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NADIA BOLZ-WEBER first hit the New York Times list with her 2013 memoir--the bitingly honest and inspiring Pastrix --followed by the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Accidental Saints in 2015. A former stand-up comic and a recovering alcoholic, Bolz-Weber is the founder and former pastor of a Lutheran congregation in Denver, House for All Sinners and Saints. She speaks at colleges and conferences around the globe.
NADIA BOLZ-WEBER first hit the New York Times list with her 2013 memoir--the bitingly honest and inspiring Pastrix --followed by the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Accidental Saints in 2015. A former stand-up comic and a recovering alcoholic, Bolz-Weber is the founder and former pastor of a Lutheran congregation in Denver, House for All Sinners and Saints. She speaks at colleges and conferences around the globe. See less
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Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
Encouraging and Inspiring!
by Lynn D, May 19, 2015
This is a wonderful memoir that inspired and encouraged me. It gave me hope that the church can become a truly loving, accepting, inclusive force, as Christ was. Read More
Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
by Anne Lamott
Love Wins: A Book about Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
by Bryan Stevenson
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
by Richard Rohr
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Trump Derangement Syndrome on Steroids
By David Limbaugh Published on November 10, 2019 •
Trump Derangement Syndrome is not merely a cute-sounding phrase to deflect criticism of President Trump. It’s real. It’s palpable.
Case in point: The American Prospect’s Paul Waldman gives us an earful about President Trump and how Trump is destroying everything that’s good and decent in America. Let me share some of his words, which speak for themselves — but I’ll speak for them, too.
Attempts at Impeachment
“The impending impeachment of Donald Trump brings with it the possibility of something that has been in short supply over the last three years: accountability,” Waldman writes. “At last, you may think, we can use a constitutional process to proclaim at last that This Is Not OK.” Waldman goes on to acknowledge that Trump probably won’t be held to account after all, because though the House will likely impeach him, the Senate will vote against removing him from office.
What strikes me is Waldman’s unchecked assertion that Trump’s accountability “has been in short supply.” He wholly ignores that Democrats have been feverishly pursuing Trump since he announced his candidacy. For two years, they’ve prosecuted a bogus case on Trump “colluding” with Russia, guaranteeing they had unimpeachable evidence.
They were lying, and their would-be savior, special counsel Robert Mueller, produced no evidence of collusion. Accountability? Why haven’t the Democrats had to answer for their wasting taxpayers’ time and money over this lie? Neither they nor their legacy media co-conspirators have uttered one syllable of apology to the American people, let alone President Trump, for dragging us through this nightmare.
Instead, they immediately pivoted to Ukraine. Here we go again — but this time, it’s really serious. What is this, the fourth impeachment attempt? Why not? We now know from released transcripts that they’ve been planning this coup from the jump. We already knew it, but we’ve got the smoking gun. Will they be held to account for their election and post-election interference? Of course not, unless their constituents vote them out of office for abuse of power.
Dread, Despair and Disillusionment
Waldman continues: “This is one of the products of Trump’s time in office: the contamination of our emotional lives. Trump has made us feel dread, despair, disillusionment, and a dozen other awful emotions whose grip it feels impossible to escape. And even if he loses in 2020 then slinks back to Mar-a-Lago to spend his days regaling his dwindling number of sycophants with tales of his matchless presidency, we’ll continue to live with the effects for years or even decades to come.”
I don’t know whom Waldman purports to speak for, but millions of Americans would find his words repugnant. Trump doesn’t make us feel dread and despair. Bullish on America and fighting leftist insanity and political correctness, he invigorates our patriotic instincts. His policies have stimulated robust economic growth, which is hardly cause for despair.
Waldman details “the unceasing parade of horrors emanating from the Oval Office,” citing the usual litany of Trump’s alleged sins — his oh-so-offensive tweets, his racism and his cruelty. It’s just so exhausting for poor Waldman. He writes: “And how many times have you found yourself almost involuntarily talking with friends or family about some awful thing Trump did or said, only to have someone stop and say, ‘Oh god, let’s just not talk about him for a while. I can’t take it.”
Losing Faith
What’s exhausting is the ceaseless leftist noise machine railing against Trump. Leftists need to remove the smudges from their mirrors and see that they are projecting. They are the ones who have been vicious and hateful toward Trump from the beginning. They have wrongly accused him — and his supporters (half of Americans) — of racism and cruelty. They have contempt for all his supporters. Yet has Trump called them Nazis? Racists?
If you don’t believe me, read Waldman’s elaboration: “For many the mere fact that Trump could win in 2016 (even if he got three million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton) was reason enough to lose faith in their country in a fundamental way. Eight years before they had convinced themselves that Barack Obama’s election meant America could be the place they wanted it to be: inclusive, tolerant, progressive, hopeful. Trump came along and told them that America was not that place.”
The Intolerant Left
What? Precisely the opposite is true. Progressives are the antithesis of inclusion, tolerance and hope. They are intolerant of opposing viewpoints, and they readily use the power of government and social media giants to suppress conservative speech and religious liberty. They bully conservatives out of restaurants and college campuses. They are anything but hopeful. Former President Obama’s team told us the days of 3% growth were over. President Trump rejected the naysaying and gave us an economic boom, fulfilling his campaign promises and restoring hope.
The rest of Waldman’s piece is even more desperate and bitter, but space constraints preclude further dissection. I’ll just leave you with his closing paragraph, which encapsulates his TDS: “There may yet be more to come, if nothing else in the form of an election defeat next year. But it’s hard to escape the gnawing feeling that nothing we can do to Trump will ever make up for what he has done to us.”
To the contrary, Trump has done nothing to them, but they have done plenty to him. And he’s done plenty for us — specifically standing athwart the extreme left’s crusade to fundamentally and permanently transform America into a nation our framers wouldn’t recognize.
Thank you, President Trump, for standing up for America and those who still believe in it.
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How Smart Businesses Build In-House Social Media Success
by Tiffany Delmore | July 5, 2019
Remember when businesses used to shun social media? Facebook and Twitter were distractions, not business opportunities, and people interacted almost exclusively with other people online.
Those days are gone. Today, every business with a brain has several social media accounts. Consumers engage with brands in Facebook comment sections and follow their favorite companies on Instagram. Businesses have to keep a close eye on their social presence — but, unfortunately, they don’t often get help from their employees.
As valuable as social media managers and marketing teams are, regular employees can make or break a company’s reputation online. Without positive voices from people within the business, brands miss out on incredible opportunities to expand their reach, communicate their values, and engage with prospective customers and employees alike.
Follow these tips to get employees involved in your brand’s social media presence:
1. Aim for Instagrammable
Let’s face it: Your workers aren’t about to post photos of sleepy crowds or concrete walls on their social media accounts. If you want them to brag about your business on Instagram — or Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, or even LinkedIn — give them something worth sharing.
“During company events and initiatives, we see a spike in employees tagging Nu Skin and using event specific hashtags on their social platforms,” says Ritch Wood, CEO of Nu Skin. “We strive to develop a culture and provide a great work environment where employees are engaged, excited and proud to work at.”
The result, Wood argues, is that workers organically take and share photos with their followers. Instagrammable moments make for a win-win: Team members get snazzy content for their social accounts, while your company gets an organic boost to its online reputation.
2. Focus on Values
Product information and prices are great for product pages, but they don’t make for exciting social media posts. Instead of asking employees to repost new listings, educate them on company values and encourage them to get involved with causes that matter to them.
Employee advocacy platform EveryoneSocial advises companies to share their mission with employees to encourage natural social media activity. “Similarly to having an accessible social media policy in place, sharing the company’s goals and mission for socially active employees is equally important,” says Todd Kunsman at EveryoneSocial. “Not informing your fellow employees hinders the company culture and could generate mistrust in the overall brand.”
Talk to employees about why their online presence matters. Share transparency and impact reports to demonstrate that the company backs up its claims of good deeds. Give employees reasons to feel personal pride in the company’s work so they don’t perceive social media as another task to mark off.
3. Design a Comprehensive Social Media Guide
Most employees are great on social media, but a few will inevitably cross the line. Ward off potential issues by creating a social media guide that outlines expectations for employees who choose to engage with or promote the brand on their private channels.
“A social media policy outlines how an organization and its employees should conduct themselves online,” says Jimmy Thomson of Hootsuite. “It helps safeguard your brand’s reputation and encourages employees to responsibly share the company’s message.”
Keep it short and sweet so employees don’t feel overwhelmed by rules. Use visuals, graphics, and obvious yes/no indicators so anyone could glance at the information and understand it immediately. Continue to update the sheet as necessary.
“Because social media moves fast, policies that are too rigid can be ineffective in a changing situation,” says Thomson. “Think of your social media policy as a set of guardrails, rather than train tracks. It should be considered a living document. Ongoing updates will be necessary.”
4. Reward Employees for Great Content
Employees who engage with the brand on social media often create their own content to do so. They share personal stories, write up long posts, and put a great deal of effort into their work. Encourage those who go above and beyond by rewarding people for in-depth content, and offer prizes for those who submit personal stories for the company to use on its own accounts.
“Encourage the leaders of different departments to invite their team members to contribute content and participate in other content marketing activities (e.g., brainstorming, sharing),” says Dan Steiner of Content Marketing Institute. “Promote the opportunity in the company-wide newsletter by inviting employees to participate in corporate content creation.”
People love games, so host a contest with prizes for people who submit the best content. Help employees create videos, blog posts, or infographics. Encourage them to share that content on their own channels and engage with commenters.
Just as consumers love user-contributed content, audiences enjoy it when regular employees share their own stories on social media. Communications from real people feel much more authentic than branded posts, and they help outside parties connect to the brand on a more personal level. By bolstering a social media strategy with a little employee help, brands can boost their engagement, increase their bottom line, and make employees feel like valuable contributors.
Tiffany Delmore
Tiffany Delmore is the CMO and Co-founder of SchoolSafe.org, a company helping to develop safer educational environments through the use of technology.
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March 23, 2017 | Raj Srivastav
Disruption Innovation is the fancy pants term people like to use when referring to new technologies or systems. More precisely, this term is applied when the new technology or system enters into and, well, disrupts an existing market. Recently, disruption has become a byword of Silicon Valley experts – to the point where it’s usage now generally induces laughter.
But no one laughs at how much money Mark Zuckerberg has made. No one laughs at the fact that Twitter has revolutionized communication. Even more disruptive innovations include the iPhone and even the Internet itself. Disruptive innovations change the world, in ways that no one can predict.
The one thing you can predict is that when a past system is overthrown, there is money to be had. New systems require new ways of thinking, new support networks, and new problems. The early stages of a new innovation are a breeding ground for startups and entrepreneurs, but only the best adapted will survive to Facebook proportions of success.
The other thing about disruption is that it tends to occur around times of intense technological evolution – such as we are experiencing today. For obvious reasons, rapidly advancing technology has a habit of upending old ways – some bad, some good. For this reason, startups that use new technological innovations can be wildly successful.
But tech can be applied in all sorts of industries, in all sorts of ways. The rest of this post will take a look at some of the companies that are harnessing tech in the most disruptive and innovative ways. Enjoy!
Tesla Cars and the Age of Automation
There is one thing in this business that is a near constant topic of conversation: AI and Automation. AI gets a lot of deserved attention – its capabilities are near endless – but the least sexy (and most useful to developers and busy people alike) is its ability to automate routine tasks.
Autonomous and Near Autonomous cars are a great example of this, because they took what is a relatively routine process (driving) and took it over. We’re only see the beginning of this right now with Tesla’s super cool autopilot, but the future is already visible in Google’s Self-Driving car. Tesla is an all around disruptive company (from engines to manufacturing processes), but the autonomous feature is the start of something new.
Self-driving cars will change the world. We’ve seen it before: combustion engine at the turn of the last century or Steam Power a few centuries before that. Like everything having to do with AI, all you need is an algorithm that is capable of collecting, analyzing, and acting in real time upon a ridiculous amount of data. Okay – it’s not simple. But fortunately for you, you’ve got a hot tip on the guys who write AI code all the time.
Home Buying and Rocket Mortgage
SDI is based in the heart of the Silicon Valley. So naturally, we are constantly talking about buying and renting homes. After all, Silicon Valley is the most expensive place to live in the US, with San Francisco typically first or second in terms of the housing market, and San Jose possibly the most expensive area (cost of living and housing vs average income) in the States.
When you combine that with a massive population boom, the housing is a hot button issue, with serious feelings on all sides. Enter Rocket Mortgage, a new tech-oriented business that uses mobile app technology to make the home buying and refinancing process simpler. Like really, really simple.
Owned by industry legend Quicken Loans, this technology makes it possible to get a mortgage in just a few minutes (generally under 10). To anyone who has ever purchased a home or thought about purchasing a home, that is mind-boggling. Just as mind-boggling is the fact that in 2016 (not all that long after it was launched), Rocket Mortgage processed over $5 billion in loan volume, making it one of the top 30 mortgage lenders nationwide.
Netflix and the Death of Cable[s]
While traditional Film and Television distribution methods were already under duress from illegal downloading, Netflix is the clear major disruptor in the field. That being said, the fact that there are so many companies disrupting this field means that it’s ripe for business and innovation – as long as you can handle a bit of stress.
Netflix started off delivering 3 DVDs (if you opted for the ‘expensive’ plan) at a time but quickly embraced streaming. Since this embrace, Netflix has upended how people consume media, even becoming a media creator of great renown in its own right. Netflix is now a global brand, making billions of dollars a year (almost $3 billion gross in 2016). All it took was taking advantage of new technologies.
The answer to becoming a tech disruptor is not simple. There is no one answer nor any silver bullet. It’s about luck, determination, passion, and innovative thinking. While tech is often the vehicle for innovation, anyone can become a disruptor. SDI specializes in creating technological pathways for disruptive ideas.
You don’t even have to be a startup; Rocket Mortgage came from a well established Loans Services company. The only reason cable and film (along with the Music Recording business) took such a hit was a failure to keep up. Not only did they not respond to new, clearly better distribution models, but they doubled down and fought with all they had.
Now, every major TV channel has a Streaming platform. More and more, movies are being streamed on various platforms – at the same time they go out to theatres.
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We’re renumbering the active file on Ultra,…
Fri Oct 29 12:19:10 PDT 1999 — We’re renumbering the active file on Ultra, aka news.sonic.net, and this means that posts you make right now will be delayed, and will show up in a little while. Additionally, the article counts which you see before you enter the group may be way off from the number of articles that are in the group.
In other news news, our new satellite linked news feed and server are coming together. The satellite dish is being installed on Monday. This new machine has more than 100 gigs of spool space, half a gig of ram, and will be able to do a really good job with all of the Usenet, including binaries. -Dane
Focal just turned up more capacity on the…
Wed Oct 27 12:14:18 PDT 1999 — Focal just turned up more capacity on the ###-9811 lines. This should alleviate busy signals on the 9811 dialup pool. To find a local focal number you can use our pop finder tool at www.sonic.net/cgi-bin/pops.pl -Steve
We will be moving our Covad DSL circuit to a…
Mon Oct 25 12:35:56 PDT 1999 — We will be moving our Covad DSL circuit to a new switch tonight. This will happen at around midnight and will cause a short period of downtown for Covad DSL customers. Also at this time we will be adding more memory to bolt.sonic.net so shell access will not be available for 10 to 20 minutes while we do this upgrade. -Steve
Slow Usenet and mail server performance.
Sun Oct 24 15:36:07 PDT 1999 — Slow Usenet and mail server performance. Ultra has been having trouble accepting new posts intermittantly since Thursday. I’ve just restarted innd, and it’s performing well now. We’ve got a new news server on it’s way, so we’ll limp along for another week or few on Ultra as we deploy the new box. The new server, our fourth news server incarnation since Sonic.net’s inception has half a gigabyte of RAM and over 100 gigs of Usenet news spool space. It’s a huge, fire breathing, satellite linked super-fast powerhouse. Notably, it’s also our first non-Linux server, and our first non-INN based Usenet news server. The new system runs the Typhoon Usenet server under Solaris 7. Over 50,000 newsgroups will be available, and binaries will be quite complete. The new satellite downlink allows for two full T1s (3Mbps) worth of inbound bandwidth while freeing space on our terrestrial circuits for customer traffic. We are also expecting an upgrade from 3Mbps to 10Mbps in the next few months to handle expanding Usenet volume.
As a result of Ultra’s trouble receiving new posts, Buzz, our inbound mail server has had a backlog of inbound mail delivery. qmail on Buzz will deliver 10 local messages concurrently, and what was happening was that the news posting backlogs for spam@sonic.net were using up all 10 queue slots for many minutes as a time. We’ve deferred the spam mail to a local mailbox on Buzz for a time, and the queue backlog is clearing. Sorry for the inbound email delay this afternoon! -Dane
Tonight a bit past midnight we’ll be…
Wed Oct 20 23:18:04 PDT 1999 — Tonight a bit past midnight we’ll be replacing the makeshift fuse assembly in the the RedBack DSL router with the new fuse they delivered today. Downtime will be under five minutes. -Dane
The trouble with the RedBack DSL router was…
Wed Oct 20 02:57:29 PDT 1999 — The trouble with the RedBack DSL router was found to be a blown fuse which serves the packet forwarding engine slot.
The 5 amp fuse had blown, and RedBack support reported that they had found that a 7.5 amp fuse was required. New chassis are shipping with the 7.5 amp fuse, but somehow we didn’t get any info on this, or a new fuse shipped to us.
I built a tiny new fuse assembly by rigging up a 6A configuration using a soldering iron, some wire and two other fuses, and the system is back online. RedBack is rushing us a full set of replacement fuses for this unit. Sorry about the downtime! -Dane
The RedBack appears to have a failed packet…
Tue Oct 19 23:37:00 PDT 1999 — The RedBack appears to have a failed packet forwarding engine. The FE is one of the two main CPU cards – the control engine and the forwarding engine work together as the core of the SMS500. I’m awaiting a call back from RedBack’s 24 hour support group for confirmation. If the hardware is toasted, they’ll have to drive a replacement card up here, or I’ll have to go pick it up in the South Bay. Either way, I hope to get back online by 5AM at the latest. Sorry about the downtime! The unit is configured with dual redundant power supplies, and we’ve invested in a 24x7x365x4hr response support contract, so we have done what we can to get very quick response from RedBack in case of this type of failure. I’ll make an update here in the MOTD when I have more information. -Dane
The DSL gateway router that serves our…
Tue Oct 19 22:56:34 PDT 1999 — The DSL gateway router that serves our PacBell DSL customers has gone off the network. It’s still on, and reachable via serial, but it’s Internetworking is down. I’m on my way to the office to reboot it now. It should be online by 23:10. I’ve got a call in to RedBack to see if they know what may have happened. The OS was upgraded a few days ago, so perhaps the new release has some bug that we haven’t seen yet. -Dane
We are upgrading the OS in our RedBack DSL…
Mon Oct 18 10:31:53 PDT 1999 — We are upgrading the OS in our RedBack DSL router right now to a new version. PacBell DSL customers may notice a 30 second pause in Internet connectivity while the machine reboots. This new release may address issues where some customers are having connectivity problems which are then resolved by Sonic.net clearing their session in the RedBack. -Dane, Eli, Dave
SBC/PacBell has announced a major $6 billion…
Mon Oct 18 14:51:36 PDT 1999 — SBC/PacBell has announced a major $6 billion broadband initiative. This will mean much greater availability of ADSL service for customers who are further from central offices and who are in cities which are not currently being served with DSL. We’re very excited about the expansion of availability of ADSL to many more of our Sonic.net customers.
For full info, see SBC/PacBell’s press release dated October 18th at the following URL:
www.sbc.com/News_Center/Home.html
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State: Alcohol will not be served at Hallock State Park Preserve
By Kelly Zegers
Facing opposition from North Fork elected officials, the state parks department announced Tuesday it will withdraw a request for proposals for a Taste NY retail concession center that would have included alcohol sales at Hallock State Park Preserve in Northville.
Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell on Tuesday received a message from state Senator Ken Lavalle’s office immediately after a town board work session that stated the State Parks commissioner assured the senator the RFP would be dropped for the new visitor’s center at the park.
Mr. LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) had reached out to the parks department to let them know Mr. Russell and Riverhead Town Supervisor Sean Walter were strongly against the idea of alcohol being sold at the center and got their word the RFP would be withdrawn, according to the senator’s communications director Greg Blower. News of the outrage over the proposed sale of alcohol at the visitor’s center was first reported Saturday by riverheadlocal.com.
“I am pleased that they have agreed to withdraw the RFP and have a meeting with us to discuss plans for the Hallock State Park educational center moving forward,” Mr. LaValle said in a statement to the News-Review Tuesday.
The parks department will work with the towns on a vision for the site moving forward, Mr. Russell was told.
The supervisors were set to hold a press conference Wednesday at the park to state their opposition to the sale of alcohol. More specifically, the request for proposals asked for a retail concession stand serving growlers, bottles of beer and wine that visitors could buy and consume at the adjoining patio area, assistant town planning director Mark Terry said at Tuesday’s work session.
“There’s a whole list of reasons why this should be re-evaluated,” he said, including parking and legal concerns.
Mr. Russell called the intent to sell alcohol at the center a violation of state law because it was not disclosed in the original RFP. He also questioned if it would comply with state environmental assessments. All agencies involved should have been notified, the supervisor said.
“Retailing on a nature preserve in a rural corridor is a terrible idea,” Mr. Russell said. “Adding alcohol to the equation? It’s preposterous.”
Wednesday’s press conference has since been canceled, according to a joint press release from the towns.
“It seems to me that when the residents of eastern Long Island and officials from the State of New York advocated to purchase this property to develop a park, they saw it as an opportunity to promote outdoor recreational activities for people of all ages to enjoy,” Riverhead Supervisor Sean Walter said in the release. “How we landed here isn’t clear, but I am grateful that our concerns did not fall upon deaf ears.”
Both supervisors thanked Mr. LaValle for urging the state to reconsider the proposal.
“As it is a state park it should still include a local vision,” Mr. Russell said. “I look forward to our meeting where we can shape the proposal to capture that vision.”
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Pregnant amputee wants maternity shoot to change how disabled mums are represented
Elizabeth Di Filippo
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1 May 2018, 5:45 am
Christa Couture celebrates her third pregnancy. (Photo: Courtesy Christa Couture; photography by Jen Squires.)
Maternity photos are powerful and intimate, but perhaps none more so than those belonging to Christa Couture.
The 39-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter and storyteller is adding “trailblazer” to her list of credits thanks to her powerful maternity photos representing women with disabilities.
In a recent piece for CBC Parents, Couture, whose leg was amputated as a teen due to bone cancer, says she was toying with the idea of a photo shoot to celebrate her third pregnancy. Like most women, she took to the internet for inspiration — but the results were disheartening.
“There aren’t a ton of one-legged people out there, true, but it wasn’t just that I didn’t see any amputees in maternity photos — I didn’t see any kind of disability.” Couture writes. “It turns out maternity photo shoots, like the rest of the depictions of women readily available, abound with thin, white bodies. And there’s nothing wrong with those beautiful bodies, but they don’t look like mine.”
It was at this moment when Couture did what she always does: She created something powerful and beautiful. Couture reached out to photographer Jen Squires after being inspired by the artist’s self-portrait series, “Vitiligo.”
“We connected about feeling different and not only coming to terms with difference, but finding ways to celebrate it,” Couture tells Yahoo Canada.
Couture’s leg was amputated when she was a teen. (Photo: Courtesy Christa Couture; photography by Jen Squires.)
Like most people, Couture says that the journey towards accepting and loving her body has been “a long process.” She credits her floral covering for her prosthesis, known as a cosmesis, for helping her reach what she considers a turning point four years ago.
“It literally decorated something that I’d been trying to hide,” Couture says. “It became something beautiful. Once I started to love my reflection with that accessory on, I was more easily able to love my reflection with it off.”
In the six months since the photos have been taken, Couture has been immersed in taking care of her young daughter. Couture says her feelings about her body haven’t necessarily changed over time, but have been “reaffirmed.”
“The maternity photos give me reminders of appreciation — for how hard my body worked through pregnancy and how hard it still is working to parent my baby, and how doing that on one leg is even more hard than usual,” Couture says.
Couture’s prosthesis has a floral covering. (Photo: Courtesy Christa Couture; photography by Jen Squires.)
It’s fair to say Couture is a game-changer. Since sharing her story with the CBC, many other media outlets have circulated her photos and contacted Couture for interviews. While Couture says the response is “unexpected,” she says the most meaningful messages she has received have been from other disabled women.
“The response tells me that we’re all hungry for diversity in images we see — and of course we are. The homogeneity in media impacts all of us, no matter what body we’re in.”
Couture’s photos are striking and powerful at first glance because they represent a group of women who are normally excluded from the pregnancy narrative. However, the photos are just like those of any other woman — they hold the same anticipation, excitement, and hopefulness of any expectant mother. This normalisation is what Couture says we desperately need.
“I think mainstream media is still sorely lacking,” Couture says. “There are so few characters with disability in TV, movies, and almost none of those are played by people with disabilities. It’s a problem that’s called ‘cripping up’ and often those characters are two-dimensional, tragic, or oh-so inspirational, rather than complex but ordinary people. We also just see Paralympians, elite athletes who are incredible, but not representational of everyday life with a disability. In mainstream media it’s very difficult to find inclusion, much less normalization of disabled bodies. “
Couture has since given birth to a daughter. (Photo: Courtesy Christa Couture; photography by Jen Squires.)
For every mountain we scale on the path towards inclusion, there seems to be another one waiting to be conquered. If there is no representation of disabled women in maternity photos, how does the community fare when it comes to parenting resources?
“I have noticed that disability remains hard to find outside of the Instagrammers and bloggers who are sharing their own experiences,” Couture says. “In general, parenting magazines and channels still aren’t doing a great job of keeping disability in mind. For some reason, when it comes to diversity, it gets forgotten, perhaps because it will always intersect with other identities.”
Christa Couture is featured on the recent issue of Today’s Parent magazine. (Photo: Via Twitter.)
However, it looks like some media outlets are starting to take notice. Couture is currently featured on the cover of Today’s Parent magazine, right beside the fitting headline, “One Strong Mother.” Inside, Couture is one of nine women sharing stories on the transformative power of motherhood.
Couture has started something — something big. It only takes one person sharing their story to make a real and significant change in our media landscape. Who will be next?
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Morgan Evans Introduces Highway 1 Sessions With ‘Young Again’
California surf and light morning traffic accompany Morgan Evans on a single-shot, one-take performance of "Young Again," the first acoustic video released as part of his new Highway 1 Sessions.
The "Day Drunk" singer keeps the rowdy, rolling tempo of the version found on his new Things That We Drink To album but pulls back percussion, layers of guitars and processing to deliver a performance more true to the coast of California than the shores of Ireland, which is where he was when he started to write it.
Filmed outside the Majestic Ventura Theater in Ventura, Calif., this video captures Evans in his element: not far from the ocean, guitar in hand, singing of young love.
"That's just me playing the song as I would anywhere I stood with a guitar," he says. "And I love that about the video. That's how we wrote it ... it sort of gets to the heart of the song a little bit."
"That feeling is one that I try to keep at the top of my mind every day I live my life. Like we got to appreciate this now, because who knows what's gonna happen in the next ten minutes," he says. "I've tried to convey that feeling a lot of times, but it's hard to do without going too far sometimes, but the way we wrote that song really captures that feeling."
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Things That We Drink To is Evans' first album released on Warner Music Nashville after a career spent mostly in Australia. When asked what keeps him young the 33-year-old said music.
"I feel that way when I catch up with old mates from my hometown who are doing very different things in their life ... I think when you talk about the age of 33, people that aren't sort of writing about what's happening now or singing about what's happening now sorta lose track of that sort of thing when having a family and working in an office somewhere."
Evans isn't saying what videos will come next during his Highway 1 Sessions, but promises they did plenty of filming while in California, the place that reminds him most of home. Fan input will dictate where he goes from here.
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LiquiGlide raises $16 million to get every last drop out of packages or tanks
Lora Kolodny @lorakolodny / 4 years
If you think it’s frustrating trying to get that last drop of ketchup out of the bottle, or toothpaste out of the tube, imagine having to waste and clean valuable and sticky substances from pipes or tanks in a factory.
A startup called LiquiGlide has raised $16 million in a new round of venture funding to bring its patented slippery coatings to manufacturers around the world. Co-founded by CEO J. David Smith and Chairman of the Board Kripa Varanasi, LiquiGlide is an MIT spinout that made its debut at the school’s business plan competition the MIT 100k in 2012.
Smith explained here’s how the company’s coatings work:
“Think about putting oil in a frying pan. It’s a great lubricant. But oil wears off over time and can get into your food. This is a permanent, liquid impregnated surface. We lay down a textured solid layer, something like a thin sponge, that traps liquid there through strong capillary force. Then, whatever you want to slide on top of that can move around because the liquid is mobile.”
LiquiGlide’s proprietary formula consists of flavorless, odorless and already FDA-approved ingredients, Smith said. The coating does not interfere with recycling. The CEO said, “Eliminating the need to wash out a container improves the chances that someone will recycle it. And clean materials are easier to recycle, so we can improve the sustainability of packaging overall.”
TechCrunch asked Smith if LiquiGlide employees use the coating to make anything for their own fun, like lightning-fast snowboards or a ridiculously effective Slip-N-Slide. The CEO said not yet, but the Cambridge, Mass.-based startup has been inundated with inbound requests from students, inventors and businesses that want to use the coating in a wide range of applications.
Staying focused is a challenge, he admits. But investors expect LiquiGlide to use its funding for hiring as needed, and to focus on “packaging and tanks,” i.e. companies that make consumer packaged goods and packaging, or businesses that make industrial tanks or require their use.
Investors in LiquiGlide’s new round included: Structure Capital, Valia Investments, Struck Capital, Pilot Grove and others who Smith did not have permission to name. The funding brings the company’s total equity raised to $25 million to-date. Its last round of $7 million was led by Roadmap Capital.
Managing Partner at Structure Capital, Jillian Manus, said: “We brand ourselves as the ‘architects of the zero waste economy.’ And LiquiGlide is like a poster child for us in a lot of ways. It represents the entire thesis here because this helps reduce wasted water, solvents, energy, product and packaging.” She said the company is facing a massive, and immediate, global market opportunity with urgent interest from automakers in both the US and China.
While Smith did not have permission to name all of the corporations that are testing or using LiquiGlide’s coatings in their packaging or equipment already, the company previously announced deals to work with Norwegian packaged goods conglomerate Orkla, Elmers the glue makers, and the Pact Group in Australia, a major packaging maker there.
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Hispanic Entrepreneurs in the 2000s: An Economic Profile and Policy Implications
Alberto Davila and Marie T. Mora
This book provides an in-depth economic and policy analysis of Hispanic entrepreneurs in the first decade of the 2000s. This book captures a flavor of issues related to the business cycle, economic outcomes (such as employment, sales, and contributions to tax coffers), socio-demographic characteristics, access to financial capital, the use and importance of digital technology, and public procurement and other policies affecting Hispanic business owners in the early 2000s. One distinguishing feature of this book is that it provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of many of these issues for ... More
This book provides an in-depth economic and policy analysis of Hispanic entrepreneurs in the first decade of the 2000s. This book captures a flavor of issues related to the business cycle, economic outcomes (such as employment, sales, and contributions to tax coffers), socio-demographic characteristics, access to financial capital, the use and importance of digital technology, and public procurement and other policies affecting Hispanic business owners in the early 2000s. One distinguishing feature of this book is that it provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of many of these issues for specific Hispanic populations, such as men versus women, immigrants versus natives, and across Hispanic sub-groups (Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Salvadorans). The first decade of the 2000s witnessed the dramatic growth in the Hispanic population and the intensification of their entrepreneurial tendencies. If these demographic changes continue as the 2000s unfold, Hispanic entrepreneurship will become an increasingly vital component of American job creation and to the economic direction of the nation.
Keywords: Hispanic entrepreneurs, Hispanic self-employment, Hispanic-owned businesses, Hispanic credit access, Hispanic technology usage, Hispanic economic outcomes, Hispanic employment creation, Hispanic tax-revenue generation, Hispanic entrepreneurs and public policy
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1 A Macro View of Hispanic Self-Employment in the 2000s
2 Entrepreneurial Earnings of Hispanics in the 2000s
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6 Strategic Issues for Hispanic Entrepreneurs—Credit Access
7 Strategic Issues for Hispanic Entrepreneurs—Technology Usage
8 Current Policy Issues for Hispanic Entrepreneurs
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Creating 300 record covers a day – the sleeve design challenge at Station to Station
Amar Ediriwira
Fraser Muggeridge has relocated to the Barbican for a two week record design challenge. Each day, his team must create unique album artwork for records by Cold Cave, Sun Araw, LoneLady, amongst others, and reproduce it 300 times. We dropped by his studio to learn about designing sleeves against the clock.
The Barbican’s brutalist frame has awakened. Artists from the world of contemporary art, music, dance, graphic design and film are infiltrating its concrete ramparts to participate in an untamed, “living” exhibition of residencies, performances, talks and screenings. The month-long project, named Station to Station, is Doug Aitken’s vision in spontaneous creativity.
Up on the third floor, in the Art Gallery area, Fraser Muggeridge and a team of five or six are designing record sleeves. Now halfway into his two week residency, Muggeridge has been charged with designing the visual lanugage for music recorded during Station to Station. With only one day allocated to creating each artwork and producing 300 sleeves per record, there’s a natural sense of urgency. But at the same time, the studio is alive with eccentricity and excitement. “It’s like a TV show, a gone-crazy Art Attack,” laughs Muggeridge.
Metres below Fraser’s studio, musicians drop into The Vinyl Factory Recording Studio to record music that will be eventually be pressed to vinyl, in situ, by The VF Press. The last stop in the on-site production process is Muggeridge’s studio, which, like everything else, is open for the public to witness.
With time a constraining factor, Fraser has set a theme to streamline creativity. Printed on the studio wall in sparkling colours, the team manifesto reads:
Mona Lisa we love you and you are the apex of beauty, a masterwork contained in the mysterious smile seen by millions. You epitomise the image of our world, our struggle to interpret, to reference and to represent such wonder and imagination. All this time we wanted to hear you sing. This is now reality. Sing, my love, let the needle touch your groove…
Whether its colour, something anatomical or an abstract reference, every sleeve design must connect to the Mona Lisa.
Why the Mona Lisa? “It’s just a hook to hang it all off”, says Fraser. “It could be anything. You could say ‘lump of cheese’.”
It’s a completely different process to designing records ordinarily. There’s little, if any, dialogue with the musician or the label, which, he believes is incredibly liberating. “Instead of the artist saying ‘I like this one; I don’t like this one’, we just make the cover and then that’s it.”
Last week’s design for a Lucky Dragons record developed into something quite aggressive, unlike the music within, but not having to present to a client is a freedom that Fraser feels allows his team to focus on an idea and not have it curtailed. As he points out, “That’s never the case in the normal world”.
That said, the world of Station to Station presents its own challenges. “Usually if I design a book, I don’t print it. That’s the big difference here: we actually have to produce everything.” And without a colour printer, or even a Mac for that matter, every sleeve must be created individually. A limited run of 300 suddenly begins to feel less limited.
But for the most part, back-to-basics is a joy. “We can’t print a four colour image so there’s no photography, which is quite nice because the world is full of photography.” And stripping away computers, brings a refreshing sense of imperfection. “The thing about a computer is that you’re always searching for perfection. These artworks don’t exist digitally, they’re just here.”
Working by hand might mean mistakes are made but it also produces designs that would never come together on a computer. Things happen unexpectedly. “We’re trying to use lots of different processes,” he explains whilst holding a hair dryer, “we’re doing experiments with computer printing, stamping, screen printing, rolling, stippling, linocutting, stickering, and then we’ll try to think of more. We have to think on our feet.” In that sense, the task is an invitation to explore.
For Fraser it’s important to experiment for experimentation’s sake. Unconnected to the record sleeves, the team have been feeding data files from old Barbican posters into an ’80s computer drawing machine, linocutting bits from the studio portfolio and using a watercolour bot to turn recreate old designs; activities that perfectly capture the spirit of Station to Station.
Designers Åbäke will take over from Fraser Muggeridge’s residency from next week, with the same task and Mona Lisa manifesto to work with.
Check out the records that have already been created here and visit the Barbican this month to watch vinyl records being made from start to finish.
Photography by Nick Morris
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Russia Isn't Dividing Us — Our Leaders Are
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Posted By: Roland Benge 02/25/2020
The latest act in the comedy began Friday, just before voting opened in the Nevada Democratic caucus. The Washington Post ran a story — sourced, I’m not joking, to “people familiar with the matter” — explaining that had been briefed that “ is attempting to help his presidential campaign as part of an effort to interfere with the Democratic contest.”
Sanders was quick to see through the gambit. “I’ll let you guess about one day before the Nevada caucus. Why do you think it came out?” He pointed to a Post reporter: “It was The Washington Post? Good friends.” The Post after all has spent years dumping on Sanders, a fervent critic of the paper’s billionaire creep of an owner, Jeff Bezos.
Intelligence officials and pundits have been screeching for years that patriotism demands voters reject the foreign agent Donald Trump and the Russian asset Bernie Sanders, and support a conventional establishment politician. Voters responded by moving toward Trump in national approval surveys and speeding Sanders to the top of the Democratic Party ticket. A more thorough disavowal of official propaganda would be difficult to imagine.
Russiagate will soon be four years old. For the first three years, it pushed parallel themes: that Russia had “interfered” in the 2016 election, and Trump conspired in the fraud.
The latter theme at times garnered literal around-the-clock coverage. CNN and MSNBC especially (but also the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Daily Beast and other major outlets) preached to audiences that the fall of the Trump administration was imminent. Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, news audiences were told, would reveal the Trump-Russia conspiracy and save the world.
After this story died a violent death when Mueller’s probe ended with no new charges, conventional wisdom shifted to a new gospel: Russiagate was about foreign interference.
Russiagate from the start smelled funny, like bad food. Multiple developments worsened the odor. Stories kept coming up wrong. There were too many unnamed sources, too frequently contradicting each other and/or overstating facts. Every hoofprint was a zebra’s. Outlets stopped worrying about relaying unconfirmed rumors, which is how terms like “blackmail,” “Trump,” “Russia” and even “Golden Showers” kept appearing in headlines, without proof there ever had been blackmail.
Moreover, while ordinary citizens like Reality Winner went straight to jail for leaking, senior government officials in the last four years repeatedly and with impunity leaked Russia-related tales. The leaks often pushed still more incorrect narratives, like for instance that that Trump aide Carter Page was a foreign agent.
But the biggest red flag of all was the way in which “Russia” over the last few years became shorthand to describe any brand of political dence. I wrote this two years ago:
“Since Trump’s election, we’ve been told Putin was all or partly behind the lot of it: the Catalan independence movement, the Sanders campaign, Brexit, Jill Stein’s Green Party run, Black Lives Matter, the resignations of intra-party Trump critics Bob Corker and Jeff Flake…”
Unnamed “officials” have since added the Corbyn movement in England, the gilets jaunes, protesters in Chile, Boli, Ecuador, and Colombia, militias in Africa, pro-government disinformation campaigns in Hong Kong, the presidential campaign of Tulsi Gabbard, and countless other undesirables to what has amounted to an ongoing, cumulative blacklist.
The extraordinary thing about this campaign to identify basically the entire universe of political thought outside of establishment Democrats in the U.S. as Russian assets has been the obvious projection involved.
The plot running through all of these stories has been the idea that Russia is trying to “undermine our democracy” by “sowing division.” But these charges are coming from the same people who spent the last four years describing Republicans as deplorable fascists, and progressives on the other side as racist, sexist, Nazis, and “digital brownshirts.”
This has resulted in a four-year parade of official cranks muttering about Russian efforts to “divide” us, when their own relentless message has been that America is besieged by a pair of Hitlerian movements on the left and right that must be put down at all costs. The only vision of “unity” they promote is one of obedience to the crackpot anti-utopia of neoliberalism that populations around the world are currently rejecting at the ballot box.
The core of the argument about Russian interference rested upon two major news stories: the hack of the DNC in 2016, and a campaign by the “Internet Research Agency” to push “divisive” social media content.
The former is a leak of true information about the correspondence of senior Democratic Party officials (Jeremy Corbyn was similarly accused of abetting Russian disinformation efforts when damning-but-real materials about the British National Health Service were leaked). The latter? A story about a group of silly memes, amplified a billion-fold by the American commercial news reports about these same efforts.
Did the Russians actually do these things? Maybe. It’s not confirmed either way. The sourcing even today remains tied to the same people who’ve lied about a thousand other things, both in the course of this story and before, from WMDs to the missile gap. As we saw this week, when officials quietly began admitting their ideas about “what Russia wants” rested upon perhaps “overstated” interpretations of intelligence, many of these narratives have been elaborate exercises in reading tea leaves. And they won’t let us see the tea leaves.
But if there is official Russian agency behind, say, the Internet Research Agency, those efforts pale in comparison to the enormous institutional effort in the United States to use the narrative for other ends.
The United States, whose spending on intelligence and the military alone nearly equals Russia’s GDP, could crush Russia for breakfast and take the rest of the day off for beer and volleyball. But officials have spent the last few years furiously constructing a popular vision of the Russian enemy far bigger than the actual country, which the likes of Rachel Maddow and Barack Obama not long ago were correctly calling a “gnat on the butt of an elephant.”
Last week was a perfect example. Intelligence officials briefed Sanders about a belief on their part that Russia wanted to “help” his campaign, although the nature of this assistance was not specific enough to be disclosed.
The Post noted “U.S. prosecutors found a Russian effort in 2016 to use social media to boost Sanders’s campaign against Hillary Clinton,” a typically deceptive construction.
Prosecutors asserted a Russian effort to boost Sanders rather than finding it as true. Nobody has seen the “proof” of this story, not even the Russians charged by Robert Mueller with the conspiracy to help Sanders. In fact, that evidence was deemed so sensitive that Mueller sought to prevent the Russian defendants from seeing it in discovery. The proof was somehow so dangerous, we had to overturn centuries of legal tradition to keep it hidden.
No matter, the press had no problem repeating the story, because why not? The notion that Russians want to help Sanders always fit nicely into establishment propaganda.
As a result, we get situations like last week, where there was an assertion about an unknown level of Russian support — presumably, social media boosting — that could not possibly equal the impact of a single news story leaked to the Post on the eve of the Nevada primary. Every news consumer in America heard that story last week. Russians could only dream of such saturation.
The logic of Russiagate is now beyond absurd. Vladimir Putin, somehow in perfect sync with American voting trends, seeks to elevate both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, apparently to compete against himself in the general election, in a desperate effort to suppress the terrifying political might of, say, Joe Biden. I doubt even Neera Tanden in the depths of a wine coma could believe this plot now.
That this is a dumb story is characteristic. The people pushing it don’t have any smart arguments left for remaining in power. Through decades of corporate giveaways, trickle-up economics, pointless wars, and authoritarianism, they’ve failed the entire population. They are the ones directly threatened by any hint that the population is awakening to its decades-long disenfranchisement.
They are also the ones who benefit most from “disinformation.” Who’s trying to divide us? Our own leaders, and as results like the Nevada primary show, the public now knows it.
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HPD Vehicular Crimes Division investigators are responding to a fatal crash involving two vehicles that occurred about 1:40 p.m. at Westpark Drive at Hillcroft Avenue.
A man and woman were arrested after a sword fight Thursday night at an apartment complex in Buda, according to a city spokesperson.
Edinburg police say the officer involved in the incident is with McAllen police department. The officer was on duty inside city limits. Authorities say the incident involved another individual. Both the officer and the individual were transported to the hospital with no severe or life-threatening injuries.
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At this time it remains unclear which agency the officer pertains to. Rodriguez says, no life threatening injuries have been reported.
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The man, who was in his late 40s, was rushed to a hospital where he died. Police did not release his name right away. They also were not able to say, definitively, whether he was the victim of a homicide or, perhaps, committed suicide.
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A mother is searching for the owner of a truck she says was involved in a hit-and-run with her son while he was driving his motorcycle in North Austin
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Drive-by shooting overnight results in 3 men struck by gunfire. HCSOTexas Deputies responding to scene received tourniquets & training at roll call just hours before. Deputy Willis applied the lifesaving equipment to 1 male with a major wound to the upper thigh
Emergency crews are at the scene of a semi fire on I-10 east just past Sunland Park near Executive.
An investigation is underway into what led up to two people being shot at a West Side hotel.
A teenager in Dallas has died from complications from the flu. By all accounts, Reese Termulo was a healthy, active teenager. The 16-year-old was a junior and member of the Brigade at Bishop Lynch High School
A woman has died after fire swept through her house in Fort Worth Monday
An 18-wheeler hauling loaves of bread crashed on Monday afternoon on Highway 6 in Robertson County.
A fire on Kansas between Rio Grande and Montana has Kansas closed.
Copperas Cove, Texas
A driver has been arrested after a hit-and-run left a 32-year-old man dead.
A police pursuit ended with the suspect's car crashing through Liberty Hill High School's fence, landing in the pond and going up in flames
El Paso Fire Department is responding to a condition 2 fire at the 900 block of Kansas St.
Harker Heights,Texas
Police investigating after fight at club sends one to the hospital
A WFISD Rider High School student was arrested for bringing a gun to school according to Rider officials.
A teenager is recovering in the hospital Monday after a shooting overnight in Arlington, police said. The teen was shot in the abdomen by an unknown suspect
San Antonio police are investigating a shooting Monday afternoon on the city's Southeast Side.
Shooting on the South Side. one person has been taken to the hospital. standoff situation and US Marshalls and ATF are on scene
One person killed in southeast side shooting, in the 4400 block of Stetson View near Interstate 37.
A man was taken to the hospital in critical condition after another driver intentionally ran over him multiple times during a road rage incident in Houston, authorities say
Odessa man dies in crash south of Orla.
Construction worker found by co-workers with gunshot wound to face, dies at hospital
One wounded in drive-by shooting, Fort Worth police say. The suspect in the case is still outstanding, according to police.
SATXPolice are searching victim's truck. Detectives also interviewed fellow coworkers who found victim shot in side of face at construction site off Eisenhauer
One man is dead after being hit by two vehicles while trying to cross the street on the South Side.
Police investigate possible shooting at construction site. The victim was taken to a hospital for treatment, but it was unclear whether the person was shot or assaulted. The victim's condition was not available.
SATXPolice on scene of murder at construction site off Eisenhauer Rd. Victim was shot in face and is possible construction worker at site found by coworkers
One person was wounded during a drive-by shooting in Fort Worth on Sunday night, police said.
SAFD said one person was taken to a hospital with possible life-threatening injuries and another person suffered serious injuries after a shooting on the city's northeast side.
A man is facing charges after a K-9 unit tracked him down in a nearby field.
One person was hospitalized after a shooting at a QuikTrip parking lot Sunday night in Fort Worth, police said
Say 2 men are in custody after car and foot chase under I45 near Shepherd Drive
A Lubbock Co. Sheriff's deputy in town for the fallen Lubbock officer at the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office was uninjured after a driver crashed into the back of their patrol car while they were stopped at a stop sign near Downtown Fort Worth.
A 22-year-old man was killed after his motorcycle collided with an SUV Sunday in Flower Mound, police say
Lancaster, Texas
The persons of interest in the shooting at 9191 S. Polk have been identified. A B/M/15 is responsible for the shooting and turned himself in. He is charged with Aggravated Assault. The other two are also juveniles and will not be charged.
SWAT scene in 12300 block of Ridgeside Drive
Suspect in custody 12300 Ridgeside Drive, Houston, TX, USA
A person was shot in the abdomen in Fort Worth Sunday night in the 2800 block of Las Vegas Trail
Orange,Texas
Firefighters in Orange County are battling a house fire on North 16th Street and Church Ave. No word on any injuries.
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HPD SWAT, Hostage Negotiation Team (HNT), & PIO en route to 12300 block of Ridgeway (West Houston). A man, believed to be alone & in mental crisis, is threatening to blow up his home. Neighbors have been evacuated as a precaution.
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Masonic plot
Trump tweets he’s ‘honoured’ by former nuncio’s letter
US President Donald Trump said he was ‘honoured’ by an open letter from a former Vatican official who claimed that restrictions to prevent the spread of Covid-19 were part of a Masonic plot to establish a new world order. In the letter released by LifesiteNews on 6th June, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who served as... Read More
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Reviewed by: Todd Doogan
2013 (September 24, 2013)
Marvel Studios/DMG (Walt Disney Studios)
Film/Program Grade: B+
Video Grade: A+
Audio Grade: A+
Extras Grade: B
Iron Man, Iron Man – does whatever an iron can... ahem. Yeah, that doesn’t quite work. Oh well. But, hey! Wanna know what does? This movie. And who-boy, in some remarkable ways it really shouldn’t. Who ever made the decision to take Tony Stark out of his costume for… what, 6/8ths of the film… was a friggin’ genius. BUT! They are also the owner of some giant balls (you can’t see me, but I’m making that vibrating hands ball shape with my hands to emphasize just how big they are) for the same exact reason. Seriously, who makes a film called Iron Man where the guy who plays Iron Man is only in costume for maybe 20 minutes of the movie? That’s bold, yo. Our best guess is both decisions were most likely Robert Downey, Jr.’s. And even if it was for ego, it still worked gangbusters. Making Tony into a sarcastic, stress-addled James Bond makes this film so much better than it really should be. Another stroke of genius was bringing in the king of sarcasm (and creator of the best henchmen ever), Shane Black. Handing the reigns of such a huge film to a relative newcomer director, well that was probably Downey and his balls’ doing as well. So end of day, the best thing to happen to Marvel’s film unit may not be that Joss Whedon fella – it’s a pretty sure bet that it’s RDJ.
Let’s talk about the film, shall we? The big deal for comic book fans is, Iron Man 3 finally brings the major villain The Mandarin into the story. It’s months after Tony and the other Avengers thwarted the Chitauri/Thanos Earth invasion in NYC. Realizing that he is protecting the Earth along-side actual Gods and Monsters, Tony’s squirreled himself away in his workshop making every sort of armor he can think might come in handy. There are spacesuits, underwater suits, construction suits and suits for fighting The Hulk. A suit for this, a suit for that. Suit, suit, suit, suit, suit. There’s a long list of suits is what I’m saying. We pop into the story proper just as he’s putting the finishing touches on a self-mobilizing suit attracted to pods he’s injected into his body: the Mark XLII. It works, but not so great. Now before the review gets too far ahead of itself, we should discuss the rather brilliant opening. The film opens at a convention hinted at in the first film and laying out the simple fact that, before he was a super hero, Tony was a super dick. To everyone. And sometimes that behavior has a tendency to blow-back. Okay, so back to the story. While Tony has been busy feeling inadequate and slightly paranoid, the world has continued turning and a super-terrorist has reared his head – The Mandarin (played weirdly, but well-enough, by Ben Kingsley). The Mandarin is teaching the world a lesson and right now it’s America’s turn to learn. In a divine coincidence, The Mandarin’s latest attack on U.S. soil lands Tony’s bodyguard/chauffer Happy (Jon Favreau) in a coma. Enough being enough, Tony calls The Mandarin out, tells him exactly where he lives and to bring it. It gets brought. Big time. Tony gets separated from his vast collection of awesome armors (having to rely on his brains and a faulty Mark XLII armor which, being a prototype, is saddled with limited power and functionality), his plucky girlfriend (who is stuck having a B-story adventure) and apparently The Avengers (who are all doing their own thing, we can only guess). But that’s okay; this is when the flick gets fun. Tony gets to out-think a whole gaggle of super villains and henchmen in his pursuit of the truth about what’s going on and how his past dickish ways have landed the whole world in a pile of doo-doo. Other high points include: digital butler J.A.R.V.I.S. (Paul Bettany) essentially becoming Iron Man for all intents and purposes; all verbal references to War Machine and Iron Patriot; AIM’s founder Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) and his tie to Tony; the hot-bodied scorcher (in more ways than one) Ellen Brandt (Stephanie Szostak); James Badge Dale making a fine turn as a baddie; each and every interaction between Tony and Harley “The Kid” (or should we say Peter Quill... hmmmm) and sure, why not; Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) getting her time to shine as a hero herself (twice no less). Iron Man 3 is a happy accident of a movie. It works specifically because of the insane choices and the people making it. It’s watchable and fun and allows for some repeat viewing. If this is the last solo Iron Man film, it ends the run perfectly. I seriously doubt it is, but you never know do you?
To review the video and audio of this film is rather asinine. Color, black, tones blah blah blah – it looks awesome and sounds even better. Are you buying this because I tell you it’s 1080p/AVC-encoded and 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio? No. But both of those things are true, so do with it what you will. I have nothing bad to say about the presentation of this Blu-ray and I doubt anyone could. If Bill knows something I don’t, there will be an editor’s note right below this paragraph. On to the extras!
[Editor’s Note: The A/V quality here is actually FOUR blah-worthy. Possibly five. So: blah… blah. Carry on.]
Extras are a bit light. Is this because Disney is holding back for the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2.0 Collection box? Probably. What we get is okay, but nothing Earth-shattering. First up is an audio commentary track with Shane Black and his co-writer, Drew Pearce. They talk about everything they thought about, tried-out and invented. It’s actually one of the best tracks I’ve heard in a while and highly recommend you dive into it after you watch the film again at home. The next feature we can talk about is something I won’t do myself, so I have no review of it: The Restore the Database Second Screen Experience offers you the opportunity to download the JARVIS app and then you have to hunt for encryptions on the disc and scan and *snore* done. Not doing that. (Eff you Disney SE producer.) Next up is the best thing on the set: Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter, which is a fifteen-minute short film focused on Steve Rogers’ girlfriend coming up on her own as a SHIELD agent (which I thought based on the first Iron Man film wasn’t the name of the organization when first started – hmmmm). It’s a really fun short and if rumors are true that it might be a back-door pilot to an ongoing series focused on Carter and the early days of SHIELD – count me in. Joining in is a behind-the-scene featurette (Iron Man 3 Unmasked) where it’s interesting to see how involved RDJ was involved in directing the film. Deconstructing the Scene: Attack on Air Force One shows how they filmed the spectacular action sequence and how much of it was shot for real as opposed to using CGI. There’s a selection of deleted and extended scenes, which include alternate takes, improvs, outtakes and deleted sequences – though nothing is here that would have made the film any better. There’s also a Gag Reel (by now a Shane Black standard) and a look at Thor: The Dark World. See? Pretty standard and you know there has to be more. But for the short and commentary track at least this disc is well worth owning.
If you’re an action film fan, an espionage thriller fan, a super hero film fan, or simply love RDJ, Iron Man 3 comes highly recommended. It’s fun and entertaining, and it’s simply a marvel that the film came together the way it did with so many things working against it in terms of logic. It’s way more entertaining than Iron Man 2 and, in many ways, it’s even better than the first film (though there’s some of the same magic at play in that one). I look forward to seeing how the rest of Marvel Phase 2 plays out. And I can’t wait to see how Iron Man plays into Phase 3.
- Todd Doogan
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Heh: Dem Senator Suddenly Regrets the 'Reid Rule' on Filibusters
The Battle Against the Biden Administration Begins
Guy Benson
@guypbenson
Posted: Nov 30, 2016 1:15 PM
Via Ed Morrissey, an amusing and hopelessly-belated mea culpa from one of the Senate's more liberal Democrats who all of a sudden regrets his participation in Harry Reid's 2013 partial nuke of the filibuster. Oh, it seemed like such a good idea at the time; those awful obstructionist Republicans weren't giving President Obama everything he wanted, so something had to be done. Reid used a strong-arm move to change the Senate rules with a bare majority vote, eliminating the minority's right to filibuster presidential nominations. Obama was the short-term beneficiary of the Reid Rule, installing his people as he saw fit, in both the executive branch and the federal judiciary (excepting the Supreme Court -- more on that in a moment). But now the proverbial shoe is on the other foot, and President Trump will have the opportunity to populate his administration with whomever he sees fit, not to mention a slew of district and circuit court judges. Cue the Democratic regret. Seriously: Thanks, Harry Reid. Come to think of it, if they really want to troll the Senate's chief troll on his way out the door, the GOP caucus could sign a 'thank you' note to him for empowering conservatives and the Trump administration. Meanwhile, here is Chris Coons expressing regret and making a terrible argument:
CNN: But Senator, also a rules change the Democrats put in place could also come back to bite you. I mean, I don’t get into the weeds, but Democrats made it much easier than a simple majority can push through presidential nominees. Democrats did it for themselves and now Republicans can do it as well.
COONS: That’s exactly right. The filibuster no longer acts as emergency brake on the nomination —
CNN: So do you regret that?
COONS: I do regret that. I frankly think many of us will regret that in this Congress because it would have been a terrific speed bump, potential emergency brake, to have in our system to slow down the confirmation of extreme nominees. We’re instead going to have to depend on the American people, on thorough hearings and/or persuading a number of Republicans in those cases where President-elect Trump might nominate someone, who is just too extreme to the American people. I’ll remind you that Secretary Clinton won the popular vote and that Democrat — Senate candidates won more votes. So I don’t think Trump has an overwhelming mandate. I do think Republicans are conscious of that.
"I do regret that," he says, looking back wistfully upon his fateful 2013 decision to march in lockstep with Reid and strip away the very powers he how wishes he had at his disposal. And I'd write a detailed response to his rubbish point about the presidential and Senate 'popular votes,' but oh look -- I already did. Another note: President Trump will have an immediate opportunity to nominate a Supreme Court justice, thanks to the Biden Rule. Reid's filibuster nuke gambit held out a fig leaf exception for SCOTUS, maintaining the possibility of a filibuster for those picks. Liberals will undoubtedly squeal if he follows through on his promise and picks a strong (preferably young) constitutionalist in the mold of Scalia, and some on the Left will likely urge their Senators to mount filibusters -- especially if Trump gets a second or third bite at the apple. If Schumer and company try to block qualified Supreme Court nominees, the GOP should invoke the Kaine Rule (click through for an explanation) and expand the Reid Rule to include appointments to the high court. It's abundantly clear that Democrats were preparing to do so on behalf of President Hillary with their newly-recaptured Senate majority. They said as much. Oops. Ed says it well: "Hope you enjoy the Senate majority you helped build in single-party governance, Mr. Coons. You deserve it."
Parting thought: The legislative filibuster is a very different proposition. Senate Republicans may be frustrated and tempted to shatter the filibuster to impede bills from passage, but that would be a short-sighted mistake. This column makes a good case for why. Fortunately, it seems as though Senators on both sides of the aisle recognize the perils of messing with the legislative filibuster, even as that tool for blocking nominees has been eroded -- and probably killed off -- by the Democrats. Harry Reid's legacy.
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Da Lat grows Japan’s sakura trees after successful trial
Thursday, November 22, 2018, 17:25 GMT+7
Sakura trees grow in Da Lat City during the 2017 trial period. Photo: Tuoi Tre
Over a hundred Japanese cherry blossom trees were planted in Da Lat in Vietnam’s Central Highlands on Wednesday to mark a series of important events.
The planting of 125 sakura trees at the local flower park near the iconic Xuan Huong Lake is to honor the city’s 125th birthday and celebrate the 45-year-old Vietnam-Japan diplomatic relationship.
The cherries, 100 of which were donated by Japan’s Himeji Flower Auction Company, are 2.2 meters tall on average.
One thousand sakura trees were cultivated in Da Lat in a trial period last year and they seemed to adapt well to the chilly local climate.
A sakura tree is planted in Da Lat City, Vietnam, November 21, 2018. Photo: Tuoi Tre
Thai Xuan / Tuoi Tre News
Japan Da Lat sakura
Vietnam puts brakes on 'death cliff' photo op after slip-and-fall accident
The victim survived after falling down about 25 meters
A tractor-trailer fatally hit a motorcyclist and continued traveling for another 60 kilometers before being pulled over
The victim previously lent her money to a close friend, but the latter failed to pay the debt
Truck driver heavily fined for driving in wrong direction on highway in northern Vietnam
Other vehicles in the same direction as the car had to steer aside to avoid traffic accidents
Vietnam conducts COVID-19 tests on journalists who will cover 13th Party National Congress
Nearly 500 local journalists will be subject to coronavirus testing before they are allowed to report on site on the five-yearly Congress next week
S.Korea's Kia says looking at electric car projects with multiple firms after Apple report
Korean media reported that Kia would cooperate with Apple on electric cars
The Trump administration has determined that China has committed “genocide and crimes against humanity” by repressing Uighur Muslims in its Xinjiang region
Tangled bunches of wires, engraved in people’s mind as an integral part of Ho Chi Minh City’s hustle and bustle, have been gradually disappearing. The removal of the city’s iconic yet troubling scene has taken decades, involving dozens of agencies.
The heart has its own reasons
Mitsubishi recalls over 9,000 Xpander, Outlander cars in Vietnam
The recall started on January 15 and will last until January 17, 2023
Meet creator of mini ‘fire engine’ designed for Saigon’s narrow alleys
The local fire brigade gave approval to the improvised fire motorcycle and has allowed Thanh to use it to help battle several blazes
Tourists lured to Hanoi’s first purpletop farm
In Vietnam, the plant is primarily found in the northern mountainous resort town of Sa Pa
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Home » Fashion » Everlane Is Discontinuing 152 Best-Selling Styles — and You Can Get Them Up to 60% Off
Everlane Is Discontinuing 152 Best-Selling Styles — and You Can Get Them Up to 60% Off
29/12/2020 Comments Off on Everlane Is Discontinuing 152 Best-Selling Styles — and You Can Get Them Up to 60% Off
The lull between the holiday season and New Year’s Day is often filled with games, food, and more activities to pass the time, but if you’re a shopping lover, it’s often prime time (and the last chance of the year) to score top brands on sale. From Lululemon to Apple, tons of rarely marked-down brands are offering can’t-miss deals for the end of the year. Even Everlane, the label beloved by celebrities such as Angelina Jolie and Meghan Markle, is offering a massive sale.
Everlane’s end-of-year “Goodbye 2020” sale includes 152 best-selling styles that the brand is discontinuing for up to 60 percent off. Items that are marked down include ultra-popular styles like the Corduroy Straight Leg Crop pants, the Slim Wool Pant, and the Cashmere V-Neck sweater. Celebrity favorites are discounted, too: Meghan’s cashmere sweater that she has been spotted wearing is only $70, and her Japanese GoWeave Essential Jumpsuit is half-off — just $60 right now.
Everlane Goodbye 2020 End-of-Year Sale
Shoes: $34–$138 (orig. $58–$198)
Bottoms: $19–$86 (orig. $38–$115)
Denim: $34–$54 (orig. $68–$85)
Sweaters: $24–$84 (orig. $48–$140)
Outerwear: $52–$208 (orig. $78–$298)
Tops: $22–$73 (orig. $48–$98)
T-Shirts: $14–$30 (orig. $18–$38)
Dresses and Jumpsuits: $34–$126 (orig. $58–$180)
Accessories: $4–$58 (orig. $7–$98)
Since Everlane is bidding these 152 best-sellers farewell, now is not only your last chance to grab them on sale but your final opportunity to shop them, period. Known for its classic, clean-cut basics, Everlane offers timeless pieces that you know you’ll wear for years to come. Some always-good choices include the Straight Leg Crop pants with nearly 4,000 reviews, the Side-Zip Stretch Cotton Pant with equally stellar ratings, and the label’s activewear Perform Leggings. Plus, everyday tops like the Cashmere Crew Cardigan, the Clean Silk Relaxed Shirt, and the washable Silk Wrap Top are all on sale.
Snuggling up at home for the winter? Grab this alpaca sweater tee that’s practically made for cozy lounging for just $49, or this cashmere sweater dress for $54 off. But clothes aren’t the only noteworthy markdowns from Everlane’s sale: The brand’s gone-in-a-flash face mask pack is just $13 right now, and beanies and neck warmers are as little as $30. Of course, we can’t forget about shoes, and aside from the Glove and Boss boots, Everlane’s Trainer and Court Sneaker are both marked down. To plan ahead for spring and summer, you can even grab flats and espadrilles on sale.
With prices so low — up to 60 percent off — it’s expected that these best-sellers will be gone for good in a flash. Shop Everlane’s “Goodbye 2020” end-of-year sale here, and check out some highlights below.
Buy It! The High-Rise Skinny Jean, $47 (orig. $68); everlane.com
Buy It! The Straight Leg Crop Pant, $36 (orig. $72); everlane.com
Buy It! The Clean Silk Relaxed Shirt, $73 (orig. $98); everlane.com
Buy It! The Re:Down Military Parka, $158 (orig. $198); everlane.com
Buy It! The Cashmere V-Neck, $75 (orig. $100); everlane.com
Buy It! The Glove Boot, $57 (orig. $115); everlane.com
Buy It! The Day Heel, $58 (orig. $145); everlane.com
Buy It! The ReCotton Cropped Pocket Tee, $15 (orig. $25); everlane.com
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Buy It! The 100% Human Face Mask 3-Pack, $13 (orig. $18); everlane.com
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I'd rather be overgeared
Posted by Klepsacovic at 8:00 AM | Wednesday, March 3, 2010
All content is designed for a certain level of gear and skill. Most of us fail at that level of skill, so we compensate with more gear. Or we have inferior computers; framerates can really hurt performance. Whatever it is, for the most part we go into content 'overgeared' and don't think much of it.
Sometimes Blizzard decides a boss is overtuned and nerfs it. We saw this a lot in BC, with many fights receiving major nerfs weeks or months after they were released. And then near the end BT was nerfed heavily, presumably so people could see it before we stopped caring.
I don't mind either of these. Overgearing just seems natural; gear is central to the game, part of the process of gaining strength to take on bigger challenges. A hamster wheel, but that's life. The big nerf, that feels like Blizzard looked at how fights were going and said "oops, too hard." It's a balance decision.
This 5% stacking buff feels more like "Oh you poor slow guilds, here's a cookie. And some unearned damage, healing, and health. Don't forget your homework on the way out!" It feels almost insulting. Overgearing, at least that's something we earned and worked towards.
I'd mind it less if it wasn't on by default. That would allow guilds to individually say "We're not getting anywhere, let's see what this can do for us." Or to say "We almost have this, let's give it a few more weeks."
When it's on by default, it's far harder for a guild to say "We want to refuse this buff to keep trying as we are, and keep wiping." I know that in effect they are the same, but the mind is a weird thing. Who is going to say "Let's make this harder than it has to be"?
Last night we did a lot better on Valithria. How much better? It's hard to say. 5% more healing is easy to calculate (if we assume no one died to lack of healing, which I'm willing to assume to simplify things). 5% more damage? That's harder. Getting suppressors down a little bit sooner can have a big impact on healing; especially if you consider that a suppressor at 4% health is so close to 0%, but is still debuffing her. And if we do take into account player deaths due to lack of healing; consider the blazing skeletons; killing them sooner makes them easier to heal through, as does the buffed healing, which combine to give more time to heal her and more players alive to kill suppressors faster meaning more healing on her... You get the picture.
If you were 1% from beating her, you can say you got 1% better. But what if you're going from 65% to 80%? Clearly that's more than the 5% healing, but 5% damage, 5% health, those multiply the healing. Maybe you only truly improved 65% to 70% and the rest is just a handout.
It's kinda killing ICC for me. The sense of improvement is weakened. Just stand around and it will get easier.
[edit] And as fate would have it, I wrote about overgearing (and difficulty) over a year ago. Though with a different angle. I guess it's a "If you liked this you might also enjoy..."
Labels: Icecrown Citadel, raiding
I agree totally. The stacking buff should have only been used towards the end of the expansion just before cataclysm is released.
Obviously blizzard want every player to have a chance at killing the lich king, but my guild has only had 1 night of attempts on him so far and now the buff has been enabled we'll never be able to say we killed him "pre-nerf".
But unlikely the nerfs they've used earlier it's optional. You CAN do without it. You just have to be strong to take such a decision.
Tam said...
I feel quite ambivalent about the Pity Buff (as Miss Medicina calls it) - I know it's optional but I think it's unfair to ask players to make their own life more difficult. And, you're right, over-gearing is a sort of inherent self-balancing mechanism ... but the "have a cookie buff" ... hmmm...*dubious*
I was actually surprised that more people in my guild didn't insist, "We are definitely turning this off!" To put it in the words of one of our tanks, "Pride is for world firsts."
And I sort of get where he's coming from. We've only had a short amount of time on The Lich King so far and I would've liked to see how far we could get without the buff... but does it matter to me enough to turn that buff off? At least now it's only 5%. By August it's going to be 30, a mind-boggling boost, really. It's hard to imagine TLK being puggable, but that'll be the reality, I think.
The Renaissance Man said...
Did you like it better with the burning crusade model? Where blizzard would let you smash your heard against a boss for a while, and then nerf the boss hard, on the orber of a 20% health nerf, without the option of undoing it? That way you never get the chance to know if you could down it in it's intended form.
Jasyla said...
I find ICC buff much more agreeable than the nerf route used in the past. Nerfs can't be switched off and more often than not effect fight mechanics just as much as boss health.
Ngita said...
Blizzard has said in the past they want all guilds to be able to see content.
Now to achieve this what else can they do? They can make us overgeared by giving a new instance tier or a badge fest ala the end of sunwell, but to a degree they have already done this via frost emblems and voa, and their are no further tiers planned this expansion.
They can nerf the content and they have done this a little with things like change changing the buff on dreamwalker from 35 to 40 seconds. But this can be aggravating as well,when you watch people completely ignore what used to be integral parts of the fight and leave it to the healers to remedy.
This % buff is more obvious but it really is the same thing and preferable to bashing your heads against twin emps for 6 months because its designed to be a challenge for better players then us.
@Anonymous: The buff is supposed to be helping slower guilds, but instead it's hurting some. I share your pain.
@Larisa: But I'd rather make the decision in the other direction, since at all are as strong.
@Tam: I like the sound of that, Pity Buff. I pray no dicks start referring to it as the "welfare buff". Bah, it's probably too late already.
@paggingpally: Maybe this is Blizzard's plan for how to return a sense of a mystery.
@The Renaissance Man: I have to concede; you're right. This is still better than the non-optional nerfs, especially when they took place well after Blizzard should have been able to determine their difficulty.
@Jasyla: It is more agreeable, I do still wish it was off instead of on. But this is what happens when you give a mouse a cookie.
@Ngita: When I said overgeared, I'm going from the standpoint that we aren't expected to have every drop off Marrowgarr to kill Lady, or every drop off her for Gunship, and so on. Maybe we're expected to have 2/4-T10 for Arthas, but we're not expected to have every drop from ICC and fully upgraded T10 and whatever else. We can overgeared content within the content, since it's all designed for gear before it.
Issy said...
Hmm a few people have said, well, it saves me using a flask/buff food. I am not bothered either way about the buff though, tbh.
Stabs said...
Regarding Larissa's point about it being optional I don't agree.
If one person, even an officer or a guild leader says screw this buff, we're going to do it on hard it will split the guild.
Some people will see it as pointless masochism.
Unless you are in a really hardcore guild and had almost cleared the content before the buff you won't be able to convince the tenuous alliance of conflicting personalities that is your typical raid guild to want to play sub-optimally.
People care about guild rankings, loot etc. All of which you're tossing away for yourself and 24 other people if you decide to click the buff off.
Good luck finding a team to support you in that.
Chastity said...
I agree that it should have been off-by-default, but otherwise I'm very much in favour of it.
I think it's because I'd rather see MMOs work more like conventional games, and manually variable difficulty settings just seems like common sense to me.
@Issy: I suppose one could look at it as 'free flasks'.
@Stabs: I don't think it will split many guilds. But I do think we'll see more people silently unhappy and possibly raiding less. That might be offset by more people deciding to raid now that it's easier.
@Chastity: Seeing as I just restarted a Civilization game with a lower difficulty setting, I'm inclined to agree with variable difficulty. But then our minds start considering fairness and saying "why are they getting the same loot when the fights are all easier?" Drama ensues.
It is a great thing. You do not have to study patchnotes to determine what just happended to the boss, you do not need to use the buff if you are a maschochist. The only weird thing is that it is a bit soon. Most guilds are just setting foot inside hardmode fights, so it is a wee bit early to add the buff (especcially since the big guy aint dead yet), but (and this is a big butt) it is -it must be- a huge hint from Blizzard that Cataclysm is way closer than we originally thought it would be. Why else bring in a nerf to an instance before there really is a need for it?
So, be happy :D (at least if you look forward to Cataclysm)
Echo said...
It's kicked in just at the right time for my guild.
Just as we start hitting 25m Hardmodes.
I think anyone wanting to kill stuff without it should be allowed however I'm really looking forward to my alt runs now. They are just for a giggle and we tend to clear up to putricide then go wipe on Blood Princes. Free looooot!
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ADL SETTLES FOR 'PIECEMEAL CONQUEST'
2 July, 2008 By Rev. Ted Pike
With unexpected defeat of the federal hate crimes bill last December, Christian America was given a second chance. The Anti-Defamation League, architect of hate and bias crime legislation worldwide, lamented that their Plan A, the federal hate bill, would have to “languish” for another year until the new Congress.
ADL had hoped to suddenly trap America , as they did Canada , in the grip of a federal hate crimes law from which there would be little chance of escape. (Watch Rev. Ted Pike's Hate Laws: Making Criminals of Christians) Instead they are forced to go ahead with Plan B on the local level. This contingency was prepared for by ADL-assisted passage of 45 state hate laws, pro-homosexual legislation, and ADL-inspired workplace bias laws.
Yet Plan B involves a much less desirable “piecemeal” attempt to end free speech. It allows victims a relatively large amount of time and freedom to become alarmed, protest, and possibly escape. Under Plan B, ADL and their countless lackeys in the legislative, court and law enforcement systems may have to take a step back for every two steps forward.
It appears (especially in California this past year) that Big Brother is onrushing with locomotive-like momentum. Actually, we are not losing freedom as fast as we would have if the federal hate bill passed last fall – as it very nearly did. (See, Unsung Heroes of Hate Bill Defeat)
Obstacles to ADL in California
Plan B’s bumpy road to conquest is illustrated in California .
Gov. Schwarzenegger signed into law S.B.777, making it a hate violation to criticize homosexuality in California public education. Hundreds of thousands of Christians responded by threatening to take their children out of the public schools and homeschool them. But the Appeals Court of Judge H. Walt Croskey scotched that idea. He ruled that parents who homeschool their children without a teacher’s certificate will become criminals, enemies of the state. Aghast, Christians submerged this blatantly anti-Christian court with protest. Unable to credibly override such magnitude of objection, his court vacated their decree, inviting further comment on the controversy.
Also, the California Supreme Court (encouraged perhaps by an extensive and persuasive amicus brief ADL was invited to submit) proclaimed it unconstitutional to deprive homosexual couples of full legal and financial benefits of marriage. (See, Did ADL Influence California 'Gay Marriage' Ruling?) Again, a tsunami of protest in the form of petition signatures from 1.1 million angry citizens caused the Supreme Court to acquiesce to demands that this issue be presented by referendum to the voters. (See, Counties to Supreme Court on 'gay' marriage: Drop dead)
Further threatening the Supreme Court ruling, several California counties are considering proposals to defy any enforcement of same sex marriage. Protesters allege, "Only the legislature, or the people through the initiative process, can make new laws in our state."
Such delays give Christians and lovers of freedom in California a precious opportunity to mobilize and educate against pro-homosexual and hate crimes laws.
ADL: Behind Schedule
ADL faces another dilemma, one Christians/conservatives can use to their advantage. International Jewish anti-Christianity is straining to meet a timetable for world dominance. Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, in his 1962 prophecy in Look magazine (Jan. 16), said that well before the end of the 20th century the whole world would be federated under the legal dominion of "the supreme court of mankind" in Jerusalem. ADL hoped to accomplish that largely by bringing America into hate crimes agreement with Canada and Europe in 1998. But they failed to pass their Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1998 and began a losing streak that has lasted to the present. Now, ten years later, passage of their cherished hate bill remains in doubt in the next Congress. This is largely due to an exponential increase of awareness among Christians of the danger to freedom posed by hate laws.
ADL’s timetable is further threatened by rapidly proliferating education on the internet concerning the Zionist/Talmudic conspiracy. This awakening compels ADL to hurriedly establish even more restrictions on free speech. If online anti-Zionist education proliferates unrestrained, Jewish activism could ultimately face so much public anger and derision that their agenda for world control would have to be postponed.
ADL must thus fast forward the destruction of Christian values very boldly, almost recklessly, despite the risk of backlash. Again, Christian and conservative freedom-lovers can exploit this opportunity. Evil under pressure often becomes foolhardy, demanding too much too fast. I believe this is happening as ADL-educated jurists, lawmakers, and officials come after Christians in a way that even complacent evangelicals, confident of impending "rapture," find frightening.
Pressure on ADL is also intensified by the extremely vocal criticism of hate laws constantly coming from an official internet voice of mainstream Christian/conservatism, World Net Daily. WND faithfully reports any hate law abuse of Christian rights to a concerned audience of 7 million.
Christians have reason to be worried: an alarming trend has developed in little more than a year to detain, limit, or arrest Christian leaders and activists in America . ADL and those it inspires are trampling a lot of evangelical toes, eliciting painful but very healthy shrieks of protest. Here are some examples:
In St. Petersburg , Florida , five Christians, including two pastors, were arrested for the "speech crime" of wearing signs protesting homosexuality during a "gay pride" event. (See, Trial set for pastors with signs wider than torsos
Michael Marcavage (head of the "Philly 11" Christians arrested in 2004 for the "hate crime" of witnessing to homosexuals) was recently arrested for criticizing abortion without a "verbal permit." He would not limit his exortations to a designated "free speech zone," witnessing on a public sidewalk near the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia . Convicted, he was fined $400 and put on probation, requiring that for a year he not go to Independence National Historical Park or its surrounding sidewalks. (See, Man preaches Jesus at Liberty Bell. Guess what happens?)
In Florida , two Gideons were arrested for handing out Bibles on a public sidewalk near a high school. The Gideons were placed in a patrol car and mocked by a policeman. The case was overturned by a federal court. (See, Judge blasts state ban on distributing Bibles to students)
An aspiring Christian politician, Jason Werner, was arrested and handcuffed for street preaching on a public sidewalk in Cleveland , Ohio . (See, Go preaching, get arrested!)
In Fredericksburg , Virginia , a pastor, member of the city council, has been forbidden to pray in Jesus' name. If he does, he will be arrested for "disorderly conduct." (See, Court challenged to allow Christians right to pray, too)
A Precious Opportunity
Last December, just after defeat of the federal hate bill, I appeared on Janet Folger’s syndicated talk show. She exclaimed over the unexpected victory, “This was not supposed to happen!” (Hear the show!) Indeed, just a short time before, it seemed ADL had at last succeeded in making America a hate crimes bureaucracy like Canada . But God is full of surprises for those who humble themselves before Him. A miracle happened by Divine providence, a miracle we must carefully preserve.
How can we? It is vital that every Christian/conservative know the truth concerning liberal Jewish activism’s central role in fomenting anti-Christianity in America and all hate and bias legislation worldwide. Such awareness would exert unprecedented pressure on Jewish activists to pull back. But, short term, we see in California the effect of massive public protest to delay and possibly overturn aggressive acts of legislative and judicial tyranny.
Other nations, not educated against hate laws, did not realize the danger they were in. As a result, at the crucial moment when they could have saved free speech, they lost it. ADL, forced to proceed with their problematic Plan B, is now providing Christian America a very rare, heaven-sent opportunity to avoid the same mistake.
Our second chance to save freedom may be our last.
Let’s roll!
Ted, today - photo: John Pike, October 2019
Mail: P.O. Box 828, Clackamas, OR 97015
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Hate crimes laws may make you a lawbreaker! Such laws, while claiming to promote tolerance, actually lead to the end of free speech! Powerful articles and NPN’s video exposé of hate crimes laws in Canada and the United States provide you with the vital tools necessary to combat this imminent threat to freedom. This video is especially important as acts of terrorism extend the power of "Big Brother" to monitor what you do, say, and think.
4 Jul 2020 - EMERGENCY ALERT
White House sources have revealed that President Trump regrets following the left-conciliating advice of his son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner regarding police reform.
They say he has abandoned Kushner’s advice on this issue, returning to his previous assertion that “systemic racism” in American police is a virtual non-issue compared to the magnitude of protection and fair play which the vast majority of police provide all citizens.
17 December, 2019 - EMERGENCY ALERT - Trump Supports Jewish Claim: Christianity is Antisemitic.
President Trump’s recent Executive Order IS THE TEXT of the Jewish ADL’s “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, S852, recently rejected by the US Senate for Committee consideration.
24 Sep 2019 - EMERGENCY ALERT
“Anti-Semitism Awareness” Bill Worse than “Equality” Bill! Good news! The Christian-threatening, LGBT- promoting “Equality Act” could not face confrontation with hostile Senate Judiciary Republicans this spring. It went nowhere. Yet Democrats could still try to get it through the Senate Judiciary. NPN will sound the alarm at Truthtellers.org if it starts to move forward.
18 May 2019 - EMERGENCY ALERT - Senate New Forum for “Equality” Bill Debate
Call the Congress Hotline at 1-202-224-3121 and ask for a Senator’s office. I suggest you say: “Please don’t vote for the “Equality Act” S788. It will help end free speech for Christians making them criminals if they criticize Homosexuality”.
01 May 2019 - EMERGENCY ALERT - “Equality” Bill Hastens Babylon the Great - Part Two
If Jews acquire full protection as a “protected class” in America it will mean that if a Jew complains to the government that he has suffered “acute emotional trauma” as a result of “anti semitic” discrimination or criticism of his race or religion he may prompt a federal investigation. If the government agrees, the defendant will have to retain the best lawyer he can find.
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Book Club Contest for February 2018
February 2, 2018 By trish Leave a Comment
Book clubs will love how The Promise Between Us tackles themes of mental illness and how it impacts families.
The Promise Between Us by Barbara Claypole White
From the bestselling author of The Perfect Son comes a hopeful tale of redemption, renewal, and the promise of love.
Metal artist Katie Mack is living a lie. Nine years ago she ran away from her family in Raleigh, North Carolina, consumed by the irrational fear that she would harm Maisie, her newborn daughter. Over time she’s come to grips with the mental illness that nearly destroyed her, and now funnels her pain into her art. Despite longing for Maisie, Katie honors an agreement with the husband she left behind—to change her name and never return.
But when she and Maisie accidentally reunite, Katie can’t ignore the familiarity of her child’s compulsive behavior. Worse, Maisie worries obsessively about bad things happening to her pregnant stepmom. Katie has the power to help, but can she reconnect with the family she abandoned?
To protect Maisie, Katie must face the fears that drove her from home, accept the possibility of love, and risk exposing her heart-wrenching secret.
“Coble’s beautiful, emotional prose coupled with her keen sense of pacing, escalating danger, and very real characters place her firmly at the top of the suspense genre. I could not put this book down.” –Allison Brennan, New York Times bestselling author of Shattered
The View from Rainshadow Bay
The View from Rainshadow Bay by Colleen Coble
After her husband, Jack, dies in a climbing incident, Shauna has only her five-year-old son and her helicopter charter business to live for. Every day is a struggle to make ends meet and she lives in constant fear of losing even more than she already has.
When her business partner is murdered, his final words convince Shauna that she’s in danger too. But where can she turn? Zach Bannister was her husband’s best friend and is the person she blames for his death. She’s barely spoken to him since. But right now he seems her only hope for protecting her son.
Zach is only too happy to assuage his guilt over Jack’s death by helping Shauna any way he can. But there are secrets involved dating back to Shauna’s childhood that more than one person would prefer to stay hidden.
In The View from Rainshadow Bay, suspense, danger, and a longing to love again ignite amid the gorgeous lavender fields of Washington State.
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Taylor Swift Confirms Boyfriend Joe Alwyn Cowrote Two Folklore Songs Under Pseudonym William Bowery
Music By TooFab Staff | 11/25/2020 7:06 AM PT
Fans were right!
When Taylor Swift dropped "folklore" back in July, she immediately sparked online speculation over the identity of one of her credited cowriters.
The songs "Betty" and "Exile" both listed someone named William Bowery as a collaborator with Swift, but fans were quick to discover no such songwriter actually existed. Since even Taylor herself has used a pseudonym in the past, her supporters suspected Bowery was really Swift's boyfriend, Joe Alwyn.
In her new Disney+ special, "folklore: the long pond studio sessions," the singer confirms those suspicions.
"There's been a lot of discussion about William Bowery and his identity because it's not a real person," she said in the nearly two-hour film. "So, William Bowery is Joe, as we know. And Joe plays piano beautifully, and he's always just playing and making things up and kind of creating things."
"'Exile' was crazy because Joe had written that entire piano part and was singing the Bon Iver part. He was just singing it, the way that the whole first verse is," she continued. "So I was entranced and asked if we could keep writing that one. It was pretty obvious that it should be a duet, because he's got such a low voice and it sounded really good sung down there in that register."
Swift said both she and her other half are "really, really, really big Bon Iver fans."
Of "Betty," which revolves around a fictional love triangle told from the perspective of a teenage boy, Taylor said she "just heard Joe singing the entire fully formed chorus of 'Betty' from another room and it was just like, 'Hello.'"
"It was a step that we would have never taken because why would we have ever written a song together?" she continued. "So this was the first time we had a conversation where I came in and was like, 'Hey, this could be really weird and we could hate this, so because we're in quarantine and there's nothing else going on, could we just try and see what it's like if we write this song together?'"
And so they did.
Taylor Swift Reveals What Betty Is About -- And It Might Have to Do With Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds
"I thought it sounded really good from a masculine perspective. And I really liked that it seemed to be an apology," she said of the track. "I've written so many songs from a female's perspective of wanting a male apology, that we decided to make it from a teenage boy's perspective apologizing after he loses the love of his life because he's been foolish."
Swift added that she believes the two at the center of the song -- James and the titular teenage girl -- managed to work out their differences after he hooked up with someone else. "In my head, she ends up with him," she said, "but he really put her through it."
"folklore: the long pond studio sessions" is streaming on Disney+ now.
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Tag Archives: Tourists
A Grand Day Out
Everything you need for village living
The conversation went like this:
Friend Pam: Look at these fabulous desserts at the restaurant where we took Mum and Dad for their anniversary.
Tilly Bud: Drool…
Friend Pam: I’ll take you there one day; you have to eat these puddings; they’re fabulous.
Will she, bud?: Droo…l
Friend Pam: Hang on a minute…your birthday’s coming up…I’ll take you for a meal on your birthday!
There is a God: Thank yo…r….oo…l…
And so it came to pass last Wednesday that I found myself heading out of Manchester and into Burnley. To misquote Field of Dreams (and, in fact, tell an outright lie for comic effect), the only thing we have in common is that Pam came from Burnley; and I had once heard of it.
Pam suffers from a chronic condition: she cannot plan an event without it being a huge success and, as we were heading in that direction, she reasoned, why not go up the famous Pendle Hill (never heard of it) and be tourists in the famous Witch Trial/Trail area (never heard of it). We could see the famous Eye of God (never heard of it) in the famous centuries-old church (never heard of it) where her husband had proposed to her (I’ve heard of him); call in at the Elizabethan Towneley Hall (never heard of it); eat lunch there (definitely heard of that!); call in to see her parents for some northern hospitality (we’re all famous for that up here); and finish off at the famous pudding restaurant (which sells other food but, seriously, who cares?).
The woman is a genius.
We had a fabulous day. Pendle Hill was gorgeous; the witch business was fascinating and a little sad (hanging innocent women gets me like that; I dunno why). The church was…open. It was hard to believe we were in 21st Century Britain when we could walk into an open, unmanned church and be trusted not to damage/steal anything. Amazing. Of course, it probably helped that it was situated halfway up a mountain in the middle of witch country.
I forgot to take my camera but Pam obliged by taking photos with hers, including my request for a pic of the inside of the public toilet – it had a high cistern with a chain! I was back in my childhood (complete with cold seat) particularly as, technically, it was an outside loo. Pam and I have a friendly rivalry going to see which of us is most common and I think I win because I was born in a Liverpool slum and come from Irish peasant stock (hence the Liverpool slum): an outside toilet with a lock was a step up for me.
My favourite spot: The Long Gallery. Can you see me way back there?
Towneley Hall was wonderful. Walking through rooms which have been inhabited by who knows how many people over the past 500 years is one of my favourite things to do and I’m afraid my mouth got stuck in the Wow! position until it hurt Pam’s ears. But that’s to be expected of a slumdog, of course. I was, like, well impressed.
There was a slight change of plan when we saw the queue outside the restaurant door and, as we’d only had huge slices of cake for elevenses we decided – which is to say, Pam decided and I went happily along with any plan intended to feed me – to head straight for pudding paradise and eat there, calling in for a brew at Pam’s folks’ afterwards. Which is just as well as Pam’s Mum was having her feet done and didn’t really want her guest to see that. I don’t know why; I’ve got feet; I know how the whole thing works.
I am praying for the strength to dig in and climb out the other side
I forget the name of the place where we ate because I was too busy stuffing my gullet with a delicious carvery (which could have been called a spoonery because the meat just fell off the bone and the chef told me that sometimes he has to use a spoon to serve it) to write it down. Pam tells me it’s called Sycamore Farm. Check the desserts:
Now tell me it wasn’t worth turning 52 just for that.
We rolled out of there for the short journey to Pam’s parents’ house and I’m not sure that it wasn’t the best part of my day. Her parents are lovely and her mother is adorable. She hugged me despite never having met me before and then gave me an entertaining rundown of some of her neighbours, past and present. They included friendly drug addicts who ran in to help during a crisis to the creepy bloke who introduced himself with the words, I’m not a paedophile and I’ve got a letter to prove it. Pam’s Mum – or I should say, Pamela’s Mum, because that’s what she called her the whole time; no one ever calls Pam Pamela, she’s too friendly to be full-named; but you know what mothers are like. As I was saying, Pamela’s Mum wasn’t convinced by the not-a-molester, though she was glad to see him go when he was arrested for his cannabis farm and stealing his neighbour’s electricity to supply it. I can’t decide which of her neighbours was my absolute favourite, but it’s a toss-up between the biker who stripped and rebuilt his motorbike many times over fifteen years, in the middle of his living room and partner and children; or the dominatrix who kept a dungeon in the basement but lived elsewhere.
Don’t think that any of this is my usual hyperbole; I swear I had it straight from the horse’s mouth – which was wearing its false teeth at the time, as she happily informed me. Only the best for Pam’s friends.
I think I love her.
Thank you, Pam, for giving me a brilliant day, showing me a fantastic time, and for having a wonderful mother.
All photographs courtesy of Pam Robinson.
Tags: 2015, About me, Burnley, Friends, Humor, Humour, Mothers, Tourists
Categories Birthdays, Family
Bill Nighy Kicked My Endorphins
The last of London, at last. For you, that is; I would move there tomorrow.
Spud and I were turfed out of the Globe at five-thirty by a staff member who insisted that yes, we really did have to leave. We had been there for eight hours; he felt it was time.
Spud and I sat on the steps next to the Thames while my legs recovered from standing for almost four hours (queue/play/interval). We planned our next move.
We had three hours before our train left Euston and two determined people can do a lot in London in three hours. Spud fancied the British Museum, which meant the Tube. We headed off in that general direction but we passed a small alleyway and there, in all its historical glory – somewhat bizarrely squashed in between office block and restaurant in a channel about as wide as my old waist – was the Golden Hinde II.
The Hub had printed off information about local sights (and eateries; that man really looks after me) and TGHII was one of them so I had no compunction in bringing out his credit card again. Actually, it only cost just over £12 for two, so it was pretty reasonable. Spud made sure we got every penny’s worth. He went over every inch of that ship and made me go with him (sometimes, I don’t like Spud much). He had me on my knees to traverse the gun deck, because it has the lowest ceiling I’ve seen outside of a storm drain. He made me go up ladders and down ladders, forwards, backwards – sideways at one point, I think. or that may have been when I tried to sidle away. Unsuccessfully. That kid is strict.
It was incredible to think that the real Golden Hinde had sailed across seas and oceans and made it back to Blighty: it was tiny. I’d like to have seen Sir Francis Drake’s ad in the Loot:
Wanted: Intrepide Sailors withe ye nerves of steele. Shorte men only neede apply, laddie.
Thate means ye, Hub, Ye scurvy doge withe an ungratefule wife.
The ship was rather sad. Not in its history or size, but in how neglected it was: cardboard boxes and junk piled up at one end of the bottom deck; signs and portraits hanging askew; old information sheets that needed replacing. I guess you get what you pay for.
We knew we wouldn’t have to pay to enter the British Museum; we gave the Hinde back to its careless owners and headed for the Tube. One change at Elephant & Castle and we were at Piccadilly Circus. I took a photo of Eros but he was smothered in tourists so I won’t share it here. We could see Shaftesbury Avenue on one side and Regent Street on the other (strangely, no green houses or red hotels; that was a surprise) but we headed up (or down; I’m not sure – the map was side-on) Piccadilly towards the British Museum.
We walked for what seemed ages but the trip was enlivened by Spud’s whisper, ‘Hey, Mum! Isn’t that that actor?’ What an eye for detail. No wonder the boy did so well in his exams. I turned to look…and it was Billy Nighy, crossing the road in a navy suit. I don’t know why that matters, but I, too, have an eye for detail, you know.
Ever the sophisticate, I pointed and yelled, ‘That’s Bill Nighy crossing the road!’ Perhaps he studiously avoided turning round to acknowledge me because I forgot to mention his outfit. I’ll never know because traffic passed behind him and Spud dragged me off, red-faced. Spud, not me: I had been hungry, tired and aching up to that moment but Bill Nighy kicked my endorphins into action.
English: English actor Bill Nighy. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
We couldn’t find the British Museum. We asked a smiling security guard – she stopped smiling and sighed. Apparently, our up-to-date, 2013 guide-book (free from the B&B) has a map seven years out of date. Seven years ago is when the British Museum moved to Russell Square, as security guards across the borough are tired of telling the guide-book makers. She was apologetic but it wasn’t her fault: if a guide-book publisher didn’t notice a whole building move across town, what hope did one little security guard have?
She smiled and waved us on. I’ll say this about London: people (northern) complain about how rude southerners are but Spud and I were treated with friendliness and courtesy the whole time.
Spud and I decided to head to the station and get something to eat, as we were running out of time. We had an hour wait at Euston but I was glad just to sit.
We travelled back First Class. Hub had tried to get us First Class tickets (on sale) both ways, but it would have meant another day in London. I was game but his credit card complained.
First Class is nice. Served at the table with food and drink and smiles from the Virgins, it was worth the extra £4 per head.
Two hours later we were home, keeping the Hub up until late with our tales – The Globe is awesome! (Spud) We saw Bill Nighy crossing the road! (me).
Dr Johnson was right: when a person is tired of London, they are tired of life. What he didn’t mention was just how tired a person can get in London. I didn’t get out of bed until my legs woke up, three o’clock on Saturday.
Totally worth it.
Happy soon to be my Birthday me, and thank you to the best husband in the world.
What am I getting for Christmas?
Tags: 2013, Bill Nighy, Daily Post, Humor, Humour, London, postaday, Spud, Tourists
London Day 2: Lunch Bunch
A quick summary for those people visiting from Six Word Saturday who wonder what’s going on:
Birthday Treat – London! – I’m Giddy – We’refourpostsin
Okay, I may have cheated slightly there but, seriously, folks: who can describe the wonder that is London in only six words?
We finished looking at the Globe’s exhibition around 11:30 and headed up to the café for some lunch but it was all posh, inedible stuff (my sole complaint). We decided to venture out for real food but passed the groundling queue…where two people were already queueing. That was it – we were not prepared to risk missing a good spot so we joined them.
The couple were sitting on the pavement, reading. Spud and I sat on the pavement, quiet for a while, enjoying the novelty of numb bottoms on grubby streets (we might not eat posh but we are usually clean), watching the world go by (London is busy). Spud, on my left side, was surprised to hear me sneeze and then say, ‘Bless you. Thank you’ to myself. He hadn’t realised the ‘Bless you’ came from the young woman sat on my right side. That gave us all a laugh and broke the ice.
Our conversation was interrupted by lunch: Young Woman’s partner wandered off for a while and came back with pizzas; I thought that was a good idea and pulled out the exhausted credit card. Pizza Express was just up the road. The service was very good; the friendly staff included the genuine Italian manager who, in answer to my query, told me that the toilet was ‘upstairs; second bridge to the right.’ There was nothing wrong with his English, if that’s what you’re thinking; the upstairs was designed so diners could look down onto those eating below.
The pizza, alas; was dreadful: all tomato; no cheese. It was fun to eat on the street, though I wouldn’t like it to become a habit (which could have become all too real a possibility if the Hub’s credit card and I had stayed in London for another couple of days).
The wait passed quite quickly. It rained heavily for as much as thirty seconds. By the time we had our raincoats on, it had stopped – and stayed away.
There were constant queries from passers-by about which end of the queue was the beginning. It was confusing if you were new because the queue is between the steps to the outer yard and the exhibition centre.
An American woman with three children stopped to ask if it was worth going to the play. I told her, ‘Absolutely! It’s great,’ despite not yet having seen this particular play, because I knew it absolutely would be great. We explained the price of £5 for a yard ticket – there is no cheaper theatre ticket in London, according to our guide; and probably anywhere in Britain, according to me. The woman and her children discussed the idea before heading off. I heard her exclaim, ‘ere she walked out of sight, ‘We might as well try it; she says it’s great and she’s got a British accent.’
We all had a good laugh at that, and then I returned to my conversation with the Young Woman. Something about London made me unashamedly nosy: ‘If you don’t mind me asking,” I said, “what do you do?’
‘I’m a writer.’
Tags: 2013, Daily Post, Humor, Humour, London, postaday, Spud, The Globe Theatre, Tourists
Tourist Alert (Photo credit: scazon)
A bus load of tourists arrive at Runnymede. They gather around the guide who says, “This is the spot where the barons forced King John to sign the Magna Carta.”
A fellow at the front of the crowd asks, “When did that happen?”
“1215,” answers the guide.
The man looks at his watch and says, “Damn! Just missed it by half-an-hour!”
Two tourists were driving through Louisiana. As they approached Natchitoches, they began arguing about the pronunciation of the town’s name.
They argued back and forth until they stopped for lunch. As they stood at the counter, one tourist asked the employee, “Before we order, could you please settle an argument for us? Would you please pronounce where we are…very slowly?”
The girl leaned over the counter and said, “Burrrrrrrr, gerrrrrrr, Kiiiiing.”
From workjoke.com
Tags: 2013, Daily Post, Humor, Humour, Joke, Magna Carta, postaday, Tourists
London Day 2: Oh What A Beautiful Morning
After a fitful night for Spud and a deep sleep for me, I woke him with a cup of tea (provided). It had rained in the night but was trying to clear. As our seats were standing in the yard, we fervently hoped it would succeed.
After showering, we went down to breakfast.
Open to the public during the summer months, the B&B is actually student accommodation for the London School of Economics, with the emphasis on ‘economic’ – £41 each for a London room, 3 1/2 minutes from where we wanted to be, and with a cooked breakfast thrown in. Talk about good value! The party in the bar across the road stopped before it got too late; scenery included TV production trucks & trailers on the doorstep. We could see into one trailer from our room and Spud only just stopped me from wandering into it thinking it was some sort of diner: I could see people at tables and what I thought was a waiter, wandering up and down with mugs of tea.
Our room was basic and clean; no TV but the shiny white towels and shampoo sachets made up for that. Who needs TV when the whole of London is on your doorstep? Not us.
We had until 10:30 to check out but we wanted to fill every minute so we were out by 9:20 and entering the Globe at 9:25. The Hub had paid for the tour and exhibition and a tour was just starting. It was fascinating and I couldn’t help but be the annoying person in the party who puts up their hand and asks a million questions.
It was one of those few times in my life when I really didn’t care what people thought of me: I wanted to know stuff and I had the opportunity to find out; I wasn’t going to waste it.
Did you know the Globe – with only legally required health & safety additions – is made entirely of wood – even the pegs which hold it together? That it moves and seasons and is a thing of great beauty? That thunder storms were made by rolling cannonballs around in the attic? That, as far as possible, costumes, props, the building, are as authentically Shakespearean as they can be? That the names on the paving slabs in the outer yard are those of everyone who contributed to building the new Globe? Well now you, me and about thirty other members of our tour group do.
We had to be silent at one point because the musicians were rehearsing on stage (and they all signed my programme!). It was fun to see the difference between the rehearsal and the performance later on.
At the end of the tour we were encouraged to make a donation. Anything was welcome, from £1 for a red rubber bracelet to signing over your first born child as an indentured servant. It was worth our £2 because the nice lady at the donation table warned us to queue from twelve at the latest if we wanted to be certain of a place in front of the stage.
Then we hit the shop. Last time I was at the Globe, all I could afford was a pencil with a Shakespeare head; this time, I was armed with the Hub’s credit card.
I had warned him that if they had notebooks, no matter the price, he was buying one for me. I was on notebook number 60 last week but this week’s number 61 is red and flimsy and one on which I would never normally have spent £6, but it has ‘Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’ indented on the cover and I had to have it. The Hub also bought two postcards (one for Spud; one for me), a pack of playing cards (for Spud), a t-shirt (for Spud), a badge (for Spud*) and a souvenir book of the history of the Globe.
*I have to say, Spud seemed to enjoy my birthday almost as much as I did.
We headed back out and round to the exhibition entrance. More fun was to be had. We went into a booth and Spud played Lady Macbeth, recording his performance and playing it back to our great hilarity. I don’t think Shakespeare would have approved of the accidental inclusion of the word, ‘mate’, but we won’t tell him if you won’t. Here’s some of what we saw:
Tags: 2013, Daily Post, Globe Theatre, Humor, Humour, London, postaday, Tourists, William Shakespeare
London Day 1: An Enchanted Evening
Previously on The Laughing Housewife:
Tilly and Spud spend some time in the Tower, like many of Royalty’s once-favoured; then they spend some money in the Tower shop – as much as £6.97.
And now, the conclusion:
After our busy and happy afternoon, I needed to sit down. The Tower is sited next to the Thames, so Spud and I found a vacant bench and feasted on cake and water as we watched the boats. Once rested, Spud expressed a desire to walk across Tower Bridge. I’m ageing but game, so off we went. Call me slow, but it was only when I saw Tower Bridge is close by the Tower that I realised where its name came from. Does that sort of thing ever happen to you?
Trying hard but failing miserably not to look like tourists because the Hub said we must not be mugged or it would spoil our trip, we kept stopping so I could take photographs, including a photo of a photo shoot which Spud spotted taking place below us.
Once across the bridge, we kept eyes peeled for a Tube station. Isn’t ‘eyes peeled’ a horrible saying? Like something that might be done to me in the Tower.
Spud saw what he thought was a sign for the Tube but which was actually for the buses. We sat to check the map (London is generous with its seating) and Spud noticed we were on a street which appeared on the map and the distance to the B&B was only that [……..] far, so how long could it take to walk?
Tube Sign, London (Photo credit: DanieVDM)
London Calling (Photo credit: paul_appleyard) Can you see the difference? A thin blue line, that’s all.
Almost an hour, as it happened; but we won’t discuss that unless you want to put me in a bad mood. We went the long way round, though we didn’t know that until the next day. When we arrived at the B&B to book in, with me holding on to Spud for support for the last half-mile, the poor receptionist couldn’t get a coherent word from me. I think she believed I was foreign. Spud booked us in; all I had to do was sign my name. Lifting my arm took a while but I got there in the end.
The room was on the second floor, close to the lift. I made it. After a revivifying cup of tea (provided), I showered. Once clean, I could breathe (remember my little armpit problem) and felt more able to not waste a precious minute of London Time. We headed down to Reception and asked the same receptionist for directions to somewhere cheap to eat. She was surprised at how much my English had improved in thirty minutes.
We left the B&B and less than four minutes later we were at the Globe! The Hub could not have selected a better B&B location (at a very reasonable price). We took photos and admired it and then wandered off we knew not where to find some food. We just walked until we found a place which looked affordable and which prepared food we had heard of. It was a chip shop. No fish, but massive hamburgers. Spud had one; I had a bowl of chips (no paper, just polystyrene: how very southern); they were generous portions and I couldn’t finish mine.
We meandered back towards the Globe, admiring a trio of musicians who played classical tracks from their CD – Reminiscence, which I first read as Remini Science, to Spud’s great amusement. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard popular classics played on a keyboard, violin and accordion combo. Bizarre but lovely.
Back in front of the Globe, a couple of cyclists were doing tricks on steps to a violin accompanist. Not sure if they were all together but somehow, it worked.
Since the year 2000, one of my fervent desires has been to walk across the Millennium Bridge. I don’t know why; it’s just something I have always wanted to do. So we did. It is close by the Globe and in line with St Paul’s on the other side of the Thames. It took us about twenty minutes to cross (I was sloooooow by this time) and, as we were so close, we walked up to St Paul’s, pausing only for a girl in heels who was with two young men, playing American football (badly) outside a restaurant; to admire what looked like three huge stainless steel balls, randomly placed and for no good reason that I could think of but, hey, this is London, so who cares; and to take a photograph of a scooter which had fallen onto its side like a stranded turtle. In retrospect, the side-on scooter probably had nothing to do with London, but the fever was upon me.
I took some photos of Spud in front of a fence at St Paul’s because I thought it was the same spot we had visited about twelve years ago, but it probably wasn’t. We were at St P’s back side but it was now dark and I was tired so we turned around to walk back. I was shuffling by this time. It took ages to get back to the B&B but the trip was enlivened by a lone flautist below the bridge.
It took an even longer time for me to fall asleep because there wasn’t a bit of me that didn’t ache (I wrote the day’s events in my notebook while lying flat on my face because I couldn’t lift my arm enough to write without support) but it was totally worth it – Spud and I had a packed and fun day and I don’t regret even one painful body part.
Thank you, Hub, for the hurt you caused; I loved every minute of it.
Tags: 2013, Daily Post, Humor, Humour, London, Millennium Bridge, postaday, Tourists, Tower Bridge
London Day 1: Afternoon Delight
Spud getting our bearings in the map.
11:43 Board train to London.
11:45 Bored on train to London.
13:55 Train arrives in London. Tilly and Spud hit the ground running. Ow.
14:00 First things first – decide where we’re going to go. The Tower of London it is! Hub has pre-paid the Tube tickets so we just have to ask for directions. Begin serious hammering of the Hub’s credit card by buying entrance tickets to Tower of London at Euston railway station. What a strange world this is.
Some time after 14:00 (Tilly giddy with excitement; doesn’t look at her watch or remember to phone the Hub to tell him ‘Arrived safely’: Take Yellow Line* to Tower Hill from Euston Square Tube station, carefully holding tight to belongings as per Hub’s instruction not to get mugged. Stand facing each other as directed so that we can see each other’s backpacks; realise we will have to walk like inverted pushmi-pullyu and decide to risk attack from larcenous Londoners in order to perambulate like sensible human beings.
*Not the official name; just the colour on the Tube map.
Slight moment of panic: Tube crowded – people piling off and on in free-for-all – Spud climbs on – doors begin to close while Tilly still on platform – Tube virgin mother (me) acts on instinct – reaches in to closing Tube and yanks son out with supermother strength – exasperated Spud scolds unrepentant mother – laughs – notice a notice on boarding next Tube that doors will not close if teenager trapped in them.
Q: Where did Beefeaters get their name?
A: Nobody knows (straight from the horse’s mouth)
Later: Dismount at Tower Hill; make way to Tower. Just in time for Beefeater* guided tour. Laugh at all his jokes because he is a retired soldier with lots of ribbons and missed his calling as an actor. Funny, too. I checked his name tag: Simon Dodd.
*Officially known as Yo! Man of the Guard.
Later still: Marvel at standing on the very spot where a young Princess Elizabeth (the I) entered the Tower at Traitor’s Gate.
‘Much suspected of me. Nothing proved can be. Quoth Elizabeth, prisoner.’
Etched into a window in the Tower by QEI
Marvel at viewing the very window where the young Princes are said to have last been sighted before their murder.
Marvel at Tower Green, where Anne Boleyn and Jane Grey and a couple of others were beheaded.
Marvel at the houses they stayed in; and where our present Queen occasionally stays*, the Tower being the Crown’s oldest residence.
*Accidentally typed ‘strays’. I’m sure there’s never been any of that sort of business by our very moral monarch.
Marvel to be in the very chapel where Katherine of Aragon and many another prayed; and where six people are interred, including Sir (now St) Thomas More.
Marvel at…well, you get the idea. The whole visit was marvellous.
Later than that: The one thing I have ALWAYS wanted to do is see the Crown Jewels. The queue was roughly twenty minutes’ long. I’d have waited all afternoon. The jewels were fabulous, of course; but what took my breath away were the swords: jewel-encrusted and simply beautiful. The crowns were amazing. Charles II’s maces were amacing (give me a break – I’m exhausted; you’ve seen my schedule).
Even later than that: Return to the use of present tense. Visit the Line of Kings which is the oldest organised visitor attraction in the world and comprised of a bunch of old armour on wooden horses, representing the armour worn by kings; but not the actual armour worn by kings; but historical because old in its own right. Only in Britain….
Take call from frantic Hub, wondering if we’re still alive. See off his outrage by whining, ‘Don’t be angry – it’s my birthday.’ Birthday not for another seven weeks. Can’t believe it works.
Finally: Get chucked out of Tower (how ironic) and regret not arriving in London at the crack of dawn and spending all day there.
Last finally: Visit gift shop. Buy tacky souvenirs for Hub. That’s how much I love him for sending me on this birthday trip.
Tags: 2013, Birthday, Daily Post, Humor, Humour, London, postaday, The Tower of London, Tourists
I LOVE London!
London was brilliant. I make no such claim about my photography.
London was brilliant.
In 35 hours we managed to visit/see/cross/meet the Tower of London including the Crown Jewels, Tower Bridge, the Globe (of course), loads of street musicians, St Paul’s, two fellas being not very good on stunt bikes, the Millennium Bridge, the worst pizza ever made, a novelist, Regent Street, Eros, Piccadilly, a VERY fluid Macbeth (never wore so much foreign spit in my life), friendly southerners (really) and Bill Nighy!
Details to follow.
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May 6, 2020 10.58 am This story is over
Six charged after Gainsborough drug raids
Two more raids were carried out this morning
By Emily Norton Associate Editor
Police carried out a series of raids in the Gainsborough area during the morning of Tuesday, May 5. Photo: Lincolnshire Police
Six men have been charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs following a string of raids in the Gainsborough area.
Those charged in connection with the police operation on Tuesday, May 5 are:
Declan Mulholland, 20, of Ropery Road, Gainsborough
William Andrews, 49, of High Street, Gainsborough
Andrew Burgess, 39, of Marshall’s Rise, Gainsborough
Jerry Maughan, 27, of Lea Road West, Gainsborough
Declan Boswell, 19, of High Street, Gainsborough
Nathan Stevenson, 29, of Queensfield, Gainsborough
All were charged with one count of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs except Declan Mulholland, who was charged with two counts.
Nathan Stevenson has been bailed – the other five men have been remanded and are due to appear at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court by virtual link, this morning (May 6).
Lincolnshire Police said in a statement: “We also executed two further warrants, this morning, in the Gainsborough area.
“A 51-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs. He remains in police custody.”
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Home Beach FIVB Vienna: Ross, Fendrick take silver, Dalhausser, Lucena finish fifth
FIVB Vienna: Ross, Fendrick take silver, Dalhausser, Lucena finish fifth
VIENNA, Austria – Reigning Olympic gold-medalists Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst of Germany added “World Champions” to their growing list of accolades Saturday with a 19-21, 21-13, 15-9 victory over Americans April Ross and Lauren Fendrick.
It capped an end to the women’s action at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships with the men’s semifinals and final left to play Sunday.
Earlier Brazilians Larissa Franca and Talita Antunes beat Canadians Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes 21-12, 16-21, 18-16 to win the bronze medal.
Brazilians Evandro Goncalves and Andre Loyola celebrate Saturday’s quarterfinal win/Ed Chan, VBshots.com
In the men’s quarterfinals, it was the end of the line for Americans Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena, who lost to Russia’s Viacheslav Krasilinikov and Nikita Liamin 21-15, 21-18.
Netherlands’ Maarten Van Garderen and Christiaan Varenhorst defeated Spain’s Adrian Gavira and Pablo Herrera 20-22, 21-19, 16-14; Brazil’s Evandro Goncalves and Andre Loyola defeated Canada’s Ben Saxton and Chaim Schalk 17-21, 22-20, 15-10; and hometown favorites Clemens Doppler and Alexander Horst defeated Poland’s Piotr Kantor and Bartosz Losiak 31-33, 21-18, 15-11 in front of a packed stadium.
Goncalves and Loyola will face Varenhorst and Van Garderen at 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. Eastern), while Liamin and Krasilnikov play Doppler and Horst at 11. The bronze medal match is at 1:45 p.m and the gold at 3.
Ludwig and Walkenhorst, who both sustained right shoulder injuries this year, have come back in a big way. They were undefeated throughout the tournament, advanced out of a tricky pool containing three German teams, and defeated the No. 5 seed Brooke Sweat and Summer Ross as well as the No. 1 seed Larissa and Talita.
The gold-medal match was a difficult affair, as Ross and Fendrick jumped out to an 8-5 lead on two USA digs and successful transitions. The Germans inched back to even the score at 13-13. The score stayed tight the remainder of the set until Ludwig missed her serve to give the American their first set point at 20-19, followed by a service ace by Ross.
Set two was dominated by the Germans, who jumped out to 10-4 and 14-7 leads. They had five service errors in the first set but none in the second.
In the third set, the Americans’ biggest lead was 7-5. But Ludwig made two digs that were transitioned into points, plus a service ace to give her team the lead it would never lose. Then intense German serving pressure stressed the USA side-out game and Ludwig and Walkenhorst pulled away.
Reigning Olympic gold-medalist Laura Ludwig added World Champion to her list of accolades today/Ed Chan, VBshots.com
In the post-match press conference, in which both pairs were in attendance at the same time, Fendrick acknowledged the Germans.
“Hats off to the German team, you guys played a really tough match,” Fendrick said. “For April and I, we got together in June, that was our first tournament, then she broke her toe, and we had three weeks off, this is the first week she’s been 100 percent.
“So to come away with silver in the first week that she’s 100 percent is pretty phenomenal.”
After winning a tight first set, Ross knew that they still had their hands full.
“I knew that we still had a huge uphill battle to win if we wanted to take the match, so I didn’t count on anything after that first set,” said Ross, whose team seemed to battle back all week from being down 0-1.
“Obviously, that was one of the first first sets we won all tournament. It was a very strategic match, and we didn’t adapt as well as we had been, and Germany played amazing.
“We’re just super-stoked to get this finish and every big match you play in on the world stage is a huge learning experience, so we’re going to take away a lot from this.”
The Germans admitted they were downright scared after dropping the first set.
“It was definitely a tight match.” Ludwig said. “It was going back and forth and I think all four of us, we were holding back a little bit, maybe anxious, but they did a great job this tournament from game to game, and we just had to focus on us after the first set.
“We had to put more into the games and plays, we knew we could touch every ball, serve better. It wasn’t our best serving game in the first set, so after the break, we said ‘We have to step up and do better.’ ”
For her part, Walkenhorst was thrilled after recovering from shoulder injuries.
“I really can’t believe it,” she said. “It was a tough season. We had a lot of problems and really wanted to play well here and game by game we got better and I’m just really happy and can’t believe that we won the world championships. I’m just really happy right now.”
Nick Lucena crushes a ball angle/Ed Chan, VBshots.com
Dalhausser and Lucena were upset by a very physical Russian team of Liamin and Krasilnikov. In set one, the Russians jumped out to 4-0 and 12-4 leads on effective serving and defense.
The Americans made a three-point run on two Dalhausser blocks to narrow the lead to 10-14, but the Russians pulled away.
In set two, both teams stayed within two points of each other until two Dalhausser errors and a Krasilnikov tool made it 19-16. That margin would hold as Krasilnikov’s spike line found the sand for a straight-set finish.
Dalhausser acknowledged the Russian’s physicality as well as the parity overall on the world tour.
“They sided out great all match, they were the better team today, for sure,” Dalhausser said. “The world tour is very tough and there’s a lot of parity. Last week I think the 13th seed and the 24th seed were in the finals in Poland, so there’s a lot of good teams and when a team like that is playing well, you’re going to go home. It’s a perfect example this week, I think Evandro and Andre are the top-seeded team in the semifinals at number four.”
Still, Dalhausser was disappointed in his and Lucena’s play Sunday.
“We were never able to get going, really. We never played that great. It’s unfortunate, but this tournament is amazing. It’s a beautiful venue, a beautiful city, other than the fifth place finish, I’ll have good memories.”
The Americans threw just about everything they had at the Russians, but they were simply playing too well.
“The problem was that they played really well.” Dalhausser said. “They were the best team on the court today. I feel like we went from Plan A to Plan B to Plan C, and back to Plan A.”
Saturday’s results
Bronze: Talita Antunes/Larissa Franca Brazil (1) def. Melissa Humana-Paredes/Sarah Pavan Canada (7) 21-12, 16-21, 18-16 (0:59)
Gold: Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst Germany (4) def. Lauren Fendrick/April Ross United States (14) 19-21, 21-13, 15-9 (1:04)
Men’s quarterfinals
Maarten Van Garderen/Christiaan Varenhorst Netherlands (45) def. Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera Spain (9) 20-22, 21-19, 16-14 (1:06)
Evandro Goncalves/Andre Loyola Brazil (4) def. Ben Saxton/Chaim Schalk Canada (13) 17-21, 22-20, 15-10 (1:02)
Viacheslav Krasilnikov/Nikita Liamin Russia (6) def. Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena United States (3) 21-15, 21-18 (0:41)
Clemens Doppler/Alexander Horst Austria (12) def. Piotr Kantor/Bartosz Losiak Poland (7) 31-33, 21-18, 15-11 (1:20)
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New COVID-19 Testing Task Force Announced
Before Virginia can ease restrictions on businesses and individuals, Gov. Ralph Northam said testing needed to improve. Then, “We need to see fourteen days of decreasing cases before we can ease restrictions.”
The timeline was established by Pres. Donald Trump and the White House, as part of a plan to reopen America. To coordinate this effort, Northam announced a new testing task force under the direction of former Virginia Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Karen Remley and the state epidemiologist, Dr. Lillian Peake.
The task force, made up of representatives of hospitals, long-term care facilities, physicians, and other medical professionals, will be charged with expanding testing sites and criteria, increasing testing volume and turnaround, and obtaining testing supplies.
“These are all critical components because testing isn’t just about the test itself,” Northam said. “Labs might be able to run tests but until doctors have enough swabs to do the tests and we have enough supplies to safely transport the tests, we cannot meet the need for testing.”
Remley said the task force will also coordinate new federal support: “We will work with the CDC, which is promising additional staffing as well as additional flexibility with supplies and tests.”
As part of the testing expansion, Northam has also issued new guidance to doctors: Instead of only testing for COVID-19 when it would change the course of medical treatment, they’ll be encouraging doctors to test anyone with symptoms so long as tests are available. Testing isn’t still widely available, but the state lab is set to more than double its capacity next week from 300 to 700 daily tests.
In addition, Northam said they’ll be increasing the amount of data they share with the public. “On a daily basis, the Virginia department of health will share the numbers of cases, hospitalizations and fatalities by locality,” he said. “It will also share the numbers of cases, hospitalizations and fatalities at the health district level with demographic information such as age and or race.”
That data is now available at the Virginia Department of Health COVID-19 page.
During the question period, one reporter asked Northam if the slight decrease in new cases “started the clock” on the 14-day period for declining cases. “Statistics can sometimes be confusing,” the governor said. “But we are following that curve...each day, we have more cases than we have had as the baseline. That curve is still going up."
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Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion
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Everything fans want to know about the hotly anticipated Twilight movie and much more! Designed as a celebration of the film, this lavishly illustrated paperback edition is an exclusive behind-the-scenes guide featuring full-color photos of the cast, locations, and sets, as well as storyboards, interviews, details of the special effects, and much more.
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This book is really fantastic. There are great shots from the production of the film along with still shots from the film itself. What truly makes this book are the stories from people behind the scenes. Ever wondered how they found their locations, why costumes were chosen, how things progressed? This book covers all aspects of the making of the film with great commentary from the people who were involved. The photos just enhance everything – especially the final shot of Bella and Edward as he decides he “just wants to try something” – i.e. the kiss!
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This is an amazing book and completly worth the price. Anyone who is a Twilight fan and cannot wait for the movie’s release date will really enjoy this book. Many images are never before seen pictures from the movie. I was truly blown away by the amount and quailty of the images. There are great pictures of stills of the movie and production shots, especially a number of great shots of Edward and Bella, along with the rest of the Cullen family. I truly was able to grasp a better sense of the movie and how the filmmaker’s created the world of Twilight. Many scenes of the film are shown throughout the book that I was very happy to see in the Twilight movie that I had not seen before in any trailers or previous movie stills. The book also contains many interesting details about how decisions were made along the filmmaking process from the director, set designer, stunt coordinator, and hair and make-up artists. Details are included you won’t find anywhere else, right down to the progression of each character’s distinct appearance through the film and how they got Edward to sparkle.
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This is a great addition to your Twilight collection–Lots of glossy color photos with wonderful scenes from the movie and photos of the actors as the characters! Books like this would normally be alot more money-Great Deal!!
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If you love the Twilight Saga and are anticipating the movies, I suggest that you get this. I don’t have any more doubts about the movie! The pics the info, all of it is great.
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I was a little skeptical when I ordered this, but it arrived yesterday (and besides the fact that it’s bent), the pictures are great! And I agree with the other reviewer, the close-ups of the actors are the best part! 🙂
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Robert Lebeck
Bolschoi-Theater, Moskau 1976
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Kosmonautendenkmal, Moskau 1979
Bora Bora II, 1967
Westerland, Sylt, 1968
Boris Godunow, Bolschoi-Theater, Moskau, 1976
Bora Bora I, 1967
Salvador Dali, Cadaqués, Spanien 1979
Suzchou, China 1981
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About Robert Lebeck
ABOUT THE WORK Neugierig auf die Welt “Those who are not curious learn nothing.” These words of wisdom from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe very accurately describe Robert Lebeck’s life motto. Through Lebeck’s series Neugierig auf die Welt (English: “Curious about the world”), we can marvel at the famous photographer’s… Read more
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Neugierig auf die Welt
“Those who are not curious learn nothing.” These words of wisdom from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe very accurately describe Robert Lebeck’s life motto. Through Lebeck’s series Neugierig auf die Welt (English: “Curious about the world”), we can marvel at the famous photographer’s discoveries. This collection of pictures expresses Lebeck’s particular talent for making history a personal experience. The master of capturing moments was also always recording them with the utmost awareness of their political and social contexts.
Whether he was photographing celebrities or simple fishermen, city blocks in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district or boats on the Grand Canal in China – it made no difference to Lebeck. His virtuosity was visible in every slide he shot. A world renowned photographer from Berlin, his unique perspective on the world and history remains vibrant in his work.
A great photographer like Robert Lebeck could even publish his contact sheets without needing to fear being “exposed”. The genius behind the camera is recognisable in every photo. The contact sheets also give us a sense of how Lebeck worked. We experience the way Romy Schneider loosened up shot by shot or how Herbert von Karajan completely forgets about the camera.
The moments Lebeck captured feel almost intimate. Intense moments that remain unforgotten in his work. Lebeck’s gentle way of revealing people without ever simply posing them is what makes his work unique. At the same time, it doesn’t matter whether he staged and directed the subjects or was “merely” a fly on the wall – his expressive portraits always feel extremely natural.
Once labelled a “charming thief of moments,” by STERN magazine, Robert Lebeck was one of the most significant photojournalists of our time. “I’ve had the most unbelievable luck”, the master modestly explained. And he liked to share this luck by way of his pictures. Lebeck lets us take part in moments steeped in history, the experiences of German life, the beauty of distant lands, and extraordinary encounters with prominent figures and unknown personalities.
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With a testimony of “I am a journalist”, Robert Lebeck defended himself against “allegations” of being an artist. After taking leave from his work as a photo-correspondent near the end of the 1990s, Lebeck discovered the possibilities presented by digital photography as well as the previously-avoided field of Art. Preußisch Blau (English: Prussian Blue) is an homage to his home town, Berlin.
The poetic images depict the capital city during the blue hour: an unreal time that Robert Lebeck captured with his legendary knack for sensing the right moment. Between day and night, between past and present, the familiar buildings make a very special statement.
“My only training was the manual for my first camera,” admitted Robert Lebeck, who was born in Berlin in 1929. But the exceptionally talented artist did not need anything more to advance from being an enthusiastic layman to a sought-after photojournalist. Thanks to his unique gift for sensing the right moment, he became one of the most significant contemporary photographers.
In 1960, Lebeck photographed a young Congolese man stealing the Belgian King’s sword during Congo’s independence celebrations. This picture made it around the world, bringing Lebeck international renown. He spent the majority of his career years as a photographer for Stern. Lebeck travelled around the world, where he met the rich and famous as well as the poorest of the poor, capturing everything with his camera. So close and immediate, making the viewers feel as if they were a part of these very special moments themselves. At the end of the 1990s, his career as a journalist came to an end. He worked in art photography in Berlin right up until his death in 2014.
Neugierig auf die Welt and Unverschämtes Glück
As a photojournalist, Robert Lebeck knew how to go through the world observantly so that he would not miss out on any magic moments. The precision in his analog photographs is impressive. Instead of depicting the subjects, Lebeck dove into the situations. In this way, he always discovered a unique angle and composition for his shots.
In his capacity as a photojournalist for Stern, Lebeck managed to combine his personal view of the events with the actual subjects, revealing much more than a mere reproduction should allow.
Robert Lebeck had a talent for instilling trust, whether it was in strong personalities like Alfred Hitchcock or cautious stars such as Romy Schneider. The “Master of Suspense” willingly played along with the audience’s expectations of him. And actor Romy Schneider opened up to “Lebo” (as she called Lebeck) in such a way that the photographer himself ran away in panic from getting too close.
These portraits verify the special relationship the photographer built up with his “models”. The contact sheets show how it all developed. A game of challenging and yielding, flirting and dialog, until he captured the exact expression that would do justice to the personality behind the public façade.
When his wife Cordula gave him a DIGILUX 1 in 2002, Robert Lebeck began to take it out on walks. That’s how he discovered Berlin in the blue hour. He took the pictures while standing, but often while walking or from the upper deck of a bus. The latter method offered Lebeck the opportunity to let the special reflections of rain-soaked windscreens flow into his compositions.
You should always take pictures in such a way that you can return to them.
1929 Born in Berlin, Germany
From 1952 Worked as a photojournalist at Stern among others
1960 Gained recognition for his photo of a young African man who stole King Baudoin’s sword during Congo’s independence celebrations
1977-1978 Editor in Chief of GEO magazine along with Klaus Harpprecht
2007 Received the Henri Nannen Prize for his life's work, Hamburg, Germany
2009 Comprehensive exhibition of his photographs at the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin
2014 Died in Berlin, Germany
2007 Henri-Nannen-Preis for his lifework
2010 Robert Lebeck - Fotografien, Focke- Museum, Bremen, Germany
2009 Robert Lebeck - Musik im Blut, Bode Galerie & Edition, Nuremberg, Germany
2008 Robert Lebeck. Fotografien 1955-2005, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Robert Lebeck - Neugierig auf Welt, Bode Galerie & Edition, Nuremberg, Germany
2004 Unverschämtes Glück, Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, Germany
2001 Kiosk. Eine Geschichte der Fotoreportage, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
1991 Robert Lebeck - Fotoreportagen, Perpignan, France
1983 Augenzeuge Robert Lebeck - 30 Jahre Zeitgeschichte, Kiel, Germany
1982 Sammlung R.L. - Fotografie des 19. Jahrhunderts, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
1961 Tokio-Moskau-Leopoldville, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
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'Bachelor' alum Carly Waddell praised for raw postpartum post: 'There is such a stigma about breastfeeding'
20 November 2019, 8:10 pm
Carly Waddell is being applauded for sharing a candid Instagram post regarding the stigma surrounding a woman's decision to breastfeed or not, and her unapologetic admission that, after a week, she has decided to switch to formula.
The new mom-of-two and former “Bachelor in Paradise” star shared a photo of herself, with cabbage leaves, used to relieve pain and swelling, covering her bare chest on Instagram, along with a powerful message just one week after welcoming her second child, Charles "Charlie" Wolfe, to the world with husband, Evan Bass.
"I had all these hopes and dreams that postpartum would be easier this time," the 34-year-old reality star wrote. "But I still ache. I’m healing. I’m tried."
A post shared by Carly Waddell (@carlywad) on Nov 20, 2019 at 10:14am PST
Waddell went on to describe the difficulties she faced while trying to breastfeed Charlie, recalling a similar experience she had with her now 20-month-old daughter, Isabella "Bella" Evelyn.
"She cried and cried for months. Threw up. Had gas pains. I breastfed for months because that’s what I was told was 'best,'" Waddell wrote. "When I changed Bella to formula, she was a new, happy little baby."
Waddell says that she followed her mom instincts and decided to try the same formula her daughter eats with Charlie. The change, she says, was instant.
"I had hopes that Charlie would be different. But it just isn’t the case. I decided to stop breastfeeding and try him on the same formula Bella was on, and within a bottle or two he was so happy. He stopped crying. He could relax. He could sleep. He smiled," Waddell shared.
Despite having a happy and healthy baby, Waddell went on to address the "stigma about breastfeeding" and the possible backlash she would face for deciding to use formula.
Imaging the negative comments she might receive, Waddell wrote: "If you don’t [breastfeed], you don’t care about your children’s health. You don’t love [your] kids enough. You’re being selfish. You just aren’t being a good enough mom. Honestly, I know my comments will [probably] be full of people telling me all sorts of things I could have/should have done to make it work for us."
However, instead of unsolicited advice from commenters, Waddell is receiving praise for being so candid, and fellow moms are standing up to say that whatever works for her and her babies is best.
"Fed is best," a fan wrote. "I stopped breastfeeding at 6 weeks and my baby is so healthy, is hitting all her milestones, and is happy & loved!"
"The whole 'breast is best' thing is stupid. It’s all about 'fed is best,'" another chimed in. "I know tons of people who didn’t breast feed (inc my mum) and what matters is that you have a healthy, happy and fed baby. You know what’s right as a mama to your kids."
"Love love love this!!! I had so much mom guilt for not nursing my first. Then I tried with my second and he was allergic to everything I ate. Fed is best! Hope things get easier," a third wrote.
Waddell wrote that her son Charlie “is soooo happy and that is all that matters.”
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Pattinson had earned his stripes in youth theatre in England but it was in when he became a household name. Cast as Edward Cullen in the Twilight movie, his acting combined with undeniable on-screen chemistry with Kristen Stewart led him to being cast in the ongoing TV saga of the same name. Kristen Stewart began acting at the age of 8 but it was her role as the diabetic daughter of Jodie Foster in Panic Room that got her noticed and she was nominated for a Young Artist Award. Pattinson and Stewart’s relationship started with Twilight in Stewart and Pattinson were cast as co-dependent vampire-mortal lovers and that love crossed over into real life. Sanders, the director of the movie, was married at the time.
After starting to act in a London theatre club at the age of 15, he began his film career by playing Cedric Diggory in the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire It brought Pattinson worldwide fame and established him among the highest-paid actors in the world. After starring in the romantic dramas Remember Me and Water for Elephants , Pattinson eschewed roles in big-budget films in favour of independent productions helmed by auteurs, which have earned him critical acclaim.
He played a manipulative billionaire in David Cronenberg ‘s thriller Cosmopolis , an aspiring actor in Cronenberg’s satire Maps to the Stars , an explorer in James Gray ‘s adventure drama The Lost City of Z , a bank robber in the Safdie Brothers ‘ crime drama Good Time , a criminal in a spaceship in Claire Denis ‘ science-fiction drama High Life , and a troubled lighthouse keeper in Robert Eggers ‘ horror film The Lighthouse
R. Pattz & K. Stew Were Seen Together & It’s Such A Blast From The Past the Daily Mail, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were spotted together at a Prior to their final split, they briefly reconciled in September
Last week it was reported that the year-old actress was praying that Robert Pattinson would take her back , and according to new reports, the “Twilight” star has finally found a way to forgive her for cheating on him. The Sun reports that Pattinson had a “heart-to-heart” with his girlfriend of four years and has forgiven her “stupid mistake. There have been few real facts reported about Stewart and Pattinson’s relationship since the cheating scandal broke, but it’s noteworthy that Stewart was confident that she and Pattinson would be “totally fine” when they have to promote “Breaking Dawn — Part 2” this November.
Stewart’s confidence that the press tour will go on without issue could perhaps mean she believes Pattinson will be able to forgive and forget. But have they really reconciled? It’s possible, but doubtful given the sheer number of false reports about their relationship in recent weeks. Last week it was reported that Stewart was seen flirting with James Franco in Toronto , though the two apparently never crossed paths, and there were more bizarre reports that she was fighting with Pattinson about houseplants — yes, houseplants — they once shared.
It has also been reported that executives at Summit Entertainment are hoping the couple would reconcile in time to promote “Breaking Dawn – Part 2. As the press tour — which is slated for November — inches closer, it seems likely that we’ll continue to hear unsubstantiated reports that “Robsten” are back on.
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April : the pair began doing press for robert film Twilight ever heard of it?? A match made in vampire heaven. He’s really, really [good]. I don’t even know how he [did it]. I couldn’t and understand it. It’s so good, it’s so cool, I’m so proud of him.
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart: Twilight stars back together after claims of affair. Robert Pattinson AM BST 16 Oct The co-stars on the Twilight.
Kristen Stewart is offering a rare glimpse into her past relationship with Robert Pattinson. The year-old actress covers the October issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK , and inside the magazine, she reflects on her life and former loves — including Pattinson. Although they met in on the set of “Green Lantern” , the duo did not start dating until October They tied the knot in September and are parents to three daughters.
Speaking to Vogue Italia in about his best memory from the show, Harington said, “The three weeks in Iceland when we were shooting the second season. Because the country is beautiful The couple announced their engagement on Sept. They met on the set of “Dream House” and were married the same year in June.
They welcomed their first child together, a daughter, in They met in while filming “The Amazing Spider-Man” Talking about their audition for the film, Garfield said, “It was like I woke up when she came in It was like diving into white-water rapids and having no desire to hang onto the side. Throughout shooting, it was wild and exciting. The film “The Last Song” brought the couple together in
Twitter Facebook Instagram Search. Kristen Stewart. Michael Angarano – Meeting on the set of their indie film ‘Speak’, these two dated for around three years until the birth of the Twilight Saga. We wonder who came next?
Actress Kristen Stewart apologized to long-term boyfriend and “Twilight” co-star Robert Pattinson on Wednesday for a recent fling Dawn Part 2″ at Comic-Con in San Diego, California July 12, The pair’s on-screen romance transferred to their real lives, and they confirmed they were dating in
Talk about a major blast from the past. And, yes, this is your cue to go wild, Twihards. The publication noted that both of the Twilight stars were spotted at the same party, which was held for actor and model Lily-Rose Depp. While the photos that the Daily Mail posted are pretty blurry , they reported that both Pattinson and Stewart took a breather outside of the Chateau Marmont, the venue in which the party was being held. This outing is extra notable because the last time they were photographed in public together was in , which came prior to their split, per People.
So, it’s been a long time coming for all of those “Robsten” shippers out there to see their fave duo together. Does this mean that the actors are on good terms again, following their breakup? That’s really anyone’s guess at this point.
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are on the long list of movie stars who fell in love while working with each other. Many Twilight fans went wild over the fact that they were really dating, but they kept most of their relationship private. That meant the only drama we know about from those days involve what happened on set.
Michael Angarano () – Meeting on the set of their indie film ‘Speak’, these two dated for around three years until the birth of the Twilight Saga. · Robert.
By Richard Alleyne. The co-stars on the Twilight series of films are said to have spent an evening with friends at a downtown Los Angeles bar before leaving together at 2am. Stewart, 22, was dumped by Pattinson, 26, in July after she was snapped kissing married British film director Rupert Sanders. He said: “There definitely wasn’t any tension between them — Kristen gave Rob a couple of long looks and, when he went over, closed her eyes and put her head on his chest.
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Things have changed. And not just with me, we’re really allowed to encourage this new acceptance to develop and be awesome,” said Kristen Stewart. Twilight star Robert Pattinson says he doesn’t hold a grudge against former girlfriend Kristen Stewart although the actress cheated him in when they were still dating. Robert Pattinson wants a confident woman. Robert Pattinson prefers a woman who is confident and comfortable with herself because he is the complete “opposite”.
this is a pretty big deal considering Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson haven’t been seen together since November , when they were.
The women have since been hanging out on both coasts — including attending karate class together — and even headed up north to the Toronto International Film Festival. Clearly smitten, Stewart revealed she told Meyer that she loved her just two weeks after they started dating. But the connection was instantaneous. A more candid-than-ever Stewart continued, “I want to make movies and kids with this girl. I literally drew her in a dream, and now she exists.
Fresh off her October breakup with live-in love Maxwell, Stewart started seeing the stylist two months later. They had been photographed out and about holding hands, taking hikes and walking their dogs. The pair actually made things official-ish, attending a dinner together at the Cannes Film Festival in I want to try everything. Stewart and the singer real name Annie Clark were inseparable for a brief period in fall It seemed serious, but it was fleeting.
While rekindled, Stewart took the opportunity to gush about Cargile in a way that she never had during the years they dated prior. It opened my life up and I’m so much happier.
Attention ladies – how she and the twi-hard nation mourns. Attention ladies – how she and after the twi-hard nation. Katy perry is kristen stewart. Surprisingly, played rosalie hale in the twilight movies. As it quits on her and pattinson dated from before. Seems pattinson still friends with her twilight and fka twigs for ages now bought a nation mourns.
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart at Comic-Con International at San Diego Convention Center on July 12, (Kevin Winter / Getty.
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson : a nation mourns. Specifically, the Twi-hard nation. With news that Stewart had a fling with her Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders , we are bracing for potential fallout. So while mulling the future of the entity known as Robsten, we decided to take a look back at how the onetime undercover lovers turned Twilight megastars came to be.
MORE: R. Pattz Not Marrying K. Catherine Hardwicke , the director, afterwards was like, ‘What do you think? This is such a hard choice. It’s such an obvious choice! It was sort of perfect. Spring Filming on the first movie of the franchise, Twilight , takes place in Vancouver. The Robsten bubble begins and it’s not long before murmurings of their on- and offscreen chemistry begin. And many red carpets after. February After a winter apart, the gang reunites for the Japanese premiere and various fan events, as tight-knit as ever.
What a difference a year makes. Us Weekly broke news of the fling with exclusive photos of the shocking tryst, taken on July Now, one year later, both respective couples have ended their relationships. Here, Us offers a timeline of events that lead to the heartbreak and all that has happened since the scandal.
Getting Back Together · Forever Love. Rob Pattinson + Kristen Stewart at the Breaking Dawn 2 premiere in Berlin – November Beautiful manip ♡ Getting Back Together, Twilight Saga, Robert Pattinson, Beautiful Couple,. Getting Back.
Subscriber Account active since. Kristen Stewart opened up about falling in love with her “Twilight” costar Robert Pattinson — and the insecurity she still feels surrounding their high-profile relationship. It’s been so heavily consumed,” she said during a recent appearance on “The Howard Stern Show. Because I was so self-conscious about seeming like an attention-seeker. Stern told Stewart that, in his opinion, falling in love on set is “the biggest mistake an actor can make.
Super, super fing in love with him,” she replied. Stewart had only positive things to say about Pattinson, agreeing when Stern called him “a charming guy. The actors met while filming the first “Twilight” movie, released in , when Stewart was 18 and Pattinson was They likely began dating sometime in but refused to disclose the details of their relationship. Because it’s ours.
Pattinson and Stewart pose for a portrait session on May 25, The longtime couple split shortly before the final franchise installment, “Breaking Dawn — Part 2,” was released in Stewart had been photographed kissing the married director of her film “Snow White and the Huntsman,” Rupert Sanders, who was
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On Monday it was announced that he was positive in the COVID-19 test, on Wednesday he was seen breaking into the Capitol without a mask
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In his role as personality of the social networks -Because it could not be in the media that it accepts, like anti-Semitic a neo-Nazi convinced, controlled by a Jewish conspiracy—, Anthime Tim Gionet, better known as Hill Alaska, counted in DLive, service streaming what do you use blockchain:
I have to charge the security guard [de un bar] because of infect me COVID-19, Do you remember I said I spat in my face ?! I literally did a test the day before and it came back negative. And then that guy spat in my face! And now I’m positive. I will charge him. I follow the bar Gilligan.
That was the Monday, January 4th, and they reproduced it in Twitter several users who report on Gionet’s activities, who is suspended since November 2017 on the platform,
Then he was – probably on the night of Tuesday 5 – seen encourage other extreme nationalists who participated in marches in support of the claims of electoral fraud of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, no mask: “Let’s go! Let’s go!”. Finally the Wednesday 6 Baked Alaska reached the interior of the Capitol and went live for 20 minutes, which also happened cry – and therefore share SARS-CoV-2 –, pursue and interview other protagonists of the attack, always without mask, report The New York Post and The Daily Dot.
Although he knew he was infected with the coronavirus, Baked Alaska was part of the crowd of Trump fans who gathered in Washington and forcibly entered the Capitol.
By the time Gionet started the streaming, hy Vice President Mike Pence, senators and representatives they would have to accommodate the discussion about certification of election results to be evacuated, More from 16,000 followers watched the broadcast – In the double sense: of the facts and of the coronavirus– what the young man did white nationalism activist, He was spotted with other looters in a law office on the second floor:
“Let’s call Trump!” sei
“Trump will be very angry,” said one who is not in the picture.
“No, let’s tell him we love him!” We love you, brother! No, what do you mean? You will be happy. We are fighting for Trump.
Then he took a phone call from the legislature’s office that he had invaded:
“I can apparently call the United States Senate.”
Baked Alaska sent out 20 minutes from inside the Capitol, while probably also transmitting the coronavirus.
And he kept talking on the phone, in a call fiction:
“Hello, United States Senate?” We want to report a fraudulent election. We have to put our boy, Donald J. Trump, an office.
The stream showed that his mates also wore no masks, which increases the chance of infection in a closed space with a person testing positive in a coronavirus test. Other images showed him outside the building, between the many, always without mask, “Hill Alaska, streamer and one of the most effective trolls on the far right, was recorded when walking among the people, without mask, although he recently tested positive for COVID-19″, Denunció The Daily Dot.
The stream showed that her companions were not wearing face masks, which increases the chance of contamination in an enclosed space with a person testing positive.
Knowing he was a carrier of the virus – even aware of the circumstances in which he could become infected, arguing with a porter at a bar – did not prevent Baked Alaska from interacting with others without covering himself up, much less he kept the necessary isolation period not to spread. YouTube banned its channel in October 2020 after publishing videos in which he was seen attacking shopkeepers because they asked him to wear a mask.
Gionet repeated his anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi, alt-right and pro white supremacy perspectives, in addition to being a fanatic during the campaign for the The re-election of Trump and, to the win over Democrat Joe Biden, an intense diffuser of incorrect information about election fraud, When his live broadcast ended, he was seen out of the building stunned by Capitol police, which he insulted – and perhaps infected COVID-19 – with equal enthusiasm.
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Yankees: Gleyber Torres Is Coming To The Show, But Can He Pitch?
By Bryan Pol April 16, 2018 April 16, 2018
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The New York Yankees might very well call up Gleyber Torres before the month is out, but he does not help the club’s biggest flaw at the moment: starting pitching.
After Wednesday of this week, the Yankees, should they feel the desire to do so, can call up top prospect Gleyber Torres and have the 21-year-old under organizational control through 2025, an opportunity that puts the Yankees in tremendous shape up the middle with Gary Sanchez, Didi Gregorius, Torres, and up-and-coming Estevan Florial due to arrive within the next year or so as New York’s centerfielder of the future.
Currently raking with the Scranton-Wilkes Barre Railriders (the former Cub blue chip, who joined the Yankee organization in 2016 through a trade that sent Aroldis Chapman to Chicago, has mustered a .389/.410/.583 triple slash line in 36 at-bats over nine games, showing no ill effects from last season’s Tommy John surgery), Torres has played the last four games at the Triple-A club consecutively at third base, likely in the vein of providing New York versatility with fellow prospect Miguel Andujar yielding tepid results and Brandon Drury remaining a question mark with migraines. Torres, naturally a shortstop, is currently blocked at the position, thanks to New York’s best hitter in Didi Gregorius.
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That said, Tyler Wade has been abysmal at second base, hovering around a .100 at the plate, although Ronald Torreyes has done nothing but hit in light of Wade’s woes, doing so at a .429 clip. Neil Walker, signed initially to man second base, is able to slide in at first base with Greg Bird injured and Tyler Austin serving a five-game suspension after Wednesday’s fracas in Boston. Regardless, the supremely gifted Torres can easily play amongst three infield positions and deepen a reeling lineup, providing the big club a jolt to push them past their less-than-spectacular .500 start.
The Yankees, rained out in two of three games in Detroit over the weekend, a series that was supposed to bolster their position in the AL East, are now 5.5 games behind the Red Sox as of Sunday night. In light of the inaction, New York has even fallen to third in the division, two games back of the Toronto Blue Jays, whom the Yankees split against in the season-opening series, one they could have swept had it not been for a breakdown in the bullpen that has struggled early on, and will face off against at Yankee Stadium later this week.
While the addition of Torres will be welcome and timely, the move does very little to address what currently ails the Yankees: the starting rotation. CC Sabathia, due to return on Tuesday, has missed several starts due to a hip injury, and Luis Severino, Masahiro Tanaka, and Sonny Gray were obliterated in succession at Fenway this week. Gray, acquired at last year’s trade deadline for three top prospects in James Kaprelian, Jorge Mateo, and Dustin Fowler, posts a gaudy 6.92 ERA and 1.92 WHIP and has yet to string together a series of positive starts while showing minimal flashes of brilliance in pinstripes. Tanaka, with a 5.19 ERA, has already coughed up four homers, including a grand slam to J.D. Martinez that derailed a quality start and kept Boston in the game last Wednesday. Gray and Tanaka, along with Jordan Montgomery, are all posting an ERA+ of 91 or worse, with Gray’s ERA+ at an unsightly 62. New York, who welcomes Miami to New York for a two-game set earlier this week, truly needed the gift of the Tigers and Marlins’ series to jumpstart the offense and give the rotation a shot of confidence.
Instead, the Yankees, who still enjoyed two days off, will be looking, if not be forced, to sweep Miami and take three of four against Toronto before playing seventeen straight contests against the Twins, Angels, Astros, Indians, and Red Sox, with all five teams vying for playoff positions, and three, Boston, Minnesota, and Los Angeles, leading their respective divisions. Luckily for New York, three of those five series are at home, although that means nothing in the face of a scuffling rotation and a bullpen with few answers to Dellin Betances’ mounting problems and Tommy Kahnle’s confounding start to the season.
Yankees: Running Through The Bronx With My (Bullpen) Woes
Even so, Didi has been brilliant and Aaron Judge has demonstrated a selective eye at the plate that has yielded a 1.036 OPS in spite of only three homers, a sign of the right fielder figuring things out and displaying a propensity for power in combination with getting on-base and hitting consistently: he boasts an eleven-game hitting streak with four multi-hit games over that span.
Without question, adding Torres to that mix can only help matters and forge the Yankees on a path toward playoff contention. But if, and only if, the rotation is up for it over the long haul.
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New Android apps & games [4/19/18] – ESPN+, Friday the 13th, Dead Rivals
By Peter Babiy on Apr 19, 2018 - Apps, Games
Want to hop on the new craze before anyone else? We have a selection of the best new Android apps out right now, including a new productivity tool, workout trainer, and a load of excellent games.
Not strictly a new app, but the announcement of ESPN+ is massive for MLB and NHL fans that don't have a cable subscription. The ESPN app now supports live streaming of all MLB and NHL games while in season, alongside a few sports dramas and documentaries produced by ESPN.The ESPN+ streaming service is available for $4.99 per month. NFL and NBA games are not available on the platform. ESPN said it is an extension of its cable programming, rather than a replacement.Price: Free (contains in-app purchases) | Get it at ESPN
Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle
Blue Wizard Digital LP creates a unique environment for a puzzle game, with horror icon Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th franchise. Stalk and terrorize victims through eight episodes, which include over 100 levels.It should be noted that purchasing any item in the game will make it an ad-free experience. So, if you don't want to deal with the Google ads, save yourself the annoyance and buy a small cosmetic.
Price: Free (contains adverts and in-app purchases) | Get it on Google Play
Dead Rivals - Zombie MMO
Left 4 Dead fans will love Gameloft's newest Android game, Dead Rivals, which mixes classic action role-playing with zombie hordes and bosses. The game offers players a story mode, co-op missions with friends, and PvP battle arenas.There's plenty to do in Dead Rivals, but early reviews suggest Gameloft needs to work on mobile optimization and networking issues, which appear to be affecting most gamers.
Price: Free (contains in-app purchases) | Get it on Google Play
Fluce for Twitter
Fluce is a new Twitter client for Android, aiming to improve the experience for users by regularly listening to user feedback and adding elements not available in the official app. One of the big features it touts is customization; users can change the size and look of almost any element.An un-follower dashboard is available, which is a popular add-on for Twitter users. GIF support is also available.Twitter recently postponed revoking third-party access to parts of its service, but it may still go ahead with it after further consultation. In the meantime, enjoy Fluce to its fullest — just in case its days are numbered.Price: $0.99 | Get it on Google Play
SomaSim's popular PC skyscraper simulator, Project Highrise, is finally available on Android. The game has a wide range of hotel building and management features, including a campaign mode where players must improve or change the fortune of a skyscraper.Alongside building the highrise, players need to take care of various other aspects to keep tenants happy. As players progress further, they will find new challenges in the form of operational failures and city hall councilors.
Price: $3.99 (contains in-app purchases) | Get it on Google Play
Piece together the memories of Huey and Satura in Dice Roll Studios latest puzzle platformer. Players must figure out how to get both characters through the level, collecting sacred crystals along the way.Umiro is published by Devolver Digital, one of the most widely recognized indie game publishers. It has received nominations for the best mobile game at Casual Connect Asia and Tokyo Game Show.
Price: $2.99 | Get it on Google Play
Returner 77
Returner 77 is an adventure puzzle game set in a distant future where an alien invasion has wiped out almost all life on Earth. Players venture through an alien spaceship to discover the cause of the disaster and how to possibly rebuild humanity.The graphics stand up to some of the best on Android and there's also an ambient soundtrack for gamers that prefer to play with headphones.
Shatterbrain - Physics Puzzle
Orbital Nine Games, the developer responsible for Brain It On!, is back with a new physics puzzle game, Shatterbrain. In it, players must draw objects to smash all of the shapes in the shortest amount of time. A leader-board is available for those that have a knack for these physics puzzles.There are dozens of complex puzzle games and Orbital Nine has said it will add more in the next few months.
◉ CONNECTION
Infinity Games says that players who finish all 200 levels of Connection in under 30 minutes have an IQ of over 180. While the science may not sit on the developer's side, Connection is still a fun and somewhat challenging puzzle game, in which players need to light up all the dots in the correct order.Puzzles get more challenging as players progress, with new elements like a double circle added after 20 levels to spice up the experience.
Fans of Edgar Wright's Baby Driver will like the sound of PAKO 2, which involves taking to the wheel as the getaway driver chased by cops. Players will be forced to use their initiative to get out of tricky situations, as the police start to close in.
AR Stickers: Text & Foodmoji
Google has released two augmented reality (AR) sticker packs this week: Text and Foodmoji. It follows Blocks and Winter Sports, released earlier this year. The sticker packs only work if users have installed the AR Stickers and ARCore apps.
Price: Free | Get Text and Foodmoji on Google Play
Mayor! Mayor!
Mayor! Mayor! is a town simulator with over 40 unique buildings and seven cities to choose from. Players must manage income, outgoings, and the population to ensure that the town thrives.The game is available as a free version with adverts or a paid version for $2.99 — it's nice to have the choice.Price: Free or $2.99 | Get it on Google Play
Vandals is a turn-based stealth game, where players tag increasingly hard to access areas while avoiding the police. Set in some of the most popular cities for street graffiti, like New York, Tokyo, and Berlin, player's are able to tag their alias, draw cartoons, or add their own imagery.
Rocket Car Ball
Another clone of Rocket League has launched on Android, developed by Worlds Mobile, but this one appears to be getting good reviews. For those who haven't heard of Rocket League, think of cars playing football. Psysonic never got around to releasing the game for mobile devices, creating a gap in the market for games like Rocket Car Ball.Price: Free (contains adverts in-app purchases) | Get it on Google Play
Abs Workout - 28 Days Fitness App for Six Pack Abs
Developer Home Workout has launched a totally free (no adverts or in-app purchases) workout app, which lets users follow a 28 day workout program, developed to tone abs. The app uses the seven minute workout as a base for its program, alongside workout challenges Tabata and HIIT.Workout programs have a tendency to lock all the good stuff behind a paywall or pester with ads, so it's a pleasant change to get something completely free of charge.Price: Free | Get it on Google Play
Shadow of Death: Stickman Fighting - Dark Knight
Shadow of Death is a 2D action role-playing game, developed by Zonmob Game Studio. Play as the shadow, a warrior that fights against the enemies of Aurora's land. Players can upgrade their hero with new abilities and enhanced items.Price: $0.99 | Get it on Google Play
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Spice Baby Daddy Nicholas Lall Responds To Rape Accusations From Dancer DHQ Danger
by Neo Virgo December 15, 2020
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Spice’s baby father, Nicholas Lall, is denying that he has raped her former Dancer DHQ Danger. The former Team Spice dancer has alleged that while on tour in Europe, Lall, who was at the time Spice’s road manager, entered her hotel room by securing a copy of her room key, and he raped her. She said that he allegedly threatened to kill her and that he threatened her with the loss of her job.
Spice eventually fired Danger, but no reason had been given. The dancer claims that Spice felt that she was messing with her man leading her to avoid Danger. However, Danger alleges that, in fact, it was Lall who had been preying on her.
Nicholas Lall, on the other hand, says that Danger is lying. He said they were both wrongs for what they did and that he and Danger had a full-blown affair- not a one-time sexual encounter, as Danger claims. “I’m wrong, we both of wrong for f**king each other. When we were going around and fuck on tour, this was no one time. Me and you f**k all around the world, we were f**king in the whole of Europe,” he claims.
Lall who has almost half a dozen of videos proclaiming his support for and believing in the innocence of disgraced comedian Majah Hype, whose ex came out a week ago and said that he not only abused and raped her but he also released several porn videos in a revenge porn reaction to her outing him to his thousands of followers, says he is now a target.
“What yuh gain from this. I ago ask unu, the amth of ppl in my inbox calling me rapist, listen mi have my gal pickney weh mi love dearly, if somebody rape one a them , mi kill that. Min uh support raper,” he said.
Meanwhile, it seems that RT Boss, Spice’s former “Spiritual advisor,” who many on social media are calling an obeah man, is divulging information in an effort to destroy the de facto dancehall queen. In a live video, he said Spice allegedly said that Lall had given Danger, her former dancer, oral sex.
RT Boss also told Lall, who tuned into his IG Live, that one of Spice’s children is allegedly a “jacket.” Spice has two children- an older boy and a little girl who Lall claims as his children with the dancehall artiste. However, RT Boss said one of the children, who he did not identify, is not Lall’s biological child.
However, Lall didn’t take too kindly to the “Spiritual advisor,” making such a declaration.
“Lall did you know the child you have is not your child?” RT Boss asks to which Lall reply “dawg wha kinda fuckery yah tell me dawg? How yuh mean ah nuh my pickney, nuh muss my pickney.”
RT Boss urged Lall to get a DNA test to prove paternity. Lall has been an absentee father in the lives of his children, according to Spice. She said he does not financially support his children. However, Lall has in the past said that Spice does not allow him to see his children or allow opportunities for them to be a part of each other’s life. As a result, the two have been at loggerheads for years.
Now with Spice having a new man in the picture, the children seem to have the father figure role model they needed.
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Meanwhile, RT Boss seems like he is in an all-out war with Spice, who he says is his “friend,” but he is releasing “receipts” to the public. Many of his revelations are damaging to the dancehall artiste. For one, her fans have started jokingly calling her an “obeah wukka.” Spice is yet to respond.
RT Boss also alleges that Spice also cheated on Lall, and a video was leaked to Twitter with Spice giving some unnamed man oral sex. However, Lall, who tuned into RT Boss’s chat as a caller, asked him to “lowe certain things,” as he laughed.
RT Boss also confronted Lall that he had a threesome with another one of Spice’s dancers, Stacy Expressionz. However, Lall didn’t respond but indicated that he was leaving the call.
“Mi nuh deh pon that something deh,” he said, clearly indicating he didn’t call RT to speak about that but not denying whether RT’s claims are true or not.
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I'm Sorry To Disappoint Everyone, But Donald Trump Ain't Getting Impeached Or Going To Prison
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The only redeeming stretch in Batman v Superman — a movie so aggressively shitty that The Wife Person and I watch it each time its on just to find new shit to hate about it — comes directly after the single worst scene in the movie. Batman is about to kill the shit out of Superman, and Superman whispers "Save…Martha." And Batffleck jumps back all surprised and pained and shit like "Why did you say that name which also happens to be my dead mother's name too?" And Lois Save A Super Ho somehow emerges from Superman's anus to blurt "That's his mom's name too!"
After they clarify things and make brunch plans to patch things up, the movie finally decides to get interesting, as Batman goes and murders everyone in line at a Williamsburg Chipotle to save Superman's mom, and Lex Zuckerburg decides to unleash Doomsday, which allows Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman to finally join forces. Lots of loud and violent and cool things happen next.
This stretch also produces my favorite line in the movie. After the government shoots a shitload of missiles at Doomsday's grill, he consumes them, does this shock wave thing, pounds his chest, screams "MY BITCHES ARE BAD AND BOUJEE", and then actually gets bigger and stronger. Upon seeing this, Harry Lennix's token Black general sighs "That nigga's unkillable."
It is (probably) hyperbolic to also consider Donald Trump to be unkillable, since he's (probably) not the Antichrist, and could (conceivably) die countless different ways. He might even already actually be dead, and the man we elected President could just be a hollowed-out marionette filled with Good & Plentys and controlled with fish wire by Vladimir Putin. This is (probably) not true, but it's worth considering.
What is true, however, is that from the time Trump decided to run for President to the time he was actually elected, there were no less than a dozen different instances of Something Happening That Would Seem To Render Trump Unelectable. And each time it happened, we (collectively) exhaled and said "Whew, that was a close one" — effectively turning into The Guy In Every Friday The 13th Who Knocks Jason Down With A Frying Pain, Thinks He's Dead, Turns His Back To Celebrate, And Gets Disemboweled With An Espresso Machine By A Totally Not Dead At All Jason.
You'd think we would have learned. Especially after the disemboweling thing. But in the three months that Trump has been President, we're still playing the same game. Trump does or says something we think is going to get him impeached. Or arrested. Or just punched in the fucking face. And we put all of our eggs in the Trump Is Canceled party basket. We hold reservations, buy party favors, and even make after party plans. And then nothing happens. And then he does something again. And we're like "Oh…this is for real this time. He can't survive this." And then he emerges stronger and more powerful, like his spray tan is a force field.
It's understandable why we'd feel this way. Because this nigga was supposed to be unelectable. And he should be impeached and/or incarcerated. These are perfectly logical and predictable outcomes to his behavior. But what makes him unkillable is both the illogical support he still receives from his stans — still too blinded by racial anxiety and antagonism to see past their own fucking teeth — and the craven, spineless, and feckless fucking Republicans (and fucking Democrats) in D.C. He will remain in power as long as they remain intoxicated and terrified by it; hoping perhaps to suckle some power residue off of him, like a plover bird grasping at what's between a gator's teeth. And as long as they remain as bitch-ass as they've proven to be, Trump's bitch ass aint going anywhere. The only way to kill him is to beat them, not him. Cause they aint going to let it happen.
Of course, I could be wrong. And I hope I am. After all, the seemingly unkillable Doomsday was actually killed. We just might have to sit through a few more hours of Superhero Telenovela to finally see it happen.
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COVID-19, hemostasis disorders and risk of thrombotic complications
Authors: Makatsariya A.D.1, Slukhanchuk E.V.2, Bitsadze V.O.1, Khizroeva J.K.1, Tretyakova M.V.3, Tsibizova V.I.4, Shkoda A.S.5, Grandone E.6,7, Elalamy I.8,9, Rizzo G.1,10, Gris J.R.6,11, Schulman S.6,12, Brenner B.6,13
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Issue: Vol 75, No 4 (2020)
Section: CARDIOLOGY: CURRENT ISSUES
URL: https://vestnikramn.spr-journal.ru/jour/article/view/1368
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15690/vramn1368
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The spread of a new coronavirus infection worldwide since the end of 2019 has becomes a pandemic. Thrombotic complications are the leading cause of death in this disease. After entering the human body, the virus starts a cascade of reactions leading to the development of a cytokine storm, activation of all parts of the hemostasis and complement systems and other changes that result in disturbances in the circulation system with the development of multiple organ failures. Numerous studies have shown that a predictor of a severe course of COVID-19 is a sharp increase of D-dimer concentration in the blood and rise of some other markers of hemostasis activation. Based on the pathogenesis, the developed schemes for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 severe complications include low molecular weight heparins (LMWH) which are also recommended for an outpatient COVID-19 patient. The prescription of low molecular weight heparin, the duration of their use and doses should be decided on the basis of a risk assessment of factors for each individual patient in combination with laboratory monitoring.
COVID-19, SARS-COV-2, coagulopathy, DIC-syndrome, D-dimer, fibrinogen, hyperferritinemia, hypercytokinemia, cytokine storm, antiphospholipid antibodies, low molecular weight heparin.
Alexander D. Makatsariya
Author for correspondence.
Email: gemostasis@mail.ru
SPIN-code: 7538-2966
Scopus Author ID: 6602363216
ResearcherId: M-5660-2016
https://internist.ru/lectors/detail/makatsariya-/
Russian Federation, 8-2, Trubetskaya street, Moscow, 119992
MD, PhD, Professor
Ekaterina V. Slukhanchuk
Email: beloborodova@rambler.ru
Russian Federation, 2, Abrikosovsky pereulok, Moscow, 119991
MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
Victoria O. Bitsadze
Email: vikabits@mail.ru
ResearcherId: F-8409-2017
Jamilya Kh. Khizroeva
Email: jamatotu@gmail.com
Mendeley Profile: https://www.mendeley.com/impact/jamilya-khizroeva2/
Maria V. Tretyakova
Email: tretyakova777@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Timura Frunze str.15/1, 119021, Moscow
Valentina I. Tsibizova
Email: tsibizova.v@gmail.com
Russian Federation, 2 Akkuratova str., Saint- Petersburg, 197341
Doctor, Departments of Functional and Ultrasound Diagnostics
Andrei S. Shkoda
Email: 67gkb@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow
Elvira Grandone
I.M. Sechenov Moscow State Medical University, (Sechenov University); Thrombosis and Haemostasis Research Unit, Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. “Casa Sollievo della Soff erenza”
Email: grandoneelvira@gmail.com
Russian Federation, 8-2, Trubetskaya street, Moscow, 119992; San Giovanni Rotondo, FG, Italy
Ismail Elalamy
I.M. Sechenov Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University); Medicine Sorbonne University, University Hospital Tenon
Email: ismail.elalamy@aphp.fr
Russian Federation, Trubetskaya str. 8-2, 119991; rue de la Chine 75970 Paris Cédex 20, France
Giuseppe Rizzo
I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University); University of Roma Tor Vergata
Email: giuseppe.rizzo@uniroma2.it
ResearcherId: G-8234-2018
Russian Federation, Trubetskaya str. 8-2, 119991, Moscow; Ospedale Cristo Re 00167 Roma Italy
Jean-Christophe R. Gris
I.M. Sechenov Moscow State Medical University, (Sechenov University); University Montpellier
Email: jean.christophe.gris@chu-nimes.fr
France, 8-2, Trubetskaya street, Moscow, 119992; Montpellier, France
Sam Schulman
I.M. Sechenov Moscow State Medical University, (Sechenov University); Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute, McMaster University
Email: schulms@mcmaster.ca
Canada, 8-2, Trubetskaya street, Moscow, 119992; Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
д.м.н., профессор
Benjamin Brenner
I.M. Sechenov Moscow State Medical University, (Sechenov University); Rambam Health Care Campus
Email: b_brenner@rambam.health.gov.il
Russian Federation, 8-2, Trubetskaya street, Moscow, 119992; Haifa, Israel
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==== How do I measure distances and angles? ====
Inkscape does not yet have a dedicated Measure tool. However, the Pen tool can be used in its stead. Switch to Pen (Shift+F6), click at one end of the segment you want to measure, and move the mouse (without clicking) to its other end. In the statusbar, you will see the distance and angle measurement. Then press Esc to cancel.
Inkscape has a dedicated Measure tool, which is activated using the fifth button on the tools bar, or by pressing "M". Just click on a start point, hold the mouse button, and drag to the desired end point. Just as you would use a measurement tape! For more accuracy you can use snapping to control the start and end points.
The angle is measured by default from 3 o'clock origin counterclockwise (the mathematical convention), but in Preferences you can switch this to using compass-like measurement (from 12 o'clock, clockwise).
Alternatively, the Pen tool can be used in its stead. Switch to Pen (Shift+F6), click at one end of the segment you want to measure, and move the mouse (without clicking) to its other end. In the statusbar, you will see the distance and angle measurement. Then press Esc to cancel. The angle is measured by default from 3 o'clock origin counterclockwise (the mathematical convention), but in Preferences you can switch this to using compass-like measurement (from 12 o'clock, clockwise).
Starting from 0.44 we also have the Measure Path extension that will measure the length of an arbitrary path.
As the wiki is now dedicated to Inkscape development, this page is no longer relevant here. The contents of this page should be moved to the main Inkscape website. Even more, they may be very outdated, with dead links and the like.
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1.1 What is Inkscape?
1.2 What are vector graphics?
1.3 What is "Scalable Vector Graphics"?
1.4 Is Inkscape ready for regular users to use?
1.5 On what platforms does Inkscape run?
1.6 How did Inkscape start?
1.7 What does "Inkscape" mean?
1.8 Can I create Web pages with it?
1.8.1 How do I make a SVG object that link to an Internet site when I click on it ?
1.9 Can I create animations with it?
1.10 Will there be an Inkscape 1.00? What would it be like?
1.11 To update to a new version of Inkscape in Windows, do I need to uninstall the old version?
2 Using Inkscape
2.1 How do I rotate objects?
2.2 How do I scale or rotate groups of nodes?
2.3 How do I change the color of text?
2.4 How do I change the color of markers (e.g., arrow ends)?
2.5 How do I insert math symbols or other special symbols in the drawing?
2.6 How can sine curves be made in Inkscape?
2.7 How do I measure distances and angles?
2.8 Does Inkscape support palettes? Where can I "store" and save colours for further use?
2.9 How can I print the tutorials? When printed from Inkscape they don't fit, and I don't like reading on screen.
2.10 Can I use different settings for the new documents created by Inkscape?
2.11 Is there a way to apply a gradient to a stroke so that it bends with the stroke?
2.12 I'm trying to make a colored tiling of clones, but the tiles refuse to change color.
2.13 Gradients "disappear" when objects are moved or resized.
2.14 I'm trying to apply a gradient opacity mask to an object, but the entire object disappears.
2.15 Images in my document disappear and I get "Linked Image Not Found".
2.16 The PNGs exported by Inkscape have jagged edges/no antialiasing/funny background.
2.17 I have two adjacent objects with their edges abutting precisely, but at some zoom levels, a seam is still visible.
2.18 How do I suppress antialiasing?
2.19 Can Inkscape be used from the command line?
2.20 Can I change the Inkscape theme?
3 Troubleshooting Inkscape
3.1 Where do I ask for help troubleshooting an Inkscape problem?
3.2 Where else should I look when I have an Inkscape problem?
3.3 What is the proper way to ask questions on IRC?
3.4 What to do when the cursor and tools end up in different places?
3.5 How do I get extensions working?
3.6 Why do images "grow" when imported into Inkscape?
3.7 Why doesn't the combine path command create a doughnut hole when I try to combine a large path with smaller path inside?
3.8 I'm on Windows, and command line parameters don't seem to work!
3.8.1 Missing console output issue
3.9 Windows Explorer just started using Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 to open SVG files
3.10 How can I make Alt+click and Alt+drag work on Linux?
3.10.1 KDE
3.10.2 XFCE4
3.10.3 GNOME
3.10.4 fluxbox
3.10.5 IceWM
3.11 I'm having problems with non-Latin filenames on Linux — help!
3.12 How can I change Inkscape's interface language?
3.13 Inkscape does not see some of the fonts (Windows)
3.14 Bolding has no effect on some fonts
3.15 On Linux, Inkscape crashes with "invalid pointer" message
3.16 How do I turn off system beep on Windows when backspace is pressed at start of field?
3.17 Mac OS X specific issues
3.17.1 How can I make the Alt key work ?
3.17.2 How can I make keyboard shortcuts work with Command instead of Control ?
3.17.3 How do I change the interface language ?
3.17.4 I've installed Inkscape in some subfolder of "Applications" on OS X, but Inkscape does not run
3.17.5 Copying and pasting in Inkscape creates pixellated images instead of copying the vector objects
3.17.6 Inkscape fails to launch on OS X 10.8 and later
3.17.6.1 Apple no longer includes X11/Xquartz with OS X
3.17.6.2 Apple's new GateKeeper security feature may prevent Inkscape from opening
4 Contributing to Inkscape
4.1 How can I help the Inkscape project?
4.2 Are there non-coding ways to help?
4.3 Where can I get a banner for Inkscape?
4.4 How can I avoid causing a flamewar on the mailing list?
5 SVG topics
5.1 Are Inkscape's SVG documents valid SVG?
5.2 What about flowed text?
5.3 What, then, is "Inkscape SVG" as opposed to "Plain SVG" when saving a document?
5.4 What SVG features does Inkscape implement?
5.5 I have a hand-created SVG. Will everything be messed up if I load and save it with Inkscape?
5.6 Inkscape and renderer X show my SVGs differently. What to do?
5.7 Viewing SVG files like an image archive
6 Inkscape and other programs
6.1 Why is Inkscape so different from Adobe Illustrator?
6.2 Is Inkscape a replacement for The GIMP or Adobe Photoshop?
6.3 Why did Inkscape split from Sodipodi?
6.4 What's the difference between Inkscape and Dia?
6.5 Is this intended to replace Flash?
6.6 Will Inkscape be part of the Gnome-Office?
6.7 What formats can Inkscape import/export?
6.8 Can I open/import *.cdr (Corel Draw Vector drawing file) files in Inkscape?
6.9 I exported an SVG file from Adobe Illustrator, edited it in Inkscape, and imported back to AI, but there my changes are lost!
7 Development topics
7.1 What are Inkscape's development goals?
7.2 Upon what programming language and toolkit is Inkscape built?
7.3 What is your position on code sharing with other projects?
7.4 How do I create an Inkscape extension?
7.5 What is a good way to get familiar with the code?
7.6 What rendering engine does Inkscape use?
7.7 What is the development platform?
7.8 What is the Linux command to download the code through Bazaar?
7.9 How are feature requests selected for implementing?
7.10 I'd prefer the interface to look like ...
8.1 Under what license is Inkscape released?
What is Inkscape?
Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X. What sets Inkscape apart is its use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format.
What are vector graphics?
In contrast to raster (bitmap) graphics editors, such as Adobe Photoshop or Gimp, Inkscape stores its graphics in a vector format. Vector graphics is a resolution-independent description of the actual shapes and objects that you see in the image. A rasterization engine uses this information to determine how to plot each line and curve at any resolution or zoom level.
Contrast that to bitmap (raster) graphics which is always bound to a specific resolution and stores an image as a grid of pixels.
Vector graphics are a complement, rather than an alternative, to bitmap graphics. Each has its own purpose and are useful for different kinds of things. Raster graphics tend to be better for photographs and some kinds of artistic drawings, whereas vectors are more suitable for design compositions, logos, images with text, technical illustrations, etc.
Note that Inkscape can import and display bitmap images, too. An imported bitmap becomes yet another object in your vector graphics, and you can do with it everything you can do to other kinds of objects (move, transform, clip, etc.)
What is "Scalable Vector Graphics"?
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an open, industry-standard XML-based format for vector graphics developed by the W3C. Its acceptance is growing fast. Most vector editors these days can import and export SVG, and modern browsers (such as Firefox and Opera) can display it directly, i.e., without requiring any plugins. (For Internet Explorer, there's an SVG Viewer plugin from Adobe.) For more information, see SVG topics below.
Is Inkscape ready for regular users to use?
Yes! While Inkscape does not have all the features of the leading vector editors, the latest versions provide for a large portion of basic vector graphics editing capabilities. People report successfully using Inkscape in a lot of very different projects (Web graphics, technical diagrams, icons, creative art, logos, maps). For example, thousands of images on Wikipedia are created_with_Inkscape, as is the majority of the content on openclipart; many examples of Inkscape art can be seen here and here. We try to always keep the codebase usable for real users, as we believe that a tight iteration cycle between users and developers will give best results. You can start using Inkscape alongside your other tools now!
On what platforms does Inkscape run?
We provide source tarballs for Linux (binary packages are offered by the distributor), packages for Windows XP/Vista/7 (fully self-contained installer), and Mac OS X (DMG). We know that Inkscape is successfully used on FreeBSD and other Unix-like operating systems. Note that Windows 98/ME and 2000 is no longer supported.
Also see Supported operating systems.
How did Inkscape start?
Inkscape was started as a fork of Sodipodi, in late 2003, by four Sodipodi developers: Bryce Harrington, MenTaLguY, Nathan Hurst, and Ted Gould. Our mission was creating a fully compliant Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) drawing tool written in C++ with a new, more user friendly (GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) compliant) interface and an open, community-oriented development process. Within several months the project had produced several releases, demonstrating a sequence of significant new features and improvements to the codebase and quickly established Inkscape as a noteworthy Open Source project.
What does "Inkscape" mean?
The name is made up of the two English words "ink" and "scape". Ink is a common substance for drawings, and is used when the sketched work is ready to be permanently committed to paper, and thus evokes the idea that Inkscape is ready for production work. A scape is a view of a large number of objects, such as a landscape or ocean-scape, and thus alludes to the object-oriented nature of vector imagery.
Can I create Web pages with it?
Many Web page authors use Inkscape for Web page mockups or to generate parts of Web pages, such as banners, logos, icons, and more.
With the recent advances in SVG support in Web browsers (such as Firefox, Chrome or Opera), using SVG directly on the World Wide Web becomes more of a possibility. For example, with Firefox 1.5 or better, you can open any Inkscape SVG document right in the browser, and Firefox will show it correctly. In theory, SVG and XHTML can be used together within the same document, so interested users or developers can explore this possibility further.
Unfortunately, even though SVG is the Internet standard for vector graphics, some older, but still common Web browsers fail to support SVG.
Web page authors who need to support widest variety of Web browsers convert each SVG graphic to a raster image (.png) as the very last step.
How do I make a SVG object that link to an Internet site when I click on it ?
You can create clickable links from objects in Inkscape by right clicking the object, and clicking "Create Link". Then, right click your new link and choose "Link Properties" to set the Web address and many other properties.
Another way to make objects into Web links is to edit the XML directly. Inside Inkscape, open the XML editor (Shift+Ctrl+X) ... or use your favorite text editor.
First look at the <svg> element and try adding the following if it's not there already:
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
Then find the object you want people to click on. Let's say it's a red ellipse that looks like this in the XML editor:
<ellipse cx="2.5" cy="1.5" rx="2" ry="1"
fill="red" />
Surround that object with the "a xlink:href" tag:
<a xlink:href="">
then fill in the destination URL:
<a xlink:href="http://inkscape.org/">
Then close the editor and return to normal graphical editing.
Can I create animations with it?
No, Inkscape does not support SVG animation yet. It is for static 2-D graphics. However, you can export graphics from Inkscape to use in Flash or GIF animations. And since February 2006, Blender can import SVG data and extrude it to render 3D graphics.
Will there be an Inkscape 1.00? What would it be like?
Assuming development continues steadily, we will inevitably hit 1.00, but no particular date has been discussed yet.
One of the goals that must be completed before version 1.00 is the full implementation of the SVG 1.1 Specification.
Before going gold with any kind of 1.00 release, there would be a significant effort to tie down loose ends, a push for greater stability and smoothing off of rough edges. This would be a time consuming process and until it does happen Inkscape may be subject to substantial changes between releases.
To update to a new version of Inkscape in Windows, do I need to uninstall the old version?
When you already have Inkscape installed on your Windows XP computer and you launch the installer for the new version, you should be asked if you wish to uninstall the version you already have. If you answer Yes, a wizard will be launched that will uninstall the old version; when it finishes, the install wizard will then launch.
However, a file may be left in your installation folder (the default is C:\Program Files\Inkscape) that prevents the installation from completing. Simply use File Manager to navigate to that folder and remove any files that may be there. You can then resume installation.
If you wish to keep the old version on your computer, simply choose a different folder to which the newer Inkscape should be installed.
Using Inkscape
How do I rotate objects?
Inkscape follows the convention used by CorelDraw, Xara and some other programs: Instead of a separate "rotate" tool, you switch to Selector (arrow), click to select, and then click selected objects again. The handles around the object become rotation handles — drag them to rotate. You can also use the Transform dialog for precise rotation and the [, ] keys to rotate selection from the keyboard (with Ctrl to rotate 90 degrees, with Alt to rotate the one-pixel amount at the current zoom).
How do I scale or rotate groups of nodes?
By mouse: enable transform handles on the top toolbar. The button is on the right, so if the window is small, it might be hidden in the overflow menu. You can then transform the selected nodes in exactly the same way as normal objects in the selector tool. Single-clicking on an already selected node will switch the handles between scaling and rotation/skewing.
By keyboard: When several nodes are selected, pressing the "<" or ">" button scales, while pressing the "[" or "]" button rotates the selected nodes as if they were an “object”, around the center of that node group or around the node over which your mouse cursor hovers. (And arrow keys, of course, move the selected nodes as a whole.) So, for example, in a single-path silhouette portrait, you can now select the nodes of the nose and rotate/scale the nose as a whole without breaking the path into pieces. Pressing Alt with these keys gives pixel-sized movement depending on zoom, the same as in Selector. Also, you can press H or V to flip the selected nodes horizontally or vertically.
How do I change the color of text?
Text is not different from any other type of object in Inkscape. You can paint its fill and stroke with any color, as you would do with any object. Swatches palette, Fill and Stroke dialog, pasting style — all this works on texts exactly as it does on, for example, rectangles. Moreover, if in the Text tool you select part of a text by Shift+arrows or mouse drag, any color setting method will apply only to the selected part of the text.
How do I change the color of markers (e.g., arrow ends)?
By default, markers are black. You can change their color to match the color of the stroke of the object they are applied to by enabling an effect: Extensions > Modify Path > Color Markers to Match Stroke.
How do I insert math symbols or other special symbols in the drawing?
When editing text on canvas, press Ctrl+U, then type the Unicode code point of the symbol you need. A preview of the symbol is shown in the statusbar. When done, press Enter. A list of Unicode codes can be found at unicode.org; for example, the integral sign character is "222b". You must have a font installed on your system that has this character; otherwise what you'll see is a placeholder rectangle.
When editing text on the Text tab of the Text and Font dialog, you can use any GTK input modes that your GTK installation supports. Consult GTK documentation for details.
There is a build-in support for inserting a LaTeX formula inside Inkscape via the menu: Extensions->Render->LaTeX Formula. Make sure that you have the program "pstoedit", otherwise this menu might be hidden.
There is also an extension called textext, that allows you to include LaTeX typeset formulas in Inkscape.
When saving your work in eps format, we recommend to set the option "convert text to path" in the export dialog box, to preserve the symbol.
How can sine curves be made in Inkscape?
Inkscape includes an extension called Function Plotter. It can be used to create sine curves or any other function graphs. To access it, go to the Effects menu, and then the Render submenu. Other software, such as Xfig, KiG, or KSEG can also be used to create complex curves and then export to SVG for use in Inkscape.
How do I measure distances and angles?
Does Inkscape support palettes? Where can I "store" and save colours for further use?
Inkscape uses the same file format for palettes as the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP Colour Palettes, .gpl). To install a palette, copy the .gpl file to the share/palettes directory in your Inkscape installation.
How can I print the tutorials? When printed from Inkscape they don't fit, and I don't like reading on screen.
All tutorials in all languages are available online in HTML at this page and can be easily printed from your browser.
Can I use different settings for the new documents created by Inkscape?
Yes. When you do File > New (Ctrl+N) or start a new Inkscape session, Inkscape loads the default template document which stores page format, grid and guide parameters, snapping and export settings, etc. It can even contain any pre-created objects. You can save any document as the default template by writing it to ~/.config/inkscape/templates/default.svg on Linux and [inkscape dir]/share/templates/default.svg on Windows. If you save it under any other name than default.svg in the same folder, it will appear in the File > New submenu, but will not load automatically unless chosen.
If you use a localized version of Inkscape, french for example, the document default.fr.svg will be used in place of default.svg. Thus you can adapt the document loaded by default to the user language.
Is there a way to apply a gradient to a stroke so that it bends with the stroke?
A stroke can be painted with a gradient, but that gradient will not bend with the stroke. It will remain linear or elliptic. If you meant something like this, then Inkscape can emulate such effects using blur (use the Blur slider in the Fill and Stroke dialog), possibly in combination with clipping (see this screenshot). Another method is to use the Blend extension to create a blend between two curved paths painted with different colors or opacity levels; with enough intermediate steps, such a blend will look almost like an arbitrarily curved gradient.
I'm trying to make a colored tiling of clones, but the tiles refuse to change color.
The original object from which you're cloning must have its fill or stroke unset (not removed, but unset!) for this to work. Use the "?" button in the Fill&stroke dialog to unset fill, or use the "Unset" command in the right-click menu of the selected style indicator in the statusbar. If the original is a group, only some of the objects in the group may have unset fill, and only these objects will change colors in the tiling.
Gradients "disappear" when objects are moved or resized.
You have the "move gradients" button toggled off in the Selector tool's controls bar (above the canvas). That's the mode in which moving or resizing an object does not affect the gradients — they stay in the original place relative to canvas and therefore may seem to "disappear" if you move the object. Toggle it back on and it will work as you expect.
I'm trying to apply a gradient opacity mask to an object, but the entire object disappears.
Note that per SVG rules, black color is opaque in a mask, i.e., it obscures the object under it; white color is transparent (the object shows through). What's more, the "no color" fill or full transparency is equivalent to "transparent black", i.e., (rather counterintuitively) also becomes opaque in a mask. So, if you want to make your object gradually masked out, create the masking gradient either from white to transparent, or from white to black. The detailed rules of SVG masks are defined in [1].
Images in my document disappear and I get "Linked Image Not Found".
This happens when bitmap/raster images are imported, because they are not actually stored inside an Inkscape file by default. What is stored is a link to the location of the bitmap image on your system. If you later move the original bitmap image or send the document to someone else, the image will not be able to be found by Inkscape. See here for more information.
How can you fix this? There are several solutions. (Note that the following are ways to avoid getting the "Linked Image Not Found" error. If you already see the error on your canvas, the only solution is to import the image again.)
1. You can "Embed" the images. Go to the Extensions menu -> Images -> Embed Images. In the "Embed Images" dialog, with the checkbox unchecked, click "Apply" to embed all of the images. This will save all bitmaps inside the file, but can make the file quite large. Inkscape will also only embed PNG or JPG files.
2. Another, possibly better, solution is to "Trace" the bitmap images so they become vector images. Inkscape does embed traced images by default, as they are now vector images. To do this, follow the instructions on tracing an image here or here.
A bug request has been made to enable Inkscape users to embed bitmap images by default.
The PNGs exported by Inkscape have jagged edges/no antialiasing/funny background.
This is a problem with whatever you use to view these PNG files, not with Inkscape. For example, Internet Explorer prior to version 7 cannot show PNG files with transparency properly. Use, for example, Firefox to view your PNGs. If you absolutely must support IE 6, you can't have transparent background in PNG; change it to opaque in Document Preferences and export the PNG file again. Also, you should look into using Dean Edwards' IE7 Library: It fixes many CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.
If you want to open the exported PNG bitmaps in MS-Word, you will also have to change the alpha-opacity (in document-properties dialog) to full, and then export — the result will be much better.
I have two adjacent objects with their edges abutting precisely, but at some zoom levels, a seam is still visible.
That's a known problem of our renderer (as well as many other renderers, for example Xara's). Antialiased display sometimes results in not-fully-opaque pixels along the boundary of two objects even if there's absolutely no gap between them. There are several ways to avoid this problem. If your boundary is horizontal or vertical, you can suppress antialiasing by pixel-snapping (see next question). Often, you can just union the two shapes so they become one and the seam disappears. If this is not possible, just add a small overlap to the abutting shapes. If this isn't possible either (for example, due to transparency of these objects), sometimes blurring can help: in Inkscape 0.45+, you can group the two objects and slightly blur the group to make the seam disappear.
How do I suppress antialiasing?
With the current renderer, it is not possible to completely get rid of antialiasing. However, it is possible to partially suppress it on export. Usually, antialiasing is unwelcome in horizontal and vertical lines which become "blurred". To work around this, make sure your horizontal/vertical edges are snapped on the pixel grid, and all strokes are a whole number of pixels wide. Then, export bitmap at the default 90dpi so that 1 px unit corresponds to 1 bitmap pixel. In the resulting bitmap, snapped color boundaries will be perfectly crisp.
Can Inkscape be used from the command line?
Yes, Inkscape has a powerful command line interface and can be used in scripts for a variety of tasks, such as exporting and format conversions. For details, refer to the manual page (online, or via the Help > Command line options command, or by man inkscape on Unix). Using command line interface on Windows has certain limitations and specifics.
Can I change the Inkscape theme?
Yes, you can change it by following the Customizing Inkscape page.
Troubleshooting Inkscape
Where do I ask for help troubleshooting an Inkscape problem?
https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/ is the best place to ask for help in troubleshooting an Inkscape issue.
The Inkscape-user mailing list is also an excellent place to ask for help, although it may be harder and take longer to get a question answered than through the Answers site.
Sometimes people join IRC thinking they can get a quick answer, however, this can be very hit-and-miss, as generally whoever is active on IRC at the moment probably doesn't know the right answer for you. Also, your question may result in distracting other conversations. Generally, IRC is best used only if you specifically need to ask a particular person an Inkscape question.
Where else should I look when I have an Inkscape problem?
Try http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InstallHelp
What is the proper way to ask questions on IRC?
Many people wonder why questions asked on the Inkscape IRC channel generally do not receive an answer. There are several reasons for this.
First, maybe IRC is the wrong place to be asking the question; see the previous FAQ item.
Second, you may have asked the question wrong. A common error people make on IRC is to say something like, "Can someone answer a question?" without actually indicating what the question is. Most people won't respond to this, because they have no idea what they'll be asked, and they may not know. (For instance, your question may have to do with Windows, whereas they only know Linux.) Instead, just ask the question. If someone has relevant advice, they'll see your question and give it.
Third, you may not have waited long enough for an answer. It's very, very common for someone to join IRC, ask a question, wait a few minutes, log out when no answer appears, and then a few seconds later someone submits the answer. Be patient; it could take as much as 30 min for someone to see and respond to your question.
What to do when the cursor and tools end up in different places?
In Windows XP, there might be a problem where the cursor is at a different location than where the drawing ends up. Their position relative to each other varies. When the cursor is at the very center of the image, the lines might end up far out in the periphery. The problem appears both in Version 0.44 and 0.45, even after reinstalling the software.
There is yet no solution to this problem, and one simply has to find another software than Inkscape.
How do I get extensions working?
The extensions mechanism allows you to use external programs and scripts written in any language to augment Inkscape's capabilities. The tricky part is satisfying all of the dependencies of the external programs. For help regarding opening special file formats though extensions check GettingExtensionsWorking. If you are interested in on-canvas Effects (the Effects menu) go to GettingEffectsWorking.
Why do images "grow" when imported into Inkscape?
There is a limitation in the way Inkscape imports raster/bitmap images (e.g JPEG, PNG, TIFF images): it cannot read the image resolution. Inkscape assumes a 1-to-1 relation at 90dpi, so any imported image with a different resolution will appear to be scaled. For example, an image of resolution 180 dpi, when imported into Inkscape, will appear twice as big (180 = 90 × 2) in absolute units as it is in other programs. Note that this just scales the pixels of the image, but never adds or removes any pixels.
When exporting back to a PNG image, changing the resolution will only resample the image, not resize it. The only way to keep the image at the same size is to scale it inside Inkscape, once it is imported. For this you need to know the size (in pixels, cm, inches, ...) of the image you import. Then select it and in the selector's toolbar, click the lock between the width and height fields, select the unit of the image size and enter either the width or height in the appropriate field. When exporting, if you don't want to lose information from your image, use a resolution larger or equal to the resolution of the original image.
Example: Import an image of size 800 × 600 pixels and resolution 150 dpi. It will appear to be 1333 pixels wide and 1000 pixels high in Inkscape. Select it, click the lock in the selector's toolbar, enter 800 in the width field. Add some stuff on the image. Export the document to PNG with resolution 150 dpi. The exported image will be identical to the original one except for the stuff you added on it.
Why doesn't the combine path command create a doughnut hole when I try to combine a large path with smaller path inside?
The fill rules for the paths might be incorrectly set to fill in overlaps. Otherwise, the two paths have the same path directions, even though they should be opposite. Read more about the fill rule.
I'm on Windows, and command line parameters don't seem to work!
Missing console output issue
As of the 0.48.2 release of the windows installer an inkscape.exe and an inkscape.com. The start menu shortcut points to inkscape.exe which does not write any output to the console. However, if you type inkscape in a command prompt, and the install directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\Inkscape\) is in your path, the command prompt will resolve inkscape.com before inkscape.exe. The file inkscape.com is actually a windows executable, that calls inkscape.exe and attaches it to the console window, therefore displaying stdout and stderr to said console.
If you call inkscape.exe from the command prompt, things like exporting or converting to plain SVG do work, they just do not output anything to the console.
If you are using an older version of Inkscape, or just wish for historical context, see this mailing list thread.
Windows Explorer just started using Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 to open SVG files
If you install IE9 after Inkscape, IE9's installer may change what program opens SVG files. It doesn't care if you have a program already associated with SVG. It also doesn't care if that other program can edit SVG files and IE9 can't. To revert to having Inkscape open your SVG files do the following:
On Windows Vista and Windows 7:
Right-click any SVG file in Windows Explorer.
Select Properties in the context menu.
Next to "Opens with", click "Change…".
If Inkscape is listed, click it and OK. Otherwise, click Browse, find Inkscape.exe in your hard drive, and press OK twice.
Press OK one more time.
NOTE: At least under Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9 may reclaim SVG files automatically.
How can I make Alt+click and Alt+drag work on Linux?
Alt+click and Alt+drag are very useful Inkscape shortcuts ("select under" and "move selected" in Selector, "node sculpting" in Node tool). However, on Linux Alt+click and Alt+drag are often reserved by the window manager for manipulating the windows.
From version 0.46 onwards there is an option in the ~/.config/inkscape/preferences.xml file to allow another modifier key to be used as an alias for Alt within Inkscape. The option is "mapalt" under group "options" and has a numerical value. This value equates to the modifier key that is mapped to Alt, 1 indicates Alt, ie, no mapping). The value you need to use depends on the setup of your particular keyboard and may be 2, 3, 4, or 5. The program xkeycaps available from www.jwz.org is useful in finding which mod values are assigned to which keys on your keyboard, as well as setting them. The value associated with a particular key is shown in that program at the top of the screen beside the word "Modifiers" when the mouse is held over a key on the main display.
Note that this setting makes the new key an alias for Alt in every keyboard shortcut, not just those concerned with the mouse.
Alternatively, you can disable Alt-click and Alt-drag in your window manager as shown below:
For example, in KDE this is done in Control Center > Desktop > Window Behavior > Window Actions.
XFCE4
Please read Xfce 4 Window Manager documentation — (The documentation is currently out of date for the 4.4 series.)
To enable in XFCE 4.4 or greater, in the Settings Manager > Window Manager Tweaks > Accessibility Tab, change "Key used to grab and move windows" to "none" or something else. Several other selections (such as "Meta") may still use the "Alt" key, however, so test it first.
Before 4.4, edit ~/.config/xfce4/xfwm4/xfwm4rc to contain "easy_click=false".
Under GNOME 2, go to System > Preferences > Windows. You are presented with three options to move windows around: "Alt", "Ctrl" or "Super" (Windows logo key). Choose "Super".
Under GNOME 3, open a Terminal window and type:
gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier "<Super>"
fluxbox
Beginning from version 1.0rc2, fluxbox allows changing the key used for manipulating windows. To use windows logo key for this, open file ~/.fluxbox/init in a text editor and change line "session.modKey: Mod1" to "session.modKey: Mod4"
IceWM
If you have not already done so, create a local copy of the IceWM system preferences file. (Typically the system file is /usr/share/icewm/preferences and your local copy is ~/.icewm/preferences . Your mileage may vary.)
Edit your local copy as follows
# MouseWinMove="Alt+Pointer_Button1"
MouseWinMove="Alt+Pointer_Button2"
and change
# MouseWinRaise="Ctrl+Alt+Pointer_Button1"
MouseWinRaise="Ctrl+Alt+Pointer_Button2"
Save the preferences file and restart IceWM.
This rebinds the window manager functions to the middle button, which frees up Alt+click and Alt+drag with the left button for Inkscape.
I'm having problems with non-Latin filenames on Linux — help!
If your locale charset is not UTF-8, then you need to have this environment variable set:
$ G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
$ export G_BROKEN_FILENAMES
This is necessary for Glib filename conversion from the locale charset to UTF-8 (used in SVG) and back to work. Read more details.
How can I change Inkscape's interface language?
If you are using the 0.47 development snapshot, you can change it using a drop-down box in Inkscape Preferences -> Interface. It requires a restart to take effect. Here are the instructions for older versions:
First, type locale -a in the console
to find out, which locale settings are supported on your system and how they were written.
export LANGUAGE="C" in the commandline switches to the default language (English).
export LANGUAGE="de_DE.utf-8" changes the language to german. This command works only temporary. After a system restart the original locale is active. The
used locale has to be installed with Inkscape on your computer, else, Inkscape falls back to the default language.
Add a new locale (need root permissions):
Add an entry to /etc/locale.gen:
hu_HU ISO-8859-2
en_US ISO-8859-1
> locale-gen
> update-locale
Create a batch file in your Inkscape installation directory. Call it inkscape.bat.
Add the lines (replace with your LANG setting)
@set LANG=de_DE
@start inkscape.exe
Save and double-click to use it.
Using System Settings: Either delete the yyy language files, or change the language by setting the LANGUAGE environment variable.
A. Deleting the yyy language files
Beware, this changes the behaviour for all Inkscape users on this machine
1. Locate the installation directory.
2. Enter the Inkscape\locale directory
3. Locate the directory with the two letter locale you don't want to use.
4. Rename (or remove) this directory to something like disable_de or x_es
5. Restart Inkscape and the default English (en) locale will be used.
B. Setting the LANGUAGE environment variable
This probably only works when you have administrator rights on your computer.
1. Go to the control panel, double-click on "System".
2. Select the "Advanced" tab, and press the "Environment variables" button.
3. You can either add the "LANGUAGE" variable to the current user or to all users (system variables). Press the "New" button and enter "LANGUAGE" as the variable name, and "C" as value if you want to select the default language (English) or, for example, "de" if you want to set the language to German.
Inkscape does not see some of the fonts (Windows)
This was a bug in versions of Inkscape up to 0.43, caused by using an obsolete font cache. This cache is stored in the file called .fonts.cache-1. This file may be in your Windows folder, or in your Temp folder, or in "My documents" folder, or in the folder listed in the $HOME environment variable. Use file search by name to locate this file. Then simply delete this file and restart Inkscape; now it will see the new fonts.
If you are using 0.44 or 0.45 then OpenType/PostScript and Type1 fonts are not supported (this is a side-effect of the method used to fix the previous bug).
The issues with OpenType/PostScript and Type 1 fonts have been fixed in Inkscape 0.46.
Windows internally supports several different types of font:
Bitmap and vector fonts (red "A" icon) will never be supported by Inkscape because they are too simple to be useful for drawing. They're generally used on-screen only.
TrueType fonts (blue/gray "TT" icon) are fully supported
Type1 fonts (red "a" with shadow icon) are fully supported since 0.46
OpenType fonts (green/black "O" icon) come in two subtypes: TrueType outlines and PostScript outlines. To tell the difference, double click the font file from Control Panel, Fonts and read the second line of text. TrueType outlines are fully supported. PostScript outlines are fully supported since 0.46.
Bolding has no effect on some fonts
Some fonts are available with in an unique, "normal" variant, i.e., no italics or bold. Nonetheless, Inkscape currently displays four styles available for them: Normal, Italics, Bold, Bold Italics. Italics is correctly faked by inclining the font, but bolding cannot be faked at this point. Since the font file does not have a Bold variant, the result would likely be of poor quality, anyway. You should rather consider using a font with a real Bold variant.
On Linux, Inkscape crashes with "invalid pointer" message
If your Inkscape crashes on start with the error message that looks like
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x086143b0 ***
this is caused by GCC versions incompatibility which affects C++ applications. Your Inkscape is compiled by a different version of GCC than the C++ libraries it uses. Recompile either Inkscape itself or its C++ libraries (libstdc++, libsigc++, libglibmm and libgtkmm) with the single GCC version and the problem will go away.
How do I turn off system beep on Windows when backspace is pressed at start of field?
When backspace is used at start of field Inkscape produces annoying system sound/beep, The behavior is confirmed on Windows XP and 2000 with Inkscape up to 0.46. On Windows XP this can be turned off in a following way (requires administration rights):
Right-click on My Computer
On the Hardware tab, click on [Device Manager]
On the "View" menu, select "Show hidden devices"
Under "Non-Plug and Play Drivers", right-click "Beep"
Click "Disable"
Answer [Yes] when asked if you really want to disable it
Answer [No] when asked if you want to reboot
Right-click "Beep" again.
Click "Properties"
On the "Driver" tab, set the Startup type to Disabled
Click [Stop]
Click [OK]
The procedure is obtained from the How-To Geek site.
Please note that this is Windows system-wide setting, and it affects other programs as well. On Windows 2000 the steps may vary a bit. Last 6 steps (steps 8-13) are important, since steps 1-7 do not turn off the system beep in Inkscape (but may turn it off somewhere else).
Mac OS X specific issues
How can I make the Alt key work ?
If you find yourself unable to use Inkscape functions that require the alt key (i.e., option key) such as Alt+D to create a clone or Alt+Click to select under, you will need to turn off the "Emulate three button mouse" under the Input Preferences for X11.
Recent X11/Xquartz versions (≥ 2.5.1) have a new GUI option in the preferences dialog to make the option/alt key work like a real Alt modifier instead of Mode_switch (X11 Preferences > Input > Option keys send Alt_L and Alt_R). Changing this setting will have the downside of no longer being able to input diacritic and other special characters via keyboard in X11-based applications because both option keys will be changed. See below for a more fine-grained solution.
If you still cannot get it to work you can try using a keyboard mapping file for X11 (the environment Inkscape is running in) called an xmodmap (keyboard modifier map and keymap table). Open a terminal and type
touch .Xmodmap
This will create a new text file called ".Xmodmap" in your home directory. The period before the actual file name "Xmodmap" causes the file to stay hidden within the Finder.
Now open the file by typing
open .Xmodmap
and paste the following into the newly created file:
keycode 66 = Alt_L
This defines the left option key as alt within all X11 applications, enabling Alt based shortcuts. You need to re-start X11 to see the change.
The right option key stays the same though, so you cannot use it as Alt, but you can still use it to type special characters such as é, ß or \ on non-US keyboards (which is Shift+Option+7 on a German keyboard for example). It makes typing those letters more cumbersome, but one (unfortunately) has to determine which of the two functionalities is needed most for one's daily business.
How can I make keyboard shortcuts work with Command instead of Control ?
Inkscape runs under X11 and is originally a Linux app, so all keyboard shortcuts are based on Control and not Command as in OS X. For example, Copy is ⌃C and not ⌘C. You can use an ".Xmodmap" file to switch the behaviours of Control and Command in X11 applications. See above how to create and open the .Xmodmap file. Then paste this inside:
! Switch meta and control
keycode 67 = Meta_L
keycode 63 = Control_L
keycode 71 = Control_R
clear mod2
clear control
add mod2 = Meta_L
add control = Control_L Control_R
Finally, in X11, make sure that the option "Enable key equivalents in X11" is unchecked and restart X11. Now ⌘C should copy, ⌘V paste etc.
How do I change the interface language ?
Inkscape should follow the settings in System Preferences > International. If it does not that is a bug and you should report it. Alternatively, starting with Inkscape 0.47, you can change the language for Inkscape only in Inscape's preferences > Interface. Inkscape needs to be restarted for the change to take effect.
I've installed Inkscape in some subfolder of "Applications" on OS X, but Inkscape does not run
Inkscape cannot be run from a folder containing strange characters in its name (such as /, ƒ, &, etc.) so if the subfolder you installed Inkscape in contains one of those, either change its name to something more conventional (spaces and accented characters are ok) or move Inkscape to "Applications".
Copying and pasting in Inkscape creates pixellated images instead of copying the vector objects
Starting with XQuartz 2.3.2, X11 has some functionality to exchange the content of the clipboard with OS X. It currently does not know how to deal with vector images, so it just captures the screen, i.e., creates a bitmap copy, and then pastes that. You need to deactivate this functionality in X11 preferences > Pasteboard: uncheck "Update Pasteboard when CLIPBOARD changes". However, this will also prevent copying text from any X11 application to Mac OS X ones. It will not prevent copying text from OS X to X11.
When you just want to make a copy of an object within Inkscape, you can also use duplicate (Ctrl-D) rather than copy/paste (Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V) — Duplicate does not interact with the X11/OSX clipboards. For other Inkscape commands involving the system clipboards (e.g., Paste Style, Paste Size or Paste Path in path effects) there is no alternative workaround other than changing the X11/XQuartz preferences as described above.
Inkscape fails to launch on OS X 10.8 and later
Apple no longer includes X11/Xquartz with OS X
The first time you try to launch an X11-based application on OS X 10.8 or later, the system will notify you that you need to install XQuartz first, and will provide a link to the official download site for XQuartz.
Note: To complete the installation of XQuartz, it is required to logout and log back in again (or to reboot the system). It is also recommended to reinstall XQuartz after a system upgrade.
About X11 and OS X (Apple Support)
XQuartz Homepage
Apple's new GateKeeper security feature may prevent Inkscape from opening
When trying to run the newly installed application for the first time on OS X 10.8 or later, you may get prompted with a warning message saying that '"Inkscape" can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer»' (or possibly '"Inkscape" is damaged and can't be opened»' ).
If this happens, you can either (temporarily) lower the default security settings system-wide:
Launch System Preferences from the Apple menu
Choose “Security & Privacy” and then click the “General” tab, followed by clicking the lock icon in the corner to unlock the settings
Look for “Allow applications downloaded from:” and choose “Anywhere”
Accept the security warning and allow
You can now launch any app from any location or developer
or bypass the stricter GateKeeper rules on a per-application basis:
In the Finder, right-click (or control-click) the application in question and choose "Open"
Click the "Open" button at the next dialog warning to launch the app anyway
Related links: OS X: About Gatekeeper (Apple Support), Tip on osxdaily.com
Contributing to Inkscape
How can I help the Inkscape project?
If you are a developer, grab the code and start hacking on whatever draws your attention. Send in a patch when you're happy with it and ready to share your efforts with others. We also need writers and translators for the user manual and interface internationalization (I18N) files.
We take contributions very seriously and follow the principle of "patch first, discuss later", so it is highly likely your efforts will appear in the development codebase swiftly. There are, of course, rules and standards that must be followed, but we try to keep them unsurprising and obvious.
Are there non-coding ways to help?
Certainly! While there is certainly a lot of coding work to be done, there are also a lot of other non-programming tasks needed to make the project successful:
Bug wrangling and testing
Identifying and characterizing bugs can help a HUGE amount by reducing the amount of development time required to fix them.
Find and report bugs. This is a critical need for ensuring the quality of the code.
Review and verify reported bugs. Sometimes the bug reports don't have enough info, or are hard to reproduce. Try seeing if the bug occurs for you too, and add details to the description.
Performance Testing — Create SVG's that stress out Inkscape, and post them as test cases to the Inkscape bug tracker, with your time measurements.
Compatibility Testing. Compare the rendering of SVG's in Inkscape with other apps like Batik and Cairo, and report differences found (to both projects).
Bug prioritization. Bugs that are marked priority "5" are new bugs. Review them and set them to high/medium/low priority according to their severity. See Updating Tracker Items in Wiki for details.
Helping fellow users
In addition to making a good drawing application, it's also extremely important to us to build a good community around it; you can help us achieve this goal directly, by helping other users. Above all, keep in mind that we want to maintain Inkscape's community as a nice, polite place; so encourage good behavior through your own interactions with others in the group.
Write tutorials. If something isn't already documented in a tutorial, write up a description of how to use it.
Participate on inkscape-user@. Answer questions that pop up on the mailing list from other users. Also, share your tips and tricks, and demo new ways of using Inkscape for cool stuff.
Create clipart. You can upload it to the openclipart.org project.
Give Inkscape classes. Teach people local to you about using Inkscape. Or give presentations at local events, Linux group meetings, etc. about Inkscape (and other Open Source art tools).
Development (no coding needed)
Translations. Information on how to create translations for the interface is available on the Translation Information page in Wiki.
Design Icons and SVG themes. Create new icons for existing themes or start a new icon theme. Also see librsvg.sf.net
Mockup new dialogs. Draw up ideas for improving or adding dialogs. These are handy to the user interface developers for figuring out what to do.
Improve packaging. Figure out how to make the package for your operating system or Linux distribution install and work better. See Creating Dists in Wiki.
Add extensions. For file input/output, special features, etc. Inkscape is able to tie into external programs. Create new .inx files to hook these up for use in Inkscape. Also, if you're comfortable scripting in Perl, Python, etc. have a shot at improving the extensions, too!
Add source code documentation The source code needs even the simplest documentation in some places. Documenting functions will certainly help the next coder.
Create templates. See the Inkscape share/templates directory.
Work in Wiki. Wiki is a great place for gathering development information, but always needs updating, copyediting, and elaboration.
Plan future development. Review and help update the Roadmap in Wiki. Basically, talk with developers about what they're working on, planning to work on, or recently finished, and update the roadmap accordingly.
Spread the word — Inkscape Marketing and Evangelism
Increasing the size of the userbase is important. The network effects of more interested users means more potential contributors and hopefully people saying nice things about us, and giving Inkscape word of mouth advertising which we believe is important. All our users and developers serve as ambassadors for Inkscape and others will judge Inkscape based on how well we behave. It is important that we all be polite and friendly and make Inkscape a project people like using and enjoy working on, all other evangelism follows on naturally from there. Generally though for building the community we prefer quality over quantity so be careful not to go too overboard with evangelizing or the "hard sell". We want to work with other applications, rather than "killing" off other software and such comments are counter productive. We need to manage expectations. We want users to be pleasantly surprised by how much Inkscape does, not disappointed that it does not match other programs feature for feature. Inkscape should be thought of as providing artists another way to be creative which complements their existing skills and tools.
Write Articles. Get articles published in various online (or even printed) magazines and blogs. Don't forget to include a link to Inkscape!
Create Screenshots. Especially for new features.
Create Examples. Examples are useful for showcasing different ways Inkscape can be used. Create some screenshots and text, and submit to the Web wranglers (via the inkscape-devel mailing list) to add to the site.
Work on the Website. Help on the website is ALWAYS appreciated. Knowledge of HTML is required; PHP know-how is helpful. Check out the website code from the Bazaar repository and send patches, or request direct Bazaar and shell access for doing on-going work.
Give presentations. Give talks at expos, symposia, and other big events about Inkscape. Be sure to announce it on an Inkscape mailing list so we can post it to the Inkscape Web site.
Recruit more developers. Find people with an interest in doing coding, and encourage them to work on Inkscape.
Where can I get a banner for Inkscape?
http://www.inkscape.org/images/inkscape_80x15.png
Feel free to contribute your own banners or buttons for promoting Inkscape. The best ones will be linked here.
How can I avoid causing a flamewar on the mailing list?
Inkscape prides itself on maintaining a friendly community that is passionate about Inkscape. Each member arrives here with some definite ideas about what would make an excellent SVG editor. When these ideas are discussed and some folks start taking firm positions, it is easy for arguments to get out of hand and become unproductive (possibly even driving valuable contributors away from the project).
Here are some tips for effectively communicating in the Inkscape community
1) Make your argument first and foremost without comparison. Really great features can stand on their own and are obviously great from the use cases users give. Most often comparisons won't strengthen your case. In fact they can often weaken your case because there is a built up resistance to this bandwagon sort of reasoning. Many people use Inkscape to escape from the software you want to compare it with. :-)
2) Don't assume that developers, users and industry professionals are mutually exclusive groups. Itch driven development means quite the opposite. Developers are users developing the software for their own uses. Some developers are industry professionals using Inkscape for their livelihood daily. This also means that arguments that start with generalizations about user wants and expectations have to struggle against the fact that the users are developing the software the way they want it.
3) Don't assume that resistance to your idea indicates rampant disregard for non-developer-users needs and wants. Many of the developers spend large amounts of time conversing with users in person, on IRC and on the mailing list. We know when issues are important because we can hear the consensus. As anecdotal evidence most of the features I have coded have been in direct response to the needs and requests of users who came with polite and persistent concerns.
Indeed, since Inkscape developers typically judge by user consensus, an effective way to prove a point is to show a pattern of demand for the change from a range of users, or to demonstrate how your change will satisfy a large number of user requests. (This isn't to say that what the unwashed masses ask for is always correct, but there are generally strong correlations.)
4) Street cred is earned, not demanded. :-) This is just a hard fact about community life. The project needs contributors to live and thrive, and everyone loves seeing new blood getting involved, and will bend over backwards to help. The more you involve yourself; the more you give of your own blood, sweat and tears, the more the community will respond to you. The great part is that simple contributions really do matter.
Remember Inkscape's slogan, "Patch first, discuss later." This is not just an aphorism; oftentimes the principles in an argument won't really understand all the factors until they can see the thing in practice, even if just a mockup or prototype. Presenting your ideas as a patch also bypasses the concern that others are going to have to put in the labor to implement the ideas.
5) Always remember we all share common goals. If nothing else, we all want to see Inkscape made better. When a discussion feels like it's starting to get hot, it's time for the arguers to seek areas of agreement, and focus on those.
SVG topics
Are Inkscape's SVG documents valid SVG?
Yes. Inkscape does not yet support all features of SVG, but all files it generates are valid SVG (with the partial and temporary exception of flowed text, see below). All standard-conformant SVG renderers show them the same as in Inkscape. If they do not, it's a bug. If this bug is in Inkscape, we will fix it (especially if you help us by reporting it!).
What about flowed text?
When flowed text support was added to Inkscape, it was conformant to the then-current unfinished draft of SVG 1.2 specification (and was always described as an experimental feature). Unfortunately, in further SVG 1.2 drafts, the W3C decided to change the way this feature is specified. Currently SVG 1.2 is still not finished, and as a result, very few SVG renderers currently implement either the old or the new syntax of SVG 1.2 flowed text. So, technically, Inkscape SVG files that use flowed text are not valid SVG 1.1, and usually cause problems (errors or just black boxes with no text).
However, due to the utility of this much-requested feature, we decided to leave it available to users. When the final SVG 1.2 specification is published, we will change our flowed text implementation to be fully conformant to it, and will provide a way to migrate the older flowed text objects to the new format.
Until that is done, however, you should not use flowed text in documents that you intend to use outside of Inkscape. Flowed text is created by clicking and dragging in the Text tool, while simple click creates plain SVG 1.1 text; so, if you don't really need the flowing aspect, just use click to position text cursor instead of dragging to create a frame. If, however, you really need flowed text, you will have to convert it to regular (non-flowed) text by the "Convert to text" command in the Text menu. This command fully preserves the appearance and formatting of your flowed text, but makes it non-flowed and SVG 1.1-compliant.
What, then, is "Inkscape SVG" as opposed to "Plain SVG" when saving a document?
Inkscape SVG files use the Inkscape namespace to store some extra information used by the program. Other SVG programs will not understand these extensions, but this is alright, because the extensions only affect how the document is edited, not how it looks. Extensions must not cause any rendering problems in SVG-compliant renderers. However, some non-compliant renderers may have trouble with the presence of the extensions, or you may want to save some space by dropping the Inkscape information (if you're not planning to edit the file in Inkscape again). This is what the "Plain SVG" option is provided for.
What SVG features does Inkscape implement?
The main parts of SVG that Inkscape does not support yet are some of the filters (most are supported as of 0.46), animation (work on it is in planning stages) and SVG fonts (implementation work is under way). The rest mostly works, though of course there are bugs that we're always fixing. For a comparison of Inkscape and other open source SVG tools on the W3C SVG test suite, look here.
I have a hand-created SVG. Will everything be messed up if I load and save it with Inkscape?
Inkscape strives to avoid changing the SVG just because it does not recognize some of the SVG elements, but it does make changes:
All objects will get unique "id" attributes. If already existing and unique, they will be preserved, otherwise one will be derived from node name.
Some sodipodi: and inkscape: namespaced metadata will be added to the beginning of document.
If you edit a gradient, that gradient will be broken up into two linked gradients — one defining color vector, another one position.
Changing any style property forces reconstructing of the whole "style" attribute, which means CSS (not XML) comments will be lost and formatting of CSS may change.
The formatting style of the SVG file will be changed to follow the style hardcoded into Inkscape.
There is ongoing work to allow Inkscape to better preserve hand-created SVG markup, but it is a very difficult task requiring a lot of infrastructure work and will happen very gradually, but help is always appreciated.
Inkscape and renderer X show my SVGs differently. What to do?
That depends on X. We accept Batik and Adobe SVG plugin as authoritative SVG renderers because they are backed by some of the the authors of the SVG standard and really care about compliance. This may not be true for other renderers. So if you are having a problem with some renderer, please try the same file with either Batik or Adobe, or better yet, with both (they are free and cross-platform). If you still see a discrepancy with Inkscape rendering, we want to look into it. Please submit a bug; don't forget to attach a sample of the problem file to the bug report, and ideally include screenshots too.
Viewing SVG files like an image archive
The following may be used to view/preview files:
Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com/). Plugin is required, thumbnails available, but may display inaccurately.
Opera (http://www.opera.com). The browser can be used to open files.
Renesis Player (http://www.examotion.com)
Adobe SVG (MS IE plugin)
Others: Batik, webkit
Depending on which type of viewing will match your need, eg if zooming, quick preview, quick launch, thumbnail gallery ... will affect which is most suited to you. Additional feature comments, editors welcome!
Inkscape and other programs
Why is Inkscape so different from Adobe Illustrator?
In many cases, this is simply because the feature in question is not yet implemented, or is being actively worked on. There are other reasons, too. Adobe Illustrator is not the only game in town. Even though it currently enjoys a near-monopoly position, there still exist, for example, CorelDraw and Xara — which are also quite different and, in the opinion of many people, superior to Adobe Illustrator in usability. Inkscape has borrowed many user interface ideas from these fine editors. It has also added many new tools and interface elements of its own. We take usability very seriously, and we often knowingly depart from the Adobe Illustrator paradigms because we consider our approaches better. If you came from Adobe Illustrator and are having trouble with Inkscape, please read (and maybe eventually contribute to) the Inkscape for Adobe Illustrator users document on our Wiki.
Is Inkscape a replacement for The GIMP or Adobe Photoshop?
In most cases, no. They're used for two very different things. Inkscape is used for creating vector drawings, such as laying out a poster or creating a fancy logo, whereas bitmap editors are for working on raster images, such as touching up a photograph. In many projects, you would need to use both Inkscape and a bitmap editor (such as GIMP), for example, to add bitmap effects to an image exported from Inkscape.
However, currently bitmap editors are often used for common tasks they are not well equipped for, such as creating Web page layouts, logos, or technical line art. In most cases, this is because users are not aware of the power (or even the existence) of the modern vector editors. Inkscape wants to amend this situation, and to raise a vector editor to the status of an essential desktop tool for everyone, rather than an exotic specialized tool that only professionals use.
Why did Inkscape split from Sodipodi?
Inkscape started as a code fork of Sodipodi. The main reasons were differences in objectives and in development approach. Inkscape's objective is to be a fully compliant SVG editor, whereas for Sodipodi SVG is more a means-to-an-end of being a vector illustration tool. Inkscape's development approach emphasizes open developer access to the codebase, as well as using and contributing back to 3rd party libraries and standards such as HIG, CSS, etc. in preference to custom solutions. Reusing existing shared solutions helps developers to focus on the core work of Inkscape.
For background, it may also be worth reviewing Lauris' Sodipodi direction post from Oct 2003, and his thoughts on SVG, licensing, and the value of splitting the project into two independent branches.
What's the difference between Inkscape and Dia?
Dia is for technical diagrams like database charts, class diagrams, etc., whereas Inkscape is for vector drawing such as logos, posters, scalable icons, etc.
SVG is a useful format for creating diagrams, though, so we hope as Inkscape grows as a fully-featured SVG editor, it will also be useful for making attractive diagrams, too. Several of us hope Inkscape will become a useful technical drawing tool and work on features with that goal in mind. However, Dia provides a number of useful capabilities, such as support for UML, autogeneration of diagrams, etc. that are well beyond the scope of a general SVG editor. Ideally, both Inkscape and Dia can share various bits of code infrastructure and third party libraries.
Is this intended to replace Flash?
While SVG is often identified as a "Flash replacement", SVG has a huge range of other uses outside that of vector animation. Replacing Flash is not one of Inkscape's primary intents. If SVG can replace Flash, and Inkscape can help, that's great, but there's a lot more to SVG than Web animation that is worth exploring. (See also SMIL)
Will Inkscape be part of the Gnome-Office?
Inkscape will need to mature a bit further before this can be considered. Specifically, better support for embedding (Bonobo) is needed, and the Gnome-Print subsystem needs to be tested more thoroughly (help very much appreciated here). If you can compile a recent version of Inkscape and help us with testing it would be very useful.
What formats can Inkscape import/export?
Inkscape natively supports opening or importing SVG, SVGZ (gzipped SVG), PDF, and AI (Adobe Illustrator) formats.
With the help of extensions, Inkscape can open a number other vector formats. For importing PostScript or EPS, you need to install Ghostscript and make sure ps2pdf is in your PATH. For formats of Dia, XFig, or Sketch, you need to have these programs installed. For CorelDraw, CGM, and SK1 files, you need to have UniConverter installed.
Inkscape can natively import most raster formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc.) as bitmap images, but it can only export PNG bitmaps.
Inkscape can save as SVG, SVGZ, PDF, Postscript/EPS/EPSi, LaTeX (*.tex), POVRay (*.pov), HPGL, and others.
Inkscape v0.46 and earlier supported export to the Adobe Illustrator version 8.0 file format which is a modified form of the EPS level 2 format. This support has been removed since Adobe Illustrator versions 10 (2001) and later can directly import SVG files. This is a better solution as the quality of the Adobe Illustrator export was poor. [2]
See FileTypes for discussion about file formats that people would like to see supported, and third-party tools that can be used to convert files to or from SVG.
Can I open/import *.cdr (Corel Draw Vector drawing file) files in Inkscape?
You can use the UniConvertor for converting CDR files and some other formats to SVG. In Inkscape 0.46, there's an input extension that will allow you to open or import CDR files directly from Inkscape if you have UniConvertor installed on your system.
If you can't run UniConvertor, you can try this workaround:
Open the CDR file in Corel Draw. Save it as binary encoded CGM* file. It will save only vector graphics. It will not save bitmap graphics.
Open the CGM file in OpenOffice Impress. Copy to Open Office Draw and insert original JPG or another bitmap graphics. Save file as ODG And you can continue in Open Office Draw program.)
Select all (CTRL+A)
Export as SVG.
Open SVG file in Inkscape and correct mistakes if they appear.
Note: OpenOffice will open only binary encoded CGM files in Impress. If the CGM is encoded using clear-text encoding, it will be opened in OpenOfice Writer, thus rendering the next steps invalid.
I exported an SVG file from Adobe Illustrator, edited it in Inkscape, and imported back to AI, but there my changes are lost!
That's because Adobe cheats. It creates a valid SVG, but apart from the SVG code it also writes to the file, in encoded binary form, the entire AI-format source file of the image. Inkscape, of course, edits the SVG part of the image and leaves the encoded binary untouched. However, when you import the SVG file back to Adobe Illustrator, it completely disregards the SVG code with its edits and reads directly from the encoded Adobe Illustrator binary. Therefore, any SVG changes are lost. To work around it, in Inkscape open the XML Editor and remove the non-SVG elements (everything not with the svg: prefix in its name, usually towards the end of the tree). If you need to do this job repeatedly you may consider using some XSLT-based automation. Alternatively, when exporting SVG from Illustrator, uncheck the options "Preserve Adobe Illustrator Editing" and "Optimize for Adobe SVG viewer".
What are Inkscape's development goals?
Inkscape wants to be a complete SVG-compliant vector graphics editor. Apart from standards compliance, our primary goals are stability, performance, state of the art vector graphics features, and an efficient and innovative user interface.
Upon what programming language and toolkit is Inkscape built?
The codebase Inkscape inherited from Sodipodi was C/Gtk based. There is an ongoing effort to convert the codebase to C++/Gtkmm. The ultimate goal is to simplify the code and make it more maintainable. We invite you to join us. Just don't mention Qt. :)
What is your position on code sharing with other projects?
Yes, sharing of code libraries with other projects is highly desirable, provided the right conditions exist. A good candidate for a library will be mature, widely distributed, well documented, and actively maintained. It should not introduce massive dependency problems for end-users and should be stable, powerful, and lightweight. It should strive to do one thing, and do it well. Libraries that don't meet all the criteria will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
How do I create an Inkscape extension?
You don't need to know much, if anything, about Inkscape internals to create a useful extension. Aaron Spike, the author of most of the Python extensions that come with Inkscape, wrote a helpful Web page /bad link/ (including a series of tutorials) on creating extensions in Python (Perl and Ruby are also supported).
What is a good way to get familiar with the code?
You can start with the Doxygen documentation. There you can find not only the usual Doxygen stuff, but also different categorized views into the inkscape source.
In the Documentation section of the Inkscape website you can find some high-level diagrams and links to other documentation that's been produced such as the man page. Historically, this codebase has not been kept well documented so expect to find many areas where the only recourse is to work through the code itself. However, we place importance on working to change this, and to flesh out the documentation further as we go.
Some developers have found that testing patches is a good way to quickly get exposure to the code, as you see how other developers have approached making changes to the codebase. Other developers like to pick an interesting feature request (or perhaps a feature wish of their own) and focus on figuring out how to implement it. Occasionally we also have large scale grunt-work type changes that need to be applied to the codebase, and these can be easy ways to provide significant contributions with very little experience.
Getting beyond initial exposure, to the next stage of understanding of the codebase, is challenging due to the lack of documentation, but with some determination it can be done. Some developers find that fixing a crash bug by tracing execution through the various subsystems, brings good insights into program flow. Sometimes it is educational to start from an interesting dialog box and tracing function calls in the code. Or perhaps to start with the SVG file loader and follow the flow into and through the parser. Other developers have found that writing inline comments into the code files to be highly useful in gaining understanding of a particular area, with the fringe benefit of making that bit of code easy for future developers to pick up, too.
Once you feel far enough up the learning curve, implementing features will firm up your experience and understanding of the codebase. Be certain to also write test cases and documentation, as this will be of great help to future developers and thus ensure the longevity of the codebase.
What rendering engine does Inkscape use?
Currently, Inkscape uses a renderer called livarot. We plan to migrate to Cairo when it is mature enough. In 0.46, Cairo is already used for Outline mode.
What is the development platform?
Most developers work on Linux. However, it is also possible to compile Inkscape on Windows; this page provides detailed instructions for this as well as for cross-compiling Windows binaries on Linux.
What is the Linux command to download the code through Bazaar?
Generic directions are under the Bazaar link on the Inkscape home page.
How are feature requests selected for implementing?
Many developers become involved because they wish to "scratch an itch", so of course if they wish to work on a particular feature, then by definition that one will receive implementational attention. This is the primary mechanism by which features get implemented.
Inkscape also strives to take user requests for features seriously, especially if they're easy to do or mesh with what one of the existing developers already wants to do, or if the user has helped the project in other ways.
If you have a feature that you'd really like to see implemented, but others aren't working on, the right thing to do is delve into the code and develop it yourself. We put great importance on keeping the development process open and straightforward with exactly this in mind.
I'd prefer the interface to look like ...
Understandably, many users are accustomed to other programs, such as Illustrator, the GIMP, etc., and would prefer Inkscape to follow them in design. Inkscape developers are constantly examining other projects and on the look for better interface ideas. A large motivation is to make the application follow the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), which has a number of rules in how the interface is made. The Inkscape developers also seek advice and ideas from other GUI app designers, such as the GIMP crew, AbiWord, and Gnumeric; they've been at it longer and we view them as an excellent source of battle tested experience.
Please understand that the Inkscape interface will, at the end of the day, be the "Inkscape interface". We will strive to find our own balance of compatibility with common drawing programs, wishes of our user base, good workflow, creativity of our developers, and compliance with user interface guidelines. It's unlikely that this balance will meet every user's wish, or achieve 100% compliance with the various platform-specific Interface Guidelines, or include every developer's idea, and if it did it probably wouldn't be as good. ;-)
Usually when we discuss interface look and feel, we arrive at the conclusion that, really, it should be configurable so that each user can flip a few switches and get an app that is most cozy to them. However, flexibility should not be used as an excuse not to make tough decisions when they are called for.
Under what license is Inkscape released?
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 [3]. In short, this means you are free to use and distribute Inkscape for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without any restrictions. You are also free to modify the program as you wish, but with the only restriction that if you distribute the modified version, you must provide access to the source code of the distributed version.
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Russia to provide advanced air defenses to Syria
A Russian S-300 interceptor is launched. (Tasnim news)
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Russia will supply Syria with the sophisticated S-300 air defense system, ignoring Israel’s request not to do so.
By: AP and World Israel News Staff
The Russian military has indicated it will supply the Syrian government with an advanced air defense system, to the chagrin of Israel, which requested Russia not take this step.
Col. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi said in a statement Wednesday that Russia will supply Syria with “new missile defense systems soon.”
Rudskoi did not specify the type of weapons, but his remarks follow reports in the Russian media that Moscow is considering providing its S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Syria.
Top Russian officials said earlier this month that Moscow may reconsider a pledge it gave a decade ago not to provide Syria with the S-300 system in light of airstrikes on Syria earlier this month carried out by a US-led coalition and reportedly by Israel’s Air Force (IAF) in a separate incident.
Russia is a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has issued a stern warning to Russia over the deployment of the advanced S-300 systems in Syria, declaring that Israel would view such a deployment as crossing a red line and would destroy the systems.
Russian defense officials warned Israel that if it “decides to carry out rocket strikes on the deployment locations of the S-300, the consequences will be catastrophic for all sides.”
The S-300 is one of the most advanced air defense systems in the world, designed to intercept aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles and would significantly upgrade Syria’s defensive capabilities.
Israel is very concerned about Syria having such systems and Jerusalem made an effort to convince Russia not to provide them to Syria because it would make a successful air strike against targets Israel deems a threat much more difficult and dangerous to achieve.
Former Minister of Defense Moshe Ya’alon has downplayed the S-300 capability. “Any system that the opposing side equips itself with poses a challenge. [However], any system created by man can be overcome by man, and I am glad we have an outstanding military industry,” he said in 2015.
Russia has provided Iran with such systems in recent years.
RussiaS-300Syria
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CloudMade
Navigating Africa With OpenStreetMap
Posted on December 15, 2018 10:41 am by Alex Bradshaw
OpenStreetMap, the free and open collaborative map of the world, just got a major boost with some very capable routing directions across Africa. This is demonstrated with driving directions from Cape Town to Ethiopia using CloudMade, a service that provides access to tools and APIs for building mobile- and web-based applications using OpenStreetMap data. You can view the map here or by clicking the image below.
Bing Maps falls just short of this mark, but calculates a slightly shorter route from Cape Town to Nairobi, routed through Zimbabwe. Google Maps, despite getting a massive update for Africa recently, currently lacks route finding capabilities in Africa over any distance that I could find, including intra-city trips and short hauls between major cities in the same country.
CloudMade announced that partner Nutiteq has just released new mobile libraries for Blackberry and Android, two leading mobile platforms. These libraries enable mobile access to a full range of CloudMade services including custom image tiles, geosearch and routing like the demonstration above.
Why OpenStreetMap?
This is significant because OpenStreetMap data is free and open, and CloudMade’s founders Steve Coast, Nick Black and their development team all share a strong commitment to using open source software and open data. By contrast, Google and Bing maps rely on proprietary, copyrighted data licensed by big mapping companies such as NAVTEQ and Tele Atlas that is protected by restrictive terms of service (TOS) agreements.
This may not sound like a big deal, particularly if the Google Maps API can be incorporated into open source projects. But this only governs how you use the software, not the data—which is still under copyright. The latter comes into play if you attempt to cache image tiles (useful for offline mapping) or want to use bulk feeds of latitude and longitude coordinates.
Free, collaborative maps are indispensable in humanitarian work, especially in places where base map data is often scarce and out of date. OpenStreetMap recognizes this, and has formed the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) to apply the principles of open source and open data sharing towards humanitarian response and economic development. By using rapid, internet based collaboration (or crowd-sourcing), OpenStreetMap is able to create highly detailed maps with routing information for conflict zones like the Palestine Gaza Strip where incomplete or inaccurate maps existed before. Maps of these kinds are useful for NGOs, journalists, aid agencies and citizens equipped with crisis mapping applications like Ushahidi, which fully supports OpenStreetMap data.
When deployed on a mobile platform running the Android OS and using OpenStreetMap data together with CloudMade’s API, a truly open, end-to-end solution is a reality.
From the home office
Quick Hits for Oct 11
Who makes good acoustic electric guitars?
Why I Blog About Africa
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New Hampshire, United States Genealogy
Guide to New Hampshire genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.
New Hampshire Wiki Topics
New Hampshire Background
The FamilySearch moderator for New Hampshire is Jabhammons
New Hampshire Information
New Hampshire is a state in the northeast part of the United States. It is divided into 10 counties. New Hampshire was the 9th State to join the Union on June 21, 1788. It was created from the Crown Colony of New Hampshire. The Capital city is Concord. [1]
Getting Started with New Hampshire Research
Links to articles on getting started with New Hampshire research.
How to Find Birth Records
How to Find Marriage Records
How to Find Death Records
New Hampshire Research Tools
Links to articles and websites that assist in United States research.
Step-by-Step New Hampshire Research, 1880-Present
Boundary Changes Maps
NHGenWeb
Geographical Names Information System - U.S. gazetteer of places, cemeteries and post offices in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire Online Genealogy Records
New Hampshire Clickable Map
Genealogy records are kept on the county level in New Hampshire Click on a county below to go to the Wiki article listing more information.
Genealogy records are kept on the county level in New Hampshire. Click on a county below to go to the Wiki article listing more information.
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Extinct or Renamed Jurisdictions:
Dominion of New England Genealogy
Massachusetts Bay Colony Genealogy
Norfolk (old)
New Hampshire Migration Routes
Connecticut River · Merrimack River · Saco River · Kennebunk Road · King's Highway
FamilySearch Resources
Below are FamilySearch resources that can assist you in researching your family.
Facebook Communities - Facebook groups discussing genealogy research
Learning Center - Online genealogy courses
Family History Center locator map
Cyndi's List - New Hampshire genealogy sites on the internet
New Hampshire Genealogy Trails - collection of transcribed data for the state of New Hampshire
Access Genealogy – Genealogy guide for New Hampshire
Ancestorhunt.com - resources for New Hampshire genealogy research
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness - Guide to Ancestry and Family Tree Records for New Hampshire
New Hampshire Research Outline – Original Family History Library research outline; contains many out of date links
New Hampshire Genealogy and History website is an extensive guide which provides a clickable map taking you to detailed resources fThe New Hampshire State Papers is a 40 volume set of resources with information for New Hampshire researchers. It includes information about the founding of towns, early families, Revolutionary War service rolls, probate record abstracts (1635-1771), court records (1640-1692), and a multitude of other information valuable to the genealogist. To begin your search in this valuable resource click here.
The Statistics and Gazetteer of New Hampshire, 1875 has been scanned and is available online. This has an abundance of information on the early history of the state. Starting on page 47, it has a short description of every town in the state as it was in 1875. or every county in New Hampshire as well as many of the towns. It also provides links to online resources, maps, gazetteers, message boards, surname lists, vital records, land records, cemetery records and much more.
State of New Hampshire Archives and Records Management offers databases, transcribed records, and a social network for New Hampshire researchers.
New Hampshire County Creation Dates and Parent Counties
↑ Wikipedia contributors, "List of US States by Date of Admission," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_date_of_admission_to_the_Union, accessed 09/18/2016.
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Swedish model trades more disease for less economic damage
Peter Coy and Charles Daly
May 20, 2020 – 8.55am
Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell gave an interview via Zoom from a parked car on May 8. The hot pink cord of the earbuds plugged into his phone flapped distractingly in the foreground.
Before this year, it would’ve been hard to scare up 10 journalists to listen to him or any other epidemiologist, but Tegnell drew 450 reporters and other curious people from 60 countries. An additional 10,000 have since listened to the recording of the colloquy with Joyce Barnathan, president of the International Centre for Journalists.
Swedes have continued eating in restaurants, shopping, going to work, getting haircuts, and sending children under 16 to school. AP
The next few weeks or months will tell whether Tegnell’s strategy is brilliant or – as many experts outside of Sweden believe – benighted.
The Swedish government has deferred to him and his fellow scientists to set the rules for a relaxed semi-shutdown of Swedish society in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gatherings of more than 50 people are banned, but Swedes have continued eating in restaurants, shopping, going to work, getting haircuts, and sending children under 16 to school. Few Swedes wear masks.
Bloomberg Economics expects the economy to shrink 5.6 per cent in 2020, versus 8.1 per cent for the nations of the euro zone.
The downside to the strategy is that the virus has claimed a far higher percentage of lives in Sweden than in its neighbours that locked down.
The better the job countries did suppressing the first wave of infection, the greater their risk of a second wave.
As of May 10, Sweden had about 31 deaths per 100,000, versus Denmark with nine and Norway with four. (The US had 24 per 100,000.) Many of Sweden’s deaths were in nursing homes, which the government admits were poorly looked after. Prime Minister Stefan Lofven now says his government plans to spend about $US220 million ($342 million) to protect senior citizens.
Tegnell argues that the scales will tip: the better the job countries did suppressing the first wave of infection, the greater their risk of a second wave. He estimates that roughly 25 per cent of Swedes have been exposed.
The more people who are immune, the harder it is for the virus to spread; full herd immunity in a homogeneous population comes at 60 per cent or so.
It’s a very risky bet. The standard strategy, pioneered by China and replicated by the likes of South Korea and New Zealand, is to subject the population to extreme but temporary social distancing measures to drive down the number of active infections to the point where they can be kept to a minimum through testing, tracing, and quarantine.
It’s a costly strategy: The suppression phase devastates the economy, and the subsequent stamping-out-brush-fires phase requires ceaseless effort. In Seoul one 29-year-old man inadvertently infected dozens of people in a single evening when he visited a number of recently reopened bars and nightclubs.
The siren song of Sweden is that none of that is necessary. Trust your citizens to be prudent about social distancing and stay home if they’re sick. Keep the number of cases low enough so hospitals aren’t overwhelmed.
Isolate the most vulnerable while allowing the disease to spread gradually through the rest of the population, most of whom will get only mildly ill. That will increase resilience.
Such a strategy can be tolerated for years, in case that’s how long it takes for a vaccine and antiviral drugs to be developed.
“The Swedish strategy is sustainable for a long, long time,” Tegnell said in the interview.
If we are to reach a new normal, in many ways Sweden represents a future model.
— Michael Ryan, World Health Organisation
Polls of Swedes show strong support for Tegnell’s approach. One man got a tattoo of the epidemiologist on his arm.
“Sweden does not seem to be much worse off in terms of the spread of the virus than countries with stricter measures,” says Victoria Denie, owner of a clothing boutique outside Stockholm.
“This has been a tough spring for us Swedes, but it is acceptable.”
Michael Ryan, who runs the World Health Organisation’s health emergencies program, said on April 29 that “if we are to reach a new normal, in many ways Sweden represents a future model”.
Perhaps. But it’s too soon to declare the strategy a success, as even Tegnell concedes. Accepting more deaths in exchange for long-run sustainability won’t look so smart if a vaccine or effective treatment arrives soon.
Conversely, there’s no certainty that Sweden’s neighbours will have serious secondary flare-ups of infection – not if they master testing, tracing, and quarantine.
“If you want to put out a forest fire, it’s a lot better to start doing it when only a few square meters are burning than when thousands of hectares are in flames,” says Anders Vahlne, a professor of clinical virology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
The high death toll in nursing homes also sullies Sweden’s record. The government was slow to restrict visits to them.
Authorities in Stockholm emailed one on March 11 saying it had no legal right to bar visitors. Despite the new spending for senior citizens, the fact remains that nursing home workers live in the community and are liable to bring infections into their workplaces if the virus is on the loose.
Even if the relaxed attitude is right for Sweden, it might not be right for others. The country has a generally disease-resistant population and the world’s lowest rate of obesity, a condition that makes COVID-19 more deadly. Close to half of households in Stockholm are single-person, allowing for easier social distancing.
Tegnell isn’t budging.
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Posted by: Badalamenti Fan
I think OP's original point was that web forum discourse has ossified an orthodox intepretation ("Experiment" = "Mother") that shouldn't be assumed to be natural or self evident... I'm weary of/resistant to the perpetual search for systematic explanations of The Return (and, more generally, of the expectation that analytical percepts will yield formal truths about a given artwork).
But we can, of course, agree to disagree.
Yes, the original point was that and I think it's pretty obvious it was wrong. The ossification has occurred due to the plethora of evidence which supports that theory and has been pointed out. Whatever you think about Sarah Palmer's scenes in Season 3, and as you point out you can think a lot of things, it's pretty obvious she's isn't just depressed.
As far as your weariness with speculations about the evidence of the show I have to wonder what you expected to find on a forum dedicated to to discussing the show?
Yes, we can agree to disagree, if that isn't being too presumptuous that is. 🙂
Posted : 06/09/2017 4:15 pm
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Posted by: RocksEm
Nah, I'm keen to discuss why it's interesting and why it matters, above and beyond hearing folks assert what they believe to be true and insist upon it after legitimate scrutiny.
We do not, nor will not, know with any measure of certainty if Sarah = Mother = Experiment. But we can ask why Lynch doesn't tell us.... and that, for me, makes for an interesting discussion. It's where the conversation could go once we agree to disagree! : )
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Thank you OP. I too am tired and bored with the whole experiment mother hybrid. The mother was created by viewers and had no place in the show whatsoever. I hope we don't continue seeing finger pointing about who the mother is because it's irrelevant.
I don't agree that Sarah is Judy. If JUDY had been in the Palmer house with Leland then Bob & Judy have a long history. So why then would Mr.C who's been with Bob for 25 years not know who Judy is and want to find her.
I think the trucker attacked by Sarah is more evil than Sarah, he just doesn't have super power. That indicated to me Sarah COULD be the frog moth recipient. Sarah did nothing to indicate being the ultimate evil. She wouldn't have waited to attack him and asked him nicely if she were Judy.
The something in her kitchen to me is a big clue here. What's in the kitchen?
When the Tremonds were living next to Harold it didn't indicate anything about the nature of good/evil in the true homeowners, or in Harold. I don't think them answering the door meant that Sarah is Judy.
Sarah definitely didn't come out of that box in New York either.
alan77ss
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I think Sarah is possessed by Judy/the experiment, but i'm not convinced it has anything to do with the bug in episode 8 (the bug, i think, is Bob possessing his first victim - aided by the woodsmen, who also aid him later on). The possession could have happened more recently (Judy escapes through the glass box into the real world, in episode 1, and is possibly attracted to Sarah because of her connection to Bob, Laura and her pain and sorrow).
There are two things here:
1. As stated above; she's possessed by something that attacks the trucker in the same manner the experiment does in episode 1.
2. We know that Mr C is searching for Judy, but doesn't know who or where she is. At 4.00 in this video, the guy explains it well:
Mr C is given coordinates by Jeffries that lead him to the portal in the woods. And the portal will lead him to Judy. But he is trapped in the white lodge. There is a picture of Sarah's house (that is the destination he has been looking for, eg. Judy), but the Fireman shifts the picture to the Sheriff's Station and he's transported there instead.
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Perhaps Sarah was not always Judy, but became possessed by Judy.
As I understand it, originally, Judy was supposed to be Josie Packard's sister. Given Josie loses so much weight in death, Jeffries' line from TMP: "Her sister’s there, too. At least part of her.” is pretty interesting.
Other folks have suspicions that Josie Packard was Judy. One of the things I think confirms this is the mirrors. In the pilot episode, among the first things we see are Josie looking in a mirror and Laura Palmer wrapped in plastic.
Towards the end of the 3rd season we see (as Marty mentioned) the mirrors in the Palmer house not in synch with their reflections. We also see throughout the series mirrors being important like when someone is possessed by BOB they tend to smash their face into them.
What caught my interest was OP's mentioning that Sarah does not act like a crazy evil spirit.
Certainly BOB does. But BOB was just a "familiar" while Judy is the big bad. And in stories the big bad causes much more evil to a greater depth and complexity.
So consider Josie: she acts nothing like an evil being. Quite the opposite. Yet she's pretty clearly completely evil in her background, especially in TSH. She even shoots Cooper.
Yes her character arc is the most "soap opera" ish. But wouldn't that exactly be what the big bad would want? The pain and suffering and drama to go on and on and on. When she dies, well, that's pretty weird. I have no explanation for that, except that perhaps it was Josie, the "good" or at least "not completely diabolically evil like Jody" who was trapped in the wood knob, like the Log Lady's husband, while Jody escaped.
So then we look at Sarah. I completely agreed with the OP that Sarah "just sat around and drank" or just acted otherwise humdrum after ripping the truckers throat out. Not like a crazy evil spirit.
But I thought about it a few days, and watched the scene again. She acts AGGRESSIVELY hum drum. In fact, her first appeal was to a pretense of helplessness and the mundane. She's not armed. She's just an old lady. Something like a tiger took the truckers throat out, how could it have been her? She even screamed after it happened.
The bartender gets upset and confused but he kind of knows what he saw, she did "something" so - and this is what's chilling - she sticks the fact that she's some kind of supernatural entity in his face and basically says "what do you think you can do about it?"
She says "yeah, sure is a mystery, huh." And just stares him down. Hard. Brrr. That creeped me out more than the supernatural toothy face. (Grace Zabriskie is an incredible actor)
And I think she was hunting ("I'll eat you" she even says). Her body language when she walks into the bar. The whole "wounded gazelle" act. She sits near a guy who is an over the top macho idiot. Next to him are deer heads and antlers. She, and others, have expressed contempt for truckers. He's wearing a "truck you" t-shirt. She buries the "politeness" after a challenging opening "Mind your own business .... please."
"Sarah" might genuinely want to be let alone, but whatever is inside her noticed the shot and a beer guy all by himself in a corner and put some whammy on his head. He was looking straight ahead lost in his own thoughts until she looked at him. As he's walking over she looks very sly rubbing her thumb on her chin. It's almost a parody of the old west gunslinger coming in for just a drink and the bad guy(s) messing with him.
That's what makes me think she's Jody. I don't know when she became Jody, but in that scene she was. It's exactly that she's the opposite of a crazy killer. That she murders someone in cold blood and then just goes back to just someone who wanted a quiet drink.
And the fact that it's not just murder - the fact that anyone watching that would have a sort of visceral "he had it coming" feeling.
That it elicits audience sympathy for her is, to me, what makes it all the more terrifying.
You KNOW she gets away with it in every aspect.
Because, after all, not only would people - and the police - think the bartender's nuts for saying she took off her face and giant teeth came out and ripped out the truckers throat, but she's also Sarah Palmer.
She's a victim. Everyone in Twin Peaks know's who she is. The police especially. If she just stabbed the trucker in a completely mundane way she would get away with it.
Anyone who overheard "I'll rip your tits off" and the c-word, all the aggression the trucker had, would say it was self-defense.
She had all her bases covered and killed the guy in plain sight in a public place with some weird and gruesome supernatural power and no one can do anything to her.
Maybe Judy, maybe not. But that's EVIL with a capital E baby.
And again, reminds me of Josie "oh, gee, I just had to shoot Agent Cooper in cold blood and seduce the sheriff, please forgive me" Packard.
Posted : 03/11/2017 12:17 pm
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If you will notice in the scene where The Experiment materializes in the glass box, she has a Lodge seed in her hand. I think she makes a tulpa of Sarah Palmer and goes to Twin Peaks.I believe this because if you’ll remember the scene where Hawk goes to Sarah Palmer’s house after the incident at the store, he hears something in the house with Sarah.I think what he hears is the real Sarah Palmer making noise to try and get help. Maybe The Experiment is Judy and she is hiding at Sarah Palmer’s house either waiting for bad Coop or maybe someone or something else.
Theres also the question of who was on the other end of the line when Bad Coop made the phone call after he killed Daria. It was someone who had been with Bob before so it had to have been Judy, Leland Palmer or someone else who Bob possessed years before.
I think some of the plot is open to our own interpretation.
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"Mother" was from Ronette Pulaski saying it in the Purple zone.
There are also several references to "Mother" or Mom in the original Twin Peaks seasons. One of them being when Philip Gerard starts crying after being questioned about what the tattoo on his arm said ("Mom!!!!!!!!").
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This policy has reaped fruit, as Oman has successfully negotiated the release of numerous detainees held in Houthi prisons, supported UN cease-fire efforts in Hodeidah by hosting parallel intra-Yemeni dialogue sessions, and helped the United States evacuate its embassy in Sanaa after the Houthi coup d’etat. In lieu of these successes, Oman is hoping to convince the Houthis to end their occupation of Hodeidah, as the Stockholm agreement requires, and play a central role in Griffiths’ ambitions of securing peace in Yemen. In addition, Oman has been feted as an effective mediator between warring factions in Yemen by numerous prominent analysts, including former US ambassador to Tunisia, Gordon Gray, and Hakim Almasmari, the editor-in-chief of the Yemen Post.
In spite of these optimistic assessments of Oman’s diplomatic role, Muscat’s mediation gambit has received a mixed reception in Yemen and the GCC. Among Yemeni factions, the Houthis and numerous members of Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s coalition have supported Oman’s arbitration efforts, while the Southern Transitional Council (STC) views Muscat’s involvement with less enthusiasm. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates share the STC’s reticence about Oman’s mediation efforts, as both countries view Muscat’s intentions with suspicion, due to its close relationship with Iran and alleged transfers of arms to the Houthis. These polarizations could undermine Oman’s mediation ambitions in Yemen and reduce the credibility of Muscat’s purported mission of promoting “understanding, stability and overcoming differences” in dialogue with its neighbors.
As Oman has maintained normalized relations with the Houthis since the start of the war and supported the eventual transformation of the Houthis into a legitimate political party, the Houthis are the leading advocates for the expansion of Muscat’s diplomatic role in Yemen. These positive perceptions of Oman were further entrenched in early 2018, as Muscat’s diplomatic efforts helped prevent loyal supporters of Ali Abdullah Saleh’s General People’s Congress party from engaging in open conflict with the Houthis, after the former president’s assassination. The trust that the Houthis place in Oman is exemplified by the insistence of senior Houthi officials on using Omani planes for diplomatic purposes and Muscat’s acceptance of Houthis requiring medical treatment.
Oman is also viewed as an effective mediator by senior figures in Hadi’s coalition. Yemeni journalist Mareb al-Ward told Al-Monitor that Hadi-aligned diplomats view Oman as a helpful “assistant” to UN-backed peace talks, because of its consistent track record of successful negotiations with the Houthis. According to Ward, Oman’s cordial relationship with senior Houthi officials does not concern Hadi’s allies, because Muscat believes the Houthi seizure of Sanaa was an illegal action. In Ward’s view, the refusal of Hadi’s inner circle to condemn Oman’s alleged role in facilitating Iranian arms transfers to the Houthis indicates that Hadi’s government is receptive to Oman’s mediation initiatives.
While Oman’s mediation ambitions are supported by the Houthis and Hadi’s government, Muscat might struggle to win over supporters of the UAE-aligned STC. According to Ward, Oman is not sympathetic to the cause of south Yemeni independence, because Muscat fears that a UAE-aligned state on its borders will leave it “trapped and narrowed in its border area.”
Meanwhile, Summer Ahmed, an analyst who works closely with the Southern Movement, presented a more optimistic view of STC-Oman relations. Ahmed told Al-Monitor that she is confident that Oman could eventually accept south Yemeni independence as the most effective antidote against instability on its borders, but she also criticized Oman’s decision to host Qatar-aligned figures inflaming instability in the Shabwah region.
Growing tensions between Oman and the Saudi Arabia-UAE alliance could also dilute the effectiveness of Muscat’s mediation ambitions in Yemen. Omani academic Abdullah Baabood told Al-Monitor that Saudi Arabia and the UAE could undermine Oman’s mediation aspirations, as they distrust Muscat for its partnerships with Qatar and Iran. As several of Yemen’s principal warring parties are beholden to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi for support, Baabood fears that these anti-Oman sentiments could restrict the ability of Yemeni political factions to participate in Muscat-brokered peace negotiations.
Although the Saudi-owned daily al-Hayat played a key role in popularizing Oman’s alleged involvement in transferring weapons to the Houthis, publicly exposed tensions between Oman and the UAE on Yemen arguably surpass the gripes Muscat has with Riyadh. On Feb. 19, Oman’s Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi admitted that Oman disagreed with the UAE’s Yemen policy, because Muscat does not “push forward and cause wars and disputes.” Abdulsalam Mohammed, the director of the Abaad Center for Studies in Sanaa, told Al-Monitor that Oman held joint military drills with Britain in October 2018 to signal its opposition to the UAE’s military activities near al-Mahra and disdain for Abu Dhabi’s perceived obstruction of peace in Yemen.
Although Oman has potentially laid the foundations for constructive intra-Yemeni dialogue and achieved notable diplomatic successes in its negotiations with the Houthis, Muscat’s growing assertiveness as a diplomatic arbiter has caused controversy within the GCC. The long-term success of Oman’s mediation efforts in Yemen hinges on Muscat easing tensions with Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as both countries continue to wield decisive influence over Yemen’s future political trajectory.
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Alternative Risk Transfer
Nomadic ART Poker
Trade Up, London, 29/10/10
Trade Up during the Frieze Art Fair, Shoreditch, London. Players: John Bateman, Oriana Fox, Orlando Harrison, Kristen Lovelock, Tom Trevatt, Eugene Perera, Jo Wilmot and Rachel Wilson. Dealer: Dave Dyer.
1st place: Jo Wilmot, 2nd place: Kristen Lovelock, 3rd place: Rachel Wilson
Artworks staked included a limited edition video, erotic drawings, a collection of ‘kittens at play’, a framed 100 Euro note, photographic prints, art writing, painting and a pen/ink drawing.
Trade Up Poker Stake – Oriana Fox
Trade Up Poker Stake – Eugene Perera
Trade Up Poker Stake – Tom Trevatt – Pierre Bourdieu is Not Your Fucking Friend
The sleep was long but fitful, he’d been reading some French social theorist before he slept and the words kept running round his head, embedding themselves in his consciousness. A strange pretence had set its self up in his head, making it impossible to countenance the thought of engaging fully in the task that lay ahead that day and that thought itself kept waking him up. He needed the sleep now more than ever, but at every sweaty struggle with the bare covers he was losing precious hours. She lay silent, still and gently perspiring next to him, in collusion with his sleeplessness, no doubt. What was it about the ranks of poker tables in the casino that held such allure? He could imagine the taste of the flat beer, the sickly light, the sickly faces, rough hands throwing down desperate chips. No other game made him suffer quite so much before it began. It wasn’t the addiction, although, he admitted, there was a pure adrenal rush to be gained from a win that equated with his experience of cocaine, it was the difference it made between him and his fellow humans. He played poker. And he did it professionally. While they were getting on damp tubes on damp mornings he was in a comfortable, but not ostentatious, apartment in the west end of the city sleeping or fucking. While they were staring at the clock, he was shopping, he was drinking, he was meeting more girls. This is the reason he did it. This is the reason he suffered at the hands of his only love.
But now, in the blue morning light rising over the skyline, now, his hands shook, when before they would be still, his heart was fast, shallow, mouth dry and throat constricted. The air was close, hot and stifling, but the fan was on and the window open. A breeze from the north flowed softly through the open window and onto his damp, naked body, chilling him. Minutes passed as years on the clock on his phone as he stared at it, waiting until it was what he considered a reasonable time to rise. While there was always a nervous tension before a big game, this was out there. This was fucked up. The financial crisis had put paid to the mid-level players. The businessmen in cheap suits had disappeared in late 2008, the ones in better suits in early 2009. Now it was only the professionals like him, the young lads on a night out the rich and the super rich that seemed to still be there. He occasionally played the open tables. He thought of it as ‘keeping it real’ and there was often not bad money to be made off the kids and drunk cunts who fell off their chairs at the end of a long night and into taxis rather than cars. But it was the private games, the secret tables in the back rooms where real money was to be made. It was the three month long poker tours to China, Russia, USA that really made him rich. He’d always felt that rush as he was ushered into the darkness at the back of the club, as he affectionately called it. He passed by dull, blank faces, staring at spinning wheels, bright lights, hot bulbs and cold hands, fuck you pathetic fucks, he’d think. Wasting only a few hundred a night these losers knew nothing of the high you get from winning ten thousand on one hand and losing it on the next. He’d beaten Russian oligarchs, American software billionaires, English bankers, minor royalty. He’d sat at the table with art dealers, pornstars, TV presenters, musicians, film directors, footballers, footballers’ wives, media tycoons, cunts all of them. The only other bastard he’d trust was the professional poker player. They had a hunger about them, cold justice lay just behind their eyes, but also, the fear of losing. None of the independently rich had that fear. They could turn over hundreds of thousands without caring. Often they lost it at the same pace they could make it in their “real” jobs. A footballer once remarked that he was saving money at the tables just as he was losing another five grand.
The professional poker player feels two things, it can be surmised, from the win. The obvious elation is there, but the precise nature of the elation is different from that felt by the footballer, the tycoon, the businessman who plays in his spare time. No, the professional player feels the elation of someone who has done their job well. They know when to stop, when to pack it in, when to hold back and when to go all in, it is as mechanical as office work. The other emotion is one of distance. As a poker player you are different from them, you are different from the saps who come night after night to pour their wages into the casino’s pockets. This is your wage, you make money from this. You make good money. It is this, he realised a long time ago, that made him go back week in week out. This distance, this difference. Wasn’t that what he’d been reading last night?
But now, somehow, this distinction was slowly being eaten away. Now, as he lay sweating out of cold pores into a damp sheet, he came to a chilling realisation. He was no different. Sure, he was better at poker than them, better at poker than all those helpless cunts with their grey, office worn faces. But, he was no longer different. Ten years had come and gone, it was now approaching fifteen years that he’d been at the tables. Fifteen years cashing in thousands of pounds a night, some nights tens of thousands. He now only needed to play two nights a week, sure, but he could still do the walk to the casino in his sleep. Wasn’t that why he’d moved there? To be close to the table? Now the seventeen minutes from his front door, down in the lift, out onto the street and the quick hop to the casino doors, through the turnstiles, the nod to the sad faced security, the nonchalant stroll to the back of the room, were all too familiar. Did it feel like a job? Too much like working? Is that what it was? It had always been like this, nothing had changed. But everything had changed.
Trade Up – Art Options Auction
A.R.T. Poker is played within a tournament structure where the 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed players receive a set number of artworks each. Whilst they are allocated a particular number of works, they cannot choose which works they win unless they buy A.R.T. options. These guarantee players particular works in the event they are 1st/2nd or 3rd placed. A.R.T. options are auctioned before the poker game and If an artist sells an option on their work they start the game with the advantage of more chips. Conversely a purchaser of options starts the game with less chips. Players may sell each other options as the game progresses depending on their circumstances. The sale of options and fluctuations of pricing are indicative of how players value each other’s work.
Art Blitz 28/11/10 (London)
Art Car Boot Fair 6/6/10 (London)
Club Gallistico 7/12/11 (Bogota)
Galata Perform 23/9/11 (Istanbul)
Kunstraum t27 13/9/13 (Berlin)
Old Police Station 26/2/10 (London)
Rag Factory 10/12/09 (London)
Trade Up 29/10/10 (London)
Whitechapel Gallery 18/3/10 (London)
Video & sound
Kunstraum t27, Berlin, 13/9/13
Kunstraum t27 – Exhibition
Kunstraum t27 – Artists Present Staked Works Pre-Game
Kunstraum t27 – Poker Game Art Stakes
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Cuties? No.
South Park. Season Eight. Twelfth Episode.
"People, don't applaud me. I'm a dirty whore. Being spoiled and stupid and whorish is supposed to be a bad thing, remember? Parents, if you don't teach your children that people like Paris Hilton are supposed to be despised, where are they gonna learn it? You have to be the the ones to make sure your daughters aren't looking up to the wrong people." -Mr. Slave, Spoiled Whore Playset
Message sent WITHOUT auditioning 700 little girls to twerk in a movie OR perform scenes of a sexual nature to be viewed by the masses. Brilliant! But maybe that's just me.
(For those of you out of the loop, the context is the movie "Cuties". And apparently being against the film makes you a right wing fascist, but I digress).
What is wrong about having a film where eleven year old girls watch scenes of sexual behaviors and then imitate them, and then go on to learn that this "empowering*" act is harmful to them?
Oh, you know, the fact that these children then perform the actions they've just watched while a camera zooms in on their body parts.
Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) or virtual child pornography refers to materials that do not portray a real child, but which graphically depict sexualized children, male or female, and it is illegal in Canada and the US, but does not fall directly under pornography laws.
Abusers were getting out of criminal charges because penetration was not occurring. CSAM was brought into the legal proceedings to protect children from being abused. And it means that even if an adult is used as a stand in (which according to sources is not the case in the film Cuties), or the child is photographed/filmed in a sexual way, and that material is then proliferated, it is considered child abuse. Even if the parents, the director, and the producers all gained/gave consent....it is legally child abuse. Even if the "message" was to raise awareness of a situation that is happening, it is against the law and considered child abuse.
And that means anyone who has footage of the 600+ girls "auditioning" for roles in this film, and of the film itself, is in possession of abuse material.
Even if you disagree with me (and I can think of only one reason why), the producers of this movie and the parents are complicit in breaking the law; a law designated to protect children from exploitation. And, depending on how far lawmakers wish to pursue this, sending out advertisements for auditioning for this movie might also fall into luring laws and voyeurism.
I haven't seen the film.
And I won't. I don't need to see a murder to know that murder is wrong. I don't need to see a child being abused to know child abuse is wrong.
The scenes that I unfortunately saw presented by Shoe0nhead (deeply edited and thankfully obscured) and a few other youtubers was more than enough for me to be against it even with its explained context. Just ten seconds of what was shown should be enough to have it considered child abuse (and its more than 10 seconds). There isn't enough context in the world to make me or anyone else need to see this movie in its entirety to know that it is wrong. The only way I would ever conceive having to watch material like this is as a juror, and we needed to know just how many graves we needed to dig.
I am not traditionally a book burner. The only book I have ever wanted removed from a library was Firefly by Piers Anthony. I was seventeen and I was horrified at reading an alleged fantasy book written by a renowned childrens author that graphically described sex with a five year old, sex with a decapitated chicken, and more. I felt then as I do now that there was no reason for it to be on the shelf where children could access it, and there was no justification for it to be on a shelf since even Anthony could only justify its existence in relation to Lolita
For me, Cuties falls into this. There is no real reason for it to exist. And by all standards it should not exist. Assuming that each of the children that auditioned for this movie had two parents, over a thousand adults were okay with what was going to happen. Not one videographer, editor, producer, writer, lawyer, or even the director said "We might be exploiting children in the process of showing the dangers of child exploitation."
Ban it. Culture will not suffer for its loss.
*The director, who I had assumed from a place of bigotry must have been a white male until I learned that it was a female, considered twerking as sexually liberating and empowering...going against her alleged moral ground that this very behavior was bad for young impressionable girls.
#cutiesnetflix
5 Big Questions We Still Have After That Back to the Future Storytime
Storytime with Judas ended it's 10th episode this week, and we were all left with a whirlwind of questions and existential angst.
After a thoroughly good reading of quirky and independent writers, Judas ended with a more pop culture "kid friendly" related book based on Back to the Future.
Does this means the vlogger with goals of making thousands of dollars per video has sold out? That is difficult to say, since the act of selling out requires a level of integrity and not just producing content for the money.
Putting all of that deeply philosophical questioning aside, we had some more pressing questions to ask.
1. Would the books read make cool movies or videogames?
There is a lot of bright colors and easy dialogue in all of the books Judas reads (and the aforementioned BTTF book has already been a movie), but there is an underlying context that might not be translatable. Judas chooses the books he reads for several criteria; whimsy, vocabulary, thought provoking concepts, using imagination, and being able to view the world from another perspective. These all come into play in his favorite reading Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich. In that story, the vocabulary is obviously clever due to its rhyming nature, but it is also a story about perception. Frankenstein's Monster isn't a bad guy, he's just hungry. And he sees the best in people who are mean to him by taking their bullying and turning it into something satisfying for himself.
Would this translate to a longer visual format? Maybe not, since the Hollywood has a tendency to throw content in that isn't necessary to a characters progression.
2. Which characters would we like to meet in real life?
Maybe we wouldn't like to meet Dracula on a moonlit night, but it would be really fun to hang out drawing futuristic cars that solve the earths problems as in If I Built A Car.
3. What was the most interesting part of the stories that were read?
Funny voices and faces always add to a good story. Funny voices don't make a story good, though. Hopefully, the stories that were read and are going to be read will have more parts that spark our imagination.
4. Should Judas add links to where the book can be bought?
We can always watch Bedtime Stories with Judas over and over again, but the best part about reading a good story is sharing it with others and adding our own voice to it. When we read to others, we can show others what parts are important to us by how excited we get when we read our favorite parts. Also, we can see the pictures more clearly and appreciate all the drawing and painting that went into making the book.
5. Will Judas take requests?
For now, no. Judas has no problem reading books that his viewers love, and would look forward to doing that. For now, as his audience remains small, so will his library selection.
Hudson Gannon, reporting.
Storytime Father Spends Only 20 min Cleaning Bathroom...Even With Four boys
"I missed".
Storytime With Judas Vlogger and occasional long-time bathroom user only spends 20 minutes cleaning his bathroom, even though he has four sons who often miss the bowl entirely, don't lift the seat, or decide toothpaste is best used on the bathroom mirror.
"You need to plan ahead, and plan like its going to be bad." He said while hunched over his video editor program instead of making an easy dinner like hepreviously posted.
For those of you new to the concept of deep cleaning, it's the cleaning you do on a weekly or daily basis, to reach the deep, disgusting parts of your bathroom that aren’t normally cleaned (or thought of).
"First get rid of anything empty or used up. Throw away empty bottles, toilet paper rolls, and empty the trash can before you start spraying and scrubbing. Then move everything that sits on a ledge onto one shelf or designated area; hand soap, conditioner bottles, and the like".
The hot sauce connoisseur went on to list everything needed to "get down to brass tacks".
Organize the night before and keep the supplies in a readily accessible way.
Start with the shower and bath, and place the shower curtains in the tub; spray them with all purpose cleaner and then leave them there for the next step.
Tiles, walls, and ceilings
Spray all surfaces like countertops, tile, walls, and the ceiling with all-purpose cleaner. Run the shower for five minutes to build up steam. Shut the door and let the steam and cleaner mix for twenty minutes. Then wipe down all surfaces with a clean cloth. For walls and ceilings, you can use a microfiber mop to reach the high spaces. Hang up the shower curtains and wipe them down with a clean old towel.
First, pour vinegar or baking soda down the drain and rinse with hot water. Use disinfecting wipes for the handles and faucets in order to prevent transfer of bacteria from other parts of the bathroom (like the toilet). Use floss to clean the base where the faucet and taps are flush with the sink.
Coat the entire toilet bowl with a toilet cleaner - preferably with bleach. Scrub the bowl hard with a toilet brush and let it sit for 5 to 10 minutes (you can spray it when you start the steamy shower). While that is sitting, wipe down outside of your toilet with a disinfectant wipe, as well as the outer lid, and then the inner lid. Then, use a bathroom specific disinfectant spray and leave it on for as long as the cleaner recommends (usually 10 minutes). Don’t forget to spray the flush handle. Then wipe everything down with clean cloths.
You will get faster the more you repeat this and you will begin to overlap steps.
The author would like to inform his readers that while Judas was saving time cleaning the bathroom, the dishes in the sink piled up into an apocalyptic event, and the laundry didn't get folded.
Lex Gunner, reporting.
One Pot Recipes That Allowed Father To Record Annoying Bedtime Stories
YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!
Covid Socially Isolated husband and father Judas X. Machina got stir crazy, and decided to stir up some quick recipes that would allow him to record his late night bedtime stories for the viewing public.
The author and general layabout claimed laziness was his motivating factor.
"I generally don't want to do anything. So it was really important to me to find a good, easy meal that my family would eat and think I worked really hard on, while allowing me ample time to play Bejewelled Blitz while I'm supposed to be editing a new Storytime video.
So I used my wifes cast iron skillet that she's really protective of because I left it in the sink for a week while she was in the hospital having our fourth son." Judas then tried to change the subject.
"Yeah, I remember that." His wife told our correspondent. "Here I am pushing a human out of me and I come home to a rusty pan handed down by the family Matriarch Dita Von Harmel Van Bernalmeyer."
Judas then tried to sell us digital copies of his unread novels, while providing us with his recipes.
Bronx Gray, reporting.
Lemon Shrimp Risotto in One Pan
1 ½ lb(s) peeled and deveined shrimp
1 onion, finely diced
2 cups arborio rice
About 5 cups vegetable broth
½ tsp kosher salt
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 lemon, zested and juiced, plus extra lemon zest, for garnish
2 Tbsp heavy cream
18 fresh basil leaves, chopped, plus extra for serving
Grated Parmesan, for sprinkling
DIRECTIONS1. Heat the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the shrimp in a single layer and cook on both sides until opaque in the middle, about 3 minutes. Remove to a cutting board and cut in half. Set aside.
2. Return the skillet to the stovetop (do not wash it) and add the garlic and onion. Stir and cook until the onion starts to turn translucent, 2 to 3 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium low. Add the rice to the skillet and cook, stirring, for a couple of minutes, taking care not to burn it. Pour in the wine and stir. Once the wine is absorbed, begin adding the broth 1/2 to 1 cup at a time, allowing the rice to cook and absorb the liquid each time. Stir occasionally as you go and add the salt and pepper during one of the broth additions. After 4 cups of broth have been absorbed, taste the rice. It should have a slight bite, but if it seems undercooked, add additional broth for the rice to absorb and cook until the risotto is to your liking.
3. Add both the lemon zest and juice to the risotto towards the end of cooking. Stir in the heavy cream, shrimp and basil, then serve immediately with extra lemon zest and Parmesan cheese on top.
1 lb(s) frozen store-bought pizza dough*, thawed and risen
½ cup store-bought pizza sauce
½ cup pepperoni
An inappropriate amount of Mozzarella with a bit of cheddar for a deeper flavor
¼ cup torn fresh basil if you want.
DIRECTIONS1. Place a 12-inch cast-iron skillet in the oven and preheat to 500ºF.
2. Meanwhile, roll or stretch the dough into a 14-inch circle. Carefully remove the skillet from the oven. Drizzle two thirds of the olive oil into the skillet, then carefully transfer the dough to the skillet, pressing the dough up the edges. Spread the sauce over the dough, making sure to get all the way to the edges. Shingle the pepperoni over the sauce and top with the mozzarella pearls. Brush the exposed dough with the remaining olive oil. Bake on the bottom rack until golden brown, 12 to 14 minutes.
*Making your own pizza dough is easy!
Two packets of Flieshmans Yeast in a slightly warm bowl of 1/2 cup of water, 1 teaspoon sugar. Let sit for 10 minutes.
Add 2 cups flour and 1/2 cup olive oil, 1 teaspoon of salt, and hand mix in a stainless steel bowl adding flour as necessary until the dough is elastic without dry cracks. Let rise for ten minutes.
is It Safe To Read Stories To People I Don't Live With?
Millions of Canadians have been holed up at home for weeks now, practising physical distancing in an effort to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. As a result, more than half say they feel lonely and isolated.
People are trying all kinds of ways of staying socially connected, from video calls with friends to "driveway parties" with neighbors.
Now, some are recording stories for friends and family, — but could this spread the virus?
That is dumb. Almost as dumb as the local man who has decided to film himself reading bed time stories written by other people instead of working on his own novels.
"Storytime" To Cut Marketing Budget By half, Director Warns of Hiring Freezes
Judas X. Machina is slashing his marketing budgets by as much as half for the second half of the year, according to internal materials viewed by CNBC.
One email about the cuts went out to marketing employees this week, noting the budget cuts and a new hiring freeze for full-time and contract employees.
"I don't even get an allowance, so I don't know how he's going to pay us less. There are budget cuts and hiring freezes happening across other platforms. The difference is they have content." read one employee email. The employee is also the eldest son of Judas X. Machina and also an Admin for the Facebook group "Oh, f*ck off Rebecca, your kid did not say that!"
A company spokesperson, Kristina Kay, confirmed that some areas' budgets are being cut by as much as half, but added that "he spends money on stupid crap we don't need. So I'm proud that at least his collection of Deadpool Faberge eggs won't be growing this year."
Judas X. Machina outlined last week, he is re-evaluating the pace of the investment plans for the remainder of 2020 and will focus on a select number of important marketing efforts such as Patreon and dating rich older men.
patreon.com/JudasXMachina
10 Cleaning Hacks Father of Four ignored To Make Storytime Video
Instead of leaving the floors for last, and dusting first so that all the particulate would fall to the floor, local father of four, Judas, wandered around aimlessly and waited for his kids to go to sleep so he could record a storytime video for them, instead of reading it to them.
The absent minded dad also completely did not wipe the bathroom from the top to the bottom. It would have been a good tip to clean the toilet last, since cleaning it first would cause the spread of bacteria instead of minimizing it. Cleaning the small areas would have been important, too, but he was distracted by thoughts of how to get the family dog in the frame of the video. Judas also ignored using a dry sponge to collect dog hair from the couch, which is a very effective way to gather pet hair according to Martha Stewart, who was quoted in a telephone interview as saying "I have no idea what you're talking about. Stop calling this number!"
His wife, Kay, also informed this reporter that Judas did not add cleaning solution to the bottom of the toilet scrubber holder, which is a very "useful and sanitary thing he could have done" she tweeted, adding "Filling the tub with warm water and a splash of bleach and then soaking the shower curtain is a great way he could get rid of mildew".
During dinner preparation, Judas also neglected to use lemon and salt to eliminate hard water stains around the sink taps. He failed to realize that he could double the usage of the lemons and salt by grinding them with ice in the garbage disposal, eliminating the stinky odor emanating from the drain.
The video can be found here.
Non-Celebrity Father Makes Use Of Downtime And Shares Bedtime Story
A Husband of one* and father of four "Judas" is using his...art... to help pass the time while under home isolation during the Covid pandemic.
The layabout, 50, took to social media and posted an underwhelming 2-minute long video of him reading someone else's work.
"I've been bored at home so I made a video for u cogs!!!" he didn't say in the video or tweet.
The video begins with free domain music and a pre-made opener that looks like it was taken from a Mexican Day of the Dead home movie a laid off cable 10 video editor would use.
The non celebrity then proceeds to prance around in a bra and underwear, knee high socks...oops. That's the Ke$ha Home Alone video.
At one point the rocking chair Judas is sitting on lets out a loud creaking, something that a professional video editor would have cut.
Judas has 3 published and unread novels.
(*cough not a Joe Exotic situation)
Non-famous Father Is Going To Read Bedtime Stories On YouTube--Because Its His Job
In a move that will come as no surprise to parents, father of four Judas X. Machina is going to continue reading to his children.
Judas has never appeared on tv or in movies, and is no celebrity of any kind, though he has read bedtime stories to his children for years. He will return to the role of bedtime story reader his wife said in a press release last Wednesday.
The father, best known for his roles as late night fridge raider and bathroom oderizer, proved to be a very popular bedtime story reader, with his children laughing at the variety of voices used, reaching a high of 12 whole views on YouTube.
News of Judas's continued reading was received with a casual shrug of his wife; "I'll be there. I've heard all these stories before".
His Mother-in-Law had this to say: "Judas is hands down my favorite father to read to his children. I've never seen him do it, but I'm sure he's great."
The readings will include Frankenstein Eats a Sandwich, a variety of Lil Critters, and Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooey (which this reporter was unable to find a copy of, and Judas was evasive in it's source saying it was part of his two favorite philosophers, and "the rules were made up").
The stories will be read every evening roughly at 7:00 p.m. local time and won't be streamed or viewed anywhere else.
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I've been heading all over the world lately, and in the small quiet moments I've written some short horror stories.
They....took some time to make? Are not very scary? Need work? All of the above?
Well, you decide.
And then tell me what you thought. Otherwise I'll just keep trotting out this stuff and you'll never escape it.
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Queenie by Jacqueline Wilson
Title: Queenie
Published by: Random House
Publication date: 31st January 2013
Genres: Children's/Young Adult
Source: Bought.
It's 1953, the year Elizabeth is to be crowned Queen of England. Elsie Kettle can't wait to go to London with her beloved nan to see the Coronation Day celebrations. Then tragedy strikes. Nan and Elsie both fall ill with tuberculosis and Elsie is whisked away to the children's ward of Miltree Hospital.
Confined to bed for months, Elsie misses Nan desperately, and struggles to adapt to the hospital's strict rules. But every night after lights-out she tells magical tales of adventure to the other children on the ward. For the first time, Elsie finds herself surrounded by true friends - including Queenie, the hospital's majestic white cat.
Finally Elsie is well enough to leave the hospital. But before she does, she has one very special, very unexpected visitor...
I was a bit apprehensive about reading this. I hadn't heard anything about this book before, and I didn't even know what it was about. However, I decided to give it a try as I used to enjoy Jacqueline Wilson's books a lot when I was younger.
The main protagonist is a young girl named Elsie. She doesn't see her mum very much, and lives with her Nan who she adores. But suddenly her Nan gets seriously ill, and that's when things start to go very, very bad.
Elsie was very sweet, kind and caring but at times she was very naive and seemed a bit clueless about...well, everything. Maybe I just found that a bit annoying because of our age gap, I don't know. However, she was entertaining to read about, especially when she got up to mischief in the hospital.
The story revolved around a very sad topic, but the author managed to keep it lighthearted in most places so it's perfect for her younger readers, whilst still being informative and exciting for her older readers. It took me a while to get into the story, but after that I couldn't put it down (which is why I was awake until 3am...).
This is a great book for girls aged 9+, although it is quite long (400 pages or so.) I give it a rating of 4/5. Definitely a good book for current/previous fans of Jacqueline Wilson.
Written by Amber Kirk-Ford at 14:30
Lucy Powrie 24 February 2013 at 17:24
I used to love Jacqueline Wilson when I was younger. I don't know if I still would but I can see why this book might appeal to a younger audience. Lovely review, Amber! :)
Amber Kirk-Ford 24 February 2013 at 17:34
Thank you Lucy! :)
Zoe 24 February 2013 at 18:38
Jacqueline Wilson is one of the reasons why I love reading today, I used to be obsessed with her books! I don't know if her stories would have the same impact on me now but this sounds like a great read. Thanks for the great review, Amber! :)
Her books definitely don't have the same impact on me as they did when I was younger, but it was still a lovely read!
Thanks Zoe :D
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How 5G Could Change Canadian Workplaces
How will Canadian business owners use 5G for enhanced productivity and profitability?
If you follow technology at all, you've probably heard rumblings of 5G wireless—a faster, more powerful wireless Internet connection that will change the way today's technologies perform, from drones and autonomous vehicles to gesture control and wearable enhanced reality office communications. But how long before Canadian businesses see 5G? And how will you be able to best leverage its capabilities to increase efficiency and enhance the productivity of your business initiatives?
Before we delve into a discussion of the enhanced capabilities of a 5G network, it's important to understand what it is. 5G is the next generation of wireless, following LTE and 4G networks.
Unlike LTE and 4G, however, 5G will surpass wireless broadband networks in both speed and reliability. Someday, instead of running fiber optic or coaxial network lines and using routers to deliver WiFi, businesses could connect to a 5G wireless network for internet-based communications, from surfing the Web and streaming video to videoconferencing and operating IoT devices.
You can also receive 5G connectivity through a router. Internet providers in the U.S., where 5G for all is even closer to reality, are delivering 5G through routers. Instead of connecting a wireless device to WiFi, it's connected to the 5G network. The result is download speeds close to 300 Mbps and peak speeds up to 1 Gbps. According to experts, 5G is 30 to 50 times faster than home broadband.1
How soon will Canadian business owners see 5G?
5G mobile networks should start to appear in Canada by 2021, according to experts.2 But it won't happen all at once. Just as 4G slowly replaced LTE, 5G will roll out in major cities like Vancouver first. The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) predicts an estimated 16 million 5G connections by 2026.3
5G in Canadian offices
The average business owner may embrace 5G to bring video conferences to life with 4K resolution and no concerns of buffering. Product development can take place in augmented or virtual reality environments (AR/VR), even with teams that span the country. In the high-tech sector, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) will run smoothly and seamlessly.
Consider ways you can use AI to complete tedious tasks, such as sorting big data or continuous monitoring. Use a combination of video and AI to create a two-way, constant and continuous dialogue with your customers. Or, harness it to serve more relevant mobile ads to consumers faster and improve conversions when people are ready to buy.
5G: Embrace the possibilities
While 5G will streamline communications in Canada's office buildings, perhaps its greatest strength lies in mobile applications that can't easily rely on WiFi. Farmers who already use drones in Manitoba and Saskatchewan farms will be able to use remote sensors to collect more precise data in real-time, transmit the data to an AI network for analysis and make accurate decisions based on soil density, temperature, water requirements, and more.
Wearables for oil and gas field workers in Alberta, as well as truckers and other high-intensity professions across the nation, could detect worker fatigue reliably, resulting in a safer, more productive work environment.4 Wearables powered by 5G could also have virtually endless applications in healthcare, where physicians may be able to diagnose and treat illness in real-time from a distance and caregivers for older adults can provide continuous monitoring and rapid care as needed.
What can Canadian small businesses do to prepare for 5G?
When it happens, you shouldn't expect to eliminate your broadband WiFi immediately. Speak to your IT department and your telecommunications provider to explore the possibilities and potential costs.
Since rolling out 5G won't require major infrastructure updates, you won't need to prepare your office in any physical way. 5G networks can be set up in hours, rather than weeks. However, fully embracing 5G will require a shift in mindset. Internet connection speeds and bandwidth will no longer be a limiting factor in technology use. Instead, businesses can begin thinking about what they need technology to accomplish; the capabilities will be there.
With an innovative outlook, there will be few limits to what you can achieve with 5G to increase productivity and profitability.
1 https://www.neweratech.com/2018/12/11/whats-the-big-deal-about-5g/
2 https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/mainstream-launch-of-5g-expected-in-canada-in-2021/417579
3,4 https://business.financialpost.com/sponsored/business-sponsored/how-5g-connectivity-will-keep-canada-competitive
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Fairytale Like Christmas Celebration in Moscow
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Christmas in Russia is different from Christmas celebrated in the rest of the world. For starters, they are celebrated on January 7, rather than on December 25. The date is different because the Russian Orthodox church uses the old Julian calendar for religious celebration days, and Christmas is mainly a religious event in Russia. Many orthodox Christians also avoid meat and fish during the 40-day Lent period preceding Christmas Day. The Lent period ends with the rise of the first star in the night sky on January 6. That day, many Christians go to the church to attend several long services including Christmas liturgy. Evening is time for family and friends and sumptuous dinners.
Photo credit: Kristina Makeeva
Russian Christmas started deviating from the rest of the world after the Russian Revolution of 1917, when religious celebrations were banned by the officially atheist state. So the Russian people started adopting Christmas tradition such as decorating spruce trees, family gatherings and gift-giving as part of the secular New Year celebration. Christmas became official in Russia only after the 1990s with the break up of the union. It began regaining popularity only recently, but New Year celebration is still very important to Russians, sometimes even more than Christmas.
The official Christmas and New holidays in Russia last from December 31st to January 10th. During this eleven-day festive period, Christmas fairs open all over the country in towns and cities. Moscow especially turns into a magical land with brightly lit buildings and trees, as you can see in these images.
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UK may follow US lead with increased Huawei restrictions
The US sanctions on Huawei could make its products less secure
9:30am PDT Jul 6, 2020
Huawei has had its share of rough times recently. From navigating through the turmoil of the US banning trade, to figuring out how to sell phones without Google's suite of Play services and apps, it's been a period of adjustment for China's largest telecom. And now it appears that the company is facing renewed scrutiny about the use of its technology in the United Kingdom.
According to a new report from the BBC, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre has issued new recommendations on doing business with Huawei, saying that it can no longer verify the security of Huawei's products.
Oddly enough, this is in part due to the sanctions the US has placed on Huawei. Because the company can no longer work in cooperation with third-party manufacturers that create some of its more high-tech processors, there's a risk that it will have to obtain materials from a new, unvetted source. The BBC also says the US sanctions basically prevent Huawei from using software that's critical to design and test chips prior to their manufacture.
The US may have considered Huawei untrustworthy enough to issue a trade ban, but the UK didn't act as aggressively — or at least not at first. In May, we reported that the UK was reevaluating its stance, and planning on reducing Huawei's contributions to the 5G network infrastructure. With this new development, it's unclear what the future holds for Huawei in the UK. The company's products are already heavily integrated, and it would likely cost a pretty penny to remove them quickly. Members of Parliament are set to discuss the new report in more detail later this week, when they are expected to question Huawei and network providers about the potential repercussions of a ban.
Even if no major new actions are taken, it's yet another obstacle facing Huawei. US trade restrictions have banned companies from doing business with it (although there are exceptions). Google apps and services aren't coming back to its devices anytime soon.
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When a potentially defamatory statement is made online or through social media — such as via Facebook or Linkedin — that involves the written (or “posted”) word, and so it is considered libel.
(For in-depth information on defamation law, check out all of the articles in Nolo’s Defamation, Libel & Slander section..
The answer is, yes, it is worth it. When a true case of defamation exists, there are damages that are caused as a result. Those damages are compensable through a civil lawsuit, in California and beyond. … General Damages: This includes loss of reputation, shame, hurt feelings, embarrassment, and more.
Typically, this is between 25% and 40%, depending upon when the case resolves. For example, often an attorney will charge 25% if the case resolves before a defamation lawsuit is filed, 33% if the case resolves before trial, and 40% i.a trial needs to be held. Learn more about how contingency fees work.
A defamatory statement is one which reflects on a person’s reputation and tends to lower him in the estimation of right-thinking members of society. … If the statement is made orally, it is called slander, while a defamatory statement in writing or any public broadcast is called libel.
In the United States, the punishment for slander is a civil lawsuit and financial damages. Assuming the other side can prove what is necessary. In some countries, defamation, of which slander is a form, is a criminal offense. The punishments will vary by country and the nature of what was said.
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No! It’s illegal to ruin someone’s reputation if you make lies up that ruin it. That can be covered by libel and slander laws.
Truth is an absolute defense to libel claims, because one of the elements that must be proven in a defamation suit is falsity of the statement. If a statement is true, it cannot be false, and therefore, there is no prima facie case of defamation.
You can recover up to $250,000 in pain and suffering, or any non-economic damages.
When it comes to lawsuits, a defamation case can be very challenging. For example, unless you hire an attorney who works on a pro bono basis, this type of lawsuit can be costly. The reason for this is that to win, there is a lot of fact-finding involved, which often requires the assistance of an expert.
Because libel is tangible, it is therefore long-lasting. Courts take libel more seriously than slander because of the everlasting impact.
Libel and slander are types of defamatory statements. Libel is a defamatory statement that is written. Slander is a defamatory statement that is oral.
One cause of action that may arise from posting information on Facebook is a defamation of character claim. To prove defamation of character, the victim has to show that you made a statement that was published, it caused the victim injury and it was false and was not a privileged statement.
Cease and desist letters are a common way to stop unwanted behavior without having to file a lawsuit. In the case of slander or libel, a cease and desist letter would detail the offense and inform the accused that he or she may be sued if the behavior is not corrected and retractions made of harmful statements.
But what many people may not realize is that harsh words made online can lead to serious criminal charges. You could face several charges if you harass someone on Facebook. Can you be charged with a crime for using Facebook or Twitter to harass, stalk or threaten someone? Absolutely.
There’s nothing illegal about assuming anything. You can screenshot anything you like on Facebook and share it however you like assuming that anything you’re screenshotting is legal to have and store digitally anyway. You can show anything you like to strangers so long as you’re not harassing them.
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Democrats’ Green New Deal would make US reliance on China much worse
Hold China accountable – or give it even more control?
Paul Driessen and Ned Mamula
China unleashed Covid-19 on an unsuspecting world. It knew by early January 2020 (if not by December 2019 or earlier) that it was dealing with a vicious, fast-spreading disease in Wuhan, a city with more people than Chicago and New York City combined. But first it said nothing. Then it lied repeatedly, expelled foreign journalists, and threatened, silenced or “disappeared” Wuhan doctors who tried to warn the world.
The Chinese Communist Party used its influence with the World Health Organization to advance its false claims about the origins of the Wuhan virus (likely a laboratory or wet market in the city) and absence of human-to-human transmission. The CCP even claimed the virus was brought to Wuhan by US soldiers during an October 2019 military sports tournament. It shut down domestic travel to and from Wuhan, while allowing millions to fly between Wuhan and Europe, the United States, Africa and Latin America.
By July 1, the Wuhan virus had sickened 11 million people worldwide and killed a half million – with 2.7 million ill and 130,000 dead in the USA alone. The virus caused trillions of dollars in economic damage, as the world issued stay-home orders, closed down global trade and made hundreds of millions jobless. Amid the pandemic, China shipped defective respirator masks, engaged in hoarding and price gouging on medical supplies, and expanded its campaign to blame other countries for the disaster.
A University of Southampton study concluded that, if China had been honest and transparent, and stopped foreign travel to and from Wuhan even three weeks before it actually did, global Covid-19 transmission could have been reduced by 95% and hundreds of thousands would not have died. Nor would the world economy have imploded. (The WHO refused to declare a global pandemic until March 11.)
China’s outrageous behavior is nothing new. Companies wanting to sell products in China have long been compelled to build factories in China and share their technological and manufacturing secrets – while Chinese students, agents and hackers have systematically stolen other intellectual property and trade and defense secrets. Its treatment of Hong Kong, Laos and Chinese Uighurs is duplicitous and immoral.
Many have said China must be held accountable, punished, and made to pay reparations and financial penalties. Justice certainly demands that. In a more perfect world, it might even happen. However, securing a verdict on reparations would be a tall order, enforcing any verdict highly doubtful.
China’s status as a global economic and military superpower is augmented by its positions on the United Nations Security Council, in the World Trade Organization, and on the UN Human Rights Council (along with Iran, North Korea and other moral exemplars). Its predatory lending practices make China an even more untrustworthy pariah, and conditions in its mines, processing plants and factories show that it has little regard for workers’ health or basic rights. Indeed, it demands that we ignore human rights issues.
These problems are compounded by China’s control of numerous vital supply chains. China dominates not just manufacturing of US drugs like heparin, vaccines and penicillin, but the active ingredients that allow US companies to make other essential medicines. Chinese companies thereby control 70% of acetaminophen, and up to 95% of antibiotics and hydrocortisone. In 2008, contaminated heparin from China caused 81 US deaths. Much of the USA’s basic and high-tech medical equipment (respirators, surgical masks, protective gowns, and MRI and CT scan equipment) is also imported from China.
The United States is also beholden to China for metals and minerals in energy, aerospace, defense, telecom and other industries. Joe Biden, AOC, Democrats and environmentalist groups would not just shut down fossil fuel production, pipelines and fuels for power generation and manufacturing. They would effectively turn our energy systems, manufacturing, defense, livelihoods and living standards over to China.
Chinese computer chips are in countless products – and Trojan horse viruses or backdoors for hackers could enable steady information theft, take over GPS systems or crash electrical grids. Minerals, metals and components essential for aircraft, night vision goggles, computers, wind turbines, solar panels, rechargeable batteries, electric vehicles and other technologies are sourced directly from China or through Chinese companies that conduct horrific mining operations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Supplies of these materials or products could easily be restricted or cut off amid trade or other conflicts.
Incredibly, America has nearly all the metals and minerals needed to manufacture these products, and many more. However, because of unrelenting environmentalist and Democrat opposition to exploration and mining, the nation’s vast, mineral-rich federal lands (worth many trillions of dollars) remain off limits and undeveloped, forcing the United States to import the vast majority of its essential raw materials.
In fact, America is needlessly 100% dependent on imports for 35 “critical” minerals and metals that are needed for defense, aerospace, transportation, communication, “renewable” energy and healthcare technologies – including 15 different rare earth elements (REEs). At least 25 of them come from China. Another half dozen come from Russia. Not one is renewable, clean, green, cheap or sustainable.
That means America imports nearly two-thirds of its critical minerals and metals from adversaries and enemies! Amazingly, although the United States once led the world in producing REEs, China now makes 95% of all the world’s rare earth metals, using technologies that the U.S. gave them – for free.
Thin-film solar panels require indium and tellurium, to convert the sun’s rays to electricity. Making solar panels also requires lead, cadmium, copper, gallium, silver, polyvinyl fluoride, and other materials and chemicals. Just building the 500 square miles of solar panels that Dominion Energy Virginia is planning would involve some 5,000,000 pounds of cadmium and enormous amounts of these other materials.
A single 2-megawatt wind turbine requires some 3.5 tons of copper to generate and transmit electricity – plus 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete, 45 tons of non-recyclable plastic composites, several tons of rare earth elements, and many tons of manganese, cobalt, aluminum and other metals and minerals.
Magnets in hybrid gas-electric vehicle motors require dysprosium and neodymium, while a single 100-kilowatt-hour Tesla rechargeable battery pack (for all-electric vehicles and backup power systems) requires 140 pounds of lithium, large amounts of cobalt, nickel, graphite, aluminum and copper, and smaller amounts of manganese and rare earth metals. The raw material demands go on and on.
Multiply these requirements by the tens of thousands of offshore wind turbines, millions of onshore turbines, billions of solar panels and billions of 1,200-pound battery packs that would be needed under the Green New Deal – and the demand for raw materials would translate into unimaginable increases in mining around the world. It would also bring unsustainable global ecological impacts, enormous increases in global fossil fuel use and emissions, indefensible reliance on Chinese (and Russian) raw material and finished product imports, and vastly more slave and child labor and human rights violations around the world.
Transformers, smart grid control systems, electric vehicles and thousands of miles of additional transmission lines under the GND would add even more to the increases in raw materials demand. Modern civilizations also need numerous other metals: arsenic for microwave communications, fluorspar for aluminum and steel production and uranium processing, gallium for LEDs and cell phones, graphite for rechargeable batteries, scandium for lightweight alloys and fuel cells, bismuth for pharmaceuticals and lead-free solders, antimony for lead-acid batteries and flame retardants, and countless others.
It bears repeating: Almost every one of these essential materials could be mined and processed domestically. But instead many are 100% imported, mostly from China. Many Americans’ disdain for mining and manufacturing means US energy, jobs, living standards, health and national security will be almost entirely dependent on China, Russia and other countries that are not exactly friendly or reliable.
One thing is certain. Unlike US technologies and intellectual property that are constantly at risk of theft by China – there is absolutely nothing about US mineral resource policies that the CCP would ever want to copy, much less steal! And the Chinese certainly have no interest in copying our pollution control, mined land reclamation, wildlife protection, workplace safety, fair wage, child labor or human rights laws.
Sadly, not one of these realities seems to merit even a moment’s consideration by GND proponents.
Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, environment, climate and human rights issues. Dr. Ned Mamula is geologist and former mineral resource specialist with the U.S. Geological Survey. He is author of the book Groundbreaking! America’s New Quest for Mineral Independence.
Tags: China, Green New Deal, Rare Earth Elements
Michael Schellenberger: “Apocalypse Never” Slide Deck
When a bird changes its song . . .
Richard (the cynical one0
Maybe reliance on the most honorable ‘Peoples Republic’ is the point.
Reply to Richard (the cynical one0
Democrats have a long history of favoring foreign communists over Americans.
Remember Ted Kennedy and the Dear Comendante letter?
Willem Post
Reply to MarkW
Clinton allowed China into the WTO as a DEVELOPING COUNTRY, which provides all sorts of trade advantages, which eventually led to the US having $350 BILLION trade deficits with China.
US companies were totally screwed by Clinton. He should have insisted on balanced trade; you buy from us a dollar value of goods and services and we buy from you an EQUAL dollar value of goods and services.
Clinton also signed the original NAFTA, which Perot called a giant sucking sound of US jobs going up in smoke.
As part of the Kennedy Round, the US lowered its import duties, but Europe did not.
US companies were totally screwed, which ultimately led to the RUST BELT, and 50% of the US vehicle market owned by foreigners.
Tom Abbott
Reply to Willem Post
Bill Clinton also modernized China’s space program by encouraging American companies to help the Chinese fix their rockets, which kept blowing up all the time.
I wonder how much Clinton made off that deal. I bet the Chinese have that figure written down somewhere.
I see where the Chinese are launching a Mars orbiter and lander now. They ought to name the orbiter or the lander “Thanks, Bill”, in Bill’s honor.
Reply to Tom Abbott
Do not forget Biden cozying up to China (with Obama’s approval) paving the way for his well-connected son to make millions in China and in Ukraine.
Earlier, the son was dishonorably discharged from the Navy for drinking and taking drugs.
Regarding the Kennedy Round, it laid the foundation for Europe to totally dominate various manufacturing technologies. TESLA buys its robots from Germany!!
The Europeans and Japanese/Koreans rate the technical level of US manufacturing as “second world”, on par with most of East Europe and Russia.
http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-eu-and-international-trade
Regarding NAFTA, foreign companies ship their own parts to Mexico, make their own parts in Mexico, and assemble it all in plants in Mexico, and ship totally assembled cars to the US DUTY FREE, BECAUSE OF NAFTA, as approved by Clinton.
Mexico used to have trade deficits with the US, but now its trade surplus with the US is greater than Germany’s, which has a ten times greater economy!!!!
Starting with Kennedy, it was Democrat Presidents who gave away the store.
Trump looked at these trade agreements, and, as a businessman (not a politician) started vomiting.
His thinking was: How could the US negotiators have dropped the ball that often.
The rest is history.
David Streeter
It is imperative that China be recognized as a self-interested antagonistic opponent of everything for which the U. S. stands and that we strive for maximum independence from China and her allies.
co2isnotevil
Reply to David Streeter
As bad of an actor that China is, our increased dependence on them for things like steel, aluminum and solar panels manufactured with coal powered electricity will be the least of our problems if this New Green Disaster ever becomes the law of the land.
Alan Chappell
Reply to co2isnotevil
America cannot currently under uneducated Democratic stupidity help themselves.
Ignorance is bliss for the Democrat mind set God help us if the present trend continues ( But God has gone on holiday )
Yes, if the people of the U.S. elect the Democrats to the presidency, then they might as well have voted to put the Chinese Communist Party in charge of the U.S. There won’t be much difference, except the American communists will speak English while the Chinese communists will speak Chinese. The policies of suppression will be the same for both countries.
The Democrats tried to steal the 2016 presidential election. If those same people are put back in the Oval Office, they will correct their mistakes and will accomplish the theft of the American Republc in perpetuity.
If you vote for Joe “China” Biden, you might as well be voting for China’s Xi. Both seek to control every aspect of your lives, whether you like it or not. And will control every aspect of your life if they are given the power. Don’t vote the slave masters into Office.
We can only hope that the American left wakes up from its woken slumber and gets over their systemic racist hate against a white male president and those who voted against a corrupt woman so they can see for themselves that Biden is so far into dementia, he’s oblivious to the fact that he has surrounded himself with radical Marxists hell bent on destroying the freedom that enables people to think for themselves and which became the foundation of American exceptionalism.
Andy Espersen
It is imperative that the U.S. be recognized as a self-interested antagonistic opponent of everything for which China stands and that we strive for maximum independence from the U.S. and her allies.
Reply to Andy Espersen
ahhh a moral equivalence troll … how cute …
Reply to The Dark Lord
Ha – a cute, moral equivalence troll – I suppose you are right. But I would rather have you properly fault my logic.
I do resent the present whipping up nationalistic hatred against capitalist competitors. Haven’t we had enough of that in the past?
When moral equivalence trolls have to invent nasty motivations on the part of the US, you know that they are scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of trying to justify their positions.
It makes as much sense to call the US communist, as it does to call China capitalist.
Bryan A
It is imperative that China be recognized as a self-interested antagonistic opponent of everything for which the U.S. and her allies stand for vis a-vis that we strive for maximum independence from the Tyranny of Communism.
Chaamjamal
“But first it said nothing. Then it lied repeatedly, expelled foreign journalists, and threatened, silenced or “disappeared” Wuhan doctors who tried to warn the world”
These are terrible things but it does not necessarily imply evil intent because chinese speech and behavior must be understood in the context of Confucianism where image and appearances are more important than truth. China cannot be understood and their actions and language cannot be interpreted in terms of western values such as the primacy of truth. China must be understood in terms of chinese values and in the context of Confucianism.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/05/30/wbm2001-the-private-sector-in-china/
Oldseadog
Reply to Chaamjamal
” …. image and appearances are more important than truth.”
You are so right, and until “the West” understands fully the context of “face” “the West” will be at a disadvantage.
And until you have had to contend with a “loss of face” situation it will be difficult for you to understand what the whole thing is about.
Imagine being moored for three days working cargo in a Chinese port and then being charged with causing your vessel to collide with a Chinese one which was passing.
This happened to a friend of mine. After three days of “interviews” he gave in and signed the document they put in front of him. He still doesn’t know what it said but assumes that it said he was guilty so the locals did not lose face.
He had stopped smoking ten yeras before but started again during that ordeal.
Clyde Spencer
Reply to Oldseadog
In The Art of War, Sun Tsu said that the essence of war is deception. Westerners can hope that their friends are truthful, but it is parochial to expect those who are engaged with us in an economic war will be truthful. We should always be on the alert for deception, i.e. lies.
so the WHO lying and saying China reported it…..when China never reported it at all
…was just diplomacy
a paranoid person might think it was all a contrived conspiracy
Reply to Latitude
“paranoia” is when a person thinks everything is about them.
“China cannot be understood and their actions and language cannot be interpreted in terms of western values such as the primacy of truth. China must be understood in terms of chinese values and in the context of Confucianism.”
Maybe one cannot understand China without understanding Confucianism, but it doesn’t follow that China “must be understood in terms of Chinese values”. Are we obliged to understand domestic abusers in terms of domestic abusers’ values? Thieves? Burglars?
Much of Driessen’s piece is overwrought and I’m afraid no American is in a position to tout US moral superiority. The US Federal government is an aggressive, lawless institution that violently crushes human rights and resistance to its hegemony all over the planet. (and no, saying this doesn’t make me “anti-American” – just anti- US Federal government foreign policy.)
Having said that… the Chinese government are even worse (at least domestically) and Driessen is right in this respect: it was a vast geostrategic mistake to become so dependent upon them, and economically ruinous to the US’ own blue-collar workers to impose regulations that made it impossible to compete with them.
But the only way the US can detach itself from China is to become more like them, at least in terms of environmental and worker protection regulations, and I’m seeing little appetite for this amongst the US public. Just the opposite, in fact.
Reply to Observer
Claiming that the US has hegemony all over the planet, doesn’t make you anti-US, it just makes you an idiot.
Harry Passfield
But the only way the US can detach itself from China is to become more like them
I’m sorry, that’s just nonsense. To detach oneself from murderers means that one has to become more of a murderer? That’s not logical. That’s like saying that, in order to detach itself from Hitler, GB had to start building concentration camps.
I guess my reply to you was dumped – having appeared for a few seconds – because I mentioned the name of the guy with the toothbrush moustache. Maybe, in review, the modes might restore the comment… After all these years of commenting here I still live in hope. After all, comments like yours are allowed…
“Having said that… the Chinese government are even worse (at least domestically) and”
What nonsense the “domestically” is. China us the “Robber Barons” on steroids on a global scale.
Yes, the US has taken advantage at times, and yet the US has a history of
protection of other nations right to prosper from their own resources.
And no, I won’t take the time to debate 100 years of US and world history with you, but your moral equivalence argument is simply nonsense.
I will give you this, US foreign policy under Obama was incredibly destructive to the world. ( And sadly quite in Sync with Neocons in a few areas)
Reply to David A
Even the Robber Barons were never robber barons.
Yes, Obama screwed up everything he touched, although I don’t know where you think the Neocons have common ground with him, other than both of them hating Trump..
Btw, the Neocons are a very small clique of people who don’t really have any influence anymore, especially with Trump in Office. That’s why the Neocons have turned into Never-Trumpers.
Imo, Obama was the worst president in the history of the United States. He did more harm to our basic Constitutional Republic than any previous president, which culminated in his treasonous acts to undermine the U.S. Constitution, the American electoral process, and the undermining of the political opposition’s presidential campaign and then sought to paralyze and undermine the government of Donald Trump.
Obama is a traitor to the United States, as are Joe Biden and all those who participated in trying to rig the 2016 and 2020 elections.
I think it was easy for Obama to become a traitor. All his life he was taught how the British and the U.S. governments were evil and illegetimate, and so when Obama gets in a position to affect these issues, he sees no problem with trying to rig the system in his and his party’s favor, afterall, the system is corrupt, isn’t it? Or so he thinks. So it’s not a big leap for Obama to try to “fix” the situation.
The bottom line is Obama is a traitor and a criminal. Let’s hope this all comes out before the November elections. The evidence already made public is enough to start prosecutions of the Obama administration.
We cannot afford to put these same traitors back in the White House where they will rig coming elections to favor themselves and there won’t be a thing the rest of us can do about it other than complain.
Don’t reelect these traitors. Put them in jail, where they belong. Take that arrogant smirk off Obama’s face.
Saying it makes you wrong, whatever else it makes you.
Trump has been saying that for decades. Now, as president, he’s doing something about it. He’s waving his Magic Wand and bringing manufacturers back into the USA.
Let’s see what the supply chain looks like after Trump’s next term is over.
David Blenkinsop
I’m sure that a lot of people, myself included, have been pretty naive as to what sort of philosophy might be driving the current Chinese system of things. What you appear to be saying is that it’s just a matter of showing who is boss, same as any warlord or organized crime leadership?
“These are terrible things but it does not necessarily imply evil intent”
Yes it does. Everyone desires power. Evil intent is best defined as power over others, specifically group or government power in this case. Almost all crimes are a form of power over others; murder, theft, rape, blackmail, fraud, etc… are universally recognized crimes if power. “Government is a necessary evil”
The ” intent” of China is evil.
Oppressing others because you want to “save face” is evil.
Hiding the truth about COVID19 because you want to “save face” is evil.
Understanding about “face” may help us predict what the Chinese leaders are going to do, but that still doesn’t excuse them.
Hitler felt that his actions were justified in order to “save” the Aryan race.
David Hoopman
“Sadly, not one of these [China-related] realities seems to merit even a moment’s consideration by GND proponents.”
Of course they don’t merit a moment’s consideration by GND proponents. Here is a remarkably unguarded comment by Saikat Chakrabarti, then-chief of staff to GND proponent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It was published in the Washington Post Magazine, July 10, 2019. Chakrabarti dropped off the radar very shortly afterward:
“Chakrabarti had an unexpected disclosure. ‘The interesting thing about the Green New Deal,’ he said, ‘is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all.’ Ricketts greeted this startling notion with an attentive poker face. ‘Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?’ Chakrabarti continued. ‘Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.'”
These people don’t give a rat’s rump about the climate, whether they believe it’s controllable by government action or not. What they’re interested in is establishing an authoritarian (at best) socialist dictatorship. That is the beginning, middle, and end of what they’re about.
Reply to David Hoopman
Most of these people are the kind of people who in high school, weren’t athletic enough to make any of the teams, and were second tier at best academically.
They spent all their time in school in tight little klicks, telling each other how they were the special ones and it was societies fault for not recognizing how special they were.
They are now set to tear down the society that failed to recognize them and replace it with one where they get to tell everyone else what to do.
Indeed – do an internet search on Figueres Capitalism
You will find that she says just the same thing. The use of the Climate Change and the Paris Accord was to crash capitalism.
The UN are less interested in climate change now as the COVID-19 shut downs have managed far more far quicker. Expect grit to be thrown into the gears of recovery by the same actors that support(ed) the Paris Accord.
Kevin kilty
Our real problem is not China. It is our political system at present. Weak Republicans trying to counter Democrats who are actually a new religion constantly pandering to one or another of their fanatical splinter groups.
Reply to Kevin kilty
It’s not so much weak Republicans, the problem is that most of the Republican leadership also wants to grow government. The only difference is that they want to be the ones running the dictatorship, not the Democrats.
A small correction. The Horseshoe bat that carries Covid is far to small to use as a food source. In addition it lives a thousand miles away from the food market so the original source had to be one of the the labs working with the virus. China had an active research program working with the virus in 2017 and the program may have gone back as far as 2014. One of the things they were working on was helping the virus jump from one species to another. This process is common knowledge in research so it’s nothing special. That type of research is done to understand how dangerous the virus would be to humans. If the outbreak started in the wet market, it was probably due to a researcher from one of the two labs in the area infecting somebody in the wet market and not because of something sold in the market.
China knew all this and it would have been sufficient reason to destroy all cultures other than the ones they had under lock and key. Even the bat lady was disappeared for a while, probably until they could be sure that she would tell the story they wanted told. There is a story of a couple wanting to visit Wuhan about November 1 and their tour guide wouldn’t allow them in the city. Their activity was restricted to closed places where they were the only ones in a museum. The excuse they were give was that there were bad things happening in the city. It may have been the tour guide doing his best to protect his customers from what the government wouldn’t admit.
Clearly China can’t be trusted as they will not fill out important details even when enough is known to put the blame in the proper place. Depending on them is extremely risky and could leave us dependent on the limited supplies we have in this country.
Personally, I will try to avoid made in China as much as possible but it’s difficult. I have seen just how much of what I have purchased was made there and it’s scary how dependent we have become on a country that would gladly cause harm to us just to make a few extra dollars.
Reply to Dena
It’s not a “few extra dollars”. Most people in the US would be materially much worse off if they couldn’t buy Chinese goods. US society might experience nett gain, in that there’d be more demand for lower-skilled workers and consequently less unemployment, but unless worker legislation is liberalised that’s by o means a given.
China is also a major recycler of the US dollar, and if US citizens were to spend more of their money domestically, this would increase the risk of the USD losing its world reserve currency status.
It almost certainly will eventually anyway, but it’s not something you want to hurry up.
Then again, they would be morally better off, knowing they (US buyers) are not feeding the dragon that will eat them one day.
n.n
Liberalized, as in divergent? How is that relevant? The problems are progressive prices, immigration reform, affirmative discrimination, and economies without borders. Our selective-child policy (e.g. reproductive rites) only serves to exacerbate the problem.
“Most people in the US would be materially much worse off if they couldn’t buy Chinese goods. ”
Nonsense. Human labor is an ever smaller percentage of the cost of production, which makes a relative increase in the cost of transportation.
Also there are far better behaved nations then China to deal with. India for instance has an inherently non aggressive culture.
President Trump was wining the trade war easily and setting up bilateral trade deals with India, Mexico, South Korea, Japan etc… Then came the China virus, and the globalist response to it of never letting a crisis go to waste.
Old Retired Guy
Paul, this is an outstanding summation of the production and installation of the NOT Green New Deal products. I think an analysis of what happens as these products reach end of life is needed. Graveyards for turbine blades, highly toxic battery disposal, etc. appear to be a bigger environmental disaster than the earlier production and installation.
Gregory Woods
https://slate.com/technology/2020/07/climate-change-deaths-japan-2018-heat-wave.html
The First Undeniable Climate Change Deaths
In 2018 in Japan, more than 1,000 people died during an unprecedented heat wave. In 2019, scientists proved it would have been impossible without global warming.
Yeah, sure, ok….
Reply to Gregory Woods
“In 2018 in Japan, more than 1,000 people died during an unprecedented heat wave. In 2019, scientists proved it would have been impossible without global warming”
And in 2020 the climate science obsession with the attribution of extreme weather events to fossil fuel emissions ran into a wall.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/07/16/the-internal-variability-issue/
As every good climate scientist knows, if not for CO2, the Little Ice Age never would have ended.
Well of course….that has always been the plan. There is a reason why Maurice Strong hid out in China after the Iraq oil for food scam. The whole “climate change” gong show is for the benefit of China….pure and simple. By the way, any more word on the “deformed” Three Gorges dam?
dmacleo
weird but that pic looks a LOT like an outline/diagram of a turbine engine.
messed with my eyes LOL
I loved the tweet that Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo sent out, showing his pet dog about to have a little play time with the Winnie the Pooh stuffed animal. Remember, Chairman Pooh (Xi) had banned all talk and photos’s of Winnie the Pooh, after he was mocked for walking like Winnie the Pooh when with Obummer. Too funny! Should have been a Pit Bull instead of a Golden Retriever.
Winnie The Pooh Gate: Does Mike Pompeo’s Dog Photo Have a Hidden Message for China?
https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/winnie-the-pooh-gate-does-mike-pompeos-dog-picture-have-a-hidden-message-for-china-2719275.html
Alexander Carpenter
This import-dependence situation is a direct consequence of the perpetual and covert class war in the US and western Europe, through financialization and globalization by the elites. Soon it will be pitchfork-time in the US, and then time to eat the rich in a world increasingly made by hand. When everyone is armed, and theven the police are starving, who wins?
Nobody, basically, but there will be plenty of battles to win even if everyone loses the war.
Keeping Chinese military malware/virus loaded 5G equipment from Huawei Technologies Co out Western cellphone grids will be essential to securing our future from a CCP intent on holding the West’s communications hostage and extracting intelligence from keuy individuals who connect to their equipment in the cell towers/poles. Huawei Technologies Co 5G electronics boards are loaded with carefully hidden chips and bearing microcode waiting to be activated for every nefarious purpose one can imagine, and probably some that most folks haven’t thought of. The CCP is doing this in order to have a decisive card to play as it plans to exert military dominance in the South China Sea and beyond in a future “hot war” confrontation with the US and its regional allies.
With Hong Kong now secured, China will now set its sights on Taiwan. A military operation with large scale amphibious landings proceeded by dozens of missile strikes on key Taiwanese installations will be
Taiwan will be a much tougher nut for the Chinese Communists to crack.
Taiwan may be uncrackable if the U.S. decides to get involved.
The U.S. might decide to get involved.
The Chinese communists should think about that.
The Chinese communists are scaring a lot of people with their reckless actions, and are driving them closer to the United States.
The problem with bullies is they won’t stop until someone pushes back. The mistake bullies always make is they push things too far. It’s in their nature. And it’s in our nature to slap bullies down to the ground when they go too far.
Funny, the code and hardware designs for Huawei 4G and 5G products have been made available for scrutiny by their customers and concerned governments for many years now with no such findings. These days proof is not required I suppose but I expected better from this website.
The real danger to the US is the incredible STEM focus in education in Asia. Yes their politics are nasty but the kids building tech their are like kids everywhere.
The elites in America and Europe don’t care about the economic demise of their economies. So long as they have their high government positions that are immune from layoffs the economy does not affect them. There will be massive problems for them eventually, when the government debt becomes too high and lenders will no longer lend until government size is cut dramatically.
Reply to Stevek
That’s right. It’s all about “relative status.” But the elites you identify as being in the government are not the ones ultimately in charge; they are minions of the true neo-feudal owners, who have been very successful at keeping their personal identities obscure. Anybody WE know about has only the rank of captain in the world oligarchic hierarchy. The persons we are most familiar with are puppets set to dance and wiggle to distract us.
Bruce Cobb
The question is, why do the DemocRats hate the US so much? Don’t they live here too?
Reply to Bruce Cobb
Why the hate???
This lady from Yukoslivia explains it well…
https://youtu.be/dhvc22afIeQ
The Democrats have been taught to hate the United States. It’s part of the program.
The U.S. education system has been brainwashing students for decades into hating the U.S. It’s part of the effort to eventually overthrow the United States government and turn the nation into an authoritarian-governed nation.
The first thing the Marxists and Communists try to do is destroy the old society so they can create a new one more to their liking. That is what is happening in the U.S. today, although it appears there are not enough violent leftists out in the streets to do the job. One good crackdown, and all these tough guys would go home to mama. The Feds ought to position some snipers around the area of interest and those snipers should shoot every person who uses a laser and/or throws an object at the police, with rubber bullets. That would quell the violence.
Trump is in the process of arresting the ring leaders.
I see where the NAACP of Oregon is complaining about the riots in Portland, saying the radical Antifa is hijacking the protests over George Floyd’s death.
Even at the height of the protests over George Floyd’s death only about one in six people were black, most of the rest are white. And most of the rioters in Portland are white. It’s no longer about George Floyd, it’s about anarchy and tearing our country down, although they are only managing to tear Portland down.
And the news media continues to distort the situation claiming this violence is going on “across the nation” implying that it is happening everywhere when in fact, it is happenining in only a few places, and Washington State and Oregon State are notorious for the number of violent radicals living there, so they are not representative of the rest of the nation. The Leftwing News Media and Fox News should stop distorting the situation and adding fuel to the fire. Take a deep breath!
Ghalfrunt.
I’ll post this time line again but I do not suppose it will make much difference.
You do not cry pandemic at the first case of pneumonia. You would be ridiculed if there was really no spread. The WHO declared Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 21st January. The Chinese provided genetic sequence by 12 January Most countries took severe action until mid March. …
December 21st 2019 Chinese epidemiologists with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention published an article on 20th January 2020 stating that the first cluster of patients with ‘pneumonia of an unknown cause’ had been identified on 21st December 2019
You cannot act on this – it is a sort of pneumonia with unknown transmission. It was published therefore no secret
December 31st 2019 Chinese authorities confirmed they were treating dozens of cases of pneumonia of an unknown cause. Days laters researchers in China identified a new virus that had infected dozens of people. There was no evidence that the virus was spread by humans.
China contacts the WHO and informs them of ‘cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology’ detected in Wuhan
no evidence for human to human spread and who informed
1 January 2020 WHO had set up the IMST (Incident Management Support Team) across the three levels of the organization: headquarters, regional headquarters and country level, putting the organization on an emergency footing for dealing with the outbreak.
January 2nd 2020 Central Hospital of Wuhan banned its staff from discussing the disease publicly or recording them using text or image that can be used as evidence
Chinese damage limitation – not called for
4 January 2020 WHO reported on social media that there was a cluster of pneumonia cases – with no deaths – in Wuhan, Hubei province.
5 January 2020 WHO published their first Disease Outbreak News on the new virus. This is a flagship technical publication to the scientific and public health community as well as global media. It contained a risk assessment and advice, and reported on what China had told the organization about the status of patients and the public health response on the cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan.
January 8th 2020 The Chinese government agrees to accept a WHO scientific team to assist their own researchers
WHO goes to China now they cannot hide problems
10 January 2020 Developed with reference to other coronaviruses, such as SARS and MERS, WHO issued a tool for countries to check their ability to detect and respond to a novel coronavirus. This information is to help with identifying main gaps, assessing risks and planning for additional investigations, response and control actions.
January 11th 2020 Chinese state media reported the first known death from an illness caused by the virus. It was a 61-year old man who was a regular customer of the market in Wuhan where the virus is believed to have originated, and had previously been found to have abdominal tumors and chronic liver disease.
first death many co-morbidities – so was this the virus?
12 January 2020 China shares the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus, which will be very important for other countries as they develop specific diagnostic kits. First case of novel coronavirus outside of China confirmed
13 January 2020 Officials confirmed a case of the novel coronavirus in Thailand. It was not unexpected that cases of the novel coronavirus would emerge outside of China and reinforces why WHO calls for active monitoring and preparedness in other countries. WHO makes field visit to Wuhan, China
January 14th 2020 Reporters from Hong Kong taken to police station after trying to film the situation within Wuhan hospital
Chinese damage limitation?
14 January 2020 WHO’s technical lead for the response noted in a press briefing there may have been limited human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus (in the 41 confirmed cases), mainly through family members, and that there was a risk of a possible wider outbreak. The lead also said that human-to-human transmission would not be surprising given our experience with SARS, MERS and other respiratory pathogens.
January 20th 2020 The first confirmed cases outside mainland China occurred in Japan, South Korea and Thailand, according to the WHO.
January 21st 2020 The first confirmed case of the virus in the US in Washington State, where a man in his 30s developed symptoms after returning from a trip to Wuhan.
USA now knows
21 January 2020 The WHO delegation observed and discussed active surveillance processes, temperature screening at Wuhan Tianhe airport, laboratory facilities, infection prevention and control measures at Zhongnan hospital and its associated fever clinics, and the deployment of a test kit to detect the virus. The delegation also discussed public communication efforts and China’s plan to expand the case definition for the novel coronavirus, which will build a clearer picture of the spectrum of severity of the virus. At the end of the visit, the Chinese Government released the primers and probes used in the test kit for the novel coronavirus to help other countries detect it. Chinese experts also shared a range of protocols that will be used in developing international guidelines, including case definitions, clinical management protocols and infection control. Public Health Emergency of International Concern declared
January 22nd 2020 Public Health England announces it is moving the risk level to the British public from ‘very low’ to ‘low’.
UK knows – us and UK not taking action – why?
22 January 2020 WHO mission to China issued a statement saying that there was evidence of human-to-human transmission in Wuhan but more investigation was needed to understand the full extent of transmission.
22- 23 January 2020 The WHO Director-General convened an Emergency Committee (EC) under the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) to assess whether the outbreak constituted a public health emergency of international concern. The independent members from around the world could not reach a consensus based on the evidence available at the time. They asked to be reconvened within 10 days after receiving more information.
January 23rd 2020 Wuhan (population over 11 million) is cut off by the Chinese authorities. Planes and trains leaving the city are cancelled, and buses, subways and ferries within the city are suspended. 17 people had died at this point and 570 infected in Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, South Korea and the US.
Figures compiled by the Chinese Railway Administration showed that approximately 100,000 people had already departed from Wuhan Train Station by the deadline.
Construction begins in Wuhan for a specialist emergency hospital which opened on 3rd February
lock down – us uk no action why?
Trump::Jan 24 China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!
January 26th 2020 China extends the ‘Spring Festival’ holiday in order to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
Schools in Beijing to stay closed until further notice
Trump:: Jan 27 We are in very close communication with China concerning the virus. Very few cases reported in USA, but strongly on watch. We have offered China and President Xi any help that is necessary. Our experts are extraordinary!
28 January 2020 A senior WHO delegation led by the Director-General travelled to Beijing to meet China’s leadership, learn more about China’s response, and to offer any technical assistance. While in Beijing, Dr. Tedros agreed with Chinese government leaders that an international team of leading scientists would travel to China on a mission to better understand the context, the overall response, and exchange information and experience.
29th January 2020 The UK’s first two patients test positive for Coronavirus after two Chinese nationals from the same family staying at a hotel in York fall ill.
A plane evacuating Britons from Wuhan arrives at RAF Brize Norton. Passengers go into a 14 day quarantine at a specialist hospital on Merseyside.
still no US/UK action
January 30th 2020 WHO declares a global health emergency amid thousands of new cases in China.
who declares emergency – there is a definite problem – US/UK no action
30 January 2020 WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the 2019-nCoV outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, following a second meeting of the Emergency Committee convened under the International Health Regulations. Acknowledging that cases have been reported in five WHO regions in one month, the Committee noted that early detection, isolating and treating cases, contact tracing and social distancing measures – in line with the level of risk – can all work to interrupt virus spread.
Trump::jan 30 Working closely with China and others on Coronavirus outbreak. Only 5 people in U.S., all in good recovery.
Trump::Jan 30 Just received a briefing on the Coronavirus in China from all of our GREAT agencies, who are also working closely with China. We will continue to monitor the ongoing developments. We have the best experts anywhere in the world, and they are on top of it 24/7!
January 31st 2020 The US suspends entry into the country by any foreign nationals who had travelled to China in the past 14 days, excluding the immediate family members of US citizens or permanent residents.
213 people had died and 9,800 infected worldwide.
us action on flights (should have happened earlier to be effective virus is already loose in US) US/UK no lock down why?
February 1st 2020 Spain confirms its first case of the coronavirus on La Gomera in the Canary Islands
February 2nd 2020 The first death of coronavirus is reported outside China, as a 44-year-old man in the Philippines dies after being infected.
3 February 2020 WHO releases the international community’s Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan to help protect states with weaker health systems
February 4th 2020 The UK directs its citizens to leave China if possible
spread it further???
February 5th 2020 A cruise ship in Japan quarantines 3600 people after a two-week trip to Southeast Asia. 218 people onboard the ship tested positive for the virus.
February 7th 2020 The Chinese doctor Dr. Li Wenliang, who tried to ring early alarms that a cluster of infections could spin out of control, dies after contracting the virus. He was reprimanded by authorities in early January and he was forced to sign a statement denouncing his warning as an unfounded and illegal rumor.
Trump:: 7th Feb 2020 Just had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China. He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days. Nothing is easy, but he will be successful, especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker, and then gone. Great discipline is taking place in China, as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation. We are working closely with China to help!
Trump::Feb. 10: “I think the virus is going to be — it’s going to be fine.”
February 11th 2020 The disease is named ‘Covid-19’, an acronym that stands for coronavirus disease 2019. 1113 people in China have died with 44,653 cases, and 393 cases outside of China.
11-12 February 2020 WHO convened a Research and Innovation Forum on COVID-19, attended by more than 400 experts and funders from around the world, which included presentations by George Gao, Director General of China CDC, and Zunyou Wu, China CDC’s chief epidemiologist.
February 14th 2020 France announces the first coronavirus death in Europe – an 80-year-old Chinese tourist. The fourth death from the virus outside mainland China.
Egypt confirms its first case, the first on the African continent.
Trump::Feb. 14: “We have a very small number of people in the country, right now, with it. It’s like around 12. Many of them are getting better. Some are fully recovered already. So we’re in very good shape.”
February 17th 2020 China said it was reviewing its trade and consumption of wildlife, which has been identified as a probable source of the outbreak
443 passengers leave the Diamond Princess cruises ship. A total of 621 people aboard the ship were infected.
Trump::Feb. 19: “I think it’s going to work out fine. I think when we get into April, in the warmer weather, that has a very negative effect on that and that type of a virus. So let’s see what happens, but I think it’s going to work out fine.”
February 21st 2020 The virus appears in Iran from an unknown source. Iran announced the two cases then hours later said that both patients had died. Two days later, Iran announced two additional deaths.
The South Korean government shuts down thousands of kindergartens, nursing homes and community centres, following a surge in infections linked to the secretive church the Shincheonji Church of Jesus.
south korean lock down bypassed by religious sect worship
February 23rd 2020 Italy sees a major surge in coronavirus cases – up to 150. Officials locked down 10 towns in Lombardy after a cluster of cases suddenly emerged in Codogno, southeast of Milan. Schools closed and sporting and cultural events were canceled.
Italy introduces strict measures which place almost 50,000 people in lockdown in an attempt to control the virus
italy lock down too late
February 24th 2020 The Trump administration asks Congress for $1.25 billion for coronavirus response – the US had 35 confirmed cases and no deaths.
Iran emerges as a second focus point of the virus, with 61 cases and 12 deaths. It is a cause for worry as a place of pilgrimage.
Iran problems made worse by sanctions
Trump::Feb. 24 (tweet): “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. … Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Trump::Feb. 25: “You may ask about the coronavirus, which is very well under control in our country. We have very few people with it, and the people that have it are … getting better. They’re all getting better. … As far as what we’re doing with the new virus, I think that we’re doing a great job.”
Trump:: Feb. 25: “Now they have it, they have studied it, they know very much, in fact, we’re very close to a vaccine,”
February 26th 2020 Latin America reports its first coronavirus case, as Brazilian health officials said that a 61-year-old Sao Paulo man, returning from Italy, tested positive for the virus.
Trump::Feb. 26: “Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low. … When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero. That’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”
February 28th 2020 800 people are now infected in Italy, and cases in 14 other European countries remain an area of concern
Sub-Saharan Africa records its first infection.
The first British victim dies of coronavirus onboard the Diamond Princess.
UK authorities confirm the first case of the illness to be passed on inside the country.
The worst week for the global stock markets since the 2008 financial crash.
The WHO raises the coronavirus alert to the highest level.
no action from us/uk re lockdown. Whatever the WHO says at this point is irrelevant – the dangers are self evident
Trump::Feb. 28: “I think it’s really going well. … We’re prepared for the worst, but we think we’re going to be very fortunate.”
Trump::Feb. 28: “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
Trump::Feb. 28: “This is their new hoax.”
February 29th 2020 The US records its first coronavirus death and announces travel restrictions of ‘do not travel’ warnings for areas in Italy and South Korea. It also bans all travel to Iran and bars entry to any foreign citizen who had visited Iran in the previous 14 days.
the virus is loose in the us restrictions not really relevant at this point
March 4th 2020 Cases of Covid-19 surge in the UK, as officials announce the biggest one-day increase so far as 34 cases bring the total to 87
Italy announces it is shutting schools and universities.
Trump::March 4: “Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they’ll get better. There are many people like that.”
Trump::March 4: Now, this is just my hunch, but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of people will have this and it is very mild… So if, you know, we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better, just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work, some of them go to work, but they get better and then, when you do have a death like you had in the state of Washington, like you had one in California, I believe you had one in New York, you know, all of a sudden it seems like 3 or 4 percent, which is a very high number, as opposed to a fraction of 1 percent.
Trump::March 9 (tweet): “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life and the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!”
March 10th 2020 Nadine Dorries, a junior health minister, becomes the first MP to test positive for coronavirus.
6 people in the UK have now died of the illness, with 373 testing positive
Trump::March 10: “And it hit the world. And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.”
March 11th 2020 The US blocks travel from European countries other than the UK for 30 days, as the WHO declares the virus a pandemic and stock markets plunge.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak announces a £12bn package of emergency support to help the UK cope with the expected onslaught from coronavirus
11 March 2020 Deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction, WHO made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.
Trump::March 11: “I think we’re going to get through it very well.”
Trump::March 12: “It’s going to go away. … The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.”
March 13th 2020 The US declares a national emergency and makes $50 billion in federal funds available to tackle the coronavirus.
A host of UK sporting events announce their postponement including the London Marathon. Premier League fixtures are suspended.
Trump::March 15: “This is a very contagious virus. It’s incredible. But it’s something that we have tremendous control over.”
March 16th 2020 Latin America imposes restrictions on their citizens to slow the spread of the virus. Venezuela announces a nationwide quarantine to begin on March 17th. Ecuador and Peru implement countrywide lockdowns, and Colombia and Costa Rica close their borders. Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro encourages mass demonstrations by his supporters against his opponents in congress.
Boris Johnson begins daily press briefings, urging everybody in the UK to work from home and avoid pubs and restaurants to give the NHS time to cope with the pandemic.
The UK’s death toll rises to 55, with 1,543 confirmed cases, though it is believed 10,000 people have already been infected.
March 17th 2020 France imposes a nationwide lockdown, prohibiting all gatherings and only allowing people to go out for fresh air. France had more than 6,500 infections with more than 140 deaths
The EU bars most travellers from outside the bloc for 30 days.
Rishi Sunak unleashes the biggest package of emergency state support for business since the 2008 financial crash, unveiling £330bn-worth of government-backed loans and more than £20bn in tax cuts and grants for companies threatened with collapse.
Trump::march 17: “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic”
March 18th 2020 The UK government announces most schools across England will be shut down from Friday until further notice. Wales and Scotland announce they will also close schools.
uk lockdown begins
18 March 2020 WHO and partners launch the Solidarity Trial, an international clinical trial that aims to generate robust data from around the world to find the most effective treatments for COVID-19.
March 19th 2020 For the first time, China reports zero local infections, a milestone in the fight against the pandemic. Experts said the country would need to see at least 14 consecutive days without new infections for the outbreak to be considered over. 34 new cases were confirmed among people who had arrived in China from elsewhere. March 19-24th 2020 United States lockdowns. California 2020-03-19[156] Clark County, NV 2020-03-20[157] Connecticut 2020-03-23[158] Illinois 2020-03-21[160] Kansas City, KS 2020-03-24[162] Massachusetts 2020-03-24[164] Michigan 2020-03-24[165] New York 2020-03-20[166] Oregon 2020-03-24[168] Wisconsin 2020-03-24[169]
March 20th 2020 The UK government orders all pubs, restaurants, gyms and other social venues across the country to close
The chancellor announces the government will pay up to 80% of wages for workers at risk of being laid off
uk lockdown tightens
March 23rd 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in a televised address to the nation, says that Britons should only go outside to buy food, to exercise once a day, or to go to work if they absolutely cannot work from home. Citizens will face police fines for failure to comply with these new measures.
Worldwide figures stand at more than 270,000 cases and 11,000 deaths.
March 24th 2020 Tokyo Olympics likely to be postponed – according to a member of the International Olympic Committee, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics – set to begin in August – will be postponed. Australia and Canada have already announced that their athletes will not compete
Trump::March 24: “We’re going to be opening relatively soon… I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter.” He added in a subsequent interview: “Easter is a very special day for me… and you’ll have packed churches all over our country.”
March 25th 2020 Prince Charles tests positive for the coronavirus.
In the US, negotiators strike a deal on a $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package intended to assist businesses and millions of Americans amid the halt in the US economy. The bill includes $1,200 for individuals earning up to $75,000, $100 billion for health care providers, and $58 billion for the US airline industry. It would also include $2,400 per month for up to four months to the unemployed. $500 billion goes to industry loans that corporations, cities, and states can apply for.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown of the country’s 1.3 billion residents. India has only recorded 536 cases of COVID-19 so far.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro rails against coronavirus measures being taken in his country, as local officials take preparedness into their own hands.
Reply to Ghalfrunt.
Do you have that nonsense stored somewhere so you can repeat it whenever someone dares to question your paymasters?
The lengths you are willing to go to disquise the fact that China lied to the world for months regarding what it new about COVID19, and that WHO helped to protect these lies is truly astounding.
The fact that you seem to feel that Trump changing his position as more facts came in is somehow damning is also quite tellinig.
MarkW July 24, 2020 at 12:06 pm
Do you have that nonsense stored somewhere…
The lengths you are willing to go to disquise the fact that China lied to the world for months… WHO helped to protect these lies is truly astounding.
china did not know how bad the virus was until they knew it was novel, it had human human transmission and it was deadly mid / late january
you cannot be serious with that comment. Trump was still saying it would magically disappear, it is no worse than flu etc. only a couple of weeks ago
Please pull the time line apart with facts that are different to mine i am open to correction
Ah yes, the troll automatically assumes that everything the Chinese government publishes must be the truth.
Who cares what the actual scientists are saying and what the Chines government is actually doing. After all, we have fellow travellers to protect.
As to Trump, your habit of misquoting him and quoting him out of context remains unbroken.
And completely ignoring the WHO and CDC far worse POLICY flip flops and ignoring the WHO and CDC criticism of President Trump’s travel ban, does your long post no good. Additionally while Trump made many statements, some simply to encourage a positive spirit in a time of crisis, his responses were many, and mostly correct. Indeed the economy was recovering quite well, but the humanistic Marxists have done all possible to spike that recovery.
You also ignore the call for an inexpensive treatment by our President, that they sabatoged as much as possible, just because of TDS.
sycomputing
You know, it just HURTS me so that you ignore me, Ghalfrunt:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/07/24/democrats-green-new-deal-would-make-us-reliance-on-china-much-worse/#comment-3039141
Reply to sycomputing
Ghoul Font is a classic liberal.
He only knows those things that advance his master’s agenda.
Have you heard of – in a nutshell?
Reply to Harry Passfield
When spamming, you have to go big. Other wise people might actually read what you have written.
“but I do not suppose it will make much difference”
You can say that again. Actually, you just did, since you posted the same crapola a few weeks back.
Copy/Paste/Spam Democrat Talking points!
Thanks for building that timeline Ghalfrunt. Looks like it took some time. It seems like your first claim is foundational, i.e., if it falls then so does the castle.
How do you react to the fact that the Chinese Supreme Court contradicts your claim? Why do you disagree with their decision to disbelieve you?
Emphasis added:
“Li Wenliang received national attention after China’s top court Tuesday criticized Wuhan police for reprimanding eight Wuhan citizens for ‘spreading rumors’ about an illness in late December, in a post on its official WeChat account. Li is considered to be one of the eight, although the police did not identify who specifically they had accused or punished.
On Dec. 30, Li sent a message in his medical school alumni WeChat group, warning that the ophthalmology department in his hospital had put seven patients from a local seafood market who were diagnosed with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) into isolation wards.
A screenshot of the message was leaked, and Li was summoned by the hospital’s inspection unit for a talk. Later on Jan. 3, he was called in and reprimanded by local police for spreading rumors online and disrupting social order.
China’s Supreme People’s Court said that in retrospect, the eight Wuhan citizens should not have been punished as what they said was not entirely false.
‘It might have been a fortunate thing if the public had believed the “rumors” then and started to wear masks and carry out sanitization measures, and avoid the wild animal market,’ the top court’s social media account said on Tuesday.
Li told Caixin that he had been worried the hospital would punish him for ‘spreading rumors’ but felt relieved after the top court publicly criticized the police. ‘I think there should be more than one voice in a healthy society, and I don’t approve of using public power for excessive interference,’ said Li.”
https://tinyurl.com/y6otsjv7
Given the time from infection to onset of symptoms those diagnosed on Dec 30 could have been infected as early as Dec 15
Reply to Bryan A
Also, there is a claim of asymptomatic spreaders, perhaps super spreaders. Probably through fecal contamination a la HIV/AIDS.
Reply to n.n
So…if the virus s started out BAD and mutated into less dangerous versions as it spread AND the more virulent first generation were released in China, why is it that China has only had (reportedly anyway) 86,202 cases with 4,650 deaths?
Either China is lying and under reporting case/death statistics…
OR China is lying about having a successful treatment/cure/vaccination…
OR China is lying about the source and has:
…Engineered the virus and associated treatment/cure/vaccine in a lab prior to the planned wet market release and subsequent global pandemic.
Which lie is China guilty of???
And why hasn’t the rest of the World vilified them for it???
Why else would they Lock Down internal travel at the start but allow global travel for a number of weeks after the initial case spread from infected patients to doctors.
So…if the virus s started out BAD and mutated into less
I don’t think that I am disagreeing with you. Rather that the virus has been in the wild and spreading for longer than China, WHO et al claim, assert, and following a primary transmission mode that does not correspond to the popular belief, which justifies extraordinary mitigation measures, then primary damage through mistreatment and cross-contamination, and collateral damage through the spread of social contagion.
I personally find the third possibility most plausible, if not a combination of all 3
Another possibility is that the brutal shutdown was effective. They went so far as to weld doors shut to enforce isolation. Such tactics would never be tolerated in the west.
sycomputing July 24, 2020 at 2:16 pm
china delayed reporting yes but it was not known as a serious transmissible disease immediately. WHO gave report 14th january
No one in uk usa europe locked down for months after that – so who delayed the response?
Ghalfrunt:
. . . so who delayed the response?
Well, you answered a question I didn’t ask you. Instead, you admitted to a criticism of China’s response but then responded with a criticism of your own.
Go here for more on why this is bad logic – https://tinyurl.com/k4tp28a
Your first premise was this:
“You cannot act on this – it is a sort of pneumonia with unknown transmission. It was published therefore no secret.”
China’s highest court admonished the Wuhan police for intimidating Dr. Wenliang at the end of December 2019 for, “warning that the ophthalmology department in his hospital had put seven patients from a local seafood market who were diagnosed with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) into isolation wards.”
The patients were already diagnosed with a new form of SARS and isolated as of late December. I don’t know of any natural form of SARS that is NOT transmissible from one infected human to another, do you? Furthermore, I don’t think the Chinese believed this was “a sort of pneumonia with unknown transmission.” As far as I know, you don’t need to isolate patients with mere pneumonia (I’ve visited many a friend of mine in the hospital who was diagnosed with pneumonia), unless you have immuno-compromised patients in the same room, or suspect TB:
https://tinyurl.com/y5tcw6uu
Back to my original question to you.
It seems the foundational premise of your argument is false. If so, doesn’t the rest of the castle fall as well?
The Chinese had diagnosed the condition and knew it was a new form of SARS, not mere pneumonia, as evidenced by the fact that they had ALREADY isolated 7 patients AND the unlikely scenario that Dr. Wenliang would “warn” his colleagues about mere pneumonia. I think the Chinese are able to diagnose mere pneumonia pretty well, what say you?
China’s highest court agrees with me, contrary you.
So why do you believe you’re right and they are wrong?
You are asking the wrong question. Liberals don’t believe in right or wrong. They believe in good and bad.
Anything that advances their cause is good, anything or anyone who opposes it is bad.
That explains why China shut down internal travel. Because they didn’t know that the virus was transmittable.
Of course the doctors who actually worked on the early cases say different.
But of course GhoulFont will always believe a communist over a scientist.
Chairman Xi- “Dr Lin , that covid virus you produced worked very well as a trial run but probably too many of our people died,and we didn’t have a vaccine ready.Can you come up with something better?
Dr Lin- “Well ,Honored Chairman,we now have covid 20 ready,and an antidote which prevents our people becoming very sick.
Chairman Xi-“And this virus is as deadly as covid 19?”
DrLin-“Oh yes! ”
Chairman Xi-Very good.Try it out on those Muslim chappies ,then send out more tourists ,armed with the antidote.I can see real possibilities here. ”
Dr Lin-“Yes Honoured Chairman-and Hong Kong? ”
Chairman Xi-“Not yet,Dr Lin. “
I am skeptical of climate change science. I don’t think we will warm that much and I don’t think warming will be that harmful.
But…I hate coming to a climate skeptic site where I have to read this right wing political stuff.
China has its own agenda…so do us as Americans.
These political posts and comments really distract from the skeptical truth being made.
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Good point Blue Sky, I mean who doesn’t understand that truth is ultimately determined by one’s political philosophy? A man can be absolutely correct on a thousand different points, but then immediately upon expressing a conservative opinion on one he naturally becomes incorrect on everything prior.
Geez, what’s wrong with people today, you know?
You get it . . . right?
Another moral equivalence troll.
So did Mao, so did Stalin, so did Pol Pot, so did Hitler.
Obviously we should never have gotten into conflict with any of those people.
ResourceGuy
Here’s a clue of the extent of reliance. In order to make the investment work at the rare earths mine at Mountain Pass, California , we must do all of the processing in China. That is the case in more industries across America than anyone has compiled and discussed. The not in my backyard trend never stopped expanding in U.S. manufacturing except in grandfathered sites with fewer local competitors. If a majority of the public and leaders don’t know that, then the trend will continue to more extreme levels in more sectors.
Gwan
I am not aware that there are rare earth minerals in commercial quantities in New Zealand.
Gold and silver are still being extracted but the Greens are against any mine extensions or new projects.
Here in New Zealand we have the Green Party (in government) trying there best to destroy our economy and become more reliant on China.
China is a major trading partner importing massive amounts of dairy products, meat, fruit,wool ,logs for timber,leather and iron sand .
We also had large numbers of Chinese tourists and students before Covid 19.
The Labour Greens government is hell bent on introducing a carbon tax on all emissions and covering our farmland with perpetual forests for overseas investors to earn carbon credits.
What a stupid idea this is ,farming the land produces export receipts every year whereas carbon credits costs every New Zealander if the money goes overseas.
Eventually the trees get burnt or die and decompose and all of carbon is released back into the atmosphere .
Growing trees for Carbon Farming is an offset ,not a solution .
Will the investors pay back their carbon credits when the trees burn or die ?
The Greens have pushed a Zero Carbon Bill which has been passed by 119 out of 120 .
Methane from farmed animals is included and if taxed it becomes a self imposed tariff on all meat and milk products exported and consumed locally .
To the best of my knowledge no other country is taxing methane from farmed livestock .
Methane from farmed livestock is a cycle and not one additional atom or molecule containing carbon is added to the atmosphere over any time frame .
All fodder consumed by farmed livestock has absorbed CO2 from the air and the small amount of methane emitted during digestion soon breaks down in the upper atmosphere into water vapour and CO2.
It is a cycle pure and simple.
These deluded politicians cannot see that we are exporting jobs to China and most of our electricity is generated by hydro with wind and gas back up .
China has ramped up coal fired power stations in the last decade and world coal production and use has soared from 4.7 billion tonnes in 2008 to over 8 billion tonnes in 2018 .
This surge in coal mining is mirrored in atmospheric methane levels which were stable from 1999 to 2008 and then have increased with the rapid increase in coal mining.
Why would a government push up energy costs to every business and consumer in New Zealand and export jobs to China on the pretext of controlling our countries GHG emissions when it actually increases world wide emissions.
Unfortunately politicians worldwide are driven by ideology and they have very little common sense or reasoning power .
Bartiromo
Reply to Gwan
You get what you vote for.
If you don’t want stupid libs in charge, vote for someone more conservative.
In many countries the libs spent years building up a party framework while conservatives spent the time counting their money.
Everything China has achieved has been with stolen and given technology and the aid of US politicians.
As long as US innovation and invention flows to China and the cash flows from China to politicians pockets in the US, China will thrive and become more powerful and more a threat to the world.
Reply to Olen
Not all of it was stolen.
Clinton permitted his buddies to sell a lot of it to China.
“It [The Chinese Communists] shut down domestic travel to and from Wuhan, while allowing millions to fly between Wuhan and Europe, the United States, Africa and Latin America.”
That’s the bottom line. There is no denying the CCP did this. They deliberately foisted the Wuhan virus on the rest of the world. As a consequence, relations with the United States will change drastically, and not for the better.
The Chinese Communists brought this on themselves. We don’t want to hear them whining when the bill comes due.
China needs the United States. The United States does not need China.
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Experience for a day…enjoy for a lifetime!
Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming one our clients, Mr Jorge Wagner, to Arkonik HQ for a personal tour and to help him narrow down the specification of his custom Defender. As part of Jorge’s Arkonik experience, he also enjoyed a personal off-road driving experience at Eastnor Castle in the stunning Malvern Hills.
At Arkonik, we treat each client that visits us with the very best customer care. Once you have viewed our production facility and spoken to the team who will work on your build, you’ll have to opportunity to be whisked off to Eastnor with your personal sales team member, for an off-roading adventure you’ll never forget!”
Today was really something else…getting a chance to drive and really feel what these vehicles can do. It exceeded my expectations.
Mr Wagner | Future owner
CREATING LASTING MEMORIES
Eastnor is a special place for Land Rover; with 66 miles of terrain including steep inclines, articulation tracks, ruts and deep water, it is still the secret testing facility for all new models before release. Just like Jorge, you could spend either a half or full day with a dedicated instructor who will show you just what these vehicles are capable of.
Jorge admitted that prior to his visit, he hadn’t intended to use his D110 for off-roading after he takes delivery in New York. However after his Experience Day, Jorge can’t wait to get on the trails upstate with his sons who he knows will “absolutely love it”. Having not driven with a stick shift for over 20 years, Jorge was apprehensive about this aspect of driving a Defender, however he tells us it all came back to him very quickly whilst driving confidently and safely around the trails.
Was it helpful to look around Arkonik?
Oh my goodness yes. Meeting the people and understanding how much they know about the vehicles, and learning about what ‘the Arkonik Difference’ is, really gives you an appreciation for the process.
What are the main things you will take away from the trip?
The attention to detail, a new appreciation for the process and really understanding the vehicle. It just blew me away; you read about what Defenders are capable of and how different they are from the average vehicles but you don’t really get it until you experience it in person.
What helped you make the decision to choose Arkonik to make your D110?
The customer reviews and the information about the process. If you’re sending money overseas you do need to take a leap of faith, so the customer feedback definitely pushed me over the edge. The customer portal is also very helpful. It indicates transparency in terms of my ability to see what is happening daily with my build.
Which existing Arkonik Editions really inspired you to build your own?
My wife and I both wanted a classic look so KOOP in Fungus Green was our primary inspiration. We had a moment when we were looking at DUKE (Santorini Black) and MAGMA (Copper Black) because the black on black looked so cool, but then we said no, let’s think it through and we decided to stick with a classic Fungus green.
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Fluid phase separation inside a static periodic field: an effectively
two-dimensional critical phenomenon
Richard L. C. Vink Institute of Theoretical Physics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany Tim Neuhaus Hartmut Löwen Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
When a fluid with a bulk liquid-vapor critical point is placed inside a static external field with spatial periodic oscillations in one direction, the bulk critical point splits into two new critical points and a triple point. This phenomenon is called laser-induced condensation [Mol. Phys. 101, 1651 (2003)], and it occurs when the wavelength of the field is sufficiently large. The critical points mark the end of two coexistence regions, namely between (1) a vapor and stacked-fluid phase, and (2) a stacked-fluid and liquid phase. The stacked-fluid or “zebra” phase is characterized by large density oscillations along the field direction. We study the above phenomenon for a mixture of colloids and polymers using density functional theory and computer simulation. The theory predicts that the vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra surface tensions are extremely small. Most strikingly, however, is the theoretical finding that at their respective critical points, both tensions vanish, but not according to any critical power law. The solution to this apparent paradox is provided by the simulations. These show that the field divides the system into effectively two-dimensional slabs, stacked on top of each other along the field direction. Inside each slab, the system behaves as if it were two-dimensional, while in the field direction the system resembles a one-dimensional Ising chain.
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Binary mixtures of sterically-stabilized colloids and non-adsorbing globular polymers are valuable model systems. In particular, the addition of polymers causes an effective depletion attraction between the colloids. This can induce liquid-vapor type transitions in these systems, in much the same way as in an atomic fluid. Indeed, liquid-vapor demixing in colloid-polymer mixtures has been routinely studied in the past, using theory, computer simulation, and experiment Brader2003 ; Lekkerkerker1992 ; Poon2002 ; Tuinier2008 ; Bolhuis2002 ; Dzubiella2001 . More phenomena for which colloid-polymer mixtures are ideal model systems include equilibrium clustering Stradner2004 , “attractive” glasses Pham2002 ; Zaccarelli2004 , gelation Laurati2009 , numerous interfacial phenomena Vliegenthart1997 ; Hoog1999 ; Chen2000 ; Chen2001 including capillary waves Aarts2004 ; Vink2005 , and wetting Aarts2003 ; Wijting2003 ; Wijting2003a ; Indekeu2010 .
Presumably the simplest model of a colloid-polymer mixture is the one proposed by Asakura and Oosawa (AO) Asakura1954 ; Asakura1958 ; Vrij1976 . Despite its simplicity, this model captures the essential physics Poon2002 ; Bolhuis2002 , yet remains simple enough to allow for both theoretical investigations (based, for instance, on liquid state and density functional theory Schmidt2000 ; Schmidt2002 ), and computer simulations Vink2004 ; Dijkstra2002 . In agreement with experiments, the AO model features a bulk liquid-vapor critical point Lekkerkerker1992 , a freezing transition Zykova-Timan2010 , and also confinement effects at a single wall Wessels2004 ; Wessels2004a , or between two parallel walls Binder2008 ; DeVirgiliis2008 ; DeVirgiliis2007 ; Vink2006a ; Fortini2006 ; Schmidt2003 can be studied using this model. The AO model has also been used to study wetting Brader2000 ; Evans2001 ; Brader2002 , as well as phase separation in porous media Wessels2003 ; Wessels2005 ; Vink2006 ; Pellicane2008 ; Vink2008 ; Vink2009 . Also of interest is the phase behavior of the AO model inside an external field, such as gravity Schmidt2004 ; Jamie2010 , or a spatially-varying periodic field Gotze2003 .
In Ref. Gotze2003, , a colloid-polymer mixture described by the AO model was subjected to a standing-wave external field, wavelength λ, propagating in one direction (the z-direction in what follows). The field is thus effectively one-dimensional. This can be realized in experiments by placing a colloidal suspension inside a standing laser field Freire1994 . While the influence of such a field on the freezing transition has been extensively studied, and is known to induce laser-induced freezing Chaudhuri2005 ; Franzrahe2009 , relatively little is known regarding its effect on the liquid-vapor transition. Regarding the latter, Ref. Gotze2003, proposes the following scenario: for sufficiently large λ, the bulk liquid-vapor critical point splits into two critical points and a triple point with an intermediate new phase which is partially condensed in slabs perpendicular to the z-direction. We call this phase the “zebra” phase in what follows. The results of Ref. Gotze2003, were obtained by using fundamental measure density functional theory for a colloid-polymer mixture described by the AO model.
In this work, we use the same model and technique to calculate the surface tensions between all three coexisting phases. We find that the vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra surface tensions are extremely small. Moreover, to our surprise, upon approach of the critical points, the latter tensions do not yield the expected critical power law behavior. To clarify the nature of the critical points, we use Monte Carlo simulations and finite-size scaling. The simulations confirm all the trends predicted by the theory, and also explain why the vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra surface tensions do not become critical. The main finding is that the standing-wave external field divides the system into effectively two-dimensional slabs, stacked on top of each other along the z-direction. Inside each slab, the system behaves as if it were two-dimensional, while in the z-direction the system resembles an effectively one-dimensional system. Hence, by turning on the external field, the bulk system is “split-up” into 2+1 separate dimensions. With this picture in mind, most of our observations can be intuitively understood.
Ii Model and unit conventions
To describe the interactions between colloids (c) and polymers (p) we use the Asakura-Oosawa (AO) model Asakura1954 ; Asakura1958 ; Vrij1976 . The colloids and the polymer coils are both assumed to be spherical objects with respective diameters σ and σp. In what follows, the colloid diameter σ≡1 will be the unit of length, and the colloid-to-polymer size ratio is denoted q=σp/σ. The interaction between colloid-colloid and colloid-polymer pairs is hard-core, while the polymer-polymer interaction is ideal, leading to the following pair potentials
ucc(r) = {∞r<σ0otherwise, (1)
ucp(r) = {∞r<(σ+σp)/20otherwise, (2)
upp(r) = 0, (3)
with r the center-to-center distance. As the interactions are either hard-core or ideal, the temperature T can be scaled out (it only sets the energy scale kBT, where kB is the Boltzmann constant). We mostly use a grand canonical ensemble, i.e. the system volume V, the colloid chemical potential μc, and the polymer chemical potential μp are fixed, but the number of colloids Nc and polymers Np inside V fluctuates. The particle densities are defined as ρi=Ni/V, with i∈(c,p). We also introduce the colloid packing fraction ηc=ρcvc, with vc=πσ3/6 the volume of a single colloid. Following convention Lekkerkerker1992 , we do not use the polymer chemical potential itself, but rather the polymer reservoir packing fraction ηrp. It is defined as the packing fraction ηrp≡ρpvp, vp=πσ3p/6, of a pure polymer system at given μp (for the AO model, such a system is simply an ideal gas, and hence ηrp∝eμp/kBT). In order to compare μc between theory and simulation, the thermal wavelength Λ=σ/2 in what follows.
In the AO model, there is an effective attraction between the colloids. This can be shown formally by “integrating out” the polymers Asakura1954 ; Dijkstra1999 , which leads to an effective colloid-colloid pair potential with an attractive well; the well-depth is proportional to ηrp. Hence, the bulk AO model undergoes a liquid-vapor type transition, with ηrp playing the role of inverse temperature (by bulk we explicitly mean a three-dimensional system in the absence of any surfaces or fields).
The extension of this work is to consider the AO model inside an external field propagating along the z-direction
Vext(z)=V0cos(2πz/λ), (4)
with V0 the field amplitude, and λ the wavelength. We emphasize that the field is static: it oscillates in space, not in time. Physically, Eq. (4) resembles a one-dimensional standing optical wave, which could easily be realized experimentally using a laser beam. In this work, we assume that Eq. (4) acts on the colloidal particles only, but that the polymers do not “feel” the field. The Hamiltonian of the system is thus defined by the AO pair potentials, Eqs.(1)-(3), plus an external field contribution ∑Nci=1Vext(zi), where the sum is over all colloids, and with zi the z-coordinate of the i-th colloidal particle.
Iii Density functional theory
In density functional theory (DFT), the equilibrium density profiles are the ones that minimize the grand canonical free energy functional
Ω[T,μc,ηrp,ρc(z),ρp(z)], (5)
where ρc(z) is the average colloid density at position z along the field direction, and ρp(z) that of the polymers (we thus use an effectively one-dimensional set-up in our DFT calculations). In what follows, we also use the colloid packing fraction profile ηc(z), which is simply ρc(z) multiplied by vc. The system is symmetric around z=0, and we include periodic boundary conditions. Based on the proof that a free energy functional Ω indeed exists Mermin1965 , we use the fundamental measure approach of Ref. Schmidt2000, to approximate Eq. (5); see Appendix A for full details. We numerically solve the resulting stationarity equation using a Picard iteration scheme Roth2010 .
iii.1 Phase diagram
Figure 1: Phase diagram of the AO model with q=0.6 in (μc,ηrp) representation as obtained using DFT. The dashed curve shows the bulk binodal, the solid curves the binodals inside the external field of Eq. (4) using λ=8.192, and V0=0.5kBT. The lower three dots indicate critical points, the upper dot the triple point. The open squares denote the state points at which the colloid density profiles of Fig. 3 were measured.
Figure 2: Same as Fig. 1, but using q=1.0, with external field parameters λ=10, and V0=0.4kBT.
First, we revisit Ref. Gotze2003, and hence choose the size ratio q=0.6, the wavelength of the external field λ=8.192, and its amplitude V0=0.5kBT. Fig. 1 shows the phase diagram obtained from our DFT calculation. Here, we use the grand canonical representation, i.e. we plot the binodals in the (μc,ηrp) plane. Clearly visible is the characteristic “inverted letter Y” or “pitchfork” topology (solid lines). For comparison, the dashed line shows the bulk binodal, i.e. obtained without the external potential of Eq. (4). We first note that the bulk critical point occurs at a value of ηrp below that of the vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra critical points. This is to be expected as confinement generally lowers transition temperatures. The more striking feature of Fig. 1 is that ηrp of the liquid-zebra critical point exceeds that of the vapor-zebra one: we find ηr,vzp,cr≈0.526 and ηr,lzp,cr≈0.540. In contrast, in Ref. Gotze2003, , no difference could be detected, which demonstrates the improved accuracy of the present work. The fact that the critical “inverse temperatures” differ is a genuine feature, since our simulations reveal the same trend. As ηrp increases, the binodals approach each other, and at the triple point, ηrp,tr≈0.755, they meet. In order to facilitate the comparison to computer simulation later on, we also present the phase diagram for q=1, using field parameters λ=10, and V0=0.4kBT (Fig. 2). We obtain the same overall topology, but the region where the zebra phase occurs has broadened. In addition, the binodals are shifted to significantly lower colloid chemical potential.
Figure 3: Equilibrium colloid density profiles ηc(z) measured along the direction of the laser field for the three state points indicated by open squares in the phase diagram of Fig. 1, corresponding to the vapor phase (μc/kBT=6.72), the zebra phase (μc/kBT=7.12), and the liquid phase (μc/kBT=7.52). The profiles were obtained at fixed ηrp=0.65.
Next, we consider the structural properties of the phases. The key difference with the bulk AO model is that, in addition to a vapor and liquid phase, we now also have the zebra phase. The latter phase arises when ηrp is chosen between the critical and triple points, and with the colloid chemical potential chosen appropriately. To characterize the phases, we have measured colloid density profiles ηc(z) along the direction of the laser field at three points in the phase diagram of Fig. 1, indicated by open squares. The latter correspond, from left to right, to a vapor state, a zebra state, and a liquid state. The density profiles are shown in Fig. 3. The salient feature is that all three phases display density modulations in the z-direction, but the average density and amplitude differ. The average colloid density is low in the vapor phase, high in the liquid phase, with only a modest density amplitude in both phases. The most striking feature of the zebra phase is the unusually large density amplitude, which oscillates between the average density of the vapor and liquid phase.
iii.2 Interfaces and interfacial free energies
Figure 4: Equilibrium colloid density profiles ηc(z) showing the various interfaces for the AO model with q=1, inside the external field of Eq. (4), using field parameters λ=10, and V0=0.4kBT. Shown is the liquid-vapor interface (a), the vapor-zebra interface (b), and the liquid-zebra interface (c), each time for two values of ηrp as indicated.
We now consider the interfaces between the coexisting phases and the corresponding surface tensions. Above the triple point, ηrp>ηrp,tr, liquid and vapor coexist, with a corresponding liquid-vapor surface tension γlv. To calculate γlv, we first compute the equilibrium colloid density profiles ηc(z) of the pure vapor and liquid phase; the latter yield the Gibbs free energies Ωv,pure and Ωl,pure, respectively (at coexistence: Ωv,pure=Ωl,pure≡Ωpure). The density profiles of the pure phases schematically resemble those of Fig. 3. Next, we consider ηc(z) of a system containing a liquid-vapor interface, from which we obtain Ωlv,int. An example is shown in Fig. 4(a), using two values of ηrp. For sufficiently large ηrp, we observe small oscillations at high densities close to the interface. Since the surface tension is the excess free energy per unit of area, it follows that
γlv=Ωpure−Ωlv,int2A, (6)
where A is the area of the interface (the factor 1/2 results from the fact that two interfaces are present in our DFT set-up). The calculation of the vapor-zebra surface tension γvz, and of the liquid-zebra surface tension γlz, which become defined below the triple point, is performed analogously. To this end, one needs to compute ηc(z) for a system containing a vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra interface. Some typical density profiles are shown in Fig. 4(b) and (c). It is striking that the interfaces are extremely sharp: even very close to the interface position, the density profiles of the coexisting phases are almost identical to those obtained without the interface! From this observation, and comparing to Eq. (6), one can already deduce that γvz,γlz must be very small.
Figure 5: Variation of the surface tensions γlv, γvz, and γlz with ηrp. Note in particular the extremely small values of γvz and γlz. These data were obtained using our DFT for the AO model with q=1, and external field parameters λ=10, V0=0.4kBT.
In Fig. 5, we summarize the results of the DFT surface tension calculations, where the various tensions are plotted as function of ηrp. Starting above the triple point, γlv is finite; by decreasing ηrp, γlv vanishes at the triple point. At the triple point, γvz and γlz are finite; by decreasing ηrp further, γvz vanishes at ηrp=ηr,vzp,cr of the vapor-zebra critical point, while γlz vanishes at ηrp=ηr,lzp,cr of the liquid-zebra critical point. Note the extremely small values of γvz and γlz over the entire range between the critical and triple points. In fact, it always holds that γlv≥γvz+γlz, which implies there is no complete wetting of the “zebra” phase for ηrp>ηrp,tr.
iii.3 Critical behavior
Figure 6: Order parameters Δvz and Δlz as function of the distance t from their respective critical points, where ηr,vzp,cr≈0.6817 and ηr,lzp,cr≈0.717 were used. Note the double logarithmic scales! The straight line corresponds to a power law with critical exponent β=1/2 of mean-field theory. For clarity, the data for Δlz have been shifted upward by half a decade.
Figure 7: Surface tensions γvz, γlz, and the bulk liquid-vapor surface tension, as function of the distance t from the respective critical points, where for ηr,vzp,cr and ηr,lzp,cr the values of Fig. 6 were used, and ηr,bulkp,cr≈0.6385. Note again the double logarithmic scales! The straight line corresponds to a power law with critical exponent μ=3/2 of mean-field theory. The key message is that γvz and γlz do not conform to the mean-field critical exponent (we instead find an exponent μ≈0.9).
We now discuss the critical behavior of our equilibrium density profiles close to the vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra critical points. Since our DFT is a mean-field theory, we should recover mean-field critical exponents. This is not to suggest that the universality class of the AO model is the mean-field one – it is not Vink2004 – but rather that we wish to test the internal consistency of our theory. To this end, we introduce the vapor-zebra order parameter
Δvz=1λ∫λ0ηc,z(z)−ηc,v(z)dz, (7)
where ηc,z (ηc,v) denotes the equilibrium colloid density profile of the zebra (vapor) phase. Note that Δvz above is just the difference between the average colloid density of the vapor and zebra phase. The liquid-zebra order parameter is defined analogously
Δlz=1λ∫λ0ηc,l(z)−ηc,z(z)dz. (8)
Near the critical points, we expect power law decay of the order parameter
Δx∝tβ,t=ηrp−ηr,xp,cr>0,x∈(vz,lz), (9)
with critical exponent β=1/2 for mean-field theory. We compute these order parameters as function of ηrp and plot them on double logarithmic scales in Fig. 6, where on the horizontal axes the distance from the critical point t is shown. The power law of Eq. (9) with mean-field exponent β=1/2 is strikingly confirmed!
Next, we consider the critical behavior of the vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra surface tension
γx∝tμ,x∈(vz,lz), (10)
with t>0 defined as above, and where the critical exponent μ=3/2 for mean-field theory. In Fig. 7, we plot both surface tensions as function of t, again using double logarithmic scales (this plot is simply a rescaling of the data of Fig. 5). For completeness, we also show the liquid-vapor surface tension of the bulk AO model, i.e. in the absence of the laser field. The puzzling result is that, while the bulk tension conforms to μ=3/2 as expected, we do not recover the expected mean-field critical exponent for the vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra surface tensions. From this we conclude that γvz and γlz do not become critical. We postulate there must be a “hidden” surface tension γh which instead conforms to Eq. (10) at the vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra critical points; finding the corresponding “hidden” surface is one of the challenges facing the simulations.
Iv Monte Carlo results
We now use computer simulations to corroborate the DFT findings, and to shed light on the peculiar nature of the vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra critical points. We simulate the AO model (defined in Section II) inside the external potential of Eq. (4) using grand canonical Monte Carlo Frenkel2001 . In the grand canonical ensemble, the colloid chemical potential μc and the polymer “reservoir packing fraction” ηrp are fixed, while the number of colloids Nc and polymers Np in the system fluctuate. We remind the reader that ηrp plays the role of inverse temperature. To simulate efficiently, a grand canonical cluster move is used Vink2004 , combined with a biased sampling scheme Virnau2004 . The simulations are performed in a V=Lx×Ly×Lz box with periodic boundaries. The laser field, Eq. (4), propagates along the edge Lz of the box, and hence we choose Lz=nλ, with integer n>0, and λ the wavelength of the field. In what follows, the colloid-to-polymer size ratio q=1, λ=10, and the laser field amplitude V0/kBT=0.4. The key output of the simulations is the order parameter distribution P(ηc) (OPD) defined as the probability to observe the system in a state with colloid packing fraction ηc. From the (normalized) OPD, one readily computes the average colloid packing fraction
⟨ηc⟩=∫ηcP(ηc)dηc, (11)
as well as the colloidal compressibility
χc=V(⟨η2c⟩−⟨ηc⟩2), (12)
and the Binder cumulant Binder1981
Q≡⟨m2⟩2/⟨m4⟩,m=ηc−⟨ηc⟩. (13)
We emphasize that the above quantities, as well as the OPD, depend on all the model parameters, in particular the system size, the imposed colloid chemical potential μc, and the “inverse temperature” ηrp.
iv.1 Phase diagram
Figure 8: This figure illustrates how the vapor-zebra (VZ) and liquid-zebra (LZ) transitions are located in grand canonical simulations; ηrp=1.0, Lx=Ly=12, and Lz=2λ=20 are used in both plots. (a) The colloidal compressibility χc versus the colloid chemical potential μc; the chemical potential of the left (right) peak yields μvzc (μlzc). (b) The cumulant Q as function of ⟨ηc⟩ (solid curve). The dashed curve shows the compressibility χc on an arbitrary vertical scale. The compressibility maxima coincide with maxima in Q, the adjacent minima of which are labeled A,B,C,D. The horizontal double-arrows mark the vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra order parameters.
Figure 9: Phase diagram of the AO model inside the laser field of Eq. (4) in grand canonical representation (a) and reservoir representation (b); dots mark the critical points obtained via finite-size scaling. No scaling analysis was performed to locate the triple point, but based on the merging of the curves in (a), and also on the shape of the OPD (Fig. 17), we expect that ηrp,tr∼1.21−1.22 (horizontal lines). The dashed curves in (b) are power laws corresponding to the critical exponent β obtained in Fig. 10(b). As the system size is increased, the binodals obtained in the finite system (solid curves) smoothly approach these power laws. Also labeled in (b) are the various coexistence regions.
To obtain the phase diagram, we vary the colloid chemical potential μc at fixed “inverse temperature” ηrp; phase transitions correspond to peaks in the colloidal compressibility. An example is shown in Fig. 8(a), where χc versus μc is plotted. We observe two sharp peaks, indicating two transitions. The left (right) peak corresponds to the vapor-zebra (liquid-zebra) transition, and from the peak position μvzc (μlzc) can be “read-off”. Note that, above the triple point (ηrp>ηrp,tr), χc versus μc reveals only one peak, then corresponding to a liquid-vapor transition. For a range of ηrp, we record the value(s) of the colloid chemical potential where χc is maximal, and plot these as points in the (μc,ηrp) plane. The resulting phase diagram is shown in Fig. 9(a), and the “inverted letter Y” topology predicted by the DFT is strikingly confirmed.
Figure 10: Finite-size scaling analysis of the vapor-zebra critical point. In both plots, Lx=Ly=L is varied, while Lz=2λ is fixed. (a) The cumulant Qvz versus ηrp for different L; the intersection yields ηr,vzp,cr. Note that, to the left (right) of the intersection, the cumulants approach 1/3 (0), in agreement with Eq. (16). (b) Scaling plot of the vapor-zebra order parameter. Plotted is ΔvzLβ/ν versus tL1/ν, where ν and β were tuned until a good collapse of the data was observed.
The dots in Fig. 9 mark the vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra critical points, which we obtained using finite size scaling. For a given value of ηrp and system size, we vary the colloid chemical potential μc, and record the average colloid packing fraction ⟨ηc⟩, the colloidal compressibility χc, and the Binder cumulant Q. A typical result is shown in Fig. 8(b), where Q and χc versus ⟨ηc⟩ are plotted (these curves are thus parametrized by μc). The key message of Fig. 8(b) is that the compressibility maxima of the vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra transitions coincide with maxima in the cumulant. Adjacent to the cumulant maximum of the vapor-zebra transition, we observe two minima, indicated by the points
A≡(⟨ηc⟩−vz,Q−vz),B≡(⟨ηc⟩+vz,Q+vz), (14)
and, similarly, for the liquid-zebra transition
C≡(⟨ηc⟩−lz,Q−lz),D≡(⟨ηc⟩+lz,Q+lz). (15)
In the thermodynamic limit, it holds that Kim2005 ; Kim2003
limLx,Ly,Lz→∞Qvz={1/3ηrp<ηr,vzp,cr,0ηrp>ηr,vzp,cr, (16)
with Qvz≡(Q−vz+Q+vz)/2, and ηr,vzp,cr the value of ηrp at the vapor-zebra critical point. Hence, by plotting Qvz versus ηrp for a number of different system sizes, curves for different system sizes intersect at ηrp=ηr,vzp,cr, which can be used to locate the critical point. Of course, to locate the liquid-zebra critical point, one analogously analyzes Qlz≡(Q−lz+Q+lz)/2.
To perform the finite-size scaling analysis, we vary the lateral box extensions Lx=Ly≡L, but keep the elongated extension fixed at Lz=2λ=20. We assume that the divergence of the correlation length is “cut-off” in the z-direction by the laser field, and so we do not need to scale in this direction (this assumption will be justified in the next section where the static structure factor is discussed). Since the correlations diverge only in the two lateral directions, the critical behavior is effectively two-dimensional. In Fig. 10(a), we plot Qvz versus ηrp for three values of L. In agreement with Eq. (16), an intersection point is observed, from which we conclude that ηr,vzp,cr≈0.975. A similar analysis of the liquid-zebra transition yields ηr,lzp,cr≈1.043 (not shown). It is striking that the scaling analysis confirms the DFT prediction ηr,lzp,cr>ηr,vzp,cr. To estimate the colloid chemical potential μvzc,cr of the vapor-zebra critical point in the thermodynamic limit, we measured μvzc of the compressibility maximum at ηrp=ηr,vzp,cr for finite L, and extrapolated to L→∞ assuming μvzc,cr−μvzc∝1/L. In this extrapolation, we ignore all subtleties concerning field and pressure mixing Kim2004 , but emphasize that such effects are tiny on the scale of the phase diagram in Fig. 9(a). The resulting estimate reads as μvzc,cr≈1.29, while for the liquid-zebra transition μlzc,cr≈1.75 is obtained.
Next, we consider the scaling of the order parameter. The cumulant minima A and B of Fig. 8(b) readily yield Δvz=⟨ηc⟩+vz−⟨ηc⟩−vz as order parameter for the vapor-zebra transition. In the vicinity of the critical point Δvz∝tβ, with t=(ηrp−ηr,vzp,cr)/ηr,vzp,cr, t>0, and critical exponent β. The result is shown in Fig. 10(b), where we used the standard finite-size scaling practice Newman1999 of plotting ΔvzLβ/ν versus tL1/ν, with ν the correlation length critical exponent. Provided suitable values of ηr,vzp,cr, β and ν are used, the data for different L collapse. Reasonable collapses can indeed be realized, using for ηr,vzp,cr the cumulant intersection estimate of Fig. 10(a), β/ν∼0.25−0.35, and ν∼0.85−1.10. An analysis of Δlz, which one obtains from the minima C and D of Fig. 8(b), yields similar results (not shown).
Finally, with the critical point parameters known, it becomes possible to calculate the phase diagram in reservoir representation, as is commonly done for the AO model. To this end, we record the colloid packing fraction of each of the cumulant minima A,B,C,D in Fig. 8(b) as function of ηrp; the latter “trace-out” a curve (binodal) in the (ηc,ηrp) plane. The result is shown in Fig. 9(b), where dots again mark the critical points. To estimate the colloid packing fraction of the vapor-zebra critical point, we measured the finite-size “diameter” δL,vz≡(⟨ηc⟩−vz+⟨ηc⟩+vz)/2, using ηrp=ηr,vzp,cr and the colloid chemical potential μvzc of the compressibility maximum; the diameter was then extrapolated to L→∞ assuming δ∞,vz−δL,vz∝1/L, which again ignores field and pressure mixing effects Kim2004 . In this way δ∞,vz≈0.055 is obtained, while an analogous procedure for the liquid-zebra critical point yields δ∞,lz≈0.203.
iv.2 Nature of the critical point
Figure 11: The colloid-colloid static structure factors obtained at the vapor-zebra critical point. (a) The structure factor S∥(q) measured in the direction of the laser field for several values of Lz, and fixed Lx=Ly=10. There is no divergence as q→0, indicating that critical fluctuations in the direction of the field are “cut-off”. (b) The structure factor S⊥,z(q) measured in directions perpendicular to the laser field for several values of z; the system size used equals Lx=Ly=20, and Lz=4λ. The key message is that S⊥,z(q) diverges as q→0, but only for selected values of z.
A key assumption in the finite-size scaling analysis of the previous section is that the critical correlations are “cut-off” in the z-direction, i.e. the direction along which the laser field of Eq. (4) propagates. To justify this assumption, we consider the colloid-colloid static structure factor S(→q)=⟨1nc|∑ncj=1exp(i→q⋅→rj)|2⟩, with ⟨⋅⟩ a thermal average, the sum over all j=1,…,nc colloidal particles whose centers are inside a test volume v, and →rj the position of the j-th colloid. As usual, wavevectors are given by →q=2π(k/Lx,l/Ly,m/Lz), integers k,l,m≥0, with the constraint that k+l+m≠0. We also introduce the wavevector magnitude q2=→q⋅→q.
To probe the correlations in the z-direction, we use as test volume v a narrow cylinder, with a diameter equal to the colloid diameter, placed parallel to the z-axis; due to the symmetry of the system, the location where the cylinder intersects the xy-plane is irrelevant. We then calculate the structure factor S∥(q), which is obtained using only the wavevectors →q∥≡2π(0,0,m/Lz). In Fig. 11(a), we plot S∥(q) measured at the vapor-zebra critical point. These data were obtained in a semi-grand canonical ensemble: the colloid packing fraction and ηrp are fixed to their critical values (ηc=δ∞,vz,ηrp=ηr,vzp,cr), while the number of polymers fluctuates. The important message to take from Fig. 11(a) is that, in the limit q→0, there is no sign of a divergence S∥(q)→∞. Hence, there are no critical fluctuations in the z-direction. Note that the peak at q≈0.63 corresponds precisely to 2π/λ of the laser field. The analysis of S∥(q) at the liquid-zebra critical point leads to similar conclusions (not shown).
Next, we consider the static structure factor S⊥,z(q) measured in the lateral xy-directions, i.e. perpendicular to the laser field. In this case, wavevectors take the form →q⊥≡2π(k/Lx,l/Ly,0), and as test volume v we use a narrow Lx×Ly×Δz slab, placed parallel to the xy-plane at “height” z (the slab thickness Δz equals one colloid diameter). Since the system is not translation invariant in the z-direction, it matters at which z-coordinate the slab is located, and so S⊥,z(q) depends on z. In Fig. 11(b), we plot S⊥,z(q) at the vapor-zebra critical point for several z, again obtained using the semi-grand canonical ensemble. The key message to take from Fig. 11(b) is that S⊥,z(q) does diverge as q→0, but only for certain values of z. The analysis of S⊥,z(q) at the liquid-zebra critical point leads to similar conclusions (not shown).
Figure 12: Profiled quantities obtained at the vapor-zebra critical point. (a) The variation of S⊥,z(qmin) with z for several L. (b) The average colloid packing fraction ηc(z) measured along the z-direction (solid curve). The dashed curve shows the external laser potential of Eq. (4) on an arbitrary vertical scale; regions dense in colloids coincide with minima of the potential.
Figure 13: The analogue of Fig. 12 for the liquid-zebra critical point. In (a), γ/ν=1.4 is used.
To summarize: From the static structure factor S∥(q), we conclude that critical fluctuations in the z-direction are absent. This justifies our previous assumption that the critical behavior is effectively two-dimensional, such that finite-size scaling may be performed by varying only the lateral box extensions Lx=Ly=L, while keeping Lz fixed. The analysis of S⊥,z(q) reveals that critical fluctuations indeed develop in the lateral directions, but only at certain z values. The critical behavior is thus localized in effectively two-dimensional slabs perpendicular to the laser field, “sandwiched” between slabs where the system is non-critical. To make this explicit, we show in Fig. 12(a) the variation of S⊥,z(qmin) with z for the vapor-zebra critical point, where qmin=2π/L denotes the magnitude of the smallest accessible lateral wavevector. The figure strikingly shows that S⊥,z(qmin) diverges with L only at selected z values, i.e. the critical behavior is indeed spatially localized in slabs. Note that the critical slabs correspond to regions of enhanced colloid density: S⊥,z(qmin) is “in-phase” with the colloid density profile ηc(z) (Fig. 12(b)). Interestingly, at the liquid-zebra critical point, this trend is reversed (Fig. 13). Since S⊥,z(qmin)∝χc Rowlinson1982 , with χc the colloidal compressibility, we expect S⊥,z(qmin)∝Lγ/ν in the critical slabs Newman1999 . Here, γ is the compressibility critical exponent; by fitting the peak values in Fig. 12(a) to this scaling law, γ/ν∼1.3−1.4 is obtained. For the liquid-zebra critical point, a similar ratio is found, see Fig. 13(a), where S⊥,z(qmin)L−γ/ν versus z is shown (in this scaled representation, the peak values for different L collapse). It is reassuring that the critical exponent ratios obtained in our scaling analysis conform to hyperscaling, 2β/ν+γ/ν=d=2, as the reader can verify. Interestingly, our critical exponent ratios are rather different from 2D Ising values (β/ν=1/8,γ/ν=7/4), which we would naively have come to expect (only our ν estimate is somewhat consistent with ν=1 of the 2D Ising model).
iv.3 The coexistence region
Figure 14: Analysis of the OPD P(ηc) obtained at ηrp=1.16, which is above the critical points, but still below the triple point. The system size used is Lz=2λ=20, and Lx=Ly=12. Shown on the left is P(ηc) at the vapor-zebra transition, while on the right P(ηc) of the liquid-zebra transition is shown. The salient features are a number of peaks, whose meanings become clear upon inspection of snapshots. In the snapshots, the laser field is along the longest edge of the box; colloids are shown as black, polymers as white.
We now consider the vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra two-phase coexistence regions, see Fig. 9(b), where the corresponding transitions are first-order. To this end, we choose ηrp above the critical points, but still below the triple point, and measure the OPD P(ηc). In Fig. 14, we show P(ηc) using μc=μvzc of the vapor-zebra transition (left), and using μc=μlzc of the liquid-zebra transition (right). The striking feature is that the distributions reveal a number of peaks. We first discuss the OPD of the vapor-zebra transition. Here, the left peak (1) reflects the vapor phase, i.e. low colloid density, and high polymer density (see corresponding snapshot 1). Although not visible in the snapshot, we emphasize that the colloid density profile ηc(z) of the pure vapor phase resembles that of Fig. 3, i.e. there are (small) density modulations along the z-direction. The center peak (2) corresponds to a mixed state, where a slab of vapor coexists with a slab of zebra phase (snapshot 2). Hence, a vapor-zebra interface is present, and the corresponding density profile ηc(z) will schematically resemble Fig. 4(b). Note that, due to periodic boundaries, the number of vapor-zebra interfaces is at least two. The right peak (3) corresponds to a pure zebra phase (snapshot 3), with a density profile resembling the one shown in Fig. 3, i.e. featuring large density oscillations. The meaning of the peaks in the OPD of the liquid-zebra transition follows analogously. In this case, peak 4 reflects liquid-zebra coexistence, to be compared to the profile of Fig. 4(c). Note that the density of the zebra phase at the vapor-zebra transition differs from that of the liquid-zebra transition.
Figure 15: (a) The OPD obtained for ηrp=1.16 at the vapor-zebra transition; shown is lnP(ηc) versus ηc. The barrier ΔF reflects the interfacial free energy of the “hidden” interface (see details in text). (b) Snapshot taken at ηc=0.1, which is between the center and right peak of the OPD; the laser field propagates along Lz. Clearly visible is one completely filled slab, and one partially filled slab. The lateral area A of the “hidden” interface is also indicated, where λ is the wavelength of the field (colloids are shown as black, polymers as white). The schematic snapshots in (c) show the partially filled slab along the “path” 1→2→3 of (a), where the z-direction is perpendicular to the plane of the paper (dark regions correspond to colloid-rich domains).
Also of extreme interest are state points “between the peaks” in the OPD (Fig. 15). Here, we keep ηrp=1.16, but choose larger lateral box extensions, Lx=30 and Ly=10, while Lz=2λ=20. In Fig. 15(a), the logarithm of the OPD is shown, using μc=μvzc of the vapor-zebra transition; note that lnP(ηc) may be regarded as minus the free energy of the system. As in Fig. 14, three peaks are visible: their meaning is the same as before. The snapshot of Fig. 15(b) was taken at ηc=0.1, which is between the center and right peak of the OPD. Again, vapor-zebra coexistence is observed, but the key difference with the coexistence state points of Fig. 14 is that one of the periods of the field is only partially filled. Hence, in addition to a vapor-zebra interface perpendicular to the field, there is a smaller interface parallel to the field, indicated by the shaded area A. This is the “hidden” interface, whose presence was already implied by the DFT calculation. Note that lnP(ηc) around ηc=0.1 is essentially flat. Hence, once a partially filled slab has formed, it can be filled without any cost in free energy. This can be understood from the schematic snapshots of Fig. 15(c), which show top-down views (i.e. looking along the z-direction) of the partially filled slab; the lateral area of the slab equals Lx×Ly, while the slab thickness equals λ/2. The snapshots 1,2,3 in (c) correspond to state points at the minimum between two peaks in the OPD, but with ηc increasing from left to right (schematically resembling the “path” 1→2→3 in Fig. 15(a)). In the first snapshot, a droplet of colloidal liquid has condensed. The droplet is cylindrical in shape; note that the area of the “hidden” interface in this configuration equals the circumference of the circle times the slab thickness. In the second snapshot, the droplet has grown so large it interacts with itself through the periodic boundaries, yielding two slab domains with two interfaces (the snapshot of Fig. 15(b) resembles this situation). Since Lx≫Ly, the “hidden” interfaces form perpendicular to Lx; the shaded region A marks the area of one of them. Since the free energy around the minimum of the OPD is flat, it follows that the interfaces do not interact Grossmann1993 , and so we obtain for the surface tension of the “hidden” interface Binder1981
γh=ΔF/2A, (17)
with A=λLy/2 (the factor 1/2 in Eq. (17) is a consequence of periodic boundaries, which lead to the formation of two interfaces). For ηrp=1.16, we obtain γh≈0.1kBT/σ2, which significantly exceeds the vapor-zebra surface tension. Finally, by increasing ηc even further, one obtains the third snapshot, featuring a droplet of colloidal vapor. Note that Fig. 15(c) is just the “standard” droplet condensation transition in a two-dimensional system with periodic boundaries Fischer2010 .
Figure 16: Sketch of the logarithm of the OPD at the vapor-zebra transition, i.e. using μc=μvzc, in a L×L×Lz periodic box, Lz=nλ, and for L large (solid curve). The two dominating peaks correspond to the pure vapor (V) and zebra phase (Z). The intermediate peaks 1,2,…,n−1 correspond to states where vapor and zebra coexist, with each period of the field completely filled with either one of the phases. The states a,a′,… at the minima also correspond to vapor-zebra coexistence, but where one period of the field is only partially filled, as in Fig. 15(b). The barrier ΔG reflects the free energy cost of the vapor-zebra interface, ΔF that of the “hidden” interface; the respective scaling is given by Eq. (18).
Having understood the arrangement of the phases in the coexistence region, we expect the OPD at the vapor-zebra transition to scale with system size conform Fig. 16. We assume a L×L×Lz periodic box, Lz=nλ, with L large. The two dominating peaks correspond to the pure vapor (V) and zebra (Z) phase. The intermediate peaks 1,2,…,n−1 correspond to states where vapor and zebra coexist, with each period of the field completely filled with either one of the phases. For each additional period of the field, one extra peak arises! The states a,a′,… at the minima also correspond to vapor-zebra coexistence, but where one period of the field is partially filled, implying the presence of “hidden” interfaces (Fig. 15(b)). In the limit Lz→∞, one thus obtains an infinite sequence of intermediate peaks, separated by “distances” d∝1/Lz. The barrier ΔF reflects the free energy cost of the “hidden” interface; ΔG that of the vapor-zebra interface. As L becomes large, we thus expect Binder1981
ΔF=γhλL,ΔG=2γvzL2. (18)
In the thermodynamic limit L→∞, ΔG dominates: the intermediate peaks then become suppressed, and only the pure phase peaks (V,Z) remain. The OPD thus becomes bimodal, as it should since the transition is first-order between two phases Vollmayr1993 . The behavior of the OPD at the liquid-zebra transition follows analogously, although the precise values of γh will differ.
It now becomes clear why γvz and γlz cannot reveal critical behavior. The critical behavior was shown to be effectively two-dimensional, implying that the singular part of the interfacial free energy is due to line tension, i.e. proportional to L. As Eq. (18) shows, only the “hidden” interface reveals this required scaling. Consequently, γh becomes critical, while γvz,γlz do not.
Figure 17: The OPD P(ηc) at ηrp=1.22 which is close to the triple point; system sizes Lx=Ly=8, Lz=2λ=20 are used. The peaks corresponding to the pure vapor, zebra, and liquid phase are marked (V,Z,L), respectively.
Figure 18: Histogram H(I) of the observed number of vapor-zebra interfaces I, obtained during a semi-grand canonical simulation inside the vapor-zebra coexistence region. The key message is that I far exceeds two, showing that the tendency for macroscopic phase separation is weak. This is consistent with the DFT prediction that γvz is extremely small. The dashed curve shows the corresponding histogram for the (exactly known) 1D Ising model at infinite temperature.
Note that the OPDs for finite L do not conform to Fig. 16. For instance, in Fig. 14, the coexistence peaks (2,4) exceed those of the pure phases (1,3,3′,5). This is due to the extremely small values of γvz,γlz. For the system sizes L accessible in our simulations, ΔG is essentially zero, meaning that the intermediate peaks are not suppressed. From the finite-size OPD, we thus obtain indirect confirmation of the DFT prediction that γvz,γlz are extremely small. A second consequence is that the tendency of the system to macroscopically phase separate is weak. To test this assertion, we performed a semi-grand canonical simulation at ηc=0.07 and ηrp=1.16, using an extremely elongated box with Lx=Ly=5, Lz=50λ. The reader can verify in Fig. 9(b) that this state point is deep inside the vapor-zebra coexistence region. Consequently, we expect macroscopic phase separation, implying the formation of I=2 vapor-zebra interfaces (since the system is periodic). In Fig. 18, we have collected a histogram of observed I values, obtained in a long simulation run. The key message is that the number of interfaces far exceeds two, providing further confirmation that γvz is small. In some sense, a L×L×(Lz=nλ) system resembles a set of i=1,…,n slabs; to each slab we may assign a spin variable, say, si=−1 when the slab is filled with vapor, and si=+1 when filled with zebra (further justification of assigning spin variables ±1 to slabs follows from the DFT profiles of Fig. 4(b), which show that the vapor-zebra interface is extremely sharp). When two neighboring slabs have different spin values, a vapor-zebra interface exists between them, which raises the free energy by an amount γvzL2. This is just the 1D Ising model footnote1 , with Hamiltonian HIsing,1D=−J∑ni=1si−1si, s0≡sn, and coupling constant J=γvzL2/2. In the limit L→∞, one thus recovers the zero-temperature 1D Ising model, and only here the system will macroscopically phase separate. However, due to the small value of γvz and the finite system size L, it is clear that our simulations are far removed from this limit, which also explains the result of Fig. 18. In fact, the solid curve in Fig. 18 shows the distribution H(I) for the 1D Ising model with n=50 spins and J=0 (with the constraint that the total magnetization ∑ni=1si is zero).
Finally, we discuss the OPD at the triple point, where vapor, liquid, and zebra coexist. In the thermodynamic limit, the OPD becomes triple-peaked, each peak corresponding to one phase. In Fig. 17, we show the OPD near the triple point for a finite system. We indeed observe all three phases (V,Z,L) simultaneously, but the coexistence peaks are still profoundly present. This once more confirms the extremely low values of γvz,γlz, even near the triple point, where they are maximal. To describe the coexistence in terms of spin variables, as done above, now requires 3-state spins, which might induce 1D 3-state Potts behavior at the triple point (this could be an interesting topic for further study). Above the triple point, only vapor and liquid can coexist, and here the OPD is bimodal again Vink2004 . In the liquid-vapor coexistence region, we could again map the system onto the 1D Ising model, but with coupling constant J=γlvL2/2. We have verified that, due to the substantially larger value of γlv, the tendency of the system to phase separate is now much stronger. Of course, for the bulk AO model, the mapping onto the 1D Ising model does not apply (in this case, the external field, Eq. (4), which ultimately supplies the underlying 1D lattice structure, is absent).
V Conclusions
In conclusion, we have studied fluid phase separation inside a static one-dimensional oscillatory external field. The actual DFT calculations and simulations were performed for the Asakura-Oosawa model of colloid-polymer mixtures, but we expect that our findings will apply to any three-dimensional fluid with a bulk liquid-vapor critical point. As was already established in a previous work Gotze2003 , the external field “splits” the bulk critical point into two new critical points, and one triple point. This leads to a phase diagram with three coexistence regions, featuring (1) vapor-zebra coexistence, (2) liquid-zebra coexistence, and (3) liquid-vapor coexistence. All three phases (vapor, liquid, zebra) are characterized by density modulations along the field direction, but the modulations are most pronounced in the zebra phase. The improved DFT calculation of the present work shows that the temperatures of the two critical points differ slightly from each other. In addition, we calculated the surface tensions associated with all three coexistence regions, and found the vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra tensions to be extremely small. The DFT calculation also reveals that the latter surface tensions do not yield the expected mean-field critical exponents (even though our DFT is a mean-field theory).
Computer simulations and finite-size scaling confirm all the trends predicted by the DFT. The reason that the vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra tensions do not show critical behavior is due to the fact that the external field divides the system into a series of effectively two-dimensional slabs, stacked on top of each other along the field direction. The critical correlations diverge only in directions perpendicular to the field, and the corresponding surface tension is one arising from phase coexistence inside single slabs. A surprising finding is that the critical behavior is confined to certain slabs only; depending on the critical point, either the low or high density slabs become critical. Along the field direction, and above the critical points, the arrangement of slabs can be conceived as a one-dimensional Ising chain, at effectively zero temperature in the thermodynamic limit, whereby each slab represents one Ising spin variable. Hence, there will be macroscopic phase separation in all three coexistence regions, but only in the limit where the lateral extensions L of the system become large. Regarding the vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra coexistence regions, the tendency to phase separate is particularly weak, due to the extremely low vapor-zebra and liquid-zebra surface tensions. According to our DFT calculations, the latter tensions are of the order 10−6kBT/σ2. This value is too low to be quantitatively measured in simulations. However, the weak tendency of the system to macroscopically phase separate, as observed in our simulations, does confirm that the latter surface tensions must be extremely small.
Our results could be verified in real-space experiments of colloid-polymer mixtures using, for instance, confocal microscopy Vossen2004 . In fact, bulk criticality in these systems has already been analyzed in this manner Royall2007 . The inclusion of a standing optical field appears to be a feasible extension Freire1994 ; Jenkins2008 . In the presence of such a field, the much weaker tendency of the system to macroscopically phase separate should be easily detectable.
A remaining puzzle is why our finite-size scaling analysis does not reveal two-dimensional Ising critical exponents. Of course, the division of the system into slabs is not absolute: particles can still diffuse between slabs. Perhaps this modifies the universality class, but the underlying theoretical mechanism remains yet to be elucidated diehl . We are currently planning simulations of the lattice Ising model to address these issues (the simplicity of the latter model probably allows for a more accurate scaling analysis using larger system sizes). It would also be interesting to extent the analysis to external potentials more complicated than the one of Eq. (4). Examples include a superposition of several waves resulting in two-dimensional periodic Fischer2011 ; Bechinger2001 ; Reichhardt2002 ; ElShawish2008 ; Lowen2009 ; Franzrahe2009 or quasi-crystalline patterns Mikhael2010 ; Schmiedeberg2008 . The phase diagram of a system close to its bulk critical point inside these confining potentials still needs to be explored. Again, the question is whether new critical points arise, and to what extent the emerging critical behavior is affected by the details of the confining potential.
We thank H. W. Diehl for helpful discussions. This work is financially supported by the SPP 1296 program, the SFB TR6, and the Emmy Noether program (VI 483/1-1) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
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Appendix A Density functional theory background
The main variables in our density functional theory are the one-body densities ρi(r) of colloids (i=c) and polymers (i=p), which describe the microscopic behavior of the system for a given set of parameters (temperature T and chemical potential μi). Based on the existence proof Mermin1965 that there is a grand canonical free energy functional Ω(T,μc,μp,[ρc,ρp]) which gets minimal for the equilibrium density, we use the fundamental measure approach Schmidt2000 to approximate this functional. The grand canonical free energy functional of a colloid-polymer mixture in a three-dimensional system can be split as
Ω[ρc(r),ρp(r)]=∑i=c,pFid[ρi(r)]+∑i=c,p∫drρi(r)[Vext,i(r)−μi]+Fexc[ρc(r),ρp(r)],
with the external potential Vext,i(r) acting on component i, keeping in mind a general description where both colloids and polymers are inside an external field. We use Eq. (4) for the external potential Vext,c acting on the colloids, and set the external potential acting on the polymers to zero: Vext,p=0. In the above, Fid[ρi(r)] is the free energy of an ideal gas
Fid[ρi(r)]=kBT∫drρi(r)[ln(ρi(r)Λ3i)−1],
including the (irrelevant) thermal wavelength Λi of the particles of species i, an external energy part and the nontrivial excess free energy Fexc[ρc(r),ρp(r)], which results from the interactions of the particles. We approximate this excess free energy functional as the integral of a free energy density Φ({ncν(x)},{npγ(x)}) as
Fexc[ρc(r),ρp(r)]=kBT∫dr Φ({ncν(x)},{npγ(x)}),
depending on weighted densities niν(x) given by the convolution of the actual density profiles with weight functions
niν(x)=∫drρi(r)wiν(x−r).
The set of weight functions (which are independent of the density profiles) is given by
wi3(r)=θ(σi2−r),wi2(r)=δ(σi2−r),
wi1(r)=12πσiδ(σi2−r),wi0(r)=12πσ2iδ(σi2−r),
wi2(r)=δ(σi2−r)rr,wi1(r)=12πσiδ(σi2−r)rr,
^wi2(r)=δ(σi2−r)[rrr2−^13],
with r=|r|, the step function θ(r), the Dirac function δ(r), and the identity matrix ^1. The weight functions are of different tensorial rank, i.e. scalars wi3,wi2,wi1,wi0, vectors wi2,wi1, and a second rank tensor ^wi2. The excess free-energy density Φ=Φ1+Φ2+Φ3 is written as
Φ1 =∑i=c,pni0φi(nc3,np3),
Φ2 =∑i,j=c,p(ni1nj2−ni1⋅nj2)φij(nc3,np3),
Φ3 =18π∑i,j,k=c,p(ni2nj2nk23−ni2nj2⋅nk2
+32[ni2^nj2nk2−Tr(^ni2^nj2^nk2)])φijk(nc3,np3),
where φi…k(ηc,ηp)=β∂m∂ηi…∂ηkF0D(ηc,ηp) denotes the derivatives of the 0D free energy βF0D(ηc,ηp)=(1−ηc−ηp)ln(1−ηc)+ηc. We obtain the equilibrium density profiles ρ(0)i(r) by minimizing the Gibbs free energy functional,
δΩ[ρc(r),ρp(r)]δρi(r)∣∣∣ρi(r)=ρ(0)i(r)=0.
This yields the Euler-Lagrange or stationarity equations
∫dxδΦδρi(r)+ln(Λ3iρi(r))+βVext,i(r)−βμi=0.
By inserting the equilibrium profiles into the functional, we obtain the grand canonical free energy and can thus calculate phase diagrams and interfacial properties.
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Abstract Orchestra - Can you record a big band in a garage?
Can you record a big band in a garage? Yes. All live? Yes. Is that not a lot of people in quite a small space? Yes, 3 trumpets/flugels, 4 trombones, 4 saxophones/flutes, bass, drums and keyboards. What about separation? F*%k separation.
Ok, I am not being strictly truthful about the garage bit, it is actually three single car garages. Am I being truthful about the separation bit? Kind of, but I will get to that bit a little later on.
ATA Records has its own studio for the production of our music. After many years of looking for the right sounding analog learning environment in which to make music I figured it was better to just make my own. I had experience of recording in the only running analog studio in Leeds but at £200 a day back in the early 2000’s it was not something I could imagine affording on a regular basis. So I slowly set out to build my own. This was very gradual and evolved over the next 15 years from a humble fostex r8 to the top of the range 1960s 2 inch 16 Track 3m I use now. I have been in my current studio for around 12 years which makes me shudder slightly as I wasn't lying about it being built in a garage. 12 years in a freezing garage with no windows is quite a sentence I'm serving. Who needs sunlight and people though eh?
I guess the garage bit paints a grim picture but it is acoustically treated, heavily insulated and recently we even put down laminate flooring with a life saving space age liner of insulation underneath to tame the cold energy of the concrete floor.
The live room is essentially the size of 3 single car garages, approximately 40m2, which is a nice sized room without the 7’ 6” grand piano, C3 hammond organ and leslie, collection of amplifiers, vibraphone, drum kit, yada yada yada. I have frequently squeezed quite a few bodies in that space to do a recording but doing the Abstract Orchestra album sessions was definitely next level tight space.
So far every Abstract Orchestra recording has been short intensive live sessions which is more to do with trying to get the full band in one room at the same time as it is about a recording aesthetic. As I recall Madvillain vol1 and vol2 were recorded over two days, both sessions were 6 hours long and I think we managed to record 21 tracks which became the two albums and also 3 bonus tracks. I don't think any of the tunes were played more than twice in those 2 days. The band were at the end of a tour and the material was about as tight as it could get.
The lay out for the session was the most challenging part for me. Just getting from one side of the room to the other to move a mic once everyone was in felt like a beginners course in Parkour. I was definitely glad for my policy of setting up and testing all lines and mics the night before any recording session I do. It really takes the stress out of the beginning of any recording day and enables the band to hit the ground running rather than drinking coffee for 2-3 hours while an engineer sets up and gets a sound. One of the best studio tools I have ever bought has been a cable tester and I habitually test all my mic leads before I plug them in. It has saved me on many occasions as there is nothing worse than trying to trace a fault in a room full of people.
My saving grace in this over crowded session was my love of ribbon mics. I think I pretty much exclusively use ribbon mics on everything now and my collection has grown over the years. It hasn’t helped my bank balance that I live 40mins away from one of the leading ribbon mic restorers this side of the atlantic. If you haven't already check out www.Xaudia.com but be warned you might not leave empty handed.
All ribbon mics are naturally bi-directional giving them a figure of 8 polar pattern which means that any sound source coming at them from the side is completely rejected. This characteristic was incredibly useful in this situation as it was how I managed to have so many instruments in one room but not have unwanted sources dominating the designated sound source of the assigned mic. I am unsure how often people make use of this to be honest. I have some really good examples of it that I show people to demonstrate and they are often shocked at the amount of rejection of other sound sources (I am avoiding saying separation btw because F*%k separation right?).
With the set up for the madvillain session I put the brass in the middle of the room, first a row of trombones who were sitting down and then behind them standing up were the trumpets. My thinking here was that the trumpets would be blowing over the trombone mics instead of directly into them and that if there is spill it inhabits a different frequency range and could be filtered out if it was unwanted. Instead of mic-ing up each horn (way too many mics for my liking) I chose to put two horns to a mic. The mic sat in-between the two players music stands quite nicely. Trombone players often seem to drop the bell of their horn towards the floor when they play so those mics were pretty low down. With brass mics in place the gig was now to try and position everyone else so that they were directed at the rejection points of these mics.
The saxes I put to the right hand side of the trombones, in a line facing the rejection point of the trombone mics meaning that although they were close to the trombones their sound was pretty much rejected. On the saxes I used a couple of ribbon mics that were also cardioid which means that they reject most things that aren't pointed at them. The saxes also had a chest high screen in-front of them to help to keep sounds travelling out from them and in from the rest of the room but still allowing the room to be open for people to hear each other.
The drums were to the right hand side of the trumpets I had floor to ceiling screen to stop too much of the drums spilling into the room to help stop the cymbals pinging around. We left these screens partially open so that everyone could hear the kit. There is also a permanent wall at that end of the studio about 6’ long with was in between the saxes and the kit. I put it in so that I could create more closed off spaces if I needed. With the screens open there was still very little spill from the kit onto the brass mics placed closest because of the correct use of the rejection points.
The Bass and keyboard amps were sat on the opposite side of the brass to saxes and kit pointing into the other rejection point of the brass mics. Same effect, bada bing bada boom very little spill, every mic got what it should have in it no problems.
Next, press record and sit back and watch the sound roll in? No such luck. One thing I definitely wish I had done is asked for a score as I spend a lot of the session with my eyes peeled on the meters and frantically jumping around faders as I didn’t know whether the trumpets were going full blast or had mutes in. Luckily they often played everything twice so I got a little feel for what the track was doing.
What about all the big man talk about separation? Separation, having no bleed, putting people in separate isolated spaces although might seem like a good idea for the individual instrument but does it benefit the entire recording? There always seems like a lot of backtracking to me in modern recording. Isolate all the instruments then add artificial atmosphere after in the form of a simulated space etc. You can’t add vibe it has to be created at the beginning. Nothing beats the feeling of playing in a room together. It is how most of us learnt to play together. Whenever possible we try to set up so that we don't have to use headphones I think you get a better vibe. Your ears are in the room rather than the headphones. People listen harder and will balance themselves in the performance better rather than relying on the headphone sends to adjust their volume. So whenever possible I try not to isolate people and instead try to use the rejection points to act as the screens if you like. I still have screens of course but they are only chest height. Also let the spill be good spill. Don't place things together that are going to impact negatively on each other sonically. It doesn't always work out the way you want it but it is a good place to start, adds a little natural glue your recording.
Madvillain Vol. 2 was released on the 24th of May on LP, CD and DL and has since garnered praise from the likes of BBC6 Music’s Gilles Peterson and Huey Morgan who made it his “Meat Of The Week”.
By Neil Innes
13 Horns, 2 microphones
Do You Want To Produce Music Or Run A Tape Machine Museum?
The Sorcerers - Last minute monkey business
The Lewis Express - Jazz for the people.
Abstract Orchestra - Making Madvillain Vol. 2
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Cats Meow, Toyotas Wow: Big Apple reveals tomorrow's Jag and Prius
By BOB GRITZINGER AND JOHN D. STOLL
AUTOMAKERS GAVE US A LOT TO chew on in the Big Apple, much of which we wrote about before partaking. What we hadn’t anticipated was getting an update on the state of Jaguar or being wowed by a sub-100-horse hybrid.
In addition to using the New York auto show stage to debut a new leaper logo, the first redesign of the hood trophy since the ’60s, Jaguar showed us sketches of a future design based on Ian Callum’s R Coupe concept (sorry, they wouldn’t give us a copy). The design includes gill-like side vents, projector-beam headlights and similar taillight treatment. Officials told us to expect more use of aluminum—even in the entry-lux X-Type. Don’t look for station wagons, diesel Jags or retro cats for the U.S. market, though.
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New York wasn’t all glitz, however. While some automakers spend auto show time forecasting the day hybrids will arrive on their lots, Toyota unveiled its second-generation Prius, redone in hopes of bringing its hybrid effort more mainstream, like Honda’s Civic hybrid.
Toyota’s hybrid made a splash at the show, featuring a reworked “full hybrid” powertrain that boosts available electric power by 50 percent over the current model. Low-end torque is more plentiful and fuel efficiency is better by 15 percent in the new system, which modifies the duration of battery-powered propulsion, improving efficiency during peak power acceleration. Official miles-per-gallon numbers should rise from the high 40s to the mid-50s. Although the 1.5-liter, 78-hp inline four gets only an 8-hp boost from the current-generation, the 0-to-60-mph time drops from the 12-second range to the 10-second range.
The 2004 Toyota Camry Solara.
Prius rides on an entirely new platform, including a half-foot-longer wheelbase and a fifth door, making the 2004 a hatchback. The vehicle is outfitted with by-wire throttle and shift control, allowing drivers to change gears by tapping a dash-mounted joystick. The feature replaces the oddly positioned shifter that protruded from the dash beside the steering column. The option list includes a remote start feature.
New York was the stage for another second-generation Toyota, the next Camry-based Solara. The coupe gets sportier design cues for 2004, an automanual, XM Radio and a navigation system as options, in addition to an available 3.3-liter, 225-hp 240-lb-ft V6 that replaces the 198-hp 3.0-liter V6 option. It goes on sale in August.
MIDSIZE MITSU UNVEILED
To better chase its Japanese competitors in the bread-and-butter segment, Mitsubishi seems to have borrowed a page from Nissan for its next-generation Galant, shown in New York. The totally redesigned sedan, due this fall, was developed in the United States as part of the Project America platform program.
It carries significant interior upgrades and a high-beltline stance sculpted much like Nissan’s Altima and 2004 Maxima. The company hopes to sell 100,000 Galants per year, setting the base price at less than $19,000. Mitsubishi raises the price along three progressive trim levels. The upper-crust GTS gets custom taillights, mesh grille and 17-inch wheels.
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Exclusive: Over 1,000 brands ran ads alongside election misinformation
A new report from NewsGuard, a service that uses trained journalists to rate news and information sites, found that from Oct. 1 through Jan. 12, nearly every major brand in America inadvertently ran automated ads on websites that peddled election conspiracies and misinformation.
Why it matters: The chaotic nature of the modern news cycle and digital advertising landscape has made it nearly impossible for brands to run ads against quality content in an automated fashion without encountering bad content.
Details: According to the report, 1,668 brands ran 8,776 unique ads on the 160 sites flagged in NewsGuard’s Election Misinformation Tracking Center for publishing falsehoods and conspiracy theories about the election.
Major corporations like American Express, non-profits like Planned Parenthood, and prominent universities like Harvard and Stanford are just a few examples of companies that NewsGuard found had ads running on problematic sites.
In one example, NewsGuard found that Disney, a brand that prides itself on being apolitical and family-friendly, had ads on CharlieKirk.com, a site that repeatedly publishes false claims about the election.
Between the lines: The report finds that advertisers are also inadvertently boosting sites that repeatedly publish conspiracies and misinformation.
For example, the report found that Gateway Pundit, a fringe-right outlet known for publishing hoaxes, featured ads from 226 brands and over the past three months.
The big picture: Most advertisers don't intentionally have their ads appear on these types of websites, but the digital advertising ecosystem can sometimes make such content hard to avoid entirely.
Most advertisers or their agencies place ads on various websites using programmatic, or automated, technology.
Programmatic advertising allows marketers to buy highly-targeted ads across thousands of different websites for a very efficient cost.
But because programmatic advertising is bought and sold through a highly-convoluted supply chain, there's also a lot of fraud and accidentally-misplaced ads.
Be smart: Brands are trying to get ahead of the problem but creating blacklists, or lists of words or websites to avoid when buying ads. But blacklists, which aren't fool proof, often inadvertently block quality news sites from receiving ad revenue.
The bottom line: The pandemic, combined with the election drama in the U.S., has led consumers to trust brands over government entities or non-profits.
The NewsGuard data presents a serious problem for brands that are expected to lead the country in solving major problems, including fake news and misinformation online.
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HomeDad NewsFlying with Kids Could Change Forever
Flying with Kids Could Change Forever
October 14, 2014 bewildereddad Dad News 0
Thomson, who bill themselves as “Britain’s largest leisure airline”, have unveiled a five year plan that could change the way that families fly forever. Whether it’s for the better or worse is, as ever, in the eye of the beholder.
“Move your head, I want to watch Hunger Games 12”
The airline’s concept is to fit out their Boeing 737s with Family Booths; two rows of three seats, facing each other with a table in-between similar to the table seats on a train. Eliminating the issue of having to pass messages along a line and the Chinese whispers that come with it when seated traditionally on an aeroplane, the new design would make flying a more sociable occasion even if it does make watching the in-flight movie more difficult.
Smug childless couples needn’t feel left out, they could take advantage of the Duo-Seats; a row of three pod seats in which the middle one transforms into a table and Thomson are keen to suggest using it to house a bottle of champagne, rubbing it in for the envious parents who have to remain relatively sober whilst in charge of their brood.
For those sick of the sight of their loved ones after two draining weeks together in the Med, Thomson also suggests that they will provide a kids club to keep the little ‘uns entertained during the flight.
For more reading on the trials of travelling with children, take a look at the Bewildered Dad blog post about Prince George.
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Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Sussex, The
Music | Opera and Musical Theatre | Spoken Word
The Society was launched as the “Mid Sussex Gilbert and Sullivan Society” in May 2011 from a nucleus of enthusiasts brought together by Melvyn Tarran, curator of “The World of Gilbert and Sullivan Museum” then at Oak Hall Sheffield Park. We are affiliated to the London G & S Society. The name was changed to “The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Sussex” in 2012.
gilbertandsullivantoday.org.uk
Edwin Cowley 01342 715709
edwincowley52@gmail.com
Brighton Consort
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Limits problem
Ahmed Osama
can you please show that
Lim x->0 ln(x) = -infinity
by the epsilon delta definition
thank! :)
Faizan Ahmed
thank you very much but i didn't mean the derivative what i meant was to prove that the limit as x approaches zero to the natural log of x that the limit will approach - inf. by the epsilon-delta definition a limit
Ian Fowler
I'm a little rusty but I came up with this so there are no guarantees on the logic. If some out there can correct me I'd be grateful. It sounds O.K. to me but one is never quite sure with these.
First note that we have to approach 0 from the right since Domain of ln(x) = set of positive real numbers. Also note that for 0 < x < 1 that ln(x) is negative.
We must show that for any d between 0 an 1 and 0 < x < d there must exist a large enough N >0 such that ln(x) < -N.
i.e. ln(x) decreases without bound. More formally:
If 0 < x < d then we can find an N > 0 so that ln(x) < -N
So choose d = 1/e^N (which is between 0 and 1)
So now we have (from above):
x < d
x < 1/e^N
ln(x) < ln(1/e^N)
ln(x) < -N since ln(1/e^N) = -N
In other words, no matter how small we choose d, we can always find a large enough N>0 so that ln(x) < -N
So now ln(x) is lower than -N and decreases without bound.
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Man Utd Still Want To Sign Sancho, Grealish, And Bellingham This Summer
By Naveen Kelvin | May 12, 2020
Reuters/Andrew Boyers
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant lockdown has had a massive impact on the global economy with a recession being predicted as a likely aftermath.
As such, financial activity will take a huge toll and its domino effect will have its carry-over influence on football’s transfer activity.
Over the years, mind-boggling transfer fees and single-window overhauls were looking likely at becoming a norm at most European giants.
However, the lack of commercial profits owing to no football being played will have its toll on the clubs’ coffers and how much they’ll be willing to invest in the near future. Nevertheless, Man Utd may carry on with their initial intent.
As per MEN, United still have three main summer arrivals in their sight for the next transfer window. Jadon Sancho, Jack Grealish, and Jude Bellingham remain the big names on their radar and it is understood that the Old Trafford outfit still has intentions to acquire the trio.
Healthy skepticism must be exercised in this regard given how Sancho and Grealish, in particular, will attract sizable transfer fees, with Sancho’s alone expected to break records. Given how the Glazers have been hesitant to invest in big transfers and Ed Woodward himself asserting that the club won’t be bullied into making deals as a general policy, the post-pandemic economy doesn’t bode well for such arrivals.
In that regard, Woodward had himself publicly stated that it won’t be “business as usual” in the near future for United. As such, this claim does beg some critique.
This can be further questioned given how several other clubs are also interested in some of these targets, if they elect to move at all.
The real scenario will only unfold once the summer window opens, whenever that is.
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Best time to visit, weather and climate Zhaolin
Best time to visit Zhaolin, China
The best time to visit Zhaolin in China is from march until may and july until october, when you will have a pleasant temperature and limited till mediocre rainfall. The highest average temperature in Zhaolin is 26°C in may and the lowest is 14°C in january.
The average climate figure for Zhaolin is an 8,0. This is based on various factors, such as average temperatures, the chance of precipitation and weather experiences of others.
Zhaolin has the moderate climate prevailing. If you want to know what the average temperature is in Zhaolin or when most precipitation (rain or snow) falls, you can find an overview below. This way, you are well prepared. Our average monthly climate data is based on data from the past 30 years.
Climate Zhaolin per month
All climate data from Zhaolin
Zhaolin in brief
Coordinates 24° 5' N, 103° 24' E
Climate Zhaolin
Zhaolin has the moderate climate prevailing. There is a lot of rainfall in the summer, and in the winter it is quite dry again. The average annual temperature for Zhaolin is 18° degrees and there is about 192 mm of rain in a year. It is dry for 279 days a year with an average humidity of 46% and an UV-index of 4.
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Weather Zhaolin january
On average, it is maximum 14° in january in Zhaolin and at least around 4° degrees. In january there are 12 days of rainfall with a total of 34 mm. The it will be dry 15 days this month in Zhaolin and on average, it snows 4 days in january.
Weather Zhaolin february
On average, it is maximum 19° in february in Zhaolin and at least around 5° degrees. In february there are 5 days of rainfall with a total of 5 mm. The it will be dry 22 days this month in Zhaolin and on average, it snows 1 day in february.
Weather Zhaolin march
On average, it is maximum 22° in march in Zhaolin and at least around 9° degrees. In march there are 10 days of rainfall with a total of 24 mm. The it will be dry 20 days this month in Zhaolin and on average, it snows 1 day in march.
Weather Zhaolin april
On average, it is maximum 24° in april in Zhaolin and at least around 12° degrees. In april there are 16 days of rainfall with a total of 46 mm and the it will be dry 14 days this month in Zhaolin.
Weather Zhaolin may
On average, it is maximum 26° in may in Zhaolin and at least around 14° degrees. In may there are 19 days of rainfall with a total of 84 mm and the it will be dry 12 days this month in Zhaolin.
Weather Zhaolin june
On average, it is maximum 25° in june in Zhaolin and at least around 16° degrees. In june there are 26 days of rainfall with a total of 160 mm and the it will be dry 4 days this month in Zhaolin.
Weather Zhaolin july
On average, it is maximum 25° in july in Zhaolin and at least around 16° degrees. In july there are 25 days of rainfall with a total of 105 mm and the it will be dry 6 days this month in Zhaolin.
Weather Zhaolin august
On average, it is maximum 25° in august in Zhaolin and at least around 15° degrees. In august there are 26 days of rainfall with a total of 94 mm and the it will be dry 5 days this month in Zhaolin.
Weather Zhaolin september
On average, it is maximum 23° in september in Zhaolin and at least around 14° degrees. In september there are 22 days of rainfall with a total of 63 mm and the it will be dry 8 days this month in Zhaolin.
Weather Zhaolin october
On average, it is maximum 20° in october in Zhaolin and at least around 11° degrees. In october there are 20 days of rainfall with a total of 58 mm and the it will be dry 11 days this month in Zhaolin.
Weather Zhaolin november
On average, it is maximum 18° in november in Zhaolin and at least around 8° degrees. In november there are 12 days of rainfall with a total of 19 mm. The it will be dry 17 days this month in Zhaolin and on average, it snows 1 day in november.
Weather Zhaolin december
On average, it is maximum 14° in december in Zhaolin and at least around 4° degrees. In december there are 12 days of rainfall with a total of 28 mm. The it will be dry 16 days this month in Zhaolin and on average, it snows 3 days in december.
14 day weather forecast Zhaolin
The weather for Zhaolin in China will be around 21° degrees in the next 14 days with a few days chance of light rain showers.
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Hotels and apartments in Zhaolin
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Flight tickets to Zhaolin
The 2 nearest airports to Zhaolin you can fly to are:
Kunming Changshui International Airport (122 km)
Xingyi Airport (191 km)
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About Zhaolin
Zhaolin lies in China in the province Yunnan. If you want to call Zhaolin you have to use +86 or 0086 before the phone number without the first 0 in the original phone number (if it occurs). If the normal number is 05012457809, for example, you can remove the first 0 and call +865012457809 or 00865012457809.
Zhaolin is in a straight line at 8.811 km distance from London. From London-Heathrow the flight time is about 12 hours15.
The coordinates of Zhaolin, China are latitude: 24.098472 en longitude: 103.410989
The GPS coordinates are N 24° 5' 54.6000" en E 103° 24' 39.6000"
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Currency Zhaolin
In Zhaolin the Chinese yuan renminbi is used to pay.
Time difference Zhaolin
In Zhaolin it is now 11:34 o’clock in the morning on wednesday 20 january 2021. That is 13 hour later than in United States. The time zone of Zhaolin is Asia/Shanghai and the Greenwich time is UTC+08.
Vaccinations Zhaolin
These vaccinations may differ per person and / or be advised on the basis of the stay in Zhaolin.
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ODB Reveals Triple H Told her to Join TNA Back in 2007
By Payton Vince Last updated Nov 13, 2019
ODB recently spoke to the WINCLY podcast on Wrestling INC and discussed her joining TNA among other topics.
ODB had the following comments on not joining WWE:
“I’ve never really reached out. Also, I hated being backstage because when I first started I’d go backstage at WWE and I would feel like a frickin’ loser. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. If you don’t shake someone’s hand and all of that BS. I didn’t like that feeling. After TNA I didn’t even bother and never reached out to them because my TNA experience was awesome. I loved coming to work and hanging out with the talent as we all got along. It was fun and no one was better than one another. We were all in this together and it didn’t matter what part of the card we were on.”
ODB also discussed OVW and her being pushed to join TNA:
“They never liked me. OVW was great for me and that’s where I really developed and polished up the ODB character. Danny Davis and Al Snow gave me a huge opportunity and I thank them to this day. They let me do my thing and they were pushing for me but Johnny Ace decided, ‘Nope, she’s not right for the Divas division’ and BS like that. My final thing [with OVW] was when Triple H and Shawn Michaels were there which was right before I made the jump to TNA. I was so nervous and I pulled Triple H aside and he watched my match. He was like, ‘Wow. You have a big character and I like it. You were really good and really stuck out to us.’ I said I have an opportunity to be in the Knockouts division in TNA and he said, ‘I would take that opportunity.’ So he told me to go and I thank him for that. He said there’s nothing here for you and they’re not looking at you right now. I’m like, ‘Alright, whatever.’ But it was the best decision of my life and it helped me build my ODB brand. I’m thankful.”
ODB lastly commented on how IMPACT helped her with her food truck:
“Tommy Dreamer reached out to me and then Scott D’Amore reached out and then Josh Mathews reached out. They were telling me what they wanted to do and I was like, ‘What? You’re kidding me, right?’ I knew I was loved by TNA but this was pretty badass for them to do that. TNA’s always been my home and it always will be. The doors have always been open and I’m excited to come back home and definitely New York City as I haven’t been there in a long time. They’ve contacted me before to do a one-off to help the younger talent out. So it’s cool that they still keep me in mind for stuff,” said ODB. “I can still go in the ring and my outfit still fits, so you never know what could happen in NYC.”
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Advice to Janata Parivar - 1
There are moments in the history of a nation when what matters is not the identity of leaders but what they do. Such a moment confronts our nation today. For inexplicable reasons the dream created by Mr. Narendra Modi’s victory in the elections is fast turning into a nightmare. The ruling party with strange perversity is pursuing an agenda that mocks the promise of development and national rejuvenation contained in Mr. Modi’s election campaign. Never has the need for a check to unbridled power been stronger. Never has the need to create a viable national alternative offering constructive opposition been greater. And the only politicians who are responding in the right manner to the challenge confronting the nation are the group of parties described as the Janata Parivar. For them to succeed and not repeat earlier failures some advice is tendered.
Janata leaders must appreciate that they face a new India and a new situation never encountered before. For success they must discipline themselves, submerge their individual egos, and do the following.
First, however difficult it might be they must forget the past. The past is irrelevant for India’s new generation.
Secondly, to lay the foundation of a stable and genuine alternative that delivers governance the Janata leaders must not show haste but move forward methodically. Instead of simply cobbling together an increasing number of parties into their fold they must first create a solid support base on the ground cross the whole nation. That implies a nationwide movement to educate and mobilize public opinion that would also recruit members of the movement.
The nationwide movement must propagate the systemic change necessary for India’s progress. That systemic change will come when the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit as it is written. Whether it is the Inter-State Council that promised federal power to the states, or Panchayati Raj which empowered local democracy, or the powers of the President and the Governors that have all been neglected in our system’s working thus far, it can safely be said that adequate governance will not be achieved without reclaiming the true spirit of our Constitution.
Next, the Janata leaders must formulate a party constitution which is democratic and by which all decisions are to be taken strictly by observing norms. Only after a nationwide popular base is created through a movement might the Janata leaders move towards formal merger for a new party. Distinct from the issues that galvanize the public through a movement the Janata leaders might then formulate the policy agenda by which they promise to govern. All these steps must be taken by the Janata leaders if they are serious about introducing real reform in India for which they intend creating a genuine political alternative that will change not just the government but the prevalent political system and culture.
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Featuring an outdoor infinity pool, 6 dining options and a range of water sports activities, Loama Resort Maldives at Maamigili is in the middle of the Maldives oldest historic Raa Atoll and spread over 247 acres of pristine coral reef. Guests can also arrange private luxury yacht and island excursions. Free Wi-Fi access is available at this resort.
The air-conditioned accommodations include a TV, minibar, iPod dock and a sitting area. Complete with an electric kettle, the dining area also has a coffee machine. Private bathroom include a bathtub or shower and free toiletries.
At Loama Resort Maldives at Maamigili there is a fitness center, a spa and health club villa and complimentary yoga sessions. Other facilities available at the property include luggage storage and a kids’ club. An array of activities can be enjoyed on site or in the area, including snorkeling.
Dining options include Fazaa, an all-day dining restaurant; Meyzu, an exclusive Japanese restaurant; and Thundi, a fine dining restaurant. Iru Cafe serves refreshing beverages. High tea, light snacks and tapas can be enjoyed at Marha Bar and Thematic Barbeque – Indian, Seafood, Italian, Maldivian and Asian can be enjoyed at the Athiri Club.
Transfer: The Resort is accessible with a scenic 45-minute seaplane ride from the capital Malé.
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A country of more than a thousand islands spread over 90,000 square kilometers of the Indian Ocean. Uniquely charming, endowed with a dreamlike beauty unknown elsewhere in the world; the Maldives welcomes you to enjoy its natural splendor and charm, and the hospitality of its people.
This is home to just about 350,000 islanders, yet welcomes twice as many to its shores every year. The Maldives has welcomed visitors with open arms for centuries. Some opted to stay, while some wrote about the mysteries and intricacies of life on these tiny islands. Unlike the adventurers and mariners of the past, today the Maldives is easily accessible from anywhere in the world. We wish you a pleasant stay in the Maldives.
For most holidaymakers, great sunny days with deep blue skies, clear lagoons with pleasing shades of blue, moonlit nights, the soothing sound of little waves lapping the soft white sands, the ruffle of palms and powdery white beaches are the basic ingredients for the perfect tropical holiday. Few places offer these ingredi¬ents in greater abundance than the Maldives.
Although the Maldives is well known by travelers and holidaymakers today, its long history is not known to
most. The Maldives has gone through immense changes and has been affected by geopolitical changes and upheavals that have swept through the world through¬out the last two millennia.
Few countries have a landscape as remarkable as that of the Maldives. The Maldives is an archipelago of 1190 islands that straddle the equator, about 650 km south¬west of Sri Lanka. The islands are scattered in a chainlike formation extending 820 km from north to south and 130 km at its widest point.
The islands form ring-shaped formations or atolls, 26 in all some with a single island while others with over 200 islands in them. Huvadhoo Atoll in the south is the second largest atoll in the world.
Atoll formation
In 1842 Charles Darwin presented the world with the first acceptable theory of atoll formation. Darwin proclaimed that atolls were created when a volcanic land mass subsided slowly into the ocean, while coral build up and out around the plateau. However Darwin also wrote that the formation of Maldives was somewhat different from the islands of the Pacific and Atlantic that he had examined.
After a diving expedition in the Maldives in 1962, Hans Hass concluded that ‘the inner structure of certain coral reefs in not compact but porous and unstable, hence extended reef platforms invariably sag in the centre”. Reefs formed on the peaks of the submerged mountain range that extends through the centre of the Indian Ocean. The reefs eventually pierce the surface of the ocean beginning to form platforms. The centre of the platform collapses due to the scarcity of food and oxygen and due to the massaging effect of the tides.
However around the rim of the atoll where the coral has been built the hardest and highest, sand and debris accumulate, veg¬etation takes hold and islands begin to form.
Maldives Holiday
Most see the Maldives as a destination of dazzling tropical beauty that offers the perfect recipe for relaxation. The Maldives’ holiday has changed and evolved since the first group of Italian tourists set foot in the country in 1972, a year in which we saw over a thousand tourists visiting the Maldives. Some may find it surprising to learn that many holidaymakers experience the Maldives differently.
Although most look to the Maldives as a destination for peace and quiet others see it as a place for fun filled, physically demanding activity; wind-surfing, catamaran sailing, parasail¬ing are offered in many of the resorts, while surfing is becoming a popular activity for many. Surfers can experience world-class virgin breaks throughout the archipelago.
Relaxation also has found new meaning in the spa resorts comparable only to the best in the world. The Maldives’ spa resorts offer the perfect atmosphere that blends the age-old spa treatments with the tropical charm and closeness to elements that gives it the true holistic experience that spa treatments aspire to deliver.
For more adventurous souls there are nearly a hundred vessels of varying degrees of comfort and luxury. Be it for surfing, diving or simply relaxing, safaris offer a totally different holiday experience which many enjoy tremendously and come back repeatedly for more.
Today Maldives offers a variety of tourist resorts that cater to the tastes and moods of different people. There are 87 resorts in all with 11 new resorts slated for development in the next two years. The resorts vary from those that offer the true Robinson Crusoe experience in style to those that offer a more conven¬tional atmosphere which may be comfortable for some; those that are quiet and perfect for relaxation and those that offer a variety of exciting activities.
One common thread that has and still runs through the Maldives’ tourism product irrespective of the resort or time has been its orientation towards diving. Diving in the Maldives is as exciting for many as it was over two decades ago. New areas of the country are being opened offering fresh dive sites to explore.
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Beautypedia > Paula's Choice Skincare > SKIN PERFECTING BHA 9 Treatment
SKIN PERFECTING BHA 9 Treatment
Paula's Choice Skincare's SKIN PERFECTING BHA 9 Treatment is a spot solution formulated specially to address stubborn imperfections with a 9% concentration of salicylic acid (also known as BHA).
That's a higher-than-usual percentage, but the time-released formula prevents sensitivity without sacrificing the results of its 9% strength. As with all Paula's Choice exfoliants, the pH is within the range salicylic acid needs to exfoliate deep into the pore. This formula is suitable for all skin types, even for those with skin prone to milia.
The fragrance-free formula also includes an soothing plant extract to ensure even those with sensitive skin can reap the benefits.
Speaking of benefits, what exactly does BHA 9 do? It helps stubborn clogged pores, refines skin texture, minimizes dry, rough patches, and improves the appearance of fine lines and signs of aging. Quite a list there! We're happy to report it really can do all those things (at least for most people) due to its powerhouse formula.
BHA 9 has a serum-like texture that is dispersed via a pump applicator, and a surprisingly small amount of product can do its magic. Whether applied as a spot solution or to larger areas at night, a little goes a long way.
The fluid consistency is on the thick side, which makes applying this spot solution easier, although it can leave a shiny/greasy-feeling finish if you're overzealous.
Helps improve the look of clogged pores.
Improves uneven texture and tone.
Smooths dry, rough patches.
Powerhouse formula is surprisingly gentle on skin.
Pump can be tricky to master.
BHA 9 Treatment is an absolutely unique one-of-a-kind targeted formula for stubborn imperfections. It is your go-to solution when nothing else has worked. Impressive results are often visible after only one use.
Propylene Glycol (hydration), PEG-75 (texture-enhancing), PEG-8 (texture-enhancing), Water, Salicylic Acid (beta hydroxy acid/exfoliant), Glycerin (hydration/skin replenishing), Avena Sativa Kernel Extract (oat extract/skin-soothing), Butylene Glycol (hydration), Boerhavia Diffusa Root Extract (antioxidant), Sea Whip Extract (skin-soothing), Arginine (hydration/skin replenishing), Polysorbate 20 (texture-enhancing), Disodium EDTA (stabilizer).
Paula's Choice Skincare At-A-Glance
Paula's Choice Skincare was established in 1995 when best-selling beauty author and consumer advocate Paula Begoun (known as The Cosmetics Cop) decided to develop her own products.
As a natural evolution of Paula's personal mission to help consumers find the best products for their skin, the line has grown into an extensive range of skincare and makeup products that are formulated to meet the needs of almost every skin type and skin concern imaginable, from acne to wrinkles.
Paulas Choice Skincare relies on published research where available to discover the best ingredients for skin. Stable packaging is another feature of the brand, using innovative, opaque, and air-tight or air-restrictive components that keep antioxidants and other light- and air-sensitive ingredients from breaking down. The line is also 100% fragrance-free.
Disclosure: Paula Begoun is the creator of Beautypedia and founder of Paula's Choice Skincare products. Reviewing thousands of skincare and makeup products over the past 30 years, both on this site and in her best-selling books, Paula's mission has always been to help consumers find the best products possible for their skin. The Beautypedia Team proudly and unequivocally maintains this commitment. In addition, The Beautypedia Team reviews all products using the same rating standards and criteria, whether it is a Paula's Choice product or another brand.
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Kirktown Of Fetteresso Bed and Breakfast, Cheap Hotel and Guest House Accommodation
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The Kriek at Mill of Uras, Stonehaven, AB29 2TQ
Wagtail Lodge is situated in Stonehaven and offers a garden. The bed and breakfast, set in a building dating from 1992, offers free WiFi. The bed and ...more
Wagtail Lodge is situated in Stonehaven and offers a garden. The bed and breakfast, set in a building dating from 1992, offers free WiFi. The bed and breakfast is equipped with a flat-screen TV. A continental breakfast can be enjoyed at the property. Cycling can be enjoyed nearby. Aberdeen is 33 km from the bed and breakfast, while Dyce is 41 km away. Aberdeen Airport is 42 km from the property.
Chapel of Barras, Stonehaven, AB39 2UE
Chapel of Barras B&B is situated in Stonehaven. Complimentary WiFi is available. The bed and breakfast offers a TV and a private bathroom with free to...more
Chapel of Barras B&B is situated in Stonehaven. Complimentary WiFi is available. The bed and breakfast offers a TV and a private bathroom with free toiletries, a hair dryer and bath or shower. A continental breakfast is available each morning at Chapel of Barras B&B. The accommodation offers a terrace. Guests can also relax in the garden. Aberdeen is 36 km from Chapel of Barras B&B. Aberdeen Airport is 45 km from the property.
10 King Street, Inverbervie, Inverbervie, DD10 0RG
The Crown Hotel in Inverbervie provides accommodation with a shared lounge and a bar. Boasting an ATM, this property also provides guests with a resta...more
The Crown Hotel in Inverbervie provides accommodation with a shared lounge and a bar. Boasting an ATM, this property also provides guests with a restaurant. Free WiFi is provided. The rooms in the hotel are equipped with a flat-screen TV. Some rooms are equipped with a kitchenette with a microwave. A continental or buffet breakfast can be enjoyed at the property. A variety of popular activities are available in the area around The Crown Hotel, including cycling and hiking. Aberdeen is 42 km from the accommodation. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport, 50 km from the property.
2 Craigmarn Road, Portlethen, AB12 4QR
Situated in the tranquil Portlethen Village, 2 minutes' walk from the bay and the skerry of Craigmaroinn, The Neuk offers free parking, free Wi-Fi, an...more
Situated in the tranquil Portlethen Village, 2 minutes' walk from the bay and the skerry of Craigmaroinn, The Neuk offers free parking, free Wi-Fi, an on-site bar and a restaurant. Each room at The Neuk features an en suite bathroom with free toiletries, a TV, and tea and coffee making facilities. The bar at The Neuk offers a wide selection of beer, wine, and spirits; guests can enjoy freshly home cooked food at the on-site restaurant. The amenities and shops of Portlethen town centre are 1 mile away. Portlethen railway station is a 15-minute walk away and the lively Aberdeen city centre is 7 and half miles from the property.
The flat hallgreen castle, Inverbervie, DD10 0PE
Featuring barbecue facilities and a garden, Hallgreen castle provides accommodation in Inverbervie with free WiFi and city views. The accommodation is...more
Featuring barbecue facilities and a garden, Hallgreen castle provides accommodation in Inverbervie with free WiFi and city views. The accommodation is 43 km from Aberdeen. The country house features a flat-screen TV. Stonehaven is 18 km from the country house, while Arbroath is 41 km away. Aberdeen Airport is 52 km from the property.
41 Evan Street, Stonehaven, AB39 2ET
Located in Stonehaven, Belvedere Hotel features a garden and free WiFi. The property has a bar, as well as a restaurant serving British cuisine. Guest...more
Located in Stonehaven, Belvedere Hotel features a garden and free WiFi. The property has a bar, as well as a restaurant serving British cuisine. Guests can make use of a terrace. All guest rooms in the hotel are equipped with a kettle. All rooms in Belvedere Hotel are fitted with a flat-screen TV and free toiletries. Guests at the accommodation can enjoy a continental breakfast. Aberdeen is 25 km from Belvedere Hotel, while Dyce is 33 km from the property. Aberdeen Airport is 34 km away.
, Stonehaven, AB39 3UJ
Located in Stonehaven in the Grampian region, Dunnottar Woods House, Stonehaven features a garden. Guests staying at this holiday home have access to ...more
Located in Stonehaven in the Grampian region, Dunnottar Woods House, Stonehaven features a garden. Guests staying at this holiday home have access to a fully equipped kitchen. Aberdeen is 29 km from the holiday home, while Dyce is 36 km away. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport, 37 km from the property.
Toucks, Stonehaven, AB39 3XQ
On the outskirts of picturesque Stonehaven, Woodside of Glasslaw Guesthouse is just 20 minutes' drive from Aberdeen. The traditional house offers free...more
On the outskirts of picturesque Stonehaven, Woodside of Glasslaw Guesthouse is just 20 minutes' drive from Aberdeen. The traditional house offers free Wi-Fi, hearty breakfasts and a fitness room. The bright and airy bedrooms each have a TV, DVD player and iPod dock. All rooms feature a private modern bathroom with a hairdryer, and tea/coffee facilities are provided. A full Scottish breakfast is served daily in the spacious dining room, with lighter options also available. Breakfast includes seasonal fruit, fresh coffee and a selection of cereals. Just over a mile from Dunnottar Castle, Woodside of Glasslaw is a 5-minute drive from Stonehaven Harbour. Free on-site parking is available, and Stonehaven Rail Station is a 3-minute drive away.
30 Carron Gardens , Stonehaven, AB39 2FE
Number 30 is located in Stonehaven. Complimentary WiFi is available. The holiday home is fitted with a TV. The accommodation is equipped with a kitche...more
Number 30 is located in Stonehaven. Complimentary WiFi is available. The holiday home is fitted with a TV. The accommodation is equipped with a kitchen. Aberdeen is 26 km from the holiday home, while Dyce is 33 km from the property. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport, 34 km from Number 30.
12 Bridgefield Terrace, Stonehaven, AB39 2JQ
The Mill Inn Apartments offers self-catering accommodation in Stonehaven. Guests benefit from free high speed fibre optic WiFi and private parking ava...more
The Mill Inn Apartments offers self-catering accommodation in Stonehaven. Guests benefit from free high speed fibre optic WiFi and private parking available on site. There is an open plan living room and dining area complete with a sofa and TV. The apartment features a kitchen complete with an oven and a microwave. Towels and bed linen are provided at The Mill Inn Apartments. There is a private bathroom with a bath, bath or shower and shower, and slippers and free toiletries are featured. The Mill Inn Apartment is just a 5-minute walk to Stonehaven Harbour or Stonehaven town centre and pubs, restaurants and shops. It is located 22 km from Aberdeen. Dyce is 27 km from The Mill Inn Apartments, while Inverurie is 35 km away. The nearest airport is Dyce Airport, 27 km from the property.
Arduthie House Ann Street, Stonehaven, AB39 2DA
Set in Stonehaven, Arduthie House offers accommodation with a TV. Free WiFi is featured. There is a private bathroom with shower and free toiletries i...more
Set in Stonehaven, Arduthie House offers accommodation with a TV. Free WiFi is featured. There is a private bathroom with shower and free toiletries in each unit, along with a hair dryer. Guests can also relax in the garden. Aberdeen is 25 km from the bed and breakfast. Aberdeen Airport is 34 km from the property.
, Stonehaven, AB39 2JF
Offering free WiFi, Apartment Bridgefield is situated on the beachfront in Stonehaven. The property is 25 km from Aberdeen, and private parking is pro...more
Offering free WiFi, Apartment Bridgefield is situated on the beachfront in Stonehaven. The property is 25 km from Aberdeen, and private parking is provided. This apartment comes with 2 bedrooms, a TV, a dining area, and a kitchen. Guests can relax in the garden at the property. Dyce is 33 km from the apartment, while Inverurie is 49 km away. Aberdeen Airport is 34 km from the property.
44 Allardice Street, Stonehaven, AB39 2BU
Situated within the seaside town of Stonehaven, The Royal Hotel - Number 44 offers rooms with private bathrooms and freshly cooked breakfasts, 10 minu...more
Situated within the seaside town of Stonehaven, The Royal Hotel - Number 44 offers rooms with private bathrooms and freshly cooked breakfasts, 10 minutes' walk from Stonehaven Railway Station. Rooms at The Royal Hotel offer free WiFi, flat-screen TVs with Freeview, and tea/coffee making facilities. All of the modern bathrooms offer toiletries, and guests can also make use of a hairdryer and iron. Some rooms also offer scenic sea views, and are available upon request. Guests can enjoy a full Scottish breakfast at The Royal Hotel - Number 44, and the hotel's bar and dining area also serves traditional pub food throughout the day in addition to coffee and snacks. Free parking is available at The Royal Hotel - Number 44, and the medieval fortress of Dunnottar Castle and Dunnottar Woods are just 5 minutes' drive away. Fetteresso Castle, a 14th-century townhouse, is also 5 minutes away by car. Aberdeen is 25 minutes' drive away.
Beachgate lane, Stonehaven, AB39 2BD
Executive Beach Apartments offer breakfast served in the room, where guests may enjoy panoramic views of the Bay of Stonehaven. With free WiFi access ...more
Executive Beach Apartments offer breakfast served in the room, where guests may enjoy panoramic views of the Bay of Stonehaven. With free WiFi access available, there is also free on-site parking. From the apartments Dunnottar Castle is less than 2 miles away. The apartment includes a TV, a balcony and a laptop. There is a full a kitchenette with a dishwasher and a microwave. Featuring a shower, the private bathroom also comes with a hairdryer and free toiletries. Guests can enjoy a panoramic sea view from the room. A range of complimentary breakfast options are available and are served to the room. Executive Beach Apartments are 9.2 miles from Portlethen and a 26-minute drive from Aberdeen. Union Square Shopping Centre is 14 miles away and Stonehaven Golf Course is 1.5 miles away.
Centrally located in the coastal town of Stonehaven, Bayview Bed and Breakfast offers en-suite accommodation with scenic sea views, and beachfront loc...more
Centrally located in the coastal town of Stonehaven, Bayview Bed and Breakfast offers en-suite accommodation with scenic sea views, and beachfront location. The property is within walking distance of many restaurants and bars. All apartments and most rooms have a private full-length balcony and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the North Sea. The rooms also boast a flat-screen TV, free WiFi, original artwork and Egyptian cotton linen and large bath towels. A cafetiere, fresh milk and ground coffee add the final touch. An award-winning breakfast is served every day. The property uses local produce including free range eggs from the farm, Stornaway black pudding, Scottish smoked salmon and Fairtrade ingredients. Vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free breakfasts are provided as standard and other special dietary requirements can be supplied by prior request. The town of Stonehaven has an Olympic-size outdoor heated swimming pool, tennis courts and a golf course. The impressive ruined fortress of Dunottar Castle can be reached on foot in 35 minutes along a beautiful cliff path.
, Stonehaven, AB39 2JQ
Featuring free WiFi, Apartment Harbour Tower.1 is situated on the beachfront in Stonehaven. This apartment provides a garden. This apartment has 1 bed...more
Featuring free WiFi, Apartment Harbour Tower.1 is situated on the beachfront in Stonehaven. This apartment provides a garden. This apartment has 1 bedroom, a TV, and a kitchen with a dishwasher. Aberdeen is 26 km from the apartment, while Dyce is 33 km away. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport, 34 km from Apartment Harbour Tower.1.
14 Shorehead, Stonehaven, AB39 2JU
Located close on the waterfront, with fantastic views of Stonehaven Harbour, Shorehead Guest House offers bed and breakfast accommodation. Free WiFi i...more
Located close on the waterfront, with fantastic views of Stonehaven Harbour, Shorehead Guest House offers bed and breakfast accommodation. Free WiFi is available at the property. Rooms at Shorehead Guest House are en suite with complimentary toiletries. Bedrooms have a bespoke interior, inspired by a local designer, as well as silk duvets. Each room comes complete with a TV and tea/coffee making facilities. Breakfast is included in the room rate. Bars and restaurants can be found within 1 mile of the property. Aberdeen Airport is a 20-minute drive away.
High street 82A, Stonehaven, AB39 2JQ
This self-catering one-bedroom apartment is located in the heart of the old town of Stonehaven, a 3-minute walk from the beach. The unit is fitted wit...more
This self-catering one-bedroom apartment is located in the heart of the old town of Stonehaven, a 3-minute walk from the beach. The unit is fitted with a kitchen. A flat-screen TV is provided. Inverurie is 37 km from The Harbour Tower, while Montrose is 32 km from the property. Aberdeen Airport is 27 km away.
9/10 Shorehead, Stonehaven, AB39 2JY
Providing free WiFi, The Marine Hotel is set in Stonehaven. Featuring a restaurant, the property also has a bar. Guests can enjoy sea views. At the ho...more
Providing free WiFi, The Marine Hotel is set in Stonehaven. Featuring a restaurant, the property also has a bar. Guests can enjoy sea views. At the hotel, rooms come with a desk. All units will provide guests with a wardrobe and a coffee machine. Aberdeen is 26 km from The Marine Hotel, while Dyce is 33 km away. Aberdeen Airport is 34 km from the property.
5 Shorehead, Stonehaven, AB39 2JY
Overlooking Stonehaven harbour, The Ship Inn was built in 1771 and offers modern amenities such as free Wi-Fi and rooms with flat-screen TVs. En suite...more
Overlooking Stonehaven harbour, The Ship Inn was built in 1771 and offers modern amenities such as free Wi-Fi and rooms with flat-screen TVs. En suite bathrooms with heated mirrors are featured in each room at The Ship Inn, as well as tea & coffee making facilities. Locally caught seafood, and steaks from a local Aberdeen butcher are served in the on-site restaurant which offers a variety of cuisine. A selection of real ales and draught beers are served in the lounge bar, as well as more than 100 different malt whiskies. Stonehaven is home to a picturesque harbour, open-air heated swimming pool and a scenic golf course, whilst also being just a 30-minute drive to Aberdeen city centre. The entrance to Cairngorms National Park is is under an hour's drive away and offers a wide array of sporting activities.
24 Shorehead, Stonehaven, AB39 2JY
Twentyfourshorehead is located in directly on the waterfront in the historic harbour area of Stonehaven. There is free WiFi access available and free ...more
Twentyfourshorehead is located in directly on the waterfront in the historic harbour area of Stonehaven. There is free WiFi access available and free parking nearby. All rooms boast stunning views of the harbour and the sea. Each room has an en-suite shower room, a flat-screen TV, tea/coffee making facilities, a hairdryer and binoculars. Twentyfourshorehead was once a cooperage, making barrels for the local herring fleet. The property is a listed building in a conservation area. Stonehaven Train Station is a 7-minute drive away and Aberdeen is 16 miles away.
The Beach Apartment, Stonehaven, AB39 2RD
With views over the ocean, Beach Apartment Pop Up Living is 4-star quality self-catering apartment. A 10-minute walk from the coastal town of Stonehav...more
With views over the ocean, Beach Apartment Pop Up Living is 4-star quality self-catering apartment. A 10-minute walk from the coastal town of Stonehaven and a 30-minute drive from Aberdeen city centre, the open-plan apartment features free Wi-Fi. Accessed through wooden gates and with parking to the rear, the Beach Apartment includes a king-size bed, Nintendo Wii games console and a TV with DVD player. The historic ruins of Dunnottar Castle are just under 10 minutes' drive from the apartment, and occasionally feature on-site events such as Morris dancing. Aberdeen Airport is 20 miles from the apartment, and the nearest railway station is a 10-15 minute walk.
, Stonehaven, AB39 3RH
Located in Stonehaven, Holiday Home Dalriada.2 offers accommodation with a terrace and free WiFi. The property is 26 km from Aberdeen, and private par...more
Located in Stonehaven, Holiday Home Dalriada.2 offers accommodation with a terrace and free WiFi. The property is 26 km from Aberdeen, and private parking is available. The holiday home is fitted with 2 separate bedrooms and includes a kitchen with a dishwasher, oven and dining area. A TV is offered. Dyce is 33 km from the holiday home, while Inverurie is 50 km from the property. Aberdeen Airport is 34 km away.
Situated in Stonehaven in the Grampian region, Holiday Home Dalriada.1 is a 4-star property featuring free WiFi. This holiday home offers accommodatio...more
Situated in Stonehaven in the Grampian region, Holiday Home Dalriada.1 is a 4-star property featuring free WiFi. This holiday home offers accommodation with a terrace. This holiday home has 2 bedrooms, a fully equipped kitchen, a dining area and a TV. Private parking is available at the holiday home. Aberdeen is 26 km from Holiday Home Dalriada.1. Aberdeen Airport is 34 km away.
Holiday Home Dalriada.3 is set in Stonehaven. Guests staying at this holiday home have access to a fully equipped kitchen and a terrace. The holiday h...more
Holiday Home Dalriada.3 is set in Stonehaven. Guests staying at this holiday home have access to a fully equipped kitchen and a terrace. The holiday home features a TV. Private parking is available at the holiday home. Aberdeen is 26 km from Holiday Home Dalriada.3. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport, 34 km from the property.
Featuring accommodation with a terrace, Holiday Home Dalriada.4 is located in Stonehaven. The accommodation is 26 km from Aberdeen. With free WiFi, th...more
Featuring accommodation with a terrace, Holiday Home Dalriada.4 is located in Stonehaven. The accommodation is 26 km from Aberdeen. With free WiFi, this holiday home features a TV and a kitchen with dishwasher. Private parking is available at the holiday home. Dyce is 33 km from Holiday Home Dalriada.4. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport, 34 km from the property.
Featuring accommodation with a terrace, Holiday Home Dalriada.5 is set in Stonehaven. Guests staying at this holiday home have access to free WiFi and...more
Featuring accommodation with a terrace, Holiday Home Dalriada.5 is set in Stonehaven. Guests staying at this holiday home have access to free WiFi and a fully equipped kitchen. The holiday home comes with a TV and 2 bedrooms. Private parking is available at the holiday home. Aberdeen is 26 km from Holiday Home Dalriada.5, while Dyce is 33 km away. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport, 34 km from the accommodation.
Holiday Home Dalriada.6 is situated in Stonehaven. Guests staying at this holiday home have access to free WiFi. The holiday home comes with 2 separat...more
Holiday Home Dalriada.6 is situated in Stonehaven. Guests staying at this holiday home have access to free WiFi. The holiday home comes with 2 separate bedrooms and includes a kitchen with a dishwasher and a dining area. Private parking is available at the holiday home. Aberdeen is 26 km from Holiday Home Dalriada.6, while Dyce is 33 km from the property. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport, 34 km from the accommodation.
Set in Stonehaven in the Grampian region, Holiday Home Dalriada.7 features a terrace. Guests staying at this holiday home have access to a fully equip...more
Set in Stonehaven in the Grampian region, Holiday Home Dalriada.7 features a terrace. Guests staying at this holiday home have access to a fully equipped kitchen. Offering direct access to a patio, this holiday home comes with 2 separate bedrooms. Private parking is available at the holiday home. Aberdeen is 26 km from Holiday Home Dalriada.7. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport, 34 km from the accommodation.
Located in Stonehaven, Holiday Home Dalriada.8 offers accommodation with a terrace and free WiFi. Guests staying at this holiday home have access to a...more
Located in Stonehaven, Holiday Home Dalriada.8 offers accommodation with a terrace and free WiFi. Guests staying at this holiday home have access to a fully equipped kitchen and a patio. The holiday home features a TV. Private parking is available at the holiday home. Aberdeen is 26 km from Holiday Home Dalriada.8. The nearest airport is Aberdeen Airport, 34 km from the property.
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What is competitiveness in the workplace?
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7 Things You Should Know About Competition in the Workplace
Gal Rimon
at GamEffective
When Does Friendly Competition Drive Employee Motivation and When Does it Kill It?
When does competition work in the workplace and when does it harm productivity? 7 points you should know.
Competition is many things to people, some people would argue that competition is the driver behind people’s willingness to excel at what they do. In their case, they would argue for a competitive workplace, where everyone competes with everyone else, something like the sales environment in Glengarry Glen Ross. When thinking about gamification at work, they would want a huge leaderboard as the prime way to motivate people. In their minds, everyone will want to be at the top of the leaderboard, and that alone will motivate people. They want to create this never-ending competition between employees.
In “Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing," authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman argue that when people are insecure and have self-doubt a competition can be the real ingredient to drive creative achievement and innovation.
Think about a contest to innovate on a certain product or service, or about two companies competing between them to make the best application, website or consumer device. However, if you read well between the lines you’ll notice that competition here works in the context of innovation and creativity. It doesn’t necessarily apply to modern work in an office environment. Maybe the real reason is that “feeling challenged” makes people perform better, but feeling threatened by competition has the opposite effect.
The authors of “Top Dog” quote research that says that 25 percent of people wilt under competition (they become disengaged), 25 percent of people aren’t impacted by it, and 50 percent of people benefit from it. The book mentions that there is a gender gap, too. Men are overconfident in their abilities and tend to embrace competition. Women are more risk averse and avoid it.
That’s why the competitive landscape should be adjusted in accordance with the people affected: team competitions can motivate some, but for others, the best way can be engaging in a dialogue about performance that doesn’t “name” people but that encourages them to compete against the team average or an internal goal.
Yet, the truth is that there are several dangers with using leaderboards and competition as a sole motivator and ignoring them may be risky.
Leaderboards and outright competition may be discouraging, especially for new or less-trained employees – they will feel that they did not receive a fair opportunity.
Competition may present an unreasonable expectation – imagine you’re in a class of 20 students. Aspiring to have good grades can be reasonable. But imagine you work in a sales center with 100 sales people – can get to the top ten seem discouraging? What about a call center with 1,000 employees? Are employers willing to risk this disengagement?
But the real answer to the question comes from behavioral psychology. Research tells us that people are less motivated by extrinsic factors (competition, cash rewards) and more motivated by intrinsic factors. Additionally, extrinsic factors may create a sudden spike in performance, but intrinsic factors are more likely to generate a long-term behavioral change.
In “Drive – The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us” author Daniel Pink shares research that shows that extrinsic motivation, such as competition and cash rewards doesn’t last. Only intrinsic motivation – the drive to do well, the urge for a “job well done” is what really drives performance.
Recent research by Dan Ariely and others shows that even small rewards for competition – like a pizza for the best performer – can actually hurt performance in the long run. This research shows that competing for a prize can create a tiny spike in performance in the first week, but that it will drop or even get worse the week after. In that case, the competition backfires within a relatively short time.
Competition and any dialogue about improving employee performance need to happen in an atmosphere of trust. Having competition creates a sense of fear will derail your workplace – introducing a need to hurt each other instead of foster collaboration and joint problem solving.
Use competition judiciously. Make sure that the right things are targeted, not an unnecessary competition about non-important tasks that will poison the atmosphere, especially when you think about millennials in the workplace – they’re here for the culture and meaning, not the competition.
Having said all of the above caveats about the risks of competition, there still is much to be gained from it. People are driven by social proof, a phenomenon where people try to behave as others do, showing they are aware of the correct way to behave. That’s why people should be shown how others behave – it makes them better. This is how the ice bucket challenge works; this is why people want badges for helping others do well. This isn’t outright competition, but it certainly is a case where people are influenced by others.
People compete best when the competition is close – people that are like them. Think of the fact that top performers really shouldn’t be competition with the bottom or even average performers in the company. Each group should compete against itself: people will have a more realistic chance of winning, they will feel that the race is hot and that there is a real chance of winning. First and foremost, they will sense the competition is “fair”. Competing for the first place among 100 employees, when you’re new or aren’t the person to enjoy it is downright discouraging.
The real answer to the extrinsic vs intrinsic competition issue is that people can be driven to “intrinsically” compete – with themselves. One way is by setting goals for themselves, or by comparing their performance to “benchmarked” performance of someone at their level.
This is what gamification at work does for people. We all know a form of competing against yourself: it is called a fitness tracker. It is known that if you count steps you’re going to walk more. So if you get real-time feedback about your job performance, you are going to do better. The same drive can be leveraged by having managers set goals that employees can track in real time, relative to themselves, channeling that intrinsic drive. This is where managers can be trained – to set realistic and personal goals employees can engage with without feeling disengaged.
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Gal Rimon is Founder and CEO at GamEffective, a leading workforce performance gamification company. GamEffective helps companies engage employees for better motivation and learning. GamEffective is a Gartner 2016 Cool Vendor in Human Resource Management.
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Witwatersrand mountain ridge, South Africa Britannica
Witwatersrand, also called The Rand, ridge of gold-bearing rock mostly in Gauteng province, South Africa. Its name means “Ridge of White Waters.” Its name means “Ridge of White Waters.” The highland, which forms the watershed between the Vaal and Limpopo rivers, is about 62 miles (100 km) long and 23 miles (37 km) wide; its average elevation is about 5,600 feet (1,700 metres).
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Apr 01, 1993· A major gold province of the world exists in the Proterozoic Birimian and Tarkwaian supracrustal rocks of West Africa. The bulk of the gold comes from the primary lode occurrences of the Birimian rocks of Ghana (formerly The Gold Coast). Birimian lithofacies is characterised by subaqueous fine-grained sediments with bimodal volcanic material.
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Oct 17, 2019· Archean age rocks are found at the earth’s surface today in Western Australia, eastern Canada, southern Africa and a few other places. Most have been recycled into new rock by tectonic forces,but the fragments found at the earth’s surface today have one important thing in common; they host some of the richest gold deposits on earth.
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Oct 17, 2019· However, unlike gold, the actual mining of diamonds from source deposits didn’t start until the late 19th century in the Kimberley Region of South Africa. That’s simply because diamonds, the hardest naturally occurring mineral, are a lot more difficult to extract from their host rocks, than soft and easily melted gold.
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Gold is most often found in quartz rock. When quartz is found in gold bearings areas, it is possible that gold will be found as well. Quartz may be found as small stones in river beds or in large seams in hillsides. The white color of quartz makes it easy to spot in many environments.
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The present-day rivers bearing the same names as their ancient rivers are also shown. The Ancient Rivers of Gold in northern California are from the Tertiary Period. Diamonds come up through the rock through a "pipe" of relatively small diameter, such as the diamond pipes in South Africa. The famous gold towns of Grass Valley and Nevada
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Gold mining in South Africa. How is the gold extracted from the rock? Extracting gold from the mined rock is a complicated process. This is achieved by filtering and separating the gold-bearing carbon using screens. The carbon is stripped with a hot caustic solution, which separates away the gold.
A review of the mineral potential of Liberia ScienceDirect
Oct 01, 2018· A number of structurally-controlled, quartz-sulfide-bearing gold occurrences also occur in the Mt Coffee area of the Todi Shear Zone (Gem Rocks Mining Resources Inc, 2013). Further east along the shear zone at Kle Kle, now owned by MNG Gold, several broad zones of gold mineralisation have been defined ( Amlib, 2012 ).
Gold Deposits: The Quartz-Pebble Conglomerates INN
Gold is found in a variety of geological settings, and is contained within sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks. When it comes to gold exploration, the saying goes “gold is where you find
OVERVIEW OF ZIMBABWE’S MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL
• Gold in the LMB • Renco-Ngundu area • Gold in the Piriwiri • D-Troop area • Umkondo a new gold province • Tarka Forest • By-product e.g. Great Dyke • Alluvial gold e.g. Mutare, Mazowe, Angwa, Umzingwane rivers • Gold in dumps >260t Au locked up in tailings (Solens Consultants, 2002)
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The Geology of Hydrothermal Quartz Veins that are Gold Bearing
Mar 07, 2011· A gold bearing quartz vein that has been eroded from rock. Note the staining of the quartz from mineral bearing water as an indicator for gold. On the right hand side there is a small section of a vein showing its sheetlike character. Photo by Peripitus
Historical Reading: The Diamond Fields of South Africa
The author presents a detailed description of the geology and diamond mines in South Africa. On the Diamond Rocks of South Africa,H.E. Roscoe, Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Vol. 24, pp. 5-10, (1885). Some analytical data are presented on the composition of the diamond-bearing kimberlite rocks.
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Delivering aid faster than ever
Oxfam was struggling to deliver aid quickly because it would take eight to 12 weeks to set up functioning offices in new locations. It was also challenging to manage content governance and respond to new regulations like GDPR because of fragmented legacy systems.
Employees, volunteers and partners instantly manage aid delivery on Box when they arrive at a new location. Consistent security and compliance policies have been applied across content centralized on Box.
Oxfam has improved the speed of delivering aid because it can get new programs up and running quickly. It has reduced exposure to compliance and security risks and responds more quickly to evolving regulations.
Nearly one out of every three people in the world lives in poverty. And the richest eight people in the world are collectively wealthier than the poorest 3.8 billion people combined. It’s facts like these that motivate Michael Duggan, the CIO of Oxfam International, to push for change every day. But to make the most impact on poverty possible, digital transformation is critical.
Oxfam has been around for over 70 years. In that time, the Oxfam mission has transformed to focus not only on direct delivery of aid, but also on tackling the root cause of injustice and poverty: inequality. With employees based in over 90 countries and with 19 separate affiliates under its umbrella, Oxfam campaigns for social justice, works to change laws and practices that keep people trapped in poverty, creates programs to help people assert their rights and is a first responder on the ground during times of crisis.
Over the years, Oxfam has acquired many legacy technology systems. Michael Duggan is leading the organization forward from its legacy state toward digital transformation and describes his role as “leveraging technology to deliver impact.” He wants Oxfam to be an effective organization that delivers the best possible return for supporters and donors, and that ultimately delivers the most impact possible to the people that Oxfam helps.
Committing to digital innovation
To maximize its impact in the digital age, Duggan realized that Oxfam needed to start making digital investments at scale, and he knew this would require a collaborative effort across the entire organization. So a key part of the Oxfam digital transformation strategy has been to bring Oxfam's 19 different affiliates together. “We come from very different backgrounds, different histories, but also different technology stacks," he says. "We've leveraged [the] cloud to join us together and be a more effective organization.” For example, Oxfam not only uses Box but also Okta for single-sign on and Workplace by Facebook to connect staffers that use different email systems.
Similarly, Oxfam folds best-of-breed cloud services into many of its legacy systems to elevate their utility and usability. This approach also makes compliance, data protection and privacy requirements easier to meet. Duggan is keenly aware that the nonprofit landscape is littered with “failed technology implementations," which then result in wasted donor money and less impact for those in need. Duggan emphasizes that the sector should be building tools around digital impact with top cloud providers rather than proprietary back-office systems. Cloud solutions like Box have propelled Oxfam into and through its digital transformation journey.
Technology to respond to evolving regulations
With 19 affiliates, 10,000 employees and tens of thousands of volunteers and external trustees, Oxfam knows it needs to carefully manage and secure the information of supporters and program participants. “We are a rights-based organization, so this is significant,” Duggan says. The organization needs to be prepared for any audit and compliance requirements, and also ensure that staff and volunteers at Oxfam have the tools they need to protect sensitive content. Using the right technology solutions is critical for this.
“The advent of GDPR created challenges for many organizations, especially those who collect and manage large sets of unstructured data,” Duggan says. Oxfam began using Box Governance to help with tagging content and utilizing search capabilities to become well-positioned to comply this and other regulations.
“Leveraging these types of tools to address our compliance needs will dramatically reduce the overhead of the compliance requirements, while also allowing us to be able to deliver effectively and quickly on any of the data rights requests that we are asked for.”
Michael Duggan, CIO, Oxfam International
Driving impact through operational efficiency
Oxfam is a category-one responder to humanitarian crises, which means it is one of a small number of global humanitarian agencies that can respond at scale to very large humanitarian disasters, such as the Indonesian earthquake and tsunami in September 2018. It used to take teams eight to 12 weeks to get a fully functioning office up and running. Oxfam's data sat on file servers that were only accessible if you were physically in the office where it was stored. Now this information is available instantly on any device globally. “I have 41 terabytes of Oxfam documentation on my phone stored in Box — and that’s data being gathered from over 90 countries," Duggan says.
“There is literally nowhere that an Oxfam staffer cannot get access to that information, as long as we can deliver Internet," Duggan says. "And we're very good at delivering Internet.” When responders arrive at their respective airports ready for deployment, they have access to the latest documentation they will need immediately, including briefing materials, partner information and protocols. They can also access information offline with Box Drive if they're in an area with poor connectivity. This has transformed Oxfam's ability to scale quickly and become a more efficient. “Box has been a game-changer," Duggan says.
“When the earthquake/tsunami response began in Palu, Sulawesi, my team was able to instantly set up a dedicated Workplace group and a dedicated Box folder to streamline communications and keep track of constantly changing environments and requests.”
Jack, Oxfam Australia
Apart from speed of access, another benefit of Box is how easy it is for employees to use. Dianna Langley, Digital Workplace Manager for Oxfam, says that teams are able to understand the structure, use files safely and securely and set up folders without needing IT to provision them. Processes on Box have essentially become turnkey. “It doesn’t matter where the disaster happens — our solution [for content management] is now location-agnostic, global and cloud. And this is exactly what you need in an emergency situation — predictability and ease of use.”
Going forward, Duggan is eager to utilize Box Skills to better manage the tremendous amount of video and imagery the organization stores. For example, if someone wants to know if Oxfam has photos of an individual, or whether someone specific appears in an Oxfam video, he will look to leverage a solution like Box Skills to achieve this request more quickly and efficiently.
“We’ve certainly demonstrated that cloud works in the most austere environments in which we operate, and this has dramatically accelerated our ability to deliver impact.”
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Collaboration with humanitarian partners
Another way that Oxfam is increasing the impact of its work is through better collaboration with other humanitarian organizations. Whether the focus is how to promote human rights, manage technical support for development programming or share timely country and disaster information, Oxfam uses Box to rapidly share and co-create.
“The boundaries are porous when you’re engaging in a disaster, and you must work together,” Langley says. She finds that Box gives her options for sharing folders and information with the other NGOs working side by side with Oxfam in the field. Oxfam can quickly share information with partners while maintaining the ability to be prescriptive around access levels.
Apart from setting up in new locations more quickly, Oxfam has also been able to leave areas to respond to other critical situations much more quickly than before. Because it can share information easily and securely with other organizations that want to carry on this important work, the transition time for Oxfam leaving and a partner stepping in is expedited.
“Box is enabling us to create a shared space with our partners to increase impact through knowledge exchange.”
Remembering the human element in technology
While there is huge promise with technology and the efficiencies it can bring, Oxfam emphasizes that we can’t lose sight of the human component. For example, in migrant and refugee camps, Oxfam doesn’t require individuals to identify themselves. While there is technology available to digitally identify those Oxfam serves, the organization wants to be mindful that individuals may be too scared to share their identities after fleeing war or personal conflicts. While technology can provide efficiencies, Duggan emphasizes that it's important to understand the implications so organizations don't apply technology solutions blindly and undermine the very people they are trying to serve.
Oxfam also emphasizes that digital transformation isn't just about shifting infrastructure out of the organization, it's actually shifting workloads. As the impacts of AI and big data grow, Duggan feels passionately that the opportunities these technologies present also bring significant responsibility for his organization and the partners Oxfam will work with. “Oxfam is only interested in working with companies like Box that have demonstrated that they are thinking about the ethical implications of technology — we need to know that we can have an open and honest conversation about the impact, and how we can leverage opportunities in an ethical and human way.”
In fact, Duggan predicts that companies that win in the technology space will be the ones that maintain trust — not only with the organizations that consume the technology, but also with consumers, supporters and program participants.
“No matter how wonderful your technology is, no matter how it could potentially transform the effectiveness of a program or the level of impact — it doesn't matter if it's not done in a way that respects all the individuals involved and most of all those with the least power.”
Box and Box.org are proud to enable Oxfam and thousands of other nonprofits working night and day toimprove the human experience. Box donates and discounts our services for nonprofits at Box.org.
The greater good begins in the cloud
Digital and mobile have allowed nonprofits to activate supporters and reach those in need like never before. That’s why nonprofits have leaped at the opportunity to become truly digital organizations. That’s where Cloud Content Management comes in.
Protect the flow of information
At Box, we're dedicated to bringing secure, centralized and cloud-native content services to organizations all over the world. We embed security and resilience not only into our products, but into the very fabric of our enterprise.
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Content Marketing Weekly: The Latest Twitter Trends to Tweet About
When the word “tweet” comes to mind, more often than not you’re thinking about hashtags and quirky thoughts, not the sound heard on an early summer morning. While Twitter has only been around since 2006, it’s still made quite a name for itself as a social media platform, coming in as the sixth most popular social networking site.
In last week’s edition of Content Marketing Weekly, we discussed some of the latest Twitter trends based on an SEMRush study. While hashtag usage and strategy discussions reign supreme for content marketers in the land of tweets, there’s plenty more where that came from.
#Socialmedia plays an important role in a well-rounded marketing strategy, but it's success requires compelling content.
Here's how to create it: https://t.co/WCghvq5tir pic.twitter.com/UQNlfIIuaY
— Brafton (@Brafton) June 7, 2019
This week, we’ll discuss more reasons why maintaining a Twitter account is essential for your brand:
10 Active Twitter Chats Marketers Should Follow in 2019
Chatting online started with message boards, chat rooms and instant messenger via AOL, the OG that shut down late 2017. Today, we have apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, as well as the ever-popular and simple text messaging feature on our phones. Twitter might not have its own messaging component, but it doesn’t have to – Twitter chats are alive and well, and they can be very beneficial for the content marketer.
In a recent G2 Crowd article, Lauren Pope described Twitter chats as conversations using a hashtag to find different discussions and questions in the Twitter community that connect you to other users – or in this case, other marketers. Hashtags like #AdweekChat, #CMWorld, #SEMRushChat and the simple yet efficient #ContentChat can get you talking about SEO, strategy and everything in between. It’s also the perfect opportunity to be a thought leader in the industry. Start your own conversation about trending content and best practices.
Learn more about twitter chats here. And join Brafton’s next chat by following the #BraftonBuzz hashtag.
Twitter is Looking to Hire a ‘Master in the Art of Twitter’ to Become its Tweeter in Chief
Whether an editor in chief or the commander in chief, a person who holds authority in the workplace is expected to know the ins and outs of the job and make critical decisions for the business. After years of assigning the position of head tweeter to employees who didn’t use or understand public communication to the level of expectation, Twitter has come to the conclusion that it’s time to hire its own head honcho, or a “Tweeter in Chief.”
This new posting, which went live on the company’s career site roughly two weeks ago, solicits the best candidate to talk to users of the social media platform under the handle @Twitter. This person is expected to set the tone and represent Twitter in a way that’s respectful, lively and in the know, and also have some fun on the account. Like this:
their: belongs to them
there: location
they’re: they are
💙, Twitter
— Twitter (@Twitter) June 11, 2019
Today, social media plays a huge role in the world of marketing. Twitter now understands that it should be focusing on its own strategy, and how its platform can be as beneficial to itself as it is to other companies and businesses.
“Twitter itself is realizing that it needs some of the same marketing magic its platform has gifted fast food brands, streaming services, and cookie companies,” wrote Nick Statt for The Verge.
Maybe Twitter should reach out to someone like Barack Obama, whose account is one of the most followed to date. He clearly knows what he’s doing, and I’m pretty sure he’s technically out of work right now.
Learn about becoming the Tweeter in Chief here.
Essential Social Media Metrics for Content Marketing
Social media platforms are valuable tools for marketers, there’s no denying that. By tracking the right metrics, you can optimize your engagement and improve your strategy over time. Specifically, Twitter lets you track your reach, reporting analytics associated with any given tweet in regard to tweet impressions, profile visits, mentions and new followers gained.
Audiences first. Leads and opportunities second. – @robert_rose #ContentTECH pic.twitter.com/PNR0fceZBN
— Content Marketing Institute (@CMIContent) June 12, 2019
Other metrics are more straightforward. For example, maintaining a high number of followers indicates that your tweets are reaching a lot of people, and an increase in likes and retweets is a good sign that your content is going beyond your followers to a larger audience. Greater reach means more potential followers, thus growing your audience and making your products or services more marketable.
Read the full story on social media metrics here.
That’s it for this edition of Content Marketing Weekly. Swing back next week for more of the latest news and trending topics in content!
Chelsey Church
Chelsey Church is a senior writer and editor at Brafton. When she's not turning her thoughts into copy, she's enjoying a craft beer, playing with her dogs or listening to her favorite metal tunes. A Cleveland native, she'll never let you forget that the Golden State Warriors blew a 3-1 lead.
By Chelsey Church
The Content Marketing Weekly: No April fools here
Don’t worry, we won’t prank you, but we will show you some of our favorite hoaxes from this year, and more.
Content Marketing Weekly: How many days can you go without using Google?
Possibly quite a few if you use DuckDuckGo.
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Brentwood Donates 5,000 Face Shields to Penn State Health St. Joseph
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Brentwood is proud to partner with Penn State Health St. Joseph in Berks County’s fight against COVID-19. The company donated 5,000 reusable face shields to the hospital to protect healthcare workers as the pandemic continues.
Brentwood President, Peter Rye, and his wife, Leigh, presented the donation to hospital representatives on Wednesday.
“We wanted to protect those working to keep us safe and healthy, particularly in the community where we live and operate,” said Rye. “We learned that [Penn State Health] St. Joe’s needed personal protection equipment, and we were happy to jump in and help.”
The company said its commitment to help during the pandemic will extend beyond Penn State Health St. Joseph, with more face shield donations throughout Berks County. Brentwood is also building partnerships with hospitals and businesses in the other domestic locations where the company operates – Lebanon, PA; Martinsburg, WV; and Hope, AR – with the intent of donating thousands more face shields.
When COVID-19 took hold in the U.S. two months ago, Brentwood assessed its capabilities and decided to develop the reusable face shield product. The company had never designed or manufactured personal protection equipment, but this was a challenge they were excited to take on.
“Our facilities were already equipped to form medical packaging and injection molded components,” said Walter Banta, Brentwood’s Senior Director of Operations, “so developing a face shield was an easy decision.”
The face shield design and tooling were completed within weeks, enabling Brentwood to ramp up production in its Reading, PA, facilities. These include an ISO Class 7 cleanroom and a state-of-the-art injection molding facility.
Several weeks ago, the company received official authorization from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to supply its face shields specifically to healthcare workers fighting COVID-19. This approval falls within the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) guidelines.
Brentwood’s face shields also protect non-healthcare essential workers, tasked with keeping grocery stores, warehouses, and other critical processes operational during this difficult time.
Important Information Regarding Brentwood & COVID-19
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Brentwood Celebrates Grand Opening of Tijuana, Mexico, Facility, Announces Expansion Plans
TIJUANA, MEXICO – December 17, 2018 – Brentwood Industries, Inc., hosted a grand opening celebration for their ninth manufacturing facility located in Tijuana, Mexico. This new facility was launched to more deeply engage Baja California’s Medical and Electronics industries, as…
Brentwood Introduces Two New Cooling Tower Fill Products: ShockWave™ & ThermaCross™
Brentwood proudly introduced two new fill media products earlier this month at POWER-GEN International: ShockWave & ThermaCross. Following extensive research and development, the company predicts these products will revolutionize their respective markets within the cooling tower industry. “We are confident that…
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Ms. Demeanor's Vertical Etiquette
Dear Ms. Demeanor: What can we do about a hoarder who is creating a roach problem in our building?
November 2, 2018 - 2:00pm
By Dianne Ackerman
There is a hoarder in the building and she’s causing a roach problem. The board is tying themselves in knots trying to deal with her. They’ve done everything except confront her directly. Do you think that would help? Signed, Horrified Non-Hoarder
Dear Horrified,
Of course confronting her directly would help. It’s not ‘everything’ if they haven’t tried speaking with her.
But let’s back up a minute. I understand that there are usually deep psychological issues surrounding hoarding. Your board may be trying to be sensitive or respectful, but they should keep in mind this isn’t ‘Hoarders,’ the television show. This isn’t suburbia, with yards separating where we live, and this is not going to be neatly addressed in an hour-long episode.
You’re in a co-op building, where hoarding is a serious and dangerous problem for the hoarder and everyone around them. This woman must be told that exterminators are coming, and they must be admitted into each apartment. If she does not allow this, check your proprietary lease. Mine says that every shareholder must leave a key with the building in case of an emergency. A roach infestation should certainly qualify as an emergency.
But roaches are not the only problem for your co-op building, there are other, even more serious concerns. Heard of the Collyer Brothers? In the 1940s, two brothers, Homer and Langley Collyer, lived in a Harlem brownstone stuffed with an unimaginable amount of junk—like a car chassis and 14 pianos, according to The New York Times. The police found them after they died—one was buried under an avalanche of trash, the other starved to death.
Safety in a co-op building is everyone’s responsibility. Your fire department should be made aware of any suspected hoarders. If there’s a fire in the hoarder’s apartment, or even in the building and they need to get out quickly, it could be deadly.
On a lighter note, don’t sign up for those subscription services that send you boxes of stuff like soap or toilet paper automatically every month. They’ll make a hoarder out of all of us.
Ms. Demeanor
Dianne Ackerman is the new voice of reason behind Ms. Demeanor. She has lived in her Upper East Side co-op for the past 20 years and is the vice president of her co-op board. She is filled with opinions that she gladly shares with all who ask—and some who do not. Have something that needs sorting out? Drop her an email.
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Working Capital Disputes: The Role of the Neutral Arbitrator
With global M&A activity on the rise, companies should prepare themselves for potential post-acquisition disputes prior to buying or selling a business. Often times, the contract between the parties will address the process to be followed in the event of any purchase price disputes and will reference the use of a neutral arbitrator. This presentation will address the important role of a neutral arbitrator in purchase price disputes, including how that role is created, defined and executed, from the initial negotiation of the purchase price agreement to the final opinion given to the parties by the neutral arbitrator. The presentation will also briefly highlight the most common types of working capital account and other post-closing adjustment disputes that a neutral arbitrator typically adjudicates.
Please join our distinguished panelists Jeff Soble, Partner at Foley & Lardner LLP, and Jeff Litvak, Senior Managing Director, and Nicole Wells, Senior Director in FTI’s Forensic and Litigation Consulting Practice as they address these issues as well as your questions.
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SEC Enforcement: A Look Back at 2020, and What to Expect in 2021 Recorded: Jan 12 2021 65 mins
Bill McLucas, Doug Davison, Marty Wilczynski and Steven Richards
In this annual webcast, our panel will discuss the key developments in SEC enforcement matters from 2020, and what lies ahead. Among other items, the panel will address:
• enforcement results under Chairman Jay Clayton, and what to expect in a new administration;
• new legal and policy issues arising from enforcement cases; and
• the impact of COVID and developments involving ICO’s; insider trading; FCPA; financial reporting; remedies and sanctions; and the Whistleblower Program.
Please join panelists Bill McLucas from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; Doug Davison from Linklaters; and Marty Wilczynski and Jason Flemmons from Ankura Consulting as they address these and other key developments in SEC enforcement.
COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Compliance, Fin. Reporting & SEC Enf. Considerations Recorded: Jun 25 2020 68 mins
Christopher Clark, Marion Duffy, Keith Halverstam, Alok Khare, Ryan Maierson, Rob Malionek, Todd Rahn
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted company financial performance and has raised the prominence of financial reporting and disclosure items which, in recent years have not faced much change or scrutiny, in periodic financial reporting and an M&A environment. However, in the wake of the pandemic, items like material adverse change clauses, goodwill and other intangible asset impairment, and going concern assessments will challenge companies and face scrutiny from investors, creditors, and the SEC. Join experts from Latham & Watkins and FTI Consulting for a discussion of current issues in corporate reporting, litigation, and SEC enforcement matters.
Navigating the Minefield of Dodd-Frank’s Whistleblower Provisions (2019 Update) Recorded: Jan 13 2020 96 mins
F. Joseph Warin, John W.F. Chesley, Sean X. McKessy, Jim Barratt
The SEC’s Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program continues to be a robust source of information driving the Commission’s enforcement docket. In FY 2019, the Office of the Whistleblower received more than 5,000 whistleblower tips from 70 foreign nations and every U.S. state, handing out $60 million in cash awards in return. On top of that, Dodd-Frank-related litigation continues apace in the federal courts and legislative / regulatory responses to the Supreme Court’s decision in Digital Realty Trust wind their way through the halls of Congress and the Commission. Together these trends provide the perfect storm for keeping in-house counsel and compliance professionals up at night.
Securities Docket is pleased to present its eighth annual webcast on Dodd-Frank’s whistleblower provisions. This year’s panelists once again include leading practitioners in all aspects of Dodd-Frank whistleblower litigation and investigations, including F. Joseph Warin and John W.F. Chesley of Gibson Dunn, former SEC Office of the Whistleblower Chief Sean X. McKessy of Phillips & Cohen, and Jim Barratt of Ankura Consulting.
This free 90-minute webcast will include a dynamic and participatory discussion on the statutory and regulatory framework of Dodd-Frank’s whistleblower provisions, their interpretation by the SEC Office of the Whistleblower and federal courts, and provide participants with practical tips for navigating the minefield of whistleblower complaints.
SEC Enforcement: Current Developments and What’s Ahead for 2020 Recorded: Dec 10 2019 68 mins
Bill McLucas, Doug Davison, Marty Wilczynski
In this annual webcast, our panel will discuss key SEC enforcement issues from 2019, now, and what to expect ahead. Among other items, the panel will address:
• enforcement priorities;
• current legal and policy issues arising from enforcement cases; and
• developments in ICO’s; cyber-related matters; insider trading; FCPA; financial reporting; remedies and sanctions; and the Whistleblower Program.
Please join panelists Bill McLucas from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; Doug Davison from Linklaters; and Marty Wilczynski from Ankura Consulting as they address these and other key developments in SEC enforcement.
Leveraging Data Analytics to Minimize Risk in the Financial Services Industry Recorded: Mar 25 2019 59 mins
Joshua Dennis, Ellen Lafferty, Dan Ward, A.J. Bosco
The financial services industry generates and records massive amounts of transactional, operational, and other business data on a daily basis. Yet, the challenge financial institutions face is how best to leverage myriad data sources to effectively mitigate business and regulatory risk.
On March 25, Securities Docket presents a panel of industry and data analytics experts to help brokers, dealers, financial services leaders and their counsel turn data into valuable insights to spot and prevent fraud. Join Joshua Dennis, StoneTurn; Ellen Lafferty, HSBC; and Dan Ward, Ropes & Gray for this thought-provoking panel moderated by A.J. Bosco. Participants will gain an actionable understanding of how data analytics can be used to uncover useful information, suggest conclusions and support sound decision-making in the financial services industry.
SEC Enforcement: Current Developments and What’s Ahead for 2019 Recorded: Mar 1 2019 63 mins
Bill McLucas, Doug Davison, Marty Wilczynski, Steve Richards
• developments in ICO’s; cyber-related matters; financial reporting; remedies and sanctions; and the Whistleblower Program.
Please join panelists Bill McLucas from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; Doug Davison from Linklaters; and Marty Wilczynski and Steve Richards from Ankura Consulting as they address these and other key developments in SEC enforcement.
The Securities Class Action Landscape:A Look Back at 2018 & What’s Ahead in 2019 Recorded: Feb 21 2019 49 mins
Jeff Lubitz, Stefan Boettrich
2018 was a watershed year in the securities litigation marketplace. In addition to the record number of newly-filed cases, there was significant growth in the dollar value of settlements, both in the U.S. and across the world. During calendar year 2018, 441 new cases were filed in U.S. federal courts, plus dozens more in state courts and in countries such as Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The value of settlements included significant sums in the U.S., including Petrobras ($3 billion) and Wells Fargo ($480 million), plus more than a dozen non-U.S. settlements led by Ageas (f/k/a Fortis - €1.3 billion).
As we enter the new year, 2019 will likely see similarly robust activity. Already, dozens of newly filed cases are in the court system and the amount of pending litigation is substantial, with a total of more than $1 trillion in Investor Losses (NERA’s measure of case size). Additionally, a few noteworthy settlements were finalized in early 2019, including Wal-Mart ($160 million) and Cobalt International ($146 million).
This webinar will be valuable to all financial and legal professionals practicing in this area. Attendees will benefit from ISS and NERA's timely insights into the complex and rapidly-growing securities litigation environment.
Hosting the event will be ISS Securities Class Action Services and NERA Economic Consulting. Speakers will include Jeff Lubitz, Executive Director at ISS, and Stefan Boettrich, Senior Consultant at NERA. Attendees will gain additional insight as Mr. Lubitz will discuss ISS Securities Class Action Services’ latest report, “The Top 100 U.S. Class Action Settlements of All-Time,” while Mr. Boettrich will highlight data from NERA’s “Recent Trends in Securities Class Action Litigation: 2018 Full-Year Review.”
2018 was a record-breaking year for the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower. The Office announced the largest whistleblower award, received the highest number of whistleblower tips, and awarded more dollars in 2018 than in all prior years combined.
Meanwhile, in Digital Realty Trust v. Somers, the Supreme Court limited the definition of “whistleblower” under Dodd-Frank to a person who has reported a suspected securities violation to the SEC. In response, the SEC has proposed amendments to Rule 21F-2, along with other proposed changes to the claim review process and the award determination process. These trends and changes provide the perfect storm for keeping in-house counsel and compliance professionals up at night.
Securities Docket is pleased to present its seventh annual webcast on Dodd-Frank’s whistleblower provisions. This year’s panelists once again include leading practitioners in all aspects of Dodd-Frank whistleblower litigation and investigations, including F. Joseph Warin and John W.F. Chesley of Gibson Dunn, former SEC Office of the Whistleblower Chief Sean X. McKessy of Phillips & Cohen, and Jim Barratt of Ankura Consulting. This free 90-minute webcast will include a dynamic and participatory discussion on the statutory and regulatory framework of Dodd-Frank’s whistleblower provisions, their interpretation by the SEC Office of the Whistleblower and federal courts, and provide participants with practical tips for navigating the minefield of whistleblower complaints.
What Should Crypto Funds Expect From The SEC Going Forward? Recorded: Dec 3 2018 65 mins
Boris Richard (FTI Consulting), Jeff Bandman (Bandman Advisors), Ivana Rouse (Akin Gump), Peter Altman (Akin Gump)
This webinar will examine the regulatory and enforcement landscape facing crypto-asset investment managers amidst surging ICO and STO issuance and a sharply increased scrutiny by the SEC of crypto issuers and their token offerings, as well as broker-dealers and digital asset managers.
Our expert panel will address regulatory and compliance issues that crypto funds often encounter, including SEC registration, requirements for qualified custody, valuation of crypto assets for reporting purposes, and fiduciary due diligence best practices.
The panel will also provide guidance on recent SEC enforcement actions against crypto asset managers and discuss expectations of the future SEC stance with respect to crypto funds.
The Webinar will cover key issues including:
-- Does the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 apply to crypto funds, including SEC registration obligations and compliance with the Custody Rule?
-- What is the current state of digital asset custody and what are the future developments in the qualified institutional custody solutions for cryptocurrencies?
-- How should the manager of a crypto fund value its assets, including for the purposes of handling redemptions?
-- What are the current independent third party valuation advisor approaches for valuing digital tokens?
-- How can the manager of a crypto fund satisfy its fiduciary obligations with respect to diligence of digital assets and counterparties involved?
-- Based on the recent empirical evidence with regard to ICOs and the performance of exchange-traded digital tokens, what are the key due diligence parameters that a crypto fund manager should assess?
-- How is the SEC stance on cryptocurrencies in general and crypto asset managers in particular evolving? and
--What recent SEC enforcement actions with respect to crypto asset managers have we seen and what approach in the future is the SEC likely to take towards crypto funds in terms of examination and enforcement?
Corporate Board Oversight of Cybersecurity: A Blueprint for Success Recorded: Oct 17 2018 67 mins
John Reed Stark, David R. Fontaine
The Gist:
What cyber-related actions should corporate boards be undertaking and more importantly, what should corporate secretaries, general counsels, outside lawyers and other corporate advisors be telling their corporate board clients regarding cyber? This webcast offers, for the first time, a realistic, concrete, pragmatic, detailed, sensible and effective vision for corporate board behavior, designed to tackle head-on the mounting and potentially devastating risks that flow from cyber-attacks and other data security incidents.
Some More Specifics:
With cyber-incidents capturing headlines around the world with increasing frequency, businesses and regulators have come to recognize that cyber-incidents are not a passing trend, but rather in our digitally connected economy, an embedded risk that is here to stay.
Our panel will address issues including how cybersecurity risk has clearly elevated itself to the top of corporate agendas; the implications of the SEC’s 2018 Statement on Cybersecurity Interpretive Guidance as it relates to the duties and responsibilities of corporate boards and corporate officers; why corporate directors must now must consider themselves “on notice” when it comes to cybersecurity; and why corporate boards must now take tangible steps to translate their high-level concerns around cybersecurity risks into specific behaviors and precise actions that are identifiable, capable of being readily implemented and heavily documented.
Please join John Reed Stark, former Chief of the SEC’s Office of Internet Enforcement, now President of John Reed Stark Consulting LLC and David R. Fontaine, former CEO of Kroll, now Senior Advisor to Duff and Phelps (following Kroll’s acquisition by Duff and Phelps), for this timely and relevant webcast.
Financial Statements 101: Emerging Trends and Accounting Principles for Lawyers Recorded: Jun 29 2018 96 mins
Jeff Litvak, Jason Tolmaire
This webcast will cover issues that lawyers often encounter in commercial litigation with reviewing and understanding financial statements. Our panel of accounting experts will cover fundamental accounting concepts and components that are the basis of the financial statement reporting- the statement of financial position (balance sheet), the statement of profit and loss (income statement) and the cash flow statement.
Our panel will also show how to derive meaningful conclusions about the performance of a business through financial ratio analysis and trend analysis.
In addition to understanding and analyzing financial statements, the webcast will highlight recent changes in generally accepted accounting principles that will affect the presentation of information contained in the financial statements.
Please join Jeff Litvak, CPA/ABV/CFF, ASA and Jason Tolmaire, CPA/ABV, both of FTI Consulting’s Forensic & Litigation segment, as they address these issues as well as your questions.
The Bribery Act, Chapter 7: The Americanisation of UK Corporate Crime Recorded: Jun 28 2018 62 mins
Vivian Robinson QC, Barry Vitou, Richard Kovalevsky QC, Julian Glass
The Americanisation of the SFO!
7 years after the entry into force of the Bribery Act, this webcast will look at how far the UK has come. Our panel of expert UK attorneys and consultants will look back over the last 12 months and forecast where we see developments in the year to come.
Our panel will cover key issues including:
--What next with new Director Lisa Osofsky?
--DPA’s, and what next?
--House of Lords review into the Bribery Act – what are they looking at and will anything change?
--Privilege: With the ENRC appeal about to be heard and a couple of new cases in the last 6 months, what is the position right now? Are witness notes protected, or not?
--And much more!
Please join Barry Vitou, Shareholder and Head of London White Collar Defence and Special Investigations, Greenberg Traurig; Julian Glass, Senior Managing Director, Forensic & Litigation Consulting, FTI Consulting; Vivian Robinson, Partner, McGuire Woods; and Richard Kovalevsky QC - 2 Bedford Row for this free webcast in which we'll address these issues and your questions.
The Death Knell for ICOs and Crypto Exchanges? Recorded: May 30 2018 66 mins
John Reed Stark, David Fontaine
The crypto-financing landscape, still barely in its infancy, is caught up in the perfect storm. Initial coin offerings (ICOs), a term meant to describe the offer and sale of digital assets issued and distributed on a blockchain, as well as crypto-trading platforms, where ICO tokens and coins trade like common stock, are under greater scrutiny than ever before – and with good reason.
•Congress has held hearings about crypto-related frauds, expressing grave concerns and demanding regulatory and law enforcement action ASAP;
•The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is on a crypto-enforcement rampage filing new cases every week and remains poised to bring many, many more;
•The U.S. Department of Justice is arresting crypto-related lawbreakers, locking up crypto-promotors and affiliates for a variety of felonious conduct;
•Several U.S. States have initiated crypto-related round-ups and prosecutions, including the New York State Attorney General, who has issued a comprehensive and sweeping first round of inquiry to a broad range of crypto-trading platforms;
•The U.S. Treasury Department and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) have begun a slew of regulatory and enforcement actions pertaining to the litany of anti-money laundering (AML) responsibilities and requirements of crypto-related businesses; and
•The Internal Revenue Service has announced its intention to make sure all crypto-associated taxable events are fully paid and properly recorded.
This webcast explores, in plain English, the various U.S. statutes, rules and regulations which apply to the crypto-marketplace – and how the application of both old and new laws should ultimately shut down all ICOs and crypto-trading platforms involving U.S. investors. Discussion during this one-hour session will focus primarily on the extensive catalogue of applicable SEC and AML regulations.
Securities Regulation of Digital Assets Recorded: Apr 26 2018 57 mins
Alma Angotti, Gino Soave, Martine Beamon and Jai Massari
As a follow-up to our April 4th, 2018 webinar ("Anti-Money Laundering Regulation of Digital Assets"), Alma Angotti, Managing Director and Global Investigations & Compliance Practice Co-Leader and Gino Soave, Director at Navigant; and Martine Beamon and Jai Massari, Partners at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP will examine the impact of the federal securities laws on digital assets.
Topics to be covered include:
-- The SEC’s jurisdiction over digital assets and activities involving digital assets
-- The recent focus on the role of intermediaries and gatekeepers in digital asset markets
-- The state of play of enforcement involving digital assets and how the SEC’s approach can guide development of an effective compliance program
The First 48 Hours: Incident Response Strategies Following a Cyber Incident Recorded: Apr 24 2018 53 mins
Luke Tenery, Ted Theisen, Christopher Todd Doss, Daron M. Hartvigsen
This webcast analyzes the first 48 hours following a cybersecurity incident, and lays out incident response strategies that facilitate critical decision making and enable victim companies to rapidly recover.
Having evolved significantly over the past several years, cyber incident response has moved beyond just quantifying the data exposure and hunting for end-point threats. New techniques such as user behaviour analytics and cloud identity management are two examples of game changers in modern incident response. Traditional hard drive forensics were historically the primary source of evidence during a cyber investigation and are now just one component of the effort where broader crisis management, threat pursuit, and information assurances take on prominent roles in the response.
Join Ankura’s senior cybersecurity experts as they share their respective decades of experience in leading organizations through some of the most complex incident response engagements. Learn valuable insights into new approaches in IR that are imperative in today’s initial response in the First 48 hours of a significant cybersecurity incident.
--What are the primary risks and efforts that the most elite incident responders are concerned about in the First 48 hours of a significant security incident?
--What are the key questions inside and outside counsel are asking cybersecurity experts in the First 48 hours of a significant security incident?
--What are some of the new and emergent approaches to cyber IR to better providing better assurances to the victim organization?
--Where are some organizations missing opportunities for greater assurances during the response in the First 48?
The Fate of ALJs and Other Critical Issues Presented in Lucia v. SEC Recorded: Apr 10 2018 68 mins
Britt Whitesell Biles, Meryl D. Grenadier
This seminar will analyze Lucia v. Securities and Exchange Commission, in which the Supreme Court will address the constitutionality of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Administrative Law Judges. Oral argument in this case is set for April 23, 2018. Among other items, this session will cover:
· An overview of the SEC administrative process, including the genesis of the constitutional challenges to the forum and the changes that the SEC made to its Rules of Practice in response to those constitutional challenges;
· A review of the key Appointments Clause jurisprudence leading up to Lucia;
· An analysis of the potential outcomes of Lucia; and
· A practical discussion of the potential impact of Lucia on SEC administrative proceedings, whether pending or already adjudicated.
Please join Britt Whitesell Biles and Meryl D. Grenadier from Stein Mitchell Cipollone Beato & Missner LLP as they discuss this important Supreme Court case and its potential impact on SEC administrative proceedings. Ms. Biles recently joined Stein Mitchell from the SEC, where she served as Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel in the Division of Enforcement. At the SEC, Ms. Biles investigated and litigated securities enforcement actions, including administrative proceedings. In 2017, Ms. Biles received the SEC Chairman’s Award for Excellence for leading the litigation in the SEC’s groundbreaking law firm hacking case in which Chinese nationals were charged with securities fraud for trading on the basis of material nonpublic information that was stolen from law firms when their networks were hacked.
Anti-Money Laundering Regulation of Digital Assets Recorded: Apr 4 2018 68 mins
Alma Angotti, Gino Soave, Claiborne (Clay) Porter, Jason Somensatto
Within recent months, U.S. and international regulators have been moving swiftly to regulate cryptocurrency in various ways. On February 13, 2018, the U.S. Department of Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), in a letter to Senator Ron Wyden, Ranking Member on the Senate Finance Committee, reiterated its position that cryptocurrency exchanges are required to register as Money Service Businesses (MSB). The requirement to register as an MSB triggers the obligation to develop, document an anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions compliance program.
In a panel discussion, Alma Angotti, Managing Director and Global Investigations & Compliance Practice Co-Leader at Navigant; Gino Soave, a Director in Navigant’s Global Investigations & Compliance Practice; Claiborne (Clay) Porter, Managing Director and Head of Investigations at Navigant; and Jason Somensatto, Of Counsel at Orrick discuss the practical effects of FinCEN’s position and how companies in this industry can ensure that they don’t run afoul of AML and sanctions regulation and enforcement.
-- Determining whether your organization should be registered as an MSB
-- Developing, implementing and maintaining an effective AML and sanctions compliance program
-- How to address AML and sanctions compliance in an ever changing regulatory environment
Preparing for the New Revenue Recognition Rules & Other Corp. Accounting Updates Recorded: Mar 15 2018 62 mins
Cathy Connolly, Jonathan Shapiro
The first quarterly reporting deadline for public companies is quickly approaching, and that reporting for the first time will include significant disclosures related to the newly-implemented accounting standards. By January 2018, companies were expected to update revenue recognition rules for all revenue arising from contracts with customers, which requires not only a change to financial statements, but related disclosures, business processes and internal controls over financial reporting.
In a panel discussion, Cathy Connolly of StoneTurn and Jonathan Shapiro of Baker Botts will focus on the changes brought about by the new rules, and address the questions they raise.
-- What types of issues may be brought to light? From what sources (internal, SEC, other)?
-- How does a company and its counsel respond?
-- What is the board’s response?
-- How can the key problems be quickly identified, and an effective response, including a remediation plan, be implemented?
One Year Later: French Anti-Corruption Law (Sapin II) Update Recorded: Feb 27 2018 63 mins
Xavier Oustalniol, Daniel Kadar, Dominique Laymand
Sapin II, the new French anti-corruption law, has been in effect for nearly a year now. The new law required companies with operations in France to implement compliance programs, created a new French anti-bribery agency, and created a judicial agreement similar in structure to the U.S. deferred prosecution agreement (“DPA”).
In a panel discussion, Xavier Oustalniol of StoneTurn, Daniel Kadar of Reed Smith and Dominique Laymand of Ipsen will provide an update on how these changes in French law are impacting companies and whistleblowers.
-- A Look at the Anti-Corruption Landscape
-- How are Affected Companies Handling the New Compliance Rules?
-- Quantifying the Anticipated Impact of the Law in Years to Come
A Review of SEC Enforcement in 2017 and What’s Ahead for 2018 Recorded: Jan 18 2018 63 mins
In this annual webcast, our panel will analyze key SEC enforcement developments from 2017, and will discuss what to expect in 2018. Among other items, the panel will address:
• new SEC leadership and its new priorities;
• current legal and policy issues arising from cases involving the FCPA, financial fraud, insider trading, and investment management; and
• developments in the Whistleblower Program, the new Cyber Unit and Retail Strategy Task Force, and other ongoing initiatives.
Please join panelists Bill McLucas from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; Doug Davison from Linklaters; and Marty Wilczynski and Steve Richards from Ankura Consulting as they address these and other developments in SEC enforcement.
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Title: Working Capital Disputes: The Role of the Neutral Arbitrator
Live at: Jun 8 2011 5:30 pm
Presented by: Jeff Soble, Jeff Litvak, Nicole Wells
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Roads around Temple Meads to close overnight so major roadworks project can enter final stage
Motorists are being warned to plan an alternative route
Kate WilsonPolitical Editor
The roads around Temple Meads will be closed overnight on Wednesday, April 17 and Easter Monday.
The closures are a sign that the roadworks project around the station is entering its final stage and the new road layout will finally be in place.
Over the two nights contractors will make the new layout operational allowing cars to travel through signal-controlled junctions rather than roundabouts from Tuesday, April 23.
Aerial view showing how Temple Circus will look in future (Image: Bristol City Council)
Bristol City Council has said that these simplified junctions will be easier to manage in heavy traffic helping to reduce delays and give road users more predictable journey times.
The closures will be in force from 7pm until 6am on both Wednesday (April 17) and Easter Monday (April 22).
The ever-changing maze that is the Temple Circus redevelopment
It will affect the following roads:
Temple Gate southbound will be reduced to a single lane and provide left in/left out access to Temple Meads station ramp.
Temple Gate northbound will have a full closure from Bath Bridges roundabout to the junction with Temple Way.
Victoria Street, north and southbound will be closed from the Temple Gate junction to Counterslip junction (Counterslip itself will remain open with access maintained for local businesses and taxi turning area in front of Novotel will be provided).
Redcliffe Way both east and westbound will be closed from the Temple Gate junction to the junction with Redcliffe Roundabout.
Footway construction - Victoria Street (Image: Bristol City Council)
There will be diversions in place but motorists planning a journey through the area during those times are advised to consider alternative routes.
People walking and cycling will still be directed around the outside of the works boundary while the new segregated cycle paths and footways are built.
The new paths are due to open this summer and will provide a direct route to Temple Meads station and a single-stage crossing from the Brunel Mile.
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The final scheme will see four-times the amount of cycle space and almost double the space given to pedestrians compared with the previous layout.
Bristol City Council’s cabinet member for transport, Kye Dudd, said: “These much-needed works will transform Temple Gate into a fitting gateway to the city, improve the journeys of the millions of people who travel through the area every year and unlock plots of previously under-used land for development.
“This is a key part of our ongoing work to regenerate the Temple Quarter district in order to create new jobs and bring about sustainable economic growth for the benefit of the whole city.
Every addition to the Bristol city centre landscape
“We recognise the disruption the works have caused and are grateful to everyone for their patience while we complete the final phase of the scheme.
“We still have some way to go but this is an important milestone in the project and it’s great to know that the end is in sight.”
The £11million project, which will ultimately remove the former Temple Circus gyratory roundabout, has been delayed and is now set to be completed in autumn 2019 - nine months after the original finish date and more than two years since work began.
The delay has been caused by three factors - the discovery of a Victorian cellar underneath the old roundabout, the discovery of uncharted utility pipes and difficulties installing new heat network pipes.
Temple Meads
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Fire rips through houses in Bristol - updates
Avon Fire and RescueFire and ambulances are at the scene
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Eating Out in Bristol
Bristol sisters have opened a new food van called The Bapmobile outside Gardiner Haskins
Da da da da da da da da bap van!
Tanya and Terri at the Bapmobile
The car park of Gardiner Haskins might not seem like the obvious place to launch your new food business, but sisters from Bristol have identified it as the perfect place.
Tanya Joseph and Terri Parsons - who are related to the sisters who opened a new food van in Bedminster last month - have both left their full-time jobs to launch The Bapmobile, serving - you guessed it - a range of breakfast baps as well as hot drinks and paninis.
After a year of hard work, which involved applying to the council for a license and obtaining the necessary certificates, the siblings are now up and running outside the long-running shop, which recently transformed its fortunes .
Bristol tapas restaurant announces closure
'There's a lot of hungry people around here'
"We've been wanting to do this for quite a while," said Terri, aged 38. "We both enjoy cooking and socialising and we saw this as the perfect opportunity.
"Before we opened quite a few people said to us that there were no healthy places to eat in the area, so we thought let's fill the gap in the market. There's a lot of hungry people around here.
Lots of builders are working nearby
"We approached Gardiner Hasknis and took it from there. It's taken us about a year to get up and running and there's been a lot of work involved but it was definitely worth it and we're thrilled to be here."
Tanya and Terri launched on Wednesday and have so far enjoyed a steady trade, with nearby builders and office workers stopping by for breakfast and lunch.
Bristol Food Hygiene
On the menu people can find breakfast baps starting from as low as £2.50, with a fully-loaded bacon, sausage and egg bap costing just £3.75.
Customers can also pre-order by calling 07760107791, and the van accepts card payments for those not carrying cash.
'We only work for ourselves now which we love'
The Bapmobile's breakfast menu
Before launching the business, Terri worked in finance for 16 years, while Tanya has worked in retail for the past seven years.
"We only work for ourselves now which we love," added Tanya, 45. "There's no boss looking over us anymore.
New 'beach bar' could open in Bristol city centre
"We just feel so much happier now coming to work knowing that this is all ours, it's just an amazing feeling.
"The response so far has been great and the customers have been really friendly. The paninis have been going down well, especially the meatball and cajun chicken ones.
"We're looking forward to meeting more new customers."
The Bapmobile is open between 7am - 2.30pm from Monday to Saturday.
HartcliffeFilm shoot on Bristol council estate needs localsSoundtracked by The Beat and The Pogues, The Fence conjured a 1980s Hartcliffe, a world of ska suspenders and punch-ups
How to help your child have a great birthday in lockdown
AppleThere are 50 ideas to celebrate and entertain at home whatever the weather
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Huge majority in Romanian parliament moves to ban teaching ‘gender studies’
by dbelsky@lifesitenews.com | Jun 18, 2020
LGBT lobbies in the country are pressing the president hard to kill the legislation.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/
Everyman an Exile, Homesick for Another Country
By Regis Martin | Leaving aside the New Testament itself, the earliest Church document we possess is a single letter written by the fourth Bishop of Rome, Pope St. Clement, to the Christian community in Corinth near the end of…
How to Pray the Rosary with Your Kids, From Birth to 10 Years Old
By Shaun McAfee | Teaching your children to pray the Rosary is a gift that returns innumerable blessings. The simplicity of the prayer affords quick memorization and repetition — perfect for children. Similarly, that same…
These Brides of Christ are the Joy of Christ the Bridegroom
By Robert Klesko | It’s safe to say that 2020 has been a particularly trying year, especially for people of faith. We’ve been separated from our churches, from the sacraments, and from the spiritual nourishment of kinship and…
Senate Republicans block radical ‘Equality Act’ that ‘steamrolls’ religious liberty
‘Neither the [Supreme Court’s] Bostock decision nor the Equality Act takes care to ensure that religious employers will be treated fairly,’ noted Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
What the Supreme Court LGBT decision could mean for Catholic employers
by Editor | Jun 18, 2020
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 18, 2020 / 07:00 pm (CNA).- After the Supreme Court recognized protections for sexual orientation and gender identity in federal law this week, Catholic employers shouldn’t assume they will be protected from future lawsuits, says the Catholic Benefits Association.
The Catholic Benefits Association, which helps ensure that Catholic organizations’ employee benefits are consistent with the faith, says that organizations need to have a consistent religious mission to be given the best chance for a legal religious exemption.
Read the Whole Article at http://feeds.feedburner.com/catholicnewsagency/dailynews
Conservative Party leadership candidate O’Toole defends abortion
‘As a Prime Minister, I will defend the rights of people including women to choose for themselves when it comes to abortion.’
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Worldwide Toy Industry's #1 News Summary
Below is Dec 18 - 25, 2020. Click Here for Last Week
Articles posted daily with most recent at top of each section. The previous week drops off each Friday when we email you highlights.
Not only does the Bloom Report give you all the news you need to know... we give you all the news you didn't know you needed to know!" -Phil Bloom
Welcome to your briefing of the week's news...
Reuben Klamer
As I mentioned last week, we're sharing our POP Week International Innovation panels, highlighting one each week in our Video of the Week section (end of this page). This week: Reuben Klamer and Eddy Goldfarb – two TAGIE Lifetime Achievement Honorees, 150+ combined years of inventing and friendship.
We honored Reuben in 2009 with a TAGIE Lifetime Achievement Award. Reuben then championed his friend Eddy for the 2010 TAGIE Lifetime Achievement Award. Who could say 'no' to either of these two? Both are nearing 100 now, you'll enjoy watching and listening to them! Eddy's daughter, Lyn, a filmmaker with a documentary about Eddy, moderates this memorable video.
Thank you for reading the Bloom Report! May your holiday season be warm and wonderful!
Eddy Goldfarb
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tBR Company of the Week - Plus-Plus: One shape, endless possibilities!
By now you have probably seen them - the clear tubes, hanging on spinner racks, or standing in shelf displays, full of pieces that look like two ‘plus’ signs mashed together. But did you know that every one of those colorful toys is made in Denmark in a zero-plastic-waste, wind-powered factory?
Plus-Plus was created in Denmark in the 1980’s, and for many years was sold exclusively to kindergartens and schools around Scandinavia. Educators loved its simple shape, which fosters open-ended creativity in a broad age range of children. Then in 2009, a group of private investors purchased the company, seeing sales potential beyond the Nordic region.
In 2012, sporting a new brand look and logo, Plus-Plus made its debut at Spielwarenmesse in Nurnberg, Germany, where it found its first international distributors. Plus-Plus pieces were available in two sizes and in 3 color ways - Basic, Neon and Pastel. Ryan Hamilton and Bret Faber, at the time with their distribution company, Geared for Imagination, recognized the potential in the brand and secured the rights for United States distribution. Plus-Plus launched in the US in the summer of 2012 at ASTRA Marketplace and the Atlanta and New York Gift shows. Read More...
Financial & Legal News . . .
Games top the charts as Amazon reveals record-breaking holiday season. Following strong performance in the toy and game categories during Black Friday and Cyber Week, Amazon says that gaming continued to top the charts through December. Holiday season best-sellers included the ThinkFun Gravity Maze Marble Run Brain Game, the Lite-Brite Ultimate Classic Retro Toy by Basic Fun!, Hasbro‘s Jenga Classic...
Toy craze pays a high price. Chinese "blind box" toymaker Pop Mart International fell up to 15 percent after being criticized by state media regarding a boom in its mystery boxes. Pop Mart generates most of its profits from "blind box" toys - a mystery box containing a collectible figurine. State media Xinhua News Agency said over the weekend that the boxes are causing overspending among the young. It indicated that...
Jail sentence upheld on man who copied Lego. A six-year prison sentence for a man surnamed Li who infringed the Lego toy company’s copyright had been upheld, the city’s high court said on Tuesday. Li was fined 90 million yuan (US$13.18 million) and another eight people jailed for up to four and a half years, the same as the sentence at the first trial at Shanghai No. 3 People’s Intermediate Court in September.
Tencent officially acquires Splash Damage parent Leyou in $1.5 billion deal. The ink has dried on Tencent's acquisition of Leyou Technologies, meaning the Chinese video game and technology giant now owns Splash Damage, Digital Extremes, and a handful of other developers acquired by Leyou over the years. Earlier in the year, news broke that Tencent was looking to acquire Leyou. The deal, a $1.5 billion...
(the above posted after December 25th)
TikTok and Walmart debut new livestream shopping capability. The social media platform TikTok has pioneered a new method of online shopping, having partnered with the US retail giant Walmart to launch a new shoppable livestream capability for its users to engage with. The new in-app shopping tool was piloted last week when Walmart hosted a one-hour livestream session that enabled customers to shop for...
Christmas container chaos is global as Greek toy retailer Jumbo sees major shipment delays. The Greek toy and gift retailer, Jumbo, has revealed that some 6,000 containers of the some of the best-selling toys this year, are stuck on cargo ships and shipping containers around the world, in an echo of the current chaos being experienced at UK ports. The issue has arisen as warehouses in Greece become overwhelmed ...
Digital gaming just had its best revenue month ever in November. Digital games spending set a new monthly record in November, rising 15% year-over-year to $11.5 billion globally. According to SuperData's monthly digital spending report, this was driven by a 9% rise in mobile spending, but also a 22% increase in PC spending to reach a new record high, largely driven by the launch of World of Warcraft's Shadowlands...
US COVID-19 relief bill would punish streaming of copyrighted content. A COVID-19 relief bill under consideration by US legislators also includes a number of measures related to copyright law that could negatively impact game streamers. This raises particular questions for YouTube, Twitch, and Facebook Gaming, considering the games influencers often showcase involve a number of copyrights, from the games...
TikTok owner reportedly in talks to buy stake in Chinese mobile games publisher. China-based ByteDance, best known as the owner of social media platform TikTok, is planning to purchase a share of a local mobile games publisher. That's according to Reuters and its four anonymous sources, who say the company is in talks with CMGE Technology Group Ltd to arrange a potential deal. ByteDance is said to be...
Parents feeling guilty about Covid ignites boom in toy sales. Celebrating the holidays might be pretty ho-hum, but one area that’s booming is toys. After a terrible year of remote school, canceled birthday parties and little vacationing, parents and grandparents ridden with so-called “Covid guilt” are spending a lot more on puzzles, crafts and games. And this is setting up the U.S. industry for its best Christmas in years...
Welsh supermarkets block toy aisles as Government bans sale of non-essential items. Toys have been caught up in a sweep of ‘non-essential- items blocked off from sale across some of Wales’ supermarket retailers after the country’s government introduced level four restrictions over the weekend. With just days before a Christmas like non other, the Welsh Government announced on December 19 that ...
Investors reportedly considering class action lawsuit against CD Projekt Red. CD Projekt Red's own investors are reportedly exploring the possibility of suing the developer for misrepresenting Cyberpunk 2077. The New York Times cites a post on Polish financial website Bankier, in which a Warsaw-based attorney and CD Projekt investor announced he and his team are analysing whether there are grounds for a class...
Tier drop explodes. New Tier 4 restrictions have been introduced in London, the South East and east of England, forcing the sudden closure of non-essential retail once again.The new restrictions came into force at midnight on Saturday, with people encouraged to stay at home, while non-essential shops and businesses have been ordered to close. Click and collect services will still be able to operate in Tier 4.
MAG Interactive acquires mobile studio Apprope for $6 million. Swedish game company MAG Interactive has purchased mobile studio Apprope for an initial SEK 50 million ($6 million). Founded in 2012 and also based in Sweden, Apprope is best known for creating casual word and trivia titles like Word Mansion and Word Bubbles, the latter of which has amassed 10 million downloads and generated sales of roughly...
Facebook Wades Into ‘Fortnite’ Maker’s Dispute With Apple. Facebook Inc. said it would assist the company behind the popular videogame “Fortnite” in its high-profile legal battle with Apple Inc., as the social-media giant ramps up its own counterattack against what it says are the iPhone maker’s self-serving measures cloaked in the interest of privacy. Facebook has been feuding with Apple for months on issues ranging...
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UK-based marketplace OnBuy eyes Unicorn status as it sees a 605 per cent year to date growth. The online marketplace, OnBuy.com is edging ever closer to achieving unicorn status as the UK’s ‘answer to eBay and Amazon’ reveals a 605 per cent year to date growth to round off “a list of incredible 2020 successes” for the business. OnBuy has made no secret of its mission to revolutionise the eCommerce sector by ...
Clementoni reports significant growth in 2020 Putting success down to the dramatic rise in sales of puzzles and innovation across the Baby Clementoni range, the company expects to see in excess of 25% growth by year end. The company has built a solid presence across three main categories – infant, science/construction and adult puzzles – translating into strong performance for puzzles in particular.
Future Financial Reporting . . .
Equities analysts predict that Mattel will announce earnings of $0.22 per share for current quarter, 5 analysts have issued estimates for Mattel's earnings. The highest EPS estimate is $0.30 and the lowest is $0.18. Mattel posted earnings of $0.11 per share in the same quarter last yr, which would indicate a positive year-over-year growth rate of 100%. The firm is expected to report its next quarterly earnings results Feb. 11.
Amazon and Apple eye historic $100 billion in holiday quarter. The holiday season could be historic for two of the stock market’s biggest names, with sales that are expected to surpass a milestone that has rarely been reached in Wall Street history. Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. are each expected to report revenue above $100 billion in the fourth quarter of 2020 …
Stories & Comments . . .
Rare white kiwi Manukura that inspired book and toys dies. A rare white kiwi that inspired a children's book and toys has died. Manukura hatched in 2011, but the female North Island Brown Kiwi was born with white feathers. She became a huge attraction at both Pukaha Mount Bruce, New Zealand's North Island wildlife centre, and online. Replica soft toys were of Manukura were sold around the world. "
Cameroon Appreciates End to Toy Weapon Gifts. Cameroon rights groups and activists say they are gratified that for the first time since 2016, parents no longer give children and teenagers toy guns as gifts during end-of-year feasts. In 2016, rights groups launched a campaign to ban toy guns, mostly imported from China, saying they lead to violence. Alternative gifts for children include educational electronic toys.
Local girl wins board game competition Young Inventor Challenge with “Chicken Poo Bingo” Local 9-year-old inventor Cooper Dean, along with her father, Ryan, introduced her contest-winning board game, “Chicken Poo Bingo.” ...
The Design Process of Transformers Toys Have you ever wondered how they designed the original Transformers toys? Perhaps you are a child of the '80s or have small children who crave these toys and would love to know the secrets behind their design?...
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Yes, Santa's house now has a 3D tour on Zillow The “toy-lover’s paradise nestled on 25 idyllic acres” includes Santa’s three-bedroom, two-bathroom house, as well as multiple tiny homes for all his elf workers. In addition, the Jolly Old Elf’s complex is made complete with a “state-of-the-art toy-making facility,” a garage that can hold a sleigh and stable space for eight reindeer — plus the occasional “red-nosed company”...
Tiny Tim putting smiles on children's faces with the only toy they own Alton C. Thacker is the President of the Tiny Tim Foundation. The Tiny Tim Toy Factory just happens to be the largest car manufacturer in the state of Utah. He held one of his toy cars in the palm of his hand and said; “That was our first Jeep. It took 11 cuts on the band saw. We need to do 1 cut. So, this is the latestJeep. The Jeep Wagoneer.”
It’s time to turn it all off. Next year, as life begins to return to normal, Dubit's David Kleeman makes the case that we should tell kids to please go away... at least for a little bit. Dubit has already speculated that there will be a drop in kids’ screen media time when they are liberated from staying home and physically distancing. But what if children’s media providers didn’t simply wait nervously for kids to play themselves out and...
Pokémon Go creators say Covid is ‘existential to our game’. Pokémon Go was ready to kick off a new major event in March. Battle League — which asks players to walk in order to gain entry — was similar in spirit to many of Niantic’s initiatives within its game, one that encourages players to leave home and socialize. But outside, COVID-19 was beginning to take hold.
TikTok is quickly becoming a marketing destination for toy companies with the help of influencers and original content. Several toy companies, like Zuru Toys and MGA Entertainment, use a mix of influencer marketing campaigns and original content to boost TikTok engagement ...
Remembering the Toy Industry's Past . . .
Gem Mint 10 'Pokemon TCG' Charizard #4 Hologram Card hits the Heritage Auction block in January. The year 2020, aside from being a trying year for many people, was also The Year of Charizard. The uptrend began in October when rapper Logic paid $220,574 for the card. Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction on January 14-17 in Dallas, Texas
Kandy Kitchen from Transogram (1966). Tiny marshmallows and gum drops were the house specialty at Transogram’s Kandy Kitchen. Released in 1966, the candy maker set paired children with Mr. Kandy Man, a mixing apparatus anthropomorphized with a head and two arms. In addition to Mr. Kandy Man, the set included a covered tray, a candy shaped tray with various shapes cut out of it, a spatula, mixing spoon, and two...
This Hot Wheels is worth an estimated $150000 Bruce Pascal, an avid Hot Wheels collector, was only 7 years old when these car toys hit the market in 1968. “It’s hard to explain the craze today, but Hot Wheels was huge. All of my friends were saving up to buy all the Hot Wheels they could,” Pascal told Volkswagen in a recent interview.
Action Force 1982 by Palitoy. An in depth look into how Palitoy’s Action Man brand was scaled down to a 3 ¾ inch figure and developed into the Action Force concept. A fascinating video that explores how to reinvent a well-established brand in the face of a potentially deadly marketing assault from no less a threat than when the Star Wars Empire strikes back.
Fisher-Price: 90 years of building classic toys. All told, more than 27 million have been sold, and counting. They are the touchstones of our youth: The Rock-a-Stack, the Xylophone, and those Little People. No matter how old we are, everyone remembers their favorite childhood toys – like a toy that everybody knows, the Corn Popper. Then there’s the lesser-known Bunny Scoot. It was introduced in 1931, part of the first...
LEGO Minifigure A Visual History New Edition. LEGO minifigures first came on the scene in 1978. The one-and-a-half-inch-tall figures were created to expand the world of LEGO and children’s imaginations. Prior to minifigures, characters had to be created using only LEGO bricks, which left a little to be desired when it came to creating personalities that matched the child’s own environment.
Showboat from Remco (1962). In 1962, Remco released Showboat, a replica river steamship and theater. Budding child entertainers could to stage their own two-act plays in the whip, which stood a whopping 25-inches long by 14-inches tall. While it was not designed for use in water, a set of rollers allowed it to move across the floor as if navigating down a waterway.
Christmas themed video games from the '80s. All throughout the '80s, video games were added to children's lists for Santa. Early gaming companies like Atari pushed their latest video games in television advertising to capture kid's attention. The E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial game is infamous for rushing production to have available for the 1982 Christmas shopping season which is why most rank it as one of the worst games.
Worldwide Licensing News . . .
Skybound Entertainment and Diamond Select Toys CollectDST team up for Invincible action figures. Skybound Entertainment and Diamond Select Toys announced new Invincible action figures hitting stores in Summer 2021. From the Skybound/Image superhero comic book by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley, the new line will feature Invincible and his father Omni-Man, each with interchangeable parts and...
Ares Games and Universal Brand Development end their 'Battlestar Galactica' licensing agreement. Ares Games announced that it will be ending its licensing agreement with Universal Brand Development for Battlestar Galactica-branded games, which lasted a little under two years, on December 31. Under this license, Ares produced the Battlestar Galactica – Starship Battles game as well as its expansions.
Buffalo Games expands licensed puzzle lineup with new Marvel, Star Wars designs. Buffalo Games is no stranger to licensed jigsaw puzzles, offering an extensive lineup of designs that includes images from Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Pokémon, and some retro favorites. But this spring, the company is adding a more heroic license to its puzzle offerings: Marvel.
Melissa & Doug will continue to evaluate licensing as ‘an area of growth for the firm’. The global toy maker, Melissa & Doug has expressed its plans to continue to evaluate licensing “as an area to grow its reach”, as it looks for the right platforms through which to reach more parents and children. The traditional toy specialist hit a major milestone last month when it revealed the details of its ‘biggest push into the licensing...
Pre-school IP CoComelon ramps up games, toys, and arts & crafts activity with Crayola, RMS International, and more. The hit pre-school digital series CoComelon is increasing its activity across the toys, games, and art & crafts sectors, having landed a raft of new licensing partnerships, including an agreement for colouring and activity books from Crayola. RMS International will produce CoComelon wooden puzzles...
Sideshow, Critical Role team for licensed collectibles. Through a brand-new partnership with the team behind Critical Role, the most popular story-driven and worldbuilding digital media brand in the world, Sideshow is poised to launch a new collection of fine art and collectible figures based on the show’s popular and long-running campaigns set in the fantastical world of Exandria.
People . . .
Game of Thrones games maker dies 'after poisoning'. A Chinese tycoon who died on Christmas Day was poisoned, Shanghai police say. Lin Qi, 39, was the chairman and chief executive of games developer Yoozoo, best known for the Game of Thrones: Winter Is Coming strategy game. The Shanghai police statement pointed to one of Mr Lin's colleagues - identified only by his surname Xu - as the main suspect. Mr Lin was believed...
ReMKEable! These remarkable Milkwaukeeans turned good ideas into fun, inspiration and uplift for themselves & others: Peggy Brown, kid's toy and game designer and creative guru. Hers wasn't a typical kid - and, like all great mamas, Peggy Brown's mom Irene spotted her daughter's talent early on. She didn't know that her girl would become one of the world's most sought-after toy and game inventors, but she...
Artist Michael Lau, nicknamed the “Godfather of Designer Toys”, discusses the place of art in the city. Growing up in Hong Kong, “toys were like our friends,” says Michael Lau, who was the first artist to make collectible vinyl figurines, sparking a trend that has influenced major international artists such as Kaws and Takashi Murakami. “Other than being good company, toys provided us with emotional support,” Lau...
LEGO appoints Colette Burke to EVP and CCO role as it eyes omnichannel and global expansion. The LEGO Group has appointed Colette Burke as its executive vice president and chief commercial officer. Burke will take up the role from January 1st 2021. She joins the LEGO Group from the consumer electronics company, Bose Corporation, where she held the position of vice president global sales. Her 25 years career...
Rovio has named Alexandre Pelletier-Normand as its new CEO. Alexandre Pelletier-Normand has been appointed as the new CEO of Rovio Entertainment, following the previously announced departure of Kati Levoranta. Levoranta spent the past four years leading the Angry Birds maker as CEO, but will be leaving the company at the end of December. Pelletier-Normand, who currently leads Rovio's video game business...
Companies . . .
MATTEL LAUNCHES HOT WHEELS DESIGN SHOP, OFFERING MONTHLY APPAREL COLLECTIONS. The Hot Wheels Design Shop, which launched this week, is a collection “recognizing the intersection of car culture and streetwear” and featuring monthly drops of limited-edition apparel and accessories. This collection is primarily geared toward teen and adult Hot Wheels fans, with only adult sizes available.
Real-life Pokemon Dynamax Band toy coming soon from Takara Tomy Japan. Takara Tomy has been known to make some pretty cool Pokemon toys, and their latest - a Dynamax Band straight out of Pokemon: Sword & Shield - is no exception. The company just announced that pre-orders are open for this toy that will allow you to simulate Dynamaxing. Although it's a toy it has some pretty neat features.
Mattel launches Hot Wheels Design Shop, offering monthly apparel collections. A new, online store from Mattel‘s Hot Wheels brand aims to drive sales in a new way. The Hot Wheels Design Shop, which launched this week, is a collection “recognizing the intersection of car culture and streetwear” and featuring monthly drops of limited-edition apparel and accessories. This collection is primarily geared toward teen and adult...
Pegasus Spiele will release 'Spy Connection' into U.S. trade. Pegasus Spiele will release Spy Connection, a spy network board game, into U.S. Trade for Q1 2021. Spy Connection is route-building game where players are trying to complete missions by travelling along a spy network. Players must build a network, using a limited number of resources, and strategically travel along the network to complete their assigned...
Iello USA will release 'Detective Charlie' into U.S. retail. Iello USA will release Detective Charlie, a cooperative deduction game by Loki, into U.S. retail on January 21. In this new family game, players work together to help Detective Charlie solve a mystery. There are strange occurrences happening in the city, and the inhabitants all have a piece of the puzzle. Players need to cooperatively examine clues, while they mind the clock...
Fend off dragons while digging for dice combos in 'Dice Miner'. Atlas Games will release Dice Miner, a dice drafting game, into retail in Q1 2021. The dragons have returned. Now, the dwarves need to return to the ancient caverns while fending off these formidable foes. In this game, players choose a dwarf hero and try to build dice combinations by drafting dice from a 3D mountain game board. Each die has different...
Iconic Play-Doh Fuzzy Pumper, Drill ‘N Fill playsets get a modern upgrade. A pair of classic Play-Doh playsets from the 1970s are getting a modern upgrade for 2021. Officially slated for release at mass retailers beginning Jan. 1, the latest editions of Hasbro‘s Play-Doh Drill ‘N Fill Dentist and Play-Doh Crazy Cuts Stylist both hit Walmart a little bit early. For more than 40 years, these playsets have been sparking...
Douglas debuts Green Friends eco-friendly plush. The wreaths on everyone’s doors aren’t the only thing that’s green right now: Douglas introduced a new line of Green Friends to hit shelves early next year. The collection is made from 100% recycled plastic, including the outer body materials, the internal stuffing, the pellets, and even the hang tags. Embroidered eyes will replace traditional plastic eyes sometimes found...
Games Workshop teases 'Warhammer: The Old World' factions. Games Workshop teased a few of the factions and cities in their upcoming Warhammer: The Old World. Warhammer:The Old World was announced back in 2019, and in early 2020, GW released a map of the world. Recently, they've added to the map by including the cities that exist during this timeline. Four factions were revealed: the Bretonnians, the Orcs...
Astrocam Flying Model Starter Set from Estes Industries. Budding rocketeers have a new gateway to the world of model rocketry, the Astrocam Flying Model Rocket Starter Set from Estes Industries. Designed for beginners ages 10 and up, the set comes with a high-tech twist: an HD digital video camera that records in-flight sights and sounds on a 16 GB Micro SD memory card. The Astrocam is installed in the rocket’s...
The Queen’s Gambit Funko Pops immortalize the show in plastic. In what will hopefully be the last surprise of 2020, Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit is getting its own set of Pop! Vinyl figurines from Funko. The three figurines will feature Anya Taylor-Joy’s main character, Beth Harmon, in a variety of outfits from the show, none of which are chess-related, but all of which are stylish. Fans can purchase the Pops to own a piece of...
Barbie's Parent Company Mattel Turns 75, COO Richard Dickson On The Milestone The brands' variety includes 176 different dolls, including nine body types, 36 skin tones, and 94 hairstyles. Dickson believes that gives them the honor of claiming Barbie as the most diverse doll in the world. This variety makes the entry price point all the more impressive from a production standpoint. But that is aided by controlling the supply...
In True Tesla Fashion, The Hot Wheels Cybertruck Has Been Delayed It pains me to say, but I've got some bad news—the Tesla Cybertruck has been delayed. I'm not talking about the "real" one; I'm talking about the radio-controlled Hot Wheels version being built for Cybertruck enthusiasts young and old. It turns out that veteran toymaker Mattel has pulled a Tesla of its own, delaying the release of its long-awaited...
Bethpage toy company Design Edge Inc. sees a renaissance in play Toys and games have gone from quaint to near-essentials in this era of enforced cocooning, and a Bethpage toy company has seen its business flourish. Design Edge Inc., which has designed and developed toys for some of the world’s largest brands, including Fisher-Price, Hasbro and Disney, has seen a rise in design and development work as toy sales ...
Exploding Kittens creator unveils three new titles. Asmodee will supply new games A Game of Cat and Mouth, Tacocat Spelled Backwards and A Little Wordy to the UK market. Retailers will be able to get a closer look at all three of these titles at the third edition of AsmoFair, Asmodee’s pioneering virtual trade show running from 17th-23rd January.
FX Digital, Zodiak Kids Announce U.S. Launch of Alexa Voice Game. "Let's Play: You Decide" is the latest Amazon Alexa voice game to be released by digital agency FX Digital to the U.S. market. Zodiak Kids, part of Banijay, has collaborated with FX Digital to turn the series into an interactive voice experience. It has already launched in the U.K. The game invites children on an adventure through a series of interactive...
Mando Mondays comes to a close with new Mandalorian merch from Hasbro, Funko, Mattel. The second season of Star Wars: The Mandalorian came to a thrilling conclusion this past Friday, and with that, Lucasfilm’s Mando Mondays promotion is wrapping up with one final batch of Mandalorian merch that will be hitting toy retailers beginning next year. Following the big reveal a few weeks back that the...
Luma welcomes everyone to 'Dragon Parks'. Luma Imports will release Dragon Parks, a drafting game by Ankama, in Q1 2021. Dragon Parks puts players in the role of the owners of a group of islands where dragons roam freely. Players will have to manage their dragon’s appetites and the tourists’ expectations. Dragon Parks is a drafting game, using transparent cards to add or cover dragons within their parks.
First-ever Britains re-release to mark 100th anniversary in 2021. Britains, Europe’s oldest specialist in agricultural toys and collectibles, is set to celebrate its 100th anniversary next year with the re-launch of its original Fordson Major Tractor, a limited edition of only 7,500 units available from July. In 1921, Britains unveiled its first farm vehicle, the ‘4F’ Tumbrel Cart. Shortly after World War II came to an end, Britains introduced...
PlaymatesToys Announce Previews Exclusive Eastman and Laird 6” TMNT Action Figures. Busting out from the classic colored comics by Eastman and Laird come the Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesElite Series action figures from Playmates! Featuring 34 points of articulation, each figure is outfitted in their original red bandana and comes with personal weapon accessories. With a personalized sewer lid base and...
Dominate the high-seas with a new 'Dystopian Wars' two-player starter set. Warcradle Studios announced Hunt for the Prometheus, a two-player starter set for Dystopian Wars 3E steampunk-themed naval battle game, which will release on January 30, 2021.
Dystopian Wars is a tabletop naval battle game system that was originally released into the U.S. market by Spartan Games in 2011.
Claim Alexander the Great's throne in 'Successors 4E'. Ares Games announced Successors 4E, a strategy game by Phalanx Games, for release in 2021. Successors is a card-driven movement strategy game that focuses on the war to succeed Alexander The Great. The upcoming fourth edition of this game has an updated board layout, charts, cards, and a revised rulebook that fixes issues with previous editions.
Wizards of the Coast reveals two 'Magic: The Gathering' 'Kaldheim Commander Decks'. Wizards of the Coast revealed Elven Empire and Phantom Premonition, two new Kaldheim Commander Decks for Magic: The Gathering, which will release on February 5. As a late addition to the Kaldheim product line, WotC will release two Commander decks along with the new set. The Elven Empire deck will be centered around Lathril, Blade of the Elves, The Phantom Premonition deck revolves around Ranar the Ever-Watchful.
Rio Grande Games announces 'Iberian Railways'. Rio Grande Games announced Iberian Railways, the next board game in the Winsome Rail Game Series, for release in Spring 2021. In this game, players take on the Iberian Peninsula at the beginning of Spain and Portugal's ventures into railroad building. Players begin the game with no money and no income, and have to take out high-interest loans to build railways.
Trunki partners with Addmaster to launch antimicrobial ride-on Abbie the Ambulance. Trunki, the UK team behind the popular ride-on luggage carrier for children, has teamed up with the Stafford-based company Addmaster to welcome the first antimicrobial addition to its range. Trunki has now launched Abbie the Ambulance in time for Christmas, a version of its popular ride-on that comes with in-built Biomaster...
Capture legendary monsters in Amigo's 'Monster Expedition'. Amigo Games will release Monster Expedition, a new monster-hunting board game by Alexander Pfister, into U.S. retail in March. In this standalone game set in the world of Carnival of Monsters, players take on the roles on of members of the Monstrological Society and are off to hunt monsters in three exotic ecosystems.
Brainstorm readies launch of KlikBot Kreatures. KlikBots were available from August this year, exceeding all expectations and selling out in record time. The new range, KlikBot Kreatures, will land in the UK from the end of December, with January availability. The new range will not only have more collectability, with blind assortments and rare gold KlikBot Kreatures available in CDUs of 12, but there are even more play...
Steamforged Games reveals 'Peaky Blinders: Faster Than Truth'. Steamforged Games revealed Peaky Blinders: Faster Than Truth, a new card game based on the popular TV Series, for release on February 26, 2021. In Peaky Blinders: Faster Then Truth, players can take walk on the lawless streets of 1920s Birmingham as they try to garner resources to beat their rivals.
Paizo, Inc. announces 'Pathfinder Adventure: Malevolence'. Paizo, Inc. announced Pathfinder Adventure: Malevolence, a new standalone adventure for Pathfinder RPG, for release in Q2 2021. Malevolence is a horror adventure for Level 3 characters that features new monsters, mysterious magical items, and spells. The adventure revolves around a haunted house that players can explore to find out the truth about...
Video Games, Gaming Hardware and Game Development News . . .
Yep, that sugar rush you feel coming on is Candy Crush Saga’s holiday in-game event! The most binge-worthy game on Earth has gifted us with three festive mini-games that are beckoning us back to the colorful Candy Kingdom. Candy Crush’s mini-games — Sweet Winter Memories, Yeti’s Sleigh Ride and Gift Delivery — are jam-packed with all things “tasty” and “divine.” And they’re inspired by many of the faces you’ve...
Gamasutra's Best of 2020: The top 10 games of the year. Looking back at the games we played this year reads a bit like a soundtrack to a disaster film, with each game representing a specific piece of time. We dove into Animal Crossing headfirst as lockdowns began. Then Jackbox was a go-to for Zoom happy hours with friends and family. As time--and the pandemic--wore on and as reality sunk deeper into our lives...
Nier: Automata surpasses 5 million shipped. Square Enix and Platinum Games' Nier: Automata has now surpassed 5 million copies shipped and sold digitally since the game first launched on PlayStation 4 and PC in 2017 and on Xbox One in 2018. Helped along by a Game of the YoRha Edition re-release last year, Nier has steadily crossed sales milestones over the past few years. It surpassed 3 million shipped in June 2018,...
31% of young UK gamers struggle to track spending on loot boxes. A study by the Gambling Health Alliance suggests young people are not only regularly spending on loot boxes, but struggling to keep track of how much they have spent. The study found that 31% of young gamers say they are unaware of how much they have spent on loot boxes, while 33% say they do now feel in console of their spending. 22% of...
CD Projekt now pledges to help refund retail copies of Cyberpunk 2077. Both Microsoft and Sony have launched special refund initiatives for Cyberpunk 2077, and CD Projekt Red now says it is looking at other ways to help players outside of those purchasing platforms to receive refunds for the game if they so choose. Building on its original refund pledge from earlier in the week, CD Projekt Red now says that it...
Riot confirms it’s making a League of Legends MMO. League of Legends developer Riot Games is working on a massively multiplayer online (MMO) roleplaying game in the League universe, Riot’s VP of IP and entertainment, Greg Street, tweeted on Thursday. “My recent job at Riot has been to help develop the League universe, which we’re going to need!” Street said. “My new job is to kick off a big (some might say massive)...
Epic Games Store now offers Spotify, signaling app store ambitions beyond just games. Spotify is now available on the Epic Games Store, signaling developer Epic’s ambitions to turn what has so far been strictly a games store into a more general app distribution platform. The Spotify app is free to download on the Epic Games Store, just like it is on the App Store, Google Play, or as a direct download for your PC or Mac.
Toy Safety and Counterfeit Related Articles . . .
US Customs and Border Protection Officers Nab $1.3 Million in Bootleg Toys in New York, New ... Bootlegs, knockoffs, counterfeits, whatever you want to call them, these illicit toys continue to make their way into the market. Thanks to the work of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Port of New York/Newark, more than $1.3 million worth of counterfeit toys are out of the distribution channels...
Press Releases . . .
Retailers Rejoice As Dam LLC Unveils More European Brands To Stock In Store. Toy buyers will be asking their sales reps what’s new with the buzz of Belgium-based distributor DAM (rhymes with mom) expanding its 2021 catalog from one to three European brands. DAM arrived on the American toy scene last year with a booth at ASTRA’s Marketplace in Pittsburgh. Now, three innovative collections – Scratch, Avenir and Scrunch – will spotlight European style, modern designs, and thoughtful, eco-friendly products to anyone in a playful mood! Last summer, ASTRA members were the first to see the stylish packaging of Scratch, a brand DAM designs and manufactures themselves.
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RPG categories for Origins Awards changed. The categories for role playing games in the Origins Awards have been changed, Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design parent GAMA is announcing today. This change was made “…based on feedback and input from the RPG jury and publishers,” GAMA Executive Director John Stacy explained. The categories for games released in 2020 had undergone a number of...
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Diana Green Diana Green, long time buying director of Greens Toymaster, passed away at home on 13th December after a short illness. Toy World is sad to report that Diana Green, a popular and well respected toy industry figure, passed away peacefully on Sunday 13th December after a short illness. Diana was a well known figure in the industry since the 1970s, having worked as buying director for Greens for much of this time. Working alongside her husband Geoff, Diana selected ranges for the Snowfold buying group’s FOB import programme, which supported members ranges and margins from the 1980’s. Later, she served as a member of Toymaster’s Merchandise Committee for many years, as the Greens Toymaster chain expanded to a total of 17 stores.
Mercedeh Ward - Mercedeh Ward contributed to the toy industry she loved in a myriad of ways over the course of her 35-year career. A mechanical engineer by training, with a degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mercedeh leveraged her considerable smarts and work ethic to ensure thousands of toys reached the market to deliver happiness to children. Her amazing career spanned multiple companies (in order): Mattel, Equity Marketing, Playmates, Spin Master, MGA, Funrise, Zippity Blue, and Spin Master (again). At a time where there were few female engineers in the toy industry (and no one had yet heard of STEM), Mercedeh became the go-to product development expert for girls toys in Southern California, where executing the right aesthetic was paramount. She made major contributions to many powerhouse brands, including: Barbie, Bratz, and Amazing Amanda (first major animatronic doll). In her second stint at Spin Master, she helped drive the success of the #1 preschool brand, Paw Patrol.
Francis Spear Francis passed away peacefully on 13th December. Francis was born in the town of Fuerth, near Nuremberg, into a Jewish toy trade family. His great grandfather, Jacob Wolf Spear, started J. W. Spear & Soehne in 1878. By the time Francis was born into this close-knit family – he was the youngest of five grandchildren – the company was being managed by his grandfather Carl Spear and a great uncle. ...
When (Francis) he joined Spear’s Games, Francis worked in a number of different departments, but his passion was for the production side of the business and he took on the role of production director, overseeing the manufacturing process. Francis became managing director of J. W. Spear and subsequently its chairman. He was respected by many in the toy trade for his honesty, loyalty and modesty. When the company was sold to Mattel in 1994, Francis purchased farmland in Hertfordshire. Read More...
Glyn Davies Toy World is sad to report that Glyn Davies passed away in Liverpool on November 20th, after catching coronavirus. Glyn had turned 70 in July. Glyn worked in the toy trade for many years as a rep and national account executive for several toy companies, including Blue Box, Rainbow, Mondo and Fisher Price. His final role of a long and distinguished toy trade career was at Bandai. Julian Boyers, former managing director at Bandai, commented: “I was deeply saddened to hear of Glyn’s death, which happened very quickly and unexpectedly.
Jimmy Hunter, the founder of Hunter Toys, passed away on November 14th, 2020. Jimmy took on the role of BTHA Chairman from 2000-2002 and was heavily involved for many years with both Toy Fair and the BTHA’s ‘Value of Play’ initiatives. He was the champion for Total Fun, the consumer event held in the early 2000s, while he was also the brainchild behind the longstanding Golden Teddy awards. His daughter Sally Hunter, who has followed in Jimmy’s footsteps by building a long and successful career the toy trade, told Toy World: “The fact that the Golden Teddy awards are still being presented so many years later gives me goosebumps.
Simon Holdsworth, Managing Director at Thos Holdsworth & Sons Ltd, passed away on November 14th, 2020. "Many of our staff have worked alongside Simon for more than 20 years. Words like mentor, great boss, good friend, awesome storyteller, gregarious, quick witted, dynamic, proud, demanding, knowledgeable and tireless are just some of their comments. He is, and always will be our champion! Our legacy for Simon is to keep the company running smoothly and exemplify the excellence that he demanded from us each and every day. There will be many memories, and no doubt a number of stories from your time spent with Simon, perhaps encouraged by his favourite tipple of a G&T or a wee glass of Grand Marnier! In the coming weeks, I hope that we get the chance to remember the good times and raise a glass in his honour." - Fleur Tisdale,
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“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”
What is Prayer Shawl Ministry? The Prayer Shawl ministry was founded in America in 1998 by Vicky Galo and Janet Bristow (www.shawlministry.com). In their words: “Compassion and the love of knitting/crocheting have been combined into a prayerful ministry and spiritual practice which reaches out to those in need of comfort and solace, as well as in celebration and joy. Many blessings are prayed into every shawl”.
A request for a shawl usually comes from a Minister or pastoral visitor, but can come from other members of the congregation if they feel an individual would feel supported by prayer in this form. The Prayer Shawls are seen as a tangible representation of ‘I will be praying for you’ or ‘I have been thinking about you’.
The reasons for requesting a shawl can range widely – from illness to celebration, from worrying or stressful circumstances to individuals rising to new challenges. The knitter is told something of the reason for the request, and pray for the intended recipient while knitting the shawl. The finished shawl is attractively wrapped and delivered to the recipient with a personalised prayer card. The church will periodically pray for the recipients (anonymously) during our intercessory prayers.
The recipients do not need to be members of this congregation as this is also a form of prayer outreach to the wider community.
Anyone interested in supporting this ministry is welcome to participate in a number of ways:-
Volunteering to add their name to the list of knitters willing to knit or crochet a shawl*
Donating money for the team to buy wool and materials for the shawls*. ( all shawls* are given as gifts)
Praying for the makers and recipients of these prayer shawls*
(*prayer shawl is the generic name we are using, but this also includes, throws, scarfs, lap rugs and even socks; whatever is appropriate for the recipient, male or female.
If you would like to find out more or offer your help in any way, please contact Sue Eyre, Sue Williams or Helen Ashley.
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And that was true, but there was more to Welch's story than the headlines depicted. A recovering drug and alcohol addict, Welch had started to become friendly with some of the inmates she counseled in prison -- prompting her church minister to issue a warning.
"I said, please, do not, under any conditions -- these are my exact words -- invite anyone into your home," said Pastor Nestor Stroude of Word of Truth Ministries in Chapter 2 of “Accused: The Unsolved Murder of Retha Welch.”
According to police, Welch didn't heed Stroude’s warning. Her body was found in her apartment bathtub by a fellow nurse who worked with her at the Veterans Hospital in Cincinnati.
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Author David Staley and CMU President Bob Davies will discuss the need for innovation
11/14/2019 | Updated: 11/14/2019 9:43 AM
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What will the universities of the future look like, and how will they serve their students?
Those are the questions Central Michigan University President Bob Davies will discuss with David Staley, author of "Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education," Monday, Nov. 18, in the Park Library's Sarah and Daniel Opperman Auditorium.
Staley believes American higher education suffers from a lack of creativity and imagination. He warns that universities must move quickly to embrace new models of teaching and serving students. These themes align with the message Davies shared in his recent State of the University address.
"In my first year with CMU, I asked you to embrace transformational change. We operate differently today than we did at this time last year, and we're not done changing. Not even close," Davies said.
Explore the future of higher education. Attend the Critical Engagements discussion, "The Alternative University," at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, in Park Library's Sarah and Daniel Opperman Auditorium.
Davies described the kind of university CMU could be in 2030 and outlined five strategic pathways the university must follow to remain relevant in the increasingly competitive higher education landscape.
"The institutions that will survive and thrive will be those that plan ahead, anticipate coming changes and respond quickly," he said.
Davies and Staley will reflect on current trends and discuss opportunities for innovation and transformation beginning at 5:30 p.m. The event is co-sponsored by the President's and Provost's Fund for Program Innovation and Excellence and the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences' Critical Engagements initiative.
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Musical musings: Yo La Tengo/Times New Viking edition
Apr 25, 2007 at 12:01 AM Apr 25, 2007 at 4:54 PM
Here's a little rundown of some thoughts on music from the past week (and for the record LL "I'm too Cool for Columbus" J "missed his flight" and so will be "rescheduling" his appearance here):
Yo La Tengo/Times New Viking at Beachland Ballroom
Sorry for the blurry-ass photo
I headed up to Cleveland last week to see Yo La Tengo team with our hometown heroes Times New Viking in an enticing double bill. TNV seemed like a sure bet-they haven't failed me yet-but Yo La presented a mystery. When I attended back-to-back shows in Columbus and Cincinnati back in 2003, the band was in full downer mode, embracing the quiet and, unfortunately, mundane love ballads of Summer Sun and throwing the crowd the occasional electrified bone. Those shows were about as good as the places they took place-long-gone Columbus outpost The Factory was kind of lame, but day two found us at Newport, Kentucky's beautiful Southgate House, which made for a great show, snoozefest be damned. Oh what a night.
Last summer's set at the Pitchfork Music Festival was a different animal, the band limiting itself to new songs but pulling them from the variety hour that is I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass. That made for a concise compendium of the Yo La Tengo sound, if not the Yo La Tengo catalog. (To paraphrase the less pleased members of the crowd that day: "Where's the hits?")
I headed up to Cleveland last week to see Yo La Tengo team with our hometown heroes Times New Viking in an enticing double bill. TNV seemed like a sure bet�they haven't failed me yet�but Yo La presented a mystery. When I attended back-to-back shows in Columbus and Cincinnati back in 2003, the band was in full downer mode, embracing the quiet and, unfortunately, mundane love ballads of Summer Sun and throwing the crowd the occasional electrified bone. Those shows were about as good as the places they took place�long-gone Columbus outpost The Factory was kind of lame, but day two found us at Newport, Kentucky's beautiful Southgate House, which made for a great show, snoozefest be damned. Oh what a night.
So this one was a toss-up. Where would Yo La's focus lie? But first, TNV, who my buddy David was experiencing for the first time, and it's about time, since I've been bugging him for like two years. Did they deliver? Of course they delivered! David on his first TNV experience: "They were perfect. They were the Beatles up there." The keyboard was a little high in the mix for me, but yeah, he's right. Our art-school heroes blazed through their tiny set with the chaotic precision they've become known for in these parts. They're swell.
The kids must be lighting a fire under Yo La Tengo's ass because they came out with purpose and impaled latter-day wonder "Cherry Chapstick," then left its carcass to rot in the feedback as they kicked out more high-energy jams. The show really kicked off with "Pass Me the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind," which lasted a smidge too long but who cares when Ira Kaplan is f---ing his guitar? Ira, Georgia and James reserved most of the mellow stuff for the set's middle section and kept it just long enough to enjoy without slipping into a coma. Then it was more rock, from "Tom Courtenay" to "We're An American Band" to
They invited their opening act back on stage for part of the encore (a cover of "So Agitated" by the Electric Eels), and boy was that surreal. It brought this idea into even clearer focus; these TNV cats are going places.
The New Dark Ages Bake-Off
So much great music happened last weekend in Columbus (especially for the loud and raunchy types, with Cheater Slicks, The Feelers and more returning to the stage), but I could not resist the siren call of a show that combined so many of my favorite bands in Ohio: The Lindsay, Houseguest and Terribly Empty Pockets to name a few. (I missed most of Beard of Stars and all of Guinea Worms, two upstanding bands themselves.) The New Dark Ages' latest hootenanny seemed perfectly sculpted for a pop-rock fan looking to quell his urge in a variety of ways, be it the noisy scrum that is The Lindsay, the airtight rigidity of Houseguest or the bashful Pockets. It was.
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More M&A rumours abound as Telecom Italia considers move for Oi
Bloomberg writes that Milan-based Telecom Italia (TI) has apparently approached a number of financial advisers about a plan to acquire Brazilian-owned operator Oi SA (Oi) through its own wireless unit, TIM Participacoes (TIM Brasil). According to sources who asked not to be identified as the discussions are private, no formal approach has been made at this time, but it is noteworthy that TI is considering a buyout of the carrier in the wake of its recent failure to purchase another Brazilian firm, Global Village Telecom (GVT). Last month, the French media group Vivendi announced that it had entered into exclusive talks to sell GVT to Telefonica for USD9.83 billion. The decision, which was taken after a brief board meeting to review offers on the table, effectively side-lined TI which had entered into a bidding war for the Brazilian firm. With the Italian group seemingly now looking to shore up its position in the lucrative Brazilian market, targeting Oi makes sense and could stave off the threat posed by Oi which last month hired Banco BTG Pactual to mount its own bid for a stake in TIM Brasil. Further, a takeover of the Brazilian-controlled group would give TI a credible presence in the fixed line market, something it currently lacks, at a time when its rivals are all bolstering their own portfolios. Any takeover deal would however, require the necessary approval of the Brazilian authorities.
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Home » Mowi set to relocate two controversial salmon farms
Mowi set to relocate two controversial salmon farms
Mowi offers to close its farms at Loch Duich (pictured) and Loch Ewe, if regulators allow biomass transfer and increase © FFE
The world’s largest salmon farming company Mowi has announced two of its salmon farms on the west coast of Scotland are to cease production. The company will focus its production on “locations more appropriate for modern day aquaculture”.
The closure of the Loch Ewe salmon farm comes after 15 years of failing to meet certain environmental standards, with the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) reportedly imposing reductions of around two thirds on the permitted quantity of fish farmed.
Another farm at Loch Duich is also set to close. Both are in inland sea lochs which have been blamed for adverse impacts on marine life.
Mowi said it had identified the farms “as candidates for relocation due to the enclosed nature of the sea lochs where the farms are situated and the sites’ proximity to sensitive wild salmonid habitats.”
Experts said the closures could have ramifications for the wider industry, which is already under pressure to deal with surges in sea lice affecting stocks and mass mortality events because of algal blooms in warming waters.
Other farms “will be at serious risk now, because the regulator should continue to apply reductions as and when they fail,” campaigner Corin Smith told The Independent.
Mr Smith’s freedom of information (FOI) requests have previously revealed the Scottish government’s support for salmon farming expansion.
Problematic salmon farms
The Loch Ewe farm has recorded “unsatisfactory” benthic levels every year since 2005. Benthic monitoring measures the levels of macro-invertebrate species in and on the seabed.
Andrew Graham-Stewart, director of Salmon and Trout Conservation Scotland (S&TCS), said: “We welcome Mowi’s decision to close the Loch Ewe farm. There can be no doubt that the decision is a vindication of S&TCS’ long campaign to end salmon farming in this enclosed sea loch,” which the organisation said “has devastated sea trout stocks in iconic Loch Maree, previously the best sea trout fishery in western Scotland”.
He said they believed “the other factor in Mowi’s decision is clearly the farm’s failure to reduce its benthic impact.”
He added: “As a consequence, SEPA has cut the farm’s permitted biomass very substantially, thus diminishing its commercial viability.” Mowi has “signalled its intention to move the biomass elsewhere,” he said, adding: “If Mowi wishes to apply for a biomass increase at another location, then that should be judged on its own merits. Indeed, it would be disingenuous to try and link it to the closure of Loch Ewe. Furthermore, it is vital that any biomass increase elsewhere avoids migration routes for wild salmonids.”
Mowi “offers” conditional closures
Mowi, however, said in a statement the sites’ permanent closures would only come if they could relocate the salmon to its other farms.
It added: “The sites will be closed permanently conditional to the support from our regulatory system to transfer the biomass to other locations, and to sustainably expand our production in the best possible areas for salmon farming thus protecting the associated jobs.”
Mr Smith said this stance was “ridiculous”.
“It is significant that Mowi are saying it’s an internal decision and they’re making it conditional on the biomass being relocated. It’s a thoroughly empty statement because the idea the law would permit the unilateral transferring of biomass from one farm to another on the basis of the original farm failing its environmental standards is ridiculous,” he added.
He said he believed the “idea that Mowi could take non-compliant biomass and dump it somewhere else is an absolute nonsense.”
The “relocation” plan comes months after claims Mowi had misreported the volume of chemical medications it uses to fight disease at its Scottish salmon farms.
In April, the company revealed the amount of gutted salmon it produced from Scottish waters had fallen by 36 per cent in a year, with infestations of sea lice and disease blamed.
Growing concerns
Marine ecologist Sally Campbell said: “There’s clearly a serious problem up the west coast now with sea lice.”
Speaking about the challenges the industry now faces, Ms Campbell said: “They’re under quite a lot of pressure now, because over the last couple of years a lot of us up the west coast hear what’s going on. There’s been a lot of news about companies taking away dead fish and people smelling dead fish coming from huge ships.
“My concern is the ecosystem is being damaged beyond repair. Many chemicals are used to inhibit the lifecycles of the sea lice, which are from the same group of animals as prawns, crabs and lobsters.”
She said the salmon companies’ public relations teams would say: “We’re going to look after the sea lochs.” However, she said they would “look after their own interests in the short term.”
She added: “The industry will kill itself at the rate it’s going.”
Alastair Sinclair, the national coordinator for the Scottish Creel Fishermen’s Federation, stated: “My impression of the whole thing is that up until we had salmon farms in the sea lochs on the west coast, we had problems, but not to the degree that we do now. There’s only one suspect in the grand scheme of things – that’s the salmon farming industry.
“They should not be using west coast sea lochs, due to the chemicals, it’s unnatural. It’s polluting the seas the way the Victorians would pollute the waterways without any thought of consequence.”
Expanding operations, reducing impacts?
Managing director of Mowi Scotland, Ben Hadfield, said: “Mowi has strived to improve relations with the wild fish sector and has been clear that it will seek to expand its operations in Scotland, whilst securing reduced impact on the environment and further developing the significant economic contribution that it makes to rural Scotland.”
A spokesperson for SEPA told The Independent: “It is really encouraging to see that industry is proactively choosing to consider more sustainable locations for fish farms, away from more sensitive waters where pressures on the marine environment are greatest.
“SEPA’s new regulatory framework for marine cage fish farming, launched on 1 June, 2019, combines more accurate modelling and enhanced monitoring to encourage a more sustainable approach to the siting of fish farms.
“In practice, we anticipate this will lead to fewer fish farms in shallower, slow-flowing waters and more fish farms in offshore locations where the environment capacity can better assimilate wastes. The new framework is designed to actively support operators who are seeking to relocate to more sustainable locations, and through improved practices and the innovative use of new technologies, reduce their impact on the marine environment.”
They added: “Our new framework provides exactly the type of flexibility and outcome-focus Mowi outlines it is looking for. Within this new framework, we will consider each individual proposal on its merits against the legal standards. We encourage Mowi and other operators to work with us and other interested parties to explore their innovative proposals under our new framework. We look forward to doing so.”
This article was originally published as Salmon farms in UK “at serious risk” after closures due to environmental damage at The Independent on 10/07/2019.
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Strategy, Evaluation and Fundraising Associate Strategy, Evaluation and Fundraising Associate
St Werburghs Community Association
Would you like to work with a busy Community Centre, developing a business plan, evaluating & fundraising for essential community services?
Senior Communications Adviser: trade and climate Senior Communications Adviser: trade and climate
Trade Justice Movement
Senior Communications Adviser: trade and climate
Supporter Engagement Officer Supporter Engagement Officer
Unicef UK
As Supporter Engagement Officer, you will work on a wide range of channels, including direct mail, telemarketing, digital and face to face.
Support Services Officer Support Services Officer
Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust
Relationships Officer Relationships Officer
The British Dyslexia Association
Support people with dyslexia by developing new and existing relationships with sponsors, partners and advertisers
West Africa Regional Finance Manager – French-speaking West Africa Regional Finance Manager – French-speaking
MAG (Mines Advisory Group)
Senior Finance Manager Senior Finance Manager
£38k gross per annum (pro rata’d for part time hours) + 8% pension contribution
Special Events Manager Special Events Manager
£38,506 - £43,897 per year, plus excellent benefits
Business Systems Manager Business Systems Manager
Business Support Partner Business Support Partner
Shannon Trust
Projects network development officer Projects network development officer
Permaculture Association
£23,600 pro rata (£4,720 per year)
Part-Time Chief Financial Officer Part-Time Chief Financial Officer
Alex TLC
£40,000 - £50,000 per year full time equivalent
An exciting opportunity to deliver a vital and rewarding strategic financial role for a growing and innovative rare disease charity.
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Give a Kidney - one's enough
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Humanists UK
Humanists UK is recruiting for a Head of Humanist Care. A vital role that sits in our Community Service provision for the non religious.
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Strategy, Evaluation and Fundraising Associate
Saint Werburgh's, Bristol City
Contract, Part-time, 30 days
St Werburghs Community Association is in the final year of its current four year Business Plan. We are now working on organisational development, which includes Digital Project (commissioning of a new booking and service monitoring software), Strategy and Board Development, Marketing and Digital Inclusion Plan, Finance and HR training, as well as Team Building activities.
With current challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, such as loss of trading income and continuous demands on services we are looking for an experienced Strategy, Evaluation and Fundraising Associate to work with the Centre Team and Board of Trustees to complete an evaluation of existing work and plan for the imminent future assuring the Centre’s sustainability. The work will also include writing and submitting funding bids to ensure continuation of SWCA’s core services and further development of the organisation going into the next Business Plan period 2021-2025.
Applicants should be available for a period of 30 days between February and July 2021 to support the organisation. The timeframe greatly depends on the grants proposals and deadlines. All preparation, strategy sessions with the Board and evaluation of services will need to happen before the end of March 2021, with fundraising focus from April to July 2021.
About St Werburghs Community Association
Established in 1971, St Werburghs Community Association aims to manage the Community Centre building, develop its services and ensure it meets the demands, and needs, of local people. In 1999 the Association took over the management of the Centre from the local authority and completed Asset Transfer and an over £1m Capital Project in 2010, which resulted in construction of a four-room eco-friendly annexe, doubling up on the lettable spaces and making the main Victorian building more energy efficient and fully accessible. The Centre is one of Bristol’s busiest, most loved and inclusive community buildings.
In the last 10 years the Centre has grown from strength to strength, developing the facilities, which now include six large multipurpose rooms available to hire on hourly basis, a catering kitchen, seven office spaces, an outdoor seating, growing and play area, an Open Access Computer lab, a café and a central Reception from which SWCA delivers a range of Signposting and Advice services. Services we offer to meet community needs includes weekly cooking and gardening courses, one to one computer support, employability support/advice, Tai Chi, stay and play and much more. Most recently due to Covid-19 we have a telephone befriending service, food bank and a community outreach programme. There are volunteering opportunities to build skills and promote inclusion, we support local people in taking actions on issues which matter to them and link people to the support they need enabling them to achieve their goals. The Centre is available for private, social and business hire.
As a membership organisation, we have 200 active member groups who use the Centre for faith and cultural activities, training and education, exercise, dance and hobbies, as well as personal development and voluntary and charitable sector members, who work with local people.
The Strategy, Fundraising and Evaluation Associate will support SWCA in building a sustainable financial, business, engagement and development plan. Experience in organisational development, finance, fundraising, business evaluation and strategy are key to this role. Plus excellent analytical, written and verbal communication skills; good knowledge of the community business and voluntary sectors and a sound understanding of the different protected groups, of social and community inclusion.
Specific responsibilities include:
taking part in a half a day induction to familiarise yourself with the organisation
facilitation and drawing on learning (Business Plan) from two to four sessions with the Board of
Trustees, and Management Team to include:
exploring our development trust status,
forming meaningful alliances with other organisations,
improving engagement with local residents,
communications with groups,
partnership working with other organisations and
evaluation summary of community response/action.
analysis of income streams and scenarios in liaison with Finance Manager(trading vs grants).
looking at possible different membership structures: individual members, community member groups
and associate members, also young members.
evaluation of current service provision work in liaison with the Centre operational teams.
creating a 3-page document / web content describing SWCA, its vision, aims and objectives based on the evaluation of services in liaison with the Digital Communications and Marketing Officer.
fundraising in liaison with the Centre Director and Finance Manager to include writing and submitting bids, working to deadlines and in line with our fundraising strategy.
Business and strategic planning.
Ability to engage, communicate with and work with trustees, staff and partners at all levels.
Ability to evaluate and assess an organisation’s activities and performance and recommend detailed next steps.
Fundraising and bid writing to trusts and ufoundations.
The ability to read financial accounts and financial uprojections/ budgets.
Proficiency with IT and computer-based information systems.
Ability to work independently.
Excellent analytical, written and verbal ucommunication skills.
Commitment to equal opportunities and ability to exercise this in practice.
Sound understanding of the community business and voluntary based sectors.
Understanding of membership organisations.
Knowledge of governance models, legal frameworks, and best practice in accountability and reporting.
Noon 22nd January 2021
For further information or informal conversation please contact the Centre Director, Goska Ong.
Applicants will be contacted by 26th January and contracts for successful applicants will be agreed by 29th January 2021. Successful applicant will attend a paid induction/meeting with staff and trustees week commencing 1st February 2021 TBA.
This post is supported by Power to Change Business Development Support Grant.
JD Strategy, Evaluation & Fundraising Associate (.pdf)
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Tags: Fundraising,Business Development
About the Trade Justice Movement
The Trade Justice Movement is a UK coalition of organisations advocating for trade justice, including trade unions, aid agencies, environment and human rights campaigns.
TJM has led advocacy on issues including the privileges offered to investors, democratic scrutiny of trade agreements and the impact of trade deals on climate change and the environment. We play an important role in supporting politicians, the media and other civil society organisations in developing their understanding of and ability to engage in trade debates.
Following the Brexit vote, international trade became a key focus for government and the media. The UK has a unique opportunity to develop trade policy which is aligned with climate goals. However, to date there is no clear strategy to ensure this happens. This role will help us to use our existing research and policy proposals to shape media debates and ensure that civil society organisations are equipped to act.
The Senior Communications Adviser’s role is to raise the profile of TJM’s work on trade and climate change:
Develop a strategy and help TJM to build our reputation for strong expertise and analysis in trade and climate policy.
Lead TJM’s communications on trade and climate change with civil society, the media and online.
Convene TJM’s network of partner organisations and develop new relationships so that an increased number of organisations advocate in trade and climate policy in partnership with TJM.
Support TJM’s influencing work within key civil service departments including Cabinet Office, BEIS, DIT and Defra and with the aim of influencing the UK’s approach to COP26 and beyond.
Working with a small team, you will need both a strong ability to develop innovative approaches in the areas identified, manage your time and work plan and to be proactive in developing networks. This is an exciting opportunity to make a big impact as the UK develops its independent trade policy and hosts COP26.
Trade and Climate Communications Strategy
Develop TJM’s strategy for communications with the media and civil society organisations in this area, taking into account the political and media context and the need to achieve impact with minimal resources.
Development of External and Network Communications
Lead the delivery of TJM’s communications with the media and civil society organisations on trade and climate change, including identifying key audiences and tailoring messaging to them.
Build TJM’s media profile and networks, including through regular press releases, developing opportunities to place opinion pieces, and increasing TJM’s social media presence.
Establish effective, regular communications with member and partner organisations.
Maintain TJM’s web content on this issue.
Convening Civil Society Organisations
Provide opportunities for civil society organisations to collaborate and advocate in this area, including through regular meetings, joint letters and engagement with civil service departments.
Organise a number of seminars and briefing meetings for TJM members to build civil society capacity on trade and climate change.
Work with the Senior Adviser to engage with existing climate change forums.
Institutional Engagement
Develop and maintain relationships with key UK civil service departments including Cabinet Office, BEIS, DIT and Defra.
Where appropriate, identify and engage with other international institutions, this might include the WTO, the UN or the OECD.
Work with other team members to respond to opportunities to engage including consultation responses, meetings and online forums.
Track preparations for COP26 and highlight opportunities to influence the process, as well as the UK’s broader trade and climate policies.
Establish and maintain good monitoring systems against project aims.
Hours of work: Full time - flexible working can be discussed with the line manager
This role reports to: TJM Senior Adviser
Staff reporting to this post: None
Good knowledge of international trade rules, climate policy or of an equivalent macroeconomic or environmental issue.
Experience of the management and delivery of effective external communications at a senior level.
A demonstrated ability to develop and maintain networks and relationships.
A demonstrated ability to influence across a diversity of organisations, journalists and civil service departments at a senior level.
Excellent analytical skills and political awareness.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrable project management skills, including budget management.
Strong ability to work independently, with minimal supervision, initiating own work, prioritizing and meeting deadlines.
Ability to travel occasionally and work outside normal working hours when necessary
Recruitment pack - senior communications adviser_ trade and climate (1) (.docx)
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Supporter Engagement Officer
E20, London
Unicef ensures more of the world’s children are vaccinated, educated and protected than any other organisation. We have done more to influence laws and policies to help protect children than anyone else. We get things done. And we’re not going to stop until the world is a safe place for all our children.
The Gifts in Wills fundraising team promotes the opportunity of leaving a gift in a will to Unicef to the public, creating engaging supporter journeys for those considering leaving a gift in their will and building relationships with supporters who have committed to doing this.
As Supporter Engagement Officer, you will work on a wide range of channels, including direct mail, telemarketing, digital and face to face. You will be responsible for promoting gifts in wills messaging among existing Unicef supporters and providing high quality stewardship for those who express and interest in this way of supporting children.
It is an exciting time to join the Gifts in Wills team at Unicef, as we build on our new creative expression and strategy and work on innovative, exciting engagement projects for 2021. We are looking for a candidate with a supporter-centric attitude, the flexibility to work across multiple channels and strong analytical skills.
Closing date: 5pm, Thursday 28 January 2021.
Interview date: Thursday 11 February 2021 via MS Teams.
We are normally based on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, East London but while our office is closed, this role will work from home or from wherever makes you happy.
We particularly welcome applications from LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities, and from men, because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at this level at Unicef UK. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for children.
Unicef UK promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We make employment decisions by matching business needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
The successful candidate will be required to apply for a criminal records check. A criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the role and the circumstances of your offences.
We only accept online applications as this saves us money, making more funds available for us to help ensure children’s rights.
If you do not hear from us within 14 days of the closing date, please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please note that we only provide feedback to shortlisted candidates.
Registered Charity Nos. 1072612 (England and Wales) SC043677 (Scotland)
Job Description (.pdf)
Destination E20, London Greater London
Tags: Communications, PR,Fundraising
Support Services Officer
We are looking for a passionate Support Services Officer to play a key role in offering support and information to women and their loved ones affected by cervical cancer, cervical cell changes and those with concerns or questions about the cervical screening or HPV vaccination programs. You will also be responsible for offering additional support through our Callback service and the day to day running of our Ask the Expert service providing online medical clarification. The ideal candidate will be self-motivating, and a clear communicator with strong supportive and multi-tasking skills
This is a full time, one year fixed term contract.
To apply for this role please send a CV and a covering letter to Debbie Shipley, Support Services Manager
Applications without a covering letter will not be considered.
Closing date for application: 5pm on the 29th January 2021
Interview date: Friday 5th February 2021
Recruitment Pack (.pdf)
More about Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust
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Tags: Advice, Information
Relationships Officer
Use your experience and skills to make a difference for people with dyslexia and dyscalculia by joining our growing team.
We are looking for a Relationships Officer to support people with dyslexia by developing new and existing relationships with sponsors, partners and advertisers, with the aim of delivering income to support our vital services and ensuring that these relationships help both parties derive full value from partnerships.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the British Dyslexia Association, the charity that is the voice of dyslexic people. The successful candidate will join our team at a time when we are putting a greater emphasis on our free charitable services and this position will play a pivotal role in helping us increase our support for people with dyslexia and dyscalculia.
The Relationships Officer will be responsible for a wide range of our key relationships, and help to drive income growth across our events programme, our publications and our digital platforms. But this role is not just about short-term income, it is about developing deeper and more meaningful long-term relationships that deliver value for our charitable work as well as supporting our partners. As well as supporting our fundraising, marketing and events teams, the role will work with our senior leaders to identify those who have a synergy with our cause.
We are seeking an exceptional people-focussed candidate with a record of success in a fundraising, marketing or sales role. You will be an enthusiastic, motivated and positive individual and an excellent relationship builder but not solely focussed on quick wins, albeit able to see opportunities and make the most of them.
You do not necessarily need previous knowledge or experience of dyslexia or dyscalculia and their impact, but you will be a fast learner and quickly become passionate about our goals. As the charity moves into a new era, you will be at the heart of positive change.
Please view the Recruitment Pack for full details of this position. We invite applications with an up-to-date CV and cover letter explaining how your skills and experience match our requirements, and why you would like the role.
CLOSING DATE: 12 Noon, Monday 8th February 2021
Interviews will be conducted remotely, week commencing 15th February 2021
Please note: as we expect post Covid to have regular visits to our Bracknell office in Berkshire, applicants should live a reasonable distance, around 1-2 hours max travelling time.
Relationships Officer Recruitment Pack (.pdf)
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West Africa Regional Finance Manager – French-speaking
MAG vacancy: West Africa Regional Finance Manager – French-speaking (with an option of working from home in UK)
Starting salary £37,452 per annum (plus contributory pension)
Manchester, UK/Working from Home
Join a Nobel Prize-winning organisation committed to creating safe and secure futures for women, men and children around the world. MAG works by finding and destroying landmines, cluster bombs and the explosive remnants of war and by advocating and campaigning on behalf of those whose lives are blighted by the lethal debris of conflict. Be part of this life-changing mission by joining MAG to help us free from fear some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world.
We are seeking a Regional Finance Manager to join our Finance team, which provides day-to-day financial support and advice to MAG’s programmes in countries across the globe. This is an exciting and dynamic role, where you’ll act as a business partner to the West Africa region, using your finance skills and experience will help us make a real difference, supporting our work across the globe.
Reporting to the Senior Programmes Finance Manager you will be responsible for managing a small UK based programmes finance team on a day-to-day basis, and providing advice and technical oversight to our programme based Finance Managers. As a business partner, you’ll provide real-time support and analysis to senior managers as a trusted adviser, and add value that will assist in decision making and the delivery of MAG’s lifesaving work.
This role allows for flexible working where you may be based in the United Kingdom or work from home. You will be expected to manage your team, support proposal development and provide advice and analysis on budgets and financial contract management. You will be required to travel in order to provide support to our programmes overseas, including our programmes in West Africa and our HQ in Manchester, UK.
You will have previously worked in a finance role in a grant or donor funded environment, or in a commercial project accounting role. You’ll have a high level of accuracy and attention to detail and have staff management or mentoring experience. You will need to be able to demonstrate a strong background in financial modelling and contract management, ideally with experience of major donors. You will be committed to producing work of a consistently high standard and will have experience of undertaking reviews of business processes. Progress towards a professional qualification will provide candidates with a distinct advantage in applying to this role. Fluency in both English and French is essential for this role.
This is a fast-paced role and challenging role, which will require high levels of initiative, pro-activeness and strong multi-tasking skills. With an ability to lead, motivate and develop a small team, ensuring effective communication between various stakeholders, you will be a creative, flexible, solution-focused, professional business partner, committed to MAG's goals. In return, your professional skills, knowledge and experience will contribute to saving lives around the globe, and you’ll have the opportunity to see, and contribute to, MAG’s work first-hand.
In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, and to ensure the health and wellbeing of everyone who works for MAG and their families we have put in place a new working arrangement – remote working from home - to reflect what is a rapidly changing situation. This role has opportunity to be carried out at Manchester, HQ or in a working from home environment.
Please note that as part of MAG's commitment to safeguarding, this post is subject to background checks before an offer of employment is confirmed.
MAG is committed to the principles of diversity, equality and inclusion. If you think you would be suited to one of our roles we would welcome your application regardless of your background. We strive to provide an inclusive and supportive working environment where all employees feel respected and supported in fulfilling their potential.
For further information and details of how to apply, please visit our website before the closing date of 7th February 2021. MAG reserves the right to bring in candidates sooner than the end date given as we wish to close this role promptly.
Due to the high volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every application. If you have not heard back from us within three weeks of your application, it means that your application has not been successful.
Applicants who are non-residents of the UK will need to provide documentary evidence of their eligibility to work in the UK.
More about MAG (Mines Advisory Group)
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Tags: Finance
Clerkenwell, Greater London
Permanent, Part-time
We are recruiting for a part time Senior Finance Manager to take on responsibility for managing all aspects of the organisation’s financial management and resource planning, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer. Priorities will include producing quarterly management accounts for our board, managing our restricted grants funds, project budgeting, and leading the next audit.
You will have senior financial management experience, ideally with some experience in the charity or not-for-profit sector. You will be a self-starter who is comfortable working proactively on financial management with limited supervision. You’ll be a clear and analytical thinker with energy and drive, and with sound judgement. You’ll be excited about working in an organisation that develops a new type of culture based on innovation, trust, and open-mindedness. You will be committed to Positive Money’s vision (described below)
About Positive Money:
Our money and banking system increases inequality, fuels climate breakdown, and is undemocratic. We think that should change. Positive Money is a fast-growing organisation that combines the activities of a think-tank, a pressure group, and international movement. Born out of the financial crash of 2008, Positive Money is the leading civil society organisation challenging our central bank, banking system, and wider economy to work in the interests of people and planet. Our vision is a money and banking system that enables a fair, democratic, and sustainable economy.
Day to day financial management, supervising our payment processes, financial controls, and income and expenditure categorisation systems.
Line management of our external Accountant/Book-keeper (a contracted role) and working closely with our Operations manager.
Produce quarterly management accounts for our board of Non-Executive Directors.
Lead on the audit for the year ending 31 March 2021, working closely with the finance team, non-exec finance director on our board, and an external auditor.
Manage our restricted grants allocation system, and produce financial reports for our funders.
Manage our system of programme and project budgets, monitor our organisational budget, and support fundraising efforts with application budgets.
Develop or refine existing finance, resource or remuneration policies and procedures as needed.
Support Positive Money’s international work, liaising with your counterpart at Positive Money Europe and supporting the development of a new US office.
Support the organisation and on other operational matters such as HR, facilities or IT where needed.
Essential skills and experience
Strong skills in financial analysis, budgeting, and daily financial and resource management
Ability to multi-task across a range of financial management systems
Experience of managing or monitoring small to mid-sized budgets
Experience of working on organisation-wide financial management, and an understanding of the key elements of management accounts
Experience managing restricted grants funds
A strategic mindset
Ability to problem solve complex organisational issues
Risk management experience
Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, needed to work closely with a small team, and a range of external contractors, funders and stakeholders
Experience of leading, or working on, audit.
Self-motivation, and ability to work proactively with minimal supervision
Committed to a culture that is open, honest, respectful and welcomes innovation and new creative ideas.
Desirable skills and experience
Financial or accountancy qualifications
Other operations management experience, such as HR, facilities or IT management
Contract: The role is for an initial fixed term of 1 year with a 6-month probationary period. After a year if the contract is extended, a permanent contract will be offered.
Salary: Band 2, £38k gross per annum (pro rata’d for part time hours) + 8% pension contribution
Reporting to: Chief Operating Officer
Hours: 16-20 hours per week, (2 or 2.5 working days). Requests for flexible working will be considered. The post holder may need to be flexible about working hours within the week from time to time.
Holiday: 25 days per year for full-time equivalent (plus bank holidays)
Location: Through the Covid-19 pandemic we are following government advice and working from home. Up to two members of staff can work in the office when required subject to government guidelines.
Closing Date for applications: 8am, Monday 8th February
Interviews will take place on Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th February
(interviews will take place online)
Application Pack - Senior Finance Manager Positive Money (.pdf)
Application Form - Senior Finance Manager Positive Money (.docx)
More about Positive Money
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Tags: Finance,Senior Management
Special Events Manager
Cricklewood, Greater London
Location: MS National Centre, London (part time office-based, part-time home-based) – currently home-based
Salary Band: Band F, Level 2
Department: Special Events
Are you an experienced, confident and articulate events manager looking for a fantastic opportunity develop a successful Special Events programme?
The MS Society is delivering some of the most exciting Special Events in the UK and we are seeking a talented and enthusiastic individual to join us as Special Events Manager.
Our programme of events has grown rapidly over the past few years and is focused on delivering high quality and high profile fundraising and cultivation events, for a philanthropic and corporate audience. The programme includes both small and large scale events, with a previous event raising £1 million net. We have worked at venues such as the Southbank Centre and St Paul’s Cathedral.
We work with Event Committees, celebrity supporters and a highly committed Appeal Board to deliver events, which brings together high-profile, engaged and well-connected individuals passionate about the cause and our ambitious plans for the future.
Closing date: 9am on Monday 25th January 2021
PLEASE PRESS THE HOW TO APPLY BUTTON FOR MORE INFORMATION.
We would be grateful if you could complete the equality and diversity monitoring form and submit it with your application.
MS Equality & Diversity Form (.doc)
Special Events Manager JD (.pdf)
Destination London, Greater London Cricklewood, Greater London
Tags: Fundraising,Marketing
Business Systems Manager
Position: Business Systems Manager
Location: Flexible (with occasional requirement to visit our London office)
Salary Band: Band G, Level 2
Department: Information Systems and Governance
The role of Business Systems Manager sits within our new Information Systems and Governance team. This team works with colleagues from across the organisation to manage our key Business Systems.
The role is responsible for the delivery and support of our key Business Systems and processes with a focus on Fundraising/Marketing, HR and Finance and will also take the lead in the development of Microsoft Organisation business tools including Sharepoint, Teams, ZenDesk etc.
We are looking for candidates with strong experience of:
managing and administering Dynamics GP
managing HR systems
implementing new accounting and HR systems
implementing new system processes
Business Systems Manager JD PS (.pdf)
Tags: IT,Governance
Business Support Partner
Shannon Trust is a charity operating across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, supporting thousands of people in prison each year to transform their lives by unlocking the power of reading. We inspire and train prisoners who can read to teach prisoners who can’t. 2020 was a year of adaptation brought about by COVID19 – we revised our delivery model and now, in 2021, we want to develop much further. To support this, we are now recruiting to new roles and are seeking proactive, committed, and enthusiastic applicants to join our team and help us continue our journey.
Our organisation is evolving and we need business support and governance systems that will enable that change. Working closely with the CEO and staff team, you’ll be a capable, proactive self-starter who can increase business efficiency, manage relationships with suppliers, support internal leadership and performance priorities, drive development projects, enabling all Shannon Trust operations to work as smoothly and cost-effectively as possible. This is an exciting role for someone with a breadth of business and people skills.
Business Support Partner Job Description (.pdf)
Application form (.docx)
Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form (.docx)
More about Shannon Trust
About Shannon Trust
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Job ref: Interview date; 19th February 2021
Tags: Project Management,Governance
Projects network development officer
Kirkstall, West Yorkshire
Part-time, 7.4 hours per day, Temporary, 12 months contract Contract
Are you looking to apply your skills to a passionate network committed to positive change? Are you interested in helping groups to develop and learn? Can you pull information together, work as part of a team and support volunteers? Are you comfortable working online as part of a distributed team? Are you willing to start small and help to grow the network, and the role? Are you looking for a flexible working pattern in an organisation committed to good People Care? If so, read on!
The Permaculture Association works to empower individuals and communities to design their homes, gardens, farms, businesses and whole lives in order to collectively generate a sustainable future. By putting ethics first and using natural systems as a model, there are simple and innovative ways to live fairly and sustainably now and in the future.
Our work is wide-ranging and varied, supporting permaculture education, research, networking and action. We are a growing charity, with 1700(+) members, and partnerships with organisations in the UK and internationally.
The Projects Network Development Officer role in a nutshell
We are seeking a projects network development officer to join our small and dedicated team. We work online using G-Suite, CiviCRM, Slack, & Zoom and other tools to enable us to collaborate and stay connected. Duties of the post will include:
Projects network support, including hosting monthly Zoom socials for members of the Association's LAND network and wider projects
Strategy and fundraising, including working with the network and CEO to identify and develop funding opportunities to further support this work
Farming engagement support, including supporting members contributions to the Northern Real Farming Conference & Oxford Real Farming Conference
Finance, admin, monitoring and evaluation, using our online co-working tools
Communications & Events, including supporting and attending events, and providing news and updates to the Communications team and the website
As an inclusive employer and membership organisation, we want our staff team to better reflect the communities in which we live and work. Therefore we welcome applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to creating an organisation that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.
We are a small team and we want someone who is conscientious and well organised, able to be flexible, responsive and positive, and passionate about support our practical permaculture projects network to develop and thrive.
Please read the full Job Description and Person Specification carefully, and get in touch if you have any questions or would like an informal discussion. The application form and all supporting information can be found via our website or attached here. We look forward to hearing from you.
Job Description 2020 Projects Network Development Officer (.pdf)
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Part-Time Chief Financial Officer
SE15, London
Alex TLC are looking for candidates who can offer robust, strategic financial analysis incorporating extensive experience in charity sector accounting, alongside astute business acumen. The Chief Financial Officer will work closely with the Chief Executive Officer to lead the charity through the Covid-19 crisis and initiate further opportunities for growth. He/She will also be responsible for all financial functions and policies, Board reporting, ensuring efficacy and efficiency of accounting systems, supervision and training of relevant staff.
As a rare disease charity, income opportunities are limited, however, Alex TLC has successfully diversified income streams to grow from a tiny volunteer-led support group, to the "go to" charity supporting sufferers of all genetic leukodystrophies in the UK, recommended and supported by NHS professionals. Our ability to innovate has led to a small charity shop chain supporting charitable core costs, a Social Enterprise Support Funded e-Commerce viablity project, significant Covid-19 emergency grant funding, increased corporate support and a pioneering Digital Support Strategy for our beneficiaries.
The position will suit experienced charity finance professionals seeking involvement in a fulfilling role to improve outcomes for those affected by devastating and often terminal neuro-degenerative conditions.
The role is part time, 3 days per week, based at our head office in Peckham, London SE15. During the Covid-19 situation the ability to work from home is essential, although some Covid-safe visits to the office may be required for supervision and training purposes.
Chief Financial Officer Job Description (.pdf)
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Administrative and Marketing Officer
Permanent, Part-time, 8 hours / week
We are looking for an enthusiastic, engaging and organised person who can help to ensure the efficient and effective running of the Charity's administrative functions, to support the Executive Officer with marketing and social media activity and to help raise awareness of non-directed living kidney donation and the work of the charity.
Give a Kidney - one's enough is a small charity, working to raise awareness of non-directed living kidney donation (the act of giving a kidney anonymously, to someone on the transplant waiting list) and to support those considering donation or going through the process.
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Head of Humanist Care
EC1V, London
The Head of Humanist Care is responsible for the development of Humanists UK’s Humanist Care programme, and in particular the growth in the availability of non-religious pastoral support in hospitals, hospices, and prisons, as well as enhancing the quality of pastoral support on offer through the development of support systems for our accredited carers and encouraging inclusive institutional delivery models.
The successful candidate will have proven experience in delivering pastoral care in a compassionate and person centred manner. A good knowledge of prison and hospital structures in the UK is beneficial. And, an ability to focus and deliver on growth in an expanding network of pastoral care volunteers. Experience in training, designing, developing or delivery is an advantage.
If you are interested in this position please download the application pack for further information and apply using this application form.
Please note applications close at 09:00 on Monday 1 February 2021.
Head of Humanist Care Application pack (.pdf)
Head of Humanist Care Application form (.docx)
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Humanists UK is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical lives on the basis of&nb... Read more
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Tags: Social Care/Development,Volunteer Management
Permanent, Part-time, 10 hours a week covering 2 or 3 days
We are a charity supporting people, over 18 who live in Hertfordshire, who have been affected by a traumatic brain injury. This includes those with the brain injury and also their close family and the carer now looking after their loved ones. This is vital work but as a charity we need to maintain professional financial systems to ensure we can continue to operate effectively and make every pound we have work for the betterment of those we try to care for and support. The finance officer role is a vital cog in making sure everything works really well. Please refer to the Job description attached for full list of roles and duties. Contract is part time for 10 hours a week over 2 days a week
Finance Officer Duties (.docx)
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First Arizona patient on ventilator survives COVID-19 with rare blood treatment
Alison Steinbach ARIZONA REPUBLIC
PHOENIX – A Phoenix man is the first in Arizona to survive COVID-19 through a rare form of treatment called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy.
Enes Dedic, 53, was on the brink of death with a ventilator until his doctors at HonorHealth used ECMO as a last resort. Dedic is among the first U.S. COVID-19 patients to survive the disease by using the treatment and is among around 10 worldwide.
ECMO works by helping oxygenate blood outside the body so blood doesn't need to transfer through damaged or filled lungs. Instead, tubes carry blood from the body to an external artificial lung that removes carbon dioxide and adds oxygen, at which point an artificial heart pumps the blood back into the body.
It's a last hope treatment, as the mortality rate on ECMO is around 40% – "extraordinarily high for almost any medical procedure" – according to Dedic's doctors.
After 10 days in a medical coma on ECMO, Dedic woke up responsive and soon was able to FaceTime his wife.
"I can't even express myself," his wife Olivera Dedic said. "I was jumping through the roof when I heard that they woke him up and he's doing better."
Doctor used therapy as a last resort: 'ECMO or death for him'
After returning from travel overseas, Enes Dedic spent a few weeks at home in the Deer Valley area of Phoenix battling fevers, chills, aches and nausea.
He first checked into HonorHealth's Deer Valley Medical Center on March 15 and quickly deteriorated. He was intubated and transferred to the HonorHealth John C. Lincoln Medical Center in Phoenix for increased mechanical ventilation.
A team of doctors tried everything to save him, said Dr. Anselmo Garcia, a pulmonologist and critical care physician. Enes Dedic was treated with all the potential drugs used for COVID-19 including hydrochloroquine, azithromycin, Kaletra, Actemra, antibiotics and anti-inflammatories.
None of these worked.
As a last resort, doctors turned to ECMO, said Dr. Robert Riley, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at HonorHealth. Riley performed the surgical procedure for ECMO.
"At that point, it was either ECMO or death for him," Dr. Ace Ovil, a trauma and clinical care surgeon, said. "Even though ECMO is a risky procedure and has some associated potential risks, we felt like we needed to give him a fighting chance of surviving his disease."
The procedure allowed Enes Dedic's lungs to rest while the machine worked for them.
Riley said it was uncertain whether this would work. At the beginning of COVID-19, early evidence suggested ECMO was not a useful treatment and that its complications outweighed potential benefits. But given this patient's critical situation, the benefits were worth the risks, Riley said.
“In the bottom of my heart I was thinking that he’s a strong man, he’s going to survive," Olivera Dedic said. "But at the same time, I was scared with all of this technology, everything, machines, ventilators and everything they have to do for him, all those medications. I was very, very scared what was going to happen.”
Enes Dedic was evaluated each day for oxygen levels, X-rays, lab values and organ damage. He steadily improved every day, Garcia said.
After 10 days in a coma while treated with ECMO, doctors woke him up and he was quickly responsive.
"This was a complete team effort," Garcia said. "There are round-the-clock nurses, respiratory physicians, aides that helped, even housekeeping, just to keep everything going just so that we can maintain the therapy that's needed for one patient on a day-to-day basis."
In recent days, he's been feeling "much better" but is still "very weak," Olivera Dedic said. He does physical therapy and has been working on standing next to his bed. He's still in the hospital and she's not sure when he will be released.
Olivera Dedic has not seen her husband in person for a month. While he was in a coma, she couldn't sleep, cried often and tried hard to remember their happy times together. She felt "50/50" he would survive the ECMO treatment.
“It was very emotional and scary," she said. "I’m very thankful to doctors and nurses and all the entire staff in the hospital who saved my husband, and today I'm still the wife of Enes Dedic."
Will ECMO be used more widely to treat coronavirus?
ECMO has been used for H1N1, flu and lung injury patients for many years, Ovil said. But it's a resource- and labor-intensive treatment and also a scarce resource.
For approximately every 50 to 100 ventilators, there is just one ECMO machine available, Riley said. HonorHealth has five in its system. If the treatment continues to prove successful for other critical COVID-19 patients, there may not be enough devices to help all the patients in need.
Most patients with COVID-19 can be supported with a ventilator, but a subset of them get so ill that a ventilator no longer helps. ECMO could be most useful for that type of patient, Ovil said.
The Food and Drug Administration last week issued guidance to expand the availability of ECMO devices to help address COVID-19.
Garcia said the team is being contacted by medical centers across the country for advice. Riley hopes their example of an "out-of-the-box approach to care" will lead to more COVID-19 survivors.
“The proof of concept is pretty important," Riley said. "At first, we were discouraged from even trying this, and people were dying. Now that we do have some success, we have learned ourselves very much of how patients respond from this initial patient, and we’re using that to help treat our subsequent patients.”
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Cultural Cities Enquiry
Core Cities
Enhancing Productivity in UK Core Cities: Connecting Local and Regional Growth
This ground breaking from experts at the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities is a once in a generation opportunity to level up the UK.
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Enhancing Productivity in UK Core Cities: Connecting Local and Regional Growth, calls for a suite of wide-ranging policy measures that will boost productivity in both towns and cities, linking their economies to create business, jobs and wage growth.
The report shows that despite recent progress, the UK has a highly centralised fiscal system, which limits the ability of Core Cities to reach their full economic potential.
It also makes clear that towns and cities are mutually reliant, not economic islands, and that strengthening the links between them will further boost growth, particularly across city regions.
OECD Policy Highlights Document
Core Cities Response
Among the OECD’s recommendations to Government are:
Continue devolution to local authorities across the UK, allowing them to plan spending more strategically over longer periods.
Grow and attract more high productive business sectors by raising skills levels, investing in transport, housing and other infrastructure.
Increase the number of people in work by connecting health and employment programmes, and reducing childcare costs – the UK has some of the highest in the OECD.
Regulate public transport giving city regions the powers to set bus fares and timetables.
This report’s recommendations represent a once in a generation chance to make the UK a more prosperous and more productive place.
Core Cities UK Cabinet member and Leader of Newcastle City Council Cllr Nick Forbes, said: “This report’s recommendations represent a once in a generation chance to make the UK a more prosperous and more productive place.
"As the report makes clear, our city regions and their networks of towns and cities have unusually low levels of productivity by international standards. Our economy is missing out on billions of pounds every year that could change the lives of millions living outside of London.
"But this report is about more than just big numbers and big cities. It is about how we can produce a prosperous and fair economy for our citizens regardless of where they live. Decentralising the UK will help raise productivity. We must continue our devolution journey and accelerate the pace.”
Among the report's findings are:
Productivity in Core Cities city regions is low by national and international standards. Larger cities in other large OECD countries have productivity levels that are as high as or higher than the national average, but in the UK the gross value added per worker of Core Cities is only 86 per cent of the UK average.
Given their size, location and assets, such as high-quality universities and excellent digital infrastructure, Core Cities city regions have the potential to drive the UK economy forward.
Beter integrating towns and cities through networked economies is a ‘win-win’ for the UK. Towns and villages can reap the productivity benefits of bigger cities and cities can experience productivity gains because of the economic weight that surrounding places can bring.
Core Cities has made significant progress over recent years as hubs for innovation and excellence, despite a challenging economic environment and reductions to funding.
Cities can deliver more and that more effective devolution is key to the UK’s future success, adding that fiscal decentralisation needs to go hand-in-hand with administrative decentralisation, for example in areas like transport and skills.
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What is Core Cities?
Why Core Cities?
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E: info@corecities.com
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Excitement As 2020 Nigerian Freestyle Football Champions Emerge In Virtual Freestyle UNLOCKED Games
James Agberebi 0 July 26, 2020 1:07 pm
This year’s Nigerian Freestyle Football Championship came to an exciting finish on Saturday, July 25, 2020 with Benjamin Ebong and Augustina Unamba, both reigning champions, emerging as the winners of the keenly contested games, which held online.
Feet ‘N’ Tricks International, the largest promoter of Freestyle Football in Africa, hosted the games as part of the on-going Freestyle UNLOCKED Africa 2020, which is the virtual version of the annual African Freestyle Football Championship.
The finals of the virtual games streamed live on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram with eight athletes contesting to be the Nigerian freestyle football champions.
While speaking at the opening ceremony of the championship, Mr. Valentine Ozigbo, the Chairman of Feet ‘N’ Tricks International, encouraged the athletes to remain committed to their passion and wished them luck.
The respected business leader also expressed satisfaction and pride at the skills on display and the growth of freestyle football as a sport.
“We are glad to have been part of a project like this that provides a platform for young Nigerians to showcase their talents especially at times like this. It aligns with our commitment to support Nigerian youth and empower them through meaningful initiatives such as freestyle football,” said Rahul De, Chief Marketing Officer, MTN Nigeria.
Augustina Unamba
Freestyle UNLOCKED Africa 2020 kicked off on July 1, 2020 with cash prizes won by more than 30 freestylers in the People’s Choice Prizes, which were determined by fan engagement online.
With their victories, Ebong and Unamba walk away with a cash prize of N150,000 each as the Nigerian Freestyle Football Champions of 2020 in the male and female categories.
The 2nd Place winners, the 2017 champion, McCarthy Obanor (Men) and the reigning African Women Champion, Evelyn Okafor (Women), each go home with N100,000. While the 3rd Place winners Prince Okereke (Men) and Treasure Nwoye (Women) go home with N50,000 each. In addition the 4th to 8th finalists in both categories get N20,000.
“COVID-19 forced this virtual contest on us and we are delighted that we were able to hold this competition virtually and successfully,” Ozigbo declared as the winners celebrate their victories.
“Freestyle Football has come to stay in Nigeria and we are extremely excited about the rapid growth of the sport in Nigeria, as well as Africa,” Ozigbo told journalists on a video call to the studio in Victoria Island from his location.
Freestyle UNLOCKED Africa 2020 continues as athletes from around the continent battle in the African Freestyle Football Championship with winners in the men and women’s category standing a chance to win $1,000 each when the grand finale holds on Sunday, August 2, 2020.
A panel of international judges – Lukasz Chwieduk from Poland, U.S.A’s Caitlyn Schrepfer, Yo Katsuyama of Japan and South African duo Kamal ‘Kamilio’ Ranchod and Chris Njokwana – determined the winner through the process of elimination in live battles.
MTN is the headline sponsor of Freestyle UNLOCKED Africa 2020.
Other sponsors of the event are Valentine Ozigbo Foundation (VCO) Foundation and Eko Disco, Plus TV Africa and Hip TV are the broadcast partners of the event.
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Nordic CIO interview: Tore Burheim, University of Bergen
IT director of Norwegian university tells Computer Weekly about digitising education and creating co-operative clusters
Jenny Stadigs
Published: 05 Jul 2016 11:53
The University of Bergen in Norway, with 14,500 students and 3,600 staff, is digitising its educational processes, including exams and other assessments.
“Universities in Norway have been very, very slow in this area,” University of Bergen IT director Tore Burheim told Computer Weekly.
Until two years ago, almost all exams at the university were conducted with paper and pens, says Burheim. “But now we are up to 55% digitised. It works like an extreme form of the concept of bring your own device. The students bring their own computers, then we lock them down so they cannot use anything apart from a special web browser they have downloaded earlier. We freeze access to hard drives and the internet.”
The system is based on an open source browser. “But we are using a commercial provider, which provides the system to us as software as a service,” says Burheim. “We have done necessary integrations into the student and administration systems, but we have tried to keep it simple to begin with.”
Every year, 48,000 exams are taken at the university, and even though the technology is not too complicated, digitising them is not easy, he says. “It is a huge logistical task, and a major operational change for the university. We do not have the capacity to make all exams digital in one big bang.”
Earlier this year, the focus was on the organisational part of the operation, and the percentage of digitised exams has not increased that much, says Burheim. “But our goal is to have almost 100% digitised exams next year,” he adds.
There are great benefits to be had from digitised school exams, says Burheim. “The students are used to using computers, so they are more efficient when using them during exams,” he explains. “Some even claim that the quality of the work increases, because it is easier for students to edit their texts on computers. Another important benefit is that digitised exams are much easier to read when grading them.”
Another vital part of the university’s move to digitise its education is a new learning management system, says Burheim. “It is a software system for documentation, tracking, reporting, sharing documents in a class, handing in homework, and any kind of e-learning. In short, a system where teachers and students share and work together.”
The learning management system was selected and implemented within a year. “Universities often spend several years changing learning management systems, but we chose to do it in a rather disruptive way,” says Burheim. “The reason is that we believe speed is extremely important nowadays, and our users and management expected it to be done this quickly.”
The new learning management system is open source, and Burheim plans to build innovations and tailor-made solutions on top of it. “We are doing it together with the business world and the research world, in clusters that we are creating,” he says.
Establishing these clusters is a very important project for the university, which hopes it will derive many different benefits from them. “The university adopted a new strategy last year, and building and using clusters within different industries is at the core of it,” says Burheim.
“We are, for example, establishing the cluster Media City Bergen, which will comprise some university departments, a learning centre, Norway’s biggest commercial television broadcaster, some newspapers and a number of media industry technology providers.”
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CIO of Swedish hygiene and forest products company discusses how digital technology is changing the firm and how he manages this transformation.
Finnair is on a digital transformation journey and the airline’s CIO is changing the IT department as it progresses.
The university is also planning clusters in other areas, such as health science and climate change, says Burheim. “IT’s role in these clusters is as a technology provider and integrator. We are going to use the participants’ technology and know-how to create common ground for research and innovation.
“The university will benefit greatly. The buildings for Media City Bergen will be ready next summer, and the climate change cluster is also under construction. The university is currently focusing very strongly on the clusters.”
“Our goal is to have almost 100% digitised exams next year”
Tore Burheim, University of Bergen
The biggest challenge Burheim faces going forward is transforming the university’s IT department. “I want my organisation to change from working only within a traditional, long-term, stable, predictable mode,” he says. “We should also work in an agile, exploratory, innovative mode.
“We want to move the IT department’s focus from operations of established and legacy systems, to helping the university reach its goals. We are going to be more focused on helping the university increase its revenue, and we will focus more on interactions and higher speed.”
The IT department is being transformed by training its 100 employees, says Burheim. “Since we are a public organisation, I cannot just replace people. I have to take care of the employees, and my staff are my most important assets.
“So we focus on helping them, and quite a bit of the transformation is driven from the bottom up. It is agile and lean-based.”
Outsourced systems
Systems that the University of Bergen has outsourced include enterprise resource planning (ERP), payroll and some administration systems. “All Norwegian universities have a common student administration system,” says Burheim.
The university has decided on a hybrid cloud strategy and is moving technology to the cloud, he says. “This is very important to us because it increases cost-efficiency and flexibility,” he adds.
Another substantial task under way is to establish a platform for the internet of things, which is being done with the research society, says Burheim. “We are creating a connected value chain, all the way from the lab to the research paper,” he explains. “It starts with sensors collecting data from the lab, and then we have to store the data, make calculations on it and provide research data to third parties.”
This work will take many years, he says. “We have to support everything, from documents that are 1,000 years old to electrode-based brain research. This means we cannot standardise on one platform and process. It is a huge challenge.”
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PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE OFFICE OF COMPLIANCE; Congressional Record Vol. 163, No. 49
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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
THE OFFICE OF COMPLIANCE
Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate
proceed to the immediate consideration of H.R. 1228, which was received
from the House.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:
A bill (H.R. 1228) to provide for the appointment of
members of the Board of Directors of the Office of Compliance
to replace members whose terms expire during 2017, and for
other purposes.
There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be
considered read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be
considered made and laid upon the table.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The bill (H.R. 1228) was ordered to a third reading, was read the
third time, and passed.
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