportions were small and they probably didn't alter Spain's basically genetic character. Below are some charts of note. First, dimensions of genetic variation in the Spanish population using 100,000 SNPs by locality where the sample was collected.
If some of the localities were as obscure to you as me, here is the PC chart with a subset of them rotated and superimposed upon a map of Spain.
Finally, here are the Spanish samples plotted in relation to two HapMap populations, the CEU (American whites of Northern European ancestry) and TSI (Tuscans from Italy).
There are a few outliers here in relation to their putative population cluster, but in general the three groups are nicely separated as expected. Spain is bounded by water and a rather imposing mountain range. These serve as natural barriers to gene flow. But within the peninsula it's dominated by a high plateau. I really don't have an intuitive understanding of whether the spatial distribution of Spain's people (which for ecological reasons probably can be extrapolated back to antiquity) should homogenize it through a circular pattern of gene flow, but perhaps that's what these data are showing. I am a bit wary of saying that Spain is internally homogeneous without referencing other European populations of the same scale in detail. Perhaps what this group found is what you'd find on this scale with this chip; not much. Cite: BMC Genomics 2010, 11:326doi:10.1186/1471-2164-11-326 H/T Dienekes
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The European Commission’s (EC) public consultation on the review of MiFID II/MiFIR has now closed. Not surprisingly, solving the mystery of what has prevented the establishment of an EU consolidated tape (CT) was a top priority.
Of course, with the MiFID II/MiFIR regulatory framework in place, markets now enjoy an unprecedented level of transparency and understanding. But, there’s still plenty of room for improvement.
“After nearly 2 years of operating under MiFID II, we’re still lacking a reliable view of liquidity across the EU.”
Steven Maijoor, Chair, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)
The EC (and before it, ESMA) insists that the introduction of a consolidated tape would further improve market transparency and drive down the ever-increasing cost of market data. But how exactly? And could it really stand the test of time like the NYSE stock ticker?
How Would Having Our Own Consolidated Tape Improve Things?
Currently, the facts and figures provided by surveillance, risk and best-execution reports vary considerably, depending on the data sets to which brokers have access. A consolidated tape would address those issues. CT data could become a universal baseline; standardized and widely available, with a provision for brokers to add value via extra sources (for an additional cost), if necessary. As in the U.S., the CT should sit alongside market data providers, not replace them.
The buy-side is obliged to evidence best-execution to their end-investors (e.g., pension providers). This is limited by both the number of venues their broker has, and the European Best Bid and Offer (EBBO) validity on trades. A CT would enable them to detail their performance, precisely, against a universal benchmark.
On seeing the advantages, end-investors would pressurize brokers to use the CT as part of their best-execution reporting. A similar thing exists now, but because brokers choose the data sources themselves, the process is undermined by the lack of an independent voice. A CT would unify the market views of broker and customer, by basing best-execution on the tape.
Added Accuracy, Flexibility and Transparency
Data provided via a CT would allow building of algorithms to be more widespread across the industry leading to increased competition, enabling smaller players to access standardized data sets without the need to employ large data science teams to clean and normalize multiple data sources. Conformance testing is a similar scenario. CT data would allow the wider market to test more accurately and gauge what impact they might have on an increasingly electronic market.
Transaction-cost analysis (TCA) reports are only as good as the benchmark data used to compile them. A CT would enable real-time visibility across the whole market (not simply the resources a broker has access to). Also, execution-routing decisions are based on the liquidity to which the smart order router (SOR) has access. A CT could allow the SOR to be adjusted to reflect venue liquidity as well as allowing the broker to be aware of new liquidity, both of which would improve execution quality and transparency.
Why Hasn’t a Consolidated Tape Already Emerged?
Here are five potential stumbling blocks:
There’s little commercial incentive to create a tape within the current regulations and, even if there were, the format for data submitted to the CT has yet to be agreed.
Developing a reasonably priced tape is not in the exchanges’ interest. They’re looking to monetize their market data, and complex contracts must be completed before the data can be accessed.
Data quality issues, particularly for OTC transactions and from Systematic Internalizers. However, there are technological solutions to these data quality problems which, if backed by EC or ESMA governance, could rapidly improve data quality.
Unless regulations are changed, building, implementing and then marketing a tape – with no guaranteed customer uptake and, potentially, vying with non-regulated competitors like market data providers – would represent considerable risk for a consolidated tape provider (CTP).
The complexity and lack of uniformity for accessing market data under current contract conditions, mean commercial negotiations would be expensive and time consuming. And failure to agree a single contract would result in failure to secure data for the whole-of-market.
What about the Likely Scope of an EU Tape?
As an independent global technology provider with extensive Capital Markets experience, DXC believes the benefits of having a real-time consolidated feed rather than an end-of-day feed, far outweigh the modest increase in cost. Especially if this data is provided on a transparent and reasonable commercial basis (e.g., by competitive tender). With collectors in every location, latency would be in single-digit milliseconds (ms) for most sites, and standardized for delivery across the EU at around 200 ms. This would be more than adequate for use cases outside high-speed trading. The cost difference of achieving this against delivering latency of something like 20 sec, is nominal.
Full coverage is essential. Clearly, any data excluded from the tape will result in unequal access to data and less transparency – both of which are explicit aims of the MiFID framework. To support this, exchanges and approved publication arrangements (APAs) must be mandated to contribute quality data to the consolidated tape; otherwise, some parties will lack the motivation to contribute. Regulation should not extend to mandating consumption but, if priced right, the market will recognize the commercial value of a CT.
Covering All Asset Classes
The arguments for transparency and equal data access that apply to equities, apply to other asset classes, too. In fact, a consolidated tape could be even more important for things like credit-default swaps, as there is less information currently available.
A tape that covers all asset classes should be prioritized according to the level of transparency, the notional value of trades and the existence of retail. Our top-four ranking (#1 being the earliest phase) would be as follows:
Balancing Cost and Benefit
Post-trade is technically straightforward to deliver and could be implemented quickly. Pre-trade is more complex – depending on the depth of book included – and would take slightly longer to implement. Depth of book should be limited to maintain a balance between the benefits and running costs of the CT. This would allow existing market data providers to continue servicing specialized use cases that warrant its purchase.
As active members of the FIX Trading Community, and following the work done on extending the market model typology (MMT) data specification for the CT, we support its acceptance. Data specifications for the other asset classes should also be defined by industry-body-led working groups.
Could an EU Consolidated Tape Work in a Commercial Sense?
Pitching the cost of CT consumption is critical, not just for earning user approval but also for driving down the general cost of market data. The price needs to reflect a “reasonable commercial return” for the CTP, exchanges and APAs, and no more.
There are two components for CT pricing:
The cost of producing the CT incurred by the CTP (consume, normalize, etc.). This is settled by open and competitive CTP outsourcing.
The cost passed back to the originators of the data (exchanges, APA). This is more complex, but independent IT companies in other sectors can help define what a “reasonable commercial return” might be.
Independent technology companies have a wealth of experience in producing, verifying, storing and making data available across a wide range of industries, and could prove useful in comparing the cost of market data in Capital Markets.
Preferred Business Model
In our preferred CT model, the CTP charges users a flat fee for consumption. All surplus revenue (after CTP-fee deduction) is passed to the trading venues and APAs. This will be allocated by the CTP according to business rules defined by the regulator.
The level of return should reflect the usefulness of the data. The development of business rules to frame this condition will be key to preventing unintended behaviors. Importantly, CTP revenue should be protected (subject to SLAs), regardless of the uptake in CT consumption. Otherwise, many commercial parties will lose interest and the cost of bearing the risk will represent a significant price increase to the regulator.
One Provider for Each Asset Class, or One for All?
Allowing one CTP for each asset class reduces the level of investment a commercial partner can commit to building and maintaining the infrastructure. Also, it would be harder to maintain standards and service, plus, having multiple providers makes governance more challenging and expensive. Clearly, the advantages of having a single CTP covering all asset types are many and various.
We believe that the role of CTP should be competitively tendered every 10 years. This would ensure the tape is delivered on a reasonable, commercial basis, while making sure the EC has a commercial partner that can operate at scale without overly complex governance.
Independence Is One of Our Greatest Assets
The combination of world-class IT with scale and deep experience of capital markets gives DXC Technology a unique perspective on this issue, which we’re able to offer without any conflict of interest.
DXC is the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, and has a $20 billion annual revenue. Fixnetix, a DXC Technology company, provides global connectivity to a wide range of venues and exchanges through an ultra-low latency infrastructure, which comprises over 40 data centers and provides access to over 90 key liquidity venues.
Time for Action
The technology to implement a consolidated tape for equities already exists and most key stakeholders are ready to act on that understanding.
Having been actively engaged in the public consultation on MiFID II/MiFIR, DXC would like to see the European Commission publish a clear roadmap for CT implementation, partnering with strategic stakeholders and amending the existing regulatory framework where necessary. In due course, we would be delighted to continue to help the Commission and ESMA determine how CT deployment would work from a technical standpoint.
Listening to and managing stakeholders will be central to the success of a CT. So, we’re advocating the formation of an independent advisory board to bring exchanges, brokers, buy-side, vendors and regulators together within a framework, to work with the future CTP to resolve any implementation issues.
If you’d like to discuss the future of an EU consolidated tape further, please reach out to Andy at avicat2@dxc.com.
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Executive Director of the Victoria Hospitals Foundation talks about healthcare and philanthropy
– Interview by Susan Lundy Photography by Lia Crowe
Nice to meet you, Avery. Where were you born and where did you grow up?
I was born and raised in Guelph, Ontario, where I spent 20 years before moving to Toronto to pursue a career in public relations and philanthropy.
How did you get to Oak Bay?
I found Oak Bay from Toronto via Whitehorse, if you can believe it! I spent two-and-a-half years in the Great White North before finally landing on Vancouver Island to join an organization now so dear to my heart: the Victoria Hospitals Foundation. After renting for a few years in the Rockland and Fernwood areas, we found the perfect house in Oak Bay last November: a place to call home in this community we love to call ours.
How did your career path lead you to the role of executive director for the Victoria Hospitals Foundation?
I feel immense gratitude and great privilege to have made fundraising a passion so early on in my career. It has been an honour to grow in this profession; from fundraising for Big Brothers Big Sisters, to supporting the development of provincial non-profits like the John Howard Society of Ontario, and finally working for national organizations such as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Ovarian Cancer Canada. The time I spent in the Yukon found me travelling the northern territories for Shaw Communications, where I spearheaded sales and promoted corporate social responsibility efforts. Each role has been unique and excellent preparation for what would come next. I am proud of the career path I have taken, which now leads me here, with one of the Island’s largest and most impactful charities.
Hospital philanthropy became personal when I suddenly lost my father in a hospital setting. Being able to foster giving in his honour, and in honour of the dedicated care teams and everyday heroes behind the masks, became a priority, and a necessity. I truly love what I do—it fuels my fire to inspire giving, and to give back myself.
What does the Victoria Hospitals Foundation do?
As a team, we inspire community giving to transform healthcare in our local hospitals. Many people are not aware that 40 per cent of the equipment our care teams use at Royal Jubilee and Victoria General hospitals exist because of the generosity of our donors. As Island Health’s charitable partner, we raise donations for medical equipment, special projects, education and research.
Annually, the foundation stewards millions of dollars for our hospitals, and last year we purchased over 100 pieces of priority equipment. Our close partnership with Island Health ensures every gift is directed to where it is needed most to support the 850,000 residents who live and access care here on Vancouver Island. It’s vital for everyone’s health that our hospitals have the best and brightest tools and technology, and we are grateful to those who help make our centres as excellent as they can be.
What challenges/rewards does the foundation face?
I feel our biggest challenge is differentiating ourselves and conveying why we still need our community to give when access to our hospitals is, in simplified terms, free. All hospital foundations face this universal dilemma in our country. The simple answer? If we relied on government alone, we would be waiting much longer for the latest and greatest tools, equipment and research.
A community united for healthcare can do so much. Our team understands the profound privilege we have as prudent stewards to our donors. Experiencing first-hand how transformative and life-saving one single gift can be is not something everyone experiences, and we have the great honour to witness these everyday miracles. The relationships we have with our donors are never taken for granted; they are a treasure to us all.
How do you inspire philanthropy?
I inspire by teaching. When individuals understand the impact they can make, it makes a world of difference. At the foundation, transparency is a large component of every initiative we undertake. We pride ourselves on creativity and knowing our community, so we offer experiences, events and exclusive opportunities to our donors.
Our partnership with Island Health strengthens our work. We collaborate often, and at any given time, physicians, nurses, care team members, educators and researchers, to name a few, are willing to share authentic stories with our community and give us personal access into an environment many of us know little about. They always go the extra mile, whether at the bedside or to share our message with those in our community.
What brings you joy?
I am most fulfilled when the people I care most about are happy. I smile when my grandmother starts singing when she cooks. I laugh instantly when my dog Grace starts smiling. And, when my colleagues and I are celebrating a recent success…well, that’s hard to beat.
Anything else you’d like us to know?
I’d like to say thank you! Our foundation continues to be inspired by the generosity and support for our hospitals’ front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic. We recently launched our largest campaign in over a decade, It’s Critical, to expand critical care capacity at Royal Jubilee Hospital and give Vancouver Island our first permanent High Acuity Unit which will treat critical care patients, including those with severe COVID-19 symptoms. To learn more, I invite you to visit victoriahf.ca/critical. And while we cannot meet in person at this time, my colleagues and I are always delighted to have virtual coffee meet-ups with our donors—past, present and prospective. I look forward to getting to know one another.
avery.brohman@viha.ca or 250-519-1750.
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by Tehosterihens Deer - April 1, 2019 April 1, 2019
Very few people are still around who remember times like this, when Kahnawake was a different place in a bygone era. (Photo Courtesy Towanna Miller-Johnson)
Home is where the heart is, a place where you feel welcomed and loved. That’s what Kahnawake is supposed to be. It’s a place where friends, family, and memories are made.
No matter the situation, we are the community that will push aside differences and hatred to come together and help one another in times of need.
This photo shows an old Kahnawake, nearly 110 years ago in the year 1910. The photo was taken by the old village, near the church and down by River Road.
After contacting some elders, The Eastern Door interviewed Arlene Standup to get an elder’s perspective on a period that not many remember.
“This was the main strip of Kahnawake, nowadays the Old Malone Highway is considered our main road but back then this was the town of Kahnawake,” said Standup.
“At one point you would see traffic passing by, you would always see the tourists and non-Natives come to pass through. It was exciting; my grandfather used to sit on the side and watch all the strangers come through town.”
Standup described the weekdays as dull and quiet until the weekend came with all the tourists passing through, observing the small community.
After looking at the photo, Standup was happy reminiscing on what Kahnawake, used to be like.
“The clothes were amazing; I remember everyone had a similar style of clothes. When I was younger people started to stop dressing in the old fashioned way and started to adjust to the modern times,” she said.
Standing out the most is the trees, the trees are no longer there, and it makes many wonders what life was like over 100 years ago. The photo also has a description on the bottom that says ‘main street Caughnawaga.’
“All of these trees are cut down because of the houses being built. Before it had an old country look and when they cut these down, it just made a change of life in our community,” Standup said.
She explained a situation when she was 16, and noticed that the trees were now cut down.
“It was a huge eyesore,” said Standup.
“The trees remained for a long time, and I can remember we were always so used to seeing them. A part of our history was gone that day.”
Kahnawake was more peaceful and quiet during this period, considering there were no cars, no cellphones, and no television.
The photo shows the harsh lifestyle that our people had to live through with the urbanized city at our doorstep. Clothes, food, transportation, and people were different; money was also scarce, with some barely having enough to feed their families.
Many elders have explained that during their childhood, their families were farmers and that some lived off the land.
By the looks of the children and adults (left side), they seem to either have a store or a little hangout with maybe a dozen or so people there. On the opposite side, there appears to be two people sitting down and facing the camera.
“By the looks of it, it looks like some of the older men are tourists, possibly visiting our little community. The general store was once called Porky’s Pool Hall, and most people would stand around and use the area as a hangout.”
Although the photo only shows the small portion of Kahnawake, one would love to see an aerial view of the small community with the vast amount of wildlife in and around the town.
“We were very peaceful back then; it shows how far we’ve come as a people within 100 years. This photo helps bring back memories and stories told by my parents and grandparents,” she said.
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All sorts of decrepit public enterprises have been turned into thriving private firms. Hartmut Mehdorn plans to do the same for Germany’s beleaguered railways
BusinessFeb 10th 2001 edition
“NO SURPRISES”, reads the sign on Hartmut Mehdorn's desk. “It's forbidden here,” he says, whether good news or bad. Surprises, you suspect, were easier to avoid at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, a successful maker of printing machinery, than they are at Deutsche Bahn (DB), Germany's state-owned railway company, where Mr Mehdorn has been in charge since December 1999. When he took over at Heidelberger Druck, Mr Mehdorn spent two weeks working as an ordinary employee, to observe the firm's strengths and weaknesses without being recognised. Once he was appointed to run DB, he says, a repeat was out of the question, because his face quickly became too well known.
Pity. The state of DB was one of those surprises Mr Mehdorn dislikes so much. Since being registered as a commercial (though still state-owned) company in 1994, it had seemed to be chugging along nicely. Between 2000 and 2004, according to its own plans, it was expected to rattle up profits of DM10.6 billion ($5.6 billion) and to prepare for a stockmarket flotation. But one problem after another popped up, often uncovered by managers a rung or more down from the top—alerts that should have come from the management board, four of whose members were sacked last year. Grand projects, such as a new link between Cologne and Frankfurt, were running hugely over budget and behind schedule. Old signals needed upgrading. Thousands of points needed replacing (to find out how many, retired DB employees were sent out to walk the tracks). Low expenditure flattered the accounts, and the German government was more than happy to stump up much less than the DM9 billion-10 billion a year it had promised to provide for infrastructure.
Now, says Mr Mehdorn, DB must “clear up and invest”. For example, he plans to buy new locomotives, which will need less maintenance than the present ageing fleet and allow some repair shops to be closed. His revised figures, published last November, say that DB will lose a net DM4.7 billion in 2000-04 (see chart): bad enough, according to Reinhard Klimmt, the then transport minister, to take privatisation “off the table”. McKinsey, the consultancy Mr Mehdorn asked to tot up the sums, reckoned that the loss could be several billion D-marks more.
However, Mr Mehdorn's plans for DB centre on reshaping services as well as costs. Like railways all over Europe, it is in competition with trucks, cars and aeroplanes and is losing more often than not. So its bosses have to decide where there might be demand for rail transport, and where there might not—unpopular though that may be. “We have to stop believing that driving a train is the most important thing in the world,” Mr Mehdorn says. In essence, DB should do what pays.
That means attracting customers with fast, frequent inter-city services, supported by easily understood fares and comforts such as on-board films. On the other hand, it also means no more regional services pulling out of, say, Passau early in the morning, tracing a long, slow arc through dozens of cities before lurching late at night into Leipzig, only 280 miles away. And it means fewer local trains stopping at every country station to pick up a man and a dog, unless Land (state) governments pay DB enough, or find one of the growing number of private railway companies to take over the service. In goods traffic, DB has to recognise that it cannot compete with hauliers over short distances. Mr Mehdorn wants to replace its rambling network with a cheaper hub-and-spoke system.
As you would expect, Mr Mehdorn sounds optimistic. “Let's go into cold water for two or three years, and then we'll be OK,” he says. He believes that privatisation is possible in 2004 or 2005: after all, haven't state-owned loss-makers such as airlines and post offices—including Germany's own Deutsche Post—been knocked into shape and turned round? Quite right. But it is a tall order. Although Mr Mehdorn did well at Heidelberger Druck, it was in good shape when he took it on. And this time, his chances of success depend as much on the political weather as on his managerial abilities.
Or is it an oncoming train?
For a start, there is office politics. Mr Mehdorn does not get on with Dieter Vogel, chairman of DB's supervisory board—and therefore the man who must approve or reject Mr Mehdorn's plans. Having missed out on the top job at ThyssenKrupp, a steel company, Mr Vogel still seems to want to manage. He takes more interest in DB's day-to-day affairs than supervisory-board chairmen usually do. This might not matter if Mr Vogel and Mr Mehdorn had similar ideas. But the tall, urbane Mr Vogel thinks that DB is in less bad financial shape than the stocky, desk-thumping Mr Mehdorn does. Mr Vogel would like to see Germany's tracks and trains placed under separate ownership, as in Britain. Mr Mehdorn thinks that in Britain “the politicians believed they were better than the experts”, and wants to keep the system in one piece.
Politics proper also has to go Mr Mehdorn's way. Hans Eichel, Germany's pfennig-pinching finance minister, has made it clear that DB can expect none of the easy money heaped on other European rail companies, such as France's SNCF (whose boss, Louis Gallois, used to work alongside Mr Mehdorn when both were senior engineers at Airbus).
But Mr Mehdorn may also be lucky. He thinks the government is “serious” about evening up the competition between rail and road, for example with taxes on long-distance lorry journeys, planned for 2003. Germany's coalition of Social Democrats and Greens is broadly sympathetic to getting traffic off increasingly clogged roads. And with Mr Klimmt gone, following a financial scandal, the chances of getting DB to the stockmarket may have increased. The new transport minister, Kurt Bodewig, has mused in public about bringing in private capital, as a way of helping DB to get fit, rather than merely fit to sell. So Germany's rail giant may yet get to the bourse. It might even get there on time.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline "Light at the end of the tunnel"
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Yerba Mate Nutrition Facts
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Commonly consumed in herbal teas or as dietary supplements such as energy drinks, caffeinated Yerba mate is an herb made from holly plants grown in South America. This herb may provide you with several health benefits and help boost your energy. Yerba mate products are generally low in calories, especially Yerba mate herbal teas. However, use caution when drinking Yerba mate energy shots or drinks because they are often marketed as dietary supplements -- which are not strictly regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- and often contain added sugar.
Disease-Reducing Phytochemicals
Yerba mate is an excellent source of phytochemicals, such as polyphenols and flavonoids, according to a review published in 2012 in Animal Laboratory Research. Polyphenols may have antioxidant properties and play a role in maximizing your health, while reducing chronic disease risks. Polyphenols present in Yerba mate help lower low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, blood cholesterol, according to a study published in 2009 in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, which helps reduce your risk for heart disease. The 2012 review in Animal Laboratory Research reports that Yerba mate may help reduce body fat accumulation, increase energy expenditure by boosting metabolism, reduce weight gain, lower blood cholesterol, reduce triglycerides, decrease glucose concentration and could lower your risk for developing obesity and diabetes.
Caffeine Content
Caffeine is naturally present in Yerba mate, which is one reason it works well as an ingredient in energy drinks. While the caffeine content of Yerba mate may vary, Guayaki Yerba mate contains 40 milligrams of caffeine in each 1.5-teaspoon portion of leaves and stems, which is about the same amount as one Yerba mate tea bag. In comparison, an 8-ounce cup of brewed coffee provides 80 to 135 milligrams of caffeine and brewed tea contains 40 to 60 milligrams in each 8-ounce serving, according to the University of Utah. A review published in 2010 in Nutrition reports that ingesting moderate amounts of caffeine boosts energy, increases daily energy expenditure, decreases motor and mental fatigue, enhances physical and cognitive performance, and decreases effort associated with exercise. However, consuming caffeine late in the day can make getting to sleep at night difficult.
Calorie Count
The number of calories present in Yerba mate varies, depending on the type of product you choose. Guayaki Yerba mate leaves plus stems provide just 5 calories in each 1.5 teaspoon portion, which equals one Yerba mate tea bag. A 2-ounce portion, equivalent to 1/4 cup, of a lemon-flavored Guayaki Yerba mate energy shot provides 35 calories and contains additional herbs, added sugar and vitamins in addition to Yerba mate.
Carbohydrates, Vitamins and Minerals
Yerba mate often provides vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates, but little or no protein and fat. Yerba mate contains phosphorous, iron, calcium, and vitamins B1, B2 and C, according to the 2012 review published in Animal Laboratory Research. A 1.5-teaspoon portion of Guayaki Yerba mate leaves contains just 1 gram of carbohydrates. Yerba mate lemon-flavored energy shots are fortified with vitamins B-12 and C, contain lemon flavor and have 8 grams of carbohydrates, which are mainly sugar from evaporated cane juice, in them. Some products, like energy bars that contain Yerba mate as an ingredient, often provide some protein and fat.
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Posted on April 10, 2009 by alanajoli
Cat and Bones take their romance in a whole new direction (read: planning a wedding) in the third novel in Frost’s series. But nothing comes easily for the pair: Cat, a half-vampire, has some serious soul searching to do over the course of the novel, only partially because her vampire father has torture on the brain. Is she a vampire? Is she human? What does it mean to be either?
Not, of course, that there’s a lot of time to just stand and think. That Cat’s father has found her means that her identity is no longer secure, which endangers her whole unit. Add a very old, very powerful vampire calling on Bones to share power and ally together (which almost certainly means that a vampire turf war is on the horizon) and Bones turning Cat’s unit member Tate into a vampire by request, and things get very, very complicate. Tate’s love for Cat is only the tip of the iceberg.
At Grave’s End focuses more on the vampire side of the world and less on Cat’s unit, showing how vampire politics work and just what a war among the vampires means. It’s not a new story — vampire turf wars have been the subject of plenty of vampire fiction and film — but Frost spins it in a new way, focusing heavily on Cat’s role in the world of vampires and humans. Since that’s something that Cat has dealt with since the very beginning of the series, watching her grow into herself is a treat. And of course, her relationship with Bones (heartbreaking though it is at moments) is a huge driving factor in what makes all of the books a success.
One of the best parts of this novel is the introduction of a new minor character — the infamous Dracula. Like vampire wars, Dracula is a common enough character to bring on cast, but Frost’s depiction is thus far one of my favorites. Better yet, Cat’s mother continues to develop as a character, far beyond the two-dimensional figure she appears to be at the beginning of the series. Her growing depth is delightful, and by proximity, it gives the other characters a deeper feel.
For people who have been following the series, At Grave’s End is a must have. I would definitely not advise starting with this book — it’s a series best read in order, and the plots of the first two books are more original. But At Grave’s End isn’t a plot book, it’s a book for exploring character dynamics and relationships, and it’s those qualities that really make the series wonderful.
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UK outlines commitments to cut energy red tape
New measures to help deliver the government’s commitment to reduce a further £10 billion of red tape have been unveiled. It follows a review which examined whether legislation and its […]
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New measures to help deliver the government’s commitment to reduce a further £10 billion of red tape have been unveiled.
It follows a review which examined whether legislation and its implementation can be simplified or improved to aid compliance and reduce unnecessary burdens on business.
It was run jointly by the Cabinet Office, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Department of Energy and Climate Change and Ofgem.
They asked businesses, trade associations and industry experts to tell where regulation causes barriers for growth, innovation and productivity in the energy sector.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid said the review revealed existing rules led to some businesses being charged for both generating and storing energy, which cost one company £10 million extra a year.
Businesses also said there is no regulation specific to energy storage, permitting regime is too complex for offshore renewable energy and licences have grown in complexity.
Some of the key findings of the review were:
Regulation and enforcement isn’t specific enough or is designed in a way which doesn’t consider the range of businesses, leading to unnecessary burdens
Data Reporting is too frequent, overlapping and can be too onerous – such as CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme and Climate Change Levy
Adhering to the required legislation, codes and rules are burdensome as they are difficult to locate, expensively governed and sometimes contradictory
Scale of change and lack of clear direction from Ofgem and DECC has led to “significant opportunity costs and lost investment”
DECC is now consulting on whether to update the regulations in an effort to brings benefits to consumers, businesses and the environment.
Government’s commitment
In response to the findings, the government has committed to achieving the following:
A longer term narrative with a clear approach to policy will be developed and published by the end of 2016, outlining the priorities and key changes in the energy sector including a timetable for Contracts for Difference.
A more joined up approach: DECC and Ofgem have formed a ‘Working Group’ to look at data and information requests issued by both organisations.
This is expected to develop “a more streamlined and where possible, shared approach” to making information and data requests to the industry.
Simplifying processes and rules and adopting a risk-based approach to compliance: Ofgem is committing to moving to “a more principles and risk-based approach” to regulation. This is expected to focus on helping companies do the right thing “as opposed to waiting for them to get it wrong”.
DECC is pledging to simplify and standardise the reporting processes for the Energy Company Obligations scheme.
It will will also consult on the storage of electricity in the network in spring 2016. It is working with Ofgem to examine how existing legislative ambiguity, such as being licensed as generation, can negatively impact storage projects.
Mr Javid said: “This government is delivering on its commitment to free firms from £10 billion of heavy-handed over-regulation and build a more productive Britain. Hundreds of businesses responded to our Cutting Red Tape reviews and we are taking decisive action based on their experiences.
“Whenever we need to introduce new rules, we will consider their impact and make savings elsewhere. Through the Enterprise Bill, we are extending the scope of our deregulation target to cover the actions of regulators, going further than ever before to tackle troublesome red tape.”
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Mobile Computing Review: ZooGue iPad Case
By James A. Martin
How did we ever live without Velcro?
That's the question that popped into my mind when I started using the ZooGue Smart Kase V2 ($50). The fastening fabric that launched countless products--and their inevitable infomercials--are at the core of this cleverly designed, highly flexible iPad case.
The ZooGue Smart Kase V2 is a black, leather folio iPad case that also acts as a stand. It features two wide strips of Velcro on the front cover, as well as on a back cover kickstand. Fold back the front cover, and the Velcro strips allow you to position the kickstand--and thus, the iPad mobile device--at any viewing angle you want. By comparison, many iPad case/stands, such as the popular Incase Convertible Book Jacket ($60), only give you up to three iPad viewing positions.
The Velcro does a great job of firmly keeping the iPad at the angle you choose. You can position the iPad screen just the way you want for watching video, reading an e-book, typing an e-mail, or whatever else you do. Velcro also keeps the kickstand shackled to the case when not in use, so it doesn't flap around.
The ZooGue iPad case is designed for landscape mode orientation. An optional accessory (free, though you'll pay for shipping and handling) lets you position your iPad in portrait mode within the case.
The ZooGue Smart Kase V2 also features an elastic strap, which keeps the cover securely closed--a feature I'd like to see on more iPad cases. You can also use the strap to secure the iPad over a front car seat's headrest, to keep the kiddies in the backseat preoccupied with video and games. That feature alone is the primary benefit of some iPad accessories, such as Griffin Technology's CinemaSeat ($50).
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Unlike with Apple's iPad case ($40), it's easy to slip an iPad into and out of the ZooGue Smart Kase V2. A strap--with Velcro, naturally--keeps the iPad secure inside. The iPad's charging port, volume control, on/off and other buttons are easily accessible while in the case, though not surprisingly, you'll have to remove the iPad to connect it to Apple's iPad Keyboard Dock ($69).
The ZooGue Smart Kase V2 is a revised version of an earlier iPad case created by inventor/entrepreneur Tim Angel. According to a ZooGue press release, the new case downplays the company's logo and features higher-quality materials. I didn't see the first case, but the new version (introduced in early October) is attractive, if you don't mind the two Velcro landing strips on the front cover.
Speaking of the front cover: It features a microfiber interior that faces the iPad screen, to help prevent scratching. And it's fairly thick, another protective measure. I'd feel comfortable traveling with my iPad in the ZooGue case, from a protection standpoint.
There is, however, one drawback for travelers. The ZooGue iPad case adds 1 pound to the iPad's 1.5 pounds (for Wi-Fi only) or 1.6 pounds (3G version). Apple's slim iPad case, by comparison, weighs only about 6 ounces.
When a case weighs nearly as much as the device it protects, you have to be sure it's worth taking on a trip. If you want the ability to prop up your iPad at multiple angles--something bound to come in handy when flying coach--the ZooGue Smart Kase V2 is worth its extra weight. For traveling light around town, however, you might want to keep the iPad in a thinner case.
All told, ZooGue has developed a compelling iPad case that's backed by a 15-day return policy (you get a full refund, plus ZooGue pays the return shipping). Also, according to ZooGue, $1 of every purchase goes to the charity Children International.
James A. Martin has written about mobile technology since the mid 90s and is the author of Traveler 2.0, a mobile technology blog for travelers.
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What Happened When President Obama Interviewed Alibaba's Jack Ma
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This story originally appeared on Reuters
U.S. President Barack Obama took time off at an Asia-Pacific summit on Wednesday for an unusual task - putting questions to Chinese internet billionaire Jack Ma and a young Filipina entrepreneur on government-business ties in a panel discussion.
Obama joked comfortably with the eccentric founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., which is looking to make inroads into foreign markets, including the United States.
During the discussion on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Manila, the U.S. president probed Ma on how he thought government and established businesses could help young entrepreneurs.
"Government is simple - just reduce the tax, or no tax, for these guys," Ma responded, to a wave of laughter and applause from the audience of business executives.
"You got a lot of cheers from your fellow CEOs," Obama quipped in response.
Ma's remarks come as Alibaba works to invest heavily in ventures abroad. Executives have said its push beyond the China market is a top priority, as the company works to maintain its rapid growth even as the prospect of e-commerce saturation at home looms large.
Alibaba has said some of its larger overseas markets include Brazil and Russia.
Obama also praised the relatively unknown Filipina entrepreneur, Aisa Mijeno, a professor of engineering who invented a lamp powered by salt water. He suggested that Ma should invest in the company of his fellow panelist after she said she was looking for funding to mass-produce the lamps.
"I’m just saying," Obama said, throwing Ma a suggestive look. "Serving as a matchmaker here, a little bit."
Ma smiled in response. He said Alibaba had been putting 0.3 percent of the company's total revenue for the past six years toward encouraging young people to find solutions to climate change and other environmental issues.
Ma added that he thought it was a "fantastic idea" to invest in clean technology, referring to a recent conversation in which Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates broached the idea.
Agreement on climate change is one of the bright spots in Washington's troubled relationship with Beijing, which has been shaken recently by a row over China's increasingly assertive posture in the South China Sea.
Leaders of the two countries agreed in September to a common vision for a global climate change agreement, including steps to deliver on earlier pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
(Additional reporting by Karen Lema; Editing by John Chalmers and Raju Gopalakrishnan)
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17-year-old teenager wins $ 250,000 scholarship for explaining quantum tunnels with dice and video games
The young Canadian spent two weeks developing the video that would give her the award.
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December 9, 2020 1 min read
This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process.
The girl entered the contest with a three-minute video that she developed in two weeks and used as examples given and video games.
Maryam Tsegaye , a student at Fort McMurray School in Alberta, Canada, received a $ 250,000 scholarship after explaining the "tunnel effect" of quantum mechanics using dice and video games.
According to local media , the girl participated in the contest with a three-minute video that she developed in two weeks and used as given examples and video games.
"I knew I couldn't just throw you a math equation or a bunch of scientific jargon that you wouldn't understand ... This is how dice came about, because quantum mechanics has a lot to do with probability," Tsegaye said.
Maryam Tsegaye became the first Canadian to win the International Breakthrough Junior Challenge of C $ 500,000 (7,782,300 Mexican pesos approximately) award that includes a scholarship and a new science lab for her school.
The video of the young woman was chosen from approximately 5,600 projects and the money is divided as follows: a grant of $ 250,000 for Tsegaye, $ 100,000 for a science lab for his high school and $ 50,000 in cash for him. teacher who inspired her.
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El Paso Pro-Musica will have a virtual season for 2020-21 and is asking fans to make donations instead of paying for tickets.
"Our community has supported El Paso Pro-Musica, and, now, it's our turn to say, 'Thank you,' for their generosity," said artistic director Zuill Bailey.
Due to the pandemic, people will be able to enjoy the concerts from the comfort of their homes and make contributions to help the organization continue outreach and community engagement programs.
The concerts will be available on the El Paso Pro-Musica website, which also includes a place to click on for donations. Prior to each concert, there will be conversations led by Bailey, executive director Felipa Solis and special guest artists.
El Paso Pro-Musica schedule
Sept. 23: Pianist Richard Dowling performed works by Gershwin, Chopin, Scott Joplin and music from the Academy Award-winning motion picture, "The Sting." Dowling preceded the concert with a talk on his experiences living in New York during the pandemic and his recovery from the virus.
Oct. 20 at 6 p.m.: Jazz and Chopin with pianist Matt Herskowitz.
Nov. 14 at 6 p.m.: Celebrate the 250th Birthday Extravaganza with pianist Adam Golka.
Dec. 5 at 6 p.m.: El Paso Pro-Musica goes live with cabaret singer Shelly Watson, "Live from NYC — Sequins and Song."
Jan. 2021: El Paso Pro-Musica Chamber Music Festival.
Feb. 13: NPR's Rob Kapilow, "What Makes It Great!" — The Incredible Music of the 20th Century — Cole Porter.
March and April plans will be announced at a later date.
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Bond ETFs Vs. Bonds: Which Are Better?
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Bonds are great. They offer safe, steady and predictable returns that have low correlations to stocks, making them an excellent way to balance higher-risk equities in a portfolio. But for the average investor, investing in individual bonds is next to impossible.
The Downsides Of Buying Bonds
Investing in single bonds is difficult for many investors, due to:
Poor market transparency. Bonds trade over-the-counter (OTC), meaning there's no single exchange on which they trade and no official agreed-upon price. The market is difficult to navigate, and investors may find they receive widely different prices from different brokers for the same bond.
High markups. Broker markups on bond prices can be substantial, especially for smaller investors; one U.S. government study found that markups on municipal bonds can soar as high as 2.5%. Between these markups, bid/ask spreads and the price of the bonds themselves, the cost to invest in individual bonds can add up—fast.
Poor liquidity. Bonds vary widely in their liquidity. Some bonds trade daily, while others only trade weekly, or even monthly—and that's when markets work perfectly. In times of market distress, some bonds may stop trading altogether.
What Are Bond ETFs?
A bond ETF is a bond investment in a stocklike wrapper. A bond ETF tracks an index of bonds and tries to replicate its returns. Though these instruments hold bonds and only bonds, they trade on an exchange like stocks, giving them some attractive equitylike properties.
The Differences Between Bonds And Bond ETFs
Bonds and bond ETFs may comprise the same basic investments, but exchange trading changes the behavior of bond ETFs in several important ways:
Bond ETFs do not mature. Individual bonds have a fixed, unchanging date at which they mature and investors get their money back; each day invested is one day closer to that result. Bond ETFs, however, maintain a constant maturity, which is the weighted average of the maturities of all the bonds in its portfolio. At any given time, some of these bonds may be expiring or exiting the age range that a bond ETF is targeting (e.g., a one- to three-year Treasury bond ETF kicks out all bonds with less than 12 months to maturity). As a result, additional bonds are continually being bought and sold to keep the portfolio's maturity constant.
Bond ETFs are liquid even in illiquid markets. The tradability of single bonds varies widely. Some issues trade daily, while others can trade as little as once a month. In times of stress, they may not trade at all. In contrast, bond ETFs trade on an exchange, meaning they can be bought and sold at any time during market hours, even if the underlying bonds themselves are not trading at the time.
This has very real effects. For example, one source found that, on average, high-yield corporate bonds trade fewer than half the days each month; meanwhile, the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG | B-64) trades millions of shares each day.
Bond ETFs pay out monthly income. One of bonds' biggest benefits is that they pay out interest to investors on a regular schedule. Usually, these coupon payments happen every six months. But bond ETFs hold many different issues at once, and at any given time, some bonds in the portfolio may be paying their coupon. As a result, bond ETFs usually pay interest monthly, rather than semiannually; the value of this payment can vary from month to month.
Bond ETF Advantages
Bond ETFs offer many advantages over single bonds:
Diversification. With an ETF, you can own hundreds, even thousands, of bonds in an index at a purchase price significantly less than what it would be to invest in each issue individually. It's institutional-style diversification at retail prices.
Ease of trading. No more wading through the opaque OTC markets to haggle over prices. You can buy and sell bond ETFs from your regular brokerage account with the click of a button.
Liquidity: Bond ETFs can be bought and sold at any time during the trading day, even in overseas or smaller markets where individual issues might trade much less frequently.
Price transparency. With a bond ETF, there's no more uncertainty over what your investment is worth: ETF prices are published publicly on the exchange and updated every 15 seconds during the trading day.
More frequent income. Instead of coupon payments every six months, bond ETFs usually pay interest monthly. Though the value may vary from month to month, monthly payments give bond ETF investors a more regular income stream to use or reinvest.
Bond ETF Drawbacks
There are two main downsides to bond ETFs.
You aren't guaranteed to get your money back. Because bond ETFs never mature, they never offer the same protection for your initial investment the way that individual bonds can. In other words, you aren't guaranteed to get your money back at some point in the future.
Recently, however, some ETF providers have begun issuing ETFs with specific maturity dates, which hold each bond until they expire and distribute the proceeds once all bonds have matured. Guggenheim, for example, offers 16 investment-grade and high-yield corporate bond target-maturity-date ETFs under its BulletShares brand, with maturities at different years (2017, 2018 and so on); iShares offers six target-maturity-date municipal ETFs. (Related: “I Heart BulletShares ETFs”)
You can lose money if interest rates rise. Interest rates change over time. When they do, the value of bonds may fall, and selling those bonds can lead to losing money on your initial investment. With individual bonds, you mitigate the risk by just holding on to a bond until maturity, when you'll be paid its full face value. Bond ETFs don't mature, however, so there's little you can do to avoid the sting of rising rates.
Which Are Better: Bonds Or Bond ETFs?
For most investors, buying individual bonds is out of the question. Even if it weren't, bond ETFs offer diversity, liquidity and price transparency that single bonds can't match, with the added benefits of intraday tradability and more frequent income payments. Bond ETFs do carry some additional risks, but all in all, they're probably a better and more accessible option for the average investor.
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The Physical Touch, A Language Of Love
By E. E. Kane
What role does tactile, physical touch play in a healthy, loving relationship? A very powerful one, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, author of the best-selling book The Five Love Languages. Physical touch is only one of the five ways people communicate and receive emotional love, and some people speak it more loudly than others.Physical Touch is HealthyThe benefits of physical touch have been extensively studied in the world of science and health. Findings show that therapeutic touch is successful in managing fibromyalgia, and reduces symptoms in Alzheimer patients. Skin-to-skin contact between babies and mothers is so beneficial to the baby’s health that it is now a common hospital practice for premature babies.The importance of physical touch in marriage may also play a medicinal role, since touch has been shown to reduce stress and relieve pain. A healthy relationship, which includes physical contact between a husband and wife, can be the most bonding, emotionally intimate experience in life.How to Detect Physical Touch as a Love LanguageOf all the love languages, physical touch is the easiest to detect. The following behaviors are good indications that physical touch is someone’s primary love language:* He enjoys hugging, cuddling and holding hands regularly.
* Physical touch is appreciated at any time of the day, and in public places.
* Light touch is used with family and close friends, like touching elbows, tousling hair, giving a gentle poke, and even kissing.
* Men may wrestle jostle, tickle or use other “aggressive” forms of touch.
How to Use Physical Touch in Your MarriageEvery instance of touch is meaningful to those who speak this love language. If a husband or wife goes out of their way to make physical contact with their spouse, it multiplies the result. A wife can greet her husband at the door when he comes home from work with a big hug. A husband can pass and touch his wife as he goes from one side of the house to the other. Even just sitting next to each other can make a difference to the spouse who feels loved this way. Each touch adds to feelings of love and security in the relationship.Everyone has his own level of comfort when it comes to physical touch. Even those who speak this love language vary in how much contact they need from day to day. It’s important for husbands and wives to talk openly about what they are comfortable with, and what they need. For instance, a wife might tell her husband, when he suddenly fondles her in the kitchen, it makes her feel like a plaything. Or a husband might tell his wife that he likes her hugs, but lingering hugs every five minutes make him feel smothered.Spouses who need physical touch, yet are constantly turned away, will feel rejected. Both husbands and wives will retreat emotionally and physically as a way to avoid additional rejection.
They will not continue to ask for physical touch, or make an effort, if they know there is a good chance of being turned away, or even made to feel ashamed of their efforts. No husband likes to be called a pervert, and no woman likes to be thought of as desperate or clingy.This little scenario puts the marriage on slippery ice. If one spouse has a huge need for affection, but he or she is not getting it from the other spouse, where will he turn? He might get some affection from children, family, or friends, but his emotional “love tank” (Dr. Chapman’s term) will not be filled. Without physical touch, that spouse is then extremely vulnerable to falling for someone else who will meet his needs.It is possible to protect a marriage from affairs. Husbands and wives may not speak the same love language, but they can learn. In fact, when one spouse begins to meet the physical needs of the other, something really wonderful happens – the needy spouse stops clamoring for affection. He or she feels fulfilled, energized in the relationship, and fully able to return love in ways the first spouse needs.Learning a Foreign Love Language
To those who do not require much affection, touching does not come naturally. The affection-challenged spouses need to make touching a mental priority, as though it is something to check off a list. As unromantic as that sounds, a focused goal of a certain number of touches per day will then turn into a habit, and will eventually be done without thinking.
That spouse will even come to enjoy and look forward to those little established rituals, whether it is cuddling while watching a movie, or taking the time for a passionate kiss before leaving for work.But don’t discount the little gestures. If one spouse walks through a room giving the other a wide berth, it says “I want to avoid you like the plague.” Just brushing against him or her is so easy, yet communicates a powerful message.Start with the following “vocabulary list” for touching:Light touch – Use these touches in passing or in public, or when there is no time for lingering touches. Brushing against each other, lightly running fingers over shoulders or an arm, or giving a peck on the cheek are all ways spouses can show they are still thinking of their love, even in a hurry. Stand next to each other at a party, with bodies touching casually – a hand on the back or at the elbow. A touch on the chin or the cheek will make a wife feel adored.Connecting touch – Hugging or touching each other along with conversation or just eye contact are just a few ways to connect. Holding hands is another form of staying connected while you are doing something else. Touching each other under the table (touching feet, knees, a hand on a leg) when you are with a group connects you while you are relating to others. Kissing, cuddling, snuggling – these are all ways to feel connected in a love relationship.
Companionship touch – Back rubs, foot rubs, playing with hair, or sitting in the other’s lap are all forms of touch that promote comfort and friendship. Intimate touch – This kind of touch is not restricted to the bedroom! A playful swat in the kitchen or a passionate kiss in the laundry room can inject new life into a physical relationship that has fallen into a rut. And within the bedroom, most men love for their wives to initiate sex, but for those men whose love language is physical touch, it’s the ultimate way for the wife to say “I love you and find you very attractive.”Cautions Spouses who do not naturally speak the physical touch love language should be cautioned that they are not exempt from sexual intimacy just because being physical is not their forte. Although many happy couples rank sex as less important than other things such as trust or companionship, it still acts as a gauge for the health of the relationship. A lack of sexual intimacy (less than ten times per year) is a red flag that other serious problems exist in the marriage. Couples with health issues or a history of sexual abuse will most likely need help from medical doctors and counselors to help them find ways to overcome those hurdles. A healthy relationship depends on good communication, and the same is true in the physical arena. Talking openly about physical touch in a marriage will help each spouse feel validated, and will help to promote understanding of motives and feelings. Are You Compatible With Your Man?
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By: eWeek Editors | November 05, 2001
By nearly every account, except that of Microsoft and the Department of Justice, the proposed settlement of their antitrust case falls far short of what the company's competitors and critics were hoping for when the landmark action began in 1998.
By nearly every account, except that of Microsoft and the Department of Justice, the proposed settlement of their antitrust case falls far short of what the companys competitors and critics were hoping for when the landmark action began in 1998.
If approved, few expect the deal to dramatically alter the competitive landscape for computer software, or give business or home users any substantial new choices. The 18 state attorneys general who originally joined with the DOJ to bring the case were still digesting the complex agreement on Friday, Nov. 2, with plans to report back to the court Tuesday, Nov. 6, on whether they will sign on or continue the action on their own.
Legal experts, meanwhile, were astonished at the DOJs willingness to give up hard-won legal ground. Robert Lande, a law professor and antitrust expert at the University of Baltimore, described the deal as a "capitulation."
"It looks like the government is giving them a slap on the wrist. I find that sad. It wont achieve any of the goals of the proceeding," Lande said.
An appeals court - upholding portions of a trial court ruling that found Microsoft guilty of monopolistic behavior - ruled in June that any actions taken against Microsoft must restore competition to the affected market, must deprive Microsoft of the "fruits of its illegal conduct" and must prevent Microsoft from engaging in similar tactics in the future, Lande said. On all counts, he said, the settlement fails.
Hillard Sterling, a generally pro-Microsoft attorney, said that under the terms of the proposed accord, the company would remain an "entrenched and dominant monopolist."
The end user probably wont see a slew of new products anytime soon, because "theres no incentive for [PC makers] to remove Microsoft products that are in demand," Sterling said.
Major PC makers - including Dell Computer, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard and IBM - declined to comment on the proposed settlement, as their executives digested the latest development. A Compaq Computer spokesman said the company didnt see that much would change as a result of the proposed settlement.
"Basically, we dont feel theres a big difference between where were standing today and where we were last week," said Roger Frizzell, a Compaq spokesman.
But Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, one of Microsofts biggest foes, said, "Todays agreement signals a retreat by the federal government and a defeat for consumers.
"The goal of fashioning antitrust remedies is simple: to ensure that the market is free from anticompetitive conduct," McNealy said. "Todays agreement - which is more narrow and less punitive than the settlement proposal rejected by the Department of Justice in March 2000 - simply reinforces the status quo, and will do nothing to restore competition and innovation in the marketplace."
Paul Cappuccio, general counsel of AOL Time Warner, gave the deal a thumbs down. "[The] proposed consent decree does too little to promote competition and protect consumers, and can too easily be evaded by a determined monopolist like Microsoft."
Microsoft and the DOJ obviously had a different take on the deal.
"We are completely satisfied with the result," said Charles James, assistant attorney general of the DOJs Antitrust Division. He said the proposed settlement has "significant benefits for consumers, and would "create significant change in the way Microsoft will deal with companies in a competitive industry."
"With the success of our products, there came a set of competition concerns," Microsofts CEO Steve Ballmer said. "The key was for us to work with the government on a settlement that would address those competition concerns and address them fully."
Thats a turnaround for Microsoft, which for nearly four years has vehemently denied the governments charges of monopolistic behavior.
However, it seemed clear from the proposed decree that the government finally acquiesced to Microsofts assertion that middleware code is inextricably bound into the OS - a claim that many critics have disputed.
Commingling Issue Fizzles
"We think the commingling issue is fully addressed," James said. "The fact that [Microsoft] code is there is not going to keep me awake at night."
During the trial, the government fought hard to prove that Microsoft could easily separate its Internet Explorer browser from the Windows OS and had tied them together to kill Netscape Communications Navigator browser. An appeals court largely ruled against this argument.
Under the five-year agreement, Microsoft would be allowed to keep the code of applications such as its streaming media player and instant messaging in its OS. But the company would have to share its closely held Application Programming Interfaces with developers of competing products. It would also have to share the APIs for its servers.
Brian Behlendorf, lead developer of the Apache Web Server and chief technology officer of CollabNet, a collaborative software development tools firm, said publicizing the server APIs "keeps them a little bit more honest, but I dont think it buys that much."
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The proposed settlement would also forbid Microsoft from retaliating against computer makers that add competing middleware to their PCs, and would require the company to license its OS to the top 20 PC manufacturers under uniform terms.
The pact would be overseen by a panel of three full-time monitors. This "Technical Committee" would work directly for the DOJ but be paid by Microsoft. Each monitor would be an "expert in software design and programming." The panel would have full access to Microsofts source code and be the primary conduit for complaints from third parties.
One executive, who requested anonymity, scoffed at the role of the technical panel: "They are the canary in the coal mine. Their sole function is to chirp if something goes wrong." After that, the DOJ must investigate and build a case for enforcement.
Such provisions have legal experts and competitors doubting that Microsoft would ever follow such an agreement in good faith. "Microsoft is a truck with engines running - ready to blow through every loophole in the decree," Sterling said.
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Brock Lesnar and R-Truth RAW Segment Completely ‘Unscripted’
WWE Champion Brock Lesnar appeared on the January 13th episode of RAW alongside his ‘advocate’ Paul Heyman for a promo segment. During said promo segment then 24/7 Champion R-Truth appeared and cut a humorous promo, which involved threatening to eliminate Paul Heyman from the Royal Rumble match.
WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry recently revealed that the segment between the two Superstars was completely ‘unscripted.’ Henry said that the idea was to have Brock not ‘mentally prepared’ for the segment so that he would react naturally.
“the business of that segment was to get Brock Lesnar to crack”
Henry appeared on a recent episode of Busted Open Radio alongside Bully Ray, who said “Mark. Let’s pull back the curtain a little bit okay? Because obviously the ‘business’ of that segment was to entertain on TV, but you know damn well backstage that the business of that segment was to get Brock to crack.” Henry then confirmed that the entire section with R-Truth appearing was completely unscripted: “Yes. And from what I’m understanding. Brock didn’t even know that was going to happen. It was completely kayfabe. That’s what I’m getting.”
“I never seen Brock Lesnar laugh that much since I’ve known him”
Henry also confirmed that his sources for the story were completely reliable. “It was was designed for Brock not to me mentally prepared to block it. And it worked because I never seen Brock laugh that much since I’ve known him.”
“the more that I saw Brock’s reaction? I realised it was true.”
Both Bully and Henry both claimed that Brock Lesnar has huge respect for Truth, as he is a veteran in the business. Therefore he would not have been ‘angry’ that Truth was trying to make him laugh live on television. It was also then revealed by Henry that Brock also had no idea that Truth would even be appearing for the segment. “This was purely Heyman and Truth” Henry revealed. “When I heard it, I was like, No, no. [But] like the more that I saw Brock’s reaction? I realised it was true. That’s the only way that he could break like that. There was no acting. Brock was reacting. And it was absolutely beautiful.”
It’s interesting that with the heavily scripted natured of WWE programming that such a big segment would be so ‘loose’ in structure. Although Henry did not reveal his source at WWE he is still a major name behind the scenes, so it is likely that he would have reliable contacts. We do not know at this time if the ‘unscripted’ style will be used with Brock going forward, or if it was just purely used as an entertaining aside for RAW heading into the Royal Rumble.
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MORIA ”PSY.”
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Obvious fans of Lord of the Rings and J.R.R Tolkien, Moria (Middle-Earth, yeah I’m a J.R.R Tolkien nerd myself), deliver some searing thrash metal that has some groove to it. The vocals come through with brutality but there is a ton of melody and rhythm within the music. Take for instance the opening track, “Pusta Zemlya”, there are these thick guitar riffs and death metal growls; then interludes in the middle with something you would more likely hear from a band like Muse. It’s something that definitely makes you notice and want to go back and listen to it again; the female vocals are a nice to touch that gives it more atmosphere as well.
The spacey track “Pravoe Delo” is also something that you would not expect from Moriya, after hearing the first couple of tracks, but it’s also a nice change to the album. With a chunky bass line from Yegor and nice guitar lead, the song comes together perfectly with Oleg’s vocals. “Hto Ti” is a heavy track with chugging riffs and again Oleg’s vocals bring enough energy that you will be pounding your fist in the air along with it.
“Nemae Sil” has some incredible drum work from Volodymyr, not being all too present on the album until now; it’s nice to hear him more in the forefront on this track. “Illyuzornyi Mir” comes out you at full speed with a killer guitar solo from Oleg. Overall this is a really well done album that has enough variety and holds the kind of energy that will keep fans listening to it again and again!
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EY announces winners of the global Better begins with you program
LONDON, 16 JANUARY 2020. EY announces the 2019 winners of the peer-based global recognition program, Better begins with you.
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Exceptional EY teams honored for building a better working world
Winners include teams utilizing blockchain and helping entrepreneurs, nonprofits and governments
EY announces the 2019 winners of the peer-based global recognition program, Better begins with you. Now in its fifth year, Better begins with you celebrates outstanding EY people and teams who have found inspiring and impactful ways to bring their organization’s purpose – building a better working world – to life.
EY people nominate individuals and teams in four award categories, and a global winner is selected from each category. The winners, who identify a need and proactively seek out ways to address it, are awarded a share of a US$1m fund to invest and further develop the initiatives for which they are being recognized. The award categories include driving exceptional client service, strengthening our communities, pursuing innovation and exemplifying the highest performing teams.
Carmine Di Sibio, EY Global Chairman and CEO, says:
“The winning teams are great examples of EY people who have demonstrated a real commitment to building a better working world. It’s great to see the unique and impactful ways these teams have worked together to make a difference, whether that’s making the most of innovative technologies like blockchain, helping entrepreneurs and a nonprofit gain valuable insights or providing results for clients through the most challenging of circumstances. I’m excited to see each of the winning teams scale their approaches so they can continue to make a lasting impact on the people and communities they serve.”
Driving exceptional client service: Cedric Teyssen, a senior consultant (Ernst & Young Advisory Services CVBA) and Ruben Schoenmaekers, a lawyer (Ernst & Young Tax Consultants CVBA), went beyond their everyday responsibilities to connect with entrepreneurs in Belgium by running friendly, informal and free-of-charge sessions where founders could talk to Ruben or Cedric to answer their most pressing questions.
Strengthening our communities: FSO Senior Consultant Adrienn Demeter (EY Business Solutions Pty Ltd.) and FSO Consultant Timothy Higgins (Ernst & Young Services Ltd.) worked with a nonprofit organization in Kenya to conduct data analytics and uncover valuable insights into their work. Working out of the UK and Australia, Adrienn and Timothy use their own personal time to provide strategic and technical experience to help the organization make smarter, more strategic use of their limited resources.
Pursuing innovation: The EY Innovation team in Canada collaborated with Canadian Blood Services (CBS) to examine its processes to find new opportunities to drive efficiencies and better serve donors and partners. The team utilized a blockchain solution to improve transparency, driving potential improvements in efficiency and cost savings, as well as better outcomes for patients.
Exemplifying the highest performing teams: A multidiscipline team of EY professionals worked through myriad challenges to create a brighter future for Puerto Rico. The team successfully transformed the Puerto Rican Government’s annual budget process to instill greater transparency and controls than ever before.
Trent Henry, EY Global Vice Chair – Talent, says:
“Each and every one of our Better begins with you global winners represent the very best of who we are at EY, by bringing our purpose of building a better working world to life. The program celebrates EY people for their exceptional achievements, and it also tells a story about the incredible impact the work of EY people has on the world around them. A huge congratulations to all the global winners, and the finalists too.”
Nearly 50 Better begins with you global finalists and leadership from across EY met in Singapore in November 2019 for an inspirational daytime celebration that included engaging speakers, tours of the city’s landmarks and iconic cuisine and an evening gala dinner where the four global winners were announced.
Learn more about the Better begins with you program and the 2019 global winners and global finalists here.
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CONNECTING GLOBAL COMMUNITIES
Connecting a global community around uniting ideas and values through narratives and experiences - the J&J heritage museum and responsive website act as one entity with two access points
I led the design for multiple web-based, mobile and physical experiences for Johnson & Johnson’s onsite and online heritage museum. I collaborated with a core team of designers, PM, content strategists, and developers, as well as client-side teams of marketing, strategy and IT.
The project required a holistic approach to designing mobile web apps that scaled up all the way to large-scale digital exhibits with custom hardware and multi-user, multi-screen interaction.
EXPERIENCE GOALS
Connect diverse global communities of J&J (Johnson & Johnson) employees through the company’s 150 years of history and core values.
The museum features stories, artifacts, and live visualizations through two entry points; A historical museum building located at the global headquarters in New Jersey and a responsive website that is open to the public and serves the very same content through rich experiences and narratives.
Designing and deploying a website with dynamic content alongside a set of digital exhibits and installations that share the same interaction models and draw from the same CMS.
Working with a corporate client, adhering IT protocols, brand, and legal guidelines.
Working with a remote developers team.
Timeline - mobile web and multi-user touch table
I collaborated with a cross-functional team of designers PM and a tech lead. Additionally, I supported an agile development team throughout production and launch. I also worked closely with multiple legal and IT teams at J&J to ensure compliance with their corporate guidelines for testing, implementation, and security.
Deliverables: UX research and strategy, flow and user journey maps, content strategy, information architecture, wireframes, feature sets and motion samples, prototyping and user testing.
I conducted a research phase to synthesize the content requirements and user data. Understanding users interests and catalysts was critical to creating a sense of emotional connection and inclusion for J&J employees worldwide.
The research findings guided design decisions as well as content strategy, the tone of voice and visual presentation.
I paid attention to usage patterns of mobile web that allowed the digital museum to feature deeper content and rich narratives.
Archives - web and onsite touch screens
THE DIGITAL MUSEUM – WEB EXPERIENCE
The web-museum had to be integrated into the ecosystem of the J&J brand and web properties. Early design discovery featured a unique visual approach to navigation and content presentation. When moving into production the requirement was for more consistency with the main J&J website and brand. The solution was a hybrid approach, where site-wide navigation elements are consistent with the J&J guidelines and experiential areas of the site such as the timeline and interactive map utilize custom UI patterns and content delivery that align with their onsite counterparts.
Content Model
Online Museum - sitemap, task flows, and search functionality
Homepage early sketches
GLOBAL COMMUNITY – CASE STUDY
One of the challenging pieces of the project was the global community experience. It spans from mobile web to a multi-user, spatial exhibit. All instances share the same core experience, navigation, and content.
Global Community is an interactive group experience that illustrates the worldwide reach of J&J by highlighting the connections between various locations, initiatives, and communities.
The onsite experience combines five individual touchscreens, a world map projection, and a curved ultra-wide screen. Visitors browse curated video narratives and queue their selection to play on the large screen for a cinematic presentation.
Wireframes - platforms integration
The web experience parallels the onsite experience and features the same essential navigation and video content in a responsive web context.
Design for responsive web (3 breakpoints) and a multi-user physical setup (‘the 4th breakpoint’)
Guide user attention between multiple focal points in a spatial setup
Create a sense of a shared connection between multiple users
USER FEEDBACK CHALLENGE
When testing the physical exhibit setup it was evident that users are lacking context and feedback to connect their individual interaction to other users and the large cinematic screen. Part of the challenge was about directing attention from a personal screen to a large overhead screen and an understanding of the process of sending video content to the large screen.
The initial solution was based on notification similar to typical mobile UI pattern to inform users about other uses actions and content to be played on the large screen.
This solution improved awareness but was lacking the context of the environment and the connection to the other screens. I then looked into adding literal animation that flows from the individual screen through the world map projection and into the cinematic screen. This enticed uses to track this animation and have clear feedback on the results of their actions and where they are displayed.
Animation and iconography proved to be easier and clearer than any verbal cue and provided the necessary spatial awareness.
FINAL DESIGN
The core experience and content had to retain across all devices and screen sizes, including large touch screens and touch tables. All the different instances and break-points are based on the same CMS and feature identical content across all platforms.
Some design patterns were modified for the large installation screens to accommodate specific physical traits of touch-interaction at these scales, and for multi-screen, multi-user scenarios.
Exhibition and Media Design: Gallagher & Associates
Software Developer: Synechron
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Aurorxaa
“Just here for fun
Those are the words in the About section of Aurorxaa’s YouTube profile.
We know we her as Aurorxaa, but the rest of the world knows her as Josie. She likes to stream on Twitch, showing off her bubbly personality. Otherwise, she is messing around on Spapchat and Instagram. Aurorxaa has a penchant for filters and uses them to find a nice balance between sexiness and young spunk.
Let’s face it, this Russian-Danish Australian hottie is not playing around (or maybe she is). Aurorxaa likes to play a plethora of games that range from Monopoly to Call of Duty to Overwatch.
While she plays a variety of games, Aurorxaa has been a bit low on the content. She doesn’t have a lot of uploads on her Twitch account and none on her YouTube. However, she does sporadically log onto Twitch. When that happens, she gets quite the following.
While she is still working on growing her Twitch audience, she also accepts payments through PayPal and Ko-fi. She uses these payments to buy costumes that she poses in for her social media followers.
One thing that endears people to Josie is her humble demeanor. She acts very naive and innocent. Combined with the fact that she’s a ripe 19, her “come chat” pleas after her videos get a decent amount of viewers.
Aurorxxa Pictures
At 19, Auroxxa has a youthful approach to her pictures. She captures herself doing what those in their twilight teen years do best, capture selfies and put dog ears on them. However, she does leave us some flirty shots. For instance, anyone else notice the strategic placement of those PlayStation controllers? Yeah, I rest my case!
For 19-year-old who solicits money on the internet, Aurorxxa knows what she’s doing. She works her innocence and pouts her eyes in hopes that you Ko-fi up money. And hey, you hope she coughs some stuff up, too. So, who knows? It could be a win-win for everyone!
With that being said, Aurorxxa doesn’t have much of a social media presence yet. She seems to be taking the slow road to rolling out her career. However, she is sure to become a major sensation in the gaming world. After all, she is a major babe. Check out some of the hottest photos of Aurorxxa that you will find on the internet!
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Aurorxxa doesn’t have many videos. The few she does have is all about the game play. She’s more about trying to win people over with her bubbly personality and getting people to buy her a Ko-fi. While Aurorxxa is still new, she will grow into her personality. There are big things on the horizon for her. Being so young, she will only get hotter. This wlil be especially true when she finds her voice.
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601.9906 Processed grapefruit juice products; standards.—
(1) The grapefruit juice products to which this section applies shall include canned grapefruit juice, chilled grapefruit juice, frozen concentrated grapefruit juice, concentrated grapefruit juice for manufacturing, and such other grapefruit juice products as the commission may by rule prescribe which may be consumed as juice or used to produce other grapefruit juice products which may be consumed as juice.
(2) This section shall not apply to any grapefruit juice products to which have been added readily detectable quantities of one or more readily detectable ingredients, which the commission shall by rule specify, which ingredients are impermissible in the grapefruit juice products described in subsection (1) but are appropriate for use in one or more other products which are not consumed as juice, such as diluted fruit juice beverages or beverage bases used to produce diluted fruit juice beverages.
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(4) The commission shall by rule prescribe quality standards for grapefruit juice products. Such standards shall be designed to further the acceptance and consumption of the grapefruit juice products so regulated.
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Dycom Industries Inc (DY) Q3 2021 Earnings Call Transcript
DY earnings call for the period ending October 24, 2020.
Dycom Industries Inc (NYSE:DY)
Nov 24, 2020, 9:00 a.m. ET
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the Dycom Industries, Inc. Q3 2021 Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]
There will be a brief pause as I transition the call to your host, Mr. Steve Nielsen. Please go ahead, sir.
Steven E. Nielsen -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone. I'd like to thank you for attending this conference call to review our third quarter fiscal 2021 results.
Going to Slide 2. During this call, we will be referring to a slide presentation which can be found on our website's Investor Center main page. Relevant slides will be identified by number throughout our presentation. Today, we have on the call, Drew DeFerrari, our Chief Financial Officer; and Ryan Urness, our General Counsel.
Now I will turn the call over to Ryan Urness.
Ryan F. Urness -- Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Thank you, Steve. The statements made during this call may be forward-looking in nature and are provided pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include all comments reflecting our expectations, assumptions or beliefs about future events or performance that do not relate solely to historical periods.
Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties which may cause actual results to differ materially from our current projections, including those risks described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed March 2, 2020, and our other filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. Steve?
Thanks, Ryan. Now moving to Slide 4 and a review of our third quarter results. As we review our results, please note that in our comments today and in the accompanying slides, we referenced certain non-GAAP measures. We refer you to the quarterly report section of our website for a reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to their corresponding GAAP measures.
To begin, I want to express my sincere hope that everyone listening to this call as well as their families are healthy and safe. We are living in truly unprecedented and trying times for our country. I could not be prouder of our employees as they continue to serve our customers with real fortitude in difficult times. They have my thanks.
Now for the quarter, revenue was $810.3 million, a decrease of 8.4%. Organic revenue excluding $8.9 million of storm restoration services in the quarter declined 9.4%. As we deployed 1 gigabit wireline networks, wireless/wireline converged networks and wireless networks, this quarter reflected an increase in demand from one of our top five customers.
Gross margins were 18.7% of revenue, reflecting solid overall performance, offset in part by the continued impacts of the complexity of a large customer program. General and administrative expenses were 7.7% reflecting tight cost controls and all of these factors produced adjusted EBITDA of $92.8 million, or 11.5% of revenue and adjusted diluted earnings per share of $1.06 compared to $0.88 in the year ago quarter.
Liquidity was strong as cash and availability under our credit facility was $587.1 million, this amount represents our highest level of liquidity ever. Finally, we made significant progress in reducing net leverage as notional net debt declined $110 million during the quarter to $558.7 million, a reduction of over $467 million in just the last four quarters.
Now going to Slide 5. Today, major industry participants are constructing or upgrading significant wireline networks across broad sections of the country. These wireline networks are generally designed to provision 1 gigabit network speeds to individual consumers and businesses, either directly or wirelessly using 5G technologies. Additional industry participants have recently stated their belief that a single high-capacity fiber network can most cost-effectively deliver services to both consumers and businesses, enabling multiple revenue streams from a single investment. This view appears to be increasing the appetite for fiber deployments and we believe that the industry effort to deploy high capacity fiber networks continues to meaningfully broaden our set of opportunities as we look forward to calendar 2021.
Access to high capacity telecommunications has become increasingly crucial to society in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in rural America. The FCC RDOF auction currently under way reflects the view of some that the needs of work from home, telemedicine, distance learning and other newly essential applications require dramatically increased rural network investment. We are providing program management, planning, engineering and design, aerial, underground and wireless construction and fulfillment services for 1 gigabit deployments.
These services are being provided across the country in dozens of metropolitan areas to several customers, including customers with stated aspirations to initiate broad fiber deployments, as well as customers who appear to be contemplating the resumption of broad deployments and with whom current activity is increasing. These deployments include networks consisting entirely of wired network elements as well as converged wireless/wireline multiuse networks.
Potential fiber network deployment opportunities are increasing in rural America as new industry participants respond to emerging societal incentives. Our ability to provide integrated planning, engineering and design, procurement and construction and maintenance services is of particular value to several industry participants. Near-term macroeconomic effects and uncertainty may influence some customer plans. Customers continue to be focused on the possible macroeconomic effects of the pandemic on their business, with particular focus on small and medium business dislocations and overall consumer confidence and creditworthiness.
We see some uncertainty in the overall municipal environment as authorities continue to manage the general effects of the pandemic on permitting and inspection processes, and the impact of potential business limitations due to the recent nationwide increase in COVID-19 infections. Overall, we remain confident that our scale and our financial strength position us well to deliver valuable service to our customers.
Moving to Slide 6. Despite the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the overall economy, we performed well. During the quarter, we experienced increased demand from one of our top five customers. Organic revenue decreased 9.4%. Our top five customers combined produced 71.6% of revenue, decreasing 15.4% organically, while all other customers increased 11.1% organically. Verizon was our largest customer at 17.9% of total revenue or $144.8 million.
Revenue from Comcast was $143.6 million, or 17.7% of revenue. Comcast was Dycom's second largest customer and grew 9% organically. Lumen, formerly known as CenturyLink was our third largest customer at 16.6% of revenue or $134.4 million. AT&T was our fourth largest customer at $118.9 million or 14.7% of revenue. And finally, revenue from Windstream was $38.9 million or 4.8% of revenue. Windstream was our fifth largest customer.
This is the seventh consecutive quarter where all of our other customers in aggregate, excluding the top five customers have grown organically. Of note, fiber construction revenue from electric utilities exceeded $31 million in the quarter, approaching just less than 4% of total revenue. We have extended our geographic reach and expanded our program management and network planning services. In fact, over the last several years, we have meaningfully increased a long-term value of our maintenance and operations business, a trend which we believe will parallel our deployment of 1 gigabit wireline, direct and wireless/wireline converged networks as those deployments dramatically increase the amount of outside plant network that must be extended and maintained.
Now going to Slide 7. Backlog at the end of the third quarter was $5.412 billion versus $6.441 billion at the end of the July 2020 quarter, declining approximately $1 billion. Of this backlog, approximately $2.339 billion is expected to be completed in the next 12 months. The decline in backlog largely reflects further communications during this quarter, regarding the reprioritization and rescoping of the components of a large program and our assessment of the expected pace of another component of the same program.
For AT&T, we were awarded maintenance service agreements in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Also from AT&T allocating services agreement for Georgia for Frontier Engineering and Construction Services project in New York and Rural Fiber Services agreements in Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Mississippi. Headcount increased during the quarter to 14,154. In addition, subsequent to the end of the third quarter, we executed contracts that resulted in our booking in excess of $740 million of backlog. These bookings will be incorporated in our fourth quarter calculation.
Now I will turn the call over to Drew for his financial review and outlook.
Andrew DeFerrari -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Steve and good morning everyone. Going to Slide 8. Contract revenues for Q3 were $810.3 million and organic revenue declined 9.4% for the quarter. Storm work performed in Q3 '21 was $8.9 million compared to none in Q3 '20. Adjusted EBITDA was $92.8 million, or 11.5% of revenue, reflecting 108 basis point improvement over Q3 '20. Gross margins were at 18.7% in Q3 and increased 68 basis points from Q3 '20.
Compared to our expectations for the quarter, gross margins were approximately 100 basis points below the midpoint, this variance reflected impacts from customers whose capital expenditures were weighted toward the front half of the calendar year, including a large customer program, offset in part by improvements across the services performed for several of our top customers.
G&A expense improved 17 basis points compared to Q3 '20. Non-GAAP adjusted EPS was $1.06 in Q3 '21, compared to $0.88 in Q3 '20. The increase resulted from higher adjusted EBITDA, lower depreciation and interest expense, and higher other income from asset sales, offset in part by higher income tax expense.
Now going to Slide 9. Our balance sheet and financial position remains solid. Over the past four quarters, we have reduced notional net debt by $467.4 million, included in this decline was a $110.1 million reduction in Q3 from solid free cash flow. We ended the quarter with $12 million of cash and equivalents, $85 million of revolver borrowings, $427.5 million of term loans, and $58.3 million principal amount of convertible notes outstanding.
As of Q3, our liquidity was strong at $587.1 million. Cash flows from operations were robust at $111.9 million, bringing our year-to-date operating cash flow to $279.4 million from prudent working capital management. The combined DSOs of accounts receivable and net contract assets was at 127 days, which was in line with Q3 '20.
Capital expenditures were $3.5 million during Q3, net of disposal proceeds and gross capex was $9.4 million. For the full fiscal year 2021, we expect net capex to range from $45 million to $55 million, which is a $15 million reduction from our prior outlook. In summary, we continue to maintain a strong balance sheet and strong liquidity.
Going to Slide 10. For Q4 2021, which includes an additional week of operations due to the company's 52 to 53-week fiscal year, the company expects modestly lower contract revenues with margins that range from in-line to modestly higher as compared to Q4 2020. The company believes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on it's operating results, cash flows and financial condition is uncertain, unpredictable and could affect it's ability to achieve these expected financial results.
Now I will turn the call back to Steve.
Thanks, Drew. Moving to Slide 11. Within a challenged economy, we experienced solid end market activity and capitalized on our significant strengths. First and foremost, we maintained strong customer presence throughout our markets. Our extensive market presence has allowed us to be at the forefront of evolving industry opportunities. Fiber deployments enabling new wireless technologies are under way in many regions of the country. Telephone companies are deploying fiber to the home to enable 1 gigabit high-speed connections.
Cable operators are deploying fiber to small and medium businesses and enterprises. A portion of these deployments are in anticipation of the customer sales process. Deployments to expand capacity as well as new build opportunities are under way. Dramatically increased speeds to consumers are being provisioned and consumer data usage is growing, particularly upstream. Customers are consolidating supply chains, creating opportunities for market share growth and increasing the long-term value of our maintenance and operations business.
In addition, we are increasingly providing integrated planning, engineering and design, procurement and construction and maintenance services for wired and converged wireless/wireline networks. As our nation and industry continue to contend with the COVID-19 pandemic, we remain encouraged that our major customers are committed to multiyear capital spending initiatives. We are confident in our strategies, the prospects for our company, the capabilities of our dedicated employees and the experience of our management team as we navigate challenging times.
Now, operator, we will open the call for questions.
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Adam Thalhimer with Thompson, Davis. Your line is now open.
Adam Thalhimer -- Thompson, Davis -- Analyst
Hey. Good morning, Steven and Drew.
Good morning, Adam.
So the biggest kind of question I've gotten this morning is just on the backlog. And I'm curious, if the $740 million just represents renewals that maybe got pushed a couple of weeks or if there is some larger programs in that number?
So Adam, I mean, we'll obviously give you the full readout on that incremental backlog subsequent to that in this quarter on the next call, but it was renewals. So, certainly with respect to the next 12 months in particular, it had an impact on the calculation.
Okay. And then I guess related to that Steve, what can you tell us about the bidding environment out there and kind of how that might relate to year-end backlog?
I think I would say generally this year, there has been plenty of opportunity out there. The processes have proceeded a little bit more slowly because I think of the impacts of the pandemic, but we are encouraged with what we're seeing and hope we have more to talk about in the future.
All right. And then last question, I wanted to ask about customer number six, it was $20 million in revenue this quarter, up from $8 million last quarter. I am curious, I think the peak for that customer was more like $50 million in a quarter. So I'm curious where revenue from that customer might be going. And then also how the incumbents might react?
Yeah. I guess, Adam, what I would tell you is, as we said in the comments they're clearly -- we're clearly encouraged that there are some customers that are appearing -- that appear to be contemplating the resumption of broad deployments and that we see current activity increasing with those customers. So it's not just that customer. There is -- there are others. So I think, in general, we're encouraged with developments around fiber to the home.
Good, Steve. I'll turn it over. Thank you.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Brent Thielman with DA Davidson. Your line is now open.
Brent Thielman -- DA Davidson -- Analyst
Hey. Great. Thanks. Good morning, Steve.
Good morning, Brent.
Maybe just on the fourth quarter kind of qualitative outlook, the comment about margins in line or slightly ahead from last year. Steve still implies a pretty steep drop from what you've been doing in the last couple of quarters. I understand there's some seasonality in there, but anything else we ought to be considering in that outlook?
Sure. So I think, if you look at the last two January quarters they weren't anything to right home about so we want to make sure that we're taking in our view that, that has had history as part of the outlook. I think the other thing I would say, and who knows where this goes, but we are seeing more pandemic or COVID-19 related impact on the business, not so much around business limitations, but just the number of employees that are indirectly or directly impacted. We hope we're turning the corner there. We're encouraged by the vaccine and the therapeutics. But we just want to make sure that given the record number of cases that we're seeing right now that we -- reflect that consideration and how we're looking at this quarter.
Got it. Okay. And then, in some of the issues with permitting approval slowness at a local level, at a municipal level, key inroads there you've seen processes evolve little more quickly. I'm just curious how much of the effect, that's having on the business right now?
Sure. I think there has been a year almost. Hard to say at almost a year-long evolution in the number of processes that have gone from analog to digital to things that can be done online rather than in person. I don't think anything in particular to call out recently, I just think that the infections unlike the last two flare, the initial flare up and then the one over the summer are very broadly distributed geographically. So we're just reflecting that in the near-term outlook.
Okay. And any updated thoughts on, just the ability to work down DSOs for me here, I know there is still above where you'd like them to be. Just curious on your thoughts there?
Yeah, Brian. I think what I would tell is, look, we're encouraged. If you look at the trailing four quarters October, call it, $470 million of operating cash flow. In the current quarter, we were able to get the working capital tied up in a large customer program down a little better than $40 million. So I think we'll continue to work hard over the next year to get back to more normal levels across all of the working capital.
Okay. Great. Thank you, guys.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Sean Eastman with KeyBanc Capital. Your line is now open.
Sean Eastman -- KeyBanc Capital -- Analyst
Hi, Team. Thanks for taking my questions.
Hey, Sean.
Hey, guys. Could you provide a little more color on the adjustment to backlog in the quarter. I'm just curious what's happening under the hood around your estimates in there?
So Sean, we've talked now -- it seems longer, but it's been about two years that we've been talking about the evolution around objectives and priorities and a large customer program. And so we received some new communications in the quarter that affected the reprioritization of one component of the program that caused us to assess the realizability of the backlog. There were some scope adjustments for another component. And then a third component where the run rates currently are just not those that left us comfortable with the prior estimates on the backlog. Backlog and estimate, there is a number of methodologies, we used to assess it, and estimate it and based on the new communications, we got in the quarter, that's really what triggered.
Okay. Got you. And just higher level, I mean what is the message around the growth trajectory in the business. I think, I'm just trying to look at how the backlog look this quarter relative to the qualitative commentary remaining very firm and strong around expanding opportunities. So if you could just help us from a high level -- understand how to put those two things together? And just try to understand how the growth trajectory is looking over the next year or two, that would be really helpful, Steve.
Yeah, Sean. And I think we've covered this in prior calls. So 70% to 75% of the revenue in any given quarter typically come from master service agreements. Those are subject to a calculation methodology, where we take the trailing 12 months revenue. We take that times the number of months remaining and that's the backlog, right. So it's a backward looking estimate. So even as activity may pick up, there will be a period of time where that does not yet fully reflected in backlog. And the same way when you have a couple of customers like we did this quarter that in the near term we're down sequentially and down year-over-year that will cause at long term backlog calculation to be revalued.
So, yeah, as I always say over an intermediate to long period of time backlog I think is broadly consistent with the growth profile of the company and the scale of the company. From quarter-to-quarter, it's subject to timing. And in a different year, the awards that we got subsequent to the end of the quarter and a non-pandemic year they might very well have happened in October and then it would have been a different number. So there's always timing issues.
Okay. Fair enough. If I can sneak one last one in. I'm just curious how you think about, but assuming you guys do grow next year, the year after, how we should think about the operating leverage in the business? I think, clearly a strange operating environment this year, but at the same time, you've talked recently about some cut recently about some cost measures and efficiency initiatives being accelerated. So just pulling that together, trying to think about the operating leverage in the business would be helpful discussion?
Yeah, Sean. I think as we've always said, when we have growth that's broadly distributed across a number of customers that's helpful with respect to operating leverage. When we have growth that's inside an established footprint we get good operating leverage. And I think as we talked about in the comments, we have customers that we're working for now that are looking to expand programs and so that's helpful to operating leverage.
I think the other thing to your comment about this year, if you think about the impact of this large customer program pull that out of the business. As we've commented before, this is little better than average year and I think given all what's going on in the business, having that as a foundation looking forward is encouraging. Now no guarantees, we're going to work hard to make it happen. But we are looking ahead from a strong financial base and an encouraging outlook.
Helpful. Thanks very much for the time.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Eric Luebchow with Wells Fargo. Your line is now open.
Eric Luebchow -- Wells Fargo -- Analyst
Great. Thanks for taking the questions. Steve, can you talk about the wireless business this quarter kind of the percent of revenue and the growth rate? And then now looking out whether you see opportunities going into next year and wireless with the 5G upgrade cycle? And related to that, have you seen a growing backlog of business for fiber backhaul and front-haul, which I believe it's recorded as wireline, but does generally support wireless applications?
Sure. So with respect to wireless, it was a slower quarter. So Drew keep me straight, it represented about just over 6% of the business. And I think we talked about that on the August call, Eric, that with the C-band auction to commence shortly, I think all of the carriers are trying to incorporate new spectrum availability into their planning cycles. So that's intermediate to long-term, good. The wireless business has always been a function of deploying new spectrum. We certainly had a great period of growth as FirstNet spectrum got deployed for example by AT&T. So I just think that we're seeing that preparation.
And then with respect to 5G, I think we continue to see lots of fiber deployments small cell deployments. I think continued commitment to deploying more small cells that will support 5G spectrum. And so I don't know that we have anything new recently on that.
Great. Thanks for that. And then just one more for me. I guess on the cable side, nice to see Comcast pick up in the quarter. Do you have a pretty good pipeline as you look forward with them doing full duplex DOCSIS, which I believe requires kind of more fiber related spend? And then any notable trends from any of the other cable players although Comcast in terms of kind of network upgrade paths from here? Thanks.
So, I think clearly all the cable operators are thinking about the best way to continue to provision, the growth on network traffic and made just really amazing. I think the average consumer took something like just under 400 gigabytes a month, which is up, call it 40% year-over-year, upstream traffic latest data that I've seen was up about 40%, which was actually the highest rate of growth this calendar year.
And so I think all of the operators are thinking through, whether it's duplex or extended spectrum or just additional node split that they're creating more capability. It was a great subscriber quarter for cable operators and the phone companies, everybody is growing high-speed connections. In fact, I think it was -- I just read one of the smaller cable operators was at a conference last week and said when they offered 1 gig -- or 1 gig service was offered about 40% of people signing up took that speed tier. So I think all of that is helpful around the cable business.
I think the other development that we'll have to see, is this RDOF auction is under way is that all the cable operators are talking about expanding the number of homes that they pass with high capability networks and that's also helpful going forward also.
Okay. Thanks, Steve.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Alex Rygiel with B. Riley. Your line is now open.
Alex Rygiel -- B. Riley -- Analyst
Thank you. Good morning, Steve and Drew.
Hey, Alex.
New backlog awards after the quarter close were $740 million. What was the mix of that between the next 12 months and total backlog?
I mean, Alex, we just got the awards and that's part of our normal quarterly analytic process. So we know the total value they were renewals. So you can imagine that divided by some estimated duration and so a good portion of it, but not out of line with the rest of the book of business.
Maybe to ask that question in another way. Do you think you're MSA backlog as of today, sort of the day or two before Thanksgiving is flat down or up versus sort of exactly a year ago?
Alex, I don't have the analytics in front of me to show that I would say that activity has been good. I think we're encouraged about the opportunities that we're seeing. I think we've said that this year has been a little bit slower to get things concluded. I think that's just up an effect of the pandemic. So I'd like to answer, but I'm not sure that I could with any rigor. I mean we don't -- we feel comfortable with the opportunities in the business at the moment.
And from your historical experiences when customers consider the resumption of investment, how important is sort of the flip of the new calendar year into a lot of their decision processes?
Yeah. So once again, speaking historically, these are, we work for very large companies, they go through a budget process that often starts mid-summer, concludes right around now or first week of December. And typically for large initiations you begin to get some visibility in the fourth quarter. And then as they get budget approvals, then they move strongly starting the beginning of the year with consideration for the fact that you have holidays and you've got weather, and you've got those other things that normally impact first couple months of the year. But there can be, what I would call a gathering phase where as they initiate new strategies or resume strategies that they get ready for it in the back half of the year and execute the next year.
It's helpful. Thank you.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Noelle Dilts with Stifel. Your line is now open.
Noelle Dilts -- Stifel -- Analyst
Thanks. Good morning and hope you all are staying healthy.
Yeah. We are Noelle. Thank you.
Great. So my first question, I just wanted to touch on the $15 million reduction in capex relative to your previous expectations. I'm just curious, if that's more reflective of how you're thinking about activity levels over the medium term or if there is sort of a shift in how you're utilizing and thinking about your current assets? Thanks.
Go ahead, Drew.
Yeah. Noelle, so year-to-date, we've spent just under $25 million. And so in the quarter, obviously, is a little bit less than we had been running. So as we looked out the Q4, we've got some new awards that are there that we're spending on and some other normal replacements as well. So nothing unusual there.
Okay. And then circling back to your large customer program. Earlier in the year you talked about that being kind of 90% complete by early calendar 2021 kind of curious how you're thinking about that right now? And a big theme, we've talked about here is that you're kind of shifting from challenging Phase 1 into the more profitable Phase II. I feel like we've seen some evidence of that in margin improvement over the past few quarters a little bit tougher to see guidance, but are you just curious because it's hard to see in the numbers, if you can give us an update on how that's progressing? Thanks.
Yeah. I don't think we have a whole lot to add with respect to the initial arrangement that we talked about with 90% of the geographic markets being substantially complete early in the next calendar year. I think, we're still on track with that it may be a month or two, but it's essentially on that trajectory. This program has gone through a number of reprioritization and evolutions and I think that will probably continue. But beyond that, I don't know that we have a whole lot to add to what we've said before Noelle.
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from Jon Lopez with Vertical Group. Your line is now open.
Jon Lopez -- Vertical Group -- Analyst
Hey. Good morning. Thank you. How are you guys?
Hey, Jon. Good morning.
Hey, Steve. So I wanted to circle back to the backlog and I want to ask the question this way, if that's OK, which is, if we take the $740 million that came in after the quarter and we add it back to the current period backlog, it's still kind of down low-single digits. And I apologize because I know you've talked to this a couple of times, but from your perspective does that inform us at all as to what we can expect from the business in fiscal '22, calendar '21?
So John, like, we said last quarter and what we said earlier today, right. In the intermediate to long term, the backlog tends to track the overall scale of the company from quarter-to-quarter. It's subject to timing specifically around renewals and new business and an occasional changes from the customer. And so we don't look to backlog most of the time as being all that indicative over the next two, three, four quarters obviously via renewal. That's important because if you don't get the renewal that could impact the business. But generally, other than those renewals, it's in the short term, it's not highly correlated with the business.
Got you. Helpful. Two other quick follow-ups, if I could. The first one is, are you guys making or do you, in general, make any assumptions about storm activity within the fiscal Q4 outlook?
Jon, we don't know, and that's why we always call out the storm work. It is so hard -- one, you can't forecast it. Communications networks, generally are less impacted by storms and say electrical systems. And so we always think about our organic growth as ex, the storm work because we just can't forecast it well or just we can't forecast it all. It's just not possible.
No. Yeah. I just didn't know if anything had spilled over like from the last quarter into the current one, but that's, that was my assumption. The last one, Steve, I'm wondering if we just take a step back, we have -- there is a bunch of stuff going on. So you have 5G, you mentioned C-band, there is also CBRS, there's also -- I'm assuming some amount of initial planning work around RDOF, whether that's either implementation or people figuring out, they want to participate. I suppose my high level question is, do you think it's possible that this kind of combination of events or activities. Is it possible, those are acting as headwinds to the business perhaps temporarily that as your customers sort out what they want to do around those, perhaps unwinds as we look out into 2021?
Well, Jon, I think we talked about it last quarter, and I said it earlier on this call that specifically with respect to wireless, when you have an event like a spectrum auction and the spectrum that's available, can influence the way carriers provision additional capacity and capability over a multi-year period. I think there's always a period of time where they're thinking through, do I add capacity today with the current spectrum that's available or do I figure out some way to take advantage of what could be available to me at some point in the near future?
And so I think that's clearly something that, we don't do a lot of wireless, but I follow the industry for a long time and others who have done more than we have had pointed to that dynamic in the past that, that there can be some slowing going into a spectrum auction, but coming out of it, it's only valuable to the people who bought it if they deploy it.
And I do think that on other programs, particularly as people reprioritize and reinsist budgets and move monies around to attract to address new programs at sometimes that will impact the business again, because they just want to be efficient. Don't spend it today, if there's a new program coming along next quarter that should be part of the planning process. So I think there could be an element to that, sure.
Got you. Very helpful. Thanks a lot. I appreciate it.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Alan Mitrani with Sylvan Asset Management. Your line is now open.
Alan Mitrani -- Sylvan Asset Management -- Analyst
Hi. Thanks. Steve, you've generated most free cash seems in the last four quarters and you haven't got yours and you're going into your slowest quarter of the year. Can you talk about your comfortability with the balance sheet and where do you want to see that leverage? Where you are in terms of M&A talks and stock buybacks, and your thoughts regarding that?
Yeah. So Alan, it has been an encouraging four quarters on operating cash flow and free cash flow. And that is due to the hard work of everybody across the enterprise. I mean, there were a lot of things that we put into place last spring that people have maintained discipline on through the balance of this year. So first and foremost, thanks to all those folks. It didn't just happen, because we sat here in headquarters and make it happen.
I think, as we said, on the last quarter, we've always operated with the thought that target leverage in a business like this is somewhere in the two areas. Clearly, we have ticked down below that that gives us optionality to consider what we always do, which is highest and best use of capital is organic growth, we're encouraged with some customers that seem to be contemplating pretty good opportunities for us to grow.
Then we'll look at what's available from an M&A perspective to grow the scale of the enterprise versus the returns that are available to us and in share repurchases. And, that depends on what's available. It's an opportunistic approach. And I think we will continue to use the same discipline that we always have.
Okay. So thank you, I appreciate that. And it sounds like from your answer, it wasn't just the fact that the business is shrinking. And also that maybe you're doing a little better on DSOs. It's also that there are certain processes you put in place and efforts you've put in place that you think could be maintained as the business increases in the next year or so?
Yeah. I think we talked about it a couple quarters ago. We took a fresh look at the way we managed accounts payable and move to a more industry standard timeframe. We have put new processes in place around inventory management, so that we're working across business units, to make sure that we're increasing our turns, right, so that we're carrying less inventory for any given level of activity. And I think we've also been, we've had tight cost controls around G&A use of contractors and other things that we could do to get better in the way we run the business.
Okay. And also, some of your customers, I had to go back to 15 years to see some of these low levels of revenues from the cable customers and stuff. Do you think, we haven't seen the fruition of really the 5G putting an impact on some of the cable businesses to upgrade speeds, at least on a broad basis? Do you think that's coming in the next year, year and a half, as 5G becomes a little more pervasive and small cell densification happens?
I mean, Alan it's certainly possible. I think I would point more to what we said earlier, which is the cable industry has had great subscriber growth this year, there's been pretty substantial growth in upstream traffic. And so folks are talking about what that means for their networks and where they have to invest and we think that create some opportunities going forward.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Adam Thalhimer with Thompson Davis. Your line is now open.
Thanks. Steve, I wanted to ask about Verizon high level in '22 considering some of the moving pieces within the backlog commentary.
I mean, Adam at this point, we're just not going to provide any guidance for next calendar year fiscal '22. Just at this point, we're just not in a position to do that.
What do you think Steve, for -- I wanted to ask an RDOF question. What do you think the actual timing of construction is for that?
So Adams, that's a great question. So it depends on who the winners are. So the auctions ongoing, I think there'll be some visibility early next year as to who the winners are, to the extent that we have winners, who are new entrants who were thinking about using their own capital as part of the deployments. Certainly possible that they could start in anticipation of the funding that's coming from the government. I think we mentioned last quarter, and it continued this quarter, we're actually working in a couple states, for some rural companies that are actually using Cares Act money to get started. And, we'll see if they're successful, on RDOF, to the extent they are, I think they'll probably continue.
Okay. And then just lastly, how much did COVID impact the Q4 outlook Steve?
Adam, it's just hard to speculate on that. I would just tell you that we track the number of reported cases every day, and they've -- not surprisingly, they've ticked up kind of in a similar fashion to what we've seen across the country. And so we just need to be -- we need to be cognizant of that as we think about the outlook.
Thank you. Our next question comes from Alan Mitrani with Sylvan Lake Asset Management. Your line is now open.
Hi, sorry. I just wanted to ask about inflation or seeing it all across the board in commodities and in many other areas. And it seems like wage inflation is going to be coming back, especially with the new government coming in. How are you making sure when you're bidding contracts that you're putting in enough of a cushion from a wage inflation perspective? And are you seeing competitors being a little more competitive to try to get some work in this in between period that may lock in lower prices? And then, maybe a sorry, with about a year or so from now?
Yeah. Adam, look, I mean we're in a competitive industry and trying to evaluate people's thoughts at a high level. It's probably not something we spend a lot of time thinking about. I would tell you that we have not seen any pronounced trends in wages for our folks, the typical trend line that we've seen throughout the year.
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] I'm not showing any further questions at this time. I would now like to turn the call back over to Steve Nielsen for closing remarks.
Okay. Well, we thank everybody this holiday week. And before we go, I think Drew has one other item.
Yeah. I'll just run through the customer split. Telco was at 66%, cable was at 23%, facility locating was 7.3%, and electrical and other was at 3.7%.
Okay. So we wanted to just make sure we get that out there, but thanks for everybody's time and attention on the call and wish you all a safe Thanksgiving. Thank you.
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Israel's Netanyahu struggles to sell annexation plans
Jerusalem (AFP)
Only a week before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to kick-start annexation plans in the occupied West Bank, Israel's premier is facing challenges at home and abroad.
When Netanyahu clinched a coalition deal with former rival Benny Gantz, the longtime premier said political steps on annexing Jewish settlements and the Jordan Valley could start from July 1.
The move forms part of a broader US peace plan, which foresees the eventual creation of a Palestinian state but denies their key demands such as a capital in east Jerusalem.
Palestinians reject annexation and thousands took part in a Monday protest in the town of Jericho, although other West Bank rallies have failed to draw large crowds.
For Netanyahu, Washington's plan provides a "historic opportunity" to "apply sovereignty" over swathes of the West Bank.
The premier has just months left before his pro-Israeli ally, US President Donald Trump, risks being booted out of office in November elections.
Israel also stands to benefit from indecision within the European Union -- the country's top trade partner -- which opposes annexation but remains divided on possible retaliatory measures.
- Toning down annexation -
Israel's leader must still decide how much territory he intends to annex, according to a European diplomat closely following the developments.
"For Netanyahu it's a question of 'swallowing the elephant', of knowing the size of the piece he'll swallow," he told AFP.
The prime minister has stepped up meetings with leaders from settlements, home to more than 450,000 Israelis who live alongside more than 2.8 million West Bank Palestinians.
Netanyahu faces opposition from some settlement leaders and a scaled-down proposal has emerged, of annexing certain settlements or settlement blocs such as Ma'ale Adumim, Gush Etzion or Ariel.
"The scope of annexation will definitely impact the intensity of the international reaction," said Nimrod Goren from Jerusalem's Hebrew University.
The response from Palestinians would also affect steps taken abroad.
"Whether there will be violence erupting from Gaza or the West Bank, that will lead other countries to step up their response," said Goren, founder of the Mitvim think-tank for regional foreign policy.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has taken a back seat for the past decade, as Middle East leaders have contended with the Arab Spring uprisings and the emergence of the Islamic State group.
Israel, for its part, continues to warn of dangers posed by its arch foe Iran and its increased influence in the region.
Netanyahu's government has also sought to improve relations with Gulf states, notably the United Arab Emirates.
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For the first time, an Emirati official published an opinion piece in an Israeli newspaper earlier this month to warn against jeopardising any warming of ties.
"Annexation will certainly and immediately upend Israeli aspirations for improved security, economic and cultural ties with the Arab world and with the UAE," Yousef al-Otaiba, Emirati ambassador to Washington, wrote in top-selling daily Yediot Aharonot.
Israel has formal diplomatic ties with only two Arab states, neighbours Jordan and Egypt.
Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat told AFP that a "large international coalition" including Arab, African and European countries back the Palestinians against Israel's annexation plan.
In addition to opposition from the international community, Netanyahu must also weigh Washington's position on unilateral annexation.
The US peace deal anticipates the move as part of a negotiating process, although Palestinian officials cut ties with Washington in 2017 and have rejected the latest proposals out of hand.
Netanyahu's coalition partner, Defence Minister Gantz, has also warned against taking steps which would damage relations with Amman.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi last week said annexation posed an "unprecedented danger to the peace process".
Fears of violence have also raised concerns among the Israeli electorate, whose support for annexation has fallen below 50 percent.
With an economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic and a recent spike in infections, many Israelis are prioritising their daily lives over the annexation plans.
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GapKids “Shine On” in Back-To-School Campaign
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NEW YORK, July 30, 2012 – Gap shares stories about children who make the world a brighter place through their unique talents and community service in its Shine On marketing campaign for fall. This campaign features the kids as they came together to paint a colorful mural on the campus of Daniel Webster Middle School in Los Angeles to give back to the community.
Ranging from one to 12 years old, the Shine On campaign features a ballerina, comedian, DJ, violinist and anti-bullying advocate alongside the winners of Gap’s sixth annual Casting Call contest. Brought together to showcase GapKids and babyGap key product for fall, including Jewel Box Skinnies for girls and the Action Stretch Denim for boys, these children are shining examples of back-to-school style.
“Shine On exemplifies what it means to be bright by bringing together a group of exceptional children and empowering them to impact the world in a positive way,” said Seth Farbman, Gap’s Global Chief Marketing Officer. “By pairing our Casting Call finalists with a hand-selected group of children who are making a difference in the world, we’re capturing the optimistic spirit of what it means to be a Gap kid.”
In North America, Gap’s Shine On campaign appears in Gap stores in the United States and Canada, as well as online at Gap.com and on Gap’s social media properties. As part of the campaign, GapKids created #ShineOn Saturdays, a series of do-it-yourself online activities designed for children and parents to do together to help children cultivate their creativity and shine a light on their own talents. Activities range from crafting bedazzled pencil cases inspired by the Jewel Box Straight Sweater, to making preppy sport patches inspired by the Military Cardigan and Stretch Denim. #ShineOn Saturdays will live on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. Select GapKids stores in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington D.C. will feature similar projects created by leading craft blogger Merrilee Liddiard of Mer Mag. To follow the series online or learn more about the in-store events, visit Gap’s Facebook page and join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #ShineOn.
The Shine On campaign features the four winners of the sixth annual North American Casting Call contest, who were chosen by residents of the United States and Canada from 20 finalists. The winners are Liam, age 11, from Waterdown, Ontario; Taylor, age 6 from Barrie, Ontario, Rue, age 2, from Napa, CA; and Robbie, age 2, from College Station, TX.
Each Casting Call winner receives a $10,000 grant in his or her name from Gap to either Communities In Schools (for U.S. winners) or Pathways to Education (for Canadian winners). The grants support programs that empower students to stay in school and achieve in life. To learn more about the Casting Call winners and check out behind-the-scenes footage from the campaign photo shoot, please visit www.Gap.com.
Additionally, the campaign features a group of children selected for their unique talents and ability to make the world a brighter place, including Lily, age 12, ballerina; Stella, age 4, comedian; DJ Fulano, age 8, DJ; Brianna, age 10, violinist and humanitarian; and James, age 11, anti-bullying activist.
GapKids & babyGap Fall 2012 Collection
The fall collection of back-to-school essentials is rooted in an assortment of colored jeans for girls and boys alike. For girls, Jewel Box Skinnies ($29.95-39.95) come in vibrant hues like coral reef, brilliant blue and electric jade and pair with matching embellished t-shirts, striped sweaters and denim jackets. For boys, Action Stretch Denim ($29.95-39.95), designed to move for all-day play, pairs with items like the camo field jacket, military cardigan, athletic shawl sweater and striped oxford. At babyGap, the fall denim collection includes the Littlest Legging Jean and Skinny Flare for girls and the Straight for boys.
Additional collections for fall include Bryant Park for girls, offering a twist on classic styles from the cable knit top, leopard swing trench, riding pant and printed bubble skirt. For boys, the Cadet collection highlights include nautical stripe sweaters with patch detailing, mini gingham woven shirts, graphic t-shirts and puffer vests. The new Uniform collection for girls and boys has been redesigned for a fresh fall look featuring updated modern shapes and new silhouettes in nanotech stain-resistant fabric.
Gap Inc. is a leading global specialty retailer offering clothing, accessories, and personal care products for men, women, children, and babies under the Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime, and Athleta brands. Fiscal year 2011 net sales were $14.5 billion. Gap Inc. products are available for purchase in about 90 countries worldwide through about 3,100 company-operated stores, about 200 franchise stores, and e-commerce sites. For more information, please visit www.gapinc.com.
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As a leading U.S. law firm with 25 offices and more than 700 lawyers, Akerman has undoubtedly established itself as a capable partner for thousands of businesses across the Americas. In September of this year, that capability was strengthened by the growth of its Franchising and Licensing Practice, when the three- lawyer Denver- based team of Kevin Hein, Trish MacAskill, and Leilani Argersinger joined the current team led by Warren Lewis out of the D.C. office.
Along with Akerman’s vast network of business experts, the trio provides numerous services to a franchising community in need of guidance during one of the toughest years to date. Hein, for example, has focused his practice on counseling franchise businesses for more than two decades on a wide range of legal issues, including location development, franchising in health and wellness, mergers and acquisitions, and dispute resolution.
“We are predominantly regulatory and compliance lawyers. That’s our core work,” explains Hein. “We spend a lot of our days helping clients to maintain their registrations, and answering questions related to franchise sales, franchise relationship laws, and dispute resolution.”
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At its core, the Akerman philosophy is built on three key pillars that bring the client’s best interests to the forefront: efficiency, effectiveness, and predictability.
To deliver on the first of those pillars, Akerman uses proprietary and non-proprietary technology, highly refined processes, data analytics, and experiential learning to enable the Akerman franchise team to provide fast, efficient, and best-in-class service to franchise management teams and the ecosystem that supports them.
This approach results in quicker and more accurate updates to franchise documents, significantly shorter “dark periods” during the state renewal process, accelerated turnaround times for negotiated addenda and other documents, and the faster resolution of legal challenges faced by franchisors.
“Franchising touches every gamut of business; whether it’s IP, regulatory, real estate, or employment. It’s all-encompassing,” says Trish MacAskill. “At Akerman, the internal resources are wide and deep, and they’re readily available to assist our clients.”
When it comes to effectiveness, the understanding that Akerman’s franchise team has of the inner workings of a franchise network elevates its offering above others within the industry. Rather than simply approach every client from a standardized perspective, the firm is able to ascertain exactly what a client requires from the services on offer and construct a boutique solution that is specific and seamless.
“By using a retainer, clients are encouraged to call us, without paying extra for it, and we can address their minor problems before they become major problems”
“Clients come to us with questions and they want solutions, but they don’t necessarily want legal solutions; they want business solutions,” says MacAskill. “It’s really helpful to know a lot about your client and their business to be able to help them.
“That’s been my approach, in that I really get to know my clients and their idiosyncrasies, and I work with them to help find solutions that fit their business needs. Previously, as in-house counsel, it was very frustrating to have lawyers give me a legal answer and not give me a business solution. So I take that frustration and I turn it into a solution, now that I’m on the other side of the table.”
The third of Akerman’s defining pillars, its predictability, is arguably why it retains clients for the long-term and attracts countless new businesses looking for support.
As enterprises immersed in the franchise industry may unfortunately know, most firms specialize in selling time to clients. Conversely, the Akerman team is in the business of selling solutions to the multifaceted challenges that a franchise client may face. It believes that the cost for those solutions should be predictable and that the firm should share in some of the risks. Therefore, franchise clients are offered a variety of fee arrangements, including monthly retainers, fixed fees, capped fees, success fees, and budgeted fee options.
“We understand the fundamental service that our clients need, and we are focused on understanding and achieving their business objectives,” says Hein. “With our franchise clients, we collaboratively determine the scope of the work that is needed over the coming year and agree on a monthly retainer for our services for the year. What that gives them is predictability and budget ability.
“The COVID environment has encouraged us as lawyers to think more creatively and to find additional opportunities to become strategic business advisors our clients”
“We also understand our franchise clients are facing unprecedented challenges as a result of the economic turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and we are ready to help them navigate those complexities. Clients require predictability, and we are conscious of that in every step of our client-engagement relationship. We are transparent and reasonable in our fees and forth-coming about our recommendations and how they align to their business needs. By using a retainer, clients are encouraged to call us, without paying extra for it, and we can address their minor problems before they become major problems.”
PRESENCE WHEN IT’S NEEDED MOST
Akerman’s 25 offices operate in key strategic locations across the U.S., which allows the firm to have consistent on-the-ground experience in the markets where many of its clients operate. While other firms may have large numbers of locations, many of these are often located in cities where franchise activity is at a minimum.
“While people are clearly used to using lawyers around the country, there’s always an advantage to having somebody on the ground if you have a large client base in a particular city,” says Hein. “That makes me excited about the ability of Akerman to service the franchise community across the country.”
And in a business landscape rocked by the pandemic, having an acute awareness of how to handle a brand’s expansion, or restructuring, can be invaluable.
“We’ve got a client in the office space market that has been trying to figure out how to pivot and take advantage of lots of empty real estate,” says Hein. “With Trish’s guidance and experience, we assisted the client in developing a program that would allow the franchisor to go to landlords and convert landlords themselves into franchisees. That’s a target market that this client has never conceived of before.
“The COVID environment has encouraged us as lawyers to think more creatively and to find additional opportunities to become strategic business advisors our clients. I think that’s an area that we at Akerman excel in, and I’m really proud of the team that we have here.”
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Hudson NY: An Eye For Design
WHY GO: If the website Etsy was an actual place, it would be Hudson NY, an artsy town on the Hudson River that has managed to out-Brooklyn Brooklyn in cutesie-pie-ity.
Etsy in fact, did open a brick and mortar office here in 2013, following an area resurgence that began over twenty years ago.
In the late 1700’s, Hudson was, inconceivably, a key US whaling port. (Ergo, little whales on street signs). The waterfront stank from whale oil processing while warehouses, wharfs and docks thrummed with activity.
Over time, industries came and went, but mostly went. So, by the 1960’s, Hudson was a sad, neglected place.
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TOUR: Olana
Must this mansion be destroyed?
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VISIT: FRG Design Showroom
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DRIVE: OMI International Arts Center
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EAT/MUSIC: Helsinki Restaurant and Club
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In the 1990’s, Manhattan antique dealers and interior designers realized that they could purchase a beautiful turn-of-last-century warehouse in this depressed Hudson River town for a fraction of what it cost in the city. They moved here and set up showrooms for well-heeled clients.
The town gentrified as said clients bought second homes here, earning the nickname NoHo. Now, you’ll find a selection of restaurants helmed by CIA-grads, shops like “Flower Kraut” (she does floral design, he makes the sauerkraut), Olana – the impressive Persian-esque home of Hudson River School of Art celebrity, Frederick Church, and charming boutique hotels and inns.
To sum it up, Hudson is now widely recognized as an antique and arts center, featuring a wide range of clothing, jewelry, and home furnishings. There’s lots of quality packed into a very small area. The following recommendations are just the start. Begin with these.
Olana rear view Hudson NY
Hudson River School landscape artist Frederick Church, a founding member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, was the youngest artist inducted into the National Academy of Design at just 19 years of age. (That distinction still stands).
In the late 1860’s, the prominent artist planned to construct a French Chateau atop this hill overlooking the Hudson River, but a trip to the Middle East changed his mind. As a result, Church commissioned this Persian-style confection as home and studio, living here with his wife Isabel and their children.
Daughter-in-law Sally Goode-Church lived in Olana until she died in 1964. When the home and its contents were put up for auction, concerned citizens united to save it from the wrecking ball– an early example of Historic Preservation – with the slogan “Must this mansion be destroyed?”
The preservationists prevailed. In fact, historians consider this as much a preservation story as an art history one. Considered the foundation of America’s growing “View Shed” movement, Olana and its spectacular 250 naturalistically landscaped acres, focuses on conserving fast disappearing scenic views. In this case, of the Hudson River Valley.
Olana Orientation video Hudson NY
Begin your tour at the new Visitor’s Center/Gift Shop where you’ll be introduced to the famous painter and his home, Olana, though a 20 minute film. Olana is a quick uphill walk.
Enter through front door. “Welcome” in Arabic is etched into a sunset-colored stained glass panel. Olana’s interior is a feast for the eyes. Church traveled the world and collected artifacts from all over, displaying pre-Columbian art from Mexico in his studio and framing fireplaces with carved teak from India. The “Court Hall” places you in the central courtyard of a Middle-Eastern home, where sunlight streaming through yellow glass casts the room in a honey-colored glow.
Olana Dining Room Hudson NY
While most of the home features sizable windows affording clear views of the land and riverscape outside, the dining room is the only place in the home where sunlight is kept to a minimum, most likely to preserve the work of Old Masters that line the walls. Church wanted guests to travel back in time 400 years to discuss the art over dimly lit dinners.
Frederick Church Art Kit Olana
Posthumously, Church became one of the most important players in the Hudson River conservation movement. The artist often painted scenes of the river from Olana’s porch studio, and in the 1970’s, one of these paintings was employed in the drive to ban a nuclear power plant within view of here.
Olana Hallway
Protesters used one of Church’s winter landscapes to show exactly how an industrial facility would mar the perfect scene. The ploy worked and the plant was situated elsewhere. You’ll see this painting and many others on a fascinating one hour tour. $15. Open Mid-May-Oct Tues-Sun 10-5 (last tour at 4), Nov-Mid-May Fri-Sun 10-4 (last tour at 3).
Warren St. Hudson NY
Window shopping is gratifying, but do stop in to the following places:
Rick Gillette “re-visions” mid-century modern furniture and features cool home accessories like Joshua Howe’s “stone” tables and trays made from extraordinarily thin concrete.
Prices are not too outrageous at this furniture/gift/home accessories wonderland.
Comfy designs, hand knit hats, and great sales.
Monument on Parade Hill Hudson NY
One of the first parks established in the USA for the viewing of scenic vistas, take the stairs at the foot of Warren St. up to the park overlooking the Hudson River. It’s a stunning vantage point from which to see the 1874 Hudson-Athens Lighthouse with the Catskill Mountains beyond.
Fields Sculpture Park at OMI International Arts Center
Drive 12 miles and allot one hour to the Storm-King-like 120-acre Fields Sculpture Park at OMI International Arts Center, a leg stretcher with a great pay off.
The LEED-Certified Visitor’s Center, built in 2008, is a work of contemporary art in itself, with mushroom-wood paneling and polished concrete floors. Use foot or bike power (bikes available for free near the entrance) to see all 80 sculptures. Open dawn to dusk, café hours Sat and Sun 11-4. free.
DRIVE: Just Drive. I’ve never seen so many beautiful barns in various states of decay.
There are a few dozen restaurants in Hudson, and not a small number of CIA trained chefs. Everyone in town seems to have their own personal favorites. These are mine – for a start:
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Though known mostly as a music venue, the Creole-cookin’ Chef, Hugh Horner, buys locally sourced ingredients for excellent dishes like Low Country Shrimp and Grits ($25), Great Aunt Theo’s Fried Chicken ($21), and meats cured and smoked in what’s affectionately known as “Atticus” – the wood fired smoker out in the courtyard.
Helsinki Hudson NY
In a refurbished 1800’s industrial building, Helsinki’s decor — utilizing brick walls, rough hewn wood plank ceiling, leather seating, upside-down lampposts (serving as structural supports), local art, and chandeliers – is a delight to the eye. Desserts include something maple (e.g. Maple Ice –Cream), made from syrup rendered on the owner’s farm in Hillsdale.
Spotty Dog Books and Ale Hudson NY
Like to have a cold one while browsing for books? Stop into this microbrewery pub and bookshop rolled into one.
EAT: Locals Recommend – Hudson Food Studio for Asian-influenced communal eating, Ca’Mea for excellent Italian, Baba Louie’s for artisanal pizza, Café Le Perche for seafood.
This High-End Luxury Victorian “country house” set on a hundred acre rise is just three miles from downtown Hudson, NY, and a world apart. With off-in-the-distance views of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, soothing muted-colored walls, sparkle of crystal from overhead lamps, tasteful but not overbearing turn-of-last-century furniture, its a calming refuge from the summer craziness of Warren St.
Built in 1873 for Gustav Sabine, doctor-on-retainer for Hudson River School of Art notable, Frederick Church (who lived next door in his mansion, Olana), Mount Merino remained a private home until it was abandoned in the early 2000’s.
Owner, Rita Birmingham, purchased the property then scrupulously sourced “period piece” furniture and accessories for seven spacious guestrooms. The Deer Room features an inlayed-wood bed and a shower the size of a walk-in closet. Rip’s Room, with a Moroccan-style bed, overlooks the Rip Van Winkle Bridge.
But most popular is the third floor Blue Mountain View room, with caramel colored walls, painted wide plank floors, rafter cathedral ceiling, carved sleigh bed, antique writing desk, and large marble bathroom sporting a soaking tub, antique carved wood sink and two-person marble rain shower.
A gourmet breakfast consits of fresh-baked goods, locally sourced meats (of course) and egg or French toast dish. Fancy, fancy – the morning meal is served on china. $195-$425 for rooms and suites, varies with season, includes gourmet, made to order breakfast, soft drinks and snacks 24/7, free wi-fi and parking.
Thyme In the Country BnB
This is a few miles out of town, but perfect for “Green” back-to-nature, hypoallergenic folk. If the array of solar panels taking up a good portion of the backyard doesn’t convince you this place is “a bit off the grid,” the happy chickens running around certainly will.
Thyme in the Country is so green, every piece of bedding is natural and hypoallergenic, room amenities are organic, and milk for your morning coffee comes from resident cows.
Fish in the pond. Swim in the salt-filtered pool. Take a long hike from the backyard. Then head into little Philmont – a mile away – for local food in a repurposed garage – Local 111. And live music at Main Street Public House, with dartboards on walls and peanut shells at your feet. Rooms $165 and $180 per night include organic full breakfast.
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One more recommendation: Do check out art exhibits and performances at Hudson Opera House.
Also, you can visit some of those picturesque barns on what’s been labeled as “one of the 5 great drinking trails,” the Hudson Berkshire Experience.
George Meyer
two other restaurants in Hudson that are excellent are Earth Foods and Baba Louie. While not as “highbrow” as some of the other restaurants in town both have excellent food. At Earth Foods the Rossini is my favorite sandwich. It’s thinly sliced mozzarella and roasted red peppers on home made bread. The menu features locally sourced and organic ingredients. Baba Louie has some of the best sourdough crust pizza you will ever taste. The menu features many pizza creations and all the ingredients are fresh and delicious!
Malerie Yolen-Cohen
Hi George- Thanks so much for reading and for the bread advice! I’ve been to Baba Louie’s in Great Barrington MA a few times and I do love it.
Malerie
Thanks so much for stopping by last week and mentioning our B&B in your article.
Hi Mary – my pleasure. It’s an adorable place. Malerie
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Weather forecaster updates exact day it thinks it will snow in Surrey in December
A flurry of flakes is predicted midway through the month
Dave Comeau
It's been a while since we had enough snow in Surrey to go sledging (Image: Steve Porter)
There's a strange sort of effect that snow has on some people, turning them into excited children at the thought of a dusting of the white stuff.
On the other hand, the travel chaos it can cause means it's an unwelcome event for others.
Whichever camp you fall into, knowing when it's going to happen is crucial and one forecaster has updated its predictions for election week to suggest we could be in for some snow in Surrey.
Accuweather is often the one to go out on a limb and, looking at the forecast for Dorking as a central point in Surrey, it says we could see 1cm of snow on the evening of Friday, December 13.
That follows some possible flurries on Friday afternoon, the day we will find out the results of the general election, following voting the previous day.
The full forecast
Looking at Dorking, Accuweather's December 13 forecast states that it will be "rather cloudy with a rain or snow shower in spots in the afternoon".
It gives a top daytime temperature of 6C, which will feel like 3C. If there are any flurries of snow, they may be mixed with rain to form sleet, and snow is of course more likely the higher you are.
Places like Leith Hill are the most likely to see some snow.
Odds of snow in Surrey on Christmas Day given by two bookmakers
On the evening of December 13, Accuweather gives a temperature of 1C, which will feel like -3C.
These conditions could bring with them "a flurry or heavier squall in the evening; otherwise, partly cloudy". It predicts 1cm of snow with wind gusts of up to 39km per hour.
In Guildford there is predicted to be 0.1cm of snow in the afternoon but no snow in the evening.
Snow in Surrey in March 2018
Meanwhile in Oxted there is forecast to be a "rain or snow shower" in the afternoon and a "flurry or heavier squall in the evening", once again with 1cm of snow predicted.
Typically it will be high areas like Tatsfield that are most likely to see snow.
What do other forecasters say?
The Met Office likes to play it cool (no pun intended) and not do long range forecasts for a specific area, but its UK long range forecast for December 9-18 does mention snow.
However it talks about snow in the north, saying there's an "increased risk of wintry showers the further north you go". That feels a bit like a horoscope in that it's a statement that's never going to be wrong.
The BBC disagrees with Accuweather's assessment for the afternoon, again looking at the Dorking forecast, giving just a 12-18% chance of precipitation of any sort, and no mention of snow.
The forecaster says it's going to be cloudy with sunny spells in the late morning and early afternoon then just cloudy in the afternoon with a high of 7C.
It will be 1am on Saturday, December 14 before the BBC thinks it will rain but again, no mention of snow.
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Conferences and EventsThe UK’s ‘special relationship’ with the US is about to turn digital
The UK’s ‘special relationship’ with the US is about to turn digital
The technical teams for the United Kingdom and United States government have agreed to collaborate with each other on improving digital services during a UK tech delegation at the White House.
Working together on digital services
Matthew Hancock, the UK’s minister for the Cabinet Office and Liam Maxwell, the government’s chief technology officer travelled to Washington to improve Britain’s relationship with the United States’ technical team.
Hancock and Maxwell met with Shaun Donovan, White House Office of Management and budget director and the United States chief technology officer Megan Smith.
During the meeting it was agreed that the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) will team up with the US Digital Service (USDS), Washington’s 18F agency and the Presidential Innovation Fellows, an initiative that is designed to bring the innovation economy into government.
This collaboration between the groups will allow for an exchange of skillsets, knowledge and ideas to ‘‘make the delivery of policies and programmes more effective.’’
‘‘Without smart, energetic and connected talent our digital programme would fall apart,’’ explained Hancock.
‘‘By sharing knowledge and exchanging skillsets we build digital teams that are the best they can be. I’m incredibly proud of all the UK Government Digital Service has achieved over the last few years.’’
‘‘I look forward to leading the next phase of GDS – transatlantic cooperation will be important in helping the digital operations in both the UK and US government’s scale up and succeed.’’
Leveraging ‘technical and digital talent’
The UK’s digital service team has always been open to the idea of digital collaboration.
In December 2014 the UK entered into a partnership agreement with South Korea, Estonia, New Zealand and Israel on how to improve online services. Dubbed the ‘D5 group’, the nation’s last met in London to discuss cloud services, connectivity and coding.
The US and the UK already have a history of working together on private sector projects. A collaboration between the two nations resulted in the creation of the Bletchley Park code breakers and the ENIAC ballistics calculation advances in the US.
This summer USDS and 18F staff met former GDS chief Mike Bracken in London to discuss digital collaboration in government. In a GDS video blog, Bracken hoped that this partnership would continue in the future.
‘‘The more governments can talk about the problems that they’re facing and be open about them, and the more that we can help each other, then that’s got to be the right thing,’’ stated Bracken.
The United States is currently improving its web services which when completed, will enable its citizens to pay for government services online.
This may be something that GDS will become involved in, but its currently unclear as to which initiatives the two nations will be collectively working on.
Shaun Donovan highlighted the US and UK’s special relationship in the government tech sector, and hopes that the latest meeting will spur on a new digital partnership.
‘‘By leveraging the very best of our two nations’ technical and digital talent, we’ll continue enhancing our governments’ ability to deliver critical services like healthcare, veterans benefits, and access to higher education, to American and British citizens alike.’’
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A Leisurely Bath: England’s Spa City
By Carrie Peterson //Leave a Comment
Bath’s Parade Gardens offer a place to take a break after a busy day of shopping.
Planning to Visit the English Countryside
After three days in London, I wanted to see some of the romantic English countryside I’d read about in novels. So I paged through my travel guide, went to an Internet café, and booked a hostel and train tickets for Bath.
The next morning, the train left Paddington Station and traveled west across the beautiful fields of England.
Bath felt like scented oil after the abrasion of the capital, as I was met an hour-and-a-half later with a chorus of bird songs and green all around.
Beautiful Bath
Beneath the modern lacquer of novelty shops and the hum of tourists, Bath is still a place of serenity and charm.
Its airs of historical nobility and fine culture are as present as the modern buses and tour guides that bustle along the stone streets.
Romans created baths here in approximately A.D. 43 out of natural hot mineral springs. The baths then decayed for centuries until they were rediscovered during Queen Victoria’s reign.
For many more centuries, Bath became a holiday destination for royalty and aristocrats, who were pampered as they gossiped, flirted and gambled.
Beau Nash, who is buried in the nave of the Bath Abbey (a medieval church begun in 1499), was a well-known social peacock during the 18th century, a pompous man of wealth and flashy style who liked to be carted about the city in a sedan chair.
During this period Bath was the most fashionable spa in Britain, in part, through the efforts of architect John Wood the Elder and his son, John Wood the Younger, who designed the city using stones from the nearby hills.
They developed the landscaped terraces and Palladian villas, creating one of the most architecturally harmonious cities in England.
My Hostel
Upon checking into my hostel, I headed downtown, where I strolled through compact lanes filled with cafés and shops.
I found a classic British diner, where I sat outside to watch people chatting and window shopping in the warm evening glow.
A good English meal can be found at Sally Lunn’s House on North Parade Passage, where visitors have been supping for more than 300 years, or at a variety of eating-and-drinking stablishments, including The Bathtub Bistro, The Pump House, The Moon nd Sixpence and The Hole in the Wall.
Enjoying My Day
The Pulteney Bridge crosses the River Avon and is one of only a few bridges in the world with shops across its entire span.
As dusk settled in I wandered north of the city center to the River Avon.
Turning aside to follow a canal, I passed men in their boats drinking inside smoky hulls, doing repairs or barbecuing on the banks with their families.
The day melted into darkness, and I left the canal to work my way through tangled streets to my hostel.
The fortune of this city has always been linked to its hot springs and tourism.
In the past it has attracted such well-known persons as Jane Austen (who included Bath in her novels Persuasion andNorthanger Abbey), Charles Dickens, William Thackeray and Australia’s founding father Admiral Arthur Phillip.
The modern tourists who flock here will find an array of accommodations to suit their fancies and wallets, from the beautifully restored Bath Spa Hotel to the modestly priced St. Christopher’s Inn.
This boasts a picturesque view of the street from the second-story rooms and a rousing pub at floor level.
As I left Bath Spa Train Station a few days later, I carried with me a treasury of memories: afternoons punting on the Avon with new friends; wandering the residential streets; watching street performers; licking ice cream in the summer heat; and evenings sampling Pimm’s in a quiet pub or joining the throngs of vacationers in their merrymaking.
Slipping along the rails passing through green pastures, I felt I had discovered a special place — one that had been found before by so many, and would continue to be enjoyed by so many more.
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Bumble Bee Slim's later work belies his true blues chops
Some collectors have written off Bumble Bee Slim as a lightweight for his later work, but his early songs, like 'Rough Rugged Road,' show off his skills
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Bumble Bee Slim's work on 'Rough Rugged Road' is a pleasant surprise for many serious blues collectors. Image courtesy Blues Images, a division of Tefteller's World's Rarest Records.
By Susan Sliwicki
Much like Rodney Dangerfield, poor Bumble Bee Slim can’t get no respect — at least among many collectors of early blues recordings. Say his name and you can expect some eye rolling at the very least, akin to what would happen if a modern music connoisseur tried to argue that 1990s im-popsters Milli Vanilli had untapped talent and artistic depth beyond lip synching, rocking braided hairdos and doing the “running man” dance move.
Unlike Milli Vanilli, Bumble Bee Slim had musical talent, particularly during his early recording career at Paramount, said John Tefteller of Tefteller’s World’s Rarest Records.
“I never collected Bumble Bee Slim until I heard ‘Rough Rugged Road,’” he admitted. “It’s a great record. Most people really don’t like him, because a lot of pure blues enthusiasts are like, ‘I don’t want to listen to Bumble Bee Slim.’”
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Tefteller can relate, as he used to be in that camp. Since discovering Slim’s Paramount recordings, he’s occasionally conducted his own blues version of the old Folgers crystals taste test. Without telling blues enthusiasts who the artist is, he plays one of Slim’s six songs recorded on the Paramount label. The result?
Bumble Bee Slim Born: Amos Easton on May 7, 1905, in Brunswick, Ga.
Childhood: Was writing songs by age 10. Left home around 1920 to tour with a circus. Hoboed extensively as a singing guitarist across the U.S. in the 1920s at bars, halls, parties and juke joints.
Collaborations: Big Bill Broonzy, Cripple Clarence Lofton
Record Label Affiliations: Paramount, Vocalion, Bluebird, Decca, Fidelity, Marigold/Specialty, Pacific Jazz
Instruments: Guitar and piano
Died: 1968 in Los Angeles
“When you hear the Paramounts, they’re all, like, ‘Whoa! These are good. Where did this guy come from?’” Tefteller said.
And when he breaks that news that it’s Bumble Bee Slim? “They’ll acknowledge that it’s pretty good,” he said. So far, Tefteller owns two of the three records Slim (aka Amos Easton) recorded at Paramount’s Grafton, Wis., studios. Slim’s songs are “Yo Yo String Blues” / Stumblin’ Block Blues” (Paramount 13102); “No Woman, No Nickel” / “Chain Gang Bound” (Paramount 13109); and “Rough Rugged Road Blues” / “Honey Bee Blues” (Paramount 13132).
“They didn’t make bad records at Paramount,” Tefteller said. “If you went to Paramount to record — even if, later on in life, you were a mediocre artist — if you did something at Paramount, it’s something people want to sit up and take notice of.”
So why is Bumble Bee Slim — who’s been cited as one of the most popular and prolific blues singers of the 1930s and is credited for helping to develop the so-called Chicago Blues school of the 1930s — so maligned?
“When he left Paramount and went to Decca and Vocalion and other labels, they’re all generic and same-sounding blues records. Nothing really stands out,” Tefteller said. “The Vocalions and Deccas and the later ones are all pretty readily available for under $500. There’s more of them, and they were on more major labels that pressed more copies, and they’re not musically as wonderful as these earlier ones.”
To Tefteller’s knowledge, none of Bumble Bee Slim’s Paramount recordings have ever been sold at an auction open to the public.
“The Paramounts are insanely rare. The two that just turned up in Austin (Texas), they’re hammered to the point where they’re barely playable, so they don’t have a lot of value in that condition. And then, there’s a few copies of them in any condition,” Tefteller said. “If a really nice Paramount turned up of any of the three, it’d be $3,000 or more.”
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Spieth banking on insider knowledge
Masters champion Jordan Spieth has an ace up his sleeve for next week’s US Open in the form of his caddie Michael Greller.
Next week’s major championship is being played at the links-style Chambers Bay Golf Club – very much an unknown quantity for most of the players in the field.
Spieth himself has little experience on the course, but he will be able to rely on the advice of his caddie, Greller, who used to work at Chambers Bay before carrying Spieth’s bag on the PGA Tour.
“Michael told me some shots that I needed to get ready for Chambers,” said Spieth, who played the course once before at the US Amateur in 2012. “He walked it a couple of times a few weeks ago.
“I need a shot I can trust from the runoff areas. The greens are massive, so controlling your speed on these longer putts, you are not going to be able to feed it into a lot of these pins.”
Like most of his fellow pros, Spieth is gearing himself up for a rare Open Championship-like test on US soil.
“It is going to be a lot of speed control,” he said of Chambers Bay. “It is going to be different short game shots, almost like you are playing an Open Championship.”
Phil Mickelson added: “It plays exactly like the British Open plays. The ball runs like the British; you’re hitting the same shots as the British, and so it is like a British Open in the United States.”
World No 1 Rory McIlroy, meanwhile, is going to do his best to get some practice in on the course prior to the first round.
He admits he doesn’t really know what Chambers Bay will deliver at this stage.
“No one is going to go out there and play 10 practice rounds,” McIlroy said. “I am going to go a little early. I am going to play a couple of practice rounds the weekend before.”
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Israeli Government Considering Ban on LGBTQ 'Conversion Therapy,' but Bill Put on Hold
Coalition sources say the fact the bill to ban the widely discredited, harmful practice is even being considered is an achievement, but members of the opposition argue it wasn't immediately disqualified only to minimize potential backlash against two openly gay ministers
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A demonstration against 'conversion therapy,' Tel Aviv, July 14, 2019Credit: Ofer Vaknin
The Israeli government will examine legislation that would prohibit so-called conversion therapy, which aims to change the sexual orientation of LGBTQ people, but is widely discredited by experts worldwide and is used despite no scientific evidence that sexual orientation can be altered.
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation will likely delay the bill proposal brought forward by Meretz Chairman Nitzan Horowitz in order to consider a more "moderate" version of the law that would be accepcted by ultra-Orthodox parties, according to a government source.
The proposed legislation would ban "conversion therapy" and sanction so-called therapists with jail time, a fine, and revocation of their professional license.
The government source said that the fact the bill is being considered even though the coalition is made up in part by ultra-Orthodox parties, who oppose pro-LGBTQ legislation, is seen as an achievement.
Sources in the opposition, however, said the law was not immediately disqualified not in order to pass it at a later date, but to minimize offense to two openly gay ministers serving on the committee for legislation, and avoid criticism from Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan party, which promised it would advocate for the LGBTQ community in its election campaign.
Previous attempts at writing into law a ban on "conversion therapy" have failed, including for bills proposed for former Health Minister Yael German, which never passed even a preliminary Knesset vote.
"'Conversion therapy' is murder," Horowitz said at the meeting of the legislative committee. "It's murder of the soul and often times the body too. These procedures result in self-harm to the point of suicide. What therapy means here is mental and physical abuse of teenagers."
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Horowitz said that professionals don't believe the procedure can convert a person's sexual orientation, and that it results in great harm. "The purpose of this law is to save lives," he added.
"It's our duty to locate the businesses of abuse, to revoke their licenses and charge them with a crime. Just as we would with a murderer or any person who causes the death of another person."
Horowitz appealed to "all who see themselves as part of the fight against homophobia." He named members of Kahol Lavan ‒ including Benny Gantz, Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn, and Tourism Minister Asaf Zamir ‒ as well as Likud MK Amir Ohana, who is gay, in his appeal.
"It's our legal and moral duty to save the next victims of 'conversion therapy.' It's an opportunity for the Knesset to give a clear message ‒ it doesn't matter if you're straight, gay, lesbian, or trans, we don't want to change you. You are beautiful and whole just as you are."
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A Visual Learner's Guide to Being a Grown-Up
by Matt Shirley
Price: $9.99 / $12.99 (CAD)
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Genre: Fiction / Humor / Form / Pictorial
Based on Matt Shirley’s popular Instagram account, this smart and hilarious guide is a collection of tables, lists, and charts for all the visual learners out there striving to be a successful grown-up.
We all know the particular pain that comes with having to be an actual adult, whether it’s resetting your internet password on ten different sites, yearning for an excuse to get out of the plans your wife made for you months ago, or the anxiety that comes from forcing yourself to work out again.
When Matt Shirley became fed up with being a grown-up, he started drawing charts as a more fun and efficient way to cope with his frustrations, and stuck them up on Instagram where they became an instant hit. Packed with over one hundred charts, graphs, diagrams, and infographics — with 50 percent brand-new material — this hilarious collection vows to explain everything you need to know about how to be a grown-up, covering work, family, and friends, to dating, breakups, and more.
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Alan Smith's book Hickstead: A Golden Celebration was specially commissioned to kick off the celebrations of our momentous golden anniversary in 2010. Equestrian correspondent at the Daily Telegraph from 1960 until his retirement in 2008, Alan Smith has been a regular fixture at Hickstead since its conception.
During his tenure he saw the showground grow from being a single roped arena, with a telephone nailed to a tree with which to make his daily reports, into one of the world's top equestrian venues. Douglas Bunn's dream of establishing a showground that would prepare British show jumping riders, and horses, for the challenges they found in Europe could not have come to fruition at a more beneficial time.
It is no coincidence that Britain's international challenge, and the sport generally, thrived as a direct result of Hickstead's creation. But Douglas, wanted more than that: he wanted to stage competitions unlike any that had previously been held in Britain, and in the British Jumping Derby he produced a contest that quickly became recognised as a classic.
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The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang was a long-range single-seat World War 2 fighter aircraft. Designed, built and airborne in just 117 days, the Mustang first flew in RAF service as a fighter-bomber and reconnaissance aircraft before conversion to a bomber escort, employed in raids over Germany, helping ensure Allied air superiority from early 1944. The P-51 was in service with Allied air forces in Europe and also saw limited service against the Japanese in the Pacific War. The Mustang began the Korean War as the United Nations main fighter, but was relegated to a ground attack role when superseded by jet fighters early in the conflict. Nevertheless, it remained in service with some air forces until the early 1980s.
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October 2014 Events Recap
With the changing of the seasons and the cooling of the weather, the show season begins to slow down for the year as cars across the country begin to make their way back to their garages in anticipation of the coming snowfall. Perhaps a bit melancholic, but hey, October’s also home to one of the best events on the calendar: Hershey.
Hershey Fall Meet
Unlike last year’s veritable washout, this year’s event saw the weather a bit more cooperative, allowing thousands of visitors to peruse untold numbers of automotive ephemera. While the rain made a brief appearance prior to Saturday’s car show, by late morning it had cleared enough for those gathered to take in a number of exceptional cars on display.
Concours d’Elegance at French Lick Resort
Earlier in the month over in Indiana at this year’s Concours d’Elegance at French Lick Resort, the HVA Award was presented to this 1907 Premier owned by Clem Lange.
Barber Vintage Festival
In Birmingham, AL, the Barber Vintage Festival celebrated its tenth anniversary. In attendance and winner of the THIS BIKE MATTERS award was the Dubble Trubble Triumph motorcycle.
National Automotive Heritage Summit
This past month also saw the 3rd annual National Automotive Heritage Summit, hosted by the HVA. Held in Middleburg, VA, this year’s event gathered a number of prominent figures within the hobby for two days of discussions and presentations relating to restoration best practices and the preservation of our automotive heritage via the National Historic Vehicle Register. With the latter, plans surrounding its expansion and eventual implementation on a smaller scale were discussed, laying additional groundwork for an ongoing project that will look to expand in scope in the coming years.
Along with this, the event showcased the next vehicle to be added to the National Historic Vehicle Register, the 1947 Tucker ’48 Prototype known as the Tin Goose. Unfortunately, while being towed to a display area, the driver’s side rear axle weld gave out, causing the wheel to fall off. While no structural damage was incurred, the car was essentially incapacitated and had to be rolled back onto the truck with the help of a dolly. Much like its official debut in which it also experienced a number of difficulties, this incident simply became yet another in a history of such things happening to the car prior to momentous occasions.
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Tag: kosher sea salt
The Biggest Disadvantage of Kosher Sea Salt
Jan 13, 2021 kosher salt, kosher salts, kosher sea salt, kosher sea salts by Simon Chandler
The question has been asked, is kosher salt kosher? And the answer is yes. In this sense, kosher literally refers to the quantity of the kosher salt used in cooking. When you purchase kosher salt, you are ensured that you're getting a smaller, flat or round kosher salt crystal. This is the best size of kosher salt for kosher cooking, because its higher surface area will allow it to draw more blood from the animal it is used on.
Another important factor when determining kosher salt quality and kosher salt value is the ratio of different elements in the kosher salt. In general, the more kosher flakes, the higher the salt's concentration. Thus, the higher the concentration of kosher salt in sea salt or table salt, the more precious kosher salt you'll get. Table salt contains mostly sodium and chloride, sea salt is mostly magnesium and potassium.
In addition, there are two major factors to consider when choosing kosher sea salts or table salt. First is its location. Sea salt is naturally closer to the shore and therefore has a stronger grip on the earth's surface. The next factor is what type of climate the salt is used in. Sea salt is often used in colder climates because it locks onto the lower elevation of the soil, thus preserving the moisture of the surrounding soil.
In comparison, kosher sea salt has less ability to retain moisture and therefore must be mixed with water to make it moist enough to work properly. Table salt on the other hand is generally made from ground salt and refined to remove all but about 2% of its natural salt content. Because it has less moisture, the more commonly used kosher salt tends to dissolve in the water quicker than table salt. Its ability to dissolve also means it leaves behind dry residue which will clog up your pores and cause blemishes to worse their condition.
Another thing to consider when buying kosher salt is its use in food preparation. Unlike regular table salt, kosher salt is only to be used for kosher food preparation. Kosher fish, for instance, cannot use regular table salt for re-frying. And contrary to popular belief, kosher salt does not have the same effect on animals as regular table salt. Pets are better off with kosher salt.
There is another key benefit of kosher salt that not many people know about. During the kosher salt curing process, tiny air bubbles are formed which are a good source of minerals. The best way to learn more about these beneficial bubbles is to buy a salt recipe book and do your own experimenting. Not only will you increase your enjoyment of this great seasoning, but you'll also add a hint of professional flavour and value to whatever dishes you prepare
In addition to adding trace minerals, kosher salt also brings out the natural flavour in foods. Many chefs rely on kosher salt for added flavour to their favourite dishes. No longer will you have to settle for the "generic" flavours found in regular sea salt. You can now choose the kind you want.
Kosher salt has come along way. No longer is it just an old-fashioned rock salt that taste bland. Now, kosher salt offers health benefits and trace minerals that no other kind of salt can provide. The biggest drawback may be the price. While a traditional rock salt may be slightly more expensive, it is worth the money if you are buying a long-lasting, highly-beneficial salt. If you have not tried kosher, you really owe it to yourself to give it a try, you won't be disappointed!
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How Love Changes Your Body Chemistry
By Danny Deza
Love does indeed impact our bodies in measurable ways, pulses race, knees go weak, and heads reel.
Your chemical romance
Ah, love. In the heady days of a mutual crush, pulses race, knees go weak, and heads reel. So strong are these feelings, they’ve launched a thousand songs and poems.
But it’s more than just a metaphor. Love does indeed impact our bodies in measurable ways.
You feel different and are different. Read on to find out what researchers have discovered about this thing called love.
Dopamine is the brain’s pleasure chemical. It plays a role in gambling, drug use, and, well, love. When we fall in love, dopamine is released, making couples feel elated and energetic about each other.
"That someone takes on special meaning to you and you focus on this individual because the dopamine system has been activated," says Helen Fisher, PhD, a biological anthropologist. “It is what triggers very goal oriented behavior, where no one else matters but your new partner.”
Dopamine can be present in both early-stage and long-term romantic love, she says.
"O" is for oxytocin
Oxytocin is a chemical that calms and bonds couples together by promoting intimacy.
"It is what hugging, kissing and touching are made of," says Fisher, a visiting research associate at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.
Oxytocin levels also rise in new moms, promoting milk production and bonding with babies.
So, if you feel the urge for a stay-at-home movie night to cuddle with your beau, it may be oxytocin at work.
Testosterone takes off
Although testosterone is thought of as a macho hormone, it helps stoke the fire in both sexes.
“It is just one of the many pieces for romantic love,” says Fisher. “Sex can drive up your testosterone levels.”
Men naturally have higher testosterone levels and trace amounts in saliva. One theory says that when people lock lips, the transfer of this hormone could increase sexual desire in a partner.
Tongue tied?
Another possible ingredient in the love potion is norepinephrine. (It’s still being studied).
This stress hormone increases the heart rate, and may be the reason you feel hot and flustered when that special person notices you.
Fisher says it might also be responsible for that butterflies-in-your-stomach sensation. “It can cause that awkward feeling,” she says. “Sweaty palms, dry mouth, fumbling words.“
The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a set of genes that controls cell-surface molecules, which the body uses to tell self from foreign invaders.
Our bodies exude MHC levels through sweat and body odor, as well as saliva. There are a wide variety of MHC types, but they tend to more closely match in people who are related.
Based on scent and taste, studies suggest we can pick up on MHC levels in other people, and it’s thought that the more you differ in MHC, the stronger the attraction.
Follow your nose
The saying is usually love at first sight, but your nose plays a part too. Pheromones, which are chemical messengers, are theorized—but not proven—to play a part in human sexual attraction. (They're major players in insect behavior.)
Fisher says she isn’t a fan of the pheromone theory, but believes smell is a part of love.
“Once you fall for someone, their smell can be a powerful thing,” says Fisher. “Women will wear their boyfriends T-shirts and throughout tales in history men have held on to their lover’s handkerchief.”
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How Prince George's 1st birthday will compare to Prince William's
July 01, 2014 - 12:09 BST hellomagazine.com A comparison of Prince George's first birthday compared to his father, Prince William's.
In a few short weeks, Britain's favourite Little royal, Prince George, will celebrate his first birthday.
Like any other family, the Cambridges are expected to celebrate the momentous occasion with a party. The bash is expected will be a small affair, attended by just close family and friends of Prince William and Duchess of Cambridge, neé Kate Middleton.
The celebration in the midst of his loved ones will make George's special day markedly different from when his father turned one ,though. The second-in-line to the throne spent the day with his nanny given that his parents were in Canada on 21 June 1983.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with Prince George and their dog Lupo
As Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana were overseas, they called their young son on the day to wish him a happy birthday.
In a BBC report on their day in Canada, it was revealed that they spoke to Barbara Barnes, William's nanny, but Prince Charles said they could only "hear a few squeaks" from William.
Victor Chapman, Prince Charles' press officer, said at the time: "They felt the trip is too short to take Prince William. They will be spending much of their time on the royal yacht Britannia and the seas can get pretty rough this time of the year."
Prince Charles and Princess Diana
He also added that Charles and Diana were very unhappy to be away for their first son's first birthday, but the pair made up for it on 10 July when they held a belated event at which all of the royal family were together to join in the festivities.
Described as an "affectionate, high-spirited child," William was raised as normally as possible by his parents, who often broke with tradition to ensure he enjoyed greater freedom growing up tan previous generations of the royal family.
Diana called her young son twice daily whenever she was away from him, and Earl Edward Spencer, Diana's father, said that William's parents were "quite potty" over him.
Prince William with his nanny Barbara Barnes
Kate and William are equally smitten with their first son, who was last spotted with his parents in Cirencester on Father's Day.
As the future King turns one, his big day is likely to be marked with a set of official photographs, as Kate, William, and their families gather to mark his milestone first year.
Kate's younger sister Pippa Middleton hinted at what Prince George could expect at his party on 22 July this year, if his parents follow her advice.
"Your one-year-old will feel most at ease with people they know well, so keep their first birthday party familiar and intimate," Pippa posted on The Party Times, the online magazine that promotes her parents' party planning business.
She added: "Usually, a small crowd consisting of close family and a few friends with babies of the same age is enough."
No matter what sort of party Kate and William host for George, his first birthday is likely to be very different from William's experience.
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Female Hospitality Leaders: Climbing the Ladder in a #MeToo World
By Miranda Kitterlin, Ph.D. Assoc. Professor, Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, FIU | April 28, 2019
This article was co-authored by Lisa Cain, Assistant Professor, Florida International University
I recently ran into a former hospitality student who was working at a cell phone store. This was surprising to me, as she had been an exceptional student, and I knew from conversations that she had previously worked in a luxury lodging property, with aspirations for eventual promotion into management. What really stood out was the level of passion she had for her job, and for the industry, so finding her in this workplace setting left me eager to inquire as to the reason for the change.
I wish I could say that her story was novel, or surprising.
My former student, we'll call her Jane, was excelling in her position, and was on track to achieve all of her career goals. This was until she began being harassed by a male co-worker. I will not provide details, but the male co-worker's behavior made Jane so uncomfortable that she went to her direct supervisor three times to discuss it.
The supervisor responded by attempting to schedule them on opposite shifts, telling Jane to ignore the behavior, and asking Jane if she would prefer to transfer to a different department or property. None of these options appealed to Jane, who just wanted to come to work and do well at a job she loved.
At this point you may be asking yourself: Why didn't she go to human resources?
This is what I asked Jane. Her reply was that she feared retaliation from her supervisor, who had made it clear that he was not going to pursue the issue in a formal manner. Her concern was that he would make her work life even more uncomfortable, or that he may even deny that she had come to him with her complaints.
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Home > Careers > A fresh start in fragrance: How masters alum Nicole Tobar made her biggest career move
A fresh start in fragrance: How masters alum Nicole Tobar made her biggest career move
Katie Reynolds, 2 years ago 5 min read
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Many future-focused professionals come to Hult to accelerate a career change. In fact, an impressive 98% of our alumni change location, industry, or function when they graduate.
Before Hult, Class of 2017 alumna Nicole Tobar was working for a major tobacco company in her native Ecuador. Having progressed to a senior branding role, she decided she was ready for a new challenge. “I think what drove me was the search for the next milestone in my career,” she recalls. “I wanted a platform that would allow me to discover new places and industries.”
So, she packed her bags and headed to Boston to start her Masters in International Business at Hult.
After the intensive one-year program, Nicole landed her dream-job at beauty giant L’Oréal as Product Manager for Lancôme Fragrances. Now based in Miami, Nicole credits her time at Hult with helping her develop the skills, network, and confidence she needed to make her biggest career move.
“Not only have I had the opportunity to switch industries, but I am discovering a new amazing city: Miami,” Nicole says.
“All the tools and soft skills I developed at Hult were definitely key to tailoring my professional profile and getting me where I am today.”
We had the chance to ask Nicole a few questions about her time at Hult and how her studies became the catalyst for a career change.
What is it like studying business at Hult?
Dynamic and diverse. I think it is the only school in the world where you are immersed in such a diverse environment, which gives you the chance to work with people from all over the world.
Hult helped me see the world and embrace life as part of the #GlobalGeneration.
Even though I had worked in a multinational company before, this was the first time I was actually involved in an international environment. Cultural differences, language barriers, and different ways of working were obstacles, but we learned to overcome them through empathy.
The program is also tailored to help you develop the leadership skills that will be key in the next step in your career. I considered many schools before choosing Hult, and I am happy to say I made the right choice. I was searching for a hands-on curriculum where I can put my learning to work every day, and that is exactly what I got.
“The program is tailored to help you develop the leadership skills that will be key in the next step in your career.”
Were you involved in any clubs or societies on campus?
I was very involved with the school. I started in the Marketing Club as their PR manager, where I was able to bring in very cool companies like Hubspot to campus. Later on, I got involved with the Hult Prize and worked as head volunteer in the regionals in Boston.
Part of the team behind the Hult Prize regionals in Boston.
But my favorite part of getting involved at Hult was having the opportunity to work with Career Services as part of their Corporate Relations team.
Did the Career Development Team help you make this big move in your career?
Yes, the Career Team was amazing! If I had to chose three services that made a huge difference for me, I would say:
Career Strategy Sessions with my advisor. This was the best tool to help set myself goals, strategize my next steps, and learn how to tailor my profile to different opportunities.
On-campus recruitment events. These were, by far, one of my favorite campus events. Not only was I recruited through one of these events, but they are a great opportunity to network with professionals from different industries.
Alumni Bootcamp events. These proved to be the best opportunity to expand my network and better understand where I wanted to be next. Plus, having the opportunity to see the success of Hult alumni who came back to share their story really encouraged me to challenge myself.
My dream job! I was recruited by L’Oreal as part of a campus event.
How has your time at Hult changed you or helped you achieve your goals?
I think the best example is where I am now: Hult helped me land the job of my dreams.
The program changed me in many ways. Living abroad and making friends—who have become family—from all over the world was amazing. I think Hult opened my mind to a world of endless possibilities.
Fun fact: I also met my boyfriend during my masters. He’s from Norway, so our paths wouldn’t have crossed without Hult!
I also learned to lead diverse groups, understand my own role within a team, and determine how I could I match my areas of improvement with other’s strengths to achieve success. Ultimately, Hult helped me develop emotional intelligence, which I can apply in any working team or environment.
“Hult helped me land the job of my dreams and develop emotional intelligence, which I can apply in any working team or environment.”
How would you finish this sentence? “To me, Hult is…”
…my favorite adventure so far!
Interested in finding out more about the exciting career paths of Hult alumni? Download our latest Global Careers Report.
Make the most of what your career has to offer with a Masters in International Business from Hult. To learn more, take a look at our blog From NYC to NGO: Around the world with a Hult MBA, or give your employability a huge boost with an MBA in international business. Download a brochure or get in touch today to find out how Hult can help you to explore everything about the business world, the future, and yourself.
Katie Reynolds
Written by Hult contributing blogger Katie Reynolds who is a freelance writer based in London. Originally from Michigan in the U.S., she relocated to the U.K. in 2010 to pursue a master’s degree at Hertford College, Oxford. Today, she writes on topics including business, higher education, healthcare, and culture.
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Job Title: Branch Treasurer, SSAFA Somerset
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Contact Name: Nigel Noble
Contact Email: nigel.noble@somerset.ssafa.org.uk
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There are some ninety SSAFA branches in the UK, and their core purpose is to provide a caseworking service to former members of HM Forces and their families. Branches are staffed largely by volunteers. Many are former members of HM Forces themselves, but increasingly new volunteers are coming from a wide variety of professions and trades.
SSAFA Somerset
The Somerset Branch is chaired by Rear Admiral Andrew Gough. It is administered by the Branch Secretary, John Forrest, a retired senior police officer. The Branch has four divisions: Bath & Frome, North Somerset, South Somerset and Taunton & West Somerset. Each division is led by a divisional secretary who coordinates the work of volunteer caseworkers. A caseworker will meet with the individual (the ‘client’) and assess their needs. On-line applications are then made to relevant grant giving military and/or civilian charities for support. The whole process of applying for funds is known as 'almonisation'. In 2018 the branch handled 236 cases.
Finance operations are controlled via the Branch Finance Hub, which turns over @ £300k p.a. Two home-based, part-time, Assistant Treasurers are employed to carry out the bulk of the accounting work and liaise with caseworkers. The main role of the volunteer Branch Treasurer is one of oversight, accounting for administrative and restricted funds, and preparing management reports.
Strategic Role
The Branch Treasurer is a member of the Executive Committee and advises the Chair on financial strategy and budgetary matters.
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This is a very rewarding, home-based role, and one that requires some flexibility in terms of time across the year. The SSAFA financial year is from 1st January – 31st December. The post holder will also attend @ four meetings a year and take part in the AGM (April), and the annual training day (October). On average the post holder will need to commit @ five hours a week to the role. Ideally, he or she should be resident in Somerset or on its borders.
Key Skill Requirements
A desire to support ex-members of HM Forces. Familiarity with accounting processes and the management of funds. Some experience of digital accounting systems. A team player and good line manager. Ability to balance strategic requirements against financial reality and advise accordingly.
For further information please contact the current Branch Treasurer, Nigel Noble, on 01963 31071 or email him on nigel.noble@somerset.ssafa.org.uk.
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Apple Pay Plans to Launch in Canada This November: WSJ [u]
by Gary Ng – Fri, April 17, 2015
This could be the strongest confirmation Apple Pay is coming to Canada—according to The Wall Street Journal, the mobile payment service is said to launch this fall, marking the first time the service would launch internationally:
Apple Inc. is planning to launch its mobile payments service in Canada this fall, marking the start of its international expansion of Apple Pay, according to people familiar with the matter.
The company is in negotiations with Canada’s six biggest banks about a potential November launch of the service which would enable mobile payments for both credit and debit cards using iPhones and the forthcoming Apple Watch, those people said.
Sources say Apple is in talks with Canada’s biggest banks: Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and National Bank of Canada, which accounts for over 90% of retail bank accounts.
Delays in negotiations are said to involve Apple’s fee proposals and potential security vulnerabilities some U.S. banks faced during rollout (in other words, banks not confirming identity fraud). These banks are also worried about Apple Pay’s “onerous” commercial agreements say sources, as potential higher costs could be incurred versus U.S. banks. One source cites a 15 to 25 basis points on credit card transactions to Apple for Canadian banks, versus 15 basis points in the U.S.
However, these ‘Big Six’ banks have collaborated together and hired McKinsey & Co., a consultancy firm to create a security protocol for Apple Pay, say sources, which could help them leverage discussions with Apple.
Canadian banks want Apple Pay to have “secondary authentication” to verify a customer’s identity before credit cards can be used on Apple Pay, meaning one extra tedious step to setup the service and potentially a higher cost for financial institutions.
People familiar with the matter say talks are ongoing and it’s uncertain all six banks will debut Apple Pay at the same time.
This is by far the biggest confirmation Apple Pay is in the works for Canada, as previous rumours cited a March launch but never materialized. Apple Pay is a crucial feature missing for Canadians using the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and soon Apple Watch, set to arrive next week for initial pre-orders.
If Apple Pay were to arrive in the fall, it would make sense for the announcement to come during Apple’s next iPhone special event. Are you excited for Apple Pay in Canada? Some eager Canadians are already using the service unofficially here with their approved U.S. credit cards, as most point-of-sale terminals here already support NFC, which is a requirement to support Apple Pay.
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The only choice for US President can be Hillary Clinton
If there was an interview for the position of POTUS Clinton would be the only one to get the gig.
If there was an interview for the position of POTUS Hillary Clinton would be the only one to get the gig. iStock
Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Hillary Clinton is the most experienced and knowledgeable candidate in the field for president.
If the job were available through a job interview only she would ace it. She ticks all the boxes: experience, intellect, insight. She has handled high-powered jobs before.
If this was a horse race Clinton would be 20 lengths ahead. Her Democratic opponent Bernie Sanders has passed one bill on veteran’s affairs during his time in the Senate. Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson never served a political day in their lives. Senator Ted Cruz seems to be running for pastor as much as president, and Senator Marco Rubio is beginning to look like Dan Quayle.
Meanwhile, Governor Chris Christie comes across as a bully, and Carly Fiorina seems like a poor imitation of Margaret Thatcher. Governor John Kasich alone has experience as both a senior House representative and governor, and is Clinton’s only likely match which of course makes him unelectable to Republicans.
There is so much agita and anger over Clinton whipped up by the likes of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh that some folks seem to honestly believe she is the anti-Christ.
At the moment most of their freak-outs revolve around emails. It now appears that other secretaries of state, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, also received classified information through personal accounts, though they were classified later.
Powell convinced the UN Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and helped start the Iraq war. Rice ignored evidence that Bin Laden was ready to attack America -- yet we rarely hear such truths told.
Likewise, President George W. Bush got us into war where up to one million Iraqis died and 5,0000 Americans were killed. The American economy almost collapsed under his watch.
Clinton’s mistake was to have no such massive crises other than Benghazi where five people were killed.
Her crime is being around too long. She and her husband have been in national politics since 1991. The Republican hierarchy despises the Clintons because they made Democrats electable again. Since Bill won in 1992 they have won every election, including the popular vote in 2000 which Bush won via the Supreme Court because of disputes over Florida votes. Bush did win re-election after 9/11.
Now the nightmare has begun to recur again as Hillary seems bound to take the Democratic nomination. She’d be the first to admit she does not match her husband’s brilliant oratory in speech making, but she has a fire in her eyes. She knows this is her last rodeo win or lose, and she is throwing everything at it.
I campaigned for Hillary last Saturday in New Hampshire with a group of Irish Americans. Backstage afterwards she lingered with supporters including her Irish group which had come from New York.
I'm proud to say I was a co-founder of Irish Americans for Bill Clinton back in 1991 at Fitzpatrick's Hotel. It has been a long and remarkable journey especially through the peace process years when the Clinton backing was critical.
As for her Republican opponents, Clinton says anger is not a strategy which is all some of the GOP candidates seem to have to offer.
As the race moves to South Carolina and Nevada I fully expect her to quickly take control. Sanders is no Barack Obama, and the ethnic mix from now on changes dramatically from 95 percent white electorate in New Hampshire.
Sanders has done Clinton a valuable service, sharpening her game for the attacks to come and she seems ready to assume control of the race. But this being politics, no one can ever be truly certain.
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Lead in Drinking Water
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The water infrastructure most in need of upgrading happens to be in New Jersey’s oldest cities — which are in many cases the most distressed places in the state. They have high rates of poverty and disinvestment, meaning the resources available to pay for these upgrades are extremely limited.
But even in New Jersey’s suburbs, the pipes that carry drinking water and collect sewage and stormwater are aging and in need of costly upgrades and repair. Too often, out of sight has meant out of mind when it comes to maintenance.
Jersey Water Works is helping to identify practical and innovative financing practices to help these places complete the necessary upgrades. Upgraded water systems provide a basis for greater economic growth, so the financing mechanisms represent an investment in our cities’ future.
Utility Strengthening through Consolidation: A Breifing Paper
Despite being an important tool for sustainable water management, utility consolidation is one of the most difficult topics to discuss in the sector. Communities considering options to better meet their water service needs struggle to find fact-based information. Historically, consolidation has put different interests in the water sector in opposition and been difficult to undertake. The US Water Alliance developed this briefing paper to support informed, fact-based dialogue on the consolidation of water utility service in America. This document is organized as follows:
Guiding Principles.
Understanding Water Utility Consolidation.
Utility Strengthening through Utility Consolidation: A Briefing Paper (US Water Alliance, 2019)
Opportunities for Strategic Energy Management in the Municipal Water Sector
This report, Opportunities for Strategic Energy Management in the Municipal Water Sector, focuses on the opportunity to integrate Strategic Energy Management (SEM) into the municipal water-wastewater sector by providing recommendations and resources for key stakeholders, namely municipalities and those working within the facilities and utility program administrators who are in a strong position to support adoption. The report presents findings related to energy use in water and wastewater treatment facilities, barriers preventing SEM implementation in the municipal sector, and opportunities to address those barriers and expand SEM adoption in water-wastewater treatment facilities in the Northeast & Mid-Atlantic region.
2018 Stormwater Utility Survey
This 2018 stormwater utility survey was conducted online, in the United States, during May through July of 2018. The results are presented under the following six sections:
Section 1: Organization and Operations presents a general profile of the respondents including population, size and characteristics of service area.
Section 2: Planning presents insights into what utility managers perceive to be the most important industry issues and stormwater infrastructure investment drivers. This section also highlights utility governance, the types of permit requirements that utilities have to comply with and the planning activities utilities engage in to address stormwater management. In addition, a new question was added this year regarding public-related partnership agreements (Question 13).
Section 3: Finance and Accounting reviews stormwater utility revenues, expenditures, sources of funding, and the adequacy of stormwater funding to meet utility obligations.
Section 4: Stormwater Rate Structure and Billing presents the types of costs recovered through user fees, the fee methodology used in setting rates, the rate structures and billing practices, and the average monthly residential rate of each utility that participated in the survey. Information on the types of exemptions and discounts that utilities offer, and insights on legal challenges are also provided. Calculated bills reflect rates in effect as of June 1, 2018.
Section 5: Stormwater Credits and Incentives offers insights into the types of credits, criteria used in offering credits, and innovative credit programs.
Section 6: Public Information/Education assesses the methods of education and multi-media sources used in educating and in disseminating information.
EPA Fact Sheet: Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
This fact sheet, Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, describes the DWSRF program’s structure, including its water system and project eligibilities. It lists the multiple financial assistance mechanisms available to communities for their infrastructure and non-infrastructure water needs.
Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure: Information on Identified Needs, Planning for Future Conditions, and Coordination of Project Funding
The U.S. Government Accountability Office was asked to review federal programs that provide funding for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure.
This report describes (1) how federal agencies and selected states identify drinking water and wastewater infrastructure needs; (2) how federal agencies have supported selected states’ planning for future conditions that may affect needs; and (3) the extent to which federal and state agencies have coordinated in
funding projects, and any challenges they faced.
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ABOUT IVAN HENARES
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PHILIPPINE HERITAGE
Manila: Heritage updates from Manila
So much has happened the past few days. I've been so busy with work, school and all my organizations. Anyway, here's a run-down of some developments in the news:
1. Rizal Avenue old-timers welcome reopening (Phil. Daily Inquirer, 07/19/2007)
Many people have been asking about the stand of the Heritage Conservation Society regarding the reopening of the pedestrianized portion of Avenida to vehicular traffic. In all honesty, HCS does not have a stand as of yet. And admittedly, many in the HCS Board had not seen the pedestrianized Avenida for us to say something about it. So we asked Archt. Dinky von Einsiedel for his comments, he being the urban planner in the HCS Board. Here is what he said:
"I was still living abroad when I learned of the pedestrianization of Rizal Avenue. Since that time, I have been trying to get a copy of the study that led to the 'Buhayin and Maynila' program of Mayor Atienza which the Rizal Avenue project is supposed to be part of. I've been wanting to understand the background for it and whether there had been any stakeholder consultations for it. But I have not had any success. It appears that there has been no such study. And that there has been no consultation either.
"The concept and practice of pedestrianization is well-entrenched in other cities in Europe, USA, and in more recently even in China. Its a popular approach for inner city revitalization. I assumed the Rizal Avenue case had the same set of objectives. But it seems that it was purely a beautification effort. Concededly, the construction of the LRT 'killed' businesses along the avenue especially during construction. After it was completed, the structure made the avenue dark and, while business resumed, it was not as brisk as before. I interpret this to be the reason for the need to beautify the area - to make it more pleasant for shoppers. I thought it did a good job, at least when I saw it after it was inaugurated.
"But I learned later how the project was decided. The story was narrated to me by the contractor who undertook the beautification works. They were driving down Rizal Avenue one day and Atienza asked his advice on what can be done to beautify the avenue. He suggested to pedestrianize it, put in benches and plants, beautify the columns and put in lights to brighten up the underside of the LRT structure. He added that he had a lot of leftover materials from his other projects that could be used immediately. Atienza agreed and the project proceeded.
"I understand the Baywalk was similarly decided like that, as well as other projects under the 'Buhayin ang Maynila' program. There has been no comprehensive study, no plan, no consultation, nothing; just pure and simple impulsive decisions on a project-to-project basis. That's why it's prone to be derailed especially when the principal stakeholders (e.g. business owners) don't support the idea."
2. Court issues TRO stopping work on Intramuros project (Phil. Daily Inquirer, 07/20/2007)
Kudos to Secretary Joseph Durano for seeking a TRO versus Dean Barbers' illegal project in Intramuros! As the article notes: "The court said Barbers had violated the provisions of Presidential Decree No. 1616, as amended, and its implementing rules that prohibit any form of construction or repair in Intramuros without a development permit from the IA. The decree declares the entire Intramuros area as a major historical landmark."
3. Demolition of condemned Manila buildings sought (Phil. Daily Inquirer, 07/21/2007)
The Sangguniang Panlungsod of Manila passed a resolution calling for the demolition of all condemned buildings and infrastructure in the city. At face value, the resolution seems to be the right thing to do. But the problem is, many heritage buildings were inappropriately condemned by the Manila City Engineer's Office which has no appreciation whatsoever for heritage.
As Prof. Butch Zialcita mentions: "I'm afraid that the list will include [heritage] buildings. Right beside the Nakpil house is the beautiful but dilapidated Boix House which the Jesuits have inherited. City Hall engineers claim this is unsafe. But Archt. Mico Manalo, who inspected it, says it is perfectly sound except for the azotea. I am quite sure they have included other 1900s houses in Manila. Their engineers are ignorant about or are prejudiced against earlier types of buildings."
He adds, "Tourism on the North Bank of the Pasig has increased thanks precisely to these antique, but dilapidated, buildings. Carlos Celdran, Ivan Mandy, Tess Obusan and myself bring tourists (both local and foreign) around the old quarters of Manila. Regularly, members of the different embassies, French and Spanish, for instance, call us up because they want to see these 'dilapidated' but charming houses."
It would be a great loss to the City of Manila if these dilapidated heritage buildings are included in the call for demolition. It would be best if Manila restores these charming old buildings, just as other capital cities all over the world are doing.
4. Arroceros Forest Park regained (The Manila Times, 07/06/2007)
Arroceros welcomes visitors again! As Maribel Ongpin writes in her column, "For the Winner Foundation and its friends among the general public, the reopening and taking back of Arroceros Forest Park under the newly elected city administration was a bittersweet experience last Sunday, July 1. That justice has prevailed and that the public has its park back is indeed a sweet vindication of all their work and the vicissitudes they had to put up with in the past. But the changed circumstances of the park of 2.2 hectares which lost approximately 70 percent of its forest cover (as estimated by its landscape architect) to a building and a travesty of a garden was woeful."
She adds, "In this whole sorry business Mayor Atienza was the mastermind but the teachers who played the flunkeys are just as guilty for the carried out their deeds for self-serving reasons. 'There are no tyrants where there are no slaves' as Rizal acutely and sadly observed of some of his countrymen. Now the Winner Foundation picks up the pieces and moves to the future even as it rebuilds what was destroyed."
5. Resistance growing vs Atienza as DENR chief (Phil. Daily Inquirer, 07/20/2007)
After reading Maribel Ongpin's column, need we ask why? The "Butcher of Arroceros" is now DENR Secretary. Oh brother!
6. Adopt a lighthouse (Phil. Daily Inquirer, 07/23/2007)
According to Archt. Toti Villalon, there are "21 surviving Philippine lighthouses located in the deserted extremes of the Philippine archipelago, all rendered obsolete by 21st-century satellite or sonar navigational system." The answer of the Philippine Coast Guard to preserve them is the 'Adopt a Lighthouse' program.
As Villalon notes, "The Philippine lighthouses are Bagacay in Cebu; Bagato, Sorsogon; Batag, Northern Samar; Bugui Point, Masbate; Cabra, Mindoro Occidental; Calabasa, Iloilo; Canigao, Leyte; Cape Bojeador, Ilocos Norte; Cape Bolinao, Pangasinan; Corregidor, Manila; Cape Engaño, Cagayan; Melville, Palawan; Cape Santiago, Batangas; Capones, Zambales; Capul, Northern Samar; Donsol, Sorsogon; Jintotolo, Masbate; Malabrigo, Batangas; Pasig River, Manila; San Bernardino, Sorsogon; and Siete Pecados, Guimaras." Care to adopt one?
7. Pasig River runs through them (Philippine Star, 07/21/2007)
Paolo Alcazaren writes, "The Intramuros, or the walled city of Manila, is a national (and Asian) heritage site that was almost lost to the ravages of war and the post-war invasion of informal settlers. It has been slowly recovering its fabric in the ‘70s to today, hanging on desperately despite recurring threats from commercialization.
"Today, another threat is emerging, actually already rising in concrete and steel — a sports complex by the storied walls of Old Manila! The monstrous encroachment is reportedly the project of Dean Barbers, Philippine Tourism Authority general manager. Costing P85 million, the complex is being built in the Club Intramuros driving range area (itself already a blight on the landscape) and very close to the walls. The project, say sources, was rammed through despite the disapproval of the PTA board. How GM Barbers was able to do this seems incomprehensible to everyone but the contractor and workers at the construction site. Even the Intramuros Administration has issued an order for the work to stop but to no avail.
"Tourism Secretary Ace Durano apparently also seems powerless to prevent the disaster from happening. He had reportedly sent a memo to Barbers to stop construction, reminding Barbers that the project has no approval from the PTA board.
"I wish the P85 million had been spent on improving the parks and plazas of the Intramuros. The money could also go a long way to make the destination friendlier to local and foreign tourists by providing better street lighting, more security, an ikot type hop-on, hop-off shuttle inside the walls, or simply contribute to the whole areas upkeep, garbage collection and general maintenance.
"The DOT, to which the PTA is supposedly attached, has to act now or take command responsibility for this madness. The metropolis is replete with sports complexes and, correct me if I’m wrong, building these facilities is not a core function of a tourism body. Otherwise, it should be renamed the DOST, the Department of Sports and Tourism and its adjunct office, the PSTA, the Philippine Sports and Tourism Authority.
"Wow, only in da Pilipins!"
8. Mayor Lim creates Manila Historical and Heritage Commission
This is not yet in the news but I'm happy to announce that Mayor Alfredo Lim revived the Manila Historical Commission and renamed it Manila Historical and Heritage Commission. Carmen Guerrero-Nakpil will serve as chairperson. I'll send updates as soon as the group convenes. Kudos to Mayor Lim!
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Labels: Heritage Conservation Society, Manila, National Capital Region Posted by Ivan Henares at 12:29 AM
Whoa, very cool. Thanks for the information. I didn't know you could adopt a lighthouse. That's great!
A really excellent summary of recent issues Ivan. Dinky von Einsiedel's comments on Avenida are right on the money. I'm all in favor of pedestrianization but it has to be done in a proper and well thought out way. -- otherwise, as he says, if there is a change of regime the initiative will just be swept away. Unfortunately we live in a country that is addicted to quick fixes and superficial "projects".
Karlo 23.7.07
Hey it's a good news week. Hope it gets even better.
Ivan Henares 24.7.07
@ned hughes, if you know of companies and individuals who might want to adopt a lighthouse, do let them know about it.
@torn, I wonder how we could strengthen urban planning in the Philippines. With such a short-term mindset, our country looks so chopsuey!
@karlo, I hope we get more good news.
Very nice blog, Ivan. BTW, Celdran posted some nice pics of old Manila. You can probably link to some of it for this particular post.. Not sure.. regards
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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Takes a New Selfie Before Record Climb
This selfie was taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Feb. 26, 2020 (the 2,687th Martian day, or sol, of the mission). The crumbling rock layer at the top of the image is "the Greenheugh Pediment," which Curiosity climbed soon after taking the image.› Full image and caption
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Along with capturing an image before its steepest ascent ever, the robotic explorer filmed its "selfie stick," or robotic arm, in action.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recently set a record for the steepest terrain it's ever climbed, cresting the "Greenheugh Pediment," a broad sheet of rock that sits atop a hill. And before doing that, the rover took a selfie, capturing the scene just below Greenheugh.
In front of the rover is a hole it drilled while sampling a bedrock target called "Hutton." The entire selfie is a 360-degree panorama stitched together from 86 images relayed to Earth. The selfie captures the rover about 11 feet (3.4 meters) below the point where it climbed onto the crumbling pediment.
Curiosity finally reached the top of the slope March 6 (the 2,696th Martian day, or sol, of the mission). It took three drives to scale the hill, the second of which tilted the rover 31 degrees - the most the rover has ever tilted on Mars and just shy of the now-inactive Opportunity rover's 32-degree tilt record, set in 2016. Curiosity took the selfie on Feb. 26, 2020 (Sol 2687).
Since 2014, Curiosity has been rolling up Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain at the center of Gale Crater. Rover operators at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California carefully map out each drive to make sure Curiosity will be safe. The rover is never in danger of tilting so much that it would flip over - Curiosity's rocker-bogie wheel system enables it to tilt up to 45 degrees safely - but the steep drives do cause the wheels to spin in place.
How Are Selfies Taken?
Before the climb, Curiosity used the black-and-white Navigation Cameras located on its mast to, for the first time, record a short movie of its "selfie stick," otherwise known as its robotic arm.
Curiosity's mission is to study whether the Martian environment could have supported microbial life billions of years ago. One tool for doing that is the Mars Hand Lens Camera, or MAHLI, located in the turret at the end of the robotic arm. This camera provides a close-up view of sand grains and rock textures, similarly to how a geologist uses a handheld magnifying glass for a closer look in the field on Earth.
By rotating the turret to face the rover, the team can use MAHLI to show Curiosity. Because each MAHLI image covers only a small area, it requires many images and arm positions to fully capture the rover and its surroundings.
"We get asked so often how Curiosity takes a selfie," said Doug Ellison, a Curiosity camera operator at JPL. "We thought the best way to explain it would be to let the rover show everyone from its own point of view just how it's done."
This video shows how the robotic arm on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover moves as it takes a selfie. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
In this video, JPL imaging specialist Justin Maki explains how NASA's Mars Curiosity rover takes a selfie. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Located in Pasadena, California, Caltech manages JPL for NASA, and JPL, which built Curiosity, manages the project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.MAHLI was built by Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego.
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Katrina Schaman is a Canadian painter from Toronto, Ontario. Born in Kitchener in 1982, Katrina has always felt a great desire to create. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours from Queen's University and currently works from a private studio in Toronto.
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An eight-year-old YouTube star from Snodland is raising money for key workers by completing a series of challenges on her channel.
Lilly Buck set herself 10 tasks to complete in her home in two weeks with the hope of raising enough to create individual care hampers for NHS workers.
So far, Lilly has completed four out of 10 challenges
Some of the challenges she has already completed include learning the rainbow dance in sign language, hosting a live quiz on YouTube, reading a bedtime story and learning 10 TikTok dances.
So far, Lilly has raised nearly £300 pounds and has completed four out of 10 challenges with the help of younger sister Isabelle, 6, father Paul, 35, and mother Sam, 33.
Lilly's father says she wants to give the care packages to NHS staff at hospitals in Maidstone and Sheppey.
Mr Buck said: "She wanted to do something personal by giving as many workers on the frontline a gift as possible. We had the idea of hampers so they get an individual personal touch.
"Lilly hasn't decided what she wants to include in those packages yet but the more she raises, the more people she can give them to as a way of saying thank you. It'll probably be things like flowers, a box of chocolates and snacks.
"Some of the challenges were a bit far fetched at first so we narrowed it down to things she can actually achieve while at home. She films herself doing the challenges and then uploads it to show everyone.
"Everyday she's asking, what can we do now because she's really keen to keep going. She only set a target of £100 so we're all really proud of what she's achieved."
Lilly, who goes to St Katherine's School, is well on her way to completing all the tasks by her deadline of May 3.
Some of the other challenges Lilly is working towards include going up and down the stairs 1,400 times, riding a bike, asking 10 people to shave a part of their body, doing 100 skips, counting to 20 in Spanish and playing five tricks on her family.
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by admin · Published July 20, 2016 · Updated July 22, 2016
Indonesia is currently discussing with the International Maritime Organisation the rules for deployment of naval and coast guard vessels to escort small vessels delivering traded goods between Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, after a series of hijackings in the Sulu and Celebes seas by Abu Sayyaf group (ASG) pirates. Jakarta will also coordinate with ship-owners and coal mining associations to urge vessels to take safe routes away from areas known to have a large pirate presence.
PVI Analysis: ASG has kidnapped tens of Indonesian and Malaysian seamen from small vessels since March in a bid to raise funds through ransom. The hijackings have damaged Indonesia's exports of coal to the Philippines, 15 percent of which is transported on slow-moving barges and tug-boats. In April, Banjarmasin and Tarakan Ports suspended coal shipments to the Philippines.
Congo: Robber steals ship's property at Pointe Noire Anchorage 17 July
A robber armed with a knife boarded an anchored pipe laying barge at 0245 hrs local time at Pointe Noire Anchorage. Duty crew raised the alarm upon sighting the robber, causing the assailant to flee with the ship's stores.
PVI Analysis: Opportunistic robberies are often carried out overnight at anchorages when assailants are less likely to be sighted. Robberies are sporadically reported at Pointe Noire anchorage, with many similar thefts thought to go unreported.
Sao Tome and Principe: Suspicious boat approaches merchant vessel 16 July
A merchant vessel reported that it was approached by a boat at 0430 hrs local time, 30 nm southwest of the coast.
PVI Analysis: The report contained very few details of the type of boat and the speed of the approach, making it difficult to ascertain the vessel's intentions. The Gulf of Guinea has seen a spate of kidnap for ransom attacks targeting commercial vessels since January 2016.
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Brazil: Santos port fire disrupts Rumo terminal operations 14 July
A fire which broke out at 0400 hrs local time at Santos port disrupted operations at the Rumo sugar terminal, leading to a 4 percent increase in international sugar prices. Williams shipping service said the fire started at a conveyor belt used for receiving cargo at Rumo terminal. No one was injured and the blaze was brought under control after one hour.
Canada: Government admits to illegally issuing work permits to foreign crew 14 July
The Canadian government has stated that it illegally issued work permits to 11 foreign crew members on board a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in July 2015. The admission came after the Seafarers' International Union of Canada filed 42 lawsuits against the government, accusing it of systematically issuing work permits to foreign crew despite the availability of Canadian seafarers, breaching immigration laws. The 11 work permits will now be subject to judicial review.
Chile: Turbulent seas delayed copper exports in June 14 July
Choppy seas off the coast of Chile caused widespread delays to copper shipments in the second half of June. Cargoes were stranded and delayed at ports as storms prevented ships from loading. The decline in exports from Chile, which is the world's top copper producer, could potentially support prices in a market struggling to cope with oversupply.
China: Admiral warns freedom of navigation exercises could end in "disaster" 18 July
Admiral Sun Jianguo, the Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff Department of the powerful Central Military Commission, has warned that freedom of navigation operations carried out by the US and Japan in the South China Sea could end in "disaster". He was speaking at a closed door forum in Beijing. China has refused to recognise or accept the ruling by The Hague on 12 July which dismissed China's claims to the South China Sea as ill-founded. The US Navy in particular has come to the aid of claimants the Philippines and Vietnam, carrying out numerous freedom of navigation operations which have led to heightened tensions with the Chinese military.
China: Beijing flies bomber over disputed Scarborough Shoal 18 July
A People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force nuclear-capable bomber flew over the disputed Scarborough Shoal days after a court in The Hague ruled against China's controversial claims to the South China Sea. The H-6K bomber flew over the shoal, as revealed in photographs by China's State Council Information Office, two days after China also tested its two newly built air strips on the shoal, part of the country's reclamation and construction activities on islands claimed by the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. There has been no comment as yet from Manila or Beijing.
China: Beijing to begin three-day South China Sea military drill on 19 July 18 July
China will conduct three days of military drills in the South China Sea beginning on 19 July, according to the Maritime Safety Agency. The navy will reportedly close maritime access to the area where the drills are being held, off the east coast of Hainan island. The drill comes amid heightened tensions with the US, the Philippines and Vietnam over The Hague's ruling that China's claims to the South China Sea are ill-founded. Beijing has refused to recognise or accept the ruling.
China: State media claims Beijing may build nuclear plants in South China Sea 15 July
State-run media company Global Times claimed that the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) is planning on building marine nuclear power platforms in the disputed South China Sea, days after a court in The Hague ruled that China's claims to the sea are ill-founded. According to quotes from the CNNC, the nuclear power platforms would be used to "ensure fresh water" for Chinese troops, though the article did not specify if this meant the electricity would power a desalination plant. The article was deleted from CNNC's social media accounts after it was published and a CNNC staffer told AFP that the article's accuracy needed to be confirmed.
China: Forwarder warns G20 summit will disrupt Hangzhou's cargo flows in September 14 July
UK freight and supply chain manager Ligentia has warned that the G20 summit in Hangzhou on 4-5 September will disrupt import and export cargo flows due to planned control measures. The measures include closing chemical factories in the JinshanZone in Shanghai, reducing port power, closing polluting factories, banning high-polluting vehicles and restricting traffic access.
China: Beijing affirms intention to establish South China Sea air defence zone 13 July
Vice-Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin has said China has the right to set up an air defence zone in the South China Sea, over which it maintains its sovereignty claim despite a ruling against Beijing by The Hague on 12 July. Liu said the air defence zone would be established if China's security is threatened, amid heightened tensions with the US and the Philippines over its island-building activities. China's naval presence and construction activities in the Paracels, the Spratlys and Scarborough Shoal create a triangle of control which would be the likely site for the air defence zone. It remains unclear how the US and the Philippines will respond to the plans.
Indonesia: Coal miners protest possible ban on Philippines trade 16 July
Indonesian coal mining association (ABKI) called on the government not to suspend exports of the commodity to the Philippines following a wave of attacks by armed groups on vessels. Since March, 24 Indonesian sailors have been kidnapped, 10 of whom remain in the custody of armed groups in the southern Philippines. Indonesia has threatened to halt coal exports, most of which are shipped via the Sulu Sea, if the Philippines fails to increase security and prevent future pirate attacks.
Indonesia: Jakarta to speed up development of Natuna islands amid sovereignty dispute 14 July
Indonesian Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Rizal Ramli has announced that authorities will speed up the development of the Natuna islands in the South China Sea in order to strengthen its jurisdictional claims, after clashes with Chinese vessels near the islands since May. Rizal said the development programme aims to establish Natuna as the second biggest fishing market in the world after Tokyo through a deployment of 400 fishing vessels to the area. Other developments will include tourism and oil and gas. The announcement comes the day after President Joko Widodo ordered the deployment of warships and aircraft to the Natuna islands, and announced his plans to build ports and a runway on the main Natuna Island.
Indonesia: Authorities to boost security around Natuna Islands after South China Sea ruling 13 July
Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu has said Indonesia will bolster defences around the Natuna Islands in the South China Sea after the ruling against China by the Permanent Court of Arbitration on 12 July. The planned boost in security comes after an upsurge in clashes between Chinese and Indonesian vessels near the islands, introducing a new front to China's multi-faceted maritime disputes which since 2013 have focused on Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam. Indonesia plans to deploy warships, a F-16 fighter jet, surface-to-air missiles and unmanned aircraft to the islands, as well as constructing an airstrip and new ports in the coming year. China has rejected The Hague's ruling and is set to maintain or even intensify its naval activities in the South China Sea.
Indonesia: Jakarta begins legal proceedings against 27 ships for crimes 13 July
The Maritime Security Board (Bakamla) has launched legal proceedings against 27 boats which engaged in crimes between January and June 2016, including illegal fishing, logging, drug trafficking, the smuggling of other contraband such as cigarettes and fuel, as well as undocumented sailing. Bakamla chief Brigadier General Arifin said the 27 boats were seized during the first half of 2016, though specific locations for the seizures were not provided.
Libya: Telecoms company begins repairs on marine cable landing at Derna 18 July
The Libyan International Telecoms Company (LITC) has announced it is starting repair works on the marine cable landing point in the eastern city of Derna, after it was damaged during clashes between rival militia forces in October 2013. The marine cable is the first international telecoms link for the eastern region stretching across the Mediterranean to Greece's Crete. It has a capacity of 70 GB per second which can be expanded to 1.2 TB per second, according to LITC.
Libya: PFG close Hariga terminal over unpaid salaries 17 July
Local media site Libya Herald said that members of the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) closed the Hariga terminal in Tobruk to protest against unpaid salaries. The port closure left one vessel waiting to take on oil and another waiting offshore. The workers said that they have not received salaries in five months. There were no immediate signs of negotiations with the workers. Libya has suffered from a major liquidity crisis in recent months amid an ongoing dispute over control of the Central Bank's assets.
Mexico: Navy seizes 900 kg of cocaine near Puerto Arista 13 July
The Mexican navy said it recovered some 900 kg of cocaine found floating off the country's southern Pacific coast. A total of 33 plastic-wrapped bales of cocaine were detected 165 nm southeast of Puerto Arista, Chiapas, and had allegedly been left for subsequent retrieval by Mexican drug traffickers. The consignment was discovered as a result of routine monitoring and interdiction efforts along the coast.
Peru: Seven missing in boat explosion in Iquitos 16 July
Seven people are missing and 13 have been injured after two explosions caused a tourist boat to sink near Iquitos in the Amazon. The cruise boat, owned by Aqua Expeditions, ran out of fuel before two explosions caused a hole in the vessel's hull. The seven people missing are presumed to have been trapped on the sinking boat. Authorities said they were working to contain the oil split during the accident.
Peru: Gunmen rob tourists on Amazon cruise 14 July
Eight masked gunmen in two speedboats robbed tourists on a luxury riverboat cruise, Amazon Discovery, on the Amazon River. The riverboat had left the city of Iquitos on 13 July with around 30 tourists on board. When the boat anchored in the middle of the river for one stop, the gunmen boarded it and stole goods worth around USD 20,000. They also beat the captain with a pistol while crew were prevented from activating the distress button. None of the tourists were hurt, and police arrived soon after the incident and evacuated the travellers to a safe location.
Philippines: Beijing blocks Filipino vessels in Scarborough Shoal 15 July
Chinese coast guard vessels prevented Filipino boats from fishing around the contested Scarborough Shoal 230 km northwest of the Philippines mainland. The dispute over the shoal was one of the primary motivations in Manila's recent legal challenge against Beijing. Although the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled on 12 July against China's claims to vast areas of the South China Sea, Beijing has said it would ignore the ruling.
South Korea: Tens of thousands of auto, shipbuilding workers to strike on 19-22 July 18 July
Tens of thousands of workers for automotive and shipbuilding conglomerates are set to hold four-hour strikes every day from 19 to 22 July to protest over pay. About 75 percent of Hyundai Motor's 48,800 workers will participate after months-long negotiations failed to meet their demands for a 7.2 percent pay rise. Some 60 percent of 15,000 unionised workers at Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's largest shipbuilder by sales, will also strike to demand better wage rises and bonuses and protest lay-offs. Hyundai Heavy Industries has been forced into thousands of redundancies in recent years due to the country's restructuring of the shipbuilding industry, causing two years of losses for the firm totalling USD 4.4 bn.
Taiwan: Taipei vows to protect interests in South China Sea 13 July
President Tsai Ing-wen has vowed to defend Taiwan's sovereignty over Taiping Island in the South China Sea, the day after The Hague ruled against China's claims in the sea on 12 July. Taiwan also affirmed that the ruling did not apply to Taiwan, referring to the persistent claims by Beijing that Taiwan belongs to the mainland. Taiping Island is the largest feature in the Spratlys, which are claimed by China and the Philippines, and has been occupied by Taiwanese forces since 1956. There is also disagreement over Taiping being considered an island or a rock, which changes the feature's entitlement to an exclusive economic zone. President Tsai dispatched a navy frigate to the island following the ruling.
Turkey: Flights, shipping return to normal post-coup attempt 16 July
Turkey began to gradually restore normal operations at land, sea and air crossings following a failed military coup. Flights at Istanbul's international airport resumed after a nearly 24-hour halt, though most foreign carriers refused to fly to either Istanbul or Ankara following heavy fighting in both cities over late 15 and early 16 July. Maritime authorities reopened Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait to transiting tankers after shutting it for several hours, while the land border with Bulgaria was also reopened after a temporary closure.
Turkey: Bosphorus Strait temporarily shuts to tankers 16 July
Turkish Maritime authorities shut Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait to tankers for security purposes following an attempted coup by a faction of the armed forces. Some bulk cargo carriers were still being allowed to pass through the important maritime channel dividing Istanbul.
Turkey: Authorities seize 3.3 mn packs of smuggled cigarettes on Bosphorus 14 July
Authorities confiscated 3.3 mn packs of smuggled cigarettes from a Ukraine-flagged cargo vessel which was passing through the Bosphorus Strait. The cigarettes were worth around USD 9.9 mn. The vessel was en route to Skadovsk Port in Ukraine from the Turkish Cypriot port of Famagusta when it was stopped by authorities acting upon intelligence regarding the smuggled consignment. Six people on board the vessel were detained.
United Kingdom: Unions vote for North Sea strike action 14 July
Unite and RMT union members voted with a significant majority in support of industrial action over pay and conditions. Such action would likely affect up to seven of Royal Dutch Shell's platforms in the Brent oilfield. The vote was in reaction to allegations that Shell was hiring employees as part of a contingency plan to prevent disruption to their operations should strikes go ahead. If the strike takes place it would be the first offshore work stoppage since the 1990s.
United States: Unions, politicians oppose Port of Chicago privatisation proposals 14 July
The International Longshoreman's Association and local politicians are opposing plans for a private sector partnership with the Port of Chicago, stating the port will fare better under state control. The Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel has been looking to privatise the port since 2012, although previous attempts to do so have fallen through due to the port's history of poor oversight and inaccurate record keeping. The port's board held a closed meeting on 15 July to discuss the move in a bid to make the port profitable after years of financial losses.
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Oct 19, 2010 (LBO) – SriLankan Airlines plans to improve connections to major Indian cities by adding several flights to Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore, a statement said. Also, large numbers of Indian travellers transit Colombo to destinations as far as North America, Europe and the Far East, as well as nearer regions such as the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The island’s national carrier, one of the largest overseas operators into India, will add three more flights a week to Mumbai, and one more to both Chennai and Bangalore, starting December 01.
We are expanding our operations to India,” SriLankan’s Head of Worldwide Sales Mohamed Fazeel said.
“Our aim is to provide several flights a day to all major cities there to allow travellers to choose which time of day they would prefer to fly.
“We intend to add additional flights on each route wherever possible next year.
SriLankan also recently announced that it will be acquiring seven more aircraft by the end of 2011, including five Airbus A320s that would serve Indian destinations.
December’s additional flights would bring the Mumbai service up to 10 flights a week from the earlier daily
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She Looks Like a Totally New Person
On tonight’s episode of My 600-lb Life, the TLC series aired “Carrie’s Story,” which followed a 37-year-old Texan named Carrie who was not only battling with her weight (a little over 600 pounds), but her marriage as well. My 600-lb Life shows us how Carrie got to this difficult place — and it really had a lot to do with some serious life trauma.
Carrie started eating heavily when she was young (she weighed 400 pounds by the time she went to college), and became pregnant at a young age. She raised her daughter on her own until she met a man online who became abusive toward her and threatened her and her daughter’s life. She was brave enough to leave the relationship. Soon after, her dad had gastric bypass surgery and passed away due to complications (he developed an infection which went septic).
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It was a lot fo her to handle, and she continued to use food as a coping mechanism and continued to gain weight, allowing it to spiral out of control.
She met her now-husband Chris, and they tried to have a child together, but she miscarried. After this, the doctors found a tumor, and she had to have a hysterectomy. When the episode first started, she described how her day starts (her husband has to help wash her and she struggles to walk, as it’s painful for her joints). One of the reasons she wants to lose weight is to adopt a healthier lifestyle and to save her marriage with Chris (the two hadn’t been intimate in about a year).
Where is Carrie from ‘My 600-lb Life’ now?
After months of hard work, Carrie hit her goal weight of 442 pounds, and she and Chris have rekindled their relationship. After going through weight loss surgery and implementing exercise and a nutritional diet, Dr. Now told her that he was proud of her progress. Now, she gets to go to the mall with her daughter — somethings she hasn’t physically been able to do in years. She and Chris are also in a much better place.
See photos of Carrie from ‘My 600-lb Life’ now.
Carrie and Chris seem happy and are living a much more healthy lifestyle now. They’ve posted several recent photos of themselves on social media, some of which proclaim their love for each other (cute!).
This is the most recent photo of Carrie, which was uploaded to her Facebook page January 12, 2021 (the face tattoos and septum piercing seem to be some kind of filter).
This is a photo of Carrie and Chris in November 2020.
It seems like Carrie really found herself again, since eating food seemed to be the way she dealt with trauma and loss. From the sounds of it, Carrie is determined to stay on this path — not only for herself, but for Chris (who joined her in her weight loss journey) and her daughter.
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In the fast-growing, highly lucrative arena of real estate investment trusts, competition among law firms for established REIT practices is cutthroat — and turnabout is fair play.
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Six weeks after its REIT practice was decimated by the departure of a 10-lawyer team from its Raleigh office, Alston & Bird early this month attempted to raid seven REIT practitioners from Morris, Manning & Martin. The firm netted Rosemarie A. Thurston to lead its real estate securities practice, and associate Hugh S. O’Beirne.
The intervening action may require a scorecard to figure out.
Alston initially picked up two new REIT partners, Thurston and Lauren B. Prevost, and two of their five associates, O’Beirne and James H. Sinnott. Morris Manning then won Prevost back over the weekend, potentially preventing the loss of the rest of the team. And after a week at Alston, Sinnott accepted a third offer, to be of counsel at the local office of Lord, Bissell & Brook.
“In any red-hot practice area this kind of thing happens. We just haven’t seen too many red-hot practice areas in the last few years,” said Sinnott, who spent the week of June 3-10 hopping from firm to firm to firm.
“It was a fun week in a very, very stressful Tums-related sort of way,” he added.
REITs — and the lawyers who understand them — are hot commodities because investors who are unsure of the stock market want to put their money in harder assets such as real estate, said Thurston. “Real estate is a nice, tangible asset — as opposed to technology — and a REIT is a way to securitize that asset,” she explained. The return on real estate securities has far outpaced the stock market in the last several years, Thurston said, and REITs also provide investors tax advantages and a steady annual payout because the trusts must disburse a percentage of any income.
Alston’s REIT wrangling started in April, when the head of the firm’s REIT practice, Brad S. Markoff, decamped with nine other lawyers to open the Raleigh office of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary. Markoff said then that his new firm, with 200 real estate lawyers in the United States and another 250 around the world, offered him a bigger platform.
Then on the morning of Friday, June 3, Thurston and Prevost, two key partners in Morris Manning’s real estate capital markets group, resigned to go to Alston. In the afternoon, they sought to take the rest of their team with them, and Alston made offers to each member.
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Earthquake Flood Landslide
Utility outage Winter storm See all hazards
King County is vulnerable to landslides due to our region's geography. In a landslide, large masses of rock, soil, and other debris move quickly down a slope. They can flow quickly, and occur with little or no notice. Landslides can also travel many miles from their source, growing in size as they pick up more mud and debris. Small landslides are reported every year in King County, blocking roads and sometimes causing damage to homes and other structures. The last large landslide in Washington state happened in March 2014 near the town of Oso in Snohomish County. 43 people lost their lives in that disaster.
Landslides can be caused by storms, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, or as a result of fires or human modification of land. The best way to prepare for a landslide is to stay informed about changes in and around your home that could signal that a landslide is likely to occur.
Due to King County's high population density and the fact that many structures are built on top of or below bluffs and slopes subject to landslides, many lives are endangered during these land movements. Understanding the possibility of a landslide in your area is an essential component to your family's emergency plan. More information is available from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
In October 2019, the USGS unveiled a new web-based interactive map that marks an important step toward mapping areas that could be at higher risk for future landslides. In collaboration with state geological surveys and other federal agencies, USGS has compiled much of the existing landslide data into a searchable, web-based interactive map called the U.S. Landslide Inventory Map.
How to prepare for landslides
Get a ground assessment of your property. Your city or county geologist or planning department may have specific information on areas vulnerable to landslides.
Seek advice of geotechnical experts for evaluating landslide hazards or designing corrective techniques to reduce landslide risk.
Plant ground cover on slopes to stabilized the land and build retaining walls.
Plan at least two evacuation routes since roads may become blocked or closed.
Learn to recognize the landslide warning signs:
Doors or windows stick or jam for the first time.
New cracks appear in plaster, tile, brick or foundation.
Outside walls, walks, or stairs begin pulling away from the building.
Slowly developing, widening cracks appear on the ground or on paved areas such as streets or driveways.
Underground utility lines break.
Bulging ground appears at the base of a slope.
Water breaks through the ground surface in new locations.
Fences, retaining walls, utility poles, or trees tilt or move.
You hear a faint rumbling sound that increases in volume as the landslide nears. The ground slopes downward in one specific direction and may begin shifting that direction under your feet.
Sinkholes - a sinkhole occurs when groundwater dissolves a vulnerable land surface, such as limestone, causing the land surface to collapse from a lack of support.
Make arrangements for housing in the event you need to evacuate your home.
Plan for earthquakes and severe storms that can trigger a landslide.
What to do during a landslide
If inside a building, stay inside. Take cover under a desk, table, or other piece of sturdy furniture.
If outdoors:
Try to get out of the path of the landslide or mudflow.
Run to the nearest high ground in a direction away from the path.
If rocks and other debris are approaching, run for the nearest shelter such as a group of trees or a building.
If escape is not possible, curl into a tight ball and protect your head.
Remember that flooding may occur after a mudflow or landslide.
Stay away from the slide area. There may be danger of additional slides.
Once it's safe, check for injured and trapped persons near the slide area. Remember to help neighbors who may require special assistance.
Listen to local media or NOAA Weather Radio for current information.
Check for damaged utility lines. Report any damage to your utility company.
Check the building foundation, chimney, and surrounding land for damage.
Landslide Safety - American Red Cross
Landslides and Debris Flows - FEMA
Landslide Hazards - U.S. Geological Survey
Landslides in King County
King County Emergency Management
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Blast that alarmed Snohomish County residents was actually a controlled explosion by sheriff’s office
By: KIRO 7 News Staff
Updated: December 2, 2020 - 12:40 PM
SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. — The loud boom that alarmed some Snohomish County residents Tuesday night was actually a controlled explosion by the county bomb squad, officials said.
Sheriff’s officials took a large amount of explosives from residents near Silver Lake, according to a sheriff’s office spokesperson.
“It appears it was essentially a hobbyist using the materials for fireworks and rockets with no malicious intent,” spokesperson Courtney O’Keefe said.
Officials decided the explosives were too dangerous to transport. A bomb squad responded and took the explosives to the closest place where they could be safely detonated.
The explosives were set off around 8:30 p.m., causing a surge of 911 calls about the noise.
“We apologize for the noise disturbance,” a tweet from the sherrif’s office read.
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Loughborough History and Heritage Network
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Christmas at Primary School
‘The first distribution of prizes of this school took place this morning. The children sang appropriate songs and a Christmas Carol. This was followed by excellent advice to the children from Dr Corcoran and Mr Peer, who complimented the scholars and staff on the fact that with the exception of Nanpantan, which had a record of one hundred percent, this large and important school, of which the board are proud, ranked second to none under their care with regard to regularity and percentage of attendance.’
‘A social gathering was held here this evening to which were invited all old boys of this school who had served in H M Forces during the war. Our list of old boys who have served contains 385 names and on the Cenotaph are inscribed the names of 55 old boys who have been killed.’
‘Classes 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 were entertained at their Christmas party at 6.45 pm today. As yesterday, a meal was first consumed and games played afterwards. Mr Cross was presented with a pair of slippers and some tobacco on his retirement after thirty years service in the school.’
School closed for the Christmas holiday. When the school reopens for the Spring Term the Junior School will amalgamate with the Infant School and will then be named Rosebery County Primary School.
The Christmas plays, held in the school hall, were very well attended and appreciated. The Infants took part in a Nativity Play whilst the Juniors performed a musical play, ‘Do You Believe in Father Christmas?”
‘Spring, Autumn and Christmas Fairs, sales of work, jumble sales etc have always been well-supported by local people. When the school rented a garden (possibly on Rosebery Street) where Maypole dancing was a regular feature, produce was sold for school funds. In recent years the Rosebery School Association has organised fun days, discos, fairs etc, with Father Christmas and his fairy assistant always making an appearance in December.’
Extracts from ‘Rosebery School, Loughborough: 1897- 1997’ – a booklet produced by governors and staff to mark the hundredth anniversary of Rosebery School.
Compiled by Alison Mott
‘George – don’t do that …’ Listen to Joyce Grenfell performing ‘Nativity Play’ here.
Read some modern-day memories of teaching in school at Christmastime here.
Pottering about … Burleigh Hall 15 January 2021
Childhood Memories of Boxing Day 8 January 2021
William George Dimock Fletcher, a recorder of history 4 January 2021
On this day in Loughborough … 1st January 1900 1 January 2021
A ‘Betwixtmas’ trip to the cinema, perhaps? 31 December 2020
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Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects—Permitted Activities) Regulations 2013
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Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects—Permitted Activities) Regulations 2013 (Viewing now) as at 05 April 2018 Print/Download PDF (539KB)
Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects—Permitted Activities) Regulations 2013 as at 21 October 2016 Print/Download PDF (536KB)
Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects—Permitted Activities) Regulations 2013 as at 08 August 2014 Print/Download PDF (531KB)
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List of amendments incorporated in this version
Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects—Permitted Activities) Amendment Regulations 2018 (LI 2018/53)
Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects—Permitted Activities) Amendment Regulations 2016 (LI 2016/235)
Kaikōura (Te Tai o Marokura) Marine Management Act 2014 (2014 No 59): section 30
Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects—Permitted Activities) Amendment Regulations 2013 (SR 2013/467)
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Send Flowers for Noel
Noel C. Wilcox
January 7, 1967 ~ April 18, 2020 (age 53)
Noel Claire Wilcox, of Wautoma, passed away peacefully on Saturday, April 18, 2020 at the home of Jane Reepsdorf, Noel’s caretaker and a dear family friend who is like a sister. Noel was born January 7, 1967 in Wautoma to the late Forest Averd and Elizabeth Pearl (Smith) Wilcox. Noel was always proud of the fact that she was the New Year’s Baby and liked to tell everyone she was “The First Noel”.
Although Noel had completed twelfth grade in 1986, she was allowed to remain in school until she turned 21 and she formally graduated from Wautoma High School in 1988. After graduation, Noel worked at Waushara Industries for several years before she decided to stay at home and help her parents as they got older. Noel participated in Special Olympics, was a member of the choir at Grace United Methodist Church, volunteered for Habitat for Humanity and later did volunteer work at the Waushara County Historical Society for 10+ years doing typing, filing and going through old court records. She enjoyed going out to eat with her parents and family and would usually see a friend or someone she knew and would stop to chat with them. To Noel there were no strangers, just people she hadn’t met yet.
Noel loved listening to music, singing Karaoke, especially The Rose, watching The Wizard of Oz and dancing. She looked forward to the annual Special Industries holiday parties where she could dance the night away with her friends and especially enjoyed getting dressed up for the Special Needs Prom where she had the honor of being chosen as the Queen twice. She was adept at remembering names, people and their relationships. She loved keeping in touch with everyone and making them feel better by making a phone call or sending out letters and cards and the mailman always said Noel was his best customer.
Noel is survived by her brothers and sisters: Paul (Janis) Wilcox, Jeanone Wilcox (fiancé Paul Karlen), Lynn (Sun Yong) Wilcox, Holly (Mark) Dahlke; 8 nieces and nephews: Andrea (Jeff) Kleczka, Jennifer (John) Engel, Heidi Dahlke, Curtis (Melissa) Wilcox, Melissa Dahlke, Carrie Dahlke, Daniel Wilcox and Brenda Wilcox and 15 great nieces and nephews: Brittani (Doug) Mayhugh, Destiny Dahlke, Jasmine Cardone, Abigail Dahlke-Raymond, Aidin Dahlke-Raymond, Jared Kleczka, Justin Kleczka, Kathryn Kleczka, Grace Wilcox, Brodyn Wilcox, Rhiannon Elendt, Timothy Elendt, Andrew Engel, Natalie Engel and Lewis Wilcox. She is further survived by her two aunts: Shirley Patzwald and Delores Wilcox; and uncle: Marlyn Wilcox, and many other relatives and friends. Noel was preceded in death by her parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and her great nephew: Oliver Forest Wilcox.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic only a private family visitation and burial service will be held. She will be laid to rest next to her parents at Maple Grove Cemetery, Town of Dakota. A memorial service will be held later this year.
In lieu of flowers, memorials to Alzheimer’s Disease in Down Syndrome Research Fund –112440040 (SEE BELOW) or to your favorite charity are appreciated.
To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Noel C. Wilcox, please visit our floral store.
Services are to be announced
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God speaks to us through creation. Are iPhones blocking his voice?
God is speaking a sequence of intelligible words to me, to you, at this very moment through his creation.
Tue Nov 27, 2018 - 11:21 am EST
By Peter Kwasniewski
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November 27, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – One morning, in the middle of a winter in Austria, I leaned out of my office window and looked out upon the surrounding mountains, the silent trees, the snow hidden in clefts of rock, the solitary raven perched on a high branch. As my ears grew attuned to the quiet of the world, I heard the chirping of unseen birds and the faint sound of the wind blowing across the field. I saw four sparrows flying in perfect formation, a leaf skimming along the ground. The sky was grey. Things were somehow still and in motion, restless and at peace. It was for me a moment of wonder: so beautiful, so inexhaustible are these things—every single one of them speaking of God.
This, I imagine, is the sort of experience that prompted Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ, to write one of his most famous poems:
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
It is no secret that theology has suffered a tremendous decline in modern times. Yes, there are very fine individual teachers and authors, but as a discipline it has lost its queenly place among the sciences, its grandeur, its profundity, when we compare it with the great Fathers and Doctors of the Church. The same may be said of Catholic spirituality: were we to place most of the popular spiritual books published today in a balance, with the classics of mysticism in the other tray, no one can truly be surprised at how the balance will tilt. (In the following, I will speak of “theology” but I intend it to include spirituality as well.)
Can we explain this decrepitude? Generalizations are risky, but I nevertheless believe it to be true that theology is moribund because metaphysis or the study of being is moribund; metaphysics is moribund, because the philosophy of nature is moribund; the philosophy of nature is moribund because natural history, that is, carefully paying attention to natural things in their natural environments, is moribund; and this is so, because men are no longer looking and listening to the world, but watching television, reading newspapers, bending like slaves over the work desk or popping instant dinners into the microwave.
The only way that richly Catholic, profoundly speculative, affective theology will once again blossom is by a renewed immersion in the good and beautiful creation of God.
This is what Saint Augustine did: think of the famous passage in the Confessions where he poses his deepest questions to the world around him, and that world gives him an answer, because he is truly listening to it. This is what Saint Thomas Aquinas did, too. St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (the religious name of Edith Stein) says that God is the primary theologian and the world is His theological Summa. In like manner Ronald McArthur, one of the founders of my alma mater Thomas Aquinas College, claims that Augustinian interiority is fundamentally different from Cartesian interiority because Augustine looks upon himself, as upon the world, with the warm wonder of a lover seeking his lost beloved, not with the cold gaze of rationalism that freezes whatever it looks at. Augustine, in other words, is looking for truth and understanding, Descartes for mastery and power.
Especially nowadays, people, in addition to living cut off from a “naked” experience of reality, can also make themselves blind to that which is to be seen or heard when they adhere to preconceived theories that render the mind incapable of making sense out of what the outer and inner senses present to it by way of experience. Put differently, it is possible for pseudo-science and ideology to paralyze or impede the intellect’s progression to the natural judgments on which the upward progress to theology relies.
That such a blindness can happen was obvious even to the pagan Greeks. In Book IV of his Metaphysics, Aristotle refutes the relativist who says—and maybe even convinces himself that he really thinks—that something can both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect, thus undermining the possibility of any meaningful discourse, dialogue, and learning. Descartes might be taken as a vibrant example of this mental obtuseness (unless, of course, he was merely playing with his readers as a cat plays with a mouse) when he says in his Meditations that the people walking around the street outside the window might actually be automatons dressed up as men… for how could one really know otherwise?
This is the kind of swamp of confusion into which the undisciplined—or, as with the founder of analytic geometry, hypertrophically over-disciplined—intellect can sink. The typical modern man on the street has an undisciplined mind: he has been so brainwashed by errors, by swallowing contradictions of first principles, that he is not capable, in any habitual way, of making intellectual progress by a series of disciplined judgments and inferences.
A Descartes (or, to choose a more recent example, a Stephen Hawking) has, on the other hand, an unnaturally “disciplined” mind: so exclusively and narrowly is he trained in a certain way of thinking or a certain body of data, that he can no longer evaluate the full range of reality as it is given in spontaneous consciousness and apprehended by many different kinds of soul-acts. This is something Aristotle points out in Metaphysics, Book II, chapter 3. Once again, Aristotle is far ahead of us moderns, and that is one reason, among many, why liberal arts students should study Aristotle consistently and well.
Josef Pieper reminds us that creatures bear within themselves a trace of the incomprehensible mystery, the unfathomable depths, of their Creator. Gerard Manley Hopkins knew this and expressed it in brilliant verse. William Wordsworth knew it, too:
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquility;
The gentleness of heaven broods o’er the Sea;
Listen! the mighty Being is awake,
And doth with his eternal motion make
A sound like thunder—everlastingly.
Dear child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here,
If thou appear untouched by solemn thought,
Thy nature is not therefore less divine:
Thou liest in Abraham’s bosom all the year;
And worshipp’st at the Temple’s inner shrine,
God being with thee when we know it not.
It’s not for nothing that students at Wyoming Catholic College memorize so many poems like these, while also spending so many weeks of their college career in the backcountry, in rugged and truly awesome wild places. It is part of the renewal of the ability to see, hear, and touch, to become aware of the world that has been pushed away from us through our windows, screens, and phones—this world that streams forth from the fingers of God at every moment, whether we know it or not.
Poets desire to have knowledge of singulars as such, of the very individuality of things in their real existence. They express this knowledge in descriptions and metaphors which, while being in tension with the goal of singling out unrepeatable experiences, nevertheless bring home to us the message and meaning of the world as a sequence of intelligible words that God is speaking to me, to you, at this very moment.
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Peter Kwasniewski, Thomistic theologian, liturgical scholar, and choral composer, is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College in California (B.A. Liberal Arts) and The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC (M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy). He taught at the International Theological Institute in Austria and the Franciscan University of Steubenville's Austria Program, then helped establish Wyoming Catholic College in 2006. There he taught theology, philosophy, music, and art history and directed the choirs until leaving in 2018 to devote himself full-time to writing and lecturing.
Today he contributes regularly to many websites and publications, including New Liturgical Movement, OnePeterFive, LifeSiteNews, Rorate Caeli, The Remnant, and Catholic Family News, and has published ten books, including four on traditional Catholicism: Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis (Angelico, 2014, also available in Czech, Polish, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Belarusian), Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness (Angelico, 2017), Tradition and Sanity (Angelico, 2018), and Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright: The Genius and Timeliness of the Traditional Latin Mass (Angelico, 2020). His work has been translated into at least thirteen languages.
Kwasniewski is a scholar of The Aquinas Institute in Green Bay, which is publishing the Opera Omnia of the Angelic Doctor, a Fellow of the Albertus Magnus Center for Scholastic Studies, and a Senior Fellow of the St. Paul Center. He has published over 1,200 articles on Thomistic thought, sacramental and liturgical theology, the history and aesthetics of music, and the social doctrine of the Church.
For news, information, article links, sacred music, and the home of Os Justi Press, visit his personal website, www.peterkwasniewski.com.
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Malaysia Airlines introduces Ultimate Flexibility Ticket Change Policy for passengers
KLIA, 13 March 2020- Malaysia Airlines, today introduced an ultimate flexibility ticket change policy, offering unlimited, free changes to all new and existing bookings. Effective immediately, all Malaysia Airlines passengers will be able to take advantage of the following waivers:
Unlimited changes to the date of their flight (with a waiver of the date change fee)
Changes to their destination (any difference in fare will apply)
The policy applies to tickets issued on and before 31 March 2020. All rebookings must be made on or before 31 May 2020. Rebooked return travel must be completed by 31 December 2020. Guests with flight departures of more than 48 hours are strongly urged to submit your change request online, via the Flight Waiver Request Form at https://www.malaysiaairlines.com/hq/en/waiver-request.html.
This helps to ease congestion at our Global Contact Centre which currently has long waiting time and allows us to prioritise customers booked on immediate flights.
Thank you for your understanding and continued support.For more information on these policies as well as the latest information on travel during the COVID-19 virus outbreak, please refer to malaysiaairlines.com to stay safe and updated on the latest developments.
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Nuri Widiastuti Veronika
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Nuri Widiastuti Veronika is currently a PhD candidate at Monash University’s Gender, Peace and Security (Monash GPS) and recipient of Indonesian Government Endowment Fund for Education Scholarship (LPDP). Her doctoral research investigates gender-responsive policies in addressing various subsets of women involved in terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism. Nuri’s areas of interest lie in international relations theories, feminist security study, women and terrorism, preventing/countering violent extremism, public policy and governance, maritime security, as well as defence and security policy especially in Indonesia and South East Asia context.
Nuri served as a government officer at The Coordinating Ministry for Political Legal and Security Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia for the past 12 years since 2008. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Gadjah Mada University, Master of Science in International Relations from University of Indonesia and Master of Defence Management from Indonesian Defence University affiliated with Cranfield University United Kingdom. She received Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Funds from Tokyo Foundation Japan in 2012 for her thesis on South China Sea conflict. She was also a recipient of Australia Awards Short Term Awards on the Disengagement and Rehabilitation of Former Terrorists in 2019.
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Patricia Salas Sanchez, Nuri Widiastuti Veronika, Irine Hiraswari Gayatri, Jacqui True 5 Nov 2020 07:00
A backlash against the Women, Peace and Security agenda?
Power politics overshadow progress at the UN Security Council as Resolution 1325 celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Irine Hiraswari Gayatri, Nuri Widiastuti Veronika, Jacqui True 2 Sep 2020 12:00
Indonesia’s UN Security Council drive for inclusive peace and security
Jakarta is seeking to boost its regional leadership taking up the issue of women’s roles in peacebuilding.
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The Key to the Apocalypse by Henry Grattan Guinness
“It is an unquestionable fact that the intimately related prophecies of Daniel and John contain seven divinely given interpretations, and it is evident that these must constitute the only infallible basis of exposition.
David Baring by Joseph Hocking
Is true Christianity Marxist? David Baring is a young Cambridge graduate who unexpectedly comes into a large fortune. Circumstances cause him to wonder if a rich man can really tell if he is loved for himself, or only for his money.
The Eternal Choice by Joseph Hocking
“You don’t mind my being absolutely frank, do you?” continued Baxter after a somewhat awkward silence. “It’s years since I spoke to anyone about such things, and I really want to know.
The Jesuit by Joseph Hocking
“I saw now what I had never realized before. The Church of Rome was like no other Church. It did not demand liberty simply that it might extend its distinctive religious dogmas, and thus lead others to adopt those dogmas; it demanded liberty that it might destroy liberty.
The Wilderness by Joseph Hocking
“Lift me up,” he said. Endellion lifted him up, and the dying man seized the pen. “I give everything I have here in Australia, and all I possess in Dulverton, Devon, England, or elsewhere, to my good friend Ralph Endellion.
All for a Scrap of Paper by Joseph Hocking
“He had expected to be immediately forwarded to some dirty German prison, where he would suffer the same fate as many of his English comrades. Instead of which, however, he might almost have been a guest of honor.
Straight and Crooked Thinking
Straight and Crooked Thinking is a practical book for ‘the man in the street’ and everyone who has occasion to discuss controversial topics either in the course of business or merely in talking with friends will benefit from reading it.
The Pomp of Yesterday: A Novel by Joseph Hocking
The Pomp of Yesterday is a novel inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s poem Recessional. Its message of England at the height of her glory has meaning for America today. Recessional by Rudyard Kipling God of our fathers, known of old,
The Soul of Dominic Wildthorne by Joseph Hocking
“Mr, Wildthorne,” said Maggie, “have you fulfilled the promise you made me the last time we met?” “What promise?” “You promised me that you would read an authoritative life of Luther, an authoritative history of the Reformation.
The Trampled Cross by Joseph Hocking
“You mean to say,” he said in good Arabic to the leader of the gang who surrounded him and the grey-bearded man by his side, “that my life will he spared if I renounce Christianity and accept your faith?
Tommy by Joseph Hocking
“Only a small part of this story is imagination. Nearly every incident in the book was told me by “Tommy” himself, and while the setting of my simple tale is fiction, the tale itself is fact.
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Lighting Industry, News
All new Waitrose stores to be 100% LED
Marlow described how the retailer’s Ipswich store has undergone a complete LED refit covering office, retail and warehouse space – resulting in an overall efficacy of just seven watts per square metre, reducing running costs by up to 42 per cent.
‘Moving towards LED has been a step-change in design,’ Marlow said. ‘We can now position light where we want it and make greater use of contrasts. Efficiency and colour rendering has improved dramatically and we’re now up to 130 lumens per watt,’ he told the audience at the event.
Marlow says the redesign is between 40 per cent to 42 per cent more efficient than its equivalent T5 scheme – savings that would not have been possible just a year ago.
LED lighting first got a foothold in refrigerators and freezers, because LEDs work well in the cold, but Marlow said: ‘We’ve gone beyond refrigerators now. Everything in the Ipswich store is lit with LEDs.’
He notes a difference to the in-store ambience thanks to the clear, bright light, but said that some of the best feedback has been customers saying they didn’t notice the difference at all.
LEDs had previously been trialled in a branch of Waitrose in Stratford, but the Ipswich store is the first branch to go completely LED. ‘All new developments will be completely lit with LED and more traditional technology will be phased out,’ added Marlow.
Marlow stressed that it’s important to choose the right luminaires, the right LEDs and the right design. But having said that, Waitrose has had only 33 driver failures from the 35,000 installed. ‘There’s work to do around warranties,’ he warned. ‘But we’re seeing payback in under three years, and in the new store the payback has been under two years. It’s win-win – if you do it properly.’
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FallSportsTop Stories
Boys’ Varsity Water Polo Barely Loses to Woodside in Second Heartbreaker of the Season
Jane White October 21, 2019 October 22nd, 2019
Photo credits: Brian de Haaff
This Thursday, the Menlo Atherton varsity water polo lost 5-6 in a close match versus rival Woodside. The loss was especially frustrating for the Bears, as Woodside had beat them earlier in the season, also by just a point.
Senior Willem Holzrichter maneuvers Woodside’s defense.
The game began slowly, leaving M-A behind by two at the end of the first quarter. The game began to pick up once junior Michael Heller scored M-A’s first goal in the beginning of the second quarter. The Woodside team eventually managed to score a goal, raising the score to 3-1, and attempted to score once more, which sophomore Jake Taylor skillfully blocked. After the M-A offense successfully ejected the opposing team’s goalie, Heller scored on an open goal, ending the second quarter on a positive note.
At the beginning of the third quarter, senior Zach de Haaff pushed forward and scored, tying the score 3-3. Soon after, Heller left offense early and scored to put the bears in the lead. As the bears were ahead, de Haaff scored off a drive, making the score 5-4 at the end of the third half.
As the last quarter began, the Bears were playing confidently and working together to form a strong defense. Though they held up for a long time, Woodside eventually broke through and scored to tie up the game in the last three minutes. With this development, M-A called a timeout to restructure their offense and defense. In the last minute of the game, Woodside scored, eking out a 6-5 victory.
The Bears meeting up during half time.
Coach Tim Kates said, “I’m proud of how our team played, and see them getting better every game. But I give credit to Woodside for playing a great game.” Jake Taylor, the Bears’ goalie, shared this sentiment, and said that although the team could have been stronger from the start, “it was a good game” and that the team will come back stronger next year.
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Jane White is a junior and this is her second year writing for the M-A Chronicle. She enjoys writing opinion stories and articles about the M-A community. In her free time, she loves to play guitar, read, and hang out with her friends and family.
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Wirral woman who found love with Scottish laird after camper van search to appear on This Morning
Former air stewardess, Nicci Taylor, 49, fell for John O’Groats man after selling everything she owned
Lorna Hughes
Nicci Taylor, 49, from Wirral is selling all her worldly goods and touring the world in a camper van, starting with the Highlands of Scotland, to find love after being made redundant.
A Wirral woman who sold everything she owned and bought a camper van to tour the Highlands in a search for love is set to appear on ITV’s This Morning to share her happy ending – with the Scottish laird who stole her heart.
Nicci Taylor announced last summer she was selling everything she owned – apart from dog Milo – and buying a camper van to travel the Highlands in the search for love.
And at the end of her trip the former air stewardess, 49, fell for James Pollard, who lives in a country estate in John O’Groats.
In a blog post this week, she said she had been invited to appear on ITV’s This Morning on Wednesday and revealed she had also been to a job interview after accusations she was a gold digger.
She wrote: “I think my job interview went quite well this afternoon. Although I did notice a very large TV screen behind me whilst I was being interviewed. Possibly Wednesday morning may change my chances of said job interview!”
In a previous post she said: “It’s only part time but it gets me out the house and gives me my own income rather than me spending all Mr P’s millions...haha!”
Nicci Taylor, 49, from Wirral is selling all her worldly goods and moving to the Highlands to find love.
Nicci said she was a “massive fan” of This Morning and was excited about her appearance, but said she was expecting “the usual unpleasant comments”.
She added: “This is all rather surreal for us both but we have decided to just try and be ourselves and go with the flow.
“We are both excited and nervous, well actually I am a screaming psychopath inside but am playing it down for Mr P! I am absolutely sure everybody will love Mr P and I will most likely get the usual unpleasant comments. But hey ho I am made of strong stuff.
“Our very kindly neighbours are happy to doggy sit Milo whilst we are away. So I am rather looking forward to the next few days. I mean how often do you get asked to appear on national TV?! And for a good reason! We have received so many lovely messages of support and congratulations I am struggling to keep up with my replies. I feel Milo and me and Mr P are in a good place just now, I hope it continues.”
Before she met James, who got in touch with Nicci after reading her story, she had been on three dates.
She went to visit him and left to set off on her journey again, but decided to turn back after an hour.
In August she wrote: “He read my story and invited us to visit him. So we did. Then we left and continued travelling. But two days ago I realised I missed him terribly so drove all the way back. And I don’t know at this point if we will ever leave...! And I know he doesn’t want us to.”
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MP Baey Yam Keng voices concern over rude hand gesture in adidas ad
An adidas ad is gaining traction online after PAP MP for Tampines GRC, Baey Yam Keng posted a picture of it on his Facebook page.
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While he did not explicitly voice his opinion on the matter, he posed a question which garnered responses from netizens who expressed concern over the ad.
Comments showed that some were not affected by the ad while parents seemed to be more vocal about the inappropriate nature of the ad. Still, netizens were divided on whether the ad was offensive enough to be removed.
When reached by Marketing, adidas declined to comment.
Adidas first launched the #ThereWillBeHaters campaign in January this year to coincide with the launch of adidas’ new football footwear range for 2015. The campaign is focused around a provocative new video featuring global football stars such as Luis Suarez, Gareth Bale, James Rodriguez and Karim Benzema.
The campaign also boldly proclaims that if you have ‘haters’, then it’s the ultimate compliment.
“The best players know that a great performance gathers ‘hate’ from fans and opponents, particularly on social media, which then continues to fuel their confidence to deliver even greater performances,” adidas had earlier said in a press statement.
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British Airways back in the news with must-watch safety video
British Airways has released its new, star-studded pre-flighty safety video, to raise funds for its global charity charity partnership with Comic Relief.
The 6-minutes video, which follows a cabin crew strike and a disastrous IT (and PR) failure, is the airline's latest attempt to put its branding on the right track again.
(Read more: [Update] The British Airway’s fiasco: saying sorry is not enough)
With Chiwetel Ejiofor reading the opening "in a show-off way", Gordon Ramsay asking "sweeties" put their bags under their seats, Jim Broadbent folding up a tray table, Rowan Atkinson going all Mr. Bean, and more celebrities like Thandie Newton, Ian MacKellan and Gillian Anderson embracing their fun sides, the impressive mock audition entertains until the end.
The video will replace the current 12-years old animated film, and start showing on flights from 1 September. This will also mark BA's first video using celebrities, although other airlines like Air New Zealand have employed similar strategies before.
"It’s extremely important to us that customers engage with our safety video, and involving some of the nation’s most well-known personalities has given us the chance to create something fun that we hope people will watch from start to finish," BA CEO Alex Cruz said in a statement.
Enjoy the video here:
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